MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 27/05/2024

MONDAY - 27TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

FRUITS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE 

Luke 3:7-8, KJV

"7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."

Seek to live the blessed life. The blessed life is one with corresponding fruits to show for it. Repentance has been reduced to confession of faults or sins only.  Rather, it is weighty to acknowledge that it involves change of life or character. Asking for forgiveness with constant repeat of same issue doesn't typifies repentance. As such, be weaned from religion and come into the light of spirituality. 

John tells all those who turn out to hear his message to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. If you say you repented and the old has not passed away in your life, then you can't be deemed to have repented let alone prove same with fruits of christlikeness which justifies such repentance. II Cor. 5:17 would have been of no effect in your life also. God is calling for a life full of acts and not one full of mere confessions. Many put up much confessions yet aren't changing at all. Stop the form; pick up the practice. 

Zaccheaus is one who brings forth fruits worthy of repentance. Jesus is at dinning in his house. Here goes Zaccheaus.

Luke 19:8, KJV 

"And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." 

He not only restored but as following fair justice system, he added a rental. If their money had been with them, wouldn't it have yielded an increase in one venture or the other? So, the need to pay rental with it.

Seeing this freewill prompted act, Jesus in awe, acknowledgement and commendation of Zaccheaus says, "this day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham" (Luke 19:9, KJV). Zaccheaus takes a turn and that act depicts repentance, change of heart and life. And that's what God focuses on. That's what He wants you to be filled with. That's a step towards salvation for any who carries it. Not one whose mouth is full of God but whose heart is far away. Repentance is first of all of the heart. It's a decision to change and then change lifestyle and live in the newness of another life as stipulated by God's Word and any upright law set in the society. When the audience of Peter were pricked in their heart, they asked, "what shall we do?" (Acts 2:37). 

"38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

Peter recommended repentance - turning a new leaf or the forsaking of one's sins. "Doing" is what brings in change. It is what you do and keep doing that proves and establishes your repentance. You once stole, steal no more but willingly work with your hands now (Eph.4:28). That'll be repentance. It's not saying, "I'm sorry Lord" without forsaking that evil way. You truly are sorry when your grieve or sorrow of heart leads to repentance and you turn a new leaf bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance. If you have truly repented, "you'll become a new man, old things will therefore pass away and all things will be new (as revealed in your new walks and works). 

Brethren, what do you need to repent of? Search yourself and let the godly sorrow coming from this message lead you to repentance. Do you feel sorry? You'll be doing something about it if you let that act you did be the last. Be known for a new life now and sooner you'll be called a new name and identified by a new identity. You shall no longer be called "scorpion", "poison", "slayer" etc again. 

PRAYER: Lord, forgive my misdeeds. Help my decision to follow the godly path.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 7:1-8:18, John 14:15-31, Psalm 119:33-48, Proverbs 15:33

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 26/05/2024

SUNDAY - 26TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

STANDING UP AND SPEAKING UP

Darkness should be intimidated by light. Such order is what should follow. No time should a light carrier feel threatened by darkness. For this reason, we must all build a society where righteousness shines brightly like the sun, is embraced and lovingly cherished. Whether in our families, at work places or in the society at large, we must insist on having justice reign. As such, we need mouths to speak and insist on justice when it is being violated. Without mouths, darkness would overrun everywhere and men would slip into unrighteousness without a second thought or their consciences pricking them. 

God is calling you to stand up. Standing or speaking up is usually a rare act in a darkened and corruption dominated society especially ones with bullies and strong propagists of evils. As such, every one might have been beaten into silence. However, God is raising you to break such silence. He's sending you as a saviour to begin to deliver and speak for the oppressed and save many sheep from the teeth of the lions and bears that have them. That's the work of a spiritual leader who protects his sheep but it is your work in the civil society also. The plague of silence must not overhaul a Christian. We mustn't be afraid of darkness and so shut up from exposing or rebuking its deeds. When little little acts of injustice are ongoing and you refuse to talk, that foothold will lead to a stronghold and when it does, it becomes real difficult tackling it. What you don't want to see at all, don't accommodate it. 

