The Side Effects of Favor | Pastor Keion Henderson

Luke chapter 1 verse 26 this is what the Bible says and in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God into the city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin espoused to be a man's wife and she was to marry a man by the name of Joseph who was of the house of David and was a virgin her name was Mary and the angel came in unto her and said hail for you are highly favored the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and when he when she saw him she was troubled at this saying and cast her mind into the manner of the salutation and she said to herself how could this be and the angel said to her fear not Mary for thou has found favor here it is with God everybody say you got favor with God and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus and he shall be great and shall he be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end I want to talk to you as I told you on yesterday on this subject matter the side effects of favor you may touch everybody on your way down to your seat and just tell them there are some side effects to favor have you have you noticed on television lately that they got all of these commercials for this medicine and you know America is one of the only two nations in the world that allows pharmaceutical companies to market directly to consumers in every other country the medicine is regulated by the government and the government does not allow for such economic prowess but America being the country that it is and it is a great country allows the pharmaceutical Patriots to directly talk to us and if you've if you've ever paid attention when you've been laying in bed or watching television there's all of these medicines and they got all of these names you can't even pronounce and and and when when they come on it comes on and it shows two people walking in the park and and and and the sun is shining they got cancer but the sun is shining in and and they skipping and and some soft supple lovely voice comes and says if you or anyone you know there's suffering with failing livers and hearts and hasn't had a heart beat in three or four weeks and has no brain activity you're in luck because we've had a breakthrough and if you notice that the person who's giving the diagnosis and and and giving the good news is in the commercial and and and they're smiling and they're in the kitchen and everybody's drinking lattes and and and the wind is blowing and the trees are cascading their leaves off of the ether of the sky and everything as well and in that there's this soft voice telling you that everything is going to be fine and then after that then they get to the rushing and the side effects are you might die tomorrow your teeth might fall off you're gonna have swollen eyeballs and have you ever saw have you ever saw the commercials anybody know what I'm talking about raise your hand it's almost as if you're thinking oh my god they found a miracle drug but then you recognize that even though they're gonna cure what you have you're gonna die so it'll be like this so this this medicine is a breakthrough in it it'll make sure that the alpha hydroxy cells allow blood to flow through the sails but after you take it you're gonna die your livers gonna fall down your heart's gonna come one time I mean it's almost as if if you notice that there is one voice for the Cure and another voice for the side-effect oh god you I want you to pay attention to it when you get home today there's this there's this nice lovely voice that that's in the commercial and notice that the person who gives the good news is in the commercial but the person who gives the bad news as a voiceover because they know that that we only want to see the people who give us good news Oh y'all don't want to hear this sermon today that this is the way the human mind is made up that we are always in love with those who have good news for us but we don't want to see those who have bad news for us which is why churches have pontificated and we've preached sermons and stood in pulpits and told everybody about how favor ain't fair and slap your neighbor and tell them to fake it til you make it and God's about to give you a ram in the bush and there's favor coming on your life but then when a preacher tells you that before you can pick up your bed and walk you gotta lay on it for 38 years that's when y'all check out of the sermon you want Jesus to come to your wedding but you don't want to run out of wine and so I wanted to tell you today that Jesus is coming and and I thank God that he was born and I and I'm so glad that we're here at the Christmas season but before you are healed from your issue of blood you are going to have to meet all of the doctors and spend everything that you have and nobody is going to be able to heal you because there's always side effects to favors and churches have become our worship service have become like the commercials that we stand up in the pulpits and we tell you to give your neighbor high five and slap three people in and say God loves you seven times and say hallelujah and look at the person behind you and tell them I ain't regarding done with me yet you got all of that and the church is loud as long as there's a blessing on the way and the church is loud as long as there's a miracle coming in your direction and everybody's given a high-five and the preacher was off