THE BOWELS OF COMPASSION AND HOW TO BE HUMAN

Good day brethren,

This season is a special season. The economy of the country has made it so. Due to this, many are finding it difficult to cope or function to meet their primary needs. 

We have received calls and messages from several quarters even outside our ministry as people trusted Jireh to look down on them.

Please, through you also, God can minister to one or two. Don't withhold. Be merciful. If you've been eating your food alone before, this is the season to share it with someone. Bestow kindness and God's generosity to others while bearing in mind that you're only a steward and custodian of God's resources. 

Every human being has a thing known as a bowel of compassion. It can be shut at other humans. When such occurs, one goes unconcerned and untouched with the feelings of other people. Their complaints, sorrows, pangs and troubles can't be related with. However, if people makes demands on you and you can understand why and then tear a part of you for them; then you'll have reward of your Father who's in heaven. 

I John 3:17, KJV

"But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?"

Personally, I've been hungry many times before and I don't want any to be hungry too. It's not good. Hunger can kill the expression of gift. It can handicaps a whole human being from performing. Your only excuse is if you don't have "this world's goods." If you have money, food etc, please give it out. Let people survive through you. 

I'm calling all of us on this platform to give to one, two or any God will bring to cross with our path. As a ministry and a fellow, we have done this and won't withhold to do more. 

May God bless and increase what you have at hand so that it can not only keep you alive but ministers to others. For those of you saying like the widow of Zarephath, "you see, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die [I Kings  17:12]. God has a message for you. It won't finish. Rather, God will give you the provision that can accommodate any seeking for space in what you have at hand. So says the Lord today!

Olusola ADEJUMO, M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria. 

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 25/07/2021

SUNDAY - 25TH JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WARNING TO THOSE WHO BOAST OF VICTORY BEFORE THE BATTLE

Read I Kings 20:1-20

I Kings  20:11, KJV

"And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off."

One of the confusing statements to many minds in the Bible is this one. What does it means?

Who's he that puts on his harness? This is the warrior that's just getting ready for war. Who's he that puts off his harness? That's he who has just finished battling.

There's a difference between he that has fought a battle and already knows his place and any whose fate in battle has not been decided. If someone puts on his harness or armour and goes to battle, no matter how good a warrior he is, two fates are before him. He either wins or loses. He won't know which would be his outcome until the battle ends. Even if all the parameters of measuring success of wars tends to assure him of victory, he's still like a man whose success is not solely determined by him but also by another. Who don't know therefore that the opponent also even if he's small will not just give up like that. For this reason, war can't be decided to have favoured any until it ends. 

Ahab knowing this told Benhadad not to threaten him with war. Benhadad had earlier sent messengers to ask Ahab of his gold, silver, wife, children and precious things. This king seeing he has been besieged obliged. Later on, the uncontentious Benhadad returned to him with another message. That he will send messengers to rummage through his kingdom to pick anything they found precious. Now, he's no longer allowing Ahab the free hand and choice to send whatsoever he deems to give.

This is where Ahab said no. He counselled with the elders and they said he should refuse Benhadad. Having being made strong in this manner, he sent the messenger of Benhadad to him not to boast with certainty as if he had fought the war and had obtained result. His threat should be humble rather. 

That's how that statement originates. Who don't know that in life, situations may not go as fathomed. Life is unpredictable and we should always be humble at every time and at every situation. The reason is very simple. Life can defy our expectation. Did the Bible not say, horses are prepared for the day of battle but victory belongs to the Lord [Prov. 21:31]."

If victory is what the Lord gives, then it means there are things you can't guarantee personally because it not only solely relies on you.  You must rely on the graciousness of another to give or donate. If all of us know this, we ought to manifest humility in our speech and in deed. The reason is simple, "he that puts on his armour shouldn't boast like he that's putting it off." A fellow who has claimed victory can boast, celebrate, rejoice and noise his success and claims around but any who's yet to enter battle ought to speak in a measure that shows probability of winning or losing.

Be humble! Don't be drunk in pride. Benhadad with all his boasts eventually lose. 

PRAYER: Lord, equip me with humility and foresight. May I speak according to the measure you've given me even if I prophesy. I banish pride and drunkenness. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 14:1-16:14, Romans 9:1-24, Psalm 19:1-14, Proverbs 20:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 24/07/2021

SATURDAY - 24TH JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

ANCESTRY

READ Matthew 1:1-17

Matthew 1:17,KJV

"So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations."

