MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 31/05/2025

SATURDAY- 31ST MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

MADE JUST FOR YOU! - Positioned For Divine Attention Series 005

Genesis 2:20, KJV

"And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him."

The Bible says, "and for Adam, there was not found a helpmeet for him." In the former teachings in this series, I had told you who a helpmeet was and what purpose he or she serves in your life. Have you seen hook and eye before? Each of those materials are right for each other because they help each other fulfill their roles. The eye is made so that the hook can easily have a penetration into it and cling to it. If one was not suitably made for its other partner, there wouldn't have been harmony that we see with the hook and eye. They are a perfect example of a helpmeet to each other. They meet the needs of each other. 

When the Bible says, "and there was not found a helpmeet for Adam", it means after a search of a kind, no mate was found for Adam who could fittingly fit who he was made and what he was given to do. No animal despite how well created it is could fittingly play the role of a wife in the life of Adam. There couldn't have been any connection or understanding between them. Animals and humans are not of the same species. So, they shouldn't even mate though they can bond or relate. God put that into consideration as well before the Bible says, "but for Adam there was not found a helpmeet for him (amidst all perused)." If it was an animal God had brought, Adam wouldn't have said, "this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh..." Why? There'll be an obvious denial because that animal would have been very far from the very image or likeness of Adam (a human). Adam wouldn't have seen himself in her! That's why that verse says, "and for Adam there was not found a helpmeet for him." But what happened when Eve was paraded before Adam. Adam gave a cry, "this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh: she shall be called a woman because she was taken out of man." He saw himself in her. Indeed, was it not Adam's bone (a rib) that God made into a woman? No wonder, the semblance Adam noticed. 

The usage of "not found" in that verse shows a kind of observatory search might have been done on creation but without a testimony of having found a mate for Adam. Don't think God is not at work on your behalf. If you haven't had His feedback, it may be that He hasn't found for you a helpmeet yet. Don't forget, a helpmeet is the hook that can fit effortlessly into your eye. Compatibility is important to consider here and God does that. If he or she is a Muslim or any other unbeliever, he or she isn't different from the animals that aren't suitable for Adam. The command is that you must not be joined to an unbeliever in marriage (II Cor. 6:14). 

Vehicles are machines designed for transportation. They come in many forms, each created for specific purposes. Cars are primarily for personal transport of a few individuals, offering convenience and privacy. Jeeps are renowned for their ruggedness, versatility and exceptional off-road abilities. Seeing this, if you're going for a military expedition, you're likely to go with a jeep rather than an ordinary car as jeeps were originally designed as light military reconnaissance vehicles during World War II, proving their ability to traverse incredibly challenging terrain. 

The same goes with a choice of a marriage partner. We don't have the same nature or temperaments. One who's forgetful or careless by nature as a phlegmatic/sanguine may need a complement in a choleric/melancholy who does things perfectly to details and on time. What God does is to give you a complement. So, when that Bible verse says, "but for Adam, there was not found a helpmeet", it means one who'll understand and partner with Adam at his level was not found for him. Don't forget a rib was missing in Adam which went into the creation of Eve. This metaphorically hints at needs in the life of Adam that only Eve - that right woman: who's the perfect lost rib could fill because a space or need was created in Adam when a rib was removed from him. Spouses are like vehicles. They come in different forms. Some are for pleasure and some for rugged terrains. For certain reasons i.e the calling of suffering on some people; they might need to be given a spouse that is like a jeep - rugged, enduring, not easily angered etc. If you're a man who'll be away for months, you need to have a rugged wife who can carry on with the kids behind you as if you never existed in her life. You need a woman who lightly esteems sex and envies affection when she sees others having it. You need a woman or a man who cannot backslide into adultery because you've gone on a study, business trip, evangelistic crusades etc. 

As such, God makes for each of us to suit us. It is bread and butter that can complement themselves. God is that wise. Look, God knows your frame, yearnings, character, weaknesses, strengths, future problems, calling. He makes a spouse for you who can fit into all these. Until then, you haven't found a helpmeet. If the opposite happens in anyone's life, instead of their spouse meeting needs in their lives, they'll be creating needs. That shows they were not meant to marry. And I tell you this morning, God knows the perfect person that can fit or handle who you are now or who you may likely grow to become and change into. Because of this, trust God who knows better. 

