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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 34 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 35 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 5: the ministry. 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 4: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 37 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 4: blessing and share it with a friend. 38 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 39 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 5: your life. 40 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. 41 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 5: It's always a joy come into your homes, and if 42 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 5: you're ever in our area, please stop by and be 43 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 5: a part of one of our services. I promise you 44 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 5: will make you feel right at home. But thanks so 45 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 5: much for tuning in and thank you again for coming out. 46 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 5: I'd like to start with something funny and I heard 47 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 5: about this teenager he'd just gotten his driver's license. He 48 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 5: asked his father about borrowing the car. His father said, son, 49 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 5: I'll make a deal with you. If you'll bring your 50 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 5: grades up, read your Bible every day, and get your haircut, 51 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 5: I'll let you borrow it. He came back a month 52 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 5: later and ask about it again. Father said, well, son, 53 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 5: you brought your grades up, you've been reading your Bible 54 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 5: every day, but you still haven't got your haircut. He said, well, Dad, 55 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 5: I've been thinking about it. Moses had long hair, Samson 56 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 5: had long hair. 57 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 4: Even Jesus had long hair. 58 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 5: His father said, yes, son, and they walked everywhere they went. 59 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 4: Hold your Bible up, say it like you meet it. 60 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 61 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 62 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 63 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 64 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 65 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 66 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about heavy favor. There's something 67 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 5: God has put on you that will help you accomplish 68 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 5: what you couldn't accomplish on your own. It will cause 69 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 5: you to stand out in the crowd, get breaks that 70 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 5: you didn't deserve. 71 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 4: It's called favor. 72 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 5: The Psalmist said, God's favor surrounds us like a shield. 73 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 5: That means everywhere you go you have an advantage, a 74 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 5: divine empowerment, opening up the right doors, causing things to 75 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 5: fall into place. But Isaiah took it a step further. 76 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 5: He said, arise and shine, for the glory of the 77 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 5: Lord is upon you. That word glory in the original 78 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 5: language implies God's favor is heavy upon you. There's an 79 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 5: emphasis on the weight. Isaiah was saying. You didn't just 80 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 5: get a little favor enough to get by scrape through life. Now, 81 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 5: when it comes to favor, you're not a lightweight. You 82 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 5: are heavy with favor. You are weighted down with God's goodness. 83 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 5: And it's one thing to know you have favor. That's important, 84 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 5: But when you realize you are heavy with favor, it 85 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 5: takes on a whole new meaning. You won't go around 86 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 5: intimidated insecure. You'll put your shoulders back, hold your head 87 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 5: up high. When you know you have heavy favor. You'll 88 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 5: pray bold prayers. You'll believe for the extraordinary. You'll expect 89 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 5: doors to open for you that may not open for 90 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 5: somebody else. When you know you're heavy with favor, you'll rise, 91 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 5: and that's when God will cause you to sha. You'll 92 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 5: step into a new level of your destiny. Now, maybe 93 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 5: today you're heavy with worry, heavy with discouragement, weighted down 94 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 5: with problems, disappointments, sickness, lack or you need to get ready. 95 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 4: This is your due season. 96 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 5: Instead of being heavy with burdens, you're going to be 97 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 5: heavy with good breaks, heavy with divine hell, heavy with opportunity, 98 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 5: heavy with joy. Remember back in the sixties, when something 99 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 5: good happened, hippies would say. 100 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 4: Heavy, man heavy. 101 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 5: That's what you're going to be saying out of nowhere. 102 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 5: A good break, heavy man heavy. 103 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: The medical report. 104 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 5: Didn't look good, but your health suddenly turned around. 105 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 4: Heavy man heavy. In your finances an explosive blessing, a raise. 106 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 5: And inheritance, and you pay your house off, you come 107 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 5: out of debt and to overflow. 108 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 4: Heavy man heavy. 109 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 5: Now, shake off the doubt, shake off the discs urgement. 110 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 4: Have a new perspective. 111 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 5: You didn't get average favor, ordinary favor, just enough favor. 112 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,799 Speaker 4: You are heavy with favor. 113 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 5: When you understand this, it'll change your outlook. You'll have 114 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 5: a boldness, a confidence to ask big, to believe big, 115 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 5: to expect God's. 116 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 4: Favor in a new way. 117 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 5: One time, Joshua and his men were out fighting a 118 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 5: battle in the scripture, and it was getting late in 119 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 5: the day. He knew he wasn't going to be able 120 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 5: to finish the enemy off because he was running. 