 glad that you've joined us today. In just a moment we're going to go into the sanctuary where we're worshiping the Lord in every portion of the service from giving the lifting of our hands singing and the word of God that's going to come your way today. We hope that you will engage the service right there where you are and that the presence of God will be made real no matter where you are around the globe. We know that we're reaching so many people around the world right now and our effort and every part that we do is about reaching one more soul to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for helping us accomplish that through your giving and your prayerful support. May God bless you now as we enter into the service let's go live into the presence of God. This morning Lord we've come to the house of God today until I've experienced the presence of God. I want you I want you to fill this place. I speak against everything that would set itself against this service today. Every distraction, every obstacle, anything Lord that would get our eyes off of you. I will lift up my eyes today unto the hills from whence come with my help. So Lord today I pray for every brother and sister who's in the house joining us online. I pray that they will join me in lifting my eyes up to the king of kings and the Lord of lords this morning and we invite you to fill this house. It's your house God. We fill it. I'll stand here somebody help me give God the best praise today. He's worthy of it all. Come on keep your hands lifted this morning. Our trust is in you. Our trust is in you. We trust you in our healing. We trust you in our finances. We trust you in every part. We put our trust in you because I put my trust in Jesus Christ because he is the healer. He is the comforter. He is the strength I need. He's everything I have need of because I trust Jesus. I want you to remember this morning the Hoyt family and then your prayers that God will give them the strength and the comfort and there are many needs that have come through that are people that are saying request prayer for cancer that I found in my body but I'd like to let you know that my God is bigger than cancer. I believe it but I do. My God is bigger than COVID. My God is bigger than cancer. My God is bigger than any disease that comes in my body and then my God can go right into the hospital and go to anybody's body and take whatever and then when they go back for the report they say I don't know how to explain it. I don't know for there ain't nothing wrong with your body. That's not because materially that I didn't know that's the power of God that worked in my life so if you believe that this morning you don't have to know who they are because again you're not the healer and you're not the one who can do it but when the people of God pray and believe if you don't believe then don't pray but if you believe that God can do the impossible let's go to war right now in the heavens let's pray this morning God in the name of Jesus right now I ask right now by the power that's above every other name in the name of Jesus Christ let healing flow through everybody's body God the cancer that might be dealing God let it go away dear God let someone be healed by the power of God right now because God you are bigger than cancer you are bigger than any disease we call upon you because you are a healer the word of God says by your stripes we are healed and we put our faith and our trust and our confidence in that so God do it this morning heal somebody this morning God save somebody this morning deliver somebody this morning let the bondage be broken this morning let a river of your Holy Spirit flow through this place Holy Spirit we invite you into this room we welcome you into this room do what only what you can do because along without you we are nothing Holy Spirit have your way this morning do the impossible dear God do the impossible what man says is impossible God with you nothing is impossible so do it this morning if you believe that this morning and in faith give Jesus Christ the greatest ovation of the morning give this morning grab about five to ten people shake their hand and tell them how glad you are to see them this morning and those of you that I want to feel live from around the world we welcome you to pace it simply we know God is gonna meet you in a supernatural way be blessed this morning we're so glad that you have joined us amen amen come on give Jesus one more hand clap of praise this morning amen we're so glad that you're here this morning today is family Sunday so all the kids that are normally in kids church are all out here with us today so we're so glad about that and so glad that you have made paces only your home for this morning if this is your first time here whether it's you or with your family at the end of service today if you'll step out into the four-year over to the left-hand side we have a place called guest central if you'll step in there get some information about you let you know about what's going on here at the church and I you know we want to meet you and get to know you and Pastor miss Rita have a special gift just for you so home folk give all our guests here and everybody's watching from around the world let them know they're welcome to pace assembly this morning man couple things that I want to make you aware of this morning we will this whole year if you're brand-new here let me just let you know this whole year we doing back to the Bible so make sure you bring your Bible to church and if you don't have one then you might be the lucky winner this morning so as you've been here for enough everybody's already reaching underneath their seat yeah reaching underneath your seat there should be a ticket or some type of thing for you to give a Bible away this one there it is right there hey man hey man as you prepare your tithe and offering this morning let me let you know of something that you need to be aware of if you are planning on volunteering for our pace family fest that's happening November the third fourth and fifth if you're planning on wanting to get involved and to help and to be a part of that we have a volunteer meeting that's happening right here in the main sanctuary at 5 p.m. do you say well I don't know what I can do we're gonna have multiple different spots here in the sanctuary that hey I want to help there then there will be a leader right there ready to help out I mean we've got youth stuff children stuff check in I mean any any number of things so if you're saying I want to get involved then be here tonight at 5 p.m. for that meeting and then we can get you available to be plugged into somewhere so again tonight at 5 volunteer meeting if you want to help for pace family fest I know that God has blessed my life enough that I'm so glad to be a giver in God's house this morning listen to me if you have never ever given and he said I want to prove God give in your tie that God requires us to give our tithing offering over and above that you're saying God I may not have much and God's not worried about the amount God just wants to see where your heart is at that's all that's all it's about so you there's multiple ways you can give if you're giving in cash you can grab an envelope drop it in the black buckets that you leave this morning you can give online for those that are watching online or on the app however it is but I know God will bless you for whatever you give this morning so let's pray and ask God blessings over it this morning well we thank you to Lord for your spirit that's here we thank you that we already feel your presence flowing through this building I should bless the offering bless the gift and the giver this morning meet and multiply it for the needs of your kingdom and we give you praise honor and glory for that in Jesus mighty name amen praise the Lord everybody you glad to be here this morning are you glad to be sitting beside the person you're sitting beside you all right with that some of y'all look like you needed to check asked a neighbor beside you you're gonna worship with me this morning or what he has to walk up with me wherever I go man I believe in the mail you probably received a special invitation then if you didn't please let me know they I don't know if they could even put it on the screen they didn't know I was gonna get up and do this but we are gonna be celebrating Pastor Roger 60th birthday I won't be here it about this event that we're gonna have in fact I don't even have the day can somebody tell me the date it's October the 24th is when I'm 22nd it's when we're celebrating I know I know it's the 24th but it's the 22nd that we're gonna celebrate the morning service is going to be pastor appreciation day and how many of you appreciate your pastor amen amen appreciate him so much he's going to be we're gonna be celebrating his 33rd a year in ministry praise God and then well yeah I know but you're the pastor and then the nighttime we're gonna have a special birthday party I want you to be a part of it so please if you can RSVP online and let us know that you're coming so we'll have enough food for everybody there's gonna be food how many of you want to come yeah yeah yeah and lots of cake and lots of fun there's a lot of surprises he didn't even know what's gonna happen he just knows that that's his day and he has to be there so please join us this is my face when I don't know what's gonna happen yeah he really doesn't I'm really being good at this I'm not telling them usually it's hard to keep things from your spouse but I am not letting him know nothing so we're gonna have a blast Sunday night please make sure you come but I really need you RSVP I love you congregation you look so good welcome to the house the Lord I'll be in Australia it's a hard thing to receive honestly it's the 60th thing if you know what I mean I was trying to do some work getting my father's home put together the other day and I had