MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/09/2023

SATURDAY - 2ND SEPTEMBER, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHEN THE FATED ONE IS SOLD FOR A SLAVE

Psalms 105:17-18, KJV

"17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron"

Many times, we pray that we shall fulfill our dreams. That ain't a purposeless prayer but of one that's rather thirsty of doing the will of God as revelatory and depository in his heart (soul). It is what is therefore in his soul that he's crying out. The hart that pants after streams of water does naturally (Psalm 42:1). The thirst comes right from its inside and not from its exterior. So, its one aim and desire becomes that water would quench it. So, the hart exercises itself to hit on the stream of water that its thirst might be quenched. If your soul is already panting after fulfilling a particular purpose, such prayer would always be near your mouth always. What would become your meat would be to do the will of He that sent you and to finish it. 

God sent a man before Israel, even Joseph who was sold for a slave! The first question to ask is, "if God was the one who sent him, why send him as a slave?" Joseph had dreams of the sheaves bowing to him and the stars, moon and sun doing obeisance to him (Gen.37:7,9). Summed together, these prophesy his future as one with a glorious end. However, you'd think to fulfill that destiny would be bed of roses. You had think everything would have started in favour physically for Joseph, that he'd be processed in ease and then sat on the throne. As a matter of fact, how God began to fulfill His will for him was totally different. Looking at the greatness prophesied of Joseph and what he passed through before that greatness was achieved, one can't but praise God who shrouds greatness even in our darkened paths. That's why the Bible says in Isaiah 55:9 that, "as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts". God's thought is higher than ours and at times he might execute contrarily to our wisdom, expectation or plans. This He does to catch the crafty in their craftiness and make the wisdom of the wise a folly. Joseph was rather sold for a slave. As in, Joseph is a honourable man in prophecy. His prophecy called him so. Why then would he be sold for a slave? Why then hurt his feet with fetters? Why then lay him in iron? 

God is quick to bring to pass all He has said concerning you and even if your destiny requires reaching the ends of the earth, you shall. But God didn't convey Joseph into the fulfilment of his destiny in a vehicle of roses. No, he sent him there as a slave [in the status and appearance of a slave likewise]. He was empty handed at arrival. Faith in God, favour of God and diligence is what could therefore have risen him. Apart from the fact that Joseph became a forerunner and saviour for Israel. Another call that's on Joseph is that of a founder. I found it out. That's why many forerunners are founders. They create a path for others to tread in. They are trail blazers. They go before others and with their equipping made it possible for many sons to be called unto glory. Joseph was sold for a slave into a country that he has never been before. When a fellow is sold for a slave, he's at the lowest state of life. He only has life. He has no money or any asset by which you could easily mark that this one shall soonest come out of poverty into the wealthy place. Joseph arrived with nothing of such. He only came with Himself and God with him. But in thirteen years, he became the head of nations. Today, I have a word for many of us that God has called and would send to foreign lands or those already there. It doesn't matter your status at arrival, you shall swallow your status at arrival until you become the head of nations there. Though I'm living in my home country but I had to leave my state for another. In my new state, I could have been described to have started from nothing or the lowest base. All I had was a job I got there. All I have now including a family came by faith and knowing He calls me to be the head of nations. Calling is on Joseph and when it's on anybody, I assure you that even if you build a church in the desert, people would attend. When calling is on you, it has one intention, it is to bring you from your very lowliest point and set you up there. Calling calls people up and changes their statuses indeed. It doesn't matter how you arrive. The testimony would be that you have become the head of the nations in some years time. Ask many aliens especially Africans who left their countries of origin for abroad. They'll tell you, I came here as a student expatriate (or tell another testimony of their arrival in nothingness). There was nothing on offer to show for greatness at their arrival but now they're owners of chains of businesses. Then, you begin to wonder and ask whether it's possible to leave one's home or native land empty handed or forced so by circumstances and become a man of bounty just soonest. Very possible! Jacob left his father's house in a hurry and without any preparation. He only left with himself and the staff in his hand. He was afraid of what the future holds for him and so prays that God will be with him. He even vowed unto God because the cold of a lonely journey into the unknown was fighting him. However, the testimony is that he returned as a double man. He had gotten so much prosperity that it was impossible to say this was the Jacob that left home with nothing (Gen.32:10). I ask, where are you today far away from home? Let the anointing of a great rising fall on you. From your low status, begin to go up the ladder and possess the gates of dominions in that land. You can have the testimony of acquring lands, owning businesses, marrying a native there, employing many and becoming  a prince or princess. 

