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God appears to young Solomon in a dream with a blank check: ask for whatever you want Me to give you. Solomon asks for a discerning heart to govern Your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.

The request pleases the Lord so much that wisdom arrives with riches and honor thrown in. The offer, James insists, still stands for you: if any of you lacks wisdom, ask. So ask, today, before you read.

Solomon's greatness began with an accurate self-assessment, I am only a little child, and a request aimed at serving others rather than himself. Wisdom, in Scripture, is never trivia; it is a listening heart that can tell right from wrong under pressure, and God still loves being asked for it more than for anything else on the menu.

Acts 6 shows wisdom wearing an apron: the church's first structural crisis was solved not by charisma but by discernment, Spirit-filled people assigned to food logistics, and the word of God spread because the widows were fed. Ask for the discerning heart today, and expect it to show up in your most practical decisions first.

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