MONDAY - 22ND JULY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
PROPELLED TOWARDS HIS DESTINY - Your Baby Series 022
Judges 13:25, KJV
"And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol."
Yesterday, I showed you how it is what we are made or created to be that we manifest. A pig bathes in the mud you know and a human acts intelligently. May I push further on that.
When God visits Samson's parents, He told them they'll deliver a son and he would begin to deliver Israel.
Judges 13:5, KJV
"For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."
That would be his assignment and so his destiny was sealed. A while after Samson was grown up, an adolescent he must be; the Bible records, "and the Spirit of the Lord began to stir or move him at times..." Did you read that? Now, let us ask ourselves a question. When the Lord began to stir him, was it to write books? Was it to couple components together? Was it to sing or entertain? Rather, when the Lord began to stir him, what did he stirred him towards?
The answer isn't far fetched. He stirred him towards his purpose as originally revealed to his parents. He stirred him towards a sensitizing and affirming of the supernatural power on and working through him. Through that stirring comes the urge to probably attempt rolling away a rock, lifting a heavy weight, running miles yet not wearied, shooting the arrows yet striking accuracy or pulling out a tree from the earth with uncommonness. All in all, Samson saw that something was unnatural about himself. He could have gone home to ask his parents why he could do things so astoundingly like no other person could do i.e uprooting and carrying a whole city gate away; tearing a lion as if it were a young goat etc. Imagine those! He accomplished difficult things with ease. However, the Lord impressed on him to be launched in that path by making such attempts. God just stirred or moved him towards the path of exerting physical force/effort and the result was extraordinary. So, in today's world, Samson could have gone on to become a Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He could have won several belts and knocked many down by TKO (knockout). If he had chosen Wrestling or Kick Boxing as a profession, that had even be deadlier because he had just be breaking bones and slaughtering people in the ring. He'll be defeating opponents in Round 1 of every fight and if any goes round 2 with him, they had ended up with broken ribs and ruptured kidney. He'd be greater than Muhammad Ali, acknowledge God (by often kneeling in thanksgiving in the ring) than George Foreman and be of greater fame than the Nigerian born British fighter, Anthony Joshua. What the Lord planted in him; what the Lord named and described as his calling from birth is what God ensures he was eventually streamlined, directed, guided, funnelled, focused and launched into.
The great days of Samson delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines that all of us have read about began in the small days of his stirring in locations of little repute in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol that he himself can never forget. He knows where to trace his rise to stardom to! Samson could go on to build a youth center or gym at that same location as a sign of indebtedness to God and the society from which he rose. Nobody was there then when the stirring and training began but Samson could testify to an unusual power beginning to work through him at that place. He knew when and where his days of small beginning began from. He would just observe that he began to exhibit unusual and unparalleled strength where others (even though of a bigger stature) are strained, therefore giving up.
Let me tell you something. Your child is made for his field and God will stir him towards that field. A child is stirred towards a field when he begins to exhibit traits of those in that area of human endeavour. If you listen to the testimony of those around musicians or superstar of a field, they'd told you that the popular face that has now become a brand used to sing all around the house. The parents could even tell you that he requested for a guitar on one of his birthday at age 7 and went on to self develop himself as a guitarist. You might think, "is that possible?" But it is! When God stirs someone towards his calling, it's to do exactly as they have been ordained and become as they have been foretold.
So, don't neglect these signs. Watch for them in your kids. I tell the truth and lie not. Your child is called and the field God has called him to is one he'll be obviously stirred towards at times. That field would just become his area of interest! Once you observe that, train and encourage him in that line. You had be shocked that he might attain stardom before adulthood. Therefore, he'll begin to bring you gains as described of this soothsayer who brought her masters no little gains (Acts 16:16, 19).
PRAYER: Lord, may I maximize my child. May I not harness them lesser than you determined. O God, stir my child towards his calling and let it be obvious.
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Acts 27:27-44 & Psalms 23-25
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