MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/09/2021

THURSDAY - 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

BUOYANT IN SOUL AND SPIRIT

Read Isaiah 61:1-5

Psalms 4:7, KJV

"Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."

The Lord do not want us to be heavy. He wants us to be cheerful and do joyous acts round about. That place gives God the credence of putting joy in one's heart. It acknowledges it is He that owns exceeding gladness and can put it in one's heart.This exceeding gladness don't come from another quarters but from God.

We have read time without number that every good and perfect gift comes from above. It is not below or from any other places. If you want the exceeding gladness, more than they have when there's an increase in their output, such comes from God. However, you can still settle with the ordinary joy. But if you want the kind of joy that will call forth extraordinary behaviours that we can liken to misbehaviours, let God give you just a doze of this gladness' injection. 

You see, a gladdened heart is like a plastic bowl that stays afloat on the water surface. It won't only stay afloat, it will swim or dance around. It will be buoyant. It will soar. It will be mobile. 

Compare this to a depressed, tired or battered soul. That one will look like a plastic bowl that is drowned. It will go into the water and be stayed just at the very bottom of it. To bring it to the surface, you must go into the deep to escalate it. That's what the garment of heaviness does to people. It makes them sink and remain still at the bottom! Chances of returning are slim. That spirit holds them captive in the bottom of the bottom. 

Isaiah 61:3, KJV

"To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, THE OIL OF JOY FOR MOURNING, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified."

Have you seen someone that's heavy and has that iron garment worn on him do acts of a fellow with a raised head before? No! The fellow will just be shut down. I believe the garment of heaviness just like the name suggests is a very heavy garment that whomsoever it is worn upon has to sink immediately. Activities are always brought to a halt. I'll give an analogy. If you want to sink or drown some things in water and your goal is that they should go to the very bottom, what do you do? You look for a heavy object and tie such buoyant object to that thing that by the reason of its own nature can't but sink. Now, that heavy object will restrict the buoyant nature of the other object. It will rather take it with itself down to the very bottom of the water where there won't be any hope of coming back.

When David wanted to go fight Goliath, a coat or armour of mail was worn him. Immediately, one thing results. He couldn't walk in them. His ability to be mobile like a free bird was immediately tampered with. Until it was removed, David couldn't act very freely and swiftly. Garment of heaviness is just like that. It overwhelms its victim and bring another nature over them. If you're around a fellow with a heavy garment worn him, you'll sense it. It is even contagious. 

Such will be at the lowest of the lowest. Like led, he'll sink into the water [I Samuel 17].

But God don't appreciate a heavy spirit either. He wants you to swim, soar and be buoyant both in soul and spirit. What a thing!

If we compare gladness with gladness, we'll see God has done everything perfectly well before delivering to those He gives gladness or joy to. The gladness He offers is the type that exceeds what the world knows. A comparison is immediately sets between the joy God injects in a Christian and the joy exhibited at an increase of yield or at harvest. If you hear that your salary is raised, you'll obviously be happy. That's an increased yield. If you plant and your land brings forth very plentiful, you'll be happy that you're reaping more than you sow. However, this God given gladness surpasses that which they (the heathen or unbelievers) know when what could cause joy that we humans respond to happens to them.  

I pray for you that you will know, hear, see joy. God will use you as a demonstration of a joyous Christian. Wherever you've sunk, the resurrecting power of God will bring you to the surface and you'll maintain buoyancy. All heavy spirit is bound and casted out. Moodiness is arrested. That melancholy demon that makes you unstable in  emotion is rebuked. I say be like a clear weather. Don't be cloudy again. Let people around you enjoy you. Bring delight and be delightful.  

PRAYER: The blessing of the Lord it makes rich without adding any sorrow, I claim your gladness Lord. Experiment gladness with me. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/09/2021

WEDNESDAY - 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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CLEFTED AWAY

Exodus 33:22,KJV

"And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:"

When you're clefted away, you're hidden away from discovery of every perusing eyes and invigilating devices. There are spiritual technologies as well as physical ones that will scan but won't be able to visualize you. In this sense, inspection does not guarantee appearance or visibility. This is where the more you look, the less you see comes in. I call it "the wonder world."

I'll give you an example. There is an x-ray machine. That's an invention by man and not a spirit. It is a spiritual device that could receive knowing and awareness because of its make-up. This device however when used like its counterpart: the scanning machine - (used to invigilate a baby and its condition) will reveal the situation of things beyond what ordinary eyes could see. Isn't that wondrous?

These devices seem able and powerful. Except you don't scan a pregnant woman with a scanning machine, that's when the number of baby she has deep down the belly won't be revealed with the condition. Meanwhile, do you know we can deter or obstruct these machines from carrying out their purposes. For example, I could pray a simple prayer to either obstruct the eyes of the scanning machine or clift the baby so he (the baby) remains unrevealed to the machine's detection. Do you know it's possible? The fact that it is possible has been materialized severally in testimonies people shared. I've heard such testimonies uncountable times when the scanning machine (latest and improved upon ones) failed analyzing how many baby a mother had. At times,the scanner could pick one out of three! Then, shouldn't the wise ask where the other two were? They were clefted. They have been clefted all along. These are children living under the shadow of the Almighty. A shadow or shelter of God like a bed sheet is upon them in the womb. Such are always protected from envying eyes and jealous souls who seek to spoil testimonies.

By the information of the scan, the parents of such children could have been deceived into preparing for only a child instead of three. They won't sight reality until the other two are vomited from the womb from where the Almighty that clefted Moses had clifted them. All I pray is that the parents of such children would not be paupers.

There is power in clifting. When cleft, they might search for you but they won't pick the signal that you exist. They might comb the air, sea or land yet the info and response their enquiries and experts will report will be negative. As the clock ticks and the sand of life counts down, may shadow be casted on you by God to protect you from all ungodly perusing.

PRAYER: Hide my destiny. Clift me somewhere I can't be tampered with. I'm God protected!

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/09/2021

TUESDAY - 28TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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THE FLOW IS ANSWERABLE TO YOUR WORK

READ II Kings 4:1-7

II Kings  4:3-6, KJV 

"3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.  4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.  5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.  6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed."

Do you know that the flow of oil from the original container is answerable to the number of empty containers that still need to be filled? At times, when God gives people open cheques, they do often misuse or under use it. 

The Bible didn't say "this woman regretted for having not borrowed more than the vessels she borrowed but if it were you, you might have said a thing like " had I known, I would have borrowed more vessels than these".

If God puts within your capacity to determine how much blessing you'll receive from Him, don't you think you'll under receive, averagely receive, fully receive or over receive?

We don't know where this woman belonged. She could have belonged to any of those four levels. 

The instruction of Elisha was "borrow vessels not a few". Indeed, she didn't borrow few. She must have borrowed many vessels. Now, the vessels she borrowed were all filled by the flow of oil until there was no more empty borrowed vessel to fill. That's when the oil stayed. If there was still a vessel to be filled, the flow would have gone on. Some won't realize how much effort they could have put into a thing to receive much more result until the outcome of their little effort comes out and it seems now to them as intangible.

You can carry spiritual blessings but if you don't give a body to it, it won't show. I want you know that nothing spiritual can manifest without giving it a body of expression - it seeks a channel. Only the body is what is visible, tangible and could be contacted by human senses. Even Jesus didn't come on earth until He took on flesh and became man who tabernacles with us full of grace and truth.

I Timothy  3:16, KJV 

"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..."

How much are you working? There's already an instruction for blessing to follow you, for the oil to keep flowing but the blessing stops spiritually and won't turn into what you can possess where you stop working. As long as you're giving the expression of work to what God has put on you, blessings will continue to show.

Don't under work. Don't averagely work. Rather over work. Flows are answerable to your own work. Spiritual blessing is on you. As long as you're doing something which is work, blessings will begin to show. God wants you maximize the opportunity of the free flow without a regret later. Always leverage on opportunities. Where you could have gathered a 100 vessels, please do more and gather 1,000.

Don't regret having under work or having not borrowed enough vessels. Where you could have filled a million vessel, don't fill a thousand. Where you could have filled a billion, don't fill a million.

PRAYER: Lord, I won't regret using fully the mandates, calling, gift and blessing you've put on me. Let me utilize all fully.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/09/2021

MONDAY - 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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PRESTIGE OR RESPONSIBILITY?

