Three Fundamentals to Operating in the Anointing
Benefits of Walking in The Favor of God
Author: Pastor Sandy Banks – 12/30/2012
Summary:
God wants you to succeed in every area of life! With His Presence in your life, you can. God’s favor can open doors of opportunities and place you at the right place at the right time for His Blessings. Even if you lack the necessary qualifications, His favor can propel you forward to your destiny. One day of favor can secure your future forever. You need to know that God’s desire is to solve your impossible situations and circumstances and that He has already made provisions for us in Christ Jesus (2 Peter 1:3, KJV). If we really begin to understand how much God Loves us and what He has done for us in Christ, no situation would ever have the dominion or mastery over us. When you begin to see yourself the way God sees you, crowned with His Glory and Honor (Psalms 8:5), then you’ll begin to expect favor and success in every situation. You’ll begin to expect every adversity you go through to be turned into victory in your life. You’ll begin to expect to have authority over your circumstances, why? Because you are the Apple of God’s Eye and God favored you.
Scriptures: Psalms 8:5
Favor – A kind, gracious and friendly act; something given as a token of love, affection or remembrance; to perform a kindness for; something granted out of goodwill rather than for justice or payment. A benefit; a gift bestowed or given as a token of regard, love friendliness or friendship; To be given advantage and preferential treatment.
It’s what Jesus did at Calvary that earned you the favor of God. Isaiah 61:1-2; Luke 4:18-19
Favor is a Gift - it’s not something that you worked for, it’s not something that is earned. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
A. The Nature of God is to show Favor.
1. The Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you. (Isaiah 30:18, AMP)
2. God’s Covenant with Abram, who was later renamed to Abraham. (Genesis 12:1-3, KJV, AMP)
3. Abraham wanted to make it clear that God was actively working in his life. (Genesis 14:17-24, AMP)
4. If you be Christ’s then are you Abraham’s seed. (Galatians 3:29, KJV)
B. God wants to surround you with His Favor. (Psalms 5:11-12, KJV)
1. The Favor of God opens doors no man can shut.
2. The Favor of God gives me victory in every situation, why? Because I have advantage and preferential treatment.
C. God wants to take us aggressively to the next level in His Favor. (1 Samuel 30:1-25)
1. Pursue – To follows in an effort to capture or overtake.
2. Overtake – To pass after catching up with. To come upon unexpectedly.
3. Recover (all) – To get back. To regain. To regain a normal or usual condition.
D. Benefits of Walking in Divine Favor.
1. Favor produces supernatural increase and promotion.
a. But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. (Genesis 39:21, KJV)
b. Genesis 41:39-41, 46
2. Favor produces restoration of everything the enemy has stolen.
a. And I will give this people favour in the site of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty. (Exodus 3:21)
3. Favor produces honor in the midst of your adversaries.
a. And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharoah’s servants, in the sight of the people.
4. Favor produces increase assets, especially in the area of real estate.
a. O God, we have heard of the glorious miracles you did in the days long ago. Our forefathers have told us how you drove the heathen nations from this land and gave it all to us, spreading Israel from one end of the country to the other. They did not conquer by their own strength and skill, but by your mighty power and because you smiled upon them and favored them. (Psalms 44:1-3, KJV, LB)
5. Favor produces battles won which you won’t even have to fight because God will fight them for you. (Psalms 44:1-3, LB)
6. Favor produces great victories in the midst of great impossibilities.
a. 14 When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them at Dan. 15 There he divided his men and attacked during the night. Kedorlaomer’s army fled, but Abram chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. 16 Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives.17 After Abram returned from his victory over Kedorlaomer and all his allies, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). (Genesis 14:1-13, 14-17, NLT)
7. Favor produces recognition and promotion even when you seem to the least likely one to receive it.
a. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. (Esther 2:17, KJV)
8. Favor produces prominence and preferential treatment.
a. And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight. (1 Samuel 16:22, KJV)
9. Favor produces petition granted even by ungodly civil authority.
a. If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said. (Esther 5:8, KJV)
10. Favor causes policies, rules, regulations and laws to be changed and reverse to your advantage.
a. And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces: (Esther 8:5, KJV)
Scripture References:
§ Psalms 8:5
§ Isaiah 61:1-2
§ Luke 4:18-19
§ Psalms 102:1-13
§ Genesis 12:1-3
§ Galatians 3:29
§ Psalms 5:11-12
§ Ephesians 2:7-9 (AMP)
*Key
KJV – King James Version
AMP – Amplified Bible
MSG – Message Bible
TLB – The Living Bible
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