Ep 32 - The Spirit of Wisdom

Ep 32 - The Spirit of Wisdom 

Isaiah 11:1-5 

Exodus 28:3

Ex 31:2-4

Ex. 35:26, 30-36:1

Eph 1:17-19

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

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Speaking the truth in love. Let's grow in every way. Welcome to the Let's Grow There podcast. I'm your host, Holy Star Jackson. I'm so excited to grow with you today. Are you ready? All right then, let's grow there.

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Welcome back to the Let's Grow There podcast. We are in a series on the Holy Spirit in Isaiah 11, which talks about the sevenfold spirit of God. This week we are on the second aspect listed in Isaiah 11, and I'm really excited about this one. There is so much to it, and it's going to be so great. It's probably going to take us a couple of episodes to go through all this, um, all the things that I want to talk about about this one. But let's just start with reading our um scripture for the series, which is Isaiah 11, one through five. So out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot, yes, a new branch bearing fruit from the old root, and the spirit of the Lord will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, and the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. He will delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by appearance nor make a decision based on hearsay. He will give justice to the poor and make fair decisions for the exploited. The earth will shake at the force of his word, and one breath from his mouth will destroy the wicked. He will wear righteousness like a belt and truth like an undergarment. In the Passion Translation, uh, which I I want to read again because it's the translation that really just sparked me on this whole subject, and looking into it in the footnotes in this chapter are just so helpful and so enlightening, and really honestly started me on this journey of looking into all of these aspects of the Holy Spirit and um all that's available to us, all that is um, all that the Holy Spirit encompasses and brings into our lives. So anyway, I love it. So the Passion Translation of this one says the cut-off stump of Jesse will sprout, and a fruitful branch will grow from his roots. The spirit of Yahweh will rest upon him. We talked about that being the spirit of the Lord or the spirit of prophecy, and the spirit of extraordinary wisdom. That's our topic for today. It's also um, I believe skillfulness is the other uh terminology for it in the in the footnotes here. And then the spirit of perfect understanding, the spirit of wise strategy, the spirit of mighty power, the spirit of revelation, and the spirit of the fear of Yahweh. He will delight find his delight in living by the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He will neither judge by appearances nor make his decisions based on rumors. With righteousness he will uphold justice for the poor and defend the lowly of the earth. His words will be like a scepter of power that conquers the world. With his breath he will slay the lawless one. Righteousness will be his warrior sash, and faithfulness his belt. So the seven full spirit of God includes the spirit of prophecy, the spirit of wisdom, or extraordinary wisdom, is what it says here, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel or wise strategy, the spirit of might, the spirit of knowledge or revelation, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord. So today we're talking about the spirit of wisdom or extraordinary wisdom. And I want to start out here with the footnote that's in the Passion Translation, because this is where this whole journey started for me. So um it says the spirit of skillfulness, um, this is found in Exodus 31, 2 through 4, which we're gonna look at here in a little bit. It gives the equipping ability for music, art, business, writing, creativity, and wisdom for judicial decisions. Paul prayed for the churches to receive this spirit of wisdom in Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. So that is so much. I'm gonna read that list again. The equipping ability for music, art, business, writing, creativity, and wisdom for judicial decisions. That is so much right there. And it's so many of those things I'm interested in. Music, art, writing, creativity, business, all of it, actually, every bit of that, is something that I are are things that I find interesting, that are intriguing, that are of interest to me. And honestly, all of us have at least one thing on that list that um that we're involved in, interested in, uh, either for work or hobby or our calling or all of the above, right? So I don't think there's anybody that's not affected by at least one of those things. And the Holy Spirit is the equipping ability in our lives to succeed and excel in those areas, and he um he brings all that he is alongside us when we are filled with the Holy Spirit and when the Spirit of God is resting on us just like it rested on Jesus after he was baptized, and we've talked about that every week. You know, how the Holy Spirit came to rest on Jesus, and that was the fulfillment of Isaiah 11 here that we've been reading, but also the Holy Spirit comes and rests on our lives when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, when we're baptized in the Holy