PERSISTING - Learning Continuity In order to Reap The Harvest

PERSISTING

There's a devil that fights people from continuing. However, if you can continue, you'll reap its reward. 

The Bible says, "even in your old age, you'll still bear fruit." A continuation on being fruitful is hinted there since fruitfulness is only associated with youthfulness. 

There will be those that will stop bearing fruits at old age. Naturally speaking, one can't do much at old age but you can break that barrier and yet still be known for a particular thing at old age. You can still release albums, write books, hold seminars and conferences, go for trainings and get certified even at your old age. 

As I meditated on and on, something occurred to me. While God uses those He calls. God uses those that are available as well. Do you know that some people that God called and intended they start something for him didn't continue? They began but they stopped somewhere. They didn't continue. Now, there are people who are not God's first choice in the beginning. In their weaknesses, challenges and problems, they continue doing the same thing God called some to do which they turned away from and so God has no choice but to prefer and use them as the first choice. If you don't know the Bible or lack experience, you'll easily prove my saying wrong and say I'm only trying to stir some people to jealousy or aflame. 

Did you remember Judas Iscariot? He was Jesus' first choice for apostleship but because he WENT HIS OWN WAY by not continuing, God had no choice than to anoint and bring into apostleship Matthias. To all ministers who have started something, beware of going your own way!

One unfortunate thing I have found true is that you can go your own way. There's no one that God ordains a path for but journeys in/to another that praises God at day's end. 

Avoid being distracted. Avoid be swerved or swayed. Like men bridle horses and capture it in obedience to do their will and walk on a path or course they'll like it take, by submission to the Holy Spirit, crucifixion of self and determination, refuse to be collected away from the way. The way here is destiny or what God has appointed you to do on earth. That one which your hand has already found doing, do it with all your might.

2 Peter  2:15, KJV  

"Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness"  

 Jude  1:11, KJV

"Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core."

These two places are planting the truth or possibility of going another road other than the one God ordained. 

Either for gain or any other selfish reason, ensure you're not rooted from what you've started. There's a devil that hinders people from finishing strong. Stephen Farrar wrote a book, FINISHING STRONG. You can read it.  Your starting don't scare the devil. It is your persistence until the dawn breaks he wants to protest against. What you're doing may seem not to be moving, monotonous, uninteresting or lacking in support from people. Look, still continue. Just continue.

The Bible says if you're wise, you're wise for yourself. So also the child that scorns shall bear it for himself. If you continue long on this road and endures the processes of becoming great, you'll be the first who will partake of the fruits of your hands also. For that Scripture can't be broken over you which says, the husband man that labours ought to be the first partaker of the harvest. For you, you will be. 

Judas didn't continue yet he was God's first choice. When first choices go away, they open the door for God to consider lesser vessels or alternatives that He'll then put His treasure into to decorate. You and I must close the door against second choices.

Those that will be saved are those that endure to the end. Motivate yourself by gazing at the joy in front. Jesus also despised the shame of the cross for the joy set before him. 

By that, you won't be totally swallowed to contemplate selling your share in that company or selling that venture or relocating. Tarry there. Life answers the persistent. Work it for it's a principle that works.

Judas Iscariot had obtained a part and apostleship in Jesus' ministry. You can call that part or apostleship his share. Have you not heard of people selling out their shares before but only to see that company become a tree that birds of the air now makes nests into.  Yet, what happen to Judas' share. All was left for another to enjoy.

It was left for someone who also has been paying the price of persistence by being part of all that happen from the baptism of John, even unto Jesus' ascension. Matthias therefore entered into someone's labour. I'm afraid. I pray to you God, "don't let me leave my morning labour for another to gather and eat at night."

Let me be the first partaker O Lord! I make that my decision.

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13/07/2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 13/07/2021

TUESDAY - 13TH JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

EVEN WHEN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS YOU EVIL - Side B

II Samuel 11:14-27

II Samuel 11:14, KJV

"And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah."

The righteousness of a righteous man can save him. Yet, the righteousness of a righteous man can bring on him evil and consequently death! Those who will be righteous will sacrifice in this life.

After David had pulled all the tricks in his hands on Uriah to get him go home and sleep with his wife but without success, David thought of the final thing to do. He wrote a letter. Banking on how loyal Uriah was, he delivered same into his hands to give to Joab. Uriah didn't suspect anything from the onset. So, he couldn't have thought it wise opening the letter. It was his very death sentence he was carrying in his own hands to the executioner. He carried the letter faithfully to Joab without an iota of curiosity sparking in his mind to peep into what it contains. If David couldn't bear him witness of being loyal, such letter wouldn't have been delivered into his hands. It was not given him for want of messengers. David was wiser than that. Only that you could describe Uriah as one to be relied on. He isn't unfaithful one bit. 

