MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 8/12/2024

SUNDAY - 8TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

A JOURNEY TO THE CITY OF PALM TREES- Knowing The Planned Time Series 008

Luke 10:30, KJV

"And Jesus answering said, a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead."

May God anoint you with sensitivity to know the time to undertake your journey. Ecclesiastes 12:1 says, "for everything there's a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." It means one could carry a step or discharge an act at the time not appointed for  that matter. 

Such is the case of this Jewish man who journeyed from Jerusalem to Jericho. New Living Translation (NLT) identified him as a Jew. If we were to accord that properly, it means he is a Christian. Without disclosure of a reason for journeying, he went down from Jerusalem (a place associated with Yahweh Elohim] to Jericho (a city of palm trees where fun, treasure and exploring) is the order of the day. This man journeyed at the wrong time. We wouldn't have known if he had not been a victim of certain thieves who robbed him of all he had and left him almost dead. The Bible in describing his encounter with those thieves says, "he...went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves."

He "fell among." "To fall among" is a very suggestive phrase. Remember the sower who scatters seeds and how his seeds fell on the sites they choose to fall (Luke 8:4-8). Some amidst thorns, stony ground, fertile soil etc. If you'll recall as well, Psalm 16:6 says, "the lines have fallen for me in pleasant places..."

However, this man is said to "fall among thieves" who know nothing but to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). The idea of "falling" passes a message that this man made a wrong move and chose the wrong lot or allotment in life. It was as if he was preordained to meet with evil. The trap was waiting and he walked straight into it without warning or any knowledge. It could have been otherwise for him but when he chose to travel at that time and season when those thieves were looking for who to swallow and profit by, he chose the bad lot and it fell for him to his disadvantage. Like someone scheduled or slated for something, he fell amidst robbers (who did him evil). 

It is my own prayer that in your journey in Year 2025, you'll not fall amidst thieves, scoundrels, rascals and any who can endanger you. Some people's lot are always with the wrong people. It happened to the mariners who were with Jonah in the ship. Jonah is the wrong man due to his disobedience and it is for his sake the wind does not cease. Until they yielded him up and were separated from him, the wind didn't cease. When men are being distributed to interviewers in Year 2025, may you fall where it is good. May you encounter and meet with men who'll be favourably disposed to help you. It'll not be you that'll fall in the wrong site; with the wrong supervisor; at the wrong location etc. Your lot is with the living and not the dead. Fall where it is good. When the women who care for Jesus out of their substance came to his grave looking for Him, the angels they met said, "Why do you look for the living amidst the dead? He is risen! He is not here" (Luke 24:5-6). 

Jesus' lot is with the living and He proved so. Though He died, He rose! In hundred encounter, if they look for you to have fallen in the other extreme place, you wouldn't be found there in Year 2025. If your name is being searched for amidst those who failed, it'll be a surprise that you're on the list of those who passed. Your allotment or covenant is not with failure.

PRAYER: My allotment is not with the dead but the living. My lot is good and whenever I fall or things fall for me, it shall always be good.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 1 & Daniel 11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 7/12/2024

 SATURDAY - 7TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

CONSEQUENCES ARE SURE - Knowing The Planned Time Series 007

Proverbs 22:3, KJV

"...but the simple pass on and are punished."

Many times, we all make mistakes. When we do, one thing we wish or do request for is to be forgiven. When people pleads for forgiveness, they intend, "let go of the punishment that should follow and let us continue to relate." But some other times, we could be made to bear full cost of the matter though with continued relationship or opportunity. 

Paying back or restoring what is lost or stolen through our carelessness is not easy but it'll equip us with vivid remembrance not to repeat same mistake again. It produces a more cautious (prudent) man who'll do his diligent best to be aware. When you're pardoned, it comes easily and you might not reckon the weight of the destruction you have caused. However, if it costs you a little discomfort, you'll really know what to prepare against next time. 

Our verse for consideration says, "...but the simple pass on and are punished."

