When Leaders Seek God
In yesterday’s post, I emphasized that God’s wisdom and revelation (Ephesians 1:17) are not just for leaders in the church, but for all believers. These special gifts from God are particularly important for government leaders. We looked at several biblical examples of this, including the tribe of Issachar, King David, King Solomon, and Daniel, who worked for a king. None of these leaders were rabbis or priests, but rather government officials and soldiers.
I want to continue the teaching today, using Jeremiah 33:3. Several years ago the Lord gave me two dreams in one night, both of which emphasized this verse in Jeremiah: “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” (KJV)
The following day, I did what I typically do when studying a verse: I pulled out my lexicons and several translations of Scripture. One of the first translations I read the verse from was the Amplified Classic. It reads: “Call to Me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).”
The phrase “fenced in and hidden” intrigued me. “Mighty” is the King James word that caused the Amplified translators to add this additional phrase. My first thought was: Well, which is it; “mighty?” Or “fenced in and hidden?” To the lexicons I went.
The Hebrew word is batsar,(1) and it is a very fascinating word. Follow closely: the root concept is “to cut off,” including the aspect of separating or isolating something. It was often used in the context of doing so in order to protect it. This is why it was used by the Amplified translators to describe something “fenced in and hidden,” such as a garden or vineyard; batsar was even used to describe gold, which is “cut off” from view and “hidden” by the ground. The word also took on the meaning of a city that was cut off, inaccessible, and therefore “fortified,” like the fortresses of Masada or Petra. The concept of “mighty” in this word, therefore, is not referring to physical strength or military power, but to something hidden or inaccessible, and thus, protected. This is where the nuance of “mighty” comes from.
The Amplified got it right in their use of the words fenced in and hidden to translate batsar. And in Jeremiah 33:3, that which was hidden and protected was information. The verse states that God will reveal information or a revelation that He has hidden, not yet made known. He will “unhide” it. This can also be seen in the fact that a different form of the word, betser,(2) is used to describe gold that was once hidden but has now been uncovered and “mined.”
As I have pondered this verse again over the last few weeks, Holy Spirit has impressed upon me that 2026 is a year in which He wants to reveal His hidden strategies for the next season. We are entering one of the most significant global shifts in all of history. Much change will occur - MUCH! And we will have to change with it. The way we think will have to change somewhat, tactics will change, and assignments will change for many in God’s Kingdom.
The blessing promised in Jeremiah 33:3 will occur, to assist those who follow God. Holy Spirit wants to reveal the understanding and strategies needed for this hour, including that needed by government leaders. Holy Spirit wants to release the spirit of wisdom and revelation to us (Ephesians 1:17). He will uncover truth, information, insight, and strategies for us. “Uncover” is actually the literal meaning of the biblical word for revelation. Let Holy Spirit help you mine the gold of His hidden plans.
After winning the War of Independence, America’s Founding Fathers were struggling greatly when attempting to write the US Constitution. There had never been a republic similar to that which they were attempting to form. There was no pattern. Also, there was much disagreement on the manner in which our government should be set up and function. States’ rights versus federal power, how smaller states would have fair and equitable voices alongside the larger ones, the roles of Senators and Representatives - these issues and so much more were being argued by the State Delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Realizing they were at an impasse, Benjamin Franklin stood and said:
“The small progress we have made after 4 or 5 weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other -- our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it…
“In the situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance?
“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that ‘except the Lord build the House they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a byword down to future ages…
“I therefore beg leave to move -- that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that service.”(3)
Franklin’s motion was seconded and approved, and pastors began opening Congress’s sessions with prayer every morning, asking God to give these delegates wisdom and understanding. The result? Jeremiah 33:3 insight was given, the gold of governmental wisdom was mined, and the greatest nation to ever exist was born.
The same favor and wisdom of God can be supplied today when government officials seek God for wisdom and revelation.
Pray with me:
Father, there is no problem we could have, no situation we could face, for which the solution couldn’t be found in Your Word or from Holy Spirit. None! Give us the hunger and tenacity to dig for the treasure, for You have said that if we call upon You, You would answer and show us the hidden pearls of revelation we need.
We pray especially today for our leaders in government. We ask that You give them wisdom and revelation to lead with YOUR understanding and enlightenment. Impart supernatural strategies to overcome challenging problems, to lead and heal our nation, and to insure that evil leaders do not take over the world.
Please give solutions to the anarchy and fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere, to dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants in America, and addressing the corrupt leaders in other nations. We need Your help, desperately, and call to You as Jeremiah 33:3 instructs us. We do so in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Our decree:
We declare that as we call upon the Lord, He will answer us, revealing great and mighty things we did not know.
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James Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990), ref. no. 1219.
Ibid., ref. no. 1220, 1221.
Benjamin Franklin. June 28, 1787. James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (1787; reprinted NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 1987), pp. 209-210. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), pp. 108-109. Gallard Hunt and James B. Scott, Ed., The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America, reported by James Madison (New York: Oxford University Press, 1920), pp. 181-182. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 122-124. George Bancroft, Bancroft’s History of the Constitution of the United States Vols I-X (Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1838), Vol. II. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 19887), pp. 159-160.