MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/07/2023

SUNDAY- 30TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

Long Life and God's Salvation Oreoluwa ADEJUMO (M'Wings)

THE COMMANDED IS THE COMMANDED EVEN THOUGH HE QUESTIONS YOU

Mark 11:1, KJV

"1 ...he sendeth forth two of his disciples, 2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him. 3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither".

I looked at Jesus and I resorted at a man who lived the ordained and the predestined life. How I pray that our feet will all meet with the pre-planned of God. May you not go astray or wander off God's ready made plans. May you rather fit into it to the praise of He who has called and chosen you. 

Jesus enjoyed a lot. This verse contains one of the special privileges Jesus had. Such a prophetic life. It is said and discovered to be so. Jesus put two disciples on errand to the end that they might fetch Him a colt. It's time to ride triumphantly into Jerusalem. Everything is timed. He gives the address and even sees into the future that they'll be questioned as to what purpose they need the colt for. So, in taking thought for them, He told them what response to give when asked who ordered them to loose the colt. 

You see, that's another thing that amazes me. How did He know they'll face the probing of men? Obviously, that's the operation of Word of Knowledge. It's the manifestation of revelation. Roads unwalked would just be clear to you. Paths untrodden would lay bare before you. You'll just know (not by yourself) but of God. As the attempt to fetch the colt begins, a group questions them if they knew what they were doing. Their response was, "the Lord has need of it". It's this answer that satiates. It's this answer that settles all. Meanwhile, though these two disciples were commanded disciples and the people they met were as well commanded yet, they were tried. So, should we say they were not in the first place commanded by God? No. They were commanded by God and have been put under command since those two disciples received that instruction to go untie that colt. Meanwhile, one understanding is being supplied to us here. It is the measure that sieves truth from falsehood. That measure has been put in place so that many people won't perpetrate evil successfully in the name of God without being found out and stopped. Imagine if when they asked who sent you them, they had said, "Pilate or one of the big names", what do you think would have happened? Those ones wouldn't have agreed that they untie it let alone go with it. The instruction they had received is that, "the Lord has need of it" and on that note, when He comes for it (irrespective of who He send) it should be released to Him. That's why you'll be a failure if you deliver the captive of the oppressor and you were asked and you said, you did. Only God does. 

These disciples faced a query, a panel though God had spoken to them in truth and in deed. They still needed to be checked, probed and proven. At day's end, it was clear that they were as well the commanded to the commanded. While God has put men under obligation for them, yet those men had to prove them if they were as well ones sent to them. As such, I say nothing is wrong if you propose to a sister and she says not me. If you're sure of who spoke to you, go and meet Him. He'll speak and bend the knee of that sister for you. It is only when people are doing trial and error and they miss it that they'll say God does not work. Did He lead or guide you to someone or you're trying to slate a meet and pitch a relationship with someone? If you miss it, admit you miss it. Repent of having said you were formerly led. Rebuke the spirit of error. Have your conscience repaired and wait on God for who He will send you to. The mark that it is the Lord's doing is that when you appear, you have a word for that person and the fellow has a word in return for you. It is when you both click and enter each other this way that the Lord has spoken to both of you to and fro and sent you to each other to and fro. This test filters away for us those God didn't send but who wants to take what God has prepared and He's reserving for His own beloved. God forbid! You'll be discovered and rebuked once. That someone is the commanded doesn't mean he won't check you out. If God sends your church to go and meet a driver who He has spoken to who will avail your church his bus for a week of mission and evangelism. Don't you think God in His wisdom would have given that man a sign as well as yourself so that when both of you meet, there'll be agreement that you're for each other. Why won't God do that since He's not the author of confusion? That's the clarity. It is the measure that rather solidify our faith in this act and practice that if God commands someone for your sake, they shall after all surrender to the will of God. They may check things out, they may want to know who sent you and question the authenticity of your appearing and coming. However, it shall be unto you as afore said to you by God and as predicted by the words of His mouth. Keep your calm. Be assured that they shall obey if it's God. What we must prove is, "is it God?"

