WEDNESDAY - 8TH NOVEMBER, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THIS BEGINNING OF MOSES' MIRACLES - My Very First Day Series 008
Read Exodus 3, 4:1-9
Exodus 4:1-2, KJV
"And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod".
This second verse above is a response to the refusal of God's call on Moses to be the chosen vessel by which Israel will be delivered from Egypt (Exo. 3). God has met Moses in a bush that burnt but was not consumed and now He's commissioning him as Israel's deliverer but Moses says, "they will not believe or listen to him and that they'll say the Lord didn't appear to him". On this note, God decided to start with Moses. God decided to convert him from his own doubt and unbelief first of all. He began just by asking him a question. "What is that in your hand?" Moses replies, "a rod". God told him to throw it down. He does and it on site becomes a snake. Seeing that, he flees from it in fear. God then teaches him how to handle it. God told him to pick or grab it up by its tail. When he did, it became a rod again. This way, God works on converting Moses from his own doubt by proving a sign to him.
To further concretize him, God asks him to dip his hands into his bosom. He does and when he brought it out, it turns leprous. God asks him to repeat the process and when he does, his hands become cleansed.
By these two established signs, God proves to Moses that it is He who appears to him. More so, God also told him that if any of these two signs won't be believed, he should perform the third. He should collect water from their river and pour it on dry ground. In a jiffy, the Lord said, it'll become blood.
Though Moses would go on to still doubt God yet this is the beginning of Moses' miracles. The glory that Moses would manifest forth, for which He'll be referenced as God's sent servant actually began secretly here with God when he was taught how to do miracles.
One time, I had a dream where I was being taught how to administer a ministration. This is also true of an elderly coveted minister and General Overseer headquartered in Nigeria. He would see a divine hand writing something on the board and a divine voice teaching him what to teach the body of Christ. So, the fact that God teaches Moses how to do miracles or admnisters signs isn't strange. As a matter of fact, I praise that. But without deviating from our line of study and theme, the years to come of glory that Moses would reference; the parting of the Red Sea he'll always remember and for which the entire world would remember him had its roots first in the beginning of his miracles at the backside of the desert at Mount Horeb. If you're looking for a day to mark for Moses when he started being used to do signs and wonders, this is the day. The day he threw an ordinary staff down and it became a snake while the cycle came back to itself again; the day he puts his hands in his bosom and it became leprous to the recycling of the process was the very day Moses began to move in signs and wonders. Till then, he was never capable of anything supernatural.
Many ministers have shared when they noticed signs and wonders, healings or miracles in their ministries. W. F. Kumuyi, a Nigerian minister who has an international ministry that's uncompromising talks of his reading the book of T.L. Osborne on healing the sick as if he were preparing for an exam. He said after reading the book by marking, underlining and making all its content his meditation, he just began to observe that even at Bible study, people began to give testimonies of being healed. Yet, just as he taught them. The signs and wonders began without his having done it consciously or his being aware himself. It began by looking at the reports of those who sat under his ministry. That's how he took off. That was his day of signs and wonders. That was his beginning of miracles. Just like Jesus' was in Cana of Galilee (John 2); Kumuyi's could have been in the University Campus of Lagos (UNILAG) where he started the ministry with 15 members during his first year as a lecturer.
Everybody has his first day - that day that when remembered, it would cause glory and worship to be sent back to God. Oh, how I thank God over my life. I remembered the day I launched the ministry without conferring with any flesh and blood. First, it started with the name Youth on Morning Wings and we operated by that for months before it was rightly articulated into Morning Wings Ministry. I pray, may our beginning always humble us. May we not stop where we have started. May we pursue a more excellent ministry and see all that litters this road of the calling. May we go on to know the Lord.
PRAYER: Lord, cause me not to shrink back. May I see my better days. Here's my vessel, start with me.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 16:42-17:24; Hebrews 8:1-13; Psalm 106:13-31; Proverbs 27:7-9
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