MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 7/12/2021

TUESDAY - 7TH DECEMBER, 2021

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THOSE WHO SAY OF THEMSELVES THEY'RE BUT A YOUTH - Purpose Series 011

Read Jeremiah 1:1-8

Jeremiah 1:5-6, AMP

"5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am only a youth".

Mindset is very powerful. If people regard you as the head but you persuasively convincingly believes yourself to be the tail, you'll manifest the 'tail'. Whenever God encounters people and calls them as tools to use, one of the first things He does is to make them see they're capable or reinforce same believe in them. That angel told Gideon, "The Lord is with you thou mighty man of valour". Gideon himself was not seeing any fight or warrior spirit in himself. He questions whether God was indeed with them [Judges 6:12-16]. O, how I pray that God will give you those who will show you who you're really are until your perspective is changed when doubt arises in you. Your circumstance, background, past life isn't as important as the  demand on your life and what by calling you are. If God comes to you for use, it means you're usable. Don't reject yourself. While in secondary school, I was called upon to replace a senior graduating student who did chanting and eulogy every year at our graduation ceremony. People would applaud him and spray him money. The Yoruba language teacher knew I could do it. I knew I could do it also because it's a thing I had done in the closet. I was given the material to memorise for the chant but deep down in me, I knew I won't take it. What trick did I pulled out? On the D-day, I didn't go to school. That's how I disappointed them but I didn't do it intentionally. I did it out of fear and non acknowledgment of myself as the one who should do it. I was the Labour Prefect but I was thinking, "why not the Head Boy?" At that time, I suffered a lot of inferiorly complex. I did't even want to be seen. The discovery of my purpose destroyed the yoke. Now, I'm not afraid of taking up assignments. I do and discharge same in boldness. When I preach, it is strong and in boldness. I'm no longer bound by inferiority complex. I'm called and anointed. I'm the chosen. If not me, who else? That's my confidence. So, I radiate it. 

Did you hear what Jeremiah told the Lord? I'm but a youth. Did God call him a youth? Did that One not tell him that his calling predates his formation in the womb? God was saying all these to assure and set him to come to a place of believability in himself. Do you know how many talented, gifted, called, chosen, well favoured people are acting contrarily today? Do you know why? They're seeing themselves lesser than who they really are and what God has really called them. Why are people too conscious of their problems? Why are they swallowed by the thoughts that only some people are glorious vessels but others must be hidden! 

Look, if God is striving to change how you should see yourself and you refuse, you won't be used. God may want to but it won't still work. A poor mindset can't reflect a correct manifestation. Even if you say your God is big but your mindset is poor, you'll downgrade God to a small God. Change your mindset; believe in yourself. You're not too young to be used. Forget about all those disqualifications you are mentioning. There are highway robbers, kidnappers, terrorists, suicide bombers who are just teens. So, what makes you a child that can't do the job? Accept the offer and God will equip you to make up for your real or unreal inadequacies.

PRAYER: [Touch your Bible and say] - This is my Bible and I believe it. I am what it says I am and I can do what it says I can do.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 11:2-35, 1 John 3:7-24, Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 6/12/2021

MONDAY - 6TH DECEMBER, 2021

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BEWARE OF THOSE AND ANYTHING THAT DESPISE THY YOUTH - Purpose Series 010

READ I Timothy 4

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."

If you have started, congratulations. If you are just seeking entry, may you be fortunate gaining one. The reason is because there are demons fighting starting. David showed interest in combating Goliath but he was not allowed to act on it immediately. He was first of all held back. A voice reasoned his authenticity to fight Goliath and almost quenched him. The voice was Saul's saying, "you are just a youth but he has been a man of war from his youth." Though it was a sense of responsibility that made Saul made this statement yet the demon of discouragement that lurks into people's lives and hinders them from ever going or starting on the road of mainstream purpose was actually hiding behind those words. David could have reasoned with those words and agreed he was just a youth. Saul's description of David humiliated David as being small and incapable. The picture that demon was painting to David was that of his incapability. Thank God David didn't see himself in the light of those heavy words. Saul said David can't handle the challenge but David rather reveals his past valour as criteria that made him fit for the job [I Samuel 17:34-48].

