MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/12/2023

SATURDAY - 23RD DECEMBER, 2023

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SEPARATED FROM HIS BROTHERS - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 008

Genesis 49:26, KJV

"The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren".

That place says, "blessings shall be on the head of Joseph who was separated from his brethren." What does this idea of separation seek to achieve? Why would the Lord come for Joseph? Why would the Lord forcefully collect and harvest him away just at seventeen? Why would the Lord put him in a boarding facility far from home? When Joseph was collected away, he was like a baby collected from his mother's breasts and like one unripely or recently weaned. If you had asked Joseph's opinion if he'll like to be separated from his brothers and family, he wouldn't have nodded to it. No! He wouldn't have agreed to leaving the comfort of his father's house. He would have refused going to an unknown land and hearing constantly an unknown language. If you had enquired and given Joseph a choice, he wouldn't have wanted to travel abroad (Egypt). Never!

However, God separated him from his brothers. The Bible says Joseph was seventeen years old and he shepherds the flock with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah (Gen.37:2). These are his brethren - his family. However, something happened that disappeared Joseph away from them. My question is, "why would Joseph be taken amidst many? Why would he be separated from his brothers?" 

People, it's an observation well made that anyone with call on his or head always faces being called out or separated from something or familiar people. There's always a forsaking of houses, family and precious things. It may not be delightful but this separation will delight at latter end. Joseph was separated to the end that he might be sent ahead and become a saviour of his people that he might preserve them a remnant when the need that God had foreseen arises. So, when God separated Joseph because of the call on his head, His intention is that He'll run ahead of others and by special favour of God and cooperation of him also become somebody that can open the land to his people. He did when through him his people possessed Goshen. 

I want you to know that God works from our future into our present. Your tomorrow that He knows and that He has seen is what informs what He does in your life presently. Why you're passing through certain things now is because of the conclusion God wants you to have. If God didn't come to collect and send Joseph ahead of his people, Joseph would not be different from them and he wouldn't have been able to achieve his calling. The resources for achieving his calling isn't in Canaan or elsewhere but in Egypt. Apart from this, Joseph wouldn't be in a place where he could use his influence to save his people. He couldn't have become a mighty leader in his father's house. His brothers and the ranks into which he was born already contested that when he shared his dreams with them. So, he needed to travel! Because of this, God flings him elsewhere and separated him from his brothers. 

Are you there this morning in a solitary land, solitary place or all alone in your mind (even while with family)? Do you think differently, have separate, new and noble ideas? Are you wondering why you've always had things differently from your siblings? Are you wondering why your experiences differ from theirs; why you're the most favoured, accelerated or beloved? Did you ever reason why you got born again and knows Christ even before they did or why you're the only one amidst them all? All these differences are God's act of revealing that there's a call on you. Mark any one or any child who has it specially different from others, that child might as well secure the throne one day. Joseph was separated from his brothers! The question should be, "to what end if not to save them alive (Gen.45:7)?" Some of you reading this have been to schools and have had education your siblings or family are not opened to. I ask, "to what end?" Did God just give you these special privileges to be pronounced blessed or is it a way of accelerating you and seeking to use you to salvage and save many alive (your very family) even economically and in other ways. Today, think about God's benefits to you; think of how He has saved you alive from inevitable and unexplainable deaths that killed others and you'll probably begin to see why you were separated from many and their experiences. There's no one who's separated unto a peculiar path, life, experience or process that God doesn't plan for or has a definite destiny for. That's who you are!

PRAYER: Lord, let me manifest all the reasons for my separation in life.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 4:1-5:11; Revelation 14:1-20; Psalm 142:1-7; Proverbs 30:21-23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/12/2023

FRIDAY - 22ND  DECEMBER, 2023

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AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A CATCH - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 007

Luke 5:4, KJV

"Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught".

If there's any advice God is giving people at this time, it's to desist from "assaying to do like someone" when they don't have his instruction. The Bible writes this truth plainly this way. 

Hebrews 11:29, KJV

"By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned."

Mark, "which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned". There are those who are letting down their nets for a catch yet didn't hear a voice commanding them to launch into the deep initially. God is saying, "this is express danger and mere comparing of oneself with another. It is mere envying of someone's result without being the one the instruction that would produce it was given to". 

Jesus told Peter, "launch out into the deep..." and then "let down your nets for a catch". One instruction precedes the other. To launch out can't be divorced from letting down the nets for a catch. Meanwhile, those who have not heard, "launch out" are coveting having the harvest of Peter. They've not been obedient and willing yet they want to eat the good of the land. What does this make you if not a mocker of yourself?

The Egyptians trying to walk the dry ground like the Israelites all perished. Why? Did God speak to Pharaoh to pass the sea as dry ground? No! He only did, "follow, follow". He only attempted to have the result of the Israelites he sees ahead making headway in the sea. Assaying to do so and be like them, he perished and all his army. 

Being presumptuous is a deadly hook and mistake. You can't be presumptuous and build your life on, "assaying to do so" in 2024. You'll capsize and collapse. Don't assay to do so when you have not been commanded. It's possible to observe the body of someone carrying out an instruction without knowing who originates it or instructed it to him. You may follow him but you may not have his result. That'll be because you're not the man specifically given that instruction to take. Don't copy people erratically. Don't step out if you're not called. Don't check out if it does not become your revelation. Those who do contrary shouldn't put their minds to any reward. 

