MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 11/09/2023

MONDAY- 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DIVINE TAKE OVER - Series 002

Numbers 22:28, KJV

"And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?"

Divine take over is a reality. This narrative is very much clear to us. God is not delighted with Balaam. Though He has given Him a permissive release to go yet God wouldn't have him go. He has only received answers according to the multitude of idols he has hidden in his heart. This should be a warning to you not to be given to your own will or else, God might reveal or give you your perverted will [Ezek.14:4]. It's very much clear to us all that Balaam has a strong appetite towards the riches and honour promised him by Balak. It's for this reason he says again, "tarry here tonight and I'll see what more God would say" [Numb.22:19]. The question should be, "what else does God want to say?" Has He not spoken and will He not abide by it? It's on this occasion Balaam missed it. 

Going forward on that journey, God sent an angel to withstand him. Unfortunately, Balaam couldn't see God's angel which has come to stand as an adversary. It's herein this scripture is fulfilled which says, I have set the Lord always before me, He's at my right hand, how shall I be moved (Psalm 16:8)?" It is what you set before you and which you look or have looked intently into that you'll see or see its manifestations. The Psalmist is not shaken because the Lord which He always thinks on, seek after and imagine on has made him in turn to be as solid as a rock. However, that's not the case with Balaam. What he has set before him is Balak's son's of Zipporah's promised riches and honour. As he goes on that journey, he has lost touch with God and now all the imagination of his heart is on what great estate he'll soon enter into. For this reason, he couldn't see God's angel. This is a man who ought to have open vision with open eyes yet he doesn't see how close he is to getting killed. What you set before you is what you'll see. It's a spiritual principle. If your meditation all day is on fornicating, you'll see the devil indulge you with an opportunity to take sooner. 

But in all, salvation is still hidden for Balaam in his ass. On three occasions, his ass turned away from the angel and the divine presence before it. That angel has an aura round him that no mortal could intrude into or else would be slain. It's this the ass sees and fears. However, God wanting to rebuke the madness of heart of Balaam rebuked him by opening his ass' mouth. That's a divine take over now. Animals do talk or exhibit communication but their communication (especially of a donkey here) is intelligible to humans. But this donkey received a take over and immediately its mouth is open to communicate rebuke to Balaam. 

II Peter 2:15, KJV 

"... and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet".

Unfortunately, Balaam still didn't hearken for I thought he'll run away for refuge when he hears the donkey speak. Rather, he banter words with it. This tells you how much he is bent on getting Balak's riches and honour. The passage of the Bible above says, "...the dumb ass speaking with a man's voice..." What I want you see is the word, "dumb". It means inability to speak or make speeches. So, there won't be audibility even if the mouth is opened up and down. However, when the Lord God takes this ass over, though dumb (by makeup that fits it), it immediately has a loose tongue and it speaks with a human voice that instant. This is God's doing and it's marvellous in our sight. That's what the Lord only could have done. Or when did you hear your dog speak to you in a man's voice, in intelligible understandable human language? Never! So, if an ass could exercise that, it means God needs it for a vessel and had to equip it for same. That's why I earlier said that taken over always come with all the equipping necessary for the discharge of the taken over. When you're taken over, even if you're not known for a particular thing, you immediately become reputed for it and that's because you're just a vessel in His hands. God has therefore made you to appear like a wonder unto many. Today, may you provide the Lord with a body and be His taken over and anointed. 

PRAYER: Lord, take me over and use me to the fullest and contrary to my afore reputation. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 8:1-9:21; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10; Psalm 55:1-23; Proverbs 23:4-5

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 10/09/2023

SUNDAY- 10TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DIVINE TAKE OVER

Numbers 22:28, KJV

"And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?"

There's something like divine takeover. God can take people over for you or take you over for His use. 

When I first got to Lagos State, Nigeria, I was not in the know that any sort of religious activities shouldn't be done in the state's luxurious buses but I have the habit of evangelizing in public transport. That day, my fiancee (now wife) was not talking to me. She just kept mute though we had boarded the bus together in order to go make some purchases somewhere (that was even not around our wedding). 