PRAYER: Lord, give me my missing rib - that spouse that can complement me today and tomorrow.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 15:18-16:1-16 & I Chronicles 5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 30/05/2025

FRIDAY- 30TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOU MUST SLEEP! - Positioned For Divine Attention Series 004

Genesis 2:21, KJV

"And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof."

Have you undergone a surgery before? If you haven't, I'm not praying for one for you. However, anaesthesia is one of the critical things to get done for any being readied for a surgical operation. I know of a brother who underwent one. They first gave him a dose that ought to knock him out. However, he was still conscious. So, they had to increase the dose. After his surgical operation while asleep, the doctors asked his wife whether her husband smokes or drinks. They expressed their shock at his not passing out with the first dose administered on him. It might be due to his strong bodily constitution or what have you. 

Some of you however are like this brother. You're not sleeping even when God intended so. On the choice of who to marry, God wants you to enter sleep mode and be at rest that God is at work for you. When God promised Adam a wife, it wasn't Adam who went about town looking for one. Adam didn't even know God's thoughts for him. It wasn't Adam who began to look for a face that resembles his in the garden. It wasn't Adam who even initiated that process of, "it's not good that the man should be alone again." As a good son, serving God's will in the garden, it was God who sees fit that it's not good that Adam should be alone. The result of that is God promising to make him a helpmeet that'll fit or suit him. 

When God revealed His plans to make a helpmeet for Adam to us, God did a wonderful wonder worthy of our study. The Bible says, "God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam..." The usage of anaesthesia by doctors for surgery is directly referenced here. God is the first medical doctor and if you want a surgeon. God knew that if Adam did not sleep and sleep well in unconsciousness, it would be difficult for him to cut through his flesh and take out one of his ribs. If you want to know how unbecoming that could be, go and try it on any animal and see if there won't be struggle and cries. You'll do much harm because you haven't sedated the fellow involved. It'll be a life or death situation in that lab. Removing someone's bone isn't an easy task that just goes well while the fellow is still very much active and awake. Adam for this reason has to sleep and sleep well. That's why the Bible says, "God caused a deep sleep on Adam." It wasn't an ordinary sleep but a deep one. Even if heavy machinery or artillery were used near Adam, he wouldn't have woken up. Why? He has been sedated by God with a deep sleep so that the "making of a wife" for him might not be interfered with by him. 

It is the same that God is asking of you. Brother, sister, you need to sleep. You need to release the matter of a spouse into God's hands. Let Him handle it. He's faithful who said, "He'll make a helpmeet for Adam." At day's end, He showed up with that helpmeet - a spouse who can meet needs and complement Adam in his assignment. 

Genesis 2:22, KJV

"And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."

Did you see that? The rib God removed from Adam is what God made a woman and brought to Adam. God gives you your kind, your part, a piece that can complement what is missing or lacking in you. When God took away Adam's rib, that leaves a vacuum in him. God did close it up but with flesh. That vacuum is what the rib turned woman came to fill again. 

There's a need for a wife in your life. You might not have seen it but God knows it and He'll make a wife for you that can rightly fill that void. However, you need to sleep. Pray and commit the choice of a marriage partner into God's hands and wait on Him to show you or bring the fellow across you. You'll meet and when you do, you'll be able to attest that this is he or she. Even Adam couldn't hold it. He exclaimed, "this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh..."

May you have that testimony. However, don't do God's job for Him. You only need to receive a communication on who to marry, who to propose to or wait for His proposal. Except on occasions where you could also receive a witness on the spot. In all, follow God as He leads you. 

PRAYER: I am confident in Your outworking for me. I release the choice of a marriage partner into your hands as I trust our path shall cross.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 15:1-15 & I Chronicles 3-4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 29/05/2025

THURSDAY- 29TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHY IT SEEMS YOURS IS DELAYED: GOD IS MAKING YOU A HELPMEET - Positioned For Divine Attention Series 003

Genesis 2:18, KJV

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

I am here to announce to you why it seems since God told you He was making you your helpmeet, you haven't seen Him return with the fellow. "Why hasn't the lady been in view? I don't even know who she is except the Lord shows me."

I know why it has taken time and I know why it's taking time. It is a very simple but delicate reason. When God comes to the realization of Adam needing a mate, He says, it's not good that the man should be alone, I will therefore make him a helpmeet.

