WEDNESDAY - 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
ANSWER TO THOSE SEEKING TO KNOW HOW THESE THINGS SHALL BE
Luke 1:35, KJV
"35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God".
I heard that! God is here and He wants to give you answers to your enquiries. There are those with receivings or one inspiration of what they must do or become but who are in doubt of how such mighty communication will come to pass. They've had dreams of great future which tells them the thoughts of peace and of welfare God has towards them. They have information at hand like Mary that originates straight from the mind of God to them. However, it seems too incredulous to believe. Today, the Lord is putting a question in my mouth to ask you. It is, "why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" (Acts 26:8, KJV).
It means why should you think it unachievable, overwhelming and impossible that God does what He has announced to you He'll do? That's humans for you. That's how we think. Once we receive exceeding great and precious promises that our mind can't fathom or describe step by step on how it'll be fulfilled, we immediately think it incredible (too big to be true).
One time, God sent an errand to a virgin lady telling her an incredible thing - that she'll get pregnant without having had intimacy with any man. I don't think you'd believe if God had told you those ear defening things. That angel said, "and, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS" (Luke 1:31, KJV).
Her question immediately was, "how shall this be, seeing I know not a man?" (Luke 1:34, KJV).
The answer was, "the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35, KJV).
For as many who have been told incredulous things, are you seeing your answer in the response given to Mary here? Who will overshadow her? The power of the Highest! It means when God promises or gives you anything to do, it's not by your power it shall be done but by His enablement or ability. This is my seventh year of unrepentantly writing the devotional. Nothing of me could have continued till hitherto if not that the power of the Most High overshadowed me. To overshadow means to take over, cover totally from head to toe like a garment, possess and overwhelm by a power or ability or not left alone to oneself again! Anyone who the power of the Most High doesn't overshadow can't walk the distance let alone go a mile. They'll faint, become weary and fall dead at the carrying of a step like an overripe fruit. It is the energia of God however that sustains us.
Today, let this be your consolation even if you don't know how God will meet the needs of sponsoring or fulfilling your dreams, aspirations, vision or those reoccurring desires. Has He said it, will He not do it? That's the Lord! For every assignment, calling and ordainment, He arranges equipping with it. You can't be stranded therefore. Though I can explain how God is using and aiding me to do what I'm doing in ministry but everything is solely crested on one truth, "that the power of the Most High has overshadowed or overhauled me". It is this that's making me or any anointed you know do what we couldn't have done on ordinary days. It's that same energia or dunamis (power) that helped Mary to take in supernaturally without knowing or needing a man. That's what we'll call an impossibility! What in human parlance can't happen and is susceptible to debates when it does. However, we (the Christians) understand by faith (Heb.11:3). However, you should note that once ability is supplied, all weaknesses, inabilities, puzzles and impossiblities immediately become possibilities. That's why you can suddenly know a man to be doing what his natural strength couldn't have done on ordinary days if he were himself and not having been overshadowed. When he does however, that'll be because of the impartation of power on him. The Holy Ghost has now come to the scene to aid and carry him. How does a man heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead and do all incredibles if not that he has first been overshadowed and the power of the Highest is with him? Or what man do you know who can heal the sick in his own might except God aids him first of all? So, all of you with receivings of difficult things to achieve or do in life, hear the Lord now, "the Holy Ghost shall come upon you and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you". Once it does, you'll become possessed and spirit ruled or governed by that power until you have discharged that receiving communicated to you by the Lord. And that'll be because the power of the Most High has overshadowed you.
CONFESSION/PRAYER: Lord, I'm not thinking it incredible that my dreams are impossible. I've seen that with the Holy Ghost, nothing shall be impossible. You're the supplier of my equipping.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 51:1-53:12; Ephesians 5:1-33; Psalm 69:19-36; Proverbs 24:7
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