Experiencing Favour

Experiencing Favour

Offered by Doug Blair, Waterloo ON, 2020

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Mind is off the pocket book God is seeing much more Wants to give me His heart Bounty that He has in store.

Peace that’s unimagined Foretaste of the Heavenlies New Life for some listeners Seeing Truth just as He sees.

Healings in relationship Children growing graciously

Art and Words so Spirit blessed Hope increasing endlessly.

Wonderful things about “good success” were said to Joshua as he was about to enter the Land of Promise.

Promises have to be received, sometimes fought for.

There must also be an underlying confidence in the integrity, trustworthiness and benevolence of the Promisor.

We have through the earth walk of Jesus ample illustrations of the heart, honour and loving kindness of His Heavenly Father, our Heavenly Father.

Why are we holding back and cringing and thinking that God has impossible, straightening tests in store for us.

“Oh dear, here comes another one of those awful trials!

Last time I thought that it would kill me; but then came a supernatural twist of the facts, and I made it through that tunnel.”

This morning I was reminded of an expression often used by my Father Jack Blair (1922-2010). Loaded for bear.

I think of it now in the context of shepherd-King David. In the wilderness he had defended his sheep from the

attacks of lion and bear. God had provided the strength and the way. Later came the insults of the giant Goliath, enemy of the armies of Israel.

David answered the call for a Champion, remembering that his God had already given him the victory over terrible beasts. This giant would fall; his head would be severed from his body. Total victory for Israel.

Harriet Harriet Tubman is remembered for her courage in rescuing groups of runaway slaves in their perilous journeys from southern slave states into the North; into dignity, challenge, reward and self-determination.

Born approximately 1827 on a plantation in Maryland. Died 1913 in Auburn New York. Friend of the Abolitionist Movement. Forger of the Underground Railroad Network moving slaves through dangers of swamp, hunger, dogs, rifles, lynchings to northern states and to Canada. Thirteen trips in all.

In the Civil War (1861-1865) she led a group skilled in espionage and reconnaissance. Locating groups of Rebel soldiers; tracing their movements and strengths; assisting freedom groups of slaves and often recruiting them into Union forces.

This woman became separated from her first husband, suffered episodes of epilepsy-like affliction and narcolepsy. This was started by a severe head wounding inflicted by a plantation Overseer. Never content to stay just North and safe and free. She believed in a God-given call to free her people and she was never stopped by overwhelming odds. The Power came and the Pathway and the Protection.