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How far would a man go to show his love for a woman? I
know that’s a loaded question isn’t it? Actually, love was the farthest thing from my mind when I asked my
husband to escort me to an all-women’s event.I suspect love won out though from the story I’m about to share.
It all began with my husband when he was in a cardio
rehab session last week.Someone was about
to extend a random act of favor and I was glad to be the recipient.
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It was the annual “Heart of a Woman” type silent auction
fund raiser for the cardiac rehabilitation center at the hospital. Tickets for
the event didn’t come cheap either; to give you an estimate of pricing, a
dinner for eight auctioned at around $525.00.
The event wasn’t open to the general public, but only to
an exclusive mostly affluent circle of individuals (112 to be precise excluding the
speaker and servers).
My hubby informed me that I had been invited and questioned if I was
interested in attending the luncheon.He
told the lady that extended the invitation that I probably wouldn’t be, but he would ask anyway.
Upon hearing the details I quickly grabbed the
opportunity.This would be the “airing
or outing” that Kathy from last week’s story was referring to in the parking
lot at Walmart.Remember that incident?
This event preceded the “Someone Loves Me” caper which took place on the same
day.(I’m really backing up three hours
before that to 11:30 a.m.)
No, accepting the offer wasn’t to prove my husband wrong,
but it was an opportunity to mingle with actual people … ladies was a bonus.He wasn’t sure if I should go not having been
to an event like this in the past.I
understood his point, but something else persuaded me.
Beautiful hanky quilt auctioned!
The reasons for not attending were weighing against
me.
It’s been said that women may show their
claws when it comes to “shopping” (and the items for auction were amazing!),
but few scratch you, unlike my feline friends that I care for on a daily basis.Mind you cats do make great
conversationalists, but they are so biased! (Prejudice in favor that is usually unfair.)
Reason two for not going was that I wouldn’t know anyone.Well, that was his argument, but it would be a
way to hook up with friends I never met.So that thought didn’t stick either.
Did I have to pay for the ticket? It did seem rather dumb
to purchase a ticket to a luncheon even for charity when there probably wouldn’t
be anything for me to eat.That one almost
got me, but I wasn’t through. After all, I wouldn't be going mainly for the food.
A doctor bought the ticket and this random act of “favor”
was extended to me.Plus there may be an
article or life lesson in it!I’m in … let the
auction begin.
Hubby Take a Seat
We arrived at a huge church that has a separate campus
for such community functions.My husband
was going to drop me off and remain in the car until it was finished.I insisted he come inside due to the cold
weather and hang out at the back of the building if it made him more
comfortable.
It only took me one eye sweep around the room to see I
was WAY underdressed.Thank you Lord
that hubby didn’t wear shorts as usual.
Sure I looked nice, but my loving spouse failed to get
the details on this being a “dressy bling” occasion.My hot pink Ocean Pacific coat wasn’t their
idea of pearls from the Pacific, if you know what I mean.
Taking on the “at ease” military stance, he insisted on
waiting by the door as the bouncer just in case (his words …) “things got rough”.Rough … on a Baptist campus … run by the
hospital, with Catholic kids serving?
Having respect for my husband who isn’t a wuss of a man,
but seriously … the roughest thing there would be the roughage in the salad!
Besides the servers, he was the only male in the room.Suddenly the keynote speaker poked his head
around the corner and came over to talk to him.Instantly invisible male bonding took place, and before long hubby was at
our table in a room full of women!
“OK, I’ll sit down but I won’t eat because I didn’t pay for this seat.”
He made it clear that sitting was somehow under protest.While pulling out his chair we noticed one
other lone hubby at a table beside us. I’m still not sure if it was the keynote speaker, the other husband or me that persuaded him, but was glad to see
a familiar face I could talk to during the event.
Chocolate Never Disappoints
“How are you ladies doing?” said the male server as
he filled our glasses with water.“Good.” Answered my husband, causing the
young man to reverb … “and man.”
Hubby seemed right at home at our table gathering
and why not, he knew most of the ladies from the cardio rehabilitation center!
