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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Year-Of-Favour
Publishing Date: 2020-05-17T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/year-of-favour/

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Okay, guys, so let's just go back to last week and then trace where we were at and then

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move from there, move forward from there.

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So we said last week that God is bringing forth release upon the earth, bringing forth

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release upon the earth and this release will take the form of unparalleled kindness.

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It will take the form of God restraining the devil even though wickedness will increase,

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even though wickedness on the earth will increase, even though there will be exploitation, there

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will be wickedness, God will restrain the devil, God will show unparalleled kindness

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and God will cause Isaiah 61 verse 1 and 2 to break forth through us.

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This is what we said last week and that this would go on for two and a half to three years

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or churches that begin to step up to seed the earth with this release will see a harvest

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and will be tremendously blessed.

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We also said that this release used to happen once every 50 years at a time called Jubilee

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Another word for Jubilee was Year of the Favor of the Lord.

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And one of the things God wants to do is to say to the earth that you don't have to wait

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for 49 years or 5 years or 6 years or 7 years, I am your Jubilee.

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Jesus Christ is Jubilee and when he unrolls that scroll in Luke chapter 4 in the synagogue,

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he reads and says the year of favor and we said last time, last week that God will, it

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will be a time of favor and of vengeance.

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That's where we stopped last week.

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So today we pick up on this idea, Year of Favor.

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That's where we will go.

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So if you want to title this teaching anything, call it Year of the Lord's Favor.

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What does that look like?

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Because we, last week we stopped at this point where we said that there's favor and there's

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vengeance and vengeance upon the enemy, a restraining of him and favor upon people released through

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churches that want to stand up and say, hey, look at what God's going to do, unparalleled

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kindness.

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So today we'll talk about this idea of favor.

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So here are some questions we need to consider.

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What does the year of favor look like?

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What will it look like?

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As I said, it'll look like unparalleled kindness.

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Write this down almost like an equation on your page.

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Okay, so the year of favor release will be unparalleled kindness.

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It'll be restraining of Satan.

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Even though the world will increase in wickedness, God will restrain Satan from bringing harm

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to the earth.

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And that Isaiah 61, opening the eyes of the blind, opening eyes, risen, captivity, release

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from moral and spiritual bondage, comfort to those in despair and sorrowing.

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These are the things that God wants to do for the next two and a half to three years.

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Isn't it awesome that we get to be a part of who God is?

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Because this is who he is.

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So if this is what the year of release of favor looks like, the next question you need

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to ask is, what will it take for favor to flow through us?

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What will it take for favor to flow through us?

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What will it take for favor to flow through Acts 29?

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I can't hear you.

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Sorry, Diana, just speak up.

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Just kidding.

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It's one of those days when jokes are really falling flat.

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So what will it take for favor to flow through us?

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For favor to flow through us, guys, we have to learn how to walk in favor and in this

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idea of release.

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If we don't know what it tastes like, if we don't savor it as a lifestyle, how can we

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release it to others?

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We have to be a people who are a people of favor, which means we have to understand what

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it is to be fully forgiven and we have to understand what it is to be highly favored.

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If we don't understand this, then we are not able to give to others what God wants to give.

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Anytime God wants to do something on earth, he does call forth the people, but when people

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come excitedly to him saying, sure, sure, use us, use us, God says, okay, let's start

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training.

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It's always been that way.

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And so as we step up and say, oh God, let this be so, God is saying, okay, then can

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you learn how to walk in my favor so that favor can flow through you?

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And can you become a community or a people who are fully forgiven and highly favored?

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Fully forgiven and highly favored.

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We talked about what it is to be fully forgiven long ago, so I won't go there.

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But what is it to walk as highly favored ones?

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What is it to walk as highly favored ones?

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Why is it that we don't walk in this constant awareness of God's favor?

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Different reasons.

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One of the reasons we aren't aware of God's constant favor is because we lack an understanding.

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We lack understanding.

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Or if it's not a lack of understanding, it's a lack of thinking and walking in it.

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Guys, I don't walk consciously aware of favor.

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I'm surprised at the number of times I asked God for favor.

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I'm surprised at the number of times I asked God for favor.

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I'm surprised at the number of times I prayed favor for you.

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Sometimes we don't think much of favor because we get a whole lot of trinkets and baubles

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from men, and that suffices, as in a few positions here, a little bit of recognition there, and

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we think that is favor and we just gloat in it when God's favor is far more excessive.

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Sometimes we don't know what favor is because it's been robbed.

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Satan loves robbing us of favor.

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God the Father loves robbing us with favor.

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Satan loves robbing us of favor.

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We tried this with Joseph.

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The Father robs, Satan robs.

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And then finally, sometimes some of us have received favor, but what happens in Christendom

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is very often favor becomes an entitlement.

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And when that happens, like it says in Deuteronomy 6, verse 10 to 12, God warns them saying,

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I've given you wells that you did not dig, vineyards you did not plant.

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I gave you houses that you did not build.

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Once you begin to live there, do not forget who I am, and people did.

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Jesus, on the other hand, had tremendous favor, but in Philippians 2, verse 6 to 9,

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instead of seeing himself entitled to favor, Jesus actually emptied himself out.

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These are the different reasons why I don't walk in favor, you don't walk in favor, why

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favor is not like breathing for us.

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And so, I just want to launch into this idea of what favor really looks like.

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So, here goes.

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Before I start defining favor, just listen to this.

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The Father wants the same relationship with you that he presently has with Jesus.

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The Father wants the same relationship with me that he presently has with Jesus.

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And he is relentless in his wanting this.

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He doesn't get put off that I am not interested, he doesn't get put off that I turn away,

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he doesn't get put off that I sometimes serve the Father of life.

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He doesn't get put off that I am not interested, he doesn't get put off that I turn away,

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he doesn't get put off that I sometimes serve the Father of lies.

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He doesn't get put off that my interest fluctuates.

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He doesn't get put off that sometimes my heart is fickle, because he is relentless

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in wanting the same relationship with me that he presently has with Jesus.

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How does he go about this?

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He goes about it by loving me right now like he loves Jesus and never slacking off or holding it back.

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He goes about this relentless pursuit by loving me right now as I stand here and speak to you,

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just as he loves Jesus.

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He does not hold it back, he is continuously pouring it out,

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trusting that it will be powerful enough to become first a distraction,

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then something that draws me and then becomes my default.

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That aside, he also bestows on me right now the favor that Jesus presently enjoys and has always enjoyed.

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He bestows on me the favor that Jesus enjoys.

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I would suggest to you that none of us actually on a daily basis think that this is our existence.

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That one, the Father wants the same relationship he presently has with Jesus with you.

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Two, that right now he makes sure that he has the same love for you that he has

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for Jesus who's seated at his right hand and that he is bestowing upon me the same favor

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that Jesus has always had. If I thought like this, I'd be very different but I don't think like this.

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So let's kind of define favor. Favor is approval.

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As in when I wake up in the morning, the first words he wants to say to me is,

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hey Jacob, you've just woken up before you do anything else today.

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I want you to know that you're already approved in my sight.

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Children experience it. Babies experience it. Once they grow up and can talk, it begins to wear off.

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But God wakes, the moment I wake up, God's first comment if he could make one and if I was listening was,

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hey before you start the day, I just want you to know that you're fully approved.

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This is what favor looks like. Another word that you can use when you talk about favor is favor.

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Is esteem.

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As an honor. If you read Isaiah 43, verse three and four from the message, it says,

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you're highly honored, you're precious, you're beloved. I'll give up nations for you.

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You're so, this is how much I love you. I would give up nations for you. You're precious,

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you're honored. Jacob is highly honored, esteemed by the creator of the universe.

