MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 04/08/2023

FRIDAY- 4TH AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

NO MAN!

Luke 9:62, KJV

"And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God".

No man remains no man. No man irrespective of who he is having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

Look, it is still no man - irrespective of race, tribe, tongue, gender, status, whether literate or illiterate. It is still no man. If you put your hand to the plough, if you give your commitment to Christ, if you say, it is His race and His errands you'll run; if you go into His service (obviously having thought it well and believed it so before you do), we believe and we account that you ought stay there for commitedly and for life. If unfortunately however, you look back (betraying Him, backstabbing Him, forsaking Him, departing from Him,

leaving His service) for the sake of other things that have now become very valuable to you suddenly or by process of time, then your sort should not be sought for recruitment into God's service. 

We should mark your type and once we see this trait that doesn't follow through and follow to the end in you, we should not think or seek to commit to you. If we do, we won't reap any difference. It'll be putting the hand on the plough, taking the oath of service, entering service, doing service but painfully exiting it. If while schooling, you couldn't follow to the end but jumped out, if when you went into business, you also jumped out, then it fits to say you have a habit of not finishing. We should mark your type and consequently think how hard it'll be for you to follow through in God's service. You might also jump out. It means you're not a single and focused man. You rarely count the cost before taking on tasks and projects. 

Jesus Himself says, such people are not fit for the kingdom of God. Mind you, He didn't say the kingdom of heaven. He said, the kingdom of God. That is, they are not fit to join us to gather this harvest. That is, they are not fit to be labourers with us in His ministry. What ministry if not the ministry of fishing men and hauling them into the kingdom of heaven. Show me such as not fit for the kingdom of God, those who cannot be trusted as living blocks by which God could build and I'll show you men who don't have long suffering but who take a turn at the least pressure and difficult things. Such men don't see their rewards blossom. Such men always have their rewards taken and enjoyed by another man. Such men all in all if they be of the type of Demas may eventually not be fit (for any other useful kingdom service) because they've looked back. I therefore pray for you that you won't look back. There's nobody who looks back who is fit again. Something always happen to them. They're always broken down and early retired and taken out of active service. Having followed after other loves, they are usually held by them. May you however not be one. May you stand tall and firm. May your commitment to follow God be an allegiance daily lived for Him. May you not be presumptuous and heed the call in the shallowness of your mind only to jump out of it at the slightest pressure or love for other things. May you love father and mother and all other precious things moderately and lesser than you'll esteem Christ, His call and His service. 

PRAYER: Lord, I refuse to be a disappointment - the odd one out. I shall not be taken out. I have taken the oath, I shall be useful for service.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 35:1-36:23; 1 Corinthians 1:1-17; Psalm 27:1-6; Proverbs 20:20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 3/08/2023

THURSDAY- 3RD AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

Happy Risen & Upright Month!

EACH MAN TO HIS OWN FIELD

Read II Samuel 18:19-33

II Timothy 4:10, KJV

"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia".

Did you read that place? Demas has forsaken Paul, having loved this present world. In summary, Demas has gone his own way. He has chosen his own path and obviously his own fate. He has gone to Thessalonica. Meanwhile, it's not only Demas who travelled. Some other people did. Crescens to Galatia and Titus unto Dalmatia. But these other two men, have they run their races or the ones they were sent? 

There are two types of men running or doing something today. One are those who are doing it because they're commanded and equipped. They're the Cushis. The second are those doing it because they want to take the glory and have some measure of recognition. A good illustration of this is Ahimaaz. One was commanded and given a message to run with but the other wanted to run for the sake of being seen. He really has no message to give. Those are the two kinds of ministers we have. Those who are running their own race, running their own errands and then the sent or instructed. Demas went to do his own bidding but Crescens and Titus waited to run for Christ.

So unfortunate that Demas forsook the calling and the called to love this present world to depart to Thessalonica. Look at the usage of expression by Paul in, "and has loved this present world". What to contradict "present world" with is "eternal world". Present world won't endure. It will fade one day. It will pass. That's why the Bible admonishes that, "love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15, KJV).

Is there anything of ultimate value in the world? Not one. How did the Bible challenge us to see them? As the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life which passes but shall not endure (I John 2:16-17). Any who loves them does not have the love of the Father in him. So, while Demas has made his decision, we thank God that some were still found and availed for the ministry of the Lord Jesus. These are Crescens and Titus who have lent themselves to the Lord's use and ministry. The errands they have gone are the Lord's. They have become bondmen of Christ who are at His service; beck and call. While Demas has departed to Thessalonica to love this present world, they have left for Galatia and Dalmatia but on errands for Christ's service. They're being profitable to Paul for service and are bringing him much joy.

