MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 5/05/2022

THURSDAY - 5TH MAY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT - Vow Series 009

Proverbs 22:6, KJV (emphasis mine)

"Train up a child [of vow] in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

This is one of the places where the Bible speaks with such finality. Why would the Bible insinuate both covertly and overtly that he'll never depart from it even at adulthood when he would seem to have gotten sense to discern between good and wrong and to make choices for himself. Despite having such liberty at hand, he won't depart from it because that training given him in childhood bears down on him. It is a training that has weight and weighs down on him. The Spirit divine illustration coming to my mind is a drag net with lead fixed to it. If you throw such into the water, the lead which is made of a sort of metal would allow it depress into water and stay there. Even if the net would have loved to float or come afloat, the lead would refuse it and constrain it by a great compelling stronger than the net's to stay still and stay still under the water. Hear me, that's what happens to any adult who has been trained in the way he should go in childhood. That training would bear him down and make him a lover and doer of not many things but only a way and that's the way he was opened to deliberately some years back. If that way is bad and you abuse him for being a bad adult, the fault is not very much his but those who form him into a deficient adult. It is not left in the hands of a child to train himself. He is only obligated to receive and obey instructions. Somebody originates and issues them to him. So, why an adult has been tied down into the doing and the repetitive doing of that thing is because having done it over time, over the year, from childhood to adolescent and then to adulthood, it has been registered in his brain's hardest core and then his heart where God's Word resides to be a man of only that way. That registration like second nature is now what orders him. He will always find it hard to rebel against that once upon training. That's why Paul cried, in Romans  7:23-24, "23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"

Did you see the lamentation of an adult who has grown massively in the undesirable way than the proper way. He'll struggle for balance. His smooth journey would be hampered. He'll stumble, rise, stumble, rise, stumble and even when grace aids him, marks of yesteryears would still bear witness to a life lived in the flesh or of the other training. The Bible is saying, people, forget it. This one is a forgone conclusion. We can settle on it. Once your part as parents is done to attach lead to this net, throw him into any body of water, it would only know one thing to do and what's it? To drown and go down. He becomes a man of one thing. He would lack insight and opinions of other ways to follow though here they are rightly placed before his sight. A lady would be shaking her booties before him but he won't even discern it as seduction. It won't just occur to his mind and it is because he has not learnt sin consciousness. As a righteous, he sees all things as righteous. It won't even move him so much more that the seducer would be confused and in anger asks if he never for once takes notice of her. Only such seducer knows the weight of the disappointment and not this adult whose training of the way he's in now has borne and left a mark of possession or ownership on. When the Bible says, "you, train a child in the way he should go and when he's old, he'll never depart from it". It means I present a truth to you that is absolutely true. Even if we have examples today of those you know who claimed to have trained their children well yet they departed from that road, that example or many more of ministers who have the most devilish and anti Bible children still don't violate this truth. God is saying, we have drawn the curtain that no one could improve on this instruction. The result after training a CHILD, not an adolescent or adult in the way a CHILD should go is that he'll remain there like the faithful dog who stays with the hunter. The problem we're having is that we have substituted this instruction. Train children in the way to go and the blessing and consequence was given - at old age they won't depart. Yet, who we train are adults and adolescents. Those who already have a wisdom, way of life that's not God's or that of the way or the vow. Imagine. You're now proving God wrong and calling him a liar. You better make good of this instruction rightly if you'll eat the good of it.

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 - 4/05/2022

 WEDNESDAY - 4TH MAY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN HE IS OLD - Vow Series 008

Proverbs 22:6, KJV (emphasis mine).

"Train up a child [of vow] in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

When the Bible says, "train up a child in the way he should go"; when did it intend the training should start? Childhood; not adolescence or adulthood. The problem we pastors especially are facing now is that many people in church have not being trained at all yet they are adults. What danger does it pose? It means they may escape that intended training for the rest of their lives because they may not bring the attention, believability, humility and blankness of a child to it. A child would believe everything hook, line and sinker. An adult would question it. Tell me, if the content is right, who will grow faster? Where the knowledge an adult already has in his head is blocking him from receiving that which is correct and is the original content, what would happen to a child? He would have learnt it even by heart and would have put it into practise while the adult is sacrificing believability and caution in order not to fall into error or be misguided. 

