THURSDAY - 29TH JANUARY, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
YOUR CUP SHOULD NOT ABSCOND YOU - Cups And Graces Series 003
"And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."
I have stood on quoting and requoting this: "Joseph didn't want to go to Egypt but God sent him." That's because his destiny requires that he goes. There will be many things that we don't like or which are uncomfortable to our flesh and the training we are used to that we'll need to abide with for destiny's sake.
Joseph's brothers speaking in guilt to themselves say, "...for we could see the anguish of his soul when he begged us and we would not hear..." (Gen.42:21). Joseph wanted to be freed but even the counsel of God for him was to be delivered up for Egypt. Eventually, he was sold for twenty pieces of silver.
I'm praying for you that you'll fulfill your whole ministry. Sometimes recently, God spoke to me about fulfilling my whole ministry. Let me tell you the verse that He recasted to my mind.
"But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."
He told me, "Make full proof of your ministry." To make full proof of one's ministry means to do everything allocated to one's calling. It means to fill up to its entirety the circle for which calling and God's gifts were given one. It means to eat the meat of He that sent one and to finish it.
Paul once said he had finished his course (II Tim.4:7). Jesus also said the same (John 17:4, 19:30). It means one can actually make full proof of his ministry. In making full proof of one's ministry, there's a release and a daily giving to it that has to be done. You have to throw yourself into that work and forget yourself in it. You have to sacrifice your time, effort and your lifetime to service that calling so that you could make full proof of it. Why a lot of people will not make full proof of their ministry to which they are called is because they are not committed.
That's why Paul admonishes somewhere to give diligence to make your calling and election sure (II Peter 1:10). "Sure" there means undebatable - where everybody sees you are established and firm in it. However, you have to move past this level. I have moved past the level where people cast shadows of doubt on my calling. It is now firmly established in everyone's mind who knows Bro. Sola that he is called. However, I'm still on the road to making full proof of my ministry. For that, I have time and the instrumentality of God's calling and the faculties of the office I am called into. Those were given me as spiritual and supernatural things to make full proof of my calling. To fulfill it in its entirety possible that nobody or mouth could gain say that there's a part left undone.
This actually was fulfilled in Jesus. He got to a juncture where He needed to make full proof of His ministry. What would it have profited Jesus if he healed, casted out demons, raised the dead but never makes full proof of his calling by dying to redeem sinful humanity? Everything would have been a waste. His coming would have amounted to nothing. It was that very purpose that was being debated here when under the burden of the sins of the whole world put on him, He groaned.
When you get to the place of fulfilling your calling, you will groan. You will feel a pressing burden. It may push you to yield it up or yield to it. Jesus got there. It was so pressing that He kept making utterances for the assignment or cup to pass over Him. This is where a human's will crosses with the Father's. Thank God, Jesus allows the Father's will to win that He might win also. Without having won the battle over His flesh and surrendering to His cup, humanity wouldn't have been redeemed. Whenever you abscond your cup for any God doesn't plan for you, the beneficiaries of your calling are forlorn and they suffer, missing the ministration you were supposed to give to them. I pray that you will drink your cup and I will drink mine. It's in our drinking our cups that we can fulfill being part of what God is doing on the earth.
PRAYER: Lord, I receive grace to walk every inch of the way. I will not stumble or fall.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 8:1-9:35; Matthew 19:13-30; Psalm 24:1-10; Proverbs 6:1-5
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