WEBVTT 00:00:16.643 --> 00:00:27.249 touch, touch your mind and say King of glory, fill this place. 00:00:27.249 --> 00:00:39.146 If you need God to give you a strategy right now for your new, next, say King of glory, fill this place. 00:00:39.146 --> 00:00:53.522 If you want your life to fully be submitted to God and you're trying to figure out how to do that while your hand is on your head, say King of glory, fill this place Now. 00:00:53.522 --> 00:00:55.289 Touch your heart, touch your heart, touch your heart. 00:00:55.289 --> 00:01:02.027 Say King of glory, feel this place. 00:01:02.027 --> 00:01:10.126 You see, jeremiah says that the heart, that the mind, the heart, is the most deceitful thing in our body. 00:01:10.126 --> 00:01:11.448 Who could ever know it? 00:01:11.448 --> 00:01:17.585 But if the king of glory feels this place, I can avoid deceit. 00:01:17.585 --> 00:01:22.555 I can discern when somebody is for me or when somebody is against me. 00:01:22.555 --> 00:01:28.612 I can discern when somebody wants to mend my heart in comparison to when somebody's trying to break my heart. 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:33.850 So somebody say it again Say, king of glory, fill this place. 00:01:33.850 --> 00:01:41.314 Yeah, if your heart has been broken in the past, you speak in a word of salvation into your own life. 00:01:41.314 --> 00:01:46.063 King of glory, fill this place Now one more time. 00:01:46.063 --> 00:01:48.250 Put your hand on your belly. 00:01:48.250 --> 00:01:59.254 We were reading from the book of John last week that remind us from the belly shall flow living waters. 00:01:59.254 --> 00:02:05.373 Jesus was referring to the flow of the Holy Spirit in and through our lives. 00:02:05.373 --> 00:02:11.853 And if you need the power of the Holy Spirit in your life afresh, repeat after me. 00:02:11.853 --> 00:02:17.121 Say, king of glory, fill this place Now. 00:02:17.121 --> 00:02:18.888 Just love on God right there where you are. 00:02:18.888 --> 00:02:23.085 Come on, take about 30 seconds to love on God right where you are. 00:02:23.085 --> 00:02:26.340 Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah. 00:02:26.340 --> 00:03:10.478 Guitar solo. 00:03:10.478 --> 00:03:11.539 It's getting ready to happen. 00:03:11.539 --> 00:03:22.405 It's getting ready to happen, good God, almighty, and for some of us it's going to happen today. 00:03:22.405 --> 00:03:30.229 Some of you, your process may be a little bit longer, but I want to encourage you that it's getting ready to happen. 00:03:30.229 --> 00:03:41.265 Hallelujah, we're still in our spirit, in our series on the Holy Spirit. 00:03:41.265 --> 00:03:45.215 We're still in our series on the Holy Spirit. 00:03:45.215 --> 00:03:46.778 We're still in our series on the Holy Spirit. 00:03:46.778 --> 00:03:49.022 Today, we're in Holy Spirit. 00:03:49.022 --> 00:04:02.335 We're going to be in the chapter three of this, of this text, of this lesson and our lesson today comes from Luke, first chapter, verses 26 through 38. 00:04:02.335 --> 00:04:07.030 Again, we welcome any guests, family, chosen city. 00:04:07.030 --> 00:04:08.801 Let's love on our guests, amen. 00:04:08.801 --> 00:04:09.444 Let's honor them. 00:04:09.444 --> 00:04:13.707 You are valued, you are loved. 00:04:13.707 --> 00:04:14.943 We thank you, god. 00:04:14.943 --> 00:04:27.391 We're thankful that God sent you this way today, and for all of the ladies in the room, as my lovely wife stated, there is a uh, a token of our love and appreciation for you that we will uh be passing out. 00:04:27.391 --> 00:04:32.980 I also want to give a shout out to all the brothers that decided to stand up so the ladies could sit down today. 00:04:32.980 --> 00:04:36.107 Thank you for that, thank you for y'all sacrifice as well. 00:04:36.107 --> 00:04:40.872 We love to read the word of God together here so we can help. 00:04:40.872 --> 00:04:47.132 It helps us to remember to read it out loud, so let's do that ready set read. 00:04:47.733 --> 00:04:57.973 In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, god sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary. 00:04:57.973 --> 00:05:03.768 She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. 00:05:03.768 --> 00:05:08.966 Gabriel appeared to her and said Greetings, favored woman. 00:05:08.966 --> 00:05:11.168 The Lord is with you. 00:05:11.168 --> 00:05:17.370 Confused and disturbed, mary tried to think what the angel could mean. 00:05:17.370 --> 00:05:21.706 Don't be afraid, mary, the angel told her. 00:05:21.706 --> 00:05:24.853 For you have found favor with God. 00:05:24.853 --> 00:05:31.372 You will conceive and give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus. 00:05:31.372 --> 00:05:37.860 He will be very great and will be called the son of the most high, the Lord. 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:44.682 God will give him the throne of his ancestor, david, and he will reign over Israel forever. 00:05:44.682 --> 00:05:47.449 His kingdom will never end. 00:05:47.449 --> 00:05:49.994 Mary asked the angel. 00:05:49.994 --> 00:05:51.898 But how can this happen? 00:05:51.898 --> 00:05:53.583 I am a virgin. 