MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 21/04/2022

THURSDAY - 21ST APRIL, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

LEPERS WITH JESUS' MIND

Read Mark 16:15

II Kings 7:9, KJV

"Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household."

You remember the Samaria siege. Syria came with all preparation to crumble Samaria from within. The general who led that operation planned it all well down to the latter. His military intelligence was tactical. If not for the Lord's doing which became marvellous or troubling to our sight, Samaria would have surrendered indeed but the Lord held its back from being broken. Where the enemy wants you get, you won't get there because intervention and support would aid you to stand erect on your journey. You'll also remember there were four lepers at the Samaria gate who couldn't go into the city or stay where they've been again. They decided therefore to explore going to the Syrian's camp in the tenor of voice, "if we die, we die." However, they met the tents as they were with horses and asses tied. So, they ate and entered from tent to tent carrying valuables away for safekeeping and investment. After they've eaten (satisfied their temporal need) and have collected rich treasures repeatedly for safe keeping (for the future to come), they came to their senses and say, "what good is selfishness. There's joy in sharing. Today is a day of good tidings." What makes it a day of good tidings? The discovery of all these goodies in famine that no one planned would be available. It would be succor to all if shared. They said we must spread this news abroad. We must tell the king's household for if we delay, a devastation would overtake us. 

Brethren, these lepers have the mind of Christ. We've been admonished that this mind should be in us which was in Christ Jesus. We're not talking humility only but love and its expression and all other expression of Christ's nature or the eternal life in you. There are things that are exhibitions of the recreated man. Selfishness isn't part. We know it is what you have you can give. He who doesn't have Christ can't persuade another man to receive Him so. So, they first had to taste of their discovery first of all and having been filled of same said, "now, it must not end here." Selfishness is contradictory to love. Love is no part of the ruling force in Satan's kingdom. The gospel that you have heard, the good tidings or good news which got you born again is not something that you must camp with yourself. No, no, no my friend. That's why I said these lepers have the mind of Christ. They became evangelists of good tidings. They spread their find under the awareness that there's always a repercussion catching up with those who are selfish in life. Selfishness is limiting many people from enjoying real joy. The means of prospering you came across, what profit would you take from it if you hide it from other men on the basis that you never wanted them rise to compete with you? Such people with myopic view may have a repercussion catch up with them later. God's generosity is always pluralized. As he rains on the good, he releases on the unrighteous. He always gives us all things to enjoy. God is calling you to same. He's saying, majorly, "share your find." What's your find? Christ Jesus whom you have found as your Lord and Saviour. Don't forget that the intention thereunto for which God made this lepers stumble on this find first of all is to be able to share its good news with the whole city and break the back of famine in the land. It was never to colonize that find. They must live to fulfill what was said even ahead of their finding the find. Elisha prophesied abundance and if these lepers would become obstinate against being evangels of good tidings, it may please God to raise voices and help from another quarters but they shall not go unpunished. They knew the consequences of not sharing their find. Do you know there are consequences of not spreading the good news. You're being counted upon to fulfill the great commission. Don't withhold. Share your find today! Tell somebody to tell another. You're very important in this process because how can they hear unless there's a preacher. Herein, you don't have to be called into the five fold offices to fulfill this. You're a carrier preacher.  Simply fulfill Acts 1:8 and the mind of Justice shall be satisfied. 

PRAYER: You died for me and show me love. Agape you are! May I become agape to others also.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 21:1-22:20; Luke 20:1-26; Psalm 89:1-13; Proverbs 13:15-16

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ADDICTED LISTENERS AND READERS

THEY DON'T LISTEN TO/ READ A SERMON ONCE!

I did a very long teaching which I released on our ministry's platforms today. It's not yet on the blog. After that, I wrote this short comment to encourage the brethren to read it and probably read by breaking it into bits. It was while doing that I narrated my experience of being anointed and taught on how to listen to or read sermons. 

"You may read them in bits. Please, mind this. They don't read or listen to a particular sermon once. 

The more you listen to it or read it, the more you see wonderful things from there. The more the Spirit of the message possesses you. There's a thing like that. 

When I got anointed, it was by watching the videos of the teacher God knitted my heart with on campus. I was watching a video titled "Covenant Compliant Life" one day when I found out something coming on me. That ASF Secretariat in TASUED, I used it to the fullest and I thank Sis Kemi Babalola (we're from the same town, home church (though different branches) and same diocese) who would bring me food many times. I love her Amala. Kai, she's a homely woman and we had known each other before I came to meet her in TASUED. We were choristers in our home churches before each of us gained admission. 

