THE F.O.G. is Coming: How to Marry a Millionaire

1. THE F.O.G. is Coming: How to Marry a Millionaire Part 2

2. Prophetic Word • Hope is the joyful anticipation of good • Any areas of your life that do not have the joyful anticipation of good is under the lie of the enemy • Elizabeth and Zacharias – your prayer was heard (the prayer you no longer pray was heard) • Do you have prayers you have prayed that you no longer pray that you know God will answer? • Prayer born of the spirit has an eternal shelf life in heaven. Your prayers and your alms have risen up before God. (Acts 10)

3. Goodness of God • Goodness of God is the motive behind the display of divine favor in our lives

4. Goodness of God • God is good. All created goodness is a stream from the uncreated source of all Goodness. God depends on no other for His goodness. God is so good, that He gives all and receive nothing; only good because nothing is good but by Him. God is infinitely good. His goodness is a boundless goodness that knows no limits, a goodness as infinite as His essence. Nothing that is good by His influence can equal him who is good by Himself. (Psalm 52:1; 73:1; 145:9)

5. Definitions of Favor • When God steadily gazes upon you with an interest to grant you preferential treatment distinguishing you from others (Genesis 4:5-7) • Blessed – possessing the favor of God; being filled with the fullness of God in a most demonstrative way • An attractive personality that creates favorable impressions • Heartfelt response by someone who has something to give to one who has a need • To have compassion for someone that provokes another to treat in special way • God, “Be gracious to me” is stated19 times

6. Scriptures on Favor • When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with Him - Proverbs 16:7 • God has crowned each of us with glory and honor (favor) - Psalm 8:5 • To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord (the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound) - Luke 4:17-19

7. Scriptures on Favor • The Lord withholds no good thing from the those who what is right – Psalms 84: 11 • May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you - Numbers 6: 25 • “To find favor in the eyes of” is stated 7 times • When loving-kindness is used in the book of Psalms • I will cause the Egyptians to look favorably upon you. They will give you when you go on so you will not leave empty handed. - Exodus 3:21

8. Prototype of Favor – Jesus Christ • And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature and in favor with God and man (Luke 2:52) • If Jesus who was perfect needed to increase in favor with God how much more do we need to increase in favor? • Correct stewardship of the favor of God brings increase - right use of favor brings the increase of favor • Some people who possess great favor have used it on themselves and not the establishment of the Kingdom of God. Although God blesses us in the process of walking in favor

9. Jesus - The Prototype of Favor • Angelic host gathered at his birth • The shepherds are briefed about his birth – Luke 2:1-21 • Kings attended his birth with treasure in their hands – Matthew 2:1-8 • His twelve disciples were simply called – Matthew 4:18-22

10. Jesus - The Prototype of Favor • Centurion servant Matt 8:5-13 • Jesus summons Matthew while he was in the club - Matthew 9:9-13 • People would not go home after three days - He feed 4000 one time and 5000 on another occasion with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread • Pilates had to be provoked to crucify Jesus

11. Flip the Switch • Your level of favor rises to the level of your expectation • Wisdom will release favor in your life - Solomon • Diligence creates favor – The soul of the diligent shall be made fat ( Prov. 13:4) • Understanding heart releases favor - ( Prov.13:5) • Right words generate favor from those around you – Righteous words are the delight of kings ( Prov. 16:13)

12. How to Marry a Millionaire • Ruth was willing to go where she had never been to create something she never had • Naomi, Orpah and Ruth were both grieving • Ruth had no hope of getting married • Ruth told Naomi – Your journey is my journey; your home is my home, your people are my people; your God is my God and my future is my future

13. How to Marry a Millionaire • Never complain about your future unless you are willing to walk away from your present or do something different in your present • Your intolerance of your present creates a future – Ruth refused to build her future around her past • Separation positioned Ruth for favor

14. Ruth Knew who She was Assigned To • Your coach will require your pursuit. Proof of desire is pursuit • Your friend is comfortable with your past • Your coach is comfortable with your future • Your friend is your cheerleader • Your coach lives to extract your potential from your life

15. Ruth Knew who She was Assigned To • Your friend loves you the way you are, your coach loves you to much to leave you the way you are • Your coach sees weakness in you before you experience the pain of them • The focus of your coach is not the celebration of you but the correction of you • Naomi was Ruth assignment