the chain the day that you got your word but what happens when he tells you that sometimes in this life you will have trials and tribulations and in this life you will struggle and sometimes your friends are gonna turn their backs on you and sometimes you're gonna cry at the midnight hour and sometimes you're gonna struggle Joseph before you get your coat of many colors your brothers are gonna throw you in the pit and reach before bow ass comes Mahlon is going to die because before you can get your next man you might have to lose your current man I'm trying to tell you but there's always some side effects now you give your neighbor high-five on that and tell them there's some side effects to favor whenever you sign your favor contract please don't forget to read the fine print when you start running around here talking about you blessed and highly favored Mary don't forget that favor comes with people calling you an adulteress and you're pregnant with the Holy Ghost this baby favor comes with people talking about you at the beauty shop Mary favor comes with people scandalizing your name because favor ain't fair everybody's talking about woman there are loose but they forget that for 18 years she was bent over for 18 years she had infirmities for 18 years she was struggling yes the favor comes but what happens before the favor yeah Mary did have a son and his name was Emanuel and his name is Jesus and he is the Christ and she did give birth through an immaculate conception but not without her name being dragged lord help this thing for everybody not without her name being dragged through the mud not without all of the women calling her out of a name not without her son hurt her her husband wanted to put her away privately not without being called by the council to be stoned to death sometimes the glory is at odds with your story Frederick Douglass said if there is no struggle there is no progress everybody in this place today and I'm halfway done with the sermon the next time you sign up for favor please don't forget to read the fine print this woman named Mary is from a place called Nazareth Nazareth is such an obscure City that when they were listing the registry of cities they left this city off perhaps the most obscure city in the history of the world in fact somebody said can any good thing come from Nazareth no no no no you don't get it I mean whatever city you are from and whatever city you heard was bad there was nothing s worse as this city they thought that nobody good could come from this place and yet Jesus picks the place where nothing good can come from to ensure that the question was right can any good thing come from Nazareth no but a great thinking I came to tell somebody in this place that she's got to stop misunderstanding the question when they asked the question can any good thing come from Nazareth you upset because you think that it is a slight that they're causing you not good but you don't understand that good is a sin when you're called to be great I'll give you a neighbor high five and say that's the problem I want it to be good but God had called me to something great I wish I had somebody who will repeat after me good as a sin when great is your portion and I'm speaking to this atmosphere greatness over your life I speak greatness over your children I speak great ideas are getting ready to pop in your head can any good thing come out of your mind no because great things are supposed to come she was she was highly favored so if you see the story six months before Mary has Jesus or before she gets pregnant with Jesus there was another lady in the story her name was Elizabeth Elizabeth is like in her 80s and her husband Zachariah has been praying and asking God that his wife would be able to conceive now this is no miracle let me scratch that it is a miracle but it is not a miracle that has never happened before because you can go through the scripture and you can find eight or nine women who had babies in their eighties I'm not saying it's impossible it is hard to do but it has happened before and so and so Zachariah goes and and and he goes to the Judean Hills and and he beseeches the Lord and the Lord shows up and tells him don't worry about it your wife is going to conceive your wife is going to conceive but now the second time Gabriel makes his visitation to Mary he is far from the religious epicenter of the Judean Hills and now he does not go to a tabernacle he does not go to a temple he goes to an insignificant obscure place gives the most important announcement of all time in the most unimportant place of all time the goodness the good news of Jesus Christ comes from a city that nobody would visit they had no economic center they had no grocery stores they didn't have any gas stations they had no malls there was no Galleria there there were no taxicabs there was no no economic opportunities they did not have Quicken Loans they did not have big houses they had no mentions everybody there was poor everybody there was obscure everybody there was unknown and yet God goes to a place where nobody else would go and he gives this message to a woman and says to her you are getting ready to bring forth a son and you're gonna do it while you are a virgin now if you go back to the Hebrew you find out that before it was translated to Greek a virgin did not mean a woman who had not had sex yet a virgin was a young woman that's it so in other