MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 5/04/2024

FRIDAY - 5TH APRIL, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

ARE YOU WORRIED OVER THAT CHILD?

Read John 7:1-7

John 7:6, KJV

"Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready."

If it was my frame that was looked upon when men were being called into Christian leadership on campus, I would have been definitely jumped over. I thank God and I thank the honest Spirit led people who would stay by what God told them. This especially goes to Anglican Students' Fellowship, Tai Solarin University of Education which opened me to other leadership appointments on campus. If I was never a president at fellowship level first of all, I wouldn't have been nominated or qualified for other offices (especially of presidency) that I occupied at the State Chapter of my fellowship or at Christian Union on my campus. I reminisced that road, gave God the glory while asking Him to fulfill the rest that He has preordained. 

Many parents are seriously worried over their children. There is this desire in parents for their children - especially those from their bowels to do well.  They want to see them fly and that right early. This expectation of success and achievement is so paramount that even when a baby delays to walk, the mum especially might slip into worry. Yes, big time worry! Such heart that cares and wants the best for the child isn't bad. We all got that feeling of special concern and care from God. It's what makes a parent indeed. 

However, in the process of wanting them to fly, you might push them too much while seeking for performance. If they respect you, they'll continue to trudge under the burden of your pressure. However, when pushed to the wall, they might defy you or chart another cause stubbornly for themselves as suited their nature and the way of life they're feeling bubbling inside them. You'd just be thrown into the surprise of your life. As such, I'll say, "let the young grow." There's nothing as blessed as coming of age without being ripened immaturely. There's always a disaster that follows immature ripening. However, confidence and preparedness of the soul that money can't buy will flow from inside your ward when you allow time to grow them into what you're expecting of them. Instead of comparing A with B who had climbed and scaled faster, it'll be good if you rather provide support and all the necessary encouragement that will grow the other. The path of A may not be B's. What they're called to become also might necessitate a call on what they'll give attention to. As such, the difference in lifestyle.

Jesus' brethren told Him to go up to Jerusalem and be revealed to the world (though said that out of unbelief). However, that's actually the concern of many parents. They want their wards revealed to the world. If Segun, the son of the neighbour plays the saxophone in church and receives applause, why can't our own get into something worthy of such public attention since they're of the same age. Parents force their wards into unreadied actions this way. Jesus' brethren sought to prompt Jesus Himself into action by pressuring Him to reveal Himself to the world by going into Judea. Whereas, Jesus recognizes that His time is not yet. Your child may also have the recognition that the time is not yet while you are caught up with his making an appearance or a debut. You might make the mistake of pushing harder until you irritate him or even force the less bold out of their convictions. This will birth a lot of heartaches that will cause you regret later in the future. Most times, melancholy children are usually not ready when they're predicted for readiness. Not that they don't have the substance; only that they want to manifest at their own sensed time. As such, they may be waiting for the cloud to gather. Due to their reluctance and love of indoor (being introverts), parents might fret over them or force them to be revealed to the world.  Children won't be all the same. Some at times may show rareness or slowness of progress in something but to catch up later. If you'll let them alone, if you'll let practice and time have its full effect on them, they shall come out majestically in performance than you could ever have predicted. Narrating my campus journey earlier reminded me of myself and how anyone could have thought I was slow. I never sought the public view until the time of my showing forth on campus. I might have even been derided as incapable because I didn't exhume obvious or extraordinary graces. However, I was ready and prepared on the inside - just waiting for the right time to be revealed. When such time avails itself in the offices that were availed me, I came forth to show my worth through Christ who strengthened me. That eventual delivery of mine could have been someone's expectation of me. They could have looked forward to it and be surprised at such graces eventually displayed by me in leadership. However, if they had hurried it or hurried me, they probably might not have seen it in its best.  I thank God my family, especially my parents allowed me to find my path also. They didn't choose or seek to even pressure me into finding my foot once. All happened as one event led to another as ordained to happen.  

There's a time of manifestation. Naturally, God created everyone to know this time. If purpose or calling is in you, you'll always have a sense of fate directing you. You'll have an awareness of what next and what's not and so will be able to resist it firmly. That's why Jesus could say "His time is not yet" amidst acting in wisdom as to be protected from the Jews who sought to kill Him. Brethren, don't be worried over that child of yours? He'll walk! She'll catch up! He'll sure deliver...only that his or her time may seem not to be yet. He's shock full of potentials and though it looks as though he's crowd intimidated now, he shall all overcome all to manifest very big. Your kid may be showing reluctance somewhere, that doesn't eliminate his being gifted or useful. Reluctance may be a pointer to unreadiness or the untimeliness of an event. When the time is ripe and he launches, he won't disgrace you but God shall be praised through and through.  

