MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/08/2021

SUNDAY - 15TH AUGUST, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU CRY TO THE LORD

Read Psalm 56

Psalms 56:9, KJV

"When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me."

It is because you have not cried. Don't argue with God or regard His servant a liar. I say once more, "the reason for your smallness and continuity in this negative cycle is because of one thing and that is 'your having not cried to God.' You have to scare your enemy. You have to roar and until then, they won't be terrified and destabilized. Until you show your determination for change by crying, don't expect a new beginning. You must know action births reaction. 

Today's word from God says, " when you cry unto God, then will your enemies turn back." It stands to reason if you don't cry to the Lord, your enemies will keep pursuing. They will keep harassing, seeking your downfall etc. However, if your enemies can be so relaxed as to make the mistake of giving you the opportunity to cry to God in prayer, I don't care how much they are, they'll all flee. If they're witches, they'll stop working on your cases. If they're spirits, they'll immediately cease. That's what you reap when you CRY unto the Lord. Even if your enemy is a president of a nation, he must turn back. He must turn back doesn't mean he'll die. It means he'll give up on you. Who are those that needs to give up on you? I say, "give up today." God with you or God that is called into your matter or called to take over your matter is what the enemy detests and can't withstand. That's the key to winning. Don't fight in your strength or wisdom. Call unto God. His presence can't be refuted but yours can still be taken for granted and debated. 

Look, there's a change of season in the spirit. In this season, God is making your winning over your enemy (devil, your arch enemy and his cohorts) and any stubborn human being that has vowed to see to your end easier by leaning what you'll do to just one thing. Now, what's that thing? Just to cry unto Him. You must know where your deliverance will come from. It is by crying to God. It is from Him.

When the Bible says when you cry to the Lord, your enemies shall turn back, the imagery being painted is that of two armies fighting in battle. When one is stronger for the other to handle, what happens to that weak one? It runs. It turns its back (change position from fighting its opponent face to face) to fleeing. There and then, they'll throw down their weapons of war, do away with encumbrances and flee as much as possible for escape. This is where as much as my legs can carry me is implemented. They won't even look back because the terror of you will be on them really well. The only thought in their mind would be safety - to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks, to the holes. 

Crying to God literally has to do with praying but it means fervent prayer. It is a hot boiling prayer. A prayer birthed from the revelation of, "you've done enough. I also want rest and want to be in full possession and control of what is mine." That's the kind that can turn anything. 

James 5:16-17, KJV

"...The EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER of a righteous man AVAILETH MUCH.  5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he PRAYED EARNESTLY that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months."

Mind you, it is "when I CRY unto the Lord and not when I PRAY unto the Lord." "Crying" to the Lord is also praying to the Lord but crying to the Lord is much more with zeal, demand for change, focus, faith and a laying hold for a turn around. Here, you know why you're praying and that reason is propelling you to pray really hard. Here, they don't need to dictate prayer points to you before you bend the knee. Realization of the fact that your enemies must turn their back is enough. Your goal is to stop all the men or spirits at work in your life and put the stop sign to their faces. Road closed! Door slammed! Entry blocked!

Symbolically and generally, "crying or praying" there means taking the needed action where it's needed. When you cry to the Lord, your enemy will turn their back and flee. When you study, you'll pass as well. When you apply labour and hard work, you'll come back with profit as well because in all labour, there's profit.

Did you see how God has made simple what will make you victorious easy to do? Just do an act and reap the consequential outcome. It is those that cry that will turn their enemies away. Those that keep quiet can't have that result. That is why, you must pray differently this morning. Where, what or whom do you need to cry to God for? Raise prayers as inspired and triggered by this teaching and the Holy Spirit and see the result.

I hear, "the result will be immediate. The anointing has brought it within your reach." Once you begin to see it anytime soon, share your testimonies with me here: +234 81 3704 6812 or the mail downward. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Nehemiah 7:73-9:21, 1 Corinthians 9:1-18, Psalm 33:12-22, Proverbs 21:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 14/08/2021

SATURDAY - 14TH AUGUST, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

IS IT TRUE?

Ecclesiastes 1:15, KJV

“That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”

Is it true? I mean, is this Bible verse true of crooked things? Is it true that once a thing solidifies in life and becomes what it wants to become, it can’t change again or be disassembled? Is it true? The preacher said “that which is crooked cannot be made straight…” It is not a joke. He meant the truth and you should be serious to what God has to say on this matter that concerns you. 

