MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 04/01/2024

THURSDAY - 4TH JANUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

ARE THEY DIFFERENTLY MANNERED?

Genesis 25:23, KJV

"And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger."

When Rebekah went to enquire about the struggle in her womb, the verse above was the reply she got from the Lord. That verse emphasizes that, "two nations are in her womb and then two manner of people..."

"Manner" means "kind" or "type." It means two people who won't behave the same way. It means two people who won't have the same inclination, aptitude, passion, motivation and gifts. It was two different thinkers with two different hobbies she harbours in herself. Imagine that, "two manner of people!" That hints about a major life truth. No two person is the same even when given birth to by the same parents and are even twins. They will sure turn out to be differently mannered or wired. It is these differences that lead to the choice of what each of these twins became later in the future. The Bible has this to say. 

Genesis 25:27, KJV

"And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents."

Due to their being differently mannered, each of them became who they're created to be best suited for. If we look at their temperaments as testified in that verse, we'll see that the fact that they are different in nature is what guides each of them to their calling, vocation, career path or choice in life. 

The Bible testifies of Esau becoming a cunning hunter, a man of the field. This shows Esau has a different makeup and aptitude different from Jacob. He is an extrovert and probably a Choleric. He is described in that place as, "a man of the field". It'll also mean Esau is outgoing unlike his brother who was described as "a plain man dwelling in tents." He is an introvert - a phlegmatic or melancholy. It is an introvert who don't like spending time outside or at the field. They cherish solitude above anything and if they ever get dragged into social community or activities, they'll seek to recover that energy back by cultivating solitude afterwards. That's who Jacob was contrary to who Esau was. One was a man of the field - an explorer, an adventurer, a risk taker, a big blower but the other is a quiet insider who don't want the outside's turmoil to disturb his inner peace. 

No wonder, they each became something different. That's as a result of one truth. They're two people who are differently mannered. They aren't the same at all. So, while Esau excels in field and track activities in school, Jacob could have loved sewing, cookery and other domestic and personal survival teaching subjects. A testimony that indeed these are two differently mannered people. 

Are you there wondering what you should do in/for life? Have you been ruminating on hitting it right but caught between this way or vocation and the other? You can let your natural manner, temperament and aptitude guide you. Jacob couldn't have become a cunning hunter. He wasn't destined for that because he wasn't gifted or equipped for that. If he attempted to, he wouldn't have gotten to the highest level of mastery where the Bible had to use the word, "skillful or cunning" to qualify the mastery of hunting his brother who was called into same field had. He would have been an average hunter lost in the shadow of his brother whose nature, inclination, obsession and gifts allows to be a man of the outdoor. The pursue of a career in hunting or any other outdoor pathway would have led to Jacob's frustration and even if he tries, he'll get to a place where he couldn't try further. The same applies to Esau wanting to become Jacob - an insider when God already gave a sign on who they could become by the different natures and aptitudes He created them with. 

Indeed, your calling is in your soul. It reveals itself to some people more than others also. For Jacob and Esau, they didn't struggle to discover their callings. They only sought to express themselves and become themselves (who God created them to be). That was what they lived and that's what calling is all about. Calling is not about doing the highest paid profession or competing with somebody you know. Calling is finding the pathway already created in your soul and walking in the footprints already left there for you by the Almighty. God created a path for Israel in the sea. All they did was to walk through that path. They didn't reject it. They took it. Take yours also. It's beckoning you to come. That's why you've excelled in some subjects than others. That's why you've been attracted to some fields and professions more than others. That's calling peeping out from your inside. 

I pray that you won't become an accident. You'll go the pathway your Creator intended. You'll follow what He said you should do which He left in your soul. If your passion has not been corrupted but still pure and whole, it's very worthy and trustable to follow. Let it guide you. The stars that appeared guided the magi. The kind of person you are which was left in your soul and wiring can guide you too to the right field.  

PRAYER: Lord, you have created me shock full of potentials. I'm loaded bountifully with gifts, aptitudes and inner yearnings seeking expression. I express them in Jesus' name. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 8:1-10:32, Matthew 4:12-25, Psalm 4:1-8, Proverbs 1:20-23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 03/12/2023

WEDNESDAY - 3RD JANUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

DESPERATENESS LOSES THE BARGAIN - Abomination of a Husband Series 005

Genesis 25:31-32, KJV

"31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?"

