MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 1/02/2022

TUESDAY - 1ST FEBRUARY, 2022

HAPPY NEW MONTH!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE RIB THAT FILLS IN THE GAP

Genesis 2:21,KJV

"And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

God removed a rib from Adam and formed it into a woman. The same miracle of making a skeleton into a whole person here was done in Ezekiel 37 also. All the Lord had was a frame or structure through which He built a whole human in both places. When Eve (that rib) was removed, there was an open space in Adam. It is a hollow that comes to be formed just like a hole is formed in the earth when a digging out of soil is done. It's this vacant space that God brought Eve back to fill in Adam's life. God seeks to make two become one and complete by bringing them together. That's what makes Eve Adam's perfect match. She becomes a match because she could fill in the gap left in Adam's life by God's deliberateness when her very self was dug out. That tells you that a spouse is only a half of the other. No spouse is complete on his or her own. There will always be a vacancy (deficiency) or room in his or her life that whom God will bring to him or her will need to fill up. So, seek after completion and cherish your spouse's contribution into your very life in perfecting you. Also, don't marry the wrong Christian or else a fitting may not occur.

Thank God we all did fill in the gap in school. Do you remember how you used letters to fill in gaps. Let's say we want to fill "C--P". For those letters to make a word and be regarded as same, we will need to put into it a letter that can make it a meaningful word. For example  "u" or "o" can fit into it to form a whole word. That tells you it is not only a person that your 'word' can necessarily be filled with as a Christian for you to be completed. Let's assume Brother Green-pastures proposed to Sister Still-waters. If the sister though God's will for that brother refuses him, God will still find another Christian sister for him that can fit into his life and fulfill the ministry that the first sister turned away from without loss. So, we can say there is a complement and substitute complement(s). Mind you, this doesn't mean a Christian is permitted to marry and keep two spouses at a go except the first dies. What I'm saying is that "o" or "u" can be inserted into "C--P" to make "cup" or "cop". That means there are vessels who can fill in your gap by fitting into your nature, tolerate your habits and accept you as a spouse. God is likely to choose from such set of people for you. They're always more than one that you can marry or can marry you! Is this therefore preaching to you to therefore reject God's will when it's made known to you? No.

Your better half is somewhere and only God through His leading and good choice making can make the path of you both cross. Like Ezekiel prophesied, I pray that you will gravitate towards your life partner in Jesus' name. No matter how distant the deer is to the stream, it gravitates towards it. There is a calling of it to come to the stream. Unless he drinks from the waters, he is unsatisfied and lacks rest. May the hollow and unsatisfactoriness in your life drive you to seek after that fellow who will bring completion to you. Let it be bone to its bone.

PRAYER: Lord, give me one that will be water to my deer, a satisfaction to my soul and a complement to/of my person.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 10:1-12:13, Matthew 20:1-28, Psalm 25:1-15, Proverbs 6:6-11

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/01/2022

MONDAY - 31ST JANUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THE LORD BRINGS IT TO YOU

READ Genesis 27:1-25

Genesis 27:20, KJV

"And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me."

I pray for you, the Lord will bring it to you. When the Lord brings it to you, you will locate it easily and your time of wandering shall be saved. 

Isaac was old and he knew not the day of his death. To this end, he called Esau his son to go hunting and fetch him meat such as he liked for preparation of a delicious meal. He'll need to bless him before his death. They wouldn't know that Rebekah spies on them and has heard all. 

While Isaac was jealous for Esau, Rebekah was concerned for Jacob. They each have their team member and one they were loyal to. May you not lack your man. It was Jacob's man (her mother) that helped him or else destiny blessing would have jumped him over. May God give you those who will watch your back and the back door for you. That was Jacob's advantage in today's reading. It's also your leverage in this life.

Where critical decisions will be taken, may you have those that will fight for you.  On that note, Rebekah therefore instructed Jacob to bring two kids from the flock which she'll prepare into the kind of meal Isaac loved. Jacob's fear was eliminated and this plan was carried out. When Jacob got the food ready for Isaac, Isaac was shocked at how the process of getting a bush meat could have been so shortened for anyone. So, he asked, "how is it that you were so quick about it?" That question shows Isaac was not ignorant of how tedious hunting for animals could be. It was also a means of verifying who came. Jacob however said one thing that my emphasis will be on today. He said, "because the Lord thy God brought it to me."

