Favour with God

[0:00] Welcome. Thank you for choosing to listen to another faith-building message by Pastor David Entry. Faith comes by hearing and by hearing the Word of God.

[0:11] May your knowledge of Jesus Christ increase as you listen. Be blessed. I believe God today is day three of our 21 days of fasting.

[0:25] The Bible said on the third day we'll raise us up. On the third day Jesus resurrected. Anything that is determined to keep you down. Anything that is determined to keep your family down.

[0:35] Any plan of the enemy. Any finger of hell to determine not to leave you alone. By the end of this meeting. Even though virtual.

[0:46] By the end of this meeting. Every finger of the devil lifted against your house will leave you alone in the name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. I speak over your life.

[0:58] I speak over your family. That the God of heaven. The God who is working in our midst. He will show up and do amazing things for you. In the mighty name of Jesus.

[1:09] Receive a miracle. Receive divine intervention. Supernatural turn around. In the mighty name of Jesus. So shall it be.

[1:20] So shall it be. If you believe it. Shout a living amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen.

[1:31] As I told you. This. The starting of this fasting. For some reason. God has just put on my heart. Favor. Favor.

[1:42] For us to just talk about favor. And just for this. The day before yesterday. I didn't even get to get into it. But yesterday I spoke about favor. And today too. I'm just touching on favor.

[1:53] And I believe God. That favor. That makes life smoother. For people. Who show up. In your case. In Jesus name. There are.

[2:03] I know. There are major testimonies. That are coming ahead. In our lives. This year. Major testimonies. That will be connected to. Unprecedented favor.

[2:15] Some strange favors. That are coming. Somebody's way. In the name of Jesus. There are victories. That are coming your way. That will be connected. To the favor. Of God.

[2:26] Showing up. In your life. In the name of Jesus. When you look at. Psalm. In Psalm. 5. Verse 12. It says that. For thou. Lord.

[2:37] Will. Bless. The righteous. With favor. Will thou. Compass him. As with a shield. I like that one. Is that. You will surround him.

[2:47] With favor. Like the way. Like a shield. So favor. Ends up becoming. A shield for you. The enemy. Tries to hit you. And he has to go through.

[2:58] The shield. The shield. Is to protect people. Like when you are driving. In the car. You have the wind shield. Or when. You look at. Those days. They used to fight. With bow and arrows. And swords.

[3:10] Particularly swords. And stuff like that. They always. The soldiers. Always needed. A shield. That is why Bible says that. Shield of faith. Right. Take the. And taking. Taking up.

[3:21] The shield of faith. But this one. He says that. God will surround you. With favor. As with a shield. The way a shield. Is meant to protect you. The way a shield.

[3:31] Is meant to cover you. The way a shield. Is meant to. Defend you. Or let me put it this way. Shield you. Somebody. Is being shielded. By favor. Amen.

[3:42] You know. Those of you. Who are a bit familiar. Maybe in a large family. Sometimes in a family. A family of. Three. Or even two. Sorry.

[3:52] Three. Or four. So mother. Father. And two children. Or a family of. Three children. A family of four children. Sometimes a family of. Five children. Six children.

[4:03] You know. There are times where. Maybe mom. Or dad. Has. Their eye. On this particular child. So when it comes to giving. Allocating things. In the family. As for this.

[4:15] Some people always complain. As for mom. As for this. This one. When she does something. You don't complain. You don't. I do the same thing. And you after me. She did the same thing. You didn't say anything. And sometimes. People begin to feel.

[4:26] My brother has favor. He has a certain favor. When it comes to this matter. And. Whatever he does wrong. Is not used against him. That's what happened. In the. In the case of. Joseph.

[4:36] Joseph. Joseph. Joseph. Didn't start. Enjoying favor. When he was in trouble. He started. Enjoying favor. Right from his father's house. Out of the. The 11 children.

[4:47] Or. All. They were all 12. Plus. A lady. He had exceptional favor. To the extent that. The father made him. A special coat. That coat. Was a coat of favor. A coat of favor.

[4:59] It made him. Stood out. Wherever. He found himself. He would stand out. Like the way. Yesterday. We read. He says that. By your favor. You have made my mountain. To stand tall.

[5:11] It made him. Stood out. Favor. Has a way. Of distinguishing you. When. When. There are things. About others. Which are not noticed. Good things. That could have been noticed.

[5:22] For. For consideration. Of. Of promotion. Or. To be considered. For. Certain privileges. They didn't notice that. About them. Even though.

[5:33] Good. They didn't notice. Others. On. How come. They will not. They notice your own. They notice your own. If. Others. Own. If they are considering. That others.

[5:43] Own. Were better. Than yours. But when it was your turn. That is what. The attention. Was drawn to. God. By his favor. Will make your mountain. To stand tall. Others. Mountains. Are looking very short.

[5:55] By your own. Will stand tall. How? Because of favor. And he says. That there is a way. God can protect you. God can protect your investment. God can protect your endeavors. God can even protect.

