Our scripture above tells that wisdom is the principal thing therefore we should get wisdom and with all our getting we must get understanding. Why should we get wisdom?
1, Wisdom will promote you
Wisdom will promote you because it will help you to know what to say and how to behave in every situation you may find yourself in which will ultimately lead to your promotion. For example, Daniel was promoted because he had more wisdom than all the wise men of Babylon and as a result he was promoted to a place of honour:
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:48 (HCSB)
2, Wisdom will bring you honour
Having wisdom brings you to a place of honour where you are highly esteemed because of the wisdom that you possess. For example, because of the wisdom that Joseph had in being able to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams, he too was promoted and brought to a place of great honour:
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has revealed the meaning of the dreams to you, clearly no one else is as intelligent or wise as you are. You will be in charge of my court, and all my people will take orders from you. Only I, sitting on my throne, will have a rank higher than yours.”
Genesis 41:39-40 (NLT)
3, Wisdom will give you grace and glory
When you are a person of wisdom, you are shown kindness and honour which others are not privileged to experience. This is because wisdom comes from God and when you fear Him, He will ensure that you are given divine grace and glory:
She will place on your head an ornament of grace;
A crown of glory she will deliver to you.”
Proverbs 4:9
Prayer
Dear Lord, please help me to get wisdom and with all my getting give me understanding in Jesus name, amen.
“But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
Mark 4:8
In order that a good harvest be yielded, certain conditions are essential. Sunlight, water as well fertile soil is required. The season for harvesting a crop needs to be correct, so the crop will grow. When ideal conditions are met as predetermined by God ‘s creative hand, an abundant harvest is possible. In order to bear a fruitful financial harvest in our life, we will explore some crucial things God tells us for His blessing.
1, Acknowledge God
To harvest abundance in our lives, including financial abundance, it’s important to first and foremost acknowledge God. All good things come from God (James 1:17). If we invest in God and get to know Him and do as He tells us, we will reap accordingly.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
Galatians 6:7-8
2, Faith is fundamental
In order to grow in our relationship with God, we need to have faith. God rewards faith. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Faith is so important to God, that He reassures us that we all have a measure of faith (Romans 12:3).
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hebrews 11:6
3, God rewards us according to the cleanliness of our hands
God rewards those that listen to His word. Obedience is important from the book of Genesis to Revelation. We are called to live a life of obedience (Genesis 22:18). The word advises us that God rewards us according to the cleanliness of our hands. As such, it is important that we are obedient to God since obedience is a form of worship to God (Romans 12:1).
The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
Psalm 18:24
Summary
When we acknowledge God and walk in faith and obedience, God has no reason not to be faithful to His word. God promises us to give us the desires of heart. When we please God and put Him first by honouring what He tells us to do in His word, God promises to reward us according to the cleanliness of our hands and according to the promises in His word.
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
Matthew 19:29
1, Give to God and you will have more
In order to receive you have to be willing to give. God promise us in Matthew 19:29 that He is the supreme provider whether we acknowledge Him or not. Everything belongs to God whether we accept it or not. God promises that when we are willing to surrender everything to Him, including our family and possessions e.g land, He will acknowledge this and blesses us with more. He promises us eternal life and material blessings in return for us making ourselves completely available to Him.
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:6-8
2, God provides for all our needs
God knows our needs from our wants. He knows we need friends and family however God also reminds us that at times we may need to leave friends and family for His sake. In doing so God promises to bless us 100 fold and give us eternal life. God will compensate us for the lack.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
Luke 12:24
Summary
It is worth putting God before all our wants and needs since He is more than able to supply all of our needs. When we truly surrender to God and place Him first, God promises to bless us abundantly and make provision for us to occupy an eternal place in His Kingdom. There is certainly no loss when we put God’s need first since He promises to bless us for doing so.
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For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.
Proverbs 2:21 (NLT)
We are told that the godly will dwell in the land and those with integrity will remain in it. So the question today is, how do we become people of integrity?
1, Keep to your word
To be a person of integrity is to be a person that keeps your word even when it is not convenient. It is easy to make a commitment however sometimes keeping them is very difficult, but a person with integrity will do what they said even if it’s not convenient:
Those who despise flagrant sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the LORD, and keep their promises even when it hurts.
