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         (Dad:) It takes a lot of wisdom to judge the Lord's Words, and what is the foundation of that wisdom? Faith! To understand the Lord's Words takes faith. It takes more than just being smart. It takes more than analyzing. It takes more than comparing this one and that one and seeing where the so-called weaknesses, loopholes or contradictions are. If you really want to be a wise lawyer of the Word, you need faith. You need to know that what the Lord says is true. That's the starting point. The Lord doesn't make mistakes. The Lord knows what He's talking about. But the affairs of the Kingdom, the things of the spirit world, are so vast that it's hard to understand them with the carnal mind. It's hard to weigh one against the other and try to put it all into neatly wrapped little packages that your finite mind can easily understand. If you try to do that, you'll run into problems.
         That's the problem with some of these young ones. They're very sharp, very smart. The Lord has gifted them with intelligence, with strong, quick minds. But they don't yet have the wisdom or experience from the Lord to be able to counterbalance all that intellect. That's a weakness in some of these young people. They get lifted up in pride as novices and they get led astray by the Enemy when they get into criticizing and analyzing and checking the Words of the Lord.
         Their starting point shouldn't be, "What can I find that is wrong?" but rather a point of faith and belief, knowing that the Lord is right, even when things seem contradictory. They should be like you, Honey. You know that there's a good reason, a good explanation. It's not because the words are wrong; it's just because you're not seeing it right, interpreting it right or applying it right.
         It takes so much experience, wisdom and maturity to learn to wisely apply the Lord's Words; to learn to wisely balance what the Lord says in one situation or one circumstance or in answer to one question with His answer to another question.
         It takes wisdom, maturity, depth of spirit and experience to be able to rightly divide the Word of truth, and especially to be able to apply it.
         That's why it takes so many years to train leaders and shepherds and people who can wisely apply the Word. It's such a valuable talent, but it's so rare, because it takes people with great love and great faith--people who are willing to invest the time to study the Word, and people who are willing to cry out to the Lord for supernatural understanding of the Lord's Words, to really see what the Lord means and understand it. It takes more than just seeing the words on the page and understanding them in your mind. You have to understand them in your heart. You have to know the nature of God. You have to be able to wisely balance one scripture with another, one prophecy with another, and know how to apply it or when to apply it.



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