Read Acts 6:1-5

Acts 10:9, KJV

"9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:  10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance"

Peter would have eaten but while the food was still being prepared, he went to pray. While he prays, he had a trance.

I'll like you focus your mind on Peter praying and some people cooking for Peter. He was not busying himself with prayer and thinking of when he'll cook. Many want prestige but they don't want responsibility. Peter got to a place where by responsibility, it is no longer his to look after some things. That's what some are intentionally looking to be relieved of yet they're not spending their lives on any purposeful thing that vindicates them of their desire. 

I ask, "responsibility or prestige?" In this month, I have only cooked three times. My eating throughout this month has been by ordering or eating out. Don't think another thing. That act of no longer cooking came as a result of some other responsibilities. I have some demands on me that makes it totally hard to cook. After getting home in the evening from the day's work, that's when I'll start another work even till midnight. My rest has been little. Considering that, if I want to be effective and deliver within fixed schedules, I needed to free my time of what another could do for me to assist me.

That job I was doing obviously gave me enough money that could cover for my food without my feeling it. So, I went for that. A superficial young chap may see that and wish he's also not cooking but commands someone around for it. Yet, he won't know I've being cooking all my life till this month. That's where having a wife comes in also for relieving of duties. 

This is where I now understood those high executives who have maids, drivers, P.A. etc. You see, your office or the kind of responsibilities that begin to come your way can fetch away from your hands some other duties. You'll just see that some duties are now obsolete. Even the new at your hand can become obsolete when you're promoted and need to leave it for a junior officer. If you look at high government officials or those individuals who have made their marks, they don't give attention to some lowly things. They rather pay for them. Many of us have abused them and called them lazy because we thought they were trying to escape responsibility but not at all. They are the busiest if you don't know. They're even busier than you. You might have said, "what will I need a maid for?" It's because your work is not yet overstretching. When it does, you'll have people to take care of many things in your life. You'll even have a secretary!

When I look at the Bible, I saw that the disciples were not trying to look bossy when they drop assignments or delegate it. They only want to keep their focus and let their priority be on the utmost concern that they shouldn't be diverted from. Do you remember Satan could have wrapped the apostles into the ministry of serving food if they had not separated between the most important and important.

Acts 6:2-4, KJV

"2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.  3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."

Now, what happened there occur because of a population explosion of the church. So, some were neglected as an oversight because they didn't have much hands to equal the population at hand. When your prayer begin to be answered and growth of all kind begins to take place in your life, some good problems will show up. The 12 said it doesn't make sense for them to leave God's Word to serve tables. They chose the job to stick to and the one to employ hands for.

This is the life of high executives in the real world. There are those that rarely sleep yet they must sleep. Is it the time you have to sleep you'll now consider giving to dry cleaning. Why don't you pay for that service to free your time? That's that life. That's why some professionals are still in demand. At times, if you meet great people functioning in their Adamic mandate like the twelve in their Jesus mandate, you may say they're wasting money because he has a gatekeeper, guards, cooks, cleaners, drivers, secretary, head of house staff, utility manager etc. It is not. If he's careless, he'll suffer loss and as not to suffer, he must learn effectiveness. Just like he's busy, the wife is also since she has a career or business she's growing. That also has rubbed on the children who are beginning to be known in their fields. They rarely do house chores themselves because they must be relevant where they're looking for them. It is not that they were not groomed from the start to know all those just like their parents could do it. Growth only has shown them priority and that isn't sin, pride or laziness. 

Our race is against time and to do much more where God has called us, jettison what isn't very much the details of your calling to embrace for life what is the core of your assignment that will keep you relevant in this world. 

PRAYER: I receive the strength of a high leader. I operate by wisdom to rank needs.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 26/09/2021

SUNDAY - 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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THE NEIGHBOUR OF YOURS THAT'S BETTER THAN YOU

I Samuel 15:28, KJV

"And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou."

Some times ago, a fellow began to contemplate on packing up his relationship. He's engaged and somehow wants to call it quit. As he ponders the matter, this afore quoted verse came to him. "If you go, I'll marry the lady to a neighbour of yours (someone you know) who's better than you". That's how the brother exercised caution and stayed his plan. At least, the sister hasn't done any fearful thing for which she should be put away. Only few have experienced God in this fearful manner also. 

Do you know there is a neighbour of yours that's better than you too? People don't like such message to them. Meanwhile, they like talking about Saul and Judas Iscariot as the replaced and substituted. What you too must know is that once you begin to be unfaithful and show open rebellion consistently over a thing, there's a neighbour of yours (a substitute) that God can bring to collect what He has committed into your hands from you. In order not to lose any thing God has given you, faithfulness is therefore key. The Bible says:

I Corinthians 4:2, KJV

 "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful."

Those of you who are in relationships but are not faithful; God has you in mind today. You now enjoy the presence of another than that of your partner and it's beginning to be to their detriment. That's the term of your marriage you're beginning to go against. If you continue to live like this until you become a violator of the marriage covenant properly without taking thought for repentance; God, who knows how to divide between two people knows how to deliver your spouse and give it to your neighbour who's better than you. What are you good for again? If you have defiantly violated the marriage vows on which your marriage stands with refusal to acknowledge same, you are good for nothing but be taken away in order to free your other partner to be given to a neighbour of yours who off course will cherish him/her better. God freed Abigail from Naboth you know. 

What I'll like you know is not to think too highly of yourself. What you're doing, God has a better choice to do it if you become an unfaithful, unyielding, unrepentant and seeking vindication Saul. You can't threaten God but you should be fearful when God comes around like this. He is the One we all have to do. It is wisdom to pass His tests both in the open and in the secret. Consistent failing of God's test will be deemed unfaithfulness and this calls for nothing else but a shift of responsibility and assignment. You may say, who will collect my spouse from me? I've married this one already and can treat any how. If God sees you're truly taken advantage of your partner but they need a saviour, God will collect them from you. There are marriages like that where the other partner is even praying for salvation and God Himself knows it worth it. The fellow in it is just trapped. When God talks of a neighbour of yours that's better than you, He isn't joking. When God gave Joseph a dream of his brothers worshipping him which they fought, it still came to pass in 13 years from then. What you should concern yourself with is never to let a voice like this speaks to you. If you're beginning to be unfaithful like Saul in ministry, marriage etc, you can repent before God comes with such sentence. What you don't value but begin to trample on can't but have the respect of another. 

Have you not read of Belshazzar? When he refused to know his measure but rather desecrated holy vessels in his custody, his kingdom was collected from him and given to someone else.

Daniel  5:26-28, KJV

"26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

God measured him and found him wanting. God is measuring many people at this hour also. The Bible says that same night, he was killed and his kingdom given to another - Darius.

May God help you to jealousy guide all He has given you. You must know you're a steward and must remain so. If you don't, you'll open a crack for another to take over from you; enjoy what you should be enjoying and be its possessor for ever. May God instruct you earlier. 

PRAYER: Fearful God, have mercy on my  unfaithfulness. Be gentle on me and let me prove myself again.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 48:12-50:11, Ephesians 4:17-32, Psalm 69:1-18, Proverbs 24:5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 25/09/2021

SATURDAY - 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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THOSE WHO CAN'T DIG YET CAN'T BEG

READ Luke 16:1-9

Luke 16:3, KJV

"Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed."

When you cannot dig or beg, poverty will enter. A man that begs and lives by that to a degree is a poor fellow but in comparison, a man that can't beg (when he has no other source of income) will radiate to poverty faster and deeply than one who begs to survive (he will still have a thing to live on). It is either you belong to one of the categories.

Work brings out the full installed capacity of God in you. We do not work to earn money first of all but to learn something. What you work to learn and become a master in can then begin to give you money. If you work as an employee somewhere, ensure you master what they're doing there. If you're a teacher in a school and you carefully consider daily, you can be mentored by how things are done in your employer's institution in order to start your own one day. Why attention is not being paid is because people haven't seen reasons of starting something of their own one day. The confidence to start something doesn't fall on people like that. It takes a man that has followed to a degree to start something either in the secular or in the Lord. Confidence level which assures one of success in what one wants to found is increased by the level of one's following which might have been accumulated as experience. You must work. There is dignity of labour. When you work and money comes back as reward for instance, irrespective of how little  it is, you feel happy about it. Any who don't work can't know the joy of the reaper. There is a joy that comes as a recompense of what one has worked for.

Psalms 4:7, KJV

"Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."

