STOP THINKING IT INCREDIBLE!

WHY DO YOU THINK IT INCREDIBLE THAT GOD SHOULD DO THE IMPOSSIBLE?

I was cleaning up when I began my contemplation which almost got me flogged. I had asked, "nowadays, how could one get such hectares of land (like 100 in one place) where a city would be built?" I concluded, "they've owned and purchased all such available quantity of land." Just then, God came out of the blues. You remember as Abraham was about slaughtering Isaac, a voice came from heaven that instant to stop him (Gen.22:9-12). That was exactly what happened to me. That voice disclosed in this manner. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" I knew it was a direct quotation from the Bible and it means, "why do you have the thinking that a thing is unachievable, unbelievable or that it's impossible to be done? What if God is involved? Will it still be beyond belief or be too implausible to be true? Immediately, I sat right and I knew that was God cautioning me from disbelieving in possibilities and my prophecies. Believe it, I apologized. I said, "sorry sir." Then, I took dressing. 

God illustrated to me further. He showed me the pastor of the largest church and said, "when I promised him a city, were the lands not all taken then? Were men not as covetous then as they are now? Do you think it would have been better thinking that way in his time or making you such promise and delivery then than now?" I had thought so. I had thought to be able to have such expanse of land that could accommodate a city of people and civilization (with churches, schools, banks, shopping malls, stadiums, parks, gardens, museums, just mention it), one must have owned it by now or probably since. He furthered "was land not as costly for those who wanted it at that time as it is now? Are you claiming it is easier making money then than making now for purchase? Have I even told you you'll use your money to buy me such land? Was it not some people who owned and possessed those lands at that time? How come he now has them for a city of the Lord?" After all these confronts, I was in agreement!

He proceeded, "I willed Canaan to Israel but hope you remember there were dwellers there? Hope you know it was actually not Israel's land from the start but I made some wicked idolatrous nations holders until Israel was ready and mature for its possession." I nodded to that also. Then, He went back to ask me, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you then that I [God] should raise the dead? (Acts 26:8).

"That God should raise the dead" there means "that God should do the impossible or that which is too good to be believed." I couldn't talk and He knew I had acknowledged my fault. I took my words back so it would be unto me according to His word, mind and prediction. I won't doubt. I'll be Mary at heart to see the prophesied things that await their times. He had opened the Bible further to enlighten me by quoting me these verses below.

Job 28:7-8, KJV

"7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it."

God told me, "there are still reserved properties, virgin lands, unexplored arables despite the covetousness of men to own properties here and there and claim it all for themselves." I still have new things to do and offer. They are "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard and matters that have not entered into any heart (I Cor.2:9)." However, they're only prepared for those who love me - true followers, labourers and servicemen and women."  All in all, I was humbled and quietened.

People, as humans, we're men of desires. We have an endless "longitudinal" and "latitudinal" list of what we want to experience or achieve. However, we have reasons enough as to why each can't be achieved though we wanted them achieved. We're not to be blamed expressly, it is because we're limited in ourselves. Our frame is dust and so our contemplation and thinking at times may be doubtful and way earthly: void of any divine sense or revelation. God is saying I should ask you, "wetin you think say be hard like rock which you don call mission impossible because of some reasons? E said make you no commonise Him, E go do am for you." What baffles you don't roughen Him up. Mountains are not different from valleys to Him. The night is as day to Him. It is we humans who do classifications based on evidences we have found and named tangible. Those evidences may include "doctors' reports, human assessment of one's capabilities etc." So, having gone round this way, we draw a line, shut the door at ourselves and say, "that one is too high, marvelous, too important, really exotic and unimaginably dope to be fulfilled." At times, you may say, "those who are qualified for such life or extravagance are the heroes of faith or millionaires." You see, we call it "incredible, too shocking to occur, outrightly impossible or too high to touch." Once you get squashed into this form of thinking, you stop dreaming. Once dreams stop, hope and faith wanes to drop dead. Then, you stop living the non friction life that believes nothing is INCREDIBLE, SURPRISING, SHOCKING or TOO BIG for God to deliver. 

