WEBVTT 00:00:18.850 --> 00:00:20.690 Romans chapter 5, verses 1 through 2. 00:00:20.769 --> 00:00:22.210 I'm going to read out the Amplified Classic. 00:00:22.370 --> 00:00:22.929 It says this. 00:00:23.010 --> 00:00:25.890 This has our been our core scripture for all these weeks. 00:00:26.050 --> 00:00:34.450 Therefore, since we are justified, acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God through faith. 00:00:34.689 --> 00:00:35.490 Hallelujah. 00:00:35.730 --> 00:00:37.810 Just pause right there and say, Hallelujah. 00:00:39.250 --> 00:00:46.689 Let us grasp the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy. 00:00:46.929 --> 00:00:53.490 Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one. 00:00:53.730 --> 00:00:59.890 In case you forgot from the last time I taught to you, we are only favored because of the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:01:00.450 --> 00:01:07.090 It's not by your own works, it's not by your own doings, it's not because of your education, your networkability, or your talent. 00:01:07.170 --> 00:01:13.009 You are favored because God has allowed you to be favored through the blood of his son Jesus Christ. 00:01:13.969 --> 00:01:14.609 Amen. 00:01:18.210 --> 00:01:18.689 They just don't. 00:01:19.329 --> 00:01:20.609 I want to hear the name Jesus. 00:01:20.770 --> 00:01:22.930 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 00:01:23.010 --> 00:01:23.329 Okay. 00:01:23.650 --> 00:01:24.930 This is all about Jesus. 00:01:25.090 --> 00:01:26.450 You're blessed because of Jesus. 00:01:26.530 --> 00:01:28.129 You're saved because of Jesus. 00:01:28.450 --> 00:01:31.250 All this I'm talking about is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 00:01:31.409 --> 00:01:31.810 Amen. 00:01:32.689 --> 00:01:35.969 Okay, that's for all the the anyway. 00:01:36.049 --> 00:01:37.329 All right, let's keep going. 00:01:37.650 --> 00:01:41.810 I'm in a certain kind of mood today because I feel the Lord wanting to do something in the house. 00:01:42.689 --> 00:01:43.329 Amen. 00:01:44.209 --> 00:02:09.969 Verse 2 through Him also we have our access, entrance, introduction by faith into this grace, the state of God's favor, in which we firmly and safely stand, and let us rejoice, exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God. 00:02:10.769 --> 00:02:11.889 Hallelujah. 00:02:12.370 --> 00:02:18.050 Friend, you and I are saved by grace through faith, meaning you are saved because God favored you. 00:02:19.889 --> 00:02:20.530 Amen. 00:02:22.290 --> 00:02:22.930 Let's pray. 00:02:23.090 --> 00:02:31.250 Heavenly Father, I thank you today for the potency of your word, that it accomplishes what has been set out to accomplish. 00:02:31.649 --> 00:02:41.889 And so, Lord, I thank you that you have already begun the shift in this house where you are elevating this house, these people, God, into a new realm and dimension of your favor. 00:02:42.449 --> 00:02:55.810 And Lord, just as the Bible says that Jesus went on to grow in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man, I thank you, Lord, that we are growing in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and with man in this house. 00:02:56.050 --> 00:02:59.329 Let the growth of favor happen even now. 00:02:59.970 --> 00:03:01.889 In Jesus' mighty name. 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:04.529 I sense something in the room right now. 00:03:04.930 --> 00:03:05.970 You might not sense it. 00:03:06.050 --> 00:03:11.089 That's all right, but let me tell you right now, there is an expansion of your capacity for favor. 00:03:12.449 --> 00:03:15.569 There's an expansion of your capacity for favor. 00:03:15.889 --> 00:03:18.449 It goes beyond just getting a deal at Dillard's. 00:03:18.529 --> 00:03:23.569 It goes into the realm of I've never known that I could live this way, like how I'm living now. 00:03:23.649 --> 00:03:27.089 I never know God liked me the way I'm seeing how He liked me. 00:03:27.250 --> 00:03:39.810 I declare to this house in Jesus' mighty name, Lord, that you are taking us from glory to glory at a capacity of our ability for favor in Jesus' mighty name. 00:03:40.850 --> 00:03:45.250 Everything that's trying to hinder in this moment, I take authority over you now. 00:03:48.129 --> 00:03:50.129 People say, Pastor Aaron, why do you pray that way? 00:03:50.209 --> 00:03:55.490 Because I'm telling you, you walk through life every single week and stuff tries to creep on you, and it tries to come in here on a Sunday morning. 