We knew God didn't bring anything to Jacob because he didn't even go hunting. He only lied since the animals he prepared were domesticated animals. However, let's leave all those to concentrate on the feedback of Jacob to his father which is actually a possibility in any Christian's life. 

Do you know God could bring things to you? We all know that it took Esau a considerable longer time before he appeared before Jacob. What if as soon as he got to the wild, he didn't have to spend much time but a shorter one than he spent before God brings it to him.

People of God, God is still in the business of bringing it to His children. Twenty of you can be primary school mates. You started all together from the beginning but after twenty five years, some of you might have gotten why they're in this wild (life or earth) while others are still roaming around to find a perfect game or even find their foot. When you meet some of them and ask, how are you doing? How's family? They'll have evidences to show for it. They already have those things and on every matter of life have been helped greatly like the Lord helped Uzziah. If it's on purpose, they're already functioning big time in the anointing of their callings and details of their careers. Nothing is just lacking because their names are fledgling brands that are now being noised around at their level. When God brings it to you, struggle is eliminated. The house some are not eating but saving heavily to build can be given you. What the world is dying to have, cutting corners to achieve all can be delivered at your doorstep. Gift and inheritance are two means through which God can bring it to you apart from reaping a bumper harvest in what your hand has found to do which can give you quick acceleration to achieve. Favour is another way of quickly gathering. 

I pray for you that when you go out in the morning to fetch what to eat, it will quickly come to you. While scouting for what to bring home, you won't meet a predator. All the things that a man needs to be a man or woman in this life, may the Lord God of Israel, Isaac and Jacob betray them into your hands so that your journey will be quicker over your mates. Receive it.

PRAYER: God, you're a betrayer and deliverer of good things needed for life unto my bosom; give to me on time.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 10:1-12:13, Matthew 20:1-28, Psalm 25:1-15, Proverbs 6:6-11

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/01/2022

SUNDAY - 30TH JANUARY, 2022

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WHEN THE LORD HAS NEED OF YOU

READ Mark 11:1-10

Mark 11:3,KJV 

"And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither."

I want you to see that you'll be doing yourself a great favour if the Lord beckons on you and you hear. Men can call you with a no at hand for them. If the Lord does, I'll say, drop that which you have in your hands and follow. Jesus sent the disciples to go to a place and bring a colt tied on which no man has ever ridden. What a virgin it was! He, knowing they might be questioned gave them words to answer them. It wasn't that Jesus had afore preplanned with the colt's owner. The utterance which would communicate to the hearer, "the Lord has need of it" was therefore given to the disciples. That's the currency with which they went on that journey. 

The Lord has need of it? Yes. That's His demand. If it is, let's give Him. You should be humble to learn from today's teaching. He they met didn't delay them after they said the Lord has need of it. They immediately let them go with it. What the Lord has need of is what He can't but get. That's how it should be though we have known some for their obstinacy and disagreement even in the face of the Lord has need of it. These are of the group who won't let go. These are of the set that their possessions are too weighty for them to part with. These are those who disdain God and do not esteem Him in act but can confess Him as Lord till tomorrow. For no one esteems God really that doesn't do so when sacrificial demands are made on him. Pharaoh won't let Israel go but Israel had to still go. God will do it even if it will be by strong arm.

