“I want to make sure that you know the secret of the beloved, which is to know that you are deeply, deeply loved by Almighty God. Knowing this truth will cause you to be established in the unmerited favor of God and to always carry a sense of favor–consciousness wherever you go…. Ephesians 1:6 says, ‘to the praise of the glory of His grace (unmerited favor), by which He made us accepted in the Beloved’. It is not possible for us to make ourselves accepted. We are accepted by the glory of the Lord’s unmerited favor….’Beloved’ is a warm and intimate term that was used by God at the Jordan River to describe Jesus. The Bible tells us that when Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, as soon as He came up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove. Then a voice came from heaven, ‘You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ In these Scriptures you can see the triune God – God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit….God the Father spoke publicly and His words were recorded for you to know that to be ‘accepted in the beloved’ means that God is well pleased with you today….When God looks at you, He doesn’t see you and your failures and shortcomings. He sees you in Jesus’ perfection and loveliness! Because you are in Christ, God says to you, ‘You, ___________ (insert your name here), are My beloved in whom I am well pleased’. Jesus is well pleasing to God because He kept the law perfectly. You and I are well pleasing to God because we are accepted and highly favored in the Beloved, who took all our sins and fulfilled the law on our behalf!” ——An excerpt from Joseph Prince’s book, “Unmerited Favor”