From here, there is a gladness that comes with increment of corn and wine. When what you're doing yields, produces or bring increase, what it brought is your profit for engaging in such business the very first time. 

Now, what if you can't work? You shouldn't be dignified (too high) to beg. Dignity is not pride but it can become pride. All of us must have dignity. It is out of sense to become habitual on somebody's door step. We may all need occasional helps. You may even need to borrow for investment but mind you, don't let it be said of you that you survive by begging. Doing that will cost you estimation. When you're a beggar, you will feel accountable to those sponsoring you. They can call you to do any kind of job for them. You will feel like a tool in their hands that they can weave in any direction. That's one of the things the Jews fight against. They don't want to be owned and because of that, they rally round to help themselves so that a non-Jew would not buy them over.

When you beg, you have intentionally by yourself made useless all in you by deposit or acquisition. If you have gifts, skill, education or calling, it all becomes irrelevant because none of such in you is being deployed.

If you're dignified to beg (which is what God wants), you'll lower yourself to work. Do you know it's hard disrobing from one's honour to putting on the servants sleeves or labourer's garments to work? 

When you're a beggar, you'll always be owing people. Christianity has never encouraged living habitually as a beggar. It encourages entrepreneurship rather. No matter how belittling what you do is, there is honour there. It gives you the sense of an owner and not somebody casting down his golden crowns before another.

Don't turn out like this man that pride has riddled. If not pride, shouldn't a man that can't work beg. That's the consequent option. If you feel too big to disrobe, you should feel humble to plead for life. When you beg, some people limits you by deciding what they give you. When you work, you have a wider space to earn and you're the only one who could limit yourself. If I become limited by working and not rely on proceeds from another's work, that's preferable than putting my limitation in another's hands. Wherever you're tied habitually to people's aprons, may you be helped to break free as you work.

PRAYER: Beautify work to me. Lead me into a work that satisfies and fills gulf inside me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 24/09/2021

FRIDAY - 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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WHAT CHEERS GODS AND MEN

Read Judges 9:1-21

Judges 9:12-13, KJV

"12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. 13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?"

The vine lays claim to one thing: that is the ingredient or portion God created with it that makes it to be desired by men. The vine has wine by which gods and men are cheered. "Cheer" means make happy. It can't be debated again that wine has that potency. In the moment of sorrow, wine is taken by such depressed in order to forget the sorrow at hand. That's why Lemuel's mother advised wine should be given to the perishing [Prov. 31:6-7].

Also, in the moment of joy, wine is reclined in to celebrate. This is what Jotham said the vine won't let go as its purpose of creation. 

In essence, we know that the vine has value. God created the vine not to be an ordinary plant. God created it to be a desired plant that all will have to do with and that's because of what it produces which man can't but need. If man would be cheered, then they must continually collect grapes from the vine to process into wine. If you get to the palace in ancient times and houses of nobles, one major drink that you can't but see is wine of the grape. What an importance! May God rank you this high also. It's your value that ranks you as important.

So also, God has not let you alone. Man may be man but man can be an anointed man. When you're anointed, you carry the oil. You carry something that the world will be on the look for.  What did Jesus say about His oil and its value to men? 

Isaiah 61:1-2, KJV

"1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn."

Just like the vine has wine that cheers gods and men, so also any anointed. It is not good being on earth without having value to offer. Let me ask you, "the vine has wine that cheers both gods and men; Jesus and all anointed have the anointing that minister to men; what do you have that can benefit men?

Look inward and look at something that God has given you to bring delight to the world. The anointing of Jesus didn't bring dampness to people's spirit but rather a lifting and forward ministration. The vine also cheers. It doesn't make sad. Who are those that God is giving the ministry of cheering to today? This world is depressed. May God anoint you to be a cheerer of the world. May you not lack what can cheer people. May you become Barnabas - the son of encouragement the world is looking for. 

PRAYER: I will be cheered by the Holy Ghost and by the Holy Ghost cheer others.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/09/2021

THURSDAY - 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2021

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WHEN PROMPTNESS NEED TO ANSWER

I Kings 18:26, KJV

"And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made".

There is always a moment that you will enter into as a Christian or minister (when you're under fire) but needs a word from God. Just like ships are anchored and so stay; words from God being sought at such desperate moment is for one to anchor one's life, and whatsoever on.

When you need the promptness of God, may God give it. In the Mount Carmel contest between Elijah and the prophet of Baals, they couldn't get their gods set fire on the sacrifice they had prepared. The God that answers by fire has been agreed upon by both parties and the people as the God that is God and that would be followed. So, it is really a matter of life and death. It is the moment when one's god or God needs to prove his being alive and not disappear. At such moment when the liveliness of a god or God is being questioned, there is need for an immediate response. Evidence must be clear undeniably and must be prompt.

The prophets of Baal after setting the sacrifice in order called on their god but there was no voice nor sound. No voice means nothing at all. Every place was just quiet. They are the ones on the scene and all their acts to summon their god proves futile.

This is the time of desperation, no god will leave his worshippers unattended to. Even if he is busy, such moment calls for a dropping of whatsoever he's doing to give utmost priority to this very desperate ones. Despite how thick the matter was, despite the looming shame awaiting all these prophets, yet their God never responds. Nothing. They were forlorn. They were left to themselves.

I'll like you know that even before the great civilization, a desire has been created in the hearts of men to communicate with the Divine. In search of who the divine is - in order to connect back to where they originate from, they found for themselves other gods that they entrust their lives to trusting it would be enough to oversee all and all for them. All these gods are not God and they can't substitute Him though there's a contest all over the world to have God substituted. One of the continents that's littered with idols and relics of it is not only Africa but Asia. You'll wonder why people are still in thick darkness.

When people are desperate for answers, they will be shock there is no voice nor sound. Why? That God they've entrusted their lives to isn't the living one but a lifeless idol. Even if it's a living thing they call their god but who's an idol, that is still not Jehovah, the Creator of heaven and earth who is to be worshipped through Jesus Christ.

So, to avoid the disgrace of a day like this, you had better known the God that answers by fire and gives prompt feedback. Elijah trusted in Him and indeed He (God) proved for Him. 

PRAYER: When help in time of trouble is needed, may answer answer me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/09/2021

WEDNESDAY - 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHAT WILL SUFFICE US ONCE SEEN

John 14:8, KJV

"8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us."

What brought about Philip's request to be shown the Father? Jesus had said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" John 14:6, KJV.

From this response of Jesus, the Father is therefore portrayed as the end of the road for everybody. Jesus is a road to Him. The full stop of everyone willing to make it to eternity is to pass through Jesus (believe in His finished works) and receive Him into his life. Doing this secures you a passage way to the Father. 

When Philip heard this, he said a statement that doesn't reveal foolishness but a heart seeking after the final cure of all things (though also an insulting statement to what Jesus is and stands for). He said "show us the Father and that will suffice (satisfy) us." He asked that in sincerity and not to boycott Jesus whom he has been with since. He was honestly looking for the better means.

'Suffice' means 'and that will do; and that will be enough, and that will settle it" He wanted the final answer. From Jesus' statement to them, he (Thomas) perceived Jesus as only a road to the Father and the Father, the ultimate goal - the One to get a hold of while turning one's attention away from Jesus - who introduces Himself as the way to the Father (but not the Father). However, that's not how it works. If I ask you too which will you choose between a passage to something and the thing itself? All of us wants the ready made. The final of the final.

Jesus was shocked as to how Philip could ask to be shown the Father. He however corrected this view and said, "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" John 14:9.

Is that false? No. Jesus is the express image of God. It's like a son who resembles the father and carries his DNA. If you sight him, you obviously have seen the father. However, Jesus is even more than this description.

Hebrews 1:3, KJV

"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person..."

This is how things settle as Jesus revealed Himself as the satisfaction Philip was thirsty for. In reality, all of us is seeking for what will satisfy us and ends our going to and fro continuously. The woman at the well with Jesus said to Him also, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw" John 4:15. In essence, she was looking for a panacea  - a cure it all. Is there a thing that satisfies truly? Yes. Jesus does permanently and eternally though human needs are insatiable. We have people that are looking to God to marry, give birth or even get a thing done. If they should be in front of God, you'll see what their prayer would be. They'll say things like, "if God could do this for me, I'll be satisfied." Does it mean they won't want to prosper in other areas after that singular breakthrough again? No. That saying only expresses what their major thirst is and how much they covet it is met and met quickly. That's why Philip when he heard Jesus mention the Father as the One that matters in all manners quickly catches on that opportunity to say, "show us the Father and that will settles it." He sees the Father as greater than Jesus and he wanted the greater to be his. That's wise of him.

