WEDNESDAY - 12TH JUNE, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE POWER OF VISUALIZATION
Genesis 30:37-38, KJV
"37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink."
First of all, there's a level of strangeness in what Jacob does here. It takes divine inspiration or revelation to have believed peeling whites in rods would enable the flock give birth to spotted animals like they'll see and be accustomed to overtime. As such, we're seeing the place of divine prompting or inspiration where an idea that you were thinking less of breaks into your mind. Such ideas are potential miracles if they'll be farmed, explored or dug. There's no time I worked on the inspiration from the inside that it didn't work. It ranges from suggestive leading to ring someone at a particular time or ask someone a particular question.
We all know how Laban goes further to deny Jacob his newly set wages of separating the spotted cattle for himself. Finding out, Jacob only takes a step. He cuts rods of poplar, hazel and chestnut trees and peel whites in their green backgrounds. With the power of faith and mind visualization, he believes those animals would give birth to spotted kids just by accustoming themselves with the spotted images in the rods. Indeed, he turns out to be right. Often as the animals feed and drink in the gutter, contacting the spotted rods, they overtime assimilated the image placed before them. As such, they gave birth to that expectation.
What is God saying to us today? You can visualize it until it happens. You can set an image, an event or a desire before the face of your mind until it eventually happens. The mind is activated by what we constantly fuel it with. If you continue to feed your mind with images of being called out as the best excelling student of your set, you'll receive energy and wisdom to labour more than other students and see same achieved. Until it happens, you won't just give your self rest because there's an image that you have absorbed that you're seeking to replicate. This same principle is what many people indulge in until they fornicate or rape someone. They keep fueling their minds with the evil, condemned and unjust thoughts of sleeping with someone until their mind and body is forcefully charged towards fulfilling that. As such , initiatives as to how to fulfill that and make it happen jumped to them from nowhere until they had done that wickedness that God hates.
The psalmist while talking says, "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved" (Psalm 16:8). Man, listen, what you set (put before the face of your mind and leave there for long) is what will fill you with such energy to birth according to the image with which you've been fed. I have practiced that principle many times. I set a target and then put that target before me. I let it be my thought, discourse and sharing with people. Withing a limited time, I'll see myself have it. An energy will rise from me to meet it. Help will come to accomplish it. God will create a way. I could even set aside fund for it continually and uncompromisingly until I purchase it. That was how I got the Bible I now used. I just set the thought of owning a new KJV Bible before me and after awhile of burning with the thought, someone gave me one.
If you can visualize it, it'll keep you hungry to reproduce it and I assure, you'll have it. You will just attract it. There's power in positive thinking!
PRAYER: As a man thinks, so is he. Help my mind to be set on my calling and high affections.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 9:1-10:29, Acts 8:14-40, Psalm 130:1-8, Proverbs 17:2-3
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