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Wisdom Nuggets

Bishop David Abioye

- There are doors you have no business opening because they are not your doors!
- Why must you solve a problem that you can avoid in the first place?
- There is a difference between Bold face and God-directed Wisdom!
- Wise people are sensitive to timing!
- Don’t use foolishness to drag God into Your trouble!

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished (Proverbs 22:3)

The word Prudent is another expression for Wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to see problems when it is coming and avoid it. There are people who all their life time are busy fighting one battle that they created for themselves or another. I see this many times in homes, husband and wife fighting over unnecessary things.
- A man going to the kitchen and saying this is my kitchen: he is looking for trouble.
I am just giving you an example.

In my home, I hardly enter the kitchen because it’s not my department. Return home, I need to catch quick rest because I need to get back to work. There are people in charge headed by the Head of Department in the house.

“A prudent man foreseeth the evil”
I have heard God’s servant Bishop Oyedepo say several times “one of the graces God has given to me is to see problems ahead of time and kill it by avoiding it.”
Some are in relationships that is causing them troubles: business relationships and all of that.
- You know somebody is going to cause you trouble and you are still keeping him!
- You know something will not work and you will still put your head inside it! Here you are fighting every day, wasting your energy unnecessarily
- There are doors you have no business opening because they are not your doors! You may injure yourself or even lose your life there.

“A prudent foreseeth the evil”
So, when next you see some troubles coming your way, be sensitive.
When next you tap a door to open and it does not open, step back and ask
“Lord, is this my door?”
before you start binding, claiming that “a great door and effectual is opened before you and there are many adversaries”

I have learnt that a lot from God’s servant and from other great men of God who have been ahead of us. Even Jesus, there was a time, He withdrew from a certain place because they sought to kill Him.

John 7:1 “After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.”
They had planned, they had schemed.
He restricted His movement: somebody may say “Oh, Jesus is very weak, He is not bold”
That is the difference between BOLD FACE and GOD DIRECTED WISDOM.

He would not walk in the Jewry again because they sought to kill Him.
His brothers came and said to Him “Hey, why don’t you go to the feast, go and show Yourself” – it’s not every time you show what you have.
“For who doeth these things in the secret, is it not you who said you should put your light upon the candle stick?”
Jesus said to them “my time is not yet come”
John 7:4
Wise people are sensitive to many things among which is TIMING.

Some of you have bright ideas, you brought it out too early. Somebody snatched it from you because he had more money than you.

Jesus said “My time is not yet come”
They pressed on Him and He said, “my time is not fully come.” That means if I go now, I may score 50% but I will wait till the time.
And in verse 9 when it was time after they had left, He went, it was His time, all eyes were set on Him (John 7:9).

So, wisdom is not just about solving problems. Why must you solve a problem that you can avoid in the first place?
- Some people know that the person he/she wants to marry will cause trouble:
“I believe God”
“God is going to change him”
“God is going to change her”
“I believe God”

You can’t lead God into trouble. No. You can’t drag Him into trouble with you. If He leads you and there is crisis, He will take care of it. But if you go by yourself, when you know that there is danger, over to you.
Ask from Paul the Apostle. As anointed as he was, God told him “Don’t go”, He had vision “Don’t go”, prophets came and told him “Don’t go”
He said “Men, what do you mean? I am not only prepared to suffer and I’m ready to die”
God said “Okay, you are free to go and die”

Don’t use foolishness to drag God into YOUR trouble.

“A prudent man foreseeth the evil” – so, you need to engage the wisdom of analysing, of seeing ahead things that may cause your crisis in the future and avoid it.
“he hideth himself” but the fool says what does it matter, I’m under the anointing. Okay, you go ahead