MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 3/12/2021

FRIDAY - 3RD DECEMBER, 2021

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GIVE YOURSELF AWAY EARLY - Purpose Series 007

READ Psalm 127

I Samuel 1:27-28,KJV

"27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him: 28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there."

Give yourself away early. You'll be doing yourself a favour you'll come to testify of in days to come if you give yourself away early or do same for those you have oversight over. You have to use concerted effort to tear yourself away early from vocations, lifestyle or tasks that are not destiny related that you're currently reclining in. I know people who can't fast. If he discovers his call as a minister for instance, he must be ready to afflict his body with fasting and know that he may not always appear fat-flesh at the beginning if he's the set man of a God initiated thing especially. I know it is hard tearing or giving yourself away to your purpose when you've been woken to the burden of responsibility as an adult. There be many people that know they have calls on their lives but they'll tell you, "If I let this job go now to start as a newcomer somewhere, how do I survive since this one won't immediately speak? Meanwhile, I've built one to the peak of manifestation." You see, they're being militated against starting why they're here because they didn't enter or get admitted when others were. They've gone too far before discovery.  There's time for everything on earth. If God destines anyone to be part of David's mighty men but didn't gather when they were gathering, yet of that same generation of men; he may wake up to see he has been left behind [ I Sam. 22:2, II Sam.23:8]. For people being hindered to let go like that, find out if you're to go full term or per term. Even if it will be full term, unless the Lord needs you right away (which He'll compensate with covenants and blessings), retain your job to finance your obligations and ministry for stability. At the beginning also, those who are doing full term now (especially set men and founders) started like that.

Hannah did something that was hard. How many of you know that it is hard casting off a child, especially one's first child after one or let's say three years of weaning? Some will say, I still want to bond with him. God has no use of a three year old child. What thing will he be doing in the temple or around the house of the Lord? That is wanting to suffer the child and suffer his trainer. That's why many parents are not imparting destiny training into their little children. They believe they are not yet ripe for it. Hannah however did contrarily though with great determination and endurance of that pain. She separated from her first born that should comfort her that early. Sorry to say, many parents aren't resolute. I've heard some say, I can't let my own child become motherless at a tender age. So, they're not sending them to the academy where they'll get full concentrated training on the destiny of their manifestation. If you pray to God to find you where he should go and He instructs you, that God is enough to shelter this defenceless child. Except if it is not God requesting for the need for his enrollment.

When did Hannah tear off Samuel from her? Immediately after weaning [I Sam.1:24]. She lends him to the Lord to dwell in God's house forever. Samuel had not woken to the reality of life when his feet were put on the path he should walk. Is the Bible not being fulfilled that says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" [Proverbs  22:6].Before your children receives senses to argue, contest or rival with what God's will is for their lives, immerse them there, so that their waking up will be into the resurrection of things of destiny. Saint, it was hard on Hannah, it will be on you but be resolute also. Cutting off from one's beloved isn't easy but if you want to be made ready for life, you must learn to give yourself away properly into what destiny has for you. No one has two lives to live here practically on earth. This is the only one you have to make contacts. Ensure as you make encounters daily, it sparks and gives you a sense of satisfaction that you're doing what you should do where you should be. Separate yourself now and forever to the will of God - that profession. Time is still young even if this is your eleventh hour. This announcement marks another enrollment season. May God help you to leave behind everything that's combating you from giving attention and total attention to purpose. Paul when he discovered this purpose and the reality of where he should be fitted confessed in truth without lying when he says, "... I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ" [Phil.3:8, KJV].

First of all, settle the fact that your certificate is lesser than what God will make of you in ministry if that's where He's calling you to. If you're earning big in the secular and God is saying, "stop all and go to the seminary, it means you'll have to become a dependent like a student who may face embarrassment of being a dependent at times". However, dung (things left behind or to be left behind) don't always worth the glory of the calling that you'll one day begin to see.

