{"id":2734,"date":"2013-04-01T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2013-03-31T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:38:20","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-04-01-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/01\/pearls-of-wisdom-04-01-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 04-01-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Understanding Brings Confidence, Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:\u00a0 and with all your getting get understanding (Proverbs 4:7).<\/p>\n<p>We as God\u2019s children must know that God\u2019s Wisdom is what we must acquire in order to operate effectively in this world.\u00a0 Get wisdom.\u00a0 With all your getting of wisdom, you will get understanding.\u00a0 In order to be successful and walk in victory in our lives, we must understand how God operates His kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Understanding brings confidence to us regarding God\u2019s desire and total ability to take care of us.\u00a0 Yes, God greatly desires, longs for and passionately wants to be the One Who is allowed to give us everything He has&#8212;-health, prosperity, love, joy, peace, contentment, happiness, and days of heaven on earth in our relationships.<\/p>\n<p>God is not holding back anything from you and me.\u00a0 What happens is that we don\u2019t always understand how to allow Him to do what He loves to do.\u00a0 He loves to pour out on us all the benefits of His whole kingdom.\u00a0 The challenge is not in His giving.\u00a0 The challenge is in our receiving.\u00a0 We get annoyed when things don\u2019t happen AS we want them to happen, WHEN we want them to happen.\u00a0 We blame God and get upset with those who teach that He is a good God and rewards faith.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Word is true for you and me whether we see it operating in our lives or not.\u00a0 If it is not operating, it is not God\u2019s fault.\u00a0 When we finally accept that fact and swallow our pride and admit that we missed it, then in our humility we can ask the Lord to show us how to receive.<\/p>\n<p>We lose battles because we are not assured in our inner man that God will come through for us.\u00a0 After all, we reason, He has not done anything for me so far, and it\u2019s been a long time.\u00a0 It makes no difference how long it has been, God still is waiting with the answer for you.\u00a0 It\u2019s still there.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up now, when you are so close to winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Brings Confidence, Part 1 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:\u00a0 and with all your getting get understanding (Proverbs 4:7). We as God\u2019s children must know that God\u2019s Wisdom is what we must acquire in order to operate effectively in this world.\u00a0 Get wisdom.\u00a0 With all your getting of wisdom, you will get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}