MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/04/2024

THURSDAY - 18TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

AND LIFE BEGINS BY THE BREATH! - The Essence & Value Of Life Series 002

Genesis 2:7, KJV

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Yesterday, I made a point on what life's greatest opportunity was. Obviously, it is being alive. It is when one is alive that any other opportunity could be availed one. At death, one is shut from all opportunities. If one will ever be qualified again for any, he or she will require a resurrection back to life. And as we know, that is an exception. The dead (in the state of still being dead) don't marry or pursue any ambition except he yet lives again (and becomes a living soul)

Today, I want to talk about the breath of life that causes life to begin. But for the breath, there'd be no life and no human would have been able to lift a hand or blink a eye. We have a strong testimony of Adam being lifeless at creation. When he was formed, he had the body but Adam had no life in it. Body of mud!The body could therefore do nothing because it had not been awoken to live and exercise the potentials or characteristics of any living thing. After forming Adam from the mud, God consequently breathed into him. What was released into him is what the Bible calls, "the breath of life." This breath of life is wind that runs through Adam and as a supernatural ingredient of God, it makes impact that soon reflect upon contact. It could have gone into the brain of Adam to wake him up to reality and existence but irrespective of where it went, even if it had to circulate the whole body before revival of the body lying down helpless was functional, one thing is sure, Adam lived and became a living soul at that instance . What a joy that God's handiwork eventually turns out the way He had wanted. 

Mark the phrase, "living soul." A living soul is someone with life in him as such could take life or being. Until he became a living soul, he was helpless. He couldn't rise, talk, stand or walk. So, what would be the intent for which God gave Adam His precious gift - the breath. It is to live and take being on earth. However, we ought qualify it that the breath in our nostrils or the spirit in us which makes us fully functional as humans is the most important ingredient that makes us who we are. That is life's greatest opportunity or asset to us. That is what the evil one wants to cut short so that you'll not be able to fulfill your purpose in the time you have to live. Life given you is therefore an opportunity to live and exercise towards destiny or why God had created you. We sure know that being a living thing, you can't but eat, drink and take pleasure in life. However, you weren't created to indulge or live in this as your sole purpose. They were only meant to be your survival and coping tools on daily basis as you go about the fulfilment of your purpose. Food is only meant to strengthen your frame for what you should be living for and so should other things fulfill their temporal needs in your life. Car, house, money should only aid your destiny fulfilment. They are only your tools not purpose itself. Imagine if God never breathed into Adam. What would he have been? Just a piece of art or body lying down on the floor with back to the ground. He would have no right, no will and no being to take. He would be useless and could a useless person exercise himself towards any purpose? If you ever moulded a thing with clay, you'll observe it could resemble your intent i.e a bird. However, it will lack one ability and that's to fly. That's the ability Adam receives when breath came into him. He could therefore exercise himself towards any work or activity in his daily living. If he were not a living soul, do you think he would serve the purpose of naming the animals or tilling the ground. God wouldn't have given him that. The dead don't understand instructions you know. A dead man can't interact and interface with the earth and his world in such a manner. So, God gave life so that man may use life to carry out a part of His own business in the sovereign will that He had afore known. The Bible says, "according to the purpose of God who works all things after the counsel of His will" (Eph. 1:11). Your creation is not to make you a non-entity on the earth but rather it's a demand for you to add your reason for existence into the human world. God has a plan and an intent to fulfill. He beats everything and aligns all things after that overall purpose. The breath of life is your opportunity to do so - to make life count. 

Like the church was never functional, alive or empowered to go about ministering until the rushing mighty wind of the Holy Spirit descended on them in Acts 2, a human without the life would feel that helpless. You might need to visit the mortuary to see the truth in that. They call such body without life corpses. They are as good as useless. However, if in the process of refrigerating or burying them, one of those bodies should sneeze or cough, immediately it'll be separated from the corpses. That's because life has returned into one and according to the formula we have at hand from God to work with, "the living should not be found amidst the dead" (Lk.24:5). He must sure be separated. So, if there's anything to thank God for, it is life. Life here is that you still have the breath or spirit that causes you to go here and there and do this and that. Once it snaps, one becomes incapable no matter how willing he might have been to live. So, what makes this body of ours very essential is the fuel, the invisible ingredient called, "breath of life" that runs it. If not, we are earth, mere dust. We know the fate that awaits us - to go back to dust. As such, let's hurry to make impact with this one in a lifetime opportunity called life or breath of life that God has given us. Talking of David in Acts 13:36, the Bible says, "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption."

