WEDNESDAY - 11TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
RECEIVING AT THE STIRRING
Read John 5:1-9
John 5:3-4, KJV
"3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."
May we not be left alone to ourselves and devices. May divinity always join with us at all times and greatly when ministration is sought after.
What can you do unless there's a stirring? The water itself won't move. The congregation will just be still with nothing to jump for joy for. In these Solomon porches were laid many impotent folks. When there is no activity, everybody sits down quietly only in expectation of what can bring activity. There's only one thing that does that. It is the stirring of the water. Until that move of God, you won't see the craving of these invalids to get healed. No one will make an attempt to be healed.
With the description in our reading, we know what becomes consequent at the stirring of the water. The impotents rush into the water seeking healing of whatsoever diseases they have. You see, there can't be movement, race or competition to outrun another unless an angel has stirred the water and is visible to each that the water has been stirred.
The stirred water is off course an empowered water with healing virtue residual in it. Afore then, it lacks power to turn anything. Does that tells you that natural can't become supernatural until super joins it. That 'super', God is the custodian. Such armed water is what they rush to meet and interact with.
Is this not how you should be taught to receive from God's anointed men? At times, when a minister prays or makes declarations, the congregation or those lacking in estimation treats it as casual. They just stand still. No rushing to the altar. No standing up to receive. No lifting of hand or showing off in a posture that only faith and hunger drives. Lack of faith at every ministration is why ministration is being wasted. It's not that God has not been showing up. If there's a provision made ready for you but which you don't partake of, will it benefit you? If when the water was stirred, nobody gets into it, will the first man on contact be healed? Did you see why people have taken God as a liar and His anointed men as scammers. However, that was not the attitude of those at this pool's side. A stirring of the water draws all of them towards the pool. They will immediately seek to tap, touch and key into it for their healing. They know once this move of God is exhausted or bypassed me, I'll have to wait till a season I can't predict. Even if that season comes on, who knows if it's not another that would be the beneficiary of the stirred water?
I'm perceiving by God's Spirit to tell you that when proclamations are made by any anointed, it is your responsibility to say, "Amen. I receive it." What you esteem will show in how fast you absorb and receive such. If the mercy of God is limited also, how many people will receive of God's goodness with their slowness and sluggishness in receiving? Much education is becoming madness to some people. Instead of enlightenment, it rather causes more blindness. There are the set who will say, "what connection do receiving has to do with happening." Okay, stay there and let your yoke remain from generation to another. Medical science don't break yokes. It is the anointing! Until anointing ploughs that road open, medical science can't come in.
Look, when the anointing comes upon the anointed, God draws near to show His willingness. It is not the man now but the God of the man. Without the stirring of the water in today's passage, a person on contact can't be healed. Yokes will rather continue bugging people down. Without God showing up through His anointed also, same happens. Problems aren't solved and burdens aren't dissolved. So, it is an act of God's generosity when the anointing hits somebody and under that influence makes pronunciation that addresses people's matters. Any that receives it will be set free, made whole and blessed. If God's willingness is available to minister; there should be people's willingness to receive.
Let me ask you, how swift do you attend to divine receiving? Your life depends on it. Those invalids were left to the mercy the stirred water has to offer. There are moments when humans can find themselves in problems money can't solve. Such declarations are therefore very important to your salvation.
I pray for you, you won't be slow at heart nor dull of hearing. Your perception will be opened. Today, I bulldoze your problems and burdens by God's anointing on me. What is the sickness, disease (curable or incurable) you have reports over? Receive a different report now. I plough through your land and declare healing and open heaven on you. So shall it be in Jesus name. Amen.
PRAYER: Lord, may I not lose awe for You. May I see and move at once. May I not offend You through those you've put anointing on. May my disbelief not be counted as sin.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezra 10:1-44, 1 Corinthians 6:1-20, Psalm 31:9-18, Proverbs 21:3
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Very exposing.
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