MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE- 24/06/2023

SATURDAY - 24TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?

I Samuel 17:28-29, KJV

"28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.  29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

How many people are here who knows their time is in God's hands? Probably few and those few even seem to be ministers. An average Christian now is easily shaken and put to flight. The kind of relationship they have come to cultivate is not of utmost intimacy where they speak to God and are spoken to. One of the things that can ever give you guarantee that your time is in God's hands is that you hear God for yourself. 

Psalms 31:15, KJV  

"My times are in thy hand..."

It's written this way in the Bible but you'll doubt that if you see your contemporaries making progress and you're not on motion yourself. If you however do hear God, you'll receive comfort from Him and doubt and shivering would be staunched. The manifest presence of God that you have felt and which you always experience, which you have come to believe in would be enough to assure you that God is also always with you and more importantly hasn't forgotten you. However, if we are far from Him, we can't but at moment of shaking call ourselves a stranger all together. How do we want to approach Him? With what do we supplement it and have that precious Word that takes heaven to speak when the tides are contrary?

God's sovereign hand has moved David to the battle. For forty days, the Philistine, Goliath of Gath torments the army of the Lord. Now is the time to make a move that'll cancel the move of Satan and his own presentation of a tormenting voice. What does God do? He administers David. Immediately, Jesse releases him to battle but under the disguise of a reason not known to him but known to God. To Jesse, it's to go check the welfare of his brothers and to hand them some provision, asking, "if all is well." 

When God is ordering your step, you'll meet with time and not miss it. You see, as habitual of Goliath, he'll come out boastfully in the morning and evening to speak his thrash to the face of Israel, withdraw for awhile to the camp and then come back again to rouse them up to the competition. That's what he has been doing for those forty days. At the arrival of David to the war front, he came when the soldiers were proceeding to the battle. At that time, Goliath also comes forth boastfully again to torment the children of Israel. Goliath could have spoken while he's not around and so David wouldn't have asked anyone why it makes sense for him to defy God's army but God slated David to meet and witness Goliath's defying of the Living God and His army.

I Samuel 17:22-23, KJV

"22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. 23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them".

Did you read, "and David heard them?" Heard what? All Goliath of Gath said. How lovingly would it have been for Goliath never to have been caught up in boastfulness at the very arrival and presence of David? He could have escaped death that day but God so timed it that his morning and evening boastfulness continues in that same cycle until to the face of his would- be challenger, he spits the challenge. Who made it so? God did. He slated them to meet. As David speaks with his brother asking after their welfare etc, Goliath came saying those same words. Here comes the moment, the moment when purpose shall be delivered. But probably David would have been handicapped from ever bringing Goliath down. At the time he needed to be sure of what would be in it for any who brings him down, his brother Eliab confronts him debasing him for having come to only sight see and watch the battle. It's at that moment David says, "is there not a cause?" That reply is unusual and also prophetic. It is a revelation of what purpose David has come to serve other than being sent on an errand by Jesse. Is there not a cause means, is there not a purpose for which I am here at this particular time? Have I come of my own? One, Jesse has sent me but more importantly with what I've met here, there's a very great cause to believe, "God would have me here and right here at this particular time". How many of you believe this about you? That you are on time; that you are not late or too early. That you have not arrived as a misfit to the occasion at hand but that you're an answer and their long expected but unacknowledged answer. Do you believe there's a cause (an overall purpose of God) behind your being where you are now, for being a witness of that event currently ongoing? Or do you think your journey is like that of the many soldiers who lack a cause for which they are on the battle field that day? This is what I said. If you've never believed that there's an author, mover and will- it - man behind your life, you'll blame your life and blame your living at each time or at every turn of events. You'll see yourself in the mirror other critical people are showing you. But we must come to a place where even if it were Jesse (a human authority) who sent our David on physical errand, we can publicly declare that this isn't an ordinary journey but a destiny one as events begin to unfold. We should begin to smell and perceive that there's a purpose looming than ordinary for which you are here now. We should be able to say, "beneath this physical errand is another that God is commissioning me". This is living with purpose in view. It means David is actually not lost. It means David knows he's a located man and wherever he is is where God would be. You must be able to decipher the invisible hands behind your movement and transportation. The day your travelling abroad is without a cause any longer is the day natural disasters can find you to kill there. If you know you're a man sold out for whatsoever God is ready to do, that purpose you have found and are servicing under God will continue to preserve you. This interpretation would fill you with confidence of specialness and that God has only one plan for you - of welfare. Where you are therefore brethren and what has unfolded before you so far, could you say, 'there's a cause to their overall happening?" If you were jilted, have you become so taken over by God that out of revelation and understanding, you can say, "it's for a cause." You yourself may not know that cause now but you're sure God will work it out because all things when it eventually works for your good shall reveal that cause - intent God is working at for having allowed that. Joseph knew there's a cause. He told his brethren not to be aggrieved with themselves and that's because through what they did, God sent him here to preserve lives and Israel a remnant because the famine would still last some  years. Can you say, "there's a cause" to what you're currently experiencing? I don't need to know what you're passing through or how overwhelming it is. God knows but can you reckon, "there's a purpose for this?" May we be this men of depth who search beyond the ephemeral and longs to pitch events and happenings into their divine global station knowing we have a man who has declared He'll never leave us nor forsake us.

