SUNDAY - 11TH JUNE, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
DOORS!
Acts 10:3,5, KJV
"3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. 5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:"
Here, God opens a door of ministry for Peter. God will give you a door but one that'll be commensurate to what by allowance He wants you to do for Him. It's of His fullness we have received grace for grace (John 1:16). From Him also every good gift and perfect gift comes from (James 1:17). This solely situates us somewhere. Where we know by revelation and even experience that the door that any man ought have opened to him ought be from the Lord. If it is not prompted, slated and caused by the Lord; please, let it slip. I believe such doors can then cause you vexation of spirit and grieve of heart. Such doors always fulfill this verse.
I Timothy 6:9, KJV
"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition."
I want to be rich but not somehow or someway. When that place says, "but they that'll be rich...", it tells of those who takes every offer and are unmindful of sifting it because they have a determinate counsel of, "I must be rich." These are those who are always blinded from seeing the blessing that's not the Lord's. They've been overwhelmed, taken, ridden, chained and caressed knittly by, "I must be rich." Off course, it means, "at all cost." This is not a sole motivation to success but one that always bite more than it can chew and seeks to entreat all helps. When will such not fall into hurtful lusts that leads to destruction?
That's why the Bible says, "the blessing of the Lord makes a person rich and he adds no sorrow with it" (NLT). How many of you are here who wants to have a blessing now and by tomorrow begin to be queried for it? Look at this funny typology. When that place says the blessing of the Lord makes rich and he adds no sorrow with it, it is best illustrated with God giving you a car. A brand new car that if you kick once, it'll start that once. The other blessing that adds sorrow comes of the devil and through men that God is not using for you but who might have sent themselves. They know what they're looking for. They know the recompense they want in return. This in itself is a kind of sorrow. The fact that they'll hold you to an obligation that'll be above your head. Someone once wanted to help me get a job. He said once he does, "we'll partition my salary and he'll also have a share." Both culturally and as a Christian, I was not brought up this way. This is selling and buying of favours. But I'll have been grateful in a way that that kind hearted heart would praise God for me. All these and many more are doors the Lord is not giving. They're blessings He's not sending.
To have also the correct image of a blessing that adds sorrow; let's say the blessing that adds sorrow is typified by a terribly overused car which before it'll start, you have to daily sweat. Imagine what much sorrow comes with using a vehicle that is already over with but which you're trying to manage due to lack of resources. You have a car but it's a car that adds sorrow. While you're grateful for having a car yet you don't desire facing the troubles that car often brings. You may be blessed but it may be one that'll bring what you'll soon live to despise or detest. In being blessed, admitted, assisted, promoted, recommended etc, some have come to grow weary of the slavery and the sorrow with which they're paying back. It ranges from being a partner in immorality, to being initiated into the occult or being made a puppet or second fiddle to their helpers. They're never allowed to exercise dependency. They're always taking dictations on their false seats.
Another place admonishes us to ask of God who gives liberally without reproach (James 1:5). And I can tell you, it isn't wisdom only God gives liberally without reproach. If it's inherent in God to give liberally without reproach, I'm sensing a contrast being subtly made between God and man here. It means man is prone to reproaching you even with what he has stingily and grudgingly measures out to you. Yet, all God's gifts, blessings and open doors always come without reproach. You can wait for His or you ride in false alternatives.
Promotion the Bible says does not come from the East, West or South. God is the judge of all (Psalm 75:6-7). Say, "God is the judge of all!" If indeed we have settled the fact that God is indeed or should indeed be the only one qualified to fling doors open for us, then it means to say, "we should await him for our open doors." Until your word comes, please let it tarry (Psalm 105:19). Many doors there be that God didn't open for His children. These are blessings and happiness courted through another means. Most times, something is always at stake or to be compromised. Be mindful of false doors. Doors that are not doors. Doors that'll seem to open but are actually trap doors. Opportunities, privileges and come-up- hithers that are snares are now many and mass manufactured to detour people from ever knowing real joy or having a taste of the good and perfect gift afore prepared for them by God. Joseph's door would open after he might have fulfilled his course with God but Satan came ahead of his graduation into his prepared joy to open unto him a false door and hope. Beware of anything that comes to relieve you with pleasure when you should still be in labour. Like Satan says to Jesus, "bow to me and all these shall be yours" (Matt.4:9). That was the same implied words of Potiohar's wife to Joseph. It is, come lie with me and I shall promote you in this house. It can't be more than that. Potiohar's wife does not have national influence. May household and parlour influences not substitute national and international influences in your life. God does greater if we wait for His arrival. Thank God Joseph saw this was a false door. Thank God He didn't enter by it. Thank God he didn't take it but despises it as not being authored by God. What is being a head of a house to being the head of a nation? However, you need to be aware that once you enter or take the false door, it's Satan's intention to use it to trap you so that reversal into the joy God has prepared for you from the foundations of the earth are at all not known. This is why I cry and say, "Lord, may I not go the way of error. May I not take the help that's not your gift to me." All such gifts come with a dose of payment that weighs down! Those who collect them are forced to escape from temporal suffering but behold, their sorrow shall soon be multiplied.
I'm hearing, "I've opened you a door which no man can shut." Now is your time! And let me ask you, what the Lord does, who can revise or reverse it? It's always a case closed and a done deed. You have open doors but which only comes from above!
PRAYER: Lord, may I not despise Your waiting spirit. Thanks for the opened door.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 7:1-51; Acts 7:30-50; Psalm 128:1-6; Proverbs 16:31-33
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