MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 14/10/2024

MONDAY – 14TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

OH! HE FORGOT! - Humbled At Heart Series 002. 

Daniel 4:29-30, NLT

"29 Twelve months later he was taking a walk on the flat roof of the royal palace in Babylon. 30 As he looked out across the city, he said, 'Look at this great city of Babylon! By my own mighty power, I have built this beautiful city as my royal residence to display my majestic splendor."

I once tasted the terror of God. What happens when you do is you begin to warn and persuade others of not coming to experience same. Even before I was born again, I could share an experience by which I knew that God indeed exists. I was the best fine artist in school (at my primary and secondary school levels). No doubt, I have talent to draw and it showed in the great works I produced which didn't commensurate with my age. I still have some preserved art works which I'll pass to any kid of mine that might show exceptionality in that. Teachers would call me to help sketch or draw things on the board often. I was in demand and even made some tokens from my drawing. 

One day during a Fine Art class; I was in Primary 5 at that time. We were to draw a box and probably some other things from our imagination. However, I do recall a box featured in the list. One of my class mates who was by my side had said, "we sure know yours would be special." He was praising me, knowing my exceptionality. But he didn't know what was going on in my mind. In my mind, I had said, "even God couldn't remove the memory of box from my mind." I was saying, "what's so special in drawing a box? Even God can't confuse me with what to draw or disappear its memory." But guess what, I immediately went blank just after that statement. I neither recalled how to draw a box nor what to actually do. I was very confused because God had just removed the image and memory of box off my mind. It was as if something hit my mind. I was suddenly wiped clean and I stopped teeming with the ideas on how and what to draw. I was swept dry. 

For the sake of my reputation, I couldn't call other friends to help me to draw what was so simple that everybody including the girls were attempting. They'd be confused and might thought I was trying to mock them. So, I drew a nonsense box but which the teacher still marked and rated for four out of five. I knew he might have given me such mark out of my previous reputation of having been good. That box I drew that day was a wreck. I was totally confused, tried hard remembering how but all was to no avail.

It was in Primary 5 I knew experientially God exists. I never knew I'll later do ministry or become a minister. My point is this, "God reigns supreme in the affairs of men." You may think God is invisible and because He is, He could be taken for granted. You might do that but if He ever proves Himself to you, it'll be so candid, tangible and indelible. It'll always be fresh in your memory and don't say, "how could that be."

Nebuchadnezzar had just has his dream interpreted by Daniel and it predicts being sent away from humans to live with animals. The question is, "how would that be?" But if you read that shocking story, you'll reckon it indeed happened. One day, Nebuchadnezzar did an act that gave a handle to that prediction coming to pass. Just at the end of twelve months, as he paces up and down on his terrace, the thing he was ruminating on was, "how would it be?" "Is this not Babylon which I built by my own mighty power..." For that proud utterance that didn't give glory to God, God became irritated and sentenced him from humans that instance. God hates it when you don't return all glory to Him. He hates it when you have done something or become something from the well being, sound mind, gifts and wisdom He has bestowed and you're now shadowing Him by saying, "you accomplished or did it all by your self." Your mouth or your mind (if it were still a thought) would get you in trouble.

That's what got myself and Nebuchadnezzar in trouble. That prediction couldn't manifest until there's a thing it could latch on and that was his not glorifying God. What consequence follows?

"31 while these words were still in his mouth, a voice called down from heaven, 'O Nebuchadnezzar, this message is for you! You are no longer ruler of this kingdom. 32 You will be driven from human society. You will live in the fields with the wild animals, and you will eat grass like a cow. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses."

God didn't delay judgement on him at all. He was fired just immediately those utterances began to slip out of his mouth. His arrest was that prompt and swift. 

What's your accomplishment? Is it special, breath taking, awe stricken, longitudinal or spreading to the ends of the earth? You'd better keep your head and don't boast as if it's by your own power or work of your hands (without aids of God) you had accomplished them. Those who keep falling before God even when God has wrought much through them are those who'll go far with God. Some of you, the glory days that has began in your life would be put on pause like Nebuchadnezzar's because God wanted to see if you'll come to repentance and know from whom flows all goodies and graces. Until, no restoration. You'll just remain ordinary and be a former champion - somebody who'll not be known with anything new but boast of his former laurels. Beware, lest God sentences you to relegation and a sort of imprisonment in the shadows like Nebuchadnezzar. You'll just observe your wealth, glory, power, speech, ability, favour, beauty, grace wane. When it does, all men would leave and you'll be alone. You'll just see that what used to work for you like Samson's stops. If you ever detect quickly and comes to your knees, you'll be hearing good news from God soon. 

