SATURDAY - 8TH OCTOBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
READY! - Discipleship Series 004
Read Acts 9:10-17
Acts 9:10, KJV
"And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord."
Another mark of a disciple is readiness. They must always be at hand. If you're not filled with your own ways, if you've not being employed by another spirit but this same Holy Spirit, then your availability should not come under siege whenever the Lord calls. This is where Christians as soldiers should not be underdeveloped. Many Christians aren't seeing themselves so. They have entangled and comforted themselves with the life of a civilian for long. At the call of God for duty, they're usually no where to be found and the work of the Lord suffers. It's when ministration knocks that some ministers would desire they had been praying, fasting and possessing their vessels in honour. They'll then begin to experience like the disciples whom Jesus told, "this kind goes not out but by prayer and fasting (Matt.17:21)" A disciple must therefore be ready. No sin must have singed his mind in order to convince him he's incapable but he must rather believe in the finished works of Christ to cast out devils and heal the sick. Here's Paul already in a broken stage. He needs ministry and ministration. Who will bear it to him is now what matters? A sacrificial life is a calling on any disciple. A life that can do away with their own ways and be useful for the Lord whenever he calls. Are you always ready or once called, you'll take awhile to be found? If you are, many souls would slip off being harvested. Your emergency sanctification is eyesore to the Lord.
This same readiness is what Philip lived out. An angel told him, "arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza... (Acts 8:26). All other events after that were history. That Ethiopian Eunuch didn't escape Jesus that day and he was as well baptized. God must be able to lay hands on you any time any day. That's if you call yourself His vessel. A mark that the Lord has not possessed you is your unavailability whenever He has works immediately to do. You must have built reputation with the Lord so much more that if he calls at a minute to an occasion, you could sacrifice your sleep to pray on the dream He gives you (to evade what might happened). The recruitment going on is that of ready, at hand disciples. Those that'll be called and will say, "here I am, Lord." May God wean you of all things that has made you its own so you'll be a ready disciple of God.
PRAYER: Lord, help me mature into readiness.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 8:8-9:26, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 78:32-55, Proverbs 24:27
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