MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 23/08/2025

SATURDAY - 23RD AUGUST, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

SPINELESS!

Daniel 6:10, KJV

"Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime."

How spineless you are will be notably seen in how often you come to God, commune with Him and notify Him of all things concerning you. That's a mark of how dependent you are on God. If you're dependent on someone, it means you can't do without them or can rarely do without them. It has been over-flogged that Christianity is not a religion but a relationship with a living being who desires a relationship and also wants to speak back to us. He's not some dead idol. He has ears that hears and eyes that see. He is God Almighty. He is alive and active and if we'll carry Him along on a daily basis in our affairs, He'll sure guide us. 

Check all religions in this world, none has a living founder. Except Jesus, they all died and remained dead and cemented. 

Daniel comes to prayer and kneels before God three times a day. Daniel is a great politician and a very busy man if you don't know. Yet, despite how demands are on his time, the Bible says, "...he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before God, as he did afore time."

Why the frequent kneeling? Why the frequent prayer? Daniel knows the role of God in his life. The higher you go, the stronger you should be in God. You're familiar with the dream of the king Daniel was able to search out in prayer after petitioning the king for some time. If Daniel had no smooth relationship with God, do you think his answer would come within that short time? That's why some of you can't speak to God and receive from Him as soon as possible. You have refused to walk with Him on a daily basis and take Him for your number one companion. However, when there's an emergency of who to marry, which choice should I make or of certain problems at your backyard, you like raising an alarm in prayer with expectations that God will hear. God can save you from difficulties or give you solutions but one thing you'll seriously lack is to know His mind or unravel secrets. Why? You're not trustworthy enough for them. Only those who walk with Him know His mind. That's why the Bible says in Deuteronomy 29:29 that, "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."

How spineless and needy you are is revealed in how often you come to God in prayer, even if it's just often talks and short interactions as you go about your daily life. It doesn't necessarily mean staying long every time but carrying Him along on every matter and considering Him like you'll put your partner in consideration before acting is what we're talking about. Daniel does it at least three times a day. That's even under the Old Covenant. You could see that the belief of facing Jerusalem while praying was even prevalent though we know he's in Babylon at this time. How much more when God can be accessed any time by you? His network is strong anywhere. You can connect at any point in time. 

Daniel knows that companionship with God is life. A dissociation from Him in the occultic circle of Babylon may be detrimental. Why won't he? He has found that, "in God he lives, moves and have his being" (Acts 17:28) not only for answers and responses but for pleasure. He won't be able to catch up with many life's demands as regarding his assignment as a wise man and a God seeker if he was never close to God. 

When a man has stopped asking for the help of God or praying, it may mean pride and graduation from ever needing God has set in. Let me ask you, are you spineless and this reliant on God or you don't even have concerns, needs and heart to come to Him at all? Then, you miss and need a quick surge towards God. May it not be late for you to take your relationship with God seriously. May you discover that as you walk with Him, the many things you need answers to will just fall for you like a friend discloses to his confidant his secrets without the other asking. 

PRAYER: Lord, let this heart of daily, often, ongoing communion, relationship, transaction and companionship be within me. Help me to practice. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR

II Cor. 9; Psalms 116-119

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 22/08/2025

FRIDAY - 22ND AUGUST, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

YOU CAN'T PATCH IT!

John 3:6, NLT

"Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life."

People, you can't patch it!

That which is of the flesh is flesh and that which is of the Spirit is spirit. 

John 3:6, KJV

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

You cannot change their destiny - which created them with certain expectations and characteristics. 

The flesh (that which is born of a woman has a mind) and it only acts in accordance to that mind. The Spirit likewise follows in the footsteps of what it was recreated and created to take after, God's Spirit. The Spirit will act out being spiritual while the flesh will act out being carnal. 

Don't blame the flesh for acting carnally. It couldn't have helped it if it doesn't change paternity or destiny. Why? There's an encoding in it that makes it act carnally. Its DNA is fleshy and what it contains and seeks are the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life (I John 2:16). Those are the things it exhibits. It has to live up to that because it was created and imbued to live up to just that. It just couldn't help living above that cap. It therefore functions that way because that which is human has to be humanly!

