MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/01/2023

THURSDAY - 19TH JANUARY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

YOU MAY BEGIN TO BE IN WANT - Violator Series 001

Read Luke 15:11-14

Luke 15:14, KJV  

"And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want."

The truth is that you can actually begin to be in want. You may set out being full but you might have been emptied and so much spent that you arrive at a place (where you shouldn't have gotten to) where you begin to be "in want."

God may not intend that you run down or descend to the valley of want or need but that's not dependent on God but you. Today, my Father - the One who anointed my head with oil and consequently makes my cup run over wants me ask you how good an economic manager you are. God told me, "I will do mine and I have done mine for many people. I will give you this life's investment at a season. Line will fall in place for you in good places and you'll have a good heritage or inheritance. What will be divided you will be tangibilities. You'll have gathered something. I'll indeed make you a caretaker of something." If you read today's passage, you'll see that the father in that parable who's God invested portions to his two sons. It only seems obvious he gave to one but it was his two sons he gave to. However, the Bible recorded that 'last-last' or at the end that the travelling boy began to be in need. 

The question should be "how, why, what road led him there?" Is this not the boy who started out full? Is he not the fellow that asked the father for his portion and was divided his? This was the young man who while leaving home left with much more than he could ever spend or use. So, what could have gone amiss and why did we have an unfortunate report about him that, "and he began to be in want." Though he has been made a financial manager who custodies millions, yet he came to that concluded end and did so hurriedly because he lived riotously. There's a way that seems right to one but whose end is destruction. There's a way to live and a way not to live. Either way you live is living to work some principles or laws that can't but see you to a conclusion - good or bad.  The way this young man chose to live quickly descended and lowered him down to poverty. Hear what the Bible testifies about him. 

Luke 15:13, KJV

"And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living."

"and WHERE wasted his substance with riotous living?" And there (the far country he had travelled to) wasted his substance with riotous living. What ended him and let him down isn't that he was not bestowed with ensuring wealth. He was well bestowed and furnished for the journey and any life he might chooses to live thereafter. What ended him was that, "he was not a good economic manager." He spent riotously. He spent as a spendthrift. He spent with the notion, "it'll always reproduce itself and I'll always have another" This ain't strategic sowing or investment he did that would have made him see his meat upon the waters even after many days. This is spending on harlots and pretending friends who get attracted because of his vast wealth. That's why after he has made an end of spending all he set out with, he was left alone. If they were right friends, they'll raise him up. But he was left to raise himself up. 

Brethren, don't complain of ever going down or ending like this waster if when you're in your abundant season, you take no thought on how to commission money to serve you for the days you don't yet know. If you're an eat-it-all like this prodigal son, even if you've been invested with much, you may soon feel empty, run on low battery economically and begin to be in want. "To begin to be in want" is just to have begun to taste poverty. I pray for you that God will open your reason and make you understand dangers of riotous living so that you'll be jolted out of wastage and consequences of wastage. 

PRAYER: I receive a fresh baptism and skillfulness in wealth management and administration.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 39:1-41:16; Matthew 12:46-13:23; Psalm 17:1-15; Proverbs 3:33-35

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 03/08/2022

WEDNESDAY - 3RD AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE KNOWS WHERE IT IS HAPPENING - Lead and Feed Series 002

Read I Kings 17:1-16

Psalms 23:2, KJV

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters."

If you've been relying on God to live your life previously (even though you work), as you see God shows up where you've trusted Him, it would build you up in your inner man to trust Him the more. You must start as to grow in the faith of trusting God to meet your needs. Many Christians only have their needs met through their own income or the labour of their hands. They don't till the other side where the Shepherd could send men to them or send them to men. God knows where it is happening and if you show total reliance on Him and consult Him before you move any day, any time, He'll lead you to where the food of the day, tomorrow or the future is. This is done in what choices and decisions He'll guide you to make which will consequently preserve you. The vultures are birds of prey and they only gather where the carcass is. If these birds have enough common sense to opt only for where food is, will God in His infiniteness not care enough leading you to where what you call want will be nailed and fixed. He knows where the green pasture is and He sure leads there. Let Him lead the way. God is the One who should be believed as totally having the ability to ordain our path with goodness. You can't orchestrate it. A praying Christian is a boneless Christian actually. The more anyone prays reveals his dependence on God. His dependence on God is what will make God adopt him and make him the sheep of His pasture. God won't force leadership on you. You must submit yourself and prove to be ready. 

After the decree of Elijah, the man of God that there'll neither be dew or rain, God knew He'll be endangered by his own prophecy. Immediately, the Word of the Lord came to him. The first was for him to depart to Brook Cherith before Jordan. God told him he had commanded the ravens to feed him there. You see, Elijah had to leave "here" for "there." He had to be led to where God had discovered the next move to be for him. "Gold mines" of provision may be hidden to men's sight but God knows it even when disguised in a small setup that you wouldn't find comfortable to work in. There won't be food, there won't be water but God can still locate where water would be for His own. When God leads you somewhere, He prepares the ground before you. It wasn't Elijah who instructed the ravens to bring him food. He had no language to set forth communication with them. God did. They were awaiting his arrival and at arrival, they swiftly went into business. 

Not long however, the brook dried up. This is where we test if leading is real. What happens again? God's instruction came again. Depart to Zarephath for I have commanded a widow to sustain you there. On each occasion, Elijah survived on instructions, on being led and on obeying it. It is God who sees the vision of tomorrow. That's why He might come to work from your future into your present now. Let God help you to make choices and decisions. Each one you make right seals you against any inroad of the devil into your life. The devil is an opportunist. He's looking around to get into people's lives by the cracks left there. If God tells you not to take a job, it is because He has a premonition of things yet to happen even if all makes sense now. We humans live at the present at best but with God, you have a search engine and full light to see into the future. It is this that'll preserve you, break the back of needs and makes you look like a wonder to many. For as many who will wait on God before they make any turn, their lives can never be a revelation of mockery even if they're thought to be slow by people at the moment. An instruction correctly received and heeded to make a choice puts you ahead a thousand times of he who lives his life naturally. When the flood comes, we'll see who will float!

PRAYER: Teach me waiting on Thee. May I live on daily words from You. I float. I'm sustained. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 33:14-34:33; Romans 16:10-27; Psalm 26:1-12; Proverbs 20:19

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