Are you there saying, "what profit shall this birthright do to me?" May you not wait to find out. Esau did and it wasn't succinct for him at all. 

You have heard men say don't make decisions when you're elated, tired or depressed. I'll add one to it, don't make a decision when you're desperate.

Desperateness always loses the bargain. 

Look at the banter and bargain between Jacob and Esau. Jacob took much advantage of Esau by thousands of miles. For I will ask, "what is a birthright compared to a plate of food? Is it not like wheat to chaff?"

Esau confesses his state when he says, "I am at the point of death..." That statement confirms his desperateness. The Bible uses a particular word to describe his hunger. It is the word, "famished." It means to have an empty stomach and you know what happens when even a vehicle runs on an empty tank. Due to his being famished and emptied of strength, having gone hunting for this while, he seeks desperately to refill. That's because his appetite is now asking for it. He therefore found it very hard to delay gratification or bargain commonsensically. Esau isn't at fault for trading for food from Jacob but he was at fault for trading with the most worthy thing in his life. Imagine the conflict. Jacob put a plate of food on the table and then Esau gave away his birthright for same. Even according to the law of barter, that wasn't a fair exchange. Somebody has therefore gained and extorted the other. However, should we blame Jacob wholly for this though we have discerned him as a man of impure motive? No! Esau has his fault. He has not mastered the principles and laws of trading at all. Jacob seems better at that. He must have learnt favourable bargaining from their mother who he often stays with at home and probably accompanies to the market. 

For God's sake, does birthright equal even a pot of porridge in worth? So, why did Esau gave it for a plate of food in exchange? He was under desperateness. He's like a man with fire underneath his clothe. He'll seek to exterminate it right away at the slightest opportunity. This is why he was blinded seeing what great value he was putting on the table for one worthless meal that doesn't even worth the game he might have just arrived with from the jungle. 

When you're desperate to have something, don't buy it. You won't price well. You'll be too pressed and pressurized to have it. In this way, the seller can extort you like Jacob extorted Esau. Avoid being desperate before you acquire properties and assets. You'll be bound by the spell of that desperateness. Also, never show obvious joy or admiration at bargaining point. That'll be lack of subtilty and the intentional giving of yourself away to be cheated by cunning traders. While you may have good intention and the right spirit, the world and his people are not. They're looking for how to cunningly have more from you. 

May God teach you wisdom, subtilty, discretion and understanding. In life, you won't lose. In life, you'll come out with the best bargain. Things will favour you. While today's teaching advocates you guarding against being cheated, ensure you don't take undue advantage of any in trade as well. If you do, remember God who's the Judge between you both. Ensure you do to others what you'll like them do to you. 

A word also to couples. Those of you spouses leveraging the desperateness of your partners to have sex to control or get the better of them are simply manipulators. If your husband for instance is desperate for sex and it's at that gate you issue your bargain, then you're not being just but rather practicing using what you have to get what you want. I want to believe all husbands are responsible as not to push any wife to this state also. May the Holy Spirit continue to teach us fairness and justness in our homes.

PRAYER: Lord, I receive the wisdom that comes from above. I receive justness and fairness. I excel in the use of money this year. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 5:1-7:24, Matthew 3:7-4:11, Psalm 3:1-8, Proverbs 1:10-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/01/2024

TUESDAY - 2ND JANUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

THE POTENTIAL IN THE RIGHT OF A MAN - Abomination of a Husband Series 004

Genesis 25:34, KJV

"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."

Just like a birthright avails the first born certain privileges, being the husband at the home setting gives you some rights as well. You're actually privileged.

The birthright of Esau places him over and ahead of Jacob. So, Esau has preeminence. He's like an older brother to Jacob. If you're in a good cultural system, you'll understand that the elder exercises seniority over the younger and can even give instructions or be accorded watching over his younger ones. Because he's also older, he may be more benefited and treated as an adult and given adults' assets compared to his younger ones. He's also most likely the heir or the one the father wants to pass the family business or lineage blessing to. In the case of Esau, Isaac wanted to pass the blessing to him to continue the line with him but for the turning around of things suddenly when Jacob came in to supplant his brother. That desire of Isaac to bless Esau is occasioned because he was the first born and not the second. 

