MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 2/05/25

FRIDAY- 2ND MAY, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DON'T SHIPWRECK YOURSELF!

Acts 1:24-25, KJV

"24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

"Shipwreck" is a ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains. While this is a noun, the verb takes meaning from this same usage i.e shipwrecked! Figuratively also, 'shipwreck' means destruction; disaster; failure; ruin or an irretrievable loss. I'll like your sight to be directed to the last of those meanings - "irretrievable loss." 

A new vessel, made and destined to sail the high sea can hit the iceberg, get damaged and be nothing but a shadow of itself - never sailing again. When this happens, we call such vessel a shipwreck. That is, a vessel that was once working but which suddenly met its end. You must ensure you don't become a shipwreck especially by your personal choosing. A lady can become a shipwreck by sleeping around until she attracts a notoriety that makes men shoo her away. In short, don't disqualify yourself from the race. You can still carry the anointing even when you've disqualified yourself from the race. You can still retain your skills even after losing your limbs with which to forge tools. All these are possibilities though the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (Rom.11:29). However, this is a call to watch lest he that stands falls or disqualifies himself. 

You can by your carelessness and your own allowing shipwreck yourself. Samson did when he started acting contrarily to instructions that could have preserved and protected his calling. There are certain things that can cause disrepute to an anointed minister in ministry. Money, women and fame can cause you disrepute and though the oil is still on you, people's estimation for you would have changed. If you fall into a well established adultery, people can forgive you but they'll sure change their minds concerning you. Immediately, their estimation that has been drawing your anointing would stop and it'll suddenly seems as if God is not using you for same people again. If you cannot plough through or endure until you breakthrough from this cycle of failure, you'll give up as a minister, call things irretrievable and eventually burst yourself open like Judas Iscariot did. As in, you might kill yourself as a way of escape from the embarrassment and shame that's now following you and the ministry. 

Consider Gehazi! He shipwrecked himself. What shouldn't take him out took him out. All he eventually became was a mere story teller - doing so for bread (II Kings 8:4). Instead of narrating in the anointing or talk about his master as a testimony in his own teaching series, he was doing it in the king's palace after being pettily asked to talk and make Elisha's ministry known to the king. His covetousness costs him the anointing. Where Elisha could have pardoned him; he rather cursed him with leprosy, reaping the harvest of his greediness (II Kings 5:27). Eventually, he was disqualified from ministry and was nowhere to be found in or around it again. He shipwrecked himself! He caused his own very downfall. 

Judas Iscariot also shipwrecks himself. In essence, he made himself of no use. What you must know is that you can make yourself unworthy of God's call. After his betrayal of Jesus, he was overrun by guilt. He did nothing but to commit suicide. Would this have happened if he had kept himself from covetousness? At day's end, the voice testifying against him says, "let us find another person to take the ministry that Judas Iscariot left to go to his own place."

Acts 1:25, KJV

"...that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

What place did he go? The place of the dead! You must ensure you go no other place except to stay in the calling perpetually. You're meant to grow from strength to strength in the calling. The moment you go outside of that, you'll begin to diminish. When the Bible says, "the path of the just is as the shining light that shines more and more unto the perfect day" (Prov.4:18), it means you'll increase in strength in something you persist in and not in what you treat as a hit and run. So, don't go to any other place. Don't be found amidst those who shipwrecked themselves. Don't number yourself with the failed or the dead! Stay in the calling! Don't choose a contrary fate of being a broken or unyielding vessel who had to be turned to the potter's field. Yield today and walk the path of the calling in spirit and in truth! 

PRAYER: Open my sight Lord to every agent, habit and act that's prepping me for a shipwreck.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Luke 24:36-53 & II Samuel 12-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 01/05/2025

THURSDAY- 1ST MAY, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

DON'T FALL BY THE WAY SIDE!

Luke 8:5, KJV

"A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it."

If you look at the parable of the sower, you'll see that amidst the four instances given, the worst of it is the first instance of seeds falling along the way. 

