July 12, 2025 • 10 mins
Today's message explores the danger of becoming a spiritual "know-it-all," particularly for those serving as intercessors. Solomon warns in Ecclesiastes that pursuing wisdom brings vexation and increasing knowledge brings sorrow—a paradox where the more we learn, the more we realize we don't know.
• Being coachable is essential regardless of spiritual position or experience
• God may send correction through unexpected people, even those junior to us
• Taking intentional breaks from noise and social media creates space to hear God clearly
• True humility means receiving correction gracefully, even from surprising sources
• The Holy Spirit's guidance is indispensable—we cannot intercede effectively in our own strength
• Spend dedicated time with the Holy Spirit before starting each day
• Intercessory prayer should be done without seeking recognition or praise
• The more wisdom we gain, the more responsibility we carry for how we use it
Remember to make time away from distractions to hear what's on God's heart. Let Him work on your heart first before you attempt to stand in the gap for others.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey y'all.
So this is Saturday Faith Fuel.
I might go a teensy bit longerthan I normally do today, but I
won't take too much of your timeand today I'm going to call
this Know it All.
That's going to be my title.
Know it All, all right.
So let me fix my little.
You know I work on a phonecamera, y'all.
There's no huge production goingon here, but I hope everyone's
(00:20):
doing really well.
I'm going to come out ofEcclesiastics.
I hope everyone's doing reallywell.
I'm going to come out ofEcclesiastics, Ecclesiastes 1,
and this is verse 12 through 18.
So please go back and read infull.
If I don't get through all ofit, and if you're on TikTok, I'm
(00:41):
going to have the full video onthe Mrs Pai YouTube channel.
So this is also the ESV version.
Ecclesiastes 1, chapter 1, verse12 through 18.
I, the preacher, have been kingover Israel in Jerusalem, and I
applied my heart to seek and tosearch out by wisdom all that
is done under heaven.
It is an unhappy business thatGod has given to the children of
man to be busy with.
(01:02):
I've seen everything that isdone under the sun and behold,
all is vanity and striving afterwind.
What is crooked cannot be madestraight and what is lacking
cannot be undone.
I said in my heart I haveacquired great wisdom,
surpassing all who were overJerusalem before me, and my
(01:22):
heart has had great experienceof wisdom and knowledge and I
applied my heart to know wisdomand to know madness and folly.
I perceived that this also isbut a striving after the wind,
and what the preacher here issaying is that he spent an
(01:43):
incredible amount of timeseeking knowledge, chasing
knowledge and the folly and themadness that comes with that
right, and perceiving that thisis also like striving after when
something that you can'tactually catch.
You know you can't keep updoing something that's
constantly moving and changing.
Verse 18, it says for in muchwisdom is much vexation and he
(02:08):
who increases knowledgeincreases sorrow.
And much wisdom is muchvexation because as you continue
to learn, the more wisdom youget, the more you realize you
don't know.
Part of wisdom is realizingwhat you don't know.
You realize we really don'tknow, and he who increases
(02:28):
knowledge, which is not the sameas wisdom, increases sorrow.
So the reason I'm calling thisKnow it All is because I want to
give a quick shout out toespecially those who are
considered intercessors and we,those who have been called to
stand in the gap, not just forour families, but maybe you're
an intercessor for yourcommunity, for your government,
(02:52):
your family, whatever that lookslike.
One of the things that we dothis season is you have to be
able to, you have to be pulledaway from the situation that
you're in.
I had to take just a smallmental, emotional and spiritual
break.
It was only a few days, but Ineeded to shut down the noise,
so I came off social media.
(03:13):
I wanted to do a little bitmore meditating, but I needed
the Lord to speak to medifferently, because you can't
hear what's on God's heart ifyou're caught up in everything
and all the things happeningaround you.
And I was starting to absorband I know I asked the Lord to
give me wisdom and knowledge buteven that, as I was soaking in
(03:39):
some of the things that he wasshowing me and I was allowing
myself to hear because y'all, Itook the time away I started to
be reminded of three things I'mgoing to share with you today.
All right, so again, the vanityof wisdom and that that
know-it-all thing that we allhave.
The first thing is that we haveto be coachable.
(04:00):
We need to be coachable.
You can't get to a point inyour walk with the Lord whether
you are in the fivefold I don'tgive myself no titles and I
don't need any okay, whetheryou're in the fivefold or you're
serving the Lord in the churchin some way, maybe you're in a
(04:22):
choir, maybe you're the churchmother You've been there 50
years, I really don't care.
Okay, you need to be coachable.
We can't acquire so much wisdomand knowledge that we are no
longer coachable.
Meaning when the Lord revealsstuff to you, wisdom again when
it talks about for in muchwisdom is much vexation.
(04:44):
When you really start tounderstand, the more you know,
the less you actually know.
