SUNDAY - 30TH JANUARY, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN THE LORD HAS NEED OF YOU
READ Mark 11:1-10
Mark 11:3,KJV
"And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither."
I want you to see that you'll be doing yourself a great favour if the Lord beckons on you and you hear. Men can call you with a no at hand for them. If the Lord does, I'll say, drop that which you have in your hands and follow. Jesus sent the disciples to go to a place and bring a colt tied on which no man has ever ridden. What a virgin it was! He, knowing they might be questioned gave them words to answer them. It wasn't that Jesus had afore preplanned with the colt's owner. The utterance which would communicate to the hearer, "the Lord has need of it" was therefore given to the disciples. That's the currency with which they went on that journey.
The Lord has need of it? Yes. That's His demand. If it is, let's give Him. You should be humble to learn from today's teaching. He they met didn't delay them after they said the Lord has need of it. They immediately let them go with it. What the Lord has need of is what He can't but get. That's how it should be though we have known some for their obstinacy and disagreement even in the face of the Lord has need of it. These are of the group who won't let go. These are of the set that their possessions are too weighty for them to part with. These are those who disdain God and do not esteem Him in act but can confess Him as Lord till tomorrow. For no one esteems God really that doesn't do so when sacrificial demands are made on him. Pharaoh won't let Israel go but Israel had to still go. God will do it even if it will be by strong arm.
The Lord has need of it! In the Yoruba culture of the Nigerian people, their ancient monarchs are known for exercising absolute authority. This authority was so far reaching that the king could see a lady and say, "she pleases me well. I'll have her for wife." All can't but agree even if they're not well pleased. It is the king. It is royalty that has made demand on them. It is not a man of mere presence. They'll even be honoured becoming in-law to the king though he's one with many wives already. How much more God to you? If the Lord requests of you a thing, He should have it. That's when there's nothing in God's will you stretch at without obtaining. It is the Lord that has need of it. It doesn't matter how costly it is. It's obtainable. If men would obey these ancient kings, how much more the Royalty that gives royalty to royalty? We should see and fear. Jordan saw and fled. You must be touched also. The Lord has come. If He tells you I need you for this or that purpose, let go. Don't struggle with God. He only wants to bring you to a great estate. When the Lord told Peter to lend him His boat which he did, the Lord rewarded him with the catch he has never caught before. Afterwards, the Lord made a final demand on him by saying, "follow me and I'll make you fishers of men." You can tell whether after Peter's heeding of this call he wasted away or grew in relevance. Is there any God has been saying, "I have need of you to but who's withholding?" Are there parents there who are withholding their children from their God's need for marriage? Those words have not changed. It is still, "the Lord has need of them." You should hear, be touched and submit. Come to the acknowledgement that it is the Lord and not the disciples you're seeing in their irrelevance who have come to make the tender.
PRAYER: Lord, I submit to your demand over me. Nothing I possess will be held back from Your service. All that's mine is Yours and Yours first of all.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 8:1-9:35, Matthew 19:13-30, Psalm 24:1-10, Proverbs 6:1-5
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