We have seeds that fell upon a rock which as soon as it was sprung up, withered away, because it lacked moisture. Some even fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked them while others fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. All these three examples entered the race. Two of the three then began and manifested partially even if it was for a short while. The seeds that fell on the rock at least sprang up but only withered because it had no genuine roots. At least, it sprang up (started life) from being a seed. The seeds that fell amidst thorns also sprang up though they were eventually choked by the thorns. They also refused to remain seeds only. They changed status into plants and walked a distance. Lastly, the seeds that fell on the good ground. It sprang up and brought forth a hundred fold. However, the seeds that fell along the way couldn't go any further. It didn't enter the competition of metamorphosing from seeds to plants at all, even if it'll then die later. It rather has the destiny of dying along the way and too early in its journey. It never pushed any distance at all. From the moment it fell, it was destined to be cut short, with no eyes seeing and any ear hearing of its manifestation (even if it'll be short lived). Because they fell along the way, they faced the greatest form of humiliation. The Bible says, "they were trodden down" (assaulted and humiliated by men) because of their choice of falling wrongly and not at least into any of the three other positions, where at least they could have been hidden from the carelessness of men and exhibited longevity for a while. 

The Lord is sending you a warning. When you fall, don't be the seeds that fall along the way side. Don't be found in that zone. It honours no one. Those that fell along the wayside ended before they started. They never entered the race set before them or manifested to any extent before being cut off. They never sprang up even if it'll then be one challenge or the other they'll then confess to have faced. Rather, they're trodden under foot by men and eliminated and eaten up by the birds of the air. What does, "trodden under foot" remind you? It probably takes you back to the salt that has lost its savour and has now become good for nothing (Matt.5:13). Having lost its value and having no contribution or benefits to add to its holder, only one thing befits it - to be excused from the house, from the watchful sight of the householder, from the esteem of the householder and casted without and trodden upon by men. "Trodden upon by men" is an insult that has to be endured by anything or anyone that has lost its value. Consider Samson who became a toy in the hands of the Philistines after losing his precious grace and eyes (Judges 16:25). Men might have esteemed you before. They might have bowed the head and brought you salutations when you passed. However, if you lose your value (your savour), which the whole world respects and through which you benefit them, you'll immediately be cast out and trampled upon by men. They'll call you, "that man of yesterday" and shoot the mouth at you. It'll immediately show that you have violated a law and shifted from your esteemed position of value to being valueless - having lost what brought delight to the members of your calling, the very thing that was protected by some entities when the trees wanted to make them king (Judges 9:8-10). They said individually, "should I leave my wine, oil etc by which men are delighted and be esteemed over the trees?" They have come to the realization of one thing. If they should let their values slip, they'll later pay for it. It's rather better continuing in purpose and the giving of value. It's better to delight people continuously and give them that same ministration of old. That's what makes anyone relevant. That's what makes people ask for more. That's what keeps them also in demand. 

There will be those who will fall by the way side. In their Christian or ministerial journeys, they'll become victims, falling by the way side having gone their way or choosing their lot like Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:25). If you're observant, you'll see that all the verses talking about those seeds said, "and some fell", indicating personal choice and role in forming one's destiny. Don't die along the way. Enter into the competition and walk up to the peak of expectation and manifestation. Go into Jordan, because that is where the fullness of harvest is. Don't just peep and see Jordan from here! Don't be that way contented. More importantly, don't wither before you manifest neither allow yourself to be choked by any life's challenge. Rather, seek to manifest in hundred fold the potentials and grace in you. Some may also choose to manifest in thirty or sixty folds but you should manifest at the peak of God's expectation for you (Matt.13:8). Do hundred fold! Go that length. That's when all your potentials could have been lived up to, seen and experienced. Don't be a plant or tree that started growing and died or one that started growing and didn't bring forth fully as expected. After escaping all those things that cut other plants short or even prevent some seeds from manifesting as plants, you must ensure you survive, endure and bear much fruit (in hundred fold)!

PRAYER: Father, I bow before you for strength and the grace of continuing until I see my manifestation in a hundred fold. I won't die by the way side or be discouraged by pressure or persecutions. Never deterred, I move!

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 5:14-7:73a; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Psalm 33:1-11; Proverbs 21:8-10

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YOUR PROPHETIC WORD: LET DOWN YOUR NET FOR A DRAUGHT!

LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A CATCH

That's what I just heard. I heard, "tell them to let down their nets for a catch."

Luke 5:4, KJV

"Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught."

