MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/02/2024

TUESDAY - 27TH FEBRUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHERE TO FIND JESUS! - Separated Unto Purpose Series 009

Luke 2:48-49, NLT

"48 His parents didn't know what to think. "Son," his mother said to him, "why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been frantic, searching for you everywhere." 49 "But why did you need to search?" he asked. "Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"

You have to know your kiddos and we do by learning who they are and what their greatest love is. If I asked you what could have the attention of each of your children, what would you say to me? If you do not know the greatest love or obsession of your kids, you might suffer for it yourself. Joseph and Mary suffered just for that as seen in today's Bible verses. Imagine if Jesus' parents knew what his greatest love was. They wouldn't have searched for three days looking for Jesus to no avail until... They went everywhere looking for him except the temple. It was when they couldn't locate him at all those places they thought children of his age could be or be attracted to that they eventually came to the temple as a last resort. They were forced to come to the temple. They themselves didn't believe or imagine that their son is such a one that has come to discover purpose at such an early age and is living it. 

You can't predict your kiddo. Some children mature in orientation and purposeful living or its discovery faster than others. That's why they amuse adults who listen to them manifest. The fact that Mary and Joseph predicted Jesus thinking he could be where the cinema was going on at the market place made them not locate Jesus on time. Let me drive home a point. Your kiddo's obsession or his calling manifests also in where he visits or wants to be. We'll be attracted differently and to different places you know. At a very tender age, Steve Jobs was attracted by inventions that he saw from a store's revealing glass. If you ask where such boy would be, I could say around electronics. Jesus would prefer to be at the temple above any other place because that's an identical place for his calling. He told them, "don't you know I must be in my Father's house." Parents who know their kids and what their obsessions are are those who don't miss. They could therefore match or tie their kiddos to their obsessions. While growing up, many of our mothers knew where they could find us and some were oblivion of it too. Those who knew accessed their children faster for errands or for their needs than others. You'll just hear, "he's at XYZ's house." They could tell friends, "go and check him on the football field" or "go to the library." You need to find your child's interest and where it is tied. Engineers won't gather where actors or dancers would be. If your child would love the cinema or theatre, it may be that another Shakespeare is to be revealed. So, if he or she has his choices to be made, you may begin to see him or her flock around media personalities and movie stars. You won't find an Engineer necessarily in such a place. For those looking for Jesus, look no further. He is in His Father's house - the temple. If you'll discover him, go there. Stop walking up and down to no end. Anyone who discovers purpose this early gives parents rest. You're not confused as to where they may be. It's until then you could predict them with assurance that they'll be where their destiny assignment or training is taking place. 

Such early harvest of children to purpose and their specialization is needful if there'll be attention and concentration on their callings. As we round off this series, ask yourself, will I still do second guess if I were asked which place or what thing has the attention of my kids the best". As for Jesus, He was telling his parents, "why the wasted effort? You should know I'll be at the temple. I'm not destined to be a footballer and so I can't be at the field. I'm not destined to be a fisherman and so I can't be at the sea. However, if you're looking for me, "come to the temple." May our children be this purposeful - knowing themselves and educating others to know or discover them same way. 

PRAYER: Father, let my son be purposeful in his pursuit. Let him discover a calling to obsess after as he arises to it.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 19:1-20:21, Mark 8:11-38, Psalm 42:1-11, Proverbs 10:17

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BUYING THINGS CHEAPLY AT THIS TIME

BUYING THINGS CHEAPLY AT THIS TIME

Three years ago, a female colleague at my workplace who knows I'm a geek hinted me of some pile of books that were to be sold. It ranges from self help to books on Christian doctrine/faith. The owner, a moderate elderly man was relocating abroad to continue his life. That was in 2021. 

I didn't hesitate. I bought all the books except for few that I've had and didn't want to double or those that were too ragged beyond redemption. I bought some as cheap as #250. Some of these books were notably Kenneth Hagin and wouldn't have been sold at those battered prices at the market.

