Some twenty five years ago, I and a friend had
a discussion. We asked the Lord afterward why people are not satisfied in Him.
The answer He gave was beautiful to me. It is put on paper as not to forget Him
who satisfies us from Above!
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart
will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from above.
Proverbs 13:2 a man shall eat well by the
fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence.
Proverbs 14:27 the fear of the LORD is a fountain
of life, to turn one away from the snares of death. Proverbs 19:23 The fear of
the LORD leads to life. And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will
not be visited with evil.
The LORD leads us to life: Only Prayer in
the Book of Proverbs and it is about finances :Proverbs 30: 8 Remove
falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches----Feed me
with the food allotted to me; 9 Lest I be full and deny You, and say, “Who is
the LORD?” Or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
1. Give me neither poverty nor riches but
prosperity…dealing in money management; Prosperity is possessing and stewarding
wisely all that God gives to us. Prosperity results from God’s grace to us and
our faithfulness to follow His biblical principles. The prosperous will always
be wealthy in that which eternally matters.
2. Salvation is God’s wisdom meant for us to
live this life concerning relationships, morality, character and conduct. His
wisdom directs us to avoid the peril of poverty and the extreme of being full.
Satisfied from Above: LIVING WISELY.
Wisdom follows a standard; • Revealed by His Word: Proverbs 4:7-9,
7 NKJV Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in
all your getting, get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she will promote you; She
will bring you honor, when you embrace her. 9 She will place on your head an
ornament of grace; A crown of glory she will deliver to you."
• Embracing
the wisdom of God: is choosing satisfaction in Him. choosing life that is
wisdom embolden in our hearts and minds. Study in the word: Proverbs
1:2-6, 2 NKJV To know wisdom & instruction, To perceive the words of understanding,
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment,& equity;4 To
give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge & discretion-5 A
wise man will hear & increase learning, & man of understanding will
attain wise counsel, 6 To understand a proverb & an enigma, The words of
the wise & their riddles.
• PRAYER,
For wisdom & to practice living wisely:2 Chron. 1:7-12, NKJV 7 On that
night God appeared to Solomon, & said to him, "Ask! What shall I give
you?" 8 And Solomon said to God: "You have shown great mercy to David
my father, & have made me king in his place. 9 Now, O LORD God, let Your
promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over
a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 10 Now give me wisdom
& knowledge, that I may go out & come in before this people; for who
can judge this great people of Yours?" 11 And God said to Solomon:
"Because this was in your heart, & you have not asked riches or wealth
or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life--but have
asked wisdom & knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over
whom I have made you king- 12 wisdom & knowledge are granted to you; &
I will give you riches & wealth & honor, such as none of the kings have
had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like."
The wisdom & knowledge of God to go out
& come in before this people; Not asking for riches or wealth, honor or
long life for enemies or for himself but that wisdom & knowledge be granted
to him. To live wisely on the earth, living in His counsel:Eph. 3:14-21 For
this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven & earth is to be
strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,17 that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted &
grounded in love,18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the
width & length & depth & height-19 to know the love
of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the
fullness of God.20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever & ever.
Amen.
If we are truly rooted in the substance of
Jesus, then His words will rule our lips. Wisdom will be the normal for us and
peace will fill our land…… Satisfied from above is by eating well by the
fruit of your mouth. Jeremiah 31:14 I will satiate ( fill to the full) the soul
of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My
goodness, says the LORD.
1. God’s goodness: Psalm 16:2 O my
soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart
from You.”
2. Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of
the LORD forever.
3. Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless
I had believe that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the
living.
4. Psalm 52:1 Why do you boast in evil, O
mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.
5. Romans 2:4 Or do you despise the riches
of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing the goodness of
God leads you to repentance? Romans 11:22 therefore consider the goodness
and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if
you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. We are
the wild olive tree grafted in: therefore our boast is to be in the
Lord, and not in pride or presuming God is done with Israel. No, we
were grafted in when Israel chose unbelief!
