MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/06/2023

TUESDAY - 27TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

JOIN YOURSELF TO THIS CHARIOT: RUTH IN VIEW 

Read Ruth 1

Ruth 1:14, KJV

"And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her". 

He will also come to you. He will not tarry. When He sees it, He'll persuade you of it. May you however be persuaded. The "go, join yourself to this chariot of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:29)" shall forever be an instruction to some men in their own generation. While it may not be speech echoed in same words, it'll be for an intent to take a blessing that could pass by if one is nonchallant or undiscerning.

Orpah and Ruth are two foreign women who are wives to Naomi's sons: Mahlon and Chilion.  These sons however died in Moab with their father, Elimelech. This leaves Naomi with these two daughters in law. 

Naomi decides to go back to her native land and would not have these two women follow her. She praised them for having suffered and endured much for the dead and her sake (Ruth 1:8-9). From how both of them deals kindly with Naomi, we have an insight into the fact that Naomi is a good mother in law.  She's not burdensome. She requests them to go back to their land and their gods. They would not leave her alone but out of her much persuasion, Orpah turns back. She makes her choice and destiny gets sealed.  Ruth however refuses. She cleaves to Naomi. She continues to hang on. Naomi earlier says, "if she were to give birth today, will her sons grow up so soon to marry them". It means there's nothing to hope for again from her. Meanwhile, Ruth wouldn't budge. She rather vehemently sticks to her mother in law saying, "where you (Naomi) dies is where I'll die; your people and your God shall be my mine as well". This is a subtle prophecy which later comes to pass. Seeing this vehemence, Naomi allows Ruth take the journey with her. Ruth has therefore made her choice too. Nobody will ever accuse God and be successful. That's because God will avail all of us opportunities to take. Whether you do or don't is now yours to bear. 

Their arrival however is marked by abject poverty but eventually Ruth finds rest with an Israelite of the tribe of Judah called Boaz, a wealthy man (Ruth 4:13). This is how she firmly enters into Christ's lineage and passes for Christ's great grandmother. Surprisingly, the chronicles of the journey of Elimelech and Naomi is named by her name, "Ruth". We're reading the book of Ruth and not even Orpah today. Not even of Naomi, her mother in law but of a woman who follows the path that leads to blessings but first littered with hardships. That's what circumstance almost separated her from. You see, you can be joined and detached. Take heed. Morally, don't let anything snatch you from the faith. You might encounter persecution or rough days but do tarry there. Christ's lineage that these two women were formerly attached to through the handles of their two husbands is a symbol of being in Christ or in faith. Their husbands' death is likened to a temptation or any such thing that gives an excuse to be cut off from faith forever. However, any who endures shall be saved. This is revealed in Ruth eventually. 

Many mysteries shall be unfolded by God to you if you'll journey with Him. The Wise men physically sees a star that leads them on. In your own spirit, you can receive an information that'll be calling you out to a future you do not know yet. The problem of many people is that they prefer to stay in the familiar instead of going with God into the unfamiliar. The unfamiliar may be the unknown and it may be scary but that's where your profit lies. Jesus once told Peter to launch out into the deep (Luke 5). If you'll ever catch fishes that'll break your net, it's not by witholding when you should take a risk that worths it. The call to launch out or join yourself to something or someone should not be any human conception. That's where your safety is. Be quiet enough to pick God amidst your surrounding noise and act accordingly on His instruction. Who told Philip to join himself to that chariot is what matters. He'll meet everything simple and settled. Entrance and space would be afforded him. Herein will your risk pay off as you faithfully trust He Who has spoken Who also will do it. 

You must know how to take a lifetime opportunity. Your life and destiny just depends on it. If Naomi had passed all alone to her native land, what would be the fate of Ruth? If the Ethiopian Eunuch had gone on his way like that, will Philip have any joy of heart or register a witness to heaven that he's trustworthy? The chariot is one on motion. It can only avail you a time as willed by God to take it. If you won't come in when it shall give you such handle, it shall leave. This is why we must be sensitive and quick men. Men who with much discerning could see how much God is calling us to. There's someone with a calling you should join. There's a spouse you must be joined to. The reason is simply because their lives will be your leverage. Let God sovereignly shine the light of which chariot to join to you. That isn't what your head can do for you all alone except you'll like Satan waylays you somewhere. 

PRAYER: Father, guide me in my choice. Let me see destiny in people and not despise my destiny handle. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 8:1-9:13; Acts 16:16-40; Psalm 143:1-12; Proverbs 17:26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 26/06/2023

MONDAY - 26TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

JOIN YOURSELF TO THIS CHARIOT: TAMAR IN VIEW

Read Gen. 38

Acts 8:29, KJV

"Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot".

