A WOW Moment with Vicki, Hannah and Jennifer (Date: January 14th 2021)

Wisdom from God in James 1:5-6

Oh, yeah, honey, can you turn the TV off, please? I'm sorry, I forgot to ask. We'll be hearing Gomer in the background. Gomer? Gomer Pyle.

That's one of my favorite shows.

Nadine's being raised right. She loves Andy. Does she? Yes, she loves him. That's great. Look at her. She's like, I know this episode. Are we waiting on people to get on? I'm on. Oh, yeah, I gotta get on too.

We're just waiting for a minute. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and show you. How do I get on? Just go to women or women, right? No, it's not even on the women or women. Oh, it's on the members page? No, the open page.

That's right. I never have to look for it. It's always just on there. Yeah.

Just make sure to turn your volume all the way down so it doesn't echo into, okay, you're pulling me. That's what I do. Mercedes will say, is your phone turned down? Watch an app. Oh, you have to have an app.

I don't have an app. What app? The Facebook app, I guess. You don't have Facebook? Do you have Facebook all the time?

I'm on Facebook on the internet, not on the app. You don't have the app on your phone? Mm-mm. Okay. Can you share it afterwards? Yep, sure will. I'll do it. I'll just share it.

Well, I try to get all the women to share on their personal pages so that we can reach more people. Because the more we share, the more, because I don't know how many friends you have. I mean, you know, but as long as you share it.

I have at least two. Everybody sees it. Yeah.

All right. That's the train. It's right there. The tracks are right there.

You want to know how bad that was, what I just did? What's that? See that white line right there on the phone? Uh-huh. Well, that's the bottom bar thing on my phone, right? Mm-hmm.

It's not part of the wall. It's not. No. I was thinking I would sit down against the wall.

Tonight's starting off real swell. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to tonight's Bible study. I'm Vicki, as you know. Tonight, my co-host is Ms. Jennifer Hickler. And our guest tonight is the wonderful and beautiful and simply amazing Ms. Hannah Weissner.

Special. Tonight, we are in Bartlett, Tennessee, and we are guests in the Weissner home. So we would like to thank Hannah, you and your husband for having us, and, of course, Nadine for having us tonight.

Many of you may have seen a couple of episodes that Hannah's been on before. Somebody's calling me. Hold on. Let me. I don't know how to make my phone silent because I'm not that tech savvy, but nobody ever calls me.

I'm sorry, y 'all. Sorry. And then this over here is somebody. Yeah, because it's her accountability group. Oh. They should be on here. They shouldn't be checking it up. Right? Come on, ladies. Where are you?

Anyways, that's something else we'll have to hold them accountable for on Sunday. I know what we're going to talk about. Right? Anyway, so because Hannah has been on several episodes, she's been on two of them with our accountability group, and she's done one by herself.

And Jennifer's had one by, you've had one by yourself? One by myself. So this is your second time, right?

Yes. And then I think I'm scheduled in February. You are scheduled in February.

So these two ladies I really enjoy sitting with because these two ladies that I can about sit down and talk with them about anything, and they both are, I'll have to say, with Hannah's age, she is very encouraging.

Because our age difference is so different, but she's always there to either give me some kind of encouragement, or she will quote scripture to me that I need to hear. And then Jennifer is a little closer to my age, so she can kind of understand some of that.

You're closer than she is. But, you know, so that's why I was so excited about tonight because I enjoy both of these ladies and spending time with them. So being able to be at your home and being able to be at your home with Jennifer is just a super plus bonus for me.

And smelling the chili. Oh my gosh.

Hannah's made chili again. It smells good. Sorry, Mercedes. We'll wait till after to eat it. Yeah.

So anyways, I'm really glad that you all are here. I hope that there's something, or I hope you're able to pick up something. I hope there's something that you're able to use. I hope that the Holy Spirit uses this time for himself because that's basically what we're here for.

We're not here for me, and we're not here for Hannah, and we're not here for Jennifer. We're here because we feel that we're led to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we pray that the Holy Spirit speaks through us to someone out there that may need something.

