Faith For Favor | Shawn Bolz | Expression58

well hello everybody I'm so glad to see you and we've had a great service this morning before this and then we had this worship and this worship could have gone on for the rest of time and I would have been happy it was so good but I do want to say about miles McPherson how many of you heard of miles so he is one of the most well-known preachers of our generation and he is standing in the church as a leader in the political arena and the african-american nationwide issues understanding how to bring inclusion and in connection in a way that nobody else is doing and I was shocked that he said yes to us honestly I'm sorry I am I'm just shocked because he sent his schedule is like he can go to the biggest best places everywhere but he got the vision of what we're trying to build together and he said yes which is just phenomenal and that just speaks of you hone engine and just what you're drawing together which is so awesome so we're excited so if you're part of a 58 I'm gonna encourage you to sign up for the conference as part of just being part of the family and participating because you're gonna go on a journey with us that we're gonna it's one of the ways we go on a journey together as a host event where we we're able to focus on something and and like really not just highlight it but develop and build it that then we get to carry out were the the ground that's going to land in and we're gonna carry it out for the rest of the year and it happened last year it was so amazing it was a before-and-after moment for our body and we're gonna go on it again and I know we have tribe coming up as well for for youth and if there's children and if you've never volunteered for the event these are some of the best events like I I get to go all over the world to some of the greatest events and at least the charismatic Pentecostal world some some evangelical world and and these two events last year were some of the best events I attended and was a part of especially the kids event was like the most phenomenal thing I've ever been a part of period for kids so we are doing a good job you guys are doing a great job I'm so proud of you I just got back from the sand and anybody else go to the sand anybody gonna send I'm the only LA person that went to the send it was an amazing 12 hours stadium day where there's 53,000 people and it was ascending into the war of inaction is over we're gonna do something in our generation about justice issues about adoption and foster care in America in the world about emphases getting reached in a real way did you know that just in our southern California middle California region we have two hundred schools who have campus groups that have two up to two hundred kids a week that are meeting for Jesus Bible clubs and they're legal and the schools are welcoming them a lot of them have huge like rallies and they'll do rallies once a quarter or once a month with up to 2,000 kids who are coming the brothers and getting saved I mean radical revivals happening over to the campuses and it was wild because when Brian Barcelona was sharing about the campuses I mean the most of what's happening campuses right here I was like we should have done this in California an Orlando just kidding there's God stories on why we didn't relay though but it was such a phenomenal I just want to highlight it you can still watch the whole thing on TBN or you can watch it on the streaming page this I believe it's the same comments about work and it was a phenomenal event to be a part of and my favorite moment was Todd white how many you know who Todd white is so Todd and he's just become a good friend and he was he was on the edge of the stage he said I just believe that those of you who become Christians and you still have marks on your identity on your body from when used to cut used to shoot up used to you know you have venereal diseases things in your body that you cannot get rid of there's just permanent marks that God is saying they're not permit he's gonna take some of those marks office to me they're not part of your testimony anymore and there's a girl I was like maybe like right here too like halfway through and there was a girl who had bracelets friendship bracelets on she's probably 16 and she had she started kind of lifting him to show her friends that she had cut her she's a cutter and she had scars all over I mean I could see him from the stage that's something that were and he praised the prayer and she starts screaming and puts her arms of his showing her friend shows us shows me and Bill Johnson shows us and she's like scream crying I'm crying because I'm watching a girl who had cuts and God took it away from our identity and healed her body I don't think this is wild and as it was just you know it's one of those days that you just go I got to be a part of this this is amazing and I'd watch back several of the clips it was awesome and so I just wanted to mention it just because I like that our salt conference is also a war on inaction in the church this has been considered one of those complacent generations when it comes to souls and soul winning and evangelist some of those kinds of things and we're saying not on our watch we're gonna see Jesus you know made famous in a real way so I just love that okay second thing I want to say about all this is if you guys did do that promo that promo was amazing like that oh my gosh I had chills like they needed to do it next time do it louder tonight cuz that it needs to be loud it needs to be really loud okay anyways well I want to talk about favor this morning and I want to talk about it from a different angle and I've talked about it before here and I love and Luke 2:52 or the NIV version it says that Jesus grew in favor with God and man and I want to unpack that a little bit because I want to talk about biblically based favor when Jesus said in John 10:10 that you'll have an abundant light that's more abundant than anyone else that's what he basically said that the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy but you're not going to experience that you're gonna experience an abundant life that no one else has and as a Christian we should be carrying something inside of our lives that's manifest in the activity that we do that we have the abundance of heaven we have a favor from heaven that distinguishes us and you see this I don't know if you know this pray the Lord bless you and keep you Lord shine in this face upon you so every Jewish person is practicing Jewish goes to Shabbat dinner and they on every Friday night and they do and they pray this prayer at some point or Shabbat dinner and amongst a lot of other prayers and they pray the Lord bless you and if you look at at the Jewish people group on the face of the earth they're still one of the most miraculous things that God did because in about 10 major industries if you don't if you look at 10 of the major industries of the earth like banking entertainment medical science they still rank Jewish companies and in 50 of the top hundred of all those genres if not more