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FRIDAY - 29TH DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

A NOVEL THING!

Read Exo. 16:1-16

Exodus 16:15, KJV

"And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat."

As the children of Israel take their journey from Egypt to Canaan, they meet many obstacles which the Lord helps them to beat. One of such is the Red Sea that was parted and the drowning of Pharaoh's army for their sake. 

Meanwhile, as they journey into the wilderness, they begin to crave for the food which they had available and ate to their fill in Egypt. They were brought into this remembrance because they have become hungry and long for satiation. However, they communicated to God by murmuring and grumbling. This is not the right attitude that any Christian should cultivate when in need. God has a listening ears and we should "in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let our requests be made known unto God (Philippians 4:6). All the same, the Lord heard them and promised to give them both flesh and bread. These are the two things they were availed to the full in Egypt. In their murmuring, they had said this. 

Exodus 16:3, KJV

"And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

It is this need that made God speak through Moses, His prophet on the provision of meat for them in the evening and bread for them in the morning. God is committed to our being continually loaded with benefits. He does more all together for us than any government of a country can do for her own people. Egypt has a good welfare system. The Israelites though were slaves testified of this. They ate to their fill but God has a better welfare package for them. He eventually brought them quails by the East Wind. This is meat that they didn't work for, rear or have to hunt. God just used nature to bring it en masse to their camp. I don't know the country that drops food at the door steps of her every citizen but God did that for Israel. He gave them meat that they don't know where it came from and He gave them enough of it. Except they don't want to eat in the quantity they wanted, meat is always available. 

With the quails brought by the wind was the heavenly bread God gave them. God had promised to give them bread also and Moses had reported this to the congregation of Israel. However, when the bread came, the congregation couldn't detect or discover it as the promised bread. Why? They haven't seen the like of it before. It was a novel thing. A new thing they are seeing in their lives put together. Nobody has ever experienced any bread being that way before. Not knowing what to call this newly delivered bread, they therefore congregationally call it "manna". Manna means, "what is it?" It expresses something unknown that needs to be answered. However, their answer nears them as Moses explains to them what it is - being the bread God promised to give them. This is a new bread, the like that has never been turned out before. It is newly manufactured to meet need. It is a novel idea and concept. More importantly, it didn't originate from the earth nor made by any man's hands. It came from heaven (Psalm 105:40). 

Exodus 16:13-15, KJV

"13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat."

Just like Moses served as the interpreter of the Israelites here, rightly dividing the truth to them, so also the Lord is sending me to tell you of a novel thing you shall see. It'll happen and you'll exclaim at what it is. It'll be manna unto you - all new but it'll be the Lord's doing. As we seek to draw open the curtain of 2024, you shall exclaim and say, "what is this?" But rightly, you shall receive remembrance on such delivery been what you had prayed for. You may not see it as what you've prayed for but rightly dividing the wheat from the shaft by a more experienced person will open to you your novel thing. This will make you accept and welcome this heavenly blessing or else it might scare you away with its strangeness.  

I pray for you, manna will fall on your ground. New inventions that are not earthly shall be experimented on your ground and in your life. You'll get out of your house or into the open, see that wonder and ask, "what is it?"

PRAYER: Lord, any promise for this year that's still hanging should begin to drop in Jesus name. I receive new things that'll lead to enquiring what they are.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 14:1-21; Revelation 20:1-15; Psalm 148:1-14; Proverbs 31:8-9

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