MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/06/2022

THURSDAY - 23RD JUNE, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

APPEASING THE PROUD

Read II Kings 5:1-15

II Kings 5:13, KJV

"And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?"

To quench a raging fire, you don't start another. You rather seek for water by whose ability the fire can be quenched. In today's reading, the King of Syria will give anything for the recovery of Naaman's leprosy. This shows the significance of Naaman to him. Were we not told he was the one by which victory was brought to Syria? So, what will be too costly to spend on him? On that basis, a letter was sent to the King of Israel to cure Naaman of his leprosy. Finally, the letter got to its rightful address and found Elisha - a prophet in Israel. Naaman came in his almightiness. He came with convoy, with chariots and horses. So many body guards surrounded him that day. He was expecting Elisha to come out and wave his hand over the place, calling on God's name and recovering him. However, God's way is not man's. God must have been bent to humble Naaman and purge him of the dross in him. Elisha, an authority in his own right didn't even show up. He only sent instructions that Naaman should go bathe in the Jordan by dipping himself in there seven times. Naaman wouldn't take this. He flared up and up he went home in his chariot. Imagine the attitude of he who was looking for a cure. Some are expectant mothers but their attitude is the same. Some have terminal sicknesses yet their sense of ego and the deception of riches is still not letting them humble themselves to receive their healing. They're still trying to understand why the prophet will instruct so simply.  They're still contesting it like Naaman. If they were given the choice, they'll prefer to go carry out the given instruction in Abana or Pharpar when the Spirit of the Lord who doesn't lie says Jordan. Is that not with a cause?

On hearing this, the entire household was concerned for Naaman. Now, who will bell the cat? Who will go to change his view and persuade him to give it a try? Just then, some of his household servants who must have rehearsed the matter before presentation walked up to him. They must have taken humble postures to appease the god of the tribe of Syria - Naaman who was offended and angry at Elisha and his humiliating instructions. The servant who served as spokesman for others called him, "My father". That's who he is to them but more importantly, it shows the humble spirit in which that servant came to have his attention and sue for his reconsideration. Then, he presented the matter in a logical way to him. In a manner that if reasoned, any selfish, egoistic man will see that the instruction was actually out to benefit him. Or was it not given to benefit him? It was but he didn't see it because of his disappointed expectation. "If the prophet had bid him to buy fifty oxen for instance, he would have seen it as logical and then bought it. How much more, just taking a bath and getting cleansed?" For the first time like Nebuchadnezzar, his reason came to him [Daniel 4:34,36]. He understood that he shouldn't have been offended at all. Having being persuaded in this manner, he went to carry out the instruction. Behold, the doing of it brought the outcome and he returned with thanksgiving. You see, he was selfish just like we also. When a thing doesn't meet our expectation, we are offended at it.  

However, did you see how to make appeals to a spouse, superior, colleague or friend who's stubborn, selfish, egoistic and proud. Same goes for anyone you want to have do a thing. Such may even be your stubborn child. Appeal to their sense of benefit. Dethrone yourself. Don't count yourself an equal with them. You must be able to say like that servant, "My uncle, my husband: my only darling; Your Excellency sir e.t.c." If you however come around and shout saying, "Look at you. Won't you go? Is it until you die?" He won't though he dies in his pride. He'll rather preserve his honour and ego. So, learn today as a parent, child, spouse, subordinate, leader or whatsoever how to have your way with people. We don't need to fight if we have learnt what fits a particular situation and what each person will open to. May you be taught!

PRAYER: Give me the wisdom to esteem another above me. May you teach me how to cultivate and be a benefit to all my relationships and connections. May I not die in my pride when cure and aid is at hand. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 20:22-22:16, Mark 9:1-29, Psalm 43:1-5, Proverbs 10:18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/06/2022

WEDNESDAY - 22ND JUNE, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

LOOKING UNTO JESUS

Hebrews 12:2, KJV

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

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

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

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

Psalms 16:8, KJV

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

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

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

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

BIBLE IN ONE 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 - 21/06/2022

TUESDAY - 21ST JUNE, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE EXPLORER AND THE IN DWELLER

Genesis 25:27,KJV

" And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents."

The fact that we all can't be a thing is being emphasized here again. Esau is a cunning hunter but Jacob is a plain man. He stays at home. When a thing is your field - where you're called to, you'll have an internal leading to go there. That's why you'll hear people say, "look inside you. What do you think you have capacity or passion for?" It is actually real. There's a thoroughfare in man that leads to what he should do for the rest of his life. If he has missed that thing by the influence of peers, parents or the blindness of prestige, that thoroughfare in him will still be witnessing to him in unsatisfactoriness that he has not aligned at all with his call from heaven. He'll become mechanical on the false job or what he calls life's work he has gone to sit at. 

