How to Walk in The Favor of God
by Olga Hermans
And let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands–yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it. Psalm 90:17 Ampl.
When the Father laid out the plan for your life, He lined up the right people, the right circumstances, and the right breaks. He has already released His favor in your life, supernatural opportunities and divine connections. The breaks you need have already been predestined to come across your path.
You need to stay in faith and go out each day and be a person of excellence and you will experience the many blessings that the Father has for you.
In 1993 we left Canada for economic reasons to go and live in The Netherlands. It had always been my husband’s dream to live Canada, so we didn’t take moving away very lightly. But we always kept thinking back to our time in Canada and started to think about going back to Canada again in the beginning of 2000.
When my son was 21 or 22; he came to us and told us that he wanted to go and study in Canada to live there. At that moment there was not much that was keeping us in The Netherlands. Both our parents had died; our daughter was living in England at that time and had plans to live in Australia.
But because we hadn’t been back to Canada for so long, we knew it would be very difficult to reinstate our residency.
So, we flew into Seattle in September 2004 and drove to the border at Peace Arch. As we stopped at the custom’s booth; the officer asked us how we would like to enter Canada. They gave us the option between entering as a visitor or as a returning resident.
This totally flabbergasted us and we said; is it still possible to enter as a resident? Then we had to go into the office where we stood in line to wait for our turn. Then, another booth opened and that officer called us out of the back of the line and insisted we come to him.
We handed him our paperwork and after a few minutes he came back with our paperwork and said: I’m going to waive all the requirements! He stamped our passports with the required stamps and said: “Welcome back to Canada”!
That was the favor of God; His approval and His goodness for sure. It was a great experience, which made us feel very special. He loves to bestow favour on His children.
When God gives favor; people favor us, and often for no reason they can even explain. Favor is actually a part of grace. In the English New testament, the Word ‘grace’ and the word ‘favor’ are both translated from the same word ‘charis’. So the grace of God is the favor of God.
And the favor of God is the grace of God; that which causes things to happen in our lives that need to happen through the channel of faith. His power is doing something for us that we can neither earn nor deserve.
Think about that! God wants to give you special privileges. His favor will cause people to go out of their way to bless you without even knowing why they’re doing it.
How does favor work? Things just fall into place. Obstacles disappeared. What happened? You just walked into the blessings of the Lord. They were already lined up. You just walked into them. Just like when we arrived at the Canadian border, God had it all lined up already and we just walked into that blessing. It was a marvellous thing.
Esther, Daniel and the Hebrew children, Ruth and even Jesus received favor from God that caused them to be accepted instead of being rejected in specific situations. They may have been rejected in some areas, but they were accepted regarding the things He had sent them to do.
Esther needed favor with the King. She was selected to bring deliverance to her people, who were in danger. She stepped out in faith and went into a place that was hard for her in the natural. He gave her the favor she was believing for, and she fulfilled His call on her life.
Ruth was a Moabite, so there was no way for her to be accepted by the Israelites without favor from God, because the Moabites were idolaters. But God gave her that favor because she loved and trusted Him. She did nothing special to deserve it, but her heart was right.
Ruth had gone though heartache and pain as a young woman. Her husband was killed in a battle. When her mother-in-law Naomi was moving to a different city, Ruth decided to go with her and help take care of her. There was a great famine in the land. Food was scarce. Ruth went out in the fields every morning to glean wheat left by the reapers. That is how she and Naomi survived.
One day, Boaz, the owner of that field, came to visit. His workers told him about the young widow Ruth who picked up what the harvesters had missed. Boaz told his workers to drop handfuls of wheat on purpose for Ruth.
When you walk into one of your favor moments, people will go out of their way to be good to you. Many times they don’t realize why they’re doing it. It’s simply because you stepped into a time of favor that God released into your life.
You see Ruth was just minding her own business, doing her very best and being faithful. All of a sudden she started seeing all this wheat lying in front of her. Think about it. She didn’t have to struggle any more. She didn’t have to search the field trying to find a little here and a little there. All she had to do was picking up the wheat piles left for her.
Extraordinary things began to happen for Ruth. She received blessings that she did not have to work for. That’s the way our Father is. All of a sudden you get breaks that you didn’t deserve.
