MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 14/08/2022

SUNDAY - 14TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE MEETS THOSE IN CONTEMPLATION - Lead and Feed Series 012

Read Matthew 1:18-25

Matthew 1:20, KJV

" 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife..."

I said yesterday by the great stirring of the Holy Ghost that, "God would meet you as you carry at heart the burden to please Him. He'll come clear and clean to your aid on which path to take." God wasn't joking. The Spirit is destiny minded. God will meet you. If you've been so submissive to be led, do you think He'll withold? As you wait, you'll see His appearance. Until then, one can't but still be confused or unsettled with light doubt and least assurance on one's inside. Also, you'll be afraid stepping out in total conviction because there's a part of you beeping to remind you that you've not carried Him along. When we do however, He watches which way for us.

Joseph, the step dad of Jesus is a very just man. Having discovered that his fiancee is pregnant, he wouldn't have none of that and I'll say no man or woman should have none of that or continue in relationship with someone caught red handed in the act of fornication or with proofs of it. So, he secretly decided to break off from her. Being a just man, he had decided not to make her a scape goat. He assured himself He'll do it quietly. He won't even tell a friend or spread her infidelity around as to cause her shame, destroy her image or parents'. But as he contemplates on all these, a thoroughfare opened for a divine visitation. His thoughts which had reached the peak of a burdened heart  were signalling heaven unknowingly. "Contemplation" means to think or ruminate on. You let things mix together inside you before acting the finally decided one. It shows the deliberateness of a thinking man (of process and thoroughness) who won't like to live a life of error leading to regrets. Nothing is taken at face value. They're all esteemed and carefully thought on. It is this byproduct that becomes an answer to act on. But I also know a better answer beyond the processed result of contemplation. It is divine guidance. As Joseph's contemplation continues over time, something unplanned and even unsolicited for in prayers happened. He was met in his dream. An angel told him otherwise, gave him reasons for it and encouraged him to have Mary for himself.  Look at God. He sees our innermost thoughts. Our thoughts are loud before Him in the throne room. Joseph didn't pray. He was only pained, burdened, carrying the matter in His heart in order to be able to divide correctly on how to act. He was seeking for sense in the nonsense on ground and somehow he was losing his sense. That was all until the Balm of Gilead came to soothe him. He was met without shooting an utterance in prayer to God. Only contemplation! Yes, just rumination!

Look, as you mix and weigh that matter in your heart on either to do this or that i.e leave for abroad or stay (if it has finally become hot as to shoot steam to heaven); God will meet you. I have proved God. I'm not teaching what has never been rehearsed. God indeed answers thoughts and contemplations. I therefore entreat on your behalf now, let your contemplations draw God to you in Jesus' name. Over what you're beginning to go mad, yet trying to cover up, may God meet you. Have God meet you in your desperation, confusion over choices, weariness and doubt. He isn't a robot as not knowing your feelings. All touches Him. So, He sympathises with you. That's our High Priest. He so much sympathized and cared for Joseph as to show up at his juncture of confusion and decision. Behold, I see Him coming to give you discerning, distinctive and enlightening communication on what has been your contemplation, heart burden and thought. The Lord will not stop being your shepherd. He guides till the day is dawn.

PRAYER: Let the meditation of my heart draw your attention Lord. Behold my hollow and let my bitterness be swallowed.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 5:14 - 7:72; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Psalm 33:1-11; Proverbs 21:8-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/08/2022

SATURDAY- 13TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN SHOULD I LEAVE? - Lead and Feed Series 011

1 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..."

There are those who in the course of this teaching have really developed a dependent heart on God and won't want to act except He wills it. Such are sincerely crying, "when should I leave, God?" They could see that something is wrong and that it is not usually like before again; dryness has now taken over and with much coverage like darkness was seen covering the face of the deep (Gen.1: 2). Experiencing first hand such situation this way is now causing a desperate cry in them as to whether they could leave. They want to know. To their minds, since things have become dry and the brook where they're taking their living from is waterless, they should leave. However, they're still here in the court of court to hear from the Shepherd whether or not to leave. 