I pray for you today, you will not loose your estate by choosing wrongly. May you not say it is your race you want to run and your life you want to live. May you not desire freedom outside Christ and the calling. May you not seek your security and comfort to the detriment of the gospel and its cause. Rather, may you say, "yoke me with You and Your will I shall obey". 

PRAYER: Father, Your errand I will run. I shall not forsake my calling or make shipwreck of my faith.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 32:1-33:13; Romans 15:23-16:9; Psalm 25:16-22; Proverbs 20:16-18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/08/2023

WEDNESDAY- 2ND AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

Happy Risen & Upright Month!

INTERCESSION AND INTERCEPTION

I Samuel 17:34-35, KJV

"34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:  35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him".

Jesus said, Satan has asked for Peter that he may sift him and that his faith may fail (Lk 22:31-32). When someone's faith fails, he stumbles and possibly depart from the faith. If you ever meet such people and seek their restoration, they'll tell you they're now in their reality. They'll say they'd been shackled before but now they see. My brethren, when than any other time are they shackled if not now? But this is the outworking of Satan in their lives that they may remain bound and deceived. 

We may want to probe why Satan desires to have Peter of all the disciples. The truth is that if you'll deal the devil a great blow or you're critical to God's programme, it is you and such Satan seeks to take out first of all. Satan also has learnt one principle. "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter". That's why he's gunning for Peter. If he takes Peter out, leaderlessness might easily result amidst Christ's disciples. No wonder, Jesus Himself told Peter to strengthen his brethren (others) when he's converted (Lk 22:32). It means one thing. Peter is a leader and an influencer of other disciples. 

Jesus intercepted that act by interceding for Peter. It was Jesus' prayer that saved him. My prayer is that when the act of sifting begins in your life, someone somewhere, some people somewhere, a prayer somewhere and an aid from even an unknown place shall work for you. May people receive burdens concerning you. Such is the life of a shepherd  and his care over his sheep. David told Saul a mystery that explains intercession and interception in today's passage.  

What does David do when a lion and a bear come picking one of his sheep? He goes after them and delivers the lamb from its mouth and if they rise against him (not wanting to accept defeat that easily), he smotes them. 

The lion and the bear are symbolic of Satan and his cohort. When they come picking a lamb (a brother or sister), therefore causing his separation from the flock, may God raise an intercessor somewhere whose prayer can restore you to the fold - wake you up to your senses and stop you from regarding the house of death as life. May you find somebody to call, visit and call you to remembrance of all you've heard and taught yourself.  

The Bible records, "is this not a brand snatched out of the fire?" 

Zechariah 3:2, KJV

"And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?"

When there are multitude of firewoods and you take one out of those burning brands out of the fire, the one you take out easily dies. What Satan seeks to do is to separate Christians from fellowship with Christ, the brethren and every holy and anointed thing that could set a man on fire. He wants them to become a brand snatched out of fire so they could be easily handled by him. But I declare over you that you shall not be successfully plucked out of the communion of Christ. There may be request, desire and agitation in the spirit to have you but you shall resist Satan firm in your faith. And if your faith be weak, the Lord's intercession shall not fail over you. You shall also see Satan for who he is and resist him for who he is. So shall it be. Today, you're receiving intercessors. Those who will keep over your vineyard with jealousy and care. I received a lot of intercessors while doing campus ministry. Sister Bukola Oluwase and Sister Eunice Olabode were my two sisters' coordinators when I served as the fellowship president on campus. I heard and knew a great deal on how they interceeded for my campus ministry and how they encouraged other sisters executives to do same. I could remember hearing Sister Eunice say, "you know Bro. Sola is now the Christian Union (overall body of all Christians on campus) President, it means more loads. It also means he needs more intercession". Over the years, intercession of others are great parts of what make us yield our bounty and be saved from disgraces and every temptation of the devil. That's why I'm praying that you won't go empty handed but rather receive intercessors - those whose prayers will be precious in the sight of heaven and to shut the lion's mouth or force the gates of heaven open. To all my intercessors then and now, I say, "thank you. May the Lord bless you". Be assured that you have a share in my ministry. That's how God sees it and that's how I see it. You have by testimony and your contribution obtained a part and lot in anything I become or what our ministry is. Oooh, may the Lord bless you for being a contributing shareholder.

