MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 4/03/2023

SATURDAY - 4TH MARCH, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO 

YOU HAVE A GARDEN TO TILL - Governor General Series 004

Genesis 2:15, KJV  

"And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."

Oh wing men and women, it pleases me just like it pleases God to start today's devotional by saying, "the earth is too general for individual". Before God put the first man in his home, He first did something. He planted it! He created a special home for him. The earth has been created earlier but now, a portion, a cut out or division of the earth (in Eden - a community or location itself) is specifically being equipped by God for the habitation of man. So, that word, "He planted", means, "God made." This a planting of a home in Eden.

Genesis 2:8, KJV  

"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."

Of the general earth and then of Eden, God cited, situated and located Adam somewhere in Eden that's said to be, "eastward." It means Adam only occupied a portion of Eden eastward. Brethren, you can't dwell in all places. You must rise above the revelation of letting events determine your bound. You must consciously thirst to live by the "every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matt.4:4). A fragment of God's revelation to you! It's at such time of enquiry God will open up to you concerning the location where you should dwell and tarry. You're born in Nigeria, so you live in Nigeria. That's what natural birth has offered you but if God or destiny has a higher purpose for you, God might want to send you somewhere else. And He might have you retained but rather to leave your city, town to another in the same country where only He has assignment waiting for you there. God located Adam in a home He planted eastward of a location called Eden. 

May you not get in trouble. May you conceptualize the season that has come upon you. May you know when by ordainment and the Word spoken by the mouth of the Lord you're to stay or tarry. If you don't understand turns and how swiftly it could change, you'll still be by Brook Cherith when God is ahead to Zarephath. And I bet it with you, your suffering and your losses will be uncountable! But you must always be sober, ever waiting on God with expectation of whether He'll say, "you should run or hold." Paul lived this out and I'm not ashamed to refer to him as an example (Acts 16:6-10). But many people are men of senses, sense ruled and governed. They're not given to the spirit at all and so they're out of His influence because even when He's communicating, since they didn't enact His communication, they can't have any testimony of having being better or indeed influenced by Him. They company with Lot who lifted his eyes and saw the plain of Jordan that it was well watered. He must have thought in his vain heart, "where else could it be if not this field?" Assuming this way, he fell for it?" People like this are always wrong even if they're a prophet of the status of Samuel (I Samuel 16:6-7). They're always wrong.

But you, you can tell God, find me my garden. Locate for me my garden and locate me in it. Don't forget it is God who looked for a home (dwelling place in the earth) for Adam and then put him there. People nowadays live where God has not put them. This earth which God has created is too general and large. Seven continents there be according to the division and here I am in my large nation (even if yours is the smallest). Five races there be according to the division of men. Many tongues there be who are inhabitants of this earth but where and among who are you saying I should dwell? With who have you appointed my dwelling? 

Many times, without prompting this prayer at all, your assignment (if you're a man who has found what God said He should do and become on earth) will locate you to that garden -  that specific place of assignment where you too could hear a voice saying, "dress and keep it" - be dedicated to this all the days of your life. Let it be "your meat." Eat it and finish it. Somebody who God located a garden for because of assignment is also Peter. God came around to say, "rise, kill and eat" (Acts 10:13). That saying is a call to a place of assignment- the Gentile world. He needed to be called out if he'll have success there. If you go where God has not called you to, you might be operating in a cemetery. You'll not be able to do any miracle and great works because the people would just vomit hostility at you continually. Even after awhile there, they won't still have received you. But if you'll say, God, where's my own garden on the earth? You'll know prosperity, fulfilment, joy and early satisfaction. He's the Governor General of the earth. The earth is His (Psalm 24:1). He still allocates gardens and makes people home and settle them there. May God settle you down. For those expecting marriage, God sets the solitary in families too (Psalm 68:6).  

PRAYER: Lord, let me be locatable. Let me dwell and till only my allotted allocation. May I not indulge in dead work. Where's my garden? Give me a home Lord. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 25:47-27:13; Mark 10:32-52; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 10:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 3/03/2023

FRIDAY - 3RD MARCH, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO 

THE POWER OF EXPLORATION! - Governor General Series 003

Read Genesis 2

Genesis 3:23, KJV

"Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."

