WEBVTT 00:00:00.461 --> 00:00:03.802 Lift your Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, devil mad. 00:00:03.802 --> 00:00:07.886 Say this together, say, heavenly Father, I'm glad to be here on Sunday night. 00:00:07.886 --> 00:00:10.265 I'm a Sunday night fanatic. 00:00:10.265 --> 00:00:14.489 I'm hungry and thirsty for more of you. 00:00:14.489 --> 00:00:18.649 That means more of the Word, more of the Holy Spirit. 00:00:18.649 --> 00:00:21.166 I wanna go up to the next level. 00:00:21.166 --> 00:00:38.189 I want everything in me that's holding me back to get out of me and bring into me that anointing that I need to accomplish my purpose on earth in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:45.075 Let's look at Luke, chapter four tonight, and also Psalm 102. 00:00:45.075 --> 00:00:50.709 We'll start with Luke four, very familiar verse. 00:00:50.709 --> 00:01:01.850 Jesus is speaking in his own hometown, in his synagogue where he grew up, and I wanna start with verse 16. 00:01:01.850 --> 00:01:15.748 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for a read, and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. 00:01:15.748 --> 00:01:29.290 And when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he have anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 00:01:29.290 --> 00:01:43.391 He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind has said it, liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 00:01:43.391 --> 00:02:00.066 Verse 19 and the amplified says it this way to proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound. 00:02:00.066 --> 00:02:13.146 And he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down, and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him because he sat down in Messiah's chair. 00:02:13.146 --> 00:02:21.847 They weren't too happy that he was proclaiming himself to be the Messiah. 00:02:21.847 --> 00:02:32.590 But there it is, and at that occasion he talked about the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound. 00:02:32.590 --> 00:02:35.027 That's part of what he was sent to preach. 00:02:36.860 --> 00:02:37.443 Now, y'all with me? 00:02:37.443 --> 00:02:41.407 Now, all right, psalm 102, 13. 00:02:41.407 --> 00:02:46.379 Now let's back up to 12. 00:02:46.379 --> 00:02:50.707 But thou, o Lord, shall endure forever and thy remembrance unto all generations. 00:02:50.707 --> 00:02:56.545 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favor her yea. 00:02:56.545 --> 00:03:08.105 The set time or the moed is come, and so tonight I wanted to share a message entitled the favor factor. 00:03:08.105 --> 00:03:30.229 The favor factor the word favor here means endowed with special advantage for success, provided with preferential treatment, tending to promote and facilitate. 00:03:30.229 --> 00:03:35.591 The word facilitate means to make things easy. 00:03:35.591 --> 00:03:42.147 God's wanting to make things easy for the church and God's favor, the favor factor. 00:03:42.147 --> 00:03:45.246 Everybody say the favor factor. 00:03:48.879 --> 00:04:12.950 Now we recently had a word from the Holy Ghost on a Sunday morning several weeks ago, about now that our nation has chosen life 49 years of a wrong Supreme Court decision. 00:04:12.950 --> 00:04:14.474 That was poor law. 00:04:14.474 --> 00:04:28.168 It was not based on the Constitution, it was based on demons, the same spirits that are in the world that hate Christ, the antichrist spirit. 00:04:28.168 --> 00:04:29.711 They're murderers. 00:04:29.711 --> 00:04:31.745 You know, the devil was a murderer from the beginning. 00:04:31.745 --> 00:04:35.408 He's always been in charge of murdering children. 00:04:35.408 --> 00:04:39.708 Look at Herod he murdered all the children, all the Jewish boys under three years old. 00:04:39.708 --> 00:04:43.863 Look at Pharaoh he killed all the little Jewish boys under three years old. 00:04:43.863 --> 00:04:44.788 Moses escaped. 00:04:44.788 --> 00:04:45.401 You know all this. 00:04:45.401 --> 00:04:46.446 There's a history of this. 00:04:46.446 --> 00:04:48.464 Look at the Holocaust. 