I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. Romans 8 :18

See the way we celebrate Jesus on Easter Sunday and beyond, and the way we celebrate Mary as the one who had the privilege of being the mother of the Saviour. But we forget that before the resurrection, Mary full of favour and grace was standing by the cross of his Son, the cruel soldiers stretched Jesus’ battered body upon the cross and, with heavy hammer blows, drove the sharp spikes into his hands and feet. Jesus, her son, the Son of God, is dead. In her heart, Mary dies with him. Two broken hearts—one pierced with a spear, one pierced with sorrow—become one; Jesus’ body is later taken down from the cross and placed in her arms. Mary embraces her son with a love beyond words, beyond grief itself. “ Let it be done according to thy will, Lord, ” she prays.

And we we are told all this is according to God’s plan😳?

PRAYER INTENTION

We pray for God's mercy to help us to make meaning of our sufferings that are favour oriented.

HIDDEN WISDOM OF GOD-1

To understand the fact that FAVOUR & GRACE may not bring laughter and celebration at first sight… you must know the principle of the HIDDEN WISDOM of GOD

The HIDDEN WISDOM of GOD is a spiritual principle which states that SOMETIMES God can conceal you in a storm, difficulty, or problem so the devil and your enemies will not know what God is up to, and by the time everyone realises - God will lift you to where he actually wants you to be .

This mystery am sharing with you is usually hidden from the knowledge of MAN and the Devil. You know most times, many are discouraged and frustrated because they don’t understand the mysteries within the Word; they have been taught to confess the Word, and meditate on it, yet they don’t see the tangible fruits of their confessions. How many quote the scripture ‘ by His stripes I am healed!’ yet carry disease all their life ? It is a mystery!

But Paul breaks down this mystery for us: if we want to receive what God has given us, we need to understand the hidden wisdom of God, concealed in His Word, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:6-16, reads-

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

However, as it is written: “ What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived ”— the things God has prepared for those who love him —

these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit…. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words . The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit . …."

What is the HIDDEN WISDOM of GOD?

It is the way God presents His truth while also concealing it from the understanding of mankind, enemies and even Satan. The ways of God are mysterious, and not everyone understands them. Paul tells us that ‘no eye has seen…no ear has heard, and…no human mind has conceived ’ (v9). These mysteries have to be revealed to us by the Spirit for us to understand His ways. The ‘revelator’ of the mysteries of God is the Holy Spirit.

In Matthew 13:10-11, The disciples came to him and asked, “ Why do you speak to the people in parables ?” He replied, “ Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Jesus purposely wrapped the truth up into parables, so that the true meaning was concealed.

For instance, when Jesus said to His disciples that “ unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life ” (John 6:53-66, NIV), many of Jesus’ disciples left Him. They didn’t understand the wisdom hidden in this specific mystery or teaching. The Bible tells us that “ [They] know nothing, they understand nothing…you are all sons of the Most High, but you will die like mere MORTALS ” because of a lack of understanding of God’s ways (Psalm 82:5-6).

There are many, many mysteries that need to be decoded and unfolded to empower God’s PEOPLE. This is a method God uses sometimes to preserve his own till danger is over, that method is known as the hidden wisdom of God.

This same strategy was used for Moses- When they began to kill Hebrew children – they put Moses in a basket and covered him and he was in Egypt, the centre of witchcraft- How can you be in the centre of witchcraft and not be destroyed, this dimension is known as the hidden wisdom of God.

So when this hidden dimension comes even you can’t explain what is happening in your life. That is why we walk by FAITH and not by SIGHT. Listen, some of you, your problem is that you are always looking for explanations.

Hear me when I tell you, not everything about life can be explained away, there will be many gaps that you would not have answers to fill. A time will come when you will say honestly, if I know all am deceiving you. I have no idea what is happening. All I know is that I love God.

When God wanted to send Joseph to Egypt, He did not send him directly, God sent Joseph to Egypt in a mysterious way. By the understanding of man, Joseph was cursed, and yet that was God’s way of getting him where He wanted Him to be.

So you see Joseph in the pit and God calls that progress? How do you explain being in a dry well progress? And the brothers sell him to the Ishmaelite’s, and this sons of perdition take this child of promise off to Egypt, any other person wouldn’t have taken him to Egypt, but Egypt was his place of destiny and he got there. Joseph did not know that the pain and betrayal he was going through was the preservation of a nation, and that even the Messiah was in the loins of that pain.

Joseph gets to Egypt then it looks like things were going on well and all of a sudden, here comes Mrs. Potiphar the witch creating double trouble for him. And Joseph was driven out of the house into prison.-

Hidden wisdom of God- the Path to Favour and Grace….

TO BE CONTINUED...

Shalom and God bless you.

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