Thursday, 10 October 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/10/2024

 THURSDAY – 10TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

SHARERS IN GOOD BUT EXCLUDED FROM ALL EVILS - Where Art Thou Series 010?

Psalms 17:4-5, KJV 

"4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not."

When you follow God's command and you're ordered by His instructions, you'll be preserved. One, God's word will set you right not to keep company with those who could get you ruined. Two, God's word will so much become light ruling your life that as you live by it, it ensures your life and affairs doesn't hit any rock or cross path with anything that can bring you destruction.

Some have companied with those who plunged them into tragedies but God's word lived and followed would rather exclude you from dangers and any snare of the destroyer. There are those who didn't know what came upon or was motivating them. However, they were moved out of a jurisdiction that God has put their preservation and located their provision. They just had a motivation to move. These are people that ten thousands of demons couldn't get but who are now vulnerable to temptations and even backsliding upon moving. You must know that the will of God for any Christian is very germane. See the will of God as a circle that's drawn for you in which your affairs must be conducted and life lived but which can open you to attacks of the devil when you break the hedge of that circle through disobedience by stepping outside the jurisdiction God draws for you. 

As I persisted on this series, I have brought you the story of Naomi and Ruth who relocated back to Bethlehem. Do remember that this relocation was prompted by the good news they heard on God having revisited His people with food.  Upon that visitation however, God begins to guide the path of Naomi, even Ruth's so that His claims over them would come to pass. When Ruth takes permission of Naomi to check out to go and glean on any farm she would be permitted, she didn't intend to glean on the farm of a relative of theirs. As a matter of fact, she has no foreknowledge of Boaz. However, the Bible comments succinctly this way on how it goes. 

Ruth 2:3, NLT

"So Ruth went out to gather grain behind the harvesters. And as it happened, she found herself working in a field that belonged to Boaz, the relative of her father-in-law, Elimelech. 

Have you gone to keep an appointment before only to discover the fellow you were to meet is someone who knows you and that you know? How God has chosen to butter your bread? That'll be favour in manifestation for you. Two weeks ago, I applied for something online. When I went to keep appointment with the founder and representative of that institution, as we got talking, we discovered that both of us are of Anglican background from Yewa Diocese Area of Ogun State. I told him he might know the father who raised me up in Christianity while I was growing up in Ayetoro since he mentioned they are from the same hometown of Isaga-Orile. He immediately gives him a call, put the phone on loud speaker and hand it over to me to declare my presence to him also. It was a convergence of Yewa people that day. So, I got the offer I went to pursue though I still had to pass through due processes which I passed. Favour just flowed for me additionally by God having sent me to someone from my nativity. 

Now, let's ask ourselves, "how did Ruth get here?" Did she just jump on Boaz's portion? No! Providence made it so. God's guidance could have made it so. My guidance to that man began when that offer looked attractive to me to apply for at first. I just had a motivation that this one is possible and is mine. I like it when God guides people. They can't but become different in experience. It'll be clear that their fate is different from others'. This is where the Spirit is leading us this morning. Like somebody hypnotized, you can choose to go on a journey of great things. Even if you wander or take a stroll unplanned into a place, it can serve a purpose in God's hands at day's end. As if you had seen events lying ahead, you can be guided to choose a lot or part where good is hidden. There is the mystery of the guided hands. Have you seen basketball players make a throw? Well trained ones would have their throws run into the net even if the shot was taken from a distance. Then, you'll wonder and ask with mouth agape, "how?" To attain such peak of excellence, much trainings had to have gone into it. He had failed many times before he began making in-throws his habit. However, you don't have to engage in trial and error once you let God lead or guide you. You'll just see that under the Spirit's guidance, it'll be people and places that'll favour you you'll often choose or walk into. You'll just observe that if there are four interview joints, you'll find yourself (no matter how the card is shuffled) with the team where somebody who knows or takes a natural liking to you would be. As such, when others are wailing and saying, "it's tough and this is no good news at all", you'd say, "praise God! What a lifting up!"

