You can learn to walk with God. You need wisdom to walk with God. You cannot walk with Him without divine wisdom—it is not possible. You cannot live with Him without divine understanding. Again, it is not enough to have an intellectual knowledge about God. You must come into a place where you are experiencing an understanding that is filling your soul about His ways. When you understand His ways, you will not get angry every time something does not go your way. When you understand His ways, you will begin to realize that He might be jostling your ways to teach you His ways. 

See? You probably thought Proverbs was just a boring book, but it is not. It is one of the most vital books in the Bible. I spent years in Proverbs. It will help you get through any trial. It gives you so much information about how to walk with God. What does the book of Proverbs say? It says to search for wisdom as for hidden treasures. You need to open it up and dig it out. Dig out the wisdom, the knowledge, understanding and prudence of God. As you are digging, God is doing a work in you to help you receive it.

I love to read the writings of the Jewish sages. You can read the writings and I am telling you, I do not think I have read a theological commentary ever that has the depth of the understanding of God as these Jewish sages who are not even saved, because they meditate on the Word and the gift has been given to them. The gift is given to the Jewish people to be bearers of the precepts of the Lord. So even though the Spirit of God is not in them, He is around them and trying to lead them into His way. They are still blind in respect to the Messiah, but when they are meditating on the Word hour after hour each day and that gift becomes operative, it teaches them. They just have not been able to step far enough over to realize that Jesus is our Messiah. So, does that make you a little nervous?

When Jesus finally appeared Paul, how did he recognize Him? He recognized Him by the Word that he had been studying—Paul was a trail blazer. The Greek depicts him as a pioneer of his day of the study of the scriptures. He understood so much that when the Lord appeared to him and he laid blind for three days and nights, his heart was bursting with truth. He laid there and truth was just bursting out of the inner parts of his heart as he was comparing scripture with scripture. Though he was unable to read, in his mind he understood the scripture and realized that the Kingdom was different than he had thought. 

So then what? He has to go out to the desert because he does not want to be taught by man. He spent all those years at the feet of Gamaliel. He knew how to study the scripture, meditate on it and how to find out every wonderful detail about Messiah. It is a marvel to read. You just want to jump all over some of the words of the Jewish sages. I have experienced the deepest revelation in certain scriptures and when I look into the books by the Jewish sages, sometimes they just do not get it, but when they do, it is like drinking sweet wine—it is so rich. If they can do it, we all can do it. 

One of the things that happened to Tiffany at a very young age were several visitations from the Lord where she was taken to heaven. Somewhere within the midst of all that, it created a hunger for the Word in her. Tiffany was reading by the age of five. By the time she was seven or eight years old she read the Bible through in one year.

One night, Jesus came to her. He climbed into a little area right near her window and knelt down at the head of her bed right next to her. He whispered in her ear: Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiff. She woke up, looked at Him and surprisingly said, “Jesus.” He whispered to her and said, “I came because I wanted to tell you how proud I am of you because you read the Bible every day. Tiffany, the Bible is My Word and you read it every day and I want you to know how proud I am of you because of that and I want to take you on a trip.”

So He took her to heaven. There were two angels in the room and He came down in a great big basket attached to a hot air balloon and the angels were standing guard over the basket. Remember, he was talking to a child, He said, “I want to take you on a ride. Would you go in My basket with Me?” And she said, “Yes Jesus, I would like that.” So He helped her into the basket and took her to heaven.

The reason I tell you this story is because of this next part. While they were in heaven, He asked, “Tiffany, may I have your Bible?” (She had taken it up there with her.) She handed it to Him and He said, “I would like to teach you out of the book of Ruth. I want to help you understand why the book of Ruth is in the Bible.” He sat down and taught her the book of Ruth. 

After that He took her and showed her some things in heaven then brought her back. He laid her back down in bed and said, “Tiffany, before I leave I want to tell you one more thing. I am noticing that you are watching a lot of Bible videos and I want you to know that I am so glad you are doing that, because you are filling your heart with My Words by reading it and watching it on children’s videos and I am going to reward you for that.” And then He left.

When Tiffany told me this story I asked her, “So what did tell you about the book of Ruth?” She said, “Grandma, it is in my heart until I need it.” She was about six years old. God wants us to love His Word. Look what He did for that little six year old who loved His Word enough to spend time in it every day so she could read through it in a year, which was not necessarily the goal—she just wanted to read the Bible and it worked itself out.

If God can build that kind of hunger in a child, how much more should He be able to build it in you and me? We need it more than she did. We need to be eating the meat that causes our spirit to become strong. Someone might say, “I have problems. I am trying to overcome some stuff and I cannot, and I keep fighting and battling.” Have you gone through that?

Then I would ask, “How much time do you spend in the Word?” “Uh, well, I am awful busy.” “Well, how much time do you spend in the Word—10, 15 minutes a day?” “Uh, well I have a lot to do.” “How much time do you spend in the Word?” “Well, I do take it to church.” Then I tell them that is why you are not overcoming—you are not spending enough time in the Word.

You do not know that it is strengthening you, but it is.