This is also the truth with Joseph's children. Joseph refused Jacob, his father from blessing Ephraim over Manasseh (who is the first born). He removed his father's right hand from Ephraim's head to place it on Manasseh's and even told the father that Manasseh is the first (Gen.48:13-17). However, the flow didn't also flow that way also. So, it turned to another - the younger. 

All these instances prove that there's a blessing in the birthright of the first born or any type of right given to anyone. In series one, I talked of the blessings as well as the responsibilities. A husband for instance enjoys certain rights. He leads the family and exercises authority and leadership over all in the family. You see, these are rights that are occasioned by his position or office as the husband and father. However, he has his responsibilities. He provides, loves, protects and teaches the family. He might need to work unrelentlessly to make ends meet for his family but that's the just obligation that goes with the privileges and says he has or exercises. 

Paul once warned that he who won't work shouldn't eat (II Thes. 3:10). Same fits this illustration. A man should not be respected if he only enjoys exercising of rights and not performance of duties and obligations. 

Being the man means being the head. The head gives dictates to every other parts of the body. That's who you are and that's what you enjoy. However, with it goes some responsibilities. It is the balance of these two when maintained that won't make you abuse authority or your rights. I once said it somewhere that, "responsibility can humble you." Responsibilities that are sitting on you pedals you to soft tread and not become a tyrant. It also makes you not to eat the food of idleness or laziness. You only eat what you pay for and seek to compensate for anything given you which you haven't afore paid for. A man doesn't abscond from obligations. If you like free things, you'll abuse the purpose of gift or grace somewhere.

Your right as the husband or the man should therefore be protected. It's a privileged position which should be ever beautiful to you. Don't sign it off to your wife. By nature and make up, God didn't make her to be the headman though she could be forced into this role. You have seen how uninteresting that is when a woman is a widow seeking to do it all. Even when she's financially buoyant, the voice, strangth and harnessing of a father is usually missed. The children would need that and herself might look up to being held together by a man's arms. That's why the Bible clearly calls her, "a helpmeet or helper". Helpmeet is found for someone or something that's in operation before the arrival of the help the helpmeet or giver is bringing. And when something helps, we know it is there to assist. So, it's not wrong for your wife to assist you but her call is not to be the header. And how do men make their wives the header? By simply absconding responsibility and forcing women and their wives into men's and husbands' roles. If you do this, you have fallen and have lost your rights. You'll have lost your grip especially what makes you exercise authority and godly influence at home. Once that's undone, you've given your wife the fat ground to contest and challenge to a large extent what you'll say or do. And that's because you gave your rights away - making your wife the husband. 

PRAYER: Teach me the flow at the home setting. I receive properness of structure and how not to break the rank.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 3:1-4:26, Matthew 2:13-3:6, Psalm 2:1-12, Proverbs 1:7-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/01/2024

MONDAY - 1ST JANUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

THE POTENTIAL IN YOUR BIRTHRIGHT - Abomination of a Husband Series 003

Genesis 25:31-32, KJV

"31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32  And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?"

You're welcome to 2024. This teaching will help men to rise and stand upright. Do well to follow its series.

It is unfortunate that many don't know the potential contained in their birthright. So unfortunate that many don't know it's shock full of privileges and blessings for them.  Just like the birthright places Esau over Jacob, so also does the natural positioning of the male man positions him for headship and leadership at the home setting. The birthright also positions Esau naturally as the heir of his father. This speaks of a special privilege he enjoys just because he came first. In same way, the male man has some rights that if sold makes him lesser and reduced. If you don't know that you're a kind of first born at the home setting, you might sell this right and all the privileges that pertains to it to your wife. This way, you'll have successfully become an Esau who exchanges his birthright for mere food. He's such a willing fellow who gives valuable for worthlessness. You can exchange responsibility for convenience at the home setting also. Responsibility is costly to bear and you can because of this push it wholly to your wife or let her take the lead in it while you follow. There are women who are the ones giving to their families and meeting needs to the exclusion of the man. This is wrong. You're to rise as an example there. It's an Esau who always despises the birthright - what privileges and duties his position of birth confers on him. He lost it because he didn't see or understand the significance of the birthright. If he had been in Jacob's shoe who is farther at table from their father, he would have been made envious. He would even have seen Jacob for who he is - a thief when he requested for his birthright. In that wise, he would have protected his right as the first born. He didn't see any significance in his birthright and that made him sell it off. You know it's possible to have something precious and not know it's that precious until it is lost or out of your hands. To buy it back, you'll have to pay a greater prize for it. That's if it ever avails itself for sale. For Esau, the Bible says, "he sought with tears what he had lost but it was not given him (Heb.12:17). Who'll give it to him? Is it Jacob who has learnt first of all the significance of the birthright having suffered not being born with it? 

