Knowledge

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence),” 2 Peter 1v5 (AMP)

One of the major things that believers are encouraged to do is to develop knowledge. There is so much we do not know yet have access to through the Word of God and by His understanding. Yet our God tells us that we can have this knowledge by asking Him; Jeremiah 33v3 (AMP) saying “Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).” We need knowledge so we are not ignorant and destroyed. Hosea 4v6 (KJV) tells us “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of God, I will also forget thy children.” In Romans 10v2 (AMP), the apostle Paul writes of how he wants Israel to be saved but that “I bear them witness that they have a [certain] zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to [correct and vital] knowledge.” We need knowledge – correct and vital knowledge, and we can have it:

Supplementary Text

“Yes, if you want better insight and discernment, and are searching for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure, then wisdom will be given you and knowledge of God Himself; you will soon learn the importance of reverence for the Lord and of trusting Him. For the Lord grants wisdom! His every word is a treasure of knowledge and understanding.” Proverbs 2v3-6 (TLB)

Prayer

Father we thank You for Your Word. We thank You for the vast amount of knowledge that we can have. We pray that You Father of glory, will give unto us a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of You, By having the eyes of our hearts flooded with light, so that we can know and understand the hope to which You have called us in Jesus name, amen.