there's still a blessing of the Jewish people where they're there they're believing inherently in their DNA as I am God's beloved person I'm one of God's chosen people and because of that he's give me a different opportunity than everyone and it's not entitlement it's actually God set then we're grafted in through Jesus also when Jesus says I've come to give you a life in a life abundantly that actually makes you look different and get a different result on the earth if you surrender your life and walk with me and when you understand that you start to anticipate there's that great surrender between my life and in my agenda in Heaven's life and heavens agenda when you start to surrender your life fully not just like I got saved but you start to walk with God you start to get a different result then other people around you and it's an unfair advantage that's one of the words for blessing unfair advantage I like that word you know there's there's things that happen and I'll just go through a couple of things that happen and I'm going to talk about it a little bit but here are some things that walking in favorite causes number one would be people give you resources and we see this over and over in the Bible with Solomon people just came in and gave him resources you know not only to his father prepare resources for his calling and destiny but the Queen of Sheba comes in and says just because I've seen what you're doing here here's more I'm giving you a portion of my wealth you know we have Jesus who's like go get this donkey buy a word of knowledge and this disciples go get a donkey who's never been written on before and they bring it to him and they for some reason it was okay like sure you can have the donkey for Jesus I was radical resourcing of people's callings and destinies and identities we see it over and over so resource is a big deal of it when we walk in favor unusual resource comes to us number two people lend you their relational capital and we see this with Joseph when the interpret of the dreams and all of a sudden the guy you know who he interpreted the dream and who's in pharaoh's court pharaoh has a dream and the guys like I have to bring Joseph into this there's a man Joseph that I forgot about all this time but man he can interpret the stream for you and he so believed in it that he leveraged his position in the most powerful place possibly in the world for Joseph to have an audience and that's what favor does is it causes people to bring you into their favor or into their influence social capital is given when you have favor from God all of a sudden people who you're unlikely with to receive favor from extend favor to you and your world gets bigger because of it another thing number three would be people give you their time and service and we see this you know with with all kinds of ways of the Bible where people would serve the prophets or people would serve David I mean David had these radical guys who were going in the cave and you know they were all criminals and crazy guys and fighters and they go into the cave of them I said we're gonna go with you we don't want to be alone we don't want to be with this kingdom of Saul we're gonna go with you and we sit with Jesus the disciples they give an unusual time and service to the point where they left their careers and said we're joining you and that we're one of the signs of favors is that people will give you energy time and service that they normally would value at so much more and they wouldn't give away and they give it to you I think of how you know Israel's building one of the top medical research centers in the world they already have a part of it built and they're finding cures for things there's multiple versions of it but they're finding cures for things that have never been cured before and because of that even some of the Islamic countries have donated research dollars to Israel so there's no peace in the Middle East amongst Israel in these countries but I mean I just talked to one of my friends who's an ambassador from another an Asian country to the Middle East and he was telling me three companies that had donated from the Middle East who were Muslim based companies to Israel because they want the medical research and they know Israel could do it favorite isn't just like people who like you favor happens regardless if they like you which is really wild and I think that that's a that's a key point and I think about you know there's there's the times that we get like just a situational favor you used to begin to expect it like there's times at one time we were moving and my passport got lost by one of my assistants and he was very devastated because I had to go out of the country and I go to the immigration place downstairs and Beverly downstairs downtown in Beverly Hills and have you guys been that big building anybody been there it's like a nightmare and you get in there and I'm like oh Lord the lion is like four hours long and so I go get in line and I get to the first guy and I look today I'm gonna go I have to have my passport today because I'm leaving tomorrow and he goes ha ha good luck go over there so I went to the next guy to go I need my passport today and I'm just going god I'm a Christian this is for your purpose I did I just I stand in favor right now with this person and I look at him and I go and I just felt like Holy Spirit said tell them why you're going don't even tell about the past were just telling why you're going I said hey I'm going on a trip it's gonna be really cool I'm going I forget the exact words going and I said but I'm going on this trip and I'm actually sharing as a missionary the gospel to people have never heard of or and I just I need my passport cuz we're leaving tomorrow it's gonna be so exciting goes he's not a Christian at all and he goes Mike my grandpa was a missionary oh my gosh my grandpa's a mystery oh I don't know if I can get this done for you oh my gosh the fastest I've ever gone went down is eight hours away late four hours left of the day I'm gonna get the stuffing you have to go like my grandpa would want me to send you I mean like this is you have to go and I mean like it was two hours later he they texted me on my phone and I come back and I get my password like what's this happened this is I know you've seen the line of DMV or passports you need the favor of God just to get the normal process you know it's like just to make it so it's not your you don't get to give all your blood away or something you know but when you come to you know and I'm just I'm sharing as a fighter but I'll say another time where when I received my assignment to come to Los Angeles have really heard from God about coming here was a long story but I had an encounter before-and-after moment my life and I didn't tell anybody and so right only hona knew and one other friend knew is 20 whatever years or 20 years ago or 18 years ago and I went to a party a Christmas party for this woman who had all these leaders in town for this conference we were doing in Kansas City we had probably seven thousand people at