LET IT BE YOUR MONTH OF DWELLING AND ABIDING IN THE SECRET PLACE OF GOD

Let your prayer to God for this month be that dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God shall be your portion.
Prayer with desire delivers, unlike having determination.
Determination failed Peter to deny Jesus.
However, when desire is in place, God deposits manifestation of expectation.
What you think is what you ask, and what you ask is what you think.
Ephesians 3:20 emphasizes, “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.”
God gives attention to what one thinks or asks.
Why not prayerfully have the desire to dwell and abide in God?
Psalm 91:1 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
One praying or claiming, with a lack of understanding, is marked as a talk active with words not rooted in the heart but in the mouth.
God promises anyone to abide when one knows to dwell in His secret place.
What God says is a done deal.
The word of God is His promise.
To claim the promise of God comes with conditions.
One claiming the promise of God must engage the condition to claim.
One who dwells in the secret of God shall abide in the presence of God.
The presence of God is His secret.
The secret is His word.
Psalm 25:14 states, “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him…”
Do you live life to fear God?
Psalm 31:20 records, “You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence From the plots of man…”
The secret place is in the presence of God.
His presence is a secure place from the wicked world.
Isaiah 45:19, “I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in vain’; I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.”
Why not give yourself to the spoken word of God that is secret to make it hibernation, abiding constantly in the word of God?
Ask that dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God shall constantly and consistently be your way of life.
Ask that wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to make the secret place of God become your portion from this moment.
Ask that distraction and other forces of the wicked world that deny one not to dwell and abide in the secret place of God shall not have a place in your life.
Ask that dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God shall be your way of life.
The word of God does not return void.
Dwell in His word (His presence, His secret), live by His word to abide and not become a victim of a wicked world.
The character of those who dwell and abide in the secret place of God will not run where to walk or walk when to run the evidence of one that trusts God. Also, it is the evidence of engaging the direction of God to be delivered.
One that dwells and abides in the secret of God is evidence of one that sees the move of God by His word.
The word of God is God.
His word is His presence.
One who hears the word of God will see to receive, gain, and retain the presence of God.
Retaining the presence of God is hidden in God not to live a life of waste.
Do you know God (the word of God, His secret) to recognize and acknowledge dwelling and abiding in God?
One who only knows about God lacks the understanding of dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God.
When the servant of Elisha was around Elisha, dwelling along with Elisha in the presence of God, in times of challenges, he lacked the understanding not to know that he was abiding in the secret place of God.
Are you dwelling with but not knowing abiding?
One who claims to be a believer but lacks the knowledge of dwelling and abiding in God (His secret) takes to become perish.
The servant of Elisha was an example of one dwelling in the presence of God because Elisha, the prophet of God, was with him, but he failed to know abiding in the presence of God.
The servant of Elisha was consumed in fear of the wicked world before him, not knowing the abiding in the presence of God.
The servant with Elisha cried out, but Elisha knew his dwelling and abided in the word of God and reacted to His servant:  “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see. Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, Strike this people, I pray, with blindness. And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.” (2 Kings:16-18)
No one who dwells in the word of God by the mouth will see enough to abide in the secret of God.
Following word in the mouth of this world, not hearing to see in the word of God is not dwelling and abiding in the Lord God.
Pray that dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God shall constantly and consistently be your way of life.

SHOW ME YOUR WAY LORD GOD

As an acclaimed believer, do you know the way of God?
Knowing the way of God is to live life to the glory of God, not to live a life of waste.
There is no reasonable excuse not to live life by the way of God.
Revelation 4:11records, “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.”
God created all to live by His will, exist for His glory, living by His way.
Do you know the way of God for you?
Have you taken time to seek God for His way in your life?
In life, there is no excuse not to live a life of waste, the evidence of failure, and not answer to the calling of God.
A title answered to, in the name of God, is not the task but demands to know and ask from God for His way.
Life is a journey.
In all your journeys, have you asked God to show you His way for your life?
God called Moses for His assignment, but answering the calling of God was not an excuse for Moses not to ask for the way of God for him.
Exodus 33:12-13 documents the evidence to ask for the way of God over the called one, “Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 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.”
God called Moses, not that Moses called or asked for the calling of God.
Moses answered the calling of God.
After Moses had engaged in the calling of God by leading the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt, he denied an excuse not to go back to ask for the way of God over his life.
In your life journey, have you asked for the way of God over your life?
Moses did not assume to know the way but asked from God.
Take note, know that prayer opens heaven.
Moses prayed before God to know which is the way of God for him, saying, “Now, therefore, I pray.”
God answered Moses when he asked for the way of God for his life.
Exodus 33:14, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
The answer of God to Moses speaks to all who diligently seek God for His way.
In the way of God, there is direction to gain and retain the presence of God.
The way of God is the presence of God.
The presence of God is the word of God.
John 1:1 informs all, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
The word of God is His presence that must gain the entrance of one who seeks the way of God.
In the word of God, one will gain the rest of God.
God answered Moses, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
The wicked world demands to walk in the way of God to live in stability.
The desire to walk in the way of God to gain stability is the character of one with wisdom and knowledge of God.
Isaiah 33:6 informs all, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times…”
Having the wisdom and knowledge of God will gain and retain the way of God (word of God) for one that meditates the word of God constantly as a way of life Is it your desire to walk in the way of God, the word of God?
God spoke to Joshua after Moses was gone, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
The word of God is His law in a position to observe(see) and be able to do without failure as God commands.
In this challenging life, give yourself the word of God to live in you.
Psalm 119:130 encourages, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The word of God is the way of God.
As an acclaimed believer, gain the understanding and know not to take to the way that seems right.
Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Seeking a way outside of God is a way to death physically, spiritually, or emotionally.
Moses lived life for God when he took to the way of God that provokes the presence of God, the peace of God.
It is evidence of carelessness not to ask for the way of God in your life.
Make it continuous to be asking God to show you His way.

