THE POWER OF FAVOR, PART 1 | DR. MIKE WOODS SR | 12 JULY 2025

Come in. We not going to let you come. Hey God, because you say in the last days you will pour out your spirit upon all flesh. You say all flesh is yours, God. Oh, we not going to let We're not going to let you go until you use us, Lord, to your glory. Hey God, we're not going to let you go. Come on, pray in the Holy Ghost.

Come on, pray.

Oh, come on, don't let him go. Take the situation, turn. Hey God, till your prayer manifest. Hey, come on, do you believe it? We say we believe in Jesus? But do you believe Jesus? He'll do what he said. Oh God, we thank you. Do you believe him that everything you need is done? It's already done. Come on, I dare you to put a hope to him. It's already done. We thank you, oh God. Come on, clap your hands in this place. Come on and bless him in this place. Come on, he's worthy of the glory, he's worthy of the honor. Come on, do you believe it's already done? Come on, clap your hands like it's already done. Oh my God, come on and clap your hands like you're already healed, like your children are already delivered. Come on, clap your hands in the name of Jesus, like your bank account is already overflowing. Come on, clap your hand like you already being a blessing. Come on, clap your hands like you already financing the kingdom of God. Come on, clap your hands like the door is already open. Come on, clap your hands. Come on, clap your hands. Oh God, we thank you.

Oh God, we thank you.

Do you believe him on today?

Do you believe?

Come on, bless him in this house. He's He's worthy to be praised! He's worthy! Hallelujah!

Come on, give him the glory! Open your mouth and praise Him! Come on, open your mouth and praise Him! Oh God— oh come on!

Hey hey hey!

Come on, bless his name. Come on, he knows there's a change in your life. Hey, come on, you have the authority. You have the kingdom authority. Come on, you can't be defeated. Do you believe? Oh God, you have the victory. Just bless his name in this place. Oh God, he's He's worthy to be praised.

He's worthy to be praised.

He's here to bless you. He's here, hallelujah, to bless you. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah, Jesus. Oh God, we thank you. Oh God, we honor you today.

Oh God.

Oh God, we thank you.

Come on, he care for you.

Glory to God, he care for you. Come on, you are engraved in the palm of his hand. Oh, come on, arise and shine. Come on, arise and shine. Oh Oh God, we thank you. Oh God, we bless your holy name. There is none like you, oh God. Come on and bless him in this house. He's worthy to be praised. He's worthy to be praised. The more we pursue you, God, The more we pursue you, the more we love you, the more we love you. Oh God, we thank you on today. Oh God, we bless you on today. Oh God, we bless you. Oh God, we praise you. God, you're a faithful God. Oh God, you're perfect.

God, you're true.

God, you're righteous, Lord. Lord, you keep your word unto a thousand generations, and we honor you today, Lord. You have never failed. You will not fail, God. And we honor you today, Lord, that you chose us, Lord. We didn't choose you, oh God.

We thank you that we were on your mind, oh God.

We give you praise today, God. We thank you that a mother may forget her suckling babe but you say you will not forget about us, God, in the name of Jesus. But you have engraved each and every one of us in the palm of your hand, and we thank you, oh God. We love you. Even after the hairs on our head, you remember, God, and we thank you, Lord. You are concerned about us, Lord, and we bless your holy name. Even when we're not worthy, God, even when we're not faithful, you are faithful. What kind of God? Even when we're not lovable, you still love us, oh God. What kind of love? Oh my God, we thank you for loving us in spite of, for blessing us in spite of, oh God, for caring for us in spite of even when we're not worthy. And we thank you, oh God, we honor you, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Come on, bless him in the house today. Hallelujah, hallelujah! Come on and bless him.

Hallelujah, he's worthy, he's worthy. Hallelujah! Amen.

To praise, no matter who you you are or what season of life you find yourself in, you have a reason to give God praise. Not because you have to or because you've been commanded to. Nah, because he is worthy to be praised. We praise a God who is with us on the mountaintops, who walks with us in seasons of prosperity, and we praise a God who's with us in the valleys, who hears our cries and literally carries and seasons of distress. Friends, let me remind you, Jesus is real. His love for you is beyond comprehension. His mercy towards you are new every morning. His ways are just and true, and he's so worthy that he said if we don't praise him, even the rocks will cry out. That is why today, no matter how you're feeling, no matter No matter where you are or how many you're gathered with, we will give praise to the one who is worthy to be praised. We will give praise to the one whose love endures forever.

Shout his name!

Declare his glory! Because he is faithful today, tomorrow, and forever. Praise him because he's defeated the grave. Praise him because he rose again. Praise him because he's coming back again.

For you and for me.

Praise the Lord. So as long as we have breath in our lungs, we have a reason to praise.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! We got a reason to praise his holy name, for he's worthy of it all. Holy, holy, holy are you, Lord God. He's the Lord God strong and mighty. Mighty in battle, who's the King of Glory. Hallelujah! He's worthy of it all. We offer up our praise and our worship. You're worthy of it all, Lord God. Holy are you, Lord. Holy are you, Lord God. He's worthy of it all, Jesus. Hallelujah! We exalt your wonderful name, Lord God, as we offer up our praise and worship to you, Lord God. Let it be pleasing to your ears, Lord God. Lord, let you be glorified, Lord God. Let you be glorified today in the name of Jesus. He said, enter into his court in praise and be thankful unto him, for he's worthy of the praise. He's worthy of the worship. Isn't he a great God? Isn't he a loving God? He's exceeding able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we can think when we give him the praise. It's all about him, all about him. Less about them, more of you, Lord God. Less about them, more of you, Lord God. Hallelujah! Glory to your name, Jesus. Glory to your name, Jesus. He's worthy to be Praise. He's worthy to be worshiped. We adore your holy name, Lord God. Yes, we adore your wonderful name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Exceedingly Above the knee of the Lord. You could ask for things according to his power that worketh in you.

Do.

Yes, God is able to do just what he said he would do. He's going to fulfill every promise to you. Yes, don't give up on God, cuz he won't give up Oh, he's able. Yes, yes. Oh, he's able. Yes, he is. Oh, when we sing God, God is able to do just what he said he would do. He's gonna fulfill every promise. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on God. He won't give up. He won't give up. He's able. Yeah, we serve an able and loving God.

Oh.

He's able, yeah. We give him glory and praise. We sing out. God is able to do just what he said he would do. He's gonna fulfill every promise. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on God. Joyfully-yam. He's able. Yeah, he's able. God, yes, he is. Glory to God, he's worthy of the praise. He's able. Yeah, hallelujah, we sing. Hallelujah, we sing. God, God is able. Yes, he is.

Yes, he is.