the conference there was always leaders in town that really well-known leaders and I didn't know any of them I was you know at the beginning of my ministry still and I walk into the the house where there was like 80 people and there should only be 30 and that kind of size of a house so they're like sardines but they're enjoying each other and it was so hot and I walk in and it was like norm on Cheers Sean like everybody's scream my name is that oh this is neat they're doing affirmation they're all screaming each other's names and they come in but no it was just me and so then every every step I took somebody would talk to me and saying I need I need time with you I need to talk to you I need your input and these are like major leaders of movements who I didn't even know I was on their map like I'm like what are you talking about I'm like this twenty whatever year old guy who I didn't I was building with Mike Bickle I was it building my own think so I was like what is going on everywhere I'm you know and by the time I was over the woman who hosted the party said I have a word for you and I had to give it in front of all these people because I have to set in stone and something's gonna happen where they're gonna see you differently so she gave me word it was like it was awkward it's like thirty minutes long of this is how awesome you were type thing you know I'm like going I awkward I feel awkward but it's set a stage and their hearts were different people there included me in their ministries their lives in their hearts differently than if she hadn't done it and differently if I hadn't gone to the party right after an encounter with God and it actually set up some opportunity where they lent their you know their relational capital their ministry capital to me for years even to this day because of that moment of what had it happened there I remember just feeling like job says I long for the days when the intimacy with God was in my house and the lamp of God shone upon my life and in that day he there was no theater there wasn't like we didn't have Shakespearean you notice I there wasn't like you know spotlights yet but he described that experience where you feel like you have a spotlight on you and when you're walking with God with favor you feel like there's a spotlight on you in different circumstances and you can feel that whatever you want to call the anointing of his presence come on you or the favor of God come on you and all of a sudden you know you're gonna get a different result has anybody ever felt that that's what we're supposed to live in that's who we're supposed to be the problem is is that most people who come into their calling or their or their goal or their career goals or whatever they come into it especially in a city like LA with a suck or a pull they come to get something they come because they need something and so they come into a place expecting favor but they're actually looking for what I would call a sugar daddy I remember one day I was we had just built this church over five years in or whatever yeah and I was just tired of financing the church like half my income or more was going to the church it was it was really hard we had a lot of young adults at the time people would say you have a young girl group I'm like that's called the church you know it's like the whole church and I we just didn't have a lot of you know people who had any money to finance or whatever and I had friends who planted churches at the same time as me and they had like huge business people behind him so remember going god I need a sugar daddy and I just I told our team we need a sugar daddy for this church God and he rebuked me in the most stern he's ever been with me they said don't say you need a sugar daddy again I said you are called to be a benefactor and I've given you the ability to produce the resource out of this church and I was like I'm so sorry and then I was reading Deuteronomy 8:18 you know have I the Lord your God not give me the building prettiest wealth and resource and I'm reading as I tell the church so you know a couple years later we're in this moment what I'm saying God is giving us as a church the ability to produce that finance is not just tithes and offerings we're supposed to receive the different streams and ways that God wants us to do this and so a lot of those we did wasn't the worst dating show you've ever seen in your entire life it takes the church it's on Netflix you could watch it it was awful how do you were here for that praise Jesus but we needed some money and they offered us I think was like ten thousand dollars or so we'd like to five opportunities of row that were that cheesy and we said yes because we just prayed as a church give us opportunities god they're unusual for finances to come into the church what I didn't know is that was gonna take our time I was hoping people would just give us checks but it actually took our work in our time and bonding an experience but it was totally worth it because God began to change and three steer the ship into favor and blessing because we changed now one of these have changed in that is that we started to come as fathers and mothers to the city and of our region and of our church where I realized you cannot walk in favor unless you see yourself as somebody who's actually a gate keeper a favor you're called to bring favor and you won't walk in consistent favor with God unless you and your heart adopt a posture that I'm actually a favor broker for the kingdom I provide resource I provide relational capital I provide time and servanthood and Jesus came to be the servant of all in other words he came out of the great place of being the king of all the universe and said let me serve who you are by going to the cross for you let me serve who you are and actually see transformation in your life I mean that's unheard of and so us so many people come to this land of Los Angeles they come to get something and it could be any land maybe someones watching on streaming and it could be another kind of object lesson for you but they come to get something I'm gonna be an actor I'm gonna be musician I'm gonna be an entrepreneur I'm not gonna school there and whatever and they come and they're just looking for who's gonna make my life happen who's my who is my maker who's the person who's gonna discover me and we're called me the ones who discover people and call forth what's not as though it is so a lot of us are walking in a favor poverty because the posture of our heart maybe you have relational poverty or time poverty a resource poverty and God can violate your will to go past that you're actually a lot of you recording out for favor and you're your own stumbling block it's not the enemy and it's not God it's you because you actually have to grow into maturity to say God I will be this person today I don't have resource but I believe that's my calling or today I don't have a lot of favor or in my industry or whatever I'm doing to actually connect a lot of people and in my heart mine but whatever I do have I'll give you I mean all it takes is a