Can I Believe to Become Smarter?

Yes.  But just being smarter in the intellectual sense is not the only thing you need, because some people with PhD’s drive cabs.  (I suppose doctorates in things like Middle English Literature are hard to translate into profitable opportunities.)  You also want to be wiser!  A lower-IQ person armed with God’s wisdom can do better than a high-IQ person without God’s wisdom.  I have done things in business with much more success than people who seemed smarter and better qualified because I had God’s help and favor.  Every working person should know Psalm 5:12: “For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.”  One revelation from God could make you a very wealthy person even if you are not a “whiz” in the natural.  All the brainpower in the world would not have interpreted the king’s dreams as Daniel did with God’s help.  So you want to believe for God’s wisdom.  That will take you beyond what mere smarts will get you.

I’ve made good money over the years supporting myself doing computer projects that no one else could figure out how to do.  Some of them had been abandoned as impossible by other consultants.  When I went in to offer my services in a couple of cases, I didn’t know how to do the projects either, but the Lord led me to promise that I would deliver a solution, and if I could not do it, the client would owe me nothing.  Then I went to prayer and asked God to show me how to do them.  He did!  One involved a computer type, a terminal, a language and an operating system that I’d never used before, and another involved writing code in 3 different computer languages.  I did the projects!  So I can tell you for sure that you can believe God to become smarter, even if you’re smart already.  My standard procedure was to read whatever technical manuals were involved and pray in tongues when I got to a point where I couldn’t understand something.  God would give me the understanding.  That’s how I got started; I never took a college course about computers.  You’re missing out on a lot of fun in business if you don’t get God involved!

I was about to present a proposal to a computer client that involved them buying a new computer system from Company A, but I felt that I needed to pray in tongues before I did my presentation later that day.  After an hour, I finally got an interpretation: “Company B.”  I actually said, “No, Lord, you mean Company A,” but He didn’t.  I asked, “Why not Company A when they seem to have the better product?”  “They do,” I sensed Him say, “but in three years they’re going to go bankrupt.”  So I rewrote my whole proposal and surprised the client by suggesting Company B.  The controller of the company asked why I didn’t go with Company A, and I said, “They have a better product, but I think that they will be bankrupt in three years.  So you would be better off long-term going with Company B.”  So the client went with Company B.  Three years later to the month, Company A declared bankruptcy.  Incidents such as that can make you look a lot smarter than you actually are!  (They never did ask me how I “figured that out.”)  So sometimes the issue is not as much being smarter, it’s hooking up with an infinitely smart Heavenly Business Partner!

A certain company’s computer was down, and dozens of workers were idle as a result.  I wasn’t in charge of maintaining that system, but I felt sorry for them and asked the Lord to help me be a blessing to them.  I knew nothing about minicomputer hardware maintenance at the time.  But the Lord impressed me that the hard drive controller card was the culprit.  The maintenance company had swapped hard drives to no avail and done a few other things that didn’t work and they were stumped.  I mentioned to my contact that they needed to check the hard drive controller card.  The maintenance company said that the card could not be the issue, and they kept swapping other parts to no avail.  Finally, someone at the company pressured them into taking my advice.  That card was the issue, and the computer was back up and running in short order.  Does that mean that I was “smart?”  Well, I seemed to be, but again, I was believing for “smarts” in the situation, not necessarily an IQ boost.  But I was able to solve a problem I knew nothing about when the experts were stumped and were convinced that the problem couldn’t have been what it actually was.

Don’t try something like this unless you know it’s God, but I used to work for a certain corporation and I felt led to write a computer program that no one had asked me to write.  In fact, I spent over a day and a half doing something my boss had not instructed me to do.  As I was hitting the last keystrokes to finish this new program, my boss came flying in and told me to drop everything – he had an emergency.  The Chairman of the Board wanted a certain report in his office by the end of the afternoon.  But my boss realized that such a program could take a whole day or two to write.  I smiled and said, “Oh, you mean something like THIS!” and I hit a button.  Out came the printout that the Chairman needed.  Now THAT definitely got the boss’s attention – and made him look good when he took it to the Chairman of the Board that afternoon!  All the “smarts” in the world can’t do something like that, but when you have God’s wisdom, there aren’t any limits.  And at my boss’s request, I got to spend a lot of time telling him about Jesus because of that supernatural incident!  That also got me a personal meeting with the Chairman, who told me that he understood that I knew “the Big Guy” and wanted me to pray for the company.  There was a week to go in the month and salvaging their financial situation would require them to have the greatest sales week in their 300-year history.  I took a Christian brother with me as a witness, went to the park next door and the “gift of faith” came on me.  I commanded millions of dollars to come in by the end of the month.  And they did; the company had its greatest week in its 300-year history.  It wasn’t my smarts or the Chairman’s smarts that accomplished this; it was getting God involved.

You have Bible passages to back you if you want extra wisdom.  Daniel 1:20 tells of Daniel and three other Jewish young people: “And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.”  They may or may not have had higher IQ’s, but they were wiser and more understanding than their heathen counterparts and thus were more useful to the king.  If God could do that for some young people under an inferior covenant, He certainly should be able to do that under our better one.  Under the New Covenant, James tells us that we can ask God in faith for wisdom and get it (James 1:5-8)!  Christ has been made unto you wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30), and Colossians 2:3 refers to Christ, “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

I know a preacher who was told that his son would never be able to function normally in society.  He and his wife kept believing the Bible and his son became normal.  But why stop there?  They kept believing God and he became much better than normal.  Before long he was an absolute genius, and in his twenties, he was making seven figures a year!  Not bad for someone who supposedly had no hope of living a normal life.  Well, I suppose making millions in your twenties isn’t a normal life, but that isn’t what the doctors meant.

If you suffer from a learning disability (which may or may not be expressed by a letter combination), you have the covenant right to be healed of it.  ALL illnesses, not just physically noticeable ones, are part of the devil’s kingdom from which you are redeemed.  What if the issue is genetic?  You STILL are redeemed from it.  “Jesus” is the name at which every name that is named must bow, and those learning syndromes have names.  So you can make them bow their knees and get out of your life!