[6:06] Your. You. In your exam. Sometimes you write an exam. And the one who is marking it. Was very flippant. Flippant. And where. You were. You know.

[6:17] There's sometimes. People can. Are free to use their discretion. And say. Okay. I know this is what the person. Meant. But it's obvious. This is what the person. Meant. But some wicked people. They don't care. They will mark you down. But God will show you favor.

[6:29] That when they were marking it. For some reason. They just mark everybody down. But yours. They feel like. No. I think I have to give to this one. For the first time. Or something. I see favor shielding you. Favor shielding you.

[6:39] Favor shielding you. Favor will shield your job. Amen. They were letting people off. Or they were just making them redundant. It got your turn. Favor shielded you. Their boss said.

[6:50] In fact. This one. We should let them go. But I think I like him. I like him. So you. Let's. Let's. Oh. Let's give him a chance. Or you know. There are times. Where. The leader.

[7:01] Or the boss. Wants to make a certain decision. But there are some. Two key people around them. Around him. When they speak. They take him very serious. Or he takes them. Very serious.

[7:11] And God gave you favor. With. It's just like a man. A man wants to do something for you. But his wife. His wife. Don't mind this one. Don't do it. On the other hand.

[7:22] If a man's wife likes you. And the man likes listening to his wife. You are broken through. May God give you favor. Before people who matter. May God shield you with favor.

[7:33] May God shield you with favor. Amen. Do you with favor. Amen. God for favor. Amen. Believe God for favor. Amen. It cannot be done. They said.

[7:44] It doesn't happen. Once. When it's your turn. Believe God for favor. That's why the Bible says that. Surely. Goodness. And mercy shall follow me. Goodness.

[7:54] And mercy. Favor. So. They tell you that. Anyone who goes there. They don't do it for them. Or they are not granted. It turns out negative. It doesn't work well for them. But meanwhile.

[8:05] You also have to go. So. But when it gets your turn. It doesn't matter what favor. Is not speaking there. You are coming with your own favor. You will supply the one dealing with you. Favor. Favor.

[8:15] And they will. Oh. Come on. I'm talking about. You. God is going to be the supplier of your favor. Amen. So. That means that. That is why. We must learn to look up to God.

[8:26] We must learn to call on God. We must learn to depend on God. Pastor. Don't depend just on the congregation members. Look up to God. Businessman. Don't just depend on the contacts and your links.

[8:40] Look up to God. Because there are times. Where your contacts and your link. Won't do it for you. Because they have to save their skin first. But when favor speaks. They will risk their skin to favor you and save your skin.

[8:52] I see favor speaking to somebody. Speaking for somebody. I see favor speaking for somebody. I see favor speaking for somebody. Amen. Amen. If there is something in this season.

[9:03] 2021. If there is something. In this your journey of victory. In this your journey of triumph. In this your journey of greatness. If there is something you need.

[9:13] I'm announcing to you. Brothers and sisters. If there is something we need more. Than ever before. It's favor. You need favor. We need favor. And I see God.

[9:24] A standing favor towards you. Amen. A standing favor towards you. Amen. A standing favor towards you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[9:35] So shall it be. Amen. Amen. Fever will. God will. Load your life with favor. That favor becomes like a shield. As I was saying.

[9:48] When everybody does it. The boss has a problem. Everybody who did it. They said. They were giving suspicion. Everybody who did it. They were punished. How come you do it?

[9:59] And they say. Oh you know what. Yes. Okay. That's okay. How? How? How? May you have favor. Amen. Amen. Judges.

[10:12] Yeah. May you have favor with judges. Where a judge will look at the case. And say no. He said no. I'll throw this case out. That's so nice.

[10:22] May you have favor. Thank you Lord. May you have favor with. Employers. May you have favor. Favor with. Agents. Amen. Agents. Agents. Agents are very powerful.

[10:33] Agents. Whatever agents. You might think about. Agents. Because they are like. Intermediaries. They. You see. For instance.

[10:43] If you are going to. Sell your house. Or rent a house. Or something. The estate agents. You are dealing. They are very powerful. They can. They. You see. People can come.

[10:54] Or maybe you can go. And you want to buy a certain house. And they know. Someone is even giving more offer. But the estate agents. Will even not take that person's CEOs. And for some reason.

[11:05] They push the thing towards you. And they will tell. The vendor. That you know what. This is a better buyer. This. Because the vendor. Is looking up to them for something. And they are speaking for you. Can you imagine.

[11:16] When agents begin to speak. In your behalf. When agents begin to speak. On your behalf. In favor. May you have favor. With agents. Amen. May you have favor.

[11:26] With agents. Amen. May you have favor. With personnel. Intermediary personnel. May you have favor. With that man's. Personal assistance. May you have favor.

[11:37] With people who matter. People who are. Amen. Whose voice can change. Things for you. Amen. May God. May you have favor. With them. In the name of Jesus. Let me show you. One of such.

