CONTINUITY IS THE RULE
Daniel 6

How do you serve God? Serving God is to remain focus and to continue in serving regardless of any challenge on the way. Serving God is not convenient but it is a commitment and commitment demands no interruption but continuation. When you serve God continually you will encounter challenges continually and you will overcome continually. Daniel served God continually, he encountered larger than life challenges continually, and he overcame all his challenges consistently. Once he was sentenced to death by the mouth of a starved lion. It was a trap to get Daniel down, but in their evil plan God had a way to lift Daniel higher. When you serve God continually the devil will always fail to get you down. When it was clear that Daniel petitioned to his God the report was brought to the King in order to sign the death penalty, which was given to Daniel. Daniel 6:16, “So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the King spoke, saying to Daniel, your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.”The unbelieving King recognized that Daniel was a man that served God continually. Who can testify to the fact that you are one of a kind that serves God continually? If you have man to testify to the fact that you serve God continually, will the test of time testify on your behalf? It is good for man to testify, but it matters that the test of time should be able to testify or else you are a living dead. Daniel 6:17, “Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed.”It was purposed for Daniel that there would be no way out of the den of the lions. From every indication, nothing or no man could change the situation concerning Daniel. It was the law of the land that no man that committed the magnitude of Daniel’s sin against the law would be able to get deliverance from the hand of any man or king. However, the hand of God that is power, the hand of God that delivers, went before Daniel into the den of the lions. Only God knows the number of lions in the den but none could touch Daniel regardless of the number of the lions. Daniel served God continually and God was with him continually. How are you serving Him? How others are serving God around you should having nothing to do with your service unto God.

Prayer for today:  Lord, determination failed Peter when he denied you three times. I ask for my life O Lord my God, the grace to render unto You a reasonable service.

IS HOREB FOR YOU?
Exodus 3:1-10

God’s calling often comes at a ground of no distraction. Every man wants to be used for God but how many wants to be placed on a ground of no distraction?  Moses’ calling could not be until he got to his ground of no distraction. “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father -in-law, the priest of Median. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.” (Exodus 3:1) Horeb means desolate and Mount Sinai is another name for Horeb. Desolate is defined in the dictionary as; devoid of inhabitants; deserted; barren; lifeless; rendered unfit for habitation or use. A desolate place became the holy ground, mountain of God where Moses ended up before he could answer the calling of God and be sent on God’s mission. Will you pray that God will bring you to your Horeb? Think of it before you pray it. It is not a popular prayer because of the challenges that you will encounter before getting to Horeb. If indeed you are sold out to Him, if indeed you are sincere with every of your confession such as “I surrender unto Jesus on to thee I give it all” ask God in your prayer to take you to your Horeb, a ground of encounter, a ground of sacrifice, a ground of entering into a journey of no turning to self, but aside unto God’s calling. Also it is a ground that will eventually deliver unto you a blessed attainment before God. Think of it, there is nothing to live for but God. The challenges of living for God are huge and it can be painful and exhausting only if you want to carry the world instead of the word of God with you. He is faithful and if He calls you He will back you up when you chose not to back out. Moses, a man that had lived for forty years in the palace of one of the most powerful nations at the time, had all that could be needed while living in the palace of Pharaoh. Overnight he ended up in the desert, a place of inadequacy. It was not by accident, but he was going through the process of time as man that was born in due season. Who could have convinced Moses to go down to the desert, a place that is considered as lifeless? Only God can draw man to Himself anywhere, anytime regardless of the place or situation, “The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.” (Psalm 24:1)

Prayer for today: In your life God will convert all that is lifeless to life-full. If you sincerely want to go for God, ask Him to take you to your Horeb, your Mountain of God. He will not fail you but you will pass into His blessing and glory.

