Culled and revised jottings
from a sermon the Mountain of fire and Miracles Ministries.
Sermon Date:
Sunday, 22nd March, 2015
@ MFM Youth Church,
Victory Centre, Akute, Ogun State.
Father! Make me
your Favorite
I can
declare categorically by my experience and research, that God has favorites.
What happens to brother A and heaven was just looking; The same thing cannot
happen to brother B; just because Brother B is a favorite of the father.
There are
many people in the scripture, that experience; the favoritism of the father;
Ø Abraham was greatly
blessed than his ancestors: Abraham was chosen
divinely by the father; when his father, mother and family were still in Haran,
in their normal state, God still blessed Abraham mightily land proved Himself
severally in his life.
Ø Isaac was showered
with blessing than his brother Ishmael: Gen 26:12 says “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in
the same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him”. King Abimelech of the
Philistines said in Gen 26:16 “Go
from us; for thou art much mightier than we”
Ø Jacob loved by God
over Esau: “Esau I
hate, Jacob, I love” {Malachi 1:2-3}
Ø Daniel enjoyed the favoritism
over other brethren in the king’s Palace: {Dan 1:9} "God had brought Daniel into favour and tender
love with the prince of the eunuchs."
Ø Job was God’s favorite;
reason God made an edge around him: The lord even boasted of him to the devil in {Job 1:8}
…. Many other examples like:
Elijah, Noah, John the Baptist, Abel, Jesus; the begotten son of the father
Himself, His favorite.
It is paramount that we accept that God has favorites.
The essence
of this message is to identify this and cry on the Father to make you his favorites.
Say: Father Lord, Make me your favorite in the
name of Jesus.
Two Major Source of Being God’s
Favourite
1.
Divine Endowment:
{Malachi 1:2-3} “Yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau”
Paul was busy persecuting Christians and God was watching, until
the lord brought him into the kingdom because He had been divinely ordained as
His Favorite.
NOTE: Not everyone has the grace of Divine Endowment
{Matt 11:11}
“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women
there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that
is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
The
scripture simply means that; if John the Baptist was a favorite of God; then as
a believer, you have greater advantages of being the father’s favorite.
This leads
us to the second Source of being God’s favorite;
2.
Working By the Rules
As a child of God, you have the opportunity of working yourself
into being God’s Favorite.
Even if you ancestors were not his favorite, you family &
friend were not his favorite; you can determine to be his favorite.
God's Favoritism does not belong to all but only to the elect, and as a
child of the Most High God you are legally in line for an outpouring of divine
favor and promotion that is coming your way. But you must first apply these
biblical principles to receive it.
People
that cannot Become God’s Favorite
My brother, my sister; even God has covenanted you as His favorite
from Heaven;
v You can work against your favour
v You can actually kill your favour.
v You can destroy that covenant of the father’s favoritism.
Samson was God’s favoritism but destroyed the relationship
prematurely. God might have had great plan for Dinah, the only daughter of
Jacob; but she wasted the opportunity, very early in life.
There are 7 major groups of people that cannot be God’s Favorites;
GROUP 1: The Unsaved
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“Therefore if any man be
in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things
are become new.” {2 Cor
5:17}
Majority
of people that come to church are not really born again.
We have
Pastors, General Overseers, Deacons, usher, superintendent that are not born
again.
When you
are born again, it is compulsory and essential that there is a difference.
There should be a difference; there must be a change:
v Your Lifestyle
v Changes in actions
v The way you talk
v Your Character will
change
v Changes in Dressing
v Even Some of your
friends will even change
“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because
ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you.” {John 15:19}
GROUP 2: The Unbroken
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{Psalm 51:17} "The sacrifices of God are
a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not
despise."
God specializes in broken things.
Ø It is when the Ground breaks
that anything can grow.
Ø The cloud has to break
for it to bring forth rain.
“Except A corn of wheat falls to the ground and die; it abided
alone; if it die, it brings forth much fruit” {John 12:24}.
Unless you are a
broken man/woman; you are on your own; you cannot be a favorite of God. This is
because God cannot trust you not to misbehave.
Brokenness is what makes you
useable to God.
Brokenness is total obedience; Total Humility; Death to
Self. With brokenness, there can be no
pride; there can be no fornication,
no rebellion, no gossip, no drinking, no anger; NO SECRET SIN.
Story; A Brother Enters Bus and stepped on a man; bro.
apologized but was slapped. Bro. My hands have been crucified. IS YOUR OWN BODY ALSO CRUCIFIED OR STILL
VERY ACTIVE?
GROUP 3: The Undisciplined
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As a
youth or an adult; no matter how bright your future is, you can achieve much without
discipline.
For you
to be a favorite of God you have to be disciplined in every area of Life.\
The No 1 challenge of today’s youth are Sexual Indiscipline.
As a youth you need to flee from every sexual
sin.
Bible
says; "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that committed fornication sinneth against his own body."{1
Cor 6:18}
READ {Proverbs 6:26}”For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of
bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life”
In the
verse above, we will see the extent which man is finished, caged, and destroyed
by sexual sins.
A lot of
youth and people have their glowing destiny truncated by this weapon.
The verse
explains how the weapon is used to hunt for precious, glorious, valuable
destiny.
A lot of
people have the notion that they are enjoying themselves.
Some
don’t want to be referred to as a slacker, so they jump at every opportunity of
the enticement to destruction.
This
Destroyed the life of people life Reuben & Samson.
Discipline yourself in every area of your life; such as Your
Stomach; your Speech, your character; many youths are lazy. Many do
no Read; Many do not improve themselves. Discipline is Key.
GROUP 4: The Unwise
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"Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a
just man, and he will increase in learning.” {Prov
9:9}
A lot of
people learn the hard way. This is not because they were not warned previously
guarded aright but many enjoy experiencing the consequences of their action
before learning the lesson therein.
You need to correct yourself from the mistakes of others.
{Gal 3:1}
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth”
Get wisdom;
“My People perish for lack
of wisdom” {Hosea 4:6}
I pray for you; You shall not perish for any reason, in the name of
Jesus.
GROUP 5: The Wicked
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There are
a lot of wicked people in the church.
For you
to become God’s favorite; you need to walk in love.
"Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law."{Rom 13:10}
You are
praying and casting but you keep malice against your fellow. It is wickedness.
GROUP 6: The Hypocrites
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The
spirit of hypocrisy is very dangerous. It is deception.
Job 13:15
says; “for an hypocrite shall not come before him.”
God
cannot make the hypocrites his favorites.
Many
Christians are secret agents Christians.
Don’t be
a chameleon Christian. Let your standard at home and in church be the same.
Let your
YES be YES and NO be NO; don’t be a Yes/NO Christian.
Don’t be
a pretender. If you are a Christian; you are; if you are not, you are not.
Follow
the rules of Christianity.
GROUP 7: The Compromisers
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The
reason God has dropped some people is because of compromise.
Compromise
is:
- When God cannot trust you. – When you can cannot withstand the
heat for GOD
- -->When shift your standard at every little provocation.
- -->When you serve God the way it’s convenient for you.
- -->When you cannot take a stand for God.
- -->When you are always thinking what people will say.
- -->When you become a doesn't matter Christian.
God cannot make compromisers His Favorites.
Prayer Points
1. Powers assigned to
waste my salvation die in the name of Jesus.
2. Powers! assigned to
rubbish my destiny; die in the name of Jesus.
3. Power! assigned to
turn my glory into shame, die in the name of Jesus.
4. I reject every satanic
re-arrangement of my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
5. Problems! Transferred into
my life from the womb! Die in Jesus name.
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