PRAYER: [Worship with "I give myself away" song]. Ask for resoluteness and understanding not to be deceived to see dung as glory. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 9:1-11:1, 1 John 2:18-3:6, Psalm 121:1-8, Proverbs 28:27-28

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 2/12/2021

THURSDAY - 2ND DECEMBER, 2021

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UNTIL HE COMES WHOSE RIGHT IT IS - Purpose Series 006

I Samuel 17:23-24, KJV

"23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid."

If you hit on another man's assignment, it won't prove for you because according to allotment, you were not allotted that assignment. Things prove if such task is one's task from the Lord. For forty days and forty nights, the Philistine, Goliath of Gath defied the armies of the Lord without a mouth to stop his railing. The Bible records that he comes forth daily to intimidate and challenge Israel. As he does this, he sends shivers into the spines of the soldiers and they flee from him. Why is it so difficult for one not to have stepped forward to stop or fight Goliath as he proposed a one on one fight? Are they all not trained men? Do you know why none was able to peep out or concede to fight him? It is because Goliath was not their assignment. So, they lacked the anointing, inner stirring, persuasion, assurance and daring spirit to combat him. When all these are lacking in a man, it indicates such assignment hasn't been willed him from above. What is yours from above is what God will corresponds you to handle. Even if it is bigger than you, God will bow it for you to gloat over. It's just one way of God showing His commitment to all He calls and who are ready to work for Him in their respective areas of specialization.

All of us must seek to find what God has given us to do and then stick to same. Why would Saul be handicapped killing Goliath? It's simply because God has not accorded Goliath amidst those he'll kill. That trophy was reserved for David and it was evident in how none could attempt the assignment until he came. They had to wait until he whose right it is came. Despite the honey dripping prizes of Saul, yet no one was able to still risk it. That David agreed to fight Goliath didn't proceed from the flesh. It was a divine motivation of his will to go face him. Nothing natural of small David and his crude weapons would have loved to fight Goliath if not for a divine motivation. If you're not being propelled or inspired to do something hard (start ministry, found and plant churches, confront or declare etc) and you want to prove you have the training or skill to do it, it can kill you. All those soldiers had the training but they lacked the inspiration to see Goliath as a piece of meat to swallow. Inspiration is the push, the Spirit that urges on on the inside that no one sees yet assures His host victory. It's that same motivation that didn't let David see like others saw. They saw a giant. He was seeing a man that will have the destiny of the bear and lion he had killed. Yet, we knew Goliath isn't this cheap but at the end we could judge whether he was cheap or not. 

Assignments could wait for a hundred years until the man God created to execute them is born, raised, equipped and sent to get it done. The assignment of Jesus saving the world waited like that - for years of years. Prophecies hinted at it [Isa.7:14, Matt.1:21, Micah 5:2]. The army was at a standstill until the divine hand moved Jesse to play his part in the script by sending David to the army.  Naturally, God will equalize you with your assignment. There will be an inbuilt in you that can do whatsoever assignment that are your God-given assignments. Goliath was God given to David and was reserved for him until he comes whose right it is. This should comfort you that what you're called to do is reserved for you to discover and execute. Also, it should sound warning to you not to prey on an assignment that's not yours or else it'll prey on you. Know your measure. Your measure is your specific assignment and it's made known to you by the conviction through inspiration you'll have to face it even when others (of better skills, reputation, fame, age etc) flees from it. 

PRAY: Lord, answer hovering and pending generational prayers of saints to raise deliverers for nations, people, tongue, communities, families. Raise a Saviour. Raise me as one. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 8:1-27, 1 John 2:1-17, Psalm 120:1-7, Proverbs 28:25-26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 1/12/2021

WEDNESDAY - 1ST DECEMBER, 2021

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FOR THOU ART WITH ME - Purpose Series 005

Read Psalm 124

Psalms 23:4, KJV

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

This is the reason for the daring attitude of ministers. It is simply the reason for which ministers have been taken to be God. This is why they thread where multitudes dare not thread. Why they lay hands on the captive of the captor declaring restore [Isa. 42:22]. Why is he so bold? He lays hands on them all! He's too confrontational. Ministers are these loud because of, "FOR THOU ART WITH ME." What does "For Thou art with me" purchase for anyone? The ever presence of God even in the darkest night. Even though they confront the devil and his host, they have no reason to fear any evil [consequence] because God is with them. Their result is like unto the signs that follow believers in Mark 16:17-18. Something may attempt to hurt them but God's commitment won't allow.

