The Favor of God, Part 8

Monday, July 20, 2009, The Favor of God, Part 8

Favor will change your home and your family. Speak God’s goodness and blessing and favor into your family.

Favor will change your job situation.

Draw near to God to stay in favor (Proverbs 11:27).
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favor; but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

Every day purpose to be a blessing to God and to others, regardless of how you feel or what is going on in your life. Make a quality decision that you will bless someone in a specific way that day—a kind word, a smile, a helping hand, a gift, a listening ear, a forgiving spirit, a word of thanks.

God’s nature is in you. You are made in His image. His ability is in you. His favor is toward you and in you. What is God’s nature? Psalm 86:15 tells us that God is full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. Psalm 103:8 tells us that the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Yes, God is gracious. He is full of compassion. He is merciful. He is plenteous in mercy. It’s God’s nature to show favors. The Hebrew words for mercy and compassion many times are interchangeable and mean: Disposed to show favors

After our lengthy discussion of favor, we should have a better understanding of favor and how it works. God, with His love and favor, is in us. We are to expect His favor to flow from Him to us. We are to expect His favor to flow from others to us. We are to show favor to others, even when they are not very nice to us. We are to think good thoughts and actions toward others, even when they are nasty to us. We must refuse to reciprocate nastiness for nastiness, but rather good and favor for ugliness. We are to be merciful to them as God is merciful to you.

There is a law of favor—God is a God of favor and promotes those who purpose to live in this law, setting themselves to be a blessing every day and to be long-suffering and kind to those who are kind or those who are nasty.

We must always apply the law of favor, even when things don’t seem to be going in our favor. The God of favor will come through for us every time. Will every situation turn out the way we want it? No, but we learn to flow with the attitude of gratitude and favor anyway. Most situations will work out, but if they don’t, that doesn’t change our lives, because we are serving the One Who is the life-changer. We depend on Him and continue in favor, regardless. GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US!