YEAR TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY

REST SOLUTION, not NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is all man’s solution to navigate this wicked world without becoming a victim.
For your rest solution, desire, decide and declare the New Year as YEAR OF SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY. Standard to seek God diligently demands seeking God to please God but not seeking God just by mouth. To be seeking God diligently is driven by faith. Hebrews 11:6 buttressed, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Seeking God diligently is taking a position to find God for man’s life. To seek God diligently is to find Him. Deuteronomy 4:29 buttressed, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Name your New Season or the New-Year as Year of SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY.
In this wicked world, seek God by serving God to dwell and abide in God.  Psalm 91:1-3 buttressed, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Highest Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” As a believer, not an unbeliever, it is a secret to seek God by dwelling and abiding in Almighty God.
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God. Serving God is living life for God.
Seek God is following righteousness as pointed in Isaiah 51:1, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” With today’s world of wickedness, it is wise for one to listen and to give self to God’s word. One that is not giving ear to hear will not gain an understanding of Him. Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.”
Seeking God diligently is serving Him. Serving God is also following Him with no hidden agenda because He knows all man. Word of God demands and declare what it means to follow Him. John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God. Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently for finding Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by God’s word which will not lie. John 8:12 confirmed, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him. David was a man like us and sought-after God. 1 Kings 14:8 testified, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only    what was right in My eyes.” Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness in His word? Unchanging changer God, yesterday, today and forever once warned against not seeking to follow Him in 1 Kings 9:6-7, “But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.” Think and search who or what you have set before your way of living life outside of living life, following God.
Listen, obeying God is seeking diligently to keep self in God as His treasure just as He spoke in Exodus 19:5, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is to disallow seeking God unpleasingly.
Seek God diligently is fulfilling God’s required condition to see God.
Keeping God’s command is not chasing after world activities.
Keep God’s word to do as commanded in God’s word and to live life for God’s glory.

THE GIFT OF GOD

In every season or with reason to give or receive, let it be with sincere heart knowing that God sees all. Whatever you can afford to give is what will count before God. With a sincere heart, only engage in giving or receiving without lying or deceiving in your celebrating moment.
Honestly, the gift that matters and counts best, for giving or receiving at all time is Jesus. Jesus’ introduction is not limited to those who know or those who do not know Him. Bible recorded Jesus’ self-introduction to the woman of Samaria which does not know Him, “…If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10) Jesus is the GIFT of God for all man. Romans 6:23 buttressed, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Which kind of expensive or cheap gift are you chasing after to lay hands for impressing families or friends? Why not decide for giving the GIFT of God that is free to give out to your world?
Do you know the GIFT of God for you? GIFT of God is near and not far from man but not knowing the GIFT of God is man’s ignorance not unwrapping GIFT of God.
Often, man is decorated by the GIFT of God but not declaring the GIFT of God. God is not evidence in the way of man’s life. In life, it can be recklessness or destructive in the effort of giving or receiving the gift of this world which is evident in the testimony of Gehazi the servant of Elisha; the life of Ananias and Sapphira.
CASE OF GEHAZI
After the healing of Naaman, Elisha refused to accept gifts from Naaman. Without any direction from Elisha, Gehazi the servant of Elisha deceitfully went after Naaman and stated, “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’” (2 Kings 5:22) Gehazi deceitfully claimed gift from Naaman against Elisha’s will. Elisha knowing about Gehazi’s deceptiveness, he asked Gehazi for his deception to claim gift from Naaman. Elisha responded to Gehazi’s deceptiveness stating, “…was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves?  Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.” (2 Kings 5:26-27) Gehazi’s appetite for the gift of this world derailed him from arriving at his journey of divine assignment. Just like Gehazi, make the right choice to run after the gift of God not the gift of this world.
CASE OF ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA
Have you been getting away with lying and deceiving others for so long that there are no bounds as to when or where you lie? Lying and deceiving can be destructive to a liar’s life. As much as it reigns outside the church, so it is rampant inside the church. Acts 5:1-2 recorded, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” Ananias and Sapphira were to sell their possessions voluntary without any pressure. Ananias and Sapphira voluntary move resulted in deceiving their brethren. Deception is lying, dishonesty and insincere. Are you an acclaimed believer who will lie, fake, or deceive to get attention or to impress fellow believers? All conduct is accountable before God without hidden from God that does not sleep.
Peter knew that Ananias and Sapphira were lying and not sincere before brethren. Peter responded as stated, in Acts 5:4, “But Peter said, ‘Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?’” Was it a good intention by Ananias and Sapphira that prompted their lying to deceive their brethren? Deception is not impressive before God. Whatever is worthy for doing before God is worthy to be well done. The bible recorded the result of Ananias and Sapphira’s deception in Acts 5:5, “Then Ananias hearing these words fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.” Lying and deception took the life of Ananias and Sapphira. Telling lies is a gift of this world. Telling lies is deception which can go unnoticed for years, but it will only take one day for the truth to expose you.  Give up the gift of this world, receive and unwrap the gift of God in addition to your journey of life.  

