MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 14/12/2024

 SATURDAY - 14TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

CONFUSION IS BANISHED WHEN YOU SEE BEFORE LEAVING -  Knowing The Planned Time Series 014

Matthew 2:1, KJV

"1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."

God is still working with this verse. He still has some juice to squeeze out for our edification. 

Confusion is banished when you have seen, heard or known for sure before stepping out. You'll be so on point. You'll be so bold. You'll enter action with no shadow of doubt. People will look at you like this and wonder at your focus and effectiveness. Why? You heard, "that's the right place to be and you went there." Because that's the right place to be without doubt, you'll not reserve or withhold your labour because you know you do not have any second choice.

I love the way the magi chose to enquire of the precise location of Jesus when they got to Jerusalem. They say, "where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the East and are come to worship him."

They are clear on who they wanted to meet though the entire populace is still in oblivion of any King of the Jews' birth. Even the inn where they were denied space, that resulted because the innkeeper didn't know Jesus is the King of the Jews or Saviour of mankind. If he had known, probably he would have made room for them. However, these magi are not without information like the rest of the populace. They know! It is this information they have at hand they now use to wage the warfare of tracking down Jesus. They asked by giving a vivid description, "where is he that is born King of the Jews, for we have seen his star in the East."

Later on when they were taken to Herod's palace (in their quest to know), he had nothing to capitalize on with which to confirm Jesus' birth and place than to ask the priests and scribes of the people where Jesus was to be born. 

"And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be  born" (Matthew 2:4, KJV). 

He or somebody must have interpreted "King of the Jews" to mean Jesus Christ. So, without that description and specifics of the Magi which they got from God's revelation to them, Herod and others might have wandered in darkness. 

You will know what you want and who you want to see when you have gathered such specifics through divine revealing more importantly. You'll just be straightforward and be bold, making audacious claims and requests like, "where is he that is born King of the Jews for we have seen his star in the East..."

As such, confusion and ignorance are banished. You'll therefore no longer say, "I don't know what to demand of life or ask for." You'll immediately know and when you make your tender, it'll be straightforward and strong. You won't shiver and be in doubt of being found out for the lie you want to tell. You'll have no fear rather because you know it is truth you tell and not lies. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I set my face like a flint into Year 2025 and call it mine. Declare good into it.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 6 & Amos 1-4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 13/12/2024

 FRIDAY - 13TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

WILL THIS BE YOUR TESTIMONY? - Knowing The Planned Time Series 013

Mathew 2:2, KJV

"Saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him."

Do you know the testimony of some? It is, "for we have seen His star in the east..." Before we launched, we bear record that we had seen his star in the East. 

However, it is not everyone who can open their big mouth to say they have seen his star in the east before launching out. Some never had that experience of knowing God's mind before choosing their life's partner, choosing school, entering a career or relocating somewhere. They can lie about it or fake response to having received God's testimony before launching out, yet they will know deep down that they lie. 

The magi were able to boldly say it to whomsoever they come across in Jerusalem to help them in the location of the new born King of the Jews because we are sure of what we saw - "...we have seen his star in the east."

God wants this to be your testimony son/daughter. He wants you to be able to look back and testify that you had a prompting of the Spirit before you leaped out. He wants you to be able to tell people that you are not like other men but that, "you saw His star (heard Him) before you left your fatherland to another country."

2025 is not for the careless to dwell in. Except God initiates your journey or launches you on a path by providence (which you can testify of). Those who have gone on journeys on their own initiative will be falling for it. What the Lord is knocking this morning is this, "can you speak assuredly like these magi that you've seen my 'star' (revealing) before taking any step?" You're now in Jerusalem right? You've left the East. However, if you call people back home or meet new people where you are, can you tell them without any shadow of doubt that "you saw the star before departure." 

If you cannot, you need to repent and submit to the Lord who guides the feet of a man without letting him slip. The Lord is a good shepherd and because He is, those He leads will never live in perpetual want of a thing. He always meet their needs. That's why I'll like you rest in him without having guilty conscience that your operation is outside Him but only in pursuance of bread and not towards fulfillment of purpose where you are. 