PRAYER: I receive patient spirit to tarry to hear God before my feet runs any errand.. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 21:1-23:21; Romans 11:13-36; Psalm 22:1-18; Proverbs 20:7

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FOR THE LORD SUSTAINS YOU: Thanking The Lord For The Life Of Oreoluwa ADEJUMO, M'Wings

FOR THE LORD SUSTAINS YOU: Thanking The Lord For The Life Of Oreoluwa ADEJUMO, M'Wings

I heard in my spirit, "for the Lord sustains you". I knew not what to say or preach or bring as a definite reason for thanksgiving (on your behalf) until I heard, "for the Lord sustains you". 

Of a truth, it's the Lord who has sustained you. Same has sustained all of us also but in particular (as today 30/07/23 is your birthday), it fits to see specifically why you're the favoured one who the Lord has particularly sustained. 

People and well-wishers with us, what does the Bible say concerning Oreoluwa and how the Lord has been her sustainer till now? See this Bible verse with me.

Psalms 3:5, KJV

"I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me".

Did we all read that? Once more, echo to me what it says specifically as it addresses Oreoluwa who we're celebrating today? It says, "she laid down and slept; she wakes; for the Lord sustains her". First thing first. That place says, "you lie down and sleep..." Let that portion suffice us for now. When that place says, "you (Oreoluwa) laid down and slept", it is referring and reminding you of your daily laying down or going to bed. Oreoluwa, I'll like you try to count how many times you have gone to bed since you have been born. I want to see whether it is countable and rememberable.

(We may be laughing already)...

If I'll join the other part of that verse to it, it'll read, "you (Oreoluwa) lay down and sleep; you wake up because the Lord sustains you". On daily basis that you have travelled into the dream world, sleeping, resting, taking a nap and being inactive (unlike being awake), that place brings to our remembrance one major thing that the Lord has carefully, selectively and proudly done for you. It is that, "He sustains you". Oreoluwa, God is bringing one thing to you. It is that, "I want you to see that I am the One who sustains you". It is just like He says of being the One who heals you (and consequently us or all of us). 

So, you ought esteem and see the importance of having been kept on this journey of laying down to sleep and waking up thereafter (to and fro) for these long years. It is this recognition that can and will fill you with gratitude for being alive today. Yes, the gratitude to fall before God and acknowledge Him as your sole keeper and sustainer.

No one has given you the hope of a new day to see the sunlight and participate in the business of our world if not this God. So, He's solely claiming right, praise, esteem for having been your keeper, watcher and sustainer. And let's be sincere, you ought acknowledge Him so. All of us who are well wishers ought acknowledge Him so in our lives too. Don't give - in any way; don't mistakenly give praise in any way to any one, thing or factor for having been responsible for your sustainance. They're not capable. Nothing is enough and has been given that ability to sustain man daily in this life. It is rather His Creator's to see to or cease from! Not any man's. Believe me. 

If you were living in Japan which has the highest life expectancy in the world, their government and welfare put together is far less to be given the credit of having sustained you when you sleep and then wakes up. No! It ain't any good government. So, I'll say none of us here, including my wife, the celebrant should make the mistake of ever u-turning praise and usurping God's glory by giving it to another standing or existing entity. I can tell you from having known God and His fear that that'll be the death of that entity in particular. Funny enough, God may spare the one who wrongly attributes the honour of sustainance to another but that other one (who the honour is being given to and who receives it without knowing God to attribute it to) shall die. To be acquitted before God and His host, let me quickly confess that though I am your husband, I am not the one and I have not been the one who has been sustaining you. If anybody is now here who will see it wise to claim God's gold of having being your sustainer (whether they be father, mother, sibling, boss, doctor, personal nurse, friend) etc, let them go ahead. However, I, Olusola ADEJUMO M'Wings have saved my own head. Heaven is my witness and all of you reading are.