When the Bible says, "and let down your nets for a catch", it means, "and get ready for a harvest". The only testimony people covet is having the harvest. They don't want to walk the road of Peter. They don't want to be called (chosen) and if called, they don't want to thrust a little from the land. They want to stay at the shore yet expecting that they'll have the end of Peter. This is a lie. He who doesn't observe the first law shouldn't shovel to observe the second. Those who in all conscience can let down their nets for a catch are those who have heard a voice telling them initially to launch out. Therefore, I say unto you not to mimick anyone blindly whose instruction you do not have. 2024 will weed the chaff from the wheat and it's no time to "assaying" when you're not sure. You have to be sure. You must be the spoken to before you cross. Never do anything that doesn't come from a leading or guidance from God. That's because the many shaking and sorrow of hearts that could follow your "assaying to do so" would have been sieved by God for you by hinting you what and what not to attempt. 

If you've obeyed till now, if you've followed God till now, if you've lent yourself to a particular cause till now, then you're the one who owns the instruction, "...and let down your nets for a catch". December is harvest time and season for those who have walked the way or process faithfully. Now, you can hope to let down your nets for a catch! You won't be like a man awaiting to reap where he has not sown. For you, a return of your obedience, faithfulness and promptness is what you'll be reaping. 

PRAYER: Father, let my harvest come. Reward my obedience, faithfulness and promptness. I've let down my nets for a catch, may I not be disappointed.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 2:1-3:10; Revelation 13:1-13:18; Psalm 141:1-10; Proverbs 30:18-20

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 21/12/2023

THURSDAY - 21ST DECEMBER, 2023

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IF YOU'LL THRUST OUT A LITTLE FROM THE LAND - Gone To Prepare A Place Series 006

Luke 5:3-4, KJV

"3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. 4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught."

If you'll thrust out a little, if you'll take a leap of faith; if you'll follow the star that has appeared to you and heed the calling beckoning on you to come and follow, you'll see good days and eat the good of the land. 

Just like I've been saying, only at release can you see the greatness that will be consequential upon your obedience. On two occasions did Peter receive commands to "loose from where he is." The first was when Jesus needed his boat to preach. Jesus told him "to thrust out a little from the land". While emphasis, much emphasis has been laid on the, "launching into the deep of Peter" (which was the second statement by which he proceeded further), yet it is the first command that actually began the process that led to the blessing and greatness Peter eventually experienced. 

Are you there? Are there people there who have toiled all night and caught nothing out of life and its weary labour? What I'm hearing concerning you is that, "this is a new season. A change has been caused. If you'll trust God and thrust out your boat a little from the land", you'll begin to get ready for a harvest of great things. 

"To thrust out a little from the land" and into the water here means to launch out into your calling. Many there be who are thinking of great reward and are believing for it. However, it can only happen in your calling and what you are commissioned for. 

This brings us to the second command of Jesus to Peter. After Jesus had done preaching with the boat pulpit Peter afforded Him, Jesus wouldn't want him to go empty handed without reward. First, Peter had a call on his life and boat. Don't forget that out of the two boats Jesus saw, it was Peter's boat He chose and entered into. That is calling in action. It is calling that makes choice of whose life or boat to use. Jesus used Peter's boat to dish out the Word of life. I can't say less that Peter has lent himself and his boat as yielded vessels to God. 

But after that, shouldn't Peter reap for having heeded the call, "the call of stepping out with Jesus; the call of thrusting out a little from the land" into what Jesus would do and which He did that day? Peter should. 

It is this that brings the second command. Though Peter confessed of having caught nothing but having rather toiled all night long, yet Jesus commands him to now, "launch into the deep and let his nets down for a catch". 

You can trust God to let your nets down for a catch after stepping out, releasing and seeding yourself for God's use. There's no one God takes out or launches out that He only uses to discard or send away empty handed. No! He rewards and glorifies them - His ministers. 

At Jesus' Word Peter reiterates that he'll obey. Upon that obedience comes the harvest of plentiful reaping that break the nets and sink the boats. 

Today, I want you to be assured that if you'll step out and thrust out a little from the land, a little away from your faithlessness into operational faith and calling, you'll see the wonder of the Lord. One thing awaits you and that's to have the end of Peter - where you'll be compensated for your obedience of stepping out and believing in God. God is still calling men to thrust out a little from the land. He's still telling people to leave their homes and lands. He's still telling people to loose from where they've known to where He'll show them. He told Abraham to leave Ur of the Chaldeans to the land He shall show him. It's still the same. God's intention made Abraham the father of nations. Look at what the obedience of Peter and lending of himself and boat to Jesus also avails him. Great blessings! Will you heed or shut yourself off? Will you thrust out a little from ungodliness into righteousness and let the Lord your God anoint you with the oil of gladness and even excellence above your fellows? What are the things you must loose (detach) from in order to gain what's in front. For Peter, he thrusted a little away from the land. For Abraham, from his native land (Gen.12:1-2). Even for Paul, he says in Philippians 3:8, "yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ". 

You need to lose something to gain something. But if you won't overprotect yourself, you'll see God's wonder at day's end. 

PRAYER: Lord, I seed myself away. I receive an obedient heart that takes you by Your word. My toil ends; I have the harvest.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 1:1-21; Revelation 12:1-17; Psalm 140:1-13; Proverbs 30:17

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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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