[11:48] Situations. Esther. In the book of Esther. Chapter 2. Look at this. In fact. When I read this text. It just. It just. It just. Blesses my heart so much.

[11:59] Esther. Chapter 2. Verse 15. The Bible says that. Now when. All right. So. Now when. The turn of. Now when the turn of.

[12:10] Esther. The daughter of. Abihai. The uncle of. Mordecai. Who had. Taken her from his. For his daughter. Esther. Was come.

[12:21] To go. Into. Ail. Unto the king. She required. Nothing. But. What. Haggai. The king's chamberlain. The keeper of the women. Appointed.

[12:31] And. She obtained. Favor. In the sight. Of all. Them. Them. Look. This is amazing. The people. Who are looking at.

[12:42] Esther. Everybody who looks at. Esther. I just like her. I just like her. That will be your story. Amen. That will be your story. Amen. You know. Normally it's not that.

[12:52] But we like you. We like you. I just like her. Every Bible says that. Every. And. Esther. Obtained favor. In the sight of. All them.

[13:03] That looked. Upon her. It's like a beauty contest. She was going. Her turn came. Now when the turn of. Esther came. When the turn of. Esther came. She just told.

[13:13] The. She. She. Required. Nothing. But what. Haggai. The case. Chamberlain. But what. Haggai. The people. Appointed. So he said. Whatever you tell me.

[13:24] I'll take. I'll take you like that. Whatever you tell me. I'll go. Because you are the one. And. Esther. Went. And Bible says that. Esther. Esther.

[13:34] Esther. Obtained favor. In the sight of. This is a serious one. All. So all the judges. All the judges. All the viewers. All the. The panel.

[13:46] Everyone on the panel. Including the king. Who was on. And Bible says. Esther. Obtained favor. Esther. In the sight. Of all. So what does that mean?

[13:58] Bible says that. She obtained favor. In their sight. As they looked at. As they saw her. They didn't have any option. But to say. We like this one. She. In their sight.

[14:08] So as they. See. Sometimes. Out of sight. Out of mind. There are some people. When they see you. You know. When we were in Bible school. When we were in Bible school. I had this. Friend of mine.

[14:21] One. In Bible school. Someone told him. Listen to this. Someone told my friend. You know what. When I see. Bible school. An under Bible school student. Said to him. When I see you.

[14:33] I always get angry. I don't know why. He said. No. I don't mean it. In the wrong way. But. I just don't like you. When I see you. When I see you. I just get angry. When I see you.

[14:44] I just. Yeah. Can you imagine? Somebody tell you. Another person. That when I see you. I just don't like you. In Bible school. You. In Bible school. In Bible school.

[14:54] It's a situation. It's a situation. You. You. You hear the opposite. When people. See you. They'll tell you. Anytime I see you.

[15:05] I just like you. I just like you. I just like you. I just like you. It's not because of your fake eyelash, not because of your fake hair, not because of your makeup, but it's just that there's something.

[15:20] May you obtain favor in the sight of those who matter. There are some people, if you don't have favor with them, it does not mean anything in your life.

[15:31] It doesn't mean, they actually don't matter. They don't matter. They are just like hot air. They don't matter. Nothing. When they don't like you, you don't have to be bothered, but there are some others who must like you.

[15:49] They must. And I see God touching their hearts to like you. I see God touching. I see God touching the heart of people to like you.

[16:02] Amen. They will like you because of your destiny. They will like you because God is with you. And as soon as they see you, as soon as they notice you, as soon as they hear of you, they will like you in the name of Jesus.

[16:18] Amen. When you're a student, it's so nice if your lecturer likes you so, particularly always wants to make you have the best.

[16:28] Your teacher is always in your favor. Like you. Those of us who are in schools and uni, please don't say, I don't care whether they like me or not.

[16:41] Please, please, please. There are some people who, if they don't like you, you should be concerned. You should believe God that they will like you. If you are married and your mother-in-law is funny, you're a woman, your mother-in-law is funny.

[16:54] Don't say, I don't care. Hey, women are very powerful, especially when it comes to dealing with their, their son and their husbands.

[17:06] I don't know who I'm talking to. Women. And some of them are tyrants. So you have to fake niceness just to have peace with them.

[17:18] So you can have peace in life. God grew grand chief. Look at verse 17. Esther chapter. Two verse 17. And the king. Oh, Oh, Oh, I feel like I'm talking about somebody's future.

[17:34] And the king. Listen. Now this one, in those days, the king's word was low. Everything the king says was so. Now the king loved Esther.

[17:46] Sometimes maybe in this situation, it might not be a king, but somebody's word can change your story. You know, where sometimes you, you are dealing with a company, especially some of the companies that take money and stuff like that.

[18:01] They said, no, they will not cancel the debt. They will not return the money and blah, blah. You call, you call. And it's put to the supervisor. Or the boss. And the boss said, you know what? Please just, just do it for her. Just, it's okay.

[18:12] Just do it. Ah, it makes a big difference. Because the boss was, is the one to underwrite it or to sign it, to authorize it. Even though the genial one that didn't want to do it, all the genius, they were fighting you.