PRAYER: Lord, let your intercession over me stops the lion's mouth. Raise me intercessors as I stand to interceed for others.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 32:1-33:13; Romans 15:23-16:9; Psalm 25:16-22; Proverbs 20:16-18

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THE RISEN AND UPRIGHT SHEAF: A New Month Message

THE RISEN AND UPRIGHT SHEAF

Welcome to month risen and month upright. I am Olusola ADEJUMO M'Wings, your host on Morning Wings. 

Brethren, it's my prayer that you will stand and then stand upright. When you stand, you will stand tall. You won't be bowed because everything that can bow you will be bowed for your sake. And if you've been bowed (forcefully put under by the machinations of the devil), I call you back to your rightful place in Jesus' name.  

As we enter this new month, it's occuring to me to teach on your sheaf standing up and standing upright. What does the Bible say about someone's sheaf who's our envy for this teaching?

Genesis 37:7, KJV

"For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf".

The sheaf of Joseph did two things. It ROSE and then stood UPRIGHT. Others' however stood round his and worship it. It is clearly clear here that one shall serve the other; one shall be master and the other, the servant. 

Now, let me quickly tell you that those sheaves are representations of those brothers and Joseph himself in the spirit. Your sheaf is your representation in the spirit. Just like every church founded by God has a candle stick before Him in heaven, so also all of us have representations before God. We'll take the sheaf as an example. Your sheaf is you. However, let's enquire, "what must happen to your sheaf?" It should only be that it rises and stands upright always. 

If your sheaf has known uprightness and suddenly is bent; you may need to quickly seek troubleshooting and restoration. You've heard of people who were once successful and were the rave of the town but which something suddenly or by process of time subdues. He was once he that everybody calls and runs to. Now, it is he seeking every contact he could call. O my Jesus!

This world is full of envy and if you refuse to be strong, you'll surely be stamped out. Sheaves are contesting even in the work and political place for recognition and greatness. Evil machinations are being deployed to see that others are bent and bowed over. Competition may be so fierce that a fellow noticed for the spirit of excellence may want to be taken out for envy. The exact that they unleased against Joseph wondering what would later become of his dream. For this reason, you must seek power divine so that your sheaf will rise and stand upright always irrespective of the acts. Standing upright shows distinction. It is a mark of excellence and also headship. May you carry that headship today. 

More importantly, the upright sheaf is a sign of visibility. A thing that stands is easily seen. Many people there be who are not visible to people (who should notice them) because their sheaves are lying on their sides. Imagine someone's sheaf being on the ground in the spirit instead of being risen and upright. 

Ten people who sell or trade may be in a neighborhood and only one is notably visible to customers. It doesn't matter what others do. Even if they relocate upstairs, fix a big bill board for awareness or put in place customer relation ethics, yet customers may not be appealed to buy from them. I hope you know that there are those who engage the occult world for such result, so much more that they haul the customers of others to themselves. It's a function of the spirit (demonic) working with him or her. You can't wade it off by naturally working harder or making your shop more appealing. You have to counter and engage that spirit with God's power. That hold must be broken on you so that your sheaf that has been put to sleep, put under or on the ground would rise and stand upright. It's only then, mark me, only then you'll be visible. 

It is because you haven't learnt spirit things that makes you solely believe that locating a venue at a junction, by the road side or in a place of concourse is what would make you have patronizers. You better quit this act! No! John the Baptist was in the wilderness yet all Jerusalem, Judea and environ around went out to him (Matt. 3:5). People were rushing to his ministry. Why? They were appealed by the Spirit. There's Spirit awareness and recommendation when it is God who first sets you up. Meanwhile, I won't debate with you if why you wanted siting at a place of concourse is to hold yourself accountable immediately before people or fight the spirit and reproach of not wanting to be named or seen with Christ especially in this your day of small beginning. If that be, you're vindicated. 

What matters is that your sheaf stands up. What matters is that you have a candlestick before God. If you're this recognized and approved by heaven, they'll come one and all to your church. It is the mystery of the risen and upright sheaf. 

I pray for you that your sheaf will rise. The Bible says, "a city set on a hill cannot be hidden neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel but on a lamp stand to give light to all that's in the room" (Matt.5:14-15).

