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.

MY MONTH OF SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY

KNOW TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY
Knowing God is not knowing about God.
To seek God is not seeking God diligently.
Claiming to live for God is seeking Him diligently.
Have the desire not just to live but to live for God.
Do you know what or who you are living for?
Know that all is living (exists) for God, the creator of all.
Revelation 4:11 states, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
All owe God to live for God.
God does not owe anyone, yet He has given all needed to live for Him.
Are you living for God or living for yourself?
Know to live for God.
In this world of challenge, there are all kinds of distractions, with desire, seek God diligently to find God.
Have the desire to live for God diligently.
The grace and mercy of God have brought you to be alive this far, not because you know how to live life.
Make the right choice, and upgrade your life to live for God.
Living life for God is seeking God diligently. 
With desire, live life for God to find Him.
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.” 
“Jeremiah 29:13 records, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”  
Proverbs 8:17, “I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.”
If seeking God to find God is not possible, God would not have asked for seeking Him diligently.
Live life for God, seek Him diligently and find Him. 
BE UPGRADED BY SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY
Seeking God diligently means actively and persistently searching for a relationship with God as in father and child
Seeking God diligently requires a dedicated effort to understand and follow the teaching of God, and not quit, but constantly striving to draw close to God; effectively, it insinuates an attentive and unwavering intent of God in life. 
SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY MEANS
It means we keep seeking God until we find Him, not resting until we hear from Him in our situation or circumstance.
Doing something diligently means doing it energetically and persistently.
Seeking God diligently means the opposite of the way to seek God.
Seeking God diligently is the effort to keep faith and reliance on God.
To seek God diligently assures spiritual success.
The constant, bold effort, serving the Lord, and obeying His word is seeking God diligently to find God.
God rewards those who diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY SHOULD BE A PRIORITY
Priority seeking God diligently is:
Act according to the word of God, and be careful to observe them for this is your wisdom and understanding. (Deuteronomy 4:-5-6)
The character of seeking God diligently will:
Pray for guidance and strength.
Persistent, not to give up when challenges resist.
Find joy and satisfaction doing the work of God.
Such will act without being told what to do at all times.
Focus on what is not distracting to deny finding God.
WHAT DOES IT MEANS TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY
Seeking God diligently for His strength and his presence continually!
Among ways to seek God diligently:
Making it a priority to call upon God in prayer and watch.
Know to forsake evil ways and thoughts.
Serve God with whole heart devotion and with a mindful for God.
Let your cares be committed to God.
Keep your tongue from evil.
KNOW TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY
To seek God diligently is the labor to find God that demands persistence.
To seek God diligently is the opposite of seeking God not in His way.
One who truly knows God (not to know about) shall have a love for God and seek God diligently.
When one loves to seek God, one will naturally seek Him energetically and perseveringly, expecting to find God.
Seek the Lord diligently and earnestly now so that when challenges come, you will readily receive the answers, victories, and rewards that He reserves only for His faithful ones who seek Him diligently.
Jeremiah 29:13-14 records, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the Lord…”
Ask God to teach and enable you with the strength to seek Him diligently all the rest of your days.  