PRAYER: Lord, sensitize me to the time of destiny and manifestation over my children. May I not cause their death, harm, withdrawal by forcing manifestation on them when their season is not. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalm 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 27/03/2024

WEDNESDAY - 27TH MARCH, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE GRASS ON THE HOUSETOP

Read Psalm 129

Psalms 129:6, KJV

"Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up."

Very well, you must have seen the grass on the house top before. Eastern houses are built in such a way that grasses do grow on them. However, they lack root. It is difficult for grasses on the house top to send their roots into a cemented or concreted block for instance. As such, they only make do with the little sandy portion on which they're existed. 

Lacking root, they therefore have one destiny - to wither sooner and as soon as they grow out. That's why that place says, "let them be as the grass upon the house top which withers before it grows up." The grass on the house top has therefore become synonymous with holding hope and not manifesting it. It may grow out but it doesn't grow up. It may be born but it doesn't mature. 

In the Yoruba culture of the people of Nigeria, the word "abiku" reveals this. Two Nigerian poets in Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark Bekederemo have written poems with the same title though different thematic preoccupation. "Abiku" which is translated "born to die" reveals what a grass on the house top is. It might delight anyone that grasses are growing out here; however, it soon shrinks and dwindles for lack of depth as soon as it grows out. Then it dies. The grass on the housetop is therefore a type of 'born to die' that analogizes how many started with a hope of great success yet only to be stopped, eradicated from the race by a circumstance or equation unexplainable and to the termination of their destiny. They therefore become like this proverbial verse of the Bible that says, "having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof" (II Tim.3:5). 

The grass on the house top if it be a child isn't one that'll tarry with his parents till old age. The family might rejoice having him but he will swallow up or cave in even before the eight day. You see, he's such who gave a hope of gigantic future but to still and seal it without looking back. Though because of being born many rejoice and smile; yet by his soon departure, many shall also be put off. That's why the Psalmist having this revelation prays that the wicked shall be like a grass growing upon the house top which, "the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom" (Psalm 129:7). What does that mean? No matter how promising the grass upon the house top may hold promises, it'll never manifest it. This is therefore a very strong revelation and prayer point. May this revelation not play out in your life. As soon as you start your life at birth, may you go all the way into adulthood and maturity to actualize your being born. The mower is he who weeds grasses away while he that binds the sheaves is an harvester. As for the grass on the house top, their destiny is that they don't grow to give joy of harvest to any of these. They may start the race but they don't always complete the cycle. They don't even grow to the extent where passers-by would see such farm of wheat to envy or bless it. If you remember, Jesus while living His ordained life was blessed from the crowd but they don't (Lk.11:27). They're taken out before then. They're therefore like the proverbial gourd plant which the Lord planted in a night and died out in a night after which it had accomplished its purpose of creation (Jonah 4:10). Nothing different from the seed that Jesus alludes to which when sown falls on the rock but for lack of depth withers after quickly springing up (Mark 4:5-6). They're also not different from what Lenrie Peters, the Gambian poet described in these lines.

"At twenty stilled by hope of gigantic success, time and exploration/ At thirty... Copy book bisected with red ink and failures - nothing to show the world."

That poet was saying, at the age of twenty, one is robust with hope and expectation of a bright future. But about thirty thereabout or upward when one checks, one realizes there's nothing to show for his life."

Today, I'm anointed of God to separate you from such end. This is not what the Bible says about the path of the just that shines more and more unto the perfect day (Prov.4:18). The Bible acknowledges in Job  8:7 that "though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase." On this note, I proclaim on you a difference in life and experience. Where people in your ancestry have shown hope without manifestation, you won't walk same road. You're delivered from every born to die experience. As you rise as a youth, you'll go all the way to fulfill your calling or purpose. Your parents who are metaphoric of the mowers and harvesters will reap your benefit at their old age. You're preserved in destiny and for purpose. Anything awaiting like a time bomb to take you out now or later, I detonate it in your life by the anointing. Whereever you're already marked and appointed to death like a sheep led to the slaughter, I request for your life in Jesus' name and call you back. I'm hearing, "the Lord has need of you." God has need of you. This is the claim on that donkey Jesus rode. For that reason, you're preserved and sealed. So shall it be. 