When the Bible says, in Genesis 6:5, "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually", it shouldn't come to us as much surprise that humanity is living up to his nature. It's all because that which is flesh is flesh. A dog must bark and a fish must swim! That which is flesh is flesh! Look, you cannot patch it! Unless there's a switching of sides and a becoming born again, that which is born of the flesh cannot become born of the Spirit and act in newness of life? (II Cor. 5:17). Where will he get it from? Will he steal it or what?

That's why Jesus plainly told Nicodemus, "look here boy, except you're born of water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Period!" In plain words, Jesus told him the two sides that be and called him to take a new side (make a choice) and become born again - be of the Spirit. 

Being born of the Spirit means you'll receive enablement to act and live after the desires or breathings of God. Where you once walked in the works of the flesh, you'll walk in the fruits of the Spirit even as you renew your mind and grow (Gal.5:19-23). But first of all, you're made God's child and impacted with His life. This happens immediately. 

John 1:12-13, KJV

"12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

It couldn't have been possible unless you cross sides and change paternity and have the God life impacted into you. Until Zoe rests in your core, you're deprived of the divine life and you'll observe no matter how you try, you can't just live above sin and Satan. But with the divine life, you ascend and have the higher life. You become self taught (I John 2:20). You surpass the plants in the plant kingdom, animals in the animal kingdom and men in the human kingdom. You become god! You become supernatural! You have the higher life! 

Where you're once hindered, you're therefore loosened to do greatly. Why? There's a new law working in you. It's the law of life and not death.

You can now touch higher things, receive higher things (even the Holy Ghost) and accomplish the greater works Jesus talked about (John 14:12). But without being born of the Spirit, the farther one could go is to achieve all the things the arms of flesh could only achieve and exhibit the traits of the mere man. The God life takes us further above human frailties. We forgive misdeeds, love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (Matt.5:44). The human life has no capacity to do all those. It's given to selfishness and revenge. But the divine life does the hard, impossible and uncommon. Why? It brings a capacity and enablement with it. 

Are you there having patched your way into the kingdom? Not really born again but a church attendee. Listen, you can't patch it up. God and Satan know you and you too knows. Choose a side now! That sinner pretending to be a saint, begin to confess your sins one after the other now. Call Jesus into your heart and salvation will be yours.

PRAYER: Thank You Lord for the distinct word of salvation I've heard. It has mixed with faith and I have responded. I'm born again now with the God (highest) life inside of me. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR

I Cor. 8; Psalms 114-115

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THE GATEKEEPER!

THE GATEKEEPER!

I want to believe God has set the husband and father in the home as the foremost gatekeeper. That'll be in accordance with the Bible and God's plan to regulate his wife and children and help put in perspectives things that they need answers to as their first go person ( Eph.5:23, I Tim. 2:12). 

A gatekeeper has invested authority from God to allow or disallow certain things. He has the power of permission. He can grant or withdraw it over matters as God would desire He does. May God help him to use this well. 

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Sometime recently, my younger sibling who lives with me dressed to check out. As I gazed in her direction to respond to her, "goodbye sir", I observed her top was somehow skimpy. I didn't banter with her but only released an executive order. "Check in and change that. Didn't you see that it is skimpy and would jump up further if you need to bend down?" 

She changed into a better top after raising her opinion which reasoning subdued. 

How does this relate to being a gatekeeper? It does very well. Thank God I was there. That could have gone out just like that but my presence arrested it and sent it back for realignment. I never tallied with it or consented to her dressing like that though the top wasn't obviously skimpy.

However, skimpy is skimpy! For Satan to enter, he doesn't need too wide a crack but the one you'll call harmless and insufficient for him to act on. 

If you're a husband and father or even a mother, it's your responsibility to ensure things are very proper with your family. Speaking of the virtuous woman, the Bible says, "she looks well to the ways of her family." 

Proverbs 31:27, KJV

"She looketh well to the ways of her household..."

NLT says, "She carefully watches everything in her household..."

If you like, call her the eagle woman! She sees even from afar. Even when it hasn't reached or neared her, she could discern and pick it out. It is not this type of mother that her son would bring home a gun from where God knows and eventually use it to blow his own head up under her roof. God forbid! She's a watcher and always on her tower.