00:03:55.569 --> 00:03:58.370 And let me tell you, it's not gonna hinder what God has for your life. 00:03:58.449 --> 00:04:00.290 Can I get an Amen, somebody? 00:04:00.529 --> 00:04:07.569 So I take authority over every hindering and distracting thing in the name of Jesus, and I apply the blood over you now. 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:14.449 Destroyer be removed, and Father, in the name of Jesus, let your Son be glorified. 00:04:14.850 --> 00:04:16.930 In Jesus' mighty name I pray. 00:04:17.089 --> 00:04:19.810 Come on, someone shout, Amen. 00:04:20.129 --> 00:04:20.610 Amen. 00:04:20.769 --> 00:04:22.050 You may be seated today. 00:04:22.209 --> 00:04:23.410 Hallelujah. 00:04:26.610 --> 00:04:32.529 I'm gonna jump right in this morning because I wanna get this to you. 00:04:32.689 --> 00:04:40.529 Remember this: you can have access to something, but if you lack awareness of it, you will never enter into it. 00:04:41.409 --> 00:04:47.409 Many times believers do not lack access, they lack awareness. 00:04:50.209 --> 00:04:53.569 I'm gonna come down here because I'm in a teaching-preaching kind of mood. 00:04:53.729 --> 00:04:55.329 Anybody ready to be teached and preached? 00:04:55.409 --> 00:04:56.129 Come on now. 00:04:56.689 --> 00:04:59.250 Okay, let me say one more time. 00:04:59.490 --> 00:05:03.250 You do not lack access, you lack awareness. 00:05:04.050 --> 00:05:07.889 You do not lack access to any of the blessings of God. 00:05:08.289 --> 00:05:18.930 The Bible says that you and I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing, not just the blessing of salvation and going to heaven one day. 00:05:19.250 --> 00:05:31.009 You've been blessed with perpetual health, you've been blessed with provision, you've been blessed with joy, you've been blessed with unlimited peace. 00:05:31.169 --> 00:05:31.969 Come on now. 00:05:32.129 --> 00:05:33.889 You've been blessed with rest. 00:05:34.370 --> 00:05:37.810 Come on, you just you've been blessed with unlimited favor. 00:05:38.529 --> 00:05:39.409 Watch this now. 00:05:39.569 --> 00:05:42.050 So you and I do not lack access. 00:05:42.209 --> 00:05:43.810 What we lack is awareness. 00:05:44.050 --> 00:05:52.129 And so what I'm doing today is I'm giving you keys to help you access what has been made available to you. 00:05:52.289 --> 00:05:58.209 I'm giving you keys today to help you become aware of what God says is freely yours. 00:06:00.449 --> 00:06:01.329 Is that cool? 00:06:01.889 --> 00:06:05.729 And I know I've used this analogy before, but it it's it's too good not to use it. 00:06:05.810 --> 00:06:26.289 If you had a an uncle who was a multi-billionaire who passed away and you were the last akin, and he left everything to you, and it was up in a trust account, and your name was on the beneficiary of the trust, but you worked at some kind of fast food joint, and nobody ever told you that you have a mega inheritance with your name on it. 00:06:26.370 --> 00:06:27.250 Guess what? 00:06:27.649 --> 00:06:30.849 You're gonna keep on flipping burgers and frying them fries. 00:06:32.050 --> 00:06:41.009 But once somebody tells you, hey, Deborah, your uncle left you all this money and it's all yours. 00:06:41.169 --> 00:06:42.289 Your name's on it. 00:06:42.529 --> 00:06:44.449 Here, here's how you access it. 00:06:44.610 --> 00:06:46.769 You don't ever have to work another day in your life. 00:06:47.409 --> 00:06:48.529 You understand what I'm saying? 00:06:48.689 --> 00:06:54.449 What happens then is you get moved from a position of where you were to where you are supposed to be. 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:59.250 But the thing that caused the change was awareness. 00:07:00.050 --> 00:07:01.009 You understand? 00:07:01.649 --> 00:07:09.009 And so I don't want you to be unaware of how to access the favor of God in your life. 00:07:09.889 --> 00:07:10.529 Amen. 00:07:11.649 --> 00:07:23.569 And really, I know I'm talking about favor, but this can go with peace, this can go with joy, this can go with provision, this can go with being in a right mind. 00:07:23.729 --> 00:07:24.529 Does that make sense? 