MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 10/01/25

FRIDAY - 10TH JANUARY, 2025

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MADE FOR THE OUTDOORS - Unorthodox Daughter Series 004

Genesis 25:27, KJV 

"And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents."

New Living Translation Version (NLT) calls Esau "an outdoorsman." Describing him from the choice of his trade, he's a man of the wild. Unlike Jacob, he doesn't love staying at home or amidst the tents. The question would be, "to do what?" For that, he chose his part and what naturally suits him which is to become a hunter. His love for the outdoors is vividly manifested in the sort of vocation he chooses as his life's calling. 

I want to show you something by the help of the Holy Spirit. Being an outdoorsman is much more very strenuous than being an indoors man. As a matter of fact, when Jacob brought his mother's prepared food to Isaac under the guise of being Esau, Isaac asked, "how is it that you have found it so quickly" (Gen.27:20)? Isaac was asking because he knows that hunting for game doesn't come easily. It is an outdoors vocation. It takes a lot of effort, athletism and perseverance. You exert yourself as a hunter if you'll ever come home with a game. Such is the life of anyone whose trade is an outdoors trade. Such is the life of Rachel, the shepherdess on whom we have stayed and taught for these few days. 

The Bible describes her as coming with the sheep and being a shepherdess (Gen.29:6 & 9). Do you know that shepherding is an outdoors vocation. If you don't have love for the outdoors, you can't take a vocation as shepherding and excel in it. 

Joseph feeds the flock with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah just at the age of 17 (Gen.37:2). Though young and tender, he's recognized as a shepherd and you may not know the danger that attends to shepherds until his brothers lied that a wild animal had tore him to pieces (Gen.37:33). Why would Jacob believe this lie if it is not one of the hazards of shepherds?That's one of the realities that any shepherd faces apart from being prone to robbers. Now, take all these vulnerabilities of shepherds and stamp it on Rachel. That's all she endured. Rachel must have shepherded closely with males of her time as to be dubbed "a shepherdess." She received acceptance as a shepherd - because it's even the mouth of her fellow shepherds (who are males) who said she comes with the sheep. However, she could have been rejected and contented with earlier on. You know there's this jealousy that's usually exhibited when you see someone coming into a space that is notably for certain persons or has been held or protected for long by them. It's like having a female engineer. It's usually one amidst many. 

Anyone who'll do anything that's special or uncommon must therefore count the cost. Being a female shepherd doesn't come easily when it involves going distance often, scouting for pasture and at times water. All these are things Rachel was involved in. Unlike Rebekah, her mother in law and many other women who are steeped in domesticity, Rachel is differentiated by the male dominated profession she chooses to do. 

Destiny will choose you what your way of life should be: whether to be an outdoor man (extrovert) or an indoor man (introvert). Who God made you will choose it! It is destiny that chooses for fishes to live and swim in the water and it's same destiny that created birds to fly and explore the space. Your calling and what you're most likely best suited for will choose you. First, it's what you're made for and as you smell it, you'll one day embrace it. Let us raise a toast and a cheer to Rachel, the shepherdess and courageous outdoorsman. She has dared to pitch her tent where many would not. She deserves our applause for pushing the frontiers of jobs and demanding for a space to be made for her (in a male saturated profession) where there's usually contest. 

PRAYER: Let the call of all female children call. May they not be lost but see correctly what their calling is. Arise and fulfill your passion and calling.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 8:1-27 & Genesis 25-26

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 9/01/25

THURSDAY - 9TH JANUARY, 2025

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BREAKING ORTHODOXY: THE STAFF BEHIND THE VEIL - Unorthodox Daughter Series 003

Genesis 29:9, ESV

"While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess."

Yesterday, we learnt about Rachel who comes with the sheep and who was called a shepherdess. We also contrasted her with Rebekah (who we took as a generalization for other girls, their pursuits or ways of life). While Rebekah comes to the well with a pitcher on her shoulders to fetch water - therefore continuing the legacy of the traditional woman who stays indoor all the day,  Rachel comes to the well but with a staff and identity of a shepherd who's in command and with oversight of some flock. This is a great difference. This is a reflection of how some girls, ladies or women are having in-road into male dominated or saturated professions. 

Rachel is your trail blazer and role model in this wise if you want to company with men and attain their heights, respect and greatness. You have one to pattern or take after. She's called Rachel, the shepherdess. 

