SATURDAY- 3RD MAY, 2025
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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
CALLED TO FOLLOWERSHIP
Hebrews 6:12, KJV
"...That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
You have a call on you and it is to be an imitator of those who inherited promises through faith and patience. One thing I want you to know is this. All of us in this world cannot follow one person. We'll always have our own men to follow. The calling on us differentiates us and allocates us to certain men individually that we can follow.
Since I've been in ministry, the people I have followed are those in ministry. I'm walking in their footsteps and trusting to achieve like they have achieved. These are men that God recommended to me even since I was a student in the tertiary institution. I am following or imitating those men because I have a call into ministry. There may be another of God's children somewhere with a call into business. Due to his own different call, he will surely have another person in front of him to follow but who through faith and patience also inherited the promises in that field. That fellow though a business man will be able to teach him both Christ and business as he looks or learn Christ from him. To shock you, the master don't have to know he is imitating him. Only that the person imitating the master must do with deep focus.
So, all of us are followers. Christians are called to imitate. Someone who imitates or follows is a disciple. He watches the master and imbibe what the master does for the purpose of replicating it and stepping into his shoe. Even Jesus Himself is a follower and imitator of what the Father does. Jesus tells us that He does nothing except what He sees the Father does (John 5:19). So, who are you that you're dubbing followership or imitating wrongly?
When Jesus promised us that "and greater works you shall do" (John 14:12); He was speaking to His disciples then and those of us who'll later follow Him or believe in Him. Anyone who'll do a greater work must be someone who has received the call to follow the fellow who did the great work. Unless you have imbibed the one with the great work and believe in him, how will you know or have learnt to continue from where he stopped? To continue from where someone had stopped requires empowerment - even supernatural or skillful empowerment. Only followers and imitators ever receive the anointing. Do you wonder why many heads are dry and why many spoken or declared words lack grace? It's because many are only equipped with grammar and not the anointing that can drive home their messages.
Elisha followed Elijah. Did the double portion and benefit of imitating and following this older prophet jump him to land on the other sons of the prophets who were watching afar off beyond Jordan? Never! It landed on him because he was a follower and imitator of Elijah. A follower has a heart for lessons. Everything a teacher says is what he takes note of. Like Elisha, he doesn't stop followership even when he's been deterred. He follows until the mantle is his. He doesn't allow distractions. The test was, "if you see me being taken, the double portion you asked would be yours." Elijah knew Elisha could be carried away by the whirlwind or the heavenly chariots and horses but Elisha is a more focused imitator than that. He saw and he cried, "my father, my father! The chariot of Israel and his rider thereof" (II Kings 2:10-13). We know the result! He knows that is his destiny (to receive the double portion and step into the vacant prophet's office) and that if he didn't receive it, that might be a shortage in his future destiny.
An imitator brings attention and observation to the fellow before him who's moulding Christ in the flesh for him to see. He therefore follows that man or woman as he or she follows Christ (I Cor.11:1).
The Bible is specific. Be an imitator of those who through faith and patience inherited the promise. It means there'll be those who inherited what was promised or prophesied before their birth or after by other ways. Those are the impatient. They might have inherited it through sin, crime or the occult. God didn't call us to follow any of those. When the Bible says, "who through faith and patience inherited the promise", God was trying to tell you that, "This is my approved way. Let me sort out men for you. In this kingdom, promises are received through faith and patience." Even when it looks like tarrying, you have to wait until you possess it through faith and patience. Are you experiencing delay having your own child?Wait! Through this, you get processed and become a man of process. It's until then you can comfort others who will imitate or follow you with the comfort you have received. The road you haven't walked, you cannot tell others of the dangers inherent in it. If you have inherited through faith and patience, you'll know what and how to strengthen a weary soul at heart when it seems God's promises are delayed.
We're called to follow but our imitation of certain men (even the so called men of God) must be by a recommendation from God. When I started following Reverend Olusola Areogun, I didn't know him from adam and no one recommended or endeared him to me. But I stumbled on some audio messages I later discovered were his and then I had a liking and love for him. My heart kept being pulled back to those messages I heard and what he had to say. That was what led me to start using his daily devotional (soft copy on campus) and downloading his sermons as I did later on. I followed him until one day his teaching grace and anointing was replicated in me while I was following and watching his video sermon on campus. I followed until and even I'm still following today though I have my own inheritance and promise already in that realm. Today, I'm doing work that he's doing and as Christ and grace would have it, I'll do greater work.
Listen, you're called to imitate. The faster you find who to imitate or follow, the faster your profiting will be open to all. The faster you'll also gather the things of your destiny and enter into God's manifestation for you. Amen!
PRAYER: Lord, who's the vessel you want me to learn you from? Show me this man or woman. Help me to focus on learning You and gathering the ingredients of my call.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 1:1-18 & II Samuel 15-17
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