MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 10/06/2023

SATURDAY - 10TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola  ADEJUMO

THOSE GOD SEEKS TO KILL!

READ Exodus 4:19-26

Exodus 4:24, KJV

"And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him."

What is this? Why would the Lord seek to kill His messenger? The Lord has just given Moses his call and with instructions on what he should say to Pharaoh once he gets to his field. But, why would the Lord act contrastingly and seek to kill him? 

May you not become a reprobate. May you not get here. As you journey step by step and line by line into becoming a reprobate, may it be that you'll have nipped it in the bud, once and for all and upon an earlier correction. Further steps of disobedience may be regarded as open defiance that may  warrantee the Holy Spirit leaving you to yourself. He'll regard it as you grieving Him but we have an instruction.

Ephesians 4:30, KJV

"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

Don't forget He's a perfect gentleman who you must not offend. He'll strive with you but He'll also not always strive with you (Gen.6:3). Meaning, He can eventually let you be. However, seek not to have Him conquered in your life by refusing and refuting to act on a commanded area. Being a delicate Spirit, you must seek to incline to Him whenever He brings you a word for a season (that may even be correction) but which must be acted on. No human likes telling  another something repeatedly that he won't do. That's why such humans would eventually go silence and let such disobedient alone. However, you must seek never to get here - where you'll be without divine voice or sound (communication). Those who did are always on Satan's ground and into his teeth soonest.

Moses has a gray area in his life though he's the called of God. He's the anointed we can say. He's the man appointed of God and deliberately chosen to bring out God's people from the house of bondage but He is openly causing disinterest to God. Despite confrontations and many corrections, this slip of Moses was still not taken care of. What you must know is that God is no respecter of persons. Though Moses be a man of God yet God came to hold him accountable to the utmost standard. God doesn't lower His standard for any even though we are His beloved and we're accepted in Jesus Christ. The foundation of God still stands sure bearing this seal... (II Tim.2:19). "Let every man that calls on the name of Christ depart from iniquity". There's no time when refusal to God in an area won't become sin to you eventually if you choose to persist. Thank God, the Bible also warns that we "abstain from all appearance of evil" (I Thes.5:22). Even if that thing is not outright evil but a shade of it with just a dot or tittle concentration of evil or such that could ever be counted as evil or become sin, the Bible still advises that we flee from it. Here's God justified over you and I or anybody who seeks to persist in refusal that could outrightly label him as sinning and therefore make him a sinner. Anything that you know indulgence in it could eventually lead to sin ought to be abstained from all together. This will be your protection instead of opening yourself to a strife and continuous struggle with the Holy Ghost. 

The matter between Moses and God is one thing - circumcision. God commanded Abraham on circumcision (Gen.17:9-14). It'll be a token of His covenant with the Hebrews. Moses must have tarried long enough in not circumcising his son (which may be because he's a respecter of persons (his wife who's not an Israelite). Until the Lord says, "now or else", no deliberate action was taken on that pending instruction. As a Christian, don't get where God uses concrete authority to address you. If God begins to force your hands or body into action on certain matters, it only reveals you as an unyielding clay. You're just not fit for moulding. But that's the situation in which Brother, Minister and Anointed Moses found himself? He was regarding his wife until God's wrath is beginning to be incurred. Let me ask you ministers especially, what is your highest love that can put you in trouble with God? Go and slay that Isaac and prove to God He has no rival. But if you won't, just know that you can't be used. Or let me say, "you can't be used unhindered." 

It is this situation Moses' wife - Zipporah seeks therefore to ameliorate. She knows what gray area exists between Moses and God. The husband must have disclosed to her the need for circumcision over time but she might just have been unwilling. She might have by murmuring objected to it and in so doing incapacitates Moses. She might have done all that. However this day, when she saw the confrontation and fierceness of the Almighty, she helped Moses to obey God herself. Many like getting here before flinging to action. Ok, continue to reduce your witness before heaven. Though she did, it was still grudgingly done. After doing the circumcision, her comment was that Moses is a bloody husband to her. It means till the circumcision, she still wasn't seeing reasons with Moses why any circumcision should have been done. Many there be like that. You can't but have this result when you marry someone outside your faith. God takes thoughts for moments like this when He straitly says, "do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (II Cor.6:14). That place goes on to say, "what concord exists between light and darkness?" Imagine, calling one person light and the other darkness! Ok!

