MONDAY - 22ND AUGUST, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
A CALL BACK TO WORK
Read Ezekiel 37:1-11
Ezekiel 37:10, KJV
"So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army."
May God recover you. Until then, you'll lie down in utter uselessness. The story of the dry bones vividly brought this home. It reveals little or no usefulness of a forsaken vessel. These very dry bones are those of a vast army, once standing, raging and brave army. What has become of it now? The bones littering the valley only give evidences of once upon standing army. They're out of service; can't hold a sword let alone wave it. They're not different from artefacts now in museum. They're only good for sight seeing. They're no longer doing beings. They're in their retirement and are only meant to teach history or take people back on a memory lane.
May God not leave you. May His commitment be ever with you. When vessels are no longer in use, they become instructional materials to moral lessons to honourable and vessels still in use on the importance of guarding against going out of God's service. If you don't know, God carried out Ezekiel in the Spirit to teach him a lesson by using these forgotten bones as teaching aids for such. He wanted to teach a lesson on "hope" and "possibility." You see, the relics of those soldiers have no other usefulness than that. They couldn't stand a vast army until God's command. They couldn't rage. They neither could attack. All of them have gone into eternal silence brought upon them by death. They've been shut up! Are you as well dead? Are you out of service and God's operation? Have you been discovered not to be violent again in the spirit? Do spirits now take you for granted and same manifests through people? God is standing you back. You will rise a great army yet again!
The testimony of these bones was that they were stood back. What a God, what a restorer and the bringer back of our yesteryears. It's a very painful thing to have known the life of exploit and suddenly enter into relegation. That's what happened to all these slain soldiers. However, they were found and recalled to their positions. God refurbished them. They were clothed and there rose up a great army yet again. God is set to set you too on motion. His thought towards you is still of good and not of evil. He's re-anointing, re-empowering and refurbishing you. On your feet, you'll stand a great soldier girded with sword. You might have been dismantled, having been left desolate but at the call of God, all graves shall open and wherever you're dead spiritually, you shall arise again. Yet, I say there's hope. Your graves have not been sealed. You're in the open valley where you could easily be sought after, found and recalled. You're not at all snared or hidden in holes. Today, let all graves give up their dead. I say, "dry bones, come back to life." People will not remember you and say, "you lost it." You'll be remembered for "ever coming back, ever tarrying still, ever continuing daily." Your rising shall be grand. You'll rise a Colossus and for God's great work on earth. You're made a new tool for God's use. Behold your destiny.
Isaiah 41:15, KJV
"Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff."
That's you. That Ezekiel verse read, "and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army." So, they were great in number? We wouldn't have known outrightly if their bones was never fetched and compacted together and made into countable. So, they could still have some fight left in them? How would we have known if they were not first enlivened and then stood up (to get ready for combat and what they used to do). What was the purpose of an army standing on its feet? It depicts readiness, strength and proper equipping. Today, you're that army I see. May you be a Gad (a troop). May you run and not be weary but rather exchange strength for strength. May you have the strength of a troop and in battle do valiantly.
PRAYER: Graves are opened, recovery has happened. Hallelujah.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Esther 8:1-10:3; 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13; Psalm 37:1-11; Proverbs 21:23-24
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