Spirit, and um so all of these, all of all of this is available to us, and we don't, I I feel like so many people don't know it, don't realize it. I mean, it's just it's so it's so much, it's so awesome. So, wisdom here is the Hebrew word chokma or chokma. I'm not sure the exact way to say it, but according to Strong's, it is wisdom, skill as in war, wisdom in administration, shrewdness or wisdom, wisdom and prudence in religious affairs, wisdom or an ethical and religious sense. So I wanted to look at a couple of the things that the strongs says and read these, uh just read these straight to you, and then we're gonna look at some of the scriptures um that actually use the word, the specific word wisdom that's here in Isaiah chapter 11. So uh the definition and scope according to the strong's concordance is uh of the word chokma, which is the word wisdom here in Isaiah 11. Um it says it's the comprehensive, God-centered quality of mind and life that discerns what is truly right and acts accordingly. While fundamentally moral and spiritual, it embraces practical insight, technical skill, administrative aptitude, and relational discernment. It appears about 149 times in the Old Testament, and it undergirds Israel's worship, ethics, statecraft, and artistry. Wow, I mean, that is so much right there. It discerns what's right and acts accordingly. So you have this spirit on you. Jesus had this spirit on him, discerning what is right and acting accordingly, fundamentally moral and spiritual, but yet practical. With technical skill, administrative aptitude, and relational discernment. Wow, wow, wow. I don't, I'm that to me, that that that is so that's such an abundant promise right there to me because it it's suc it's the ability to be successful and living an upright life and living a life that's pleasing to God. You know, Jesus lived a life that was pleasing to God, didn't he? And he did it by the power of the Holy Spirit. He fulfilled everything that he was supposed to fulfill. He fulfilled his assignment and he did it well because the spirit of the Lord rested upon him. This spirit of wisdom was part of that what was resting upon him. And he walked in it and he yielded to it. He acknowledged the Holy Spirit in all of his ways. He did not just do his own thing, he did not just follow his own thoughts, but he allowed the Holy Spirit to work in his in him and give him this wisdom and this knowledge and this understanding and the ability to do all of these things. Wisdom as divine attribute. Scripture first grounds all true wisdom in the character of God. It says in Job 12 13, with him our wisdom and strength, counsel and understanding belong to him. Divine wisdom is eternal, inscrutable, righteous, and saving. Because God is wise, his revelation is trustworthy, and his redemptive purposes are sure. Wisdom in creation. Wisdom is portrayed as God's master craftsman in forming the cosmos. The Lord founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding. That's in Proverbs 319. Proverbs 8 speaks about wisdom being brought forth before the world and rejoicing always in his presence. So creation testifies that order and goodness flow from divine wisdom. This same spirit of wisdom that was on Jesus and is on our lives. Wisdom has been given to us. It says that the source, it's sourced in God alone, but God offers it generously to people who fear him. For the Lord gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. That's Proverbs 2.6. Solemnly, Solomon, I'm sorry, Solomon famously asked for it, and God gave him wisdom and very great insight. 1 Kings 4 29. So all the all the leaders in the Bible that were successful operated in the spirit of wisdom. Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, Ezra, uh, those are all great examples of that. Wisdom and skill and craftsmanship. It often denotes technical expertise. Bezalel and Oholiah were filled with the wisdom to build the tabernacle. That's in Exodus 31, and we're going to actually go and look at that here in a minute. And then there's other examples that the Strong's gives as well. So the Strong's is a really great um uh resource for studying and for learning. And um I strongly rec no pun, no pun intended. I strongly recommend the Strong's Concordance if you don't have one. I actually don't have a physical one, my husband does, but I like to just use the use it online. So I just look it up online, um, usually through Bible Hub. And so you can look up any scripture in Bible Hub, and it's got um it's I it's one of my favorite resources for um online Bible stuff because it's got like the Greek, it's got the Hebrew, it's got the strongest concordance, it's got the lexicon, it's got it's got stuff I don't even know how to use, honestly. But um uh it's a great tool for study, and so I just wanted to throw that out there, especially since I quoted so much from it today and will be um going over even more in the future, the rest of this, um, the rest of this series for sure. But um, so it's the spirit of wisdom or extraordinary will wisdom or the spirit of skillfulness, as we just read in the strongs. And you know, like I was saying, go and what I started to say was to go and look it up in the strongs, and like I only read you one page of what was what was in there, but it gives so many scriptures, examples, and um actually I