Um, it's like striving afterthe wind.
You need to be the kind ofperson, even on your job or
maybe in your marriage or withyour own children.
A lot of you guys get reallyupset when your children try to
coach you through something,because you think you're the
grown-up and you keep the kidscan't talk to me.
(05:04):
You got to come out of thatmindset, because God will use
even your children the same wayhe used a donkey to talk to
people.
Right, he will use even yourchildren.
But if you're not, if you're so, uh, you're so wise and you're
so full of knowledge that yourefuse to hear when he's sending
a word to you.
You're gonna miss it, right?
We all talk about how we want,um, bigger and better things,
(05:27):
right, I want, I want my day tobe better and better.
I want my life to be better andbetter, to be blessed.
But you have to be coachabley'all, and he will send the
right folks to coach you.
It's not always, um, the peopleyou think right.
It's not always like yourbestie and your girlfriends.
He might coach you throughsomeone you don't like on the
(05:47):
job.
He might coach you throughsomeone you do like on the job.
He might coach you through theway that something happened
while you're at the market.
He's teaching you how torespond to that situation.
So you need to be coachable.
You can't be so wise and fullof knowledge and it again, don't
matter whether you're a pastor,minister, passes, whatever the
titles people have now, you haveto be coachable, all right.
(06:10):
The second thing is we got to behumble.
You need to be humble.
You can't be a know-it-all.
You need to be humble so as, asyou start to ask again
intercessors, as you start toask the lord to give you more
wisdom and more knowledge.
Why do you ask him for I askthe holy spirit to give me
wisdom so that I know how theright decisions to make, the
(06:31):
right responses.
Um, I also ask him to give meknowledge.
I need to.
I need to know what, what this,what this thing looks like.
I need the ins and the outs.
I know the decisions that Ineed to make, but I'm humble
when I'm asking him and, as he'sgiving that to me, if he's
giving that to me through people, y'all.
(06:52):
I had this situation happen onmy day job this week where I was
so disappointed because someoneelse had done something that I
was just like, oh, she'stripping right.
But I was so disturbed by itthat someone who worked for me,
she pinged me, she reached outto me and she was like I just
want to put on your heart to notharden your heart against this
(07:16):
person, right, because I have aquick cutoff spirit.
Y'all have that.
I have a very low tolerance forfoolishness or people.
I just do.
It's not a good thing.
I'm not saying you should, butI was coachable in that moment
for someone who's junior to meand humble enough to take the
coaching.
That came with that, okay, andit blessed me.
(07:38):
So what it did actually is helpme to pull back and say, okay,
lord, my response is still tolove this person, right, walking
differently, yes, but not turnmy heart, my heart, against them
.
Now imagine if I didn't imagine, if I wasn't open to that
correction.
Imagine if, imagine again,we're asking the Lord to use us
(08:00):
as intercessors and you know,lord, we want to stand in the
gap.
He's going to work on you first.
He's not going to send you outif you're dealing with these, if
you can't be coached.
He's not going to put you ifyou can't be humble, to go pray
and stand in the gap for hispeople, like no, right.
So you got to be coachable,like I said.
You got to be coachable, like Isaid, you got to be humble.
(08:21):
Humble when he sends that,sends that help.
The third thing is and I thinkwe all agree, you cannot do this
by yourself.
I can't stress this enough itis the power of the Holy Spirit
in my life.
The Holy Spirit guides me.
He guides me, leads me, teachesme, reveals things to me.
(08:43):
It is all the power of the HolySpirit.
I've never been in that trendwhere you know.
People come on and say I don'tknow who this is for.
No, I know who this is for.
Okay, I know who it's for.
I never speak unless I need tosay something.
I'm very conservative with mywords.
(09:04):
I'm even more so conservativenow because there's a lot of
noise, especially on socialmedia.
But I want you to know that youneed to as an intercessor, you
need to spend time so the HolySpirit can speak to you.
He's going to correct you firstme, first, right?
So I want you to, yes, enjoychurch and do all the things,
(09:25):
but you've got to carve out timeto hear from the Holy Spirit.
Before I start my day, holySpirit and I have conversations
about how excited I am for theday and how grateful I am and
all the things, and I look forhim working through my life.
We are the light.
So wherever I go, I'm carryinghis spirit with me, right, and I
(09:47):
want to show up, whether I'm anintercessor or not.
I'm just dropping the wordintercessor because there was a
couple of folks who asked me tospeak a little bit more about
this office.
Don't even worry about theoffice.
The Holy Spirit is in you.
He's the one leading, guidingyou and preparing you, but you
have to be coachable, you needto be humble and again, for in
much wisdom is much vexation andhe who increases knowledge
(10:09):
increases sorrow.
So the more you know, the moreyou know.