Proverbs 25:19, KJV  "Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint."

This is another act that proves Uriah a man of sound character that any of us should emulate. You can trust him at his back. Eye service can't be from him. His loyalty isn't seasonal. It goes all the way and remains constant. The delivery of this letter to Joab made the will of David in this verse below come to pass over Uriah and that's how his loyalty or righteousness puts him in trouble.

II Samuel 11:15, KJV

"And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die."

What difference it would have made if Uriah had an inkling into the letter? His life could have been saved. He could have linked all the events together and then flee far away. However, we wouldn't have known him as a loyal, righteous face and hero of today that we are all jealous for.  For every good act you do, you're enrolling your name into the hall of fame of those to praise and hail for such. If it is otherwise, you shall live to be remembered for same. Uriah died and what he most cherished which was his all in all was collected from him, yet both Joab and David knew they killed a righteous man just like some people planned to kill Jesus, the author of life. They knew they had taken the life of who never seek them for evil. 

Look at me, it is better you die a hero than die a villain practicing unrighteousness through being amended to join them. It is unfortunate if a lion refuses to die in his pride but dies as a dog. As for Uriah, he died but he died head above his shoulders. He died as a warrior who did his country proud. He died gallantly. How did Joab later die? From this singular event, can you total all evils that God used to recompense David and say it is little?

Oh no! Righteousness pays even when it is not reasonable to practice. This is a notice from God to you to suffer for Him even as much as you'll like to be known with Him. I pray for all that are being persecuted for righteousness' sake, may God divinely vindicate you. If however it will bring death, may you not have soiled your garment. It is better for one to be searched with no iniquity found in him. Please, maintain your good record. 

PRAYER: Lord, teach me the practice of righteousness. Save those persecuted for righteousness' sake and grant many courage to face persecution unto death.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 12:19-14:17, Romans 1:1-17, Psalm 9:13-20, Proverbs 19:4-5

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 12/07/2021

MONDAY - 12TH JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF A MAN WILL DELIVER HIM - Side A

Read II Samuel 11:1-13

II Samuel 11:10, KJV

"And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?"

Tell the righteous that his righteousness will save him. When you are righteous and continues being righteous, there is one reward it can bring you on earth. That is to save you.

In today's reading, David in the bid to cover his sin of adultery which has manifested as a child devised to bring Uriah back home. His plan was that if Uriah goes to his house, he would have affairs with his wife and this would make him the father of a bastard child. He wanted to cover his sin by planning deftly after this manner. 

Did it succeed? No. The righteousness of Uriah wouldn't allow him to be such cheap prey for David's strategy, though at his back. Loyalty saves him. Hear today's model speak.

II Samuel 11:11, KJV

"And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this."

Though an Hittite, he wouldn't be unpatriotic to the land that has become fatherland to him. While other comrades struggle out with the enemy and barely survives in the open country, should he be then comforted? This man is fit for leadership. He'll never take advantage of situations to the disadvantage of others nor exhibit selfishness. He's an advocate of fairness to the core who always look not unto his ways but that of others. Having being touched by such patriotism and loyalty to the throne which he couldn't deny, David then proceeded to the plan two of making him drunk in order to still protect his reputation. Yet, Uriah was resolute even in his drunkenness. He didn't go home. What was normal for him to do was to go home and drink water from his cistern before departure back to the battle they don't know when it would end, but not this one. You can't just trap him that easily. He has practiced righteousness to an extent that it's no longer a big thing for him to live sacrificially and to his personal detriment. It was not that he didn't care for his family or that he was not a wife lover like any of us, however he ranks principles above emotions.

Your own righteousness can as well save you. In the work place, amidst friends, in that relationship etc, righteousness pays. Loyalty to the party involved matters. You'll see at the last day how this same righteousness will bring you untold reward that would make you exclaim for good. When they plan a trap for your feet, unknowingly to you, you'll be scaling it by your practice of righteousness. Uriah didn't have an inkling that it was a trap. He was only living his daily life of being faithful. Because of your righteousness, all that plans your downfall will be found to be hatching cockatrice eggs and weaving the spider's web. Their webs shall never become a garment neither will they cover themselves with their works (Isaiah 59:5-6). The mouth of the Lord has spoken.

PRAYER: I release Isaiah 59:5-6 to work against all planning me evil. I escape traps. My loyalty shall save me in any relationship or congregation of men.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 11:1-12:18, Acts 28:1-31, Psalm 9:1-12, Proverbs 19:1-3

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THE INPUT OF THE LORD

THE INPUT OF THE LORD

Let me enter by saying, "may God not suffer us with His input." 