When the magi saw the star in the East, it launched them to Jerusalem on a journey that God initiated for a purpose. The fact that such caliber of men have come to pay obeisance to baby Jesus proves His destiny as a great King indeed. He's a King that the whole heaven and earth will worship and according to Philippians 2:9-10, "God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name...that in the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confess irrespective of their locations". Also, through the magi's visit, God was able to support the newly born family through the precious gifts they gave Jesus. It could have been sold to finance their journey or take care of baby Jesus while in Egypt. 

That men from afar came to Jerusalem to bow down also shows how the fame of Jesus and His name would reach the ends of the earth. Today, we see all these in manifestation and we can reckon why God started the magi on their journey. 

They weren't idle men. They are wealthy and honourable men who have businesses to take care of before the appearance of the star cut them quit and gave them a new assignment to embark on - to find baby Jesus and pay homage to Him.

I pray for you that God will end frivolity in your life in this year and 2025 majorly. May you not do anything that'll make you not to be able to say capitally that, "we are here because we have seen his revealing in our heart."

Imagine how they spoke assuredly. When people shiver, stammer and are lost for words, it may be that God didn't initiate their journey before them. And what He didn't initiate, He won't prosper. May you not be on your own in life. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I am not lost. I am not alone. The Good Shepherd is with me and it is He who leads me on.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 5 & Joel 1-3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 12/12/2024

THURSDAY - 12TH DECEMBER, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

PUT ON A JOURNEY! - Knowing The Planned Time Series 012

Matthew 2:1, KJV

"1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."

I have hinted on the importance of seeing a sign before you're launched on your journey. There are those who are waiting for a sign that'll give them the go ahead or certainty of restrain towards what they needed an answer for. Is it that you want to relocate or take a new job but you need the sign that'll launch you on what you should do or not do. God will surely speak to you and you shall be able to decipher in truth and in honesty what God wants done. Such is the testimony of the magi. 

They didn't carry a step until they were put on their journey. They didn't presume to journey. As a matter of fact, they didn't know where to journey to but at the signal or appearance of Jesus' natal star, everything was clear to them. They found the compass and knew exactly where to journey to from the East where they were. The East (Babylon) to Jerusalem isn't a little journey and they couldn't have picked such specifics on where God wanted them to travel to or be if they haven't received a signal or notification for their directives. 

God will not hide Himself from you also. He will come to you. The magi asked, "where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."

Ask yourself, how did they know he is a king and even of the Jews? You see, all those are details unraveled in the interpretation of Jesus' natal star. We know these magi are also astrologers who have special knowledge deciphering what the stars mean. 

They interpreted correctly and the journey to Jerusalem began! I pray for you that God will intimate with you. If God does not give you any sign, you might stay there and keep waiting and wasting time. But once your sign or signal appears, you're armed for progress even when it is a restraint or a "no" that you got for an answer.

That singular phrase, "for we have seen his star in the east" is the beginning of all they did. Without having seen Jesus' star first in the east, they wouldn't have taken a step outside their native land. Warn those who are relocating without having seen the 'star' in their native land first of all. Warn those the 'star' didn't beckon on or tell to undergo a journey who are planning great things and dreaming of big steps. The journey God didn't author or the one the Holy Spirit didn't call you to embark on will mostly be a disaster. You're a Christian. You have a prophetic destiny. Do well to follow the prophetic outline. 

Many times, people launch out of their own accord yet wants the wisdom of God on the way. For instance, when Herod could have outsmarted the wise men, God appeared to them and told them not to return to Herod. Do you know why God is committed to them, so much more that He gives them information they didn't pray or ask for? It's because He was the One who launched them out at first. As such, He has to see to what He started when by Jesus' natal star He launched them out. Don't expect God's wisdom or aid on the way over the project or journey you chatted and started in your own wisdom. However, you can be dependent on Him like this magi who won't take a step until they had seen and interpreted correctly. If you're waiting to see, hear or know, you're your Father's (God's) son/daughter. He will come and not tarry. 

PRAYER: You will come and not tarry Lord. I will know what to do at every juncture in 2025.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Revelation 4 & Hosea 11-14

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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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