God's Favor is Better Than Silver or Gold
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. Proverbs 22:1 AMP
There are some things that money cannot buy—one of them is favor. When
God’s favor is on your life, wonderful things will happen to you and
for you. Favor will take you where nothing else can take you. Favor can
open doors and prevent calamity. Favor can help you do more with less.
Favor can make a way where there is no way!
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of
Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will favor you
with blessings and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant
Abraham. Genesis 26:24 AMP
God promised to bless Abraham and his descendants through Isaac. He
personally spoke to Isaac to confirm this and promised Isaac that He
would favor him with blessings. Blessing always goes hand in hand with
favor. In order to be blessed by someone, you must first be favored by
them. You can recognize the favor by the blessing! As a spiritual
descendant of Abraham and a child of God, God has promised to bless
you. Expect God’s favor to be on your life because of His promises!
My son, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my
commandments; 2 For length of days and years of a life [worth living]
and tranquility [inward and outward and continuing through old age till
death], these shall they add to you. 3 Let not mercy and kindness
[shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all
deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your
neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart. 4 So shall you find
favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment]
of God and man. Proverbs 3:1-4 AMP
Hear instruction and be wise, and do not refuse or neglect it. 34
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For
whoever finds me [Wisdom] finds life and draws forth and obtains favor
from the Lord. Proverbs 8:33-35 AMP
When you embrace God’s Word—His principles and His wisdom—you will
automatically find His favor as well. When you seek His mercy,
kindness, and truth and reject and shut out all hatred, selfishness,
deliberate hypocrisy, and falsehood, then you will not only find favor,
but also good understanding and high esteem in the sight of God and man
as well! Proverbs 16:7 AMP says, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He
makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” God’s favor on your
life translates into favor with man as well. Even sinners will say
“yes” to you when they would have said “no” to anyone else. God will
send His Spirit and His angels to cause favor to shine on you, from
every direction and in all your ways.
When it goes well with the [uncompromisingly] righteous, the city
rejoices, but when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. 11 By
the blessing of the influence of the upright and God’s favor [because
of them] the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the
wicked. Proverbs 11:10-11 AMP
There is no favor on or for the wicked—there is only favor on and for
the just. God’s favor is on the righteous, therefore, when the
righteous are in authority, through the blessing of their influence,
God’s favor will be on the whole city! Just think, if you give yourself
to God, His will, and His Word, He will be able to use you to bless
entire cities!
He who diligently seeks good seeks [God’s] favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come upon him. Proverbs 11:27 AMP
A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of wicked devices He condemns. Proverbs 12:2 AMP
Whoever despises the word and counsel [of God] brings destruction upon
himself, but he who [reverently] fears and respects the commandment [of
God] is rewarded. 14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
that one may avoid the snares of death. 15 Good understanding wins
favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard [like the barren, dry
soil or the impassable swamp]. Proverbs 13:13-15 AMP
Fools make a mock of sin and sin mocks the fools [who are its victims;
a sin offering made by them only mocks them, bringing them
disappointment and disfavor], but among the upright there is the favor
of God. Proverbs 14:9 AMP