There's a thing like the input of the Lord. His input is what He only has to give. It is His own donation. It is what He only authors. You can't acquire the input of the Lord from another quarters except from the Lord Himself with whom this input resides and stems from. If we could possess this input from somewhere, we would immediately stop gazing at God. He however becomes the centre of attraction because of this thing that resides with Him only. This is how He makes Himself important to us and we dependent on Him. 

The input of the Lord? How without you we're nothing. What shields the wise from being labelled a fool is this input. What makes a prophet one is this input. If God should have any reason to prove that His input is what validates man's input, He'll quickly withdraw Himself from such, stand aloof somewhere with folded arms to see what becomes of such with his education, oratory, good looks [what he has to offer] etc. Then, you'll see that prophet speaks without the fulfilment of his prophecies for it is God who makes prophets prophets. If he speaks and God delights to bring his words to pass, God will cause happenings and events to happen in reality to validate him. He will order time and seasons to be swayed in the direction of his words.

Input of the Lord, I'm scared not having you in my life!

Psalms 127:1, KJV

"Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."

They can labour to build the house. They can contribute their own quota. It is however vain input if the input of the Lord is not to it contributed. Do that not tells you our objective [building] won't become reality [a building] unless the Lord team works with us. His input is the superior that we awaits. Consider His stamp or signature that of your boss you need before you can cheque out the money though you've filled the cheque. 

Samson was made to realize this at late hour when the Lord departed from him. He then assayed to do like before but to discover to his dismay the importance of the Lord's input for which he has never been grateful once. You know you can do miracles or the supernatural until you lose awe for wonder yourself and say, "that's no longer special!"

There's a thing known as the supernatural ingredient: anointing, grace or gift that aids mere men like us. These are the inputs of the Lord. A minister that God wants to shame is he that God won't give revelation that can become utterance. When he speaks, it will be dry. People won't be moved let alone stirred. Burdens won't be dissolved nor yokes destroyed. Why? The input of the Lord is wanting.

He is building (by preaching) but nothing happens that should happen for the benefit of mankind. So, men are not edified (built up). You can speak into the air or speak into people's lives. The latter is God's work to assist our nothingness as men.

If you're a parent, pray that God builds with you. Children are hard to raise without their having iota of seeds of corruption in them. But if the ultimate builder builds with you, you will be called lucky and praised for same by many later on. They wouldn't know that your labour births nothing if the Lord had not refused your wards eyes from running after vanity and seeking after leasing.

Oooh! Input of the Lord, answer me. Attend to me. For without you, I can't be acknowledged to have built or accomplish.

God, henceforth, let it be by your input. Let it be not by strength nor might. Let it rather be by your Spirit. For it is He that makes men's labour become results people can clap or call accomplishment.

Input of the Lord - I fear you!

Olusola ADEJUMO, M'Wings.

Morning Wings Ministry, 

Nigeria. 

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11/07/2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 11/07/2021

SUNDAY - 11 JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE HEART THAT GOES WITH YOU

READ II Kings 5:1-27

II Kings 5:26, KJV

"And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?"

Where can we go from the presence of God? Psalm 139 is a psalm of discovery that shows our not being able to escape from the Lord.

Psalms 139:2-3, KJV

"2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways".

God is the one that compasses your path. He is the God that surrounds you. In today's passage, Gehazi runs after Naaman to demand of him things that his master, Elisha had rejected after Naaman has been healed of leprosy. After his arrival back to the master, Elisha requested of him where he was coming from. He lied and said " thy servant went no whither (II Kings 5:25, KJV).

Elisha then replied, "went not mine heart with thee when the man alight from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to collect this and that?" The following consequence is that Gehazi is cursed and he carries the leprosy of Naaman.

You should know that God's eyes follows you all-around. There is nothing done in secret that won't be made manifest is what the Bible says. As a child of light therefore, let your deeds be wrought in God so that you won't fear being exposed. If you have good deeds, you'll want to manifest it in light/public but if your deeds are evil, you'll want darkness to cover you. This year is a year where secret sins and abominable deeds are really irritant to the Lord. You shouldn't indulge in any because God's heart and eyes would always go with you. Your conscience would bear you witness and call you to questions and order.  

There's no time like any other to stop secret sins also than now. It is God before whom we all have to do. Fear Him as one that knows all, sees all and surrounds you about. Decide today not to carry any consequence resulting from secret sins like that of Gehazi. When your ways are straight, you purchase for yourself clear conscience before men and God. Gehazi though lied he goes no where that day knew deep down that his conscience bears him witness. As he denies his master, his heart tells him, "you lie". Your first judge this year is your heart. So, pay attention. 

