FRIDAY - 14TH OCTOBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
LET'S WATCH IT!
Read Acts 5:25-39
Acts 5:38-39, KJV
"38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God."
The counsel of Gamaliel in the council of the elders is what many need to heed today. There are many who sincerely have a call or mandate on them. They begin to show traits of greatness or of a call towards an area but same is discouraged and shut down. Why don't we allow them and watch the genuineness of what they said they've discovered or are manifesting. No one should have fear amidst us brethren putting his gifts to test or his abilities to work. Even if it never worked as he thought, he should be comforted, ministered to as not to be used by any familiar spirit in the wrong office and encouraged never to relent being a co worker with God. He should find himself again and he will.
There's much room for testing. None ought to be afraid to launch out and see to be proved right or wrong. The elders in today's passage weren't allowing that. They were after shutting the disciples down. They'll want them to preach no more in the name of Jesus. They've been afore jailed but miraculously brought out by an angel who sets them to preach without again. The elders counselled together to have them killed but this admonishment of Gamaliel sets them free as to what process and test every work anyone says he's starting should be subjected to.
"The Lord has called me!" That's good. If the Lord has called you, we'll see whether your profession would become manifestation that'll continue or it'll be a thing you'll start that'll be dissolved. What God wants us know is this. He has overall administrative power and control over His kingdom. He knows what to permit or shut down. Ahead of time as pointed out by Gamaliel, two men have risen and have drawn multitudes after themselves. What were their fate? They were scattered, their works dissolved and their lives terminated. Why? It is not of the Lord. Everyone should hear that and fear. If you're not called into an office or a thing, you shouldn't hurry into it or fake it. You'll only go and not go further. You'll only start and not continue. It won't be long before you'll become an object of mockery. Being called doesn't mean having learnt all the knowledge in this world but it means having the commitment of God with you as the called and that one, money can't buy. That was the test Gamaliel had learnt God to be faithful to and was calling all those elders to submit to, embrace and let God "sieve the wheat from the chaff."
I found out that many people are unnecessarily jealous for God. The jealousy of the elders here set them in conflict with God. The very one they might be fighting for. How deceived humans may be? Yet, God has set in motion processes to sieve off the godly from the ungodly and the called from he who called himself. What is God's has a way of being fed by Him to continue and transcend times and seasons. The persecution doesn't matter. The killing of its adherents only makes faith of others stronger while bringing more to the faith. Despite wanting to break their work, they grow because this is the work the Lord recognizes. He ordains this. But for as many that have not been initiated or endorsed by God, their destinies are like those two broken works that Gamaliel mentioned. This should be our comfort because God is a God Who separates between the wheat and the chaff. The ungodly will not always stand in the congregation of the righteous and if you've been jealous for God as to why some desecrate His altars, I'll say He's nearer than you think.
Psalms 1:4-5, KJV
"4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous."
God's judgement is nearer and He'll take away every pseudo work and pseudo ministers from His vineyard. Their judgement is near and has gone ahead them. They shall not always continue. But he who does the will of God shall continue and have his work planted.
PRAYER: Lord, I submit my work for divine test in fear. May my work win your approval.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 12:1-14:10, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8, Psalm 79:1-13, Proverbs 24:30-34
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