words the translation of a woman being a virgin who has not had sex or came when the language changed from Hebrew to Greek so what he was actually saying to her he did not tell her that you I have a baby without having sex he just told her you were gonna have a baby imagine Italy in your youth y'all not here with me today you you're missing this because everybody is put the emphasis on the sex and everybody's put the emphasis on the fact that she had a baby without having sex and I'm telling you that that's not the miracle the miracle was God was gonna do a whole thing in a new person I came to tell somebody young in this place today God is not gonna wait until you're 40 or 50 or 60 to bless you there's an anointing on you that was not on your mother God's gonna do it faster in your life I wish I had about 15 young women in this place that will give another woman high five and say God is gonna do it earlier in your life and there ought to be some older sisters in here shouting because had it not been for you Elizabeth Mary wouldn't have had an opportunity I wish I had a mother say I have to suffer I have to cry and I will do all of that to make sure that you never have to go through what I went through do I have any surviving women in here that's excited that God's about to do a new thing in a young woman Elizabeth was six months pregnant when she found out that this young mentor of hers you understand that john the baptist's is the baby she's pregnant with the one that is crying out in the wilderness the forerunner of Jesus Christ the cousin of Jesus who would later baptize him in the Jordan River that's who Elizabeth is pregnant with in the Bible says that when Elizabeth and Mary meet for the first time John leaps in her womb the amazing thing about that is is that the boy is leaping before he can walk he leaps in the womb and it's something about the agreement between what's an Elizabeth and what's in Mary Mary's got Jesus Elizabeth has John and John leaps and worships Jesus before he ever hung on the cross he worship at least before he ever walks her water why because they ought to be something in this woman that makes what's in this woman leap I come against the spirit of competition in women I come against this company competitive spirit where y'all women attend each other down and lying on each other and digging ditches for one another I want a Mary to give an Elizabeth the high five and say what I got in me is gonna make what you have and you reap oh I ain't got no real women in here today I'm speaking to you women cuz it's your time it's your time you ain't gotta wait on a man to do nothing it's your time and I come against the spirit of competition on whose hair is the longest and whose butt is the biggest and who's the prettiest and who's the cutest I'm not worried about what's on the outside of me I'm worried about what's holy oh I need you I need about five women give another woman high five and say baby what I got in me it's making way for what you got into you here oh you didn't hear what I said Elizabeth was giving birth to John and John was gonna make way for Jesus what you have in you is making way for what she has in her and you only get together and start some companies together you make me know who you are stop trying to do it by yourself and let what's in you encourage what's in home several never said let's break up these cliques girls there's some woman power in this room today the most the most googled word in 2017 was female that means that more people looked up the word female in 2000 so why are we still defining that word because we still don't know what it means yet it's still been defined because female is more than what kind of sexual orientation in body parts you have female as power female as birth female as multiplication and win enough of y'all women get together it's more y'all either way than it is us i bind the spirit of competition in women right now such no neighbors say I got John in me and you got Jesus in you and I'm not jealous of your Jesus and don't you be jealous of my job because you're China's gonna make way for my Jesus and my Jesus is gonna save your job do I have any women in here who are shocked she's from a place called Nazareth Nazareth is a Greek word that means branch okay she's a branch now if you look at a tree the only thing that people have a shout about is oh how deep the roots are or how thick the bark is or how majestic it is and how high it is and the fruit that hangs from the limbs and and the leaves but but the most important part of the tree is the part that nobody thinks about is the branch because freedo hang from roots freak hangs from branches oh that's what Jesus says I am the bridge and my father why wish I had a church and my father is the husband man he's the bridge he's the branch well well well anything that has a branch is strong because the reason why the United States of America is the most powerful country in the world cuz gasps three branches of government we've got to legislate if we got the judicial we've got the executive we got three branches and the matter of fact the Bible says that when God destroyed the world by water that he sent out Noah sent out a raven to see if the water had receded and the Raven came back with nothing then he says a week later he sends out a dove and the duck goes back and when the Dove comes back the second time the only thing that he has in