THIS MONTH ENABLE ME WITH MORE UNDERSTANDING

Ask that this month answer for you as the month of gaining more understanding of God in His word.
Following God is characterized by living (existing) to the glory of God.
Revelation 4:11 records the reason why all should live for God that creates all, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”
It is the WILL of God for all to exist (live) for Him.
Knowing how to live for God does not happen by accident.
The crucial key to living for God is rooted in UNDERSTANDING.
Understand the word of God.
Evidently, it is the understanding one possesses that will determine how far to go in living for God.
One with an understanding of the word of God will know of having an edge in life, to excel for the glory of God.
The root of the lack of understanding is not listening to the word of God.
Jesus confirms the reason for the lack of understanding when asked and answered rhetorically, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)UNDERSTANDING IS CRUCIAL.
It is understanding that prompts knowledge.
Do you have an understanding of the word of God?
Understanding the wisdom that is the word of God will gain knowledge (knowing to have an edge in life).
Wisdom, understanding, and knowledge are like a puzzle and cannot be separated to gain a clear picture of life.
No one should miss any of the packages to get well in all going.
Having understanding is crucial.
Listening is crucial.
Listening is gaining a knowing edge.
Take note that listening is not just about hearing, but it is about hearing repeatedly.
Hearing repeatedly is the actual process of listening.
What is listening repeatedly is to have a knowing edge, the character of having faith.
Indeed, one who LISTENS will have FAITH.
Romans 10:17 states, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Hearing repeatedly is listening.
Having faith is listening and becoming one with understanding.
Understanding will give peace of God.
One with peace of God is with the character, not being a victim of not gaining an edge (knowledge)
Understanding is important.
Everyone is the WILL of God.
To live for God, all must have an understanding of God.
Psalm 14:2 records, “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Having an understanding to gain knowledge is crucial to navigating safely in the wicked world.
Hosea 4:6 reports, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” 
Understanding prompts knowledge.
The acclaimed believers get destroyed when and where they should not because they lack knowledge.
Many reject knowledge of a lack of understanding, disregarding the hand of God.
His people did not embrace knowledge to give regard to the works of God. 
Psalm 28:5 states, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up. 
With a lack of knowledge, one is set for destruction and is also a candidate for captivity.
Isaiah 5:13 states, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” 
Lack of knowledge leads to captivity. 
God has made available wisdom that is His word. 
The wisdom of God is full of conditions and promises that will enable His children to have an edge over challenges and not be destroyed or go into captivity if His children give regard to His wisdom.
For example, having a way where there is no way, standing and not falling on the ground where others fall, can be described as having a knowing edge rooted in understanding.
As a child of God, all should know to understand and engage the promises of God in His word.
Psalm 136:5 identifies that God used wisdom to make the heavens. 
Without a doubt, wisdom is the word of God. 
The same wisdom is made available for the children of God to avoid a lack of knowledge and
not to become a vessel of captivity.
An engagement with the same wisdom (word of God) will not become a victim of destruction.
With understanding, there shall be a knowing edge and no captivity or destruction. 
1 Corinthians 1:30 points out that Jesus (the living word of God) is the wisdom from God, and one who gives indeed to Him is set not to become a victim of captivity.
Wisdom without understanding will always lead to a lack of knowledge. 
Pay attention to gain understanding and not become a vessel set to perish.
Pray that you become filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

