How to Tap Into the Favor of God | The Favor Factor Pt. 2 | Overflow | Aaron Pino

Genesis 18, starting in verse 1.

We're gonna go 1 through 11.

And it says this and the Lord appeared to him, speaking of Abraham, by the oaks of Mambri, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him.

When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth.

Verse three, and said, Oh Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.

You catching this picture right here?

If I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.

Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Well, I bring a morsel of bread that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on, since you have come to your servant.

So they said, Do as you have said.

And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, Quick, you like how I said that right there, Quick.

Three seas of fine flower, knead it and make cakes.

And Abram ran to the herd and took all uh took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man who prepared it quickly.

Then he took curds and milk and the calf that were prepared and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

You ready for this next verse?

Then they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife?

See, you might read that, and I'm I'm thinking to myself, like, what about me?

You understand?

I'm what about me?

I mean, I you came here to visit me.

I can't I'll put I place the man in you.

What do you ask my wife for?

Let me tell you something.

When favor comes upon you, it's not just for you.

It's for your household, it's for your spouse, it's for your children.

Come on now.

Where is Sarah your wife?

And he said, She is in the tent.

Verse 10 the Lord said, I will surely return to uh to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.

And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

Now, Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years.

The way of woman had ceased to be with Sarah.

My friend, I'm I'm continuing my series today entitled The Favor Factor, but today's subtext, subheadline is this tap into favor.

Tap into favor.

I've declared it already today in first service.

I've already declared it during offering, but let me declare it one more time to you favor is coming upon you in unprecedented measure.

And it's not because I'm wishfully thinking, and it's not because I just really hope really hard that this is gonna happen.

I'm telling you, in my spirit, as I have been praying for you and interceding for this house, I I sense in my in my knowler that God is taking this house, God is taking you to a new dimension of favor.

It's a it's a it's a new day of favor for your life, it's a new day of favor for your marriage, it's a new day of favor for that business, it's a new day of favor on your place of employment, it's a new day of favor in the city, it's a new day of favor for this church.

Someone shout at the on the counter three favor, one, two, three.

Shh.

I'm telling you, my friend, favor is coming upon you.

What it's taken you years to accomplish with favor happens in a moment.

When favor comes upon you, that which you have been believing for and trying and toiling for with favor, in one moment, it all turns around.

The favor factors, time to tap in.

Let me pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for your word that goes forth swiftly and it accomplishes all that has been sent out to accomplish.

We love you, we thank you, Lord.

Let the anointing of God flow in this moment.

Breathe upon me, Holy Ghost.

Beyond my ability, let me tap into the ability of heaven today.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Come on, if you want to tap into this anointing with me, I want you just to lift your voice about 10 seconds.

If you have your prayer language, pray in the Holy Ghost.

If you don't, just say, Lord, I need what is being deposited in the room.

Come on, right there.

10 seconds, Lord.

I need a touch, I need the favor, I want to tap into the anointing.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Lord.

Let what's on my life at this moment be transferred to their life in this moment as well.

In Jesus' mighty name.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Lord, I thank you for this, and we call it done.

In the mighty name of Jesus, come on, someone shout amen.

Amen.

You may be seated.

Hallelujah.

Let me tell you, and I've I've said it many times, favor's coming upon you like you've never known it before.

Let me just tell you about uh about myself.

Whenever I begin to pray, and God began to uh poke my heart about this and really speak to me, and he said, Aaron, favor's coming upon you.

I was like, Great, I receive it all, but what does that mean?

I learned in that moment that I cannot take the little things for granted.

Because here's what people would like to do people like to take the little things and think it's luck.

But can I tell it to you like this, my friend?

It's not luck, it's favor.

Let me say it another way.

You're not lucky, you're blessed.

The blessing of the Lord comes upon you.

Psalms chapter uh five.

I I quote this last week, and I mean, this is like get this deep down your spirit.