Look, never take it for granted when someone starts from the lowest level and in some years had witnessed transformation. It is God who makes a space for you. And until a man gets to his Rehoboth, he can never never be fruitful in the land. Egypt is for Joseph and his light must shine there. Today, the reputation following you around might be that of a slave but I assure you that if you won't back down, call God a liar but endure in faith and diligence, you shall soon see the greatness in front of you though shrouded in many mysterious events. 

PRAYER: Lord, You solely raise the poor from the dung hills to set him with princes. Lord, raise me up.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Psalm 46:1-11; Proverbs 22:15

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/09/2023

FRIDAY - 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2023

Happy New Month!

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

TO THIS END!

Genesis 2:7, KJV

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul".

May you flower. Yes, may God let you flower. God will help you to start to finish. There won't be frustration on your path. You won't be agitated.

God has an objective in mind from the start and that's Adam becoming a living soul. That's Adam coming alive to do all the verb or action words. That motivated that project. Why go on a journey without an end or intention? If you say someone is a living soul, he must be able to live and take life and act as fitted a living soul. A living soul would breathe, eat, sit, walk, run, laugh and do all other actions. That is God's intent when he begins the forming or making of Adam's body. He never wants to have a body of clay that would be rigid but which would be able to lift itself from the site of its making take being and relate with the entirety of His creation. Seeing Adam on that slab, one would see a lifeless body. It ain't different from a jar of clay. It can't leave where it is. It can't even expand in dimension and that's because it has not become a living soul. Adam has mouth but has no voice and so can't speak or echo. But God starts working things towards achieving His ultimate goal - that man would eventually become a living soul. So, God breathed into him the breath of life. This breath translated "araulah or ruach" is all that makes the difference. When this wind runs through the hollow body of Adam, there's a reverberation and an immediate surge in soul and then a leap of his body. He could have moved a finger and God might have staggered saying, "it worked! What an art". Until Adam showed existence or sign of existence, he has no testimony of, "and man became a living soul". Previously, he was dead, lifeless, stagnant, irresponsive but now he's alive and living. 

What I'll like you see is the fact that God started and was able to  take Adam to thorough completion like He had in mind when He started. Nothing aborts God's dream of having a living soul as a man. He formed the body (that was a process and level one); breathed into it (another process and level two); then man has the testimony of becoming a living soul. This day or hour man became a living soul, I want to believe there was a thick shout and smoke of applause from the Trinity. They were happy it worked. Consider a mechanic working on an abandoned vehicle and the vehicle eventually starting up after many works on it and repairing of parts, it would call for a rejoicing. The response would be joy. When that place says, "and man became a living soul", it means, "and God's intention was finally fulfilled". I pray for you that what you're working towards will work. Any terminator and termination that the devil might want to face you with shall be crushed this morning. Projects shall not be aborted in your hands. God started the making of man and saw it to completion where irreversibly, he had the testimony of things working and the man becoming a living soul. What a success! You'll be that successful. 

What you must know is that there are abortive spirits but God's intent for you is that all of such will be frustrated for your sake. God's hands will disturb them, clog their wheels and make them labour in vain over you until you bring to pass what you have started and what God has started in you. Read these verses.

Job 5:12, KJV

"He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise".

Isaiah 4:25, KJV

"That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish".

These two verses summarize what God will do for you so that His work in and through you and yours on/in anything shall not be aborted at any level until completion! He'll frustrate Satan and the frustrators in human flesh for you. 

Therefore, are you almost at a close of something? You shall see it to completion. You have heard and read of many explorers who launched out for discovery or exploration but who didn't complete the process or fulfill the intent for which they have launched out. They couldn't even retract or come back. Your testimony won't align after theirs but God's. It'll be that when you start any thing, it'll be recorded of you eventually (after giving labour and efforts) that it works! Yes, amidst many applause and shouts, anything you work on shall not be formed in vain, given breath in vain but shall manifest all those resources that you might have given to it. So shall it be! Your Adam shall become a living soul. Give it your all! You'll see the fruits of your hard work and labour. No disappointment. 

PRAYER: Lord, I shall not cast my young. I shall carry to term and delivery every vision, dream and intent in me. I bring to arrival and successful destination. In my hands, things work.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 40:1-42:17; 2 Corinthians 5:11-21; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 22:14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/08/2023

 THURSDAY- 31ST AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WHO MAKES US THE KEEPER OF VINEYARD?

