MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 26/09/2021

SUNDAY - 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE NEIGHBOUR OF YOURS THAT'S BETTER THAN YOU

I Samuel 15:28, KJV

"And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou."

Some times ago, a fellow began to contemplate on packing up his relationship. He's engaged and somehow wants to call it quit. As he ponders the matter, this afore quoted verse came to him. "If you go, I'll marry the lady to a neighbour of yours (someone you know) who's better than you". That's how the brother exercised caution and stayed his plan. At least, the sister hasn't done any fearful thing for which she should be put away. Only few have experienced God in this fearful manner also. 

Do you know there is a neighbour of yours that's better than you too? People don't like such message to them. Meanwhile, they like talking about Saul and Judas Iscariot as the replaced and substituted. What you too must know is that once you begin to be unfaithful and show open rebellion consistently over a thing, there's a neighbour of yours (a substitute) that God can bring to collect what He has committed into your hands from you. In order not to lose any thing God has given you, faithfulness is therefore key. The Bible says:

I Corinthians 4:2, KJV

 "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful."

Those of you who are in relationships but are not faithful; God has you in mind today. You now enjoy the presence of another than that of your partner and it's beginning to be to their detriment. That's the term of your marriage you're beginning to go against. If you continue to live like this until you become a violator of the marriage covenant properly without taking thought for repentance; God, who knows how to divide between two people knows how to deliver your spouse and give it to your neighbour who's better than you. What are you good for again? If you have defiantly violated the marriage vows on which your marriage stands with refusal to acknowledge same, you are good for nothing but be taken away in order to free your other partner to be given to a neighbour of yours who off course will cherish him/her better. God freed Abigail from Naboth you know. 

What I'll like you know is not to think too highly of yourself. What you're doing, God has a better choice to do it if you become an unfaithful, unyielding, unrepentant and seeking vindication Saul. You can't threaten God but you should be fearful when God comes around like this. He is the One we all have to do. It is wisdom to pass His tests both in the open and in the secret. Consistent failing of God's test will be deemed unfaithfulness and this calls for nothing else but a shift of responsibility and assignment. You may say, who will collect my spouse from me? I've married this one already and can treat any how. If God sees you're truly taken advantage of your partner but they need a saviour, God will collect them from you. There are marriages like that where the other partner is even praying for salvation and God Himself knows it worth it. The fellow in it is just trapped. When God talks of a neighbour of yours that's better than you, He isn't joking. When God gave Joseph a dream of his brothers worshipping him which they fought, it still came to pass in 13 years from then. What you should concern yourself with is never to let a voice like this speaks to you. If you're beginning to be unfaithful like Saul in ministry, marriage etc, you can repent before God comes with such sentence. What you don't value but begin to trample on can't but have the respect of another. 

Have you not read of Belshazzar? When he refused to know his measure but rather desecrated holy vessels in his custody, his kingdom was collected from him and given to someone else.

Daniel  5:26-28, KJV

"26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

God measured him and found him wanting. God is measuring many people at this hour also. The Bible says that same night, he was killed and his kingdom given to another - Darius.

May God help you to jealousy guide all He has given you. You must know you're a steward and must remain so. If you don't, you'll open a crack for another to take over from you; enjoy what you should be enjoying and be its possessor for ever. May God instruct you earlier. 

PRAYER: Fearful God, have mercy on my  unfaithfulness. Be gentle on me and let me prove myself again.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 48:12-50:11, Ephesians 4:17-32, Psalm 69:1-18, Proverbs 24:5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 25/09/2021

SATURDAY - 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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THOSE WHO CAN'T DIG YET CAN'T BEG

READ Luke 16:1-9

Luke 16:3, KJV

"Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed."

When you cannot dig or beg, poverty will enter. A man that begs and lives by that to a degree is a poor fellow but in comparison, a man that can't beg (when he has no other source of income) will radiate to poverty faster and deeply than one who begs to survive (he will still have a thing to live on). It is either you belong to one of the categories.

Work brings out the full installed capacity of God in you. We do not work to earn money first of all but to learn something. What you work to learn and become a master in can then begin to give you money. If you work as an employee somewhere, ensure you master what they're doing there. If you're a teacher in a school and you carefully consider daily, you can be mentored by how things are done in your employer's institution in order to start your own one day. Why attention is not being paid is because people haven't seen reasons of starting something of their own one day. The confidence to start something doesn't fall on people like that. It takes a man that has followed to a degree to start something either in the secular or in the Lord. Confidence level which assures one of success in what one wants to found is increased by the level of one's following which might have been accumulated as experience. You must work. There is dignity of labour. When you work and money comes back as reward for instance, irrespective of how little  it is, you feel happy about it. Any who don't work can't know the joy of the reaper. There is a joy that comes as a recompense of what one has worked for.

