MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 17/02/2022

THURSDAY - 17TH FEBRUARY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DISSUASION FROM CHOOSING THE RIGHT OR HARD COURSE

Acts 21:14, KJV

"And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done".

Once you're called, it means you have a calling, venture or a particular field that is appointed for you. You may show more interest for it than any other and it might become your lifelong venture. What I have seen on the road of the calling is meeting people who asks me or another how we're coping with what we have chosen to do or we've been doing. They'll say, "As for me, that's hard. I'll rather prefer this or that one". They're right. What you have chosen to do is hard to them and so it is vice versa. What they are doing will also be hard to you. Do you know why? It is what you're called for that you're equipped or anointed for. There's nothing anyone lacks preparation or ordaining for that he'll ever feel capable doing. 

In the untitled series we've been following, we saw that Paul was dissuaded twice not to mount to Jerusalem because imprisonment awaits him there. Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, we know every matter shall be established. They were telling Paul in essence, "Don't go that road. Don't take that course. It is littered with hardship and suffering". Paul laughed and questioned, "Hardship? I'm not only ready to be imprisoned but to die for Christ". Look at how he embraced the suffering they were trying to use to dissuade him (though true in reality). Do you know what? If you're called to follow a path in life, the suffering of that field or hardship of that profession is esteemed lightly by you though bogus to others outside same venture. With all sincerity, there's nothing in me that wants to become a martial artiste - a boxer, kick-boxer or  wrestler like Samson e.t.c. though I love the force enough as to become a soldier but for God's permission not given. You know how hard becoming a martial artiste means. I can't endure their rigorous training but I can endure that of fasting for many days and staying indoor for months if that would be necessitated without much socialization with people. 

The truth found out about calling is that people may not understand why you have chosen to follow that particular path. To them, it is difficult to rise, be a man of means while it's also fretted with so many social stigmas. So, they may be telling you, why not follow the easy or that other road which in their own consideration is just more advantageous? Paul said, "No". What we're made for is what we have ability to contain. If you go the easy road you were not made for, your foolishness of choice making would be shown the world because you'll lack equipping for it. Was it not prophesied from Jesus' mouth Himself that Paul would be shown a great deal of what he'll suffer for His name's sake? [Acts 9:16]. And indeed, he suffered many things but which he was never moved by [II Cor.11:23-28].

While Paul was in imprisonment, did the Lord not appear to him to encourage him? Doing what? Making his mountain strong and giving him an equipping that will make him tarry and fulfill his calling in his chosen path [Acts 23:11]. Get out of your path and there won't be any daily word spoken for your encouragement to continue until the day is dawn. This I therefore speak to all children of destiny; parents, siblings, society and even peers may not understand why you have chosen that path. They may paint to you why you shouldn't go that way but let that be the same reason why your mountain should be made strong to choose that course and as you go, you'll hear voices cheering you on for having chosen rightly and gone the right path - the road less travelled. 

PRAYER: Father, may I travel the road less travelled even in the face of obvious discouragement. May I not exchange my calling for another else - for what is wheat to chaff?

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 1:1-3:17, Mark 1:29-2:12, Psalm 35:17-28, Proverbs 9:13-18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 16/02/2022

WEDNESDAY - 16TH FEBRUARY, 2022

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THOSE WHO CAN'T BE BOUGHT FROM THEIR PATH

Read Acts 21:1-14

Acts 21:13-14, KJV

"13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.  14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done."

Once you're cut for a vocation and you have discovered the peeping or revealing of that vocation to your soul, it becomes your path in life. If you have therefore found it as your obsession and path in life, it becomes difficult for any to persuade you out of it except you are not first persuaded of that vocation in your soul. 

When Paul was apprehended by God on the way to Damascus, God set his assignment while clearing the doubt of Ananias concerning him. God had said he would be a chosen instrument who will carry His name before Gentiles, Kings and the children of Israel while He'll show him how much he must suffer for His own name's sake [Acts 9:15-16]. Mark the part that says, "to carry my name before Gentiles, kings and the children of Israel". 

Paul began ministry and occasion must be fulfilled that he carry Christ's name before Gentiles, kings etc. On one of such occasion, by the Holy Spirit, he was told not to go to Jerusalem by the brethren. Later on, Agabus, a notable prophet prophesied same warning while hinting that bound awaits Paul in Jerusalem. These two prophecies were from God, not the devil. They were also truthful ones as we later saw that Paul was taken and bound. However, if they were heeded, they would have hindered Paul from appearing before somebody like Felix whom the Chief Captain transferred him to - thus fulfilling part of his calling and threading his predestined path [Acts 24:24-25]. 

