MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/09/2023

WEDNESDAY - 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

ANSWER TO THOSE SEEKING TO KNOW HOW THESE THINGS SHALL BE

Luke 1:35, KJV

"35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God".

I heard that! God is here and He wants to give you answers to your enquiries. There are those with receivings or one inspiration of what they must do or become but who are in doubt of how such mighty communication will come to pass. They've had dreams of great future which tells them the thoughts of peace and of welfare God has towards them. They have information at hand like Mary that originates straight from the mind of God to them. However, it seems too incredulous to believe. Today, the Lord is putting a question in my mouth to ask you. It is, "why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" (Acts  26:8, KJV). 

It means why should you think it unachievable, overwhelming and impossible that God does what He has announced to you He'll do? That's humans for you. That's how we think. Once we receive exceeding great and precious promises that our mind can't fathom or describe step by step on how it'll be fulfilled, we immediately think it incredible (too big to be true).

One time, God sent an errand to a virgin lady telling her an incredible thing - that she'll get pregnant without having had intimacy with any man. I don't think you'd believe if God had told you those ear defening things. That angel said, "and, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS" (Luke 1:31, KJV).

Her question immediately was, "how shall this be, seeing I know not a man?" (Luke 1:34, KJV).

The answer was, "the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35, KJV). 

For as many who have been told incredulous things, are you seeing your answer in the response given to Mary here? Who will overshadow her? The power of the Highest! It means when God promises or gives you anything to do, it's not by your power it shall be done but by His enablement or ability. This is my seventh year of unrepentantly writing the devotional. Nothing of me could have continued till hitherto if not that the power of the Most High overshadowed me. To overshadow means to take over, cover totally from head to toe like a garment, possess and overwhelm by a power or ability or not left alone to oneself again! Anyone who the power of the Most High doesn't overshadow can't walk the distance let alone go a mile. They'll faint, become weary and fall dead at the carrying of a step like an overripe fruit. It is the energia of God however that sustains us. 

Today, let this be your consolation even if you don't know how God will meet the needs of sponsoring or fulfilling your dreams, aspirations, vision or those reoccurring desires. Has He said it, will He not do it? That's the Lord! For every assignment, calling and ordainment, He arranges equipping with it. You can't be  stranded therefore. Though I can explain how God is using and aiding me to do what I'm doing in ministry but everything is solely crested on one truth, "that the power of the Most High has overshadowed or overhauled me". It is this that's making me or any anointed you know do what we couldn't have done on ordinary days. It's that same energia or dunamis (power) that helped Mary to take in supernaturally without knowing or needing a man. That's what we'll call an impossibility! What in human parlance can't happen and is susceptible to debates when it does. However, we (the Christians) understand by faith (Heb.11:3). However, you should note that once ability is supplied, all weaknesses, inabilities, puzzles and impossiblities immediately become possibilities. That's why you can suddenly know a man to be doing what his natural strength couldn't have done on ordinary days if he were himself and not having been overshadowed. When he does however, that'll be because of the impartation of power on him. The Holy Ghost has now come to the scene to aid and carry him. How does a man heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead and do all incredibles if not that he has first been overshadowed and the power of the Highest is with him? Or what man do you know who can heal the sick in his own might except God aids him first of all? So, all of you with receivings of difficult things to achieve or do in life, hear the Lord now, "the Holy Ghost shall come upon you and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you". Once it does, you'll become possessed and spirit ruled or governed by that power until you have discharged that receiving communicated to you by the Lord. And that'll be because the power of the Most High has overshadowed you.

CONFESSION/PRAYER: Lord, I'm not thinking it incredible that my dreams are impossible. I've seen that with the Holy Ghost, nothing shall be impossible. You're the supplier of my equipping. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 51:1-53:12; Ephesians 5:1-33; Psalm 69:19-36; Proverbs 24:7

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 26/09/2023

TUESDAY - 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOUR JOSEPH SHALL HAVE DREAMS 

Genesis 37:5, 9, KJV

"5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Brethren, the Lord is saying I should announce to you that your Joseph shall have dreams. Brethren, you must know that it's not everybody that has dreams. But you, your Joseph shall have dreams. Dreams are divinely granted of God. They're only directed towards those God has earmarked so that they might have the consciousness of His plan for them. While Joseph was having dreams of what the Lord would one day do, other children of his father were not having anything. They were rather alone. No divine communication to them at all and that is because they're not called nor elected. I don't care how many of you are in a room or a space, it's not all of you who'll feel what a pregnant woman is feeling who may be there. The pregnancy which she carries will make her feel somehow that no ordinary person will feel or experience. So is it when you have a call that has gone over your head. While God is relating with you and doing things that reveal His divine interest in you, that might not be the same outworking in other people's lives. Don't you know God does certain things to those He calls?

