SATURDAY - 7TH JANUARY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
MOTHER, TEACH ME HOW TO HUNT! - Seek Right Series 002
Read Mark 6:12-29
Mark 6:24, KJV
"And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist."
You actually don't know how to hunt but you need learn how to hunt. Your prayer should be, "Lord, show and teach me how to hunt." Did we not know that at least David said "He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms (Psalms 18:34)." So, it's a reality and not a denial that the Lord do teach and could tailor His teaching to your own specific need.
Herod in the spirit of hilarity promised the daughter of Herodias to make any request upon him. How much more God whose is the earth and all that's in them? How I wish Herod had seen the end before now however but he was too impressed. Not wanting to disgrace and reduce his own words to nothingness, he orders with bravery that the head of a prophet - John the Baptist be given to Herodias' daughter. But this girl is too young. She knows not what to pray or how to pray it. That's why she immediately flings to her mother with the cry, "mummy, teach me what to pray. I know not what to ask." The mother must have smiled and said, "thanks you didn't waste this rare privilege and open door. I will now teach you daughter and you shall come home with a baffling profit. You shall fish big from the waters and all that hears shall be surprised." Immediately, this woman taught her to ask for the head of John the Baptist. This was the girl that didn't know what to afore ask for. She could have asked for some petty gifts if left alone but the mother put her right and aided her in her asking so much more that her ask reveals maturity beyond her age. I'm hearing a loud echo in my spirit saying, "likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26-27, KJV).
Paul is saying that our failure to know God’s will and consequent inability to petition God specifically and assuredly is met by God’s Spirit, who himself expresses to God those intercessory petitions that perfectly match the will of God. When we do not know what to pray for—yes, even when we pray for things that are not best for us—we need not despair, for we can depend on the Spirit’s ministry of perfect intercession “on our behalf.” Where our profit is is that we're not forlorn. Even in our weakness, God's Spirit intercedes for us succinctly as fit and meet with what's the will of God (the mark that should not be missed). This is where all petitioners who don't know what to ask or how to ask it can be made perfect. Herodias'daughter knows not how to pray nor know what to ask for, but she was aided. The difference is only that those words were put in her own mouth. Apart from the importance of mentoring that I'm seeing there, being full of yourself will rob you and make you request for less where you could have carried the 'head of John the Baptist" or make the greatest tender that'll leave God's account with sigh. You really don't know what to ask or pray. So, we ought to often pray that we'll be led in prayer to hit on the mind of God. There are Spirit led prayers. I call it dictates. It's what you hear bubbling from your inside when you pray. Some call it prophetic prayer. This is the mind of God per time apart from all His explicitly revealed will already stated in the Bible. At times, scriptures will float to your mind time after time.
Today, God wants you to be humble and acknowledge you know not how to pray. Apart from the Spirit's intercessory work of aiding our weaknesses, take the yoke and responsibility of the Spirit praying through you upon yourself and you shall always hunt big. Yield to him if you sense a move in your spirit. Quit yourself, be quiet and know He's Lord. The Spirit knows what's the will of the Father and He'll help you ask the important, major, big and impressive delightful things.
PRAYER: Thank you for the intercessory role of the Holy Ghost for me. Teach me to ask Lord. Equip me to ask according to Your will.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 8:1-10:32; Matthew 4:12-25; Psalm 4:1-8; Proverbs 1:20-23
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