I’m talking about the favor.. favor on your family. God’s favor on your life and on your family. Joshua 24:15 says,
15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Every family should declare that our family is gonna serve God; and when you do that, you attract the blessing of God on your family. The favor of God will come upon a family when that family chooses to function according to Godly principles. So I plan to show you three keys to attracting God’s favor on your life and on your family.
In order to have a healthy family, people in your family need:
(A) affirmation, people in your family need a
(B) blue print, and people in your family need
(C) celebration.
Affirmation is how I communicate value and worth to my members of my family with words and actions and deeds. Affirmation calls family members to feel good about themselves. Affirmation helps family members to have good self-esteem. Ephesians 4:29,
29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 6:4, 4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Your family needs a blue print. A blue print is a proven plan of action. A blue print has guidelines that are written down on paper. To the degree that you commit yourselves to a proven plan of action, that is the degree that you experience success. God’s plan for my family and your family life is outlined in the Word of God. I have to have more than just a revelation of God’s Word; I have to have a commitment to follow through. I am responsible for obeying God’s Word because He is the Lord.
The Holy Spirit’s primary job within primary believers is to teach us, to guide us, and bring things to our memory, and to show us things to come. We have to have ears to hear, pay attention and follow through with what He said. He speaks through our hearts. What he has already been written in the Word of God. Isaiah 55:8 says,
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
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Whenever I can bring agreement into the house, I can bring the power of God into the house. Matthew 18:19-20,
Celebration is like affirmation but it takes place in public form. Celebration is those moments in time when through special words, actions, gifts and festivals I choose to honor and applaud other family members in the presence of other people. The 15th chapter of the book of Luke among other things, it reveals how important celebrations are to God.
- In Luke 15:4-7, we see a parable of the sheep. A man had a celebration when he found his sheep.
- Luke 15:7-8 is a parable of the lost coin. A woman had a celebration when she had found her coin.
- Luke 15:10, the angels rejoice over one sinner that repents.
- Luke 15:11-24, the father rejoices when his lost son was found. So
See we came into the Kingdom of God by believing in what God has done for us. Jesus paid the price for all of our sins and to redeem us from the curse of the law and give us citizenship into the Kingdom of God. We left the world, but we still lack the party. Throughout the bible you can see God’s people having parties.
- Abraham had a party when Isaac, his son, was winged.
- God’s people celebrated with feasts: Feasts of the Passover, Feast of the trumpets. Here a feast, there a feast, everywhere a feast.
I like it when people throw a party for me. They gather, and I like the gifts and I like the goodies. God likes celebrations. God has prepared a plan and He has planned a celebration for when we get to heaven. The marriage supper of the land. Everybody is invited. When you have a celebration, you should always acknowledge for who the celebration is for. At Christmas time, get Jesus a gift. When you come to church, celebrate Jesus. When you celebrate the resurrection, Easter, celebrate Jesus.
It honors God when we receive His gift that He has made available for us. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. God is giving us the gift of life so that we can have it more abundantly, here and now and then life after death. In fact, Jesus said, “He that lives and believes in Him shall never die.” This is the great gift of our Lord. God has said, it is his good pleasure to give us the Kingdom.
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