I bring you today the story of great unorthodoxy and how there's a staff hidden behind the veil. Women especially in the East are known with the veil. It's a cover but also a symbol of chastity. When Rebekah sees Isaac approaching, she took her veil and cover herself (Gen. 24:65). The veil not only symbolizes chastity but is also a token for hidden beauty and sought after grace. For Rachel, at our meeting her, the Bible didn't describe her or introduce her to us using first of all feminine qualities that make men savour female and see them as toys or sex objects. Rather, she was introduced to us in the manner and guise of a male. The Bible says, "here's Rachel, Laban's daughter and she comes with the sheep." Will a woman who comes with the sheep immediately arouses the interest of anyone? You didn't meet a powdered face. The Bible didn't say, "and she's fair to behold and she's a virgin!" Nothing therefore awakened in anybody. She wasn't portrayed as a prey ready to be pounced on in the chamber or bedroom. She rather owns the narrative here for she is called a shepherdess - one in control of sheep as if she owns them. 

Rather, someone like Rebekah, her mother in-law get described in those alluring and male thirsty adornments. She was dolled and painted as "very fair to behold, a virgin whom no man had known..." (Gen.24:16). 

While Rebekah is portrayed as a bride made ready for her bridegroom, Rachel (though she eventually marries Jacob) is portrayed as a groom meeting his bride. Rachel is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber (Psalm 19:5). 

Orthodoxy is being broken. The fact that the Creator God created them male and female (equal partners for each other) is an enlightenment dawning on all now. May this be recognized by you! Catch it!

PRAYER: While I recognize leadership of the male in the home setting, yet I wake up to the reality that God created them or (us) male and female and as equal partners. I rise beyond female's pettiness of dolling the face only to the embrace of my calling and destiny.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 7:7-29 & Genesis 23-24

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 8/01/25

WEDNESDAY - 8TH JANUARY, 2025

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THE GIRL WHO WON'T FELLOW WITH OTHER GIRLS - Unorthodox Daughter Series 002

Genesis 29:6, ESV 

"...see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep."

In the new series I began yesterday, God started teaching us about Rachel, a girl or female child who comes with the sheep! A sharp and contrary belief to the fact that it is a boy or male child who should come with the sheep. However, we'll be looking at how different Rachel is from another woman of the Bible. To me, Rachel is distinct and it is a verse like the one I started with yesterday that made her so. Imagine the Bible saying, "...and see, Rachel, his daughter (daughter of Laban) comes with the sheep."

Should a female come with the sheep? Is that what she should be doing? While others are busy fetching water at the well, cooking and doing one house chore or the other, the Bible indiscriminately says, "Rachel (the daughter of Laban) comes with the sheep." This is distinction in calling and profession I am seeing. It is untypical of females to follow the sheep. We might have an example like Jethro's seven daughters who seek to give drink to their father's sheep. Only that, that of Rachel is overwhelmingly pronounced over theirs. 

Exodus 2:16-17, KJV

"16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock."

You might read this and even see nothing suspicious for which to regard them as shepherds but that of Rachel is undeniable. The reason is because Rachel is specifically and later on identified and called by the professional name of a shepherd. The Bible says, "while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess" (Gen.29:9). Whether a "shepherd" or "shepherdess", it sure refers to a professional doing and discharging the same task and that's who Rachel is. 

Rachel therefore leaves the class of her mother in-law, Rebekah who knows nothing but to be lost in the girls' chores. Our society is a funny one. It has carved roles for each gender to play. Women and generally females are to take the back seats and not be involved in the great outdoors. They're to be sane and good home keepers, raising in turn another generation of house keepers. However, Rachel defies traditional gender role here. He found no where else to be pitched but in what males do. She was earlier described as coming with the sheep and later called a shepherdess. 

She left the great congregation of women who are bullied and regarded as inferior because all they do is stay at home and be at the beck and call of someone. Unlike her mother in law, Rebekah who meets heralds of her future husband by the well while coming to fulfill her chore of living the traditional girl's life - of fetching water, Rachel begs to differ. 

Genesis 24:15-16, KJV

"15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up."

Rachel is rather a shepherdess and the supportive evidence is that she even comes with the sheep. While other girls or ladies of her age are bearing their pitchers on their shoulders, she bears the staff on her shoulders! What a thing! What a breaking of orthodoxy and begging to have a space amidst the great and mighty of her time who are renown for shepherding. While other girls are lost and their stories are not even told or remembered, yet Rachel's peeps out as the girl or lady who follows the sheep. May this distinction comes upon your children, especially the female children who might be discriminated against or are less wanted, esteemed as capable, gifted and talented as the male children in our society. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I'm a girl child. I'm strong and mighty; able and capable. I'm not a toy or just an object of sex. I function in my office and calling. I am a shepherdess.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 6:19-7:1-6 & Genesis 20-22

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 07/01/2025

TUESDAY - 7TH JANUARY, 2025

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HERE COMES RACHEL WITH THE SHEEP - Unorthodox Daughter Series 001

Genesis 29:6, ESV

"He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "it is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"

This verse is one of the strange verses you might see in the Bible. Strange in the sense that it says a female child comes with the sheep. You might need to check who the Bible says come with the sheep again and again. But irrespective of how long or how many times you check, the name you'll find there is that of a female child or lady, Rachel. 

