SATURDAY - 21ST JANUARY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
ONCE FULL BUT NOW EMPTY - Violator Series 003
Read Ruth 1
Ruth 1:20-21, KJV
"20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?"
Once people begin to suffer the consequences of their actions, they do seek to deflect or deny being the causes at times. Who dealt bitterly with Naomi? God? Or it was the vulnerable steps they took that gave them over to the devil? Watch your steps this year as you go. You can travel wherever for residence, business e.t.c. but discern when and where not to travel.
A reading of Ruth 1 reveals how the family of Naomi went out in words that could be described as, "nothing missing and nothing broken." All of them were healthy, intact, robust and filled with hope at their setting out. More importantly, none diminished amidst them. At their numbering while launching out, they were all complete. Elimelech, Naomi, Mahlon and Chilion all went out as a pack and in a pack. This is the full squad that Naomi speaks about but which she has failed to take responsibility for after it was broken. Where bread is; security and salvation may not be there for you. No land is fully promising except where God locates you or tells you to stay (even if it were a war zone). If God is against you and you go and find your base in a barracks, you'll still perish.
Naomi testified, "we went out full - nothing missing, nothing broken." We were a squad but here I am. I'm the only survivor. While today I'm believing the survivor anointing of Naomi would hit you, yet I'll desire you never join the move the Lord has not ordained. If it's only the day the Lord has made we could rejoice and be glad in it, it means, it's only such journey ordained by the Lord that could be benefited from fully.
Naomi went out full but came back empty. Naomi was given a company. Naomi was not alone. She has a people her heart could safely trust in. I mean, hers. But later, she lost all and was emptied. May you not go on the journey of deception. Do you know what the journey of deception is? It's a journey that'll look bright before your departure but inwardly is like the ravenous wolf in sheep clothing. It'll eventually harm and wreck you. So, while it's good to take opportunities, don't take opportunities after the vision of men. While a fish is harbouring a coin for Peter and Jesus' uses yet a fish swallows a whole human up. What's blessing to some is the curse of some. Any who goes on their own journey always end being swallowed up like Jonah. They might have experienced gloom even if they'll finally know God's salvation. But if you'll be commissioned, what should swallow you would vomit you bread to eat. You'll live life abundantly.
Naomi's story and life experience reveals again the reality of starting out full but wasted and finished on the way. However, you can learn how to remain, endure with all you are and have by being dictated to by the Spirit. Let people see your body move and mistaken your moves for ordinary moves because they are not there when you were commissioned. That's the better journey. All who goes on them goes in full and comes back fuller. They won't go back as Christians and return as atheists. They won't go out as righteous ones and return with perversions. May you always go out in full and return fuller. May your energy not be sapped as you go out daily. And at arrival back home later in the day, may it be good news you'll bring, hear and contact. May you not record losses. Yes, any sort of losses. I cancel them. May you not business in the morning and be in debt later in the day. You're the spared. May you always experience God's move, a pull in your heart and a reluctance of your feet over all deceptive journeys.
PRAYER: I shall not go on any journey of deception this year. I shall not go out full and incur losses. I shall be fuller.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 42:18-43:34; Matthew 13:47-14:12; Psalm 18:16-36; Proverbs 4:7-10
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