All these and many more is why that verse says, "train a child (of VOW) in the way he should go and when he's old, he'll never depart from it." That training must start very early. Hannah had discovered this truth and she wouldn't allow Samuel to have had another education in his mind before sending him off to the College of Priesthood. If she did, his growth would be hampered even if he'll eventually get it right. The first knowledge and way of life might even be distraction to him. I'll give you an instance. Imagine a prostitute who's now born again. Compare her to a lady who has never tasted sex before nor have links to such. Which of them will find it difficult living a chaste life or might be at risk of backsliding into sexual sin and so need greater wisdom and caution to remain on the right path? Obviously the prostitute. That's the exact thing which is unfortunate that happens when we delay the training of our children to when they become even adolescents. Now, don't be comforted yet. Some of you are beginning to say at least it is not too late starting at 7. What are you saying? You're late. If you see what 7 year old footballers are doing in the academy, you'll know it's a lie to postpone the education and training of your child to adolescent or to worsen things adulthood. Training a child in the way a child should go starts from babyhood to childhood etc. The Bible was not mistaken when it says, "TRAIN A CHILD." An adolescent is no longer a child. In this world, the world is already at his finger tips. If he wants to watch pornography, he knows where to go without needing you or consulting you. If he were a child, even if he has that thing call phone, he'll bring it to you and still sheepishly but innocently and ignorantly tell you, "mummy, I want to watch pornography." He or she would mention it because he yet doesn't understand what that word means or what he said he wanted to do though he picked it up from somewhere. An adolescent and one who has lost shamefacedness knows it would be shame if my godly parents find such with me. 

Do you now see what we are saying? Brethren, you're instructed to train your child and especially that child of vow (who has a definite way of life he must be ordered into) but the training has been secluded and frozen for childhood. Anytime beyond that, you may as well forget having the overall influence over them. Satan might have become their captain and it might become too late for God who nothing is impossible for doing a thing because you've chosen to incapacitate Him. We train a child in the way he should go but rather remind an adult the way he was trained to go. Do the first before you do the second. The second is a building on the structure of the first.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 15:1-16:31; John 2:1-25; Psalm 103:1-22; Proverbs 14:17-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 3/05/2022

TUESDAY - 3RD MAY, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO.

TRAIN A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO - Vow Series 007

Proverbs 22:6, KJV

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

May you not misconceive the Bible. Some believe we humans are victims here on earth and we have no say in the universal things neither do we have anything as responsibility that God may regard. God said, "train up a child in the way he should go." Who's to train? The parents! It means God is giving the training of a child he released on earth to parents for the overall benefit of Himself. It also means you have the wherewithal, capacity, knowledge bank and all empowerment to make this child go in the way he should go. The idea is, since you were once trained in the way you should go, it will not be alien training your issues in the way they should go. God relies on this chain to continue in order to produce a God-like community on earth. 

You, your responsibility is to find out the way, path, field, course , mandate or calling that child should be immersed into. God is now saying if I call him to be an astronaut, bring the attention of a parent who has vowed that the boy would become an astronaut to it. How would they strive to make him an astronaut because they want to fulfill their vow? In all ways, they'll go full length like Hannah did by separating Samuel to that life. It is by giving him such education that would groom him for that life. 

Look, God has handed over, committed to and transferred to parents the sole work and responsibility of raising children in a way that has already being revealed, tested to be whole and proven to be benefiting which is in the Bible or that the Holy Spirit might inspire. This includes character formation and gift development of your children. Your child can be a soldier and still be clothed in meekness. He can be a politician and yet be a prophet with outworking of the word of knowledge and wisdom. Mind you, any way of life, path of life that the Holy Spirit would inspire to ordain for your children of vow would never be contradictory to the written and the revealed desire of God as mandate over every child that would one day grow up into a wholesome adult. God may tell you this child would be a hacker. Train him in the  way of one but don't mistaken or think the Spirit was saying, make him a black hacker. The Holy Spirit won't breathe, inspire a training, way of life that's opposite God or that would do truth and all God stands for damage. 