As I looked for things to write about, he chatted with everyone
that came by to say hello.How nice.There was only one thing to do; get
acquainted with a soul friend of mine – chocolate.I scooped up the candy kisses along with a few chocolate
hearts and began eating.
Favor Found Me
The menu was served and each of us had a beautiful dish
of food plated before us.My husband
leaned over to me and whispered, “I’m not
eating if that man over there doesn’t.” Obviously the other gentleman didn’t have such
issues and dove into the meal.
I buttered a roll and was picking at the fruit salad with
my fork, when a woman from the kitchen came from behind us to bend over for a
hug. It was the head of the cardio rehab
center who had volunteered to help organize the food end of the event.
“Would you like a plate of vegetables.” she asked.Turning toward her I
said, “That would be very kind.”A few minutes later she brought out a special dish.This kindness was favor geared just for me!Favor found me; I didn’t go looking for it,
nor did I say anything to anyone at the table about being a vegetarian.
My husband delighted in my favor, because he devoured two
plates of delicious food he didn’t pay for or prepare.It was a little hard to get caught up in his
joy seeing he spilled his icy tea down the front of him!You can imagine the look on my face as I
tried not to burst out laughing or scold him like a five year old.
While trying to cover his shirt with his coat he looked
at me sheepishly and said, “I’m not used
to drinking without a straw!”Oh
bother!Maybe I should get him a sippy
cup.
Random Acts of Favor
While I was researching for an article the Lord reminded
me of His time spent with the disciples over a three year span.Along the way they often stopped what they
were doing and performed what we might refer to as “random acts of kindness.”That’s not exactly how Jesus saw it.
We know that these events took place from something Jesus
said to Judas before He was crucified.The Lord was referring to the betrayal, but the disciples thought He was
talking about an act of favor (kindness).
"Random" meaning they weren’t scheduled, but always were in God’s
agenda.They were so used to Jesus doing
random acts (which included healing but was not limited to that sole deed),
that the disciples didn’t blink an eye when Judas was ordered to do whatever it was “quickly.”
“What you do, do quickly. But no one at the table knew
for what reason He (Jesus) said this to him (Judas). For some thought, because
Judas had the money box, that Jesus had said to him, buy those things we need
for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.” (John 13: 27b-29 NKJV)
Although the Lord’s actions were kind, many were specific
acts of favor geared toward a certain individual or group.The Apostle John reminds us that there were
so many stops along their journey for doing such things that they were too numerous
to record.
“And there are also many other things that Jesus did,
which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.” (John 21:25 NKJV)
Favor Kindness
is a Fruit
You may not
think that having someone give you an expensive ticket or having veggies served on a pretty plate rank up there with “favor”,
but it does.Both of these things were
more than just random acts of kindness.
Lots of
people do nice things, but not all are recipients of God’s favor. There is a
reason for that.
Scripture
tells us that each believer is equipped with the fruit of the Holy Spirit.We receive it upon the gift of
salvation.However, the sad thing is
that many don’t know they possess it or that God wants us to reap favor
when sown.
Kindness is
a fruit or outward act that we are to experience on a regular basis (in both
giving and receiving). The world sees it as acts of kindness or being nice; God
sees it as favor fruit.
“But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, KINDNESS, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.Against such there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV)
This
Week’s Challenge:
Distributor of Targeted Favor
When we
respond to the Holy Spirit in being kind to others, we zero in or target favor
toward the individual He had directed us to at a specific time.
Our
challenge this week is two-fold.
First - The
next time you do something kind for someone, be thankful the Lord allowed that
person to receive the favor fruit through you His earthly distributor.Don’t mistake this as “It’s my nature to be
kind and even the unsaved would do this.”There’s more to it than that, so recognize the difference.It’s favor seed sown.
Also, in
doing so it is a witness that the fruit of the Spirit is functioning inside you
to the point it is now productive!Well
done you!Here is where favor sown gives way
to favor being reaped as a harvest.
