FRIDAY - 16TH JANUARY, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
JUST RISING UP AND GOING YOUR WAY - The Despiser Series 003
"Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."
Rising up and going your way without detecting you have entered a bad deal or arrangement is a serious danger. The Bible uses that language of "rising and going on" because Esau had no awareness that he had committed a foul and sold his future. He never knew the weight of his action. So, he acted like he would on ordinary days. After the sealing of the agreement to barter his birthright for porridge, he rises and goes on - without a second thought or discovery of his wrong doing. If he had been tipped off by someone or something on the need to reverse the agreement, he probably wouldn't have walked away. However, nothing was discovered. He rather ate, drank, rose up and went his way. No awareness of any transaction having been done. No fear of future consequences at all.
God wants you to be a careful observer. Such a sensitive fellow that nothing bypasses. Esau is a despiser. A despiser doesn't care. They don't do their due diligence. They always push their responsibilities to another - hoping they'll be saved by another hand when God ordains that their seriousness saves them. The attitude of a despiser is to eat and drink and forget the treasury but rather walk away.
Let's look at the Bible. Two prostitutes give birth in the same house. One overlays her child and it dies. Seeing this at midnight while the other sleeps, she exchanges her dead child for the other's living child. Meanwhile, something unexpected happened in the morning. None of us would have thought that would have been possible. How could someone be so observant as to recognize her baby isn't her baby? Babies are very difficult to tell apart at birth especially if weight does not differ and there's no special cut or mark telling them apart. However, this woman is one given to due diligence. Her intelligence and gathering of information amazes me.
"And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear."
This woman has something going on for her. She is a careful observer. She pays attention to details unlike Esau who only signed an agreement, rose and walked away without ever coming to the realization of its sentences. This woman said, "But when I woke up in the morning and had considered the child in the morning light, it was not the son I gave birth to."
That's a fellow you cannot cheat. That's a fellow whose observation and sensitivity skills have been well sharpened. She could detect the works of the devil around her and even against her. Immediately, she arrested it. She said, "I considered it in the morning light and saw this was not my son."
Meaning, she detected she had been robbed. Somebody had exchanged the bad for the good. Nothing went undetected. She was awake and aware unlike Esau who was fed pottage of lentiles, rose up and went his way. This woman refused to go her own way. She refused to agree to a wrongly signed document. She refused to go with a clause and manipulation of the enemy while she slept. At waking up and at morning light, she rather puts what was said to be hers to a test (observation) and finds out they have exchanged "a birthright for a morsel of meat" for her. Immediately, she raised an alarm which at day's end played in her favour when the King, wise Solomon decreed that the living child be given to her (I Kings 3:27).
Brethren, what sort of person are you? Are you this alive in spirit? Are you this careful and observant? Or you just don't mind what happens around you? If you are, a lot of demonic switching and tampering will happen and you'll be left unaware. However, when their manifestations begin to speak in years to come, you'll wonder when they entered. The entry point was years back but because you were too dead to notice, you were sold goods that you didn't pay for. I pray for you, may the alarm bell rise in you whenever the devil - the thief comes around you to steal, kill or destroy. May you see for what it is that the devil is hiding. May his works be clearly exposed. May he not go unnoticed, unarrested or stopped.
PRAYER: Nothing bypasses me. I can see and detect the vibrations of the thief around me. I stop and destroy his works.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 32:13-34:31; Matthew 11:7-30; Psalm 14:1-7; Proverbs 3:19-20
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