SUNDAY - 22ND AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
SECURITY AT ITS MAXIMUM
Joshua 6:1, KJV
"Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in."
You can take chances but you ought not to. You can't tempt God. You can't take things for granted and think of getting the best out of life. Life is lived to the fullest by those who bring special attention to it.
Thoroughly furnished preparation can give you success. What is facing you can be prevented from conquering you if you have received ahead of time a basement of strengthening qualities in you. Israel came against Jericho but Jericho wouldn't surrender like that. To defend themselves, they closed their city gates with a description that shows their unwillingness to be conquered. That's the only opening to their city. No other space is in their city wall.
"Strait" means tight, close, tight-fitting. A thing that's tight-fitting has leaned down people that could enter. It has even shut down entrance. That is, Jericho didn't take any chance. They gave Israel no ground or advantage to get through to them. Another place in the Bible where the word "strait" was used with a very close relation to our matter here is:
Matthew 7:13 - 14, KJV
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
What you need to know is that military leaders and commanders of forces are strategists. They can deflate and bring to damnation a whole city by just a crack in the armour or an exposure thereof; which is why Jericho blocked all such opportunities against Israel. All they needed is just a thing to leverage on to confound their enemy. How I wish you'll become Jericho that is not willing to give an inch of his land to intruders. Has the Bible not spoken in Romans 13:14, KJV that "but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." It is what you make provision for that can be fulfilled. It is what you give handles to that will creep into your life. Some are making provision for the enemy. David didn't go to battle at the time kings lead battles. He eventually made provision for sin. He entered into what made the sword not to depart from his house (II Samuel 11). Some are making ground for poverty. He's always spending like a spree when he could begin to make bricks for a house.
Make no provision for your opponent. Satan goes all around prowling, looking for whom to devour. Those he will see to devour are those who didn't close their gates tightly. I don't mean being holy but being very holy. I don't mean praying but always praying. Jericho just didn't close their gates, they did very well without leaving even the slightest space that an animal could have entered through.
Today, I'm hearing in my spirit God telling me to give you an instruction for your continuity. That's to take things very very seriously. To handle things straitly: without space or advantage for the enemy to leverage on. To handle things in such a way that even other Christians would tell you "yours is too much". Christian life should be lived in such a way that even the devil would not have a thing to accuse you of. Blamelessness is your goal. Occupy everything. Defend your ground against invaders.
PRAYER: May I be thorough. I make no provision for the flesh. I won't assist Satan against my life
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 18:1-19:10, John 20:1-31, Psalm 119:153-176, Proverbs 16:14-15
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