You must be a careful observer and carer of your family in like manner. You must look well to the ways or operations of your family. You must know how your family members fare both when under your roof in the same house or outside and far away. You must keep looking unto the ways of your household. Nothing should be hidden from you. Rather, you must know who's who and ensure nothing bypasses you unarrested or unjudged. You must have an active oversight over your family. 

This same responsibility extends to your wife. It's your responsibility to caution and call to appropriation your wife when an odd fashion or ways of life begins to appeal to her. I found out that most females who dress to kill and to reveal do so because it's also permitted by certain macho authorities in their lives. It could be father, husband or brother (as is my case). 

Once something is destroyed or perverted in you, if your wife dresses up and the cleavage is open or the dress gums too much to her body, you wouldn't see that something is wrong. As such, you can't call for a disbanding and a realignment. 

That's why the man must not be sick as the head and the final authority in the home. He must be sound from head to toe to mark perversion and subtle destruction that is ready to be smuggled into his family for what they are. He shouldn't tolerate them but rather throw them out. 

But if the light that's in you is darkness, then I wonder o!

Remember that what you have a weakness for is what you'll eventually allow. Don't let weakness lead to tolerance. 

Many times when we see such women or ladies outside, we may solely blame them not knowing that it isn't all their handiwork. What you must know is that the gatekeeper who allows or consents to their dressing that way is no different from them. And as far as I know, ladies often want to dress to impress or draw affirmation, not only to look good. 

As a man who gives affirmation to my wife and somebody like my younger sister and in no years my daughter, it's my responsibility to affirm what is moral so they'll do more of that and denounce the amoral so that they'll give that up.

Where there'll be a real problem is if I'm saying A and one colleague at work is saying B or affirming her in the wrong direction. If the woman involved isn't wise to know that the husband for instance is the one who has her best in mind, she might criticize the husband and say a thing like, "why is yours different? Everybody always commends my dressing except you." Why won't they commend you since you offer them something to latch and feast their eyes on? They're grateful there's someone around feeding their lustful desires. Only God knows how many times such guys would have naked and slept with such ladies in their minds. If opportunity situates itself for their good, they won't hesitate to carry out the physical act on her - even if it'll be rape that might land them in jail. 

Why would that happen?

The Bible says:

James 1:14-15, KJV

"14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."

What you've been looking at and thinking about for long is something you can act out when opportune. Your having thought about it for long and savoured it is a preparatory ground to be tempted into the real act. 

For this reason, resist the temptation of thinking on the canal and the debased. Also, let females take heed to what and how they dress. You won't be blameless if you cause any to fall or sin (even when it's just mind sex). Don't dress to distract attention to yourself. Dress to cover your nakedness - what was shameful to behold by the public that even Adam and Eve had to cut fig leaves to cover upon their discovery of their own nakedness (Gen.3:7). 

So, if you're an authority figure somewhere, allowing what should be arrested or reprimanded at the gate means you're an accomplice who will receive just punishment for the same. You won't go blameless. You're no different in person to the actor. Regarding you as someone invested with the office of the overseer who should know better and guide in the right path (as a teacher), you'll be judged with a stricter measure (James 3:1). In addition, every lady should know God's permitted will to them on how they should dress though there are general instructions in the Bible. Assignments can further give each of us certain dressings though must not be amoral. 

I think a story illustrates this in the Bible. Look at Rebekah who laid out plans of supplanting Esau for Jacob. Don't you think if Jacob were to be judged, she won't escape? 

Genesis 27:11-14, KJV

"11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: 12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved."

In this story, a mother facilitated the evil that her son did. We are very familiar with how Jacob supplanted Esau and received his blessings instead though in line with a prediction of Jacob being greater than Esau (Gen.25:23). It's also an affirmation of the previous act of nonchalance that Esau cultivated towards what is sacred and important to God and men (Gen.25:32-34). For his nonchalance, he lost the blessing to he who could custody it better. Better things are kept and retained by the faithful. In like manner, you must cherish the anointing. Don't be like Esau who lacks estimation for the holy. Never be a despiser or a profane!