It is clearly revealed that Esau has no respect for his birthright. It is revealed in the statement he utters. He says, "I am at the point of death, who cares about the birthright? What profit does it do to me?" This is the problem of people. They are always desperate and at the point of extermination when they're looking for satiation. In this manner, they don't mind how costly it is what they give to have what they're looking for (even if that one is worthless and of lesser value). 

This has become the undoing of many men who were at the point of extermination when they needed sex and couldn't rein it in. They eventually had the sex at a higher cost than it was offered them. Some entered into some wrong and cheap bargain with wives who wanted to control them or prostitutes who seek their value of manhood. May you be sensitive. May you first of all have a revelation of how important you, your roles and the blessings that follows it are. You're created as God's right hand man - to bear rule in your family. You're also God's vessel - in who He wants to live. When you see yourself as God's temple therefore, you'll know your body is not meant for fornication or uncleanness this year. Who many are and what they carry or they have working for them, they just don't know. Until it is lost, they're not at loss or at a regret of something. You may say your own 'birthright' too holds no importance now because of this ephemeral thing you want to satiate yourself with. However, you'll soon seek it with tears and yet you won't have it. Never lose blessings on the altar of sin this year. Never exchange roles or duties with your wife. Don't switch places. Let her remain the "helpmeet" God called her. Women themselves are seeking for who to lead them. That's why they're commanded to submit or be subject to their husbands (I Peter 3:1). Don't change that positioning. God didn't make so from the beginning if you do. Protect your God given rights and exercise it faithfully. Don't say, "what profit does being a man, husband and father avail you?" If you lose your roles and the blessings that follow, you'll learn it. Esau who once asked what blessing the birthright has for him saw it after it was lost. He wanted it back but Jacob already had upper hand and sealed by the oath they both were party to and later the sealing blessing of Isaac when Jacob came to supplant Esau for the fatherly blessing. 

PRAYER: Lord, I want to rise, stand and stand upright at my duty post as a man and husband this year. I receive grace, wisdom and resources. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 1:1-2:25, Matthew 1:1-2:12, Psalm 1:1-6, Proverbs 1:1-6

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BANNER WORD FOR 2024

 Brethren,

We thank you for following us still. God has spoken good of us and we thank you for believing in us - as to have gone in and out with us this year. 

Having been looking unto God for a period, God has concluded to have us work and walk under the banner theme, "RISEN & UPRIGHT".

Psalm 20:7-8 says, 

"7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright."

When a thousand and ten thousand are fallen both at your left and right hand sides, your own testimony will be to RISE and STAND UPRIGHT.

In this New Year, ours is A GREAT RISING! Nothing will be able to press or bow us down. Even depression won't be able to get that done. Internally in our minds and in our physical, spiritual, marital, financial lives, we shall RISE and STAND UPRIGHT.

The only thing that's permitted for us in this New Year is to RISE and then maintain our RISING.

"Stand upright" that comes after that "rise" means to still be standing after rising. You'll not only stand after rising, you'll endure in rising, power and that good state. 

Nothing shall knock you off or back to a depressed or bowed or bent over state. You will RISE in power and keep your rising by STANDING UPRIGHT still. Let travellers to the end of the world go and return, they'll still meet you standing upright. 

Even in war, famine or difficult situations, nothing will change this position of RISING and STANDING UPRIGHT. You'll still be standing upright. Let the whole world come against you, you'll still be found standing upright. You'll not be fallen or trodden under foot by anything in 2024.

This is your position. You have overcome the world; you have triumphed; you have RISEN and shall maintain your RISING by STANDING and being UPRIGHT still. 

No shaking except what you shake that shakes!

Say, "I am RISEN, I STAND & I am UPRIGHT."

HAPPY NEW YEAR in advance. Welcome to the New World and a New Beginning!

Your brother,

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

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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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