You're charged a little bitdifferently what to do with the
information.
If God puts someone on yourheart for you to pray for them,
you them in.
You may grab a nice journal.
You put their names in.
Uh, you pray for that person,but you don't need to go back
and tell that person look what Idid.
You don't need to do that.
That's vanity.
We can't be know-it-alls right.
(10:30):
I hope this bless you.
Um, I love you.
Jesus loves you more.
Uh, and have an amazingSaturday ahead.
Thank you so much for watching.
Bye.
Hey y'all.
So this is Saturday Faith Fuel.
I might go a teensy bit longerthan I normally do today, but I
won't take too much of your timeand today I'm going to call
this Know it All.
That's going to be my title.
Know it All, all right.
So let me fix my little.
You know I work on a phonecamera, y'all.
There's no huge production goingon here, but I hope everyone's
(00:20):
doing really well.
I'm going to come out ofEcclesiastics.
I hope everyone's doing reallywell.
I'm going to come out ofEcclesiastics, Ecclesiastes 1,
and this is verse 12 through 18.
So please go back and read infull.
If I don't get through all ofit, and if you're on TikTok, I'm
(00:41):
going to have the full video onthe Mrs Pai YouTube channel.
So this is also the ESV version.
Ecclesiastes 1, chapter 1, verse12 through 18.
I, the preacher, have been kingover Israel in Jerusalem, and I
applied my heart to seek and tosearch out by wisdom all that
is done under heaven.
It is an unhappy business thatGod has given to the children of
man to be busy with.
(01:02):
I've seen everything that isdone under the sun and behold,
all is vanity and striving afterwind.
What is crooked cannot be madestraight and what is lacking
cannot be undone.
I said in my heart I haveacquired great wisdom,
surpassing all who were overJerusalem before me, and my
(01:22):
heart has had great experienceof wisdom and knowledge and I
applied my heart to know wisdomand to know madness and folly.
I perceived that this also isbut a striving after the wind,
and what the preacher here issaying is that he spent an
(01:43):
incredible amount of timeseeking knowledge, chasing
knowledge and the folly and themadness that comes with that
right, and perceiving that thisis also like striving after when
something that you can'tactually catch.
You know you can't keep updoing something that's
constantly moving and changing.
Verse 18, it says for in muchwisdom is much vexation and he
(02:08):
who increases knowledgeincreases sorrow.
And much wisdom is muchvexation because as you continue
to learn, the more wisdom youget, the more you realize you
don't know.
Part of wisdom is realizingwhat you don't know.
You realize we really don'tknow, and he who increases
(02:28):
knowledge, which is not the sameas wisdom, increases sorrow.
So the reason I'm calling thisKnow it All is because I want to
give a quick shout out toespecially those who are
considered intercessors and we,those who have been called to
stand in the gap, not just forour families, but maybe you're
an intercessor for yourcommunity, for your government,
(02:52):
your family, whatever that lookslike.
One of the things that we dothis season is you have to be
able to, you have to be pulledaway from the situation that
you're in.
I had to take just a smallmental, emotional and spiritual
break.
It was only a few days, but Ineeded to shut down the noise,
so I came off social media.
(03:13):
I wanted to do a little bitmore meditating, but I needed
the Lord to speak to medifferently, because you can't
hear what's on God's heart ifyou're caught up in everything
and all the things happeningaround you.
And I was starting to absorband I know I asked the Lord to
give me wisdom and knowledge buteven that, as I was soaking in
(03:39):
some of the things that he wasshowing me and I was allowing
myself to hear because y'all, Itook the time away I started to
be reminded of three things I'mgoing to share with you today.
All right, so again, the vanityof wisdom and that that
know-it-all thing that we allhave.
The first thing is that we haveto be coachable.
(04:00):
We need to be coachable.
You can't get to a point inyour walk with the Lord whether
you are in the fivefold I don'tgive myself no titles and I
don't need any okay, whetheryou're in the fivefold or you're
serving the Lord in the churchin some way, maybe you're in a
(04:22):
choir, maybe you're the churchmother You've been there 50
years, I really don't care.
Okay, you need to be coachable.
We can't acquire so much wisdomand knowledge that we are no
longer coachable.
Meaning when the Lord revealsstuff to you, wisdom again when
it talks about for in muchwisdom is much vexation.
(04:44):
When you really start tounderstand, the more you know,
the less you actually know.
Um, it's like striving afterthe wind.
You need to be the kind ofperson, even on your job or
maybe in your marriage or withyour own children.
A lot of you guys get reallyupset when your children try to
coach you through something,because you think you're the
grown-up and you keep the kidscan't talk to me.
(05:04):
You got to come out of thatmindset, because God will use
even your children the same wayhe used a donkey to talk to
people.
Right, he will use even yourchildren.