From then when I teach, there's this appeal my words carry and I'm always persuaded internally that I'm having the attention of people and that I'm on point. 

Anointing wets you so that you won't remain a dry preacher. It is rhema that gives life and not logos and until you're anointed, logos won't break loose for rhema to come out. 

Until then, you may not see wonderful things from the Bible. So, when you read, read a teaching as many times as possible, things that are happening to you there are uncountable beyond my mention in this short comment.

Also, when you've listened to a sermon before or read a thing before and a part there is reoccurring to you or becoming appealing to you again, go get it and soak it in again.

It is your spirit thirsting for the living Word or awaiting a special encounter in that sermon (which is to be listened to again). It may also be that your spirit, that is human spirit is seeking to reinforce a truth into himself or herself. So, always give heed to learn these operations of the spirit. Summarily, once you have that urge or thirst to revisit, you'll be fulfilling this Psalm.

Psalms 84:1-3, KJV

"1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God."

THEN, let us consider Psalm 42:1-2.

"1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?"

Did you see the panting of the soul after God in those two places? The panting of your soul after anointed messages is actually a seeking after God. Unless you listen again, you'll observe you're not contented and the thirst in you not still doused. God allows that thirst to put Himself in the soul of Christians. He uses that same way to call us into fellowship. Prayer and bedroom revival may break up from there. If you go back to read that teaching or listen to that sermon as being prompted, being appealed to, being encouraged or soothed at heart to do, you may not know when the Lord would come on you to give you a teaching to write from there, song to compose from there or a comfort to receive from there. The answer you've been looking for, fasting and praying for may be there. Until we obey, we don't know what would break loose from our obedience. Until Jeremiah trusted to obey God to first rise to go to the potter's house, he never had inkling as to what God would say neither did God speak. You too, when you're prompted to go reread a teaching, search it, ask it and read it again. You don't know how much your obedience would profit you until you obey. Only launchers would inclose a great draught of fishes at the Master's command. The reluctant will remain the same. May you not. 

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/04/2022

WEDNESDAY - 20TH APRIL, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DID DAVID INDEED KILL HIS TEN OF THOUSANDS? - Don't Downgrade Yourself Series 006

Read I Sam. 17

1 Samuel 18:7-8, KJV

"7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?"

At the battle against the Philistines, God used David to kill Goliath while the rest of the Philistines turned back when they saw their champion was dead and were pursued by the Israelites' soldiers and killed (I Sam. 17:51).

At the arrival of the soldiers, they were met by women who with their creative ability have composed a song to celebrate the victorious occasion and acknowledge all those that should be acknowledged. In the song, David's and Saul's names were strewn into it with David given the larger share of the conquest. They said, "Saul has defeated his thousands but David, his ten of thousands." Yet, we all know David only killed a fellow - and that's Goliath. Then, where came, "David has killed his ten of thousands if indeed he only killed Goliath?" What you have to quickly understand is this, a leader worth many of his followers. Yea, we're not trying to show unreasonable superiority between those up there and those down here. That's why you and the president of your nation don't receive the same security preference. They're on the look out for him, not you. Consider these places that shows a leader is a multitude of his people (II Sam. 18:3, I Kings 22:21, Matt.26:31).

So, it is now rightly being interpreted if we say that though it was only Goliath that David killed, but because he was a principality, a giant, a great warrior that causes fear in people, a mighty mountain and obstacle that many fear and regard as "can't be confronted let alone defeated", he qualifies being regarded as multitude. Even Saul discouraged David by saying, "he has been a man of war from his youth." That's to tell you how much he was referenced. If that be, it is this importance of who David killed that made the women sing in that manner. Goliath worth ten thousands of the Philistines! That's why when he died and it was verified so by his soldiers, they fled. He was their salvation - in whom they put their trust. 