The Lord has need of it! In the Yoruba culture of the Nigerian people, their ancient monarchs are known for exercising absolute authority. This authority was so far reaching that the king could see a lady and say, "she pleases me well. I'll have her for wife." All can't but agree even if they're not well pleased. It is the king. It is royalty that has made demand on them. It is not a man of mere presence. They'll even be honoured becoming in-law to the king though he's one with many wives already. How much more God to you? If the Lord requests of you a thing, He should have it. That's when there's nothing in God's will you stretch at without obtaining. It is the Lord that has need of it. It doesn't matter how costly it is. It's obtainable. If men would obey these ancient kings, how much more the Royalty that gives royalty to royalty? We should see and fear. Jordan saw and fled. You must be touched also. The Lord has come. If He tells you I need you for this or that purpose, let go. Don't struggle with God. He only wants to bring you to a great estate. When the Lord told Peter to lend him His boat which he did, the Lord rewarded him with the catch he has never caught before. Afterwards, the Lord made a final demand on him by saying, "follow me and I'll make you fishers of men." You can tell whether after Peter's heeding of this call he wasted away or grew in relevance. Is there any God has been saying, "I have need of you to but who's withholding?" Are there parents there who are withholding their children from their God's need for marriage? Those words have not changed. It is still, "the Lord has need of them." You should hear, be touched and submit. Come to the acknowledgement that it is the Lord and not the disciples you're seeing in their irrelevance who have come to make the tender. 

PRAYER: Lord, I submit to your demand over me. Nothing I possess will be held back from Your service. All that's mine is Yours and Yours first of all.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 8:1-9:35, Matthew 19:13-30, Psalm 24:1-10, Proverbs 6:1-5

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/01/2022

SATURDAY - 29TH JANUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

SENT TO PRESERVE LIFE

READ Psalm 105

Psalm 105:17,KJV

"HE SENT a man BEFORE them,even Joseph,who was sold for a servant."

God in His infinite mercy will not leave us comfortless. He always plans ahead because He has foresight. Israel is the beloved, covenant nation of God. They have special spot in God's heart. God is always committed to keeping them in existence. Israel/Jews had faced terrible attacks and persecutions down the line of history but they have emerged survivor and not a victim. God always has a strategy for keeping them continuous. This is one we're studying.

Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers so they might terminate his dreams. However, it wasn't men that sent Joseph there but God who was working out His will. God only used his brothers as the vehicle to hasten him into this special assignment or destiny. In Gen. 45:5-7, Joseph who had knew why he came to Egypt comforted his brothers not to be grieved for selling him off but to see the purpose behind it. Permit me to say, it was God who gave Joseph off to be sold that the Israelites might not perish by the reason of the 7 years famine to come. Everything was God's doing all along! Off course, that made it marvellous or baffling!

Joseph kept telling them, I was sent here to preserve and keep a remnant for Israel. "God made it so and had made me even a father to Pharaoh. I have a position of influence to preserve you by providing food  for you until this famine is lifted. This is why I was sent here" [Paraphrased].

Though his life was hard as a pioneer who went and cleared the path for others to have a stress free journey; he didn't take it for granted or ignore his calling. Have you asked why you are first amidst many brethren. It's because the call of a pioneer, saviour and care-giver is placed on you. Why would God send you ahead of others and specifically anoint you for success if not for you to preserve lives with your influence, power, wealth or status? Where Joseph got to, nobody in Israel had ever attained such office even amidst people of strange tongue. While many Christians celebrate prosperity and greatness and danced all around; they have not for once enquire why they have come to such great estate. Why I'm I great? For what reason did I graduate faster and at a tender age? Why I'm I the only succeeding fellow here? These are questions of purpose. A Joseph must know he is not created and made great for himself but that he might be useful for the uplifting of others, especially those that are  immediate to him. Some people's eyes would look at you, when it does, give what's in your hands.

There's a reason why you're alive. Joseph forgave and didn't allow grieve or bitterness blindfold or strangle his purpose for which he was sent ahead others. You might have been your own sponsor to becoming such a great one. Others might have ignored you and sold you off to failure and nothingness. However, do look beyond this and live the expectation of heaven hanging on you. Assist your siblings and know you're raised for them. There's a reason for your being sent ahead or before others. While they are in Canaan,you are in Egypt to prepare the ground for their future. You're their provider and preserver. Rise up and live to your task.

PRAYER: Lord, may I not disappoint Your expectation and people's over me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 5:22-7:25, Matthew 18:21-19:12, Psalm 23:1-6, Proverbs 5:22-234:1-5:21, Matthew 18:1-20, Psalm 22:19-31, Proverbs 5:15-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/01/2022

FRIDAY - 28TH JANUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

MY EXPERIMENT ON WHO WILL BE GRIEVED

READ Psalm 127

Exodus 1:11-12, KJV

"11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.  12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel".

