Do you want to know the thoughts of
God? Do you want to know the wisdom of
God? Well, go get your Bible, open it up, and
read it!

If you’re holding a Bible, you have God’s
wisdom right there in your hand.

About 20 years ago I was driving down
the highway pleading with God. I had some
questions I wanted to ask Him. I had some
problems in my life I needed Him to address.

“Oh, God,” I said, “You spoke to Moses face
to face. You spoke to Elijah. You spoke to
Elisha. You spoke to Joshua. I want You to
talk to me so badly I can hardly stand it.”

Suddenly, right on the inside of me I
heard His voice. Why, Kenneth, He said, you
have a record of everything I said to Moses.
You have a record of everything I said to
Joshua. You have everything I said to Elijah
and Elisha. You have everything I said to Daniel
and Jesus. It’s lying right next to you on the
seat of your car.

I looked over and there was my Bible.
I’ll tell you, I shouted. “Praise God! Praise
God! Praise God!”

I pulled over to the side of the road and
shouted and wept with joy. I was driving an
old car that had more than 98,000 miles on
it (actually, it had 98,000 miles on it when
I got it!) and it was leaking at every joint.

At that moment, I realized that the new car
I so desperately needed was laying right there
on the seat next to me.

The wisdom of God—all it would take
for me to have that car—was right there. The
wisdom of the ages was at my fingertips and
I could read every word of it and stand on
every word of it.

You can, too. But first, you have to be
willing to forsake your old ways of thinking.

“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts” (Isaiah 55:7). Do you
know what wicked means? It means “twisted.”
Twisted thoughts produce twisted results.

Poor thinking produces poverty. Sick thinking
produces sickness. You can’t hold onto those kinds
of thoughts and walk in the power of God.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord”
(Isaiah 55:8). Let’s face it. God is just plain
smarter than we are. He’s been around a lot
longer—and what He thinks is a whole lot
different than what we’ve been thinking.

So let the Word of God, the wisdom of
God, begin to influence your thinking. Soak
your mind in it. Don’t just scan it lightly. Dig
in it. Learn it. Take it seriously.

Then begin to pray in the spirit. Let the
Spirit of God start a process of spiritual insight
in your heart as you pray and worship in the
spirit. After a while, you’ll begin to understand
things in a new way. You’ll begin to have a
whole new interpretation of the problem.
You may suddenly have a realization, a
deep conviction, an inner knowing.

Someone may call you on the telephone
and say, “I just got a word from the Lord
this morning and I’m so excited about it....”
And what they say is exactly what you need
to hear.

However you get it, remember—wisdom
is the principal thing. God’s way of thinking
will save your life, pull you out of debt and
put you on the road to prosperity. It will
introduce you to possibilities you have never
seen before. They’re out there now...just
beyond your thinking.

So quit focusing on your seemingly hopeless
situation, get your Bible out, and say—just
like the leper—“Why sit we here till we die?”
Then get moving. God’s Word, full of
abundance, is just waiting for you!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries