WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR: GOD'S WILL OR SUCCESS?
"If you can find and do the will of God for you, you don't need to look for success separately."
T.L. Osborne
Brethren, your welfare is in the will of God. Mind you, I didn't say, "your money..."
I used "welfare" because that involves all the care you need and money is just a speck of what you need as welfare.
But the problem is discovering God's will for oneself and then walking in it.
I found out that it's not always that straight submitting or following the will of God that you know or have discovered.
Why? There are many reasons for that.
You may be too scared!
You may be deceived by other people's wills and God's plans for them which may be gigantic. As such, you may be drawn into the wrong livelihood or ways of life because of jealousy, envy or competition.
Yours may not be elaborate enough in human description and parlance. So, you may knowingly substitute your will with the famous, wealthy and celebrated. And yours may be so gigantic that you refuse to believe it, advising God that He should have given it to better men; therefore separating yourself from it.
How many of you know that the elephant is not more important to God than the housefly? Do you know why?
God created them differently to discharge different purposes in their ecosystem and once none of them fails, they have fulfilled their purpose of creation without one being greater/lesser than the other in value or importance.
The elephant won't receive much praise because he's bigger, lives in the jungle and is mostly regarded by humans. Never!
"Have they served my will as I (God) appointed" is the ultimate question God will ask?
May I tell you that many will wake up to be rubbished by God on the Last Day because they didn't fulfill the very purpose for which they were created.
They rather served another. They probably did the work of their dad, elder brother or friend and did not take the route God had planned for them. They lived another man's life.
How angry and uncomfortable you'll be if all the items in your house turned against their creation and wanted to discharge another function they aren't made or suited for?
In essence, you'll have none or few to slightly meet your needs. You'll be stranded! That's the pain God is going through because people (Christians) are not where they should be, doing what they should do.
That's why we seem not to be effective though blasting speed!
Speed in the wrong direction (God scoffs)!
Doing the will of God is finding your purpose on earth, sticking to that and finding other revealed will that'll be connected to that.
I can assure you that if you're in the center of God's will, it's like having a master key at hand. You'll be able to open other doors. Other things like who to marry, where to settle, who to be-friend (not as amoral relationship please) or where to worship or who to take as a mentor will be opened and rightly met. How?
"In the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen" (Gen. 22:14).
There can't but be provision where God has designated. Ask the brother that turned Eastward and was fed by the ravens. Confirm from those sent to untie the ass. Interview certain disciples sent to prepare for the Lord's supper. They all met it so!
Will can attract will! Will is even interwoven. There's this interrelatedness of wills. If you get one right, the closer you are to getting others right. Will do order wills towards the man they're meant for. But first enter the aero MACRO will!
People of God, where are you? Have you discovered who you are? Have you answered why it is thus with you in particular and not another person? Have you enquired as to why your heart is stirred towards a path and why there's a convicting witness inside when you stumble on certain places, people, events or things? Why are you the only one carrying this pregnancy and talking in some manners beyond what you have learnt?
In God's will for you is the total package for your welfare. Expenses have been paid! Settlements have been done! Men will be convinced! People will respond! It'll seem the show is focused on you! In God's will, men have run ahead of you to prepare your way before you. Why? Your coming has been signalled and foretold. They have warnings and instructions about you! You wonder why doors fling open on such occasions. It's only in God's will that every mountain is levelled and the valley is exalted. The Midas touch is in the will.
When you're wrong and out there, you're left to blast your mountain and improvise by yourself. You'll search it and may not see it for long! You become like an orphan when God has said, "I won't leave you as orphans (comfortless) but come to you" (John 14:18). You literally sweat it out and suffer!
In God's will, your friends are not necessarily my friends. That's why I don't force relationships. We may once know each other on campus but wills may have crossed that once upon depth of closeness. New people might have replaced each of us even if we still hold and esteem ourselves as acquaintances. We may only have proceeded on with new people meant for this season of our lives who fit God's will for us. That I was fit for a season for you and you were for me doesn't mean I will always be fit for you. Only in marriage does it last until death do them apart. However, different men are stationed as provision for us where we must take them. They too are waiting to fulfill their will when they meet us and when we meet them also.
