MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/08/2022

THURSDAY - 18TH AUGUST, 2022

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THE DAY THE LORD SENDS RAIN TO THE EARTH - Lead and Feed Series 016

I Kings 17:14, KJV

"For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth."

Elijah declared that what that widow has won't finish until the day the Lord sends rain to the earth. This is the cure for the famine predicted to last for three and half years. A timeline has been set and what all awaits is the end of three and half years. However, not all will see it. Some would have been consumed. Many would have dropped dead. The testimony of this widow to Elijah that that was her last meal, ready to be ate after which death follows reveals that many there be who won't survive or see the end of that three and half years famine. 

Elijah said, "until the day the Lord sends rain on earth." Let me ask you. How would you react and relate with a sibling you now see but who has been absent for three years? Such would be new in your sight. You'll want to be around them, listen and relate. You just want to catch up with the time missing. When the rain was to come that day, all were at attention. They were expecting when and how it would rain. This is like he who has been fasting and is now to break.. He'll appreciate eating better. That rain also symbolizes the rushing sound of revival. Some Christians have been experiencing spiritual famine and so have not enjoyed their relationship with God. Now, rain is falling. The Bible would make sense, prayer would interest you. Spiritual things will just be attractive to you.

That day also ends the manifestation of miracle which has been an improvisation to the unavailability of God's usual way of provision. That day could be likened to the growing again of Samson's hair. The power that had left him came back and he once wrought wonder.  May God restore you. May your banishment not be forever and to generations. May dry season be over for you. May drought in ministry, life and family stop. I open a new chapter upon you. A chapter of a new day, season and experience different from the former. I lay the axe of the anointing to cut off all pronouncements uttered to shut your heaven. Your sins are forgiven. You have seasons refreshing and you rejoice for same. 

PRAYER: Lord, cause a season refreshing over us. Let rain fall upon my nation's economy and mine. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Nehemiah 11:1-12:26; 1 Corinthians 10:14-33; Psalm 34:11-22; Proverbs 21:14-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 17/08/2022

WEDNESDAY - 17TH AUGUST, 2022

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REDEMPTION AT THE GATE OF DEATH - Lead and Feed Series 015

I Kings 17:12, KJV

"And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

Brethren, you won't know need. If it remains little for you to enter into a season of want where you'll expect and it won't come, you'll be aided. There's a ministry of angels that aid men so they don't dash their foot against stones (and incur some consequences or damages). You'll be lifted back to the height - your position. You'll be restored and you'll stand restored. Never to come down. "Never" I say. "Never", the Lord proclaims. That widow in answering  Elijah's request said what she has left was to be prepared for herself and her child after which they'll die. What's her expectation? That they'll die. She has zeroed and circled her mind. She knew that for sure. Who even knows whether what she professed was coming out of having witnessed some people drop down dead. So, she looked at herself as a no option woman who can't but have others' fate. She knew less that Elijah was her intervention. She was at the gate of death. She was already setting hope on dying sooner or later. No one get killed of hunger that once. It will take awhile but she foresaw the end for herself and her child. But I know a God who could rewind the situation that we've beheld to have happened in our mind. He turned their event around at the declaration of "this barrel of meal shall not be spent neither will the cruse of oil fail until the day the Lord sends rain to the earth."

Until! Until! Until! Her death was postponed and that of her son also. Her expectation went on vacation because of God's intervention. Are you there losing hope? Are you there having concluded on how things would be? No! Receive a miracle of redemption. I'll like you see a thing why God told Elijah to "get himself to Zarephath." How many of you see urgency, immediacy and command in that instruction." God intended it is now or never. Do you know why? If Elijah had delayed a day or slept over when God had said, "get thee to Zarephath", the widow and her son would have eaten their last meal and there may be no resources to miraculously work with. Then also, if Elijah's delay had spanned awhile: some days or months, they could have died already of hunger before his agreement to go to Zarephath. However, apart from the fact that Elijah was an obedient fellow, God created a circumstance to force him to obey so that he won't be slow or tarry for even awhile. What was it? God surrounded him with need. Did you know at arrival, Elijah was thirsty and very hungry? That's why he didn't first bless the woman but ask for water and bread. So, he too knew that a delay here means "my suffering." This is how God would create situation of straining for those who have keys to your blessing with them so they'll have no choice. I can assure you that if Elijah was eating and had had bread to spare at Brook Cherith, he would tarry awhile before leaving. God orchestrated it not happening that way to fast forward him to the redemption of a whole family. God will compel men for your sake. God is on the way. His servant is hurrying. All angels are on tiptoes. Heaven is running helter skelter to ensure that before your conclusive imagination happens, you receive hope. It will never be too late for you. Elijahs would arrive before you round up. You wont commit suicide before your helper comes. You won't have backslided before your husband shows up. A prayer that those who have given God ultimatum should mark. As you're being tempted, you'll hold on. You'll always have hope, hope, hope until hope eventually manifests as answers.