He was in search of what will suffice and settles the hunger for the divine inside man. All over the world and across human races, people are yearning for the Divine and one that can suffice them. Some in their search have turned to other gods and have missed it. Today, I announce to you the living water - Jesus Himself Whom when received, He suffices and settles all. That's why that woman of Samaria pleaded with Jesus to give her the water that quenches thirst once and for all. God knows your desire. He bore with Philip and revealed Himself as the One that satisfies once and for all. May you receive that which once possessed, one gets weaned from further enquiries and searches in Jesus name. Your going to and fro for an answer ends today.

PRAYER: Pray for the repentance of the world. Pray for the meeting of any kind of needs.

BIBLE IN ONE 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 - 21/09/2021

TUESDAY - 21ST SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

ARRESTED AT RAMAH

I Samuel 19:21,KJV

"And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also".

David ran to Ramah to escape the death pursuit of Saul. When things are no longer at ease, you should know where to run to. There's salvation with God. That's why He's a tower. 

Saul wouldn't relent. He wanted him right away because David had became a sort of threat and competition to him. He therefore sent messengers three times to get this done. However, David at the strong tower of Samuel, the national prophet became unreachable and untouchable. Each time the messengers arrive, they are arrested by God's Spirit which comes on them to do the contrary. This leads to sending messengers three times before Saul himself took a journey to get it done.

Surprisingly, the Spirit was upon Saul as well and he prophesied like all his messengers. His even went haywire as he lay naked. He was in open day embarrassment. In this way, his plan couldn't come to pass. There is a God that does this.

Job 5:13,KJV

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong."

Saul and all his messengers ended their pursuit of David at Ramah here. At Ramah, they were arrested and detained. That's how far they could all go there. At Ramah, pursuit ended. May all problems, evil and all sorts get to their bus stop today in your life. All things sure have a bus stop and today they shall each come to a stop. 

PRAYER: Lord, let destruction comes to a perpetual end. Sickness, disease, habitual sin etc no more.

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

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THE GOD OF ESCAPE

THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY OF ESCAPE

Earlier this year, I decided to freeze earning from my main stream of income. I did this after establishing two secondary streams of income. So, I based all my living on those only. I told myself, let the hills be removed and be planted in the sea, I won't touch this "lay-aside fund." I was resolute like a Zulu warrior. 

Later on, the first of the secondary incomes folds up. After two months, the second also folded up. I was uncomfortable and now in vulnerability of many primary needs being met. Here is Olusola who has a lot of dependents on him. At that time, two of my siblings' phones needed to be changed. They  were already singing it to me. Yet, it was also close to this resumption period where students must pay school fees and buy all they should buy. The one in school in another state has been honking at me. I said, "God, I am surrounded!"

Meanwhile, God did something for me some few days before the second stream of income went on hold that was never a miracle to me until a later time. He brought another stream of income that I'll have to groom by consistency to me. Some tertiary students needed an analyst of poetry and other related Literature works. So, I just took it up but not as work at first though I was a guru at it. This work that meant nothing at the beginning has covered multitude of needs over the time these two streams I depended on folded up. 

While I was praying and ruminating at my devotion this morning, I saw reasons to appreciate God and for a large junk of my time, I did appreciated Him as the God of Escape. As the revelation of the God of Escape dawned on me, the Bible began to flood me. It was then I remembered what happened to me had happened to one prophet before. Elijah was sent to hide by Brook Cherith where he was also drinking from. In no time, the brook dried up. Meanwhile, the God of escape sent him to the widow of Zarephath. So, He was never stranded. As the brook dried, the Widow of Zarephath was made ready. What a miracle of you and I will never be broken!

The widow of Zarephath doesn't look like someone that God could use to feed anyone. So also were these students when they first appeared. They never had prospects. Meanwhile and as of now, the connections and numerous works I have gotten through them proves me wrong. I even have pending works and was requesting time to deliver them. Only God and Olusola can account. I'm now spending my time analysing lengthy poems for money. It takes a month to get one done because it's like a project work and I have other things doing but the reward though not exaggerated justifies my thoroughness at it. So, this morning when I totalled everything together, I lifted up my voice and called God the immediately immediately God. He's always on time. He knew I was beginning to be stranded and where my life's earning is, touching it is hard because I intentionally put it somewhere - where the temptation of withdrawing will be forbidden and the process tedious. So, God came through for me.

Sometimes ago, I heard my ministry father preaching again about how ministers of God must learn to live by faith and know how to be led by God's Spirit. 

So, I told myself that the money God isn't sending me as a minister, I won't send out or give people. God knows I have a family and other dependents to sponsor. I won't put myself under the pressure of buying something I don't have money for. So, I was waiting on God's salvation

Do you know what shocked me most from this miracle? God brought it just as the last stream of income was folding up. It came in such a humble way. The person that brought it knew me to be a Literature person and teacher but why would she brought that at that time? She just asked, "do you have ideas on this thing?" I said "yes!" That was how it started. From having an idea on it (though a guru), it is now what I spend my time doing. 

This is where when the enemy comes like a flood, God will always raise a standard. This is where there's no temptation taken you before that's new. Meanwhile, God is faithful and He's able to provide a way of escape that you may not be tempted beyond what you can carry.

While I was looking at how terrible living would have been if not for this disguised but now steady source of income, I found reasons to thank God for the escape. 

Indeed, He is the God of escape!

Olusola ADEJUMO, 

M'Wings.

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/09/2021

MONDAY - 20TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

ENGAGING THE FINAL SOLUTION

John 4:15,KJV

"The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. "

A thirst will continue until you engage the final remedy for such thirst. That's why that woman at the well asked diligently for that water that saves one from further stress.

She wanted to be once and for all satisfied and so requested for the advertised water Jesus called the living water. This living water is reputed to give life. It could cause an unborn spirit to be born anew with impartation of the Father's life. However, Jesus was first misconceived by this woman. 

John 4:10-11,KJV

"Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.  4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

This woman first thought it was the day to day ordinary water they fetch at that well Jesus was referring to. Jesus however was talking of the better water that relinquishes all thirst and search for who could save. The living water advertised by Jesus is the kind that gives rest to the wandering soul under the care of a good saviour which is Jesus Christ Himself. The living water is given to thirsty, searching and enquiring hearts at salvation. 

John 4:13,KJV

"Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

What water was Jesus referring to? The water the woman misconceived for the living water. The water she said Jesus will need a fetcher to fetch. Jesus had to redirect her gaze to what the real water that quenches desire for rest, peace, satisfaction etc was. Jesus said "there are solutions that are not solutions at all. Why are they not solution at all? It's because they don't treat the matter at its root but at its shoot. They only give temporary offer." The water Jesus was debunking was the water that quenches physical thirst and not spiritual thirst. Such water can't make a man see God. It can only quench natural thirst. It doesn't surpass that. No matter the gallons of such water taken from any source will still leave the host with inner agitations and questions on life, death and eternity. What is physical can only cure physical needs. Why use then what is physical to replace and meet the need of what is spiritual?

However, what about the better water?

John 4:14,KJV

"But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst;but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Now, look at the guarantee of the better water. It quenches a thirst for a further saviour after one might have received Jesus at salvation. The Spirit comes in there and dwells in you which makes you a man that can draw water from your own personal well of salvation for personal use with assurance to be with the Lord if death or rapture come having being born again. Once God's life is in you, you'll be able to produce water in and out of season that will quench your spiritual needs. This water enhances you to benefit from the usefulness of personal fellowship with God.

Why did I call it the final solution? It is because no desirous heart will know rest until he takes the living water. He will still be thirsty and in search of a saviour until then. Living water is the water above all other waters. That's the water that gives what other waters, either well, river, or tap water etc can't give. Let all sinners receive Jesus into their lives today as they forsake their sins. 

Also, you must learn to go to the root of matters and engage the final solution like Jesus recommended for this woman. There are quick treatment you could give to things. Meanwhile that's not going to do. It will only give temporary quenching of desire for awhile. You will soon find yourself relapsing into further journey in search of what quenches desire and actually eliminates the problem. An attempt to find rest by drinking to stupor isn't the final solution. Come to the Saviour you who are heavenly burdened and you shall find rest is the solution.