I however seized a fleeting opportunity to acquire them. I could remember I doubled George Samuel Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon and gave it as a parting gift to a loving sister who was furthering her career. Today, she's in the Banking Sector. She was delighted having the book at last having heard a buzz about it. 

I want to say this "move" or "wave" is being repeated now. Many Nigerians are checking out of the country in their droves like swarm of bees. Before you blink, it may be your neighbour next door. Please, acquire him. In the rush to desperately leave the country and its hot room behind, they will sell off their properties at affordable and lesser prices. Two things might motivate the auctioning off at such lesser price. 

1. That those properties are second hand (even when they're sincerely still new). 

2. Or needing to convert them to money (often in view of time lapse and their departure).

Last year, before a very close brother got the scholarship that launched him to study Computer Vision and Robotics in France, he intimated me of a land his mum could sell in order to fund him and help him realize his goal. That's good and it'll worth it at day's end. However, I advised that the land be retained as it's well situated in an enviable place in Lagos or so. I wouldn't know if the land was eventually sold but I did persuade him not to because he might need it for practice. 

I found out that many Nigerians are not only frustrated but they are now desperate due to their mounting frustration. You may be shocked seeing people sell off their properties so cheaply at this period. Why? Either they want to travel out or they want to survive where they are presently. 

While I'm an advocate of human feeling and compassion, yet I have also discovered people that you can't persuade not to sell something that's theirs [even when you are seeing the unreasonableness behind it]. If you do and they insisted, buy the property. However, you may do them the favour of topping the payment considering they're selling so low out of desperation or need to put hand in the mouth. 

People, go and get ready to acquire things that cheaply. That wave is coming back again. I need prepare your mind for it. You're not wicked buying what people say they want to sell. Don't beat yourself for that. However, if you meet an unwilling seller who's only being forced to sell what he shouldn't sell, help him out if you can. He'll never forget that. From there, you might have an open door and friendship that may beat silver and gold.

Jesus told Simon Peter to launch out into the deep. Why would Jesus say that if there's no intent or end to it? However, we got to discover Jesus' mind and His intent for such instruction when the concluding verse says, "...and let down your nets for a draught" (Luke 5:4).

Believe it, it wasn't long Peter obeyed he had the greatest catch of his life. I'm sensing a wind blowing. I'm sensing an occasion coming right before someone. Will you take it? However, the anointing has come to prepare you for it. God is saying, "get ready for a draught. Get ready for a cheap catch. Get ready for an harvest that you'll need others to help you pull into your home." However, if you do not get ready or let down your nets by having reserved fund at hand, you may be bypassed while watching another - who's prepared cart away the LG, Samsung TV, Laptop, Furniture, Land, Mansion, Car, Tools/Equipments, Fridge/Freezer, Dryer, Sewing Machine, Gas/Gas Cooker, Fan, AC, Washing Machine, Generator etc that you could have bought. 

Look, before it springs forth [happens at all], God comes to tell you of them. 

Ye Believe in GOD & Believe in Me!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

solaadenathmail@gmail.com

26/02/2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 26/02/2024

MONDAY - 26TH FEBRUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

EXCEPTIONALITY AND AWE REVEALS CALLING - Separated Unto Purpose Series 008

Luke 2:46 - 47, KJV

"46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers."

This is day 008 on the series, "Separated Unto Purpose." God is not done with us. Rather, He wants to take us further. Today, I have the obligation and release of the Holy Spirit to show you how to mark calling in yourself or any other person, especially your child. My emphasis has for awhile been on the discovery of kiddos' callings. Once done, children are saved from wrong or perverted living onward into their adulthood. The Bible says, "train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6, KJV). One, there is a way he should go. It is the way of the calling and not only of good morals or character inculcation. You can't train a child in the way he should go (his discovered definite calling) if you haven't identified that way also. A calling earlier discovered is what could be trained and taken to its peak of manifestation very early. We don't have to wait for the manifestation of the sons of God at forty years of age. We can experience it in their twenties. May I show you a Psalm that reveals who children or adolescents should be on effectiveness in their callings. 

Psalms 144:12, KJV

"That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace."

