48 - God’s favor is greater than your current circumstances

In this episode, Johan teaches how the favor of God transforms every area of life. Through the story of Joseph, this message reveals that prosperity is not rooted in possessions, but in God’s presence. 

Discover how favor opens doors, brings supernatural provision, and causes believers to prosper even in difficult circumstances.

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Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word. Clearly explained. Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ. Ready to take notes? Let's open the Bible.

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Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel. I'm your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you. Man, I've shared some amazing truths in this theory that I started, the In Christ series. And uh I really believe it's gonna be a blessing to you if you just tuned in in this one. I really want to recommend you to go back to the first episode because I've been through a lot, way too much to recount here. And so basically, in the last episode, you know, uh I've been teaching on the favor of God, that we are now highly favored and endued with grace because we have been made accepted in the beloved, and that it's the same, exactly the same uh favor that Mary received when she uh when the angel appeared to her uh to know to become the surrogate mother of Jesus. And so, you know, the Bible says that she was highly favored among all the other women. And how is she? Because you know, she was, you know, the surrogate mother of Christ, she was the mother of Christ, you know, and she she was found appropriate and approved by God to be the surrogate mother of Christ, you know, the Lord and Savior, the Redeemer of the world. And so, and that same favor that she has received, you know, by um by God, that same favor we have received in Christ Jesus. And so I am now favored, I'm highly favored, and I'm endued with grace because of the glorious grace of my Father through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And so, man, that's powerful. And I've been sharing on what that means, what it means to be favored, you know, that you that you now have, you know, that you now are a partaker of the divine nature, that you now have been given uh exceedingly great and precious promises, that you have received everything that that pertains to life and godliness, to Zoe life, eternal life, that we now have received life and abundance, and I've shared on what this abundance means. I've been sharing, you know, on how our God is not only a God of this, but also and but also a God of that. It's like He's the God of and so I've shared on how the El Shaddai doesn't only want to bless you with this, he also wants to bless you with us. So you're blessed with this and blessed with that, and so life and you know, days of life and length of days, you know, and you know, every promise, every every you know, blessing, everything that He has, you know, um made available for us is in Christ Jesus. Yes and amen, because of the favor of God in our lives, because of the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus, uh, you know, who died for us. Amen. And so, man, it's too much to just cover again, because I just want to encourage you to go back to that and you know, and then tune in. So, Father God, thank you for this teaching and I pray that you know that the hearers will be blessed by it. I give you all the honor and all the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Man, I'm telling you, if you do not walk in all of the promises of God, if you if you are not walking in the things of God and in his promises, that's because you just don't understand that you are the favorite of God. You know, you really need to understand, you really need to renew your mind. It's because by the knowledge we go we will we will know what it is to be a partaker of the divine nature. It's by the renewing of our minds that we know what kind of promises have been bestowed upon us. It's by the renewing of our mind that we understand how we are endued with grace and how we are highly favored and what that means for our lives. And so I really want to encourage you, you know, to renew your mind with the word of God and just start to study on all these things that you are now in Christ Jesus because of the favor, so that you may start to see yourself the way that God sees you, so that you may love yourself the way that God loves you, and that you may apply those things that God says that you have in your life. Because I have this saying that I am who God says that I am, and I have what God says that I have, and I can do what God says that I can do, because he's not a man that he should lie. And so he says that I am highly favored in Christ Jesus, so I am highly favored. He says, I'm blessed with every spiritual blessing, so I'm blessed with every spiritual blessing. He says that every promise of God, as many as there are, are in Christ Jesus, yes and amen for me, you know, to the glory of Christ, uh, to the glory of God through me. And so it's yes and amen. It's all yes and amen. And so it's important that you understand what it means to be I am, what your identity is, what your authority is, you know, to the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. You know, I am favored. Amen. So let's read in Genesis 39. Genesis 39. Very interesting story. Genesis 39, verse 1. I'm gonna read. Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. You know, he was sold as a slave by his brothers. Joseph has had been taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. The Ishmaelites, you know, man. There's a lot in here, but it doesn't matter. The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man, and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority. Man, I'm telling you, there is so much to share from this little bit of verses, you know, that's here in Genesis 39. First of all, we gotta understand that Joseph was sold as a slave. He had nothing. There was nothing for it. They took his colorful rope. You know, he had nothing. He was just standing there in his underwear. No credit cards, no bank accounts, no savings, no uh stocks, no bitcoins, you know, nothing, no cell phones, no WhatsApp, nothing, you know. He didn't even speak their language, he had nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing in the natural. He was sold as a slave. But it says, the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man. Now, if the Lord is with you, then what is with you? The favor of God is with you, the blessing of God is with you. So if the Lord was with Joseph, the blessing was with Joseph, and he was a successful man. In the other translations, it says he was a prosperous man. He was a prosperous man, not because of what he had. He wasn't prosperous because of his possessions and all of other stuff. He was prosperous because God was with him, because favor was with him. Amen. And so when Potiphar saw that the favor of God, that the that the blessing of God was with Joseph, then he made, and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hands, then he found also favor in the sight of Potiphar. So when people see that you have the favor of God and that you are blessed of God, then you also will find favor and blessing in their sight. The favor of God will open doors for you that have been closed. Potiphar put everything under his hands, under his authority. Everything. So you are prosperous because God is with you, and when God is with you and you are prosperous, then and his favor is his favor is with you, his grace is with you, then he can make everything prosperous through your hands, and then the favor of others will be with you as well. Because that's what I read here. It says, So Joseph found favor in his side and served him and made him overseer. So his master saw, verse 3, that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and served him, and he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority, because he saw that he has the favor of God, because he saw that he had the blessing of God. And so he also found favor in his side. Man, that is amazing. When you believe God, when you trust God, he will make everything prosperous through your hands, no matter the circumstances. It doesn't matter what you are going through, it doesn't matter what you're facing, it doesn't matter the things that come, you know, against you. When you trust God and you believe God and you walk in his ways, you know, his favor will protect you like a shield, you know, and he will make everything prosperous through your hands. Man, I have seen so many favors of God in my life, you know, during COVID, you know, when everything was in a lockdown and there was nothing, you know, to do. I couldn't do conferences, I couldn't do crusades, I couldn't do mission trips, you know, was nothing for me to do when I was in Brazil and we just had this piece of land, you know. I'm gonna share on that a little bit later, but you know, we had this uh land that God has given to us, and while I was there, you know, in that situation, the land that we were on in Brazil, we weren't allowed to travel to the Netherlands, you know, and the Netherlands, you know, we were not to, you know, there was lockdown, so we wouldn't we couldn't do anything. But we were on that piece of land and I was praying, and the Lord said to me, Why don't you start building? You know, and I started to build on this land, and I had no money. But the Lord said, Just build like you have money. And so, you know, I ordered, as a matter of fact, I went to a store, uh, building uh how you call it a construction uh place. I went inside and I started to order all that stuff, and you know, and everybody was obligated to walk with a mask and all that kind of stuff, you know. And so, you know, but I the Lord told me, you know, just to build like I have money, and I had no money. Went into the store and just ordered all that stuff, and the guy was putting everything in the computer, you know, and then and then, you know, when he said the amount, my phone rang, and I answered my phone, and there was a guy who heard about me, and he asked for my contact, and then he called me and he says, Hey, what are you doing? And I said, I'm doing this, this, this. He says, How much do you need? I said, I did I need so much. He said, I will put it in your account round right now. And so, you know, God paid the bill while I was in the store buying something, you know. That was like, that's because of the favor of God. And so, and then I built that whole project in