The word "till" doesn't solely mean cultivate or farm. That word means to "draw out", "acquire" or "explore" also. When God sent Adam away from the garden, God told him he'll till (work) the ground for survival. "Tilling" there means putting the earth to use by cultivation or planting but also the exploration of the earth for all it could give. While it might have been definitive and specified to farming for Adam, that singular word has been encompassingnly acted on by our generation and some before. Do you know that singular word, "to till" is like the command, "go forth and preach the gospel" (Mark 16:15).

That place says, "therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden (for what intent or assignment) - to till the ground from whence he was taken." 

"To till" there has been concluded on for Adam. As far as God is concerned, Adam can till because he has been given the power and initiative, "to dress (work) and keep it" (Gen.2:15). That's the power of exploration! He can therefore always draw out something from the earth. He's been enabled to till the earth. If he was not enabled afore that speech, at the saying of God to him, "to go till the ground from whence he was taken", he immediately becomes capacitated and full of initiative to till. 

When you till, you search for. You seek to bring forth something from the soil. You seek to engage the earth to find out the possibility of what it could birth or produce and the earth has always being living up to this expectation. I pray for you that whenever you engage the earth, it will yield its increase to you. Mind you, this is not only in planting or sowing and reaping.

"To till" means to explore the ground from whence man is taken. It means, "to plough, to turn over, to dig, to break up etc." All these are as well deployed in exploration. Adam might have only cultivated by sowing and reaping but that's not all the capsule word, "to till" or "till" means. "To till" also means "digging or turning over of the earth" to find precious infilling. Psalm 24:1 says, "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof..." We know the earth there means, "the ground" and the "sea" as well though the sea is not a solid part which evolves. But the depth of the sea also ends in the ground. It's these two that the Psalmist was talking about when he says, "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." And that's true because we know there are many mineral resources underneath the earth in the ocean. So far also, we've learnt what this, "the fulness thereof" means. We've learnt it consists of all deposits that the Maker left hidden in the soil for us. Mention any mineral resources there be and they'll immediately fall into the encompassing fold of the phrase, "and the fullness thereof." The earth and the sea harbours all these mineral resources. They're far kept away from human eyes. To reach them, you have to till, dig, explore and ferociously seek them. This is the level of tilling that technology has helped us to unveil to our advantage. Thanks to the discovery and exploration of petroleum, gold, diamond, tin, cobalt etc. They're all products of tilling the ground. All these God given resources or "the fulness thereof" have helped man to create some other products and live comprehensively and not as a handicap. Imagine the jurisdiction (called earth and the fulness thereof) that God owns and gave to man to till and explore. Look at the wealth man rules over. This earth is too wealthy. It's filled to its brim and then with potential to give back in multiples whatsoever is given it (in planting). You won't begin to appreciate God for the kind of capable man He created until you read Job 28 where the ability of man to till or explore is severely chronicled. Do you think cutting of gorges in the rock or ceasing of flowing water is a novel idea? Men have been ceasing waters for ages. It's possible to bind up waters without using supernatural powers. Water or its flow would just be cut off and then there'll be an in-road into exploring the depth of such body of water. Imagine the verses below. They are surprises.

Job 28:7-8, KJV

7 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. 8 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light."

Then, you begin to wonder, how did man know to do that? That's the tilling power. The exploration command or ability. He just knows how to. That "how to" results from the assignment of Adam to "dress and keep the garden" and same is recalled when sent forth "to till" the ground. What a man God has created! A creative man who rules all of creature and lays it bare before himself. You'll wonder at times, how did man knew how to build in water? You don't need to fetch far. God Himself modeled this wonder. "For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it (the earth) upon the floods (Psalms 24:2, KJV). It's this inborn genius that singularly makes man know how to rule his world. He just knows how to. He has God's backing and blessing to rule and subdue his world (Gen.1:28) and if the earth still remains, you'll still see wonders being done in it, carved out of it or carved in it that could only chronicle and allude to the mightiness, brilliance and exceptionality of God Himself. But, may man knows not to rest in nature but the God of nature. May he learns not to worship the wealth his hands fetches but rather He who fills the earth with all the, "fullness thereof".