his mouth is an olive branch everything in the world was destroyed but the only thing that ever survived the flood was a branch slap your Labor's say I'm a branch I'm a breast that's why fruit is don't grow on you in 2018 and in 2018 people are going to go from picking on you to picking from you snap somebody say I'm a branch God's about to invest something in me that's going to make sure in the next season whatever he's doing is coming from somebody shine I'm a branch 2018 fruit on you 2018 opportunities on you and people are gonna go from picking on you to picking somebody shot on my branch matter of fact I need about five women to give another woman a high five and say we are branches I'm gonna connect with you and you gonna connect with me we're gonna connect our resources and our prayer and we're gonna start some businesses and we're gonna start taking over we're gonna old companies we're gonna do our own neighborhood watch we're gonna make sure that we take care of our children if you see my son acted up you get them if I see your child acting up obligated because it takes a village to raise a child in other words it takes precious somebody said I'm a branch come on somebody Sally I'm a branch you are moving into a season with a folk that been picking on you I get ready to pick from guys about to flip the script in your life and they laughing at you right now cuz you're broke and they laughing at you right now cuz you don't have nothing and they'll and finishing right now because you don't have a man and they laughing at you now because you know ed that's all right that was 2017 just wait in about six days tell you live in about six days God still turned everything around in my life and I'm speaking to some woman in here God told me to prophesy in 2018 you gonna be the breadwinner slap a woman sound bout to make more money than and I've never made before well she was she was highly favored but they picked on her she was highly favored but they talked about her she was highly favored but they discarded her because will your sign in your favorite contract don't forget yes she was godly but then ey God picked her yes she had good character but that ain't why God picked him God picked her because she was favored do I have any favor women in here see baby let me tell you something you can have a baby out of wedlock and still have favor stop letting these church folk mix you up and think that because you got a divorce you lost your favor no baby I'm a branch maybe my relationship didn't work but God didn't break the favor promise because I broke the earth they coming it I want to empower you women stop letting people press you your branch everything comes to you everything comes to you and if a man does have a thriving company is probably because he got a woman encouraging them man you got to be honest if you want for their warming your life you still have on them same clothes I'm 75 round here with a motorcycle jacket on in baggy pants she lit this on you got it you got to fit yourself up with them starts creasing your jeans you got to stop while you still wearing a Pelle Pelle jacket in the moment of conception the Holy Spirit took deity and humanity and fused them together and made that God man and the spirit the spirit was the love not between the two natures and and he he could have brought Jesus out of Adam the way he brought Eve out of Adam's but he didn't want to because I told you yesterday that a woman is the only host where you can put one thing in her and get many things out do I have any women in this place today that know how much power God has given you and God says to Mary you are not blessed above women you are blessed among women women you've got to stop trying to be above each other and be among each other let me tell you why the world is struggling one of the reasons is because the devil has women speaking this narrative I can't be friends with women yawning gotta say man fellas y'all gonna have to help because dang gonna say man this is what women say I can't hang with females they took caddy they - Patti that's who they - this and he has you segregated and that's why we are losing our power because the world is only strong when Elizabeth and Mary can come together y'all can't stand each other y'all don't speak to itself you see a woman and and from a distance you don't even know one you just see and fellas let me tell you something women are so petty that the woman you looking at like she find your wife saw her 12 days before you saw her by the time a woman passes another woman she's already decided if she need to change her weave if she got the wrong underwear old if her teeth need to be brushed she done made all those decisions you think you fast she saw you looking she's singing her hero foo don't even know I saw him but I'm gonna let him look Engel she don't want him know how and she knew who he was she bring him back to me food ain't got a chance I'm going to one there moaning women shall kill the spirit of competition Mary Mary did you know that so baby boy will not only break your water but one day walk on it Mary did you know what you had inside of you because if you knew what you had inside of you you wouldn't be jealous of what Elizabeth has inside of her marry if you knew how beautiful you were you stop trying to change who you are and just be who you are if you knew who you were you wouldn't just need to be in kuris but you