GET TO KNOW THE WAY OF GOD

What is it that you are asking God to change in your life but yet with no manifestation? 
If you are one with such a question, it is time to give yourself to continual prayer, a persistent prayer before God. 
The challenge is, give yourself to a non-stop but keep asking, seeking, knocking until you get the answer from God.
It is the character of God not to fail. God will always answer yes, no, or wait but give yourself to persistent prayer.
The parable of persistent testifies as Luke 11:5-8 records, “And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.”
Also, Luke 18:1-8 points out to all that there was in a judge in a city, who did not fear God nor regard man but yet persistent made him yielded to a widow. 
The widow needed justice for her, from the adversary. By her persistence, Judge in Luke 18:4-5 responded, “ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ” 
In the parable, Jesus said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
For your expectation that seems with no manifestation at sight, there is reason to engage persistent prayer, by asking, seeking, and knocking, the evidence of FAITH.
In the time of expectation for manifestation it worth to know that:
FAITH should not be a mouth noise.
FAITH is not a fanfare (a display or elaboration) but to engage God to experience manifestation for expectation.
FAITH is not an effort to impress no man but press on to experience God.
For example, Moses wanted manifestation for his expectation not to become trapped on the right track of life journey.
Moses needed to know the way of God in the calling of God over his life.
The magnitude of Moses in the hand of God, called by God but did not assume about the way of God for the calling upon his life, he asked God to show him His way.
Are you assuming against the word of God that admonishes all to ask, seek, and knock? What is denying you from asking just like Moses asked?
Do you know THE WAY of GOD for you?
If you do not ask for the way of God, how will you know the way of God for you?
Imagine Moses asking from God but not assume the way of God for his life. Exodus 33:13 records, “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…” 
Do not assume but ask for the way of God. 
Moses asked God answered, Psalm 103:7 testifies, “He made known His ways to Moses…” 
God is not a slave master but will wait to act for those that wait on Him.
In the journey of life, do not assume for your expectation from God but know to wait on God, to ask for His way for you not to live the life of miss from making it to heaven.
To get into the way of God demands from all to give heart. 
With heart given to God, eyes will not fail to certainly observe His ways as Proverbs 23:26 says, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.”
Ask that God enable you to turn your heart to Him (Proverbs 21:1, “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.” God that did for kings will do it for you…ask Him). 
Ask that you begin to see in His ways, not to live a life of waste.

MY MONTH OF TRUSTING GOD

With understanding, confessing the promised word of God will confirm one for His promise. 
With Bible verse, confess by the word of God over this month as the month of TRUSTING God: “The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him.” (Nahum 1:7) Prayerfully, meditate the verse for the whole month of May, and God will answer to you as a good God, as your stronghold, not to become a victim of challenging trouble of today.
Trusting God is having faith in God.
Faith comes by giving self to the word of God to have trust in God.
Some pages of the Bible identify what will be added to those who trust in the Lord God.
Psalm 9:10 states, “And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.”
Psalm 34:2 records, “The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.”
Psalm 125:1 record, “Those who trust in the Lord Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.”
Isaiah 26:4, “Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.”
Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
With faith, trust in God, not be forsaken or condemned, not to be moved but abide forever, to having everlasting strength and have hope in God.
Let it be your confession that May 2020 is your month of trust in the Lord.
To have trust in the Lord will wait on the Lord God.
Word, the source of faith, encourages more to have trust in God by waiting on God.
Psalm 27:14, “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!”
Psalm 37:4, “Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”
Isaiah 40:31 records, “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
This month, trust God, by waiting on God, and not become a victim of troubling challenge.
The troubling challenge demands a fight of faith not to be looser, to become denied for eternal life. 1 Timothy 6:12 admonishes, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” The race of one month to trust God should extend trusting God in the journey of life.
Trust on God to wait on God.
In your waiting on God, do not walk on the ground that calls for running or to run on the ground that calls for walking.
Trusting on God by waiting on God is like mounting up with wings like eagles that cannot be weary or faint to become a victim of troubling challenge.
The testimony of David in Psalm 23:4 records, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” 
David gives the picture of what it means to trust and wait on God in the face of troubling challenges.
The trust in God was in place for David not to run with fear of evil but walk in the scary valley of the shadow of death.
Trust on God will lead and guide in this troubling challenge time of darkest of no light as if death had cast his dark shadow everywhere.
Confessing trust in God will disallow fear for evil.
Confessing trust in God will impart confidence and to know that God will not leave one alone, and will defend such.
In the word of God is the presence of God, the power, and protection for one with understanding to trust in God.
Give yourself to confessing trust in God, to be confirmed with His comfort and safety in the troubling challenges.