The Lord is on me. He's heavy on me and I could sense Him. He is asking me to ask you to make a list of all the things that you have classified as "incredible or impossible" and attach their "WHYs" to it. God said, "He wants to glory over those WHYs which you thought could hinder Him from delivering answers to you just like He gloried both over the horse and its rider at the Red Sea."  He said "He wanted to see them." They're pretty light in His sight. Paul asked those present that day as he tables his matter before the council, "do you think it incredible (unbelievable, big, gigantic, magnanimous, impossible) that God should raise the dead? Do you think you are not born for some testimonies? There must be a why for this kind of thinking or belief and as I hear, I speak to you that "God is taking them over." He's enough for them and He'll wrap Himself round them all. That is God's own doing - to do the incredible, to do the impossible stemming from human judgement. With God, no mission is impossible. He will go and come. You, just hang on in faith. You, hold your peace. Sit at His right hand (of believing, observing and partnering on and on) and see Him to your face realize all those impossibilities which you've believed are too high to be given.

I ask conclusively, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead (do the impossible)?" What are your reasons? Is it scarcity of fund or health issue? Please, why do you think A or B is impossible? God is glorying over all your reasons. Did he not consume the sacrifice, the stones, wood and leak the water too (I Kings 18:38). Nothing shall be spared. He'll go round. I call Him Eliminator quick quick. Here, He is at work. Let Jesus be glorified in your situation. He has not stopped being beautiful for every situation. Believe it. It is not incredible with God to deliver you that impossibility.

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria. 

+234 81 37 04 68 12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 04/08/2023

THURSDAY - 4TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE CONFESSION OF TRUE CHILDREN - Lead and Feed Series 003

Psalms 23:1, KJV 

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."

Who does, "the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want" really works for? Drivers on the highways who aren't even born again but inscribe it on their vehicles or the heathen and Christians who have not even made the Lord their shepherd? Who does it really work for? It is high time we began seeing "the Lord is my shepherd" as an instruction and not a confession first of all. The only category of people who are permitted to confess Psalm 23 are those who are disciples. I mean those who are so meek as to enquire and receive daily instructions on how they should live their lives. Whenever such Christians say, "the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want", he's only affirming his position and what he already had subscribed to. Already, he's born again. Yet, this man would pray to find out what God wants of him per time. He doesn't go to school because others are going. He won't marry because he's of age and has money. God must give him a "ram" to prompt him to action. An "Eve" must be brought him at the observation of God that he shouldn't be lonely again. So, he does each act at the command of God. God must first be his eyes. He must watch out for him. It is then the whispers of God to him whether he could launch or not will now become the instruction that guides him and which people will see his body acting out. A Christian isn't an impulsive actor but a guided actor. Many are today and they have accidents and several breakdowns for it. "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." Think it well. Don't accuse God and claim Him to be a role player of what you haven't relinquished your position to make Him. If your whole time and life is not in God's hands, every time you confess this, you lie and accuse God. 

Psalms 31:15, KJV  

"My times are in thy hand."

That becomes sin since He isn't the administrator of your life - One from Who your acts stem from . When you say somebody is not who he is in your life, you lie and lying is sin. So, refrain from vain confession. I'll like you know that one thousand confessions of Psalm 23 won't offer you leading except you work it practically first of all. I laugh at what Christianity  has become and how idiotic so many people are. They're using heads instead of their hearts. Everything that could glorify God is what they're substituting because it rhymes and fit with what they naturally want. Is it not easy to profess? But, how easy it is to submit to another man's will for one's life? Don't we know how many calls Him "Lord, Lord" yet who He didn't know and would deny at day's end? How many people are so meek enough like the arrested and broken Saul as to ask, "what will you have me do?" Once you get here, you're beginning to make God your Shepherd. He knows what you should do and the path you should take, He'll show and direct you in there. This is where you say, "not my will but Yours." However, how many Christians operate this? That's why their lives are full of mockery and it seems unbelievers are proving biblical principles wrong that could have given them the good life and made them a testimony to the world. 

If I say "the Lord is my Shepherd", the Shepherd will hear. Why? I have esteemed Him first as that role player in my life. We wait until we hear him on matters. If he's not speaking, then we pray more. So, the confession of  "the Lord is my Shepherd" is just an ignite or a prayer of remembrance to call God to the task and responsibilities of who I have taken Him to be in my life. You have not submitted to Him as Shepherd yet you want the deliveries of a Shepherd? You've not submitted to Him as Lord yet you call Him same. What a mockery! Is that how by force you father and impose yourself on those children who do not receive you as a mentor first of all? Won't you be infringing on their rights? If you're married and you say, "Alice is my wife", that confession isn't vague or vain. She is because both of you have exchanged vows. You're only reaffirming what is known because you want Alice show off or answer like a wife. And she will because she owes you an obligation of a wife. She'll come around and greet her in-laws and they'll relate as one. You aren't confessing publicly what you don't know existed first of all but there's a madness I have seen, "it is calling God Who people have not allowed Him to be first of all in their lives." Who will make Him Lord and Shepherd? You. Be a doer and not he who looks his face in the mirror now and forgets what he looks like in a second. Let it be known that God is your shepherd by how you rely on Him to guide you. Act it before speaking it. He'll indeed take over.  

