MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 24/07/2023

MONDAY- 24TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

NOW IS THE TIME!

Read John 2:1-8

John 2:3-4, KJV

"3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. 4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come".

"Hour" here is best interpreted as, "time". So, it should read like this: "mine time has not yet come". Not that it's literally speaking of sixty minutes that make one hour where a definite event must happen. While that could possibly be anyways yet in its true sense, "hour" there is "time" and it means my moment or time of operation has not yet come. 

From Jesus' confession here, we have a glimpse into knowing there's a time to move and a time to refrain. Mary has good intention but she misses divine timing. Surely she must have contacted the outworking of God at home through Jesus which is why she's bold to make such recommendation to the disciples that whatsoever Jesus asks them to do, they should do (John 2:5).

Meanwhile, Mary came too early. Her coming too early made her miss divine timing. Jesus will work. He as well knows their need but one thing is just not right. After proper scanning and deciphering, Jesus could arrive at the one thing that was not right and that's his hour of operation that has not yet come. He wants to work but He's being restricted because He has not yet come into his hour or time of operation. 

Probably I should explain using these instances. If you've learnt some things about William Branham, one of it would be that he may not be able to minister unless his angel first comes. This is no joke. William Branham is one of the accurate prophets who ever lived but this man always experience hindrance in that he would not know what to say or do unless his angel arrives. Once the angel comes (which even the audience would feel), astounding prophecies and miracles would be wrought through this earthen vessel. But until then, he's like any other human being. Even if he moves, nothing will move and that's because his hour, his time, the moment he must seize and be carried has not yet come. 

If you ask me how I author the devotional, I'll tell you it's by inspiration and that's no lie. What I hear is what I write. However, once the sensation, feeling, burden and pressing to write comes, I must understand that this is my hour to teach. So, I could remain locked up for hours and even half a day (the longest I had gone) just writing. At that time, grace, anointing and all the necessary resources needed to write is being facilitated me. So, when Jesus told the mum, "mummy, do we have business together? Mine hour has not yet come!" Jesus was doing two things at the same time. He was addressing the hurried and hasty nature of his mother. He's trying to help mummy learn how to wait until it's God's time of operation. That was not an insult. Mary was not offended anyway but hasty spirit or nature must be dealt with in you if you'll ever be used by God. Unless He's moving, you don't move. If you do, you'll be like Samson in operation who found out how simple a man could be when he's not divinely aided by God's Spirit again. However, when the hour comes, Jesus didn't have to make another announcement shouting, "my hour has come" or in William Branham's word, "my angel has come" or in my word, "my anointing has come". No! Rather, He gives instruction. Since it's time, things will happen (as if of themselves) though we know it's by God's involvement. At the arrival of that hour and time of occurrence when that miracle will fit time, season and then meet needs, water must of a fact turn to wine. It may be water but it'll be praised by anyone who tastes it as wine. That's what happens when your hour, your angel or your anointing has come. Effortlessly, you'll do the special. Mountains become levelled. Tarrying before God without eating becomes easier. Something of God will just wrap you over, delight you and suspend all other cares. That's because of the time you're in. 

When your time comes, gates and doors will crack open of their own accord. Let me include that ancient doors that your predecessors knocked until they died at its feet shall of its own accord flee and rush to open. It shall see you and fear. That would be because you're keeping your divine hour (a moment God is at work for, in, through you). A slated moment when all life's events must gather together to work for your good. 

Mine hour has not come. How golden those words are to me? So that I'll know when to enter and when to go out. All activities are timed and slated. When no pot must be filled, He refrained. Jesus had nothing to prove. He didn't say, I'll show you I have the money to travel abroad and the next thing is 'peew'. He didn't. He didn't say they were testing Him. He rather discord with missing time to saying, "when my time comes, I shall do as you're suggesting". But it will only be until then. You, receive light to see your hour has not come. Or else, you'll go with the wrong man. But if you'll be comforted that this blessing, opportunity and goodies they're flashing isn't yours to take, you'll easily let go of it. If Jesus does a miracle there and then at that request, it would be His honour and to God's glory but He'll have successfully breached His timing and would have for once be in disobedience but he resisted and conquered hastiness by saying, "mine hour has not yet come". As you are, quickly open to Ecclesiastes 3 to read about the types of time that be. It'll do something to your spirit. It'll make you sensitive to what time you're in. You'll be able to decipher when and when not. Those two are unanswered questions in our world today. "When and when not!" May the Spirit of right time, it is time, or it is not time rest on you. 

PRAYER: I receive understanding and perception for operation at mine hour. I won't miss my time, its grace, angel and anointing.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 11:1-13:22; Romans 8:26-39; Psalm 18:37-50; Proverbs 19:27-29

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 09/07/2023

SUNDAY - 9TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

GIVE THAT BREAD NOW! - Commanded Series 004

I Kings 17:2-4, KJV

"2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land".

