MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/01/2022

 TUESDAY - 18TH JANUARY, 2022

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PLEASE, BRING YOUR OWN ALSO

READ John 1:35-42

John 1:41,KJV

"He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ."

John the Baptist gave Jesus the validation that His ministry needed for a recommendation to the people of His days. As for John the Baptist, he was a recognised prophet with a recognized ministry. Jesus also needs acceptance in the body of people He was sent to and John certified Him as "the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world" (John 1:29-37). Don't forget that man's certification is nothing if man is not affirming what God has already said. So, John simply revealed Jesus out of His obscurity and affirmed Him to the world after the saying of the Father [Matt. 3:17, KJV].

John didn't direct attention to himself but turned it to Jesus: One Who he esteemed as He whom he is not worthy to serve as servant to. In the light of this, some two disciples of John the Baptist found Jesus to be the Messiah. One of such who followed Christ in today's passage is Andrew.

This Andrew is a man that we should emulate his attribute of firstly and quickly sharing the news of his finding the Messiah with his household member. People are selfish on different occasions but which is only earthly bound. They communicate opportunities to those who are theirs before thinking of outsiders. However, they neglect sharing the gospel with parents, siblings and relatives. They have this mindset that it would be good for another believer to do it whom their family may consent to. A prophet has no honour in his own town is their deception when their light can so shine as to even convert without their verbosity. Andrew unashamedly shared the discovery of Jesus with his brother, Peter. He didn't worry if Peter would accept that good news or not. He only preached it and Peter was wrapped enough in that news to the extent that Andrew brought him also to Jesus. Holy Spirit has not stopped being the convicting One. Humans however are the preaching ones. 

You must know that God has a plan for you to be saved and then your household inclusive. His plan starts with each family. Once you're saved, it means your household becomes your first responsibility. Most times however, converts nowadays don't see the need for their immediate family members to be saved. They're not yet touched with the consequence of seeing these beloved being wasted eternally. While you have a responsibility to preach the gospel beyond your family scope, however, you should prioritize your household. That was the jealousy, zeal and selfishness of Andrew for his brother. What is near us should be prioritized. Even Jesus told the disciples to start from Jerusalem to extend to other places [Acts 1:8]. So should you. Start from your family.  

PRAYER: Lord, use me for my family's salvation. May I not be ashamed of reaching souls and bringing them into light.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 35:1-36:43, Matthew 12:1-21, Psalm 15:1-5, Proverbs 3:21-26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 17/01/2022

MONDAY - 17TH JANUARY, 2022

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A CURE IT ALL AFTER ROUNDING AROUND

READ Luke 8:43-48

Luke 8:43-44, KJV

"43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched."

This woman suffered so much from many physicians because she was looking for a cure it all - what suffices. She has an issue of blood that detests curbing which need to be stopped but to no avail. This has put food on the tables of those who claimed they could help her for these twelve years. 

After searching for what could cure it all for twelve years, she attempted Jesus. Alas! It worked. The Bible reported that her flow of blood stopped immediately. 

What could suffice - meets her need and ended it forever for the very first time in twelve years. That's what many physicians (doctors) in their profession couldn't get done. When she meets Jesus, it suffices her. She didn't have to go see another who could do it again. Philip told Jesus to show them the Father. Jesus said He who has seen Him has seen the Father. When this woman receives her healing from Jesus, it is equal to having received an answer that would make her not to begin to crazily seek after people whom she thought could give satisfaction again. That healing of Jesus sufficed her. It was enough for her and nothing else was needed again. All was settled and that ended her journey to who else could do it. May what is making you shift from one place to the other end today. May you meet the healer, provider and be sufficed - satisfied and settled of that thing forever. A man with a met need is a satisfied man. It's a man that still has an unsatisfied need in his life that keeps looking all around for remedies that could work. May you stop being on the run. May God give you rest that your soul desires and hope. A hart finds rest in the flowing water of the stream. I decree that your rest comes now!

PRAYER: Lord, any stubborn need in my life that has defied solution is met in Jesus name. I know rest and receive a testimony. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 32:13-34:31, Matthew 11:7-30, Psalm 14:1-7, Proverbs 3:19-20

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 16/01/2022

SUNDAY - 16TH JANUARY, 2022

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STRONGHOLDS ARE ANSWERABLE TO DECREES 

Nahum 3:12, KJV

"All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater."

A stronghold is a place built to withstand attack. It is a refuge or fortress. In time of war, people run there. A cave can serve the purpose of a stronghold. Contradictorily, God's declaration speaks concerning the defence of Nineveh and how weak her stronghold will be - permeating the enemy. A stronghold which is meant to be a defence will now be one that rather will give way very easily to intruders. It will just be easy to break through it or into it. So, security will be compromised.