Today, God is seeking to shake you out of the lethargy of growing familiar with God's Word or instruction and then taking such for granted. This is also a word to you spouse, especially those who are hindering their partners from completely obeying God in an area that you both know. When the rebuke comes, you'll be a first-hand risk taker and partaker of that disobedience. When Zipporah saw what the consequence would have been, she shivered into obedience. May it be that there'll never be a pending area of action but disobedience in your life. May it be that when you're inspected, your testimony will be, "and nothing is found in him implicating or incriminating" (John 14:30). May there be no ground in your life for which the Holy Spirit will still come to strive with you and not let you be. And may there be no reason for which He'll let you to yourself. 

PRAYER: Lord, cause me to have perfect light on any struggling area of my life that I may repent. Lord, I release it all.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 5:1-6:38; Acts 7:1-29; Psalm 127:1-5; Proverbs 16:28-30

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 09/06/2023

FRIDAY - 9TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola  ADEJUMO

THE END OF ALL ARGUMENTS 

READ Gen.16:1-9

Genesis 16:9, KJV

"And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands."

The Bible says, "only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom" (Prov. 13:10, KJV). If conflict is birthed by pride, another cause must have triggered pride itself. Today, you will have an insight into a major trigger of pride. 

Sarah is not giving birth. As fit the cultural practice of the days they lived in, she gives her maid to her husband. One, be mindful of unbiblical practices and culture. This same practice is very popular in many cultures today though may be exhibited in another guise. It is the very excuse for which many men ended up in polygamy. Friends and the elderly would advise such barren woman to let the husband marry a second wife under the pretext that the mercy of that one may make her too give birth. Often in Yoruba land, the husband might have impregnated a woman before seeking to make it official by declaration  through the family's elders. It is on this wise you'll see these elders encourage the first woman to accept the second wife (with child) and let it be. They'd say "who knows whether your toleration of her would bring your own long awaited joy also." This is a fallacy and a great error though we plainly know that rejoicing with the joyful and sorrowing with the sorrowful reveals us as good Christians and also has great rewards. Yet, let no one put you in bondage or make you believe this cultural practice is an acceptable thing for you to do especially when you tarry in childbirth. Never encourage your husband to get another wife. This is calamity. If you profess being a Christian, then it still means, "none shall be barren in the land" (Exo.23:26) must be fulfilled on you and so it was fulfilled on Sarah eventually and at God's time for the unfolding of that promise child - Isaac. However, if your husband betrays your trust which results in impregnating another, you may need to exercise forgiveness and wait for God's vindication. In such case, you may show your disappointment but never seek to revenge anyone. Vengeance is solitarily the Lord's. 

This offer of Sarah to Abraham rather proves to be a counter assistance because as soon as Hagar gets pregnant, she despises Sarah and loses total regard for her. It must have been a very obvious act because Abraham himself couldn't deny it not happening. No wonder he says, "your servant is in your hands, deal with her as it pleases you." And I'll say that's wise of Abraham to allow. Abraham does well to give Sarah the recognition of a mother and lord over Hagar. As her mistress, let her take responsibility and think wise how best to deal with her maid. There and then, the Bible records, "and Sarah deals harshly with Hagar so much that she flees." Did you read that? She deals hardly, terrifyingly and bluntly with her. Where one should take a stand against misbehaviour or plain evil, one should. Where a leader should be strong and demand a call and meeting up with the standard, he shouldn't mellow down. He should exercise leadership. He should exercise authority. He bears the sword not to take advantage of any but to pay unto them as their works may be. No wonder, God regards the state itself as the minister of God (Rom.13:3-7). Leadership is just like that. 

But fleeing isn't the solution where pride is the cankerworm eating your Hagar up. That Hagar is blessed with what Sarah do not have yet and by which Abraham could be forever won to her (Hagar's) side isn't and shouldn't be a call for the disrespect of Sarah - the one who made her, who gave her life as it were and permitted her to live and take a being in her being. This is a message to many of you who are fond of turning as dogs to bite the hands that have fed you and to cut relentlessly the tree under which you have received shade that God will never support you. Rather, a fire will come out to devour. All of you, in your measure and multitude shall meet with disgrace and disappointment. If you'll push it further, you'll witness what it means for the flood to carry unrepentant rebels away in their rebellion. Herein, the Lord Himself shall put a stop to you. A total full stop!