Second - My
fellow modern day disciples, as you walk with Jesus, God may have you stop in
the middle of the “journey road” to do something for Him.Besides following through with your
instructions, learn to expect Random Acts of Favor to fall on you, because you
are a distributor of favor for
the Lord.
The law of reaping what you sow includes favor seed.
I doubt the lady
with the veggies got up thinking about me that morning, but what I do know is
that she is a woman of God who is always ready to grant favor through service.It is foremost on her mind every day, and
that’s why it’s easy for her to journey with Jesus whenever and wherever He
leads.
I am grateful that I was on the receiving end this time! Plus it showed a room full of people that “somebody”
loved me beyond embarrassment.Thank you
Honey, you were a good sport!
Maybe you don’t know the Living God that I
know, but would like to have this kind of favor in your life also.Click on the above tab “Tell Me” for more
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According
to the business world, today is black Friday, tomorrow is Small Business Saturday
and then there’s cyber Monday. I suppose
millions of people will be out looking for the best deals of the year hoping to
find favor on prices for that special someone.
For
me, shopping isn’t something that has entertained most of my thoughts this
week, mainly because of all the activity in our home. Several pet emergencies,
ministry, Thanksgiving, writing and my husband’s birthday filled my agenda and
the week isn’t over.
Throughout
the chaos one thing stayed on my mind; God allowed us to be favor in another
person’s life.I didn’t realize that it
would come in the form of chicken sitting.
Lord, watch over our car!
Our
car has been on the top of our prayer list lately. Even though the fuel filter
was replaced, we smelled gas each time we got out of the car.
My husband asked his friend, I’ll call him
Chris, to bring his car ramps to the clinic last Friday so he could get under
the vehicle to look at it on Saturday.The fuel filter, however, had other plans.
My husband had to pick up some parts for a job that he was doing.When he got out of the car, the gas fumes were
overwhelming, but you still could not see any leaks.As he was leaving the store, he started the engine
to take a look underneath the car.By
now the leak had made itself visible and gasoline was pouring out of one of the
filter line connections.
The
mechanic that we use occasionally was only about two miles away, so my husband thought
he would be able to make it there.Within
300 yards of the shop the engine quit.Coasting uphill is not a law of physics that scientists will tell you
works, but the car coasted uphill over a set of railroad tracks, back down the
other side (a few hundred more feet) and right up to the mechanic’s shop
overhead doors.God’s angels went on car
duty that day.
No Business Today ...
The
shop seemed extremely quiet for a Friday morning, so hubby walked to the front
door and was met by a sign that read, “CLOSED.” Seems the boys had gone deer
hunting.
Now
what?He called his friend with the
ramps.It’s a miracle in itself that he
actually answered the phone.God moved
in another way. This gentleman was in the area when he normally wouldn’t have
been and was only about four blocks away.Chris came right over and they got to work in the mechanic's parking lot.
It
had rained overnight so the dirt and stone parking lot was a saturated muddy
mess, and it was just above freezing. You get the picture that this wasn’t
going to be a fun thing to do.
The
car is low to the ground so neither of the men could fit completely under the car.
With gas fumes overpowering the location somehow they had to get under there to
work on the problem.
The
filter is located adjacent to the left rear wheel and up inside the
chassis.Chris tried reaching it from
the front and got it hooked up a couple of times only to have it pop off when
they started the car.Both of them
needed to work together to snap this so-called “quick connection” in place.Lying on their backs in the midst of the mess
Chris turned to my husband and bluntly said (using his exact words), “Friendship
sucks”.
About
45 minutes later they were able to get the connection to lock in place.Sore from the fuel line aerobics that they
had done and covered in gasoline, clearly a “No Smoking” sign should have been
placed around their necks.
Job
complete … no tow truck needed, nor any additional costs, just a little extra “Cheer”
detergent in the laundry.For my husband
he felt that God gave him favor in the fact that he had a safe place to work on
the car (an empty parking lot) and that they were able to finish the job
themselves.
Friend Zone?
When
my husband shared the events of the day last Friday, only one thing stuck out
in what he said … Chris referring to this “favor” as a thing of friendship while
he was in the middle of an uncomfortable situation.
