MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 21/07/2023

FRIDAY- 21ST JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

LORD, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!

Psalms 90:14, KJV

"O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days".

It really gripped Moses, the man of God. Look at the way he expressed himself to God with a great exclaim and heartful feeling. If there's one thing he seeks for Israel at this time, it's that He'll satisfy them early with His mercy. There's one thing being filled with God's mercy does to your soul and your body. It makes you robust and not lean. You'll be fat fleshed and buoyant on the inside. For this, he cries and suggestively prays saying, "O satisfy us early with thy mercy". 

The expression "O" also means an expression of appeal. He's actually begging God. He's pleading with Him that He should do one thing for them - to bless them early. You see, it should be our prayer that what God wants to do, He would do early. If it's financial independence, stability of health, promotion, child birth, being in purpose etc we desire, it's our prayer that we are satisfied early with it. You must know that it is not without a purpose that Moses cried. Moses just didn't open his mouth to pray that way. He did in anticipation of a consequence - "that they may rejoice and be glad all the days of their lives". Let me use an instance. Imagine someone who's looking up unto God for the fruit of the womb and has not received such for years. Do you think the fellow will have any satisfaction wherever? They may have wealth but there's none they want to comfort it with. So, they're desperately asking for satisfaction in that they'll have their own. And let me make a point, when you're not satisfied or you have an area of your life not yet fulfilled, it will tell on you and tell on other areas as well. Have you not seen people who just begin to grow lean and sickly because there's a particular thing in their lives not met. Yes, there's a missing link. Do you also think it is of no consequence when the Bible says, "hope deferred maketh the heart sick... (Proverbs  13:12, KJV). When the heart is sick, when the soul is bowed down by unhappiness, it can't but reflect on one's body and general welfare. One would just lack strength, motivation and joy to drive life. That's why a need fulfilled is as a tree of life.

"but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.. (Prov.13:12). 

It will invigorate you. You'll be filled with vigour and you'll tend to ressurect to responsibility and new life with renewed energy. Tree of life offers life. It offers mobility. Another reference to "tree of life" as literally written and not interpreted takes us back to the Garden of Eden also (Gen.2:9). Obviously he who eats it won't die any longer. However, we know that the "tree of life" as being referred to here in Proverbs is reputed for stopping decay and deterioration. Instead of being depressed, your mountain will be strong because your needs and desires are met. You won't go down. So, if a desire or need met is as a tree of life, it means it's like eating fruits or being filled with food when you've been hungry before. It'll bring about the receiving of invigoration and new energy to run and keep up with life. 

Moses prayed, "O satisfy us early with thy mercy" and then, "that we may rejoice and be glad all the days of our life". Let us stay put here. It means without being satisfied early with mercy, rejoicing all the days of one's life is automatically hindered. It means even if there are joys in other areas and there's one impediment in another which refuses to be cleared but tarry, it means one will not have joy as long as that unfulfilled desire tarries. However, if all of one's needs is met - the greatest of them which is to have soul satiation that you're living out destiny or your purpose on earth, it means you'll be happy all the days of your life. Occasionally not having food at home won't be problem because you have what is greater than that and could secure food. A man in purpose is the most secured man on earth. They don't live insecure and distracted by envy since they're doing theirs and they know it's accepted likewise before God. 

God's intention as I'm hearing this morning is that we may rejoice and be glad all the days of our lives. Due to His intention to deliver us this, He will ensure we are satisfied early with mercy. It costs God nothing to continually give you unmerited favour in the midst of  your human best possible until you get to the top of your mountain or vocation - where at a tender age, you're a governor on earth but more importantly also, in the Spirit. Why in the spirit also? It's because your throne in the spirit is what'll protect the your office and status on earth. 

