MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 02/01/2024

TUESDAY - 2ND JANUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

THE POTENTIAL IN THE RIGHT OF A MAN - Abomination of a Husband Series 004

Genesis 25:34, KJV

"Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."

Just like a birthright avails the first born certain privileges, being the husband at the home setting gives you some rights as well. You're actually privileged.

The birthright of Esau places him over and ahead of Jacob. So, Esau has preeminence. He's like an older brother to Jacob. If you're in a good cultural system, you'll understand that the elder exercises seniority over the younger and can even give instructions or be accorded watching over his younger ones. Because he's also older, he may be more benefited and treated as an adult and given adults' assets compared to his younger ones. He's also most likely the heir or the one the father wants to pass the family business or lineage blessing to. In the case of Esau, Isaac wanted to pass the blessing to him to continue the line with him but for the turning around of things suddenly when Jacob came in to supplant his brother. That desire of Isaac to bless Esau is occasioned because he was the first born and not the second. 

This is also the truth with Joseph's children. Joseph refused Jacob, his father from blessing Ephraim over Manasseh (who is the first born). He removed his father's right hand from Ephraim's head to place it on Manasseh's and even told the father that Manasseh is the first (Gen.48:13-17). However, the flow didn't also flow that way also. So, it turned to another - the younger. 

All these instances prove that there's a blessing in the birthright of the first born or any type of right given to anyone. In series one, I talked of the blessings as well as the responsibilities. A husband for instance enjoys certain rights. He leads the family and exercises authority and leadership over all in the family. You see, these are rights that are occasioned by his position or office as the husband and father. However, he has his responsibilities. He provides, loves, protects and teaches the family. He might need to work unrelentlessly to make ends meet for his family but that's the just obligation that goes with the privileges and says he has or exercises. 

Paul once warned that he who won't work shouldn't eat (II Thes. 3:10). Same fits this illustration. A man should not be respected if he only enjoys exercising of rights and not performance of duties and obligations. 

Being the man means being the head. The head gives dictates to every other parts of the body. That's who you are and that's what you enjoy. However, with it goes some responsibilities. It is the balance of these two when maintained that won't make you abuse authority or your rights. I once said it somewhere that, "responsibility can humble you." Responsibilities that are sitting on you pedals you to soft tread and not become a tyrant. It also makes you not to eat the food of idleness or laziness. You only eat what you pay for and seek to compensate for anything given you which you haven't afore paid for. A man doesn't abscond from obligations. If you like free things, you'll abuse the purpose of gift or grace somewhere.

Your right as the husband or the man should therefore be protected. It's a privileged position which should be ever beautiful to you. Don't sign it off to your wife. By nature and make up, God didn't make her to be the headman though she could be forced into this role. You have seen how uninteresting that is when a woman is a widow seeking to do it all. Even when she's financially buoyant, the voice, strangth and harnessing of a father is usually missed. The children would need that and herself might look up to being held together by a man's arms. That's why the Bible clearly calls her, "a helpmeet or helper". Helpmeet is found for someone or something that's in operation before the arrival of the help the helpmeet or giver is bringing. And when something helps, we know it is there to assist. So, it's not wrong for your wife to assist you but her call is not to be the header. And how do men make their wives the header? By simply absconding responsibility and forcing women and their wives into men's and husbands' roles. If you do this, you have fallen and have lost your rights. You'll have lost your grip especially what makes you exercise authority and godly influence at home. Once that's undone, you've given your wife the fat ground to contest and challenge to a large extent what you'll say or do. And that's because you gave your rights away - making your wife the husband. 

PRAYER: Teach me the flow at the home setting. I receive properness of structure and how not to break the rank.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 3:1-4:26, Matthew 2:13-3:6, Psalm 2:1-12, Proverbs 1:7-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 01/01/2024

MONDAY - 1ST JANUARY, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

THE POTENTIAL IN YOUR BIRTHRIGHT - Abomination of a Husband Series 003

Genesis 25:31-32, KJV

"31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32  And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?"

You're welcome to 2024. This teaching will help men to rise and stand upright. Do well to follow its series.