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It doesn't even compute sometimes. Delight. These are all words that kind of begin

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to, these are divine synonyms for favor.

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Delight.

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He would love to constantly say, I'm well pleased and delighted with you.

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That I've got to take this teaching slow because I want to experience it too. I just don't want

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to teach it. That the father actually has great pleasure in me. He is thrilled that I responded

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to his love and decided to follow him. And that my pursuit of him has been pretty sincere. He's

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thrilled at it. Gives him great pleasure. Brings him delight. Next one. Highly loved.

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Highly loved. We talk about being much loved children and that's from our end.

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And that's from our end. Much loved children. From his end too, there's this idea of being

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highly loved. Jacob, you are highly loved. Highly loved. I remember once walking into a meeting in

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some small town outside of Seattle. And as soon as I walk in, this man who was prophesying says,

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looks at me and says, what's your name? And I said, Jacob. He said, Jacob, you are special to

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God. You're highly loved. I remember bawling from that moment on for the next two hours.

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Demonstrated kindness. Demonstrated kindness. Not biblical kindness, not biblical kindness,

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demonstrated kindness. Not biblical kindness as in hiding in the Bible. This is kindness that is

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evidenced through a demonstration of ways that God puts into emotions so that I actually experience

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his kindness. I think this is the advantage of living longer. You can look back and see so

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many incidents of tremendous kindness.

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Demonstrated kindness. And you don't have to go looking three months ago, two months ago. You can

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look yesterday and I can think of just fabulous kindness from God. This is favor.

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You all think about favor. Remember how I started the service looking for Shirley?

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It's this idea of kindness of God following you. Favor follows you. It surrounds you.

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Access. Favor gives you access. If you have favor with a king, you have access to his courts.

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Remember the place where King Xerxes stretches out his scepter so that Esther can enter. And he

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prevents Vashti from entering, but he allows Esther to enter because she had favor. Favor gives you

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access. We'll talk about each of these when we do the series on favor, just like opening up your

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ancient doors. Each of these words we'll explore because the people who can walk in this kind of

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favor, the language will change, their prayer will change, the way they conduct their lives will

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change, their response will change, their intimacy will change, their battle and the way of battling

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the enemy will change. It is such a powerful, important part of who we are within to God.

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And yet we don't walk in it. I love this next word. It's not mine. Intentional bias.

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Intentional bias. God has an intentional bias towards me. God has an intentional bias. It's

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not by mistake. He has an intentional bias towards me. He can pick me out of a line.

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And be biased towards me. It's an intentional bias. Here's another one. You may not believe this,

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but I'm beginning to believe this. He often wants to say, if you will listen, that you,

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you're my favorite. You're my favorite. And there are days when it's absolutely true.

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You're my favorite.

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When I say there are days when it's absolutely true, what I meant is there are days when I

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actually know that it's true. Every day he says it, he's sincere about it. And there are extra

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benefits. If there's favor, there's always extra benefits. Like it's not standard benefits,

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it's extra. It's bonus. If there's favor, there's a settling of my outstanding debts.

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As in, when I favor somebody, if I found out that they owed someone 20 bucks, I'd pull out 20 bucks

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and pay it off because I favor the person. There's an outstanding debt settlement that comes with favor.

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And then the last one is tailor-made or bespoke goodness or tailor-made goodness. As in, there's

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goodness that he tailor-makes for you because he knows what gets your mojo going.

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And so he tailor-makes it for you. Tailor-made goodness.

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So let me put it this way. Favor is a blessing.

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Let me put it this way. Favor is the goodness. Favor is the goodness and kindness of God,

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given ungrudgingly

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because he simply adores you.

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Adores you.

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Because he simply adores you. This is not the kind of adores you as in adoration, but adores you as in,

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but I, what do you do with these words? What word can you use? Favor is God's goodness and kindness

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given to me ungrudgingly in Christ because of Christ ungrudgingly given to me ungrudgingly

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for the rest of my life for a lifetime.

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Why? Because he simply adores me. Do you know what this could do to my life? It would ruin me

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if I actually came into grips with this. It would make it impossible to escape God.

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It would make it impossible to escape this way of thinking. You will not be able to escape favor

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when you think like this. You will anticipate favor in every circumstance. You will anticipate

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favor in every circumstance. But after all this, I can still miss out on this because I will not

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find the time this week to understand it, to think about it. And so it will be words I parrot,

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parrot, but I do not experience because I cannot find the time to understand or think about it.

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You always inhabit what you think.

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Please don't forget that. There's just no other way around it.

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Truth is learned through repetition. You inhabit what you think.

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To think is to ponder on something with the help of the Holy Spirit so that it goes deep into Spirit

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and affects the soul. Think is not repeating these words to me.

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I have to think to come up with these words that explain him.

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I could give you scriptures for each of these words.

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Yeah. Any questions before we go on?

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May I not be caught not thinking about this because if I don't,

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it'll be one of the best messages I've ever preached, but it won't be my experience.

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We're on to something, guys. When we were singing one of the songs, I thought,

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Father, I just want to go up there and remind the church that you're going to affect the earth

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through us. I decided not to because Jane was saying something that was more profound.

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So I thought, okay, I'll talk about it later. But that's one of the things we need to understand is

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life will change.

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Any questions?

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Have you noticed in this whole list there's nothing about earning deserving nothing about

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self- hattenment and self- Kitchens and spiritual multitudes or religious

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but the Bible thatph Saltz.

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about earning, deserving, nothing.

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Good question.

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How can we all be God's favorite?

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The simple logical answer is just mind boggling.

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Because Christ is in you and you are in Christ

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and Christ is God's beloved son.

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You are therefore as favored, as loved,

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as special as Christ himself.

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And therefore you become highly favored.

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There's no separation.

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We are heirs of everything that God has

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and co-heirs with Christ.

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It's fascinating that that's the answer.

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That in Christ I find favor.

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I am both in him and he is in me.

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Everything about the father is attracted to the son.

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And today the son is in me and I am in the son.

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Whatever belongs to the son is mine.

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In any ways I was loved to begin with,

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but in the son it goes far beyond just being loved,

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being redeemed, being ransomed.

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It goes far beyond that.

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Listen to this verse in Romans 8.32.

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Won't he who gave up his son

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now freely give us all things?

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So let's continue down this road with

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continue down this road with figuring out,

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okay, so what else does favor look like?

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Yep.

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Yeah, this is very powerful.

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How does our prayer change

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before and after understanding favor?

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Many of the things that you stand in faith for

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will no longer be required once you know favor.

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The language of prayer will change too

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because you will now operate from a place of knowing

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what is yours in God because of his heart towards you.

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The goodness of God will become more and more evident.

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Every promise from the word will carry in it

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favor, provision, goodness, release.

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If you are all that we said you are,

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the confidence you have in God will grow like crazy,

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like it'll escalate.

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Striving will become less.

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Outcomes will take on a guarantee.

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Not of this is what I want,

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but I am so sure of the goodness of God in this circumstance.

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It is now unavoidable.

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Promises will carry the heart of God in them.

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If God has said it,

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it will be a promise to God.

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It is now unavoidable.

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If God has said it,

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either through a Rhema word or through the word,

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it must come to pass.

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You become confident of this.

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Prayer changes completely.

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And remember guys,

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you don't always need a prophetic word for a promise.

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Some promises are in the word.

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You don't need an extra word for it.

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Run with what is in the word.

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All the single people, all the single people.

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I say to you, you don't need a prophetic word.

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What you need is a simple word from Proverbs which says,

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he who finds a wife or a husband finds a good thing.