PRAYER: Lord, on need, I will not dash my foot against a stone. Create a way of escape for me where I've lost hope.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Nehemiah 11:1-12:26; 1 Corinthians 10:14-33; Psalm 34:11-22; Proverbs 21:14-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 16/08/2022

TUESDAY - 16TH AUGUST, 2022

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GET THEE DOWN TO JEZREEL - Lead and Feed Series 014

Read I Kings 18

I Kings 18:44, KJV  

"And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not."

Every "get thee to a place" is always for a purpose. Thank you Holy Spirit. It is to beat something or be ahead of an event that'll likely unfold sooner or later. The event here is caused by the same declaration of closed heaven (famine) prophesied by Elijah. The heaven he locked was to be opened now. Guess what it would look like if rain were to fall for the first time in three and half years. What sort of rain and with what intensity God would want it fall as to begin to bring the people out of such intense famine and dryness? It can't but rain cat and dog. A beat of its stroke would be so strong and painful on the human body. 

So, Elijah told his servant, tell Ahab (the king) to get himself down to Jezreel lest he be stopped. That isn't strange to us. We know rain can stop any especially if there's no umbrella or shelter for such to move about in it. Except you're ready to be really soaked, that's when you'll plunge into it without care. The reason for such swift move and instruction is, "lest you (Ahab) be stopped." That's why he must get to Jezreel before hand. For Elijah, "lest you be in want." That's why he must get to Zarephath on time as we saw yesterday. Those of you who are proud and are always offending those God would like you be at peace with, a day is coming that God would say, "get thee to him or her." You'll see that though you've heard God and don't want to disobey Him, you'll have reasons to be reluctant because of your conscience that'll prick you with the remembrance of all you've did. However, let this be your comfort also. If God tells you to get thee anywhere, it means those people will lack the capacity to say "no" to you even if you're their enemy but this shouldn't be why you'll be a devil amidst men or thorn in their flesh. The widow of Zarephath found Elijah irresistible. Such people must open up and come into agreement with God's bidding. You're not the one they're respecting and honouring that high but God Who they can't refuse Who is commanding them to see to it that you're sustained. Who's this instruction unto? Who must relocate if he won't be behind schedule, suffer harm or losses? Don't let God speak twice. Now is your time to move because what God envisaged would happen is gathering momentum to manifest. Elijah could assuredly gather it would rain. By the symptoms around, it is inescapable. From that, he instructed Ahab how to be saved from being stopped by the rain. May you be guided and ordered so you'll be ahead of world's events that have potency of causing harm or delay to people. Only few could foresee the event and take necessary caution towards it. Others would be punished. God is speaking to you, "escape therefore to the city of refuge. Make a move now to the city of light." Flee to secure provision, protection and comfort that you may live. 

PRAYER: Lord, I escape the wrath to come. I shall not be short-sighted and be punished. I shall see the evil to come and hide myself from same.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 9:22-10:39; 1 Corinthians 9:19-10:13; Psalm 34:1-10; Proverbs 21:13

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/08/2022

MONDAY - 15TH AUGUST, 2022

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GET THEE TO ZAREPHATH! - Lead and Feed Series 013

I Kings 17:8-9, KJV

"8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

May I ask what the instruction was? Where was he told to get to? Why was he told to get there? Will getting there make any difference? Will restraining not matter also? People, welcome to another day. The Spirit is ready to wing you God's word. Let's travel on Morning Wings so that we might reach the uppermost end of the sea (which would be manifested in reaching the peak of our destinies on earth). 