If you need to write it down, text it to yourself, whatever you gotta do, write write this one down because I'm telling you, meditate on this, declare this, uh, write it on your bathroom window whenever you're whenever you're getting ready in the morning.

Okay, and and just look at this thing.

Psalms chapter 5 and verse 12 says this the Lord blesses the righteous and shields him with favor.

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The Lord blesses the righteous and shields him with flavor.

Not flavor, favor.

Uh-uh.

I got flavor too, you know.

I tell I tell Max we were we were cooking some stuff yesterday on the grill and we're seasoning, and I start sneezing, and I said, Max, if you're not sneezing, you're not seasoning.

Can I get an amen?

No, I'm seasoning, right?

But let me tell you, the righteous are blessed, and you are shielded with favor.

It means that you have an invisible force field around you, and it's called favor.

So, watch, everywhere that you walk, you're walking in that place under the blessing and the favor of God.

Let me give you a story.

Can I give you a story?

Something happened this past week with me.

Okay, I'm gonna tell you anyway, whether you say yes or not.

So we I I I'm I'm thankful uh because we this summer, my family and I we got a subscription to the JW Marriott swimming pool.

Glory be to God.

We graduated from that YMCA.

Come on, somebody.

Ain't nothing wrong with the Y.

If you're at the Y, that's all right.

Believe God for the J Dub, okay?

I'm telling you right now.

So we we uh, you know, it we don't have a pool, we don't have a community pool, we don't have a pool in our backyard, but man, your boy likes to swim, okay?

So does the whole family.

We like we like to swim, okay?

So we got this this uh uh uh membership to the JW, and on the card it says that you can only bring four people in.

And so uh this past week, uh my mother-in-law has been here in town, and so uh I've been working and and they're enjoying the summer, and so they go to the pool without me.

So there's four of them, there's one of me.

If you can't count, that's five.

And the card says you can only have four people go in at a time.

If you if you have more than that, they have to pay a fee, which in my opinion, the fee is a little astronomical for getting over there, okay?

I'm telling you right now.

And so uh uh sometime this week, uh Pastor Ashley and the kids and and and mom, they're like, Hey, we're going to the pool.

You want to come with us after you're done working?

I said, Yeah, I'll I'll show up.

Uh, you guys go on ahead without me.

And Ashley says, Well, you know, uh, you don't have the card, so you're probably gonna have to pay.

And I said, No, I'm not.

And she was like, I'm not sneaking you in the side door of the pool, Aaron, okay?

I'm not doing that.

Because let me tell you, sneaking in the side door of the pool is not favor.

Come on, somebody.

It's called fevery, uh-huh.

Favory.

And I said, I'm not gonna pay anything.

She goes, uh, why not?

And I said, Because I'm favored.

She goes, What are you gonna do?

I said, I'm gonna walk right up there and tell them to let me in.

And I'm not paying nothing.

And she goes, Okay.

And I and I told her, I said, I'm not even bringing my wallet.

You wanna know why?

Because I'm favored, and so the family's there, they're swimming, I get done, I'm getting ready to go over to the pool, and uh, I walk up to the front desk and nobody's there.

And I'll just be honest with you, in my past life, I would have hopped the fence.

First of all, I'm saved and sanctified.

Okay, second of all, your boy ain't hopping no fences nowadays.

You understand what I'm saying?

Ain't happening, and so I'm there and I'm thinking to myself, man, like nobody's here.

And at that moment, I just said to myself, Lord, thank you for favor.

And no sooner did I say thank you for favor, one of the workers popped their head around the corner.

And I know as a worker because they're behind the desk, they had the shirt on, they popped their head around the corner, they took one look at me, and they just buzzed me right in.

Let me tell you something.

That's not luck, that's favor.

Come on, touch your neighbor and say, I'm not lucky, I'm favored.

Touch your other neighbor and say, I'm not lucky, I'm favored.

And I'm telling you, as we're walking in this thing, don't take the small things for granted.