He would do it. Wonderful things, wonderful things, every promise, every promise to you. We can't give up on God, don't give up on God. He won't give up, he won't give up. Yeah, he's able. Hallelujah! We trust his holy name, we trust in the word of God. Oh yes, he's able. Oh yeah, he is. Glory to his holy name. We never are forgetting. Sing, God, God, yes he is. Yes, what he is. Yes, he is. He would do it all for me. He's gonna fulfill every promise to us. We can't give up on God right now. Can't give up on God, 'cause he won't give up on you. He's able! Yes he is! Yeah! Yes he is! Hey! Yes he is! He's able! He's able! Yes he is! Yes he is! Yes he is! We sing ohh—

Ohhh—

Ohhh— He's able! Oh we sing ohh— Ohhh— Oh nooo— He's able! He's worthy of all praise! Worthy of glory! All glorious! Almighty God! Powerful God! Sovereign God! Holy God! Living God! Wonderful God! Righteous God! Glorious God! He's worthy of it all! He's worthy of it all! To nations everywhere— Don't give up on God. He's worthy of it all. 'Cause his word will come to pass. We can't give up on his holy name. 'Cause his word is yes and amen. We can't give up on God. He's holy. He's holy. He's holy. Holy, we can't give up on God. Hallelujah. Cuz he's able. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Hallelujah. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Oh, yes, he is. He's able. Oh yes, he is. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. He's an able God. He's a healing God. He's worthy to be praised. He's a right now God. Glory to your name. Glory to to your name. Oh, he's an able God. He's able. He's able. Oh, he's able. Yes, he's able. Oh, he's able. Yes. Oh, when my soul cries out, I know he's able. Yeah. Oh, he's able, he's able, he's able, he's able, he's able. You know in your spirit what you've been praying and believing for. You got to know that he's already made a way for you, no matter what it looks like, no matter what people say, no No matter what the reports say, we serve an almighty God. We serve an abundant God. We serve an overflowing God. For he's able. He's able. He's able. He's able. He's able. He's able. He's able. Know it for yourself. When you know the Holy Spirit, he's able. He's able. It can't be denied. It can't be denied. You go. Yes, don't give up on God no matter the answer. Hallelujah! Don't give up on God, 'cause he won't give up on us, for he's able. Yes! Yes, yes, yes! Glory to your name, Jesus! Glory! How many know he's able? Hallelujah! We won't give up on him. Don't give up on him, cuz he's not going to give up on us. Hallelujah, 'cause he is great. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Yes, God, you deserve the glory and the honor. We lift our hands in worship as we bless your holy name. You deserve the glory.

Yes, God.

Yes, Lord. And the honor.

Yes, Jesus.

Yes, We lift our hands in worship as we bless your holy name. For you are great, you do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you, Jesus. You are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else, no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You are great. You do miracles.

So great.

So great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. Because you are— you are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else. Father, there is no one else like you. Hallelujah. There is no one else. You are great. You are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you, Jesus. There is no one else like you. You are wonderful. You are marvelous. There is no one else. There is no one else like you. Yes, God, there is no one else like You are great, you are great, so great, so great. There is no one, there is no one else like you. There is no one else. We honor you, God. We praise you, God. You're so great. There is no one else. There is no No one else, no one else like you. You are great. You heal the sick. You raise the dead. You make the blind see. There's no one else like you. There's no one else. There is no one else. No one else. No one else. You are great. You are great. You are so great.

You do miracles.

No one else. No one else. Else like you. There is no one else like you. Hallelujah! Lord, you heal me, you raise me, you deliver, you raise me. There is no one else, there is no one else, there is no one else like you. You are great, you are great, you are great, you are great, you are We honor you, God. We bow before your throne. We love you, Lord. We love you, Lord. You are great. Yeah, you are great. No one else. No one else. No one else. Yeah, you are great. You are great. You do miracles. You do miracles. You do miracles. You woke us up this morning. You're great. You started us on our way. You're great. We got our activities all happening. You're great. We know who we are. You are great. You're a great God. You're a great God. You're a great God. You're a great God. Yeah! You're great. You're great. There's no one else like you. You're great. Even with the fishes and the loaves. There's no one else like you. You are great. You told Lazarus to come forth. You're great. You raised the dead. You're great. There's no one like you, Lord. There is no one like you, Lord. You are great. We honor you! We honor you, Lord! You're so great! No one else like you! There's no one else like you for— You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one Nobody like you! Nobody like Jesus! There's nobody like you, Jesus! Hallelujah! You're great God, eh? You're great!

You break—

you break— you break— you break— you are a great God! You are a great God! You are a great God! There's nobody, there's nobody else like you. You are great. You do miracles. Hallelujah, Lord. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You are great. You do miracles all the day. There is no one else, no one else, no one else like you.

You are great.

You truly are so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. I know y'all know what's wrong with Michael. Come on, put your hands together for him. Yes! Hallelujah!

Yes!

You're great God, you're a great God, you're a great God!

Thank you Jesus!

You do miracles so great! Glory to Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory, glory, glory! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Hallelujah! He's a great God! He's a great God! He's a great God! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! That song means a lot. Hallelujah! He do miracles! Hallelujah! You standing in need of a miracle, he do miracles! Great miracles. Hallelujah! You're a great God. Glory to God. Glory to God. How great is our God? How great is your God? Hallelujah! Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus. You are great. Yes, God, you do miracles. So great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else, hallelujah, like you. You are great. You do miracles so great. Hallelujah. There is no one else like you. Who would want to serve a God like that? There is no one else like you. You are great, you are great, you're great. You do miracles so great. Yes, Lord. Hallelujah. There's no one else else like you. No one else like you. You are great. You do miracles so great. So great. There is no one else. There's no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You are great. You heal the sick. You raise the dead. You make the blind see. There's no one else like you, Jesus. Hallelujah! There is no one else like you. You are great. You humble the mighty. There's no one else like There is no one else. It is because of you I live. It is because of you I move. It is because of you I have my being. For you are great. Hallelujah. You do miracles. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You gave us the breath to be alive. You're great. You're so great. I can't deny you, God. You're great. You're great. Yes, God. You are great. You are great. You are great. Mary! You great— you're great! Hallelujah! Great God! You are great! Oh my Lord! You are great! Good God! You are great! Good God! You are great! You're great! You're great!

So so great!

You're great!

You're great!

There's no one else like you! There's no one else— You are great! You do miracles so great! You do miracle— There's no one else like you! There's no one else like you!

There is no one else like you! Jesus, you are great!

How did I hear that? Miracles so great. You look great. No one, no one else like you. There is no one else like you. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! He's in right hand of God! His name is holy! His name is righteous!

Yeah!

His name is wonderful! Hallelujah! Worthy, worthy! Thank you, God, You're so wonderful!

So able!

You're so able! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Glory to your name.

Just to sup with you, Lord God. Just to worship you, Lord God, in your presence, Lord God. Glory to your wonderful name. We bow down and surrender it all to you, Jesus. We give it at your feet, Lord God. You deserve the highest praise from us A thousand generations falling down in worship to sing the song of ages to the Lamb of God. And all who were born of the Holy Ghost and all who will believe We'll sing the song of ages till the end. Sing, your name is the highest, your name is the greatest, your name is standable. All thrones and dominions, all powers and positions. Your name. Your name. Your name. It stands above them all, and the angels cry, holy, holy, holy. All creation cries Holy, you lifted high. Holy, holy forever. If you've been forgiven, if you've been redeemed, sing the song forever to the name of the Lord. And if you walk in freedom, and if you bear his name, sing the song forever to the name of the Lord. You are lifted high. Holy, holy forever. Yes, yes. And the angels cry, holy. All creation bright. Holy, you are lifted high. Holy, holy forever. Every— all the angels cry holy Holy! All creation cries holy to our lifted high Holy Lord—holy forever Your name you've made known; your name is the highest praise of all nations Highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all. All thrones, all thrones and dominions, all powers and dominions. Your name, your name stands above them all. Oh, your name, your name, your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all. Hallelujah! All throne and dominion, all power and dominion. Your name stands above them all. Your name, your name, your name is the highest. Your name is a great name. Your name stands above all names. Hallelujah, Lord! All throne and dominion bow before the majesty of your name. And all the world will know your holy name. Your name— we're talking about that name. Because of Joyfully-yam, we call on that holy name. And above all thrones, hallelujah, all thrones, angels be, all thrones, hallelujah, in position. Your name stands above them all. And the angels cry, angels cry, holy, holy, holy. All creation cries, all creation cries, hallelujah! Holy, you are lifted high, O Lord. Holy, holy are you, Lord. Holy, holy are you, O Lord. Holy are you, Lord. And the angels cry, and the angels cry, hallelujah! Holy, all creation cries. Holy, you are lifted high. Holy, holy, holy forever. forever. Yes, he is. See, your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. That name, it stands above them all.