Like ripe fruits fall without much effort but by just a shaking of the tree, so does God declares ease of penetration into Nineveh. To be sincere with you, God's decrees can make difficult things easy. If you know what a stronghold is, you'll know it is always intentionally built to resist external aggressions. If it's a wall for instance that's built into a stronghold, the bricks will be thoroughly baked in the furnace and given the quality of seven times processing. Apart from that, it won't be like our normal nowadays fence in width. Like the wall of Jericho, it could be a wall that two vehicles could comfortably drive on - one going, one coming at the same time. That may be the width. Imagine a fence with the width of an express road. This made such hardly breakable. To break walls like this, Uzziah during his reign gave special attention to the building of engines and machines that shoot arrows from towers and at the same time haul stones. To break through such, one will need to haul persistently a specially made combo stone at a specific place until holes are made in there for soldiers to enter (II Chronicles 26:15 & Ezekiel 26:9). Defences are not easily broken even in sports because it's specially made to resist and withstand the opponent especially front line attackers. You can fight it but it is meant to tire you until you drop.

Why this in - too - to attention? Because it's a wall meant to serve as a protection, hiding place and a keeper at distance of offensive  launches. They call such walls bulwark. Imagine such a stronghold well built by the best of minds to keep lives and properties in the city safe now being made into ABC for its attackers at God's declaration. What's the thing that could be likened to a stronghold - which is not giving you a way to pass and penetrate in this life? May God make the decree of ease that will make what Satan calls stronghold open to you of its own accord.

Many times, men's minds don't know how to grab with difficulties. However, what they view as threat is settled before their arrival at the location of its encounter. For example, an angel rolled away the stone at the tomb's mouth for those caring and seeking women (Mark 16:3-4) which they had concerned themselves with. At their arrival, God has made difficult things easy for them.

That's the covenant of ease. Before you press, it opens. It's like getting to the ATM machine and withdrawing once from the same machine that didn't dispense for hundreds. When the covenant of ease taints your head, the key in your hands will have no work to do; your effort and strength will be saved and things will be happening for you by God's finger and supernatural power.

Brethren, Jesus makes difficult things easy. Come to Him today and tastes how strongholds can become a tree shaken once with an immediate release of all its fruits.

Today, you won't be denied entry. Access is given you. Receive an entrance and a penetration. No more bounce back but rather an opening even in the toughest of the toughest. For you to have your way, I see God betraying strongholds to you and making holes and loopholes in them for you.

PRAYER: Jesus, You make difficult things easy - give me the covenant of ease and peace. Let strongholds open to me even at my first attempt.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 31:17-32:12, Matthew 10:24-11:6, Psalm 13:1-6, Proverbs 3:16-18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/01/2022

SATURDAY - 15TH JANUARY, 2022

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WHY BE TEMPERED

Ecclesiastes 11:9, KJV "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment."

God is never against our making choices though He desires we make the right choices. He placed life and death before Israel but still leaks the exam question to them by whispering to their ears to choose life (Deut.30:19). That's how God desires we choose right despite having full right to choose from a variety of good or bad. If He wants us to be pruned of making choices, he'll have made us robots or eliminate alternatives.

God has given man freewill. The man He makes is one that can explore the world for himself. Somebody who can say like Solomon: "And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour" Ecclesiastes 2:10, KJV. Or one who will not make his liberty a bait to hook himself despite his having the privilege of doing anything that interests him (which of course may not interest God). We know that the undoing of Solomon was that he didn't deny himself some things his eyes saw and which his heart cheers or encourages him to do. If there's no inner restrain of the Holy Ghost on some choices, they'll be detrimental to you. That you have the right to choose what to eat shouldn't make you desire and eventually eat poison. Who don't know that will kill you?

Our passage for today is bringing to our prompt consciousness one reason why youths and all humans must be tempered: the remembrance of judgement. God is not against your exploring life like Solomon. That's why in the first place He makes you the wanting man He made you. That's why He gave you sight. Just remember that after doing all as you may deem best by yourself, God will call you to account. Nobody is on his own. No human is an absolute authority or end of the road to himself. Youths are known for experimentation. They are in a time of life where they want to have, taste and touch everything. When you restrict a youth on adventure, he might resent you and see you as one limiting the exercise of his liberty. Meanwhile, God is not saying, "don't exercise your rights" but rather calls us to restricted liberty even while total liberty is given us. Though God has said you could make your choice and do whatsoever, it doesn't mean you should begin to live like Esau, as a profane man who despises his birthright. When you begin to fornicate, club and waste your time in this life and the ingredients of your calling, never think God won't call you into account one day for that.