FOLLOW GOD FULLY

Why not follow God as a way of life?
What kind of a believer are you?
Consciously, who do you follow?
Are you following God by the mouth or by your way of life?
Do you know God to follow Him?
God creates all to live for His glory.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To exist for God is to follow Him.
Following God fully is seeking Him diligently.
It is not too much, nor is it too little, to follow Him more.
Why not follow God?
One with a desire to follow God is such that God shall deposit what one has desired.
Have the desire to follow God as your way of life.
To follow Him or attempt to follow Him must deny distraction.
The stage in life or profession will not be an excuse for not following God.
Jesus, who called the fishermen to follow Him.
Just as He called the fishermen, so it is that His call is for all to follow Him.
Matthew 4:18-20 documents the calling by Jesus: “And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
Are you following God, the world, or man?
It is worth it for all to search themselves and know if they are following God or not.
Many assume they are following God, but are far from God.
Answering in the name of religion is not evidence of following God.
For example, answering as a member of the church is not evidence of following God.
Answering to a title is not the meaning of following God.
What is it that one is holding to that will prevent one from following God?
Abram obediently followed the command of God.
God asked for the only son of Abram for sacrifice, and he obeyed God.
In Genesis 22:12, God responded to the obedience of Abram, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Abraham did not withhold because he feared God.
Abram answered to obey God.
Anyone who does not hold against the command of God is following God.
Following God will lead to living for God, not a life of waste, and arriving at a divine assignment.
All should live life for the glory of God because He creates all to exist for Him.
Follow God, so as not to be a victim of the wicked world.
Through the pages of the Bible, none followed God and failed.
Following God is walking with God or walking before God.
Enoch walked with God. (Genesis 5:22)
Enoch followed God, and the Bible said, “And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” (Genesis 5:24)
Bible records that Enoch died, but God took him.
Noah walked with God, following God in his life.
Genesis 6:9 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations.”
Noah followed God!
Abraham walked before God. (Genesis 17:1)
Abraham did not live a life of disobedience because he believed God.
Romans 4:3, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
A true believer in God is the character of a follower of God.
Jesus called His disciples to follow Him. (Matthew 4:19)
If there is no need to walk with or before God, following Him, there will be no calling to follow Him.
There is an unfailing following of God for those who follow Him fully.
Joshua and Caleb followed God fully to arrive at the Promised Land.
God is the unchanging changer.
Live by following God and not live wasted.
There is no excuse for not following God, but painful consequences.
Caleb does not confess negatively; he knows right from wrong.
Many around Caleb experience the move of God, but do not know God in following Him.
The Israelites confessed negatively; they have demonstrated that they do not know God, evidenced by not knowing God, the character of not following God.
Joshua and Caleb followed God fully to arrive at the Promised Land.
The word of God speaks to all; it is for learning to follow.
The word of God is not a story but a secret to know and follow by dwelling and abiding in the word of God.
Pray that whatever you hold on to, not to follow God in His word (command), be separated from your life.
Avoid distraction, follow God for His direction.
Ask God to enable you to follow Him fully.

BE LIVING BY THE WORD OF GOD

One who lives by the word of God answers as a believer.
Are you a believer?
What kind of believer are you?
Be a believer who lives for God.
A believer from the depth of the heart is not the same as a believer from the tips of the mouth.
Have the desire to be living by the word of God.
Moses is a testimony of one who lives by the word of God.
One who knows God will know to ask from God.
Search yourself to ask if you know God or if you only know about God.
Knowing God opens one asking Him for His direction as a way of life.
One who will seek God, whether to run in the place of walking or running in the place of walking, cannot be a victim of falling in the journey of life.
For example, Moses needed direction from God when he prayerfully called on God, “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.” (Exodus 33:13)
Are you asking God for direction?
Know God that He is a caring God who waits for His creation and who has the desire to gain from His direction.
God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
Know that the presence of God is the word of God.
John 1:1 informs all, “The word of God is God.”
Do you know about the word of God, or do you know God?
The majority of believers claim to know about God, not engage in the presence of God.
Such have the word of God at the tips of mouth, but not in the heart, to carry the presence of God.
Know God by studying the word of God to be carrying Him in the heart.
God shall not become known by accident but be known by studying His word or by His mercy.
God is unquestionable.
He cannot be a subject of questioning about why or how He arrives at having mercy for some.
Romans 9:15 records, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Know to pray (plead) for His mercy to know Him.
The presence of God is His word.
Psalm 138:2 makes it known that “God magnified His word above all His name.” 
Engage the word of God.
Have a place for Him in the heart.
One with a heart occupied by the word of God is one with a heart occupied by the presence of God.
One who goes with the presence of God is bound not to be a victim of the world but to know the way of God and excel to the glory of God.
God answered Moses when he asked for the way, “God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
With the presence of God is to gain His rest.
Rest for all is in the promise of God, not in the wicked world.
The rest of God gained will deliver the stability of God in the times of instability of the wicked world.
It is worthy to seek God diligently to gain the rest of God.
In the presence of God, there is His rest, which gives direction not to fail for obedience to the word of God.
The presence, which is the rest of God, led Moses, leading the Israelites in his obedience to God.
Psalm 103:7 informs all, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.”
The word of God that speaks to Israel speaks to all because God is not a partial God.
Romans 2:11 testifies, “For there is no partiality with God.”
All the days God bestows on you, remember to know what Hebrews 3:7-11 records for all, “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter my rest.
God is a good God who is not partial, who does not carelessly bless, but blesses by His mercy.
Ask God to enable you to live life consistently obedient to His condition.
God bless with the condition.
Live for God as a believer to gain the promise of God who blesses with condition.

