Favor Is The Shortcut To Divine Positioning
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Summary
In one line: "Favor always positions you" — like an elevator from the ground floor to the top — and favored people always meet giants, because they've already overcome.
Key points
- After David's anointing (1 Samuel 16:13), favor sent him with food to his brothers on the day Goliath taunted Israel (1 Samuel 17:17-26) — "a huge stepping stone."
- Favor takes you quickly to the top; grace and mercy keep you there. It brings dramatic, even panicked situations from which you come out unscathed.
- Don't crave favor that highlights you among people — that's attention hunger; God lifts you to keep your eyes on Him.
Transcript
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So understand this, understand this, understand this. Favor always positions you.
When somebody already receives favor, it means in every situation you are favored.
But you're still not out of situations.
But when you have favor, no situation really shakes you up because favor positions you from the time the anointing was poured upon David.
Favor makes him go take food to his brothers. On that day, he finds Goliath insulting the nation. He was it was an opportune time for him to be promoted even more by favor because favor will always bring you before giants that you will overcome.
The way you're clapping. Let me talk to somebody. [applause and cheering] Favored people always encounter troubles because they're definitely going to win. Amen.
I'll say it one more time.
Favored people always encounter giants because they have already overcome.
There was no way. And Goliath, you know, we say a stepping stone. Golth was a huge stepping stone because favor takes you quick to the top.
Where now grace and mercy have to keep you
but favor it's like a an elevator that pushes you. It goes from level one to top floor immediately. It will put you through situations where you panic, but then somehow you come out of it unscathed and you're like, "Ah, how was this possible?" But that is how favor works. Favor's duty is to take you to where God wants you to be.
And he will use every situation as a way to highlight you. God will not You see, some of you want the favor that highlights you among regular people. These people don't like me. They don't want to be my friend. H you don't want favor. If that is the kind of attention you want, you'll be attention hungry. When God lifts you up, God would want your eyes on him and him on you. That's it. Nothing more. So favor has a way of lifting you from zero to a million instantly.
But it will not lift you and take you to comfortable places. It will lift you and take you to a dramatic place that will require you, listen to me, that will require you to understand that it's favor at work in order for you to be bold enough to step into what God has called you to do. David saw Gol.