We're on the matter of not exchanging one's honour for stubble like Barak did. God called him to go war against Sisera with a mandate and an assurance of victory but he refused and demanded that Deborah (a woman, whose jurisdiction and specialization isn't warfare as deemed fit by heaven who did the selection) go with him. Deborah was not reluctant to put a proposal on the table that then, the honour would be women's. So it was. Jael, a woman was the one who killed Sisera and in that manner, the men or Barak couldn't have the honour of killing the general unto themselves yet it is the general that matters. I don't care if you kill a million soldiers. We're all on the outlook for who puts the commander to rest. That's the shepherd. Strike him and see the sheep scatter.  Rather, Jael was sung as the one who really won the victory. I'm I making sense at all? Today's teaching is to show you that what any leader protects is the honour. Look at Saul. Though he was reluctant and scared fighting Goliath yet he never played with the honour when the women sung David for having conquered to the uttermost and won the real victory for them. He was discontented. Every man at the home setting without necessarily becoming jealous or envious of their wives must in this way seek to better them. Let's ask ourselves. Indeed, who should ten of thousands be accounted to? It should be Saul. Though it wasn't accounted to him yet he saw the need and regarded it as a violation (anyway he didn't do the job). He said "what else could David not have, to even the Kingdom?". He understood the kingdom is next after such acclamation. That's the zeal that didn't consume Barak when making that deal. He sold the trophy to the female's clique and wasn't troubled. No generation of males would read what he did that would pray for him because he reduced the honour of the office of men.  Wherever you are, seek to win the honour. If God has called you to do it, don't delegate it. He who calls you is always faithful, who also will do it. 

PRAYER: Lord, let me be filled with zeal and jealousy to possess what is mine. When others are giving hard work to possess a reward for themselves, may I not be a spectator.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 19:1-20:9; Luke 19:28-48; Psalm 88:1-18; Proverbs 13:12-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/04/2022

TUESDAY - 19TH APRIL, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

OUR INTERVIEW WITH A FEMALE IN TROUSERS - Don't Downgrade Yourself Series 005

Judges 4:9, KJV

"And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh."

The interview that we had with the once upon Judge, Prophetess of Israel and wife of Sir Lapidoth actually reveals some interesting facts. Under the teaching anointing today, we shall present all to you. 

When Sir Barak foolishly, unwittingly, cowardly ensued the partnering of Mrs Deborah in the battle, Mrs Deborah knew this was outside it. She was shocked herself. According to our newsmen, they said, "she was jostled, taken aback and fearfully worried at what manhood has become." For a minute, she watched Barak with mouth agape wondering at his disbelief in God and belief in mere mortal. 

According to what our newsmen gathered, they said, Mrs Deborah had wanted to refuse this offer before but for some reasons. They said the reasons were not  spurred by selfishness as some men have accused her of. They said, one, to encourage Barak. It seems he needed a helpmeet or an encourager and who best does that but a female and a wife. Two, she was forced to go on that journey because if she refuses, Barak would believe less or not at all in that prophecy. He'll call it a scam and accuse Deborah of wanting to send him to his untimely death. These were all the reasons that Mrs Deborah gave as to what prompted her into accepting the offer of going to war with Barak. Our newsmen said, accepting to go was no evil but what about snatching the trophy meant for him or the males? Why would she do that? She stammered and had nothing much to say except that, "would God not have compensated her if such was given her?" This still seems invalid to us because we wonder why she who proclaims herself a wife at home won't seek the greatness of men since she has someone over her at home. Should we say Mrs Deborah Lapidoth has been lording it over Sir Lapidoth at home and same is now happening with Barak? She was accused of not helping men to become proper men they should be. If Barak didn't know how to be one, couldn't she open to him the consequences of not doing the job outrightly. Note it, don't take another man's honour, trophy or reward. Exercise all fairness and let your righteousness exceed that of the Pharisees and Sadducees so you don't wake to live with guilt when you're confronted or at your receiving understanding personally. We should not become Jacobs who are opportunists and capitalized on the disadvantages of others. Wealth gotten by such means is ill and it's very much unsatisfactory. It makes you enemies also as you make the other person appear as a fool.

PRAYER: Lord, my righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees and Seduces. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 16:1-18:28; Luke 19:1-27; Psalm 87:1-7; Proverbs 13:11

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/04/2022

MONDAY - 18TH APRIL, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE HONOUR URGES ON - Don't Downgrade Yourself Series 004

Read Judges 5

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."

It is the honour that you have to concentrate on. Yes, focus on the profit or the reward. The task may be hard but the honour or reward is the encouragement thereof. This is what Barak should have remembered before soliciting for an assistance that took the honour off his hands. When Deborah and Barak were bargaining ad setting whose the trophy or the honour would be, if Barak had asked Deborah to explain what the honour meant or describe how the honour would be to him, probably he wouldn't have let the honour go to the female club. Though Deborah was apparent in her saying by not using any dark saying to keep in oblivion what she intended but it still seems Barak lack understanding of intensity, weight and repercussion of the matter. It was a disgrace to the male cult or clique.  Even God didn't set it so for the females to have the honour here. He didn't intend the honour should be for the females until new terms were set by the two. This is how many men put themselves in trouble when it comes to having sex. They'll be swearing to do this or that for the woman because of sex. They'll promise great things that a wise woman may tell them to give an oath to back up. So, they'll become a debtor. When reality now stares, they'll begin to say but it was a joke. Did heaven not sign this one? Why will heaven not agree with the one you'll give her? Did women not carry Sisera's head? Was heaven not watching the folly of men on earth when Barak agreed the women have the honour because of cowardice? 