It is unfortunate that many don't know the potential contained in their birthright. So unfortunate that many don't know it's shock full of privileges and blessings for them.  Just like the birthright places Esau over Jacob, so also does the natural positioning of the male man positions him for headship and leadership at the home setting. The birthright also positions Esau naturally as the heir of his father. This speaks of a special privilege he enjoys just because he came first. In same way, the male man has some rights that if sold makes him lesser and reduced. If you don't know that you're a kind of first born at the home setting, you might sell this right and all the privileges that pertains to it to your wife. This way, you'll have successfully become an Esau who exchanges his birthright for mere food. He's such a willing fellow who gives valuable for worthlessness. You can exchange responsibility for convenience at the home setting also. Responsibility is costly to bear and you can because of this push it wholly to your wife or let her take the lead in it while you follow. There are women who are the ones giving to their families and meeting needs to the exclusion of the man. This is wrong. You're to rise as an example there. It's an Esau who always despises the birthright - what privileges and duties his position of birth confers on him. He lost it because he didn't see or understand the significance of the birthright. If he had been in Jacob's shoe who is farther at table from their father, he would have been made envious. He would even have seen Jacob for who he is - a thief when he requested for his birthright. In that wise, he would have protected his right as the first born. He didn't see any significance in his birthright and that made him sell it off. You know it's possible to have something precious and not know it's that precious until it is lost or out of your hands. To buy it back, you'll have to pay a greater prize for it. That's if it ever avails itself for sale. For Esau, the Bible says, "he sought with tears what he had lost but it was not given him (Heb.12:17). Who'll give it to him? Is it Jacob who has learnt first of all the significance of the birthright having suffered not being born with it? 

It is clearly revealed that Esau has no respect for his birthright. It is revealed in the statement he utters. He says, "I am at the point of death, who cares about the birthright? What profit does it do to me?" This is the problem of people. They are always desperate and at the point of extermination when they're looking for satiation. In this manner, they don't mind how costly it is what they give to have what they're looking for (even if that one is worthless and of lesser value). 

This has become the undoing of many men who were at the point of extermination when they needed sex and couldn't rein it in. They eventually had the sex at a higher cost than it was offered them. Some entered into some wrong and cheap bargain with wives who wanted to control them or prostitutes who seek their value of manhood. May you be sensitive. May you first of all have a revelation of how important you, your roles and the blessings that follows it are. You're created as God's right hand man - to bear rule in your family. You're also God's vessel - in who He wants to live. When you see yourself as God's temple therefore, you'll know your body is not meant for fornication or uncleanness this year. Who many are and what they carry or they have working for them, they just don't know. Until it is lost, they're not at loss or at a regret of something. You may say your own 'birthright' too holds no importance now because of this ephemeral thing you want to satiate yourself with. However, you'll soon seek it with tears and yet you won't have it. Never lose blessings on the altar of sin this year. Never exchange roles or duties with your wife. Don't switch places. Let her remain the "helpmeet" God called her. Women themselves are seeking for who to lead them. That's why they're commanded to submit or be subject to their husbands (I Peter 3:1). Don't change that positioning. God didn't make so from the beginning if you do. Protect your God given rights and exercise it faithfully. Don't say, "what profit does being a man, husband and father avail you?" If you lose your roles and the blessings that follow, you'll learn it. Esau who once asked what blessing the birthright has for him saw it after it was lost. He wanted it back but Jacob already had upper hand and sealed by the oath they both were party to and later the sealing blessing of Isaac when Jacob came to supplant Esau for the fatherly blessing. 

PRAYER: Lord, I want to rise, stand and stand upright at my duty post as a man and husband this year. I receive grace, wisdom and resources. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 1:1-2:25, Matthew 1:1-2:12, Psalm 1:1-6, Proverbs 1:1-6

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BANNER WORD FOR 2024

 Brethren,

We thank you for following us still. God has spoken good of us and we thank you for believing in us - as to have gone in and out with us this year. 

Having been looking unto God for a period, God has concluded to have us work and walk under the banner theme, "RISEN & UPRIGHT".

Psalm 20:7-8 says, 

"7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright."

When a thousand and ten thousand are fallen both at your left and right hand sides, your own testimony will be to RISE and STAND UPRIGHT.

In this New Year, ours is A GREAT RISING! Nothing will be able to press or bow us down. Even depression won't be able to get that done. Internally in our minds and in our physical, spiritual, marital, financial lives, we shall RISE and STAND UPRIGHT.

The only thing that's permitted for us in this New Year is to RISE and then maintain our RISING.

"Stand upright" that comes after that "rise" means to still be standing after rising. You'll not only stand after rising, you'll endure in rising, power and that good state. 