God doesn't make announcements or pronouncements without having sighted something. A dog does not bark if he hasn't seen a thing. So, when God told Peter to, "let down his nets for a draught", it was because of what Jesus had seen and knew was coming or will soon happen. 

Peter is no longer here but you are here. I heard this word concerning you. It came fresh to my spirit. I heard God say, "let down your nets for a draught."

It means, "ready for an opportunity." As it's occurring to my mind, you've sown somewhere and God sees that a harvest is coming. That's what He's readying you for. So, when He said, "let down your nets for a draught", it may mean, "pay attention to your journey as you go henceforth so that your harvest doesn't pass you by."

If Peter didn't get ready or prepare for the foretold harvest coming by letting down his nets for a catch, though the catch was there (in the water) at that time, it would have scattered and gone.

God may also be speaking to some people that He wants to bless or make to reap the reward of their service to Him. He really doesn't want them to miss it. He loves them that much. So, before it springs up, He announces it to them. So, He's announcing beforehand, "let down your nets for a catch."

Why many miss opportunities is because they aren't aware of it. You'll hear such say, "but I didn't know." But God wants you to know: to be aware on the matter that concerns you. There's a Yoruba proverb that says, "O n bo, O n bo, awon la n dede."

It means, "what is foretold should be prepared for." If you have an announcement or receive a notice or gossip that your mother in law is visiting, that notice is to prepare you. A married lady would know what to put in place before her arrival.

If the mother in law is a difficult one, the lady knows she needs to prepare her mind and trust God for things. She'll know she'll need to commit things into God's hands while resolving to please her. Notices are to prepare you. God is still repeating it and I'm feeling it. He's saying, "let down your nets for a catch." Simply put, this is harvest time. Harvest is on the way! The fishes are whirling and gathering! The harvest is being put together (just for you). Your reward is at hand but you need a basket, a net, a vessel and preparation and readiness to draw it into your ship. Else it slips!

The preparation you put in place for what you're expecting depends on what you're readying for.

I'm hearing a complementing Bible verse in my spirit now. 

II Kings 4:3, KJV

"Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few."

That's Elisha speaking to that widow with little oil in the jar. He instructed her to "go and borrow vessels and not a few" just for the sake of the harvest He had perceived in the spirit coming her way.

"Go borrow vessels of all your neighbors, not a few."

What was Elisha saying? "Something is coming your way; continuous flow of oil is coming your way. You can't sense or see it but I could sense it. I'm even smelling it. As such, go and gather what is needed to harvest it and collect it to the fullest of the opportunity that'll be sent.

God doesn't want your collection of it not to equal or correspond with what He'll send. So, borrow vessels not a few!

His saying that you should borrow vessels not a few is not only an instruction but a warning. A warning that if you don't have vessels on ground, the (coming) oil will be wasted. 

Peter didn't know of the harvest to come neither did this woman discern the same too. But Jesus could discern what was coming his own way and Elisha knew also what was coming this woman's way. So, they said, "get ready. Let down your nets for a catch and get vessels ready for the oil!"

I perceive another thing in the spirit. God wants to make some of you prophets - watchmen for others. He wants to make you that man who senses, knows, perceives even before it arrives and can sensitize men to ready themselves for it. 

In these two places I just quoted from, Jesus could predict a harvest coming Peter's way though has not manifested and Elisha also could predict a coming blessing of the flowing oil even when it hasn't manifested.

Just on that story alone, I'm hearing a number of verses in my spirit. I'll quote them all and use it as the Spirit of God intends.

I Kings 18:41, "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain."

II Kings 6:32, "But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

Did you read these two recent verses I posted? First, Elijah told Ahab to run for shelter ere the rain (that has not come but which will come which he has heard and perceived) stops him. Imagine that! He was fulfilling this scripture.

Isaiah 42:9, "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them."

He was fulfilling..."before they spring forth, I tell you of them."

The same was manifested by Elisha. He knew a messenger of death was coming for him even when that one was still on his way to his base. He hasn't even arrived! Due to having information before hand therefore, he puts preparation in place and escapes..

God wants to make you "seer" and "mouth" for men. You'll see, perceive and hear before hand so as to be able to declare to them what the Lord is doing (that's on the way of being manifested as tangibilities). 

