DOUBLE FAVOR

Psalm 5:12 --- the upright and the righteous are blessed with favor from God.

God made men equal. Men are not greater than women. Favor surrounds us. Protect us. Supernatural favor is a gift from God. The favor of God came upon us.

Divine Favor is being singled out by God for special treatment—a preferential treatment. It is His exclusive and unquestionable bidding and pleasure. It means you have somehow found favor with God against all odds.

10 Benefits of the Divine Favor of God:

1. Favor of God produces supernatural increase and promotion.

- Genesis 39:21—Joseph

2. Favor of God produces restoration of everything that the enemy has stolen from us.

- Exodus 3:21

3. Favor of God produces honor in the midst of our adversaries.

- Exodus 11:3

4. Favor of God produces increased assets, especially in the area of real estate.

- Deuteronomy 33:23

5. Favor of God produces great victories in the midst of possibilities.

- Joshua 11:20

Double Divine Favor. Double Grace

Zechariah 4:6-7

The word "mountain" symbolizes hindrances/ obstacles that stop you from being who God wants you to be. In life, you face hindrances. There will be specific people that God will lay in our hearts.

Grace is defined as unmerited favor.

To Believe for Double Grace you should have double humility.

To Believe for Double Blessings you should have double obedience.

To Believe for Double Harvest you should have a double seed.

To Believe for Double Increase you should have double diligence.

To Believe for Double Favor you should have double faithfulness.

Evaluate yourself if you have been faithful to God. In your heart, you would know the answer.

You can be the most unqualified person, but if God can find not just faith but faithfulness in your heart, God will single you out. –special treatment --- meaning, to live faithfully and righteously, and God's favor will flow into your life.

It is not what you want to say but what God wants you to say. It is not what you want to be but what God wants you to be.

Psalm 84:10 – “One day in the house of the Lord is better than a thousand elsewhere.”

Are you ready to be singled by God in front of everybody? Keep your eyes open, be honest to God, and be faithful.

Psalms 5:12 (NKJV)

Daniel 1:9 (NKJV)

Ways we can appropriate God's favor (Double Favor):

1. Obey God and follow His commandments.

2. Believe it. Believe that God has a favor for you and even extra or double favors for you.

3. Affirm it. Don't think twice but affirm that you have God's double favor available for you.

4. Acknowledge it. Talk to the favor and notice it. During being occupied with other things, don't forget to acknowledge it.

5. Act like it. Do not look like you are a victim. Show the world that you are blessed.

6. Speak like it. Use positive words instead of negative. Speak as you walk in divine favor. Watch what comes out of your mouth. Only speak what favor would speak.

7. Embrace it. Embrace it like your life depends on it. God extends His favor to us not because we are qualified but because we are not qualified. It was actually in spite of us.

8. Pay attention to it. Do not listen to rumors. Pay attention to what it's saying. Pay attention to what God is doing instead of what others are doing. You will not find God’s favor anywhere. Listen to what the favor of God is saying to you.

Speak like it is as the favor of God is all over you.

Genesis 12:2 (AMP)

Begin to see yourself as a distributor of God's blessings.

DOUBLE, DOUBLE!

Double Blessing, Favors, Anointing, Manifestation, Multiplication, Harvest, Honor, Portion, Possession, Overflow, and Grace.

With the double, it would only be the minimum that we can experience before we see Jesus face to face. If we don’t get it, we will not make it forever, we will not be able to make the triple, the quadruple, the multiple blessings of God.

God is giving us the chance even in this time of limitations—crisis. Crisis does not come from God. The crisis comes because of us: Crisis that comes to us, and crisis that comes from what we have done.

In any way, shape, or form, this crisis can bring fear to us because there is a promise of double for us by God.

God recognizes faithfulness from us.

Scripture: Exodus 16: 1-7 AMP

Believe that God can bless you more in the time of crisis (wilderness, desert) than in the time of convenience.