some guys with me and they were helping me out and I needed to get the roof washed so I thought to myself self you're 20 years old get on the roof have you ever gone somewhere that you said once you got there why am I standing on the roof my son came around the corner said dad then somebody snapped snapped a picture of me in the full court press position holding on to dear life I pray Jesus if you'll help me get down from this roof I will let younger men do these things and so none of that is relevant so we're gonna move on because I've got something very exciting that's gonna take place this morning it's called bringing in new members into the family of God here at pace so Jeremy would you please get me out of this hole that I'm in right now pastor coming for membership this morning we have Jessica Barnhill Nick and Rosa Duncan aid and Mary France Galvan Nazira Lila Jake and Stacy Parkinson Adrian Parkinson Becky Raceler Alonzo and my Lisa Simon Ariana Simon Krista Sumner Nathan and Naomi Tackett I see Isaac Steffi Dakota Thomas praise God what a blessing amen what a blessing we're delighted that they have chosen to become members and there are a number of things that I want to remind this congregation of as I let them know what their responsibility is to their church and what the church's responsibility is to them the Bible says in Ephesians 2 and 19 now you are no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven but you're members of God's very own family citizens of God's country and you belong to God's household with every other Christian with all of the effects that have happened with COVID and everything else and people falling out of the church or walking away I am thrilled this morning to be able to say that these have chosen to become members and step into the body of Christ here at Pace Assembly there are certain responsibilities and so forth but we don't bring in new members because they are wanting to join a club this is not a club this is this is a desire of your heart because you hear the vision and the mission of this house and you want to be a part of it and help perpetuate it in multiple ways and so for that reason there are some things that I want to share with you as I do with this entire congregation because if you're a member or an attendee here there is no respecter of persons and who receives ministry from this church regardless of you're a member or not but as members there are certain responsibilities that come up for you to be able to be a part of and here's some of them that I will share with all of you now to remind us all and to bring them to this wonderful group of people here's if you'll put it on the wall for me it says I will protect the unity of my church by acting in love toward one another by speaking in positive support of the church and its leadership and by staying focused on the vision and the mission of the church the devil's job is to divide the church's job is to unite that means regardless of race color creed background whatever that it may be Pace assembly is open to whosoever will just like Jesus said and we need to take care one of another of the body of Christ if one of us is hurting as the Scripture says we all hurt that's the reason why we pray for one another that's the reason why when you're going through grief and difficult times there are people just like this and people that are watching online that are part of the body of Christ at Pace assembly that unity must be protected in the time that we're in secondly I will share the responsibilities of my church how do you do that by praying for its growth by inviting the un-church to attend I remind you I'm not into church growth by church transfer I don't call that church growth I call that something different and people come from time to time from different churches and that's wonderful and I I'm not a proselyter we don't go after other church members but our primary focus is to reach those who have not been reached and believe me in the fastest growing county in all of Florida in Santa Rosa County there's plenty of souls to reach that have yet to be reached can you say a man to that inviting the un-church to attend and warmly welcoming those who visit why do you pastor why do you pastor tea every time get up and tell us go and shake hands with somebody and all that because I don't want you to feel like that you're the only one or you can't have a friend if you'll show yourself friendly you'll have a friend and so we kind of provoke that a little bit by going out and telling you to shake hands with somebody because that's what helps us to warmly welcome everybody into this building thirdly I'll serve in the ministry of the church by first discovering my gifts and talents what is it that God has placed on the inside of you that you need to be doing whatever that is you need to be up and about it if for some reason or another that it doesn't fit and you move to a different area that's fine and dandy but whatever you do don't not do something in the kingdom of God next by developing my personal discipleship that's what teaching Bible classes and Bible studies that we have here at the church and your own personal time of devotion and then by equipping myself to serve other people how can I do that you've just heard the opportunity pace family fest is coming up the first weekend of November and it is not a carnival it is not a rodeo even though those things are all involved it is a community outreach to bring others that are out that might not normally darken the doors of these churches this church to come into it and for us to meet them greet them and give them a very special invitation to find out that Christians are normal people that love people I wish I had an amen right there but I'll amen myself next I will support I will support the testimony of my church by first faithfully attending thank you for that one amen I want you to know your pastor faithfully attends Pace Assembly of God not because you pay me but because I love being here but by faithfully attending faithfully living a godly life listen don't be giving somebody a piece of your mind at the mall with a big Pace Assembly t-shirt on get an olive Baptist t-shirt if you're gonna give him a piece of your mouth I'll support the testimony of my church by faithfully supporting my church with my finances I want you to know we don't have underwriters and I can assure you based in the governmental structure of the Assemblies of God they're not sending checks back this way okay with this church is supported by the faithful giving of every person in this place and those that are watching online and because of that because of that you are in a place right now that is 100% debt-free ladies and gentlemen that's why the faithfulness of your giving is so important now let me say this to you just because this church is debt-free doesn't mean you stop giving they don't need no no no my friend there is ministry going on all the time and your faithful support week after week believe me now if you just want to pick up the light bill with Florida power and light say I'll do that every month that's great the last one was $13,000 I didn't hear no praise the Lord's out of that all I heard with gasps that's that's the function that's going on here there's a lot that's taking place so your faithful giving your faithful giving is what makes that take place and then I want everybody to stand with me this morning and I'd like for our board and their wives ministers their wives to come and stand behind these that are right here in the front if you will please and I'd like for everybody in this church please if you'll put that last slide up to say this because this is the mission this is the call this is what we're after this is what we're about as I told this group of people in the class a little bit ago and if I get some of my ministers to spread out yeah are very good very good I want everybody covered everything we do at Pace Assembly is about souls reaching one more I don't care if we're playing a softball game or we're in a Bible class it's all about souls I don't care if it's Pace Family Fest I pray that thousands of people will come if getting them on a on a Ferris wheel out there and one of us getting to talk to him about Jesus Christ that's what matters to me that's what we're gonna do so today all of you that are standing in this line if you will with us as being a part of this family now we want you to be able to say it and everybody in this congregation say it right out loud with me join in please Pace Assembly is committed to see people say if you believe that say a good amen I'd like for you to lay your hands gently upon their shoulder because we're now going to pray the favor and the blessing of God on this house upon your house and to the third and fourth generation God is going to will it so and I want this entire congregation to stretch your hand this way because family means something to us and now these are coming into the family of God here and we give God the praise father in the name of Jesus Christ we lay hands upon these that are coming before you now Lord to become a member of Pace Assembly and Lord it's important to us and important to them to be able to have a place of stability a place where Lord they can find the presence of God and the nearness of your spirit to rest upon them to be able to see your hand oh God upon their life and to watch as they develop and grow and Lord their family beyond them that will develop and grow watching online that family members may receive the touch and the anointing of God upon their life so we lay hands upon them now and we ask that the favor of Pace Assembly in all of the 90 years of his existence now to come upon their house and upon their life in the fullness of your divine spirit we believe right now mighty God that you're not only able but that you are willing and desiring for these to become not just a part but Lord a functioning part