PRAYER: Open my understanding to see the cause of my living and living at a time like this. I plough beyond the ephemeral.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 4:18-5:27; Acts 15:1-35; Psalm 141:1-10; Proverbs 17:23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/06/2023

FRIDAY - 23RD JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN YOU'RE A MAN

Exodus 2:11, KJV

"And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren".

When you're a man, you engage reason deeply and act differently. Purposelesness can't fret a man like when he was a child. Manhood comes with its own given vision. It imparts on you some understanding either gathered by years of experience or granted you by divine revelation. The Bible says, "when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things" (1 Corinthians 13:11, KJV). This act of putting away childish things could occur by those two reasons I had afore given above. However, major is the fact that what puts it away is actually one's becoming of a man itself. There's an age of manhood or maturity when it's a curse continuing in childish things. It is specifically of purpose rather. It is also the age or let's say time of discovery in your life. Once you enter that zone, you'll see that the thoughts of your head would suddenly become different. There'll be a mind and thinking shift. Jesus Christ our Master realized himself at twelve. He said, "wouldn't you that I must be about my Father's business." He entered and got admission into purpose at a level at twelve and into a level of destiny and ultimate purpose at about thirty when he began his public ministry (Lk. 2:42,49 & Lk.3:23). Paul says, "but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Simply put, if any one hasn't put away childish things, it's because he has not grown up. Nobody instructs an adult on giving up childish things. He'll just see they don't fit him any longer. He'll observe persistence in childish things would bring him ridicule and reduction. Like a clothe that you've outgrown, he'll just be forced to give it out. He'll drop all behind with, "they don't fit me any longer." As he's being weaned from childish things, you can be sure some will still continue in childish things and that's basically because their own time to be weaned hasn't come yet. Until they also become men, they can't shed off childish things. Time and a season you'll enter into will wean you. As I was clocking a particular year (a landmark) in my life some times ago, I found out that the thoughts of my head tilted towards a direction like never before. Also, I had a divinely granted revelation of what to do and how to do it to possess the future. I came to reckon that I had never thought or caught with intensity such burdens like I did for a period of six months to that my landmark birthday. Like I told my wife and those around me, I just had flooded insights and understanding into many things. It was so strong that all the things I taught during that period bore the mark of those divinely granted revelations. I have never appreciated God than I did that time. I kept writing and writing and keeping a record of His thoughts of welfare to me. So, I am a living testimony to the fact that there are understanding you'll never have until you hit an age or become a man. God fixes that we see and catch some things at a particular age so that we might run with it. That's because the one caught at a stage is the prerequisite for entering and qualifying for another stage. If you miss a stage's, progression may be hindered.  

Moses, when he was grown up went out not to sight see or look like before but to do one thing - look on the burdens of his brethren. At this time, he already claims identification with the Hebrews though an Egyptian in outlook. He knows these are my brethren and he has now suddenly become concerned for them. The Bible didn't leave us to guess what his age was. We can bear he's forty at this time. 

Acts 7:23, KJV

"And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel".