Nothing shall knock you off or back to a depressed or bowed or bent over state. You will RISE in power and keep your rising by STANDING UPRIGHT still. Let travellers to the end of the world go and return, they'll still meet you standing upright. 

Even in war, famine or difficult situations, nothing will change this position of RISING and STANDING UPRIGHT. You'll still be standing upright. Let the whole world come against you, you'll still be found standing upright. You'll not be fallen or trodden under foot by anything in 2024.

This is your position. You have overcome the world; you have triumphed; you have RISEN and shall maintain your RISING by STANDING and being UPRIGHT still. 

No shaking except what you shake that shakes!

Say, "I am RISEN, I STAND & I am UPRIGHT."

HAPPY NEW YEAR in advance. Welcome to the New World and a New Beginning!

Your brother,

Olusola ADEJUMO,

M'Wings. 

Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.

+234 81 3704 6812

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 31/12/2023

SUNDAY - 31ST DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE BIRTHRIGHT - The Abomination of a Husband Series 002

Genesis 25:30, KJV

"30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright."

There's only one thing that contest is currently over. It is your birthright or let's simply say right. What is the "birthright?" If English is still English, then it is easy decoding. Birthright is made up of two separate words. They are "birth" + "right." So, it is rightly interpreted as all the rights that your being born avails you. The privileges you enjoy occasioned by your birth is what is called birthright. Birthright is also something owed since birth, due to inheritance. That is what Jacob's eyes was on. He wanted it though he was not the first born and when the opportunity to attempt having it presented itself, he explored it. That's why I said, "your birthright is what contest is over." That's what Satan wants you to forfeit. He wants you to forfeit the blessings and special privileges God created or allocated to you. The birthright are all privileges that anyone enjoys as a result of their birth by a person or into a family. They are occasioned just only by birth. In that manner, there are blessings God has occasioned to follow you. They are a sort of birthright. Contest will always be on them but you must refuse to lose or give them away. 

In explaining the birthright which a first born enjoys, you'll need to see this. When Joseph hosts his brothers, they sit according to their birthright.

Genesis 43:33, KJV

"And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth..."

This is one of the privileges a first born enjoys. It becomes obvious he's first and as such distinguished from others. This might have been practiced at Isaac's dining as well. Esau might have been ranked and sat closer to the father, Isaac than Jacob. In this way, Jacob might have felt inferior and so sensed the importance of the birthright. He might have seen from this that the birthright puts importance on a first born and makes him enjoy preeminence which others don't enjoy. 

For this reason, Jacob made no other request other than, "sell me your birthright." Why the birthright? Who educated Jacob on what to ask for? Somebody of his age ought still act carefree. He shouldn't have acted differently from Herodias' daughter who didn't know what to ask until the mother (a more experienced person) tutored her (Matt. 14:8). So, what made Jacob know rightly what to ask for? It's the fact that Jacob has suffered not being the first born. He has been thrown into the frenzy of envy and has experienced how privileged Esau is over him. On this ground, he knows what to ask for. He therefore goes for the birthright. He didn't ask for the game Esau would bring. No! He goes for the most essential that makes him preferred, most important and exalted. 

That's what contest is over. Protect anything that gives you your uniqueness. It may be a gift or a blessing that's attached to your life. In one thousand encounters, that's what Satan wants to steal and have you lose (John 10:10). Your birthright is shock full with many potentials and privileges. You can't afford to lose it or have another take your office, position which naturally brings the graces, anointing and manifestation needed for your greatness. When Satan, strange ladies and sin is seeking after what is birthright to you, may you see this as the essence of your life that can't be forfeited.

PRAYER: Lord, give me understanding to see the importance of the outworking in me. May I not be duped or cheated out of any special gift or grace on me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Malachi 3:1-4:6; Revelation 22:1-21; Psalm 150:1-6; Proverbs 31:25-31

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/12/2023

SATURDAY - 30TH DECEMBER, 2023

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DON'T DESPISE YOUR BIRTHRIGHT - The Abomination of a Husband Series 001

Genesis 25:32-34, KJV

"32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."