00:04:48.464 --> 00:04:51.146 Lots of children were murdered. 00:04:51.146 --> 00:04:53.574 They spare, they didn't spare them. 00:04:53.574 --> 00:04:59.519 They went right to the ovens, right to the ovens. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:25.012 And so for America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, to allow itself to be put in that position has hurt the nation and God wanted to recognize, you know, through this word, that now, because we finally elected the right person like Trump. 00:05:27.297 --> 00:05:28.720 Trump was a pivotal president. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:30.694 He didn't do everything right. 00:05:30.694 --> 00:05:31.812 He's not a perfect person. 00:05:31.812 --> 00:05:38.014 I thought it was interesting how much love he had for his ex-wife. 00:05:38.014 --> 00:05:41.757 You don't see that very often in the world. 00:05:41.757 --> 00:05:47.999 You don't see people bragging on their ex-wife, talking about what a beautiful, wonderful person she was. 00:05:47.999 --> 00:05:49.958 She died, you know, the other day, in case you didn't know. 00:05:49.958 --> 00:05:53.069 She was a good wife, you know, and she was a good wife. 00:05:53.069 --> 00:06:05.053 And what was striking to me was she was terribly afraid of COVID and shut herself up in her home for two years, would not get out. 00:06:05.053 --> 00:06:06.211 So I know fear killed her. 00:06:06.211 --> 00:06:09.833 She just didn't know what we know. 00:06:12.810 --> 00:06:21.416 But regardless, god said that he and the blessing was coming back on our nation. 00:06:21.416 --> 00:06:31.797 And the reason I want to go this way with this, I mean we're not dependent on that because we have a better covenant found upon better promises. 00:06:31.797 --> 00:06:37.476 It doesn't matter how bad it is in Egypt, it's always light in the land of Goshen. 00:06:37.476 --> 00:06:38.379 That's where we live. 00:06:38.379 --> 00:06:39.855 We live in the place of blessing. 00:06:39.855 --> 00:06:41.696 But let's just be real. 00:06:41.696 --> 00:06:46.081 I mean it's going to help anyway for more opportunity. 00:06:46.081 --> 00:06:53.677 We're going to have more opportunity now to take advantage of a better situation in our nation. 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:58.096 Now you can't see it yet it has not manifested. 00:06:58.096 --> 00:07:01.620 Listen, this blessing has not manifested yet. 00:07:01.620 --> 00:07:03.154 In fact, it's really. 00:07:03.154 --> 00:07:11.899 A lot of things are even worse since Roe v Wade was overturned and, by the way, they didn't eliminate abortion. 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:14.098 All they did was turn it back to the states. 00:07:14.098 --> 00:07:15.535 See, it's just a lie. 00:07:15.535 --> 00:07:16.331 They're just. 00:07:16.331 --> 00:07:23.274 What they want to do is gin up the crazies I wish they had. 00:07:23.274 --> 00:07:24.612 You know they could have. 00:07:24.612 --> 00:07:30.855 They could have said that babies are protected under the 14th Amendment. 00:07:30.855 --> 00:07:33.579 They have the right of equal justice under the law. 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:35.095 We cannot take their lives. 00:07:35.095 --> 00:07:41.076 I think that's what they should have done, but we'll take what they did do. 00:07:41.076 --> 00:07:45.297 It still took courage, and what I wanted to say is the Holy Ghost. 00:07:45.297 --> 00:07:48.694 Let me know, god's blessing has come back on our nation again. 00:07:57.990 --> 00:08:11.338 So we are living in the days of God's favor, profusely abounding, and we're gonna have to start calling that instead of calling ourselves victims. 00:08:11.338 --> 00:08:15.194 We're gonna have to quit talking about inflation and talk about favor. 00:08:15.194 --> 00:08:26.898 We've dealt with some things here that had to do with maybe investments, maybe buying something, purchasing something. 00:08:26.898 --> 00:08:32.837 I don't know what it had to do with, but the Holy Ghost is available to guide our financial affairs. 00:08:32.837 --> 00:08:36.139 He's able to guide us and give us favor. 