MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 01/08/2024

THURSDAY  - 1ST  AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

Happy New Month!!!

GIVE EXTRA EFFORT - Capacity Building Series 001

Matthew 13:5, KJV

"Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:"

Much will be required of you and because much will be required of you, do well to give extra attention to go the extra mile. This request to give attention may even be for the many unsuspected demands of years to come that'll come on you. You may have a glimpse of who you'll become but no one has a full comprehension of it. As such, gather in such large chunk so that you can't be put to shame when those demanding days appear. Some people's manifestations were poor because they were ill equipped. If you ever fail in the day of adversity, it simply means your strength is small.

As the sower sows, the destinies of the seeds he bears and sows are revealed. Their destinies and outcomes are however determined by which environment or habitat they fell into. Some seeds as they were casted with right intention from the sower chose their place by falling on a stony ground. You may be unsuspicious of its being a stony ground for the superficial soil on the stone on which they fell. However, do see correctly. Once you do, the hypocrisy of the earth on which they fell will be revealed to you clearly. 

Now, these seeds quickly sprout than it should have been under normal condition. This owes to the fact that there is no much earth for them to dip or send roots into. So, they develop weak roots hindered by the hardness of the stone on which they are settled. Now, it's possible for a J.J.C (Johny Just Come) or an inexperienced person to praise them for having quickly germinated when they lack the major thing needed to draw nutrition and support the shoot they've sent upward. There are those this illustration typifies who are without the foundation or strength that can sustain their lives. Going to church doesn't necessarily makes you a Christian and even when you're born again without becoming a disciple, you'd chicken out when tests come. Like this plant, you'd withered away at the appearance of heat or intense sunlight. You won't be able to endure hardship, thrive and then survive eventually. 

God wants you to give attention. It may take years for you to launch what God is calling you into but let it be when you do, you're thoroughly furnished, having paid the prices required for continual sustenance unto every good work. I know people who started something and closed it down for having been presumptuous at the start. They didn't gather strength and resources that make a man survive differing season as it comes or changes. Strive to send root downward before shoot upward. Men may be deceived by the sudden untimely sight of shoot upward but in no time, your hypocrisy shall be revealed for lack of strong root downward. The Bible says, "in no sooner the sun arises, the grass/flower withers" (James 1:11). Your test will come. If you call yourself a wife or a husband, your test will come. It's your test that'll reveal if indeed you've made preparation for the married life or not. God is asking us to beware of false foundation or quickie ineffective preparation that lacks the ingredient of solidity for perpetual existence. You're a project. Decide to build yourself on Christ, the solid rock. Know Him, as they that know their God shall do exploit. Let Him be your identity giver. As such, you'll have the confidence, right ethics and ability to survive in the world we are. However, ensure you cut no corner in whatsoever you'll be searched out doing. Pay the full price always. Send roots downward even if it takes days without appearance of shoot upward. Don't be given to the praise of men (who measures by who first shoots upward) but rather seek God's approval who calls for solidity and roots downward. Of Him, you'll have commendation and by such right principle, you'll succeed when others fail; endure when others are discontinued. 

PRAYER: I make the right choice of which ground to grow in. I choose to listen to ministers and teachers who are grounded (have much soil to grow in). I am planted in the right doctrines and so I'm firmly planted and nourished. My beliefs are godly and goodly. I remain solid and unshaken.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Romans 6:1-14 & Psalms 56-59

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 24/07/2024

WEDNESDAY - 24TH JULY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

LEVERAGING YOUR GIFTS - Your Baby Series 024

Acts 16:16, KJV 

"And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying."

Don't emphasise gifts at the expense of character, vice versa. However, gift is powerful. Your gift is your leverage to greatness. Succeeding and becoming prominent is often by one's gift. That's why the Bible says, "the gift of a man will make a room for him and bring him before kings or prominent men" (Prov.18:16). Only that you may need character to keep such open door. Gift is your aid and God's resources to you to excel where He has set you. It is what makes someone supernatural when functioning in it and natural when out of it. Gift excels skill though you might need to still be trained in your gifting. Without the gift of the Holy Spirit, no one can do ministry and be successful. Jesus says, "but you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem...and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8).

