MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 14/02/2022

MONDAY - 14TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

GUIDANCE TO DESTINATION

Read Matthew 2:1-10

Matthew 2:9, KJV

"9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was".

Brethren, if you're created for the hills, without pretending to be a hill man, it would show. I want all children of destiny to take cognizance of something. God alone calls to the hills. If you're having a sense of being known worldwide, it is not ordinary. God might have put it there. How does He get that done? There's a thing known as calling. It predates anybody's existence here on earth. Calling is like a programmed code left in each man's soul. This calling like a flash of lightning would appear or peep out often to reveal itself to the carrier to pursue. If it is identified or discovered and pursued, the carrier would become great in destiny because it is God that specifically called him into an area he should be which he has found out and has heeded despite the other roads that may be appealing to his soul. 

Listen to me, if you're appointed to be a city on a hill - a star, a national or international phenomenon, you don't need someone to tell you except you haven't discovered it. If you have discovered calling and God is saying your calling still goes on to the top and is greater than the one you've discovered or you're living for, God Himself would create a pull in the very gulf of your soul and put a drawing, liking, obsession, passion etc there for you to chase or pursue after that high thing. If you're at the local level now and destiny wants you become a national hero, "come up hither" will be heard by you often on your inside. You won't just be satisfied with where you are. You'll desire the top not for selfish lust but because it is desiring you to come and is calling you to itself. Do you know there are people God has put travelling out of the country in their hearts since a kid? This is not to escape poverty because they might even be well to do. It might be a particular country. God does a thing like that because such fellow's manifestation may be amidst people of strange tongue and not his own. Desires are not ordinary. Check the significance of the desire you're having. Till date, I still have hot desire for the Arab world and all others like them. Just like I confided in someone, I said, "what's so special in my obsession for those with hijab?"

In today's reading, a star that appeared to the magi in the East didn't stop there. When they got to Jerusalem and still needed to trace further their destination for which they've heeded the call of setting out earlier, the star appeared to guide them. It was reported it didn't stop until it led them to their final destination where who they were looking for was. It never left them nor forsook them. Look at me, your calling will never leave you nor forsake you also. It will guide you if you've heeded it or you're in it until you get to the final stop. At every juncture you reach that it seems you're confused as a destiny child, your calling would soon reveal itself in you to lead you on. That's why children of destiny have a clear cut vision of where to go and what to do. Do you know why? Something inside - from what God ordained them to be even before being in their mother's womb is directing them. 

Children of destiny, where are you? I can assure you by this word that you'll reach. The wise men reached. They began from the East, got to Jerusalem, then Bethlehem of Judea and then to the specific house Jesus was. They did 'cause the star kept telling them to follow him. You, observe the ray of light in your soul and you'll know that divinity is the one who had been putting what you have not acknowledged as leading in your soul. Heed it and become great to people suddenly.

PRAYER: Father, let this calling call me to my height. Keep revealing and flashing images of destiny into my soul.  

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 34:1-35:9, Matthew 27:15-31, Psalm 33:12-22, Proverbs 9:1-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/02/2022

SUNDAY - 13TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WITH YOUR MIGHT

Ecclesiastes 9:10, KJV

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest".

"With all your might" is the phrase that should be unforgettable. It is your target and you have to make it count. 

Sometimes ago, a fellow said he was in meditation and he remembered his undergraduate days. He said he didn't regret what he came out with but he would have regretted it if it wasn't his best he gave to finally get what he came out with. Should you find out you could have done better, would you be happy with yourself? Obviously no. Many times at the time of duty, we'll get tired and say, "That's how far I could go. Whatsoever would happen, let it". May you not mean those words. These words are words that make people settle down and become an average man. These words hinder them from doing what their hands have found to do with their might. 

Do you know what it means to do "with all your might?. I'll give you an illustration. Imagine a fellow who a flood of water is to sweep away but has a tree by the bank to hold unto. How do you think he'll hold unto that tree as to be saved against this dangerous current? Do you think he'll have reserved energy somewhere that he won't use up once and for all to the saving of his life? That's what we're telling you to activate. Let the operations of your life be with all your might. At every time that a job, a task or duty would call, let it be your best shot you're giving to it and not chicken feed you're bringing to it. 

Are you a student? Study in such a way that your conscience can't crucify you later. If something didn't add up, let it be known to your inner of inner that the faults were not yours. You went all the way to make it happen but something was not adding up and that ain't your cause. Do you know why you have to begin to apply this principle to your life? Reasons were already given in that same verse but I won't focus on those. It's because you'll come to maturity and better understanding in the future and you'll  challenge, beat and question yourself as to why you couldn't have done better than what you now have at hand. This discovery may hit you when demand is being made for those who have done better. Such days do arise you know that'll bring you to the realization of the petty seeds you've sown which would cause you beat your chest and smite yourself. It may be if you had worked with all your might also, you could have set an example of excellence for your children and people around you to emulate but now you're being called to questioning and accountability. So that there won't be any reason for any regret, slam the pedal to the drum and go all out. 