Elijah wouldn't have left for Zarephath first of all if the brook didn't dry up. Economic recession, bankruptcy or inconsistency of one's workplace etc may be reasons God could leverage on to instruct one to leave. Mind you however, there's no situation that surpasses God. If He brought honey out of the strong (lion) and water out of the desert, it means God could still have you stay in that parched land yet see to your continuity. That's why even at the face of seeing that everything has dwindled down and everybody is leaving (while you seem alone), you must still like Saul of Tarsus ask, "God, what would you have me do (Acts 9:6)?" That's a question of disciples and any who's not wise in his own conceit. Doing this will make God delighted and relevant in your life. He'll see you as one who indeed prioritises Him and really wants to be led to where pasture is and the next event is slated. This means you're not leaning on your own understanding. In such case, you'll always hear a voice instructing you on which way to go.

Even at the discovery of Elijah that it has finished for the brook, he didn't still leave because he had not heard what God would have him do. God could have told him like He told Isaac, "still stay in the land." Isaac sowed in that same famine afflicted land and he reaped hundredfold (Gen. 26:12). God could tell you to still dwell in that economic depressed, war torn, banditry, terrorism, corruption etc afflicted area. He has a thing to bring out of there. God told me some years past, "there's no where that's safe on earth except where I tell you to stay." That's if indeed you know God and do hear Him without falsehood. Canada they say is safe but Nigeria for now is safer for me because God has not changed my location. Nigeria becomes unsafe to indwell the moment God told me to "get down to another place" while I'm still holding back here. So, when can you leave indeed? While dryness and dwindling may be a sign, it is inconclusive. You're not permitted to leave until God comes having researched for you and tested what would be in the future as to instruct you whether to leave or stay. For Elijah, he was to leave because at the observation of the dried brook, God's Word came saying, "get thee to Zarephath." So, I'll say, open your heart to God. Take a humble, desirous heart position which wants to hear from the Shepherd before any action. It is then you can hear a voice behind you. It is then God would give you a dream, vision, trance or spur you by inner witness to action even without praying at times. Many times, I just carry in me a burning desire, one that's aflame over a particular incident. Without any utterance, I'll experience God meeting me. God do meet people. I want you know that and I pray He'll meet you as you chew, contemplate and decide what or what not to do. In your rumination, you'll hear God. He'll come clear and clean for you. Since it's your utmost priority not to move until He has decided for you, He'll come riding on the wings of the cloud to offer you direction to your Bethlehem (house of bread). God's peace I leave with you today. Shalom!

PRAYER: Lord, lead me out of parched land or give me strategy to live on and survive in it. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 3:15-5:13; 1 Corinthians 7:25-40; Psalm 32:1-11; Proverbs 21:5-7

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/08/2022

FRIDAY- 12TH AUGUST, 2022

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WHY HE SENDS A MAN BEFORE THEM - Lead and Feed Series 010

Read Gen.50:15-21

Psalms 105:16-17, KJV

"16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant."