of the body of Christ at Pace Assembly we give you the glory we give you the honor and we give you the praise in Jesus mighty name and everybody shot a great big amen would you turn around to somebody right there is going to shake your hand and welcome you into the family of God just turn right around there God bless you come on give them a great big God bless you this morning would you do it let them know how much you love and appreciate them if you see some that are coming back to your scene welcome them let them know how much that you appreciate them in the family of God at Pace Assembly hallelujah what a blessing to be able to see what God is doing at Pace can you say amen amen in a moment I'm gonna bring you the word of God and they're gonna come and lead us back into worship I want you to prepare your heart for the word of God as you're standing this morning let me give you something to praise God about you might have been seeing God's phenomenon happening in multiple university campuses across the United States where revival has been breaking out and believe me there's always gonna be naysayers there's always gonna be those that are gonna try to tamp it down close to us over the past several weeks Auburn University and Sneets Community University if I'm saying that right that particular those particular campuses have been experiencing a revival among the young people and young adults at those universities here's what makes it even better they've had hundreds that have been baptized and warning and desiring a relationship with Jesus Christ and the outpouring of his spirit upon their life but along comes an atheist liberal organization from Wisconsin to come down and try to throw water on a revival and tell that campus that they are not to be using the name of Jesus or to be able to stir up religious kind of activities or services because of the separation of church and state well I want you to know that separation is not to keep the church out of people's lives and it's certainly not to keep the university from being that free place that people are able to speak and yet they try to tamp it down thank God for governor Kay Ivy apparently you read the article who stepped up and said we're not gonna have some liberal organization from up north gonna come down to Alabamians and tell us that we can't worship God I'd say don't try that in a small town God bless you let's worship there's something about the names that we've heard there's something spoken the name of Jesus and he reached right into your situation and we give you praise and glory for it in the mighty name of Jesus everybody believes it shot a great big a man I want you to touch about three or four people and tell them it's Jesus it's Jesus it's Jesus that you got all seated and everything grab your Bibles and stand back a book of Genesis chapter number 39 the book of Psalm chapter 41 Genesis 39 down in verse 21 how many of you believe God set you up for the touch of God this morning Genesis 39 if you found chapter 39 verse 21 if you found it say amen if you're still looking for Genesis we got a Bible class it happens how many of you brought your Bibles this morning yeah hold them up so I can see because I know how you are look at there look don't you love that I was talking after the service last weekend with Pastor Hage a little bit and he was telling me about the occasion of him preaching to over a million people at one time in Nigeria and he said when he stood up to get ready to preach the Word of God he asked them to turn in their Bibles to the passage of Scripture that he had called out and he said that it sounded like the thunderous rapids of Niagara as pages were turning all in those millions of people literally million there was a there was a mile this way and a mile this way and a mile and a half that way of a sea of people I don't know how many is watching online this morning but I know this oh wow we've got people watching here in Pensacola in Alabama in Kansas in Brazos Valley Texas we welcome our sister church in Sicily Italy this morning they're watching we welcome you into this house of worship today I'm gonna tell you one thing wherever and whatever country you're in the name of Jesus works the same way there's power in the name of Jesus can you say amen hallelujah Genesis 39 verse 21 one verse of Scripture from the life of Joseph and the Bible says but the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison I'm gonna use him as a little bit of a backdrop this morning as you flip over to Psalm 41 and read with me from the beginning to the end as the psalmist David is writing this many commentaries believe that it was during a time of him struggling with his own son Absalom it has connotations in it of the struggle between Jesus and Judas it is David that is speaking that is having difficulty himself and he writes to us from personal experience I truly believe there's some people in this building and watching online that are going to be able to see themselves in this passage of Scripture verse 1 blessed is he that consider it the poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble the Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and doubt will not deliver him under the will of his enemies now I'm about to prove to you that God makes your bed up for you every day the Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou will make all his bed in his sickness I'm gonna tell you I'm such a friend of the Lord that he makes my bed and I said Lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned against thee my enemies speak evil of me when shall he die and his name perish that's what they say and if he come to me see he speak of vanity his heart gathereth iniquity to itself when he goeth abroad and he telleth it in other words in verse 6 there was social media in the days of David verse 7 all that hate me whisper together against me against me do they devise my hurt an evil disease say they cleave it fast unto him and now he had a lot he lieth he shall rise up no more they're saying David is gone David says in verse 9 yea my own familiar friend and whom I trusted somebody close to me which did eat up my bread hath lifted up his heel against me watch David turn it but thou oh Lord be merciful unto me and raise me up that I may requite them verse 11 Yorta mark this by this I know thou favorest me because mine enemies doth not triumph over me and as for me thou upholdest me in my integrity and seteth me before thy face forever blessed be the God the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting amen and amen can you say your praise with that right there that's a that's a verse that's a chapter you need to get in your spirit today by this I know that my enemies have not triumphed over me that verse of Scripture let me just share this with you before I begin to preach fact I'm already preaching by this I know that thou favorest me because my enemy doth not triumph over me one one translation says by this I know thou favorest me because my enemy cannot shout me down I just want to tell you the devil does not have the last word on your life God is gonna have the last word on your life can you say a man to that today come on lift up both of those hands today and let's believe God father in the name of Jesus Christ may the Spirit of the Lord that makes it easy to preach come upon me now in the ears of every here both here and watching online around the world may receive the engrafted Word of God for it all we give you glory honor and praise and everybody says a great big amen look at your neighbor and help me preach a little and tell them this it's just favor look at somebody tell them it's just favor that's all it's just favor just favor I've got a question for you since January of this year since January if you'll just take a moment and reflect have you experienced God's favor and special blessing in some frame or another if you have lift that hand up and let's give witness to it look around the room since January you have found God intervening in your behalf never forget it there'll come a time when the enemy and even yourself will want to say what's next but whatever you do if you want what's next you got to remember therefore what for back there there is a difference between being religious and having an experience with God people speak of their faith so much oh yes I've got faith but if it's only head knowledge and not a true heart experience with God it is ineffective I want you to know that God's Word can be trusted God's thank you for those three a man's God's Word can be trusted those who take God at His Word are positioning themselves to receive the blessings and the promises of the Word of God but I want you to know something the Bible is not effective just because you came and carried it to church it's effective only when you hide it in your heart the word grace and favor that's found multiple times throughout the word of God are connected with one another in the Old Testament Hebrew the word favor is actually the same described as grace in the New Testament that Greek translation also describes grace and favor in synonymous terms the Greek word keros is the term we get grace and favor but there is a difference between the practical application of grace and favor here is an example of being favor when the angel came to Mary the mother of Jesus he declared Hail Mary thou art highly favored among women he was saying there is a greater measure of favor on you than on others now let me stop right here before somebody has a problem with the Bible God is no respecter of persons but you need to remember that the book says God chooses whom he will bless and how he will bless God will show his favor in special blessings and you see it throughout the Word of God for his purposes I want you to know when you are favored with something that may be above someone else that's not the time to beat your chest because that favor could mean that