MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 20/12/2023

WEDNESDAY - 20TH DECEMBER, 2023

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WHAT YOU SEED; YOU'LL REGAIN - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 005

John 14:1-3, KJV

"1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

Of these verses above, I want you to read the last verse again. It says, "and if I go and prepare a place for you; I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, ye also may be". 

Yesterday, I spoke on seeding or sowing yourself. This seeding or sowing yourself however applies to giving oneself away to calling or a definite way of life. When you release yourself to go, you will fall down and die like a grain of seed but in your germinating back, many things to be grateful for will germinate through you. And indeed, all of us knows that a grain of seed at germination will bring forth abundantly more than the piece that was given away. This is the very reason why we must not withhold but give ourselves away. 

If you read those three verses, you'll see that the second talks about Jesus' departure and going away. That signifies His seeding Himself and giving Himself away to the cause of going to prepare a place for us. However, verse three assures that we shall one day have Him back. Jesus has gone and is still with the Father but it is guaranteed that He'll come back to take us to where He is (at rapture). And that place is no ordinary place. It's a prepared place. A furnished place. Properties that are designed and ready for our taking awaits us. These are the profits of Jesus ever seeding Himself or losing from His disciples to the Father. Not going wouldn't have guaranteed all those things He promised. 

Do you want to see the better life? Do you want to see some returns in life? Never be one who can't separate, seed yourself away and give yourself to a cause. Seed yourself. Jesus while speaking somewhere says, "he who seeks to save His life shall lose it and he who seeks to lose his life shall preserve it" (Luke 17:33). That's actually the truth. When you let go; when you give away, you're positioning yourself to reaping the dividends of that giving away. But if you'll protectively cover yourself and not aspire or give yourself away to a cause, calling or a chosen life that's calling you innately and intimately, you'll lose your life eventually. You'll gain nothing from your own life and that'll be because when you had the chance of seeding your life away and concentrating it on a specific and chosen life or vocation, you refrained. Whenever you refrain, that's a withholding from seeing the glory that's to burst forth after. No one knows the power of the hereafter in your going away except those who first seed themselves. Many people who gave themselves to a cause while feeling called to it eventually confessed they didn't know they'll be this blessed on such road. They indeed and in reality saw a great day and even entered into their perfect day eventually. They saw the many returns of having done so. If you'll ever regain yourself or have yourself back, you have to let lose of yourself now. You have to decidedly give yourself away to a decided life unto which you feel called so you can bring forth abundantly in the future. Those whose theirs will be the "kingdom, glory and power" are those who ultimately does not reserve themselves but give themselves away to serve calling and humanity somewhere.  

Moses' mother couldn't have predicted what would follow letting Moses go and casting him on the waters. When she did however, she saw the mightiness of God. She seeded Moses away by casting him upon the waters with all hope on God and in a manner not different from that of Abraham giving Isaac away. However, she received Moses back in a figure.

Ask yourself, "am I ready to lose myself? Am I ready to give myself away? Do I have faith tangible enough for such decidedly action? If you do, you'll see the glory of the Lord. Every miracle of a man starts from, "thrusting out a little from the land". Thank God Peter did. From there he yet receives, "launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch". Just from thrusting out, just from launching into the deep, just by your giving yourself to a decided action (which is calling for us), you'll see what testimonies and blessings would follow your doing so. If because Peter heeded, his nets break and the boats sink, guess what'll happen to you if you stop bantering with God but rather thrust out a little into your calling (Luke 5:6-7). I see you. You're in for a miracle and the emptying of the sea into your boat. 

PRAYER: Lord, give me the courage and understanding to lose myself. Jesus went away (lost Himself) to benefit preparing a place for us and then returning to take us to Himself. Show me the glory of the hereafter attached to my seeding myself away.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Haggai 1:1-2:23; Revelation 11:1-19; Psalm 139:1-24; Proverbs 30:15-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 19/12/2023

TUESDAY - 19TH DECEMBER, 2023

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SEED THAT LIFE NOW! - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 004

John 14:1-3, KJV

"1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.  2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

God is saying, "seed that life now!" Release it now. Let it go now. Let it heed the purpose for which it is raised and spared now. It is now and not any other time. Let it go on the path ordained for it. Thank God Moses' mother seeded and released him to the waters. There, she saw the glory of God when she least expected for God sent a rescuer and an adopter. 

