MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 06/07/2023

 THURSDAY - 6TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

CAN YOU BE THIS COMMANDED? - The Commanded Series 001

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". 

We have talked thus far in A Table Set Series on being admnistered to where one's provision is. It takes obedience on your part to go the way of provision that God has prepared for you. Meanwhile, he or she who's the holder of your bread needs obedience to comply also. You're in need and you want to receive, so it is easier for you to spring up and obey God's Word to be admnistered to where provision is. The idea is that you're already full of expectation and can't delay for your needs to be met again. However, what about he or she God is sending you to? What about the ravens that must spare their own meats and breads? What about that widow of Zarephath that must put you first and provide for you? What's God's responsibility towards them or don't you think for their obedience, God will reward them also?

In 2012 while a student in the university, I visited a fellowship member. It was resumption period and all students had resumed with home goodies and provision. I spent my holiday with my paternal grandmother who had a sawmill in a village close to Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government. She gave me two towels. One was however to be cherished than the other. I just loved it for its total newness and fabric quality. At resumption, I visited a beloved fellowship member. I could see his towel hung to dry on his door. It needed to be changed. Any eyes would see that clearly. Immediately, I received a burden to part with one of the towels with me and the lot fell on the most cherished of the two I had received. This is a sacrifice at my door! 

Here comes my concern. However, the most cherished of these towels which I had earlier decided to keep for myself was the same fabric, pattern, colour and design with this brother's that needed to be changed. God has a sense of humour. It was that same one God said I should now give. While with that brother, he didn't know what conversation was going inside me with the Holy Spirit. I just resumed 200 Level then. God would probably want me give that specific one also so that no one could easily detect his old towel has been changed. If you had seen that old towel, you'll bear witness to its been long overdue for change. I went home and returned same day to release that specific towel after shaking here and there with the Holy Ghost. Often times, we have mastered the fact that God can meet our needs through others but we haven't agreed that God could meet others' needs through us. You'll be a spiritual fraudster if you're receiving because the Almighty could find some people to make demands on for your sake but you aren't giving because you've not yet come to the submission of such operative law. 

What makes Christianity practicable is the fact that our Lord God could make any demand on us and we'll hear. I'm afraid of those of you that the Spirit is struggling with over a matter yet refuse to lay it down. You're proving to be stubborn but that's not how to win and purchase a witness for yourself before heaven. Let me tell you this, if God can't make demands on you to supply others needs, be assured you can't pray for your needs to be met by others. Meanwhile, I want to be somewhere unknown and pray to God and God would have me answered through obedient, submissive and willing people. God told Elijah, go to Zarephath which belongs to Zidon, I have commanded a widow woman to sustain you there. Look at that. God commanded someone for his sake but Elijah himself has always been an obedient fellow that releases whenever God calls for it. Now is his time of intake. I want to be a kind of Christian that God can give a dream of someone who's in need to and would hasten to give to that person who I may not have even met before but which God would orchestrate our meeting. Christian, while God can put people under command and necessity for your needs to be met, can you also be put under commands and necessity for others needs to be met? If not, you're proving to be beyond admnistering. If you cannot be found for use this way, then, God can never locate you in His will for receiving of resources also. As far as I know and I have learnt, there are people who have been praying for years, months, days for a particular need to be met. Would it not be joy in heaven and to you if you're the one God sent to minister to their needs? Be a vessel that can be demanded from. Be a vessel that can lay all at its feet. A fellow that nothing is too costly for to slaughter for God's sake and demands.  

PRAYER: Lord, I receive obedience to part for Your demands.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 3:1-4:17; Acts 14:8-28; Psalm 140:1-13; Proverbs 17:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 04/07/2023

TUESDAY - 4TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

A PLATE OR A TABLE? - A Set Table Series 005

Psalms 23:5, KJV

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over".

A plate or a table? So far, we've settled the idea of 'a table being prepared before you'. You now know what that means partially. It comes at no fee when a table is prepared before you. It's the work that God does solely and He bears the cost. 