00:07:24.610 --> 00:07:36.129 We're we're talking about favor here, and it's because I'm telling you, God declared to me and spoke to me that He was uh clothing and wrapping his arms around this congregation, this body with favor. 00:07:37.329 --> 00:07:45.490 And we've seen it, I've seen it, but let me tell you, these principles and these keys I'm giving you can be used for anything that you need from the Lord. 00:07:46.849 --> 00:07:47.409 Amen. 00:07:50.129 --> 00:07:51.250 Hallelujah. 00:07:52.689 --> 00:07:55.889 So last week I told you, key, and I gave you two keys last week. 00:07:55.969 --> 00:07:57.169 I'm gonna give those to you really briefly. 00:07:57.329 --> 00:07:58.610 Then we're gonna go to key three and four. 00:07:58.689 --> 00:08:00.209 Look at your neighbors, say three and four. 00:08:01.409 --> 00:08:08.129 Now, if there was any young people in here, I would say not six, seven, but three and four. 00:08:08.930 --> 00:08:15.969 Ash and I have discovered youth slang, and we on purpose use it wrongly just to cringe our kids out. 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:18.129 Come on, mom and dads, you know what I'm talking about? 00:08:18.849 --> 00:08:19.969 That's what you gotta do. 00:08:20.209 --> 00:08:21.569 Bella's cringing on the front row. 00:08:21.649 --> 00:08:22.689 I love you, woman of God. 00:08:22.769 --> 00:08:24.129 Come on, somebody. 00:08:26.370 --> 00:08:30.689 But last week I let you know if you're gonna activate favor in your life, you need to decide. 00:08:30.930 --> 00:08:40.690 Make up your mind that you were favored by God, not because of your performance, but because of what Jesus has already made available to you at the cross. 00:08:41.250 --> 00:08:44.289 Stop going back and forth questioning whether or not God loves you. 00:08:44.370 --> 00:08:49.090 Let me tell you, my friend, the Bible says that while you were still a sinner, Christ died for you. 00:08:49.250 --> 00:08:53.970 Meaning, whenever you were enemies with God, he still wanted to be your friend. 00:08:54.370 --> 00:09:02.370 So, how much more now that you were saved, blood blood, blood bought, baptized in the Holy Ghost, and sanctified. 00:09:02.449 --> 00:09:03.250 Come on now. 00:09:03.409 --> 00:09:08.370 I'm telling you, if you if he loved you back then the way he loved you, how much more does he love you now? 00:09:08.610 --> 00:09:13.169 So make up your mind that you are what God says you are. 00:09:13.330 --> 00:09:17.730 You are righteous, you are redeemed, you are blessed and highly favored. 00:09:17.809 --> 00:09:18.689 Come on now. 00:09:19.730 --> 00:09:22.529 I've made up my mind that that's who I am. 00:09:22.769 --> 00:09:26.370 Not because of anything I've done, but because of what Jesus has done for me. 00:09:26.610 --> 00:09:27.169 Amen. 00:09:27.730 --> 00:09:29.649 Key number one, make up your mind, decide. 00:09:29.730 --> 00:09:31.809 Key number two is you got to declare. 00:09:32.049 --> 00:09:34.929 Look at your neighbor and say, open up your mouth and say something. 00:09:36.689 --> 00:09:38.769 Look at your other neighbor and just go. 00:09:40.929 --> 00:09:42.610 Not teasing, okay? 00:09:42.850 --> 00:09:44.370 But why do you have to declare? 00:09:44.689 --> 00:09:49.009 Because you're bringing your words into agreement with God's word. 00:09:49.649 --> 00:09:59.009 And whenever you declare something, we speak his promises over our lives until our confession matches what heaven has already said. 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:06.210 Help me, Lord Jesus. 00:10:06.769 --> 00:10:08.610 Let me just dip my toe in this a little bit. 00:10:08.689 --> 00:10:30.929 I was I was watching uh a good old preacher online, and he's definitely not a spirit-filled guy, and he, you know, he he's a he's an erudite at a at a Bible university, very smart guy, and he was talking with pastors, and he was talking about how to make plans for your future in ministry. 00:10:31.009 --> 00:10:35.169 And one of the things he said, he said, write it down and talk about it. 00:10:35.409 --> 00:10:38.449 And I'm sitting back and I'm saying, well, hang on a second. 00:10:39.250 --> 00:10:43.730 That that that to me kind of sounds like something that we teach, but we get made fun of. 00:10:44.049 --> 00:10:47.090 Because y'all call it name it and claim it, blabbing and grabbing. 00:10:48.049 --> 00:10:51.889 But you but you're over here saying, write it down and talk about it. 00:10:52.129 --> 00:10:53.250 Let me tell you something. 