Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
Isaiah 40:8 – The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of our God endures forever.
Isaiah 55:11 – So is my Word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Psalm 51:11 – Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
John 14:26 – But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
1 Corinthians 2:13 – 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.
Acumen has been defined as “the ability to make good judgements and quick decisions…” Beyond beauty (that fades) is wisdom. To be able to make good judgments quickly one must have wisdom within them. A pitcher cannot pour something refreshing from it unless it is filled with something refreshing. The pitcher does not generate a refreshing substance, it is filled by another. If we want to make good judgments, we must be filled by two things. We must be filled by the Spirit of God and the Word of God. The Holy Spirit will change our heart to increasingly be like God’s heart. What the heart is full of will overflow out of the mouth (Matthew 12:34b-35). So to make “good judgments” quickly, one must already have wisdom within. That is, one must be filled with the Spirit of God. Only the one who loves the Lord Jesus has the Holy Spirit (John 14:17, Ephesians 1:13). So to make a good judgments quickly, it must be that one is already filled with He who is good and wise and that is God Almighty.
John 14:26 states that the Holy Spirit will remind us what Jesus said to us. Jesus is the Word of God. He spoke the words of God to us. All the Old Testament and New Testament are the Word of God. The Holy Spirit teaches us the meanings behind the Word of God. Everything that we think, every way that we act, and in all that we say, all of these should be tested by the Word of God. The Holy Spirit will reveal the Word of God and if He does not reveal it to a person, then that person cannot know the Word of God.
Family to speak true eternal wisdom we must have two things: The Spirit of God and the Word of God. If we are full of the Word and the Spirit, if it fills us and overflows from us, then wisdom and truth will readily flow through us. Do we want to be wise? Get wisdom from God (James 1:5). Get the Spirit by submitting our lives to the Lord Jesus. Read the Word of God and let the Holy Spirit teach us what it means. Having done that, we will have acumen, true acumen, from God. Praise our God who fully equips us. Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.