MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - MAY 29TH

SATURDAY - 29TH MAY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHATSOEVER THE LORD ORIGINATES 

Acts 5:38-39,AMP

38"Now in the present case let me say to you, stand off (withdraw) from these men and let them alone. For if this doctrine or purpose or undertaking or movement is of human origin, it will fail (be overthrown and come to nothing);39But if it is of God, you will not be able to stop or overthrow or destroy them; you might even be found fighting against God!"

This is why I'm not moved. This is the medicine that assures me that what I'm doing will work. What gives assurance to my own heart is the fact that the ministry God called me to see to shall continue because God was the One that called it into being. I didn't originate it. I didn't want to be suddenly called a pastor. It was not prestige that drove me in there nor the big honorarium!

Gamaliel was able to help us see the divide. He said the disciples shouldn't be disturbed but rather left alone. He told them "why disturb them when there is a better barometer that could measure and secure for them continuity or discontinuity." He told the Sanhedrin in these simple terms, "if the new movement of these people is divine, it shall continue but if it's not, it shall come to nought." He uses examples of movements that were pioneered by one Theudas and Judas that were but no where to be found at the time he was talking. "Not even their relics", he said. "All was erased and the ashes of it can't even be gathered."

I want to announce to everybody that it is who God has placed something in his or her hands that the commitment of God would only be given to. Systems, movements, visions that doesn't stem from God won't see the light of the day. Government policy could stop it. Persecution could end it. The economy could fold it up. Millions of things could disengage and asphyxiate it from existence. Did I say millions? Uncountable of things rather could strangle it! Something or the other could end it like the movements of Theudas and Judas were ended.

I don't care who you are. If you open and launch a thing God did not speak to you to commission, it won't move. That's why many people are not doing well in a field or endeavour they are. They went there without a commissioning of the Lord. No word of God ushers them into the vision they're building and the things that they're pursuing. They have forgotten that we don't live on bread alone in the kingdom but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Daily instruction and guidance is a better food we live on in the kingdom. Our survival and continuity even in these last days is based on it. It is this word that calls us to travel at the first instance and even furthers to instruct us when to stop, where to stop and how to journey. We not only receive a kick starting word but a sustaining word.

Unlike the revolutions of Theudas and Judas, that of Jesus Christ as published by His disciples survived. It didn't die. Why? It was a divine vision and revolution. It has its roots from God. It was even the hands of God that fetched it into being and this made it persist. If you look through the ages, Christianity and Christians have faced a lot yet they have not been extinguished. Is it in Northern Nigeria where innumerable Christians have been killed or throughout the world where they're persecuted? If it were a movement inspired by a man or some brilliant, bold and oratory band of men, it would not have survived all these wilderness experiences and bad weather. The cloud would have diminished it and the flood would have washed it away. However, it is getting better and better instead. The blood of martyrs seems like fertilizer or a special juice that's watering the germination of more Christians. Because it's a divine initiative, it has persisted throughout all generation, in all places and under different circumstances. 

The mark that a thing is not of God or having appear from God is that it would discontinue when antagonized. This is my confidence that I can't be stopped in ministry if it was God that truly brought me into it. I'm trusting God for Morning Wings Ministry to continue and continue because I wasn't the one who said there is a need  to be met but God Almighty. It was that God Who saw the need to be met and called me to co-labour with Him and oversees this vision. On this basis, I believe we will continue. I believe our own boasts will not vanish into thin air like that of Theudas but that it will ascend to win the whole world to Christ.

The assurance for continuity and survival when hard times shows up is based on the only premise that God is the author and brain behind what you're doing. Any human initiative can't survive the coming storm of Satan and these last days. So, beware and check your motive for establishment!

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 14:1-15:22, John 18:1-24, Psalm 119:97-112, Proverbs 16:8-9

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