Until the Holy Spirit comes first, we're unqualified for ministry because ministry can't be by human power or might but by God's Spirit. Until then, you're not sent. 

That's why every minister needs empowerment of the Holy Ghost from on high. Then, the Holy Ghost do bring gifts into our lives. I know a young adolescent of 15 years old who's very good with dates and history. He could tell you the atrocities of King Leopold of Belgium in Congo and chronicle the road to independence of many nations with the mentioning of names, facts and exact locations. History just interests him. Thanks to his aptitude for study also. No wonder, he excels in the arts/humanities. I believe God gifted him in that line especially. He even once sought launching a blog on African history and politics while forecasting studying History and Diplomatic Studies later on. Imagine that!

The young lady here surprisingly knows things by divination. Instead of leveraging God's revelatory gifts and discernment by the Holy Spirit, she fetches information supernaturally and illegally through aids of a demon by diving into the spirit realm. Divination is what Joseph refers to when he plans the detaining of his younger brother, Benjamin. He told them, "don't you know a man like me can surely divine" (Gen.44:15). That is, find things out supernaturally. 

I basically want to teach on your leveraging your gifts. Through divination, this damsel has access to accurate and truthful information. She keeps harassing the apostles with their identity and work. A foolish fellow could have taken her for a prophetess but Paul by discernment rebuked that spirit of divination by which she soothsays things. When that happens, there's no little stir because the hope of gains of those who owns her is gone. They have been making money through the supernaturalness (though demonic) of this damsel. That lady became a nobody after the authority of Christ stripped her of that special ability. That special ability while it was retained however made her a sort of 'god.' It made the gullible (who don't know she was soothsaying) give her a lot of respect because of her supposed divinity - of being godlike or heroic. But it took another person in his own gift to arrest her and bring her to judgement. You can't pick the devil with your head. Your leverage are your gifts: discernment, word of knowledge etc. 

Same way this girl is special, functioning optimally, extraordinarily and surprisingly in her special ability, so also is how God's gifts make potent anyone who has it. I once heard of a child who prophesies and was baffled. A child prophesying is nothing short of the supernatural. No one could have fed her with such information because they were even beyond her exposure. However, a gift makes her do that effortlessly and intricately. The Bible also talks of Philip the evangelist (a gifted man himself) having four daughters who prophesies (Acts 21:9). 

Leverage your gift and you can fulfill your calling. Every calling is a bundle of gifts in manifestation. That's why "gifts and calling" appear as a pair in a place like Romans 11:29. 

"For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."

Don't be ashamed of flowing in your gift. If you're thinking you're exhibiting a gift that's strange to you or unusual, seek counsel and you'll be encouraged to know you aren't operating by a familiar spirit etc. Your gift will power your calling and through this, you can serve the will of God in your generation and attract "all these things (Matt.6:33)" that people are dying to have. 

PRAYER: We pray for the free flow of the Holy Ghost in all institutions of our world. When He hovers on something, repair is brought to it soonest.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 28:17-31 & Psalms 30-31

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 23/07/2024

TUESDAY - 23RD JULY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOUR CALLING WILL ATTRACT ITS OCCASION OF MANIFESTATION - Your Baby Series 023

Judges 14:3 KJV

"3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel."

I said in series 022 that your child would be stirred towards his calling and manifesting of same. Let's go further and see the new thing God is saying today. That being propelled or stirred towards what has been foretold or written of one is not just a once and for all thing. Your calling is a force and a grace. You can't cage it. When it's present, it'll speak and open doors for itself. That's why many have been surprised hearing the testimonies of those who rose to stardom from nothingness. The question is, "how possible since discouragements surrounded them?" It could have been lack of connection, finance, platform, education, supportive people etc. 

Do you want to know why they rose and floated? It's because their callings created occasions for them to take. The calling will attract events by which the called will rise. Such is the case with Samson in his ministry. 

