MORNING WINGS MINISTRY

Tuesday, 25 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 25/11/2025

TUESDAY - 25TH NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHILE SOME ARE BEATEN TO EXTINCTION!

"Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee."

Some will die off. Some will not be able to continue into the distance before them. They shall in no wise progress. That won't be because God didn't plan progression for them but because they didn't live it out and so couldn't manifest it.

"Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be still praising God."

Don't you think this verse has very much to do with the godly, blessed man in Psalm 1. In verse 3, the Bible likens this man to a tree planted by the streams of water that brings forth his fruits in his season, his leaf also does not wither and whatsoever he does, he prospers. What a life!

Psalms 1:3, KJV

"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

This life is the life that continues because of his planting, siting or location. It is planted by the rivers of water. It literally takes source and life from God, the Holy Spirit and the Bible. God being his continuous feeder, this man reflects the perfectly blessed man. In fruits, that is character, godly influence, good works and output, he doesn't come behind. His leaves which speak of his beauty or outer life is one to covet as well. He doesn't shed leaves. He maintains its forms all year round. His joy, hope and peace are not tampered with by external circumstances. He is spiritually fresh. He endures heat and hard times and yet it doesn't show on him. Rather, he remains fresh. More importantly, he prospers in all he does. This prosperity is not the materialistic prosperity but the prosperity of the soul, mind teeming with ideas and as God gives it to him for His plans and will in his hands. He prospers in purpose and destiny, having what God will have him have for the fulfillment of the work in his hands.

However, for all these to happen, it has to be sited first. First of all, it had to be planted near an ever flowing source that can never come short. That's why when others are quieten down, out of service or production, this one person continues.

Since it's planted in the house of the Lord - a metaphor for God's presence, this person continues to take living and direction from Him. No wonder, he prospers in whatsoever he does. That's because each step he carries is ordered and birthed from instructions from the Lord. So, this man never stops giving what he is known for. That's what the Psalm 84 calls, "he will still be praising God."

The idea that a man in the Lord's house or presence will continue to praise God still irrespective of the heat or difficulty that has come upon the world sets a contrast that some fail at. So, while he still praises the Lord and maintains vitality, others are dried off, cut off and literally ended.

One thing is sure for you if you'll dwell in the Lord's house and be continually planted in his presence, you will be still praising God. That is, you will still be in Christian practices, churning out your fruits. You wouldn't have gone out of it. Joy and all sorts of spiritual expressions will continually still be called out of you. You'll just be like the tree planted by the streams of water that never stops producing and bringing new forth.

When other fans have stopped rotating, yours will maintain motion but it all depends into whom you're plugged into.

PRAYER: Lord, I'm plugged into You. I refresh my relationship with you anew. I know no ending. I produce and bring forth continually.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Rev.11; Joel 1-3

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Monday, 24 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 24/11/2025

MONDAY - 24TH NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

BY RIVERS OF WATER

Psalms 1:3, KJV

"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

There are those God wants to relocate. There's a reason for that relocation. There's a reason for which He is transferring them from where they are to another place. There's a reason why He wants to change their jobs and why He has been calling for their change of jobs.

Why?

God is already looking at days to come. He could see the coming drought - economic challenges and depravity. So, He wants to get them ready, secure the future for them and secure provision for them. So, what does the Lord plan to do? What He plans to do is to re-site them. He'll carry them to where they should be relocated where they can take living and not feel the drought when it comes.

That's what Psalm 1 testifies of that tree planted by streams of water. By being intentionally planted there and not done randomly, it means God has a purpose. What is the purpose? That the planted tree might be able to take living - continuous living from the ever flowing rivers of water. "Rivers of water" in that Psalm signifies a continuous unfailing supply both in the rainy and dry seasons (both in times of abundance and economic meltdown).

God can see and He is already coming for some of you. He's saying, "seek to change your job now!" I want to plant you by a job that'll be a rivers of water to you so that you can take living in hard times from there. Planted by means you won't need to struggle but you'll draw from the rivers and flowing water. It means the new job will actually be better. It means it'll offer better prospects and be like a rivers of water to your tree - keeping you in your season. This is God's plan to provide for you. This is God's plan to secure a table before you in hard times and that's the exact thing why the siting of that tree (that blessed man) is by the rivers of water. It means in drought, it'll continue. That's why its leaves does not wither when others are shedding theirs. That's why he keeps saying there's a lifting up when others are saying there's a casting down.