Who are the simple? Those without foreknowledge. Those who haven't heard, seen or known as to be properly guided or decide what course of action is best. They're the ones who'll take a journey that'll land them in trouble. They're the ones who'll go down on their way from Jerusalem to Jericho and land among robbers who'll strip them of their valuables while leaving them half dead. They are the ones who'll say they're travelling abroad, sell their properties and lose their position here but to awaken to the opposite of their expectation abroad. Why? They simply couldn't foresee. They carry no head lamp that lights their path before them. That's why such would say, "if I had known..." They weep for what they should have known which they didn't know. 

So, you must seek to know so as to avoid punishment. Because man failed to know his time, he's therefore like fishes caught in an evil net and like birds ensnared. If he knows his time, he'll journey differently or postpone his travelling. He wouldn't walk on to fall into a trap. The possiblity of doing something differently or putting a preparation in place comes in the moment he knows. However, he lives in darkness and oblivion of his true realities because he lacks awareness. 

So, he is punished! The cost is always high when you pass on and you're punished. May God give you fortitude to bear any consequence of your omission and wisdom to prevent against a repeat of such. 

PRAYER: In Year 2025, I refuse to be a victim of any ambush or unforseen contingency.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Jude & Daniel 9-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 6/12/2024

 FRIDAY - 6TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THANK GOD FOR FOREKNOWLEDGE - Knowing The Planned Time Series 006

Proverbs 22:3, KJV

"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."

It takes prudence (sort of observatory and analytical mind which calls for cautiousness) to be able to forecast events and begin to put plans on ground because one believes in their happening. A fool therefore doesn't have an equipment of the mind to sum 2+2 together and conclude something might result. First of all, he doesn't engage in meditation or critical thinking. He just lives on. 

Also, you're prudent when you have foresight. It'll show in the multitude of what you'll be able to escape but which will come near others or take them.Thank God for foreknowledge. If not for the foreknowledge of certain events of life that we had, we might be ill prepared and not have acted differently. Foresight would give you foreknowledge about things to come that you can maneuver or play around for your own good. 

Without divine revelation, projections are often being done into the future by different professional bodies and systems of the world. Often time, you'll hear reports that water level might get high, typhoon, earthquake or other natural disasters should be expected and dated. Such projection is being done because they care and value human life. Many times, there are legislations to desert such areas marked as dangerous zones. However as you'll agree, some might despise such order and continue to live on as if there's no coming event to avoid. This is why people perish. Assuming it cannot come to them when they are not doing anything to hide themselves from what has been clearly slated to occur is the greatest proof of foolishness. Economically wise, you'll hear financial forecasts and reports like that as well. As a matter of fact, whenever there's no divine revelation or report (Isa. 53:1), I'll counsel you to go with the reports and findings of experts on any matter. It'll save you many times. God gives us intelligence and dominion over all of creation for a reason - to dominate it. It means we can find things out just by scientific process or deductive reasoning that'll yet be true. If humans cannot be true, then all hospitals and human enterprises meeting needs of humanity and recovering them one way or the other should have been scrapped. 

When you foresee the future (and you have foreknowledge of what it contains), it means you now have information upon which you can act. A Yoruba proverb says, "a foreannounced war doesn't take a cripple at short notice." It is always expected that he'll have started fleeing for refuge since the report of the tentative war. By the time the war eventually breaks out, he'll have been so distant from the war zone that he could declare himself safe. 

That's the meaning of foreseeing the evil -  counting the cost of staying back, seeing the consequences and what'll be at stake and then acting to prevent it all. Acting to prevent the foreknowledge of what you have through foresight (either by divine revelation or human projection) is what the Bible calls, "hiding oneself."

The imagery being portrayed is that of a man on a journey who observes bandits coming his way but hides himself for awhile till they pass before resuming his journey. When the evil is gone, he could do whatsoever but while the evil still tarries, he needs to avoid it. Henceforth, may God show you things to avoid. It is wisdom to know and avoid the avoidable. You'll have to go through certain things but the avoidable ones provide you solutions or escape without fighting. I wouldn't want to waste my resources and energy on something that I can dodge and let pass. Avoiding is not a sign of cowardice but wisdom and maturity that saves you from being used, worn out and then in search of repair. Take counsel, avoid the avoidable and only go through the unavoidable. At such time, God won't fail you likewise. 

