MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 9/08/2022

TUESDAY- 9TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THE BROOK DRIES - Lead and Feed Series 7

Read I Kings 17:2-16

1 Kings 17:7, KJV 

"And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land."

There's a work that you could trust God to discharge on your behalf when the brook dries. It is  the Lord who solely does this as much as you've submitted leadership and guidance of yourself to Him. If you're an attentive, listening and instruction propelled Christian, you will know what or where next God is directing you to. Today, God is facing you to tell you "no condition is permanent." He's telling you the brook might dry up tomorrow though He initially sent you there. Your job is not God in whom your trust should be. It is only a means by which God glories Himself, make you exercise your creative ability and have you sustained through its proceed. Never say, "if I lose this job, I'll be finished." Your job is important and you shouldn't be lackadaisical about it or test the authority to prove what would happen but you're only finished if you're cut off from God - your Vine. From Him we all take nourishment. He is our cause and in Him we live, move and have our being. 

The brook that might dry for some may be their sponsor that may be incapacitated. He has been doing it before but suddenly, he becomes bankrupt and couldn't go further to tear them provision often. What should be the attitude of a Christian then? He should look up unto God who initially gave him the brook and the ravens to take sustenance from to open up another place. I'll like you know that you're the thought that enters God's mind. Those who leave everything in God's hands will see God's hands in everything. If you so much rely and wait on Him, God won't disappoint you. Hear this Psalms. 

Psalms 104:26-27, KJV

"26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. 27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season."

You see, all God's creation wait on God that they might be fed. Our provision comes from God. It is what He gives us we gather. Knowing this, He'll always hasten to ensure you don't come to want. He provides in due season or else! When the brook dried, did you not see God come for Elijah? Did you not hear God saying, "relocate, arise to Zarephath. There's the next provision." Leading I said precedes feeding. You must be locatable. If one brook, job or means of sustenance closes up, God will open up another channel hurriedly. He does this to proclaim Himself as master over all situations and people. He said, "he had commanded a widow to feed Elijah there." At such moments, God will ordain places and people for you who won't be able to say "no" to you. 

How many people are there with the symptoms of a dried brook? It simply means you need another job or means of sustenance. God will choose any desirable means for you to have Himself glorified. This is also a message to anybody or system that has become a brook to anyone not to become proud or suddenly withold the bread God kept in their custody for others. If you do, God will always be glorified. The brook that dried dried to its own shame. The storyline could have continued with the brook but immediately, it shifted to Zarephath. I hope you don't want to be replaced or substituted. I'm hoping you want to find relevance as a vessel in God's hands for use continually. I pray that God will give any whose brook has dried, is drying or will soon dry a Zarephath to take refuge in. God knows where the next move is. He knows where the barrel of meal won't be spent and where the cruse of oil won't fail. He knows where the cloud has gathered, where the carcass is, where the green pastures are and He shall indeed lead you beside His still waters. You'll feed on abundance and do in peace. 

PRAYER: Be my headlamp. Reveal to me next steps to carry in the journey of "never being in want." I know Your faithfulness.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 7:1-8:20; 1 Corinthians 4:1-21; Psalm 30:1-12; Proverbs 20:28-30

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 8/08/2022

MONDAY- 8TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

SO THAT YOU'LL NOT BE IN WANT - Lead and Feed Series 006

I Kings 17:7-9, KJV 

"7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

There's a work that the Lord of all the earth does. I have seen and experienced it and many more have also. One time, that was last year, I needed to attack a capital project. So, I almost freeze all my monthly income for it. I didn't put any other responsibility into consideration before doing this. I just went ahead to get that done. After I did it, my sight opened and I knew I needed money for some other things often. As a matter of fact, it was at that time a sibling began to cry for a new phone plus school fees and feeding allowance that must be allocated to the family often. I was looking to heaven intently and trusting that the servant of God won't be in want. Then, a miracle like I've never had before happened. 

