Spirit Of The Lord Series

In their case they have knowledge but no understanding. I like to say that educated way beyond their ability to comprehend what they think they know.

But education by itself is not a bad thing.

The end of August, I should be finished with a bachelor's degree in science, specific to nursing. Over the last several years, I have studied what life on this planet looks like, from single celled microbes to advanced human anatomy and physiology. I’ve also studied psychology, sociology, public health, and even what they are now calling normal human sexuality.

A couple of my friends were worried about me taking so many science classes- that I start to believe in evolution and dismiss what we see as the truth of what the bible has to say about all of these things.

I can tell you that standing here today, my faith in the bible and God is actually stronger than when I started, because I have looked through microscopes, poured over diagrams, and read thousands of pages of textbooks and everything I read about and looked at wasn’t some random collection of unlikely tissue.

I saw intricately designed machines.

If I could just show you how muscle fiber works to contract a muscle, or the intricacies of vision, or even the machinery seen in a virus or the flagellum of a bacteria- it’s living machinery.

After learning all of this, I have found that I don't have enough faith to believe that happened by accident. It's more likely that a tornado would hit a junkyard filled with Ford vehicles and produce a fully functional Lamborghini then life occurring on this or any other planet by time and random chance.

That's the difference between knowledge and understanding. The evolutionist will try to blow you away with their knowledge but they don't understand what they think they know.

That has to do with anything today. You can listen to the news, but not understand the significance of the story.

That’s why we need the spirit of understanding in our day.

Moving on-

Spirit of Counsel- Deborah-

Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.

The spirit of counsel is taking the spirit of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding and applying it to life.

Remember I said that these attributes overlap a lot and are even co-dependent on each other.

In the case of Deborah, she was a judge, or leader of the people in the Old Testament, and was known as a wise decision maker. So much so, that people came from miles around to hear her judgements concerning situations occurring in the nation and even personally among the people.

I’m thankful for Deborah because of a few reasons-

1. It shows the Holy Spirit’s gifts are for woman as well as men

2. It shows the power of the gift of arbitration.

Arbitration is simply hearing both sides of a dispute, and coming to a solution that can satisfy both sides. Usually, both sides won’t get 100% of what they want and will have to give a little, but the end results is going to be fair to everyone.