MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/09/2022

MONDAY - 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

"OH, I'M DELIGHTED TO BE HERE!" - Open Heaven Series 011

Read Gen.28:16-19

Genesis 28:16-17, KJV

"16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

Only few ever confess they are delighted to be here. The reason is at hand. What you do not experience, you can't with words flesh. For this cause, many haven't been able to share their testimony of such experience yet same is particular and ought to be common. Jacob is fortunate in this life for having had a foretaste of heaven before his eventual departure to same place. Heaven is sweet and unparalleled. If we consider all the words Jacob uttered when the dream of his head lifted, we'll see how much the experience possessed him. Firstly, he said, "surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it." Does that reveal an intention to have known ahead? If he had, he could have bowed in worship earlier. God is spirit and man is also. He's meant to contact God by his own spirit in sweet fellowship. We're all meant to unite with Him in intimacy. Our quest should be to find God and possess Him for ourselves but I show you a mystery of one who God presented Himself to but who learnt Him very late. This probably was the reason for which God rode into his dream while he slept. Man ought to be conscious of God. Alas, our heads are full of cares of this world. We are wearied, tired and all we beg for like Jacob is to recline in sleep instead of first noticing His presence around us as a urge in us calling us to sweet fellowship with Him. The cares of this world are taking their toil on us and by same we are weakened to rest instead of being woken to fellowship. O man, shouldn't you have discerned your duty to God? May mercy however find all weary Jacobs so that in sleep they might still be visited and their ears opened to still hear God.

Job 33:14-16, KJV

"14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 16Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction."

May you lose nothing. May what you couldn't absorb in life be brought you in spirit and same you shall see become a reality solidly in your life. I therefore cause your ears to open. May you always absorb God. 

Then, Jacob was terrified. Holy places are places of fear and reference. It's not a place where man's standards, ways of life or frivolities are tolerated or brought in. Heaven rules supreme and His dictate is all what mortals who will find use in His hands do. For such reason, a command went out to Moses to put off his sandals because where he stands is a holy ground (Exo.3:5). You'll be purged. God will till you. He'll collect from you your inordinate ambition, crooked way of life and melt off your dross. By then, you'll have been made a sharp threshing instrument in His hands. Holy call is only done by refined men. None discovers the holy ground who didn't shout out, "how awesome, terrifying and scary is this place!" They're gripped by His holy presence which man of unclean lips shivers at. This is the ordainment of God, that men of flesh would bow before Him in worship. 

Then Jacob confessed same place being God's house and the gates of heaven. If a place is God's house, it is where He has chosen to dwell. Any who dwells in a place resides there permanently. He's residual there. Then, it means that land or ground is God's focus and where the gaze of His attention shall always be directed on. His rays are on it and none shall hurt any who claims relation with such land or place. This is our inheritance which we share through Christ. We are His anointed one. He's the land. We are connected to Him, the Head of all principalities and powers who stood colossally above the ladder. Who will then hurt us when we have thus become the children of immortality? How can we die when eternity is our possession? Who then shall we fear having such promises? Now, it is the gates of heaven. This is our privilege to access God. We've not been forlorn. The heaven has always pant relating with man. Here is our privilege to take. A disclosure has been opened, a ladder to climb descended, a stairway already leads to heaven for us. The death of Jesus, the tearing of his flesh in suffering (which is the tearing of the curtain of the temple) opens a thoroughfare for each of us to mount this staircase to Him in relationship. Individuals can now access Him themselves. Now, I can pray and believe to be heard because of an opening from heaven to earth. This is our assurance. 

Who therefore will stumble upon such land and not holler, "I'm delighted" when he knows with what the land rewards? Christ is the land and we have found Him like a hidden treasure. We cherish Him more than gold. For this reason, the Psalmist in holy revelation and thundering shout says, "a day with You is simply better than thousands elsewhere. I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tent of wickedness" (Psalm 84:10). He intends he'd rather be in the closet, in intimacy, in fellowship, in exchange of discussion with the One above the ladder than being elsewhere. What has he discovered? The goodies, the altering that happens before Him, the foretaste of heaven's glory that makes a man long for another taste. No wonder he says elsewhere that his soul like a Hart pants after God. Like one removed far from relationship with a lover or hindered from relating with same, he asks rhetorically, "when shall I come before God and behold your face?"

This man has tasted glory afore passage to the other life. This is what fellowship, touching of Holy ground, talks with heaven does to you. It leaves in you a thirst you want to taste and quench. Oh, may you and I always be needy!

PRAYER: Lord, overwhelm me with Your visitation. Make me sensitive and attentive. May You not bypass me. What I can't grab in life, may I possess in spirit. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 28:14-30:11; Galatians 3:23-4:31; Psalm 62:1-12; Proverbs 23:19-21

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