KEEP WAITING BUT NOT WHINING BEFORE GOD!

Are you whining in the place of waiting on God?
Whining before God does not have to be in the place of waiting.
Be encouraged by waiting on God.
What is your expectation that is yet to manifest?
Are you waiting on God or whining before God?
Know that it is not how long but how far God has brought you.
Waiting on God to find God is undeniable.
To live by the word of God is to find Him.
The word of God is His presence.
The word of God is God (John 1:1)
The word of God does not return Him void. (Isaiah 55:11)
God sent His word to heal and to deliver from destruction. (Psalm 107:20)
The word of God is His promise to be engaged in trust and hope.
Without a doubt, trust and hope in God shall provoke His blessing.
Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.”
With an understanding of the promises of God, in His word, wait on God to find God unfailingly.
One who trusts without having hope is not giving to gaining the blessing of God.
Waiting on God (the word of God) is a channel to gain the presence of God.
In waiting on God, one cannot find God by looking up to God with one eye while looking down at the world with the other eye in an attempt to find God.  
With patience, look up to God alone when waiting for Him to find Him.
God is a good God, a prayer answering God.
God answers prayer with YES, NO, or WAIT.
God is a God who waits to act for those who wait on Him.
It is a blessing to trust and have hope waiting for God.
In waiting and praying, one who does not pray a miss is bound not to miss God in prayer.
Praying amiss will not gain the presence of God.
James 4:3 admonishes all, “You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” 
God is a caring God, evident in the word of Isaiah 64:4, the character of God saying, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.
The word of God does not return to Him void.
When God waits for those who wait on Him, things will be in place to respond to those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:5 identifies such: You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways.
In waiting on God with understanding:
God will meet one who rejoices.
He will meet those who do righteousness.
God will meet one who remembers Him in His ways.
There is always a condition to get Him to act when waiting on Him.
In waiting before God, engaging the condition to gain from God is true for answers from God.
BE ONE THAT REJOICE
Rejoice: Paul encourages all to rejoice.
Rejoicing is among the secrets hidden by those who do not seek God in His word to find Him.
Philippians 4:4 states, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”
Apostle Paul must be speaking from his life experience about having a relationship with God.
Having the joy of God and rejoicing is making a way to find God.
Psalm 16:11 said it right, “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Having joy and rejoicing is to find God, who waits to act for those who wait on Him.
DO RIGHT AS A WAY OF LIFE
Rejoicing and righteousness as a way of life that finds God.
Psalmist buttress in Psalm 33:1, “Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous!
For praise from the upright is beautiful.”
To rejoice and be righteous is a combination that will not fail to find God.
It is not enough to be righteous when joy is missing.
REMEMBER HIS WAYS
1 Chronicles 16:12, “Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth.”
One who is waiting on God must give regard to God, the word of God.
Remember the word of God to gain His attention, provoking the act of God.
Isaiah 64:4-5 testifies to the conditions for blessing when waiting on Him.
Be rejoicing, being righteous, and remembering Him.
It is a blessing to gain from God.
Wait on God with understanding to gain His attention!
Do not be weary, but know that God is found able.
Pray against the spirit of weary and not to live a life of waste.

