MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 14/07/2023

 FRIDAY - 14TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

HE WILL PROVIDE FOR HIMSELF - The Commanded Series 009

Genesis 22:7, KJV

"7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together". 

Do you know that He provides for what He commands? This is key to receiving divine provision. If you're seeking to do a thing and the fund is not coming, you should hold on and ask why the witholding of fund. I believe God must take you to a place where when you're out of tune and you're beginning to run the errand that He didn't commission, things would just fold up. If this be the signal or has been the signal in your own life and ministry, it may mean God didn't author that thing you're doing and He's seeking to align you. If anyone however thinks it wise to dabble into a self authored assignment, God is gentle enough to respect his choice and let him provide for himself. What He has not commanded, He's not in anyway liable to provide for it. You may then go ahead to bear the expense of sacrificing. You can spend your long gathered and accumulated salary. Kill your Isaac and let us see how many you'll kill as other assignments unfold. Let us see whether you can win by your strength and will and not be weary or dabble into wrong means of raising funds.

If you still want to do the will of God and you've currently began something that the Word of the Lord didn't commission, it'll be God's mercy to you starving it to death. And please, let it die of starvation. Don't seek to resurrect it. Trying to do so will be wanting to set up Jericho again. The cost is not always interesting. Wanting it to thrive is wanting to have flourish what God will visit and seek to scatter. Tower of Babels don't interest God! Any such work that His mouth didn't utter shall ultimately be scattered by Him. 

God asked Abraham for meat. God asked him to go and sacrifice his only son. Isaac not being a novice to the processes and preparation of sacrifices ask why there's no lamb on the scene. At least, he could see other ingredients. Abraham didn't stretch the matter. He only said, "the Lord will provide for Himself". Are you a husband and father over a family, leader of an entity and it seems there's scarce or limited resources, you can sure put your faith in God that if you and what you're doing be His works, He'll provide for Himself. Mark the usage of the expression, "...for Himself". Imagine God providing for Himself. Many times when God asks people to do something, novices or versatile men may begin to run around seeking to provide for God. This place however says, the correct way to service to God is that He'll provide for Himself. If He has placed a demand on you i.e. calling you into ministry, it's His to gift you the anointing by which you can function and fulfill this assignment. All of us always want to wait patiently for the provision of God for Himself here. The disciples even waited for empowering at the Upper Room (Acts 2). They've been called and sent but God must provide for Himself (what He called them to do), so that they might discharge. 

Meanwhile, when it comes to resources to do ministry, people no longer wait for God to provide for Himself. They immediately will take shield and buckler and take laws into their hands. They'll immediately sound the trumpet and begin to do fund raise. This ain't the way God said ministry should be done. Except He commands that you take an offering from God's people for a particular task, don't. However, you ought ask Him when He tells you of what you'll do for Him how He'll meet it knowing you're a worm without backbone. 

I don't have much questions for any who said God has called him or has given him an assignment to do. Okay, if God tells you to call a gathering of His own people, will He that tells you to go to war let you do that at your own charges? No! Will He not provide? However, did you seek Him for provision? Did you even know you have to ask or wait on Him for that? Or you think writing a couple of letters out is what will settle it. From this act, I found out many assignments may be legit (in that God authors them) but they are bastardized works because the process of acquiring provision embarasses God and belittles Him from being the One who had commanded the work to be done. The mark that somebody asks you to do something is that He meets your needs in doing it. Check from Genesis to Revelation. Have you seen someone God calls that He's trying to preach by his own strength before? He always enable them. I couldn't have lifted a finger before but by calling, I now preach. It's not because I studied English. I know I still make a lot of mistakes with grammar. However, we have colonized resources. We believe we can save our salaries to do ministry and that will be all. Did God ask for it? Did He tells you to use your salary? How much of your salary or that of others could you collect for assignments often? That's a mark that God didn't call you or calls you and you're bastardizing the work. The mark that He calls you to go and do sacrifice also means He'll provide for Himself and at the end He sure gave Abraham a ram. Meanwhile, God will like us obey and accept His assignment. If we do, as we follow the Lord on and trust Him, He shall provide. And that will be marvellous in our sight. That's what will surprise us because He'll do His thing unconventionally.

When you don't wait for the Lord to provide, your meeting is either enlarged more than God desires or is diminished and relatively tied to what you have at hand. Let the prove of genuine assignment be, "He that the Lord provides for". Elijah said the proof will be, "the God which answers by fire" is the Lord. If he manufactures his own fire, it would have been visibly seen but He let God proves Himself. I also believe if all of us will settle ministry this way, there will be a reduction in the number of people who says God has called them or are doing unrecognized assignments around. That you have fund at hand which you don't know what to do with it does not mean you should go on television. Did He command you is the ultimate? Stop saying, "I can fund it, so I'll do it". Let it be, "I can do it because He said I should do it". 