The human life is the greatest thing on earth that could be seeded. You can seed the human life. You can give it away. You can count it not precious to you but rather sow it like a seed of corn that's fallen to the ground. You can count your life nothing, of no good, worth and consequence to heed purpose and the call of destiny. It means not being too overprotective of one's life as to release it. When you despise the shame and endure the cross before you in fulfilling your mandate, you'll be seeding or sowing your life. You'll be giving yourself away. 

What God is communicating is this. Never hinder anyone you have oversight over or that you can influence not to seed or sow their lives to purpose and calling on earth. Rather, loose them and let them run on that course and go on that journey. 

Parents, seed your children. Children, seed yourselves and you shall find and receive yourself back in days to come. The appealing scripture coming to me is this. 

Ecclesiastes 11:1, KJV

"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days."

Human being is the greatest 'bread, treasure, asset' that can be casted upon the waters or given away to a cause. I tell you, the reward of that giving away and concentration on what your hand has found to do will be seen and obvious to all to see in days to come. A place speaks like this, "...give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all" (I Timothy 4:15, KJV).  You don't give diligence where you've not been seeded or sown. It's the field or cause of life you've found that you can exercise yourself for and give your all to. It's however in such and in that process of constant giving away after the first giving away (of going to operate that calling) that you'll begin to see the profit of that giving away. It'll be so obvious that people will say, "see him, now he profits from that thing." However, you have to continue in it and do it to a particular height. As you give diligence like Elisha who keeps following Elijah, sooner or later, some people will see afar off and speak of your profiting saying, "Elijah's spirit now rests upon Elisha" (II Kings 2:15).

But first of all, you have to seed your own life away. No one can mandatorily decide your success for you except yourself. Once you're ready to seed your life away and fall down like a piece of grain, you'll see that you'll eventually bring forth plenty and benefit not only yourself but many that must come to the rising of your light (discovery of purpose and fulfilling of same). 

Jesus told His disciples to let Him go. He admonished them to believe in God and in Him as well. He told them He's going for their (our) sakes - to prepare a place for them. It means if places will ever be prepared for anyone; if any benefit or profit will ever be reaped from Jesus' seeding of Himself to go, then He must be released to go. He must be given away first of all. This same happened when He died for all. He gave Himself to gain many. He must be seeded and sown. It'll pain the disciples that He's separating from them but they must release Him sacrificially. It's at day's end the very reason for agreeing to His release would be seen. A seeded life is such that can bring forth abundantly. Others will be alone - not affecting or influencing any. 

PRAYER: Lord, my life is a seed. It's not too precious to me. I offer it to my calling and it brings forth abundantly.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zephaniah 1:1-3:20; Revelation 10:1-11; Psalm 138:1-8; Proverbs 30:11-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 18/12/2023

MONDAY - 18TH DECEMBER, 2023

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COMMITTED TO THE WATERS - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 003

Exodus 2:2-3, KJV

"2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink."

Committed to the waters! Moses was committed to the waters. I said yesterday that as it concerns us, we must be full of discernment to recognize destiny journeys of people and then release them to run or go on such journey. The reason for the hitherto smallness of many people isn't because God didn't plan big time for them but because they're afraid of stepping out. Yet, if any man fears or withholds from stepping out, he cannot see his perfect day. When you're released to run and go the way of destiny, you not only profit yourself but all that may be attached to you shall profit from same. 

Today is another day Wing men and women. God is about to wing His truth and enlightenment to us again. As I teach this gospel on destiny, purpose, calling and finding oneself to people and nations, I see God following it with many signs and wonders in the lives of people. May I say you're next. I see a staircase being let down to bear you up. You'll go all the way and none shall cut you short. 

