Walk in Favor!

Recently the Lord has been speaking to me about what it means to walk in His favor. We are in a season of grace and favor as I have already written about. However, each one of us must choose to step into this reality in order to see it within our own lives.

God wants to release grace and favor into our lives. We are His children and He desires to shower us with His blessings. But just like any good parent He sometimes allows us to go without things that we desire for our better good. These past few years have been times of pruning and leanness but we have to recognize that the time of winter is past and springtime is here.

We must stop focusing on what we don't have and focus on what we do have.  We need to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the presence of our Heavenly Father for out of that all other things will flow. Our existence begins and ends within the Presence of God. Our identity is found in Him.

This is a season of restoration of sonship. We must learn what it means to receive as sons. For too long we have had a poverty mindset in which we have been afraid to ask God for what we need from Him. We need to have boldness to draw near to the throne of grace for we are heirs and not servants.

As we draw near and delight ourselves within the Presence we must learn also to live a lifestyle of thanksgiving. We must focus on the blessings and not the things that we don't have. Give thanks with the little things and you will start to reap greater and greater favor in your life.

Over these last 60 days I have been walking in increasing favor. From finding checks that had been forgotten about, to discovering gift cards I didn't know I had, to having my way to Berkeley made completely easy, to miraculous favor with employment, I have been experiencing amazing things as I have been focusing on the favor of God as the perfect Father.

This is the year of grace and favor! But divine grace can only be received by those who have open hands. We must position ourselves as beloved sons and daughters and ask our Heavenly Father to release the blessings of Heaven into our hands so that we might carry out His Kingdom work on this earth. This is the time for us to receive our inheritance so that we might in turn release the good news of the Kingdom to those around us.