So, what manner of man ought we to be when we know brightly that a day of accountability comes to request us to give a tender on how we've spent our time and use our free will. God isn't against enjoyment but sin must not be what you'll indulge in and call enjoyment. To all of us without an exception to an age group, our moment on earth is the time of our choice. We can do anything, act anyhow (either good or bad) but we should bear at the back of our mind that we would be checked out. Our acts won't just go like that. So, hear and be tempered. Caution yourself and live a life that's acceptable before Jesus Christ your Saviour and the Father. You should fear and call yourself to immediate caution if you've run out of control because you were told today to know for sure that you'll be brought into judgement. The certainty of it is steadfast and you should expect that. So, that's an enough reason to repent and live right.

PRAYER: Lord, teach me right living on earth. I will not be baited by undisciplined liberty.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 28:1-29:35, Matthew 9:18-38, Psalm 11:1-7, Proverbs 3:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 14/01/2022

FRIDAY - 14TH JANUARY, 2022

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BECAUSE IT IS YOUR SEASON

Read Psalm 1

Psalms 1:3, KJV

"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

The righteous is like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruit in his season. What your gaze must be fixed on is _"that brings forth his fruits in his season."_ Do you know some things won't just yield unless their seasons come. If you know this, you'll quickly be hastened as a Christian to discern and separate between what you can accrue any time any day and what can only be received in its season.

There is a thing like " _the day, the time or the season_ ." If it is not the season for a leaf to fall off its branch, it won't fall unless you pluck it off. If it's not day for the sun to shine or night for the moon to peep out, you won't see either. Though they both wanted to be seen at the peak of their performances, yet they stick to the rule of their seasons. Season naturally calls you into manifestation even without your taking thought for it. That's why you have to pray that your season will come upon you. It is not age that determines season but the ordaining of God and how cooperative we are with God on our personal journey. Some by their own acts are delaying or postponing the ripening of their seasons though it has been afore fixed that they manifest or bring forth someday. Stop sinning, stop not putting preparation in place for the D-day.

If that tree bears fruits in its own season, the message is that you must bring forth at your season. It means some things must happen or be fulfilled upon you because of their time which has mature and is fixed. You're not destined not to be productive. You carry in you the seed that gives birth. That place says, "he brings forth HIS FRUIT in his season." Did you see? Some fruits were allotted to him. That is, whether he likes it or not, he must bring forth something which is his. God has destined you too to bring forth. Unless seasons come for some things, no matter how you try, you can't force result. If at your season, you however are not productive, then there's an attack and a curse of the devil hindering that. I break it off you in Jesus name. What did the Bible say here?

Psalms 102:13, KJV

"Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come."

Why would God arise? ...because that fixed time has come. That's all. Nothing added and nothing removed. Singularly, that's the reason for God's coming through for Zion. Are you not Zion today? Your season has come. If it's your season for it to happen or be done, it means it can't be hindered because things must answer at their seasons. A law is there and an angel watches over your season to ensure that it is kept. You won't miss seasons! I pray for you, because your season has come, you'll be productive in your calling and career. You'll be favoured, sought after and things would happen for you faster and better than you've been labouring to make happen. Alas, the season has come upon you. Result can't be hindered again because the Law and the Lord of seasons are watching to perform to you in your season. 

PRAYER: Lord, help me by early discovery not to miss seasons. Restore to me any missed season/opportunities. Watch over my season with jealousy for accomplishment of purpose.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 28:1-29:35, Matthew 9:18-38, Psalm 11:1-7, Proverbs 3:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/01/2022

THURSDAY - 13TH JANUARY, 2022

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BECOMING AN ANSWER TO PRAYER

READ ACTS 10:1-48

Acts 10:5, KJV

"And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:"

God knows the need of people. Cornelius gives much alms and prays to God often but he has one need in his life - to be born again. That's the prevention from winding up in hell. One day, an angel appears to him telling him to send men to Joppa to bring Peter and that Peter would tell him what to do. There are those who know what to do and those who don't. Those who know what to do have come to believe in the light and must show others the true light because that's their call. Look at the compensation for the alms and prayers of Cornelius which the angel said has risen as a memorial before God.

What happens? Peter was sent to this Gentile household/nation out of his cherished, long standing observant of the law of "don't eat anything unclean". God responds to all Cornelius' prayer by giving him a preacher. A preacher is a compensation or one of God's best gifts to a needy world. So, count yourself very privileged being one or for listening to one.