We can have such prepared and ready kiddos. Without departing from Luke 2:41-52, I'll be showing you a clear cut mark which once observed reveals your ward has a call on his or her life. Jesus while in the midst of the doctors at the temple displays extraordinary brilliance on God's law or divine things. His brilliance in the Scriptures are so extraordinary that the Bible commented on how the doctors were taken aback. Whenever you see exceptionality being displayed by your kiddo in a subject or activity, it is a mark that he has a specific gifting in there and offcourse a calling to be a master in that field or a related one if he'll pursue it. Many times, parents or adults take little things for granted. You rather ought be like a scout who's on the lookout and tiptoe for that extraordinary player he could recruit for his team. Scout for your ward's strength, gift, talent, obsession, inclination etc. Observe the hint that your child is oozing out by which he or she tells you where he should be classified or with who he should be grouped. You remember Jesus' parents supposedly thought he was in the company of their kinsfolk and acquaintances. However, he was separated away from them because his calling didn't classify him with them. Rather, he was found amidst doctors of religious things (fellow vocational men). If all parents could identify correctly what the calling of their ward is and groom it right there; then there won't be any dullard kid. How do I mean? When you're in your gifting, you're in your elements. Being in your area of grace where you have natural and supernatural equipping to excel means you can't flop because you have many factors of success working for you than of failure working against you. When you're in your calling, since calling begat passion or delight, your passion will begat obsession while that'll begat focus. I can prove that no child is a dullard. You call a child "dull or dullard" because he's not in his calling. Many misfits there be today. Parents themselves are creating these misfits because they want everybody to attend the normal school or experience the familiar schooling. What each of us should rather study and become in life ought be our specialty as dictated to us by what we're created, gifted or best suited for. It is when you do what you lack flair or equipping for that it becomes a struggle and so you struggle. For as many who discovered their callings, they no longer wait to be motivated to work again, they do themselves. Everyone is a genius but not necessarily in the same subject, field or life's endeavour. 

Anything in you or your kiddo that commands awe and spreads wonder when done might be his calling or a link or hint at it. It is what makes people famous, superb and unique. It is what sets them apart and makes them different from others. While I was growing up, I was a very superb artist that commanded attention. I thought I'll become an artist myself. My father encouraged this and my artistry is still revealed in some of my master pieces which I still have till date and then in my general creativity today. I excelled very well in Fine Art and later Literature. Today, all I do revolves round those two things. Anything Art, Culture, Music, Society, History, Prehistoric Life or our Ancient Ancestors and their Origin etc just inspire me. It's therefore in this I give the greatest focus and display of dexterity. 

Watch if it is music, drawing/painting, atheleticism, writing, inventing, coupling and building that your ward is strongly exceptional in. In any he displays the greatest spontaneity, originality, awe and exceptionality, that may be a rope leading you to his calling. May that mark however be visible. Why did I say that? In some kids, there are variety of things they'll be good at. So, this might create confusion both for parents and the kids themselves when choosing a career or a life's task. What to do is not far fetched. Most times, those scattered and diverse obsessions are related strings. Therefore, one that he exceptionally loves should be pursued. From there, he'll have the privilege of branching into other obsessions of his heart if they still seek his attention as he journeys on. When they are not related, there'll surely be one love that surpasses others. That should be bet on and chosen. It'll lead the way into the future of glory and all open door. It is time to connect to all the latent gifts with which God has wired and graced your kiddo. If you'll let this visible mark lead you, it'll lead you into your fullest manifestation and self actualization. 

PRAYER: Lord, show me the exceptionality, uniqueness and specialness in my child. Teach me how to teach it. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 16:29-18:30, Mark 7:24-8:10, Psalm 41:1-13, Proverbs 10:15-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 25/02/2024

SUNDAY - 25TH FEBRUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOUR DELIGHT BRINGS ENERGY TO WORK DAY AND NIGHT - Separated Unto Purpose Series 007

Psalms 1:1- 2, KJV

"1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night".

You know people have asked me over the years what my motivation was - as in what has been keeping me going with my assignment. The answer is what today's teaching serves to give. 

