ASK TO SEE< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Jeremiah 1:1-16

Without prayer, absolutely nothing can be done in regard to your desire. It is prayer, not program that will help in lifting your desires up to God for intervention. Calling on God is asking from Him and asking from Him is praying to Him. As a jealous God, He enjoys attention because attention is the antidote for jealousy. This is how He identifies Himself in His command as to how we are to relate with Him, ÒYou shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.Ó (Exodus 20:5) Being familiar with the word of God is different from being firm in how we live in His word. Indeed, we know what it takes to approach jealousy, but living up to it is not in place. Today would you consciously call, ask, and pray that God will cause you to begin to see where He wants you to see. This prayer is important in the beginning of a new beginning because it makes the journey to become a focused journey. Also, until you begin to see where God wants you to see, you will not be able to receive what He has in place for carrying out great exploits for His glory. All that Jeremiah needed to resume for his divine assignment that was in place since he was in the motherÕs womb was there, but he needed to see; otherwise he would have missed out. ÒThen the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: ÒBehold, I have put My words in your mouth. 10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the Kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.Ó (Jeremiah 1:9-10) The Lord put His word in JeremiahÕs mouth but Jeremiah needed an enablement to see what was put in His mouth for him to move in GodÕs purpose and agenda for his life. We have the Word in our hand and we have it in our heart, but seeing it as power to bring about manifestation is what the Lord God is waiting for. Moses did not move in the direction of GodÕs plan for His life until he was able to turn aside and see, ÒThen Moses said, ÒI will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.Ó 4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ÒMoses, Moses!Ó And he said, ÒHere I am.Ó (Exodus 3:3-4) After Moses had turned and saw what was in place for him to move in the direction of GodÕs plan, the story of His life changed forever and for the best to the glory of God. Call, ask, and pray for enablement to begin to see the word as God has said it.

CONTINUE TRUSTING HIM Habakkuk 3:16-19

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If you can see and read this, or this can be read to you, then you owe God all the praise and worship and you should be rejoicing. You cannot praise Him without rejoicing, likewise you cannot rejoice without praising Him. Rejoicing in the Lord is good, and it is the joy of the One that requires our rejoicing in Him. The Joy of the Lord is your strength because it His joy that will give access to the Light, and with Light revelation flows. Ask God to enable you with the spirit of rejoicing in every area of your life. Habakkuk 3:17, ÒThough the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls.Ó This does not sound good, and it is not a situation that anyone wants to experience. It is a place in the depth of a valley where there seems to be no way out, and no end in sight as to when the time of rising and climbing out of the depth of valley. There is no one that wants to plant a tree and wants to see it blossomless, neither is it pleasant to have no fruit where the vines should be bringing forth fruit as the crown of labor. When your hard labor seems to be producing a result that matches that of a lazy laborer, when all that needs to be adding to a better result begins to be cut off, and then you know that something is wrong that could be beyond your comprehension. Habakkuk does have a word for you, if you will receive it and live by it, ÒYet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.Ó (Habakkuk 3:18) Once again, joy and rejoicing are the only ways to keep in the way of God because it lands you in the presence of God. Jesus was in the midst of the family of Lazarus during the time of their mourning for LazarusÕ passing. As they were lifting their voices in wailing, crying, and gnashing of teeth, the Bible recorded that, ÒÉ Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, ÒFather I thank You that you have heard Me.Ó (John 11:41)  Try thanking Him with a heart full of joy in the face of adversity or challenges, and then wait to see if He will act on your behalf or not. If you will receive all that the Lord has put down in the pages of scripture for our learning, all the miracles that were testified will not escape you. Try God and see that He alone is faithful and true to His word of deliverance and life. If you will continue top trust in Him, He will make you to walk on high places.

DO IT DIFFERENTLY< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>1 Samuel 1, Luke 17:11-37

ÒThen as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, ÒJesus, Master, have mercy on us!Ó 14 So when He saw them, He said to them, ÒGo, show yourselves to the priests.Ó And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.Ó (Luke 17: 12-14) It could be that the ten lepers or some of the ten must have missed Jesus in His passing number of times before they decided to do it differently in order to receive their healing. As a leper, law restricted their movement and they could not just flow with the crowd. This could have prompted them to stand afar and call out with loud voices. Until they were loud, they could not become a showcase for His glory. Could it be that it is time for you to do it differently in order to receive your healing miracle? The Psalmist encouraged us in the way he was receiving from Him by saying, ÒI will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help.Ó (Psalm 121:1) The ten lepers injected their own way of receiving by lifting up voices but not because the Lord is deaf and cannot hear. How have you adapted to calling on Him in every passing moment of the Lord? Just like the lepers seeking miracles, Hannah was also seeking her miracle while going to Shiloh every year. In her going, she must have been quiet to herself in her prayers while enjoying fellowshipping with her husband. One year, however, she did differently when she was provoked of her barrenness by Peninnah, her husbandÕs wife. ÒAnd her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat. (1 Samuel1:7) Instead of the regular fellowshipping that Hannah had always been having in her trip to Shiloh, she did it differently by weeping and not eating. Heaven was provoked on behalf of Hannah and her doing it differently brought forth her miracle. The lepers added to the Psalmist way of doing it when they lifted their voices to gain HeavenÕs attention. Lifting voices could not have been possible until they lifted their eyes and saw Jesus passing. If they had not lifted their eyes, they would not have been able to see the need of lifting their voices. How can you do it differently from the way you have been doing it in order to provoke Heaven for your miracle? Lift eyes, lift voice, cry unto Him, abstain from eating, combine all of the three or add more. It can never be too much and the more you elevate your approach the more it gets to Him. He is a faithful God and He will never turn away from your way of doing it.

