I have heard many people say the phrase, “favor isn’t fair” which it isn’t. Favor is just! I have noticed that usually the people that are saying that, happened to be the people that feel like they are experiencing that favor. What about the times that you don’t feel like things are in your favor/unfavorable conditions? Do you still hold to that phrase of “favor isn’t fair” then? Look at the account of Yoseph/Joseph in Genesis/Bereshith (I’m mainly talking to bloodline now but this is good for grafted as well). Yoseph had favor on him since his birth. All of my people from ancestors to present have had favor upon us since the beginning. Although Yoseph had favor on him, he still experienced unfavorable conditions. Even in those unfavorable conditions, favor still followed/attached to Yoseph. Even in his captivity, people still looked favorably upon him. Favor got him a coat of many colors. Unfavorable conditions got him thrown in a pit. Favor saved his life and unfavorable conditions got him sold into slavery and then captivity. The Ishmaelites and Midianites who bought him from his brothers and from each other saw the favor from his countenance to intelligence and speech. Favor got him sold into Potiphar’s house as second in command. Unfavorable conditions (Potiphar’s lusty wife, which has been happening to our men since biblical times) happened that got him put into jail. Unfavorable conditions continued to happen to him in jail being that he was locked up for many years for a crime he really didn’t commit (MESSAGE!), yet he still found favor in the eyes of the prison warden and his fellow prisoners “because Yah was with him and whatever he did, Yah made it prosper” (Gen 39:23). Again Yoseph’s favor shown through because it was used to interpret the dreams of two of the pharaoh’s royal staff members. Unfavorable conditions still happened being that the very person he shared favor with forgot him when he was risen up.
But now look how an unfavorable condition happened to somebody else this time. The pharaoh had a dream that neither he nor any of his wise men could interpret. Because of this all those wise men were to be put to death and that is when the cupbearer (royal staff member) remembered Yoseph and said there is “a HEBREW youth, a servant of the captain of the guard (in prison) who interpreted dreams” (Gen 41:12). That person that Yoseph shared his favor with finally remembered him and honored that favor by giving him the platform (through Yah) to share it to the whole nation. Because of the favor of Yah on/with him, he found favor in Pharaoh’s eyes and was second in command the rest of his life (really he was Pharaoh in action/deed because even Pharaoh did what he said). That favor that was on him and the whole family helped our whole family (12 tribes) and Egypt.
Unfavorable conditions happened again as we know to Yisrael/Israel in Egypt but favor again came through in Moshe/Moses by way of the Exodus.
When we look at ourselves today (bloodline) we still see this today, in every captivity we have been in from 1st Egypt/bondage, Philistine, Babylonian, Assyrian, Perso/Median; etc. up to present day 2nd Egypt. We are in unfavorable conditions but favor is still on us. Every nation we have been captive to has prospered only because we were there. We built those nations and helped them thrive because we are nation builders. Everyone knew who and what they had when they received us (Yah gave us over because of disobedience). The Yishmaelites who sold us out and sold us to the Gentiles (Europeans) knew who we were and told them who we were and why we were in the state that we were in (children of Yah on punishment for disobedience). We were called to be the salt of the earth and you can’t look at this world and not see our influence (flavor, seasoning) or image. Even though we are in unfavorable conditions in this current captivity around the world, favor is still on us. Everywhere we have been, favor has been on that land (check history). And when favor brought us out from that land, look at what has happened to it (check history). Since the birth of this country when we lived in their houses /plantations the property value went up. The moment they couldn’t prosper off us, when we moved into their neighborhoods now the value goes down. The only reason Egypt, Babylon, Assyria; etc. reached it’s pinnacle of greatness was because Yah’s people/my people where there. The only reason 2nd Egypt (America) has reached the pinnacle of greatness or MADE GREAT, is because Yah’s people/my people are here, but remember what happens when we leave (we were spoiled/unfavorable condition but we leave spoiling those nations/finding favor). We don’t leave empty-handed, Yah sees to that! Favor really isn’t fair, but don’t just say that because you feel that you are experiencing favor. Always see that no matter how bad/unfavorable things get, that when it is on you, it is on you until Yah takes it off….