00:10:53.409 --> 00:10:58.449 There is something powerful whenever you declare what God has declared. 00:10:58.689 --> 00:11:05.409 There is something powerful whenever you put the word of God in your mouth and you make it the word of God in your mouth. 00:11:09.090 --> 00:11:14.370 And then this, so this preacher said, I'm not talking about that that blabbing and grabbing, name it and claim it stuff. 00:11:14.449 --> 00:11:15.250 He literally said that. 00:11:15.330 --> 00:11:18.370 He goes, but you gotta write it down and you gotta speak it out. 00:11:19.009 --> 00:11:24.449 I'm just like, man of God, I know it's a different kind of packaging, but you're saying the same thing that I say. 00:11:27.009 --> 00:11:27.649 Why? 00:11:27.970 --> 00:11:32.370 Because the words you speak create the world that you live in. 00:11:33.889 --> 00:11:37.970 The words you speak create the world that you live in. 00:11:38.210 --> 00:11:47.730 And so, whenever we declare, not only do we decide that we are favored, but we declare that we are favored, we are saying what God has already said. 00:11:49.970 --> 00:11:50.610 Amen. 00:11:51.809 --> 00:12:02.210 So you can declare I'm righteous, you can declare I'm blessed, you can declare I have no wants, you can declare I have no cares. 00:12:04.049 --> 00:12:05.809 I do that all the time. 00:12:06.210 --> 00:12:07.809 I don't I don't have a care in the world. 00:12:07.889 --> 00:12:09.490 And people say, Why don't you have a care in the world? 00:12:09.569 --> 00:12:14.129 Because the Bible says, cast all your cares upon him, for he cares for you. 00:12:14.449 --> 00:12:19.250 So I don't have a care, he has all the cares, and so what do I cast my care? 00:12:19.490 --> 00:12:20.210 I literally do that. 00:12:20.289 --> 00:12:21.169 I did this this past week. 00:12:21.250 --> 00:12:23.250 I said I cast my cares on the Lord. 00:12:23.409 --> 00:12:24.850 I don't have a care in the world. 00:12:24.929 --> 00:12:25.169 Why? 00:12:25.250 --> 00:12:30.529 Because I done give it to him, and so I open up my mouth and I declare what he has declared. 00:12:30.610 --> 00:12:34.850 So you need to open up your mouth and declare that you are favored by God. 00:12:38.689 --> 00:12:40.370 Psalms 5 and verse 12. 00:12:40.449 --> 00:12:42.289 I said it every week for the last weeks. 00:12:42.370 --> 00:12:43.490 I've been preaching this thing. 00:12:43.649 --> 00:12:47.569 For the Lord blesses the righteous and he shields him with favor. 00:12:48.289 --> 00:12:49.250 You know what I've been doing? 00:12:49.409 --> 00:12:50.289 I'm favored. 00:12:51.009 --> 00:12:53.970 I've been walking around, going to the store. 00:12:54.129 --> 00:12:55.490 I'm favored. 00:12:56.449 --> 00:12:58.529 I I'm talking with my wife. 00:12:58.689 --> 00:13:00.370 You know we're favored. 00:13:01.330 --> 00:13:02.129 Come on now. 00:13:02.370 --> 00:13:05.330 Shopping on Amazon, clicking what I need a click of a clack. 00:13:05.409 --> 00:13:06.289 You know what I'm talking about? 00:13:06.529 --> 00:13:07.569 I'm favored. 00:13:08.210 --> 00:13:12.210 And can I, and I know this is, you know, people think this is cute, but I'm telling you, this is a real thing. 00:13:12.289 --> 00:13:18.370 I I literally was shopping for something the other day, yesterday, and I was looking for it, and I said, God, I'll thank you for favor. 00:13:18.449 --> 00:13:19.730 Just I'm getting in the habit of it. 00:13:20.769 --> 00:13:25.809 I said that I found the item that I needed on Amazon, and all of a sudden a coupon popped up randomly. 00:13:27.569 --> 00:13:29.809 And it said, 30% off. 00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:31.649 And I said, Thank you for favor, Lord. 00:13:31.730 --> 00:13:32.210 Clip. 00:13:34.049 --> 00:13:35.250 Now don't get it twisted. 00:13:35.330 --> 00:13:41.169 I know in a lot of houses the wives have all the Amazon packages, but your pastor is an Amazon pastor, okay? 00:13:41.569 --> 00:13:44.129 Telling you right now, so don't get it twisted. 00:13:44.689 --> 00:13:47.009 But I'm telling you, you got to declare that you're favored. 00:13:47.169 --> 00:13:51.250 You're favored in your job, you're favored in your family, you're favored in your ministry. 00:13:51.330 --> 00:13:54.289 Come on, you're favored when raising your family. 