IN THIS SEASON, ALLOW THE FEAR OF GOD TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE

This season, fear God to experience the glory of God.
Faith is in hearing the word of God. 
Faith is the source of fearing God. 
A failure not to fear God is in doubt, evidence of not hearing the word of God to keep.
Romans 10:17 records, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Without a doubt, not hearing the word of God will give fear a place in the position of faith. 
All that God wants from all is to hear and have fear for Him. 
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.” Hear to fear God.
To fear God is the key to live life for His glory.
God sent Moses the importance of hearing to fear Him. 
Deuteronomy 4:10 states, “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”  
Hearing the word of God is crucial to having faith, to fear God by not giving oneself to fear. 
The word of God through Moses for the children of Israel does not exempt all today. 
God is the same before yesterday, today, and forever. 
What is it denying you not to hear the word of God, to fear God?
The word of God against hindrance that denies to hear and not fear sounded for Israelites, “Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.” (Deuteronomy 21:21)
The force that hinders not hearing the word of God, to fear God, shall become terminated.
To fear God is faith, and to fear outside of God is doubt that will cause evil. 
Once, the journey of Peter demonstrates what it is to have faith and fear God but not become a victim of doubt.
With Peter, when he heard the word of Jesus, he walked on storm. However, when he set his eyes on the storm, taking his eyes away from the word of Jesus, he sank.
Jesus set Peter and other disciples on a journey engaged in the storm.
“Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away.” (Matthew 14:22)
Disciples were in trouble water and did not see Jesus with them.
Matthew 14:26 records, “And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.”  
Seeing the negative is shelving the positive to have heard. 
Disciples were troubled.
They cried out in fear because they could not remember all they had heard in the word of Jesus. 
Matthew 14:27-28 records the response to the disciples, “But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.” And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”  
The word of Jesus was for disciples to hear to deny fear. 
Hearing the word of God is a way to deny seeing fear at all times.
With fear in the storm, Peter responded to Jesus with faith and heard from God, saying, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” (Matthew 14:29-30)
Peter heard Jesus, and faith rose for him to walk in the storm. 
However, when he began to look away from God by focusing on the storm, his faith sank, and then fear rose in him to sink. 
Hearing the word of God is seeking God as the only source to avoid sinking in a storm. 
Self-deliverance will work when one gives self to the word of God. 
FEAR THE LORD GOD
Fear the Lord God, as some words in the Bible demand:
Deuteronomy 10:12, “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
THE EXPERIENCES WITH THE FEAR OF THE LORD  
The experience of one that fears the Lord God as the Bible identifies:
Psalm 128:1, “Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, Who walks in His ways. 
Psalm 19:23, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction, He will not be visited with evil.” 
Acts 9:31, “And walking in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.” 
Claiming as a believer is living by hearing the word of God that enable the hearer of the word to live in the fear of God.
By the fear of the Lord, one departs from evil. (Psalm 16:6)

LET THE NEW YEAR BE

Let the New Year be a year that you become a ride for God that His presence occupies you to become established in you.
Ask God to make you become a rideable one for His presence.
A tied donkey became a rideable one for Jesus.
Matthew 21:1-3 documents, “Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
Jesus needed a ride for His glory.
A donkey tie had to be released for Jesus to ride for His glory.
Matthew 21:7 confirms, “So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them.”
For the Year 2024, Meditate in prayer that whatever is tying you down, to deny your availability as a ride and fill by the presence of God, shall release you by the Word of God that asks for your release, in the name of Jesus.    
NEED TO GIVE YOURSELF TO THE WORD OF GOD 
Let the new beginning become a season of fulfillment (realization) of God in your life.
All it takes to live a life of the fulfillment of God is to become constantly filled and full of the Word of God that was in the beginning with God. 
John 1: 1-2 describes, “…the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.”
The realization of God in your life will be the evidence of light that shines in the darkness of the wicked world.
Spending time on the Word of God is a time of listening to the voice of God that speaks for all to obey. 
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 records for all, “If you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the LORD your God.”  
Give self to the Word of God.
Gain and retain the presence of God to have rest in the promise of God. 
New Year resolution will not give the rest as the Word of God will. 
Let your resolution be in the presence of God. 
The presence of God is in the Word of God. 
Through the journey, the children of Israel were being led constantly by the presence of God,
giving the Israelites direction and leadership that always resulted in rest when they were obedient. 
NEED TO KNOW THE NEW YEAR
The Old Year is gone while the New Year is on.
Interestingly, the enemy remains the same but operates differently. 
By prayer, God will see His people through the journey of a year.
The year is full of promises of God. 
The promise of God is a blessing. 
His promises do not have sorrow embedded in it. 
Proverbs 10:22 informs all, “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.” 
The blessings of God come with condition.
The conditions of His blessing can be uncomfortable and inconvenient, exceedingly challenging. 
The conditions of claiming His blessing cannot be compromised.
In the journey of a year, know to claim the blessing of God, and with desire, pray that God will enable you to live for Him.
NEED TO PRAY
Pray before God to see you through the journey of a year. 
Ask God to wake you up from sleeping physically or spiritually, not to become a victim of evil. 
Ecclesiastes 3:1 informs all there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven. 
In the place of praying, sleeping will cause one to miss the visitation of God.
Jesus and some of His disciples went to pray on Mount Gethsemane. 
At the time of prayer, Jesus rose from prayer and came to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow (Luke 22:45).
In the New Year, desire to become prayerful.
Acys 6:4 encourages, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Let prayer be your way of life in the New Year. 
Understand and know there is no reasonable excuse for the consequence of not spending time in prayer. 
Today and in the coming days, be watchful and prayerful as 1 Peter 4:7 mentioned that the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
Be awake and not miss to gain and retain the presence of God.