LIVING LIFE FOR GOD

For a change, personally and prayerfully give a name to new month as: My month of LIVING FOR GOD.
God is a good God. God’s goodness is His blessing for man. Living life for God is the undeniable condition required by God for man to claim and gain the promises of God. Every promise in the word of God is certainly not going to become void, but man is consistent with voiding God’s word. Isaiah 55:10-11 recorded, “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Promises of God is in the word. Man’s knowledge and understanding of God’s word is a condition for man to claim and gain God’s promise. Every promise in the word of God will not fail.
Clearly, through the pages of the Bible, claiming the promises of God comes with condition (doing according to God’s word). For example, book of Exodus 19:5 recorded, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” Deuteronomy 4:29 is another example condition of God for man to do and claim the promise of God. It is written, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 6:17 also buttressed, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.”
The verses above identified the condition to claim and gain the promise of God:
Do you have a testimony as one that is God’s special?
Is your way of living life going to deliver the promise of God in your life?
Do you have the desire to be claiming and gaining from the promise of God which is in place for man? Word of God promised, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Jabez had the understanding with the knowledge to know and claim as promised in the word of God. Claiming the promise in the word of God demands God’s condition.
THE CASE OF JABEZ
The meaning of Jabez’s name was a pain. With understanding, he wanted a change of name for a better story of life, by living life for the glory of God. Word of God was not a secret for ones with the understanding and knowledge like Jabez. The promise of God for man in His word stated, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.” (Psalm 8:4) With the understanding and the knowledge, to claim and gain was a knowing by Jabez that there is a crown with honor upon his life as recorded in God’s promise.
Jabez prayerfully asked from God to take away pain from his life. Jabez, with his understanding and his knowledge, demonstrated his meeting the condition to receive from God’s promise. It was a blessing from God to answer Jabez’s prayer.
The word of God is not empty but full of His promise. The condition to possess God’s promise is living life faithfully with understanding and knowledge.
Attending churches, claiming to be one with faith is not the same as one that is Faithfull.
To be faith-full is the evidence of who work the works of God.
Live life for God to claim and gain to His promise to see Him. Prayerfully confess and give a name to new month as: My month of LIVING FOR GOD.

