FAITH CAPSULE: God will draw you near and you shall obtain and retain your desire from God.

Psalm 91

New Year is always with a new interesting twist. God is a gracious God; God is the unchanging changer. Gracious character of God is always waiting to act for man that waits on Him. Isaiah 30:18 buttressed, “Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.” We have a good caring perfect God. However, man should not undermine the evil one’s devices. The enemy is here seeking for whom to devour, he is the same but operates differently going after man’s ignorant. God does not overlook His children which seek Him, He will draw man near.
The New Year is always full of promises of God’s blessing. Blessings of God does to carry along sorrow. It is written, “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.” (Proverbs 10:22) Without doubt, blessings of God come with condition. Blessings of God can be exceedingly challenging. Also, the conditions of claiming God’s blessings demands obedience which can be uncomfortable and inconvenient. Involving conditions of claiming His blessing cannot be compromised but demands commitment. In a New Year, with obedience to His command is certain to gain and obtain from gracious God. The word of God commanded, “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.  Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Matthew 7:7-10) Seek God prayerfully and God will draw you near and you shall obtain and retain your desire from God.
This New Year, more than in the past, ask God for the grace for your increase strength on the altar of prayer. Pray with understanding, do not pray amiss but pray from the depth of your heart. God will draw you and you shall live to the glory of God through the New Year.
Just as God answers to prayer the need to work the works of God should not be compromised. The people asked Jesus what it means to work the works of God and Jesus responded with answer. John 6:28-29 documented “Then they said to Him, “What we shall do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent.” In this Year 2018, seek God by believing with prayer and God is certain to draw man near for deliverance and preservation.

Prayer for today: Ask God: wherever tens, hundreds or thousands are falling you and your love ones shall remain standing to the glory of God, in Jesus name.