Skip to content Proverbs 2 Feb 19 · 28 min ...more
Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Support this leader
Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Give
Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
56.8K followers
Nina and Michelle, are best friends with a passion for the Lord. They bring uplifting conversations, encouragement, and shared personal stories of overcoming and victory straight to your screen.
56.8K followers
Comments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
Embracing Wisdom from Proverbs 0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:56 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. Today, we're gonna be talking about Proverbs. I it you know what? This is our our twelfth season. We're starting off our new1:07 twelfth season.1:09 Can you believe? Of Grace Grace.1:10 That's amazing.1:11 And, for this new year,1:12 I mean, God just was kinda telling me to just get in the book of Proverbs again and just to kinda take 1 every day and kinda really just, you know,1:21 really just meditate on it and just really figure out some wisdom and some of1:26 the things that King Solomon is talking about because think about him, the wisest guy on the planet ever in the history of ever. But when he was asked1:38 of all the things in the world that he could ask the Lord for, that's what he asked for. And so, you know what, why not be the same?1:46 I asked for not only wisdom of Solomon, but a double portion.1:49 Why don't we just be all like Elisha? Exactly. And so, we get in there with the wisdom, but but Proverbs 2. I kinda just really, like, hung my head on that, and then someone2:01 sent it to me, and it was like, that was confirmation. So we decided we needed to talk about it today because there's so many it's the moral benefits of wisdom, and it's really just getting in there and just2:13 really just pulling out the good nuggets.2:16 Although you feel like so many people are asking, God, what do you want me to do next? What do you want me to do? The so if you will read through a2:28 proverb a day, that'll get you through the month no matter what. Right?2:31 Start over.2:32 And then just memorize it because it says it makes you if you're simple so if you don't feel like you're the wisest guy, if you're a simple person, it says it'll make you smart. Yeah. So why2:44 not2:44 do it? Right? Exactly. If you think about right away, I what I love, which which, you know, I feel like the Holy Spirit can just highlight stuff for you. And right away in the beginning of2:56 Proverbs 2, there's 3 ifs, and I I spotted those right away and then focused in on that. So you think about this. It says, my son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within3:08 you, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as silver and search for it as hidden3:19 treasures. Then, of course, there's always a then. Then. So if you do those things, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find knowledge of God. And the fear meaning not meaning terror,3:31 you know, the fear of the Lord you know, people think God's all scary. It's not what it means. It means but a a reverential alignment with God. And I love that so much. It's like living3:43 as God being your ultimate authority, which he is. And that's a reverential alignment. And that's if you do those things, you know, accept his words, call out for3:55 insight, cry out for understanding, and if you search for it as silver and gold. Like, those are the things, like, you just we need to focus in on God's playbook4:06 right here explaining the things that we need to do to get this wisdom and to be able to live in that alignment with God. Isn't that so good? I love that. And I love that it4:18 says, if you lift up your voice. It's up to you.4:22 And when you and when you think about that, it's talking about pouring out your heart before the Lord. And so I love that because, you know, people talk about the Lord being their4:34 best friend. Right? How how do you talk to your best friend? You you you give them a call, you sit across, you know, with your coffee, whatever, and you just pour out your heart to them,4:45 And and they understand you. Well, think how much more God understands you because there's no search in his understanding. So if you want wisdom and and, I mean, if4:57 we don't want wisdom, then that means that we need to ask God to make us want wisdom. We don't ever want to think that we can do it on our own because we really can't, because we5:09 have no idea what tomorrow holds. Only God knows what tomorrow holds. So how do we brace ourselves for tomorrow? How do we brace ourselves for 10 years from now? How do we brace ourselves5:21 down the road? Right? What does God want us to do? All of that can be found in Proverbs. All of that can be found in pouring out your heart before the Lord. And he says5:33 if you would do that, he would then pour out wisdom upon you. And I love that.5:40 It's he says ask for it and I will give it to you liberally. And, like, that's it's just ours for the taking if we ask for it because God, he doesn't want us to be, you know, that5:52 