Still on this series. I want to emphasize the fact that Moses was released to go. The mother was reluctant. She had her reasons, her fears. All the same however, when she couldn't hide baby Moses again, she let him run. May fate and life not conspire against you so that you don't fulfill your destiny. God has a purpose and in line assignment for Moses. God has planned where He'll be raised and who will be his sponsors. However, the biological mother is not letting him go. Moses is just too close to her heart. The Bible says she wouldn't let go of Moses because "he's a goodly, beautiful, unique, gifted child". Something in this boy is too precious to be lost. So, she grimmed at protecting him. But hitherto could she go. She has hidden Moses for three months but now she can go no further. 

Here, she must call it quit. Here, she must give up. Here, she must let Moses go and run what line of things God has prepared for him. As far as God is concerned, He's waiting to collect Moses at the Nile but first of all, Moses must be let go. Moses must be released as a seed. Until then, the next phase, next level, immediate plan cannot kick start. You'll just hope that things happen but they will never unfold. Why? You have refused to trust God. You have refused to let go of the past, murder it and journey into your future. Yet, your future is filled with glory and is like a treasure house that has never been looted. 

At last, Moses' mother takes courage and commits Moses to water. She has the courage to let go when she devises to do her best by making an ark of bulrushes for baby Moses. However, as she does that and as she places baby Moses by the Nile amidst the reeds, one thing she did was to cry to Yahweh that He'll protect this one at his new placement and on his new journey. It is not written in the Bible in blacks that she prayed as she was leaving the basket by the Nile but I sure know she does. No mother would depart that day from such little boy without much weeping and prayer. 

Did the Bible not say however, "when my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up" (Psalms 27:10). Yes, Moses' mother didn't want to leave him. She did out of fear of the king and love for Moses' life. However, we can call it a kind of forsaken. After that forsaken and committing to the waters, what happens? 

God picked Moses up. God adopted him and gave him new parents that no plan of Moses' parents could have anticipated. I told you that if you'll let go and launch out you'll see the glory and wonder of the Lord. If Moses' mother had never released Moses, she wouldn't have seen what God could do. For everyone on a journey, God is actually involved. At the next bus stop, He knows who to call or command for your sake. He knows what to awake or legislate through human government just for your sake. Moses' mother dropped Moses by/on the Nile. She didn't make the mistake of advertising for an adopted mother or parents. She only committed Moses to the waters (into God's hands). Then, God takes it up and find Moses a parent. I'm hearing, "the next wait is waiting for you".

Today, where you thought less of things working out for you, I say it'll work. Miracles will appear at you out of nowhere. Your next carer, adopter and parents will appear. Over the years, God has given me parents and adopters. People who took me under their wings to grow and become something. They even put their resources at my disposal believing that's a young man going somewhere to happen. Thank God I have not been a disappointment. 

I still want to speak Jesus' word to someone. It says, "believe in God and believe in me also" (John 14:1). You only need to trust the process. You only need to trust God. You only need to commit into His hands. He'll take it over from there. He'll exceeded your imagination. You'll see a new day. Just commit. Just push a little into the waters and that'll be all. 

PRAYER: Father, where I'm afraid to launch out into the waters (next level) in 2023, brave me up and let me launch at 2024. I refuse to withhold again.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Habakkuk 1:1-3:19; Revelation 9:1-21; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 30:10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 17/12/2023

SUNDAY - 17TH DECEMBER, 2023

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RELEASE THEM TO GO! - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 002

John 14:1, KJV

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me."

Did you know Jesus' disciples didn't want Him to go back to heaven? Does that shock you? Yes, they don't want Him to go back. That's why Jesus says, "it's expedient that He leaves because until He does, the Comforter can't come to them" (John 16:4-7). 

One way or the other, the disciples just want Jesus to still be with them. However, that won't be progress. That won't be forward thinking. If Jesus stays back, it is nothing but a manifestation of weakness and disobedience to God's will and plan. The disciples have their reasons for not wanting to let Him go - for sorrowing when He begins to prepare them for His departure but that reason is not as important as what shall take place hereafter. 

