The power of God, the wisdom of God is Jesus Christ Himself. All we need to do is declare Him, the Living Word of God - no power in heaven or earth - much less any poster on the forum - can prevail against Him.
Good points.
Pondering prayerfully.
Dear Alamo-Girl, even though I don't post very often lately, I always read your pings to me and generally take the time to read the context of the threads. Today I am blessed with time to find all your comments in the forum: Yes, I still think of you as a mentor, and love you dearly. The words above are one of many reasons why this is so. Thank you.
My greatest desire, given of my Gracious Redeemer, is to see souls won to Christ. This will not happen without the grace of Wisdom. I've been reading Spurgeon's treatment of the subject of soul winning over and over again, and this morning he sent me back to Proverbs 8-11, and also to the reminder of James, that we do lack Wisdom, but we may ask of our Giving Father and receive Wisdom without reproach but with His Great Liberality!
An excerpt from the teacher Spurgeon:
...he crowns with laurel only those who win souls. He does not declare that he who preaches is necessarily wise; and alas! there are multitudes who preach, and gain much applause and eminence, who win no souls, and who shall find it go hard with them at the last, because in all probability they have run and the Master has never sent them. Solomon does not say that he who talks about winning souls is wise, since to lay down rules for others is a very simple thing, but to carry them out one's self is far more difficult. He who actually, really, and truly turns men from the error of their ways to God, and so is made the means of saving them from going down to hell, is a wise man; and that is true of him whatever his style of soul-winning may be. He may be a Paul, deeply logical, profound in doctrine, able to command all candid judgments; and if he thus wins souls, he is wise. He may be an Apollos, grandly rhetorical, whose lofty genius soars into the very heaven of eloquence; and if he wins souls in that way, he is wise, but not otherwise. Or he may be a Cephas, rough and rugged, using uncouth metaphor and stern declamation; but, if he wins souls, he is no less wise than his polished brother or his argumentative friend, but not else. The great wisdom of soul-winners, according to the text, is proven only by their actual success in really winning souls. To their own Master they are accountable for the ways in which they go to work, not to us. Do not let us be comparing and contrasting this minister and that. Who art thou that judgest another man's servants? Wisdom is justified in all her children. Only children wrangle about incidental methods: men look at sublime results. Do these workers of many sorts and divers manners win souls? Then they are wise; and you who criticise them, being yourselves unfruitful, cannot be wise, even though you affect to be their judges. God proclaims soul-winners to be wise, dispute it who dare. This degree from the College of Heaven may surely stand them in good stead, let their fellow-mortals say what they will of them."He that winneth souls is wise," and this can be seen very clearly. He must be a wise man in even ordinary respects who can by grace achieve so divine a marvel. Great soul-winners never have been fools.
And as a post script I offer C.S. Lewis' Apologist’s Evening Prayer