00:13:54.610 --> 00:13:56.529 Come on, raising them kids. 00:13:57.169 --> 00:13:59.730 You're favored when you're interacting with those in-laws. 00:13:59.889 --> 00:14:01.009 Come on, somebody. 00:14:01.330 --> 00:14:01.649 Why? 00:14:01.809 --> 00:14:06.210 Because God says, because you're righteous, you're blessed, and he is shielding you with favor. 00:14:06.689 --> 00:14:09.809 So every arena that you walk into, come on now. 00:14:09.970 --> 00:14:13.569 Favor goes before you, favor's on your side, and favors behind you too. 00:14:13.730 --> 00:14:14.289 Come on now. 00:14:14.449 --> 00:14:16.049 You are surrounded by favor. 00:14:16.129 --> 00:14:17.569 Come on, someone shout favor. 00:14:21.330 --> 00:14:22.769 Hallelujah. 00:14:23.409 --> 00:14:24.929 So that was key one and two. 00:14:25.169 --> 00:14:27.330 My God, I could preach all these things all day long. 00:14:27.409 --> 00:14:31.569 Thank you for uh letting me preach. 00:14:31.649 --> 00:14:32.370 Come on now. 00:14:33.009 --> 00:14:34.769 Stretch your hands this way and just say favor. 00:14:35.009 --> 00:14:36.850 Come on, I receive it in Jesus' name. 00:14:38.610 --> 00:14:44.529 But listen, can I tell you, even the fact that you are sitting underneath the sound of my voice right now is because we're favored. 00:14:46.449 --> 00:14:49.330 I'm favored to have you, and you're favored to have me. 00:14:50.610 --> 00:14:52.129 Don't get it twisted now. 00:14:52.449 --> 00:14:55.809 God has looked upon our lives and said, We need each other. 00:14:56.210 --> 00:15:00.850 And he said, I'm gonna put you with them, and I'm gonna put I'm gonna put them with you. 00:15:01.090 --> 00:15:02.129 That's called favor. 00:15:02.370 --> 00:15:03.250 Come on now. 00:15:03.569 --> 00:15:11.809 You realize I am so favored by by God, and I and I mean this genuinely that we I don't have any drama in this house with any of you all. 00:15:12.449 --> 00:15:14.210 Just give give your neighbor a high five. 00:15:14.289 --> 00:15:17.409 Come on, just give them a high five and say, That's favor right there. 00:15:17.490 --> 00:15:18.929 Come on, just tell them that's favor. 00:15:19.970 --> 00:15:28.210 I'm telling you, church, churches split, churches have people want to raise up different, you know, uh uh things and and go this way and that way. 00:15:28.370 --> 00:15:30.769 Can I tell you there's a spirit of unity in this house? 00:15:31.009 --> 00:15:33.730 There's a spirit of love and joy in this house. 00:15:33.970 --> 00:15:39.649 There's come on now, and that's not because that's not because I'm so good, because I'm telling you right now, that's the work of the Holy Ghost. 00:15:39.730 --> 00:15:41.009 Come on, somebody. 00:15:41.889 --> 00:15:43.730 But that's the favor of God. 00:15:44.370 --> 00:15:51.889 That's God looking at your life and saying, I want you to be in a place where you can grow, you can develop, and you can mature into spiritual things. 00:15:52.049 --> 00:15:53.250 That's the favor of God. 00:15:53.330 --> 00:15:53.889 Amen. 00:15:55.169 --> 00:15:58.210 My God, I don't know why I said that, but somebody needed to hear it today. 00:15:59.009 --> 00:16:01.009 You ready for a point number three today? 00:16:01.169 --> 00:16:02.529 How you activate favor? 00:16:03.169 --> 00:16:05.330 Point number three, how you activate favor. 00:16:05.409 --> 00:16:06.449 Watch this now. 00:16:07.809 --> 00:16:10.049 You have to detect. 00:16:17.250 --> 00:16:18.289 What does that mean? 00:16:18.449 --> 00:16:25.330 That means you have to live with open eyes to the favor that is on you and around you. 00:16:26.689 --> 00:16:33.250 You have to leave live with eyes that favor is on you and favor is around you. 00:16:39.330 --> 00:16:40.929 Brother Donnie, they'll get on the way home. 00:16:41.009 --> 00:16:42.289 You know, it's all right. 00:16:44.610 --> 00:16:47.090 Get this deep down in your spirit today. 00:16:47.409 --> 00:16:51.889 Favor is often present before it is ever recognized. 00:16:55.569 --> 00:16:59.330 Just because you don't see it doesn't mean you don't have it. 00:17:05.009 --> 00:17:10.049 Just because you don't see it does not mean you do not have it. 00:17:15.410 --> 00:17:17.490 Case in point, can I give it to you? 00:17:18.289 --> 00:17:22.530 Jesus Christ has made salvation available for everybody. 00:17:22.850 --> 00:17:25.810 We're saved by grace, we're saved through his favor. 