MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 02/01/2025

THURSDAY - 2ND JANUARY, 2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WILL MEN PUT IN YOUR BOSOM! - Full of Them Series 002

Luke 6:38, KJV

"Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."

I said, "good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over...will men put in your bosom." Say, "amen" to that! This Year 2025 might be reaping season for some of you. The Bible is clear saying, "to everything there's a season and a time to every matter on earth" (Eccl.3). Some seeds might have been sown earlier on in your life. You might have even forgotten them. However, they shall be raised to speak for you. Resurrection or remembrance of seeds afore sown is a big biblical reality. The Bible speaking of Abel says in Hebrews 11:4, "by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." Also, we read of Cornelius. 

 Acts 10:4-5, KJV

"4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:"

Though Abel was dead and possibly buried, his blood still cries or speaks. That typology means a long buried or sown seed could come back to speak. You might have sown your seeds (which is typical of having buried them) but you shall find that which you have casted on the water (Eccl.11:1). It is not lost. No good doing ever disappears. Rather, it is being accrued as deposit for you. It has been going into your investment and savings plan. That's why the Bible admonishes us not to be weary of good doing.

Galatians 6:9, KJV

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

Same is written in II Thessalonians 3:13. It says, "let us not grow tired of doing good." The Bible even says some have entertained angels without knowing and obviously for this reaped a harvest and blessing greater than what they have sown or given (Heb.13:2). Examples would be Abraham and Lot. 

However, I'll like to draw your attention to a place in that verse that says, "good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will men put in your lap." Yesterday, we read of Joseph bringing forth blessings of children from between his knees. Today, we're meeting a like word that says, "...will men put into your bosom or lap." How many of you has something being weighed unto you or into your lap before? Or has anything being weighed to you that you need your lap or bosom to cringingly support its weight or quantity before? That shows it's massive or very much. 

That's why the Bible suggests the idea of measuring it into your lap or bosom. Your lap or bosom is much more wider than your arms. Your bosom not only comprises your lap but your upper temple and a part of your belly area (for support). A thing weighed into your lap or bosom has much space to occupy than the one weighed into your arms. For this reason, God is saying the harvest you'll have in return for having given or sown in service for His cause or humanity's is such that'll be abundant to the extent that it'll be measured in your bosom. Or did you not hear the description of that blessing? Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will men put into your lap. 

Say, "I don't collect small small things. What I collect and that which is measured to me is always big and over weighing. They are big big things."

That it is coming as a good measure isn't okay. It'll be pressed down (to accommodate more), shaken together (to be evenly distributed on all sides to also accommodate more) and after all these are done, the result would be that the blessing to be given to you is now running over. That's what would now be collected, carried and emptied into your bosom or lap as if it were a truck sand of tipper being offloaded unto you. At its offloading, how would it look? It'll fill the space. It'll exert weight and occupy space. Amazing things are your portion this year. 

You see, the kind of blessing that's allowed in your life are those that fit these descriptions. The kind that when estimated or valued, we must pass through the "good measure stage, pressed down stage, shaken together stage and running over stage." Such blessing in anybody's bosom isn't small. It is huge and collosal. Receive the story of your big things from now!

PRAYER/CONFESSION: Good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over blessings will men put in my bosom this year. I am enlarged to receive my enlargement. I receive my big big things. Oh! Visitation of big things.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 2 & Genesis 3-5

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 01/01/2025

WEDNESDAY - 1ST JANUARY, 2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE ABUNDANTLY BLESSED MAN - Full of Them Series 001

Genesis 48:12, KJV

 "And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth."

The image being painted here vividly reminds me of a picture where my father has two of my siblings in-between his knees while the rest of us surrounds him. This imagery of having children - not one in between one's knees shows having abundance, being full or being blessed. 

I know that some might choose not to marry, let alone give birth. It is by this they'll be marked as eunuchs for the kingdom of God if their dedication is for God and the furtherance of the gospel. There are other eunuchs anyway (Matt.19:12). However, having children and having them as arrows in a quiver paints the image of a blessed man.

The Bible says in  Psalms 127:3-5 "3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."

Note the statement that says, "happy is the man that has his quiver full of them." Now, take that statement and compare it with the imagery of having children in-between one's knees as portrayed by Joseph who has Ephraim and Manasseh in-between his knees. You'll observe that what that suggests of Joseph is the picture of a blessed man. A man that has and has and is comforted because he has. He's a man that has and can be said to lack nothing because he has the crown of creation as his reward! He's a fulfilled man - not lacking in joy!

The Lord is starting this year with the fact that He wants to make your quiver full of them. He wants to make your knees to be full of them. He wants to bless you with one, two or three so that you can bring them forth from between your knees for certain purposes as fit their callings and destinies. 