[18:25] The boss came and said, doesn't matter. Okay, just do it for her. They, they may not want to do it, but the boss has spoken. Now that's where, that's like a king. The, the king, the king loved Esther.

[18:35] Hey, may that be your testimony. Amen. Amen. And one of the things I, I, I make sure happen in my life.

[18:46] First of all, listen, I'm advising somebody. I think this will help you. Cause some, some of us do not know what you need. One of the things I do, the biggest agenda of my life is to make sure God is with me.

[19:03] Or I have the favor of God. It's my biggest agenda in life. The favor of God. Cause I showed you yesterday in Proverbs. If a man's ways please the Lord, you make even his enemies.

[19:15] God has a way of telling the heart of your enemies. Yeah. If you're right. Yeah. If a, when a man's ways please the Lord, God himself, God, he will make even.

[19:25] Give me the new key, James. Please. He said, if a man is pleased the Lord, he, see that he is capital. God, God makes even. So if your enemies will be appeased to you, how much more your friends.

[19:39] That's why the Bible use the word even. Even those who are the normal circumstances are, are supposed to be fighting you. They will, they will actually be supporting you and endorsing you.

[19:51] Because your ways please the Lord. Thank you. Always. So one of my major targets is that I do things that please God. The reason why I always talk about faith is because the, the judge shall live by faith, really.

[20:03] But I also found out as I quoted yesterday, Hebrews chapter 11, verse six, that without faith is impossible to please God. So if you want to please God, you must be a woman of faith. I'm not talking about common sense.

[20:14] The reason why there's, there's nothing exception in your life. Everything in your life is so common. It's because you only operate by common sense. When you operate by common sense, you get common results.

[20:29] But there are times where certain people, what people can call common sense is not Bible sense. Yeah. It's not godly sense. Society may call this as common sense, but it's not godly sense.

[20:44] Like you're a young woman. You want, you're in a relationship and then you move and go and live with the guys in the guy house or moving to, because you don't want to lose him.

[20:55] You know, your friends will say that is smart, but that's one of the dumbest things you can do. The easiest way to lose a man is to make yourself quickly available for him. Being there, done everything is finished with you.

[21:07] Why are you going on a vacation, sharing a room with a man? I'm telling you, it's not likely to marry you. Yeah. How can you be sharing a bath with a man you are not married to? In the name of, I want to keep him.

[21:20] What is, if he marries you, what else can he look forward to? What, what, what else? There's nothing to look forward to about problems. Wow. Because marriage, Bible says, those who marry in this, in the flesh, will have problems in their flesh.

[21:33] Marriage comes with some personal challenges. Okay. Marriage is good, but it has its challenges. So why would someone who has got the benefits, some of the benefits of marriage, commit himself to the challenges?

[21:45] Why would you buy, pay for the challenges when you can get the benefits without the challenges? Yeah. But even if you do marry, you have nothing. If a virgin marries, a virgin is a young woman.

[21:57] She has not seen. Nevertheless, such will have problem in the flesh. Yeah. Marriage comes with fleshly problems because sometimes you want the window open for fresh air.

[22:10] He or she also wants the window closed because it's cold. So these are just inconveniences that will come. It comes with marriage. Sometimes when you look at some people who are married, you are wondering, how do they think?

[22:23] When, when you said, I want to marry, what did you, what did, what did you think marriage is about? What do you think marriage is about? You put your Chinese, the leftover of the Chinese in the fridge.

[22:34] He comes to eat it. You are very upset. You say, what? Lasagna. Your lasagna. Anyway, so it's important.

[22:47] We understand that the Bible says that if a man's ways please the Lord, he'll make even his enemies. And one of my targets is Lord, help me to please you. I want to do anything.

[22:58] Even if it hurts me, I want to hurt myself to please the Lord. Because in pleasing the Lord, I discover and I land into my, my destiny.

[23:10] In pleasing the Lord, you can't please the Lord and miss out in life. No way you can be pleasing God and miss out in life. So make pleasing God your agenda.

[23:23] So number one, number one, top priority and obsession of mine is to see what I have to do to please God. I have to walk by faith and I have to obey his way.

[23:34] And I have to delight myself in God. I just love the things of God. I just, listen, I love it. I just love the things of God. I love it.

[23:45] And I can't help it. I just love it. I love God so much that I wouldn't, I would do anything to promote his work. Even if it's not in my, in my convenience.

[23:56] But so I do everything to secure God's favor. The other thing I do after God's favor, I make sure people who matter in my life, I do everything possible to be in their good books.

[24:09] Amen. Especially top anointed men and women of God. Any access I have to any man of God, a woman of God, I treasure it like gold.

[24:25] Or more than gold. If I have access to a man of God, if I, up to now, the first pastor I had access to, since the days I got born, about 30 years ago, up to now, I still remember him.

[24:38] Wow. It's important for me. Listen, today I stumbled, someone sent me a picture about two years ago. And when his eminence, Agbishop, Nicholas and Caroleans came to Carice.