PRAYER: Lord, teach me to till and explore the earth (my earth) to the fullest. Give me an area of conquest. I thank you for creating me with such power and capability. I'm the able genius. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 25:47-27:13; Mark 10:32-52; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 10:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 2/03/2023

THURSDAY - 2ND MARCH, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO 

MAN IS INCLUSIVE! - Governor General Series 002

Read Genesis 1

Psalms 24:1, KJV

"The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein."

"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof!" We know this but many times we tend to stop here and never accomplished the showing of ownership and the far reaching dominion of God over all creatures as that verse reveals. It's not only the earth (this terrestrial plane) and all that it harbours that belongs to God but man inclusive (who God created to subdue that earth, plough it and make best of it). 

At creation, God created the heaven and the earth. Then, he filled the earth. He brought forth herbs on the surface of the earth and filled it with living creatures likewise. Then He created man and gave man the utmost duty of ruling over His creatures. 

Genesis 1:26, KJV

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

Here, God made man the governor general over all other creatures of His. This should tell you how much power man has. This should tell you what capabilities he has and could weave. He's above other creatures in intelligence and reason. It is this man God gives for food every herb of the field. It's this man God allows to exercise dominion over the fish of the sea, fowl of the air and beasts of the field. Summarily, there's nothing on earth that God has not put under the dominion of man. That's why one man wonders at why God so much have heart for man. He was shocked (Psalm 8:4-9). This should tell you how expansive the dominion of man goes. 

When God created Adam, He puts him in a garden called Eden. Do note that before his arrival, God had created all other things that live and be (even inanimate). But at his arrival, God commands him to "dress it and keep it." The garden of Eden is a specific place generalizing the earth. The mandates of Adam in that garden are still the mandate of humanity today. We are to tend (care for, look after) and keep (preserve) our natural habitat called earth. That's our house - where God has put us to stay and live in. That's why that verse says, "the world and those who live in it." Adam is the first preserver and conservationist of nature. After him, we might talk of Africans who used to record history on rock paintings to save trees. So, hearing about going green and anti-climate change movements aren't things that begun in Europe. Never! Give the credit to Africans if you're jealous giving it to Adam. 

You have now seen how wide in breath the expanse of man's rule is. He has conquered the sea, the earth and has mastered the sky (Psalm 104:24-26). Yet, He is still God's created being and this mind must forever be in him so he won't lift himself up like Lucifer and glory in his own strength or substitute the works of his own hands for God Almighty. Because God created us, because He owns us, because we are all like the sheep of His pasture, He cares for us as His created. That's why He gives His rain and shines His sun on both the just and unjust. The just and the unjust here are the beings God created without making distinction or querying whether some are born again or not (Matt.5:45). Irrespective of your race, God created you, owns you and reveals His  care often to you by giving you what you can't give yourself. God has done well by first giving humanity his habitat - the earth. It doesn't matter whether we keep it well or destroy it to our disadvantage. In every culture, it is very much known like Paul declares that, "it is in God we live, move and have our being." The air we breathe is His (Acts 17:25). Despite the fact that humanity has gone on the spree of dominion and has invented many things including what we call the oxygen tank to collect oxygen yet we know that it's better and comes without cost breathing God's air. Anyone that God separates from will immediately face death. The Bible records, "thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust (Psalms 104:29, KJV). May we all come to know that the earth (where all the accomplishments of humanity stands is the Lord's). May we forever be filled with gratitude for all the resources we didn't make that He gave us to enjoy. After this, may we also know that we ourselves as the master over creations are just subjects of God. May we testify being His offspring (Acts 17:28). 

PRAYER: Lord, grant me the understanding to utilize and explore the earth to its best. I confess being your offspring. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 25:47-27:13; Mark 10:32-52; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 10:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 1/03/2023

WEDNESDAY - 1ST MARCH, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO 

THE RICH GOD! - Governor General Series 001

Psalms 24:1, KJV

"The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein."