PRAYER: O Lord, let me always remember. May I not forget my days of little beginning, how you took me from the ewes great with kids and make me a king.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

I Thessalonians 4:1-18 & Isaiah 59-60

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 13/10/2024

SUNDAY – 13TH OCTOBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

I HAVE FIRST RECEIVED - HUMBLED AT HEART SERIES 001

John 3:27, KJV 

"John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven."

Stop the boast! Shut the swelling and show off! There's nothing you have that you have not first received. When we know this, we can be full of gratitude to God and acknowledge God as the source of all we have or who we have become. Our becoming is not without God. Memorize this by saying, "I cannot receive anything except it is given me from above." That'll sit and cool you down!

When you boast about something in your life as if you're sovereign on your own, you ought remember that if it was not first given, impacted or received, you could never have had it. If the receiver who should be abased so boast of his prowess, what should the Giver do? Should He not more glory over what He has given and to whom He has given it?

The Bible says, "and of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace." (John 1:16). 

John the Baptist knows this. Anyone who refuses to submit to the fact that no one can have anything except it's given to him from above would be full of jangling, contest and competition. He might contest that truth and it'll immediately show in his action. Such would immediately be filled with jealousy and might begin to slander or persecute the other who has received something from the Lord. Even when others are trying to help him cool down that it is the Lord's doing because it was God who had given that visible manifestation to that other one, he would disagree. He might go ahead to cook his own up in order to rival or stand tall to the other person. However, fake or false would be discerned and judged. 

However, John tells them that what was happening - in everybody going to Jesus isn't unusual because He couldn't have had that if it was not given Him from above. John didn't fight Jesus because he knew that it was God's act to Jesus. He acknowledges that it wasn't Jesus' wisdom, strength or sweet persuasion that was drawing men to Him but the fact that they were people allocated to Him from the Lord. So, Jesus is just a manifestation of what He was given and had received; not what He thought of founding, starting or creating by His own will. All of us would do well knowing what we have received and operating in it and the measure in which it was given. Never compare yourself with another. 

All of you who have been puffed up like puffer fish because of one gift or the other that God impacted to you, do come to remembrance that there's nothing you have that you haven't first received. If you had said you'll stop being generous with it, remember, it wasn't yours in the first place. So, you didn't start it at all. It didn't originate with you or any of us. It came from God. You couldn't have been sufficient or extraordinary if you were left to yourself. If you had not received, you'll have been as ordinary as those who don't have that gift or grace to exercise. Recall Samson when the Spirit that stirs him to strength and great ability leaves him. He assayed to do like before but it was all futile. That's how anyone becomes when he's no longer worthy of what he had received from above and the thing not worthy of him in return. It suddenly turns sour and what was once working would stop! Who we are is thanks to God who made us and from whom we have received - not even once but overtime as John 1:16 puts it. 

So, always fall before your face when you're tempted to think "all begins with you and ends with you." Always remind yourself that there's nothing you have that you haven't first of all received. It'll also fill you with a grateful heart (Psalm 103:1-5) and makes you not exceed your measure. Knowing you have first received from God without which you could do nothing makes you a dependent on Him too even if some people are dependent on what you have received, and by same hope on you. It'll be your acknowledgment of God as your fountain. Is it wealth, it is God who gives you power to make it (Deut.8:18)? Is it a spiritual gift or ability (I Cor.12:1-11)? That also is administered to you by God. So, if you'll look all around carefully, you'll indeed see and acknowledge that there's actually nothing left or new that you could lay hold on as having wrought individually for yourself. You have received everything, including your salvation as a free gift though at the expense of God by the laying down of His one and only begotten Son (John 3:16, Rom.5:8,18). See this and be a grateful creature, always owing God and doing unto men just like it has been done unto you.  

PRAYER: Let me always be reminded that you made me Lord. May people's dependence and hope in me lead me to dependence on you.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

I Thessalonians 4:1-18 & Isaiah 59-60

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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.

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