For waiting fathers and mothers, God has not forgotten you and it is not ordinary that God is leading me to proclaim to you that your quiver shall be full of them. The valley of dry bones is not in want of bones. It is full of them (Ezek. 37). Why should you be in want constantly for children? Does it seem you have none now? When others are pushing their own forward or bringing them out of their knees in fanciful and ecstatic joy, it looks as if your own knees are empty. However, Jireh (the Provider) says I should tell you that you shall not be disgraced. You shall have and to 'spare.' You shall have and have to send on errand. You shall have and have ones that'll become pride of parents. So shall it be. Welcome to a New Year where you're full of all blessings!

PRAYER: Father, my quiver is not empty nor is my house void of joy. Abundance upon and all around me as I journey this year. 

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 1 & Genesis 1-2

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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: HOW EXPERIENCE COULD INFORM YOUR STARTING

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: HOW EXPERIENCE COULD INFORM YOUR STARTING

If you're a parent and you take parenting very seriously, after the season of taking care of your little ones is over, you might begin to receive the passion to start a CRECHE. 

Would it be right heeding that? Yes! It isn't what came out of the need to cope with the economic situation first of all. Rather, it was born out of your variegated trainings and experiences which you have accumulated as a father or mother who allowed parenting to shape him/her in character, patience, discipline, research, hard work, resilience etc. 

The deception might be, "I'm a man not a woman. I can't found a Creche or a Nursery." Who told you that lie? You can found, be part of it and employ other passionate people (men and women alike) to work with you. 

There's a woman by my house. She and her husband waited for 11 years before they carried their own babies. When she gave birth, she delivered triplet. She didn't give thought to a creche until she started raising those three chaps. With the fact that those babies confined her movement, it occured to her one day that she could extend what she's doing for her babies into a full time work. That's how they turned their big sitting room into a creche. They've gotten a wider space in the same property now. 

Listen people, certain things will be birthed out of your training and experience. Don't mind those putting their hands forward when they're shallow on the inside. They're only looking for means of livelihood! That's why you must not cut corner in training. All my leadership years on campus and in those different places I served naturally processed and made me a minister. I don't need a title to function. When I mount up, whether I've been processed or not will show. Even if you live with me, you could decipher same. 

God might just be using your own complicated boy to mount you up and tease you to look for solutions on how to tackle adolescent problems. Sooner or later, you might be shocked that you might be made adolescent coordinator in church. If you handle these two assignments faithfully, one day it might occur to you as your call to start an NGO seeing to adolescents and helping them overcome their peculiar challenges. 

So, this is it. Whenever you're offered responsibilities, don't reject it. If you're called to serve in the creche or nursery or the children's church in the ministry you attend, kindly avail yourself. Out of that experience if you really submit to it may come your own school later on. You'll just feel equipped and experienced to start a thing like that because you've experienced a look alike to it. 

Recently, my school's cooperative society (with incorporation of outside members) elected me as its new Financial Secretary. Imagine, I'm not even a year old in that school. To qualify for election, I had to quickly fund my savings with a minimum of #50,000 which also would qualify me for the AGM (which has been held already). The subject I hate and don't want to have to do with is Mathematics. The fellow who handed over to me was a Mathematics teacher but I accepted because I wanted to be trained. Let me go out of my comfort zone once more. If you visit my home now, you'll see the long bank statement I'm imputing. I want to see where that responsibility would lead me. 

This Cooperative Society isn't a small one. A society that processes close to 100 Million yearly isn't small and I guess you could paint how many members it would have. While I use a certain designed spreadsheet yet I submitted to this new assignment because I don't want to miss a lifetime opportunity of how money, loan, interest and certain underlying things work. The chairperson  while speaking said I recommended you because you're not frivolous. You're pact together and you'll be able to take enquiries of people and input their necessary financial details. The truth is this new assignment might have a thing to do for me later on though I don't know for now how and where. What if God is seeing that I'll later have an institution where the accountants would present to me transactions in millions and He doesn't want me to be confused seeing I hate Mathematics or calculation but rather wants to work on me now to have accommodation for it. Or else, one might be cheated. I tell you, if you have an organization, even if you have financial managers, you must still understand how your money is doing. You need certain education to see deeply and into some people's shady business or calculation. Don't forget my wife is an accountant also and from the experience she has shared, I've learnt that some other accountants are good thieves. For this reason, that knowledge might be useful. 

It pays when things are born out of your experience and training. They're easily birthed since you've already been capacitated for them. 

If you're a parent and you won't shy from rejoicing in every areas of raising your baby, by the time you'll be finishing those babyhood or childhood stages, you should have become a teacher and an excelling trainer. The training and experience of an educator should have been impacted into you. As such, you could go into Education even without being officially certified in Education. 