At full forty years, imagine that, Moses was said to have grown and have become a man. At forty unlike any other time in his life, it came into his heart to make a visit to his brethren, the children of Israel. Let me ask you, "when did this act he did occur to him?" At forty right? At a definite age. That tells me some things will never occur to you until you hit a particular age. Go and read books and have hands laid on you; you just can't miss this being your lot also. You must come to a particular age before some revelation, understanding, hows will begin to be clear to you. You couldn't have gathered it earlier even if you had tried. All of us have human limitations. Our mind can go far but not farther. What takes our mind farther are the divinely allowed thoughts that penetrates us but this specific thought will come by time and at a specific moment. Your friend might be operating in his own divinely granted revelation but you may not for now. You may even be of the same age but for some reasons, he might have entered this season when things are allowed of God to come or occur to him for proper action. This is what makes our act different from billions of people on the earth's  surface. The understanding and the unheard voices we heard made it so. So Moses makes a journey to check on the children of Israel. He looks on their burden and sympathized with them. What you must know is that this is untypical of Moses to do. He has never done a thing like this. He had never stepped out for the sole purpose of beholding their burdens even if he had been out some couple of occasions before. I'm sure that won't be the first time he'll be going out. However, at afore times, immaturity or lack of revelation (intentionally denied him) might have made him not develop such kind of thought or reason to even go check on the burdens of his brethren. However, when the time fully came, he couldn't forbear. He went out like a man driven to action. Indeed, that was what happened to him. The question God is giving me to ask you is that when your own time came when things began to come to your heart from God on what to do, what did you do in that time and with the communicated information? Some wasted it. They didn't see it as any different and so destiny and great life bypassed them. Now, they're accusing God of blessing a compatriot and not turning in their direction. But you once had your moment of divine revelation when divinely allowed thoughts on what action and life to lead came to you. How did you squander it? Who bewitched you? However, when a fellow  becomes a man, he puts away childish things necessarily. What comes to our heart to do which we do is what either makes us a man or reveals us continuously as a child. The mark that Moses has put away childish things is revealed in what his burden is. He became so purposeful at forty that he even killed an Egyptian for an Hebrew. According to Stephen, he thought his brethren would understand that their deliverance has come by his hands (Acts 7:25). 

When you're a man and you attain the age or time or moment of divinely granted revelation, you will put away childish things. Yes, by yourself. Just by yourself. What you ask for or aim at would receive a turn around so much more that parents or overseers over you who have known you for frivolities in times past would wonder at your new life. What we should pray for is that we'll be brought into such moment of deep revelation on time or at our time. It must not be delayed on you at all. The reason is so that we can staunch foolishness on time and begin to work purpose and righteousness - the very works of He that calls us out of darkness into his marvelous light. The night is far spent and this isn't time again to begin to dilly-dally. You can henceforth turn around and let your new phase be marked by new acts which are products of growth, knowledge gathered and revelation/understanding divinely granted you. While a Moses might have been mindful of the throne for years, while he might have proudly called himself the daughter of Pharaoh's daughter till his year forty; yet all drastically changed and got balled out as he entered his year of revelation. He receives a perfect understanding and acts in correspondence of that. He becomes willing to be identified and to suffer affliction with God's people rather than the fleeting pleasure of palace life (Heb.11:24-26). Priority changed. What interests him has become all new. Moses has therefore become a new man himself. A man who can now direct his energy somewhere God could reckon with or leverage on later. May time not therefore pass you over without the corresponding wisdom it imparts. If not, you'll never be prepared for the years ahead. May you be ushered into your moment of divinely granted revelation. Let things come to your mind to do. Receive lamps and new understanding on where to go, who to join, who to remove, what to buy, what not to eat and how to live. I say once more, let God ordain you a lamp. Let things begin to come to your heart. May your steps therefore be steps of divine wisdom and of divinely granted thoughts. 

PRAYER: Lord God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, let the summer of dryness pass over me. Open your windows and floodgates of heaven and grant me divine revelations. Cause me to see and hear from you.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 3:1-4:17; Acts 14:8-28; Psalm 140:1-13; Proverbs 17:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/06/2023

THURSDAY - 22ND JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

AND NONE SAYS "RESTORE!"

Isaiah 42:22, KJV

"22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore".

Do you think you can do it? No, not so. You can't do it because you are not the one called, equipped and sent. So, you can't have faith for what was not communicated to you. In this way, having a doubtful conscience is enough to reprimand you from doing it. 

That place says, "and none says restore". Not that they liked it that way; not that they don't want a change but none has been empowered to enforce a change. Indeed, what you're not empowered for, you can't do. You just can't do it even if you have a wish or willingness to do it. God knows this and so He anoints men that they might do only one thing, shout "restore."