God wants you to rejoice. Look at people who have everything early, their lives get better for it. No link is missing and no room is vacant in their lives. It doesn't mean they don't still encounter hardships. That's common to all man but look, they don't have a deferred desire and so are robust. They are filled to the brim with joy of being satisfied. He has daily bread. He doesn't hunger and he doesn't beg. He has shelter and he has a family that brings joy. He's living in purpose and he's touching lives. What else should we thank God for? On occasions, when such remember how much God has satiated them, all they do is to lift up their hands and sing praises and rejoice. When you're satisfied early, you consequently rejoice. That's the one permissible thing to happen to those who have been blessed, comforted, assisted, financed, sponsored this early. Once they become that early, the joy of early fulfillment will continue to grow as they walk that road. They'll continue to be bigger and bigger unto the perfect day and as far as we know, with each level of landmark, growth and ascension comes its own joy. I pray for you that you'll no longer mourn again. I am God's anointed and as He that is called to say restore, I declare that wherever you've been robbed of joy or what could have given joy to you, let there be a restoration now! It is the joy of the Lord that can become your strength - making you inflated, robust and active. Receive it. Currently, I'm seeing dew falling from above. I'm seeing it settle on you. Receive heaven's blessings. Receive a top up even on the blessings you already have but which is not complete. Any vacant space and room in your life where you've been crying to God for satisfaction over and haven't received till hitherto is met today. You're satisfied. I say you're satisfied this day with mercy that you may rejoice, celebrate and be happy all the days of your life. Nothing is wrong building one's house that early and being under one's tree. There's a joy that comes from seeing your kids and wife playfully play in your own house. Receive that. Everything that'll make you satiated and come to the stage of being fulfilled, God is rendering to you now. So shall it be. Amen!

PRAYER: Lord, thank You for sealing that area of my life and coming to meet my needs. Be praised Yahweh.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 4:1-6:11; Romans 7:1-13; Psalm 17:1-15; Proverbs 19:22-2

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/07/2023

THURSDAY- 20TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

OVER SEAS AND LANDS 

Genesis 40:15, KJV

"For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon".

One of the greatest marks that there's a destiny to fulfill is to observe God watching over where you should be at a particular time. There's a process and in the infinite will of God, He knows if you have ended one so He might onboard you into the next. I have taught a lot on destiny; being the lucky, fated, chosen one or the star boy/girl by using Joseph. Only that it didn't come out in the devotional. 

Joseph is a boy that something can't but happen for. From the special interest of his father in him to the giftedness of revelation he displays early, we might be curious to put at heart that something is special about this boy. Not only special about him, but that God is deliberately watching over His Words to fulfill it over him. 

Joseph said, "for I was stolen away from the Hebrew's land..." He didn't want to leave but he had no choice. He was carted away by being sold into slavery by his brother. At arrival in Egypt, God was at the point of collection, bazaar and banter. He fetched him a master. It was Potiphar who bought him. That's one of God's provision for Joseph - he must meet Potiphar in his life. From here, he got a transfer to jail when he was lied against. God knew when to pedal him into the next stage. It's here he met the man who will be his connector to the king. 

And all came to pass just like that. He ascended prime-ministership and have all those years long prophecies fulfilled on him. He saw his brothers worship him indeed. He was just full of awe at God and what He had said 13 years ago. What a thing! I can surely tell you to wait for your prophecies to manifest. It may tarry but it shall not lie. It shall yield itself and be fulfilled. 