MONTH TO GROW IN THE FEAR OF GOD

The grace and mercy of God are the reasons for being alive thus far.
Live life near God.
The prayer point, to near God, needs to upgrade such a prayer point by asking for the fear of God.
To fear God will be near to God.
The expectation to live in fear of God demands constant prayer to become fear of God.
God is near regardless of how all go far from God.
Fear God!
From Genesis to Revelation, the word of God identifies what it is to fear God.
Abraham feared God and did not hold Himself against the command of God. (Genesis 22:12)
Joseph encouraged his brothers to live in the fear of God and have life. (Genesis 42:18)
With fear of God, it is possible not to sin against God. (Exodus 20:20)
Lord God fights for those who fear Him. (Deuteronomy 3:22)
The word records, “But the Lord your God you shall fear; and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.” (2 Kings 17:39)
One who understands the fear of the Lord shall find the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2:5)
Fear none but God, and God will be with you. (Isaiah 41:10)
The word of God informs that the mercy of God is on those who fear Him from generation to generation. (Luke 1:50)
Perfecting holiness is in the fear of God. (2 Corinthians 7:1)
Submission to one another counts before God, but without the fear of God, it is not possible. (Ephesians 5:21)
Those who fear God praise God. (Revelation 19:5)
From Genesis to Revelations, having a fear of God is repeatedly emphasized.
One with the fear of God is the candidate to experience healing, deliverance, and preservation by God.
Praying to be occupied by the fear of God should be a custom way of asking for His fear, not to live a life of waste.
Failure not to fear God is bound to fear the wicked of the world.
To fear the world enables fear to rise while faith will sink.
Make it a prayer point, asking for the fear of God.
God said to ask, and He promised, saying, “Then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.”
Fear God so that your faith will rise, to live by faith, not to be a victim of the wicked world.
The Acclaimed believer who does not fear God is bound to become locked down.
Do you fear God, or do you fear the unknown?
Regardless of whether you are in your Christian group or not, becoming a victim of fearing the unknown will not excuse you from becoming a victim of not fearing God.
Do not become a victim of fear.
Live a life to see in the word of God.
The lack of fear of God denied acclaimed believers, and they could not see the word of God that promised abundance by Jesus. (John 10:10)
Jesus came to give life to all, to die on the cross, and to rise (resurrected).
Jesus repeatedly told disciples about His resurrection, but after He died and rose, fear locked them. (John 20:19)
On the third day, those who sought Jesus at the tomb were overwhelmed with fear as a voice located them saying, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5)
The fear of the unknown is bound not to rise in faith.
Disciples and followers could not see in the word of Jesus, and they were locked and overwhelmed by fear of the unknown.
The word of God is God.
The inability not to see the word of God results in not claiming the promise of God.
To see in the word of God is evidence of seeking God diligently.
See in the word of God to gain and retain Him in life.
Jesus is alive!
To know Jesus in His physical presence is not evidence of knowing Him in the spirit.
Disciples walked with Him but lost sight of their Savior. 
Is that you?
They knew Jesus well, but they did not know Him well enough to identify with Him at the point of visitation after he had resurrected. 
Frustration occupied the two disciples. 
Are you experiencing frustration in any area of your life? 
Remind yourself that Jesus is not dead; He is a living God. 
When the two regained sight, it was time for Jesus to depart the presence of the two disciples. 
Luke 24:31, “Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.” 
Ask that from this hour, as the year continues, you begin to see in the word of God that sounds in your direction.
It is what you hear, to see in the word of God and believe you shall receive to become of you.
Ask that everywhere challenge has locked you or attempting to lock you shall be permanently shattered and not rise again.
Pray against forces that blind eyes and harden the hearts not to see, not to understand, and to live life for the glory of God.
Ask God to give you one heart and one way that you fear Him forever.