MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/07/2023

SUNDAY- 30TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

Long Life and God's Salvation Oreoluwa ADEJUMO (M'Wings)

THE COMMANDED IS THE COMMANDED EVEN THOUGH HE QUESTIONS YOU

Mark 11:1, KJV

"1 ...he sendeth forth two of his disciples, 2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him. 3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither".

I looked at Jesus and I resorted at a man who lived the ordained and the predestined life. How I pray that our feet will all meet with the pre-planned of God. May you not go astray or wander off God's ready made plans. May you rather fit into it to the praise of He who has called and chosen you. 

Jesus enjoyed a lot. This verse contains one of the special privileges Jesus had. Such a prophetic life. It is said and discovered to be so. Jesus put two disciples on errand to the end that they might fetch Him a colt. It's time to ride triumphantly into Jerusalem. Everything is timed. He gives the address and even sees into the future that they'll be questioned as to what purpose they need the colt for. So, in taking thought for them, He told them what response to give when asked who ordered them to loose the colt. 

You see, that's another thing that amazes me. How did He know they'll face the probing of men? Obviously, that's the operation of Word of Knowledge. It's the manifestation of revelation. Roads unwalked would just be clear to you. Paths untrodden would lay bare before you. You'll just know (not by yourself) but of God. As the attempt to fetch the colt begins, a group questions them if they knew what they were doing. Their response was, "the Lord has need of it". It's this answer that satiates. It's this answer that settles all. Meanwhile, though these two disciples were commanded disciples and the people they met were as well commanded yet, they were tried. So, should we say they were not in the first place commanded by God? No. They were commanded by God and have been put under command since those two disciples received that instruction to go untie that colt. Meanwhile, one understanding is being supplied to us here. It is the measure that sieves truth from falsehood. That measure has been put in place so that many people won't perpetrate evil successfully in the name of God without being found out and stopped. Imagine if when they asked who sent you them, they had said, "Pilate or one of the big names", what do you think would have happened? Those ones wouldn't have agreed that they untie it let alone go with it. The instruction they had received is that, "the Lord has need of it" and on that note, when He comes for it (irrespective of who He send) it should be released to Him. That's why you'll be a failure if you deliver the captive of the oppressor and you were asked and you said, you did. Only God does. 

These disciples faced a query, a panel though God had spoken to them in truth and in deed. They still needed to be checked, probed and proven. At day's end, it was clear that they were as well the commanded to the commanded. While God has put men under obligation for them, yet those men had to prove them if they were as well ones sent to them. As such, I say nothing is wrong if you propose to a sister and she says not me. If you're sure of who spoke to you, go and meet Him. He'll speak and bend the knee of that sister for you. It is only when people are doing trial and error and they miss it that they'll say God does not work. Did He lead or guide you to someone or you're trying to slate a meet and pitch a relationship with someone? If you miss it, admit you miss it. Repent of having said you were formerly led. Rebuke the spirit of error. Have your conscience repaired and wait on God for who He will send you to. The mark that it is the Lord's doing is that when you appear, you have a word for that person and the fellow has a word in return for you. It is when you both click and enter each other this way that the Lord has spoken to both of you to and fro and sent you to each other to and fro. This test filters away for us those God didn't send but who wants to take what God has prepared and He's reserving for His own beloved. God forbid! You'll be discovered and rebuked once. That someone is the commanded doesn't mean he won't check you out. If God sends your church to go and meet a driver who He has spoken to who will avail your church his bus for a week of mission and evangelism. Don't you think God in His wisdom would have given that man a sign as well as yourself so that when both of you meet, there'll be agreement that you're for each other. Why won't God do that since He's not the author of confusion? That's the clarity. It is the measure that rather solidify our faith in this act and practice that if God commands someone for your sake, they shall after all surrender to the will of God. They may check things out, they may want to know who sent you and question the authenticity of your appearing and coming. However, it shall be unto you as afore said to you by God and as predicted by the words of His mouth. Keep your calm. Be assured that they shall obey if it's God. What we must prove is, "is it God?"

PRAYER: I receive patient spirit to tarry to hear God before my feet runs any errand.. 

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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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/07/2023

SATURDAY- 29TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

MARKING OUR COMMANDED

READ Gen. 24

Genesis 24:7, KJV

"The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence".

There's another miracle that's mostly found or attached to finding it so (where you're given a description and you go but to meet it so). That other one is the miracle of commanding or putting men under command for your sake. I have taught this previously in a series but it's coming anew. 