You see, if in your destiny fulfilment, you need to be transported, don't worry about transportation. God will organize one. I found out that what we don't have faith for is what we don't have an inner convinction over. If you're convincted and there's a witness in your heart saying your destiny is over the land or seas for you, then God has a way of sponsoring you there. Joseph got to Egypt though he had to be stolen away. He didn't pay for transport. If his brothers must bow to him, he must need get to Egypt and God did bear him to Egypt. Every step he takes is God taking it with him. Be assured that destiny would happen. If you've read Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen, you could see the idea of destiny being hinted at in this novel. No one is available to send Adah, the protagonist to school. Her Pa is dead and her Ma is remarried. As typical of Igbo belief in those days, girls don't need education but Adah has passion for education. Though his younger brother, Boy has been enrolled in school before her and has hope of continuing his education using the family savings kept for same purpose, she has none. To go to school, she had to thrust herself forcefully to school and would not have been enrolled if not by the law that forces the hands of her parents. Now at Pa's demise, will her education stop? No! Adah has a strong sense of purpose and won't stop comforting herself. She stole some shillings given her by Uncle Vincent to buy steak to buy her common entrance form into Secondary School. In the midst of all these, she heard the voice of her spiritual guide (I believe it's God that the author didn't want to declare as God) but the author calls it, "the Presence" saying to her, "you must go, to school you must go and to one of the best schools". At the end, Adah's performance in her entrance exam secured her a scholarship and this is how she got a scholarship to attend one of the best schools. 

In the series of teachings I did on being the fated, lucky or star one (which is still available for your reading), I highlighted marks of destiny and special future in people. One of it is that they have a prophecy or there's a clear cut divine involvement in their lives. On occasions in the novel, Adah keeps hearing the Presence assuring and reassuring her. This is not different from how the Holy Spirit relates with Christians. I believe you sure have a life to live and a destiny to express. On this note, be assured God is committed to you. You'll reach. You'll surmount all mountains and arrive. You will have destiny meet. 

PRAYER: Lord, provide me assurance and reassurance all the way.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 28:1-29:30; Romans 5:6-21; Psalm 15:1-5; Proverbs 19:18-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/07/2023

WEDNESDAY- 19TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THEY ARE AT YOUR DOOR - At Old Age Series 003

Acts 10:19-20, KJV

"19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.  20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them".

At times, we don't know how close we are to the handles we must take and the blessings by which we must be blessed. One time, I had a vision of a stream flowing from a source distant from where I was at that river. Then, I had a special understanding that this stream flowing was not just meant to pass by. It must be tapped into. It must be maximized. It must be taken and utilized by those it appears or offers itself to. God has given that stream to pass and pass by a path as to cross path with some people so they could tap into it. However, their utilization time would differ. Some are at its source but as it continues to flow, different men would tap into it at their different spots and times when this flowing stream reaches them. What must not happen is for this stream to keep its flow until it gets to you but bypasses you without you becoming what you should become by it. This stream is grace to become what you should become. It is the availed destiny resources. It also signifies the hands of time offered you but which is constantly ticking and is on the run. It has reached some (who have done with it as they liked). Now, it has departed or is departing from them to others who could do with it as they'll choose. That stream doesn't flow backward. That means once it passes, it passes. Once time is used, it is used. 

On the morning of 17th July, 2023, God told me that we don't know the full import of time again since we measure the passage of time by the ticking hands of the clock. So, we have a kind of consciousness that time doesn't finish. We rather believe that it'll be recycled to us. So, when we watch the hands of the clock or watch tick cyclically, we just believe we can stretch forever and wait for eternity - keeping our cool to take our time. No! That's danger. Rather, God flashed before me the "hour glass". God said we know time is far spent and irretrievable by the amount of sand left in the upper jar. When a baby is born, his time is still full like the sand unspent in a side of the hour glass but then, it begins to dissipate. By looking at the hour glass, the truth of time having passed many or passing many etc will hit them differently. Wastages will therefore be cut short while they strive for accuracy. Don't waste your time. Ask critical questions, have them answered and continue doing them. What should I do? Who should I marry? Where should I live? Which church should I go to? Find these and others, then continue doing what you have gotten right. Don't be swayed. 

God is the orderer of paths. One miracle that I have had even before I got admitted into the university was being led or guided. I knew it would be the University I graduated from I should attend. I saw it in a dream. I knew I'll become very great there as well. This is a prophetic life and it is such that is marvellous in our sights. I have left myself into the hands of God to do with me as He desires and to carry me wherever He wills. I can slap myself on the surface of His sea and I know He'll carry me to safety and arrival where the table is furnished for me. What God has slated me to have is what I call, "destiny meet". My journeys are different and I believe yours too. 

