MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 12/10/2024

SATURDAY – 12TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE TABLE HAS BEEN SET: COME AND EAT

Ruth 2:3, KJV 

"And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech."

There will be those who are unfortunate. When they are telling their stories, it'll be that of maltreatment and tragedies. Not that there's no one who doesn't experience tragedy, however some are not really comforted when they experience it. So, their testimony remains that of "broken bones" (Psalm 34:20). 

I perceive in the spirit that I should make this announcement. The table has been set for someone and the cry is come and eat. Just like some walked into their traps headlong, you can walk into your blessing under the shepherd's guidance and surveillance. I'm hearing, "the table is set." There's a place where God has finished His work but is looking to fling, post or throw you to. He wants that place to be your habitat and your place of abode. It could be a location or an institution. Look at Mary the mother of Jesus, I wouldn't understand why it was her who met with the table God has set in the life of Joseph, of the lineage of Judah (where there's a promise of birthing the Saviour). 

Look at Ruth, a moabitess - a foreigner walking into the portion of her future husband as if she has come to take what belongs to her and claim her right. In Ruth 2:1, the Bible describes Boaz as a wealthy and influential relative of Elimelech, the father-in-law of Ruth. Later on, we see her as one of the kinsmen redeemer closest to Ruth (Ruth 3:12). O God, how I pray again for myself and all reading this that their journey would be effective and straight to the table you have prepared. Ruth doesn't have to start struggling for what to eat after marrying Boaz. Never! Boaz is a settled man with an estate that can pamper any woman, even a dozen if he chooses to have that much. Boaz is a man with God's fear. He wouldn't take advantage of Ruth even when she laid at his feet (Ruth 3:8). He's also just. He wouldn't take advantage of the nearest kinsman redeemer to Ruth (Ruth 3:12-13). He rather offered him the chance to redeem and buy their estates first of all. It was when he couldn't, he accepted the responsibility to marry Ruth. Ruth just came in to enjoy wealth and all the harvest that has been accumulated. This is how God would guide those ladies who cling to Him and love His blessedness more than the perishing rewards of sin. Meanwhile, there are those God will be posting to places where they'll be needed. A place where they'll find acceptance and manifest the will of God. All things are ready for them as well. Rejoice for the table is set. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I am rightly guided. The table is set for me.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

I Thessalonians 1:2:1-16 & Isaiah 54-56

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/10/2024

FRIDAY – 11TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

NOT TOO BIG TO BE TAKEN CARE OF - Where Art Thou Series 011?

Read Ruth 2:1-18

Ruth 2:3, NLT

"3 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."

I had said it many times that I am not too big to be taken care of. When I come to God's presence, it's like a tender plant or shoot just growing up before Him. I would tell Him, your son is here. Olusola has come. As far as I'm concerned, it is before God I can fall. I have trusted Him in times of great needs when I was thirsty, full of anticipation and I saw His hands. As such, I know He listens and hears. So, I'm open to His welfare over my life. Don't get where you get big and independent of God. You should rely on God just like your children rely and hope in you. God can take care of you though you labour with your own hands. He can still adopt you and give you to men to look after. Who doesn't want favour?

In my last series, we saw vividly how Ruth was guided to no other's farm but a relative that would do them (Naomi and herself) favour. May people who have heard your story and the good you have done to somebody they esteem meet you (Ruth 2:5-6, 11). May you too encounter them. You see, Ruth has been the one taking care of Naomi, her mother in law. When Boaz discovers who Ruth is, she pampers her with encouraging words and tells her to keep with his maidens and sway not away from his farm (8). He even warns his labourers who are men against touching or harming her (9).

Imagine the portion of land Ruth fell! A place where care and better treatment awaits her. Some people's lot has always been difficulties. No matter how cautious they are, it's as if they're programmed to choose wrongly or have it fall for them on a bad ground. However, it can change this morning. You can have the guided feet that goes to the right place where what you'll meet, see, hear and experience would be good. 

Boaz so much cares for Ruth that he even tells his harvesters to deliberately let her  gather amidst the sheaves while leaving  some extra grains for her to glean. That's an extra portion on top of what they would usually leave for the poor to glean. What sort of favour is this that a man would even open himself to feeding the other freely (14)? I cause your story to change as God's oracle. Wherever you've been encountering and meeting difficulty because of your placement, situation or outworkings over you here or there in life, let it change. Carry this anointing of Ruth - that doesn't miss her way but goes like one shepherded to where the table has been set. If you're hoping for a spouse, this is your time. The administrator of all good things in the spirit is guiding you right. The house, family and lineage you'll fall into will be those carrying ancestral prophecies that are waiting to blow up for good. It's a Joseph you'll join so that the promise of birthing a saviour might be fulfilled through your own Mary. If out of four friends, three are destined for future death and failure, someway somehow, they won't take a liking to you and if they approach you, you'll refuse them all. Your own spirit won't just agree with them. If Ruth's spirit refused other farms but walked right into her relative's who'll later become her husband, then you're settled. In ten thousands encounters, you'll walk right and straight to places where you'll be favoured. Some will walk and wander into kidnapers' den or cross path with highways robbers or someone who they'll partner with to their disadvantage. However, what the covenant of guided feet is saying concerning you is that your own feet is washed and delivered from all enchantments and bewitchment that make a man choose or walk into a wrong lot for himself. This morning, you're permitted to have no other testimony except that of being justly guided and falling where you should fall. A prophetic imagery is before me. Have you seen coconut trees by the sea shores before? You'll usually see many of them. Those fruits had to travel great distances on water before they were washed to the shore where they now found as resting place to grow and take living. God has planned that you too swim on but make a stop over at a shore of fulfillment or self actualization. Today by power divine, I'm declaring, "be washed to your shore - to the Rehoboth where you can have space to do all that are your intents."

PRAYER: My journey is guided and timed. I make stop overs at favourable and destiny places. I meet it so. 

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Colossians 4:2-18 & Isaiah 52-53

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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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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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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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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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