Psalms 4:7, KJV

"Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."

From here, there is a gladness that comes with increment of corn and wine. When what you're doing yields, produces or bring increase, what it brought is your profit for engaging in such business the very first time. 

Now, what if you can't work? You shouldn't be dignified (too high) to beg. Dignity is not pride but it can become pride. All of us must have dignity. It is out of sense to become habitual on somebody's door step. We may all need occasional helps. You may even need to borrow for investment but mind you, don't let it be said of you that you survive by begging. Doing that will cost you estimation. When you're a beggar, you will feel accountable to those sponsoring you. They can call you to do any kind of job for them. You will feel like a tool in their hands that they can weave in any direction. That's one of the things the Jews fight against. They don't want to be owned and because of that, they rally round to help themselves so that a non-Jew would not buy them over.

When you beg, you have intentionally by yourself made useless all in you by deposit or acquisition. If you have gifts, skill, education or calling, it all becomes irrelevant because none of such in you is being deployed.

If you're dignified to beg (which is what God wants), you'll lower yourself to work. Do you know it's hard disrobing from one's honour to putting on the servants sleeves or labourer's garments to work? 

When you're a beggar, you'll always be owing people. Christianity has never encouraged living habitually as a beggar. It encourages entrepreneurship rather. No matter how belittling what you do is, there is honour there. It gives you the sense of an owner and not somebody casting down his golden crowns before another.

Don't turn out like this man that pride has riddled. If not pride, shouldn't a man that can't work beg. That's the consequent option. If you feel too big to disrobe, you should feel humble to plead for life. When you beg, some people limits you by deciding what they give you. When you work, you have a wider space to earn and you're the only one who could limit yourself. If I become limited by working and not rely on proceeds from another's work, that's preferable than putting my limitation in another's hands. Wherever you're tied habitually to people's aprons, may you be helped to break free as you work.

PRAYER: Beautify work to me. Lead me into a work that satisfies and fills gulf inside me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 24/09/2021

FRIDAY - 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

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WHAT CHEERS GODS AND MEN

Read Judges 9:1-21

Judges 9:12-13, KJV

"12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. 13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?"

The vine lays claim to one thing: that is the ingredient or portion God created with it that makes it to be desired by men. The vine has wine by which gods and men are cheered. "Cheer" means make happy. It can't be debated again that wine has that potency. In the moment of sorrow, wine is taken by such depressed in order to forget the sorrow at hand. That's why Lemuel's mother advised wine should be given to the perishing [Prov. 31:6-7].

Also, in the moment of joy, wine is reclined in to celebrate. This is what Jotham said the vine won't let go as its purpose of creation. 

In essence, we know that the vine has value. God created the vine not to be an ordinary plant. God created it to be a desired plant that all will have to do with and that's because of what it produces which man can't but need. If man would be cheered, then they must continually collect grapes from the vine to process into wine. If you get to the palace in ancient times and houses of nobles, one major drink that you can't but see is wine of the grape. What an importance! May God rank you this high also. It's your value that ranks you as important.

So also, God has not let you alone. Man may be man but man can be an anointed man. When you're anointed, you carry the oil. You carry something that the world will be on the look for.  What did Jesus say about His oil and its value to men? 

Isaiah 61:1-2, KJV

"1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn."

Just like the vine has wine that cheers gods and men, so also any anointed. It is not good being on earth without having value to offer. Let me ask you, "the vine has wine that cheers both gods and men; Jesus and all anointed have the anointing that minister to men; what do you have that can benefit men?

Look inward and look at something that God has given you to bring delight to the world. The anointing of Jesus didn't bring dampness to people's spirit but rather a lifting and forward ministration. The vine also cheers. It doesn't make sad. Who are those that God is giving the ministry of cheering to today? This world is depressed. May God anoint you to be a cheerer of the world. May you not lack what can cheer people. May you become Barnabas - the son of encouragement the world is looking for. 

PRAYER: I will be cheered by the Holy Ghost and by the Holy Ghost cheer others.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/09/2021

THURSDAY - 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2021

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WHEN PROMPTNESS NEED TO ANSWER

I Kings 18:26, KJV

"And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made".

There is always a moment that you will enter into as a Christian or minister (when you're under fire) but needs a word from God. Just like ships are anchored and so stay; words from God being sought at such desperate moment is for one to anchor one's life, and whatsoever on.

When you need the promptness of God, may God give it. In the Mount Carmel contest between Elijah and the prophet of Baals, they couldn't get their gods set fire on the sacrifice they had prepared. The God that answers by fire has been agreed upon by both parties and the people as the God that is God and that would be followed. So, it is really a matter of life and death. It is the moment when one's god or God needs to prove his being alive and not disappear. At such moment when the liveliness of a god or God is being questioned, there is need for an immediate response. Evidence must be clear undeniably and must be prompt.