All of us have our batches like products turned out from factories. The batch a father came with isn't the batch his son came with. By the time one generation goes, you'd see another generation come. However, before you do, may you have the testimony of having served God's will or pleasure or purpose in your own set, time, batch or generation. After that, may you be regarded to have slept also - for only the dead in Christ do sleep or fall asleep. Those are the dead who have the hope of resurrecting at the hearing of the trump of God. May you be counted worthy. So, before you'll know rottenness, decay, decomposition or corruption like David's body experienced, what will you use your life to do that'll be indelible after you? As you go to work today, ask yourself if you're living for the King and His kingdom (Matt.6:33). Query yourself, if you're seeking after His righteousness or values, to spread it and make your world better by it where you're placed. If God's kingdom and His righteousness hasn't become your crescendo or meat where you are as to thirst after it to do, forget it, you'll live carelessly, waste influence, opportunity and even the breath in you. As far as God is concerned, where you work may be your own garden which God has given you to till especially if it comes by your discovery that you're where God would have you be. Will you till it in your time?

PRAYER: Lord, help me not to waste life. Open my understanding to my fulfilment of purpose. May the kingdom and His righteousness be my meat and satisfaction to discharge and live out.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 11:1-12:24, Luke 17:11-37, Psalm 84:1-12, Proverbs 13:5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/04/2024

WEDNESDAY - 17TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

LIFE'S GREATEST OPPORTUNITY - The Essence & Value Of Life Series 001

Genesis 2:7, KJV

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

What is life's greatest opportunity? Do you have any idea what that is? Pause, take a time to give an answer. 

Is it being rich, white, gainfully employed, married, healthy or being availed the greatest national citizenship on earth? Is it even being abroad? Obviously, all these don't measure up to what life's greatest opportunity is. Then, what is it or what could it be? 

You see, life's greatest opportunity is life itself. It is that you have life and you can live and so express yourself as a living soul. I don't care what you have lost or missed, if you still have life, all could still be recovered. If you go bankrupt, divorce (though God hates it), loses all your children (like Job in the Bible), get jailed with all hope of recovery lost etc, you sure could recover from all these if you still have life. Anything can happen to beat your imagination you know. Miracles happen but to the living. However, no one has the hope of recovery if he's dead. Only the living has the hope of recovery. That's why life's greatest opportunity is life. The Bible acknowledges that when it says in Job 14:7 - 9 that, "7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.  8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant."

Did you read that? The root of a tree still being in the ground suggests its still being alive - still breathing and taking life from mother earth. Even if it loses all its branches (including its fruits), it sure still has an opportunity of sprouting back and that'll be because it has not been uprooted and denied life itself. As such, at the slightest opportunity of sprouting or springing back which comes at the availability of water, it shall sprout up again. That's why that place says, "at the scent of water, that left stump shall sprout back again." Metaphorically, that's a human it's talking about. The old stump in the ground is you and I who might come to the point of extinction yet continues to exist after losing all. God is saying irrespective of what has scarred, scratched, or screeched us, we can get healed from it all as long as the breath of life is still in us to live. Opportunities are never denied the living that still lives. Only the dead is that gate shut at. 

No dead has a second chance. Only the living does. Life is therefore the greatest opportunity. It's when you have life you could say you want to go to school, build a mansion, get married or father a child. It is life that you have or the breath of life in you that avails you all those. Without life, you'd be powerless to do any running around. Your fate would have been sealed for recovery. However, thank God who has breathed into our nostrils the breath of life and had made us all living souls that we may be able to live, take being and act out His pleasure on the earth. As such, life itself becomes the greatest asset of any man or woman. The office he's occupying isn't his greatest asset (even if he's the president); his race isn't and his status is not at all. What avails him all these things (that men are dying and thronging for) is what is important and that is LIFE itself. The dead can't contest for an election. That's why contesting politicians and rivals in general are quick in killing one another. They'll call it the game to play. They do so because they themselves don't know the value and essence of the human life but feel threatened by someone still living. If the sacredness and importance of the human life should hit them, they'd known that as the greatest asset in the world, nobody ought tamper with it but rather protect it. Life is what any human being should fear to lose in life without hope of its security (a topic for another day). If you see a nation that doesn't legislate laws to protect the lives of her citizens, that country is poor and irresponsible. I don't care what laws are legislated to protect: lands, houses, businesses, people's liberty, personal happiness, choice etc but if there's no strong law protecting the human life and presenting it clearly as astoundingly invaluable, you'd seen all kind of barbaric acts done at the human life. Those people had lived being the basest of humans. Life is the greatest opportunity. God has given you life to become what you're pursuing now or whatsoever you want to become. Without life, you couldn't be thinking in that direction your mind has been going let alone get it executed. What an importance life carries. It's the greatest human asset - not riches please. 