ACTION: Anoint yourself and children with oil and claim a new lot. Confess Psalm 16:5-6.

PRAYER: I claim the path of the just. I'm separated and sanctified from the manifestation of ancestral curses in my lineage. I shall not be vexed, frustrated or gagged by curses. I breakthrough. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Deuteronomy 4:1-49, Luke 6:39-7:10, Psalm 68:1-18, Proverbs 11:28

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 26/03/2024

TUESDAY - 26TH MARCH, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL  - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE ASTOUNDINGLY BRILLIANT STUDENT

Confess Psalm 139

Psalms 147:4, KJV

"He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names."

Today, God is bringing you the cure to a sluggish mind or even memory. Praise God! There's a remedy which the Lord has made ready which if taken today, you'll see its results. 

This Psalm above has been making me smile. May the Spirit dissect it for us. It says, "He tells the number of the stars, He calls them all by their names." Who is the "He" being referred to there? Who's the fellow who by all capacity possible knows extraordinarily as to tell the number of the stars and then go further to call them all by their names? Who? Who is that one empowered with such capacity?

It is God - the Creator of heaven and earth. No information is outside Him. He's so brilliant that He knows the exact number of hairs on our heads individually though they vary (Matt.10:30). Psalm 139:1- 6 talk of his astounding brilliance and comprehension. He knows all things that was, is and will be. God is the all brilliant One. It is this special gift and intelligence which sits at the core centrality of who God is that enables Him to be able to tell the number of the stars (which are so numerous that we doubt if science has discovered them all let alone give names to them all). Does God not deserve our applause as the all brilliant One then?

The truth is this brilliance could become yours. Prophets and those who koinonia with God to have His mind revealed to them also do have this knowledge and exercise such brilliance. They could not only know the past, present or future but things do become revelatory and lucid (clear) to them. At such time, codes are broken and all mysteries are demystified to them. Anyone who's anointed to do anything or fulfill a purpose on earth would always hit on and exercise such intelligence where He is called to subdue also. At times, they're taught by their anointing (the anointing of their fields) and so knows all things. To this end, they may not require a teacher. They'll just know and keep knowing what next to do. As a matter of fact, A could lead into B for them. Insights and such breakthroughs they have into Science, Fiction Writing, Economics, History or Spirituality would make outsiders wonder if these are really men like themselves. I tell you (repeating after the psalmist himself), "ye are gods" (Psalm 82:6). You're meant to showcase and reveal the extraordinary to the praise of He Who calls and loves you.

Oh, what a thing that God could tell the number of the stars yet still call them each by name. It means information or much of it couldn't and can't bug down His mind. It means God is never confused by information overload. His mind is so active and so should yours. Like a sponge, He has soaked all in, does retain it all and yet can still reproduce it all. What a thing! According to discovery, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in the universe. Another way, 200 sextillion stars which in figure is 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! This may be amidst many undiscovered yet. Now, that place says, "God knows the number of stars." That's top mastery in its class for Him knowing that much number. Being able to know and dictate out the number of something that exists individually by its unit or course is a brilliance depicted and on top of the world supremely. However, His brilliance didn't stop there. Part B of that verse says, "...He calls them all by their names." This is where I think God should experience difficulty and meet a stumbling block in discharging His motive and assignment of calling them all by their names. Yet, He could not only call them by their names; if prompted, He could go on to tell us about each of them - their features and purposes. What a God! He has a very comprehensive incomprehensible mind! I'm basking for you and wagging my tail in your praise. You're too much. If God doesn't confuse the name of one for another considering their number, it means He's extraordinarily brilliant. 

Now, I said your child - boy or girl could have this kind of mind. That aren't a joke. He could become that brilliant, intelligent and of much understanding! The Bible already promises us having more understanding than all our teachers (Psalm 119:99). So, it's possible.