Unwavering in their love and their hope of
Christ’s return, satisfied from above, they made the message known to others,
declared their loyalty to their Lord God and walked the walk of the one alive
unto God! Colossians 2: 13 And you who were dead in trespasses and in the
un-circumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature),
[God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely]
forgiven us all our transgressions.
Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say,
Rejoice, v. 4. our thoughts of God must be delightful thoughts. Delight
thyself in the Lord (Ps 37:4), in the multitude of our thoughts
within us (grievous and afflicting thoughts) his comforts delight our souls (Ps
94:19),
1. Our meditation of him is sweet, Ps
104:34. We must not think the worse of him or of his ways for the
hardships we meet with in his service. There is enough in God to furnish us
with matter of joy in the worst circumstance on earth. A great consequence in
the Christian life; is the need to be again called to it: the good of God for
If good men have not a continual feast, it is their own fault.
2. To stay of bondage: take the
word & speak it down by faith, pull it from the spirit &
into the present moment to see it manifested for all our days/then truly alive
unto God /giving others a view to heaven on earth….
There is Reward for Wisdom: 1Timothy 6:10
Amp. Bible For the love of money is a root of all evils;it is through this
craving that some have been led astray & have wandered from the faith &
pierced themselves through with many acute [mental] pangs.
Proverbs 27:20 Amplified
Bible Sheol ( the place of the dead) and Abaddon ( the place of
destruction) are never satisfied; so [the lust of] the eyes of man is never
satisfied. Habakkuk 2:5 Amp. Bible 5 Moreover, wine & wealth
are treacherous; the proud man [the Chaldean invader] is restless & cannot
stay at home. His appetite is large like that of Sheol & [his greed] is
like death & cannot be satisfied; he gathers to himself all nations &
collects all people as if he owned them
Habakkuk 1 is the prophet asking for help for
the people of Judah. He is perplexed that God does not punish the iniquity of
Judah: the violence, robbery, strife and injustice. Babylonians would punish
Judah according to God’ order! He was going to use a more wicked nation to
punish Judah. God told the prophet that those in faith would survive but the
unjust those of the caliber of Chaldeans would be destroyed! But HOPE was on
His way: Jesus Christ the Lord of glory!
And Proverbs 1:15-20 Amp.
Bible 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; restrain your foot from
their path; 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird!18 But [when these
men set a trap for others] they are lying in wait for their own blood;
they set an ambush for their own lives. 19 so are the ways of
everyone who is greedy for gain; such [greed for plunder] takes away the lives
of its possessors. 20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street, she raises
her voice in the markets;
Wisdom spoke in John 7:37 On the last day,
that great day of the feast, Jesus stood & cried out, saying, “If anyone
thirsts, let him come to Me & drink, 38 he who believes in Me, as the
Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living
water.” Those satisfied by Jesus will themselves become channels of
spiritual refreshment for others. In salvation, receiving Jesus we have the
fountain of water but the over-flowing of the Holy Spirit in our lives is most
certainly a RIVER! Amen!
Proverbs 28: 5 Evil men do not understand
justice, but those who seek the LORD understand all. John 17:17 Sanctify them y
Your truth. Your word is truth. We are to be bearing witness to our unity in
Christ. Satisfied in Him is spiritual and then in the natural!
Proverbs 4:7 therefore get wisdom, and
in all your getting, get understanding. 8 exalt her, and she will promote
you; she will bring you honor, when you embrace her. Matthew 13:44 Again, the
kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and
hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
1. Here being satisfied, the man Jesus has
found and hid a treasure.
2. That godly treasure will exist again as it
did when Jesus walked in His ministry those three years
3. Although hidden, the gospel they spread is
not hidden from God. Jesus discovering this treasure redeemed Israel
and Gentile believers.
4. He gave the price to take the possession and
He sealed it with the Holy Spirit: 1 John 2:2 And he Himself is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
Christ the Power and Wisdom of God: 1
Corinthians 1:21-25 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom
did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message
preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews requires a sign, and Greeks
seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling
block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than
men.
