FRIDAY - 30TH JULY, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE HONOUR WITH WHICH GOD HONOURS HIS MINISTERS
Read Acts 10
Acts 10:5-6, KJV
"5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: 6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."
There is a honour with which God honours His ministers. There's no profession that doesn't attract its own honour. There will always be a reason why some other people from without covets a profession and wish they're those within it. May you be part of those God will meet with such.
God by His angel appeared to Cornelius. He was a man that heaven had remembrance on for his prayers and much alms. Heaven doesn't collect from people without giving back to them. God is not a man user without rewarding men with Himself. On that note, God looks for the best way to acknowledge, appreciate and compensate for all his good. So, he gave him a vision where he instructed him to send for a man named Simon Peter who will tell him what he ought to do.
Did you see that at all? That was an angel speaking to Cornelius but that angel couldn't preach the gospel to him. It is men that preach the gospel not angels. As powerful as angels are, God has not committed into their hands the personal work of preaching the gospel to the world. It rather has been given to men. What a honour done men and done those specifically found worthy of such noble task.
God is doing His men honour. What honour, your curious mind asks? The honour of committing into His ministers hands the great privilege of telling people what to do.
Look, as great as that Centurion was, he couldn't instruct himself. As great as the one that appeared to him was [knowing and telling him so many things], he couldn't preach to him. He however said, send for Peter who will tell you what ye ought to do.
Ministers know what God would have men do. They're custodian of what God will have people do. When men are confused, the minister ought to be upright and know what they should do. God's counsel dwells with him. Utterance and words for the season answers him. So, whenever men looks forward to God for a seasonal word to attend their needs, they need not worry because there's one who is ordained an oracle of God to tear them God's mind for that season.
The privilege and honour God does Peter in that place was that he kept Cornelius and all others' bread gathered in his house with him with Peter. Until he arrived, they were not fed. He was the one they were expecting since the angel gave charge they should go bring him to minister.
Guest ministers, are you following? When you're invited to minister, it is not your fashion, grammar, phonics or style people are waiting for. Why they have invited you and for which they earnestly wait in all expectation with prayer and longing for their needs to be met is that through you, God will tell them what they ought to do.
What a rare privilege that until Peter showed them the way by preaching Jesus to them, they didn't know the way. They just don't know how to get themselves born again. What a mystery that one man's bread is held by another man.
I pray for all ministers, you won't become irrelevant in God's hands as to have this honour elude you. May you always be found God's mouth piece when there's an occasion for it. Philip was found for the Ethiopian Eunuch. You won't be exempted in Jesus name.
PRAYER: Find me for my audience Lord. Make me important in my niche and to my generation. Lord, carry me to minister before kings and nations.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 24:1-25:28, Romans 12:1-21, Psalm 22:19-31, Proverbs 20:8-10
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