MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 6/05/2025

TUESDAY- 6TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

WE SHALL BE CONTENT

I Timothy 6:8, KJV

"And having food and raiment let us be therewith content."

May you know rest! There's a way God gives His people rest. It is by ruling their lives with His Word which they adhere to. You can't adhere to the verse above and not enjoy rest. 

This verse above doesn't abuse the ethic of work or thorough work. Rather, it removes you from those who'll blow things up in their bid to be wealthy. In the race to be wealthy, they let go of boundaries. Rather, they're in for anything. You'll hear, "as long as it'll bring money."

While I was with some church members who are spiritual people, we had conversations on relocation both locally and internationally. We zeroed in on how many travel abroad to become slaves without minding hazards that such jobs they have taken might put them into. Not to talk of many who sold everything or sacrificed much to be there but only to be disappointed. Some found out to their dismay that the other side of the fence may not always be green for everybody as painted. They regretted, lifted up their eyes like that rich man in hell and hoped that a little respite would attend to them (Luke 16:23-24). Many of these people are simply those who are not content. Many of them are not poor while in their countries. 

God can give to you rest but you can shoo it away and say it is not satisfactory enough. In our interaction, as we looked at the life that doesn't mind doing anything to earn a living even when it's obviously dangerous, the wife mentioned, "why should we? If we have food and clothing, we shall be content."

God will meet your needs. What you must know is that He'll not leave you alone. "Food and clothing" here refer to your basic needs. Most importantly, that's what any man needs on this earth for survival and proper living. 

Your basic needs include food, clothing, shelter and probably security. If all these are supplied in appropriateness, why the need for the much struggle and sweat we see. Though, God has rested a lot of people by providing these basic needs for them yet they haven't taken this rest by living at that level. They want more and would have it even when God has not increased or promoted them. It is that inordinate ambition that leads to the verses below. 

1Timothy 6:9-10, KJV

"9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

Is God antagonistic of getting rich? No! But, can you follow till He picks you from your basic needs level and makes you rich. You can move from being able to meet all your basic needs to being rich (having to spare and give away). You can change levels on the job you are. If every level is marked by the appropriate promotion/increment, you'll have the testimony of the just man whose path shines more and more unto the perfect day. But some want to manifest this on their own. As such, they'll defy and violate godly and moralistic boundaries to their hurt. 

If we have food and clothing, we shall be content. God knows what you need. He knows that's truly what satisfies. Especially in Africa, we have made it abnormal having food and clothing only (your basic needs). We call such people poor. These are the things that lead to the asking of many questions, "does he have this?" If he's still at the level of meeting basic needs only, he might likely be turned down. But God didn't create us like that. Having that is just an addition that not every one will have but basic needs are necessities that even developed countries recognize and put in place for their citizens. Even in developed nations, their citizens abide by "and if we have food and clothing we shall be content" than many Africans, Asians and those of other continents in their lands. Those people have entered into rest. They don't have any reason to work themselves to death as donkeys. Many of them don't even own private vehicles. They use public transport and nobody stigmatizes them for being poor. Who taught us error? So, that's where God wants us to get to. Where you are free from the opinions of people. Where you are free from the rat race but having released and yielded your life to Christ, He shepherds it even to where green pastures and still water are. Has He not said that His thoughts for you are of good and not of evil to give you a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11). What would change that? That he said he would give you a hope and a future doesn't mean He will necessarily and always make everyone who this word is spoken to wealthy or the richest man. Rather, it means you'll do well in the frame or bowl God has created for you. If you can take care of your family in a way that doesn't bring embarrassment, you haven't failed. 

God wants to put many of you at rest. Don't look for wealth and fall into sin, crime or the occult. Don't look for the wealth that'll jeopardize your health and consequently your life. Any such wealth is not wealth but a disadvantage. What I heard is, "if we have food and clothing, we shall be content." If you're not suffering from inferiority complex and materialism, you'll see that you should indeed be content. Many are on the fields as missionaries. Some have yielded home, their certificates and any thought of personal ambition to God yet God didn't forsake them. He gives them the bread meet for them. They are not rich and they are not poor but they are never tired of life. It never occurs to them to commit suicide. They have peace, they hear from God, contribute to the well being of people and their community and are acknowledged for same. What else do you need?

