MONDAY - 26TH FEBRUARY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
EXCEPTIONALITY AND AWE REVEALS CALLING - Separated Unto Purpose Series 008
Luke 2:46 - 47, KJV
"46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers."
This is day 008 on the series, "Separated Unto Purpose." God is not done with us. Rather, He wants to take us further. Today, I have the obligation and release of the Holy Spirit to show you how to mark calling in yourself or any other person, especially your child. My emphasis has for awhile been on the discovery of kiddos' callings. Once done, children are saved from wrong or perverted living onward into their adulthood. The Bible says, "train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6, KJV). One, there is a way he should go. It is the way of the calling and not only of good morals or character inculcation. You can't train a child in the way he should go (his discovered definite calling) if you haven't identified that way also. A calling earlier discovered is what could be trained and taken to its peak of manifestation very early. We don't have to wait for the manifestation of the sons of God at forty years of age. We can experience it in their twenties. May I show you a Psalm that reveals who children or adolescents should be on effectiveness in their callings.
Psalms 144:12, KJV
"That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace."
We can have such prepared and ready kiddos. Without departing from Luke 2:41-52, I'll be showing you a clear cut mark which once observed reveals your ward has a call on his or her life. Jesus while in the midst of the doctors at the temple displays extraordinary brilliance on God's law or divine things. His brilliance in the Scriptures are so extraordinary that the Bible commented on how the doctors were taken aback. Whenever you see exceptionality being displayed by your kiddo in a subject or activity, it is a mark that he has a specific gifting in there and offcourse a calling to be a master in that field or a related one if he'll pursue it. Many times, parents or adults take little things for granted. You rather ought be like a scout who's on the lookout and tiptoe for that extraordinary player he could recruit for his team. Scout for your ward's strength, gift, talent, obsession, inclination etc. Observe the hint that your child is oozing out by which he or she tells you where he should be classified or with who he should be grouped. You remember Jesus' parents supposedly thought he was in the company of their kinsfolk and acquaintances. However, he was separated away from them because his calling didn't classify him with them. Rather, he was found amidst doctors of religious things (fellow vocational men). If all parents could identify correctly what the calling of their ward is and groom it right there; then there won't be any dullard kid. How do I mean? When you're in your gifting, you're in your elements. Being in your area of grace where you have natural and supernatural equipping to excel means you can't flop because you have many factors of success working for you than of failure working against you. When you're in your calling, since calling begat passion or delight, your passion will begat obsession while that'll begat focus. I can prove that no child is a dullard. You call a child "dull or dullard" because he's not in his calling. Many misfits there be today. Parents themselves are creating these misfits because they want everybody to attend the normal school or experience the familiar schooling. What each of us should rather study and become in life ought be our specialty as dictated to us by what we're created, gifted or best suited for. It is when you do what you lack flair or equipping for that it becomes a struggle and so you struggle. For as many who discovered their callings, they no longer wait to be motivated to work again, they do themselves. Everyone is a genius but not necessarily in the same subject, field or life's endeavour.
Anything in you or your kiddo that commands awe and spreads wonder when done might be his calling or a link or hint at it. It is what makes people famous, superb and unique. It is what sets them apart and makes them different from others. While I was growing up, I was a very superb artist that commanded attention. I thought I'll become an artist myself. My father encouraged this and my artistry is still revealed in some of my master pieces which I still have till date and then in my general creativity today. I excelled very well in Fine Art and later Literature. Today, all I do revolves round those two things. Anything Art, Culture, Music, Society, History, Prehistoric Life or our Ancient Ancestors and their Origin etc just inspire me. It's therefore in this I give the greatest focus and display of dexterity.
Watch if it is music, drawing/painting, atheleticism, writing, inventing, coupling and building that your ward is strongly exceptional in. In any he displays the greatest spontaneity, originality, awe and exceptionality, that may be a rope leading you to his calling. May that mark however be visible. Why did I say that? In some kids, there are variety of things they'll be good at. So, this might create confusion both for parents and the kids themselves when choosing a career or a life's task. What to do is not far fetched. Most times, those scattered and diverse obsessions are related strings. Therefore, one that he exceptionally loves should be pursued. From there, he'll have the privilege of branching into other obsessions of his heart if they still seek his attention as he journeys on. When they are not related, there'll surely be one love that surpasses others. That should be bet on and chosen. It'll lead the way into the future of glory and all open door. It is time to connect to all the latent gifts with which God has wired and graced your kiddo. If you'll let this visible mark lead you, it'll lead you into your fullest manifestation and self actualization.
PRAYER: Lord, show me the exceptionality, uniqueness and specialness in my child. Teach me how to teach it.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 16:29-18:30, Mark 7:24-8:10, Psalm 41:1-13, Proverbs 10:15-16
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