00:08:36.139 --> 00:08:43.119 You know, when you give, jesus said "'Give, and it shall be given unto you good "'measure, press down, shake it together, "'running over shall what? 00:08:43.119 --> 00:08:44.875 "'men give unto your bosom favor'". 00:08:44.875 --> 00:08:48.813 The favor factor. 00:08:48.813 --> 00:08:58.423 If you're gonna accomplish anything for God, it'll only be with and by receiving God's favor. 00:08:58.423 --> 00:09:01.635 We have to receive God's favor. 00:09:01.710 --> 00:09:05.019 God gave me favor with enough people to start this church. 00:09:05.019 --> 00:09:07.217 We had 103 people at our very first service. 00:09:07.217 --> 00:09:10.793 Very first service. 00:09:10.793 --> 00:09:12.428 That was favor. 00:09:12.428 --> 00:09:18.041 Gave me favor with those things and I don't. 00:09:18.041 --> 00:09:23.048 Maybe there were other churches that started out of Lakewood, that started here locally, but very, very few. 00:09:23.048 --> 00:09:33.961 Most everybody that went out of Lakewood went someplace else and frankly, when God told me to start a church in Houston, I was a little bit concerned. 00:09:33.961 --> 00:09:38.094 I was determined to obey God regardless, god regardless. 00:09:38.094 --> 00:09:43.942 But I left it up to God to take care of my favor with Brother Osteen. 00:09:43.942 --> 00:09:51.687 You know what God did that, I think to the degree that Brother Osteen couldn't even really understand it. 00:09:51.687 --> 00:09:59.524 He didn't understand it with his head, but his heart couldn't not bless me. 00:10:01.892 --> 00:10:03.096 You know, favor is not fair. 00:10:03.096 --> 00:10:05.341 Favor is an unfair advantage. 00:10:05.341 --> 00:10:11.274 God's favor will give you an unfair advantage. 00:10:11.274 --> 00:10:21.153 He'll put down one and raise up another and you're the another Are y'all with me. 00:10:21.153 --> 00:10:24.883 Y'all are looking at me kind of, or your eyes glazed over. 00:10:24.883 --> 00:10:34.394 Might be just the glare on the lights, all right, we have to believe we've received God's favor. 00:10:34.394 --> 00:10:41.423 In order to accomplish what God wants us to do, we have to have his favor, and it's available. 00:10:41.423 --> 00:10:46.443 Not just favor anywhere and everywhere, at all times. 00:10:46.443 --> 00:10:51.299 I mean, you stand here and you turn around 360 degrees. 00:10:51.299 --> 00:10:53.249 You don't have favor everywhere. 00:10:53.249 --> 00:11:00.173 You have favor in the direction of God's plan and purpose for your life. 00:11:00.173 --> 00:11:08.889 In other words, we could say it this way I think Claire came up with this Favor is a one-way street. 00:11:08.889 --> 00:11:13.299 Favor is a one-way street. 00:11:13.299 --> 00:11:19.495 I mean, you're not going to get, you can't go down, you can't go against the grain, you've got to follow his favor. 00:11:19.495 --> 00:11:23.928 Brother Osteen used to tell me follow your favor, son, follow your favor. 00:11:23.928 --> 00:11:26.835 That's what I did all those years. 00:11:26.835 --> 00:11:36.000 I followed my favor with brother Osteen and his family until until God said, okay, it's time. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.447 And then God gave me favor with you. 00:11:38.447 --> 00:11:44.220 Amen, sure did so. 00:11:44.220 --> 00:11:46.269 Favor is a one-way street. 00:11:46.269 --> 00:11:47.576 Let's look at Psalm 105. 00:11:47.576 --> 00:11:49.927 We talked a lot about Joseph. 00:11:49.927 --> 00:11:51.857 He's an apostolic type. 00:11:51.857 --> 00:11:56.835 God sent him before Israel to preserve life. 00:11:56.835 --> 00:11:59.562 That's what he said to his brothers. 00:11:59.562 --> 00:12:02.807 So he's an apostolic type. 00:12:02.807 --> 00:12:05.831 Psalm 105, verse 16. 00:12:05.831 --> 00:12:14.239 God called, moreover, god called for a famine upon the land. 00:12:14.239 --> 00:12:19.158 He broke the whole staff of bread that was in Israel, why? 00:12:19.158 --> 00:12:45.542 Because they had gotten off into idolatry, worshiping false gods, and that was the heathen Canaanites, all the ites, the high tribes, the Jebusites, the termites, the Bud lights, all the ites. 00:12:45.542 --> 00:12:52.802 When you I don't care who you are you know you're going to interrupt God's blessing and God's favor when you go and worship devils. 