[24:51] And then I, we were having a chat in the office. And then they took a picture of us. And sent it to me. I said, wow, look at how beautiful this is. How beautiful this is. It's so lovely.

[25:02] I just, and I make sure that anything, if it has to do with Agbishop, please count me in. If it's for his favor, count me in. Count me in.

[25:13] Because, you see, one, when I honor his, the grace on his life, I don't need his permission to tap from the grace. Wow. I don't need any man's permission to tap from a grace I have honored.

[25:28] No. I mean, oh, I, there are key things to do for life to do for you. Amen.

[25:39] I mean, so I make sure I, but besides the things I do without him knowing, I do actively, that make me extract, extract clean.

[25:51] I can extract from a grace any man of God carries. I know how to do it. By honoring them. By honoring them. And by making sure they are, they are, they are in my list of high priority honors.

[26:05] I don't expose myself to any negative information about them. I'm not interested. And I stay in that and keep the honor and pray with, for them and honor them highly. And any opportunity I get, I, anything I have to do for them, I do it.

[26:19] I, I extract because Jesus said, if you give a cup of water to a prophet, you'll get the reward. The prophet gets. If you do it to a righteous man, you get what a righteous man gets.

[26:30] All right. So what a righteous man is carrying. So then the vessel you treat, the way you treat the vessel, what is on the vessel is determined by what you get, when you treat the vessel.

[26:41] If it's a righteous man, you get righteous man. So if you say, if a prophet, you get prophet's reward. So if an apostle apostolic reward, if that is just trying to tell you that the person's special standing and covenant standing with God is what you benefit from.

[26:56] When you treat the person, the person doesn't have to pray for you. Listen, it's not every grace and blessings that come through prayer. A lot of blessings don't come through prayer. They come through actions.

[27:09] A lot of blessings come through actions and a certain disposition. I know I'm, I'm, I'm teaching somebody. These are key secrets.

[27:19] You can be fasting and fasting and fasting and you end up after fasting, you fight your testimonies, fight some things out of your life because you are fighting some wrong people.

[27:31] One of the things I just, I just don't joke with is to, to hear my mother, my natural mother and my, my pastor, my mother-in-law, just to hear them say out of pleasure that God bless you.

[27:46] Thank you. Ah, it's like good for me. My mom is happy because I've done something to make her happy. Oh, see God first. Then the key people God has placed in my life.

[27:59] Some of them, they don't, they may not have something physically, physical to give you, but there is a spiritual law that makes their pleasure. When their heart is tender towards you, you will just be protected, preserved and favored in life.

[28:15] When certain people of honor, their heart is tender towards you because of the way you treat them, because of your attitude towards them.

[28:26] When that is, what is dangerous to be, to be insulting your mother, your father, you have hurt yourself. You are fighting with your father. Leave that battle for your mother to do. Don't join your mother in fighting your father.

[28:40] Do not join. Do not join your father to fight your mother. You see, I have been in church a little, a little while, not too long, not too long.

[28:51] I've been very, I've never missed church. I don't miss church. For 30 years now, I've missed church only once. Once. Once. I mean on a Sunday. Once. I don't miss church.

[29:03] So I've been in church and then I'm not those kind of people who come to church and sit at the back and all right. All right. Like they are observing. No, no, no, no. I always want to, I love God too much not to get involved with his work.

[29:15] I love God too much. I want to be the first to be doing it. And I don't like sitting at the back. When I go, I go early. I go, I want to be close to the altar. I want to be, I, I've always loved it.

[29:27] No wonder God has pushed me to the altar. I've always have an eye. I just want to be close and do more and grab more and zap more. It's somebody sucking in the way. It's somebody sucking in the way.

[29:39] Suck ataya babaya. Hallelujah. Amen. So I've been in church long by God's grace. Not too long, but long enough. I don't miss service because God is my priority.

[29:54] But I have seen people who are like, they, they are emeritus when it comes to fasting, fasting and prayer. They can fast and pray, but life is not working.

[30:05] So this is what I'm trying to say. If life works only because of fasting, if life works only because of fasting, a lot of people will be millionaires and breaking through. But life doesn't work only because you are fasting.

[30:18] Is someone listening to me? Life doesn't work only because fasting is powerful, but there are other powerful things that might be part of your life. And so this year is a year of victory.

[30:29] I am announcing to you that by God's grace, there are other things. It's so good. We've started in fasting. I feel like happy for you. It's so good. I'm happy for you. You have started right.

[30:40] No wonder this information, this insight, this revelation is coming your way because there are things when you pray for God to bless you, he will direct you. When you ask God, when God wants to bless you, he will give you instructions.

[30:52] God's way of blessing is giving us instructions. Yeah. So this year, as we have started the fasting, because it's a year of victory, it doesn't mean that you just walk into it.

[31:04] No. That means there are things you have to know and change your approach. There are some people, they have been battling with their health until they met this good doctor and doctor told them, is the milk you have been drinking?