Hebrews 12:16-17, KJV 

"16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."

While there are many justifications for this yet we can't deny that Jacob is a supplanter and was aided in his crime by the mother. As a matter of fact, it was the mother who rolled out this plan and urged Jacob on when he shivered. When Jacob developed cold feet and thought of consequences, Rebecca gave him confidence saying "may the curse be upon me."

This is a typology of Christ taking our place, bearing our grief, carrying our shame and enduring the burden of our sins (Isa. 53:3-11). 

So, if we were to hold Jacob responsible for this heinous act, Rebekah wouldn't have been blameless as well. "Both are thieves who steal and who hide it" says a Yoruba proverb. None shall be spared according to any good justice system.

Summarily, Rebecca facilitated an evil though one that served the overall will of God.

So, as gatekeepers, we cannot turn a blind sight to what's happening in our homes, classrooms, offices, churches when we have the staff of office to rule or checkmate certain individuals.

Gatekeepers are called to sieve and prevent the unauthorized from entering. Are you really discharging this job as one?

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry,

Nigeria. 

morningwingsministryplus@gmail.com

21/08/25

ONE OF MANY REASONS WHY COUPLES SHOULD ATTEND CHRISTIAN RETREATS

ONE OF MANY REASONS WHY COUPLES SHOULD ATTEND CHRISTIAN RETREATS 

Bro. Gbile Akanni & Sis Sade Akanni will be at Ikofa at this Couple's Retreat.

Try to winter there but you have to come with your spouse. Plan and take time off from work. 

If you have a baby, you can come with him or her. Not more than that small baby. 

Ensure you travel often for Christian retreats and other programmes with your spouse even if you're not dropping hints or pictures that you've done so. 

Travelling for Christian programmes are not career trips you took that you're posting on LinkedIn or Facebook. 

What should get better is your character - fruits of the Spirit while you're armed with more power to live the Christian life daily and victoriously always. 

If you know the number of Christians whose backs are on the floor, you'll take heed. They've been cooled down and at best secularized. We see that through what they post on their statuses. We could see the decay, even if it's not pronounced. Before time, you'll see them more clearly in their rotten forms. 

Learn to live quietly except where necessary for the sake of testimony to the brethren. 

Why should you travel for such with your spouse?

If there's something you've been trusting to convince them over but they think you're prejudiced, you can trust God to say it again from the mouth of a neutral person. 

This way, you can have peace and move forward especially when there's mistrust, bias or a shirking away from their responsibilities as a wife or husband.

Take heed!

@ M'Wings.

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 15/08/2025

FRIDAY - 15TH AUGUST, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO 

BEFORE YOU SAY, "I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THEM"

Ecclesiastes 12:1, KJV

"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them."

Today brethren, we shall push what we began yesterday. Read this verse above again and pay attention to its tail end. 

In that verse is the response of an aged man or woman to the request of a younger one, likely the children or grandchildren of the man being addressed. 

Before the Bible could say, "nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them", it means a request must have first been tendered that would then meet with the response, "I have no pleasure in them." If they asked why, it would be because, "I'm old. I can't do like you young lads again." Growing old means your body/body parts aging or condescending from the one that was once able to the one that's not any longer. And let the truth be told, if your body becomes old before you wear out the visions in your soul, you'll observe you can't do anything anymore. 

And indeed, that's true. I know elderly people who are not even in their nineties or eighties who abhor certain acts or life they once lived. That's not because it was a sinful or hard life but because they have grown to a place where they believe that kind of act or life is no longer for them. It'll be taking a risk or endangering themselves. They might reply with something like, "have fun, that's reserved for you now, enjoy yourself." You'll then wonder what went wrong and why a man that can still take being and is still active tends to be withdrawing from what you considered as pleasure and living. Your parents likely have lost pleasure in certain things you still praise as we speak and some of them are rarely in their sixties. 

The Bible says, "nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them." "I have no pleasure in them" is a response that results upon asking to join the train of something. This reply might have been majorly caused by depreciating sense organs, notably a problem that many elderly suffer as they age. 