Why should they be grieved? Were they not the oppressor? Who should be grieved? The oppressed or the oppressor? You have heard said often that "silence is the best answer for a fool". I'll say it has its application in real life situations. If someone does all to get you angry while you keep your calm, do you know because you're not emitting the responses for which you're being frustrated, he might get frustrated. He'll get disoriented and wonder at why you never acted in response to his action despite all. Such people tend to leave you alone finally. They'll drop comments like, "He's a dead man! Let him be!" It rather gives the tormentor joy when you're emitting predicted feedbacks of his tormenting you. The more you get angry when insulted, the more insults he hauls at you again and again. Why? You keep meeting his expectation.

In today's reading, Pharaoh set task masters over the Israelites to afflict them. We read this report which says, "the more they're afflicted, the more they multiplied and grew". Now, this reaction as we saw yesterday defied the Egyptian's action at the Israelites. They ought to diminish and begin to go into extinction because no natural man continues reproducing in high fertility under unfavourable conditions. However, theirs was difference. At the observation of the Egyptians that this thing ain't working, they were shocked and thrown into dread. If they were wise, they ought to search "why?". Seeing the contrary, the Bible says, "they were vexed and alarmed because of the Israelites" AMP.

Is the oppressor not frustrated now? First, they were angry that their moves to stop them didn't work. Secondly, they were scared of the Israelites because it just doesn't make sense for any natural man to continue in high birth rate at their level of slavery. You may not know but let me tell you, there may be those fearing you currently. So much more that when your paths are to cross, having sighted you from afar, they would escape you. You might have been bewitched and enchanted spiritually without it working or showing in tangibility forms the enemy wants it seen. You may not know. The Israelites probably didn't know also that afterwards, the Egyptians dreaded them. But after all, your enemy himself would attest to the fact that you can't be shaken, removed or conquered. It makes such who have fought you without winning to respect you the more. Many of them if they're not the hardened type like Pharaoh will by so be moved unto repentance. They know how esteemed and powerful their bewitchment is. They've fashioned it at many who ran mad or died but seeing you not been affected would set them on enquiry. At their new birth, that's when you'll hear all the long story of how they tried bewitching and bringing you down but which didn't work. In their search for the whys, they came to know your God. May that be the testimony in Jesus name. Tell anyone who's making searches and going on the journey of enquiry of you to continue. Whenever they try, they'll always meet a wall which is God. They'll seek to curb, curtail, restrict and hinder you but all will be to no avail. Their labour will be vain labour because God won't build with them [Psalm 127:1]. Lacking God's support or acknowledgement, you remain the champion unconquered.

PRAYER: Make me impregnable. Teach me right standing with you. I clear my conscience of all things violating my righteousness.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 4:1-5:21, Matthew 18:1-20, Psalm 22:19-31, Proverbs 5:15-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/01/2022

THURSDAY - 27TH JANUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DEFYING THE SITUATION

READ Gen. 50:15-20

Exodus 1:12, KJV

"But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel".

Due to the blessing on you, you'll defy the situation. You can't but burst the wine skin and outperform.

As one of the intervening techniques of curtailing Israel from multiplication having noticed they're of great populace and then mightier, Pharaoh made them slaves while making their lives bitter with all sorts of rigorous work. Israel was afflicted but Israel didn't bear the marks of affliction. It ought to be that Israel would diminish, die off and become a minority. However, contrary to that evil curbing technique of Pharaoh, Israel was reported to have grown the more! The way it was reported shows God Himself was fighting silently for Israel to prove a point to Pharaoh that who could have a thing decreed except He the Lord says it. For it was written, the more they were afflicted, the more they multiplied and grew. Isn't that contradictory? If you have two plants, which one should thrive or die out when one is being watered while the other isn't? I think the seed being afflicted by not watering should die off. Reverse is however the case for Israel. Israel thrived, survived and stood straight still. That's why you could hear of an orphan somewhere making it despite the lack of support or favourable condition. If you had seen the frown on Pharaoh's face, you wouldn't doubt that indeed the Egyptians were unhappy because of the Israelites (who kept multiplying).