One major trait of Moses is his speaking and standing up ability. He's an upstart in that. He rarely could stand injustice. On an occasion when he went to look at the burden of his people and sees an Egyptian maltreating a Hebrew, out of zeal and jealousy, he did something about it (Exo.2:11-12). He killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. While that's murder, yet we sure know that Moses seeks to balance things out by that action by calling for a society where liberty, equity and justice exist. When these are lost, oppression finds its place. 

In today's reading however, Moses stands up and speaks up for the seven daughters of Reul - the priest of Midian and his future father in-law. The shepherds who are bullies capitalize on their gender and its perceived weakness to take advantage of them and cheat them out of their rights. However, Moses rose up as a saviour and insisted on their right for them. He let them have their first place. He resisted those bully shepherds for them, fetched water and watered their flocks alike. Where they are weak, he becomes their strength. 

It is the mandate of a Christian to insist on what is right wherever he may be. It is his call to resist evil and spare what his right always. If we should let the plague of silence or inactivity rub itself on us, we'd close our eyes to injustice which will grow to the harvest of corruption that'll later reap. You're a freedom fighter, social and even a political activist. You must find your voice and calling which is to be mouth for the dumb. Job speaks thus of his lifestyle and social justice attitude. 

Job 29:15-17, KJV

"15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth."

This is your calling as a Christian. You shouldn't be the one cowering or shivering at the feet of unrighteousness. When you roar, it should flee. May you be strong. May you find a team of like-minded people where you are placed with which you could threaten evil and bring justice to the land. And when alone, may you always hear the strengthening voice of whose you are and who you serve. 

PRAYER: Lord, raise up for us activists in all endeavours of life. Put your jealousy, zeal and justice in such and let them call for equality, fairness and speak for the helpless

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 4:1-6:23, John 13:31-14:14, Psalm 119:17-32, Proverbs 15:31-32

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 25/05/2024

SATURDAY - 25TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

TO THE MAN WHO HAS SOMETHING TO DO

Joshua 10:13-14, KJV

"13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel."

Many are the resources of the man whose hands have found purpose to discharge. When you have found something to do, before you call, you'll have answers. When you have found something to do - offcourse according to God's will and ordainment for you, eternity and earth would conspire together in mutuality unfathomable to make it come true. 

I have come to love reading biographies. That ain't because I studied Literature but because of the purposeful pursuits of great men and women in our world. You'd read and not only be informed but inspired to the doings of great things. "If it were possible for them, it is possible for me too." You'd encourage yourself that way. Over the years, I found out it works.

When you have found what your hands should be busy with, hear me, all heaven's arsenal would be in your disposal to seeing to its fulfilment. Such is the case of Joshua. Though the fight is not his fight but the Gibeonites'; being their covenant partner, he avails them Israel's help. For the defeat of the Amorites to be completed however, he requested that the sun would not set. That's a wondrous ask. A risky ask but he did submit that tender to God and guess what, God answered it. The sun stood still and hasted not to go down about a whole day. Such a shocking experience that no one would have expected. So shocking that the Bible acknowledged Joshua as a record breaker and the only one to ever hold that title. Verse 14 says, "and there was no day like that before or after it ..." 

If the sun stood still for Joshua until he accomplished the task at hand, it could sure stand still for you. How? It means, the element(s) of nature would be summoned to team up with you - work for your good and accomplishment of the purpose at hand. When God is working for you and He's right by your side, even the wind, the cold, the rain, the sun, the heat can all work for your definite good at a particular time. A team of players used to playing under a certain condition(s) could lose if the field of things changed. Weather, seasons, times and men are all ingredients that could work in the favour of the man whose hands have found purpose to discharge. God can make time, season and weather to be right for you!

When Barak/Deborah went out against Sisera, even elements of nature had to help them out (Judges 5:20-21). Even in this Joshua's narrative with those five kings, God rained down hailstones to help him eliminate his enemies. All these show that God is in the business of helping the man who's dedicated to purpose and the venture of destiny assigned by God. The sun can stand for you too. Even the course of things and the order of things could be compromised or changed just to accommodate you. After you might have been accommodated like Joshua, then the rule would continue to play on. Who has the Lord blessed today? Who has He favoured? It's you. Believe it! The sun will stand for you. Things will play in your favour that have not been reputed for such afore time. Now is that time. 