COVID, during COVID, with then we had lockdowns, then it opened up again, then we had lockdowns, then it opened up again. But even though in the middle of the opening ups, you know, you couldn't do anything because you know it was just it was a big mess. And so, even what's open or in lockdown, in Brazil the stores remained open, even the restaurants were open, even during lockdown, but you couldn't do open things like I couldn't do a I couldn't do a conference or crusade outside or anything like that. I wasn't allowed to gather a lot of people uh together, so there had a lot of rules and regulations, and so you know you could like have two people in the store, you know, something like that. But you know, so I could just buy all that stuff every time in faith, and then I started to build my project during COVID, you know, and I invested two million dollars to build this project debt-free, and we built that project, uh, you know, in faith because of the favor of God, because of the grace of God, because if I wouldn't have the favor of God, I could never achieve what I had achieved, you know, all the licenses, all the workers, you know, and all the stuff and everything, you know, and then just build, you know, like there is no lag while I had no money. And I just builded it, I build it, I built it, I built it, I built it, just in faith, and it all came to pass because of the favor of God. And so, no matter what the circumstances are, if you through the storm focus on your Lord and Savior and focus on Him and His promises, His His favor, His goodness, His blessing will become manifest and it will make your hands prosperous. And everything that you touch, it will make prosperous. I truly believe that because I've seen it. I've never seen the righteous forsaken by God. Never. You know, I've seen it so many times in my own life and in the life of others. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He is a faithful God and his favor confirms that to us. And maybe you don't see it immediately, and maybe you don't feel it immediately, but we have the certainty that God will make work everything together for good for those who love him, you know, because of the favor of God. And so, besides that, as I as I said from Podophar, you know, that he saw that the Lord was, that Joseph had found favor with God, and that the Lord was with God and made everything prosperous through his hands, he also found favor uh in his sight. You know, so the favor of God makes the favor of others uh make other people see, you know, that you have the favor of God. Man, I have so many times that people come to me and say, Man, I can really see that you have the blessing of God upon your life. Or they say, Man, I can really see the grace of God upon your life, I can really see the favor of God upon your life, man. You have so much favor with God. And I'm like, Yeah, you know, if you are in Christ Jesus, you have the same favor because there's no partiality with God, amen. But that people recognize it because your life becomes a living testimony of everything, you know, that God is doing in your life. People know it's not me. People know it's not me who can achieve all those things. You know, we have, as we speak, we have 10 gospel trucks in different countries driving every week with a team to go out in the most dangerous countries, you know, to go out and preach the gospel in the most rural areas, you know, and we build water wells, we give away food parcels and other kind of stuff, you know, to uh call their attention. And we are winning souls of uh souls of all kinds of areas of life, all facets of life, people that come from every kind of background, every kind of religious background, you know, people have been won everywhere, you know, every uh every week, you know, multiple, multiple trucks go out every week to win souls for Jesus. I have all those trucks because I believed God for it, and He made that happen through His favor. And so, because of His favor, I have trucks driving in countries where they can kill you when you preach the gospel. But because of the favor of God, we can reach people that are unreachable, we can make an impact, and we and you know, and we never ever have encountered a problem with one of our drivers or one of our trucks or anything like that. Why? Because of the favor of God, because of the goodness and the grace of God, you know, and people see that. They see, man, I see what God is doing in your life. I see how He is, you know, how He's working in your life, I see you know how His favor becomes manifest in your life, and you know it turns them to jealousy. But I say, don't be jealous, it's yours also. You can have the same favor. You know, I'm not more special than anybody else. I just realize that I'm favored and I walk as I am favored, I talk as I am favored, I act as I'm favored, I I I see myself favored, I see myself blessed, I see myself endued with grace. I cannot go wrong with my father. Impossible. And so people started to bless me because they saw that the favor of God was upon my life. They just were drawing to me. Man, how many times people gave me like an envelope with money or they came and said, Man, I just feel that I need to be part of what you're doing. I want to invest in your ministry. You know, and I always say me, but you know, I mean my ministry, you