You must therefore know that a psychologist's counsel to an unrest mind can never substitute the yearning of his soul for the Word of God that saves. Until he comes to Jesus, he'll still be feeling life doesn't worth it. A man demonized and who does terrible things can't be counselled by his parents to stop that act and have it finally stopped. They will have to cast out the demon before such spirit propelling such act could be disengaged and its host finally saved. Unless you stand independently and given a job that could give you food, being tied to another's apron won't do.  Please, engage the final solution.

PRAYER: Lord, we pray that you'll open the eyes of sinners to what they should esteem and prioritize - seeing Jesus as their immediate needed Saviour.  Father, give me a final solution on a bothering problem.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 33:10-36:22, Galatians 5:13-26, Psalm 64:1-10, Proverbs 23:23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/09/2021

SUNDAY - 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHO WAS SAID TO DELIVER THE RIGHTEOUS FROM THEM ALL?

Psalms 34:19,KJV

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all."

Do you know what rejoices my heart, makes me sit comfortably and assures my heart calmly that I won't perish? It's the truth that says "the duty of rescuing me will not be done by any other but by God Himself."

That place said " The Lord shall deliver him." It wasn't an army general that was mentioned but the Lord God of hosts of heaven. The One whom nothing is difficult for. As for man, many things are difficult for him. Many things pose challenges to him. He is in danger and elimination a lot. He knows he's not sufficient. That's why he seeks after gods that mutters who are not indeed God. That's in his bid to stay secured too.

And those gods? They have ears but can't hear. They have mouth but can't speak. It's just a myth. It's a fabricated lie that those gods came from heaven. These were either men who were heroic and so a legend was made out of them or just some idols carved out to seek after as gods.

Look at Moses, the one who understood the rudiments of this message. He refused to go unless God Himself goes with them. He must have stumbled on this truth that there is no other person who could execute perfectly a task but God. God can't do a work and yet not perfect it.

Exodus 33:15,KJV

"And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence."

Things don't get marred in God's hands. If it does at all, He refashions it into that which seems good in His sight again.

If it were the president of my nation or any of the world power that place mentioned, I'll be shaken and would have had cause to doubt my deliverance without being singed let alone torn. If I was promised rescue by the US Army and the leading security company on earth, I should still be shivering.

Why? All of them are humans. They are prone to failure. They are vulnerable to frailties. Have you not heard a case of a man who promised another man (a less privileged) money but died before next day? Isn't the hope of the man assured broken into pieces? Surely torn asunder!

I believe God will see me through and will keep that which I have committed unto Him. I'm assured 100% like Paul if my rescue is hanged on God. You too, believe same.

II Timothy 1:12,KJV

"For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."

Why did I believe strongly and wholly in Him. Look at it here:

Numbers 23:19,KJV

"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"

This is where the difference lies. God is a sure anchor. The anchor of man might loose without notifying me. Even if he notifies me, I'll still remain helpless. For what purpose have I called for help at the first instance?  Unforseen contingencies could hit the man that has been sent to rescue and see to my needs. At that time, he'll love himself first before loving me. Before he turns back, one might have drowned.

I therefore need a man whom nothing could catch up with, hinder or deter from saving me. I want a man that traffic jam, lack of fund, rain etc can't stop from digging me out in one piece. That person is God. I can never mistaken any man for Him.

PRAYER: Lord, I have confident in You as my present help in trouble.

Wholeness always!

BIBLE IN ONE 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 - 18/09/2021

SATURDAY - 18TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHO AMONG YOU IS QUALIFIED? 

John 8:7,KJV

"So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

The issue of qualification is being emphasised here. Qualification is an important thing. Unless you're qualified, has passed the test and excel in an area where you're being questioned, you might not be fit to do what you should do.

A woman was caught in the very act of adultery. She was brought to Jesus and a demand was made that she should be stoned to death according to the Mosaic law. However, they requested of Jesus what His own opinion was. Jesus then brought in the issue of qualification. He told them that it's not all of them that might be able to throw the stone except those ones that have not sinned before. Jesus checked them out. They were tested and to my utmost surprise, all of them failed. None of them passed the test of throwing even a singular stone.

This is exactly how people are failing in life. Many people look like the qualified but aren't qualified. They have the title but don't have the life. What will show them as not having the qualification required for the task to be done will appear one day.

Imagine the number of people who had been protesting to get the job done. They wanted to throw stones but what happened after they  were put to test? All of them left from the eldest to the youngest. Their hearts convicted them. None of them passed to cast the stone. They were all found wanting after being weighed. They were found unfit despite their own confessions to be able to do the job. Some of them might have probably picked up stones (the tool) to get the job done (execute the woman) but all was dropped eventually because they were disqualified. They got ready (for stoning) but were not ready indeed.

May you be found worthy for the task. May you not be exposed as incapable or deficient in getting the job done after examination.

PRAYER: Lord, I purge myself of any sin as a minister that will deny my entrance into a kingdom task. I shall not be found wanting or barricaded against in doing a God given task. I shall pass the test and be the right man for the job.

BIBLE IN ONE 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 - 17/09/2021

FRIDAY - 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE "ALL THINGS WELL" GOD

Read Mark 7:32-37

Mark 7:37, KJV

"And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak."

There's a God that does it all. Once He comes for you, He doesn't give attention to only one, He does it all. If He meets ten things as need in your life to be attended to, He won't attempt some and jettison others. 

A deaf and dumb was brought to Jesus with pleads that He should put His hand on him. They knew what God could wrath through Jesus before they requested Him putting His hand on him. Do you think they'll tell an ordinary fellow that? Having a revelation of the God that does miracle is key to receiving miracle. That statement of theirs reveals their assurance in Jesus and the truth that miracles can be received. 

Just as they had exercised their faith, the fellow was healed. He speaks and he hears now. To this miracle, the crowd said, "He has done all things well, He makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak."

How many problem did this fellow had? Two! Did Jesus only cure him of one or both? You see, God when He does His things settles it completely. He who created the mouth will in addition create with it what the mouth will eat. I heard a verse now. Here is it:

1 Corinthians 10:13, KJV

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

The temptation may be present but the way of escape will be opened also. All things well God! Everything is well God! He repairs all. He doesn't hesitate in doing one and leaving the other to still bother you. I pray that God will make all things well in your life. The numerousness of your need doesn't pose challenge to God. He'll go round them and do all things well. All things has its place and He'll put each in its place. 

I heard of a brother who got a partial scholarship to go study abroad. While on the study, he needed to balance up. He had no where to go but to turn to his pastor. The pastor spoke to another brother of their denomination who's also abroad to lend him the money and that he'll pay later. That one did. As the lender knelt to pray one day, God told him he should let the money go and that that was His money for that brother He kept with him.

That's how He that gave a partial scholarship to that brother cleared the payment also. Has He not done all things well? Did He not give a scholarship and also finance it? 

So, let your mind be at rest. If God is telling you to go ahead on a matter, it has been financed. Only that God is not showing you the prove or receipt of it being financed. Preparation is always in place and ahead for you. Do you receive that? Even if you have twin matters at hand to settle, believe that God will attend to all. May your needs be met. May you also look up to heaven in awesome wonder that God has done all things well by listing the numerous things He has done for you. May you be shocked and in gratitude say, "what a thing, what a God who has done all things well."

For those who are deaf and dumb this morning, may He that settled these two related problems and attracted the "all things well testimony" touch you. I say, be opened and let the string of your tongue be loosed."

PRAYER: When you send people, you go with them. Show me your commitment Lord. Meet my numerous needs and let me know You as "All things well God!"

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Nehemiah 7:73-9:21, 1 Corinthians 9:1-18, Psalm 33:12-22, Proverbs 21:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 16/09/2021

THURSDAY - 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THE LORD BRINGS IT TO YOU

READ Genesis 27:1-25

Genesis 27:20, KJV

"And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me."

I pray for you, the Lord will bring it to you. When the Lord brings it to you, you will locate it easily and your time of wandering shall be saved. 

Isaac was old and he knew not the day of his death. To this end, he called Esau his son to go hunting and fetch him meat such as he liked for preparation of a delicious meal. He'll need to bless him before his death. They wouldn't know that Rebekah spies on them and has heard all. 

While Isaac was jealous for Esau, Rebekah was concerned for Jacob. They each have their team member and one they were loyal to. May you not lack your man. It was Jacob's man (her mother) that helped him or else destiny blessing would have jumped him over. May God give you those who will watch your back and the back door for you. That was Jacob's advantage in today's reading. It's also your leverage in this life.