121 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 4: Out of daylight. 122 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 5: He could have thought, too bad for me, I've run 123 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 5: out of time. Now Joshua understood this principle. He knew 124 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 5: he was heavy with favor. He looked up and said, son, 125 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 5: stand still. The scripture says the sun stopped didn't go 126 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 5: down until he completed his task. When you know you're 127 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 5: heavy with favor, instead of thinking, oh, man, this problem 128 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 5: is never going to resolve, you'll do like Joshua and say, God, 129 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 5: I may not see away, but I know you have 130 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 5: a way. The medical report doesn't look good, but God, 131 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 5: I know you have the final say healing is coming 132 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 5: my way. Or maybe I've had this addiction so long, 133 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 5: but I know this is my due season year, freedom 134 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 5: is coming my way. I wonder how much further we 135 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 5: would go, how many dreams we'd see come to pass 136 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 5: If we really believed we are heavy with favor. Are 137 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 5: you praying these bold prayers expecting God to show out 138 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 5: in your life? 139 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 4: Would you dare do like Joshua. 140 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 5: And ask God to do something out of the ordinary, 141 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 5: to bring your dreams to pass that look so far 142 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 5: out like it's not practical. It may not be for 143 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 5: an average person. But the good news is you're not average. 144 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 4: You have heavy favor. 145 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 5: This is your time to arise and shine, about to 146 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 5: make you stand out. 147 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 4: He's about to take you somewhere that you've never been. 148 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 5: Now all through the day, let's get in agreement with God. Lord, 149 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 5: I thank you that I'm heavy with favor. You're shining 150 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 5: down on me, showing me something that I've never seen. 151 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 5: A few years ago, a friend of mine sold his 152 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 5: house and he and his family needed another place to live, 153 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 5: and they had looked at different houses again and again 154 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 5: and couldn't find anything. One evening, they were out walking 155 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 5: through their neighborhood and he saw this certain house that 156 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 5: he'd always liked. 157 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 4: The people had lived there for over thirty years. 158 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 5: But something said on the inside, go ask them if 159 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 5: they want to sell it. He thought, I can't do that, 160 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 5: that would be odd a stranger knocking on their door. 161 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 5: He's a very quiet, conservative man, but he couldn't get 162 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 5: away from that feeling, and he finally got his nerve up, 163 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 5: went up and knocked on the door and asked the 164 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 5: man if he was interested in selling the house. The 165 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 5: man said no, we're planning on living here for many 166 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 5: more years. My friend handed him his business card and said, well, 167 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 5: if you ever change your mind, please let me know. 168 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 5: Five days later, the man called back and said, we've 169 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 5: had a change of heart. 170 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 4: We'd like to sell you the house. What is that 171 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 4: heavy favor to. 172 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 5: Knock on somebody's door and have them move out of 173 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 5: their house. Only God can make that happen. Don't come 174 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 5: knocking on. 175 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 4: My door now. 176 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 5: But when you know that you have heavy favor, you'll 177 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 5: have this boldness, this confidence to ask big, to believe big. 178 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 5: That's when God will show out in your life. But 179 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 5: too often we think, oh, Joel, this isn't gonna happen 180 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 5: for me. I never get any good breaks, I'll never 181 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 5: live in a nice place, I'll never break this addiction, 182 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 5: never get healthy again. No, get rid of that defeated mentality. 183 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 5: Have this new perspective. You are heavy with favor. This 184 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 5: is your year to rise higher, to come in to overflow, 185 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 5: to see those dreams come to pass. Now, be bold, 186 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 5: dare to take some steps of faith. 187 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 4: Dare to believe God has already given you everything that 188 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 4: you need. 189 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 5: Thoughts will try to talk you out of it, tell 190 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 5: you why it's not going to happen. You have to 191 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 5: talk back to yourself the right way. 192 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 4: Lord. 193 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 5: I want to thank you that you're shining down on me. 194 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 5: This is my due season year. Dreams are coming to pass, 195 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 5: These problems are turning around. 196 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 4: Lord, I believe I'm heavy with favor. 