PRAY TO GROW AND LIVE IN THE FEAR OF GOD

No one can hide from God, the creator of all.
The word of God to one speaks to all.
God spoke to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
How can one hide from the creator, who knows one more than self?
The truth is, fear God.
There is no truth like fearing God in all areas of life.
To fear God is to live life freely to the glory of God.
Sincerely fear God, the evidence of knowing the truth.
To grow in wisdom is rooted in growing in the fear of God.
Proverbs 9:10 states, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
Anyone who does not live in the fear of God is evidence of a lack of faith, living not to please God.
Hebrews 11:5 testifies, “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death because he pleased God.”
When faith rises, fear of this world is bound to sink.
Do you have faith in pleasing God, not to live in the fear of the world?
Search yourself to identify if you truly fear God.
Gain the understanding to live by the fear of God.
Many who claim to fear God but not live in the fear of God will exhibit a character marked by telling lies to deceive and manipulate their world.
A believer who claims to fear God, full of the word of God in the mouth but not in the heart, is described as wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1-2 records, “Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind.”
Does the word speak of you, or testify to your way of life?
Do you fear God?
Understand with the knowledge to have an edge, fearing God.
Waiting on God will know how to live a life of the fear of God.
To fear God from the depth of the heart, not on the tip of the tongue, shall live to the glory of God.
Knowing to fear God is to live for God.
Power belongs to God.
The mercy of God is His power that no one can deny.
The Mercy of God is compassion or forbearance for whomever He has to give and those who fear Him.
Psalm 33:18 records: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.” 
With the desire to fear God, one shall trust and hope in Him, not be a victim of evil.
Pray that the fear of God will keep you under His eyes, and from this moment, answer as your time to fear God more.
Understand and know to fear God.
Abraham understood to fear God.
God promised Abraham that He would give him a son.
In his waiting for the promise of God for his son, he learn and understood to fear God.
When he had a son, God commanded him to sacrifice the son to Him.
By the action of Abraham, in response to the command of God, it counted before God as his fear of God.
Genesis 22:12 records the response of God to the unshaking obedience of Abraham, stating, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Abraham learnt to fear God.
Is the fear of God your way of life?
This season, pray to grow in the fear of God.
No one is born with a fear of God, but through learning from the Word of God, it is the way to develop a fear of God.
The bible repeatedly identifies learning to fear God.
Besides learning to fear God, it is praying before God, for a heart to fear Him.
With the desire to fear God, God will deposit what it takes to fear Him.
Are you one with the desire to fear God?
Without fear of God, one cannot serve God.
Always remember that the word of God that sounds to one, speaks to all.
In Deuteronomy 4:10, God said to the Israelites, “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.”
To learn to fear God also requires a heart that is set on God to fear God.
Deuteronomy 5:29 informs all, “Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments…”
Determination is not enough to live by the fear of God.
Learn and pray to fear God.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him.
To fear God is to know to exist for Him.
God wants all to fear Him.