PRAISE AND JOYPhilippians 4

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From the Old Testament throughout the New Testament, to have joy or to rejoice is evidently demonstrated as the major if not the only accessible avenue to enter or to retain the presence of God in the life of every believer. Apostle Paul emphasized in Philippians 4:4, ÒRejoice always. Again I will say, rejoice!Ó Paul did not just say rejoice but he said it with emphasis because he was urging the need for peace with the Lord. The peace of God is the presence of God and to be able to carry His presence, joy and rejoicing are a must. Without joy, there cannot be peace and without peace no joy will be in place. Prophet Isaiah in his own revelation of letting us know the effect of joy said, ÒTherefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.Ó (Isaiah 12:3) Isaiah was expressing giving thanks in the Kingdom of God. It is written in Psalm 16:11, ÒYou will show me the path of life; in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.Ó The Psalmist was requesting for direction in the path of life because in the path of life where there is GodÕs presence, the sojourner will get to their expected end. Also where GodÕs presence is absent, death will be present and the sojourner will miss getting to the expected end. To journey in the path of life successfully, GodÕs presence will have to be constantly and consistently in place. In the words of the Psalmist it is clear that joy is what will grant the presence of God that is enough for passing through the path of life. After HannahÕs breakthrough miracle, she testified in 1 Samuel 2:1, ÒÉmy heart rejoices in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.Ó Hannah distinctively spelled out the kind of joy that grants GodÕs presence by saying, ÒMy heart rejoices in the Lord.Ó The only way that the presence of God cannot be accessible is when joy is not of or from the heart but is rather just in the mouth. This also occurs when being happy is misrepresented for joy. When joy flows from the heart, it will no doubt locate God because you cannot praise God and not be joyful. Likewise, you cannot be joyful and not praise Him. Praise and joy is an inseparable avenue of gaining His presence. The word of God confirms it when it testifies in Psalm 22:3, ÒBut you are holy, enthroned in the praises of Israel.Ó Any time praise is with joy, God is in such praise worship. Think of it, praising Him with understanding is praising Him with joy. Just like Hannah, when you praise Him joyfully, your horn (strength) will be exalted in the Lord. You will smile at every representative of enemies such as failure, lack, sickness, and every other kind of challenges that Paul advised us not to be anxious about. Be anxious for nothing. Praise God with joy and His presence will carry you through in Jesus name.  

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Jan. 02-08

In every new beginning, there is always a need for new resolution, new or revived focus, new direction or an updated direction with a set accountability. All of the above sounds good and purposeful but the bottom line of it all is that if God is not in your all it will be like driving in the dark with no headlights on. When there is driving in the dark with no headlights on, there will be a great possibility of ending up in a way that seems right or in a wrong way. The way that seems right or the wrong way does not go far, but only leads to death or permanent termination. The Word of God is true when it says, ÒThere is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.Ó (Proverbs 14:12) In your new beginning, have you considered seeking the way of God? That means are you willing to let God have His way in your life rather than having your way for your life? If you will seek, you will find out that those who have allowed God to have His way do not have anything to regret but they only rather testify to His glory. King David testified, 2 Samuel 22:31, ÒAs for God, His way is perfect; he is a shield to all who trust in Him.Ó Does that sound convincing enough to begin to think of letting Him have His way in our life as we enter into a new beginning or new season in this wicked world? In the LordÕs way, there is neither situation nor circumstance that causes us to sink or get lost because He is the Way that knows what every way will become for His children. The way of God has no barrier or limitation; it cannot be altered neither can it be denied. Nahum 1:3, ÒÉthe LORD has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.Ó Can you think of anything or situation that can prevail against your life if you decide to go in the LordÕs way? Absolutely and definitely no situation or challenge will prevail against anyone that takes to the way of God. Getting in the LordÕs way is not of determination but by grace. Are you sure the way you are taking  is rather of the Lord or is it not? There is nothing prayer cannot do and that is why the Psalmist prayed this prayer, ÒTeach me Your way, O LORD And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.Ó(Psalm 27:11)  Indeed it is wise to lift up our voice and ask God to help just like the Psalmist did because enemies are positioned everywhere and your challenges of a new season or new beginning will not be less compared to the previous season.  The grace to prevail, however, is always in place if you will ask God to teach you how to enter into His way. No way will then be tough enough for you not to prevail. Ask Him and it shall be given just as He promised because He is a faithful God.