little fish and loaves and it can feed 5,000 you're just like oh whatever you're sitting on if you see yourself and I I think of Patricia King at Surrey you know who she is and she's just a spiritual mom and the body Christ I really love Patricia King she has great materials but she was sharing she's been gripped to this message as far as we have to become benefactors and I'd given our word a couple years before saying you will be a benefactor and because of that you'll receive great benefactors who will start aligning themselves with you now Patricia has a really broad ministry TV ministry hosted huge conferences with thousands of people but her bread and butter is Tyler's and supporters and people who give gifts and it was like thousands of people give a little bit she's never had like a financier or a benefactor herself and the Lord convicted her when I gave her the word and said you need to see herself and she's always been a giver but you need to see yourself as a benefactor that makes other people's dreams come true in the kingdom so she began to do that and as she began to do that she had benefactors lineup to her and so she's been challenging people we were to event together with nineteen thousand people and she uses her stage time to say can you use your bank account even if it's a hundred dollars that you have extra in your bank account in a month to actually be a benefactor for somebody else's life to actually make their Kingdom reality come true even if it's the poorest of the poor can you actually see yourself as whatever relationships you do have are important to the kingdom to create tiny nets between you know the knots and the nets between this person and this person even if it's on a local level because if you don't start doing it now and in your season where you don't have much then god can't multiply it to give you so much I remember her just saying that I was like so impacted by it because I feel like a lot of us are waiting for something to happen before we apply our faith for favor we're waiting instead of instead of actually going oh you know like god I need something we're waiting for God to give us something before we'll be something for someone else and God saying where you are at is profound where you are at in this moment if you don't have a poverty mindset in this moment for whatever it is relational poverty physical property maybe it's a physical health poverty whatever it is if you don't have that place of block if you say even in the midst of the lack of what I have I have something to give like the three loaves and fish and I will be a benefactor of those around me I will be a sacrificial give her those around me if you are that kind of person you cannot outgive God and as favorite lands and rests on people who will love well with what he's given them it's a pair of all the talents the one who had one buried it I mean how stupid is that but I feel like half the body of Christ right now has buried their whole life they're waiting for something to happen they buried it they're saying I'm protecting it I'm gonna be really careful with all my relationships and what I do help gonna bury it and it feels righteous I'm that person felt righteous I have stewarded this by covering it up and making sure no one could get to it I didn't know what to invest it in so I saved it for you he's like Gideon returns to me I'm gonna give it to the one who made the most because I know he'll he'll double it like you didn't even double it like he look at what he's done I'm gonna multiply him because God never intended to just give us something to use right now he gave us something that could be legacy for generations to come I think you I stop thing all kinds of compliments this was great I'm gonna stop more often I was long-winded there either Wow you know we see people who have a favor or fame in one area and it's it's encouraging it's exciting a lot of times wants to miss using it it's really exciting in a lot of us just then we separate ourselves and go well that's them but the reality is as a Christian when God shows you something it's because he wants to give you access to it so God never raises up something have you have you read it like a revivalist of the past where you're like they're my favorite and you're just drawn to then they him like a spiritual hero anybody have one of those people in the past or anybody have someone alive like that no hands by his hands we do so the reason why you have that is because God's giving you a prototype of the kind of connection access he wants you to walk in with him that produces the similar type of fruit and your sphere so God never exposed you something you can't reproduce in your own lifetime he's giving you that to create spiritual hunger for connection to him so that you can have the same kind of fruit it's actually part of his favor when he shows you something that's so awesome you read a story in the inspire space because all faith comes by hearing and testimony is our primary way we grow so when God exposes you to a testimony it's not so you go oh god that's so awesome I love that for them Corrie ten Boom was at Auschwitz that's amazing she was a Christian there and she was able to fight that she was fighting the the annihilation of a human race and she was fighting for a justice that if you can't apply her faith if you love her and you applaud her and you're going something inside of her significant she's a hero to me if you're just entertained by her you're not actually using the testimony to actually empower your face for favor to come in your life I look at William Wilberforce is one of my spiritual heroes and he used all these high-level high-profile people relationships he was with to not only in slavery but to have all kinds of talks about policy changing in England and theirs policies that he helped inspire that and write that are still in effect today that have guided their justice issues as the nation today over the UK because he used his relational capital to in his favor to actually serve a whole nation to bring breakthrough to a whole nation so when I read his story when I hear a story when I've watched the movie which Amazing Grace was caused me that go further and actually like dig deep and go who is this guy you know like who is he ken Wales who was someone I got to be exposed to several times before he felt ill who wrote Chariots of Fire and producing the whole thing and then also had Amazing Grace he was so obsessed with a mobile force and wanted to show his story so that actually got me thinking about who that was and when I got the more I got exposed to it it became dangerous because I knew I had access God's favor and our day for the modern day slave epidemic and it actually caused me to have slavery in my heart differently than if I had just known about the issues from facts and reports all of a sudden I saw somebody who's a spiritual hero who actually annihilated slavery legally in his generation and I went I have to see some of that happen in my lifetime good I need to be a part of a company people who writes policies for nations