If you read from verse 2-5 of that same chapter downward, imagery is used to describe the physical effects of aging: trembling hands, weakened legs, failing eyesight, hearing loss, and difficulty sleeping.

When you have aged indeed and you have all these human weaknesses working in you, you can't help it. If your daughter-in-law serves you certain meals, you know it's a no-go area. If your grandchildren want you to watch movies with them, you know you cannot be effective any longer because of your weakened eyesight. At that time, you cannot even do morning exercise or jogging again. Or, what would you be able to do when your hands and ankles shiver and shake without an external vibrator propelling them?

At this period of one's life, it is natural to turn one's thoughts and expectations to other things - one's legacy and the after life. At this time, if anybody gets here and doesn't die when he can still help himself to walk around, his thoughts are not on how to build wealth or conquer the world. All ambitions if there are any are naturally neutralized and put to sleep. The best that could be done is to pass it to one's children or faithful men. That's why the preacher concludes with, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity" (v.8). 

Why? At this time, you yield up your labour and greatest treasure to other people. No matter how covetous you are, you can't but let them go. You'll watch other men use them as they like before you. You won't worry much because you have no pleasure in them again. If you once cherished sports cars, it's at all not your priority again no matter how many you have in your garage. You basically leave everything. When others are fighting for it, you'll wonder if it worth it. That's because you're closer to the grave. 

That's why you must have had the hope of eternal life. You must have been born again and grown knowing the Lord. At this time, meditation and communion with God will be your succour until the time of your favourable departure to the Lord. 

All is vanity of vanities. Don't use your life only to gather goods that'll be dispersed or later yielded up but rather long now for eternal life (John 3:5). 

PRAYER: I confess you as my Lord and Savior. Forgive my sins and grant me eternal life. Lord I have a renewed understanding towards rightful living in connection with you.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

II Cor. 1; Psalms 92-94

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 14/08/2025

THURSDAY - 14TH AUGUST, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO 

I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THEM

Ecclesiastes 12:1, KJV

"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them."

I psychologically tried to put myself in the shoes of a ninety year old man; I found out that a ninety year old man would have retired from whatever might have been his life long goal. For me, that would be ministry and at ninety, one could have left the pulpit to turning his gazes to the other world. Ask ninety year old men and women, they become really retrospective, waiting for death. At such time, one would have seen the death of peers, madness/folly of the human hearts, the fallen away of many, lies of the devil, victories of the Lord and known the mortality of man as reality.

That may be the moment when the younger ones in ministry will see as a fitting time to visit that great man of God. It might be story after story of how the teaching grace and the anointing works one will tell. On occasions, one might lay hands or impart certain wise ones who dare to ask. 

As I was meditating, I asked, why do elderly or old people lose pleasure? Obviously, I do know some reasons but I had to ask and research to know a range of reasons and peculiarities why old people lose interest in what they once admired or delighted in, even in life entirely. I'm not here to parrot those reasons. I just needed them for my own education and not to make up this teaching. 

The truth is this, nothing in humans lasts forever. We'll tone down and if you're observant, we daily and constantly tone down. The wear and tear of life is actually having us. We're aging and as we do, a lot of things change about our mental and physical health. We change and move from one status of depreciation to the other. It is this that necessitates the physical exercise, dieting and medical solution many have come to put in place. This change in status in man is necessary so that he tune or prepare for his long home when he dies. What I've found out is this, the more we age, the more we'll lose interest and pleasure in life. 

There's a sense of pleasure that a twenty year old man has that a fifty year old man doesn't have. One will be more easily impressed by many things than the other. Do you know why? One is just tasting and raiding them. Then, take a fifty year old man and compare to a seventy year old man. Then, compare the latter to a ninety year old man. It seems to me that pleasure wears out as we age. Therefore, "the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life" that once had grip on people notably to a very good extent loses their grips on anyone as he grows older. Rather, they tend to think more of their everlasting home. They tend to think of spending the day they are in as their last. They tend to make time for family and friends, distribute the life's goods their hands once took from life - giving portions to one or more.