One time, Samson came with a very strange request to his parents. He wouldn't stop singing it to their ears. He had gone to Timnath and had seen a daughter of one of the pagan Philistines. His demand is that his parents would get her for him to marry. The parents immediately refute it. They criticized him and convinced him alike to marry from his own people. We all know that God has commanded the Israelites not to mix in marriage with foreigners lest they turn their hearts after foreign gods. Samson's parents must have recalled that to him when they asked him if there was no lady amidst their own kindred he could marry. 

First, I'll like you mark something. Desire is powerful and it is not everyone who desires or longs after same thing. While Samson is dying for this Philistine lady, another will be contented to marry and dwell with a lady from his kindred and that'll be because his own calling is not making such demands on him. I'm not saying God sanctions marriage to unbelievers but even at that, God might have a use for it. It may be mistake but God can use it for His own glory. However, the foundation of the Lord on this matter stands sure. It is still, "do not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever" (II Cor. 6:14). 

However for Samson, his calling was intentionally pushing him towards latching unto that lady and that lady in particular. He keeps telling his parents, "get her for me, for she pleases me well." Don't be surprised when your kid asks for some weird things as gifts or exhibits desires (not sinful) after the unconventional. You might be expecting hearing being taken to an eatery or amusement park to dine and play but only for him to ask being taken to the studio where sound is recorded. He might have been obsessed with seeing how broadcast is transmitted. He might even ask you for a professional camera or a thing that's ahead of his age as a gift. You might want to douse him with another but if he persistently asks for same, do avail him that. You might even had chastised him for asking too extravagantly or strangely but he just wanted to rejoice and be satiated by that sublime feeling of the called. Do you know why that occasionally do happen? The calling of everyman wants to gather the materials needed for the fulfilment or manifestation of that same calling. That's why Samson wouldn't let go. Something in him latches unto that Philistine lady but his parents couldn't understand. They were still trying to stick to orthodoxy when God is saying, "rise Peter, kill and eat." Yet, their Peter keeps refusing, saying, "not so Lord. I have never eaten anything unclean in my life." May God forgive those parents who couldn't read their kids correctly that it is his calling that was asking for that definite thing at that definite time. 

The Bible says, "but his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines..." May we not be married to tradition when God wants to break it for a cogent reason. Thank God Samson persisted. That window granted him opens a wide touring doors of ministry through which he wrecked the Philistines and truly begin to deliver his people. 

If Samson never connected to this lady through marriage, the events that led to her and her father being burnt wouldn't have happened. As such, the stage wouldn't have been set for the revenge cycle that Samson begins to unleash on the Philistines. It is this little door (that his parents couldn't see) but which was caused by God to bring to pass His earlier promise to them that started it all.   That singular attempt of marriage opens all other doors that people would call great doors in Samson's ministry. Through it, he later has the testimony of, "heap upon heap." The parents were praying for that day of deliverance and manifestation to come but when the time, occasion and event that would lead to it all came, they were ignorant of it. The Bible says, "his father and his mother had no idea that God was behind this, that he was arranging an opportunity against the Philistines who lorded it over Israel then."

Parents, be sensitive or your child might be hindered by you from doing what will shoot him out. Curtail your excesses. Do not be drunken in superstitions or tradition but be led of the Spirit or else, you might clip his wings from humming and singing round the house thereby halting the manifestation of a world renown singer. Beware or you might separate him from friends meant for his destiny. While God brought the occasion, Samson's parents couldn't reason it right but Samson persisted because he could as well understand the demands of his calling. He has come to maturity now and to the purpose for which God began to visit and stir him up from that distant past. It's not to keep shut and sit calm with the anointing but to cause a change to his people's situation that now matters. So, he was in agreement with that occasion the Lord brought and so gave persistent mouth to it through his untiring requests. He persisted because he could sense, "now is the time, this is the ride I have long awaited and now destiny shall begin to happen for me." May you not deny your child the connection to the road, people and places critical to his journey. If  God had sought the permission of Jacob on taking Joseph to Egypt, affection might have slaughtered his agreement. For some reasons God sees, He'll just use providence to work for us. Do away with your fears, stereotypes and prejudices and be in the here and in the now with God and on the same page with the calling and demands of that child of yours. He's just being prepared for a journey. 

