MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 15/08/2024

THURSDAY  - 15TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

APPREHENDING THAT FOR WHICH YOU WERE APPREHENDED - Making Full Proof Series 005

Philippians 3:12, KJV

"Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."

One thing should be your pursuit - "apprehending that for which you were apprehended." Let it be your chase and wild goal! First of all, let me deal with definition of terms. Paul uses some two words but which are different in meaning. He says, "if I may apprehend that for which I was apprehended of Christ Jesus." First, Paul was apprehended. To apprehend here as used by him means to "arrest" or "bring to salvation." The event he describes happened on his way to Damascus in Acts 9 to have those of the Way bound and casted to the prison. He rather had the opposite fulfilled when the Lord picked him up and cut him quit from his deadly persecution. So, like a hardened criminal, he was arrested by God for having caused destruction on His people but more importantly brought in for a purpose. It's this purpose God assures would be revealed to him once he enters Damascus when he asks of Jesus, 'what would you have me to do (Acts 9:6)?" What Ananias told him as the reason for his salvation is what he was apprehended for. He was brought in for just that, "to carry Jesus' name before Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel" (Acts 9:15) while suffering many things for same. Knowing this, Paul would give his eyes no rest until he has manifested the reason for his arrest by Christ. That leads him to say, "if I may apprehend that for which I was apprehended" or saved. So, the other "apprehend" means "to fulfill, obtain, secure or become." Paul fights and not as one who beats the air if he might verily apprehend (fulfill) why he was apprehended (saved). So, Paul simply talks of fulfilling his purpose and eating and finishing the meat of He that arrested Him. This "apprehend" therefore tends towards making full proof of one's ministry without leaving one thing out of the ingredient of one's calling. 

Philippians 3:13, KJV 

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before."

Don't be satiated yet like Paul was who didn't count himself to have made arrival or a stop. Rather, he's in the habit of striving, continuing to minister to the Jews and Greeks alike. One could see he really wanted to apprehend why he was apprehended by some revelations in his statements. He once said, "I'm a debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise" (Rom.1:14). He even exercises willingness to preach the gospel to those in Rome also (v.15). One time, he even told King Agrippa that he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision (Acts 26:19). Till the time he uttered that speech and to beyond, he was fulfilling why he was apprehended by God. 

God wants to pose a question to you. Since you got born again those years ago, what can you say you have worked at as your assignment for which you were apprehended? Or is it that you have only been receiving nutrition (ministration) in your local church without equal distribution of same to your needy world at your work place and places you have found yourself so far? If God brought you in like Paul, it's not to feed you until you become obese in the spirit and burst. No! It's to arm you with ministration to go immediately to begin to give ministration to others. You're not to remain a receiver forever. You're meant to graduate and become a teacher yourself - having been skilled in the Word. Ask yourself, am I apprehending that for which I was apprehended?

PRAYER: Open my understanding to see my retardness wherever I am retarded or impeded.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 23:12-35 & Job 40-42

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 14/08/2024

WEDNESDAY  - 14TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

FAITHFUL STEWARDS OF THEIR LITTLE THINGS - Making Full Proof Series 004

Acts 18:25, KJV 

"This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John."

Taking off from where I stopped yesterday, I want you to see that you can shine your little light. I had said in the previous devotional that we are all debtors of what we receive and was taught us. As such, we must manifest it at least to the degree we have been taught. It'll be disappointing if you were invested in heavily but manifested lesser. 

Here's Apollos who has been instructed in the way of the Lord, burning with zeal, he spoke and taught diligently and accurately the things concerning Jesus though he was acquainted only with the baptism of John. This man though lacking the knowledge of the gospel message or of the gift of the Holy Ghost passed what he was taught and remained a minister of same until his knowledge was upgraded. He didn't withhold or repay his teacher (whomsoever that may be) badly by not manifesting what he was given or withhold to spread the values he knows to be truth (which is actually truth indeed).

John came preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins (Luke 3:3). That's all Bro. Apollos was taught and with fervency of heart, he communicated it effectively to others. It means if the fuller knowledge on Christ has been taught him before he ever launched out, he would have lived and preached same as a debtor of it. He sincerely thought all that was is the baptism of John and of that one, he remained a faithful steward - stressing and teaching it to length. However, he needs to be informed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, whose coming John foretold, pointing Him out as the Christ through his baptism by which he identifies Him. Also, the divine conception, birth, of the doctrine, miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus might have been told him and that Jesus proved Himself to be the Christ, not only by his miracles and resurrection, but by his baptizing his disciples with the Holy Ghost and with fire, as John had foretold earlier. 