God expressly spoke to Elijah and no fellow could even deny His telling him, "get thee to Zarephath." There are those who deny instructions. Joab did and he was confronted for denying an outright instruction of the king that should be weighty to him (II Samuel 18:12). Today, I want to show you why some still suffer though God has destined that they should be led and fed. The Lord is their Shepherd and is now coming to begin to feed them but by first issuing them instructions as to where and how to be fed but they seem deafened, non-challant and reluctant leaving the familiar they've known for the unfamiliar God is commanding. Let me tell you, you'll suffer much and make the Scripture that says, "the young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those that seek the Lord shall not suffer good things" void by this your disobedience (Psalms 34:10). God said irrevocably and with every sense of responsibility to Elijah, "get thee to Zarephath." Listen, that was the responsibility of Elijah to see to. God knows where it's happening, where the next move is, where the cloud has gathered and where the carcass is. He only leads to where the green pasture is. The fact that there's "green pastures" means there are "brown or dry pastures" also. That's however not fresh meal. God desires you feed on the choicest meals of Zion if you'll be willing and obedient but if you'll become reluctant and afraid of what is ahead because you don't have all the details, you'll fall into want and suffer needlessly. That's why God is saying, "I have a solution. You, get yourself to Zarephath (outside the country, to another city or town in your country, to another job, to your friend's or pastor's house, the garage, the square, that restaurant) etc. There, I have commanded somebody to feed you (see to your sustenance). There, I have commanded your path and your helper to cross. That means, unless you're there, that provision can't be uncovered. You may not know the fellow but on getting there, identification would happen. The gravitational pull that happened at the valley of dry bones that drew bone to bone would pull you to the recognition of each other. You'll be locatable and both of you will come into agreement like Elijah and this widow did. Things are scheduled for locations and settings. If God is saying, "go and apply to that place because I have commanded you to be employed and sustained there while you're reluctant, if your brook dries, you'll suffer. Unless Elijah goes to Zarephath, that prophecy of being fed can't come to pass. His miracle is geography bound. His feeder is in Zarephath and not Syria. How many people has God appeared to in this manner who have wasted His instruction and are suffering for same needlessly? You've undone yourself. Lack of trust in God and fear of the unknown is costing you. You want God to tell you everything once and for all instead of being led a step at a go. You're joking. That wouldn't be faith again. God said, "get thee to Zarephath." Did you see any immediacy and urgency in that instruction also? It was even a command. Having received such instruction, it becomes sin for its holder to tarry or spend the night even where God has departed from and is commanding him to depart from also. As a matter of fact, if you're still where you should have departed from (at God's command), anything could kill you there. All the things that God's hedge of protection afore shielded you from while you were obeying God (by abiding where He first commanded you to stay) could now kill you. Why? You're in disobedience. This could open a crack in your hedge of protection. This is because while God has moved to Zarephath, you're still at the Brook Cherith. God has said, "get thee out of your country but you're still established there like a mountain." I bet it with you, what couldn't kill you before until that instruction could kill you now. Rumours of war, banditry, terrorism etc that you never esteemed previously could now break through your hold and make you unsettled.

God is saying to someone, before you and I could even revisit what I've told you and intended to make of you, "first of all obey, leave Brook Cherith (where you are presently) and depart to Zarephath (where I've commanded you should be). Until then, no second talk. I praise those who heard God and left for abroad or a new territory especially where there's no familiar face or a consciously prepared place for them at arrival. I mean those God sent there without having assurance of a system or person catering for their needs upon arrival like a student who get a full scholarship to study abroad. Such people would pack like Abraham and go where they've not been, only trusting in the God of their prophecy, Who will now ordain their path with the appointed helper. God has spoken to many like this without details of what's next. They only trusted. That's why God also is not ashamed to be called their God. If they've so much followed Him commitedly, He ought manifest to them commitedly. I'm hearing, "stop and get thee to Zarephath." In God's mind, you know where Zarephath is. The instruction is therefore not mysterious. As a matter of fact, you know how to get there. So, nothing seems too demanding but may disobedience not cage you and finally cost you.