So no matter what it is, I see that Hannah has several.

You are so rotten. I might have read this a few times.

She has several passages we're going to be going to. We're going to be going to. So if there is something that we touch on, this is something that I usually don't say, but I need to start doing it. If there is something that we touch on that you don't understand or that you don't get, I do not watch.

We do not take questions and answers and things like that during this because this is our Bible study. But you can always comment or something, or you can always send a message to the Facebook Messenger, and somebody will be more than happy to help you out in any way whatsoever.

So all that being said, Hannah, what is the Scripture that you've chosen for this evening? Because I believe this is now possibly one of your go-to verses. It is, for sure.

There are several written down here, as you said, but I think the main one we're going with is James 1, verses 5 and 6. All right.

Jennifer, will you read the Scripture, please?

That will be the appetizer. Exactly. Yes. And it's tasty. Love James. Yes. Love James. Okay, so James 1, 5 through 6. Now, if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

But let him ask in faith without doubting, for the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

All right, Hannah. I think I already know, but I'm going to go ahead and ask you to share why this is your verse.

I think it's my verse for many reasons, but this verse in particular has been reminded, like brought back to me several Sunday nights ago. Josiah was teaching on, I think it was still on Revelation, but something, he had James 1, 5 written on the board.

He didn't have the verse, just the reference, and I was reading it, and I thought, James 1, 5. I feel like I know that verse, and I started quoting it in my mind, and then he said, somebody either read it or quote it, and I started saying it out loud, and then I stopped and said, I hope this is the right verse, and then he was like, just keep going, and I said it, and I quoted the verse, and I can't, I mean, it's been 10 years, I'm ashamed to say, that I've ever judged whether or not I know this verse or not.

So the fact that it has stuck with me that long, and it's just kind of been ingrained in my mind, so it's just been heavy on my heart ever since then. So I've just been reading a lot about it, because it's about wisdom, and look at the times we're in right now.

We need wisdom more than we need everything else, because we're too busy listening to everyone else, so many different media, so many different people, so many different politicians, just everything, and where does true wisdom come from?

Right here. So I just feel like it's a really good, important phase in life to just stop and go, okay, where does true wisdom come from? And it's right here. So I feel like that's part of why it's a little extra special.

So with all that that you just said about everything that's going on and everything like that, do you feel, and this is a little off before we go into your other verses, but I want to get your opinion on this, because like I said before, this is our study, so I want y 'all's opinion, but do y 'all feel that at some point in time in the near future, this is not going to be happening?

Are you talking about online, on media stuff? Our online study. Like it's going to be banned? Yes.

Yeah, I do. I definitely see a lot more censorship coming in the near future. I feel like that's why it's important we're doing it now, because whether or not they stop live streaming, you can still go back on YouTube and see every wow moment.

You can still go back on these websites and see all of these sermons, so I feel like that is important. Now, whether or not they're going to ban those, I couldn't say, but I love the fact that we're doing this now, so that way when that time comes, hopefully somebody will remember YouTube or can go back on their phone and go, I want to look up Witten Baptist Church and be able to still hear it, even when you're never going to see it new online because it's been banned.

Does that make sense? Yeah, and that's something that actually I have two employees that work with me in the department that I work in that I'm over, and they're both believers, and they've always used their phone a lot when they look at Scripture and stuff because during our breaks and stuff, we've discussed things, and I bought them both Bibles for Christmas this year, and if you don't have one, you need to get one.

Yes, very much. Because there's so many people that they use their phone to read the Bible.

That was one of them for the longest time.

But the problem is what's going to happen when that's gone?

I see your original question now. It makes a lot more sense. Yes, I do see that definitely becoming something you won't be able to get access to. And that's something that we know.

It says it in here. Yes. We know that. We know we'll be persecuted. We know we'll be limited to information.

Right. There's a lot of people that know that because they've studied and they've discussed it and things like that, but I wanted to get it on here because there's probably people out there that don't realize that, and I wanted to make sure that if they have the opportunity or it doesn't—I'm not saying that you have to buy a real thick Bible.

