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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