Not long after we settled in the bus, I was taken over and I felt very much like preaching. Oftentimes I had preached in vehicles, I was the one who solely decided to, chose the scriptures and even did a mental work on how the preaching should go but this time I had this strong urge, a bubbling from my inside and then a sense of urgency to preach. I do see scriptures in the spirit and the one I saw that day was from Acts 16. It Chronicles Paul's call to Macedonia but I didn't preach on the Macedonian call literally. From those verses and that incident, I rather preached on calling and going into the field or specialization God has called our individuals to. That day was lit. That message was one of the messages I found difficult to forget. It sets the entire passengers on fire. Everybody was just quiet trembling at the Word. That day, I had a knowing that there might be somebody who has been living in defiance or resistance to the will and call of God on his life. Mind you, the will of God or His call is not always to ministry. It may be to a career path like being a chef or a farmer. But that message as I discovered might be the last God's sent message to that fellow who has refused to succumb to God or His call till then. For that reason, it came with much power and grace. It was so powerful and effective that I was almost turned into a little god in that bus. I could sense the admiration, reference and worship afterwards. As people took turn getting down, they'd looked at me with a sense of "what a thing" and then drop off! But, I turned them all to God. To Him be all the glory and honour. May you or I not be found seeking to share with Him His glory. 

When we talk of divine takeover, what do we mean? Or let us ask, what is a take over? To take over in its right sense means to possess, grab or even inspire for a particular intent. Meanwhile, it should still be noted that the taken over won't lose his senses or by that become a zombie. He's not. That's why even when possession or the cloak of the anointing comes to rest on him, he has the responsibility of welcoming the Spirit or shooing Him away. But, a man could be taken over. You my reader can be taken over. Whenever God has a work to do and it is utmost that it should be done, men [even unbelievers or the heathen] could be taken over. God will inspire or come on them for that work to be accomplished. When He's done with them and the work accomplished, then He might lift Himself from them. But while the work last, He'll committedly be with them and upon them. There are many kings, nobles and even politicians and world leaders who God has taken over before just for His own will not to be disrupted but progressed. He comes on them to legislate or favour His course and that's it. They'll just become favourably disposed to God's people and that'll be it. They'll just unnecessarily become accommodating and would look like they're acting contrarily to what they've always stood for. As a matter of fact, those around them would wonder at the change and that won't be but for the fact that God needs a body to express Himself and His will through. Who has He found if not Cyrus whom the hands of the Lord will help (II Chro.36:22-23)? There are many Cyruses that God is stirring and taking over and that's because they have the power to use their influence to achieve something for God. Once it's the Lord, God will teach them. With every taken over comes every initiative and know hows to accomplish that intent or purpose of God for which He has taken you over. You can't be taken over as God's mouth for instance and be suffered with utterance. No! Utterance will gush out like flood. It'll be unimaginable at the choices of words the Holy Spirit will fill you with. Each word will have an intent and as you send them, so they'll do and achieve. That's when this verse of the Bible that says, "so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isaiah 55:11, KJV). Such are the words given you in such times when you hit this prophetic frequency where you're shooting almost without effort and then expressly. Divine take over is a reality and if you'll ever be a vessel who'll be sanctified for the Master's use, you'd see that He'll take you over frequently. At times, I'll just experience a cloud on me, dew settling or permeating me or a cloak or jacket wrapping me up. Once I feel this energia (energy) of God, I move in my graces, anointing and office easily and spontaneously. I can then run and not be weary, do spiritual things thoughtlessly and with such intensity that'll even surprise me. The testimony that'll follow is that, "and it snapped like a flax caught by fire" (Judges 15:14).  May God raise more instruments and take more people over.

CONFESSION/PRAYER: I have prepared you a body, Lord. Come and take Your place. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 6:1-7:25; 2 Corinthians 11:16-33; Psalm 54:1-7; Proverbs 23:1-3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 05/09/2023

TUESDAY- 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

I GOT MY MIND MADE UP

Read Acts 21:1-14

Acts 21:13, KJV

"Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus".

