WEDNESDAY - 2ND FEBRUARY, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE FOUNDER WHO PIONEERS
READ Acts 1:15-26
Psalms 107:35-36, KJV
"He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation".
When you're carrying the calling of a pioneer; I'll say it is a heavy call. Don't be carried away by the honour and prestige accorded successful pioneers whose labour paced way for others. If you blaze successfully a path for others to follow, you may always be referred to, regarded and also esteemed but you as well must embrace the foundational works. These foundational works are what God didn't create everybody to do. Foundational works are for founders. Associates are to provide support for such.
Did you know any pioneer that thread the highway? He is rather the one who clears the path for others to follow. Have you made a road somewhere for access before? How easy was it? If it's a physical road, how many people remember the labourers who worked to create it? However, we must not forget pioneers.
Someone will start what others will continue with. This starter that we call the pioneer can also be the set man. The man who sets the pace for the work, determines standard and what should be followed.
Who prepared a city for habitation in today's passage? The hungry, whom God brought to a land He changes and then fills with prospects. God then gives them an assignment - which is to prepare a city for habitation or dwelling. Can you imagine what it would means raising from the ground a city? Imagine if you're among the first settlers who founded the popular city in your country. Flashback to when that city was founded and think of how uncivilized things were. If a prophecy comes to you then "that you'll prepare a city for the habitation of many", will you not doubt it?
If God wants to make it difficult to believe for you, He'll also tell you a kind of population your small head can't fathom or understand. We'd be talking of millions of people and houses numerously all around like the stars in the sky. You'll just sigh and say "impossible!" Are there people who are doubting what God has said to them also? The future can be so great like this empty land made into a city that you tell the prophet to come off fallacy! Do you think all God has said to you are too high to be true? You should be the one coming off it. God made it possible for the hungry to build from the scratch a city for dwelling. So, there is your comfort. You can raise that vision to a place where it will become global. A city is not what is built in a day. It takes time. Time it takes for one generation to pass away and another to come in while the cycle goes on. Meanwhile, you can build that implanted sense of purpose put in you by God before you leave to rest like David departed after serving the will of God in his own generation (Acts 13:36). Nothing else can satisfies you except the fulfilment of that coding in your spirit. We all have our generation with specific assignment for individuals in it. May you not carry yours back to the grave. May it be discharged and unburdened here on earth.
PRAYER: Let the implanted sense of purpose in me become a light beaming me to come up hither. Draw me to my assignment and my assignment to me. I discharge as a founder.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 13:17-15:18, Matthew 21:23-46, Psalm 26:1-12, Proverbs 6:16-19
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