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Go to the book of Genesis and you'll hear God saying,

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it is not good for a man to be alone except Jacob.

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And Derek.

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That sunk his boat.

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Alrighty.

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And Derek's dad's boat.

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Anyways, we'll come to that later if we have time

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because I wanna talk about promises

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if we get through favor.

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So here are some really cool thoughts

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about favor that I want you to look at.

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Favor is access to the ultimate place.

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Favor is access

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to the ultimate place

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of relationship.

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I love this.

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I'll tell you why.

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Favor is access to the ultimate place of relationship.

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Why?

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Because I'm seated with Christ in heavenly places,

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but that makes it sound like just scripture.

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Think of it this way.

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In John 13, 23, you have John leading against Jesus,

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head on Jesus' chest.

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That boy had tremendous favor.

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Like I've said before, he probably met Jesus

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when he was 13 or 14, lived longer than most of the others.

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And so Jesus had a special place for John.

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John would call himself the beloved disciple.

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And so he's reclining with his head on Jesus' chest.

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What we need to understand is that favor

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is an open door into intimacy.

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Favor is an open door into intimacy.

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Like I remember with my nieces,

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especially with Hannah, she was the youngest one.

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And she had favor with me.

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There's another kid called Diego, five-year-old,

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son of one of my good friends.

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And Diego has tremendous favor with me.

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Favor opens the door to intimacy.

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The more I realize how favored I am,

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the more easy it is to run,

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despite what yesterday must have been,

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to run through an open door into his arms

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becomes easy when there is favor.

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Because favor gives me access

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to the ultimate place in relationship.

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Second, favor is the fullness of permission

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to adventure into the world.

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Into everything Christ has.

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Favor is the fullness of permission

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you actually have to adventure

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into everything that Christ has.

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Again, I take you to Romans 8.32.

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If he who freely gave us his son,

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will he not freely give us everything else?

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Romans 8.32.

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Okay, what about growing in favor like Jesus did?

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It is we who grow into favor.

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It is not God who increases his favor.

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We grow into favor by understanding this,

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thinking about it, practicing it, walking in it,

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using favor as a door into intimacy.

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Do you think of all the 12 disciples,

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John had any problem barging into Jesus' house

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any time of the day?

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Even Peter, who would stumble into things,

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would perhaps have been a bit careful.

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Not John, to the point that John probably knew

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Jesus' home and relatives so well,

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that Jesus had absolutely no problem turning to John

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at the cross and saying,

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hey, here's your mom, take care of her.

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Man, once you begin to realize the favor

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that God has upon you,

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your heart will begin to take advantage

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and move into intimacy.

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So we grow in favor,

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not because God is increasing his favor,

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but because we are exploring or plumbing the depths

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of this amazing approach or attitude of goodness

00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:49.200
that God has towards us.

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Do unbelievers have favor?

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They do, but they don't realize it

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because they belong to another father

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and their spirits are dull.

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The Bible says that God sends rain

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and causes his son to fall both on the good and the evil.

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But someone who does not know Christ

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is never able to receive it, recognize it,

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walk in it, respond to it.

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And if you can't receive, recognize,

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and respond to favor,

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now how do you even quantify it?

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What is favor?

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Favor is the fullness of permission

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to adventure into everything Christ says.

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One of the best examples I can give is,

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unfortunately, in a moment of weakness and error,

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I gave Jeevan the code to my home

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and the keys to my home.

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And so now what has happened is,

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he now assumes that he has the fullness of permission

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to adventure into my home at will.

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And sometimes when I come out of my room,

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Jeevan's sitting there,

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because he can let himself in.

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There are times when he feels like he needs to cook lunch

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on my stove, which I never use.

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It's called the fullness of permission

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to adventure into everything Jacob has.

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Only in this case, we now get,

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God is saying, hey,

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but don't you know you're highly favored, Jacob?

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Don't you know that you get extra benefits?

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Don't you know that you're approved

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before you start your day?

00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:47.840
Don't you know that my delight likes just tenting on you?

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Don't you know that you think you're much loved?

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I think you're highly loved.

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Don't you know that every day I find ways

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to demonstrate my kindness to you,

00:36:57.640 --> 00:36:59.240
whether you recognize it or not?

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Don't you know that you have access

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to everything that is in Christ?

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Don't you know that I have an intentional bias towards you?

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Haven't you seen that often enough?

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Don't you know that you're my favorite?

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There are days I know you've felt that.

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Don't you know that I've settled so many

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of your outstanding debts,

00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.120
spiritual, physical, material, relational, financial.

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Don't you know that I've tailor-made goodness for you?

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When you know all that,

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why will I not allow you to adventure

00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:26.120
into everything that Christ has for you?

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Come, Jacob, explore, explore.

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Jacob, you're so hesitant.

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You're always concerned about, am I good enough?

00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:34.080
Am I holy enough?

00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:35.400
How did yesterday go?

00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:38.400
Those things are important, but it always holds you back.

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Remember what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 6,

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where he said, Corinthians, we've opened our hearts to you,

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but your hearts are too small to receive our love.

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Jacob, I want to say the same thing to you.

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I've opened my heart to you.

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The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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we have opened our hearts to you,

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but your heart is too small to receive that love,

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and therefore there is still distance and hesitation.

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Won't you begin to explore this idea of favor

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and step into all that I am?

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Part of the idea is that favor is the confidence I have

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in my deficits that Christ's benefits will take over.

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Let me rephrase it properly.

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Favor is the confidence I have.

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Favor is the confidence I have.

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Favor is the confidence I have

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that the benefits of Christ

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will fill my deficits.

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You know, long ago, before we became a megachurch,

00:38:51.080 --> 00:38:55.080
when Acts 29 was really small, I think four or five people,

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I was invited to a large church,

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and they asked me to preach,

00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:03.680
and it was like a golden opportunity.

00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:07.680
And so I went with a whole lot of props and even a sheep,

00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.280
because I wanted to really illustrate my sermon very well.

00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.280
You guys, you know, I'm a big fan of the church,

00:39:16.680 --> 00:39:17.480
sermon very well.

00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:21.080
You guys have no idea what you have been spared.

00:39:21.080 --> 00:39:24.080
Can you imagine me bringing a sheep into the church?

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So I go there and everything with the teaching went wrong.

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It was such a flop in my mind.

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:37.960
So I knew it stank.

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And so I went home.

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I used to live in Richmond then,

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and I remember standing on the balcony,

00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:44.920
looking out and saying,

00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:46.920
Oh God, what an opportunity.

00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:49.320
And I just blew it completely.

00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.120
I just beat myself up for about two hours.

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And finally I turned to God and said,

00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:56.440
what do you think about it?

00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:58.640
What do you think of what happened tonight?

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And I felt God saying, go stand out in the balcony.

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It was dark by now.

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I went stood out in the balcony.

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He said, look up, and I look up.

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And there was this clear sky.

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And then as I would watch, clouds would come.

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And wherever there was a gap,

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the clouds would just fill that gap.

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And I'm looking at it for a while.

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And then I hear the voice of God as clear as day.

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And he says, Jacob, remember something.

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I'll always cover the gaps for you.

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I'll always cover the gaps for you.

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And I've never forgotten that.

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I just started bawling

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because that's a very natural thing for me to do.

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And I've never forgotten that.

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That was about 15 years ago, man.

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And whenever I've done a miserable job,

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and every so often that happens,

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I know that the deficits, the lack, the inadequacies

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are being compensated by no other

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than the Spirit of God himself,

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and that the gaps are covered.

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Paul caught this when he said,

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I boast in my infirmities and in my weakness,

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for when I'm weak, then he is strong,

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and his grace is sufficient.

