Sunday Morning Service 1/11/2026 - Seeing God's Wisdom

And so they covered all their bases, and so it started out with four, five families that would come over and investigate it. Then they even met the school bus after school, and they would have after school snacks for the kids, and they began to have conversations. They began talking. They have, for the last year or two, have been at the school bus every day, morning and afternoon, and they are now reaching over a 100 kids that are coming from the area neighborhood. [00:25:26] (39 seconds)  #BusStopMinistry

Instead of just looking at the bottom line, the the dollars and how much time do I get to work from home and how much will I have to travel, you filter it in a different way. Will this role allow me to honor God, take care of my family? Will it help me to live out the purpose for which he has called me to? Is it gonna ask me to compromise any of my values? You see, that's a whole different way of looking at that opportunity [00:32:21] (28 seconds)  #WorkThatHonorsGod

that's presented before you. When you're faced with a a situation that could be beneficial to you, but maybe it's just a tad dishonest, maybe a little bit gray, and you could go, it's not that bad of a thing. Right? I mean, look how it's gonna line my pockets, and I can do more for the church. Right, God? Yeah. Spiritual intelligence says, I wanna choose a path of integrity. I wanna be honest. I wanna be truthful, and I'm gonna trust God's provision over shortcuts. And so that spiritual intelligence, that filter helps us in those decisions. [00:32:49] (38 seconds)  #ChooseIntegrity

Instead of filling your schedule with nonstop activities. Because right, somehow if we accomplish more and we can do more and we can fill up our daily planner, then I'm a better person. And I can do a whole lot more things and and I'm a better mom, I'm a better dad, I'm a better husband, a better wife, I'm a better Christian. And that's not what we should be doing. Spiritual intelligence would say, how can I prioritize so that I can make my time with God the most important thing that I do every day? [00:33:28] (32 seconds)  #PrioritizeGodTime

What we're talking about here is a fear that conveys a reverence for who God is in our life. It's having an awe of the fact that he's the creator of the world. He knows everything that's happened before and he knows everything that will happen. It's submitting to that then and going, I know that God has an important place in my life. This is the beginning of knowledge. [00:39:49] (30 seconds)  #FearOfTheLord

How do we pursue that and get it beyond just asking for it? Because that's one way. I think we have to embrace it. We have to really wanna desire it. We gotta really want it. Proverbs four eight says, it it personifies wisdom here. Esteem her. When you esteem something, you said it is a high regard. Esteem her and she will bring you along. She will exalt you. She will raise you up and make you look better than what you really are If we seek the wisdom of God, if you embrace her, she will honor you. And so we should want that passionately the way the scripture encourages us here. [00:51:04] (41 seconds)  #EmbraceWisdom

``James one five again tells us that we should ask for it. Don't just sit around and expect that it's just gonna get dumped on you. Right? I mean, I would have loved through college to have laid every textbook that I had under my pillow at night, and I would have just woke up the next morning and aced every exam that I needed to take. That would have been incredible. Can't tell you that I didn't try it. I did, maybe one night or two. That was probably just because I fell asleep reading. We would love for that, but we have to ask for it in order for it to come to us. Pursue it. [00:51:58] (40 seconds)  #AskForWisdom

Pursue wisdom like you can't wait to get more of it. Like you can't wait for it to be an important part of your day and and what you're looking for because when you pursue it, it will come to you. Don't expect passively that God's just gonna impart all of this stuff to you. We have to go and ask and seek and find. And so where do we find it? You find it in God's word. [00:53:53] (28 seconds)  #PursueWisdomDaily