What we should beware are people calling themselves ministers because they have certificate for it but haven't walked the road that makes one. What we should beware is anyone saying he is something when he hasn't walked that road. It's better to have a training and life for something than just being certified with a paper. If you have the life presently, the life will attract or naturally confer on you the paper. 

So, let's pursue right.

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

WHO RAISED ABEL & WHO'S RAISING CAIN?

WHO RAISED ABEL & WHO'S RAISING CAIN?

I want us to look at this picture very well and ask ourselves, "who's the one destroying discipline in me?" "Who's the one collapsing, distorting, reducing quality and substituting it with another thing in my life?"

Once you find the answer in all honesty, even if you won't delete that person, don't emulate or obey them again. 

Imagine these two sons and how they've turned differently because one was held to the highest responsibility and now towing the road that made the father great (as a renown body builder, action movie protagonist and politician - ex Governor of California). 

Look at the other son like an over ripe pawpaw ready to give way (that's far away from body-shaming please). He is not even mindful of his health and if he continues this way, he'll gain extra pounds, develop breathing problems and be mandated to lean down. So, he might eventually do what he should have embraced but under a bad condition. 

All he knows is food with no force of discipline ruling his body (and probably mind and life). 

Let me say this. In the home setting, who a child should really look at or emulate might be one of the parents and not both at times. Yes! 

If one of the parents is deficient in character and the other is better and upright, the children have their high model and priest. You can't tell me if the father is a ragamuffin, all his daughters should take after him and become prostitutes when the mother is sane, faithful and a good home keeper. 

In calling at times, it's either one of the parents a child might take after. And let me tell you, those who have not been trained cannot train you. 

The consequence is what you're seeing in that other child. 

I'll drop enough pictures of that well trained son who emulates his father and you'll see that his role model is the man with the calling and not the woman with the feeding bottle. 

Is this a prejudice against women raising children? No! As long as she's the one who could train them for their calling, she should be allowed to. 

Susannah Wesley raised John and his brother, who went on as cornerstones of the Methodist Church. 

Ben Carson's mother though an illiterate motivated and created a schedule under close monitoring for Ben and the brother to study. 

The results are in our faces. 

Once you see the calling anywhere, defer to it. Let it train you. What I heard is that, "it is where the dead is that the vultures gather." Has it changed in your own opinion?

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

TOY: THE GREAT VIBRANIUM DETECTOR!

TOY: THE GREAT VIBRANIUM DETECTOR! 

In the Pan-African movie, "Black Panther (Wakanda Forever)", we see the bid to explore a mineral dubbed "vibranium." To detect this precious metal, a machine had to be built by a young intelligent Black female inventor for that sole purpose. Without this machine, vibranium couldn't have been detected where it lies buried in the belly of the ocean or wherever God had destined it (or where the foosils are as Science told us). 

In same manner, toys are detectors. While they may not serve as conclusive detectors (especially at your ward's early stage) yet they are (especially if he shows interest in a particular set of toys than others). 

I'll advise that you furnish your ward with different range of toys. We sure know they'll change toys as their age or growth advances. From dolls or empathy toys to cognitive toys or those that'll help him/her develop motor skills. 

As you do, begin to watch them at play. Play with them. Enjoy the task like they do. Offer assistance where necessary and set them on motion of what tasks to do with the toys. 

You might be shocked to see your ward gravitate towards certain toys than the others. If your ward would love to play on end with certain toys or refuse to share it with any other, it might be because that type of toy sparks certain curiosity in him than others and he's saying, "I want to have this field for myself to own, dominate and advance." That's jealousy of protection for his love or obsession. It therefore means that's the toy waking up his natural passion or giving him a rare sense of delight or sublimity. Is he showing uncanny interest in animal toys? It's an indication of an attraction to animal science, wildlife photography or animal husbandry. What about a deep seethed obsession for technological toys? You might be looking at a future inventor or designer of something. 

This sense of gratification will heighten as they grow especially as they meet the subjects that fit their natural inclinations. It's on that they'll spend more time. It's on that they'll shut out distraction and even delay pleasure. In childhood, I was drawn to Fine Art and I drew most of my time with special attraction to folklore, story telling and world's cultures. When I got to Senior Secondary School, my love for Literature knew no bound. It just struck something in me. I just loved it. I'm not surprised at my eventual studying of English and having M.A in English Literature, becoming an Educator and a fine creative writer cut-crossing many facets. 

If you can make a good connection, you might have detected by now what possible area your child might fit into. While he might still need to choose a niche but these earlier and latter signs would have indicated the community he should go. For instance: Art, Science or Commercial.

