MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/07/2026

FRIDAY - 10TH JULY, 2026

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

DO WE HAVE ANY INHERITANCE LEFT? - My Priority Has Changed Series 002

Genesis 31:14–16, KJV

"And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?"

Jacob knows it is time to leave when there is no longer peace between Laban and himself. 

Genesis 31:2,KJV

"And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before."

Laban's sons are even of the opinion that all he has gotten are from the glory of their father. In plain words, they are accusing him of swindling their father. The Lord seeing all these gives him a go ahead to separate and assures him of security (Gen.31:3). In due time, he calls his two wives to himself, giving them a notice of his action to leave their father and begin a new life on his own. It is this act that leads to the response below.

Genesis 31:14-15, KJV

"14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?  

15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money."

Their response is, "is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?" It means, "do we have anything left again to do there of importance?" They defended this by saying their fathers sold them and had eaten their dowries. Your own father doesn't have to sell you or collect a dowry over you before you act from their position. Yours don't have to be forced but it has to come from an insight that once you meet that man or woman, you have nothing left waiting for. You must detach and be given to him/her especially once married. He or she becomes your priority. Your new family comes before your parents' families now!

Love should change. Loyalty should change. Attachment should change. Like those two sisters changed their loyalty from their father to Jacob, that's how every man or woman should act. You should ask, "what's still left here for me? Do I have anything left here having received who the Lord has ordained for the next phase of my life."

This is not a neglect or abandonment of your extended family or parents but an understanding that the season you are in requires a shift of focus. Every parent should know what they're entering into when they give their daughter away in marriage or when their son picks a wife. It means loyalty has changed. 

That's why parents must have a smooth relationship with their own spouses so they don't begin to make unnecessary demands on their married children as means of filling voids that their partners should have filled in their lives if they were close. Yet, those ones ought to be busy building their new homes. I know daughters and sons that their extended families still didn't let go. If your spouse hasn't become your best friend, work at that. He/she should be your greatest gist partner and not anybody anymore in your extended family. That's how to be one flesh with him/her. It's to be naked and not be ashamed.

Genesis 2:25, KJV

"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."

Who's there who'll reason and say, "what's left for me?" Even if you're in the will of your dad or they have signed certain inheritances or properties off to you, this should still not blindfold you to the truth of this eternal principle of leaving and cleaving. When Rebekah left, it wasn't an abandonment of her extended family as we saw in Series 001. You'll see that she later sent her son, Jacob to go and live with Laban in Haran. Laban is the brother to Rebekah and the head of the household at that time. That's where Jacob served for twenty years before he married Leah and Rachel. That's how Jacob got to be apprenticed to Laban. 

God is looking for women and men who will understand the time that has come upon them. Ones who'll say, "do I still have any portion left here?" Ones who'll not be held by the past but forge forward into the glorious future God has prepared for them.

Without this principle being enacted, there can never be bonding in marriage. Two will never become one. Clashes will still continue to happen. Finances will still be separated. Unity of heart will still not be effected and turbulence and strivings will still be the order of the day. In the long run, third parties might enlarge the crack and divorce which God hates might result. May God help you to leave and cleave. May God help you to look back and say, "what else is there in my father's house for me?"

PRAYER: Lord, rectify and heal our homes. Intercede that God will open your eyes and your partner's to live out  leave and cleave. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR

I Chronicles 9:1-10:14, Acts 27:21-44, Psalm 8:1-9, Proverbs 18:23-24

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