Another picture of that is portrayed by the work God did for Elijah. When Elijah decreed the famine, what did God do to him. God relocated him beside Brook Cherith for a definite intention that he'll be able to take living from the brook.

I Kings 17:3, 5 KJV

"3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook."

A siting by a water source, one with a continuous supply is for the purpose of your continuity in hard days. God had to tell Elijah, go and hide yourself by Brook Cherith. For what purpose if not to take life from there? You'll do well to begin to scout for another job now that the Lord is calling for it. Let the Lord collect from you the job that cannot sustain you and give you one that can do just that.

Be located by the streams of water, by a brook that you can draw from. This is how God takes care of His own.

PRAYER: Lord, I move and I obey. May it be unto me according to your Word.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Rev.10; Hosea 13-14

Sunday, 23 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 22/11/2025

SUNDAY - 23RD NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

PLANTED BY THE RIVERS OF WATER

Psalm 1:3, KJV

"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

When you're planted by the rivers/streams of water, certain things happen to you. According to Psalm 1, a man whose delight is in the Word of God is a man planted by the rivers of water.

Psalms 1:2, KJV

"But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."

When your delight is in something, you cherish it above all things else. You even spend time with it more than anything else. One way or the other, you just want to indulge in the joy or action of doing that thing. That's why the Bible says in that place, "And in His (God's) law does he meditate day and night."

Do you know why this blessed man as described in Psalm 1:1 meditates in the Bible day and night? It's because it's his delight. You don't exhibit repeated actions in what you don't like.

"Delight" is anything that gives great joy and pleasure. As you repeat it, instead of being tired of it, you rather get more satiated and fulfilled. Now, this blessed man has the Bible and its study as his own delight. As he studies the Bible often - even day and night, the Bible then says, "certain consequences are his because of how long and how much he has indulged in the Bible and the meditation of it."

That's why the Bible says for a man whose delight is in the law of the Lord, meditating in it now and then, he could only be likened to a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruits in his season, his leaf also does not wither and everything that he does prospers.

So, in essence, the real rivers of water that passage speaks of and recommends is the Bible. When you indulge in the Bible, studying and visiting it now and then, the Bible likens your fatness and flourishing to a tree planted by the streams of water. Before you know it, you'll have a fattened and robust spirit. Your mind will become active and most creative, teeming with all kinds of ideas.

God knows we can easily make connections with a tree planted by streams of water. He knows we sure know certain attributes of trees planted by streams of water. They always have water to take in. They always have accelerated growth and hit maturity in time. Such trees don't become dwarf because every resource and fertility needed is supported and availed them just by their siting. Also, they yield their fruits and leaves are every present on them (no down or withering season). In form and appearance, they maintain their beauty and summarily, in everything, they prosper. Why will you not prosper in everything when you have so looked into the perfect law of liberty as to be ordered and guided by it. Everything you do will prosper because you will always have light for living. You won't be one of the people who will carry the wrong step. Why? The Bible and the revelation you have soaked will bring you wisdom and be voices speaking for your guidance when you need them.

As if natural, you'll know which business to invest in and who to refrain from. You'll know what opportunity is yours and ones that are just booby traps. You will just know. The Word that you have made your delight - a mine field to extract day and night will have become your second nature prospering you even in both character and charismata (gifts).

This way, you will be noted for having been planted by the rivers of water - which is the Bible. Men shall see that your wisdom is older than your age even as you live in the future yet to come in the present.

For a man planted in the Bible, he just cannot escape those consequences. The Bible is nourishment to our spirits and souls. It's a rivers of water to thirsty souls.

PRAYER: Refresh and rekindle my love and attraction for the study of God's Word.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Rev.9; Hosea 10-12

Thursday, 20 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL

THURSDAY - 20TH NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

A GOOD LOOKER NOT AN ONLOOKER

Proverbs 31:27, KJV

"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."