PRAYER: I wait on you. Do provide for Yourself.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 18:13-19:37; Acts 21:1-17; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 18:8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/07/2023

THURSDAY - 13TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN WILL HE ASK YOU BIG THINGS? - The Commanded Series 008

Genesis 22:1-2, KJV

"1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of".

When the Bible says, "there's no temptation as taken you that's not common to man", it's actually true. That place again emphasizes that "God is faithful. He will not allow us to be tempted or tested beyond what we can bear. He also says but with every temptation/test, He will provide a way of escape" (I Cor.10:13). Mark the fact that "He will provide a way of escape". We shall deal with it in another issue or devotional. 

Will you tell your three year old to go and lift a weight which by reason of understanding you know it's a seven year old who could lift such. Nobody does that. Not one. All of us have learnt how to give good gifts to our children and that's even revealed in the commesurate measure with which we measure unto them. Even that, as only as they could bear. However, if you're a task master like the Egyptians and those at hand are not your own, springing from your bowel, you may under that condition which is void of pity explore them by a great exploit. However, we're all reasonable human beings. Thank God we are. Hallelujah. 

One day, God wanted to have a good laugh and teach us lessons on faith too. So, He beckoned unto a particular called man (Gen.12:1) who has been walking with Him and has learnt Him to a good degree to go give his only child to Him. Now, the way God came to instruct towards that act plainly reveals God as being mischievous though driving at a point too. You too may not be able to hold on but rather laugh by the time I expose to you how God delivered His message to him. God said, "take now thy son, your only son Isaac, whom you love and get you to the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell you of". 

This is a strange request but before we go there, let's raise some questions. Is it not enough to say, "take now thy son, Isaac and offer him as a burnt offering?" Will that not be clear to Abraham? It will be. So, why the repeated emphasis? Look at how God intentionally speaks to Abraham. God does in a way that He wants him to feel the entire import of that message. God wants him to have the full shiver; God wants him to bring forth all the sweat. The level God is calling Abraham to for which He is using this test must not be spared Abraham. He'll have the blessing right? Let him pass the test also. All in all, God just does not want to spare him from discipleship at all. So, the communication came point blank and even with a sort of hardness and a rubbing of gun powder into his wound. Imagine God saying, "your only son, Isaac whom thou lovest". Why would God have to be counting and deliberately choosing His words. This demand and emphasis shows how far Abraham has walked with God and how much God could ask of him or request him to submit to. What you're to sacrifice or what God demands of you to spare at times is a function of your secret growth and journey with Him. I know God won't say you should again go and offer your own child now. Jesus has become the better and final sacrifice but let's say you have an only child and God tells you to give it away to another parents to raise, just like Samuel was given away and Moses was adopted. Meanwhile, while Hannah had hope of giving birth and actually gave birth to more children, let's say, "you and God knows you will have none again". You haven't seen that? That instruction is not because you're poor and you're begging for life. As a matter of fact, you're enough and even have multitude of adopted children you're sponsoring to school as a well to do couple. But now that you have yours after years of waiting, will you turn your only child to another parents (whom God off course would have spoken to and settle matters with) to take the boy from you and nurse for Him (God). What will you do? You know that under such circumstance, those you're sent to can't come to tell you what God has said you should do. They're only waiting to confirm it. Let's quantify Abraham's sacrifice with that example I gave. Won't it be difficult doing that especially knowing that this is your only son? As in, somebody who came after all the fights of faith as a result of God's promise. It's such instance Abraham found himself. That's what God told him to go and give. Some of us may even pity him. Obviously we have many times but what God demands of Abraham is actually what he could bear. That's because God has afore matured him to that place where such instruction won't be too heavy for him. We didn't have any record that Abraham contests that demand.  We should also ask, why didn't God ask Sarah of same? While Sarah isn't the man with the call to become a nation, I'm sure she may not be able to do it because the relationship of Abraham with God is not the same Sarah has with God. She knows God no doubt but Abraham has walked with God and grown in faith superiorly. Abraham also obeyed God and not because he knew (by saying) God will provide for Himself. No! The writer of Hebrews says, knowing that God can wake Isaac up to a better ressurection, he does it in faith.

Hebrews 11:17-19, KJV

"17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure".

So, his reason for taking that step of faith is that stated in Hebrews above. He must have believed it can't but still be unto me according to God's Word (that says I'll give birth by Sarah and of that, He'll make me a multitude of nation). Nothing less. That could have informed why He accounted that even if he slaughters Isaac, God will raise him up from the dead since a promise has gone over him as the predicted child of promise. And I'll say that's even a greater faith than ultimately having known by fact that God will provide a ram from the start. 