There are different types of pain and if we'll ever grow in this life, we have to deliberately apply purposeful pain to our lives. Or else, we won't grow, move forward or attain greatness. You can't want to be a First Class student and not jettison pleasure to cutivate solitude for study. That is purposeful pain. You're intentionally denying or hurting yourself for a purpose to be fulfilled. It's a good pain every one must learn to apply. The disciples don't want to lose their relationship with Jesus. It's like that of a groom (husband) and the bride (wife). They have known each others for years, come a long way together for years, interacted, related and mingled for years. It wouldn't be easy especially for the wife if the husband were to be separated from her for awhile. I've seen families at the airport who doesn't want their dads to go. You could see yearnings in the hearts of the children. They just want daddy to stay back. Their prayer is even that things might not work out as planned so his going is terminated. The wife might even suggest, instead of going there, can't your company speak to them to fix the training for here without leaving for abroad. All these are emotional statements obviously of love, care, friendliness but which one must not allow to overcome him especially when it's time to take the next leap, have the next door opened and take the next opportunity God is availing one. 

Jesus told His disciples, "let not your heart be troubled,  ye believe in God; believe also in me". 

Why do you think He needed to assure them? Because they were sorrowing and unsettled for His imminent loss. That's why He's telling them to be comforted. As Jesus is concerned, He's about to take the next flight back to His Father - where we'll all join Him one day. But initially, the disciples didn't want Him to go. However, He made them see reasons why He had to go. 

Now, let's come to you. Let's start from parents who are overprotective. A girl once won a scholarship but the dad refused to let her go abroad to study. The man was too fearful that she'd be lost. She wanted the girl to stay with him all through. The girl has enjoyed lovely companionship from him since the mum died and the man has promised in return to see to her well being and protect her as a testament to his deceased wife. It took the pastor to persuade her to let this girl go the second time she won another scholarship for gifted children. I could remember when I wanted to leave for campus, my mother was weeping and I was weeping as well. Before then, I had never been to any campus. I don't even know how life rolls there. I'm just assured I won't tresspass. 

What I want to say is this. There's no one God has not destined greatness with. However, when the time comes for you to step into it, it's either you're willing or not. It's either you're released or not. It's either parents and sponsors allow emotional chords to tie you down and drive you back or like Moses' mother did to Moses, they'll launch you out on the Nile (into your unknown world) and let their blessing be with you. There as you are, God will take you up. Overprotectiveness will hinder many from not becoming anything. It isn't that God has not appropriated a rewarding future to them but they are just too comfortable with where they are or have been. They are afraid of the fear of the unknown and they don't want the little upset that will bring blessings. 

Today, release them to go. Jesus went into glory. His going became our good - to prepare a place for us that where He has gone, we may be. Yours won't be different as a parent. A time is coming you'll rejoice you let your boy or girl take that step and go a particular way. You may be reluctant now but you'll look back at what He could not have become and what all of you tied to him or her could not have become if He had not gone. Imagine a future world sportsman that the father does not allow to train. Whose pride will that boy be when he begins to see him on TV? For this reason, let me speak the words of Jesus to those in this dilemma. "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God and believe in the assured words of your wards, spouse or friends to behave and act accordingly so that you might see the reward of their taking that leap later. The deep is calling people to come. Will they heed or stay with the known, familiar and small?

PRAYER: Lord, give me discernment to detect destiny journeys of people. May I go to my glory.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nahum 1:1-3:19; Revelation 8:1-13; Psalm 136:1-26; Proverbs 30:7-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 16/12/2023

SATURDAY - 16TH DECEMBER, 2023

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THE CALLING ON FIRSTBORNS AND FORERUNNERS - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 001

John 14:1-3, KJV 

"1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

These verses above is the calling of firstborns and all forerunners. Are you wondering how? Then, let's pick it today. 