Emissaries went out from Cornelius to bring back the man, Peter. The location picked in the spirit was not lesser accurate. He dwells with one Simon the Tanner whose house is by the sea side. As in, looking at disclosures being made without using GPRS or Google Map, God knows how to web your path into another. He knows where individuals live and when He's ready that two paths meet, He'll ordain it. Meanwhile, let me reinstate that it is what the Lord does that's marvelous. 

Peter prays on the house top at this time. He has a trance and ruminates on what it means. Just then (as those ones seeking for him reached for the door), God communicates to him to go down because three men are looking for him. This is a special meet. God rose somebody up and rose another to meet him. In the last testimony of Reinhard Bonnke that I shared, you'll observe that Bonnke was almost being turned away by that woman at the door but just then, George Jeffreys came downstairs and with a deep voice says, "let him come in". When two must meet, God does all to ensure they meet. He always watches and guide the process until contact is established and the slated happens. Imagine Cornelius being desired of God to hear the gospel by sending him to Peter and sending Peter to him. Yet, they are separated by not small miles. It doesn't matter where he or she is; even if it's across the sea; if you have to do with him or her, God who watches over divine processes, meetings and destinies will order you to meet. They not only met but God told Peter not to doubt them but go with them. All these great effort because somebody in Cornelius, his household, close relatives and friends must be born again. God is a loving investor. He'll invest in you if He sees you're critical to His future programmes and He'll not leave you unharvested when He keenly observes you're already feeling after Him.

One thing is given to Peter to do, to preach the Word of life, to instruct Cornelius on what he must do. That's all. For this reason, they must cross path. This may be the only time they'll cross path but on this occasion, no escapade from contact must be made. It must happen and it did. From two ends of the earth, two were connected. I pray for you, may you catch up with your prophecies. May you meet up. Cross path with those critical to God's plan for your life. You know, I kept thinking on why George Jeffreys had to come down at that time Bonnke was almost being turned away from the door. That's divine ordering/slating I see there. That's divine leading and providence also. George Jeffreys came down on time like Peter came down from the roof top to meet those who look for him. Imagine! I pray for you, you won't miss time. You'll be on time. Whenever it remains little to miss time, the covenant on this ministry as echoed by the Spirit of life in the Bible would hasten you up. It'll always be on their hands they'll bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone. They not only bear up or upward, they bear forward as well. Where you should be on time, you won't be late. Angels will make your path straight before you. They'll clear the way for you. You will meet those you're seeking. It shall be a destiny meet. You shall be received and accepted.

PRAYER: Lord, no matter the distance and the hindering factors, let me meet with my destiny connector. I have a destiny meet. Plot us together. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 28:1-29:30; Romans 5:6-21; Psalm 15:1-5; Proverbs 19:18-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/07/2023

TUESDAY- 18TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

AS THE EXODUS SHIP NEARS - At Old Age Series 002

Read Ecclesiastes 12

Ecclesiastes 12:7, KJV

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it".

I pray for you today that you'll be led and be guided to where food has been made ready for you. I'm not talking of physical food but something that's spiritual that God seeks to connect you with or ensure you gather which if you miss might result in a permanent shortage or even damage of your destiny. There are places we must be at particular times. Where the carcass is, there the vultures will be. How did they strike such accuracy? These are ordinary birds and if we'll humour them, we'll call them scavengers or birds of carrions but they have perception. They could smell their provision and by such seek to have an immediate connection with it. I pray for you, receive special awareness. Be sensitized. Let the spirit that discerns times and knows what one must do come on you. Stumble into where it is happening even if it'll be unintentionally. Be driven to a particular place of destiny. Have destiny encounters and meet with those who will assist your destiny and impart you with God's portion on them (as ordained by God) for ministry, family and career wise. 