think there was one other thing I might want to read here just a second. Yes, I want to read this as well. It gives so many um like applications and it gives so many cross-references and and everything and examples of where um you can find the this specific word wisdom throughout the Bible, and it's really fascinating to look at look at it all. So the Strongs also says it encompasses the fear of the Lord, righteous living, intellectual insight, skilled workmanship, and spirit-guided leadership. It's rooted in God's character and revealed in his word. It is fulfilled in Christ and remains indispensable for effective ministry and faithful living today. And that right there is my ultimate goal. I want to be successful at if an effective in ministry and living faithfully, living a life that pleases God, always growing, always coming, uh, becoming closer to him and always learning more about him, more about his character, uh, learning more about him as a person, the as the Holy Spirit, like that what's what we're doing right now in this series. That is my ultimate goal. And this, so this is like a this is like key. This is the equipping ability to do that. And I just I don't I don't know if it affects you the same way it does me, but as I've been studying this, it's just been I've been so just so excited about it because it's it's it's in the word and it's available to us. It's it's describing and and it's like letting us know what the Holy Spirit brings into our lives that we don't necessarily recognize and and we don't always realize, you know. So, you know, I feel like this has been in operation in my life for a long time, and I didn't didn't know. I didn't know what it was, I didn't know what it was that made me able to do some of the things that I would do. And I've always puzzled over stuff like that. But I was talking with my husband the other day, and I was like, you know, this it was right when after I was studying for for the podcast, and I was like, you know, all my life I've been able to do some things sometimes that I'm like, how do I know how to do that? How can I, how can I, how can I do that? I mean, I knew I hadn't studied to do it, and it seemed like it was just like almost magical, and I'm like, I don't, I don't know how I know how to do this. Like I just decided to do something and and set out and do it. And it's not just one thing, but several things. And you know, I was talking to him about it and I was like, it's this spirit of wisdom because I've been saved since I was a child, four years old. I remember it vividly the night that I got saved or the morning that I got saved in church, and I remember every bit of it. I was telling somebody about it yesterday. I was four, but I remember it. And then I was filled with the Holy Spirit. So I have had him in my life all of these years for almost 40 years now, since um, yeah, almost 40 years, 38, 39 years, since I was filled with the Holy Spirit, baptized in the Holy Spirit with this evidence of speaking in other tongues. So while I didn't know what was happening, he was right there with me, guiding me, equipping me, giving me the ability to do things that I didn't get taught to do, that I wasn't trained to do. And I began to just be so thankful, you know, it makes sense. And and I'm not like, I hope that doesn't sound like arrogant or whatever. I'm not, I'm not trying to act like sound like I'm so great or anything like that. But the deal is that the Holy Spirit in me is, and He knows everything. He has the ability to do anything, He has the wisdom, the knowledge, the understanding, the skills. He has He has unlimited capacity for creativity, for success, for creation, for everything that you can imagine for business, for music, for art. So many of us, um, you know, we are we are functioning in that and we haven't realized it yet. And I I just can't imagine how much greater it's gonna be as I begin to understand understand this and and recognize and acknowledge him and partner with him intentionally in it, because I've been doing it all these years, just kind of um, you know, subconsciously, but to do it knowingly, to knowingly partner with him and look to him and and uh just just work with him in life and creativity in relationships and ministry and business and art and all of the things. It's just to me, it's so exciting and so thrilling to begin to understand uh you know these aspects of the Holy Spirit that and that it's not just it's not just stories about Jesus, it's not just what was available to Jesus, but it's available to us, and it's in my life, it's been working in my life all these years. This power has been at work in my life all of these years, even when I didn't see it, even when I didn't realize it, even when I didn't understand what was going on. It was the power of the Holy Spirit and the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of skillfulness, and his equipping ability in my life. So I can't even take credit for it, other than the fact that I allow him to work in my life and yield to him and uh respond to his leadership. I can't even take credit for it because it's his wisdom that's in my life that helps me. It's his equipping ability, his skills in me. And you know, I understand that people have natural talents and stuff like that, but I'm talking about things that go beyond like what