Romans 8:30, KJV

"Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

Hallelujah! Calling or election is a revelation of God's interest in a vessel. Any man irrespective of race that God would one day lay His hands on and use is one who finds favour of being called and given disclosures of heaven that he might hope and walk in the same revelation - waging a good warfare by them. 

Joseph had dreams! The Bible recorded concerning the son of Jacob, Joseph that he was seventeen years old and was pasturing the flock with the children of Bilhah and Zilpah (Gen.37:2). But, this boy is no ordinary boy though in the midst of others. He is rather having distinct uncommon experiences that are not universal to the other children (though they were all together). God has intentions for him. God wants to use him to preserve a whole nation. And as such, God told him of it. It is this that makes this verse relevant to me. The Bible says in Isaiah  42:9, "behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them."

Joseph sees the sheaves bow to him. He also sees the eleven stars, the sun and the moon do obeisance and worship to him. What could this mean? It is nothing but that this fellow, this young boy would one day become a leader of many people. How it'll be, we don't know but God who has spoken it (by giving him the dreams/a taste of it) shall bring it to pass. The Bible says in Psalms 68:11 that "the Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it". God is at work. What He authors shall be brought to accomplishment. He'll find bodies, means and paths for it to be fulfilled. He will ordain people - take hold of them and use them to bring those dreams to pass. Such are Joseph's brothers who sold him into slavery. Joseph knew this and at last he told them not to be offended at themselves for having sold him into slavery but that it was of the Lord to save many alive (Gen.45:4-5). 

God knows the right time. He knows what to click. He knows what to do and knows how to do it. Even if in the expectation of a man of destiny, he is confused and overwhelmed with the details of "how these things shall be" as Mary asked, God is not at all. He is the perfect administrator who rules in the affairs of men. He knows what next! 

So, the first critical step to destiny is having the dreams of it. It is seeing it at times with the eyes of your mind. It is ruminating on end on what you know is beyond you but which could only have been an assignment divinely granted and given you to fulfill - for which reason it is occurring to your mind and availing itself for your thinking. Look, your dreams will not die. It's a foretaste of what's to come. It's a fragment of God's overall plan which shall soon be fulfilled. Let me tell you something. That it was even doubled to you means it has been established by God to do. God doesn't speak or instruct repeatedly in vain. Joseph said that to Pharaoh himself (Gen.41:32). When God speaks and again speaks to you on what He'll use you to do or make you into, just be assured that He has planned it and He will do it. I pray for you that your dreams shall find safe harbour of expression. As the anointed of the Lord and one whose hand has been helped by the right hand of the Lord, you shall from today begin to experience unsual speed up in the realization of your dreams. God will send you on an errand of destiny like Joseph if one is needed to fulfill it and if you need to tarry in that same land like Isaac, you'll have the testimony of having sown and reaped the best result anyone could have had irrespective of environment. God is God but I am Olusola ADEJUMO M'Wings. He has spoken. Will He not do it?

PRAYER: You gave the Word and great was the company of those that published it. You have given the vision, thoughts, desires and dreams, you'll justify it.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 48:12-50:11; Ephesians 4:17-32; Psalm 69:1-18; Proverbs 24:5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 25/09/2023

MONDAY - 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE LORD OF PHASES, OF ALL OPEN DOORS AND WHAT NEXT

Acts 9:6, KJV

"And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."

While I was in Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State; I was the president of Anglican Students' Fellowship, TASUED amidst other offices entrusted to me. As my second tenure as president began, knowing that was the last lap since I'll be graduating afterwards, I began to hope and wait for what next the Lord would have me do. Would I hand over and sit idle or what exactly would He call me to and hook me up with again? Before this time, I knew I had God's call on me. I had discovered it as a call to ministry and ministry things and was living in the consciousness of it. As at this time, I had already been imparted with the anointing also through my repetitive watching of sermons of the minister God drew my heart after. My ministry was on fire and at head at this time. My teaching ministry has been revolutionized and when I talk, it becomes interesting to people. I even like talking and teaching more. I could go on for hours. I was just seeing many wonderful things from the Bible. I so much lived in the consciousness of being called and being a minister that some might have mistaken me to wanting to possess the people as my people. But we must know that what is worth doing well is worth doing at all. I thank God I've not been slack in using and becoming better (for ministry) with offices God has entrusted in my hands. I take those offices and served faithfully in them as unto the Lord. 

