THURSDAY - 25TH AUGUST, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE RELUCTANCE OF MEN MAY COST US
I Samuel 17:16, KJV
"And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days."
We must be discerning. Lack of discernment might hinder us from moving when God moves. Goliath for forty days taunted and tormented the army of the Lord. Does the Lord intend it lasts this long when He knew who He'll use to secure victory for Israel already. There's nothing God wants to do on earth that He doesn't need a body for. That's why partnering with human beings have become a very important thing. That's why yielding as well has become an important thing. Unless you yield, some things might still be fallowed and left undone.
Israel awaited their ambassador in David for forty days. The challenge went on unopposed while Goliath would come out to shiver them daily with, "are you not servants of Saul and I a Philistine? Choose yourself a man that we may fight." God has appointed a deliverer for Israel and like chess playing, He intends he moves to the battle where the next scene awaits him but a human was failing. Jesse was failing. Jesse didn't discover sending David to the battle to go deliver cheeses to his brothers until after the fortieth day of torment. The problems, challenges etc in your life which you've been praying to God over, does God intends it lasts this long before it's taken away? No! A human might be failing God. God might have spoken to someone to come to your aid financially while disobedience and reluctance is causing delay. There are moments when God comes to people as the first choice while their reluctance makes God choose another vessel for use. Katherine Kuhlman had said she was not the first person God visited with the healing anointing. God went to someone first who was unable to yield before the anointing sought another out to use. It becomes of us today to be sensitive and discerning to what God is doing in the now so that we might always be found in the present with Him.
The sending of David to the battle field by Jesse was only a disguise by God. God wanted David there and He wouldn't come down from heaven to drag him there. David was a man under authority. God therefore had to nudge and stir a heart to take a step that would benefit Israel and begin to lead David on the road of his journey. If you're slow in discerning, you'll do much harm to what God wanted do. A sinner will destroy much good the Bible says. If God has been witnessing to you to speak with someone and you've been shrugging it off, you may elongate and make more space for such sinner to impregnate, murder, abort another and go on another robbery operation where he'll be caught and later executed. God might have wanted to spare his life but reluctance and unwillingness from you may be the problem. God had to wait for David to be moved before the next scene could be moved. Probably, you're the man God, your country, your family is waiting for to show up. Probably you're he or she God has put a calling on, that without you they can do nothing. May you discover its you, stop living in sin, enter into purpose and find out God's sovereign will for your life. Until cargoes are moved to where they're needed, they can't be put to their uses. Heaven and earth await your manifestation. May this delay ends. May the training God has invested heavily on to train you for the day of manifestation not be wasted. May you put it to work. May you gravitate towards what you're called for. May the challenge that would make you a national hero and reveal you to the community of men draw you successfully to itself. May you be where God is. Backsliding is missing steps with God. May you take a step when God ordains it. May God speak once, may you perceive seven times. May your Jesse pick God's signal that immediate and not let what God intended removed last so long and become inflated into a mountain threatening men.
PRAYER: Grant me a sharp discerning. I receive willingness and obedience.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 12:1-15:35; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58; Psalm 39:1-13; Proverbs 21:30-31
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