Phil spoke from Exodus 33:12-23 about walking in God's favour.
If I was to say "I know how to attract God's favour". You would want to know yes?
So it's definitely not something you start a conversation with.
"Hey, how are you? Good. By the way, I know how to attract God's favour."
So in the interest of not sounding presumptuous, let me put it this way: I know how to get God's attention and, so let's have a look at how we can attract more of the favour of God.
As we see in scripture one thing that attracts God's favour has been the spark that resulted in
Deliverance,
healing,
provision,
children born from dead wombs,
blind eyes opened,
the dead raised
Ears unstopped
Terminal sickness gone
and countless other miraculous events
Favour of God has resulted in people in our church been healed of cancer, barrenness, set free from addictions to alcohol, drugs and food etc.
This favour has enabled words of knowledge about a person's life revealing the very thing that keeps them from coming to know Jesus.
You would think that if all this was happening because of one simple thing, then everybody would just do it, right?
It would be simple. Go and find out what these people are doing and do the same thing! That would make the most sense to me.
I wish it was that easy. Alright, Would you like to know how to attract God's favour? Would you like to know how to get God's attention?
Exodus 33 v12
Favour means kindness beyond what is due to you; to be preferred; over generous preferential treatment; having an edge or an advantage over others; partiality; unmerited act of kindness; endorsement; help rendered to you without recourse to what you have done, omitted to do or your qualification. We call it GRACE
Attraction is to draw attention, pull in, magnetise, captivate, lure, or entice. When you want to attract someone’s attention you have to do something to make them notice you.
Gods favour to Moses and the people
How did Moses attract Gods Favour?
• He was chosen from the beginning, he had a life calling to fulfill
• He was a devout man, God humbled him through Life experience
• He feared the Lord - His first encounter with God at the Burning bush
• He was an incurable sacrificial giver - He sacrificed everything to follow the call from God
• He was a prayerful man - He sought God spent time with him God said "With Moses I speak face to face"
• He was a worshipper - He lived a life of worship.
God’s favour can bring a lot of blessings
Divine favour can
• Produce supernatural promotion and increase (Gen 39:21)
• Bring restoration of every thing the enemy has stolen (Exo. 3:21).
• Bring honour in the midst of adversaries (Exo. 11:3).
• Produce increased assets (Deut. 33:23).
• Give great and unusual victories even against impossible odds (Josh 6:20; 10: 9, 20).
• Give recognition and promotion even when you seem to the least likely one to receive it (1 Sam. 16:22).
• Produce prominence and preferential treatment, favour and kindness (Esther 5:8).
• Get petitions granted, even by ungodly civil authority (Esther 5:8).
• Change rules, regulations, even laws if necessary to your advantage (Esther 8:5).
• Win battles you did not even have to fight because God will fight them for you (Psalm 44:3).
• But there is a price to be paid, and that is righteousness.
• It comes through the new birth knowing we are Children of God, i mean really knowing, not just head knowledge
• Through faith even when our circumstances say the opposite
• Continuing in total obedience to God
The evidence of Gods Favour
The evidence of Gods favour on Moses and his people
• Released from slavery
• Released with wealth
• Had a promise of a land rich in every way for them to inhabit
• Provision on the journey
• But above all that and probably, the best was
And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
Exodus 33:14
And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'T