People, you can find yourself where it's happening or would soon happen. People who are unaware that you were guided by the Lord and are ignorant of how it had worked out perfectly might accuse you of colliding with some unknown authorities but you'll know deep down that, "this is the Lord's doing and it's marvelous in our sight."

You can find yourself in the right country! You can find yourself in the right group! You can find yourself in the right course! That's what would work for you beyond your imagination at day's end. You might not have planned it but when you reckon it, you'll praise it as the best option ever. 

PRAYER: The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places. Behold, I have a goodly heritage. I choose right! I am located right. Whenever my things fall or are distributed, it'll fall right.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Colossians 3:1-4:1 & Isaiah 50-51

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Wednesday, 9 October 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 09/10/2024

WEDNESDAY – 9TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

LED UP OF THE SPIRIT TO KEEP HIS APPOINTMENT 

Matthew 4:1, KJV

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."

Continuing from where I had rested this teaching yesterday, I want to tell you how possible it is to be led up to meet with divine appointments. Leading is one of the manifestations of sons. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom.8:14). And if you'll submit to divine leading or let your life be leaned on being swayed, sweetly persuaded or influenced by Him, you'll reap its dividends and look outstanding and supernatural to people. One of the ways by which a Christian can look as a wonder to people is to be led. When you are led, you'll keep divine appointments and meet with good unimaginable that you never planned or knew was part of the package for you. You'll become outstanding amidst your peers by these therefore. If you share your story, they'd doubted and would wonder how things have chosen to work for you especially. Leading of God would intentionally carry you to where preparations and good has been prepared for you to take. When a man is led, he'll simply meet it so. He himself would wonder, how possible? How could it be? Look at how everything fell in place? How could I leave my country to another where I know no one yet I found adoption and favour all around? When you're led, before you get to a bus stop, emissaries commissioned by God would be waiting there to collect you and ensure you aren't late or fall into wrong hands. When Psalm 91:12 was written, it answers to any emergency that any Christian might face. It says, "on their hands they'll bear you up, lest you dash your foot on a stone." Who don't know that disgrace, confusion, kidnapping or the possibility of getting lost is possible if God refuses to put provision at right junctures for you. My people, I have travelled to foreign places and lived with people I don't know but who I believe were God-raised. They took me as their son and catered for me without demanding of me a penny. They were part of the resources that God allowed to work for me where I had no one to act as a parent or carer for me. As I'm looking at you, men would adopt you because God has adopted you first of all. Once you're born again, you've come into the lineage (John 1:12-13). You have been adopted as God's son or daughter. You're now the apple of His eyes and as that, you're specially custodied, guided and led up. 

In today's reading, the Spirit leads Jesus up to the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Some other versions might say, "Jesus was driven, sailed, moved, stirred towards the wilderness (a definite location) to be tempted of the devil (to keep an appointment that's in the will of the Father for Him). 

Let me tell you, this is not bewitchment falling on you but if you're a man of the Spirit who has grown the God reality in him, you would have learnt by now how the Spirit leads you. You might begin to have sensation towards a place or person. At the beginning of my Christian life, I had sensation and special attraction towards Reverend Olusola Areogun of Life Oasis International Church. I just love listening to him. I didn't stop this listening until I was anointed one day as I tarried to listen again to one of his sermons, "Covenant Compliant Life", which I listened to uncountably. It was from that impartation I could teach like I do now. 3-4 years down the line from that time, I began to author a devotional like he does. The works he does I'm doing. Jesus was driven or led of the Spirit to the wilderness to keep an appointment. Leading is not something that's forceful. It's rather an appeal to you to carry a step with God or make a move with Him. God is where you're going before He comes to say let's go. Jesus Himself had to hear that appeal and follow it. When He heeded that persuasion of the Spirit, He ended in the wilderness - His designated location (though a place any of us won't naturally want to be) but a place where God ordains that He is tested. So, Jesus met with time and divine appointments in life. He walked and His walk wasn't futile but walks that are geared towards fulfilling certain purposes. I tell you, purposelessness ends in your life right away. Under God's leading, you become purposeful - having what to do, where to go and what's next. Confused people are those still looking for direction. God will be coming your way too in order to lead you in the path of life or the way everlasting (not only to get born again if you aren't but to preserve you rightly). 

