MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 07/07/2023

 FRIDAY - 7TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

CAN THE HOLY SPIRIT COLLECT FROM YOU ANYTHING? - The Commanded Series 002

READ Mathew 1:18-20

Matthew 1:20, KJV

"But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost".

The day you're born again is the day you're admitted into God's kingdom. In that kingdom, resources are sent and are received. Just like we transfer through bluetooth - from one end to the other, same is how things flow. Without God having to lay pipes, transportation happens daily.  Meanwhile, resources could be passed through anyone. What matters is that such is faithful to part with it. Faithfulness is all that matters in service to our King of kings. The ravens didn't hold Elijah's bread. They were under command and they acted commanded. Same with that widow of Zarephath. This should be our general testimony. A man or woman that God can find locatable and ready to meet others' needs and serve them their food (as God has given us). Please, not for impression or you might soon pass into the border of dead works. 

As you grow or get where you trust God as your provider, He can begin to prove so.  However, let it be that you can be a vessel for God to pass blessings through. If you're holding anyone's bread and God asks for its release, let it be that you'll be that type of man that in fear and gratitude of being found a vessel release it. Have the testimony of one that there's nothing God can't collect from him. 

We all know Joseph, to whom Mary, the mother of Jesus was betrothed. The Bible however says before they come together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Not knowing that, Joseph seeks to divorce her secretly. That he's even doing it secretly tells us he is not revengeful but a man who has been discipled and has learnt God. However, while he contemplates the matter, he has a dream where an angel tells him to take Mary unto him as his wife and that what's in her is of the Holy Ghost. 

You see, there's no 'lie' other than that! There's no unsavoury thing to hear other than that but Joseph knew who has communicated to him and so he submitted. The end of all strife. You can agitate but do until the Spirit witnesses to you. It's a sign of true brokenness. Many times, when God passes somebody bread to you and demands it to be given, you reluctantly with wrinkles on your face contemplates it. That may be. However, ensure it's eventually passed. On occasions, you don't even act and God is not eventually glorified through you. How much more if it were on a matter like this? Would you not find that hard to release to God? You see, you will determine to what extent you want to walk with Jesus. You'll determine how much He can trust you. If you're the type that God can't collect something from; or call to lay a matter to rest, then you can have your way and see how it goes. Over the years, I have proven God is right even by my experience. The Bible says the Spirit of God will not always strive with man. It means it will strive with you first. 

Genesis 6:3, KJV

"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man..."

If God strives with you and you're not redressing on what He's raising with you, He'll eventually leave you to yourself as a reprobate. He will usually come to you on that same matter more than once but if He found you unadmnistrable, then you should know that's not kindness to you. On the occasions God had placed demands on me and I have refused, when I saw the outcome and how the matter went, I regretted it. It was after then I saw reasons enough why I should have done as he bidded me. You can trust God and trust the process. All of us are resources in His kingdom. He can administer us physically to where He'll want us be or administer resources through us to others. Joseph didn't have to be repeatedly told to take in Mary. Once was enough. I'll say, "that's a disciple". Who knows whether he made mistakes while learning this earlier also but he proves to be our good example? I don't know what Christianity you practice that it's your Lord that constantly demands you to slay your Isaac - even of your will and an already made decision yet with continuous overdue refusal to do so. Brother, sister, watch your behind. This is not a good testimony. Time of ignorance God has generally winked at. He's commanding all men to repentance and obedient living. If we're living stones that make up God's kingdom, should we not know He'll use us for whatsoever reasons He purposed as need may be. We are not inanimate. Even the inanimate can and do praise God. May you be found. May God call your name and may you hearken to him. 

PRAYER: Lord, I lay any matter of contest between us to rest. Forgive and restore me joy. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17; Acts 25:1-27; Psalm 5:1-12; Proverbs 18:19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/08/2022

MONDAY - 15TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

GET THEE TO ZAREPHATH! - Lead and Feed Series 013

I Kings 17:8-9, KJV

"8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

May I ask what the instruction was? Where was he told to get to? Why was he told to get there? Will getting there make any difference? Will restraining not matter also? People, welcome to another day. The Spirit is ready to wing you God's word. Let's travel on Morning Wings so that we might reach the uppermost end of the sea (which would be manifested in reaching the peak of our destinies on earth). 