that we're not we're not wise to what's going on. We're not we're not up on the day to day of how we are going to navigate the situations in the world and the climate around us. He wants us to6:03 be discerning. He wants us to have wisdom and insight so that we're gonna know how to get through these difficult times. Like, if you think about it, I harp on this all the time, but it it it those6:15 the the scriptures that say, in the end, even the elect will be deceived and many will fall away. And, you know, I I can't stop thinking about that. And so why6:28 would we even have to be deceived if we can follow God's blueprint on how to be wise and discerning and have understanding of the signs of the times? And6:40 so he can cause us to, you know, know what the truth is, what is something that is causing deception. You know, I just I think where we are as a6:52 country, as a world right now, you know, I I I don't believe it's, you know, there's such a division. I don't believe it's right, left. It's Democrats, Republicans. We are living in a Christ,7:03 Antichrist climate right now. It it it is so it's it's either you are with Christ, you are a Bible believing Jesus follower with Christ, or you're not. And then7:15 what? Whose camp are you in then? Deceit, hate, evil, everything that stands against God, the will of God, and you're out to deceive, steal, kill, and destroy.7:27 And that's where we are. And so we're gonna have to pray up, ask for wisdom, read your Proverbs, and keep just just letting ask the Lord to write that on your heart. Ask him7:38 to to put it in your heart as Rhema word so that when you need it, when somebody is asking you something like, you know, why do you believe the way you believe or why or coming against the word,7:50 you know how to answer that person and you know how to speak wisely to contradict what the devil is saying, and that's so important for the times we're living in.8:02 It is. It absolutely is. And, you know, everybody wants to be on the right path. Right? You're we're always saying, God, guide me. Show me the path. Show me. Well, it says right here, he stores up sound8:14 wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk uprightly. He guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of his saints. Think about that. And it says,8:26 then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity, and every good path. Yep. Everybody wants to be on the right path. And when we get back, we're gonna talk8:37 more about that.8:39 I'm excited to announce that we're having our biggest 3 in 1 sale ever with a limited edition product, a back in stock special, and a closeout deal you won't find anywhere else. So go to my pillow dot com8:51 or call that number on your screen. Use your promo code to get our My Pillow bed sheets, only 29 88. Any color, any style, any size, even Kings. Regular, 1 19Wisdom's Shield Against Deception 9:02 98, only 29 88. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. How about our my towels? They're finally back in stock, but not for long. Get a 6 piece my towel set, regular9:14 69 98, and only 39 98. And for the first time and the only time ever, get our limited edition premium My Pillows. They're made with giza cotton and designer gusset.9:26 Queen, 17 98. King's only 19 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get the best offers ever. Quantities are extremely limited, so9:38 order now.9:39 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we're talking about Proverbs, specifically Proverbs 29:45 today and focusing on getting wisdom and knowing what to do and and just how to react and behave and how to, you know, kind of conduct yourself in9:57 a wise way.9:59 I mean, how many times have you been in a situation where the Holy Spirit has brought back some obscure proverb that you're not even thinking about. Right? But it10:10 comes to you and it honestly, that has happened to me where I'm in a conversation with someone and I'm beginning to wonder what I'm gonna say next or what I'm how I'm going to respond, and then10:22 the Holy Spirit will just bring up the word of God in me, in my spirit, and I know exactly how to answer. Exactly. And that's not because I've been reading it, you know, I haven't read it all10:34 the way through every single day, but I read Proverbs almost every day. And and it really does come back to you.10:41 Right. You can read it. There's 1 for every day, and then start over because we're never ever it's it's gonna always be a living word. It's gonna there's always gonna be something new to learn and to glean from it. And10:53 and I I'll try I'll read it in different, versions and just kinda you can pull out different nuggets that way that stand out to you. You think about this. I you know, I I'm reading where wisdom get this. Wisdom11:05 protects us from corrupt influences, deceptive speech, moral compromise, darkness masquerading as light, and paths that lead away11:17 from righteousness. Shabam, boom, drop the mic. Like think about that. Okay. Is it think about deceptive speech. Okay. Think about watching the news. And and so many11:28 people just, you you