Someone gave me a job to do having known my reputation as a creative, content and research writer and wondered if I could do more of that job. Believe it, over a period that lasted six months which was the exact time I needed to save for the amount that'll do the project, that offer sustained me. It was one of the greatest offer I had gotten. At the same time, I kept working for individuals and conglomerates. It just went on sizzling like that. That's how God saved me from ever being in want or getting to a place where I break a sweat before provision came.  I knew that offer was from God because until I resumed from my saving vacation, the offer didn't lift. That was God's word to that widow - "for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth (1 Kings 17:14, KJV). So, I knew God intentionally created it for me to contain my needs for that time being. Kai, I really fed on that thing. I wish it could come back. 

This miracle of mine is in the Bible. Did you remember the fiery prophet, Elijah. There's no one he can't deliver God's word to. He doesn't look at their faces. After he prophesied "no rain, no dew" except by his words, he immediately caused famine to spring up. God seeing this situation which he has not only brought on others but himself moved in to shepherd him to where he won't be in want. He was told to go hid by Brook Cherith. There, he'll drink from the brook while the arrangements God had made with the ravens would bring him meat. So, until the brook dried up, Elijah was eating balanced diet - a combination of carbohydrate and protein. You wouldn't believe it. He was never lean for once. That's God's work but that's not where the miracle is. 

It is that when the brook dried: when one staff of provision broke, God created another. That's exactly like what happened to me. There was a channel of provision by which my needs are catered for as a salary earner but when it stopped flowing because I needed to save heavily for a thing, God created another. Now, what would have happened if when the first oasis stops flowing, God didn't create another way of escape for Elijah and myself. We'll have known want. We'll have known hunger. We'll have tasted embarrassments but God prevented both of us from getting there. That's the work God does so that we won't get to ever be in want. They can sack you from your job. That's Satan's move probably through jealous people who planned against you or the national situation of your country but God never fails. You'll never get to the place where you'll be in want - desire a thing and not have it because you don't have purchasing power. Never. He that made the provision of the brook still watches over you to see that you fall at the hands of the "widow of Zarephath" as occasion would necessitate it. In this way, you'll never have the fate of leaderless Christians. Your case is peculiar and God's commitment stands by you. Today, I'm heavily anointed and I declare that you'll see this God's work. In unseemly situations where provision you trusted is failing, God will make another provision for you. Before one fails, another is supplied. This is what will uphold Psalm 23:1b from happening in its opposite direction to you. Today, I fellow with God of all the earth to say, "you shall not want." Receive it!

PRAYER: Lord, as seasons and circumstances change, may your commitment of provision ever be sure to me. Before one provision fails, may another get delivered. I shall never be in need.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 3:1-4:23; 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4; Psalm 28:1-9; Proverbs 20:24-25

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 7/08/2022

 SUNDAY- 7TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

SHEPHERDED! - Lead and Feed Series 005

Genesis 26:2, KJV 

"And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:"

Recently on LinkedIn, I read a post of a lady who earns Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira monthly. She recently had an opening to travel abroad besides this also but she's confused whether to leave her job and free apartment in Abuja to travel abroad. Nigeria in recent times for instance seems hard but here is someone who seems to be living very large. She posted that in order to seek the advise of her LinkedIn family and I read some telling her to stick to her job here and all other privileges she enjoys. Why travel abroad when your target is comfortably being achieved here in your country? 

This describes Isaac. When famine struck, he wanted to go to Egypt for refuge but God said "no." God told him to stay back in that same land because to his downlines He'll give it. He stayed, sowed in that land and he had a very troubling testimony. 

Genesis 26:12, KJV  

"Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him."