Yesterday, we examined this verse by focusing on "the bread of idleness" and how it is caused. Today, God will be interpreting this passage to us in a new way.

We already know that her not eating the bread of idleness is a consequence of her having looked unto the ways of her household. Meanwhile, I'm seeing something futuristic in that verse. The Bible says, "she looks unto the ways of her household...", that is, she oversees and probe the affairs of her household. In essence, she monitors her children's academic, spiritual, marital and whatsoever lives they have. She sees to everything. She ensures they operate with diligence and give their best to the field they have come to focus on. She ensures they excell in both trade and education. Now, because she does all these, we have the consequence that says, "and eats not the bread of idleness."

That is not only a consequence of her being a hard worker but of having raised well behaved children.

That is, what you sow is what you'll reap. Parents should draw near. It is how you harness your children they'll turn out to be. If you are a permissive parent, always allowing and approving of everything they decide to do (even when it is wrong), you'll have it. If you're a parent who cares less about who your children choose as friends, who they marry, how they study and how they achieve their things, it means you'll one day reap the fruit of your non-challance.

What you must know is that children are parents' insurance policy for tomorrow. Without having looked unto their ways today to ensure they become focused and successful people, how can you not eat the bread of idleness from their hands tomorrow - in the nearest future when you have retired from active work and when they should be your back up plan.

That's the futuristic part in that verse. A parent that refuses to look well to the ways and affairs of her family, especially her kids will raise anyhow kids that will not know what gratitude to parents is. They'll just be selfish even if they have. By looking unto the ways of her household, this woman passes the test by teaching them both values and characters. That's why the next verse in that chapter says, "Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her" (Prov.31:28, KJV).

There are parents that their children will curse tomorrow - later in the future. Just watch. Why they will do that is already staring us in the face. That's because they by their non-challance have given these children who don't know better permission to misbehave. They have the permission to bring a foreign object that is not theirs home and not be probed. This is a future bomb. When they bully a neighbour, they are praised for standing up for themselves and not for inappropriate behavior. All these are the dangers that will accumulate to take the head of their parents in the future. Such children will be careless and poor. In essence, their parents will suffer its consequences. Even if they have resources, they'll prioritize riotous living while their parents are neglected.

Take warning, look well unto the functioning and systems of your household. Rebuke, correct and set right what is wanting. It's for the future.

PRAYER: Give me the discernment of a good parent with hands to shape character and right behavior in my children.

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Rev. 6 ; Daniel 16-18

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 19/11/2025

WEDNESDAY - 19TH NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

THE BREAD OF IDLENESS

Proverbs 31:27, KJV

"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."

The Bible recognizes there's a "meal of idleness." That's what it calls the "bread of idleness." Bread of idleness is not what comes to you or falls as your portion because God hates you or doesn't want to care for you. Rather, it is what you attract or cause by your lazy attitude to work.

When a man refuses to work or be a hard worker, there's no way he won't eat the bread of idleness. Let me explain what bread of idleness is first of all. Bread of idleness doesn't necessarily mean "food or meals" only that are not elaborate, rich or sufficient. It means every proceeds from your inactivity and having not worked hard. If when your mates are applying themselves to work, seeking to go to school, acquiring a skill or an education, you're there chasing after shadows, you can't but one day reap the consequences of your idleness and inactivity. So, when people reap the repercussions of having or eating the bread of idleness, it means there's a life they had afore lived that brought that on them. Eating the bread of idleness is what any man causes for himself. It'll show in the general life he or she lives. Instead of being a life of sufficiency and abundance (overflow), it'll be a stringent life where resources are never enough. They're always getting stranded and trying to look for more. This may be a direct link to having not worked hard or earned well.

The Bible has warned that a man that doesn't work shouldn't eat (II Thess.3:10). It's as simple as A B C. If you have no work, you can't but be forced to eat the bread of idleness. You will have to depend on the crumbs or mercies of people. You will have to wait on people to toss to you what they have long used and can't keep for themselves any longer. You'll have to wait for people to kick to you certain change just for you to keep your body and soul together.

That is what it means to eat the bread of idleness. It simply means suffering the consequences of having not been engaging, firm with work and being the decider of one's fate or destiny.

