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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
FIXATED AND FROZEN FOR GOOD: BAPTIZING CHILDREN BY IMMERSION INTO TRAINING - Vow Series 006
I Samuel 1:11, KJV
"And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."
I have told you what your vow should be all about when it is the kind you're making for or on behalf of your children. Also, we've seen how to receive what could fuel our vow or commitment towards proper child training. If you'll fix or freeze a child for a way of life now, you know what sort of way of life it should be. That's good. Meanwhile, I'm here to show you better things about that good way of life you've discovered or found by which your child would be ordered.
When Hannah was making her vow, she said if I be given a male child, then, "I'll give him unto the Lord all the days of his life." Did you see that there? A thing giving to the Lord or to something for all the life of that person here on earth can't but be hinting at total give away, separation, dedication and sanctification. She's releasing fully. Did you see total commitment to a way of life in what she said there at all? Not give and take but giving with immersion or a dipping into in proper. Hannah did because we read her going to Shiloh to make this her vow good after the weaning of Samuel. She dropped off Samuel at the Prophet's or Prophetic Academy as a young chap. That act only commands the attention of the mass media. There were several headlines like, "Wicked Mother Cast Her Baby Away", "The Church Is Under Folly Making Prophets Out Of A Baby With Mucus." All these and many more were the words with which the world busied itself with when Samuel was dropped off.
At the vowing, Hannah mentioned and decided on the sort of life Samuel would be made to live (to tarry in God's house forever) but that never became a reality until she took him there. That's where the journey begins. Look at me parents. You must seek to make vow or your decisions before God come to pass by taking actions. You assured God this child won't serve the devil. How would you make good of that? Is it by folding arms and not following process by process on how a child could be taught God's fear and way? Hannah having vowed, made it impossible for Samuel to live another life by initiating him into that life and leaving him to live it on and on. So, she thought at the vowing, where's the best place where this boy could be immersed fully into being useful for the Lord? Is it by retaining him at home or by taking him to live with a minister whose job and all he knows and teaches is God, His ways and how to walk with Him. She found her answer. Retaining this boy at home won't do though we also are believers who have learnt God's way. I have my own job to do and the father also has his. We can't give this boy a full time education on this kind of life that lines with the vow I vowed. So, she sold him off to the Lord's house under the tutelage of Eli, a man regarded mighty and honourable in God's understanding of things.
Hear me, the more you steep your child of vow into the way you vowed or promised to commit him to, the more you're assured you have nothing to fear in the future. It is he who has not done his part that would have occasional fear about a turn of event. Train a child in the way he should go, when he grows up, he won't depart will be your anchor. Once you discover what destiny or purpose that child of yours is to live out here on earth, don't only separate him but separate him fully to that way, path, training, field, profession etc by either sending him to where others longing to become in such way of life are or by home training him by immersing him fully into it. At home, don't let the distraction of home hinder the immersion training.
Verse 24 says and "Samuel was taken to the house of the Lord." She left home where the training would have been diluted to where all he sees, reads, hears, relate with is God and His things. What he learns to be play or game is around God. What he learns to be sleep is around same. Everything is just about God and that made his growth faster. Why? He's having a concentrated education on that way of life. That's why God could call him also early when other children were shut out of God's call. That's why though he didn't know who called but because he was around those who know, he was able to be taught. God is saying, don't do things half way or mildly. Have you discovered what life, training, calling that child should live. Begin to dose and then overdose him on that. What makes people the best of the best is their well dosage in that field.
PRAYER: I shall not spare my child. To the academy he/she must go. Mighty she must become.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 15:1-16:31; John 2:1-25; Psalm 103:1-22; Proverbs 14:17-19
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