MONDAY - 5TH JULY, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
MAY YOU THRIVE!
Psalms 92:12,KJV
"The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon."
The palm tree is unique amidst trees. One special thing about it is its ability to continue under circumstances or conditions that withers other trees and seals their end. It always further even in dry season. This is the tree that lives on even when water is withdrawn. It continues to behave and put forth as if water had been. It doesn't give excuses even for not continuing.
Noo! The palm tree always thrive irrespective of its location. Aridity can't baffle nor dismay it. Being planted by rivers of waters only rejoices it again. This tree doesn't know hard times even when hard times is on. While other trees lament and cry as to why the economy has downgraded, it murmurs not. People have wondered why.
The palm tree doesn't stop flourishing. This is whom I pray God make you. Somebody that passes through hard times as if hard times had not existed to him at first. Do you remember the men thrown bound into the fire? The Bible said "they came out of that situation without the slightest burn. They were not singed. Not even smoke could be smelt on them.
Daniel 3:27,KJV
"And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them."
Our world is not a relaxing one. Best of minds are cracking up. People are winding down and collapsing just like that. They just can't continue. Challenges are bugging down on them and many are sure lost in it with only a handful that survives. When you thrive, you don't stop continuing. Under harsh condition, you won't go into extinction. In famine, Elijah didn't go into extinction, he thrived. In that unpalatable circumstance, arrangements were still made for his continuity. He drank from Brook Cherith while for his survival, birds fed him (which was unnatural).
John's ministry was in the desert. John didn't even ate delicacies nor was one available for him. His food (honey and locust bean) was a disciplined one that shows what rigour he was enduring. Yet, he didn't fold up. He existed still where things don't usually survive. He made headway and people came to him.
Today, may you thrive in struggles and hardship. May you see the light of the day and survive. May you not give up where and when there is no water. May you rather flourish and continue to exist to the amazement of all. You will have the upper hand. You will prevail over challenges and gain ascent over contest and oppression.
PRAYER: Lord, may I continue to be when I ought not to be.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:17, Acts 23:11-35, Psalm 3:1-8, Proverbs 18:14-15
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