If you serve God in His will for you, that served will would bring you the specific friends God has prepared and ordained for you. Everything is in your will. The will is like a cooked soup or stew. Have it and possess all the coveted ingredients that can cook a soup. Pepper, tomato, seasoning, salt, protein and all of those for which thieves do break in to steal are there. It makes sense having the stew than running after only pepper because it's the obvious thing that makes the stew!
You cannot be friends with everyone. Aba! You cannot be cherished by all. That's because your will and assignment will touch and be life to some people than others. So, those specific recipients will esteem you more than wine.
Everything is meant to fall for you. Everything is already allotted, proportioned and allocated to answer you at a season in time if you'll walk in His will. This doesn't eliminate work or your participation you know. It'll be, you see, you act! You know, you move! Faith without works is dead!
As you walk in His will, a spouse can fall for you if that's the next thing. One door will just open to the next. One thing will just begat another. It'll just be from house to house.
But for those who'll miss God's will, their experience will be from "fry pan to fire."
Brethren, God has created for us the better life that we can bet on. If you'll enter the will zone, the will will spin out fortune and all the goodies you do desire in the manner that God has specifically measured that it gives to you.
It's like taking an office; you'll be privy to certain information and enjoy the benefits that accompany that office. The office brings them. Know what to initiate that can command all other things.
God's will that each Christian will answer will not make them great the same way. What matters is therefore not to desire the greatness or life of another but that which God wants for you for which you were born.
"Is life not more than food and the body than clothing? (Matt. 6:25)"
Do the will! That is when you can be said to have been a faithful and OBEDIENT servant at that.
There are many Christians who have missed the core of this matter but are trying to live the Christian life in obedience on other issues.
After boarding a ship to Tarshish, do you think you can impress or win God's heart by any other action on that trip? Even if Jonah converts the sailor, it doesn't eliminate or settle the debt of disobedience on ground.
In core disobedience, you cannot do any act that'll be counted for you as obedience. Your foundational disobedience can't but lead you in the wrong direction, make you meet the wrong people, live in the wrong place and yell through life.
Success is housed in the will of God. Riches is in there. Greatness is there for each and everyone of us in the measure God has decided to dealt us. Yours is not mine and mine is not yours.
Stop comparing yourself to another. Just be faithful to God. We won't all have the same things on earth equally and that's not because God is wicked but because our purpose will call for provision differently. And let me tell you, the greatly you're entrusted, the greater you're endangered.
Are you in the will of God for you or you're a tyre that's almost going astray from the wheel?
Align! Proceed into His will. Be afraid of nothing. The worst is that you won't be as great as your equals. Why be afraid? If we have food and clothing, with this, we shall be content (I Tim. 6:8). God owns you whether you're alive or dead, wealthy or poor? He has bought you with a price! You're His own. Be His bondservant! But you must know that greatness is not what really matters but obedience. Every greatness that's not in obedience to God's will is a violation of His will and therefore a disobedience. Many great people will be dismissed on the Last Day and many humble men who God called great but who were not great because they didn't align will suffer the same fate.
You must be like David. You must serve the will of God in the time you have to live in your own generation - in which God has seeded you.
Now is the time for you children of Abraham and Sarah. Are you asking what God will make you? God, bearing witness says in Isaiah 51:1-2, "1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."
This doesn't mean being rich as Abraham or wealthier than he but rather it means, you'll be seen and helped to fulfill your own destiny - meet destined obligations.
God has not called us all to the same road but He has prepared a measure of greatness for you where He has called you even if it'll just be the manifestation of "but if we have food and clothing, with this we shall be content." Just ensure God wanted that for you!
The road differs! Yours may be overseas. Mine may be at home. Yours may be the road commonly traveled. Mine may not be. Yours may be service in the city and in bonds. Another's may be service in a village and as a free man.
Therefore, our sufferings will differ.
May you find yourself! May you find your road!
May you walk it in all its details and bits!
May you endure when it rains and smiles at the peeping of the sun!
The will of God is the master key! If you desire, call it the El Dorado of all good things or nickname it the philosopher 's stone.
All I know is, find yours, embrace it like the cross and carry it to Calvary until it does to you all that are intended by the Father!
That's when God will have another obedient and faithful servant in His hands again!
Olusola ADEJUMO,
M'Wings.
Morning Wings Ministry,
Nigeria.
morningwingsministryplus@gmail.com
21/08/2025
