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Discus how do we react to situations that are not favorable.
1. Can you be humble enough and teachable, to be instructed? If the Holy Spirit would speak to you, would you do what He said, and would you listen to Him?
2. Discuss the process of Esther being groomed to be a queen and how that was always the plan but yet how she persevered with that word in her heart that she was sent for such a time as this.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with her.
—Proverbs 3:15 NLT
DISCUSSION:
God is a warrior, and He wants to come into your situation and vindicate you. God is not going to let things go for very long before He intervenes in your life. You have to trust Him. He hasn’t changed His mind about you or your situation. He wants to come into bad situations and correct them and take care of it, but it involves timing and relationships. The Lord uses wisdom, and we've learned that we don't always act. We're not reactionary when something happens, especially when the devil is acting up. A lot of people I considered mature when I was growing up were people that I watched could handle themselves in a situation. We don't want to react, and you must have the Lord's wisdom. Don't be reactionary in your soul and in your flesh. A lot of us want to just do something about it right away. If you get into an argument or a situation where you're vindictive, and you don't realize it, but you've escalated it by feeding into it, and they’ve pulled you in. A person can pull you in. I know people pre-emptively formulate what they're going to say on purpose just to push your buttons. Certain people can push your buttons, and they have an effect on you to do that. They say certain things or do certain things just to set you up. When I was growing up, I thought, why were some people able to handle that?
They said, “Well, we've been through this before, we had those feelings just like everyone else to do something about it, or fight and argue back, and you could win the argument, but really not win at all.” My professor in college said, “You can win an argument and the person can still go to hell.” “You could win a theological argument about something, and then the person you win the argument with doesn't accept it and they could still be lost.” Wisdom is knowing when to speak, when to react, and knowing when not to.
I have found in over 30 years of working with the public, dealing with 800 people a day, in an aircraft where they already felt fear and out of control, that you had to watch how you react and respond. It was very abrasive at times. We had to be trained on how to disarm the situation instead of allowing it to escalate. You had to watch what you said and how you reacted. When I was learning this from people who had been at the job for a long time, they said, I feel the same way you do, but I'm not going to let them know that. I'm going to be the one who is wise.
When I met Jesus, one of the things that I noticed about Him is He never said anything unless He meant it. Even though He's God, I could tell as He was talking, He was thinking. I was with Him for 45 minutes, and I watched him. People asked me if He had sandals on, but I never looked down at His feet. They’d ask if I saw His nail prints, and I said, “I never looked at Him, I was always looking at His face.” I was locked for 45 minutes on His face. Even though He used His hands and He walked around, I was always focused on His face.
The reason why I wanted to look into His eyes, is because I wanted to see how He operates and to see if there were any similarities or good traits and bad traits that I had. What I found was He always thinks about what He's going to say, even though He's never wrong. I asked Him, “What are you thinking?” He said, “I remember the day I thought of you, and I breathed you into your mother's womb.” I heard Him have that thought when I was looking at Him and asked Him that question. He said, “You came out perfect, you came out exactly as I thought of you that day.” He was thinking all these things, but He never said them. Then He said it. Wisdom is you can think things and listen to the Lord and gather wisdom, you don't have to react to something. I don't know if all of you have had this.
WHEN TO RESPOND
I know you've probably had this happen too, but there have been times where you felt like you weren't supposed to respond. That is really hard to do. It was exactly what was meant. That was the most effective thing. If you want to shut the devil down, just don't respond to him. He wants all the attention. He tries to get you to focus on him. He's trying to play you into a role where you're submissive to him and take suggestions. That's what happened in the garden with what he did with Adam and Eve. He had to position them in a place where they would listen to him and consider what he was saying. If you don't consider it, he has no power whatsoever. If he starts to do lying signs and wonders to try to scare you, say to Him the Lord is in control of my life, and I have angels all around me, and you can't even manipulate my environment anymore; you shut them down. You'll see that wisdom is what you need to invest in. Jesus has asked me before, “If you could have anything you want from Me, what would you ask for?” I replied, “Wisdom.” I didn't even hesitate, Solomon said, “if you ask for wisdom, you've asked for the best thing.” Even James says that if you ask for wisdom, you will get it. It's a guaranteed answer to prayer. When we teach on prayer, I always tell people to start with training wheels. Ask for something as a guarantee; ask for wisdom.
There is no shifting of shadows in Heaven. If you ask for wisdom, God's going to give it to you. I know this will build your faith up in prayer. The book of Proverbs is full of information about wisdom. In Proverbs, chapter four talks about wisdom. It's the most valuable commodity, and it says that we should do everything we can to obtain it. In Paul's writings, he talks about having the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17). If God ever says to you, “You can have anything you want,” you should never hesitate; you should say, “I want to know you.” If you respond that way, you're going to get everything. I'm telling you this because I was in Heaven, and I saw how it works up there. Everybody in Heaven can't wait for Jesus to come around because they get their time with Him. He continually visits people. He keeps going for eternity. He sits on the throne, but I have seen Him in different places, and I don't know how He does it. The people can't wait to have their time with Him, and they live in Heaven. They cannot wait to go to the throne room and worship Him. Everybody wants to go to the throne room and worship. They're in Heaven and they all want is to talk to Jesus. Their time in Heaven is spent doing whatever they are assigned to do. The reference points are when they get to talk to Jesus in person, and they get to go to the throne by invitation. They have appointments to do this. Everyone gets appointments to visit with Jesus, and they go from appointment to appointment. Everything in between is just being in Heaven. The people love to be in Heaven, but they wait for those visitations and those times with Him.
IF YOU GET INTO A BAD SITUATION
If you get in a bad situation, you could sit beat yourself up about it and think it’s probably your fault. You might ask yourself, “How did I get into this?” You're trying to reverse engineer the situation to figure out how did this all happen? For example, “How did I just get this flat tire?
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