TOPIC: FAVOUR AND BEAUTY

(Gen. 29:17, Esther 2:15,17, Prov 18:22)

Course content includes:
1. Introduction

2. Definition of terms

3. Why you need favour and beauty

4. How to obtain favour from the lord.


1. INTRODUCTION

Every lady who is a child of God carries favour upon her. It says in Psalms 90:17

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

The reason God bestows so much beauty upon you as ladies, is for you to be productive because God takes pleasure in establishing the work of our hands as a show of His favour.

Therefore no lady is a liability. You're a carrier of the God's inestimable treasure of great price. You're wonderfully and fearfully made. The very apple of God's eyes. It's important to know this so that not just any guy or stranger will flatter you with the same words in order to get you to do his unrighteous biding.

You're beautiful and well favoured.

Even though Esther was in a foreign land, yet when a replacement for queen Vashti was sought for, she found favour before all them that looked on her and even before the king, who eventually made her the queen in place of vashti (Esther 2:15-17)

It's also important to know that God designed a lady to be beautiful and well favoured in order to bring salvation, deliverance and breakthrough not only for herself alone but also to her generation as it was with Esther and her people; the Jews. We can see that God bestowed so much beauty and favour on her in order to bring her to a place of prominence, royalty and authority which eventually brought deliverance to the Jews from the hand of Hamman and all the enemies of the Jews (Esther 9:1-5,16)

Sadly, in our contemporary days, the purpose to which God made a woman more beautiful and well favoured has been abused and that is why God is calling us to be restored back to Him by understanding the true essence of your make-up as a lady.

Your beauty is not to seduce men to fall into sin nor should it be used as a bait for weakness to pass an exam or attain a position of compromise. Your beauty is not for molestation by uncultured and canal men.

It is for God's glory to be revealed through you to your family, friends and to your generation at large.

2. DEFINITION OF TERMS.

We've since been using the terms beautiful and well favoured but we should take a critical look at what these terms really mean, so we could have a better idea of what we are talking about..

WHAT THEN IS FAVOUR?
Favour is a natural but supernatural or acquired excellence.

It is any endowment that recommends the possessor to others for preference or to be chosen among many options (Esther as a case study)

Favour which also means grace is appropriately, the free unmerited love and kindness of God, the spring from the source of all the benefits anyone can receive from Him.

it is God's way of blessing His children without any form of reservation or without finding faults in them. No matter how terrible your past is, God is not condemning you anymore as long as you've found favour in His sight.

WHAT THEN IS BEAUTY?

Beauty is an assemblage of graces, or a combination of properties either the colour of the skin, your dressing or appearance etc... which pleases the eye.

Beauty as used for a lady is due to the proportion or symmetry of her body parts which constitutes the most essential property to which we annex the term beauty (whenever a man tells you that you're beautiful, that means he has seen mostly all the symmetry of your shape and appearance to be well pleasing in his sight).

But the principal properties which constitute beauty is hardly possible to define from physical appearance alone. Therefore, beauty is well defined from scriptures as we read in 1 peter 3:3-4 AMP

Vs 3. Let not yours(your beauty) be the [merely] external adorning with [elaborate] interweaving and knotting of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or changes of clothes;

Vs 4. But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle(meek/humble) and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.

Notably, from the above scripture, beauty can best be defined by the state of the inner man; having the eternal virtues, gifts and fruits of an unfading spiritual charm and not just about the physical appearance alone.

3. WHY YOU NEED FAVOUR AND BEAUTY

There's a popular aphorism that says "one day of favour is better than many years of labour." That is why favour is very crucial. As ladies, you need favour and beauty for the following reasons;


i. You need beauty and favour to be preferred above others (Gen 29:17). For instance, Jacob choose Rachel because she was beautiful and well favoured.

Although this is not a competition, but it is a necessary grace that separates the few from the crowd.
ii. You need favour and beauty to bring prosperity, salvation, breakthrough and deliverance to your generation (Esther 9:1-5,16).

iii. You need favour and beauty in order to enjoy life in abundance (Exd 12:36)

iv. You need favour in order to possess your possession (psalm 44:3).

v. You need favour in order to keep winning in life Acts 7:45-46... David never lost any battle because he found favour with the lord.

4. HOW TO OBTAIN FAVOUR FROM THE LORD.

i. Be born again because favour is the inheritance of every child of God. Exd 12:36, 1sam 2:26, Luke 2:52

ii. Fight for what is right by engaging in spiritual matters like prayer, fasting and other spiritual mystery (Esther 4:16, 5:2, 8:1-7)

iii. Go for wisdom and knowledge. For instance; buy books about every aspect of life you need to knowledge of (e.g family, relationship, dating and courtship, marriage covenant, career e.t.c) and study your Bible daily Prov. 8:35, 13:15

iv. Avoid every form of lies. Be truthful, kind and merciful both to yourself and to those around you. Prov 3:3-4.

v. Fear the lord in all you do by giving Him His rightful place and authority over your life (Prov 31:30).. Joseph found favour because he feared God (Gen.39:9,21)
Finally, it's important to know that everyone has a story and as ladies, you also must guard your life jealously in order to have a glorious story to tell. Jesus is Lord.
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