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too much trying into explaining is paid. God has a purpose for
this, but let me show you a few
instances in the bible that I be- in Afrika and He intends to bring
lieve will make us understand
what the fear of the Lord is and
how it is connected to wisdom.
"Then the king of Egypt spoke
to the Hebrew midwives, of
whom the name of one was
Shiphrah and the name of
the other Puah; and he said,
“When you do the duties of
a midwife for the Hebrew
women, and see them on the
birthstools, if it is a son, then
you shall kill him; but if it is a
daughter, then she shall live.”
But the midwives feared God,
and did not do as the king of
Egypt commanded them, but
saved the male children alive.
Exodus 1:15-17
Sincerely, I too have often won-
dered what the concept of the
fear of the Lord meant until I
saw this scripture and then it all
made sense. From the scripture
above, the fear of the Lord sim-
ply means “when a man defends
God’s purpose even to his or her
own detriment”. Sounds simple
right? Yes it is. It is not complex.
For to be wise is to have access
to the mind of God by which all
things, all decisions, all poli- the heart where God kept eter-
cies, all laws of a nation can be
made. He who fears God, by the
submission of self-will and the
defense of God’s purpose, will
by such acts of love for God be
given access into the very mind
of God from which day to day
wisdom for living will be granted. of Mozambique is this; bring to- and shared with you today.
Words for Mozambique
I do not know exactly what the
situation in Mozambique is, but
one thing I know is that, if God’s
message for that nation is to
seek His wisdom in dealing with
the issues they have, then it is
important that accurate attention
things he learned at home, the
Mozambique and every nation things he learned at Potiphar’s
house, things he learned in
those purposes to pass. But prison and combining them with
just like always, man thinks his the wisdom God gave him to in-
ideas, his experience; his univer- terpret the king's dream. So let
sity degrees are good enough to the Mozambican government
resolve life’s issues. This is so bring such people into places of
far from the truth. So I say this to decision making and also make
Mozambique, stop trying to fig- room for them to thrive.
ure it out with your limited ideas. Mozambique, just like every Af-
If those ideas could work, they rikan nation is set aside for the
should have by now. something big in the mind of
Do not try to do with the brain, God and in due season, it will
what only the wisdom of God in manifest. In 2019, when Cy-
the heart can do. The brain can- clone Idai hit the coast of Mo-
not handle the many dimensions zambique, I had asked the Lord
of wisdom because they are not why such a disaster was hitting
logically set. The logical mind is that nation, especially when
boxed and limited by the size of His daughter Heidi Baker has
the brain. It cannot expand be- her ministry there. And His re-
yond the box of the head but sponse was, how else should
the heart can expand into eter- Heidi Baker express the love
nity. That's why scripture says He generously poured into her?
God placed eternity in the heart That was not the answer I was
of man even though man does expecting I must say, but just
not know what God does from like I have said earlier, wisdom
the beginning to the end. I be- is certainly deeper than logical
lieve the only reason why man reasoning. Logical reasoning
doesn't know the things God will be like, should wisdom not
does from the beginning to the have stopped the cyclone in the
end is because he keeps trying first place if it’s about expressing
to understand or break it down God's love? Well, that's why the
with his logical mind or brain or wisdom of God cannot be under-
science, which is limited. If he stood by logical minds. Curious-
tries to understand wisdom by ly, the name Idai, according to
one climate scientist, is a Shona
nity, he will understand it. name meaning ‘to love’. Leave
The heart is the garden of the it to God to allow a scientist to
Spirit. We know all things by the name this cyclone, 'to love',
Spirit. while at the same time anticipat-
ing that this conversation with
My advice me, His son, would take place
My simple advice to the nation for this answer to be produced
gether people that are not just This is what I mean by Mozam-
intellectually capable but also bique, and indeed all the nations
who are connected to the wis- of Afrika and the world, inviting
dom of the mind of God. Joseph the creative and eternal Wisdom
of the Bible created a famous of God into every aspect of life
national solution for the great- and society, to help guide and
est ancient kingdom of Afrika direct us all towards the expect-
{Egypt) in his days by using the ed future in God’s mind. There is
no other way.