When God calls and sends, you will have God by your side by His manifestations of "For Thou art with me". Let me tell you saint, having assurance of God that won't deny you but is ever present in time of trouble is superior to knowing the whole world. What is men to God's commitment? What is wheat to a chaff? What the commitment of God gave Samuel is still what I'm meditating on. The Bible didn't close eyes to who didn't let Samuel get disgraced. The Bible says it was God who didn't let any of his words fall to the ground. That's solely God's act. The Lord's doing. That's why it is marvellous for description. Remove God and you'll see many words crested in the basket seeking to materialise. 

I Samuel 3:19, KJV 

"...and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground."

He says it and he has it.  God's commitment is alive to anyone that God calls to go endanger his or her life for Him. His commitment is to be secured before running because any minister would get swallowed immediately the Lord isn't with such. Discontinued commitment over Samson led to immediate trouble for him. He learnt he was still human eventually. That was what God's commitment to him erroneously blindfolded him from believing. Self deception or assumption is vain. If not for the anointing on anyone (God's commitment to all called), what could they have done? Why a minister is still rolling out ministration yet a vessel harbouring oil is because God is with him. The Psalmist says, "even thou I walk in utter darkness, I will fear no consequence, for thou art with me." He knows walking in such place comes with a repercussion but for God who's with Him. You, paint the most difficult situation in this world that had happened and could happen, God said HE IS WITH YOU THERE.

Why would a man choose to dare to set the captive of the oppressors free? It's not because he's muscular or has power of his own but because He is fully persuaded of a God mightier than others and him that serves as his backup. In the army, we have field operators and base operators. Field operators execute missions by confronting the enemy face to face. They execute missions on ground or at where it's happening live. Those at the base watch out for them and also offers them likely insights as to enemy's posts, how to maneuver etc. Those at the base are as real as those on the field. God is in heaven but He is ever present with us on earth. He is for us and not against us. He needs us for missions and as bodies to indwell to enforce His will on earth. His backup is what He owes and generously gives us as we do His work. As you hearken to the call and get yourself involved in the work, you'll begin to taste God's commitment even as you grow. If not for the shoulders, the blouse wouldn't have stayed when worn. If not for God's commitment, what will any minister have said when the enemy came against him like a flood? The Psalmist tasted God's commitment in another dimension which made him confess freely by saying "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side..." [Psalm 124:1-8]. If you remove God's commitment, all the things the Psalmist said couldn't happen to them in that chapter would have happened. Commitment is having the word of somebody that is forever sure. So, if you're called and sent, without trespassing the jurisdiction of an anointed, your office or your measure, dare anything and you'll see God shows up. The Psalmist proved this to be true when he says even thou I walk [whether intentionally or mistakenly] in the valley of the shadow of death [where it seems all hope is lost and danger or death is imminent and should happen), I'm not afraid, For Thou art with me. If you have God's commitment, you have God. If you have God, you have the whole world.

PRAYER: Lord, be with me. All it means for you being with the called and sent, begin to reveal to me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 7:1-28, 1 John 1:1-10, Psalm 119:153-176, Proverbs 28:23-24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/11/2021

TUESDAY - 30TH NOVEMBER, 2021

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THE GLORY OF THE CALLING - Purpose Series 004

I Samuel 3:19-20

"19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD."

There's a thing like the glory of the calling. If you hear purpose and you hearken to it, some things will manifest on your destiny journey. They are marks of God being with you. They are marks of your persistence and loyalty to God or the way chosen for you to follow. They are also compensation for heeding the heavenly call that calls you like it called others but which they were disobedient to. This is one of the reasons why the Lord seeks justifying and glorifying those He calls. He just wants to pay them back for laying down their will, way or the secular for what He's separating them unto. 