PRAYER: Lord, help me to understand my child, his calling and his divine moments. Forgive me for criticizing and cutting his calling attempts down.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 28:1-16 & Psalms 26-29

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 22/07/2024

MONDAY - 22ND JULY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

PROPELLED TOWARDS HIS DESTINY - Your Baby Series 022

Judges 13:25, KJV

"And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol."

Yesterday, I showed you how it is what we are made or created to be that we manifest. A pig bathes in the mud you know and a human acts intelligently. May I push further on that. 

When God visits Samson's parents, He told them they'll deliver a son and he would begin to deliver Israel.

Judges 13:5, KJV 

"For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."

That would be his assignment and so his destiny was sealed. A while after Samson was grown up, an adolescent he must be;  the Bible records, "and the Spirit of the Lord began to stir or move him at times..." Did you read that? Now, let us ask ourselves a question. When the Lord began to stir him, was it to write books? Was it to couple components  together? Was it to sing or entertain? Rather, when the Lord began to stir him, what did he stirred him towards?

The answer isn't far fetched. He stirred him towards his purpose as originally revealed to his parents. He stirred him towards a sensitizing and affirming of the supernatural power on and working through him. Through that stirring comes the urge to probably attempt rolling away a rock, lifting a heavy weight, running miles yet not wearied, shooting the arrows yet striking accuracy or pulling out a tree from the earth with uncommonness. All in all, Samson saw that something was unnatural about himself. He could have gone home to ask his parents why he could do things so astoundingly like no other person could do i.e uprooting and carrying a whole city gate away; tearing a lion as if it were a young goat etc. Imagine those! He accomplished difficult things with ease. However, the Lord impressed on him to be launched in that path by making such attempts. God just stirred or moved him towards the path of exerting physical force/effort and the result was extraordinary. So, in today's world, Samson could have gone on to become a Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He could have won several belts and knocked many down by TKO (knockout). If he had chosen Wrestling or Kick Boxing as a profession, that had even be deadlier because he had just be breaking bones and slaughtering people in the ring. He'll be defeating opponents in Round 1 of every fight and if any goes round 2 with him, they had ended up with broken ribs and ruptured kidney. He'd be greater than Muhammad Ali, acknowledge God (by often kneeling in thanksgiving in the ring) than George Foreman and be of greater fame than the Nigerian born British fighter, Anthony Joshua. What the Lord planted in him; what the Lord named and described as his calling from birth is what God ensures he was eventually streamlined, directed, guided, funnelled, focused and launched into. 

The great days of Samson delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines that all of us have read about began in the small days of his stirring in locations of little repute in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol that he himself can never forget. He knows where to trace his rise to stardom to! Samson could go on to build a youth center or gym at that same location as a sign of indebtedness to God and the society from which he rose.  Nobody was there then when the stirring and training began but Samson could testify to an unusual power beginning to work through him at that place. He knew when and where his days of small beginning began from. He would just observe that he began  to exhibit unusual and unparalleled strength where others (even though of a bigger stature) are strained, therefore giving up. 

Let me tell you something. Your child is made for his field and God will stir him towards that field. A child is stirred towards a field when he begins to exhibit traits of those in that area of human endeavour. If you listen to the testimony of those around musicians or superstar of a field, they'd told you that the popular face that has now become a brand used to sing all around the house. The parents could even tell you that he requested for a guitar on one of his birthday at age 7 and went on to self develop himself as a guitarist. You might think, "is that possible?" But it is! When God stirs someone towards his calling, it's to do exactly as they have been ordained and become as they have been foretold.  

