FRIDAY - 1ST DECEMBER, 2023
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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
AND THOU SHALL DELIVER THE CUP INTO HIS HAND LIKE THE FORMER
Genesis 40:13, KJV
"Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler."
Say, "God, reinstate me. From every departed position or perfect status, recover and restore me. Let this month be my month of reinstatement."
I picked that in the spirit. That should be our prayer so that we might attain perfect perfection wherever we have defected even before the year ends. The baker and the butler offend their lord, Pharaoh and he puts them in jail. Each has his dream according to its interpretation. The butler sees a ripe grape on three branches and sees himself pressing it into Pharaoh's cup and putting it in his hands. In interpreting it, Joseph says, "within three days, he shall be restored and shall put Pharaoh's cup in his hands like before".
This is reinstatement. He was almost gone. His fate could have been that of the baker but he was recovered and brought back to serve like before. The most touching piece in that verse is, "and thou shall restore Pharaoh's cup into his hands after the former manner when thou wast his butler".
May this be your portion and testimony. Whereever you've been taken away from what you used to resemble or what is your perfect design and status, may God take you back to the former. Today, what God is doing is a work of restoration so that you might be what you used to be. Oh, that's what's good. If you've fallen from favour, you'll miss that former favour and graciousness you were once availed. You'll regret having ever falling from grace because you'll miss the privileges of your former office, status or blessed life. It's even most painful when someone has taken over your office. Irrespective of the case however, you can be reinstated to the former. You can be recovered. Naaman talks of being recovered.
II Kings 5:11, KJV
"But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper."
You can be recovered. When Naaman was eventually recovered, he was taken back to the state he had departed from. His skin was restored unto him like that of a new born baby (II Kings 5:14).
What you used to do, you'll do again. The cup the butler used to put in Pharaoh's hands, he once more puts into his hands. I cry over you, know restoration. Be reinstated. Be taken back. Have the testimony of before. Praise God like before. Produce sap like before. Be assured like before. Experience His presence like before. Know joy like before and let everything that once flowed for you flow again. So shall it be.
PRAYER: Lord, let me be reinstated to do and be what I used to be before. Thank you Lord.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 8:1-27; 1 John 2:1-17; Psalm 120:1-7; Proverbs 28:25-26
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