You have seen what God could make of a man through what He made of Samuel. If you're seeking one that's inexperienced in the things of God, it was Samuel at his beginning. It was so obvious he was ignorant when he couldn't even answer God's call to relate with him. Meanwhile, as he persisted, he learnt on the job through his God given guide. Without compromising the standard, he began to receive God's visitations. For staying there faithfully, God began to compensate him with the glory of the calling. It is a day something will start. Suddenly, all he says becomes amen. Nothing falls to the ground. That place says, "God let none of his word fall to the ground." This is God's commitment specifically to Samuel and an example to as many He calls. If God calls you into an office and raises you for an assignment, He wants you meet needs for Him. In meeting those needs, He will meet your needs. Samuel speaks but who aids him? God! It is not what Samuel says that matters but who brings to pass what he says. That's the power he can't weave. Look, when God calls you and you hearken, He'll do the hardest, greatest and dirtiest part of the job. Which one is harder? To speak or to fulfill? That's why saying isn't fulfilment for everyone.

The fact that none of his words will fall to the ground could be likened in outworking to that passage that says:

Psalms 91:11-12, KJV

"11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee... 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."

If they don't bear you up, you will have an accident and eventually dash your foot against a stone but because of their inclusive ministry of aiding and preventing from touching the ground, they hinder what should have resulted from happening. For Samuel, his words ought to be going in vain like other men's in town but God aided Him to know He has not heeded the call in vain. For Samuel, this is what he enjoys that established him in everybody's mind as a prophet. All of us doing ministry, we must know there will be moment people will doubt our calls. Meanwhile, God must prove Himself strong by giving off proofs that will eliminate the doubts of your being called indeed by Him. It doesn't happen in a jiffy but if you persist, God will vindicate you. The vindication of Samuel didn't come just so suddenly like that. He came when he himself was growing into the understanding and awareness of the importance of God being with one. At that time when God appears to be aiding him, he recognizes who does the jobs and who should take the glory. What will you enjoy as privilege for following your  purpose? Only God knows. Nobody can put a measure as to what manifestations of God you'll see when you follow God to the field He's calling you to subdue. Heeding the call is not only for ministry. It cuts across following God to a place of obsession that reveals itself as a gulf and a longing in your soul. If God draws you after a passion and you passionately cease it, you'll have extraordinary results in that field that others who only imitates without call won't have. God honours calling! He honours obedience and specialization. When He calls, He's calling you to come and have extraordinary results that deviates from that of the great congregation not called into that same arena. No one can say this is what God will use to repay him but if you at an attempt follow the Lord, the manifestations of glory, prosperity, honour you'll receive will surpass your thinking. Samuel himself could never have thought he'll get to a place where God would honour him with YES for whatsoever is uttered. Even if he mistakenly blesses or curses, it stays. What sort of trust is that for him to have been giving such authority? Saint, like a hart pant after rivers of water, let your heart pant after your calling. Hold unto it for it has great reward for you. The tool of the calling makes greater than anything. If you'll follow on to know the Lord where He's calling you, you'll be rewarded with faithfulness of God in dimensions that are exceeding which you could never think off. Only Believe.

PRAYER: Lord, vindicate my calling. Approve it with divine signs. Establish my ministry. Knit my heart with my specialization of grace.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 6:1-28, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Psalm 119:129-152, Proverbs 28:21-22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/11/2021

MONDAY - 29TH NOVEMBER, 2021

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A CASE STUDY - Purpose Series 003

Read I Sam. 1:10-28, 3:1-10

I Samuel 1:24, KJV

"And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young."

Samuel is our case study and how at a very young age, he was apprenticed to the Lord. You're very much familiar with the story of Samuel. How he was a child of vow and how he was finally lent to the Lord. At the release of Samuel to the Lord and His vocation, the boy was very young. He was not even a youth. What age do women wean a baby? The age they stop giving him suck. It was that age the Bible calls the entry of Samuel into his vocation. His training began from that insignificant age. Those who visited Shiloh and saw him may think what would this amount to. Our eyes naturally disdain what is insignificant without knowing a journey of a thousand miles starts with a step. God began to visit him and that's all that matters. The fact that God has decides to walk with a man.

I Samuel 3:10, KJV

"And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth."

