Friday, April 13, 2012

"Never ending Favor"

...you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. Proverbs 3:4

It’s so vital to receive what God wants to freely give you!  It’s simple, but so many people believe exactly the opposite. Instead of receiving from the Lord, their mindset is, “God has better things to do than think about me,” or “I don’t deserve God’s blessing” or “Everything good always happens to somebody else but not me.” 

I know it’s easy to feel that way, but don’t let your heart and your words go there; don’t agree with this way of thinking.
God is for you!
And He desires for you to have every blessing and every good thing that He promises to you in His Word.
The Bible calls this “favor.” At some point in our lives, even if we didn’t recognize it, we have all experienced God’s favor.
Favor is the undeserved, unearned, unexplainable goodness of God in your life.
Favor causes you to reap even where you’ve not sown.
Favor protects you; it promotes you. It opens new doors — that should’ve taken years to open — in a single moment.
Favor takes you places you could never go on your own.
I declare today over your life that in the coming days and weeks ahead, God will unleash His unprecedented favor on you. Favor like you’ve never seen before.
Unprecedented means “unmatched, unparalleled, for the first time.” You’ve seen God’s favor in your life in the past, but what He’s about to do is bigger and even greater.
You just have to be willing to receive it and get in agreement with God.
If you will believe God and stand on the promises of His Word, He promises you will see incredible and wonderful things happen.
His unmatched, unparalleled, for-the-first-time favor is for you.
Victoria and I want you to know how much we love and appreciate you. You are one of the many ways that God has poured His goodness into our lives.
Through your faithful prayers and generous support, you help us share the message of HOPE with millions of people every day through all of our different ministry outreaches. Thank you for helping us to make such an important difference! 
Verse of the Day
Having been justified by His grace, we [have] become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. —Titus 3:7 Read: Titus 3:1-11

Isidore Zimmerman served 25 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Because of false testimony at his trial, he was convicted of killing a New York policeman. In time, however, his innocence was proven, and in 1962 he was released. But did he “live happily ever after”? No.
Even though he had been innocent all along, Zimmerman couldn’t escape the stigma of being an ex-convict. What few jobs he could get soon ended when employers learned that he had served time. His record was cleared, but society did not fully accept him.
What a striking contrast to our standing with God when we trust Jesus as our Savior! We are guilty. Yet on the merits of Jesus’ sinless life and atoning sacrifice, we are not only declared righteous, but we are fully restored to favor with our heavenly Father. He treats us as if we had never broken His law, reconciling us to Himself and adopting us into His family. That’s full acceptance.
It’s absolutely amazing that through faith, and on the merits of Jesus’ death, guilty sinners can be declared righteous by God. It’s even more astounding that He would restore us to His favor and want us to work for Him.
But then, that’s what salvation is all about.  —DJD
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
'Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head. —von Zinzendorf
When God forgives, He removes the sin and restores the soul.


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