Stop feeling like you’re inadequate (not deserving) to be where you are because you’ve been placed there for a purpose! Yea, see; you’re looking at the folks around you who seem to have more experience on paper but you’ve been experienced through grace. They may even have the years under their belt but you have the belt of faith tied around your waist, so you’re covered. Why do you think you’re there? You didn’t even think you would get the job but then after the second interview you realized that it was yours. No, it wasn’t because of you but it was because of whose covering you. Don’t you know by now that God’s favor precedes you? While folks are trying to figure out how you got blessed with what you got, you don’t have to explain because what is already understood doesn’t have to be.
Oh, somebody’s spirit needs to be ministered too this morning, so let me break this thang down for you. When you’re covered by God’s favor, it’ll go before you into that job interview/promotion, doctor’s appointment, car lot when you’re trying to get financed for a loan, mortgage company when you’re trying to get approved for that home you want and even to the bank when you trying to get the financial backing to start your business. Yea, when you’re covered by God’s unmerited favor (Unmerited means not deserved which means even though we don’t deserve it, God gives it anyway… I’ll give you a few moments to let that soak in your spirit.); you got collateral that doesn’t have to be appraised, you have a signature line of credit that doesn’t have to have a credit report ran on it and you have a never ending balance that will never decrease or increase with interest. This is why Ephesians 1:11 says, “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.” See, when God predestines us, it means that He has already decided our path, our fate, our life, our trials, our tribulations, our storms, our spouse, etc., before we were even created because predestines means to determine beforehand; preordain; to set apart for a particular use, purpose or to appoint or ordain beforehand. Isn’t this great news? God knew I would be ministering to you in this form even when I didn’t. He knew that this gift that He had blessed me with would make room for me because He had already predestined my life so when I have a momentary loss of common sense to think that I can’t, I’ll quickly snap out of it to know that I can. Will you? God has already designed your life, so trust Him and go where He sends you, say what He wants you to say, do what He wants you to do and live as He wants you to live because you are destined for greatness because He has always designed it beforehand. So believe it and then receive it!
Yea, when you’re covered by God’s favor, man can say no but God is saying keep going! When you’re covered by God’s favor, the doctors can say you’re dying while God is saying keep living. When you’re covered by God’s favor, folks can say you’ll never be nothing while God is saying you are already something. Oh, when you’re covered by God’s favor it’ll speak for you when you have no words, it’ll go for you when you have no more energy to walk, it’ll pull you up when folks have knocked you down and it’ll heal the wounds from folk stabbing you in the back. Oh, God’s favor will cover you in your storm, it’ll protect you when folks are speaking bad over your life, it’ll increase your finances when you don’t think you’ll have enough, it’ll increase your medicine when you know you should be out of it, it’ll increase the gas in your car when you know you should have run out by now, it’ll strengthen your eyesight when you can’t see in the rain, it’ll increase your energy when you couldn’t keep your eyes open while driving, it’ll increase your love for others even after you’ve been hurt so many times before and it’ll even increase your forgiveness when that’s the last thing you’ll want to do. God’s favor is having a friend close by even when you think you’re alone, it’s being full when you know you haven’t taken a bite to eat, it’s laughing when you know you should be crying, it’s loving when you know you should be hating and it’s forgiving and forgetting even when you know they aren’t even worth your forgiveness. God’s favor is flawless and it doesn’t cost an arm and leg to get. Oh, I am grateful for His favor because even when we are in our mess, it covers us; when we should be scared, it calms our fears; when we should be counted out, it makes us able to be counted on and when we should have been dead, it allows us to live. God’s favor is worthy of having and He’ll give it to you if you ask!
Lakisha, the Author 
Two years later and I find your post which really ministered to me and reminded me how highly favored I am. Thank you.