You might felt a tingling, liking, attraction, love or obsession that is Spirit instilled just for the sake of leading you up to a place where you must keep divine appointments and meet good for your life. It'll happen. You'll meet it so. If they're waiting for you somewhere as an answer to their prayers, you won't delay but yield to God's leading to be moved there. God may use providence to get you there or His leading. Today however is on His leading, where you know what you're collaborating with and you intentionally give handle to God who's seeking to express Himself through you. Amen!

PRAYER: Lord, I submit to the gentle influence of the Holy Ghost to be persuaded and moved. I receive the yielding and obedience of a child.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 


Colossians 2:6-23 & Isaiah 48-49

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Tuesday, 8 October 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 8/10/2024

TUESDAY – 8TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

YOU CAN BE ON TIME - Where Art Thou 008?

Ruth 1:22, KJV

"So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest."

Yesterday, I said there'll be those God would be persuading or moving to relocate from where they have been scattered to where God has put plans for them to manifest. 

Indeed, God can reorder the steps of he or she that once upon a time went AWOL! When Naomi heard of God having visited her people with bread, she put in plans to return and eventually does. At arrival to Bethlehem, the Bible records how well timed her arrival was. The Bible says, "she arrived at the beginning of barley harvest." If you aren't sensitive or prophetic, you wouldn't see any divine ordering or providence beginning to work for her through that. She has relocated back to the land she once left but God's plan is to totally restore to her the years that have been wasted and eaten by cankerworms. As such, the set-up of God begins to play out for her. The first interest of God in her return is depicted at her favourable time of arrival. Her arrival was made during the time that barley harvest had just started. So, she happened to arrive when something good has started and is already in motion. She arrived when much is available and is being brought in. It means she could be a partaker of it! She arrived when the opportunity and ground by which God would cause her restoration and lifting has not been tapped or over-flogged by another. It's still there: reserved and waiting for her. She arrived at the beginning of barley harvest. No far-gone harvesting has been done. Much harvesting still lies in the future to be done. That is when she arrived. 

If you read the next chapter which is 2, you'll see that providence begins to work for Ruth, the Moabite that had returned with Naomi, and consequently for Naomi too (Ruth 2:2-3). You too can arrive in a place at the beginning of an opportunity God would want you to take. It's possible to arrive in a land at the midst of a revival sweeping the entire place. Sunday Adelaja arrived in the former Soviet Union close to a time that the iron curtain of Communism would tear. Many who are already thirsty for God but are being kept in private worship could then rise under a central leader that God has sent. It's possible to arrive at a country where God has planned your prosperity in the very midst of a newly legislated law that would favour the business you'll start or your new life there. For Naomi, she arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. Not long after that, Ruth would take permission of her to go and glean in the field of any who'll allow her. Fortunately, she'll find no field to glean in except that of a nearest kinsman, Boaz, who'll be her husband in no distant time. It is through this providential work that began far back that Naomi would get to have her years restored in a son that'll be born on her laps in the person of Obed. 

