THURSDAY - 19TH OCTOBER, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN GOD USES FIGURE OF SPEECH - It'll Meet Preparation On Ground Series 002
Read Gen. 41:1-33
Genesis 41:32, KJV
"And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass."
There's a figure of speech called repetition. It's generally categorized under figure of speech in Literature in English though it could receive categorization as a figure of sound. What is clear is that it is a figure of speech with the like of Metaphor, Simile, Pun, Assonance etc.
God uses figure of speech and the one He uses today is repetition. Joseph told Pharaoh that because the event is slated to happen, that's why God doubles the dream to him. That is, God wouldn't have spoken once and gone further to speak the second time if He had not established and planned to bring that communication to pass.
Genesis 41:5, KJV
"And he slept and dreamed the second time..."
In Literature in English, repetition is never used by any writer in vain. It is always used for the purpose of emphasis - the exact reason for which God doubles His communication to Pharaoh. A very cogent act of telling him that it has been decided and fixed!
I've said it over the years that God is a God of emphasis. The Bible highlights Pharaoh's first dream of seven thin fleshed cows swallowing the fat fleshed. One might have taken that for granted and Pharaoh actually could have did. But he slept again to encounter a dream in the similitude of the first. Putting two plus two together, he knows something is hidden somewhere that must be deciphered. Moreso, the Bible says, "and his spirit was troubled" (Gen.41:8). It's not every troubling of your spirit that's of the devil or a signal of the devil. No! God might want to use it to rouse you to action. If the alarm bells didn't rise in his spirit, he might sit down quietly and not seek solutions towards unravelling those dreams. Personally, whenever I dream and they are not dreams from multitude of businesses, they always come alive. I often find this as a measure that God is speaking to me if it were through dreams. The reality of it would hit and it'll keep ringing and reoccurring.
Just like Pharaoh, there are those of you that God in His infinite mercy has visited recurringly yet without corresponding action for which God visited you. I can tell you that you'll be consumed and will soon reap the reward of your disobedience. As I'm even looking at you, your part might soon be with sinners and that won't be because God failed you but because your sheep is camouflaging and beginning to live as a goat. When God sees the future and wants to bring us into its awareness - He doubles His communication to place emphasis or importance on it. If you're not stupid but wise of heart, you should be able to naturally deduce that something is in store or at stake if you repeatedly have the same dream (targeted towards a goal) though with diverse elements or scenes. You should think it up and like Peter upon the house top, such communication is such that you should give yourself to quickly find out by meditating or counselling on what it could be (Acts 10:17, 19).
Today, mind it, God does not use figure of speech in vain. Like a writer seeking to show the inevitability of an event, He repeats what He doesn't want men to take for granted. May your spirit however be alive. May God speak once, may you hear twice and move in fear and terror like Noah to obey Him.
Psalms 62:11, KJV
"God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this..."
Hebrews 11:7, KJV
"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith".
Brethren, I see a rain coming upon the earth. It will drench a lot of people and its water will sweep many away. The unplanned will begat and like a shock, it'll surprise the unnotified. However, you can be that prudent man who foresees ahead and hide himself or become that wise man who builds his house on the rock in anticipation of the besetting flood and wind (Matt. 7:24-25). Foresight is a manifestation of divine notices or understanding you have. That's when you can escape the coming flood in world crisis or trouble - be it financial or political etc. Things are moving. Be moved in the spirit to sight same!
PRAYER: I'm full of ears round my body. I'm full of perception. I foresee; I anticipate and I am prompt in obedience.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 33:1-34:22; 1 Timothy 4:1-16; Psalm 89:1-13; Proverbs 25:23-24
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