WEDNESDAY – 9TH OCTOBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
LED UP OF THE SPIRIT TO KEEP HIS APPOINTMENT
Matthew 4:1, KJV
"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."
Continuing from where I had rested this teaching yesterday, I want to tell you how possible it is to be led up to meet with divine appointments. Leading is one of the manifestations of sons. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom.8:14). And if you'll submit to divine leading or let your life be leaned on being swayed, sweetly persuaded or influenced by Him, you'll reap its dividends and look outstanding and supernatural to people. One of the ways by which a Christian can look as a wonder to people is to be led. When you are led, you'll keep divine appointments and meet with good unimaginable that you never planned or knew was part of the package for you. You'll become outstanding amidst your peers by these therefore. If you share your story, they'd doubted and would wonder how things have chosen to work for you especially. Leading of God would intentionally carry you to where preparations and good has been prepared for you to take. When a man is led, he'll simply meet it so. He himself would wonder, how possible? How could it be? Look at how everything fell in place? How could I leave my country to another where I know no one yet I found adoption and favour all around? When you're led, before you get to a bus stop, emissaries commissioned by God would be waiting there to collect you and ensure you aren't late or fall into wrong hands. When Psalm 91:12 was written, it answers to any emergency that any Christian might face. It says, "on their hands they'll bear you up, lest you dash your foot on a stone." Who don't know that disgrace, confusion, kidnapping or the possibility of getting lost is possible if God refuses to put provision at right junctures for you. My people, I have travelled to foreign places and lived with people I don't know but who I believe were God-raised. They took me as their son and catered for me without demanding of me a penny. They were part of the resources that God allowed to work for me where I had no one to act as a parent or carer for me. As I'm looking at you, men would adopt you because God has adopted you first of all. Once you're born again, you've come into the lineage (John 1:12-13). You have been adopted as God's son or daughter. You're now the apple of His eyes and as that, you're specially custodied, guided and led up.
In today's reading, the Spirit leads Jesus up to the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Some other versions might say, "Jesus was driven, sailed, moved, stirred towards the wilderness (a definite location) to be tempted of the devil (to keep an appointment that's in the will of the Father for Him).
Let me tell you, this is not bewitchment falling on you but if you're a man of the Spirit who has grown the God reality in him, you would have learnt by now how the Spirit leads you. You might begin to have sensation towards a place or person. At the beginning of my Christian life, I had sensation and special attraction towards Reverend Olusola Areogun of Life Oasis International Church. I just love listening to him. I didn't stop this listening until I was anointed one day as I tarried to listen again to one of his sermons, "Covenant Compliant Life", which I listened to uncountably. It was from that impartation I could teach like I do now. 3-4 years down the line from that time, I began to author a devotional like he does. The works he does I'm doing. Jesus was driven or led of the Spirit to the wilderness to keep an appointment. Leading is not something that's forceful. It's rather an appeal to you to carry a step with God or make a move with Him. God is where you're going before He comes to say let's go. Jesus Himself had to hear that appeal and follow it. When He heeded that persuasion of the Spirit, He ended in the wilderness - His designated location (though a place any of us won't naturally want to be) but a place where God ordains that He is tested. So, Jesus met with time and divine appointments in life. He walked and His walk wasn't futile but walks that are geared towards fulfilling certain purposes. I tell you, purposelessness ends in your life right away. Under God's leading, you become purposeful - having what to do, where to go and what's next. Confused people are those still looking for direction. God will be coming your way too in order to lead you in the path of life or the way everlasting (not only to get born again if you aren't but to preserve you rightly).
You might felt a tingling, liking, attraction, love or obsession that is Spirit instilled just for the sake of leading you up to a place where you must keep divine appointments and meet good for your life. It'll happen. You'll meet it so. If they're waiting for you somewhere as an answer to their prayers, you won't delay but yield to God's leading to be moved there. God may use providence to get you there or His leading. Today however is on His leading, where you know what you're collaborating with and you intentionally give handle to God who's seeking to express Himself through you. Amen!
PRAYER: Lord, I submit to the gentle influence of the Holy Ghost to be persuaded and moved. I receive the yielding and obedience of a child.
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