Listen to me. What God will request of you will correspond with your growth and journey with Him. If He ever asks anything bigger before He matures you to that extent, it's because He's seeking to make you change levels with Him into the next. So, He's teaching practical to you as a way of introducing the next level to you. If you have a house and you hear God clearly and truly telling you to give it to a particular family, you will easily hearken if over the years you have walked with God in faith to such an extent that He could now lay the burden of big things on you. Mind you, chronological age is different from spirit or spiritual maturity. Someone who has witnessed God and seen His almightiness; who has known His terror and the joy of obeying Him also will not count it much to give. He'll know God has His own back too and will supply his needs according to His riches in glory also. Even if you have same house and could give same, your first problem will be seeking to settle who has spoken to you. So, God doesn't just come to novices to begin to ask them things. That's why even when God came to Samuel the first time, he was confused as to who was giving him instruction (I Sam.3:4-5). God's will is that you'll have settled hearing and be assured of who speaks to you before demands ever begins to come. If not, and a big request comes, you will just be limp and not have faith for it. You'll be flat on the inside. For Christ's sake, it is only in a night dream, just one appearance of God that an angel of God told Joseph to take as wife Mary and receive responsibility over an equation in her womb that the angel said was the Holy Ghost (Matt.1:20). Do you know why that man didn't argue it? He has grown to that extent, has faith for that extent and has received grace for such extent. Joseph isn't a small boy spiritually. Your wife was caught in adultery, you said you'll put her away (though you'll be justified for that); what if you discovered you've been raising a bastard and God is saying, "receive him as a son" and "take the mother as a wife also?" What if God says keep shut about it? Now you know but let it be between you, your wife and I. What would you do? Do you have grace and faith for that? Have you grown to this extent? And I believe there are many unspeakables we won't learn about until we get to heaven. 

You see, His dealings with us is in phases. Just like He knows we are dust and so bears with us (like we bear with our own kids), God also knows what and what not to communicate or command you to do. Everything will be commensurate to your faith (either the one you have now or that could be stirred at the demand). When the Bible says, "take my yoke upon you, for my burden is light" (Matt.11:29-30), do you think Jesus was speaking gibberish? Part of His yoke is what He will command as a revealed will for individuals occasionally. It will be a bitter cup but won't be too much of a bitter cup that you can't drink. When the sins of the whole world was laid on Jesus in Gethsemane, Jesus could feel the weight. He said, "let this cup pass over me but He submits when He says, "but as You will" (Matt.26:29). He drank it under grace. Jesus had grace, faith and help for that. God doesn't seek to break people's backbone. Christian, you must continue to flip and ascend the staircases of growth with God. If He tells you to forgive someone who has deeply hurt you and you eventually do because God persuades you to, you can proceed further to be more refined under greater demands and tasks until you get where without a revelation or request of the Holy Ghost, you forgive greater hurts (as already requested of you to do by God's Word). Many times, those who hears God expressly on a matter are those who have refused to be consoled or settled by God's revealed will as already stated in the Bible. If the Spirit places demands of little things on you in this your little days and you submit, you'll have grown much over the years that He could place the burden of great things on you. Even in your poverty or stringency, you'll meet it but with an assurance and revelation that He who ministers seeds to the sower will minister bread to your eater. For every bitter cup, there's an accompanying grace. Seek it. Take it!

PRAYER: May I grow in faith. I receive the grace, help and faith of acting and bearing it all.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 9:1-10:14; Acts 27:21-44; Psalm 8:1-9; Proverbs 18:23-24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/07/2023

WEDNESDAY - 12TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

PUT UNDER COMMAND - The Commanded Series 007

I Kings 17:8-9, KJV

"8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee".

Kai! God has vessels for use everywhere. He one time told Paul that He has a lot of people in this city. 

Acts 18:10, KJV

"For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city"

Even if we don't know whether God has much people in Zarephath, we can bear witness that there's a vessel who God can send to and put under command for the sake of Elijah - a son. 

God's Word by which we should live came to Elijah instructing him to get himself to Zarephath (it was for an intent and that it might be fulfilled that Elijah didn't go hungry) and that He has commanded a widow woman to feed him there. You see, we don't have a black and white record or report of God visiting this woman and instructing her about Elijah but from what God expressed here, we should know God actually visited that widow of Zarephath before Elijah ever knew about her from God, knew her in person or even arrived in her place. God's Word reads, "for I have commanded a widow woman to feed you there". 