you're led into a very difficult situation Paul was chosen to carry the gospel to the Gentiles in the book of Acts chapter 9 verse 20 verse 15 Moses was chosen to lead the people out of Egyptian bondage it was favor on both of them but I can tell you both of them felt the weight and the burden of that favor upon their life grace and favor are the free gifts of God grace is the reward for faith in Christ and Him crucified favor is a reward for acting and walking in the promises and the Word of God in other words when a person repents of their sins and places their faith in Jesus finish work on the cross for the forgiveness of their sins the Bible said according to Romans 10 verses 9 and 10 you are saved if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved nothing added to the cross nothing taken away for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourself the Bible says it is the gift of God I love the fact that God requires of us faith it is impossible to please the Lord without faith I love the fact that he requires faith of us and yet he's the one who gave us the faith in order to place it back in God God will never require something of you that he didn't already place in you and give you the ability to place it back in him grace is unearned favor but favor and grace can actually increase as we walk with our faith positionally at the cross and walk in the obedience of God's Word when a believer places their faith in the cross exclusively keeping it positionally there for life and for living you're saved but trusting which is another definition of faith is submitting to the will of God and acting upon his promises by faith trusting then is walking in the steps of divine favor not because he's coercing me but because I choose to obey the Lord I want you to hear me there is fruit unto repentance there is a way that seems right into a man the Bible says but the end of that way is destruction the ways of the Lord will make you rich the blessings of the Lord the Bible says has riches in it and no sorrow in other words if I'll take God's Word and begin to walk it out by my own desire to know him to draw closer to him there is favor that will rest upon my life super natural favor that will rest upon my life that I did not earn nor could I get him to like me anymore he just gave me favor it's not an accident that we walk in the favor of God it is an act of our will to obey him and every word and apply our hearts the Bible says unto wisdom so get this favor is not a formula if I do this that's gonna get God to like me more the Bible said in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us I'm persuaded he loved me more even while I was a sinner because I wasn't thinking anything about him but now that I'm saved now I want to know more about him you're the one who told me that you know the favor of God has come upon your life since January I want to let you know that it wasn't an accident that you were chosen for that favor to come upon you and it wasn't because that he chose you to put that favor on you because he likes you more than someone else or he wants you to beat your chest about it he wants you to be able to declare as a testimony that if it had not been for the Lord who gave me this favor to start with I wouldn't be standing here right now breathing God's good air the Bible says over and over again it's filled with the promises of favor note this if you're writing some scripture down here's some good ones to get some five verse 12 for you oh Lord will bless the righteous watch this with favor you will surround him with a shield that tells me very clearly that if I will place my faith in him and walk in righteousness he will protect my life with favor Proverbs 835 for whosoever finds me the Lord says finds life and obtains favor from the Lord here's Proverbs 12 and 2 a good man obtains favor from the Lord but a man of wicked intentions he will condemn here's Proverbs 14 and 9 fools mock at sin but among the upright there is favor are you seeing a pattern here walking with God will bring favor into your life it's not an accident that God will place his favor upon you and the way you walk will determine perhaps even the way generations after you can receive favor or not this one I love perhaps more than all of these scriptures in Proverbs 16 15 in the light of the King's countenance is life and his favor is a cloud of the latter rain if I can just get in the face of the Lord there's glory upon my life in his countenance and all I've got to do is look up because in the presence of the Lord there will come the latter rain upon my life that's favor I said that's favor there are things I'm thinking about right now just in the materialistic realm that God has blessed me with just this year and guess what look at your neighbor right now tell them and the year's not over you better hear what I'm saying if you knew what was hanging over your head you would devour this Bible to know him and not his stuff I don't want to praise God for the blessing I want to draw near to the blesser y'all didn't hear what I said some of you get excited when you go to Sam's and pick up a large quantity of paper towels and you think wow I've come into the blessing I want you to know it's better for you to know the owner then you can get everything that's inside of that y'all don't hear what I said if I know the bless or the blessing will be there favor is not good looks favor is not good looks it's not charisma it's not making right connections some people come to church to sell their car if I get the right connection man who you don't know who I know that I know you name dropper you drop names just to get in the door and you don't understand God's favor can put you past the door in the room y'all didn't hear what I said favor is not being self-consumed with financial and material things because after a while what else can people give you what else can you get Solomon said I own it all and it's all vanity to me it's emptiness it's void favor is not a positive confession I'm not sick I'm not sick I'm not sick yes you are cover your mouth favor is faithfulness watch this and consistent walking in the obedience of God's Word being faithful gives God the opportunity to show his favor to us I'm gonna try that on one more time being faithful gives God the opportunity to show his favor to us what do you mean if you're not there when he starts passing out the blessings let me say it like you understand it you must be present to win faithfulness what do you mean I'm talking about being faithful to God come on I'm on test I'm on I'm on poke right here a little surgery before we get to the good part are you faithful to God are you fickle with God fickle people don't get favor you know any fickle people look straight at me fickle they're here one moment they're they there I'll be there at four o'clock oh I'm sorry I'm six hours late come on somebody I know one thing I've seen favor happen in my life over and over and over again and I've been placed in some locations and in rooms with people that I knew we're far and away above my intelligence level and I should not be in this room but the Lord come on somebody but the Lord said I want you to get in this experience I want to favor you in this room because what God is going to do later on with your life is depending on whether or not you can be obedient let me put it like this if you'll be faithful in the few things God will make your ruler overmending if you can't handle the 10 bucks in your pocket you can't handle the 10 million that will come later on if the Lord decides to bless you come on somebody faithfulness to God faithfulness to the house of God talk about that a little bit more this morning you know what your kids are in this building this morning because they need to see the faithfulness of their parents and their grandparents faithfulness to serve faithfulness to love I love you yeah when was the last time you told him getting quiet in here I told you surgery faithfulness to give faithfulness to worship faithfulness to obey faithfulness on your job somebody actually had to write an article that I read last night about the biblical standards of not being lazy on your job let me stop right here do a little pastoral care for you some of you are smiling right now we have been plagued in recent years with laziness apathy can't find people I have people call oh I want a job then they don't show up got a day care across the street if you need a job we got jobs waiting on you come on somebody told me this past week said yeah I said we had some but they wouldn't come back to from lunch on time well when you got 15 babies running around the room you better be on time otherwise whoever showed up late the kids are gonna be in charge of that classroom for the rest of the day how many of you know what I'm talking about right now don't you be late getting up and your kids get up before you they will tear the Christmas tree to the ground you know what I'm talking about we've got to combat this lazy spirit that is upon the United States of America with a group of Christian people who understand diligence and faithfulness to God and to men so faith in the cross of Christ gives us here's some things for you to write down access to the door and through the door of faith here's what the Bible says in Romans 5 therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom also we have access by faith under this grace wherewith we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God that's a powerful statement access to be able to have access to God by the grace of God is gonna lead me somewhere God said the door of grace is open right now there will be a day when the door of grace is closed but right now the door of grace is wide open and he said I don't care who you are or where you come from the door is open for you and for those of your family and to as many as are called by his name ladies and gentlemen I don't know what