Hey Dear Beloved,
Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Wishing you all a happy, blessed and favorable year 2014.
I am so glad to write to you our first blog of the year.
I am thankful to God for 2013; God has continued to show His faithfulness and been very gracious and compassionate to us.
As I mentioned in our previous blog that God has led us to go on fast for 40 days till 1-1-2014. We were thankful to God for everything God has done in 2013 and we were even preparing for 2014. As we were crying to God, one thing caught my attention that was “God’s Favor”
I believe with all my heart that 2014 is a year of God’s favor on our lives! Hallelujah…!
Favor is an act of gracious kindness. Favor always brings promotion (causes you to be blessed)
Today I would like to remind you a person from the Bible who found favor in God sight and its results. Read this post prayerfully and expect the same favor to work in your life and in your family.
God has been teaching me about His favor for mankind, God willing we will have a series on “God’s Favor”.
Today we will look at the life of Noah, and how he found favor in God’s sight and what God’s favor did to him and his family.
The Bible says Noah found favor in God’s sight. Gen 6:8
If you read from verse 1 onwards, you will see how his generation grieved God, how sinful and wicked they were. God was displeased that He made man.
You know the story of Noah, how God protected him and his family. (To know the story of Noah Read Genesis chapter 6 to 8)
1. Favor brings revelation:
Since Noah found favor in God’s sight, God revealed what He was about to do to mankind.
Only one verse God spoke about the destruction but God unlocked the blue print to Noah what he should do to escape from the coming disaster.
You cannot know God by yourself, you might know about him by reading books and listening to the people but you cannot know Him personally unless He chooses to reveal it to you.
Noah didn’t ask God what to do, but His favor on Noah caused him to know what his generation had no clue of.
The favor of God not only reveals to you God’s plan but also prepare you to face the trouble.
2. Favor gives strength and patience:
Noah not only knew the plan of God for his generation but also God enabled him to make an ark, though people in his family and neighborhood thought he was out of his mind.
Favor of God made him persistent to do what God had told him once, you don’t see God coming and confirming him again and again.
It is the favor of God that gives you strength to be persistent to the will and call of God on your life.
3. Favor shuts you in the will of God:
The bible says, when Noah had finished building the ark the way God had told him, God shut him in the ark. Noah didn’t touch the ark, his sons didn’t touch the ark nor his wife and his daughters-in-law either bird or animal in the ark.
God is the alpha and the omega! He gave an instruction and He finished what He started.
It is not you struggling to be in the perfect will of God, but it is the favor of God that keeps you going even things seems to be messed up in your own sight. It is His favor keeps you from deviating from Gods will.
4. Favor of God elevates you:
The Bible says when God shut Noah in the ark; the heavens poured rain and water also gushed from the earth. The whole earth was filled with water, and all the living creatures perished but the ark in which Noah was it got elevated!
The thing that killed and destroyed everyone and everything caused Noah and everyone in the ark to be elevated. Noah’s ark was on the waters while everything and everyone were under it.
Though things and people might be suppressing you but God who has called you will exalt you high above all your enemies not because of your goodness but only because of His favor. It is God who exalts you, and promotion comes from Him alone.
5. Favor set him on mountain top:
The Bible says the ark that was elevated above the water rested on the mountains of Ararat. Noah did not sweat; toil to climb the mountain, without his efforts God set him on mountain top.
Today you might look at your mountain and say, “How in the world will I get over it” just trust God and surrender to Him! God who has begun a good thing in your life will bring it to completion!
Mountain for you might be a symbol of troubles but mountain is the significant place people experienced God is very special way;
Abraham knew God as provider on the mountain,
Moses encountered God on the mountain,
Fire of God came on mountain when Elijah prayed,
Jesus preached to multitudes from the mountain…..
It is the favor of God that sets you high. Stop climbing the mountain, your call, your desire, and your dreams by yourself.
As you are reading this post, I pray that you will find favor in God sight as Noah did.
I declare this is a year of God’s favor on your life and His favor will cause you to know Him more this year, it is His favor that gives you strength to do what He has called you, it is His favor that keep you going in the will of God, it is His favor that exalts you and sets you high above all.
Remember, this is a year of God’s favor! Wishing you all a blessed and favorable year 2014.
With Much love,
Jeevan n Leena.
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God Bless you…
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