00:05:53.583 --> 00:05:55.946 The angel replied. 00:05:55.946 --> 00:06:01.915 The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. 00:06:01.915 --> 00:06:08.132 So the baby to be born will be holy and he will be called the Son of God. 00:06:10.100 --> 00:06:12.827 Your relative, elizabeth, has become pregnant. 00:06:12.827 --> 00:06:21.930 In her old age People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month. 00:06:21.930 --> 00:06:26.223 For the word of God will never fail. 00:06:26.223 --> 00:06:28.269 Hallelujah. 00:06:28.269 --> 00:06:31.117 One last verse, hallelujah, listen, we got a shout out. 00:06:31.117 --> 00:06:31.839 Verse 37. 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.607 Mary responded I am the Lord's servant. 00:06:35.607 --> 00:06:39.074 May everything you have said about me come true. 00:06:39.074 --> 00:06:44.386 And then the angel left her and I would just like to use as a subject today. 00:06:44.386 --> 00:06:46.370 Hallelujah, as the Holy Ghost would allow. 00:06:46.370 --> 00:06:50.509 Favored, everybody say favored, favored. 00:06:50.509 --> 00:06:56.185 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. 00:06:56.185 --> 00:07:08.357 The Lord as a, as a body of believers, do we really understand what it truly means to be favored? 00:07:08.357 --> 00:07:22.667 The Bible talks a lot about favor, either either actually using the word favor or using the word grace. 00:07:22.667 --> 00:07:31.952 The fact that we all have a yesterday and God still allows us to be here lets us know that we have a God of amazing grace. 00:07:32.961 --> 00:07:48.795 The story is told of that old hymn, and it's suggested by some that it was written by a former slave trader who was involved in the most wicked and the most terrible thing that humanity has has seen. 00:07:48.795 --> 00:07:52.208 But somewhere along the way he he shipwrecked. 00:07:52.208 --> 00:07:53.920 And that's God. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:08:03.744 Sometimes they'll send a shipwreck into our lives to let us know that we've been on the wrong route, going on the wrong road, going the wrong way. 00:08:03.744 --> 00:08:20.749 And it was in this moment of shipwreck where this, according to the story, this slave trader came to himself and realized that he'd been living outside of God's will, being involved in the worst slaves trade human beings have ever seen. 00:08:20.749 --> 00:08:28.581 And it was in this moment of being down, where it is suggested, that he penned this hymn called amazing grace. 00:08:28.581 --> 00:08:31.310 You've heard it amazing grace. 00:08:32.072 --> 00:08:36.583 Listen to the words, now that you know a little bit about the background of this individual that wrote it. 00:08:36.583 --> 00:08:39.007 Amazing, grace, what. 00:08:39.007 --> 00:08:44.982 How sweet the sound that did, what that saved a rich like me. 00:08:44.982 --> 00:08:46.925 He, he realized who he was. 00:08:46.925 --> 00:08:50.953 But I love the fact that his language it starts to be past tense. 00:08:50.953 --> 00:08:54.824 He says that I once was lost. 00:08:54.824 --> 00:09:08.645 But now anybody came into the house of God with a but now, yeah, I once was lost, I once was stuck, I once was confused, I once couldn't figure that out. 00:09:08.645 --> 00:09:10.906 I once lost my faith. 00:09:10.906 --> 00:09:13.789 But now I'm found. 00:09:13.789 --> 00:09:23.905 He said, was blind, I couldn't see where I was going, was blind, I had no vision, was blind, I didn't see where I was going, was blind, I had no vision, was blind, I didn't know which way was up. 00:09:23.905 --> 00:09:27.369 But now, what family I see. 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:35.631 I want to talk to you and let you know that's what grace looks like, because the definition of grace is essentially unmerited favor. 00:09:35.631 --> 00:09:46.826 In a nutshell, that when God elects to grace us, we don't deserve it, you can't pay for it, you can't get it on a two-for-one deal. 00:09:46.826 --> 00:09:51.339 It is God's gift to us in spite of ourselves. 00:09:51.339 --> 00:10:01.893 God looks at us and says, in spite of ourselves elder Colleen, I'm gonna bless you and I'm gonna bless you real good. 00:10:01.893 --> 00:10:06.929 He says in spite of the fact that you made a wrong choice. 00:10:06.929 --> 00:10:13.665 You went right when I told you to go left there that, but, my mama, I got something for you. 00:10:13.665 --> 00:10:19.704 Do I have anybody that knows a little bit about god's favor on your own life? 00:10:19.704 --> 00:10:29.470 Favor is that time where you were not qualified but God made a way anyhow. 00:10:32.102 --> 00:10:39.049 Favor, real talk, when you weren't eating right and it caused you some health conditions. 00:10:39.049 --> 00:10:45.541 And, just just being real, it could have cost you a limb because of type two diabetes. 00:10:45.541 --> 00:10:47.487 Or I'm preaching to somebody direct right now. 00:10:47.487 --> 00:11:04.160 But favor said, in spite of the fact that you didn't eat right, in spite of the fact that you didn't exercise right, I'm going to favor you and I'm going to keep you, and I'm gonna favor you and I'm gonna keep you and I'm gonna give you another chance to turn it around. 