Would Isaac have ordinarily reaped hundred fold from that land? No! That was in famine but the blessings of a guided Christian begins to overtake him. What I'll like you see is this. You actually don't know how things might turn out to be. God sees into the future. Have you wondered why people go to do consultation. Because they don't want any part of their lives to be hidden from them. They wanted to be aware. So, man is limited because he ordinary and alone don't have all the information by which he could prepare or plan for the future. Having eyes who sees all, knows all is therefore an advantage as the Divine could bring into one's life privileged information where one is limited. To Isaac, it was, "stay in this same land." That lady who needed advice and threw it open could be deciphered for not knowing the Shepherd. If she does, God would have made plain to her whether to leave or go. Now, she's looking for the majority to carry the votes for her on what she'll do. That's dangerous. She's hoping which side to decide to go based on the persuasion of people. 

As simple as God's instruction was to Isaac, it saved him from the headache of travelling to Egypt (where he believed economically they're doing well) to remain in Gerar (that despised land). This obedience however brought a reward to Isaac just like that lady who still earns and live big in an economically depressed country. She's clear she didn't want to leave for abroad. That's why she threw it open. Forfeiting those privileges she's receiving here looks to her like "calamity." Yet, many considers a calamity staying back. No matter how terrible and worst the situation of a country may be, there'll still be people who will live fairly well in there. God is therefore putting it to you to await instructions for your life. If Isaac had gone to Egypt, he wouldn't have sowed in the same despised land and reap hundred fold until he became the envy of all economically. While going abroad isn't bad yet it must be at God's command. If God has work for you here and you leave for abroad, you'll be alone because God won't be your companion. You would have left him behind in your former base where He waits to make you a wonder to the world and bring honey out of the rock for you. Be rightly situated by God and the concerns of people won't be your concern. You'll so much have more than enough that you won't even see reasons to "flee." You'll always be in a strait like that lady who got confused and needed to be persuaded as to why she should leave.

PRAYER: Lord, be my eyes in alternatives. Guide me. Sit me when I need to sit, rise me when I need to rise. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 3:1-4:23; 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4; Psalm 28:1-9; Proverbs 20:24-25

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 06/08/2022

SATURDAY- 6TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

A CALL TO REMEMBER - Lead and Feed Series 004

Exodus 2:24-25, KJV  

"24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them."

In series 003 (not yesterday's devotional) but that of two days ago, I brought to us under the anointing why Psalm 23:1 should first be lived out as an instruction before we lay hold on it to put God in remembrance of meeting our needs. "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want", it says. It means, if the Lord is not or has not become your own Shepherd (by your making Him so), you will reap poverty plentifully and suffer want adequately. On how to learn how to willingly and realistically surrender or make Him your Shepherd, read series 003 of "Lead and Feed Series."

The children of Israel sighed by the reason of their bondage in Egypt. They were nearing breaking point. "Sighing" reveals great discomfort. No one sighs who's not or had been under a weight or load. So, as they sighed, groaned and cried, their lament reached God. Now, what did that pulled trigger effects? It created an instantaneous response. That place read, "and God remembered His covenant with Abraham/other patriarchs (Gen.15:13-14, 18-21)." Now, what connection would this remembrance serve in relation to their own suffering? Permit me to say the remembrance of that covenant is actually their salvation. From the time God remembers, He recalls His promise to Abraham that his downlines would be strangers in a foreign land where they'll serve for 400 years before evacuation at 430 (Exo.1 2:40-41). Afterwards, He'll bring them out and have them possess the land flowing with milk and honey - Canaan. So, that remembrance brought to God's memory that "these ones are Mine. I owe an obligation to them. I can't but act. Their suffering should stop now. They should hereunto be delivered." If you check the next chapter, we for once get introduced to Moses, their soon to be called deliverer. 

