FRIDAY - 26TH DECEMBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
FURNISHED, PREPARED AND HANDED OVER
"11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready."
What explanation can we give to the experience here? How can someone walk up to you, ask you where you have prepared for an inhouse meeting he wants to host and you in your right senses deliver the key to him without having closed a deal with him afore time?
I told someone, "God is our mouth. He speaks to the hearts of people on our behalf and then ministry becomes easier." A minister cannot go around begging people to have 'mercy' on him. But he can cry to God who will instruct men to receive him and open a spot to him when he comes. That's exactly what happened to Jesus here. His ministry enjoys mercy at no cost. Ministry became fun because He was led.
Jesus is a fully led fellow. Leading will give you everything including your provision. Jesus only paid for a few things with money and at those times or that time, the money was supernaturally provided for (Matt.17:24-27, John 12:6, John 13:29). The provision came supernaturally, not from savings or labour. That tells me something, money is not ultimately what I always need to meet my needs. Why?
If today I wanted to organize a meeting in Ijebu Ode because God is sending me there and I needed a venue, God can send me to a place where He has sovereignly prepared as our venue. We may not have the money for rent at hand by ourselves. We would have confessed that to the Lord and He knowing how to meet our needs could either send us someone to pay for it or have it yielded up to us for free. Don't think it's impossible. If it were impossible, it wouldn't have been written in the Bible. If it were impossible, it wouldn't have happened to a lot of us. I've experienced God's provision this way even in a foreign land. People had taken me in, met my needs and treated me as their son yet didn't know me before. As a matter of fact, there was nobody to testify of me to them. Despite that, they opened their door to me. The one which baffled me most was this man called Pa. Joseph who took me in while I was in Katsina town, Katsina State. He had two daughters, lived in a room and parlour self contain that was barely enough for his family. He rather struck a deal with another Christian brother who lived in the neighborhood in whose house I often slept every night after taking dinner at his house. Imagine the mile he went for me.
They asked Jesus, "where will you have us prepare?" (Lk.22:9). Then, He began to speak.
Luke 22:10-12, KJV
"10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready."
Imagine this! It was not even an ordinary room. It was a LARGE UPPER ROOM - the kind that people will want to have for themselves. Despite how roomy and ventilated it is, it was waiting for its possessor. Jesus didn't take custody of that property for weeks or months. It was only for a day but even at that, it was released. Yet, Jesus had never met that man to discuss or falsely plan things out with him. Even the disciples only obeyed and trusted Jesus and they found it so. How God wants us to trust Him when He leads us. If for everything - programmes and events you'll do, you let it be God's initiation, it won't be hard for God providing for what He has initiated. A whole upper room, furnished and made ready was yielded up for Jesus' use and even without a pay. What a God! Meaning, if we'll find out, there's a place God has designated for each of our needs to be met. At one time, God kept money in a mouth's fish just to meet Jesus' needs. At this time, it was a man He sent Him to who has a room ready for him. That man could have turned people away who wanted to rent that property because he was feeling for its coming purpose. That man will not argue but rather yield to them that which God has afore spoken or convicted him about. That's the story of how a well furnished house was yielded to Jesus as it was. When this man was cleaning, furnishing or probably renovating that place, he might not know to what end until God told him about it. But at day's end, to what end arrives.
That's why for a Christian, money is not everything. What you want are your needs met. If when you're hungry, needing a shoe, a phone, wanting to pay your school fees etc; someone always appears to give you that which you need at that material time, how much money will you touch or have to hold? You'll just see you're progressing without necessarily holding or hoarding money for a need that'll pop up. That's why you can trust God for your needs that will pop up. You can enjoy a service or buy goods that don't need to be necessarily taken care of by you. This principle and faith life is so effective in Jesus' life that even at His death, it was someone who came to beg for his corpse, laying it to rest in his own newly dug grave (Matthew 27:57-60). Jesus unlike some men who'll make plans for their funeral - what cloth/clothe they must be buried in, how and where etc didn't do any of those. He knows His life is a project in God's hands. If He has appeared on the human scene at the right time and He is not missing His time in the scheme of things, then the right man will show up at the right time to take care of Him and so it was throughout.
This Year 2026, God wants you to stick to His plans for you. He'll lead you so finely that you'll wonder what has changed that had not been before.
PRAYER: Lord, I submit to Your leading and leadership. I enter into everything you've planned for me that I might fulfill age long prophecies written about me.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Zechariah 9:1-17, Revelation 17:1-18, Psalm 145:1-21, Proverbs 30:3
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