THURSDAY - 11TH JULY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
YOU'RE MY HOPE MAKER - Your Baby Series 011
Psalms 22:9, KJV
"But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts."
Say in a loud voice, "God, you're my hope maker!" God will continually give you hope even when you least expect.
Benson Idahosa as an infant was so sickly and insignificant that he would often faint. As a result of this constant illness, his father ordered the mother to cast him on the dung hill. When he was 18 months old, he was left on a rubbish heap to die but anyway picked up again to be nurtured to the realization of his calling, destiny or life's work. He did ministry supernaturally. You can't talk anything pentecostalism in Nigeria and Africa especially and jump his name. God is a great hope maker. He makes hope even for the despised, rejected and even the dead. The dead hears His voice and comes out! He makes hope! He's a Hope Maker! He can start with you again.
When a baby is given birth to, it looks tiny - probably 3kg. Just like we specially take care of plants in the nursery before transplanting to their final habitat, we do also give controlled care to babies in order to ensure their survival. That's how vulnerable babies are when just given birth to. That baby that's 3kg at birth could grow to become 90kg or even 100kg as an adult. But, his or her life started somewhere. There's a day of small beginning for him. All the future expectations of what he can become are potentials that are resided in him by God at his beginning. As he lives, he'll exercise them and attain it all. But, until then. That's why we give special care - measured care to them. You can't just expose your baby to the heat, cold or nutrition of an adult, let's say his dad. That's wanting to kill him or her deliberately which I believe can't be your intention. As such, we're careful to ensure our baby survives his or her period of vulnerability. Even baby Jesus got wrapped in a swaddling clothes (Luke 2:7). That ain't only for fashion but his protection.
David while still acknowledging God says, "thou made me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts." Does that statement wake up any realization in you? The realization that survival is not automatic for every born baby. Some were birthed but ultimately passed on. David acknowledged God as His hope maker even while a suckling. Idahosa could have passed on but he survived also.
I have assurance that your baby will survive also. He'll survive infancy into adulthood and then pass on to kingship. The Hope Maker will make him or her beat trouble, affliction, infants' sicknesses, mortality and all vulnerabilities. He'll survive all to thrive and fulfil his destiny. Say, "my baby survives all." He survives cold, heat, King Herod and even Egypt. Like Jesus survived, He'll survive.
PRAYER: Pray for every frail, dying child to receive healing, strength and recovery. May God make hope for them.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Acts 21:1-16 & Job 25-28
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