FAITH CAPSULE: Understanding the word of God will have a knowing edge over wicked agendas and not be a victim. 

Hosea 4

Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
One that is lacking is the evidence of one that is not full.
One full of the knowledge of God is bound to go far with God, walking with God or before God to avoid and not become a victim of this wicked world.
To know is to have an understanding. 
Having understanding is rooted in the listening ability to the word of God. 
Do you listen to the word of God constantly or casually?
Jesus asked and answered the reason why there is a listening disability: “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8: 43) 
Having understanding shall not lack knowledge. 
With no understanding is the disability of listening to the word of God.
With no understanding, living according to His word is not possible. Listening will understand, knowing to be stable in a wicked world.
Every command in the word of God is doable, not impossible, for one engaged in the word of God.
Understanding the word of God will have a knowing edge over wicked agendas and not be a victim. 
There is no choice like listening and gaining an understanding of the word of God to become full of knowledge and not become a victim of the wicked world.
With understanding and knowledge, give self to repeated do-able directions for self-deliverance to watch and pray.
Matthew 26:41 records, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 
Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.” 
Luke 21:36, “Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  
Just like Jesus said, the apostle Paul also called for the importance of prayer.
Ephesians 6:18 states, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saint.” 
The book of 1 Peter 4:7 records, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.”  
How is your prayer life? 
Are you one that is serious about prayer? 
Jesus demonstrated the need to watch and pray, and Paul encourages the need for prayer as  Acts 6:4 records, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Be exposed to the word of God and be filled with understanding and knowledge.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with understanding to gain knowledge of His word.