Favor interprets me to people!

Psalm 5:12 KJV -  For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

If you belong to Christ, you are surrounded by a SHIELD OF FAVOR.

People have to look at you, touch you, think about you, talk to you, talk about you, and relate to you THROUGH THAT SHIELD OF FAVOR!

Expect DIVINE FAVOR to color how people relate to you.

DIVINE FAVOR is the lense that focuses others on how to relate to you.

DIVINE FAVOR is the filter that intensifies the colors of God on your life.

Mike Murdock says: "An hour of favor is worth more than years of labor!"  In other words, all it takes is one person extending favor to you to give you a breakthrough that you could never obatin by years of just your own effort.

To see your dream fulfilled, SOMEONE HAS TO FAVOR YOU!  It's going to take both your hard work AND some people giving you the breaks you need.

Proverbs 3:4 GW - Then you will find favor and much success in the sight of God and humanity.

Proverbs 3:4 NLT - Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will gain a good reputation.

Divine Favor causes you to be FULL OF GOD'S BLESSINGS!

Deuteronomy 33:23 KJV - And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.

You should ask God for favor with a certain person when you need it.

Daniel 1:9 KJV - Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.

In certain cases you can ask for favor from the person themselves.  You're not asking FOR "A" FAVOR - You're asking FOR FAVOR.  There is a difference... asking for "a" favor implies it must be paid back.  Asking for favor in someone's sight is appealing to their own graciousness and God's touch on their life.

Esther 7:3 KJV - Then Esther the queen answered and said , If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

Esther 8:5 KJV - And said , If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces. 

Just like anything else you want from God, sow some favor towards others as a seed to obtain a harvest of favor for yourself!  Be someone's bridge of hope.  Make something happen for someone who needs a breakthrough!

Psalm 112:5 KJV - A good man sheweth favour , and lendeth : he will guide his affairs with discretion.

By Dr. Dan Cheatham

Proverbs 22:28 KJV - Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

THE PROBLEM IS THE PREMISE!  Premises matter.  Here is the dictionary definition of PREMISE:  "a basis, stated or assumed, on which reasoning proceeds."  In other words, ALL OTHER LOGIC AND REASONING STEMS FROM THE UNDERLYING PREMISE UPON WHICH ONE'S DECISIONS AND VALUES REST.  The Premise is the bedrock.  The premise is the beginning of the logic tree, and if it is flawed, every other branch of the logic tree is automatically flawed along with it.  Once a person has started from the wrong premise, every other logical deduction from that premise is now automatically wrong (except in its relationship to the flawed premise).

It 's the PREMISE of progressives, liberals, present-day Democrats and the Obama administration that "GOVERNMENT IS THE SOURCE AND SOLUTION OF EVERYTHING."  They categorically deny that GOD IS THE SOURCE!  After all if God is NOT the source, someone or some institution has to take that role instead.  So if you ignore the FACT that God is supposed to be the source of each and every man and societies as well, the only logical conclusion or PREMISE for all other reasoning (from a politician's point of view) is that the GOVERNMENT must be the source of all supply.  SOMEBODY has to be the source!  "God isn't doing anything about the ills of society, so WE must step in!"  Obama and the Dems WANT TO BE THE SOURCE OF EVERYTHING GOOD AND RIGHT IN MANKIND.  They think they can solve every issue by themselves.  "We Are The World!" as the song lyrics go.  They are false messiahs and false prophets because THEIR PREMISE FOR ALL ACTIONS, DECISIONS, and POLICIES is WRONG.  The premise upon which their philosophy of governing was derived is deeply flawed.

The founding fathers knew that God was the source rather than government, so they governed accordingly.  They knew that things such as the RIGHT to self-defense and gun ownership (and gun ownership that is equivalent to the weapons that tyrants and criminals possess) was INALIENABLE, given to men directly from God, not a society or government.  They knew that the right to worship as one's own conscience dictates was INALIENABLE,  given to men by God, not a President or a Congress or a Court.  They knew that the right to free speech was a gift from God, NOT a gift from any government or official.  Because of this rich knowledge they limited the scope of American government... on purpose!  ON PURPOSE!

The reason Obama feels he must step in on gun control is he thinks he is THE SOURCE.  To him, "WE THE PEOPLE" equals "WE THE GOVERNMENT."  He thinks all issues rest upon him and the government to solve.  It is simply his logical conclusion from a flawed premise.  He cannot help but draw such a conclusion.  But any time government tries to take the place of God and the issues that only God can solve, they have crossed the boundary line into TYRRANY.  (Not to mention they are trying to create a utopia world that only Jesus has the power to create at His second coming.)  Obama MUST step in on the issue of gun control because, in his mind, THE CONDITION AND SAFETY OF AMERICA REVOLVES AROUND HIM.  THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND HIM.  After all, he is President of the most powerful nation on earth.  He feels the pressure to do something about everything!  (Just like congress feels pressure to knee-jerk from the latest news report and make a new law based upon a singular event or a passing trend.)  But the premise is flawed.  He is not supposed to do much about anything!  He is just supposed to govern and that's all.  He should RELAX and CHILL!  There is no need to push radical agendas unless one feels "pressured" to do so because of one's false premise.  He is not led of the Spirit; Obama is DRIVEN by his premise!  God gently LEADS.  False premises forcefully DRIVE!   Why?  Because the source of every false premise is Satan planting them into the minds of godless men.