The relationship between couples make them answer to each other, so also is "the Lord is my Shepherd" a triggering device to seeing the acts of the good Shepherd. We only use that to summon Him since we've been obedient and submissive to Him as our Shepherd. If you've not, you'll never for once see the good acts of the Shepherd. You'll rather go your own way and experience what it means to be a wanderer. The Lord is my Shepherd is first an instruction that must be binding on any who don't want to be in want. If you indeed submit to God as your guide and you take Him  for same indeed, you obligate Him to see to your wants. Honour God that way first and see Him honour your wants. Lips honour isn't honour at all. Pay it with acts. 

PRAYER: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. I trigger the pact that's between us. Remember Lord. Come on scene and meet my needs.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 35:1-36:23; 1 Corinthians 1:1-17; Psalm 27:1-6; Proverbs 20:20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 03/08/2022

WEDNESDAY - 3RD AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE KNOWS WHERE IT IS HAPPENING - Lead and Feed Series 002

Read I Kings 17:1-16

Psalms 23:2, KJV

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters."

If you've been relying on God to live your life previously (even though you work), as you see God shows up where you've trusted Him, it would build you up in your inner man to trust Him the more. You must start as to grow in the faith of trusting God to meet your needs. Many Christians only have their needs met through their own income or the labour of their hands. They don't till the other side where the Shepherd could send men to them or send them to men. God knows where it is happening and if you show total reliance on Him and consult Him before you move any day, any time, He'll lead you to where the food of the day, tomorrow or the future is. This is done in what choices and decisions He'll guide you to make which will consequently preserve you. The vultures are birds of prey and they only gather where the carcass is. If these birds have enough common sense to opt only for where food is, will God in His infiniteness not care enough leading you to where what you call want will be nailed and fixed. He knows where the green pasture is and He sure leads there. Let Him lead the way. God is the One who should be believed as totally having the ability to ordain our path with goodness. You can't orchestrate it. A praying Christian is a boneless Christian actually. The more anyone prays reveals his dependence on God. His dependence on God is what will make God adopt him and make him the sheep of His pasture. God won't force leadership on you. You must submit yourself and prove to be ready. 

After the decree of Elijah, the man of God that there'll neither be dew or rain, God knew He'll be endangered by his own prophecy. Immediately, the Word of the Lord came to him. The first was for him to depart to Brook Cherith before Jordan. God told him he had commanded the ravens to feed him there. You see, Elijah had to leave "here" for "there." He had to be led to where God had discovered the next move to be for him. "Gold mines" of provision may be hidden to men's sight but God knows it even when disguised in a small setup that you wouldn't find comfortable to work in. There won't be food, there won't be water but God can still locate where water would be for His own. When God leads you somewhere, He prepares the ground before you. It wasn't Elijah who instructed the ravens to bring him food. He had no language to set forth communication with them. God did. They were awaiting his arrival and at arrival, they swiftly went into business. 

Not long however, the brook dried up. This is where we test if leading is real. What happens again? God's instruction came again. Depart to Zarephath for I have commanded a widow to sustain you there. On each occasion, Elijah survived on instructions, on being led and on obeying it. It is God who sees the vision of tomorrow. That's why He might come to work from your future into your present now. Let God help you to make choices and decisions. Each one you make right seals you against any inroad of the devil into your life. The devil is an opportunist. He's looking around to get into people's lives by the cracks left there. If God tells you not to take a job, it is because He has a premonition of things yet to happen even if all makes sense now. We humans live at the present at best but with God, you have a search engine and full light to see into the future. It is this that'll preserve you, break the back of needs and makes you look like a wonder to many. For as many who will wait on God before they make any turn, their lives can never be a revelation of mockery even if they're thought to be slow by people at the moment. An instruction correctly received and heeded to make a choice puts you ahead a thousand times of he who lives his life naturally. When the flood comes, we'll see who will float!

