SATURDAY - 31ST JULY, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHAT A CHRISTIAN SHOULD DO WHEN THE WORLD CAN'T BUT NEED HIS SERVICE
Acts 8:35, KJV
"Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus."
The world will need you. They will come to your doorstep. Somehow, what you are known for as a professional can't but inevitably bring them to you. Once they are in this manner brought to you, ensure you show them Jesus.
There are three doors. They are doors of ministry, faith and then utterance. As it concerns this teaching, I shall by the Hallowed One, Jesus Christ focus on the door of ministry. God knows what He is doing. You must as well be sensitive to recognize His moves in your own day.
God's angel in today's passage hinted Philip on where to be. The fact that divine guidance is possible either through an angel or other means. Christians are not at the mercy of the world and its happenings. They can be led by the steady words that proceed from God's mouth daily. In heeding, Philip met himself on the way to Gaza. There, he was told to join himself to a chariot. As he obeyed, he overheard a man reading Isaiah. Then, Philip asked, did you get what you're reading?
Acts 8:31, KJV
"And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him."
Did you read the Ethiopian Eunuch's confession? He said "how can he understand?" He had just bought a book he couldn't understand. He is reading it for the excitement of having contacted a new faith - for exploration sake but he neither has the Holy Ghost to give him interpretation nor a human guide to at least help out. At least, we knew he was not born again until the preaching of Jesus to him. That's why he desired Philip to join him even in his fancy car. May God make people not have any other choice but rather to accommodate you. It happened there. Philip was not accepted neutrally. He was accepted because the Ethiopian Eunuch knew he would be useful to him. Every man is born selfish and for you to see those that will open up to you without profit to make is rare. He desperately needs an interpreter to crack what Prophet Isaiah says. He needs answers to what he has read. In his own words, look at how he childishly as an unlearned man in the Scriptures and God's things ask Philip of who the place he read talks about.
Acts 8:34, KJV
"And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?"
Those were the words that said Jesus was led as a lamb to the slaughter. He didn't even know whether Isaiah was saying it to have happened to another or Isaiah himself. You can see the need in his life. He has money and influence. He's not a man of mean status. He has his own ride but he can't crack a book. Divine things were hidden from him because God needed to penetrate him.
So, this was the opportunity that Philip caught on. It was here that Philip could have understood why God by his angel directed him away from home to that place. We were told that Philip who obviously knew what he was doing and had came to the why God had made an opening possible for him to speak to this man then opened his mouth not only to explain that portion of Isaiah to him but rather to preach Jesus to him.
What is our gospel? Jesus! What is our intent? Jesus. Jesus is the gospel. The gospel is Jesus. Preach Jesus in all your preaching. He preached Jesus - his birth, life, ministry, death, ascension etc and from this, he led the man to Christ. Philip so much more preached Jesus plainly to him that it was even the Eunuch that later said as they journeyed, "look, this is water. What stops me from being baptized." Did you see a converted disciple already?
Everything began when that African needed the help of Philip. There was a service he couldn't give to himself but God had positioned Philip there for him. So, Philip being wise not only gave that service but gave the one that's the basis for the one he has given and others the man might be given. Saint, you must discern as clients patronise you not only to help them do their hair but to subtly as you sing or humm preach Jesus to them. If anyone comes to your workshop as a mechanic and you begin to play a sermon, will they say you should stop it? They'll be obliged to hear even if they're not comfortable. They know they have come to your own carved out territory and you're the one who decides what goes there. Not anyone. If you have a hospital, instead of allowing the sick to watch news which are but tragedies and faith contaminants, you can tune to a channel where a message on healing and faith is what they're soaking in. You can control that. If you tell them that's the channel you have to offer and not any other and it's static, even if they think of leaving you, they won't because they'll always remember that you offer the best in healthcare.
Today, God is calling all of us to be secret disciples under our professional wears. A spy won't tell you he's a spy but he knows he's progressing in his work of gathering information. Even if the world don't know who you are, you should and work in that revelation. When the Lord opens freely door of ministry to you to minister and later supplies utterance to you and faith to your hearer, may you not waste his effort.
PRAYER: God, sensitize me to what You'll have me do per term. When there is a wide door opened, may I be open to you too.
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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