HIS BANNER OVER US IS LOVE

Hallelujah. Thank you father. Holy are you

Lord. All creations call you

God. Worthy is your

name. Lord we worship your

majesty. Awesome God. How great the

one. You alone mighty are your

miracle standing in a holy

[Music] name. Lord we bow and

worship you. Father, we thank you for this opportunity.

Bless us, oh Lord, and transform all things that has got to do with our lives and

destiny in you in Jesus name.

Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Maybe you should just amp up my Thank

you. Amen. Amen. Church, are you ready? Um, if you are wondering why we are

wearing masks, uh, I think there's a cough going on. That's what I should say. There's a cough going on. It starts

like malaria. Thank you. It starts like malaria and before you realize, it ends

up with a cough. We don't know what it is yet. We've seen several people this

week. I'm sure you also noticed some in your home. Uh, so we don't know what is going on. So our best advice, wear masks

for now until our authorities can tell us what it is cuz they are the ones licensed to be able to do that. All we

are saying is that take precautions. Amen. And be healthy. We need you healthy as a church. Amen. God richly

bless. Hope you're not offended. Amen. All right. Are you ready for God's word? There's a sermon that God laid on my

heart. I want to share with you. I I don't know why but I I think the enemy was doing everything possible for people

to miss this particular sermon because though it is simple it is loaded with understanding. Amen. I want to speak on

his banner over us is love. Uh some of you heard that

statement before. The banner of the Lord over us is love. You've heard it over and over

and over and over. And today we're going to examine the evidence of

this. Are you ready for God's word? You

ready? Do I have to go ahead of the technical team? Thank you. So the word banner

is the word banner is uh a piece of cloth or

um a graphical design or whatever it is that has words and information on it

that projects an idea or a belief that is strongly supported by someone. So you

put up a banner and says this is the house of God. You believe strongly that that's what it is. you put up a banner

and said um lemonade for sale. You truly believe that you've made lemonade and

you are selling. So when we talk about banner, it's got to do with a statement

that we believe in or an idea we are sharing that is graphically depicted in

an uh electronic banner or in a physical

cloth or p um banner material as you might have

noticed for most often when they pray things for sign boards. Amen.

I want you to understand that God hangs a banner over his children. Every time you're walking around, God hangs a

banner over you. And the banner shows a certain statement. The statement is that

we are God's most loved. I had people say, "Oh, when

you're a Christian, they see a star shining on forehead." It's not true. The Bible never said there's a

star shining on our foreheads. But the Bible says that he

has a banner hanging over us. His banner over us is love.

Everywhere we walk, anything that sees us, they know that we are God's beloved.

Amen. Are you with me? So Psalm 60:4 says,

"Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee." Huh?

Prophet David said, "You have given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of

truth." The Bible says, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free." And the Bible says that because

of the truth, God has made sure that the banner he gave us is displayed, is made visible to all.

We don't become uh what you don't become

uh too pumped or too spoiled. Amen. But the Bible says that God has

given a banner to them who fear him, those who recognize him, those who understand him, those who walk with him.

He's given a banner to them. And God does not want that banner hidden. He has made it to be displayed because he's a

God of truth. He want that to be the settled statement concerning them.

Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to borrow a word from the Song of Solomon the chapter 2 and the verse four. He

brought me to the banqueting house to the place of jubilation and his banner over me was love. Hallelujah.

So God hangs a banner over us. And the banner that hangs over us is that he

loves us. And everywhere we go, he tells us he loves us. Listen, this is why the

devil hates us. Hello. It's not because you're a human being. In fact, if they gave the devil a

chance to be an angel and a human being, he would never choose being a human being. Being a human being to every

angel is a demoting status. Hallelujah.

is a demoting what? Status. The Bible says that we were created a little lower

than angels then exalted. Hello. It's like God did

something that will forever stimulate the jealousy of all the angels in heaven. We are God's most love. He never

went to die on the cross for any angel. No matter how perfect, how excellent

they are. He he never under any circumstances

um uh decided that he will go to the cross and pay for the sins of

Lucifer. In fact, the Bible describes Lucifer Lucifer as magnificent, beautiful. He was called the morning

star. In fact, he was simply an epitome of

wisdom. Yet, God never died for him. He died for me and you. I don't know how

filthy you were, but he died for a man as filthy as I am because I don't know you, so I can't judge you, but I can

judge myself. He died for a man who never deserved the place where I stand

on the face of this earth. He died for me to have a place in his heart to be

forgiven, washed, restored, and empowered. I want you to lift up your hands and

say, "Lord, I love you too." Hallelujah. So, we are the most envied

of all of God's creation. Everything God has created on the face of this earth, we are more prized to God than anything.

