In today’s episode, we journey back to the times of King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, to uncover the secret behind his profound wisdom and understanding. Rabbi Schneider shares the inspiring story of Solomon’s selfless prayer and God’s generous response, urging us to seek what truly matters. Coupled with the tale of Moses’ divine encounter, this episode challenges us to cultivate a relationship with God that is rich, personal, and filled with His unparalleled glory.
Welcome to Discovering the Jewish Jesus. I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and today we’re looking at how you can obtain the wisdom of God. If God said that He’d give you anything in this world, what would you ask Him for? A better house? Maybe a better car? Maybe you’d ask for healing in your body? There are so many things that we could ask for, but today Rabbi shares what Solomon, the King of Israel, the wisest man in the world at the time, what he asked God for and what we can learn from his request. You can learn more about Rabbi Schneider or this ministry by visiting us online. Our website is discoveringthejewishjesus.com. And right now, here’s Rabbi to continue our study on the prayers that resonate with God.
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On the previous broadcast, we looked at Moses’ prayer to the Lord in the book of Exodus chapter 33 and how Moses prayed this great prayer that culminate beloved ones with these words, show me thy glory. After Moses prayed that prayer, the Lord directed him to go hide in the cleft of a rock and instructed Moses to call upon his name there. We read the story, Moses and goes and covers himself in the cleft of the rock as he calls upon the name of Yahweh God. And as he’s calling upon the name of the Lord, the Bible says the glory of God comes and God proclaims his name to Moses. And he says to Moses, I am Yahweh. Yahweh God. And then the Lord fills him with revelation of his attributes, full of compassion and loving kindness. And God literally fills Moses with an understanding of his character and of his glory. You see, the Lord said to Moses, Moses, you can’t see my face and live, but go cover yourself in the cleft of the rock and call upon my name. And as you do, I’m going to come to you and proclaim my name to you. And this is exactly what happened. You see, the cleft of the rock is a shadow of Jesus. In Jesus, we’re in the cleft of the rock. And even as Moses called upon God to reveal his glory from the place of the cleft of the rock, today likewise, beloved, you and I, can call upon Father God to reveal His glory to us through Jesus. And He literally, beloved, will bring us into a deeper and deeper and fuller and fuller experience of knowing who He really is and of experiencing His glory by His Spirit on our life. Now, we know that in this life, we’re going to see through the glass dimly, that eye has not seen and ear has not heard the things that God’s prepared for those that love Him. But we are being brought into more and more of a discovery of His fullness. You see, the point that I’m wanting to communicate is that you don’t have to wait to die and go to heaven to experience the glory of God. It’s true that we won’t experience His glory in the fullness until we’re with Him face to face. Paul said that to live on this earth, there’s a separation. He said to live is Christ, he said, but to die is gain. That when we leave the body, we go to be with him in what the Bible calls paradise. So I want to say that absolutely when we leave our bodies, we’re going to experience the glory of God in a way that we’ll never experience fully on this earth. But on the other hand, I don’t want to minimize the fact that even while we’re on the earth in the flesh, we can experience the glory of God just like Moses did in the 33rd chapter of the book of Exodus. That God will keep on making himself known to us more and more. You see, Jesus said that we have eternal life. And eternal life is an experience. Many people, when they think of eternal life, they just think in concepts of time. They think eternal life means that we’re going to live forever. Well, eternal life is uncreated life. It lives forever. And it’s certainly, and by all means is true, that when we receive eternal life, we live forever. But Jesus defined eternal life as relationship. Jesus said eternal life is to know God and to know Jesus. And so the point is we’ve been given eternal life. Eternal life carries with it the quality, get it now, of relationship and experience. You see, this is why I’m passionate about Jesus, because I’m experiencing him in the here and in the now. Am I experiencing him as much as I would like to? No, I’m still hungering and yearning for more. But on the other hand, I don’t want to minimize that Jesus is making himself real to me and he’s making himself real to those of you that are hungering and thirsting for him. See, this is why some people are really passionate about Jesus, because they’ve experienced him. Somehow Jesus has marked their lives where they’ve literally somehow had an encounter with the glory of God, with the love of God. Beloved, we’re talking about prayers that resonate with God. I want to encourage you to keep reaching out to God. Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking, keep doing what Moses did. Keep praying what Moses prayed when he said, Father, Lord. Show me your glory. Beloved, this is one of the greatest prayers that you can pray when you’re on planet Earth. Keep asking Jesus to show you himself. Keep asking the Father to reveal himself to you. Paul prayed in the book of Ephesians that God would give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. And whenever you have a revelation of the knowledge of God, you have an experience, beloved one, of the glory of God. I want you to know, running for Jesus is exciting. Don’t settle for less. Keep knocking, saying, Father God, do for me what you did for Moses. Show me your glory. Reveal yourself to me. Make me know you’re alive. Let me see you in my life. Let me sense your Holy Spirit leading me. Thank you, Jesus, for making yourself more and more real to me as I keep on pursuing you in my life. In Jesus’ name, Father, we ask these things and for your glory and fame. Amen and amen. I want to move forward today, and I want to look with you, beloved ones, today at the prayer of Solomon in the book of 1 Kings. Again, we’re looking at what are the prayers that we see God answer from his saints in the Hebrew Bible, and then later we’ll move into the New Testament because we know that these are the type of prayers that move God’s heart, that we can pray these same prayers, and when we pray them with simplicity, with faith, with a pure heart, God’s going to answer us, beloved ones, just like he answered these ones that we’re reading about. Did you know that Jesus said that of all the people in the Hebrew Bible, John the Baptist was greater than them? And that he that’s born of the Spirit of God in the new covenant in Jesus is greater than all of them? And that the prayers that we read about in the Hebrew Bible not only had application in their initial historical context, but Paul told us in the book of Corinthians that they were also written for us on whom the end of the ages have come. I want to encourage you to believe that these things that God did for these patriarchs, beloved, he will do for you and he will do for me. I guarantee it by the authority of the word of God. When you’re persistent in your prayers, when you pray in faith and you pray from a pure heart.