Meanwhile, we ought go further to reveal another thing about the prepared or set table. That place says, "Thou prepared a table before me". It didn't say, "Thou prepared a plate before me". It rather says, "a table". What's the difference between the setting of a table and the setting of a plate before anyone? When you set a plate, the honour is little. A plate is just one solitarily container. It may be a plate of rice and that'll be all. A table is however different. What God wants to bless us with is a table. A table illustrates the highest blessing of God and the awe of His provision to man. The day you get where it's a table that's always set before you when you dine, it could be concluded you're no longer feeding stringently. The idea of a table being prepared or set before you therefore means your being furnished with assorted foods. It is not a plate on the table now. It is plates, bowls and even pots on the table. This is a blessing of the feast. 

We have our choices to make. We can stay at the blessing that only affords us a plate or we take the handle of God's leading as we've been saying and be led into the discovery of God's provision mine. When a table is set before you, it literally means a table is furnished for you. It means you have become royalty and God is treating you as one. When a table is set before you, God gives you an array of foods to choose and eat from. You will have a whole long list of menu from which you can decide what to eat or not. That's a table set before you. When a table is also set before you, it denotes the blessings of having a family or multitude at the table with you. It's a level of blessing having food to eat alone but another blessing having to eat with friends and family. A plate restricts you to yourself but a table makes you a generous man, the kind I believe you want to be. 

In famine you shall laugh is what the Bible says (Job.5:22). Don't despise God's leading. He's still in the business of leading His own to the discovery of provision. It is this doing of His that prepares before you a table. May you discover as we have said. May all these prove for you. 

PRAYER: It is You who prepares a table before me. Thank You Lord. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 23:31-25:30; Acts 22:17-23:10; Psalm 2:1-12; Proverbs 18:13

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 03/07/2023

MONDAY - 3RD JULY, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

A TABLE SET BEFORE YOU - A Table Set Series 004

READ Psalm 23

Psalms 23:5, KJV

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies..."

The idea of 'having a table set before you or anyone' means provision and resources at no fee. If you say this is a table set before me, we want to believe you're saying, "this is the Lord's doing and it's marvellous in our sight" (Psalm 118:23). I'm not talking of what any man facilitates or puts together to work. "A table sets before you" immediately means you or any human didn't labour to bring the table and its good content into being. It's rather God's doing and response to providing for you because you have first heeded his leading (as we've been examining). I'm striking it at the core and bearing witness that it is nothing but God's sole work. The moment a man, a woman cries out saying, "He sets a table before me", it means God has brought such man vindication and celebration. Now that it is time to feast, God has made provision in excess and has lavishly and ostentatiously prepared a table before him. This is not a meal where you pay as you eat. No! It comes at no cost and that's because the bill has been footed. That's because Heaven's Resource Center (HRC) has taken care of that.

Many of us experienced this on campus where one way or the day, God fed us through those who for once never asked us to cast a dime in the purse. It's a sole act of God to minister to His own and any who has been admnistered by Him. The day you become like goods that could be consigned anywhere (yet being waited for and monitored by its owner) is the day you'll begin to enjoy the best of God. Our problem is that we still bear testimony in our heart that God can fail. Knowing that, we seek to help God so that He doesn't fall apart on what He can't keep (as we conceive). Look at you, messy child. Those who did didn't enjoy that way. God wants you come to a place where though you're in the car, he wants you to release the stirring wheel. But you know you won't if you believe that though God is invisible, He is intangible also. Does it mean you won't work? No, you can or you will but God wants you trust Him for your needs. He doesn't want salary become your base of confidence. There'll be many things that your salary can't still get you that you'll need in life. When would you have saved long enough for it? If God says, do this for me, fear would strike your heart and you'll quickly protect the Isaac you have in your bank account even when you don't know that His thought far outweighs yours. While He can tell you to slaughter your Isaac as a means of dependence and loyalty to Him first, God just do provide for His works. If you are not His work and that errand in your hand is not also, then both of you may be free of His commitment. If men are the people who have made you and not God, then God may recline and watch you go far to see whether you can go farther. But I tell you, if you be His work just like Elijah said if I be a man of God, you shall immediately or on the long run receives proves of being His work - one whose body can be turned and can be ordered to the discovery of a table set before him. 

When God says to Elijah, turn thee hence Eastward, it's to the end that he'll find Brook Cherith where appointment must be kept with those black dispatch riders. It's to the end that Elijah might come to the discovery of provision that awaits him. Now, I put it to you, answer God. Did Elijah pay one penny or render one service to the ravens for his need that was met? When God sent him, God prepared a table before him. He furnishes one for him there. He got there to meet that. He didn't get there to begin scratching his head on statistics. What if statistics doesn't provide you sticks to count? You'd be worried. But thanks be to our God who leads us to victory and leads us to an end where there's a table that he has prepared. To this end, we can shout hallelujah!