Yesterday, I told you Jesus Himself said to onlookers about John, "ye were willing to rejoice in his light." John brought a light, he brought a message but it wasn't the full message. John himself was awaiting perfection through Christ's revealing. However, people were satiated by it until He who baptizes with fire and the Holy Ghost appears. When Jesus ascended, this became a reality as the disciples received the outpouring of the Spirit which equips them for ministry. It is this that ushers the church into a new era of ministry entirely. The truth I want you to take away is this, "seek to be a debtor of any investment in you. Apollos knows only the baptism of John and that one, he taught it like a lively fellow. He was ignorant of the gospel but when he sure learnt of it, he moved on to live up to that again. 

"27...the brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him: who when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace. 28 For he mightily convinced the Jews and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ."

You see, the whole truth on something may not always be realized as a whole or delivered as a package. It might need to come in parts until your knowledge is full on that subject. However, keep taking dressing. That's why the Bible encourages us to study to show ourselves approved unto God... As we study, we'll stumble on new layers of truth which when added to the already accumulated ones will make a complete man.  God may not chastise you for living up to a truth you know to be all that is at a time; however, once He brings new equipping and you chide it away in despise, you'll be called to judgement for not acting and living up to that newly revealed truth. Jesus told the woman at the well, "now is the time that they that worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth." It means, irrespective of what has been believed, that old order is being sentenced to death and is now supplanted by a new order. Now, this is the new thing being commanded all men to live up to. The time of ignorance God has overlooked but once He commands anyone to repentance who still tarries in his sin (or old knowledge), God will be blameless while the fellow might not be excused. Brethren, God will be giving you various adjustments and growth opportunities in your walk with Him. You'll often need to learn, unlearn and relearn or upgrade your knowledge at times. Just ensure you're humble to go that mile by taking correction as it'll be done in the spirit of humility in the closet while you never forget to be a faithful steward of what you've received. 

PRAYER: Aid my incomplete knowledge. Let me come across the teachers, resources that'll complete me. Give me special insight of the Bible for proper doctrinal and revelational stance.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 22:22-23:1-11 & Job 36-39

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 13/08/2024

TUESDAY  - 13TH AUGUST, 2024

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GOD HATES SEED WASTERS - Making Full Proof Series 003

Genesis 38:9-10, KJV

"9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also."

God hates seed wasters. God is looking for those who will put their seeds to work and ensure it multiplies. Either you're a seed giver or collector, God takes a dislike against seed wastefulness. I once watched a movie where a housewife takes pills to prevent pregnancy. She is sabotaging the work of her expectant husband. Such is the act of a seed waster. They don't care but they'll sure have themselves to blame. 

Such is also the case of Onan who according to tradition ought to raise seed for his dead brother, Er. Knowing the child would not be his, he spilled the seed on the ground, thereby denying Tamar and his dead brother a child. So, the Lord killed him. If he were not callous, why did he take the pleasure when he's unprepared for the responsibility?

This story as short as it is reveals God's hatred at seed wasting. He wants us to manifest any promise we carry, become our prophecies and manifest our ordainment. If we have received support and help from any quarters, the will of God is that they won't go in vain but become vehicles for our grand manifestations so much more that men would wonder and loved having been helped strongly like us. 

Our cloud is not meant to be dark and full of rain without giving it. We must manifest what we have received. If we have deposit, we must give to bless others. We must not become a pond or a self gratifying organ. We are not created for ourselves but to bring ministration and services to other men other than ourselves.This is how to maximize the spiritual gifts we have received from on high. If we indeed have the light, it is not meant to be locked up under the bushel but on a lamp stand to give light unto all in the house. May God find you to be this kind of person. Jesus talking of John the Baptist says, "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light" (John 5:35, KJV).Even when it was only for the time being, people saw light in John's light and message. Even if it was for the time being (before Jesus' arrival on ministry scene), people responded to the baptism of John for repentance from sins. He himself knows this and that's why He told them, "one comes after me who is preferred before me" (John 1:27). 

In your own time, shine and demonstrate in such a way that people will rejoice in your light. You may not have the fuller light but whatsoever you've been invested with by God, ensure you shine it to the degree of God's investment in you. John didn't go outside what God gave him as assignment. Though the elders wanted him to stumble into Jesus' role by their pressuring him to know if he was the Messiah, yet he maintains his stand saying, "I am not the Christ" (John 1:20). For that reason he came baptizing with water in order to identify the Christ (John 1:33-34). 

In your own day and at your own time, shine your light. No matter how little it is, no matter how you regard it, even if it's just a talent, use it to the fullest of its inherent capacity. You may not be the one ordained to baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire in your day but in whatsoever capacity you've been called to serve, discharge fully. Never withhold! If your baptism is of water pending the time the real deal would come, kindly give it rejoicingly. Even in that, people would celebrate your grace and gift. 

