Bob Buess - Favor, the road to success

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Introduction

This message has been in my spirit for about eight years. I have been ministering it to others with dramatic changes coming to pass in their lives as a result.

This message will have a powerful influence upon your lifeif you will allow it to minister to your spirit.

Many people, due to childhood experiences, bad situations in marriage, or other reasons, withdraw into a shell of fear, frustration, or negativism.

This truth will help such a person release the Lord Jesus who is within him to a full, exciting, and exuberant life. This person will begin living with excitement, expecting to meet happy people.

Favor will begin to flow.

You will reap what you sow. Expect good things to happen, and that will be the things that start happening to you.

Thoughts are the beginning of reality.

The Holy Spirit plants good thoughts into your mind. As you meditate upon these positive thoughts, they are transferred to your spirit.

Once these thoughts are planted in the spirit, life begins to grow. Your life is controlled by the things which you place in your spirit by way of the thought pattern.

Sow negatives into your spirit, and you will constantly meet sour people. This spirit brings out the meanness in others.

Jesus increased in favor with God and man.

He had so much favor that he constantly had to tell people to "keep quiet" about their healings, etc.

He had so much favor that five thousand men plus women and children followed Him to a resort where He had planned a rest for Himself and His disciples.

He had so much favor that He nearly had to insult Pilate to get Himself crucified.

Favor teaching does not guarantee freedom from all problems and all persecutions. The religious leaders still demanded that Jesus be crucified.

Enjoy these strong positive teachings on favor , but maintain a balance. There is another side to everything.

You will always find some who will not like you, but you must never allow this spirit to operate within you. You must continue to be forgiving and kind.

There have been many reconciliations between husband and wife after applying the truth of this message.

Others have found job opportunities which would have been lost to them.

Pass this book on to others.

Chapter 1

FAVOR CHANGES INSECURITY INTO SELF CONFIDENCE

Nobody liked her. She didn't even like herself. She was good looking, but she could not even get a date with a boy. Many other negative things filled the letter which she wrote to me.

I don't blame them for not liking you, I am afraid that I could not like you myself. This was my response to this dear precious young woman.

This was somewhat of a shock treatment, but the words that followed gave healing to her distraught spirit.

I said, "If you have no confidence in yourself, it is certain that others will tend to shy away from you."

I sent her scriptures to which I am about to introduce you and showed her how to confess favor and honor for herself with God and with others.

There was a dramatic change. Within a very short period of time she wrote back words of victory. "Brother Buess , it is working. I am, now, engaged."

Later, when visiting her city, she came to me and introduced me to her fiance , another one. Not too long after this she married the second lad.

Whether it is a teenage girl who feels frustrated, an adult man going for a job interview, or a wife seeking favor with her husband, these scriptures, properly applied, will change your situation. In many cases there will be a very dramatic change in a very few days.

Many have an attitude of insecurity within themselves. This affects their attitude toward themselves and also toward others.

Insecurity, fear, and frustrations of childhood may cause the individual to have the wrong attitude toward life and his or her place in it.

Ps. 8:5 "Thou hast... crowned him with glory and honor ."

Get all excited! God has crowned you with glory and honor !

Live expecting God's " honor system" to change your insecurity and frustration into success. God has crowned you with glory and honor .

Jn. 17:22 reads,

"The glory which thou gavest me I have given them ... "

You have the same glory that Jesus had. You truly have been crowned.

Imagine the Lord coming to you today and placing a crown of glory and honor upon your head.

You would live expecting things to happen. Doubt and insecurity would vanish.

Stand on God's Word. It is truth that sets you free. Faith comes by hearing the Word. Live expecting favor and honor to change your disappointments into success.

As you believe that God has crowned you with glory and honor and favor , you will see success unfold before your very eyes.

Jn. 12:26 "If any man serve me ... him will my Father honour."

Most of you are truly serving the Lord.

You merely need to know how to apply the truths of the Word into daily success.

God has promised honor for you today. Past experiences and failures have conditioned your mind to accept disappointment and discouragement. Change your attitude, and let God be true and every man a liar. Let every experience be a lie. Bring every thought captive to Jesus. Make your thoughts line up with this Word. He is honoring you today. Expect miracles to unfold before you today. Favor and honor are changing your insecurity into success. Live excited!

Chapter 2

ABUNDANCE OF FAVOR FLOWS FROM GOD TO YOU

God has no limitations. You have no limitations except ignorance, unbelief, and flesh. Learn to renew your mind with God's spirit truth concerning favor with God and with man.

Change your negative confession of doubt and unbelief into a strong positive confession. God favors you. He loves you. There is a river of favor flowing to you.

Take a swim in this river of love and life, daily. You can watch tremendous transformations take place in your life, daily. You will, also, see great transformations take place in your associates. You will begin to bring forth good in others rather than evil.

Rom. 4:77 "God quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were."

Words are spirit. Jesus said that His Words were spirit and life. Jn. 6:63.

These spirit words have authority over the natural world.

Speak these words on favor over and over during the day until your spirit is revived. Many people confess doubt and failure over and over during their lifetime until their spirit is depressed and broken.

A good strong positive confession of God's Word concerning favor with God and favor with man will put life into your spirit.

God Gives Abundance of Favor

Num. 6:25 "The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee."

The Lord is in the business of blessing you. He makes His face to shine upon you. Drink in this truth. Breathe it deeply into your spirit. Bathe in the beauty of this thought. God favors you today.

Say it over and over right now. "God favors me today. God honors me today. I am a success today. I have God's special favor upon me today. He makes His face to shine upon me today. He is gracious to me today. I am someone very special with the Lord."

Imagine yourself in a large crowd of people. Suddenly, the spot light falls upon you. You are chosen for special honors . How great you feel that you have been chosen of all these people. A spirit of success and achievement comes into your spirit.

Now imagine yourself standing before the Lord. He calls you by name and says, "I am causing my face to shine upon you today. I am being gracious to you today. I am honoring you today."

How would you feel? You would get excited. You would leap for joy. You would lift up your head and get all excited about being alive in Jesus Christ.