you're thinking God for but I'm thinking that God opened the door Jesus Christ and let me even get to the threshold we have access to God do you realize what that means it's only been just a few hundred years ago that we actually begin to realize that the just shall live by faith and now I don't have to go through the preacher I don't have to go through the Pope I don't have to talk to the deacon I don't have to talk to you you you or any of you I can go straight to the father through Jesus Christ and have access because the Lord has opened the door of grace thank God for grace I'm just telling you you didn't get in because you were good enough you didn't get in the door because you paid enough money or that you were such a nice guy or what you did none of that matters ladies and gentlemen the only way you got in is you were graced into the door come on somebody somebody led me there the spirit of the Lord drew me there and there was Jesus the door standing wide open and said come on in I thank God for grace don't you grace let you get here today and mercy let you stay you don't need grace until you need grace and you don't eat mercy until you need mercy but I guarantee you I've stood in enough courtrooms and watch people have to deal with situations and stand before that judge and I've been called up to be a witness for somebody and all that kind of stuff going I can tell I was called up because I drove too fast to get to my girlfriend's house when I was younger y'all be glad to know I got my license back long before I passed for this church I'm tell you it's a sobering thing to stand there my daddy told me he said plead no lo contendry I said what is that means he said it means no contest you and either right or wrong okay no I couldn't even say it I'm 15 years old it didn't make any difference because I was standing there already my knees were knocking sweat pouring off of my little 15 year old head because I pulled out in front of somebody and they teabown me wreck my mom and daddy's brand new florist van I was so nervous when the trooper showed up it was a cold day outside I'm standing out there and all I can think about is can somebody get me to the bathroom I don't think this has happened any of you I'm talking about grace in favor here ladies and gentlemen when I told the trooper I need he said well mr. Roger we don't need you to sit down in here and I need to take the report I said sir would you mind if I could just go to the restroom just for a moment he said no problem get in the car I don't know if you've ever had it but I have I call this favor because both lanes were blocked and that van was sitting out there wrecked and their car was there and people were backed up for miles and I got in the troopers car that was all nice and warm he turned his light on flipped on his siren and I had a police escort to the bathroom across the street I'm talking about favor y'all now you may not call that favor but I can assure you there may be a time in your life favor gives me access to things I wouldn't normally have access to when you stand before the judge you're not asking or trying to plead some case that you know you're already guilty of you're asking the Lord give me the judge give me grace give me mercy I'm on the mercy of the court ladies and gentlemen if you start thinking about the fact that if it hadn't been for the Lord who even let you get to the cross you wouldn't worry about whether or not you got another blessing in this life or not you just say thank God I made it to the door and anything other than that is just a blessing in my life race makes us accepted at the door of the beloved but watch this I'm talking about favor this morning favor is the riches of his grace in the room some believers have only gotten to the door and stopped oh thank God for grace wait a minute in the room if you'll come all you know what the Lord is saying come on in I don't think you heard that let me try this the Lord is saying come on in not worthy come on in do nothing I said come on in because if I could ever get you in this room and you see the favor that is waiting on your life you won't play around and whore around with the other gods you'll say I found the one in whom my soul of us all the way in this is the way some of you are traveling just in cases Jesus thing don't work out but I'm persuaded ladies and gentlemen that God has been better to you in salvation than the devil ever was in sin I don't think you hear what I'm saying I said there's favor if you'll get all the way in the room if you won't play this I'm gonna be out here just in case this thing don't work out and get all the way in the room there is favor in the room here's what the Bible says in Ephesians 1 and 4 according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of his children by Jesus Christ to himself according to his good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he had made us accepted in the beloved in whom we have redemption through the blood the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of his grace I say to you there's more waiting on you on the inside than there is out there this word accepted in verse number six means this it means highly favored look at somebody tell them I've been highly favored because the more you know about God and his word the more you trust him now stay with me you can't have favor if you don't trust I want your favor God but I want it on my time I need it here you're not gonna be able to dictate to God who passes it out as he wills how you're gonna get it I like it with cheese and some onions on the side that's not what God's saying God is saying if you'll come on and get all the way in the room the favor I have is for things that you have no idea that you need let me let me let me say it like this you remember that last opportunity you had for the promotion that you shouldn't have got and yet the Lord went ahead and opened the door and said come on in and sit down and you got favor with your boss favor with those that were in leadership do you remember that it wasn't just you that was putting the hard work into school all the sudden you start elevating and God starts opening your mind and the next thing you know favor comes on you and they start calling you cum laude and everything else under the sun can I tell you I know you thought that you were smart enough to get the contract but you didn't even know them until the Lord set you up and brought you into the room and all of a sudden God begins to put favor on your life and there you are standing with the people that you didn't think you'd ever even meet you know why because God has favor just at the right time when he knows how to give it your to be ready to say Lord I'm all in trust is built by a consistent action over a period of time now watch this stay with me right here if you mess up if you sin placing your faith in Christ and uncrucified and keeping it there forgiveness is already available but it is only by the consistent conduct of walking by faith that you learn to trust God and if you don't build that faith by walking with God in obedience to his word hear me now this is where a lot of people found themselves that were church members and church attendees during COVID because they listened to people that they didn't trust and they gave them their trust talk to me somebody if you're not careful to build trust by walking with God and knowing him and learning of him then unbelief will undermine your faith and trust in God about the time you need to have a step of faith that's maybe a big deal inside of your life if you're not careful every voice under the sun will tell you all the different ways that you don't need to trust God I can see it over my life constantly let me take it to you and your relationships when there has been a breach of trust between you and someone consistent right conduct can get people to trust again but don't tell me how long the process will take the more you trivialize trivialize my pain the longer it takes for me to recover so I want to say to everybody here you're going to be the offender or the offender at some point and God measures our forgiveness how we forgive and stay consistent but he understands your hurt and your pain there's a process to that so don't try to dictate to someone when it's supposed to be over if you hurt them this is another message altogether if you hurt them you broken the trust now you've got to earn that back by consistent faithful living are you hearing what I'm saying but don't tell the offended person you better hurry up and get over it somebody says get over it if you were in it you wouldn't be quick to tell me to get over it but I want to caution you here because you can only be in a place of hurt and pain so long before it turns on you and begins to infect your soul not denying the pain and the hurt I'm talking about favor here y'all because some people are mad at God and they're wondering why God ain't giving him favor right now you know why because you're still playing the victim you're holding out on God how many of you know God knows your heart you better pay attention this message right here this is gonna help you God knows your heart I hear people say that God knows my heart oh yes he does know your heart he knows your heart he knows your email he knows your text he knows your telephone number and all of your contacts he knows even all your doctor's name when you get older in your little black book now all your girlfriends are gone now you got doctor this and doctor that find anologist and go there he knows it all in fact the Bible said in Psalm 103 he knows my frame he knows the very skeletal structure of my life and for his purposes he will grant favor but I cannot dictate to God what that's going to be nor can I dictate to someone else when I have been offended therefore I must lay myself on the mercy of the court and say Lord in your timing come on somebody but don't stay the victim