To affirm God's justness, an angel of the Lord appears to Hagar telling her to go and submit to her mistress. You see, this is the problem of many Christians though born again. Submission is not an impartation. It is learnt. It is a road that must be walked. You can't catch submission; you can't receive it just like that. It won't fall on you like water from the waterfalls. You'll learn submission just like I climbed many years ago by effort the Idanre Hills in Ondo State, Nigeria. May I say a thing therefore this morning that all of you who have escaped submission must as a matter of fact learn it. You may flee and seek to establish yourself like Hagar in a new colony; you may run from that 'burdensome' parents, master or mentor but an occasion will always recall you back to the course on submission that you haven't taken. As a matter of surety, you must learn submission. The Bible wrote of Jesus that, 'though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered" (Hebrews 5:8, KJV). A true mark that submission doesn't fall on any like an over ripe fruit anticipating the ground. It is gathered. Yes, it is, at the point of hardship where confessions like, "I can't take it any longer; I'm weary; but he or she is not always right etc" are predominant. God just wants you to be there enjoying it though you're only long-suffering to endure it. God might be speaking to somebody today that you can't really escape. Wherever you go, this carry over course on submission will be the albatross in your life. It will sell you cheaply to the world and hinder your promotion until you can swallow your pride and relinquish your office of, "I am the bird laying the golden egg". It is until then you can be unto Mary who sits at Jesus' feet with the intention to be taught. If you're still arguing or debating the issue of submission, it is not good for your making. There are those God is targeting today. They are the rebellious children, spouse and disobedient and unyielding to correction generally. Now that you've escaped for your life to declare an unripe independence, God needs to make you see that He doesn't sponsor or support rebellion. If He tells Hagar to go back and submit to her mistress, He's telling you to go submit where you've openly defied it all. And may I tell you, you can choose to go on in your rebellion. But be assured that no wise fellow (in any Abraham) or God's minister will endorse you. You'll rather become godless by losing God as you persist in this disobedience. It is either submission or nothing else. It's yielding of that right of yours and saying, "put your yoke on me", even if it's heavy, I'll esteem it as light that can present you acceptable. But I assure you that you'll find it light. Only what you struggle with is what is heavy and full of strain. What you submit to will be easy to bear. So, the end of all arguments and self vindication is that when you're wrong and have offended, God can tell you and you can submit to His saying. If God can convince you you're wrong like He did to Hagar, you'll stop striving against rightness and its acceptance in your mind. Many people are afflicted with prejudice. They believe any who sees a speck of wood in their eyes can't be correct. They'll quickly apportion blame and show such the log in his own eyes too. On this ground, you need the Holy Spirit as a Christian to speak strongly to you and convict you of sin and all unrighteousness. Trusting He's not bias and human, that'll be the end of all arguments. However, this is only a recommendation for  rebellious Christians who have defied and openly resisted voices of correction first to them. I mean, "the run away and fleeing" Hagars. If God has shown you your area of disobedience, do well to repent immediately. Persisting in disobedience is a threat to your Christian journey. 

PRAYER: Show me the area where I've refused to learn submission. I receive the grace and perseverance to bear the yoke of submission.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 3:3-4:34; Acts 6:1-15; Psalm 126:1-6; Proverbs 16:26-27

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 07/06/2023

WEDNESDAY - 7TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

YOU'RE GOD'S PROPERTY

Psalms 22:9, KJV

"But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts."

This verse quoted above actually could be interpreted as, "but I am your property." With the saying of the Psalmist above, he meant but I have been your property O God and if I have been, I should continue to be." He is undeniably because over the years, God has made him hope and saw to his continuation. That right of "watching over" God has over him is what makes him God's property. That's the exact that makes him ask one more time for God's presence and protection. 

The Psalmist here said, "it was God who made him hope upon his mother's breasts." Do you know there's no other suiting story to stamp here than Moses' whom God made hope at birth. We are all famalir with the story and knows it but have you ever considered the deliverance of Moses as divinely planned (Exo.2:1-10). How many children of the Hebrews have such kind of saving grace? While on the Nile, lonely and desperate for help, God moved a hand that collected him for adoption. Moses is unto a hopeless man. He's without a father and mother at his placement among the reeds. The hands of care (her mother's) has reluctantly cast him over to God and His protection. He becomes a vulnerable property, a forlorn one but God came and made hope for him. God redeemed the situation and soonest, he's in safe hands (his mother's) again with permission to be raised.