you've been trained in, what you have uh a knack for, what you were doing when you were a little bitty child before, you know, you were, you know, what the kinds of things that were obviously present in your life from an early age. And even that, honestly, it comes from God. It's a God-given gift and talent. And so many people, you know, there's people that aren't saved that are extraordinarily talented, and that's a gift from God. And but think and imagine how much more, even more talented, even more uh able they would be if they were full of the Holy Spirit and if they were working with him intentionally and not just on their own, because on their own they're going far already, so how much farther could they go if they were partnering with the Holy Spirit, like you and I can. And it's it's really awesome. So this is the word, the same word that's used in Exodus 28, 3, which is leading up to the uh craftsmanship and the tabernacle that we're gonna get to here in a minute, that we just uh read about in Strong's about O Holyab and Bezalel. So in the ESV it says, You shall speak to all the skillful whom I have filled with a spirit of skill. And then I wanted to read that first because it says a spirit of skill in that translation. And that uh whoever the writers of the ESV, they chose that translation. But that's a very limited, um, that's a limited choice of words for this because while they were skillful, the actual word there is that word chakma, which is wisdom, which is what we just read about in Isaiah 11, that gives the equipping ability for all of those things that I listed before. The New Living Translation says that it says to instruct all the skilled craftsmen whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom. Have them make garments for Aaron that will distinguish him as a priest set apart for my service. In this section of Exodus, it's talking about all the things that God wanted the children of Israel to do to build, to create the tabernacle, to create the Ark of the Covenant, the clothing that the priest would wear, the articles and utensils that they would use in the worship and service of the Lord in the tabernacle when they were in the wilderness, and eventually those things, some of them would be in the temple as well. But he specifically ordained and called specific people, he equipped them and filled them with this spirit of wisdom, in the spirit of skill, which skillfulness is another word for it, which we read in the Passion Translation um footnotes. Skillfulness or wisdom. But the skillfulness applies to every area of life. And though and God said that he filled these men with the spirit of s of wisdom or the spirit of skillfulness so that they could do what he wanted done. And let's look at let's look at part of that right now. And uh Exodus 31. I'm gonna read it out of the New King James. All right, we're gonna read just verses two and four right now. Well, actually, I'm just gonna start at the beginning. Exodus thirty one, one says, Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Her. Of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to design artistic works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of workmanship. And I, indeed, I have appointed with him Holiab, the son of Ahisamak, the tribe of Dan, and I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the gifted artisans, that they may make all that I have commanded you, the tabernacle of meeting, the ark of testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tabernacle, the table, its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the labor and its base, the garments of ministry, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his son, sons to minister as priest, and the anointing oil, sweet incense for the holy place, according to all I have commanded you, they shall do. And so he, you know, I think so many times people think that, you know, if you're not, God just calls ministers or or ordains ministers, and and you, you know, the Holy Spirit and the anointing is for people who are in ministry. But you know, this right here shows you that God anointed these men to be artistic. He anointed them to be craftsmen, he anointed them to build and to create. Creating has always been one of my favorite things. I love to take just scraps or just have nothing and have an idea and then just find things to make it out of. I mean, it's great if you, you know, you have a kid or you, you know, you have a, you know, you find a plan or whatever and you get the exact stuff. That's fine. But I've always enjoyed creating something without any of that. Just having an idea or seeing something that I like and having uh the thought of how I can make that my own with what I already have or with what I can easily uh attain. And that I've always felt so uh thrilled to do that. And like I said, I didn't realize until recently. Well, I mean, recent years, not like recently, like yesterday or something, but I didn't realize until recent years that the reason that that thrilled me so much because God is the creator and he made me to be like him. And when I'm creating and I'm making stuff from seemingly nothing, it helps me to realize, you know, in a very, very small uh way. It's a small picture of God creating something from nothing, and God having the idea and being the author and the