THIS FAR IS GOD

It is the mercy of God that has brought you this far.
From the first month of this year to this moment is the grace of God.
God owes no one, but all owe the perfect God.
He is a caring Creator.
Psalm 150:6 admonishes all, “Let everything that has breath
praise the Lord.”
Indeed, everyone standing this far should praise God at every moment, not only at the breath of life.
Praising and thanking God will provoke a favorable lifting from God.
God deserves praising and thanking Him.
God is a jealous God whose attention is the antidote to jealousy.
God wants all to seek Him diligently.
One who seeks God diligently will find God.
One who does not seek God diligently will not find God.
Proverbs 7:15 encourages, “So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.”
It is the love of God that you are alive at this time of the year.
John 3:16-17 testifies to the love of God for all, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” 
The point is that God invested so much in all while all extends so little to Him. 
All year long to the moment standing, the Lord God bestows upon you, how much have you extended to Him?
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 records, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven…”  
At this time of the year, let the desire to live more for the glory God become of you. 
Allow your expectations to change from material gain to walking in the ways of God. 
Deuteronomy 5:33 states, “You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.” 
Walk more in the ways of God, seeking God first. 
Seeking God will no doubt fulfill every one of your desires as the year runs into the coming year.
Live to “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:33-34) 
A better way to seek God is by praising and thanking God.
Make the moment to be of praising and thanking God.
Maintain what His word says to attain His promises.
In the word of Moses to the children of Israel, there is a testimony of the loving care for His children.
The loving care for His children states, “The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.” (Deuteronomy 1:30-33) 
God, the unchanging changer, remains consistent with His love for His creation. 
The same way God cares in the Bible days is still the same today. 
The book of John 3:16 also testifies to His love, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 
Indeed, there is nothing a father needs to do for the salvation of his children that God has yet to do. 
God is a good and caring God.
When was the last time you acknowledged the consistent love of God for you? 
Are you serving and walking in the word of God inconsistently? 
Despite the inconsistency before God, God continues to be consistent in His mercy. 
If you will take a moment, ask for His forgiveness; thank Him for His unswerving patience in listening and forgiving all your shortcomings and wicked ways. 
God is worthy of all honor and adoration. 
Seeking God at a convenient time is not seeking Him consistently. 
Ask God for intervention in every area of your life that does not glorify His name.
Ask for the mercy of God not to miss out on His promise for your life. 
This far to be alive is God.

WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE

The desire for wisdom, understanding, and knowledge will increase living for the glory of God.
God delivers His own when called on, and He acknowledges.
The children of Israel, in time of their challenge, cried out to God. 
God looked upon them.
Exodus 2:25, “And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them…”
In this challenging time, one that calls on Him, that looks upon Him shall experience the move of God, answering His people.
Instability is the core of the challenges of today.
However, call upon God to experience stability, not to be a victim of the challenges.
Isaiah 33:6 says, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
God treasures it when living by the fear of God is the character of one with wisdom and knowledge.
It is wisdom, understanding, and knowledge that are not separated, being possessed, that will enable one not to live unstable in the challenges of instability.
Are you one with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding that is rooted in the word of God?
ALWAYS ASK FOR WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE
Three things not to stop asking from God are wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
WISDOM is the instruction of God. 
1 Corinthians 1:30 records wisdom, “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…”
UNDERSTANDING is giving attention that is listening to the word of God.
KNOWLEDGE is the application of wisdom. 
Knowledge is having wisdom, then with an understanding of having the edge in life endeavors. 
Are you a believer in having or not having wisdom, understanding, and knowledge not to perish, a life of waste?
Hosea 4:6 clearly states, “My people perish because they lack knowledge.”
Wisdom and understanding are the evidence of knowledge.
Pages of the Bible emphasize wisdom and understanding as the key to having a knowing edge.
For example, Proverbs 4 records the importance of wisdom and understanding.
PROVERBS 4:1 “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.”
PROVERBS 4:5, “Get wisdom! Get understanding!”
PROVERBS 4:7, ‘Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
The wisdom of God is in place for one who will give self to gain the understanding for the application of knowledge. 
However, many do not understand the word (wisdom) of God.
A lack of understanding is a listening disability.
Jesus points it out in John 8:43 when He asked and answered rhetorically, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Understanding is crucial to living as a believer, not just knowing about answering as a believer.
In this challenging world, one who does not have the wisdom (word) of God and does not have the understanding to navigate knowing God is able in all areas of life is bound to perish.
John 8:45 records the word of Jesus, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”
All should consciously strive to grow as believers to gain wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, not to perish as having a life of waste.
In the place of wisdom and not to have a knowing, lack of understanding is the issue. 
One with wisdom will have the understanding to live a life of knowing edge.
THE WORD OF GOD IS A SECRET NOT A STORY
Lack of understanding is engaging the word of God as a story instead of the word of God as a secret.
No one engages the word of God as a story to become exposed to the power of God.
Psalm 91:1 points to the word of God as the secret, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
For example, knowing the killing of Goliath by David as a story and not knowing the secret David demonstrated will not be exposed to the secret of killing giants that militates against one.
David went against Goliath against the discouragement of King Saul, requesting David be young and not with war experience as a soldier to fight Goliath.
The understanding of the secret for David to go against Goliath was rooted in his testimony of being able to kill both a lion and a bear. 
Above all, the secret of David was in his word to excel God, “Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.” (1Samuel 17: 45)
In his testimony, he claimed victory in striking and taking off the head of Goliath for the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
Understanding the secret in the word of God is to gain a knowing edge to the glory of God.
With understanding is to keep focus on God alone.

LIVE LIFE TO GAIN THE PRESENCE OF GOD

The documentation of the life of Joseph is an example of gaining the presence of God.
The word of God is God, the presence of God.
What is it so challenging denying one not to know to give self to the word of God, the presence of God?
One that gives self to the word of God to live by the word of God is in the presence of God.
Joseph gave himself to the word of God when he did condone no bad as he reported to his father. Joseph gained the attention of God. (Genesis 37:1-2)
He gains the presence of God.
Genesis 39:2 records, “The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man…”
Evil plans against Joseph failed, and he was successful.
One living the word of God will gain the presence of God and cannot be presentable as a victim of evil plans.
The idea to kill Joseph by his brothers failed, and all the evil plans could not stand.
His brothers attempted to discolor him. 
The pit of lack could not hold him down.
Genesis 37:23-24 records the evil plan of his brothers, “So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. 24 Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.”
The presence of God was with Joseph, and the evil plan against him failed.
Out of wickedness, the brothers of Joseph sold him as a slave.
Genesis 37:27-28 records evil towards Joseph, “Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers listened. 28 Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.”
The presence of God could not depart from Joseph.
In Egypt, Joseph, a slave, became the prime minister of the land.
Joseph had the presence of God because he lived by the word of God.
Pray that you will be able to live by the word of God to gain and retain the presence of God.
The documentation of the disobedience of Jonah is an example of failure to gain and retain the presence of God.
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The entrance of the word of God is obedience for the obedient to carry the presence of God.
A failure to obey is an absence from the presence of God.
God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, but Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. (Jonah 1:3)
To be careless with the word of God is reckless to become wrecked in the life journey.
Disobedience to the word of God shall set one for self-destruction.
Jonah placed himself in the position of untimely death, but the mercy of God delivered him.
The disobedience of Jonah is the evidence not to allow the entrance of the word of God, holding against the word into the heart.
What is holding you not to open for the entrance of Jesus, the word of God to occupy you?
Revelation 3:20 records Jesus wanting to gain entrance to occupy all that will open for Him, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
Ask God that you will live obediently to His word for His presence to gain and occupy your life.
Ask not to live carelessly with the word of God that promotes a reckless life that wrecks the life journey.
Jonah placed himself in the position of untimely death, but the mercy of God delivered him. Ask for the mercy of God for your deliverance from any place of destruction you have engaged.
What is holding you not to open for the entrance of Jesus, the word of God to occupy you? Ask against whatever is one shutting down shall not have a place over your life.
Unlike the documentation of Joseph and Jonah, failure to gain the presence of God, one that is tied down physically or spiritually, is possible for such not to gain the presence of God in life.
The donkey and the Colt tied down could not carry the presence of God until the word of Jesus released them for Jesus to enable the donkey to engage the presence of God.
When Jesus and His disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples in Matthew 21:1-3, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
Ask against whatever is holding you from gaining the presence of God, and begin to lose its grip over your life.
Ask that any force physically or spiritually with an attempt to deny your availability for the word of God to occupy you, to gain the presence of God, shall become permanently terminated.