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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
ARE YOU A PIONEER? - Open Heaven Series 023
I Corinthians 16:8-9, KJV
"8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries."
If you are, one major thing you need is the door of ministry. You need it to open to you lands and the hearts of men. This is if you'll ever do any effectual work for the Lord in the land. It is not everyone who'll carry the call of a pioneer but some are called as Apostles - sent ones to go and break a land and open it up to future wayfarers. Their work is tedious because the land is unfamiliar with what they bring and so might face strong initial resistance since the land has its own religion, beliefs and practices before their arrival. When they arrive at a place, it is usually crude, raw, unattractive and pretty basic. Many would have nothing to do with such lands because it is not always their dream land but a pioneer has eyes of the mind to see what it'll become if the room God opens up to him in that land for effective work is maximized. Also, many pioneers are like Paul here. They build amidst debates and contentions. They have God's permission to plough a land through and erect on it. A mark of God's open door to them but they're always faced with oppositions like Nehemiah faced from Sanbalatt and Tobiah (Neh.2:10). You can't be a pioneer and not have some measure of the gift of faith. This is what makes you act differently and not lose heart when others chicken out. That heart was what Caleb and Joshua possessed. They always see possibilities even in places with strong outlook.
Today, God is also raising foreign missionaries. These are those who'll be sent as seeds and planted in places other than they know or originate from. God wants to take you away from home. If you are, you need God to grant you this manifestation of open heaven which is a wide open door. People must make room for you in such land. People must agree with you in such land. It is this that causes you acceptance and makes you build what generations and downlines would one day meet. If God suffers a pioneer with an open door to a new place, he'll definitely achieves nothing or little. If you're on a foreign mission and you're not opened up to, one major thing that could then kill you is hostility. But if you're a called pioneer whom God has decided should open up a place to the gospel, you'd see the people accept you and you'd see a productive or tangible work result because of the open door. This is pretty God's work. The Bible says, "while they move from nation to nation, He allows none to touch them (Psalm 105: 13-14). That's a function of an open door. It is what I'm praying on you today. Wherever you may go as God's envoy to situate for Him and His kingdom, may it always be, "touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm." In six troubles, even in seven, God will keep all of you who have left parents, spouses and houses to obey the great commission. May God be your inheritance and always make the provision of pillows for you even if it'll be a stone (Gen.28:11).
PRAYER: Bear burdens on behalf of those on mission. Ask that lands open up to them and heart warm up to receive them.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 60:1-62:5; Philippians 1:27-2:18; Psalm 72:1-20; Proverbs 24:11-12
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