FRIDAY - 22ND MARCH, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
AND ALL THE COMMUNITIES COME TO HIM
Read Matt. 3:1-6
Matthew 3:5, KJV
"Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan."
Be sure to go where He sent you and be faithful to say what He gives you. These two are very important keys for a successful ministry. I can join many faithful ministers to say, "there's a place and there's a message." One major mark that you're a founder or a novel thing that God is raising is that He gives you a message that's considerably unique or peculiar from others that people know. I'm not saying you have to be branded as a prosperity, holiness or deliverance minister. However, you might be given grace and endowed with more passion to exert yourself towards one major theme from which you could expound the whole Bible to a congregation or people. Offcourse, what you'll see is that people would brand you with that known theme as time goes on. Just note that there's the preacher but there's his preaching as well. This in no little way reminds me of the book of A.P. Gibbs, "The Preacher and His Preaching." That being said, "you want to see how your message and to whom you're sent is of utmost importance here.
Jeremiah 1:7, KJV
"But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak."
That's God's word of consolation and encouragement to Jeremiah when he started feeling intimidated when he was called. I began to wonder recently how to have all men come to one again. What I stumbled on is what I began sharing already. The anointing is the greatest possession a minister could have. Once anointed, his message becomes real, believable and need-meeting. There's always an ability of the anointing that draws people by itself. If someone is anointed, when he preaches, it'll be smooth. You'll hear the voice of the Almighty in it. You'll be convinced and even convicted. That's because a power other than what the minister could will or enforce is working to achieve the intent that God designated to the Word of God to have once preached.
The Bible says, "then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan." Basically, John emptied the entire communities to himself. John has been sent to a place and he has been given a message amidst the fact that he's called and anointed. The Bible opens that chapter by saying, "in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt.3:1-2).
John has a location. It is God who admnistrates us. While principles are duplicatable irrespective of geography yet God do send each of his sons to a place He needs to cultivate and as a requirement, their success is in obeying to go there. Meanwhile, John preached a message also. He keeps shouting, "repent, for the kingdom of God is near." He brought the message of repentance to the populace. Don't doubt it. The Bible affirms that everybody was gripped with this message so much more that they trooped out to him, to confess their sins and be baptized by him. There are moments when as a pastor, you have to dip your hands in people's mouth to make them talk or confess. Until you probe some things, you're not going to get answers. However, that's not like we have here. Voluntarily by the power the message he preached conveyed, they were confessing their sins. They were just speaking unashamedly and unreserved.
Oh, such power could work with you. God could honour you this way. An entire community and its regions all about could come to you. They can come to watch the preaching, singing, burning and even dancing minister. There, they'll be gripped. Even gossips and journalists won't be able to retract to run their primary errands again. They'll be collected by the power of the season and time with which God is working with you. Obedience is key. Only you knows where God is leading you and what He has given you to say. Stick to the message and don't reject the people. That mustard seed will soon become a big tree.
PRAYER: Lord, coat my message with power that convicts and draws men. I align to the message and to the people. I shall not compare myself with another.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Numbers 32:1-33:39, Luke 4:31-5:11, Psalm 64:1-10, Proverbs 11:22
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