Daily Bread 6/7/2025

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Email from Abiding Place     Daily Bread – June 7, 2025 (The Seventh Day – Genesis 2:1-3) Revelation 4:5 – And from the throne came forth lightnings and voices and thunders, and seven torches of fire burned before the throne which are the Seven Spirits of God. The Seven Endowments of the Holy Spirit – How Jesus Perceived the World Wisdom gives the ability to have the right judgment and the proper response. Wisdom is so powerful that, by it, a person can know all things that are on Earth (2 Samuel 14:20). Understanding supplies us with the ability to know the true meaning and heart of any issue and render a just response. Strength and counsel give practical ability to determine the correct course of action and carry it through to the end. Knowledge is about knowing the Lord personally and knowing what He knows. It is knowing that which surpasses human knowledge (Ephesian 3:19). Wisdom, understanding and knowledge are revealed many times in direct relationship to obeying the Word of God, and also to the fear of the Lord. God says it is by the fear of the Lord that we depart from evil (Proverbs 6:16; Job 28:28). The call to have the fear of the Lord is repeated about twenty-seven times in the Old Testament. Most importantly all of these abilities come from the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit. These divine endowments of the Holy Spirit allowed Jesus to perceive the world in a different way. He did not have to judge after His five senses or rely on His Own perception. Rather, He relied on the insight only the Holy Spirit can give. The divine insights of God are far superior to the intellectual reasoning of mankind. Mankind’s intellect is limited to his own experiences. Jesus did not have to rely on His intellect, He was given divine insight by the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not have to judge after the seeing of His eyes or the hearing of His ears, but through the insights of the Holy Spirit, He could judge righteously. Wisdom and understanding among other things allowed Him to see everything after an eternal perspective. Counsel and might supplied Him with the ability to wage a good warfare and not be deceived by the tactics of His enemy. Knowledge and the fear of the Lord empowered Him with a continual awareness of the consequence of every action before the Judge of the whole Earth. He did not switch back and forth from His intellect to the leading of the Holy Spirit, but was constantly and continually submitted to the Spirit of the Lord Who was in Him. He lived in a continual and overwhelming sense of the divine presence of God and by the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen