WEDNESDAY - 17TH AUGUST, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
REDEMPTION AT THE GATE OF DEATH - Lead and Feed Series 015
I Kings 17:12, KJV
"And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
Brethren, you won't know need. If it remains little for you to enter into a season of want where you'll expect and it won't come, you'll be aided. There's a ministry of angels that aid men so they don't dash their foot against stones (and incur some consequences or damages). You'll be lifted back to the height - your position. You'll be restored and you'll stand restored. Never to come down. "Never" I say. "Never", the Lord proclaims. That widow in answering Elijah's request said what she has left was to be prepared for herself and her child after which they'll die. What's her expectation? That they'll die. She has zeroed and circled her mind. She knew that for sure. Who even knows whether what she professed was coming out of having witnessed some people drop down dead. So, she looked at herself as a no option woman who can't but have others' fate. She knew less that Elijah was her intervention. She was at the gate of death. She was already setting hope on dying sooner or later. No one get killed of hunger that once. It will take awhile but she foresaw the end for herself and her child. But I know a God who could rewind the situation that we've beheld to have happened in our mind. He turned their event around at the declaration of "this barrel of meal shall not be spent neither will the cruse of oil fail until the day the Lord sends rain to the earth."
Until! Until! Until! Her death was postponed and that of her son also. Her expectation went on vacation because of God's intervention. Are you there losing hope? Are you there having concluded on how things would be? No! Receive a miracle of redemption. I'll like you see a thing why God told Elijah to "get himself to Zarephath." How many of you see urgency, immediacy and command in that instruction." God intended it is now or never. Do you know why? If Elijah had delayed a day or slept over when God had said, "get thee to Zarephath", the widow and her son would have eaten their last meal and there may be no resources to miraculously work with. Then also, if Elijah's delay had spanned awhile: some days or months, they could have died already of hunger before his agreement to go to Zarephath. However, apart from the fact that Elijah was an obedient fellow, God created a circumstance to force him to obey so that he won't be slow or tarry for even awhile. What was it? God surrounded him with need. Did you know at arrival, Elijah was thirsty and very hungry? That's why he didn't first bless the woman but ask for water and bread. So, he too knew that a delay here means "my suffering." This is how God would create situation of straining for those who have keys to your blessing with them so they'll have no choice. I can assure you that if Elijah was eating and had had bread to spare at Brook Cherith, he would tarry awhile before leaving. God orchestrated it not happening that way to fast forward him to the redemption of a whole family. God will compel men for your sake. God is on the way. His servant is hurrying. All angels are on tiptoes. Heaven is running helter skelter to ensure that before your conclusive imagination happens, you receive hope. It will never be too late for you. Elijahs would arrive before you round up. You wont commit suicide before your helper comes. You won't have backslided before your husband shows up. A prayer that those who have given God ultimatum should mark. As you're being tempted, you'll hold on. You'll always have hope, hope, hope until hope eventually manifests as answers.
PRAYER: Lord, on need, I will not dash my foot against a stone. Create a way of escape for me where I've lost hope.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Nehemiah 11:1-12:26; 1 Corinthians 10:14-33; Psalm 34:11-22; Proverbs 21:14-16
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