You understand what I'm saying?

It's not some spirit of luck.

Well, hey, I'm just lucky, you know, these are my lucky.

No, I am favored by God.

I am blessed by the most high God.

Come on now.

He is on my side.

I am righteous, I am blessed, and I am shielded by favor.

Everywhere I go, I have favor.

My friend, everywhere you go, you have favor.

You have favor on the on the job site, you have favor in your home, you got favor with your family, you got favor in Walmart, Costco.

Come on now.

My God, my God, there is favor coming upon you in unprecedented measure.

Favor can do for you what you cannot do for yourself.

Amen.

I don't know if I'm really favored.

You know what?

Just go to Costco and do a second round around them samples, okay?

Tell you right now, just practice.

If you need to practice, just practice on them Costco samples.

You're gonna come back next Sunday and be like, Pastor Aaron, I got two samples.

Great job.

Favor.

But I'm telling you, favor is a is a portion for the believer that if you do not know is made available to you, you will never tap into favor.

Never.

You won't do it.

If, let's say hypothetically, I have a rich uncle who had no kids, multi-billionaire, passes out, meaning he is dead, and I'm the sole survivor, and everything's left to me, but I'm uh a worker at McDonald's making$12.50 an hour.

I could have all these things in a trust where I am the beneficiary, but because I don't know it's available, I will still be living that McDonald's lifestyle.

Now, if you work at McDonald's, there's no there's no shade on that, okay?

Uh don't wave your hand or anything like that.

Thank God, don't do that, okay?

But let me tell you right now, what you have made available to you is greater than some rich uncle who has passed away and left you an inheritance.

What you have made available to you is the king of all kings, the God of all gods, the Lord of all lords.

He is God Almighty, the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning, the end, the faithful, the true.

You understand what I'm saying?

And so what you have made available to you is more than just a couple million bucks in a bank.

What you have made available to you is everything.

Everything.

But if you do not know it's made available to you, you will never access what has been made available to you.

You with me?

Mm-hmm.

So that's that that leads us to the life of of Abraham.

Abraham, here is this man of God, this prophet, who has received a promise from the Lord.

Abraham, I'm gonna bless you.

I'm gonna cause kings and nations to come from you.

Uh, I will curse those who curse you, and I will bless those who bless you, and through you, the nations of the world shall be blessed.

Abraham receives that word, but it is 24 years before the fulfillment of that promise.

Let me give you a side note.

If you're waiting, keep on waiting.

Because I I promise you, it hasn't been 24 years for you.

If it has, your season of favors upon you now.

Come on, somebody.

Could you imagine?

I'm I I can just imagine Abraham waiting for 24 years.

I have this promise.

I'm waiting for this thing.

It it hasn't happened yet, but I know it's gonna happen.

And then watch what happens.

One day he's sitting at the door of his tent, chilling in the heat of the day, trying to catch one of them breezes.

Right?

I mean, I mean, just think practically, there's no air conditioning in the Middle East 3,000 years ago.

I'm grateful for my air conditioning.

That's favor right there.

Come on, somebody.

The fact that I was born in the area of time that I was born in, come on now.

I don't take it for granted.

Air conditioning and snow cones.

Come on, somebody.

So here's Abraham sitting at the door of his tent, and it says that he looked up, and here is the angel of the Lord, which many scholars believe was God Himself, and two other men, which were angels, and they were going to pass Abraham by because they had a mission to go and destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.

That's the context there.

So here's Abraham.

He looks up from trying to survive heat stroke.

He looks up and he sees God.

And what does he do?

The Bible says that he runs out there and he says, Hey, if I found favor with you, do not pass me by.

You know, you want to know what that lets me know that there are things passing us by all the time, back and forth, back and forth.

But if you I want to help you today learn how to tap into favor because you are blessed and you are shielded with a shield of favor, you have it made available to you, but how do you tap into that which has been made available to you?

