SUNDAY - 21ST JUNE, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
AND SHE AROSE AT MIDNIGHT
I Kings 3:20, KJV
"And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom."
One thing that you must not lose is your sensitivity and structure. If it is out of place, a lot of things can be done in your surroundings without your smelling it. The devil can smuggle things into your life or out of it without you ever reasoning that this is the devil at work.
What the devil wants when he comes is to see everybody without any awareness of time. The devil wants everybody to be drunk and asleep. When you enter into a place with drunken or asleep people, you can carry out your intent without worrying about being disturbed, confronted or challenged. The devil likes that thing.
That's why the Bible says, "7 for they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation" (I Thessalonians 5:7-8 KJV).
While the context has to do with the rapture yet it fits my explanation because it all talks about cultivating awareness/knowing. There will be people who will not know but you shouldn't be in that class. You should be able to identify and tell of what time or season has come upon you.
Our verse of the day says, "and she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while thine handmaid slept..."
Before we praise the recovery of this lady, we also have something to learn from her life. She slept off. She became unaware.
Mark the devil, he visits you when you have lowered your guards. He comes to steal, kill and destroy when you sleep. What the devil wants to collect is easily snatched then without challenge or fear of confrontation.
That woman confessed to it that the recovery she wanted wouldn't have been necessary if she had not slept the sleep of death. But she was well targeted. Instead of wearing the devil out, it was the devil that got the better of her.
The devil is always looking for an opportune time to strike or have his prey. The Bible says somewhere that, "sin is crouching at the door" (Gen.4:7). Later on, the Bible also says, "your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, crouches/walks about seeking whom to devour" (I Pet.5:8).
That tells you something of the devil. He's ever attentive and active on your matter, sniffing and sneaking around to see a slightly opened door in your life. That's why the Bible says he crouches at the door. When something "crouches", it lies in wait for its prey. Once its prey begins to come out of its shell, it'll immediately snap its neck. That's who the devil is.
Have you lost anything to him? What has he carried away from you? We appealed to God like that woman appealed to King Solomon and decree as with a sword of judgement that it should be restored unto you now. What are the practices, doctrines, images, items or confessions you have cultivated that had opened you to the devil? I awaken you to them in order to cancel them. I shut the door against the devil in your life and family. We pray for all fathers who are to be the strongest watchers that they'll not be deceived or found drunken and asleep. You're awake, aware and full of consciousness. You know what the time is and what it is designated for.
PRAYER: Thank You Lord for Your deliverance and ministration.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 1:1–2:25, Acts 13:42–14:7, Psalm 139:1–24, Proverbs 17:19–21
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