Whenever people hear ancestry; evil, ancestral curses and flows that should not be inherited are things their minds shift to. Some have denied their ancestry. They erroneously believe that running far from it is what will make them not be a shareholder in what runs in that line. Your not visiting home or your ancestral land is not what severe the ties between you and your ancestry. That might be on a physical level but on the spiritual and blood level, you're very much with your ancestors. You carry their gene and something peculiar about you is from them.  If blessing or curses work in an ancestry, they'll keep working irrespective of location. They are spiritual forces. Distance doesn't break them. 

In today's reading, you'll see a long ancestry from where Jesus was produced. No man falls from heaven. No one just arrives like that. His arrival predates some people and for him to be birthed, he must come through a line. Such man or woman may not be able to account for everything in the past of his ancestry but he should know what sort of men have predated him. That's where his boast or humiliation lies. If you look at Jesus line, Judah impregnated his own daughter in-law to produce children as cunningly devised by Tamar herself. David snatched Bathsheba, wife of Uriah to produce Solomon from whom Rehoboam came that continues the line. This is a call to be careful of not making a wrong history that can be often referred to.  Do you know if a child gets to school, someone can send him home by telling him at confrontation that his ancestors are wives snatchers. That's how people generalize events: both good and bad. The reason for a clean ancestry. You may not be able to write another ancestral history but from where you are, ensure the kind you'll like people to reference is daily lived.

You need to know your ancestry. How do one know his ancestry? By simply asking those who predates you who are still alive about those who are gone and things past. In some places, their family history which includes family tree etc are well documented down for generations to come to know of their root. In some other places, they're only communicated orally. Either will do. However, you may need to pray too. It is what people know they'll tell you. What of those they don't know because those it happened to didn't disclose. Even you as you are, you have secrets which another or many people don't know of. There's nothing as rejoicing the heart however as to know what sort of stock you're from. If you don't know your ancestry, you won't know where to stop the curses and start the blessing. If you're blessed, you won't carry the conscious knowing of being blessed at heart which assures you of being blessed even in the desert. You can even be called another fellow and agrees to such in ignorance. 

May I tell you that what is aiding some or bringing some down is simply their ancestry. Some ancestries are just blessings to some people while it's a curse to others. Consider the family of former president Kennedy of United States. There's no time something evil don't happen to a member of that family. Kennedy himself was assassinated. If you take this family and put it beside the Jonathan Edwards family, you'll then see a blessed family. 

Only unserious people who wants to be manipulated by what has been in the beginning of their ancestries which they don't know are those who will close their eyes to learning about their family history. People nowadays don't want to learn history. They'll say it's irrelevant to the modern man. Even the Bible has its Genesis and even the New Testament refers to that beginning. God also covers time. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. No one is on his own. You are tied to your ancestors and they're tied to you.

From Abraham to David was fourteen generations. From David to the carrying away into slavery was another fourteen generations and from this carrying away to Jesus is another fourteen generations. If you calculate together, that's fourty-two generations to Christ. Imagine the numerous activities that had happened in each generation. You know some of those characters that predates Jesus. If you pull how they lived together, that will amount into a heap of information. Then, you'll see that life moves in circles and at times circles must be broken for a new life to be lived. 

PRAYER: Lord, help me to create a better history than my ancestors. I eat the good fruit and not the sour of my ancestry.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 24:1-26:11, Romans 4:1-12, Psalm 13:1-6, Proverbs 19:15-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/07/2021

FRIDAY - 23RD JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHAT DID HE PREACH?

Jonah 3:4,KJV

"And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."

You know more than ten times, I was asking myself “what did he preach?” I was wondering at the outcome Jonah generated from his message of “yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown” and how the Ninevites responded with a great responding. It doesn’t tally at all. From the A-Z of Nineveh, it was the same proclamation Jonah made. He was just shouting “yet forty days…” I wouldn’t believe that will turn a thing but it did. No special rhema or the tracing of the root of words. 

I’m just baffled at what sort of result that was without dividing the scriptures. He was just proclaiming and yet commanded the attention and obedience of all. After his proclamation, nobody in Nineveh could sit comfortably again. They were moved into immediate action and sought God in fasting with  animals seeking repentance. Who does that? Could it be the high pitch of Jonah’s voice that day that gave him such harvest? 