When you see a brilliant student, information doesn't puzzle him no matter the quantity. As a matter of fact, he could act absent mindedly but don't think he didn't get all taught him. He does. Let's say he were to talk about Nations, Tongues and Tribes for instance. He would start by telling you the seven continents that be. He'll then zero in on a particular continent - let's say Africa. After telling you about the geography and details on Africa, he'll proceed to the countries that make up Africa. He'll then endeavour to tell us about these countries individually - about each of the tribes that make them up - their qualities, unique culture, history etc. Imagine him picking Nigeria and wanting to explain on the over 200 tribes we have in the country. That's great work right yet that's not quarter of one-tenth of God's erudity of knowledge and accuracy! As tedious as that info of tracing it down to the least or minute unit is or may be, such student won't become confused or find it discouraging. Why? Like the Spirit vibrated on the waters in Genesis 1:2, a vibration and walkover of his mind has been done by God's Spirit. Because His mind is this cultivated, impressed, intimated and imprinted on by God's, he'll retain whatsoever is sown in it even to its least detail and would be able to reproduce it even in larger and unbelievable details than taught him. This is the brilliant student. He can't but become an exception. If He's a Biologist, he'll know all the names of the plants that be like Solomon (I Kings 4:33). That'll include the birds. If you ask him to talk about birds to you, he could spend a year dwelling and talking only on their feathers/wings and the types or differences they have. Specimens would be clearly labelled and called by what they are by him. For short, he'll excel Darwin in collection of natural life and identification of it.

God wants to vibrate on your child's mind today. He wants to strengthen his mind for adult's business and professional's erudity. As such, let's give handle for that just by confessing in strong believe that Psalm 147:4. Let's say your ward's name is "Ipadeola." Confess this way: "Ipadeola tells the number of the stars and calls them all by their names." You may repeatedly do it. That ain't an ordinary act. It'll bring the power, potency and desire of that psalm and this revelation I'm sharing with you into his life. A replication of what God does and is capable of doing will immediately transfer in fast transient into your ward's life. As God's vessel, appointed and anointed for different occasions and demands (Isa.61:2), I declare that your ward receives such elastic mind that knows the number of the stars and that could proceed to call them by names or label them rightly as they are. No confusion but proper mastery, remembrance and reproduction in grander style and better fashion than he was taught. Here, your child knows it all. His mind is strong. I'm seeing a line of thread being strengthened so much more that as it is being drawn on either size, it does not break. The feeble mind is made capable. It'll become so enlarged, engraced and empowered that it'll be like the sucker plant trapping into itself whatsoever impinges on it. It'll be, "as soon as your son hears or sees something, he gets and can act it out." So shall it be. I seal it by God's Word which is irreproachable. For those with pregnancies, lay your hand on your belly and make same confession. Parents of toddlers should do same. This revelation counters amnesia or memory loss. Even if you're 92, you'll be quickened to have such mind that knows the number of stars and call them all by their names. This is what the Lord has wrought. Do receive it!

PRAYER: Thank you Lord for this new anointed mind, understanding and comprehension. So it is unto me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Deuteronomy 4:1-49, Luke 6:39-7:10, Psalm 68:1-18, Proverbs 11:28

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THE PANIC OF GROWING OLDER

By Lenrie Peters

The panic

of growing older

spreads fluttering wings

from year to year

 

At twenty

stilled by hope

of gigantic success

time and exploration

 

At thirty

a sudden throb of

pain. Laboratory tests

have nothing to show

 

Legs cribbed

in domesticity allow

no sudden leaps

At the moon now

 

Copybook bisected

with red ink

and failures –

nothing to show the world

Three children perhaps

the world expects

it of you. No

specialist’s effort there.

 

But science gives hope

of twice three score

and ten. Hope

is not a grain of sand.

 

Inner satisfaction

dwindles in sharp

blades of expectation

from now on the world has you.

 

About the Poem

 

Being a human being qualified Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters to write a poem titled The Panic of Growing Older, especially having gone past his 20s and 30s (he was born in 1932 and wrote the poem in 1967). Every human being starts out life full of hope, believing he’ll take the moon. But disappointment slowly sets in as the years stealthily pass by. Peters who enjoyed the best of two worlds (as a medical doctor and as an artist) knew about youthfulness, exuberance, dreams and the physiological and the psychological processes of growing up.

Only for a few in the world, is life a harvest of satisfaction. Many at the twilight of age, harvest regrets. Religion thrives on this, with the promise of hope and a harvest of satisfaction at the end of life many fling to it looking forward to the utopian place of satisfaction and joy.

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 23/03/2024

SATURDAY - 23RD MARCH, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

WELCOME TO THE BIG HOUSE OF VESSELS AND DREAMS

II Timothy 2:20, KJV

"But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour."