The entire universe was created to sustain us, to support us. We mean a lot

to the father and he expects us to see him as everything that we will

ever need. In fact, the Bible said in the book of John 3:16 that this is the this is how

this is the overwhelming evidence and proof of how far and how deep God loved

the world that he gave his only. I want

to ask you a question. Since we're created in the image and likeness of God, it's best to ask you this question. If you're very hungry and you had your

only food to eat before you die, are you going to give it to me? Sacrifice it to me and

die. Oh, let's not pretend. Do you love me that much to sacrifice your last meal for

me? When you're extremely hungry, not share. I'm not asking you for you to share or give me some. I'm saying give

it all to me and have nothing. In fact, if you're able to do that, then there's something wrong about you. Amen. Amen.

Because you know even if you give a guy the food and he eats again the chance of no food coming is higher and he also

die. So if you will die now die tomorrow all die. Hallelujah. Are you with me? So

the Bible says God so loved the world. God so evidently loved the world that he

gave his only God didn't have multiple sons. He had only one son. Only one

son. And he didn't offer him to the ones who deserved him. He didn't offer him to

the ones who qualified for him. He said, "Whosoever whosoever would believe in

this sacrifice, they would not perish but

receive the eternal life that is found in Christ Jesus."

Ladies and gentlemen, do you now understand why in the kingdom of God your past is

irrelevant? What you've done, where you've been? Oh yes, we might all be afraid of you because of your past. It's

our human nature to be afraid to use your past as a yastic to measure you.

But your past has no influence on God. It's what you have accepted. your present, your current decision that

matters to God today. And if you have decided to walk with Jesus and if you have decided to do

what is right uh by him, then he's also willing by all possible means to make

sure that you don't perish. The Bible said this is how much God loved us in Romans 5 8-10. But God

commanded. Listen, it means that the love itself wouldn't have

come. Have you noticed when you love somebody they don't love you, you tend to immediately dislike

them? Have you noticed you're doing everything to let this girl see you like her

and say she's doing you a favor? Some men with selfdignity will just stop and

say it's okay. Others too they have no self-dignity.

They are willing to go down down down to be better until they get it. They will get it. Hallelujah.

But love is a beautiful thing but it can be scorned. And the scorned love is is

deadly. Scorned love. The reaction of scorned love is worseer than

hatred. Huh? If love is scorned, it is it is worser

than hatred. And the Bible says that God commanded you see his love would have

asked the father why go why why go for David Mr. Why? What? What is the basis?

What what why would you even think of saving him? Why? The Bible says we were born in sin.

In sin were we conceived. There was nothing about us, our past or anything

about our families that qualified God to show us such concern, such support, such

love. And my Bible said that he commanded his love. He spoke to his love

and said go. Said why are you doing this? He said

go. And the Bible said that God commanded his love towards us in that

while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us much more than being now

justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him.

For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his

son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Paul is

speaking many big English. But let me break this statement down into two

principles. Paul is saying that the love of God was never earned. The love of God

was never something that we earned. It was a divine decree. It was a divine

statement that God made in heaven. Make sure that all who believe in my son do

not perish. And God exhibited that love, that depth of love by sacrificing

gruesomely his only prized possession, himself on the cross of Calvary that you

and I will never see the wrath of God. Let's look at that again.

If Jesus has died for you, you stand over

71% chance of never seeing

judgment. If the blood of Jesus has washed you, if you continue to abide in him in

his principles, what do I mean abide in him?

Have you noticed anytime you come to church we are praying we ask forgiveness of sins when Jesus taught us to pray he

said when you pray ask the Lord to forgive you your sins as you've also forgiven

others he says if if my word abide in you and I and I I also abide in you then

shall you pray or ask anything of the father he shall give you Jesus says whosoever love me is the one who my word

dwells in him or who obeys my commandments

The plan of God wasn't to save you and let you still end up in hell. The plan of God was never that he will give you

salvation and then for some reason you screw it all up and end up in hell. The

plan of God that after salvation, he's making sure that you can come on into greater glory into heaven. This why

Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you for the ones he has saved, not for the ones he has not saved.

said, "In my father's house are many mansions." He knows that by the good works we shall live on this earth

obeying him, we shall inherit greater glory and riches in heaven. That is the

plan of Jesus. Unless you stray away from this path, there is no plan of God

to send you into wrath or into judgment. And I'm saying this very very plainly so

that you can understand the relationship you must have with God. The Bible say there's no variables

in him. He hasn't chosen that some are more preferred than him. There's no shadow of darkness in

him that he's thinking good but at the back of his mind is a trap. No, that's not how God is.