Song of Solomon 1:6, KJV

"Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept".

That place reads, "my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept". 

The first enquiry should be, "who makes the Christian a keeper of vineyards?" Who makes you a keeper over God's heritage? Who gives you a work to stand by and be a standby to some people? Who's He who raises some as deliverers for the oppressed? Who's he who calls some into the five fold offices? Who's he who gives gifts and callings to men? It's no one but God. 

At creation, the body parts of Adam are located where we all have them today because God located them there. The eyes doesn't covet being where the mouth is and vice versa. Every one of them has its office and this is solely God's doing and setting. Each one of us are regarded as making up the body of Christ. As the body parts of Christ, who then fixes and allocates us into office? It is God. The Bible records that when He led captivity captive, He gave gifts unto men. He gave some to be Apostles, prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers (Eph.4:8,11). It is God who solely calls and sets people where they should be. What you should watch against is the error of having called yourself. I'm not talking about the call to ministry only. God has called people to different areas, worlds and professions of life. The one who has called one fellow to become an Economist is the one who has called the other to become a Prophet. Just like God knew Jeremiah and appointed him a prophet over the nations before birth, so the Lord appointed the Economist also. 

It is this that should chide anyone away from setting or seeking to establish himself where God has not set him. Many people won't live their lives. The reason is because where God calls them to be is not where they have gone. Pressure or the desire to amass the things of this world might have dislocated and relocated some people to where though they have the riches, they'll lack the joy and fulfilment that renews one's bones. It is God who makes us keepers of vineyards of any field or area. If the Lord hasn't called you out to a field and allocated it to you as your vineyard to tend, it would be futile effort being there. That'll be nothing but displacement. That'll be nothing but dislocation. God has called for a nurse but she has gone to become a chef. Something can't but be missing and such people would find out on the way. My only prayer is that at discovery, you'll be humble and bold enough to acknowledge your mistake, turn back and enter into your original calling and mandate. Many people are always afraid of turning back though they know that's the right thing to do. It won't be easy but all of us know that if a pot leaks and we need to use it, what we first do is to mend it. Or else, wasted effort and work shall still abide. 

You must therefore not promote yourself into any office or field God is not clearly calling you to. Don't go abroad to study if that calling is not on you. You must also be called to step out. I looked at some beloved who are making it there. They even found adopters and institutions that are funding them. That's because their eyes were tilted fully to travelling abroad and no one have a tilted face towards something which is not first a revelation from God to his inside. The path to take or go is clear to them and by dint of hardwork even amidst many disappointments, they're eventually making it there. It means it's what God has commanded and so help must answer them there. But, you can actually die if it's not your revelation to begone abroad.  Those who won't are those who the Lord will protect only. And as far as I know, God only has commitment to those He calls into an area or specialization. If you're not, you have no shield or defence. Though He calls you god (if you've gone into your field and office) but you shall die like one of the princes if you become an interloper and intruder into another's (Psalm 82:6-7). It is God who set Adam where he should till. God planted a garden Eastward of Eden and sovereignly places him there with instruction to till and tend it. I tell you, you will answer to the work you're doing which wasn't the Lord who ordains that you do and vice versa. Beware! It is God who makes us keepers of vineyards, fields and specializations. He calls us into that space and not being called attracts consequences. Go where you're called, feel called and assured being called.

PRAYER: Lord, I acknowledge you as He who makes one a keeper of vineyard and a head of fields. Call me into mine.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 37:1-39:30; 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10; Psalm 44:9-26; Proverbs 22:13

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/08/2023

WEDNESDAY- 30TH AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

UNDERSTANDING THE TIMES

Ephesians 5:15-17, KJV

 "15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,  16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is".

Yesterday, God addressed the issue of "fire in our bones" which as a burden can't be reined in for long but rather released to have expression. If you're gripped to the core of a vision or an intent and all hands seem to be on deck [in you] and calling you to that thing immediately immediately, it'll be better going after that thing right away. You must understand what the will of God is and that comes by rightful interpretation often. Joseph told Pharaoh that those dreams were doubled to him because the thing is established by God and God will bring it shortly to pass (Gen. 41:32). 