Due to His favor, she married Boaz, “a man of great wealth”
Ruth 2:1, and their ancestral line brought forth David from whom Jesus was descended. Ruth no longer worked in the field. She and her husband (Boaz) owned it.
God’s supernatural favor flowing in your life is not based on your background, looks or personality. His favor is based on the Word of God and believing what it says about you. Favor can break through barriers set before you, and it is available to every believer.
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Great wisdom on how to recognize favor in your life!
Thanks Joy!!
Olga, great article on How to Walk in The Favor of God! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Olga! By ‘Walking in The Favor of God’ we will certainly feel God’s supernatural flowing in our lives…Great article! …Hughie
Great article Olga! Love it, I do this every day and it works…it is allowing God act through you. Thank you and have a wonderful day! 🙂
An amazing article that I intend to read again and again…just beautifully inspiring! Thanks so much!
Great article Olga! I too am praying for the favor of God to shine on me like never before. I will continue to do everything with excellence and in turn, see what God does! Thanks for sharing!
Olga, you are an awesome inspiration. This quote was a real uplifter “…go out each day and be a person of excellence and you will experience the many blessings that the Father has for you.” Thanks a million.
This is what im talkin about.I want this blog in my email 2days a week. I pray for favor everywhere I go. Could I please have a link to subscribe to this blog. Ill comment every time.
Carrie, I have seen you subscribe to my list several times. Maybe you should check your junkmail, because when you subscribe, you will receive them!!
Sometimes things dont work out in our lives the way we like them to. Mary was highly favored by God but her life was lived in the sure knowledge that her only child would be brutally tortured then killed bearing the sins of the world. Paul lead a life of beatings stonings near drowning and eventual martyrdom and was also highly favored by God. Jesus appeared to him personally! The history of our faith is based on the faithful and highly favored by God experiencing tremendous physical, emotional and spiritual burdens that did not deter them. It is wrong to assume that being favored by God is always attached to doors opening, large financial rewards, children living faithful Christian lives. Some of the dearest children of God closest to his heart spent large parts if their life in “the dark night of the soul.” We are all favored by God because he shed his blood on the cross for us and has given us the opportunity to be with him in heaven. However, that journey is often acccompanied by pain, tears and betrayal and not what this world would equate with favor.
You are so right, John of the Cross you speak of , “the dark night of the soul”. One day I woke up with the word JOY planted on my forehead after suffering a heart ER situation. I thought “Joy?”… it wasn’t until i read..in Revelations 21, and the deciphering of it, that joy replaces sorrows and sufferings a great consolation for those who are persecuted believers. (Orthodox Grk)… Favor is upon us all. Some live without God in this world, and opt for that, and yet they receive as they keep God on the sideline. Favor as I see it, is how our Faith that is strong is with favor and God presents Himself in many ways then good things. Joy was favored upon me that day, even though I received joy it was only until after the ER experience and my passing brother appeared atmy bedside. The veil lifted, favor comes through.
I give God thanks and Praise because he saw my faults and granted me favor he gave me a job when man said it was not possible the devil kept putting in my thoughts that my obstacles that I had was too much to override but give ALL praises to my GOD he gave me a miracle and granted my prayer request THANK BE TO OUR MIGHTY AND GRACIOUS GOD…I now have a great job.
This was a very good post about the Favor of God; however, I agree with Russ that it is often not that black-and-white often in the life of the “favored.” Depending on your perspective, what is really God’s Sovereign Favor does not always “appear” that way in the natural. And it still requires a “walking in faith whether you understand the type of favor or not.” Yes, Ruth had the Favor of God on her life, but if she had not stepped out in faith to embrace it by going to the field in the first place, then she would not have been in place to receive it. And it goes the same way for others. Esther stepped out. Paul stepped out. Jesus stepped out into it. Obedience is very much a part of receiving Favor, and Favor is not always about receiving what we feel are the good things. It was the Favor of God that was there for me when I was convicted of a felony. It was the Favor of God that accompanied me to prison. It was the Favor of God that was there when I suffered my first heart attack. It was the Favor of God with me when I suffered my second heart attack. It is the Favor of God even when I cannot pay my bills but I still have my house and my car. It is the Favor of God when people hurt me and treat me wrong. For me, it is not the good times when I most feel His Favor. Just like, light is more precious when you are in a dark room. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I will fear no evil . . . that’s when I am most walking in the Favor of God.