It means once a thing goes wrong in the beginning, correcting it or putting adjustment to it becomes impossible or let’s say almost impossible. You will agree with me that there are many mistakes you have made. Many of these mistakes wanted to be corrected or reversed but it was just not possible. They have been done and they have been done. Period! You even seeked to make amendments with tears but despite that the line drawn cannot be erased. It seems to have been a line drawn with a permanent marker that can’t be wiped off again. It seems permanent. Even when you’ve been forgiving and have personally released the past, the memories are still there.

The fact that crooked things cannot be made straight should serve as enough warning for us to take our time not to hastily make decisions that becomes impossible to alter in latter days. Once you go a particular path in life and it turns out to be the wrong road, that is it.  You have created a life that will be with you forever. You won’t be able to do much to reverse all the outcomes and results seen on that road.

That is why, it is what is that will eventually be. That is why, it is what you know now you will eventually know at full stature. If you are known for waking up late daily with other habits that a youth on morning wings should not cultivate, that may be the vehicle and practices that will continually carry you into the future. Most especially, once a man reaches the solidifying stage of life where habits have already being formed and only needed to be improved on, he can’t change much about himself even when he wanted to. If you don’t learn how to speak correct English now, that may be it forever. You may continue to destroy English Grammar even at fifty.

This idea of a crooked thing cannot be straightened is what is behind good home training. My mother will say a fresh fish can still be bent but a dry one can’t. Any attempt to bend it is wanting to break it eventually. It simply means once a thing takes an accustomed posture or position over the years, it is stupidity to come a day and say “today is your day, you will be changed.” In the first instance, did it take a day to become that which it has become?

This is why it is difficult for hardened older sinners to get born again. They have identified with crookedness until they become crooked. Wanting to separate them from that way of life that they have acclimatized with is like wanting to separate the Spirit from the body. That is why it takes more than persuasion to get them born again. It takes the power and outworking of God even if you don’t sound persuasive or convinced that your message can turn a thing to get them into the fold. It becomes almost difficult even after being born again maintaining the new life. If you are observant, you will see the traces of once being crooked in their lives. It will be evident. Why? It almost becomes impossible for a crooked thing to be straightened. The mark that that’s who they are will often cry forth and come on the scene. So, the solution is not to get to the place of crookedness where all sort of twistedness and confusion reigns as the order of the day in one’s life.

It is a true fact that once one becomes someway, it may be difficult changing colours. That may mean, that’s how one will stay till eternity. So, don’t let things come to this point of crookedness/stillness where they will be deviant to solutions to have them turned. I don’t know if you’ve ever presented a case before a professional before with a response like “madam/sir, we can’t do much about it. It has become stiffed. But you should have come earlier.” If a professional i.e a doctor tells you that about your health, I wonder where you will turn. God is there anyway!

If you have ever worked to loosen rusted bolts before, you will understand what it means for a thing to have become crooked. The bolt won’t loosen by itself with the use of a spanner on it. You will need to pour oil on it and allow it to be eased. That will take days at times before it will be ready to be loosened. Why that long process? Because it has become crooked. In wanting to adjust a crooked thing, a thing that has gone into coma, you spend much effort than wanting to awake a thing that has just fallen asleep.

So, If you want to correct, adjust and redirect, do so when there is still flexibility and accommodation for such. If that thing should stagnate, no professional can easily immediately call it to another way.

PRAYER: I receive wisdom to make good decisions as I go and grow.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezra 4:24-6:22, 1 Corinthians 3:5-23, Psalm 29:1-11, Proverbs 20:26-27

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HOW TO ASSURE A WOMAN: Eliminating Fear & Insecurity in Relationships

HOW TO ASSURE A WOMAN

We all want security. It has even become a great need in our time. From the churning out of armoured vehicles to the recruitment of professional guards, all point to the need for security of life especially.

We want job security also. No employee wants to be in danger of being laid off at the leisure of the employer just like that. You crave for permanence and none making you afraid. If you have the secret fear of losing your job any time soon, it will affect your performance on that job. You can never never give your best. How can you be on a job where the threat you're hearing often is, "I'll just sack you!"

I've found out one of the greatest needs of women also. It is security. Is your wife or fiancée secured in that relationship? If she's unsure of you but doubtful you're still not hers, then, both of you can't build together. 