His being jailed only served as an occasion to reaching many Gentiles, notables and children of Israel with the gospel. Christ's appearance to encourage him and tell him what his mission is - to carry his name and testimony before all even beyond Jerusalem [Acts 23:11] affirms his purpose again. So, Paul had chosen right and refused rightly. But, may I call your attention to how Paul refused to heed those two prophecies despite their genuineness. Paul said, "Why should you break my heart? I'm ready to not only be bound but die for Christ". Despite all to dissuade him from following the path earmarked for him to tread in the beginning of his calling, his heart was set. This is how the heart of all destiny children would be set on what they have discovered as assignment or events that God has said should be done by them.

First of all, you'll see all children of destiny having inclination towards a specific field. Persuade them not to go for that and you'll see them refuse often and often. Do you know why? The persuasion in their soul and identification of the path to follow is stronger than the external one. If the first prophecy and those who affirmed it couldn't change Paul's intention from going to Jerusalem, should the second notable one not get it done? Yet, Paul was even rebuking them stylishly for breaking his heart and dissuading him from the path he should take. 

May your path be clear to you this way even if it's a hard path. May you embrace it and find it embrace you. Some would be found in Science and Technology, Art and Humanities, Accounting and Business Studies. Whatsoever your field may be in life, just like Paul's face was attuned to Jerusalem and Jerusalem only, may yours be attuned to same. May nothing be big enough to buy you from the way you should go. If you're to become a martial artiste, may you not become a sportsman - kicking the ball with your legs. 

PRAYER: Lord, I refuse to be dissuaded from the road you've ordained for me and ordained me for. May I be unflinching until all men join me to say, "if it's the Lord's will".

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 39:1-40:38, Mark 1:1-28, Psalm 35:1-16, Proverbs 9:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/02/2022

TUESDAY - 15TH FEBRUARY, 2022

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DEBATING FAITH 

Read Hebrews 11

Hebrews 11:2, KJV

"For by it the elders obtained a good report."

By what did the elders obtained a good report? We said, faith. Now, if you look at that place, you'll see that faith is a thing that works because it has been afore worked. We said it has been proven. The Bible says what?

Deuteronomy 19:15, KJV

"...at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established."

What makes faith appealing to us and a thing we want to work also is because it has been proven and we know that it can't fail if we rightly work it. Some people were testified to have obtained by faith. It means for faith to be proven, it not only took a person but myriads to purchase that good witness for faith. That's why I can't doubt the workability of faith. With the numerous people who worked faith under their own different circumstances in the Bible, I am sure that should convince anyone that faith has been thoroughly proven and concluded on to be trustworthy if worked.

We humans are skeptics and if you tell someone that a thing works, he'll like to collect from you proves and testimonies that it works. Many people are shying away from being the first user now. They need someone who has done the trial for them. Look, we are not left without a witness. We can without shame give an answer to such people's question. That place says, "for by it the ELDERS received a good report."

What did you see there? "Elder" or "Elders?" It says elders. Faith has been thoroughly proven. It was worked by A and it worked. B also worked it and it worked yet, it never stopped with them. Righteous Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Joseph etc all worked it and it proved for them. Even if we have reasons to doubt the workability of faith before, we have none again because it has been indeed tested to be a thing that holds fast. 

Psalms 12:6, KJV

"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."

That's what makes God's word infallible. It has been tried. It's trustworthiness is like a silver refined seven times. How will that silver look? New, pure, neat without any impurity. But did they just arrive at that height? No. A silver that's trusted is one that's not only tried once but indeed tried and tried until it can be ascertained that it is pure. Such long process of attainment of infallibility is what faith passes through before its commendation and recommendation to us.

No one can call us a cheat over that because all these people mentioned in Hebrews 11 that worked faith worked it at different times and on different circumstances yet faith still answered them.

God's Word is pure like silver tried or refined seven times. Faith is proven as well because it was worked by myriads of elders that obtained results. Through many, it was proved to be sure. Imagine if you're asking about the soundness of a product and you can meet ten people to testify about such product, will you not be convinced? 

Today, I can say receiving by faith is not archaic though faith and its working passes from the hands of some elders to us. It answered them long time ago and it will answer us in our own time. People wrote their chronicles of faith. Men will rise to speak and write about ours. No one operates faith that doesn't become a hero. It is time for the world to tell your story of faith. It's time for you to deploy faith to do heroic deeds.

May you have an answer.

PRAYER: Father, let the pen of people write my story of accomplishment by faith on earth too. Let me surmount by faith and defeat by faith.

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 - 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

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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

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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

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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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