EASTER CELEBRATION IS CONTINUAL

Celebrating Jesus at all times is worth it. 
Celebrating Jesus demands understand not to be celebrating religiously or in waste.
In all the ways of life, when understanding is in place, knowledge will deliver for the celebrant of Jesus to have an edge as a winner in this wicked world.
Are you celebrating Jesus with understanding or celebrating Jesus in the bondage of a religion that does not count before God? 
Jesus is the unconditional love of God for all, and that is the reason to celebrate Jesus with no condition but love.
Consider your celebration of Jesus:
At every time of celebration, joy is the expression that becomes glaring. 
Celebrating Jesus cannot be hidden.
Celebrating Jesus should be constant and continuous.
Celebrating Jesus should not be limited to a particular time or season of life.
Easter celebration without knowledge and understanding is mere religion and not a continual celebration of the reality of Christ, His sacrifice for all.
Easter celebration of Jesus is every day knowing that Jesus has risen!
Living the testimony that Jesus has risen is keeping the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 admonishes all to keep the testimonies of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
With knowledge and understanding, Keep the testimonies that Jesus has risen!
Mark 9:31 records the teaching of Jesus, “For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third
day.”  
Jesus experienced mockery. He was scourged and was spit on, killed but raised on the third day. (Mark 10:14) The experience of Jesus is the reason for the Easter celebration.
Easter celebration should be continual as the way of life. With understanding, it should be the testimony of living life for the glory of God, the evidence of acknowledging the goodness of God that is in place for all to accept Jesus not to become a victim of sin.
Are you an acclaimed believer or an unbelieving believer that does not live the testimony of the Easter celebration?
The identities of not living a life of the Easter celebration non-stop are: mocking the name of Jesus and denying Him to betray Him.
Are you betraying Jesus by denying Him? 
Peter blatantly denied Jesus three times to avoid suffering with Him. Acclaimed believers identify with Jesus, but none wants to suffer with Him or suffer just like He did. 
Are you making noise as a believer but yet living as a deceiver? Let deception not be your way of life because God sees it all! 
With humiliation, Jesus carried the cross, went to the grave, and arise from the grave on the third day so that all will cross over with Him not to fall and fail to miss heaven. 
The account of His humiliation is not to provoke emotional sobering but invoke engaging the reality of Christ. 
How are you observing the humility of Christ Jesus?
Without humility, there is no way one can become obedient to the Word of God. Today, gain the understanding that “…He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
Live life in obedience to God!
Know to believe the Living Word of God.
As an acclaimed believer in the Living Word of God, have you been reducing or increasing in keeping your distance to the living Word of God? Keeping your distance away from the Living Word of God will keep you away from standing in Him. Inability to stand in the Word will cause you to deny and betray Him. 
A believer should get it clear that the Easter celebration is a moment of celebrating the One that came and is here to elevate all. In Him, there was no fault, but He was arrested and bounded, all forsook Him and fled.
Easter is the continual celebration for the goodness of God over the life of all.
One that takes to the testimony that Jesus is alive, the reason for the Easter celebration is set not to miss heaven.
Rejoice Jesus has risen!  

KNOW TO ASK FOR THE PEACE OF GOD

Are you claiming trust in God but not with hope?
Claiming trust in God without having hope in God is not enough to claim the blessing of God. Jeremiah 17:7 confirms, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
One that trusts and has hope in the Lord God is the one who trusts with hope in God, and his mind stays on God.
The promise of God to bless is undeniable for one that does according to the word of God. 
Do you trust, hope with the mind that stays on God?
A promise of God for trusting and having hope, with the mind that stays on God will gain the peace of God. Isaiah 26:3 confirms, “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You Because he trusts in You.”
The character of having trust, having hope with the mind stays on God is one with zealous for God.
Phinehas was with zeal for God. It happened that while the Israelites were in Acacia Grove in their journey to the Promised Land, they committed harlotry with the women of Moab. It was a sin that arouses the anger of God against the Israelites. Numbers 25:6-9 records, “And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 7 Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; 8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. 9 And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.”
Phinehas had zealous for God by his demonstration of a faithful act not to compromise with the sin of his brethren in the presence of God.
God responded to the zealous of Phinehas in Numbers 25:12-13, “…Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God…’”  God is the benevolent rewarder of those with Zeal for Him. 
Are you zealous for God or zealous for the world and its activities?
It is not possible to have the zeal of God and miss the peace of God.
Also, in the absence of the peace of God, there will be anxiety in making a decision.
Anxiousness will deny or delay acting out for the glory of God.
Word of God encourages against anxiousness to enable the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Philippians 4:6-7 admonishes all, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Phineas, son of Eleazer, is an example in the pages of the Bible that received the blessing of peace of God after acting out against the sin of his brethren before God.
If you are zealous for God, the peace of God will occupy you.
Are you one with trust, hope, the mind, and zeal for God?
Today, know let Jesus occupy you. Revelation 3:20 records the word of Jesus, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.” 
Prayerfully, ask for the zeal of God to become your way of life.
Pray by: 
Ask God for His voice to sound in your direction, that you hear and to do, to His glory.
Ask that the word of God occupy you, to establish in you that His peace takes over the life He has given you. 
Ask that the boldness and character like that of Phinehas become in your life. 

