Availing Counsel, Wisdom and Power

UV 3751/10000 Availing Counsel, Wisdom and Power This also comes from the Lord of hosts, who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great. Isaiah 28 v 29 The uni-verse hails the Lord God as the Lord of the hosts or the armies of heaven, of angels and archangels and heavenly beings. The metaphor of army is employed to convey His sovereignty and unassailable power. It is a commitment to deal with the spiritual forces attacking us at any given time on any given day. His protection is real. Weapons may come against us but the Lord will cause it to perish and not flourish against us. He gives us wise counsel how to duck it, avoid it, blunt it, negate it, eradicate it. The other day I had three warts on my body removed by having it cauterised. It was burnt little by little till its roots were burnt. It cannot grow again at that spot. Likewise, the Lord counsels us to remove by its roots the weapons and snare the enemy plants against us. His counsel is truly wonderful and His wisdom is great. We will be threshed like grain by the Lord as a farmer threshes wheat with horses and cartwheel but not beyond what is required. We will not be damaged but we will be edified. The ways of our God are not our ways but our ways can be those of God- that is the marvel of faith. We do so when we listen carefully and hear His words intently. Our applications need to rise to Him daily. We need to ask for spiritual discernment to recognize the voice of God in the whisper of the Holy Spirit. When we have such discerning spirit, we will know the spirit of everyone who comes to us or who interacts with us. We will know what to say and what to do in every situation. Jesus is wonderful in counsel, wisdom and power. We need to sit at His feet like Mary and not be too busy like her sister Martha. We obviously lack wisdom and we need to ask the Lord for more and more wisdom. We lack counsel to take decisions in our times of dilemma. We can seek counsel of the Lord. We lack power to execute our decisions and we can obtain grace from the Lord to carry out our decisions.