WEDNESDAY - 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THOSE WHO WILL HAVE WORDS TO SHARE
Numbers 23:3, KJV
"And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place."
Those who will have words to share are those the Lord meets. Unless this Presence meets you, you will come back like you've gone.
Balaam acknowledges the place of God meeting man. When we go to pray while hoping for a response of peace, the answer or conclusion is not in our custody to give. That's why we have gone to wait in the first instance. It is the Lord's to give or withdraw. Have you gone to pray for a thing to turn to A while it turns to B before? In the case of Balak, he wanted Israel to be cursed but God didn't give him that desire. At times, God agrees with our expectations also.
Let's assume you're praying to God on the choice of a marriage partner and you climb up in prayer expecting God to meet you. God may not quickly or at the first time appear. Often, people that receive answers over some things didn't receive it just at first bend of knees. There were moments they climbed up but God was silent. It was total black out. No voice, no sound. There were moments when they prayed with zeal and inspiration and believes God can't but hearken to such prayer but nothing still comes.
One thing that's left to God to give is reply. We can pray but none of us can put words in God's mouth. He will reply or keep shut. He even replies at the time He wills. That's why tarrying in the place of prayer matters. Is it not "the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings to search out a matter?" (Proverbs 25:2 , KJV).
What am I saying? When you pray and God didn't meet with you on the first day or first time of prayer, don't gasp down. Go ahead because He will surely show up. God may tarry but He will surely speak. So, keep watching on your tower. One thing that we don't have in our jurisdiction are the words which is why we come up to know. Except He speaks, we don't have words or assurance over what we've mounted up to pray on. You can fabricate a lie and say that's what the Lord has said but you will know deep down it is from your self.
Balaam said he will go and he will come back to show Balak whatsoever the Lord says if He meets him. That means God may not even show up. It is still peradventure. God may show up or may not. Showing up is where our joy lies. That's our expectation because we need an immediate reply but what if God doesn't show up and is quiet like the dawn?
Is it the first time you start praying on all the things you receive answers on that the Lord gives quick and immediate response? No right? That's what makes God God and humans humans. Because we don't have answers with us ready- made and answers are not always given us at once, that's why we keep coming to God. Those divine words are precious and we don't want any area of our lives to be left in the dark. The need to know drives us to God as we hope we'll know. Today, as you mount up in prayer, trust the Lord to meet you and show you great things which you know not. No one has words to give out or share as revelation except the one God has met. If God didn't meet you, you can't serve as a mouthpiece to those who wait for a response of peace. It is what any prophet hears he says. What would he say if God keeps him in the dark? May God have mercy on all of us and meet us in our places of prayers daily. May you on what you're seeking God for return with an answer of peace. May the table turn in your favour. May it be as you desire and have thought it to be.
PRAYER: Lord, I am your son/daughter. Witness to my heart. Speak to me. Let the Holy Ghost's ministry of the rod and staff bring ministry to me. May I not be without voice or sound at the place of prayer.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22, 2 Corinthians 6:1-13, Psalm 46:1-11, Proverbs 22:15
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