Begin to perceive! Begin to see! Begin to hear! Begin to understand even before the action! Events will no longer catch you unawares! Know things! Receive the mind of Christ and operate by the same!

Jesus manifested that mind. He told Peter, "let down your nets for a catch." Was it for nothing he said that? Obviously no. We knew that because we saw what became of Peter when he heeded that instruction. The same happened to that widow woman who was instructed and warned of gathering vessels in preparation for her coming harvest. 

She was even given specifics - "don't gather a few vessels." That was because what God wanted to do was not minimal or small. The harvest would be terrible and much to bear in few vessels.

Jesus knew what harvest was coming Peter's way when He also instructed him to, "let down his NETS for a catch." Not one NET but NETS (all he has or uses to fish) for the harvest would be much. So, you too, release your faith! Let down your nets for a catch. A harvest is coming your way and some of you know it already. You know what that is. God is saying, "put preparation in place fully so that you can have it all lest some slip back into the waters."

Listen to God's anointed servant, the one whose mouth God has polished like the arrow's. "A harvest is coming your way!"

I say, "the season has come upon you. The season when your oil will flow without ceasing. The hour when the fishes you have looked for all the night (without sighting one) would gather for you. 

You're reaping where you have failed till now and that's because it's God's Word aiding and abating you this time around. You're reaping with it the additional return of all your vain labours of the past. That's why Peter harvested fishes that could account for his last night toil yet just a catch. Just one catch!

You'll experience a return and harvest that'll complement for all past efforts and failures. It'll make you fall on your knees and worship the Lord Jesus, even like Peter did. The awe will shake you. 

You'll inclose a great multitude of fishes. Your net(s) will break and your ship(s) will sink. 

I hear the sound of an abundance of rain. I am hearing footsteps at the door.

I'm perceiving a harvest coming your way. Release your faith for it sons and daughters of God. Your faith will take it! Don't waver! Don't be like a double minded man. Such don't receive from God. They always lose out as they are tossed to and fro. 

It's your faith that'll take what God is bringing. Let down your nets for a catch. Release all your faith. Don't withhold. Don't! 

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

AN EASTER MESSAGE: ROLLED BACK AND SAT UPON!

ROLLED BACK AND SAT UPON!

Do you believe the Lord Jesus Christ, "has borne your griefs, carried your sorrows?" Do you anyway know and affirm that, "he was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities: the chastisement of your peace laid upon him; and that with his stripes you are healed?" [Isa.53:4-5].

You may know theoretically and not have learnt or proven it by experience. However, those are the things Jesus' sufferings, death, burial and resurrection did for us. And even many more! They are your vital benefits but you may discount them and not draw them into your life.

Today, God wants to offer you enlightenment for short. In a passage of the Bible, we read the story of certain caring women of Jesus' team rushing to His grave but with one concern, "who'll roll away the stone for us." They took thought for that since the rock carved and put as a cover on the tomb's mouth (or entrance) isn't what they have strength to roll away. But what was their experience? They found out that it has been rolled away. An angel it should be (a being that excels in strength) had done that before their arrival.

Mark 16:3-4, KJV

"3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? 4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great."

Now, coming into another book of the Synoptic Gospel, we can see God's angel rolling back the stone on Jesus' tomb and then sitting on it. Not only was "the challenge, problem, sickness, affliction, death, reproach, sin etc" rolled back or away but it was taken by he who rolled it away and sat on (Jesus in this case). Read!

Matthew 28:2, KJV 

"And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it."

Did you read, "and sat on it." It was an angel who descended from heaven in this verse, rolled back the stone and sat upon it but that is the exact thing Jesus did spiritually for us. The story of this angel 'rolling back and sitting on' just metaphorically describes what Jesus did. As a matter of fact, the process is the same. Jesus descended from heaven, having taken on flesh (Matt.2:1, John 1:14, Phil.2:6-8). He was therefore born as a human. He then rolled back the stone (by doing all the things we earlier read in Isa. 53:4-5 and many more for us) when he had suffered, was crucified, dead and had risen. He not only carried our sorrows, borne our griefs or took our sins upon Himself, He rolled it away and this shows in the forgiveness and offer of the righteousness He gave us (Isa.1:18). 