197 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 5: When you live with this expectancy, you'll see God do 198 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 5: things out of the ordinary. In two thousand and three, 199 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 5: we had our groundbreaking services planned for this building. We 200 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 5: were going to have one weekend here so everyone could 201 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 5: see it. Then it was going to take a year 202 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 5: and a half to finish the construction. We had this 203 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 5: big weekend all lined up. When we got word that 204 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 5: the Highway Department was going to close the freeway a 205 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 5: few hours before our services, nobody would have been able 206 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 5: to come. We couldn't change our plans. We had already advertised, 207 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 5: already rented all of. 208 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 4: The equipment we could have thought. 209 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 5: Boy, we sure chose the wrong weekend for the groundbreaking. 210 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 4: But the scripture says, you have not because you ask not. 211 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 5: How many things are we not seeing God do not 212 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 5: because he wouldn't do it, but because we're not asking. 213 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 5: We called the highway department and asked if they would 214 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 5: change their plans for our services. They kind of laughed 215 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 5: and said, I'm sorry, we don't do that. 216 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 4: This construction has been planned for years. But when you 217 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 4: know you're heavy with favor, you don't give up because 218 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 4: you got told no one time. You go back and 219 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 4: ask again. We got in touch with the main person there. 220 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 5: He got back with us a few days later and said, 221 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 5: we've never done this before, but we're going to make 222 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 5: an exception for you and close the freeway after your 223 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 5: services are over. If you're going to see the fullness 224 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 5: of your destiny, you got to have this boldness to 225 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 5: ask big, to believe big, to expect things to happen 226 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 5: for you that may not happen for somebody else. Not arrogantly, 227 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 5: but in humility, dare to believe there's something on you 228 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,719 Speaker 5: that causes people to want to be good to you, 229 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 5: something that causes you to get breaks that you didn't 230 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 5: deserve something that causes problems that looked permanent to suddenly 231 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 5: turn around. 232 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 4: What is it? It's heavy favor. I know this couple. 233 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 5: They have a daughter, and when she was three years old, 234 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 5: something fell on these two fingers and it cut the 235 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 5: very tips of them off. 236 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 4: They rushed her to the emergency room. 237 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 5: The surgeon eventually told the father, I'm sorry, but there's 238 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 5: nothing I'm going to be able to do to restore 239 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 5: your daughter's two fingers. She will never have a fingernail 240 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 5: on those fingers. Plus they will always be a little 241 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 5: bit shorter. 242 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 4: The bone is missing. 243 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 5: Well, this father, he was respectful, but he knew he 244 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 5: had heavy favor. 245 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 4: He said, doctor, I believe God. 246 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 5: Can restore my little girl's fingers and make them normal 247 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 5: once again. This doctor was from another country and he 248 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 5: didn't understand too much about faith, and he looked at 249 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 5: the man and said, well, that's fine, sir, you can 250 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 5: believe whatever you want to. I'm just telling you the 251 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 5: bone is missing. They will never be the right link. 252 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 5: When the man's wife came in, the doctor got her 253 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 5: over to the side and said, your husband is in shock. 254 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 5: He won't accept the fact that your daughter's fingers have 255 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 5: been cut off. She had the skin graft, and six 256 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 5: weeks later they brought the little girl back for her checkup. 257 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 5: When the doctor removed the bandages, his first words were. 258 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 4: Oh my god. This father was alarmed. He said, what's wrong. 259 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 5: The doctor said, look, the fingernails have grown back, and 260 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 5: it looks like the two fingers are the exact right link. 261 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 4: That was years ago. 262 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 5: Those two fingers are still perfectly normal. When you believe 263 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 5: you are heavy with favor, you will see things happen 264 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 5: that look impossible. You may be in a situation right 265 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 5: now where all the odds are against you. The experts 266 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 5: say it's not going to happen. You won't get well, 267 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 5: won't qualify for the house, won't see the dream come 268 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 5: to pass. But what they're not taken into account is 269 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 5: the favor. 270 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 4: On your life. 271 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 5: If it was average favor, you may be stuck. It 272 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 5: may not happen. But the difference is you don't have 273 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 5: average favor. 274 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 4: You have a heavy favor. God is about to show 275 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 4: out in your life. He's about to turn some things around. 276 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 5: You're going to look up and say, like this couple, 277 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 5: that was heavy favor, that was the goodness of God. Friends, 278 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 5: dare to believe big dare to pray Big God wants 279 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 5: to do something that you've never seen, something out of 280 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 5: the ordinary. Doctor Todd Price is a friend of mine. 281 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 5: He has a successful infectious disease practice here in town. 282 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 5: He does medical missions work all over the world. A 283 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 5: few years back, when he was first getting started with 284 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 5: his medical outreaches, he had a dream to take shoes 285 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 5: to needy. 