However, his journey to narrow down will continue until he fits himself into a colony that most suits him. This journey begins at infancy when you begin to delight with toys in order to wake up their latent energy and ability where it resides. This will help because if this awakened interest is sustained, it'll help them carry surely this obsession to where they would make decision (without being confused) on which career choice or field to go into. Those who don't recognize the voice of their vocation early might have trouble hearing it later. Those who have heard it once have something to compare with, search for or wake up again. 

Toys and the effective use of them can help us begin to have a glimpse into this. As a matter of fact, great masters of their vocations started out loving something or someone in their fields. It was the flickering camera with pseudo pictures, mathematical compass, folklore and world's cultures or experimental and laboratory tools that woke up the curiosity of some. 

This simple sign made some writers, scientists, cinematographers or inventors. Toy is therefore a kind of machine built to help us locate where that precious natural resource - vibranium is hidden in our own kid. Even as your toddler or adolescent indulges in toys or games, we might infer where they'll end just by studying which wakes up their curiosity the more and for which they admire to replicate or explore more. 

Toys are therefore not only tools to keep our babies or toddlers from crying. It is rather a means of awakening them to their world, cultivating social, cognitive, eye-hand (motor) skills etc. 

For a body builder to sculpt a body that'll impress anyone, he needs some certain tools just for that. Those are located in the gym right? Several tools have been invented to develop and carve out muscles where necessary. There are tools and exercises just for training and sculpting the thighs, shoulders, belly, chest and other parts of the body. Without using them or indulging in those exercises, no materialization can happen. You therefore can't bring out the possibility that's possible in your muscular self!

To breed a creative child is simple. Stimulate him. Put something in their faces to watch. Be like Jacob who wanted a type of sheep and so peeled white streaks in poplar trees and set it at the animals' feeding troughs. At day's end, they gave birth to what was erected at their faces! He brought out what he was looking for. He created a device to call that forth. That's simple invention through the power of faith and visualization. Occupy them and once you're lucky to strike on their innate ability or passion, take that and train it to its height. But for now, you need to have a nursery of toys!

This is how some have child prodigies earlier on. It is not by leaving anything to chance but by making available the necessary tools, toys, games and exercises that can lead to the discovery, training and then realization of their individuals. 

If you don't know, individuality wants to speak and through each of us. May that of your kid voice out. May it thunder like the voice of the Lord that breaks the cedars of Lebanon. May it be that strong, gracious and commanding on the day of its manifestation when it cries out. 

Remember, we not only train/develop with toys, we discover with toys!

Who we are in our deepest self is gravitated towards and embraced once sighted in reality - even in toys, certain subjects, games, mentors and exercises!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

solaadenathmail@gmail.com or morningwingsministryplus@gmail.com

GREAT ALBINOS YOU SHOULD KNOW

 GREAT ALBINOS YOU SHOULD KNOW

1. Emiko Amotsuka - a Nigerian preacher and teacher. I saw him first 3 or 4 years ago at Faith Easter Seminar when Reverend Olusola Areogun invited him as a guest minister. One of the faith fathers in Nigeria. Poju Oyemade recently celebrated his 75th birthday or so with him. 

2. Salif Keita - Malian musician and songwriter. He has a special voice that makes him chant unimaginably. He also has a daughter who's an albino.

3. Nantenin Keita - daughter of Salif Keita and a professional para-athletics runner. She has competed in the Olympics severally. Both father and daughter are the direct descendants of the FOUNDER of Mali Empire, the great Sundiata Keita we all read about in History. 

4. Connie Chiu - born in Hong Kong. She studied Arts and Journalism. The first ever albino model the world recorded. 

5. Diandra Forrest - African - American model & actress. 

6. Jake Epelle - Nigerian policy developer and advocate.

7. John Chiti - Zambian song writer, musician, humanitarian and albino advocate. The movie, "Can You See Us?", is based on his life. 

Gift overcomes disability. Grace wins over impotency.

@ M'Wings.

LIFE BEYOND ALBINISM

 BIRTH!

Parents look with hope and great anticipation for their child to be born, especially their first born. 

But this anticipation has become disappointment for some parents. Such is that of Kennedy, a waiting father whose wife gives birth to an albino. 

Kennedy would have none of it as albinos are seen as deficient and inferior to the normal child whose skin are not lacking in melanin or sufficient of it. The society has labelled such as the rejected and dejected. In many places, albinos are even targets of ritual killers. 

You need to watch the movie CAN YOU SEE US?

It tells the story of the birth, childhood, challenges, stereotypes and stardom of a lone albino. 

This simple movie challenges the status quo and calls us to embrace shared humanity, not discriminating in any way. 

Apart from this plot, you'll be immersed in what it means finding your gift/calling, nurturing it and becoming it. 

Music is the theme here and motherhood and adoptive parents are to be praised. 

You can be the next hit like Joseph (the albino boy) and protagonist in this movie. 

@ M'Wings.