Have you ever thought about those people in the bible who did great things and thought….I wish I could be like them?
I have…but maybe I’m weird. It’s that God given drive for significance I guess. High D if you’re familiar with the DISC model.
Anyways….
Every great man & woman of God in the Bible had one thing in common when it came to doing the great thing. And that one thing is this:
Favor
Moses tells the people. Go to your next-door neighbor’s, their slave driver’s house, knock on the door, and ask them for whatever you want and they’ll give it to you. Why? Cause God was going to put his favor on them.
Esther is going to barge in on the King and ask him to not kill her people. If she does this she will die. It’s not right with protocol. But she goes in and doesn’t die. Why? She found favor in the king’s eyes.
And of course there’s Jesus. It says in Luke 2 that he grew in wisdom, stature & favor with God and Man. How in the world does the perfect God of the universe need to grow in favor with God? I don’t know…but if Jesus needed to. How much more do we?!!!
So the thing that caused all of the great men & women of God to do great things is that irresistable force called favor.
Here’s the definition of favor I got via Lance Wallnau:
Favor is God’s affection towards you, that releases an influence through you, that causes others to like you, trust you & cooperate with you in the assignment God has given you.
Favor is always linked to an assignment!
So how do you find your assignment?
Part 2 will cover how to find your assignment.