PRAY FOR UNDERSTANDING

Jesus is the wisdom of God for all. (1 Corinthians 1:30)
Do you know Jesus? 
Jesus is the wisdom of God that is in place for all.
It is not possible to know the wisdom of God and not be having an edge in the journey of life.
Many claim to know the wisdom of God but lack the understanding to have a knowing edge.
Proverbs 4:7 buttresses, “wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
In this challenging, unstable world of wickedness, a believing believer living by the word of God should have an understanding that is rooted in wisdom and knowledge, having an edge and stability.
In all your getting, give yourself the wisdom, ability to gain understanding.
Gaining an understanding of God is not by determination but by prayer.
What to ask for in understanding?
Know to ask for understanding heart to discern.
An understanding heart is what all need to be able to discern between good and evil. When King Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice, God appeared to him in a dream to ask him what to do for him.
King Solomon asked God, “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” (1 Kings 3:9) 
The request of Solomon pleased the Lord.
PRAYER
Ask for understanding heart to discern just like King Solomon did.
(Understanding heart to discern will be able to see, detect in the endeavors of this wicked world.)
Know to ask for understanding not to walk a pathless wilderness.
Job, in the times of painful challenges of his life he responded to the critics over his life, referring to God, “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.” (Job 12:24)
Are you experiencing unceasing critics from close ones and ones in the distance from you that do not know that God is with you in what represents your wilderness journey of life?
A wilderness journey of life is with a path with understanding from God will direct to the promise of God not to be stranded in a pathless wilderness. 
God directed the Israelites to navigate the wilderness to arrive at the Promised Land. Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt. So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” 
The direction of God is the path in the wilderness not to wander.
It is the understanding of God that will lead you in the path of wilderness to arrive at the calling of God.
PRAYER
Ask from God to enable you not to walk in a pathless wilderness of the journey of life. 
Ask for the understanding to hear and move as directed by God in the journey of life.
Ask that you will gain understanding from God that is a source to live life for the glory of God. 
The word of God requests to ask, and God will not deny responding.
Job 32:8 buttresses, “But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.” Word of God does not fail to answer when is asked from God.
PRAYER
Ask for the breath of God upon you for understanding to become established over your life.
God is not a slave master but a saving master to deliver desires for all that asks. One with the desire not to miss the kingdom God will experience the deposit of desire by God by prayer. Psalm 119:34 records, “Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.” 
The Psalmist, with his desire he asked for understanding to keep and observe the law of God with the whole heart.
PRAYER
Ask for understanding to keep and observe the word of God with the whole heart.
Ask for the understanding of God to be established in you.
Paul the Apostle prayed for understanding, “For this reason, we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding”
If Paul prays for understanding, what is holding you from praying?
Give yourself to praying for knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. 