So, I want you see your sacred calling and that parenting is actually helping God to achieve a purpose on earth. You should ask yourself. That instruction, "train a child in the way he should go and when he's old, he'll not depart from it", from whom did it come to us? It might have been uttered by a human but it was by God's inspiration through which the Bible was authored. So, it was God instructing and sending all those who are parents or would be parents an errand they should deliver. So, find the way and set the face of that child towards that way. You'll see that part B of that verse can't but be fulfilled. Fill them, harness them, set the pace for them and they'll stay there for eternity.

PRAYER: I raise my hand to make a solemn promise of giving the attention of having vowed my child away to train him/her. God help my resolution.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 15:1-16:31; John 2:1-25; Psalm 103:1-22; Proverbs 14:17-19

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MARRY YOUR BELIEF!

 MARRY YOUR BELIEF 

When God comes to you to qualify you as the unqualified, may you not disqualify yourself. Aaah, that's a great prayer put within the cleft of my heart for you. May you be fitted. Grace qualifies you but you can still reject grace. When mercy is being extended to you like this, you could still make fun of it even if it would be because of ignorance. When the sceptre was extended to Esther, that was an act of mercy. If she however didn't take it by touching its tip, she would have been treated like one who still didn't find mercy (like one the sceptre was not for once stretched to). You must accept God's provision for you to be preserved. If any rejects it, he gets condemned though he was provided for and included for preservation in God's salvation package. So, I'll say all sinners should repent for it is not the will of the Father that ye be lost. Receive the whole truth that Christ commends His love to you while you were yet sinners. He died for you!

When God's dispatch (those two angels) arrived in Sodom, they told Lot after their confirmation and establishment of what is truth that he should hurry up and get himself, family, whatsoever and whomsoever belongs to him still left in the city out of it because the Lord has planned its overthrow. To Lot, it didn't sound too high or whiskey. At least, he had learnt God's ways from Abraham. He believed that and he moved in fear to go seek the two people that he could call his. Look at mercy. Not that they have become his properly but one's daughter's husband to be is still one's. He went after his sons-in-laws to be. Lot has two virgin daughters and these were their fiancés. Let's hear desperate and concern Lot speak to persuade them.

Genesis 19:14, ESV

"So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting."

What response did he get? Mockery, scoffing and jesting. They scoffed at him. They were just looking at him and wondering whether papa was alright. Everything he said was like, "common, this can't happen. Destruction from heaven, from God. Where would it come from? It's just impossible." They added all together and it still didn't sum up to them. Did they not have a record of God once destroying the earth? So, they waved it off. They called it an impossibility.

Did you see mercy come for them but they were not yet persuaded? Mercy wanted them to leave the city and not be partakers in the wrath to come but they didn't still heed. Now, why didn't they heed? Why brethren? Their belief! It was fundamentally and totally different from that of Lot. That's why I said in the beginning that they were not even qualified first time but because they were related to Lot and we know it is an established rule in the Bible that God would spare sinners because of a believer, so God decided to save them with Lot's household. Yet, they disqualified themselves. Their not being of one belief with Lot made them share in the communal wrath of Sodom and Gomorrah. God had appeared to Lot in the flesh as two men who knew God's counsel. They told same to Lot who believed but when he told them same, they scoffed and took him for a jester. I'll like you see something with me. Their rejection revealed what Lot's daughters would be facing at home if they eventually marry these heathens. When they say this, Lot's daughters would say that. If Lot's daughters say, "dear, do you know I saw an angel?" He'll say, "it's your fever bringing blurred vision." You see, contradictions would then lead to confusion. Lot's daughters would suffer a lot for this I know cause probability might exist if they try to persuade their husbands to believe them, they might get in their throats one day, feel undermined and challenged by these wives and then beaten  up to establish their authority. That's what happens when you marry those who don't share your belief. You'll suffer for it in the fact that you'll rarely come to agreement. Both of you would hold two different views and then you won't be able to walk together because you're living in dissonance to Amos 3:3. If you're wrong and your spouse is also wrong; do you know you're in agreement compared to a couple where one spouse is wrong and the other is right? They won't be able to establish agreement, union and unity but the two wrong couple won't have problems with mutual understanding and enjoyment of each other. 