PRAYER: Lord, I thank you for a new day and new order of things. The sun is standing still for me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 4:1-6:23, John 13:31-14:14, Psalm 119:17-32, Proverbs 15:31-32

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 19/05/2024

SUNDAY- 19TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

REFUSE TO BE DISSUADED 

Acts 21:13, KJV

"Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

Nothing in the world should be able to dissuade you from your purpose and the fulfilment of it. It is not all assignments that are sweet or honeyed biscuits to our mouths. If it's the cup meant for us to drink, we should be persevering and obedient to take it. Jesus' cup is a cup of suffering and early death. Determined to do God's will, He refused any dissuasion on not dying. When He said He must suffer, die and resurrect on the third day, Peter would have none of it but Jesus rebuked Satan in him (Matt.16:21-23). Meaning, though His assignment is a hard one, yet He seeks to fulfill it because it is designated to Him by His Father. 

John 4:34 says, "my meat is to do the will of He that sent me and to finish His work." Finishing His work is very critical. Many there be who began eating the will of God but who stopped from finishing it when they came upon the hard rocks in their assignments. However, not Jesus and not Paul as we'll soon see. 

Here's Agabus bringing a prophecy to Paul that he'll be bound hands and feet in Jerusalem. Being in reputation for his honest prophecies, concern brethren would have Paul not go to Jerusalem where all these things are designated to happen. What is Paul's reply to this concern of theirs? Do you mean to weep and to break my heart. For I am ready not to be bound only but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 

Like Paul, what is in our calling should be wholly embraced and lived out. Even when the content of the cup is bitter and we waver, let our response be, "grace me and let your will be done." Paul displays the characteristic of a soldier here who endures hardness by the many things he suffers. He doesn't shy away from his divine mandate as clearly revealed by God at the beginning of his ministry. 

God testifying to Ananias said, "15 ...Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake" (Acts 9:15, KJV).  In Acts 20:22-24, Paul himself testifies that the spirit witnesses that suffering and imprisonment awaits him wherever he gets to. He however confesses that none of these things move him neither count his life dear to me that he might finish his course with joy and the ministry which he received from the Lord Jesus.

You see, finishing and with joy is all that matters! So, since it's part of his destiny and mandate to suffer for Christ, why accept to be persuaded out of it? Beware of those who want to persuade you through love and concern out of God's will for you. Their acts would not be doing you any good. Every man has a meat prepared for him from God that he must eat and finish. You must see to that even if it's content is bitter. Finishing the will of God should be your concern. Show firmness and deep conviction in your mandate when it involves suffering. If we suffer with Christ, we'll sure be gloried with Him. Know in whom you believe and what He has spoken to you. God through Agabus didn't make that disclosure so that Paul would be dissuaded from pursuing further God's will but so that He might be prepared. Many times, we miss the essence of God's communication by misinterpretation. However, Paul's discernment and resolution secured him. May nothing be able to buy you out of God's programme for you. 

PRAYER: I am unflinching in the pursuit of my purpose. Even when I come upon rocks, I shall not be afraid.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Samuel 20:1-21:15, John 9:1-41, Psalm 113:1-114:8, Proverbs 15:15-17

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/05/2024

SATURDAY- 18TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

RESPECT ISSUES OF THE HEART

Acts 1:23-24, KJV

"23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. 24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen."

God wants you to respect issues of the heart. Your estimation should not be on the appearances of men firstly but the heart and its state. In today's reading, the Apostles are seen doing same. When it comes to choosing a replacement for Judas Iscariot, they specifically prayed that God who knows best the hearts of men would choose for them out of their provided two candidates. Yet, those two candidates are disciples. Christians, good Christians we might call them nowadays but still needed to be discerned. 

