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  LISTEN TO WISDOM
  by Derek Prince
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of listening to wisdom,
which is essential for life, and the consequences of hating wisdom,
which is death.

Topics: "Seeking Wisdom", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Proverbs 3:13, Proverbs 4:7, Proverbs 8:34, Proverbs 16:16, James 1:5

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Derek Prince emphasizes the importance of listening to the wisdom of God
found in the Scriptures, highlighting the blessings that come to those
who diligently seek and listen to wisdom daily. He stresses the critical
choice between life and death based on our attitude towards wisdom,
urging believers to prioritize seeking wisdom each day to receive favor
from the Lord and avoid harm. Prince encourages a continual connection
with wisdom, as finding wisdom leads to finding life, while hating
wisdom leads to loving death.

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Proverbs 8:34-36

The wisdom of God speaks to us out of the Word.

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors,
waiting at my doorway. For whoever finds me finds life and receives
favor from the LORD. But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who
hate me love death. NIV

Those words describe a certain attitude to wisdom, one that's been vivid
and real to me for many years. "Blessed is the man who listens to me."
You see, your life really depends on whom you listen to. "Blessed is the
man who listens to me, watching at my doors, waiting at my doorway." I
believe we need to put that first. I believe particularly as we awake
each day, we need to be at wisdom's doorway. We need to have our ears
opened. We need to be prepared to listen to what wisdom has to say.

I believe that wisdom - the wisdom of God in Scripture - offers us
counsel for each day. It pays to cultivate an attitude and a
relationship to wisdom that keeps us in continual contact with her. The
one who finds wisdom finds life, but on the other side: those who hate
wisdom love death. You see, there's a real parting of the ways there. We
cannot combine the two. Our attitude to wisdom must be positive or it
will be negative, and the attitude that we have will determine whether
it's life or whether it's death.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/derek-prince/listen-to-wisdom/
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