00:12:52.802 --> 00:12:55.750 And so here's his people. 00:12:55.750 --> 00:12:56.711 Israel is there. 00:12:56.711 --> 00:12:59.748 They're surrounded by people that are ungodly. 00:12:59.748 --> 00:13:04.566 They're surrounded by people and because of their sin, there's famine in that land. 00:13:04.566 --> 00:13:13.764 And so then, verse 17, he sent a man before them, that is before Israel, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant. 00:13:13.764 --> 00:13:15.871 He sent him to Egypt. 00:13:15.871 --> 00:13:21.178 So it looks like that his brother sold him into slavery and all that. 00:13:21.178 --> 00:13:31.191 But God is the one that sent him there ahead of his father and brothers, way ahead of time. 00:13:31.191 --> 00:13:38.995 Here there was a famine over here in Israel, and he sends Joseph ahead. 00:13:38.995 --> 00:13:40.320 That's a sent one. 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.346 See, that's an apostolic type. 00:13:42.346 --> 00:13:44.821 He sent us out here to start this church. 00:13:44.821 --> 00:13:49.475 He sent us all around the world, amen. 00:13:49.475 --> 00:13:55.735 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant, whose feet they hurt with fetters. 00:13:55.735 --> 00:13:56.841 He was laid in iron. 00:13:56.841 --> 00:14:00.014 My margin says his soul came into iron. 00:14:00.014 --> 00:14:02.585 He's just like you and I. 00:14:02.585 --> 00:14:10.873 He had dreams when he was 16 and 17 years old of his parents and his brothers bowing before him. 00:14:10.873 --> 00:14:15.731 He had dreams that he was going to be in charge. 00:14:15.731 --> 00:14:29.768 And here he is in prison, falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, sold as a slave in a foreign land. 00:14:29.768 --> 00:14:33.340 I mean, you know, his mind gave him trouble. 00:14:33.340 --> 00:14:37.235 His soul, his mind came into iron. 00:14:37.235 --> 00:14:43.201 He was surrounded by the impossibilities of the situation, but he never quit trusting God. 00:14:43.201 --> 00:14:51.764 His soul came into iron until the time that his word came. 00:14:51.764 --> 00:14:53.892 The word of the Lord tried him. 00:14:53.892 --> 00:14:55.015 You know God's word. 00:14:55.015 --> 00:15:03.065 It's going to take some passing, some tests for you to accomplish what God's called you to do. 00:15:03.065 --> 00:15:07.538 I'm not saying God tests you. 00:15:07.538 --> 00:15:13.302 Let no man, when he's tested, say that God did it, that God tempted me. 00:15:13.302 --> 00:15:16.032 But the word carries with it the test. 00:15:16.032 --> 00:15:19.241 Will you obey it or will you not? 00:15:19.241 --> 00:15:24.658 Will you do it or the way you just talk about it? 00:15:24.658 --> 00:15:27.533 That's up to you. 00:15:27.533 --> 00:15:34.033 As for me, I got to the place where I couldn't anymore Pray about it. 00:15:34.033 --> 00:15:36.072 I couldn't anymore talk about it. 00:15:36.072 --> 00:15:44.840 I had to do it and we did it and he helped us favorite Favorite. 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:52.538 So his soul came into iron until the word of the Lord, his word, came into fulfillment. 00:15:52.538 --> 00:15:58.034 In other words, the word of the Lord tried him and then, suddenly, you know, the King sinned after 13 years in prison. 00:15:58.034 --> 00:16:00.114 He's 30 years old. 00:16:00.114 --> 00:16:02.296 He came in there when he was a teenager, 17. 00:16:02.296 --> 00:16:10.038 The King sinned and loosed him even the ruler of the people and let him go free. 00:16:10.038 --> 00:16:16.316 He made him Lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, who bind his princes at his pleasure to teach his senators wisdom. 00:16:16.316 --> 00:16:25.471 So just look at the shocking turnabout Boy. 00:16:25.471 --> 00:16:27.538 I believe we're about to have a turnabout. 00:16:27.538 --> 00:16:32.717 I believe things are about to turn in a very dramatic fashion. 