God expressly spoke to Elijah and no fellow could even deny His telling him, "get thee to Zarephath." There are those who deny instructions. Joab did and he was confronted for denying an outright instruction of the king that should be weighty to him (II Samuel 18:12). Today, I want to show you why some still suffer though God has destined that they should be led and fed. The Lord is their Shepherd and is now coming to begin to feed them but by first issuing them instructions as to where and how to be fed but they seem deafened, non-challant and reluctant leaving the familiar they've known for the unfamiliar God is commanding. Let me tell you, you'll suffer much and make the Scripture that says, "the young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those that seek the Lord shall not suffer good things" void by this your disobedience (Psalms 34:10). God said irrevocably and with every sense of responsibility to Elijah, "get thee to Zarephath." Listen, that was the responsibility of Elijah to see to. God knows where it's happening, where the next move is, where the cloud has gathered and where the carcass is. He only leads to where the green pasture is. The fact that there's "green pastures" means there are "brown or dry pastures" also. That's however not fresh meal. God desires you feed on the choicest meals of Zion if you'll be willing and obedient but if you'll become reluctant and afraid of what is ahead because you don't have all the details, you'll fall into want and suffer needlessly. That's why God is saying, "I have a solution. You, get yourself to Zarephath (outside the country, to another city or town in your country, to another job, to your friend's or pastor's house, the garage, the square, that restaurant) etc. There, I have commanded somebody to feed you (see to your sustenance). There, I have commanded your path and your helper to cross. That means, unless you're there, that provision can't be uncovered. You may not know the fellow but on getting there, identification would happen. The gravitational pull that happened at the valley of dry bones that drew bone to bone would pull you to the recognition of each other. You'll be locatable and both of you will come into agreement like Elijah and this widow did. Things are scheduled for locations and settings. If God is saying, "go and apply to that place because I have commanded you to be employed and sustained there while you're reluctant, if your brook dries, you'll suffer. Unless Elijah goes to Zarephath, that prophecy of being fed can't come to pass. His miracle is geography bound. His feeder is in Zarephath and not Syria. How many people has God appeared to in this manner who have wasted His instruction and are suffering for same needlessly? You've undone yourself. Lack of trust in God and fear of the unknown is costing you. You want God to tell you everything once and for all instead of being led a step at a go. You're joking. That wouldn't be faith again. God said, "get thee to Zarephath." Did you see any immediacy and urgency in that instruction also? It was even a command. Having received such instruction, it becomes sin for its holder to tarry or spend the night even where God has departed from and is commanding him to depart from also. As a matter of fact, if you're still where you should have departed from (at God's command), anything could kill you there. All the things that God's hedge of protection afore shielded you from while you were obeying God (by abiding where He first commanded you to stay) could now kill you. Why? You're in disobedience. This could open a crack in your hedge of protection. This is because while God has moved to Zarephath, you're still at the Brook Cherith. God has said, "get thee out of your country but you're still established there like a mountain." I bet it with you, what couldn't kill you before until that instruction could kill you now. Rumours of war, banditry, terrorism etc that you never esteemed previously could now break through your hold and make you unsettled.

God is saying to someone, before you and I could even revisit what I've told you and intended to make of you, "first of all obey, leave Brook Cherith (where you are presently) and depart to Zarephath (where I've commanded you should be). Until then, no second talk. I praise those who heard God and left for abroad or a new territory especially where there's no familiar face or a consciously prepared place for them at arrival. I mean those God sent there without having assurance of a system or person catering for their needs upon arrival like a student who get a full scholarship to study abroad. Such people would pack like Abraham and go where they've not been, only trusting in the God of their prophecy, Who will now ordain their path with the appointed helper. God has spoken to many like this without details of what's next. They only trusted. That's why God also is not ashamed to be called their God. If they've so much followed Him commitedly, He ought manifest to them commitedly. I'm hearing, "stop and get thee to Zarephath." In God's mind, you know where Zarephath is. The instruction is therefore not mysterious. As a matter of fact, you know how to get there. So, nothing seems too demanding but may disobedience not cage you and finally cost you.

PRAYER: Lord, make me obedient at heart. Let me hear you once and acknowledge with action seven times.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 7:73-9:21; 1 Corinthians 9:1-18; Psalm 33:12-22; Proverbs 21:11-12

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