MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/12/2023

SUNDAY - 31ST DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE BIRTHRIGHT - The Abomination of a Husband Series 002

Genesis 25:30, KJV

"30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright."

There's only one thing that contest is currently over. It is your birthright or let's simply say right. What is the "birthright?" If English is still English, then it is easy decoding. Birthright is made up of two separate words. They are "birth" + "right." So, it is rightly interpreted as all the rights that your being born avails you. The privileges you enjoy occasioned by your birth is what is called birthright. Birthright is also something owed since birth, due to inheritance. That is what Jacob's eyes was on. He wanted it though he was not the first born and when the opportunity to attempt having it presented itself, he explored it. That's why I said, "your birthright is what contest is over." That's what Satan wants you to forfeit. He wants you to forfeit the blessings and special privileges God created or allocated to you. The birthright are all privileges that anyone enjoys as a result of their birth by a person or into a family. They are occasioned just only by birth. In that manner, there are blessings God has occasioned to follow you. They are a sort of birthright. Contest will always be on them but you must refuse to lose or give them away. 

In explaining the birthright which a first born enjoys, you'll need to see this. When Joseph hosts his brothers, they sit according to their birthright.

Genesis 43:33, KJV

"And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth..."

This is one of the privileges a first born enjoys. It becomes obvious he's first and as such distinguished from others. This might have been practiced at Isaac's dining as well. Esau might have been ranked and sat closer to the father, Isaac than Jacob. In this way, Jacob might have felt inferior and so sensed the importance of the birthright. He might have seen from this that the birthright puts importance on a first born and makes him enjoy preeminence which others don't enjoy. 

For this reason, Jacob made no other request other than, "sell me your birthright." Why the birthright? Who educated Jacob on what to ask for? Somebody of his age ought still act carefree. He shouldn't have acted differently from Herodias' daughter who didn't know what to ask until the mother (a more experienced person) tutored her (Matt. 14:8). So, what made Jacob know rightly what to ask for? It's the fact that Jacob has suffered not being the first born. He has been thrown into the frenzy of envy and has experienced how privileged Esau is over him. On this ground, he knows what to ask for. He therefore goes for the birthright. He didn't ask for the game Esau would bring. No! He goes for the most essential that makes him preferred, most important and exalted. 

That's what contest is over. Protect anything that gives you your uniqueness. It may be a gift or a blessing that's attached to your life. In one thousand encounters, that's what Satan wants to steal and have you lose (John 10:10). Your birthright is shock full with many potentials and privileges. You can't afford to lose it or have another take your office, position which naturally brings the graces, anointing and manifestation needed for your greatness. When Satan, strange ladies and sin is seeking after what is birthright to you, may you see this as the essence of your life that can't be forfeited.

PRAYER: Lord, give me understanding to see the importance of the outworking in me. May I not be duped or cheated out of any special gift or grace on me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Malachi 3:1-4:6; Revelation 22:1-21; Psalm 150:1-6; Proverbs 31:25-31

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/12/2023

SATURDAY - 30TH DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DON'T DESPISE YOUR BIRTHRIGHT - The Abomination of a Husband Series 001

Genesis 25:32-34, KJV

"32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."

By nature and the order of things, we know that Esau is the first born while Jacob follows. They are twins but one came out before the other (Gen. 25:24-26). Therefore, without any hardwork or effort, Esau has preeminence and the blessing that goes with it because he's the first born. He's just at advantage for being the first born. His being the first born naturally puts a blessing and right on him and ought to make him better. If there's no privilege in being the first born indeed, Jacob's eyes and ask wouldn't have been on Esau selling what naturally gives him preeminence over him to him. Jacob is therefore a commonsensical fellow who for awhile might have watched and seen in the life of Esau how he had been enjoying the preeminence and invisible blessings of being the first born. He might have envied the respect his brother enjoys even from outsiders who marks him as the first born of the two twins. Whatsoever it may be, Jacob saw something he wanted to have for himself. He might have envied this for a time before the opportunity to ask for it eventually presented itself. 