I once heard somebody told a story of a young chap who said he would jump down from a storey building. Crowd eventually gathered. However, he was being hypocritical about it. Yes, because he neither jumped but rather repeatedly echo, "I will jump". If he really wanted to jump, he wouldn't do much announcement but rather take off into the air. By such action, he'll be measured to have been very very serious. We ought to move from intention or profession to acting. Many people are really really reluctant when it comes to acting or taking the step that matters. They are not different from the King's Horseman in the Nobel Laeuretes' Wole Soyinka's _Death and the King's Horseman_ . The King's Horseman according to the Yoruba tradition ought to die to accompany the spirit of the deceased king to the realm beyond. However, his reluctance proves he actually does not want to die. His delay proves he loves life and would device to cling to it. This man is therefore slow in action - especially the sort that's expected from a ready heart. 

God forbid! May you not be like these two fellows above. May you be such one who has made up his mind and then follows it with action. May you be like Jesus with a tilted face set towards Jerusalem. May you have made up your mind on what to pursue and not resign from in this life. 

In today's passage, by the Spirit of God, Paul is first signalled that he should not go to Jerusalem (Acts 21:4). Did he hearken? No! On another occasion not at all distanced from the first; a reputable prophet by the name Agabus prophesies that Paul would be bound in Jerusalem. 

Acts 21:11, KJV

"And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles".

The prophecy is so dramatic and graphic that a shivering heart would have been scared out of what is purposeful for him to do. I just learnt here that knowing the will of God before hand pays a lot. If you do, nothing could come shaking or violently root you up. It'll help your perspective of things and give you right judgement on new matters. That's why it's popularly said that those who stand for nothing will fall for everything. They can't but be tossed to and fro. Since God doesn't contradict Himself, it means that word of knowledge was not given to Paul to deter him from appearing before and witnessing to kings and nobles as the Lord Jesus had afore said of his ministry and assignment.

Acts 9:15-16, KJV

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

That Paul would even suffer many things which these two predictions warned about isn't a new thing. They are disclosures Paul has been living with and bearing in mind till then. So, those prophecies [while they're from God] are rather for the sole purpose of affirming and preparing his soul ready again for what he'll face. Also, they are timely predictions to prepare him for the last phase of his ministry and the need to hold on. No wonder, even Jesus appears to him while in bound encouraging and reminding him of the need to further bear the gospel before kings.  

Acts 23:11, KJV

"And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome".

So, we should know to what end a word of knowledge is given. For Paul, it was never intended to stop him but encourage him to face what lies ahead him in grace and the strength of our Lord Jesus Christ. But looking at these words of knowledge on different occasions, you'll have thought Paul would have perished or repented of any thought to go to Jerusalem. Rather, Paul runs the contrary. He tells the brethren who had begun to weep and plead with him not to leave why they'll be doing that to break his heart. He is firm and decisive in his speech. Paul only sees them as being petty and hindering God's will that should be fulfilled in him and through him. God has already told him that prison and bounds await him wherever he goes. That is not to scare him but to prepare him ready and make him remain steadfast in assignment. Paul in replying the brethren cautions them not to cry. He admits he's not only ready to be bound but to die for Christ if need be. That's how much he's sold to purpose. He could even go the extra mile. This is nothing else but a mind that's made up. And if I'll say, no mind is made up which doesn't first of all have a cause behind his resoluteness. How worthy is your cause?

This is the kind of person God wants you to be. Purposeful heart that can not be persuaded out of God's will and all classified for him. Paul is so strong in subduing the situation under his control that all the pleading eventually quietened when they observes he'll not be persuaded. They rather commits him into God's hands and that His will would be done in his life. This is who I want to be. I want to model after this kind of immovable resolution. Some will call it stubbornness and others label it as pride. But this is resolution coming from a prepared heart that knows God's will and will refuse to be moved from it. A heart that's ready to do the will of God - eat His meat and finish it. As a matter of fact, why Paul refuses to be dissuaded is so that he might finish his course. 