PRAYER: I discern the avoidable evils and receive wisdom to avoid them. For the unavoidable, I'm made their equal - having a way of escape at day's end.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

III John & Daniel 7-8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/12/2024

THURSDAY - 5TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHY IT SHALL NOT COME NEAR YOU - Knowing The Planned Time Series 005

Psalms 91:7-8, KJV 

"7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.  91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked."

Call: 2025!

Response: We know our time!

So shall it be for you. You will always know your time! Let's launch into today's teaching. 

We all like to have the experience in the verses above. We like to smile at evil, having escaped it. However, that verse or the experience written in it doesn't come cheaply. It doesn't at all. May God open your eyes to see that it is really your obedience to stand still under the shadow of His protection that guarantees that victory side. 

That place says, "a thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not come near you." What a wonder! Imagine people dying left right while you're spared. Imagine robbers visiting a community, robbing houses on both left and right while sparing yours. Imagine the flood or fire operating on both sides but not crossing to yours. That is nothing but awesome wonder. If this continues long enough in your life, you'll force your neighbours to one day accuse you of using witchcraft or using them as sacrificial scape goats for your own escape and salvation. However, we all know that is not so but rather is the Lord's doing to you. 

Apart from the fact that the Bible says, "it shall not come near you", it goes on to say, "only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked" (Psalm 91:8, KJV). 

It means the only kind of experience you're permitted to have when evil is ravaging is that of an eyewitness or someone seeing it on TV and not really the victim. You'll only behold, see with your eyes and justify God's judgement. 

Psalm 91:1 already tells us that having this experience is consequent upon dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. You come under His secret place when you get born again. However, you need to stay there continually by being obedient to your Lord as He'll instruct you to do per time. So actually, your abiding and remaining still under the shadow of the Almighty is made potent by your continual obedience. If God were to tell you, "refrain" but you run, you'll be opening yourself to the wiles of the devil. Not that God doesn't have power to overcome evil. However, He likes to make us obedient and rather keeps us from keeping appointment with evil. So, instead of having common experiences of failure and disappointment like others left right, obedience will keep you from such common harm. Why a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand without it coming to you is because you haven't broken any hedge through your disobedience. If your hedge or fence of protection still stands intact and you haven't gone outside it, why would vulnerabilities bring you down? Why would you be in danger of any harm? Rather you'll be secured inside your hedge or fence (built by God for your defence). 

The only people who'll not fall when others are fallen are those who lived and acted differently in obedience to God and the specific instructions He'll bring per time. How many knows Nigeria will be this tough economically? Yet, God had been calling for diversification and multiple streams of income since yesteryears. If you had listened, now that people are burdened by how to cope and are falling down due to economic hardship, you'll just be there observing their fall as an obedient son or daughter. What you therefore adhered to but which they jettisoned is what made all the difference. "A thousand shall fall by your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not come near you" depends on what you see or know to implement ahead of others (the wicked) who'll be disobedient to same instruction. God will forewarn you. May you see to implement. That's your escape valve - that you know what's coming and you hide yourself from it.  

PRAYER: I am hidden in Christ and I remain hidden in Him through my obedience and implementation of His will.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

II John & Daniel 5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/12/2024

WEDNESDAY - 4TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

OVERTAKING SATAN AND BEATING EVIL II - Knowing The Planned Time Series 004

Matthew 2:12, KJV

 "And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way."

God is our eyes and it gives us advantage that we are people who do receive divine communication. Imagine a soldier or a troop that's cut off from communication from the base. Will they know what ambush they're walking into headlong? Imagine a life without divine communication! I assure you, there can never be a testimony of divine escapes. 