We all know the story. Esau went hunting and returns home famished. He requests to be fed of the pottage of his brother, Jacob. However, Jacob turned the table and made a business deal out of it. Out of much hunger and the unfortunate inability to exercise discipline or delay gratification, Esau sells his birthright to have a moment of relief, enjoyment or sensation with food. When this was done and sealed with an oath, the Bible says, "thus, Esau despised his birthright." The Bible didn't comment on any transaction having been done until it was done, sealed and transferred. That was when the Bible then laments for Esau for treating with levity what has so much potency to make him the head over his brother and cause him to multiply. 

It means, "having done this, Esau let go of what makes him the first born." Letting go of what makes him first born therefore includes transferring all the blessings and statuses that accompany being the first born also. He lost all together. It is he who is the first born heaven will honour with headship and the blessings of the first born so as to give bread to others. Therefore after this business deal, every vitality, grace and glory of the first born were immediately sold away to Jacob. 

In like manner, transactions are still happening day in day out. I want to go to the home setting. Yesterday on our ministry platform, I sent a quote that says, "there are Esau husbands. They are those who have exchanged responsibility with convenience." If you're a man in a typical home setting, you're like Esau who has the birthright naturally conferred on him by God due to your gender and roles and could enjoy what the privileges of the birthright offer as well if you operate it. For instance, what is your birthright as a husband in the house? Because of your natural and God given position of being the husband, you lead, exercise governance, instruct and have oversee over the workings of your entire family. That's what your birthright naturally blesses you with. You may not regard it as blessings but see it as outright responsibilities and sacrifices until it's your wife doing them and exercising authority over you. That had be strange and ought to be corrected immediately. God has not created a wife in the home setting to exercise authority over her husband. If she's not a witch or lover of control, she should be ashamed of herself wanting to subdue or control her own husband. If there's any woman doing that at the home front, I'll say witchcraft is very very attractive to you. Your matron spirit should never seek to control or subdue your husband. Let it watch and oversee your children. So, the moment a man begins to ignore his responsibilities as a type of a first born or shirk them away to his wife is the day he has voluntarily and by consent signed off his birthright and position of being husband and the head. If it's your wife paying the bills or doing much of it and you're comfortable with it, that means you are an Esau husband. You have exchanged responsibility for convenience. You may think you're blessed having a wife who does everything for you and even puts food on your table but that responsibility she's doing (which ought to be yours) will invariably make her the husband and slide you to the status of the wife. As such, since she's the one acting the man, God won't be unjust not to allow her have the blessings that should have followed you. This is how men especially in the home setting sells their natural God given position or birthright to her who it is not from the beginning.

Yesterday, I made another statement to our ministry members. I told them in a quote that, "when you become responsible, you'll know how much it costs". No matter how undetailed any man may be reading this, if you're the one who pays the family bills, you'll one way or the other know how much it costs. Children are the only ones who don't know how much what they're enjoying costs. They only await the parents to make provision and provide them with life's necessities without knowing the pain, cost and sacrifice that goes into making such available. Let me tell you. If the burden of your family responsibility falls on your wife and she's the one who only knows the pain and sacrifice of what it costs meeting the family's needs, then God won't be unjust not to allow her have headship and more prosperity in what she does. You'll just observe that you're being relegated and you're going down. She'll overshadow you and that won't be because God plans it that way but because you sold out your birthright to her under convenience the day you said she should put more down for the family's needs. 

That ain't her call. It is yours. Many conspiracies of life might have naturally backslided you and positioned her at an advantage for that but you should not consent to selling your birthright away. You also should give your 100%. You can pursue, overtake and recover. When you do, you'll see that it becomes easy exercising authority at the home front. You'll have her respect and submission. Your reputation won't have been damaged as you're well seated as the first born who has the blessings the birthright confers. 

The birthright is a great  privilege on your life. As you exercise yourself for your family even as a man of little estate, the blessing of the birthright will enlarge you. It'll become, "he who waters must be watered". This way, you'll forever have inorder to abound in good work towards your family. I pray for you, may your scepter of leadership and headship not break. Today, may you see that he who has the birthright has the blessings. On that note,  seek to protect with your fibre the natural headship God has given you. It demands responsibilities of you but it in turns brings many blessings and advantages. It is what makes you the doer and the giver and that's what makes you to be the one being blessed in return. 

