18/08/2024
SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST, 2024.
SPEAKER:REV'D IDIKA CHIJIOKE VALENTINE
TOPIC: SEASON OF HIGHLY FAVOURED
1ST LESSON: LEVITICUS 26:9-12
2ND LESSON: ACTS 7:8-10
INTRODUCTION: The favour of God upon a man, forces others to favour him. When you are highly favored by God, Earth has not choice but to respond to you. If God favours a man, his environment and everything around him will favour him.
There is a favor that comes from man and there is a favour that comes from God. If man favours someone, he cannot force God to favour him, but if the Favour of God is upon someone, he forces men to favour the person.
When God chooses to favour a man, no matter what the devil does, no matter what men do, nothing can speak against it.
There is a difference between been Favored and been highly favored.
When you are Favored,there may be limitations, but when you are highly favored, there is no limitations, the earth will have no choice but to respond to you.
From our first Bible lesson Lev 26:9-12 'I will look upon you Favourably and you shall be fruitful..........' The word 'LOOK' in this passage mean, 'TREAT'. God will treat you favourably and make you fruitful. By implications, the reason for fruitfulness, is the favour of God.
WHAT HAPPENS, WHEN YOU ARE HIGHLY FAVOURED
1. You will be fruitful (John 15:16, Gen 1:26-28): When you are fruitful, everything will work for you, you will be energized to do things, you will have the wisdom and everything you need to excel in life. Accordingly to Gen 1:26-28) Man was the last thing God created, but he chose to Favour man and made him head of creation, which means, when God favours a man, who started first does not matter. And in John 15:16, when God highly favours you, you have no choice than to bear fruit.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION: Receive Grace to bear fruit in Jesus name;Amen.
You can not be highly favored and unfruitful. when a man is highly favored, everything works.
Note: The favour of God brings envy. As God is favouring you, that is how your enemies increases. But it is better to be highly favored and have enemies than to be unfruitful with enemies. From where we read in our 2nd Bible lesson, Joseph was fuitful and his siblings where envious and they threw him inside a pit, but because he was highly favoured, everything was working for him. He was bought by portiphar, and the favour upon him made portiphar to love him, when portiphar began to hate him and threw him in prison, Pharoah loved him.
The more people envy /hate you, the more God favours you. Exodus1:7 the children of Isreal where fruitful because God highly favored them.
2. You will increase on every side: Fruitfuness is not the same as increase. They are similar but not the same. You can be fruitful and not increase.
For instance; There are people who are good in what they do, but have not achieved anything from it. They are good in there businesses but have never excelled, they can work well, but once money enter, it will disappear, nothing to show forth their hard work. You can be fruitful and not increase. That is why the Bible did not stop at be fruit but be fruitful and increase. Psalms 115:14-15 'The Lord will increase you more and more...... '
PROPHETIC DECLARATION: From today till the end of 2024, may you continue to increase more and more on every side. You shall end 2024 in a greater increase. Though you may have not started well this year, you may have not be running well, but you will end the year with increase. All that you did not achieved from January till August, September-December will deliver it to you in Jesus name;Amen.
Increase only comes from God. It's not about he that planted or he that watered, but it is the Lord that increases(1cor 3:6-7)
It's not about who started before you, if God has shown you favour, you will over-take them.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION: You will not be less than where you are now. You will increase and not reduce in Jesus name; Amen.
When God says I will favour you, he meant he will increase you.
3. You can not be rejected(Acts 9): When God favours a man, he can never be rejected. Everybody will accept him. A man can be influenced to hate another, but when God favours a man, nobody can influence it.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION: From today hence forth, anywhere you go/enter, they must accept you. Receive Grace to be accepted in the name of Jesus;Amen.
4. You will live under open Heaven(Leviticus 26:12): Any man that is highly favored, is a man that is living under open heavens because God dwells with such a man.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION: From today hence for, may your heavens be opened in Jesus name;Amen.
Living under an open heavens means, you are living in the place of enjoyment, in the place of ease. When you live under open heavens, every other things mention above falls into place.
Prayers:
1. Oh Lord look upon me Favourably. Look upon my family with Favour.
2. Oh Lord, let my heavens be opened and my earth be watered.