MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 20/08/2024

TUESDAY  - 20TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN YOU WANT WINE - Kingdom Administering Series 001

John 2:3, KJV 

"And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine."

I pray for someone there that when you want wine, your need will be met. A child knows nothing about the pressure of meeting needs. Food, clothing and shelter aren't in his thoughts because he is still a dependent. So, he cannot understand the pain and sacrifices of his parents in making ends meet under all circumstances. 

For this reason, I pray once more that when you want wine, may you have your needs met. When wine finished at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, mockery was imminent until a solution comes. An advocate rises for them in Jesus' mother. She tells Jesus, "they have no wine. They want wine." Jesus responds, "my hour has not yet come" but when His hour thus come, we see what miraculous turning of water to wine that happens. Therefore, their need was met. 

I pray for you, your needs will be met. Don't belittle what you have at hand. Don't say, it is not the end product. It is also water that Jesus turns to wine. The end product was not readily available but through what was came what was not. You may not have at hand the exact thing you're really looking for but if you have the tool or raw materials to acquire it, I'll say you're already provided for. Do you need house rent? What you need first of all is a job. A good job will give you your house rent over and over again. However, for those who are currently experiencing shortages, God shall sprout a miracle for you. Wine was nowhere to see but through what was present, the end need of those people was met. 

The Bible says, "and when they wanted wine..." Meaning, they desired wine. Some might have requested to be served wine or some might have longed quenching thirst with it but to no avail. That is the condition they were in that day. The condition of desiring, needing, wanting but having none. Many may be here right now. Those of you who knows my story knew I was there on campus when I needed to pay my school fees and the Lord came through for me. I'm calling on the "I-Come-Through God" to come through for you. Your case is currently being reported and ascended to God. Mary reported to Jesus that they wanted wine. Angels are carrying your needs before God as well. If Jesus would meet the need of making wine available, why won't He meet your needs so as to provide for your family (those you're responsible for). The bridegroom is responsible for all those visitors who came. That necessitated his wanting wine for them. He was not disgraced. His need was met and his face was saved. Any need that's beginning to look embarrassing in your life because they've been delayed till now will appropriately be met by God.

PRAYER: I-Come-Through God, meet my needs and the desperate needs of others where they are.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 26:19-32 & Psalms 19-20

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 19/08/2024

MONDAY  - 19TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DILIGENCE: HANDLE TO MAKING FULL PROOF OF YOUR MINISTRY - Making Full Proof Series 009

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."

Mr. Cho has two mules which work his field. Ra is a hard worker while Kue is lazy, often in the habit of feigning sick that the farmer might not hitch him to the plough. With the same field to plough under the same duration, Kue would fall behind, not meeting up. Contemplating on his need, Mr. Cho slaughters Kue for meat and spare Ra to further serve purpose. 

This exactly tells the story of some people's lives. Reverend Olusola Areogun shared a testimony of his wife been taken to the book room in heaven. There, she saw a minister who hasn't fulfilled the number of books he was called to write juxtaposed with a definite bound time he was in at that time. That isn't a good report card I hope you know. It is the news of failure which offcourse could still be corrected because the minister in question still lives and probably still has time for amends. That sharing testifies of a man who's seriously lagging behind in his work and ministry. Instead of making full proof of his ministry, he's still far from filling entirely the circle drawn for him by God. 

For you to make full proof of your ministry, you have to become like Ra. You must apply diligence so that you can plough your allotted ground under its measured duration. Irrespective of your field or calling, diligence will hasten you and make your calling and election sure (known, recognized, saluted, established). Without seeking to be enlarged in your calling, you cannot be known with that calling. So, find under God what He would have you do per time and do it. As you discharge all those further, you'll be establishing yourself in your calling. To get that done, Paul gives Timothy the following instructions. 

+ Watch: be observant and vigilant. 