I told a brother, "just like you need no man to teach you because you have the anointing or the Holy Spirit who as well teaches and leads, this thoroughfare inside all man put inside them to hook them to the life's work they'll do eliminates somebody coming around to enforce on them what they should do in life" (I John 2:20, 27). You may have a confirmer but you're the discoverer. No man knows the thing of another man except its shown him however. Before he begins the seeking, you already have the puzzle in you to decode and match. God has destined that by looking inside you, you'll know what to do or become.

These are twin nations. Jacob and Esau. I hope you know Isaac and Rebekah didn't sit them down to ask or teach them what to become. As they mature, each by revelation and leading of the calling put in the thoroughfare of their heart went his own way. Esau was not even influenced by his dad's profession because Isaac was not a hunter. By discovery, they are so convinced individually of the ways to go that there's no confusion of reconsidering or doubt as to whether their way or chosen profession would profit them. While it pleases Esau to become a cunning hunter which he did. It pleases Jacob to be an easy man. Somebody that doesn't explore the world. Somebody that prefers to stay at home. Jacob has the typical girl's nature that's contented with being a home keeper. He just wants to stay within the reach of the parents, especially the mother. But not Esau. He's an independent man. A choleric - a man of the field. One whose face is set outside. 

May I say that you need no man to teach you. Not that you can't be shown how to identify God's call over your life. I'm saying, you need no man to tell you, "you should become this or that" though that may still inevitably happen if you fail to discover and God's mercy is after you still. Why will Esau be a hunter and Jacob an in dweller if it were not coming from the revelation in their souls. Don't forget, what you discover yourself increases your conviction basement and makes you ready to offer explanation on its discovery always. This is why you must be watchful. Pay attention to yourself. Watch what you're inclined towards. What you think you do effortlessly. What you excel in. What irritates you that you want to amend. Just be attentive and you'll be led there. The place of not breaking rank in purpose is what God secures us to fulfill by letting the light of calling shine so much in each of us that we'll see glaringly what He's calling us to. Once this is undeniable by each of us, once we succumb to it, we will each agree to go to the field, career, vocation God destines for us all. By that, all humans can't be on the same job. We'll then be scattered all over the face of the earth to occupy and conquer different fields for God. 

But if you have found a field to colonize, God will attach contentment to it as a reward. Once you do, you'll feel at peace, soothed and contented to stay in it. You'll feel  okay to continue exploring that field until you know it and dig all relevance in it out. This is how each specialization or the entire body of knowledge is built. While I have no interest to go into the moon, dive into the bottom of the sea or collect all the specimens that live in the atmosphere, some are enthusiastic about those. God put passion, contentment and joy in that for them. So,they're there without any thought of relocation even if they're not seriously rewarded. You may wonder if they're coping but they are. It is each man in his line, calling, field and the place God wants him stay for relevance. If Jacob also went out like Esau, how will he have porridge to offer Esau. This is the plan of God that what is the product of our calling or career becomes a general product offered for the benefitting of mankind. The entire family can't also deny benefitting of the game of Esau. This is it. That's balance. God relies on you to bring it to your world. 

PRAYER: May I not deny my uniqueness. May I embrace it and have a "porridge" or a "game" to offer my own world. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 22:1-53; Acts 13:16-41; Psalm 138:1-8; Proverbs 17:17-18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/06/2022

MONDAY - 20TH JUNE, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

FULFILMENT IN BIT AND A WHOLE

Read Gen. 4:1-3

Genesis 4:2, KJV

"And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."

"I'm not fulfilled, I'm not fulfilled" can come from your mouth after a search of heart and the desire to amount in this life. The next question should be, "how can I be fulfilled? How will I know I'm fulfilled with what I've found doing or by the way I now live?" It is an answer of the soul. It is an answer of whether you're contented with what you have found to do or you're still aspiring to another colony of career or calling. I found out by experience that fulfilment comes by finding your field and going to till it. When we speak of fulfilment and contentment, they are two things of the same mother that will begin to happen to you as soon as you find the life work God destines you do here. You'll be contented with what you're called to but you'll have fulfilment on and on as you pursue what you have settled for once and for all. This found life work may be breathed or inspired by flair, passion or desire. It may even be entered into because of experiences, training, education that dug what was already wired into your nature out. This calling of the soul might have been the sole reason why you're directed or influenced towards a choice of a career or calling but which you don't know.

