{"id":10995,"date":"2024-05-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2016-05-04T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:16:58","slug":"what-grounds-foundations-favour-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/what-grounds-foundations-favour-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the grounds or foundations of favour? III"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings to you all on this beautiful day! I pray that God\u2019s grace will touch you today in a very special way!\r\nWe have been talking about righteousness as the foundation for God\u2019s favour and today we will continue with that theme.\r\n
\r\n\u201cNevertheless, God\u2019s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: \u201cThe Lord knows those who are his,\u201d and \u201cEveryone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>(2 Tim.2:19)<\/h6>\r\nPractical righteousness is the solid foundation on which to build your Christian life and ensure that you receive God\u2019s favour. If as a Christian you still continue to live in sin and make it part of your lifestyle, then you are eliminating yourself from God\u2019s favour.\r\n
\r\n\u201cFools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(Proverbs 14:9)\r\n\u201cA good man obtains favour from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a crafty man. A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Proverbs 12:2-3)\r\n\u201cGood understanding wins favour, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Proverbs 13:15)<\/h6>\r\nThe above scriptures point out the necessity of living in righteousness in order to become established and enjoy favour from God.\r\nLet\u2019s take a look at the lives of some heroes in the bible that walked in the favour of God and you will see that it was righteousness that lifted those people up. Righteousness can raise or lift up anyone.\r\nThe example of Abraham\u2019s life:<\/strong>\r\nAbraham<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0pursued righteousness, sought the Lord with all his heart and follow God\u2019s will, that was why God blessed and multiplied him.\r\n
\r\n\u201cListen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one and I blessed him and made him many. The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Isaiah 51:1-3)<\/h6>\r\nThe example of the life of Joseph:<\/strong>\r\nJoseph hated sin and honoured God and lived a God-fearing life; he too could enjoy and receive God\u2019s favour as a result of that.\r\n
\r\n\u201cNo one is greater in this house that I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Gen.39:9)\r\n\u201cOn the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Gen.42:18)<\/h6>\r\nThe example of the life of Job:<\/strong>\r\nJob was a rich and prosperous man because he had found favour in God\u2019s eyes. The reason for this was his upright life of fearing God and shunning evil.\r\n
\r\n\u201cIn the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Job 1:1-3)<\/h6>\r\nThe example of Daniel:<\/strong>\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>Daniel found special favour in God\u2019s eyes because he made a firm decision to live for God instead of defiling himself with sin. Righteousness was a priority in his life.\r\n
\r\n\u201cBut Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Now God had caused the official to show favour and sympathy to Daniel\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Dan.1:8-9)\r\n\u201cAt this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(Dan.6:4)<\/h6>\r\nAnd finally, the perfect example of our Lord Jesus Himself:<\/strong>\r\nJesus loved righteousness and hated wickedness- this is the basis for favour in a person\u2019s life. Jesus is our perfect example of righteousness.\r\n
\r\n\u201cThe one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(John 8:29)\r\n\u201cYou have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Hebrews 1:9)<\/h6>\r\nCut out sin from your life because sin blocks the way for God\u2019s blessings to flow and it takes away the power of God\u2019s favour.\r\nIf our blessings and favour are based on righteousness then it is wise to extract sin from our lives. Make a firm decision from today on that sin will take away your heritage and the favour that belong to you through Jesus Christ.\r\nMay God bless you!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNevertheless, God\u2019s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: \u201cThe Lord knows those who are his,\u201d and \u201cEveryone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.\u201d (2 Tim.2:19)\r\n\r\n\r\nPractical righteousness is the solid foundation on which to build your Christian life and ensure that you receive God\u2019s favour. If as a Christian you still continue to live in sin and make it part of your lifestyle, then you are eliminating yourself from God\u2019s favour.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-photo-746386-1024x605.jpeg",1024,605,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38457,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions\/38457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}