MONDAY - 1ST NOVEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
PETER, "PLEASE, RISE AND EAT" - NOW Series 009
Acts 10:11-13, KJV
"11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat."
God must have mercy on all those Peters who have received instructions but are tarrying carrying it out. God brought an opportunity to Peter in a sheet that looks like an alien vehicle. It was to evangelize the Gentile nation. It was a killed, dead and made ready opportunity. God had prepared even the house of Cornelius he'll be contacting first for him. It was so much a slain opportunity for him that he didn't had to minister Holy Ghost to them before they received it. Those one's eagerness, estimation and faith drew it to the shock of all. It fell on them. It was Cornelius who thirsted knowing God because God must have put it in him since He desires to reach the Gentile nations according to afore prophecies. In reaching souls, ministers take the gospel to them on their own initiative. It was a reverse in Cornelius-Peter's case.
However, when the move of Peter came that he should jump into, Peter was arguing with God. Tradition was fighting him. He was giving excuses why he can't go. Yet, "God kept offering him this opportunity over and over again." God kept showing His love and persistence that he should be the one and first choice to do the assignment for Him. God kept saying, "rise, kill and eat." He was saying, "have it. It's the opportunity and assignment I brought to you. Be the one to carry this oil; to discharge this responsibility." However, it all turned on deaf ears until something unfortunate happen. Do you want to know? The sheet withdrawn. The aliens returned! The opportunity was retrieved. The curtain was taken back! Though it was Peter that went to first evangelize the Gentile nation but because he did not surrender his will to "rise, kill and eat", this assignment was collected and re allocated to one sinner who later came to be known as Saul of Tarsus or Paul. God is sending to tell stubborn, waiting for a bigger sign children that if he should withdraw the sheet after his act of persuading you over and over again, you'll be grinded. You'll only be landlocked in Jerusalem in the great cathedral that looks like a graveyard and be doing administrative works. He won't send you to the field where you could see what will kill you but won't kill you because of God's faithfulness to you. It is either you append your signature to this paper by rising, killing and eating now in that simple manner or you forget a come back for life. Once the sheet is retrieved back to heaven, you're on your own without voice or sound. Do you know God is a wise and careful God. If he had came to Peter by saying, "Peter, I want to evangelize the Gentile nation, will you go?" Peter would have said yes because he'll see the honour of being such honourable vessel that God will use to contact those of strange languages. However, God didn't come realistically. He came like a man you'll think was just administering questionnaires that he won't use. He gave him a trance and asked him the same question while presenting him the same opportunity. Alas! Peter backfired! God could have given you mild persuasions. Yours may be sweet witness or inclination towards a thing or a place. That's that thing. Act it out immediately. Rise, kill and eat. You'll then see how much God will be committed to you on that journey and in that place though you did not even hear an audible voice while stepping out or see an angel. I pray you won't miss your sheet. You won't miss your opportunity. When you're being persuaded to come and have something, may you see it worthy heeding. May the spirit that despises, belittles, mocks or disdains destiny and great future not creep into your life for deceptive purposes.
PRAYER: You Aliens of heaven (that we know) who have brought the sheet, don't repent of your packages for me. Let me remain your first choice always. I append my signature.
BIBLE IN A YEAR:
Lamentations 3:40-66, 4, 5; Hebrews 1, Psalm 119:129-136
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