It is possible for a man or woman to grow to a place in life where the parents out of care begin to say, "it is not good for you to be alone again." They can see his or her purposeful living - pursuing an excellent career or calling that's doing well. They even know he or she is mature age wise for marriage. Knowing all these, they advocate for a partner. At times, the advice for a partner would come to some people because there's beginning to be a space or role for a helpmeet to play in their lives and is beginning to be obvious. Someone could say, "imagine this big house, should you be the only one in it? You've travelled away for months, shouldn't you have someone who takes thought for you in our place or don't you think you need a partner to help simplify and help you with certain things you're beginning to bug yourself with?"

Mothers are even funnier. They'll say, "bring me a husband/wife" as if they're the ones who want to marry. 

God said, "I will make Adam a helpmeet" in verse 18 of Genesis 2. However, the helpmeet in Eve was not brought until verse 22 of the same chapter. 

Genesis 2:22, KJV

"And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."

When God said He would make Adam a wife, He meant it. What God wants you to see is that "making" takes time. The usage of the word, "make" means "I'll settle down and prepare someone suitable for Adam and his needs." That's why God while speaking of the woman He'll give to Adam called her a "helpmeet." Adam has an assignment already. The woman who'll be given her will be someone who can locate herself into that same assignment. Not someone who can't go for foreign missions and forget home because she's a city girl. If Adam is a missionary, he must have an intercessor and a strong woman as a wife. Either a woman that can endure and survive at home with the kids until he shows up from the field or that can bear that life together with him on the field. The fellow must need be a helpmeet - someone who'll be close in assisting in carrying out and fulfilling the daily visions and assignments of the man. That's why it's not every woman who can marry a man of God. Why? If you're not their Helpmeet, you cannot endure the sufferings and reproach that goes with their being called. Many of you think many women want to be pastors' wives. No! You're wrong! They're running from it because many ladies know it's a call to serious sacrifice. "Helpmeet" is someone created to suit or meet certain needs in your life. Let's say, you have a farm. Weeding the farm requires both the use of a cutlass and a hoe. However, you only have a cutlass. If your blacksmith friend visits you and sees the need for a hoe in your life and promises to make you a hoe, it means he'll need to pass through the process of beating steel or iron into making you the finished product that all of us can see and later call a hoe. That was what God intended to do for Adam. To make him a tailor fit helpmeet! If you'll take time to consider the due process that goes into the making of Eve, you'll see that indeed God took time and initiative to create her. That attention that God gives in giving each and everyone of us our rightful correct mate is what we call "making." For Adam, God had to cause him to sleep (so He won't interrupt or intercept God in the making), pick out one of his ribs, close the place up thereof and then make that same rib into the woman. 

After the making process, Adam could only have one testimony to share, "indeed, this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh: she shall be called a woman because she was taken out of man."

Don't rush! God's thoughts for you are of good and of welfare, to give you a hope and a future (Jer.29:11). God is making for you a spouse. A man with a fatherly heart, instructions from above and riches to take care of you. God is making you a woman - one who'll be fashioned after women of old and not esteem the cladding of oneself in wonderful apparels above developing the inner person. A submissive and helpful woman she'll be. Let God take His time. Don't interrupt this process by seeking to end your bachelorhood or spinsterhood yourself. Let it be that God Almighty who sees your need and announces to you He's making for you a spouse will be the same One to end that season when He eventually links you up with the fellow. That's when you can testify like Adam and say, "indeed, I couldn't have married better than this. This is indeed the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. She was specially made for me - to suit me, meet my needs and fit what I'll become or face."

Amen!

PRAYER: Lord, help me to trust You every inch of the way to receiving my own helpmeet. May patience have its full effect on me.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 14:15-31 & I Chronicles 1-2

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 28/05/2025

WEDNESDAY- 28TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

LOST IN SERVICE BUT TAKEN THOUGHT FOR - Positioned For Divine Attention Series 002

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."

Still on silent labour that positions for greatness. Did you read the verse above? That's Adam in focus. When God created man, He puts him in the garden of Eden. That would have been okay but God told him to dress it and to keep it. God didn't create an idle man. He rather gave him work to do. Work is a means towards realizing and accomplishing oneself and God did exactly that for Adam. Without work, one will naturally tone down and be disillusioned with life. However, work exercises us and makes us relevant and alert even mentally. 