PRAYER: Lord, heal my head. I'm sorry for absconding and jettisoning my duties to my wife. I'm ready for responsibilities as demanded by my position as the front man in the home. In return, I receive the blessings.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Malachi 1:1-2:17; Revelation 21:1-27; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 31:10-24

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FRIDAY - 29TH DECEMBER, 2023

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A NOVEL THING!

Read Exo. 16:1-16

Exodus 16:15, KJV

"And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat."

As the children of Israel take their journey from Egypt to Canaan, they meet many obstacles which the Lord helps them to beat. One of such is the Red Sea that was parted and the drowning of Pharaoh's army for their sake. 

Meanwhile, as they journey into the wilderness, they begin to crave for the food which they had available and ate to their fill in Egypt. They were brought into this remembrance because they have become hungry and long for satiation. However, they communicated to God by murmuring and grumbling. This is not the right attitude that any Christian should cultivate when in need. God has a listening ears and we should "in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let our requests be made known unto God (Philippians 4:6). All the same, the Lord heard them and promised to give them both flesh and bread. These are the two things they were availed to the full in Egypt. In their murmuring, they had said this. 

Exodus 16:3, KJV

"And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

It is this need that made God speak through Moses, His prophet on the provision of meat for them in the evening and bread for them in the morning. God is committed to our being continually loaded with benefits. He does more all together for us than any government of a country can do for her own people. Egypt has a good welfare system. The Israelites though were slaves testified of this. They ate to their fill but God has a better welfare package for them. He eventually brought them quails by the East Wind. This is meat that they didn't work for, rear or have to hunt. God just used nature to bring it en masse to their camp. I don't know the country that drops food at the door steps of her every citizen but God did that for Israel. He gave them meat that they don't know where it came from and He gave them enough of it. Except they don't want to eat in the quantity they wanted, meat is always available. 

With the quails brought by the wind was the heavenly bread God gave them. God had promised to give them bread also and Moses had reported this to the congregation of Israel. However, when the bread came, the congregation couldn't detect or discover it as the promised bread. Why? They haven't seen the like of it before. It was a novel thing. A new thing they are seeing in their lives put together. Nobody has ever experienced any bread being that way before. Not knowing what to call this newly delivered bread, they therefore congregationally call it "manna". Manna means, "what is it?" It expresses something unknown that needs to be answered. However, their answer nears them as Moses explains to them what it is - being the bread God promised to give them. This is a new bread, the like that has never been turned out before. It is newly manufactured to meet need. It is a novel idea and concept. More importantly, it didn't originate from the earth nor made by any man's hands. It came from heaven (Psalm 105:40). 

Exodus 16:13-15, KJV

"13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat."

Just like Moses served as the interpreter of the Israelites here, rightly dividing the truth to them, so also the Lord is sending me to tell you of a novel thing you shall see. It'll happen and you'll exclaim at what it is. It'll be manna unto you - all new but it'll be the Lord's doing. As we seek to draw open the curtain of 2024, you shall exclaim and say, "what is this?" But rightly, you shall receive remembrance on such delivery been what you had prayed for. You may not see it as what you've prayed for but rightly dividing the wheat from the shaft by a more experienced person will open to you your novel thing. This will make you accept and welcome this heavenly blessing or else it might scare you away with its strangeness.  

I pray for you, manna will fall on your ground. New inventions that are not earthly shall be experimented on your ground and in your life. You'll get out of your house or into the open, see that wonder and ask, "what is it?"

PRAYER: Lord, any promise for this year that's still hanging should begin to drop in Jesus name. I receive new things that'll lead to enquiring what they are.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 14:1-21; Revelation 20:1-15; Psalm 148:1-14; Proverbs 31:8-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/12/2023

THURSDAY - 28TH DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

A STATEMENT THAT CONTRADICTS FAITH

Read Luke 12:16 - 21

Luke 12:18-19, KJV

"18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."

This statement above is one that kills daily faith living. You may not see it so until it is divided. The ground of this man brought forth plentifully and contemplating where he'll put the proceeds, he decides on pulling down his older barns to building more roomy ones. Looking at his harvest and how much would be stored, he then speaks to his soul. He tells himself to keep calm, take his ease because he has much food for many years laid up for consumption. It isn't long when God requires his life from him and that's because he didn't acknowledge God at all in his thought. He was only driven by selfishness and eventually driven to death by it. 