This is the making of hope for one. This is the revelation of, "it is you who made me hope upon my mother's breasts." Moses should have been dead but God came to save his destiny. Any child of destiny enjoys such kind of move and you or your seeds are not different. God moved also for Jesus in this manner when He sees to His saving (Matt.2:13-17). Herod would have killed baby Jesus but God caught him to Egypt. God takes thought for the light that shines at your birth which will shine again in your future. For that reason, He's obliged to make hope for you, even for babies who are upon their mothers' breasts. Moses didn't die as a baby, it means you can tap into this to declare the position of your baby surviving and graduating from babyhood to manhood. The reason is basically simple, irrespective of the trouble or threat facing that baby, God is the One who makes hope for babies even at their mother's breasts. We have babies fighting medical diagnosis but I tell you, "God is their hope maker." And if I may say, "this one shall live." His or her destiny shall only be assisted. Since you also survived babyhood because it was God who made hope for you, you can expect salvation and help like this Psalmist received. The God of ages past is still your God of years to come. You shall not be crushed. You're the assisted one. The one that'll be borne up. The one that won't touch the water even if drawn out of it. You have testimonies of "being caught up" today. Yes, of being rescued to the effect that you might live and proclaim the works of the Lord. 

PRAYER: Lord, my baby is your property, make him hope from this day onward till destiny fulfilment. Always make me new hope at such junctures also. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 1:1-53; Acts 4:1-37; Psalm 124:1-8; Proverbs 16:24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 06/06/2023

TUESDAY - 6TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

THE LORD WILL DELIVER YOU!

Psalms 22:6-9, KJV 

"6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts."

What an invocation! What a call to He who did it yesteryears to come and do it again! Your hope won't be dashed. Brethren, God will once more make hope for you. New levels are always marked by new devils. No two seasons are the same but if at this time you are in need of God's salvation - needing God to save your face and save your life, then God is very much up to the task. He will deliver you. If they have mockingly said, "let God come and deliver him", you can be sure that He won't forlorn you but make haste. 

The Psalmist here acknowledged God as He who took him out of the womb. That's one salvation. We know it's not all pregnancy that's birthed and those birthed do not always survive afterwards. However, God granted salvation to the psalmist first of all by ensuring his safe delivery from the house he had known into another he should know. That's the first God's doing to praise Him for. His being birthed safe and sound is the first sign that God has a plan for and watches over him. After this, God continues to see to his survival and so God makes him hope when he was upon his mother's breasts. We don't know whether it was how God saved him from a sickness near death or a similar situation that he references here. But we do know that as a suckling, you can't protest anything. You're weak. Another is rather a watch over you. Despite being in such position, he also survived that stage to grow into an adult who can now take responsibility over himself. He survived once more. Hallelujah! Now looking back and accounting how God kept him and made him to continue in life, he utters a speech of hope that the God of those years would be near him again. Now, if God was with him at all these times, it won't be now He'll let him alone. If God would watch over him in the womb and deliver him from all possible vulnerabilities while a weakling, that God of ages past must answer for him again. It is in this we can trust -  that our Rock is not like their rock. Ours is trustworthy and always reliable. He has promised, "I will never leave you nor forsake you" (Heb.13:5).  

And God never disappoints. The God of yesterday is the God of today and tomorrow. He'll always be there for you. Jesus once told Peter, "31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not" (Luke  22:31, KJV). That's God appearing for Peter. "That I have prayed for you that Jesus uttered" means "but I have made hope for you." The making of hope for him lest he slips and goes into extinction in faith. It is that prayer of Jesus that cut off the discontinuation plan Satan plans towards him. God also won't let the desire of your enemy come to pass over you. Rather, He'll continue to deliver and make you escapes and hope from such life threatening situations. For the sake of the boastfulness of your enemies, for the manipulations of Satan which is at work around you, God will rise to set them all at naught. Seeing the mockery, the ridicule and their challenge of God to action, He'll indeed rise to ensure you continue. You won't be ended here. You still have life to live, purpose to achieve and testimonies to bear. 

The Psalmist says, 'He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters" (Psalms  18:16, KJV). Any in many waters needs external deliverance. That Psalmist has a splendid testimony of God coming from above and saving him out of many waters. That's your testimony. Irrespective of the hardship or situation you're in, your help which comes from above will always come. It's on the way. Await its arrival. 