00:11:05.061 --> 00:11:08.688 Okay, can I talk about what favor looks like? 00:11:08.688 --> 00:11:14.284 Favor looks like the Bible is clear that the wages of sin is what death. 00:11:14.284 --> 00:11:19.903 That means that every time, every last one of us sin, we say something, we think something, we do something that we should not do. 00:11:19.903 --> 00:11:22.507 The bible is clear the penalty for it is death. 00:11:22.507 --> 00:11:25.252 But there's favor in that same scripture. 00:11:25.252 --> 00:11:33.274 The wages of sin is death, but the gift of god is eternal life. 00:11:33.274 --> 00:11:34.756 Favor is not. 00:11:34.756 --> 00:11:36.439 I'm not giving you what you deserve. 00:11:36.439 --> 00:11:38.283 I'm pouring out on you. 00:11:38.283 --> 00:11:39.165 Why because I love. 00:11:39.165 --> 00:11:40.248 I love you, joe. 00:11:40.248 --> 00:11:43.162 Why Because I see something in you. 00:11:43.162 --> 00:11:47.872 Why Because there is something I want to do through you, elder Helena? 00:11:47.872 --> 00:11:51.087 Why Because I have a plan for your life. 00:11:51.087 --> 00:11:56.221 And because I have a plan for your life, I'm going to favor you. 00:11:56.782 --> 00:12:01.712 I hear the Lord saying to talk to the people this morning and let them know that favor. 00:12:01.712 --> 00:12:04.764 It's about to hit their house. 00:12:04.764 --> 00:12:09.840 He says you can say that boldly, you can say it prophetically, you can say it, uh. 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:14.732 But they got to understand what, what, what, what favor really is? 00:12:14.732 --> 00:12:20.809 It was God's favor why you were blessed to to get that home when you needed one. 00:12:20.809 --> 00:12:22.225 That's the favor of God. 00:12:22.660 --> 00:12:29.568 You can't tell me it's not favor unless you've been in a place where you have been homeless, unless you know what it feels like to be rejected. 00:12:29.568 --> 00:12:33.210 So when God blesses you with a home, it is favor. 00:12:33.210 --> 00:12:35.883 It is favor when you needed a car. 00:12:35.883 --> 00:12:39.231 That may be small to some of y'all, because you've never been without. 00:12:39.231 --> 00:12:46.315 But ask somebody who had the bummer ride, ask somebody who didn't have transportation when they finally got wheels. 00:12:46.315 --> 00:12:48.342 Don't tell them it wasn't favor. 00:12:48.342 --> 00:12:53.960 What it may not look like, favor to you was the thing that saved my life. 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.583 It it was favor. 00:12:55.663 --> 00:13:05.630 When you were in the hospital room and the doctor said I've done all that, I know how to do, but God showed up just when you needed him the most. 00:13:05.630 --> 00:13:09.859 Do I have any witnesses in the house that know a little bit or something about favor? 00:13:09.859 --> 00:13:28.131 Well, my assignment this morning is simple, then, because what I need you to know, while all of that is favor, all of that is favor the most favorable thing that God is doing is pouring out his spirit on all flesh. 00:13:28.131 --> 00:13:41.524 We have to understand that everything I mentioned is the favor of God, but it's a microcosm in comparison to the ultimate gift when we give our life to Jesus Christ. 00:13:41.524 --> 00:13:42.972 He promised to not leave us comfortless. 00:13:42.972 --> 00:13:46.128 He promised to send his spirit. 00:13:46.128 --> 00:14:00.608 Joel prophesied, adequately and accurately, that a day would come where he would pour out his spirit on all flesh and people would have visions and dream, dreams and prophesy and have all of these things to happen. 00:14:00.608 --> 00:14:14.573 And I got some good news that God is still pouring out his spirit on all flesh, and all you got to do is to be in the posture to be able to believe that God wants to pour out his spirit on you afresh. 00:14:14.573 --> 00:14:37.429 We were brought into this series because there are too many people in the house of God who have made a confession with your mouth that you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, but you're not operating with the same power that Jesus is operating with, and I came today to let you know that God favors you so much that you don't have to leave here without the power. 00:14:37.429 --> 00:14:38.823 Somebody say I got the power. 00:14:39.951 --> 00:14:49.907 Oh, we all should have been here Wednesday night after the live stream went off and we was in here turning up having a good time, because everything ain't for live TV family. 00:14:49.907 --> 00:14:55.347 But after the live stream went off, we was in here, I don't know, maybe another 45 minutes. 00:14:55.347 --> 00:15:03.873 It was about 60 people that hung around and said Pastor Walt, I know the live stream off, I know the program is over, but I need some power. 00:15:03.873 --> 00:15:06.167 And let me tell y'all what happened. 00:15:06.167 --> 00:15:09.079 Let me give y'all a glimpse into how God moved. 00:15:09.420 --> 00:15:17.666 As we was there Wednesday night after the live stream was going off, there was a young man, one of our teens, sitting over there and God said bring him up here. 00:15:17.666 --> 00:15:20.008 I didn't even see him come to the altar before. 