Have you ever heard of the “Law of Attraction?” It’s pretty popular these days with New Age and secularists. They think the Law of Attraction is some kind of cosmic “juju” that attracts people and opportunities to you.
In reality, biblical favor is the attraction of God to you that releases influence through you, so that other people are inclined to like, trust or cooperate with you—in the assignment God gave you!
This favor isn’t “earthly”—it’s a God given supernatural force that magnetizes you! Are you ready to be a people magnet?!
So, what is the internal backdrop of this phenomenon?
- Motivation. What influence do you want to have? Is your intent to manipulate or to bless? You and I both know this to be true, that you can guide people into particular experiences and thoughts. You can structure the transaction to serve yourself. But that’s a far cry from what God actually does. He desires for you to move in a spirit of favor and operate from a place of wanting to bless—instead of wanting to get something from other people. Hebrews 4:12 says that “the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” No matter how shrewd you think you are, there is One who weighs our motivations. Ask yourself, “Do I have the character to sustain the influence God has given me?”
- Stewardship. The Lord wants to entrust increase to His people and He wants to entrust it in a way that doesn’t destroy you when you get it. Remember that he who is faithful with little will be trusted with much—this includes your influence with those God has placed in your path (Luke 16:10). God desires for you to prosper in business and in relationships; be faithful to the calling He has set in your heart.
FAVOR IS A FORM OF CURRENCY WITH WHICH YOU CAN FORM SUPERCHARGED ALLIANCES, IF STEWARDED PROPERLY. THESE ALLIANCES GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO, FASTER!
One of the greatest gifts that you could ever receive is the gift of favor and the power of supernatural attraction.
In Maximum Impact I explain the phenomena of how to walk in the supernatural favor of God in business, and how to resist the opposite spirit, which is a spirit of manipulation. This training is going to help you discover the key in the assignment God gave you.
You can find out more here: http://lancewallnau.com/impact
Question: Has this post caused you to question your own motivation when it comes to influence? Is your heart in alignment with God’s heart to bless you and others?
As One!
Lance
Amen!
I agree 100% with you.
You don’t need to ask any thing from God our Father – He will give you what you need because He is Love and Knows what you and I need.
BLESSINGS!!
…Faithful with that which is anot her man’s get your own…Faithful with the unrighteous mammon be trusted with the true riches…of glory in Christ Jesus! We behold His glory full of grace and truth…and of Yahweh’s Fullness we receive grace for favor to walk in the truth. His grace overflowing with faith to believe and love to act on what we believe to receive His favor/ability to walk in the truth and fulfill our assignment as doers/poets of the good works Word/poem/workmanship we are preordained to.
My heart is aligned with God’s to bless, but I just came thru a trial this week where those above me in the organization really struggle with manipulation. They seemed to want to throw me out with their manipulation, but God thwarted the enemy’s plan in a power encounter.
Like many, I’m sure my conscious heart motive is that my interaction with others would be to bless, however, if I am to be transparently honest, I must admit that more often than I like, I do find myself considering how the interaction might also benefit me.
Lance,
Just sent this to another posting:
‘Huge insight here and heaven sent. Very few even can start to understand this. Words are cheap I hear in my inner ear. Yet words spoken with human given authority are nothing. Words spoken with the Word has power.
Yet lucifer knows the Word better than us yet he uses the Word for self promotion. Nothing wrong with the Word and nothing wrong with the Spirit, but the third part is a mess and that’s us. Who doesn’t play god every day and not even know it. A Spirit filled life has freedom and meaning, but one others like the life of Jesus will be filled with little gods with all types of labels even christian who judge and condemn as they don’t have our DNA, which is unique to every one of us. So we try to make everyone and everything into our DNA by playing god. The church is a mess because nobody understands this and we keep doing the same old same old or repackaging it with different wrapping paper to try and make it look different. Each flock needs the 5 fold ministry in it as it goes and operates in the 7 mountains of influence. 5 + 7 = 12. Jesus teaching circle. Preach to the masses, but only teach following the model of the Master and then do something important disciple. It call the Great Commission with 3 key Words: Baptise, Teach and Disciple. Hardest one is disciple as it means time, energy and commitment and a lot of time out of the lime light and who want to do that? Who wants to stand in the gap when I can just play god on my own? What is a Christian, it’s a life fully given over to another and that’s God. Tough living that assignment and desire out as we all have this defective gene in us called rebellion that came as part of the gift called free will. I’ll be a Christian, but only on my terms and conditions.
‘Really’, I hear a lot in my inner ear. Do you really understand what you are saying and what it is going to cost you in regards to family, friends, others in every part of your life as you and I don’t have a life any more as we have given it up if we really are a Christian and He (Holy Spirit) now guides our every decision. It’s called a Spirit filled life the one Jesus walked perfectly and we, well that’s another story and it takes a life time to tell.’
Hope it is encouraging.
The first thing God taught me was my motives were tainted when I helped someone. I was stunned to say the least! Yet it was all true… I helped so people would like me, so when I needed help I could call in the favor, and of course it would show me in the light as a Good Samaritan. So I told God I would no longer help anyone unless it was without strings. It was about a year before my motives were pure. That was almost 40 years ago and I try to help anytime I can. I’m out of that bondage of manipulation in to freedom to truly show the love of Christ.
Jerri Hubbard
Thank you for this teaching. I am rethinking my motives….
Extremely thought provoking post!
The motives in my personal life and in my sphere of influence have always been one of a blesser. I detest manipulation because however decent a term the world calls it, the Bible clearly says that it is witchcraft! And I have the gift of recognizing it not only in myself the moment I think a thought but also in others. What I have asked the Holy Spirit for is the strength to never allow myself to be entrapped in the spirit of manipulation in whatever form it takes or even the entrapper. Nevertheless, I also know for sure that I have the character to sustain the influence God has given me. How? Because the Only One I love more than myself is Jesus Christ – sounds cliched but it is absolutely true in my life.
Yes, this gives “Food (a feast) for thought”
You are hitting the nail on the head in most encouraging ways that motivate us to change from within.
As a new asst. Pastor and after readING this. I will have to ask myself every time I have a chance to speak to an individual or the congregation what is my motovation here, is God showing through first or is is it me. Thank you Lance
Pastor Michael