FAITH CAPSULE: This month, occupy me, Lord God.

Joshua 1

Matthew 7:7-9 records the encouraging word of God for one with a desire to gain from God, to retain the presence of God, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”
What is your desire that is good as asking for the presence of God to occupy the life He has given you?
With a desire, ask to be occupied by the presence of God. 
PRAY BEFORE GOD:
From this moment, through the new month, the days God bestowed upon you, ask for the presence of God to occupy you.
God is a prayer-answering, a caring father.
Revelation 3:20 records the caring of God wanting to enter, to occupy anyone with the desire for His presence, “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.”
Are you with a desire to be occupied by God?
Psalm 119:130 identifies one with a desire to be occupied by the presence of God shall experience the entrance of God into the life of such states, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
God is light. (1John 1:5)
Ask from God to occupy you that His presence shall take over your life from this moment.
Proverbs 6:22 records what to experience when one is occupied by the presence of God, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Know God, a position to be occupied by the presence of God.
One that knows to gain and maintain communication with God meditates continually, keeping the presence of God day and night.
God told Joshua, “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.” (Joshua 1:5)
God with one is the evidence of one that carries the presence of God.
Word of God testifies that He was with Moses.
Moses meditates the word of God day and night. Like Moses, Joshua also receives a command to meditate, “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.” (Joshua 1:8)
In this new month, are you with the desire to be occupied by the presence of God?

Prayer for today: Pray to give self to meditating the word of God, doing according to the word of God.