MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/03/25

 WEDNESDAY- 5TH MARCH, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE THE LORD IS MAKING A HELP MEET FOR - Marital Series 004

Genesis 2:18, KJV 

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

There are those the Lord is making a help meet for. Do you mind knowing those who are? The Bible verse we've been considering says, "and the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

When this verse reads this way, some might have thought God said He would create a help meet for an idle man (one with no specific work) but who's alone. No! Adam was never idle. He's a fully occupied man. When God says, "it is not good that the man should be alone...I will make him a help meet for him", God meant, "it is not good for Adam to be alone in the garden (in his home) and in the work He has given him." That's the major reason why God says, "for this purpose, I'll make him a helpmeet for him."

Why would God make Adam a helpmeet for him if there's never an intent for that? God knows Adam and the sort of work he has been called to do. For that reason, God had to create or fashion someone who'll be able to see the same work as pleasing and not as offensive. Why some couples never assisted each other is because they found the work the other is doing unsatisfying or unfulfilling. There's nothing Eve needs to meet in Adam's life if there was no assignment Adam has accepted and was doing that if any would co-labour must be someone who wants to do the same thing. 

Also, God created Eve to bodily (structurally) and emotionally suit Adam. I don't know Eve's temperament but it sure was given to compliment Adam's. 

Let me tell you this. Eve is tailor made for Adam. She is a vessel based on Adam's needs. Hear God speak once more. "And I'll make him a help meet for him." If you indeed found a spouse, that's how it'll be. Where you're weak, they'll be strong. They'll be created, given to you and would have been educated or trained just for the purpose of complimenting you. When your spouse doesn't fit or suit you, it means you married another person's spouse. You missed yours!

God knows each of us and He knows which of the women available at a particular time would fit or meet our needs. That's what He sent our way. May you find such help that'll fit you. If you purchase a dress that doesn't fit you, you can imagine how difficult and wasteful that is. The same applies to marrying a spouse that's not one's help meet. Instead of things falling in place, things will fall out of place. Instead of her being a help meet - suitable help for your life (meeting certain needs), she'll be creating needs!

PRAYER: Lord, carve me to be fit for someone. Lord, mercifully re-shapened spouses that aren't help meet to begin to meet help in their spouse's life. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Mark 11:1-26 & Numbers 16-17

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/03/25

 TUESDAY- 4TH MARCH, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE WHO SERVE PURPOSE WILL BE SERVED - Marital Series 003

Genesis 2:18, KJV

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

DID you observe that it wasn't Adam who asked for a wife or said, "it is no longer good that I remain alone, now I must get me a wife?" It is God who observes the gap to be filled and thinks of doing something about it. 

God cares for us and our times are in His hands. Know that and you'll be free from a thousand worries. Also, the faster you prepare and get ready for a wife determines when this voice of, "it is no longer good that the man should be alone" would come into your life. 

We've seen in the previous series that a man who has no home or work and is not bound by God's instructions doesn't need to consider having a partner. If he obtains one, it'll be an invitation to an accident and suffering for that woman. One, there's nothing to join the woman to to do or accomplish. The lady has nothing to boast of her husband. No already made or ongoing accomplishments on a thing called "work!" Also, there's no place to make arrival or proper arrival into. For Adam to have a house to bring his bride into, God had to earlier plant a garden for his sake. 

The idea of "planting" a garden suggests a work deliberately done and crafted through hardwork for someone's comfort. God intentionally invested in that garden to make it home-looking and comfy for Adam and the woman he later takes. 

Adam didn't post a poster for a wife. The moment God planted a garden, put him there to work and till it, he was lost doing that until God sees that, "how good it'll be if He has someone to work with, to keep his company, to gist with, discuss work with and closely do life with?" Adam was busy serving the will of God where he was put. He didn't even know he needed a wife. But, God saw the need for one and made preparation for it. I don't know if this has ever happened to you before. But if you're an obedient serving son or daughter of your parents, they'll often come home with things you really need that you never for once talked about with them.

Listen, those who served their Father must be served. Their needs would be taken care of. God will mind them. God will so much mind them that other insolent and rejecters of God's work would ask in envy, "what is man or XYZ that you are mindful of him Lord and the son of man that you care for him" (Psalm 8:4)?

Wherever you are, if you are sent of God and put there like Adam was put in a garden Eastward of Eden, you'll be taken care of. God will meet your needs. He's the One who sees. He sees the need of Hagar (Gen.21:17, 19). If you'll be jealous for God and be lost in the work or purpose He has called you to, you'll also see Him meet what is next in your life that you even don't acknowledge or consciously know is next. 