Now, before Adam was created, God had to create and fill the earth with creations. He had to create the garden of Eden as well - a space Adam would live in. All animals and various vegetation had been created at that time. In short, all things were ready for the sake of Adam - God's overseer over creation. 

The Bible didn't specifically tell us how long Adam lived and worked the garden alone before God created for him a partner but one thing was sure, there was a time frame in-between Adam's creation and the creation of Eve. 

Genesis 2:18, KJV

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

Verse 18 of Genesis hints and verify our suspicion. When Adam was created and was instructed on tilling the garden, he didn't delay. He hit the ground running. If you had visited the garden, you would have found him dressing and tilling the garden - tending to the teeming green life in the garden. He was so swallowed up and consumed by this assignment that Adam took no thought for a spouse. The idea of a spouse by his side did not even hit him. He never thought he needed one. He was just lost in service and in his assignment. 

It's after all these and probably on an occasion that the Lord had visited Adam that He saw that it's not good for Adam to be alone. Who therefore brought up the issue of marriage? God! He sovereignly called off singleness or bachelorhood season over them. When God said, "it is not good that the man should be alone", His plan was to bring Adam out of singleness into partnership with a mate. 

I pray for you that you won't come under the pressure of time. When people are well within the time frame of a person trusting God for a choice of a marriage partner, they tend to be quiet, hoping on God to lead them or bring the fellow. However, as soon as it seems everyone around them has gotten married and they're the only one left, you'll see them come under the pressure of time and begin to get involved unnecessarily in what doesn't concern them. Adam never for once thought about a woman. God had to take thought for him. All he was busy with was work and the assignment he had received from God. If you were Adam's friend, you could jokingly have said to him, "Mr. work! Is life only work? When will you look beyond work?"

Better illustrated, watch faithful sons who are serving their fathers. The father buys for them what they themselves didn't ask for but which they needed. When God came to the realization that Adam needed a mate, it was out of concern that it's not good that the man should be alone any further. Meanwhile, note the qualities of the man that such a voice came to. That statement came to a man who was lost in his purpose. A man who envisioned nothing but to keep being productive, meeting his daily quota and advancing the kingdom where he is. To such a fellow lost in God's service, a spouse is a reward. It's not a hard nut to crack for them. 

Let me tell you this. Mind God and God will mind you. Serve God and God will serve you. Give yourself wholly to God and God will not withhold His almighty from you. Adam unreservedly served the will of God that he knew and God in like manner took thought for him. What he was not considering, God thought about and put in place for him. Let a spouse catch upon you in the place of service. It's better to be discovered and stumbled upon than to push oneself forward for acceptance. That makes you a beggar, begging men with yourself. That's why the expression in the face and voice of Adam is a wow when for the first time he met Eve. When God introduced Eve to him that day, he could not help but gasp saying, "wow, this indeed is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman..." Gen.2:23).

Adam sees that he cannot be less suited or provided for. He has gotten the perfect match. So, he gives off exclaims. This is the joy and satisfaction that waiting gives those who'll be lost in the cultivation of their garden or purpose until the God who doesn't forget our labour of love in that we have ministered and are ministering visits such with a spouse (Hebrews 6:10). 

You're the next to say in awe, "indeed, this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. What a perfect match I got!" As for God, He gives the best to faithful and silent servers. You'll have yours. 

PRAYER: Lord, I wait on You. Do what only You can do. Locate me in the place of service. Call singlehood to be over on me. Bring me into a new season.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 13:31-14:1-14 & 2 Kings 23-25

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 27/05/2025

TUESDAY- 27TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

SILENT LABOUR! - Positioned For Divine Attention Series 001

Matthew 6:6, KJV

"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

God will help you to see that service to Him is not to men. When you have waited for long and it seems your breakthrough isn't coming, you might want to take laws into your hands. But, may God hold your feet from slipping. 