I'm just saying you need to buy—.

ChristianBookstore .com. I've gotten several off of there, seriously good ones, and they're always on clearance, and I've not paid more than $20 or so for one. I mean, I paid, I think, $13 for the first one, so they have really good ones.

Let's make sure that if you—and if you have problems getting one,.

Just let us know. And I think also memorizing Scripture, too, needs to be—. Since we're talking about having it physically in our hands, I think memorizing Scripture is just as important as having it here because especially when we can't find it online, and I'm not carrying this around, and I run into somebody, and I need to quote Scripture to them, and I'm going, oh, man, what was that verse?

I think it's somewhere in the Bible. It says this. I won't be able to do this. I have a problem, though.

What's that? I do that when people ask me, what'd you do yesterday?

I'm like, well, hmm. What did I do?

I went through the same train with you, though. That's something that I beat myself up about is I feel like I need to learn more Scripture. I struggle with—and then I try to cram a bunch in, and I'm like, okay.

And that's in the Bible, too. Was it Psalms 119, by word have I hidden my heart? So we need to hide His word in our hearts.

Well, a good thing to do because, you know, when going on mission trips and things like that, we had to memorize verses and things. So what I would do is I would put a sticky note up everywhere that I would look to where I would read it more than one time a day.

Because if you read something over and over again—.

I have it on my computer at work. So as I'm working, I'm constantly looking and adding. So I've memorized one of them. Now I'm working on the other one, so I'm going to add another one. Yeah, that's a good idea.

But, you know, I haven't been on a mission trip now because we didn't go last year. I can't remember. But I am 50 years old. So there's that final—. So anyways, okay, now that we're done with that, let's get back to the study.

That was a nice chat, though. Yeah, it is. Sounds like a grown man in there asleep. I know. I was like, where is he in there asleep? When they both get going, man, it's loud. They both snore?

Oh yeah, they both snore. I thought my husband was snoring over here next to me, but it's their dogs in the kennel.

I guess we should have told Jennifer that. What's that?

The dogs might snore. Yeah, they're pretty noisy. I figured it out. That's okay.

That's okay, the cat's down here. Yeah, she's rubbing on our feet. Alright, so, am I in the right book? Where am I? There I am. My eyes had to focus. Now, if any of you likes wisdom, well, I think everybody likes wisdom.

So we should all be asking God. The whole human race?

Yes. Homo sapiens sapiens? Yes.

Homo sapiens sapiens, because there's only one race. Right. That's just like, a dog's a dog. You can have a Dalmatian and a Poodle, but they're both still dogs. Right. Canine.

Who gives all generously without criticizing. Don't you love that? That's the part. See, you're not leaning on your spouse that's going to criticize you. Or walking on eggshells going,.

Oh, I can't ask about that, because that'll come back to haunt me. Or, oh man, he'll probably judge me for that. Or, oh, he's going to think I'm an idiot. No, you don't have to worry about that. That's a huge word.

And it will be given to him. But you've got to follow that up with verse six, though.

And with repetition. That's what a lot of people think if they pray one time for something. Oh, I haven't seen a difference in a day, or a couple of days, or a couple of weeks. And it's like, okay.

Well, if you want to talk about prayer, though, you need to be making sure that you pray whatever the Lord's will is, too. Because if it's not His will, you're not going to get your prayer. Let's think about this.

I have straight up prayed for God to change the answers on an exam before. I've been like, Lord, if I've missed any of those questions, Lord, if you could just change my answer. I've literally prayed that before.

And thought, how pointless was that? I mean, really? Come on. So, I think that's why verse six, let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. There's a lot more that goes into that ask and you shall receive verse, which I do have written down.

You are too much. Very much have. What does the Bible say? Ask and you shall receive. Okay, I asked if this was wrong. Change it.

That's where this interpretation comes from. Right, exactly.