The prophets of Baal after setting the sacrifice in order called on their god but there was no voice nor sound. No voice means nothing at all. Every place was just quiet. They are the ones on the scene and all their acts to summon their god proves futile.

This is the time of desperation, no god will leave his worshippers unattended to. Even if he is busy, such moment calls for a dropping of whatsoever he's doing to give utmost priority to this very desperate ones. Despite how thick the matter was, despite the looming shame awaiting all these prophets, yet their God never responds. Nothing. They were forlorn. They were left to themselves.

I'll like you know that even before the great civilization, a desire has been created in the hearts of men to communicate with the Divine. In search of who the divine is - in order to connect back to where they originate from, they found for themselves other gods that they entrust their lives to trusting it would be enough to oversee all and all for them. All these gods are not God and they can't substitute Him though there's a contest all over the world to have God substituted. One of the continents that's littered with idols and relics of it is not only Africa but Asia. You'll wonder why people are still in thick darkness.

When people are desperate for answers, they will be shock there is no voice nor sound. Why? That God they've entrusted their lives to isn't the living one but a lifeless idol. Even if it's a living thing they call their god but who's an idol, that is still not Jehovah, the Creator of heaven and earth who is to be worshipped through Jesus Christ.

So, to avoid the disgrace of a day like this, you had better known the God that answers by fire and gives prompt feedback. Elijah trusted in Him and indeed He (God) proved for Him. 

PRAYER: When help in time of trouble is needed, may answer answer me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/09/2021

WEDNESDAY - 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2021

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WHAT WILL SUFFICE US ONCE SEEN

John 14:8, KJV

"8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us."

What brought about Philip's request to be shown the Father? Jesus had said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" John 14:6, KJV.

From this response of Jesus, the Father is therefore portrayed as the end of the road for everybody. Jesus is a road to Him. The full stop of everyone willing to make it to eternity is to pass through Jesus (believe in His finished works) and receive Him into his life. Doing this secures you a passage way to the Father. 

When Philip heard this, he said a statement that doesn't reveal foolishness but a heart seeking after the final cure of all things (though also an insulting statement to what Jesus is and stands for). He said "show us the Father and that will suffice (satisfy) us." He asked that in sincerity and not to boycott Jesus whom he has been with since. He was honestly looking for the better means.

'Suffice' means 'and that will do; and that will be enough, and that will settle it" He wanted the final answer. From Jesus' statement to them, he (Thomas) perceived Jesus as only a road to the Father and the Father, the ultimate goal - the One to get a hold of while turning one's attention away from Jesus - who introduces Himself as the way to the Father (but not the Father). However, that's not how it works. If I ask you too which will you choose between a passage to something and the thing itself? All of us wants the ready made. The final of the final.

Jesus was shocked as to how Philip could ask to be shown the Father. He however corrected this view and said, "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" John 14:9.

Is that false? No. Jesus is the express image of God. It's like a son who resembles the father and carries his DNA. If you sight him, you obviously have seen the father. However, Jesus is even more than this description.

Hebrews 1:3, KJV

"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person..."

This is how things settle as Jesus revealed Himself as the satisfaction Philip was thirsty for. In reality, all of us is seeking for what will satisfy us and ends our going to and fro continuously. The woman at the well with Jesus said to Him also, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw" John 4:15. In essence, she was looking for a panacea  - a cure it all. Is there a thing that satisfies truly? Yes. Jesus does permanently and eternally though human needs are insatiable. We have people that are looking to God to marry, give birth or even get a thing done. If they should be in front of God, you'll see what their prayer would be. They'll say things like, "if God could do this for me, I'll be satisfied." Does it mean they won't want to prosper in other areas after that singular breakthrough again? No. That saying only expresses what their major thirst is and how much they covet it is met and met quickly. That's why Philip when he heard Jesus mention the Father as the One that matters in all manners quickly catches on that opportunity to say, "show us the Father and that will settles it." He sees the Father as greater than Jesus and he wanted the greater to be his. That's wise of him.

He was in search of what will suffice and settles the hunger for the divine inside man. All over the world and across human races, people are yearning for the Divine and one that can suffice them. Some in their search have turned to other gods and have missed it. Today, I announce to you the living water - Jesus Himself Whom when received, He suffices and settles all. That's why that woman of Samaria pleaded with Jesus to give her the water that quenches thirst once and for all. God knows your desire. He bore with Philip and revealed Himself as the One that satisfies once and for all. May you receive that which once possessed, one gets weaned from further enquiries and searches in Jesus name. Your going to and fro for an answer ends today.

PRAYER: Pray for the repentance of the world. Pray for the meeting of any kind of needs.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17, Acts 25:1-27, Psalm 5:1-12, Proverbs 18:19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 21/09/2021

TUESDAY - 21ST SEPTEMBER, 2021

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ARRESTED AT RAMAH

I Samuel 19:21,KJV

"And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also".