However, Israel's groaning would have been in vain if they had not been grafted into covenant when Abraham was making it. All that nation at that time were in Abraham when he was cutting that covenant with God. A prove is that Levi was inside the loins of Abraham when he paid tithe to Melchizedek (Heb.7: 9-10). Let me tell you, if your great great ones cut covenants with spirits; even till date, those spirits may still want to see to your affairs especially if you've not renounced the works of darkness. If at any time you mistakenly act or behave somehow as to pull the trigger of remembrance of the terms of their covenants with your ancestors, just like the dead soldiers in Ezekiel 37, they'll rise up a great army and come and do whatever were the terms of those covenants to you. It doesn't matter if you're even in the diaspora. They don't need your permission to act. Someone or some people gave you over just like Abraham gave Israel - a whole nation to God to watch over. Even at the demise of Abraham, the watching over still continues. That's how stubborn a covenant is irrespective of its kind. 

Brethren, what am I seeking to establish? If there has not been a relationship of Shepherd-sheep between you and God, if you lament to Him that you're in need, He won't give you the satisfaction of a disciple. So, you can't but get to the point of hunger, disappointment, frustration, begging and salivation for anything that could temporarily cure you. That's the point described in the affirmative as, "I shall not want." If Israel was not in covenant with Jehovah, let them roar like thunder, God wouldn't have been that way obligated to them. What am I saying? Your relationship, sonship, commitment to God is what will bring His obligation. Sell yourself out first of all. Let all your acts proceed from Him. Make Him your sight and walk in His footsteps. Until then, you can't reap where you've not sown. How can you call Him "Lord, Lord" and expect salvation when you don't know Him? I have a beloved. I'm obligated to her because we're in a relationship. Another I wouldn't give attention to. "And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers (John 10:5, KJV).

Today, beyond any shadow of doubt, God demands you to lay your whole life down at His feet so that He'll govern your step by step. It is then you won't lack (because you'll be led to where God has seen there are green pasture and still waters). It's then you won't die untimely also because He'll ensure your path and that of the destroyer or eliminator doesn't cross (by His guidance that'll make you avoid it). 

PRAYER: [Confess your sins and call Christ into your life]. That was to those who needs Salvation. Decide to always consult Him for His leading. Pray that He'll hear you in the day of affliction.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 1:1-2:70; 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5; Psalm 27:7-14; Proverbs 20:22-23

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STOP THINKING IT INCREDIBLE!

WHY DO YOU THINK IT INCREDIBLE THAT GOD SHOULD DO THE IMPOSSIBLE?

I was cleaning up when I began my contemplation which almost got me flogged. I had asked, "nowadays, how could one get such hectares of land (like 100 in one place) where a city would be built?" I concluded, "they've owned and purchased all such available quantity of land." Just then, God came out of the blues. You remember as Abraham was about slaughtering Isaac, a voice came from heaven that instant to stop him (Gen.22:9-12). That was exactly what happened to me. That voice disclosed in this manner. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" I knew it was a direct quotation from the Bible and it means, "why do you have the thinking that a thing is unachievable, unbelievable or that it's impossible to be done? What if God is involved? Will it still be beyond belief or be too implausible to be true? Immediately, I sat right and I knew that was God cautioning me from disbelieving in possibilities and my prophecies. Believe it, I apologized. I said, "sorry sir." Then, I took dressing. 

God illustrated to me further. He showed me the pastor of the largest church and said, "when I promised him a city, were the lands not all taken then? Were men not as covetous then as they are now? Do you think it would have been better thinking that way in his time or making you such promise and delivery then than now?" I had thought so. I had thought to be able to have such expanse of land that could accommodate a city of people and civilization (with churches, schools, banks, shopping malls, stadiums, parks, gardens, museums, just mention it), one must have owned it by now or probably since. He furthered "was land not as costly for those who wanted it at that time as it is now? Are you claiming it is easier making money then than making now for purchase? Have I even told you you'll use your money to buy me such land? Was it not some people who owned and possessed those lands at that time? How come he now has them for a city of the Lord?" After all these confronts, I was in agreement!