I like emphasizing and reemphasizing the Bible. Or let me say, "when the Spirit is on me, I have a reason doing so." When you emphasize it, you tend to see new things from it. A supply of understanding tend to attend to you while it helps you keep a fresh memory of the discussion at hand. 

That place says, "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof..." First of all, it says, "the earth is the Lord's!" Do you know how expanse the earth is? Even you, you haven't toured it all round. Your country even if it's the smallest in geographic area still puzzles you let alone the entire earth. Hmmmm! Yet, the Bible without mincing words is saying, "the earth (everything there be of the planet where life and humans are) is the Lord's and then "the fullness thereof." Even if we should detach, "of its full thereof", you'll still reckon that's still much property God owns. 

I can't but express shock at such expanse of land and natural resources and wealth God owns. First, "the earth is the Lord's." It is His. He created it and He owns it. To start with, how many of you Christians want to be possessors of lands who till date don't even have a plot out of what the Bible says your Father owns and owns in abundance? If indeed, the earth is the Lord's (your Father's), I pray on you the blessing and the common sense to acquire what is your Father's. Let favour also give you this commodity. While the earth is owned by God, willed to Adam as possession yet today, it is in the grip and custody of Satan because Adam willed it to him. No wonder, Satan while tempting Jesus shows him the world and says "bow and worship me and I shall give you the world and all that's in it for it has been delivered unto me (Lk. 4:5-7). Where did he get it from? Who delivered it unto him? When was it delivered unto him? That was part of what Adam lost to the devil. It's now the work of each Christian to begin to take the earth (physical property known as land) back and then the mountains and sectors of the earth (i.e music and entertainment, art industries etc). Redemption affords you that.

Now that we've settled the fact that the earth is owned by God. Let's see the second arm that says, "and its fullness thereof." Let's refresh quickly with, "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof."

What's this "fullness thereof?" Brethren, welcome to the palace of good things. You will depart with many escalated riches today. "and the fullness thereof" means everything land harbours. I didn't study mineralogy or mining but I know that the earth  sure contains a lot. My country, Nigeria harbours part of this "earths fullness." Earth's fullness means what the earth is filled with. They are the resources and wealth that God hide in the earth which after the breaking and sharing of landmass into the constituents called continents and nations today, each nation could lay claim to a part. And I'll say my country, Nigeria has this earth's good in abundance. We have arable soil, petroleum, tin, copper, limestone, timber and many more. Our petroleum reserve is scary. All these are what the Bible calls, "the fullness thereof." We can't just quantify them because I'm sure there are many more resources still hidden that have not been discovered where God hides them. And even if they've been discovered, man don't yet have a name for them or knows what he might use them for. Just too much of the earth's fullness. This literally makes God a rich God. That's why that verse ties everything together and accounts it to God by saying summarily that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. He owns all. From where you are to the end of the earth - to the farthest of the sea (Psalm 139:14), God owns it. It's all these earth's fullness that drove many countries into balkanising and exploiting Africa. Because of the earth and its fullness thereof (what the earth is filled to the brim with), that's why ethnic groups and nations even do sometimes go to war. What a thing! Yet, the ownership belongs to God. 

I pray, may you know true rest. I may not have toured the world, I may not be the holder of the greatest land or gold anywhere in the world but I'm still okay with the fact that my Father owns the earth and every least thing it houses. This alone is enough to change my perspective of how rich my Father is and how rich I am. I say, let nations go to war, let people go to battle, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. And if you'll allow me add to it, I'll say the earth shall only be inherited by the meek (Matt.5:5). This earth has seen a lot of going and coming of many people yet it remains in same place. The earth and its fullness thereof that many battle of ownership and possession has been on is the Lord's. 

PRAYER: Lord, grant me the revelation that the earth is Yours and its fullness thereof that my mindset might change that your reach is expansive. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 22:17-23:44; Mark 9:30-10:12; Psalm 44:1-8; Proverbs 10:19

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