Therefore, beware of pettiness when purpose is at stake. At the edge of doing the will of God which is utmost to your destiny and will be obedience to God, you'll meet with dissuasion that you must be firm with and not allow to turn you. Some could have temporarily cut off family to travel abroad for studies, go into the army or pursue a life, career or destiny that'll be one day glorious and for which they'll be famed on earth and rewarded in heaven. However, they allow voices of parents, siblings, sponsors and sometimes mentors to drown them. This way, they couldn't travel into this future of excellent things of eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of any man what God has prepared for them. I pray for you that you shall be loosed into your greatness. You won't stay back when you should journey into purpose. No voice will be strong enough to win you over from the future that God has preordained for you even pre your conception. One man once said he stayed back in the village when his age mates were leaving for Lagos in those days. He said it became the reason for his smallness till date. Some of you also, there's a call on your head. I hope you'll heed it and pursue it. If not, you'll have successfully being hindered from seeing your better days and that off course lies in front. 

PRAYER: Lord, I receive grace and gift of discernment. May the devil not disguise through authority figures to dissuade me from path I should take and the way I should go.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ecclesiastes 7:1-9:18; 2 Corinthians 7:8-16; Psalm 48:1-14; Proverbs 22:17-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 04/09/2023

MONDAY- 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HIS FACE IS TILTED!

Luke 9:51, KJV 

"And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem".

Brethren, I say what I hear. Look, His face is tilted. What a thing that Jesus has a tilted face. You can as well have such face. A face that beholds in the spirit or through his mind and refuses to let go but is stayed on what it has found to muse. A face whose mind is made up and would not for once or one thing or the other shift his resolution. That's the tilted face. A tilted face is one that's resolutely crested on purpose and its conviction about what it has seen or received as purposeful to do. 

May your face be tilted and solely fixed on what you must do as written of you in the volume of God's book. Many people will do all to the exclusion of what is written of them. May you not be that. At a tender age, Jesus' face was tilted to the business of His father. That was at age twelve. He would even not mind being left behind by family as long as He is doing what He loves to do [Luke 2:42-46]. Hmmm! A tilted face!

Our verse above conveys in its entirety a tilted face and a resolute heart. It says, "and it came to pass..." We might quickly ask, "what eventually came to pass there?" "It came to pass when the time was come for Jesus to be received up, that He steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem". 

Something necessitated that focus Jesus has. It's because the time of His suffering, crucifixion, death and departure nears. Because it's beginning to near for the son of man to be received up (ascended), He immediately sets His face towards Jerusalem (where it would begin to happen to Him step by step). This is a purposeful life. This is a life that has seen what is written in the distance for Him and would refuse to be deterred from hitting or dotting on it one by one. He's been called to come and He's not in denial. It's no longer a debate that Jesus is sold to purpose and what is the will of His Father for Him. Can a time come in your life where because of purpose, you set your face or focus on something and dot on it for long until it's done. When you set your face on something, it becomes your next move. You'll have so much cultivated and meditated on it that that your next activity will be to implement it.

Having a tilted face will be your experience especially if you're called and you have an assignment you need to fulfill. A time would come that the assignment would come knocking like a mighty rushing wind and all that you'll feel for it is going to heed it. It'll so much burn in you that you'll lose joy in pleasure or indulgence in other activities. You'll just want to go to be with the Lord in that particular assignment. That's when your face is turned towards that heart calling and nothing else could satisfy or pacify you from it. 

As a matter of fact, Jesus couldn't be removed from the direction of Jerusalem that His mind has trapped and absorbed. The Bible says, "He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem". "Steadfastly" means sternly and with all focus. That is from then, the rumination, aspiration and plans of Jesus becomes going to Jerusalem to be arrested, suffered and even murdered. This man, Jesus is sold to purpose even unto the death of the cross as willed for Him by His Father. No wonder, He says, "no man collects His life from Him but that He willingly lays it down. He said He has power to lay it down and to take it again because He has received same commandment from His Father [John 10:17-18]. And at the end, the fact that He had a set face steadfastly set towards Jerusalem and on dying for the sins of the whole world is actually what saves us all. If Jesus had not died at all, I wonder what would have happened? That's why you must have a set, focused, classified and all fixed concentration on your purpose. Refuse to be shifted! You must seek not to be lost in your concentration but rather totally given to it according to this verse.