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I’m going to go now to the book of 1 Kings, chapter 3, verse number 6 through 13. Hear the word of God. I’m going to skip some verses because it’s a long section of scripture, but let’s continue now. 1 Kings, chapter 3. Then Solomon said, you have shown great loving kindness to your servant, David, my father, according as he walked before you in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward you. And you have reserved for him this great loving kindness that you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day. Now, oh Lord, my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father, David. yet I am but a little child. I did not know how to go out or come in. Your servant is in the midst of your people, which you have chosen, a great people, who are too many to be numbered or counted. So give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, to discern between good or evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? Continuing in verse number 10, It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. God said to him, because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked for riches, nor have asked for your life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice. Behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise answer. and a discerning heart, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall one arise like you after you. I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will be none like you among the kings all of your days.” What an awesome example, beloved, of how God values the things that the book of Proverbs admonishes us to seek for, which is wisdom. Above all else, Solomon asked for wisdom. I wonder, how many of you have paid close attention to the book of Proverbs? Do you know that Jesus is personified as the person of wisdom in the book of Proverbs? The book of Proverbs is all about this person, wisdom. The book of Proverbs doesn’t just talk about wisdom as a series of understandings of correct values. But the book of Proverbs actually speaks of wisdom as a person. The New Testament tells us that Jesus has been made unto us wisdom. And this is what Solomon was asking for, beloved ones, in this prayer. He was asking for wisdom, who is the very person of Jesus. He didn’t ask for the superficial things. He didn’t ask first for riches. He didn’t ask first for honor. He didn’t ask for the life of his enemies. But no, he asked for the deeper issue. He asked for something, beloved, that was more important to the heart of God. He asked for that thing that would allow him to be a servant. He asked for that thing that would allow him to lead other people in a proper way. And God said, Solomon, because you’ve asked me for this thing, it has so pleased me. Not only am I going to give you what you asked for, not only will I give you wisdom, not only will I give you a discerning heart to know how to lead my people, to know how to choose righteously, but Solomon, I’m going to even do for you the other things. I’m going to give you riches and honor because your heart and your request has been so pleasing to me. Do you see, beloved ones, why it’s so important to ask God for the things that really matter to Him? That some prayers carry more weight with the Father than others. That some things that we ask for please Him more than other things that we ask for. Some of you have had children or grandchildren. Doesn’t it please you when your children ask you for certain things, like they say, Mommy, Daddy, will you help me to do this? Mommy and Daddy, I need this. And they ask you for something that really shows right values. Doesn’t that please you a lot more as opposed to when they beg you for the next latest and greatest toy? And sometimes you just feel like that even reflects a spoiled spirit. The point that I’m making, moms and dads and grandparents, that you can tell by your own relationship with your children and grandchildren that some of the things they desire for you is more meaningful than others. If they ask you, for example, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, can we spend time together? I want to do something special with you, just you and me. Doesn’t that touch your heart a lot more than if they just ask you for the newest video game? I know one time my little daughter said to me, she said, Daddy, whenever we do something, it’s always both me and my sister. I’m not going to say my children’s name, but together she said, Daddy. Daddy, can we just do something together, just you and me alone? That pleased me so much. I still remember it all those years ago. The point, beloved ones, is that your prayers can move God’s heart. And depending on what you’re asking him for, depending on what you’re saying to him, that will determine how he responds to you and the amount of pleasure that he’s getting from your communication with him. We read from this prayer in 1 Kings from Solomon that asking God for wisdom, to be good husbands, to be good wives, to be good employers, to be good employees, to be good neighbors, asking Him for wisdom in a way that would reflect His glory to the people in our life that we have influence with, to our neighbors, asking God for wisdom, beloved, so that we can live in the world in such a way that people will look at our lives and see His glory on it. Beloved, this pleases Him. And so I want to encourage you to make a part of your daily routine prayer