PRAYER: I solely trust on You to be my sixth and best sense. Guide me to where a table has been set before me. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 18:13-19:37; Acts 21:1-17; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 18:8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/07/2023

SUNDAY - 2ND JULY, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN YOU TURN EASTWARD - A Table Set Series 003

I Kings 17:2-3, KJV

"2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan".

I should quickly drive it home that once you're drivable and turnable Eastward or any direction the Spirit wills that the only thing that's allowed for your discovery is a good find and testimony of the God that meets needs. Eastward in God's agenda and locating of Elijah only leads to one place - Brook Cherith, before Jordan. Hundreds of men may turn their bodies Westward and some Northward and others, Southward, all of them together and in their multitude will never find the ravens for experience if they ever find the brook to drink from. And if they ever find the brook to drink from, they'd never be hidden from Ahabs or Jezebel who'll seek to take them out. Only where God leads you to hides you under His shadow. That is, where you're sent. The place that Equipment in the Holy Ghost authors you to stay. 

The command that God gives to Elijah to turn Eastward leads to his being provided for. What you need or are looking for is in God's leading if you'll submit to be led. The idea is that Elijah would get there and meet it so - like God has afore communicated to him. Indeed, so it was. He gets there and the ravens immediately enter their services. He found it yea and amen. All true. All as they told him. He found a table set before him. That's what turning Eastward or turning where God would lead always lead to. By the time you arrive Eastward, you won't be the one running helter-skelter trying to do calculations and work out workability. Yours is to obey, His is to fulfill. Don't do God's work because He won't even by mistake do yours. There's no leading of God that leads to a dead end. You can't be led and be trapped where you are led without the Commander who admnistered you there taking thought for you again. That's why Elijah wasn't trapped at the brook. He who led him Eastward must again give instruction to lead him out - and this time to Zarephath. Some Christians miss the continuity of this God's operation by taking initiative and quickly jumping out of Cherith the moment the brook is noticed to be drying up. Let me ask you. Who brought you here afore time? Did you know the address to this provision mine? Could you have figured Brook Cherith or spoken to the ravens yourself? If you were handicapped in all these, you should be humble enough to submit leadership to God once more. Or else, if you jump out of your hiding place presumptuously, you may cross path with the destroyer and become a prey to forces that should fear you if you were led of God. Going forward, you'll see Elijah didn't end in a dead end and that's because God soon leads him to where another table has been set before him. He didn't own the oil neither the meal with which God provided for him yet at God's word on it, many days were covered. God's "turn thee hence Eastward" or "go to Zarephath" all lead to one end - a table set before him. You can't find differently from that. Your discovery will always be, "thank God for the table set before me". However, that's if you'll still yourself and go where He commands. This may be absurd to you especially when looking at the unattractive vessels God may want to use to meet your needs. However, yours is to obey; His is to fulfill. 

PRAYER: Lord, thank You for the outcome of being led - for the discovery of a table before me. May I have faith in You even if I don't in the process. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 18:13-19:37; Acts 21:1-17; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 18:8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/07/2023

SATURDAY - 1ST JULY, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

TURN THEE EASTWARD - A Table Set Series 002

READ James 3

I Kings 17:2-3, KJV

"2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan".

One of the difficult things to do as rightly observed is gaining mastery over oneself. That's self discipline. Apart from this, there's Spirit discipline. He'll seek to exercise that on you. Some have self discipline but they don't have Spirit discipline. They have never allowed the Spirit to bind them and lead them wherever He wills before. Until you know Spirit discipline, you can't be saved from many pangs. As a matter of fact, your self discipline will be made a nonsense of. You can be exercising self discipline and much effort on the wrong job or in the wrong direction when God is leading you out of it but you're not picking that. There are adults, even adults who are suffering because of lack of direction. They've been entangled in diverse things because they've become difficult for the Holy Spirit to turn. The Bible says, we put bits in horses' mouths that we may be able to turn them (their whole body) - James 3:3. Here you are, an adult that you are and you haven't even learnt spirit life. You are not even bitted or bridled. Accident, a lot of it can't but be observed in your life. Many regrets can't but be noted in your heart and mouth. 

