Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: (Proverbs 8:1-3)

Many Christians talk about seasons.  There are long seasons and there are short seasons.  At the end of every season there is a CROSSROADS that opens the way into our next season.

When we live a life of the Spirit, these crossroads should not take us by surprise.  The Spirit guides us through our lives and before every major turn there are signs that help point the way into the next season.

I have travelled by car into many major cities.  Some of these cities are intimidating because they are so large.  I have gotten lost trying to navigate the signs that I see.  I have to be in tune with my GPS or a map in order to adequately guide myself through the maze of streets that I encounter along the way to my destination.  In fact if it were not for my guides, I would surely get lost.

In the same way we need to ask the Lord for a spiritual map in order to guide us to our spiritual destinations.  We don’t want to miss one destination that God has in store for our life.  We want to arrive at every place that He has in store.  Sometimes He will guide us through dreams and visions, sometimes it will be a witness in our heart, or a prophetic word.

In order to hear His voice, I must be humble.  Pride will stop me from understanding the voice of the Lord when He speaks.  It will further stop me from taking some turns because they don’t seem like what I might have in store for my own life.

I remember when Lydia and I bought our current house.  My real estate agent put the house on the itinerary for that day, but I wasn’t excited about it.  When we drove up to the house, I looked at it and decided I didn’t even want to go inside.  It was not in the right location in my mind and it looked small.

I told my agent I wasn’t interested in looking and to go to the house to tell the owner we would not be looking.  This he did, but then he ran back to the car.  He said, “You have to come and look at this house!”

My agent knew what we wanted more than we did.  He knew the kind of house that we were looking for and he felt that this was the house.  I was still not certain, but I trusted my agent enough to at least go and have a look.

Well, the house was exactly what my wife and I wanted.  We fell in love with it immediately, as did our boys.

We must submit to the leading of the Lord.  When He guides us we must respond.  We can miss many great opportunities because our own prejudices stop us from seeing things from His perspective.  He has blessings that cannot be counted for your life, but you must respond to each one.

When you come to the CROSSROADS, the key is to wait until you hear His voice and then respond.  Don’t fear missing it.  He speaks until you hear, but be obedient when He does speak, because He has so much that He wants to give.  Humble yourself in His sight and He will bring you to the greatest heights in Christ.

In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.” And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place. O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?” (1 Chronicles 1:7-10)

At the age of 15 I came to Jesus and asked Him to come into my heart.  It was a defining moment in my life.  I meant it.  I wanted Him in my life.  Even though trials would come to me in the years that followed, which caused me to question His goodness for a season, during this part of my life Jesus was the center.

I use to pray for hours and I would read my bible.  Between 15 and 17 I read the bible through twice and the New Testament four more times.   It was during this time that I began to pray and ask God for wisdom.

I prayed this way because I knew that there were benefits that would come because of it.  I had read about the dream of Solomon in 1 Chronicles 1:7-10 and that because he asked for wisdom God granted Him all blessings and favour.  I wanted to be like Solomon in His wisdom but not his sin.

And then I came to Proverbs 8 where I began to see the blessings that would come to the one that sought wisdom.  It would afford that one a life of righteousness, understanding, knowledge and the blessing and favour of the Lord.  Wisdom was better than gold but with it you would obtain an inheritance and full treasury.  There is no poverty in the place of wisdom.  With wisdom kings reigned and nobles ruled justly, but most important to me, with wisdom there was life and eternal life.

So, at an early age I began to ask the Lord to lead me down the paths of wisdom and to guide me and keep me by wisdom all the days of my life.

I wanted the seven spirits of God to rest upon my life as described in Isaiah 11:2: “The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD.”  I now understand that this was the spirit that rested upon Christ and I wanted the same spirit to rest upon me.

To me this became about promise and covenant.  I understood that wisdom was my possession in Christ.  I knew that God had to grant it to me, so I began to declare it over my life and the lives of my children and wife.  I thanked God for the spirit of Wisdom that was upon us.  I declared over my life that my wisdom and the wisdom of my family would increase so that we would be a blessing to those we met.  I expected the spirit of Wisdom to operate in my life at all times.

Wisdom unlocks destiny.  When we wait upon the Lord, His wisdom guides us into all things that He desires us to do.  He will not leave you without wisdom.  He will come to you in the night hours in a dream, His small still voice will be within you or He will come through the voice of a friend or of angels.  The person who fears the Lord will recognize Wisdom’s voice when she speaks and if he/she allows wisdom to guide them, then all the days of his/her life will be lived in blessing and the favour of the Lord.

I expect God’s wisdom in my life in the same way I expect His blessing and favour.  Proverbs 8:35 says, “For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favour from the LORD.”  Therefore my expectation is for nothing less than God’s wisdom because I will not live outside of His favour and blessing.  I will not live as a cursed man ever again.  So obtaining wisdom to me is greater than life.

I expect God’s wisdom in my life in the same way I expect His blessing and favour.  Proverbs 8:35 says, “For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favour from the LORD.”  Therefore my expectation is for nothing less than God’s wisdom because I will not live outside of His favour and blessing.  I will not live as a cursed man ever again.  So obtaining wisdom to me is greater than life.