PRAYER: Lord, teach me contentment anew.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 2:1-25 & II Samuel 20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/05/2025

MONDAY- 5TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

A TOUCH FROM THE CHASE!

John 4:19, KJV

"The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."

God has the address of every living being with Him. He knows what button to press that can activate something in anyone. To have Jacob halt on his thigh only needed being disjointed at the hollow of his thigh. Having done that, he limps on his thigh (Gen.32:24-32). God knows where to touch in you to 'disable', break you down or make you yield. He knows what to say to you to make you cry like a baby or take a second thought for your life. You might have been spared till now but may God confront you with His love that chases men. Once He does, you either manifest like Jacob who limped upon his thigh or you give off a surprising remark like the woman of Samaria who says, "I perceived that you are a prophet." From that juncture, you become open to God even if you've been a closed wall before. 

The gift of the word of knowledge very much is at work here. You can be gifted with this revelatory gift and it can reside permanently in your calling as a minister. But also, you can manifest it as deemed fit by God or when occasion demands for God's purpose. This gift doesn't reside in my own calling permanently but I have manifested it innocently without knowing until I see its confirmation. You can just know things and spit it out just like that. Until it is confirmed by those who came to meet you later, you have no idea what you were saying or doing earlier only that you had hearkened to divine promptings. 

Oftentimes, those who are dedicated to teaching or preaching would exercise this gift because God wants to reveal certain intents in the hearts of certain individuals. However, it resides in the prophet's call (I Cor.12:8). Listen, you may have secrets in your heart, fears residing in your soul but before God, that darkness is as the day. Nothing is hidden before Him and when He's ready to draw out things that reside deep in the secrecy of your heart, it takes no time. No secret is secret with God!

Today, it's my prayer that God will use your ministry as a minister to encounter and deal with people - even to break down walls of resistance, prejudice, bias or fears in them. Many times, humans don't want to reveal their true identity or intentions except by a means that's not ordinary to them through which God forces it up. This exercise of a gift by Jesus here is one. When that woman was touched where she should be touched, she dropped all arguments and consented. She didn't disregard what Jesus said, rather she gave in. Imagine the conversation and her affirmation.

John 4:16-19, KJV

"16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."

Why won't she say, "Sir, I perceived you are a prophet?" Did you see her reverence? That is because what was happening is beyond ordinary. What Jesus couldn't have known ordinarily is what Jesus just told him. "You've had five husbands in time past and even the one you're with is not your husband!" What a knowing! What a shock! From that moment of revelation henceforth, you can see that woman open up to Jesus differently. Even their interaction was much more delightful and smooth. Why? The walls in her are beginning to be dealt with and broken one by one. 

Immediately, you could see her open up to Jesus and agree Jesus was someone special when she said, "Sir, I perceived that you're a prophet." May God use you to figure people out. May God use you as a miraculous tool to reveal the intents of people's hearts, so much more that they'll wonder if someone had conferred with you to tell them your story. The end is not to be praised but to lead such to the Lord Jesus and win his or her soul for Christ. Manifestation of a gift is meant to be a sign mostly to the unbelievers to turn their hearts back to their Creator in the days of their youth and when they haven't had much wasted years. Even if you're an old fellow with wasted years, God's call is the same to you. He loves you the same way and calls you too. This woman of Samaria is not a small lady. A woman who has been all around isn't small in age or inexperienced but Jesus still brought her in. May this consume us as ministers. May we not be spoiled by physical food but confess to those who care to hear that, "we have meat to eat which they know not of (John 4:31-36)." What meat if not to do the will of God and to finish it? What meat if not to chase after souls and have them won for Jesus? May this be your testimony and not the running after debauchery or vanity! 

PRAYER: Lord, transform me and use me to meet Your utmost needs in people. Take my lips and let them speak!

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 2:1-25 & II Samuel 20-21

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 4/05/2025

SUNDAY- 4TH MAY, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

INHERITED THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE 

Hebrews 6:12, KJV

"That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."

