We Need Gods Favor Daily.

How Do I Get God’s Favor?

The song given to us in Psalm 18 – especially the first 19 verses – describes the desperate prayer of the Psalmist. Notice the beginning of verse 6, “in my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God.” The next several lines of that song indicate the conundrum in which he found himself.

Strength to Live for God: An Example of God’s Favor

A second Biblical example of God’s grace or favor can be found in 2 Timothy 2:1, where the Apostle Paul told his student Timothy, “You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” Here, and in many other places in the Scriptures, God’s grace gave the beneficiary the ability or strength to do something they were humanly incapable of doing.

A quick reading of the previous chapter in 2 Timothy explains the author’s use of the English word, “therefore” in this verse. Basically, Paul was telling this young man that he needed the strength that could be found in the grace of God. I think that Timothy understood what the aged Apostle was saying. Life can be very difficult, and we all need God’s grace to make it through.

To summarize these two examples of God’s favor: it is only by God’s grace (or undeserved favor) that we can experience eternal life, and it is only by God’s grace that we have the ability to live for the Lord during the sometimes difficult paths He has for us in this life.