00:15:20.008 --> 00:15:21.861 See, I like this young man. 00:15:21.861 --> 00:15:27.040 He had been to the altar a couple of times, but I was so glad that he was willing to come back. 00:15:27.040 --> 00:15:34.524 Can I talk to somebody and say to you, in the spirit you got to be willing to come back, you about to give up too soon. 00:15:34.524 --> 00:15:36.929 There was a man that was touched by Jesus. 00:15:36.929 --> 00:15:40.332 He was touched the first time God opened his eyes. 00:15:40.332 --> 00:15:44.588 He had partial vision because he said men look like trees. 00:15:44.588 --> 00:15:49.222 But I'm so glad he didn't leave the church just because he had partial vision. 00:15:49.222 --> 00:15:52.068 Instead he said Lord, touch me again. 00:15:52.068 --> 00:15:54.072 I want to talk to somebody today. 00:15:54.072 --> 00:16:04.666 Perhaps you come in with partial vision, perhaps you come in with a partial healing, but I got some good news on this beautiful Sunday the Lord is about to touch you again. 00:16:05.227 --> 00:16:07.953 Anyway, this young man, he's a teenager now. 00:16:07.953 --> 00:16:15.661 He comes up to the altar and we start to pray over him and I start to speak the word that God gave me for him. 00:16:15.661 --> 00:16:23.907 And suddenly he takes the microphone and he declares at the top of his voice I got the power. 00:16:23.907 --> 00:16:31.591 Ooh, we all should have seen us If you see a young person, because young people ain't going to be fake y'all. 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:40.026 But if you see a young person come to the altar and they can declare out of their mouth I got the power. 00:16:40.026 --> 00:16:43.028 Don't tell me that God doesn't favor us. 00:16:43.028 --> 00:16:56.113 And I need about 75 people, before I even finish this sermon, that have come into the presence of the Most High God and you want to declare over your own life that you are filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:16:56.113 --> 00:16:58.005 You want to declare over your own life that God is filling you again. 00:16:58.005 --> 00:17:00.755 You want to declare over your own life that God is filling you again. 00:17:00.755 --> 00:17:05.807 You want to declare over your own life that favor has hit your house. 00:17:05.807 --> 00:17:16.047 I need you to be like that young brother and shout unto the hills I got the power yeah. 00:17:16.688 --> 00:17:24.817 So you don't need this power for what God is about to do in your life. 00:17:24.817 --> 00:17:34.674 In the text, god is in the throne room and he goes to an angel by the name of Gabriel. 00:17:34.674 --> 00:17:37.928 We've seen his name in the Bible several times. 00:17:37.928 --> 00:17:41.568 Gabriel appears to be one that God can trust. 00:17:41.568 --> 00:17:45.829 I pray daily to be one that God can trust. 00:17:45.829 --> 00:17:52.232 He tapped Gabriel on the shoulder and said Gabriel, I need you to go down and I need you to deliver a message. 00:17:52.232 --> 00:18:02.375 Gabriel goes down and he encounters a young lady by the name of Mary. 00:18:02.375 --> 00:18:06.890 When he encounters her, he doesn't call her Mary. 00:18:06.890 --> 00:18:11.489 He tells her thou favored one. 00:18:11.489 --> 00:18:25.948 Can I tell you right now that you are favored, that God sees something in you that you don't see in yourself. 00:18:25.948 --> 00:18:29.346 Somebody say I'm favored when he encounters her. 00:18:29.346 --> 00:18:33.971 Hear this when a word comes from the Lord for you, watch this carefully. 00:18:33.971 --> 00:18:36.929 When a word comes from the Lord for you. 00:18:37.761 --> 00:18:39.279 Every last one of us have been in church. 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:44.152 You, pastor, got a speaker under my bed. 00:18:44.152 --> 00:18:45.823 Is he listening to me? 00:18:45.823 --> 00:18:46.726 Is he in my inbox? 00:18:46.726 --> 00:18:47.769 He got my passwords. 00:18:47.769 --> 00:18:49.644 Every last one of us have been to church. 00:18:49.644 --> 00:18:50.928 They're like that. 00:18:50.928 --> 00:18:51.550 I've been to church. 00:18:51.550 --> 00:18:54.566 I don't know who told him but somebody in his snitch. 00:18:56.441 --> 00:18:59.190 What that is is God's favor. 00:18:59.190 --> 00:19:01.349 You know why that's God's favor? 00:19:01.349 --> 00:19:05.048 Because God don't have to talk to you, god. 00:19:05.048 --> 00:19:06.492 God ain't got to say a word to you. 00:19:06.492 --> 00:19:14.617 But God sometimes elects to say I'm gonna make sure that what they hear today hit them right where they need to hit, where you need to hit them so they understand. 00:19:14.617 --> 00:19:18.801 It ain't the preacher talking, it's the power of the Holy Ghost speaking right to their situation. 00:19:18.801 --> 00:19:20.794 So favor hits Mary's house because God didn holy ghost speaking right to their situation. 00:19:20.794 --> 00:19:23.262 So favor hits mary's house because god didn't have to talk to mary. 00:19:23.262 --> 00:19:28.111 So the angel comes and he says favored woman. 