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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ANY PROPHET AMIDST US!
Psalms 74:9, KJV
"We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."
God can put the responsibility of sensitizing His people to time and season on any of the ministry offices but the office whose it is is actually the prophet's. Even if others share in that responsibility, the office of the prophet is however installed by God to both forthtell and foretell. When it does, giving people certain updates and setting markers for them, people are readied and put in the zone of preparation to anticipate what the Lord wants to do.
When there's no more any prophet among us in our community, it'll lead to we not seeing our signs. The lament in this verse on "not seeing their signs" is because he whose responsibility and call it is to give signs and set markers (by furnishing them with information on what's coming which they should escape or put preparation on ground for and not miss) is no more. The prophet is therefore their eyes and their watcher or watch man according to that verse. He looks into the future for them and having seen something, announces beforehand so that everybody might know what to do and how to behave.
Also, this office has an equipping to know how long. I don't know what God has promised you. I wouldn't know if there are promises or prophecies that should have come to pass in your life but which are still tarrying. This office and grace in action can tell you how long. It can read and bring you a message (setting a marker and giving you a sign) as to how near such is also. It can tell you, "you're about to catch a net breaking and ship sinking fish. Prepare!" As simple as that is, it is a sign. It makes you to be on the outlook for an opportunity soon coming your way that you must not miss. You've been told about it even before it springs up. You probably have been tutored also on how to mark or decipher it for what it is so it doesn't pass you by. You're therefore not ill prepared but ready to take all that God has prepared for you. This anointing can also move to sensitize you to the time that's right. While others are withholding to sow their seeds, it can exhort and bring you counsel to go into action and by that prosper. It can even tell you to withhold while others are rushing into what they thought is a breakthrough business but because of what it has sighted afar off. Until the crash, you may not agree.
It is such an office - function and ministry that they lack amidst themselves. As such, they cannot see their signs. As such, all is blank with them. As such, they have no information at hand before the event arrives with which to have prepared. As such, they're forlorned with no one to shed light on their paths. Does the Bible not say in Proverbs 11:14 that, "where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety." Only that the kind of counsel it refers to is beyond the 'normal advice someone gives you but rather it means, "guidance." So, it's like saying, "without guidance, the people perish or fall." Why won't they since they have no one with the call and equipping that sets markers and gives signs for their salvation and benefit. May we stop saying in our own community and wherever we may be that we are void of signs because there is no more any prophet amidst us. If that be, people will just be walking into danger freely with no one to tell them to see what lies ahead. They wouldn't have been warned to hide themselves. You remember the Bible says, "the prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself but the simple passes on and is punished" (Proverbs 27:13). Now, let's ask, "how does the prudent foresee the evil if not but with the prophet's office setting markers and bringing signs or he (the prudent) seeing things himself?" If he had no information at hand, his action also wouldn't have been different. He also would have passed on and would have been punished. However, he does something different which was not unexpected. He hides himself! That's the advantage of seeing one's signs or having been warned! When you have signs at hand and knowing what they signal or point to, you know what to avoid or what to strike.
I pray for you, henceforth, you won't walk in darkness. Rather, you'll begin to walk in the multitude of counsels meant for your prosperity. God will surround you with men and women with the prophet's grace and mouth so that they'll be able to guide you. Your parents, siblings, superiors etc can become this to you. Why you need this is because your safety is only guaranteed in the multitude of consistent counsel (guidance) that keeps coming to tell you where to go, what to do, what to expect and how to strike. You won't be without counsel any more. If you are, your attitude won't change and you'll remain inactive - taking no action. However, the Lord is setting you in motion today. Amen!
PRAYER: Lord, I am not void of counsel and counsellors. I refuse to be surrounded with lying spirits that'll consequently lead me into harm but upright tongue that'll bring me health and benefits.
BIBLE IN A YEAR:
Luke 9:37-62 & Joshua 16-19
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