MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/05/2025

SUNDAY - 11TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE SOUND OF ABUNDANCE OF RAIN!

I Kings 18:41, KJV

"And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain."

Can God instruct you to put preparation in place for what hasn't yet manifested in your life? Quiet very well. You see, the truth is this, as you take instructed steps, the manifestation you expect may then show up on the way. If you've been walking with the Lord for awhile, you'll likely have received "on the way instructions." God told Abraham to get out of his father's house to a land that He'll show him (Gen.12:1). It's possible to have announced the land in particular to him before he sets out but God wanted a walk by faith. He didn't and Abraham didn't have a glimpse until he had started walking. That's how the Christian journey is. It's a walk of faith. As you carry steps one after the other, you'll open layers after layers and discover new wills of God to act on or participate in. Instructions won't rush at you at once arming you with the totality of your destination or all steps that you'll need to take to get there. No! It'll come as you scale the heights and levels one after the other. It's possible that you won't receive for the next phase until you have completed the one you're on. 

God does not bribe us to go on a journey of faith with him. He inspires us rather. He wants us to go on a journey of discoveries - where we find out to our amazement what God has hidden in our journeys. That's when the journey is delightful and we can truly be appreciative of the process. 

Jesus once told the lepers He cleansed to go and show themselves to the priests. When He was saying that, they hadn't been cleansed but they became cleansed as they heeded that instruction.

Luke 17:12-14, KJV

"12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: 13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed."

Note, "it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed." On occasions, God might ask you to take certain actions to trigger some blessings. Consider this also. 

Matthew 12:13, KJV

"Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other."

God through the mouth of Elijah said to Ahab, "get thee up, eat and drink lest you're overtaken by the rain." If you consider this verse carefully, you'll see that God was instructing Ahab to put preparation in place for what hasn't come but which is coming. The only evidence that Elijah had for the rain was that it'll come because he had heard or perceived so. He said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." In like manner, God might inspire, motivate or clearly tell a waiting woman to begin to gather baby's things. Not that she is pregnant at the moment. Not that she had ever even been pregnant before but the Lord who we can't please except we walk with by faith can instruct her to do so. 

You can be instructed to gather, put in place preparation for what you haven't seen at all. That may be contrary to how you live or have lived. However, the Bible says, "he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He's a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him" (Heb.11:6). Also, the Bible says, "1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (Hebrews 11:1-3). 

You just need to have faith or exercise faith to have manifested those things that are not into what will be. You can pick up an argument saying, "but I am not pregnant, why should I begin to buy baby's things?" That's reason wanting to double cross you and remove you from what would have happened to you if you take the step of faith. The Bible is full of many impossibles. When an angel announced being pregnant to Mary, one of the questions she asked was, "how will this thing be?" When she receives an answer that the Holy Ghost shall come upon her and the power of the Highest will overshadow her so that the holy thing she'll begat will be called the son of God, she believed and let it be. She said in Luke 1:38, "behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her." 

Embracing this offer immediately got her pregnant. Rain might have not come but if the rushing of it has been heard in the spirit, that settles it. If the ears of the spirit have picked that rain is coming, then it's not bad going far to eating and drinking in hope that it'll rain soon. And if you'll look at it very well, Ahab hasn't made an arrival when the anticipated rain begat (I Kings 18:45). If he had tarried for a while, he could have been drenched and severely beaten. Indeed, God has a purpose for every instruction He brings our way. If indeed His mouth tells you, "go, buy baby's things", then He'll surely make good bringing that to pass. What I'm hearing this morning that is the end of all strife in anyone is, "whatsoever He tells you to do, do it" (John 2:5). 

PRAYER: Lord, I am your son and handmaid, I wait on you for what you'll tell me that I might run.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR

John 5:31-47 & I Kings 7-8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/05/2025

SATURDAY - 10TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

SURRENDERED TO GOD

Exodus 2:3, KJV

"And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink."