Who couldn't have gone to Egypt to bring Israel out? Remember, no prophecy slated Moses as the would be deliverer until he appears. Why is it that Aaron or any of those elders in Egypt didn't rise to deliver themselves? You see, they just can't. Today, you must know how far you can go and how farther you can't. In your might and power, without the Spirit, you can't deliver or break the shackles of the oppressed. Never will you be able to cry, "restore". If you cry it, it would be an ordinary cry without loosing bonds. Then, one may wonder, why? That'll be because you're not the anointed or that sent deliverer. The Bible says, "anointing breaks the yoke (Isa.10:27). If that be, we have the anointed. The man or woman on whom the Spirit upon is for God's accomplishment towards meeting people's diverse needs. If you have not been sent to say restore, you'll become a mockery. You'll become Moses who saw what's wrong and sought to correct it. So, he kills an Egyptian in favour of an Israelite. He thought he could cause salvation by his own power. However, the wrath of man doesn't work the righteousness of God. That you've seen what's wrong doesn't give you go ahead to challenge it (without power) even though you have the mouth to speak. Ask yourself, "do I have the power?" Or else, you'll flee when the power you have confronted confronts you. You'll just be like Moses - a man who has seen a field of need but who's severely handicapped effecting change or saying restore because he lacks the power back up. He therefore flees Egypt (Exo.2:15). The mark that you have not been sent, bearing God's seal is revealed in this sole question asked Moses. 

Exodus 2:14, KJV

"And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known".

You see, your attempt to do good will be misconceived even by those who needs that ministration. They'll just seem to be okay with where they are. They won't see you for who you are  - their deliverer. Rather, you'll be rejected. You see, it's not a minister that makes himself acceptable wherever he goes. The anointing on him enforces acceptance. Before somebody asks you to your embarrassment, "who makes you a judge or leader over us", settle the question of being sent. Those without the seal can't get the work done even if they attempt. 

That place gives a description of those who needs urgent help. As in, the ambulance of God must reach them soon for deliverance if it won't be late for them   forever. They are a people "robbed", "spoiled", "snared in holes", "hid in prison houses", "for a prey" and "for a spoil." They're not different from those in the region and shadow of death that great light shun on (Matt.4:16). Their description is very sympathetic. They have been taken as prisoners of Satan, the captor. They are trapped in holes where effort to escape leads to more complicated problems. What is theirs have been sucked out of them? They are just left empty handed. Unfortunately for these people, no one is sent to them. No one has been found for them. That place says, "despite being for a prey", "none delivers them". Also, despite being for "a spoil", "none says restore". That's the command God expects to go over them. If you don't know, you wouldn't understand that God is subtly looking for a compliance officer. One who will enforce what He has said about those people so that they can have their long time freedom. He's only seeking a fellow to cry with Him, "restore" or proclaim that which He has ordained for their deliverance. Alas, none says restore because none was found for it. You may wonder, why can't anyone deliver and another just decree "restore". I've earlier on stated the reason. Even though any sympathizes these people's conditions a thousand times, they'd be incapacitated to turn it around for them. They know this themselves and so withhold their feet from running a race they are not sent. 

However, amidst this contrary, amidst this scarcity of deliverers and those authorised to say, "restore", God has found me and has sent me not to say any other thing but to cry over you in the spirit, "RESTORE". Where are you in the prison, behind a cage of bars and frustration? I order your deliverance. Where have you been spoiled and looted, I cry, "restore". This morning is the judgement of any power exercising illegal rights over you. You're a son and daughter of Abraham and God has a welfare plan for you. Therefore, I declare your deliverance (as God declares) and calls you into your large place (Psalms 18:19). So be it!

PRAYER: Father, anoint me as a deliverer and restorer of people. I effect the believer's and anointed's authorities. I put the sword in the heart of the earth crying, "deliverance" and "restoration".

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 3:1-4:17; Acts 14:8-28; Psalm 140:1-13; Proverbs 17:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 21/06/2023

WEDNESDAY - 21ST JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

ENTER BY THE DOOR

John 10:1, KJV

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber".

Enter by the door. It guarantees peace and eliminates fear. There will always be the door and some other way by which anyone may climb in. However, give attention, discipline and by well thought decision, enter by the only acceptable entrance. 

If any intends coming into your estate but chooses to climb in through the fence, you'll immediately identify him as a thief or a robber. He is defying the defined and obviously established rules of entering and accessing you. You immediately have reasons to suspect his motive. The reason is very simple. Any who wishes to visit must take the door - which is the gate. Anyone who wouldn't but seek to climb in by any other way declares himself and his aim by that sole act and his disobedience should be arrested and punished. 