The Holy Spirit will sensitize you to opportunities but He won't take it for you. The Holy Spirit owes you communication but He doesn't owes you action and obedience. That is your own faith steps. May I say why the future now seems bleak for a lot of Christians isn't because God didn't make provision for them but because they missed the provision of God. We have the Word of God. Taken and accepted but we do have the Holy Spirit as well. The Holy Spirit won't tell you to do anything that's not consistent with the Bible. Both always agree. There's leading in the Bible and you can learn and see how to be led. This will be beneficial because a day will come when your life will depend on a swift move of obedience to the Holy Ghost. You can open a whole generation to the blessings that follow just by one taken step of the Holy Spirit. As Philip is at the road that leads to Gaza and as a chariot begins to drive by, he hears, "go near and join thyself to this chariot". More than any man's expectation, the rest was easy for him and great was his reward for keeping that Word. 

That instruction of Philip hasn't just being spoken to die. It is still in the mind of the Spirit to communicate to those God wants to join to a flow, work and destined people. However, will you hear and if you do hear, will you obey? We all know Tamar. Tamar is a lady married to Er, Judah's first born. For Er's wickedness, God slayed him. So, Tamar is given to Onan to raise seeds for his brother but he knew the seed won't be his. So, he spills the semen every time on the ground. This displeases God and so he kills him also. Seeing this cycle, Judah fears that death might befall his last born Shelah. So, Judah told Tamar to go and dwell in his father's house until Shelah becomes a grown up. In the meantime, Shelah becomes a grown up but Tamar is still not given to him in marriage. On that note, Tamar prepared himself like an harlot and goes on to get pregnant by Judah himself. Her excuse is, "for Shelah has grown up and she's not given unto him for wife". 

More importantly however, there's a beat I keep hearing; there's a voice that keeps speaking to me. May we all be sensitive and jealous in our spirits for the future. If you look at the insistence of Tamar and how far she went to marry into the tribe of Judah, you'll wonder if she couldn't have conveniently married another instead of almost putting her life in jeopardy. Satan will seek to separate you from those you should be join to. Offence has equally and successfully done so to some people. Lot separated from Abraham and we all know it was the beginning of his undoing. Curses and blessings are summarily the two things that each of us are carrying. It's either we carry destiny or woes and God having made a plan for you in His will would seek to move, breathe and lean you towards companying with the right multitude. In this way, He'll separate you your own crowd. As a careful observer of what God does, I have found out that Tamar could smell a specialness in the Judah's tribe, in his children and in himself. She knew there's an opportunity, flow, destiny there for the taking. The Messiah would come from that tribe. She is a Canaanite woman, she couldn't have read about that but I judge her as a woman with a special faculty to pick Spirit things and what the future holds. So, at the time her husbands were dying and she would have been forever seperated from the tribe of Judah (because Shelah was not given to her) and because it's improper for her to marry or be with child by her father-in-law, she disguised and sought her way into the Judah's tribe. In this way, she arrived somewhere - a place where the Bible could account her as one of the great grandmothers of Jesus. 

Matthew 1:3, KJV

"And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram".

That is what she saw when it seems she was pushing too much. Like the Wise Men, she saw the star and the lion in Judah's tribe but secretly and silently in her heart. She has the eyes of faith to pursue what is invisible probably to Judah himself. She saw "this family is mine for a taking. I'll not agree to be separated from the history and greatness of this ancestry". Eventually, it was, 'boom' for her. Result time. If you check the ancestry record of our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 1, you'll observe only three women made the record apart from Mary. I don't know why but since all Scripture is breathed by the inspiration of God, I have every confidence to believe the Holy Spirit would want to make a special choice of women to list. The first was Tamar, second was Rahab the harlot and third was Ruth herself. Now, if you study the Bible, you'll observe these three were not originally Israelites. However, they weaved their faith to join the flow, the move and the ancestry of the Saviour. This radicalness of faith might have informed their being noted down. Sarah and Rebekah were not even mentioned. 

