Surrounded with favour

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Friends, you can be surrounded with God’s favour that can lead you to your destiny.

Do you have a situation where things are not working out for you?

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It could have been years or months and nothing is changing. A negative medical condition, tough finances, children not settled, your breakthrough getting delayed. Now, the future seems dim and you are on the verge of giving up. At such times it is easy to get discouraged and be all negative. God is telling you today, “Do not be discouraged. I am going to thrust you to a new level because of my favour.” Psalm 5:12

 

Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favour as with a shield. The psalmist said God’s favour surrounds us like a shield. That means everywhere you go you have an advantage, a divine presence, opening up the right doors, causing things to fall in its place and giving you the right break. When we are the sons of the Almighty God, we are favoured by God. Favour means – To assist, to provide with advantages, to receive preferential treatment, approve. No matter who is against you, what is not working out God has surrounded you with his favour to thrust you to your destiny.

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Job 10:12 You have granted me life and favour, and your care has preserved my spirit. If you believe it or not, God’s children are surrounded by God’s favour day and night.

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God told Abraham in Genesis 12:2 AMP And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] (God’s favour is not for just once or twice, he said he will do favour in abundance.) and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].

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You and I are the seed of Abraham. God wants to do favour us likewise. God’s favour is such that it keeps on coming and he will bless us so much that we will end up to be a blessing to others. God’s favour causes you to be promoted even though you are not qualified, God’s favour gives you blessing even though you don’t deserve it. God’s favour will put you at the right place at the right time. God’s favour heals you in spite of your condition. God is saying to you what he said to Abraham, “I am going to assist you, I am going to provide you with advantages, I am going to give you preferential treatment and bless you.” Somebody is receiving that favour today.

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Examples of God’s favour

Throughout the Bible we can find God’s favour blessing and prospering God’s people.

1. Mary.

Luke 1:28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you.”

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2. Samuel.

1 Samuel 2:26 And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favour with the Lord and with people.

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3. Noah.

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.

 

4. Jesus Christ.

Luke 2:52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

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5. Joseph.

Genesis 39:4 Joseph found favour in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.

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Genesis 39:21 But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

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It was God’s favour that lifted him up from the empty well and put him as the prime minister of Egypt.

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6. The Israelites.

The Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians. They were not paid the right labour. Eventually the situation worsened to the level that they were supposed to make their due straw out of nothing. They were oppressed, beaten, and in utter dismay. On one side, they are God’s special chosen people on the other side they are nowhere near to their promise. When we hit rock bottom, that is where God is where we can see God’s favour.

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Exodus 3:21

And I will make the Egyptians favourably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. We know God rose up his servant Moses.

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God is faithful, he did not want these people to go empty-handed. God paid them double for their trouble, they got back more than they lost.

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Exodus 12:33

The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”

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Exodus 12:35-36

(35) The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.

(36) The Lord had made the Egyptians favourably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

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I am telling you, God’s favour will cause your enemies to change their attitude towards you. God’s favour will enable you to receive back all that you have lost. Your promotion might be delayed, you might feel that you are cheated, your maybe oppressed, but if God’s favour is on you, you are on the winning side. Somebody shout an Amen! Somebody say, “I am favoured.”

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7. Ruth.

God’s favour on Ruth. In the Book of Ruth we can find a family that is totally broken. Naomi and Elimelek went to Moab with their two sons because of a famine. There both sons married Moabite women. Soon Elimelek and his two sons die. Naomi decides to go back to Bethlehem and asks both her daughter-in-laws to go back to their mother’s house. This family has been going through trials, problems, one after the other. Some of you here has hit the bottommost pit in your life, you are facing setback one after the other. You are in the verge of a break through. Your favour is on the way.

 

Ruth 1:14-16

(14) At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

(15) “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”

(16) But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.”

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Look at Ruth’s heart. Ruth had a heart that very few people have, loyalty in tough times, a committed heart. How many people will stick to you when you have nothing? How many of you will stick to God in your deepest pain? God shows favour to such people.

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Ruth 1:18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Now both Ruth and Naomi reach Bethlehem. Now I just want you to look at favour of God upon undeserving Ruth and Naomi.

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Ruth 2:1-2 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

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Ruth knew she has come to the right godly family. She knew she was right by sticking to Ruth. Now that everything she has done is right, she started living favour-mined even though she had nothing. You have come to the right place, live favour minded.

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Ruth 2:3-4

(3) So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

(4) Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “The Lord be with you!” “The Lord bless you!” they answered.