Yes, Lord.

Yeah. all thrones and dominions, Lord, all your power and position. Your name is fans above them all. We sing your name. Your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name —stands above them all. Yes! All throne and dominion, all power and position, your name stands above them all. Your name, your name, your name, your name is the highest. Hallelujah! And the angels cry, holy! And the angels cry, holy! And the angels cry, holy! And the angels cry, holy, holy, holy. And the angels cry day and night, night and day. It's a beautiful song. We cry holy, holy, holy. And the angels cry, "Holy!" And the angels cry, "Holy!" As we all cry, "Holy!" We cry holy, holy, as we cry holy, holy. We cry holy and Lord, holy. We cry holy, holy are you Lord! Holy— we cry holy, holy, holy, holy, holy I am Lord! Holy— Holy, I implore. Holy, as the angels cry. Holy, as the angels cry. Holy, All creation cries, holy! All creation cries, holy! As Robert cries, holy! As Rutherford. Holy, you are lifted high. Holy, holy forever. Come on, just lift your hands, lift your hands, lift your hands.

Pastor, as you continue to play that, lift your hands in this building, please, and just begin to tell him how holy he is to you. Come on, just open your mouth. He wants to hear the corporate man. He's a holy God, he's a righteous God. You're holy, Father. You're amazing. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. Beside you there is no other. It's in you we live and move and have our being. You're the joy and the lifter of our head. You're holy, you're holy, you're holy. We join in with the angels and we cry holy, we cry holy. Come on, come on, come on. Let's join in with heaven. Let's join in with heaven. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Paul said in Corinthians that God would give us a pattern of things in heaven. Well, this is one of the patterns in heaven. The angels are crying right now, holy, holy, day and night they cry holy, holy, day and night they cry holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord. Come on, open your mouth. Come on. Holy is the Lord. Hallelujah. We join in heaven. We join in heaven. We worship as in heaven so heaven can come to us. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Here we are, God, your creation, and we're crying out today, God. We cry out holy, we cry out holy. Holy is our King, holy is our God, amazing is our God. You're holy God, you're holy God, you're holy God. Holy forever, holy forever.

Holy, holy, holy.

Come on, Zion. Come on, lift your voice, lift your voice! Oh, holy is the Lord, holy is the Lord! They said hallelujah was the highest praise. That's not true. The highest praise is holy. That's what they're saying in heaven. That's what they're declaring in heaven. That's the highest praise we can give God, to declare his holiness, to declare his holiness, his purity, his chastity, his power, his consecration.

Ever.

Y'all sing it one time with me. And the angels cry, and the angels cry.

Sing holy, holy, all creation cry. Sing holy, holy, you are lifted high.

Holy, holy forever. Come on again. And the angels cry. And the angels cry. Everybody sing the holy.

Holy. All creation cries. Creation cries.

You are lifted high. Sing to him, holy. Come on, declare it.

Holy forever.

Come on, the worshipers are worshiping.

And the angels cried. And the angels cried.

Come on, sing it. Holy. Come on, sing!

All creation cries holy, holy, holy. You are lifted high, lifted high.

Holy, holy, holy forever. Come on, let the angels cry, let the angels cry. Holy, all creation cries. Holy, holy, holy. You are lifted high.

You are lifted high.

Holy, holy, holy.

Yes, God. Yes, God. Holy forever.

God, we bless your holiness today. And the angels cry All creation cry! Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty!

You are lifted high to glory forever!

Come on, I want you to sing it this time to him and these Angels cry holy! Holy! All creation cries— all creation cries holy!

Holy God! Oh Lord! Holy forever!

Come on, we declare it once again.

And the angels— angels cry, holy, holy, all creation cries, holy, holy, you are lifted high, holy. Holy forever.

One last time, and the angels—

the angels cry. Sing holy. Holy. All creation cries. Creation cries.

Holy, holy, you are lifted high.

Holy.

Holy, holy forever. Now just lift your voice and worship him. Come on, even those of you watching us live right in your home, right in your living room, just lift your voice and declare the holiness of our Father. He's a holy and righteous God! He's a holy and righteous God! Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, hallelujah! We declare your holiness, God. You're the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You're the Holy of Holies. There's none like you, no record. And we declare your holiness, God.

We declare your holiness, God. Come on, worship!

Glory is the Lamb! Glory is the Lamb! All powers, all positions, all thrones, and all conditions, they bow to your name. You are the holy God. You are the amazing God. Let the angels cry. Holy, holy, all creation cries.

Holy, holy, you are lifted high.

Holy, holy, forever. Come on, worship. Worship. The worshipers of worship, come on, worship Jesus. Come on, worship Jesus.

Lord God Almighty, early in the morning, a song, a song shall arise to thee. Holy, holy, merciful and mighty, merciful and mighty. God in three persons, God in three persons.

The Blessed, the Blessed Come on, sing it again.

Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty. God in three persons. In the morning, our song shall rise, shall rise to thee. Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, merciful and God, God is a blessing, blessing to me.

Come on, worship the holy God. Worship him, worship him. Holy! Holy holy—holy, holy holy... Yes! Holy, holy holy... Holy, holy holy... Holy is the Lord; holy is the Lord of hosts... Holy is the Lord. And the angels cry, holy. All creation cries, holy. You're holy forever. Holy forever. Holy forever. Come on, speak to him. Speak to him. Speak to him. Holy, holy, holy Lord, what a holy God you are. So holy God, you're so amazing. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. You're holy. Hallelujah. Holy, holy, holy, marvelous and holy, wonderful and holy, righteous and holy are you, Jesus. Come on, worship. The Bible says we worship him in spirit and in in truth. Find your place of truth and open your mouth and begin to declare his holiness. Worship is when you get beyond the point where you're just throwing songs at God, but you worship him because of who he is. I've said it for years, people have fallen in love with the process of worship. We worship the structure, we worship the songs, we worship the music, and never really achieve worship because we forgot the object of worship. The object of worship is holy. He's our righteous King. He's our glorious King. He's our marvelous God. To him who sit on the throne and unto the Lamb be blessings and glory and honor and power forever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory All glory belongs to you, God. They were singing earlier about your ability. God, you are able. You are more than able. You've never failed me. You've always been there, and I give you glory for being God in the kingdom of my life. You're holy God. Holy God, you're holy. We love you, God. Come on, worship him, worship him. Just a few moment. Yield yourself to him. Yield yourself to him. We give you the glory, God. You're great, God. You're great and holy, God. You're great and holy. Holy God, you're great and holy. You're great and holy. Great and holy are you. Glorious and Holy, righteous and holy, loving and holy. We worship your holy name, God. Come on, worshiper. Superimpose your holiness upon us, God, so our behavior reflects you, so our thoughts reflect you, so our heart reflects your heart.

We cry out, Holy We cry holy!

He's a righteous king. He's a glorious King. Great is our God, great is our God.

Hallelujah. Bless your name, God.

Us to sup with you. Allow us to sup with you, God. Allow us to sup with you. The door is open. The door is open. Why don't you love on him? The door is open. Why don't you enter in? Enter in. Hey, enter in, enter in. He's a great God. Enter into his great presence. He let up the door. It's open. Open your mouth and worship. Yes, God. Yes, our God. Sing with me, how great is our God. Oh, say how great, how great is our God. God. Come on, sing it. How great, how great. Sing it. Is our God, is our God. Sing with me, sing with me. How great is our God, is our God. And all will sing, all will sing.