forever you've have to here's what the cry is of the psalmist or of the prophet is there no bomb in Gilead is there a place where you can heal this hurt because here's here's the reason why because we look at it one dimensionally and God's looking at it from heaven's perspective and he knows your next step could step into a place of favor and let me say it like this this cliche may have been used a number of times you may have heard it you may not but here it is here it is favor one day of favor is worth a lifetime of labor I'm free flying right now how do you know that's going to happen well let's pull out a witness let's pull out Queen Esther thank God Joseph and David yet I'll get there let's pull out Queen Esther who more to chaos says to her hey could it be that God has favored you has brought you to the kingdom for such a time as this this is your time but if you become a victim like the rest of your family and you don't step up to the plate now the Lord's gonna take care of them but you will have missed your moment of favor talk to me somebody so while I'm holding on to unforgiveness while I'm holding on to my anger while I'm still playing the victim and I'm not saying that there may not something to hurt you but I'm just telling you right now is not the time to hold on to it as soon as you can take the offer amp and say Lord I thank you and I don't know I'm gonna have to do that every day I'm gonna have to do it every hour I'm gonna have to say Lord you're gonna have to help me help me help me he understands all of that but when you're in the process of saying God I need your help God's got favor that's gonna release you in a moment in a day in a second that King thought in Esther's day that he had it all on a downhill drag and God gave Esther the right words at the right moment hey King sweetie I soaked in this butter bath all year long for you how do you like that smell I like that Esther you sure smell now you look nice Esther come on in here now you got to remember in the back of Esther's mind this is the same king that just killed his previous wife there's a motivation for being nice and smelling nice she was walking in the favor of God she didn't know that he could have thrown the switch at any moment and slaughtered them all but God had such favor on her life that one day she walked in and took a step and all of the enemies that were after them suddenly we're gone I came to tell somebody here this morning don't you worry about what's going on out there you just walked with God and smell nice before the king and one day you're gonna take a step and you're gonna say where are they and God's gonna say don't you worry about your enemies I've got them covered vengeance is mine I will repay you just walk with me I got favor in the next breath that you bring let me tell you a few things and I'm gonna be out of your way here's one favor comes out of places of affliction this is where Joseph comes in I love the story of Joseph I may preach a series on it here soon Joseph comes to the to the end of the story and we only pick up the last portion of it because Joseph says he says listen you you you brothers you minute for evil but God who you'd better never let God get in there because he will take what looks like is going way downhill in a crash in a burn and God will flip it around and say I've got favor on your life watch me turn it around you minute for evil but God meant it for good and I'm gonna tell you you can I say it the way I want to say it you are bad to the bone when you can have favor in the pit and get an Uber ride all the way to Egypt and get favor in the palace come on somebody and that's one thing but but but then he went to the prison and he still had favor on his life now ladies and gentlemen you only get that when you're walking with the Lord when you say no no Potter for his wife you're going to get out of my life I don't need you I need the anointing more than I need that jacket right there and run leave the jacket and keep your anointing because it's just favor by the time we see Joseph come to the conclusion it's in his affliction that favor comes out and the next thing you know I mean we blink our eyes now Joseph's living it out we blink our eyes and the next thing we see is Joseph riding in the chariot behind Pharaoh I'm not sure that I don't know I'm not sure that Pharaoh had a full comprehension of the fact that Joseph was a Jew but that Jewish brother knew how to get the grain in he knew how to calculate it all he said we're gonna put seven years up so in seven years of famine everybody's gonna eat ladies and gentlemen I would to God Joseph was in charge of this government right now because it would surely be running like he had favor in his affliction and look what he says at the end of his life God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction you may have haters all around you but when God puts his hand on your life the haters have got to shut up and be silent come on somebody here's another one failure does not mean you can't have favor look at man David the man after God's own heart that failed over and over again how many of you can relate to that if your hands not lifted your full of pride Satan is after you to stop your obedience to God and his word by telling you this you're unworthy to receive anything from God look what you did look what you did wait a minute that was 50 years ago that I spit out of the bus come on it was a sin to spit out of the bus but I did it I confess none he all did I confess brought me up on charges said you're gonna wash this entire bus little me was gonna wash that entire bus I wished to God I'd never spit out of the bus then my daddy comes in did you spit out of the bus favor favor comes favor comes in amazing and God says I don't care what you have done see David was a man after God's own heart who knew how to repent see if you don't know how to get low you'll never go high I'm gonna try that on this side over here cuz I'm sacrilegious if you don't know how to get low you will never go high David knew how to get low and lower and in the very song that we read right here David is repenting before God was David perfect are you kidding me he's looking over the balcony he's murdering his best friend he's doing all kinds of stuff and yet God said this man he's like after my heart watch me favor him where's all your boys Jacob you're right here it's all this all of them because there's a problem the oil of favor is not flowing I put it on your eldest and he looks like he could have handled it come on somebody he looks like he'd make a great president of the United States but they know would he couldn't shake it out of that bottle have you got any other boys well in Pace Florida ain't nobody knows who he is and I'm not sure I even want to count him as my son but I'll tell you he's been out there singing these love songs to these sheep because it's the only ones he can get around and they accept him bring him in here ladies and gentlemen if you want to see the example of favor David was a little boy he was not schooled like the other boys were he was schooled in the presence of the Lord he got his master's degree by talking to the master come on somebody it makes no difference who's in the room if the oil ain't flowing on him ain't no favor but the one that you think is the least likely to succeed and the one that looks like they've been so low and so down and they've done so much and they got this and they got that God said that's the one I chose and out of it comes the oil flowing on the top of your head because that's just favor I didn't earn it and furthermore I don't deserve it because I can't get nobody to talk to me out here see I know you're in your church garb and you got your church face on and you look all nice and everything but outside of your church garb you would give them a piece of your mind been around some church folk when they've been out there outside of church I can feel the conviction floating across the auditorium favor doesn't mean that you are failures don't mean that you can't have favor you need to know that God's not talking to the devil to find out whether or not he could bless you I'm throwing it right in the devil's face this morning because I know I've messed up have I got a witness in here I know I messed up one time how many of you messed up one time how many of you messed up two times I can't get no takers how many messed up three times let me jump exponentially how many of you messed up like both your hands and your toes come on somebody and yet the Lord the Lord the Lord went ahead and put the blessing on you anyway come on somebody I don't have time to play no church games with you I came to tell you the devil can't do a thing about the favor of God upon your life when God gets ready to bless you he ain't gonna ask the devil mother may I he's just gonna pour it on you like he's doing right now somebody give him glory for the favor that's on your life favor favor will bring criticism look at that look at look at Joseph look at Joseph and his brothers the brothers look at him and say look the dreamers coming the dreamers coming I know I got some my siblings are watching online right now so I'm gonna try to be careful but they're watching online for a reason I'm the youngest of four and by the way my name is Joseph I had a dream one time about all of my siblings and my parents the first one that crossed a little bridge I won't go into the details first one to cause a bridge was my mother she went on to be with the Lord she was the first one to die then my dad and it looked like I was supposed to go over but I came back and found my siblings and I say come on y'all we got to stay in this thing because they've led the way we got to keep on walking with God I told him a few years ago I said I want y'all to know that dream I had meant that all y'all gonna bow down to me at some point you can't stop favor you can hate on favor but favors