Jesus told His disciples to be settled at heart and not sorrow because of His soon ascension back to heaven. We all know that Jesus later ascended to heaven and He's currently seated at the right hand of God the Almighty (Acts 1:8-9, Acts 7:55-56, Rom. 8:34, Mark 14:62). However, while Jesus nears departure and the eventual separation from these disciples with who He has related and come a long way, He assures their hearts of no loss. He consoles them to believe in God (His Father and in Him, the sent Son). He gave reasons for that. He told them His departure is to an end - to go to prepare a place for them in heaven. 

This is the mandate, calling and what should be the goal or heart desire of firstborns and forerunners. Their thinking, mindset and thirst should be to arrive, survive the land and prepare for others' arrival. Firstborns are a kind of apostle. They are sent forth to walk a road before many and open it up for others for easy walk. There are two types of thinking. Terminative Thinking and Generational Thinking. Terminative thinking is the one that makes a man reach his high place and forget those behind. Such man let his blessing stop with himself. He invites no one to come to where he is. He prepares or furnishes no room for anyone. He rather boasts of being the only favoured and blessed. However, Jesus thinks differently. His Father thinks differently as well. The thinking is that Jesus will arrive to prepare a place for these Apostles of the Lamb and to us all by extension. It's really a great thought when someone makes preparation for your coming. It shows love and the greatest concern in any heart. 

However as Jesus departs, He encourages them not to feel lonely or manifest a sense of loss. You'll understand this better if you're from a family where one of you travels abroad amidst many siblings with many weepings and sorrowing of heart. Imagine that one now telling others not to sorrow but believe that his departure is to your greatest good and that his departure is to go and prepare a place for you abroad so that you can as well come to where he is (or going). Imagine that! Isn't that good thought? Isn't that thought of welfare, to give you a hope and a future?

Just like a Father wouldn't forlorn his kids or a mother forsakes them, Jesus speaks as He that understands human relationship. He speaks to tell them it's for their good. His going is to go prepare a place for them. So, that'll create an expectation in their hearts. It'll change their living. As they live, they'll have a heart that they'll one day be where He is or He has gone. So, they'll live ready in anticipation. 

Firstborns and all forerunners, hear me today. Your being first isn't a mistake at all. You may or may not be first biologically; you may be last born but first because you're the most prospered man in your caste. In this way, you're the first born - the one God has sent ahead of others that He'll need you to provide for. No one rises alone. Your rising is the rising and breakthrough of some people and you should let it suffice that way. Don't waste grace, resources or God's investment. God will actually give you more than you need. He'll locate you amidst plenty resources and that won't be because He wants you to become a pool but rather a channel through which others can be prepared for. No wonder, Jesus speaks of the abundance and unlimitedness in His Father's house. He says, "in my Father's house are many mansions..." Many mansions means many properties. Each of us will have ours. Imagine you in your property or possession. Imagine you being a landlord!

Then Jesus says, "if it were not so, He would have told them". That means He was saying, "I am not lying. I am telling you the truth. There's abundance and green pastures where I'm going and my intention is to bring you there." Jesus says, "I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also". That's contextually referring to rapture anyway (Matt. 26:64). 

This is no selfishness at all. He confesses His intention and goal which is to go and prepare a place for us so that we may be where He has gone. Many people don't have Jesus' mind at all. Where they are, they don't want other people to come there let alone get there. Heights, positions, offices and graces they have attained, they don't plan that others attain it. They'll prefer them wrecked, slain and destroyed. However, Jesus has good intention and plans for His disciples. He said, "you're not in darkness and you know where I'm going and that He'll come back to receive them all unto Himself that where He is, they (including we) may be also". 

Brethren, the anointing is on me. I want to declare on people. Is there someone who's up there that you admire? I declare concerning you today that where they are, you will be. I pray that men shall remember you and call you to come up hither. One day, I was meditating on how people were moving. However, the Lord told me, "don't worry. Anyone who has gone ahead is sent before you - to call you hither and open doors to you". So, there can't be strife from me against them. I can only pray for them until my word comes from the Lord and I'm granted release and called to the palace. Anyone who rises rise for your sake. See it that way. You won't have to force remembrance. It'll just happen. People will set out good plans and intentions for you - that where they are you may be also. This shall not miss you. 

