Declare You Are Highly Favored
Faith deals with certainties; it doesn’t deal with speculations and suppositions. Faith says, “Amen!”
“But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us — by me, Silvanus, and Timothy — was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.” — 2 Corinthians 1:18–20
Because Christ paid with His life at the cross to give us every blessing, God says to us, “Yes!” regarding each blessing, and our only response is to say, “Amen!” and claim them!
God wants us to respond in faith. He wants us to have a good opinion of Him, just like Mary, who responded, “Let it be to me according to your word,” when the angel gave her God’s promise.
Don’t focus on your faith; focus on the Lord’s faithfulness.
It is not on you to produce the faith to believe. Everything rests on His Word. However little your faith may be, when it is hooked onto His Word, it will produce results in your life.
When you have this perspective, God sees you in your faith, and whoever believes in Him—who has a good opinion of Him—will not be put to shame (Romans 10:11).
Your words can activate God’s miracles in your life and in the lives of others.
When Mary went to visit Elizabeth, who was her cousin:
“For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.” — Luke 1:44
“As the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb”—Your voice can activate the miracle in someone else’s life. When you speak God’s promises over someone, the dream that seemed dormant or barren will leap with new life!
Speak words of life, the words of God, over your family, your children, your marriage. Speak them over your career and your ministry.
We are made in God’s image, and we have the same spirit of faith as God—that is, we believe and therefore we speak (2 Corinthians 4:12).
A pastor shares a testimony of a brother who experienced God’s supernatural provision and breakthrough in his career during the COVID-19 pandemic when he started speaking out in faith even before he saw his breakthrough.
It is in our natural propensity to complain when things don’t go our way. But we are not natural beings; we have been born again, and we live in the Spirit. Start to speak the language of heaven; start to speak the language of faith! We believe God’s Word and promises, and therefore we speak!
Healing Prayers
The pastor closes the service by praying for people with these conditions:
Every healing can stand the test of medical science. The pastor encourages those he prayed over to go back to their doctors to verify their healings. Only stop taking your medicine when your healing has been confirmed by medical reports. Then, please write in to share your testimony!
With God, nothing is impossible. The pastor leads the congregation to pray over any other ailments in their bodies. Say, “Lord, let it be unto me according to Your Word,” and receive.
Closing Prayer
“This coming week, the Lord bless you and your families. The Lord bless you with the blessings of Deuteronomy 28, the blessings of father Abraham. The Lord preserve, protect, and keep you and your loved ones from the COVID-19 virus, from every sickness, from every disease, from every danger, from harm, from all the power of the evil one. The Lord make His face to shine on you and be favorable to you, highly favored one. Amen. And the Lord lift up His countenance on all of you and grant to you and yours His shalom peace. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”
1 Peter 1:23
"Having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and abides forever."
James 1:21
"Receive with meekness, the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."
Proverbs 4:22
"For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh."
Hebrews 11:6
"But without faith, it is impossible to please Him. For he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace you have been saved through faith."
Hebrews 11:1
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Hebrews 11:1, Amplified Version
"Faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."
Acts 20:21
"Testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 8:32
"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
Hebrews 11:11
"By faith, Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed. And she bore a child when she was past the age because she judged Him faithful who had promised."
Genesis 42:36
"And Jacob, their father, said to them, 'You have bereaved me. Joseph is no more. Simeon is no more. And you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me.'"
Romans 8:31
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
Matthew 5:16
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."
Romans 4:19-20
"And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God."
Romans 8:22
"For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now."
Romans 8:19
"For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God."
Genesis 3:1-3
"Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, 'Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?'
And the woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Psalm 16:11
"At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
1 Timothy 6:17
"In the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy."
John 11:25
"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'"
Romans 6:9-11
"Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all. But the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Luke 1:12-15
"And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said to him, 'Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard. And your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord.'"
Luke 1:18-20
"And Zacharias said to the angel, 'How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.'
And the angel answered and said to him, 'I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. And I was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.'"
Luke 1:26-38
"Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.
And having come in, the angel said to her, 'Rejoice, highly favored one. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women.'"