PRAYER: Lord, make me obedient at heart. Let me hear you once and acknowledge with action seven times.

BIBLE IN A 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 - 14/08/2022

SUNDAY - 14TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE MEETS THOSE IN CONTEMPLATION - Lead and Feed Series 012

Read Matthew 1:18-25

Matthew 1:20, KJV

" 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife..."

I said yesterday by the great stirring of the Holy Ghost that, "God would meet you as you carry at heart the burden to please Him. He'll come clear and clean to your aid on which path to take." God wasn't joking. The Spirit is destiny minded. God will meet you. If you've been so submissive to be led, do you think He'll withold? As you wait, you'll see His appearance. Until then, one can't but still be confused or unsettled with light doubt and least assurance on one's inside. Also, you'll be afraid stepping out in total conviction because there's a part of you beeping to remind you that you've not carried Him along. When we do however, He watches which way for us.

Joseph, the step dad of Jesus is a very just man. Having discovered that his fiancee is pregnant, he wouldn't have none of that and I'll say no man or woman should have none of that or continue in relationship with someone caught red handed in the act of fornication or with proofs of it. So, he secretly decided to break off from her. Being a just man, he had decided not to make her a scape goat. He assured himself He'll do it quietly. He won't even tell a friend or spread her infidelity around as to cause her shame, destroy her image or parents'. But as he contemplates on all these, a thoroughfare opened for a divine visitation. His thoughts which had reached the peak of a burdened heart  were signalling heaven unknowingly. "Contemplation" means to think or ruminate on. You let things mix together inside you before acting the finally decided one. It shows the deliberateness of a thinking man (of process and thoroughness) who won't like to live a life of error leading to regrets. Nothing is taken at face value. They're all esteemed and carefully thought on. It is this byproduct that becomes an answer to act on. But I also know a better answer beyond the processed result of contemplation. It is divine guidance. As Joseph's contemplation continues over time, something unplanned and even unsolicited for in prayers happened. He was met in his dream. An angel told him otherwise, gave him reasons for it and encouraged him to have Mary for himself.  Look at God. He sees our innermost thoughts. Our thoughts are loud before Him in the throne room. Joseph didn't pray. He was only pained, burdened, carrying the matter in His heart in order to be able to divide correctly on how to act. He was seeking for sense in the nonsense on ground and somehow he was losing his sense. That was all until the Balm of Gilead came to soothe him. He was met without shooting an utterance in prayer to God. Only contemplation! Yes, just rumination!

Look, as you mix and weigh that matter in your heart on either to do this or that i.e leave for abroad or stay (if it has finally become hot as to shoot steam to heaven); God will meet you. I have proved God. I'm not teaching what has never been rehearsed. God indeed answers thoughts and contemplations. I therefore entreat on your behalf now, let your contemplations draw God to you in Jesus' name. Over what you're beginning to go mad, yet trying to cover up, may God meet you. Have God meet you in your desperation, confusion over choices, weariness and doubt. He isn't a robot as not knowing your feelings. All touches Him. So, He sympathises with you. That's our High Priest. He so much sympathized and cared for Joseph as to show up at his juncture of confusion and decision. Behold, I see Him coming to give you discerning, distinctive and enlightening communication on what has been your contemplation, heart burden and thought. The Lord will not stop being your shepherd. He guides till the day is dawn.

PRAYER: Let the meditation of my heart draw your attention Lord. Behold my hollow and let my bitterness be swallowed.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 5:14 - 7:72; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Psalm 33:1-11; Proverbs 21:8-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/08/2022

SATURDAY- 13TH AUGUST, 2022

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WHEN SHOULD I LEAVE? - Lead and Feed Series 011

1 Kings 17:7-9, KJV

"7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath..."