I'm glad you asked.

Because Abraham gives us the pattern and the principle to tap in.

Are you ready for him today?

Good.

I'm ready to give them to you today.

Touch your neighbor and say, We're going in today.

Go ahead, tell them.

So the first thing you need to understand whenever it is that you are going to tap into favor is this.

You need to recognize.

You need to recognize, you need to recognize what happened in the life of Abraham.

He was just chilling, trying to stay cool.

And God was passing him by, but he lifted up his eyes and he recognized that there was a divine moment sitting before him.

He recognized that favor was passing him by.

I wonder how many people this morning you have favor passing you by, but because you are unwilling to recognize that favor is passing you by, you're gonna leave this moment the same way you walked in here.

But I wonder how many people in the room this morning that you're looking back and saying, I know this thing is for me, I know it's made available to me, so I'm gonna lift my eyes a little bit higher.

I'm not just gonna be caught in the flesh and my emotions and my comfort or stuff.

I'm gonna look up higher because the favor of God is passing by me.

And so I'm gonna go out and meet favor face to face.

Hallelujah.

My friend, if you're gonna learn how to tap into favor, you must recognize that favor is made available to you today.

Amen.

Abraham recognized that God was near, so he responded.

He saw the Lord, but when he saw the Lord, he moved close to where the Lord was moving.

You see, because whenever he moved past that tent, he had to go past that little breeze that he was trying to get.

You understand that?

Oh, it's so hot here.

I feel I feel the breeze on my neck.

Who in the world is that?

That's the Lord.

Let me get out from my comfort zone.

Let me get out from what is uh known to me.

Let me get out from this place of slumber.

What do you think they did in that?

They they slept in the tent.

Let me get out of this place that is that has me in a certain kind of way, and let me meet God where God is at, because I know favor is passing me by.

And so Abraham didn't just recognize that favor was passing him by, he responded when favor was passing him by.

How do we know that?

Because he moved to where God was moving, and the crazy thing about this is God wouldn't have stopped for Abraham if Abraham hadn't stopped God.

Think about that.

You ever thought about that before?

Here's God on a mission, gonna go do what God does, but somebody got a hold of God, and he said, If I have found favor in your sight, do not pass me by.

My friend, this morning, I want you to get that deep in your spirit and say, God, don't pass me by.

Don't let the favor of God pass me by, don't let the favor of God pass me by.

God, I I I recognize that you are coming by me and I grab a hold of the favor.

I put it like this in my notes.

If you do not know, you cannot flow.

If you do not know what's made available to you, you cannot flow in what's made available to you.

Insight precedes entrance.

That's what my phone law always used to say.

Insight precedes entrance.

Once you see a thing, you can seize a thing.

Do you hear what I'm saying this morning?

My friend, favor is made available to you today.

Why?

Because you are the righteous.

Psalms 5:12, for the Lord blesses the righteous and shields him with favor.

Psalms 5:12

I remember several years ago, uh, Pastor Ash and I were on a vacation and we like the beach.

Anybody else like the beach for vacation?

Any mountain people in the room?

Anybody?

All my Hawaiian friends say, I like mountain and the beach, right?

Come on now, somebody.

So here we are, and we we uh we go to this certain hotel that we like to go to uh in a certain area.

And so little did I know whenever we went here to the to this hotel this time that we were uh people who had status with the hotel.

You understand?

If you stay there, you can sign up for rewards, they give you stuff.

Status, all these different things.

It's amazing.

Well, this particular time, we didn't know that we had status with them.

So we fly in, and one thing you need to know about your pastor is uh I like the beach, but I like cabanas even more.

You you you feel you feel me?

I like to I like to sit down on a chair with something cover my head, the sound of the ocean out there, and I like to take what we call siestas.

Anyone catch a witness on that one?

Don't siesta while I'm preaching to you right now because I might fiesta your face.

Come on, somebody.

That was a joke.

