MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 11/08/2023

FRIDAY- 11TH AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHY WE CALL HIM JESUS!

Matthew 1:21, KJV

"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins".

While some people's names is a bundle of parents' or their pre, at or post births experiences, others' names clearly give an inkling into an expectation over them. As such, we have Noah, a child who's awaited to bring rest and relief to the people concerning the ground God has cursed. He's a type of Christ. A man ordained for the salvation of the world. A man raised to help people escape the wrath to come and this was the intent to building the ark. 

While Joseph thinks of how to secretly put Mary away, an angel occured to him in his sleep telling him some things. He was told to take Mary because she was not at fault because "that which is in her is of the Holy Ghost". It's not what any man did there as Joseph had been thinking it to be (and so made jealous and corrupted in view) but what God Himself sovereignly wrought. On that basis, Joseph was comforted. Meanwhile, the disclosure goes further. The angel also said, Mary shall bring forth a son which Joseph shall call his name "Jesus" and that'll be because that son (who will be named Jesus) shall be the one to deliver his people from their sins". 

This name of Jesus is an expectation and foreknowledge of His destiny or if you will, calling on earth. He has not even been born at this time. It is not a calling chosen for Him by the will of any man but one revealed of Him by God. God must sure have a reason in mind for having taken such initiative step. 

I had said it that you could name after experiences already experienced or expectations being awaited. However, it is another thing naming after an expectation that is a revelation from God Himself to you. I'll say this is the highest form of naming. When God gives a disclosure and you name after that. Often, God has a purpose in mind and if we'll let all things originate from Him, we shall witness and be privy to His works and praise Him later for them. Until then however, we may believe we know better.

Names of people is therefore a coding, programming or capsule containing their destinies, assignments or life's task. By the sin of one man death comes into the world (Rom. 5:12). But we know that for this purpose the son of God appears that He might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8). Jesus brought us redemption from sin, death and all that are by products of sin so much more that if any man will believe in Him, such will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). 

We've had people who have named their children Jesus. The first ask is what purpose would that child be fulfilling. Will he be delivering anybody from their sins? We may love some personalities or figures for their morals, righteous standing or what they became but that shouldn't make us confer on our babies their names just like that. Our babies are personally unique and may be different in assignment from those personalities. Something was in the mind of God and their parents before they were named that. Did you ask what was in the mind of God and search your own heart as well before naming yours? Many names are null and void on many people simply because that aren't their destiny names. Parents did not enquire. As such, many are bearing names that are irritating or contrary to their spirit names. What we don't know is that the spirit of every baby or child exists and lives before God even before birth. When did God say He had knew Jeremiah?

Jeremiah 1:5, KJV

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations".

Imagine, "before God formed him in the belly". So, where was he before that formation? Obviously before God! If that be that we are like already manufactured products awaiting dispatch in heaven, I want to believe there may be a tag with names put on each of us to identify, call or send us on errand into the womb of our mothers. As such, that's what we ought find and put in the mouth of every soul as they call that boy or girl. 

"And His name shall be called Jesus because He shall deliver His people from their sins". You'd agree with me Jesus lived to that. He died on the cross of Calvary to buy us salvation. The free gift we have came at the price of His life. That's because that's His own assignment or destiny. So, He had to die. Some people's destinies may be magnificent and they may not need to die. What matters is to live out yours even if you have been misnamed. A found and lived out purpose can correct your wrong naming. I pray, may you know that the intent to your being born is to live for a purpose. The day you were born, you consciously have a task placed before you. In all your walks, you must walk that path and fulfill that purpose. If you walk other paths to the neglect of that, you'll have been esteemed as having visited the earth with no impact. I tell you, "you'll give account to God". Since the name of Jesus saves from sin and its effects therefore, say this short prayer to be saved. 

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, thanks for coming and dying for me. I believe in Your works of salvation and I confess You as my Lord and Saviour.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 10:1-44; 1 Corinthians 6:1-20; Psalm 31:9-18; Proverbs 21:3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/07/2023

MONDAY- 31ST JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

PEOPLE ARE GOING THEIR WAYS

Read Matt. 27:1-5

Acts 1:24-25, KJV

"24 And they prayed, and said... 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".