PRAYER: This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine; let it shine.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 21:37-22:1-21 & Job 32-35

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 12/08/2024

MONDAY  - 12TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

MANIFESTING ALL YOU HAVE RECEIVED - Making Full Proof Series 002

Matthew 13:22, KJV

"He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful."

I pray for you just as it is in God's heart that you'll manifest what you have received. You're a debtor of what you have received - from God or any blesser in your life. You reward your teacher badly when you become nothing with his effort in your life. 

If you're a student on scholarship especially who keeps failing, I tell you, you're not manifesting what you have received. As a matter of fact, you're a waster who's strangling what he could become if he maximizes that privilege that was allocated to him free of charge. 

The sower sows but the seeds fall into different habitats. These habitats in turn determine what happen to the seeds sown. The seeds sown amidst the thorns are those who heard the Word of God but which the worries of life or the illusion of becoming superbly wealthy chokes their received seeds. As such, the Word is not fruitful in their hearts (v.22). 

Let me take off by saying, there's no one God has not given to. He sows - He gives to all but you're a determiner of the condition which the Word of God will meet you. Some will not prepare the ground for the Word; they will not clear off their worries that could contest the fruitfulness of the Word in them. If the Word is sown but with no understanding through meditating on it, how can it be beneficial when you're deeply steeped and preoccupied in other thoughts? As such, this set of people can't manifest the investment of God or the Word in them though they've been given seeds like those with ready hearts who later brought forth in the degrees of their hearts' preparation - in hundreds, sixties and thirties.

"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the Word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty" (v.23).

You must seek to manifest what you have received. The reason is because you'll hate it and have yourself to blame when you see what others who received the Word like yourself become with theirs. What others become with it is what we have chronicled in the story of the seeds that fell on good ground. Like a congregation under a pastor would manifest his words differently - some who received it well will not only get equipped by the truth they heard but they will go on to equip others with the same truth. In that parable, some made full proof of the Word sown to them than others and that gives birth to the varying degrees of productivity we saw.

Are you manifesting what you're given or you're swallowing it to nothingness. God wants you to answer this question by probing your life. God isn't a waster of investment. He'll call you to account of all investments and contributions of His into your life. So, seek to manifest all deposits brought into your life. Even if you won't manifest it in hundred fold, let God see that you become something with what you've heard and through the ministration you have received. However, let hundred fold maximization and output be your chase. 

PRAYER: I shall not be lesser than God plans for me. I shall become and become all. I shall yield and yield maximal output.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 21:17-36 & Job 29-31

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/08/2024

 SUNDAY  - 11TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

MAKING FULL PROOF OF YOUR MINISTRY - Making Full Proof Series 001

II Timothy 4:5, KJV 

"But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."

God is looking for those who will not only begin to eat the meat of He that sent them but who will finish it. Jesus confesses of same that He has not come to be half known with the will of God but rather to be known fully for it. "Jesus says unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work" (John 4:34). He wouldn't stop at nothing until He accomplishes the same for which God sent Him to the earth - to save humanity from their sins (Matt.1:21). Though it requires going to the cross and enduring a lot, yet He did. He made full proof of His ministry. He didn't fall below expectation but met the standard and fulfilled it. The reason for His being raised or sent to the earth was lived up to and the work of redemption accomplished. 

God wants me to ask you a question. Will you make full proof of your ministry? Will you wear your calling out? If God ordains that from your calling comes schools, orphanages and health centres, will you ever get there? Will you do all as God demands to make full proof of your calling and the ministry unto which you're called?

Those who make full proof of their ministry are those who live to cover the circle drawn for them by the grace and measure of God given their offices. If God gives you gift and calling and you do not use it to the uttermost God determines, you wouldn't have made full proof of your ministry. God is not looking for those who'll do little and leave the rest. He's in search of men who will wear out their calling and ensure that everything tangible but first invisible in their calling is brought forth. If you have the calling of an entrepreneur, will you give hard work and certain sacrifices to go on to become the greatest in your nation, continent or even the globe? Will you give attention to produce quality that'll recommend and endear you to your end users. 

Today, God is recruiting men and those He's calling are those He wants to go to the uttermost end of the earth with. They are those He'll stretch and He'll demand extra from - all in the bid to make full proof of their ministries. 

PRAYER: I will make full proof of my ministry. Nothing shall hinder or cut me down. I walk the long road unto arrival.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 21:1-16 & Job 25-28

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/08/2024

 SATURDAY  - 10TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

EXERCISING GREAT CONFIDENCE WHEN YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE LORD - Capacity Building Series 010

II Kings 4:21, KJV 

"And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out."