Once you discover your calling, I told you in yesterday's devotional that you'll have successfully discovered a delight. A delight another way round is something you can work tirelessly on day and night; come rain or sunshine. If it were not a delight, your lies and hypocrisy will be exposed and without having trekked a mile, you'll resign, sneeze in weariness and stop continuing. That it is your calling and your delight is what naturally or supernaturally graces you with passion and fire to continue. Even if the wear and tear of life wearies you, you will not give up because you have a fire in you burning and proving unquenchable. That fire is your calling and the passion inherent in it. That's why people would say, "discover your passion or what you're given to". The fact that it's a passion - something you're driven by is what makes it a delight. Something delighting drives!

The Psalm above says, "but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night." First, his delight is somewhere or in something - in God's law or Holy Scriptures. Because he has delight in the Word of God like Ronaldo has delight in football, he doesn't count it a cost meditating on the Scriptures day and night. I have not met Ronaldo and I don't think I need to meet him [though it'll be generous meeting him], however, I'm sure he meditates on football and how matches should go even before he plays them. I'm so sure. That's what is called preparedness of the mind. Success starts from there. 

Delight or passion is what holds the key to meditating in the Scriptures day and night as said in that Psalm. Who does day and night (every time) what he doesn't have passion for? What you don't have delight for, you'll rarely lift a finger at it let alone stick to it. If time enough were spared you for it, you'll suddenly lose interest and won't be able to go full length, using your time fully. However, ask Jesus. He went full time as the Passover lasted in Jerusalem and was even willing to go extra three days in the temple enquiring after God's law until he was found (Luke 2:41-49). That'll be because God's law is his delight. He found it as something interesting to explore. Imagine a kid not wandering after pleasure for three days just because he has found a delight. How many of you parents know your kids tend to be obedient, staying in one place when they have found their delights? For some, it is movie. Once they're glued to it, they don't want you to break their attention. As I speak, there are adventurers and archeologists labouring somewhere at one ancient site or the other. They don't care whether digging or tunneling is laborious or whether their lives could be endangered by it, rather they keep at it day and night and even at rough moments because that's their delight. They're looking for ancient treasures and finds to prove facts on history and existence. However, that delight may not be another man's delight. That's why we don't all end on the same profession or occupation. 

Paul admonished Timothy to preach the Word; be instant in season and out of season (II Timothy 4:2). Apart from determination and discipline that'll help accomplish this, delight for what you do or have found to do is another key to furthering daily and not getting tired. There may be bouts of weariness littering your way, for discouragements will come. However, passion will make you triumph over them. Your love for what you do is of great benefit or consequence therefore. Show me someone who achieves great success somewhere but which he never wanted to do or continue in. Delight will sustain you and it comes ready-made with having found your calling. The moment you find your calling and by inner witness affirm, "this is it", passion will begin to drive you to the daily exercise and delivering of it. It doesn't matter what challenge comes your way, you are lifted above it all through your passion. Delight keeps you working when others have stopped. It was delight in God's things that first made Jesus tarry behind in Jerusalem after the event had ended officially and family and familiar faces have left. That he then continued three days after yet focused on enquiring after God's Holy law shows where his delight really is. If you're a Master student for instance, I want to believe it's your delight (your course of interest) you're studying. If not, research will soon bore you. As a matter of fact, people who coped with difficult courses and life's endeavours that the ordinary human mind fears did through delight. Delight pushed and hauled them over that wall of difficulty. Discover your calling and be delighted forever. When Jesus said, "my meat is to do the will of He that sent me..."(John 4:34). He was as well saying, "my PASSION or MOTIVATION is to do the will of He that has sent me..." Though he's weary and needs physical food, yet his delight for his assignment gives him a focus to stay on the job of winning souls even when there are congregational voices from the disciples tempting him with physical food out of care. Brethren, discover purpose; discover delight! Possess delight; possess your dreams!