know, things just if it doesn't sound right, do your own research. You know, so many people take that as, okay, that's truth because I heard it on the news. Well, the news has an11:40 agenda. Either way, whatever news you're watching, you have to just pull out things. And if it doesn't sound right, research it yourself. Do your own homework on a lot of things, and that's wisdom Because we need to11:52 learn if you're gonna speak about Michelle and I do, speak about politics a lot because we do believe that the Lord is involved in all of that, because the government rests on his shoulders.12:04 But we need to be wise about what we're speaking about, and we read up, and we we we look up the sources, and we want to know what the truth is because the truth will set you free. And so many of12:16 these things and and I know, you know, it sounds like I'm beating up on the left, but, you know, they're they're the ones who are going against all the things of God, specifically life. Just start with12:28 that. You know, wanting to kill babies, wanting to do mutilation surgeries on children who are not old enough to do anything else. You know, if you can't even drive a car12:39 and or any of these things, and yet you can make these lifelong decisions about your body. And there's so many things that just, you know, whether it's drag queen story hour or all of these evil things, let's12:52 just start with kids. And there's a zillion other topics that we could bring in these same kinds of analogies. But what we're saying is that's that's not godly in any way, shape, or form. God13:04 doesn't make mistakes when when he created a child to have a certain anatomy. And so these are the kinds of things we're talking about, that that unless you are wise to what the word13:16 of God says, I created them, man and woman, I created them. Like, he created 2 sexes, and he doesn't make mistakes. And so so how many people are deceived by all of these things, thinking13:28 that you can just love who you wanna love, and they're putting kitty litter boxes in high schools because kids can identify it. And it's okay. As a cat.13:38 At Christmas, 1 of the local schools of our family said that they're in the junior high had a litter box in the restroom. That's insane. We are not animals.13:50 And13:50 how is that okay?13:51 It is not. We are made in the image of God. Yes. And so unless we have a reverential fear of God, we will be given over to a depraved14:03 mind. And that is terrifying because if you think that you would exactly. Delusional. Yes. That's delusional. And and like the Bible talks about in you know, there'll14:15 be thick smoke all across the earth. That's deception. And so when when something doesn't resonate in your spirit, you need to get you need to get in the word. And going back to what we14:27 were talking about with reverential fear14:29 Yeah.14:30 I think about, like, reverent fear of the Lord is a profound respect and awe for God. His supreme authority, his holiness, his power. It is not merely14:41 a a a a being afraid. It is absolutely like, think about heaven. Think about heaven. Like, I think about, like, talking about aborted babies. Recently,14:55 Dallas Harvey, he's 1 of the pastors of the Crossing Church, talked about a vision, a dream that the Lord gave him. And it was aborted babies that were singing before15:07 the Lord and how, you know, they were they were could be living on earth, but now they're in the throne room of heaven singing this song which15:19 he sang. You know, he said it it is just such a clear song. Heaven is real. God is real. The reverential fear of God is the15:30 very beginning. You cannot I don't care how many degrees you have. I don't care where they're from. If you don't have the reverential fear of God, if I don't have the reverential15:42 fear of God,15:44 we're just foolish. Messing. We're foolish. You know, the the scripture that says that God uses the foolish things to the of the Lord, the foolish things of man to shame the wise. Right?15:56 Exactly. So God's foolishness God's foolishness is greater than man's wisdom on your own. And so, you know, when you think about just those simple scriptures about I can do all things through Christ who gives me16:07 strength, apart from God I can do nothing. When you think about those, it's so true. Because what can you actually do on your own? Can can you forgive yourself? Can you, you16:19 know, be living a transformed life? Like, think about I know where I was before I got saved. I know how I felt about things and what I thought about things and how16:31 how defeated I was in every area of my life. You know, only God can do those things. Only God has the power to save you, to heal you, to restore you, to to put you,16:43 you know, in places that you didn't deserve because he wants to use you for his purposes and his plans. I mean, and and if you don't know these things because you've read the word16:55 and realize what's available to you as a God believing Christian, as a saved person who makes Jesus Lord of their life. You will never know what it's like to walk in truth and to walk in17:07 wisdom. And, you