I have loads of reasons not to doubt an inch that before the arrival of that servant of Abraham, God had to kneel Rebekah on her knees to receive Isaac. One of the things that amazes me is prophecy and consequently its manifestation and how God can start drawing a line here and connect it to another there. God can raise a man here and raise another there and make both cross path together. Shockingly, they may not have met and may even differ in race, tongue or tribe. It's the Lord's doing and it's always marvellous in our sights. We have rolls of testimonies upon testimonies on how God led or guided A to B yet B was not in unawareness of the fact that A would come. That's the God of prophecy. He's the only One who could draw an angle on a straight line in this manner. He gives A a word and He confirms same to B so that there'll be agreement when they both meet. Believe Him!

Abraham told his servant from the confidence of having walked and tarried with God that God's angel will go before him and help him in choosing rightly for Isaac. At the well, the fact that leading and guidance are not scam or fraud turns me from the inside out. That servant stood by the well that day and prayed. 

Genesis 24:12-15, KJV

"12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder".

Imagine brethren! That place says, "before he was done praying", behold Rebekah came out. Where was she hiding before? Everything looks as if it was planned, arranged and automated right? It can't but look like that and that's because something divine is now working and walking with this man who has gone to find a wife for Isaac. When God is with you, such is the destiny meet you'll have and experience. What Abraham said that an angel will go before him in reality is true. The manifestation of an angel having gone before him is what we are witnessing now. Despite the fact that he leaned the choice of who he wants Isaac's wife to be to the woman who will give him a drink and then water his camels (a very hard one), yet it was the right, chosen and ordained one that came. It's the one he'll be happy to go back with for his master that came. It is the daughter of Bethuel, a relative who shows up and not one who's not of the kindred of Abraham and so will be unfit according to the afore stated requirement (Gen.24:4). How well believers must know they must not be unequally yoked! Rather, we marry our kindreds in faith. 

What sort of life is this? A miraculous life. This man didn't stoop low. He lifted his bargain higher. He inflated the price on who to Isaac's wife will be. He didn't stop at she who will give him a drink but she who will water his camels also. Ten camels for Christ's sake! I agree with giving a man a drink. He won't even finish a gallon but what about 10 solid camels who had journeyed and of surety are thirsty. I'm sure those camels have even used up most of the storage of fat and energy in their hump and now they're all craving for replenishment. Who is that born well lady except one under command from the Lord (chosen and ordained) who will agree to such demand when there's no prize obviously at sight. Nobody! I am sure. Except she that God has commanded and appointed. The fact that such has been commanded or secretly afore spoken to by God is revealed in how without argument, they are prepared to do hard things for your sake. It is only a request from Abraham's servant to Rebekah that got the job down. She agrees to give him a drink and then volunteers to give his camels. 

Genesis 24:17-19, KJV

"17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking".

Mind you, though this servant prayed to God that service would be extended to his camels by that chosen fellow yet he didn't request that of Rebekah specifically. It was Rebekah who volunteered herself for that. What else proves she's under God's command and is an answer to Abraham's desire for Isaac?

Imagine a man adopt a child and gives him the best just like he's giving his biological children, so much more that differences couldn't be read between them. That man even if he didn't hear any audible voice was softened or spoken to by the Lord and put under such obligation. This is why I don't worry. This is why I don't turn to all persons for help. I only go to those commanded for my sake. I only pray to be led or guided to them. Even if you make overwhelming demands on them (not because of covetousness) but in order to prove God who has sent you to them, you'll see them rise to meet it. Look at how God met the need of Abraham's son. As if Abraham knew it, he had said God's angel would go ahead of them to make the journey prosperous and so it is. Rebekah so much comes under God's spell and command that she wouldn't even agree with her brethren to tarry some days before departure. While they were advocating for her, she rather refused and chose to go immediately with a total stranger (Gen.24:57-58). Now, I'll say irrespective of where you are, live or stay, God can send you to who to marry, befriend (as in normal friendship) or to submit to (as in father-son relationship). I want the relationship I have with people be the type that's ordained of God and not the type that people choose friends based on perceived reasons. I want to be ignorant of a fellow yet finding God knitting my heart with his and vice versa. This is how  Markson Etta Lane Timothy Benson (Missionary to the Cameroon and Calabar) and I met in Nigeria Christian Corpers' Fellowship in Kastina. It began as a relationship of a father to a son. I coached him in the things of God. I just observed that he admires me though older than I. Something about me (the anointing I sure know) attracts him and so he sticks to me. Even other corp members would fondly call me Elijah and call him Elisha. On this note, he opens to all I have to say and so I was able to instruct him in much. Not knowing he'll even go into ministry later, I told him of Zacharias Tanee Fomum of Cameroon who has the ministry of mission, fasting and praying. Just in a year, this young man found himself in that ministry and has been there since then. But today, our relationship has sweetly evolved. We are now friends. He's my covenant friend and brother. He's one of the few on earth's surface who could call me now and I'll exercise myself for and vice versa. 

