Spiritual Growth

Wisdom and faith

Recently came across what the 7 pillars of wisdom are from reading this verse:

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
- Proverbs 9:1

Here is my first search for it from this site:
http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=162013
"OPENING PRAYER
Prayer for Spiritual Growth (Colossians 1:9-14)

“Dear God in heaven, we ask that You may fill us with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that we may walk worthy of You, fully pleasing to You, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of You, Father God.

“May we be strengthened with all power, according to Your glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled us to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

“Father God All Mighty, You have rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of Christ Jesus, the Son You love. We have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, in Him.

“We pray these things in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

INTRODUCTION
• 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.
- James 1:5-6

In this the information age, we practically live on the information super highway. With the click of a few buttons, or a touch of a screen, we can find out almost anything about everything. But with all that information at our fingertips, are we truly any wiser than our predecessors? Does having degrees and doctorates actually turn all our decisions into good ones?

God instructs us to gain wisdom (Proverbs 2:1-7; 4:5-7; 4:10-13; 16:16). Not earthly wisdom (Proverbs 3:5), but Godly wisdom (Proverbs 1:7). He highly values it (Proverbs 16:16), and wisdom provides protection and preservation of life (Ecclesiastes 7:12; Proverbs 11:2). He tells us how, by asking Him in faith (James 1:5-6), and warns us to test our sources of wisdom (1 John 4:1) to ensure they are from God. But what is wisdom? Not the dictionary definition, because that relates to worldly wisdom and we are addressing Godly wisdom here.

Dr Charles Stanley defines Godly wisdom as “The capacity to see things from God's viewpoint and respond according to the principles of scripture.” So let us look at wisdom from God's viewpoint. The bible breaks wisdom down into seven elements."

At the beginning of Proverbs 8:12 we find “I wisdom dwell with...”, a reference to Wisdom's house. What follows in Proverbs 8:12-14 are seven attributes or ‘pillars’ of wisdom: 
1 Prudence,
2 Knowledge,
3 Fear of the Lord,
4 Counsel,
5 Sound wisdom,
6 Understanding, and
7 Strength.