A restoration of the universe, with a new
heaven and a new earth: for God’s wisdom is bringing back to what He purposed
for mankind. Satisfied in Jesus, is satisfied in knowing the ways and the will
of God. It is harmonious realty created in God’s Word manifested: Jesus Christ!
Proverbs 18:24 a man who has friends must
himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
John 15:14 (Jesus spoke this)14 You are My friends if you do whatever I
command you. Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the son and of the
Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
Satisfied to the end of the age and then we
have eternity with the Lord our Redeemer, God our Father and Holy Spirit! The
great God who formed everything gives the fool his hire and the transgressor
his wages. The TEV gives this: that an employee who hires any fool that comes
along is only hurting everyone concerned.
We can see that even in elected officials. We
are to know their background and their beliefs when voting for those who
represent us. For it is evident not all will know the Lord nor will they
receive Him though they can be satisfied in Him!
Finish Strong in Jesus: 2 Timothy 4:6-8
for I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time
of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the
race, I have kept the faith. 8 finally, there is laid up for me the crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give to me on that Day,
and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
1. Paul wrote to Timothy and in this: Paul is
not as so much speaking or boasting of a good fight but that he was
still fighting the good fight; that of faith in Jesus
2. In the word he used, in verse 6, the
time of my departure is at hand literally a Greek word analusis is a
loosing and the English word would be “ analysis
3. To describe his own departure, he was using
an expressive term: one as the seamen’s word of “unloosing a
ship from it anchorage”. It was also a plowman’s word for denoting
the “unyoking” or a wary team of animals after a hard working day. Another term
was that of “striking” …that of a traveler striking a tent in preparation to
march on.
4. Loving the Christ’s appearing: a man who
really longs with an affection for the coming of Christ and lives in the light
of that even.
5. His life righteous and rewarded accordingly
Satisfied from Above is Jesus Who is above
all! John 3 :31-36 NKJV “He who comes from above is above all;
he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes
from heaven is above all. 32 And what He has seen and heard, this He testifies;
and no one receives His testimony. 33 He who has received His
testimony has certified that God is true.
We are to satisfied in The Testimony of Jesus
which is True: He Himself is of divine origin: Matthew 1:.He received the Holy
Spirit in fullness: Matt. 3:16. He had authority on earth: Matthew
18:18- 20 . and you and I have an unlimited resource of the Holy Spirit
available to those obedient to His will: Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with
the Holy Spirit & began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave
them utterance. He who comes from heaven is above all. John 6:33-40 !
Each teaching we receive into our heart gives
into you an infusion where God endues us with power from on high! And each
encounter will begin with prayer for them! As the vessel, a signpost to
another, we impart that and only that which we hear and keep on hearing and do
for others.
Each of us is His workmanship, a
poem He has written. Knitted in our mother’s wombs……we are God’s speech. We are
God’s Song. As the poetry of God, we can lead people from ignorance,
misdeeds or evils with His Word which is His thoughts revealing to us His ways
in the place of which we live. Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God in your midst,
the Mighty One, will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness, He will
quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Above ALL: It is our Father Who in His
unfathomable wisdom, provided the Way in His son…& He is singing over you
& me. Allow this to sink into your spirit man that God loves you, sings
over you & shouts for you while dancing, He thinks on you.
Above All: Our God is demonstrative in showing
His love for we saw it in a babe born in a manger, a Cross planted on a hill
where the Son of His love, Jesus hung for the world to see that sin required a
sacrifice, & He sent the Holy Spirit to be with us daily so that you &
I would partake of His beauty & His power on
earth!
Wisdom and Understanding has come to remove that which is the false. Our hearing ears & seeing eyes receive that spiritual vision that heaven revealed in the manifested son of God. We believe we receive the kingdom that has come in the power of the Holy Spirit & we seek God’s plan for these last days for His glory. YOU Who are Above ALL… Come & Be done by YOUR Holy Spirit! For we are satisfied from Above, and we will give YOU all the glory……….…Amen.
New teaching at: Voice of Prayer
Establishing the Kingdom: Spiritual Hearing