[31:18] Yeah. Yeah. And they didn't need medication. They just needed abstinence. To abstain from that milk or abstain from that chocolate or abstain from that sweet or abstain from, and your life is fine.

[31:32] So it is not prayer sometimes, but it is, there are times we will pray for you. And after we pray, because God wants to help you and answer the prayer, let's say, drinking milk is what is, it's hurting your health.

[31:47] And every day, morning, even you drink, and your health is deteriorating. But that is, that's what is hurting you. After we pray for you and you feel relieved, for some reason, God will manage to get that insight and the information to you concerning milk.

[32:03] And suddenly, oh, ah, see, that's the deliverance. So the deliverance came in a way of information. Yes. And I'm sharing with somebody, the way you are fasting, this, this time, this year must really work fast for you.

[32:17] But there are things, there are things that if you don't pay attention to, there are things that if you don't pay heed to, if you don't give attention to, it will, it will give the enemy, it will give Satan a footstool in your life.

[32:32] Ephesians chapter 4, 26, he said, give not the devil a footstool. Don't give him a stand. Don't give him a place in your life. So I'm telling you that if, there are things that if you don't do well, Satan will get you well.

[32:47] I see you doing well. I see you doing well. I see you doing well. I feel the anointing here. I'm preaching. I'm speaking under an anointing.

[32:59] I feel the anointing here. I feel the anointing here. You will not be stronger in life. You will do well in life. Because favor, this is your year of exceptional favor. Victory through favor.

[33:10] Victory through favor. Victory through through favors. Favors. Favors. Favors. It's coming your way. Somebody shout amen. Amen. So.

[33:22] There are things that I don't joke with. I just, I just need. Great men of God. I have access to. I just need them to like me. Or to be pleased with me.

[33:34] I'm not a man pleaser. I'm a God pleaser. But there are some people. We must be able to please. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. I would like to please some people. I want them to.

[33:45] Like my wife. Ha. You are married. And you, you are like a devil to your wife. You are like. And you don't care. And you don't care.

[33:57] You treat your wife anyhow. And you expect to break through anyhow. You will break down anyway. Yeah.

[34:09] Yes. There are some things that, you know, it's not, it's not everybody who does some major mistakes. And gets. Caught. And they are cut out.

[34:19] Some people. When you're. Some of. Some people. You see, I'm talking about you. When anything negative. Negative news. Negative information. Comes up. About you. Because. They are usually skeletons in people's wardrobes.

[34:31] In people's lives. You know. When your own comes out. The people who can take it up. And cause a problem. They will say. It doesn't matter. We don't care. Yeah. Say amen. Amen.

[34:44] Because. There are some things in your past. That shouldn't come up. Yep. You don't say amen. And let things go the way it's going. I'm going to tell you. There are things in your past.

[34:56] That shouldn't come up. I'm telling you. It should stay buried. But if your enemies lay hold of. Or lay hold of it. And choose to push it out.

[35:06] The people. Who handle it. They will say. We don't care. Amen. We don't care. God will give you favor. Amen. I just. God.

[35:17] I always want to please God. Secondly. All the anointed men of God. I have access to. That I know. I make sure. I just want. If I have access to them.

[35:28] Then I just want. To make sure. They actually know. I honor them. And they like me. I want to be in their good books. And then I want to be in my.

[35:39] My. My parents. My mother-in-law. My. My mother. I want to be in their good books. And now. You see. Pastor David. God is blessing. Yes.

[35:49] He's using certain things. I believe that some of the things. That has allowed the blessing. To flow in my life. Seamlessly. Is some of these things. I'm sharing with you. Hey. My mother. You think it's natural.

[36:01] My mother likes me. And it's not automatic. Your mother can love you. With her mother's love. But when. She becomes so pleased with you. Because. You. You. You make her.

[36:13] You know. She. She has a. You. You. You. You cause her to be. To be pleased. That's the different thing. In you. Your mother is pleased. Not by you.

[36:23] Inside you. There's something about you. That makes him pleased. That God said. This is my beloved. In whom. I am well pleased. No wonder he was doing well. The cross couldn't even stop him.

[36:35] Because his father is well pleased with him. His father is well pleased. His mother is well. Pastor. By what you are saying. You know. Me. My. My. My. My natural mother has always hated me. And.

[36:46] She's. She doesn't even like me at all. There are different situations. But don't add. What I was saying. Don't add to aggravating situations. There are sometimes.

[36:57] Some. Some of us. What your father. The kind of father you have. If you want to. You want to please your father. It's like almost trying to fry ice. You understand what I'm saying.

[37:10] So I. I have. But I'm talking this one. There are some exceptional situation. Generally. You must make it a point. That you will please your mother. You will please your mother-in-law.

[37:20] Just. Just be at peace with her. Your father-in-law. Be at peace with him. Make it a point. Make. And you younger people. Who live with your parents. Your mother is paying bills.

