The Leverage of Favor 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Proverbs Chapter 3 verses 1 to 8.

Favor has leverage when it is from God. Otherwise, it is the whims and caprices of human beings which is not sustainable. But the favor which comes from God has leverage because God uses it to accomplish divine purposes through the favored one. S/he has unlimited, unrestricted access to whatever resources are required to accomplish divine purpose; is sheltered, safe and secure in God and by God from all the flying darts of the enemy.

Divine favor is aromatic, has pleasant smells which explain why anyone with divine favor is always warmly and lovingly received by people, families, institutions, nations and governments. Divine favor also guarantees access to God, the blessings of God as well as to people and whatever resources are required to achieve divine purpose. Please read Deuteronomy Chapter 33 verses 13 to 29 and Isaiah Chapter 60 verses 10 to 11.

God in His infinite mercy encompassed Joseph with uncommon favor such that even while in prison in a foreign land, the divine favor of God encompassed Joseph. The keeper of the prison left everything to Joseph’s care just as his erstwhile master Potiphar left everything in his care when he served under Potiphar before he was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife and unjustly put in prison. But despite being in prison in a land where Joseph had no one to speak up for him in his favor, the Bible records that God was with him and gave him favor before the keeper of the prison. Beloved, the Presence of God in the life of a person is also a contributory factor to being encircled by divine favor. Please read Psalm 5 verse 12.

Identify and Deploy Your Launch Pads as Leverages

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 16

Every human being created by God has divine or what you may call natural leverages divinely given by God to elevate the person in his or her life. The challenge usually is knowing and understanding that you have leverages. So the start point is getting to know and understanding what leverages are; identifying your own leverages and deploying them to advantage. What then is leverage? Leverage according to the Longman Contemporary Dictionary of English is the influence that you can use to make people do what you want.

Talents, skills and expertise, what I like to refer to as divine intellectual property most often serve as launch pads into divine greatness if properly deployed into divine purposes and activities. This is to say that talents, skills, and expertise are divinely designed to move a person to greatness, affluence, fame and honor progressively, from point A to point B if they are intelligently used as leverages. Ideally, they are meant to be used as launch pads to leapfrog present positions to higher positions. To some extent, they are leverages. Joseph could interpret dreams. He used the ability to interpret dreams which launched him into Pharaoh’s presence as leverage to become Prime Minister in the land of Egypt.