So, don't neglect these signs. Watch for them in your kids. I tell the truth and lie not. Your child is called and the field God has called him to is one he'll be obviously stirred towards at times. That field would just become his area of interest! Once you observe that, train and encourage him in that line. You had be shocked that he might attain stardom before adulthood. Therefore, he'll begin to bring you gains as described of this soothsayer who brought her masters no little gains (Acts 16:16, 19). 

PRAYER: Lord, may I maximize my child. May I not harness them lesser than you determined. O God, stir my child towards his calling and let it be obvious.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 27:27-44 & Psalms 23-25

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 21/07/2024

SUNDAY - 21ST JULY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

INVENTORS AND ENGINEERS - Your Baby Series 021

II Chronicles 26:15, KJV

"And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong."

This is the achievement of Uzziah, king in Jerusalem. During his tenure, he was powerful militarily and subdued far and wide. However, that just didn't fall on him. It came because God gave him victory which owes to a subset fact of having a developed nation powered by technology and the rightful invention. Praise to his mechanics, engineers, inventors and all technicians who invented those engines and machines of war by which he defences his people and also fights. If you'd watched Bahubaali, those engines created to haul stones and shoot arrows would be just like the ones portrayed in that movie. 

How could you say an inventor of the fan (a product rarely not present in a home) but  which everybody uses has no call while agreeing that your pastor whose sermons or books the whole world are not reading has a call? It's a misconception. This is how we have separated all other professionals from the holily call and righteous demands of God on the calling they as well carry. So, they began to see themselves as ordinary and secular - as people of "anything goes" instead of consecrating themselves to that field for the Lord's glory. But the early fathers of protestantism didn't see it that way. Martin Luther and John Calvin didn't teach their generation that way. As a matter of fact, they esteemed all work or its form as equal. As far as God is concern, it hasn't changed. An engineer will be called to account in the measure of his calling just as a clergy will give account likewise in his calling. Only that God says teachers would be judged with stricter measures and I want to believe it won't be clergy or preachers of the Word of God only. It'll include all those who instructs or leads anywhere at any time. As long as they're in leadership with a measure of influence over a given people, they'll be judged with stricter measure. They must give account for how they influence those opened to their instructions (James 3:1-2). Verily established is therefore the fact that God holds us accountable and when different, it's based on His investment or expectation from us. Check the story of the talents for this (Matt.25:14-30). That doesn't then mean that your profession (of being a preacher of the gospel) is the most esteemed in God's eyes. No! It is how and what you do with your profession that makes it esteemed or reproachful before God. If you're a sweeper and you sweep so well and diligently, I bet it, you'll have the praise of God. If you're a preacher and you don't give all diligence to research and deliver the best, you'll be rebuked of God. As a matter of fact, you should be afraid and that's because God also doesn't bear the sword in vain (just like the state). God is in the business of dividing to us as we have done without being a respecter of persons or  profession. Our watchword should be whatsoever we do, we do as unto the Lord and with all our might. 

Listen, your baby is called and once called, the equipping is there even if it is not showing now. It may not show anyway if he doesn't do the work for which he was equipped. So, that might render him as one not called. The call of being a minister of the gospel predates my birth but I needed to heed the call. Even before I heeded it, God started training me for it. All the experiences I've had were for a reason - a preparation for that intent of being a minister and those that were not were converted to be. This went on until I was heavily anointed as I listened repeatedly to the sermon of my favourite minister which at that time I was specially attracted to. From then on, my teaching ministry was revolutionized. I want to talk more and people want to listen to me more. Since then, I've not ran dry of teaching, preaching and doing the works of ministry. Why? An equipping capacitates me for that. This devotional you're reading is a proof of my call and equipping. It's the product of my own calling. 