You know one aged song that we used to sing in primary school occurs to me now. That song summarily briefs God's sustaining work over you. It says:

"Every day and every night

Angels are keeping watch over us

All day and all night

Angels are keeping watch over us".

It is this sustaining work the Lord did and persistently does as the years roll and turn and as the cycle continues that has made each and everyone of us here today to still be relating with you as a living soul. Let me quickly stop here to discharge the burden for prayer in my heart. I'm soaked with a particular burden for prayer. Say with me everyone: "may I not stop enjoying God's sustainance". There's no one who they say dies untimely that it's not because he lacks sustainance for that day. Sustainance is like daily bread that we gather from God. Each day's sustainance must be given us by Him. It's still give us today our daily bread.  That's what we live on. That's what we enjoy. So, I pray for you that you shall not stop knowing God's sustainance. You have known it today; you shall know it tomorrow and shall continually know it until it could be said of you that you discharge and serve the will of God in your generation and then sleeps (Acts 13:36).

What a thing that a man can go to bed and in the hope of being sustained make plans for tomorrow!

What are plans if not that the Lord sustains you? Plans can't execute themselves. They need the planner, a human being (who derives his breath (araulah) from God and also takes his being from God to give them meaning by execution. Just like we're useless without God and His daily sustainance, so are plans useless without us. They can't execute themselves. But I thank God for you that even when you sleep, you always wake up (and that's obviously because the Lord sustains you). We can't rob God of what He does. We have to give Him the works of His hands and let His work praise Him at the gate. 

Look at me people and all our well wishers. God wants to empower you. God is saying I should tell you that He wants to empower you and arm you against death. You may be curious, already at your chair's edge or on tip toe seeking to understand how God wants to do that.  That's praise worthy!

God says I should tell you that, "when you go, you will come. When you sleep; you will wake". He's saying He'll keep your to and fro (not only in real life journeys as the cycle of life goes) but even in your travels while asleep. Accidents do happen even in sleep-travels but God is saying, you'll always have safe journeys. He's assuring that He has given you the power to lay down and wake up and because He has given you that franchise or power to lay down and wake up, no one anywhere (including spirits) can gang up to say, 'no more fuel of sustainance for you". They just can't terminate you. Some passages of the Bible are flooding me now. 

One, a king stretched his hand against a prophet with a proclaimation to seize him. Immediately, the Bible records that hand withers and could not be retracted. 

1 Kings 13:4, KJV

"And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him".

Note, "so that he could not pull it again to himself". That's a big trouble and frustration that he couldn't bring back what he willingly sent and stretched out. Kai! I pray for you that you will not be denied the ability to take up what you have willingly laid down. When you sleep, I declare again and again, you shall always recover back to the land of the living.

The power word I want to use is the fact that "he stretched it out (he went, he slept) but he couldn't retract it back (return or wake to life again). Why? The ability to go (to sleep) was exercised freely by him but the more or greater power to return (wake up as fit our discussion) was denied him. 

On this note, I am proclaming upon you that you shall be granted daily and as at now you have been granted by God the ability not only to LAY IT DOWN but to TAKE IT UP.

Jesus while speaking to His disciples also secretly addresses death (though not present with them there) not to glory over Him at all. He said it as a pro and one with heaven's revelation. He knows of a surety that no one could cut His life short since the FATHER has not given it to them. So, He tells death (knowing He'll also soon have to lay it down - die)  to keep shut and watch it because... He has been given the right to lay it down and then pick it up. Of Himself, He exercises control over His very life. What a thing! Don't you like that franchise? Won't you like God to give you that?

John 10:17-18, KJV

"17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father".

Look at trouble staring at us (lol). Jesus says He has power to lay it down and to take it again. That's the power that other king lacked. That's the same power God is giving you today.