Jehu drew the bow with all his strength. When it hits, it pierced to the other side. But mind you, he drew with all his strength first of all.  

II Kings 9:24, KJV

"And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot".

It is not all arrows that do pierce its victim inside out when shut especially if it is not drawn with full strength. However, Jehu intentionally drew this so that even if Jehoram escapes, the wound can't be nursed but rather eventually kill him. That's leaving a mark and he necessarily manufactured that shut to take him down. 

This task, job of yours etc that you're doing from a partial heart can't groom you and process you for a future you don't yet see. There is more that meet the eyes than what we see. To this end, I challenge you to go disrobe laziness off you and put on the garment of "with all your might" and give all your energy, will power in its concentration to achieve. This is when you can be first amidst many. 

PRAYER: May I make this resolution and not turn back. Grant me the will power.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 34:1-35:9, Matthew 27:15-31, Psalm 33:12-22, Proverbs 9:1-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/02/2022

SATURDAY - 12TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

ESCAPING THE SWORD - Eternal Chase Series 003

Read Matthew 2:1-16

Matthew 2:16, KJV

"Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men".

There are so many reasons for which man pursues after the life of another man. Human life should be sacred and none ought to seek it to shed but this truth is often defied on so many occasions. 

On hearing of a King of the Jews who has been born, insecurity sets in and Herod became unnecessarily alerted. Under pretence, he told the magi to go locate Jesus so he might come and worship him too. He has a plan contrary to the one revealed to the magi. No one was suspicious of his moves but God warned the wise men not to go back to Herod. In this way, they departed to their own nation another way. So, he who was wise in his own conceit is made to see his own folly.

Also, the Lord came to Joseph, whispering to him to cart his family away to Egypt because the life of Jesus is being sought and would be sought after. After awhile that Herod had waited without seeing the wise men who had promised to return to feed him back, he knew he had been outsmarted not by the will of man but God's. Look at how furious he becomes. He flares up and wouldn't consent to being made a fool. Yet, he was willing to make the magi look like one. He didn't tell them his real intention was to kill Jesus but disguised his real act under the desire to come worship Jesus. Thank God that divinity came to the aid of the so called wise men. If not, Herod would have had the last laugh over them and wonder why they were called one. God is our wisdom and by Him, there won't be any foolishness in us. That's why by Him, we can run over a troop.

In this way, God frustrated the devices of Herod and Jesus escapes the sword. Having being mocked, he in anger sent scouts out to kill all babies of two years old and below according to his enquired time. However, Jesus was not part. The King of glory takes residence in Egypt that it might be fulfilled, "out of Egypt have I called my son".

Is any trying to play you through disguise? By God, you will overcome their intention. You may not know they are not for you, but God would give you upper hand over they and their plans. The sword won't meet you in your nest. Evil will always happen behind you. At your relocation and departure, that's when you'll be hearing the news of a thousand and ten thousands that have fallen. 

PRAYER: Escape is mine wherever my life is under threat and contest. May all Herods' wisdom becomes folly. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 32:1-33:23, Matthew 26:69-27:14, Psalm 33:1-11, Proverbs 8:33-36

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 11/02/2022

 FRIDAY - 11TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE GATHERING THAT'S IN VAIN - Eternal Chase Series 002

READ Acts 23:11-24

Acts 23:12, KJV

"And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul".

The gathering of a billion plotters shouldn't scare you since there's assurance that their gathering won't lead to implementation.

If there's one apostle whose life was terribly contested for in the Bible, it is Paul. They sought him to eliminate many times. This is one of such times. Some forty men gathered together and took a resolute decision of killing Paul. They were so much purposeful that they bound themselves with a curse that they wouldn't eat or drink until they've killed him. Brethren, if you get where Satan and men begin to pursue you this way, just know you have become a serious threat that must sure be taken out. Why should some people be so much concerned as to destroy another man's life? Why should they all leave their daily businesses and ventures to pick up a new cause? These are men who have something doing but who had to let go in order to finish off a fellow. There's no extent Satan can't go to bring a threat down. He'll sacrifice anything as well. For some men to have sacrificed the pleasure of eating and drinking until the mission is accomplished shows how focus and intense the matter was. 