finisher of the idea, and you know, being resourceful. I love resourcefulness, and that's all all of that is contained and comes out of, it's a product of the spirit of wisdom and skillfulness that is in the Holy Spirit that rests on our lives. And it is so thrilling to partner with the Holy Spirit. So I was saying that these guys here that God called and listed by name in the Bible and to Moses, he called them and He He ordained them, He planned for them to be craftsmen, He planned for them to build, to create, to be artistic, to sow, to make the anointing oil, to make the you know, the garments, to make the curtains and the all the embroidery. There's so much, if you read through the Old Testament and you read through the um directions that God gave Moses for the tabernacle and stuff, there are so many details like little embroidered pomegranates or bells or whatever on all the different things around the curtains and the the ephod that they wore, the stones, the gemstones. This says here that they were able to they were skilled in cutting those gemstones and setting them in that ephod that the priest would wear, and that's how God spoke to his people back then. Thankfully, he speaks to us directly these days, and I'm thankful for that. And he he does that through the Holy Spirit and through his word and our relationship with him. But back then that he did use the ephod, and so it was very important, it was important to God, and God didn't want junk. God didn't just say, like, oh, just throw it together, you know, whatever we'll do, we'll do. No, he had specific designs, colors, and and um he laid it all out for Moses, and he equipped these men to be able to do it by filling them with this spirit of wisdom or skill, skillfulness. And you know, if you're if you are someone who is, you know, you you're an artist or you're a craftsman, and you know, realize that God gave you that ability, and he wants to work with you in that, and it's a gift, and it's it's really a great thing. So don't don't take it lightly. I want to also go on and look at uh a little bit more about these guys in Exodus 35. Starting uh in verse 26 35, 26. Oh, this is a little bit before that. But this it's still talking about all of this section of Exodus is talking about them preparing the tabernacle and building all those things and and making all the th the things for the tabernacle, and it's talking about people giving offerings and then people helping with it. And in verse 25 it says, All the women who were gifted are artisans spun spun yarn with their hands and brought what they had spun of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and all the women whose hearts stirred with wisdom, same wisdom here. It's the Spirit of God, Spirit of Wisdom, spun yarn of goats here. The rulers brought onyx stones, and the stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate, and the spices and oil for the light, and the sweet anointing oil and for the sweet incense. Uh he skip down a little bit. Uh verse 30. It says, And Moses said to the children of Israel, see, the Lord has called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of her, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the Spirit of God and wisdom and understanding and knowledge and all manner of workmanship. So he's repeating what he said earlier in that other chapter to design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze, and cutting jewels for setting, and carving wood, and to work in all manner of artistic workmanship. He has put in his heart the ability to teach in him and uh Aholiab, the son of Ahisimak, the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with the skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver, those who do every work, and those who design the artistic works. So he gave them the ability to do all kinds of craftsmanship, all kinds of design, and the ability to teach others to do that, so that multiple people could be working on it to get the work done. And then in chapter 36, it goes on and says, In Basalel and Al Holiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary shall do according to all the Lord has commanded. Wow, I love that. I love that. So they were serving the Lord, and they were called to be artistic, to be craftsmen, and to teach others to do the same thing. So, man, that I even can see that applying to like Sunday school teachers and and children's church workers. You have to be so creative and even artistic sometimes to to teach children and and train them in you know in the things of the Lord. And the more creative you are with doing that, the more artistic you are with doing that, the more of an impression it makes on them, and it raises them up to do the same. So the Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom and skillfulness, is such a wonderful, wonderful gift in our lives. Wonderful um equipper, equipping ability to do all of these things that are are so fun and so exciting. And you know, um, it says in let's see. Well, I wanted to talk for a few minutes before I uh close out the show today about I want to bring this to the New Testament so far. There's lots of other areas where that word wisdom is in the Bible. As we read in the Strongs, there's 149 times that that specific word is used. Excuse me, but um, I just want to look at a couple in