Scripture: Ephesians 1 v 17 -18:
"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: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened: that ye may
know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints."
This is the perfect prayer from Paul and can be used to
pray for everyone you know and cause many to come nearer to God. Let's look at
it more closely.
Our Father wants us to know Him through spiritual
revelation, because He is a Spirit and can only be known when we seek Him in
the same manner. It takes wisdom to discern Him in Spirit but it opens your
spiritual eyes to know what His true calling for you is, which He hopes you
will achieve.
Through achieving your true calling you will gain the riches
of His inheritance and how it works together with all the other saints (born
again Christians) to effectively accomplish His will on Earth. 'Our Father
which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven ...'
The highest and best achievement of His children is when
His perfect will is done on Earth as He sees it in Heaven. When we maintain a
holy lifestyle, walking in love towards one another, united in prayer and
obeying sound doctrine, then we get put under His fridge magnets.
James says wisdom comes when you ask God for it. As long
as you ask in faith without doubt and wavering, you will receive wisdom. You
kill it when after it has been given you say "I wonder if this is really
from God?" Rather rejoice that He has opened your heart and eyes to
understand deeper things.
Revelations come to you when you are very desirous of knowing
God more deeply. I remember feeling the weight of God's sorrowing
heart remembering how His Son was scorned, mocked, whipped, spat on,
humiliated, made to carry His heavy cross, the blows of the nails and seeing
Him die. I wept with our Father and felt
so near to Him.
It opened my eyes to much more spiritual reality and the
treasures have never stopped coming. When you enter into the heart of God you
have found true wealth. It enables you to know others in a deeper way to be
able to minister to them as Jesus would. He is able to give you spiritual
knowledge to help them be free or healed of bad memories of hurts and
tragedies.
We need all the treasures in His storehouse to be able to
make a real and permanent difference in the lives of those He sends our way.
You don't need a degree in theology to minister to people. In 1 John 2 v 27
says:
"But the anointing which ye have received of Him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as
it has taught you, ye shall abide in Him."
We need the anointing of the Holy Spirit every minute of
every day so we may stay connected to God for wisdom and revelation teaching.
It is fully trustworthy and true. God hates lies so there will be no untruths
in His revelations. The end result is that you abide or stay secure in Him.
After Paul's conversion on his way to Damascus, he spent
3 years in the desert learning about Jesus through revelations given to him by
the Holy Spirit. Through what God revealed to him he was enlightened to write
most of the New Testament, which is such a blessing to us today.
In Proverbs Solomon encourages us to seek wisdom and
understanding; to lean not on our own understanding but trust in the Lord. This
is how we find favour with God and man so let us obey these words and be
blessed.
Prayer: Father God, You are so vast that the Earth is
Your footstool. Our finite minds struggle to know You but through revelation in
our spirit we know Your love for us, Your hopes for us to fulfil our true
calling. We pray this day for our eyes to be enlightened with Your wisdom so we
can find favour with You. In Jesus' name. Amen.