Proverbs 4:7

 

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding. (KJV)

 

Deuteronomy 4:5-6

 

⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

 

⁶ Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. (ESV)

 

Proverbs 14:12

 

There is a way that seems right to a man, but it’s end is the way to death. (ESV)

 

I Corinthians 4:20

 

…the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. (ESV)

 

The Greek word for power is “dunamis”; 

 

Definition: “Miraculous power, force or energy; power through God’s ability.”

 

The root word of “dunamis” is the word “dynamis”. 

 

Definition: “The Believer’s power to achieve by applying the Lord’s inherent abilities.”

 

Acts 12:5

 

Peter, therefore, was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for Him.

 

The Greek word for the term “without ceasing” is the word is “ektenes”.

 

Definition: “fervent, constant, strenuous, intense and zealous.”

 

James 5:16

 

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (KJV)

 

The Greek word for effectual is “energeo”. 

 

Definition: “To energize; working in a situation which brings it from one stage/point to the next. Like an electrical current energizing a wire.”

 

The Greek word for “fervent” comes from the root word “zelos” (zeal). 

 

Definition: “Zeal, enthusiasm, eagerness”. 

 

The word “zelos” comes from the root word “zeo”. 

 

Definition: “to boil, or burn in the spirit; to be deeply committed to something; to show great zeal or to be ardently passionate.”

 

The Greek word for “availeth” is “ischuo” (is-khoo-o).

 

Definition: “can do”.

 

Greek Commentary: “Embodied strength that “gets into the fray”; i.e., engaging the resistance. This word refers to the Lord strengthening the Believer with “combative, confrontive force to achieve all He gives faith for and facing necessary resistance that brings what the Lord defines as success.”

 

John 2:1-11

 

¹ On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

 

² Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

 

³ When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

 

⁴ And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”

 

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

 

⁶ Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

 

⁷ Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.

 

⁸ And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.

 

⁹ When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom

 

¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

 

¹¹ This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. (ESV)