By nature and the order of things, we know that Esau is the first born while Jacob follows. They are twins but one came out before the other (Gen. 25:24-26). Therefore, without any hardwork or effort, Esau has preeminence and the blessing that goes with it because he's the first born. He's just at advantage for being the first born. His being the first born naturally puts a blessing and right on him and ought to make him better. If there's no privilege in being the first born indeed, Jacob's eyes and ask wouldn't have been on Esau selling what naturally gives him preeminence over him to him. Jacob is therefore a commonsensical fellow who for awhile might have watched and seen in the life of Esau how he had been enjoying the preeminence and invisible blessings of being the first born. He might have envied the respect his brother enjoys even from outsiders who marks him as the first born of the two twins. Whatsoever it may be, Jacob saw something he wanted to have for himself. He might have envied this for a time before the opportunity to ask for it eventually presented itself. 

We all know the story. Esau went hunting and returns home famished. He requests to be fed of the pottage of his brother, Jacob. However, Jacob turned the table and made a business deal out of it. Out of much hunger and the unfortunate inability to exercise discipline or delay gratification, Esau sells his birthright to have a moment of relief, enjoyment or sensation with food. When this was done and sealed with an oath, the Bible says, "thus, Esau despised his birthright." The Bible didn't comment on any transaction having been done until it was done, sealed and transferred. That was when the Bible then laments for Esau for treating with levity what has so much potency to make him the head over his brother and cause him to multiply. 

It means, "having done this, Esau let go of what makes him the first born." Letting go of what makes him first born therefore includes transferring all the blessings and statuses that accompany being the first born also. He lost all together. It is he who is the first born heaven will honour with headship and the blessings of the first born so as to give bread to others. Therefore after this business deal, every vitality, grace and glory of the first born were immediately sold away to Jacob. 

In like manner, transactions are still happening day in day out. I want to go to the home setting. Yesterday on our ministry platform, I sent a quote that says, "there are Esau husbands. They are those who have exchanged responsibility with convenience." If you're a man in a typical home setting, you're like Esau who has the birthright naturally conferred on him by God due to your gender and roles and could enjoy what the privileges of the birthright offer as well if you operate it. For instance, what is your birthright as a husband in the house? Because of your natural and God given position of being the husband, you lead, exercise governance, instruct and have oversee over the workings of your entire family. That's what your birthright naturally blesses you with. You may not regard it as blessings but see it as outright responsibilities and sacrifices until it's your wife doing them and exercising authority over you. That had be strange and ought to be corrected immediately. God has not created a wife in the home setting to exercise authority over her husband. If she's not a witch or lover of control, she should be ashamed of herself wanting to subdue or control her own husband. If there's any woman doing that at the home front, I'll say witchcraft is very very attractive to you. Your matron spirit should never seek to control or subdue your husband. Let it watch and oversee your children. So, the moment a man begins to ignore his responsibilities as a type of a first born or shirk them away to his wife is the day he has voluntarily and by consent signed off his birthright and position of being husband and the head. If it's your wife paying the bills or doing much of it and you're comfortable with it, that means you are an Esau husband. You have exchanged responsibility for convenience. You may think you're blessed having a wife who does everything for you and even puts food on your table but that responsibility she's doing (which ought to be yours) will invariably make her the husband and slide you to the status of the wife. As such, since she's the one acting the man, God won't be unjust not to allow her have the blessings that should have followed you. This is how men especially in the home setting sells their natural God given position or birthright to her who it is not from the beginning.

Yesterday, I made another statement to our ministry members. I told them in a quote that, "when you become responsible, you'll know how much it costs". No matter how undetailed any man may be reading this, if you're the one who pays the family bills, you'll one way or the other know how much it costs. Children are the only ones who don't know how much what they're enjoying costs. They only await the parents to make provision and provide them with life's necessities without knowing the pain, cost and sacrifice that goes into making such available. Let me tell you. If the burden of your family responsibility falls on your wife and she's the one who only knows the pain and sacrifice of what it costs meeting the family's needs, then God won't be unjust not to allow her have headship and more prosperity in what she does. You'll just observe that you're being relegated and you're going down. She'll overshadow you and that won't be because God plans it that way but because you sold out your birthright to her under convenience the day you said she should put more down for the family's needs. 

That ain't her call. It is yours. Many conspiracies of life might have naturally backslided you and positioned her at an advantage for that but you should not consent to selling your birthright away. You also should give your 100%. You can pursue, overtake and recover. When you do, you'll see that it becomes easy exercising authority at the home front. You'll have her respect and submission. Your reputation won't have been damaged as you're well seated as the first born who has the blessings the birthright confers. 