favor come on somebody and I'm making no excuses about it mama's the one listen my daddy wanted to name me Jesse but he said no in Jesse it's gonna be Joseph mama said and look at here look at here every time I start writing a scripture out and I need to see favor Joseph keeps popping up right here to tell me that regardless of what the enemies tried to do to kill me destroy me wreck me mess me up God has been tracking with me with favor in spite of my critics in spite of those who hate on me I came to tell you the devil can't do anything and neither can your haters go ahead and serve the Lord and watch God put favor on you and your children let the critics criticize and the Lord will baptize in favor favor is supposed to increase in your life the Bible says it like this where sin does about my God you can't out send God's forgiveness what have you done big VIP center pastor you don't know I'll tell you what's the truth I I took some at Fenton all one time I smoke weed I did this I did that well you haven't even surpassed the guy on the front row who's a jewelry thief you know they know we had one of them among us did you can I tell you we got some drug addicts out here and we got some hormone girls out here and we got a little bit of everything that's out here and watching online but you know what grace open the door and favor said come on in I got you covered hallelujah I don't know if there's anybody still glad about the grace and favor of God but you're to give God about 15 seconds of something you haven't given him in a long time favor favor favor favor turn around and touch somebody and tell them favor on you favor on you favor on you favor on your children favor on your bank account favor on your car favor in your house favor in your mind favor in the blood favor favor in your church favor in your savings account God said I'll put favor on you and nobody can take it away somebody shout favor I gotta hurry up I gotta hurry up I gotta hurry up let me cut to the chase and give you Psalm 41 y'all ready for this I'm gonna give it to you in less than 10 minutes David starts out giving God the glory he said hello Lord thank you for the blessings when the poor are in trouble you're right there he said you Lord preserve him and keep him alive and you bless the earth and you you're the one who's taking care of the enemies and the Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of his language he's talking about himself then he gets down in verse four and he does what everybody who's gonna receive favor needs to do be merciful and heal my soul forgive me I am guilty I have sinned come on church did you hear this repentance it's the one message that's not preached from behind pulpit today because nobody's wrong are they nobody's wrong we won't blame them blame them blame the government blame this what about your life and humbling yourself before God and saying I was wrong Lord correct me strengthen me and now raise me up I have sinned and come short of the glory of God he said now there's a problem he said my enemies are coming over to my house and when they saw me they start speaking evil of me and now they're telling it all over town come on follow me now he says a matter of fact they're whispering against me saying things that hurt me have you ever had people whisper on you how will you know the whispers when you walk in the room they stop talking as soon as you get anywhere around whispers there are billions of whispers online every day here's something out here I heard this like and you don't even know a real whole story you better hold your button pushing finger in the air before you push it and agree with something that you're gonna have egg on your face tomorrow morning and let me just say this to you why is why are the people whispering because the devil can only whisper in the presence of God now to don't get too loud they're saying things that hurt me David said they say they're passing the word around that I've got a disease oh not just any disease can I be playing with y'all okay good he said they're running around their mouth saying I got a venereal disease and that I'm gonna die because I'm laying here on my sick bed and these friends didn't come by to visit me or pray for me they only came by so they could find out the gossip I know you're real quiet right now because I'm reading all your email he said he said it would be one thing if it was somebody that I didn't know but he said it was somebody I invited into my own house that was my own familiar friend that I ate bread with that betrayed me the most it's a picture of Jesus and Judas even my close friend they lift up their heel they're not real friends they're pretend friends they're fake news the picture here literally describes like a horse that kicks the owner when he feeds him when you've been in that place like David and you don't know who you can trust because you've been hurt and wounded and talked about and you walk through some hard times I give to you ladies and gentlemen God what the enemy meant for evil God is gonna turn it around for good here's what David said in verse 10 but thou oh Lord but thou been talking about my enemies and all they're doing to me it hurts and pains and all that but thou oh Lord be merciful under me and raise me up that I might require them so that I can show them just how big of a God you are come on somebody and then along comes verse 11 and I'm coming to a close he says this with all this rhetoric and posting on social media and people talking about me yeah yeah my mama would say you ever had anybody yeah yeah on you well if you serve the Lord they gon yeah yeah on you again come on what we need to start a club the yeah yeah club come on somebody they just yapping their gums about stuff they don't have any clue about what they're talking about and along comes David and he says well I've seen all that they've been doing but you know what God none of it is getting near me by this I know that they'll favor us me because my enemies have not triumphed over me now watch this I haven't been winning very many battles lately but can you thank God neither has the devil I'm just gonna tell you I might not be taking a whole lot of ground right now but I can tell you the devil is backed up not because I did anything but because God said this is as far as you go buddy you have touched them you touch Job's life but he's still got favor and integrity I will raise him up and give him double for his trouble if you keep on walking with God God's got favor waiting on you inside the room by this I know and I love this translation by this I know that they'll favor us me because my enemies can't shout me down why don't we call you to shout under God with a voice of triumph because you don't need to let the devil have the last word in your life some of you have gotten a diagnosis and the doctor said this but I came to tell you whose report are you going to believe I choose to believe the report of the Lord and not only that but I'm gonna shout about the fact that I've got favor today and favor waiting on me tomorrow he said how are you getting this favor David he said well favors coming on me because God said I've got integrity I've been walking with God and been faithful to God and he is upholding me because I'm walking and living like I should talk to me somebody in other words God's grace has been carrying him but because he's been walking out with the Lord God's favor is going to pick him up in the face of the devil and you know what David said bless it be the Lord God who from everlasting to everlasting amen and amen you know what God's saying favor will give you promotion and favor will give you a praise come on somebody have you got favor on your life how many of you are expecting God's favor into your life pastor I need my children to be saved then blink your eyes a few times and send a prayer up and stay faithful because God's got favor hands on them right now and in the moment when you don't think it God's gonna snatch them and bring them in because God's favor is upon your life everybody that believes that shout hallelujah somebody I want you to get on your feet right now lift your hands and thank God that it's just favor it's just favor it's just favor it's just favor come on open your mouth and say it's just favor I know that I shouldn't be in this place but favor gives me access to your presence and in his presence his fullness of joy and at his right hand there's pleasure for evermore I just came to tell you today it's just favor pastor I don't know how I've survived it's just favor it's just favor I'm embarrassed anybody here this morning but this is probably one of the greatest illustrations of favor in this room right now listen to me was it 18 19 years ago 19 years ago this weekend hurricane Ivan came through here decimated this place but more than that there were four members of this congregation that went down in a plane crash and the parents of those kids are standing in this room this morning the nefs the kings it's not a weekend it comes by like this every year they're not thinking about it and when I stand up here and preach and I look out here and I see these people standing in this auditorium still able after all these years to lift their hands that's just favor ladies and gentlemen that's all I can say you can't do that in and of yourself the only way I'm able to keep on keeping on is because of the favor of God upon my life and I'm just gonna tell you more than not more than not they each one have had their opportunities I remember taking brother Neff and brother Gerald King on a road trip and when we got to that place here they go witnessing to somebody who needed the Lord inside of their life they didn't have to tell the whole story because when you've been cut to the core and you don't have words to come out of your mouth you know it's the Lord that put it down in your soul to give to somebody who's broken and wounded and hurting