+ Endure afflictions (of ministry and all sorts)

+ Do the work of an evangelist (which makes him spread what he does)

These three would then lead to "making full proof of one's ministry." To have revealed to all eyes what your calling or ministry harbours, you must learn to take heed to yourself and the work, learn persistence in the face of all contradictions and reach out to making your work grow. For instance, a minister will be making full proof of his ministry by authoring, getting on radio, planting churches and doing all those. The Bible says, "give diligence to make your calling and election sure" (II Peter 1:10). Diligence is hard work. If your ministry becomes your meditation day and night, you can't but succeed or make full proof of it. If you can labour more than them all, your profit will appear to all eyes to see. Ra is able to labour more than Kue even within the same duration. It could finish its own field by diligence while Kue falls behind. As such, the farmer spares it to continue to live and farm. Meanwhile, He takes Kue away because he's of little consequence to his business and progress. Would you want to be feeding a mule that's not giving value in return? Same way, God preserves Paul because he must need appear before kings and fulfill all said of him which he also daily exercises himself to fulfill. He once was stoned, dragged out of the city and left for dead but he later rose to enter into the city (Acts 14:19-20). What about that? Why would that happen to him? Because he is yet to carry out wholly Jesus' name before kings and nobles. God preserves people for purpose and destiny's sake. If you can hook yourself with the will of God somewhere, you'd be saved today, delivered tomorrow and preserved until your work is done. 

PRAYER: I am strong, able and on motion. I receive initiatives on establishing my calling.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 25:13-26:1 & Psalms 11-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/08/2024

 SUNDAY  - 18TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

APPREHENDED! - Making Full Proof Series 008

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."

When a man is arrested, it is to change the course in which he was going by some correctional measures following. I once witnessed the rude escape of a cow from a slaughter house. Unfortunately, the slaughter house wasn't too far from the market. In short, this untamed animal disrupted market activities and had many injured in their helter-skelter escape. When it was eventually brought under subjection, many other perils that were imminent were saved from happening. Until then, the direction and the purpose of its advancement was not changed and redetermined. 

That's exactly what God did to Paul when He met him on the road to Damascus. Getting born again is not on Paul's agenda that day. As a matter of fact, he could never have thought of that. What he was advancing for is to haul as many as possible to jail and suffer them. For this reason, he went to collect letters of the High Priest in Jerusalem. Contrary to his expectation however, God struck on the way. It was that day God turned about his whole body like a bridled horse and have him in subjection to His own will and purpose. When you are not saved and discipled, you'll continue to live for yourself and run your own race like Saul did. Except you understand your divine call, you'll live and act in oblivion of it. You might even go ahead to eat or practice the abomination of your calling. An elder must be a man of one wife the Bible says (I Tim.3:2). By the time some wake up to the fact that God is calling them into ministry - the five fold offices, they'd hedged themselves around with polygamy. As such, they'll be unfit though still carrying the call. 

God wants to turn the lives of some people around. God wants to change the course of your life. He wants to harness you for purpose. If you're there reading this and you want to be saved, kindly turn to page 1 of this devotional and follow the procedures outlined there. A change of direction is always followed by a changed life. You'll soon have the testimony of Paul, a consecrated life that pursues that which he was apprehended for until he could testify saying, "I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Now is laid for me a crown of righteousness..." (II Tim.4:7-8). This is your testimony if you'll come in as a cargo into God's ship now. The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few. God wants to enlist you but will you heed? Mark it, this enlistment goes beyond becoming a clergy. God lacks enough right men in all human endeavours. All you need to do is to find the area or field of your function and come into same and you'll see God use you for humanity as you take steps with Him. 

PRAYER: Lord, arrest all persecutors of Christ, the church and the gospel. Let them preach what they're antagonizing.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 25:13-26:1 & Psalms 11-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 17/08/2024

SATURDAY  - 17TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DISOBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION - Making Full Proof Series 007

Acts 26:19, KJV 

"Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision."

May you not be caught in the web of disobedience! Paul Jinadu born Ali Monsuru Akanbi Jinadu was sent to England by his mother in order to escape witches which she reasoned could harm him. However, Paul Jinadu heard his first ever gospel message, got born again right away and converted from Islam to Christianity. He saw Jesus in a vision and in six months time, he left his prestigious study of medical practice to pursuing ministry though to the pain of his mother. Paul Jinadu was not disobedient to his heavenly vision and the call of God on him. He heeded it. There are those in the wrong practices and fields that God is calling out but who are stuck and continues to dodge and disobey their heavenly vision (or call). Today, Paul Jinadu is a veteran in Christendom, having served God and ministered to saints worldwide for nothing less than 6 decades even as the founder of New Covenant Church (NCC) with presence in over 35 countries of the world and with over 600 branches world-wide. His life has been a testimony as God went the extra mile of making him marry a white woman when racial discrimination and prejudice was at its peak. He has sojourned in England since age 14 he landed there but only with occasional visits to other places for ministry. All these resulted because he was first of all not disobedient to his heavenly vision. If the Lord calls and you're unwilling to follow, you surely cannot become anything in life. As a matter of fact, you'll have missed God's will for yourself. If you become anything at all, it'll never be the blessing of the Lord to you that doesn't add sorrows. Whatsoever field or way of life God is calling you into (yours may not be ministry), that follow.