The admonishment this morning is to, "enter by the door" and not "climb in some other way." The choice is before all of us on daily basis. Students writing exams are left with the choice of either entering through the door of studying and writing only what they could produce in the exam hall or seek to pass their exam by seeking alternatives in the term, 'examination malpractice'. If you ever need something and you're in dire need of it, so much more that it has become your thought day and night, you either wait on God from whom every good gift and every perfect gift comes from or you seek it through sin, crime or occultism. The Bible is clear on where "good gift" and "perfect gift" originates from. It's from above, from the Father of lights with whom there's no variableness or shadow of turning (James 1:17). So, if you'll enter through the door of right possessing, your entering should be by requesting, asking and seeking from God. You can have money and get it some other way. What matters is if yours is "the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow" (Prov.10:22). If yours isn't, we should never believe you that the end (of having gotten wealth) is what justify the means (road, process and protocols) passed to getting your wealth. If you change figures or add to it, that'll be getting wealth by crime. If you went to the devil to acquire it, that'll be occult wealth. If you engaged in prostitution to have it, that'll be sin. In all, any of these three "other ways" are violations of God's command and will for man. He never proposes or wills that any one becomes wealthy by climbing in some other ways. The word, "climb" itself suggests illegality, unapproved entering but rather a thrust. God hates this and He's as well committed to punishing such as found in such ways and practices. The devil once suggests an alternative to having everything to Jesus. He said, 'bow to me and all these things shall be yours" (Matt.4:8-10). He appeals and woos Jesus with the kingdoms and glory of this world but God forbid, my Master sternly rebukes him having known that there's only one approved route by which He could regain what the first Adam had lost - the excruciating way of the cross. That's the cup that He must drink. Though Jesus Himself shivers under it. He said, "not My will but Yours" (Matt.26:29). You see, no one says the right process will be easy but there's always a supply of grace to bear it. 

The Bible says, "call unto me and I'll show you great and mighty things which you know not of" (Jer.33:3). That's entering by the door to finding out information and secrets in the spirit. However, there's an alternative to that. King Saul exemplifies that when he went to the witch of Endor to enquire instead of finding out from God (I Sam.28:7-14). One therefore becomes entering by the door and the other, climbing in some other way (by force or crook) just because you want to have the result. Anyone who engages in fetching information from the spirit realm but by bypassing the Holy Spirit is in the danger of the practice of witchcraft. 

You're aware that multitude in Africa, Latin America and every other places are seeking relocation to greener lands desperately. You can get all the papers - have a visa and passport and travel through the airport or you become an illegal immigrant who seeks to arrive at a destined land by breaching laws and thrusting himself into a country unaccounted for. Such people always face the wrath of the law and face a lot of untold hardships. Thousands have died even in the waters over this. They are opened to violence and oppression by territorial guards. Some are shot, maimed, robbed, forced into hard labour or prostitution at only where God knows. These occur because a man or a woman can't endure what it takes to travel legally. There's no one who seeks to enter by some other way who's not at the mercy of punishment and consequences somewhere. A cheating student fears being caught and penalized. What difference would it make if he studies and writes fluently without any fear of the unknown? Illegal immigrants are at the mercy of extortioners, arrest, imprisonment or un-probed death. Just so many! 

It is therefore best to enter by the door. Don't have unapproved relationship with a lady. You can know the parents and formalize it. Enter by the door. One gives rest and brings the endorsement of the right authority. The other makes you a thief and robber sought to be shot at first sight. It makes sense demanding respect therefore.  The requirements might be much and the process rigorous but seek to "enter by the door" and not "climb in by some other way." We all know that the road that leads to life is narrow and restricted. However, wide is the gate that leads to destruction and that's what accommodates all sorts of uncalled for acts and punishable disobedience. Choose today which way you'll enter by. Even if new standards were set or raised as to how things should be done, ensure you're not caught in the debased but the one lawfully endorsed by the government and co-signed by God or any human authority. Enter by the gate Christian! Avoid shame and embarassment. 

PRAYER: Lord, I will not be a disobedient fellow. I will not be a law breaker. I seek to enter by the door. Some other ways will not be attractive to me.

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/06/2023

TUESDAY - 20TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

CHARM IS DECEITFUL!

Read Proverbs 31

Proverbs 31:30, KJV

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised".