00:16:32.717 --> 00:16:34.357 We don't have much time left. 00:16:34.357 --> 00:16:38.556 Folks Just don't have that much time left. 00:16:38.556 --> 00:16:44.480 What God is gonna do is gonna do in a sudden fashion. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:46.370 It's like that tsunami. 00:16:46.370 --> 00:16:50.029 You know we're tapping into the power that's below the surface of the water. 00:16:50.029 --> 00:16:51.929 You know that's what I discovered about tsunamis. 00:16:51.929 --> 00:17:00.155 I found out that all the power of the tsunamis not up on the top, where it's all that dramatic wave and all of that, that's not where the power. 00:17:00.155 --> 00:17:13.829 The power is down below, where you can't see it, and that's where this power source, it's coming ashore, or coming into our lives. 00:17:13.829 --> 00:17:16.740 That's where I wanna tap into. 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:19.577 How do we tap into it? 00:17:19.577 --> 00:17:20.099 By faith. 00:17:20.099 --> 00:17:24.609 Faith does what it believes in our hearts and it speaks with our mouth. 00:17:24.609 --> 00:17:35.577 We're gonna have to start confessing that we have favor in a direction that God has planned for us and start looking for it. 00:17:35.577 --> 00:17:35.940 Amen. 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:40.163 So Joseph. 00:17:40.163 --> 00:17:41.549 God sent Joseph ahead before Egypt. 00:17:41.549 --> 00:17:44.390 Let's turn over to Egypt before Israel. 00:17:44.390 --> 00:17:50.160 Let's turn over Genesis 45 real quick and talk it about favor. 00:17:50.160 --> 00:18:02.619 And remember when he went to prison, god gave him favor with the jailer and whatever there was to do in the prison, he was the doer of it. 00:18:02.619 --> 00:18:03.950 He found something to do. 00:18:03.950 --> 00:18:05.250 He bloomed where he planted. 00:18:05.250 --> 00:18:15.742 He didn't just go into it to hide himself in his cell and put his head between his hands and just weep and have a pity party. 00:18:15.742 --> 00:18:24.950 He got busy about following his favor and the favor the only favor he had was with the head of the prison. 00:18:24.950 --> 00:18:26.001 Well, that's not. 00:18:26.001 --> 00:18:31.163 If you're gonna be in prison, it's kinda nice to be in good with the jailer. 00:18:31.163 --> 00:18:33.930 He's got a lot of power. 00:18:33.930 --> 00:18:35.429 He can be your friend. 00:18:35.429 --> 00:18:41.798 He can be your friend, especially when the other prisoners are not so friendly. 00:18:41.798 --> 00:18:45.435 All right, genesis 45. 00:18:45.435 --> 00:18:52.377 He's talking to his brothers. 00:18:52.377 --> 00:19:01.337 Once they get reacquainted and Joseph is revealed to his brothers, notice what he says. 00:19:01.337 --> 00:19:10.414 He says in verse seven God sent me before you to preserve you, a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by great deliverance. 00:19:10.414 --> 00:19:20.760 So, had men for Joseph, there would have been nowhere for Israel and the brothers to go. 00:19:20.760 --> 00:19:26.733 They would have perished in the famine that was in Israel and Israel was, or. 00:19:26.733 --> 00:19:30.974 The Canaan land was not the best place for them to multiply. 00:19:30.974 --> 00:19:34.270 So then they went and they settled in the land and the Goshen. 00:19:34.270 --> 00:19:48.278 God gave Joseph favor with Pharaoh to give them the best of the land, because the Egyptians hated sheep herders and goat herders. 00:19:48.278 --> 00:19:50.354 They hated them, they only liked cattle. 00:19:50.354 --> 00:19:52.332 Guys, isn't that funny? 00:19:52.332 --> 00:19:55.455 Well, they didn't raise cattle, they raised sheep and goats. 00:19:55.455 --> 00:19:58.777 So he said yeah, y'all get over here. 00:19:58.777 --> 00:19:59.994 I don't wanna have to see that. 00:19:59.994 --> 00:20:08.895 Yeah, y'all do what you do over there, cross the tracks. 00:20:08.895 --> 00:20:13.836 Y'all get across the tracks, you from the wrong side of the tracks. 00:20:13.836 --> 00:20:16.991 That's not a bad place to be from if God's there, all right. 