[37:31] And you talk to her. Like she's a slave. It's no good. That's why you've been failing your exam. Hey. Your mother is paying bills. And you don't respect your.

[37:42] You don't respect your father. Meanwhile. They are paying bills. You get up. You control. You speak to anybody. Everybody in the house. Like you own the house. And. Please.

[37:52] If you are a part of us. May it not be recorded. In your house. That you are very notorious. And disrespectful. May it not be a confirmed. A confirmed accusation about you.

[38:04] That you are notorious. And disrespectful. And very arrogant. With triple R. Arrogant. No.

[38:16] Every Christian. You are supposed to have some meekness. The people who live with you. Must find out that. You are not that contentious. You are not that true.

[38:27] I'm about to say something. Hey. Why am I going to this? Somebody is being blessed. Amen. Amen. Listen. Make it easy. For people to live with you. Some of us are too hard to live with.

[38:41] Too hard. To be in a team. With anybody. You don't like working with others. You are like a boxer. Not a footballer. A boxer. It's just you. Kick boxer. It's just you. You are only. You are alone in the ring.

[38:52] Even boxers need their coach. And some other people. You just. And I'm trying to tell you. Human beings matter. Esther had. The king loved Esther.

[39:03] Esther chapter 2 verse 17. The king loved Esther more than all the other women. Sister. It's not makeup. It's not makeup. Wake up.

[39:13] It's not makeup. Please wake up. It's not the makeup. Please. Hallelujah. You have invested all your service into makeup. Every type of makeup.

[39:25] I'm not saying makeup is not good. But your confidence is in makeup and your looks. And the king loved Esther more than all the other women. More than.

[39:36] May that be your portion. That you will be preferred above others. You will be loved above others. Oh, I know I'm preaching. I know I'm speaking to somebody. You will be preferred above many others.

[39:48] You will be preferred above others. You will be preferred above others. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. And the king loved Esther. And the king loved Esther more than all.

[40:03] Hey, this word is powerful. All. When you're. I want. I profess that you will have all inclusive favor. Amen. It's not except with the exception of.

[40:16] It's going to be all. Amen. The king loved Esther above all the other women. And she, oh, she obtained grace and favor.

[40:29] Do you see that sight has come again? In his sight. More than all the virgins. More than all the virgins. The word.

[40:39] Yeah. Yes. Yes. So some of us, you see, you can't stand. Even that's it. More than. He loved. He loved Esther.

[40:50] More than all the virgins. That word virgin. They usually. When virgin is used in the Bible. Sometimes it means an unmarried woman.

[41:02] Sometimes it means a young woman who is yet to be married. Okay. So when we read in first Corinthians. I think we read it. Yeah.

[41:12] First Corinthians. When he says that if a virgin marry, you have problems. In that marriage. It brings the problem. That word virgin is just an unmarried young woman. Okay.

[41:23] It means that. But when they say a virgin shall conceive and give birth to a child. It's not an unmarried young woman he's talking about. He's talking about a proper virgin in the word of virgin.

[41:35] Not like virgin Atlantic or virgin mobile. Isn't that like proper word virgin. Okay. Untouched. A woman who has not been touched. Okay.

[41:45] But in Esther's case. And usually in those days. Every unmarried woman. Usually. Is an untouched woman. Okay. So sometimes.

[41:56] That word is used. Not in our time. Our time is. They try to make it different. And they are pushing it. From the schools and everywhere. Did you say fiber optic?

[42:10] You know. All right. Let's get serious. So he says that more than all the virgins. The king loved. Esther obtained grace and favor in the sight.

[42:23] In the sight of the king. In his sight. More than all the other women. Did you see that? That's a serious one. May you. May you find grace and favor. More than all the competitors.

[42:35] Amen. Watch this. So what happened? So he set. The royal crown on her head. And made her queen. Instead of bashting. Let this sink in.

[42:48] My brother. A crown is about to be set on your head. I'm not talking about a physical crown. But you are going to be pronounced. And declared a winner. Not because of your exceptionalism.

[42:59] In how to do things. But because. You found favor. In the sight of sitting. Amen. Amen. And she. She was made a queen. Why? Because she found favor.

[43:10] She was a foreigner. But she found favor. Amen. She was a migrant. She found favor. Amen. Amen. She was a Jewish girl. From somewhere else. And goes into another place.

[43:22] To go and find favor. Before they came. And they made it. They made it. The queen. May. This year. May the crown be set on your head. Because of favor.

[43:32] May they put a crown on you. Because of favor. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Regarding. This promotion at work. And job opportunities. And all this.

[43:44] A lot of. How you have applied. You are believing God for scholarship. You are believing for land. You are all those things. May a crown be set on your head. For you to be preferred. And favored.

