The word of the year? Favor YUP at it AGAIN!!

The reason I am choosing the word favor this year, is because it is an unfamiliar word to me. Why is it unfamiliar?

Not because God has been neglecting me and horrible things have happened over and over in my life, not because I have struggled my entire life and I was dealt a bad hand.

But because I have been actively pushing away favor instead of accepting it and THAT is unfamiliar to me.

The action of choosing to accept God’s favor is unfamiliar.

And these past 3 months I have been living a truly unfamiliar, yet favorable life.

Familiarity is the enemy of favor and for years, I always chose what was familiar to me, because it was predictable, I knew what feelings to expect, what emotions or anxieties came with the territory, I could control it, because I knew the ins and outs of staying in familiar environments, jobs, relationships, mindset, daily life.

Choosing favor feels funny because we don’t know, we can't see what lies ahead, we don’t know what feelings we are going to feel if we start to change our lives and ourselves, we don’t know what life is going to look like on the other side, what job we will have, what we will be doing, who are we doing it with. It's uncertain and uncomfortable because we can’t predict this new space or anything in it.

The last 90 days has truly been uncomfortable and so unpredictable, but instead of having an expectation of what I think God is supposed to do and how he is supposed to do it, I am merely accepting the favor that he is presenting in my life.

I was addicted to being miserable. Are you?

When things were actually happening in my favor, it felt so weird and uneasy that I would  start to create what I was familiar with, frustration, fear, anxiety.

We find a way to have bad attitudes, we find a way to sabotage or find fault with our favor and return to the familiar.

Are you too familiar to receive the favor that is sitting right in front of you? Are you so used to rejection that you will find it when it’s not even there. Are you so unfamiliar with acceptance that you can’t receive the love he is sending you?

I will finish with favor

I know that in order to see change, I have to create a vision for myself that I have never created before, I have to experience and see things I have never experienced or seen before.

I have to make decisions I have never made, I have to take action in ways I have never had before, I have to think differently, i have to speak differently, I have to live differently,  I have to trust differently. I have to do everything differently

I don't know how I am going to feel on this journey, I don't know what it's going to look like, sound like, taste like, smell like, but I do know that this is God's favor for me and that I will accept what he is doing in my life. I do know that no matter how this started that I will finish with favor but God has willed it for me. It is written. It has already been done.

Time to focus on our favor - the favor God has given us.

You will find what you're looking for. Goodness, mercy

Favor is right in front of you. It is not found in money, it is not in that big house, that car, that tropical paradise, that 6 pack, that relationship- It is in front of you because God gave it to you.

No matter how it started, it will finish with favor.

Are you going to accept favor or chase it away?