We can’t stop this crisis but understand that God promised to bring us to the Promise land – a land that flows with milk and honey ---a Land of Abundance.

Why spent 40 years in the wilderness when it took only 13 days to reach the promised land?

If we are experiencing delays in what we pray (desires) – we must know and understand that our prayer and desires must be aligned in the Word and will of God, or it may result in disappointment, disgust, and distress.

Prayer is a prayer not only because we say the Word of God. Prayer is prayer because we take the word of God back to Him and remind that it is His will and God will always have an answer--- He answers with a ‘yes and amen!

The wilderness exposes our hearts. Our waiting exposes our hearts. We must be led by the Spirit.

Anything that is not of God should be removed from us. God wants to take us out of the crisis.

The devil is not going to win the war... Only the plan and will and desires of God will prosper over us.

However, the suffering that the Israelites have gone through in the wilderness was self-inflicted. But the Lord was willing to take them out no matter what they have done.

The Lord’s blessing is not only intended for a day but a double blessing.

The will of God is progress, development, moving forward, and advancement. It does not change. We are designed by God to influence people to bless.

Three Major things had brought the curse or misfortune that the children of Israel had experienced on their way to the promised land:

Scripture: Zechariah 4:6-7; Isaiah 61: 7

In their land, they shall possess double, everlasting joy shall be theirs.

When was the last time you laugh?

Double joy. Double healing. Double prosperity. Double increase. Double Multiplication, double in every way as far as God is concerned.

DOUBLE BLESSINGS

March is a month of Double, double!

When our dreams come to reality, don’t make them own us.

Religion is the number one force that stops God from performing His power. Believe and do what you need to do, and God will do what He promised.

Matthew 6:33 NKJV

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

And all will be provided for us… double!

Equals: Double RESPONSIBILITY

This double will only be the minimum, only the beginning. God wants us to experience the double, double.

That is why we just don’t seek God without the kingdom. The entirety of the kingdom represents the King. We are too religious if we seek God without the kingdom.

Faith does not come from the heart of somebody else. Walk with somebody of the same faith as ours.

Do you know what it means to believe God for double? Before we believe God about anything, we need to know why we believe Him.

Romans 8:32 NKJV

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Why would He not give you the blessings, portions, favors, anointing, honor, portion, and inheritance if He did not even withhold the most precious gift which is Jesus Christ?

We cannot believe without God’s wordà His Word is the basis of our faith.

We do not walk by sight (feelings, senses) --2 Corinthians 5:7.

Believing is taking responsibility (double responsibility) Every blessing of God comes with a responsibility.

Salvation is a free gift. But to get the double blessings of God, we must obey.

“If the church is irrelevant during the time of crisis, the church will be relevant in the time of convenience.”

Any adulterated word of God will never set anybody free. Even today, He is free to move, touch, and bring the revelation that will bring revolution which will bring the manifestation of whatever you needed.

All doubles will equal double responsibility.

Our Main Goal: TO GLORIFY GOD

“The more you miss church, the less you will not miss church.”

Zechariah 9:12 NKJV

Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you.

By the end of the year, we are going to experience double blessings and double breakthroughs. Restore doubles from our former doubles.

Psalms 37:18-19 NKJV

The Lord knows the days of the upright, And their inheritance shall be forever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine, they shall be satisfied.

We must be double righteous. No compromises! Jesus is coming back to a glorious church.

Are you ready for your double?

What to expect in 2022:

We must expect the double. In the middle of hardships, we cannot allow our past to pull us down.

(Our future is pulling us up and our past is holding us back. -Ptr. Elma)

Read Job 42: 10-16 -- The Lord blessed Job.

Job experienced hardships in life (he lost his business, children, health), the only thing that was left to him was his “life” and that he doesn’t end up a loser.

The Lord doubled everything that Job has lost.