The power to go and come even in your sleep-journeys and outings. You can't be killed. Because of a surety, you must live on. You must go and come; sleep and wake. You have the power now but however you can give yourself away. You're the only one who can give yourself away. Watch your mouth people! And let me tell you, laying it down is not as important as picking it up indeed. Going is not as important as returning. Stretching is lesser than retracting. So, it's not important that you sleep or journey, you must wake and always return.

I told you Jesus spoke as a pro. He knows definitive things about Himself. Imagine Him saying, "no man can take His life..." and then concluding with, "this commandment I have received of My Father". Eeeh! Imagine God signing a contract with you that no one could kill you! It means God, the Father fully gave the exercising of right to Jesus on His own life. What a thing! He has the power to lay it down and then take it up. May that power prove for you on daily basis.

On this basis, I say thank God for being your sustainer on daily basis as you sleep, wake, grow, glow and go. 

Meanwhile, "I sleep and wake up" as used in that Psalm also is used to denote our day in, day out living and how it has been the Lord who has been sustaining us in that to and fro living, journey, repeated cycle and repeated habit of our life. 

May the God of yesterday (who sustained you) prove Himself as the God of days to come(that you yet haven't seen). Do you know my prayer for you dear? It's that you'll have the testimony of David. What was his testimony?

1 Samuel 17:37

"David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me from the paw of the lion, and from the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee".

David acknowledged that the God of ages past in his life is as well and will be the God of years to come. That's your testimony. You've seen today (because the Lord sustains you), you'll see tomorrow (because He'll yet sustain you). You'll be able to look back in retrospect and summon assurance to defy the future, its posers and challenges and gory over it all in victory. Look, you have seen tomorrow. That commandment you have also received of your Father!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

morningwingministry@gmail.com

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/07/2023

SATURDAY- 29TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

MARKING OUR COMMANDED

READ Gen. 24

Genesis 24:7, KJV

"The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence".

There's another miracle that's mostly found or attached to finding it so (where you're given a description and you go but to meet it so). That other one is the miracle of commanding or putting men under command for your sake. I have taught this previously in a series but it's coming anew. 

I have loads of reasons not to doubt an inch that before the arrival of that servant of Abraham, God had to kneel Rebekah on her knees to receive Isaac. One of the things that amazes me is prophecy and consequently its manifestation and how God can start drawing a line here and connect it to another there. God can raise a man here and raise another there and make both cross path together. Shockingly, they may not have met and may even differ in race, tongue or tribe. It's the Lord's doing and it's always marvellous in our sights. We have rolls of testimonies upon testimonies on how God led or guided A to B yet B was not in unawareness of the fact that A would come. That's the God of prophecy. He's the only One who could draw an angle on a straight line in this manner. He gives A a word and He confirms same to B so that there'll be agreement when they both meet. Believe Him!

Abraham told his servant from the confidence of having walked and tarried with God that God's angel will go before him and help him in choosing rightly for Isaac. At the well, the fact that leading and guidance are not scam or fraud turns me from the inside out. That servant stood by the well that day and prayed. 

Genesis 24:12-15, KJV

"12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder".

Imagine brethren! That place says, "before he was done praying", behold Rebekah came out. Where was she hiding before? Everything looks as if it was planned, arranged and automated right? It can't but look like that and that's because something divine is now working and walking with this man who has gone to find a wife for Isaac. When God is with you, such is the destiny meet you'll have and experience. What Abraham said that an angel will go before him in reality is true. The manifestation of an angel having gone before him is what we are witnessing now. Despite the fact that he leaned the choice of who he wants Isaac's wife to be to the woman who will give him a drink and then water his camels (a very hard one), yet it was the right, chosen and ordained one that came. It's the one he'll be happy to go back with for his master that came. It is the daughter of Bethuel, a relative who shows up and not one who's not of the kindred of Abraham and so will be unfit according to the afore stated requirement (Gen.24:4). How well believers must know they must not be unequally yoked! Rather, we marry our kindreds in faith. 