PRAYER: I give myself away to serving the will of God for my life.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Mark 10:32-52 & Numbers 14-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 3/03/2025

MONDAY- 3RD MARCH, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

GOD IS MAKING SENSE - Marital Series 002

Genesis 2:18, KJV 

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

In a series I began yesterday, you saw how God began to make sense when He said to His listening audience - the rest of the Godhead, "it is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him an help meet for him."

God just didn't carelessly say that. He said it having observed that the necessary requirements have been put on ground. This instruction, "it is not good that the man should be alone..." is not meant for a jobless or let's say a purposeless individual who hasn't found what to live for. Not at all! 

How did I know that? When God said, "it is not good that the man should be alone...", He had one man in mind and that was Adam. Adam who God made in His image, gave life to by breathing into his nostrils, gave work of tilling and dressing the garden to and who God bound with certain instructions of not eating the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden. That is the state of the man God could turn and say to, "it is not good that the man should be alone..." 

Anything short of this is compromising that standard and the consequences would prove the violators wrong even in the nearest future.

So, if you're there thinking God is a pamperer who is careless about correct preparation, you're probably in error. God Himself took Adam through the process of having a home and a work (purpose) before bringing up the issue of marriage to his face. The Bible says, "and the Lord planted a garden Eastward of Eden, there He puts the man which He had created" (Gen. 2:8). Adam therefore has a home and a work. He has a place to bring a wife into and a work that is big enough that needs a co-labourer. Until Adam is this endowed with responsibilities to discharge, God didn't bring him someone who could relieve or closely serve as his assistant or burden bearer. 

You don't have the big mouth to say, "and it is not good that I should be alone", when you have no shelter and no definite work that you're doing. So, God was making sense when He said, "it is not good that the man should be alone..." That came from His observation that everything has been set and put in place for a woman. Even if she's brought to Adam now, it'll be good timing. 

That reveals him as a fair and thoughtful God. God's thought was, "Adam already has what it takes to be a husband, why delay again?" Through this, God lays for us a criteria and a road to walk even as men who anticipate a help meet in one's life. Are you ready to receive Eve? Do you have the preparation for receiving her on ground?

PRAYER: May I not trivialize the processes that eventually make things smooth. May I pass the test of a man who's ready not to be alone.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Mark 10:1-31 & Numbers 11-13

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 2/03/2025

SUNDAY- 2ND MARCH, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN IT IS NO LONGER GOOD TO BE ALONE - Marital Series 001

Genesis 2:18, KJV

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

There's a time when it is no longer good to be alone. It might have been good and okay before then. However, as any man or woman grows and progresses in his or her life's journey, he or she will get to a place where he or others would discover for him that it's no longer good or ethical that he or she should be alone. 

If you're a Bible reader, you'll observe that it wasn't the first day God created Adam He came to the realization that it was not good for Adam to be alone - therefore making or bringing him a mate. God had created Adam for awhile; Adam had lived for awhile as a fully grown up body or adult before the thought of creating the woman or giving her to Adam ever came up. If we were to look at the Bible, we would see proof of this in verses that ran ahead of the verse that says, "it is not good that the man should be alone."

God formed the man in Gen.2:7 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. From that verse to 15 where Adam was put in the garden to dress and keep it while navigating downward to 16-17 where he was instructed not to eat of the tree in the middle of the garden which can cause death; you'll see through this walk that Adam existed and was allowed a time to breathe before the issue of marriage was brought up into his life. First is the work given to him. He was given the work of dressing and tilling the garden. From there, he was instructed on what not to do in order to test his love and obedience. 

It is dangerous bringing the issue of marriage up with a man who has not first discovered his purpose and put within the confines of God's allowing. If we were to metaphorically take this process of Adam and spread it on ours, I'll say getting to the stage or state where you realize you need a spouse takes time. It won't happen while you were in primary school and God didn't plan it happens while you were in secondary school also. God plans that you should have succeeded in finding your foot - knowing your purpose - having a life work you're pouring yourself into amidst the many instructions of God you're living up to before a season would come in your life where community of men, either through your parents or those with oversights over you would say, "don't you think you need a wife or husband? Imagine! You have everything. Here's a job! Here's an apartment and more importantly, you have a purpose or calling you're fulfilling that needs the help of a partner - one who'll be closer than a friend. Even your age also demands one! At such a time as this, one should consider marriage indeed. 