PRAYER: Lord, I'm seated with You in heavenly places. I'm where you are and I rule over principalities and powers. Lord, I want to be where my role model or mentor  (mention him or her) is. I'm remembered!

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Micah 1:1-4:13; Revelation 6:1-17; Psalm 134:1-3; Proverbs 30:1-4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 09/12/2023

SATURDAY - 9TH DECEMBER, 2023

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HE STANDS TO MEET THEM - I Perceive Series 008

Read Gen. 19:1-16

Genesis 19:1, KJV

"And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

What's in the training of Abraham and also in the training of Lot that both recognize divine luminaries even when they appear as men? Your training as a Christian is what positions you for such awareness. If you've not been cultivating awareness to divine things, divine moments and blessers would come and pass by you just like that. You remember Abraham was just at the gate of his tent at Mamre when he saw these trio that he had a witness to go and fetch unto himself. He just had understanding and a move of the spirit. Same actually happens to Lot. Lot as well is at the gate of the city when he sees these two strangers but who his heart latch unto. That's the truth I have found out. God leads us by our desires at times. God will just fill your breast with some certain aspirations, desires and pursuits. You may not be able to explain why you're feeling after such things but that's summarily because God has your salvation or your provision in mind. This is why God will just make you have eye for some things or some persons that others tend to ignore. You must therefore cultivate such heart. A heart that God can impinge on and will vibrate hearing and recognizing what God is stirring him to attempt or do. This is the case with Lot. 

At the city gate, he saw, he ran, he persuaded and he brought these men into his house - under his shelter. However, these aren't ordinary men. They are at least angels disguised as humans. It's in them Lot's salvation from Sodom and Gomorrah is hidden. I pray for you, you won't despise your salvation at the gate. Do you know that the man who'll head the interview panel you'll attend on Monday could cross your path on Sunday seeking direction and you may be so much attentive to him then that on Monday, you'll have bought yourself a testimony and then, all others shall be history. God do put schedules before schedules for people. God solves difficult problems for people before its eventuality. However, what is your response to God's move when it appears ahead of its D-day?

Lot exercised himself for these men. He even goes as far as wanting to endanger his virgin daughters in exchange for their safety. All these non-challant attitudes and acts of Lot speaks a million times to these divine luminaries. They came to inspect all together and they found one righteous. You know there's a verse that says, "there's none righteous, everyone has gone his way". 

Romans 3:10-12, KJV

"10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."

Yet, this one gives attention. He still understands. I pray for you, you will still understand amidst many who have all gone astray. Wherever you may be on the surface of the earth, national or societal calamity shall not pin you down. You'll always be ahead of it. You'll receive notification and leading by mercy that'll take you out. That's basically because the righteous must not suffer with the wicked. God constantly do make a separation between the righteous and the wicked and as long as you won't become stubborn or disobedience but willing and obedient, God will move for you when it is imminent. When heaven is seeking for accommodation and they are seeking for a man who still understands, may it be you who'll give them rest. Today, many ministries and called ministers are in search of rest. Only few could have a revelation of what God wants to use them for and so respond to them. You'll see that such fellow who gave his land or his house for a takeoff of such work would not be forgotten. Their act would solidify as a memorial before God and even in the history of that church. They'll have the testimony of this woman who broke her alabaster box before Jesus. Jesus said this of her. 

Mark 14:9, KJV

"Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."

Imagine that! Yet, so it has been. How do you want it to be that as someone who has come to a great estate today preaches, he references your parents intermittently as those who accepted and gave them space to start in what has gone world-wide today? Only if they can perceive. May you be with understanding. Understanding or revelation will give you knowledge that will make you act differently. Obviously, it couldn't have been Lot only that was at the gate. However, his heart yearns after making a room for them in his house. Yet, his salvation is hidden in this also. May you move in the act that'll preserve you today and then tomorrow.

PRAYER: I am rightly sited as I receive a heart that sees the blesser and responds.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joel 1:1-3:21; Revelation 1:1-20; Psalm 128:1-6; Proverbs 29:18

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 08/12/2023

FRIDAY - 8TH DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

STANDING EXPECTANT IN HOPE - I Perceive Series 007

Genesis 18:8, KJV

"And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat."

