You are Favored of the Lord in 2013

What is favor? Favor is when heaven decides to back you up. When God comes not for a visit but to abide. The psalmist says His anger last for a moment but his favor for a lifetime (Psalm 30:5) and again when He favors you He Makes your mountain stand firm

Favor in the actual sense is when God is with us, when we embrace Jesus to work in us and through us. 

Isaiah envisioned this time

 Prepare for battle and be shattered, prepare for battle and be shattered! Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted, propose your plan, but it will not succeed, for God is with us.

You know you have favor when regardless of what people say or do to hinder you still keep succeeding, their plan fail to accomplish anything. 

When you are favored of the Lord your enemies cannot outwit you. in matter of fact they will either become or pretend to be your friends.

Favor is God’s Good will to accomplish his good will. In the time of his favor God will support you, He will give preference to you and help you. He will act with kindness towards you. He will establish you. The shepherds were told

Don’t be afraid today I bring good news that will be to all people—in other words Gods favor is extended to all—the angels sung, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests. (Luke 2:10,14)

Fear is a natural response to threatening circumstances and our awareness of Gods favor helps us maintain our composure, focus and clarity.

Some truths about Gods Favor 

1. Gods favor does rest on unlikely candidates

In her song Mary says to God “you have been mindful of the humble state of your servant”

Gods favor by-passes the proud and those that consider themselves mighty.

He has scattered those that are proud in their inmost thoughts

He has brought down rulers from their thrones and lifted up the humble

He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty

2.    Gods favor accompanies divine assignment- its not just for us to feel good

When you have Gods favor you will birth something extra ordinary, something supernatural, of eternal insignificance.

3.    Gods favor does challenge our lives in ways unimaginable- When we become recipients of Gods favor the impossible become possible

Favor is accompanied by Gods grace to accomplish the impossible.  Because God presence abides where he chooses to bestow his favor, the recipients of his favor live in an atmosphere where all things are possible. The presence of the Holy Spirit makes all things possible.

54.   We appropriate God’s favor in our lives through surrender

We are to surrender to his salvation, surrender to his timing, surrender to his power, surrender to his way of doing things, surrender to his course even when we don’t understand.

I pray God will greatly favor you this year and his grace will abound to do all you desire in accordance to his will.