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.

THIS MONTH ENABLE ME WITH MORE UNDERSTANDING

Ask that this month answer for you as the month of gaining more understanding of God in His word.
Following God is characterized by living (existing) to the glory of God.
Revelation 4:11 records the reason why all should live for God that creates all, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”
It is the WILL of God for all to exist (live) for Him.
Knowing how to live for God does not happen by accident.
The crucial key to living for God is rooted in UNDERSTANDING.
Understand the word of God.
Evidently, it is the understanding one possesses that will determine how far to go in living for God.
One with an understanding of the word of God will know of having an edge in life, to excel for the glory of God.
The root of the lack of understanding is not listening to the word of God.
Jesus confirms the reason for the lack of understanding when asked and answered rhetorically, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)UNDERSTANDING IS CRUCIAL.
It is understanding that prompts knowledge.
Do you have an understanding of the word of God?
Understanding the wisdom that is the word of God will gain knowledge (knowing to have an edge in life).
Wisdom, understanding, and knowledge are like a puzzle and cannot be separated to gain a clear picture of life.
No one should miss any of the packages to get well in all going.
Having understanding is crucial.
Listening is crucial.
Listening is gaining a knowing edge.
Take note that listening is not just about hearing, but it is about hearing repeatedly.
Hearing repeatedly is the actual process of listening.
What is listening repeatedly is to have a knowing edge, the character of having faith.
Indeed, one who LISTENS will have FAITH.
Romans 10:17 states, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Hearing repeatedly is listening.
Having faith is listening and becoming one with understanding.
Understanding will give peace of God.
One with peace of God is with the character, not being a victim of not gaining an edge (knowledge)
Understanding is important.
Everyone is the WILL of God.
To live for God, all must have an understanding of God.
Psalm 14:2 records, “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Having an understanding to gain knowledge is crucial to navigating safely in the wicked world.
Hosea 4:6 reports, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” 
Understanding prompts knowledge.
The acclaimed believers get destroyed when and where they should not because they lack knowledge.
Many reject knowledge of a lack of understanding, disregarding the hand of God.
His people did not embrace knowledge to give regard to the works of God. 
Psalm 28:5 states, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up. 
With a lack of knowledge, one is set for destruction and is also a candidate for captivity.
Isaiah 5:13 states, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” 
Lack of knowledge leads to captivity. 
God has made available wisdom that is His word. 
The wisdom of God is full of conditions and promises that will enable His children to have an edge over challenges and not be destroyed or go into captivity if His children give regard to His wisdom.
For example, having a way where there is no way, standing and not falling on the ground where others fall, can be described as having a knowing edge rooted in understanding.
As a child of God, all should know to understand and engage the promises of God in His word.
Psalm 136:5 identifies that God used wisdom to make the heavens. 
Without a doubt, wisdom is the word of God. 
The same wisdom is made available for the children of God to avoid a lack of knowledge and
not to become a vessel of captivity.
An engagement with the same wisdom (word of God) will not become a victim of destruction.
With understanding, there shall be a knowing edge and no captivity or destruction. 
1 Corinthians 1:30 points out that Jesus (the living word of God) is the wisdom from God, and one who gives indeed to Him is set not to become a victim of captivity.
Wisdom without understanding will always lead to a lack of knowledge. 
Pay attention to gain understanding and not become a vessel set to perish.
Pray that you become filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

FOLLOW GOD FULLY

Why not follow God as a way of life?
What kind of a believer are you?
Consciously, who do you follow?
Are you following God by the mouth or by your way of life?
Do you know God to follow Him?
God creates all to live for His glory.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To exist for God is to follow Him.
Following God fully is seeking Him diligently.
It is not too much, nor is it too little, to follow Him more.
Why not follow God?
One with a desire to follow God is such that God shall deposit what one has desired.
Have the desire to follow God as your way of life.
To follow Him or attempt to follow Him must deny distraction.
The stage in life or profession will not be an excuse for not following God.
Jesus, who called the fishermen to follow Him.
Just as He called the fishermen, so it is that His call is for all to follow Him.
Matthew 4:18-20 documents the calling by Jesus: “And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
Are you following God, the world, or man?
It is worth it for all to search themselves and know if they are following God or not.
Many assume they are following God, but are far from God.
Answering in the name of religion is not evidence of following God.
For example, answering as a member of the church is not evidence of following God.
Answering to a title is not the meaning of following God.
What is it that one is holding to that will prevent one from following God?
Abram obediently followed the command of God.
God asked for the only son of Abram for sacrifice, and he obeyed God.
In Genesis 22:12, God responded to the obedience of Abram, “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 did not withhold because he feared God.
Abram answered to obey God.
Anyone who does not hold against the command of God is following God.
Following God will lead to living for God, not a life of waste, and arriving at a divine assignment.
All should live life for the glory of God because He creates all to exist for Him.
Follow God, so as not to be a victim of the wicked world.
Through the pages of the Bible, none followed God and failed.
Following God is walking with God or walking before God.
Enoch walked with God. (Genesis 5:22)
Enoch followed God, and the Bible said, “And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” (Genesis 5:24)
Bible records that Enoch died, but God took him.
Noah walked with God, following God in his life.
Genesis 6:9 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations.”
Noah followed God!
Abraham walked before God. (Genesis 17:1)
Abraham did not live a life of disobedience because he believed God.
Romans 4:3, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
A true believer in God is the character of a follower of God.
Jesus called His disciples to follow Him. (Matthew 4:19)
If there is no need to walk with or before God, following Him, there will be no calling to follow Him.
There is an unfailing following of God for those who follow Him fully.
Joshua and Caleb followed God fully to arrive at the Promised Land.
God is the unchanging changer.
Live by following God and not live wasted.
There is no excuse for not following God, but painful consequences.
Caleb does not confess negatively; he knows right from wrong.
Many around Caleb experience the move of God, but do not know God in following Him.
The Israelites confessed negatively; they have demonstrated that they do not know God, evidenced by not knowing God, the character of not following God.
Joshua and Caleb followed God fully to arrive at the Promised Land.
The word of God speaks to all; it is for learning to follow.
The word of God is not a story but a secret to know and follow by dwelling and abiding in the word of God.
Pray that whatever you hold on to, not to follow God in His word (command), be separated from your life.
Avoid distraction, follow God for His direction.
Ask God to enable you to follow Him fully.