In 1946, a Baptist magazine printed an article on the young men who would impact their generation. Bron Clifford and Chuck Templeton were listed. Both men were in their twenties and drawing crowds of eight to ten thousand in their meetings. Ommitted from the list was another young minister. His name was Billy Graham. Ten years later, Clifford reportedly had died of cirrhosis of the liver while Templeton had left the ministry for a sports commentator job. The two men who had been expected to make the greatest impact for God's kingdom fell off the line. The unnamed and unlisted third Baptist minister, Billy, became a world-wide vessel in God's hands. Billy proved it is not how fast you come out of the starting block but how you finish the race that matters. Even the turtle made it to Noah's ark by persistence and commitment.

One of the narratives I do recall often is also that of my undergraduate days in Tai Solarin University of Education. It's my greatest experience on earth. At the time I hit campus, I was battling with inferiority complex. I saw myself as less better than others. This view began to change when I saw my first exam score and I had 84 of 100. Though a Minor student of English Department, I was second best after a Major student who had 86 in the course - "Introduction to Language" taught by Dr. Apanpa. It was there and then I had confessions from those I thought were better students pointing to me that I was intelligent. From that day forward, I didn't doubt myself again. I had learnt a lesson that'll become part of me and that was how I began tutoring my mates. I was afore intimidated by the beautiful faces, impressive backgrounds, astounding gadgets of the many students I saw and how many feigned to be better. I never knew they lacked the discipline to study and die there. It was this that distinguished me. If I had not seen myself as inferior to them also, I wouldn't have studied very hard. It was my inferiority complex which I wanted to compensate for that made me study harder and it did paid off. While the well to do students thought they had it going for them and were not challenged by anything, I was challenged by the multitude of weaknesses, family problems and failures etc that I don't want repeated in my life. As such, I pushed harder and pushed through. This was the story of how Billy Graham might have pushed right through over others. 

How many of you know that geniuses often don't become the best or attain their inherent best? Do you know why? They stop at their talents without adding the rigour of training and discipline. Why? Geniuses or talented people could succeed and have results at the level of gift and it'll equate what another had to labour for on average level.  However, somebody lesser than them in talent and comprehension who could die there rehearsing might eventually surpass them in skill. If you're talented and you refuse to concentrate on what you call your calling, eventually, you might be disqualified or overtaken. It'll look as if you were not called or made for greatness while others who'll testify of not being gifted as you are will surpass you in greatness. In a great house, there are many vessels. Some for noble and some for ignoble uses. It is which makes himself ready by clearing off anything that could disqualify him that the master would use. Take for instance the people we know as stars today. Don't think they're the best that exist. Some best might still be hidden but who couldn't give focus, attention and discipline to rise like them.

Billy Graham was not listed amidst the greats at his starting. Who knows whether he read that report? If he did, what do you think it did to him? Since he was seen as a non-entity of a minister, it must have fired him to more discipline and give sacrifices that others could not have thought to give. Whereas, others were deceived by the judgement of men who adjured them as the best. So, they rested on their oars and were overtaken and taken over. Today, search and clear yourself of ignoble things. This includes not being focused on your calling. Why? It's only through diligence that any could make his calling and election sure. Else, you might eventually look like a mockery or someone God didn't start with or call in the first place. 

PRAYER: Father, how I humble myself this day to end well. Help me. As I renew my love and make ready for my calling, I go all the way to the top.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Numbers 33:40-35:34, Luke 5:12-28, Psalm 65:1-13, Proverbs 11:23

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 22/03/2024

FRIDAY - 22ND MARCH, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

AND ALL THE COMMUNITIES COME TO HIM

Read Matt. 3:1-6

Matthew 3:5, KJV

"Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan."

Be sure to go where He sent you and be faithful to say what He gives you. These two are very important keys for a successful ministry. I can join many faithful ministers to say, "there's a place and there's a message." One major mark that you're a founder or a novel thing that God is raising is that He gives you a message that's considerably unique or peculiar from others that people know. I'm not saying you have to be branded as a prosperity, holiness or deliverance minister. However, you might be given grace and endowed with more passion to exert yourself towards one major theme from which you could expound the whole Bible to a congregation or people. Offcourse, what you'll see is that people would brand you with that known theme as time goes on. Just note that there's the preacher but there's his preaching as well. This in no little way reminds me of the book of A.P. Gibbs, "The Preacher and His Preaching." That being said, "you want to see how your message and to whom you're sent is of utmost importance here.

Jeremiah 1:7, KJV

"But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak."

