SATURDAY - 11TH DECEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
LET THE PROCESS CERTIFY YOU
James 1:4, KJV
"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing".
You can jump the hurdle or pass underneath. One time, I had a dream. Two men were holding a rope. I was to jump over the rope to the other side like we do in High Jump. As I ran towards the rope, I was suddenly scared. The rope seems too high for me. Then, I went underneath. I met myself on the other side but by breaking the requirement. Do you know what happened next? Those two men told me, "go back". So, I went back in order to observe the process and obey the protocols. That's how the dream lifted. God was actually telling me to go observe the correct requirement of a thing I was entering into then.
When process is concern, you'll see two men. Those who defy it and those who keep it. In John 10, we read of the sheep fold and he who enters by the gate and he who enters by another way. One observes the process, one though enters breaks it. When you submit to process, it may seem rigorous. However, there's a thing it puts inside you. You're concretized. Delay is a test and it is a process that can process you. Delay always forces deception to reveal itself. Since delay is hope or expectation not manifesting on time, you either learn patience or you get that same thing by another means. This is where we have waiting and those who wait on the Lord. Patience is necessary if you'll really have some things and I'll encourage you to work it. Some will never let patience have her perfect work. They're being worked on, they're already enduring the process but suddenly they'll just speak up, they'll retaliate and say, "am I the only one?" Believe it, that's the end of their letting patience have her perfect work. Formation of godly character is not title bestowed on people. They're formed by endurance of processes. The fire Paul created forced a snake pretending as a stick to declare its true self [Acts 28:3]. Same applies to what process or patience does. It will push out undesirables in you for you to be entire. Have you seen gold being refined before or the turning of coal into diamond? It endures pressure. So also, virtues don't come out without your being shrunk, tested, pressed on all sides etc. As you groan, and as your sweat becomes thick as blood falling to the ground from exercising patience, you're being formed into a fellow lacking in nothing. "Entire" means whole. When you talk, no one will say, "who's that fellow" since you're already entire? But if you're not, when you behave, people will begin to ask questions. God's will for you as His craftsmanship is that you'll be lacking in nothing. Your cooperation is what will make this happen as He brings the test.
The night will soon become dawn. Don't break this process. Let patience have its full work. If you give your vehicle to a mechanic, you don't halt him from completion of the work when you know he has not had his perfect work on it. You'll be scared doing that for it may endanger your life. You'll rather tell him to take his full time on the vehicle. What about you as a person? So, don't seek relief when work has not been thoroughly completed and certainty given. Long-suffer a little more and there comes your break. You'll always thank God you waited till then. Many regretted their not letting patience have its full work. Though they've been waiting but are now out of patience. So, they begin to engage in premarital affairs, off another goes to do money ritual, off another goes into prostitution. It was after these that they were shown how close they were to their break. They raised an alarm and with great weeping wept. Sorry, it can't be reversed. This is how they become vessels of dishonour. When patience is having its work and it becomes unbearable, persist with encouragement that it is this hard on you because you're almost reaching. Even when you don't reach that soon, make that your encouragement until patience certifies you to have been well processed.
PRAYER: What will it take? Let me be able to give it.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Amos 1:1-3:15, Revelation 2:1-17, Psalm 129:1-8, Proverbs 29:19-20
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