PRAY THAT YOU BE ENABLED WAITING ON GOD

In your new season, with prayer, adapt to waiting on God, the character who lives for God.
Life is a journey that is crucial to wait on God.
It is the grace of God that has brought anyone thus far in the journey of life.
In life, the journey is to consistently acknowledge the goodness and mercy of God, who knows all about tomorrow from today.
Anyone who acknowledges God will live a life of giving themselves to God.
One who gives self to God will not live a life of waste.
Not to live a life of waste is with the character of waiting on God.
Know to wait on God.
All should strive to live a life that waits on God, not to live wasted.
Knowing God is the key to waiting on God.
It is the will of God for His creation to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
As a creation of God, it is to know that waiting on God is to gain from God.
Waiting is taking a position to stay in expectation before God.
Waiting on God is easier said than done.
Waiting can be tough, especially when the feeling of anxiety sets in and the need for an answer.
The importance of waiting on God is crucial to not living a life of waste.
The Bible teaches that waiting is not just about doing nothing; it can also be a time for growth, patience, and trusting in God, as He works out His timing.
The Bible identifies waiting as a way to strengthen faith and appreciate the blessings God has in store for those who wait on Him.
Waiting on God is power.
Waiting on God will build trust in Him, which is essential in a relationship with Him.
Psalm 27:14 encourages, “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”
This verse encourages all to find strength in the act of waiting.
With strength, there is courage to trust in God in times of challenges.
Wait on God to gain the guidance of God.
Waiting is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is a time that strengthens those who wait on God.
Waiting on God is not a matter of determination, but having the desire to be a vessel that lives a life of waiting on God.
To live for God is the character of waiting on God.
Anyone with the desire to find God is one whom God will give the strength to, such as one with a desire to live for God by waiting on Him.
With the desire waiting on God is the wisdom for one who will meditate prayerfully on the grace of waiting on God.
God is a jealous God.
The antidote for jealousy is giving attention to God, the creator of all.
Waiting on God is giving God the attention that is giving Him the glory He deserves.
In the life journey of time, of moment, or season, is to seek God by waiting on God.
God is a good God who is in place to direct the obedient not to fail, falter, or fall to become a victim of life.
The word of God is His promise.
The word of God does not return to Him void, but it accomplishes its purpose.
To wait on God is a condition that demands gaining His promise.
His promise that is encouraging in Isaiah 40:31 records, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
From this moment, this season, make it a way of life to be waiting on God.
Prayerfully ask for the grace of God that will enable waiting on God.
In the promise of God:
One who waits indeed shall renew strength.
Such shall mount up with wings like eagles.
One who waits shall run and not be weary.
Also, one who waits shall not walk and not faint.
There is strength to gain from God when one waits on God.
One that gains strength is bound to mount up with wings like eagles and not live a life of waste.
For example:
Eagles stay silent, but their strength takes it far.
Eagles waste no time but move quietly in pursuit of a goal.
It faces alone storms and never gives up.
Life will throw challenges, such as judgment, and will attempt to hold one back in the journey of life.
In times of challenges, eagles do not waste time proving but stay wrong.
Just as one waiting on God, do not waste time proving oneself with words.
Like an eagle, stay strong, keep moving, let your actions speak louder, even when it is hard, hurts, rise above as evidence of strength.
When the cloud is dark, eagles do not stop.
Also, with strong winds, eagles do not quit because eagles are born for that.
Consider that you belong to God.
Be fearless, be focused, be unstoppable, be the eagle.
Let it sink and establish in you, waiting on God is bound to fly like eagles.
What causes a believer not to wait on God?