Yesterday, we began to see those who are worthy to be followed or imitated. They are those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. This way, God separated between those we can follow and those we should never attempt to follow. It immediately tells us that God didn't rubber stamp some lives or processes. However, He approves of the journey of those who inherited promises through faith and patience. 

Nobody tells you the road will be smooth. Nobody promises you that once you receive a promise, you'll have no warfare. Jesus has spoken well when He said, "in this world, you will face tribulation but be of good cheer, I have conquered the world" (John 16:33). While victory is yours at day's end, you can't but face some hardships which proves and prunes you. While you're facing them, holding onto God's promises for you could only be by faith and patience. 

God promised Abraham an heir. That promise had to be waited for. Sarah just didn't conceive like Mary conceived when the angel of the Lord broke the news to her. There was a delay - a long period of silence in Abraham's and Sarah's lives. As a matter of fact, it got to the head when Abraham told God that He should let Ishmael live in His sight (Gen.17:18). Why was Abraham saying all these? Because He had waited and waited until he was 100 years old and Sarah, 90 years old. It has even ceased to be with Sarah according to the ways of women. So, Abraham began to think like many of us. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. "Here is Ishmael. He is the product from my hastiness and impatience through Hagar. I and Sarah my wife made him come to life. God, just do what you want to do through him. I have no hope for a son that has not been born till now again." It took God to change that view in consequent verses by affirming that Isaac will surely be born and at a set time next year.

Genesis 17:21, KJV

"But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."

That you believe or have faith doesn't mean you wouldn't stumble or get to a place of doubt once in what God might have afore told you. That you have faith means when you have doubt crisis and God comes to reaffirm Himself or His Word to you like He did to Abraham in this ongoing chapter, you believe. You might once, twice, thrice or many times think otherwise but when you receive assurance from God again and you believe it and walk the distance in those words, then you'll be deemed to have faith. The words that God speaks to you per term is what helps you to change the gear of your faith so that you may not be tired but pursue more fervently in faith and patience. 

You also might have gotten here in your journey where you're beginning to doubt the promises or prophecies of God over your life. You might have waited for long even after God had assured you you'll never be barren. Yet, the baby is not forthcoming. God promised you greatness and goodness yet you see no mark of it yet. 

If you'll ever get where you'll possess it, you need to keep reactivating your faith and patience through God's spoken word (rhema) to you alone. That is when you can also exchange strength for new strength. 

Those two (faith and patience) are there to balance each other. Faith will enliven you and give you a mindset and view that all is possible against all the contrariness that you see or know. It'll keep you ploughing on as you patiently wait to receive the promise. Patience is meant to cultivate character in you while you wait. God wants to fine tune your attitude to the possible best even as you wait. He wants to make you someone whose eyes have been removed from humans or human solutions to Him and Him only. In short, patience will build some stamina in you. While waiting, you're given a story to tell. 

Such are the people we're called to follow. Not those who haven't mastered faith or patience. Not even those who haven't had moments of doubts and conversion(s) from it. Not those who can't wait eventually or who during their moments of doubt called it quit and ran their own race. Rather, those who faced it all, recovered from many doubts, continued in the pursuit until they possessed by faith and patience. 

PRAYER: Lord, enliven me with your new revelatory word. I shall not be tired but continue in hope.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 1:19-51 & II Samuel 18-19

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WHAT BEING CALLED SUPPLIES

 

Being Called & Believing So Has Many Blessings 

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 03/05/2025

SATURDAY- 3RD MAY, 2025

Happy New Month!!!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO

CALLED TO FOLLOWERSHIP

Hebrews 6:12, KJV

"...That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

You have a call on you and it is to be an imitator of those who inherited promises through faith and patience. One thing I want you to know is this. All of us in this world cannot follow one person. We'll always have our own men to follow. The calling on us differentiates us and allocates us to certain men individually that we can follow. 

Since I've been in ministry, the people I have followed are those in ministry. I'm walking in their footsteps and trusting to achieve like they have achieved. These are men that God recommended to me even since I was a student in the tertiary institution. I am following or imitating those men because I have a call into ministry. There may be another of God's children somewhere with a call into business. Due to his own different call, he will surely have another person in front of him to follow but who through faith and patience also inherited the promises in that field. That fellow though a business man will be able to teach him both Christ and business as he looks or learn Christ from him. To shock you, the master don't have to know he is imitating him. Only that the person imitating the master must do with deep focus. 

