Understanding is the gateway to accessing the provisions of the Kingdom of heaven. We all know that the blessings of the kingdom of God are available to every child of God. However, it is only the child of God who has understanding (working knowledge) of these provisions that can take delivery of them.
Until the knowledge of the provisions of heaven is understood, they cannot be accessed.
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew 13:23 (KJV)
He that received seed of the knowledge of the word of God in his heart is he that heard and understood what he heard. The word only bears fruit according to each ones level of understanding; the higher your level of understanding, the greater your fruitfulness.
What is spiritual understanding?
Spiritual understanding can be defined as seeing things through God’s perspective.
It is important we understand that our point of view is a function of our positioning. The better our position, the better our perception. The best position for a clearer and better view is the highest point.
And the Bible makes us to understand that God is the most high according to Genesis 14:19.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
God who sits on the highest point is in the best position to see things clearly and better. God shows us things from His perspective in order for us to get His kind of result.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Jeremiah 1:11-12 (KJV)
The clearer you see what God is showing you, the faster its delivery.
What do you see? Are you seeing what God is showing you or are you seeing what you think is right? What you think is based on your positioning. God is saying come up to my position to see well.
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Revelation 4:1 (KJV)
Until you go up to God’s position, He cannot show you what He is seeing. And until you see what God is seeing, you can’t act the way He acts to witness His kind of result.
Secondly, spiritual understanding can also be defined as the discovery of practical instructions from the pages of scriptures.
God’s directives are based on His perception of the situation in question. God give instructions base on what He sees from His position. When we unearth these instructions from scriptures and apply them, we get God’s kind of result.
A wise manwill hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverb 1:5 (KJV)
The best a wise man can get out of knowledge is increase in learning (knowledge) but a man of understanding goes beyond increase in knowledge to the discovery of applicable practical instructions from knowledge (pages of scriptures) that when applied delivers undeniable results (proves).
God’s instructions are a product of God’s perception
Why is understanding a crucial factor in accessing the provisions of the kingdom of heaven?
This is because; the provisions of the kingdom of God are hidden in the Wisdom of the kingdom to preserve them until their appointed time of manifestation.
Every provision of the kingdom of God has an appointed time of manifestation. To prevent the untimely abortion of these provisions, they are preserved in the wisdom of the kingdom which can only be understood by the sons of the kingdom.
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mark 4:11 (KJV)
It is not given to everyone to know the wisdom (mystery) of the kingdom of God. The mystery of the kingdom is the exclusive right of the sons of the kingdom. If you are not a son of the kingdom, you can’t have access to the wisdom of the kingdom.
The manifestation of the wisdom of the kingdom is what separates those within the kingdom from those without. So until the wisdom of the kingdom is understood and applied by those within the kingdom of God, they will still look like those without.
The profiting of knowledge is in its application not in its accumulation.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Corinthians 2:7-8 (KJV)
The wisdom of the kingdom of God is hidden in mystery. And behind these mysteries is the glory of every son of God. When you locate and apply the wisdom of God concerning any issues of life, the glory of God packaged in that mystery is released to you. We saw this wisdom answer to Jesus for his glorification in Mark 6:2-3.
And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing himwere astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
The wisdom of the kingdom of God is the wisdom of mighty works not the wisdom of mighty words. By the wisdom of God available to a carpenter, he was able to execute mighty works that confounded everyone that once knew him. That will be your story shortly in the name of Jesus.
By your encounter with the wisdom of the kingdom of God on this platform, your exploit will surprise all that once knew you in the name of Jesus Christ.
What are the keys for unlocking the mysteries of the kingdom of God?
It is vital we know that the kingdom of God operate on keys. By these keys, we effortlessly unlock the secrets of the kingdom. What are these keys?
1. You must be born again.
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mark 4:11 (KJV)
Unto them that are within the kingdom of God it is given (prearranged) to know its mysteries (wisdom). They that are outside the kingdom of God (without), all the things of the kingdom of God are mere stories.
New birth (born again) takes you from without to within the kingdom of God – Colossians 1:13.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)
The natural man (one who is not born again) cannot understand the things of the Spirit of God. He does not have spiritual senses to process heavenly knowledge. Heavenly wisdom is foolishness to him because they are outside his scope of understanding.