That's God's word of consolation and encouragement to Jeremiah when he started feeling intimidated when he was called. I began to wonder recently how to have all men come to one again. What I stumbled on is what I began sharing already. The anointing is the greatest possession a minister could have. Once anointed, his message becomes real, believable and need-meeting. There's always an ability of the anointing that draws people by itself. If someone is anointed, when he preaches, it'll be smooth. You'll hear the voice of the Almighty in it. You'll be convinced and even convicted. That's because a power other than what the minister could will or enforce is working to achieve the intent that God designated to the Word of God to have once preached. 

The Bible says, "then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan." Basically, John emptied the entire communities to himself. John has been sent to a place and he has been given a message amidst the fact that he's called and anointed. The Bible opens that chapter by saying, "in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt.3:1-2). 

John has a location. It is God who admnistrates us. While principles are duplicatable irrespective of geography yet God do send each of his sons to a place He needs to cultivate and as a requirement, their success is in obeying to go there. Meanwhile, John preached a message also. He keeps shouting, "repent, for the kingdom of God is near." He brought the message of repentance to the populace. Don't doubt it. The Bible affirms that everybody was gripped with this message so much more that they trooped out to him, to confess their sins and be baptized by him. There are moments when as a pastor, you have to dip your hands in people's mouth to make them talk or confess. Until you probe some things, you're not going to get answers. However, that's not like we have here. Voluntarily by the power the message he preached conveyed, they were confessing their sins. They were just speaking unashamedly and unreserved. 

Oh, such power could work with you. God could honour you this way. An entire community and its regions all about could come to you. They can come to watch the preaching, singing, burning and even dancing minister. There, they'll be gripped. Even gossips and journalists won't be able to retract to run their primary errands again. They'll be collected by the power of the season and time with which God is working with you. Obedience is key. Only you knows where God is leading you and what He has given you to say. Stick to the message and don't reject the people. That mustard seed will soon become a big tree. 

PRAYER: Lord, coat my message with power that convicts and draws men. I align to the message and to the people. I shall not compare myself with another. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Numbers 32:1-33:39, Luke 4:31-5:11, Psalm 64:1-10, Proverbs 11:22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/03/2024

MONDAY - 18TH MARCH, 2024

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO

THE UNGODLY SHALL NOT STAND IN THE JUDGEMENT - Does Good Pays Series 005?

Read Gen.19:1-17

Psalm 1:5, KJV

"Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous."

God does put a distinction  between what happens to the righteous and the unrighteous likewise. From Genesis to Revelation, we have many instances that attest to God separating the righteous from the unrighteous in reward. 

The Bible says, "the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement..." That is, when judgement comes, the ungodly shall not endure. They shall pass away. It means in judgement, they shall be searched and no longer found. However, what'll happen to the righteous. The Bible answers that in Psalm 1:6 when it says, "for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish." 

If the Lord knows the way of the righteous - what he has been doing and how he has been living his life righteously, don't you think the Lord also knows the way of the wicked and his wickedness? He does obviously. That's why God assures that the way of the ungodly shall perish. It means while the righteous is saved alive in judgement or evil that shall come uponthe earth, God shall make provision for the righteous to survive or be saved. However, one thing is for sure, the way of the ungodly shall perish. The Lord knows the way of both the righteous and the ungodly. He won't mistaken one for the other. 

In today's Bible reading, without a contest, we see how God is jealous for His own. While the sensitivity and generous action of Lot opens him to having divine intervention yet we can't deny that as a severing between the righteous and the wicked. 

"12 And the men said to Lot, has thou any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this place because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.' (Gen.19:12-13). 

Lot didn't perish with people of Sodom and Gomorrah. He rather was brought out. God severed and separated him from the reward of the wicked. Don't forget why God judged Sodom and Gomorrah is because of their Sodomy act. As a matter of fact, they were attempting to do it against those heavenly inspectors sent by God to assure if they were truly known for such an act (Gen.19:5, 18:21).  God does reward the wicked and He does reward the righteous. This narrative is a proof once more and assurance to all Christians that the same event doesn't happen to us all. God is obligated to the Christian, to those who are serving Him, to those who are righteous alike to protect them from evil. When the wicked are caught up in their wickedness, God always sever the righteous from them. Herein you can trust that you'll not be suddenly caught in the evil net. It is whatever a man sows he shall reap. That stands for sure and you can trust it. 

PRAYER: Lord, give to the wicked their reward. Let them melt away like wax melts before the fire and the righteous satisfy with thy goodness.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 1:1-3:17, Mark 1:29-2:12, Psalm 35:17-28, Proverbs 9:13-18

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