Count yourself privileged when called and used. It should be the Christian's exclaim that God has found him for use. For this reason of being demanded for or from by the Almighty, he should carefully open up and give to God as He'll request him to do. If all God created is created for His pleasure, then let's render whatsoever He calls us to for His pleasure. This should be after we have given ourselves - our bodies a living sacrifice to God (Rom. 12:1).

God sent Elijah to Brook Cherith. There, the ravens will expect to find him. God was clear on why He's sending him there. So that he'll drink of the brook as he's fed of the ravens. You can be sure that whatsoever God does is always straight and complete. Not even one is lacking! He has not only availed Elijah bread, He as well made provision for water. I pray for you that your joy shall be complete. Your find and discovery in life will be full to the brim - not lacking one thing.

The brook is God's own. God created it. If the brook ever argues that, it won't argue that the water that makes it a brook is heaven's rain. It is to this 'servant' of God that the Lord sent Elijah with a command that the ravens will bring him bread but that he'll drink from the brook. What a perfect God! May I emphasize that He doesn't do His work partially. Where He sends you is also where He has furnished a table for you. 

Naturally, there's no way the brook could have refused Elijah. It's inanimate. God sent him there to be given drink amidst other reasons. For the time frame he was there, he drank from the brook. Unfortunately however, the brook dried up! His vehicle by which God quenches his thirst and meet his needs just died! What killed the brook? There was no rain. This is the sole fact by which all of us should be warned. What you have, you were given and if God would shut the windows of heaven at you, you'd soon arrive here - where you'll have the testimony of, "and it dried". A fact that's solely crested on the truth that every good and perfect gift that we have comes from above. However, I'm seeing a reason in the fact that we don't know what might happen in the nearest future. For that reason, God will desire you to be of service when you can. We will not always be available. All of us will have our chances to participate or be included in one thing or the other that He's doing however and at a time. What matters is to seize this chance and discharge to our best or as God has given us to discharge. The brook dried but before it was this ended, the brook was a yielded means meeting the need God drawn on it. If the brook were a human being, after it died and passed on, he wouldn't be reminded or ever have the consciousness of ever not being of service when it could. Though it is not human yet we know we are full of testimonies today that both the ravens and the brook as an associate met the needs of Elijah. I am not saying you will die soon. The truth of what I'm showing you is here. 

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2, KJV

"1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth".

That place assures if you cast your bread upon the waters (even if as an intentional investment and not a give away as the Lord may demand of you as I'm saying) that you'll find it after many days. Then, it goes further to say that you should give a portion to seven and then to many people. Then, it concludes with a reason, "for you don't know what will come upon the earth". The brook couldn't have seen its own end but all of us know it'll dry if heaven remains shut. The brook may be flamboyant and boastful because it is of the fullness of the Creator it has received rain after rain. But just a little witholding of hand dried it up. May I also say we are like the brook in God's hands. We are serving purposes and never forgotten by Him when we are both full or dry. When heaven opens up and gives its rain, did the brook not later partake of it? It obviously does. The moral is this. If God makes a demand on you for whatsoever reason, don't withhold yourself. The reason is because a time, a soon time is coming when you may not be able to will yourself in that direction again. When your brook still has water, offer it up. Give Elijah a drink. That's your service to God and to humanity. The Bible says in John 9:4, "I must work the works of He that sent me while it is day, for night comes when no man can work any longer". If God calls you to be a kingdom fashion designer, model, preacher or even a school teacher; that'll be because God wants to use you to meet the needs that He has seen. The brook and the ravens didn't give the same thing to Elijah but it was to the same end - to sustain and keep him alive. Irrespective of your field or calling, you'll be fulfilling God's will there. If He has come this early for you, go and be of service in that profession. Even nowadays, age limit is set in some professions. Except at your age God is calling you there; if you're over age, all the doors will remain shut at you. But I tell you, while your brook still have water, let it give a drink to the commanded especially. This is kingdom admnistering. Mind you, the fellow sent to you may not be a minister of God. However, whomsoever God will say you should adopt, like sending an orphan to school, kindly do. Your brook may not even dry but by the time you come to obey God, you may be shocked that that same child has found adoption and support in another commanded vessel who obeyed promptly. So, what I have, I'll give especially once I ascertain that it's the Lord's doing and His sent that stands before me. I'm a tool in His hands and I believe, so you are.

PRAYER: Lord, may I be of full service while I may. May this remembrance be in me that of Your fullness and from You comes all I have. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 7:1-8:40; Acts 27:1-20; Psalm 7:1-17; Proverbs 18:22

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