Do you know what it means to "command" or "put under command"? It actually means to put under oath. When you're commanded, it becomes inevitably your responsibility to discharge. It means there's a word that has gone over your head; a word that is binding on you and which God will like you to live up to.  God says, "I have commanded a widow woman to feed you there". It means irrespective of how it goes, Elijah of a surety must be fed. A yoke is on that woman. God therefore puts this widow woman under obligation. It may not be convenient but she is open to it and will obey it. Note, it wasn't Elijah who went to tell himself to this woman. God did. Only that when Elijah arrives and propose what God had earlier notified this woman, she affirms it by opening to it and judging there's a space for him even in her stringency. Let God first tell you He has commanded men for your sake. Stop speaking to uncommanded men.  Don't place a request on those God has not commanded for you. Let that be how you live your life. They're simply not worthy if God has not called them for you. Those who are will be those God qualifies for you. They won't treat you less than they'll treat God - in honour and reference (knowing God is their Father and Lord). Whenever it's God who tells them you'll be coming and God thus becomes their fear, they'll relate well with you. They don't want to disappoint God. As for you or I or any human, we don't worth much before others except for God with us. 

I have an incident to explain what it means to "have commanded someone for another fellow's sake or put under command or obligation".

Genesis 24:2, KJV

"2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter".

This servant of Abraham comes under that oath that instant he takes it. He becomes the commanded that moment he places his hand under Abraham's thigh to swear. It means if he has his own will to do before, taking that oath has eliminated doing as he wills now. You become the commanded the moment God speaks to you and you consent. You come under a sort of oath having signed an accord or having given your consent to God. That woman actually consented to God. If there were no agreement between herself and God, Elijah would never have been welcomed. Once you're commanded, you're put under oath and a sort of demand to have something fulfilled. This is who this woman becomes because of Elijah. A woman who has a commanded tag or label on her just for the sake of one man - one man like that who must not go hungry. I don't know if you've travelled out before. If you've been out and you're particularly a honourable fellow, you'll have a pick up driver waiting for you with a display of your name. Imagine arriving somewhere and you being awaited to be taken to the next place. You see, such pick up driver is there for your sake. He's carrying a label because he's under command for your sake. How important Christians are to God. He cares for His own family and He could travail the ends of the earth to meet their needs. He puts things on ground for them. Should Elijah get to Zarephath to begin to appeal his way into the heart of that widow? No! He'll just reduce and useless God. God didn't intend that we ministers beg and go around trying to find what to eat especially if you're in the full time. He'll rather command and compel men for your sake. I prefer that than saying, "help me, please, help me". The world will laugh at you, you will see. How obedient His children should also be in being prompt to come under command and give to the sent anything that God has instructed them to give in a no less or more manner. Father, I pray for these ones that you'll put them under command for men and men under command for them. Whenever it is dark and it's famine, may you always find an abode and escape for them. May we not stray to any who God has not put under oath for our treatments. May we not walk by sight and say it's one Eliab that the Lord has chosen for Himself (and consequently for us) when our help which comes from the Lord is hidden in a widow woman. A widow woman who's needy herself with the testimony of a little oil and a little meal but one who the Lord has spoken to and shall enlarge for our sake. Yes, for your sake, the Lord will bless the obedient! You just don't collect, your arrival brings returns also. God made it so. 

PRAYER: Lord, put me under command for men and vice versa. I obey!

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 9:1-10:14; Acts 27:21-44; Psalm 8:1-9; Proverbs 18:23-24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE- 11/07/2023

 TUESDAY - 11TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WE CAN EXERCISE OURSELVES IF WE PROVE GOD IS THERE - The Commanded Series 006

Read I Kings 17:9-16

I Kings 17:8-9, KJV

"8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee".

Brethren, you're welcome to another faith request and growth of faith. You see, we are disciples and we're called to be instant in and out seasons (II Timothy 4:2). The acknowledgement of "in and out seasons" affirm that man would share in both bad and good weathers. However, when it's our stringent days - moment when we have numerous needs ourselves yet God (solely God) is making demands on us, it becomes of us to have it released. There's joy in a Christianity that is practiced and allowed to flower though there'll truly without falsity be many hindrances to this. Good news is that you are an overcomer because God knows you can overcome. So, He has slated you for this outcome. 

It's such a shock that God didn't send Elijah to any who could boast of a store of food. Rather, He sent him to a fellow described as a widow woman. Do you know who a widow is? A widow has no husband. It means that woman lacks the needed support and so is not in anyway to be described as affluent. She's a pauper and even if she was not one before, she is now at the herald of this prominent famine. It reveals in her own statement when she says, "... and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die (I Kings  17:12, KJV). As in, what quantity of food could two sticks cook? That tells you even if she were well to do before, the famine has now dissolved and equated her to a pauper. But we can assuredly gather that she's like a worm without backbone. She's a widow woman!

When Elijah arrives at the gate of Zarephath, he must have received a witness of who the widow is actually. To prove that, he makes a demand to test if this is the commanded widow. I believe the sign would be that the commanded widow would come under command and the uncommanded will refuse the request. Though the woman confessed her own need and inadequacy also yet she opens up. Her reply to Elijah proves that she's the commanded widow.

I Kings 17:10-13, KJV "10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son".