That was a joke, that was a joke.

So we're there and we're we're on the beach, and and um I go out there and I find some chairs and I bring the chairs together, and I find an umbrella, so I bring the umbrella together, and Ashley takes a dip in the ocean, and I'm ready to take my nap.

And so she comes back over to wherever the chairs are at, she lays down, and I'm trying to like pass out.

And so I just start my four-hour nap, and as I do, I feel a tap on my shoulder and I hear someone say, Mr.

Pino.

And I go, I kind of wig out a little bit because my wife doesn't call me Mr.

Pinot.

You understand what I'm saying?

And I'm in a different country, so I'm thinking, and who in the world knows me here because I don't know nobody here.

That's why I came all the way out here.

Come on.

And so I turned around and it's one of the workers from the hotel, and they said, Are you Mr.

and Mrs.

Aaron Pinot?

And we said, Yes, we are.

And they said, Uh, we don't know if you realize this or not, but you're part of the Excellence Club.

I said, We are.

And they said, You are more than welcome to stay here if you want.

But if you look right over here and they did like the Vanna White thing, you know what Vanna White from?

Da ding-ding-ga-ding.

So she did the Vanna White thing, the ding-d-a-ding, baby.

And she said, This area is for excellence club members only.

And I looked over and it wasn't two like makeshift lawn furniture umbrella chairs.

I looked over and they had like the fluffiest cabana with like a linen roof and linen walls that was blowing in the breeze.

And I said, We can go over there.

And she said, Yeah.

And they said, and she said, whenever you go over there, there's premium food and premium drinks.

And I said, I don't drink alcohol.

And she said, There that there's premium fruit, fruit punch, all that you want to drink.

And I said, I'm coming right over right now.

Let me go ahead and make my way right over right now.

But let me tell you something.

There was something that was made available to me that I didn't know was made available to me.

There was untapped potential and untapped favor, watch this now, until I recognized it, I never entered into it.

Until I saw it, I never seized it.

Until I realized that it belonged to me, I never grabbed a hold of it and I never entered in.

My friend, let me tell you something today.

There is favor that is passing you by right here, right now.

And you might be sitting in some kind of makeshift little beach chairs right here.

But I'm telling you, you're part of the excellence club.

You're not just part of the excellence club, you're part of God's club.

Because let me tell you something.

You are saved, you are sanctified, you are blessed because you are righteous and you are shielded with favor.

My God.

But you'll never tap into favor until you recognize that favor is made available to you.

Amen.

Proverbs 3 verse 33 says this the Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Proverbs 3:33

Let me read one more time.

This is just too good.

Proverbs 3 verse 33.

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Do I have any righteous in the room today?

Come on now.

That means that your dwelling is blessed.

Your home is blessed.

You are the blessed of God.

So stop living beneath your means.

Stop living.

Let me just hit this thing real quick.

Some of y'all walking around and thinking you gotta make it happen by yourself.

My friend, you don't gotta have it have you don't have to have it happen for yourself.

You tap into the favor and God makes it happen for you.

Come on, God makes it happen for you.

You couldn't earn it, you don't deserve it, but He does it for you.

You are righteous, you are blessed, and you are shielded with the favor of God.

Hallelujah.

Mm-hmm.

Hallelujah.

Tap into favor today.

You need to walk around this week and just and just say to yourself, there's favor right there.

I know some people don't like this, right?

Some people think that's just hyper-spiritual.

But you go to the grocery store and say, God, thank you for favor, and that first parking spot opens up.

That's favor.

Wow, I don't got that one.

Let me tell you something.

You can park all the way at the end of the parking lot if you want, but I want the best one.

Come on now.

When you go to your place of employment this week and they say, you know what?

We just had a job opening, it's gonna give you$10,000 more a year than what you are making right now.

We and you know, honestly, you're not qualified for it, but we just like something about you.

Let me tell you, that's the favor of God.

