TUESDAY- 29TH AUGUST, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THOSE SEEKING EXPRESSION
Luke 11:24, KJV
"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out".
There are those seeking expression. It's a category of people. I pray for such set, may you find expression. May the burden in your heart, the expression that has filled your inside and the calling that's inditing you all come out in beautiful colours.
It's a blessing when you're not denied expression. Until then, there's a dissatisfaction and discomfort that you'll bear for having not found a place, platform or means of spewing out the burden written all over you. The truth is that you're the only one who feels the way you're feeling. You can describe your feeling to people probably they might see from your perspective and be instrumental in your finding expression. But often times, they just can't relate. They just can't understand.
I pray for you that when a burden is high in your soul so much more that it grips your entire being and its fibre, may God gives you an outlet of expression even in the gift of men that could be instrumental to that. If you're denied, you'll be like Jeremiah who experiences discomfort inside of him because he couldn't hold or endure the burden tarrying again in him. He confesses that God's word (unspoken and unexpressed) is like burning fire in his bones.
Jeremiah 20:9, KJV
"Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay".
So, he now wants to speak though he's been holding it down since. You know what that alludes to? It's causing him discomfort and putting him in unease. He's dissatisfied and unfulfilled that he has not spoken. Because it is therefore urgent, important and very hot that he speaks, he needs an outlet of expression. So, he can no longer forbear or withhold it. May you get here where you'll take permission of authority who has oversight over you to let you go. Benson Idahosa never completed his Bible School Education in Gordon Lindsay's Seminary. When the burden for Africa was driving him strongly, he requested to leave and so they had to organize a private consecration service for him. That's because his appointed time has come. We're all witnesses to how much he was used by God.
One time and over a period that lasted more than a year, I kept sending messages and speaking with those I believed could be aids to my having an outlet. That time, I sent an elder a text message. I told him that I can't wait any longer and that I wanted to start a church. I told him, I needed a body to indwell, a house to occupy and express myself through. This same message or content alike was sent to two elders (fathers of faith) and two friends or colleagues in the journey of faith so that all hands might be on deck and so that I might bring forth my burden (pregnancy).
The truth is this, where God wants you to be and what He wants you to do above others will appeal to you the most and when the time for it nears or has neared, it would grip you and become the most consistent and incessant thing coming to your mind. I don't know whether anyone doubted my starting a church but I know that if any did, they would have doubted likewise if I had told them I wanted to start a ministry in 2016 (though I've been in ministry and calling before then). When I started ministry, I did only at God's instruction. I didn't even confer or consult with anyone. I just followed the prompting that came persistently. Today, Morning Wings Ministry has touched nations. The devotional has gone to places I have not even been. These are results that we couldn't have unless we commence first of all.
As I was saying, why did I tell those people to begin to help me scout for a considerable venue that we could occupy and kick-start a church from? It's because a burden was driving that act in me. Something was calling me out to the more gracious and anointed things God wanted me to take. So, I was not comfortable at that moment. If I turned here in prayer, thought or study, what faced me was on starting a church and doing so then! I was so surrounded that I had to send those messages repeatedly to them to be on the watch for me and so that they might confirm some things for me. I was seeking a body, a house and a platform not for vain glory but because it was a call coming from a burden that stems from my calling. God wants to reveal what's next and so I was moving in that same direction. Look at me, God will soak you up with the thought of what's next. Just be obedient, risk it and follow the prompt. As long as you can prove He who has spoken to you, you'll have a level of confidence to start. As long as you can witness that those thoughts are not self originating thoughts from you but the Holy Spirit, it'll work. The passage for today talks of demons seeking rest after going through dry places. It's not only demons who seek rest. The human spirit does as well. And as far as God is concerned, your real you is your spirit. So, if your spirit is gasping for the fulfilment of your calling, the thoughts that may beset your own mind may be getting a scholarship and funding to study abroad. It would appeal to you so well that you would give diligence in that aspect. What next to do would just appear to you and even though the road is rigorous or its difficult to secure one, you wouldn't see it as an impossibility until you by attention secure one. Many there be gasping for fulfilment, asking for satiation and seeking expression, may God gives you an outlet. Until then, even if the burden lifts for awhile, it'll come back beseiging and besetting your mind towards action. You'll lose your peace until you pursue that next call to seek a body or a platform for the expression of what you're seeing and perceiving. I pray for you, may you have an entry. May the door open unto you. May you find a place or a platform that would afford you the opportunity to do all that's in your mind as put there by God. No evil spirit could maneuver or sway any human critically unless he inhabits him first of all. That's why demons always seek the human body to occupy. That gives them their highest fulfilment. A man who's demonically inhabited and ruled will destroy much good and could be turned here and there easily by that evil spirit. That's why they don't stop until they have gotten a human host. Their acts of wickedness is revealed maximally through their hosts. They so much desire a house that they can take time to go back to see if there's still space in their former house from which they were dispelled. I pray for you, you'll be given an outlet for expression. Demons seek houses for their expressions of wickedness without which they're curtailed in action. I pray for you that those divine burdens won't perish in/with you. It won't dissipate and evaporate to nothingness inside you. A body, platform or means of dispensing it all shall be availed you.
PRAYER: Meet my heart cry. Open me a door, offer me an entry, give me a body and opportunity to express the burden in me. I know what's next practically and I do it.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 31:1-33:33; 2 Corinthians 3:1-18; Psalm 43:1-5; Proverbs 22:8-9
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