Did you follow the reading? From a simple request of "fetch me water to drink" which the woman succumbs to and goes to fetch, Elijah doubles it up and requests that she fetches him a morsel when returning also. Here, the woman narrates her hindrance in doing so but Elijah reinstates his last and austere demand and with a blessing. Then, the woman unarguably goes to prepare for Elijah first. 

This woman gives under strict stringency. She has not seen the blessing in reality when she already agreed she'll make for Elijah first. What if nothing was multiplied in the process? She didn't even believe it that way. She rather put God first and releases to God who had placed a demand and command on her. That's the truth. Once you prove the demander and commander, you can make a release. That woman in responding to Elijah also dropped hints that proves she knew the God of Elijah somehow. While the holily dressing of Elijah could give him out as a prophet yet this woman under such circumstance of being in want wouldn't have been very much swayed by a mere appearance but the fact that she's living out a command. She identifies Elijah with his God by saying, "as the Lord thy God lives". Christian, once you prove God, once you're sure this is God making this pull on you, it is no lie, you can give under that stringency. However, mind it. Many who came to claim that a prophet collected something from them are always not those who heard God saying they should give in the first instance too. Even if Elijah had lied, this woman wouldn't have released her bread because she knew she was not any commanded for his support. Hearing God on where to administer your money is a thing to receive also. It is not only on who to marry. Covetousness also can't but put many ministers in trouble. They collect from those God has not commanded. So, this blessing can't but backfire. It is the blessing the Lord gives that makes rich and adds no sorrows. Promoted human blessings would land you in many pangs. When you collect from such God didn't ordain for you (who if they were put under command, even if they exercise themselves for your sake) won't say it or reproach you for it, then get ready to be spread all around in shame. Many stories there be of how many supposed church faithfuls have said their pastors swindled them. Agree you were stupid and dubbed by a con artist because you were neither sent to him or he to you by God. Realizing how human deception could make you yield up what you have laboriously gathered (which you didn't do willingly) is what has ressurected revenge in you for what you call, your humiliation. God is committed to all Christians and if each of us will first be a man and woman of the Spirit, He'll lead us to the commanded giver who has our bread with him or her. Even under stringency - when it's only a little meal and a little oil left in their flasks, they'll still give while trusting God who commanded them to give to be faithful to them also. Keep raising the bar. Keep doubling the standard. It would meet at the expected end if indeed God has commanded you to another commanded. He/she won't refuse you. If that fellow is ever the commanded, "he/she will not only give you water to drink but will draw water for your camels until they are done drinking also" (Gen.24:14, 17-20). They'll just be willing to come under austere conditions and sacrifices for your sake. And this won't be because you charmed or sweet tongued them. We should always experiment to find how what works and is truth. Elijah said, "give us bullocks and let us practicalize, the God of he who answers by fire is God". That's not sweet tonguing. Witnesses are all around you. Let them prove which works. Let the process alone to justify itself (I Kings 18:23-24).

I pray that God will put men under command for you. It's a great favour for men to be under command for your sake. It's the mystery of adoption at work for that time. It means God has given them to you to cater for. On each occasion that Elijah was fed, he was a commanded sent to another commanded. May you be this ordered to who is this ordered. 

PRAYER: Lord, may I not be presumptuous in my Christian journey. May I always be led to reap the led's outcome.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 9:1-10:14; Acts 27:21-44; Psalm 8:1-9; Proverbs 18:23-24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 10/07/2023

MONDAY - 10TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

GET YOURSELF DOWN THERE - The Commanded Series 005

I Kings 17:8-9, KJV

"8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee".

What a thing! God told Elijah to get himself down there. You're asking, "down where?" He says, "get thee to Zarephath..." People of God, may I tell you that we can move any time. We're not tired of packing or relocating? We are nomads not because we lack purpose but because we are administered citizens of God's State. We don't stay back when we have express words on us saying, "get thee to Zarephath". Immediately, we always set sail away from Brook Cherith. We move. Yes, we always move. If He has ordained Zarephath, to Zarephath we will go. 

I pray for you, may you have ears that hear. May you not become so deafened or occupied so much that when God is taking thought for you because of a state of emergency that He has seen, you're yet not moving even when He has said, "get thee to Zarephath". What a shock that God had spoken to Abraham and he still stays back and rested in his native land (Gen.12:1). What an open defiance!