There are those who in the course of this teaching have really developed a dependent heart on God and won't want to act except He wills it. Such are sincerely crying, "when should I leave, God?" They could see that something is wrong and that it is not usually like before again; dryness has now taken over and with much coverage like darkness was seen covering the face of the deep (Gen.1: 2). Experiencing first hand such situation this way is now causing a desperate cry in them as to whether they could leave. They want to know. To their minds, since things have become dry and the brook where they're taking their living from is waterless, they should leave. However, they're still here in the court of court to hear from the Shepherd whether or not to leave. 

Elijah wouldn't have left for Zarephath first of all if the brook didn't dry up. Economic recession, bankruptcy or inconsistency of one's workplace etc may be reasons God could leverage on to instruct one to leave. Mind you however, there's no situation that surpasses God. If He brought honey out of the strong (lion) and water out of the desert, it means God could still have you stay in that parched land yet see to your continuity. That's why even at the face of seeing that everything has dwindled down and everybody is leaving (while you seem alone), you must still like Saul of Tarsus ask, "God, what would you have me do (Acts 9:6)?" That's a question of disciples and any who's not wise in his own conceit. Doing this will make God delighted and relevant in your life. He'll see you as one who indeed prioritises Him and really wants to be led to where pasture is and the next event is slated. This means you're not leaning on your own understanding. In such case, you'll always hear a voice instructing you on which way to go.

Even at the discovery of Elijah that it has finished for the brook, he didn't still leave because he had not heard what God would have him do. God could have told him like He told Isaac, "still stay in the land." Isaac sowed in that same famine afflicted land and he reaped hundredfold (Gen. 26:12). God could tell you to still dwell in that economic depressed, war torn, banditry, terrorism, corruption etc afflicted area. He has a thing to bring out of there. God told me some years past, "there's no where that's safe on earth except where I tell you to stay." That's if indeed you know God and do hear Him without falsehood. Canada they say is safe but Nigeria for now is safer for me because God has not changed my location. Nigeria becomes unsafe to indwell the moment God told me to "get down to another place" while I'm still holding back here. So, when can you leave indeed? While dryness and dwindling may be a sign, it is inconclusive. You're not permitted to leave until God comes having researched for you and tested what would be in the future as to instruct you whether to leave or stay. For Elijah, he was to leave because at the observation of the dried brook, God's Word came saying, "get thee to Zarephath." So, I'll say, open your heart to God. Take a humble, desirous heart position which wants to hear from the Shepherd before any action. It is then you can hear a voice behind you. It is then God would give you a dream, vision, trance or spur you by inner witness to action even without praying at times. Many times, I just carry in me a burning desire, one that's aflame over a particular incident. Without any utterance, I'll experience God meeting me. God do meet people. I want you know that and I pray He'll meet you as you chew, contemplate and decide what or what not to do. In your rumination, you'll hear God. He'll come clear and clean for you. Since it's your utmost priority not to move until He has decided for you, He'll come riding on the wings of the cloud to offer you direction to your Bethlehem (house of bread). God's peace I leave with you today. Shalom!

PRAYER: Lord, lead me out of parched land or give me strategy to live on and survive in it. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 3:15-5:13; 1 Corinthians 7:25-40; Psalm 32:1-11; Proverbs 21:5-7

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/08/2022

FRIDAY- 12TH AUGUST, 2022

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WHY HE SENDS A MAN BEFORE THEM - Lead and Feed Series 010

Read Gen.50:15-21

Psalms 105:16-17, KJV

"16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant."

