TUESDAY - 27TH AUGUST, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
CONTENTED TO DWELL WITH HIM III - Kingdom Administering Series 008
Titus 3:12, KJV
"When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter."
As my time drew near to handover as Anglican Students' Fellowship (ASF), Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) president (this was on campus) in 2015, I began to pray to God on what He'll have me do next. God spoke to me; He didn't refrain. He gave these Bible verses for my guidance: Titus 1:5, 3:12.
So, I took it upon myself to ensure the next leaders were rightly chosen under the vetting of the alumni body. After handing over however, the Part B was no where to be fulfilled. God had afore told me that He'll be sending me to Nicopolis and that He'll be there ahead of me and that I should come there. But here we are, I had handed over but don't yet have any place of assignment. Anyway, I knew Nicopolis is where God would have me trained for ministry. I had perceived God's calling on me long before then and was towing its lane. I once met the then presiding priest at St. Peter's Anglican Church, Ijagun (where we students use for our services as well) to disclose to him my burden to be trained for ministry. It was Canon Wale Omotayo then (now Venerable). He was willing to see to helping me but my spirit was still not settled. My spirit was like the Spirit which hovers on the surface of the water in Genesis 1. By training , when my spirit is unsettled, I know it's because I'm missing something. Just like the birds of Noah, I couldn't find a suiting resting place even as I go out awaiting the fulfilment of what I had received. I was going to and fro in my mind and caught up by indecisions. One thing that I didn't feel called into was going to join the Anglican Communion as a priest. I felt that was not my call or style of operation. I felt God would have me found something and not join. So, I let the offer go. I then packed my luggages to go stay with Bro. Emmanuel Awofeko (now Dr.) at Adefisan, Ijebu Ode while awaiting God to show me Nicopolis and with whom to winter.
Just then, I came back to Abapawa (a community where my hostel was while a student) to pack my books to Bro. Awofeko's place where I now stay in town. There at Anglican Bus Stop, Ijagun, I met a priest dressed in a green lace with a Dag Heward Mills book in his hand. We had met before but I had not been in any continuous relationship with him since I handed over to Bro. Ngu Barak (the new fellowship's president). Moreso, I felt I was done. It is now the turn of another person to go on and see to things without my interference. Probably if it was Canon Omotayo who was still around, I might have checked in. But, this was a new priest and who knows him really well but God?
That new priest was Canon Johnson Oyebode (now Venerable). He asked what I had in those teeming bags I was carrying and I declared, "my books." He said, "so, you read?" I said I do. The next thing he did was to say, "come and see." I went in with him and for the first time in my life, I saw the library I had never seen before bulging with various books bothering on spirituality and ministry. I was impressed to see all the kinds of book I'll like to read. We conversed for awhile and we left the matter there. Meanwhile, he'll invite me over for night vigils with him. I repeatedly attended this vigil until I eventually moved into the vicarage. He gave me a room upstairs and I was contented to dwell with him having learnt by experience that he's an oracle of God. Indeed, I learnt a lot from him. His family became my family and even till now, his wife is my mother and he's my father.
But first of all, I was brought to a place of contentment. I was brought to a place of agreement. I saw him share revelation and more importantly, I just found him attracted to. I knew it was his anointing drawing me. Over the years, I now know that if any minister carries a portion meant for you, you'll be attracted to his anointing. Today, I function as an exhorter, teacher, prophet and minstrel just like him. But all started from a singular instruction to go and winter at Nicopolis where God eventually guided me to. This description of mine is well known by all ASF Executives who graduated with me in 2015 and subsequently after. They all knew I said before hand at our excos meetings and before my handing over or anticipation of the fulfilment of what God told me that God would have me go to Nicopolis - a place I'll be trained for ministry. I was specific to the core and all happened just as I heard. When I eventually found it, they bore me testimony. Someone like my Sister Coordinator, Sis Eunice Olabode and other executives who served with me but were reordained to serve with Bro. Ngu Barak would bear me witness. I'm a testament to God's leading and provision. There's a place to winter or be at a particular moment indeed.
When you find your person, you'll be contented. There will be peace in your heart. Assurance will make you strong and you will sense and see for sure, this is what I've been looking for. You'll see that this person is as I am and is the mould that can form me. Don't just choose a mentor. Let your needs under God choose him for you. I've gone on to continue to minister on my own but I continue to reference this anointed Anglican minister as also being critical in my journey. As a matter of fact, he's the first ever anointed man who preaches, heals, casts out demons and live as testimony of all Jesus believed and did that I ever lived with. He practices identification with Christ to the core and like E.W. Kenyon, he is a revealer of same. He's a bundle of testimony.
PRAYER: Connect me to my next phase, assignment or my God given mentor.
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