As I was reelected as the fellowship's president, God gave me some words on why he allowed my re-election as president again in ASF TASUED. Those words became assignment for me as I was wrapping my student ministry up and would as well become an errand to attend to after I might have graduated. 

Titus 1:5, KJV

"For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee".

Crete is Anglican Students'Fellowship where I was president and where God left me to be president once more and to set things still wanting in order before I go. But it was for a purpose - to see to the appointment of the next excos also. Then, the following instruction. 

Titus 3:12, KJV

"When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter".

God told me that after I might have overseen the appointment of new leaders (who I'll hand over to), I'm meant to come to Nicopolis (my place of new assignment) but that'll be after He had sent me the president of the next set amidst two preferable candidates. I told all the ASF excos who served with me in 2014/2015 Set all these. You may want to ask Ngu Barak (the president I handed over to), Oduroye Yomi (now married), Oluwabusayomi Adams (now Oluwafemi-Ige), Eunice Olabode (my sister coordinator), Opeyemi Idowu and a host of others. Even if any of them was absent minded, they would still tell you today that one thing was clear and repeatedly mentioned by Bro Sola. It's that God was leaving him for a second tenure to supervise the correct choice of new leaders after which he must come to Nicopolis. When it was time to hand over, I sincerely told them I have yet not found or known Nicopolis but I'm deciphering God wants to get me trained for ministry. I told them, that's my life. That's my calling and the weight of it bears down on me. I can't just escape it and that's because demand has been made on me and the hand of the Lord is already on me. However, I don't know whether it's in an organized Bible School setting or just with a minister who's doing it live.

I never knew that God was working out His will. I never knew that He that gave the Word has also raised a great company of those to publish it (Psalm 68:11). As I was hoping, waiting, praying and fasting for where Nicopolis would be, I never knew God would move the then Bishop Ayodele Awosoga of Ijebu Anglican Diocese to move the residing priest of St Peters Anglican Church, Ijagun and bring another in Canon Johnson Oyebode to the same place. I had already graduated when that happened but I knew in my spirit Nicopolis has not yet been found. At this time, all Excos had gone back to their fathers' houses and would only come to campus for one thing or the other - either for project or for any other business. Those around were just hanging around. So, I myself packed to Ijebu Ode to stay with Bro Emmanuel Awofeko and others. He was the one I was staying with when by ordainment and God's plan I one day met Canon (now Venerable) Johnson Oyebode. He was not even dressed as a priest that day. He saw me with some bags containing books which I was seeking packing back to Ijebu Ode where I then stayed with Bro. Awofeko. He said he had heard of me and that I was the past president of this Fellowship. We knew ourselves by acquittance. I had heard of the new priest as well. We got into talking about books and he said, "come and see". When I got into the Ijagun vicarage where he now inhabits and then into his office, I was overwhelmed seeing a library that one will need diligence to study up in a life time. We talked for awhile and I went back to town. But my mind kept going back to him. Something was calling me to him. And before you knew it, he'll invite me for vigils in his home (the vicarage) and that's how I eventually stayed and packed into the vicarage. We never slated a day. I was just going and coming until I stayed. It was then I remembered Nicopolis and how it had all come to be fulfilled. It could only have been what God only has put together to work for me. I never knew he was a minister of great works and wisdom until I was drawn closer to him. I just felt attraction towards him. There's nothing he says that doesn't minister to me. And so, I gave heed. That's how I knew him, contacted him and got trained in the hands of a minister doing it big time. Demons obey him, the Bible opens up to him, he heals the sick and does miracles, he prophesies, hears and sees and God is overall with him. I could remember some of my excos especially Sis Eunice Olabode coming to greet me in his vicarage (now my home). She nodded saying, "at last at Nicopolis!" All my other excos who were chosen again as Excos after we graduated would lovingly see me wash his car and at times come with him to minister to them since he's their vicar in charge. Many might have said, what's Papa (me) doing now but it all pays now? I never had any sense of shame identifying or serving him. I washed his clothes not because he gave me but because I received him as a father and doesn't see a big deal in it. Indeed, he was my father and his wife, my mother and his children, my siblings. 