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His grace is sufficient, not like a little cookie

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that is given to a kid who's been craving for more.

00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:15.360
But grace is sufficient as in it fills the gap completely.

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It levels the depression.

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This is what favor does.

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These are confidences that we have to build up,

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because then we won't try to compensate it ourselves.

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We won't try to compensate it ourselves.

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I love this next line.

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I wrote it, I thought, huh, that came out well.

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Favor, there's no favor there.

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Favor is being condemned to the fact

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that favor is being condemned to generosity.

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Favor is being condemned to generosity,

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as in God's favor condemns me to God's generosity,

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as in I'm ridden off into generosity.

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And the moment I say generosity, do not think dollars.

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If God's generosity was only limited to dollars,

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what would I do about forgiveness?

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.200
What would I do about kindness?

00:42:30.200 --> 00:42:34.000
What would I do about a million second chances?

00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:35.240
What would I do, man?

00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.320
His generosity is his goodness profusely being

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poured out upon me again and again and again.

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Please go home and think about these things.

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Grow in it.

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Like the question asked,

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Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God.

00:42:51.120 --> 00:42:51.960
How?

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The boy thought.

00:42:57.240 --> 00:43:02.240
So favor is being condemned to generosity

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and this generosity is preferential,

00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:09.120
as in you are preferred over others.

00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:12.320
This generosity is undeserved.

00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:19.120
And this generosity just breaks my heart in a good way.

00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:25.120
And if you haven't experienced it,

00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:29.040
then know that there is another level of living

00:43:29.040 --> 00:43:30.920
that you and I need to enter into.

00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:36.280
Favor is being condemned to God's generosity.

00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:38.920
And guys, this is not when there's a crisis.

00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:41.720
This is not when there's a difficult situation

00:43:41.720 --> 00:43:45.920
or when there's a Good Friday and Easter and Christmas.

00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:48.680
No, no, no, this is every day.

00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:52.920
This is every day, every day.

00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:55.800
To get up in the morning knowing,

00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:58.600
ah shucks man, I am condemned.

00:43:58.600 --> 00:43:59.440
Really?

00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:00.400
What are you condemned to?

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:03.520
To God's ridiculous generosity today.

00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:04.960
What did you do to earn it?

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:07.640
Nothing, man, totally undeserving.

00:44:07.640 --> 00:44:09.920
And like, what else?

00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:11.040
It's preferential, man.

00:44:11.040 --> 00:44:13.000
It's like the special card you get,

00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.960
preferential card where you go through doors

00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:17.720
that others can't go through.

00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:22.200
It's preferential, it is undeserved.

00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:24.960
And every time that happens, it just melts my heart.

00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:26.400
It breaks my heart.

00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:27.520
It breaks my heart.

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.200
I'll tell you some of the things that happen

00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:34.760
in terms of condemned to generosity on a daily basis.

00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:36.600
I'll be asking God a question.

00:44:36.600 --> 00:44:38.080
As soon as I finish the question,

00:44:38.080 --> 00:44:41.240
there'll be a truck going past my door with my answer.

00:44:41.240 --> 00:44:42.800
A ball letters on it.

00:44:43.640 --> 00:44:48.640
And I'll, before I even say what the answer is,

00:44:49.720 --> 00:44:50.840
why do you do this?

00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:51.880
Who are you?

00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:52.720
Who am I?

00:44:52.720 --> 00:44:54.320
Don't you have other stuff to do?

00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:56.680
Do you have to respond immediately?

00:44:56.680 --> 00:44:57.800
Can't you take time?

00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:01.120
Aren't we supposed to tarry for the Lord through the night?

00:45:01.120 --> 00:45:02.880
Why do you respond so quickly?

00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.240
Being aware of favor allows you to spot

00:45:16.240 --> 00:45:17.720
and recognize favor quickly.

00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:22.120
You know, it's odd when you buy a car,

00:45:22.120 --> 00:45:24.720
you notice other cars like yours on the road.

00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:26.560
Till then, they didn't exist.

00:45:26.560 --> 00:45:29.320
But the moment you buy it, like when I bought my bike,

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.520
which I go cycling around Vancouver,

00:45:31.520 --> 00:45:33.880
now I recognize bikes all over the place.

00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:36.640
Before that, never had that experience.

00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.760
If a question comes in, what bike do you have?

00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:48.000
Just feel free to answer it however you want.

00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:55.720
Here's another one.

00:45:55.720 --> 00:46:00.720
Favor is permission to flourish and overflow.

00:46:01.720 --> 00:46:06.400
To flourish and overflow.

00:46:09.680 --> 00:46:12.080
Favor is permission to flourish and overflow.

00:46:14.720 --> 00:46:16.960
Favor is permission to flourish and overflow.

00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:19.600
He commands extravagance upon you.

00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:21.800
He commands extravagance upon you.

00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.880
Because of stupid theologies that make God out to be a miser

00:46:28.200 --> 00:46:30.800
who's recycling things here on earth.

00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:36.320
We never even consider the possibility

00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:39.160
that favor is permission to flourish.

00:46:39.160 --> 00:46:42.640
And flourish does not mean a million to me.

00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:46.680
Flourish could mean $300 to give away.

00:46:46.680 --> 00:46:50.080
Flourish to Bill Gates could mean 3 billion to give away.

00:46:50.080 --> 00:46:53.080
Flourish to someone in India could mean 300 rupees,

00:46:53.080 --> 00:46:55.720
which is $6 to give away.

00:46:55.720 --> 00:47:00.720
But favor gives you permission to flourish and overflow.

00:47:06.240 --> 00:47:09.040
And overflow, I love that after the word flourish

00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:11.120
comes the word overflow.

00:47:11.120 --> 00:47:13.760
Because once I flourish it is supposed to overflow.

00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.840
Anything that is poured into a cup past a certain point

00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:18.000
spills over the brim.

00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:21.480
My cup runs over.

00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.520
Favor causes your cup to run over.

00:47:26.560 --> 00:47:28.240
Unless you're taking a cup

00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:30.760
and keep putting it into bigger cups,

00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:32.200
that's the only way you won't flourish.

00:47:32.200 --> 00:47:34.200
Whenever things come into your life, let it go out.

00:47:34.200 --> 00:47:35.320
Jesus did this.

00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:38.960
Entitled to tremendous favor and glory,

00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:42.080
he decided that, nah, I'll let this overflow.

00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:47.160
God has a desire to prosper us.

00:47:49.520 --> 00:47:52.480
John, three John, what's the scripture?

00:47:53.240 --> 00:47:57.400
Three John chapter one, verse two.

00:47:58.560 --> 00:48:00.520
If you read it from the message,

00:48:00.520 --> 00:48:03.280
I love the way it writes it in the message.

00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:04.120
Three John.

00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:11.080
Three John.

00:48:13.640 --> 00:48:15.440
One, verse two.

00:48:17.080 --> 00:48:18.400
Nup, three John.

00:48:19.680 --> 00:48:20.920
Is it three John one, two?

00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:23.320
Um.

00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:29.760
Yeah, the pastor to my good friend Gaius.

00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:30.960
How truly I love you.

00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:32.200
We are the best of friends.

00:48:32.200 --> 00:48:35.560
And I pray for good fortune in everything you do

00:48:35.560 --> 00:48:37.200
and for your good health

00:48:37.200 --> 00:48:42.080
that your everyday affairs prosper as well as your soul.

00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:44.200
Love it, eh?

00:48:44.200 --> 00:48:46.840
That your everyday affairs prosper.

00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.040
Maybe you're growing tomatoes.