Whenever you're faced with the choice of who to go with in marriage, business or any sort of relationship; let the issues of the heart choose for you such that'll be on your team. I'll rather have a fellow who can't injure me next to me than have someone who appears charismatic and beautiful by my side. The Apostles have come to know one thing - a man is basically defined by his heart or what comes from there. As such, a man is his heart! That's why the Bible says, "as a man thinks, so is he" (Prov.23:7). What makes a tree good is the sort of fruit it produces: good or bad. And what sort of fruit produced comes from the inside of any man. That's why it is what comes from the inside of a man that as well defiles him (Matt.15:11). That's why Jesus was very much against hypocrisy, rebuking the Pharisees and other elders. He'd told them they loved to wash the outside of the cup and not keep the inside clean. He also compares their hypocrisy to a white painted grave which appears beautifully outside but which is full of rottenness inside. As such, Jesus esteems matters or issues of the heart over appearance. Appearance is easily forged and pushed! Anyone can fake appearance like the Gibeonites do but their motivation for doing such is what could be traced and rightly discerned to mark their genuinety or falsity (Joshua 9:3-14). 

The Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 "the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it." You may not regard this verse as very truthful until you're injured by someone you regard as your neighbour. Some have been duped and jilted and so know that the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked. They are so much conscious now that they're reluctant making choices of who to marry again. In business and other life's ventures, others have been betrayed also. Such disappointments have concretized this truth of man's heart being deceitful above all things. As such, it calls us to the need to weigh hearts before choosing one. Man may pretend to be B but in reality is A. If you have no discernment, you might fall for the front he is selling and eventually suffer for it. 

It is this knowledge of the heart being right that made the Apostles pray that God should choose for them a candidate whose heart is right. They might have also learnt from the betrayal of Jesus by Judas. Heart is everything even in choosing leaders politically. If you vote selfish individuals, you'll reap the brunt of their selfishness. However, let me quickly say "heart" as referred to here isn't that blood pumping organ. No! It rather refers to the motivation, thoughts, outlook or perspective, objective, desire, believe, attitude of individuals. Those are the things that would influence and dictate the actions and reactions of anyone. Someone may be very handsome but if he believes saying sorry diminishes him when he offends another, I'll say that's a bad heart you're seeing right there. His believe is wrong and so his heart would act wrongly. It is God's desire that our hearts would be right always. When Simon the sorcerer got converted but offered money to Peter in order to have the Holy Ghost, what Peter rebuked is his heart not being right because he thought of buying the gift of God with money.

Acts 8:21, KJV

"Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God."

As such, you know the heart in question is not the physical organ doctor deals with. Ensure that your heart is right always and ensure you make choices of people based on their hearts. Stop falling for people because of their fine appearances and how they solely paint themselves, you'd die by tomorrow doing so. How would you know people's hearts? A man is identified by his fruit. Do we gather grapes from thistles (Matt. 7:16)? However, let discernment be at work at all times to help you unravel man's deception. 

PRAYER: Lord, search me and see if there be any wicked way in me. Show me those around me who could hurt me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Samuel 20:1-21:15, John 9:1-41, Psalm 113:1-114:8, Proverbs 15:15-17

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 17/05/2024

FRIDAY- 17TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DO YOU GO A FISHING?

John 21:3, KJV

"Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing."

God is in the business of restoring men. It doesn't matter how far gone you are in your backslidden stage, if you'll hear God's voice and acknowledge His signs, you shall be back ashore. 

This confession of Peter above comes after much meditation in his heart. He sees himself as idle - with no work. As such, he decides to be occupied. He wants his hands to find something doing. So, he stands up and proclaims, "I go a fishing." First of all, God wants to issue a warning to idle people. Those who have left their estates - the very ones God committed into their hands. When you have repented from following after the assignment God gave to you, you can't but say, "I go a fishing." Why? God created we humans to be occupied. He didn't create us to be idle with no job doing. He wants our hands to be filled and He wants only purpose and our calling to have that space. So, when you let go of your God given work (not work of ministry to everyone except those called into ministry), you become jobless and seek for a substitute work to do. That's what happen to Peter. The substitute work he could find to reengage in and go back to was his former fishing business from which Christ collected him. 