Why would Rachel come with the sheep? To come with the sheep here doesn't mean ordinarily following the sheep without having a thing to do with them. It doesn't mean as the sheep are being led to the well, Rachel follows them so that she might fetch water for the evening or cooking. Rather, she follows the sheep because it is her job to follow and see to their welfare. This immediately arouses our suspicion if Rachel is ever a shepherd or shepherdess. Is she called or regarded a shepherd ever in the Bible? Would Rachel make it into the prestigious record and hall of fame of those who keep sheep or cattle in the Bible? Was she ever inducted by a specific identification as a shepherd or is this all we have as evidence to guess whether she's indeed a shepherd or one who just follows the sheep?

In days to come, you'll be seeing this with me. This is the story of the girl who comes with the sheep. I once read a story. It's the story of a boy who caught a wolf, hid it under his clothe from his commanding officer but won't cry (as not to arouse any suspicion) even as the wolf bites him. That story dubbed him, "The Boy Who Won't Cry." How should I dubb Rachel as given away by this passage if not as, "The Girl Who Comes With The Sheep." Even if there are no further biblical proves to ascertain if indeed Rachel is a shepherd, I'll be doing some good comparison of Rachel with another closely related woman of the Bible so that you might see that there's something peculiar and extraordinary about Rachel who the Bible describes as coming with the sheep. Something gives her away as a shepherd. It sets us thinking and that's the fact that, "she comes with the sheep." Looking into the Bible, that is not the testimony of many female children, girls, ladies or women. They are rarely described as "coming with the sheep" or as "shepherds." As such, let us focus the light of analysis on Rachel, the lady and daughter who comes with the sheep.

PRAYER: My girl child is distinct. She isn't inferior but loaded with gifts and armed with high calling just like any esteemed male or man.What a man can do; a woman can do also!

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 6:1-18 & Genesis 18-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 06/01/2024

MONDAY - 6TH JANUARY, 2025

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FULL OF THEM - Full of Them Series 006

Psalm 127:5, NLT

"5 How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates."

The Bible didn't say, "how joyful is the man or woman who has one?" It rather says, "how joyful is the man or woman whose quiver is full of them." We all know what a quiver is. We know it houses arrows. But beyond that, arrows housed in a quiver are in a state of continuous sharpening as they grind, press or go to and fro in the quiver. The quiver houses and sharpens therefore. That's the function and role of any parent. Not only to house, provide shelter and other welfare for their wards but to train them for destiny purpose or for their individual calling. 

Arrows in a quiver are being reserved for use. There's no arrow drawn from the quiver by a shooter that undergoes another sharpening before being put to use. No! No one does that. It is believed that they are ready already. Only that they're in a waiting state. Getting ready for demands to be made on them or for their names to be called for a specific purpose. 

A hunter might see an antelope now and draw an arrow from the arrays he has in his quiver and shoot it at that animal. The purpose that serves would be killing the hunt. He might draw another only for the purpose of making a mark on a tree or plucking something from a tree. So, arrows don't have the same specific assignment though all might hope to be sent on errand when there's a debate, clamouring, accusation and struggling at the gate. 

Just like a father or mother do have his quiver full of them, a nation can have her quiver full of them. So much more that when they're counting world renown, influential or most impacting persons, they'll keep referring to a particular country. There's no way you can talk of Nobel Laureates and not remember the Jews who off course are of mixed heritage/parentage of Blacks. Such people would mean the gifts their ethnicity or country has given to humanity or the entire human race. Those are therefore arrows that have gone out of the quiver of that nation to bless the world in Invention, Fintech, Science or what have you. 

A day would come when people would ask, "what has your own nation contributed or for short, what have you contributed?" May you be able to say in the midst of that jangling and accusation that, "do you see that person? He is from us. You see that other person, he won a Nobel Laureate and he's our citizen." It is that that settles the matter. 

That is why the man whose quiver is full of them is joyful. He is joyful at what they can become or be used to do. Imagine if it were one man who fathered Pele, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. They'll be deemed to be arrows from that man sent into different spheres to have effects. That's why that man is not described as "happy" having only one but having many and having them fill up his quiver like Joseph who brought Ephraim and Manasseh from between his knees. His father asked, "who are these?" His reply was, "they're the children God has given me in this place."

When you're questioned or when the need arises, may you have representatives to present. May your family, nation, continent not lack such great men that we can look back and in turn dubb as arrows because they manifested as same. Indeed, happy is the man whose quiver is full of them and that's because he can and will be represented well. 