PRAYER: Teach me waiting on Thee. May I live on daily words from You. I float. I'm sustained. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 33:14-34:33; Romans 16:10-27; Psalm 26:1-12; Proverbs 20:19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/08/2022

TUESDAY - 2ND AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE WHO SAY THE LORD IS THEIR SHEPHERD - Lead and Feed Series 001

Read Psalm 23

Psalms 23:1,KJV

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."

Brethren, many deceive themselves too much. Many Christians (born again) are not actually being led. The confession of Psalm 23 do not immediately make you he who won't be in want - desire for a particular need to be met over time continuously yet not met. It is the fulfilling of it that will put God under obligation of seeing to it that even if you have needs, it never stays long enough till it'll really be felt that you're in want because your needs are not met. That's disgrace! Many would say, "the Lord is my shepherd." I'll say, 'and so what?" What difference does that makes. Confession doesn't buy you God's commitment like that. There are many who call God good, good names without good, good things to show for it. You may be calling He Who you don't know (as a Shepherd) and He Who doesn't know you (as a sheep). Those who have made God the spearhead of their lives, so much more that He has indeed become their shepherd because they let Him be are those who only have the clear conscience and all necessary qualification to await the coming into manifestation of "I shall not want." God knows the sheep of His pasture!

Who's a shepherd? He's a guide, a leader, feeder and protector. That's why the ministry of a pastor is that of a shepherd. It is the responsibility of any shepherd to ensure that his sheep are led where they'll be fed and by that subsequently stop being in want or need of pasture (grass).  Any reasonable human shepherd cares that much enough for his sheep. So, if you make claim that the Lord is your shepherd, it means you must have become a sheep. A sheep doesn't argue or has its own initiative. That's why sheep have been taken by those who don't really understand their meekness for being the dumbest of animals. They don't take laws into their hands. Until the shepherd says, "that side" and sways them their with his staff, no one goes. They await what He'll say by which they govern their lives, families, careers, ministries and all their wherewithal. They don't run until they hear his shot. That's why Jesus says that His sheep hears his voice (John 10:4). There ought not to be a sheep who won't be able to hear the voice of his shepherd. His communication must be clear to them. Will you have a pet who can't discern you from strangers? 

Now, if indeed you've become a sheep to God, the Shepherd, then you're qualified for feeding. Leading is the first discharge of a shepherd to his sheep. It isn't feeding. Leading is the transportation that will take you to the location where the carcass is. If I may tell you, don't think you know it. Some Christians always love the peripherals. What delights flesh is solely what they want. They desire a "bless me God" and not an "instruct me God." Can we collect one from God and hope not to be served the other? Stop joking. That's why God first of all created a prerequisite to being fed. It is being led. Those who have not submitted to being shepherded are out of plans of ever being fed let alone never being in want. I hope you know there are thirsty wants - where someone will hope and hope yet he's still hoping that the thing will drop and yet it's not dropping until they get disgraced, tired, left behind by the community of other people etc. Have you qualify for His leading? Do you consult Him on all areas of your life? Even without opening your mouth to pray at times, do you carry the consciousness that, "I'll do as He bids or reveals to me on this matter", or you just live your life on your own. The Shepherd is not looking for rude, impatient Christians. He's looking for meek, submissive ones. If you're a child of God, the mark is that you have an inbuilt system of hearing God in you. That means you're opened to God's communication because your spirit has been regenerated (John 1:12, Rom.8:14). But what if He withholds communicating to you at times, do you ask Him perterm how you should go? The job you said yes to, the business you began, the relocation you did, the hospital and school you registered your wife and children in, of whom did you seek consent and who released you to do same? When people don't confirm things, they go into things they'll later become doubtful over and pull out from. Waiting on God until He speaks or begins to make situations work out in your favour which you'll later see and acknowledge as a by product of having sought God is what God is calling you to. If you pray to God, even if you have more than an offer, He can lean them down to the one you should pick for you. God is the One who knows the heart of all men. He differentiates between Mathias and Barsabas at all times. It is not always He'll direct you where they'll pay you less but He solely determines "your still waters" - where you'll have maximal peace and still be useful to Him. Are you saying that God won't know the spouse, location etc that will suit you? Today, God is calling you to humble humility to first of all see reasons why you've continually being indebted, always being in want and entering one trouble or the other. It is because He's actually not your shepherd practically. He's technically since you're born again but how you live, relate and acknowledge Him will show whether He is really or you're just honouring with your mouth.