On this note, the all knowing God who knows the end from the beginning admonishes us to remember Him in the days of our youth when the evil days haven't come, when you're not yet dull of hearing and none of your senses impaired. Time of your youth is still when you have Grade A physical/mental health. You can enjoy music or any joy to the highest. It's at that time you can appreciate God and keep devotion with Him to the highest as well. Beware, it's a law, the days will draw near when you'll say, "I have no pleasure in them (a range of many things) that could be summed up as life again. Yet, you once pursued those things, you once ate those things, visited those places, wore those clothes, haggled to have those things. However, what has changed? Interest and focus! Now, old age has produced a 'bride' so to say being made ready for her bridegroom. It is a law! It'll happen to you and I. Therefore, may the days we can consciously use to feel be used to feel, search and breathe after God. May we spend our time to know Him now that we still and can sustain interest for such pursuit!

PRAYER: Lord, have I been re-tracked to see wrongly or pursue after the wind. Give me a better revelation of esteeming knowing and having You.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

I Cor. 16; Psalms 89-91

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 13/08/2025

WEDNESDAY - 13TH AUGUST, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO 

JESUS IS THE DOOR! - Laying It Down Series 004

John 10:7, KJV

"Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep."

Jesus is the door! It is by the physical door we make entrance into a house. Without a door, it becomes difficult to gain an entrance into any building. At best, one would climb in any other way and we know that's exactly the act and habit of thieves and robbers (John 10:1). That's the route many have taken when they say they believe in Muhammad or one other person different from Jesus. 

Since Jesus called Himself "the door", it means something. 

John 10:9, KJV

"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."

Did you see the purpose for which He called himself the door? "By me, if any man enters in, he shall be saved and we shall go in and out finding pastures."

However, I'll like us to put something in proper perspective. He called Himself "the door." The definite article (adjective) "the" was used here. If someone says, "I am the boss", it means there's or there are no other bosses except that other fellow. That's the exact message that Jesus was seeking to pass when He says, "I am the door." It means there is no other door. Since He says by me any that enters will be saved, it means there's no other salvation or redemption anywhere else except in Himself. 

Now, this is contrary to the popular thing being preached by some. Even many preachers are now preaching inclusivity because they want to be accepted by the larger society. Jesus is not one of the ways or doors. He is THE DOOR! Spoken another way round, we have another scripture that validates this. 

John 14:6, KJV 

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Did you read that? Let us bring out specifically things Jesus called Himself here. 

a. I am the WAY

b. I am the TRUTH

c. I am the LIFE

It means no other person, prophet, god or religious leader, founder or predecessor is. 

One of the confusions of our world is, "who's the way?" Yet, Jesus calls Himself the WAY and emphatically calls Himself the DOOR! We know the purpose the door serves. We now know that it means entrance into a building, that is the body of Christ if we enter through Him. 

Are you there seeking the way, truth and life? Jesus is all! You cannot enter through Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius or any other revered person. None of those offers true salvation to any. Only Jesus died for the sins of the whole world (John 3:16, Rom. 5:8). Jesus eliminated other options that could be when He emphatically called Himself the door. It means no other door there be that guarantees salvation from sin and offers eternal life. No other! The only excuse you can give to take a false door or walk a wrong way is if you're not trying to go to Jesus' Father as He said. 

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

We know the path each of us take will lead to different destinations. 

If it's heaven you want to make, you can only enter through Jesus! That is if it's Yahweh's heaven and not other created illusions to confuse men and gather followers.

This is the simple message of salvation. Jesus is the door and you should enter through Him. How can you enter? By believing He's who He called Himself? By believing He's the salvation (Matt. 1:21), the truth the world is looking for and life for any that finds Him, even for eternity. 

Do you believe all these? Then take this confession with me. "Lord Jesus, I believe in your death and resurrection that provided me with salvation. Forgive my sins and come and live in my heart. Thank you Jesus!"

As simple as that is, you have believed and confessed unto salvation (Rom.10:9). Welcome into the fold. Find a Bible believing church to be a family member and get grounded in the truth until you become Jesus' tool also. 

PRAYER: Lord, let many come to the realization of your being the door! The only One who saves from sin and eternal damnation.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

I Cor. 15; Psalms 86-88

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