It was written of Jesus that He endured the death of the cross because of the joy in front. He knew the joy in front and then he understood what it meant. Many know it also but they don't understand it until they lose it. Consider Esau. He knew what birthright meant but he didn't know its gravity. If he knew, he won't bargain cheaply or enter into such scamming and cloudy deal with Jacob. To prove he didn't know what it meant having the birthright, you'll see he wept having it back but to no avail (Hebrews 12:16-17). That time he was weeping, he had discovered what the birthright meant. What sort of deal is that one? It is not different from what one African country by the name Malawi did by signing a mining deal with an Australian mining company that's projected to earn $900,000,000 in fifteen years. Over the same period, Malawi itself would be paid the royalty of $45,000,000. Yet, Malawi government didn't see it as a bad deal. That's evil. Come to your senses if you've been taken for a fool in this way. 

Is there any who any female first of all is exercising evil dominion through witchcraft over, I break that power. God didn't create females to lord it over males especially in the home setting. The man is the man, the husband is the husband. So, wherever you're been enslaved and your head has become the tail, I recover you. It ought not to be Ahab that would be crying while Jezebel does the comforting (the work of a husband) I Kings 21:5-8. I stop all witchcraft processes. I break its sword and rod. I reverse and reorder life for all males who have given or giving the Barak's (male's honour) to a Deborah. I restore your years and time in newness. Henceforth, the weight and gravity of matters that you may take for granted shall hit you and such will surge you up. To any person also under tyranny or witchcraft of any, come to your senses, awake and risen from the slumber of selling yourself out in perpetual slavery. 

PRAYER: Let the gravity and consequences of events dawn on me. May I see beyond what appears. I see the joy in front and comprehend what it means fully. I end perpetual slavery in Africa.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 13:1-14:15; Luke 18:1-17; Psalm 85:1-13; Proverbs 13:7-8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 17/04/2022

SUNDAY - 17TH APRIL, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHAT SORT OF DEAL IS THIS? - Don't Downgrade Yourself Series 003

Judges 4:8-9, KJV

"8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go. 9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh."

God said, "Barak will go to war and lead the battle". Barak says, "Deborah must go and take her position even when God is not offering her any position as a warrior or war lord." Was God stupid for calling a man to that office of warrior and soldier? Could he not have chosen Deborah? That she's a Judge who discerns matters for people doesn't make her a warrior and leader of an all male's task that God has not even given. God recognizes specialization and individual's limitation. However, as we all know, what was not so from the beginning (as God instructed) was made so by what Barak insisted on. Look at how much Barak sees Deborah as Almighty. He was speaking with frankness of not going as if God was not enough for him. By so doing, he sold himself and his honour out. He changed God's move and handed the trophy to the women's clique. 

There's no man that would hear of the deal Barak made with his mouth here that won't say, "what sort of deal is this? By the time all the warriors of Barak get to link the killing of Sisera to the prophecy and deal made, they'll live to disdain Barak. Why? He bargained so low. He bargained so cheaply. He needed assurance and he relied on a human for it who won't give one without a demand. God acknowledges that. If you labour, you must reap the reward. It is those that don't work that are told not to eat or reap the benefit of labouring. 

Deborah said, "God has spoken. The God of hosts has said you'll lead the army". Uncle said, "Sister, unless you partner with me in this task, I can't do it alone". It sounded innocent but this is how demands that one's generation may live to regret do crawl in. This is how some sportsmen do sign themselves off to a wrong deal. This is how people do dig a well of future regret for themselves. They don't know that a foothold you give to Satan is an opportunity he always maximises well. Am I calling Deborah or women Satan? No! Do get my analogy. Deborah didn't slack. The devil also don't slack. The Bible says he prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. A thing that "seeks" what to eat is already and always at alert. 