The call of God can be postponed till a time until no further. That no further will be clear to you when the demand of God to have you repeatedly and incessantly knocks the door of your heart to come. Mind you however, the call or call as we've been looking at it is not only for those in ministry but men of all walks of life. God created the earth and humanity and so takes interest where each man goes for the sake of contributing their inborn graces and meeting needs. At creation, He has loaded each with gifts and all abilities meant to be used for a specialized vocation or field on earth if they'll discover that. Somebody with innate skills for mechanical operation may not be swayed or have his best interest in the academics. It is God who ought to call each of us and set us (as blocks) in the hands of a master bricklayer fittingly to a place in the entire building where we would be useful. Else, if your block is wrongly fitted, it could cause disaster as you'll not be where you're desired or you're needed. It should never be the cry of God again saying, "I seek a man that he may stand in the breech or gap" (Ezek.22:30). Every breech should have been filled by now by a man God has solely called to be a pilot, nurse, architect, doctor, sailor, teacher and even God's minister. People that God intends should be where they should be ought to be there now. This is not the time to fall casualty of another field that's not yours by calling or divine ordination. Whenever God still cries or says, "He needs a man" in any quarters, it means He has not found a representative and a man to take responsibility for Him there. That's because he who should study Medicine has gone to become a Footballer and so there's a breech, a gap, a missing link or space that needs to be filled or covered for. I know that verse points directly at intercession, interception and standing in the gap as God would have it. But standing in gap also means standing at a post. Many people are not at their posts at all. That's the cause for the wandering and repetitive asking of God for a man still. 

Brethren, today's devotional title is understanding the times. You read of Idahosa's and my testimony in yesterday's devotional. You saw how we couldn't wait again, how we were seeking bodies and platforms for expression because of the burdens which had possessed and written itself all over us. Meanwhile, that burden is to an end. It's like a speedometer that's to an intent. It monitors and tells the driver his speed. That burden of "come now, it is now" or "I can't forbear, postpone or delay any longer" is actually from God. What that burden like a speedometer is trying to indicate is that it is time to give yourself away to the assignment of your destiny. There are people who have gone to colonize the wrong fields but who God is also calling out to occupy their preordained fields. It would be urgent and like fire burning in your bones which you can't hold or forbear any longer. When the time has come or when it's ripe for you to be harvested to face what you should face, only then could you feel such strong sense of responsibility, indebtedness to God and conviction to depart to it and heed [not wanting to disappoint your Maker]. You must therefore understand the times and seek not to delay any further. You must immediately give yourself away at that moment and let that demand of God on you be satiated and stayed by your obedience. You must allow the calling agitating for expression in you be fulfilled. If God ever makes incessant demand on anyone unlike the afore quietness of years past and he obeys, he'll sure see the workings of God. It means all things are made ready for him. It means as at the time of calling him, God has put things on ground for him and such wouldn't regret it. It will take a walk or journey of faith but whenever such looks round, he'll have the testimony of it being God all the way. But you must understand the time. Your interpretation of that incessant burden must be clear. Just there's a time to every purpose on earth, there's also a time to stay by one self or launch into the calling of God for one. I pray for you, you won't be confused, scattered or frustrated. You'll see right and you'll see straight in the name of Jesus! You'll walk in the path God is chatting in you. You'll have light to see that path on your inside. 

PRAYER: Lord, help my interpretation of divine burdens. May I obey time when you call and not refrain. I have a special awareness of all the times and can read them.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 34:1-36:33; 2 Corinthians 4:1-12; Psalm 44:1-8; Proverbs 22:10-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 29/08/2023

TUESDAY- 29TH AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THOSE SEEKING EXPRESSION

Luke 11:24, KJV

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out". 

There are those seeking expression. It's a category of people. I pray for such set, may you find expression. May the burden in your heart, the expression that has filled your inside and the calling that's inditing you all come out in beautiful colours. 

It's a blessing when you're not denied expression. Until then, there's a dissatisfaction and discomfort that you'll bear for having not found a place, platform or means of spewing out the burden written all over you. The truth is that you're the only one who feels the way you're feeling. You can describe your feeling to people probably they might see from your perspective and be instrumental in your finding expression. But often times, they just can't relate. They just can't understand. 

I pray for you that when a burden is high in your soul so much more that it grips your entire being and its fibre, may God gives you an outlet of expression even in the gift of men that could be instrumental to that. If you're denied, you'll be like Jeremiah who experiences discomfort inside of him because he couldn't hold or endure the burden tarrying again in him. He confesses that God's word (unspoken and unexpressed) is like burning fire in his bones.