00:19:28.111 --> 00:19:34.759 Watch this because I want you to understand something, since I could have declared favors about to hit your house. 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:44.274 The first thing you need to understand about favor is that when favor does hit your house, it's going to create a divine disruption. 00:19:44.274 --> 00:19:51.012 When favor hits your house, it's about to create a divine disruption. 00:19:51.012 --> 00:19:56.271 One more time when favor hits your house, it's about to create a divine disruption. 00:19:56.271 --> 00:19:58.648 The angel goes and tells her she's favored. 00:19:58.648 --> 00:20:01.403 But then look what happened in the text 29 and 30. 00:20:01.403 --> 00:20:07.595 Confused and disturbed, mary tried to think of what the angel could mean. 00:20:07.595 --> 00:20:10.246 Let's stay right there for a second stay on 29 for a second. 00:20:11.650 --> 00:20:14.819 Y'all ever been confused and disturbed? 00:20:14.819 --> 00:20:17.705 One thing to be confused. 00:20:17.705 --> 00:20:21.232 But to be confused and disturbed, that's a bad place to be. 00:20:21.232 --> 00:20:29.072 Mary is confused and disturbed in part because she understood the language. 00:20:29.072 --> 00:20:33.185 She understood what it meant to be favored, just like y'all understood the language. 00:20:33.185 --> 00:20:42.072 But mary knew who she was and she had a moment where she looked at herself and said who am I that God would favor me? 00:20:43.159 --> 00:20:49.163 Y'all ever had that moment where you looked at yourself and said I've made so many bad choices, why do I even deserve another chance? 00:20:49.163 --> 00:20:52.172 I've gotten it wrong so many other times. 00:20:52.172 --> 00:20:53.986 I'm confused, are you sure? 00:20:53.986 --> 00:20:55.673 Because Mary is a common name. 00:20:55.673 --> 00:21:14.094 You, you got the right Mary, but but but I want to let you know that that when, when favor hits your house, it causes a divine disruption, because now in your psyche and your mental, you're wrestling with the fact that there is someone out there who sees more in you than you see with yourself. 00:21:14.094 --> 00:21:21.621 Ooh-wee, that'll mess you up, because you had kind of put yourself in a certain box and you had been telling that lie to yourself. 00:21:21.621 --> 00:21:22.985 It is what it is. 00:21:22.985 --> 00:21:25.350 Y'all better stop telling your lie to yourself. 00:21:25.350 --> 00:21:28.369 You have put yourself and said this is just how it's gonna be. 00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:30.538 I'm just gonna go alone to get alone. 00:21:30.538 --> 00:21:40.770 But no, all of a sudden, there's a disruption in your, in your mental, because God has said something to you that you couldn't see in yourself. 00:21:40.770 --> 00:21:45.636 She's confused and she's disturbed. 00:21:45.636 --> 00:21:49.826 If you think about it, I can't blame Mary. 00:21:50.868 --> 00:22:00.531 Theologians say that Mary could have been as young as 12 and maybe, at the best, 18, maybe, and they say that because of the age of women. 00:22:00.531 --> 00:22:06.167 At that time, when they were betrothed into marriage, she was not fully married. 00:22:06.167 --> 00:22:09.961 She was going through a process similar to our engagement period. 00:22:09.961 --> 00:22:16.342 And now she's in this situation where she's living at a time where women didn't have value. 00:22:16.342 --> 00:22:30.605 She's living at a time when she was always subject to the man that was in her life, whether that was her husband, if she had one, her father or a brother, and then, without either of those, she was considered to be, uh, pretty much nothing. 00:22:30.605 --> 00:22:38.048 That's why Jesus always talked about taking care of the widows, because women at that time were looked at as lesser than. 00:22:39.030 --> 00:22:46.023 With all of those strikes against her, our God said I'm sending a message, mary, that you are favored. 00:22:46.023 --> 00:22:49.250 Can I talk to somebody in the house that don't mind being ashamed. 00:22:49.250 --> 00:22:51.905 You got a lot of strikes against you. 00:22:51.905 --> 00:22:58.265 This is for the women and the men, but I hear the Lord saying you're still favored. 00:22:58.265 --> 00:23:00.210 That's interesting, interesting. 00:23:00.210 --> 00:23:06.931 I can have strikes, I can have struggles, I can have strains, but I'm still favored. 00:23:08.181 --> 00:23:14.125 Now the divine disruption has hit Mary because she's favored. 00:23:14.125 --> 00:23:14.767 Here's this. 00:23:14.767 --> 00:23:16.230 You need to hear it carefully. 00:23:16.230 --> 00:23:25.408 When you realize that you are favored, the next thing that the angel says to her in verse 30 is don't be afraid. 00:23:25.408 --> 00:23:35.360 I understand why Gabriel told her not to be afraid because, just like Mary, for some of you, you're finally about to realize what it is that God has called you to do. 00:23:35.360 --> 00:23:38.046 And when it's God's size, it's terrifying. 00:23:38.046 --> 00:23:43.921 You see, we all pray for favor, but do we want favor for real, for real? 00:23:43.921 --> 00:23:50.421 You see, if God does favor you for real, for real, everything in your life has to change. 