00:17:27.090 --> 00:17:34.290 Meaning it's made available, but just because you didn't see it in your life doesn't mean you didn't have it in your life. 00:17:35.810 --> 00:17:36.450 Hello? 00:17:38.210 --> 00:17:45.970 So even though you might be on the place where you work and it's not materializing right there, it does not mean that you do not have favor. 00:17:47.570 --> 00:17:50.370 Maybe it means you just have favor at another place. 00:17:51.090 --> 00:17:54.610 Maybe it means you have favor with another people, huh? 00:17:54.850 --> 00:17:59.970 Maybe it maybe it means you have favor not there, but where God wants to bring you into. 00:18:00.130 --> 00:18:00.530 Hello? 00:18:01.490 --> 00:18:02.610 But watch this now. 00:18:02.690 --> 00:18:05.570 If you do not detect it, you'll never enter into it. 00:18:07.009 --> 00:18:11.570 And I have come to learn this in life, in ministry, and deal with people. 00:18:11.810 --> 00:18:16.690 Really, life boils down, and and you might know this, and maybe you don't know this, but I'm about to give this to you. 00:18:16.930 --> 00:18:20.610 Life really boils down to perspective and attitude. 00:18:21.890 --> 00:18:24.930 And this isn't me giving you some kind of self-help, anything like this. 00:18:25.090 --> 00:18:26.450 This is Bible, okay? 00:18:26.690 --> 00:18:32.450 There's a reason why in Romans uh Paul said this be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:18:33.730 --> 00:18:40.930 The renewing of your mind isn't you just going in there with some Dawn soap, cutting that bad boy open and just washing that thing until it's clean. 00:18:41.090 --> 00:18:52.290 No, the renewing of your mind, watch this now, is allowing God's word to sink so deep onto the inside of you that you begin to think differently and act differently. 00:18:52.530 --> 00:18:57.009 You begin to have a different perspective and you begin to have a different attitude. 00:19:00.290 --> 00:19:04.690 Life boils down to perspective and attitude. 00:19:05.330 --> 00:19:06.530 What is perspective? 00:19:06.610 --> 00:19:08.370 I I'm teaching today, okay? 00:19:08.450 --> 00:19:10.130 I'm not trying to yell at you, but I might. 00:19:10.210 --> 00:19:10.690 Who knows? 00:19:10.850 --> 00:19:11.090 Okay. 00:19:11.810 --> 00:19:12.770 Watch this now. 00:19:13.009 --> 00:19:14.050 What is perspective? 00:19:14.290 --> 00:19:18.210 Perspective is not what you look at, it's how you look at it. 00:19:19.810 --> 00:19:23.090 Perspective is not what you see, it's how you see. 00:19:57.650 --> 00:20:02.130 They sent us an email not too long ago and said the elevator is out of service, so you have to use the stairs. 00:20:02.290 --> 00:20:04.050 And I said, I'm not going up there anyway. 00:20:04.130 --> 00:20:06.850 So God bless the elevator and God bless the stairs. 00:20:07.250 --> 00:20:19.570 But watch, if you want to see a view of Las Vegas and you said, I need to get higher, so what you you would do is you'd go to the second floor and you'd be able to see the stratosphere, you'd be able to see maybe fountain blue. 00:20:19.810 --> 00:20:20.770 You with me? 00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:23.810 That's you're looking at something. 00:20:23.890 --> 00:20:25.410 That's one form of perspective. 00:20:25.490 --> 00:20:32.770 But how many know if you were to get into a helicopter where they do them them tours on the strip? 00:20:32.930 --> 00:20:35.730 First of all, God bless you on the helicopter because that ain't my grace. 00:20:35.810 --> 00:20:37.170 You know what I'm talking about? 00:20:37.570 --> 00:20:40.210 That might be your grace, but that ain't my grace, woman of God. 00:20:40.370 --> 00:20:41.570 I'm telling you right now. 00:20:41.810 --> 00:20:42.130 Okay. 00:20:44.770 --> 00:20:51.890 But look, if you went high up into the sky and you said, let me look at Las Vegas, how many of you understand? 00:20:52.210 --> 00:20:54.770 Because you go higher, you can see greater. 00:20:57.730 --> 00:20:59.570 And how about if you said, you know what? 00:20:59.730 --> 00:21:05.250 I want to see Las Vegas, and I'm not about this second story thing, and I'm not about this helicopter thing. 00:21:05.410 --> 00:21:09.810 Let me get up in an airplane and let me go high. 00:21:09.970 --> 00:21:17.250 Let me take a 10,000-foot view of this thing as I'm getting ready to cruise to 30,000 35,000 foot view. 00:21:17.490 --> 00:21:33.330 How many understand you wouldn't just see the strip, or you don't just see the strip, but you could see to Boulder City, you can see to Indian Springs, you can see to Lee Canyon, and this is all while you're just in a greater perspective. 