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.

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO WAIT ON GOD

Know to be waiting on God.
Knowing to wait on God will not live a life of waste but live life for the glory of God.
This season, in all your going and coming, in all your endeavors, ask God to enable you in waiting on Him continually.
Without a doubt, God is not a careless God that blesses one that does not do according to His word. Those that do as the word of God commands will experience the blessing of God.
Are you expecting the blessing of God that is yet to manifest in your life?
Are you walking in line with God to provoke His blessing over your life?
In this season, know to wait on God. 
Waiting on God is asking from God. 
Ask from God to search you to know your ways, to correct and lead you.
David, a man after the heart of God, knew to wait on God by asking: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
Waiting on God will always lead to an unfailing direction of God.
The way to have the rest of God is in waiting on Him, and not waiting on Him is the way to go astray. 
Going astray is rooted in the heart. 
Manifestly, any heart that goes astray will miss in the way of God. 
God is a good God and to end in astray way is not of God. 
God is a God of time and process. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man, and the process of God is not like the process of man. The timing of God is perfect, and His process is a preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 
Waiting on God can be defined as to remain unmoving, inactive, or in a state of repose, as until expected manifests. 
Waiting on God is also putting off further activity until later. 
Waiting on God usually entails staying for a short or long time and for a definite purpose, that is, for something expected. 
Without absolute trust in waiting on God, there will be no result emerging from waiting on God. The Psalmist testifies, “O my God, I trust in You; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:2-3) Trusting in God is what energizes waiting on Him. 
Trusting in God does have blessings, and not to trust in God will also generate curses.
God spoke in Jeremiah 17:5, “…Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord.”  As regard blessing in trusting, the same word of God states in Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
How can you wait on whom you do not trust, to have hope in Him? 
The combination of having trust and hope in place will enable waiting on Him.
There is a consequence when waiting on God to know in your way of life.
Waiting on God will reveal where one is doing wrong in the right place.
UZZAH, in his going out, he did wrong in the place of doing right that leads to his sudden death.
At the time of the return of the Ark of God from the house of Abinadab, the violation of unintentional Uzzah was an error that cost his life. Uzzah touched the Ark of God against the command of God. 
Waiting on God before going out or coming in will deliver one not to become a victim of ERROR the experience of UZZAH.
THE ERROR OF UZZAH:
2 Samuel 6:6-7 “And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God.”
A failure to wait on God can lead to physical death (like Uzzah) or can lead to emotional or spiritual death or stagnation in the walk of life.
Wait on God to know and correct what you are doing wrong in the place of doing right.
God is a God of the eleventh hour. The eleventh month of the year is not too late for God to locate you at your expectation. God waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “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.”  Meditate the month as your month of waiting on God.

GIVE REGARD TO GOD, TO KNOW HIM

Fear God, give regard to God more than ever. 
Know God to say yes to live life for God that is able and in position for you not to become a victim of challenges of this world. 
Also, you need to know God with unfailing trust and hope to say no and not be saying yes when impossibility sounds in your direction. 
Give regard to God that gives possibility over impossibility.
Do you know God, not just to know about God?
Give regards to God, get to know Him for you not to become a victim of captivity.
Get to know God, gain the knowledge to be having an edge in your ways of life.
One with the lack of knowledge is with an assurance to enter in the way that leads to captivity. Isaiah 5:13 confirms, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”
Without a doubt, the act of knowing is the way out of captivity. 
For example, giving regards to the work of God is with the consideration for His works and not misplace knowledge of God that keeps one from captivity. 
In life, Isaiah 5:12 clearly states the reason why the lack of knowledge drives to captivity, “…But they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands.”  
Psalmist also confirms that a failure not to give regard to the work of God will destroy life as it 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.” (Psalm 28:5) 
Keep it in mind that the work of God is in the word of God. 
Give regards to God in His word, know to avoid captivity, the way of destruction, and not be built for God.
GIVE REGARDS TO THE WORKS OF GOD
Give regards to the wondrous works of God that declare His name is near to all. Psalm 75:1 testifies, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” 
Why not begin to give regards to the works of His hand to gain and maintain the knowledge to fear God?
In life, not to give regard to the works of God is a way of turning back on God, not knowing that God is near to all at all times. 
In life, there is no excuse not to give regard to the work of God. 
Sodom and Gomorrah did not regard the works of God, and they experienced the judgment of God. If Sodom and Gomorrah could not escape judgment, the present generation will not escape the judgment of God. 
Regard and retain God in your knowledge, abstain from the ungodly and careless way of life before God. 
It is with the knowledge of knowing God, to continually give regard to the works of God not to become a victim of captivity. 
GIVING REGARD IS GIVING ATTENTION TO A CARING GOD
God is a caring God.
Giving regards to God is consciously giving attention to the operation of the hand of God. 
Meditating is a way of giving attention. 
Meditating on the word of God is the meditation of the word of God. 
Know that the word of God creates all the work of God. 
Meditation is not memorizing the word of God in the head. 
Meditation is working on the word of God laboriously in the heart day and night. 
With a desire for the knowledge, to be regarding the work of God and not become a victim of captivity, allow mediation of the word of God to become your way of living life.
Regarding the word of God is looking closely or attentively to observe steadily, to hold in awe (reverence, fear, wonder, respect) to look upon or consider in a specified way. 
Many meditate on the promise of God in the mouth but not meditate in mind. 
With meditating, the word of God in mind, the power of God will answer. Meditate the word of God to disregard doubt because doubt activates the inability to wait on the promise of God that provokes worrying.
In summing-up, 
Without any doubt, God is a mindful God.
King David, in his psalm, with a question, he refers to the mind of God, “Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?” (Psalm 144:3)
God is mindful of all but are you with the mind of Him by your way of living life? 
Give regard to God to gain, to retain the knowledge of God, and to be mindful of God.
Ask that God will enable you to begin to give regard to Him all the days He has given you to live life.

