Pastor Abayomi Adetola
9th August 2026
Bible Text: Psalm 15:1–5
Supporting Texts: Psalm 30:5, 2 Kings 6:15–17, Psalm 91:1, John 5:1–9, Galatians 6:17
Focus: Understanding how divine favour gives believers spiritual advantage and moves them out of disadvantage
This sermon teaches that favour is more than kindness from people. Favour is mercy, divine approval and God’s supernatural help that moves a person from disadvantage into advantage.
Using Psalm 15:1–5, the message explains that those who walk uprightly, speak truth, avoid slander, honour God and live with integrity enjoy a life that cannot easily be moved.
The sermon also shows that favour gives believers access to divine information, divine protection, right relationships and helpers. Above all, it calls believers to a genuine personal relationship with Jesus Christ, because true favour begins with belonging fully to God.
The sermon begins with worship and prayer, giving glory, honour and adoration to God. The preacher asks God to open the hearts of His people to receive His Word, drawing from the truth of Psalm 119:130, which says that the entrance of God’s Word gives light and understanding to the simple.
After appreciating the leadership, ministers and choir, the preacher introduces the month as a season of perfected favour and declares the sermon topic: The Favour Advantage.
The main Bible reading is Psalm 15:1–5. This passage describes the person who can abide in God’s tabernacle and dwell in His holy hill: one who walks uprightly, works righteousness, speaks truth from the heart, refuses to slander, does no evil to a neighbour, honours those who fear the Lord, keeps promises and rejects injustice.
The sermon teaches that such a person carries an advantage. The favour of God moves a believer from disadvantage to divine advantage.
Favour is described as kindness, mercy and divine approval. In life, people make choices every day. Some choices lead to success, while others lead to regret. Choices concerning education, career, marriage, business and relationships can shape a person’s future.
However, the preacher declares that even where wrong choices have been made, God can turn things around. This is connected to Psalm 30:5, which says that weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
The sermon teaches that those who live under God’s favour often enjoy advantage because God guides them into the right decisions and protects them from decisions that would destroy them.
The first major benefit of favour is advanced information. Sometimes believers suffer unnecessarily because they do not know what already belongs to them in Christ.
The preacher illustrates this with a personal story from a work trip to Brussels. He received a daily allowance and bought snacks to save money, not realising that breakfast was already included in the hotel package. After the trip, he discovered he had been entitled to what he never enjoyed because he lacked information.
The lesson is that some Christians live below their advantage because they do not understand what God has made available to them.
This is reinforced through the story of Elisha and his servant in 2 Kings 6:15–17. The servant saw the enemy army and became afraid, but Elisha knew that those who were with them were more than those against them. When God opened the servant’s eyes, he saw the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire.
Favour gives believers access to divine perspective. It enables them to know that heaven is backing them even when the visible situation looks threatening.
The preacher also shares how God can restrain His people from dangerous opportunities. A colleague once invited him to invest in a scheme that appeared profitable. Though it seemed attractive, he held back. Later, the investment collapsed and others suffered losses. This becomes a practical example of divine guidance protecting a person from costly mistakes.
The second benefit of favour is divine protection. Psalm 91:1 says that the one who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Favour becomes a protective shield. God told Abraham that He would bless those who blessed him and curse those who cursed him, as seen in Genesis 12:3. In the life of Job, Satan recognised that God had placed a hedge around him, his household and everything he had. See Job 1:10.
The preacher declares that God’s favour will surround His people like a shield, echoing Psalm 5:12, which says that the Lord surrounds the righteous with favour as with a shield.
The third benefit of favour is right relationships. The man at the pool of Bethesda in John 5:1–9 said, “I have no man,” because he lacked someone to help him into the water when it was stirred.
The sermon teaches that a favoured person receives helpers. God can send men and women who open doors, lift burdens, invest in vision, encourage progress and make impossible things easier.
The preacher uses the life of David as an example. In 1 Chronicles 12:22, men came to David day by day to help him until it became a great army like the army of God. In the same way, favour can bring helpers into a person’s life.
However, the sermon warns that the advantage of favour does not remove the need for character, diligence and upright living. Psalm 15 shows that the person who enjoys God’s dwelling and stability must walk with integrity.
Believers must avoid slander, evil towards neighbours, dishonour, broken promises and unjust gain. Favour is not a license for careless living; it is connected to a life that honours God.
The preacher reminds the church that life is serious, and many people take spiritual matters seriously in the wrong direction. Christians must not live carelessly or casually, but must pursue God’s way of obtaining favour.
The sermon also emphasises desire. A person cannot receive what they do not desire. Those who treat church attendance casually and lack a personal relationship with Christ will struggle to walk fully in the favour of God.
The preacher makes it clear that worldly success is possible without God, but the favour that comes from God belongs to those who depend on Him with body, spirit and soul.
The message ends with a call to return to Jesus. Those whose hearts are far from God are invited to pray and ask Jesus to become their personal Lord and Saviour. This connects with Matthew 11:28, where Jesus invites all who labour and are heavy laden to come to Him for rest.
The congregation then prays for God to move them into an advantage position, make them candidates of favour, mercy and grace, and release the spirit of favour upon them and their families.