I therefore pray for you that while you're alive, you'll understand this and lend your life only to what it could really compensate for - purpose. Nothing else could compensate for life or the breath of life in you except you discover your God given purpose or calling and live that solely. That's why Jesus says, "is life not more than meat (food) and the body more than raiment (clothing) or the ephemerals (which many are longing and thronging for in our world) - Matthew 6:25. Life is beyond what to eat, where to sleep or what to wear. After these the Gentiles and the unpurposeful rush but let the order be changed for you. Pursue purpose!

PRAYER: Thanks for enlightening me on life's greatest opportunity. May I live life to the fullest by fulfilling purpose.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 11:1-12:24, Luke 17:11-37, Psalm 84:1-12, Proverbs 13:5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 14/04/2024

SUNDAY - 14TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE WHO ARE GROUNDED AND ARE NOW IN THE FISH'S BELLY - Loosed For Purpose Series 008

Jonah 2:1-2, KJV

"1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice."

The will of God is one of the greatest forces on earth. The will of God can carry you (when you're in obedience) or crush you (when you're in rebellion to it). It will carry you when you discover what God wants you to do and you make yourself available for that. You'll discover a power at work unimaginably helping you and giving you great success. I don't care how many men stand up against you; they'll all be fated to fall for your sake. That's because God will arise to fight anyone who fights His will which you're obeying.  

However, if you're running a race contrary to God's will, that violated will or purpose of God can put you in a dead end or endanger you. That's why Jonah had to be swallowed up. Instead of him being a hind let loose - a commissioned and backed up servant of the Lord on a smooth journey to fulfilling God's assignment, he was brought to a halt and grounded. His being swallowed and held by the fish was to lead to a remedial act that we eventually saw. Jonah could have gone all the way to preach in Nineveh and never be held three days and three nights in the belly of the fish. However, when you're obstinate - seeking to perpetuate your will and run your own errand, you should expect to meet God in front. As such, he who ought to live loosed may be bound and held down: like Jonah was in the belly of the fish. 

Years ago, 2016 or early 2017 it should be God's people. I met the founder of Evangel Publishing Firm, Nigeria. I was a Corp Member serving my fatherland in far away Katsina State but I had learnt the trade of selling books of all sorts from an Igbo man I acquainted  myself with in Katsina camp who sells books to corp  members. As such, he took me to Kaduna to learn how purchases are done. When I was launching out myself and I had to go; the man met me himself and expounded to me the vision of the institution telling me how it all began. He had told me he had refused God's persistent call to start a publishing and book firm that'll promote the gospel in core North because he saw no reason for that. More so, his food/provision business was doing well. He was transporting provision i.e gari etc from the East to the North to trade. He didn't hearken to God until God broke down that other business - putting the plough on his neck. Despite many persecutions and threats, he's standing for the Lord in a harsh territory by making materials available for the gospel now. However, he didn't start too well with God. God had to first hold him down. God had to first arrest him. So, on occasions, there are those that ought to be loosed to fulfill destiny that'll first of all be grounded before being loosed and that's because they're sold to their own will. 

If you're proving unbendable, it is love you have received from God if He insists on you by seeking to persuade you out of your choice by giving you signs that'll convince you out of same. As such, we recognize there are those who ought to be loosed like the hind so they can deliver what they have brought to the earth as their own value who may not be progressing because they aren't cooperating with God and aligning with what He really has for them. Example is Brother Preacher Jonah of today. He was in the fish's belly three days and nights for disobedience. Until he repented, he was not set loosed or vomited to run and pursue the errand afore committed into his hands. Don't be suddenly tied or held down because of disobedience that's in your life that could disqualify you. Tomorrow, I shall show you someone who's loosed towards fulfilling purpose but whose disobedience and an unsettled act in his life was almost binding and holding down also. Be obedient and you shall know smooth journey. 