that changes everything for that nation otherwise they just get entertained by go oh that's neat that that happened say Gulf pain clap I just think you know not having favor is not an option when you're walking intimacy with God if you walk in with the intimacy of God you're gonna have favor another thing is the hard part is that your favor doesn't common ways that you would predict or anticipate or choose meaning your process is so different I hear this from Christians all the time who will they'll come up and they'll complain to me like you know I start at the same time he's my best friend and she's not a Christian but she started producing too and she has four movies I'm still waiting for the one movie project in my heart and I'm working as a grip on set and it's just the worst thing in the world because I had this project with me and gods called me a queen and yet I'm just working as a popper and I hate the thought and I went for movies too you know I'm like listening to this story this is a true story and I'm like have you surrender your life to Jesus well yes then you surrendered your process to Jesus which means he is doing something glorious inside of you that you can't guide predict or be in control of and you if you want Hearst kind of success like a human level of success you can give up your surrender and just be normal and have for movies but if you're surrendering to Jesus the type of success that people will see through your life will be something that you could have never performed and maybe God has you as a grip so when all of a sudden you become a producer and make your movie and all the people go you appeared overnight people who appear overnight had 30 years before they appeared overnight I don't know if you know that like everything like where did you come from of the person's like 18 years of hell thank you but your process is different because your result is gonna be Kingdom and she's just sitting in crying like but I know I'd like my process I don't like my pron Joseph did not like his process I promise you music thank you Jesus for putting me in prison this is so good it's my favorite [Applause] thank you for that woman accusing me of you know having separator that's awesome love this spirit of accusation God your process is not in your control if you surrender to Jesus but what isn't is in your control as faith is getting rid of everything that's poverty getting rid of everything that says I can't just because my circumstances today look the opposite of what he's put in my spirit doesn't mean I'm gonna live and the reality of today as far as my limitation or my restriction I will be a benefactor in the moment today so when I do have in this area maybe you have in one area but you don't in three that you want when I do have in that area I will already know how to use this because my muscles are exercised and I haven't grown fat and I haven't grown so skinny that I have you know apathy but I Know Who I am in this area and God can graduate me from one place of glory to another place of glory because I'm already active in my faith room with him I don't think the body of crash realizes how much favor we're about to get I feel like it's such an acceleration of my own personal life and not to put myself as your example of favor because I'm definitely not like the most favorite person and even our community but I love the favor that I'm walking on and in in the sense of what but it really did come for the transition enough I will be a benefactor and a father but I mean some of the things that conversations were in I'm in so many conferences I was trying to count it the other day about 30 or 40 conversations that are so above my paygrade experience level education level anything that we could personally relate to and I'm being relied on to give advice that's spiritual advice spiritual nature to people who are and mate like top hundred business leaders in the world no kidding you know different presidents and different nations I mean I've been on faith councils and three nations now I mean things that they'll bring me into conversation for and I'm like I literally I could do this I can go be in poverty and go I shouldn't be here I don't know who I am I don't know why I'm this this is weird at all insecurity and orphan spirit that's what that does or I can go matrix it and go I don't know but I can plug into Jesus and find out in a second you know like you know how to drive that helicopter no but I won't a minute but sometimes God does that cuz I know many of you've heard me say this before but first Corinthians 1:26 is one of my it's literally like my foundational scripture for being me it says not it's 1st Corinthians 1 24 to 28 or whatever but it says not many of you were the brightest bulbs in there in the land not many of you were the highest educated not many of you were very cool as a matter of fact you're the weakest things the world God chose you the weakest thing is the world so when people look at you in the position you're in people go how did you get here and all the wise ones go no you're taking our position you came from nowhere I hate you and you're like oh it doesn't mean we don't become excellent in what we go after I'm not saying that at all but it means that no matter how excellent we become we are not qualified for what God wants to give us that's how good he is on this side of eternity God wants to put people in the most amazing opportunities in places a favor that the world has ever seen Christians in Joseph Daniel and Esther are an example of the end time army people who had influenced from servanthood at hearts to love well to transform whole society that's the entire army of God that's what it looks like to be part of the global harvest that God wants to do right now but there's so many of us that are like I'm not very important and you'll say not very important the rest of your life to everybody that God wants to be important to because you have chosen not to be important because Jesus when he rose from the dead it says in ephesians 1 he was seated in the highest position in heaven that the greatest titles couldn't even compare to where he was seen it and then ephesians 2 says he seated you there with him now that doesn't require haven't giving you favor what does you have like you know a passport as a kingdom citizen right now to be the salt of years and so many people who are looking at the salt of the earth message that we preached so many times and being a light on the lamps and the highest lamps and you could shine from the problem is they get so enamored by the lamp stand it's like oh it's so big it's so beautiful that's so many gemstones I love the lamp said and they don't realize that when they're up there they get to see and illuminate to all these people and fall so much in love with them they get so stuck on the lamp stand they don't know what their favors for and we see this over and over the body of Christ people who get so focused on their calling that they don't realize the destiny is at stake of Jesus the people he gets to love through you being on a lampstand