PRAYER: O God of ages past, be my God of years to come.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 23:24-24:25; Acts 3:1-26; Psalm 123:1-4; Proverbs 16:21-23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE 05/06/2023

MONDAY - 5TH JUNE, 2023

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IT IS YOU WHO MAKES ME HOPE - Hope Maker Series 001

Confess Psalm 22

Psalms 22:9, KJV

"But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts."

The Lord will make you hope. The Lord God, the Creator of heaven and earth will appear to make hope for you. At every juncture of life, at a new level you're entering or at a certain time, the Lord will rise to make hope for you. You will never have fulfilled on you this saying, "our bones are dried, our hope is lost. We are cut off for our parts (Ezek.37:11)" but your testimony shall be, "never stranded" because where hope is lost and where no expectation should be expected, God will come bearing hope to you. Therefore, receive a testimony of hope. Receive new hopes like tender shoots. Be assured of a living hope. 

You can get to a place in life where you earnestly look up for your help to come. At such time, one may call it a life or death situation. It's when if a situation is not salvaged, things might turn for the worst, and so recovery, quick recovery must be get at. On that note, with all earnestness, one looks up to the hills in expectation of manna to fall, descent to be made and joy to be caused. At such time, I say, "may you find help. May your hope not be dashed. May arrival and delivery always be made for you. May God makes you hope. The Psalmist says, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help? (Psalms 121:1, KJV). He is looking for hope, a need to be met and so he's on the lookout for it but at his search, he affirms his help could only come from one place - the Lord.

Psalms 121:2, KJV

"My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth."

Did you see what his resolution was? Did you see where his help, strength and hope comes from? It is not elsewhere but from God. It is God who makes him hope when he's earnestly in search of one. Look at me, if you're young and have not being bessetted by any life's issue, you may not know there are occasions when one will need to gaze to that place or there for help. And I mean, an earnestly expected help. Have you read Acts 3 where a crippled at the beautiful gate earnestly expects to receive from Peter and John and so fastens his gaze on them with total attention? That's how it is when you're dying for hope to be made you. Your entire thought is on that thing. You're filled with the besetting fear of, "God, let it turn to my side." But that day, his own hope was not dashed. He received beyond expectation. He walked! How I pray for you that when you earnestly have your eyes on God, you'll not be disappointed neither receive less. Your expectation will always be met and that beyond measure. 

My help comes from God he says. It means he identifies God as the only sure and good help. Gazing to humans for help might lead to disappointment but may you have a confession like the psalmist that after gazing to the hills (looking here and there), your help comes from the Lord, the Creator of heaven and the earth. Of a surety, your testimony will be that it is God who makes hope for you. 

To make hope for someone means to revive hope for him. It means where nothing seems to be happening for him, a revival of events should immediately take place for him. The making of hope for anyone signifies God has never forgotten such. It signifies God is ever mindful of same. That's why I pray that when you get to a juncture of confusion, tiredness and darkness, God will make hope for you. From unseemingly situation, from situation where your confession is, "my bones are very dried, my hope is lost and I am cut off for my parts", may the Lord make hope for you. You may be a student at a juncture that's critical in your academic journey where you need sponsor to further and finish to the end. Look, God is making hope for you. He made me one while on campus. If not, I'll have ended a drop out. But on the mount of the Lord, it must be seen for you. You may be pregnant and by now expecting the labour room, even there, on that birth stool, God will make hope for you. Live hope! It means when you least expect or are in doubt or in need of hope, God is always appearing for you to take you further where you should have ended. It is this that makes you have the testimony of "never stranded". I know a boy that God made hope for. Just like many who thought they couldn't go to school or complete school, so is his case but the Lord is using a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) to make hope for him. He's one of the most delighted persons on earth because God has come to fill and bridge the gap that his background and immediate situation would have forever put him into. You don't talk of God making hope for you when there's no contrary situation on ground. We do when there's something that God must arise to glory or show His almightiness over. And I declare today that irrespective of your condition, what the doctor has said, what medical diagnosis has revealed, God shall make hope for you. You will see hope come like a new shoot from heaven and that shall be to your saving. Today as you go, God wants you to put one confession in your mouth. It is that, "God is making hope for me." Say, "irrespective of the economic situation in my country, God will make hope for me". And I tell you, your salvation is near you. 

