by Mark Gordon
Why does today’s Society always choose the path of least resistance?
I don’t know if it is mid-life crisis or not but I have been struggling to see where to take the next step in leadership. At times it feels like success is a pipe dream and I wonder if I really have the tenacity to move to the next level. Yet the word tells me that I can expect great things, to prosper, to walk in a favor where the supernatural is the norm. The bible talks over and over about the favor of God and that as His followers we can walk in His Favor. However it is difficult to see in the post-modern North American Christian. We are weak and distracted. I am not talking about a name it and claim it, blab it and grab it kind of flakey thing I am referring to the very heart of God to bless His people and what our response should be. 1 Corinthians 3:21 says that “all things are yours…” It is time for me and you to believe this! The problem is we think that favor means easy and that if we meet resistance or trouble that we are not in favor… so we tend to walk the path of least resistance - which leads nowhere by the way!
Let God make you a success according to His plans (Jer 29:11) Believe the impossible to be possible for you today! The only limitation God has, the only lack in His kingdom is our lack of understanding His heart and laws. We have no problem believing the law of gravity because we experience it every day. Well, God has laws that we are to experience every day like the Law of LOVE and Favor! The riches of Heaven are at our disposal all the time, every day we live and breathe, and it is just a matter of walking in them.
Do not compare yourself to others or a world standard but know that all things are at your disposal, everything God created is for Him and US! This includes your talents. You have talents you may not even know you have. God gave them to you and the one thing that could frustrate His heart most is when we fail to develop the talents. Part of my revelation about the season I am in is that God will remove what we don’t use and I am seeing it happen all around me. Look at Matthew 25: 28-30. It is the story of the talents and it says that the one who tried to ‘not lose’ the talents given to him had them taken away and given to the one who doubled his by investing. The Lord was angry with the man for hiding his talent in fear and failure. We must take chances, be willing to make a mistake. Dare to do something for the Lord. Do not stand idly by praying and asking God to do things that YOU must do in faith. We all move forward through faith, 2 Corinthians 5:7 “we walk by faith”. God gives to the person that uses their talent and He gives in abundance. When we are faithful with little He increases, it is part of His nature. The same principle applies to His favor, when we exercise it… favor grows. Matthew 25 clearly says God takes from the man who will not use what he has been given and gives it to those who do. It is not favoritism it is principle.
A good friend of mine always says ‘give to the greedy not the needy’. Now I know you are wondering where I am going with that but there is a principle there. I have discovered you can’t help those who don’t want it. A person who just wants to have everything handed to them is a bad investment because the investment stops with them. I am not talking about times of genuine need. Sandi and I have been homeless before and are grateful for the help that was given. I am talking about knowing we have God’s favor brings a responsibility to walk it out and to give it out. When we do God multiplies but when we don’t He divides… ouch
God expects us to take what is in our hand and develop it. Many people expect God to move for them but faith says God has moved; now it is my turn. God has done everything we need - it is us who is called to move on it by faith. Moses in Ex 14:15 told God “you get the show on the road” God said back “why are you crying to me? Lift your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it…” Moses did and it did. Often we cry out to God to move when He is waiting for us to move the mountain…He gave us His favor and His faith, now it is our turn…YOUR turn! Speak to your mountain and cast it aside God can do anything through you and you can do ALL things through HIM. Your faith has to release before God will move! Numbers 20:8 God tells Moses “speak to the rock and it will gush water” he didn’t and missed the promise land…
I am sure most of who will read this love God, so walk in His favor. Many of us however do not realize that God wants to bless us; so we go around in our negative world of fears, doubts, failures, hoping maybe someday we will make it! WE have blocked our faith…Go forward from this moment on declaring “I love the Lord, God is blessing me, He honors me. I am strong, I am successful, God is with me, I am His honored child!! Worship the Lord with this attitude.
Live excited, Live expecting! I have found what I expect becomes what I believe, negative or positive. Each of us chooses one or the other, no sitting on the fence on this one. Today I encourage you and myself to start choosing God’s favor, approach every circumstance in life through that lens, you will see a change!