know, so many people have, like, you know, like a form of godliness or they they, you know, they pretend in some way or they think I17:19 go to church on the holidays or whatever, and they think that that's all they need, that they're good with God, and they're so wrong. And we're gonna talk more about that when we come right back. You are watching Grace17:30 Grace with Naina and Michelle. We'll be right back. Stay right there.17:34 I'm excited to announce that we're having our biggest 3 in 1 sale ever with a limited edition product, a back in stock special, and a closeout deal you won't find anywhere else. So go to my pillow dot com17:45 or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get our My Pillow bedsheets, only 29 88. Any color, any style, any size, even Kings. Regular, 1 19Living in Reverential Fear of God 17:57 98, only 29 88. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. How about our my towels? They're finally back in stock, but not for long. Get a 6 piece my towel set, regular18:09 69 98 and only 39 98. And for the first time and the only time ever, get our limited edition premium my pillows. They're made with giza cotton and designer gusset.18:21 Queen, 17 98. King's only 19 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get the best offers ever. Quine's are extremely limited, so18:33 order now.18:34 Welcome back. We are talking about Proverbs 2, and we were talking about the reverential fear of God. Listen. We're just passing through.18:46 Right? And if you're looking for the wisdom of God, if you need to find the wisdom of God, I suggest, not only reading a proverb a day, but also looking through revelations and thinking18:57 about the reverential fear of God in heaven. And I just was going through some of those scriptures about how they revere God. They cast their crowns upon God. Worthy are you,19:09 oh, Lord, to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things, and and by you everything exists. Think about that. They sang a new song19:21 saying worthy are you to take the scroll and to open the seals for you were slain, and it just goes on and on about how they're just worshiping God. Now if he19:32 is worthy, the people who know everything, right, who have passed through this life and gone on to be with the Lord, they are ever before the Lord worshiping him.19:45 Shouldn't we give him the time of day and stop everything and ask him how we should live our lives. Let at least at a minimum read the word of God every day. We19:57 should just park ourselves in Proverbs every single day. We should read other parts of the Bible. Like I I think reading a part of the New Testament, part of Proverbs, Psalms. I mean, and20:08 and read Revelations. The Bible says there's a blessing just to read it out loud. God's word is the answer. It it has all of the answers in it. I think about that.20:20 Bible reads you. You can't you you cannot people have tried. They've tried to, you know, bring it down and and say it's,20:29 you know, it's it's not real. It's just so watered down.20:32 Can't disprove the Bible. And you think about this. You know, wisdom this is what wisdom exposes. You know, I've I've been doing some deep dives here, and I love this. Wisdom exposes20:43 emotional deception, false intimacy, covenant violation, paths that lead to spiritual death. I mean, think about that. There's pathways that20:55 lead to spiritual death. And if you don't know that, like, so many people think, again, what we were saying, like, I'm fine with God, I'm good. Then they21:04 go out and party, do21:04 what they want, sleep around, dabble in drugs, whatever the case may be. Maybe are your scales honest at work? Are you doing different you know, who knows what what what it is? What what is your21:16 Do you have anger? Are you are you, you know, you know, just kind of not walking in love and peace? There's so many things. How do you treat your family? How do you treat your friends? You know, what what is going on21:28 with you? Because God is always watching, and if that's where wisdom comes in. If you know that these are the things that could destroy your life, even though you21:40 think, oh, I go to church once in a while or whatever, I I'm a good enough person or whatever. Not not that's not good enough. Mhmm. You know, it's Jesus. He's the only 1 that has the21:52 ability to save. And when you read the word of God, which is Jesus, this, you know, they're all the same. God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. When you read that word, it's gonna22:04 read you. And you're gonna see things in there that you're gonna say, woah, yikes, you know, maybe I got a conviction about that. That's that's I've been doing that, or I I need to pay attention to this more. And you22:15 can ask for forgiveness and ask God to help you to be wise and to to to lead you off of those path pathways that lead to destruction. Isn't that, like, just terrifying?22:27 It is. It is. And and, I mean, the answer really is in finding your way through the word. Ask the Lord. Get a get a version of the Bible that you can understand.22:39 That's that's step 1. You know, there are