So uh Paul says that that much more than being now justified

by the by his blood, we shall be saved. Paul said the eternal purpose of Jesus

saving us now through the shed of his blood is so that we will not come into the judgment of God where his wrath

is. I didn't say that. Paul said that in plain words. For if when we were

enemies, God reconciled us, then understand that he has no plan for our

destruction, he only has a plan for our reward. And so when we follow his plan,

when we walk with his plan, we will end up in what he has determined for us, which is greater and better than we have

ever experienced in this life. Give a clap offering onto Jesus.

[Applause] Have you noticed that the entire

struggle of your life is the devil's attempt to make you think that God doesn't love you as you think he loves

you? You haven't noticed

there people. its people have easily believed the

devil because after we've been saved, we are still forced to carry our weights on

our head. And so Paul said, "God has a plan.

The cross was the beginning. The end is eternal glory and peace with God."

Romans 567 further deepens this revelation. He says, "For when we were yet without

strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly." He look at the words he choose

to explain. Christ died for anybody who thought that there's not a God, that

there can't be a God. How can there be a God when people are suffering like that? How can there be a God? Life is all

about you, all about your choices. He said, "Christ died for those who truly needed a

God. For scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die. Yet per adventure for a

good man, some may dare to die." Jesus said, Paul said, "It is a

hard thing to find anybody wanting to die for a good man. I'm sure you're willing to do certain

good things for me irrespective of how much you think I'm good but to die for me let's be realistic you die for me oh

this like truthful she tell the

truth for her this is wise the only person who can die for us

is what Jesus Christ don't second guess it

[Music] They will do everything possible to try and make sure you are healthy but they

cannot die in your

place. When I read through this, a song came to my heart. And one of the songs

that came to my heart was was a song we've almost always sang

sometimes. And it goes like, "Oh, the overwhelming

neverending reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down. Fight still.

I'm faves the 99. I couldn't earn it and I don't deserve

it. Still you give yourself away. Oh, the

overwhelming neverending reckless love of God.

[Music] The songwriter says that there is an

overwhelming there is a love when when is described to you your heart fails at

the weight of it. Some of you when a man tells you how deeply he loves you and

says it that's a goose people. It's called overwhelming

love. and and and the songwriter says that oh the overwhelming love the

neverending the love that seems reckless. When we say something is

reckless that means it's not it's not thought

true but

999. What's it

Do you hear me?

It's important I explain this in key. A love that is

overwhelming, never ending. It is reckless. Is is willing to put itself in

danger at the expense of your peace. You love human beings like this, they will

never be able to repay you that kind of love. It will end up in bitterness. Say how I love this. You

see, when you see people on social media cry about broki heart and they mention a certain girl's name and they are

crying. You know why they are crying? It's not because they had abundance money they are throwing away. It's

because some of the things they gave that girl or that boy, it was their all

that that person did not see. It was something probably some can even give away their school fees that is

meant for their school and go and lie to their father arm robbers. Arm robbers beat

them and took the money then allow one of his friends to brutalize his face all

because of love and this girl will not value it. When we were in school in secondary

school, some of the boys don't go to Taco will spend all the money their mothers have given them just to impress

a girl. And when we are coming home, they walk from stadium to Pokuari, they will walk or when they get

to Pokari, they are hungrier than a bear. When they reach the dining hall,

hey, or when they get there and the dining hall food is finished, come and see them walking around taking a bowl,

begging for gary and sugar. These were guys who are just seconds ago were the guys spreading the girls in the

stadium. When you love a man that much, sometimes it cannot be uh reciprocated

that way. Amen. And the Bible says and and the

songwriter says that this kind of love chases me down. It keeps chasing me

until it finds me. This love fights for me until I'm found.

It will leave the 99 righteous and come get

me. Said this love, I couldn't earn it.

The overwhelming neverending reckless love of

God. Oh, it chases me down. Fights still

I'm found. Leaves the night. And I couldn't earn it. I just

Till you make yourself a way. Oh, the

overwhelming neverending reckless love of

God. Oh, the overwhelming

neverending reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down. Fight till I'm

found the night. And I couldn't earn it and I

don't deserve it. Still you gave yourself

away. There's no shadow you won't light up. Mountain you won't climb up. Coming

after me. There's no wall you won't kick down.

Line you won't tear down. Coming after me time. There's no shadow you won't

light up. Mountain you won't climb up. Coming after me.