I found out it was the God given message he preached. That’s what it means to preach under the anointing. Jonah was obedient to preach the message he was given to preach. He preached the message that God had fetched upon investigation (conducting a search on what the need of the people was) knowing it will command the obedience of the Ninevites. Indeed, it was like magic that day. Believe it, I learnt that when we co-labour with God, He does much of the task and leaves us with little burden to bear. Do you know that it was only Jonah’s voice that was employed and his mobility to move from one place to the other? The main tool by which the people began to shiver was not his. It was given him. So, when a man is given a download from heaven, that is the message, song or prayer point that can address issues and change things. If we want to labour less in the public, we will have to first gather this tangibility in the chamber. When God gave Jonah his message, no Ninevite was there but when he preached his message, they knew they heard a sermon and it reached all. Whether he was heard in person or reported by a Ninevite to another, they were just being convicted and catching the fire of revival. When I have just preached or taught under the anointing, I know. There will be unusual boldness and I will have the right words to describe even the minute details. I will so much express myself that I will be satisfied and will have no interest or much in that teaching I have done again. I will sense the satisfaction of exhausting that sermon or part of the scripture I have taught it from. I will want to move on to discover another thing and hear God anew. Also, when I’m struggling to preach, I know. It will just be like irons that are having difficulty rolling well due to friction. It will need grease you know. 

It is a message that God has given a man that will lead to utterance. If God punishes a man with utterance, he will just try ministering and find out that ministration isn’t coming. Meanwhile, if God should loosen his tongue and give him acceptable words to communicate divine intention, he will hit where he needs to hit in people’s lives. He will puncture the right side that will lead to confession, repentance, creation of solutions and dividing of paths etc.

It is not good doing guess work. When you have God’s word with you, you know where to focus it to because the word itself is given with a focus to attack or concentrate on something. What will turn things and bring about change are sermons, songs and ideas that are sparked and birthed from the womb of the Holy Ghost. If they are not received, they will only deceive the hearers. If they are given, you will see your labour not equalizing your outcome. You will ask yourself “but I didn’t preach long, what did I do then?” May we receive  the impartation that will make us make impact.

PRAYER: Lord, I submit to You, fetch me words, sponsor me and let me minister by Your Spirit.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20, Luke 11:37-12:7, Psalm 78:1-31, Proverbs 12:19-20

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/07/2021

THURSDAY - 22ND JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

LORD, I WANT TO HAVE THIS TESTIMONY

Genesis 22:14, KJV

"And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, IN THE MOUNT OF THE LORD IT SHALL BE SEEN."

What testimony? God requested of Abraham, Isaac (his only son) who ought to remain a consolation to him. Abraham obeyed God and off to Moriah he went. 

Where we agree obedience at heart precedes our action is where God agreed Abraham had slain Isaac already though was about acting it out. You might have obeyed God on a thing but because people haven't seen your body act it, they may call you disobedient or a rebel. God won't mistake you for another. God sees obedience in the heart even before its physical and open manifestation. Men however don't until their naked eyes can bear them witness.

Abraham was about killing Isaac when a voice stopped him from above. God sees he has released what he cherished most and has not preferred Isaac over Him. God has given Abraham a clear instruction that he can't pretend he didn't hear because it was a painful one. For some Christians, when God communicates easy things, they hear but when they hear hard instructions, they pretend it was not God they heard. They'll rather want to hear and hear until the idol in their heart is given them as instruction or direction. Such people will fall into trouble at day's end. 

What did the voice from above say as Abraham picks the knife?

Genesis 22:12-13, KJV

"12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son."

God testified Abraham fears him because he has not withheld Isaac from Him. Pay attention to God's emphasis on "thy only son." Giving is easier when one does from his abundance. A possessor of one thing will want to retain it. But Abraham still sacrificed his only begotten Isaac. That's hard. It was after this something significant happened as if it was not a reality. God gave Abraham a ram. A ram from nowhere. At a very tight corner when we thought all hope was lost for Abraham and that Isaac was forever gone, Isaac made a come back. He reentered the ring! We had thought, Isaac is dead but a kind of substitution happened. An image of Christ substituting us in His death. The testimony is "on the mount of the Lord, there shall be provision." If where Abraham didn't think of, a miracle bursts forth from there, where you never think of or had only thought less of, miracle will come from there. At a time when your hands are shivering and you're asking, "is the show ending now and forever indeed", you'll receive a return into performance. You'll continue. You'll persist.

To you who is in dire need of provision, miracle or an expectation, you'll see your answer show up. Wherever your ram is, let it appear. A spouse can be a ram. You've been expecting a show up of him/her for long yet without appearance. I'm hearing, "on God's mount, it shall be seen." What you're seeking shall be found.

That ram just appeared. Abraham didn't call for it but divine provision made it available. Your provision also, ready made will appear in Jesus' name.

PRAYER: Is a spouse, money, promotion, healing etc your own ram? Ask and it shall appear. Lord, let me always make a comeback.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 1:1-2:21, John 5:1-23, Psalm 105:37-45, Proverbs 14:28-29

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 21/07/2021

WEDNESDAY - 21ST JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE WORDS OF WHOSE MOUTH

Job 23:12,KJV

"Neither have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food."