286 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 4: Children in Africa. 287 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 5: He told how because they didn't wear shoes, eighty percent 288 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 5: of them have parasites and it's ruining their health. Here, 289 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 5: Doctor Price is just one person, a busy practice. 290 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 4: How could he make much of a difference. 291 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 5: But he understands that he has heavy favor. He has 292 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 5: this boldness to ask these big medical companies and suppliers 293 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 5: to help him out. 294 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 4: His goal was. 295 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 5: To take shoes to all the children in this particular 296 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 5: village that he was working in at that time, three 297 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 5: thousand kids. A shoe company here in the States heard 298 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 5: what he was doing, called and asked how many pairs 299 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 5: of shoes do you need? He said, three thousand pair. 300 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 5: They said, we have a few more than three thousand. 301 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 5: How about we give you a million pair of children's shoes? 302 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 5: That's heavy favor. That's the way God is. 303 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 4: When you dream big, believe. 304 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 5: Big, expect big, God will supersize what you're dreaming about. 305 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 5: And some of you, what you're praying for is way 306 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 5: too small. What you're hoping you can accomplish is not 307 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 5: near what God has in mind. 308 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 4: You need to get ready. God is about to supersize it. 309 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 4: You're going to see this heavy favor. 310 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 5: The scripture says, you haven't seen, heard, or imagined the 311 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 5: amazing things God has in store. 312 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 4: That loved the Lord, that's each one of you. I've 313 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 4: seen this happen in my own life again and again. 314 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 4: What I thought would. 315 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 5: Be so great, what I was hoping to accomplish, was 316 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 5: nothing compared to what God had in mind. In my 317 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 5: early twenties, when I walked into that jewelry store and 318 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,679 Speaker 5: met Victoria for the first time, she was one of 319 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 5: those things I had not seen, heard, or imagined. God 320 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 5: supersized what I was dreaming about. It took heavy favor 321 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 5: to get her. Let me tell you, it takes heavy 322 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 5: favor to keep her. When I wrote my first book 323 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 5: ten years ago, Your Best Life Now, I thought, wouldn't 324 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 5: that be amazing if it made the New York Times 325 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 5: Bestsellers list. I would have been thrilled if it had 326 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,719 Speaker 5: made it just for one week. That book was on 327 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 5: the list for over one hundred weeks in a row. 328 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 4: God supersized what I was dreaming about. 329 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 5: When we moved into this building, we had signed a 330 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 5: sixty year. 331 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 4: Lease with the City of Houston. 332 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 5: We always knew we wanted to purchase it, but the 333 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 5: lease was the best option at the time, and this 334 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 5: facility is worth several hundred million dollars. Twenty ten, the 335 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 5: city contacted us and ask if we were interested in 336 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 5: purchasing it. We told them we were, but of course 337 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,479 Speaker 5: it all depended on the price. 338 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 4: They did all their studies. 339 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 5: After their evaluations, they called us back and said, we'll 340 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 5: sell it to you. Not for one hundred million, not 341 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 5: fifty million, not twenty five million. We'll sell it to 342 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 5: you for seven and a half million dollars. 343 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 4: That's heavy favor. That's more than we could ask or think. 344 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 5: Paul said, in the ages to come, we would see 345 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 5: the surpassing greatness of God's favor. 346 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 4: Friends, we are living in the day. 347 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 5: Paul talked about where we will see far and beyond favor. 348 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 5: If you'll get your hopes of start expecting it, praying 349 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 5: bowld prayers, believing for the ordinary extraordinary. When you arise, 350 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 5: God will cause you to shine. He'll show up and 351 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 5: supersize what you're dreaming about. There's a couple that tends here. 352 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 5: They have a daughter that had a heart defect. She 353 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 5: had to have several very extensive surgeries. Today the young 354 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 5: lady is perfectly healthy. But those surgeries were not fully 355 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 5: covered by their insurance. Their part of the hospital bill 356 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 5: was over four hundred thousand dollars. The mother is a 357 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 5: school teacher, the father a police officer. In the natural, 358 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 5: it looked like they would be paying on that debt 359 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 5: for a long long time. They didn't get discouraged, they 360 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 5: didn't start complaining. 361 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 4: They knew they had heavy favor. They dared to pray 362 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 4: these bold prayers. 