Good afternoon and Happy Saturday. As we continue in the month of Favor in September based on Exodus 3:19-21, Proverbs 8:32-35 and Luke 2:51-52 there was a time where I worked in a building in the downtown Chicago area. The building was located in he Financial District of Chicago and it had about 4,000 employees that worked for different companies in this building. It is also used as a building by commuters who get off the two train lines by the building to get to their jobs in the downtown Chicago area. It gets cold at times here in Chicago and people took this as a way to beat the elements. As I worked in the lobby as a Security Officer at the building I would say "Good Morning Everybody" or if I worked the afternoon I would say "Great Job everyone". But to some in my department they took it as I acting as individual rather than a team player. The plot was on to get rid of me. I was beginning a time of Favor of Your Enemies.
In getting into this teaching I want to define the word enemies and in doing so I go to my source of definitions and that is dictionary.com. Enemies is plural for enemy which means as follows; a person
feels hatred for another; fosters harmful designs against; engages in antagonistic activities against another. In the next three paragraphs I will show how I obtained Favor of My Enemies.
As I go into the Word of God for this teaching of Favor of Your Enemies I am going to Exodus 12:31-32. In this passage Pharaoh whose heart was hardened by God finally agrees to let the people
go and asked for Moses and Aaron to bless him as well. My coworkers and superiors being to feel a hatred towards me and any little thing that I did was magnified. I pressed forward because I knew that I would have the Favor of My Enemies.
In continuing in the teaching of Favor of Your Enemies I stay in Exodus 12 but go to verses 33-34. In these verses the Egyptian people cannot wait for the people of God to leave and God's people get
ready to go to the promise land by packing up things they will need because during this time they still offered sacrifices to God. As my employers fosters harmful designs against me they were helping me and did not know it. Favor of Your Enemies.
In using the last example in the Word of God of Favor of Your Enemies I finish in Exodus 12:35-36. In this passage the people of God ask the Egyptians, their oppressors for things as they have favor. As
my employers continued to engage in antagonistic activities against me I was getting business contacts and having a blog written about me by a HR representative of a company in the building that was used by another company as a training video and has opened many doors for me in the future. Favor of Your Enemies.
In closing despite what some may tell you, do to you or try to prevent you from doing, being a child of God it only gets you ready for favor. You can be successful in doing movies or theater. You can begin a social media site free of obscene videos. You can start a family outreach center in the community. You can get involved in the education of children. You can run for government office and begin to change some of the laws that seem unfair. You can begin the process of opening that faith based business. You can begin to be a change agent on how some things that are religious need to be looked at differently. Yes you may have people hate you, foster harmful designs against you or engages in antagonistic activities against you, but it is the beginning of Favor of Your Enemies. I thank God and give him all the glory and honor for this teaching. I ask him to bless all who may read this teaching. Please join me Monday for my final teaching in the month of Favor in September called Increase in Favor based on Luke 2:51-52. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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