We actually live on instructions - that is, every Word daily uttered or spoken by the Lord. This is what we live by and are sustained with. Without hearing and hearkening to instruction somewhere, our fate will not be different from over ripe fruit that falls down dead. In this kingdom, we keep heaping instructions upon instructions and we keep living by them. The day you stop is the day the devil, decay and death actually will catch up with you. It has been written that man is created and destined to live by every live and lively word oracled or given him for occasions by God. He shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt.4:4). If you'll live by the living, hot, birthed and proceeded words daily authored by God, you'll live and let live indeed. 

Elijah hears nothing and have nothing else on his hands to act on than, "turn thee Eastward." Elijah is heavy and so is everyone. The way he's going, if he's not stopped and diverted, he'll end in a dead end and consequently death zone. He'll end where God has not put plans on ground for him. So, God hauls his whole body and turn it around wholly by an instruction that says, "turn thee Eastward." God will give the Word and you will act it. Herein is your salvation. When God says, "turn thee Eastward" and Elijah turned himself Eastward, he immediately is saved from the famine and the problem of scarcity that has come on the earth. "Turn thee Eastward" is the instruction. That word must be binding enough on him if he won't soon have a future of sorrow and regret. Those of you that God is whistling to but who like rebels despise Him would soon count your loses. This Bible portion says concerning you. 

Luke 7:31-32, KJV

"31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept".

God wants to call forth a particular action or outcome from you but in all His effort, you make it null and void. You'll catch out the consequences. Just wait! The Bible also says the prudent foresees the evil and he hides himself (Prov.22:3). His saving grace is that he sees it ahead and could put in preparation and plans. What God sees ahead, which He tells us of, which we in turn act on and get saved by is what makes us prudent and not have the fate of the general masses.

When God said to Elijah, "turn thee Eastward", God is about saving him from what would kill some people. No instruction of God is spoken without an intent. They're meant to help you wage a good warfare. If you won't despise it, you'll see their intent and rejoice. 

The Bible records that, "behold mighty ships that are driven by strong winds and how they're stirred by a small helm wherever the governor wants" (James 3:4). The Holy Spirit is this helm. His voice may be still; He may be a perfect gentleman and He may even be invisible to you (all these are things that make him small), don't take Him for granted. God is the Governor and has a path for you in His will to be stirred in. You and I are that big ship that is driven by a fierce wind but let it sufficient us to be stirred by the helm of the Holy Ghost. If the ship would not submit to be stirred but submit itself only to the forceful driving wind, I assure you, it shall soon be forcefully driven to crash. You have your own will and that's that strong and fierce wind driving the ship but submit to the rudder of the Holy Spirit. Let it govern and sail you to the shore. Let it turn you Eastward and wherever it lists. Let the God of creation direct your noble cause through the Holy Spirit. If you'll allow, in one thousand journeys, your to and fro will always be successful. Your ship will never be crashed for He knows the path you should take in life. Your strong will is not enough for direction. It's only good for movement when direction has been ascertained but this direction comes from the Lord first of all. I can only tell you to tenaciously continue on the road that you're sure was born of divine dictates and will. If it's not, stop and repent. Allow to be turned. Don't be too heavy.

PRAYER: May I not be too heavy to turn. May God's lively oracles be enough to bind me and lead me. May my ship sail and arrive.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 17:1-18:12; Acts 20:1-38; Psalm 148:1-14; Proverbs 18:6-7

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/06/2023

FRIDAY - 30TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

EASTWARD! - A Set Table Series 001

Read I Kings 17:1-16

I Kings 17:2-3, KJV

"2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan".

Far be it from me that I refuse the Word of my Lord. If you've been learning Christ of us, you'll observe that I've done a lot of teachings before around those verses I quoted above. As I meditated however, I felt the Lord appealing me with it again. When God does a thing like this, He sure has a reason to prove. 

Many Christians are not enjoying God. They are cut off from provision and this is because they've been cut off from information that comes from the direction God alone can solely give. Yes, information that comes from the head office. I've found out as reality in the armed forces that there is no sent force who doesn't keep connection with its base. Oftentimes, they're not only sent out by that base and from that base, they are watched out for by that base. There's what is known as intel. It's of utmost importance to the tactical operation of soldiers. They can use awhile to gather intel on their enemy so that they can be assured of victory. In all these, the base is key. Any soldier who will survive must not deride receiving and giving of communication back to the base. This two hand in hand is what gives victory. However, if you think you can win alone without heaven's backing, you can go in your strength and let's see how much you achieve. The Bible says,    "I Am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John  10:9, KJV). I believe you've already entered by that Door and have taken the handle of salvation. However, is that all? Should children not be fed with the food deserving?

