This word is submitted by Ravikumar Srinivasan (ravikumar7777@hotmail.com)

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                           God's Favor

When we walk in God's favor, it will bring victories in our lives that 
we cannot acquire in our own strength and in our own might.  When the 
Israelites couldn't take the land by their own might, by their own 
strength, by their own intelligence or ability, God's favor came on 
them.  And they were able to possess the land God had promised them. 

We can either war in our own might, or we can rest in the favor of God. 
And when the favor of God goes before us, it will enable us to take 
possession of what is rightfully ours. 

The favor of God will help us win battles that we could never win in 
our own strength.
 
Ps. 44:1-3 (Amplified version)

	We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, 
	what work You did in their days, in the days of old. You drove 
	out the nations with Your hand and it was Your power that gave 
	Israel a home by rooting out the heathen peoples but Israel You 
	spread out.  For they got not the land in possession by their 
	own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but Your right 
	hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, because 
	You were favorable toward and did delight in them.