"Favour" as it's used above is also translated "charm" in some versions. That place says, "charm is deceitful". That's actually the truth and you shouldn't begin to seek an alternative to that saying except you're a rebel. If any thinks he is knowledgeable or has become something as to improve on what God has said, the fellow will soon see his straying by the time he's caught in the tangle of his error and rebuked of the Lord. "Charm is deceitful" isn't an ordinary speech. The unsaid message the writer of that chapter wants you to take away is to be warned against the deception of charm. What it has potency to do can blindfold you from seeing what you should see. Not seeing this reality will therefore make you conclude on people's projected appeals and before you know it, you'll become the right victim of that saying that, "charm is deceitful." If someone who has experienced the truth on charm being deceptive should talk to a congregation of the inexperienced, they might not believe his words on being careful for charm. 

Charm isn't the first parameter to prioritize in choosing a spouse. Don't be carried away. That's because that's what charm seeks to do to you - to disarm your reason and off course your spirit from proper judgement. It'll enfold you like a gulf of smoke and before you see clearly, you're already in a marriage that how she pronounced each word phonetically, how he played the musical instrument with style and skill or how she danced are what brought you into it. No one continues to exist in such union when the nitty gritty of marriage begins to beat them. Immediately, the charm or projected attractiveness or spell of the beginning would have won of. There and then, you'll see what you should have saw. You'll see she's morally bereft and that she does not fear the Lord. You'll see his own manners too that are ill and you'll even observe in him a lot of frailties and imperfections. You'll be shocked at yourself if this is what you have acquired in the name of marriage. Yes, that's it. It has now become what you shall live by and endure. The Bible says of Adam and Eve that, "and they were both naked and were not ashamed" (Gen.2:25).

Nakedness does not happen except in marriage. You can court somebody for donkey years and you may not have their inner courts revelation. The day you pack into the same house is the day you'll begin to have additional revelation of who they are, capable of and could become. May it not be cry for you then by the time you begin to let loose of, "now, I see". In marriage, charm is not at the centre, it is sincerity and nakedness. Even if your spouse still has something he wants to camouflage, it's a matter of time before it comes out and you're aware of same. Openness as what characterises marriage is what gives couple that conscience to act like they are really are. They believe "I'm in my rest. I'm no longer hunting. I have no one to unnecessarrily charm again. I've been settled and so I can take things easy. I'm in my privacy, why wear a cover or mask?" Whether said or not, this will subtly characterize the life of anyone in marriage where their reality is what they live. Nobody lives with another person in marriage and all they do is to impress or let me say unnecessarrily impress the other. No! They declare themselves even unknowingly where they don't intend so. You know the bridegroom in John 2 was praised to have reserved the best wine for the end (John 2:10). It's not of man, any natural man to do that except a man who's operating at the level of, "but a woman/man who fears the Lord shall be praised." An operation in godly characters and not human appeals or mere gifts etc that blindfolds is what really lasts. But if you've been deceived, you may learn too late that charm is deceptive! At such and such time, you know as I do that reversal isn't possible. God hates divorce even if you have come to discover that an earrings is better in the nose of a pig than a jewel of adornment in the nose of your wife. 

Charm is deceitful! God's trying to arm us on mastering charm and protecting ourselves against what appeals to our unreasonableness. Whenever anyone exhumes charm, you can't but be exhilarated, delighted, bewitched, fascinated and transported. But that is the emotional part of you being worked on. Don't let that part makes judgement for you or you might be judged later. If you'll go on with those parameters, you may be deceived unfortunately by a woman or man who does not fear the Lord. So, instead of judging and concluding by the exhumed power or attractive personality of someone, first count the cost and ask yourself, "what is the wheat to the chaff?" The chaff is destined for one thing - to be swept away by the wind. It doesn't abide. But you, try and cultivate what abides and is most precious before God (Psalm 1:4). 

PRAYER: Lord, give me understanding not to be deceived. I cultivate Christ like virtues. 

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

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/06/2023

MONDAY - 19TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

LIFE BY HIS AUTHORING

Read I Kings 17:1-17

Matthew 4:4, KJV

"But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God".