What sort of life is this? A miraculous life. This man didn't stoop low. He lifted his bargain higher. He inflated the price on who to Isaac's wife will be. He didn't stop at she who will give him a drink but she who will water his camels also. Ten camels for Christ's sake! I agree with giving a man a drink. He won't even finish a gallon but what about 10 solid camels who had journeyed and of surety are thirsty. I'm sure those camels have even used up most of the storage of fat and energy in their hump and now they're all craving for replenishment. Who is that born well lady except one under command from the Lord (chosen and ordained) who will agree to such demand when there's no prize obviously at sight. Nobody! I am sure. Except she that God has commanded and appointed. The fact that such has been commanded or secretly afore spoken to by God is revealed in how without argument, they are prepared to do hard things for your sake. It is only a request from Abraham's servant to Rebekah that got the job down. She agrees to give him a drink and then volunteers to give his camels. 

Genesis 24:17-19, KJV

"17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking".

Mind you, though this servant prayed to God that service would be extended to his camels by that chosen fellow yet he didn't request that of Rebekah specifically. It was Rebekah who volunteered herself for that. What else proves she's under God's command and is an answer to Abraham's desire for Isaac?

Imagine a man adopt a child and gives him the best just like he's giving his biological children, so much more that differences couldn't be read between them. That man even if he didn't hear any audible voice was softened or spoken to by the Lord and put under such obligation. This is why I don't worry. This is why I don't turn to all persons for help. I only go to those commanded for my sake. I only pray to be led or guided to them. Even if you make overwhelming demands on them (not because of covetousness) but in order to prove God who has sent you to them, you'll see them rise to meet it. Look at how God met the need of Abraham's son. As if Abraham knew it, he had said God's angel would go ahead of them to make the journey prosperous and so it is. Rebekah so much comes under God's spell and command that she wouldn't even agree with her brethren to tarry some days before departure. While they were advocating for her, she rather refused and chose to go immediately with a total stranger (Gen.24:57-58). Now, I'll say irrespective of where you are, live or stay, God can send you to who to marry, befriend (as in normal friendship) or to submit to (as in father-son relationship). I want the relationship I have with people be the type that's ordained of God and not the type that people choose friends based on perceived reasons. I want to be ignorant of a fellow yet finding God knitting my heart with his and vice versa. This is how  Markson Etta Lane Timothy Benson (Missionary to the Cameroon and Calabar) and I met in Nigeria Christian Corpers' Fellowship in Kastina. It began as a relationship of a father to a son. I coached him in the things of God. I just observed that he admires me though older than I. Something about me (the anointing I sure know) attracts him and so he sticks to me. Even other corp members would fondly call me Elijah and call him Elisha. On this note, he opens to all I have to say and so I was able to instruct him in much. Not knowing he'll even go into ministry later, I told him of Zacharias Tanee Fomum of Cameroon who has the ministry of mission, fasting and praying. Just in a year, this young man found himself in that ministry and has been there since then. But today, our relationship has sweetly evolved. We are now friends. He's my covenant friend and brother. He's one of the few on earth's surface who could call me now and I'll exercise myself for and vice versa. 

People of God, the message I bring to you is that of destiny, destination and the ordainment of paths. It ain't joke. It works like fire when God is involved. You'll meet yours. The patronage Spirit of our tribe - the Christian tribe shall ensure you meet your Rebekah for marriage, business, friendship, fathering etc in the name of Jesus. Whenever you meet the commanded, they're always under command - ready to do God's bidding even if they don't look commanded. Markson is the least I physically observed to open up to me and I'm too lean and physically deprived in stature to have been esteemed a prophet. However, we collided, we met; deep called unto deep and so we remain. To this end, I say HALLELUJAH! Let God work out relationships for you or else they'll be those of sorrow and pain to you. The God who spoke through Abraham that an angel would go ahead in choosing a wife for Isaac is He who must have secretly persuaded Rebekah of acceptance of an Isaac that she has never seen before. Whatsoever God does is straight. Don't add to His work lest He rebukes you and don't remove from His act lest you're proven a liar. Apart from prophecy being made manifest (like the servant met Abraham's words so), your path shall cross with the commanded. Those who will stick closer than a brother. Those who could risk all for you. Those who will submit in surrenderness and say, "I am the handmaiden of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Your (God's) word". Such are always Mary in obedience. 