He proceeded, "I willed Canaan to Israel but hope you remember there were dwellers there? Hope you know it was actually not Israel's land from the start but I made some wicked idolatrous nations holders until Israel was ready and mature for its possession." I nodded to that also. Then, He went back to ask me, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you then that I [God] should raise the dead? (Acts 26:8).

"That God should raise the dead" there means "that God should do the impossible or that which is too good to be believed." I couldn't talk and He knew I had acknowledged my fault. I took my words back so it would be unto me according to His word, mind and prediction. I won't doubt. I'll be Mary at heart to see the prophesied things that await their times. He had opened the Bible further to enlighten me by quoting me these verses below.

Job 28:7-8, KJV

"7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it."

God told me, "there are still reserved properties, virgin lands, unexplored arables despite the covetousness of men to own properties here and there and claim it all for themselves." I still have new things to do and offer. They are "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard and matters that have not entered into any heart (I Cor.2:9)." However, they're only prepared for those who love me - true followers, labourers and servicemen and women."  All in all, I was humbled and quietened.

People, as humans, we're men of desires. We have an endless "longitudinal" and "latitudinal" list of what we want to experience or achieve. However, we have reasons enough as to why each can't be achieved though we wanted them achieved. We're not to be blamed expressly, it is because we're limited in ourselves. Our frame is dust and so our contemplation and thinking at times may be doubtful and way earthly: void of any divine sense or revelation. God is saying I should ask you, "wetin you think say be hard like rock which you don call mission impossible because of some reasons? E said make you no commonise Him, E go do am for you." What baffles you don't roughen Him up. Mountains are not different from valleys to Him. The night is as day to Him. It is we humans who do classifications based on evidences we have found and named tangible. Those evidences may include "doctors' reports, human assessment of one's capabilities etc." So, having gone round this way, we draw a line, shut the door at ourselves and say, "that one is too high, marvelous, too important, really exotic and unimaginably dope to be fulfilled." At times, you may say, "those who are qualified for such life or extravagance are the heroes of faith or millionaires." You see, we call it "incredible, too shocking to occur, outrightly impossible or too high to touch." Once you get squashed into this form of thinking, you stop dreaming. Once dreams stop, hope and faith wanes to drop dead. Then, you stop living the non friction life that believes nothing is INCREDIBLE, SURPRISING, SHOCKING or TOO BIG for God to deliver. 

The Lord is on me. He's heavy on me and I could sense Him. He is asking me to ask you to make a list of all the things that you have classified as "incredible or impossible" and attach their "WHYs" to it. God said, "He wants to glory over those WHYs which you thought could hinder Him from delivering answers to you just like He gloried both over the horse and its rider at the Red Sea."  He said "He wanted to see them." They're pretty light in His sight. Paul asked those present that day as he tables his matter before the council, "do you think it incredible (unbelievable, big, gigantic, magnanimous, impossible) that God should raise the dead? Do you think you are not born for some testimonies? There must be a why for this kind of thinking or belief and as I hear, I speak to you that "God is taking them over." He's enough for them and He'll wrap Himself round them all. That is God's own doing - to do the incredible, to do the impossible stemming from human judgement. With God, no mission is impossible. He will go and come. You, just hang on in faith. You, hold your peace. Sit at His right hand (of believing, observing and partnering on and on) and see Him to your face realize all those impossibilities which you've believed are too high to be given.

I ask conclusively, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead (do the impossible)?" What are your reasons? Is it scarcity of fund or health issue? Please, why do you think A or B is impossible? God is glorying over all your reasons. Did he not consume the sacrifice, the stones, wood and leak the water too (I Kings 18:38). Nothing shall be spared. He'll go round. I call Him Eliminator quick quick. Here, He is at work. Let Jesus be glorified in your situation. He has not stopped being beautiful for every situation. Believe it. It is not incredible with God to deliver you that impossibility.

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria. 