That's what the Bible reports about this woman. It says, "she looks well to the ways of her household..."

Why does she do this? Because she doesn't want her children to turn out bad, idle or as lazy bones tomorrow. She looks well unto the ways of her household by correcting ills in her children and all domestic staff working for her. She seeks to set them right. She raises them well to be diligent, active and busy. It is this looking well unto the ways of her household that'll guarantee the future of her kids and down lines. When she is gone, they themselves will be independent men with their various vocations with which they'll be busy. That way, they cannot eat the bread of idleness. Hard workers and well rewarded people in life don't eat the bread of idleness. They are rather fed from choice meals, taking the kind of vacation they like and enjoying life's goodies.

They have the assorted life. They have varieties and choice meals to choose from. They are not limited to dry bread only or what life offers them. They make life happen. Now, because this woman looks unto the ways of her household - that is, how her household's personal affairs are conducted in, the Bible then concludes with, "and does not eat the bread of idleness."

Because she works and applies diligence to all, she is not amidst the multitude who tells their kids, "let us manage this", therefore hiding under the cloak that God will provide. If you don't work and work to be well rewarded, there's no way you can escape not eating the bread of idleness. What can a man do if he doesn't have resources in his pocket? Won't he settle for whatever is offered him? As a matter of fact, he'll receive it with utmost and deep appreciation.

That's why you must emulate this woman. Look unto your ways. Look unto the affairs of your family. Ensure no one is slack in their work, career or calling. Ensure everybody's hands are on the spindle and distaff of their professions. This way, nobody will be poorly treated by life. This way, no one will have little or less to eat. Rather, there will be abundance in the house. Rather, it is a table you will set like the kings' and nobles'.

If you do not carefully watch everything in your household, you'll suffer the harms and consequences that laziness and slackness produces somewhere. So, be vigilant lest poverty creeps into your household while you're wide awake.

PRAYER: Lord, I protect against eating the bread of idleness. I am fed from riches and fat.

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Rev. 5 ; Daniel 13-15

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/11/2025

TUESDAY - 18TH NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

HANDS ON!

Proverbs 31:19, KJV

"She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff."

If the verse above was to be written for a driver, a cook and a trader, it'll all look like these respectively.

"He sets his hands upon the steering wheel and his grip holds firm to the gear. His eyes read the road like a scroll, discerning every bend and brake. With steady feet on the pedals, he guides his passengers safely and no recklessness finds lodging in his lane."

"She lays her hands upon the chopping board and her fingers dance with the knife. Her pot receives her wisdom and the pan listens for her timing. For short, she seasons with correct measures."

"She stretches her hands to the scale and her fingers weigh with honesty. Her voice calls customers with grace and her eyes study the market's tide. She bargains with prudence and keeps her ledger without deceit."

When the Bible says of the Proverbs 31 woman that "she lays her hands on the spindle and her hands hold the distaff", we're immediately launched into the psyche of a profession that uses the spindle and distaff which is traditional spinning or weaving. A spinner (often a woman in ancient and rural societies) uses:

Distaff: a staff that holds unspun fibers like wool, flax or cotton.

Spindle: a rod used to twist those fibers into thread or yarn.

So, the profession is spinning (thread-making) which is part of weaving, textile work and cloth-making.

In biblical and historical contexts, the person is simply called a spinner or a woman who spins thread and that's what this virtuous woman is. As she does that, she contributes both to the nation's economy and her family needs.

The idea of laying one's hands to the spindle and the hands holding the distaff reveals a workman who patronizes her work always. She is glued and given to it. It's like calling to her. She nourishes and waters it by giving it her presence. So, that business flourishes. She is at all not far away from what she practices. So, the Bible rightly describes her by saying, "she lays her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff." Meaning, she grabs the tools and instruments of her profession and puts them to work. The idea of "laying" and "holding" reveals that for the most part, she diligently has her hands and fingers working with these tools. She has become 5 and 6 with them. This therefore portrays the dignity of labour, grip and engagement. That verse will mean grabbing and reaching for her instruments of work and readying oneself for work.