PRAY TO BE ENABLED WITH PREPARATION FOR THE COMING YEAR

Preparation is the price to gain and retain the presence of God through the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Preparation in physical or spiritual matters will yield the expected results.
Preparation entails action.
Preparation engaged is an action that gains the attention of God.
1 Samuel 2:3 informs, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.”
Know and believe that one in preparation for the coming days, weeks, months, and years is striving to draw the attention of God, to purposely live life for God by walking in His way.
With desire, prepare prayerfully, seek diligently to live life for God in the coming days.
Walking in the way of God should be a characteristic of seeking God.
The word of God admonishes all to seek God first.
In seeking God is to gain.
Matthew 6:33 records, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Are you aware of the need to prepare to gain from God?
Preparation is the price to gain and retain the presence of God, to navigate and not be a victim of the wicked world.
Preparation is the action or process of gaining the presence of God.
In the pages of the Bible, many situations call for preparation to gain expectation.
To prepare, with the mind of God shall provoke the blessing of God.
God blesses with conditions.
The condition is rooted in preparation.
Once, Jesus came to the tomb and wanted to raise Lazarus from the dead after four days.
Jesus spoke of the preparation needed for Him to bring Lazarus out of the dead, stating, “Take away the stone.” (John 11:39)
Evidently, Jesus demonstrates the need for preparation for all who need to gain from Him.
Again, at the time of the Passover, Jesus sent His disciples to prepare a room for the need. (Marks 11:12)
Preparation will prompt manifestation of expectations.
The above summation demonstrates preparation to gain from God.
At this time of the year, prayerfully prepare for the coming year.
PREPARE PRAYING THANKING GOD
With understanding, thanking God is preparation for experiencing perfection. The grace of God has brought those alive thus far in life.
Prayerfully thank God for the past days, and the present days, so He will perfect the coming days.
God performs in prayer and perfects in thanking Him just as He answered the ten lepers. (Luke 17:11-19)
God is not in debt to anyone, but the world owes Him.
At every moment, give praise and thanks to God.
Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.
Psalm 150:6 records, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Prepare with knowledge to adopt the habit of giving thanks to God.
One who gives thanks to God with understanding will gain access to God.
Psalm 100:4 buttresses the meaning of giving thanks to God with understanding, stating, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
With understanding, thanking God will open the door for the presence of God in the coming year.
PREPARE IN PRAYER NOT TO BE REDUCED BEFORE GOD IN THE COMING DAYS
Just as prayerfully thanking God to live for God, is to pray against forces that deny one from living for God in the coming days.
In the coming days and ongoing, pray that God enable you to keep your mind on God.
Mind that does not stay on God is vulnerable to the forces against the mind.
The presence of God activates the rest of God.
The rest of God inhabits the peace of God.
God is the author of peace. (1 Corinthians 14:33)
With trust and hope, consciously activate your mind to stay with God for His peace.
Isaiah 26:3 states, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. 
Also, the love for God with the mind stays on God, as Psalm 119:165 states, “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.”
Prayerfully prepare from this moment to live with a mind that stays on God.
An act of obedience is a preparation to gain the attention of God.
Are you prepared to obey the word of God?
It was a preparation commanded by Jesus to move the stone at the tomb of Lazarus.
Jesus needed to pray for the resurrection of Lazarus.
It was preparation that brought the dead to life.
Preparation for God prevails.
In preparation, there is a provision.
Obedient to the word of God to wait is a preparation to gain a way where there is no way, to the glory of God.
One who prayerfully engages in preparation before God will excel for the glory of God.
From this moment, prepare prayerfully for the coming days, weeks, months, and a new year, not to live a life of waste.

LIVE LIFE BY THE WAY OF GOD

Time belongs to God to live life by it, not by the clock of the world.
It is worthy to thank God for the grace of life bestowed on you so far.
Thank God for the new season of the year.
One who gives thanks for the grace of life should also pray not to live a life of waste.
In the new season, pray that you live by the way of God.
The way of God is in the direction of His word.
The word of God is God. (John:1:1)
God magnified His word above His name.
The word of God inhabits the way of God.
Obediently walking with God or walking before Him will not experience falling or failing in the life journey.
Why not meditate prayerfully to walk by the way of God?
One who walks in the way of God lives life by the way of God.
To obediently live by the way of God is not to live a life of waste.
Genesis 5:24 testifies, “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
Genesis 6:9 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”
Genesis 17:1, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
Walk with God, walk before God, and not live a life of waste.
Abraham walked before God, the character of one who is blameless.
It should be with a desire to walk with or walk before God?
It is one with a desire, not just determination, that will live by the way of God.
Evidently, to walk with or before God shall live a life that arrives at a divine assignment for life.
Are you living by the way of God?
A believer should not live in ignorance, but in knowledge of walking in the way of God.
Know the way of God.
In the calling of God over your life, do you care to know if God is going with you?
Go calls all.
The calling of God for all is to live life for the glory of God. (Revelation 4:11)
The calling of God comes with direction.
Without direction for the called, the called one will not walk in the way of God.
Just as God called Moses, so all are called for different assignments, but they all demand direction.
One who answers to the calling of God should not assume but ask to know the way of God.
For example, know how to ask for the way of God.
Moses, despite his experiences, asked God for direction in the way of God, and he received direction from God.
He needed to know for sure how God was going to go with him.
Moses asked God, “Then Moses said to the Lord, ‘See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” (Exodus 33:12-13)
Do you know if God is going with you?
Moses asked for direction without doubt, and not in complaint.
How are you asking God to know how He is going with you?
God responded to the question of Moses, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
God is a good God who will answer when His children know how to ask with understanding.
Once, the Israelites were suffering at the hands of the Midianites.
While Gideon was in the business of preparing to hide from the hand of the Midianites, the Angel of the Lord showed up to Gideon, saying, “…The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!”(Judges 6:12)
Gideon responded to the word of God. The word of God inhabits the way of God over the life of Gideon.
Just like Moses, with understanding, Gideon was not in doubt but asked to know.
Asking with understanding is asking with faith.
With humility, he wanted to know if he was competent enough to be the servant of God, the calling of God.
Gideon was so humble when he responded to the assurance of God, stating,“…O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” (Judges 6:15)
The last response of Gideon prompted God to promise, stating, “…Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.” (Judges 6:16)
In the life journey, give attention to the word of God, the way of God, to gain and retain the presence of God. In answering the calling of God, in all endeavors, do not live a life of waste by not arriving at the calling of God.
Ask that you be enabled to ask with understanding.