THE DESIRE TO LIVE FOR GOD

From this moment, let it be for you that you will live life for God.
One who lives for God will gain and retain the presence of God.
To be able to live for God is not just word of mouth but praying with desire.
Often, words are easier said than done.
Determination to execute living life for God can fail.
The determination of Peter not to deny Jesus as he promised Jesus failed him by denying Jesus three times. 
A desire to live for God will provoke God to deposit what it takes not to fail before God.
Have the desire, not just determination, to live for God.
LIVE FOR God
Live for God, avoid the path of sin which destroys.
Follow the word of God to keep you off the path of sin. 
One who follows the word of God does not despise God but takes a position to see God in His doing over faithful one. 
Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, one who despises the word of God will sink into sin. 
With sin, one is not seeking God and will not see God. 
Claiming seeking God but telling lies to deceive and manipulate is taking a position not to see God, to experience His visitation.
Does the word speak to you?
Pray not to live a life of sin.
Live for God more than ever before.
Seeking God in your chosen way is not living for God.
Attending a church building on your own time is not evidence of living for God.
Does that speak to you?
Day after day, being alive is the privilege of God, not your power.
Know that God alone is the giver of life, to live life for His glory. Revelations 4:11 confirms, “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.” 
Who or what are you living life for today?
Know that your existence is for God, the Creator.
Live for God and have no excuse not to live for the glory of God. 
Pray that God will enable you to live life for His glory.
Is it your desire to live for God?
To fear God will live for God to excel for His glory.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 states, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.”
Are you serving God in fear?
Is it a lack of understanding that denies you not to fear God? 
Understand and know to be serving God with fear. 
Psalm 2:11 admonishes, “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” 
The evidence of a believer that claims the promise of God lives life to fear God.
Why not allow the fear of God to become your priority? 
In your life journey, let the fear of God become your compass to arrive at the center of divine assignment.
Pray that the fear of God becomes established in your heart not to depart from God, living for Him.
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you a believer not studying the word of God but only reading the Bible?
Are you one with quotes or claims to know the word but walks outside of the word of God?  
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you with a title but no task to gain and retain the presence of God?
Seek God, not man.
Those who seek God with all their heart and soul seek God diligently to find Him and to live for Him.
To find God will live for God. 
Deuteronomy 4:29 reports, “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.”
Always strive to be a believer that prevails.
Pray to live life by the word of God.
For you, know God to fear and obey God. 
The majority fear God by the mouth, not by the depth of the heart, and living by the way of the world.
One with the title in the name of God, quoting the word of God, or making the place of worshipping God their home is not evidence of the fear of God.
Ask God to enable you to fear Him. 
Jesus commanded all to ask, and God said, “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever.” (Jeremiah 32:39)
God is not partial.
God will give to those who ask.
To fear God is evidence of obedience to the word of God.
Joseph testifies the reason to fear God, “…Do this and live, for I fear God.” (Genesis 42:18) 
Pray with the desire to fear God.
King David, a man after the heart of God, states, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
You have asked God to give you a desire. 
Now ask that desire for God be established in you, to seek Him and live for Him.