Whenever you've applied for something and it's been lost for several months in the pile of these different things, and all of a sudden you get a phone call this week, and they say, I'm so sorry, we lost your application, but we see it now, and it's approved, approved, approved, approved.

Let me tell you something that's the favor of God.

Recognize what has been made available to you.

You are a child of God, you should be the most blessed people on the face of the planet.

Amen.

Well, that's just that name and then claim it, blab it, and grab it.

You can call whatever you want.

I really don't care because I'm telling you, there's people underneath the sound of my voice today that you've been walking support from what God has called you to walk in.

And until you understand that you are blessed and favored by God, you're gonna continue to walk support.

Here's Abraham waiting on the promise of God for 24 years, and in one moment, with an encounter of the favor of God, 24 years of no becomes one year of yes.

Don't mess with me, man.

I'm telling you right now.

Well, I just don't know if we should really be blessed.

You you don't have to be blessed, I already am blessed, huh?

Well, I I don't like all that stuff, you know.

That that that's all that prosperity stuff.

I'm not gonna I I've been called to live in prosperity.

The Bible says though he was rich, he became poor.

That thray through his poverty, you and I might become rich.

When Jesus comes on the scene, you don't have uh let me stick to my notes here this morning.

So if you're gonna tap into favor, you need to recognize favor.

Don't call it luck, it's favor.

You with me.

Let me say this before I go on to my next point.

The entire way you receive salvation is through the favor of God.

We are saved by grace through faith.

What is grace?

God's unmerited favor.

God favored you, therefore, he extended his hand towards you.

And it was by you believing in that hand to save that you were saved.

He already supplied everything that was needed.

You just had to recognize that salvation was made available to you.

At the foundation of your inception of a believer was birthed in the blessing of God.

Let it sink in.

In the inception of you becoming a believer, you are birthed in the blessing of God.

When Jesus was birthed on the earth, he was born in a barn.

When you are born of the Spirit, you are born into a kingdom.

See, some you gotta break that thinking off your mind right now.

Well, does God want me blessed?

Can I be blessed?

Should I be blessed?

Should I believe for being blessed?

Let me tell you something.

If you come into the kingdom through the blood of Jesus Christ, which is the only way to come, you were born into blessing.

You were born into favor.

Hello.

Is this thing on?

Yeah, soak it in.

Because that that blows any kind of argument out of the water.

Wow, we're supposed to be impoverished believers.

You know where that you know where that demonic doctrine came from?

The Catholic Church.

Like 800 years ago.

You wanna know why?

Because that was their way of raising money to support the church.

Read your Bible, but then also read history as well.

And because of this doctrine of demons that was released hundreds of years ago, now our job as believers and my job as the pastor, I get to unwind all this stinking thinking.

That people fight to remain in stinking thinking.

You know what I'm saying?

It's like it's amazing how many people fight to remain dumb.

Like for real.

Have you read your Bible?

Do you know who you are in Christ?

Do you know what the blood of Jesus Christ has made available to you?

Hmm.

I'm telling you, you were born into the kingdom and you were born into blessing.

You are born into the kingdom through favor and you are blessed.

The Lord blesses the righteous and he shields them with favor.

Psalms 512.

The Lord blesses the righteous and shields them with favor.

My friend, you have to recognize it's available to you everywhere you go.

Y'all got that.

Okay.

So Abraham not only recognized favor, watch this now, he respected the one who gave favor.

Abraham sees the Lord, he goes out there to him.

The Bible says that he bowed low to the Lord and said, If I found favor in your sight, pass me not by.

Directly after that, Abraham brings an offering to God.

Why?

Because Abraham understood everything that I am, everything that I have, and everything God wants to bring me into did not happen by myself.

My livestock belongs to him.

The bread I just told Sarah to need in a mixing bowl and to bring out to him came from him.

The promise that I have been believing for for the last 24 years, I didn't come up with it by myself.

He's the one that gave me the promise.