PRAYER: I break loose from any habitual sin. I shall keep no secret sin that would bring me losses, harm or death. I'm a child of light and I manifest so.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 8:1-10:32, Matthew 4:12-25, Psalm 4:1-8, Proverbs 1:20-23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 10/07/2021

SATURDAY - 10TH JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HE KNOWS THE RIGHT WAY

Read Psalm 107

Psalms 107:7, KJV

"And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation."

There's only one cause for wandering. It is not knowing the right way. If you don't know by an inner conviction what course to study, where to live in or what to do per time, you'll always be seen trying to master it without mastering it.

One of the greatest prayers you can offer to God through Jesus Christ is to be led in the right way. Being led in the right way is like a blind fellow that gropes in darkness for the way that leads to where he goes. He may have mistaken the wrong way for the right. So, he'll need a guide to root him from that and plant him on the right way to his destination. This is necessary because no one goes on a wrong path desiring conclusion at the right destination.

In today's passage, some survivors who were gathered from all over the earth where they've been afore scattered seek to inhabit a habitable city but the way they don't know. In their wandering, they become faint, tired, weary and hungry. It is at this time when they've gotten to the end of themselves that they now call unto the Lord. Their distresses made it so. Unless God allows you to see you can't locate a habitable city for yourself, you won't come to enquire from Him.

The thinking that thinks he can do without the Lord has only not met failure. If he does, he'll cry out to God to show him the way though he had once denied God's existence. 

At the crying of these people, God lived up to Himself. He led them in the right way. This is when they can say, "imagine. Look at the way we've been trying to locate. So, it's this simple." May it be this simple for you. Things are simple for those who start with the Lord. It is hard for those who will go without Him.

Don't forget that finding a city of habitation is not your responsibility but that of God. You will walk there but let Him put your feet on the path to it. He knows it, let Him unfold it to you.

Today, you're led in the way that's right. Any path that looks like it but which is not it will disappear from your sight. You won't be led in error or into a wrong conclusion. God will give you rest. Your wandering will stop.

PRAYER: Lord, lead me in the right way. Lead me to my city of habitation - my good conclusion.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 7:1-8:40, Acts 27:1-20, Psalm 7:1-17, Proverbs 18:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE 9/07/2021

FRIDAY - 9TH JULY, 2021

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

GO ALL OUT!

II Kings 9:24,KJV

"And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot."

You will always have a target and bringing that target down isn't your second thought but first. In the pursuit of a goal and seeing it succeed, you need to go all the way out.

Jehu went all the way out. In today's passage, he stands as the anointed king for vengeance against the house of Ahab and Jezebel. Jehoram is a son of Jezebel. When he fled, it took a sniper to take him down by a shot and Jehu did that.

In arrow shooting, I heard that when you draw bows, you should draw the strongest and when you hit, hit hard. If Jehu had not drawn hard and hit hard, one thing would have been true: Jehoram might have been hit but he might have escaped by later recovering.

What did the Bible says about Jehu and the bow: his instrument of target for achieving purpose today? "Jehu draws it with his full strength." I know why people are not achieving their goals. One major reason is because they pursue but they don't pursue excellently. They don't give it all. They don't give commitment. Why did Jehu draw his bow with his full strength? He wants to ensure if it hits, it will be a hard hit. Do you know that the bow do make a kind of threatening sound as if it would break if well drawn for release? I believe that bow gave off such sound that day. Jehu drew with his full strength so that when it hits, it will hit well and his target will not survive it. So, what happen after the hit? Jehoram was pierced. It wasn't an arrow he could escape because it was an arrow well drawn on the string and released with fury. Such arrow can pierce a dry wood and come out of it. Exactly, that's what the arrow did. It pierced from one end and out it came out of Jehoram's heart. If it were a bow not drawn well with all Jehu had as strength that day, there is tendency that Jehoram is hit, escape and afterwards heal since the arrow would not pierce much. This one ain't one. It left no chances for recovery.

Today, draw your arrows with all your full strength. You will do so if you have a goal that you must achieve once and for all. That's when you can't become careless. For Jehu, he carries the anointing for vengeance and the escape of Jehoram might erupt into a declaration of war or hostility against him. So, to avoid that, he gave it his best shot and sniped Jehoram out at a shot. 

Give that goal of yours a blow but a deadly blow. Let it be a blow that won't make it sneeze but rather faints and die. Read as if you won't read again to pass exams. Attack your plans with all you've got in you. Give new enthusiasm and don't diminish in encouragement. Only those who can't risk Jehoram escape will draw the bow with their full strength. Please, if it hits, let it hit hard and make irrecoverable.

PRAYER: Lord, strengthen my feeble hands and my drooping knees. I receive strength to give all resources at my hands to achieve my target in life. May I always be fully committed.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 3:3-4:34; Acts 6:1-15; Psalm 126:1-6; Proverbs 16:26-27

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