The Favor of God Will Change Your Life –Part 7
Dr RJ Sing · 1 min read
“For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God.”
You must release your faith for God’s favor. God’s favor is yours, but there are a couple of things you must do to fully enjoy the benefits. First, you must receive God’s favor like every other spiritual promise by faith. Then you must release your faith because that is what Abraham, the father of our faith, did.
The circumstances looked hopeless when God promised him he would be the father of many nations, his age and Sarah’s lifelong barrenness, so, how could it be? They received God’s promise by faith and His favor. For Abraham, human reason for hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised.
He did not weaken in faith when he considered the (utter) importance of his body, which was as good as dead because he was about hundred years old, or when he considered, the barrenness of Sarah’s (deadened) womb. No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question), concerning the promise of God, that grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God, fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.
From the August 2017 issue, themed Living Beyond The Impossible.
