MONDAY - 9TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN YOU'VE MADE AN IMPRESSION
READ I Kings 3:1-15
I Kings 3:4-5, AMP
"4 The king went to Gibeon [near Jerusalem, where stood the tabernacle and the bronze altar] to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. One thousand burnt offerings Solomon offered on that altar. 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, [b]Ask what I shall give you."
When you impress, you will reap the consequence. There's an impression that really impresses. How I pray that you will impress rightly so that you can reap where you've sown impression.
Any who impresses is like a sower who sows weeping, he will doubtlessly come back to reap in joy. The day you begin to do something with all that's inside you (not considering cost) is the day you've begun to walk on the road of impressing those it may concern whether you do it to be seen or not. While we're not taken thought to be seen and applauded necessarily and first of all by men, yet excellence that's practised consistently which is our aim and trademark can't but earn us the reward of having rightly impresses someone.
Solomon without even taking thought for the reward of impression just did his own as unto the Lord (and not to be seen by men) and the surprise of impression jumped at him. He was baffled when the Lord goes to the uttermost by asking him to fill a blank cheque He presented before him. Though it was in his dream yet I could see an element of surprise not written there there.
Do you think somebody just get turned on the inside as to say, "ask anything of me which I shall do for you?" No! Solomon had sacrificed 1000 burnt offerings before then. That was what impressed God. God must have muttered and thought to Himself, "how could he have done that?" To Solomon, what he did was not costly to him (though costly indeed). It was not costly nor a thing to price before doing because it was his love for Jehovah that propelled him into going to that extreme to give to God. When you know the value of a person, you can expend and consume uncountable on them. No wonder, God in a burning passion and like one in utmost forgetfulness (hypnotized) comes back to tell him to name anything at His own (God's) expense. It's like a child who has impressed his parents by passing a respected exam which made the parents tell him to request for anything afterwards to commend, compensate, celebrate and approve of his labour and high sacrifice. The withdrawal is on the parents. He has sacrificed to impress them ahead of time. Now is the time of recompense and return.
Today, I heard in my spirit, it is time to impress God, Jehovah, the One that matters most. When you please Him, He only can make your enemy even be at peace with you. Then, you can strive to earn the blank cheque of any man that you should satisfy and surprise.
As for us in Morning Wings Ministry, we've satisfied and impressed Jehovah. The voice that I heard not long ago was "this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, listen to him." Our reward for satisfying Him is that people shall listen, take cognizance of us and give their obedience to us worldwide. So says the Lord God who authors us all!
PRAYER: Lord, teach me sacrifice for you. May I be willing to give you of what you've given me.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezra 4:24-6:22, 1 Corinthians 3:5-23, Psalm 29:1-11, Proverbs 20:26-27
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