Isaiah 50:7, KJV

"For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed".

He sets his face like a flint. Do you know what a flint is? It's a very sharpened, streamlined and pointed rock. So sharpened that it could be said to be facing just a specific direction and not enlarged and scattered to all places. When you set your face like a flint or set it on something like a flint, you give it your whole energy and concentrate  all on it. For instance, if you use a lens to direct and focus the rays/race of the sun on a paper, it'll burn. That's what a sharp pointed or flint face means. It means a face that's single and not like one without purpose beating the air. You must be purposeful; marching in unison like a flood and in strength like the Spartans. 

That's why Jesus refused to be distracted, detoured, diverted or remapped away from His purpose. Purpose is so single and singular that a little detour would take you far away from it. But you must not stray but rather maintain your stay. Because of the season that Jesus has found come upon Him that a planned purpose must be delivered, He also surrendered to flow with that time and purpose and obey all its intents. As such, He's willing to go to Jerusalem. 

God wants you to be this focus. Jerusalem and being there so much gripped Jesus' spirit that they were not received where they have gone. The Bible records, "and they did not receive Him [elsewhere He went immediately after the revelation of being in Jerusalem] because His face was as though He would go to Jerusalem". 

So, it's possible for somebody not to be received at a location because in his very soul, he is dreaming of a vision of another land? Jesus' thoughts and imaginations on being in Jerusalem must have become so visible in the realms so much more that it cancels appearances in other places. Jesus' face is rather titled towards Jerusalem. You also can have a titled face. Yes, you can have a face, mind, heart that's always directed to a particular obsession, pursuit, finding, vocation, location or even a fellow etc. When it gets to that level where your face is set towards a particular thing, it means if it's not that thing, it's not another. Why is your desire set on a particular specialization? Why is it that the thought of your mind and imagination are all directed towards a particular direction? It may be that God has ordained that field for you to colonize or dominate and if you look at it, it's in that field you have gathered experience over the years and have become the expert you are. Or why do you keep dreaming of travelling overseas? Why is your face tilted towards the great beyond and your thoughts directed and casted on people of other races? That's to draw you to come into your calling and grand plans that await you. That's why nothing has been able to satisfy you or collect you from that dream till hitherto. 

Jesus' face is tilted. Tilted towards Jerusalem and not any other place. May we all be this children of purpose. May we all be sold out to what is purpose alone. May we be so single that no conviction could snatch us from what we have set our faces on, towards or to do.

PRAYER: Lord, use the tilting of my face and the obsession in my heart to call me where I should be. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ecclesiastes 4:1-6:12; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:7; Psalm 47:1-9; Proverbs 22:16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 03/09/2023

SUNDAY- 3RD SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOU WILL TRAVEL AND TOWARDS THE GOAL

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".

Do you have a destiny? Do you by faith believe that the thought God has towards you is thought of good [of welfare] and not of evil, to give you a hope and a future? If you do, you'll do well. It'll make you see God in the right light as He who has your best in mind and who can't compromise that irrespective of what you face. It'll make you succumb rightly and attitudinally to his refining furnace when you're taken through one. If you know that Canaan is truly before you, you wouldn't mind the difficulty of the wilderness if your journey is necessitated to be mapped through it. Your eyes will just be on the prize - that lies at the great beyond and on the other side. 

God can lead you or He guides you. Leading and guidance are two realities. Many times, both are in the journey of a destined man. God only communicated to Joseph his great end. That was the interesting part. Joseph wouldn't stop telling his brethren and father his great future. It looks so good to him. No wonder, the Bible says we have exceeding great and precious promises (II Pet. 1:4). Knowing creates joy in any no doubt.  

Seeing he'll become a fellow so great as to be worshipped or bowed down to, that stirs him into joy and lightens his face. He was just speaking all around and to any who'll care to listen. But God is committed to moving beyond the disclosure of your future to you. Where the real deal lies is in its fulfilment and that's the joy anyone should seek to experience. We can talk of a bright future till tomorrow but if you don't enter into it, it'll have been a mirage glory. How then will you be satisfied early with God's mercy that you have long awaited for all these years?

