2. You Receive God’s Favor by Faith. Now you may be thinking, Gloria, I know a lot of believers who don’t enjoy the kind of favour you’re talking about. Their lives are full of tragedy and disappointment. Why doesn’t God surround them with favour?
God does surround them with favour. They just don’t know it, so they can’t take advantage of what He has given them.
You see, according to
2 Peter 1:2, God’s grace is multiplied to us through knowledge.
The first thing you have to do before you can receive the benefits of God’s favour is to know they are yours. Then, you have to receive them by faith. The first thing you have to do before you can receive the benefits of God’s favour is to know they are yours. Then, you have to receive them by faith. Remember Ephesians 2:8, “God saved you by his grace….” God’s favour provides every possible blessing and goodness He has to give, starting with being saved. Your part is faith—to believe and receive all He has given.
Our grandson Jeremy Pearsons puts it so simply. He says, “Grace is God saying, ‘Here is all the good stuff I have to give you.’ Faith is you saying, ‘Thank You, I’ll take it.’”
So, where do we get the faith to receive? “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17, KJV). We find out the truth about God’s favour, goodness and blessing as we hear His Word on these things. Faith comes, we believe and begin to receive what His Word says.
I remember the first time Ken and I heard that healing belonged to us because it was part of our salvation—part of what Jesus bought and paid for on the cross. Our lives changed that night! We stepped into a new dimension of God’s favour. Until then, we had believed people could be healed, and we always prayed when we got sick. Sometimes we would receive, and sometimes we wouldn’t. But when we realized God’s Word said that healing belonged to us by the blood of Jesus—that it was part of the favour provided by God’s salvation grace—faith came. We received it, and we began to live healed.
That’s exactly how favour works. It’s always surrounding us. Healing was there for Kenneth Copeland and me all the time. It was always part of God’s favour. Once we heard about it, all we did was reach out and take it by faith.
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