B. Unmerited Favor

Unmerited Favor

Highlights

effeminate — location: 68

His unmerited favor will transform you into wholeness, and it is the goodness of God, not your striving and self-efforts, that will lead you to live victoriously for His glory. — location: 90

The reality is that the Christian life is not a religion at all. It is about having a relationship based completely on receiving WHAT GOD HIMSELF HAS DONE ON THE CROSS! When you receive completely what Jesus has done for you, your “doing” will flow effortlessly. — location: 122

It is the presence of the Lord in your life that makes you a success! — location: 189

You see, you are transformed not by struggling. You are transformed by beholding Jesus and believing that He loves you and wants to save you. — location: 240

You can start practicing His presence by speaking it out. — location: 255

So the best time to practice His presence is precisely when you feel like Jesus is 100,000 miles away. — location: 266

mired — location: 313

It is not what you have. It is who you have  that makes all the difference. — location: 350

When God’s presence is made manifest in your life, that’s when His glory shines forth through you. — location: 365

So this tells me that Potiphar must have witnessed tangible results that were really out of this world. He must have seen results that were so spectacular that he knew they were beyond that of an ordinary human being! — location: 377

Desire the results that only Jesus can produce! — location: 390

When you stop doing and start depending on God’s divine favor, you will begin to experience the Jesus-kind of results. — location: 399

It is His manifested presence, His glorious power working in your heart and through your hands that will cause everything you touch to prosper with the Jesus-kind of results, such that even your harshest critic will have to conclude that the Lord is with you and is prospering the work of your hands! — location: 407

Because Jesus is with you, expect good success in everything that you do! — location: 414

Depend on Jesus and Jesus alone, if you  want to experience His success. — location: 421

His success not just success

So start resting in Jesus’ unmerited favor and begin experiencing His manifested presence and glory upon everything you touch! — location: 448

He wants to bless you so that you can be a blessing! — location: 475

The more we know our Father, the more we become like Him. This is how God causes us to grow from glory to glory in every area of our lives. It is simply by beholding Him! — location: 497

Even the world has more common sense than some Christians! — location: 514

Use money and love people. Don’t love money and use people. — location: 523

let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord. —Jeremiah 9:23–24, nas — location: 538

Know that He executes justice against all injustices. — location: 542

The more you focus on beholding Jesus in all His loveliness and the less you struggle to earn things by your own merits, the more you become safe for greater success in your life. — location: 545

sycophants — location: 565

if you don’t teach the Ten Commandments to your church, what is going to govern them?” My friend, the Lord Himself will govern them! — location: 582

Today, God can be for you even when you fail because Jesus’ blood has washed you whiter than snow! — location: 615

He is for you today because of the blood of the perfect Lamb—Jesus Christ. That is why as believers today, we don’t have to fight for ourselves. — location: 623

it’s important to get these foundational truths right and not slide in and out of trying to deserve God’s favor when He wants us to receive everything through His unmerited favor. — location: 641

Jesus is not interested in works driven by a sense of legalism. He is interested in you wanting to spend quality time with Him in His Word, so that He can talk to you, encourage you and impart the necessary wisdom to you for the day. — location: 645

The presence of Jesus in your life is a free gift from God. There is no number of good works that you can perform to merit His favor. — location: 654

When the unmerited favor of God is upon you wherever you are, like it was upon Joseph, (1) you cannot help but find favor, (2) everything that you do cannot help but prosper, and (3) you cannot help but experience increase and promotion beyond your wildest imagination. — location: 718

When the unmerited favor of God is upon you, you are like a rubber ball in a pool of water. Natural circumstances can try to push you down and keep you suppressed under water, but the unmerited favor of God will always cause you to POP right up to the top! — location: 722

There are many times where the lowest points in your life are actually the launching pads to God’s greatest promotion in your life. — location: 727

Similarly, with adequate exposure to SON-light and the living water of God’s Word, good fruits are produced in your life effortlessly. — location: 753

Once you involve Jesus and acknowledge His presence, you will sense Him intervening in any decision you are about to make, through the absence or presence of His peace. — location: 763

Where this is no peace in a situation, that can be a sign of the Lord intervening

He is not asking you to pretend that the facts are not there. He wants you to realize that HE IS THERE WITH YOU! — location: 787

Unless you have absolute confidence that Jesus cares for you, you will not cast your cares upon Him. — location: 794

Bible study divorced from His presence is a dead work. — location: 824

You cannot be in the presence of the Lord without His glory, His majesty, His beauty, His power, His love and  His peace rubbing off on you. — location: 851

There is no limit to what you can thank Him for since every good and perfect gift that we enjoy today comes directly from Him. — location: 883

The moment you realize that your heart is heavy with worry and your mind is plagued by anxiety, share your challenge with Jesus and thank Him that this problem is not bigger than His hands. — location: 886