I began yesterday by showing you why God raises or blesses some people exceptionally. Now, don't be confused by the arrangement of the Bible verses above. It seems to insinuate that famine occurs before God sends a man ahead Israel. If that be, then God could have been said to have been caught unawares Himself and Israel would have been starved. It should rather be interpreted this way. God has foreknowledge of the coming famine and so sends a man ahead Israel. This man, Joseph was relocated forcefully to the diaspora in God's plan because of the preservation and redemption of Israel from a seven year's famine to come. God blesses the widow of Zarephath for Elijah too. The blessing, "the barrel of meal won't be spent and the cruse of oil won't fail" just didn't get provoked. It's so that Elijah would be provided for and consequently her host too. Did you see that if any would finance what God ordains, God will finance such too? Tell any who absconds and abstains from commitment to God that they'll have blocked themselves from God's miraculous involvement. We all know that if the grand planner had not sent Joseph ahead of Israel, a whole nation would have been starved to death and Israel might have gone into extinction. Israel is God's own nation. Christians are God's own children. If Jehovah claims Israel as His first born, are you not? Just like God showed commitment to the nation Israel during the stringency and harshness of economic depression, God owes you same in times of need. God could go to any length I'll continue to say in order to meet your needs. Imagine God sending a seventeen years old boy to Egypt against a day that won't come until he's in his thirties. What sort of God is this who cares with much care for His own? Did you see how important you are to God? You're the thought He chews. Imagine God planning for you thirteen  - twenty years ahead of an occurrence. Many of us are conversant with parents doing this. God isn't different and He's even a better parent. He takes even orphans up behind their parents. When God sends people ahead you, those people do the hard work while you come to reap where you've not sown. It was Joseph who rose from the agony of slavery with bruised feet by his sustained character and reputation coupled with the available grace of God and his time and word which has come (Psalm 105:18). He built a character and reputation of being faithful, useful, hard-working and relevant under a difficult and tempting weather. This in turn made him get recommended to the higher authority. This is how he secured the placement that could give Goshen to Israel at a time the staff of bread would have been broken wholly. Travelling abroad for any with a call or destiny to fulfill there isn't what you die there to achieve. No, no! Some are already there. They'll amass their fortune and then God would put it in their minds to have you come over. By the time you're ready and have begun dreaming it, they'll invite you over. It is by invitation. All things would have been made ready. We're to enter into rest and the labour of other men if we believe and would wait. They may be acquaintances or total strangers. God will use any and then prosper them for our sake. They will acknowledge that and will call you to be a partaker of why God raised them. Now, watch this. If you're not the commanded financier of an Elijah, it won't enter your mind to show such kindness to him. Even if you want to do it by cheer determination, God will hinder you. It won't work  but if it ever does, your invite would be kindly turned down once proven by such Christian or minister that you're not the commanded one to meet his need. Elijah could only collect from the widow of Zarephath and not the king, blacksmith of Zarephath or any other. The instruction was designated to someone. It reads someone's address, identity and location. 

I Kings 17:9, KJV  

"Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

It was a specific instruction to a specific person. Elijah knows and the widow also agrees to same. This is the mystery of divine connection that works. God said, "He had commanded the widow woman to feed Elijah and Elijah also discovered the commanded woman upon arrival." Two of you must be in agreement. The testimony of one isn't enough. God is weary of disciples who collect what is not meant for them. You'll only be disgraced. I heard from a very senior and elderly minister of another minister who was given a car by a woman. He collected it without enquiry from the Lord. When the woman's husband arrived, he questioned his wife's independence to act alone and instructed her to revoke her action. The car was returned but to the shame of that minister. That young minister fell into embarrassment because he gloated over what God was probably not giving him. To shock you, that same car had been afore taken to the same minister who narrated this event to me. He discerned it and kindly rejected the offer after hearing the "no" of God. It was same one took for God's blessings. All these hungry and in a hurry ministers who don't know the commanded hands to receive bread from shall be mocked and called beggars. People would say, "if not for us to them." There's no time God raises people to go ahead that it's not to cushion the coming ones. Any raised for you will never spite or enslave you. Even after the death of Jacob, Joseph didn't revenge his brothers for the evil done him as they suspected he'll do. He rather acknowledged himself as a vessel who God only raised to use for them. He once said to his brothers when they humbled themselves before him as mere servants, "am I in the place of God (Gen.50:19)?" John was sent ahead Jesus to prepare His way before Him. Jesus Himself sent the disciples to reap where they've not sown (John 4:38). Hanging on these, I pray that God will raise forerunners (softeners of grounds) for you. Men who will be hastened, widened and enlarged just because of a ministry they have to give to you as to make you ready to give to some others also. 

PRAYER: Let me occur in the minds of all the sent ones for me. Let me be blessed indeed to prepare the ground for others indeed.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 1:1-3:14; 1 Corinthians 7:1-24; Psalm 31:19-24; Proverbs 21:4

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