And you're not looking at the context of it. When you talk about asking in faith, it's a little different when you read the whole thing.

And then the people that are not actually believers, they're not actually walking in life with the Lord, and then they only call upon him in prayer when they need him here and there. I mean, I don't know exactly.

He's totally going, I don't even know you. You're not one of my children. So, all these people that are praying that aren't even actual believers. Well, if you're an actual believer, I think you understand that you have to keep praying for things.

You have to keep asking for things. But you have to ask for it in the proper way. Like you were saying. I don't ask for specific things like answers on tests.

And is it really just me? Man, I so thought y 'all would be like, oh, me too. My bad. No. Good to know.

I have done the outcome of the prayer of Lord, don't let my dad whoop my butt after I made this F on this test.

I broke the table. I pushed the thing. You're good.

I thought I broke the table. No, it was me. Just to ask for the wisdom to make the right choice. Or to ask for the strength to get through the trial that you're going through. I've done that a lot. It's not trying to change his path for you.

It's getting him, praying for him to help you through whatever his path is for you. To give you the strength and the wisdom and the love and the understanding and the patience. All the things that you have.

To have to make it through.

Each day. To make it through each day, through each trial, and as you're going through it, when you ask for the right thing, even though your life.

Is full of stress and problems, as is.

Mine, I don't, I feel peace about it. Because I know it's going to be okay. I know that it's going to be fine. So you pray for that. It's learning how to pray properly. I struggled with that in the beginning.

I didn't understand how I was praying for more.

Specific things, but not that specific. Right, not in sense. You have to, number one, you can't take the wheel. It can't be a selfish.

Prayer. You can't pray for.

Something to... He's driving, you can't take over. Right.

And it's, you know, you can't pray for something that equals self-satisfaction for you. No. You have to pray for something that equals glory to him.

I think it's in James as well. Is he James? I love James. Yes, okay. Tell me. So, it says, James 4, 3, you ask and you receive not, because you ask amiss that you may consume it upon your own lust. So, basically, you ask selfishly for your own selfish desire.

So, you ask and you receive not because of.

This. Because it's not to glorify him. It's to glorify yourself. Exactly.

To fulfill your lust. Right.

It doesn't work that way. That's how it's not supposed to be.

Right. And I think there's a lot of people that don't understand. You know, they're praying for him to pay my bill for me. They're praying for the wrong things. You know, Lord, bring me a husband. Bring me this.

Bring me that. That's not what it's about.

It's not. And when you.

Got to get to that point that you realize that, and you start praying for the right things, and then he starts sending those other things your way. Right.

I think another good thing to point out, too, since we're talking about prayer, is just be, like, you may think a prayer hasn't been answered, but it has, just not in the way that you thought it would be.

So, I may be going around going, oh, and then with the day that it hits you in the face, and you go, oh my gosh, thank you, Lord, that happened four months ago, but you just didn't see it. I have had that happen.

So many times. So have I. When you finally open your eyes, and you see, I'm like, thank you. I was praying for this,.

And he actually, he did.

Save me. He just saved me in a different way than what I was asking for.

Because it was his way. Exactly. Oh my gosh. Because we don't have control like we think we do. That's what I said. Leave him with the will. Let him drive. And don't, and stop.

Trying to put the brakes on. Or quit trying to accelerate. He could be driving Miss Pickler, and I'll sit in the back, and I'm on. There we go. Exactly.

That's what we need to be. Alright, Hannah, what's your next verse that you're wanting to look at with your James 1, 5 and 6, because we got a little off there, but that's.

Fine. We don't have to go through all of these, but there are so many Proverbs, my goodness. I wrote down three, but there were so many. So Proverbs, if you're ever thinking, or wanting to study more about wisdom, Proverbs has a lot about that in there, because it's you know, it's like it's almost like a crying out, which I love.

But let's see, John. Oops, I'm going backwards. John was the one I wanted to point out as well.

Fourteen. So we're not going to Proverbs?