Deborah! Deborah who understood spiritual things. She knew a task like this is always followed by a honour. Do you know what she went for? The jugular. The island in the waters. She said, "I agree but the reward or honour is not going to be yours. It is going to be ours." Who are the "ours?" All females, girls, women, mothers in the generation of Deborah and those to come. Till tomorrow, any female given birth to will share in this honour. Whether you like it or not, that's what Deborah's sensitivity, care, courage and responsibility bought for them. However, all males were robbed of that. It was collected from the males here and given to the females and God consented. But don't make mistake that God for once intended or planned that it would be a female that would stamp the head of Sisera. No! He gave the honour to a male (even if it won't be Sisera) who would achieve it but Sisera didn't understand how to deal well on the business table. He didn't understand the offer given him and what great honour it would bring him. Please, don't let anything make you to bargain less at the bargaining table. Also, don't let anything force you to succumb to wrong bargaining. Do you know what I was expecting Barak to do when Deborah presented that offer? What offer? "The honour won't be to men." He should say, "Noo. We have to be the one to carry the head of Sisera." He should shame her with the fact that though she's a prophet and a judge yet she has a husband at home. A husband who lays on her. One who stays on top. One who she answers sir to and to whom her desire is unto. Immediately, she'll set another price. She'll be forced by shame into it. Today, are you in business or whatever? God is giving you the mouth of Deborah that no one can refuse. What you set is what they'll agree on. You'll always win contract. Meanwhile, take cognizance not to lose what you already have like Barak by being tempered and giving consideration to the reward and honour of the deal. Be a man of careful meditation and not emotion.

PRAYER: Lord, I refuse to exchange gold for brass. I'll not let go of my good rewards. I'll not bargain or demand of life lesser than You gave me. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 9:3-10:43; Luke 16:19-17:10; Psalm 83:1-18; Proverbs 13:4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 16/04/2022

SATURDAY - 16TH APRIL, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DON'T SELL IT OUT - Don't Downgrade Yourself Series 002

Read Judges 4

Judges 4:8, KJV

"And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go".

This statement shows the male man as incapable, shivering and needing assurance here. Don't you ever think it was a blessing to him. It was not because it devalued him and transferred his honour and reward to the women. While this teaching is not revealing or calling females inferior yet we all know that women themselves agree without qualms that men should take the lead while they submit to them. Here, it was reversed. 

God had a work to do. He voiced it out through Deborah, the prophetess and gave it to Barak. What a privilege to be sighted by the Almighty Who has so many people badgering Him for their allocation and assignment. This precious opportunity that some are dying to receive from glory on high however was rejected by Barak. You don't mean it! Tell me something please. He said, "I'm not contending God called me. No problem Prophetess Debby. You know what? I won't move an inch unless the vessel giving this prophecy and I go together". Come and see trouble and mourning in heaven that day. All angels turned to God and said, "Sir, are you seeing that unserious brother?" God said, "very well." Deborah looked at him again and wondered if he meant it. The sternness of not yielding, not agreeing on Barak's face must have served as enough message to her. With that observation, she didn't fight to change his mind that, "but you were the one God gave charge of this assignment." She didn't at all. Deborah who understood how things work with God; who knew that in all labour, there's profit; that it's what you sow you'll reap and that God is not unjust as to forget our labour of love in that we have ministered in His vineyard then quickly grab the opportunity. Do you want me show you how she accepted the offer?

Judges 4:9, KJV

"And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh".

This agreement is not different from the exchange of gold for brass. My Jesus! It is like exchanging glory for glamour. Why would Barak be contented submitting victory to the women clique? However, Deborah agreed to it at bargaining time to collect the reward and honour for womanhood and females). Somebody sold it out and somebody collected it!

Let us teach our males, our boys, our men and our fathers not to compromise their stand. I'm not driving at competition here but if God visits somebody with an assignment and he says, "I'm not interested or not enough for it", God will be forced to make a rearrangement. The same thing happened to Sir Moses. God didn't ordain Aaron would be his mouth (Exodus 4:10-16). Why do people love to carry unnecessary luggage that God has not brought them? Enh? Don't force the hands of God into slashing your rewards. Don't set another standard. If you however will say "no" as the first God visited with the assignment, then God will take that same assignment and its honour and give it to your neighbour. So, let all irrespective of gender seek not to be passed by either by rejecting the assignment wholly or seeking to share it with others when God hasn't make provision for one. Don't pass it over or sell it out. God set that the honour of that assignment would be Barak's or men's but when he reset the terms of the assignment himself, a woman had to carry the trophy. If not, probably Sisera wouldn't need run to seek asylum let alone being killed by Jael. Please, don't give yourself a jungle to clear when the Lord is only allotting a clean passage. Don't hand it over. Do the assignment wholly. Stop unnecessary, unwitty job delegation and partnership which the Lord didn't plan for you.

PRAYER: Lord,may I not reject You and Your offer. Those who reject your offer or resets its condition can't but lose or miss something.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Joshua 11:1-12:24; Luke 17:11-37; Psalm 84:1-12; Proverbs 13:5-6

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