When a woman loves you, she'll lose her heart to you. She'll personally sacrifice for you. Women don't like competition. Your wife or your fiancée don't want another female's name, personality or description to overshadow hers. Leave that space. She even don't want your friends or colleagues to take her place in you. Not even your job. Are we saying be careless with what will feed you all? No. Just ensure in all you do, she's the one the spotlight is always on in your life. Make her have rights and a thick sense of laying claim on you anytime she wants. Nothing gives a woman importance, value and confidence than if her car develops a fault and she could call you while you leave all promptly to join her there; replace her vehicle with yours while you battle with the problem. You have just told her, "I only live for you." If you're out with friends and she can lay hold on you and have you come back home just to be with her, you have purchased for yourself a testimony and witness that money can't buy. You may get home to find out there is nothing in particular she was calling you for though she sounded somehow serious on phone. Do you know what she wants? Fellowship that comes through seeing your presence - that masculine father figure round her and the children. There's no time to speak into the heart of a woman than when you're stroking her. Just whisper into her ears 'I'm yours and yours only.' She may say, 'awwwwn?' You know, as if to question your integrity on that but don't worry, she already believes that. It is only when you've made your wife a Thomas through consistent and over the years acts of perforation that she'll request you to prove it. Don't be surprised if she asks you to swear by requesting for another covenant (one she will now solely oversees). Look at these verse.

Hebrews 6:16, KJV

"16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife."

While we were much younger, I'd personally asked people to swear to end the strife or doubt in my heart over matters. At times, we bit the coin or the paper money. We sworn in the names of gods as requested for by the ones whose strife we wanted to end. Oath is for confirmation and until then, no consolation is received on the said matter. There will always be reasons to be afraid or anticipate probabilities. "I'm not saying it is not so as you've said but let me be assured it's so by your giving me an oath." That's that thing!

Don't get to a place where your wife because of being perforated by insecurity which comes upon her overtime will require you to swear by another thing outside the marriage covenant that is binding on you both. It shows you've been failing. I tell you, a woman can go any length to possess a man for herself especially if she's the serious type who wants to keep her husband and is zealously jealous to protect her territory and have you for her children only [...and she's correct. That's how it should be]. Don't be surprised if she brought out a thing from her wardrobe and asks you to do some rituals with her. To her, the marriage covenant can't hold again. She has to improvise and lock you with her through another means. If you're not careful, that's the beginning of demonic entrance into your family and from there, your wife can by witchcraft begin to lord it over you. Off course if you refuse, you've given her a more solid ground to continue to believe in what she has already come to believe of you. Your only escape is to open up to your pastor who will call both of you for settlement. At day's end, you'll see you pushed her where she became insecure until she needed security which she sought in what the heathen believes strikes down at once when violated. Only after settlement and clarity of all things will she be able to trust you again. Why is this education coming? There may be men who are ignorantly doing what makes their wives suspicious and doubtful of them.

But when you pass through the correct road of not making her afraid and she is not indeed; you can measure her being confident you're hers at times by this sense of security that will make your wife treat you like her child or what she has obtained and she's just sure 'it is my thing.' Don't be offended. That's how to gauge she's secured and assure you're not out of hand. She can just boldly call you by your name or command you to do something. But you'll know that it is not to insult you. That act comes from being secured that I have rights to turn you wherever I want [smiles]. At least, we own ourselves. No third party.

Please, make her feel esteemed, really appreciated and loved. If you're a speaker, often speak of her in admiring words in front of your audience. Let it be known to many that she's the only queen in your castle. If her own soul knows this right well, there won't be any cause for shaking.

The Bible says,

Job 11:18-19, KJV 

"18 And thou shalt be SECURE, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy REST in SAFETY. 19 Also thou shalt LIE DOWN, and NONE shall make thee AFRAID; yea, many shall make suit unto thee."

Contextually, that place speaks of clearing oneself from any unrighteousness with God as to be able to enjoy those listed benefits. Meanwhile, it's relevant to our study.

It is God's will that you will feel secured. One must be assured no danger or harm can strike one suddenly when one is taking his rest. Your wife must be able to take her rest also, close her two eyes, put her legs on the table without a beating heart. Any who has lost rest is troubled or has an unknown fear. That fear of losing one's spouse is an evil fear. If it's demonically sponsored, I break its hold off you. 

