Favor and Blessed – Pastor Obed Martinez

Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield. – Psalms 5:12 (NIV)

In this Psalm:
• Were seeing how God blesses the Righteous
• That Favor surrounds our lives
• That Favor is like a shield (protection)

Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs. – Daniel 1:9 (NKJV)

Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; – Daniel 6:3 (NKJV)

1. THE DESCRIPTION OF DIVINE FAVOR
Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested. – 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (NKJV)

2. THE DIRECTION OF DIVINE FAVOR
Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. – Mark 10:46 (NKJV)

In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” – John 5:3-6 (NKJV)

3. THE DESTRUCTION OF DIVINE FAVOR
19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. – 1 Samuel 15:19-24 (NKJV)