Christian, I believe God is still joining people to the future greatness that they themselves may not have a total comprehension of. There's no one God invites on a journey of faith or asks to take a leap of faith that has full explanation for it. That would be bribing if you have one. Faith would be cancelled. Can you as a person see that this is the fellow to marry, partner with or join his chariot? Do you have that special awareness of who to choose, agree with, succumb to, knowing, "theirs is the kingdom, the future and the glory". If you know, when you hear the Holy Spirit giving you hand out saying, "join this chariot", you'll immediately like Philip leap at it. When the Holy Spirit told Philip that, there may not be any other chariot at sight yet we know that God was making a choice - a choice of whose chariot to join. All of us can be happy for Philip that he obeyed. From that obedience, the Ethiopian Eunuch got born again and the gospel entered into Africa. What will happen if you obey the "join yourself" of the Holy Spirit can't yet be measured. But after joining yourself, you'll begin to identify the whys as you go on the journey. The whys never end. It is always transgenerational. No one can because of envy now says he'll remove Tamar's name from Jesus' ancestry. Don't waste time, the Scripture has been written. History has been made, purpose and special awareness have been lived out. May the Lord give you hearing ears and obeying heart. May your steps be hastened to things that will make you to be numbered among God's jewels. May you not forbid good and destiny for yourself.  

PRAYER: I increase the unction that knows all things. I have special awareness. I shall not be passed by. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 8:1-9:13; Acts 16:16-40; Psalm 143:1-12; Proverbs 17:26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 25/06/2023

SUNDAY - 25TH JUNE, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN LIFE MAKES SENSE

Genesis 2:7, KJV 

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul".

Today, I present to you Adam, the living soul. Prior to that, Adam was a lifeless statue. Thanks to the God investment. Thanks to the breath. It is known for its ever wonder. 

On that day when God said, "let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness", He got to work and eventually arrives at a man with the body of clay. He lies there rigidly, immovable and static on the slab. His body has been made but the body is not only what makes a human. Adam still lacks one vital thing. The ability to give Adam that sole thing posed a threat to Science and Technology for years. Go check the earlier toys. They were mere statues. Now, toys can talk. I'm not saying they have life but to an extent, they have a style of life either because they're powered by a battery etc. They therefore can speak. They've been given a recorded or programmed voice. Humans have discovered how to replicate and create after God. What a wonder that man could not only beat into his own creations speech making but the lifting of limbs and the exercise of actions.  

God stooping down breathes into Adam's nostrils His own breath. This breath is described someway. It is called, "the breath of life". If you say something is the breath of life, it means it can revive, rouse up, wake up, make work and activate. That breath is a self activating breath. When Adam receives it, like a fellow receiving blood transfusion, every inner part of him the breath travels or gets to immediately at that snap receives life. It comes up "from the dead" and from "lock down" and rigidity where it immediately is. This breath is simply wind. So, it can travel and travel but at an amazing speed. So much more that within a second, life has been caused in Adam. I mean life in its mature stage. The wind so much travels at such hard to measure velocity that though some parts had received life earlier than others, Adam as a whole became a living soul at a jiffy of the breath's roaming. Therefore, he came alive. This wind filtered through his nostrils immediately travels and tranfuse round his head/brain to his entire body, energizing and stirring him to activity. At that instant, man became a living soul. He came alive or awoke. At that instant, he receives sensitivity or irritation. Note it, at this instant that the Bible says, "man became a living soul", it seems to me there was a standing ovation in heaven celebrating God having caused Adam to live and having communicated life to him. Looking at the wonder He has created, God was just to be praised as He unveils and announces the man. Till today, you know He's still to be praised for having made us with such details. At that instant of becoming a living soul therefore, he could have opened his eyes, moved a finger and then moved or lifted his whole body. 

This is when life makes sense! Not when Adam remains bedridden and couldn't exercise his will or weaponize himself. When does life makes sense? When does it not make sense? Which experience do you want to have and retain of the two described above? The experience of the body without breath or body with breath running around in it. I want the kind of life that breath whirls and plays round in it. So much more that if you shake me or examine me, you could hear or feel me being overinflated with the breath. Life makes sense when you have the breath in you. When you do have the breath or this wind, you'll be like an inflated balloon. You can't sink. Depression can't dampen you. You'll always have and maintain buoyancy. You'll ever float in spirit. This floating in spirit and being of high spirit or in joy is what will outwardly be borne by your body that is now robust and full of activity from the contagion of your made alive human spirit. You'll always want to be engaged and occupied. You won't suddenly find yourself depressed with crossed hands and bowed head - casting in the towel and saying, "my hope is dry." You'll always be hopeful and full of a bright future. That's why any without this breath is easily broken, conquered by thoughts, criticism, persecution and eventually casted down. 