He couldn't interpret who was calling him but by proper mentoring, he was shown the way to pick God's call and receive communication from Him. Herein is Samuel's success in ministry. The door to being the national prophet he became started from his ability to be trained into entering into receiving from God. The Bible recorded that Samuel became one whose word never falls to the ground.

I Samuel 3:19, KJV

"And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground."

Could this be the same Samuel that was held by his mum with innocence of what the future holds that day? How did he get here? By the passage of time and without compromise of his consecration. Did you also notice that he was the one God anointed to continue in the stead of Eli. Fathers will go but who will continue after fathers? This is why you must be available. This is why you must allow prophecy come to pass over you. Hannah vowed to lend Samuel to the Lord in the pangs of barrenness and she did. Samuel existed as one that would be given to God before his birth. This is how calling predates the birth of people also. However, what happens after birth? Do you ever find out your calling, to accept and to enter into it? If Samuel was never lent to the Lord, how will he ever grow to a place with the Lord where whatsoever he says becomes it. That was not his result when he started but it became his result as he persisted. There will be many great things that you won't see when you start out but which will manifest as a reward of righteousness and faithfulness on the way. So, take the first step, step out of the boat. Jesus is bidding you to come. He that calls you is He that will do it. He is faithful.  Anyone that God calls into purpose, that's where greatness is hidden for such. As that person walks in purpose, God will begin to give him to see and enjoy the results of walking in purpose. Once you discover purpose, don't pray or worry about becoming great, you're already great. It's in purpose greatness is destined for those who will find it to walk in it, not outside it. However, what do we have today? Multitudes seeking greatness and wealth yet haven't found it. Why? Labour outside purpose.

Saint, start early. Start your children out early. Find out from God their purposes and lend them to same and let them abide in it. Start and abide. Samuel didn't run back home. He allowed that vow find total fulfillment on him. Those who start will continue after Eli's done. A journey early started is one that promises early arrival. Who knew Samuel's lending to the Lord will give him the glory of speaking once and having it come to pass? He reached the utopia of his calling. Samuel arrived. Safety and arrival is yours too if you start. 

PRAYER: [Lay hand on your children or anoint them with oil]. Pray that they'll locate their purpose. Show them also. Automatically, one is destined to become great in it. Now, pray that you too won't waste away but be redeemed to fulfill purpose even at the eleventh hour. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 5:1-31, 2 Peter 2:1-22, Psalm119:113-128, Proverbs 28:19-20

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/11/2021

SUNDAY - 28TH NOVEMBER, 2021

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APPRENTICED EARLY - Purpose Series 002

READ I Samuel 17:1-35

I Samuel 17:32-33, KJV

"32And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

If you will have a space between the strong and the mighty, you must be apprenticed early. I have seen young chaps being apprenticed to learn a particular vocation. From a tender age, their concentration is being leaned down to a thing to marry and excel in. This is what makes them see the ins and outs of that profession and learn its intricacies. It therefore becomes difficult for someone to call black white for them. They already have its revelation. One who starts in his youth is different from an adult who's trying to begin something in his adulthood. The beginning is always humiliating. So, the time of cultivating anything from its grassroots ought to be your youthful days - when you're easily not embarrassed, full of strength and could make mistakes and still amend. Consider this truth in the light of having education. Imagine if you're just enrolling in a primary school now. How will you feel? When your mates are already part of the labour force, earning and meeting needs, you are just starting school. Not being early apprenticed is a curse. Today, deliver yourself like a roe from the hunter.  See what and where you should be pumping diligence to which will bear on your future and give such attention. I was listening to a Nigerian minister and General Overseer, he said his friends in ministry do envy him for a thing. That he started earlier. This starting earlier has made him to cover grounds more than others. His profit appears to all undeniably. He himself is grateful he began then. If he were called now to come and begin what he began sometimes ago, he may never start since career might have won his attention and he has given much labour there which he'll like to reap. This is why some adults can't live to start some things now. They'll say, "I don't have time to see it through. I've already gone far in one". If you don't know, that lament is regret since all of us only has a life to live.