so many versions, but I I think even the amplified Bible helps me, you know, because it breaks down every word. It it's just how22:51 your personality is. But, I mean, every single day, step 1, get in the word. Get in the word. Get before the Lord. Get have a praise session.23:03 Find a place in your house. Crank the music if you need to. Get before the Lord just like they're doing in heaven, and I often will say, Lord, I join with23:15 those in heaven, and I say, holy, holy, holy are you. And and lately, I've been on worthy. You're so worthy that I mean, if you will23:27 have that reverential fear of God, everything else will work out in your life. I'm not saying it's all gonna be perfect or easy, but I am saying if you will get before the23:39 Lord in your quiet time, you don't need to brag about it. You don't need to talk about it. You shut that door. And the Bible says what you do in that quiet place, in the secret23:51 place of the most high God, that is where the blessing is. And God says he will reward you openly. Yeah. He will reward you openly. So make time for24:02 God this year. This is the beginning of a year. And even if it's the middle of the year when you watch this, God's mercies are new every morning. And and so start reading it today,24:15 every day. It's never gonna be wasted.24:17 No. Any time that you spend with the Lord and in his word is never gonna be wasted. God is going to honor that. He's gonna, you know, use it for good. He's gonna cause you to just24:29 it it it brings blessings. It brings peace. Even no matter even even if nothing has changed right away, but even or if you're in some kind of storm or something's going on in your life, by being in the word, you can have24:41 peace in the midst of that storm just by reading his word. And you know, I I would rather have God on my side and go through terrible things than have than have a wonderful life, but knowing that there's nothing for24:53 me on the other side. You know, we're just passion through, like you said, we're just sojourners here, and we are all in need of a savior and need of wisdom, especially now. I I feel like this25:05 is why we're doing a show about this today because God it's so important to God right now that we are wise about things that are happening and wise about things that are coming in in in the25:16 next months and in the next years. I I I I don't believe I I believe we're in end times right now, and I don't believe that that things are gonna get suddenly all that25:28 better. I think that we're we're In25:30 a year of unrest.25:31 When we are seeing such crazy things happening that you can't even imagine just a few years ago that you would be talking about these things or witnessing these certain things. And so we need to,25:43 be so careful to not be deceived. And Amen. And so, we're gonna take a quick break,25:48 and we're gonna come right back, and we're talking We're25:51 gonna pray. How about if we pray?25:53 Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. Why don't we do that?25:55 Lord, we thank you for wisdom. We thank you that you said if we ask you for wisdom, you would give it to us, and we and you would give it to us freely. So we pray, God, that this would be, the beginning of26:07 a new wisdom in each person's life. In Jesus' name, amen. Thanks for watching.26:13 So fast. I didn't even know. Well, that thank you. God bless you. We love you guys. Love you.26:18 Why do atheists care so much about Christians anyway? Well, they tell you this. Religion is bad. It's the cause of most wars. But again, evidence shows differently. It shows26:30 that out of 1763 documented wars, only 123 were due to religion. That's between 6 and 7 percent. When you take out Islam, that only leaves 326:42 percent of all wars that could be attributed to religion.26:49 Does science disprove God? Is there a war between science and faith?26:54 We don't need God to create a universe. There's no evidence for God, and it's irrational.27:03 Our RDOF uses logic and reasoning.27:06 RDOF has empowered my sons to defend their faith with facts.27:10 If you wanna be equipped to defend against the biggest objections in the existence of God, RDOF is the place for you.27:20 Has science really ruled out God? Is faith at war with science? If you wanna be equipped to respond to these claims and more, check out r d o f dot org.27:38 The evidence he presents is so powerful and overwhelming.27:42 Incredibly compelling, yet easily understandable.27:45 We believe in rationality. We believe in the existence of God. I would leave every event with a mind boggling awe and assurance.27:57 I never believed in God. I just think it was craziness. RDOF confirmed my faith. RDOF confirmed my full belief, full faith in the Lord, man. The28:09 appearance of design in the universe is undeniable.28:15 The lights, the crowd, the videos.28:21 To book a presentation or watch our free videos, go to r d o f dot org or find us on Facebook at RDOF events.In this video 0:00 Embracing Wisdom from Proverbs8:51 Wisdom's Shield Against Deception17:45 Living in Reverential Fear of God
Comments
Keep it kind. Comments are public.