How great, how Great.

You're so great, Father. Is our God. Come on, sing it again.

How great is our God. How great is our God.

Declare it so heaven can hear it. Is our All sing, all sing. How great, how great is our God. I want you to declare it again. Come on, once again. How great is our God. How great is our God. Come on, everybody, let's sing. With me. Is our God—

our God— all will see, all will see how great— come on, how great, how great is our God.

Come on, sing to Jesus. How great is our God. Not more hustle, it's not luck, it's not more friends. What you need in these moments is favor from God. Favor is the unfair advantage, supernatural natural endorsement, a divine yes in a world full of nos. Every success story has a memory of favor, and in this season, God is about to tip the scales in your direction. You are one moment of favor away from everything, and I mean everything, changing. Hallelujah! Come on, give God praise! Hallelujah! Glory to God! That's what we're going to talk about today, the power of favor. Glory to God! We give God praise. Say that one more time. Say the power of favor. Glory to God! I want you to go to Luke's Gospel, uh, chapter number 2. We're going to read the foundation of this series. I'm going to be talking about this the rest of the month. Amen. Glory to God. Shout it again. Say favor. Favor. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Somebody said one time favor ain't fair. I disagree with that. Favor is fair. It's for the believer. Glory to God. It's fair. It's supposed to be ours. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. Luke 5— I'm sorry, 2:52. You put it on spacebar. Yeah, we got some scriptures today. Hallelujah. The Bible says this: And Jesus increased— say increased— in wisdom and stature and in favor with God man. So if favor was good enough for Jesus, all right, if he lives in me, ought to be good enough for me too.

Are y'all here?

It says he increased in wisdom. The word wisdom there is Sophia in Greek, which means he increased in skill. So that means Jesus, while he was on earth as a man, he was constantly Constantly growing. He was God incarnate, God and man. So as a man, he had to increase in wisdom. He had— he already had the omniscience of God, but he had to learn how to align with the godly wisdom that was in him. So that again, that means you and I ought to be increasing. Sometimes it seems like not this church, but the church at large is getting dumber instead of wiser. Y'all ain't got to say much, okay? I prayed before I got here, so y'all ain't got to talk much today. Glory to God. The reality is, when you look around you, people are opting in for a whole lot of foolishness. Movements, and God ain't nowhere in the mix. We'll gather to what's popular without discernment. Because when you can gather to what's popular and not discern that the person that's leading the move is gay— well, y'all ain't got to say nothing, and you ain't got enough wisdom to see That the person's leading the movie is perverted and a whoremonger. Y'all ain't gonna talk again? You can be quiet today, it's okay. The reality is we have opted in for what appeases our flesh, but we got to choose God and we got to choose his way of doing things. Things. The Bible also say he increased in stature, which means his physical body actually grew like him. It also means in the Greek healthy stature. Yes. Okay, so that means he took care of his body. Are y'all hearing this? So when you saved, you ought to be increasing in your You should not be living to eat. You should eat to live. Some people wake up in the morning because they gonna know they're gonna get another meal. They be sleep all night dreaming about breakfast. But food should just be the nutrients, the macronutrients and the micronutrients that increase your body in healthy catch. Why I need to be healthy, Apostle? So you can fulfill your purpose. You can't fulfill your purpose sick. How you look trying to fulfill your purpose a diabetic and, and you, you, you got to check your insulin and your sugar every 5 minutes while you trying to work for God? That's not God's will. You got to increase a healthy Said, I gotta take care of my body. And you know, the more I realize how valuable I am to my purpose, I'm very cognizant of what I do with my body. Are we here? Yeah. Amen. Amen. Jesus did it, so we should too. Amen. But here's another thing he increased in The Bible said he increased in favor. Favor is divine endorsement. Say that with me. Say divine endorsement. And you may say, wait a minute, he's Jesus. Why does he need to increase in divine endorsement? Because he's teaching us how to live as humans on this planet who are fulfilling a purpose. And he's saying to us, if you really want to succeed and be successful in this life, you need divine endorsement. All right, you don't need sponsorship from $100,000. Well, you don't need a government grant. All those things work and they help, right? The reality is all you really need is divine sponsorship, divine endorsement. Do you know when God's on your side, you can't lose? Amen. Are y'all here? When God is with you, there's no way you can ever be defeated. Say that, touch yourself, say, I can never be defeated as long as God's on my side. So favor is divine endorsement. Say, I'm endorsed by God. That's a good thing to know, that every day you wake up and when you begin to pursue your purpose and your dreams, that God has endorsed— watch this— his plan. Okay, he does not endorse your stuff that you just make up. Are y'all here? All right. And decide you wanted to be God. Okay, we live in an hour, I believe, where people got a box of God stickers, and anything they want to be God, they just go in that box, get a sticker with God's name on it. Stick it on there, that's God. Stick it on the ministry, that's God. Stick it on the business, that's God. Stick it on a marriage, that's God. Are y'all hearing this? And it ain't God just because you want it to be. All right, watch this. There's a real plan that God wants to endorse. There's a real purpose and design that God says, I already got an endorsement, provision, ways made, open doors, opportunities available for this assignment. Not what you want to do. Okay, now somebody may say, well, I thought I was doing the right thing. You have to have conversations with the manufacturer. Come on. So you know what the right thing is. You can't run from prophet to prophet trying to get a word. I said prophesying shall cease. I'm a prophet and I say that very emphatically. Prophesying will cease. Amen. And I'm a prophet and really honestly I can't wait to receive. Y'all ain't got to talk, because it would mean then that the body has grown up and they've learned to spend time with God for theirself. And any prophetic word uttered is now a confirmation to what they heard from God when they talked to him themselves. Listen, you got to get a word all the time, you are immature. I mean, there are people— I've seen it in 30— this month I celebrate 36 years of full-time ministry. I've been to 4 continents preaching and prophesying. Listen, while some of these people doing the stuff they doing now, they was in Pampas when I started doing this. The reality is I've seen people come to church and they have a sign sign on their chest, and I see it in the spirit and say, pick me, prophesy to me. That's the only reason they're there. But Prophet was praying Thursday night, and I'm still in that. I'm still digging in that. This thing is a word battle. This thing is not about you getting a prophetic word. You need to grow up and study the Bible. It's 66 books of prophecy. I ain't knocking prophecy, but I'm just— because I'm a prophet, okay, and I prophesy all the time. Here's what I know: God wants us to grow up with that element. Watch this. If you study scripture, you don't even see the kind of prophecy we do. Yeah, find it, find it. You don't see the church where the prophet gets up in a church and pulls one person out and prophesies to them.

Bible. Find it in the Bible.