PRAYER: Lord, You're my hope Maker. Thank You for making me hope. I receive lively hopes.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 23:24-24:25; Acts 3:1-26; Psalm 123:1-4; Proverbs 16:21-23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/05/2023

MONDAY- 29TH MAY, 2023

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AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU! - With Me Series 005

Acts 1:8, KJV

"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Something seeks to hurt people especially those who minister. According to its programming by the devil, it seeks to scare you away by holding the promise or ability of hurting you. But what does the Bible say than, "...and nothing shall by any means hurt you." "Any means" means "any means." It means in one million encounters, you'll always come back clean. Nothing in whatsoever manifestation will by any means repercusively affect you. 

One of the functions of God being with you is that after you have ministered, nothing shall by any means come to hurt you. I hope you have heard both mythology and non-fictional narratives of those who seek to minister to a captive of the devil that the Oppressor comes after? If you have heard such and you're a minister, you have a thing to contest with and by which your faith could be tested, shaken or uprooted. But your faith needs not shake because you're not of yourself. All power has been given to Jesus. He said it Himself.

Matthew 28:18, KJV

"And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth."

It is "all power" and that means not one is withheld or reserved that is not in His custody. If all is now in His custody, it means as His children and ministers, we have such power available for us because He has already delegated it for our use. Say, "I have Jesus' delegated power; I can use it and transfer it also." Through this, we can triumph over Satan. 

An elderly minister who I respect a lot once told of a lady who was afflicted by the devil with lice in her private part and the affliction is such that any who tries helping her out of it will have that same affliction jump on them. It is the replication of that affliction that scares help and attempts of people away. Indeed, this scared away a lot of people including supposed ministers. What you must know is that as a minister, you have to discern whether you're an administrative or power minister. While God does not intend all of us settle only in administration but rather weave power, yet that's the area some specializes in and have gone to stay. They're limited either because they are not called at all or because they're not taking the provision of God and exercising themselves towards exercising such powerful ministrations. Such case described above is the means by which Satan wants to keep his captive a perpetual captive. He'll give people fear of praying or taking hold with the Holy Ghost in delivering such captive. But you need not fear because God has furnished us with provision. Ahead of time, Jesus told His disciples to tarry for the equipping and promise of the Father - in the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:8). It is this that makes any a witness and an effective witness for that matter. What many have not realized is that witnessing is not of words only, it is of words backed up by power of the Holy Ghost - power to deliver, destroy, create, recreate, repair, restore, complete, diminish or even regulate. It is therefore a witness but of power. A witness of power that even expels demons. In witnessing, you will meet what can hurt you but because of power in you (which you have swallowed in the Holy Ghost; which inhabits you as the Holy Ghost and works through you), you can minister effectively and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Jesus while sending the disciples said, "behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you" (Luke 10:19, KJV). 

What does He do here? He gives us power to tread (mercilessly in victory) upon serpents and scorpions and over every or all power of the enemy. It means there's no other new invention Satan can create or manifest than what he already has which you have been given power to glory over. It means everything Satan has become yesterday, is becoming today and can become tomorrow shall all fall under, "I have given you power to tread (in vanguishing victory) over the devil and his demons and over all their manufactured inventions. That singular word of Jesus and promise to us vanguished all the potent powers and manifestations of Satan in any colour, variety or deceptive forms it might want to take. Even if it's a human being holding that power or threatening you with that power, as long as it is the power of the devil, it has been long judged and over ruled to be under God and His children's power. It shall bow to you. And then you have a sure word of assurance. It's that, "nothing shall be any means hurt you." This is why some are not laying hands on the sick or praying for the oppressed in any way. They are afraid of repercussions. It is either you're not called or you're called and you're living below the minister's standard: either in sin or in weak or no preparation at all. So, your confidence is under attack. Jesus says, "and nothing shall by any means hurt you." It will seek to hurt you but it is Christ who shuts the mouths of lions for you. He has led captivity captive (Eph.4:8). He has afore stripped him naked of his power. He has gathered them all as booties of war. He has even made a public show of them. What a triumph! They have no other power again with which to rule over you except fear and ignorance. And I'll say if you're afraid that your ministration won't be successful, don't minister. If you're afraid in ministration that something might jump on you, don't. You can parry it until you're ready. The reason is because fear will expose a flank of your life for the inroad of the devil. In fear or doubt, you become vulnerable to him. But if you are all sealed and ready; clothed in the full armour of God with Christ's righteousness as the garment you're wearing, then, you can minister and the Lord of glory shall through your hands heal the sick, deliver the oppressed and assaulted. And we shall go on to raise the dead. Yes! Is any sick there? What's your challenge? If Jesus would fit ministration to be tailored towards those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, I say, whatsoever may be your need, let it be met (Matt.4:16). I hand it over to you. Receive your diverse needs. God has come for you. 