00:21:33.730 --> 00:21:34.690 So watch this now. 00:21:34.850 --> 00:21:37.970 Perspective is not what you see, it's how you see. 00:21:38.290 --> 00:21:42.930 And so life boils down to perspective and attitude. 00:21:43.250 --> 00:21:45.730 So I told you about perspective, but let me give you attitude. 00:21:45.810 --> 00:21:47.330 Can I can I help you with attitude? 00:21:48.290 --> 00:21:49.009 Can I? 00:21:52.050 --> 00:21:55.009 Attitude is the condition of your heart. 00:21:59.009 --> 00:22:02.450 Some of y'all like that, and some of y'all I heard you whisper underneath your voice, ouch. 00:22:03.250 --> 00:22:04.530 That's okay. 00:22:05.090 --> 00:22:08.290 Attitude is the perspective of your heart. 00:22:08.610 --> 00:22:12.770 In other words, it's the it's the lens in which you see. 00:22:15.250 --> 00:22:17.650 A bad attitude is a bad perspective. 00:22:19.170 --> 00:22:22.450 A good attitude is a good perspective. 00:22:23.330 --> 00:22:27.090 A grateful attitude is a grateful perspective. 00:22:28.930 --> 00:22:33.090 A victim attitude is a victim perspective. 00:22:33.570 --> 00:22:38.210 A victorious attitude is a victorious perspective. 00:22:41.170 --> 00:22:47.650 And so attitude boils down to the condition of your heart or the lens in which you see. 00:22:52.370 --> 00:22:54.290 I'm going to give you scripture to back all this up. 00:22:54.530 --> 00:22:57.330 That way you don't label me a heretic, okay? 00:22:57.650 --> 00:23:01.650 I'm talking to the people online right now in Jesus' mighty name. 00:23:03.890 --> 00:23:05.330 But watch this now. 00:23:06.450 --> 00:23:17.170 If you are going to access favor that's on your life, you have to have a condition of your heart or a lens in which you see that is a lens of favor. 00:23:30.370 --> 00:23:32.050 This is David writing. 00:23:32.850 --> 00:23:35.009 Now keep in mind, here's David. 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:38.930 He has been taking care of his father's sheep in the field. 00:23:39.810 --> 00:23:46.050 He is considered, um, he is considered an illegitimate son. 00:23:48.770 --> 00:23:54.690 And so his daddy said, You're not gonna be in the house with us, you're gonna be in the field with the sheep. 00:23:56.690 --> 00:24:03.410 That's why whenever Samuel came and looked for the new king, and it was supposed to come from the house of Jesse, you know the story, but if you don't, I'm telling it to you. 00:24:03.570 --> 00:24:08.610 When Samuel came looking for the for the new king, he looked at all of Jesse's sons and said, This isn't the one. 00:24:08.690 --> 00:24:09.410 Do you have another son? 00:24:09.490 --> 00:24:12.210 And Jesse goes, Well, about that. 00:24:13.490 --> 00:24:17.490 We have someone else whose name was David, but he's taking care of the sheep. 00:24:17.970 --> 00:24:18.930 Why would they do that? 00:24:19.090 --> 00:24:21.650 I'm not gonna break it all down, but just understand this. 00:24:21.890 --> 00:24:26.370 Here's David, and his family looks at him as an illegitimate child. 00:24:28.450 --> 00:24:32.770 But David did not see himself as an illegitimate child. 00:24:33.410 --> 00:24:37.970 David saw himself as a sheep in God's pasture. 00:24:39.170 --> 00:24:40.130 Psalms 23. 00:24:40.210 --> 00:24:40.850 How does it open up? 00:24:41.009 --> 00:24:43.090 For the Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. 00:24:44.130 --> 00:24:50.130 I know we use that at funerals, I know we use that in offering messages, but get in the context of David. 00:24:50.450 --> 00:24:54.930 God is my shepherd, therefore I shall not want acceptance from the world. 00:24:55.410 --> 00:25:00.050 God is my shepherd, therefore I shall not want validation from my family. 00:25:00.690 --> 00:25:05.330 God is my shepherd, I shall not want them to take care of me emotionally. 00:25:05.570 --> 00:25:07.090 God can take care of me emotionally. 00:25:07.490 --> 00:25:08.290 Are you with me? 00:25:08.930 --> 00:25:09.570 Hello. 00:25:09.970 --> 00:25:11.890 And so, David, what did he have? 00:25:12.130 --> 00:25:16.290 David had perspective, and David had a good attitude. 00:25:17.090 --> 00:25:17.970 So much so. 00:25:18.210 --> 00:25:19.490 Am I teaching all right this morning? 