SATURDAY- 25TH FEBRUARY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
BY WHO I WILL SAVE YOU (B) - Our Saviour Series 003
Read Judges 7:1-7
Judges 7:7, KJV
"And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place."
The masses must ask, "O, Lord, by who will you save us?" All Christians who are in great expectation of a time and a time refreshing should also ask, "by who have you destined and willed to save us?" It is this revealed and then done will that'll make your Gideon or Israel have victory in battle and your endeavor. If you're a leader of a group and God is saying, "your victory is in the hands of brother or sister XYZ, if you're a man of the spirit, you won't contest it because you'll know that's the fellow God is working through/with at that time. It doesn't also mean you've lost your place. So, never be insecure as a leader. Rather, be humble enough to see and use your allocation. It's your responsibility always to find those men who are appointed to carry the trophy with/for you. And it's to your advantage to lead a group that excels even if the tactics of winning was not given by you - the main leader but rather comes through another in your group. That's what God told Gideon. He said the battle against the Midianites would be done by the 300 who lapped. That means God doesn't deliver by everybody. He specifically chooses His deliverers and gives them as gifts to individuals, nations and people.
At every point in time, God sends deliverers. The office that propels the ministry and office of a deliverer is that of the oppressor. Wherever there's an oppressor, it's a matter of time, my King of old will soon raise a deliverer. So, every oppressor should beware. If you are to your subordinates, be afraid. God will soon overturn you. That you're an oppressor means your act will call for deliverance. When the evil of Sodom got to head, the cry of their evil went to God and my Lord was not slow to come and affirm it altogether. He's fair. He takes action after ascertaining only (Gen.18:20-21).
At a time, everybody was incapacitated and couldn't have done a thing except Esther. Mordecai knew this and he didn't rival why it would be Esther God wanted to deliver by. As far as he's concerned, "she's the 300 who lapped by which God will save them all alive by." He didn't say, "why should it be by small Esther (the girl I trained) God wanted to save the Jews?" He rather sensitizes her to her singular purpose of being in the kingdom at such a time as that. But Mordecai also reminds her that if she watches and does nothing, salvation will come for the Jews from elsewhere but she and her father's house shall perish (Esther 4:14).
We need pastors like Mordecai who will rehearse it in people's ears they are the, "300 men God wants to save and deliver by" and that it's a great privilege to be the chosen amidst many. Educate them that your prayers are with them because all gazes are on them. Let them feel the pressure and burden. Don't ease them at all. Tell them their purposes and that blood can be on them if not lived. They must therefore make their being called as a deliverer count. Esther was enjoying being called the queen but it didn't end there. She must work the work of a queen - as one who's close to the king and can have his ears. By the time you face the Master, you'll discover having what you have isn't for merry making only. I ask, "by who have you been prophesied to be saved or are you even the one prophesied and given for others to be saved?" Your saviour as a mother or father may be that little baby in your hands. He or she may be the one who will liberate, promote your family name and bring great honour to that your name like none you know in your lineage had done. That may be your history maker. That your sibling or that fellow who's less esteemed may be also. When Noah was born, the parents hoped in his birth and so it was (Gen.5:29). I pray that you'll not disappoint the hope placed in you as the saviour of the people. The one God wants to save many by!
In any situation you find yourself which looks hopeless, always ask, "by who does God want to move first?" That's God's formula for achieving and vanguishing.
Judges 20:18, KJV
"And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first."
Those who miss this formula and this way of God will have themselves to blame because they'll endanger their own lives and those of all who presumptuously enter by joining a venture that rather needs the specific guidance of God as to who the chosen one to lead the way and battle is. If you're a follower, you should be weary of just joining anyone. If you join anyone who you're not a right resources to because you were not found him by God, you'll ruin yourself and ruin him also. You might become a curse instead of a blessing. Let God show you who to cling to. Those men of war God sent home could have been useful for another man or useful another day, but not for Gideon at that time. That's why God said, "for by these 300 that lapped will I save you." May God find you your own men amidst men.
God, may you teach us to go with round pegs even when we don't know the holes we'll encounter will be round holes. May you instruct us of battles You alone knows how it'll turn. May it be that when it's Judah that should lead us to battle in our nation, church or family, another tribe will not supplant him. May the man, the tribe you have chosen to mount up to war first and above others take the lead. May we see right, choose right so as to be led right. May prayers overtake us and prophecy overrule us!
PRAYER: Lord, open my eyes to see my salvation. In who have you kept hope alive for us? By who will we be saved? Only him!
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Leviticus 15:1-16:28; Mark 7:1-23; Psalm 40:11-17; Proverbs 10:13-14
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