He lives in North Germany where his parents are. He had lived in Hamburg before transition to Frankfurt as well. He had just completed his studies and is now returning back to Germany. They took trains in those days and not flight. His train however arrived around early. This avails him a lot of time at hand. Having little coins left, he decided to go for sight seeing around London. So, he went from bus to bus not even knowing where the buses were going. He was just doing bus hoping. He was criss-crossing the whole time. 

Then, he thought of the need to walk and stretch himself. So, he began to trek for the sake of exercise. As he walks into the residential area, he passed by a residential building with a name plate reading "George Jeffreys". 

"I know of a man called George Jeffreys. He's the one who brought the gospel of signs and wonders to UK. Could he be living here?" No, he concluded. He was just 21 at this time. His mind told him, "but this is London, there must be many Jeffreys and tens of thousands of George alike". But a voice told him, "you've got a lot of time to kill. Why don't you check?" So, he rang the door bell and a woman came out. He asked if it was Jeffreys' house. She said, "yes". "The same Jeffreys God used to bring the gospel of healing to Britain? May I see him?" "No" was the answer! However, he heard a deep voice from inside saying, "let him come in". So, he did. He didn't even know the man was still alive. So, he began to introduce himself. "I am Reinhard Bonnke. I am called to preach the gospel in Africa. I just finished Bible College..." As he does this, Jeffreys fell on his own knees and then dragged him down also. He puts his hand on him and blessed him repeatedly. The glory of God filled the house. After about thirty minutes, he staggers out of that place trying to find the bus stop. 

So, he began to question how it was possible to have stumbled on a man he does not know was still alive. He got into a night train and went back home to Germany. The dad picked him up at the train station and said to him, "Reinhard, I just heard in the news that George Jeffreys is dead". Bonnke replied, "it can't be. I still met him yesterday". It was then Bonnke knew that he had gotten a mantle and that the Holy Spirit had guided him to that place. There's a place we must be, men we must meet and impartation we must partake of. Thank God Bonnke cooperated and moved every inch of the way as he was being prompted. You see, you don't have to know the details before you obey. If you're waiting for that, that'll be bribing and nothing will be miraculous or glorious in that at day's end. It is what the Lord does that can only be marvellous in our sight. This experience of a man's steps being ordered to meet another is. It leaves me with the import that there's a mighty hand behind the global scenes and world map that moves us like chess pieces for the fulfilment of His own grand will. Imagine how a man who God has marked for use in his own generation met another and got connected to a flow and grace that has been before him. See how God impart his fullness by crossing Bonnke's paths with Jeffreys. The most shocking is that Jeffreys was slated to leave the earth soonest. His exodus ship nears arrival but Jeffreys must also pass the baton. God answered two persons' prayers: Jeffrey's and Bonnke. It's the intention of God that there'll be a safe transfer of graces so that ministration might not end with the former minister. And I can witness, it's the joy of fathers to release as it's the joy of sons to catch. Did the Bible not say in Titus 2:3-4 that, "the aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children".

If you look at that instruction, you'll see God is concerned about flows from those who have been doing it to those who will do it. We have the aged women and the young women. This is how continuity is achieved in every generation. Some are newbies of their vocations and they have not learnt God very much nor how to walk with Him. Some of them in ministry or business might even lack the major ingredient needed to succeed but by connecting, such ingredient is given and received. Training changes lives and prepares us for destiny just as impartation hastens and enables us to be able to discharge in the same effect those before had have.