know, I am personally also blessed by God. I've got nothing to complain. You know, I've got a beautiful wife, my children, we are healthy, I've got food on my table, roof above my head, you know, so I am blessed and I'm favored in every area. But man, in my ministry, I can I can really see that, you know, even being uh, you know, um emphasized, like, you know, um uh how you call that, magnified, you know, by a thousand, you know, or maybe two thousand, you know, that I can see the favor of God upon our lives and our ministry, and then people see that and they want to be part of that. And so he brings me in supernatural, supernatural positions, you know, because of the favor, because of the favor. So I don't know who you are, I don't know where you stand, but I'm telling you, man, you as a child of God have the favor of God in your life, and if you walk with God, then you have then you walk with favor. If you walk with God, you walk with his favor. Man, God will never leave you nor forsake you, so his favor will never leave you nor forsake you. Never leave you nor forsake you. His his gifts and his callings are irrevocable, they are without repentance. His goodness and his mercy will follow you all the days of your life. You can become further you can get further in life than you could ever dream of because of the favor of God. And it's so important that you understand this. You cannot go wrong, his favor is for life. Look what it says in Psalm 30. Psalm 30. Almost there. So here in Psalm 30. It says in verse 5 and 6 it says, For his anger is but for a moment, his favor is for life. Weeping may endure in the night, but tears surely will come in the morning. Amen. His favor is for life, it's for it's it's eternal, his favor is for life. So it says, Let us rejoice. Let us rejoice. Sing praises to the Lord your saints of it, and give thanks to give thanks that the remembrance of his holy name for his anger is for a moment, but his favor is for life. So you can rejoice. You can rejoice. I am what I am by the grace of God. I am what I am by the favor of God, and his favor is for life. I'm never gonna lose his favor. It's unmerited favor. I didn't deserve it, but I'm gonna get it anyway. I couldn't do anything to get it, but I also can't do nothing to lose it. It's unmerited favor. I am favored and due by grace, by what Jesus has done for me and not by what I can do for Jesus. It's a gift. It's a gift. There are a lot of people that say, no, no, you can mess it up with God. You can really lose your favor, you can really you can really ruin it with God. But you know, Romans 11 29 says that his gifts and his callings are irrevocable without repentance. So he doesn't repent himself from the fact that he has favored me, that he has blessed me, and that he has endued me with grace in the beloved, that he has made me accepted in the beloved. He doesn't repent from that. I don't know who you are and what you think, but I don't agree with you. You know, my God has favored me, and I will never lose his favor again. It's for life. That's what I read here. It's for life. His favor is for life. And it doesn't matter how I feel in the night, but joy surely will come in the morning because of the favor of God in my life. Amen. What done is done. What's done is done. He doesn't regret. He doesn't regret the fact that he made you a son of Abraham, he doesn't regret the made that you made that he made you an heir of the kingdom of God. He doesn't regret that he blessed you with every spiritual blessing, that all of his promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus. He doesn't regret from that because his gifts and his callings are irrevocable, they're without repentance, you know. And so Jesus, you know, did this for us, and God doesn't regret it. He doesn't regret he gave his son and that his son died for us, so that this may become available for us, that we are now favored of God and that we are endued with grace. He doesn't regret that Jesus became poor so that you and I could be rich. Just receive it. It's got nothing to do with you. It's got everything to everything to do with his favor, it's got everything to do with his goodness. Hallelujah. Man, I'm telling you, Habakkuk 317 says that even if the fig tree, the fig tree, the fake tree, Habakkuk. Let me just go quickly there. I want to quote it right. I've got only the reverence in my notes. But Habakkuk 3 is no, you know, even if the fig tree almost there. Almost there. Habakkuk tree says, Verse 17, he says, Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor the fruit be on the vines, though throw though the labor of the olive may fall, and the fields yield no food, though the flock may be cut off from the old, and there will be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the in the God of my salvation. If you know that you are favored with the favor of God, you can relax more. No matter the circumstances, you can always rejoice, because you don't have to work for favor, favor works for you. He will give you the treasures of of this world into your hands. That's what he said to the people from Israel. He says, You know, when you leave Egypt, I will not leave you empty-handed, you know, I will give you favor in the side of the world. Of the Egyptians. And so, you know, and because of the favor, they gave them all their