363 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,239 Speaker 5: They said, God, we don't see how we could get 364 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 5: out of debt, but we know you own it all. 365 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 5: One touch of your favor can turn it around. One day, 366 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 5: out of the blue, the hospital called and said, we've 367 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 5: never done this before, but we've decided to not only 368 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 5: forgive your debt, but we're going to pay you back 369 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 5: for the two years of payments that you've already made. 370 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 4: They were just hoping to be debt free. 371 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,679 Speaker 5: But God supersized what they were dreaming about. 372 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 4: He'll do it for you. One Kings, Chapter six. 373 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 5: This enemy army was trying to overtake the Israelites, but 374 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 5: every time they made a move, the Israelites already knew 375 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 5: where they were going. This enemy king was so frustrated 376 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 5: he thought one of his men was a spy. He 377 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 5: called them together and said, who's the trader who's leaking 378 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 5: this inside information? A captain spoke up and said, King, 379 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 5: it's none of us. There's a prophet in Israel named Elisha. 380 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 5: What you whisper to us in secret, he announces publicly 381 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 5: to the Israelites. 382 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 4: This king was furious. He said, we're going to go 383 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 4: get Elisha. 384 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 5: Verse fourteen says one night he sent a great army 385 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 5: with many horses and chariots to surround Elisha's house. Notice 386 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 5: what happens when you're heavy with favor. 387 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 4: This king was trying to capture one man. 388 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 5: You would think he would maybe send a dozen people 389 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 5: to get him, but he sent thousands of troops, horses, chariots, all. 390 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 4: To capture one man that was heavy with favor. 391 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 5: Eliha's assistant got up early in the morning and saw 392 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 5: all the enemy forces surrounding the house. He told Elisha. 393 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 5: Elisha said, don't worry. We may be outnumbered, but I 394 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 5: know a secret. I'm heavy with favor. They may have 395 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 5: more weapons, more equipment, more talent, but I have something 396 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 5: more powerful than all of. 397 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 4: That, the fevor of God. 398 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 5: Elisha knew how to pray these bold prayers. He had 399 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 5: seen God open blind eyes. He prayed for just the opposite. 400 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 5: He said, God, let them become blind so they don't 401 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 5: recognize me. They came knocked on the door, said we're 402 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 5: looking for Elisha. He said, Elisha, you're in the wrong. 403 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 5: You need to go to Samaria. They said, thank you, 404 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 5: sir for your health. 405 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 4: He said, let me help you some more. I'll lead 406 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 4: you there. 407 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,959 Speaker 5: Elisha ended up leading this enemy army right into the 408 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 5: hands of the Israelites. Once they were surrounded and captured, 409 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 5: their eyes were opened. They realized it was Elisha the 410 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 5: whole time. When you know you're heavy with favor, you'll 411 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 5: see God do amazing things. 412 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 4: He'll protect you from your enemies, he'll guide you. 413 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 5: He'll even make you invisible to your enemies. Now don't 414 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 5: you dare go around week afraid intimidated. 415 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 4: You are so powerful, you are full of the anointing. 416 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 4: You are heavy with favor. 417 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 5: When the enemy looks at you, just like with Elisha, 418 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 5: he thinks I have to send an whole army to 419 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 5: try to stop them. He may do his best, but 420 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 5: his best will never be enough. When you're heavy with favor, 421 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 5: you cannot be When my father was a young minister 422 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 5: back in the nineteen fifties, he would travel from town 423 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 5: to town speaking at small churches and conventions. He carried 424 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 5: his sound equipment in the trunk of his car. One evening, 425 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 5: he arrived at this auditorium a couple of hours early 426 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 5: to get everything set up. Several hundred people were expected 427 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 5: that night. It was a big deal for my father. 428 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 5: He wanted it to all go perfect. But in the 429 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 5: midst of the excitement, he accidentally locked his keys in 430 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 5: the trunk of his car. 431 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 4: Couldn't get the sound equipment out. 432 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 5: He and some other people started working on the trunk 433 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 5: and shaking it, jiggling it. Used a coat hanger to 434 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 5: try to get it open. 435 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 4: No success. 436 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 5: It looked like his big evening was ruined. Just when 437 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 5: he was about to give up. He realized he hadn't prayed. 438 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 5: One thing I can tell you about my father is 439 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 5: he knew how to pray these bold prayers. He wasn't 440 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 5: ashamed to pray about any Growing up. He would pray 441 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 5: over the lawnmower, over the dishwasher, over anything that wouldn't work, 442 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 5: mostly my brother Paul. My father told all the people 443 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 5: standing there that he was going to pray and ask 444 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 5: God to help him open the trunk. 