00:25:19.650 --> 00:25:21.009 You getting something out of this today? 00:25:21.250 --> 00:25:25.090 I feel that anointing in the house to to to to come on now. 00:25:26.050 --> 00:25:27.330 Someone just do with me now. 00:25:27.410 --> 00:25:27.730 Just go. 00:25:30.530 --> 00:25:31.009 Yes. 00:25:31.250 --> 00:25:34.370 But watch what David says in Psalms 23 and verse 6. 00:25:34.450 --> 00:25:40.850 He says, This surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. 00:25:41.090 --> 00:25:50.130 What was David showing us that he had a perspective and an attitude that everywhere he went, goodness chased him down and overtook him. 00:25:51.009 --> 00:25:57.570 David had a perspective and an attitude everywhere he went, favor chased him down and overtook him. 00:25:57.810 --> 00:26:02.530 Now, many people, even under the sound of my voice, they say, Well, his dad didn't love him. 00:26:02.850 --> 00:26:04.850 His family abandoned him. 00:26:05.170 --> 00:26:08.130 He smelled like the sheep out in the field. 00:26:09.410 --> 00:26:11.810 Whenever it rained, he was wet. 00:26:12.050 --> 00:26:14.930 Whenever it was hot, he was sweaty. 00:26:15.570 --> 00:26:17.009 Oh, poor David. 00:26:17.090 --> 00:26:20.770 But let me tell you right now, David didn't look at himself and say, Oh, poor David. 00:26:21.650 --> 00:26:22.050 Why? 00:26:22.210 --> 00:26:25.250 Because David had a perspective that you need to get. 00:26:25.570 --> 00:26:28.210 David had an attitude that you and I need. 00:26:28.450 --> 00:26:30.450 And it's the attitude, you ready? 00:26:30.530 --> 00:26:31.570 I know this is whatever. 00:26:31.650 --> 00:26:33.330 It's the attitude of gratitude, y'all. 00:26:33.410 --> 00:26:33.970 Come on now. 00:26:34.450 --> 00:26:39.490 And here's what you need to understand: your attitude determines your altitude. 00:26:39.970 --> 00:26:46.130 And so if you do not have a good attitude, you cannot go high enough to see what you need to see. 00:26:46.530 --> 00:26:55.490 If you do not have an uh the proper attitude, you will never be able to detect the favor that is surrounding you everywhere you go. 00:27:06.130 --> 00:27:08.930 Perspective and attitude. 00:27:16.530 --> 00:27:20.770 If you do not see it, you will never be able to seize it. 00:27:24.450 --> 00:27:27.650 Your eyes determine your entrance. 00:27:30.450 --> 00:27:32.690 You keep saying the same thing in a different kind of way. 00:27:32.770 --> 00:27:35.570 Yeah, because I need you to get this deep down in your spirit. 00:27:39.090 --> 00:27:41.650 It's not what you see, it's how you see. 00:27:43.410 --> 00:27:48.450 But if you don't have the proper attitude, you'll never be able to see what is clearly in front of you. 00:27:49.090 --> 00:27:51.570 You'll think that you're not God's favorite. 00:27:52.370 --> 00:27:55.730 Well, he does it for somebody else, but he doesn't for do it for me. 00:27:56.210 --> 00:27:59.490 Let me tell you, I live with my life knowing that he's gonna do it for me. 00:28:00.850 --> 00:28:01.970 He's gonna do it for me. 00:28:02.290 --> 00:28:03.650 Healing, he's gonna do it for me. 00:28:03.810 --> 00:28:04.930 Provision, he's gonna do it for me. 00:28:05.090 --> 00:28:06.450 Promotion, he's gonna do it for me. 00:28:06.610 --> 00:28:08.450 The right people in my life, he's gonna do it for me. 00:28:08.610 --> 00:28:10.770 Take out the wrong people in my life, he's gonna do it for me. 00:28:10.850 --> 00:28:11.570 Come on now. 00:28:11.890 --> 00:28:14.930 And it doesn't, it doesn't matter who doesn't like me because God likes me. 00:28:15.970 --> 00:28:17.570 And I live and I live my life that way. 00:28:17.730 --> 00:28:18.210 Hello? 00:28:19.650 --> 00:28:21.650 And you need to learn to live your life that way as well. 00:28:21.810 --> 00:28:22.450 Okay, here we go. 00:28:22.530 --> 00:28:23.410 Let me let me give you this. 00:28:23.570 --> 00:28:25.650 Look for the favor because it's there. 00:28:25.970 --> 00:28:28.210 Goodness and mercy are following you. 00:28:28.450 --> 00:28:29.730 Do you see them? 00:28:30.050 --> 00:28:33.009 Watch this, Isaiah chapter 40, 26 and 28. 00:28:33.170 --> 00:28:33.650 I love this part. 00:28:34.050 --> 00:28:35.650 I love this scripture verse right here. 00:28:35.890 --> 00:28:39.570 Says this lift up your eyes on high and see. 00:28:41.250 --> 00:28:42.930 Lift up your eyes and see. 00:28:43.090 --> 00:28:45.730