THE YEAR OF INCREASED MERCY OF GOD

God is a merciful God, and the privilege of God but not your right has kept you alive to this present hour.
Above evil hands, above all advances of the enemy, the mercy of God is more than available to answer for deliverance and preservation. 
It is the mercy of God that brought you this far in the challenging trouble over the earth.
For example, the activities of Sodom and Gomorrah provoked the destruction. Before the onset of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the mercy of God singled out Lot and family for deliverance.
On the day of destruction, mercy activated for Lot and family as the Bible records, “When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.” (Genesis 19:15-16) The mercy of God was in place for Lot, just as the mercy of God has brought you this far.
In the challenging trouble of today, are you giving attention to the mercy of God over your life to appreciate God?
Today, give regards to God for His mercy that is keeping you.
Continually, let your resounding praise sound before God with mercy that never expires over your life in this time of trouble over the whole earth, under the heaven.
Lot in the time of the mercy of God for deliverance and preservation, he lingered.
As if Lot was not happy about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by God, he reluctantly rejected the offer of his escape to the mountains as directed.
By your ignorant, are you lingering not giving attention to the deliverance and preservation of God over your life in this troubling time?
Ignorance will make a destitute of a believer. Learn by the documentation of Lot, come out of ignorance to know and live to acknowledge the mercy of God.
Lot asked for uncommon mercy to escape to another possible land.
Lot asked: “Please, no, my lords! Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.” (Genesis 19:18-20)
Lot realized the mercy of God upon his life,
Lot asked for INCREASED MERCY before God, pleading for the option of escape from Sodom and Gomorrah to Zoar land. 
The request of Lot was granted and received as the Bible states, “Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.” (Genesis 19:22)
The mercy of God is abundant.
With understanding, Lot asked for INCREASED MERCY. 
God gave Lot INCREASED MERCY that delivered him from destruction.
With understanding, know that the mercy of God that brought you this far will now answer as INCREASED MERCY that will see you through a NEW YEAR.
The mercy of God brought you this far.
Call your New Year a year of INCREASED MERCY of God.
Power and mercy belong to God.
The mercy of God is the meaning of loyal love, the conventional love of the covenant-keeping God. 
The mercy of God answers two-fold. 
First, Romans 9:15-16 records,God spoke to Moses about His mercy, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” 
No one is qualified to question God about His mercy for whom He shows mercy.
Second, mercy answers for those who fear God as testified in Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.”  
With fear for God is the evidence of walking by the word of God.
Walk in the journey of life, knowing to fear God.
With fear for God, the undeniable mercy of God will answer.
All year long, what is your walk like before God? 
On a journey of a New Year, do you have a desire to walk right before God? 
All man owes God to walk obediently with Him. God invested so much in all, but the majority extends a partial or no obedience to Him. God is a merciful God but not with an excuse for none to walk disobediently before Him.
The mercy of God brought you this far through the troubling year. 
Ask for the INCREASED MERCY of God to see you through in the New Year.
Approach the New Year as the year of INCREASED MERCY of God over your life. 
Throughout the year, meditate that year 2021 is your year of INCREASED MERCY OF GOD.

THE MONTH OF THE MERCY OF GOD

Psalm 150:6 speaks to all that is having the breath of life: “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!”
Today, give praise, honor, and thanks to God for the grace and mercy to be alive. 
Day after days, week after weeks, and year after years, it is the privilege of God, not of your right to be retaining the breath of life this far.
Are you returning to God with a praise-full thought with thanksgiving from the depth of your heart?
Know that God bestows the privilege of His mercy over you, as God is worth it that you think and ask for His mercy day and night.
Prayerfully, to think and ask is asking and thinking to provoke expectation of manifestation before God.
The word of God is power. 
Ephesians 3:20 records encouraging word of God to be thinking and asking before God to manifest expectation as it states: Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
Think and ask that the mercy of God will see you through the coming days of the year into the coming years.
Think, ask that the remaining days of the month shall be answering for you as the month of the mercy of God. 
What to expect thinking and asking for the mercy of God:
With understanding, know that Good God that is consistent in His mercy will not fail in His goodness that is merciful towards those that consistently seek for His mercy.
Be one that is thinking and asking for the mercy of God to remember you with favor and visit you for His salvation. 
In your thinking and asking, let God know that your trust in His name is your desire for the mercy of God to keep you from the evil occurrence.
Prayerfully, think and ask in the mercy of God with the mind of His exalted name (Psalm 148:13), remind Him by His magnified word that is above all His name. (Psalm 138:2) 
With understanding, know that the word of God does not return to Him void (Isiah 55:11). Remind God, contend with Him faithfully as Isaiah 43:6 declares, “Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted.”
Know God to call Him with the understanding to gain in His mercy.
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creation to attain His mercy.
The mercy of God is not attainable by the work but by working with God. 
God testifies to His mercy in Romans 9:14-16, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”
The mercy of God is in place for all, and nothing under heaven can displace or deny one that God will visit.
With mercy, God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) 
In the remaining days of the year, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God as the Bible records His word.
God alone will have mercy on whom He chooses to, but He will also have for one that lives by His command.
In your thinking and asking, pleading for the mercy of God is attainable.
God identified Job as a man with none like him on the earth; a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil but yet, Job was in need to plead for the mercy of God saying, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
The integrity of Job before God does not excuse him from pleading before God to attain the mercy of God.
Just like Job, the Psalmist had to plead for the mercy of God: “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
With prayer and meditation, be thinking and asking to have the fear for God to attain His mercy. Luke 1:50 records, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
Let it be your month of the mercy of God over your life.