Mothers are especially close to their children. It may be because of those months relationship that existed in the womb or because of their tender care to them. Irrespective of what the reasons are, they are close and because they are, they smell their children's destinies easily. 

In Exodus 2:2, Moses' mother saw that he was special. He perceived some extraordinary things about the newborn baby. How many of you are so spiritually sensitive that you can mark an extraordinary child, even when a baby? Even when Moses hasn't uttered a speech, manifested a skill or displayed a gift, the mother could still sense him. She could see that this is a special baby. It is this specialness that she didn't want to lose. It is this she wanted to preserve. She knew that special babies have special destinies to fulfill. So, she goes on the risky journey. 

Exodus 2:2, KJV

"...and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months."

Do remember that her hiding Moses is against the earlier proclamation of Pharaoh who had ordered that "every son that is born of the Hebrews, you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live" (Exo.1:22, ESV). That's when you can understand the context that made Moses' mother hid him. He had to lest Moses was discovered and thrown in the Nile to perish. 

However, her strength and how far she could weave her wisdom ended in three months. In three months time, baby Moses has started babbling and if he were to cry now, it'll be easily heard and increasingly known. So, the cover has been blown. If Moses would continue, he needs a new hiding place. 

What I don't know is who instructed Moses' mother to take a basket and set Moses on the Nile. It is no wisdom to think Moses would survive the Nile when Pharaoh had declared that every born male should be thrown into the Nile. Who could have instructed her to take that wisdom of weaving a basket, water-proofing it and setting it on the Nile? Did Moses' mother anticipate that Moses would fall into a good hand? Or what was her thought? Her thought probably was that the floatable basket would float away far from Egypt and be rescued by any kindhearted person. We can only theorize or guess what her reasons were. However, one thing seems certain to me. God might have inspired her or given her the intuition to do so without necessarily letting her know He (the Almighty) will be waiting to collect and retrieve Moses at the Nile. The Nile that could have been the agent of Moses' death was what he was saved through when Pharaoh's daughter contacted him and adopted him. 

The moral of the story is this. After you might have exercised yourself and you have come to your wit's end, God sure has His own role or responsibility to play as well. Don't err. Be on the side of action. God will meet you on the way. And as we vividly read in Moses' story, He doesn't disappoint. When Moses' mother set that basket in the Nile, it was with much weeping, prayer and hope. She must have said, "may you find the next shore." How's it that the basket coincidentally meets with Pharaoh's daughter at the Nile? She has come to bathe but would you convince me that there are no bathing tubs, even pools in the palace? Obviously, all those were at home but God had to stir her up as the perfect hands into which Moses' could fall and from which he will be protected from the law. 

When you have tried your best and it still remains a mile to completion, may God bring His own ministration that can compensate for your labour not being vain. For any one trusting that God will step in and into what they have started in faith, today is your day. You shall not be left alone. God will visit you and give you that needed miracle or breakthrough. As Moses was set in the Nile, he wasn't falling on/into the water. He rather fell into God's hands. You too, you'll fall into God's hands and at all times. You'll know God's intervention, rescue and on spot ministrations. 

PRAYER: God, I commit to you. Appear and be my present help in trouble.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 22:1-23:20, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12, Psalm 83:1-18, Proverbs 25:11-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 6/05/2025

TUESDAY- 6TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WE SHALL BE CONTENT

I Timothy 6:8, KJV

"And having food and raiment let us be therewith content."

May you know rest! There's a way God gives His people rest. It is by ruling their lives with His Word which they adhere to. You can't adhere to the verse above and not enjoy rest. 

This verse above doesn't abuse the ethic of work or thorough work. Rather, it removes you from those who'll blow things up in their bid to be wealthy. In the race to be wealthy, they let go of boundaries. Rather, they're in for anything. You'll hear, "as long as it'll bring money."

