You Have God’s Favor – but how do you activate it?
You Have God’s Favor – Proclaim it Daily!
You have God’s favor! Do you know what that means? Are you experiencing God’s favor in your life? God wants His favor to be a reality in your life. However, many don’t experience the fulness of God’s favor. Psalm 5:12 says, “Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.” God surrounds you with favor. The question is how do you activate God’s favor?
What is Favor?
First, let’s make sure we understand what favor is. It is God’s power working in your life and on your behalf. Grace is something done or granted out of goodwill rather than justice or for payment. It means to be friendly or well disposed toward someone or to regard them with goodwill. Finally, it means to show excessive kindness or unfair partiality or to give preferential treatment. We all need God’s favor.
What You Say is Key
Keep in mind that the words you say are important. In Job 22:28, it says, “You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you”. Throughout the Bible, it is reiterated that what you think – what you really feel in your heart – comes out in the form of words from your mouth. Watch what you say! Include Psalm 19:14 in your daily prayers – “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight,”
How do You Activate Favor?
1. Believe for Favor.
Let’s see how you can activate the favor of God in every aspect of your life. The first step is to believe that you can have the favor of God evident in your life. According to Jeremiah 17:7, “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.”
2. Declare Favor
Second, proclaim that you have the favor of God! Begin to confess God’s favor. You will possess what you confess. Begin to declare:
? Thank You, Jesus, that I have favor with You and with man.
? You surround me with favor.
? Every place I go, You go before me with favor. Thank You, Lord!
Instead of being critical, negative, and upset, speak God’s Word. This is part of living by faith rather than living by sight. Begin to speak God’s favor into each situation:
? Lord, I thank You that I am surrounded with favor.
? Your favor is like a shield about me!
If you want to see favor activated in your life and you want to see even more favor, then begin to confess favor. Don’t become critical and negative instead begin to declare God’s favor.
(There are other steps you can take to activate God’s favor that I share in my book “How to Activate God’s Favor”. You can download a free copy here – DOWNLOAD NOW.
Do You Have IT?
Got favor? Yes, you do! Psalm 84:11 says, “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.” How is our walk blameless? Only in Christ, we are right with God because we’ve accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Our righteousness comes from what Jesus has done for us! SO – if you are a follower of Christ your walk is blameless. If your walk is blameless, YOU HAVE GOD’S FAVOR!