So today, if you're a minister, let me minister impartation to you. I cut off the root of fear in your life. May the Spirit of faith and assurance by the Bible leap on you. Receive power, God's power, delivering power, healing power and His curing and meeting needs power. 

PRAYER: Lord, I claim your promises and live out the minister's life. Nothing shall by any means hurt me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 14:1-15:22; John 18:1-24; Psalm 119:97-112; Proverbs 16:8-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/05/2023

SUNDAY- 28TH MAY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

BECAUSE YOU KNOW GOD IS WITH YOU - With Me Series 004

Genesis 13:8-9, KJV

"8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

Brethren, because you know God is with you, it will influence your behaviour and dictate your action. Over the years, I've come across the hurly-burly of people to have it for themselves. This has led to intensive struggle and the massacring of relationships where necessary. 

Today, it delights God to show you the confidence Abraham has which makes him say to Lot, "choose wherever you wish and then I will choose after you." This request shouldn't come from Abraham to Lot. It's rather the kind of tender that juniors make to their bosses in order to please and show their mark of surrenderness to him. I found out however that if you have God with you, just at your right hand, you will be generous with offers. You'll let people go first, choose first and decide first. You'll just have the confidence and know for sure that wherever you are is where the Lord is. Lot chose all the green valley of Jordan. He chose the best that is  and Abraham his uncle through which he has all he boasts of stays in the land of Canaan.

However, you ought to ask with me what the confidence of Abraham was as to say his nephew should make his choice first. Is he not afraid of he being surpassed and left with an unfortunate choice of land that can't support him and his cattle? I'll say he has no fear of such and the reason is simple. He has experienced the fact that God is seriously committed to him before this time. So, he knew that it would always be good for him. Cast the die, the line would always fall for him in good places. His confidence is in God who called him out of his native land (Gen.12:1-2). That same God defended him by afflicting Pharaoh with plagues where he couldn't have spoken to defend himself (Gen.12:10-20). He had experienced God and seen His interest and commitment to him. He knows He's very close to him. He knows He's committed to making him great. He bears in mind what God promised him when he called him out - that he'll surely make him a blessing etc. From inference, it can't be to retrogression for him irrespective of wherever he stays therefore. It is on this note that Abraham said, "nephew, go ahead and make your choice." He opens the whole land to him. God could see his heart that he's also doing this so that quarrelsome and suspicious Lot wouldn't  gainsay over him later to say his uncle caged him and relegated him to the background because he was beginning to be envious of what he's becoming. That's the crux of the matter.  

Looking at this, this is the status of he I want to maintain. I want the wise to mark me and stay where I stay knowing assuredly that's where God will be. It is those who have no assurance of God with them who will seek to always look out to enforce their rights and defend it by themselves. They believe they have to always be on the lookout or else they'll be cheated with no recourse. So, they always build a bulwark and look at everybody with suspicion and potency of being cheats. When you know God is indeed with you, you don't mind who eats first, who chooses first and who goes first. You don't mind what men can do to you. You'll always ask, "what can man do to me since I have God who can turn every evil to good?" Look, if contenders leave the worst choice, out of your being God's beloved, God will repair that worst to satisfaction for you but to their covetousness and envy. They'll wonder why you always have the best eventually; why your  worst can suddenly turn to bring favour. They'll wonder at how you can stay and sow in the land to still reap a hundred fold when others who have left for the covetous Egypt are still needy and covetous. 

May God solidify you with His presence. May you see God's outworkings that'll seek to ascertain again and again He has a special interest in you. It is this that'll make you not to be overburdening, contesting and covetous in your dealings with men. They'll regard you as a liberal and total man of peace. You'll give them an array of choices knowing your own Lot is always preserved in the Lord. 

PRAYER: Teach me and I shall be taught. Teach me to bring praises to Your name in my dealings with men. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 12:1-31; John 16:1-33; Psalm 119:65-80; Proverbs 16:4-5

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