The truth is this - before one phase ends or let's say as it nears, the God who doesn't want you stranded will ordain the next phase for you. He's committed to your progress and movement towards your destiny. He has a plan in mind not to let you alone but fit you for where you shall one day be. You will just know the next train to join when it pulls over. You'll always hear a word and a voice behind you at critical junctures of choices saying, "herein is the way, walk ye in it". You will know when what is next. You won't be confused. You'll be rightly joined to the part that'll nourish you and what next in God's agenda for you because of your future God has seen and is committed to seeing to. I bless you today as you shall always be on time and connected to the next phase of your life. You won't be static and you won't be frustrated. I am telling you that God is your admnistrator and governor of phases and if you're there seeking and longing for what is next, He'll sure open you to it. Your sheet will soon descend and you shall know that it is of it God has ordained you should, "rise, kill and eat". You won't miss the God of the new phase, chapter and open door. You'll rather be ushered into your dream land and what next.

PRAYER: Lord, I receive my sheet. My train pulls over. I am aware. I am in the know. I rise, kill and eat.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 45:11-48:11; Ephesians 4:1-16; Psalm 68:19-35;Proverbs 24:3-4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 24/09/2023

SUNDAY - 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE GOVERNS PHASES

Psalms 113: 7-8, KJV

"7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people".

Yesterday, I told you that it is at all not your responsibility to scheme your way into prominence or the limelight. Rather, let patience have her work and let the zeal of the Lord do it. We also saw that it's only what the Lord does that's marvellous in people's sight. Any origination or scheme of men is always fretted and doomed to be spoiled. As a matter of fact, that it's a man made scheme is what necessitates it for death. Instead of tarrying and lasting however, it shall crashland, skip and fail. And great will be its fall and failure!

Today, God wants me to reveal Him to you as He that governs phases. I, Olusola ADEJUMO M'Wings have known God personally and intimately as He that governs phases. Whenever a phase is about ending, God in His will and outworking will speed up and open up another. This is so that you might continue to progress, grow and go until you arrive at your large and wealthy place where you have room to fulfill or manifest all your intentions unhindered. 

This revelation I'm teaching has so much become second nature and an embodied angel working for me so much more that I just see God hover over my situation, opening me up to new places and joining me to new people [that I'll later discover I should be in pact with] but without my having initiated it. The one that shocks me of all these experiences is how God can be mindful of a man two years down the line as to send somebody ahead of him to a place He'll one day bring that same man to. He'll just grant somebody an opening into an institution or give him a privilege to stand before kings. His own standing there in the overall plan of God is that through him, many sons will be called unto glory - their destiny. And so when the time comes, the only thought of the man up there would be to call or help that man who's waiting earnestly for the next phase of his life to kick-start but doesn't even know how, where or what to do of his own power to make it launch. Today, God is raising men for your sake. That's a reason why you should not envy anybody. Anyone who runs ahead of you is a viable and possible instrument in God's hands to open the door of where they have gone to you later. Thank God the butler serves in Pharaoh's presence and had himself reinstated. After two full years, God opened the door to Joseph through him (Gen.41:1, 9, 12). If your way pleases God and you're living His will (written and breathed daily), you'll see how much God will take thought for you. 

It'll therefore be, before one phase ends, God has initiated another for you. Where next to be, I don't know specifically but I'm desirous to know and I'm open to the Holy Ghost on where He might lead me. That's how I live. I live expecting and waiting on Him. This way, I quickly progress and move on to obey when He speaks. This way, He takes thought over me too. He could see that I'm staking everything on Him. He knows I have become a worm (without a backbone) and that where He leads is where I'll go. Why won't He therefore precipitate and open to me what the next phase is? The next plane is waiting. The next train's ticket is ready. The man whose company you must next join will soon ride pass your way and like God told Philip, it'll be a call to "join his Chariot". On such occasion, there won't be any resistance at your proposal to him. Whenever you ask such man saying, "do you understand what you're reading?" The reply would be, "how can I except a man explains to me". You'll immediately be offered a seat beside them (not at their foot) that way because that's the Lord's doing that's always marvellous in our sight.

Acts 8:31, KJV

"And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him."

The Lord's act won't give you a blessing by demanding you to lose a virtue. God does rather without adding any sorrow. Today, believe God that as one phase is about ending in your life, another which is of necessity will start. You're in God's hands and He has planned your journey all through. 