We might have lost the fire, or we might have lost our freedom, there might be weeping in the night, but JOY comes in the morning. We will see doubles.

We can expect double! –-> a skyrocketing increase in wage, earnings, income, and finances.

Double blessings = Double responsibility.

Double of God’s blessings, double in God’s favor, double in portion, double in harvest, double in honor.

Announcement/ Declaration/ Proclamation:

Beginning in March we are going to see a manifestation of this double. It will be a day of celebration and jubilation!

Six Basic Foundational Doctrines of Christianity

Hebrews 6: 1-2NKJV

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Let’s grow to maturity. Move on to perfection. Jesus is coming back to a glorious church.

Two Major Judgments:

a. For the believers only.

b.  Designed for those who received and acknowledged Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

c.  Not for condemnation, but for reward (Romans 14:10-13; 2 Corinthians 5:9-11)

How do we even know the reward that we are going to get?

d.  Not according to works

-  We are not saved by work either.

-  It is by grace that we have been saved. (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23).

2.  Great White Throne Judgment

There is no such thing as “once saved, always saved.” No such thing as “Christian now, Christian forever.

When towards the later part, we came to deny Jesus (many will draw cold) – lies, fornication, adultery…

What to do not to deny Christ?  --Get to know the Truth.

This Truth (The word of God) will help us discern what is not of God, that which is deception.

Matthew 10: 32-33 Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

Revelation 18:23 - the greatest deception is through sorcery–Gk. “Pharmakeaia” (Pharmacy, Parmaceuticals)

Good believers and obedient people shall not come into judgment but reward those who are steadfast in every way.

Romans 14: 10 - Why judge your brother?

2 Corinthians 5:10 - Why cancel someone who has done a mistake? Good or bad, we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. God knows believers are good and bad.

Good means being steadfast, faithful, loyal, committed, dedicated, relentless. Bad, means “did not grow in their faith.”

But our being good is not enough or not the way to heaven. It is our responsibility to be good or else we might drag people away with our actions and attitudes.

There is no small or big sinner. If you are saved, then you are saved. There is no neutral ground. We are all for righteousness.  ***

Foundational Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15: 3-23

Death is not the end. It is just a beginning of a different kind of life.

The significance of the Resurrection:

More scriptures:

Death is the greatest equalizer.

CHANGES HAPPEN IN THE BODY IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD:

1.  Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption. The real us is not our physical body.

2.  Sown in dishonor, raised in glory

3.  Sown in weakness, raised in power

4.  Sown in natural, raised in spiritual

Those Who Died In Christ

1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17

4 things that signify the laying of hands that still can be applied today:

2. It is a miraculous demonstration of the power of God.

3. For consecration.

4. A way for the Holy Spirit to come upon the person.

We need no longer to be baptized in these:

Three kinds of Baptisms today:

1. Christian water baptism. To testify of our new identification in Christ (Matt. 3:15). Buried and resurrected (Rom. 6:4), in obedience to God (Matthew 28:19).

2. Holy Spirit baptism (and fire)— entrance into the supernatural. (Matthew 3:11) We were never designed by God to live a natural life but to live a supernatural life through the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. (Roman 9:1) bearing witness in the Holy Spirit.

3. Baptism into Christ. Being united in Christ. (Galatians 3:27).

Why do we need Faith in God?

1.  For without faith no one can be saved.

2.  For without faith, it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 1:6)

3.  For without faith, we won’t be able to receive anything from God (not until we believe).

4.  Faith is the only way to live. (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11-12; Hebrews 10:38)

5.  Healing comes only in God.

6.  Prosperity comes only from God.

7.  Salvation comes only from Jesus.

8.  The word of God is the solid foundation of our faith.

9.  The Holy Spirit’s intercession for me that I might not depart from my faith. (Luke 2:31-32; Job 1:6-12; Amos 9:9)

10.  To be strengthened, to be strong for people who are not strong. (People gain strength from others)