Psalms 106:4 (KJV) “Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation” Psalm 106:1-5 (TLB) “Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord! How good you are! Your love for us continues on forever. Who can ever list the glorious miracles of God? Who can ever praise him enough?

Proverbs 16:15 (ESV) “In the light of a king’s face, there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.” Proverbs 16:15-16 (TLB) “Many favors are showered on those who please the King. How much better is wisdom than gold and understanding than silver!” When the King is pleased, we are showered with favors! That means favor follows us like rain. We are favored on our job, family, personally, financially, spiritually, and physically.

Psalms 119:58 (KJV) “I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.” If the favor of God is when God takes the natural and does the supernatural in a person, place, or thing, it can be little or big but it’s always to bring Honor and Glory to God and further His Kingdom, not simply to favor the person, place or thing! I want that favor on my life, my family, my church and every other area of my life. When we have God’s favor upon us, He prospers our work and everything we put our hands to.

Psalms 119:58 (KJV) “I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.” If the favor of God is when God takes the natural and does the supernatural in a person, place, or thing, it can be little or big but it’s always to bring Honor and Glory to God and further His Kingdom, not simply to favor the person, place or thing! I want that favor on my life, my family, my church and every other area of my life. When we have God’s favor upon us, He prospers our work and everything we put our hands to.  Yes, we need to entreat or beg God for His favor.

Proverbs 8:35 (KJV) “For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.” “Finding me” means finding wisdom and when we find wisdom and apply it we have an abundant life that can only come from God.

Exodus 33:17 (ESV) “And the LORD said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” What a relationship Moses had with God that the very thing Moses spoke, God wanted to give to him.  God knows us by name and wants us to have such a relationship with Him that the things we speak pleases Him. He wants to give them to us. When we have the favor of God, our words have power.

1 Samuel 16:18 (NKJV)  “Then one of the servants answered and said, “Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and the LORD is with him.” 

An important insight to remember about the favor of God: Favor has a lot more to do with purpose than it does pleasure! Jesus had the favor of God. He was nailed to a cross for our sins where we could be saved.  Luke 2:52 (NKJV) “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” Daniel had the favor of God. Daniel 6:22-24 (NRSV)  “My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me because I was found blameless (found favor) before him; and before you, O king, I have done no wrong. Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him because he had trusted in his God. The king gave a command, and those who had accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.” Daniel 6:26 (TLB)

Most people think the favor of God is just for a few special people, but it’s not. It’s for everyone willing to accept it. God wants to take the ordinary and do the extraordinary. That’s what is so exciting about the favor of God.  Luke 4:19 (NIV) “to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”  Jesus is proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor.  Luke 4:18-21 (NIV)  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Then, he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down.