Voice of Alignment

Embedded in the grace package is favour; not just with God but also with men. What is grace, and its meaning and essence, if favour with men is lacking? If you claim to carry grace, and everyone is hostile to you, then what you are carrying is something else and not grace. In Luke 2:52, the bible tells us that Jesus Christ grew in favour with God and with men. So we cannot discount favour with men.

In this episode, we continue our discussion on activating divine favour, as well examine three vital keys to activating divine favour.

Most of the things that God will do in the life of a man will be done through other men. God remains the source of favour, and men and women are the resources God uses in favoring us. As Christians, we are qualified for divine favour, which is favour that has its source in God. But it is one thing to be qualified for something, and it is another thing to access that thing. 

In this episode, we begin a discussion on what we need to know and do in order to activate and walk in the reality of divine favour as believers.

Favor is one of the manifestations of grace, and when we talk about favor here, the emphasis is on favor with men. No matter how great you are, and how anointed God makes you, favor with men still counts. Men are the conduits or channels of divine favor. God is the source, but men are the channels. So the favor you have with God makes God hear and answer your prayer, and the favor you have with men is what will make them willing instruments in the hand of God to give you that promotion which is the answer to your prayer.

In this episode, we discuss men as the channels of divine favor, as we explore reasons why favor with men is such an important factor in the equation of divine favor as a manifestation of grace.

One of the manifestations of grace is favor. To be blessed is to find favor with God. It is a good thing to be blessed. But as important as it is to be blessed and to find favor with God, is finding favor with men. Jesus was God in flesh. Despite being the express image of God, he needed to have favor with men. Luke 2:52 says “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” 

In this episode, we begin a series of teaching on favor, as we explore what it means to operate in divine favor.

One thing about God is that God manifests His glory the most in the midst of darkness, confusion and gloom. It is when everything looks bleak that God comes through, because when God passes through your situation with the blessing, he wants to make his mark clear and undeniable, such that nothing can take the glory. 

In this episode of the Voice of Alignment podcast, we end a series of teachings on the blessings of the Lord by exploring how the blessing of the Lord can power the elevation of a believer in the midst of a crisis, a famine, or an economic downturn.

God’s desire for us is to live a life that is filled with his blessing. God has released to us every spiritual blessing that we can ever think of or imagine, in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). We have this blessing in the spiritual realm by virtue of the mercy of God, and we translate these blessings from the spiritual realm to the physical realm by engaging the triggers of the blessing. 

One of these triggers of the blessing is Righteous Living. In episode 56 of the Voice of Alignment Podcast, we explore how we can trigger the release of the blessing through righteous living. We examine righteousness in the lens of the New Covenant, and how it triggers the release of the blessing into our lives.

As a believer, you are blessed. It does not matter what your current situation is. Ephesians 1:3 tells us that we are blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. But it is one thing to have these blessings in Christ, it is another thing for these blessings to be made manifest in your physical reality. What you need to translate spiritual blessings into tangible expressions are the triggers of the blessing. 

In episode 55 of the Voice of Alignment podcast, we continue our discussion on the triggers of the blessing as we dive into faith as a trigger of the blessing. In this episode, we explore how we can engage faith in translating the blessing we have in the spiritual realm, into tangible and physical expressions.

One thing about the blessing is that it is God’s advantage handed over to a mortal. In other words, a man operating by a blessing enjoys an advantage in life that is traceable to God’s backing. Mercy is the primary justification for the blessing. This is why the most blessed people are not the most perfect people. Acknowledging and engaging mercy is the first and mandatory step to a blessing. After these, we need to engage triggers of the blessing.

In this episode, we share two (2) powerful triggers of the blessing that we can engage in order to secure and guarantee the manifestation of God’s blessings over our life.

One of the benefits we have as Christians is that we are blessed. The blessing of God is a part of the New Testament experience which we all have in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 says “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ” Although we are all blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, not every Christians physical reality reflects this. 

In this episode (Episode 53), we begin to explore the triggers of the blessing, as we examine the things that can be done by a believer in order to trigger the physical and tangible expression of the blessing that he or she has. 

One of the manifestations of grace is blessings, particularly, the blessing of God. When the blessing of God rests upon a person, what it does is to amplify the results or reward of that person. So the person puts in effort, but gets the result that is multiple times more than the result he or she deserves when assessed from the lens of the physical. One thing about the blessing of God is that it gives you an advantage that may look unfair to others.

In this episode (Episode 52), we examine how the blessing brings about elevation, as well as mercy as the foundation and justification for the blessing.