445 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 4: They looked at him so strange. That seemed so far out. 446 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 4: They were thinking, you can't pray. 447 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 5: For a trunk to be open, But my father did. 448 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 5: He said, God, I know there's nothing too hard for you. 449 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 4: Lord. 450 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 5: I need this sound equipment from my meeting tonight. I'm 451 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 5: asking you to somehow, some way help me to get 452 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 5: it open. While he was praying, the other people were laughing, mocking, 453 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 5: kind of making fun under their breath. When he finished praying, 454 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 5: he went over to the trunk and he shook it 455 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 5: and jiggled it. 456 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 4: Even harder than ever, but still wouldn't open. 457 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 5: He turned and walked away, and when he got about 458 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 5: ten feet from the car, they all heard this click. 459 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 4: They looked back and all on it its own, just 460 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 4: like it was in slow. 461 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,719 Speaker 5: Motion that Trump began to slowly open up, just like 462 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 5: it was saying Haleylujah. Those other people nearly passed out. 463 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 5: Now you may not need a trunk to open, but 464 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 5: the doctors have told you that it doesn't look good. 465 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 4: Why don't you arise. 466 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 5: And say, God, I believe I'm heavy with favor, that 467 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 5: you can do what medicine cannot do, or a child 468 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 5: is off course, you're struggling in your finances. Your dream 469 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 5: looks impossible. Have you ever asked God to turn it around? 470 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 5: Have you ever said God, I know nothing is too 471 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 5: hard for you. You have the final say you can 472 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 5: get me to where I'm supposed to be. 473 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 4: When you have this heavy favor, you'll have. 474 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 5: A boldness to believe for the fullness of your destiny. 475 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 4: Luke. 476 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 5: Chapter one talks about a young lady named Mary. Mary 477 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 5: was an ordinary teenage girl. She didn't come from an 478 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 5: influential family. Her parents weren't wealthy, didn't have notoriety, they 479 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 5: were poor. In the natural there was nothing special about Mary, 480 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 5: nothing that made her stand out. But one day an 481 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 5: angel appeared unto her and said, hello, Mary, you highly 482 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 5: favored woman. 483 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 4: I'm sure. 484 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 5: At first she looked around and thought, you got the 485 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 5: wrong girl. I'm not highly favored. I'm just average. It's 486 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 5: easy to talk yourself out of what God said about you, 487 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 5: But if an angel were to appear to you today, 488 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 5: he would say. 489 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 4: The same thing. Hello James, you highly favored man. Hello Marie, 490 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,719 Speaker 4: you highly favored woman. Hello Lakewood, you highly favored people. 491 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 5: The angel went on to tell Mary that she was 492 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 5: going to have a baby without knowing a man. Sometimes 493 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 5: God will put things in your heart that seemed very unlikely. 494 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 5: That's why the angel started off the conversation by reminding. 495 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 4: Her that she was heavy with favor. 496 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 5: When you face impossible situations, you have to remind yourself 497 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 5: what the angel first said, that you too are heavy 498 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 5: with God's favor. Verse forty four, Elizabeth said to Mary, 499 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 5: you are blessed because you believed the Lord will do 500 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 5: what he said. 501 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 4: Notice believing is the key. 502 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 5: In other words, even though the angel said she was 503 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 5: heavy with favor, if she had not believed. 504 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,479 Speaker 4: It, she would have never seen this favor. 505 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 5: God is saying to you today, this is your due 506 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 5: season year. Dreams are coming to pass, problems are turning around. 507 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 5: You're about to rise to a new level. 508 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 4: Now. You can either let circumstances. 509 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 5: Talk you out of it, or you can do like 510 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 5: Mary and say God, I agree. 511 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 4: I believe I'm heavy with favor. 512 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 5: When you arise, God will cause you to shine. Friends, 513 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 5: what I'm saying is, you're not a lightweight. If you 514 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 5: didn't get average favor, ordinary favor. 515 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 4: You're heavy with favor. 516 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 5: Dare to believe big, pray these bold prayers. 517 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 4: Expect God to do the extraordinary. 518 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare you haven't seen, heard, 519 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 5: or imagined what's coming your way. 520 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 4: God is about to show out in your life. 521 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 5: Get ready for breakthroughs, for promotion, for healing, for a 522 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 5: new level of your destiny in Jesus's name. 523 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 4: If you receive it, Can you say man today? 524 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 525 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 526 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? 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