If it's humanly caused, the spouse concerned should take practical steps in eradicating it. Your family may not enjoy stability until your wife is made the possessor of the entire you. Women like it when they know they're in control of their husbands. "In control" here doesn't mean leading or giving him instructions. It means being assured he's for her wholly and his life is sold out to look after her only, their children and not any other contestant. They're verily assured when your action, speech or demeanour don't suggest they are strangers. If she feels this good about you, look, she's secured and you have passed the test of trust.

Also, don't arouse her suspicion or jealousy sense in wanting to make her know your value or appreciate you the more. Your own relationship may not survive that. Some did and they still made it; some did and they failed. If you make your partner jealous, untold evil can penetrate your family indescribably.

In your house, let it be known that she's the only Mount Zion which can't be moved. Even in your cracking jokes, never say 'she will one day go to her place or know her level.' Even, if she refuses you sex or becomes stiff at times, don't recompense her or force her to be willing by sputtering, 'thank God, you're thankfully not the only one.' That may take a minute to say but may take eternity to erase. 

On all her special days, have her in remembrance and start the celebration of these her days ahead of time. Drop hints around of those days and really make her loved by doing something new or surprising. 

Finally, don't forget your wife or spouse is your real only reward on earth. So, give time and attention to take pleasure in her/him.

Olusola ADEJUMO, M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria. 

+234 81 37 04 68 12.

morningwingministry@gmail.com

10/08/2021

HOW TO BENEFIT FROM THE PRAYER OF JABEZ: A Teaching of Changing Levels

BENEFITTING FROM THE PRAYER OF JABEZ: A Teaching For Those Who Want To Change Levels

I Chronicles 4:9-10, KJV

"9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested."

There is the conventional crying or action while there's the unconventional. Jabez cried! He cried! Why did Jabez call on God? He cried because he wanted to change his situation. The situation Jabez met himself was not his creation. Whether it was however his creation or not isn't the ultimate. Where the matter is is changing the situation. You can't forever mourn the past when you should take responsibility for the future. Jabez had been cursed subtly at birth and he needed to break off from this pronouncement that has been moulded into a yoke which yielded to him undesirables.

On that note, he called on the God of Israel. He attacked and addressed a particular quarters. He knows every good and perfect gift comes from above. Now, before he cried, he came to the discovery of something not good. He got to a place where having spoken with himself, he decided not to continue that way again. He must off course have seen a lot of disgraces and embarrassments which brought him to himself to say, "enough!" He wanted freedom and he set his mind on it and not any other thing. If you had met Jabez at this time and had asked him what he wanted, he would have mentioned one thing, "change." Jabez knew what to address and then who to address. It was God he called unto. He didn't cry to the mother and say, "make another pronouncement." You must know where to face, who to appeal and draw your requests on.

How many people are tired of where they are, who they are and the repeating happenings in their lives? Until you are tired and wanted a turn of event, you can't take a corresponding action. Jabez got to this brink. He got where he knew nobody would turn things for him except he does it himself. Therefore, like Jephthah, he took his life into his hands and advocated for his cause from the Father. He petitioned God. Like an angry man, he refused to leave God alone nor be comforted. God saw the desperation and signed his demands.  

Come and see contention in the spirit. When Jabez cried to God, it is equal to fighting that curse or label put on him in the spirit. There was a violent reaction. Things shook in the spirit and what was the result eventually?

Jabez then became a new being. One who could be described as being honourable than the children of his mother. But that was not Jabez before. A new Jabez now walks the town. Hallelujah!

Today, may your identity change. May you be known otherwise from the past. May there be a turning and a wide distance from how you're negatively described to how you'll begin to be positively described. 

But before any of these will happen, you must come to the realization of your condition. You must be pained. You must be angry to have a new life. When you are, then you'll see new ideas, actions etc flooding you as practical steps by which your life, status etc would change. Jabez prayed. You may not necessarily pray but rather may take actions which you've never taken before that will bring that new dawn on you.

PRAYER: Sensitize me to what I should resist. Let my awareness lead to unconventional acts to desire change. I receive a distinction that deviates from past's reputation.

HOW TO RECEIVE FROM ANY ANOINTED

HOW TO RECEIVE FROM ANY ANOINTED

Read John 5:1-9

John 5:3-4, KJV

"3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

May we not be left alone to ourselves and devices. May divinity always join with us at all times and greatly when ministration is sought after.

