When you have a question, as serious question, where do you go to find the answer? Who do you ask? Most people today go to Google to see if they can quickly find the answer. Google’s mission statement is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Its vision statement is to “provide an important service to the world-instantly delivering relevant information on virtually any topic.” There was a day that people would ask the one who was wise among them for answers about life, especially series questions. Today, it’s like the wisdom of man has been replaced by the knowledge of man, i.e. Google or other “knowledge” search engines. Notice that Google writes that their mission and vision is to “organize information” and “deliver information,” not wisdom.
There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom. One difference is that knowledge is what, but not how or why, i.e. how to appropriately use the knowledge. They say about sharing humor, telling jokes, that it’s important not only to know the joke, but to understand “timing.” You can tell the exact same joke someone else told who had people falling all over the place laughing but told with the timing totally off it falls the ground like a led balloon while hearing the sound of the “crickets” because it’s so silent. That is somewhat of a way to explain the difference between having knowledge with no wisdom and knowledge with wisdom. When someone has knowledge without wisdom, many times they sound like a “know it all” who is seemingly rattling off what they “know,” what they “heard” what they “learned.” Most, listening to such folks, are looking for light at the end of the dark tunnel, built by their empty words of knowledge, hoping there’s an end to this painful experience. Yet, when someone shares wisdom, it’s like honey to the soul. It’s like a warm feeling inside that comforts you as it embraces and makes sense of the question you are asking. It’s like a bridge connects you to “the other side” of your destiny. It’s like a hand resting gently on your back while leading you through a rough patch in your life, business or ministry.
Not only have many people not asked the wise person in their close circle, many have not asked God, Wisdom Himself, questions about their life. Just as many don’t consider any worth in finding out or knowing who around them is the wisest, many don’t even consider that God has an answer; a wise answer for them.
Of course, this is not true. Solomon writes in Proverbs, “Wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square; on top of the wall she cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech.” God not only has answers for our questions, He is the answer. He is all knowing. He knows everything that ever was, is or will be at the same time. Not only does He care about you and not only is He “in to you” He desires to be “in you” through accepting Jesus, His gift, His Son, as your Lord and Savior so you can be one with God and Wisdom itself.
Think about it, since God loves you so much that He gave His Son, Jesus, to die for your sins, so that you and He can be in a relationship through Jesus, imagine how willing He is to answer questions you have for your life?
Pastor John Kilpatrick shares what the Lord told him about this very thing, He shares how the Lord told him that His people have stopped seeking Him for answers and really don’t understand how and when to ask, or how God speaks. Enjoy this interview where He shares deep wisdom that will comfort your soul with the warmth that only comes from God’s wisdom when it is shared. It’s time you get answers to your life’s questions, whether it’s personal for yourself, marriage, family, business, ministry or leadership challenges, God has the answer. Jeremiah got answers from God for us and shared it in Jeremiah 29:13 “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Enjoy watching this very informative interview.
Note: Article written by Greg Lancaster, and interview is by John Kilpatrick.
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Transcript: Jim Bakker Show interview with Pastor John Kilpatrick “auto generated” by YouTube
the Lord woke me up last week and this
was just a few days ago and whenever he
woke me up the Lord said to me
there’s been a famine of the word of the
Lord and that’s not talking about
sermons necessarily
you know we talk about the word of the
Lord we’re thinking about sermons and
it’s not even necessarily talking about
totally the word of the Lord the written
word of the Lord but it’s talking about
a famine of receiving the word of the
Lord
the Lord said I want you to tell the
people
they have asked me for things they have
prayed in praying is petitioning God for
divine intervention
that’s what prayer is petitioning God
our soliciting God for help
that’s prayer
every Christian knows how to pray every
one of us we go to God we know exactly
how to ask him we pray and we’re
passionate about it but the Lord said to
me that night he said I want you to tell
the people that I hear their prayers and
I will answer their prayers but he said
I also want you to let them know that I
want them to ask me things
and if they will ask me things not just
for things but if they’ll ask me things
I will answer them and the Bible says in
James you have not
because you asked not you have not
because you ask not
and so the Lord wants us to ask
questions there’s a scripture that I
just like to give you real quick as I’m
talking about this the Bible talks about
Jesus whenever he went in the temple he
was 12 years old and it said they went
up to Jerusalem him and his parents
after the custom of the feast and it
came to pass after three days they found
Jesus in the temple sitting in the midst
of the doctors and here’s what the Bible
says
he was both hearing
asking questions
and all that heard Jesus were astonished
at his understanding and his answers but
the Son of God was asking questions of
these doctors at 12 years old he was
asking questions the Son of God the
omniscient one was asking questions I
have a question for you
if Jesus asked questions why do you
think he would be offended if you asked
him questions
he wants to answer you he said for me to
come and tell the people of God the body
of Christ people are inquiring of me
our people are soliciting my help
they’re asking me for things but how
many are inquiring and asking me answers
to their questions and so the Lord is