I know a lady who has been trusting God for the choice of a husband. She has waited and has waited. It seems no one was looking in her direction. Unfortunately, she has been deceived to begin to rely on the arm of flesh and what she could do as if that's what gives anybody a spouse. When the Bible says, "God sets the solitary in families" (Psalm 68:6), do you think it's a joke. It's the work that God solitarily does. That's why there are many qualified people with money, beauty and many things that make a man or a woman. However, no one still comes their way. As a matter of fact, you wonder why some ladies despite their beauty and bodily figure haven't married at 35 and above yet some with less of those qualifications are already mothers of children. It's at that point, you'll begin to inquire into why God had to reward the Hebrew midwives in Egypt with families (Gen.1:21). 

Events like these remind us that it is not by power or by might but by God's Spirit (only by His doing). It is God who sets the solitary (the single) into a family by making him a spouse. It is not what anyone can imaginably do on His own without God allowing it. 

Let me tell you what that colleague of mine began doing. Looking at her WhatsApp statuses, she has begun to create awareness about her singlehood publicly. At times, it could be through a written post that makes jest of why she's still a single, or a meme or even a video. At times, she'll note on such a meme with sayings like, "me, when people ask me why I am still single." As I followed and checked her statuses, I was seeing someone who's tired operating the right process of attracting a husband. I'm now seeing someone who's trying to set herself up for a husband. You know, like putting oneself up for sale. This was confirmed because even on her birthday like some other days I had observed, the picture she posted was that of her wearing a nightgown that only one's spouse should catch one wearing. As a matter of fact, the cleavage was open. What was she doing? She has taken her matter out of God's hands and has begun to process it herself. Her belief is that, "I have to be well positioned to be seen. I have to bring myself out." Listen, you can try but you'd fail if God didn't end that period of silence over you. 

How well can a lady be well positioned who's trusting God for a partner if not to be lost in God's service? How best if not to be lost in silent labour - serving God day and night like Elizabeth and Zacharias. The Bible says, "don't let us be weary in good doing for we shall reap if we faint not" (Gal.6:9). Looking at her, she has become weary of good doing. I didn't tell her but I prayed for her. I knew she was not ready for such an explanation. The church she attends as I suspected might have taught them so as well. 

The Bible says, "if the ways of a man pleases the Lord, He'll make even his enemy to be at peace with him" (Prov.16:7). 

That's a surprise because God is saying your harshest enemy can be at peace with you. It is not what you have to do but what God would need to do. All you have to do is remain in fellowship and relationship with God. With a life that pleases God that you're living, what can He not give to you plus His only begotten son that He afore gave to you?

Brethren, be lost in silent labour and when it's time to appoint the king, the Lord will take thought for you. How was David anointed king? Was he the one who told Samuel to anoint him or it was God who sees his heart and faithful services who said, "I have chosen a king for myself amidst the sons of Jesse" (I Sam.16:1). Even when Samuel was almost choosing Eliab because of a deceptively fine appearance, God caught him quit to preserve the throne for He who it is who has passed God's test. Be lost in serving God in spirit and in truth wherever you are as a lady. Ruth was lost in service until she was noticed and discovered by Boaz. Look, you'll soon be noticed. God is the God who sees. He'll command your own man to you who'll be caught by your service, sobriety and shamefacedness. You must know, you cannot scheme your way to prominence when it's not time and according to God's arrangement. Ask Joseph who wanted the butler to mention him to Pharaoh. I pray for you, you won't compromise while waiting. 

PRAYER: Lord, teach me and encourage me to persist in silent labour that positions a man for divine attention.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 13:1-30 & 2 Kings 20-22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/05/2025

SUNDAY - 11TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE SOUND OF ABUNDANCE OF RAIN!

I Kings 18:41, KJV

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

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

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

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

Luke 17:12-14, KJV

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

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

Matthew 12:13, KJV

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

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

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

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

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

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

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/05/2025

SATURDAY - 10TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

SURRENDERED TO GOD

Exodus 2:3, KJV

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

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

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

Exodus 2:2, KJV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 6/05/2025

TUESDAY- 6TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WE SHALL BE CONTENT

I Timothy 6:8, KJV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1Timothy 6:9-10, KJV

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

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

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

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

PRAYER: Lord, teach me contentment anew.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/05/2025

MONDAY- 5TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

A TOUCH FROM THE CHASE!