[43:55] Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[44:05] Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. now now esther is already a queen and you no one goes before the king if you have not been invited even if you are the queen but esther had to go and go and plead the case of her people and mordicai told her go to the king she said i can't go no one goes to the king without invitation if you go to the king without invitation you will be executed because it's almost like you are coming to overthrow the king or you are you are an assassin you want to come and assassinate so for security reasons if you go without invitation you have to you have to even the queen it's a law it's a law only the king is the one who will be able to say okay i overrule the law in this instance all the king servants and the people of the king's province know that any man or woman any man who goes into the inner court to the king who has not been called has but one law put all to death except the one whom the king holds out his golden scepter that he may live so as soon as you go automatically is their law everybody their their security officers are supposed to take you and execute you they have to execute their king doesn't have to say anything as soon as you go without invitation they they know it's their job to kill you unless the king intervenes so the king will have to now use his powers to intervene and now they are telling esther esther go and go and talk to the king for us hey he said uncle you want to kill me you are telling me i should go and die and the uncle said who knows if you have come into the kingdom for such a time as this if you don't do it god will always do it if you don't do it anything god wants done if you don't do god is speaking to your heart bless this sister let the let her get the job bless this brother god is speaking to you do something for somebody do and god you know the hand of god is upon the person god is speaking to your heart bless this lady help this lady she's just looking for an accommodation even if you tell your boss they can help her but you don't want to do it listen because you feel like the way sometimes she talks to you don't like it and blah blah blah blah if god is behind her those who don't want to help you when god is trying to help you don't worry god will always raise help from somewhere god god god knows that's why you don't have to fix your eye on men or human beings because god knows how to always raise help for his people anyway to cut long story short esther chapter 5 best one and esther said okay after fasting this is where fasting comes in after fasting now it happened on the third day that esther put on her royal robe that's like makeup sometimes good to look good and stood in the inner court of the king's palace across the king's house while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house facing the entrance of the house the next verse there's two that's where we are going to so it was when the king the king saw queen esther standing in the court that ah this is this will touch my heart hey hey that she found oh oh may that be your story may that be your story may that be your story amen she found favor in his sight and the king held out to esther the golden scepter that was in his hand then esther went there and touched the top of his he had to because if he doesn't stretch it they will kill esther so he had to take an action because why did he take action because esther found oh i long from the φ probabilists may you find favor may you find fever may you find favor all the way.

[48:06] and I call on the name of God that may you find favor. May you find favor. May you find favor. And professor, favor honor you and your family household. Everything about your life, may it be saturated and rich in favor. May you find favor. May you find favor. In the name of Jesus, I profess you, will find favor.

[48:39] The second of favor that makes people get spared. That makes people get spared. Instead of sorrow, laughter comes. He said, for you shall come pass me with favor as like a shield.

[48:55] May you find favor. May you find favor. I speak over your life. You will find favor. May you speak over your life. You will find favor. My darling, my brother, my friend, don't worry anymore.

[49:10] Don't worry anymore. There is favor being supplied you from above. You will find favor. You will find favor as you walk with God. You will find favor. You will find favor.

[49:21] You will not be stranded in life. You will find favor. Amen. From all kinds of unlikely places. Ah, favor from unlikely places. Favor from the most unlikely places.

[49:33] May you come your way. You will find favor. Amen. You will find favor. Amen. And Bodecaia and Esther found favor because she fasted.

[49:43] she said, go and gather Isaiah chapter four. Yeah. Go and gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan and fast for me.

[49:54] Neither eat nor drink for three days, nor three nights. But my maids and I will fast likewise. And so it will, so I will go to the king.

[50:06] That's what she said. So she didn't just appear if anyone copies Esther, they are making a mistake because there is fasting backing his actions. Her actions.

[50:18] Fasting was backing her actions. Yeah. Let them make a mistake and copy Esther. They shouldn't copy Esther because you cannot replicate Esther's results until you are able to engage in excess practices.

[50:32] Hallelujah. Until you engage in the practices of Esther, you can't replicate the results of the results Esther gave. So you see Esther just walking and going, but as she was going, there was a force procured through fasting because she already had favor for the king to select her.

[50:54] But now when it comes to a certain level of your pastures in life, oh, thank you, Jesus. Someone say, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen.

[51:05] When it comes to the main reason why God has brought you into a season, you need fasting. Yeah.

[51:16] Because Esther will not sit down for you to just walk gallantly like you are on a, what do you call it, the catwalk. You will walk. Esther will not make, Paul said in chapter 9, 1 Corinthians chapter 16, verse 9, he said, a great and effective door has been open for me, but great are the adversary.

[51:37] A door has been open, but the adversary is big. Many adversaries. When he said, a great and effectual, a great door, an effectual is open for me.

[51:47] A door for ministry. A door to do well. And there are many adversaries. Satan will oppose you when it gets to the main reason why you have got into the season.

[51:58] When it gets to the main reason especially, and your usefulness and your greatness is directly tied to your destiny. Your destiny, fulfilling your destiny in God. When you fulfill your destiny in God, you are great.

[52:10] Greatness has a lot to do with destiny. And then when you step in, for you to step into destiny, for you to step into, some of us take this fasting serious because after this season, your life will change for good.

[52:23] Amen. Thank you for listening. To hear more from David Entry, follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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