1 Peter 2:24, KJV

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."

Our sins and other evils of ours that he bore paints the image of "rolling and sitting on." When that angel "sat on" that stone, it means having, possessing or taking it for himself. For short, He keeps them all with Himself. He collected 'those concerns and evil fate of ours" and made them His. He collected them, carried them, and possessed them for Himself that we may be free, sinless and new. 

God has not only rolled the reproach away, He is also sitting on it now. He has borne it all by Himself. "Sitting upon something" also shows sovereignty over that thing. It shows your mastering it. It portrays you as the conqueror and that thing as the conquered. That's absolute victory. The same way, David stood over Goliath in victory (I Sam.17:51)! The same way, we were promised we'll tread or trample over serpents and scorpions (Lk.10:19). All these verses show absolute victory over something! Christ's is absolute victory over death, sin and consequences of sin. He rolled it back and sat upon it (taking it for Himself and exercising authority over death).

During the silent period of Jesus in the grave, He fought with death and conquered death. Death is therefore swallowed up in victory. We then can jointly say, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"(1 Corinthians 15:55). Jesus is now 'sitting' on death, having rolled it back. So, we are no longer fearful of death. We have hope of eternal life with Christ. 

Say, "...Jesus (not an angel now) rolled back the heavy stone of sin, sickness, diseases, ancestral curse, fear of death, death itself etc and sits on them all in total and absolute victory. 

His victory is our victory. What He does for us is our inheritance and heritage as co-heirs with Him. We therefore live in this knowledge and effect them in our daily living even when we perceive a contrariness that the devil might want to put on us through his lies or deception. 

Look, He (Jesus Christ, not an angel now) has rolled it all away and sat on it. He took it all. He took the shame, the reproach! That's why he that rolled away the stone was also the one who possessed it by sitting on it and having it for himself. It shouldn't harm you any longer. That's because it has been sovereignly subjugated by Christ Jesus, the conqueror of death and all evils. 

As we celebrate Easter, come into this understanding and live in this revelation. Whenever you perceive sickness, fear of death or whatsoever being brought back to your mind, body or into your situation but which Jesus already finalized by rolling away and sitting on, it's time to stand firm in your faith to resist it in the multitude of the knowledge you have in Christ Jesus. 

What has been rolled back and sat on is not intended to come back and hurt or haunt you. Even then, Satan would still want to deceive you with their potency. But, you must know such finished works of Christ that neutralizes those afflictions Satan may want to recall in your life. You must believe in those finished works, affirm them and live them out.

It's possible because the life you now live in the flesh is lived by faith in the Son of God who died and gave His life for you (Gal.2:20). Let God therefore live in/through you. Let Him breathe in you and step by step exhibit and act this victory continuously through you. That's when you can live over sin and all satanic evils. In essence, that verse asserts God teaching/helping us to live in our victorious new life! He'll teach you! He'll help you!

Remember, He (Jesus and not an angel) has rolled back the 'stone' and sat on it! It's an act of absolute victory. Conquered and never to rise! Keep it that way!

Happy Easter Brethren!

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/04/25

FRIDAY - 4TH APRIL, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WE ARE SEEING OUR SIGNS!

Psalms 74:9, KJV

"We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."

You may not know but it is actually a kind of mercy if you can see signs that signal or prompt you to actions. In series one of this teaching, I had briefly mentioned this. Don't you think the invalids at the pool of Bethesda wouldn't have known what to do if there's no marker given them, announcing what action should follow that marker?

John 5:3, KJV

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

Do you think they would have been that prompt - attentive and hurrying for the pool all at once if they haven't first of all sensed the water having been moved or stirred? 

I tell you, none of them would have moved an inch. However, for the moving of the water. The moving of the water is a sign set to prompt them into action. Afore then, the Bible says this about them. "In these lay a great multitude..." You see, all of them were lying fallow in inactivity there. There won't be any change until that subtle announcement that the water has been stirred is known by all. 

Their attitude and lifestyle change the moment they sight the water being moved. Irrespective of what they might have been indulging in, they let go to launch into the pool. It doesn't matter whether they were eating, bantering for something, shaving or doing whatsoever. As soon as they perceive or hear the whistle that proclaims the pool has been charged with the healing virtue, everybody goes on their track to pick their race for the pool. 