gold and silver and all that stuff, you know. And I see the favor of God so much, you know. As I said, man, we started with one piece of land here in uh Brazil. Now we have 34 uh lots, and we build this project on this two-acre piece of land in total, you know, to receive teams and disciple them and kickstart them, you know, all because of the favor of God, you know, and and you should know that for sort, for sure, you know. It is, you know, uh the fact that by his grace, by his favor, he became poor so that you and I could be rich. And this rich, I don't know if I have time to share on it, but this rich is the word rich in 2 Corinthians 8 verse 9. This word rich is pluteo, which means wealthy, to be increased with goods and be made rich. Now, don't get me wrong, you got to read my book, you know, true prosperity. I'm not talking about you only you living in abundance, like have a big house, big cars, you know, jewels and all that kind of stuff, you know, and then you are rich because that is by why he became poor. No, not only rich in the sense of financially rich, which is definitely a part of it, but rich in every facet of your life. But when he makes you rich, he became poor so that you could be rich. The fact for you to be rich is so that you could be a blessing, so that you could build the kingdom of God, so that you can invest in the kingdom of God, so that you can make a difference and you can be a blessing to others like you are blessed yourself. You can have you can give favor to others like you have been favored by God. You can give grace to others like you have been endued with grace. You know, we are blessed to be a blessing. And so He's got but He has riches for us so that you know we don't have to have any lack. If we don't, if if He doesn't want us to be rich, then He wouldn't have to become poor Himself. But He came poor so that we could be rich, you know, and so we can rightfully claim whatever is ours. I am blessed. I am blessed, He came became poor so that I could be rich, and He became you know a slave so that I could be a son, He became a curse so that I could be blessed, I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm blessed. I'm blessed going in, I'm blessed going out, I'm blessed in the city, I'm blessed in the land, I'm the head and not the tail. Everything I touch is will be blessed. You know, I will only go up and never go down because I'm blessed, because I'm favored, because I'm induced with grace, glory to God. You know, you that's man, I'm telling you, it's so important, you know, to memorize and to to have memorial stains to uh stones, to remember where God found you and how he found you. Instead of forget it, people have to tend tend to forget where they come from and how God found them, in what state they were. You know, but you have to remember, man, when I think on you know how I was broken, lost and in darkness, how I was addicted to drugs, how I was lost and got nothing to show for. I was in prison, stripped of my identity, stripped of everything I had, all by myself. But he came with his goodness and his mercy, he came with his grace, he came with his favor, and he transformed my life. And then from the moment that I led him into my life, he started to bless me, and his favor surrounds me as a shield. And where I am now, I only have I have testimony upon testimony upon testimony about uh about the blessing of the Lord, the favor of God and the grace of God. Man, my whole family came to the Lord, you know, my children came to the Lord, he restored me, he restored me in everything that He could that I needed to be restored, He set me free from everything that I needed to be set free from because of His favor. And you need to remember how He found you, where He found you, and where you are today. So you always will rejoice and always think on the good things that God has done for you and understand how favored you are and how blessed you are. Never forget it again. Never forget it again. You are highly favored of God, you know, and you know, don't look at your circumstances where you don't have something that you don't see something already come to pass, where you don't see the breakthrough, but look on the things, remember on the things and ponder on the things that you already have and that he already has done in your life, that you already have seen become manifest in your life, so that you can rejoice in the Lord and so that you can stand in his favor, stand in his grace, you know, stand in his blessing, no matter the circumstances and what you see or you do not see. You just know that you know that you know that you are the favor of God, you are the blessed of God, you are blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places because you are a child, you are now in Christ Jesus, the Son of God, in whom He is well pleased. Never forget it, my brother, my sister. Amen. Man, my time is up again. I really pray that you have been blessed by it and that you have received something from this teaching. I will continue in this series in Christ, and uh you know, uh, but uh, you are favored, highly favored, you are endued with grace, you are the blessed of the Lord because you are a son of the living God, because you are in Christ Jesus. Amen. I hope to see you next time. Bye-bye.

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