This
was a big step forward for Chris.You
see, for the past year I have been praying for him to receive Christ.Every time my husband has the opportunity to
work with this person (in whom he already recognized as a friend), Chris would bring up
questions regarding faith, Christianity and reasons why he didn’t believe.Chris never openly acknowledged my husband as
a friend, but on that day he regarded his act as one of friendship.Wow, that was something huge.
Chicken Boo
A
door opened last week for God to allow someone to show us favor, and now the
Lord was about to permit us to "be favor" for someone else.
Without
knowing about my writing on favor, Chris asked my husband if he would do him a “favor”
this week while he and his wife were out of town for Thanksgiving.This would be another step for him along the
lines of trust.He asked my husband if
he would care for his pets.This isn’t
an easy task, because Chris lives out of town on a gravel road.Getting there is an act of faith, especially in
the dark.
My
husband explained to me that we had to go feed chickens and a feral cat twice a
day, let them out and put them back in their pen at night.Chris told my hubby that we had to make sure
they were safe from the coyotes and bobcats. You can imagine what I thought we
would be doing in rounding up chickens and fencing off wild animals.
Embracing Favor
Each
day it was hard fitting everything into our schedule and we grew rather tired quickly.I have a new appreciation for chicken
growers.
Right now our day is filled
with other things besides work.Two
rescue cats have been diagnosed with kidney failure and have to be given
medication along with hydration fluids (Lactated Ringers) several times a day.
My husband calls it “juicing them up.” The
easiest way I can explain it is to think of how you baste a turkey or chicken
by adding fluid under the skin.This IV
type procedure has to be done 6 times a day between two cats along with
medications and caring for other animals with special needs.
With
all this going on we didn’t have time to have thanksgiving, but took time to be
thankful.You might have thought that we
were tense and on edge trying to keep up with what we had to do, but we have
had a peaceful week.Lord willing, we
will have our Thanksgiving on Sunday.
Recognizing Favor
This
week I read a lot of comments on social media sites where people posted what
they were thankful for this year.I can
testify that most of them were about family and their work, but few spoke of
their friendships.
It may be an
oversight, but I wonder if people really recognize that having a friend is another
way God gives His children favor.
When
Chris made that statement about friendship, it caused me to remember a passage in the Bible where
Jesus no longer called his disciples servants, but from that point on He
referred to them as friends.
Jesus said, “From now on I call you not servants; for
servants don’t know what his lord does; but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” (John 15:15emphasis mine)
Something
took place, an exchange of trust if you will, when Chris accepted my husband as
his friend.
He recognized there was a
burden, some inconvenience on his part, yet because of friendship he was
willing to take on the task for his “friend.”
He didn’t think of it as an imposition, and gladly got down on the
ground in the mess to save someone.
In
praying over this writing one song continually played in my mind, “What a
friend we have in Jesus.” Chris’ actions reminded me of just how powerful the
favor of a friend can be.
There
are times in our life that God will call us to “be the favor” to someone in the
form of our giving of ourselves in some degree.That’s exactly what He did with Jesus when Christ laid down His life on
the cross.Jesus demonstrated how great
His love was for us when He willingly obeyed the Heavenly Father.
“Greater love has no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13KJV)
My
husband was blessed in that he found favor from his friend and God concerning
the car.His friend came when he called
and God caused Chris to be in the area at that particular time.When called, Chris came. This took the friendship to a new level.
I
never thought I’d thank God for allowing me to be a chicken sitter, but I
did.By “being favor” to Chris it has
caused him to continue seeking things about faith and God.Our prayer is that he comes to accept the
Friend that loves him more than any other.
Maybe
you don’t have lots of friends or even one that would come to rescue you in
the midst of trouble; there is someone who will be there every time.Jesus is that friend and is willing to be
anything you need Him to be in your life.All you have to do is give Him a call … He’ll meet you wherever you are. (P.S. It may or may not involve chickens!)
What
A Friend We Have in Jesus – the story behind the hymn.
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you don’t know the Living God that I know, but would like to have this kind of
favor in your life also.Click on the
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