Brethren, the person you want to marry is a Christian, that's good. You've done well not to be yoked together with an unbeliever (II Cor.6:14). No problem. Denominations have done damage to the body of Christ as each denomination has built on a part of the truth rather than the whole also. In this denomination, they believe in baptism by sprinkling but that denomination firmly opposes it. It goes on like that and multitude are following the 'truths' they know. The husband did baptism by sprinkling, the wife said it was a scam and that immersion is what is genuine (which off course she was baptised into). This is the problem of denomination that would cause wobble walk of two people with themselves. It wasn't long the man beats the wife up for saying he was not properly baptized! When asked, he said "she always prove herself a better Christian than himself." So, in your choice of a marriage partner, ensure you marry your belief wholly. Any contradiction in belief between you and your spouse is a danger. Mind you, the contradiction may be on any issue of life. My ministry father told us of a woman who believed couples should not have sex on Sundays. She said, it is dedicated unto the Lord. Sunday is not even the sanctified Sabbath and even if we're to manage it as same, nothing says sex should not be had with one's spouse on any day except by the agreement of each of you to give yourself to God's things or spiritual exercises (I Cor.7:5). Until this woman heard my ministry mother preach the truth, she never bulged. Their marriage was filled with a degree of disharmony because this woman won't allow Sunday sex but call it unholy and unapproved by God. She's been freed now and the husband could let loose the rein even on Sundays. Except for the fact that the husband was very patient, a half converted Christian would have turned it into another thing. 

Even today, there are those without that don't believe in Christ's coming. Tell them that this world shall come to an end one day and they'll burst into laughter. If you're not a believer enough and one without shame, you can't preach to such 'cause they'll humiliate you and prove to you you're following fallacy. Yet, Paul said we have not followed cunningly devised fables. The Bible isn't a lie. If you as a sister or brother falls into such fellow's bosom, you'll always be opposite poles. The mistake people made in the days of Noah that led to only few being saved was made in the days of Lot and only a household with the exclusion of a member was saved from the region of Sodom and Gomorrah. Same is still going to be made again on personal ground in choice making and on issues of eternity which would consequent in heaven or hell. It is not too late. Are you in any of such relationship? Persuade yourselves into correct agreement with each other. Look for someone to settle grey and disparity areas with you. If the other won't agree and you feel this is future danger, act resolutely to come out if you're already in? If you've not yet received Christ as your Lord and Saviour, then your name won't be recorded in the book of the Lamb. This is eternal loss of one's soul. Prevent this and hearken to this admonition which says, the time of ignorance God has winked at but now he commands all men to repent. Believe and be saved! If you are already, take heed before you go into marriage to have the same foundational beliefs as your spouse to be. Not settling this would cause disagreement, disunity and probably divorce which God hates and is unwanted for us.

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria. 

+234 81 3704 6812.

morningwingministry@ gmail.com

GIVE DILIGENCE TO MANIFEST CALLING AND SPIRITUALITY!

Stream of Inspiration on DILIGENCE!

There's something like inspiration. When you work under it, your work almost becomes effortless. It eases you on just like that. The anointing on me does that for me to preach, teach and write. When I do, I give out season words and I'm always on point. That's why I always ensure my phone is very full. Do you know why? Once it hits me like this, it is typing throughout. I seek to trap and bring into tangibility and world of reality all the spiritual ideas, concepts and illustrations etc coming to my mind as poured into it from my spirit by God's Spirit.

