We welcome you to February 2015 Our month of Divine Favour. This
is indeed a good time to be favoured because many of us like the Children of
Israel in our text scriptures have served and invested in slave masters like
sickness, lack, deprivation and denial of what has been due to us for a long
time. This month, God has decided to stop our oppressors and bring an end to
our afflictions; this is why He has chosen to enlist this great key for our
release.
The word divine means to emanate from God; favour on the other
hand, means an advantage to the benefit of someone or something. Divine Favour
is therefore God putting us in a position or giving us something we have not
worked for ourselves.
In Exodus 3 we learnt that God gave Moses an assignment to lead
Israel out of bondage to worship Him. He explained the assignment in
details and what the outcome would be for the Israelites, with a promise of
divine favour. Exodus 3:21 (NKJV) states "And I will give
this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be, when you go,
that you shall not go empty-handed." This text discloses to
us that when God is to bring about a release for a people especially that which
is long overdue, He enlists this great key that cannot be denied. The reason
for this is that no matter how hard you work in like or how skillful you are,
if this ingredient of divine favour is missing, you will not go very far.
Tendencies are that you are not likely to be adequately rewarded for your
effort. However, when favour is in place, you tend to receive even more than is
due to you!
In Exodus 12:36 (NKJV), we are told "And the
LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians."
This indicates that favour is a gift given by God to anyone He pleases. In this
case; God gave favour to the Israelites before their former slave masters to
enhance their status and afterwards, they could no more be slaves! It is only
God that can touch the heart of people to do what they didn't plan to do for us.
From this month, God would begin to influence all who should do
the right thing to bring you to your place of promise in Jesus’ name!
For us to walk in Divine favour therefore, we have to understand
what favour really means and how we can position ourselves in the scheme of God
to benefit from this great key.
However, the first step is that we must belong to God by covenant
just like the children of Israel were by the covenant God cut with Abraham. In
these days however, the status of that covenant has been upgraded to the one
God cut with His one and only Son Jesus Christ and this is actualized through
the New Birth experience. If you have never made that decision to belong to
God’s covenant people and you want to do so now, please join me by saying the
following prayer out loud and you will become a child of God as God would only
bless the righteous and compass him with favour as with a shield:
Father in Heaven,
I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your word says
in John 6:37 that you will not cast me out when I come to you. So I thank you
that you will take me in.
You also said in Romans 10:9-10 that if I shall confess with my
mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in my heart that you raised him from the
dead, I shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness and
with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. I believe in my heart that
Jesus Christ is the son of God. I believe that he died for my sin on Calvary’s
Cross and was raised from the dead for my justification and I confess him now
as my Saviour and Lord.
I believe that I have now become your righteousness in Christ whom
you made to be sin for me on Calvary’s Cross.
Thank you father that I am saved from this day in Jesus’s name!
If you just said this prayer, congratulations! Welcome to the
family of God. Please send me an email at flourishinggirl@gmail.com. This
will enable me send you an e-copy of our “Believers’ Guide to Growth” to help
you start out well on your spiritual journey.
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