My prayer for you is that you'll pass when you want to heed destiny's assignment but discouragement are being launched at you. How many of you has the Lord called who should run for Him but who have been stopped and forever quenched by men's words especially those of authorities or those with oversight over you? Saul is a man with authority over David and he almost killed that divine motivation and energy of David to go and fight Goliath - which could have hindered the climbing of David into being acknowledged as a man of valour and one to be trusted and then followed in matters of war. It is not the fault of those who despise you and say you're too small for the job but yours if you allow your motivation to be quenched. Did the Bible not say that you should let none despise your youth [I Timothy 4:12]. You must shake them off with their despise.

There are despisers of one's youth. They may also be acting out of jealousy. They are of the set that missed the will of God while young who are too full of envy to guide youths (who still have time and energy) into starting and catching the flight of destiny while they may. I pray that every counsel, admonishment, question that is not the Lord's will for you to agree with won't comfortably take you away from your assignment. This same Saul telling David he was too young to confront their challenge also said "Goliath has been a man of war from his own youth." Why shouldn't David start from his own youth? Many who are saying you're too young to start actually started early. Please, ask them when you'll start if it is not now. Did you see the lie of the devil and how he crawls into the called, chosen, anointed's life to postpone their destiny until they're drawn and drawn further away from heeding the call of destiny through the demon of delay and procrastination which makes them see their incapacity. I'm sensing the oil flowing on me now. Henceforth, the devil won't lie to you successfully again. See what is not the right advice to take. That's what Eve could have seen in the garden when the devil was telling her what good eating the fruit will do her. She did not until eating it leads to their undoing [Gen.3:1-7]. Have an open sight and heart. Don't be dull in perspective but rather like a contender and apologist be ready to give an answer like David gave to Saul on how God has been using him to glory and gloat over similar issues but represented in killing of the lion and the bear.

PRAYER: I refute seduction away from destiny and kingdom assignments. I have correct insights into wrong counsels and advice. I won't fall prey like those that heard the call but couldn't heed it. I start now. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 11:2-35, 1 John 3:7-24, Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 5/12/2021

 SUNDAY - 5TH DECEMBER, 2021

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THE LONELINESS IN PURPOSE - Purpose Series 009

Read Genesis 37

I Samuel 2:19-20, KJV

"19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home."

Training is always in secrecy though manifestation may be public. When Samuel was taken to boarding school for concentrated studies, the house of the Lord became his house. If you're a man of purpose, you must find your home of purpose and stick to it. He not only sticks to his home of purpose but lose all familiar faces to embrace strange ones. Mother Hannah and father Elkanah have been left behind. Eli, Hophni, Phinehas and probably their wives are those to embrace now. 

There's loneliness in the calling that every man called according to God's willed pleasure must embrace. Did you read there that Samuel only sees his parents once in a year? He has been driven off for concentrated learning of God's things. Emotional attachment must be set aside when it concerns life's training. Only during that once in a year visitation he stands the chance of receiving the mum's precious gift. It's not different from how parents bring special meal or gift for their students during school's open day. Samuel must have anticipated same on tiptoes. The parents, especially Hannah closed her eyes to cut him off. It seems hard but she did. Samuel was just a small boy when he embraced the loneliness of the night all on a bed.  At times, he might reminisce about home but he knew he couldn't change anything on that. Look, in purpose, all familiar faces may be lost for a season because that's not their own destiny. You must be strong to face it. Joseph was just 13 years old when he was set on the journey of destiny. Without parents, money or any leverage, he entered into Egypt. He was a three times sold slave but despite all, God was with him. Let that be your comfort. Is the journey becoming difficult? Are you abroad for studies e.t.c. and you're really missing home and all faces you know. I'm hearing, "yet a little while". Endure! Be patient and you'll see that this temporary separation causing nostalgia isn't as strong as the blessings of reunion and the celebration of your success. To all those who don't even have a caregiver to check on them even once in a year, be courageous. You seem forsaken yet you're not because like a mother hen broods over her chicks, God who secured a house for you for grooming has reserved you a seat amidst the strong and great. Face life. Let your payment of attention to training graduate you quickly to become the father or mother you don't have to others. When you succeed, it is the comfort you receive on this journey you'll use to comfort others like you. Journey of destiny is lonely and when it does, embrace it. When you're in your own boarding school, don't escape home or revenge on having being forgotten at the place of training by not taking training seriously. Don't undo yourself. If Samuel had thought so and labelled the parents as neglects, he wouldn't have possessed the witness of being a prophet in the land. Even this lonely moment or longing for home is but for a moment. Night is the timeline of expiry for weeping. The day shall soon break. 

