MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 8/07/2023

SATURDAY - 8TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHERE YOU SHOULD GET - The Commanded Series 003

Read Acts 9:1-17

Acts 9:10, KJV

" And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord".

When you get here, it means you'll always be readily sendable. God has just found a need to meet and the next thing He does is to look for a human vessel who He could send. At a call, the response of this vessel shows he's both prepared and ready. His response also shows who he submits to and reference as Lord. Many Christians have Jesus as their Saviour but He hasn't yet become their Lord. There are things He can't touch in their lives or collect from them. They're still married to their own will - their very lord. "Ananias", God calls. "I am here", he responds". This should be the mark of a growing Christian especially one that'll bring gain to the kingdom. Like I said yesterday, we are in a kingdom where all of us are resources in God's hands. So, He administers and send us whithersoever He wills. The Bible records that Jacob sent Joseph likewise on an errand and his reply to the call shows a surrendered life and will.

Genesis 37:13, KJV

"And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I". 

What did he say to him? "Here am I". God wants all of us to get here. A place where we are found for admnistering or errands as it would befit occasions. The truth is this, if you're not found for admnistering, God's work will continue. The experience of delay in the arrival of resources to he who needs it urgently may be inevitable but God will always and eventually make for Himself. The truth is that God always prepare and reserve for Himself. Don't forget that He has a reserve even if any man boasts himself as the only findable tool in His hands (I Kings 19:10, 18). God's children are scattered every where. Some are even in Saudi Arabia. To your shock, they may be in the high Imams' houses. They are secret believers who are pining for more expression of their faith but God is God to them and they aren't ashamed to call him Lord or submit to Him as Lord likewise. "Here am I" shows a man that God has found and who He can now commit to. I briefly raised the fact that you may be someone's answer of yesteryears, months or days in the first series of this devotional. God sent Elijah to the ravens (where they'll meet him at Brook Cherith). He did likewise to him when he sent him to the widow of Zarephath (I Kings 17). It means those are the two sets of people who will acknowledge him. If Elijah should mistakenly go elsewhere, he'll testify by experience that he missed it because none he goes to will acknowledge him. And if they ever feed him, it will be a blessing with reproach to him. Why? They have not been commanded and put under obligation for his sake. Those who can open up to you are those God has commanded for your sake. 

I Kings 17:4,9, KJV

"And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there". 

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

If I'm not under command by my Lord as a man of the spirit, why should I come and propose to you and why should you say yes to me when you have not received afore notification about me or my coming? Why? When God calls you and you say, "here am I", it means you're found administrable. Once you're eventually admnistered, you immediately bear a command to someone or a place. Jacob's errand has a specific intent and people as target. Joseph was sent to his brothers. Ananias was sent to brother Saul. Who are you sent or being admnistered to? That should be the next question. Some of you, you have been admnistered and sent to someone already. Instruction has gone on your head like Abraham that God told to leave but who still stays back (Gen.12). The fellow also has received a command of God that when you come, she should open up and receive you. However, here you are still reasoning it out. You wouldn't want to propose to that sister because 'how can it be" is what you have filled your throat with? I'm so sure you can't be wiser than God. He has seen it can be. The prayer for a life partner that you've been praying for years is now to be answered. Though you have now being sent to an address, you're refusing to go there because you have found something out about that address and target that's in disarray or in disharmony. That can never be eventually  true. If it eventually is, it means God makes a mistake pairing you both together.  You're proving to be beyond admnistering therefore. You're refusing not to be an answer to someone's prayer also. You aren't the only fellow who prayed. As you were trusting God for a life partner and would daily and often pray to be remembered and led, so she also prayed. She knows you but she can't come to you to initiate it. What your responsibility should be is what you have refused to do now. The truth is just that even God can administer two obedient Christians to have their paths crossed and marry. The Lord who told Ananias to go heal Saul also told Ananias that Saul had seen in a vision a man named Ananias laying his hands on him to receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. It means this two are slated to meet. You may refuse such admnistering but God can never never be stranded. You're just a vehicle which God uses to fulfill His will. You're a part player. Your obedience can be consequential but God will always remedy things for he or she who should have benefitted from your submission to prompt admnistering. When the brook where Elijah drank from dried for instance, didn't God send him to the widow of Zarephath? Let us say you refuse to be administered and become an answer to someone's prayer or urgent need, God will find an alternative to you. There's always an alternative by the corner, in the distant Zarephath of Zidon to every brook that dries or to anyone who says, he or she has had enough. 