16. Naomi was Ruth’s Assignment • Ruth did not pursue the normal path of dating other men • Ruth built her lifestyle around serving Naomi • She did not give up the hope of getting married • Ruth protected her heart from self-pity—she received no encouragement from her sister-in- law; she received no encouragement from her kinfolks, she did not have a husband to encourage her because he was dead; she received no encouragement from Naomi - the very mentor she was pursuing

17. Who is your Naomi - Who is your Coach? • Their passion will energize you • Their expectation will stretch you • Their focus will remake you • Their weakness will encourage you • Their creativity will release new ideas in you

18. What Gave Ruth Favor in the Eyes of a Millionaire • She wanted to work. Ruth asked permission to labor in the fields of Boaz • She wanted to make a difference • She did not ask for a donation • He noticed her productivity. Productive men are always responsive to productive women. When you do the right things, you will attract the right people in your life • When you do the wrong things, you will attract the wrong people in your life

19. Someone is Watching You • Your productivity, your attitude, conduct and behavior is continuously being reported to someone with the power to promote you • Never say anything at work you don’t reported over an megaphone • Every good quality in your character is noticeable in the eyes of the one called to promote you

20. Someone is Watching You • Ruth did not have to sell herself • She did not have to compromise her sexual purity to get the eyes of Boaz • Your attitude is scheduling your promotion from God

21. Ruth Valued Purpose Above Convenience • Appreciate often; do it generously - go the extra mile; appreciate thoughtfully, appreciate quickly; do it cheerfully • The inability to be appreciative is definite sign of pride and stupidly

22. Ruth Showed Interest in His Work • Study what he studies • Learn to discuss what he loves to discuss • Encourage the expression of his thoughts • Permit his spoken fears without giving advice • Give total attention to when he speaks; listen thoroughly • Listening validates worth • Looking for a husband: Be his sounding board

23. Coach Instructions • Now do what I tell you – bathe and put on some perfume and nice clothes and go down to the threshing floor (Ruth 3:3) • Ruth packaged herself for where she was going instead of where she had been • Package determines desire - Naomi taught Ruth how to give Boaz a picture he would want to remember

24. The Threshing Floor • What attracts a man’s attention does not always attract his respect • What turns a man’s head, does not always turn his heart • What makes a man look, does not ways make him listen • Don’t break his focus while he work • Wait till he is sleep

25. Favor In You • Identify what you are doing to get kind responses for the things you do • People move towards you • What is the thing you do where you feel at ease when you are doing it? • Where do you sense God’s pleasure in the activities / work you are doing? • Where do you find yourself at harmony with the people in a significant way?

26. Favor In You • Identify what you are doing to get kind responses for the things you do • You are doing something that so easy for you, you can’t believe you are getting paid to do this • You work or skill brings smiles to many faces • You find agreement and synergy with people around you where people do not oppose you or criticize you • What do you do that energizes people around you

27. Playing Hiding Go Seek with Favor • Sometimes we’re captured by things we don’t have favor with while longing to do the things you favor with • Sometimes we have moved away from the things we have favor in because of past failure • You were impressed with your uncultivated gifting because of the applause of your peers so you did not develop your internal favor to stand before great kings

28. Playing Hiding Go Seek with Favor • Your habits are creating your future • Every seed of favor you sow schedules a wave of favor in your own future • Lack of self-awareness is hindering many divine connections.

29. Cultivate Your Favor • Your favor will get you in the room, but your skill, creativity and wisdom will keep you in the room and beyond your room. While you are in the room your diligence will be on display. Your level of discipline will promote you or demote you • The process of following your favor capturing that favor, locking in on your favor is the internal momentum carrying you into the your next level of your promotion along with the caboose of your next level of challenges • Every time you solve a problem for someone, God brings you into more favor with them

30. Favor Looking for You • Are you taking up real estate in the KOG with your favor or just making money? • When your internal favor is tied to God’s purpose, the favor of God upon you will carry you to the ends of the earth • God is saying to AMC and to you today, “Show me what you can do with this” • As you favor increases, we must grow internally • Increase favor gives you access into people’s lives and promotion in the seven mountains