now in the process of beginning to
answer questions now the other thing I
want to talk about is real quickly while
I’m on this subject
is when do you ask God your questions
and the answer to that is at nighttime
go back in your Bible and you break
everything down
to ask the Lord your questions at night
because when you go to bed that’s when
the Lord speaks when you’re on your bed
in the night seasons
and the Bible says that David made this
statement he said I will bless the Lord
who has given me counsel
and instructed me in the night seasons
as in Psalms 16 and verse 7 I will bless
the Lord David said who has given me
counsel and has instructed me in the
night season
Daniel when Daniel was upon the earth he
was friends with Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel course was Jewish Nebuchadnezzar
was Babylonian and Nebuchadnezzar was
asking questions on his bed
you see the questions need to be posed
at nighttime why because you’re about to
go into sort of a semi consciousness
that’s when God speaks when your mind
simmers down when your mind is not so
chaotic when the chatter begins to die
down that’s when God begins to speak and
he will bypass your mind and he’ll
answer right directly into your spirit
and it says this
he said daniel said to him you ask these
questions upon your bed
and he said as for the old king here are
the answers your thoughts came into your
mind upon your bed what should come to
pass Hereafter and he said the Lord has
sent me here to reveal these secrets and
to make known of you what should come to
pass here again here’s an ungodly King
he’s not Jewish he’s not god-fearing
but he’s laying on his bed Daniel told
him says you asked these questions when
you were on your bed he said while you
were on your bed you asked what will
come to pass what’s gonna happen
and Daniel said I have come to give you
the answer then Nebuchadnezzar responded
when Daniel interpreted his dream and he
says surely your God is a God of gods a
Lord of lords and a revealer of Secrets
what is it about asking questions at
nighttime
it says in Psalms 4 and 4 stand in awe
and sin not commune with your own heart
upon your bed and be still
so there’s something about communing
with God on your bed and asking God when
you’re about to go to sleep
I would recommend when a person goes to
bed everybody when they get ready to go
to bed they say many times you know when
people get ready at night to go to bed
they’ll say honey I’m about to go to bed
I’m getting ready for bed and then the
women will go in and they’ll take their
makeup off they’ll put on their lotions
people will brush their teeth they’ll
comb their hair you know they get ready
to go to bed and they put on their
pajamas they get out of their street
clothes they put on their pajamas they
lay down they cover up and they’re going
to bed they’re getting their body ready
for bed
but what the Holy Spirit said to me last
week is tell my people that we have now
entered into a season where the Lord is
saying don’t just get your body ready
for bed but get your spirit man ready to
hear from heaven ask your questions
while you’re still in the bed before you
go to sleep ask the Lord to questions
and the answer will come but the answer
usually comes in the morning
and the answer will usually come not
maybe not that morning the next morning
many times it will but the answer will
come in the morning
and so here’s what God said to Joe
and Jobe is the oldest recorded book in
your Bible Jobe made this statement he
said God speaks once
yay twice
and man perceives it not why when God
tries to talk to you in the daytime
you’re so busy
you’ve got people on your mind you’ve
got cooking meals on your mind you’ve
got taking care of your kids on your
mind you’ve got studies at college and
school on your mind you’ve got your boss
on your mind you’ve got all kind of
distractions all day long from the time
you leave home till the time you get
ready to for bed at night all kinds of
distractions all kinds of distractions
but the Bible says that God speaks once
J twice man perceives it not why because
he’s in his waking hours but it said in
a dream in a vision of the night when
deep sleep see there it is again deep
sleep falleth upon a man
it says in slum brings upon his bed God
will then open the ears of men and seal
their instruction
now here’s what that scripture means
when it says you’ll open the ears of men
and seal their instruction what that
means is this everybody has ears I have
ears you have ears jesus said he that
hath ears to hear let him hear he’s not
talking about these ears he’s talking
about the ears of the inner man
and he said when you’re at sleep and
you’re going to bed and you’re asking
God questions the Lord will open up your
ears he will seal the instruction what
does it mean by sealing destruction well
I’m not a drinker I don’t drink and I
wouldn’t promote drinking or advocate
drinking but yet when they seal a bottle
of wine
they put a cork in there and they sealed
up bottle of wine you can pop the cork
on that bottle of wine 10 years later 25
years later and that wine is aged and
matured and it’s still fresh and it’s
still a very powerful bottle of wine
because it’s been sealed what the Lord
is saying here is on your bed when deep
sleep falls upon men that’s REM sleep
slumbering upon the bed
that’s not REM sleep but that’s when
you’re coming out of a sleep and you’re
arousing in the morning then he opens
the ears of men but he seals the
instruction what does that mean by
sealing the instruction it means that
God seals the instruction in your spirit
so the devil can’t steal it
but if God opened your ears and told you
something and gave you the answer the
devil would steal that before you woke
up if he could but God seals it
he just seals it
like that wine bottle like that olive
oil bottle he seals it it’s sealed and
when you wake up that answer is in your
inner man and you may not hear a voice
you may not have had a dramatic
experience but when you wake up you’ve
got the answer and you know that you’ve
got the answer God sealed it while you
were asleep
and he said he does that that he may
withdraw men from his purpose and hide
pride from men in other words you don’t
have the wherewithal and you don’t have
the ability in yourself to come up with
that answer it’s going to take God to
give you that answer trust me on that
you
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