WEDNESDAY - 24TH DECEMBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
TAKING THOUGHT: LET US BUILD FOR HIM A PLACE
"Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither."
You know, it is yours to serve the Lord and it is His to bless you. God's kingdom is one of administration of resources. How I wish a lot of people will know that God can administer resources to them by Himself for specific needs in their lives. Those resources may be an answer to prayer or a waiting that's being done. What matters is that God can send resources your way. He can impregnate and let it become the thought of someone to think of you and your welfare. It is one of the ways God takes care of people - obedient and willing Christians in this kingdom.
Resources do go two ways. God can impinge on your heart to give to people as a way of administering to them and He can impinge on people to allocate to you as a way of meeting your needs in criticality and hot tempered time when it needs to be met. That's why I said resources do go around in this kingdom."
When we talk of trusting God for provision, many who haven't known or accustomed themselves with this path would get confused. They'll say they're preaching a substitution to hard work. Recently, a minister friend just discovered I have a job. We attended the same tertiary institution together for our undergraduate studies. He was shocked that I was also keeping a job. He thought I was only running ministry. My consistency in ministry and in authoring the devotional had deceived him. However, despite keeping a job - not even one; I have many jobs. I rely and trust God often for provision. Only my wife could tell you how much I operate that. I can have money at hand and I'll have it disbursed to where God wanted it to go and begin to trust God to meet my own needs. I could have removed from that salary or income of mine to buy my necessities but I just wanted to work this principle, acclimatize with it and have a testimony to show people that it works. And indeed, it works.
Look at Elisha, he was only consistent in his service to God. That woman even acknowledges that. She says, "I perceive this is a holy man of God which passes by us continually." You see, Elisha is a consistent man. He passes continually. He didn't pass just once. He repeatedly passes in carrying out God's assignment. It was while discharging his ministry day in day out as he passed that this woman first constrained him to branch and eat bread before it eventually led to devising a means to build a place for him.
Look at me. Your car's key is in the hand of someone. You can buy for yourself if you want but another reality is that you can be given. Elisha never for once thought about resting on his journey but God could see the big need in his life. I'm sure he might have travelled by foot. Travelling that way constantly continuously can't but be wearisome. God knew he needed rest - a break on the way. So, God raised this woman to take notice of him. First, she constrained (persuaded him when he refused) to eat bread and lock in often to refresh himself as long as he passed by. Then, the big matter - "Let us build him a place on the wall that when he visits he can go therein."
Elisha never initiated anything. Elisha never whispered anything to anyone. If he ever spoke to anyone, that would be God that he prayed to. He probably only sent letters to heaven to intervene in his constant weariness as he journeyed. Then, heaven heard and sent an answer. An answer in a wealthy woman who would refuse to be rejected. She persuaded Elisha until he ate her food. You could see she really wanted to part with that food. It was coming willingly from her. And then after perceiving that this is a holy man of God which passes by them continually, she took it further. They built a place for Elisha. As in, they camped in Elisha for themselves. They were thinking of him. Look at how that woman puts it.
II Kings 4:10, KJV
"Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither."
Look, God will begin to raise people who'll begin to think about you. They'll not only think, they'll decide what to do for you. Their thinking of welfare (their thinking of good and not of evil) will birth favour that will touch you.
Elisha enjoyed that on his consistent and daily walk with God. In His Christian service and ministry, God remembers him and gave him those who said, "let us build for him a place and put in it a bed, a table, a stool and a candlestick that he may turn in thither."
Elisha got a fully furnished room in someone's house. He never paid rent. You can have that experience you know. You can live in a fully furnished room or house without rent. I've had it on campus before. A senior student ahead of me paid my house rent and left his room as it was for me. I just came to occupy it. He only went with his books . The many ties that I met there are still what I'm using till date.
God is shifting a place for someone in people's hearts. Do you travel often to a location and in need of a place befitting ministry or what you're there to do? God can mandate men to say, "Let us make a little chamber for him."
The ultimate is this, wherever you go, you shall be accepted. Someone is waiting there to receive you. They'll lodge you and treat you like their own. You don't have to have known them before. God will just give you a spot in their hearts and so shall your experience and mine be in 2026. For us ministers of the gospel, our needs will be met without begging and crying to people. Our humanness shall not be discovered before we are provided for. We won't be mocked or shamed. Rather, we'll be served and serviced by God through those He will sovereignly choose or use by Himself.
PRAYER: Thank You Lord for all needs met this year and all needs that'll be met next year. Never cornered, I'm grateful.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Zechariah 6:1-7:14, Revelation 15:1-8, Psalm 143:1-12, Proverbs 30:24-28
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