The Bible has told us how man ought to live. "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God to him on daily basis" (Matt.4:4). It is this essential because yesterday's Word cannot keep man today. New ones must be processed and milled for his needs on daily basis. Else, debauchery and decay will begin with man. But I have found a remedy for that. It is the essential Word spoken at their fitting times that keep evil at bay. This Word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord, what is its intent? We should ask that question. To pull rank for that Word, it is Jesus who said it also. He said there's a problem man has found himself caught in. Instead of living by the Word of the Lord daily, it is food he solely prioritizes to live by. Man has come to believe that it is physical food that gives sustainance first of all but God is rerouting us to see that though man can't but eat and feed, yet he must never seek to live by physical bread alone. God is saying, it is not destined and fit man created in His own image and likeness yet the very target of Satan and all his strategies to live by physical food only but by instructions fitting time and season that God will author perterm for this individual man. This is how we are created. We are created to be ordered from above and have a life above that of the cattle or beast of the field which have no reason. To have this, live and experience same, you must daily receive Words, leading and guidance from above. This will separate you from experiencing the fate of the common men. This is when you can be regarded as not living "by bread alone" but by "every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." These are therefore the new generational men that have ceased the mouth of violence, sword and evil just by their obedience to the Word (not the logos now). 

Do you know that God has instruction for you to live by daily? That's why you're admonished to live by every word that proceeds from His mouth. For A in your life, He has a Word of concern and for B, He wants to speak to you also. There's always a new word that we can humbly gather and live by on daily basis. Since God expects our Christianity would be daily, in that we pray daily, study daily, cultivate holiness daily and do all daily, then we are put in a status where the daily God can guide us by Words that He speaks steadily and vomits for our well-being daily. And if I may tell you, if you're not here, you're yet not living life. The Bible won't tell you specifically the fellow to marry though it'll give you the general rule of not marrying an unbeliever. But, how will you know who amidst believers to marry? It is by living not by bread alone but by the rhema Word that God will speak at a time or season. This Word is tailored fitted for you and you only. Another has not heard such and if they have heard such, it won't be with your own specific details. The reason for that is simple. Your need is different from the needs of other Christians on the surface of the earth. One million of you may need a spouse but your calling, destiny and makeup are different. So, if God would not misfit you all, He must endeavour to find you a suitable helpmeet that can fit and couple you. That's what He did for Adam. Eve was found for him. No man could have married Eve and cope with her but Adam has an inbuilt ready made to accommodate her. God makes helpmeet to suit you. Not otherwise.  That's why all of you will never have the same details though you receive your requests. But, how does this happen if not by daily Words that we gather like the Israelites gather manna in the wilderness. This Word is so important that not having it in a day can hamper or handicap you. Your company can fold off within a day if you don't have this rhema Word when it should be with you for action. Lives may suddenly be lost and it may look like God is not the God of the called and calling again. No! He is but all these hurts may be as a result of being out of tune so much more that communications intended to aid your daily living aren't reaching you any longer. 

God told Elijah provision abides for him but he must do something. He must turn Eastward first of all. That's where provision is located and unless he changes direction and turn Eastward, he can wish for satisfaction but he'll have nothing. The instruction didn't compass him Southward or any other wards, it is Eastward. Then, we may want to see where Eastward would lead him to. Eastward would place him at Brook Cherith before Jordan. It is here God said he'll find protection. Protection not only from Ahab who will later seek his head but from the famine that he himself has prophesied. God takes thought for us and if you'll be a horse with bits in his mouth, you'll easily give Him the chance to turn your body to where He sees fit perterm. Unless you are, you'll be beaten by what shall beat others but if you can be tuned, turned, directed, located and situated just pertime by His Word, you'll always live above every expression of Satan. I don't care what he wants to bring or manufacture next but you shall always have it differently. Those who can sacrifice their will and ego to be turned by the Lord shall find pasture with Him as they'll be led to where He has sited the carcass of provision lies. But all begins with taken heed to the daily authoring and expression of Himself out of concern for us. Those who despise this daily Word will be overtaken and destroyed. They'll be sought and not found and that's because they shall not continue on the long run. I have a witness that God is calling men back to intimacy. Intimacy with the Holy Spirit so that by accuracy they might hear specifically and in order where God desires they should be and what He desires that they should do. Let me tell you this morning that death actually has no power. Apart from the fact that Jesus has stripped him of his power so much that the Bible says, "death, where is your sting (I Cor.15:55)", days of death are also over for any who can live by this communicable Words of God. If He does, how can his own path and that of the destroyer cross. Even if the enemy has made a cook up, he'll have a testimony that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord shall lift a standard against him. Herein is our testimony and continuity. Here's why we continue to exist and why I believe that the tomorrow we have not seen has been seen. Daily Words lift and live us above daily floods. Those who lack these will pass on and suffer for their simplicity. Oooooh, we have an Oracle who knows all. The Spirit of truth knows all things and He can share same. This is our security and why the days of death and destruction are over for us on this Earth. As long as our steps are set on the path by the Words He solely speaks, we are assured of an expected end. You can curse as you want, send bewitchment in its multitude but if I ever live by the Words that daily proceeds from His faculty, I shall live and not die; I shall be fat and never be lean and even in famine, I shall laugh. This we have searched out as faithful word. Live by it. 