DISTRACTION SHALL NOT BE YOUR PORTION

Without any doubt, distraction will derail or deny focus on the calling of God to arrive at the divine center assignment.
Distraction can be a disruption or disturbance.
Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will derail not experiencing the presence of God.
For example, Samson was the calling of God to be a deliverer of his people by the hand of God. 
When he was to become conceived, God sent an angel that said to his mother that she shall conceive and bear a son with instruction not to drink wine or similar drink and not to eat anything unclean.
The angel also instructed her that no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. (Judges 13:3-5) 
BEFORE THE BIRTH OF SAMSON, WAS DESTINED TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE, BUT DISTRACTION PROVOKED HIS DISOBEDIENCE BEFORE GOD. 
SAMSON LOOKED AWAY FROM THE WORD OF DIRECTION INTO THE WORLD.
Distraction will lead to looking away from God.
Samson FAILED to hide under the word of God (the word of God is a place to dwell and abide for obedient one) to become exposed to the evil devices of his wife (Delilah) and made him become a victim in the hand of his enemy. 
Watching and praying will deny distraction. 
The book of Judges 16 records,  “When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” 
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest one as an agent of evil.
Samson failed to deny distraction over his life.
However, distraction is deniable.
For example, during the challenges of Job, it was his wife who attempted to distract Job. 
Job 2:9 records the distraction of his wife, “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”  
Unlike Samson, Job resisted the device of distraction from his wife when he responded: “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10) 
Are you avoiding the patterns of distraction in your way of life?
Know and understand how to deny distractions from close ones or ones from a distance.
Deny distraction, remain focused on God, and not become a victim of the evil of this world.
Many have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, but distraction denies focusing on God.
Does that sound like you?
Distraction is a weapon of the enemy.
For example, Martha welcomed Jesus into her life, her house, but she could not avoid distraction from denying her to gain a position in the presence of Jesus. 
Martha welcomed Him into her house, “But Martha was distracted with much serving…”
Jesus identifies the distraction of Martha:
Martha was worried and troubled about many things.
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, but distraction prevented her from Jesus.  
Who or what is your distraction? 
Deny distraction and focus on God alone. 
From this moment, do not become a victim of distraction to experience evil occurrences over your life.
PRAYER:
Ask God to deliver you from every force of distraction, consciously or unconsciously, physically, spiritually, or emotionally, over your life.
Ask that distraction that derails the called one of God shall not locate you, to derail you from answering fully to the calling of God.
Ask that you shall not be trapped, not become asleep in the hand of evil agenda. (Sampson went to sleep and woke in the hand of the enemy to find out that the LORD HAS departed from Him.) 
Job denied the spirit of distraction from his.
Ask that in every relation with you, the spirit to deny distraction becomes established in you.
Ask that you will know and understand how to deny distractions from close ones or ones from a distance.
Ask that way, or habits (the pattern) of distraction shall not have a place in your life.
Like Martha, many have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, but distraction denies focusing on God.
Ask that focusing on the assignment of God in your life shall be established and not become a victim of distraction. 
Jesus identified the worrying of Martha as the agent of her distraction.
Ask that spirit and other forces of getting worried to become distracted in the calling of God shall not have a place in your life in the name of Jesus.
Ask that worrying that provokes you to be troubled about many things should cease in your life.
Ask God to enable you to always watch and pray against distraction.

HAVE THE DESIRE TO GAIN THE MERCY OF GOD

The dictionary describes mercy: Mercy is the compassionate treatment of those in distress, especially when it is within the power of one to punish or harm them. 
With God, mercy means His compassion and kindness toward people. 
His mercy shows up in believers at salvation, and God continues to show mercy in forgiveness. 
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Mercy is deep and describes a caring God.
Only God that mercy can no one measure, a glorious character.
Know to do well by giving all to God to gain and retain His incomparable mercy. 
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the mercy of God has been consistent to see you this far, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind.
The mercy of God is with forbearance that does not run out.
The mercy of God is His loyal love; it is the conventional love of the covenant-keeping God. 
For to experience the mercy of God is not by merit but by the goodness of God to be received.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God. 
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creations to receive His mercy.
The mercy of God is not attainable by the work but by walking 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 given days that you have by the breath of life, 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 who lives by His command.
TO OBTAIN THE MERCY OF GOD:
Live by loving God.
Obedience to the word of God is evidence of love for God that will always provoke God for His mercy. 
The story of Joseph points out that Joseph kept the commandment of God by forbidding adultery when he fled away from sleeping with the wife of his master. 
Joseph reacted against the temptation of the wife of his master to experience the mercy of God as the Bible mentions, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21).
Joseph loves God to obtain the mercy of God.
Know to 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. 
Despite the stand of Job as a man of integrity before God, he knows to plead for mercy before God: “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
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). 
Know to plead for mercy before God.
Know to trust God for His mercy.
The Psalmist declared, “But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation” (Psalm 13:5). 
With trust is to lift voice to gain His mercy. 
Luke 17:13 records, “And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 
God is merciful.
Ask for forgiveness to gain the mercy of God.
With repentance, one who asks before God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God. The Bible records, “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; no iota of evil can deny the mercy of God that is in place for one with the understanding that calls on God. 
To gain mercy, Proverbs 28:13 encourages, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsake them will have mercy.” God is merciful to respond with mercy for one who trusts God and knows to ask for forgiveness.
To do good gains the mercy of God.
Do no evil, but do good at all times. 
The Word of God in Proverbs 14:22 confirms, “…but mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. 
Devise good, but not evil will attain the mercy of God.
What one sows and to fear God will gain His mercy.
Among doing, to gain the mercy of God is to gain what one would like to sow.
Hosea 10:12 buttresses the word of God, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.” 
Above all, fear God to gain His mercy.
Psalm 103:17 records for 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 will provoke all to do to gain His mercy.