Yield to Wisdom
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel. Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you've learned. Proverbs 5:1-2 (NLT) The number one way we acquire wisdom is through listening. The Scripture has admonished us to pay attention to God's wisdom by listening carefully to His wise counsel. The Word of God is His counsel. We yield to God's wisdom by paying attention to His Word, listening to it, obeying it. The number one way we act in wisdom is through speaking. The last part of our text Scripture says "Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you've learned" You can activate and release wisdom in what you say. When we yield our lips to God's Word, say God's Word or speak in line with it, we are speaking the Wisdom of God, we are yielding to God's wisdom. Yield to God's wisdom as you hear His Word and as you speak it.
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Fix Your Eyes on what’s Ahead
Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Proverbs 4:25 (NLT) What's ahead of us isn't something in the distant future but something right before us. Fixing our eyes on what's ahead is focusing on what God has prepared, done, accomplished and made ready for and given us. 1 Corinthians 2:12 (NKJV) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. What's ahead of us is the life of victory and dominion that Jesus made available to us in His death and Resurrection. What's behind us is the fall of Adam and all its consequences of condemnation, bondage and oppression. We fix our eyes ahead by looking to Jesus and His finished work on the Cross. Hebrews 12:2a (GNT) Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. We see Jesus as our life, our worthiness, our qualification, our wisdom, our advantage in life, our security. We see ourselves in Him as able, successful. This is the best way to look ahead.
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Keep your mouth free from corrupt talk
Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Proverbs 4:24 (NIV) According to God's Word perverse or corrupt talk is more than abusive or obscene language. The Hebrew words from which we get perverse and corrupt actually mean distortion, crookedness, false or deviation. They give the idea of turning aside. Perversity and corrupt talk mean speaking what's contrary to what God says. It's what the devil spoke to Adam and Eve. It was distorted, crooked, and false. What he spoke to them caused them to turn aside from what God had told them. It brought the distortion and crookedness that's in the world which is sin, fear, confusion, worry, shame, condemnation, sickness, poverty, suffering, destruction and death. It's a turning aside from what God says and gives which is Righteousness, life, peace, assurance, glory health, comfort, abundance, security and immortality. When God says you're His beloved child, He loves and cares for you, but you say you're a nobody, unlovely, unworthy, no one loves or cares for you that's perversity and corrupt talk. When God says you're righteous, blessed, and favored through His Son Jesus Christ and what He did on the Cross but you say you're still a sinner because you still fall into sin, you're under a curse and rejected because things are not working out, that's perversity and corrupt talk. Let your mouth be filled with God talk.
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