and ultimately the favor of God is so Jesus could be seen in its full glory through your little life and it's time for us to engage differently it's time for us to say I want the favor of God I want to walk in the fullness and each area of whatever my little life can handle whether I'm a mom you know stay-at-home mom who homeschools my kids there's no excuse to not see yourself as a benefactor in that role I work at you know Starbucks there's no excuse to not see yourself as a benefactor in that role or I'm one of the top producers in Hollywood there's no excuse to not see yourself as a benefactor and God wants to do literally as we surrender to him he wants to show us how to make the most out of our life which is a relational process where he draws you into people you would have never met on your own where you give them opportunity that creates loyalty and character and love in their hearts towards Jesus because you said all father you in this moment I'll love you in this moment I'll give you some of this moment that the world can give you but God could give you does he put me here and they go God is real I've waited my whole life for this this is what God's put in my heart I now see it came from God it wasn't just a dream it wasn't just ambition God put me here and because of you I know God that's not a Queen of Sheba said she goes now I know that there's a God who's real over Israel who loves his people because he raised up a man like you don't you want to be that don't you want people are looking and go gods real because you're here are you serious like that's like anyone said that to me I probably cry for a week let me just finish this you could position yourself and I just want to say three ways you can position yourself number one is expectation we should have an expectation or life for goodness to come we should be looking over the things we believe that God wants to do in our life a lot of people you know in church like you don't believe you've heard from God about your life but there if there's something driving you towards a career or an action it's probably got it's probably God's voice so you're not that responsible for the goodness of your life if you have a plan it's probably God it's probably his voice that's led you you just haven't recognized it's his voice and his leading but once you start to partner and say this is your voice like I do want to be this because of you not just because I it's in me because you're my Creator and you put it in me which is your voice to me that I even know it have discovered it thank you like just that right there is that communication you know just learning how to communicate with God but but starting to build expectation Lord what do you want to do through my life what what do you want to point me out what kinds of things are most interesting to you speak to me about these things and think about Ephesians 3:20 or first Corinthians why to know I have seen no ears or 2:9 what God has in store for those who love him think about that like think about a season 3:20 says you know he wants to do what beyond what you could dream or imagine beyond your wildest dreams which means that you need to exaggerate some of the things you think God wants to do through your life and it may not happen your life and maybe your children your friends everybody else who carries it with you but man you're gonna have so much satisfaction what God does for you there's favor but we have to have an expectation for favor number two we have to prepare for favor which means we should look through everything that God's told us like if God's actually spoken to you and allow him to allow favor to be the bridge between the gap of what's to come and what is today which means for me I'm starting to plan for these are the things God's told me in my lifetime and I'm starting to plan for like Sheree and I bought a property that we had no ability to get and now we have and it's amazing like we're able to sustain it by the grace of God in the favor of God but it's it's we're not in any kind of debt except our mortgage just beautiful and we're in this property that has a soundstage and we bought it with a sound stage knowing we're supposed to produce media that two years after our renovation we're now just starting to do now but I had to use favor in my heart and just connection to God to bridge me between the season I was in before where I new media was coming and buying a house that has the potential to do it and then hiring producers and people to actually create the media I had to actually believe in God there's gonna connect me to the right resource the right people the right talent the right connections to train me personally and favor was the key in all those things when Jesus says I'm gonna give you life and life abundantly that abundance is the key for you to thrive into your new season and so you have to see that those things that are not yet you have to call forth as those they are but you have to depend on favor to lead you to them cuz you can't get there yourself your talent will not bring you where you know God wants to believe you your skill your charm your ability to you know fake your way through a line to a club or whatever it's not gonna get you into the kingdom we have some charming people here that think it's favor and it's not you know its favor when you're like I couldn't do this it's not favor if you could do this if you're like I'm gonna you know getting an advantage all the time I'm a good salesperson I'm gonna negotiate it that's not favor it's just a gift you have and I love that gift but you need to go beyond negotiating you need to go to where you say I couldn't have negotiated this in the first place that's how good god is and then you nd you build monuments in those places so that when you have to build the next level which you kill the line of the bear then you go to Goliath when you have to get the Goliath you're like I stand in awe what you did here and here and here my life I know you'll do it again God you stand on the monument of favor number three we should begin to hope and imagine for more in life and I just said that but I'm gonna encourage you in just if you're not in a place of being able to dream for your own life it's hard cuz you can't contribute the world if you're not a self contributor you just won't love the world well if you don't love yourself you can't you can't give outside of what relationship you don't have and the only thing we have to give his relationship with God ultimate and it's proven to where all of our walks to life everything we do is connected to our relationship with God we're a Christian because we've surrendered and said you can have it all and it's like I'll give it all back but I'm gonna give it to you in the context of what's good for the king to reveal for you so at the end of the age you'll say wow you masterfully whoa of my life together with all the previous generations and all the ones that came after me I was a beautiful part of this tapestry that was significant and I have an identity and and choosing you and it's seen in