MONDAY - 13TH OCTOBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
DIVINE SUMMONING!
"Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread."
God calls for things! Do you know that? Things don't just come to be. They come to be because God calls them into being. Consider this verse.
"Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them."
Did you read, "and new things do I declare...?"
That just proves God calls things to manifestation - obeying Him. Imagine God holding a mouse and using the same to drag an image into a page. God calls things into existence!
The Bible says, "He (God) sovereignly called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread."
It's solely His act and it shows His sovereignty over nations and her people! It means it couldn't have been without God's ordering. That the staff of bread is broken and that famine pervades the horizon is not man made but what God brings about for His own workings and purpose. Some at that time could have attributed it to injustice and violence of the people, idolatry or unnecessary shedding of blood or whatever. The human mind doesn't stop thinking of causes when things go wrong. He just wants to know but the Bible discards whatever reason any one might have or suggests to say, "Moreover, He (God) called for a famine upon the land..."
This one is God caused! It's in this light we can probe further to understand why.
Do you remember that Joseph before he left Canaan had certain dreams pointing to his rulership? God brought that to pass through the line of events that produced and eventually ended as this foreseen famine (Gen. 41:40).
You'll also remember that God had earlier spoken to Abraham that his descendants will be slaves in a foreign land for certain specific years (Gen.15:13-16). Obviously, Israel and other down lines had not even gone to live in Egypt at this time but God is beginning to set things in motion and in order - so that the outcome would be what He had earlier declared to Abraham.
So, when the Bible says, "Moreover He (God) called for a famine upon the land...", that act is an initiation of God in order to play out things that He has determined and scheduled to happen. At that point, the journey began! God goes on to cut through certain events to bring about that mandate therefore. It's this mandate that the same Psalm refers to in the next verse by saying, "He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant" (Psalms 105:17). May you quickly become someone for people's sake!
That famine should therefore be seen and interpreted as a purposeful one meant for direction rather than an occurrence of evil. If that famine had not been called for (commanded to happen), Joseph's brothers wouldn't have gone to Egypt to buy grain let alone discover Joseph and be taken in eventually. It is the prevalence of that famine in Canaan that rather drove sons of Jacob to seek grains. This act therefore unknowingly hooks them up with God's divine set up at last.
This way, an entire people or nation (in Israel - God's own people with whom He had covenanted and promised to multiply like the stars of heaven) are preserved.
Did you now see that God doesn't do things for nothing? He acts for a purpose. He brought that famine when it should be brought. May God call for things to meet with time in your life also! God only lets it show up when the stage has been set and when that famine would make sense. If Joseph had not been sent to Egypt when that famine came, it would have been like an unharvested rainfall. Its purpose for coming would have been defeated.
It is the existence and abiding of Israel in Egypt that eventually turns sour, leading to their captivity and the fulfillment of God's Word to Abraham. All those happened after Joseph had died and a new Pharaoh had risen (Exo.1:6-16). In the future, God will need a saviour (in Moses), a type of Jesus to deliver them out of Egypt, and lead them to the promised land.
Thus far, you've seen that the sovereign God just doesn't do things because He has power to do it but so that it'll serve His will. The same way, God will call for certain things on your way as you go. You may wonder, why is this stirring up now? If you're indeed God's son or daughter and one under His administering hands, it'll be because that's the time for that thing to manifest in your life. God is in charge! He dates things! He schedules events in His own calendar for us. He calls for a famine in the land and breaks the whole staff of bread - every possible means of sustenance or provision. He shamed barns and store houses so that they had to seek help where He (God) had left it. It's this that made Egypt attractive to Jacob (and sons) when they heard there's grain there (Gen. 42:1-3).
It's just time for some happenings to pop up in your life. God will call and stir them up for your sake.
God just wanted to bring His will to pass. He knows what He is doing when He gives those dreams to Pharaoh. It's so that through it Egypt will be able to put preparation in place for Israel. God already sees Israel coming to Egypt. He knows they'll come.
Brethren, God calls for things and they show forth. The Bible says, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light" (Genesis 1:3, KJV). Just the same way He calls for famine here and it came. Everything is answerable to Him. As if famine had ears, it heeded God's unminced call at a summon. Same way, what needs to hear God's voice in your life hear it now? Let them bend the knees. Let them obey. Let them align. Let them fit. Let them amend. I'm hearing another verse in my spirit again.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live."
Even now, this is being fulfilled. Are any dead there, down with sickness and incapacitated or depressed with head bowed? Rise in Jesus' name! Hear His voice! Pick His summon!
You too, open your mouth and call things into existence. You are co-creator with God.
PRAYER: Thank You Lord for calling things into existence for my sake. My journey meets with time and destiny. I enter into the long awaited moment.
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