You can rob yourself of not team working with your muse or as it applies to me, the Holy Spirit who daily inspires me. Nothing spiritual will become physical tangibility unless intentionally brought into the sense realm where it could be contacted with the eyes, ears or related with with other senses etc. This writing you're reading now once resides in my mind as thoughts but I have now fleshed them here for you to relate with as a human being of senses. You didn't know my thoughts until then. This is where the giving of diligence comes in to make anything spiritual or divine communications and entries coming to you a reality here on earth. How? Package it into something people could relate with. Even if you had the greatest spiritual experience before angels in your closet or on the mountain and you have refused to give a handle to it by which men of senses could intercept and relate with it, you would still be deemed fit as having not profited from such experience because it will die with you. That's why we write books, record in audio and videos so that our testament won't be lost and so that the calling or anointing we say we have might be seen to be real by men of senses that what is visible is more real to than what is spiritual. We seek to make into hard copies every soft copies that God illustrated to us. God can be doing well by relating with you while you yet waste all the resources. That's why right from our little age as Christians, we were told to always keep a book with us at devotion or while intercoursing with God so we would document His communication down. That's it! That's that truth we're stumbling on again. They taught us that long years ago and I have found it out to be true through and through. Only God knows how many books I have written that I am seeking for time to collate. Just many. That came from proper documentation and good storage system in my e-archive. You have an obligation to give diligence. Diligence means hard work, attention, concentration, focus, allocating of time to make to appear to human eyes the fact that you were called and elected.

It is only diligence that could make your calling and election sure. 

II Peter 1:10,KJV "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give DILIGENCE to make your CALLING and ELECTION SURE: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall."

Calling is spiritual. It is an equipment meant to aid any one who God has chosen to bear burden with Him on earth and represent Him. However, how do we know you're called since all of us are men of sense knowledge and can't perceive what is beyond our sense realm unless it is dragged and put here (on earth) first of all or we're taken back to the world of spirits where you received them and then are made sure of same. The recent is hard! We however know by contacting! Knowing this, what manner of man ought ye to be as a man who has sensed God's call on himself or herself. Seek its manifestation physically. Let it transform from spiritual to being physical. Like Bishop Dag Heward Mills, write books and take it everywhere to advertise. The minister i know whose books have reached the ends of the earth greatly in this dispensation is that. Leverage on every form that could spread it. As it spreads, your calling spreads and it becomes hard for any to say you were not called because the proofs answer them. You're known to have been birthed and to have carried such and such calling. Like Pastor E.A Adeboye, build churches. Do you think it doesn't take more than brilliance or what appears to build branches? It does. If not, that guy selling wears should have opened many branches across his city or town (don't let us mention his country now for that would be too much for a man not being aided by the Holy Ghost). If those doing business for donkey years couldn't even extend yet they wished but someone is acquiring more branches and having more pastors, then it means, he's been helped by something invisible. But none would have seen his proofs of calling if he didn't give a handle to them. He dragged them where they could be seen. If you have the call, you have the enablement and it's that that would help you plant churches like Pastor Adeboye or Bishop Mills himself. But, you must still see to it. You must be zealous to spread and then see to it practically by asking, "how do I create another branch or how do I come on ground?" So, you may need to rent a place or buy land to spend huge money to raise a structure that would be proof of your calling. When people see worshippers in there, they won't have doubt over your call again. Only by then would you have made your calling and election sure.

You must be vindicated and to be, practicality must come in. Attention to details, sleepless night, fasting, praying, steps of wisdom, waxing albums, authoring a magazine, going on missions, on air etc are just little of the evidences of a calling that has been made sure. Generally, it is by doing the work of ministry. There's a thing like that and I think I'm doing that and we promise to give more effort to doing more. I'm your brother in Christ, do please, keep praying for us that God might enlarge space for our feet and give us a Rehoboth!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 37 04 68 12