00:20:16.991 --> 00:20:23.615 So to preserve Israel, a posterity in the earth, to save their lives with the great deliverance. 00:20:23.615 --> 00:20:26.613 See, that's the favor factor at work, god. 00:20:26.613 --> 00:20:38.096 You know, when you zoom out with the children of Israel, zoom out and you see the favor factor, how that led them through. 00:20:38.096 --> 00:20:53.980 It led them all the way through and God gave them favor with that Pharaoh until later on, a Pharaoh that one died and finally a Pharaoh that didn't know Joseph, didn't know what Joseph, the fame of Joseph was gone. 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:58.057 And then you had all that. 00:20:58.057 --> 00:21:06.700 They multiplied and they had so many children they were out populating the country. 00:21:06.700 --> 00:21:09.991 They had more kids than the Egyptians did. 00:21:09.991 --> 00:21:18.241 They're more prolific in that area and so they were afraid of them, so they put them in bondage. 00:21:18.241 --> 00:21:28.246 But if you look at a gigantic overview, their whole existence was a result of God's favor. 00:21:28.246 --> 00:21:32.265 You know, maybe right here, in 15 years you don't see it. 00:21:32.265 --> 00:21:34.580 In 50 years you don't see it. 00:21:34.580 --> 00:21:41.723 But when you zoom out you see God's favor leading them into Egypt, turning them around and bringing them out of Egypt. 00:21:41.723 --> 00:21:42.578 Are y'all with me now? 00:21:42.578 --> 00:21:44.338 That's the way our lives are. 00:21:44.338 --> 00:21:50.403 Don't be moved by something that's happened in the last six months or a year or even five years. 00:21:50.403 --> 00:22:00.803 Let's take out a big overall picture and realize God's favor is working in all of our lives to bring us into a great deliverance. 00:22:00.803 --> 00:22:04.059 We are not just in it for ourselves, we're in it for the harvest. 00:22:04.059 --> 00:22:13.076 So you know, once he was sold into bondage he had favor with the Ishmaelites, you know. 00:22:13.076 --> 00:22:16.403 They didn't kill him and the Ishmaelites sold him to Potiphar. 00:22:16.403 --> 00:22:17.338 Potiphar bought him. 00:22:17.338 --> 00:22:18.980 He had favor with Potiphar. 00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:20.961 He was making Potiphar so much money. 00:22:20.961 --> 00:22:27.280 But then Potiphar's wife you know Well he could have got hung up with. 00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:33.063 All of that could have been bitter, but he wound up having favor with a jailer. 00:22:33.063 --> 00:22:39.443 And then he had favor with the butler and the baker interpreted their dreams. 00:22:39.443 --> 00:22:41.599 Both of them forgot him. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.200 The baker, of course, was hung. 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.704 The butler, after two years, finally remembered. 00:22:48.704 --> 00:22:50.480 Oh, I remember that young man. 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:55.038 He interpreted my dreams of the butler and the baker and the baker died. 00:22:55.038 --> 00:22:58.858 Just like he said and I've been promoted. 00:22:58.858 --> 00:23:01.359 Just like he said hey, king, you need to get. 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:03.701 Hey, pharaoh, you need to call this boy. 00:23:03.701 --> 00:23:06.376 He knows a lot more than the wizards that you've been. 00:23:06.376 --> 00:23:11.425 And so favors they finally at the right time, at a set time. 00:23:11.425 --> 00:23:15.384 God's favor came at a set time, at a moed. 00:23:15.384 --> 00:23:16.660 There's a moed coming. 00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:19.221 There's a set time coming. 00:23:19.221 --> 00:23:20.900 Are y'all, come on, let's be hands right now. 00:23:20.900 --> 00:23:21.502 Praise God. 00:23:21.502 --> 00:23:25.400 Favor's a one way street. 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:37.440 I look back on my life building houses and moving out of business into the ministry and it was just. 