MY MONTH OF THE WAY OF GOD

LET YOUR WAY BE MY WAY LORD GOD
God creates all to exist for His glory. (Revelation 4:11)
God creates all to exist for His glory. (Revelation 4:11)
Pray that this season and on going the way of God shall be your way, living life to the glory of God.
Prayer before God for the way of God is a continual engagement, not a once-in-a-while engagement.
Have the desire, not just determination, and meditate prayerfully so that the way of God becomes established in your life.
It is a great privilege of God to be alive this far, not because you know how to keep to the way of God.
Make it a way of life to ask God for His way for your life.
Do not assume the way of life, not to be exposed for evil occurrence.
The way of God is the word of God, the truth, and the life.
John 14:6 records Jesus saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Are you in a position to assume what is not true?
The way of God is truth to engage, not live a life of waste.
Proverbs 14:12 admonishes, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
Ask God to show you His way.
Asking for the way of God is not evidence that one does not know God.
The title one answers to, as a servant of God, is not an excuse not to ask for the way of God.
This season, be asking for the way of God.
There is no reason not to ask for the way of God, but to always ask for the way of God is of the right mind.
Exodus 2:10 identifies Moses as a content man.
Exodus 4:12, God promised to be with the mouth of Moses.
Despite the character of Moses before God, Moses demonstrated the need to ask for the way of God.
Regardless of who you are or what title you answered to, it is not enough not to ask for the way of God.
Moses asked 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. And consider that this nation is Your people.” (Exodus 33:13)
It is not a sin to ask for the way of God.
Make it a way of life to be asking from God.
The word of God encourages asking, seeking, and knocking to receive from Him.
In response to the asking of Moses, God said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
The way of God is His way. The way is His presence.
God is not a partial God.
Romans 2:11 informs that God is not a partial God, stating, “For there is no partiality with God.”
This season, lift your eyes to God to ask for His way.
Living in the way of God, there is the direction that encases healing, deliverance, and preservation.
The way of God is the word of God.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
Walking in the word of God is walking in His way.
Those who walk in the way of God find God to live for His glory.
Genesis 17:1 records, “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.”
Walk before God is the character of walking in His way.
God made Abram walk (in His way) before Him and will make you walk in His way if it is your desire prayerfully to ask Him.
Genesis 5:24, “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 6:9, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”
What is it that stops you or distracts you not to walk the way of God? 
It is possible to live for God and become able to walk in His way.
The documentation of those who walk in the way is not a decoration but a declaration to walk in the way of God.
How are you walking before God or with God?
In your life journey, how far are you from God, who is near always?
To walk far from God is the avenue to experience failure.
If walking in the way of God is not possible, the word of God would not have asked for walking in His way.
Have the desire to walk in the way of God.
It does not matter who you are or the title you answer, but walking far from God is the avenue to fall.
The way of God is in the word of God.
Give self to the word of God, observe, and live by His word.
Proverbs 23:26 informs, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. 
The way of God is the way to walk and not live a life of waste.
Continually pray that you will not be far from God but observe and live by His word, walking in His way.

YEAR OF GOD VISITATION 

God is a God of order in every way of life.
Approaching a new beginning demands preparation that will give place to planning.
Always reparation leads to the revelation of planning.
Know to prepare before God for His plan to become revealed.
Prepare for a new beginning to provoke the plan of God, and He will remember you with favor.
For example, Jesus could not expose the plan for Passover until preparation was 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.”
With the preparation by the disciples, Jesus sat down with them to reveal the plan to come after Him.
In all ways of life, preparation prompts a plan.
As the year runs out, prepare before to gain a plan for the coming year.
Round up in preparation for the year to gain in the plans of God in a new year.
There is always a need to prepare to become exposed to the plan of God.
The plan and preparation of Abraham to have an encounter with God made him be remembered and visited by God.
The Lord appeared to Abraham by the terebinth trees of Mamre and set him with the request to prepare.
After Abraham prepared before God, the plan of God revealed, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him…” (Genesis 18:17-18)
God is a God of order in every way of life.
Preparation prompts the plan of God.
Prepare by walking in the word of God to get near to
As the new beginning is close, prepare to work the words of God to get near to God.
To be near God is to gain the plan of God for the new beginning.
The psalmist declares, “But it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works.” (Psalm 73:28)
TO BE NEAR TO GOD
To be drawn to God demands seeking God diligently.
One that seeks God diligently will find God, the position of one that is near to God.
Jeremiah 29:13-14 informs, “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the Lord…”
One who is near to God walks in Him, the identity of those who walk upright.
Psalm 84:11 records, “No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
To become near to God is the character of living for God.
Near to God, seek God first, and shall be added to such.
In your new beginning, consciously live for God.
Lord God creates all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To live life for the glory.
The fear, strength, knowledge, and wisdom to dwell in the secret of God become my portion.
Pray to live in the fear of God.
With wisdom and knowledge is to live in stability of one (Isaiah 33:6)  
In your new beginning, when you roam, the presence of God will lead you; when you sleep, He will keep you; and when you awake, He will speak with you, and you shall hear Him in the name of Jesus. (Proverbs 6:22)
In your new beginning, pray that the Lord God will go before you by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give you light (direction) day and night. (Exodus 13:21)
In your new beginning, with desire, ask God to teach you His way and lead you on a smooth path because of your enemies.
(Psalm 27:11)
YOUR NEW BEGINNING SHALL EXPERIENCE THE VISITATION OF GOD
In your new beginning, near God to live for the glory of God.
The glory of God is His presence.
Deuteronomy 5:24 speaks to all, not just to the children of Israel, “Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness…”
It is a blessing that God has brought you this far into your new beginning.
Proverbs 10:22 states, “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.”
In your new beginning, all the blessings of God bestow upon you and your loved one shall not know sorrow.
Pray that God shall remember you with favor.
Pray that this is your season of the visitation of God.
Pray that the way of life that will cause the glory of God to depart in your life and loved ones shall not be your portion in Jesus.
Near God to gain the plans of God for your life.