Where critical decisions will be taken, may you have those that will fight for you.  On that note, Rebekah therefore instructed Jacob to bring two kids from the flock which she'll prepare into the kind of meal Isaac loved. Jacob's fear was eliminated and this plan was carried out. When Jacob got the food ready for Isaac, Isaac was shocked at how the process of getting a bush meat could have been so shortened for anyone. So, he asked, "how is it that you were so quick about it?" That question shows Isaac was not ignorant of how tedious hunting for animals could be. It was also a means of verifying who came. Jacob however said one thing that my emphasis will be on today. He said, "because the Lord thy God brought it to me."

We knew God didn't bring anything to Jacob because he didn't even go hunting. He only lied since the animals he prepared were domesticated animals. However, let's leave all those to concentrate on the feedback of Jacob to his father which is actually a possibility in any Christian's life. 

Do you know God could bring things to you? We all know that it took Esau a considerable longer time before he appeared before Jacob. What if as soon as he got to the wild, he didn't have to spend much time but a shorter one than he spent before God brings it to him.

People of God, God is still in the business of bringing it to His children. Twenty of you can be primary school mates. You started all together from the beginning but after twenty five years, some of you might have gotten why they're in this wild (life or earth) while others are still roaming around to find a perfect game or even find their foot. When you meet some of them and ask, how are you doing? How's family? They'll have evidences to show for it. They already have those things and on every matter of life have been helped greatly like the Lord helped Uzziah. If it's on purpose, they're already functioning big time in the anointing of their callings and details of their careers. Nothing is just lacking because their names are fledgling brands that are now being noised around at their level. When God brings it to you, struggle is eliminated. The house some are not eating but saving heavily to build can be given you. What the world is dying to have, cutting corners to achieve all can be delivered at your doorstep. Gift and inheritance are two means through which God can bring it to you apart from reaping a bumper harvest in what your hand has found to do which can give you quick acceleration to achieve. Favour is another way of quickly gathering. 

I pray for you that when you go out in the morning to fetch what to eat, it will quickly come to you. While scouting for what to bring home, you won't meet a predator. All the things that a man needs to be a man or woman in this life, may the Lord God of Israel, Isaac and Jacob betray them into your hands so that your journey will be quicker over your mates. Receive it.

PRAYER: God, you're a betrayer and deliverer of good things needed for life unto my bosom; give to me on time.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 22:1-24:23, Galatians 2:17-3:9, Psalm 60:1-12, Proverbs 23:15-16

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DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/09/2021

WEDNESDAY - 15TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE HEART THAT GOES WITH YOU

READ II Kings 5:1-27

II Kings 5:26, KJV

"And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?"

Where can we go from the presence of God? Psalm 139 is a psalm of discovery that shows our not being able to escape from the Lord.

Psalms 139:2-3, KJV

"2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways".

God is the one that compasses your path. He is the God that surrounds you. In today's passage, Gehazi runs after Naaman to demand of him things that his master, Elisha had rejected after Naaman was healed of leprosy. After his arrival back to the master, Elisha requested of him where he was coming from. He lied and said " thy servant went no whither (II Kings 5:25, KJV).

Elisha then replied, "went not mine heart with thee when the man alight from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to collect this and that?" The following consequence is that Gehazi is cursed and he carries the leprosy of Naaman.

You should know that God's eyes follows you all-around. There is nothing done in secret that won't be made manifest is what the Bible says. As a child of light therefore, let your deeds be wrought in God so that you won't fear being exposed. If you have good deeds, you'll want to manifest it in light/public but if your deeds are evil, you'll want darkness to cover you.  Secret sins and abominable deeds are really irritants to the Lord. You shouldn't indulge in any because God's heart and eyes would always go with you. Your conscience would bear you witness and call you to questions and order.  

There's no time like any other to stop secret sins and come to repentance also than now. It is God before whom we all have to do. Fear Him as one that knows all, sees all and surrounds you about. Decide today not to carry any consequence resulting from secret sins like that of Gehazi. When your ways are straight, you purchase for yourself clear conscience before men and God. Gehazi though lied he goes no where that day knew deep down that his conscience bears him witness. As he denies his master, his heart tells him, "you lie". Your first judge as you go is your heart. So, pay attention. 

PRAYER: I break loose from any habitual sin. I shall keep no secret sin that would bring me losses, harm or death. I'm a child of light and I manifest so.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Esther 4:1-7:10, 1 Corinthians 12:1-26, Psalm 36:1-12, Proverbs 21:21-22

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WHY HE COULDN'T APPRECIATE HER LIKE THE BEGINNING

WHY HE COULDN'T APPRECIATE HER LIKE THE BEGINNING - Part 1

There's love of the beginning. Yea, this love has not been tested or proven. This beginning love that we call love at times may not be love as well but it can be love also. If it is not what it shouldn't be, but manifests as straight love, then you can expect some manifestations.

When a man and a woman falls in love, or goes into courtship especially if it is both their first time (having not burnt their fingers in any fire of relationship before), you'll observe exhilarant fire of love burning. You'll see zeal and activities that many waters can't drown. When fuel is poured into a burning fire, what happens? It glows the more. That's the nature of that first love. It's always glowing and never tired. Ups and downs of life, familiarity, offences, awareness and  fretting to meet responsibility haven't yet matched on it. So, it just survives naturally. You can call it the grasses two Loxodonto africana (African elephants) haven't fought on. The grasses don't seem to have suffered being trodden. 

This first love is characterized by long interaction at the expense of some other things, extraordinary kindness, longsuffering and burden bearing etc. Both of them will just understand themselves like that. No one will want to act the stubborn goat's role. 

Now, if their courtship quickly wraps up into marriage, let's say within six or one year of engagement, this fire of first love will still continue to burn aglow and it can still do for some time. Being with a person for a year isn't yet enough to cause fatigue because both of you are still opening new pages of your stocks to each other. There are still inventions and innovations to impress yourselves with without taking thought for it. Inspiration will aid you more. By practical practicality and experiential experience at my entry level, I know how this thing I'm describing works. 

God forbid, let's assume their courtship now tarries for years that are beginning to grow beard like 3 upward, then both of them may begin to lose the joy of the first love. Do you want to know why? What we first meet always makes us drunk. It always do us as if we should die there and be held at its court. When I look at many brethren who are just engaged around me, I always have cause to glorify God for them that they're passing through their first phase where ideas, stimulations of love, kind utterances etc come easily without incentive or an external morale. At this place, both of you are still seeking to prove yourselves to each other - that I am a responsible man and that I'm an obedient lady. So, arguments or critical ones are far fetched from you. Not even one abuse or threat to retaliate an act. Rejoice in this your day like Jesus said of John's light.

John 5:35, KJV

"He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light."

Like John's, just know rejoicing in that natural period of love is for a season except for rejoicing in its artificial creation which will then come by your own hard work (being an active and not a benched player). This season of zealous joy is given also to balance the strenuous moments that may later dot your journey. That's why an Elijah must eat double when double is available for the journey. That way, you must throw yourself to the escalation of all the benefits that zealous love has to offer. Like we collect cocoa pods without leaving one behind, clean-gather all the benefits of that period.  

After both of you might have known each other very well with nothing hidden again (with or without sex; married or engaged), you'll become stiff. Some in their relationship (courtship or marriage) can go this mile than others. While this first joy ended within a short while of some people's relationship (either as married or engaged), it continues to heat more for like say 3-4 years for some before they enter into the phase of "by power and might." The first is by "spirit's phase." Acts of love just comes naturally to you to do. Being sacrificial doesn't look burdening then. You'll even boast of your being caring, obedient or sweet.

When your spouse looks as if he's no longer caring however, both of you have found yourselves out. That thing has crept in. That nature of man that always expend the best at the beginning and never takes thought to reserve the best for the end has crawled over you. That shows you're blood and flesh created to be man indeed. Jesus however acted contrarily to this in John 2 and it's only a man with the insights and practicality of how the best can be reserved for latter time that will pass.

John 2:10, KJV

"And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now."

When there's nothing suppressing love in you, it is easier expressing it. Even the Psalmist said, 

Psalms 42:5, KJV

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?..."

