SATURDAY - 5TH NOVEMBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
IF YOU MAKE ROOM ENOUGH FOR ME - Large Place Series 020
II Kings 4:6, KJV
"And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed."
God told me, "you determine to what extent I'll have reach in your life, possess or use you. I want to show My unlimitedness in your vessel of honour. I have enough oil to pour into your vessel but will you make me accommodating room enough or the reply will soon be, "and there's not a vessel more", thereby stopping the willingness of the ever ready flow?The oil flowing in this passage still has intention to fill vessels more and more. It's a stream that never ends but rather one that demands "more room" for its outpouring. The reply however was that there's no more room for its accommodation. God is ready to work but man is unprepared to accomodate Him. Instantaneously, the oil stayed. This is the oil that could have flown on and on but human activity and inactivity stopped it. Therefore, the extent or the reach to which any man would be used by God is not determined by God Himself but that man himself.
I heard the word of that ancient prophet that cries with lament saying, "3 the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it (Isaiah 40:3-5, KJV).
What does this mean? God wants to have free hand, free course and free flow in our lives. He wants to move smoothly and at His own desired speed while running and flowing through us to minister to our world. There's no vessel God wants to use that won't keep himself from what hinders the transportation of the Spirit while keeping himself in shape, availability and update to the increment of anything that won't curtail, stop, hinder or grieve the Holy Ghost. If there's no way prepared for the Lord to pass through in your own life and the Lord is always stumbling at pebbles while being reduced in motion by the much potholes of your undedicated life, you'll tone down the ability and capacity of God like that widow did by not making available very much vessels to trap the oil and the ever willingness of God. That woman could have seen a greater glory of God but her preparation was what she got. Therefore, it's not consequent upon God to determine how much you'll receive, the growth you'll grow, and the extent you'll go in depth but rather you're the determiner. If you're always making room daily, asking and desiring more, laying down your will and repenting from your ways and ambition, you'll see God use you and take you to the tower of the achievement that you could never have forecasted yourself. I believe that many people whom God used that we call God's Generals still restricted God and so God achieved less with them. Not asking God always what He'll have you do per term can restrict how far He could take you. So, where people could have gone further, they only went far. What we on the earth realm are now praising and celebrating is the "far" they went and not the "farther" that God had in mind. And we are deceived to be believe that because what was birthed through their callings was so gigantic before us that we believe that's all God had ever wanted to do with them. No! He wanted to do more but they gave Him no expression. They shut Him up. They forced Him to recline and hold on. That's what this woman did to the oil. The oil was forcefully shut up where it could have continued to speak and pour.
If you never fulfill this scripture above as a Christian or minister, you can't become all God wants to make you or use you to do because your own will, plans, ambitions, love, desires and breathings might contradict with God's. Once it does, you'll hinder, block and restrain Him from having free hand. So, the unlimited God will become limited in your life. You'll just see the oil staying where it could have healed all but rather get curtailed because of your inadequate obedience. God, deliver us from ourselves, self will and adequacy of being roomy enough in one's sight. May we always shift ground and make you win. For that's when we can wear you out and see Your inside while experiencing "Yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory."
PRAYER: I clear and rid myself of anything that hinders the flow and transportation of God in my life. I shall be used maximally.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 12:1-14:11; Hebrews 7:1-17; Psalm 105:37-45; Proverbs 27:3
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