MONDAY - 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE LORD OF PHASES, OF ALL OPEN DOORS AND WHAT NEXT
Acts 9:6, KJV
"And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."
While I was in Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State; I was the president of Anglican Students' Fellowship, TASUED amidst other offices entrusted to me. As my second tenure as president began, knowing that was the last lap since I'll be graduating afterwards, I began to hope and wait for what next the Lord would have me do. Would I hand over and sit idle or what exactly would He call me to and hook me up with again? Before this time, I knew I had God's call on me. I had discovered it as a call to ministry and ministry things and was living in the consciousness of it. As at this time, I had already been imparted with the anointing also through my repetitive watching of sermons of the minister God drew my heart after. My ministry was on fire and at head at this time. My teaching ministry has been revolutionized and when I talk, it becomes interesting to people. I even like talking and teaching more. I could go on for hours. I was just seeing many wonderful things from the Bible. I so much lived in the consciousness of being called and being a minister that some might have mistaken me to wanting to possess the people as my people. But we must know that what is worth doing well is worth doing at all. I thank God I've not been slack in using and becoming better (for ministry) with offices God has entrusted in my hands. I take those offices and served faithfully in them as unto the Lord.
As I was reelected as the fellowship's president, God gave me some words on why he allowed my re-election as president again in ASF TASUED. Those words became assignment for me as I was wrapping my student ministry up and would as well become an errand to attend to after I might have graduated.
Titus 1:5, KJV
"For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee".
Crete is Anglican Students'Fellowship where I was president and where God left me to be president once more and to set things still wanting in order before I go. But it was for a purpose - to see to the appointment of the next excos also. Then, the following instruction.
Titus 3:12, KJV
"When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter".
God told me that after I might have overseen the appointment of new leaders (who I'll hand over to), I'm meant to come to Nicopolis (my place of new assignment) but that'll be after He had sent me the president of the next set amidst two preferable candidates. I told all the ASF excos who served with me in 2014/2015 Set all these. You may want to ask Ngu Barak (the president I handed over to), Oduroye Yomi (now married), Oluwabusayomi Adams (now Oluwafemi-Ige), Eunice Olabode (my sister coordinator), Opeyemi Idowu and a host of others. Even if any of them was absent minded, they would still tell you today that one thing was clear and repeatedly mentioned by Bro Sola. It's that God was leaving him for a second tenure to supervise the correct choice of new leaders after which he must come to Nicopolis. When it was time to hand over, I sincerely told them I have yet not found or known Nicopolis but I'm deciphering God wants to get me trained for ministry. I told them, that's my life. That's my calling and the weight of it bears down on me. I can't just escape it and that's because demand has been made on me and the hand of the Lord is already on me. However, I don't know whether it's in an organized Bible School setting or just with a minister who's doing it live.
I never knew that God was working out His will. I never knew that He that gave the Word has also raised a great company of those to publish it (Psalm 68:11). As I was hoping, waiting, praying and fasting for where Nicopolis would be, I never knew God would move the then Bishop Ayodele Awosoga of Ijebu Anglican Diocese to move the residing priest of St Peters Anglican Church, Ijagun and bring another in Canon Johnson Oyebode to the same place. I had already graduated when that happened but I knew in my spirit Nicopolis has not yet been found. At this time, all Excos had gone back to their fathers' houses and would only come to campus for one thing or the other - either for project or for any other business. Those around were just hanging around. So, I myself packed to Ijebu Ode to stay with Bro Emmanuel Awofeko and others. He was the one I was staying with when by ordainment and God's plan I one day met Canon (now Venerable) Johnson Oyebode. He was not even dressed as a priest that day. He saw me with some bags containing books which I was seeking packing back to Ijebu Ode where I then stayed with Bro. Awofeko. He said he had heard of me and that I was the past president of this Fellowship. We knew ourselves by acquittance. I had heard of the new priest as well. We got into talking about books and he said, "come and see". When I got into the Ijagun vicarage where he now inhabits and then into his office, I was overwhelmed seeing a library that one will need diligence to study up in a life time. We talked for awhile and I went back to town. But my mind kept going back to him. Something was calling me to him. And before you knew it, he'll invite me for vigils in his home (the vicarage) and that's how I eventually stayed and packed into the vicarage. We never slated a day. I was just going and coming until I stayed. It was then I remembered Nicopolis and how it had all come to be fulfilled. It could only have been what God only has put together to work for me. I never knew he was a minister of great works and wisdom until I was drawn closer to him. I just felt attraction towards him. There's nothing he says that doesn't minister to me. And so, I gave heed. That's how I knew him, contacted him and got trained in the hands of a minister doing it big time. Demons obey him, the Bible opens up to him, he heals the sick and does miracles, he prophesies, hears and sees and God is overall with him. I could remember some of my excos especially Sis Eunice Olabode coming to greet me in his vicarage (now my home). She nodded saying, "at last at Nicopolis!" All my other excos who were chosen again as Excos after we graduated would lovingly see me wash his car and at times come with him to minister to them since he's their vicar in charge. Many might have said, what's Papa (me) doing now but it all pays now? I never had any sense of shame identifying or serving him. I washed his clothes not because he gave me but because I received him as a father and doesn't see a big deal in it. Indeed, he was my father and his wife, my mother and his children, my siblings.
The truth is this - before one phase ends or let's say as it nears, the God who doesn't want you stranded will ordain the next phase for you. He's committed to your progress and movement towards your destiny. He has a plan in mind not to let you alone but fit you for where you shall one day be. You will just know the next train to join when it pulls over. You'll always hear a word and a voice behind you at critical junctures of choices saying, "herein is the way, walk ye in it". You will know when what is next. You won't be confused. You'll be rightly joined to the part that'll nourish you and what next in God's agenda for you because of your future God has seen and is committed to seeing to. I bless you today as you shall always be on time and connected to the next phase of your life. You won't be static and you won't be frustrated. I am telling you that God is your admnistrator and governor of phases and if you're there seeking and longing for what is next, He'll sure open you to it. Your sheet will soon descend and you shall know that it is of it God has ordained you should, "rise, kill and eat". You won't miss the God of the new phase, chapter and open door. You'll rather be ushered into your dream land and what next.
PRAYER: Lord, I receive my sheet. My train pulls over. I am aware. I am in the know. I rise, kill and eat.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 45:11-48:11; Ephesians 4:1-16; Psalm 68:19-35;Proverbs 24:3-4
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