THE MONTH OF THE HAND OF GOD REST OVER ME

To trust in God for His intervention is not enough to gain His blessing.
However, to trust and hope is what it takes to gain the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 confirms, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
In the new season, will you trust and hope in the hand of God to answer for you?
In the hand of God, there is power to answer all challenges.
Why not give regard to the hand of God to engage His hand for deliverance and preservation?
Consider that, entering a new season is to open the mind, asking for the hand of God, which is not short to locate you.
Isaiah 59:1 identifies the hand of God, stating, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.”
The character of His hand that is not short is that God hears the calling for Him.
It is evidence that He is God who waits continually for those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:4 records, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
Imagine God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
One who waits on God will not miss the intervention of the hand of God, on whatever the issue presents.
Know that God hears, ask that the hand of God will bring you out of every area of life that is holding you down, which you know and do not know.
There is deliverance in the hand of God.
If the hand of God can answer for the deliverance of the Israelites after four years, He will not fail to answer those who wait on Him.
Moses reminded the Israelites about the hand of God, stating, “And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm…” (Deuteronomy 5:15)
In challenges that seem to have no end, where are you looking to get deliverance?
If one has yet to look up to God, there is a need to gain an understanding of what it means to look up to God.
One that sets one eye on God and the other eye on the world for the intervention to challenges is bound to lose and not get from God.
It was the mighty and outstretched hand that He brought the children of Israel from the slavery of over four hundred years.
Compare your challenges to the slavery bondage of Israel that came out of bondage. Know that a call on the hand of God for your deliverance will gain the hand of God.
The hand of God is with testimonies as a good hand.
Are you seeking God diligently?
The character of seeking God will call the attention of a good hand of God.
Ezra 8:22 testifies to the good hand of God, stating, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”
Undoubtedly, the good hand of God is for real for one who acknowledges it by seeing in the word of God.
Indeed, seeing in the word of God is to receive what His word says, to become such.
For the expectation of what is in the word of Nehemiah 2:8, such will experience the good hand of God.
Nehemiah 2:8 testifies to the good hand of God upon him, enabling him to gain what he needed, stating, “And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.”
Ask that the GOOD hand of God become your portion continually by settling upon your life, in all your going and in your coming in.
What is it that you do not want that has been following you into the new season you are in?
Believe that the hand of God is not short to deliver you from all you do not want.
In your expectation for going further in a new season,
Pray against every stargnation you know or not, be converted to motion to the glory of God over your life.
Ask against every monitoring of your life for an evil agenda, shall not have a place over your life.
Ask against any force, following you, attempting to reduce you in any area of life, shall come down and not rise again.
Ask against any mark with the attempt to bring you down physically or spiritually, shall be erased from your life.
God is a good God.
Without iota of doubt, settle with God.
God is merciful with long-suffering.
God will not look over those who seek Him to gain His divine intervention.
In your new season and ongoing, know to give yourself to God, not to live a life of waste.
God is real, with His hand that is not short, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
Above all, His mighty hand and an outstretched arm are with power to deliver and preserve at His appointed time.
Do not run where you walk, or walk where you run.
God is in control.
Walk with God, before God, to arrive at the divine assignment of God over your life.