However, God who rules as the Governor amidst the nations won't allow. He has afore assured Paul of bearing witness for Him in Rome earlier. So, his life is anchored on continuity. To fulfill this, Paul's sister's son reported to Paul and the chief captain what the masses were cooking. This is how a transfer of Paul to Felix became inevitable. God is faithful. He'll always allow a loop hole or leak in what the enemy calls plan. That's what would become your own advantage. Paul's sister's son heard their plans which he reported. Nobody knew him to be in relation with Paul but that's how God exposes the devices of the crafty so that their hands can't achieve their craftiness. On this note, Paul's end was postponed. He escapes death once more. You'll always escape the hardest of plots too. Let it be stringently woven and crafted together, you'll survive assassins and assassination. A wisdom would put you ahead that they won't see coming. They'll seek you and not find you available for death to be killed. Escape is yours and salvation from Jehovah. 

PRAYER: Thank You for your daily salvation to me. Give me salvation from my strongest enemy.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 30:11-31:18, Matthew 26:47-68, Psalm 32:1-11, Proverbs 8:27-32

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 10/02/2022

THURSDAY - 10TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE WHO WILL WAIT FOREVER - Eternal Chase Series 001

READ Acts 9:19-26

Acts 9:24-25, KJV

"24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket."

Take some time to laugh brethren. Ensure you really laugh loudly because what you're laughing at is the folly of some men. Why should you laugh? There are those who will wait for eternity. They'll wait, wait and wait to discover their reason for waiting is at all not materializing but has escaped them. So, their waiting would then be termed, "vain waiting."

Paul in zeal and ignorance of what he thought was right persecuted those of the Way. It was to such wild city arrest he was going  when Jesus handcuffed him one day. Having surrendered to Jesus' lordship, he began the preaching of this same Jesus immediately and argued with all intensity that He is indeed the Christ. To this end, all that sees him enquires if he was not the same notorious Saul dragging those of the Way to jail. They even wondered why he has suddenly stray from the purpose for which he had came to Damascus. They kept asking questions after questions. Having witnessed the testimony of Paul and foreseeing the havoc he might cause if he continues to preach of the Way he had once buffeted, they planned taking him out. I'll say that was a smart move by them. Do you know why? Testimony of a person like Paul would easily be believed by any outside the Way if they hear he once persecuted what he now stands for. They'll reason that he must have found out the genuine as to what cause to follow since he had previously tasted of the other faction also. To this end, Paul must be silenced before he spreads his belief of Jesus Christ and the Way to a larger extent - therefore popularizing those he was once all out to shut up. 

However, the plan to kill Paul was known to him. He just discovered it some way not specified. While those ones were watching the gates day and night (since that's the only and proper entrance to the city) to kill him; Paul beats all these plotters when he was let down in a basket by the city wall. Don't say there's no way. Once you get to a cross road, improvisation would stir itself in your belly. 

While those ones still had scouts whistling, sending signals, receiving calls on whether Paul has been perceived or not, Paul had left. He had left the vicinity. He was just far gone while they were still keeping vigil, giving all attention and denying themselves pleasure. All was in vain since the reality of Paul's presence in the city became illusion the moment he left. Brethren, this is how you'll always be ahead of what should take you out. Whenever they think they're in control, they'll suddenly discover you own the control. Plots will be futile over you. They may be made but they won't be executed because you'll be nowhere to be found for such to be experimented over you. In what way has your profession been endangering you? Are you a missionary, journalist or reporter, politician, writer, musician e.t.c. who's to be assassinated for having become a threat? Look, there booby plan shall be revealed and you shall outsmart them. Those waiting to bring you down shall therefore wait for ever until they tag you, "impossible, invincible, immortal" in Jesus name. 

PRAYER: Put me steps ahead of my enemies. I have insights into what is a plot. I outsmart bands, troops and companies.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 29:1-30:10, Matthew 26:14-46, Psalm 31:19-24, Proverbs 8:14-26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 9/02/2022

WEDNESDAY - 9TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

A MAN OF LIKE PASSION

James 5:17,KJV

"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months."

Passion is what equalizes all of us. Elijah, the great man of God was just like any one of us. He has feelings, affection and a constitution like ours. Meanwhile, he was also able to live beyond being human because he was able to exercise the supernatural side. That was the part that makes him not look like men of like passion with the constitution of ours. Because of being a man of like passion, that could have restricted and hindered him from living the God-life. This part which is divine however that anointed men of God constantly exhibits is what has deceived many into sinning. They'll think "I'm not prone to falling again." Raising the dead is not a guarantee that you can't backslide. Aren't you still having human affections?