I began yesterday by showing you why God raises or blesses some people exceptionally. Now, don't be confused by the arrangement of the Bible verses above. It seems to insinuate that famine occurs before God sends a man ahead Israel. If that be, then God could have been said to have been caught unawares Himself and Israel would have been starved. It should rather be interpreted this way. God has foreknowledge of the coming famine and so sends a man ahead Israel. This man, Joseph was relocated forcefully to the diaspora in God's plan because of the preservation and redemption of Israel from a seven year's famine to come. God blesses the widow of Zarephath for Elijah too. The blessing, "the barrel of meal won't be spent and the cruse of oil won't fail" just didn't get provoked. It's so that Elijah would be provided for and consequently her host too. Did you see that if any would finance what God ordains, God will finance such too? Tell any who absconds and abstains from commitment to God that they'll have blocked themselves from God's miraculous involvement. We all know that if the grand planner had not sent Joseph ahead of Israel, a whole nation would have been starved to death and Israel might have gone into extinction. Israel is God's own nation. Christians are God's own children. If Jehovah claims Israel as His first born, are you not? Just like God showed commitment to the nation Israel during the stringency and harshness of economic depression, God owes you same in times of need. God could go to any length I'll continue to say in order to meet your needs. Imagine God sending a seventeen years old boy to Egypt against a day that won't come until he's in his thirties. What sort of God is this who cares with much care for His own? Did you see how important you are to God? You're the thought He chews. Imagine God planning for you thirteen  - twenty years ahead of an occurrence. Many of us are conversant with parents doing this. God isn't different and He's even a better parent. He takes even orphans up behind their parents. When God sends people ahead you, those people do the hard work while you come to reap where you've not sown. It was Joseph who rose from the agony of slavery with bruised feet by his sustained character and reputation coupled with the available grace of God and his time and word which has come (Psalm 105:18). He built a character and reputation of being faithful, useful, hard-working and relevant under a difficult and tempting weather. This in turn made him get recommended to the higher authority. This is how he secured the placement that could give Goshen to Israel at a time the staff of bread would have been broken wholly. Travelling abroad for any with a call or destiny to fulfill there isn't what you die there to achieve. No, no! Some are already there. They'll amass their fortune and then God would put it in their minds to have you come over. By the time you're ready and have begun dreaming it, they'll invite you over. It is by invitation. All things would have been made ready. We're to enter into rest and the labour of other men if we believe and would wait. They may be acquaintances or total strangers. God will use any and then prosper them for our sake. They will acknowledge that and will call you to be a partaker of why God raised them. Now, watch this. If you're not the commanded financier of an Elijah, it won't enter your mind to show such kindness to him. Even if you want to do it by cheer determination, God will hinder you. It won't work  but if it ever does, your invite would be kindly turned down once proven by such Christian or minister that you're not the commanded one to meet his need. Elijah could only collect from the widow of Zarephath and not the king, blacksmith of Zarephath or any other. The instruction was designated to someone. It reads someone's address, identity and location. 

I Kings 17:9, KJV  

"Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

It was a specific instruction to a specific person. Elijah knows and the widow also agrees to same. This is the mystery of divine connection that works. God said, "He had commanded the widow woman to feed Elijah and Elijah also discovered the commanded woman upon arrival." Two of you must be in agreement. The testimony of one isn't enough. God is weary of disciples who collect what is not meant for them. You'll only be disgraced. I heard from a very senior and elderly minister of another minister who was given a car by a woman. He collected it without enquiry from the Lord. When the woman's husband arrived, he questioned his wife's independence to act alone and instructed her to revoke her action. The car was returned but to the shame of that minister. That young minister fell into embarrassment because he gloated over what God was probably not giving him. To shock you, that same car had been afore taken to the same minister who narrated this event to me. He discerned it and kindly rejected the offer after hearing the "no" of God. It was same one took for God's blessings. All these hungry and in a hurry ministers who don't know the commanded hands to receive bread from shall be mocked and called beggars. People would say, "if not for us to them." There's no time God raises people to go ahead that it's not to cushion the coming ones. Any raised for you will never spite or enslave you. Even after the death of Jacob, Joseph didn't revenge his brothers for the evil done him as they suspected he'll do. He rather acknowledged himself as a vessel who God only raised to use for them. He once said to his brothers when they humbled themselves before him as mere servants, "am I in the place of God (Gen.50:19)?" John was sent ahead Jesus to prepare His way before Him. Jesus Himself sent the disciples to reap where they've not sown (John 4:38). Hanging on these, I pray that God will raise forerunners (softeners of grounds) for you. Men who will be hastened, widened and enlarged just because of a ministry they have to give to you as to make you ready to give to some others also. 