For awhile, we've been on God's visitation to us and how to maximize it. Abraham took God's provision and maximized His appearance to him as he was at the tent door at Mamre. Your responsibility is not to allow your blessing pass you by. You must rather draw anything that's divine and given to you as a reward into your boat - life. Nothing must fall off, behind or be wasted. Not one!

After Abraham settles these trio who came his way, the Bible records something that many would take for granted. It says, "and he stood by them under the tree and they did eat". Abraham didn't furnish a table for them and then leave. No! He prepared a table before them and stayed to attend to them further. He waited on them like a servant would wait on his master to see if he might bid him anything in the process. This is service - giving ourselves to others and losing sight of who we are at the sight and recognition of our Blesser - One who's greater than we are. Many people are redundant today because their blesser came and they didn't fulfill all the requirements necessary for receiving. However, not Abraham. After having them as his guests, he still stood by them as they ate. He's not different from the watchman that Habakkuk talks about. 

Habakkuk 2:1, KJV

"I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved."

The watchman stays there to hear what would be commanded him so he could do accordingly. You can't be a waiter if you're in haste. Never! Humility and patience make waiters.

That Abraham's waiting isn't a wasted waiting. It's strategic and intentional. So, Abraham stood by them as they did eat! He stood by them watching, waiting, expecting and trusting. He knows these are Blessers and they harbour something of his that must be given him. Abraham may not be able to trace specifically how he knows but he sure has a knowing. More importantly, etiquette of their culture demands that he waits on them. It'll be wrong to serve them and vanish into thing air. If they need more water, who'd get that or pour it? You should wait to hear their responses on the meal and whatsoever they might have to say also. Let them 'hmmm' the food as they eat. Let's hear whether they have good comments to give on the food you've served them. You know, a wife stays around the husband to hear what he'll say on her food (her work) as he eats. If her work is acceptable, it'll be good comments that could even trigger the husband's blessing and appreciation. 

As they eat however - having been impressed, they made a demand. Thank God Abraham was near by. Thank God Abraham waited on them. Here's that long awaited blessing coming the way of this old couple now. Having seen with what service Abraham had served them, having eaten his meal and having accepted his work, they asked saying, where's Sarah your wife?

Many times in the Bible, we see the idea of people standing by their sacrifices. When Balaam was recruited by Balak; after the sacrifices had been prepared and the altar built, Balaam would tell Balak to stand by his sacrifice. 

Numbers 23:3, KJV

"And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place."

You see, your sacrifice speaks of you and speaks for you. So, you must stand to see your work, to see if you'll be accepted or rejected. But for Abraham as he stood by the men as they ate the meal that he offered them, he as well stood by his sacrifice that way - waiting for what they'll say. He stood there expecting a reply on what he has given and offered. Indeed, it came. That voice came through when it says:

Genesis 18:9-10, KJV

"9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him."

I am praying for someone today that "the voice will come through for you". Look, after all has been said and done, it's either your work is accepted or rejected. Hear it here.

Ecclesiastes 9:7, KJV 

"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works."

Did you see that? "For God now accepts your work" may mean "for God now accepts your acts, prayer, sacrifice, lifestyle, worship, alms, waiting, expecting and retreating". It may mean all those. Abraham stood by his work and he soon found acceptance. He was accepted and so his work. Immediately, it led to a response and blessing by the heavenly Blesser. Today, the long awaited shall dawn on you. I'm hearing concerning someone that, "your prayers and alms have risen to God as a memorial before Him". That's the same words spoken to Cornelius as an angel brought his blessing. Therefore because your works have been accepted, God is returning to you today to give answers where you're needy and helpless. The ultimate one thing that's lacking in your life shall be met and that today. 

PRAYER: Thank You for accepting me and my work. Teach me on the truth that a man can't be separated from his work.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Hosea 10:1-14:9; Jude 1:1-25; Psalm 127:1-5; Proverbs 29:15-17

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