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:50.278 You know, I look at all the favor God had to give me in different areas and while I was immersed in it it didn't feel that way, it didn't feel like it was supernatural, it felt like a struggle. 00:23:50.278 --> 00:24:00.006 But you know what, when I get back and I look down at it from this vantage point, I just see how I had favor from dot to dot to dot to dot. 00:24:00.006 --> 00:24:06.683 Remember these little connect, the dot to pictures you used to do when you were a kid. 00:24:06.683 --> 00:24:10.226 You know you draw the little from one number to the next. 00:24:10.226 --> 00:24:17.526 You know you never do what it was and all of a sudden you've got a chicken or you drew a whatever, a clown, or you drew something. 00:24:17.526 --> 00:24:20.022 You know you didn't draw it, but what did you do? 00:24:20.022 --> 00:24:21.055 You connected the dots. 00:24:21.055 --> 00:24:22.375 Well, that's what the Holy Ghost? 00:24:22.375 --> 00:24:24.563 He connected the dots in my life. 00:24:24.563 --> 00:24:27.200 And here we are. 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:31.167 Glory to God, amen. 00:24:31.167 --> 00:24:42.598 So the favor factor there's three things real. 00:24:42.598 --> 00:24:45.619 You know most of these things, you know, but let's just talk about them. 00:24:45.619 --> 00:24:47.223 Favor factor the one way street. 00:24:47.223 --> 00:24:49.816 Everybody say one way street, all right. 00:24:49.816 --> 00:24:50.980 Number one be a tither. 00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:54.298 Bottom line be a tither, don't ever not tie. 00:24:54.298 --> 00:25:00.175 Be a tither, notice B versus do See. 00:25:00.175 --> 00:25:03.300 I mean, you know there are times when you have zero income. 00:25:03.300 --> 00:25:05.501 That means there is no tithe right. 00:25:05.501 --> 00:25:08.021 10% of zero is still zero. 00:25:08.021 --> 00:25:11.141 But that doesn't make you not a tither. 00:25:11.141 --> 00:25:12.636 You are a tither, you are. 00:25:12.636 --> 00:25:15.162 You don't ever say you're not a tither, you're a tither. 00:25:15.162 --> 00:25:18.182 You might have an interruption from time to time. 00:25:18.182 --> 00:25:19.881 I've had my share of interruptions. 00:25:19.881 --> 00:25:22.419 Glad I said amen. 00:25:22.419 --> 00:25:24.419 Okay, yeah, you need to. 00:25:24.419 --> 00:25:25.162 Hasn't forgotten. 00:25:25.162 --> 00:25:29.559 But I've always been a tither. 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:33.760 Once I heard about it, the moment I heard about it, I became a tither. 00:25:33.760 --> 00:25:40.143 Never stopped tithing, but I've had times when I had nothing to tithe. 00:25:40.143 --> 00:25:43.502 Then I had to just give offerings. 00:25:43.502 --> 00:25:45.057 I'd give something. 00:25:45.057 --> 00:25:48.403 One time I sold a car to have something to give. 00:25:48.403 --> 00:25:56.661 We had two cars and we didn't need but one, so we sold the one, gave the whole thing and offering. 00:25:56.661 --> 00:25:57.696 Oh, it felt so good. 00:25:57.696 --> 00:26:01.086 Be a tither why? 00:26:01.086 --> 00:26:06.084 Because one of the benefits of tithing is all nations so called, you blessed. 00:26:06.084 --> 00:26:17.833 I'm telling you, your favor will be ignited when you're a tither and you have to believe that you have to receive that Amen. 00:26:17.833 --> 00:26:23.078 Number two be quick to recognize and receive the favor of God and man. 00:26:23.078 --> 00:26:25.410 Praise God for it. 00:26:25.410 --> 00:26:29.477 In other words, yeah, you do need to favor God, but you need favor with man. 00:26:29.477 --> 00:26:32.305 God will give you favor with man. 00:26:32.305 --> 00:26:34.316 Don't turn it down, don't get so proud. 00:26:34.316 --> 00:26:36.430 Now you're not doing things. 00:26:36.430 --> 00:26:39.579 It's not like I scratch his back, he scratches mine. 00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:42.450 It's just that you know our first landlord. 00:26:42.450 --> 00:26:55.537 When we first leased the building over there where the super target is now, that guy was known to be a ruthless, shrewd businessman, not a Christian. 