PRAYER: Encourage my heart to embrace the loneliness of my training and calling. Comfort me when I'm alone.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 11:2-35, 1 John 3:7-24, Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 4/12/2021

SATURDAY - 4TH DECEMBER, 2021

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SEPARATION TO THE ACADEMY - Purpose Series 008

Read Galatians 1:15-24

I Samuel 1:22, KJV

"But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever."

There's a place known as the academy in reality. There's pedagogy yet there's an instructor and then the instructed. To immerse a learner into full studies and learning of his equipping, he may need to be separated to the academy. When Hannah tore Samuel off at a young age to begin to learn his purpose, it was a separation to a specific place that represents the academy. The place was headed by Eli. You could call him the school principal. Hophni and Phinehas were as well instructors and assistants to him. This is where Samuel was torn off to. In Hannah's own word, that he may abide in the Lord's house forever. The academy gets you ready for a life you'll one day live forever. This is being given, dedicated and consecrated to a service. In this case, the Lord's.

It's in this academy that contacts are made with young flowering men and women who have discovered their place in this place (the earth). There, those who have become instruct them to become and take their shine amidst the great and strong. Brethren, there's a place where concentrated studies is taken place. Though it is not always that God requires a separation to a formal setting like this for equipping, yet God will instruct you either in an academy or in the field. Even Paul, he said he didn't confer with flesh and blood but rather went to the desert of Arabia immediately [Gal.1:17].

In the academy, only weaned students are desired. They don't want those whose training will start and the thoughts of home will occupy them. The academy is a place of separation for grooming. When Samuel was taken to this hostel as a boarding student, it wasn't interesting at all on Hannah. Those of you parents who have children in the boarding school especially your first, last or beloved child, did you not weep and feel uncomfortable letting him ago. Meanwhile, if you want your child to become a man to be praised and watched for his accomplishments tomorrow, off to the academy he must go. Consider Samuel's first night in the academy. He was probably crying all around. It was just a horrible start. Samuel himself just knew the mother's face and figure faintly when the mother broke him off to the process that makes kings in that field. The Bible recorded that Hannah's visit was only once in a year.

I Samuel 2:18-19, KJV "18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. 19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice."

You could call it Samuel's open day. He receives a new gift that once in a year from his mum. They'd spent time to catch up on things happening at home. Thank God all these sacrifices of costly separation and denial didn't end in vain. Samuel was able to focus on his training at the institution until he started picking calls of God when He calls. This is how he progressed to pass all his courses like Integrity 404, Morality 101, Divine Communication 200. At last, Samuel was certified by God Himself as one that has learnt Him faithfully. God certified this to be true by making all he says come  to pass. It's an approval unto, "this is my beloved son". Yet, it started in tearing him off to the academy. If need be for you to congregate at the academy for specific training, do. This is also a message to all caregivers to let their children go to be with purpose early in the academy. There's rarely a field now that doesn't have its institution. Bear the pain once and bear the joy of it forever. 

PRAYER: I shall not miss training time. I receive insight to submit to godly training wherever I find myself.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 11:2-35, 1 John 3:7-24, Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 3/12/2021

FRIDAY - 3RD DECEMBER, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

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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