Psalm 15:4
2, Be honest
Honesty is a true test of integrity. When you are honest it means that you tell the truth even if it doesn’t suit you. We are told to let our yes be yes and our no be no (Matthew 5:37):
Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill? Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts.
Psalm 15:1-2 (NLT)
Prayer
Dear Lord, please help me to be a person of integrity. Help me to keep to my word and to be honest in everything I do in Jesus name.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Matthew 7:11
1, God is alive and active
God is alive and active and desires to give fine things to those who ask. We serve a mighty God that desires only good for our life, including meeting all our financial needs.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
The key thing we must remember is that we must ask. Provided we ask in line with God’s will, God will grant us His promise to give good things to us.
2, God desires to give us good gifts beyond what any man could give us
God reminded us in (Matthew 7:11), that if man being evil at times can give good gifts then provided we ask, He can grant us much more. We are reminded that God operates from heaven. God is loaded with sovereign power and abundance. It is God’s will that we ask and expect to receive financial provision by faith, for when we do, God supplies all our financial needs (James 1:6).
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 7:7-8
3, Faith is required in order to receive from God
We are told in the word of God the bible that God is the provider of every good gift (James 1:17). The key issue is that we must ask God to meet our need with faith. Provided we ask in line with God’s will, and with faith, God will meet our financial need. God warns us that it is faith that allows Him to meet our needs.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hebrews 11:6
Summary
God desires only good for us and supplies us with faith as a gift, as seen in (Ephesians 2:8-9) to receive all that God has promised us. We are all by God’s grace, given the faith required to get what we know we need financially, provided we are righteous before God and ask with faith, in line with His will. The measure of faith we need is small, as small as a mustard seed. All we need is a mustard seed of faith in order to receive what God has promised (Matthew 17:20).
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And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets. And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.
But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times.
Joshua 6:12-15
In this story, the Children of Israel under the leadership of Joshua were about to take their first City in the Promised Land, the City of Jericho. God had given Joshua the battle strategy; the men of war were to march around the city once each day for six days. But the seventh day they were to march around the city seven times, and the priests were to blow the trumpets.
On the first day Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord and they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
But on the seventh day all the people rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day they marched around the city seven times. And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!” (Joshua 6:16)
So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. The Children of Israel conquered their first city in the Promised Land early in the morning.
As believers in Jesus Christ, this story teaches some very important lessons about why we should rise early:
Why should we rise early?
Jesus Christ prayed early in the morning
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ, The Son of The Living God, did most of His daily prayer very early in the morning, or that He prayed all night into the morning (Luke 6:12, Mark 1:35). Jesus also taught in the temple early in the morning when He walked the earth (Luke 21:38; John 8:1-2).
The Lord visits us every morning
The Bible tells us that God visits humanity every morning, to fellowship with us. The mornings are God’s special time with every man or woman who will get up and meet Him at this time:
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Job 7:17-18
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 7:21
It is not just Prayer Time; it is an Appointment with God
God has set aside a daily appointment with anyone who desires a special relationship with Him. If we desire a special relationship then we should seek Him in the morning, just like David the Psalmist did:
O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see Thy power and Thy glory, so as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.
Psalm 63:1-2
God’s Significant Works are done by Morning
God raised Jesus Christ from the dead early in the morning (Matthew 28:1-7). Jesus demonstrated His power and glory by walking on the sea early in the morning during the fourth watch (Matthew 14:25) which is between 3am and 6am.
When Moses asked to see His Glory, God gave Moses a requirement to meet with Him early in the morning:
And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus 34:2
Jacob wrestled with the angel at the break of day, and he obtained power with God and men and was given the new name of ‘Israel’ “for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed” (Genesis 32:24-28).
God’s Mercies are new every morning
God’s mercy is His pity and compassion towards men. When we get up early to meet with God, these mercies are showered on us:
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is Thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Prayer
Dear Lord, thank You for revealing to me the importance of rising early. Please help me to remember that You always make an appointment with humanity every morning. I pray that Your Holy Spirit will help me to crucify the flesh that loves to sleep and to be awake in the fourth watch so that I can keep my appointment and meet with You in Jesus name, Amen.
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