Whose words do you esteem? Imagine a pupil whose friend keeps asking 'will your dad buy the toy for you as he promised?.' That's a question challenging the father's integrity. The boy must have known his father well enough to be persuaded of his father's promise. The word and food are struggling to have the attention of people also. Food has gained many because it comes to us naturally. Hunger reminds us of eating. Not eating reminds us of health failure and death. Meanwhile, we fail to see the many dangers that lack of words from God's mouth can bring. Greater havoc! Many have given their allegiance to what they put in their mouth thinking that real survival comes from it.

Many, many people rank food as being important over instructions from God's mouth. You can't do without eating in a day. Shouldn't you also live with instructions from God per day? Stop deceiving yourself and face reality. When food is graded above what God would have said, you'll soon be in danger. Do you know there are business men who will eat and take all sort of drinks in the morning before going to work who don't see it more necessary to enquire and secure words from God's mouth concerning their businesses and lives? Yet, this same people do not have a prophet watching their back. Not long, his investment collapses and he experiences a quick down trend for having not received words from God's mouth. Survival is on food but real survival is on the words that stems forth from God's mouth to you.

People strengthen themselves with physical food and jettison strengthening every facet of their lives with what God will have to say. Real and cooperate danger! You see, God has more than enough to say to you. Your not coming at all is what barricades this free flow of privilege information. Motor accidents, plane crash, building collapse, stock collapse etc would still happen but words that you have waited on God to receive early in the morning or at afore times will save you from such. Even, if you're given a prophecy and you're the kind that despises and mock divine things, you'll still have fallen victim of what the prophecy had predicted. Mind you, receiving words for your life and others you're responsible for must be on daily basis. That's the key to your continuous survival on this earth. That's why the word was said to be steady and uninterrupted. 

Matthew 4:4

"...it takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God's mouth." MSG

It must be continuous word. Why it should also be ever progressive word is because we receive and are given physical meat daily. We thrive on that right?

Luke 11:3

"Give us each day the food we need" NLT

Each day means daily. This is the principle of continual existence on the face of the earth. Even, gods and goddesses' worshippers rank communications and directions from their deity first of all. The priest daily consults his oracle too. He knows today will be different from yesterday and tomorrow from today. Shouldn't we therefore learn this wisdom better seeing it is written clearly in bold prints for us. Life is filled with uncertainties and unforseen contingencies which makes our daily receiving more important. Don't negotiate this today. Start a relationship with God by becoming born again and qualifying for notices.

PRAYER: May I not negotiate intimacy with you. Teach me waiting and receiving. Hint me of future occurrences. I won't fall victim of evils to come.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 13:1-14:29, Acts 18:23-19:12, Psalm 146:1-10, Proverbs 18:2-3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/07/2021

TUESDAY - 20th JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

EVEN WHEN HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY

Matthew 5:18, KJV

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

Nothing as promise or prophecy will tarry and be held back from being fulfilled in God's Word. Until all is fulfilled, heaven and earth: this one we're in can't end. So, if you find any promise in the Bible that's claimable or that awaits fulfilment, you can take it to God to fulfill it in your life. 

You will be helping rapture to come faster if all these promises and prophecies are fulfilled on time. That's how to hasten Jesus coming apart from preaching the message of the kingdom to the ends of the earth. 

Just like heaven and earth would pass away but not a jot or title of the law would pass without being fulfilled, so also, many things can happen against you yet all will eventually be to the fulfilment of God's promise to the least item that God has predestined you fulfill here on earth.

Who am I sent to? Heaven and earth may pass away but one thing stands, endures and is unshaken. You will fulfill all despite contention, rivalry or the struggle.

Psalms 46:2-3, KJV

"2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;  3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof." 

If a mountain that's firmly planted on earth should suddenly relocate and be planted in the sea, you should know that's disorderliness. A disordered world is what's playing out. So also, when heaven and earth passes away (that looks like a kind of disorder of the cosmos system). Despite that, God's Word won't fail. 

Let there be roarings, threatenings, delays etc against you. Yet, you'll fulfill all to the latter. Not that heaven and earth won't pass away. They will but the Word of God or the law is not minding them. It must come to pass despite their own sureness to come to an end. 

Let the sea roars. Let all sorts of experiences come your way. One thing is sure, you'll accomplish all. So shall it be.

PRAYER: Lord, in the midst of roaring contrariness, I fulfill all to the latter. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 24:1-26:11, Romans 4:1-12, Psalm 13:1-6, Proverbs 19:15-16

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