For reasons I do not know, I grew up with a mindset that I did not have the wisdom to accomplish anything worthwhile in this life. Although I always achieved the required grades to get me to the next class, I knew that academic knowledge and wisdom were two different things and I believed that I did not have the latter.

While at the University, before and after getting born again, I did not get into “boy-girl” relationships. Why? Because I thought it took wisdom to run such an enterprise and it was a great responsibility for a boy to ‘own’ a girl, never mind that I was also the biggest coward of that era. In my first year at University, I did not know what I was going to do with my life after getting a degree. The only thing I thought of was joining the military. I talked to a good friend who also had inclinations of a career in the army and who was a relative of the then Permanent Secretary Ministry of Defense to arrange for us to meet with the PS to tell us the procedure of joining the army. Looking back, I realize how foolish I was to even think that the military was the place for someone like me who did not envision a future beyond University.

When I got saved in 1998, I began to earnestly ask God to make me wise. The main thing that triggered that fervent request was when I listened to a 22-year-old preacher speaking with the wisdom of an 80 year old. That young man was Roberts Liardon. He was about 22 years by the time I listened to his wisdom-filled 1988 series of God’s Generals. For many years thereafter, I not only asked God to make me wise, but also prayed that He might give me all the wisdom that Liardon had. I even asked Him to take me to California where Liardon had a church so that I could meet him. In 2006, that prayer was answered when I got a scholarship to study at UC Berkeley; I met Liardon thrice in South San Francisco and Irvine, California. Then in 2016, I met him again on two consecutive days. I gave him an offering on the first day we met. That night, I dreamt that I was giving him another offering with great sacrifice on my part. When I did so (in the dream), the spirit of Godly wisdom came upon me. It was electrifying and felt so wonderful. When I met him later that evening, I gave him the offering as per the dream. On that day, 18 years later, I received what I had earnestly desired – the wisdom God gave Roberts Liardon. Of course, prior to that, I believe God had given me some ‘ka’ little wisdom. For example, in 2014 Mrs. Mariam Kitunzi Kalibbala had a dream where she saw me with a lot of grey hair, yet I had a youthful body. When she asked the Lord Jesus who was with her why I had that much grey hair, He answered: “That represents the wisdom Moses has. Therefore let people take him very seriously”. The people Jesus was referring to at that time where those who used to attend and listen to me when I would preach at Zoe Fellowship before it went off course. Some of them thought I was a comedian, and they couldn’t have enough of it. On the other hand, their counterparts who regarded comedy evenings as a waste of time would walk out. One time a lady told her friend, “Kale people are just laughing yet that guy is saying very serious things”.

Let me say something very important here. Wisdom is not being knowledgeable of facts; it is not eloquence; it is not good and expansive vocabulary; it is not what people call charisma. (I am reminded of a dream that Dr. Dennis Mugimba had in December 2018 in which he was told that charisma is not what people think. Charisma, he was told, is being passionate for the truth). Knowing what true wisdom is will help you not to seek a counterfeit and it will save you the energy of trying to appear wise. Any honest person will tell you that I am not and have never been anywhere close to eloquent, charismatic or widely informed. When I preach, or even have one-to-one conversations, I sound uncoordinated and lack depth in the subject matter. Yet God told Mariam that I am wise and people ought to take me seriously.

Here is another example to show that wisdom is neither knowledge nor eloquence nor ‘charisma’, although those things are not evil in themselves. In December last year, I dreamt that I showed Joan Isoke a gentleman who was the best in my school in the Primary Leaving Examinations. In the dream, this man’s head was all white; you would think that his head was covered with snow. Then Joan said, “Do you know what that snow white hair means? It is symbolic of the great wisdom with which you spoke at the LAT fourth anniversary service”. Now, I have listened to the recording of that 2nd September 2018 service and I did not sound deep at all! I do not think anyone left saying, “Wow! Great preaching Brother Moses”, yet heaven says that was high-level wisdom. Like Sarah, I too cannot help but laugh at God!

However, when you listen to what I shared that day, it gives you an idea of what God calls not just wisdom but highest or greatest wisdom. Briefly, I talked about being baptized with the love of God, so that we may love Jesus with the same measure the Father loves Him. I also said something “stupid”, that our church LAT is not for people but for God! Wisdom, or the highest wisdom, therefore, is loving God, which also entails eschewing evil. It is also an earnest and sincere desire to do everything for and because of God with no hidden or selfish agenda. Wisdom begins when one fears God because of His terror! And as Rick Joyner was told in heaven: “The highest wisdom is to love Him”.

Now, I have never attained all the wisdom there is. In the things of God, there is no such thing as ‘I have arrived’. There is always more to seek and receive – for those who want more. I am still in pursuit of wisdom and so should you be. The life of the Spirit is one of continual growth and increase. Stagnation is synonymous with death. The Dead Sea is called so because its waters do not move.

Pursue wisdom, and never stop doing so. Heaven needs you to succeed in your assignment. When you succeed, the Kingdom of God has succeeded. To do so takes great wisdom – which is available to the true seekers.

God bless you.