Those engines or machines we read about were made by some inventors. To be an inventor or anything, you must have the mind or be filled with the mind of one. Without the equipping of one, you can't be one. Steve Jobs was just a young boy when he passed by a store with his dad. Seeing the technological devices in the store, he was attracted to them. Later on, he went on to invent good systems for us like Apple and Macintosh. His products stand out. What you love is a function of what God calls you to do. For Nebuchadnezzar to become an animal, God had to give him the lower mind of an animal. So, he acted as one and began to crawl. For him to be human again, his human heart had to be restored so he could regain understanding and stand upright (Dan.4:29-37). Only then was he returned to the community of men. For you to be a teacher, you must be filled or equiped with the abilities of one. If that mind is not in you, you can't manifest it. Even the Bible tells us that we should let Christ's mind be in us for us to act humbly, selflessly and Christlike (Phil.2:5-9). Without having His mind, those qualities would elude us. So, if there's an office or function you covet, follow those who are established in it. As time goes on, you'll begin to absorb them and have yourself changed (by a renewing of your mind with the things pertaining to that office or field). This is one of the ways to get equipped for anything. It is usually a quickened and successful process when you're naturally at first attracted to such field because you're called there by God. You tend to absorb and learn faster by immersion in what you're naturally obsessed with. And as far as we know, obsession after a field or someone in that field is a sign that your child is called or has a destiny in or around that field. 

The moment Bezaleel sees gold, silver, brass, stone, timber etc, he immediately receives an impression of what to do with them. He's that inspired and lofty in craftsmanship because he is set there by God. As such, he could work with those resources. If you're not an inventor, building things by merging components won't interest you. You'll see no sense in it but rather deride those whose calling it is. But if your child is, he'll just be fascinated with technology and devices' parts. Watch it. Is your boy dismantling devices at home i.e wristwatch, toys etc? Does he have uncanny aptitude to build with his hands, move with his body, solve puzzles, sing or speak with his voice or write vividly with imagery? Any of those hints at his future work or calling. You're seeing a boy or a girl set in his own office right there!

PRAYER: Lord, I receive your mind to act Christlike. My child shall manifest the mind of he who you have called him. A beast acts beastly, a man acts humanly; a singer sings. My child shall act as preordained.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 27:1-26 & Psalms 21-22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 20/07/2024

SATURDAY - 20TH JULY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOUR CHILD HAS AN EQUIPPING  - Your Baby Series 020

Exodus 31:3, KJV

"And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship."

Equipping is what fits anyone for the office he's set in or function he's to discharge. Without equipping or manifestation of an office, one can't be called an apostle, prophet, engineer, artist, musician, writer etc. It is first what you do that earns you the name. As a matter of fact, you may not bear the title but go ahead to doing the work. As such, such title will naturally be attracted and conferred on you. 

Can we call you a pastor when you have no pastoral qualities or shepherd duties you're discharging? You neither accept responsibility or seek to protect or care for anyone. So, where will you be located? It's not the certificate that makes you a pastor; it's the work you do. The certificate is only a testimony that witnesses indeed that you've been doing that work. 

In today's reading, God equips Bezaleel, Aholiab and other witted people he called for their assignment. Their assignment is clearly stated. It's "4 to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship."

As long as it is anything that pertains to this description, they're capacitated to discharging to the utmost as it'll be demanded of them. They are called to device or work, "in all manner of workmanship." Their equipping therefore and the kind of wisdom God has put in them is not to write books like myself but to craft things. God equips in the direction of the calling or office He's giving any person. Someone God intends to be a sportsman might have kinetic intelligence while another spatial because he's called to be a scientist or inventor. 

As such, He fills Bezaleel with the spirit of God (though he won't be doing Moses' kind of ministry). Spirit of God is not only reserved for ministers of the gospel. It's for every professional to function in the profession they're set or placed in.

Your child also has an equipping because he has been surely called and set in a field. If it's to be a writer, he might love the indoor, reading of anything at sight while being a good story lover. He might take interest in folklore, history of mankind and human civilization to your bewilderment. He might want to visit the museum or know about people's cultures or ways of life. You'll just observe some remarkable obsessions in tending towards his calling and future destination. He might even love certain movies and that'll be because they meet the need of He who God has called him to be. So, watch carefully and you'll see. Your child has a calling and God has not left him comfortless by not equipping him. He is equipped already and so, he is able and capacitated to contribute to that field and even earn a living from it if he gives diligence that establishes every calling in the view of the whole world. 