That is why I have come this morning to pray that you won't be without signs or notifications anymore. Without signs, you won't know the appropriate time for an action. As such, you will delay more than necessary. When you're without signs or notifications, you're not different from a log of wood. You just won't recognize the time that has come upon you. You won't be able to read emergencies. You cannot be spurred into action or aroused from your sleep. You'll continually maintain one attitude without changing your lifestyle or seeking to better your life. But that's not the same lot of these invalids. Though they're a bunch of impotent men, at the observation that the water has been stirred, everybody competes and seeks to take a dive for his healing. They'll drop the old attitude of inactivity and embrace the new, calling for prompt action. 

Today, I pray for you, see your signs. Let notifications come before hand to ready you. Hear the sound of the abundance of rain. Decode it for what it is so that you'll be able to warn people in your life to mount their chariots, be on their way lest the rain stops them (I Kings 18:41, 44). May you see your signs, hearing steps and feet of those who are coming your way especially as messengers of death. This way, they can be held at the door before they arrive while you think of a solution and escape (II Kings 6:32). I declare, you're no longer like them. You're not a dead or deaf child who doesn't know or see signs. Before it springs forth, you're told of it henceforth. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: Before it springs forth, God tells me of them. I am awake and aware.

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Luke 10:1-24 & Joshua 20-22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 3/04/25

THURSDAY - 3RD APRIL, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ANY PROPHET AMIDST US!

Psalms 74:9, KJV

"We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."

God can put the responsibility of sensitizing His people to time and season on any of the ministry offices but the office whose it is is actually the prophet's. Even if others share in that responsibility, the office of the prophet is however installed by God to both forthtell and foretell. When it does, giving people certain updates and setting markers for them, people are readied and put in the zone of preparation to anticipate what the Lord wants to do.

When there's no more any prophet among us in our community, it'll lead to we not seeing our signs. The lament in this verse on "not seeing their signs" is because he whose responsibility and call it is to give signs and set markers (by furnishing them with information on what's coming which they should escape or put preparation on ground for and not miss) is no more. The prophet is therefore their eyes and their watcher or watch man according to that verse. He looks into the future for them and having seen something, announces beforehand so that everybody might know what to do and how to behave. 

Also, this office has an equipping to know how long. I don't know what God has promised you. I wouldn't know if there are promises or prophecies that should have come to pass in your life but which are still tarrying. This office and grace in action can tell you how long. It can read and bring you a message (setting a marker and giving you a sign) as to how near such is also. It can tell you, "you're about to catch a net breaking and ship sinking fish. Prepare!" As simple as that is, it is a sign. It makes you to be on the outlook for an opportunity soon coming your way that you must not miss. You've been told about it even before it springs up. You probably have been tutored also on how to mark or decipher it for what it is so it doesn't pass you by. You're therefore not ill prepared but ready to take all that God has prepared for you. This anointing can also move to sensitize you to the time that's right. While others are withholding to sow their seeds, it can exhort and bring you counsel to go into action and by that prosper. It can even tell you to withhold while others are rushing into what they thought is a breakthrough business but because of what it has sighted afar off. Until the crash, you may not agree. 

It is such an office - function and ministry that they lack amidst themselves. As such, they cannot see their signs. As such, all is blank with them. As such, they have no information at hand before the event arrives with which to have prepared. As such, they're forlorned with no one to shed light on their paths. Does the Bible not say in Proverbs 11:14 that, "where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety." Only that the kind of counsel it refers to is beyond the 'normal advice someone gives you but rather it means, "guidance." So, it's like saying, "without guidance, the people perish or fall." Why won't they since they have no one with the call and equipping that sets markers and gives signs for their salvation and benefit. May we stop saying in our own community and wherever we may be that we are void of signs because there is no more any prophet amidst us. If that be, people will just be walking into danger freely with no one to tell them to see what lies ahead. They wouldn't have been warned to hide themselves. You remember the Bible says, "the prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself but the simple passes on and is punished" (Proverbs 27:13). Now, let's ask, "how does the prudent foresee the evil if not but with the prophet's office setting markers and bringing signs or he (the prudent) seeing things himself?" If he had no information at hand, his action also wouldn't have been different. He also would have passed on and would have been punished. However, he does something different which was not unexpected. He hides himself! That's the advantage of seeing one's signs or having been warned! When you have signs at hand and knowing what they signal or point to, you know what to avoid or what to strike. 