PRAYER: Father, ordain my path with those critical to my destiny. I become Mary at heart and in obedience. Kneel people for me. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 21:1-23:21; Romans 11:13-36; Psalm 22:1-18; Proverbs 20:7

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COUNT IT ALL JOY by Olusola ADEJUMO M'Wings

COUNT IT ALL JOY

Wayfarer!

Count it all joy

When only thou is found to push the boat into the water;

When only thou rolls the boat with your strength

Seeking its stability and sure arrival

But all fingers say that's a man who's alone.

Take ease and count it all joy.

Be appropriate with it seafarer

When your ship now afloat is what all mankind joins

Becoming pregnant with people is much diversities to be faced

You must carry them all like a father

And bear them all like a mother

You must endure them like Moses

And bring them water from the hard rock

In all these I pray for you

May no bone of yours be ever broken

Count it all joy O sought out!

If the things of life you're not always availed

If your blanket be torn and your shoes worn out

Be comforted of being His to see or cease

Count it all joy if your good is evil spoken of

And men evil entreat you

Weep no more 

You're sharers in the prophets' fate and reward

Count it all joy if at the hour of temptation

'tis then only your salvation appears as a beacon of light

Heralding itself with no hampering

And staying on your very roof

That's the Lord's doing that suffices us

Verily marvellous is it in our sight

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

morningwingministry@gmail.com

27/07/2023

11:20pm - 11:50pm

CALLING DIFFERS FROM CALLING

THOSE WHO DECIPHER WILL DO WELL

Look, it is not pride but truth well spoken. While it is truth well spoken, it's not to affirm some people and buffet or derogate others. Far be it from us and we from that!

However in truth, we know that:

"Calling differs from calling. The call to be a FOUNDER is different from the call to be an ASSOCIATE. The call to START something is different from the call to JOIN something. 

If that be, I'll say again that, "faith differs from faith. The faith to start something isn't the same faith it takes to join something. What is started is hard to push to work but what is joined is already working. You only enter into its rest. Also, while one gives immediate yield, the other only holds the promise of yielding if ever followed through".

If this be, do permit me to say, "suffering differs from suffering also. The suffering of a founder and his hardship is not the suffering and sacrifice of an associate. On this note, I can say their jealousy and protection of the works will be different also. While one may play the shepherd and give his life for the sheep, the other may play the hireling (who sees the wolves coming but flees).

If that be, their rewards and honour can't but be different also. 

Please, don't debate it.

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

morningwingministry@gmail.com

WHAT WILL USE YOUR TIME?

WHAT WILL USE YOUR TIME?

May problems not use our time. Two things will use your time.  Problems or your calling. The initiative of Satan and his attack on mankind is to ensure it is problems that use our time. He will keep you busy in the wrong things but which are necessary for human survival on earth. 

He'll keep you busy searching for greener pastures and seeking for food. If this is all you ever use your time and life to pursue, problems have successfully used your time.

I found out that problems will never finish. The hunt for food, clothing and shelter will continue to maraud the heart of mankind. As a matter of fact, that's why mankind cheat, embezzle or even kill. But life is more than raiment. Jesus said that. He said we should look beyond this ephemeral pursuit.

If all we ever live for is what to eat or what to wear, where will our definitive purpose or the calling put in our soul be? Humanity is not ordinary. God sent us here to live the God ordained life. The life we live and the steps we carry ought to be documented ones as already slated by God. But, is that so?