PRAYER: May my equipping not be useless. My child's equipping shall find expression. Give me persistence in my calling.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 26:19-32 & Psalms 19-20

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 19/07/2024

FRIDAY - 19TH JULY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

AND HE HAS SET SOME - Your Baby Series 019

I Corinthians 12:28, KJV

"And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues."

When that place says, "and He has set some", it talks of God placing us in different functions. 

God sets some! To set means to "place." It also means, "God has called some by name." God who set A as an Apostle and B as a prophet called them by name first of all and set them in those functions differently. Like the teeth are set in the mouth without the canine supplanting the molar where it should be, in same manner, God has set some to function, manifest or occupy offices differently. Ephesians 4:12 talks of ministry offices and it will take us further. 

Ephesians 4:11, KJV

"And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers"

These are offices that those who occupy them would be gifted differently from each other. For instance, the Apostle is a sent one. He's empowered by God to open a new land or territory to other ministry offices. He's equipped with strong spirit to wrestle and conquer principalities and powers especially over nations, cities and places. Signs and wonders do attend his work. The prophet is both a foreteller (predictor) and forthteller (inspired speaker). He has revelation gifts and gift of discernment. The evangelist is a winner of souls with the gift of the gab whose work is specially attested to by signs, wonders, healing and miracles. He coverts sinners especially. The pastor is a shepherd who grooms the harvest sent in by the evangelist. He's usually a teacher with a patient and caring spirit. The teacher is different from a pastor who preaches but is one given special graces to reveal God's mystery hidden in the Bible to people. He teaches the body of Christ. 

You'll see that with the setting comes different functions and manifestations. That's why you mustn't covet anyone's calling. The reason is because you have yours. Find it and develop it. You've been set by the Lord somewhere also. He who sets the solitary in families has set you in a calling of His own choice and has equipped you with passion, talents, inclination and special obsession for that field. 

This also tells us that calling isn't a fraud. It is very genuine and true. God originated it and He seeks to perpetuate it in every living being He has sent here. There should be no one who should be idle. That's because God has ordained a work for him or her to do. When God created Adam, He puts him in the garden to till the ground. But even before then, He gave him authority to dominate or rule over the works of His hands. That is, he was given the responsibility of exploring, cultivating and maximizing all God created. His work is to bear rule on behalf of God and it shows in Adam naming the animals - where it is whatsoever he calls them they bear (Gen.2:19-20). God gave Adam a work. It wasn't Adam who set himself as a manager over the earth. It was God who set him in place and equips him to rule it. That work is his calling or what should be his life's job. However, that man or woman could have gone ahead to doing a contrary job. As a matter of fact, your calling or life's work (narrowly defined) should be your job since God intends that's what should totally preoccupy you and on which you should spend your lifetime. So, beware of working and not fulfilling your calling. That's where the idea of a career comes in. Anything you're doing which is not what God meant for you as CALLING might as well be regarded as your CAREER. It's possible to be a called musician but to go on to be an accountant. Accountancy would be deemed a career for you and not your calling. However, God might give a calling to another in accountancy which if he does, it won't be regarded as following a career but fulfilling a calling. So, I'm thinking the separation between career and calling is HE WHO GIVES YOU THAT WORK TO DO! If it's not your preordained job, then it isn't your calling and you can't drive it maximally enough to its peak because you won't even be verily equipped for it. Also, you can't derive maximum satisfaction from it. God favours every work or human endeavour and He calls people into them. Every work is sanctified and blessed by Him but can you testify the work or job you're on is your own calling (given mandate from heaven) or the one you're just doing to sponsor your calling or put food on your table? That's why some of you want to leave that job or work to go fully into the one you really love. You'd better leave it or redirect your kid into the path of such that fits their calling. 

PRAYER: Father, save me from misdirection. Save me from living outside my pre-ordained destiny. Give me insight not to misdirect my children.

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