PRAYER: O God of Phases, open to me new doors.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 43:14-45:10; Ephesians 3:1-21; Psalm 68:1-18; Proverbs 24:1-2

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/09/2023

SATURDAY - 23RD SEPTEMBER , 2023

Happy New Ground Experience!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DESIRING A SPACE AMIDST THE GREAT AND STRONG

Isaiah 53:12, KJV

"12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors". 

I have taught on that theme before. However, as I prayed, I felt the nudging of the Holy Spirit on it again. When I first taught on it, I did using that same quoted Isaiah 53 where its revelation had broken loose from as given me by God to teach to the body of Christ. What you must understand is this. If God wants you to say or teach something as a minister, the Holy Spirit has a way of making that thing appeal you anew. You might have known or done it before but somehow, it'll interest you again and looks fitting for the time once more. It is this that makes us prophetic and our words fitting and meeting the needs in specific times and seasons. Who knows who God wants to speak with when He prompts or occasions such word?

Introduction is the Lord's and our prayer should be, God, introduce me rightly and at my time! Until the word of Joseph came, he could therefore do nothing but remain laid in iron. He was rather stayed in the waiting room. 

Psalms 105:18-19, KJV 

"18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him". 

I found out that what you're not destined for, you may not aspire to be. If you have a soul revelation that refuses to be satisfied with operating at your local church level for instance but rather sees himself with influence all around in the body of Christ, it may be that the jurisdiction of your calling is wider and of that larger audience which is why such thought and reoccurring thought of your being used greatly and more mightily comes to your mind often. Many times, those with such destiny, expectation or inner aspiration would have to wait until the Lord flings open the door of ministry by which they could go national or into such space. It was God who opened this door of "come up hither" to Joseph himself. God knows who to use, the event to launch and where it must be slated. Nothing confuses Him and He's so mindful of you that nothing shall go amiss. It is basically the Lord's doing and it should be left to Him to do. Your responsibility as a son or daughter that's not content with his status, position or influence is to pray that the vision of the greater tomorrow God has flashed into your heart or the ministering on a larger platform that keeps appealing your mind will come to pass. Don't fret or compare yourself with those who might even be younger than you are but who have had this door opened unto them. The Bible says, "no man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven" (John 3:27). And who knows whether those you're unnecessarily envying waited on the Lord for this door to be opened to them or they schemed, forced and initiated it by being men pleasers and having sacrificed a virtue and an ingredient of costly amount? Everyone who has made it knows how he made it irrespective of the story they tell men. The Bible also says in Psalms 75:6-7 that, "promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south but God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another". It means this issue of being promoted or gaining more influence or having more estates to watch over is of God and solely His work to us as He deems fit. Your own responsibility is to remain prepared, sendable and fit for your day of glory and showing forth in the body of Christ or that spehere of life you've been called unto. God is actually at work so that everything might work for your good. Don't move out of your calling before this day or decide to seek for a way to promote yourself into prominence. It is the Lord's doing that will always be marvellous to us. Man's can't hit that standard. Something can't but be detected to have gone wrong, missing, decayed or corrupt on the way. Such promotion and "come up hither" solely worked out by men doesn't last. Your way up will usually be your way down. If you've been self promoted by men or through your own lobbying etc, it'll have to be by your effort you'll maintain been in the good book of such who have preferred and chosen you to introduce or bring to the limelight. However, if you let God do it, you have God to be obligated to. There and then, you won't be under any pressure to satisfy any man to the defying of God, His will or your own conscience and peace. You'll even be stable and strong not to change your message. Do you know how many who have known God's thought towards them is of peace and of welfare, to give them a future and a hope and to call them to the hills but who have not been patient enough in letting God's time and God's zeal do it. The Bible says in James 1:4 to, "let patience have her perfect work..." So please, don't disturb the outworking of patience. The Bible also talks of the curiosity of God's zeal in bringing promises to manifestation. It says in Isaiah 9:7, "the zeal of the Lord is doing it". What you therefore think is taking time is rather fulfilling its cycle. If you'll enjoy it forever, let patience have its effect on it. However, God is also mindful of bringing His utterance and will to you to pass. So, what you think is slow is actually running at a full speed seeking to be fulfilled because it has been willed and slated to come to pass by God's mouth. It's on this basis that God's zeal is seriously and assidiously seeking to make it work out. It'll find people, events and places to hook to for fulfiment. That is God for you! God is interested in making it work because He is not a man that He should lie or the son of man that He should repent. He wants what He has told you of His greatness to you to come to pass that you may know Him as the faithful God and be assured that He's not an erratic speaker or as a mad man beating the air. He has a goal. However, let Him do this work solely. Do not interrupt Him as to reap consequences that only follows the blessing the Lord has not solely given or work out. 