ASK GOD TO REMEMBER YOU

God is a good God.
God is a perfect God.
Power belongs unto God alone.
He is a perfect God who created all without partiality in His doing.
Job 34:19 testifies, “Yet He is not partial to princes, Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; For they are all the work of His hands.”
Romans 2:11 states, “For there is no partiality with God.”
God has brought you this far by His goodness and mercy, not because you know how to live.
God remembers all and does not forget no one.
By His will, all exist and were created. (Revelation 4:11)
With rampant sin among His creation, He did not fail to remember them for deliverance from the consequences of their sin.
The remembrance of Noah at the time of the flood testifies that God remembers and does not forget.
Genesis 7:17 “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth…”
God remembered Noah, and the water of destruction subsided.
Genesis 8:1 “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.”
God cares to remember His creation.
Are you with expectations all year with no manifestation?
Day after day, week after week, month after month with no expectation is not evidence God does not remember you.
Keep in mind God REMEMBERS all at all times.
For yet to gain your expectation is not late before God.
Time belongs to God.
Clock belongs to the world that cannot intimidate God to move out of His time.
With this understanding, wait on God.
Trust and hope, the character to wait on God is not of the mouth but of the heart.
Have trust and hope to gain the blessing of God in His remembrance.
With the trust to call on God but lack hope because of doubt denies blessings of God.
With a trusted call on God, avoid confessing negative expectations that demonstrate a lack of hope.
Trust with hope should patiently wait on God to provoke the blessings of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 testifies, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Ask to be enabled to trust and hope, waiting to gain from God remembering you.
Wait on God by asking He, remember.
God is not talkative and wants all to ask, seek, or knock to get an opening, evidence God remembers. (Matthew 7:7)
Mind you, God creates all.
He does not forget but remembers one who knows to remind Him.
Are you having any case or an issue before God to remember you?
The word of God encourages all, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” (Isaiah 43:26)
God is a good God that will not ignore the call of His creation.
Do not stop to call on God to remember you.
God is a caring God.
God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:4 confirms, “…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.”
Wait on God by watching and praying unceasingly, and He will not fail to remember you.
Hannah had no child.
Hannah had a case or an issue before God to remember her.
I Samuel 1:5 made it known that the Lord had closed her womb.
Hannah needed God to remember her.
Yearly, Hannah went to worship God to seek and be remembered by God.
1 Samuel 1:11 records, “Then she made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.”
Hannah played her part and sought God to gain His presence in remembering her.
Are you playing a role to remind God, who does not forget His creation?
God that does not forget you but shall remember you if you will wait on Him.
God remembered Hannah.
1 Samuel 1:19 records, “Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah, his wife, and the Lord remembered her.”
Hannah sought God when she was barren.
God remembered Hannah to open her womb to conceive, and she had a child.
With the remembrance of Hannah by God, mockery over her life turned to the miracle of God.
Ask God to remember you, and mockery shall be converted to a miracle.
When God remembered Noah in the ark, the flood water of destruction subsided.
Ask that every flow of direction in your life that is not of God be subsided.
God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Call on God to remember you.
God is a caring God.