My own prayer for you is that your journey won't be normal in life. My own journey has not been. Rather, I've collided with time and divine happenings. Something supernatural and providential would work with you and for you. If you remember the pool of Bethesda event in John 5, you'll see that any that would be healed of whatsoever disease must fall into that pool very timely. The healing virtue still remains as long as nobody has tapped it after it might have been stirred. So, the only person it would bless is any who rightly times it right to fall into the pool while the virtue lasts. Coming after the virtue has been tapped guarantees no healing. Same way, Naomi returns at the right time - at the beginning of the barley harvest when God could leverage the barley harvest and the events that'll surround it as opportunity to restore her and remarry her faithful daughter-in law - Ruth: through whom she'll be brought liveliness again. Your timing would be right. You won't lag behind and you wouldn't be ahead of God also. You won't miss steps with the Almighty. Rather, you'll be on time. This morning, I declare upon you to arrive when good is cooking; to come in when gifts are being distributed; to lend hand towards a great thing that'll yield dividends and be part of what would make you a history maker. You'll be moved towards such! The Bible talks of Jesus being led to the wilderness to be tempted of the devil (Matt.4). The time that has come upon you would be recognized for what it is. You too will just be stirred to walk or wander somewhere where appointment has been booked for you by God to happen. It'll happen to you according to God's Word and the saying of His mouth! You won't just journey again! Your journey would begin to meet with divine appointments and schedules. Say, "amen" to that!

PRAYER: Lord, I am led, moved, stirred and governed by the Holy Spirit to be prophetic. My path won't cross with the devourer but rather with lifting.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Colossians 1:24-2:1-5 & Isaiah 46-47

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Monday, 7 October 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 7/10/2024

MONDAY – 7TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

TO NATIONS AND PEOPLE LOSING MANPOWER - Where Art Thou Series 007?

Ruth 1:6, KJV 

"Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread."

This is to nations and people losing manpower. You know, I previously said there are places that people are pouring out of currently. Whether it's in the will of God or not for everybody, they just want to leave such places. As such, they don't even mind where they find themselves. God has a word and comfort for such places that people are leaving or thronging out of. 

The Bible says, "when Naomi heard that God had visited her people, she prepared going back home."

Some of you are as stubborn as a goat and you won't heed God or His comfort to rebuild you until you see convincing and clear evidences. Until you hear some good news about your nativity, some of you would never believe that it could be well with you in such land. You don't have to see the marks of the nails before you believe however. Don't be a doubting Thomas. I'm sure if Naomi didn't hear that God had revisited her people, she might not conclusively take it serious to go back home. Bread, bread that people are looking for is not something that is everywhere. Europe may be an interesting place to be but your bread may not be there. What you must know is that wealth or riches is usually hidden and it takes discovery and enlightenment to see where your gold mine is. I've met people with professions that no one would suspect could guarantee wealth who are wealthy. How? God hid their wealth in a seemingly thoughtless profession, act or location. Your own wealth giver has to be discovered. You might have studied business but God might tell you to start farming. Farming cannot prosper everyone but it may be what'll prosper you. Some would be going straight but God might tell them to bend through leading. That may be where their wealth is!

That verse, "of God revisiting Israel" would literally happen to some countries before the end of time comes I believe.

Though Naomi had lost all and she could be debased, shamed or called unpatriotic by shamers, yet she counted all as a fair share for having missed it. She refused to allow her ego get the better of her by delaying or refusing to return. Some of you my readers who have missed God by miles, God might be bringing a clear, confronting evidence and proof for which you have to return back home to you just like we have in today's anchor verse. You might not have heard anything hopeful about your nativity but yours might be in the conviction that God wants you to return to go and get ready for His visitation in your country. When God created Adam, He puts him in the garden to till and see to it. That became his jurisdiction to watch and tender. I believe you too have a place to tender and watch. It's your fertile soil but you might have been displaced from there. God wants to take you back there. It's the place God would be coming to but he wants you to have been settled there, continue in putting preparation in places, learn how to take advantage of the opportunities that land could offer before His arrival. God might be setting you up for a big harvest if you'll heed Him and leave the wrong place you've been scattered to. 

While this is a comfort to a place or people being jilted, it's also an encouragement to those who are in such nation where it has always blown hot to persevere, be contented, continue with their training and await what God would make them by the time some who have missed it would be returning lately. When people like Elimelech left, they could be said to have forfeited their estate. When they returned (in Naomi and Ruth), it was people like Boaz who bought their inheritance. Just by staying, he has become so wealthy that he has everyone's ears and could accumulate and annex other people's estates without fear of forfeiting his. 