You may pursue food - what to eat and what to wear until you're utmostly entangled and your time is gone. What all of us have is time. The more I celebrate new birthdays, the more I scrutinize if I'm at all fulfilled. I just found out there are more grounds to cover yet it seems to my own sight (not faith) that only little time is left. I'm talking of time of usefulness on earth. 

The Lord told me this evening that the wise are those who know where they should be and contrary to any opposition or want goes there to thrive and begin to survive.

As a matter of fact, I count you blessed and happy as God does if contrary to what the economy, parents, peers and other influences are saying you could go into your definitive purpose, calling or passion. 

The conspiracy of the devil and life will be that you don't fulfill your passion and calling. It may be burning in you and beckoning you to come but if you never walk that road, you can never, will never know real joy or satisfaction.

Many of us are on the wrong jobs. We know because we have no joy doing them or let's say our joy are mist like. It appears in the morning and dissipates in the evening. That can't be your calling. 

Calling is passion. You don't close from passion. Even if you close from work at 5pm daily, if that job is what you're crafted to be in, work will still continue at home. Those who are in a dead end are those praying that closing time will soon strike. They are those seeking for unnecessary holidays and vacations. A man of the calling doesn't vacate and he's the one who actually lives longer. That's because of the energy influence generated to keep him going, desiring life and more from life. They are the strong willed ones and their decision to continue always lead to a release of permission to stay, stay and stay longer. 

I have not found anything else as replenishing, renewing, energizing, rewarding as following one's passion. 

You see, the problem many are facing now is how to go and face their passion (which calling is). But the question is how will they survive starting from the bottom again? This is somebody who has been earning #450,000 that God is calling into full time ministry in the Nigeria of today.

He has heard God but responsibility and the large appetite he has cultivated over the years is now slaughtering him. The wife is saying, "who will pay the school fees and who will pay the house rent? What will my family say?" Many people be like that. They find to go eventually into their calling and passion a big problem. 

Those people know their calling but TO GO is the problem. Over and over, you will see unfulfillment written all over them. A vision has been caught surely. She wants to set up a Fashion Outfit but she's afraid of how it might turn.

If you'll either have faith enough or be crazy enough to dare it, only then will you see the salvation of the Lord!

Unless you're in this position, you'll think it's easy just detaching and following after your passion like that. If that were so, many people won't still be there waiting for the right time. And I tell you, that right time might not come. You do not have all day. Your brand, content and ministry must be touched but it all begins with starting even before we discuss DILIGENCE and present to you COMMITMENT.

Permit me to address ministers now. Let's say you're such man who earns that much like I stated earlier, nothing is wrong if for the purpose of the new passion you need to follow you cut down your expenses. 

I'm not seeing any mockery in that and I care less if I'm mocked over that. It is what I can do I will do. If your children are in money collecting private schools, it is no reproach if you relocate them to less expensive ones. This applies to ministers who are especially founders and are starting out and do not want to be reputed for borrowing as time goes on. Ministry at the on start is not always interesting especially if you're not a paid minister. 

However, you have another option. If you have proven God over the years before crossing over to full time ministry and you personally know He's the same as He's always been, then you may become the brutal one who by the handle of faith knows God will meet all your needs. David said the God who gives him victory over the paws of the lion and the bear would give him over that uncircumcised Philistine as well. 

But first of all, that was no mere confession. It's coming from a man who has been on the journey. A man who has experienced it all and who could call God faithful! That's because he has over time experienced him to be faithful. 

Nothing promises real adventure and liberty than pursuing passion or purpose.

When you're in the wrong place, on the wrong job or in the wrong field, you're always like a man that's shut in a place with little or no air to breathe. You'll feel you're dying and that you need a saving but somehow someway, you just don't know how to escape or let's say, you're not courageous enough to escape. I'll say, call the call and stop the stop.

I want to be on a job, in a work and in a sphere where problems are motivation to rush to the next day's work. 

A place I could see as my world, the sphere of light where I gain practical experience that I may not even be able to verbalize or communicate. However, I know I have inner joy, energy, contentment and approval of God. 

