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I'd like to start 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.160 with something funny, and I heard about this teenager. He'd 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.639 just gotten his driver's license. He asked his father about 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.440 borrowing the car. His father said, son, I'll make a 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.639 deal with you. If you'll bring your grades up, read 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.880 your Bible every day, and get your haircut, I'll let 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.560 you borrow it. He came back a month later and 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.840 ask about it again. Father said, well, son, you brought 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.200 your grades up, you've been reading your Bible every day, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.560 but you still haven't got your haircut. He said, well, Dad, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.520 I've been thinking about it. Moses had long hair, Samson 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.960 had long hair. Even Jesus had long hair. His father said, yes, son, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.760 and they walked everywhere they went. Hold your Bible up, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.920 say it like you meet it. This is my I 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.280 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.720 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.919 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.480 I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.280 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.519 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.040 heavy favor. There's something God has put on you that 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.880 will help you accomplish what you couldn't accomplish on your own. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.880 It will cause you to stand out in the crowd, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.960 get breaks that you didn't deserve. It's called favor. The 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:41.880 Psalmist said, God's favor surrounds us like a shield. That 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:47.200 means everywhere you go you have an advantage, a divine empowerment, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.400 opening up the right doors, causing things to fall into place. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.080 But Isaiah took it a step further. He said, arise 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.120 and shine, for the glory of the Lord is upon you. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:00.240 You. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.840 That word glory in the original language implies God's favor 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.840 is heavy upon you. There's an emphasis on the weight. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.440 Isaiah was saying. You didn't just get a little favor 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.520 enough to get by scrape through life. Now, when it 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.480 comes to favor, you're not a lightweight. You are heavy 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.000 with favor. You are weighted down with God's goodness. And 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.760 it's one thing to know you have favor. That's important, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.200 But when you realize you are heavy with favor, it 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.240 takes on a whole new meaning. You won't go around 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:42.240 intimidated insecure. You'll put your shoulders back, hold your head 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.839 up high. When you know you have heavy favor, you'll 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:52.120 pray bold prayers. You'll believe for the extraordinary. You'll expect 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.960 doors to open for you that may not open for 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.760 somebody else. When you know you're heavy with favor, you'll rise. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.400 And that's when God will cause you to shine. You'll 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.960 step into a new level of your destiny. Now, maybe 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:12.280 today you're heavy with worry, heavy with discouragement, weighted down 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:17.080 with problems, disappointments, sickness, black or you need to get ready. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.240 This is your due season. Instead of being heavy with burdens, 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.159 you're going to be heavy with good breaks, heavy with 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:31.039 divine hell, heavy with opportunity, heavy with joy. Remember back 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:35.240 in the sixties, when something good happened, hippies would say heavy, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.440 man heavy. That's what you're going to be saying out 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.480 of nowhere. A good break, heavy man heavy. The medical 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.000 report didn't look good, but your health suddenly turned around. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.480 Heavy man heavy. In your finances an explosive blessing, a 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.800 raise and inheritance, and you pay your house off, you 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.760 come out of debt and to overflow. Heavy man heavy, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.440 Shake off the doubt, shake off the discouragement, have a 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:08.159 new perspective. You didn't get average favor, ordinary favor, just 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.280 enough favor. You are heavy with favor. When you understand this, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.720 it'll change your outlook. You'll have a boldness, a confidence 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.400 to ask big, to believe big, to expect God's favor 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.440 in a new way. One time, Joshua and his men 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.520 were out fighting a battle in the scripture, and it 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.840 was getting late in the day. He knew he wasn't 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.520 going to be able to finish the enemy off because 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.120 he was running out of daylight. He could have thought, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.000 too bad for me, I've run out of time. Now 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.360 Joshua understood this principle. He knew he was heavy with favor. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:50.120 He looked up and said, son, stand still. The scripture 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.599 says the sun stopped didn't go down until he completed 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:59.040 his task. When you know you're heavy with favor, instead 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.200 of thinking, oh, man, this problems never going to resolve. No, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.080 you'll do like Joshua and say, God, I may not 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.360 see away, but I know you have a way. The 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.640 medical report doesn't look good, but God, I know you 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.480 have the final say healing is coming my way. Or 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.480 maybe I've had this addiction so long, but I know 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.640 this is my due season year. Freedom is coming my way. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.000 I wonder how much further we would go, how many 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.520 dreams we see come to pass, if we really believed 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.600 we are heavy with favor? Are you praying these bold 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.160 prayers expecting God to show out in your life? Would 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.320 you dare do like Joshua and ask God to do 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.720 something out of the ordinary to bring your dreams to 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.880 pass that look so far out like it's not practical. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.680 It may not be for an average person, But the 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.840 good news is you're not average. You have heavy favor. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.520 This is your time to eyes and shine. God is 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.640 about to make you stand out. He's about to take 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.880 you somewhere that you've never been. Now all through the day, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.600 let's get in agreement with God. Lord, I thank you 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.840 that I'm heavy with favor. You're shining down on me, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.120 showing me something that I've never seen. A few years ago, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.920 a friend of mine sold his house and he and 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.400 his family needed another place to live, and they had 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.040 looked at different houses again and again and couldn't find anything. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.880 One evening, they were out walking through their neighborhood and 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.440 he saw this certain house that he'd always liked. The 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.080 people had lived there for over thirty years. But something 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.600 said on the inside, go ask them if they want 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.520 to sell it. He thought, I can't do that. That 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.840 would be odd, a stranger knocking on their door. He's 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.280 a very quiet, conservative man, but he couldn't get away 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.000 from that feeling, and he finally got his nerve up, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.480 went up and knocked on the door and asked the 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.480 man if he was interested in selling the house. The 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.000 man said no, we're planning on living here for many 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.840 more years. My friend handed him his business card and said, well, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.760 if you ever change your mind, please let me know. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.080 Five days later, the man called back and said, we've 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.200 had a change of heart. We'd like to sell you 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.400 the house. What is that heavy favor to knock on 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.120 somebody's door and have them move out of their house. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.440 Only God can make that happen. Don't come knocking on 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.800 my door now. But when you know that you have 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.520 heavy favor, you'll have this boldness, this confidence to ask big, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.680 to believe big. That's when God will show out in 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.679 your life. But too often we think, oh Joe, this 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.720 isn't gonna happen for me. I never get any good breaks, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.600 I'll never live in a nice place. I'll never break 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.800 this addiction. Never get healthy again. No get rid of 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.559 that defeated mentality. Have this new perspective. You are heavy 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.560 with favor. This is your year to higher, to come 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.640 in to overflow, to see those dreams come to pass. Now, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.400 be bold, dare to take some steps of faith. Dare 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:14.040 to believe God has already given you everything that you need. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.920 Thoughts will try to talk you out of it, tell 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.160 you why it's not going to happen. You have to 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.559 talk back to yourself the right way. Lord. I want 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.480 to thank you that you're shining down on me. This 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.360 is my due season year. Dreams are coming to pass, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.840 These problems are turning around. Lord, I believe I'm heavy 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.920 with favor. When you live with this expectancy, you'll see 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.040 God do things out of the ordinary. In two thousand 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.080 and three, we had our groundbreaking services planned for this building. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.559 We were going to have one weekend here so everyone 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.679 could see it. Then it was going to take a 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.559 year and a half to finish the construction. We had 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.200 this big weekend all lined up. When we got word 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.800 that the Highway Department was going to close the freeway 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.400 a few hours before our services. Nobody would have been 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.640 able to come. We couldn't change our plans. We had 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.440 already advertised, already rented all of the equipment. We could 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.040 have thought, boy, we sure chose the wrong weekend for 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.760 the groundbreaking. But the scripture says, you have not because 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.160 you ask not. How many things are we not seeing 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.200 God do not because he wouldn't do it, but because 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.480 we're not asking. We called the Highway department and asked 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.800 if they would change their plans for our services. They 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.280 kind of laughed and said, I'm sorry, we don't do that. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.400 This construction has been planned for years. But when you 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.040 know you're heavy with favor, you don't give up because 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.600 you got told no one time. You go back and 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:51.240 ask again. We got in touch with the main person there. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.160 He got back with us a few days later and said, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.840 we've never done this before, but we're going to make 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.200 an exception for you and close it's the freeway after 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.880 your services are over. If you're going to see the 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.400 fullness of your destiny, you've got to have this boldness 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:13.560 to ask big, to believe big, to expect things to 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.319 happen for you that may not happen for somebody else. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:23.120 Not arrogantly, but in humility. Dare to believe there's something 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.920 on you that causes people to want to be good 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.960 to you, something that causes you to get breaks that 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:33.480 you didn't deserve, something that causes problems that looked permanent 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.000 to suddenly turn around. What is it? It's heavy favor. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.960 I know this couple. They have a daughter, and when 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.080 she was three years old, something fell on these two 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.000 fingers and it cut the very tips of them off. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.360 They rushed her to the emergency room. The surgeon eventually 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.880 told the father, I'm sorry, but there's nothing I'm going 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.000 to be able to do to restore your daughter's two fingers. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.040 She will never have a fingernail on those fingers. Plus 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.040 they will always be a little bit shorter. The bone 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.040 is missing. Well, this father, he was respectful, but he 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.440 knew he had heavy favor. He said, doctor, I believe 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.520 God can restore my little girl's fingers and make them 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:22.200 normal once again. This doctor was from another country and 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.200 he didn't understand too much about faith, and he looked 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.680 at the man and said, well, that's fine, sir, you 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.320 can believe whatever you want to. I'm just telling you 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.640 the bone is missing. They will never be the right 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.040 link when the man's wife came in. The doctor got 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.800 her over to the side and said, your husband is 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.280 in shock. He won't accept the fact that your daughter's 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.640 fingers have been cut off. She had the skin graft, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.880 and six weeks later they brought the little girl back 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.840 for her check up. When the doctor removed the bandages, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.600 his first words were, oh my god. This father was alarmed. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.160 He said, what's wrong. The doctor said, look, the fingernails 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.400 have grown back, and it looks like the two fingers 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:10.360 are the exact right link that was years ago. Those 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.600 two fingers are still perfectly normal. When you believe you 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.280 are heavy with favor, you will see things happen that 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.840 look impossible. You may be in a situation right now 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.800 where all the odds are against you. The experts say 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.000 it's not going to happen. You won't get well, won't 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.920 qualify for the house, won't see the dream come to pass. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.640 But what they are not taken into account is the 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.280 favor on your life. If it was average favor, you 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.840 may be stuck. It may not happen. But the difference 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.520 is you don't have average favor. You have a heavy favor. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.240 God is about to show out in your life. He's 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.560 about to turn some things around. You're going to look 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.400 up and say, like this couple, that was heavy favor, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.560 that was the goodness of God. Friends, dare to believe big, 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.720 dare to pray Big God wants to do something that 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.880 you've never seen, something out of the ordinary. Doctor Todd 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.680 Price is a friend of mine. He has a successful 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.400 infectious disease practice here in town. He does medical missions 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.760 work all over the world. A few years back, when 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.560 he was first getting started with his medical outreaches, he 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.680 had a dream to take shoes to needy children in Africa. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.080 He told how because they didn't wear shoes, eighty percent 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.960 of them have parasites and it's ruining their health. Here, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.480 doctor Price is just one person, a busy practice. How 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.720 could he make much of a difference. But he understands 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.560 that he has heavy favor. He has this boldness to 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.840 ask these big medical companies and suppliers to help him out. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.840 His goal was to take shoes to all the children 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.000 in this particular village that he was working in at 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.560 that time. Kids a shoe company here in the States 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.480 heard what he was doing, called and asked, how many 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.440 pairs of shoes do you need? He said three thousand pair. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.760 They said, we have a few more than three thousand. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.720 How about we give you a million pair of children's shoes. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.320 That's heavy favor. That's the way God is. When you 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.640 dream big, believe big, expect big, God will supersize what 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.560 you're dreaming about. And some of you, what you're praying 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.520 for is way too small. What you're hoping you can 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.320 accomplish is not near what God has in mind. You 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.160 need to get ready. God is about to supersize it. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.120 You're going to see this heavy favor. The scripture says, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:51.280 you haven't seen, heard, or imagined the amazing things God 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.800 has in store. That loved the Lord, that's each one 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.400 of you. I've seen this happen in my own life 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.920 again and again. What I thought would be so good, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.480 what I was hoping to accomplish, was nothing compared to 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.840 what God had in mind. In my early twenties, when 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.159 I walked into that jewelry store and met Victoria for 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.000 the first time, she was one of those things I 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.479 had not seen, heard, or imagined. God supersized what I 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.639 was dreaming about. It took heavy favor to get her. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.480 Let me tell you, it takes heavy favor to keep her. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.760 When I wrote my first book ten years ago, Your 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.920 Best Life Now, I thought, wouldn't that be amazing if 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.160 it made the New York Times Bestsellers List. I would 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.919 have been thrilled If it had made it just for 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.000 one week. That book was on the list for over 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.760 one hundred weeks in a row. God supersized what I 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.359 was dreaming about. When we moved into this building, we 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.280 had signed a sixty year lease with the City of Houston. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 We always knew we wanted to purchase it, but the 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.600 lease was the best option at the time. This facility 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.919 is where several hundred million dollars. In twenty ten, the 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.280 city contacted us and ask if we were interested in 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.359 purchasing it. We told them we were, but of course 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.920 it all depended on the price. They did all their studies, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.040 after their evaluations, they called us back and said, we'll 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.240 sell it to you. Not for one hundred million, not 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.199 fifty million, not twenty five million. We'll sell it to 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.320 you for seven and a half million dollars. That's heavy favor. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.679 That's more than we could ask or think. Paul said, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.400 in the ages to come, we would see the surpassing 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.320 greatness of God's favor. Friends, we are living in the 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.639 day Paul talked about where we will see far and 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:49.280 beyond favor. If you'll get your hopes up, start expecting it, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.680 praying bowld prayers, believing for the ordinary extraordinary. When you arise, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.439 God will cause you to shine. He'll show up and 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.120 supersize what you're dreaming about. There's a couple that attends here. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.480 They have a daughter that had a heart defect. She 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.480 had to have several very extensive surgeries. Today the young 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:14.359 lady is perfectly healthy. But those surgeries were not fully 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.160 covered by their insurance. Their part of the hospital bill 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.560 was over four hundred thousand dollars. The mother is a schoolteacher, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.320 the father a police officer. In the natural, it looked 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.280 like they would be paying on that debt for a 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.639 long long time. They didn't get discouraged, they didn't start complaining. 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.680 They knew they had heavy favor. They dared to pray 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.240 these bold prayers. They said, God, we don't see how 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.639 we could get out of debt, but we know you 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.760 own it all. One touch of your favor can turn 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:50.320 it around. One day, out of the blue, the hospital 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.200 called and said, we've never done this before. But we've 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.880 decided to not only forgive your debt, but we're going 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.560 to pay you back for the two years of payments 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.679 that you've already made. They were just hoping to be 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:08.160 debt free, but God supersized what they were dreaming about. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.879 He'll do it for you. One Kings, Chapter six. This 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.560 enemy army was trying to overtake the Israelites, but every 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.320 time they made a move, the Israelites already knew where 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.600 they were going. This enemy king was so frustrated he 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.359 thought one of his men was a spy. He called 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.920 them together and said, who's the trader who's leaking this 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:36.600 inside information? A captain spoke up and said, King, it's 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.720 none of us. There's a prophet in Israel named Elisha. 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.959 What you whisper to us in secret, he announces publicly 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.840 to the Israelites. This king was furious. He said, we're 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.840 going to go get Elisha. Verse fourteen says one night 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:58.959 he sent a great army with many horses and chariots 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:04.000 to surround Elisha's house. Notice what happens when you're heavy 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.680 with favor. This king was trying to capture one man. 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.720 You would think he would maybe send a dozen people 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.600 to get him, but he sent thousands of troops, horses, chariots, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.120 all to capture one man that was heavy with favor. 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.080 Elisha's assistant got up early in the morning and saw 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.879 all the enemy forces surrounding the house. He told Elisha. 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.080 Elisha said, don't worry. We may be outnumbered, but I 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.919 know a secret. I'm heavy with favor. They may have 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.720 more weapons, more equipment, more talent, but I have something 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.919 more powerful than all of that, the fever of God. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.440 Elisha knew how to pray these bold prayers. He had 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:51.040 seen God open blind eyes. He prayed for just the opposite. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.800 He said, God, let them become blind so they don't 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.400 recognize me. They came knocked on the door, said we're 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:02.800 looking for Elisha. He said, Elisha, you're in the wrong city. 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:06.199 You need to go to Samaria. They said, thank you, 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.560 sir for your health. He said, let me help you 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:13.080 some more. I'll lead you there. Elisha ended up leading 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:17.000 this enemy army right into the hands of the Israelites. 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.280 Once they were surrounded and captured, their eyes were opened. 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.800 They realized it was Elisha the whole time. When you 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:30.280 know you're heavy with favor, you'll see God do amazing things. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.480 He'll protect you from your enemies. He'll guide you. He'll 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.480 even make you invisible to your enemies. Now, don't you 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:43.760 dare go around week afraid intimidated. You are so powerful, 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:47.960 You are full of the anointing. You are heavy with favor. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.840 When the enemy looks at you, just like with Elisha, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.800 he thinks I have to send an whole army to 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.840 try to stop them. He may do his best, but 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.320 his best will never be enough. When you're heavy with favor, 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.120 you cannot be defeated. When my father was a young 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.640 minister back in the nineteen fifties, he would travel from 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:13.159 town to town speaking at small churches and conventions. He 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:15.879 carried his sound equipment in the trunk of his car. 