What can you do unless there's a stirring? The water itself won't move. The congregation will just be still with nothing to jump for joy for. In these Solomon porches were laid many impotent folks. When there is no activity, everybody sits down quietly only in expectation of what can bring activity. There's only one thing that does that. It is the stirring of the water. Until that move of God, you won't see the craving of these invalids to get healed. No one will make an attempt to be healed.

With the description in our reading, we know what becomes consequent at the stirring of the water. The impotents rush into the water seeking healing of whatsoever diseases they have. You see, there can't be movement, race or competition to outrun another unless an angel has stirred the water and is visible to each that the water has been stirred. 

The stirred water is off course an empowered water with healing virtue residual in it. Afore then, it lacks power to turn anything. Does that tells you that natural can't become supernatural until super joins it. That 'super', God is the custodian. Such armed water is what they rush to meet and interact with.

Is this not how you should be taught to receive from God's anointed men? At times, when a minister prays or makes declarations, the congregation or those lacking in estimation treats it as casual. They just stand still. No rushing to the altar. No standing up to receive. No lifting of hand or showing off in a posture that only faith and hunger drives. Lack of faith at every ministration is why ministration is being wasted. It's not that God has not been showing up. If there's a provision made ready for you but which you don't partake of, will it benefit you? If when the water was stirred, nobody gets into it, will the first man on contact be healed? Did you see why people have taken God as a liar and His anointed men as scammers. However, that was not the attitude of those at this pool's side. A stirring of the water draws all of them towards the pool. They will immediately seek to tap, touch and key into it for their healing. They know once this move of God is exhausted or bypassed me, I'll have to wait till a season I can't predict. Even if that season comes on, who knows if it's not another that would be the beneficiary of the stirred water?

I'm perceiving by God's Spirit to tell you that when proclamations are made by any anointed, it is your responsibility to say, "Amen. I receive it." What you esteem will show in how fast you absorb and receive such. If the mercy of God is limited also, how many people will receive of God's goodness with their slowness and sluggishness in receiving? Much education is becoming madness to some people. Instead of enlightenment, it rather causes more blindness. There are the set who will say, "what connection do receiving has to do with happening." Okay, stay there and let your yoke remain from generation to another. Medical science don't break yokes. It is the anointing! Until anointing ploughs that road open, medical science can't come in. 

Look, when the anointing comes upon the anointed, God draws near to show His willingness. It is not the man now but the God of the man. Without the stirring of the water in today's passage, a person on contact can't be healed. Yokes will rather continue bugging people down. Without God showing up through His anointed also, same happens. Problems aren't solved and burdens aren't dissolved. So, it is an act of God's generosity when the anointing hits somebody and under that influence makes pronunciation that addresses people's matters. Any that receives it will be set free, made whole and blessed. If God's willingness is available to minister; there should be people's willingness to receive. 

Let me ask you, how swift do you attend to divine receiving? Your life depends on it. Those invalids were left to the mercy the stirred water has to offer. There are moments when humans can find themselves in problems money can't solve. Such declarations are therefore very important to your salvation.

I pray for you, you won't be slow at heart nor dull of hearing. Your perception will be opened. Today, I bulldoze your problems and burdens by God's anointing on me. What is the sickness, disease (curable or incurable) you have reports over? Receive a different report now. I plough through your land and declare healing and open heaven on you. So shall it be in Jesus name. Amen.

PRAYER: Lord, may I not lose awe for You. May I see and move at once. May I not offend You through those you've put anointing on. May my disbelief not be counted as sin.

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/08/2021

FRIDAY - 13TH AUGUST, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

UZZIAH ARRIVED AND STIFFED

II Chronicles 26:15, KJV 

"And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong."

I want to believe apart from the pride of ascension or achievement that fights people off the height of success, there's a strong demon specially deputized and delegated by Satan to see to it that any man up there comes down. Pride is a demon itself. 

Uzziah started as nothing. Having partnered with God, help untold was brought into his life continuously to fill his nothingness and make him into something that could be boasted of. This help was constantly given him until the Bible described him as having reached a place where he became strong. Do you know what it means to be strong? It actually means being able to stand on one's own now. "Being strong" there brings the idea of a child who can now walk on his own without needing the parents to balance or stabilize him ( taking thought for him that he may fall while walking). However, you'll realize that that child can't say he is done with the parents yet. 