Lord, what befits us is to be "here" before you always. What befits us is to eventually and in no time submit to your admnistering even if we have loads of complaints. Ananias also wouldn't go to Saul without a fight. He said he has heard a whole lot of things about his destructive acts especially to Your church in Jerusalem and how he has now come with permission from the authority to bind those of the Way in Damascus. However, your explanation satiates him. You only say. 

Acts 9:15-16, KJV

"...Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake".

And that was all. The end of all strife for Ananias. The next verse recorded that he went. God, today, I submit, cast down all arguments and say, "whither Thou sends me, I will go; what Thou bid me, I will do. 

PRAYER: Lord, may I be sendable. I am available, send and use me Lord.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17; Acts 25:1-27; Psalm 5:1-12; Proverbs 18:19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 07/07/2023

 FRIDAY - 7TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

CAN THE HOLY SPIRIT COLLECT FROM YOU ANYTHING? - The Commanded Series 002

READ Mathew 1:18-20

Matthew 1:20, KJV

"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: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost".

The day you're born again is the day you're admitted into God's kingdom. In that kingdom, resources are sent and are received. Just like we transfer through bluetooth - from one end to the other, same is how things flow. Without God having to lay pipes, transportation happens daily.  Meanwhile, resources could be passed through anyone. What matters is that such is faithful to part with it. Faithfulness is all that matters in service to our King of kings. The ravens didn't hold Elijah's bread. They were under command and they acted commanded. Same with that widow of Zarephath. This should be our general testimony. A man or woman that God can find locatable and ready to meet others' needs and serve them their food (as God has given us). Please, not for impression or you might soon pass into the border of dead works. 

As you grow or get where you trust God as your provider, He can begin to prove so.  However, let it be that you can be a vessel for God to pass blessings through. If you're holding anyone's bread and God asks for its release, let it be that you'll be that type of man that in fear and gratitude of being found a vessel release it. Have the testimony of one that there's nothing God can't collect from him. 

We all know Joseph, to whom Mary, the mother of Jesus was betrothed. The Bible however says before they come together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Not knowing that, Joseph seeks to divorce her secretly. That he's even doing it secretly tells us he is not revengeful but a man who has been discipled and has learnt God. However, while he contemplates the matter, he has a dream where an angel tells him to take Mary unto him as his wife and that what's in her is of the Holy Ghost. 

You see, there's no 'lie' other than that! There's no unsavoury thing to hear other than that but Joseph knew who has communicated to him and so he submitted. The end of all strife. You can agitate but do until the Spirit witnesses to you. It's a sign of true brokenness. Many times, when God passes somebody bread to you and demands it to be given, you reluctantly with wrinkles on your face contemplates it. That may be. However, ensure it's eventually passed. On occasions, you don't even act and God is not eventually glorified through you. How much more if it were on a matter like this? Would you not find that hard to release to God? You see, you will determine to what extent you want to walk with Jesus. You'll determine how much He can trust you. If you're the type that God can't collect something from; or call to lay a matter to rest, then you can have your way and see how it goes. Over the years, I have proven God is right even by my experience. The Bible says the Spirit of God will not always strive with man. It means it will strive with you first. 

Genesis 6:3, KJV

"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man..."

If God strives with you and you're not redressing on what He's raising with you, He'll eventually leave you to yourself as a reprobate. He will usually come to you on that same matter more than once but if He found you unadmnistrable, then you should know that's not kindness to you. On the occasions God had placed demands on me and I have refused, when I saw the outcome and how the matter went, I regretted it. It was after then I saw reasons enough why I should have done as he bidded me. You can trust God and trust the process. All of us are resources in His kingdom. He can administer us physically to where He'll want us be or administer resources through us to others. Joseph didn't have to be repeatedly told to take in Mary. Once was enough. I'll say, "that's a disciple". Who knows whether he made mistakes while learning this earlier also but he proves to be our good example? I don't know what Christianity you practice that it's your Lord that constantly demands you to slay your Isaac - even of your will and an already made decision yet with continuous overdue refusal to do so. Brother, sister, watch your behind. This is not a good testimony. Time of ignorance God has generally winked at. He's commanding all men to repentance and obedient living. If we're living stones that make up God's kingdom, should we not know He'll use us for whatsoever reasons He purposed as need may be. We are not inanimate. Even the inanimate can and do praise God. May you be found. May God call your name and may you hearken to him. 

PRAYER: Lord, I lay any matter of contest between us to rest. Forgive and restore me joy. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17; Acts 25:1-27; Psalm 5:1-12; Proverbs 18:19

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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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