Do you understand what I'm saying this morning?

If you want to learn to tap into favor, understand this.

You're not the one who gave you the favor.

He is.

You're not the one who gave you the blessing.

He is.

If you're going to learn to live and tap into the blessing, number one, recognize that you are favored.

Number two, respect the one who gave you the favor.

Let me give you some scripture.

I need to bring this thing for a close.

You getting something today?

James 1, verse 7 says this every good, every every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 1:7

What does that let us know?

Every good gift is from God.

Every perfect gift is from God.

Every blessing is from the Lord.

Come on now.

He's the one that gave it to you.

I love this next verse, 1 Samuel chapter 2 and verse 8.

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Because it puts things in the right perspective.

It says this He, speaking of God, raises up the poor from the dust.

What did you just read what I just read?

Oh, come on now.

We got can't can we read it again?

Because God's the one who does it, but watch what He does.

He raises up the poor from the dust.

Isn't that good news?

He raises up the poor from the dust.

He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes.

Come on now.

You know what the ash heap is?

It means everything has been burnt down.

Something caught fire, and all you got is ash.

You know what's the oh come on now.

You know what's the amazing thing about ash?

It's carbon.

So if you put enough pressure to it, you can get a diamond.

Hello?

Do you understand what I'm saying?

So right here, watch this now.

He takes the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor.

What you mean to tell me I could go from nothing to everything in one moment when it comes to favor?

The answer is yes.

That's what favor does for you.

That's what the Lord does for you.

That's what God is able to do.

For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them He has set the world.

Come on, man.

God is the one who does the work.

So if you want to tap into favor, not only recognize that God is favoring you, put some respect on God.

Put some respect on God.

Well, I'm a self-made man.

No, you're not.

Come on now.

No one is a self-made man.

Even the self-made man still needed his mama.

Recognize the favor.

Respect God who gives favor.

Brother Donnie, if you come.

And lastly, is this receive favor.

Abraham's there.

He recognized that God was coming by.

He gives God an offering.

Bread needed.

A calf butchered.

Curds and milk.

That's nasty.

But God liked it for some reason.

Okay, so.

And the Bible says Abraham goes there and he's with them while they're eating.

And then while they're eating, it says that the Lord looks up and looks at Abraham and says, Hey, where's your wife Sarah?

Where's your wife Sarah?

Remember this.

Abraham tried to have the fulfillment of the promise not through Sarah, but through Hagar.

And because he took God's plan in his own hands, Ishmael was birthed.

But God says, Ishmael ain't it.

I'm gonna bless you through Sarah.

So when God says, Where's your wife Sarah?

He was telling Abraham, your season for favor is coming upon you.

Your season of favor is coming upon you.

See, some of y'all getting in the room right now.

I can feel it in my spirit.

He said, Your season of favor is coming upon you.

Where's your wife, Sarah?

She's in the 10.

Okay.

Well, I'm gonna come back to you.

And in about one year from now, when I come back here, you're gonna have a son.

In other words, I'm gonna fulfill my promise to you.

In my visitation of favor, you ready for this?

I don't know if you're ready for this.

Maybe you are, maybe you're not, just receive it.

The visitation of favor is not just a one-off.

Because I visited you now, but I'm gonna visit you again.

I came to you now, but I'm gonna come to you again.

I'm granting you favor now, but I'm gonna come back and grant you favor again.

Let me tell you something.

Whenever you learn to tap into favor, it's not a one-off, it is a standard that God wants you and I to live in from this moment forward.

My friend, when it comes to God, twenty-four years of walking, believing, trusting, trying, and nothing happens.

In one moment, with the favor of God, it all turns around like that.

And I don't know who needs to hear this today or who exactly I'm talking to today, but you've been believing, you've been trusting, you've been trying.

You know you have a promise, but it hasn't come to fruition yet.

My friend, today I declare to you that the season of your favor is coming upon you today, and in one moment, it all turns around.