Hi,            Can I as an individual pray asking to understand and to have wisdom as I read the Bible that I may understand all the symbology? Or in other words, can I with faith alone, see through the words and understand? 
            Thanks. I have so much questions, but before I ask them I want to make sure that with my Faith I may know  and understand the nature of God.
W______

Hi W____,
Thank you for your question.
You ask:

“Can I as an individual pray asking to understand and to have wisdom as I read the Bible that I may understand all the symbology?”

The answer to your first question is, of course you can ask God to help you to understand the symbols in His Word. In fact we are encouraged to “study to show yourself approved… rightly dividing the Word of Truth.”
Then you also ask
“Or in other words, can I with faith alone, see through the words and understand?
The short answer to that question is that you and I need each other in order to serve God properly according to His Word. Look at this part of God’s Word:

1Co 12:12  For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is [ the] Christ.

We have just returned from a conference in Dallas, Texas at which this very subject was the theme of that entire conference. We had not chosen a theme, but the spirit gave the conference that theme. I do hope you will take the time to listen to the audios of that conference, especially Willard Roger’s talk on Your Part In The Body Of Christ. Notice what Paul has to say of my need and your need for the rest of the body of Christ

1Co 12:13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:14  For the body is not one member, but many.
1Co 12:15  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:16  And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:17  If the whole body [ were] an eye, where [ were] the hearing? If the whole [ were] hearing, where [ were] the smelling?
1Co 12:18  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1Co 12:19  And if they were all one member, where [ were] the body?
1Co 12:20  But now [ are they] many members, yet but one body.
1Co 12:21  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22  Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
1Co 12:23  And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

The feet on my body are very content to be my feet. My feet are not jealous of my hand for being given the job of typing this message to you. My feet know that they, too, have very important work to do. It just is not the same work my hands are doing. My feet are necessary as feet, not as hands. And so it is with “the Christ.” ‘The Christ’ includes Christ’s body, which is the church.”

Eph 1:22  And hath put all [ things] under his feet, and gave him [ to be] the head over all [ things] to the church,
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

As with the two wives of Abraham, there is a “church which is His body… after the flesh and after the bondwoman,” and there is a “church which is His body, the son of the freewoman… the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”
Can you come to see such things all alone? Here is what the scriptures teach in answer to that question:

1Co 12:23  And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1Co 12:24  For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
1Co 12:25  That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1Co 12:26  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
1Co 12:28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

Now if you have read How To Rightly Divide The Word Of God you will know that ‘truth’ is the sum of God’s word.

Psa 119:160  The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting. (NASB)

So if you put all the scriptures together on studying God’s Word, then and only then will you have your answer. And the answer is that we all need each other in order to know Christ. And so far as the need for teachers is concerned, you need to put verse 22 together with verse 28 and you will find that so far as the sum of the mind of God is concerned teachers are “necessary.” When we understand how a ‘body’ functions we come to see as Paul says that every part of the body nourishes the rest of the body.

1Ti 4:6  If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Eph 5:29  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 

It is a wonderful thing to sit here day after day and learn from the questions and discussions I have with some of the newest members of our fellowship.

1Co 12:21  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22  Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

I hope you can see that teachers are necessary, and at the same time God will, if you are of a humble spirit, allow you to contribute to your teacher’s knowledge.
I hope this has been of some help to you.
Mike