I mean, we can. We can read some of those. That's fine. I can run through them too, because I wrote down a couple that I really, really liked. But you really want to go to John. I do want to go to John, because what we were talking about a second ago about asking for wisdom in the right way and praying for things in the right way, this really goes along with that.

Okay, go for it. John 14, 13 through 15. John 14.

What did you say? 15? John 14. 13 through 15. John 14. 13 through 15. I think I got that right. You did. Okay, good. Let's roll. Go ahead. You can read it. Go for it.

Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commands.

So I think when you're reading through this, you end it with, If you love me, keep my commandments so that myself, before I open my eyes a little bit more, I would just keep reading and not take verse 15 and put it maybe before 13 and say, Okay, if you love me, keep my commandments.

Because you love me, whatever you ask in my name, it just still follows along with the asking in faith. Because it says whatever you ask in my name, which what did we just say? Your will, right? So and it says so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

So whatever I ask, no matter how it's answered, whether it's what I want or not, it's being answered in God's way to glorify himself. Right. So that's, I feel like that's another thing we can find peace in, is this might not be the way I wanted it answered, but God's being glorified, so what's not awesome about that?

Right.

Because it's not about me. Right.

Right. That is the ultimate purpose. That is what we're here for, is to glorify Him. That's why we were put on this earth. And I pray all the time for Him to use me in whatever way He needs to use me, to glorify Him, to help whoever,.

And that's what we're supposed to be doing. Be careful, Jennifer, I prayed that prayer too.

But that's, you have to mean that prayer though. That's how I ended up here. Yeah. See? Because I'm sure I've prayed that before and never felt like anything's happened, but when I've actually said, hey, I am here, Lord, just use me, it's like, okay, I can literally see, not see, but, well, see, yes, I can.

See, I can feel. I've noticed the opportunities.

My eyes are a lot more open. I see those opportunities.

That's exactly what I'm asking. Where I would have been shy before to talk to people, now I feel the opportunities and I speak more freely and I just find myself talking about Him to people that I probably wouldn't have, I would have felt uncomfortable or too shy or whatever before.

But the more I pray that, the more bold I think He makes me.

To speak my testimony. It's just, I feel like it's you allowing more of Him and less of you.

John 3 .30, He must increase, I must decrease. It's written on my fridge in there. I've got it on my magnet. I see it every time I go to the fridge, which is several times a day.

I have many, many daily prayers. Yes. Not just one. I pray all day, every day. I don't think that's in John. That's not. No, that's in Genesis.

What's that? He must increase,.

I must decrease. No, that's John 3 .30. Yeah, that's John 3 .30.

What's the Genesis 30 .50? 50 .20. Is the Lord meant it or you planned it for evil, but the Lord meant it for good. There we go. There we go. It's in there. It's in there. They're all just, you know, conjumbled.

Together. Bunch of numbers, you know. If the Bibles disappear, I'm going to be like over here.

Maybe I can tell you the reference, but I can probably quote something for you. She may not know who said it. The Lord said it. Come on. Right, right, right. But who physically wrote it down?

Who wrote it down? Yeah, because it all came from the Holy Spirit. That's true. One author. Right. Right. Many books. Yes. Lots of words.

That are important words. I never would have thought that, like, numbers was important. Oh my gosh, reading the book of Numbers, it's literally about numbers and, you know, genealogy and all this other stuff and you're going.

What? But when you.

Read it in correlation to, you know, how it's supposed to be read, when it was written, who wrote it, what that falls into, the time period, you know, there are so many more things you have to know. The reasonings are all there for you.

Right. Which is why you need this. That's why I'm going back to James.

And that's the other thing. A lot of people don't understand that knowing about the book itself, like you just said, makes you or helps you understand the. That's not, I'm not saying this right. Maybe it's not the book, but the author.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And where they were in their life and what they had been through. And, yes, absolutely.

Well, not the author. Not the author because the author was the writer who wrote the book. Yes.

My ultimate goal is to be like Brother Jeff where I can just.

Like geek out. You don't want to be like Brother Jeff.