Thank God Reinhard Bonnke didn't miss this preparation of heaven for him. Thank God the food of heaven was not wasted. They baked it for him and at the time he should break this bread and eat, he ate. It is this impartation amidst other renewal and refreshing he ran with until he also took his own exodus ship out of the earth. All of us will have our opportunities. Thank God he was on time. Thank God He came in when he should. Do you know one thing I have observed? There's no one God has a great future for in a field or vocation that God won't introduce or bring to the presence of fathers of such field. One way or the other, they'll just have open doors to meet them (even when it's not intentionally arranged). What others that God has not earmarked for destiny in that field are looking for earnestly, God will fling it open to them by divine providence. Before the exodus ship leaves, what are the ingredients you should collect from those God has given it to? What is the impartation that must take place? God is seeking to bring you into alignment. Don't be disaligned. I tell you, it is the joy of fathers to give if there's ever a curious child to receive. 

PRAYER: Lord, I throw myself at You. Carry me and lead me on until I arrive at junctures of destiny meet. Ordain my path before me. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 24:1-26:11; Romans 4:1-12; Psalm 13:1-6; Proverbs 19:15-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 17/07/2023

MONDAY- 17TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THEIR SOULS SEEK SAFE PASSAGE - At Old Age Series 001

READ Gen.48

Genesis 48:1, KJV

"And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim".

What makes you a partaker of blessings is that you're not insensitive even on ordinary days. Great things happen on ordinary days. Special announcements of what might eventually be won't always go before you but you must be a discerner of seasons and times. Apart from this, I also pray that you will be on time and be guided by the Almighty's hands to where the carcasses has fallen. You won't miss any provision you should be its partaker in Jesus' name. Rather, you'll feel like visiting or being somewhere. Until you experience why you've felt being there, you wouldn't testify that's where you should be. If you won't miss heaven's provision however, you must lock up into the blessings specifically allotted for release and distribution at such period. You must smell that something is about happening and then you must seize that time. 

After arrival from the compulsory one year National Service to my fatherland - Nigeria, I got a call from my mother to visit my paternal grandmother. I had a special tie with her. She adopted me for being my father's first born male and one with his resemblance. I didn't have much at hand then. I had only secured a job in a primary school. I felt indebted to her and so went in the company of my immediate younger brother to see her. She had relocated from her great estate in Balogun (near Ibeshe in Yewa South where her sawmill was located to the farm house in Yewa North (not even to her house in Sawonjo, Yewa North, Ogun State). I took the advice of my mother and bought some beverages as present. We met her that day. We talked a lot and from what we shared, I could tell if the time of somebody is up for departure. She blessed us that day and I was satiated that I had visited her (though unhappy) with some decisions she took concerning some properties. She probably did so any won't fight us later. It was the week following my mother called me she had passed on. I can bear witness that somebody could hold his breath until he or she sees a beloved child who he wants to custody something to. It happens that way. 

That passage above says, "and it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph, behold thy father is sick...". That is what God owes you. He'll give you information that you must latch unto. He'll let a chariot pass before you but He'll leave you to take it. One told Joseph that his father is sick. We don't know whether that one was specifically sent to bear to him that special message or he just got wind of it and thought it wise to tell him. However, one (an uncertain and undesignated) fellow availed Joseph the opportunity that he took. Now, what did he do when one told him his father was sick? The Bible records that upon hearing that, he took his two children: Manasseh and Ephraim with him to behold his father. Should this be the response of Joseph to his father being sick? Are those two kids medicines to bring healing to Israel? One might think this is a vain effort. You may begin to wonder why Joseph would take two minors with him to see an aged old man - someone whose world is far distant from those two upcomers. However, Joseph has ears to hear. He has learnt the wisdom of the aged. He knew that the time might be near. He knew that Jacob might be seeking safe passage to depart from this shore in peace for arrival in the next in love. At least, we know he's already an aged man. On that note, he not only went, he carried his own down-lines and representatives (after himself) with him. He wants to seek to establish a connection and a link between today (in his children) and yesterday (in his father).