We need to know! If we don't know, we will be played and toiled with. People will take us for granted and call us ordinary. You have heard people say, "I played him or I outsmarted him'. That's usually a mockery on the outsmarted person. God wants us to be above our enemy - the devil first of all. He's a player, a cunning serpent; a strategist to the core who beguiles and disarms his prey. However, through the purchases of Christ at redemption and through God's mind constantly revealed, you are above him. 

These wise men would not have been wise after all if God had not stepped in to be their eyes. May we not be otherwise known. May the reputation of good we have borne for years not suddenly disappear due to one event that proves it otherwise. You see, Herod was almost gaining an upper hand over them. His trickery had worked on them and none of them suspected the underlying evil and desire lurking in the secret corner of his heart. Many times, without planning it, I have outsmarted people even without my own knowledge but because I was very obedient to God's Word or specific revealed instructions for the time being. You cannot always tell what the devil has planned or is planning for you. You cannot always tell what it is he is faking or what he is camouflaging into. However, God can expose him. Just walk closely with Him and you'll receive knowledge of what you both prayed for and those you won't but which are priority to God to be revealed to you to act on.

Anyone will think Herod cares. As in, who'll have been suspicious that a king doesn't share goodwill for a new born baby. To confuse things, nothing in his speech or demeanor gives him off. He rather said, "go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also" (Matt. 2:8, KJV). 

Have you played with such people before? People who are impure and morbid inside but don't appear so outside. They'll sell you to the slave market if God doesn't become your eyes and light! However, God was their own eyes and they outsmarted Herod who thought he had outwitted them. He rather was wrath that he was made a fool of. 

"Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked (outsmarted) of the wise men, was exceeding wroth (angry) and sent forth and slew all the children..."

So shall it be for your opposing enemy (the devil and all humans he has found to use against you). Their schemes will turn on their heads. Herod wanted to make a fool of the wise men (and he already did) but God turned it back on his head through His own divine communication to the magi. So, instead of being the victim of his trickery, they escaped to their nativity through another way and made him the exact fool he wanted to make them. 

I pray for you that you'll not be a victim of the devil's strategy. God will expose the subtle acts of the devil in your life. Anyone who's fooling you is exposed. You're warned of them at this hour. Receive a knowing about their acts and by that, take dressing and know how to relate with them. Let God warn you of relationships to cut off in Year 2025, beginning from now. See those who don't share good will for you but who you often assure you'll contact once you make arrival. You're not a prey here. You're on the winning side and God is playing with you. I assure, your playing is playing to win!

PRAYER: I am playing to win. No matter the enchantment, bewitchment, subtilty etc, I shall not be confused or confounded.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

I John 5 & Daniel 3-4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 3/11/2024

 TUESDAY - 3RD DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

OVERTAKING SATAN AND BEATING EVIL I - Knowing The Planned Time Series 003

Matthew 2:13, KJV

"13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."

The kind of man or woman God wants you to become is he or she who outsmarts Satan in his plan and beats the evil he has planned. That place says, "because man does not know his time...(Eccl.9:12). As such, evil happens to him. However, God wants you to know the time (specific hole punched time) Satan has planned and cooked to take you out so that you can avoid it. When you know, you carry steps and implement counter plans to avoid the hole he has dug. When you successfully avoid his hole and you escape his snare, you continue to live on to see the tomorrow you shouldn't have seen if your life had been taken yesterday. As such, you outsmart the devil and beat his plans. 

Only those who will live with the knowing of what time Satan has deliberately planned to take them out would live on to see other days. When King Herod enquires of the wise men diligently what time the star appeared in order to send to kill baby Jesus, God moved with a counter plan and notified Joseph (the step dad of Jesus) of the need to vacate Bethlehem. As such, Jesus escaped death and was not part of those their parents mourned. Later on, we read, "and a voice was heard in Rama, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel (symbolizing all the women or parents), weeping for her children and refusing to be consoled because they are no more" (Matthew 2:18).  What difference would it have made if at the time an angel spoke to Joseph to flee for his life, such parents also received communication from God to escape from that community. The sword would not have caught up with them. The Bible says, "then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under..." (Matthew 2:16). Imagine the mass mourning that day! If God tells you or you begin to experience it like withdrawing your child from a particular school, do go ahead. God might be teaching your spirit an imminent danger to avoid. One might just be around the corner. We've heard of boarding schools kidnappers burgled. Could God not have told a parent to go pick his ward for weekend only to discover why he had that unusual feeling?