When your sheaf rises up and stands upright, you immediately become a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. Irrespective of your siting, you'll be attractive, locatable and visible. They'll just be searching you out. May I say that the visibility every true man should strive for is spirit visibility first of all. When your sheaf has taken its place in the spirit and is not bowed but upright with forthrightness, you'll be noticed. If your sheaf is laying down, bent and bowed in the spirit however, men may continue to bypass you for good. You may be beautiful but you won't just get proposals and if you do, only from players. But once this deed of the risen and upright sheaf effects itself on you, you immediately begin to sell. It will be you they'll send for, enquire from, give to, promote, belove and even choose above others. It's because you're set where you are locatable. You're a city set on a hill which can no longer be hidden. You've broken fetters and blasted bushels. You have refused to be caged or subdued but rather to manifest unfettered. So, men would be persuaded of you. 

It doesn't matter what has happened to you and changed your position and status for another. Today, I'm sent to say, RESTORE! Whereever sheaves that should be worshipped are the ones worshipping, I cause a reversal. Princes might have become slaves you know and they might even have exchanged rides for a lower status or degree. However, the decree is that, "take your place. Let headship be clear. Receive that mark of distinction and be praised and noted for same. 

I pray that any power supremely bowing your sheaf from rising and being observed for good are blasted and rebuked in Jesus' name. I say to you son and daughter of God that your sheaf will rise and rise uprightly in the gathering of sheaves. Amidst whomsoever, you won't be the one with a bowed and bent sheaf - begging for life and seeking to be. Rather, like Joseph, you'll be established as a risen and upright sheaf on your hill. You'll reign as chief because God is your upper arm and he Who gives you upper hand. 

This month, you are RISEN and you are UPRIGHT! Be the head only!

Olusola ADEJUMO, M'Wings.

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/08/2023

TUESDAY- 1ST AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

Happy Risen & Upright Month!

THE WOES OF DEMAS

II Timothy 4:10, KJV

"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia".

Did you read that? Let me quicky ask you this. What would you be reputed for? Paul says, "Demas has forsaken him, having loved this present world". Let me say that God is not saying you shouldn't have other loves or interests. However, nothing must rival or tower Him. For Demas, something towered God's love and the calling in his life. It's such thing that you love more that'll eventually have you. That's why Demas couldn't escape it. Paul says, "having loved this present world". That's the world that'll fail, that'll pass. You should observe what idea Paul seeks to convey. The revelation that what he fell for doesn't worth it. He fell for this present world - what you and I know will pass away with its lust (I John 2:17). Many are still falling for the ephemeralness of what Demas fell for. They yet haven't seen the tangibility in operating their callings but rather to seek after distraction. Just for a little kingdom of the world dangled before them, they immediately forget they are on a messianic mission to save people and bring them Christ's light. The devil tempted Jesus with this present world also. He told Him to bow to him and that He'll be rewarded with "all these things". You see, "all these things" have been the woes of many men. 

Matthew 4:8-9, KJV 

"8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me".

It is that "all these things" that Demas couldn't resist. All these things stole him from God's kingdom and its righteousness. So little. Probably a few gold, purple dresses, proper shelter and ladies' bosoms that he could grab and hold unto. That's all. Or it might be a personal ambition or dream devoid of Christ and His will. Paul in anguish lament at that. Just look at the expression. 

Demas has forsaken me also reveals a sort of betrayal that's not expected or that which causes awe but what would he do? Demas has made his choice of who to go be with. Paul here is symbolic of the call and Demas has chosen to separate from him. Demas sure has his lot in their ministry. However, his eyes couldn't stay in one place. He loved this present world and went to Thessalonica after it. As typical of those who later went to be with the world (departing from their calls), they must have longed, interacted and visited the world for long occasionally until they finally decided to take that last step to be with it and stay with it perpetually. The step that tore them separably from Christ. The very opportunity Satan was awaiting all this while. Eventually, his wishes has come to pass over them. 

Jesus speaking of Satan and his desires over men, especially men of the calling says this to Peter. 

Luke 22:31-32, KJV

"31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren".

When you sift something, it's to make a separation between two things and to regard one and disregard the other. When Satan asks to sieve Peter, he wanted to sieve him of all the substances of his faith so he could be easily trapped and handled by him. Nothing will remain because the substance of faith, virtue, prayer, fellowship, Bible study, zeal for God would have all been eliminated. It means such victim is now a shaft that the wind could not only carry but toss wherever it wants. How? What would make him endure, resist and persevere has been taken away. So, he'll just be too weak and vulnerable to resist Satan one bit. That was Satan's plan, wish, desire and prayer over Peter. However, he found grace because somebody interceded for him. Ooooh, may you enjoy intercession and interception. May you not be taken away like that. May there be a fight over you which will result into your eventual salvation. This road of forsaking the call which you're beginning to tour, may its cycle not be completed over you. May you come to your understanding. May you not leave where you already have a measure of testimony and could be said to have obtained a part of the ministry to ephemeralness and what doesn't really reward. May you not sell your share and remove yourself from being a stakeholder in what Christ owns which you're building on. May you stay and grow old with your call. 

