MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/12/2024

 WEDNESDAY - 11TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

RECEIVE A DISTINCTION IN THE SOUNDS - Knowing The Planned Time Series 011

I Corinthians 14:7, KJV

"7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"

Why should a Christian complain that he couldn't hear or decipher the voice of the Shepherd? That's inability to distinguish sound from sounds. Things without life like cymbal or pipe do give distinct sounds that rightly prepares the hearer for correct act. God is not wicked. If non life giving things give distinct sounds, do you think your Father doesn't want to communicate to you distinctly. Jesus says, "my sheep hear my voice" (John 10:27). If you aren't hearing or recognizing His voice, you either are not His sheep or you have not been trained to hear Him. More so, many people are looking to hear God through one channel they have defined for God and not through the One He may want to choose and be consistent with to speak to them. You may be there dying to hear the audible voice of God because you know someone or a fantastic testimony where God led someone through that. However, God might have been speaking to you through inner witness. However, you're not perceiving or recognizing His communication for what it is. It means you are unlearned like Samuel. You need to be put through on how to recognize God's voice.

However, "my sheep hears my voice" is a sure statement that doesn't shake. 

Our anchor verse talks of non living things giving distinct sounds which in turn prepares the hearers for a definite action. For instance, the specific sound interpreted to be a charge to battle will launch soldiers to battle while another will do something else. 

If these invalids couldn't distinguish the sounds, they wouldn't know they were to rush for their healing in the pool. All of them could have waited, not running or making attempt towards the pool and that'll be because the angel didn't give a clear signal by which they'll know the water has now being armed with a healing virtue. However, they are said to wait, "for the moving of the water" (John 5:3). 

So, those of you who are there who couldn't decipher the voice of your Maker, Father and Lord because of one confusion or the other. I speak, may those other voices competing with the Lord's be drowned. May your hearing and perception be fine-tuned. May you pick accurately and hear correctly.

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I am a hearing sheep. I hear my shepherd.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 3:7-22 & Hosea 7-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/12/2024

 TUESDAY - 10TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE WATER IS STIRRED! - Knowing The Planned Time Series 010

John 5:3, KJV 

"In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water."

So far, we've been learning about knowing the time. Not knowing the time of danger is what makes the fishes to be caught in an evil net. When you know the scheduled time for a purpose, you can work it for your advantage instead of letting evil fall on you. 

Today, in knowing the time or the time that has come, I want to talk on the role of signals or what it means being hinted. Unless you have perception like I've earlier taught, you may not be able to foresee a danger or know the time that's coming on you. So also, anyone or any person who takes an action or carry a step at a particular time that is later to be praised could have done so for certain information he was privileged to. As such, let's talk about signs and signal. 

One time, I needed to collect a form. I had been waiting for this form to be out. Unfortunately, I didn't know what specific time of the year it would be out. However, when it was out (though without seeing that information anywhere), the Holy Spirit began to motivate me to enquire and ask some people if the form had been out. The first call I made confirmed it just came out. Yet, it was only a move of the Spirit on my heart that hinted me of that. So, I was on time. The Holy Spirit knows the time and He sure sensitizes us to the moment that has come upon us. 

In today's anchor verse, we read of the invalids waiting for one thing - "the moving of the water." There's an angel who comes to stir the pool at certain time, therefore heralding healing. The sign that this angel has visited and that each invalid can go for the water is to see the clear sign of a troubled water. It therefore means that if this angel visited but the invalids couldn't read the signal of the troubled water, they wouldn't have learnt or known for sure it's time to take their healing. Though it is "first come; first served", meaning the law only favours the first who gets in the water yet they must see the sign of the troubled, moving or stirred water. 

It therefore means there's rarely anyone who gets something done who didn't receive a prompt one way or the other. It is this prompt, either divinely or humanly given that separates them in results from others after they might have acted on it. 

For instance, if there were 100 invalids at that pool and 99 are dozing or have slept off but it's only 1 who saw the water stirred, it means only that 1 would be able to take the handle of that information to get himself healed. Without signal or a kind of receiving or notification, man may not know the time that has come upon him. How will he know when there's no one to pipe to him distinctly for that purpose? 

This is why it is possible for you to suddenly wake up in the midnight without knowing why you're awake. God might want you to pray or intercede on something that the Holy Spirit knows which you'll later discover through experience. But now, you're woken up, can't go to sleep again. 

My own prayer is this, God will bring you the right signal to interpret. God won't leave us without witness. He will speak to us but our interpretation of what He says matters to what we act on or how we act. If any invalid at this pool misses out of what the signal of the troubled water means, I bet it, he cannot be healed. The first prompt to healing is knowing for sure that the angel heralding healing has blown the whistle for same by troubling the water. Therefore, I pray for you to receive your sign, sight that signal and be launched into that thing you eagerly wait for.

PRAYER: Lord, You're the Launcher. Launch me in hope and mercy into the greater heights I expect and dream of in 2025.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 2:18-3:1-6 & Hosea 3-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 9/12/2024

 MONDAY - 9TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THIS MAN WILL BE SAVED - Knowing The Planned Time Series 009

Hebrews 11:7, KJV 

"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith."

God quickly wants to show you the man who'll be saved from scheduled or predicted evils. As we read from the verse above, it is the man who hears and being moved with fear (deep respect or assuredness coming from the recognition) of the predicted event who'll be saved.

The difference between Noah and the world that perished at his time is their having different hearts. Noah believes all things. They aren't noble enough to believe in the forecast of a flood that would destroy the whole earth. It looks like a fable to them. Noah not only believed but he rushed to action without delaying. What else is proof that someone believes in a prediction or prophecy than seeing him begin to prepare and act in line with that prediction. That is exercise of faith even when all you have at hand is just a warning. The Bible says, "by faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house..."

On the other hand, the world is busy with their activities. They are buying and selling, marrying and giving out in marriage. Nothing changed in their attitude or action towards that great day. They are still steeped in the same old ways. This is the distraction the world gives itself to when it should begin to prepare to go into the ark. 

If you look at our world now, it's just like that of Noah's or Lot's day. The wickedness is so much that it's also ascending to God for a witness. The wickedness is so much that there are many violation of the use of sex. The wickedness is so much to the extent that people no longer rever or heed holy calls that should lead to repentance or shedding of their fat to entering by the narrow gate. Warnings sound like noisy cymbals to them. 

When Noah made an announcement of "water upon the earth", you'll think everybody would move in deep reverence like he was moved in fear to obey God. You know what? Those people don't fear God. They neither know Him nor worshipped him. As such, they just couldn't obey. Nothing in them created a sense of urgency or need for second thought. 

Those who'll be saved now and tomorrow are those who hears, believe the genuinety of the coming event and carry a step towards it. 

You too, you'll be warned of events to come. If you recognize God as a truthful speaker, you'll act accordingly. Those who refuse will be like the simple that passes on and are punished. Those in the days of Noah knew the truth eventually but it was too late for them. Don't learn by experience. Let God's warning suffice. 

PRAYER: May I not trivialize or commonise God's warning.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 2-3 & Daniel 13-14

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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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