Okay, it's not there. It's not, because the church was built on teaching and word. It was built on the presence of God. People need prophecy when they need to be edified, when they need to be built up. Whenever a prophet prophesied in the Bible, it was a national word. It was to a king and his kingdom. Oh boy, but we, we live and die by prophecy. And what we really need is to increase in favor with God, amen, to understand the clarity of his divine endorsement on on our life. Favor is also the supernatural current that pushes you into places that effort alone cannot. Amen. I want you to know, in your physicality— that's why Jesus was— he was increased in all of these: wisdom, stature, and favor. Cuz there's some things you cannot accomplish physically. There's some things you won't be able to do volitionally. Like the intro said, there are doors that no matter how much you try to open, they won't open. And you're gonna need divine favor to push that door open for you. I need you to understand, favor is not some fluke. It's not something that just falls out the sky. You don't just show up somewhere and watch this, somebody does something nice for you as a favor and that thing just occurred because of the universe. No, favor is a real flow and a real force that's always working for the believer when we're in alignment. It doesn't happen every now and then. Watch this. Favor is always consistently— and that's right, Evangelist Smith— constantly flowing. Say it's always flowing. Now, if you miss it, it means you decided to get out of alignment. You decided to trust your system. You found favor with your way of doing things. And you endorsed and sponsored yourself, and you became dependent upon what you think works. But people who operate under the power of favor understand that there are things I gotta do that my intellect, that my occupation can't do. I only want to sign up for nothing that I got to do myself. Okay, y'all missed that. I just want to make myself available so favor can flow through me. Watch this. Favor is the key to uncommon success. If you want to have uncommon success, when people look at your life and see something that's not uncovered. You have to live on the auspices of God's favor. Matter of fact, say that with me. Say it in the name of Jesus. Say, I believe that God has called me to operate in the realm of uncovered success. To do that, I must have uncommon faith and uncommon faith. If you believe that, give God praise. No more business as usual, no more you as usual. At some point in your life, you ought to get enough of you. All right, okay, let me just talk about me. I got to a point in my life, I got sick of Michael Wood Michael Woods, getting in Michael Woods's way, getting in God's way for his plan. And at some point, you ought to get sick of how you do stuff and say, I want to operate in an uncommon dimension that when people see me, they see something they can't describe. The reality is, when I look at certain things in the body now, it all looks alike. Oh, y'all ain't got the same life. It all look alike. And then when I look in the world, I see diversity, I see difference. That's a problem. That's a problem. Are y'all hearing this? That we try to cookie cutter and mimic everything and everybody. Okay, I told you I prayed before I came to church. The reality is we must do better because we got to become so uncommon that the world comes looking for us. Evangelism is about to take a reverse as we go in an uncommon spirit. When we get to where we're going They going to already be looking for us. Are y'all hearing it? Cuz they're looking for something uncommon. We don't need false miracles. Yeah, I said I wasn't going to touch it, but I'm going to touch it, cuz we'll post false miracles on social media. First of all, you weren't really all the way deaf if you had a hearing aid. Them. So you going to stand up and hold up a hearing aid as if somebody got— no, no, that person couldn't hear, they was not deaf. I have seen born deaf, Pastor Jeffrey, came in the world deaf, couldn't hear, and God unstopped their ears. We ain't got to play with this thing. That's right. Are y'all hearing this? God cannot stop the ear from for real. But just so I can post and say miracles happen in this meeting— no, man, listen, I'm, I'm tell you, I bind up the spirit of false miracles in the body of Christ. Glory! I'm already mantled. I ain't got to preach that mantle. I bind up everything that— oh my God—

that mimics and plays with God. I don't have time.

I brought I'm super successful. I'm already blessed. I don't need nobody's endorsement. I got his endorsement. The reality is we got to stop playing with God. Post that, share that, tag him.

That's Lord.

That is true. We— I'm an apostle for real. This is what we do. We correct order for apostles who say they apostles and walking in miracles with really no authority. It's my church, so I can say what I want. Are y'all hearing this? Glory to God. You got to like— I know he might be your favorite. I ain't never— listen, I, I'm, I'm never going to take back something God tells me to correct. And at the end of the day. Watch this. When we see real miracles happen, the result of it is people being born again. Notice the fruit. Miracles happen and everybody just shouting. Y'all ain't got to talk. Where's the fruit? Where's the— where's the pointing toward God? What's the transformation? Of life. All right, amen. Okay, amen. We need uncommon presence. Watch it. I'm— this— these kind of miracles I'm praying for. My friend Apostle Jeffrey McClendon has no legs. Diabetes took his legs. I pray daily that God— y'all come crazy— I pray daily that God gives him a creative miracle and legs will grow back. Ain't got time to play. If God told me he can do it, I'm going to keep praying and believing until God does it. Not, not this stuff that we fabricate. You couldn't see You're telling me you pray for somebody that was blind, but they walked to the altar on their own? They wasn't blind.

They could see.

I was watching the clip. The lady told him, I had on my glasses and I was having problems with my eyes. He took what she said and twisted it and said, oh, the blind are seeing. Glasses. She had on glasses. She walked to the altar. See, we can want a miracle so bad outside of consecration that we will make the mistake and fabricate it. But when you operate in faith, come on, you ain't got to do that. That's right, because you have his endorsement. Enforcement. Say uncommon success. Somebody say, Apostle, you just hate men. I'm 56 years old, why I'm going to hate on that? Glory to God, that's crazy. I don't— bye. I'm correcting, ain't no hating. That's foolishness, and I hope he see it, because at the end of the day we got to stop this mess. Come on. And we fill up arenas with it. Oh yeah, at least people got saved when they went to see Benny Hinn. I got to talk. Miracles were happening, people getting born again by the droves. So don't, don't try to equate this to that. I wasn't there, but I probably count on 20 of my fingers how many actually got saved in that. That's right. Say, favor, favor produces, produces uncommon, uncommon success. Amen. Favor is the difference between your present and your future. If you want to change where you You are— start operating. Don't complain about your condition. Change your position and get under the auspices of faith so your future can be unlocked. A lot of times people remain stuck going through the same cycles because guess what? If you keep doing the same thing, you'll get the same results, right? You don't like the check you get at the end of the week, change what you do during the week. If on Friday your check look the same, it's because you're doing the same thing. Y'all make me work way too hard. Listen, don't complain about results that you create. Don't complain about what you permit. Step into faith and say, God, I'm doing this, but I need your guidance to do something different. I need your endorsement to usher me from where I am to where I'm going. Yes, yes, touch yourself, say, I'm going somewhere, I'm going somewhere, and ain't no devil in hell You can't stop me. Go to Psalm 5 and verse 12. You can put it on the screen tight. Glory to God. Let's look at the nature of favor really quick. First of all, favor is divine origin. I need you to catch this, that it comes from heaven, it comes from God. Here we go. Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous. Oh boy, I can't even tear on that. Oh God, you surround them with your favor as a shield. So God sends favor to protect you from the war of the enemy. Amen. Favor protects you from debt. Oh God, favor will protect you from sickness and disease. God have mercy. He set it up. And again, remember, it's always flowing, it's always working. If you get in line, nothing that comes nigh you can kill you or destroy you. Someone said, well, why I got to be in line? He said, surely. He said, surely. He said he will bless the righteous. Okay, here we go. So the blessing of the Lord is for who? Not a sinner. This word righteous here, covenant partners, covenant alignment. The Lord will bless those who are aligned with his covenant. Are y'all here? Yes. What's his covenant? His covenant is the word, the word of God. So if I line up with the word and do what the word says, I can get the blessing of favor. Surely, without a doubt, there's no ambiguity here. If I line up and am righteous, I'm supposed to be experiencing favor. All right. I'm supposed to have an edge on folk who are unrighteous. Oh, well, see, see, we don't want— we don't want to talk like this because we want to have good church, but the reality is you, you got to live your life every day under the auspices of what's right. Yeah, here's another Hebrew transliteration of righteous. It, it literally means that which is accurate. It. So, so you get to— you need to get under what's accurate, what's accurately spoken, what's accurately designed, what's accurately planned for your life. You need to find accuracy. Watch this, you need to follow the cloud and not the crowd. Ah, glory to God. So many times we're following crowds and there is no cloud. And just because they got the lingo and the talking— you can learn tongues, you can learn how to sing, you can learn how to worship, you can learn good church, but there needs to be an uncommon favor. When uncommon things happen, clouds show up and transformation takes place for real. Say accuracy. Accuracy. You got to get in alignment with what God has accurately designed so you can walk in his favor. This, this, this is the nature of favor. It's from God to protect his purpose. He sends it to protect his plan. God, so you don't mess it up. He said, well, I need you just in line and obey, because I want to protect you, I want to keep you, I want you to finish your course. Watch this, with joy. So when you die, it's a joyous, profitable moment. Profit. Joy means profit, not to be exuberantly happy. In the text, it means profit, profitable. You got to die with legacy connected to you.

