We are Proverbs Men and Women

Ana had planned to share a podcast episode about Revelations, but she feels that it is not the right time yet. She emphasizes the importance of seeking God's wisdom and aligning our hearts and minds with Him. Anna encourages listeners to study the book of Proverbs to gain wisdom and understanding. She discusses the significance of being a Proverbs 31 woman and reminds us to always put God first and not become arrogant. She shares five questions to ask ourselves when aligning our actions with God's will. Anna concludes by highlighting the transformative power of true wisdom from God and the promise of eternal life with Him. Hey there, it's Anna with God's Podcast. As I sit here getting ready for recording, I have contemplated over what to share. I had a podcast recorded and ready to share about Revelations about two weeks ago, and I am sorry for the delay of recording a new episode for you to listen to, but have decided to hold off a bit because I have been studying God's Word and He has led me to believe it is not time to share that episode yet. God leads me to realize we are not ready for that yet. We need to seek God's wisdom first. We need to seek God's Word first before releasing God's ending. We need to understand how we need to live, how we need God each and every day. So let's take some steps to do this before we go into Revelations. I have learned so much studying Revelations that God has led me to understand we need to align our hearts, our minds, and our lives with God. We need to live in God and through God. I listened to a sermon about Proverbs. It made me truly understand we as children of God need to seek His wisdom to lead lives in Him. We as humans desire to learn and understand. It is what sets us apart from other animals. And I want to emphasize on this point, having knowledge is one thing, but wisdom is another. Knowledge is factual. Where wisdom is applying those facts to life and without wisdom, knowledge is useless. Which brings me to the book of Proverbs to share with you, which gives an understanding of wisdom we need in our lives. Proverbs has 31 chapters, allowing me to study this book for a month. And you can read a chapter a day. I'm going to try and go through and break it down for you, but ask you seriously to read it for yourself so God can give you the wisdom and understanding for yourself and your life. I'm going to try to explain how we can be men and women of Proverbs. How we can apply this to our life. I have talked about Solomon before and how he asked God for wisdom, how he lived according to God's word and leading God's people, but he got greedy and listened to his wives and their gods that he eventually fell away from God, but in the end realized his sin. Solomon, son of King David, through the Holy Spirit, gives a very good explanation of God's wisdom and to apply it to our lives. He gives us three books inspired through God and Proverbs is the first. To understand Proverbs is to know its contents are made up of short statements. The book of Proverbs opens our minds to understanding and wisdom we can apply to our daily lives that will bring us closer to God. It applies to facets like life, like family, marriage, children, discipline, self-control, finances, temptation, businesses, and anything else you can think of that deal with life. It is for the young as well as the old. In the very first chapter of Proverbs 1, verse 7 says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. This verse is not saying to be afraid of God, but rather the true wisdom of this verse is to honor, respect, to be amazed by God's power and to obey God. By applying this wisdom to our lives changes our attitude, our character, our actions and our life. The other part of this verse is the person who thinks he knows everything and we all know people like that. We all know someone like that. The fool for not allowing to be taught or given wisdom for they believe they already have it, which we all know will only cause issues in our life if we are not open to others or ideas. So as you can see, we need to acquire not only knowledge, but wisdom from God so we can apply it to our daily lives, which will transform our life as well as our hearts. I want to ask you, have you ever heard the saying, when talking about a woman, it refers to being a Proverbs 31 woman? If you haven't, there are Bible studies that go along with this saying and you can research them for yourself. I have chosen Proverbs to align us men and women to God's wisdom. We too can be called Proverbs men and women. We can use Proverbs to align our hearts and minds to God. We can use the book of Proverbs to gain the wisdom of God to help us in our walk with God. But we have to remember to always put God first, to always give God the glory and to not let any of it go to our heads and become greedy, arrogant or think we are more powerful than God. Remind yourself, God gives you the gifts, the blessings and through him you are capable. In Proverbs 4 verses 11 through 15, Solomon is instructed by God and through the Holy Spirit gives us this wisdom. It says, I instruct you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble. Hold on to instruction. Do not let it go, guard it well for it is your life. Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. Avoid it. Do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way. God gives us instructions. God gives us the wisdom to follow him and not of the evildoers or the wicked ways, allowing us through him to have the wisdom that will change our lives. In Proverbs 27 verses 1 through 2, it reminds us to count on God and it says, do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring. Let someone else praise you and not your own mouth, an outsider and not your own lips. Stating, it is through God and through God only that we receive the blessings and gifts he gives us so that others may see his light and to live a life in him, allowing us to have actions towards God and aligned with God. I want to give you five questions to ask yourself when you go through life and are trying to align your heart and actions with God. Number one, does the Bible prohibit this action? Number two, does this action take me away from loving, worshiping or serving God? Number three, does this action make me a slave? Number four, is it bringing out the best in me and aligning me with God's purpose? Number five, does my actions benefit other believers? And this leads me to Proverbs 2 and I want to read the whole thing for you because these questions align with this and what I have been talking about. My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom. For his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He holds success in store for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in blameless. For he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand what is right and just and fair. For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you and understanding will guard you. Wisdom will save you from the ways of the wicked men. For men whose words are perverse, who have left the straight path to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. Surely her house leads down to death and her path to the spirit of the dead. None who go to her return or attain the path of life. Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will live in the land and the blameless will remain in it. But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the unfaithful will be torn from it. Your life will be transformed in him. But if you walk in the wicked ways with the evildoers, you will be cut off. You will not be with God for eternity. So it's up to us. And I share this with you because it is a reminder that when you walk with God, you grow in God, you mature and you gain wisdom. As you get older, you realize all the immature decisions and ideas you may have had throughout your life. This also applies to your relationship, your walk with God. As you grow, as you learn more about him, you mature. You gain wisdom from him and understanding he feels that you can handle. We can't think God would give us all we need to know at the beginning of our lives. We wouldn't know how to handle that knowledge or that wisdom. We wouldn't be able to comprehend it or understand it. It goes along the line of this. We may ask for a specific blessing and you can fill in the blank, but really think about it and the consequences you don't think about when you ask for the specific blessing, gift or prayer. We tend to then realize sometimes after we receive this gift, this blessing, the answer to our prayer, it may not really be what we wanted. It didn't make us happy. It didn't fill us. We still have that emptiness. Maybe for a brief time, it did fill you, but you will still be left empty, wanting the true wisdom, the true love, the true happiness God has for us, the life with God every day like he promises. True wisdom from God opens our eyes, reveals God's truth, gives us clarity in life where we had none, gives us the understanding of what truly is important, how to live, that God's promise will come, that God never lies and is the same all throughout time, all throughout history, just like the Bible says. And God gave the wisdom to share with all the men who wrote the books in the Bible. Jesus will come. God will win and Satan will no longer be able to reap his havoc over the world. He will be cast into the lake of sulfur for eternity, but we as believers will live eternity with God. We will be with him. We will be able to see his face. We will live in no more suffering, no more pain, no more disease, no more sickness, a life with God. I'm going to end in Proverbs 30 verse 5 and leave you with this. Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. So seek God, seek his wisdom and understanding. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. I hope you share it with someone in need because we all need God each and every day. So until next episode, keep bibling, keep spreading God's word and seek God's wisdom. Thank you for listening. And until next time, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Father, I come before you today and I lift up each and every person. I ask that you open their ears, their hearts and their minds, Lord, and give them the wisdom and the understanding to seek your word and to live a life in you. Whatever they may be going through, whatever season that they may be in, whatever troubles that they are having, you know their hearts, Lord. I ask that you heal them, you help them, you guide them. I want to thank you, Lord. I want to give you glory. You praise because without you, none of this would be possible and it is because of you and through you, I am able to share your word and for that, I thank you. I love you. In Jesus' mighty name, amen.