PRAYER: Father, open Your heaven and speak to me in and out season. May I not be dry and in want of Your word. May Your word to me make me smooth and effortless.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 19:1-21; Acts 12:1-23; Psalm 136:1-26; Proverbs 17:14-15

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/06/2023

SUNDAY - 18TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

HE TELLS US OF THEM: ACQUIRING PROPHECIES FOR WARFARE AND WELFARE

Isaiah 42:9, KJV  

"Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them".

Did you hear that? That place says, "...He tells us of them." That's our advantage. The fact that He tells us of them. If He keeps shut, we would have been prey like the heathen. However, being made alive by Christ which opens us to information from Him makes us the privileged few who can continue to be irrespective of what happens on earth. Existence can't be sniffed out of you if He tells you of it and you act by them. 

"New things I declare. Before they spring up, He does what?" He tells us of them! Hallelujah, I am saved. It is in this I have confidence that I can have it differently from other men irrespective of their colour, status or kind. It is that, "before it springs forth, He tells us of them." In yesterday's devotional, you saw what it means to "foresee", that is, "see or know before hand". The same is still being said in this new verse. It says, "before it springs forth, I tell you of them". Let's wait to ask. "Spring forth where?" In heaven or on earth? Obviously the earth. God indeed says, "before it happens in your realm (the human realm), he tells us of them." God knows what's destined to happen is either a threat or a blessing to only one target - the earth. So, He seeks to give humans notification because of His love for them as His precious creation. This love is always in the breast of God to save human kind irrespective of the evil coming on the earth. In truth, you can be part of that saved people if you'll foresee and by that hide yourself. During the time of Noah, he found favour in the sight of God and being obedient unlike others was saved. He only commands that they come into the ark - a very type of Christ. The ark as our instrument of salvation is prepared and ready also. It comes at no cost to all who will come into it and by it be saved. So also, Christ, the Lamb of God slain from the foundations of the world is a prepared sacrifice or salvation that comes at no price to anyone. What I hear is, "only look and live; "only bathe and be clean." It is still, "believe and confess"(Rom.10:10). This is how to take this most important provision. 

Isaiah, the mouth of God pronounced saying, "...and new things do I declare:before they spring forth I tell you of them". The fact that it is, "before they spring forth (happen physically) He tells us of them" is what makes it a prophecy. Eyes have not seen it as physical tangibilities but we have it as realities (by faith) that we can hope for as God's mouth has said. Believing, we therefore treat them as tangibilities though in the spirit world but which would soon fall on the earth. It is this that gives us time to go into the field of preparation. This new thing that God declares which is not yet visible to human's faculty as happening is what God wants us see, act on and live by. 

God said, "shall I do anything and not tell Abraham? (Gen.18:17). It occurs to me that guy Abraham has walked with God. He has become so close that God would find it betrayal of trust if He passes by him without dropping him hints. On this basis, God told him what He's declaring which would sooner spring forth which by it, Abraham pleaded that Sodom might be spared. 

If you follow prophecies in the Bible and ones that the Holy Spirit will occasionally author in you or through others, you'll be saved from many events that beats others. World events have aligned with the Bible prophecies so clearly that it only takes a prejudice mind to regard the Bible as any other piece of literature. Prophecies are markers and they reveal timelines of things that must come to pass. With all my heart, I believe there's already a revival of the prophetic ministry in these last days. God would want you have a full light into what the future holds and by their knowing make choice of preparation whether to be saved or perish with sinners. The synoptic gospels have written a lot of prophecies that Jesus alone fulfills. I wonder at His life. I wonder at how the steps He carried and the ones carried for Him by parents are to the end that prophecy might be fulfilled. What a life! It is this that makes us wage a good warfare. The result of this good warfare is welfare and peace that it brings. But if you never hear and you never see ahead of the event, you'll count your losses at its happening.

PRAYER: Teach me the advantage of taking the handle of prophecy:as written in the Bible and as shown by the Holy Ghost. I believe and confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 18:1-46; Acts 11:1-30; Psalm 135:1-21; Proverbs 17:12-13

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