You cannot do that if you're inaccurate, all right?

Because it's going to be hard. Oh, y'all don't believe it? The way of a transgressor is hard. So when you transgress against what's accurate— see, you ain't got to be committing adultery, fornication, lying, cheating. Those are sins too. But the reality is, if you're not righteous in accuracy, you're transgressing. Okay, they said— I'm just trying to show you why it's hard. Because, oh my God, I'm saved, but it's hard. I look at the world and they prospering because you're choosing to live beneath your privilege. You got the privilege of favor. Say, God is the source of favor. God is the source of favor. Watch this, you cannot manipulate favor. Favor flows from alignment. Alignment with God's heart. You can't trick favor. You can make it be for you. Well, God, I praise you real good today, so let favor come through my life. Give me favor with this money, with this contract, with this house. Give me Favor. God said it's already there. You ain't got to manipulate it, just have faith and align. Obedience releases favor. Hallelujah. We read in Luke 2:52 that Jesus grew in favor, which means that favor can be grown and increased. Amen. That means you can have a measure of favor and it can get real be. That every time you turn around, you got favor. Amen. And that's such a good life to live. And every contract you bid on, you get it. Oh my God, it's, it's a good life to live that every meeting you go in, it comes out favorable. Because it ain't you, and it ain't even the person giving you favor. It's God saying saying, this is my child, I want to make sure they have what they need so they can do my purpose. But you got to choose to grow in it. How do you grow it? You got to walk by faith and not by sight constantly. Amen. You got to choose to trust God by faith. That's right. Amen. You got to choose to be humble. Yes. Oh boy, because favor grows in humility. Jesus was humble, man. The Bible said he humbled himself and became obedient even unto death, which means his whole life he was an obedient, humble servant. Oh God, he didn't seek to be seen. He wasn't looking to make a name for himself. He was just trying to be Jesus and fulfill it. He said, I do what I see my Father think. They said, why are you here? I'm here just to do what I see my Father thinks. That's humble, man, which means my mind ain't even my own mind. So if you want favor to increase, the more you submit, the more you humble yourself to God's plan and not to what you want to do. Watch this. Arrogance causes favor to leave. Y'all don't believe it? Pride come before a fall. People without favor often fall. Arrogance leads to aloneness. When you're arrogant and prideful, nobody wants to be around you. Oh God, nobody wants to be in your presence when you think you know everything. Nobody can't tell you nothing. All right, are y'all here?

Yeah.

As long as I've been saying and preaching, I'm a student every day. I'm consistently learning. I learn from everybody. I can listen and learn and pick up something from everybody. I've taught myself to be a student. You know why? Because that's what humble people do. My little 7-year-old grandchild, she talks all the time, but if I sit there and listen to her, she hits some stuff on the nail and I learned something. I be like, girl, you done said something. Cuz you can learn from anybody. That's right. But if you want favor, you got to take that position. You can't get the favor of a billionaire if you don't take the seat of learning in that billionaire's presence. Okay, cuz guess what? He ain't coming where you at with his billion. You got to find him and get in his His presence and humble yourself. Because watch this, the word earn is as I learn. So you earn what you learn. I learned what Bill Gates knows, I can earn what he earns. You learn what a neurosurgeon knows, you can earn what that neurosurgeon earns. Neurosurgeon makes $350,000 every time he goes in the operating room. Well, you talking about learning, you want to learn that? Glory to God. I be thinking sometimes, Jesus, if I could just go back to school at 60, I'll be 70 in somebody brain. That's the devil. That brain will never, never work again. I get it though. But, but you You gotta know your purpose and learn the area of your purpose, right? Because arrogance leaves you by yourself. Say, arrogance leads to aloneness. Watch this. Aloneness leads to abortion. When you're by yourself, you abort the original vision, because purpose cannot be fulfilled in isolation. Purpose cannot be fulfilled without faith. So now it's hard and you end up aborting the original intent. God had a plan, you abort it, you kill it, cuz you don't have the support to fulfill it. Oh boy, your dreams were meant to go full term. Come on, be born, walk through the go full term and leave a legacy. I said it again, your dreams are meant to go full term. But so many people abort dreams and vision before they get a chance to even be born because they fear that they won't have the support to take care of it. Watch this, that all still from pride, arrogance, along with abortion. But then that abortion leads to adventurism. You start taking risks with your life now because you, you aborted the original plan, and now you're taking risks doing stuff that you wasn't even created to do. All right, taking risks with other folk's life. You got pastors ain't got no business pastoring over people. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. I got no business preaching to nobody because they weren't called. They went to school and that's all they got. I thank God for school. I got education. I got 3 degrees I earned. The reality is it doesn't qualify you just because you went to school to lead. You have to be called. Called. Are y'all here? You got to be called to do this. But there are many that are doing it because they good with people, they're a good speaker, they can motivate you well. Taking risk. That's why you see in the news every now and then a mega pastor with 15,000, 20,000 people come in suicide. He didn't have the grace to stand in place. And the grace— he got frustrated because he couldn't carry what he was trying to carry. You need the favor of God to carry a kingdom assignment. Again, divine endorsement. And he was trying to do it in himself. So Aaron, along abortion, adventurism. That pride also leads to adultery. This is a dangerous place because adultery is not just sexual unfaithfulness to a married person. Adultery is actually becoming satisfied by something that doesn't belong to you. You get satisfied by an assignment, a life, a job. A relationship that isn't yours. Are y'all here? You just settle. People who don't operate in favor settle. But you got to make up your mind, I'm gonna increase in favor, I'm gonna grow in divine endorsement, I'm gonna be faithful to God, I'm gonna be intimate with God so favor can grow. Amen. Go to Daniel 2:16. I'm almost done. Y'all learn anything? Yes, sir. Glory to God. Daniel 2:16. The Bible said, then Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give him time and that he would show the king the interpretation. You know what it says? It says that favor should be pursued it should be requested, and it should be celebrated. I'll say it again: favor should be pursued, it should be requested, and it should be celebrated. Daniel asked the king to give him some time. I just told you, if you want to be in the presence of someone that carries some favor, you need you need to be bold enough and humble enough to ask for their time. Are y'all hearing this? But if you think you— and watch this— you can wait around for folk that got the knowledge to find you, they ain't gonna do it. They're too busy being them. But if you need what they got Like Daniel, you need to ask for their time. Bill Gates ain't out chasing people to give them knowledge. He ain't trying to find people. He ain't lying to no folks. I'm gonna show y'all how to be a billionaire. You need to find out where he is, where he's speaking, where he's talking, what he wrote, and get time with him where you can get the impartation.

Oh boy.