While I was with some church members who are spiritual people, we had conversations on relocation both locally and internationally. We zeroed in on how many travel abroad to become slaves without minding hazards that such jobs they have taken might put them into. Not to talk of many who sold everything or sacrificed much to be there but only to be disappointed. Some found out to their dismay that the other side of the fence may not always be green for everybody as painted. They regretted, lifted up their eyes like that rich man in hell and hoped that a little respite would attend to them (Luke 16:23-24). Many of these people are simply those who are not content. Many of them are not poor while in their countries. 

God can give to you rest but you can shoo it away and say it is not satisfactory enough. In our interaction, as we looked at the life that doesn't mind doing anything to earn a living even when it's obviously dangerous, the wife mentioned, "why should we? If we have food and clothing, we shall be content."

God will meet your needs. What you must know is that He'll not leave you alone. "Food and clothing" here refer to your basic needs. Most importantly, that's what any man needs on this earth for survival and proper living. 

Your basic needs include food, clothing, shelter and probably security. If all these are supplied in appropriateness, why the need for the much struggle and sweat we see. Though, God has rested a lot of people by providing these basic needs for them yet they haven't taken this rest by living at that level. They want more and would have it even when God has not increased or promoted them. It is that inordinate ambition that leads to the verses below. 

1Timothy 6:9-10, KJV

"9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

Is God antagonistic of getting rich? No! But, can you follow till He picks you from your basic needs level and makes you rich. You can move from being able to meet all your basic needs to being rich (having to spare and give away). You can change levels on the job you are. If every level is marked by the appropriate promotion/increment, you'll have the testimony of the just man whose path shines more and more unto the perfect day. But some want to manifest this on their own. As such, they'll defy and violate godly and moralistic boundaries to their hurt. 

If we have food and clothing, we shall be content. God knows what you need. He knows that's truly what satisfies. Especially in Africa, we have made it abnormal having food and clothing only (your basic needs). We call such people poor. These are the things that lead to the asking of many questions, "does he have this?" If he's still at the level of meeting basic needs only, he might likely be turned down. But God didn't create us like that. Having that is just an addition that not every one will have but basic needs are necessities that even developed countries recognize and put in place for their citizens. Even in developed nations, their citizens abide by "and if we have food and clothing we shall be content" than many Africans, Asians and those of other continents in their lands. Those people have entered into rest. They don't have any reason to work themselves to death as donkeys. Many of them don't even own private vehicles. They use public transport and nobody stigmatizes them for being poor. Who taught us error? So, that's where God wants us to get to. Where you are free from the opinions of people. Where you are free from the rat race but having released and yielded your life to Christ, He shepherds it even to where green pastures and still water are. Has He not said that His thoughts for you are of good and not of evil to give you a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11). What would change that? That he said he would give you a hope and a future doesn't mean He will necessarily and always make everyone who this word is spoken to wealthy or the richest man. Rather, it means you'll do well in the frame or bowl God has created for you. If you can take care of your family in a way that doesn't bring embarrassment, you haven't failed. 

God wants to put many of you at rest. Don't look for wealth and fall into sin, crime or the occult. Don't look for the wealth that'll jeopardize your health and consequently your life. Any such wealth is not wealth but a disadvantage. What I heard is, "if we have food and clothing, we shall be content." If you're not suffering from inferiority complex and materialism, you'll see that you should indeed be content. Many are on the fields as missionaries. Some have yielded home, their certificates and any thought of personal ambition to God yet God didn't forsake them. He gives them the bread meet for them. They are not rich and they are not poor but they are never tired of life. It never occurs to them to commit suicide. They have peace, they hear from God, contribute to the well being of people and their community and are acknowledged for same. What else do you need?

PRAYER: Lord, teach me contentment anew.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 2:1-25 & II Samuel 20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/05/2025

MONDAY- 5TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

A TOUCH FROM THE CHASE!

John 4:19, KJV

"The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."