GOD REMEMBERS
1Samuel 1

God testifies in His word, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”(Jeremiah 29:11) Undoubtedly, our God that is of good thoughts is definitely a good God with no iota of evil towards His creation. He is a good God that will always remember with favor and visit with salvation. “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.” (Genesis 8:1) It was God’s remembrance of Noah that set him back on a dry ground. When God remembers it is always with favor. Are you looking for God’s remembrance? The only thing God cannot do is to fail. Do not fail yourself by failing to ask Him for His remembrance. When He remembered Noah, the water of affliction and destruction subsided. Today with God’s remembrance of you, every representative of water of affliction will subside in your life and you will walk again on a dry ground. Wherever your world has been turned upside down because of stagnation, God will grant you motion and every agent of stagnation will subside in your life. God that remembered Noah will remember you. Hannah, despite her bareness she did not have any record of rebellion or complain, rather she was consistent in going to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts. When her time to be remembered by God was at hand, “… they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. (1 Samuel 1:19) It does not matter how long you have been waiting for Him to remember you but it does matter that in your waiting, in your going back and forth to the ground of worship and sacrifice, do not shift your focus away from God. He is not a forgetful God neither will He be too busy to hear your cry. He is God that moves at His own time. Hannah kept focus and shut out complain, bitterness and anger against God. As a result, miracle located Hannah and her Samuel came to be. You have waited long enough, it is not time for you to quit or get quiet in your calling on Him. Ask God to remember you and He will remember you because He is God that remembers with favor.

Prayer for today: God will not fail He will remember you and bareness will cease in every area of your life in the name of Jesus.

STORM WILL COME
Luke 8:22-25

“Now it happened, on a certain day that He got into a boat with His disciples. And He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side of the lake. And they launched out.” (Luke 8:22)  Crossing over does not come by accident but for God’s purpose to be fulfilled in the life His creation. In any crossing over that is meant to settle man for the glory of God, faith has to play a direct role. Jesus, the One that knows the end from the beginning, and the beginning from the end, wanted to take His disciples on a journey of crossing over. Every crossing over requires faith that will allow launching out. Without launching out there will be no crossing over. And in launching out, challenges will always show up with the attempt to delay and deny the one that it is set to cross over. However, with the living Word of God on board, it will not matter what comes to delay or deny getting to the other side is certain. How will you respond in a journey where Jesus is Lord? When the disciples were exposed to the challenges that were embedded in crossing, they lost their sleep and were awake because of the fear of the storm. Could it be that the disciples’ faith was growing slowly while Jesus was with them? The Bible mentioned, “But as they sailed He fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in jeopardy. And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm.”(Luke 8:23-24) Do you have Jesus in your vessel? It does not matter if you are asleep or awake, the storm will come, but the bottom line for you is that having Jesus in your vessel is a guarantee that victory is certain. Why not be still, trust in Him and He will not sleep over when the storm rises to a challenging level. The journey to other side, the journey to cross over is a challenging one, but it will require unswerving demonstration of faith. Jesus responded to the storm and reacted to His disciples, “But He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”(Luke 8:25) Jesus calmed down the storm and reacted by questioning the faith of His disciples. Is there any storm rising in attempt to drown you? Jesus is asking you, where is your faith?

Prayer for today:Deliver me O Lord from the forces that cause man’s faith to fail. Let my faith not fail.

STANDING ON GROUND
Genesis 40, 41

Absolutely, evidently, when God opens a door no man can shut it. Also, when He purpose no force can dispose it. He is the one and only Almighty God and no force can disrupt whatever He construct for His glory. “Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh King of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.”(Genesis 41:46)  God has a ground for you to stand and without getting there you will not stand. Elijah was never mentioned nor referred to in any page of the scripture until he took his stand. 1 Kings 17:1, “ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, as the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” Elijah took his stand, he made a declaration that was backed in heaven and manifested on earth. Joseph started his journey at age seventeen and not until he was thirty years of age, he could not take a stand on the ground where God had put in place for him. At the time that Joseph stepped on his ground and took a stand, his story was changed forever. It was a transformation of the journey that started in a pit of lack, a pit of destruction, a pit of termination and a pit of no hope to the Peak of Power in a foreign ground. Your case has not be written over yet and when it appears to be over and no way out, God in His goodness and mercy will make a way for you out of no way if you will consistently remember that you cannot commit great and wicked sin against the Lord. To Joseph, it was a dream journey and it went on and on as if there will not be an end to affliction. However, Joseph got to the ground where he took a stand before the king of the land, Pharaoh of Egypt. As a believer, there will be times of ups and downs but never let the “keeping people down” agent keeps you down and stranded. The story of Joseph’s journey is not fiction, it is a reality and it can be lifting when you’re down by the punches of this world. Before Joseph’s first appearance to Pharaoh he was an overseer in the prison. His authority was to oversee his fellow prisoners. When Joseph took his stand, and after taking his stand, he became the deputy general overseer of the whole land of Egypt. Until you stand on the ground where the Lord has put in place for you, the journey continues in face of challenges.

Prayer for today: Ask God to bring you up to stand on the ground he has put in place for your breakthrough.