PRAYER: Father, forgive my having accused you of being my Shepherd when you've not been but I've expected you to provide. Help my dedication to daily let you have your way in my living and choices.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 32:1-33:13; Romans 15:23-16:9; Psalm 25:16-22; Proverbs 20:16-18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/08/22

MONDAY - 1ST AUGUST, 2022

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHAT A SACRIFICE FOR MY LORD! - My Lord Series 002

1 Chronicles 11:17, KJV

"And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate! 

Once you become a leader who has built reputation with men, one whose life of sacrifice has become an example and by same made disciples of men, you'll always be prompting men to follow in your footsteps. David only longed for water and then made the mistake of soliloquizing his desire. He thought it would just slip but his desire became a request and an errand for some to carry out. Mind you, David didn't say they should go and fetch him water. He only desired drinking water from that well in all honesty but never said it out in order to compel them. When it was heard however, some put their lives at risk to fetch him.  Yet, where the water is located is where a military post is. How easy it would be getting water from the garrison of the enemy. 

1 Chronicles 11:18, KJV

"And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD."

Now, "they break through" means they fought their way through. To arrive at that water was not easy but they fought a whole troop of soldiers to have it fetched in order to meet the longing of David. Leadership has worth and we can't lie about it. David himself had exemplified a life of sacrifice many times and it isn't a surprise that some are now willing to die to make him have his wishes. Be careful of what you're unserious about because it may become the errand of some. One day, I just confessed to myself taking "garri." Before you knew it, they had gone to prepare food for me. And with all sincerity, it was not straight up food I wanted to eat but just that "garri." Once you're a beloved and you have series of work that speaks for you, men would always be willing to go the extra mile for you and even give you better than you might ask for. We saw it in yesterday's devotional. Sisera asked for water but he was given milk.

What did David therefore do with that water? He poured it away. He wouldn't drink it. He himself was made afraid by the acts of these three mighty men. If he had taken it, he would have been taken their blood. At times, what people do for leaders is what reveals them as those who indeed cherish them truly. Until then, they may only be smelling the smoke of it. The same goes with God. You can build such distinguishing relationship of importance with Him that your wishes send angels on errands. It would be at arrival that you'll be telling God, "but I didn't mean it." He'll tell you, "anything for you because that's how much I cherish you." What those three mighty men jeopardized their lives to do for David is a revelation of the kind of sacrifice made for leaders. May God however make us humble and discerning leaders to know what sort to "pour unto the Lord" and not take as honour to ourselves. 

PRAYER: Teach me a life of sacrifice that compels others to live same. May I not be a covetous leader who jeopardize his followers. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 29:1-36; Romans 14:1-23; Psalm 24:1-10; Proverbs 20:12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/07/2022

SUNDAY - 31ST JULY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE PRIVILEGES OF A LORD - My Lord Series 001

Judges 5:25, KJV

"He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish."

I've heard people say to shame others "they're giving some people special privileges." On what ground should we ask that because men can't but be treated with dignity in accordance with their achievements in their life vocation? If you've laid years of years down to serve and become something in your vocation, will you because of what people would say refute the privileges that may be accorded you from your life of sacrifice? Even Jesus rode a colt while his disciples and the multitude walked on foot (Matt.21:7-8). That's not inhumanity or the enslaving or colonizing of some weak people. If you're in the academic world for instance, I'm very sure that there'll be honours that'll be done a professor that students and even other junior lecturers will look forward to. They'll be distinguished because of who each has become by his time. This is how life was wired. Reward system was built into life by God. It's in nature itself. "Whatsoever you sow you shall reap" is a statement that enforces the rewarding system or cycle (Gal. 6:7).

The honour done Sisera is a befitting honour. She was entertained in a lordly dish because he's a lord himself. How would you treat a commander of an army, one you know is not of a mean status? This man bears the marks of many wars on him. He has testimonies for having been a warrior. He might have even lost a finger or an eye. There were moments he was scarcely killed but salvation came. He has built such a name that even Israel, Deborah and Barak didn't have to beat around to know. The treatment of him must therefore go in accordance with his sacrifice and dedication to his profession. That act is part of the motivation built into the human society that if the upcoming do not relent, they shall have their fair of being served in a lordly dish as befitting a lord. God may love all of us all equally but He remunerate us differently and that on our sacrifice and labour of love even in His vineyard (Heb.6: 10). Your work is what will answer for you. 