PRAYER: Lord, I surrender to let patience have its full work. I also thank God for your zeal which is jealous for my manifestation and so is seeking it.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 41:17-43:13; Ephesians 2:1-22; Psalm 67:1-7; Proverbs 23:29-35

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THE RIGHT WAY OF FIGHTING SPIRITUAL WARFARE

The Right Way of fighting Spiritual Warfare

When physical war is taking place, the aim is always to take possession of a thing and people. The target is made to be subjected to the value system of the attacker whether good or evil. If the target is overcome by an evil attacker, he becomes obligated to do evil and if otherwise, he becomes a slave to good. Whether you like it or not as a believer, you are in the middle of war. A spiritual war!

"And the Dragon was angry at the woman and declared war against the rest of her children- all who keep God's commandments and maintain their testimony for Jesus" (Rev.12:17).

Devil has declared war against you. He has a lot of captives and he is not stopping to conquer more free men and women. So, many believers who have been set free by our victorious captain- Jesus have surrendered themselves again as captives in the camp of the enemy. The only  reason I have realized to have cause this is that they don't know the strategy with which the Devil fights his war. Now, when you find yourself a captive in the camp of the enemy, you become obligated to join his army that will be firing arrows against the rest who are not yet a slave to this evil warrior. Whether you are a pastor, prophet, apostle or first class Christian, you won't be able to help it but to do his bidding.

"Lest Satan takes advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices" (2 Cor:2-11).

Let me begin to unveil some of the strategies of the enemy through some revelational knowledge given to us by our Captain. 

"You have heard the law that says the punishment must match the injury: 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say, do not resist an evil person! If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also" (Matt:5-38-39). Also, this place says:

"Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.

Devil's strategy in winning a warfare against you is to make you do evil and so become a captive to him(evil). Of course I know that no believer will want to do evil because they know anyone who is given to evil is of the Devil. Devil's way of doing it is to first of all raise an evil person against you, this can be in your family, at work place, in the neighborhood or at church. He only wants you to press the button of retaliation and by doing so, he has succeeded in recruiting you as a captive of war. The only way to win this is to follow the word of God which happened to be one of the armors to stand against the Devil in your spiritual warfare. This we must always put at the back of our minds that people who rise against us in evil are not actually the problem, they themselves are unfortunately captives of the enemy. This is why Jesus said that we should pray for those who persecute us and bless those who curse us. This is our winning way. Space will not permit me to explain this matter deeply but I must quickly point this out that winning a spiritual warfare requires that we be defensive and offensive in our strategy. 

"13 Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm. 14 Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. 15 For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. 16 In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. 17 Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.18 Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion" (Eph:6:13-18).

If the Devil is not using the first strategy, this scripture passage explains the other strategy he will use which necessitates the kind of armor we must put on to win the warfare. Let me talk about "truth".

Truth as a defensive armor tells us that Devil makes captives through lie (heresy). Knowing the truth and living by the truth will make you stand against him. For instance, a believer can be lied to that sex outside marriage is nothing wrong. Any believer who believes this lie will soon become a captive to sexual immorality, such will not know when he or she will soon begin to jump from one bed to another. Thus, becoming possessed by all kinds of demonic spirits such as filthy spirit, manipulative spirit, spirit causing spiritual laxity, hardened spirit e.t.c.

I will like to just say something about righteousness as a defensive armor and round it up with Gospel of peace and prayer as an offensive weapon.

Righteous life which makes you holy (uncommon, untouched, clean, different) is a great defensive armor. Somebody will say, how come you are talking about spiritual warfare and you never mentioned a situation where a person is attacked in the dream by charm, enchantment or divination to run mad or to get sick. I will say it is part of spiritual warfare but it is actually the punishment a captor gives to his captive to satisfy his pleasure and demonstrate his superiority over his captives. But such arrow of oppression or affliction will not enter if a believer lives righteously. 

I Peter 3:10-11 says, “If you want to enjoy life  and see many happy days, keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies. Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it". 