ALWAYS PREPARE BEFORE GOD

Preparation means the actions taken to get set for the manifestation of expectation.
With preparation to engage the presence of God is to put in a proper state of mind that is prepared to listen. 
Listening is the evidence of understanding gained for knowing to go further in the journey of life. 
The word of Jesus confirms listening as the solution to gain understanding. (John 8:43)
It is possible to say that planning is the step, and preparation is the sequel (the consequence) of expectation. The truth is, you can plan all you want, but if you do not prepare, you will still not be ready to receive your expectation.
Preparation can be described as the level of readiness and with no interruption.
In this season, what are you looking from God to do in your life, to the glory of God?
Receiving from God can be the evidence of preparation physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
In the journey of life, seeking God is evidence of how much you prepare to see God.
Abraham had an encounter with the Lord when he planned to prepare for engaging the presence of God. 
Abraham, in his plan for preparation to receive, he told his wife, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.” (Genesis 18:6)
After getting his wife to prepare for the Lord, Abraham went to do his part as Genesis 18:7-8 records, “And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it. So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.” 
Preparation from the depth of heart will always count before God as your integrity to engage the presence of God, and God does not look away not to acknowledge preparation.
The plans and preparation granted Abraham favor before God.
For Abraham, God answered the pending challenge of the bareness of his wife (Sarah). The Bible records, “And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”
God did not look away from the preparation of Abraham. He is not a partial God to look away from your plan and prepare before Him for your expectation.
What is it that is lacking in your life?
What is your expectation that is pending for years, without manifestation?
Do you know to plan and prepare to receive from God?
Understand and know that:
Plan and preparation before God is the evidence of hallowing God.
Plan and preparation before God is the action that weighs before God, and it counts to experience God. 1 Samuel 2:3 buttresses, “…For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him, actions are weighed.”  
Plan and preparation before God will gain to be a partaker of the presence of God.
Are you with the plan and know the preparation to be build up before God, to inheritance among the sanctified?
Acts 20:32 records, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
With plan and preparation to build you up to receive an inheritance from God, give time, and by studying the word of God. 
With time, study, and let the word of God gain entrance into your heart.
Plan and preparation before God enable David to build for God through his son. 1 Chronicles 22:5 records, “Now David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all countries. I will now make preparation for it.” So David made abundant preparations before his death.”
Plan and preparation is faith demonstration.
Repeatedly, through the pages of the Bible, the word of God identifies that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17). Take to mind that the Word of God which comes can also cease from coming when there is disengagement from hearing the Word of God. All that pertains to living life is living by the Word of God (living by faith). 
Plan and preparation before God should be a way of living not to become a victim of wickedness.
Plan and preparation will provoke God to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation. 
For example, Jesus could not command for Passover without having preparation in place.  Matthew 26:19 records the testimony of preparation before Passover as Jesus asked, “So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.”
Ask God to IMPACT you with having preparation before Him continually.
The plan and preparation of Abraham to have an encounter with God granted him the remembrance and visitation of God.
In your plan and preparation before God, ask that God will remember you with favor, and visit you with salvation.