This transcript is from a YouTube video titled "How To Make Wise Decisions | Holly Furtick" (recorded March 4, 2023). The clip is a conversational Bible-study style discussion about wisdom: participants emphasize asking God for wisdom (prayer as relational), caution against treating wisdom as a binary yes/no decision, and reframe wise choices as reflecting character and relationships (e.g., attitude at work, who you are with in college) rather than merely selecting options. Group sharing helps surface new perspectives—like seeing jobs as ministry opportunities rather than personal advancement.
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Whenever we're making decisions, like, you want to make wise decisions, you don't want to do something foolish, Right? And I feel like, wisdom, for me, like, what it did was kind of open up my eyes to take the pressure off of me being like, the know it all or the best, like, having all of it. And it really has challenged me in my relationship with God. Like, and so for me, when I was, like, going through. And then also, like, the simple thing of, like, how do you get wisdom? Like, I love, you know, again, I love all the days equally, too. But when you read the Scriptures and then you read the Bible stories, I'm like, I've been over complicating this. All I have to do is ask.
Yeah, right.
I have to just talk to God and ask for wisdom. And that's how I get it in relationship, like you taught us. And so for me, that has been a practice now, not just a thing I read in the study. But, okay, like, what Julie said, hey, where are you at in this? God, actually, like, let me sit with you and see what you would have me do instead of just thinking, I know it all.
And, like, wisdom is not yes or no. It's not, like, go or stay, do this or take this job or don't take this job. It's so much more than that.
But we like it to be that.
We want to, like, just boil it down to should I or shouldn't I.
Like, make it black and white just so. And there's the gray.
God cares a lot less about which college you go to, and he cares a lot more about who you are when you get there and who you hang out with when you are there.
That's so cool.
And that's wisdom, right? Wisdom isn't about, like, I go to, should I go to Clemson or, you know, University of Tennessee? We make that the decision. It's not about a decision. It's about your life. It's about your relationships with me. It's about the way that you interact with other people and then finding your way along the path as you go. Got a question for you about wisdom. So here's my question. How has your definition of wisdom changed as you have done this study?
The main way that it has changed is clarifying really the definition of what I'm looking for. So I wrote down in the video notes, God's more concerned with your attitude at your job than your job. I feel like a lot of times when we're praying for wisdom, we're looking for specific, a roadmap of like, what do I do now? And a lot of people in my group are praying for that right now. And just going through that week, we were all talking about, okay, so it's less about where I live, what my job is, specifically my next step. And it's more, who am I talking to when I'm there? What's my attitude every morning when I go to work? And focusing on that has made it so much easier to talk to God about it that I really know what he wants me to have.
That's awesome. Let me ask you another question. How has discussing what you're learning in the group helped you in your own understanding of the Word? Does that make sense? Like maybe somebody said something in your group that made it come alive to you even more?
Yeah, absolutely. I think, you know, we're all in a different place in life. I have a 20s and 30s group, so it's like anywhere from like 23 to 37. And we're at different life stages. So it's something where somebody might be discussing how they were praying for wisdom in a certain job because they didn't like the job and another person was able to bring out, oh, I've had that similar experience. And I started focusing on why I was there and it became less about doing something that I enjoy. And there are people at this job who don't know Jesus, and I am maybe the only person who's introducing him to them. And if you make it about that. And then I was sitting there listening to these two people have this conversation and was like, wow, that never even occurred to me, like to. Every time I get a job, it's like, about me. So I think being able to hear someone else say, it's not about you, like take a step back. And it's about something so much bigger.
Tell me, how has doing this study helped you to apply this idea of wisdom differently in your life than maybe you were thinking about it before?
I think it reinforced a lot of things that we kind of forget about and Samantha touched on it a little bit, that this, it's not about us. Yeah, we tend to think it's about us, but it's really not about us. It's really about other people. So I try to approach my day to day life, my work life, even just running errands as God using me to do something to benefit someone else.