KNOW TO PLEAD FOR THE MERCY OF GOD

God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creation for the release of His mercy.
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.”
God’s mercy is in place for all and nothing under heaven can displace or deny one which God is set to visit with His mercy.
In this wicked world, 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 but He will have mercy on, one that lives by His command.

AMONG WAYS OF PROVOKING GOD TO OBTAIN HIS MERCY ARE:

The mercy of God is attainable when the life of one aligns with the word of God
One that lives life according to the word of God will always receive the mercy of God. Joseph’s life was the evidence of one that lived according to the word of God, the will of God. Every time there was an incident that could tempt Joseph to violate the word of God, he did not give himself to the temptation to fail before God (Genesis 39:7-15). In one instance, he denied the offer to sleep with his master’s wife by claiming, “…How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9) The reaction of Joseph to his master’s wife provoked the mercy of God for Joseph. The Bible mentions, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21). 
The mercy of God is attainable when one loves God
One with the love for God will always provoke the mercy of God. The Bible makes us realize that loving God is keeping His commandments (John 14:15). To love God is to fear God.  
The story of Joseph points out that Joseph kept the commandment of God by forbidding adultery when he fled away from sleeping with his master’s wife. Joseph loved God to obtain the mercy of God.
The mercy of God is attainable when one asks or plead for His mercy
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 testimony of God about the integrity of Job was not enough to excuse Job from pleading for the mercy of God. 
Just like Job, the Psalmist had to plead for the mercy of God saying, “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). 
Know to plead for the mercy of God, to receive from God.
The mercy of God is attainable when forgiveness is asked
With repentance, one that asks before God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God. It is written, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5). God is good and merciful; there is no iota of evil that can deny God’s mercy on one that calls on God. Asking for forgiveness is a very sure way of obtaining mercy as it is obvious in all the pages of the Bible. The Bible encourages, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsake them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). 
God is merciful to respond with mercy for one that trusts God and knows to ask for forgiveness.
The mercy of God is obtainable when one fears God 
Do you fear God?
Psalm 103:17 records for our learning, “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him…” Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
To fear God is a possibility to attain His mercy.
One with the fear of God loves God, having mercy, living by His word. 
The word of God is proven to be true and does not return to Him void. Give self to the word of God, live life with the fear of God to be merciful.
With understanding, know to seek God’s mercy so that His mercy will reign and rule in your life.

