Favour Will Bail You Out: Shout Grace to Your Mountains

Sermon outline

God takes pleasure in your prosperity and dispenses grace and favour, so stop moaning and start declaring favour over your life, family and mountains, because declaring favour is connected to seeing it, and favour makes a passage of victory through every storm.

1. Recap: facts about favour

   You can pursue success by your own wits, but it is much easier with the favour of God. Favour can stop if it is not celebrated, it comes to those who obey the Word and the Spirit, and God uses people to solve problems in your life. It is not the norm: you can only experience God's favour by accepting Jesus. It begins with a seed and grows from small measures to greater ones, and it comes through intercessors and through solving problems for others.

   Illustration: A farmer waits patiently for his harvest only because he has already put seed in the ground.

   “If you celebrate it in small doses and small measures, greater doses and measures of the favor of God will hit you and hit your life.”

   • Luke 2:40
   • Judges 13:24
   • Luke 2:52

2. God takes pleasure in your prosperity

   Let the Lord be magnified, who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. Whoever speaks to the mountain without doubting will have what he says, and whatever you ask in prayer, believe that it is granted. The Hebrew word for grace, chen, means favour, kindness and graciousness.

   “God actually takes pleasure when you prosper.”

   • Psalm 35:27
   • Mark 11:23-24

3. Declare favour every day

   Revelation of God's favour is not enough; you must confess and declare it daily, whatever crisis you face, because death and life are in the power of the tongue. Parents find it easy to shout at their children and correct them; change that practice into speaking favour over your children, your spouse and your home.

   “There is a divine connection between declaring the favor of God and the manifestation of favor.”

   • Proverbs 18:21

4. Shout grace and favour to your mountains

   You are marked with God's blessing, and everywhere you go people will see it. Even if you are quiet or timid, instead of moaning and complaining, have a praise party and shout grace and favour to your circumstances. Words of faith build a bridge that takes you over the storm, not under it, and he prophesies mountains crumbling, marriages turning around, businesses working out and divine strategies visiting.

   Illustration: In South Africa farmers mark their cattle, sheep and goats, so if one strays onto a neighbour's land everyone knows whose it is; he stresses he is not calling anyone an animal, but you are marked with God's blessing.

   “According to the word of God, we are to shout out grace and favor to our mountains.”

   • Zechariah 4:7
   • Mark 11:23

5. Ask big, because we have a big God

   God watches over His Word to perform it and is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, so our prayers are often too small. People misunderstand preachers, but how can anyone hear without a preacher? Receive what the Word preaches, because it is ridiculous to believe in healing and reject prosperity: every man and woman who walked with God was visibly blessed.

   “We need to ask large because we have a large God.”

   • Jeremiah 1:12
   • Ephesians 3:20
   • Romans 10:14

6. God is a dispenser of grace and favour

   Paul opened and closed his letters by declaring grace, favour and spiritual blessing over the churches, and he declares favour over his own church even when he deals with negative things. Our culture puts its hope in money, materialism and government, but bring God back into the equation. Great grace rested on the early church so that no one lacked, and in Christ we are heirs of God, redeemed from the curse so that the blessing of Abraham comes on the Gentiles; he speaks of himself as a Gentile once alienated and now reconciled.

   “Motivational speaking will bring you inspiration. But the word of God will bring you revelation.”

   • Romans 1:7
   • 1 Corinthians 1:3
   • 2 Corinthians 1:2
   • Galatians 6:18
   • Acts 4:33-35
   • Philippians 1:7
   • Romans 8:14-17
   • Galatians 3:13-14
   • 2 Corinthians 5:18

7. Favour makes a passage of victory in the storm

   Favour is the difference between winning and losing, so never throw in the towel: if a storm has a beginning point, it has an end point. Meditate on the Word, not the negative. The Lord was with Joseph and made all he did prosper, and Joseph was well favoured; nothing could stop him and nothing can stop you. When the enemy tries to silence you, refuse to keep quiet and declare God's grace and favour.

   “Your low circumstances is not your final landing place. You are about to lift off.”

   • Genesis 39:2-6
   • Job 10:12
   • Psalm 84:11
   • Psalm 30:5