John 4:19, KJV

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

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

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

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

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

John 4:16-19, KJV

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

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

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

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

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/05/2025

SUNDAY- 4TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

INHERITED THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE 

Hebrews 6:12, KJV

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

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

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

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

Genesis 17:21, KJV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

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

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WHAT BEING CALLED SUPPLIES

 

Being Called & Believing So Has Many Blessings 

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 03/05/2025

SATURDAY- 3RD MAY, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

CALLED TO FOLLOWERSHIP

Hebrews 6:12, KJV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 2/05/25

FRIDAY- 2ND MAY, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DON'T SHIPWRECK YOURSELF!

Acts 1:24-25, KJV

"24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

"Shipwreck" is a ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains. While this is a noun, the verb takes meaning from this same usage i.e shipwrecked! Figuratively also, 'shipwreck' means destruction; disaster; failure; ruin or an irretrievable loss. I'll like your sight to be directed to the last of those meanings - "irretrievable loss." 

A new vessel, made and destined to sail the high sea can hit the iceberg, get damaged and be nothing but a shadow of itself - never sailing again. When this happens, we call such vessel a shipwreck. That is, a vessel that was once working but which suddenly met its end. You must ensure you don't become a shipwreck especially by your personal choosing. A lady can become a shipwreck by sleeping around until she attracts a notoriety that makes men shoo her away. In short, don't disqualify yourself from the race. You can still carry the anointing even when you've disqualified yourself from the race. You can still retain your skills even after losing your limbs with which to forge tools. All these are possibilities though the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (Rom.11:29). However, this is a call to watch lest he that stands falls or disqualifies himself. 

You can by your carelessness and your own allowing shipwreck yourself. Samson did when he started acting contrarily to instructions that could have preserved and protected his calling. There are certain things that can cause disrepute to an anointed minister in ministry. Money, women and fame can cause you disrepute and though the oil is still on you, people's estimation for you would have changed. If you fall into a well established adultery, people can forgive you but they'll sure change their minds concerning you. Immediately, their estimation that has been drawing your anointing would stop and it'll suddenly seems as if God is not using you for same people again. If you cannot plough through or endure until you breakthrough from this cycle of failure, you'll give up as a minister, call things irretrievable and eventually burst yourself open like Judas Iscariot did. As in, you might kill yourself as a way of escape from the embarrassment and shame that's now following you and the ministry. 

Consider Gehazi! He shipwrecked himself. What shouldn't take him out took him out. All he eventually became was a mere story teller - doing so for bread (II Kings 8:4). Instead of narrating in the anointing or talk about his master as a testimony in his own teaching series, he was doing it in the king's palace after being pettily asked to talk and make Elisha's ministry known to the king. His covetousness costs him the anointing. Where Elisha could have pardoned him; he rather cursed him with leprosy, reaping the harvest of his greediness (II Kings 5:27). Eventually, he was disqualified from ministry and was nowhere to be found in or around it again. He shipwrecked himself! He caused his own very downfall. 

Judas Iscariot also shipwrecks himself. In essence, he made himself of no use. What you must know is that you can make yourself unworthy of God's call. After his betrayal of Jesus, he was overrun by guilt. He did nothing but to commit suicide. Would this have happened if he had kept himself from covetousness? At day's end, the voice testifying against him says, "let us find another person to take the ministry that Judas Iscariot left to go to his own place."

Acts 1:25, KJV

"...that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

What place did he go? The place of the dead! You must ensure you go no other place except to stay in the calling perpetually. You're meant to grow from strength to strength in the calling. The moment you go outside of that, you'll begin to diminish. When the Bible says, "the path of the just is as the shining light that shines more and more unto the perfect day" (Prov.4:18), it means you'll increase in strength in something you persist in and not in what you treat as a hit and run. So, don't go to any other place. Don't be found amidst those who shipwrecked themselves. Don't number yourself with the failed or the dead! Stay in the calling! Don't choose a contrary fate of being a broken or unyielding vessel who had to be turned to the potter's field. Yield today and walk the path of the calling in spirit and in truth! 

PRAYER: Open my sight Lord to every agent, habit and act that's prepping me for a shipwreck.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Luke 24:36-53 & II Samuel 12-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 01/05/2025

THURSDAY- 1ST MAY, 2025

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DON'T FALL BY THE WAY SIDE!

Luke 8:5, KJV

"A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it."

If you look at the parable of the sower, you'll see that amidst the four instances given, the worst of it is the first instance of seeds falling along the way. 