PRAYER: Father, help me to surrender my will to your will. I shall not be grounded or swallowed up and brought to a halt instead of being on the loose for Jesus.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 5:1-7:15, Luke 15:1-32, Psalm 81:1-16, Proverbs 13:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 13/04/2024

SATURDAY - 13TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THEY HAVE GONE TO DOTHAN - Loosed For Purpose Series 007

Genesis 37:15, 17, KJV

"15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? 17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan."

You will be saved from wandering about and wasting useful time that should count for you. A hand will point to where destiny will happen for you. God is interested in saving your youth. As such, He'll put materials, persons, institutions and even information where you utmostly need them in order to direct you after your objective in this life while saving your time. 

Jacob sends Joseph on the errand of checking on his brethren and bringing back report to him. Joseph would have wasted much time wandering here and there looking for them if not for the timely appearance of a stranger on the scene who asked him what he was looking for and gave him answer on where they had gone. In his word, he says, " they have departed hence, for I heard them say, let us go to Dothan..." Yet, Joseph keeps merrygorounding around in Sheckem. 

Joseph has an address at hand. It is for Sheckem but relocation and change of a sort had happened without his knowledge. Yet, he needs to connect with his pursuit - his brothers. How will this be possible if not for the sight and voice that appears to interrogate him on what he looks for and to deliver same solution to him?

The date, encounter and meet you're planning for will happen in Dothan. It has been shifted and rescheduled there yet God is still committed to taking you there. At every critical juncture, you'll always encounter those who'll serve as signpost to directing you for safe arrival to your destination. In tracing the biography of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God through a biographical movie of his that I had watched; it was told how as a young chap he departed in search of his parents in the farm. Yet, he didn't know where specifically. He could have sincerely gotten lost in the jungle. By divine providence however, a strange dog guided him to where they were. The parents themselves were afraid and also shocked receiving this august visitor who they couldn't trace how he made such a journey to the farm he had never been before. However, he tells his story and his parents see a divine hand supervising the events around his life. Even when they requested to see the strange dog, it was nowhere to be found anymore. To an extent, his parents believed that was not an accidental save but something supernatural helping him out and guiding him on his journey. 

The same happened to Joseph here. Don't forget that his time nears when he must be sent ahead of his brothers into Egypt. His ride in the Ishmeelites who'll take him there awaits him. He must not miss them. So, God moves his father to send him on that errand like Jesse was moved to commission and deploy David to the battle field (as we saw yesterday). The answer like David rightly gave was, "is there not a cause?" There's a reason for such deployment. The journey of Joseph to Egypt might not have been possible if he never made it to Dothan but supernaturally to me, God set a landmark signpost to redirect him non stop to Dothan where he'll be thrown in a well and then sold off - that the dreams of destiny he had had might come to pass one day. 

Your ride is here and if it is, nothing shall stop you from taking it. God will put provision and guided hands on your path to guide you on. Until you get to where you'll board the next transport, you'll keep meeting, hearing and seeing a presence saying, "they have gone to Dothan, for I heard them say so." You won't be stranded in Sheckem. What you're looking for is rightly what you'll see. If it is still in your front, God will sponsor you on until you make arrival and meet with destiny. Your years, life and time shall be saved. God will put for you in different places those who'll hasten your steps to destiny. You won't spend your days on a job and in an institution where destiny won't happen for you when there's Dothan in front of you. Providence will make men appear for you that weren't there before. They'll be so well sited that it's when you need help they'll pop up. They'll look like they've been programmed, planned and planted to emerge from the belly of the morning or day to help you that rightly. This timely provision includes angels who will make debut appearances for you when you need a straightaway help to find the way and connect with your goal. Did you not read, "on their hands they'll bear you up lest you dash your foot on a stone" (Psalm 91:12). You'll be saved from fallen down; you'll be saved from all embarrassments. It might have been planned to happen but you'll always witness a great save for your destiny fulfilment purpose. Your time is in God's hands and it shall not be wasted. 

PRAYER. I shall be sponsored on and on by the invisible hand of God until I arrive at destination. I shall go on every journey and become everything in God's mind.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 5:1-7:15, Luke 15:1-32, Psalm 81:1-16, Proverbs 13:1

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 12/04/2024

FRIDAY - 12TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

POSTING LETTER IS OUT! - Loosed For Purpose Series 006

Read I Sam. 17

I Samuel 17:20, KJV 

"And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle."

Say with me, "posting letter is out!" Repeat it like five times. Then, go ahead and burst into laughter. 

