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Finding Favor: God's Blessings Beyond Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Why settle for success when you can have God's favor?
Deep down everyone wants God’s best for their lives—also known as God's favor. Unfortunately, most of the time we don't feel "favored" when we're being "blessed." It takes perspective to recognize what's going on. God often uses confusing, painful, and counterintuitive measures to bring us his best in our lives. God is always working for our good, even though we may not recognize it at the time.
We want immediate success and easy positive results. God wants long-term transformation. Pastor Brian Jones weaves together stories and Scripture to help readers find God's favor in their own lives.
Deep down everyone wants God’s best for their lives—also known as God's favor. Unfortunately, most of the time we don't feel "favored" when we're being "blessed." It takes perspective to recognize what's going on. God often uses confusing, painful, and counterintuitive measures to bring us his best in our lives. God is always working for our good, even though we may not recognize it at the time.
We want immediate success and easy positive results. God wants long-term transformation. Pastor Brian Jones weaves together stories and Scripture to help readers find God's favor in their own lives.
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220 pages, Paperback
Published April 17, 2018
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Brian C. Jones
6 books49 followersHi, I’m Brian.
If you’re like most people I talk to, your mind feels crowded. You’re tired, overextended, and longing for peace — not as a theory, but as a way of life.
I know that ache. For years I lived as an ambitious pastor, pushing too hard until anxiety, exhaustion, and depression caught up with me. But everything changed when my wife and I moved to the edge of a forest — a slower, quieter pace of life where I began to hear God again.
Now I write to help people trade inner chaos for lasting peace — by learning to think and live in the way of Jesus.
Each week, I’ll send reflections from the forest’s edge — stories, insights, and practices to help you slow down, pay attention, and rediscover peace in your mind, body, and spirit. To receive those please go to www.brianjonesletters.substack.com
Take a deep breath. You’re among friends.
— Brian
If you’re like most people I talk to, your mind feels crowded. You’re tired, overextended, and longing for peace — not as a theory, but as a way of life.
I know that ache. For years I lived as an ambitious pastor, pushing too hard until anxiety, exhaustion, and depression caught up with me. But everything changed when my wife and I moved to the edge of a forest — a slower, quieter pace of life where I began to hear God again.
Now I write to help people trade inner chaos for lasting peace — by learning to think and live in the way of Jesus.
Each week, I’ll send reflections from the forest’s edge — stories, insights, and practices to help you slow down, pay attention, and rediscover peace in your mind, body, and spirit. To receive those please go to www.brianjonesletters.substack.com
Take a deep breath. You’re among friends.
— Brian
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April 17, 2018
“We’re all looking for “the thing” that will help us become everything God created us to be in every area of our life. God’s favor is that thing.” – Brian Jones
Finding Favor: God’s Blessings Beyond Health, Wealth, and Happiness is Brian Jones’ fourth book; and quite like his other three, this one was a fun, informative, pleasure of a read. In this book, Jones, a pastor of a large multi-site church outside of Philadelphia, thoughtfully and good-humoredly draws in the audience with entertaining, enjoyable, easy to follow stories that apply directly to the purpose of exploring God’s favor. For Jones, even as a seasoned pastor with graduate degree, the notion and perception of God’s favor didn’t really hit him, until a significant moment in his life changed all that.
This book is a much-needed look at a topic that, although we may have heard the term: favor, can easily be misunderstood, misapplied, mistreated, and mishandled. In a culture and society that flocks to hear the latest message of health, wealth, and prosperity, it is refreshing and relieving to receive such real-world, beneficial teachings built on Jones’ own experience and knowledge.
“God’s favor is rarely understandable or predictable. But it is always exactly what we need.” – Brian Jones
Finding Favor is a thorough, useful, engaging, and practical examination of what it truly means to live in, seek after, and recognize God’s favor. At 170 pages with ten chapters, the only disappointment was realizing that I was finished reading it so quickly.
I highly recommend grabbing a copy for yourself and a friend!