Have you seen a reed before or a plant that couldn't stand erect? Such bows down. That status depicts depression, burdening, tiredness etc. If anyone gets here, their once upon charming spouse that they eulogize day and night may seem to have been evacuated from the centre stage. The man whose voice they want to hear for assurance now becomes dung to them. It's not their intentional doing but what it means being just a man is just catching up with them. 

At this stage also, your spouse may no longer be the thought entering your mind often. It may be work, other crush or obsession (person or thing). In his or her mind, "I've possessed you already. If you've been this secured, why run around like a fellow still seeking approval."

Don't be deceived by the illusion of a "better spouse" also, whom if you've gone for, same thing would have repeated itself. Aren't you still getting it that all men and women are the same?

You can also ask those who get to the end of their zealous stage, their mind begins to look for the next challenge. You know, a muse. Something to spend yourself on before having open eyes and waken sense again. This is usually practiced by men and that has made many men raiders of the treasure trove who just check in today and check out to check in with another tomorrow.

Somehow also to them, their wives may just have lost that savour which could be felt in how poorly they adore her now. A fellow that's always verbose whenever you send him pictures that's now doing summary writing is revealing a testimony of what can catch up with men. Yet I heard, 

Isaiah 40:30-31, KJV

"30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

The end of zealous love and the beginning of serious love is where you'll begin to know what it means to be loyal to the marriage vow that says, "forsaking others to cling to you, both in convenience or inconvenience; health or sickness etc" Marriage vow is one of the dangerous vows in the world because as soon as you take it (just like any other vow), you can't but be tried and be at the peril of violating it. Meanwhile, what is permitted for others isn't so for you. You're called to make it true. 

The stage where natural glowing fire of love ceases burning is natural and would come to anyone in relationship. Despite the experience of this stage, you can intentionally create by effort the glowing of this joy and love by doing simple acts like:

a. Word of affirmation

b. Gift

c. Touch

d. Service

At the initial stage, these four would come naturally but after the stage's expiry, you'll have to work them consistently in deliberateness if you want to have joy and know peace. 

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria. 

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 14/09/2021

TUESDAY - 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHY THEY CARRY A MISSIONARY AWAY

READ II Kings 5:1-19

II Kings 5:2, KJV

"2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife."

When God wants to penetrate a place which for some reasons is difficult to penetrate, one of the things God subtly does is to allow somebody to be carried away to such place. I hope you've heard of wind or water dispersed seeds that are carried from one place to the other. The air or the water is the means by which they're spread. Now, why the carrying away? God knows the need for a preacher.

Romans 10:14-15, KJV

"14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"

Syria carries a young girl away from Israel when it's raided. This girl obviously knows God and must have tasted of God's power. She must have been one of many who with joy mounts up to the house of the Lord.

She was carried off but her content was not known. Nobody knows she contains the Bible and some soul winning valuables. As God would position her amidst the so many people carried captive, she was posted to wait on Naaman's wife - an influence in the land that could influence the whole nation. She must have been serving them as the Bible that the heathen reads before she subtly but in a relaxing way slicks in the gospel. She said unto her mistress, "would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy."

Naaman didn't know God nor his household. The journey to a nation knowing God starts many times in this way. That's how his leprosy was cleansed by Elisha. Naaman having been won by the power of God and His free gift requested for sand from Israel to build an altar where he'll serve Jehovah in his country. That means he took the gospel back to Syria. After his cleansing, you'll see that that little missionary wasn't released to go back to Israel. She must have been given free hands to serve God in her master's house better than before. If her faith had been secretive, she now has a ground to bring it into the open in the entire household. I so much believe that Naaman after being won might have asked her to explain the scriptures to him like the Ethiopian eunuch requested of Philip. Look, God is a subtle God. Naaman has a problem and God meets it. It's difficult for somebody to reject you whose life's long need you met. There are high officials in many nations of the world that for the gospel to reach, you'll have to focus on their problems and not first Christ. They won't be offended like that. They'll so much see you as caring until it is too way long for them to recover from all you've done.

Did you notice that girl only speaks about meeting the need of her master? She didn't say "first get born again". That only follows after the miracle. Miracle is a sign to the heathen (John 4:48).

Your positioning where you are is strategic. Are you an air hostess who by your positioning serves highly placed people? Let God shows you the need of the nobles on board and sure capitalize on that to get them saved. Even the devil makes people sin by finding an already open space into their lives.

If you're kidnapped as a Christian or mistakenly carried away somewhere, it is for a purpose. As long as you will disperse abroad the seed of the gospel, God has no problem keeping and feeding you even in a foreign land. There are places where a shoot at sight has been issued against the Bible. One of such is North Korea. The Bible is seen as herald of Western culture. Under that pretext, God is shut out. In North Korea, the government and the ruling family are God and should be so treated. While there are other nations who haven't decreed outrightly against the Bible, their systems are built to resist Christianity or its flowering as well. Can God smuggle you into this sort of places? When you go on State or whatsoever scholarship to such places, consider yourself an undercover agent for Christ but not with obvious identity that reveals you as an evangelist or missionary.

God penetrated some difficult lands just on a visit of a gospel bearer who sows the seed. He's considered a tourist yet a missionary in disguise. We all have a call this morning to see to it that this gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is preached everywhere in the earth. That includes nations and places that locks it out. May you be found an available vessel to sow what will become a national salvation to a person - especially an influential citizen.

PRAYER: Father, teach me the art of evangelism. Sensitize me to people's needs for evangelism. May you always give us a Naaman or an Ethiopian Eunuch that could preach to the rest.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 3:16-6:14, Hebrews 4:1-16, Psalm 104:24-35, Proverbs 26:27

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/09/2021

MONDAY - 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

Hebrews 12:2, KJV

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

You must know that to be distracted is very easy. The very reason why you must intentionally practice selective looking. In today's verse, we are told to look unto Jesus. Looking unto Him and remembering something about Him can keep us through ours.

Literally, a thing you look unto is a thing you focus your gaze on. Your concentration is on such. Jesus in that verse is said to be taken as our model who endures shame for the joy set before Him. If we take Him as our model and continually remember how He struggled to win, we also will be mindful enough not to let go even when it's tough. We can't say we are alone or have nobody who has passed through the challenges we're passing through. Even if it's not the same challenge or situation, trying or hardship of a sort might be common to it both.

A thing you constantly set before you is what you see. That's why the Psalmist says this.

Psalms 16:8, KJV

"I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."

The remedy to not being moved in this life is setting the Lord before yourself. Something will come around that's enough reason to be shaken or moved. You'll be tried but those who will remain like hills surrounding Jerusalem which can't be moved will be those that have set the Lord before themselves. When you set God before yourself until He constantly takes the elegant place in your life (your right hand side) - showing importance and priority, you'll see that you can't be moved. Those who can't be moved are people who are constantly meditating and have established a strong belief in God. They've given Him the place of God who's all able. They're those who also creates the mental picture of the Almighty and His almightiness before themselves while putting themselves in constant remembrances of His fearful acts. These are people who like David have not forgotten in a hurry the past works of the Lord but could firmly reminisce and say, "the Lord that delivers me from the paws of the lion and the bear will deliver me from this uncircumcised Philistine also." Those that would remember God's great act in the past are those who can have Him believed to be able to settle future arisings.

Have you set the Lord before yourself? If He's not your focus, your meditation all day till He is giving a place in your life where He reigns as very important in your matters (to the extent that you can't do a thing without consulting Him), you'll easily be lost or give up when the storm arises.

PRAYER: Lord, may my daily practices show I've set you before me and that you're at my right hand. May I not be moved. May I see you as a worthy model to look unto and to.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Exodus 34:1-35:9, Matthew 27:15-31, Psalm 33:12-22, Proverbs 9:1-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/09/2021

SUNDAY - 12TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE HEART THAT  GOES WITH YOU

READ II Kings 5

Judges 5:28, KJV

"The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?"

If no one concerns himself with you, there is a person who should do. When I look at how big the world is; how challenging the affairs of this world are; how easily man can be defeated to give up, I recon one must have his own. There's need to have one or those who would take thought of one. This may be spouse, parents, friends, relatives e.t.c.

There's no one that's absolutely alone. If no one takes thought of you, God does. Be consoled!

Psalms 8:4, KJV

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"

"Being mindful" is to take thought for someone. It is to concern yourself with such and all his affairs. Whenever you're under attack to think no one cares, always remember there's One who says "you're of more value than many sparrows" (Matthew 10:31). If He sees you so, He can't but dedicate time to muse over you and what concerns you. If it were not so, it shouldn't have been, "He who watches over Israel never sleeps nor slumbers." Everyday and every night, He thinks of you. You're the one He busies Himself with.