PRAYER: Let me occur in the minds of all the sent ones for me. Let me be blessed indeed to prepare the ground for others indeed.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 1:1-3:14; 1 Corinthians 7:1-24; Psalm 31:19-24; Proverbs 21:4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 11/08/2022

THURSDAY- 11TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THE COMMANDED ACTS COMMANDED - Lead and Feed Series 009

Read I Kings 17:1-16

I Kings 17:9, KJV

"Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

There are moments God is "crazy." God said He has commanded a widow woman to sustain (see to the continuous existence of Elijah) there. You know who a widow is and how economically challenged they may be yet that's who God sees fit to sustain Elijah. God could use anybody for you. On getting to this station, Elijah met the widow gathering sticks, called her to fetch him water and bread also. It was then this woman voiced out that what she has had not yet been prepared and that it was so small that it could only cater for herself and her child. After that last meal, they'll die. I see God redeeming you from all depressing economic situation. Elijah then stepped in, told her to go prepare it and make for him first. It was then he invoked the blessing upon her saying, what she has won't finish until full scale provision is restored. 

Brethren, at Elijah's arrival, that woman only had a handful of meal and oil. She only had their last meal but through agreeing to cater for the needs of the man of God (the one she recognized as the commanded one), a fountain that issues was opened to continue flowing for her. It seems to me that widows in the Bible have a special place in God's heart. If you are, God is obligated to see to your economic success also. Reason is because you have no husband's roles in your life and you need a replacement. God is the judge of widows and father of the fatherless (Psalm 68:5). Do you remember also the wife of the prophet who ran to Elisha when the husband died for intervention (II Kings 4:1-7)? God also gave her a miracle of making the little she had continue until. Yes, continuing for a very long period of time until there was no vessel to fill. The two miracles have their end but before their end could come, it had prospered both widows. 

God wants to speak to kingdom financiers today. Those God have told to cater for a ministry or a minister. There are people like that. God intentionally sends them to someone. I had said it that if God didn't command or commit you concerning a person economically, you'll give emotionally (to the wrong person or ministry) and so wrongly disburse the kingdom wealth which God has kept with you as a steward. You may be in a denomination and God may command you to see to another minister's welfare different from your local church's pastor or General Overseer (though you can't but give to them too since they communicate spiritual things to you - (Gal.6:6). God has what I call overall knowing and administrative control over His kingdom and church. He knows where needs are just like He knows where pastures are. So, He may call you to go give to someone in a place you've even never been before. He may reveal to you the address or even contact. He may tell you that as long as that minister lives, everything about his welfare is yours to bear or it may be once in a lifetime act. That's why ministers must be careful not to develop eternal economic relationship with any God has not ordained so for them. Stop sending them mails! So, before God could instruct you on this, even if you're the poorest man on earth, it means God has a plan to raise you economically so you'll be able to meet the new task. What did God say by the mouth of Elijah to this widow? "The barrel of meal won't be spent and the cruse if oil won't fail until..." God intentionally ensured it won't fail so that both Elijah and his host would be fed. God will raise kingdom financiers with their thousands, millions billions and uncountables who must first be disciples as to know whom God is sending them to in all meekness and not appropriate resources due to familiarity or like. God told me one time that He'll equalize me with whatsoever He calls me to do. "If I intend you build a church in the very middle of Atlantic Ocean, I'll equalize you with it: give you volunteers, men and resources to get it done. You'll just be telling them how you want it look like I've instructed you about. That's how the Ark of Covenant was built. God endowed Bezaleel, Aholiab and others while Moses showed them what to do (Exo.31:1-11). Did you see two categories who didn't fail God? No assignment is greater than the other. Each has its reward and it's God who would reward the strictness of their obedience to it. So, when God told Elijah that He had commanded the widow to feed him there, God was saying, though she's a widow who doesn't look empowered yet He has empowered her. Prophecy must sure be fulfilled. That Elijah would take his being from the hands of that widow with her last meal means something must happen to enlarge that widow so that she'll be capable of meeting Elijah's needs. This is why if God gives you resources for such reason and you house it, He might as well do a reallocation and behold another with the mercy of what He has given you to do. Resources in the hands of a disciple is not for fanfare only. They use it to sponsor God's will, the kingdom, the gospel and comfort His ministers. If you therefore desire enlargement, have eyes for responsibility. I'm from a family of twelve children. I'm the second born but the first male. God is helping me basically because He wants me to disburse to those behind me. So, it won't be a mistake if God gives me the bread of twelve children, two wives plus other dependents. There's no other reason why God raise some people to go ahead of others than this. 