Jeremiah 20:9, KJV

"Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay".

So, he now wants to speak though he's been holding it down since. You know what that alludes to? It's causing him discomfort and putting him in unease. He's dissatisfied and unfulfilled that he has not spoken. Because it is therefore urgent, important and very hot that he speaks, he needs an outlet of expression. So, he can no longer forbear or withhold it. May you get here where you'll take permission of authority who has oversight over you to let you go. Benson Idahosa never completed his Bible School Education in Gordon Lindsay's Seminary. When the burden for Africa was driving him strongly, he requested to leave and so they had to organize a private consecration service for him. That's because his appointed time has come. We're all witnesses to how much he was used by God.  

One time and over a period that lasted more than a year, I kept sending messages and speaking with those I believed could be aids to my having an outlet. That time, I sent an elder a text message. I told him that I can't wait any longer and that I wanted to start a church. I told him, I needed a body to indwell, a house to occupy and express myself through. This same message or content alike was sent to two elders (fathers of faith) and two friends or colleagues in the journey of faith so that all hands might be on deck and so that I might bring forth my burden (pregnancy). 

The truth is this, where God wants you to be and what He wants you to do above others will appeal to you the most and when the time for it nears or has neared, it would grip you and become the most consistent and incessant thing coming to your mind. I don't know whether anyone doubted my starting a church but I know that if any did, they would have doubted likewise if I had told them I wanted to start a ministry in 2016 (though I've been in ministry and calling before then). When I started ministry, I did only at God's instruction. I didn't even confer or consult with anyone. I just followed the prompting that came persistently. Today, Morning Wings Ministry has touched nations. The devotional has gone to places I have not even been. These are results that we couldn't have unless we commence first of all. 

As I was saying, why did I tell those people to begin to help me scout for a considerable venue that we could occupy and kick-start a church from? It's because a burden was driving that act in me. Something was calling me out to the more gracious and anointed things God wanted me to take. So, I was not comfortable at that moment. If I turned here in prayer, thought or study, what faced me was on starting a church and doing so then! I was so surrounded that I had to send those messages repeatedly to them to be on the watch for me and so that they might confirm some things for me. I was seeking a body, a house and a platform not for vain glory but because it was a call coming from a burden that stems from my calling. God wants to reveal what's next and so I was moving in that same direction. Look at me, God will soak you up with the thought of what's next. Just be obedient, risk it and follow the prompt. As long as you can prove He who has spoken to you, you'll have a level of confidence to start. As long as you can witness that those thoughts are not self originating thoughts from you but the Holy Spirit, it'll work. The passage for today talks of demons seeking rest after going through dry places. It's not only demons who seek rest. The human spirit does as well. And as far as God is concerned, your real you is your spirit. So, if your spirit is gasping for the fulfilment of your calling, the thoughts that may beset your own mind may be getting a scholarship and funding to study abroad. It would appeal to you so well that you would give diligence in that aspect. What next to do would just appear to you and even though the road is rigorous or its difficult to secure one, you wouldn't see it as an impossibility until you by attention secure one. Many there be gasping for fulfilment, asking for satiation and seeking expression, may God gives you an outlet. Until then, even if the burden lifts for awhile, it'll come back beseiging and besetting your mind towards action. You'll lose your peace until you pursue that next call to seek a body or a platform for the expression of what you're seeing and perceiving. I pray for you, may you have an entry. May the door open unto you. May you find a place or a platform that would afford you the opportunity to do all that's in your mind as put there by God. No evil spirit could maneuver or sway any human critically unless he inhabits him first of all. That's why demons always seek the human body to occupy. That gives them their highest fulfilment. A man who's demonically inhabited and ruled will destroy much good and could be turned here and there easily by that evil spirit. That's why they don't stop until they have gotten a human host. Their acts of wickedness is revealed maximally through their hosts. They so much desire a house that they can take time to go back to see if there's still space in their former house from which they were dispelled. I pray for you, you'll be given an outlet for expression. Demons seek houses for their expressions of wickedness without which they're curtailed in action. I pray for you that those divine burdens won't perish in/with you. It won't dissipate and evaporate to nothingness inside you. A body, platform or  means of dispensing it all shall be availed you. 

PRAYER: Meet my heart cry. Open me a door, offer me an entry, give me a body and opportunity to express the burden in me. I know what's next practically and I do it.  