Many people are in trouble today because they don't have their blessings and endowments come from above. Some might have gone below, asking of bottom powers. Others, of men who now spite them.  However, good and perfect gift comes from above (where God is seated and enthroned). May God enrich you to live above the purchase of second hand gadgets. Second hand buyers shouldn't expect any guaranty or any kind of compensation when the product all goes faulty. If you buy from the factory or the show room for instance, it's part of their policy to review it, take back that good and give you a perfect one instead. A contradiction to buying from places with no such policy or guaranty. That'll be endangering oneself. Wittily said by someone, "you're on your own." Can you return such goods? No! That'll be the consequence for not having gone to the perfect source where there's recourse for such thing. 

When the child of this woman has been ascertained to have died, she did one thing that impresses me and surely impressed God. She laid the child on Elisha's bed. She was saying, "what you have given me, I have return to you. See to it God!" This woman remains in faith despite the evil that has come on her. She keeps her faith and this even reflects in her confession of "all is well" which she echoes repeatedly.

When she got hold of Elisha, her ask was, "did I ask of you a child? Did I not ask you not to deceive me?" In essence, she was speaking to God who had made the promise of a child to her. In no time, God answers and rouses Himself to give her a miracle. God is committed to the cause of everything He brings into being. In Yoruba language, we'll say, "ti Oluwa ni", meaning "God's own." If it's indeed God's own, God will care and watch over it. So, if you are sure your children are God's own, you can be sure that God will fix them. Are you beginning to notice misbehaviour in any of them? Return them back to God who gave them to you. Lay them down in a prostrated manner before God. 'Naked' them and the issues at hand before God. Don't keep anything from God. Let Him behold the good and perfect gift He afore gives you and then declare to you why they shouldn't be perfect still. However, you must first of all be sure that they are God's own and are gifts that originated from God. 

All of us know where we got what we possess from. This includes our spouses and all properties alike. One man's car was crushed in an accident, he cried to God saying, "God, look at your car. It's gone. Will you not provide a better one?" In no long time, he receives a new one even as a gift. If God indeed gives you all you have and you survive on, you can as well call Him and hold Him responsible for renewal. That is, if you'll trust in this sure process and not let your own hands rush to architect imperfect blessings for yourself. I say, "return that good to the Lord." He'll send another anew. 

PRAYER: Lord, perfect my children in obedience. Is anything lacking in your life: health, finance etc. Ask His good gift and perfect gift.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 20:17-38 & Job 22-24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 09/08/2024

FRIDAY  - 9TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE THE LORD GIVES TO - Building Capacity Series 009

II Kings 4:16, KJV 

"And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid."

Those the Lord gives to cannot be disappointed. The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. (Prov.10:22). When it is the Lord who has given you your gift or blessing, then it shall endure with you. Of such blessing, you can exercise confidence that the Lord who has given it will protect or administer it as He wills. The Lord doesn't give us and then take to make us cry (whenever He takes back). The case of Job reveals this. God didn't allow the taking of his children (the crown of all he has) to prove Himself unworthy of being the perfect giver of gifts to those who trust Him. He rather did that to prove Job if there be any wicked way in him. God tests us to prove our love for Him. At day's end, Job is compensated by God more beautifully (Job 42). 

God loves us but He does prove us. When it is the Lord who has given you what you have, it is bound to be watched and administered by Him. So, be confident of that. The only problem is struggling with God over administering of the gift He gave you. This includes your children that God wants to be ordered in a way of life or profession than you have raised them. That's not keeping your part of the bargain by submitting the very good gift and every perfect gift you have received from God to His discretionary use. 

This Shunamite woman is still our example. She confirms if the good news Elisha proclaims to her is indeed a genuine one or a blessing that comes and goes. She doesn't want her hope to be raised and only to be dashed shortly. Though the devil came in like a flood, God still raised a standard against his appearance. God triumphs over the plot of Satan to take her child. Grabbing the feet of Elisha, she sobs and says, "did I not ask my Lord not to deceive me. Did I ask for a child of thee (in essence, of God). God is not a disappointer. What He promised to give which He eventually gave this woman was also watched by Him. When Satan does his worst, God does His best. The child comes back to life and was returned to the mother. This way, God fulfills His Word to that woman that He is yea and amen. She had asked, "are you sure you're not deceiving me man of God?" Though a situation came to portray God as a compromiser, yet God reveals His mightiness proving He's no compromiser of His promises to people. He's still the perfect giver of gifts. If you'll ask of God, He'll bestow on you the gift that doesn't fade and in this, you'll be contented. 

PRAYER: All my blessings are trustworthy, lasting and permanent.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 20:1-16 & Job 19-21

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