Woman Thou Art Favoured

Saturday 19 March
READ: Luke 1: 26-29
MORE LESSON: Prov 31: 30

Genuine favour is the righteous man’s inheritance from the Lord; the favour of man is deceitful. The woman is a creation of great favour. Although the men folk have so much to say about the woman, God's record about her is the truth. In Luke 1: 28, God sent His angel to reveal His verdict about the woman and it is . . .Hail, thou art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women. Mary the mother of Jesus is blessed and every believing woman is also divinely blessed.
The woman must know who she is and whom she belongs to. The woman belongs to so many people; her father, her mother, her husband, her children. However, she belongs to the Lord more than she belongs to any man, and so can contact and enjoy the unlimited favour of the Lord. And when the King of kings has favoured a man, the king of the earth will have to follow suit.
However, the favour of God is not 'magic', it is contacted. Don't wait for it to come like magic. Therefore, for the woman to be highly favoured she must possess some virtues:
1. A favoured woman must be chaste. One of the reasons why the woman has fallen below the price line before man is lack of chastity; women easily yield to the flesh and breed only weed. It is purity that produces true liberty. Our soul is much more important than the body. What qualified Mary for the high favour was her chastity. Sex is not a tool to get all you want in life; it is a creation of God within the confinement of marriage. When it comes to sex, it is for “the married only”.
2. To be a woman of high favour, you must know the LORD, know His Word and carry His Spirit. It is when we know the Lord that we can know ourselves, the Holy Spirit helping us each day to become more like Jesus.
3. The woman must be ready to accept the will of God always in all things. To be a beneficiary of God's favour, the woman must always ask: “What is the will of God for me in this? What are the things I should do and not do?”
4. She must not rate the knowledge of men above that of God. She must hold onto Jesus in everything and follow her godly passion. She must discover her gifts/talents and use them without being intimidated.
5. She must accept responsibility in God's vineyard and grace will locate her. She must be ready to showcase the grace of God in her life and not the flesh by not hiding what she can do for God and others.
Dear woman, rise up today and become who God made you to be because He wants to use you.

Prayer/Action
* Ask the Lord to open your eyes to see the treasure and high value He has placed inside you.
* Pray that you will believe the report of the Lord and not the opinion of men regarding your esteem.
* Pray that God will give all believing women the grace to be women of virtue and favour, in Jesus, name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Every negative mystery that has surrounded my life and destiny for ages be terminated now, in the name of Jesus.