Listen, posting letter is out. You have been DEPLOYED! The General has given the go ahead for you to proceed after much wait. You shall no longer be landlocked here but you'll be brought into national attention and recognition. Where you are is too small for you. It's not an enough room. God knows as the One who gives man enough room. He can take you to Rehoboth and that's where your posting letter is designated for. I bear good news, you've been DEPLOYED and it is to a good end. 

David, the shepherd could have remained a shepherd forever if his posting letter didn't come out rightly on time. From going back and forth from Saul and to tending the sheep of his father, David could just have remained in total obscurity without anyone ever tasting of the value, bravery, might, leadership skills etc that he carries. Thank God, the Almighty reached for him. He stretched out his arm and drew him out of per time obscurity and the land of no fruit. God closed a chapter of obscurity in his life and made him a national hero. I'm seeing you at the State House. You have something to do there. The King will soon owe you gratitude. Yes, so shall it be. 

For forty days and forty nights, things are at a stand still at the battle front. No one ever dare proceed to take the Goliath Challenge. At such a time that Israel has been defeated at heart for the fear of the enemy, God raises a rod - it buds rightly and its branch extends to the battle field. God whispers to Jesse and Jesse for a reason he might not be able to verbalize properly sent David to the battle field to check on the welfare of his brethren. Who does that? You gave children away as soldiers, should you not know they have signed their deaths? Why should you yet send another who should dwell safely with you to go and check on the welfare of such who should live in no fear of harm or death? Things seem not to be adding up but it all makes sense to God. David has been deployed by an invisible hand to take away the shame that Goliath the uncircumcised Philistine has brought on God's people and God Himself. 

We know the rest as it is history. Without David's word arriving first, without his season having opened up first of all, He could not have been remembered. But when remembrance came, he was rightly and immediately deployed to the place where he should be exalted, becoming the obsession of everyone even to the enquiring of the king when he says, "whose son is this youth?" David enters immediately into the annals of national records. Musicians of his day immediately rolled out albums singing, "Saul has killed his thousands but David has killed his ten thousands" (I Sam.18:7).

Today, you shall be called to where the carcass is gathered for you. Today, you'll experience destiny meet. You'll go on an errand that'll be a link to the beginning of your destiny manifestation. A hand will point to you where destiny is slated to happen for you. You shall not be late. You'll be on time and so collide with destiny and climb up irrevocably through that open door to become all in God's mind for you. Your journey has begun! Believe!

PRAYER: Father, my journey has begun. I ask for a destiny meet - the intent of every deployment letter.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Joshua 3:1-4:24, Luke 14:7-35, Psalm 80:1-19, Proverbs 12:27-28

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/04/2024

THURSDAY - 11TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

LOOSED AND RECOVERED TO REIGN - Loosed For Purpose Series 005

Psalms 105:20-22, KJV

"20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom."

I told you in yesterday devotional why the Lord looses people from sin or obscurity. He doesn't loose them so that they'll give their lives to the pursuit of material things and what passes away soonest. God doesn't loose people so that they'll become materialistic, sensual and narcissistic - not willing to share, lose or give themselves as ministration to others. God is not loosing people from prison houses and oppression of hell those who'll love their lives more than purpose. He's not freeing into liberty and sonship manifestation those who'll say, "thank God I escaped and was recovered. Now is the time to bury my head and hide. No! He's not raising such bunch of cowards who wouldn't be able to advocate for justice in the society again. He's raising those who'll rather take their lives in their hands and speak up for what is right; matching on to dare the devil and crusade against him in Commerce/Business, Arts/Entertainment, Politics/Government, Education etc. 

He rather looses men from death, distraction, evil, sickness, all hindrances and encumbrances so that they would live out their destiny. This is the sole purpose of "loose him and let him go." He doesn't loose into vanity or nothingness. Loose him and let him go is to an intent and we shall see this intent once more in the life of Joseph - our admirable character of today. 

Psalms 105:21-22 has spoken good of such purpose. When Pharaoh freed Joseph, he loosed him into what?

"21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom."