PREVAIL IN OCTOBER

October month does not mean it is late to prevail but keep on waiting on God.
Prayer is waiting to prevail in this month and not be a victim of wicked world. Psalm 27:14 declared, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” In time of challenging need, how do you wait? The psalmist is saying, in our waiting on the Lord we must be of good courage. It is possible to claim waiting on God and not be of good courage but living as a worry-full believer. Any time worrying is in place, worship is out of place. Are you one that cannot wait without worrying? Do not be a worry-full one but be a worship-full one before God.
Man’s failure to wait on God is possible to reposition man from arrival at God’s divine assignment.
It was a time of war against the Philistines when King Saul failed to wait as commanded by Samuel. Saul assumed priestly entitlements by offering a burnt offering. In his act, he violated the command of God. Saul’s excuse for failing to wait was recorded, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore, I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12) Saul could not exercise good courage as a result, his heart was not strengthened but weakened. He was worried, and he violated worshiping God correctly.
Inability to wait for God’s appointed time is to experience interruption to claim inheritance in place for man.  The prodigal son could not wait when he requested his portion of inheritance from his father and took a journey to a far country where he wasted his inheritance. It was wrong for the prodigal son to move when it was not time to move. The prodigal son moved ahead of time in the journey of life. Interruption intercepted to waste prodigal’s son inheritance from his father. Luke 15:13-14 recorded, “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want.”  Every failure to wait on God’s timing is an avenue to be distanced from God’s planning for a life of abundance.
Waiting on God is giving self to obeying God’s word. Word of God repeatedly admonished waiting on God:
Psalm 37:9, “For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth.”
Psalm 37:34 “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 8:17, “And I will wait on the Lord, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.”
Isaiah 40:31, “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.”
Obedience brings blessing, while disobedience brings cursing. The word of God is true when it says, “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.” (Isaiah 64:4) Wait on God, and you shall never step into mistakes. It is never too late to wait on God also it is true that no one ever complained of falling, or stepping, into grievous mistakes while waiting on God. Waiting on God is a source of God’s grace for anyone that takes to waiting on God. Believe it that It is never too late to wait on God!
Praying is waiting before God. Praying is prevailing in this wicked world.
Truly, there is nothing like giving self to waiting on God prayerfully for God’s appointed time. Waiting on God for expectation that is yet at hand is not an evidence of failure but demands continual waiting on God. Waiting on God is not a waste; it can be painful but eventually waiting on God is gainful.

HEART OF MAN

Heart of man will identify man before God. Man, that plays the role of lying, deceiving and manipulating other is not hidden from God which is the true and only perfect creator of all. In the heart, man that is set for doing good is good before God and man that is set for doing bad is not hidden from God. Man should continually engage heart with God’s word to avoid continual engagement to evil of this world. Genesis 6:5 recorded for our learning to know and understand that man’s heart is not hidden from God. It is written, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
What do you carry in your inside? It is important to know that God cannot be deceived. Be genuine to be good in your doing because God is never asleep but sees the heart of man continually.
Nehemiah’s heart was genuine with his concern for Jerusalem’s welfare and inhabitants. God saw Nehemiah’s heart and He acknowledged him. God in His awesomeness invested in him as a vessel for reconstructing the broken wall of Jerusalem. The report of what was going on in Jerusalem caused a burden in Nehemiah’s heart and he began to intercede on behalf of the land and his people. The bible recorded in Nehemiah 1:3-4, “And they said to me, ‘The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.’ So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” Nehemiah poured out his heart in prayer on behalf of his people and his homeland. Nehemiah had no hidden agenda to gain for himself but rather petitioned for things that had to do with a better life for his people. Nehemiah was selfless but mindful for his people which is the evidence that his heart was in line with what God looks from man.
What is it about heart? Here are some scriptural verses of what the bible has to say about the heart:
Psalm 44:21, “…God knows the secret of the heart.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
“The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.” (Proverbs 20:27)
Ecclesiastes 8:11 stated, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
The bible identifies the fool, in Psalm 14:1, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God…”
The bible recorded, “As in water face reflects face, so a man’s heart reveals the man.” (Proverbs 27:19)
It was heart that revealed Nehemiah’s identity before God. Truly, taking to the warning in the word of God is to excel for His glory. Proverbs 4:23 warned us, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Be diligent to keep your heart as your house of God.
It was Daniel’s heart that called for God’s eyes which travels to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong. (2 Chronicle 16:9) Bible recorded in Daniel 1:8, “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” Daniel excused his self but gave himself for God. Daniel purposed in his heart for God’s sake and he lived to do great exploit (Daniel 11:32) Daniel’s heart set him for great exploits in life. Nehemiah set his heart for God’s people and lived as agent of reconstruction for God’s glory. What is your heart about for you people? Is your agenda for man is for self glorification or for God’s glory? There is none with heart for God’s glory with failure as testimony. Set heart for God to wait patiently for God to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.