Holiness and righteousness are great defensive armors that protect us against satanic oppression.

There are many more to write but space will not allow me to do that. But let me wrap up this write up by these two offensive weapons- Gospel of peace and prayer. There is a saying that the best form of defense is attack. It is actually good to be defensive but it is better to be offensive in this spiritual warfare. Let us imagine Devil alone fighting against a thousand good people, you will realize that his achievement will be minimal unlike having a thousand evil people in his camp (captivity) that he has recruited to do evil with him against us. In a situation like this, the best way we can reduce his victory is to set his captives free to reduce him to himself alone, then we can all unleash our judgement against him. How can we achieve this? It is by preaching the gospel of Christ that bring peace to all his captives and we empower our preaching for effectiveness through a weapon of prayer. The weapon of gospel of peace is aimed at emptying the camp of the enemy of good people that have now become evil. When we refuse to preach, the enemy wins more souls into evil and uses these same souls to do evil so that we the good people can join his captives. The gospel of peace bring salvation. Salvation is also an armor for spiritual warfare. If you have not received salvation through Jesus Christ, you can't but be a captive of the evil one, the Devil. And as a believer, we must continue to grow in our salvation. This is a way we can continue to live as a conqueror in spiritual warfare everyday. May you continue to grow in the Lord and in the power of his might.

Pastor Femi OGUNDELE,

GOFAMINT, 

Nigeria.

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IS SAUL ONE OF THE PROPHETS? - Taken Over Series 003

I Samuel 10:11, KJV

"11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?"

I told you yesterday that once you're taken over, you might give off or be used for what you've never been known for before. What you must know is that humanity is frail and spotted with inadequacies. We're only made complete, strong and become he that can do all things only through He that strengthens us. It is that act of strengthening you and I that lead to the impacting of a God ability into us so that we'll be able to do what we couldn't have done before. That's God's equipping of you as a minister of the gospel. That's God's ministration to you to arm you up. Meanwhile, through you, others will receive God's energia to be able to do what they couldn't have done before. That's when chains will be loosen, the insane will become sane, the deaf hears, the blind sees etc. However, you must know that God's concentration today is on the fact that He gives you dynamite (power) even where you're most weak as to qualify you to minister to others. This is true and a worthy saying that once a man is taken over, he becomes reputed for all the good he couldn't do before. 

As predicted by Samuel to Saul, certain signs shall follow after his having been anointed secretly as king over Israel. One of these is to be taken over and prophesy himself. 

I Samuel 10:5-6, KJV

"5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: 6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man". 

I'm still talking on being taken over and I hope you saw that it's well expressed in the verses above. Samuel promised Saul that the Spirit of the Lord (Holy Spirit) will come upon him and when He does, what shall be the consequence? He [Saul] shall prophesy with established and known prophets. Mark that! That has never been the experience of Saul. In no place do we have record of Saul prophesying until this time. That is a manifestation of having been taken over. Do understand that being taken over also means the Holy Spirit coming on you. Saul could therefore do nothing [or manifest any mighty work] until the Holy Spirit had come on him. If the Holy Spirit never did, he wouldn't have been taken over [as a vessel to be used] and will never for once be reputed to have prophesied or be taken for one of the prophets. Brethren, Jesus while speaking said something that fits the Spirit of God coming on Saul. He says in John  6:63 that "it is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing..." Did you see the Spirit in action in an ordinary man's life today? That's why it's the Spirit that quickens [or benefits] us, the flesh profits nothing - brings no profit [except ruins].

You can do what you have never done before or be known for what you've never been known for before. All that will come to pass when the Spirit that quickens, enables and inspires come on you. When the Spirit came on me, I began to write and then author daily. Writing daily is not consequent to my having studied English. No! I'm just poor me without the Holy Spirit. It's rather because it's the Spirit that quickens. Once the Spirit comes, disability is changed and revamped to ability. You immediately become strong and enter into the rank of those known for a vocation or calling. Just like Saul, people would ask, "is he now among the exhorters, teachers, prophets and holy minstrels?". 

Today, an ability will come on you. I call it the energia of God. It shall arm you up and give you a new reputation. You shall therefore enter into calling and be known in the calling. So shall it be. 

PRAYER: Lord, I receive your energia that makes an ordinary man able. Today, I am armed for ministration.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 10:1-11:16; 2 Corinthians 12:11-21. Psalm 56:1-13; Proverbs 23:6-8

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