So, God transplants Joseph from the base of the Hebrews to Egypt. God didn't seek his permission. God didn't notify him. All he had were dreams of an expected end but he was not shown the process and road to walk to possess that expected end. In Joseph's word above, "I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews..." That's how God sent him on the journey of destiny fulfilment. Let me tell you something. God is not committed to your comfort that doesn't get your destiny or reason for creation fulfilled. God is committed to 'keeping your nigga boy running'. He's committed to putting you on the run. He's committed to your travelling and your path and your destiny crossing. That's what He's committed to and so the ways by which He may do that may at times be shocking to an ordinary mind. It might puzzles us. Imagine Joseph himself saying, "he was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews". He was almost if not outrightly blaming that! Indeed, he was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews but to what end? Was it not to an end that he might fulfill his dreams? Was it not to an end that the pictures, motion pictures and revelation he had seen abstractly would be fulfilled? Was it not to an end that what he has confessed in front of many witnesses would align with what would take place so that he won't be mocked or taken for a mere babbler? If he had seen all, he wouldn't have spoken that way and blamed the process by which God launched him out. Write it down in capital letters. God is not committed to your comfort but your movement to destination and he'll keep you moving until the day dawns and arrival is made.

So, whenever you pray saying, "God, let me achieve my dreams", you should leave the process in God's hands. He could fling you anywhere and by any means! You should be that humble. It's God who uses providence to bring Joseph to Egypt. I am telling you the truth, Jacob would not have released a seventeen years old to have gone to a foreign land let alone be sold into slavery. If God had consulted himself or even Joseph, that process would never sound reasonable or workable to them. So, the process is in God's hands. Trust Him as the Father with numerous good thoughts for you who can't mishaps you. What matters is your arrival and may you arrive. May God keep moving you with His hands and in the waters of His will until you get to the shore of your destiny and land at destination. 

Later in time, God's intention became so clear to Joseph. He now knew it was God who had put him on his feet and journey since then. He told his brethren, "you meant it for evil but God for good. He sent me here to preserve you with a great salvation." He was even comforting them (Gen.45:5). What a thing! This is Joseph who was saying he was secretly stolen away from the land of the Hebrew. That means he wouldn't have come if sought. No man in his right senses would want to take such route to destiny (being put in fetters and iron). He wouldn't have gone. He never wanted to be shipped or flown through that means. It was not acceptable to him. At that time he was saying that in prison, he was missing all the comfort of his father's house never knowing it just remains so little for his destiny's light to shine in its full strength. 

I pray for you that when you're at the edge of your breakthrough where your destiny should shine forth, you won't by a condescending act terminate it (by becoming inactive and uncooperative with the process) and if you do, may God's mercy and providence overrides it. So shall it be in Jesus' name. Look, write it down somewhere and confess to yourself today saying, "God is committed to keep me moving. He'll pay for my transport fare or plane ticket. He'll send or push me to where next is next. New doors shall open and I shall go on in ascension until I have made arrival in the large and wealthy place His soul intended when this journey long began. 

I am Olusola ADEJUMO M'Wings. I'm your witness and on behalf of God, I'm taught to say to you, "safe journey and safe arrival". In peace you're leaving this shore; in love, you'll find the next. When you do, remember your brethren and God's great act towards you!

PRAYER: I am [mention your name]. I am in God's hands and in God's mind. His plans for me don't miss but are perfectly executed. I take His transport and enjoy His providence. I will travel and arrive.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ecclesiastes 4:1-6:12; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:7; Psalm 47:1-9; Proverbs 22:16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/09/2023

SATURDAY - 2ND SEPTEMBER, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THE FATED ONE IS SOLD FOR A SLAVE

Psalms 105:17-18, KJV

"17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron"

Many times, we pray that we shall fulfill our dreams. That ain't a purposeless prayer but of one that's rather thirsty of doing the will of God as revelatory and depository in his heart (soul). It is what is therefore in his soul that he's crying out. The hart that pants after streams of water does naturally (Psalm 42:1). The thirst comes right from its inside and not from its exterior. So, its one aim and desire becomes that water would quench it. So, the hart exercises itself to hit on the stream of water that its thirst might be quenched. If your soul is already panting after fulfilling a particular purpose, such prayer would always be near your mouth always. What would become your meat would be to do the will of He that sent you and to finish it. 