God has the address of every living being with Him. He knows what button to press that can activate something in anyone. To have Jacob halt on his thigh only needed being disjointed at the hollow of his thigh. Having done that, he limps on his thigh (Gen.32:24-32). God knows where to touch in you to 'disable', break you down or make you yield. He knows what to say to you to make you cry like a baby or take a second thought for your life. You might have been spared till now but may God confront you with His love that chases men. Once He does, you either manifest like Jacob who limped upon his thigh or you give off a surprising remark like the woman of Samaria who says, "I perceived that you are a prophet." From that juncture, you become open to God even if you've been a closed wall before. 

The gift of the word of knowledge very much is at work here. You can be gifted with this revelatory gift and it can reside permanently in your calling as a minister. But also, you can manifest it as deemed fit by God or when occasion demands for God's purpose. This gift doesn't reside in my own calling permanently but I have manifested it innocently without knowing until I see its confirmation. You can just know things and spit it out just like that. Until it is confirmed by those who came to meet you later, you have no idea what you were saying or doing earlier only that you had hearkened to divine promptings. 

Oftentimes, those who are dedicated to teaching or preaching would exercise this gift because God wants to reveal certain intents in the hearts of certain individuals. However, it resides in the prophet's call (I Cor.12:8). Listen, you may have secrets in your heart, fears residing in your soul but before God, that darkness is as the day. Nothing is hidden before Him and when He's ready to draw out things that reside deep in the secrecy of your heart, it takes no time. No secret is secret with God!

Today, it's my prayer that God will use your ministry as a minister to encounter and deal with people - even to break down walls of resistance, prejudice, bias or fears in them. Many times, humans don't want to reveal their true identity or intentions except by a means that's not ordinary to them through which God forces it up. This exercise of a gift by Jesus here is one. When that woman was touched where she should be touched, she dropped all arguments and consented. She didn't disregard what Jesus said, rather she gave in. Imagine the conversation and her affirmation.

John 4:16-19, KJV

"16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."

Why won't she say, "Sir, I perceived you are a prophet?" Did you see her reverence? That is because what was happening is beyond ordinary. What Jesus couldn't have known ordinarily is what Jesus just told him. "You've had five husbands in time past and even the one you're with is not your husband!" What a knowing! What a shock! From that moment of revelation henceforth, you can see that woman open up to Jesus differently. Even their interaction was much more delightful and smooth. Why? The walls in her are beginning to be dealt with and broken one by one. 

Immediately, you could see her open up to Jesus and agree Jesus was someone special when she said, "Sir, I perceived that you're a prophet." May God use you to figure people out. May God use you as a miraculous tool to reveal the intents of people's hearts, so much more that they'll wonder if someone had conferred with you to tell them your story. The end is not to be praised but to lead such to the Lord Jesus and win his or her soul for Christ. Manifestation of a gift is meant to be a sign mostly to the unbelievers to turn their hearts back to their Creator in the days of their youth and when they haven't had much wasted years. Even if you're an old fellow with wasted years, God's call is the same to you. He loves you the same way and calls you too. This woman of Samaria is not a small lady. A woman who has been all around isn't small in age or inexperienced but Jesus still brought her in. May this consume us as ministers. May we not be spoiled by physical food but confess to those who care to hear that, "we have meat to eat which they know not of (John 4:31-36)." What meat if not to do the will of God and to finish it? What meat if not to chase after souls and have them won for Jesus? May this be your testimony and not the running after debauchery or vanity! 

PRAYER: Lord, transform me and use me to meet Your utmost needs in people. Take my lips and let them speak!

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 2:1-25 & II Samuel 20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/05/2025

SUNDAY- 4TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

INHERITED THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE 

Hebrews 6:12, KJV

"That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."

Yesterday, we began to see those who are worthy to be followed or imitated. They are those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. This way, God separated between those we can follow and those we should never attempt to follow. It immediately tells us that God didn't rubber stamp some lives or processes. However, He approves of the journey of those who inherited promises through faith and patience. 

