TUESDAY - 10TH DECEMBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE WATER IS STIRRED! - Knowing The Planned Time Series 010
John 5:3, KJV
"In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water."
So far, we've been learning about knowing the time. Not knowing the time of danger is what makes the fishes to be caught in an evil net. When you know the scheduled time for a purpose, you can work it for your advantage instead of letting evil fall on you.
Today, in knowing the time or the time that has come, I want to talk on the role of signals or what it means being hinted. Unless you have perception like I've earlier taught, you may not be able to foresee a danger or know the time that's coming on you. So also, anyone or any person who takes an action or carry a step at a particular time that is later to be praised could have done so for certain information he was privileged to. As such, let's talk about signs and signal.
One time, I needed to collect a form. I had been waiting for this form to be out. Unfortunately, I didn't know what specific time of the year it would be out. However, when it was out (though without seeing that information anywhere), the Holy Spirit began to motivate me to enquire and ask some people if the form had been out. The first call I made confirmed it just came out. Yet, it was only a move of the Spirit on my heart that hinted me of that. So, I was on time. The Holy Spirit knows the time and He sure sensitizes us to the moment that has come upon us.
In today's anchor verse, we read of the invalids waiting for one thing - "the moving of the water." There's an angel who comes to stir the pool at certain time, therefore heralding healing. The sign that this angel has visited and that each invalid can go for the water is to see the clear sign of a troubled water. It therefore means that if this angel visited but the invalids couldn't read the signal of the troubled water, they wouldn't have learnt or known for sure it's time to take their healing. Though it is "first come; first served", meaning the law only favours the first who gets in the water yet they must see the sign of the troubled, moving or stirred water.
It therefore means there's rarely anyone who gets something done who didn't receive a prompt one way or the other. It is this prompt, either divinely or humanly given that separates them in results from others after they might have acted on it.
For instance, if there were 100 invalids at that pool and 99 are dozing or have slept off but it's only 1 who saw the water stirred, it means only that 1 would be able to take the handle of that information to get himself healed. Without signal or a kind of receiving or notification, man may not know the time that has come upon him. How will he know when there's no one to pipe to him distinctly for that purpose?
This is why it is possible for you to suddenly wake up in the midnight without knowing why you're awake. God might want you to pray or intercede on something that the Holy Spirit knows which you'll later discover through experience. But now, you're woken up, can't go to sleep again.
My own prayer is this, God will bring you the right signal to interpret. God won't leave us without witness. He will speak to us but our interpretation of what He says matters to what we act on or how we act. If any invalid at this pool misses out of what the signal of the troubled water means, I bet it, he cannot be healed. The first prompt to healing is knowing for sure that the angel heralding healing has blown the whistle for same by troubling the water. Therefore, I pray for you to receive your sign, sight that signal and be launched into that thing you eagerly wait for.
PRAYER: Lord, You're the Launcher. Launch me in hope and mercy into the greater heights I expect and dream of in 2025.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Revelation 2:18-3:1-6 & Hosea 3-6
Powered by Morning Wings Ministries. Share with others in English, French, Arabic, Swahili and Chinese. Enquire or counsel through +234 80 77 63 85 50 or +234 8137 04 68 12 II morningwingministry@gmail.com & Blog @ http://morningwingsministry.blogspot.com
No comments:
Post a Comment