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 31:1-33:33; 2 Corinthians 3:1-18; Psalm 43:1-5; Proverbs 22:8-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/08/2023

MONDAY- 28TH AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

AS SOON AS WE HAVE MADE ARRIVAL

Ecclesiastes 1:4, KJV 

"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever".

You really need to have a heart of wisdom. Not because of any other thing but the words written above. One generation passes away and another generation comes. It means you won't always be here. The generation that'll pass will be the one that currently occupies the earth. We call them the living. You may be happy you're part of the living and on a planet where acts could be lived out. The essence is not to be happy and roam around but rather engage that mist opportunity of being here now. The generation that comes are the unborn. Once you are a living spirit on the earth, the question you should be asking yourself is when you'll go back. You're not part of the spirits just coming (with maximum time at hand) but part of the spirits seeking to return one day. On this note, we ought cultivate a heart of wisdom and make this our one life count. 

People are produced in batches and they as well leave in batches. We all have our generation. We always come and go enmasse. It is always "one generation comes" and another "generation goes". Reading that chapter further tells us somethings about the natural elements and how it fulfill the years of those on earth, thereby culminating in their eventual departure off the earth. The sun first of all. 

Ecclesiastes 1:5, KJV

"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose".

Did you read that? The sun rising is a typology of a man being born. At birth, you're just rising. You still have much of the natural years ahead you to spend. But as the sun arises, it does what? It hastens to where it comes. As a matter of fact, the intent of the sun is to go back to where it comes from. Don't be deceived by the little hours it takes out to shine and get accolades. Its face is set towards its passageway and that describes our journey. Naturally, it's the dawning and closing of the day that fulfills our years on earth. As one day breaks and closes, we age whether we like it or not and one day, we might find out that returning is near. What you must observe is that the only period you have for righteous/purposeful activity is the time within when you rose and the time you'll set! The sun always rises and sets. The sun's only shining time is the moment between the time frames when it rises and when it sets. That's why one generation comes and another generation goes. The circuit keeps going.

The second natural element with which to understand the ephemeralness of life on earth is the wind. 

Ecclesiastes 1:6, KJV

"The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits".

You read the going of the wind to the South and its turning to the North. That exemplifies human life. How at arrival he dashes here and there on earth seeking to live its days. However, what happens after this going here and there, amassing the earth's goods, satiating the longing or purpose in one's heart? The wind is said to return again according to its circuit. That it has a circuit means there's a lined up plan or natural law that it can't break but fulfill. It must always follow. Its 2 + 2 equals 4 always. Just like the wind parades the atmosphere to the South and to the North and then whirls about continually for awhile (still enjoying life or breath if translated human), so are we left with only some time to engage life and answer the calling on us. Other than the time the wind goes to the South, turns to the North and then whirls about continually (moment of human existence) before it returns according to its circuit, there's no other time given to man for life activity. Your works after death have no rewards or consequences. 

The Bible says David serves the will of God in his generation and then was buried with his fathers (Acts 13:36). No matter how much you desire to stay, you can't but return according to your circuit like the wind. God is re-emphasizing it to you, the only time you have is the one given your wind to whirl about before you return after your circuit. That been said, irrelevant living should be katergeo (cut off) from your life. You should only live for purpose. You should be single in focus and refuse to be shifted or diverted. If you've lived any years in sin and under Satan, you should let it suffice today. You should come to Christ, receive Him, find your purpose and live it even if yours is not to become a minister (called into the five fold offices). 

Just like the sun that rises, shines for awhile and hastens to its place, so is man. Just like the wind that goes to the South, takes time out to turn to the North (fulfilling all its intention of creation) and whirling about for awhile (having fun or living its ordained life, trying to stay here and in a continuous act) but which finally fulfills its circuit, so is man. Man shall one day go to his long home (Eccl.12:5). Note the word "long". Observe the fact that the sun also hastens to set as soon as it rises up. Observe that the wind returns after its circuit as soon as it launches. Nothing is static. Everything is in a state of an intentionally programmed and continuous flux and instability. It is not built to last. Life on earth isn't everlasting. We shall pass and it'll be fulfilled that one generation goes and another comes but the earth abides forever. Since the earth shall be after us, we can leave our marks on it and also live to amass treasures where it utmostly matters (Matt.6:20). 

PRAYER: Lord, I commit my life anew to my revealed purpose. [For unbelievers (Lord Jesus, I come as a sinner to receive Your forgiveness. Hallelujah, I'm born again!)]

