Walking in Favor
Psalm 5:12 says this.
For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous; with favor you will surround him as with a shield. (Psalm 5:12)
As a believer, you have become a shining light in the dark world around you. And when others sense that light and the blessing that you are carrying, it should bring about a positive response in them towards you. They may not even realize what is happening in them, but it is still very real.
At one stage in my spiritual life, I thought that I had to do something to earn the Lord’s favor, but I was wrong. This Scripture was from the Old Testament, before they even had salvation, and it still says that the Lord will bless you and surround you with favor. This means that favor should go with you wherever you go.
I was reading the account of Joseph recently, when he ended up in Egypt. He just seemed to flow in favor without even trying, and that favor, of course, led to abundant blessing in the end.
When you are walking in favor, the signs are very clear. You cannot mistake them. This is an excerpt from one of my daily devotions, from 26 January.
“What is going on here? I have never experienced anything like this in my life. This is awesome!”
My husband said this to me one day as we were walking through a shopping mall. We had been shopping for shoes, and it just seemed that no matter where we went we had favor.
People we passed in the mall smiled at us. That day the shop assistants were friendly and very efficient. Usually we found them sour and uninterested. This time they went out of their way to help us.
We went for something to eat, and even the waitresses who weren’t serving us were friendly and helpful. I just lifted up the lid of a soup pot to look inside, and suddenly someone was there to tell me what type of soup it was. I didn’t even ask her to help me.
As we discussed what had happened, we realized that the Lord had indeed given us favor. It was as though we were a magnet that just attracted His favor towards us. We didn’t even have to try. It just took place automatically.
What About You?
Are you walking in favor this day? When the Lord’s favor is upon you, it will open doors of opportunity and blessing for you as well. I hope this is the case. If not, maybe it seems like disfavor is following you. People are nasty to you, and there are signs of strife and conflict everywhere.
If this is happening to you, then there would seem to be an open door to the enemy to bring bad things into your life. Bitterness often opens the door, so it would be a good idea to see if there is something like this in your life.
Things like this happen because we are sinful creatures. It is, however, easy to shut that door. Just let it go, repent and forgive whoever you were in conflict with. The Lord loves you, and He wants you to walk in blessing and favor. Let me pray for you now, stand against the enemy on your behalf, and release that blessing into your life.
“Lord, I lift up whoever is reading this now and speak abundant blessing and favor into their life. I thank you that you desire us to walk in favor.
And now Satan, I come against you and command you to take your hands off whoever is reading this. I command that any open doors that you have in their lives be closed, so that you no longer have access to attack them. Even if they are not aware of anything, I shut any open doors and take back any ground on their behalf, in the name of Jesus.
Thank you for doing this now, Lord.”
May you be abundantly blessed this day, and may the Lord open the way for every good thing to come into your life.
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