You see, I want to believe just like it happened to Cornelius that there are people who are or have been praying fervently for God's will to be done in their lives and need just little instructions to get such done. Their hearts pants after God. If it should be opened, you'll see how much their hearts have been rent to receive Jesus and what He might instruct. There may even be those who have prayed that God will raise a minister to come into their settlement, plant a church and start great work for God. They know there is wickedness but they seem not enough to end it and so intercedes for God to send a man. There are places that missionaries have stepped on and laboured. These missionaries prayed for a substitute of themselves so the work might continue but all was to no avail until their death. Meanwhile, their voices are still heard on such land and before God. Suddenly, if their prayers should rise as a memorial before God, God would quickly send a minister to such area. Your prayer today should be, "God, make me an answer to the current and pending prayers of people". If the prayers of some people won't be in vain, God must send you like He sent Peter. How can they hear except there is a preacher?

Romans 10:14, KJV

"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"

Hearing or believing actually takes the road of being preached to first of all. As salvation's process of believing and confessing Jesus as Lord is very simple, yet no one can come to believe in one he is not first told about or has afore heard before confessing the acceptance and lordship of same. Look at yourself. Did you just get born again? It takes a kind of being led into it right? To reach a soul especially one that's desperate, God can do anything. He cares for souls because that's His heart beat. As the year goes on, God wants you to begin to think as a missionary and one whom evangelism would be his core this year. God wants you to be an answer to people's prayers which calls for readiness to drop your cherished values or practices which could hinder His work. This may be traditions of men or that of God which He Himself will be stirring you to let go for a bigger purpose to relocate into places He might be sending you. The world needs God because it's dying. If the world should die, it's not because Jesus didn't die but because there is no man to send.

PRAYER: Lord, make me an answer and response to ongoing and generational prayers. Lord, send me where there's need to address.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 26:17-27:46, Matthew 9:1-17, Psalm 10:16-18, Proverbs 3:9-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/01/2022

WEDNESDAY - 12TH JANUARY, 2022

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IF YOUR LIFE MUST CHANGE

I Chronicles 4:9-10, KJV

"9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested."

There is the conventional crying or action while there's the unconventional. Jabez cried! He cried! Why did Jabez call on God? He cried because he wanted to change his situation. The situation Jabez met himself was not his creation. Whether it was however his creation or not isn't the ultimate. Where the matter is is changing the situation. You can't forever mourn the past when you should take responsibility for the future. Jabez had been cursed subtly at birth and he needed to break off from this pronouncement that has been moulded into a yoke which yielded to him undesirables.

On that note, he called on the God of Israel. He attacked and addressed a particular quarters. He knows every good and perfect gift comes from above. Now, before he cried, he came to the discovery of something not good. He got to a place where having spoken with himself, he decided not to continue that way again. He must off course have seen a lot of disgraces and embarrassments which brought him to himself to say, "enough!" He wanted freedom and he set his mind on it and not any other thing. If you had met Jabez at this time and had asked him what he wanted, he would have mentioned one thing, "change." Jabez knew what to address and then who to address. It was God he called unto. He didn't cry to the mother and say, "make another pronouncement." You must know where to face, who to appeal and draw your requests on.

How many people are tired of where they are, who they are and the repeating happenings in their lives? Until you are tired and wanted a turn of event, you can't take a corresponding action. Jabez got to this brink. He got where he knew nobody would turn things for him except he does it himself. Therefore, like Jephthah, he took his life into his hands and advocated for his cause from the Father. He petitioned God. Like an angry man, he refused to leave God alone nor be comforted. God saw the desperation and signed his demands.  

Come and see contention in the spirit. When Jabez cried to God, it is equal to fighting that curse or label put on him in the spirit. There was a violent reaction. Things shook in the spirit and what was the result eventually? Jabez then became a new being. One who could be described as being honourable than the children of his mother. But that was not Jabez before. A new Jabez now walks the town. Hallelujah! Today, may your identity change. May you be known otherwise from the past. May there be a turning and a wide distance from how you're negatively described to how you'll begin to be positively described. But before any of these will happen, you must come to the realization of your condition. You must be pained. You must be angry to have a new life. When you are, then you'll see new ideas, actions etc flooding you as practical steps by which your life, status etc would change. Jabez prayed. You may not necessarily pray but rather may take actions which you've never taken before that will bring that new dawn on you.

PRAYER: Sensitize me to what I should resist. Let my awareness lead to unconventional acts to desire change. I receive a distinction that deviates from past's reputation.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 24:52-26:16, Matthew 8:18-34, Psalm 10:1-15, Proverbs 3:7-8

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