WEDNESDAY - 4TH DECEMBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
OVERTAKING SATAN AND BEATING EVIL II - Knowing The Planned Time Series 004
Matthew 2:12, KJV
"And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way."
God is our eyes and it gives us advantage that we are people who do receive divine communication. Imagine a soldier or a troop that's cut off from communication from the base. Will they know what ambush they're walking into headlong? Imagine a life without divine communication! I assure you, there can never be a testimony of divine escapes.
We need to know! If we don't know, we will be played and toiled with. People will take us for granted and call us ordinary. You have heard people say, "I played him or I outsmarted him'. That's usually a mockery on the outsmarted person. God wants us to be above our enemy - the devil first of all. He's a player, a cunning serpent; a strategist to the core who beguiles and disarms his prey. However, through the purchases of Christ at redemption and through God's mind constantly revealed, you are above him.
These wise men would not have been wise after all if God had not stepped in to be their eyes. May we not be otherwise known. May the reputation of good we have borne for years not suddenly disappear due to one event that proves it otherwise. You see, Herod was almost gaining an upper hand over them. His trickery had worked on them and none of them suspected the underlying evil and desire lurking in the secret corner of his heart. Many times, without planning it, I have outsmarted people even without my own knowledge but because I was very obedient to God's Word or specific revealed instructions for the time being. You cannot always tell what the devil has planned or is planning for you. You cannot always tell what it is he is faking or what he is camouflaging into. However, God can expose him. Just walk closely with Him and you'll receive knowledge of what you both prayed for and those you won't but which are priority to God to be revealed to you to act on.
Anyone will think Herod cares. As in, who'll have been suspicious that a king doesn't share goodwill for a new born baby. To confuse things, nothing in his speech or demeanor gives him off. He rather said, "go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also" (Matt. 2:8, KJV).
Have you played with such people before? People who are impure and morbid inside but don't appear so outside. They'll sell you to the slave market if God doesn't become your eyes and light! However, God was their own eyes and they outsmarted Herod who thought he had outwitted them. He rather was wrath that he was made a fool of.
"Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked (outsmarted) of the wise men, was exceeding wroth (angry) and sent forth and slew all the children..."
So shall it be for your opposing enemy (the devil and all humans he has found to use against you). Their schemes will turn on their heads. Herod wanted to make a fool of the wise men (and he already did) but God turned it back on his head through His own divine communication to the magi. So, instead of being the victim of his trickery, they escaped to their nativity through another way and made him the exact fool he wanted to make them.
I pray for you that you'll not be a victim of the devil's strategy. God will expose the subtle acts of the devil in your life. Anyone who's fooling you is exposed. You're warned of them at this hour. Receive a knowing about their acts and by that, take dressing and know how to relate with them. Let God warn you of relationships to cut off in Year 2025, beginning from now. See those who don't share good will for you but who you often assure you'll contact once you make arrival. You're not a prey here. You're on the winning side and God is playing with you. I assure, your playing is playing to win!
PRAYER: I am playing to win. No matter the enchantment, bewitchment, subtilty etc, I shall not be confused or confounded.
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