SUNDAY- 4TH MAY, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
INHERITED THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE
Hebrews 6:12, KJV
"That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
Yesterday, we began to see those who are worthy to be followed or imitated. They are those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. This way, God separated between those we can follow and those we should never attempt to follow. It immediately tells us that God didn't rubber stamp some lives or processes. However, He approves of the journey of those who inherited promises through faith and patience.
Nobody tells you the road will be smooth. Nobody promises you that once you receive a promise, you'll have no warfare. Jesus has spoken well when He said, "in this world, you will face tribulation but be of good cheer, I have conquered the world" (John 16:33). While victory is yours at day's end, you can't but face some hardships which proves and prunes you. While you're facing them, holding onto God's promises for you could only be by faith and patience.
God promised Abraham an heir. That promise had to be waited for. Sarah just didn't conceive like Mary conceived when the angel of the Lord broke the news to her. There was a delay - a long period of silence in Abraham's and Sarah's lives. As a matter of fact, it got to the head when Abraham told God that He should let Ishmael live in His sight (Gen.17:18). Why was Abraham saying all these? Because He had waited and waited until he was 100 years old and Sarah, 90 years old. It has even ceased to be with Sarah according to the ways of women. So, Abraham began to think like many of us. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. "Here is Ishmael. He is the product from my hastiness and impatience through Hagar. I and Sarah my wife made him come to life. God, just do what you want to do through him. I have no hope for a son that has not been born till now again." It took God to change that view in consequent verses by affirming that Isaac will surely be born and at a set time next year.
Genesis 17:21, KJV
"But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."
That you believe or have faith doesn't mean you wouldn't stumble or get to a place of doubt once in what God might have afore told you. That you have faith means when you have doubt crisis and God comes to reaffirm Himself or His Word to you like He did to Abraham in this ongoing chapter, you believe. You might once, twice, thrice or many times think otherwise but when you receive assurance from God again and you believe it and walk the distance in those words, then you'll be deemed to have faith. The words that God speaks to you per term is what helps you to change the gear of your faith so that you may not be tired but pursue more fervently in faith and patience.
You also might have gotten here in your journey where you're beginning to doubt the promises or prophecies of God over your life. You might have waited for long even after God had assured you you'll never be barren. Yet, the baby is not forthcoming. God promised you greatness and goodness yet you see no mark of it yet.
If you'll ever get where you'll possess it, you need to keep reactivating your faith and patience through God's spoken word (rhema) to you alone. That is when you can also exchange strength for new strength.
Those two (faith and patience) are there to balance each other. Faith will enliven you and give you a mindset and view that all is possible against all the contrariness that you see or know. It'll keep you ploughing on as you patiently wait to receive the promise. Patience is meant to cultivate character in you while you wait. God wants to fine tune your attitude to the possible best even as you wait. He wants to make you someone whose eyes have been removed from humans or human solutions to Him and Him only. In short, patience will build some stamina in you. While waiting, you're given a story to tell.
Such are the people we're called to follow. Not those who haven't mastered faith or patience. Not even those who haven't had moments of doubts and conversion(s) from it. Not those who can't wait eventually or who during their moments of doubt called it quit and ran their own race. Rather, those who faced it all, recovered from many doubts, continued in the pursuit until they possessed by faith and patience.
PRAYER: Lord, enliven me with your new revelatory word. I shall not be tired but continue in hope.
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