SATURDAY - 8TH JULY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHERE YOU SHOULD GET - The Commanded Series 003
Read Acts 9:1-17
Acts 9:10, KJV
" And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord".
When you get here, it means you'll always be readily sendable. God has just found a need to meet and the next thing He does is to look for a human vessel who He could send. At a call, the response of this vessel shows he's both prepared and ready. His response also shows who he submits to and reference as Lord. Many Christians have Jesus as their Saviour but He hasn't yet become their Lord. There are things He can't touch in their lives or collect from them. They're still married to their own will - their very lord. "Ananias", God calls. "I am here", he responds". This should be the mark of a growing Christian especially one that'll bring gain to the kingdom. Like I said yesterday, we are in a kingdom where all of us are resources in God's hands. So, He administers and send us whithersoever He wills. The Bible records that Jacob sent Joseph likewise on an errand and his reply to the call shows a surrendered life and will.
Genesis 37:13, KJV
"And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I".
What did he say to him? "Here am I". God wants all of us to get here. A place where we are found for admnistering or errands as it would befit occasions. The truth is this, if you're not found for admnistering, God's work will continue. The experience of delay in the arrival of resources to he who needs it urgently may be inevitable but God will always and eventually make for Himself. The truth is that God always prepare and reserve for Himself. Don't forget that He has a reserve even if any man boasts himself as the only findable tool in His hands (I Kings 19:10, 18). God's children are scattered every where. Some are even in Saudi Arabia. To your shock, they may be in the high Imams' houses. They are secret believers who are pining for more expression of their faith but God is God to them and they aren't ashamed to call him Lord or submit to Him as Lord likewise. "Here am I" shows a man that God has found and who He can now commit to. I briefly raised the fact that you may be someone's answer of yesteryears, months or days in the first series of this devotional. God sent Elijah to the ravens (where they'll meet him at Brook Cherith). He did likewise to him when he sent him to the widow of Zarephath (I Kings 17). It means those are the two sets of people who will acknowledge him. If Elijah should mistakenly go elsewhere, he'll testify by experience that he missed it because none he goes to will acknowledge him. And if they ever feed him, it will be a blessing with reproach to him. Why? They have not been commanded and put under obligation for his sake. Those who can open up to you are those God has commanded for your sake.
I Kings 17:4,9, KJV
"And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there".
"9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee".
If I'm not under command by my Lord as a man of the spirit, why should I come and propose to you and why should you say yes to me when you have not received afore notification about me or my coming? Why? When God calls you and you say, "here am I", it means you're found administrable. Once you're eventually admnistered, you immediately bear a command to someone or a place. Jacob's errand has a specific intent and people as target. Joseph was sent to his brothers. Ananias was sent to brother Saul. Who are you sent or being admnistered to? That should be the next question. Some of you, you have been admnistered and sent to someone already. Instruction has gone on your head like Abraham that God told to leave but who still stays back (Gen.12). The fellow also has received a command of God that when you come, she should open up and receive you. However, here you are still reasoning it out. You wouldn't want to propose to that sister because 'how can it be" is what you have filled your throat with? I'm so sure you can't be wiser than God. He has seen it can be. The prayer for a life partner that you've been praying for years is now to be answered. Though you have now being sent to an address, you're refusing to go there because you have found something out about that address and target that's in disarray or in disharmony. That can never be eventually true. If it eventually is, it means God makes a mistake pairing you both together. You're proving to be beyond admnistering therefore. You're refusing not to be an answer to someone's prayer also. You aren't the only fellow who prayed. As you were trusting God for a life partner and would daily and often pray to be remembered and led, so she also prayed. She knows you but she can't come to you to initiate it. What your responsibility should be is what you have refused to do now. The truth is just that even God can administer two obedient Christians to have their paths crossed and marry. The Lord who told Ananias to go heal Saul also told Ananias that Saul had seen in a vision a man named Ananias laying his hands on him to receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. It means this two are slated to meet. You may refuse such admnistering but God can never never be stranded. You're just a vehicle which God uses to fulfill His will. You're a part player. Your obedience can be consequential but God will always remedy things for he or she who should have benefitted from your submission to prompt admnistering. When the brook where Elijah drank from dried for instance, didn't God send him to the widow of Zarephath? Let us say you refuse to be administered and become an answer to someone's prayer or urgent need, God will find an alternative to you. There's always an alternative by the corner, in the distant Zarephath of Zidon to every brook that dries or to anyone who says, he or she has had enough.
Lord, what befits us is to be "here" before you always. What befits us is to eventually and in no time submit to your admnistering even if we have loads of complaints. Ananias also wouldn't go to Saul without a fight. He said he has heard a whole lot of things about his destructive acts especially to Your church in Jerusalem and how he has now come with permission from the authority to bind those of the Way in Damascus. However, your explanation satiates him. You only say.
Acts 9:15-16, KJV
"...Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake".
And that was all. The end of all strife for Ananias. The next verse recorded that he went. God, today, I submit, cast down all arguments and say, "whither Thou sends me, I will go; what Thou bid me, I will do.
PRAYER: Lord, may I be sendable. I am available, send and use me Lord.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17; Acts 25:1-27; Psalm 5:1-12; Proverbs 18:19
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