We should never be comfortable somewhere or be overtaken by inertia. This would be danger that we may not be able to count its cost. If you're settled somewhere now and it seems you're comfortable there and would like to continue there, it should never become your decisive will to stay back the moment you have a command, an issue over you to get out of there. When the brook dried, God knew Elijah may soon become the victim of his own prophecy but God is quick to make distinction between his own and the wicked. Even other prophets were fed fifty fifty by Obadiah (I Kings 18:13). But here's a Christian who must not go hungry. He's solitary but God is with him. By God's word, He's now being given a new command. Though the brook has dried and Elijah could see that yet some Christians would still have told God to find a way round it for them. If God says, get thee out of there, it means no bargaining. It is get thee out of there. Don't become Lot's wife who won't let the past go but rather mourn and behold in reminisce what she is leaving behind. The decision of such people to remain or stay back always lead to their ruin. Lot's wife if investigated didn't want to go. She has become comfortable. You know, they've acquired properties and it seems that's all (Gen.19:19-26). 

Don't stay back at Brook Cherith. Almighty God, save me from myself. May I not be caught dead where you've left. May I not backslide because I've just missed steps with You. May it be that I follow you to the scouted land as you go before me. Never be comforted by any good that you're experiencing now not to continue with God when He's ordaining it. You may have the best of job somewhere, if God is calling you to get yourself out of there, it is for a reason. If you're a disciple, you won't count the cost. You'll know that what will be at stake if you stay will be more than what you'll enjoy. Get thee out of there brings to me a remembrance of war or violence torn area. Even if you're a missionary in such place, God can give you such "get out of there" command before the event start affecting you. No government or system of any nation is as wise as God. Do you know there'll be those that God would have commanded to leave some current war torn areas before the war began? Show me one nation that had such foresight as to send to bring all their citizens out of such places in Europe or Africa (as it's happening) before the events start happening. You see, divine leading makes all the difference. I believe government of nations should be this connected to the Divine so they can protect the interest of their citizens on the surface of the earth. The government must be spiritual. However, the vine from which I'm His branch won't forsake me without notice until the event is at my nose. God forbid!

Some may love losses than benefits anyway but I don't want to be broken or violated (by things God can allow to beat me because I'm in disobedience and out of tune with Him). Did that angel not say He could have killed Balaam (Numb. 22:33)? You see, what should be for his protection now faces him with judgement because he's in violation of God's will. So, if you're reading this and God is saying, get thee out of your country to another or stay where you are, don't refuse in order to protect a stand or vow you've afore taken. There are people who might have seen how the bastardization of travelling abroad has become in their own country and who out of love for their homeland would confess not leaving it to stay elsewhere. Out of such incident, he may confess to be different but this may be his very trap when God calls him out. He'll refuse to acknowledge the call because he won't want to be shamed before those he had said same. Look, if you're of this type, it means you're not humble. Someone who's humble will acknowledge his error to those his friends and obey God who's calling him out. I won't lose my anointing because I'm refusing to acknowledge an error I committed. 

Elijah heard, "get thee to Zarephath". That instruction is a command but a quick command for a quick launch out. Tarrying where God has left is danger. Over the years, I have known and said there's no other safe place except where God tells you to stay. If you go abroad and it's not God's doing, despite their welfare, you'll easily be opened to a ten thousand killer than being in a country where there's massive lawlessness. Natural disasters in their types occur frequently and kill droves there easily than Africa of lawlessness. So, which place is secure? No place actually except where you're told to stay. Look, I'm in Nigeria and in a particular place in Nigeria. I don't covet anyone where they are or another land that may be yielding good. As long as I have clear conscience and testimony that I too haven't missed God and I'm where I should be, I know I can't keep an appointment with what will take me out. Mark that! If you go on an errand for any reason outside the initiate of God or destiny, you can die even in the best of places. So Christian, you're not tied down to any place or any one who has become your temporary means of supply. You're only tied to God. He's the only permanent Father in your life. If He says get thee to somewhere, let me warn you that it's dangerous spending the night again in such place. As far as God is concerned, the glory cloud has moved and once it moves, tell me what would be your shelter. God gives a vision to Paul of where to go after suffering much on where to go. Immediately, they sought to leave behind their comfort zone. 

Acts 16:9, KJV

"9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.  

10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them".

Did you read, "immediately, we endeavoured to go into Macedonia". I will get myself to Zarephath. Where He commands us is where we'll go. You may hear we've changed address tomorrow and that's not because we want to be slippery, mysterious, surprising or unpredictable but because we have an Administrator whose hand is the only thing that moves us. Look, it is not incentive. Green pasture would be the least because we know any land we are can become green for our sake. Why? We're ambassadors. What we spend and live on is not determined by the economy we live in but the one from which we are sent. 

PRAYER: Lord, I submit to Your will on my transportation in life. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17; Acts 25:1-27; Psalm 5:1-12; Proverbs 18:19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 09/07/2023

SUNDAY - 9TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

GIVE THAT BREAD NOW! - Commanded Series 004

I Kings 17:2-4, KJV

"2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land".

Count yourself privileged when called and used. It should be the Christian's exclaim that God has found him for use. For this reason of being demanded for or from by the Almighty, he should carefully open up and give to God as He'll request him to do. If all God created is created for His pleasure, then let's render whatsoever He calls us to for His pleasure. This should be after we have given ourselves - our bodies a living sacrifice to God (Rom. 12:1).