When life makes sense is when the breath comes and roams around inside you. We understand this breath to be the Holy Spirit given the church on the day of Pentecost which makes the church functional - coming alive (Acts 2:1-3). One mystery about the breath is that it is life and a life causer. If you'll observe Adam at creation, he could therefore do nothing of himself or by himself until he was revived and woken up by that breath. If Adam will ever walk, speak, write, jump etc, he must first be filled with that breath. Unless the breath is given him, he'll have the body but he won't have the potency with which to drive the body. Drive the body as how? Move the body I mean. But you can witness what the testimony is when the Bible says, "and man became a living soul". Common, give God a round of applause! When a Creator is designing a robot, the robot is not yet magical because it has the stature of man and has holes representing eyes where they should be. That robot becomes a robot wonder when it begins to walk, talk and grapple things. Do you think a statue you call robot that can't do human actions is a wonder. No! That's why drones amaze us now. We have drones that can fly like birds now and see - storing information in their brain (memory). Previously, we only have a statue bird and not a "living soul' bird. For any to cause awe, for you to surprise me, for you to be a type of God, your creation must of necessity become a "living soul". What is Science and Technology doing that God hasn't done? They are only mimicking what God did here. God is the first Robotic  Engineer and Fashioner. So, here we are at this juncture where man can now declare the praises of He that created Him by being able to live to His glory and for His pleasure. That's the intent for which man became a living soul. It's so that he might  have God's coding to fellowship with Him. From the beginning, man is a spirit being like God. With the God flame in him, he can therefore meet God and be initiated into His council. Like we've always read. God comes visiting, interacting with man at the cool of the day (Gen.3:8). Thanks to that breath also. If not for it, where would Adam have the activation to till the ground and govern it from? He became lord of creation and exercises authority over it because he was made alive. 

You know, one part keeps striking me. The part that says, "and man became a living soul". Adam became what? A living soul! So, before, Adam was dead. So before, Adam was not alive. Now, what are the significant proves that he was dead with his back on the ground -  can't rise neither move. That's why at death when the spirit has gone back to God who gave it, man will once more lie helplessly like Adam here. The spiritless beginning of Adam is the end of all man. Our eyes shall one day be closed in death. The breath is all that makes the difference therefore. That you can rise, stand, run around is basically because of the breath with which the body of Adam was made alive. If not, you'll have the body but what a pity, what will a lifeless or spiritless body do? It can't perform one bit human actions. 

The being of Adam made alive here symbolizes and foreshadows Holy Ghost baptism. I know of nothing which makes life makes sense than the Holy Ghost. If not, you'll become a rigid choleric trying to make things run. I know of nothing that can author a devotional daily than the Holy Ghost and that's because He keeps breathing it and inspiring it. Authoring daily is not by memorizing doctrine and finalizing as a matter of fact on which to write daily. I know of nothing that can keep you fat, robust, peaceful, joyful etc in challenging periods when the outside is cracking than the Holy Spirit. You may be a human with life - like the one breathed into Adam that made him into a living soul to discharge all the human actions but without the Spirit (Holy Spirit), you're really not alive as a person and as a Christian. That's why baptism of the Holy Spirit is a provision to aid us. What became of timid Peter when the Holy Spirit came on him? He was enlivened. He began to preach extemporaneously and inspiringly. He's now being aided and made smooth and effortless by the Holy Spirit. What he thus says makes sense. He's not hindered in any way for all his human infirmities are gloried over (Acts 2:14).

When life makes sense is when you're alone and the Holy Spirit gives you a lamp to understand something. The thing will just come like that and in a moment, you'll have a progressive or perfect understanding of it. When life makes sense is when by the Spirit you are never tired but keeps living and breathing. This is what makes life meaningful. The mind of some will collapse and they'll commit suicide but if this breath be in you, you'll beat that. Him in us, we're buoyant. We don't drown! We don't sink! We keep existing and living. We become not survivors on activities but we give activities meanings. Oh, you must become a living soul. Therefore, if you're a Christian who has not yet being baptized in the Holy Ghost, you can receive now. As long as you're born again with desire, you can receive. After receiving today, you should get baptized in water by immersion also. But just have faith as I pray. Father, you're a good Father. What we ask is what You'll give us. If a child asks bread of his father, the father won't give him a stone. Today, I ask the Holy Spirit on behalf of those desiring it. Give them this your gift and let them burst forth in tongues. Adam moved his body when the breath came into him. He proved being alive. Let them also thunder and speak forth in the language they haven't learnt before to affirm the breath (better still Holy Spirit) having entered them as power. Receive that. Speak it. Don't withhold. Speak that language bubbling inside you. Thank God for it. You may as well call for further interactions. 

PRAYER: Lord, enliven me. Make me buoyant by your Spirit. Thank You for Holy Ghost baptism. My mind won't collapse. 

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- 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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