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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
A BIOGRAPHY: A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING" - Your Baby Series 004
On February 9, 1709, Reverend Samuel and Susannah Wesley's family survived a fire accident that threatened their survival and consumed nearly all their possessions. The family's eight children were eventually saved but we need to look critically at the saving of John Wesley. Of the family, John Wesley was the one whose rescue costs going the extra mile - thereby bringing to the sense of a meditator that this boy is no ordinary one.
Betty, a servant of the Wesley was said to have gone to the nursery to get the youngest children, including one who was barely one. Bearing the little ones, she called on 5-year old John Wesley to follow her to safety. At arrival however, John was missing. Susannah Wesley who was in her third trimester of pregnancy and who had escaped with a burnt legs explains that Betty "left Jacky (for so was John Wesley also called) to follow her, but he, going to the door and seeing all on fire, ran back again."
Samuel attempted multiple rescue of John but he was prevented by the flames that has now consumed the staircase. He returned to the garden fearing John could not be saved. The family even prayed to God to receive his soul. They lost all hope!
When a glimpse of him was caught at the window of the now very consumed house, some quick witted resourceful men reached the window with one climbing his neighbour's shoulders. This was after he (John Wesley) had yelled and yelled with no help coming from outside. It wasn't long the roof of his room gave way. This experience made his mother allude to him as "a brand plucked from the burning" (Zech. 3:2).
His father commenting later said, "come, neighbours! Let us kneel down! Let us give thanks to God! He has given me all my eight children: let the house go: I am rich enough!" His joy knew no bounds as he kissed John repeatedly in an outstanding emotional outburst and thanksgiving to God.
John Wesley would later go on to found the Methodist Church and be revered as one of the great revivalists of all time in church history. It is clear from his saving that God grants special salvation to people for a purpose He intends. Of all the eight children's rescue, his was the most dramatic, suspenseful or even foregone.
Where it seems there's no way, God shall create a way for you. This story and testimony is acquaintance to many though this one may be particular to John Wesley. However, many many dangerous things did many people escape. Such special deliverance should be noted. Moses met his deliverance and that culminates in the name and testimony that he was "drew out of the water". This is the lot of your kid at faces of dangers. They are given to experience escape when the flood of life comes. They'll be "drew out of the water", "plucked from the burning", "preserved in famine" and kept in all situations.
The Bible says in Job 5:19, "He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee." Then it goes on to make a long list of all the things God will deliver you and your baby from (Job 5:20-26). What a list! What a deliverance!You can believe for this. It is truth. It is reality. Irrespective of what the situation is, await God's escape. He delivers even from famine, insufficiency and scarcity that the economy of your country might have caused. He'll come. He'll not hold back. He'll arrive to draw your baby out of perils (no matter what it may be) to the preservation of his soul.
PRAYER: Special deliverances and rescues are mine and ours. In all, I am more than a conqueror.
PRAYER: El-shaddai, the great carer and loving God from whom come all good and perfect gifts, cut a covenant of preservation with my kid(s).
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Acts 17:1-15 & Job 3-5
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