Understanding Brings Confidence, Part 3
We continue our study on understanding Godly Wisdom, which brings us confidence in God’s desire for our success. This understanding also assures us He has given us His power to overcome challenges in our lives in this present world.
Every time we as God’s children say that we are getting Wisdom, we are actually saying that we are getting the Wisdom of God, Who is Christ the Anointed One. His anointing is expressed in the person of the Holy Spirit. We know that anointing is God’s ability on us to remove the burdens and destroy the yokes of bondage satan is trying to impose on us in the form of sickness and disease, poverty, fear, anxiety, rejection — and the list could go on and on.
With the getting of the Wisdom of God, we are getting understanding of the Word. Understanding brings confidence or faith to overcome bondages and burdens. People are trying to achieve confidence in the Lord or develop faith in Him to get results when they don’t yet have the understanding of the Word that they are confessing for results. Here is where we have missed it: We have been looking for results from a mechanical speaking of the Word without understanding and, thus, without confidence. Without understanding, the first time something comes our way to test the confession of that Word, we fold and ask: “Why? I don’t understand. Nothing is happening. I am speaking the Word.” There is our clue—-I DON’T UNDERSTAND.
What we must do when a situation comes up where we don’t have confidence that we will come through to the other side, we ask the Holy Spirit to bring understanding to us of the Word who is Jesus Christ (John 1:1-5), Who is the Wisdom of God.
Then, when the understanding comes, or we may call it rhema, (which produces Bible hope), we are ready for the next step, the confidence level or faith. Then, when we speak the word out of our mouth, we release the Holy Spirit, or the anointing, to bring the results or manifestation in our lives. Since we then know that it is not OUR much doing that will produce the results, we are then confident and REST IN HIM regardless of what is happening. We know that He is taking care of it. We have confidence in Him, not in what we are doing on our own. We are no longer fretting and fuming and agitated and worried about what WE ARE GOING TO DO.