to the Lord. Ask Him for wisdom, just like Solomon did. Do you know it takes wisdom to understand what’s really happening in life? Some people have the wisdom to be able to discern relationships. They have the wisdom to understand people’s hearts. You see, the Lord said that he gave Solomon a wise and a discerning heart. Listen to what the Lord said there in verse number 12. Behold, the Lord said, he says, I have done according to as you have asked, according to your words. And then he said this, behold, I have given you a wise heart. and a discerning heart. Do you know, beloved, some people walk through life being taken advantage of. Why? They don’t have a wise and discerning heart. Don’t you want to be able to see through situations? Don’t you want to be able to see through people? Don’t you want to be able to see the end of a matter? Don’t you want to have wisdom to plan for the future? Wisdom, beloved, to make right decisions in your home, at work, in your neighborhood, with your family and all your relationships. God wants you to ask him for the wisdom to do this. And you know what? When you knock, when you keep knocking and you keep asking and you keep seeking for wisdom, even as the book of Proverbs says, he’s going to give it to you. The book of Proverbs says when you keep seeking wisdom above all else, Wisdom will give you a long and a satisfying life, and you’ll be crowned with honor. So I wanna encourage you today, seek wisdom in your life. Beloved, if you pray a little, you’re gonna get a little. Jesus said, up to this point, you have little because you’ve asked me for little. Jesus said, ask and you’ll receive that your joy will be made full. I want to encourage you, as I’ve been encouraging you, spend the first time of every day simply sitting before God. When you get up in the morning, don’t rush first to check your emails. Don’t get on the phone. Don’t text anybody. Don’t talk to anybody. When you get up every morning, let the first part of your day, beloved, be reserved for God. Sit down before him, sit on your couch or wherever it is in your chair. Designate a special place in your house, your prayer room. And when you wake up in the morning, sit before the Lord and say, Lord, did I dream anything last night that you want me to remember? Did you show me anything in my dream last night to help me, to give me understanding? And then have a devotional and read a chapter in the devotional and read it slowly. Tell God what’s on your heart. Ask Him for wisdom. Ask Him to reveal His glory to you. Gia said, keep asking and you’ll receive. Keep knocking and the door will be open. Gia said, everyone that asks receives. Everyone that seeks finds. And to everyone that asks, the door will be open. Beloved, the scripture tells us to pray ceaselessly. I want to encourage you. Believe God. Believe Him for more. On next broadcast, I’m gonna be talking with you about the prophet Elijah from the book of Kings and how Elijah called upon God to prove himself. Do you know what? God loves you so much, he wants to prove himself to you and to me. God’s not some distant, far away God in the sky. God is here and he’s now and he loves you. Father, in Jesus’ name, I speak your blessing. over these beloved ones that love you. I want to thank you, Father, for the good plan that you have over each and every one of their lives. I want to thank you, Father God, that you’ve called each one of us to know you more, that it’s your desire to show us your glory, that it’s your purpose, Jesus, to give us your wisdom, that you died that we could walk in your fullness. Father, we’re excited and thankful about what you’re doing in our life. Father, we’re excited about what’s going to happen tomorrow. Father, we’re excited about our destiny. Father, we just want to tell you that we love you. Jesus, I just want to tell you thank you for all that you’ve done. And Father, we set ourselves to fully enter into everything that Jesus gave his life for, for us to have. Father, we have set ourselves like Flint to take full possession of the kingdom that Jesus would be glorified in our lives. Beloved, in Matthew chapter 26 and Luke chapter 7, we read about the woman that had a very costly vial of perfume in an alabaster box. And she came and anointed the body of Jesus with that perfume. When the disciples saw it, they were so upset. They said, you know what? That perfume could have been sold and the money given to the poor. What a waste. But Jesus said, let her alone. Why? Because her financial gift to him through the vial of perfume represented her love of Jesus. Beloved, you and I can do the same thing with our finances. In our financial giving to the ministries of King Jesus, we’re actually doing the same thing that that woman with the alabaster box did. We’re showing Jesus how much we love him and appreciate him. Your financial gifts, beloved, make a difference to King Jesus. through this ministry.
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What I love about the Aaronic blessing is that it did not originate with man. The words actually proceeded from the very essence of God himself. The blessing comes from the book of Numbers, chapter six. So listen to these words and receive the blessing of the Lord into your life today.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us next time when Rabbi Schneider continues to help us deepen our prayers for real answers. That’s Tuesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