FOLLOW GOD TO MAKE IT TO HEAVEN

Regardless of this world’s challenges, with your desire not to miss the Kingdom of God, pray continually to FOLLOW Jesus (the Word of God) FULLY.The journey of life is a route that leads to the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, depending on how all walk with God will determine who makes it to the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God.
What does it take not to miss the kingdom of God?
The word of God speaks to all about what it takes not to miss the kingdom of God, “…Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:23-24)
Demands of the word not to miss the Kingdom of God is very challenging as disciples were stunned to question Jesus, “…Who then can be saved?” (Matthew 19:25) 
Are you a rich one that will find it hard to make to the kingdom of God?
Who is a rich one?
A rich one does not suffer a lack of need.
When comfort answers in the place of lack, it becomes the evidence of one as the rich.
One whose needs are being met and become rich is with the tendency to forget God, to take a position outside of route not to enter the kingdom of God.
The question, who then can be saved, by disciples of Jesus was answered by Jesus’ stating, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
Through the pages of the Bible, it is pointed out that the possibility with God will only come with prayer before God, not just by quoting the word of God for anyone to achieve one’s desire.
Are you praying with the expectation for the possibility of God over you or just quoting the possibility of God without praying? 
In the journey of life, the route that leads to the kingdom of God also demands from all (not only rich) to follow Jesus, when Jesus spoke to disciples about following Him in Matthew 19:28-30, “So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.”
Regardless of who you are, by Jesus’ word, it is only one that FOLLOWS HIM FULLY that will make it to the kingdom of Heaven/the Kingdom of God.
With desire and continual prayer that will make it possible not to miss the Kingdom of God FOLLOW the Word of God (Jesus) in the journey of life, a route that leads to the kingdom of God.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FOLLOW GOD?
Given self in submission to God’s word will follow God, will not miss the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, there is no exception for rich or poor that does not follow God and make it to the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, whatever a man is holding onto against God’s command will not follow God to make it to the kingdom of God. 
What are you holding on and not able to give yourself to God’s command?
In your life, whatever it is that holds you back from giving yourself to the word of God will keep you from following God to miss the kingdom of God. 
Are you with desires to make it to the kingdom of God, a life of eternity?
Live life by following God’s command. 
In your journey of life, what is it that is holding you back from following God?
Is it your property or family that is holding you from following God? 
Abraham is an example of a rich one that followed God’s command to sacrifice the life of his son in his journey of life. He followed God’s calling as he attempted to sacrifice his only son when God spoke to him. Genesis 22:12 records, “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 fears God to follow God’s command. God testifies the fear of Abraham for His name as Abraham lived life to follow God.
From this month, pray continually that you will live life for God by following His command, to make the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God that is not a fiction.

FOCUS ON GOD’S OVERCOMING POWER

The Bible identifies two overcoming powers that are in place for one that believes in the word of God. Revelation 12:11records, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony…”When a believer pleads the Blood of the Lamb or claims the word of testimony, experiencing the power of God will answer for the believer.
ABOUT THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
John the Baptist informs all about Jesus as the Lamb of God in John 1:29, “…Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”Jesus is the Lamb of God that shed His blood on the Calvary for those who will receive and believe in Him. 
The word of John 10:10 confirms the coming of Jesus as the reason to believe in Him as the overcoming power as it states, “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”  
As a believer of God’s word, calling on God for your expectation for manifestation, plead the blood of Jesus with trust and hope, expect God’s intervention on your behalf.
ABOUT THE WORD OF TESTIMONY
Word of testimony can be described as an open declaration of what God has done or what God is doing in one’s life. In the face of a challenging situation, a believer that declares what the Lord God has done or what God is doing will experience the move of God. In most cases, what you declare is set to decorate you with your testimony to the glory of God. As a believer, give testimony to the glory of God to become an overcomer. As a believer, when your testimony about the goodness of God becomes your meditation at the time of challenges or no challenges, experiencing the overcoming power of God will become your portion.
Through the pages of the Bible, there is evidence of what positive or negative testimonies delivered into the lives of the testifiers, let your testimonies of God be positive to answer for you to make you an overcomer.
Evidence of Positive Testimony: King David, by the word of his testimonies, had a great and mighty deliverance when he overcame Goliath. In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraging when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) David refused to be discouraged, but gave an account of what he was able to do as he responded to King Saul, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) David was not intimated by the confronting challenge that was posed by Goliath. Instead, David dwelt on what The Lord his God had enabled him to do in the past and he gave testimony, “The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” (1 Samuel 17:37) David, by the word of his testimony, was able to overcome the giant challenge of Goliath.  
Evidence of Negative Testimony: The children of Israel experienced a great miracle when they were coming out of their bondage of over four hundred years and passing through the Red Sea on dry land but their testimonies denied them from God’s Promised Land. 
The Israelites’ response to the spy’s negative report after investigation of the Promised Land, they had no better testimony but to confess, “…If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? So they said to one another, ‘Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.’” (Numbers 14: 2-4) 
God heard the children of Israel’s negative testimony when sent Moses to the Israelites, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.’” (Numbers 14:28) In truth, entire numbers from twenty years old and up except Caleb and Joshua, failed and not get to the Promised Land, because of their negative testimony.
What are your testimonies? Which words are being produced in you and being released by your tongue as testimony? Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” David saw challenges, he testified to the power of God and he overcame. The children of Israel saw challenges, they confessed negative and could not arrive Promised Land. In facing challenges, give positive testimonies, meditate, confess and be established for the glory of God.