God sent Elijah to Brook Cherith. There, the ravens will expect to find him. God was clear on why He's sending him there. So that he'll drink of the brook as he's fed of the ravens. You can be sure that whatsoever God does is always straight and complete. Not even one is lacking! He has not only availed Elijah bread, He as well made provision for water. I pray for you that your joy shall be complete. Your find and discovery in life will be full to the brim - not lacking one thing.

The brook is God's own. God created it. If the brook ever argues that, it won't argue that the water that makes it a brook is heaven's rain. It is to this 'servant' of God that the Lord sent Elijah with a command that the ravens will bring him bread but that he'll drink from the brook. What a perfect God! May I emphasize that He doesn't do His work partially. Where He sends you is also where He has furnished a table for you. 

Naturally, there's no way the brook could have refused Elijah. It's inanimate. God sent him there to be given drink amidst other reasons. For the time frame he was there, he drank from the brook. Unfortunately however, the brook dried up! His vehicle by which God quenches his thirst and meet his needs just died! What killed the brook? There was no rain. This is the sole fact by which all of us should be warned. What you have, you were given and if God would shut the windows of heaven at you, you'd soon arrive here - where you'll have the testimony of, "and it dried". A fact that's solely crested on the truth that every good and perfect gift that we have comes from above. However, I'm seeing a reason in the fact that we don't know what might happen in the nearest future. For that reason, God will desire you to be of service when you can. We will not always be available. All of us will have our chances to participate or be included in one thing or the other that He's doing however and at a time. What matters is to seize this chance and discharge to our best or as God has given us to discharge. The brook dried but before it was this ended, the brook was a yielded means meeting the need God drawn on it. If the brook were a human being, after it died and passed on, he wouldn't be reminded or ever have the consciousness of ever not being of service when it could. Though it is not human yet we know we are full of testimonies today that both the ravens and the brook as an associate met the needs of Elijah. I am not saying you will die soon. The truth of what I'm showing you is here. 

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2, KJV

"1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth".

That place assures if you cast your bread upon the waters (even if as an intentional investment and not a give away as the Lord may demand of you as I'm saying) that you'll find it after many days. Then, it goes further to say that you should give a portion to seven and then to many people. Then, it concludes with a reason, "for you don't know what will come upon the earth". The brook couldn't have seen its own end but all of us know it'll dry if heaven remains shut. The brook may be flamboyant and boastful because it is of the fullness of the Creator it has received rain after rain. But just a little witholding of hand dried it up. May I also say we are like the brook in God's hands. We are serving purposes and never forgotten by Him when we are both full or dry. When heaven opens up and gives its rain, did the brook not later partake of it? It obviously does. The moral is this. If God makes a demand on you for whatsoever reason, don't withhold yourself. The reason is because a time, a soon time is coming when you may not be able to will yourself in that direction again. When your brook still has water, offer it up. Give Elijah a drink. That's your service to God and to humanity. The Bible says in John 9:4, "I must work the works of He that sent me while it is day, for night comes when no man can work any longer". If God calls you to be a kingdom fashion designer, model, preacher or even a school teacher; that'll be because God wants to use you to meet the needs that He has seen. The brook and the ravens didn't give the same thing to Elijah but it was to the same end - to sustain and keep him alive. Irrespective of your field or calling, you'll be fulfilling God's will there. If He has come this early for you, go and be of service in that profession. Even nowadays, age limit is set in some professions. Except at your age God is calling you there; if you're over age, all the doors will remain shut at you. But I tell you, while your brook still have water, let it give a drink to the commanded especially. This is kingdom admnistering. Mind you, the fellow sent to you may not be a minister of God. However, whomsoever God will say you should adopt, like sending an orphan to school, kindly do. Your brook may not even dry but by the time you come to obey God, you may be shocked that that same child has found adoption and support in another commanded vessel who obeyed promptly. So, what I have, I'll give especially once I ascertain that it's the Lord's doing and His sent that stands before me. I'm a tool in His hands and I believe, so you are.

PRAYER: Lord, may I be of full service while I may. May this remembrance be in me that of Your fullness and from You comes all I have. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 7:1-8:40; Acts 27:1-20; Psalm 7:1-17; Proverbs 18:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 8/07/2023

SATURDAY - 8TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

WHERE YOU SHOULD GET - The Commanded Series 003

Read Acts 9:1-17

Acts 9:10, KJV

" And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord".