However, that statement of, "and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry" shows from the time that statement was made that this man would stop trusting God for provision that immediately. I once said why we pray to God is because we keep having needs to be met. The day you become independent of God and not send requests to Him again or seek His help is the day you should be believed to have everything in this life. And once you have everything already, you become independent of anyone who can give it to you. You therefore become self contained! It is that same shoe this man found himself. He has abundance that can cater for many years' needs. Looking at his store house or treasure bank in his mind, he's of the opinion that he doesn't need to trouble himself any longer. He has what it takes to live for many years. Such man with such thought can't trust God to supply his daily bread again. Why? He knows he has the bread in reserve already. He's not looking for it any longer. Rather, he can approach his store house, collect as much food as needed and do with it as desired. Such kind of provision, comfort and convenient life therefore kills faith and its exercise. How many of you are there right now trusting God for money, provision or solution to one health problem or the other? Do you know why your focus is on God even if you have to go to the hospital? It's basically because you do not have that provision on ground or settled. If you're assured of money for life, you can misbehave. That's when you won't even take work seriously again. You'll advise yourself to ease up like this rich fool. The truth is this. What you know you have, you can't look for and what you don't look for immediately excommunicates you from praying or exercising faith to having it. We know that it's from God all good gift and perfect gift come from (James 1:17). Like this man, he has it on ground. What he would eat in years to come has been prepared for and made ready. He's not in deception of that reality. He knows where the corn is and he knows it really can cater for many years. This is what assures his mind. This is what takes his quest off God from whom all resources and provision comes from. Rather, he's assuring himself - his soul to take his ease because his own very hands has made provision available for him to dine and merry with. 

I bet it with you, such man can't exercise faith anylonger. Why? He has nothing he's looking for again. Though he has all, he didn't yield them up or give it up to God.  But all his needs are met. Did you not hear him speak? He began assuring himself of no work or stressful work anylonger. To him, he's going into retirement immediately. Why would he do that? Because of the harvest he sure knows can last him for years and cater for his needs. 

Some of us are praying or are forced to pray and trust Him for provision because we don't know where it'll come from. We at times find ourselves at tight corners where we believe that if God does not respond and come through for us, then shame and embarrassment is imminent. On that note, we keep exercising faith and believing for the salvation that comes only from God. However, let me ask you, "if you have everything you need like this man, what will become of your fellowship with God? Will you keep trusting Him at all for your daily bread? Will you even allow Him administer that abundant harvest of yours as He wanted? Can you give your treasure box to God and start all over again? Will you allow Him help you build faith in Him?

When God told the rich young ruler to go and sell all he has and follow him, this is what Jesus was seeking to help him achieve (Luke 18:18-23). Jesus doesn't want his faith, confidence or strength to come from what he has or has kept in the banks. Rather, Jesus wants to help him learn, build faith and live the faith life by helping him to trust and ask for his daily bread daily. It takes faith to live such life. A life that awaits his daily provision daily from God is a faith life. It doesn't mean that fellow doesn't have a savings. However, his trust is not in it neither does his sustenance fostered on it. That life is different from He who has it all, knows where it is and can fetch himself whatsoever he needs when he needs it every time without ever asking God for help. 

Brethren, when your business brings forth abundantly, when prosperity comes your way as such that can cater for you till death, will you remove God from your thinking? Will you become your own carer and take God out of the picture or you'll continue to lean and wait on Him for the daily allocation that comes from Him? May you not deceive your heart - yourself to take his calm because of the treasure laid up when all sustainance, life and being comes and is given by God. 

PRAYER: Lord, keep me from the deception of reliance and sustenance on myself. Teach me the faith life and how to live it.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 12:1-13:9; Revelation 19:1-21; Psalm 147:1-20; Proverbs 31:1-7; Proverbs 30:10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/12/2023

WEDNESDAY - 27TH DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

BE READY FOR YOUR ANGEL

Luke 1:26, KJV

"26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary."