PRAYER: Lord, save me from covetousness. A man's life doesn't consist in the abundance of what he has. May I not be enticed successfully by this present world.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 30:1-31:21; Romans 15:1-22; Psalm 25:1-15; Proverbs 20:13-15

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/07/2023

MONDAY- 31ST JULY, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

PEOPLE ARE GOING THEIR WAYS

Read Matt. 27:1-5

Acts 1:24-25, KJV

"24 And they prayed, and said... 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place".

This season is a dangerous season and you'll soon know why it is. The vision I see is of people hurriedly going their way to and people hurriedly going their way fro. This season is dangerous because while some will stay with their callings or are going to be with the Lord (in their callings); others are choosing to stray and go their ways (out of the will of God which they have known). This makes this season dangerous and it's dangerous because it keeps sweeping the feet of even those who have been planted already in God's will. Men are now repenting, not from their sins and frivolities but from God's will to doing the lust of the flesh and the riot man. 

The Bible records this concerning Judas Iscariot and I found it is not the testimony anyone should have spoken about him or her. 

Acts 1:25, KJV

"...from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place".

Note the expression, "from which Judas fell, that he might go to his own place." What should be his place? Where I ask if not the calling? However, this man who the Bible praises as having a lot with others and having obtained part of the ministry with somebody like Peter and others lost it all to go to his own place. The next question should be, "where is now his place? To where has he gone? Where did he leave to?" If he leaves the calling to go to his own place, where did he go?

May you not know where he goes by personal experience. There's no one who leaves his calling, either in ministry or in other fields who remain the same for life. Their life unarguably don't become better for it. So, where did Judas Iscariot go after a walk away from the calling? Peter described it as having gone to his own place - to his own lot, his own choosing and choice. What is his own choice and choosing? When Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus to the elders, the film didn't end there. He later feels guilty of having betrayed an innocent soul according to Matthew's account. The deed has been done but he's beginning to come to understanding. Coming to terms that way, he would seek to amend his ways but the guilt feeling wouldn't allow. He gets overwhelmed by it. Though he restores the thirty pieces of silver back to the elders, Judas himself never asked for forgiveness or heal from the wound of the guilty conscience he's wounded with. To show he's sorry for himself as the devil would push a lot of people to do, he receives an inner urging and motivation to hang himself (an act that was not a good response other than receiving forgiveness) - Matt.27:3-5. The devil is very much interested in ensuring that any man of calling who strays doesn't come back again. He knows you'll do more and deal him a greater blow than you have dealt him before if you do. So, he seeks to ensure you don't have the success of Samson that way. It is he who came back and killed more people at once than he had ever killed before (Judges 16:30). According to Peter's account in Acts, he died shamefully by falling headlong on the portion of land he used that reward of wickedness to purchase. He committed suicide and never knows the return to grace or calling. Peter in describing how he went his way and ended says this. 

Acts 1:18, KJV

"18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out".

Imagine that! Imagine such a sudden and shocking death as if something gripped his heart and it stops and it ends just like that. Should we call it a heart attack coming from guilt feelings? That's the kind of disgrace that could befall anyone who will choose to go his own way. The Bible says in Isaiah 53:6 that, "all we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way..." Going your own way is also going into the world, going into sin, defiling and breaking the consecration of your calling. You may think you're enjoying; you may think you're richer than others but time will soon show you have left your calling's gratification to the gratification of selfish ambitions and goals. Who knows Whether Judas Iscariot had planned building a house? I'm thinking in that way because it was a land he used that money to purchase according to Peter's account in Acts. He was quick to acquire an asset. He's a very commonsensical man. He believes in what appreciates (so he purchases a land). But he has forgotten that there's no treasure laid on earth that does not roth or come to corruption. He knows the value of money but he does not know the value of his call. At the end, the only citation that would have been read for him would have been, "the man who went his own way". I pray for you, may you not go your own way. May God refuse you by the many salvation He'll put on the road for you. May God watch over your lot so that it is not left vacant and then elected for. May you always be here. Yes, with the called and in the calling; enjoying their privileges and persevering in their shames. 

PRAYER: Lord, I shall not err. I shall not depart from the faith or my calling to go my own way.

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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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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