When you've missed it, you surely know. Fat salary is not always a sign of fulfilment.

I know people who are leaving the public view, fat salaries, notable sites to relocate to lesser esteemed ones to start dancing to the tune of their souls - their callings. 

Brothers and sisters, men and brethren, this is no joke. Stop the pursuit of food (only). Leave that and cross to the sole pursuit of purpose. It may be hard to fend there but lean your life to what it avails you. Let your wife adjust to that. Don't be ashamed. If you are, endure the suffering. Walk this less travelled road as highlighted by the iconic poem of Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken, 1916) and you'll have the testimony of having chosen differently and rewardingly one day.

I pray for you all, God shall indeed be your exceeding great reward! It will be something more than gold for you all at the end of it all. Believe in God and Believe in yourself!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

morningwingministry@gmail.com

27/07/2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/07/2023

FRIDAY- 28TH JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

GOING AND MEETING IT SO

Luke 2:10-12 KJV

"10 And the angel said unto them...11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger".

Yesterday, I told you that the life I want to live is the life that predicts it and then have same prediction. Thoughts of welfare have been verbalized concerning each of us. They've gone into our future but we can meet with them and live according to their dictates. Abraham, the father of faith himself told the head of his house that, "the Lord God of heaven who took him from his father's house...shall send His angel before him..." In this manner, that servant of Abraham was assured. He went and he met it so. Everything played out for his good in a foreign land. At the gate, he met a woman prepared and ordained by the Lord for Isaac who will not care less but care for him and even the ten camels! He raised the standard high to test the authenticity of God being involved, yet he met someone who will still be willing to fulfill such a hard requirement of giving him drink and then his camels. What a word that has come to pass! To this end, he bowed and worshipped God who has done unto him as Abraham had said. The angel Abraham talked about who would go before him was to arrange things for him and make all impossibilities become possibilities to him. What a glorious God! I'm in awe of you! Lord God, this is the life I want to live. The life that sees predictions being fulfilled for good in his sight. The life that doesn't become less of what God has said. The life that coincident and hit on what has been said - all for good. May we not miss the mark!

Meanwhile, the Spirit of God wants to express some further things. An angel of God appeared to some shepherds, breaking the news of Jesus' birth to them and telling them as a sign, He would be found in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes.  Notwithstanding, they endeavour to journey to see. Upon arrival however, they found it to be true. 

Luke 2:16, KJV

"And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger".

According to the delivery angel's word, the babe would be found in a manger. At their arrival, it was so. This is not coincidence. It is God's arrangement to fulfill and meet what was said. If not, such major detail about how Jesus would be found could have changed before their arrival. Will it take a minute to take Jesus out of the manger and put Him somewhere else? However, when God was speaking through that angel, it's the conclusion of the event God was uttering. He has seen it and now He declares it. We haven't seen it and that's why it behooves us. However, before it happens in the realm where we could experience it, God declares it to us that we might praise Him for His greatness. No wonder, one of the things those shepherds later celebrated was what they heard that angel told them which they eventually met so. It's amazing and they couldn't keep it. 

Luke 2:20, KJV

"And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them".

Brethren, God is not a liar. He is not even the son of man that He should change His mind. What has He spoken to you as promise? You will find it so. The difference between "here" and "there" of fulfilment of what He has said is "t" denoting time. By time when you make arrival, you shall witness all those things having come to pass. You'll be so much gripped in you that you'll shout, "this is the Lord's doing" and it's marvellous in our sight. It always commands attention when it is the sole work done by the Lord. Wait for it. It shall speak. That promise shall speak. Even though it tarries now, it shall seek fulfilment because it's a word on errand. 

PRAYER: Lord, all words of welfare that have gone ahead of me, I receive their fulfilment live.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 19:1-20:37; Romans 10:14-11:12; Psalm 21:1-13; Proverbs 20:4-6

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