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.

A MONTH TO STRIVE TO NEAR GOD

God is a good God.
God is near His creation, the character of a caring, perfect God.
Are you near to God?
How far are you from God?
Know that God is near, but all takes a distance from God.
The word of God is God.
The creation of God is His word.
It is glaring that the creations of God that are seeable are His word, the evidence that God is near to all.
Psalm 75:1 buttresses, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.”
The word of God, His work, and His name are near to all who will acknowledge and live near Him.
God is near to all with the desire to be near to Him.
The key to being near God is to fear God.
Note that the fear of God is His treasure. (Isaiah 33:6)
Fear of God is to near God.
One that walks with God or walks before God is near to God.
Enoch and Noah walked with God, the character of being near to God.
Abram walked before God, evidence to be near God and not to live a life of waste.
Have the desire to draw near to God.
Seek God diligently to find God.
Jeremiah 29:13 states, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
It is those who find God that are near to God.
One who is sinful is far from God because, with sin, no one can reach God.
Romans 3:23 buttresses, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Are you far or near from God?
It is possible to be near God.
If it is impossible to be near God, the word of God would not demand or encourage all to be near God.
Seek God diligently, find God, and draw near God as possible.
Draw near to God, and He will draw to you.
To draw near God is not a mouth talk.
Know to be near God!
It is a blessing to find God, the character of one that is near God.
To find God is not noise-making, quoting scripture verses, or running after anyone in the name of God.
A believer seeking the world in the name of God proves that such is not seeking God diligently to find God.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “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.”
God is not far from one who will seek God diligently, giving self to the word of God to continue to live life for God. 
One who seeks God in His way but does not seek in the way of God will not find nor near God.
Are you seeking God to find and near God?
Dwelling and abiding in the word of God is near to God.
Psalm 91:1 states, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
The secret of God is His word.
Dwelling and abiding in the word of God as a way of life is taking a position near to God.
Not living by the word of God, telling lies, or deceiving others as it pleases them is taking a route that is not near to God. 
The majority claim the word of God sounds like dwelling, but not abiding by the word of God shall be far from God.
The word of God is His presence.
In the word of God is healing, deliverance, and preservation.
Live by the word of God to gain and retain the presence of God.
Pray to be enabled to live life by the word of God.
Making a church building day and night does not testify as one near to God.
To be gathering among believers is not evidence that such is also near God.
What kind of a believer are you?
A believer knows the word of God and lives by the word of God.
An acclaimed believer who only knows about God does not live life by the word of God and carries the word of God in the head, not in the heart and far from God.
Know the word of God to be waiting on God, the identity of one near to God.  
God acts for those who wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Let your desire, not just determination, drive you to know and be near God.
How is your walk in the way of God?
Your walk in the way of God is the key to being near God.
Enoch and Noah walked with God all their lives as evidence of their near to God.
Genesis 17:1 states, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
One who walks with or before God is bound to be near God. Know to walk in the way of God but not in your way to near Him and not live a life of waste.