And oftentimes, like Daniel, because of what you carry, when you get in the presence of people who are carrying favor you need, because you have something inside of you, you will release what they need as well. David was carrying the interpretation to the king's dream. He said, listen, you could be carrying something and just holding it and no God telling you to say it. Well, you need to ask for time so you can say it. Are y'all hearing this? Even on your job, if you know it's God and God gave you a word for your boss, ask for time with your boss. I don't break on lunch. Hey, listen, I just want to sit down with you and talk to you about something and tell them what God said. You don't know what kind of favor that's going to release back to you in return because you obey God. Are y'all here? Okay. But we go to work and be quiet. Sometimes folk go to work, they don't even know you saved. You at the job, don't say nothing. Just go to work, do your— because you really don't want to be there anyway, so you just go. Do your job and don't nobody know you saved. Call your job, let me speak to Pastor Such and Such. Who? He a what? We had no idea there was a preacher. But you got to request time. So you can make it— watch this— favor has to be pursued, requested, and celebrated. Celebrate the opportunity to show favor, and whenever you receive it, celebrate the person that shows you favor. That's right. Which means every time we come in the presence of God, it ought to be a celebration because he's the one that gives us favor and has provided favor. Amen. Amen. Amen. Listen, clear, if you're gonna be uncommon, you got to be humble enough to pursue favor. Revelation 3:8. I gotta go. Let's look at real quick some functions of favor. Revelation 3:8, he says, I know thy works. That means we ain't getting away with nothing. The Lord knows. You might think you hide. Slippity-dippity. Glory to God. But God says, I know. The eyes of the Lord is in every place, seeking, seeing that which is good and that which is bad. If you know that, it ought to croak your mouth. Maybe not here, but maybe don't watch it. Though you're gonna do what you do and you say you love God— listen, I expect a sinner to be a sinner. I expect a sinner to cuss. I expect a sinner to whore around. I expect a sinner to lie and do the things they do. But when you tell me you saved, I expect you to walk in the light. Light as he is in the light. And folk ought to be able to mark your life and say, that's a child of God, that's a daughter of God. But it seemed like to me the church folk do more sinning, or just as much sinning as the sinners. Come on, listen. But the Lord says, I know when you go to do it, you ought to be driving, saying, oh, he see me. Me. Something ought to cross your mind, especially if you love him like you say in church. All that you're doing— something ought to click and say, Lord, I love you too. I know you see me. I can't do this. Real testimony. I, when I was— I grew up in the church. I grew up in a very strict— and my— this right here, I was scared of God back then because the preacher would preach you into hell every week. You go to hell for something, I'm telling you now. My daddy was here a few weeks ago, that same dude, he preached straight to hell every week, and you'd be scared So I was, I was living in DC, I was in the military, young, young soldier, young sailor, and I was going out with this girl that was from the church now, okay, from church. See, it's just as much hell on the long dresses and the short dress. And just take that one with the long dress a little longer. If it ain't changed in the heart— I'm going out with this and we out, I'm eating with her. We done ate at a great restaurant and we drive along and I'm taking her back home. Get to her house, she said, do you want to come in? Holy Ghost said, don't you go. My flesh said, yeah, let me get on up out of this car. Ain't nobody going to know, ain't nobody watching, don't nobody know y'all. I got out, went up in that house. Glory to Jesus! Sat out in her living room. She went in the back, came out with nothing. Didn't even give me— I mean, I didn't have really a fighting chance on my own. She come out straight birthday suit. I'm looking like, Jesus Christ, please, Father, help me. The day called He told me not to get out the car. Before I knew it, my shirt was off. I'm grabbing her. My shoes off. Everything is off but my pants. So, raise his Y'all stop laughing. Y'all laughing at my pain. Listen, I'm talking. Listen, I, I, I got back in that room, went to unbuckle my belt, and all I could hear was my daddy saying, fornicators shall have their in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. I brushed it off, pulled the belt out, unbuttoned my pants. Heard Daddy again and said, all liars and fornicators shall have their part in the lake of fire. I pulled my pants down, heard Daddy one more time This time I heard him say, 'Hell shall enlarge itself for you because of your sin.' I stopped in my tracks, looked at that beautiful woman on the bed, put my shirt on, put my pants on, put my belt on, put my socks on, put my shoes on, and ran up out of there so fast. I escaped by the hair of the— on my chinny chin chin. But I'm trying to tell you, you are— you need to have a point of reference that God is with you and that he's real. And every time you disappoint him, you come— oh my God, you are consummating with the enemy and you you're putting your favor in jeopardy. Okay, so I didn't even get past 'I know that much.' Just look at somebody and say, 'The Lord is watching you.' To the church, don't want to hear this because we want to go to church and do what we want to do. But when you leave the church, God's eye is still on you, and he's trying to see, can I give them this favor? Can they handle this contract? Can they handle this million dollars? Can they handle this debt-free house? Can they handle this debt-free car? He's looking at your life saying, can I trust them with this blessing that I'm about to give with them. You know what? If God gave you favor that didn't align with your character, all the favor would do would increase those wrong things. Come on, you will use the favor to make your habits greater. God help us today. He said, I know your works. Behold, I've set before you an open door. Say an open door. An open door. He says that no man can shut it, for thou hast a little strength and has kept my word and has not denied my name. So here's one of the functions of favor. Favor opens doors. God says, I'm watching. And what favor will do is open doors. And we saw it in the beginning, there are doors that will be closed that you've been trying to open yourself. But when you get in the dimension of favor, favor will open doors that potentials, that resumes— are y'all here? That connections cannot open. See, God will qualify you for something that you ain't even qualified. All right, are y'all hearing this? God will bless you in a way, he'll give you favor. It'd be degree folk ought to get the job, and you ain't even got no degree, and get a job you don't know how to do. I've seen it happen. I've seen God hire hired people into positions that they needed a degree, a master's for, get in the position, had no idea what they was doing, and God anointed their mind to do the job. One of them is my good friend Apostle Jerry Howard. He's coming here for my birthday to preach. Apostle Howard was a cocaine dealer. He was a drug lord, and that's all he knew. Grew up in South LA in from Compton, and he was carrying cocaine across the country. I probably shouldn't be saying this, but he done testified, so the FBI ain't got him yet. There got to be some statute of limitation. But anyway, he was, he was a cocaine dealer, drug lord. I mean, just— and you know it was a favor of God protecting him and had something for his life, because anytime you packing kilos of cocaine in a suitcase and ain't got no sense to not put it on the airplane and check it. And you get off and pick up your luggage like everybody else. God was covering this man, but when he got saved, God delivered him all the way from that life. But he had dropped out of high school, never had been to college. College. He got saved, got married, moved to Maryland, and went and got a job at a computer software company building computer systems. And they never been trained to build computer systems. Wow. The Holy Ghost anointed his mind. He said he would go to work and say, God, just show me how to do it. And he'd go to work and just start working. The Holy Ghost be leading the whole day on how to get it done. Making $200,000, $300,000 a year. Amen. God was trying to show him, if you serve me, I'll give you more favor than the drugs ever did. I'll bless you greater than they ever blessed you. Are y'all hearing this? Favor can do what who you know can't do. People always trying to get into who's who and rub elbows with people. Listen, we're coming to a day where you won't need a table or a platform. There's an anointing that's going to be released on your life where you will build your table. Hallelujah! You'll build your platform. You'll build the place where you stand. Are y'all hearing this? Where you survive, where you eat. You don't need to go to nobody else's table to survive because favor will make sure you don't have to. Do. Are y'all hearing this? Somebody shout faith! Faith! Notice what it says, even when you got a little strength, you got to learn to keep the word. See, because there are times when the enemy is going to hit you with his best shot, but when he hits you with his best shot, you got to decide, I'm going to keep the word, I'm going to do what God says, I'm going to live for him, just Just touch yourself, say, I'm gonna keep this word, because I'm telling you, the word can't lie. The Bible— the Berean says, search the scripture, for in it do you think you have life. You got to get in that book and find the promises of God that he has made to you and understand that he wants to perform them. So when your strength gets small, you stand on that word and say, I'm gonna be just like a tree planted by the rivers of water, and I shall not be moved. The wind could blow, the storm could come. I got a little strength, but I'm going to keep the word because favor is about to open a door. I'm telling you right now, you've been told no before. Maybe somebody watching, favor is about to open a door for you that the enemy told you would never be open. Favor is about to kick down a wall that's been stopping your breakthrough. God said just hold on to the word. He cannot lie. If he said it, he'll do it. If he said it, he'll bring it to pass. Y'all here? Don't deny his name, keep his word, cuz favor will open doors. Doors. Sometimes the enemy will try to play games with your mind and tell you God ain't coming. God, this is it. God ain't gonna help. Listen, as long as I've been doing what I'm doing, you know, it— I, I go through battles some weeks when I come to church. Glory to God. Because I've seen our church in Jackson filled with— literally, I've seen God do miraculous things. I've seen people in— oh my God, in droves. I've seen God do some awesome things through my ministry. And to come and say, oh my God, it's just a few of us. I have to understand that he's coming. I have to understand that if I stay aligned, even when I got little strength, even when I don't feel like getting up— my wife woke me up this way, I we was late this morning because I, I didn't even bring my phone in the room. It was in my office because I said I'm gonna sleep as long as I can. And she woke me up, it was like a little after 8. I said, hey, it's after 8. That's okay. I got up, but God has a way, yeah, of reminding you of what he promised you. I got up and he said, all is well, glory, I'm with I'm with you. He said, no matter what it looks like, I'm with you. He said, no matter how you feel right now, I'm with you. Because I wanted to get back in the bed, but God said, no, I want you to stay committed to my name, committed to my word. See, when you start trusting in your name, you're denying his His name. Glory to the name of God. Because sometimes I'll be like, God, I ain't got to really have no church, you know. I'm— I can travel. I mean, I really, honestly, my phone ring every day. Somebody trying to get me to preach, but they want me to preach on Sunday. I'm not going on Sunday. Are y'all hearing this? The reality is I can't get into my own self. Yeah, I gotta do what he has named me to do in this season. Are y'all here? So when you don't feel like pressing, you got to press anyway. You got to keep the word when it look like the word ain't working. Are y'all here? I'm telling you, the word is working. Word is working. Say the word is working. The word is working. Go to Esther 2:17. I'm almost done, stay with me. Glory to God. Esther 2:17, it says, now the king was attracted to Esther more than any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen. Instead of Vashti. Favor placed Esther on the throne faster than anyone could have ever imagined. It's because the king— watch this— was attracted to her. You got to make yourself irresistible to the king. Shallah. You got to make yourself irresistible so he doesn't want to stay away from you. Sin separates us from him, but praise and worship draws him to us. Oh, glory to God! That's why we worship so hard. That's why we try to grow in it. Oh my God, we want to be irresistible. We want to have a life that he can't resist. Because when that happens, you'll succeed more quickly with favor than you will without it. Amen. This, this crown was placed on her head. God will elevate you. He'll promote you through— he'll find favor with you because he's attracted to you. And you know what? When God the King gets attracted to you, his stuff is also attracted to you. All right. Oh, why? Oh, because when he moved in, his whole kingdom moved in. You can't tell me God's attracted to you and he letting you suffer. Are y'all here? That's, that's, that's not how God operates. The whole kingdom lives in you. So watch this, favor is already looking for you. Inside of favor is money. Inside of favor is real estate. Inside of favor is promotions and breakthroughs and businesses. I'm telling you, it's looking for you. I, I just need to prophesy: property is looking for you. You got to hear, property is looking for you. Money is looking for you. Cars are looking for you. You single? Your spouse is looking for you. Are y'all here? But you gotta line up, that's right, and become irresistible. Are you irresistible in all areas? Are you found obedient? So that those things that are trying to find you can rest with you. Good God. Favor accelerates destiny. It makes destiny come quickly. What you thought was far off, favor attaches a microscopic lens to it and takes what's small and allow you to you see it enlarged. Favor puts a telescopic lens on it and takes what's far and brings it close. Say that with me. Say, favor accelerates destiny. I gotta go. Go to Exodus 3:21, last scripture. Say this with me. Say, favor brings provision. Provision and rescue. I dare you to say this with me. Say, favor, favor, come and get me. Come and get me. I love it. Exodus 3:21, he says, and I will give this people favor, and ye shall not— that's the A and the C clause— go out empty. So watch this, no matter what you're in you're in and what you're dealing with, the Spirit of Grace says you will not go out empty. Amen. The Spirit of Favor says that he is upon you and with you. And this— these are Israelites who are in bondage, who are under the taskmaster Pharaoh. He said, listen, I favored them. You favor them and you let them be slaves?