+234 81 37 04 68 12

morningwingministry@gmail.com

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 04/08/2023

THURSDAY - 4TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE CONFESSION OF TRUE CHILDREN - Lead and Feed Series 003

Psalms 23:1, KJV 

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."

Who does, "the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want" really works for? Drivers on the highways who aren't even born again but inscribe it on their vehicles or the heathen and Christians who have not even made the Lord their shepherd? Who does it really work for? It is high time we began seeing "the Lord is my shepherd" as an instruction and not a confession first of all. The only category of people who are permitted to confess Psalm 23 are those who are disciples. I mean those who are so meek as to enquire and receive daily instructions on how they should live their lives. Whenever such Christians say, "the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want", he's only affirming his position and what he already had subscribed to. Already, he's born again. Yet, this man would pray to find out what God wants of him per time. He doesn't go to school because others are going. He won't marry because he's of age and has money. God must give him a "ram" to prompt him to action. An "Eve" must be brought him at the observation of God that he shouldn't be lonely again. So, he does each act at the command of God. God must first be his eyes. He must watch out for him. It is then the whispers of God to him whether he could launch or not will now become the instruction that guides him and which people will see his body acting out. A Christian isn't an impulsive actor but a guided actor. Many are today and they have accidents and several breakdowns for it. "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." Think it well. Don't accuse God and claim Him to be a role player of what you haven't relinquished your position to make Him. If your whole time and life is not in God's hands, every time you confess this, you lie and accuse God. 

Psalms 31:15, KJV  

"My times are in thy hand."

That becomes sin since He isn't the administrator of your life - One from Who your acts stem from . When you say somebody is not who he is in your life, you lie and lying is sin. So, refrain from vain confession. I'll like you know that one thousand confessions of Psalm 23 won't offer you leading except you work it practically first of all. I laugh at what Christianity  has become and how idiotic so many people are. They're using heads instead of their hearts. Everything that could glorify God is what they're substituting because it rhymes and fit with what they naturally want. Is it not easy to profess? But, how easy it is to submit to another man's will for one's life? Don't we know how many calls Him "Lord, Lord" yet who He didn't know and would deny at day's end? How many people are so meek enough like the arrested and broken Saul as to ask, "what will you have me do?" Once you get here, you're beginning to make God your Shepherd. He knows what you should do and the path you should take, He'll show and direct you in there. This is where you say, "not my will but Yours." However, how many Christians operate this? That's why their lives are full of mockery and it seems unbelievers are proving biblical principles wrong that could have given them the good life and made them a testimony to the world. 

If I say "the Lord is my Shepherd", the Shepherd will hear. Why? I have esteemed Him first as that role player in my life. We wait until we hear him on matters. If he's not speaking, then we pray more. So, the confession of  "the Lord is my Shepherd" is just an ignite or a prayer of remembrance to call God to the task and responsibilities of who I have taken Him to be in my life. You have not submitted to Him as Shepherd yet you want the deliveries of a Shepherd? You've not submitted to Him as Lord yet you call Him same. What a mockery! Is that how by force you father and impose yourself on those children who do not receive you as a mentor first of all? Won't you be infringing on their rights? If you're married and you say, "Alice is my wife", that confession isn't vague or vain. She is because both of you have exchanged vows. You're only reaffirming what is known because you want Alice show off or answer like a wife. And she will because she owes you an obligation of a wife. She'll come around and greet her in-laws and they'll relate as one. You aren't confessing publicly what you don't know existed first of all but there's a madness I have seen, "it is calling God Who people have not allowed Him to be first of all in their lives." Who will make Him Lord and Shepherd? You. Be a doer and not he who looks his face in the mirror now and forgets what he looks like in a second. Let it be known that God is your shepherd by how you rely on Him to guide you. Act it before speaking it. He'll indeed take over.  