00:48:51.040 --> 00:48:53.640
I wouldn't understand why.

00:48:53.640 --> 00:48:58.640
But you begin to prosper, your garden begins to prosper.

00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:00.680
Your cooking begins to prosper.

00:49:00.680 --> 00:49:03.520
We limit prosperity to dollars and cents

00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:06.560
because our minds are so trapped

00:49:06.560 --> 00:49:10.120
in what the world says is prosperity.

00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:14.480
There's a question?

00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:17.400
Hold it.

00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:18.840
Pardon?

00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:20.760
Oh, you grow tomatoes too.

00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:23.600
I thought you grow corn, Jeevan,

00:49:23.600 --> 00:49:26.200
and that you then can the corn that you grow.

00:49:32.080 --> 00:49:33.800
I mean, when you look at Isaiah 61,

00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:38.800
verse five to seven and verse nine,

00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:40.080
this is the old covenant.

00:49:40.080 --> 00:49:42.400
And look what God says he'll do for his children.

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.200
Isaiah 61, provision will be supplied.

00:49:45.200 --> 00:49:47.200
Security will be restored.

00:49:47.200 --> 00:49:49.080
Double honor will be bestowed.

00:49:49.080 --> 00:49:50.880
Promises will be fulfilled.

00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:53.000
Debt and bondage will be reversed.

00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:54.800
Priests will be clothed.

00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:56.680
Generations will be blessed.

00:49:56.680 --> 00:49:58.200
Work will be fruitful.

00:49:58.200 --> 00:50:00.680
Does that sound like prosperity?

00:50:00.680 --> 00:50:02.760
Does that sound like the favor of God?

00:50:04.160 --> 00:50:05.560
Receive at church.

00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.560
There's an expectation one should have.

00:50:15.560 --> 00:50:19.080
Like I said, I don't know who came up with this phrase,

00:50:19.080 --> 00:50:19.920
but it's so true.

00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.320
We inhabit what we think.

00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:24.160
Is this not your way of thinking?

00:50:24.160 --> 00:50:27.120
It's gonna be very hard to recognize things

00:50:27.120 --> 00:50:27.960
when they happen.

00:50:35.240 --> 00:50:39.640
Someone gave me what felt like

00:50:40.640 --> 00:50:41.960
Ferrero Rocher.

00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:45.960
It was wrapped up very nicely,

00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:48.280
and I felt it and it felt like Ferrero Rocher.

00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:49.920
And it felt like three of them.

00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:55.840
And I am not a Ferrero Rocher guy.

00:50:59.080 --> 00:51:01.840
So I gave it to someone else,

00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:03.720
recycled the gift without opening it.

00:51:05.120 --> 00:51:07.840
And I went to visit this person who I didn't know too well

00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:09.000
and gave it to them,

00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:10.880
because that person was just an acquaintance

00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:13.000
and I gave them the Ferrero Rocher.

00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.200
I gave it to them and the next time I went to visit them,

00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:16.200
they were just gushing.

00:51:16.200 --> 00:51:20.160
They were just so moved by my generosity and kindness.

00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:21.520
I'm thinking to myself, wow,

00:51:21.520 --> 00:51:23.760
three Ferrero Rocher go a long way.

00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:25.960
What I didn't know was there was a gift certificate

00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.760
for 50 bucks that was wrapped around the Ferrero Rocher.

00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:32.560
And now this guy couldn't understand

00:51:32.560 --> 00:51:35.160
why Jacob Amir acquaintance was giving him

00:51:35.160 --> 00:51:37.120
a $50 gift certificate.

00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:39.280
And when I found out,

00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:43.080
you have no idea how regretful I felt.

00:51:45.560 --> 00:51:46.400
Why?

00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:48.120
Because when you do not think a certain way,

00:51:48.120 --> 00:51:52.160
you do not receive, recognize, inhabit that place.

00:51:58.160 --> 00:52:01.240
So nowadays I open every gift before I re-gift it.

00:52:08.120 --> 00:52:10.640
So guys begin to focus on God's favor and goodness.

00:52:10.640 --> 00:52:13.960
And one of the ways to go about this on a regular basis,

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:18.200
which I've been practicing now for a few weeks,

00:52:18.200 --> 00:52:21.720
is I speak back God's favor to him.

00:52:21.720 --> 00:52:25.520
As in I'll focus on favor and then I'll say,

00:52:25.520 --> 00:52:29.440
because you favor me, this is how you are towards me.

00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.680
This is how you will respond because you favor me.

00:52:32.680 --> 00:52:35.880
I speak back his favor towards me

00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:38.280
coming into agreement with him.

00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:40.400
I speak back his favor and his goodness.

00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:44.240
And what happens then is you propel yourself

00:52:44.240 --> 00:52:46.080
into a place of rest.

00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:48.240
You propel yourself into a place of rest

00:52:48.240 --> 00:52:50.160
when you speak back his favor to him.

00:52:52.160 --> 00:52:57.160
As in father, I got this pain on the left lower back

00:52:57.640 --> 00:53:01.160
or pain in the hip or pain in the knee.

00:53:01.160 --> 00:53:03.080
Let's just stick with left lower back right now

00:53:03.080 --> 00:53:04.840
because for me that's real.

00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.680
And so before I even come to you for prayer,

00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:11.160
I just wanna acknowledge how highly favored I am.

00:53:11.160 --> 00:53:15.520
How your goodness is something you want to break

00:53:15.520 --> 00:53:17.960
into my life on a continuous basis.

00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.240
How you have an intentional bias towards me.

00:53:21.240 --> 00:53:23.480
How your promise carries your heart

00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:26.000
and your favor and your goodness for me.

00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.440
And your promise is that the son of righteous

00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:30.000
rises with healing in his wings.

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.720
Your promise is that by the stripes that your son bore,

00:53:32.720 --> 00:53:33.560
I am healed.

00:53:33.560 --> 00:53:36.200
Your promise is that into this deficit of the weakness

00:53:36.200 --> 00:53:39.360
and the pain in my back will come the benefit of Christ

00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:41.240
and Christ's benefit is healing.

00:53:41.240 --> 00:53:44.320
Knowing all this father, I just agree with you.

00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:47.200
And I speak back your favor upon me,

00:53:47.200 --> 00:53:49.840
absolutely confident of the outcome

00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:54.000
simply because of your goodness and your faithfulness.

00:53:56.800 --> 00:54:01.800
Now you suddenly get placed into a field of rest

00:54:02.720 --> 00:54:04.760
instead of a field of striving and faith.

00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:20.320
I remember maybe I've shared it with some of you one on one.

00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:23.000
And as I share this, I think my sister,

00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:25.960
if she's listening, will get a shock as will my mom,

00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:26.800
but so be it.

00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:31.400
Unless my sister and my mom are there, yes.

00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:35.560
So some years ago, because of my own fault

00:54:35.560 --> 00:54:38.560
and because of an unfair dealing,

00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:46.960
I had to pay back $26,000 in 12 days.

00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:49.920
And we weren't a mega church then

00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:51.240
and we didn't have the private jet.

00:54:51.240 --> 00:54:53.800
So it was not like we could sell that either.

00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:57.560
So I had to pay $26,000 off in 12 days.

00:54:57.560 --> 00:54:58.480
I didn't know how.

00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:01.640
And I decided I would not steal

00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:06.680
and that would not beg.

00:55:09.080 --> 00:55:12.200
And so I remember panicking because I was so scared.

00:55:15.200 --> 00:55:18.480
And then I was pacing up and down in my living room

00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:22.640
and asking God, Father, what is your goodness,

00:55:22.640 --> 00:55:25.480
your favor, your heart say towards me?