Work will not do itself. If you do not reach out your hands to lay and grab the instruments of your trade, vocation or profession, you won't just have ready made goods appear nor food on your table. All things are made possible by engagement. Little by little, the bird builds its nest. Little by little, your progress will accumulate and be revealed to everyone. Today's Bible verse portrays, "reaching out and dying there." It reveals a persistent hard worker given to the skills of her youth and the employing of it for all benefits as fitting human dignity.

Can it be said of you irrespective of your profession that when you check out of your house you have gone to lay hands on your own 'spindle' and hold your own 'distaff?' Or at the place of work, you're still known for unseriousness, non-challance and procrastination.

All those demons didn't find a place in the life of this woman. She has bound them by the righteous activity she is seriously committed to. The Bible in describing her seriousness, commitment and busyness to her profession and work could only say, "she lays her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff." What imagery is being portrayed? Of engagement!

May you not be caught reaching out for a bottle of drink and grabbing a plate of meal when your hands should be firmly located on what can give you livelihood. May misplace priority not master, distract and eventually divert you away. When your hands should be firmly established on your work or business, may you not have gone spreading a chain of gossip and pushing false information around your market. May you not have gone after the chasing of those who sap kings of their strength at this morning of your life. May you rather be in-depthly engaged, given and poured out to your way of life, choice of work and life's activity. May you give yourself away like Samuel who was given away to the Lord. This way, they put his hands on the spindle and distaff of his call - his holy work. He could only spend his days there. May you be this steeped in what you have found to do so that you will have no room for what doesn't profit you but ministers arguments and questions. May this verse below not chronicle your life as one of misplaced priority.

Ecclesiastes 10:16, KJV

"Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!"

May your hands and concentration be given to your life's calling and work! Go and do so!

PRAYER: Lord, I receive concentration. I banish distraction and every temptation not to be focused. My hands are strongly fit and engaged with my work.

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Rev. 4 ; Daniel 10-12

Monday, 17 November 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 17/11/2025

MONDAY - 17TH NOVEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

FOR THE SAKE OF WORK: BECOMING A SEEKER OF WOOL

Proverbs 31:13, KJV

"She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands."

May you see the joy in work and applying yourself to work. That place says, "she seeks wool and flax", fibres used for making linen and fine cloth. The fact that she seeks them shows her interest in engaging work. "She seeks" also passes the idea of something not easily available or situated, but all the same, she applies herself to work and seeks to have them for the sake of becoming a manufacturer of goods. This woman seeks because of the end goal.

In seeking, effort was given, time was spent and even some resources might have been given up. But she sought! In seeking, she had to learn bargaining and the art of trading/relating with those who sell these materials. She learnt confidence and the importance of relationships. Why would anyone go through such rigorosity if she hasn't known the dignity of labour and the taking hold with one's hands? She knows that a man who takes hold with her hand cannot but be respected and given her flowers. She knows that she will be able to raise her shoulders high and be proud of contributing to the economy.

"...and works willingly with her hands."

This part of the verse concludes our study. I guess it's because of the willingness she possesses that makes her apply herself to seeking wool and flax in the first place. There are those being forced to work. They've become comfortable with being helped, assisted or given hand-outs. To get out of this deadly comfort zone and work therefore takes the preaching of a sermon. However, not this woman. The Bible says, she works willingly with her hands. That is, she has had a personal revelation of work and what it does to the human body and esteem. She works because she wants to work. She works for the personal joy and satisfaction it brings.

It wasn't her husband who said as a matter of fact, she must find something to do. Hers was a purposeful work and well directed vision. It was inborn and not induced by anyone or circumstances.

Is this who you are? Do you want to work? Does working give you joy? Do you really want to have the delight of being found in kings' palaces? Then, you cannot wish away taking hold with your hands. We saw this of the spider yesterday and how it benefited her. For those who'll take hold with their hands, for those who'll hold their tools and grab their instruments, then you can't but see the miracle of taking hold with your hands. It's that, your work, career or calling will take you to great places.

In all labour, there's always a promised reward. Yours is here.

PRAYER: Lord, give me the understanding and initiative to launch and stay on what I should do. I shall not do the wrong work but one suited for my being and pleasing for rewards.

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Rev. 3 ; Daniel 7-9