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary publicity copy from the publisher (IVP Books). (This in no way affected my honest review of the book)
Finding Favor: God’s Blessings Beyond Health, Wealth, and Happiness is Brian Jones’ fourth book; and quite like his other three, this one was a fun, informative, pleasure of a read. In this book, Jones, a pastor of a large multi-site church outside of Philadelphia, thoughtfully and good-humoredly draws in the audience with entertaining, enjoyable, easy to follow stories that apply directly to the purpose of exploring God’s favor. For Jones, even as a seasoned pastor with graduate degree, the notion and perception of God’s favor didn’t really hit him, until a significant moment in his life changed all that.
This book is a much-needed look at a topic that, although we may have heard the term: favor, can easily be misunderstood, misapplied, mistreated, and mishandled. In a culture and society that flocks to hear the latest message of health, wealth, and prosperity, it is refreshing and relieving to receive such real-world, beneficial teachings built on Jones’ own experience and knowledge.
“God’s favor is rarely understandable or predictable. But it is always exactly what we need.” – Brian Jones
Finding Favor is a thorough, useful, engaging, and practical examination of what it truly means to live in, seek after, and recognize God’s favor. At 170 pages with ten chapters, the only disappointment was realizing that I was finished reading it so quickly.
I highly recommend grabbing a copy for yourself and a friend!
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary publicity copy from the publisher (IVP Books). (This in no way affected my honest review of the book)
April 20, 2018
We are used to talking about God's favor, and many times we relate this term "favor" with good things, optimal health and a lot of happiness. However, we rarely reflect on what Brian Jones proposes in this book. The favor of God can manifest itself in a limitation, in an illness, in an answered prayer, in an intervention of the grace of the Lord.
The favor of God is a deep subject but the author explains us not in a technical way but in a practical and friendly way. It is their experiences, struggles and thoughts that help us identify our own search for God's favor.
The book is divided into 10 chapters that deal with issues such as problems, diseases, God's provision and how in all this we can see the favor of God.
Some phrases that impacted are:
"For those who believe in Jesus Christ there is no death and no sorrow that is no mixed with hope"
"Obscurity is a sign of God's favor, not a sign of his anger"
"We need to understand that something he does gives us exactly what we want"
I recommend this book for all those who have a difficult and stormy season. You will discover that the favor of God is within your reach in Christ Jesus.
Thanks to IVP for the digital copy of this book.
The favor of God is a deep subject but the author explains us not in a technical way but in a practical and friendly way. It is their experiences, struggles and thoughts that help us identify our own search for God's favor.
The book is divided into 10 chapters that deal with issues such as problems, diseases, God's provision and how in all this we can see the favor of God.
Some phrases that impacted are:
"For those who believe in Jesus Christ there is no death and no sorrow that is no mixed with hope"
"Obscurity is a sign of God's favor, not a sign of his anger"
"We need to understand that something he does gives us exactly what we want"
I recommend this book for all those who have a difficult and stormy season. You will discover that the favor of God is within your reach in Christ Jesus.
Thanks to IVP for the digital copy of this book.
February 20, 2022
Struggled to get through this one… While there are some great Scripture based arguments, I feel that the concept of praying for God’s favor (or grace) is completely irrelevant considering we can do nothing to earn God’s merit or grace. Maybe I misunderstood the author’s intent, but it felt that this concept was a cherry-picked word from the Bible that was then stretched to make a book out of. I don’t think we need to pray for God’s favor. I think we just need to pray. The Holy Spirit can do the rest in shaping us and getting us through trial and difficulty.
January 27, 2021
An excellent book about finding God's favor in the places we least expect it: failure, illness, poverty, all the things we've been told are not Godly, yet abound in the Bible. It's a good wake-up call to find Jesus in the places we don't really want to. Some of the Bible illustrations are a tad stretched, but the principles are sound, and a good resource for any Christian looking for God to work in them, and frustrated when it seems he has forgotten them.
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