Obtaining Your Favour & the Blessings of the Lord

Introduction

We have anchored ourselves in this season around the theme of obtaining favour and the blessings of the Lord, and we come to it grounded in the truth of Galatians 2:20 — that it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us. That reality changes everything about how we approach life, because it means we are not meant to be running on our own reserves. Living through Christ requires a genuine, daily reliance on the Holy Spirit, and that reliance begins with relationship. As we build intimacy with God, we encounter the full range of who He is — not just the God of blessing but the God of process, of correction, of refinement.

We are also learning to understand perfection not as human flawlessness but as right standing and alignment with God’s ways, and that shift in understanding takes a great deal of pressure off us while placing a deeper and more honest responsibility on us. When we partake of the Spirit of God, something remarkable happens — we become identified with His declaration of approval, mirroring the very words spoken over Jesus at His baptism in Matthew 3:17. That same voice says “this is my beloved” over each of us, and we are learning to receive that rather than deflect it.

We are also challenged by the contrast between Esau and Jacob in Genesis 25:29-34 — two brothers with the same inheritance, separated by knowledge and how much they valued what they had been given. Esau despised his birthright in a moment of hunger and immediate gratification, while Jacob understood its worth and pursued it with diligence. We see ourselves in both brothers, if we are honest, and we are choosing the way of Jacob — not through manipulation, but through the recognition that our spiritual inheritance is worth protecting and pursuing.

Blessings, we are learning, often come wrapped in ideas that God places within us, and those ideas require faithful stewardship rather than shortcuts. The kingdom’s path involves process precisely because character matters — the world may offer quicker routes, but they cannot produce what God is after. To avoid the spiritual pitfalls that trip so many of us up, we are committing to intimacy with the Holy Spirit, to understanding the season we are in, to seeking divine strategy, and to remaining honest before God — raw, unpolished honesty — because Psalm 51:6 reminds us that He desires truth in the inner parts.

Takeaways

We walk away from this with a clear and practical conviction: spiritual growth is not something that happens to us passively — it requires continuous forward movement, a willingness to leave behind what used to work, and a deepening reliance on the Holy Spirit over self-effort. As Philippians 3:13-14 puts it, we forget what is behind and press on towards what is ahead. We cannot keep returning to the same old methods and expect to move into new dimensions of what God has for us.

We also carry away a renewed seriousness about our spiritual inheritance — understanding that what Jacob knew and Esau did not is that some things, once despised or neglected, are not easily recovered. Knowledge, diligence, and the wisdom to resist immediate gratification are what secure what God has promised us, and we are choosing to pursue those things with genuine intention rather than assumption.

Above all, we leave reassured by the unconditional nature of God’s love — not as a licence to remain comfortable in our weaknesses, but as the very foundation from which we find the courage to be honest with Him and with ourselves. 1 John 1:9 reminds us that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, and we take that as an invitation to keep short accounts with God rather than accumulating spiritual debt through avoidance.

He provides the power, the guidance, and the grace — but He asks for our active and honest participation. We commit to cultivating intimacy with the Holy Spirit, to praying with greater depth, to seeking His strategy for our specific seasons, and to staying committed to His cause even when the process feels long. Favour, we believe, follows that kind of faithfulness.