When you get here, it means you'll always be readily sendable. God has just found a need to meet and the next thing He does is to look for a human vessel who He could send. At a call, the response of this vessel shows he's both prepared and ready. His response also shows who he submits to and reference as Lord. Many Christians have Jesus as their Saviour but He hasn't yet become their Lord. There are things He can't touch in their lives or collect from them. They're still married to their own will - their very lord. "Ananias", God calls. "I am here", he responds". This should be the mark of a growing Christian especially one that'll bring gain to the kingdom. Like I said yesterday, we are in a kingdom where all of us are resources in God's hands. So, He administers and send us whithersoever He wills. The Bible records that Jacob sent Joseph likewise on an errand and his reply to the call shows a surrendered life and will.

Genesis 37:13, KJV

"And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I". 

What did he say to him? "Here am I". God wants all of us to get here. A place where we are found for admnistering or errands as it would befit occasions. The truth is this, if you're not found for admnistering, God's work will continue. The experience of delay in the arrival of resources to he who needs it urgently may be inevitable but God will always and eventually make for Himself. The truth is that God always prepare and reserve for Himself. Don't forget that He has a reserve even if any man boasts himself as the only findable tool in His hands (I Kings 19:10, 18). God's children are scattered every where. Some are even in Saudi Arabia. To your shock, they may be in the high Imams' houses. They are secret believers who are pining for more expression of their faith but God is God to them and they aren't ashamed to call him Lord or submit to Him as Lord likewise. "Here am I" shows a man that God has found and who He can now commit to. I briefly raised the fact that you may be someone's answer of yesteryears, months or days in the first series of this devotional. God sent Elijah to the ravens (where they'll meet him at Brook Cherith). He did likewise to him when he sent him to the widow of Zarephath (I Kings 17). It means those are the two sets of people who will acknowledge him. If Elijah should mistakenly go elsewhere, he'll testify by experience that he missed it because none he goes to will acknowledge him. And if they ever feed him, it will be a blessing with reproach to him. Why? They have not been commanded and put under obligation for his sake. Those who can open up to you are those God has commanded for your sake. 

I Kings 17:4,9, KJV

"And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there". 

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

If I'm not under command by my Lord as a man of the spirit, why should I come and propose to you and why should you say yes to me when you have not received afore notification about me or my coming? Why? When God calls you and you say, "here am I", it means you're found administrable. Once you're eventually admnistered, you immediately bear a command to someone or a place. Jacob's errand has a specific intent and people as target. Joseph was sent to his brothers. Ananias was sent to brother Saul. Who are you sent or being admnistered to? That should be the next question. Some of you, you have been admnistered and sent to someone already. Instruction has gone on your head like Abraham that God told to leave but who still stays back (Gen.12). The fellow also has received a command of God that when you come, she should open up and receive you. However, here you are still reasoning it out. You wouldn't want to propose to that sister because 'how can it be" is what you have filled your throat with? I'm so sure you can't be wiser than God. He has seen it can be. The prayer for a life partner that you've been praying for years is now to be answered. Though you have now being sent to an address, you're refusing to go there because you have found something out about that address and target that's in disarray or in disharmony. That can never be eventually  true. If it eventually is, it means God makes a mistake pairing you both together.  You're proving to be beyond admnistering therefore. You're refusing not to be an answer to someone's prayer also. You aren't the only fellow who prayed. As you were trusting God for a life partner and would daily and often pray to be remembered and led, so she also prayed. She knows you but she can't come to you to initiate it. What your responsibility should be is what you have refused to do now. The truth is just that even God can administer two obedient Christians to have their paths crossed and marry. The Lord who told Ananias to go heal Saul also told Ananias that Saul had seen in a vision a man named Ananias laying his hands on him to receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. It means this two are slated to meet. You may refuse such admnistering but God can never never be stranded. You're just a vehicle which God uses to fulfill His will. You're a part player. Your obedience can be consequential but God will always remedy things for he or she who should have benefitted from your submission to prompt admnistering. When the brook where Elijah drank from dried for instance, didn't God send him to the widow of Zarephath? Let us say you refuse to be administered and become an answer to someone's prayer or urgent need, God will find an alternative to you. There's always an alternative by the corner, in the distant Zarephath of Zidon to every brook that dries or to anyone who says, he or she has had enough. 

Lord, what befits us is to be "here" before you always. What befits us is to eventually and in no time submit to your admnistering even if we have loads of complaints. Ananias also wouldn't go to Saul without a fight. He said he has heard a whole lot of things about his destructive acts especially to Your church in Jerusalem and how he has now come with permission from the authority to bind those of the Way in Damascus. However, your explanation satiates him. You only say. 

Acts 9:15-16, KJV

"...Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake".

And that was all. The end of all strife for Ananias. The next verse recorded that he went. God, today, I submit, cast down all arguments and say, "whither Thou sends me, I will go; what Thou bid me, I will do. 

PRAYER: Lord, may I be sendable. I am available, send and use me Lord.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17; Acts 25:1-27; Psalm 5:1-12; Proverbs 18:19

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