God sent a man before Israel, even Joseph who was sold for a slave! The first question to ask is, "if God was the one who sent him, why send him as a slave?" Joseph had dreams of the sheaves bowing to him and the stars, moon and sun doing obeisance to him (Gen.37:7,9). Summed together, these prophesy his future as one with a glorious end. However, you'd think to fulfill that destiny would be bed of roses. You had think everything would have started in favour physically for Joseph, that he'd be processed in ease and then sat on the throne. As a matter of fact, how God began to fulfill His will for him was totally different. Looking at the greatness prophesied of Joseph and what he passed through before that greatness was achieved, one can't but praise God who shrouds greatness even in our darkened paths. That's why the Bible says in Isaiah 55:9 that, "as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts". God's thought is higher than ours and at times he might execute contrarily to our wisdom, expectation or plans. This He does to catch the crafty in their craftiness and make the wisdom of the wise a folly. Joseph was rather sold for a slave. As in, Joseph is a honourable man in prophecy. His prophecy called him so. Why then would he be sold for a slave? Why then hurt his feet with fetters? Why then lay him in iron? 

God is quick to bring to pass all He has said concerning you and even if your destiny requires reaching the ends of the earth, you shall. But God didn't convey Joseph into the fulfilment of his destiny in a vehicle of roses. No, he sent him there as a slave [in the status and appearance of a slave likewise]. He was empty handed at arrival. Faith in God, favour of God and diligence is what could therefore have risen him. Apart from the fact that Joseph became a forerunner and saviour for Israel. Another call that's on Joseph is that of a founder. I found it out. That's why many forerunners are founders. They create a path for others to tread in. They are trail blazers. They go before others and with their equipping made it possible for many sons to be called unto glory. Joseph was sold for a slave into a country that he has never been before. When a fellow is sold for a slave, he's at the lowest state of life. He only has life. He has no money or any asset by which you could easily mark that this one shall soonest come out of poverty into the wealthy place. Joseph arrived with nothing of such. He only came with Himself and God with him. But in thirteen years, he became the head of nations. Today, I have a word for many of us that God has called and would send to foreign lands or those already there. It doesn't matter your status at arrival, you shall swallow your status at arrival until you become the head of nations there. Though I'm living in my home country but I had to leave my state for another. In my new state, I could have been described to have started from nothing or the lowest base. All I had was a job I got there. All I have now including a family came by faith and knowing He calls me to be the head of nations. Calling is on Joseph and when it's on anybody, I assure you that even if you build a church in the desert, people would attend. When calling is on you, it has one intention, it is to bring you from your very lowliest point and set you up there. Calling calls people up and changes their statuses indeed. It doesn't matter how you arrive. The testimony would be that you have become the head of the nations in some years time. Ask many aliens especially Africans who left their countries of origin for abroad. They'll tell you, I came here as a student expatriate (or tell another testimony of their arrival in nothingness). There was nothing on offer to show for greatness at their arrival but now they're owners of chains of businesses. Then, you begin to wonder and ask whether it's possible to leave one's home or native land empty handed or forced so by circumstances and become a man of bounty just soonest. Very possible! Jacob left his father's house in a hurry and without any preparation. He only left with himself and the staff in his hand. He was afraid of what the future holds for him and so prays that God will be with him. He even vowed unto God because the cold of a lonely journey into the unknown was fighting him. However, the testimony is that he returned as a double man. He had gotten so much prosperity that it was impossible to say this was the Jacob that left home with nothing (Gen.32:10). I ask, where are you today far away from home? Let the anointing of a great rising fall on you. From your low status, begin to go up the ladder and possess the gates of dominions in that land. You can have the testimony of acquring lands, owning businesses, marrying a native there, employing many and becoming  a prince or princess. 

