Servias Ministries Blog

To take part in the construction of the Living Temple for Our Heavenly Father to dwell in requires four attributes: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and skill.  This is first found in Exodus 31:

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship

The name “Bezalel” means “in the shadow (i.e. protection) of God" (H1212).

The Spirit of God has within its attributes: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and workmanship (skills for service).  First on the list is wisdom.  Wisdom means to be teachable and willing to be corrected. 

A wise man knows his current level of understanding and knowledge is limited and is willing to set aside his current doctrine to receive a higher level of understanding and knowledge.  He is interested in ascending upward to the “ways” of Our Heavenly Father.  Once you realize there is more to life than the Passover revelation, you seek the next level: Pentecost.  Once there, you realize there is even a greater revelation: Tabernacles.  When we finally realize that our doctrine is subject to change based on new understanding and that in this life we need to stay in a teachable state and be willing to be corrected, we have become wise.

Understanding is our comprehension of Our Heavenly Father’s ways, methods, plan, laws, and character.

Psalm 103:7  He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.

Moses had understanding, the children of Israel did not.  Without understanding, your heart is hardened.  You cannot come into unity with Our Heavenly Father unless you have understanding.  In business, it is the difference between being trained and educated.  If a person know why something works, he can do a better job than one who only is trained how to operate.  “Why” is critical in the Kingdom.

A wise man will increase in understanding because he is willing to be corrected even though past truths seemed to be set in stone.  He acknowledges there may be higher laws that supersede the laws he currently understands.  Jesus walked on water by a higher law than gravity.  He understood the higher law, Peter did not.  Neither did the other disciples.

Once you have wisdom and understanding, true knowledge comes forth.  Knowledge prepares you for action.  Skill is the success of knowledge in action.  Skill produces good fruit in a person’s calling.  Skill is obtained through maturity of practicing knowledge through your actions.  You cannot become skillful by doing nothing.  Workmanship has “work” at its root.  We must labor to become skillful.  A master craftsman is who you want when a critical job is at hand.

Love is the highest form of walking In HIS Shadow.  Do you want to become skilled in Love?  Become teachable and correctible.  Assume you don’t know everything.  Be willing to set aside your current “doctrine” and allow HIM to bring you up to a higher level.  Let your labor of Love become a mature aspect of your character.  You will be walking in the shadow (protection) of Our Heavenly Father.

Each of us must look at our response to situations that arise in our life on a daily basis.  This response is not usually spoken to anyone else but is contained in thoughts that come forth when something negative happens.  We must be honest with ourselves in order to change.  We must be teachable and a review of our first thoughts, for they provide us with a marker of our growth.  Let me explain.  When you hear news of someone you know experiencing a trial, how do you respond?  Are you glad or sad?  If you are glad, your ego has just exalted itself by demeaning another.  Being exalted can occur in two different ways.  You can lift up yourself by some prideful action or, you can drag someone else down below your particular place in life.  Either way, your ego has just stroked itself.  It is often subtle.

Manipulation is a lie.  It cleverly attempts to control and influence another person with an illusion in order to make the other person believe a lie, often through fear or greed.  It is meant to gain by deception.  In business, we are taught to negotiate.  However, negotiation is manipulation, and manipulation is not of Our Heavenly Father.  Negotiation attempts to exalt “self” at the expense of another.  Revelation, on the other hand, provides a fair basis for a transaction to occur based on Truth.

The current system is based on self-preservation.  This system will toss anyone under the bus that gets in its way.  This system is based on scarcity.  This system is based on force which consumes a tremendous amount of energy.  Our Heavenly Father’s Kingdom is based on the Laws of Attraction.  Men are drawn or attracted to HIM.  Until HIS Kingdom comes on earth as it is in Heaven, we must be vigilant in our personal lives about “preserving self”.  We may be able to fool others by an illusion of righteousness, but our thoughts must come into subjection as well.  The inward man is where the battle rages on.  We must die to “self”.  We must no longer live the lie if we are to mature in our calling.  Continuous monitoring and examination of our thoughts provide us with that status of our growth.

Galatians 6:1  Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

2  Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

3  For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

4  But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

5  For each one shall bear his own load.