00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:27.880
And he gave me a scripture from 2 Kings 11

00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:32.920
and 2 Kings 19, where it talks about

00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:37.400
how even though they have laid a siege against you

00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.480
and built siege mounds against you

00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:41.360
and they have archers ready to shoot,

00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:44.520
I want you to know that not a single arrow will be shot.

00:55:44.520 --> 00:55:46.280
The city will not be taken.

00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:49.520
And in the way he came, he will return.

00:55:49.520 --> 00:55:52.160
And I realized that God is saying, don't worry about it.

00:55:52.160 --> 00:55:53.800
No one will come after you.

00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:55.840
You'll get whatever needs to be gotten.

00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:57.400
Even though they put a siege mound around you,

00:55:57.400 --> 00:55:58.440
don't look at it.

00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:00.960
I don't know how it happened, man.

00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:04.600
In 12 days, I started getting money from all over the place.

00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.320
I was a thousand dollars short.

00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:13.320
I remember thinking, gosh, Lord, you did amazingly well.

00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:14.520
I was quite happy.

00:56:14.520 --> 00:56:19.520
And then I had to meet Heidi and Chris at Himalaya.

00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:23.840
That restaurant, there are these things called restaurants.

00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:26.040
They are these large rooms with tables and chairs

00:56:26.040 --> 00:56:27.240
where you can sit and eat.

00:56:28.080 --> 00:56:29.080
If you don't remember.

00:56:29.080 --> 00:56:31.360
So I was at Himalaya and as we're leaving,

00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:33.800
Chris suddenly pulls out a check for a thousand bucks

00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:35.160
and gives it to me.

00:56:35.160 --> 00:56:38.680
And she had no idea what she was doing.

00:56:38.680 --> 00:56:40.080
Here I was thanking God for Father,

00:56:40.080 --> 00:56:42.040
you provided most all of it.

00:56:42.040 --> 00:56:43.400
And he's thinking, really?

00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:44.520
That's how I do stuff?

00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:53.320
Sometimes it's important guys to begin to say back to him

00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:57.040
the things that you know he has said out of his favor.

00:57:00.040 --> 00:57:01.360
This was my own fault.

00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:04.480
Sure, I was treated unfairly in the bargain,

00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:06.160
but it was my fault.

00:57:06.160 --> 00:57:08.160
I was at fault.

00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:10.200
And yet God's favor broke through.

00:57:11.080 --> 00:57:14.320
If favor only happened when you are not at fault,

00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:15.680
then favor would never happen

00:57:15.680 --> 00:57:17.240
because you're always at fault.

00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:26.480
You know, I'm scared to abandon myself

00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:27.720
to this kind of thinking.

00:57:28.680 --> 00:57:30.560
It'll take away all striving.

00:57:30.560 --> 00:57:32.520
It'll, life will become too easy.

00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:38.120
You know, I love this line that I heard from somewhere

00:57:38.120 --> 00:57:40.240
and I'm applying it to myself right now.

00:57:40.240 --> 00:57:42.760
I am living below my privilege.

00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:44.840
I am living below my privilege.

00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:50.480
And it is bothersome that I do not inhabit this place really.

00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:51.320
I do not.

00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:56.280
That's been the most bothersome thing about this teaching,

00:57:56.280 --> 00:57:58.760
that I do not inhabit this place of favor,

00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:00.760
that I'm living well below my privilege

00:58:02.080 --> 00:58:05.760
and that somehow I'm scared to abandon myself

00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:06.800
to thinking like this.

00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:11.880
But I want to so badly.

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.520
And guys, when you start this process,

00:58:22.520 --> 00:58:24.480
one of the things Satan does

00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:29.360
is he tries to bury favor alive by delaying things.

00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:32.920
Favor is often buried alive by delay

00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:36.320
because Satan fights to retard favor

00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:39.080
or to hinder favor from breaking through.

00:58:41.560 --> 00:58:44.360
So here you are waiting for this sure thing

00:58:44.360 --> 00:58:47.560
called the heart of God towards you in favor.

00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:51.440
And somehow, even though it's there,

00:58:52.080 --> 00:58:55.280
there is a hindering or a retarding of its progress.

00:58:55.280 --> 00:58:56.840
And so you bury it alive saying,

00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:59.760
ah, this might work once in a while, not always.

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This is why we are scared to abandon ourselves

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to this kind of thinking, guys.

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Because if we abandon ourselves to this kind of thinking,

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rest will kick in because you don't strive anymore.

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What will you do if you can't strive?

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What will happen to us self-made men?

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And if you're thinking of a question,

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but doesn't God want us to work?

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Yes, after he tells us what to do.

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Remember, guys, one of the things Satan loves doing

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is devouring or stripping you of favor and blessing.

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Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

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So walking in favor is critical to battle too.

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Walking in favor is critical to battle.

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An awareness of God's favor,

01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:11.080
an awareness of goodness is critical in warfare

01:00:11.080 --> 01:00:12.640
because that's exactly what the devourer

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tries to strip off you.

01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:18.880
But if you know that the sun is going to stand still,

01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:22.920
if you know that Jericho has been given over to you,

01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:27.200
if you know that you don't even need five stones,

01:00:27.200 --> 01:00:28.800
but you're just gonna pick five stones

01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:32.760
because it feels good to just twirl them in your hand,

01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:37.520
if you know that you don't need armor,

01:00:38.560 --> 01:00:42.080
if you know that this snake that has just bitten me

01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:46.000
is harmless and I can shake it off,

01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:47.960
if you know that not a single life

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will be lost in the shipwreck,

01:00:54.120 --> 01:00:57.560
if you know the favor and the goodness of God,

01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:02.680
can you imagine the advantage it gives you?

01:01:02.680 --> 01:01:06.240
This I have experienced, the favor of God in battle.

01:01:08.120 --> 01:01:10.800
It makes you unafraid to take Jericho.

01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:17.800
It makes you unafraid to shake the serpent off your hand

01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:21.480
and keep preaching as if it was a mosquito bite.

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Betty is asking a question,

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what does it mean to be entitled to God's favor?

01:01:34.560 --> 01:01:37.520
You are entitled to God's favor,

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but when favor becomes an entitlement,

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it becomes all about you,

01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:47.360
when favor is supposed to pour into you and then overflow.

01:01:48.640 --> 01:01:50.840
So you are entitled to favor.

01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:55.440
I am entitled to my inheritance.

01:01:56.480 --> 01:02:00.600
Again, unfortunately, Jeevan has stuck his foot in there too,

01:02:00.600 --> 01:02:03.240
but I am entitled to my inheritance.

01:02:05.080 --> 01:02:09.680
But when my inheritance becomes an entitlement

01:02:09.680 --> 01:02:14.120
that I will not share with my sister or with others,

01:02:16.040 --> 01:02:19.080
because I now own it and it is mine,

01:02:19.080 --> 01:02:20.440
then it becomes a problem.

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And in this, Jesus is our role model.

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In Philippians 2, verse 69, where it talks about emptying,

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empty your favor, man, create room for more.

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Favor doesn't increase because it's constant

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and Christ is in you and it's constant,

01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:42.920
but you can increase your capacity to receive favor

01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:44.480
by causing it to flow out.

01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:48.320
You increase your capacity to receive favor

01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:49.680
by allowing it to flow out.

01:02:49.680 --> 01:02:52.400
Every time you cause the favor that's poured into you

01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:56.680
to flow out, you increase in capacity to receive more.

01:03:08.560 --> 01:03:10.160
I don't know whether to stop here or not.

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Let me just touch on maybe two or three points more

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and then I'll stop.

