SATURDAY - 23RD SEPTEMBER , 2023
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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
DESIRING A SPACE AMIDST THE GREAT AND STRONG
Isaiah 53:12, KJV
"12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors".
I have taught on that theme before. However, as I prayed, I felt the nudging of the Holy Spirit on it again. When I first taught on it, I did using that same quoted Isaiah 53 where its revelation had broken loose from as given me by God to teach to the body of Christ. What you must understand is this. If God wants you to say or teach something as a minister, the Holy Spirit has a way of making that thing appeal you anew. You might have known or done it before but somehow, it'll interest you again and looks fitting for the time once more. It is this that makes us prophetic and our words fitting and meeting the needs in specific times and seasons. Who knows who God wants to speak with when He prompts or occasions such word?
Introduction is the Lord's and our prayer should be, God, introduce me rightly and at my time! Until the word of Joseph came, he could therefore do nothing but remain laid in iron. He was rather stayed in the waiting room.
Psalms 105:18-19, KJV
"18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him".
I found out that what you're not destined for, you may not aspire to be. If you have a soul revelation that refuses to be satisfied with operating at your local church level for instance but rather sees himself with influence all around in the body of Christ, it may be that the jurisdiction of your calling is wider and of that larger audience which is why such thought and reoccurring thought of your being used greatly and more mightily comes to your mind often. Many times, those with such destiny, expectation or inner aspiration would have to wait until the Lord flings open the door of ministry by which they could go national or into such space. It was God who opened this door of "come up hither" to Joseph himself. God knows who to use, the event to launch and where it must be slated. Nothing confuses Him and He's so mindful of you that nothing shall go amiss. It is basically the Lord's doing and it should be left to Him to do. Your responsibility as a son or daughter that's not content with his status, position or influence is to pray that the vision of the greater tomorrow God has flashed into your heart or the ministering on a larger platform that keeps appealing your mind will come to pass. Don't fret or compare yourself with those who might even be younger than you are but who have had this door opened unto them. The Bible says, "no man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven" (John 3:27). And who knows whether those you're unnecessarily envying waited on the Lord for this door to be opened to them or they schemed, forced and initiated it by being men pleasers and having sacrificed a virtue and an ingredient of costly amount? Everyone who has made it knows how he made it irrespective of the story they tell men. The Bible also says in Psalms 75:6-7 that, "promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south but God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another". It means this issue of being promoted or gaining more influence or having more estates to watch over is of God and solely His work to us as He deems fit. Your own responsibility is to remain prepared, sendable and fit for your day of glory and showing forth in the body of Christ or that spehere of life you've been called unto. God is actually at work so that everything might work for your good. Don't move out of your calling before this day or decide to seek for a way to promote yourself into prominence. It is the Lord's doing that will always be marvellous to us. Man's can't hit that standard. Something can't but be detected to have gone wrong, missing, decayed or corrupt on the way. Such promotion and "come up hither" solely worked out by men doesn't last. Your way up will usually be your way down. If you've been self promoted by men or through your own lobbying etc, it'll have to be by your effort you'll maintain been in the good book of such who have preferred and chosen you to introduce or bring to the limelight. However, if you let God do it, you have God to be obligated to. There and then, you won't be under any pressure to satisfy any man to the defying of God, His will or your own conscience and peace. You'll even be stable and strong not to change your message. Do you know how many who have known God's thought towards them is of peace and of welfare, to give them a future and a hope and to call them to the hills but who have not been patient enough in letting God's time and God's zeal do it. The Bible says in James 1:4 to, "let patience have her perfect work..." So please, don't disturb the outworking of patience. The Bible also talks of the curiosity of God's zeal in bringing promises to manifestation. It says in Isaiah 9:7, "the zeal of the Lord is doing it". What you therefore think is taking time is rather fulfilling its cycle. If you'll enjoy it forever, let patience have its effect on it. However, God is also mindful of bringing His utterance and will to you to pass. So, what you think is slow is actually running at a full speed seeking to be fulfilled because it has been willed and slated to come to pass by God's mouth. It's on this basis that God's zeal is seriously and assidiously seeking to make it work out. It'll find people, events and places to hook to for fulfiment. That is God for you! God is interested in making it work because He is not a man that He should lie or the son of man that He should repent. He wants what He has told you of His greatness to you to come to pass that you may know Him as the faithful God and be assured that He's not an erratic speaker or as a mad man beating the air. He has a goal. However, let Him do this work solely. Do not interrupt Him as to reap consequences that only follows the blessing the Lord has not solely given or work out.
PRAYER: Lord, I surrender to let patience have its full work. I also thank God for your zeal which is jealous for my manifestation and so is seeking it.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13; Ephesians 2:1-22; Psalm 67:1-7; Proverbs 23:29-35
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