The relationship between couples make them answer to each other, so also is "the Lord is my Shepherd" a triggering device to seeing the acts of the good Shepherd. We only use that to summon Him since we've been obedient and submissive to Him as our Shepherd. If you've not, you'll never for once see the good acts of the Shepherd. You'll rather go your own way and experience what it means to be a wanderer. The Lord is my Shepherd is first an instruction that must be binding on any who don't want to be in want. If you indeed submit to God as your guide and you take Him  for same indeed, you obligate Him to see to your wants. Honour God that way first and see Him honour your wants. Lips honour isn't honour at all. Pay it with acts. 

PRAYER: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. I trigger the pact that's between us. Remember Lord. Come on scene and meet my needs.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 35:1-36:23; 1 Corinthians 1:1-17; Psalm 27:1-6; Proverbs 20:20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 03/08/2022

WEDNESDAY - 3RD AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE KNOWS WHERE IT IS HAPPENING - Lead and Feed Series 002

Read I Kings 17:1-16

Psalms 23:2, KJV

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters."

If you've been relying on God to live your life previously (even though you work), as you see God shows up where you've trusted Him, it would build you up in your inner man to trust Him the more. You must start as to grow in the faith of trusting God to meet your needs. Many Christians only have their needs met through their own income or the labour of their hands. They don't till the other side where the Shepherd could send men to them or send them to men. God knows where it is happening and if you show total reliance on Him and consult Him before you move any day, any time, He'll lead you to where the food of the day, tomorrow or the future is. This is done in what choices and decisions He'll guide you to make which will consequently preserve you. The vultures are birds of prey and they only gather where the carcass is. If these birds have enough common sense to opt only for where food is, will God in His infiniteness not care enough leading you to where what you call want will be nailed and fixed. He knows where the green pasture is and He sure leads there. Let Him lead the way. God is the One who should be believed as totally having the ability to ordain our path with goodness. You can't orchestrate it. A praying Christian is a boneless Christian actually. The more anyone prays reveals his dependence on God. His dependence on God is what will make God adopt him and make him the sheep of His pasture. God won't force leadership on you. You must submit yourself and prove to be ready. 

After the decree of Elijah, the man of God that there'll neither be dew or rain, God knew He'll be endangered by his own prophecy. Immediately, the Word of the Lord came to him. The first was for him to depart to Brook Cherith before Jordan. God told him he had commanded the ravens to feed him there. You see, Elijah had to leave "here" for "there." He had to be led to where God had discovered the next move to be for him. "Gold mines" of provision may be hidden to men's sight but God knows it even when disguised in a small setup that you wouldn't find comfortable to work in. There won't be food, there won't be water but God can still locate where water would be for His own. When God leads you somewhere, He prepares the ground before you. It wasn't Elijah who instructed the ravens to bring him food. He had no language to set forth communication with them. God did. They were awaiting his arrival and at arrival, they swiftly went into business. 

Not long however, the brook dried up. This is where we test if leading is real. What happens again? God's instruction came again. Depart to Zarephath for I have commanded a widow to sustain you there. On each occasion, Elijah survived on instructions, on being led and on obeying it. It is God who sees the vision of tomorrow. That's why He might come to work from your future into your present now. Let God help you to make choices and decisions. Each one you make right seals you against any inroad of the devil into your life. The devil is an opportunist. He's looking around to get into people's lives by the cracks left there. If God tells you not to take a job, it is because He has a premonition of things yet to happen even if all makes sense now. We humans live at the present at best but with God, you have a search engine and full light to see into the future. It is this that'll preserve you, break the back of needs and makes you look like a wonder to many. For as many who will wait on God before they make any turn, their lives can never be a revelation of mockery even if they're thought to be slow by people at the moment. An instruction correctly received and heeded to make a choice puts you ahead a thousand times of he who lives his life naturally. When the flood comes, we'll see who will float!

PRAYER: Teach me waiting on Thee. May I live on daily words from You. I float. I'm sustained. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 33:14-34:33; Romans 16:10-27; Psalm 26:1-12; Proverbs 20:19

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