You could have relocated to live somewhere but the time to leave there might have come in God's calendar. I hope you won't be stubborn saying, "I've become a citizen. I have my estate and my wealth here. I just can't leave here because all my friends and support are here. It has not even been long I got here." Then, you should be ready to face the tune and dance to the music when the event God wanted you to escape comes. The businesses and the estates you're talking about might be things slated to be wiped off by typhoon or one natural disaster. However, God wanted to preserve you alive. He wanted you to move the movables amidst what you have, withdraw your money or make necessary transfers and put plans on ground in a new place without being caught unawares. However, here you are arguing. The problem with man being trapped like fishes and snared like birds is simply unrealization of the time that has come upon him. The inability to read the signal and interpret it for what it is spells and always spells great danger for man - even the taking of his life. 

Knowing is a matter that life and death hinge on. It is either you know and you live or you disregard and perish!

PRAYER: I know to live in Year 2025 and beyond. I am not dull of hearing or knowing. I see today, tomorrow and years to come. I escape the sword and Satan's punched hole.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

I John 4 & Daniel 1-2

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 2/12/2024

 MONDAY - 2ND DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

AWARENESS II - Knowing The Planned Time Series 002

Ecclesiastes 9:12, KJV 

"For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them."

You have heard cases of a spouse telling the other not to embark on a journey. This is very common with men. When the devil wants to take the shepherd of the family (the father) out, what he does is to execute him under the pretence of an obligation he cannot say no to. For instance, receiving a call to come for a contract he has been expecting. It'll go like this. "Am I on to Mr. XYZ? This is the Republic's Ministry of Work. You're to appear for the signing of some documents that finalize your winning and executing the contract on Project Bee Plan." He'll tell his wife, "I just cannot disappoint. This is what we've been trusting for. And what will happen if I do not go? Even Mr. OPQ who recommended me would not be happy hearing I missed such huge contract because of a flimsy excuse bordering on what I perceived to be threat or danger to my life." As such, he'll kickstart the vehicle and go. Often time, if such person returns, it's usually his dead body. The lament of the other spouse would be, "...but I warned him. I tried to dissuade him. Probably, I should have reported to our spiritual overseer. Probably, he would have been restrained." A thousand guesses and regrets would then follow. 

Free yourself! Nothing is as important as you. There's a Yoruba proverb that says, "if we still live, we shall eat better meats." Let that be your consolation. Never let the restraint of God be overshadowed by a sense of duty especially when you need clear spirit and discerning reason to judge if your way is prosperous or not. Evil will always happen on the earth. Till the Second Coming of Jesus, that won't stop but you are responsible for yourself, house and those who are connected to you. You're to see to the proper shepherding of each of them through the divine communication or knowing that you'll have. It is nobody's fault when harm comes to you but you blame another. It is really nobody's fault. Everyone is supposed to be able to hear the Shepherd for themselves and protect against imminent dangers. 

God is calling you to a specific recognition and understanding of the ounce of time you'll enter into even in year 2025. When you do, confusion is banished. Where you need to enter event with action or boldness, you'll do so because you're so assured, you're doing what should be done at that time. May you know the time that'll come upon you in 2025. May you know both the good and evil times. May you know the time to retire at home and the time to hurriedly sprout out of bed to catch an early appointment. May you know the day and the specific hour to avoid a usual place and when to patronize same. May you know when to board a plane or cancel a flight. May you know when to call for a gathering or let men be! May you know and be full of knowing. 

PRAYER: I know! I am aware! I am conscious! Once has the Lord spoken but twice have I heard. My spiritual tentacles are sound and sensitive!

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

I John 3:11-24 & Ezekiel 47-48

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