JUNE 3
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION
Ephesians 1:16-23 (LITV)
I also do not cease giving thanks on your behalf, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him, the eyes of your mind having been enlightened, for you to know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead; yea, He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,…
Revelation is knowledge that God shines into your mind from the Holy Spirit through your human spirit (2Cor. 4:6).
Conversely, sense knowledge is knowledge that comes into your mind through your five physical senses.
You cannot know God through sense knowledge because God is a spirit and spiritual things are invisible, or imperceptible to the physical senses. Therefore, you can only know God through revelation knowledge.
Now, even when you have revelation knowledge, you need to have spiritual understanding and wisdom to apply that knowledge profitably so it can bring forth fruit in your life (Col. 1:9-10).
Hence, it is vital for us to get both the spirit of revelation and wisdom by:
1. Cultivating and maintaining an attitude of humility, by submitting to the written Word and spiritual authority (Prov. 11:2).
2. Receiving prophetic and apostolic teaching and preaching. Prophetic teaching imparts revelation knowledge; apostolic preaching and teaching will further impart the necessary wisdom to apply the revelation revealed.
3. Continuously praying for the spirit of wisdom and revelation as a daily habit to keep and increase in the revelation imparted.
4. Praying regularly with tongues and travail to get the hidden and deep wisdom of God by revelation (1Cor. 14:2; 1Cor. 2:7,10).
5. Fasting regularly as a weekly habit (Isa. 58:6, 8).
If you do and maintain these things, you will begin and continue to increasingly apprehend the spirit of wisdom and revelation that will give you ‘epignosis’—the precise, correct and complete knowledge of God!
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