God has not ordained that all humans who come here be same thing. Cain and Abel aren't. Esau and Jacob aren't also though twins (Gen.25:27). Men will always be different things in our world. It is for our good. For you to have a whole functional body, the parts can't be the same. Or, is your own body only composed of your eyes? Ask yourself how useful you'll have been as a person if all you have is your eyes. To our surprise though reality, when dealing with calling, we don't consider how prestigious or rewarding our calling might make us before we heed it. If God proposes you to be an artist, He's not expecting you to stop the process of becoming one because you discover being an engineer rakes in more money. God who ordains you to become an artist has given you ability in there. Even in ministry, though calling is general, yet there are peculiar callings that authorise the called to do certain things. God has destined it is there you'll have the attention of men and also be acclaimed. If you go to till another man's land, you won't be able to operate effortlessly by leveraging on your gifting or grace. Later, you'll lose them for lack of use and only be out of service having been driven solely by what money can offer you and not what calling can make you if you surrender to its wheel.  

As far as I know, once you discover calling and follow it, you'll be only what you only can be in that area occupied by even many ahead you. I mean God intended you'll become a surprise to your world whether your calling is such that men respect or despise. Find it and get better. Once you find calling, there's a level of fulfilment you'll have whenever you do the work of your calling. Not that you'll be totally fulfilled once and for all. God will be calling you to come up hither often by the so many things He'll shine into your mind to do or take as the next steps. That's why you'll see a pastor who started with just a branch put out to have more in order to reach more people. As we follow this calling of God further to become our calling wholly, we'll be accumulating measure of fulfilment upon fulfilment. When you observe you're becoming a better person in your calling, there will be satisfaction, inner peace and contentment until you're one day assured you've fulfilled the mind of God wholly without withholding. It's then you can contemplate being called home by God like Paul. Why you have to find your calling and go into it now is because it is a burden you must live out and you don't have all the time as a mortal. A burden not discharged do haunt. Live it out and please Eternity who inscribed what you should become in you. His pen is fiery. That's why living out calling do reveal itself passionately. It do drive people. May you be driven by its power to achievement.

PRAYER: Lord, I banish confusion. I receive clarity on my life work. I won't be distracted from it. I become in it until the day is dawn. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 20:1-21:29; Acts 12:24-13:15; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 17:16

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FROM THE FATHER'S HEART

 FROM A FATHER'S HEART

I didn't want to do this but it kept coming because it could be the comfort of some. From the gulf of my heart, a place where spontaneous blessings could be only called forth, I thank all sons and daughters, children in the quantity God has allocated me, who first submitted to me, believe in me, follow me and even esteem me as their checker of things. 

I am not your Lord and this I'll never trespass. I shall continually offer my suggestions, instructions, guidance and where necessary firmness. Just like you owe God and me an obligation of not faltering or failing eventually, I also owe you. As a father in my little corner, I promise to be more fervent for you, remembering you in prayer and in act. Your battles are my battles if you'll carry me along. 

While I didn't want to make any jealous, I appreciate all who have sent me appreciative messages today. I woke up to see them. I also thank those who so much believe in this "Bro Sola" so much more as to support him and this ministry financially. You've shown beyond confession your belief in my calling. I thank that fellow who often will say, "sir, I'm sending something for mission." May I say here that the last money you sent the ministry was fragmented as led and sent to bless the ministries of fathers from whom also we've derived blessings.

To those who are now married who still seek my counsel and won't think less of me, I say, "you're really humble."

To those sons especially who now have their own ministries yet still acknowledge me, I say, "you've proved yourself."

I assure you that I'll be a continuous example of the father you want to hear from. In discipline, purity, charity, speech and act! What we are saying you shouldn't do or fall into, we also won't even when it will cost us resisting until the shedding of blood. 

I really pray that our Father in heaven will not withhold all the blessings of a father from you. Be blessed today, tomorrow and the third day. I love you and it's not small. 

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/06/2022

SUNDAY - 19TH JUNE, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN NIGHT SHINES AS THE DAY FOR YOU

READ Psalm 139

Psalms 139:12, KJV

"Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee."

Don't we know that it's adversely out of order for night to shine as the day?

Is this not why we all require illumination when night falls? Night ushers in darkness. Even when awake with open eyes, yet vision is always impaired at night. However, the reverse is the case in this revelational Psalm of today. I'm already  apprehended, noising Yahweh because His ways are past finding. Night couldn't become night to Him. What a fellow! For God, when people are saying, "I can't see"; He sees. He does because of the spiritual faculty that makes the physical night as day to Him. This matter has gotten to the head as it has hit the crescendo of all seriousness which necessitates you to enter into this realm of activity also. When other professionals, artisans or people are saying "off season" in your field; because of this medicine that will become a reality in your life, you will stand akimbo with mouth agape and wonder aloud in sincerity "you don't mean it?

They'll say, "aren't you experiencing same? Who don't know our business is seasonal? You're not an apprentice but a master in this profession, yet you're asking why sale has not been forthcoming."

Those ones are category A and that's the album they release often.  However, what is yours as one that Christ is his hope of glory? 

"The night shines as the day".

