WEDNESDAY - 23RD NOVEMBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
WHEN TRUSTING GOD IS EASIER - Breaking Needs Series 005
Genesis 22:6-8, KJV
"6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."
There's a time when trusting God is bread and butter. You yet don't break a sweat. It's the time when if asked by your spouse, children, siblings, associate pastors etc how a need would be met, your defaulted reply would be, "God will provide." Anyone could mistaken you to be in faith at this time but they wouldn't know you're maintaining positive confession because your need has not yet reached its climax of desperation.
In the past devotional, I made mention of something troubling known as the peak or mount of need. It's when a man has no wherewithal and his chances of survival have been leaned down to nothing. So, it's either he looks up to heaven or he forgets and let slip. Abraham once got to the mount of need on the mount of the Lord but before then, let me take you by the hands and lead you into the court room of how Abraham began to trust God and how trusting God to meet his needs was easier at first.
If you're trusting for a need to be met and the need is still in a long distance before you, it is easier maintaining faith or being in faith because that need is still a year time to come. Then, you'll be full of many soothing comforting words. You'll still believe and be strong at heart that "God is the God of all flesh and that nothing is too difficult for Him." Ok, let's see. But, confessions like this should not be confidently trusted because they've not being tested. God will like to prove your faith in Him by making you near your need and your need not nearing you. If you read today's passage, Isaac asked the dad - Abraham where the ram was or would come from. Abraham didn't have to think twice before he said, "the Lord would provide." He could say that for so many reasons. One of which is that they're still far from Moriah where the sacrifice will take place. So, Abraham still has some respite that God can still show up. Though some loss is at sight yet Abraham is not yet feeling it deeply because the knife is not yet in his hand nor at the throat of Isaac. There's still respite and a hope that God won't disappoint Himself and him too. At this point in any brother's or sister's life, it's easier trusting God. It's easier confessing the scriptures and making declarations but if you're two days, a day or some hours to the closure of an application you have to pay and apply for and you're yet in faith and confession of the Scriptures and all you've been doing when closing date has not drawn near, "God will endorse you to be a true seeker and there's no true seeker who goes off empty handed." But do you know what rather happens? As people draw near and near the slated time to get a thing accomplished and same is unaccomplished, fear steps into their lives because they haven't gotten the wherewithal to meet that need. In the nearest distance, they're seeing disgrace and being left behind already. These altogether created more fears which lead to doubt in them. So, they outrightly stop believing to rather run helter-skelter to any place or person who could meet their needs in their estimation. They'll begin to exercise the opposite of faith or positive confession. They'll therefore undo all they've done for days if not years. At the time of their accusation of God that He's not listening is when they've really reached the mount or peak of their need. That's when things are desperate! When you haven't reached it, you may have peace and believe the earth is under your feet but as the day draws near and your need is yet to be met, one bolt of fear stronger than the East wind will first jolt you to your senses. You've been in faith but now you'll be woken to your senses to be sensed ruled. You'll suddenly have awareness of time and at that time, you may cast off restraint and go any length to seek help from where God does not sanction or where you wouldn't have looked twice if recommended to you during your days of buoyancy. At this period (peak of need), people backslide for short in the process of wanting to meet needs.
I pray that angels will rather bear you up. The Bible says, "you won't be tempted more than you can bear." I pray that with your temptation shall come a way of escape so that you may always escape every day and every time. I declare, you won't disappoint God or let go when your breakthrough is just stone throw away. May it never never be recorded that you're of those who shrink back. Never. Never I say! Your salvation is around the corner. If you're trusting God for provision, divine health or whatsoever, keep being in faith and in persistence on the mount of need (when situations might have reached their peak and pressure is pressurizing). God will show up. This is what surprises us and makes us call God the miraculous God. This is what will make you call Him your Salvation. Until you reach the mount or peak of need, anything you receive of Him seems to have been delivered to you by your swiftness, prayer abilities or righteousness. Then, you may share the glory with God. May God train you as children and take you through all the processes that make a son so that you'll be lacking in nothing.
PRAYER: Lord, may I not attribute salvation at any point to myself. Train me in all the processes of sonship. Help me overcome my hour of temptation and remain in faith and with You. I shall not shrink back.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 40:28-41:26; James 4:1-17; Psalm 118:19-29; Proverbs 28:3-5
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