Everybody that can now stand should beware. Don't be deceived that your being able to stand means God is done with you or He should be utterly removed and His inputs. No one removes God that survives it but that's where Satan wants success and your being made strong (at your level now) by God push you to. He wants you get to a place like Uzziah where you begin to disdain holy things.

II Chronicles 26:16, KJV

"But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense."

Don't get to where you see your being strong as an excuse not to ask for further help again. You can then despise fellowship and prayer. Prayerlessness and not intimating with God again shows your sufficiency and independence of God.

Do you know what you have is what you may not ask for? When a man is totally filled and lacks nothing, he can easily be  tempted to say, "he needs not God." By the time realization will happen, a thing without remedy or difficult to remediate might have happened. When we pray, we ask for help. All of us are strong in degrees different from each other both in the spirit and the physical - as it concerns earth's goods. This doesn't mean we should cast away God. Ever be humble and continually ask for more. If you agree you're totally strong indeed, you won't know there's stronger after strong and strongest after stronger. With God, blessings and equipping are in levels. He'll test you with little to see if you'll follow still.

PRAYER: Lord, may I be like a child irrespective of your blessing on me. May I never stiff. I move on with you in my spiritual journey. The I've arrived sense won't satiate me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Numbers 28:16-29:40, Luke 3:23-38, Psalm 62:1-12, Proverbs 11:18-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/08/2021

 THURSDAY - 12TH AUGUST, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

TO WHOM ALL OBEDIENCE IS TO BE GIVEN

READ John 4:1-41

John 4:25 -26, KJV

"25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.  26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he".

There's someone or some people that we esteem their words to be the final conclusion. A professional in his field has that enjoyed from us. When we are confused over a thing or argues a thing which couldn't get resolved, we may resolve to ask out what is proper or the correct of the things being argued and fit for practise from such professional whom we believe to know better.

The conversation between Jesus and this woman should win your attention. It started from a request for water which consequently leads to the talk on the partition of the Jews and Samaritans and then the living water. Later on, the gift of the Spirit is triggered and Jesus by word of knowledge discerns some marital issues in the life of the woman. Later on, their talk gets heated as to where is the right place to worship - " in Jerusalem as Jesus said or the mountain where the woman's ancestors had worshiped". To this, Jesus said, "a time is coming when you shall neither worship in this mountain nor Jerusalem. The Father seeks worshippers in spirit and in truth".

The woman not willing to continue arguing gives up arguing at the face of tiredness, confusion and the unsatisfactory resolve Jesus has given and say "Christ comes who is called the Messiah, when He comes, He'll tell us all things". He'll tell us all things means " He'll tell us as one ordained to know what is proper, what best to practice.

Now, with what she has said, you can by that infer yourself that she didn't agree with what Jesus said about not worshipping in that mountain, Jerusalem or worshipping in spirit and in truth. According to her, their fathers worshipped God in that mountain. It's a thing that has been of old and now that Jesus is contesting it with a saying that Jerusalem is a place to rightly worship God and then with a saying that what matters is to even worship God rightly in spirit and in truth irrespective of where one is; now, she's confused and her confusion is revealed by her leaving the matter for someone known as Christ, the Messiah to settle when He comes.

The Messiah has appeared but was missed at His first coming. Many didn't esteem Him so because He didn't come like a warrior who would deliver Israel from the ruling Roman empire. They didn't know the Messiah or Saviour didn't come for physical deliverance to possess a government on earth for Himself. So, since Jesus didn't fit that description, He was exempted by many as Who their Messiah could be.

In today's passage, this woman couldn't identify Jesus as that Messiah which is why she said "the Messiah comes who will tell them all things". Whereas, the Messiah to be believed and whose testimony is to be esteemed has spoken to her the truth to know and even stands before her. The conclusion of the matter and the best answer ever was what Christ told her. Only that ignorance was fighting her until Christ Himself said," I am the Messiah that speaks to thee". Until then, a cause to reexamine the facts didn't come to her neither did she ask like she later asked, "could this be the Messiah?"

People seeks to court the final answer and final solution like this woman seeks the Messiah who will tell it all. What are your doubts, questions, challenges? Today, not tomorrow, they're settled. Don't wait for a word to come in the future to attend to you, Christ has been revealed already. 

I John 3:8,KJV

"...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil".

So, all devil's works in your life are hereby erased.

PRAYER: Lord, give me revelation of those to esteem, give obedience to and receive. May I not postpone my salvation till tomorrow.

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