would be an encouragement marry if you knew who you were you stop selling yourself shortly marry if you knew who you were you look in the mirror and recognize that you have favored among women you stop appraising yourself based on your waistline and you stop thinking that because your hair is not this kind of texturing and because you are this way dark or this thin or this color you'd recognize that although that was designed because what I have for you could only rest in who you are I wish that you knew who you were married how wish you knew Mary and I don't know what your name is but I wish you knew Susie I wish you knew I wish you knew whoever you are out there I wish you knew who you were because the reason you cannot feel love is because you don't love yourself and you keep telling your man that he doesn't appreciate you but that's not the truth the truth is is you don't appreciate you and the reason why he has to tell you you're pretty every day is because every day he tells you you pretty you'll forget about it because it doesn't matter what he says because you only believe what you see and he keeps telling you that you don't need makeup to look beautiful but yet you keep putting it on because it's not about his compliment it's about your concept he keeps telling you I like you just the way you are but your problem is is you're not getting dressed for him you're getting dressed for other women oh I'm gonna I'm gonna get done in here today you leave home tell me I'm gonna kill him if you if you to save you can get what I said but if you ain't really safe you heard me and I have to say it some of y'all leave home too I'm a killing I'm a killer I'm gonna make them jealous you didn't got dress for somebody who ain't even paying you no attention your husband keeps telling you that you don't need it for him to like you but you keep doing it because it's not about him it's about you and your competition with Elizabeth and if you realize that she's got John and you got Jesus while she has Jesus and you have John and you've got something in your womb that's either making away or is the way I wish every woman here was just would you just hug another woman to say baby you fabulous no matter what just do you know the last time a woman has received to her from another woman who's not jealous of who she is that woman sitting next to you've been through too much she's been through too much she's been through so much you don't know she's almost quit she almost gave up she almost aborted her Jesus he almost aborted her John she's put her dreams on the backburner for a man who promised her the world and he didn't come through and now she's here left picking up the pieces raising the child as she did not bring it to this world on her own and she has to look in the mirror and wonder what's wrong with me why am I not married yet why doesn't anybody love me this man that I'm giving my all to I'm so exhausted with him because he doesn't even seem to recognize my efforts it's just about want to give up but ladies if you abort Jesus we're all in trouble if you give John up for adoption nobody can make away for Jesus do you know woman that if you don't give birth and reach your potential your world is in trouble that if you don't reach your potential your daughter will never see who she is if you don't recognize what you have in you you can't help her or him to develop what's in them it's the side effects Oh and women it's a bit hard for you since day one it's been hard for you since day one now I'm a man and I know how difficult it is but men really don't know how hard it is for you and it's not that we're not smart enough to nobody sometimes we don't settle down long enough to care man if we would ever just settle down just for a moment drop the ego and pay attention so what she's actually saying and if you got the heart of God I told my wife when I walked in here today if there is something that happens every time we stand next to each other and she'll say something to me and something in me leaps because I can always tell the connotation behind what she says it could be a regular word but there's something behind it that's what intimacy is singing to me and men intimacy ain't sex your men said all the time you know my wife won't have sex with me that's because you won't have sex with her before you have sex with her okay you can't just walk in the house and expect that she's ready a woman does everything from her mind and if you work with her mind she'll give you her body and you cannot expect her to give you her body absent of her mind that's why Gabriel smoked the message to her mind before he put it in her womb if you can get it in her hand you can get it into heart forget it in the heart and she give you more back than what you gave her is this helping anybody she was chosen among all the women and I want to tell every woman in here today God picked you over everybody you were raised with all your cousins that was jealous of you wasn't your fortune had favor on your life it's it's the truth and I'm not being facetious nor my being funny but God made you the way you are you didn't ask for anything do you know that Mary didn't pray for Jesus Elizabeth prayed for John they've been praying for 80 years but maybe not 80 they probably got together in the 20s they were praying for baby for 60 years she prayed for it and she got it but what do you do when you don't ask for it