the tapestry God's looking at your life and it means so much Tim it means so much to him but you have to be in a place of connection with him for it to actually live out its full potential that's one of reasons why we do like these small groups you know that our team puts together so you can be in a place where you can be around people who encourage you to live a best quality of life you can in Christ and when you are going through a wilderness where you're like I'm in prison like Joseph they go that's part of the call it's okay if your sin didn't get you there that if if your goodness got you there God will get you out of have your sin got you there he'll redeem you you know like either way you're okay either way God is good so I'm gonna encourage you to get into those connections of relationship and those connections of life because they will be the difference of life and death but in this season of time I just think of the the favor that God wants to put on the church which is unprecedented where people are crying out for solutions for education for politics for justice issues for media I mean we're recycling and regurgitated old shows that should have never been remade you know it's like it's so sad like movies I'm like oh they're gonna make that now are you just that tired you know like there's no new creativity god bless old stuff but I'm like oh really like that said people are crying out crying out for the new for what God can do a god result they're crying out and when people saw Solomon they ran into his kingdom because how he heard from God was so practical he was a messianic type Jesus came with demonstrations of power and acts so that everybody can have connection to relational God but Solomon was a messianic picture of what it looks like in government in an operation and in a kingdom on earth how when you hear from God when you're a relationship to God policy is so profound that people will come from other nations just to heal how he would deliberate in his court kings and leaders from almost every known nation came just to listen to him because it was that profound God wants to put a favor of the church where we have answers for policy he wants to put a favour on the church where we have an unfair advantage in entertainment he wants to put a favor I mean you need to hear that I'm gonna camp there I have 10 minutes on a camp there for one minute I love the team Tim Tebow movie with Darren came out and you guys were number 10 and you guys have made a lot of movies before this so like this isn't your first rodeo but it's time and so something's happening this is like a tipping point I believe I'm speaking prophetically for you guys it's a tipping point where it was number 10 and it did well in the box office and you guys were able to open more theaters this week and it did really good again and it's and it has like 95 percent or something like that of the viewers loved it I want to make this like they're just loving it like it's a movie and I feel like the reason why on to camp here is because there's an unfair advantage when you can take this little bit of a budget and have this big of an impact when studios are putting so much money into their most creative people and they're making movies that are contrived that they know will make the money back and they're not right now like do you ever know why they make like movies like saw it's called like tenon or five in and 10 out it's like they've they make a movie really fast that's easy cheap budget and they know they'll make double or triple back instantly and so it's a no-brainer they know that this this crowd will go and see it whatever else but the faith industry right now is I can is a disrupter kind of like the tech industry's for uber for taxis that kind of thing the faith industry is a disruptor because they're they're totally shocked that a movie like Tim Tebow and Darin produced is actually having a story that's relevant to mass they're like wait isn't this like super Christian like the guy gets saved at them why do people like this movie like that's like totally there it's edgy team and it's not real entertainment I've heard that a couple of the one-liners this is agitate Matt this is an entertainment I don't if you saw that one and I'm like well apparently 95 percent of the people who see it are being entertained and actually getting their hearts touch and want more of this because they're the ones who are buying the movie no matter what you say and I just I can't beer for a second because God's gonna give an unfair advantage to Samee who are entertainers I talked to a young woman who played in a really controversial film that's coming out I won't say what it is but it's a very anti-abortion type thing and it's going to be big movie and she played in the movie inside I talked her for a minute and she was worried about her career and I just I just was like okay first of all you haven't seen the fruit of what the movie is doing it so your fruit is gonna determine your career not your lack of fruit or your fear or what people are saying to you right now the fruit yeah and if in the end of the age you find out that you know ten million babies were saved because that one movie you know Justin Bieber tweeted a couple years ago one time about I'm not really into abortion I don't think it's the right thing he said he made this one tweet and it was retweeted 270 thousand times in ten minutes by people who probably weren't even pro-life they just liked Justin Bieber but it changed something right because I mean it would take every pulpit in United States to preach to get two hundred seventy thousand tweets in one day and one celebrity says at once so God wants to give an unfair advantage through the entertainment industry for the whole church to come into more of its destiny so that we could be power brokers and issues where we bring God's original plan of justice education politics and so the hard thing is that that requires us to be in offices that we may not even agree with like you might have to serve you know a political party in the sense of like what if God calls you as a Christian and you have to be bipartisan and hang out with Trump for a minute and you're not into Trump or maybe it's Obama you know like maybe you know I remember when our church got a Christmas card from Obama and our friends who are like not weren't super into Obama we're like in other churches were like why are you gonna Christmas cousin putting on Instagram from Obama that scares us I'm like because we're by parts and we love Obama we actually believe it and we look for what God's doing with each political party and we come to agree with that so we can serve that political party because God appoints politicians so that means that we're actually looking for what God's doing and coming to agreement with it and because of that we get favored I'm not looking for selfie times the presidents I'm looking for selfie pictures of presidents I'm looking for God to shift government's so if we understand that we come into favor part of what happens when you come to favor is you have to die