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I won't finish the whole thing.

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Because we'll be doing this anyways in 12 minutes,

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seven to 12 minute thingies.

01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:31.960
Such a cool word, a thingy.

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It just takes care of everything.

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Guys, these words are connected.

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Favor,

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presence,

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glory,

01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:54.320
goodness,

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promise,

01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:02.240
provision.

01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:04.520
All these words are connected.

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These words are the ingredients

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for release.

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If you want release in your life

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or you want to bring release into somebody else's life,

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these words are all connected.

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If you go to Exodus 33,

01:04:29.520 --> 01:04:31.320
Exodus 33 says,

01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:34.320
if you want to bring release into somebody else's life,

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if you go to Exodus 33, verse 13 to 19,

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Exodus 33, 13 to 19,

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Exodus 33, 13 to 19,

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I think from the NIV.

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If you're pleased with me, teach me your ways

01:05:09.640 --> 01:05:12.640
so I may know you and continue to find favor with you.

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Remember that this nation is your people.

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The Lord replied, my presence will go with you

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and I will give you rest.

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Then Moses said, if your presence does not go with us,

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do not send us up from here.

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How will anyone know that you are pleased with me

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and with your people, unless you go with us?

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What else will distinguish me and your people

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from all the other people on the face of the Earth?

01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:34.800
and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth.

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The Lord said to Moses, I will do everything you have asked because I am pleased with you

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and I know you by name.

01:05:40.600 --> 01:05:42.840
Then Moses said, now show me your glory.

01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:47.640
The Lord said, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you and I will proclaim

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my name the Lord in your presence.

01:05:49.240 --> 01:05:50.240
I will have mercy on who?

01:05:50.240 --> 01:05:53.400
I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom?

01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:54.400
I will have compassion.

01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:55.800
But he said, you cannot see my face.

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No one may see it and live.

01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:01.520
Then the Lord said, there is a place near me where you may stand on a rock when my glory

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passes by you.

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I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I pass by.

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Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back but my face must not be seen.

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So when you connect to favor...

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When you connect to favor...

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When you connect to favor...

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You become conscious of presence.

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In this passage between Moses and God, conversation between Moses and God, this is what is happening.

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He knows he has favor.

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His favor then begins to...

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Because he connects with God's favor, he is in a place where he is conscious of God's

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presence to the point where he is saying, hey, if your presence doesn't go with us,

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it doesn't matter whether you send an angel or whether you send Jethro or whether you

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send a guy smarter than me, I ain't going.

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So when you connect to favor, you become conscious of presence.

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When you are conscious to presence, your eyes are wide open.

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Your eyes are wide open to his glory.

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Because once you connect to presence, your eyes are wide open to what is otherwise concealed

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glory.

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Your eyes get wide open to what is concealed glory.

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As in, okay, God, I'm so connected with your favor that it is impossible to escape your

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presence now.

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I'm so aware of you because I know what favor looks like.

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I'm so aware of you now.

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And as I become aware of you, my eyes open to how just ridiculously glorious you are.

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And once my eyes open to his glory, guess what happens?

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It increases my awareness of his goodness.

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Because your God, the glory of your God is his goodness.

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The glory of your God is always his goodness.

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The glory of your God is his goodness.

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The glory of your God is his goodness.

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It delights to be good to me.

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His goodness follows me every day.

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Psalm 23 verse 6, his goodness follows me every day.

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I must expect and explore his goodness and favor every day.

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I must expect.

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I don't walk in expectation of his favor every day.

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Why would I ask for his favor if I expected?

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I must expect and explore his favor and goodness every day.

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In all my circumstances, guys, in all my circumstances.

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We'll talk about promise and provision another day.

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I just think I need to say something about promise to people who are waiting on promises.

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But we'll talk about promise and provision another time.

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Because I think just wrapping our heads around this is head wrapping enough.

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Guys, God's promises are dynamite sticks of his goodness and favor.

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God's promises are basically dynamite sticks of goodness and favor.

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In each promise, each promise carries his heart.

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Each promise carries his heart towards you.

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Each promise announces his presence.

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Each promise is a gift to God.

01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:47.600
Every promise is a gift to God.

01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:49.600
Every promise is a gift to God.

01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:51.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:53.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:55.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:57.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:09:57.600 --> 01:09:59.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:01.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:05.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:07.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:09.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:11.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:13.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:15.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:17.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:19.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:21.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:23.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:25.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:27.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:27.600 --> 01:10:29.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:31.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:33.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:35.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:37.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:37.600 --> 01:10:39.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:41.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:43.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:45.600
Each promise is a gift to God.

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And as you begin to believe the promise, now that you have a different way of seeing it,

01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:03.600
so even though I may have a pain in my left back or left shoulder,

01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:11.600
the fact remains that the heart of God towards me is carried in the promise,

01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:13.600
the heart of God towards me is carried in the promise,

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Hey Jacob, my son was striped so that you could receive my healing.

01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:19.600
Hey Jacob, my name is Yahweh Rafa.

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I'm your healer.

01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:23.600
Hey Jacob, my name is Yahweh Jaira.

01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:25.600
My name is Yahweh Rohi.

01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:29.600
Hey Jacob, I am someone who rises over you with healing in his wings.

01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:35.600
Hey Jacob, just so you know, I send my word and I heal your disease.

01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:41.600
Hey Jacob, I just wanted you to know that healing is the bread of my children.

01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:45.600
Hey Jacob, I wanted you to know that your body belongs to me.

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It's my property. I'm a good steward of what I look over.

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Hey Jacob, I just want to heal you not because of any of these promises, but because you're my son.

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Hey Jacob, by the way, it's not promises that cause your healing.

01:11:58.600 --> 01:12:00.600
It's my compassion and power that cause my healing.

01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:06.600
My power moves through the compassion I have for you because I just simply adore you.

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So when a promise begins to convey or carry the heart of God towards me,

01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:18.600
then it changes the way I approach a promise, guys.

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It then begins to proclaim or announce the presence of God into a situation.

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Suddenly into that situation, it's not a promise that is entering.

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It's not me repeating a scripture.

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We so often make scriptures so separate from God when it is always announcing his presence.

01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:34.600
And then the outcome is guaranteed.

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I mean, it's been guaranteed for the last 20, 29 or 30 or 32 years in my life.

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And now the same applies when you pray for someone else.

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If this release is how you bring yourself release, the same thing should now apply for others.

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Only now when you pray for others, your heart combines with God's heart.

01:12:56.600 --> 01:13:01.600
So that the compassion of God, the desire of God, the power of God, the confidence of God,

01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:07.600
the favor of God begins to flow through a human person, that the word becomes fleshed through you.

01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:12.600
Release comes when I join with not a promise.

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Release comes not when I wield a scripture.

01:13:14.600 --> 01:13:20.600
Release comes when I join my heart with the heart of the father whose favor I continuously enjoy.

01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:24.600
And now it's overflowing and spilling and affecting those around me.

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This is how we need to think if the remnant is supposed to become a people that see the release

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through the earth after the flood for the next little while.

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That's Java.

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Hey man.

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So, once we begin to believe a promise like this, then provision is the key.

01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:57.600
When we begin to believe a promise like this, then provision kicks in.

01:13:57.600 --> 01:13:59.600
Then provision kicks in.

01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:03.600
Each promise that is believed will have the consequence of provision.

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And provision will be contested, you guys.

01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:07.600
Provision will be contested.

01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:09.600
Provision will be contested.

01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:13.600
There is someone who tries to retard or hinder provision from coming to us.

01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:15.600
We have an active enemy.

01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:17.600
And when provision is contested, what do you do?