the New Testament as well, um, where it talks about okay, in the New Testament, of course, the New Testament wasn't in is not in Hebrew, it's in Greek usually. Um, so that the Greek word for the same thing is Sophia. So that's like the root of it, and it can be like different different um uh derivatives of that. So Paul prayed for ha us to have this spirit in Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. And we're gonna read that in the New King James Version. And again, it's it's in the Greek, but it's the same word as the Hebrew word chakma, and it's Sophia is the is the word here. Sorry, I didn't have my scriptures pre-found here. Okay, so uh Ephesians 1, 17 through 19 says that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom. Now remember, that's that spirit of skillfulness, the equipping ability for music, art, business, writing, creativity, wisdom for judicial decisions. This is where Paul prayed for the church. This is what Paul prayed for the churches to receive. The spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power. So we see it's the same wisdom that he gave to, I mean, he he's given it to many people, but specifically in this um what we just read about Bezalel and the holy ab, that is that same spirit of wisdom that gave them the ability to create, same spirit of wisdom gives us the ability to understand and grasp God's goodness, God's love, and to understand the hope of his calling. And the more I look at this, the more it all comes together and makes so much sense. And not only makes sense, but it's so exciting and enlightening because it tells me I've only just scratched the surface. There's so much more, so much more. There's, you know, it's infinitive, honestly, how much more there is to discover about God, about the Holy Spirit, about God's love for us, about his plans for us to learn and to know. There's so much more we can be learning for all eternity. And I love that. I love to learn. So, and also, I also want to look at one other passage where this wisdom is. And this one is 1 Corinthians 2, 6 and 7. And I'm going to read that first in the ESV. Real quick here. I love that God shares his wisdom with us. It's available to us. So in 1 Corinthians 2, 6 and 7, it says, Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom. This is that same wisdom. Although it's not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away, but we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God. And in the Amplified, it says we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom once hidden from man, but now revealed to us by God. That wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory, to lift us into the glory of his presence. I love that. Last week we talked about the spirit of the Lord and prophecy and be it being the manifest presence of God. And then this one's talking about how this wisdom, the spirit of wisdom, God has given it to us to lift us into the glory of his presence, to bring us in. And it's so wonderful. I love it. There was a scripture I wanted to also read that I did not put on my notes. Give me one second here. I'm gonna pull it up on my phone. Okay, it's in Proverbs 2, verse 7, and it's the Amplified Classic. It says, He hides away sound and godly wisdom and stores it for the righteous, for those who are upright and in right standing with him. He is a shield to those who walk uprightly and in integrity. So, you know, we talked about how people can be talented and they can be successful that aren't Christians, that aren't saved, that don't have the Holy Spirit, that don't have the empowering of the Holy Spirit and this ability. But how much more can we excel than that if we will take hold of all that God's given for us? It says that He hides away this wisdom and stores it up not from us, but for us. So we can search out the wisdom of God, and it's available to us in every single situation in life. It's available to us in our crafts, in our skills, in our specific areas of life. You know, like if you're oh uh Bezalel and Oholi Ab, they had to do a lot of different areas. They weren't just only builders, they weren't just carpenters or just, you know, workers with gold and and metal and stuff like that, or just gems, or just uh sewing and stuff like that. They were over all of that creative work and design work that God had in mind for the temple. And, you know, I see so much in that. God called them to do it and he equipped them to do it. He gave them the vision and the ability to do it. When God calls you to do something, he gives you the equipping ability to do that. And the Holy Spirit is in our lives to equip us for every good work that God has called us and created us to do. And don't think that anything that you're called to do is not uh is not important, that it doesn't matter. You know, if you're called to to teach, if you're called to be a stay-at-home mom, if you're called to be in, you know, the scripture also mentions judicial wisdom. If you're called to be in politics, if you're called to be in the the justice system, whatever you're called to do, God has the creative, equipping ability for you to not just do that, but to do it in such a on such a level that you far surpass all all others in the field because he has a specific assignment and purpose for each of us, and he doesn't just set us out there