WHAT YOU CALL IT IS WHAT IT WOULD BEAR!

 ```WHAT IF UNKNOWINGLY TO YOU, "IT IS WHATSOEVER YOU CALL THEM THEY'LL BEAR?"``` - An Instruction To Those Who Have Ears To Hear

God brought all the beasts and birds to Adam, to test him and see if he'll see rightly and profess rightly. That's to send a feedback to God on how perfect the man He has created is if the premeditated end result is produced. Adam didn't disappoint that suspense of God. He rather fills the belly of that divine curiosity. All the animals presented to him were rightly named. He satisfied God's heart to the core that God didn't have to rename any animal again. Rather, a confession, a good offshoot and sweet smelling speech was sent forth bearing witness to his supernatural proficiency in the course of accurate naming, tagging, labelling and branding. What is it? 

Genesis 2:19, KJV 

"... and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof". 

Did you see that last phrase at all? Read it again. Now, what if God is putting you in this same position of whatsoever he (you) names them, that's the name afterwards? What would be the outcome at day's end? I can bet it with you, many would fail and there would be multitude that would litter the horizon. That's because many people can't order their mouth to speak differently from what presents itself to them.

All the animals presented didn't have any name prior to their naming. The testimony was "you've named right" just like it was said of Jeremiah to have seen right also (Jeremiah 1:11-16). In like manner, events, situations and things would intentionally cross your path and walk over to you in at this season to see what you'll name them. They'll pretend to be faulty and see if you'll rather declare amendment to them or say "aaah! this is beyond remedy." Irrespective of who or what presents itself to you, what you'll call them is greatly awaited and mustn't be a misnaming. God is telling you of a new thing that would spring up. That's a hack from a loving Father. As it is occurring to my inner man, God is giving you a "speak it -become it mouth." It is called the striker's mouth and it's that of Samuel, the national prophet whose words never fall to the ground. He says it and he has it. He sows it and he reaps it. May you not reap sour consequences however (I Samuel 3:19).

Like Adam's didn't fall to the ground because whatsoever he calls them is what God agrees with (and there's no need for renaming), so also would God be giving you a mouth that allows you to create your destiny and outcome. Misspeaking, misconfessing or mislabelling things that God wouldn't see as you would see them would spell disaster on motion. Adam and God agreed on all the naming. God never had cause to say, "let's revisit it." It would even be good if after your misnaming if there's room for revisitation. What if it is, "strike it once and have it that once?" I'm really urged to believe it to be that. It's a give away yet with restriction to caution the excesses of man. 

Beware of what you say and how you say it. May the Spirit inside you take hold of your mouth to confess the will of God even in seemingly deteriorating situations. When one event happens that doesn't appeal you, "may you not curse it instead of blessing it and thereby overcoming evil with good" in this manner we're relating with. The mouth of the creator is being granted you at this season - so you'll create your outcome and easily make up for the losses and sluggishness of the past. Because it's whatsoever you call it it would bear and manifest out to you; when you face situations, think upon it before you strike it even when impelled.  If you say it is thorns, hard labour, slavery etc, that's exactly what they'll become and consequently live up to. Ask yourself, "what if it's whatsoever I call it it would bear?" May your mouth be aligned not to negatively seal your destiny by wrong naming because whatsoever you call it is what it would bear. So, beware of naming what you won't like God or holy angels say an "amen" to. God has spoken. Esteem it so.

Happy New Season from me to you! 

Olusola ADEJUMO, M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812. Morningwing@gmail.com.

31/12/2020

WHY CAN'T I?

WHY CAN'T I?

If you see someone do something in an area which shocks you and which you wonder how they've come to be doing such when you can't even flex muscle there but still left wondering where capacity for such thing is coming from, just know they have a CALLING or a kind of EQUIPPING there. However, I'll focus on calling. God has placed an equipment on them to understand that place by divine inspiration because of the interest in them to pursue it. Divine wisdom aids them and so have inspiration of God to be led into such field which you consider too big to subdue and impossible for you to enter into.

I'll give an instance. Consider somebody (let's say an age mate, equal or a younger one) having a real estate company of his own where he sells lands to clients while you're left wondering how he manages that and functions in that when you see it as a thing you can't go into. 

Then, you remember that you also have branches of a church denomination all around which the other person in perplexity has asked how you've been running same. It is there both of you should know that you were made for what you're doing each. It puzzles each of you what the other is doing because it is not given you to do the assignment of your friend. So, his field will be mysterious to you while yours will be as well to him. However, what each of you is called to will remain simple, enjoyable and one to be contented with in your heart. 

