{"id":11040,"date":"2024-06-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2016-05-08T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:51:51","slug":"the-importance-favouring-kingdom-god-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-importance-favouring-kingdom-god-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of favouring the Kingdom of God II"},"content":{"rendered":"May God bless you in a special way today!\r\nWe have been talking about the fact that favour is not something that happens accidentally in a person\u2019s life; it comes along with the understanding of certain God\u2019s laws or principles. Yesterday we started talking about how every person who desires to experience the power of God\u2019s favour in his life must learn to show favour towards God and His deeds.\r\n\r\nToday I want to continue on this topic.\r\n\r\nIn his Epistle to Philippians, Apostle Paul wrote of his confidence of one particular thing:\r\n<h6>\u00ab..being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ\u00bb (Philippians, 1:6).<\/h6>\r\nWhy was Paul so confident that the Lord will complete the good work He has begun in the lives of believers? If you pay careful attention to the context, you will see that his confidence is based upon the attitude of these people towards the work of God.\r\n\r\nIn the beginning of his letter Paul said that these people had been preaching the Gospel from the very beginning of their walk with God.\r\n\r\n\u201cI thank my God&#8230; for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now&#8230;\u201d\r\n\u201e..no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only\u201d (Philippians, 1:1-6; 4:15-19).\r\n\r\nThese people actively participated in the spreading of the Gospel; they gave themselves and their property to God. Paul prayed for them, and his prayers worked, because these people not only watched standing aside and with hands folded, &#8211; no, they played active role in the preaching. They showed favour towards the work of God\u2019s Kingdom.\r\nThus, Paul\u2019s prayer for God to fulfil all their needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus was not hindered in any way.\r\n<h6>\u00abAnd my God will supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus\u00bb\u00a0(Philippians, 4: 19).<\/h6>\r\nMany believers today claim this promise for their lives, but unfortunately they are qualified for it. They are not qualified for a simple reason that they are not actively involved in the building of God\u2019s Kingdom like Philippians did. Meeting of needs, answers to prayers, in other words, expressions of favour \u2013 all these things belong to those people that sow the seeds of favour into the Kingdom of God.\r\n\r\nAre you taking part in the building of God\u2019s Kingdom through your local church? Are you sowing the seeds of favour into the lives of other people for the sake of winning them for God? Are you serving God with your property, talents, abilities, time? Answers to these questions determine your readiness to enjoy the favour of God.\r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab..being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ\u00bb (Philippians, 1:6).\r\n\r\nWhy was Paul so confident that the Lord will complete the good work He has begun in the lives of believers? If you pay careful attention to the context, you will see that his confidence is based upon the attitude of these people towards the work of God.\r\n\r\nIn the beginning of his letter Paul said that these people had been preaching the Gospel from the very beginning of their walk with God.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36111,"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-11040","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\/07\/pexels-chris-schippers-421927-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,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\/11040","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=11040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38465,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions\/38465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}