Nothing changes for bad for you though seasons, times, periods be altered. Your day experience however is translated into the night of world's affairs for you. By an invention in the laboratory of spirituality, we're causing a replication of your day experiences even in the night. We have captured the night and subdued it for you. It is now your slave and you will rejoice in every moment men hollers, "something has suddenly gone wrong!" This remedy worked for Joshua, for he cheated the night by the agreement of the Almighty and went on operating when the whole world knew it should be out of season for him.

Joshua 10:13, KJV

"And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."

Look, when others are lacking in spiritual strength, what is night to them will be day to you. By the Spirit of prophecy on me, I call you to begin to have distinct results even at night time. Your outcome will deviate from that of the great congregation at the outer court of life. In war, you will know peace. In recession, you will know abundance because of grace, mercy, power of preparation and the anointing that empties supernatural outcome into your container. Yours is different in this December. Let night function as the day for you. 

PRAYER: Thick darkness will cover the earth but the Lord will arise on me.  When people's confession is "it is night/bad, I'll testify it's day/good."

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Amos 7:1-9:15, Revelation 3:7-22, Psalm 131:1-3, Proverbs 29:23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/06/2022

SATURDAY - 18TH JUNE, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

CHILDREN OF ONE'S YOUTH

READ Psalm 124

Psalms 127:4, KJV

"As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth."

It is a blessing having children in one's youth. Or let me say, it is a better blessing. We must know that some things are best done and verily beautiful when they happen without trespassing the appropriate time for it. You can't be graduating as an undergraduate at forty and think you're a superstar. The media might take notice of your perseverance and success but it isn't a very nice testimony.  "As arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are CHILDREN OF ONE'S YOUTH."

That place didn't read, " children of one's old age." So, if you're giving birth late when as a woman for instance, you should have closed all under 35 or 40, the result might face one. That's why that place says, "just like arrows are in a warrior's hand, so are children of one's youth." Why don't you ask why children of one's youth is likened to arrows in a warrior's hand? It takes a fellow who's also a youth - with strength, initiative, skill, aspiration etc to harness a growing child and shape such into what God would desire he becomes. Parents are moulders and if issues break forth into their arms when there is still capacity and interest of a youth for adequate training there, you'll see them bring a force into grooming such child into becoming one that could be sent on an errand of destiny without being afraid. If a man has a child at sixty, the man would be eighty by the time the child hits 20. Is it an eighty year old man that wants to train a complete child at that old age? You know youths. Despite the fact that many parents are youths also who are still relevant in the world of their children, these children wearies them and see them as far back and ancient. Now, is it an eighty year old man that would now do better? The old man might be too feeble curbing his youthful exuberance. He'll be tired and let him be. Yet, God doesn't want that. That's why that place read, "...so are children of one's youth."

Only children of your youth are like arrows in a warrior's hand. A warrior is a trained fellow. Arrow itself is useless even when polished without a handler. It would just be in the quiver without its purpose for invention being accomplished. If arrows - polished arrows, made ready for battle should however find its way into the hands of a warrior - one who's skillful in shooting it, you'll see what he'll achieve with that arrow. You will watch with mouth agape how someone uses arrows to accomplish great things. Yet, you had tried doing the same but it was not happening for you. The difference is that he is trained to use arrows while you are untrained. Arrows don't use themselves. Men does. Unless they're concentrated in a man's hand, the destiny, endowment and potentials of arrows won't appear for recognition. Arrow can kill. It can injure. It can pierce. All these capacities of arrows would only be felt if the right person (fitted for the arrows and one the arrows are fitted for grabs it). Until then, expect nothing.

So also are children of one's youth. Since the parents are still young with so many dreams of what they might want these children to become - it is these dreams, thoughts and desire that would drive them into raising children that could discharge the potentials of arrows in them. Those of you with children, do you know how to use your children? Do you know what to turn them into? Arrows in a warrior's hands are turned into killers. That's its purpose. Children in your hands would become what? 

I pray that this God's free gift in your hands would be trained in God's fear, discipline and knowledge that their discharge in life would appear so different and contrast from those raised by those not in their youths. Have you not observe that children grandparents helped their own children raise are always over pampered. Instead of their lording it over those children in godliness and enforcing their godly will on them for a better future, it's such children that dictates things. They'll be eating without brushing! Why? The grandparents strong will or forces has done what it could do in raising the parents. At their stage, it has pedaled down into accommodating and tolerating. That's why you'll see grandparents advocate their grandchildren from being dealt with many times by their parents who are still focused in discipline and what should be. Force of leadership can reduce by age too. This and many more contributes to the raising of arrows. God has you in mind. Today is your day, it won't be tomorrow. The waiting mothers would receive opening of womb and those due for marriage shall marry. Some things are best done in your youth.

PRAYER: Lord, teach me the harnessing of arrows. May I bring up children to meet purpose.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 6:1-7:20, Acts 15:36-16:15, Psalm 142:1-7, Proverbs 17:24-25

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