One of the things that shows you're doing another man's job is that you don't understand it effortlessly and the joy of seeking to know things in that place don't come with joy. It shows you've gone to be in another man's plot or portion. There's a work that comes to us effortlessly and wins us to itself with all admiration. That's your divine job. I'll site an instance.

Sometimes ago, my institution took us to Ibadan (The once largest city in the centre of Africa before Cairo of Egypt overtook her) for training and scheme harmonization. All the staff do converge in a very long hall to eat. I like that hall. While we were talking, I told a colleague in the presence of all there, "I wish I could easily get this kind of hall in Lagos, I'll start church immediately there also". Do you know what he said? "Nigerians! When this hall could be made into a school with many classes carved out of it. Have we not enough many churches in this country?"

Then, I faced him to tell him his purpose for the hall isn't bad and mine isn't bad. Our purposes for the hall is coming out of what the Lord has gotten each of us ready for which we believe if we start, we'll succeed in. I have faith for starting churches than starting a business, school or any set up and he has faith for starting school than churches. That's why he even criticised having another church since many there be already. Yet, he didn't criticise having another school or business despite our knowing many there be already also! I have already began two churches that I have left as the Lord called me to move further in my Christian journey.  Equipping and Anointing is on me for church but not necessarily school or business. If I now take ministry to a level, my ministry could then bring forth a school. But what my inclination, training, persuasion, obsession etc tends towards and will chase more than any other is ministry first of all if we're told to choose. 

You know I have a colleague who's into selling of beauty and make-up products. I was so perplexed and concern for her genuinely to the extent that I asked if her business yields return and does her well. I saw it as a minor unserious business but she kept telling me the business is good and that that's her love. I'll look at her and in my heart say, "May this girl not suffer." I didn't mock her. I was really concerned for her and wanted her to understand me and succeed.  

Do you know why I think that business won't do? God has to give me an explanation before I grab it. Since I'm outside it, I rarely understand the business, how it operates, the teeming clients it has etc but she knows all these and so her assurance is grown to a point of conviction but rather I sympathize her. Is that not how many people have sympathized me but in mockery when they heard, "I'm doing ministry." They're just confused. Where did he get his anointing? How does he teach that often? Who authorized him to go start preaching? You don't need authorization of men. The part that says Paul didn't confer with flesh and blood was quickened to me. That if not your personal word may not make sense to you. 

If God calls you, your ripe time will come and you'll know when to start. God will prompt you to start. He'll lead you to start. He'll hint you to start and help you to start also.

So, if you keep wondering why A or B is capable of doing what he is doing when you can't do it but rather have shame, zero drive or capacity for that thing, just know he or she was called into that. An equipping is what is aiding him. 

If you want to test the reality of what I have just said, "if you have land or a building in Lagos, Ibadan, Sagamu or Ijebu Ode that you could freely release or even for a little payment from us to you", then try God and see what teeming population will be gathering there two years down the line. No denomination has taken all the members. The largest denomination in this country and the world will have hers and I will have mine. God always earmarks to the calling of any He calls.

Having church or preaching the gospel for God is the calling of Some People. That's why Jesus said, "My meat is to do the will of He that sent me". At that time, physical food just arrived from town but he was met interacting for conversion sake with a Samaritan woman. They persuaded him to eat but he said, "My MEAT, MOTIVATION, MORALE BOOSTER, PASSION, CALLING is to do the will of He that sent me and finish it." He said, "I have food to eat that ye know not of (to win souls)" and that food is to bring many to CHRIST for us too. 

Did you see that what some have obsession for, you may not have for same. One's man's meat is another man's poison. While the disciples were minding and catering over physical food, Jesus was seeking to have that woman believe in Him. Where you're active may be somebody's most inactive point. Why? Calling! Motivation makes the difference. That is what spurs us to do what we do or don't do.

I pray that you won't lose your equipping. The anointing on you is your hope of glory apart from Christ in you. In it are many things to be born that will even cater for your needs and many more if you'll go the way of the called. I see you go that way today!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

1/04/2022.