PRAYER/CONFESSION: I am not ordinary but mighty and renown. When national saviours and deliverers  are called, I am one.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 5:21-48 & Genesis 15-17

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 05/01/2024

SUNDAY - 5TH JANUARY, 2025

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YOUR QUIVER IS FULL OF THEM - Full of Them Series 005

Psalm 127:4-5, NLT

"4 Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior's hands. 5 How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates."

I pray for you, "you will not be lean in spirit, soul and body. You will not be deprived." Have you seen those expecting for long but who haven't received before? It doesn't have to be expectation for a baby now. Such eventually become weary and if care is not taken, dry! They'll lack joy or any motivation. For them to do what others are doing speedily and effortlessly, they'll need a doze of encouragement or stirring for same. This is when by experience you can learn how the joy of the Lord is usually anybody's strength. Anyone without joy is usually weak even if he is not hungry. However, God is changing your narration today if you're in the region of my description. The Bible is very very clear and specific when it says, "the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up" (Matt.4:15-16). Now, God didn't flash His light to any other place but on those and to those who are in the region where darkness is. Those are the people who need that ministration and God gave it to them. Everyone who's where they are who has become weary or dry because they lack the joy that comes from being blessed or having received, God is answering you today. 

The Bible says in Proverbs 13:12 that  "hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life." The Bible says, "how joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them." What a thing when your quiver is full of children! Quiver here is metaphoric of your house, person or entity. "To be full of" means to have abundance of something. That made me say God is set to give you abundantly until you can have the testimony of your own quiver being full of it. However, this blessing can be decided by you like the manna that is measurably gathered according to what each man can take or eat (Exo.16:21). However, God is ready and not withholding from you blessings that'll fill your house. 

Your quiver - house or knees will be full of them. Henceforth, you'll have one or two to show for it. When there's a call at the gate awaiting a response, you'll have one or two to answer and attend to same on your behalf and for God and His kingdom's sake. When it concerns finances for the kingdom, you'll have wards to respond. When it concerns being deliverers for their nations, you'll have one or two that'll be called deliverer of this nation and recognized so. Today, your face is saved and you evade disgrace. Because of this blessing which Yahweh shall therefore give, instead of being lean, you shall be fat like the tree of the Lord that is full of sap. You'll be joyful and remain joyful. You're not deprived of any good thing. Your hand has it all. 

PRAYER: I am full of joy. Anything that'll complete my joy is received in Jesus' name. My children are notable - men of renown in their fields and callings.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 5:1-20 & Genesis 12-14

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 04/01/2025

SATURDAY - 4TH JANUARY, 2025

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CONFRONTING THE ENEMY AT THE GATE - Full of Them Series 004

Psalm 127:5, KJV 

"How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates."

Do you know that in every culture there's a respect that follows you especially if you raise notable children? Having or raising notable children - ones that can confront the enemy at the gate is not only the heart cry of many people but is also the outcry of God. God is looking for representatives everywhere. God is looking for ambassadors everywhere. One thing that amazes me is this. There's no where where God is not represented. Even if it seems that a place has been islamicized or notable for resisting the gospel, never think God is handicap and has no one who fears Him or does His will there that would be ready to defend and sanctify Him as holy. God is well represented everywhere even if He only has a pint of people or just one. Our God is never stranded. In every nation, aisle, valley, mountain, jungle, city and even home, He has someone who He could take and use for His own glory. He has someone He could breathe Himself into (inspire) and have him or her do His sovereign will. 

People, just like parents desire having children in order to escape disgrace or embarrassment, so also do God desires having children who would carry His aroma, name, values, emblem and institution worldwide. While Satan has gone to town creating needs in the lives of people and causing them harm, God is looking for those to fix into the seven mountains of the earth and every place where humans could be found to destroy the works of the devil and bring down His kingdom on them. 

God, while testifying of Abraham says, "for I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him" (Genesis 18:19, KJV). "After him" to do what if not to abide by all God has commanded should be done? It is when all these are adhered to that Christ's values and the kingdom's are spread, imbibed and practiced by all. God is looking for those to use as His extension, rod, arm or witnesses to the world. How I pray that you'll have an opened eyes to understand and say, "God, if you give me, I will give him back unto you." It is such people with the heart of Hannah that God is answering now. God does not want to give to lose again. He's giving to gain more. When He sows Jesus (through His death), He reaped all of us. While Jesus conquers hell, death and the sting of death, God is expectant that you also will arise like a colossus in your calling, get administered and indeed manifest as arrow sent on errand. If God has you, He shouldn't be reproached any longer. If you're there, you should stand up for God and the kingdom. Therefore, God is seriously counting on you. 

PRAYER: Lord, I am ready to stand for you when the need be. I carry the flag of Christ's kingdom. The gate of hell shall not overcome wherever I am.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN 

Matthew 4 & Genesis 9-11

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