I know you're burdened. I know you're in anticipation of when it'll be and whether you'll just pass the earth like that without manifesting sonship. That's a good burden. It is what makes any man responsible and live within the confines of the requirements of his calling or destiny lest he desecrates himself.

For those of you with destiny pangs inside you seeking expression, one question God is asking you today is if you'll be ready and in the right condition at His appearance to call you hither for use. 

The angel Gabriel was sent to a city of Galilee called Nazareth at a very specific time. We don't have any documentation that Mary had been expecting him or any divine visitation but Mary is obviously somebody who lives holily enough to have the will of God done in her life anytime God wills or arrives. Your time will come also. Mary's happened at the sixth month. Your time is in God's hands and He shall kick-start your entering into manifestation and manifesting at the time appointed only by Him. However, what condition should you be met when the assignment that eternity has thought wise to use you for is eventually lowered unto you? Your condition must be that of a ready soldier who has not entangled himself with any civilian matters. When that angel was sent, the Bible made it notable that he was sent to a VIRGIN espoused to Joseph of the House of David. You see, Mary is a virgin and that's one of the requirements for the Messiah to be born apart from the power of the Holy Ghost that will overshadow her (Luke 1:35). She must be a virgin according to the prophecy that bear witness (Isa. 7:4).

Now imagine the angel arriving and Mary not being in the condition of a virgin. Mary would have been knocked out of that purpose first of all and then out of the lineage of Christ. God is watching His Word to perform them. None of His Word will go unfulfilled. Because all shall be fulfilled, you can then trust that it shall one day be unto you according to what God has said to you one time or the other. However, God will visit you for use. When He comes, may He not meet you in shambles, disarray, drunkenness of sin, lust and love of the world and in the act of contradicting the very essence and purity of your calling. 

Mary's own call requires her to be a virgin. She must ever be in that state until she gives birth to Christ. That's why Angel Gabriel didn't make a mistake of visiting any who isn't a virgin. God knows us and sees us. He sees our preparedness and He knows if we are usable. Your responsibility is to be in the condition of life where God does not bypass you for divine assignment. Though it was said a virgin shall conceive and brought forth the Saviour yet we know that no woman's name was specifically mentioned or attached to that prophecy. However, it found a virgin amidst many to latch unto. The first qualification is that Mary was a virgin. That was not compromised. She was prepared still. God might have considered some other things because Angel Gabriel revealed that in his greeting to Mary when she says, "thou that art highly favoured among women". 

Luke 1:28, KJV

"And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women."

Being highly favoured among women talks of being chosen above others. This might have made Mary agree to the proposal of Joseph and so was brought into Christ's lineage. If Mary had never been first espoused to Joseph or let's say someone in the lineage of Christ (of the House of David), God wouldn't have come to her at all. So, she's favoured being chosen above others. Where others despised Joseph, she might have received a nudge to go with him. This is what makes the difference at day's end. She might also have been highly favoured because amidst the few virgins that might have married into the House of David at that time, it was her God found attracted to to birth the Messiah. 

However, what I'm saying is this. Don't neglect your consecration because it is the very basis of your usability. It's the beginning of God's attraction to you. God is attracted to those who are given - given to Him somewhere. You'll be fought to lose your virginity (consecration) but if you'll hold on, you'll see God come around to tender to you a proposal on an assignment.

In being ready and qualified, ensure you're not like Peter who still harbour prejudice in himself against the Gentiles and wouldn't rise, kill and eat (Acts.10:13-14). That singular problem proved him unprepared and it hindered him from exploring the new world and fulfilling an assignment that became credited to Paul. Ensure you're ready. Ensure you have nothing in you that can discredit, slight or throw you out of the challenge. If you're no longer found a virgin, even if 100 virgins are called, you can't be amidst them let alone make it into the list of God's choice. The foundation of the Lord on this matter stands sure! You must be a virgin in consecration! That in place, be ready for your angel. 

PRAYER: Lord, I will not lose my virginity (consecration) even in this festive periods. I hold unto your promises until Your arrival.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 10:1-11:17; Revelation 18:1-24; Psalm 146:1-10; Proverbs 30:33

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/12/2023

SATURDAY - 23RD DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

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

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

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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