FRIDAY - 20TH JANUARY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
MAXIMIZING YOUR FEEDING - Violator Series 002
Read I Kings 19:1-8
I Kings 19:7-8, KJV
"7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."
Did you know Elijah is invested in just like the prodigal son is invested in? The prodigal son met his dad and said, "father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me" and then we have report that his father divided him. Also, after the Mount Carmel contest and cleansing, Elijah fled having being threatened by Jezebel. In Gloom, darkness and great tiredness, he sleeps. He even requests that he dies. It seems to have reached its apex.
At this time, an angel wakes him up and offers him food and water. He eats and goes back to sleep. Again, the angel does same but with a warning or encouragement that he should wake and eat because, "the journey is too great for him!" Isn't that shocking? What could be coming that's too great for Elijah that heaven had seen which necessitates his being fed repeatedly and invested in again? The answer is in the next verse.
I Kings 19:8, KJV
"And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."
That's what brought that encouragement and if you might say warning that he should tidy up and eat because the journey would be too great for him. Imagine somebody trekking to a destination and that for forty days and forty nights. How far is that place? How tedious is that journey? It tells me, God works in our present based on what he has seen in our future. He anticipates the future for us and he wants us to have been concretized to contain it. So, that double investment is to sustain Elijah so he won't faint or die before reaching destination. And we have a testimony that, "he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb, the mount of God." He didn't disappoint expectation. He didn't fall by the way side or die in that process. He reached destination. He maximized and fulfilled the reason for his doubly feeding. But what do we have to say about the prodigal son who goes on a journey and is invested seriously in before departure yet finished before what he should use the investment to confront came. We read that, "and when he had spent all, a mighty famine arose and he began to be in want (Luke 15:14, KJV). He had finished before the fight and real journey began. That investment he left home with ought to be his defence against that famine but since he left home without any counsel or anticipation of a future to come, he squandered all only to begin to be shown pepper.
You see, if you see ahead and know there'll be hard times, you could take caution, act differently and do something that others might even mock because they're not yet seeing the reason for such anticipation. Elijah was told to rise and eat because the journey is too great for him. They hinted him of a danger ahead. So, Elijah ate. He had a choice of not eating or eating sparingly but Elijah fed on that food indeed. He filled himself with bread. Yet, all he heard was that "the journey would be too great for him." He never knew neither was he told it would take forty days until he had undertaken it. God corresponds Elijah with his journey. God will come for everyone like this. Just ensure when you're being warned to "wake and act somehow", you do because that may be your salvation for the future. The disobedient will suffer in the nearest future.
I pray that you'll fulfill the reason for your being loaded, beloved and fed. Even if the journey of a month would last forty days, it won't be you that'll be looking for money to borrow before the month ends and another comes at its scheduled time to come. What you have will engulf you and be sufficient to take care of the duration and the season you'll enter into.
PRAYER: Lord, equal me with the season to come on me. Hint me of the future and what preparation to enter with.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 39:1-41:16; Matthew 12:46-13:23; Psalm 17:1-15; Proverbs 3:33-35
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