The birthright is a great  privilege on your life. As you exercise yourself for your family even as a man of little estate, the blessing of the birthright will enlarge you. It'll become, "he who waters must be watered". This way, you'll forever have inorder to abound in good work towards your family. I pray for you, may your scepter of leadership and headship not break. Today, may you see that he who has the birthright has the blessings. On that note,  seek to protect with your fibre the natural headship God has given you. It demands responsibilities of you but it in turns brings many blessings and advantages. It is what makes you the doer and the giver and that's what makes you to be the one being blessed in return. 

PRAYER: Lord, heal my head. I'm sorry for absconding and jettisoning my duties to my wife. I'm ready for responsibilities as demanded by my position as the front man in the home. In return, I receive the blessings.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Malachi 1:1-2:17; Revelation 21:1-27; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 31:10-24

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FRIDAY - 29TH DECEMBER, 2023

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A NOVEL THING!

Read Exo. 16:1-16

Exodus 16:15, KJV

"And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat."

As the children of Israel take their journey from Egypt to Canaan, they meet many obstacles which the Lord helps them to beat. One of such is the Red Sea that was parted and the drowning of Pharaoh's army for their sake. 

Meanwhile, as they journey into the wilderness, they begin to crave for the food which they had available and ate to their fill in Egypt. They were brought into this remembrance because they have become hungry and long for satiation. However, they communicated to God by murmuring and grumbling. This is not the right attitude that any Christian should cultivate when in need. God has a listening ears and we should "in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let our requests be made known unto God (Philippians 4:6). All the same, the Lord heard them and promised to give them both flesh and bread. These are the two things they were availed to the full in Egypt. In their murmuring, they had said this. 

Exodus 16:3, KJV

"And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

It is this need that made God speak through Moses, His prophet on the provision of meat for them in the evening and bread for them in the morning. God is committed to our being continually loaded with benefits. He does more all together for us than any government of a country can do for her own people. Egypt has a good welfare system. The Israelites though were slaves testified of this. They ate to their fill but God has a better welfare package for them. He eventually brought them quails by the East Wind. This is meat that they didn't work for, rear or have to hunt. God just used nature to bring it en masse to their camp. I don't know the country that drops food at the door steps of her every citizen but God did that for Israel. He gave them meat that they don't know where it came from and He gave them enough of it. Except they don't want to eat in the quantity they wanted, meat is always available. 

With the quails brought by the wind was the heavenly bread God gave them. God had promised to give them bread also and Moses had reported this to the congregation of Israel. However, when the bread came, the congregation couldn't detect or discover it as the promised bread. Why? They haven't seen the like of it before. It was a novel thing. A new thing they are seeing in their lives put together. Nobody has ever experienced any bread being that way before. Not knowing what to call this newly delivered bread, they therefore congregationally call it "manna". Manna means, "what is it?" It expresses something unknown that needs to be answered. However, their answer nears them as Moses explains to them what it is - being the bread God promised to give them. This is a new bread, the like that has never been turned out before. It is newly manufactured to meet need. It is a novel idea and concept. More importantly, it didn't originate from the earth nor made by any man's hands. It came from heaven (Psalm 105:40). 

Exodus 16:13-15, KJV

"13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat."

Just like Moses served as the interpreter of the Israelites here, rightly dividing the truth to them, so also the Lord is sending me to tell you of a novel thing you shall see. It'll happen and you'll exclaim at what it is. It'll be manna unto you - all new but it'll be the Lord's doing. As we seek to draw open the curtain of 2024, you shall exclaim and say, "what is this?" But rightly, you shall receive remembrance on such delivery been what you had prayed for. You may not see it as what you've prayed for but rightly dividing the wheat from the shaft by a more experienced person will open to you your novel thing. This will make you accept and welcome this heavenly blessing or else it might scare you away with its strangeness.  

I pray for you, manna will fall on your ground. New inventions that are not earthly shall be experimented on your ground and in your life. You'll get out of your house or into the open, see that wonder and ask, "what is it?"

PRAYER: Lord, any promise for this year that's still hanging should begin to drop in Jesus name. I receive new things that'll lead to enquiring what they are.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 14:1-21; Revelation 20:1-15; Psalm 148:1-14; Proverbs 31:8-9

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/12/2023

THURSDAY - 28TH DECEMBER, 2023

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

A STATEMENT THAT CONTRADICTS FAITH

Read Luke 12:16 - 21

Luke 12:18-19, KJV

"18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."

