Name It and Claim It – Part 7
March 22, 2020
Review
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at the between the Word of Faith doctrine and race.
Specifically, we began to explore what it meant to link the movement to the African-American church.
And in our case, we are a predominately African-American church in a that is primarily non-African-American.
Here’s what we focused on last week:
Building A Real Wakanda
The Holy Spirit is our .
and God-seeking are connected (II Chronicles 26:5; II Chronicles 26:15).
Askia Muhammad, King of the West African Kingdom of Songhay, 1493-1529
“When Askia Muhammad, a Muslim, made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1497. . . .he and his followers conversed with doctors, mathematicians, scientists, and scholars, and they learned much about how to improve the administration of the government, how to codify the laws of Songhay, how to foster industry and trade, and how to raise the intellectual level of the country. . . .Traders from Europe and Asia visited the markets of Gao, which was the political center of Songhay and home of its royal dynasty, and Timbuktu, which was an important place of learning. . . .It was in education that Askia Muhammad made his most significant reforms. Not only Timbuktu, but also Gao, Walata, and Jenne became intellectual centers where the most learned scholars of West Africa concentrated. By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a distinctly Sudanese literature was emerging. Timbuktu’s University of Sankore offered studies in grammar, geography, law, literature and surgery” (John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom, A History of African Americans, 9th Edition, 2011. p. 16)
God’s wisdom leads to and prosperity. (Proverbs 3:1-10; Proverbs 3:13-18).
When we are wise in our dealings, we can the curse:
- From servant to ruler (Proverbs 17:2)
- From poverty to royalty (I Samuel 2:8)
- The Joseph Story (Genesis 37:27-28; Genesis 41:37-44)
- The Esther Story (Esther 2:8-9; Esther 2:12-15; Esther 2:16-17)
- The Daniel Story (Daniel 1:1; Daniel 1:3-5; Daniel 2:46-49; Daniel 6:1-3)
One Greater Than Solomon
- I Kings 4:29-34
- Matthew 12:42
- I Corinthians 1:30-31
Dr. Joshua D. Smith, Ph.D., 2020