that's called favor Mary never once said god I want to be pregnant at 12 which Oh baby she didn't ask for it touch that one massages I didn't ask for this I feel like I want to quit but I feel like you need to be ministered to I think that this Christmas service has just changed to a delivering service because there's some woman who's been bent over in her family for 18 years hurting hair falling out of your head ulcers in your stomach struggling to raise your children you don't know whether to give them up for adoption or whether to continue to raise them contemplated suicide spin all your head given all you have what do you do cuz the woman is the only thing in the earth they will give all she has and you're getting nothing in return and then this is what makes matters worse after the Lord drops this news on her he treats her like a man and leaves her to deal with the news by herself and this is the most difficult hour for a woman the lonely hour oh no don't get it twisted man she can handle leaving you she can even handle you leaving her but she cannot handle unanswered questions if you leave she at least needs to know leaves her with no answers that she spent over but she asks a totally different question then Elizabeth Elizabeth says our Zechariah says when Gabriel says she's going to be pregnant and says how can this be in other words it can't happen when Mary asks the question she doesn't ask it from the purpose of not being able to happen she asks it from the purpose of process how can this be she's not saying how can it be she's saying tell me how this is gonna work because a woman with favor is always trying to figure out how to make it work and I want to encourage every woman in who who's trying to make it work I got a word for all things work together for the good of them that love God in a call according to his parents every woman comes to this altar I'm done I didn't mean that I didn't mean to change the sermon y'all I didn't mean to change the sermon this woman just brought something out of me I just I just had to stop I didn't I didn't want to mess up your Christmas I I didn't well I didn't want it to be like this see your baby made mine leap your John made my Jesus my Jesus met your John my John met your Jesus and I and the reason why I keep doing it interchangeably because obviously we know that Jesus is the way the truth in the life and I don't want it any wise that appear to say that I've got Jesus and you've got John so I've got John you've got Jesus but what I'm saying is this when this woman came up here something in me said wait a minute stop stop cuz she ain't the only one who wanted to come up here in us so you didn't do it because you trained yourself you can't afford to you can't afford to fall apart you can't you can't afford to let him see you cry you got to be strong you got you got to hold your head high your sisters jealous of you but you got to smile when you go around truth is are some of your mama's a genocide and let me tell you something I'm not trying to be messy I'm trying to be truthful you gotta understand how difficulty is for Mama to see you get something easy that she struggled her whole life together your mother's been single for 25 years that here you are bringing a man her house happy everyday so mothers can be jealous of their own offspring if you're not careful you are going to become the woman you despise I've seen so many women grow up saying I'm not gonna yell at my children because my momma yelled at me and if you ask your chosen all you do because you become what you hate this girl is standing next to you you're not even in the same league you're two different planets fighting two different Wars and there is room for everybody to win and if you would come together you could build another world James said this is a man's world but it wouldn't be nothing without a woman c14 woman we would have missed Jesus getting up out of the grave it's alright just Minister too she had a woman touched like that so I say this it's a struggle because we got this this homophobic Society wherever man hugs another man is something wrong with tendon if a woman hugs another woman forget all that man the best hug is coming from the breast of somebody all that says is somebody who understands your pain and don't know body understand a woman like a woman hug that woman hug her just find a woman hook I don't hug she lost her husband 15 years ago hugger her children of disobedient hugger she's wanted to have children but the doctor told her she couldn't hug her she's got half an income taking care of a whole house taking care of some man's child I won't even pay child support do you how many times that woman thought about killing herself you know I'm in jobs that woman tried to drink herself into oblivion and do you know how many men she slept with looking for her father Paul Saturday do you know how many soul ties they had this altar can I just be real before we go do you know how many men she has left herself with seeking something that she never found if she's honest yes she's honest she tried to strip to make money she sold her body to put food on the table and stayed in a relationship she knew she could not be in but she needed shelter for her children so she stayed until she could get out

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Length: 45min 16sec (2716 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 25 2017