No, seriously, he knows. No, I want to be like Brother Jeff in history too.

But you know what I'm saying? It doesn't matter what you're talking about in the Bible. I've been aware.

The backstories there, the history, everything. Everything. He's like a walking history book. Yes, I agree.

I want to do that. He absolutely does. I want to be a geek like that. I do.

He loves history. See, I'm not.

So big on history, but I do too, but I haven't just started delving into it, but I really want to get some of the books he's been talking about and put it into correlation with his timeline that he has up.

I mean, I get it, but I would also like to see it unravel here and there. That way you can see that because that's the thing that I get asked the most. I have people say the reasons why they're not. It was written by man, so how do you know it's true?

Right. This, that, and the other. It always comes back to how do you know it's authentic in this, that, and the other? When you're able to have that history behind you to say, okay, this was written a thousand years before it happened, and here it is.

This is where it happened. This is where it is and here. You can prove it. We want to be able to geek out like that.

Because, especially when Pastor Jeff starts talking about Nero and Caesar,.

Everybody knows about them because all the Christian books. Alexander the Great.

I get what you're talking about now. You want to be able to geek on that.

Yes. Gotcha. You know that history book you read in school every day that has nothing about the Senate? At the same time that was happening, let's talk about what's happening here. Let's talk about how.

Paul or whoever, Abraham, said it was going to happen. His whole story's amazing.

Again, when you read things Paul has written and you understand Paul as an individual, it just makes you, your mind just, wow. Right.

Okay, so back to what we were.

Talking about. We were at Pastor Jeff and we squirreled, sorry. So we are a little bit like each other.

See, we're squirreling. We can squirrel with you, with the best of you.

This is one I think is important too. It is a proverb. We're all nuts, it's okay. Proverbs. Yes, I do want to do one of the proverbs. This one in particular, Proverbs 1 -7. Because, again, we were talking about asking the right way, having the right heart when we ask, having faith when we ask, but there's another word we haven't talked about that I think is important with prayer as well.

That's good. Isn't that good?

Okay. 1 -7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and discipline. The fear of the Lord. People don't understand that fear is healthy. I used to be afraid of fear. I used to let fear run my life in a bad way, in a negative way, and now it's the opposite.

It's like the fear of disappointing the Lord is the worst thing. The worst possible thing would be to stand before Him and He'll look at me and say, I do not know you. The thought of that is just, I can't even describe it.

That fear drives me in a positive way. Absolutely. That's what people are missing. They're afraid of the wrong thing. You can't be afraid of the death and of the things that happen in this life. It's such a short period of time in the eternity.

She was trying to get out of here. Sorry. I know. You're absolutely right. I see that a lot with Nadine. I have a young child. If she doesn't fear me in any way, whether it's by disappointing me or disobeying me, what's the drive to do it?

Who are you? You're just nobody. If I have that fear, that reverence, that respect for you, I don't want to disappoint you. I don't want to disobey you. A healthy.

Fear equals respect. It does. It equals loyalty and honesty and all the things that you need to be positive. That's a good one. Vicki said yes. I agree. I concur. The fear of the Lord. Fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Why? Because it proves to you that it's not all about you. It proves to you that you don't know everything. You're not all that in a bag of chips. Pastor Jess words you're a stinky poopoo head and you're self-absorbed.

Nobody wants to hear that. Nobody. Ain't nobody got time for that. Right. Or at least Jesus don't. Right. I think I should have looked up this one. I know I just don't know the reference but it says that the word of God is foolishness to those who don't believe.

When you think of where does true wisdom come from? From here. So if you don't believe this.

You're not wise in it. It says that you won't even understand what the words in here mean if you're not a true believer. You won't even understand. And it is because when I first started where I thought that I was a true Christian.

I thought that I was a true believer and I was saved when I first started coming.

And then I realized that I wasn't. Right. Until you.

Realize that you're not and you humble yourself to that and then you try to acquire the knowledge and the wisdom that you need from God and you pray for it. Once my eyes were opened I realized I didn't understand.