SUNDAY - 18TH JUNE, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
HE TELLS US OF THEM: ACQUIRING PROPHECIES FOR WARFARE AND WELFARE
Isaiah 42:9, KJV
"Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them".
Did you hear that? That place says, "...He tells us of them." That's our advantage. The fact that He tells us of them. If He keeps shut, we would have been prey like the heathen. However, being made alive by Christ which opens us to information from Him makes us the privileged few who can continue to be irrespective of what happens on earth. Existence can't be sniffed out of you if He tells you of it and you act by them.
"New things I declare. Before they spring up, He does what?" He tells us of them! Hallelujah, I am saved. It is in this I have confidence that I can have it differently from other men irrespective of their colour, status or kind. It is that, "before it springs forth, He tells us of them." In yesterday's devotional, you saw what it means to "foresee", that is, "see or know before hand". The same is still being said in this new verse. It says, "before it springs forth, I tell you of them". Let's wait to ask. "Spring forth where?" In heaven or on earth? Obviously the earth. God indeed says, "before it happens in your realm (the human realm), he tells us of them." God knows what's destined to happen is either a threat or a blessing to only one target - the earth. So, He seeks to give humans notification because of His love for them as His precious creation. This love is always in the breast of God to save human kind irrespective of the evil coming on the earth. In truth, you can be part of that saved people if you'll foresee and by that hide yourself. During the time of Noah, he found favour in the sight of God and being obedient unlike others was saved. He only commands that they come into the ark - a very type of Christ. The ark as our instrument of salvation is prepared and ready also. It comes at no cost to all who will come into it and by it be saved. So also, Christ, the Lamb of God slain from the foundations of the world is a prepared sacrifice or salvation that comes at no price to anyone. What I hear is, "only look and live; "only bathe and be clean." It is still, "believe and confess"(Rom.10:10). This is how to take this most important provision.
Isaiah, the mouth of God pronounced saying, "...and new things do I declare:before they spring forth I tell you of them". The fact that it is, "before they spring forth (happen physically) He tells us of them" is what makes it a prophecy. Eyes have not seen it as physical tangibilities but we have it as realities (by faith) that we can hope for as God's mouth has said. Believing, we therefore treat them as tangibilities though in the spirit world but which would soon fall on the earth. It is this that gives us time to go into the field of preparation. This new thing that God declares which is not yet visible to human's faculty as happening is what God wants us see, act on and live by.
God said, "shall I do anything and not tell Abraham? (Gen.18:17). It occurs to me that guy Abraham has walked with God. He has become so close that God would find it betrayal of trust if He passes by him without dropping him hints. On this basis, God told him what He's declaring which would sooner spring forth which by it, Abraham pleaded that Sodom might be spared.
If you follow prophecies in the Bible and ones that the Holy Spirit will occasionally author in you or through others, you'll be saved from many events that beats others. World events have aligned with the Bible prophecies so clearly that it only takes a prejudice mind to regard the Bible as any other piece of literature. Prophecies are markers and they reveal timelines of things that must come to pass. With all my heart, I believe there's already a revival of the prophetic ministry in these last days. God would want you have a full light into what the future holds and by their knowing make choice of preparation whether to be saved or perish with sinners. The synoptic gospels have written a lot of prophecies that Jesus alone fulfills. I wonder at His life. I wonder at how the steps He carried and the ones carried for Him by parents are to the end that prophecy might be fulfilled. What a life! It is this that makes us wage a good warfare. The result of this good warfare is welfare and peace that it brings. But if you never hear and you never see ahead of the event, you'll count your losses at its happening.
PRAYER: Teach me the advantage of taking the handle of prophecy:as written in the Bible and as shown by the Holy Ghost. I believe and confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 18:1-46; Acts 11:1-30; Psalm 135:1-21; Proverbs 17:12-13
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