Sisera that was an enemy to Barak and Israel was the beloved of a mother and some people. There were people that were praying that Sisera must not die. His mother who waited in suspense to have him back was one. The maids who waited on his family were one. He was their master and unto him they looked for bread. Many others that derived their source from him were others also. Just bear it in mind that if nobody cares for you, you will always have an allocation of at least a person who will do. Sisera didn't lack his own lovers though he was God's enemy. All men can't look away from your direction. Yours will be measured to you.

When we marry, what we do is to acquire or arrogate the commitment of somebody to ourselves only. We personalize them. Your spouse is committed to you and you only in this world. He/she is made and given to you. Not another man or woman.  They're your possessions. Your personal thing. If the struggle for commitment rises even from his or her family, his or her loyalty should prioritize you. It can never be first and foremost to his parents e.t.c.

When Sisera went on the journey of no return and should have been back according to the time they were watching for him, somebody went into frenzy and became disturbed over him. Look at me. I say it again, "if nobody takes thought over you, someone at least would do." Out of all the people in Sisera's world, somebody took notice of him. No one can be absolutely bad and not have his own people. We all have received an allotment of men from God. You have your fan even if you don't acknowledge them or discern they are.

One of the cries of human beings in this our world is identification. All of us desire to be sought after. We desire to be in the memory of people. There's no woman that doesn't pray for a husband who will go all his way to take thought of her. Someone who will call while she's at work. Someone she won't have to remind of her birthday. Someone who won't need a teaching to discern an occasional gift do touch the hearts of females and make them open up. Yea, that's the kind of person we all desire. Marriage amidst all other relationships is the greatest of all that calls the attention of the other on you completely. Marriage focuses your spouse on you. Once you're married, if the whole world is against you, your spouse should still be for you because his calling is to be your cover.

There's a heart that goes with you. Motherhood in this passage found full expression in the act of Sisera's mother. Like our mothers would ascertain if their children have reached their destinations or not, so did this woman. She must have prayed for Sisera before going to battle. While Sisera was at battle, she was also interceding. Only that God was not siding with Sisera but Barak. So, if you want to excel in life, always look for someone that God is with currently and join such. You'll always be preserved and blessed. If God has left a Saul for a David but you're still with a Saul, you are an endangered fellow. You're not different from a man with head knowledge who lacks grace that can appeal people.

Elisha, the man of God told Gehazi, "went not my heart with you when the man alight from his chariot to meet thee? (II Kings 5:26)." In essence, as Gehazi ran after Naaman to collect those things, Elisha in the Spirit was following. It's like watching a live football match. As it is being played, you're seeing all as it happens. It's not that it had happened and they're replaying it for you. It's rather live and direct.

This heart of Elisha was the same Sisera's mother had for Sisera. As Sisera that day left in his chariot which is typical of an armoured or bullet proof vehicle today, the mother kept following him. A heart went after him because that heart was concerned with anything that concerns him. May you find your men. May God give you the specie that would take thought over you. Not all men care. Like sheep, they've gone astray and off to their own things. Selfishness is what rules the world now. But if you have anyone that can be pestering you with calls to ascertain whether you've eaten, gotten home, alighted at the bus stop, boarded a taxi or had had rest e.t.c, just know you're lucky because there are many who are fantasizing and catching cold for someone to show them this loyalty of "I BELONG TO YOU" without seeing one.

The cord that binds a child with his mother is so strong that many mothers might not want to relinquish their office to hand over to their son's wife at marriage. They may still want to continue to superintend in care for him like before. Mothers should hear this. Once your son marries, you must step down from the throne of his life and receive his wife as his queen. You rather will become a queen mother that they'll be checking on once in a while but your son's wife is the queen that will daily see this king. So, let the areas of specialization be well defined. Your contribution should be much in prayers for them. It shouldn't be to compete or outcompete his wife. Never stir the jealousy of your son's wife. Never incur her wrath or else a coup could be planned against you and your son might forever not visit home or only does reluctantly. Rather, do handing over. Hint your son's wife the weaknesses of your son, what he likes best and how by your observation over the years, she can enjoy him or have him totally for herself. Afterward, withdraw and watch at a distance.

I pray for you, you won't be taken away to punish the heart that takes thought of you. The Bible says, "your law is my meditation all day long" (Psalm 119:97). There is one at least unto whom you have become a meditation. At least, you are to your beloved and your beloved is to you. If such loses one, do you think it would go well with such? That's why you must be preserved for such to enjoy. I pray, you won't be suddenly taken away when your purpose is still being felt. You'll rather tarry and grow more useful.

PRAYER: Lord, preserve the fellow that has become my meditation. I shall not be snatched away from my lovers (family e.t.c) and my lovers from me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 10:1-11:15, John 6:43-71, Psalm 107:1-43, Proverbs 15:1-3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 11/09/2021

SATURDAY - 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE KING AGAINST WHOM THERE'S NO RISING UP 

READ Exodus 15

Acts 9:6, KJV

"6 And he trembling and astonished said, LORD, WHAT WILT THOU HAVE ME TO DO? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."

Down the line of history, men have accrued power and made themselves into a demigod to be feared and cringingly obeyed.  Even in this civilization, we still have countries that their rulers rule supreme and demands reference like God. North Korea bears testimony. Against a dictator like the one there, there's no rising up. Acts of rebellion against him are intolerable which makes rising difficult.

You have to know that you and God can't enter into the contest of who will first blink. You won't only blink (break down and consequently give in), you might run blind (totally vanished into oblivion or extinction) if his hand becomes heavy on you. One of such men that rose against God out of ignorance that pretended to be zeal was Saul of Tarsus. God saw his heart to serve Him yet he was doing the opposite. He was observing tradition and defending it, believing it was for God. He seeks to flow with the High Priest (God's supposedly representative), yet all of them were in error. God might have been merciful to him considering this and the fact that he just needed to be tamed as predestination has written him a chosen instrument who will preach Him even to nobles yet suffering many things also (Acts 9:15-16).

This Paul that went proudly in boasts to the High Priest to collect a letter that would authorize him bind any that belongs to the way was one that now becomes soft tempered after the Lord had dismounted him from his bunk. Saul was so soft that when the Lord introduced Himself to him as the One He persecutes, he had no more spirit to rival or go further in contest. He rather asked like a prisoner of war, "what would you have me do?" He was brought into agreement!

Are you seeing submission? This was the man that the perspective of him we had at the beginning of that chapter was that of a chimera. Now, he has been cooled down. The tamer has touched him and indeed he has been tamed. Without a chain, he was bound and faithfully followed instructions that he knew could only lead to the restoration of his eyes. He was told to rise and go into the city where things would be shown him. Who don't know that a receiver of an instruction is submitted to the giver? Over the once boastful Saul, God has gained glory and victory like He gained over Pharaoh and his proud host (Exodus 15:1).

How many people are there persecuting Christians all over the world? It is Jesus you're persecuting and He will triumph gloriously over you. Some people like the High Priest may be supporting, financing and authenticating you to do more. They'll only put you face to face with God. The High Priest was at home when Saul met with Jesus face to face. The brunt will be yours to bear. 

Those whom God rose against testified of their encounters. Like Jacob, they still do behold often the indelible memory they sustained while striving it out with God. Yahweh is the One against Whom there's no rising up. 

Proverbs 30:31, KJV  

"A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

He towers any dictator or most feared fellow you may know. May He not lay what you're doing to your charge. Rising against a king shows rebellion but God is the One against whom there's no rising and there ought not to be one. You can stand to rebel against God but God doesn't have to take much thought against subduing you because you exist in the palm of His hands. The inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers before Him. If that be, what sort of mind ye ought to possess? May you know your boundary that God has given you liberty to go far but not farther. Just like He sets for the water, He has one set for man also (Psalms 104:9). He is the One that determines how long we can last in any battle against Him and I know no human can last a  second against God.

PRAYER: Father, forgive my ignorance wherever I have contended with Your will. Input it not to me as sin. May you teach me submission and agreement with You rather. Encounter persecutors of the church worldwide and fight for those who have gone to the end of the earth . Against You, there's no rising up.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 34:1-Joshua2:24, Luke 13:22-14:6, Psalm 79:1-13, Proverbs 12:26

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