A Lifetime of Favor
by Jerry Savelle
What can cause unusual, extraordinarily favorable things to happen in your life? What can open doors and change rules and regulations on your behalf? What creates out-of-the-ordinary occurrences every day instead of once in a while?
The favor of God will cause all of this and much more!
To understand all that favor encompasses, let’s look at the dictionary definition: “to support, endorse, assist, make easier, provide with advantages, show special privileges.” There are many scriptures about the favor of God and they are easy to find when you realize the Hebrew words for goodwill, goodness, kindness or good pleasure and the words gracious or grace in the Greek can also be translated “favor.”
Psalm 145:8 tells us, “The Lord is gracious,” meaning God is favorable toward you. He wants to manifest that favor every day. Psalm 65:11 says, “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness….” “His favor is for a lifetime” (Psalm 30:5, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition").
You can expect the favor of God to promote you even when you don’t have the expertise, training or knowledge others have. Where you work, people should be asking, “Why do you get the bonuses? Why do you get the raises?” You should be able to say without hesitation, “It’s the favor of God!”
The favor of God brings victory to God’s people. Psalm 44:3 says, “For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.” Notice it was not their wisdom, their ability or their might that gave them the victory and possession of the land. It was the favor of God.
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