This season is a dangerous season and you'll soon know why it is. The vision I see is of people hurriedly going their way to and people hurriedly going their way fro. This season is dangerous because while some will stay with their callings or are going to be with the Lord (in their callings); others are choosing to stray and go their ways (out of the will of God which they have known). This makes this season dangerous and it's dangerous because it keeps sweeping the feet of even those who have been planted already in God's will. Men are now repenting, not from their sins and frivolities but from God's will to doing the lust of the flesh and the riot man. 

The Bible records this concerning Judas Iscariot and I found it is not the testimony anyone should have spoken about him or her. 

Acts 1:25, KJV

"...from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place".

Note the expression, "from which Judas fell, that he might go to his own place." What should be his place? Where I ask if not the calling? However, this man who the Bible praises as having a lot with others and having obtained part of the ministry with somebody like Peter and others lost it all to go to his own place. The next question should be, "where is now his place? To where has he gone? Where did he leave to?" If he leaves the calling to go to his own place, where did he go?

May you not know where he goes by personal experience. There's no one who leaves his calling, either in ministry or in other fields who remain the same for life. Their life unarguably don't become better for it. So, where did Judas Iscariot go after a walk away from the calling? Peter described it as having gone to his own place - to his own lot, his own choosing and choice. What is his own choice and choosing? When Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus to the elders, the film didn't end there. He later feels guilty of having betrayed an innocent soul according to Matthew's account. The deed has been done but he's beginning to come to understanding. Coming to terms that way, he would seek to amend his ways but the guilt feeling wouldn't allow. He gets overwhelmed by it. Though he restores the thirty pieces of silver back to the elders, Judas himself never asked for forgiveness or heal from the wound of the guilty conscience he's wounded with. To show he's sorry for himself as the devil would push a lot of people to do, he receives an inner urging and motivation to hang himself (an act that was not a good response other than receiving forgiveness) - Matt.27:3-5. The devil is very much interested in ensuring that any man of calling who strays doesn't come back again. He knows you'll do more and deal him a greater blow than you have dealt him before if you do. So, he seeks to ensure you don't have the success of Samson that way. It is he who came back and killed more people at once than he had ever killed before (Judges 16:30). According to Peter's account in Acts, he died shamefully by falling headlong on the portion of land he used that reward of wickedness to purchase. He committed suicide and never knows the return to grace or calling. Peter in describing how he went his way and ended says this. 

Acts 1:18, KJV

"18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out".

Imagine that! Imagine such a sudden and shocking death as if something gripped his heart and it stops and it ends just like that. Should we call it a heart attack coming from guilt feelings? That's the kind of disgrace that could befall anyone who will choose to go his own way. The Bible says in Isaiah 53:6 that, "all we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way..." Going your own way is also going into the world, going into sin, defiling and breaking the consecration of your calling. You may think you're enjoying; you may think you're richer than others but time will soon show you have left your calling's gratification to the gratification of selfish ambitions and goals. Who knows Whether Judas Iscariot had planned building a house? I'm thinking in that way because it was a land he used that money to purchase according to Peter's account in Acts. He was quick to acquire an asset. He's a very commonsensical man. He believes in what appreciates (so he purchases a land). But he has forgotten that there's no treasure laid on earth that does not roth or come to corruption. He knows the value of money but he does not know the value of his call. At the end, the only citation that would have been read for him would have been, "the man who went his own way". I pray for you, may you not go your own way. May God refuse you by the many salvation He'll put on the road for you. May God watch over your lot so that it is not left vacant and then elected for. May you always be here. Yes, with the called and in the calling; enjoying their privileges and persevering in their shames. 

PRAYER: Lord, I shall not err. I shall not depart from the faith or my calling to go my own way.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 21:1-23:21; Romans 11:13-36; Psalm 22:1-18; Proverbs 20:7

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