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.480 One evening, he arrived at this auditorium a couple of 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.320 hours early to get everything set up. Several hundred people 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:25.879 were expected that night. It was a big deal for 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.040 my father. He wanted it to all go perfect. But 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:32.439 in the midst of the excitement, he accidentally locked his 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.040 keys in the trunk of his car. Couldn't get the 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.480 sound equipment out. He and some other people started working 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.879 on the trunk and shaking it jiggling it, used a 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:44.440 coat hanger to try to get it open, no success. 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:49.360 It looked like his big evening was ruined. Just when 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:53.040 he was about to give up, he realized he hadn't prayed. 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.320 One thing I can tell you about my father is 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.160 he knew how to pray these bold prayers. He wasn't 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.960 ashamed to pray about anything. Growing up. He would pray 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:09.840 over the lawnmower, over the dishwasher, over anything that wouldn't work, 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:16.159 mostly my brother Paul. My father told all the people 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:19.160 standing there that he was going to pray and ask 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.560 God to help him open the trunk. They looked at 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.800 him so strange, that seemed so far out. They were 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.560 things you can't pray for a trunk to be open, 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:31.720 But my father did. He said, God, I know there's 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.920 nothing too hard for you. Lord. I need this sound 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:38.639 equipment from my meeting tonight. I'm asking you to somehow, 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:41.399 some way help me to get it open. While he 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:45.240 was praying, the other people were laughing, mocking, kind of 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:48.440 making fun under their breath. When he finished praying, he 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:50.159 went over to the trunk and he shook it and 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.440 jiggled it even harder than ever, but still wouldn't open. 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.439 He turned and walked away, and when he got about 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:59.879 ten feet from the car, they all heard this click. 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:03.719 They look back, and all on its own, just like 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:06.879 it was in slow motion that trump began to slowly 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:14.840 open up, just like it was saying hallylujah. Those other 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:18.840 people nearly passed out. Now you may not need a 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.800 trunk to open, but the doctors have told you that 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:25.480 it doesn't look good. Why don't you arise and say, God, 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:29.119 I believe I'm heavy with favor, that you can do 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:32.399 what medicine cannot do, or a child is off course, 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:36.359 you're struggling in your finances, Your dream looks impossible. Have 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:39.320 you ever asked God to turn it around? Have you 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:43.040 ever said God, I know nothing is too hard for you. 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:45.359 You have the final say you can get me to 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.680 where I'm supposed to be. When you have this heavy favor, 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:52.320 you'll have a boldness to believe for the fullness of 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:56.480 your destiny. Luke Chapter one talks about a young lady 0:25:56.600 --> 0:26:01.320 named Mary. Mary was an ordinary teenage girl. She didn't 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:05.440 come from an influential family. Her parents weren't wealthy, didn't 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:09.239 have notoriety, they were poor. In the natural there was 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:12.480 nothing special about Mary, nothing that made her stand out. 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:17.520 But one day an angel appeared into her and said, hello, Mary, 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:22.640 you highly favored woman. I'm sure at first she looked 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:25.320 around and thought you got the wrong girl. I'm not 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:29.440 highly favored. I'm just average. It's easy to talk yourself 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:32.439 out of what God said about you, But if an 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:35.400 angel were to appear to you today, he would say 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:41.119 the same thing. Hello James, you highly favored man. Hello Marie, 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:46.240 you highly favored woman. Hello Lakewood, you highly favored people. 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:51.560 The angel went on to tell Mary that she was 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:55.640 going to have a baby without knowing a man. Sometimes 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:59.080 God will put things in your heart that seemed very unlikely. 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:04.320 That's why the angel started off the conversation by reminding 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:08.399 her that she was heavy with favor. When you face 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:13.080 impossible situations, you have to remind yourself what the angel 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:16.480 first said, that you too are heavy with God's favor. 0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:21.119 Verse forty four. Elizabeth said to Mary, you are blessed 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:25.320 because you believed the Lord will do what he said. 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:29.720 Notice believing is the key. In other words, even though 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.840 the angel said she was heavy with favor, if she 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:36.000 had not believed it, she would have never seen this favor. 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.720 God is saying to you today, this is your due 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:44.119 season year. Dreams are coming to pass, problems are turning around. 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:47.159 You're about to rise to a new level. Now. You 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:50.240 can either let circumstances talk you out of it, or 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:53.200 you can do like Mary and say God, I agree. 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:57.840 I believe I'm heavy with favor. When you arise, God 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.760 will cause you to shine. Friends, what I'm saying is, 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:05.439 you're not a lightweight. You didn't get average favor, ordinary favor. 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:10.160 You're heavy with favor. Dare to believe big, pray these 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:14.920 bold prayers. 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