WEDNESDAY - 24TH NOVEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
DISCOVERY AFTER A DAY'S JOURNEY - Entry Series 003
READ Luke 2:40-50
Luke 2:44, KJV
"But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance".
Do you know when many finds out? After a day's journey. After the deed might have been done or reversing painful to do. Some years ago, I heard a Nigerian minister told the unfortunate story of a family that lost a man child. The parents were in the house with a female visitor they had that day. Suddenly, they heard a gunshot. They ran into the boy's room and witnessed the horror of his death. He shot himself! Later in time, this woman told the parents, "A gun was in the possession of your son and you didn't know. You didn't know he was passing through something until he blew himself up". You see, that was after a day's journey. A day had passed before discovery was made. At the entry point, no one learnt the symptoms pervading and ravaging the world of that boy. It didn't happen to them he was just coping with life until a bullet reveals everything. Discern before you walk a distance. Catch it young to have it easier. God wants you to be aware when it is just brand new. As it hits the market or touches the ground like this, it should fall into your hands. You can even ascend to the level of "before it springs forth, I tell you of them" [Isaiah 42:9]. If you can reach here where before it even touches the ground, you've caught it, you'll prevent a lot of evil and multitude of things outside God's will from happening. By knowing ahead of the event also, you could also team mate with God to birth divine realities that Satan will be too late to stop. To reach here may take constant fasting, praying and yielding to the Holy Ghost even at inconvenient times. Obeying is hard. When you're being prompted to take yield to an act that will open you to divine communication, your spirit may be willing but your flesh weak. This is where by increase in growth, you must beat down your flesh to the desire of your spirit. The Spirit may wake you up and ask you to take a peep into the children's room. If you're unwilling to follow that insignificant leading, you may not know that Satan is beginning to lure your children into masturbation, homosexuality or even incest. It may be your female house help the Lord is saying you as the woman should go and spy on. Yet, your excuse of not wanting to break into anyone's privacy may hinder you from discovery. What if God is saying, "go search her things" while to your shock, you discover strange things that have opened your family to demonic assaults? God told Gideon to go to the camp of the Midianites and there he was let into the discovery of all times [Judges 7:10-15]. Even Jeremiah didn't hear God until he went to the potter's house [Jeremiah 18:1-6]. Discovery comes by acting on instructions and promptings. It is the Spirit of prophecy that knows what's going on that wants your walk to coincide with what's beginning to happen. Divine appointment is real.
Joseph and Mary were presumptuous and it costs them journeying back to Jerusalem after travelling far. It even costs them three days extra before they located Jesus. Their assumption was, "He's among our relatives". Some are also saying as well, "my own children are free of those." Let that be after your inspection and not a statement from assumption that thinks they should know what's right to do.
When it is just a leaking secret that affords one to turn back and reach quickly, may you be awake and aware. May God give all parents and leaders the overseeing spirit of a shepherd whose heart is always with his sheep and knows if one is lacking or missing. Like that prostitute we read of yesterday, may you be able to discern promptly without a walk over that something is happening. May your spirit be stirred and troubled where it should until you locate by prayer and reality search what's wrong. May your daughter not get pregnant under your nose! May you observe the withdrawal of your once cheerful child. May you see and pick immediately!
PRAYER: Lord, don't let me sleep the sleep of death. Arrows that lures to sleep or birth insensitivity in me, fall off me. The chariot of the enemy is burnt. The curtain torn and the secret exposed.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 45:13-46:24, 1 Peter 1:13-2:10, Psalm 119:33-48, Proverbs 28:11
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