It is Obama's and the progressives' underlying FALSE PREMISE which some have coined a WORLDVIEW, that causes them to draw the wrong conclusions and pollutes their reasoning and deductive skills.  Their critical thinking skills are warped because of their false premise.  They take too much upon themselves... things that only God can shoulder, and things that only the creativity of individual men made in the image of God can handle on their own as they seek the Lord and His wisdom without government interference.  GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS and the founders' documents declare this to be FACT as they submitted to Almighty God with deep humility.

The reason Obama has and will continue to try raising taxes and destroy everyone's  incomes is because his premise is that government must become a NANNY STATE.   This is classic socialism.  But he is living in a bubble of personal prosperity, does not have a pastor, does not go to church, and he is insulated by hordes of liberal progressives that are merely using him as the point man for their antichrist agendas.   Obama with all his charm is being used by the progressives, and Obama is using them too for his own ends.  He cannot help it; he is under the spell of the capital Antichrist and is a lower case antichrist himself.

1 John 2:18 KJV - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come , even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

An ANTICHRIST is defined not just as a person or movement who is "AGAINST CHRIST" but also can be any person or movement that is "INSTEAD OF CHRIST."

Obama received his PREMISE from a combination of people:  his politically radical absentee father who was also a philanderer, his Harvard professors, his socialist friends, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright whom he declared his personal mentor, the Socialist party of which he was once a cardholder, Saul Alinsky the evil founder of manipulative community organizing, and finally, his broken childhood. 

The reasoning that has proceeded from Obama's PREMISE (worldview) is that HE AND THE DEMS must be the great equalizers in society and REDEFINE MARRIAGE because they do not know God nor read God's Word and submit to God's definition.  IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND "TRY" TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE!  It is an exercise in futility but it can unravel a society in the process of trying to do so.   Christians BELIEVE God's definition as recorded in the first few chapters of Genesis and as restated by Jesus in the New Testament.  But Obama's and the Dems conclusions about marriage are actually CORRECTLY aligned with their PREMISE.  The problem is not that they want equality and fairness... no, no, no!  The problem is that they want equality and fairness built upon the wrong premise....  one that does NOT include God as the source of justice and fairness!

In Obama's misplaced zeal over the next four years, and in his attempt to BREAK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ALTOGETHER, he will simultaneously try to break everything decent, tender, fair, and beautiful about America.  Not because the Republican party has their act together by any means of the word, but because Obama is a DRIVEN MAN!  And the Democratic Party at this time in history is a DRIVEN party!  Instead of just relaxing and governing, they feel DRIVEN to change everything and everyone, BUT THEY CAN'T!  About all they can do to change the INALIENABLE laws, principles and definitions of God is to wreak havoc on people trying to do so!

In their minds they are THE SOURCE, they themselves must right every wrong, and fix every ill in society... which is actually humanly impossible!  To them THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE PROTECTORS.  To them THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE DECIDERS AND LAWMAKERS.  (They are lifted up with Lucifer's pride!)  But all along God has declared Himself to be the those things they want to be:  1)  The ULTIMATE King, 2)  The ULTIMATE Lawmaker and the 3) The ULTIMATE Judge.  All other Kings (presidents and prime ministers), Lawmakers, and Judges have only been DELEGATED a LIMITED SCOPE of these three separate powers residing in God, which the founders made into our three branches of our government.

Isaiah 33:22 NIV - For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.  [Also note that "it is he who will save us," not any government!]

Failure to possess a warm intimate personal relationship with the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will ALWAYS result in men drawing the wrong conclusions and building their personal lives, families, little kingdoms,  dynasties, and governments on false premises.  IT IS INEVITABLE!!!

Premise = Worldview = Whom and What You Believe Deep In Your Heart of Hearts.  Premise:  It's either flawed or Biblically sound.  One or the other...  no in between.  Man-centric people always draw the wrong conclusions because of their false premise.  Only God-centric people have access to true wisdom.  Obama is operating under pseudo-wisdom, man-made wisdom.

It is FOOLISHNESS and DEMONIC for Obamessiah to be messing with the founding fathers premise!  HE IS NOT THEM; HE IS ONLY A STEWARD OF WHAT GOD ORIGINALLY ENTRUSTED TO THEM, NOT TO HIM!   He is usurping his stewardship!  He is encroaching on ancient boundary markers.  Consider these scriptures that can apply to any founding fathers (ancients) that Obama and the progressives have never read nor submitted to:

Proverbs 22:28 KJV - Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Job 12:12 KJV - With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Isaiah 3:5 KJV - And the people shall be oppressed , every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable .

Jeremiah 18:15 KJV - Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up.

Jeremiah 18:15 MSG - But my people have left me to worship the Big Lie. They've gotten off the track, the old, well-worn trail, And now bushwhack through underbrush in a tangle of roots and vines.

If I could, I would say to Mr. Obama:  Sir, there are some things you just cannot improve upon, like Biblical values, limited government, and INALIENABLE RIGHTS DIRECT FROM GOD, not government.  Change your premise, sir, or one day face the wrath of The Judge of the living and the dead, The King of kings, and the Lawmaker of lawmakers!