Do you know that under the harshest conditions, surviving is actually a provision for God's own. Isaac sowed in the land and reaped hundred fold yet that was during famine! [Gen. 26:12]. You know that wasn't right. Something had been reversed and didn't work according to the law of nature there. Spiritual influences and forces working through the covenant - lineage's blessings and the personal promise of God to him to sow in same land were what mastered what should have been into what eventually became testimony. Your case is different son and daughter. When A is being done you in  expectance of B, you'll be manifesting Z to the shock of all. You're redeemed to cause shocks, draw awes and make eyes blink!

Are you in a country where prosperity is far from the common man? It once happened but that was when Elijah was eating balanced diet. Another economy will support you when one withers off. Egypt afflicted Israel but Israel never manifested the outcome of their bitterness towards them. Who are those troubling you? At day's end by the time they measure it, they'll see they have not achieved their aim and would be grieved. They'll be unhappy and say, "despite all". Do you know why? You're like a jeep specially built by its manufacturer to be rugged and survive bad roads and harsh conditions. You have in you, on you and around you things that would strengthen you to withstand and survive where the heathen under the same condition falls and collapses. The fiery burning furnace that the three Hebrew men withstood is what slay those who only drew near it. What preserves those ones? They're of a tribe that God is committed to. Devil, do your worst. Fight madly and in anger act in fury, I'll not look like your desire. Say that, " you won't look like Satan's desire". Like Israel, you'll cause awe of outgrowing restrictions. Disadvantages become advantages for you. It will be said of you that limitations rather and actually furthered you. He who works all things together is at the mill mixing what Satan, life and people are throwing at you to become reasons for which you'll testify. You're a tribe that disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands perform not their craftiness while they're grieved until they're brought to repentance or at absolute refusal - destruction.

PRAYER: Father, let me outgrow boundaries. I breakthrough hedges. Make me the testimony tribe and a testimonial to my world.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 2:11-3:22, Matthew 17:10-27, Psalm 22:1-18, Proverbs 5:7-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 26/01/2022

 WEDNESDAY - 26TH JANUARY, 2022

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LOOKING UNTO JESUS

Hebrews 12:2, KJV

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

You must know that to be distracted is very easy. The very reason why you must intentionally practice selective looking. In today's verse, we are told to look unto Jesus. Looking unto Him and remembering some things about Him can keep us through our own hard times.

Literally, a thing you look unto is a thing you focus your gaze on. Your concentration is on such. Jesus in that verse is said to be taken as our model who endures shame for the joy set before Him. If we take Him as our model and continually remember how He struggled to win, we also would be mindful enough not to let go even when it's tough. We can't say we are alone or have nobody who has passed through the challenges we're passing through even if it's not the same challenge or situation.

A thing you constantly set before you is what you see. That's why the Psalmist says this.

Psalms 16:8, KJV

"I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."

The remedy to not being moved in this life is setting the Lord before yourself. Something will come around that's enough reason to be shaken or moved. You'll be tried but those who will remain like hills surrounding Jerusalem which can't be moved will be those that have set the Lord before themselves. When you set God before yourself until He constantly takes the elegant place in your life (your right hand side) - showing importance and priority, you'll see that you can't be moved. Those who can't be moved are people who are constantly meditating and have established a strong belief in God. They've given Him the place of God who's all able. They're those who also creates the mental picture of the Almighty and His almightiness before themselves while putting themselves in constant remembrances of His miraculous acts. These are people who like David have not forgotten in a hurry the past works of the Lord but could firmly reminisce and say, "the Lord that delivers me from the paws of the lion and the bear will deliver me from this uncircumcised Philistine also." Those that would remember God's great act in the past are those who can have Him believed to be able to settle future risings.

Have you set the Lord before yourself? If He's not your focus, your meditation all day till He is giving a place in your life where He reigns as very important in your matters (to the extent that you can't do a thing without consulting Him), you'll easily be lost or give up when the storm arises.

PRAYER: Lord, may my daily practices show I've set you before me and that you're at my right hand. May I not be moved. May I see you as a worthy model to look unto and to.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 50:1 - Exodus 2:10, Matthew 16:13-17:9, Psalm 21:1-13, Proverbs 5:1-6

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