Nobody tells you the road will be smooth. Nobody promises you that once you receive a promise, you'll have no warfare. Jesus has spoken well when He said, "in this world, you will face tribulation but be of good cheer, I have conquered the world" (John 16:33). While victory is yours at day's end, you can't but face some hardships which proves and prunes you. While you're facing them, holding onto God's promises for you could only be by faith and patience. 

God promised Abraham an heir. That promise had to be waited for. Sarah just didn't conceive like Mary conceived when the angel of the Lord broke the news to her. There was a delay - a long period of silence in Abraham's and Sarah's lives. As a matter of fact, it got to the head when Abraham told God that He should let Ishmael live in His sight (Gen.17:18). Why was Abraham saying all these? Because He had waited and waited until he was 100 years old and Sarah, 90 years old. It has even ceased to be with Sarah according to the ways of women. So, Abraham began to think like many of us. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. "Here is Ishmael. He is the product from my hastiness and impatience through Hagar. I and Sarah my wife made him come to life. God, just do what you want to do through him. I have no hope for a son that has not been born till now again." It took God to change that view in consequent verses by affirming that Isaac will surely be born and at a set time next year.

Genesis 17:21, KJV

"But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."

That you believe or have faith doesn't mean you wouldn't stumble or get to a place of doubt once in what God might have afore told you. That you have faith means when you have doubt crisis and God comes to reaffirm Himself or His Word to you like He did to Abraham in this ongoing chapter, you believe. You might once, twice, thrice or many times think otherwise but when you receive assurance from God again and you believe it and walk the distance in those words, then you'll be deemed to have faith. The words that God speaks to you per term is what helps you to change the gear of your faith so that you may not be tired but pursue more fervently in faith and patience. 

You also might have gotten here in your journey where you're beginning to doubt the promises or prophecies of God over your life. You might have waited for long even after God had assured you you'll never be barren. Yet, the baby is not forthcoming. God promised you greatness and goodness yet you see no mark of it yet. 

If you'll ever get where you'll possess it, you need to keep reactivating your faith and patience through God's spoken word (rhema) to you alone. That is when you can also exchange strength for new strength. 

Those two (faith and patience) are there to balance each other. Faith will enliven you and give you a mindset and view that all is possible against all the contrariness that you see or know. It'll keep you ploughing on as you patiently wait to receive the promise. Patience is meant to cultivate character in you while you wait. God wants to fine tune your attitude to the possible best even as you wait. He wants to make you someone whose eyes have been removed from humans or human solutions to Him and Him only. In short, patience will build some stamina in you. While waiting, you're given a story to tell. 

Such are the people we're called to follow. Not those who haven't mastered faith or patience. Not even those who haven't had moments of doubts and conversion(s) from it. Not those who can't wait eventually or who during their moments of doubt called it quit and ran their own race. Rather, those who faced it all, recovered from many doubts, continued in the pursuit until they possessed by faith and patience. 

PRAYER: Lord, enliven me with your new revelatory word. I shall not be tired but continue in hope.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 1:19-51 & II Samuel 18-19

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Being Called & Believing So Has Many Blessings 

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 03/05/2025

SATURDAY- 3RD MAY, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

CALLED TO FOLLOWERSHIP

Hebrews 6:12, KJV

"...That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

You have a call on you and it is to be an imitator of those who inherited promises through faith and patience. One thing I want you to know is this. All of us in this world cannot follow one person. We'll always have our own men to follow. The calling on us differentiates us and allocates us to certain men individually that we can follow. 

Since I've been in ministry, the people I have followed are those in ministry. I'm walking in their footsteps and trusting to achieve like they have achieved. These are men that God recommended to me even since I was a student in the tertiary institution. I am following or imitating those men because I have a call into ministry. There may be another of God's children somewhere with a call into business. Due to his own different call, he will surely have another person in front of him to follow but who through faith and patience also inherited the promises in that field. That fellow though a business man will be able to teach him both Christ and business as he looks or learn Christ from him. To shock you, the master don't have to know he is imitating him. Only that the person imitating the master must do with deep focus. 

