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I enjoyed reading the short essay at the link. In speaking about the passage in Ephesians 1:17 “A spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.” I especially appreciate the paragraphs following:

Not only wisdom, however, but revelation is necessary. This does not mean that visions and dreams or any of the excitable phenomena which accompany much of the undispensational teaching of some movements, are given to the believer: but, as the word revelation means, the veil of traditional ideas and human failure is removed, and the word of Truth in all its clearness is discerned. Those of our readers who have seen the beauties of the prison Epistles, possess the same Bible as they did when they believed the tradition of men. We have no private version of our own --- we have been enabled by grace to believe that God means what He says; the veil has been removed; and we see.

The god of this Age, is actively engaged in veiling the precious truth of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ (2 Cor. 4.4); and, were it not for the “spirit of wisdom and unveiling” we should be effectively prevented from beholding with unveiled face the Glory of the Lord.

There is only one pathway of the knowledge of God and it is “faith in Christ”. It is idle to talk of knowing God unless we believe the One sent of God.

I think what is missed so often WRT prayer is that the MAIN purpose is certainly not to inform Almighty God of what is in our hearts - of course He alone looks upon and knows our hearts - but what prayer does to US. When we pray for wisdom and knowledge of God and ask it for others, we are acknowledging the critical place this has in our walk with our Lord. It ALL begins and ends with faith.

[John Leland 1789]

Thank the Lord for His teaching us by His Spirit.

I'll post more articles of this nature.