01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:22.600
You fall back again on the favor of God, on the goodness of God, on the heart of God,

01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:24.600
on the goodness of God, on the goodness of God.

01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:28.600
Remember, I'll end, I'll stop now.

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Remember that we are the only organization in the world that exists for the benefit of our non-members.

01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:40.600
And God wants to teach us how to bring this release.

01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:41.600
Go ahead, May.

01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:48.600
When the promise is not believed, the provision can still come, but you won't enjoy the process.

01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:52.600
And sometimes when the promise is not believed, the provision is delayed.

01:14:52.600 --> 01:14:56.600
Because when the provision is delayed, it's not because God is delaying it.

01:14:56.600 --> 01:14:58.600
It is because it's being contested.

01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:04.600
And when there is no contest, then it can get delayed till God Himself intervenes.

01:15:04.600 --> 01:15:07.600
Let's assume that God himself intervenes.

01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:13.600
Let's assume it's like me wanting to give Don something and Derek does not want it to go to Don.

01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:20.600
And so I have given it, but Don doesn't receive it because Derek is preventing it from getting to Don.

01:15:20.600 --> 01:15:26.600
Up steps Jeevan, that mighty man with an amazing muscular body.

01:15:26.600 --> 01:15:30.600
And he decides, nope, this will be contested.

01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:33.600
And so he fights Derek down and he releases it.

01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:34.600
And so we need to contest.

01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:36.600
If you don't contest, things are delayed.

01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:39.600
God still comes through because if everything depended on my faith.

01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:48.600
Hey guys, at the end of the day, use a promise as a battle axe, but use God's faithfulness as your shield.

01:15:48.600 --> 01:15:57.600
Use God's promise as a battle axe, but use God's trustworthiness of faithfulness as a shield.

01:15:57.600 --> 01:16:03.600
So that even if your battle axe is chopped, his trustworthiness will still bring it through.

01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:14.600
Sometimes we focus so strongly on our inadequacies and our deficiencies and our limitations that there's no way we'll get what we want.

01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:23.600
Because our faith may flounder, our trust may get shaken, our knowledge of scripture may not be able to do anything.

01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:40.600
Our trust may get shaken, our knowledge of scripture may not be adequate, our lives may not be blazing pure, our thoughts and attitudes may be bitter, our hereditary garbage may be overwhelming.

01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:52.600
And in situations like that where you are not able to meet basic standards, fall back on the heart of God, the trustworthiness of the faithfulness of God.

01:16:52.600 --> 01:17:02.600
The presence of God, the ridiculous favor of God that you never deserved or earned, but is given ungrudgingly simply because he adores you.

01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:06.600
And upon the goodness of God.

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And the more you receive this, the more you'll want to be champion.

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That's a strange thing.

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Favor doesn't make you lazy. Favor makes you even more diligent.

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Favor doesn't make you lazy.

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I've seen that with your lives. If I favor you, I find that you don't say, well, now I don't need to do anything. Jacob favors me.

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Now it's like, ah, shucks, wonder what he's going to ask me next.

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That is a bad example. Didn't go the way I was planning to.

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Anyways, Derek, go ahead. I'm done. So now I'm open to questions.

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I'm actually done. Okay. Like I'm done. Yeah.

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How do you contest for things?

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You contest for things by one, like I said, using the promise as a battle axe.

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You use your favor as where you stand with God.

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You use his trustworthiness as a shield.

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And you use your constancy in moving forward in obedience as your diligence.

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So let me name those four things again.

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Diligent in my moving forward consistently.

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It's a secret to a successful Christian life. Consistency.

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Nothing else. Your gifts and all that stuff is just important glitter.

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But consistency is the key.

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To use the promise as a battle axe or a sword.

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Use his trustworthiness as my shield.

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Use the fact that he is, that your God is good and that his favor upon you is tremendous.

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Use that as your, as a posture or the position that you take.

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Because once I know how highly favored I am and how good God is, my stance will be very different.

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Hey, you should see guys who turn up at Chad's church.

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It's one of the largest churches in India.

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People yearn to preach there.

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And they come dressed like it was their wedding.

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And then I'll go there.

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But because I have tremendous favor there, I'll go there like this.

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Perhaps my pants will be a little shabbier.

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And why?

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Because once you have favor, you know how to stand because of the tremendous favor you have.

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You got a different swagger.

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You got a different posture.

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You got a different position or stance.

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You know that you can enter in and you have tremendous favor.

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Otherwise you have to work for it.

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You got to dress for it.

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You got to speak a certain way.

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You got to work a certain way.

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Use these four things to contest.

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Any other question?

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Okay.

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So here's what I want you to do for any of you that are not well.

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Let's just pray for your healing.

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Let's just pray for your healing.

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And as you pray for your healing, let me ask these questions so that you put yourself in a really good position as you pray for healing.

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One, you do realize that as you approach God for healing that you have the fullness of his permission to get everything that Christ did for you, right?

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That into your deficit, into your weakness, into your place of sickness, Christ's benefits yearn to enter.

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That Jesus Christ does not hold this back from you.

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That you have permission into the fullness of all that he is.

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That all that he is and has done is going to enter all that you are not and don't have.

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All that he is and has done is going to break into all that you are not and don't have.

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That's the idea of favor.

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You know that, right?

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As you approach him to seek healing for your pain.

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What about goodness?

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Open your eyes to the goodness of God.

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Open your eyes to the goodness of God.

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Your God is good.

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That's his glory.

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Your God is good.

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His goodness is not theory.

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His goodness wants to take shape, form.

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His goodness wants to be demonstrative.

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His goodness and his kindness are always demonstrated.

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Healing comes from the goodness and the kindness of God.

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Open your eyes to his goodness.

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Next, think of the promise that you want to embrace right now.

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And let's go beyond healing.

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What other promises are required to enter into your situation?

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Remember, his promise carries his heart towards you.

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Remember, his promise, when you receive it, brings his presence into your situation.

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And his presence has always changed situations.

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Remember that his promise carries his goodness.

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Remember that his promise guarantees an outcome.

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Don't look at how it will come to pass.

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Don't attempt to figure out how this promise will come to pass.

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And finally, release.

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God wants to bring release to you.

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The spirit of the sovereign Lord was upon him more than 2000 years ago.

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He wants to bring release.

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You don't have to wait for the first time.

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He is Jubilee.

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He is here right now.

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He wants to bring me release.

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He wants to free my lower back.

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He wants to free my shoulder.

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He wants to bring release.

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The spirit of God brings all this to pass in our lives right now.

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From a place of absolute peace,

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from a place of absolute peace,

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from a place of absolute peace,

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from a place of absolute power,

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from a place of absolute power,

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from a place of absolute power,

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from a place of absolute power,

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with Christ seated at the right hand of the Father.

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So now will you receive it?

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Guys, this is what I meant by thinking favor through.

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It takes time.

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We have time for everything else.

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So now Father having thought this through,

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we'll just take a minute or two to quietly receive your favor,

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your goodness, your promise,

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and release.

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All my life you will be faithful.

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All my life you will be so, so good.

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With everything that you are able,

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your favor, Lord.

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I don't know the rest of the words of this song, Father.

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Part of your goodness I receive.

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I receive.

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Thank you.

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Okay church, let's end with that song.

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I've been touched by a fire.

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I think Tate wanted the song Good Good Father,

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but this is one of his other favorite songs.

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So enjoy as we sing.

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So as we sing this song,

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may favor set you ablaze,

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may you walk in it for the rest of this year,

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the next year, and the year after that.

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Grow in it.

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We'll talk about this more and more over the next few weeks.