PRAYER: I submit to be made a sharp threshing economic tool for kingdom advancement in Your hands for end time ministry. Lord, enlarge me to my responsibility. Equalize my sack to the task.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 10:1-44; 1 Corinthians 6:1-20; Psalm 31:9-18; Proverbs 21:3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 10/08/2022

WEDNESDAY- 10TH AUGUST, 2022

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

MIRACLE: THE BRIDGE TO NORMALIZATION - Lead and Feed Series 008

I Kings 17:14, KJV

"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."

One time, I prayed that I'll not live on miracles in this life. Then I recalled that I'm on earth and here, each of us will face problems and shortages that we can't but need God's special moment of miracles for. Miracle is actually not the daily normal way by which we live or by which God wants us live. We are for signs and wonders; no doubt about that. We should only ask on what conditions signs and wonders are triggered into existence. If everything were normal, there wouldn't be desire for a stepping in of the supernatural. It is rather always when the natural has failed. Because the natural order has thus been broken, God needed to supernaturally feed Elijah. Feeding by ravens or any sort of bird isn't the usual way God feeds any human being: unbelievers or believers. May I ask when last a bird or a snake brought food to you? However, you work and you do eat the reward of labour? God created that mould (specific) miracle for Elijah and would for anyone because of the need and circumstance that may come upon them. If there was no famine initially, would God have been necessitated to perform a miracle? Later in time, Elijah arrived in Zarephath. When he requested that the widow make him food, she disclosed her status and how little her meal is. Elijah then said, "the jar of meal won't be spent neither the cruse of oil fail until the day God sends rain on earth."

Did you note, "until the day God sends rain on earth." That's the day of normalization. They all desire going back to it. Rain falls to give us green herbs to eat. Without it, there can't but be famine. That's the day all of us do live in except it gets interrupted and we're brought into the experiencing of the "jar of meal shall not be spent and the cruse of oil shall not fail." Why would Elijah acknowledge that shortage won't afflict them until things normalizes? He himself knows that living on that miracle isn't the forever way of God's provision to them. It is just a privileged and temporary response to shortage so that they'll never be in want as to prosper such word like, "the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want."

Miracles are just the bridge that God uses to connect us to normalization. If normalization has been broken, God can give a miracle to carry you over and hand you into normalization. You have no job yet God chooses someone to be responsible for you. That's a miracle. It may lift when you're normalized since no adult desires that he'll be tied to another's apron. God also doesn't plan such for you. He rather desires making you a blessing in order to bless others. Someone has no arm. Whether he's born that way or he suffered injury on earth, if another limb grows out, that miracle would have first been because she had no arm and God wanted to restore and normalize her. If you check other human beings, their stories are that they have arms. Miracles of provision proves that God wouldn't leave our souls in "hades" as it concerns meeting our needs. It means if you're the sheep of His pasture, He would do anything to ensure your sustenance on the earth. He could use your enemy to feed you. Moses' sponsored him. Just mention it. I therefore pray that those of you who have had your staff of bread broken will experience a miracle. Until things normalizes, God owes you. He's under obligation to ensure you keep taking a living. If it will cost Him a miracle, He's giving you today and I assure you that miracle will persist until things normalizes. It is not a miracle that will forlorn you. As much as your need persists, the miracle will persist. 

PRAYER: Lord, meet me at the point of my need. More importantly, restore me to normalization. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 8:21-9:15; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; Psalm 31:1-8; Proverbs 21:1-2

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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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