GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE
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Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction.
Hosea 4:6
Simplified
My people are destroyed for lack of facts, information, description along with skills acquired: because you have refused the experience as well as education, I will also refuse you, that you will not be a minister of mine: seeing you have forgotten the instruction of your God, I will also forget your children.
Know that everything that is placed before you is allowed so you can have that experience that brings you closer to your Creator and to receive the education needed for you to stand flat footed in the heat of the battle. It is important to study yourself approved not before man rather for it is an instruction given so you will not be found lacking the facts, information, vision, or ability when the enemy confronts you. Consider knowing the facts causes one to be bold as well as confident, knowing the information for yourself keeps you from entertaining a lie, having the vision makes sure you will not be deceived by a disguise, and having the skills makes you independent of man; only dependent on the MOST HIGH.
At the end of the day physically we are introduced to the land we reside, mentally educated about the laws that regulate us, and spiritually matured by the unlimited power of the MOST HIGH so we can be familiar with all the possible attacks of the adversary. So we can recognize if we are in the hills or the valley, so we can determine what direction to go by the signs we are allowed to see, and if we are to rebuke or embrace the spirit standing before us.
Knowledge is truly a gift because without it many would walk around in a fog like state frozen in the thick of their struggles without a strategy in place to get out. Knowledge is important for it was not extended to us Naomi would not been able to share the information needed to encourage Boaz to take an interest in Ruth or Pastors would not have the info needed to feed the flock according to Jeremiah 3:15.
Consider without the gift of knowledge many would not physcially be able to stay healthy, mentally focused to solve some of the greatest mysteries, as well as spiritually grounded to defeat the roaring lion in his own jungle. Man would not have been able to overcome the stone age, technology would not even be a word and many would still think the world is flat.
Could you imagine the world absent of the gift of knowledge; we would still be rubbing sticks together
The book on the shelf can not assist you until you read it, as well as apply it ; so you can have knowledge of what is being said.