00:23:50.421 --> 00:23:57.400 There is not a place in the bible where you see favor hit somebody house and they went back to the status quo. 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.282 Monday morning looked different for a favorite person. 00:24:00.282 --> 00:24:04.166 I'm telling you, when favor hits your life, suddenly something got to change. 00:24:04.166 --> 00:24:08.569 When favor hits your life, all of a sudden your calendar don't look like what it used to. 00:24:08.569 --> 00:24:12.473 When favor hits your life, all of a sudden, your friend circle may look different. 00:24:12.473 --> 00:24:19.565 When favor hits your life suddenly, everything that you thought was may not be and what you thought may not be it suddenly suddenly is. 00:24:20.006 --> 00:24:23.407 Can I give you an example of an amazing woman of god by the name of esther? 00:24:23.407 --> 00:24:28.085 Esther was considered to be a favorite beautiful woman in the old testament. 00:24:28.085 --> 00:24:34.443 She didn't realize it at the time, but god had his hand on her life and I talked to some amazing, beautiful woman of god. 00:24:34.443 --> 00:24:40.004 You don't realize it, but god has had his hand on your life and I want to let you know something. 00:24:40.004 --> 00:24:43.123 Esther also dealt with a divine disruption. 00:24:43.123 --> 00:24:44.605 What do you mean, pastor Walt? 00:24:44.605 --> 00:24:52.034 There came a time where her people were were being, uh, were being, uh, tortured and and about to be executed. 00:24:52.034 --> 00:25:01.108 They were being persecuted, they were going through trials, they were going through struggle, and the only person in a human sense that could stop it would be the king. 00:25:01.108 --> 00:25:11.631 Now, even though her favor had gotten her to a point where she was part of the king's heirloom, uh, she really was not in a position where she could actually go and talk to the king. 00:25:11.631 --> 00:25:14.105 I know it sounds weird, but follow me here. 00:25:14.105 --> 00:25:15.108 She was part. 00:25:15.328 --> 00:25:27.057 She was one of the king's many women, but the law at the time said that you, as just being one of his many women, you can't talk to the king about your problems unless the king calls you. 00:25:27.057 --> 00:25:31.687 In a nutshell, you can understand it don't come for me unless I sin for you. 00:25:31.687 --> 00:25:33.412 That was the king's decree. 00:25:33.412 --> 00:25:36.445 But let me tell you something about being favored. 00:25:36.445 --> 00:25:43.165 A divine disruption is going to come into your life and it's going to make you do what you into your life and it's going to make you do what you otherwise would not do. 00:25:43.165 --> 00:25:46.621 It's going to make you take some risks that you otherwise would not take. 00:25:46.961 --> 00:25:52.721 Her cousin comes to her and say Esther, god has had his hand on you for a long time, but it's now. 00:25:52.721 --> 00:25:55.147 It's time for you to be what God has called you to be. 00:25:55.147 --> 00:25:57.663 It's time for you to do what God has called you to do. 00:25:57.663 --> 00:25:59.608 I need you to go talk to the king. 00:25:59.608 --> 00:26:02.384 Tell him all of our lives are in danger. 00:26:02.384 --> 00:26:04.550 And suddenly Esther is afraid. 00:26:04.550 --> 00:26:06.957 I understand why Mary was afraid. 00:26:06.957 --> 00:26:08.703 Because Esther was afraid. 00:26:08.703 --> 00:26:16.367 I understand why Mary was afraid, because I get afraid, because now Esther realizes that if she goes to the king. 00:26:16.367 --> 00:26:19.056 She could be killed for going forward. 00:26:19.056 --> 00:26:24.166 Can I talk to somebody right now who's afraid to go forward because you think you're going to lose your money? 00:26:24.166 --> 00:26:25.961 You think you're going to lose your business? 00:26:25.961 --> 00:26:30.432 You thinking about, you're going to be alone, but I want you to have an Esther spirit. 00:26:30.961 --> 00:26:32.425 Esther had to pray that night. 00:26:32.425 --> 00:26:34.393 She asked everybody to pray. 00:26:34.393 --> 00:26:40.991 As a matter of fact, I need every favorite person in here to get to the point where you get comfortable to ask people to pray for you. 00:26:40.991 --> 00:26:47.211 Esther asked the people to pray and Esther gets up in the morning and she talks to her cousin. 00:26:47.211 --> 00:26:52.011 Hey cuz, I prayed about it last night and I decided what I'm going to do. 00:26:52.011 --> 00:26:56.924 She says I'm going to see the king and the other people around her. 00:26:56.924 --> 00:26:58.770 Esther, don't go see the king. 00:26:58.770 --> 00:27:05.205 He may take your life, but Esther declared if I perish, let me perish. 00:27:05.205 --> 00:27:07.389 I'm going to see the king. 00:27:08.030 --> 00:27:09.855 That's what it's like to be favored. 00:27:09.855 --> 00:27:15.630 There's a divine interruption that may scare you, but you got some choices. 00:27:15.630 --> 00:27:18.924 You can go back to where you've been delivered from and die. 00:27:18.924 --> 00:27:21.451 You can stay where you are and die. 00:27:21.451 --> 00:27:26.812 But I want to talk to some favorite people that don't mind a divine interruption. 