to a lot of self agenda and we have to die to a lot of self agenda I mean if you say I would never make a faith-based film if you're an entertainer in here you have Jesus and you don't know what he's gonna make through you I mean I said I would never be in Christian television I'm gonna be on TV and then see being this year I'm like I would never be at Christian television never 0-0 would want to be in Christian television but he lives in me he's like I like Christian television so I'm telling you this because part of your favor comes to a route you wouldn't pick and the problem is most of us aren't surrendered enough to God to get the greater favor and I love I just I use you guys as a display cuz you're over just core family here and there's favor coming in from all this hard work it's coming and this is the first you have so many projects in your heart this is the first one that kind of was viable on a commercial success on this level it's like you're even all of them they've been good but I mean this one something happened and I just believe it's a picture of the faithfulness but it's either the route you would have taken like I know there's projects in your heart that you would have done first but this is the one that you surrendered said I'll do this this one and that's a picture to us is one of the dads and moms in the house that they've said will surrender to you Jesus and do it your way and when you do that you get a different result than if you do it your way and you might have a different story you know like I used to think I'd explain that gunman Christos I don't really like Christian televizzle I was trying to qualify my journey of the people and I'm just not in security more I don't care like I never thought I'd be in Christian television I don't know why I like Christian television I'm following Jesus that's it and I like what I'm doing that's enough when you go after favor you guys this is my last point when you go off to a favor please surrender your process to relationship and when you do you're gonna get a different result but it might take a while and it may may just retrain your character to where it's not about you even if you think it wasn't about you you find out it was about to a whole lot on the journey I'm still finding out a lot of me is about me and I'm having to lay that down all the time and a lot of ego a lot of stuff that I have to lay down all the time that I thought I did I thought I'd kill 20 years ago and all of a sudden new levels create greater not greater Devils greater character issues in your heart that you go oh I thought I graduated then okay we're here again okay Wow so and then there's a great surrender again there's a great will exchange between you and God and then favor comes so if you find yourself stuck you might be stuck because of you not because it God not because the enemy but because of you and you have to go through a process of what it takes coaching counseling therapy whatever Sozo discipleship homegroups life but whatever it takes to get unstuck so that you can be a conduit of a full favor and blessing of God and become a benefactor amen come on stand up thank you I'm getting something comfortable to say it's great like usually people don't yell like yell at you it's a good word the middle of a service that's great unless you're a black church can we have more black people cuz it's so much more fun with it's like I already go to church like if we didn't have our church I go to Troy Roberts Church because it's so much fun if you're going to something where you're like I feel alive here I'm so white though it's I'm sorry sorry to Latinos and Asian's I'm a black church it's that racist does that weird I'd humble myself again I repent I want you to put your hand on your heart I want you to just receive Jesus who's inside of you making you what he's already promised you that you'd be a benefactor in this world of the kingdom Holy Spirit created us everything we need so that we can see ourselves as a father in the faith a mother in the faith a benefactor of the kingdom that we would be not just a doorkeeper that works as a doorman for minimum wage but we're a gatekeeper son or daughter of God who watches and guards the gates for people coming in and out god I pray that you would give us as much favor as we could handle even if it's just three fish and a couple loaves that we would use those that allow you to multiply those things to blow us away but also to feed the world Jesus I pray that you would prophetically speak to us through your Holy Spirit about our life and about where our favor is and Deuteronomy 8:18 every place we feel like we can't produce resource or we're just dead unless someone gives something to us break that mentality which is the spirit of this world off of us whether you've given us full ability to produce everything we need to bring you your inheritance what if any of us have wanted a sugar daddy break that in us today you don't need someone to discover you haven't already has heavens discover you Jesus has invested any of everything I pray that in your hearts right now that there would be a great shift if it's already there Lord multiply it right now Lord even some of us who've been in the great time of surrender and things have not been going our way but we know we're on the right journey I pray that you to encourage us by this message today to stay strong encourage us that it's gonna get better lord I thank you for those who are in the promised land I think of all the things you're doing in my life and during chrises life and so many other people's lives right here hona and Jennifer's lives just so many people Alex and Shana just so people that it's we're walking into our promised land and God it's good we're grateful for the process even though it was hard even though it's not the one we would pick we're grateful for the results that you leading us with you're affected your relational knowledge and understanding of our lives is leading to a different result than we could have brought ourselves to and we thank you for that God and I pray that you would literally this this we've been prophesied that we would be a lampstand that many would shine from and God I pray that no one who focus on the lamp stands anymore but would focus on the shining so we can see the ones when the light comes we see those you get you want to love that we get to love and I pray that our eyes today would change from the career the goals the thing all these things just the things and it would be focused on the people that we get to love that we get the opportunity to impact we get the opportunity to call family we get the opportunity to call brothers and sisters and friends I pray that we would have that focus today so that favor would multiply so quickly that we would be exhausted by the goodness of God favor doesn't just add a little bit to your life it multiplies everything in your life I just pray for the great multiplication for anyone who could handle it here in Jesus name Amen [Applause] [Music] you

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