The preacher closes by praying over every area of disadvantage, asking God to take over, remove trouble and give testimony. Galatians 6:17 is used as a declaration: “From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”
The final prayer also refers to Luke 2:52, where Jesus increased in wisdom, stature and favour with God and men. The sermon ends with a cry for God’s favour to produce testimony.
Favour is kindness, mercy and divine approval from God.
When God favours a person, they are no longer left to struggle from a position of disadvantage. Divine favour moves people into places, relationships and decisions that human effort alone may not reach.
Life is shaped by choices: what to study, who to marry, what career to follow, what business to enter and what relationships to keep.
Some choices may produce regret, but God is able to turn things around by His mercy and favour.
Psalm 30:5 teaches that God’s favour brings life and that joy comes in the morning after a night of weeping.
The sermon declares that a new season of joy can begin when God’s favour speaks.
One advantage of favour is access to information, direction and insight that prevents unnecessary loss.
Believers must know what they carry in Christ so they do not live below what God has already made available.
Elisha’s servant saw only the enemy, but God opened his eyes to see the host of heaven.
In the same way, favour gives spiritual perspective. What is with God’s people is greater than what is against them.
Sometimes divine favour protects people by preventing them from entering an opportunity that looks profitable but is dangerous.
God can guide His people away from losses they do not yet understand.
Psalm 91:1 teaches that those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High abide under His shadow.
Favour shields, covers and protects the believer from dangers seen and unseen.
God placed a hedge around Job, and the enemy recognised it.
The favour of God can surround His people like a shield, keeping them from attacks that would otherwise have reached them.
The man at Bethesda said, “I have no man.”
Favour brings the right people into a person’s life: helpers, lifters, encouragers, door-openers and people who make the journey easier.
David experienced the blessing of men coming to help him day by day.
The sermon declares that the helpers assigned to your life will not be few.
Psalm 15:1–5 shows that the person who abides with God must walk uprightly and speak truth.
The favour of God is not an excuse for careless character. Integrity matters.
The sermon teaches that believers who desire favour must avoid slander, evil towards neighbours and dishonest gain.
The way a person treats others affects their walk with God.
A person cannot receive what they do not desire.
Those who want the favour of God must not treat God casually. They must seek Him sincerely and depend on Him fully.
Church attendance alone is not enough.
The sermon calls believers to a genuine personal relationship with Jesus Christ, because the favour that comes from God belongs to those who truly belong to Him.
The closing prayer asks God to move His people from disadvantage into advantage.
By favour, God can reposition a person spiritually, financially, relationally, professionally and personally.
Galatians 6:17 is used as a declaration that no one should trouble the believer because they bear the marks of the Lord Jesus.
The sermon turns this into a prayer for God to take over every troubling area of life.
Father, thank You for Your Word that brings light and understanding.
Psalm 119:130
Lord, let Your perfected favour speak over my life and family.
Father, move me from disadvantage into divine advantage.
Lord, turn around every wrong choice and every decision that has brought regret.
Father, let weeping end and let my morning of joy begin.
Psalm 30:5
Lord, give me advanced information, divine direction and wisdom for the right choices.
Father, open my eyes to see the help of heaven around me.
2 Kings 6:15–17
Lord, guide me away from opportunities that look good but will end in loss.
Father, let Your favour surround me like a shield.
Psalm 5:12
Lord, build a hedge of protection around me, my family and all that concerns me.
Job 1:10
Father, send the right helpers into my life.
Lord, remove the cry of “I have no man” from every area of my life.
John 5:7
Father, send men and women who will open doors, lift burdens and support Your purpose for my life.
Lord, help me to walk uprightly, speak truth and live with integrity.
Psalm 15:1–5
Father, deliver me from slander, dishonesty and every character issue that resists favour.
Lord, give me a sincere desire for Your favour.
Father, bring my heart back to You wherever I have drifted away.
Lord Jesus, be my personal Lord and Saviour.
Father, make me a candidate of favour, mercy and grace.
Lord, release the spirit of favour upon me and my family.
Father, take over every area where I have been troubled or disadvantaged.
Lord, let no one trouble me, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Galatians 6:17
Father, let me increase in wisdom, stature and favour with God and men.
Luke 2:52
Lord, give me testimony concerning every area where favour is needed.
May the favour of God move you from disadvantage into divine advantage.
The Lord will guide your choices, correct your mistakes and turn every regret into testimony. Where you have wept, joy will come in the morning.
May God give you advanced information, divine direction and spiritual insight. Your eyes will open to the help of heaven around you, and you will not walk into opportunities that lead to loss.
The favour of God will surround you like a shield. The Lord will build a hedge around your life, family, work, ministry and destiny.
You will not lack helpers. The cry of “I have no man” will end in your life. Men and women assigned by God will come to lift, support and open doors for you.
May the Lord give you integrity, truth, wisdom and uprightness. May your heart remain close to Jesus, and may His favour rest upon you and your household.
From now on, no one will trouble you, for you bear the marks of the Lord Jesus.
You will increase in wisdom, stature and favour with God and men. Testimonies will arise from every area where you have been disadvantaged.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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