This statement above is one that kills daily faith living. You may not see it so until it is divided. The ground of this man brought forth plentifully and contemplating where he'll put the proceeds, he decides on pulling down his older barns to building more roomy ones. Looking at his harvest and how much would be stored, he then speaks to his soul. He tells himself to keep calm, take his ease because he has much food for many years laid up for consumption. It isn't long when God requires his life from him and that's because he didn't acknowledge God at all in his thought. He was only driven by selfishness and eventually driven to death by it. 

However, that statement of, "and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry" shows from the time that statement was made that this man would stop trusting God for provision that immediately. I once said why we pray to God is because we keep having needs to be met. The day you become independent of God and not send requests to Him again or seek His help is the day you should be believed to have everything in this life. And once you have everything already, you become independent of anyone who can give it to you. You therefore become self contained! It is that same shoe this man found himself. He has abundance that can cater for many years' needs. Looking at his store house or treasure bank in his mind, he's of the opinion that he doesn't need to trouble himself any longer. He has what it takes to live for many years. Such man with such thought can't trust God to supply his daily bread again. Why? He knows he has the bread in reserve already. He's not looking for it any longer. Rather, he can approach his store house, collect as much food as needed and do with it as desired. Such kind of provision, comfort and convenient life therefore kills faith and its exercise. How many of you are there right now trusting God for money, provision or solution to one health problem or the other? Do you know why your focus is on God even if you have to go to the hospital? It's basically because you do not have that provision on ground or settled. If you're assured of money for life, you can misbehave. That's when you won't even take work seriously again. You'll advise yourself to ease up like this rich fool. The truth is this. What you know you have, you can't look for and what you don't look for immediately excommunicates you from praying or exercising faith to having it. We know that it's from God all good gift and perfect gift come from (James 1:17). Like this man, he has it on ground. What he would eat in years to come has been prepared for and made ready. He's not in deception of that reality. He knows where the corn is and he knows it really can cater for many years. This is what assures his mind. This is what takes his quest off God from whom all resources and provision comes from. Rather, he's assuring himself - his soul to take his ease because his own very hands has made provision available for him to dine and merry with. 

I bet it with you, such man can't exercise faith anylonger. Why? He has nothing he's looking for again. Though he has all, he didn't yield them up or give it up to God.  But all his needs are met. Did you not hear him speak? He began assuring himself of no work or stressful work anylonger. To him, he's going into retirement immediately. Why would he do that? Because of the harvest he sure knows can last him for years and cater for his needs. 

Some of us are praying or are forced to pray and trust Him for provision because we don't know where it'll come from. We at times find ourselves at tight corners where we believe that if God does not respond and come through for us, then shame and embarrassment is imminent. On that note, we keep exercising faith and believing for the salvation that comes only from God. However, let me ask you, "if you have everything you need like this man, what will become of your fellowship with God? Will you keep trusting Him at all for your daily bread? Will you even allow Him administer that abundant harvest of yours as He wanted? Can you give your treasure box to God and start all over again? Will you allow Him help you build faith in Him?

When God told the rich young ruler to go and sell all he has and follow him, this is what Jesus was seeking to help him achieve (Luke 18:18-23). Jesus doesn't want his faith, confidence or strength to come from what he has or has kept in the banks. Rather, Jesus wants to help him learn, build faith and live the faith life by helping him to trust and ask for his daily bread daily. It takes faith to live such life. A life that awaits his daily provision daily from God is a faith life. It doesn't mean that fellow doesn't have a savings. However, his trust is not in it neither does his sustenance fostered on it. That life is different from He who has it all, knows where it is and can fetch himself whatsoever he needs when he needs it every time without ever asking God for help. 

Brethren, when your business brings forth abundantly, when prosperity comes your way as such that can cater for you till death, will you remove God from your thinking? Will you become your own carer and take God out of the picture or you'll continue to lean and wait on Him for the daily allocation that comes from Him? May you not deceive your heart - yourself to take his calm because of the treasure laid up when all sustainance, life and being comes and is given by God. 

PRAYER: Lord, keep me from the deception of reliance and sustenance on myself. Teach me the faith life and how to live it.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Zechariah 12:1-13:9; Revelation 19:1-21; Psalm 147:1-20; Proverbs 31:1-7; Proverbs 30:10

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