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I am roused and stirred like a lion. Until I achieve my goals, I will not rest or lie down. I receive grace, strength and all heavenly helps.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 15:1-16:28, Mark 7:1-23, Psalm 40:11-17, Proverbs 10:13-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 24/02/2024

SATURDAY - 24TH FEBRUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR CALLING; YOU HAVE A DELIGHT - Separated Unto Purpose Series 006

Luke 2:43, KJV

"And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it."

The moment you discover your calling, you immediately have something to rejoice your heart other than food and things that people holler or struggle for. 

The Psalmist while speaking says, "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased" (Psalms 4:7, KJV). He simply talks of the joy that comes with harvest or payment of one's salary. He said he has joy more than those moments could avail because God has given him joy. One major way that I have found by which one can remain saturated with joy is through the discovery and doing of his calling. It never tires you. Even when your bones and flesh are weary and you take a nap, you come back refreshed to continue the pursuit of your calling. No confession like "this thing is beginning to become monotonous". It can't be because there is an array or layers of discoveries for you to stumble at and be attracted by daily in your calling. You can't for once see it all. You'll rather be making discoveries of interesting findings daily. Every calling though just one is multidimensional. School, church, orphanage, hospital and even NGOs may manifest from a calling - just one calling. We've seen that in the callings of many ministers of God for instance.

So, you can't be bored because the calling you have found is your delight (what you want to do and like doing) and also because it's multidimensional - offering many possibilities. What is a delight? It's what has your attention more than any other thing in the world. I'm not trying to sound uncaring or non-challant. My greatest delight is not my family. It is my calling and seeking to discharge all that it harbours and contains. One may not marry; that ain't any sin but once you're given birth to, you ought fulfill purpose. If you have a family and you aren't even fulfilling purpose, you'd be depressed, frustrated and tired. This offcourse will be contagious - burdening your family if you have any. I'm not comforted with the fact that I have a spouse or a family. No! My life is beyond making babies. I take real joy and pride in the fact that the things impressed divinely on my heart by God at creation - the reason for my coming here from heaven are being discharged and minted out. God created us for a purpose. He put and contained our spirit in a body for a purpose. It'll be the greatest disappointment coming to earth without fulfilling that one purpose. Whether you're married or not, one thing should be common to us all - fulfilment of purpose. 

That's why Jesus makes a confession saying, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work" (John 4:34, KJV). You're a failure on earth if you have not found the will or work of He that sent you, get engaged with it and with the ultimate aim of finishing it all. When Jesus cried, "it is finished" (John 19:30) on the cross of Calvary, indeed it was finished. That's the peak of His calling - dying to redeem humanity. He attained it. Not one was lacking. So, once you find your calling, it should become your delight and because it is a delight, it will urge you on. It will move you to move. It will move you past the tedium of discharging it. It will make you feel alive and significant. People who aren't living purposefully are dying organisms. They don't have vibrancy or robustness on the inside. They'll be lean in their souls and fatigue in spirit. 

It's only delight that becomes "meat" to anyone. Despite the pressure from the disciples that Jesus should eat and participate in the ephemeral, Jesus keeps refusing and refuting with, "my meat (aim, purpose, singular discovery and focus, calling, mandate, destiny) is to do the works of He that sent me and to finish it. In essence, he was correcting them from misplaced priority. He was saying, here's a soul to win and run after and here you are talking about physical food. Why did I come to the earth? To eat physical food and be filled or to do the works of He that sent me and to finish it? However, the disciples are more of lost souls here. They just couldn't get the message. They were so lost and of slow understanding that they were asking one another, "has anyone brought Him food, bread or meat while we were not around?" (John 4:33). You see, misplaced priority. 

Jesus found his delight at age twelve when he began to tarry with it and he ate it all until it was finished at Calvary. Oh, may you find your calling and may your calling finds you. May you locate the field the Master Groomer and Allocator wants you to give your years on earth to till. May you not cultivate the wrong garden thereby losing your rewards.

PRAYER: Today, open my understanding to locate the garden I should till. Relocate and realign me to destiny.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 14:1-57, Mark 6:30-56, Psalm 40:1-10, Proverbs 10:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/02/2024

FRIDAY - 23RD FEBRUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

TIMELY PROVISION OR CONNECTION ARE IN YOUR CALLING AND ITS DISCOVERY - Separated Unto Purpose Series 005

Luke 2:46, KJV

"And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions."