People of God, the message I bring to you is that of destiny, destination and the ordainment of paths. It ain't joke. It works like fire when God is involved. You'll meet yours. The patronage Spirit of our tribe - the Christian tribe shall ensure you meet your Rebekah for marriage, business, friendship, fathering etc in the name of Jesus. Whenever you meet the commanded, they're always under command - ready to do God's bidding even if they don't look commanded. Markson is the least I physically observed to open up to me and I'm too lean and physically deprived in stature to have been esteemed a prophet. However, we collided, we met; deep called unto deep and so we remain. To this end, I say HALLELUJAH! Let God work out relationships for you or else they'll be those of sorrow and pain to you. The God who spoke through Abraham that an angel would go ahead in choosing a wife for Isaac is He who must have secretly persuaded Rebekah of acceptance of an Isaac that she has never seen before. Whatsoever God does is straight. Don't add to His work lest He rebukes you and don't remove from His act lest you're proven a liar. Apart from prophecy being made manifest (like the servant met Abraham's words so), your path shall cross with the commanded. Those who will stick closer than a brother. Those who could risk all for you. Those who will submit in surrenderness and say, "I am the handmaiden of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Your (God's) word". Such are always Mary in obedience. 

PRAYER: Father, ordain my path with those critical to my destiny. I become Mary at heart and in obedience. Kneel people for me. 

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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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/07/2023

THURSDAY - 13TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN WILL HE ASK YOU BIG THINGS? - The Commanded Series 008

Genesis 22:1-2, KJV

"1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of".

When the Bible says, "there's no temptation as taken you that's not common to man", it's actually true. That place again emphasizes that "God is faithful. He will not allow us to be tempted or tested beyond what we can bear. He also says but with every temptation/test, He will provide a way of escape" (I Cor.10:13). Mark the fact that "He will provide a way of escape". We shall deal with it in another issue or devotional. 

Will you tell your three year old to go and lift a weight which by reason of understanding you know it's a seven year old who could lift such. Nobody does that. Not one. All of us have learnt how to give good gifts to our children and that's even revealed in the commesurate measure with which we measure unto them. Even that, as only as they could bear. However, if you're a task master like the Egyptians and those at hand are not your own, springing from your bowel, you may under that condition which is void of pity explore them by a great exploit. However, we're all reasonable human beings. Thank God we are. Hallelujah. 

One day, God wanted to have a good laugh and teach us lessons on faith too. So, He beckoned unto a particular called man (Gen.12:1) who has been walking with Him and has learnt Him to a good degree to go give his only child to Him. Now, the way God came to instruct towards that act plainly reveals God as being mischievous though driving at a point too. You too may not be able to hold on but rather laugh by the time I expose to you how God delivered His message to him. God said, "take now thy son, your only son Isaac, whom you love and get you to the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell you of". 

This is a strange request but before we go there, let's raise some questions. Is it not enough to say, "take now thy son, Isaac and offer him as a burnt offering?" Will that not be clear to Abraham? It will be. So, why the repeated emphasis? Look at how God intentionally speaks to Abraham. God does in a way that He wants him to feel the entire import of that message. God wants him to have the full shiver; God wants him to bring forth all the sweat. The level God is calling Abraham to for which He is using this test must not be spared Abraham. He'll have the blessing right? Let him pass the test also. All in all, God just does not want to spare him from discipleship at all. So, the communication came point blank and even with a sort of hardness and a rubbing of gun powder into his wound. Imagine God saying, "your only son, Isaac whom thou lovest". Why would God have to be counting and deliberately choosing His words. This demand and emphasis shows how far Abraham has walked with God and how much God could ask of him or request him to submit to. What you're to sacrifice or what God demands of you to spare at times is a function of your secret growth and journey with Him. I know God won't say you should again go and offer your own child now. Jesus has become the better and final sacrifice but let's say you have an only child and God tells you to give it away to another parents to raise, just like Samuel was given away and Moses was adopted. Meanwhile, while Hannah had hope of giving birth and actually gave birth to more children, let's say, "you and God knows you will have none again". You haven't seen that? That instruction is not because you're poor and you're begging for life. As a matter of fact, you're enough and even have multitude of adopted children you're sponsoring to school as a well to do couple. But now that you have yours after years of waiting, will you turn your only child to another parents (whom God off course would have spoken to and settle matters with) to take the boy from you and nurse for Him (God). What will you do? You know that under such circumstance, those you're sent to can't come to tell you what God has said you should do. They're only waiting to confirm it. Let's quantify Abraham's sacrifice with that example I gave. Won't it be difficult doing that especially knowing that this is your only son? As in, somebody who came after all the fights of faith as a result of God's promise. It's such instance Abraham found himself. That's what God told him to go and give. Some of us may even pity him. Obviously we have many times but what God demands of Abraham is actually what he could bear. That's because God has afore matured him to that place where such instruction won't be too heavy for him. We didn't have any record that Abraham contests that demand.  We should also ask, why didn't God ask Sarah of same? While Sarah isn't the man with the call to become a nation, I'm sure she may not be able to do it because the relationship of Abraham with God is not the same Sarah has with God. She knows God no doubt but Abraham has walked with God and grown in faith superiorly. Abraham also obeyed God and not because he knew (by saying) God will provide for Himself. No! The writer of Hebrews says, knowing that God can wake Isaac up to a better ressurection, he does it in faith.