Hey, there's no wall you won't kick down. Lie you won't tear down. Coming

after me. Oh, the overwhelming

neverending reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down. Fight. Still

I'm found. Leaves the night. And I couldn't earn it. And I

don't deserve it. Still you.

John also speaking on this love said greater love has no man than this. John

said there is not love greater than this. Apparently it's not John but the

book of John declared what Jesus said. Jesus said greater h greater love has no

man than this that a man will lay down his life for his friends. You are my

friends if you do whatsoever I command

you. So Jesus confirms the purpose of salvation. First

to save us. Second so that we will

Please do not touch it. Book of first John the chapter 3:16

says, "This is how we know. This is how we perceive. Hereby, hereby perceive we the

love of God. This is how we have known or this is how we are able to tell of the love of God because he laid down his

life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the

brethren. The love of God is depicted as willing to sacrifice

itself for our comfort. The book of first John the chapter 4:es

9 to10 said in this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his only

begotten son into the world that we might live through him wherein is love

not that we loved God but that but that and

sent but that and sent his son to be the propitiation

for our sins. The Bible says this is the manifestation of the love of God towards

us that he sent his only begotten son to die for us that he may that we may live

through Jesus. Not that we loved God, but that

he sent Christ for one purpose to be the right sacrifice for sin. The perfect

sacrifice for sin, eternal and effectual. What do I mean by the word

eternal? When I die and I go and my children sin, the only place they can

find forgiveness is the same blood of Jesus or the sacrifice of Christ. When

three or four generations come after me before Jesus comes, every one of them can only find

God's forgiveness, God's righteousness through the sacrifice of our Lord and

Savior Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:36 37 39. Nay, in all these we are more than

conquest through him. Through him that what? That what? Look at how Paul

defines it. He said, "No, no, no, no. We we we are more than conquerors. We we

are mightier than you can imagine. But but all this is possible through the one who loved

us. He loved us. Paul said, "For I am persuaded."

Paul said, "There is no other way." He said, "I am now more than convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor

principalities, nor powers, nor things present now, nor things to come, nor

height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able

our suffering. Paul said nothing can compare to the love of God which is in

Christ Jesus for us.

I want you to look at your circumstance so far up to today. Everything that you have

received, you never earned it. God loved you and made sure you get

it. Unless you truly believe in that certificate hanging on your wall that that's what is feeding

you. Unless you truly believe because there are many many

people with the same certificate. ah hanging on their wall and they are home. Number one, there are many with

that same certificate in that same job who are not experiencing one good day

even and it's not because you are experiencing a good day means God is with you but that God is making sure

that his plans in your life cannot be twarted by principalities,

powers, authorities that be. The first book of Jude the chapter 21

said keep yourselves in the love of the Lord. He said keep yourself this is the

advice of Jude as he brought the chapter to a close. He said keep yourselves in

the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Jude said, "If there's anything you need to do as important as a child of God is

to keep yourself, make sure you are within the love of God."

Huh? And he said, "Look unto the mercy of our Lord Jesus

Christ. Seek to his mercy. desire his mercy that leads to eternal life, your

salvation. And when he had finished with this advice, he blessed the people and said, "Now unto he who is able to do

more exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask of or think of. To him do I

commit you people to him." So, so Jude first of all laid the

foundation and said that your most prized work is to keep yourself in the

love of your father and seek his mercy. After you have done this, let me

reassure you the blessing of the Lord that this Jesus I came to preach to you. This God I came to deliver his good news

to you. He's able to do more exceedingly

abundantly of all you can ask or think

of this morning. I say the same thing as Jude said to

you. Keep yourself in this

love. It is this love that makes your

sin something God can forgive and can look away. It is this love of

God that made sure that in as much as he loved Jesus Christ when they were

beating his son to death, he kept his peace in heaven because he wanted the

full price paid. He wanted the appropriation of our sins

fulfilled. That no enemy, no back door, no work of darkness will be

justified to take us away from him ever

again. And it cost him everything precious to him that you and I may see

how much he love us. Bow down your head and let us pray.