PRAYER: Grant me the persistence that makes a master. I shall do it till reward.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 26:1-28:27, Romans 13:1-14, Psalm 23:1-6, Proverbs 20:11

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/7/2022

SATURDAY - 30TH JULY, 2022

Happy Orelian Day!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE WHO LOOK AT THE SKY OR WEATHER TO PROPHESY

Ecclesiastes 11:4, KJV

"He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap."

Many there be in Christendom who are not waiting on the Holy Spirit. Who the Holy Spirit is to them isn't real or let's say they haven't learnt Him and His outworking. Some have found themselves in ministry and with pressure either from people or daily necessities to know God's mind have substituted the path for the pseudo they created out of convenience or tradition of men. In short, these are those who look at the sky or weather to prophesy. They are not being led, prompted or stirred by the Holy Spirit into teaching, speaking or the doing of one act or the other. Even when they respond to people's enquiries or searches, they look at every humanly possible ongoings, make judgements from those and then offer a response. So, they eventually become false prophets fit for condemnation.

The Lord told me and I heard. "Woe unto any who looks unto the sky or weather to prophesy. They shall not only slip but be disappointed!" "Prophesy" there means "to act." He that observes the wind shall not sow and he that observes the cloud shall not reap. The "wind" and the "cloud" are two natural phenomena or elements. We can gather that something will happen by them - when they're at work. They are even one of the best ways to naturally read that it might rain. When the cloud gathers obviously, one might judge by that it would rain. This is the addition of 2+2 which gives 4. But that's human calculation based on happenings in the environment which our intellect has picked or could add up. That it is cloudy doesn't always mean it would rain. Now, let us assume you're such a fellow who bases his deeds on the judgements of things round him before acting, how prosperous would you be? You'll embrace the evil, miss the good and be hindered from the best many times. For example, the election is coming in Nigeria. You'll hear some prophets begin to prophesy that it is this or that who will win. Many times, they do so having known the reputation, years of experience, cunningness, popularity etc of the fellow they're predicting. Those are actually the things they're counting on to win him the election and not because "God really says." So, they watch, take a roll call, call the numbers first of all and then use their little human mind to say, "this is what would happen. This is my choice. God's choice." God has a surprise for people of your like. 

Christians are to live on instructions. They're to leave from inside out and not outside in. There's no guarantee that a thing would happen or won't gathered from any other source that holds water except God tells you "yes" or "no." I wonder why people aren't afraid. When you do your 2+2, is there not a part of you witnessing "you did this yourself. It's a guess work and it could fail" to you. Being occasional falling in line at times doesn't make you right because you'll know if none knows how you derived your answer. God is therefore calling us to real Christianity of not judging by ongoing daily activities around us to act but of leveraging on the "words of His own mouth (Matt.4:4)." Esteem the words of His mouth more than your daily necessary food (Job 23:12). He who watches the sky to act is he who won't go to reap because he'll believe it would rain. Whenever it doesn't rain, he can't but waste that day, that moment or hour which if he had been led, he'll never have been under fear or doubt of "likeliness of rain." Such also miss right timing and the beautiful time of each thing God ordains to be done in their calendars. It is better to be led than doing vain, doubtful calculation that you're not confident about. Obtain your results and let your acts come from He who created the cloud. When it will or will not rain, He knows and He is the best one to tell you whether to carry a step despite what the weather might be revealing or not. You may be looking at the economy of your country and so not invest, build or carry some steps. But if you were to ask God, He might tell you to launch out and that resources will come. Even in famine, Isaac sowed in the land and reaped hundred fold. Previously, he was watching his natural circumstances to act. So, he had gathered himself to travel to Egypt. However, God saved him from transgression and directed him to live by His own words. When others saw him stay back, they might have wondered at his foolishness but every action prompted by God's mouth or leading can't but be that of wisdom. People will soon be surprised to ask you "how, how?"

PRAYER: Lord, may I not be cursed for impersonating you to have spoken when you've not. May all my acts proceed from you in waiting and gathering.  

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 24:1-25:28; Romans 12:1-21; Psalm 22:19-31; Proverbs 20:8-10

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