That place says, "and shall go in and out [with Me], and find pasture". Go in and out to do what? To find pastures. This is where multitude miss it. Instead of matching with God - being led out, instead of following after someone who has gone to search and mark for them where provision is, they hit the road themselves. That's why you're merry-go-rounding. That's why it's taking so long to ever find help. It's not because God didn't take thought for your welfare but because you despise it and move out alone. You're meant to use your Compass. Humanity, especially of the faction called Christians are not left to scout food and resources without equipment that can gather intel and report that this is where it is for sure. Even the vultures or we say the eagles as the place I'll quote states it only gather where the carcass is (Matt.24:28). Who taught them to be this accurate in where they go? How did they strike such specificity that they don't miss where the dead has died? With what instrument are they enabled? We are sure no one could be that accurate without having an equipping that scouts for him even ahead him. Indeed, the vultures are said to have a special faculty of smell so much they could smell even from a far away distance. No wonder, they don't miss where the dead has died. No wonder, all of a sudden they'll all gather round the table without having signalled each other. They just know individually and differently where provision is. So, wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures gather. Except that's not the house of their provision. If it has become it, they'll rightfully locate it. This is what has become a burden in my own heart as to why birds, ordinary birds that Jesus says we worth more than should be having edge above humans and then Christians in siting where the table has been set for them. We won't blame God for having not put in place for us equipping to find resources and do on time. We however need examine ourselves if we have not laid aside what is our own equipping for tracking provision. The good life is on offer but the good life is not always readily availed. You must be led out to its possession. The land God is not sending you to is the land you can't conquer. The worst is that it'll confuse and swallow you. 

In today's reading however, God as a matter of urgency, life and death tells Elijah to  leave where he is and change direction Eastward. Where many currently face will fail them. Unless you're under the special admnistering of God, you'd faced the wrong direction that leads to the dead end. You'll be looking sternly abroad for help when the help from above is without reproach. I don't know why we always sacrifice process for convenience in being provided for? Who told you God does not have you in mind? The problem is that since you've been born again, you graduated from submission of your body to being turned by the Lord that same day. God told Elijah, "turn thee Eastward". You don't ask for a redress if all is well. There wouldn't be need for turning if Elijah was facing where provision has been located and detected for him by the faculty of the Almighty (his first equipping to finding provision and life). Knowing he's out of concept, he need be updated and guided to where the carcass has fallen for him. To our surprise, if this compass were followed, it would lead to a place called Brook Cherith, before Jordan. That's where God slates that provision falls for Elijah. God knows where the dead has died and the Holy Spirit is your faculty of smell to finding it. All things are ready there. Debates are not entertained there. 'Dead' provision don't argue with the living who wants to gloat over it. Instead of meeting your provision 'dead' however, you hasten to your own way, where you're facing and where your mind is solidly set, only to discover that the provision there are 'living' provision (that have not been conquered and made available for you) and unfortunately such as not caught in the thicket for you. So, your Christian begins enforcement to make it obey you. Yet, there's a place Eastward by Brook Cherith, just before Jordan where all things must answer and surrender. The ravens there must meet you and the brook must offer you drink. A command has gone over their heads. That's God's provision discovered by being led. However, the children of my Father have gone their own way, hunting for their own food without taking advantage of their Compass seeking to say, "that's not where you should face. Turn thee Eastward!" If you do, if you ever do, you'd be shocked what the find would be for you. No one turns when the Lord commands it who ends in a dead end. They always see the proves of having been turned in obedience to God. Today, I'm not asking for much for you than that the voice of the Shepherd will come alive and clearly to you. Life lived by the voice yields victory even in a thousand encounters. May it be by His word you'll be turning whereever He lists. His Word is the guide to where provision lies where at your discovery, you shall stagger back in surprise and stammer appreciation to Him. This we have seen and proved. 