We have seeds that fell upon a rock which as soon as it was sprung up, withered away, because it lacked moisture. Some even fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked them while others fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. All these three examples entered the race. Two of the three then began and manifested partially even if it was for a short while. The seeds that fell on the rock at least sprang up but only withered because it had no genuine roots. At least, it sprang up (started life) from being a seed. The seeds that fell amidst thorns also sprang up though they were eventually choked by the thorns. They also refused to remain seeds only. They changed status into plants and walked a distance. Lastly, the seeds that fell on the good ground. It sprang up and brought forth a hundred fold. However, the seeds that fell along the way couldn't go any further. It didn't enter the competition of metamorphosing from seeds to plants at all, even if it'll then die later. It rather has the destiny of dying along the way and too early in its journey. It never pushed any distance at all. From the moment it fell, it was destined to be cut short, with no eyes seeing and any ear hearing of its manifestation (even if it'll be short lived). Because they fell along the way, they faced the greatest form of humiliation. The Bible says, "they were trodden down" (assaulted and humiliated by men) because of their choice of falling wrongly and not at least into any of the three other positions, where at least they could have been hidden from the carelessness of men and exhibited longevity for a while. 

The Lord is sending you a warning. When you fall, don't be the seeds that fall along the way side. Don't be found in that zone. It honours no one. Those that fell along the wayside ended before they started. They never entered the race set before them or manifested to any extent before being cut off. They never sprang up even if it'll then be one challenge or the other they'll then confess to have faced. Rather, they're trodden under foot by men and eliminated and eaten up by the birds of the air. What does, "trodden under foot" remind you? It probably takes you back to the salt that has lost its savour and has now become good for nothing (Matt.5:13). Having lost its value and having no contribution or benefits to add to its holder, only one thing befits it - to be excused from the house, from the watchful sight of the householder, from the esteem of the householder and casted without and trodden upon by men. "Trodden upon by men" is an insult that has to be endured by anything or anyone that has lost its value. Consider Samson who became a toy in the hands of the Philistines after losing his precious grace and eyes (Judges 16:25). Men might have esteemed you before. They might have bowed the head and brought you salutations when you passed. However, if you lose your value (your savour), which the whole world respects and through which you benefit them, you'll immediately be cast out and trampled upon by men. They'll call you, "that man of yesterday" and shoot the mouth at you. It'll immediately show that you have violated a law and shifted from your esteemed position of value to being valueless - having lost what brought delight to the members of your calling, the very thing that was protected by some entities when the trees wanted to make them king (Judges 9:8-10). They said individually, "should I leave my wine, oil etc by which men are delighted and be esteemed over the trees?" They have come to the realization of one thing. If they should let their values slip, they'll later pay for it. It's rather better continuing in purpose and the giving of value. It's better to delight people continuously and give them that same ministration of old. That's what makes anyone relevant. That's what makes people ask for more. That's what keeps them also in demand. 

There will be those who will fall by the way side. In their Christian or ministerial journeys, they'll become victims, falling by the way side having gone their way or choosing their lot like Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:25). If you're observant, you'll see that all the verses talking about those seeds said, "and some fell", indicating personal choice and role in forming one's destiny. Don't die along the way. Enter into the competition and walk up to the peak of expectation and manifestation. Go into Jordan, because that is where the fullness of harvest is. Don't just peep and see Jordan from here! Don't be that way contented. More importantly, don't wither before you manifest neither allow yourself to be choked by any life's challenge. Rather, seek to manifest in hundred fold the potentials and grace in you. Some may also choose to manifest in thirty or sixty folds but you should manifest at the peak of God's expectation for you (Matt.13:8). Do hundred fold! Go that length. That's when all your potentials could have been lived up to, seen and experienced. Don't be a plant or tree that started growing and died or one that started growing and didn't bring forth fully as expected. After escaping all those things that cut other plants short or even prevent some seeds from manifesting as plants, you must ensure you survive, endure and bear much fruit (in hundred fold)!

PRAYER: Father, I bow before you for strength and the grace of continuing until I see my manifestation in a hundred fold. I won't die by the way side or be discouraged by pressure or persecutions. Never deterred, I move!

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 5:14-7:73a; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Psalm 33:1-11; Proverbs 21:8-10

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