A blessed and favored believer in Christ is vibrant, fruitful and able to give and sustain life. But if all you do is receive, receive, receive, you will end up like the Dead Sea. Becoming too salty and too toxic to support any kind of life. So, if you want to receive the blessing and favor of God, you have to be ready to give.
What Is The Key?
Giving is one of the ways you show favor to others and tap into the favor of God. The Bible teaches a simple message about being blessed to be a blessing. It is a cyclical law much like sowing and reaping. In Christian circles it’s called the law of the harvest; in the world it’s called karma, and in science it’s called cause and effect. “What comes around goes around.”
Regardless of what man tries to label it, this law of giving and receiving originated with God at the foundation of the world. It’s not a hypothesis or theory. It is an ingrained law that applies to life on this earth and in heaven whether we are aware of it or not. What you release will be given back to you, and even more, you will receive in proportion to how you give. If you give (sow) sparingly you will receive (reap) sparingly. -2 Corinthians 9:6.
Favor And Abundance
There is one type of giving I want to emphasize that will cause favor to be multiplied to you in ways you have never experienced. This type of giving will bring you into a realm of favor that no other type of giving will and it’s found in 2 Corinthians 9:8-9, “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work; as it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, His righteousness remains forever.”
Many believers may never walk in this level of favor, but it is available to those who will disperse it. Showing mercy and helping the poor is the way to tap into this realm of favor. God will multiply your sown seed.
However, stinginess will choke the flow of favor in your life. You cannot be stingy and have an abundance of favor. “Give and it shall be given to you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure, it will be measured back to you” -Luke 6:38. This is the level that we should all want to walk and live in.
We are living in an apostolic time. This is a season of favor. God is doing some things in this season. He is doing a work so great that it will not be believed. -Habakkuk 1:5. It is set time. This means that it has been ordained by the Father. Satan cannot stop it.
God’s Word is powerful. When we pray the Word of God, it becomes “like a hammer that breaks the rock into pieces” – Jeremiah 23:29, bringing victory and the abundant life Jesus died for us to experience.
From Pity to Praise 