00:27:26.812 --> 00:27:29.608 It says I got to go forward. 00:27:29.608 --> 00:27:31.927 Do I have any people in the house of God? 00:27:31.927 --> 00:27:34.147 It says I've been where I am long enough. 00:27:34.147 --> 00:27:36.186 I know God's hand is on me. 00:27:36.186 --> 00:27:41.967 I may have to change some stuff, but it's time for me to go forward. 00:27:42.990 --> 00:28:03.201 So what happens is that when you are favored and the Holy Spirit comes upon you and there's this divine disruption and all of a sudden listen to this y'all there's some of you, because you are favored there's some things that are about to shift really significantly in your life. 00:28:03.201 --> 00:28:24.919 It may be in the form of relocating and I know the Spirit is speaking to me because I sure don't want to lose y'all Y'all good partners, but I'm talking about some people literally may have to move into another side of the town or to another state, whatever. 00:28:24.919 --> 00:28:26.536 Some will be coming, some will be going. 00:28:26.536 --> 00:28:28.556 But that's what it looks like. 00:28:28.556 --> 00:28:33.060 That's what it looks like when divine is a disruption. 00:28:33.060 --> 00:28:35.216 It ain't favor without a disruption. 00:28:35.216 --> 00:28:40.355 You thought God was going to favor you and you just going to get up and punch the clock like oh, isn't it God favoring me? 00:28:40.355 --> 00:28:42.211 And I just go punch the clock Monday like. 00:28:42.211 --> 00:28:44.014 It's like like everything is awesome. 00:28:44.415 --> 00:28:50.223 No, when favor hit your life, suddenly everything has to shift. 00:28:50.223 --> 00:28:50.964 How do I know this? 00:28:50.964 --> 00:28:59.333 Because when favor hit marriage life after the divine disruption, look at what God did next after the divine disruption. 00:28:59.333 --> 00:29:02.721 He then began to reveal her destiny. 00:29:02.721 --> 00:29:07.932 Watch this carefully after the divine disruption, destiny is revealed. 00:29:07.932 --> 00:29:12.864 So now she's been disrupted and she realizes that God is moving in her life. 00:29:12.864 --> 00:29:18.143 I pray that I've disrupted you enough already so that you'll know that God is moving in your life. 00:29:18.250 --> 00:29:20.934 Watch this Luke 1, verse 31 through 33. 00:29:20.934 --> 00:29:28.252 Gabriel says you will conceive and give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, verse 32. 00:29:28.252 --> 00:29:34.149 He will be very great and will be called the son of the most high, the Lord. 00:29:34.149 --> 00:29:38.897 God will give him the throne of his ancestor, david, verse 33. 00:29:38.897 --> 00:29:41.561 And he will reign over Israel forever. 00:29:41.561 --> 00:29:43.964 His kingdom will never end. 00:29:43.964 --> 00:29:51.721 Gabriel has delivered a message now that it shifted her whole life. 00:29:53.491 --> 00:30:04.701 When favor hits your house and you accept that it is the Lord talking, suddenly, now everything has to change. 00:30:04.701 --> 00:30:07.717 What do you mean, pastor Walt? 00:30:07.717 --> 00:30:13.873 Because Mary was destined and she believed her destiny, side point. 00:30:13.873 --> 00:30:14.655 Pause right there. 00:30:14.655 --> 00:30:18.720 Do I have some people that are destined in the house and you believe your destiny? 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:21.538 Do you really believe what God has shown you? 00:30:21.538 --> 00:30:27.282 And if you're trying to discern what God has shown you, I'm praying that he'll show you a little bit more of it today. 00:30:27.282 --> 00:30:33.482 Maybe you can't handle the whole picture, but I'm praying for a fresh revelation so you can understand what God is trying to show you. 00:30:33.482 --> 00:30:39.623 Because now what happens is, if you believe it, you got to stand on it. 00:30:39.623 --> 00:30:41.452 So watch what happens. 00:30:41.552 --> 00:30:51.341 Now that she has been revealed, that Mary, a virgin, is about to give birth to a baby, and what she's about to give birth to uh will be holy. 00:30:51.341 --> 00:30:58.556 Matter of fact, uh, I want to let you know that what you're all about to give birth to, uh, because you are setting forth for God, it's going to be holy. 00:30:58.556 --> 00:31:01.171 Did you not know that your million dollar business can be holy? 00:31:01.171 --> 00:31:06.742 Yeah, that that million dollar idea can be holy because it is something that comes from God's favor. 00:31:06.742 --> 00:31:09.940 So when it comes into the world, it's going to be holy. 00:31:09.940 --> 00:31:13.700 But here's the deal Since Mary believed that her life had to change, what do you mean? 00:31:14.369 --> 00:31:23.325 Suddenly, mary has to now take care of her body as a pregnant woman, even though she's still a virgin. 00:31:23.325 --> 00:31:26.532 That don't make sense, does it it? 00:31:26.532 --> 00:31:27.375 But she believed what God told her. 00:31:27.375 --> 00:31:29.967 There are too many people that come into the house of God. 00:31:29.967 --> 00:31:30.870 God said something. 00:31:30.870 --> 00:31:35.265 You wrote it down in your journal, but you're not preparing yourself as it is. 00:31:35.265 --> 00:31:37.935 So I need to talk to some people in the house of God. 00:31:37.935 --> 00:31:44.932 If you believe your favorite and if you believe what God showed you, when you're gonna start preparing as if it's already done? 00:31:44.932 --> 00:31:46.335 When are you gonna start? 00:31:46.335 --> 00:31:52.075 Listen, mary started to take the neonatal vitamins and going on her little little visits and stuff. 00:31:52.115 --> 00:31:56.634 Joseph, having to take off work because now they're saying we got to get ready because a baby is on the way. 00:31:56.634 --> 00:31:57.817 It don't make sense. 00:31:57.817 --> 00:32:10.623 But I'm trying to talk to somebody and let you know that when you're favored that's what, what it looks like you got to prepare for what's coming and guess what, when you're favored and it don't make sense, you got to prepare for the people that don't believe you. 00:32:10.623 --> 00:32:12.635 Imagine being married. 00:32:12.635 --> 00:32:15.096 You're walking around downtown Jerusalem. 00:32:15.096 --> 00:32:16.634 Hey, girl, how you doing? 00:32:16.634 --> 00:32:19.076 Girl, you put on a little weight, girl. 00:32:19.076 --> 00:32:21.294 Well, you know I'm expecting you. 00:32:21.294 --> 00:32:23.020 What Do Joseph know? 00:32:23.020 --> 00:32:25.144 Joseph, wait, girl. 00:32:25.144 --> 00:32:25.906 Well, you know I'm expecting you. 00:32:25.906 --> 00:32:25.914 What Do Joseph know? 00:32:25.914 --> 00:32:26.283 Joseph, ain't the daddy. 00:32:26.283 --> 00:32:27.010 What you mean? 00:32:27.010 --> 00:32:27.995 Joseph ain't the daddy. 00:32:27.995 --> 00:32:30.810 The Holy Ghost fed Kelly on me. 00:32:30.810 --> 00:32:40.477 Child, okay, twitter I don't know where these people come from Be cheating and stuff. 00:32:40.477 --> 00:32:44.033 They got the nerve to put it on God Talking about the Holy Ghost. 00:32:44.033 --> 00:32:45.298 They be making stuff up. 00:32:45.298 --> 00:32:49.239 If you know, you know Right, y'all know how we do subliminal messages. 00:32:51.111 --> 00:33:01.220 So Mary got a choice right she could believe what God showed her or she could doubt and let the whole thing fade away. 00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:10.119 There are too many times God will show you stuff that nobody else has seen and nobody else will have a belief. 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:16.799 But I say this to you the season of trying to prove yourself has to come to an end. 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:22.820 Some of you spend too much time trying to prove yourself. 00:33:22.820 --> 00:33:27.211 Last year was the year of receipts. 00:33:27.211 --> 00:33:30.299 Every time I turn on my laptop talking about talking about, I got receipts, facts. 00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:35.500 You wasted too much time showing you're improving yourself, the people that ain't gonna help you in the first place. 00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:41.392 You wasted too much time trying to go back and forth with people about people who ain't gonna help you anyhow. 00:33:41.392 --> 00:33:46.822 The only thing that you could do is believe what God showed you and stand on it. 00:33:46.822 --> 00:33:55.970 I need some people in the house of God that, when it looks crazy, when people are laughing at you, when they're talking sideways and they're talking about what's not impossible. 00:33:56.089 --> 00:33:59.921 You say I'm going to stand on what God showed me. 00:33:59.921 --> 00:34:07.461 I know you can't see it, I know you can't feel it, I know you don't believe it, but I'm going to stand on what God showed me. 00:34:07.461 --> 00:34:12.275 I'm not going to spend too much more time trying to prove nothing to you the rest of my life. 00:34:12.275 --> 00:34:16.471 All I'm going to do is put one foot in front of the other. 00:34:16.471 --> 00:34:18.575 I need some people from that school. 00:34:18.575 --> 00:34:22.121 Put one foot in front of the other. 00:34:22.121 --> 00:34:23.724 Talk if you got to talk. 00:34:23.724 --> 00:34:25.797 Laugh if you got to laugh. 00:34:25.797 --> 00:34:27.496 Say what you got to say. 00:34:27.496 --> 00:34:29.456 Post if you got to post. 00:34:29.456 --> 00:34:39.181 But I'm putting one foot in front of the other and after a while, what God promised it's going to manifest. 00:34:40.369 --> 00:34:44.163 And because I've grown in the spirit, it manifests. 00:34:44.163 --> 00:34:47.255 I ain't gonna, I ain't gonna uninvite you to the cookout. 00:34:47.255 --> 00:34:49.179 No, when it manifests. 00:34:49.179 --> 00:34:52.326 I understand that you couldn't see it. 00:34:52.326 --> 00:34:58.039 You see, when it manifested through Mary, mary didn't turn from the people who doubted her. 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.932 Mary blessed the people who didn't believe. 00:35:01.932 --> 00:35:11.445 What a place of spiritual maturity when you can genuinely invite the people who didn't believe it was going to happen for you. 00:35:11.445 --> 00:35:21.799 What a place of spiritual maturity when you can sit and break bread with the people, despite what you know they were saying about you. 00:35:21.799 --> 00:35:27.967