Did you observe that the doctors were on ground to answer Jesus' questions and put him through? Why? Your calling when it is discovered and taken will gather the resources that it needs for its own fulfilment by itself.

If I share testimonies with you, I hope you'll be edified. To the least of the books and movies I watch, they are carefully chosen and suggested materials to me by my calling. One day, I had worn out all the books I could lay my hands on ever written on purpose. Then, I began to flip through the pages of a book I was not seriously considering to read. I was just flipping through and reading certain places for the purpose of redeeming my time. However, I had earlier prayed with utmost desire that the next book to read on fulfilment of purpose and equipping of my calling would be met. As I flipped on through this book of Pastor Sunday Adelaja, I suddenly saw where it was written that "a book by XYZ author is entirely based on purpose, its discovery and fulfilment". Shockingly and funnily enough, I've had that book downloaded on my laptop over three years ago. I once started reading it but for some reasons dropped it. 

Immediately I read that recommendation, I took it as God's answer to my prayer and immediately guided myself to the book. Believe it, I read over sixty pages of that book that night only. I read it late into the midnight to finish it the next day. God so much cares about my education to the extent that he allows me to come across the very information and materials I needed per time. One time also, I needed another King James Version of the Bible. I had a description in my mind on the kind it should be. I only have two in my house amidst other numerous versions that I own with which I do comparative study. However, those two are now in the hands of my wife and sibling. That desire for a new KJV Bible continued to burn for awhile in me until I boarded a public transport one day. The driver was a rough man - a rascal and tout. The cuts on his faces and his rough way of speaking proves that. Sitting in front by his side, I saw a large sized book right overboard. I examined it and found it to be a KJV BIBLE. I was drawn to it thinking particularly it was a book I could beg to own. I never knew it was a Bible because the hardcover was only made of glossary paper. So, I let it alone after the discovery of what it was. As we journeyed on, my mind kept going back to it. God was saying, "ask for it now. That's your request". As he stopped over at my busstop, I summoned courage to ask for it. The rest was history. Opening the Bible, I saw it was as neat as anything on the inside though the paper cover seems to have been covered in dust. Believe it, it's still that same Bible I'm using till date. It's the exact I wanted. I therefore cherishes it a lot. 

So, when you heed your calling, resources automatically comes allocated with it to you. As you desire, you'll see God gives you quick answers because He knows you're where you're serving His will and furthering His purpose. That's God's doing though it might be marvelous, shocking and surprising to you. However, that's how God works. At tarrying behind in Jerusalem, the teachers of the law that could help impact knowledge and answer Jesus' questions were automatically prepared to be on ground. All of them were not only available, they gave Jesus their time. None of them despised him for being a curious child. As such, Jesus' waiting was to an end. He reaped the benefit of having waited. If you'll leave vanity and go into your calling today or begin its operation, you'll forever witness miracles at junctures of needs. Be assured, provision will never be scarce for you. That's because even where there's none, the Lord shall provide. Yes, even on the mountain of the Lord! That's what your calling will become. For anyone who won't shrink back but operate his calling, it shall be indeed said that God is his God. They shall meet many miracles on the way proving therein is the path they should have trodden indeed. 

PRAYER: Father, give me courage to be turned away from vanity into the operation of my calling.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 13:1-59, Mark 6:1-29, Psalm 39:1-13, Proverbs 10:10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/02/24

THURSDAY - 22ND FEBRUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

DESTINY MEET - Separated Unto Purpose Series 004

Read Luke 2:41-52

Luke 2:42 - 43, KJV

"42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it."

Parents are generally advised to expose their children to varieties of activities and subjects which range from sports, music, trades or vocational studies etc. The reason is simple. By experimenting with all these, they might come to discover where their passion or calling is. It is what you have contacted or experienced that could become resounding to you. God has built or created us for one thing or the other in life. That love or desire is sparked when we hit on that life's endeavour. It doesn't matter which life's purpose it is. It comes alive and bubbles from within you at contact. It's like a digger hitting on a bag of coins. At such moment, you'll have an heightened enlightenment and sensation that you are made for this thing and this thing is made for you. This is where the deep calls unto the deep in symphony and utmost agreement. 