PRAYER: O God of creation, I humble myself to be turned whithersoever you list. I know it's a good end. My heart trusts safely in You. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 15:1-16:20; Acts 19:13-41; Psalm 147:1-20; Proverbs 18:4-5

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/06/23

THURSDAY - 29TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

JOIN YOURSELF TO THIS CHARIOT: ABIGAIL IN VIEW

I Samuel 25:30-31,KJV

"30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;  31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid".

What difference it will make if this passing train that Abigail takes it was Nabal who joins his whole family to it? Who does not know the son of Jesse? Who does not know he who carries the head of Goliath of Gath in triumph? When a handle is provided for Nabal to join the moving train of David, he abused and messed it up. No man should accuse God of injustice. It's very likely to say the opportunity you missed is what God gives to another.  Instead of becoming the friend of a future king, he calls death on himself and family but for the timely intervention of Abigail who hastens up with provision of this same foolish man to save them all. In Abigail, we see the perfect role of an intercessor. They are intercepters and interrupters. They are also peace makers. 

Christian, cultivate perception. That woman confesses saying, "I perceive this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually" (II Kings 4:9). Something might have been passing you continually for your lack of perception but the day you perceive, it becomes reality to you. Elisha's appearance and how he carries himself holily might have given him away. Nonetheless, she perceives. Without perception, you can not esteem any fellow rightly. The right perception of this woman made them build a room and accommodate him into their estate. An open door to her having a son. 

May you not lack the revelation of those whose is the future but who because of their present circumstances are disguised as a needy. May your eyes open. May you see. May you hear and may you perceive. After all the pleas of Abigail and the handing of all the provision, she won't turn back until one more thing is settled. In the midst of having proved herself before David, she says, "and when the Lord might have done to my lord (David) according to all that the Lord has stated and has made you a ruler, then remember thine handmaid". 

What's she trying to do? She's trying to join herself to the moving chariot. Meanwhile, Abigail sees prophecy on David. Abigail knows David is not empty headed even if he's empty handed today. Knowing this that his is the future and the kingdom, Abigail saves a space for herself in David's moving chariot. You may not know that anyone you identify with in their small days are those who count you faithful. Over time, I've heard people say, "how I wish he invites me over to be his secretary or one of his aide de camp". He can't. The truth is that simple. Even before he makes it to that office, he already has his men. Everybody has people who have always been there for them. As of today, I have my men. All of us have people reserved somewhere in our memory who have given themselves and who deserves us back. When opportunity avails itself, we'll always want to prove ourselves to them also. When Judas blew it all up and a replacement was to be sought for him, they didn't go to look outside (Acts 1:21-26). They put forward two who have been part of it all. From these two, Matthias eventually won. God acknowledges sacrifice, faithfulness and years of long suffering in waiting for the kingdom to happen. For instance, if you become something major today, who are the people you're likely to call over? Foreigners or those you already have testimonies with? So, it's best to prove one self when a man is still seeking rest than when he has found it. He'll see you as a man pleaser then. 

Sure enough, on hearing that Nabal is dead, Abigail is called by David to become his wife (I Sam.25:40-42). It always end like that. That's how Abigail continues in a new marriage that depicts our marriage to Christ. No one is free to marry another unless the first spouse dies. This obligation lifts over Abigail when Nabal was struck by the Lord. In this way, Abigail becomes a shareholder of David's future and prophecies. She becomes a queen. However, everything begins by acknowledging and knowing that power will change hands. Abigail is so concerned about the future that her sharpness could pick that a move is moving and the fellow it shall move to is David but the space that Abigail has bought paid off as she never turns a solitary widow at Nabal's death. Learn to have eyes for spiritual substances. At this time, Nabal is wealthier than David. Material things are what some are dying for but Abigail purchases the future and goes with the yet unmanifested on David. Count more tangible spiritual substances. If any has them, they shall manifest. That's why it takes faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it the elders obtain a good report. There are things not yet seen of who people will become but faith is what is what assures and gives you a receipt that they are tangible and shall one day take flesh, form and descend to become tangibilities (greatness) that all will envy and covet. Faith is what you need after perception so that you may latch unto the unseen future to be birthed. Those of you confronted with the choices of who to choose or agree with, may you by this discern. 

PRAYER: I shall not be dull in perception or inadequate in faith. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 10:32-12:21; Acts 18:1-22; Psalm 145:1-21; Proverbs 18:1

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