Living in His favor.

It's the place of favor that catapults us into revelations of the realm of God, and who He is. In simple words, it is because He wants us to discover Him, that's why He lets us discover Him.

It happened to Moses in this way. In his first encounter with God, the mystery of God was experienced by Moses. Moses said, "who should I say sent me?" and God said, "I am who I am". For many many years I thought this was amazing, and it really is, where God declared that what man say about Him is not important. It doesn't define Him. He is who He is.

But there is always progression in relationship, and this wasn't the end for Moses. When Moses went up to the mountain in Exodus 33 to discuss with God what to do with the people God is pissed with. And Moses says this amazing thing, "if I have indeed found favor with you, then show me your ways so the I can continue to find favor with you." He said, "you said, I have found favor with you." Wow and God changes His mind about abandoning the Israelites

Then Moses says "show me your glory." And God said, "I will let all my goodness pass by you and I will proclaim My Name before you."

And then when God passes by, He declares "THE LORD, THE LORD, COMPASSIONATE AND GRACIOUS GOD, SLOW TO ANGER, ABOUNDING IN LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS, MAINTAINING LOVE TO THOUSANDS, AND FORGIVING WICKEDNESS, REBELLIOUS AND SIN."

WOW! That is God, that is what He declares about Himself. This is who He is.

We must hunger to get to the place where He reveals Himself. Every revelation of God is initiated by favor. It was like this with Daniel, when the angel of the Lord, Gabriel, came to Daniel and said, "you who are highly esteemed by God", and revealed to Him the revelation of the end times.

It is also the same with Jesus, the perfect image of the invisible God, the revelation of God in the flesh. Do we have favor? Do we all have favor? But we do know the desire of God to reveal Himself to us. That in itself is enough favor. Which is why the angels proclaimed to the shepherds, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace to men on whom His favor rests."

Favor with God is the invitation to know Him more, to know Him truely and magnificiently. We must respond in the time of favor, to experience His goodness and everlasting love. We must hunger, thirst, obssess and be desperate to know him FULLY. For this is the very desire of God, and our very inheritance, which is Christ.

Isaiah 61:2, Jesus proclaimed it when He came onto the earth. He proclaimed "the year of the Lord's favor." We are living in the season of His favor. Time is short, and revelation is accelerated, and we must take of this season of His favor.

Jeremiah says it this way in chapter 29, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." Oh how much favor He has placed on us, that He desires for us to prosper. He determines that we prosper. And then He says "then you will seek me with all your heart, and YOU WILL FIND ME."

He favors us SO MUCH. Even angels wonder why. For God so love the world, He sent His Son down to die for us. It's not God who said that. It was the Son, Jesus. He is saying, "you have no idea how much my father loves you." And He spends so much time on earth teaching about the kind of place we have with God, that we are more important than many sparrows. That He knows us intimately, even our hairs are numbered.

That's why David said in Psalm 139, "How precious are your thoughts about me, O Lord! They cannot be numbered! They outnumber the grains of sand!"

Job 33:26 "He prays to God and finds favor with Him, he SEES GOD'S FACE, and shouts for joy!"

We must capture the opportunity made available in this season. To take the posture of humility, like Moses, and say "God show us your ways."

Suppose there was a man who lived in a kingdom, and for a long time, he was comfortable in this kingdom. But poverty began to grow in this kingdom, and worrying for the safety of his family, he took his family and fled the kingdom. After many days of travelling, he eventually reached another kingdom, where there was abundance of food he had not seen for a good portion of his life. Upon entering he was stopped by the guards at the gate and the guards brought him to see the king. Seeing the man and how impoverished his family looked, the king took pity on him, and asked the man, "what business do u have here?" The man looked at the king and then at his family. He could tell by the number of guards and the vastness of his kingdom that this king was a powerful king. In this place, there was hope for his family. What would he say to the king in order that he may stay? Will he say to the king, look I need to you to give me a good portion of your food, and a place to stay, and clothes to wear? Will he demand not to pay taxes, and demand the king to arrange things so that he can have his old lifestyle and live it comfortably? No. Instead, he will fall with his face to the ground, ask for mercy, and offer himself to the king. He will offer to submit himself to the system of this new kingdom so that he may have life.

In the same way, how can we say to God, God look u have to do things a certain way for us. Or if God is God, He should fit into our box. Instead, will we not say, God show us your ways, how your kingdom works, so that we may live in it. In fact, God wants to show us so much more. He is our father, there is family background that he wants to tell us. Like adopted kids, we have much to learn about who our father is, and what our family is like, what His kingdom is like. In the Spirit realm, there are not only angels that He wants us to experience, but He wants to show us all He has made.

John 16, Jesus tells His disciples, "Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. In that day you will ask in my name. No I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father Himself loves you because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God." Jesus said the time He tells us plainly about the Father is when we start to ask in His name. Are we not asking in His name? Are we not approaching the Father's throne boldly already?

That means the time is now. Now is the time that Jesus is telling us plainly about our Father. There is revelation being poured out now that is beyond our understanding. We need that revelation. We need God to come and declare His character before us.

After God declared His nature to Moses, "his face was radiant." God's glory is going to invade us in a measure we haven't seen before!