and I just want to let you know the only reason why you feel like that you're left out of God's plan and maybe God's left you and why did God do this and you're hanging on to that the only reason why you think that is because you think that somehow God has forgotten you or that God doesn't have some plan and that's very difficult because every one of us has been touched by some kind of grief some kind of pain the only reason why we think the way we do of our own self is because we don't know who's standing right beside us and what they had to go through in order to be standing in this room right now boy I feel the presence of God in this place right now somebody gonna get healed today all the way through your entire being today you're gonna be able to receive the favor of God upon your life God's been trying to get you into the room and he's had to push you and he's had to pull on you and there you are standing at the door because you don't think that you can receive what God has for you but I just came to tell you favor ain't fair ladies and gentlemen favors just favor and God said come on in the room come on in the room I've got something for you that you need and that's what he's wanting there are people in this room that I feel like God is tugging on you right now for prayer and I'm gonna ask you to step out from where you are and come right now to this offer come on come on come on you know who you are I don't have a specific call if you need to give your life to Jesus do it right now but some of you been waiting and you've been questioning God and you're hurting and you're wounded and you're cut and you're even bleeding this morning internally we can't see it outside but we see it on the inside the Lord knows what's going on on the inside come on bring your whole family I don't care come on I'm what I want you to come to this altar because there's only one place of healing and that's at the cross of Jesus Christ how many of you know what I'm talking about how many of you've been there time and again and you know favor rest upon you right there favor rest upon you right there Spirit of God he's calling you all over some of you that are online this morning right now the Spirit of God is touching you you thought the enemy was gonna have complete control but no no no no I want you to know the mere fact that God has been keeping his hand on you you're looking back over your life and you're saying you know what I thought the enemy was gonna do this but he has not been able to touch me by this I know God you favor me because my enemies are not shouting me down how many of you know in your heart of hearts today that God has put favor in your life let me see your hand let me see your hand now how many of you and say pastor I got somebody in my heart that I know needs to give their life to Jesus Christ and I want to bring them to this altar this morning if that's you I want you to get up from where you are and come ministers are ministering around this altar right now praying for people for the hurt and for their pain and for their bleeding and for their woundedness but I want you to know there's healing in the house this morning church there's healing in the house this morning there's healing in the house let the Lord heal you let the Lord favor you let the Lord put his favoring hand upon you put his hand on you right now I need some folks in this building if you'll bring your loved ones to the Lord God's waiting on you to take a step to move all the way in if that's you you need to get out from where you are and come right now they're gonna begin to sing and as they do healing oil is gonna flow through this building and all the way through those cameras right now give me that camera closest to me right now I got my finger pointed at you you know why cuz you've been chosen by God you may have thought that because of your sins and multiple sins that God's thrown you on the heap pile of nothing but I came to tell you God's coming to claim back what the enemy has stolen and put you back in a place of favor where God's melting oil can flow across your head even down to your generation after generation take a step today all across this auditorium and right there online the spirit of God is ministering to you right now lift your voice and begin to pray right now church because favor don't come on you because you're somebody favor comes on you because God loves you just where you are spirit of God I pray for my friends that are watching online right now I pray mighty God that you will begin to touch them and you'll begin to heal them and you'll begin to minister to them and you'll show them your favor in this very difficult hour Lord some of them don't have enough food in the pantry would you show them favor and put food in their house some of them don't have enough fuel in their car to make it to their job would you show them the supernatural power of God and fill that tank by the awesome power of God Lord I pray for those that are wounded in their spirit hurting in their soul somebody betrayed them somebody they trusted God they tore their lives apart but today is the day of the beginning of the restoration and favor of God today I pick up my mental even my affliction and I walk into the favor of God right now in the name of Jesus I want you to reach over and begin to pray for somebody along your right now care what affliction you may be under right now that will not stop the favor of God upon your I want you to hear me because there's gonna be another time when the enemy is gonna take a shot I don't know who I'm talking to in this crowd right here it's for everybody but somebody right here needs to hear this he's gonna take a shot and it's gonna come from someone that may be right close to you it is your test what am I going to do with this because I have asked the Lord for forgiveness all I can do is forgive and sometimes brother Neff you don't have answers for why you know what the Lord said that won't stop my favor look back over those 19 years look back over your life don't tell me God can't do something new in your life after what he's brought you already through I don't know who I'm prophesying to over here but the Spirit of the Lord is about to show you his favor you're to lift your hand and thank God before it ever arrives come on everybody around this house you're to thank God for favor before it ever arrives because see you think you know what you have need of but God knows what you have need of more than you do and what you need is not another loan what you need is not another friend to like your social media post what you need is the favor of God the only reason why I'm alive today Patrick is because of the favor of God the enemies already tried to kill me but he can't touch what God holds on to pass you don't understand they've already gone to heaven oh don't worry about it when you release them out of your hand and put them in the hands of the Lord they're gonna be all right come on somebody I've had to lay loved ones in the ground before and look up to God and say God help me right here he said that's all right I got him God said I got you and everything God touches he heals there was never a leper that came to him that when the Lord touched him and he pulled his hand back that the leprosy was not healed never a blind man that ever came to the Lord that by the time the Lord reached his hand back and pulled it back that his eyes were not open I promise you the favor of God based on the Word of God by the time he's touched you this morning and draws his holy hand back I can assure you God's already got favor waiting on you expected expect your healing expect your miracle expect your deliverance expect that I'm not talking about arrogance I'm talking about the favor of God the favor of God the favor of God lift those hands to work seven one more time oh my God there's healing flowing through this congregate somebody's been in pain because of the loss of your loved one and you haven't been able to recover today is the day of your recovery God said favor on your heart and mind and spirit I receive it right now Lord I receive it right now I receive it right now I'm not gonna try to be big boy right here I'm not gonna try to be big girl right here I'm just gonna walk up to you and say thank you I just gonna say thank you Jesus cuz I know I know I know where my help comes from I know where my help comes from if everybody left me I know where my help comes from if everybody forsakes me I know there's one that sticks closer than a brother in his presence his favor and favor for every morning sad out loud sad out loud I believe all of you that are watching online all worshiping with us today and we pray that God has touched your life in a powerful way if you've given your life to Jesus Christ or you're feeling the tug in your heart to do so why don't you surrender to the Lord today ask him to come into your heart forgive you of your sins he'll do exactly that when you place your faith in what he's done at the cross and then we want to hear from you but you send an email and let us know what Jesus Christ has done in your life let us know where you're watching from we'd love to connect with you and I believe that God is gonna touch your life and bless you in the days that are ahead if you count pace assembly as your regular church of worship then we certainly want to be able to hear from you there's information on the screen that you can send your email to and we look forward for you being a part of every service right here at pace assembly every Sunday and every Wednesday and special services throughout the God bless you for joining us today father I pray that you would touch the life of my friend that today they would never be the same that your presence would surround their life and peace would be their highest blessing we give you praise for it today in Jesus name God bless your friends and until we get together again remember Jesus Christ