While I was a campus president and I was to handover in all the three places I was a president, there were special visitations made to personalities (fathers of the land/alumni) just like there were handing over of documents and other necessary information to the newly elected president for continuity. This is what ensures the flow is not broken. What Joseph does here is to bring his children and connect them with a man significant enough as a generation. Israel is a direct heir to the covenant God cut with Abraham. He's a partaker of flows from his own father, Isaac as inherited and given to him by his own father, Abraham. No wonder, in blessing these lads, Israel says, "the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth" (Genesis 48:16, KJV).

That's what Joseph got in return for that act of taking his children with himself to visit a dying grandpa. 

Genesis 48:8-9, KJV

"8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?  

9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them".

Israel collected these two children for himself and then blessed them. Something significant do happen on people's death bed that you must be aware of. Fathers want to divide inheritance and give the final blessings. And at times, the best is reserved for the end. It's then secrets are muttered and prophecies are delivered. Heaven do open then. The sensation is always strong. If you'll be sensitive as well and watch life's events unfold even after their death, you'd see that some of what they said are prophecies coming to pass. When the time of your own elders are up, it's a blessing being with such flames to hear their journeys and receive their blessings. It is also a good thing going with your kids. It must be the endeavour of all fathers or parents to connect tomorrow with its yesterday. How we do that is by creating a bridge by which our children could connect with their grandparents. Never dissociate your children from your parents. When you visit home, do make endeavour to go with your kids (especially he or she you've discovered by ordination of God as your heir). Begin to take them on journeys of understanding and relation with elders and those that matters. Let some of your children even do service to your parents. Let them trigger their blessings. Begin to develop in them the importance of having in their arsenal and as a backup spiritual people. Such exposure would train their faculty to respect elders and crave to have the blessings that could only be imparted by them. You know, one major experience hasn't left me. My father once took me somewhere to visit an elder one time. While he was on his belly prostrating to that man, I was on my feet watching. I was just amazed and carried away by other things. So, he told me to greet by prostration as well. Then, the man blessed me. Elders know that their times are up. They have a gun pointed at their heads. What they seek to do is to continue living through/in other people. They know they can't live for ever. For this reason, they raise those who could have their spirit and continue after them. What a blessing to hear one father say to me one day that, "I am his seal and the proof of his ministry". I was warned not to make a mess of that.

The Bible says, "a good man lives inheritance for his children's children" (Prov.13:22). Jacob did just that when he adopted and made his own these two children of Joseph. This adoption made them to be honoured so even with inheritances later in time (Joshua 16:4). Be full of discernment. Ensure you collect from the past what the future could run with before its departure. Bring your children to the hole from which you're dug and from the rock from which you're hewn and let them belove them with blessings. May the prophet prophesy over them. May they not lose their inheritances. May you have yours as you position to be a beneficiary of what fathers carry. Something happen at departure, deportment of blessing it is called. May it fall on you all. 

PRAYER: Lord, bless all fathers to bless all fathers. We receive awareness to be present at moment of blessings. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Chronicles 24:1-26:11; Romans 4:1-12; Psalm 13:1-6; Proverbs 19:15-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 15/07/2023

SATURDAY - 15TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -  Olusola ADEJUMO

BUT IT'S NOT OVER

II Timothy 1:6, KJV  

"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands".

"Once a soldier is always a soldier", is what I said and used as a short admonishment on a platform for one of our past excos with whom I served. It's not that she backslided. That's not our prayer for anyone. But I said that to put her in remembrance of God's grace on her. Many are likely to forget how God started with them and so despise their little days of beginning instead of stretching it further. The Bible recorded how Samson in his beginning began to be stirred by the Spirit of the Lord. It began somewhere in Mahaneh-dan, which is located between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol (Judges 13:25). Also, Paul had to put Timothy in remembrance of what he had received in the very beginning.

II Timothy 1:6, KJV  

"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands".

When do you think he received the gift being spoken of here? In his beginning. Not at the time this was coming from Paul to him. Never! He had already received. So, I just found myself saying that under the anointing. After saying that, I found the anointing hit me and stirring a teaching in me. So, I set pen to paper. 