On another note, that Elijah wrought the supernatural is an assurance that while we're humans in this flesh and while we still exhibit our human nature yet we can live under the divine constitution. That Elijah was a man of like passion means he was consequently opened to all the challenges you're facing and complaining about now in the flesh. There were moments his own body moved too. He only had to subdue it. He felt hungry e.t.c also.

Even our men of God today and those we call daddy or mummy have parts of the opposite sex they like and are falling for. That makes them truly a man of like passion that is vulnerable to temptation, seduction and even backsliding just like anyone. Our frame is dust: still flesh and blood though we may be anointed or fire brand. So, beware and take caution around the opposite sex.

The disciples were men of like passion also. That's why they experienced weakness to pray somewhere.

Matthew 26:40, KJV

"And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto peter, what, could ye not watch with me one hour?  26:41 watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

If you're too tired to pray (which is not an excuse for that exercise), it's because you're a man of like passion. Angels don't get tired. It is in the nature of man to be tired. Even Paul was a man of like passion. That's why Paul said " I put my body under." He knows being unguarded for a minute could wreck down all his years' labour in Christ. That's an exercise that everyman of like passion must do daily or else, you may not know when you'll stray in thoughts and begin to sleep with someone in your heart. Consequently, you can do it live. You'll feel sexually aroused as a correct man of like passion but you must keep your body under until you're married or until you have your partner ready (if married) to communicate ministration to you (I Corinthians 9:27).

Why did Paul keep his body under? He was a man of like passion with blood, cold blood running through his veins. Please, don't do counselling behind close doors or start prayer with the opposite sex and hold hands. Doing so is wanting to reap consequences. Can a man carry fire in his bosom and not be burnt. Let's ask "why did Paul counsel that every man should have his own spouse?" It is because he knows we're men of like passion. That's why he said "in order to avoid fornication." He knows only humans can commit fornication and not angels. Our own make up makes us men of like passion. Knowing that is the key for building defences (I Corinthians 7:2-3, KJV). These are just a run through of the fact that we are men of like passion who is susceptible to weakness, failure, fear, temptation, hunger, thirst, pressure e.t.c that a human being like us will be opened to.  In the light of this, we will know how to behave and take preventive measures which will keep our body under subduing. As bitter as it is, no man could kill being a man of like passion because that's why he still feels hungry, thirsty or sleepy. We can only control and subdue the exhibition of the nature in man that can bring him into sin. 

PRAYER: Help me overcome my passions and human weaknesses.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 28:1-43, Matthew 25:31-26:13, Psalm 31:9-18, Proverbs 8:12-13

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MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF REMEMBRANCE IN PRAYER

 REMEMBRANCE IN PRAYER 

One of the things I enjoy whenever I pray is remembrance. Apart from direction, I enjoy remembrance. This remembrance often times then do lead to direction to take afterwards.

Whenever I pray, things I had said I'll do, I should do or desire to do (but which I've not started doing but which I should do) would come to mind. They'll not only come to mind but come very persuasively. It will rise as a voice. A voice so speaking that you'll know a rising is happening inside you. A voice so serious like the voice of Abel calling from the ground. Therein, I know it's a person (the Holy Spirit) speaking inside me to me.

God in times past has sensitized me to great opportunities by telling me to check on the expert who has a say on it. That's even when I don't know announcement has been made concerning the availability of such opportunity. I have been reminded to call people in prayer many times. At times as I pray, solutions come freshly to a thing I've been contemplating on yet without necessarily seeking or praying for solution at that time. Suddenly, there just appears a path.

If you'll check, you'll also bear witness that when you pray, remembrance do come to you though you might have been neglecting yours. I believe that's the Holy Spirit at work who doesn't want us leave a stone unturned in our lives. He doesn't want any issue get swept under the carpet. The more you therefore relate with God, the more He'll be willing to tell you things to actively give attention to. He doesn't do it only at the times of prayer when our heart is only set on Him but even while we're busy with life. Doing it only at prayer time may be doom to us. Sensitization should be received everywhere and every time especially when God sees an emergency He wants you pay attention to. So, God makes remembrance occur and reoccur.

Don't forget, not that God has not been speaking and speaking repeatedly all this while. Even as we go about our daily businesses, He speaks but man is just too busy to give attention. Some haven't cultivated sensitivity enough to discern Him even in the midst of daily relations.

Job 33:14, KJV

"For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not".

What could be the cause of not perceiving despite repeated speech? Ask yourself. However, at the time separated for prayer, whenever we come to Him with a single heart, it gives the Holy Spirit ample opportunity to flood our heart with things we should take steps on which He has been bringing but hindered due to busyness with daily affairs which distracts us from such hearing.

Is there any there whose perception is dull? At the scent of water, it shall bud up again. The Lord would speak once but you'll perceive twice. 

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

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