FOCUS ON THE FAVOR

Proverbs 3:1-4
1 My son, forget not my law(teaching); but let your heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you, bind them around your neck; write them upon the table of your heart:
4 So shall you find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

So we are saved, redeemed from the curse of sin, lack, sickness and disease, our sin debt is paid in full.
Yet the Father has said He will add some more on top of all of that.
What a mighty loving God!

You want peace?
You want length of days and long life?

Here is the key to all of that.
Come and learn about a God:
Who will add length of days as a long suffering sign of mercy.
Who will add long life to our days so that we can see our great grandchildren and other folks saved and set free.
Who will add peace not as the world gives but a peace that surpasses understanding to our life.
He's talking about a peace that stands up in our heart when everything is coming against us, because we kept His way of doing things on top.

When we keep His commandment this means we are not putting God's way out from in front of our eyes, mind or our heart.
It's high in our heart, it's at the top and the front of our everything.

This is growing, something that we can never stop doing.
It ain't automatic to find favour in the sight of the LORD.
Anything found was something sought after.
The Word says, He who finds a wife, finds a good thing.

A righteous man seeks after the favour of God.
Matthew 6:33

What is the LORD saying to His children?
A. Do not forget my teaching.
B. Keep my commandments.
C. Keep mercy and truth dear to your heart.
Why?
Because these are the things that ADD length of days, long life, and peace.
These are the things that help us to find favour and good understanding in the eyes of God and men.

So if we look at this on the flip side we will find what takes away the favour.
D. Forgetting Gods teaching.
E. Not keeping His commandments.
F. Putting mercy and truth far from our hearts.

These would be things that decrease length of days, rob a man of long life and peace.
These are the things that are unacceptable in the eyes of God and men of God.

I had the pleasure of attending a Women Of Virtue meeting at my home church this Saturday and the ministry gift blessed me and gave me the inspiration for my blog this week.

This woman of God said something that just stood straight up in my heart.
She said, "Focus on the favour..."
Don't focus on the hater... focus on the favour.
We will be focusing on favour where I am, Amen.

I'm going to climb this mountain in a way most of you have not climbed it before.
Stick with me.

To focus on a thing means to concentrate on that thing.
To aim your thoughts and adjust your thinking to see it clearly.
Jesus did and The Father added to Jesus daily.
I know you may look at Jesus and think... "He didn't need anything, He was the Son of God."

Yes, even Jesus had to spend time in the Torah and in Prayer daily with the Father.
Now if He needed to increase and grow, what makes you think that you don't?
We are not better than our Saviour.

Luke 2:52 records that Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
How did He do that?
Knowing what Jesus did helps to imitate it.

The Lord Jesus had a distinct focal point.
He was about His Father's business.
The LORD focused on what was acceptable and pleasing to The Father.

Jesus was not concerned with what pleased the onlookers, critics or naysayers, but He proved what was acceptable and pleasing to the Father by doing it.

The Messiah knew that if He was first pleasing to the Father... everything that He needed would be added unto Him.

So my prayer today is that we focus on the favour that comes with pleasing the Father.

Proverbs 12:2
Focus On The Favour.
LOVE