One thing that you must not let die is the former things in your life which you have received from God or started this spiritual journey with. Spiritual gifts, calling and God's doing with which He started in your life should not decrease but daily and often seek expression and glow in flying colours. 

Jesus speaking to one of the seven churches says, "4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent" (Revelation 2:4-5, KJV). 

Look at what Jesus said to this church. That it has left its first love. Let me ask you, especially those who used to be something on campus and at their very beginning if you're still that thing or now still continues and grows in the spirit of that thing. If not, you have left your first love. But did you hear what the Lord said there? "That he should remember where he has fallen and repent."

Whenever you have a thing like that said about you, God is trying to call you into account of your life and He wants you to go back in retrospect to search and locate what the point of entry is in your life when you begin to leak God's investment, grace and so begin to diminish in content - spirit and anointing. You must remember where you have fallen. Repent and do your first works. Not doing so is very consequential. You must not despise this call of God to grace, replenishment and restoration. Currently, God is coming for people who have been wasted. Looking at them, they are the carcasses of themselves. They look like a desolate or wasted land. They no longer resemble who they were or what they started with in those former days. As a matter of fact, the story they now tell and what they have to boast is just the old wine of those old days. God is saying, strengthen what's left!" Something is still left. Once a soldier is always a soldier. That's our saying on campus and it's indeed true. Those of you God has enlisted long time ago into His army but who have gone back, God is saying I have not withdrawn that call on you. It is still there. The calling and gifts of God are without repentance (Rom.11:29). Kick-start in the things of God again. Let the Holy Spirit hook you up to a divine assignment and you shall see those buried, latent and hurt virtues rise and speak great things. At the scent of water, it shall bud up again. So says the Bible (Job 14:9). 

I am sensing, there are those who are weak, too weak to stand up on their own which is why God has brought this grace to help them stand and regain their stamina by first finding their foot in the things of God. The grace to take them by the hands and lift them up from where Satan, sin and all sorts of disobedience have reduced them to a crumb of bread is what God has brought now. If especially you're a victim of witchcraft but used to be something before, God is concerned about your restoration also.

Do you know the passage of the Bible that occurs to my mind? It's the images of Peter and John at the beautiful gate. It is written that they took him by the hand and lifted him up. Who?

"2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 

6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.  

7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.  

8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God." 

Immediately, there's a testimony that his feet and ankle bones received strength but that's because he was aided or assisted by a supernatural deposit. You must know that the touch of Peter helped established a contact and so he received the anointing to help him over that particular deficient area of his life. You're receiving such help but supernaturally now in JESUS' name. You, you'll be aided to rise, stand up and walk in your grace, office and anointing again. You shall see visions like those days again. Your flow is flowing again. 

Currently, strength is aiding you. I say, stand up. Receive Spirit's aid. Let strength rush to your area of weakness and superiorly superimpose itself over your weakness. Your weakness shall no longer backstab you because today, God is coming to lift you from that place you are dropped, forgotten and have been relegated to - cringing like a beggar though you're a spiritual warlord. I say, rise. I call you forth from the dead. Whereever your prince has been walking on foot, I declare, "be reinstated." God's supernatural power is doing it. What I hear is that, "the zeal of the Lord God of hosts is doing it" (Isa.9:7). It is now and not tomorrow. Let your graves open. Fly out of every prison. Let your shackles be broken. Be collected from the holes and every dry wells. Receive a new donation of strength to run and serve with. Be glad and jubilant like that man. Run and not be weary. Mount up with wings like an eagle. Go in the strength of today's ministration and fulfill your destiny by going full length like Elijah went in the strength of those meals all the way to Mount Horeb, the mount of God. So shall it be. It's the hands of the Lord that has caused it. Receive your great revival, the opening of your graves, your setting on your feet a great army from nothingness and the spoil of the enemy. Never forget but always be put in remembrance.

PRAYER: Thank You Lord for the restoration.

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 - 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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