Confessing God's favor in your life is of utmost importance. So many people are afraid to ask the Lord for anything, yet He wants to give them so much!  Try turning it around, and speaking in faith, by thanking the Lord in advance for all that He has for you... Try submitting to His will, one day at a time, and thanking Him for His love and His mercy and His grace.  Acknowledge what His Word says about His will in 3 John 2, for example, that He wants to prosper you in "all" things (what does that leave out?) and wants you to "be in health", just as it is His will for your soul to prosper. His favor and prosperity is only experienced by walking in faith, and in love, and then you will receive it continually, through the Holy Spirit, on a daily basis for all your needs, spirit, soul and body to be met.

Here are some great every-day confessions of favor:

Father, thank you for making me righteous and accepted through the Blood of Jesus. Because of that, I am blessed and highly favored by You. I am the object of Your affection. Your favor surrounds me as a shield, and the first thing that people come into contact with is my favor shield.

Thank You that I have favor with You and man today. All day long, people go out of their way to bless me and to help me. I have favor with everyone that I deal with and come into contact with today. Doors that were once closed are now opened for me. I receive preferential treatment, and I have special privileges. I am God's favored child.

No good thing will He withhold from me. Because of God's favor, my enemies cannot triumph over me. I have supernatural increase and promotion. I declare restoration of everything that the devil has stolen from me. I have honor in the midst of my adversaries and an increase of assets -- especially in real estate and an expansion of territory.

Because I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities. I receive recognition, prominence, and honor. Petitions are granted to me even by ungodly authorities. Policies, rules, regulations, and laws are changed and reversed on my behalf.

I win battles that I don't even have to fight, because God fights them for me. This is the day; the set time and the designated moment for me to experience the free favors of God that profusely and lavishly abound on my behalf.

 ...In Jesus' name -- Amen.

Joy is of equal importance. We can all learn from Joel Osteen's lesson on how to remain full of joy in your life, no matter what:

Sunday, December 12, 2004