It’s important to always attach thanksgiving to prayer requests in order to refresh our perspective

What you appreciate appreciates in value in your eyes. — location: 900

but you will never hear them talking about what the Lord has been telling them. Guess what? They are tuned in to the wrong frequency! — location: 916

the best warfare to engage in is to magnify the Lord Jesus — location: 919

You can expect good... You can enjoy God’s unmerited favor... You can ask God for big things... ...because you have been made the righteousness of God through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross! — location: 948

Your righteousness in Christ is the sure foundation on which you can build your expectations to receive God’s unmerited favor. — location: 954

It is all about believing right in Jesus to become righteous. — location: 963

But God is not looking at your nobility, sacrifices or good works to justify you. He is only interested in Jesus’ humility at the cross. — location: 968

We can only receive righteousness as a free gift from God. God’s righteousness is free for us, but it cost Him dearly. — location: 996

Because of the cross and Your perfect sacrifice, — location: 1032

not because I am good, but because You are good! — location: 1034

Right believing always leads to right living. — location: 1038

The Grace Of God Answers You In Your Most Undeserving Moment — location: 1043

Because if he can answer you in your most undeserving, he can answer you anytime

The fight of faith is to fight to believe that you are made righteous by faith and not by works. — location: 1052

Only Jesus can touch what you are feeling inside and turn that turmoil into His peace. With the Lord by your side, and from that abiding peace within, you can influence your external surroundings. — location: 1075

Jesus gives us peace, security, covering and protection even in the midst of a storm. — location: 1095

No, your success will come as a result of your being tuned in to the presence of Jesus in your life! — location: 1114

go to bed thinking about Jesus, giving thanks to Him for the day. You can also meditate on one of His promises, — location: 1119

Sandwich your day with the presence of Jesus. — location: 1124

It is far more powerful to be full of Jesus than to be full of worldly knowledge. — location: 1142

When we partake of Jesus, wisdom, understanding, peace, joy and unmerited favor will flow in our lives! — location: 1143

The Bible shows us that there is a direct correlation between hearing and seeing Jesus, and the health of our physical bodies. — location: 1156

ignoramus — location: 1162

embroiled — location: 1164

“peace” as eirene, — location: 1174

The Hebrew Lexicon describes “shalom” as completeness, safety, soundness (in body), welfare, health, prosperity, peace, — location: 1180

quiet, tranquility, contentment, peace used of human relationships, peace with God especially in covenant relationship and peace from war. — location: 1181

All the fears that you are experiencing in your life today began with an untruth, a lie that you have somehow believed. — location: 1193

The new covenant of grace is also known as the covenant of peace. — location: 1202

God Himself found fault with the old covenant of law. — location: 1233

Why would He be willing to pay such a heavy price, allowing Jesus to be publicly humiliated, and to suffer inhumane violence, if there wasn’t something fundamentally wrong with the old covenant of law? — location: 1243

Under the law, even the best failed. Under grace, even the worst can be saved! — location: 1251

Many good, well-meaning and sincere believers today are defeated by their lack of knowledge of the new covenant and all the benefits that Jesus has purchased for them at the cross. — location: 1257

What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us! — location: 1275

So before you quote an Old Testament verse to show how God is angry with believers for their sins, don’t forget that it is in the context of the Old Testament, where Christ had not yet died on the cross. — location: 1300

While Jesus is in the Old Testament concealed, He is in the New Testament revealed. The stronger your foundation in the new covenant, the more you will be able to see Jesus unveiled in the Old Testament. — location: 1302

Don’t let anyone tell you that you need the law to make you righteous when you know that you are righteous today because of Jesus Christ! — location: 1324

The law is not for you the believer, who has been made righteous in Christ! The law is not applicable to someone who is under the new covenant of grace. — location: 1329

“Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.” — location: 1332

He gave the law to point us to Jesus. — location: 1336

You see, my friend, the law demands from man, but grace (unmerited favor) imparts to man. — location: 1339

The law makes you sin-conscious, while grace (unmerited favor) makes you righteousness-conscious. — location: 1344

You cannot put new wine into an old wineskin because you will lose both. — location: 1361

With full assurance in your heart that sickness is not from God, you can have faith to be healed! — location: 1371

in God’s eyes, grace and truth are synonymous—unmerited favor is truth and truth is unmerited favor. — location: 1413

You cannot separate truth from grace and grace from truth as they are both embodied in the person of Jesus Christ. — location: 1416

Grace is a Person. — location: 1419

His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS. — location: 1456

The more you try to keep the law by your efforts, the more it will bring forth what it was designed to bring forth—your failings and sins. — location: 1488

Because of the cross, God will not lift His hand of protection over us. — location: 1505

2 Corinthians 3:18 — location: 4276