FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God requests to ask, and God will not deny.

Proverbs 4

Jesus is the wisdom of God for all. (1 Corinthians 1:30)
Many claim the wisdom of God but lack the understanding to have a knowing edge.
Proverbs 4:7 buttresses, “wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
In this challenging, unstable world of wickedness, a believer, living by the word of God, will have understanding rooted in wisdom and knowledge to be stable. 
In all your getting, in addition to the wisdom (if you have it), you must get understanding.
To have understanding, with prayer before God, not by determination, ask from God.
What to ask for in understanding?
Know to ask for understanding heart to discern.
An understanding heart is what all need to be able to discern between good and evil. When King Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice, God appeared to him in a dream to ask him what to do for him.
King Solomon asked God, “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” (1 Kings 3:9) 
The request of Solomon pleased the Lord.
PRAYER
Ask for understanding heart to discern just like King Solomon did.
(Understanding heart to discern will be able to see, detect in the endeavors of this wicked world.)
Know to ask for understanding not to walk a pathless wilderness.
Job, in the times of painful challenges of his life he responded to the critics over his life, “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.” (Job 12:24)
Are you experiencing unceasing critics from close ones and ones in the distance from you that do not know that God is in your wilderness journey of life?
A wilderness journey of life is with a path, the prescription of God to arrive at the promise of God. 
God directed the Israelites to navigate the wilderness to arrive at the Promised Land. Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt. So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” 
The direction of God is the path in the wilderness not to wander.
It is the understanding of God that will lead in the path of wilderness to arrive at the calling of God.
PRAYER
Ask from God to enable you not to walk in a pathless wilderness of the journey of life. 
Ask for the understanding to be receptive to the direction of God in the journey of life.

Gain understanding from God that is a source to live life for the glory of God.