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 28:1-30:31; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17; Psalm 42:1-11; Proverbs 22:7

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/08/2023

SUNDAY- 27TH AUGUST, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

BUT I'VE GIVEN HIM TO YOU

Numbers 21:33-34, KJV

"33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon".

In the journey of the children of Israel to possessing Canaan, they come against many nations or tribes that resist them. One of them is Og, the King of Bashan. As soon as he sights them, he went to battle with them with all his people. Nothing is to be taken for granted and he's not sparing any of his potent weapon. He didn't make pact neither does he ask for negotiation. He rather comes with a boldness and belief of he who will vanguish Israel. Indeed, he might have been terrifying because God had to strengthen Moses not to be afraid of him. 

The journey of the children of Israel is a portrayal of the Christian's journey to his or her Promised Land. God says his thoughts towards us are of good and not of evil, to give us a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11). If it be, then God is at work in us and for us to bring us unto a land and destination that in the true sense of it flows with milk and honey. However, we may encounter one challenge or the other. There may be roadblocks and mountains that we may need to surmount. It may even be an examination that must be passed, a habit that must be broken or cultivated to standard and with rigour etc. However, God with us gives us hope of victory. 

You see, what I want to hear is that God is with me. When God is with you, what is against you becomes prey because He who is with you will be against it. Your battle therefore becomes His battle. God told Moses from the indices He has gathered of him and probably the congregation being afraid not to be afraid of Og because He has solely given him, his people and even his land into his hands. Don't you like that? Don't you like God tell you your greatest fear has been given to you in victory? Yet, before you go in for an attempt! When you walk with God and indeed have Him at your right hand side, you won't be shaken. Shaking can come but He will strengthen you for victory with His words. There's no time that assurance, reassurance and affirmation are important if not when there's a shaking and an uprooting is targeted at you by the devil. Moses is shaken but God allays his fear not to be afraid of Og, because He has given him into his hand already [I want that! Smiles].

The first problem all of us has is seeing by sight and not by faith. If we are this sense ruled, we'll be scared many times and confused. Moses must have seen something scary. He not only sees but believes in it as potent and superior enough. If you know your opponent can't even scratch you let alone harm you, you wouldn't develop a position of inferiority towards him but this is not the case with Moses. So, God had to say to him, "fear him not!" That's your first instruction - fear him not! It may be an exam that you've repeatedly failed or an attempt that looks scary. God is saying, "fear it not!" Not fearing always positions you for the absorbing and right mindedness of what next to do. Fear dispels faith and it'll go contagious affecting your team, family and leadership while toppling their high spirits. That reminds me of David's word. He says unto Saul and the congregation. "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight this Philistine" (I Sam. 17:32). You wouldn't have had such comment if people's hearts were not skipping for the sake of Goliath. That he speaks even looks like a thunder to them. Everybody flees from him. But the first law is, "let no man's heart fail because of him". Are you afraid at how to feed or have sponsorship for a project? Are you afraid of safe delivery? One can fear until his heart fails, becomes hypertensive or have heart attack but the instruction is, "to put your mind at rest" because God fights your battle and is at hand for you. He's working things out for your sake. Just for your sake. He's finding a path for you. Just for you.  

Then, God told Moses, "for I have delivered him into your hand". Shout hallelujah! This is how all the things you fear shall be given to you. When a thing is delivered into your hand, you exercise little effort in possessing it because you have it already. It rather comes to you like that. That thing itself might not understand how but it sure must submit to you just like that. Imagine, before the attempt, Moses had the assurance and went in the assurance. Look, this is why you're a son or daughter in the Father's house. A son is privy to what the Father does even before it is executed. Imagine that privileged information that Moses would subdue his fear. As mighty Og of Bashan and his people are or might have looked, God has given them up to Moses. Moses will have a mastery over them. They are his to take and that's because God is willing it so. Today, anything that threatens you, makes you feel insecure, inadequate and not enough are delivered to you. Your eyes shall open to your superior position and you shall wage a good warfare from such understanding. Look, you're a winner. Don't cower at life and its events. Go face it headlong with the words and assurance of faith. Before the battle, we already have the results and it's that you won!

PRAYER: Lord, give me a mind shift: from the position of fear to faith. Make my mountain strong and my victory shall follow suite. I have delivered to me all my fears and I squash them all.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Job 23:1-27:23; 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:11; Psalm 41:1-13; Proverbs 22:5-6

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