Some of us are fasting. Some of us are trying to figure out what we will be fasting. This fast we are on is entitled “Favor Fast” and through it, we are trying to remove the barriers existing in our lives that stop us from receiving God’s generous favor for our lives. There is no promise of riches and success in receiving God’s favor, it is not the purpose of our fasting. Rather, the promise found in God’s favor through our fasting is His grace, and presence. It is the delivery of your life to the very place God always intended it to be; to be giving you what He always intended for you– a life fulfilled. In order to make room for God’s favor in our life, we need to make space for it through fasting something that occupies our busy schedules keeping us away from it. This type of fasting will cost your convenience, your comfort, and it will also take some serious willpower and commitment. I know we all want our cakes and eat it too, but that’s not the way life works. In fact, it’s not the way God works. He is offering you favor, but if you have no room for it in your life then you simply can’t have it. That’s not because God is keeping it from you either. It’s an offer that never ceases to be there; however, it’s an offer very few of us wish to accept out of fear of giving up something we value and cherish. But King David said to Ornan, No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing. – 1 Chronicles 21:24 David was looking for God’s favor to stop pestilence that he essentially brought upon his kingdom. David pleads with God requesting the pestilence be inflicted upon him rather than innocents and God offers a solution– make a worthy sacrifice on behalf of the people and the land will be healed. David buys a plot of land for 300 shekels (approximately $250k) and builds an altar to perform a sacrifice of atonement. If you think about it, it is spending $250k for a worship service where it’s just you and God alone in a wheat field, on the side of a barn. The chapter concludes with the cessation of the deathly plague. Bringing this back to our conversation of sacrificing to make room for God’s favor, we have to ask ourselves, “Is my sacrifice worthy enough in my life to make room for God sized favor?” What will your sacrifice be? Make sure it’s a sacrifice that will cost you something. Pray for God to show you what He wants you to sacrifice to make room for His favor.
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