If there is anything you need to do is to keep yourself in the love of

God. To never allow yourself to stray in the areas of thinking God doesn't love you enough. That if you don't help

yourself, God won't help you. That God isn't thinking about you. That you're not important to him. that there are

more people more important, more anointed, more relevant, more more useful than you. Anytime you walk on

that path, you tread in murky and muddy

places where the enemy will smear you, will hurt you, and will harm

you. If he sent his only begotten son to die for you when he when you didn't even

know that you can be saved, why would he withhold every good thing from those who walk

uprightly? When they were beating his son, scourging him to death with a Roman flagroom which had

spikes and and hooks that tore his flesh. It hurt God to the

bone. But he made his son to endure because he wanted to have a covenant of

healing for us. Covenant that the enemy could not challenge that principalities

and powers could not deny. This morning I confer the love of

God over this church and over all who is hearing my voice around the

world. And I say to you in the name of he whose I am and

whose name I preach and declare this blessing. Be thou redeemed in his love.

Be thou blessed in his love. Be thou restored in his love. Be thou

sufficiently abundantly be provided for in his love. His

love is awesome. His love is reassuring. His

love is strong. His love is

redeeming. Oh, the [Music]

everlasting precious love God. Oh,

ites me. Fight

still tonight. And I couldn't end it. And I don't

deserve it. Still you gave yourself

away. Holy overwhelming,

neverending, precious love of God.

I want you to put your hand on your chest. [Music]

Father, you have revealed your love for us. Your love that proves that

constantly we are on your mind. We are constantly the object of your desire. We

are constantly the object of your work. and all things that move around the

stratosphere. And all things that are within your creation was created in the

pursuit and purpose of your goodwill and love for us. As we walk through this

earth, let us not for a day believe the lies of the devil that your love is not

enough. It is more than enough. It's on the basis on which when we come to you

in prayer, we know we will not be judged nor condemned. It's the basis for which when we wake up in the morning and want

to come to church, we are more than happy to come because we are going into the house of our beloved God, of the God

who love us, that we know that when we come in love to you. When we come to the one who loves us more than anything that

could ever love us, there's no judgment, there's no condemnation, there's no shame, there's no poverty, there's no

limitation. But you offer your all to us. Let our spirit, soul, and body never

forget this. And cause us to teach this revelation to our children that the

assurance of Christ in you is solid,

dependable, and trustworthy in Jesus name. Amen. Give a clap offering to

Jesus. [Music]

If you listen to us often and you've ever visited us before or you constantly visit us but

you've not decided to be a member, I want to encourage you to become a member to grow spiritually with

us to develop your sense of service until you're in a place where you are offering excellent service to God all

your life. This is Favor Chapel International. We're a church

commissioned by God to raise generations full of the Holy Spirit. Obedient to God, people obedient

to God and zealous or passionate for good works. Give a clap. Offering bow to

God. If you brought an offering to God, I want you to dip your hands into your storehouses and take out that offering

unto [Music]

God. Now begin to speak over your seed. Father, we thank you for that seed

in our hands. Let it go and come back to us. measures pressed down, shaken together, and running over in the name

of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

Spirit. Amen. [Music]

I love you and I

lift my voice to

worship you. Oh my

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king in what you

do. Make me a sweet. [Music]

I love you, Lord. And I lift my

voice to worship

you, oh my soul. [Music]

Rejoice, rejoice, my

king in what you do.

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sweet in your ear.

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baby. Oh, baby. Hey. I want baby.

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baby. I want a baby. I want a baby.

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I have a testimony. So many years ago

That's a worship leader who will be by the time she left here when she le anyway people

are we did not start this way. If they know that there is a God

who helps, then they will depend on him and not not on their abilities. Amen.

Amen. Are you ready for God's word? Sorry. Are you ready for us to

close? Hallelujah. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the

sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more. Amen. Let's receive the meditation and

blessing as we get ready today. The Lord bless

you and keep you. Make his face shine upon you. Be

gracious to you. The Lord turn haste.

face towards you and give

[Music] you. The Lord bless

you and keep you. Make his face shine upon you. Be

gracious to you.

Lord, face towards

you. You peace. [Music]

Amen. Amen. May the Lord bless you and keep

you. May the Almighty cause Lord, may the Almighty Lord turn his face or cause

his face to shine upon us. May he go with us and bring us back.

May not be a pill of cloud by day over us, a pill of fire by night. May the Lord bless us and exalt

us. May he be our righteous tower and

refuge. May he be our shield and our buckler, our defense and strong tower.

May he bless us sufficiently above all we can ask or think of financially. May he heal our broken

bodies. May he restore us in the light of his

glory. He causes angels to encamp around our dwelling place. Keeping out all

evil, all shame, all struggle, all financial burdens and

troubles. Now may a mighty God whose word and counsel prevails

forever. Establish his goodness, his mercies, his favor, his strength, his

love over us, and bless us continually, our children's children, our home, our

finances, our business in Jesus name.

Amen. And amen.

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