Saint, in all you'll do, quickly enrol at the time of enrolment. Gates do close. Once you begin to leave your youthful days, you may lose desire in what once obsesses you and which you should have been called to. Desire do fail.

Ecclesiastes 12:5, KJV

"... and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:"

Obsession is not ordinary. It reveals itself in the pathway of your soul to separate you to a field. Your field which may not be another's. Ask adults, they don't usually get appetite over what is driving the youths now. Eyes have seen all and is now contented. Don't let your fate be cemented. Goliath joined the force at his youth and so rose through the ranks and became a general. A champion must first be proved before becoming one. Promotion takes time. It consumes years. If you start on this lonely journey now, God willing, your testimony will be that you can't be pushed aside because you've been there since your youth. If you can tear yourself away from other things contesting for you, you'll see what it means to be dedicated to a call. You'll make a name to God's glory and honour to yourself for heeding. Those God has given obsession to, that's your opportunity to be glorified. 

PRAYER: Lord, may the obsession in me for where I should be not die. Use it to tilt me to my vocation for life. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 4:1-37, 2 Peter 1:1-21, Psalm 119:97-112, Proverbs 28:17-18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/11/2021

SATURDAY - 27TH NOVEMBER, 2021

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FROM HIS YOUTH - Purpose Series 001

I Samuel 17:32-33, KJV

"32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

Whatever will happen to you that has to do with destiny or purpose, let it start in your youth. Have encounters that will be testimonies when you're established now. From your youth, you can then bear the marks of things that have formed on and in you throughout the journey. The dangerous, fiery and scary citation read as testimony about Goliath by Saul is that he has been a man of war from his youth. While it seems to Saul that David was just starting and setting out, Goliath had endured the race. He has been proved and he's being respected for having been long on the journey since there's a thing being long on the journey does and gives you. He has the name, goods and even trophies. Why? He has been a man of war from his youth. By experience and multitude of knowledge of battles he has, who will easily defeat him? Not even David who's just a starter.  His chances are slim. If seasoned warriors are scared, what will be the lot of David?

David had said he'll go and fight Goliath but Saul in trying to take responsibility of a father who doesn't want to lose his child early to death counselled him why he won't be able to fight him. It is 'cause he has been a man of war from his youth.  What does being a man of war from your youth makes you? Why will Saul use that as a deterrent or warning against David's going ahead? What impact is left on you when you find your area of purpose and start out early? What happens is that you will shed the innocence of starters and enter into the maturity and stability of long sufferers in that field. What you start early in your life is what you can know better, be a master of and don't have to do guess work over again.  Everybody learns on the job. Even Goliath, when he started, he was probably not a good warrior though he has the gigantic physical stature. Somebody had to teach him what hand should carry the shield and how to wield the sword. It took time for him to acquire the skills that made it difficult for any warrior: old or young to defeat him. He was so sure of one on one fight that that was what he proposed. He was not foolish. If he was not an assured, seasoned and good fighter, he wouldn't have recommended that to be done. From this background knowledge of Goliath having being a seasoned fighter, experienced and one that has been on the road for years, Saul counselled David to reconsider. Saul needed someone to take away the reproach urgently but that doesn't blind him from seeing what could get David killed. Only that he didn't know that Goliath was reserved for David to shine through. That's why until David arrived, no one was able to attempt him. 

Saint, start now. Begin to count years now. Launch out into the deep this early and by adulthood, you'll have known the experience and joy of catching fishes that break the net. At the onset of your ministry, your church may be few but after staying there and bearing with time, your cup: church will run over. You will even need an extension to accommodate the overflow just like Peter needed another boat to gather the fishes. Nobody receives the witness of having being a man of war from his youth while withholding to start when his years are fresh and has years to grow and shine in that field. Your years in that field will teach you the field. It is this teaching that will make you conquer the field: become a demi-god or master and be able to handle things easily. No man takes this honour upon himself, except he that is called. If you're called, hearken today.  

PRAYER: Lord, set me out. I release myself to fulfill this heavenly vision. I shall not withhold, delay or postpone. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 2:24-3:30, 1 Peter 4:7-5:14, Psalm 119:81-96, Proverbs 28:15-16

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