This document discusses education and knowledge from a biblical perspective. It emphasizes that education is a pathway to knowledge and vision, and that growing in knowledge of God is important. It provides several biblical verses supporting this, such as Colossians 1:10 about living worthily and growing in knowledge of God. The document also announces a partnership between Oral Roberts University and the reader, offering a 25% discount on ORU's 150+ academic programs that can be pursued online or on campus.

1. Education is a pathway to knowledge and vision
Michael L. Mathews
Increasing
In the Knowledge
of God

2. Briella
Jahzara
are
College
Ready

3. Education is the pathway to knowledge
and vision
• Scriptural thoughts about
education and knowledge.
• The value and journey of
education.
• The partnership with Oral Roberts
University.
Three
Simple
Points

4. God’s
Pathways
Simple Guidelines with God
“Bless ye the LORD, all ye his
hosts; ye ministers of his, that
do his pleasure.” Psalm 103:21

5. God’s
Pathways
Simple Guidelines with God
“So that you may live a life
worthy of the Lord and please
him in every way: bearing fruit
in every good work, growing in
the knowledge of God.”
Colossians 1:10

6. God’s
Pathways
Simple Guidelines with God
“And Jesus grew in wisdom and
stature, and in favor with God
and man.”
Luke 2:52

7. God’s
Pathways
Simple Guidelines with God
“For, “Who can know the LORD’s
thoughts? Who knows enough
to teach him?” But we
understand these things, for we
have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:16

8. God’s
Pathway is to
have us grow
through
His Word,
education,
learning,
practice, and
experiences.
Simple Guidelines with God
“But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the
same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the
Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18

9. God’s
pathway is to
meet you in
your future – the
question is
are you ready to
go?
Simple Guidelines with God
“For I know the plans I have for
you,” declares the LORD, “plans to
prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a
future.
Jeremiah 29:11

10. The Mind of Christ
… For, “Who has
known the mind of the
Lord so as to instruct
him?” But we have the
mind of Christ
1 Cor 2:16

11. Examples of all things coming
together through His Word,
education, learning, training,
practice, and experience.

13. 1. An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear,
hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive
and volitional states of consciousness.
2. Any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.
3. Any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing
love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain
physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and
often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.
Webster’s

14. The word “emotion” has existed in English
since the 17th century, originating as a
translation of the French émotion,
meaning a physical disturbance.

15. All frequencies vibrate and
produces energy
All emotions have
a frequency (voltage)
Emotions are given by God
Thequestionishowdowelet themflowwhen needed
andchannelthem intopositiveenergy.

16. 1. Your ‘mind’ is the originator of your
emotions.
2. Your ‘mind’ generates the ‘feelings’ which
produce the ‘stream’ that creates the
emotion that begins the energy cycle.
The origin of:

17. Is Like a motor
Starting energy from learning, enlightenment,
memories, experiences, circumstances, etc. It is
constantly sending impulses (voltage) that
create the energy of emotions.

18. Your mind and heart willl work
together to generate the
feelings and power-frequency
you output. This in turns created
your body responses and
behaviors.
Expansion
Contraction

19. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation has come: The
old has gone, the new is here!
~ 2 Corinthians 5:17
Expansion
Contraction

20. May God himself, the God of
peace, sanctify you through and
through. May your whole spirit,
soul and body be kept
blameless at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
~ 1 Thessalonians 5:23
Expansion
Contraction

21. I pray that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that
you may know the hope to which
he has called you, the riches of
his glorious inheritance in his
holy people, and his
incomparably great power for us
who believe. Ephesians 1:18-20
Expansion
Contraction

22. Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow; though they
be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool. If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the good of
the land.
~ Isaiah 1:18:19
Expansion
Contraction

23. Example of frequency

26. 420
Acre
Campus
of ORU

27. Two
Pathways
to
ORU

28. As God shakes
the world --
The result is His
Masterpiece
through two
educational
journeys that
meet up years
later.

29. Dr. Darlingston Johnson
Liberia
to
U.S.A

30. Dr. Darlingston Johnson
Liberia
to
a Spiritual
Leader
to All
Nations
Bishop
and overseer to 350
ministries around the
world

31. 1986 NCAR SUPERCOMPUTER
National Center for Atmospheric Research – Boulder Colorado

32. 528 PAGE BOOK

33. INTRODUCTION – DECODING YOUR SUCCESS
Michael Mathews

36. Introduction

37. Mission of the CIO
Help people survive and thrive
In the Digital Age we all find ourselves
within.

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40. Demographic Area Population % of World Population
Internet Users (across all
platforms)
5.2 Billion 60% and growing daily
Christians 2.5 Billion 32%
China 1.44 Billion 18% - 25%
India 1.38 Billion 18% - 25%
USA 331 Million 3.9%
Indonesian 273 Million 3.5%
Pakistan 220 Million 2.8%
Nigeria 210 Million 2.7%
Bangladesh 164 Million 2.1%
Russia 145 Million 1.8%
WORLD DEMOGRAPHICS – NEW VIEW
7.83 Billion People in the world
ABRAHAM’S PROMISE AND PAUL’S DESIRE FULFILLED

42. We need
to live and
be in the
Internet
Minute

43. The Israel Aerospace Industries goal is to
beam
free Internet across sub-Saharan Africa

46. 21 Places of the Future
Find your Niche and realize education is ‘key’ to the nucleus
21 Places of the Future: Where is the Future of Work? (cognizant.com)

47. Isaiah 2:2
“In the last days the mountain of the
LORD’s temple will be established as
the highest of the mountains; it will
be exalted above the hills, and all
nations will stream to it.”
(written 1,900 years ago)

48. Oral Roberts University, Tulsa OK
Dr. William M. Wilson
President of ORU

49. Oral Roberts University, Tulsa OK
Dr. William M. Wilson
President of ORU
• President of Oral Roberts University for the
past nine years.
• Founder and leader of ‘World Impact with Billy
Wilson’ which reaches 150 Nations in multiple
languages and millions of homes; since 1998.
• Global Co-Chair of the largest Spirit-
empowered movement called Empowered21.
E21 reaches 197 nations with events around
the world with 100,000+ attendees.
• Chair of World Pentecostal Fellowship.

50. Oral Roberts University, Tulsa OK
Dr. William M. Wilson
President of ORU

53. • Over 150 Programs spanning six colleges within
the University.
• Engineering, Nursing, Education, Business,
Finance, Computer Science, Media/Arts,
Journalism, Social Justice, Theology.
• Earn Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral level
degrees.
• Earn digital badges – certificates in over 40
areas.

54. • Students from over 126 Nations.
• 13 consecutive years of with 10% in Fall 2021.
• Earn Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral level
degrees.
• Earn digital badges – certificates in over 40 areas.

55. • Number #1 Undergraduate Teaching School in the
west; U.S. News and World Report.
• Ranked 4th in the Nation for Student engagement;
Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education.
• Winner of 20 International Awards on innovative
application of technology and education.
• Top five International student population; Nigeria, El
Salvador, China, Brazil, and India.
• All U.S. 50 States

56. • Traditional On Campus
Education
• Completely Online
• Blended (On Campus and
Virtual)

57. Largest
discount on all
programs and degrees
http://www.ORU.edu

58. Pleased to Announce Partnership
With 25% Discount
http://www.ORU.edu

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61. God’s
Pathways
Simple Guidelines with God
“so that you may live a life
worthy of the Lord and please
him in every way: bearing fruit
in every good work, growing in
the knowledge of God.”
Colossians 1:10

62. mmathews@oru.edu
715-379-9530