Mrs Alice Smith
Pastor's Wife
Harvest Baptist Church
Fort Dodge, IA
I Kings 10: 8-9, “Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.” Would you like to have a happy man? Would you like to have happy servants? (children) Verse nine says, “Blessed be the Lord God which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel forever.” I believe we could easily read this verse like this, “Happy is your husband happy are your children which stand continually before thee because they hear your wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in (Your name) to set thee on the throne of your home because the Lord loved you and your house hold for ever, therefore made he thee king to do judgment and justice. The throne of Israel is your house, your home, your life because the Lord loves you forever He gave you this dwelling place and he set the people of your home inside there with you.” God tells us that when we speak wisdom to our husbands and our children they will be happy. I think it also means when we deal with our spouse and our children in wisdom they will be happy. It also says that God made us to do judgment and justice on our houses and our homes and our lives.
Let’s read some scripture about wisdom. Proverbs 3:13, “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.” Proverbs 8:11, “For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.” Proverbs 16:16, “How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!” Proverbs 23:23, “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” Ecc. 7:12, “For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.” Ecc. 9:18, “Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.” Isaiah 33:6, “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.” James 3:17, “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” Proverbs 4:5-12, “Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament
of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.”
God’s word tells us that wisdom will preserve us, I believe it will preserve our marriages, our love for our spouses and their families, it will preserve our relationships with our children and grandchildren. Verse 8 says if we exalt wisdom, wisdom will promote us. Promote us in our homes, in our marriages, with our children, our grandchildren, with the Lord, and fellow Christians. Wisdom will bring thee to honor. I think about the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31:25, “Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
When we choose to embrace wisdom the scripture says we can be an ornament of grace, royalty, your husband will treat you graciously.
Proverbs 31:28, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”
James 1:5, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” That is exactly what Solomon did he ask God to give him wisdom in I Kings 3:9, “Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”
Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him Romans 8:26 says Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. The spirit of wisdom will help our infirmities. Infirmities (feebleness of mind and body) are when do not know what to do, we do not know the will of God. Let the spirit of wisdom guide you into all truth. Look at Isaiah 11:1-3 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears God’s Word says that we will see things not through our eyes but through God’s eyes, we will hear through God’s ears. Wisdom will see through your children’s manipulation. II Cor. 4:18, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Wouldn’t you like to see the eternal purpose in what is going on in your home; in your children and spouse’s life? I believe God will give us wisdom to see past circumstances and see things from an eternal perspective I Cor. 2:9-16, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” Let God show you insight on everything going on in your home and in your life. Judgment and Justice Read I Samuel 8:15, “And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.”
Answer your husband, children and friends with judgment and justice by speaking the Word of God. Use the Word of God to guide your speech and your answers. The old cliché “What would Jesus Do” works every time. Hopefully, these scriptures will give us a hunger and thirst for wisdom that only comes from God’s Word.
of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.”
God’s word tells us that wisdom will preserve us, I believe it will preserve our marriages, our love for our spouses and their families, it will preserve our relationships with our children and grandchildren. Verse 8 says if we exalt wisdom, wisdom will promote us. Promote us in our homes, in our marriages, with our children, our grandchildren, with the Lord, and fellow Christians. Wisdom will bring thee to honor. I think about the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31:25, “Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
When we choose to embrace wisdom the scripture says we can be an ornament of grace, royalty, your husband will treat you graciously.
Proverbs 31:28, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”
James 1:5, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” That is exactly what Solomon did he ask God to give him wisdom in I Kings 3:9, “Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”
Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him Romans 8:26 says Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. The spirit of wisdom will help our infirmities. Infirmities (feebleness of mind and body) are when do not know what to do, we do not know the will of God. Let the spirit of wisdom guide you into all truth. Look at Isaiah 11:1-3 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears God’s Word says that we will see things not through our eyes but through God’s eyes, we will hear through God’s ears. Wisdom will see through your children’s manipulation. II Cor. 4:18, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Wouldn’t you like to see the eternal purpose in what is going on in your home; in your children and spouse’s life? I believe God will give us wisdom to see past circumstances and see things from an eternal perspective I Cor. 2:9-16, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” Let God show you insight on everything going on in your home and in your life. Judgment and Justice Read I Samuel 8:15, “And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.”
Answer your husband, children and friends with judgment and justice by speaking the Word of God. Use the Word of God to guide your speech and your answers. The old cliché “What would Jesus Do” works every time. Hopefully, these scriptures will give us a hunger and thirst for wisdom that only comes from God’s Word.
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