and say, Well, that's the goal, hope you can do it. No, he does it with us. He gives us the Holy Spirit, his manifest presence, he gives us his wisdom, his skill, his ability, his equipping ability so that we can carry out all of these things to the fullest, so that we can succeed and prosper. No wonder it says in the Bible that everything that we put our hands to will prosper. How could we fail with the Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of skillfulness, with the presence of God going with us everywhere that we go? You know, if we're truly living by that, if we're truly tapped into that, if we're truly aware of his presence and yielding to him and partnering with him in life, acknowledging him in all of our ways, as Proverbs says to do. You know, really we can't fail. The only time that we fail is when we get, when we get in our own understanding, when we get, you know, you know, I heard um, I think it's Mark Hinkins that says, every failure in life is a prayer failure. Well, what is prayer? Prayer is talking to God, it's listening to God. And specifically the Holy Spirit is, you know, we've been talking about this. The Holy Spirit is the one who's talking to us. He is the one who's directing us, who's teaching us, who's leading us, who's guiding us. He's the one who's equipping us and making us able to do the things that God's called us to do, to know what they are and to be able to carry them out. So if we're not talking to him, it's a no-brainer. We're probably gonna fail because he's the one that has the blueprint and he's the one that has the ability that equips us to do it. He's the one that knows what we need to do and how to do it, and he knows how he's gonna help us do it. So if we're not talking to him, if we're not praying, then then we're probably gonna fail. But if we are living a life where we are in communion with him, in communications with him all day long, every day, and we are following his plans and purposes for our lives, doing it not in our own strength, but in his strength, by his might, we're not gonna fail. I heard a preacher say this last week: God never leads his people to failure. Every time somebody in the Bible failed, it was because why? They did not obey and trust the Lord and do what God told them to do. And every time that God told people to do something, no matter how impossible the situation looked, when they listened, when they trusted him, and when they obeyed, they always succeeded. They always triumphed. But when they didn't, the ones who didn't listen, the ones who didn't take God seriously, the ones who disobeyed or didn't trust him, they failed. And so it's it's this really honestly as simple as that. Hear, obey, trust God, do what he's tells you to do, and you will succeed. And if you don't, you're going to fail. If you do not follow his plans and purposes for your life, if you try to do it in your own strength, or if you just straight up don't do what he's leading you to do, then that's where you're gonna miss it, and that's where you're gonna fail. But we do not have to do that because we have the Holy Spirit. We have the spirit of Yahweh, the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of prophecy, the manifest presence of God. We have the spirit of skillfulness, the spirit of divine wisdom that equips us and gives us the ability to do anything we need to do in life, to succeed, to do it well, to prosper. And wow, it just goes with everything, and I love it. And there's so much more I do want to say about it. I want to look at more scriptures about it and stuff, but I am actually out of time today. I have other things that have to get on and get done uh before the end of the day. So I'm going to leave it here for today, and most likely we'll pick up and talk about this one some more before we go on to uh number three in the spirit of the Lord in Isaiah. But today, I hope you'll get the strongs and go online, look in the strongs, and look up some of these scriptures and look up what it says about um about the spirit of wisdom. And you can do that by looking up Isaiah 11 and then um that spirit of wisdom there. Just click on that word wisdom. When you look at the Bible Hub, I forgot to explain how to do this. For those of you who haven't done it before, go to BibleHub.com, put in the scripture you're looking for in this case Isaiah 11.2, and then you can kind of hover over the words and you can click on the ones that have definitions, and it'll take you to the strong's um definition of it and all the information about it. And so this one is about um whoops, that's the wrong one. This one is actually the strong's 2451 for the word chokma or chokma. And so you can look it up that way as well. If you put strong's 2451 in there, you can read all the stuff that I have right here on this page that I was sharing with y'all a while ago. And it's a great tool, it's fun, and then you can also look up all the scriptures with it. There's links to them. So it's a great study tool if you haven't ever used it. I encourage you to go check it out. And I'll put all these scripture references in the in the caption today, and so that you can look them up for yourself. And I hope you'll do that so that you'll be growing and learning between now and the next time I'm on the podcast. So we'll see you next Tuesday. Have a great week.