Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, King, and Savior, this salvation experience imparts to us God’s divine grace, better known as unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor.
God makes it very clear to us how to walk consistently and constantly in this favor.
Proverbs 3:3-4
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Mercy and Truth are God’s Word and God’s behavior. Notice God said to “write them upon the table of thine heart.” How do we do this? By reading, studying, meditating, confessing, and believing the Word of God until God has written upon the table of your heart with His indelible finger. Just as God’s finger wrote the ten commandments upon the tablets of stone for Moses and the Children of Israel, in this New Covenant, He writes them upon our heart through reading, studying, meditating, confessing, and believing.
The following is a list of ten benefits of walking in the divine favor of God. There are many verses for each of the ten benefits of favor, but I have supplied one to get you started. I encourage you to add more verses to each point. Now, when you pray, spend the first 1/3 or 1/2 of your prayer thanking God for each point of favor listed below and state the spiritual law you have for it, the verses you’ve written down.
God spoke with Brother Ken E. Hagin while He was on earth evangelizing. He gave him a vision in which there was a set of scales (to weigh things). On one side of the scale was marked “Prayers,” and it was resting on the desk with the weight of prayers that had been prayed. The other side of the scale was marked “Praise” and had very little in it. God told Brother Hagin, “when the praise equals the prayers, the prayers will be answered.”
God has promised us that if we’ll walk and abide in His Word with belief, we’ll greatly increase spiritually, physically, and materially.
Job 8:7
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Psalm 115:14
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
- Favor produces supernatural increase and promotion (Gen 39:21)
- Favor produces restoration of everything the enemy stole from you (Exodus 3:21; Proverbs 6:31)
- Favor produces honor in the midst of your adversaries (Exodus 11:3)
- Favor produces increased assets, especially in the area of real estate (Deuteronomy 33:23)
- Favor produces great victories in the midst of great impossibilities (Joshua 11:20)
- Favor produces recognition, even when you seem least likely to receive it (I Sam 16:22)
- Favor produces prominence and preferential treatment (Esther 2:17)
- Favor provides petitions granted even by ungodly civil authorities (Esther 5:8)
- Favor causes policies, rules, regulations, and laws to be changed and reversed to your advantage (Esther 8:5)
- Favor produces battles won which you won’t even fight because God will fight them for you (Psalm 44:3)
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend in Christ.
Larry