Have you seen the intents for which God looses people from bonds? To deliver them generally into the destiny and the glory they're predestined for. When Joseph was loosed from the prison, he immediately was promoted into leadership. Pharaoh speaking says, "can we find a man like this in whom is the Spirit of God (Gen.41:48)?" To this end of having given exceptional solution on the way forward on the national frustration at hand, the king - Pharaoh promotes him into leadership to "head or oversee his house and govern his substance also. First of all, Pharaoh would suffer no personal loss for that. So, he sets witty Joseph over what is his. Further on, Joseph for his exceptional solution was promoted into second place after Pharaoh to hold sway over all other leaders and institutions in Egypt. While Pharaoh makes this clear, he says, "without Him no one shall lift hand or foot" (Gen.41:40-44). It means until Joseph blows the whistle, no one could run. What he says is what they'll do and that'll be final. He's the repository of knowledge that could be trusted to teach, mentor and model for others to follow. Summarily, Joseph was delivered from prison and brought to the palace to live out purpose and prediction. Don't forget his dreams of 13 years ago (Gen.37:7-9). Those dreams point to a future in leadership so much more that people shall bow - including his household to him. 

Consequently, God loosed him and let him go that he might save many people alive in Israel by the reason of being loosed into the glory of his destiny (Gen.50:20). He himself hinted at this when his brethren asks for his forgiveness again. This is the bottom line of the great office he has come into. So, his being loosed from physical prison and obscurity therefore isn't to disservice him but to make him of service to Egypt as a nation and to Israel as a nation (by preserving them during those seven years of famine). Your being loosed and saved from the prison house called sin or from nothingness is for a purpose. It's so that you'll walk in the predictions that have ran ahead of you and live it out. You carry a prophecy even if you're unaware. The earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God (Rom.8:19). May you deliver as one.

PRAYER: Lord, I understood why you set free from prison houses and nothingness. May I live up to those reasons and finish them all.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 34:1-Joshua 2:24, Luke 13:22-14:6, Psalm 79:1-13, Proverbs 12:26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/04/2024

WEDNESDAY - 10TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

LOOSE HIM AND LET HIM GO: FOR WHAT INTENT DID JESUS SAY THIS? - Loosed For Purpose Series 004

John 11:43-44, KJV

"43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go."

What a popular and incredible story of the Bible we have at hand to start with this morning! Even your boy is familiar with the narration of events here. Jesus calls forth Lazarus from the dead and he hearkens. He rose to the voice of the Ressurection and the Life : Jesus Himself (John 11:25-26). However, he rose being fettered and being in bonds as grave clothes are all scattered over him according to the Jewish system of burial. These stripes or clothes by which he's bandaged therefore hinder his proper activity and activeness. Though he walks by himself yet he walks restrictedly. So, he needs to be freed. He needs to be put in a condition where he could use his arm, extend it to grab things freely and his legs for speedy race. For that purpose, Jesus gives an instruction that is humanly carried out. It is to loose him and let him go. 

However, we ought to ask, "to go where?" To what end did Jesus call forth Lazarus from the dead and commanded that he be loosed to have unrestricted movement or be loosed to let go? It's to the end that he might continue to live and live purposefully. God didn't bring Lazarus back from the dead to be idle or live frivolously. What makes him Jesus' friend is what Jesus restores him unto to continue to do. And that is the living out of purpose. Listen to me, if you're redeemed from death, accident, food poisoning, difficult child labour etc, don't be deceived that your life from thence forth should be spent only on food, clothing and the ephemerals of this world. God spares us for more than this! Jesus says, "is life not more than meat (food) and the body more than raiment (clothing) - Matt.6:25? It means the purpose for which life was given each of us is to live life and use it to serve the will of God in our specific generation. David did (Acts 13:36). God doesn't give life or restore it to you again to be gallivanting, clubbing, fornicating and wining all around. Jesus Himself asked if the life given us at creation or restored to somebody like Lazarus isn't more important than giving it only to the pursuit of bread, clothes and all sorts of human comfort. You must reorder your priority and let your life be given to purpose - why you were created. So, this is the reason why Jesus commanded that Lazarus be loosed. It's so that he could live life and live it more abundantly. If he were not loosed, he'll still be tied up and restricted somewhere. He'll seek expression even of movement and it wouldn't be fully possible for him. Even in his face, he'd be blinded by those cloth pieces or napkin and so would have knocked himself on things all around. But he was loosed so he'll have vision and unrestricted choice to pursue his purpose and that's the purpose of any "loose him or her to go." It is not to go to commence living in sin but to glorify God with one's life. It's to transit you into purpose. Have you been delivered from death or spared to continue to live somewhere? Then, don't only live but go and live more abundantly (by pursuing and living out your purpose). 

PRAYER: Wherever I've not fulfilled the reason for carrying the breath of life or my being loosed to let go, kindly grant me an open sight and reordering of my life.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Deuteronomy 33:1-29, Luke 13:1-21, Psalm 78:65-72, Proverbs 12:25

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