At new birth (born again), your spiritual senses are reborn to be able to pick up and process heavenly information.
2. Locate your God’s ordained teachers
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This isthe way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Isaiah 30:20-21
Every good student has his or her teachers. He said, “… but your eyes shall see your teachers.” Your eye shall see your own God’s ordained teachers.
There are things we will never understand until we come across the right teachers. There are people whom God has ordained with special wisdom in specific areas for the enthronement of His kingdom on earth.
It is only when we locate them would our ears open to hear a word of turnaround, deliverance, healing, breakthrough etc. behind their words.
Your God ordain teacher is one whom you admire and respect.
3. Honor your teachers
But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. 5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
Mark 6:4-5 (KJV)
The prophet or the teacher you don’t honor, his or her teachings cannot impact on you.
Jesus couldn’t impact on his own people because they did not honor him.
Jesus had seen the suffering of his people and had waited until his time of manifestation to help them. When the time finally came he returned with all the love he had for his people but he couldn’t do much for them because they did not honor him.
Any teacher or prophet you don’t honor, don’t waste your time around him rather go locate your God sent teacher or prophet, because you can never be blessed through a teacher or prophet you don’t honor.
4. Be teachable.
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms 25:9 (KJV)
Don’t be mistaken, God doesn’t teach everyone. He only teaches the meek (teachable). Those who will listen and act on what they have heard from Him in obedience.
Numbers 12:3described Moses as the meekest man on earth.
(Now the man Moses wasvery meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
And what was the result?
He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
Psalms 103:7 (KJV)
Moses a very teachable man was taught the ways of God and when he applied them, the acts of God were manifested to the children of Israel who didn’t know the ways of God.
The acts of God are hidden in the ways of God.
Only those who know the ways of God can command the acts of God.
Until a man is teachable, the acts of God are far from him.
It is not enough to have your own teachers you must be teachable to accept whatever God has sent them to teach you for your change to come.
5. Meditate on the word of God
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1 Timothy 4:15 (KJV)
Heavenly instructions are unearthed from the pages of scriptures through the process of mediation.
Paul said to Timothy, meditate on these things you have been taught until you see divine steps to take. And when you see these instructions, give yourself to doing them until their profiting appears to all not to you alone.
Mediating on the word of God is to show us what to do from the pages of scripture as we can see in Joshua 1:8.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
You are to meditate on the word in order to know what to do. Meditating on the word is not a onetime thing. It says, day and night .i.e. till what to do according to God’s view is seen. When you finally see it, keep at it till its profiting appears to all.
If you don’t act on discovered truth, you never see their profiting.
6. Act on the discovered truth.
Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. 6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
Luke 5:4-6 (KJV)
Divine instruction is the cure for all frustration.
It doesn’t matter how long a situation has lasted, at the execution of divine instruction a testimony must emerge.
If peter did not adhere to the divine instruction Jesus gave to him, he would have gone home empty even though he served God with his boat.
Many children of God are in frustration because they prefer human wisdom to divine wisdom.
By all humanly available data, fishing the time Jesus asked peter to fish was a waste of time and energy. No good fisherman goes fishing in broad day light. But that was when Jesus told peter to fish.
I pray that human wisdom will not prevail over divine wisdom in your life in Jesus name.
Divine wisdom has upper hand over human wisdom any day, anytime.
7. Be steadfast
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58 (KJV)
The rule of the game of success is continuity.
For you to see the profiting of the kingdom of God, you must be steadfast in the work of the Lord (acting on divine instructions till they deliver).
Therefore, if you know that God is ever faithful, then you need to trust him to make good His word at His own appointed time.
Our faith is manifested in steadfastness.
Tomorrow, we would be looking at: UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST BIRTH OF MAN. Don’t miss it for anything. Your testimony is very close and you shall not miss it in Jesus name.
Prayer of salvation
We believe you have been blessed by this message. We invite you to make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life by saying this prayer audibly:
Oh Lord God, I believe with my entire hearth in your son Jesus Christ. I believe He died for me and You raised Him from the dead. I believe He is alive today. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from today. Through Him and in His name I have eternal life.
I am born again. Thank you Lord. I am now a child of God. Praise God!
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