So, all of us are followers. Christians are called to imitate. Someone who imitates or follows is a disciple. He watches the master and imbibe what the master does for the purpose of replicating it and stepping into his shoe. Even Jesus Himself is a follower and imitator of what the Father does. Jesus tells us that He does nothing except what He sees the Father does (John 5:19). So, who are you that you're dubbing followership or imitating wrongly?

When Jesus promised us that "and greater works you shall do" (John 14:12); He was speaking to His disciples then and those of us who'll later follow Him or believe in Him. Anyone who'll do a greater work must be someone who has received the call to follow the fellow who did the great work. Unless you have imbibed the one with the great work and believe in him, how will you know or have learnt to continue from where he stopped? To continue from where someone had stopped requires empowerment - even supernatural or skillful empowerment. Only followers and imitators ever receive the anointing. Do you wonder why many heads are dry and why many spoken or declared words lack grace? It's because many are only equipped with grammar and not the anointing that can drive home their messages.

Elisha followed Elijah. Did the double portion and benefit of imitating and following this older prophet jump him to land on the other sons of the prophets who were watching afar off beyond Jordan? Never! It landed on him because he was a follower and imitator of Elijah. A follower has a heart for lessons. Everything a teacher says is what he takes note of. Like Elisha, he doesn't stop followership even when he's been deterred. He follows until the mantle is his. He doesn't allow distractions. The test was, "if you see me being taken, the double portion you asked would be yours." Elijah knew Elisha could be carried away by the whirlwind or the heavenly chariots and horses but Elisha is a more focused imitator than that. He saw and he cried, "my father, my father! The chariot of Israel and his rider thereof" (II Kings 2:10-13). We know the result! He knows that is his destiny (to receive the double portion and step into the vacant prophet's office) and that if he didn't receive it, that might be a shortage in his future destiny. 

An imitator brings attention and observation to the fellow before him who's moulding Christ in the flesh for him to see. He therefore follows that man or woman as he or she follows Christ (I Cor.11:1). 

The Bible is specific. Be an imitator of those who through faith and patience inherited the promise. It means there'll be those who inherited what was promised or prophesied before their birth or after by other ways. Those are the impatient. They might have inherited it through sin, crime or the occult. God didn't call us to follow any of those. When the Bible says, "who through faith and patience inherited the promise", God was trying to tell you that, "This is my approved way. Let me sort out men for you. In this kingdom, promises are received through faith and patience." Even when it looks like tarrying, you have to wait until you possess it through faith and patience. Are you experiencing delay having your own child?Wait! Through this, you get processed and become a man of process. It's until then you can comfort others who will imitate or follow you with the comfort you have received. The road you haven't walked, you cannot tell others of the dangers inherent in it. If you have inherited through faith and patience, you'll know what and how to strengthen a weary soul at heart when it seems God's promises are delayed. 

We're called to follow but our imitation of certain men (even the so called men of God) must be by a recommendation from God. When I started following Reverend Olusola Areogun, I didn't know him from adam and no one recommended or endeared him to me. But I stumbled on some audio messages I later discovered were his and then I had a liking and love for him. My heart kept being pulled back to those messages I heard and what he had to say. That was what led me to start using his daily devotional (soft copy on campus) and downloading his sermons as I did later on. I followed him until one day his teaching grace and anointing was replicated in me while I was following and watching his video sermon on campus. I followed until and even I'm still following today though I have my own inheritance and promise already in that realm. Today, I'm doing work that he's doing and as Christ and grace would have it, I'll do greater work. 

Listen, you're called to imitate. The faster you find who to imitate or follow, the faster your profiting will be open to all. The faster you'll also gather the things of your destiny and enter into God's manifestation for you. Amen!

PRAYER: Lord, who's the vessel you want me to learn you from? Show me this man or woman. Help me to focus on learning You and gathering the ingredients of my call.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

John 1:1-18 & II Samuel 15-17

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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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