Okay.

He said, yeah, because when they go out, they ain't coming out empty. They enslaved because prophecy had to be fulfilled. God— if God says you're gonna be in bondage, that's what he means. Hallelujah. If you do the deed that causes bondage, that's what he means. But thank God he favors us still. Oh my God, just, just touch yourself and say, God still loves me. He says, you shall not go out empty. They came— the Bible said they came out with everything: purple, silk, gold, linen, silver, bronze. They had everything. They, they went in with nothing and came out with triple, came out royal. Are y'all hearing this? I'm telling you right now, I don't care what it's been looking like in your life, God wants me to remind somebody in this room this morning that you shall not go out empty.

Amen.

You coming out with something. Good God, I know it's been tough. Maybe somebody watching, it's been hard, but the Lord told me to tell you, you're getting ready to come out with something. God has favored you. Stay aligned, stay in the word, stay faithful to him, stay humble, because favor is about to bring you through. Lord have mercy. Favor is about to bring you out. Favor is about to unlock that door. Favor is about to make your phone ring. Oh God, people looking for business, looking for contracts, people looking to give you a job, people looking to open the door for you. Favor is is coming. You can play softly, Pastor. You shall not go out empty. I need you to hear that prophecy. God reminded me of this at 3 o'clock this morning. He said, you're laboring, son, but as much as you know Your labor is not in vain. Thank you, Jesus. He said, son, I won't forget your labor of love. You shall not go out empty. You're coming out with more. The Bible said Job received twice as much. He lived and received twice as much. Y'all know Job, he went through, man. He lost everything, but God gave him double than what he had. Isaiah said, for your shame you shall receive double. I don't know who I'm helping today, but God says I'm gonna give you double. Amen. God said don't settle for less. Favor is with you. Pastor Jasper, you moved from your family from DC to a land that you knew not of. God said he's going to give you double. You left your house, you left everything. God said double. You are not going to go out empty. Zion, you going to have double. Yes, brother Smith, prophet, you going to have double. Bro Walker, double. Ty Kirby, double. Double the business, double what you had before. You shall not go out empty. Felicia Woods, double what the post office gave you. Not go out empty. But God says, I favor you. Everybody stand up though. Lift those hands up. Matter of fact, no, just hug yourself like this and close your eyes for a moment. Just embrace yourself. I want you to feel that embrace as the Father's embrace. And I heard the Lord say today, he favors you, he favors you, he favors you. Come on, receive that love from your Daddy. He favors you, he favors you. He says, I'll never leave you never forsake you. I'm with you always, even now and until the end of the age. I heard the Lord say, I appreciate you for giving me your life. I hear God, he said, you gave me your life and you've tried and you've lived for me and my grace has been sufficient. And I heard the Lord say, I brought you now into a season where you will know my heart and you will know my my favor. You shall not go out empty. I echo the words of my text to you today. Receive it even as I embrace you this morning. I'm going to give you double for your trouble. For your shame, you shall receive the double.

Double, double, double, double I give you.