If the mouth of the Lord hasn't ordained it, be immovable but if you're persuaded, run!

PRAYER: Lord, situate me in my fertile land. Guide me to the discovery of my gold mine. I pray for my nativity to be blessed.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Colossians 1:1-23 & Isaiah 44-45

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL 6/10/2024

SUNDAY – 6TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHY DID YOU LEAVE?

Ruth 1:1, KJV

"Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."

God is asking some people, "why did you leave?" Some are leaving where God is or coming to, to where God is leaving or has departed from outrightly! Such people will have themselves to blame. 

This is usually the story and regret of those who relocated out of their countries when the mouth of the Lord hasn't ordain it. They might have done it out of public opinion, pressure, ego or what have you but when the trouble starts, it's a foolish child who would bear the consequences of his foolishness (first of all even if anyone connected to him would be a sharer). 

In a sympathizing voice, God is asking some who like Naomi went out full but who are now empty where they are and are finding it hard returning "why did you leave?" Naomi called herself Mara. She denounced the name Naomi. Mara means bitterness. Why won't she be bitter since she went out with a family who never returns with her to Bethlehem. What a loss  of two children and a husband!

Some haven't lost any soul they took abroad but they have lost all their properties and wealth which they sold back in their nativity before travelling. Where they are abroad now, they are like carcass walking. As in, a living dead - a zombie. They are very dry with no hope of revival. Fellowship with God is down because they need to use their time to work as to be able to offset bills. No rest: either physically or in the Lord. The plan of starting all over abroad is frustrated and is verily slowed down. 

But I heard concerning you, "you shall be brought back. You shall be recovered. God shall turn your captivity if you'll see where you've fallen to retrace your steps and return." Until then, breath can't enter into you. Until then, you cannot rise a vast army again. Don't say, "it'll be too embarrassing returning to your nativity early. Don't therefore continue to live in pretence when you know what the Lord is raising with you. Those who tarry out of the will of God always count some losses. When a man makes a move outside God's will, He loses God's favour and protection. That man becomes vulnerable. The hedge that surrounds his family and all he has becomes penetrable if not immediately removed. Relocation outside the circle God draws for our individual leads to that and continues if we remain adamant and unrepentant. 

You were trapped by sin when you travelled abroad to the land of anything goes but once you return (first to Him in fellowship) and by making plans to return physically (since God never wanted you there in the first place), God will restore you. That's the cry, "come back."

PRAYER: Interpret Your ask of, "where art thou to me?" Lead me in the path of Your righteousness.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Philippians 4:4-23 & Isaiah 42-43

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Saturday, 5 October 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/10/2024

 SATURDAY – 5TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

FIG LEAVES CANNOT COVER YOU - Where Art Thou Series 005?

Genesis 3:7, KJV 

"And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."

There are those who at this time God's Word is coming are trying to experience what they used to experience while with God - standing before Him in fellowship. 

When Adam and Eve sinned and came to the knowledge of it, they were full of guilt and shame. Without God rebuking them or calling them to accountability, they reckoned they were wrong and so fled from His face. It takes God to call and ask where they are. Their response (in what Adam gives) hints at something having gone wrong with them. 

Genesis 3:9-10, KJV

"9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

When the Bible says in Proverbs 28:1, "the wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion",  Adam's response and their run-away act vividly portray that. When you sin and lose your righteousness sense; your conscience immediately testifies to you of sinning and your heart being conscious of your wrong naturally puts you at the disadvantage of being confident. You'll begin to fret, shiver like a kitten. However, they just didn't flee also. They sought and tried looking like they were before they discovered themselves to be naked. So, what did they do? They sew fig leaves as clothes. That is the nakedness God's glory covered before sin came into their world to expose and prove them as nobodies who can't live without being covered (unfortunately with something physical and unlasting). Have you observed that when people stumble at sin or trespass, one major thing they are tempted to do is to cover themselves by covering or hiding their sin. That's what Adam and Eve tried out here. They thought the covering of their physical nakedness would fix things and return them to their status before sinning. However, that helps nobody because leaves can never substitute God's glory or provision for atonement for sin! Instead of covering your sin, the Bible admonishes the opposite.