Look, never take it for granted when someone starts from the lowest level and in some years had witnessed transformation. It is God who makes a space for you. And until a man gets to his Rehoboth, he can never never be fruitful in the land. Egypt is for Joseph and his light must shine there. Today, the reputation following you around might be that of a slave but I assure you that if you won't back down, call God a liar but endure in faith and diligence, you shall soon see the greatness in front of you though shrouded in many mysterious events. 

PRAYER: Lord, You solely raise the poor from the dung hills to set him with princes. Lord, raise me up.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Psalm 46:1-11; Proverbs 22:15

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/09/2023

FRIDAY - 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

TO THIS END!

Genesis 2:7, KJV

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

May you flower. Yes, may God let you flower. God will help you to start to finish. There won't be frustration on your path. You won't be agitated.

God has an objective in mind from the start and that's Adam becoming a living soul. That's Adam coming alive to do all the verb or action words. That motivated that project. Why go on a journey without an end or intention? If you say someone is a living soul, he must be able to live and take life and act as fitted a living soul. A living soul would breathe, eat, sit, walk, run, laugh and do all other actions. That is God's intent when he begins the forming or making of Adam's body. He never wants to have a body of clay that would be rigid but which would be able to lift itself from the site of its making take being and relate with the entirety of His creation. Seeing Adam on that slab, one would see a lifeless body. It ain't different from a jar of clay. It can't leave where it is. It can't even expand in dimension and that's because it has not become a living soul. Adam has mouth but has no voice and so can't speak or echo. But God starts working things towards achieving His ultimate goal - that man would eventually become a living soul. So, God breathed into him the breath of life. This breath translated "araulah or ruach" is all that makes the difference. When this wind runs through the hollow body of Adam, there's a reverberation and an immediate surge in soul and then a leap of his body. He could have moved a finger and God might have staggered saying, "it worked! What an art". Until Adam showed existence or sign of existence, he has no testimony of, "and man became a living soul". Previously, he was dead, lifeless, stagnant, irresponsive but now he's alive and living. 

What I'll like you see is the fact that God started and was able to  take Adam to thorough completion like He had in mind when He started. Nothing aborts God's dream of having a living soul as a man. He formed the body (that was a process and level one); breathed into it (another process and level two); then man has the testimony of becoming a living soul. This day or hour man became a living soul, I want to believe there was a thick shout and smoke of applause from the Trinity. They were happy it worked. Consider a mechanic working on an abandoned vehicle and the vehicle eventually starting up after many works on it and repairing of parts, it would call for a rejoicing. The response would be joy. When that place says, "and man became a living soul", it means, "and God's intention was finally fulfilled". I pray for you that what you're working towards will work. Any terminator and termination that the devil might want to face you with shall be crushed this morning. Projects shall not be aborted in your hands. God started the making of man and saw it to completion where irreversibly, he had the testimony of things working and the man becoming a living soul. What a success! You'll be that successful. 

What you must know is that there are abortive spirits but God's intent for you is that all of such will be frustrated for your sake. God's hands will disturb them, clog their wheels and make them labour in vain over you until you bring to pass what you have started and what God has started in you. Read these verses.

Job 5:12, KJV

"He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise".

Isaiah 4:25, KJV

"That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish".

These two verses summarize what God will do for you so that His work in and through you and yours on/in anything shall not be aborted at any level until completion! He'll frustrate Satan and the frustrators in human flesh for you. 

Therefore, are you almost at a close of something? You shall see it to completion. You have heard and read of many explorers who launched out for discovery or exploration but who didn't complete the process or fulfill the intent for which they have launched out. They couldn't even retract or come back. Your testimony won't align after theirs but God's. It'll be that when you start any thing, it'll be recorded of you eventually (after giving labour and efforts) that it works! Yes, amidst many applause and shouts, anything you work on shall not be formed in vain, given breath in vain but shall manifest all those resources that you might have given to it. So shall it be! Your Adam shall become a living soul. Give it your all! You'll see the fruits of your hard work and labour. No disappointment. 

PRAYER: Lord, I shall not cast my young. I shall carry to term and delivery every vision, dream and intent in me. I bring to arrival and successful destination. In my hands, things work.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 40:1-42:17; 2 Corinthians 5:11-21; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 22:14

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