So, all of us are followers. Christians are called to imitate. Someone who imitates or follows is a disciple. He watches the master and imbibe what the master does for the purpose of replicating it and stepping into his shoe. Even Jesus Himself is a follower and imitator of what the Father does. Jesus tells us that He does nothing except what He sees the Father does (John 5:19). So, who are you that you're dubbing followership or imitating wrongly?

When Jesus promised us that "and greater works you shall do" (John 14:12); He was speaking to His disciples then and those of us who'll later follow Him or believe in Him. Anyone who'll do a greater work must be someone who has received the call to follow the fellow who did the great work. Unless you have imbibed the one with the great work and believe in him, how will you know or have learnt to continue from where he stopped? To continue from where someone had stopped requires empowerment - even supernatural or skillful empowerment. Only followers and imitators ever receive the anointing. Do you wonder why many heads are dry and why many spoken or declared words lack grace? It's because many are only equipped with grammar and not the anointing that can drive home their messages.

Elisha followed Elijah. Did the double portion and benefit of imitating and following this older prophet jump him to land on the other sons of the prophets who were watching afar off beyond Jordan? Never! It landed on him because he was a follower and imitator of Elijah. A follower has a heart for lessons. Everything a teacher says is what he takes note of. Like Elisha, he doesn't stop followership even when he's been deterred. He follows until the mantle is his. He doesn't allow distractions. The test was, "if you see me being taken, the double portion you asked would be yours." Elijah knew Elisha could be carried away by the whirlwind or the heavenly chariots and horses but Elisha is a more focused imitator than that. He saw and he cried, "my father, my father! The chariot of Israel and his rider thereof" (II Kings 2:10-13). We know the result! He knows that is his destiny (to receive the double portion and step into the vacant prophet's office) and that if he didn't receive it, that might be a shortage in his future destiny. 

An imitator brings attention and observation to the fellow before him who's moulding Christ in the flesh for him to see. He therefore follows that man or woman as he or she follows Christ (I Cor.11:1). 

The Bible is specific. Be an imitator of those who through faith and patience inherited the promise. It means there'll be those who inherited what was promised or prophesied before their birth or after by other ways. Those are the impatient. They might have inherited it through sin, crime or the occult. God didn't call us to follow any of those. When the Bible says, "who through faith and patience inherited the promise", God was trying to tell you that, "This is my approved way. Let me sort out men for you. In this kingdom, promises are received through faith and patience." Even when it looks like tarrying, you have to wait until you possess it through faith and patience. Are you experiencing delay having your own child?Wait! Through this, you get processed and become a man of process. It's until then you can comfort others who will imitate or follow you with the comfort you have received. The road you haven't walked, you cannot tell others of the dangers inherent in it. If you have inherited through faith and patience, you'll know what and how to strengthen a weary soul at heart when it seems God's promises are delayed. 

We're called to follow but our imitation of certain men (even the so called men of God) must be by a recommendation from God. When I started following Reverend Olusola Areogun, I didn't know him from adam and no one recommended or endeared him to me. But I stumbled on some audio messages I later discovered were his and then I had a liking and love for him. My heart kept being pulled back to those messages I heard and what he had to say. That was what led me to start using his daily devotional (soft copy on campus) and downloading his sermons as I did later on. I followed him until one day his teaching grace and anointing was replicated in me while I was following and watching his video sermon on campus. I followed until and even I'm still following today though I have my own inheritance and promise already in that realm. Today, I'm doing work that he's doing and as Christ and grace would have it, I'll do greater work. 

Listen, you're called to imitate. The faster you find who to imitate or follow, the faster your profiting will be open to all. The faster you'll also gather the things of your destiny and enter into God's manifestation for you. Amen!

PRAYER: Lord, who's the vessel you want me to learn you from? Show me this man or woman. Help me to focus on learning You and gathering the ingredients of my call.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 1:1-18 & II Samuel 15-17

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