00:26:55.537 --> 00:27:01.250 He had a reputation of being hard to deal with and I just prayed and I said, god, you're gonna give me favor with this guy. 00:27:01.250 --> 00:27:10.548 I just believe I have favor with him and the reason I knew I had favor with him is because he cut the amount of money he wanted for the building and he made I mean, he made it possible for us to move in that building. 00:27:10.548 --> 00:27:12.432 Well, almost nothing, nothing. 00:27:12.432 --> 00:27:15.396 I mean we didn't have any cash to give him. 00:27:15.396 --> 00:27:18.013 You're supposed to give first. 00:27:18.013 --> 00:27:29.901 In last month's rent, the rent was $5,000 a month, so we were supposed to give $10,000 and then plus a $3,500 damage deposit. 00:27:29.901 --> 00:27:35.484 So really what he wanted from us was $13,500. 00:27:35.484 --> 00:27:37.895 We didn't have $13. 00:27:37.895 --> 00:27:41.638 So I told the broker. 00:27:41.638 --> 00:27:42.561 I said there's no way. 00:27:42.561 --> 00:27:43.994 He said oh, don't worry about it. 00:27:43.994 --> 00:27:49.637 He knows you're a brand new church and this building's been vacant for almost two years. 00:27:49.637 --> 00:27:51.472 He'll take an offer. 00:27:51.472 --> 00:27:53.980 Just make him whole on the rent. 00:27:53.980 --> 00:27:56.218 He's looking for $60,000. 00:27:56.218 --> 00:28:02.679 So give what you can up front a little ahead of time. 00:28:02.679 --> 00:28:04.723 Just give him one month first of all. 00:28:04.723 --> 00:28:10.634 Just give him one month's rent the first month and give him a little on the damage deposit and start catching up. 00:28:10.634 --> 00:28:17.788 He said so make the first month's rent $2,500 instead of $5,000. 00:28:17.788 --> 00:28:21.180 And then the second half of the lease up your payments. 00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:28.210 By that time you will grow and you'll be able to pay and by the end of the first year you'll have paid him $60,000. 00:28:28.210 --> 00:28:30.396 If you do that, I guarantee you he'll take it. 00:28:30.396 --> 00:28:35.115 See, because my broker is working for him, but he's really working for me. 00:28:35.115 --> 00:28:37.257 He's a Baptist brother and he just wanted us to. 00:28:37.257 --> 00:28:40.654 He wanted us to get the building and he wanted his commission. 00:28:40.654 --> 00:28:47.853 Everybody say favor, so be quick to. 00:28:47.853 --> 00:28:52.311 You need favor with God and man, amen. 00:28:52.311 --> 00:28:56.460 So be quick to praise God even before it shows up. 00:28:56.460 --> 00:29:02.637 I don't know how many times I've been in tight places where I just say God, I know I've got favor somewhere. 00:29:02.637 --> 00:29:03.634 You're showing me where it is. 00:29:03.634 --> 00:29:04.894 I think you're ahead of time. 00:29:04.894 --> 00:29:06.455 It's going to show up here any moment. 00:29:06.455 --> 00:29:11.338 Either the phone rings or I run into somebody, I don't know. 00:29:11.338 --> 00:29:12.342 It's just over and over. 00:29:12.342 --> 00:29:17.433 I got it's just amazing, amazing, grace, amen. 00:29:17.433 --> 00:29:23.873 And finally be quick to follow the favor of God and man, quick to follow it when it shows up. 00:29:23.873 --> 00:29:24.394 Follow it. 00:29:24.394 --> 00:29:29.621 You've been endowed with special advantage for success. 00:29:29.621 --> 00:29:41.227 You have been provided with preferential treatment which tends to cause promotion and ease. 00:29:41.227 --> 00:29:42.776 God wants to ease things. 00:29:42.776 --> 00:29:48.838 He doesn't want everything to be a blood, sweat and tears deal for you. 00:29:48.838 --> 00:29:52.236 He wants things easier for you, just like you do for your children. 00:29:52.236 --> 00:29:56.313 Amen, the favor factor, come on, lift your hands and receive tonight. 00:29:56.313 --> 00:29:57.698 Glory to God. 00:29:57.698 --> 00:29:58.721 Did you get anything out of this? 00:29:58.721 --> 00:30:01.153 Are you believing for the favor factor? 00:30:01.153 --> 00:30:05.083 Amen, amen. 00:30:05.083 --> 00:30:07.017 I'll tell you we've got great days ahead.