This is when it is no longer good to be alone. At such times, seeing the opposite sex near you brings comfort and not anxiety or fear. There are times and stages of one's life when it is thoroughly good to be alone however. If you aren't alone at that time, you might later become a failure in life. At such time, you need focus and the concentration of a single lady or man who needs time to have become somebody and have some achievements etched before any other person joins you. For Adam, God didn't just bring Eve to join him. God created and brought Eve to him when some foundations of achievements had been laid - part of which includes work or purpose. 

There's a time to be alone and a time when before God and humanity it is no longer good to be alone. What season are you? Ensure you do not desire one season to the detriment of another. Become who you should be and lay the foundation while a single so that when you bring another person into your life, there can be enough work for the fellow you're bringing into your life to do with you. 

PRAYER: I know "when" and when "when" is not! I understand seasons of life and manifest marriage or other key blessings at its time.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Mark 9:33-50 & Numbers 9-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 12/02/25

WEDNESDAY - 12TH FEBRUARY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE DEMANDS OF THE CALLING 

I Timothy 3:1-4, KJV

"1 This is a true saying, if a man desires the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity"

I began to press on a matter based solely on the called and calling on my ministry's platform. It is that, "in the calling of the called, you're called" or let me say if you're a close affinity of a calling, there are expectations and demands waiting on you.

I have heard ministers' children say they were not allowed to live their lives - the bohemian flamboyant life they see others live. They meant a life of rebellion and secularity like other children whose parents didn't carry the call. When they speak like this, they do with a sense of pride, accusing their parents of pretense for planning them up for a hypocritical living. 

Their parents didn't intend to. Those children became so because at first they didn't want to be "tied" like their parents. We all know the story of the tied colt which Jesus rode into Jerusalem. While others were free rangers because no expectation was on them, this one was tied and consecrated for a life and a purpose. All her life, it awaits that purpose to be fulfilled.

Such children's parents who are called into ministry are clearly tied for the Lord's use. Upon heeding the call to ministry, they know this and live in its light. However, their young chaps might want to show an exception, saying, "it is daddy or mummy God called and not us".

You might not have been called truly but that you're a spouse or child of the called places obligation and expectations on you also. You're not different from your father or mother who are tied colts and can't do whatever they like because their calling places restrictions and certain demands on them. 

So, stop justifying sin and your wanting to rebel but being curtailed from doing so. Does the Bible not say any who desires the office of a bishop must have his children in subjection with all gravity. Imagine that! So, why did you want to pull yourself out of God's order and process which he specifically called for because your parents have yielded to Him in ministry?

That's the special task upon your parents who are called. God and the Bible made that demand on them and on yourself. They are only enforcing it. So, stop seeing your parents as callous and dull - ones who don't want you to enjoy your adolescence. Every right enjoyment should be within certain confines. If not, you can drink poison and harmful substances and call it feasting. 

Does everybody not know that if your father is a political figure, business mogul or famed person that it places a responsibility on you like never before to act in consonance to protect that name and hard earned reputation. There's a way such people are viewed. Certain behaviours are expected from them and those connected with them. ...and I tell you the truth, they school their kids on that except for the rebellious amidst them. Have you seen children or spouses of the political figures of your country act anyhow like other human beings even if they are amoral? Do you see them walk the streets all around? Would you just catch their glimpses like that? No! They're classified and "tied" according to the demands of the office of their parents. 

Listen, once again, if your father or mother is called, that calling affects you. No one lives in denial of that. Even when Jesus heeded His call and started His ministry, her mother was affected as Jesus was not always at home. One time, Mary and other children had to come seek Jesus out (Matt.12:46-47). So, stop fighting with what is your blessedness and peculiarity. Your heritage is good. Don't let anyone demonize it. What sort of life do you want? One that is pruned of acts that cut life short or that prolongs it?

May you see this and bathe proudly in your consecration and heritage!

PRAYER: Lord, help our young ones to submit to your righteous process. Teach them the importance of consecration.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Leviticus 3-4

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 11/02/2025

 TUESDAY - 11TH FEBRUARY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE VIRTUE OF WORK

Ephesians 4:28, KJV

"Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth."

As you grow, you'll get to a place where you're weaned from selfishness. You'll get to a place where you identify needs and thirst being a vessel through which they could be met. If there's a need, let us say an announced need and you have nothing to give especially when you desire to do so and are filled with compassion for the needy, you'll resolve that it isn't good seeing needs and being limited or hindered from attending to it because of personal lack or want. 