Hebrews 11:17-19, KJV

"17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure".

So, his reason for taking that step of faith is that stated in Hebrews above. He must have believed it can't but still be unto me according to God's Word (that says I'll give birth by Sarah and of that, He'll make me a multitude of nation). Nothing less. That could have informed why He accounted that even if he slaughters Isaac, God will raise him up from the dead since a promise has gone over him as the predicted child of promise. And I'll say that's even a greater faith than ultimately having known by fact that God will provide a ram from the start. 

Listen to me. What God will request of you will correspond with your growth and journey with Him. If He ever asks anything bigger before He matures you to that extent, it's because He's seeking to make you change levels with Him into the next. So, He's teaching practical to you as a way of introducing the next level to you. If you have a house and you hear God clearly and truly telling you to give it to a particular family, you will easily hearken if over the years you have walked with God in faith to such an extent that He could now lay the burden of big things on you. Mind you, chronological age is different from spirit or spiritual maturity. Someone who has witnessed God and seen His almightiness; who has known His terror and the joy of obeying Him also will not count it much to give. He'll know God has His own back too and will supply his needs according to His riches in glory also. Even if you have same house and could give same, your first problem will be seeking to settle who has spoken to you. So, God doesn't just come to novices to begin to ask them things. That's why even when God came to Samuel the first time, he was confused as to who was giving him instruction (I Sam.3:4-5). God's will is that you'll have settled hearing and be assured of who speaks to you before demands ever begins to come. If not, and a big request comes, you will just be limp and not have faith for it. You'll be flat on the inside. For Christ's sake, it is only in a night dream, just one appearance of God that an angel of God told Joseph to take as wife Mary and receive responsibility over an equation in her womb that the angel said was the Holy Ghost (Matt.1:20). Do you know why that man didn't argue it? He has grown to that extent, has faith for that extent and has received grace for such extent. Joseph isn't a small boy spiritually. Your wife was caught in adultery, you said you'll put her away (though you'll be justified for that); what if you discovered you've been raising a bastard and God is saying, "receive him as a son" and "take the mother as a wife also?" What if God says keep shut about it? Now you know but let it be between you, your wife and I. What would you do? Do you have grace and faith for that? Have you grown to this extent? And I believe there are many unspeakables we won't learn about until we get to heaven. 

You see, His dealings with us is in phases. Just like He knows we are dust and so bears with us (like we bear with our own kids), God also knows what and what not to communicate or command you to do. Everything will be commensurate to your faith (either the one you have now or that could be stirred at the demand). When the Bible says, "take my yoke upon you, for my burden is light" (Matt.11:29-30), do you think Jesus was speaking gibberish? Part of His yoke is what He will command as a revealed will for individuals occasionally. It will be a bitter cup but won't be too much of a bitter cup that you can't drink. When the sins of the whole world was laid on Jesus in Gethsemane, Jesus could feel the weight. He said, "let this cup pass over me but He submits when He says, "but as You will" (Matt.26:29). He drank it under grace. Jesus had grace, faith and help for that. God doesn't seek to break people's backbone. Christian, you must continue to flip and ascend the staircases of growth with God. If He tells you to forgive someone who has deeply hurt you and you eventually do because God persuades you to, you can proceed further to be more refined under greater demands and tasks until you get where without a revelation or request of the Holy Ghost, you forgive greater hurts (as already requested of you to do by God's Word). Many times, those who hears God expressly on a matter are those who have refused to be consoled or settled by God's revealed will as already stated in the Bible. If the Spirit places demands of little things on you in this your little days and you submit, you'll have grown much over the years that He could place the burden of great things on you. Even in your poverty or stringency, you'll meet it but with an assurance and revelation that He who ministers seeds to the sower will minister bread to your eater. For every bitter cup, there's an accompanying grace. Seek it. Take it!

PRAYER: May I grow in faith. I receive the grace, help and faith of acting and bearing it all.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 9:1-10:14; Acts 27:21-44; Psalm 8:1-9; Proverbs 18:23-24

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