But if you're not, if you're so, uh, you're so wise and you're
so full of knowledge that yourefuse to hear when he's sending
a word to you.
You're gonna miss it, right?
We all talk about how we want,um, bigger and better things,
(05:27):
right, I want, I want my day tobe better and better.
I want my life to be better andbetter, to be blessed.
But you have to be coachabley'all, and he will send the
right folks to coach you.
It's not always, um, the peopleyou think right.
It's not always like yourbestie and your girlfriends.
He might coach you throughsomeone you don't like on the
(05:47):
job.
He might coach you throughsomeone you do like on the job.
He might coach you through theway that something happened
while you're at the market.
He's teaching you how torespond to that situation.
So you need to be coachable.
You can't be so wise and fullof knowledge and it again, don't
matter whether you're a pastor,minister, passes, whatever the
titles people have now, you haveto be coachable, all right.
(06:10):
The second thing is we got to behumble.
You need to be humble.
You can't be a know-it-all.
You need to be humble so as, asyou start to ask again
intercessors, as you start toask the lord to give you more
wisdom and more knowledge.
Why do you ask him for I askthe holy spirit to give me
wisdom so that I know how theright decisions to make, the
(06:31):
right responses.
Um, I also ask him to give meknowledge.
I need to.
I need to know what, what this,what this thing looks like.
I need the ins and the outs.
I know the decisions that Ineed to make, but I'm humble
when I'm asking him and, as he'sgiving that to me, if he's
giving that to me through people, y'all.
(06:52):
I had this situation happen onmy day job this week where I was
so disappointed because someoneelse had done something that I
was just like, oh, she'stripping right.
But I was so disturbed by itthat someone who worked for me,
she pinged me, she reached outto me and she was like I just
want to put on your heart to notharden your heart against this
(07:16):
person, right, because I have aquick cutoff spirit.
Y'all have that.
I have a very low tolerance forfoolishness or people.
I just do.
It's not a good thing.
I'm not saying you should, butI was coachable in that moment
for someone who's junior to meand humble enough to take the
coaching.
That came with that, okay, andit blessed me.
(07:38):
So what it did actually is helpme to pull back and say, okay,
lord, my response is still tolove this person, right, walking
differently, yes, but not turnmy heart, my heart, against them
.
Now imagine if I didn't imagine, if I wasn't open to that
correction.
Imagine if, imagine again,we're asking the Lord to use us
(08:00):
as intercessors and you know,lord, we want to stand in the
gap.
He's going to work on you first.
He's not going to send you outif you're dealing with these, if
you can't be coached.
He's not going to put you ifyou can't be humble, to go pray
and stand in the gap for hispeople, like no, right.
So you got to be coachable,like I said.
You got to be coachable, like Isaid, you got to be humble.
(08:21):
Humble when he sends that,sends that help.
The third thing is and I thinkwe all agree, you cannot do this
by yourself.
I can't stress this enough itis the power of the Holy Spirit
in my life.
The Holy Spirit guides me.
He guides me, leads me, teachesme, reveals things to me.
(08:43):
It is all the power of the HolySpirit.
I've never been in that trendwhere you know.
People come on and say I don'tknow who this is for.
No, I know who this is for.
Okay, I know who it's for.
I never speak unless I need tosay something.
I'm very conservative with mywords.
(09:04):
I'm even more so conservativenow because there's a lot of
noise, especially on socialmedia.
But I want you to know that youneed to as an intercessor, you
need to spend time so the HolySpirit can speak to you.
He's going to correct you firstme, first, right?
So I want you to, yes, enjoychurch and do all the things,
(09:25):
but you've got to carve out timeto hear from the Holy Spirit.
Before I start my day, holySpirit and I have conversations
about how excited I am for theday and how grateful I am and
all the things, and I look forhim working through my life.
We are the light.
So wherever I go, I'm carryinghis spirit with me, right, and I
(09:47):
want to show up, whether I'm anintercessor or not.
I'm just dropping the wordintercessor because there was a
couple of folks who asked me tospeak a little bit more about
this office.
Don't even worry about theoffice.
The Holy Spirit is in you.
He's the one leading, guidingyou and preparing you, but you
have to be coachable, you needto be humble and again, for in
much wisdom is much vexation andhe who increases knowledge
(10:09):
increases sorrow.
So the more you know, the moreyou know.
You're charged a little bitdifferently what to do with the
information.
If God puts someone on yourheart for you to pray for them,
you them in.
You may grab a nice journal.
You put their names in.
Uh, you pray for that person,but you don't need to go back
and tell that person look what Idid.
You don't need to do that.
That's vanity.
We can't be know-it-alls right.
(10:30):
I hope this bless you.
Um, I love you.
Jesus loves you more.
Uh, and have an amazingSaturday ahead.
Thank you so much for watching.
Bye.
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