David ran to Ramah to escape the death pursuit of Saul. When things are no longer at ease, you should know where to run to. There's salvation with God. That's why He's a tower. 

Saul wouldn't relent. He wanted him right away because David had became a sort of threat and competition to him. He therefore sent messengers three times to get this done. However, David at the strong tower of Samuel, the national prophet became unreachable and untouchable. Each time the messengers arrive, they are arrested by God's Spirit which comes on them to do the contrary. This leads to sending messengers three times before Saul himself took a journey to get it done.

Surprisingly, the Spirit was upon Saul as well and he prophesied like all his messengers. His even went haywire as he lay naked. He was in open day embarrassment. In this way, his plan couldn't come to pass. There is a God that does this.

Job 5:13,KJV

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong."

Saul and all his messengers ended their pursuit of David at Ramah here. At Ramah, they were arrested and detained. That's how far they could all go there. At Ramah, pursuit ended. May all problems, evil and all sorts get to their bus stop today in your life. All things sure have a bus stop and today they shall each come to a stop. 

PRAYER: Lord, let destruction comes to a perpetual end. Sickness, disease, habitual sin etc no more.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17, Acts 25:1-27, Psalm 5:1-12, Proverbs 18:19

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THE GOD OF ESCAPE

THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY OF ESCAPE

Earlier this year, I decided to freeze earning from my main stream of income. I did this after establishing two secondary streams of income. So, I based all my living on those only. I told myself, let the hills be removed and be planted in the sea, I won't touch this "lay-aside fund." I was resolute like a Zulu warrior. 

Later on, the first of the secondary incomes folds up. After two months, the second also folded up. I was uncomfortable and now in vulnerability of many primary needs being met. Here is Olusola who has a lot of dependents on him. At that time, two of my siblings' phones needed to be changed. They  were already singing it to me. Yet, it was also close to this resumption period where students must pay school fees and buy all they should buy. The one in school in another state has been honking at me. I said, "God, I am surrounded!"

Meanwhile, God did something for me some few days before the second stream of income went on hold that was never a miracle to me until a later time. He brought another stream of income that I'll have to groom by consistency to me. Some tertiary students needed an analyst of poetry and other related Literature works. So, I just took it up but not as work at first though I was a guru at it. This work that meant nothing at the beginning has covered multitude of needs over the time these two streams I depended on folded up. 

While I was praying and ruminating at my devotion this morning, I saw reasons to appreciate God and for a large junk of my time, I did appreciated Him as the God of Escape. As the revelation of the God of Escape dawned on me, the Bible began to flood me. It was then I remembered what happened to me had happened to one prophet before. Elijah was sent to hide by Brook Cherith where he was also drinking from. In no time, the brook dried up. Meanwhile, the God of escape sent him to the widow of Zarephath. So, He was never stranded. As the brook dried, the Widow of Zarephath was made ready. What a miracle of you and I will never be broken!

The widow of Zarephath doesn't look like someone that God could use to feed anyone. So also were these students when they first appeared. They never had prospects. Meanwhile and as of now, the connections and numerous works I have gotten through them proves me wrong. I even have pending works and was requesting time to deliver them. Only God and Olusola can account. I'm now spending my time analysing lengthy poems for money. It takes a month to get one done because it's like a project work and I have other things doing but the reward though not exaggerated justifies my thoroughness at it. So, this morning when I totalled everything together, I lifted up my voice and called God the immediately immediately God. He's always on time. He knew I was beginning to be stranded and where my life's earning is, touching it is hard because I intentionally put it somewhere - where the temptation of withdrawing will be forbidden and the process tedious. So, God came through for me.

Sometimes ago, I heard my ministry father preaching again about how ministers of God must learn to live by faith and know how to be led by God's Spirit. 

So, I told myself that the money God isn't sending me as a minister, I won't send out or give people. God knows I have a family and other dependents to sponsor. I won't put myself under the pressure of buying something I don't have money for. So, I was waiting on God's salvation

Do you know what shocked me most from this miracle? God brought it just as the last stream of income was folding up. It came in such a humble way. The person that brought it knew me to be a Literature person and teacher but why would she brought that at that time? She just asked, "do you have ideas on this thing?" I said "yes!" That was how it started. From having an idea on it (though a guru), it is now what I spend my time doing. 

This is where when the enemy comes like a flood, God will always raise a standard. This is where there's no temptation taken you before that's new. Meanwhile, God is faithful and He's able to provide a way of escape that you may not be tempted beyond what you can carry.

While I was looking at how terrible living would have been if not for this disguised but now steady source of income, I found reasons to thank God for the escape. 

Indeed, He is the God of escape!

Olusola ADEJUMO, 

M'Wings.