When Christ recruited him, Jesus says to him, "follow me and I will make you fishers of men" (Luke 5:10). Why would Jesus want to make him fishers of men? Because that's more a higher calling than his having been a fisher of fishes. If I should ask you which is of more value, "fishes" or "men", what would you say? We sure know that the human soul is more worthy and of value than many fishes put together. For the Bible says, "for what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul" (Matthew 16:26, KJV)? The answer ought to be nothing because nothing equalizes the value of the human soul. The human soul is so valuable that Christ died for it. Jesus' death was foremostly to redeem the human soul. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). 

That's the reason - the sole reason for Which Christ called Peter and others. He wants them to busy themselves saving humans who are valuable than fishes. But now that the Master is out of sight, service to God and ministry seems to have gone into oblivion. No wonder, someone like Peter could say, "I go a fishing. At least, I need something to pass time with." 

Does this not show his backslidden state? It shows he has let go of his highest calling to returning to the lesser for which Christ collected him. Imagine a retrogression from "a fishers of men to a fishers of fishes." That's not interesting at all. It's not different from the backsliding of Samson to being a mere entertainer instead of he who strikes fear in the hearts of the Philistines (Judges 16:25). 

May you not retrogress.  May you maintain your lot and stick to your ministry. May you not leave your highest calling to serving tables or doing the lesser. May you see what to protect - that it's the very assignment for which God saved, recruited and trained you. May you remain fishers of men, living to evangelize and save men (bringing them to Christ) where you are. May you not solely be a fisher of fishes (someone who goes after bread and what to put in his mouth only). May what to eat, where to sleep or what to put on not wean you from "go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to all creatures" of the Master. 

PRAYER: Lord, open my eyes to my backslidden state. Recover me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Samuel 20:1-21:15, John 9:1-41, Psalm 113:1-114:8, Proverbs 15:15-17

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 9/05/2024

THURSDAY - 9TH MAY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

REPAIR YOUR BROKEN ALTAR

I Kings 18:30, KJV

"And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down."

God is ready to meet man if man is ready to meet God. "Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" (Isaiah 59:1-2, KJV). God still yearns having you and if you'll respond, He shall receive you. The Bible says, "come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18, KJV). 

Speaking of altar, I do not intend a table in your home on which images or candles are placed. "God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). As such, the altar you have to repair is your heart being in good union and communion with God. If intimacy has been broken, you must come to repentance once and seek God with all your heart. 

The act of Elijah in today's reading teaches us that. At about the time that revival would occur in Israel, what he did first was to repair the broken altar. An altar is a place of fellowship with a superior being - God in our case. He had to restore the altar which for awhile had been broken down and neglected. "Broken down" explains its being out of use, being forlorn and substituted by other altars. Before anything else, he repairs it first of all. Elijah didn't start by crying unto God to send down fire. No! He rather first of all reconstructed the bridge between Israel and God, giving God the ownership right over Israel by repairing the altar through which they could contact Him and vice versa. He sought first of all to restore exchanges and communication between God and them. While he chooses 12 stones and restores the broken altar, you must seek to repent of your having substituted God with other pursuits and go back to such activities that allow God to possess and use you. 

Where has your altar been broken down? Where has it been neglected? Where has cobwebs and dust settled on it? For some, the dust has settled on their Bibles because it has been long they drew it out to learn of God. It were even okay if it were only dust, cobwebs now cover some. A witness to a broken altar. Some can't bear witness to what it means to pray again. Their altar have been broken down. No more interaction or fellowship between they and God. Only God knows when last some heard from Him. Even those fellows in question can't recall when in particular. God is calling you to a return to your altar. He's saying, "repair your broken altar". Let your zeal with which you pursued after God previously rises. Like a hart, pant after God who alone satisfies. However, you need to make ready. Let go of vain pursuits and give all other things that have come to replace God their second places in your life. Be ready at heart having repented of neglect and the sin of abandonment of intimacy with God. If you shall come seeking God once more, He shall answer you even with fire on your altar. He shall prove to be God and God again to you. 

PRAYER: Father, I repent of neglect and abandonment of fellowship with you. I am restored and made fine.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Samuel 2:22-4:22, John 5:24-47, Psalm 106:1-12, Proverbs 14:30-31

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