{"id":942,"date":"2019-12-22T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=942"},"modified":"2020-01-05T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T16:47:43","slug":"the-favor-of-god-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2019\/12\/22\/the-favor-of-god-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Favor of God &#8211; Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/12-22-19.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We should rejoice because of the favor of God. If we have His favor, it means our names are written in the Lamb&#8217;s book of life! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did Mary have God&#8217;s favor in her life? When the angel came to speak to her, she hadn&#8217;t said or done anything great yet. She had God&#8217;s favor because He chose her. We have His favor because He chose us, not because we did anything special. He has chosen us to bear fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the mountains in your life? The things that overshadow God, that steal your focus from Him. Because we have the Spirit of God in us and with us, however, everything becomes possible. We can command the mountain to move &#8211; it will become a plain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary came into an agreement with the messenger at the end. She said to the angel &#8220;let it be done according to your word.&#8221; If we agree with His word and speak it, then we see His favor acting. By contrast Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, spoke doubt and unbelief. The Lord had to shut his mouth in order to prevent him from derailing what He wanted to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures: <\/strong>Luke 1:26-38; 45, John 15:16, Zechariah 4:6-7, Romans 8:28-29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should rejoice because of the favor of God. If we have His favor, it means our names are written in the Lamb&#8217;s book of life! Why did Mary have God&#8217;s favor in her life? When the angel came to&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2019\/12\/22\/the-favor-of-god-part-iii\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}