MONDAY - 13TH APRIL, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
MAY YOU NOT BE ALONE!
Acts 15:32, KJV
"And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them."
May you not be alone. More so, may God encourage you. May God give you those who actively hear from the Lord in the now and could speak to you God's mind in the now. That's what a prophet does.
Over the years, I've said a prophet is not only the one who brings predictions. That's the popular manifestation of a prophet that people know but that is not all. A prophet could bring predictions but also, a prophet is an exhorter. I function in that office myself. So, I ought to know.
A prophet is someone with constant revelation on what God wants His people to hear or know. He can bring a word for God's people in the now. That word may come from a teaching that comes to meet their needs. It will be revelational and insightful.
We read of Judas and Silas. The Bible says, "...being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them." I Corinthians 14:3 speaks further on this. A prophet brings edification, exhortation and comfort. He speaks by the Spirit of God. So, these two prophets were not just messengers sent to deliver a letter but vessels who discerned the mind of God and spoke it into the ongoing debate of "Should Gentile believers be circumcised?"
The word, "exhorted" reveals something about what a prophet does. To exhort means to encourage, to strongly urge or persuade. It involves a great deal of stirring up to action. That stirring up also comes with a breathed energia to do what is being taught. As they speak, they strengthen the brethren inwardly.
Then, the Bible says, "With many words..." This is where teaching and repeated teaching comes in. You'll have thought they'll just drop some encouragement and leave. No! They exhorted the brethren with many words. They taught and taught until it got to a place where the Bible says, "...and confirmed them."
The word, "confirmed" means to establish. It's to make to stand firm. That's what strong encouragement or teaching that is done repeatedly birth. The brethren were rooted and grounded after their exhortation. Picture a tree with established roots in the ground, that tree can withstand the storm. The same is what happened here.
That made me pray that you won't be alone earlier. You will have exhorters in your life. And not only exhorters, but those given to teachings that can grind you in faith and establish you.
PRAYER: Lord, I am opened to those You have raised and sent to me. May I by them by exhorted and established.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Joshua 7:16-9:2, Luke 16:1-18, Psalm 82:1-8, Proverbs 13:2-3
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