Jesus could be said to have discovered his calling at twelve. Why did I say that? That was the recorded first time he showed love - special obsession for an area of life. Have you not read the verse that says, "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness" (Psalms  84:10, KJV). That's the joy of discovering what is life's essence. When you do, other things become ephemeral to you as you seek to give concentration to that one found thing that is sweeter than honey.

Samson once posed a riddle to which he got the response: "what is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?" (Judges 14:18). If I should respond to that, I'd answer saying, "purpose found and life lived out is sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion".

That Jesus had hit on his calling was revealed in his not letting it go. He had to tarry behind to indulge and rejoice in it the more even when all the familiar faces he knew had left for Nazareth. When others grow tired of what you're called to do, the mark that it is your calling is finding yourself still passionately pursuing or continuing in it. If you meet called sportsmen, their trainings don't end when the team packs up. Somewhere, they always continue. Others left when the programme officially ended (Lk. 2:43); however, Jesus stayed to enquire more in the house of the Lord. Kai! What a thing! Only calling troubles people and collect their attention like this. Only calling makes people lose track of time and esteem long hours for a short while in the discharge of the business of their callings. Three days extra that Jesus spent in Jerusalem and consequently at the temple must have been a short while to him. Why? He was enjoying what he was doing and grateful for being at the temple - his citadel of learning at that time. Also, that he was not for once bored but found in the midst of the doctors when his parents came for him (Lk. 2:46) proves this. He was both hearing and asking them questions.

Look, no one tarries behind to further an activity that doesn't obsess or give him joy. If it were not so, one or two of Jesus' kinsfolk should have thought it wise to as well stay back. However, the truth is that it is only what you are called to do that'll move you and have your respect. If your calling is not in ministry, you will not have your attention attuned to ministry like a minister will have his crested. As a matter of fact, you may flip the channel when a preacher with revelation is teaching in order to watch what your passion is. Why? You believe that value will not necessarily add up to you. You can acquire it but it may not be put to use because it is an education out of your area of calling or practices. However, if a scientist begins to explain the processes of the creation of something, you might let that stay because you're as well a called scientist who wants to listen to the latest invention or improvement in your field. 

Also, those who infatuate us, who we seek to meet or model after reveal who we're to become or what our specific calling is. I'm not seeking to be with engineers or pilots though they make good money and have the name. However, I'll any day and any time give myself away to learn and accumulate more from the fellowship of other anointed ministers of God. Jesus wasn't drawn to fishing at twelve years of age. A very pointer that his love and calling is not in fishing but in ministry - which he loved so much as to give three days extra to and sacrifice family and familiar faces for. Yet, that discovery and encounter happened by exposing Jesus to religious things and taking him to where he could have the joy of practice - the temple.

There'll be destiny meet - in that you'll walk to meet or discover your calling and what you should do for the rest of your life. It'll inspire you more than anything. It'll call you to sacrifice and you won't see it as too costly to do because that's what you were made for. That'll be because you have a strong connection and love for that life's endeavour or calling.

I pray for you, you'll discover calling and your child will as well. They won't waste away - seeking to live their lives pursuing shadows and what doesn't add up to life. Imagine doing what one doesn't feel any connection or love for. It'll soon show in how one does it. One will be careless and shabby with it. Such thing won't be a definition of quality and witty invention. That'll be because it's a undernourished soul with satisfaction that's doing it. However, may you have destiny meet, encounter and discovery of your calling. You'll go where you'll discover what you should do or become. You'll meet the right connection and the flow shall all flow for your calling to materialize.

PRAYER: Lord, guide my children to the path of destiny discovery and fulfilment. Let there be an overarching mark of what they're made for.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 11:1-12:8, Mark 5:21-43, Psalm 38:1-22, Proverbs 10:8-9

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