I pray for you, henceforth, you won't walk in darkness. Rather, you'll begin to walk in the multitude of counsels meant for your prosperity. God will surround you with men and women with the prophet's grace and mouth so that they'll be able to guide you. Your parents, siblings, superiors etc can become this to you. Why you need this is because your safety is only guaranteed in the multitude of consistent counsel (guidance) that keeps coming to tell you where to go, what to do, what to expect and how to strike. You won't be without counsel any more. If you are, your attitude won't change and you'll remain inactive - taking no action. However, the Lord is setting you in motion today. Amen!

PRAYER: Lord, I am not void of counsel and counsellors. I refuse to be surrounded with lying spirits that'll consequently lead me into harm but upright tongue that'll bring me health and benefits.

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Luke 9:37-62 & Joshua 16-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 2/04/25

WEDNESDAY - 2ND APRIL, 2025

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

SET US A MARKER!

Psalms 74:9, KJV

"We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."

When a marker is set or given to anyone or people; they sure can with that put preparation on ground or deduce how long. When a marker or sign is not set or seen at all, people know not what time to anticipate. They can't even tell when a particular event that's ongoing would come to an end or when exactly to await a predicted one or event. However, signs given or seen can increase hope and assure us of the coming to pass of a thing for which the sign was given. 

Elisha prophesying abundance into the future of Samaria sets a marker. He said in II Kings 7:1, "hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria." Since Elisha is a proven prophet, what any believing person ought to do is to check what time it is first of all and get ready for that time of the day the next day. That's not time to go to sleep or become inactive. It's rather a time of expectation on tip toes. I believe no believing person who heard this sign that Elijah gave went on to commit murder out of hopelessness as it might have been afore planned. Rather, hope was arisen in them to expect for the better. 

In John 5 at the pool of Bethesda, we see a community of invalids waiting for the moving of the water. The moving of the water is the sign or marker set in place for them. Once that sign is clearly seen, well interpreted and understood, everybody will immediately cast away all hindrances and begin to compete to touch the empowered or stirred water. But first of all, a sign had to be set for them. Else, nobody will know and there won't be any difference in action.

When a marker is not set or a sign put in place, people don't have a focused vision of what to do nor change their attitude. As long as the water is not visibly seen stirred (seeing it moving and dangling), nobody rushes towards the pool in strong action. It's not different from sounding a counch. If well interpreted, it could mean retreat or advance to battle. 

The Bible says, "we see not our signs..." That's the unfortunate situation these people found themselves in. They had no marker by which they could understand how long or how far. The entire horizon was just filled with silence for them. No guidance of any sort. They were just empty headed not knowing what to do because no information has been given to them to prepare them or make them ready. They were alone. You could call them "the forlorn." There was inactivity and no hope of what to do because no marker has been set to get the people ready for action. If only somebody would blow the whistle or release a gun shot into the air, that's when people can take off. However, nobody gives that sign. A marker or sign can be in a set time or predicted date or an event readying or foreshadowing a coming one by which those who have ears can prepare. I pray, may you not be alone. May you have signs to prepare with. May you have several markers to help you wait or anticipate correctly. When others are saying, "we are lost, futile and null in action because we see not our signs", may you say, "I am strong because I'm equipped with signs on when and what to expect." It's a blessing being given signs. It concentrates you on a goal and teaches you what to anticipate. Do you know that there are so many physical things in our realm that signals the coming of an event or season? When a typical African thunderstorm announces itself in the midst of a dark cloud, we may say, it wants to rain. How can you be without signs then? Never! Not again from henceforth. So, see your signs. Signs meant for the arrival of your prophecy. If no sign is given you, how would you know when a thing should elapse or become accomplished like Daniel in Daniel Chapter 9. However, you won't be alone again. Signs will rather be given to you to help you on and on. Receive your signs. Like stars in a dark night are clearly visible, let them so appear to you. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I see my signs. I am armed with signs. I take advantage of the signs..

BIBLE IN A YEAR:

Luke 9:18-36 & Joshua 13-15

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