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Abounding in Favor

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By Jon Oral Nash

Everyone has an opportunity to walk in favor, and each of us has been in situations where we really needed it. I believe that your understanding of how you can ABOUND IN FAVOR will greatly affect how successful you are in life, and how close you get to fulfilling the divine purpose that God created you to fulfill while you're alive.

In order to understand "favor" you must begin with the word "grace." The New Testament uses the same word to denote "grace" that it does to denote "favor." Thus, these two terms (for the most part) can be used interchangeably. The Greek word for "grace" is the word "charis." It is a very common word in the Greek language, however it's very difficult to express all the different meanings of "grace" in one English word. A good definition for grace is "blessings graciously bestowed."

Grace, or "Charis" denotes a pleasant external appearance, which means if you have it, you look good in the eyes of someone else. We get the word "charisma" from the root word "charis." Charisma is a rare trait found in certain people that enables them to have a magnetic personality that gives them great influence in the world.

 

Like a “Blazing Fire”

By Benny Hinn

Before the Lord Jesus came to earth, He, with God the Father, had only an immaterial form. His earthly body of flesh, blood, and bone was given Him when He was born a babe in Bethlehem. And, like you, He grew to be a man.

If I were to ask, “Of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is a real person?”---most people would say the Son. We can identify with Christ because He took the form of a human being. In fact, if you do not believe that Christ lived, died, and rose from the dead, it is impossible for you to be a Christian. It is the foundation that makes possible your salvation.

The Holy Spirit: The Wind in Your Sails

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If you ever see a drunk man on the same side of the road, cross over to the other side." That's the advice my father gave the Hinn kids when I was growing up in the Holy Land.

Every morning my brothers and sisters walked with me to the Catholic school. And sure enough it happened - more than once. Almost by instinct, without a word we remembered Daddy's advice and walked on the other side of the street until we were well past the drunken man.

How did we know he was intoxicated? Well, we didn't walk up to him and say, "Mister, are you drunk?" Or "Let me smell your breath!" Of course not. Even as children we knew he was inebriated. Everything about him told us - the way he moved, the look on his face, his disheveled clothes. As they say in England, he was "three sheets to the wind."

The truth about his ungodly behavior was simply this: He was being controlled by the wrong power. He had surrendered to the wrong influence.