The same could be said of Paul. Speaking before King Agrippa, Bernice, Festus and many eyewitnesses, he told them he was not rude or disobedient to the heavenly vision. When he saw the vision of Jesus and got saved in Acts 9, through that vision came some instructions on what he must do and live up to. Paul didn't resist this. The Bible says he gets going and doing same (as was instructed by God) after a tarrying with the Damascus disciples - having recovered his sight.

"19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. 20 And straightaway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the son of God" (Acts 9:19-20).

This is reconfirmed in Acts 26:20. Though many forces fought him to be disobedient to his heavenly vision but he maintains his focus despite the persecutions he faced. He was pressed but he didn't break. Brethren, examine yourself if you're living in line with what in truth and in deed is your calling (as testified by the heavenly vision brought you). Or have you gone after another which is pseudo?

PRAYER: Lord, what would you have me do?

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 25:1-12 & Psalms 7-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 16/08/2024

FRIDAY  - 16TH AUGUST, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

I MUST SEE ROME ALSO - Making Full Proof Series 006

Acts 23:11, KJV 

"And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome."

God will help you to eat the meat of He that sent you and to finish it all. God once told Paul to be comforted and that he must need bear witness of Him at Rome also. Was God just taking Paul through some road trips or adventures just for the sake of it? No! God was doing all these so that avenues might be provided for Paul to fulfill his predestination as proclaimed by God Himself of Paul earlier at his new birth. He has preached in Jerusalem but he must sure see Rome also. May doors and entrances not be shut at you. May God keep trusting you with new missions and assignments. 

God, speaking to Ananias says, "go your way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I'll show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake" (Acts 9:15-16). 

So, as Paul is being moved from one place to the other (like a hardened criminal), it was an avenue for him to witness even to those nobles and elites that were included in his calling. One of the groups Paul was sent to minister to and convert are the elites of the society. That's signified by the use of the word, "kings" in God's revealing of Paul's mandate to Ananias. God might have done this or given him such assignment because he's as well a reasonable sound man who's well educated. I believe God leveraged his education as a lawyer, Pharisee and one with strong aptitude for learning to penetrate, debate and withstand the elites. There's a lesson to learn here. The vessels God send to certain societies or people are usually refined or prepared to meet the need of that society. Peter might however have not been readily able to debate or take on the elites like Paul does notably in the book of Acts. Paul is so effective with this platform of ministering to kings that Felix trembled when he heard Paul concerning the faith in Christ, reasoning of righteousness, temperance and judgement to come (Acts 24:24-25). You see, he was discharging why God was transporting him all around before kings and nobles. 

One time, Festus also told him, "Paul, you're beside yourself. Much learning has made you mad" (Acts 26:24-25). King Agrippa also noted that Paul attempted persuading him to become a Christian (Acts 26:25-29). All these confirm my earlier arguments of Paul being very effective with elites. Paul finds it easier ministering and persuading the elites because he is one like them who was sent to them. God specially gave him open doors to be brought before many of such elites. Be it Festus, King Agrippa, Bernice, Felix, Drusilla etc.

So, when God said to Paul that he must witness of Him also in Rome, it's beyond seeing the world and feeding one's cravings but that his mandate might be lived and achieved. Do you really know the intent of God for travelling you abroad? Why would God open doors of business to you in multiple countries where you could contact certain cream of the society? Or, why do you work as an air hostess/pilot contacting such elites? You need to decipher that and stop wasting your God given ministry door opened to get some people born again. You can enjoy the affluence but do give God the influence. Paul's being transferred here and there is rather to make him eat the meat of He that sent him and to finish it. God was using his imprisonment to give him platforms to speak to those who are difficult to gain their hearing. If you're a government worker on transfer, that may be same for you. See correctly. God just don't make people see different places and contact diverse people without an intent to bring ministry and the gospel to them. Paul has seen Jerusalem but there's still an assignment waiting for him. For this reason, he must see Rome also. Doing this, he'll eat and finish successfully the meat of He that apprehended him. 

PRAYER: Show me the next phase, propel me into the next phase and let me live it all.

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Acts 24:1-27 & Psalms 1-6

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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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