In many places in the Bible, we're encouraged on the virtue of work and thorough hardwork. Anyone who's praying for the Lord's blessing is a man who should be ready to work. By the time God's blessings (a spiritual substance) comes upon you, it'll need physical manifestation of hard work to manifest realistically to everyone. Joseph carried the blessing though a slave but he still had to work. Only that at working, everything he touches results in midas' touch. 

When we work, we do so to fulfill a commandment that gets us armed with potential to meet our personal obligations and that of others. God is always making us our brother's keeper. How many of you had wanted to give help somewhere before only to find out that you are powerless economically or materially? Towards eliminating this reason, we're commanded to work. We're to work so that instead of being at the receiving end (the one everybody helps), we're at the giving end. This way, we'll fulfill Jesus' word that says it's better to give than receive (Acts 20:35). 

If you don't work, you won't be empowered to meet your needs and that of others. More so, don't think God will rain manna down from heaven for you. The means through which God provides for anyone including those working in His vineyard full time is through the body called work. Even the Bible says concerning those ones, "let he who is taught spiritual things share or communicate physical things with he who teaches him" (I Cor. 9:11, Gal. 6:6). As one labour at the ministry of the Word, his supplies are meant to come through those who are being ministered to and blessed by those words. 

God's target is not to make you the blessed only but a blessing. It's to the end, "that you may be able to give to him that needs." He wants to make you a channel and pass resources through you to those in earnest needs. Have you not read the verse which says, "and God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work" (II Cor.  9:8). 

God's intent is to pass resources to you. He wants to use you to eradicate physical needs and even spiritual. Just because of that, He'll go the extra mile of blessing you and ensuring you're independent, buoyant and having all sufficiency so you could minister to others. It is sufficiency in all things! See, you're blessed for others' sake. Don't hoard it.

PRAYER: I have all sufficiency in all things as to be able to give.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Leviticus 1-2

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/02/2025

 MONDAY - 10TH FEBRUARY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

COME AND HEAL MY SON

John 4:46-47, KJV

"46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death."

The care of parents goes beyond the ordinary for their children. Oftentimes, you'll see parents wish that the evil that would befall their little ones befall them. As it lies in their power, they want to do all to protect them from pain and any form of suffering. The thoughts are even high if the child is a baby. 

Indeed, if you have seen a little child endure pain before, you might wish the same. Thinking that way isn't at all wrong. It shows love - sacrificial love that wants to bear the burdens and sufferings of another as his. Jesus borne our griefs and even carried our sorrows (Isa.53:4). Everything was laid upon him just for our sake. 

To hear that one child is at the point of death and there's a solution somewhere is a solution already found. No matter your ego or hatred for that quarters where your solution is, just for the sake of your kid, you'll tread that road to receive that solution for him. Anyone can get to a place where his effort, money or worldly assets cannot give him the breakthroughs he's looking for. At such moments, we learn the vanity in those things and come to put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the healer and doer and giver of all good things. 

Considering the man in this passage, you'll see that he has no shame in begging for help from Jesus. He didn't say, "Jesus is a man who's no different from him!" If he holds unto that, his son would die because of his ego. Rather, he leaves all, meets Jesus and asks him for help. He tells him, "my son is sick, come and heal him." Many times when we find ourselves in unpleasant situations, we don't ask. We only worry or complain. At times, we get angry at God who we'll accuse of watching when things went wrong. That shouldn't be our attitude. Such an attitude blames the Creator instead of understanding the message in the situation that has come upon us. Not this man however. He asked! The Bible says, "till now, ye have not asked. Ask that your joy may be complete" (John 16:24). This man asked. To ask another for help takes some sort of humility. It is asking for what you don't have. It is the acknowledging of the power of he who has. This man asked and he received. Jesus tells him, "go, your son is healed."

No bargaining! It comes to pass just that way. His son was healed and I could imagine the happiness. You won't lose your issue. Irrespective of the condition surrounding their birth or existence, they shall be made whole. Beyond what medical science can attend to, God will also have mercy on them. He'll touch them and be their healer. Your love and desire to see them whole shall come to pass and your labour over them shall not be futile. Amen!

PRAYER: Call God into your critical situation. Tell Him to come and amend it. Tell Him the criticality of it. Don't withhold anything from Him. You'll see His hands.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Exodus 39-40

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