Proverbs 28:13, KJV 

"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."

While in their glory days, they were naked and were not ashamed. Why? Because there's a supernatural clothing that they did not have its consciousness that clothed them, therefore  preventing against the knowledge of "I'm naked, now inferior and affected. As such, I'll need a make up or help which my own hand can provide." Frantic racing and dashing all around to keep things secret (like it never happened or like before it happened) is an act of a man who doesn't want to be discovered. To him, he'll lose face and be embarrassed. It would be better if the earth can swallow him alive but that won't even happen!

Oooh God, help those who are naked yet are sewing fig leaves (a solution that won't cure it to attempt it). Convict them that they'll need to jeopardize the pleasure of sin and find their way back to you to be properly clothed. Would you open their eyes to see this Lord? Would you wash them in the slain blood of your only Son and cover them with the garment of righteousness that they might take their sit and place as once was lost but now is found? The animal from which God sources the skin by which He eventually clothes Adam and Eve foreshadows the death of Jesus that takes away all sins (Gen.3:21). He's the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). 

If you'll come under His claims, you'll be sheltered! Your own righteousness is as the filthy rag at best. Take Christ's and be all new! Turn to page one to see how to be born again. 

PRAYER/ACTION: Bow your head and repent and God would do as we have asked.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Philippians 3:12-4:1-3 & Isaiah 40-41

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Friday, 4 October 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/10/2024

FRIDAY – 4TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

OUT OF HIS PRESENCE  - Where Art Thou Series 004?

Genesis 3:9, KJV 

"And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?"

Once a man is no longer before Him, he is cut off from communication immediately and all spiritual vitality that makes a spiritual being a living spirit. God breathed into the first Adam and he became a living soul. Just because of the breath, he received life. "Araulah" wakes him up like a dead vehicle that has just received the installation of a new engine. As such, Adam could wink, move his body parts or speak. Previously, he was as dead as wood. 

When Jesus told His disciples to wait for the promise of the Father - the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:4,8)), He meant when He comes, He'll enliven them. And indeed, when He came, He brought with Himself liveliness. He brought power by which they could lift hand or foot and accomplish spiritual and ministerial things. Else, they'll have been incapacitated and powerless. As a matter of fact, before then, the church was not living and functional. 

This same experience is over time renewed and repeated in our lives when we stand continually before God. Those who have been uprooted, unfortunately transported or transplanted by distraction, luring or seduction of the devil may not know this joy. Why? They have left God's presence. That's why the Bible says, "thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore" (Psalms  16:11, KJV). 

So, instead of having joy which impacts strength, they are as lifeless as a stone. Joy is not patronizing them. They lack motivation, encouragement and initiative. They lack ideas and the power of intuition or the ability to be personally counselled. As such, they look used, spent and finished; resembling egg shells that have given up the substance in them.

More importantly, they are cut off from divine supplies of information that guides and orders the step of a man. They are therefore far from experiencing the sure promise that says "man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matt.4:4). 

God is calling you back. Elijah is able to declare the decree of the Lord because fellowship and relationship has not been broken. If he were far away from God's presence and was not standing where communication could still reach him in the realm, he would have picked or known nothing to decree. Are you clueless about life? Come before God now. In God's presence, you'll discover what life is all about and how to spend it. You'll call unto Him and He'll show you great and mighty things which you know not of. In God's presence, you'll know what's next? In His presence, confusion is banished and you're permanently alien to which path or way to take. Why? There's light and clarity in His presence. 

PRAYER: Father, I receive light and clarity before You. May I not run dry of strength, ideas and spree of information that You alone gives.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Philippians 2:19-3:1-11 & Isaiah 38-39

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 15/10/2024

 TUESDAY – 15TH OCTOBER, 2024 MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO THOSE WHO HAVE MASTERED THE PITFALL - Humbled At Heart Series...