Episode Summary: 10 Powerful “FAVOR” Scriptures to Read Every Day | THIS Will Raise Your Expectancy

Podcast: Terri Savelle Foy Podcast Audio
Host: Terri Savelle Foy
Release Date: January 20, 2025

Overview

In this episode, Terri Savelle Foy motivates listeners to raise their expectancy for God's favor in the new year. She shares her personal journey of feeling stuck despite setting goals, the key role of daily discipline, and the transformative power of declaring and expecting God's favor. Terri provides not just biblical encouragement but also practical steps to activate favor in everyday life, emphasizing the importance of declaring specific scriptures and maintaining a posture of positive expectation.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Power of Favor: What It Means and How It Works

• Terri defines God’s favor as a supernatural force that brings promotion, protection, and preferential treatment.
  • “The favor of God produces supernatural increase and restoration… causes you to win battles you don't even have to fight because God is fighting them for you.” (05:09)
• The “Umbrella of Favor” imagery—Terri's theme for the year is walking under God's “umbrella of favor,” which symbolizes God's covering, protection, and acceleration toward dreams.
  • “My umbrella of favor will surround you, shield you, and shine on you.” (07:28)
  • “You will be extravagantly blessed, bold and braver, under my umbrella of favor.” (07:55)
• Don’t let excuses limit your expectations.
  • “You might say, ‘I can't start a business, I don't have the money.’ Yes, but you have the favor of God.” (06:48)
  • “You may not have the right connections or qualifications, but you have the favor of God.” (06:56)

The Power of Expectancy and Declarations

• You get what you expect—positive or negative.
  • “Expectations are so powerful. You get what you focus on, positively and negatively.” (09:35)
• Real-life stories illustrate this principle:
  • Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s experiment where people wrote down expectations for the new year—positive and negative outcomes both came true (11:07).

Notable Quote

• “You can't have a negative mind and expect positive results.” (12:26)

Faith in Action and Symbolism

• The story of the little girl with the yellow umbrella: Amidst a drought, a church prayed for rain. Only a young girl brought an umbrella—her visual act of faith resulted in rain.
  • “If you're believing for rain, bring an umbrella, right?” (14:42)
• Similar call to action: If you’re believing for favor, act as if it’s already on its way.

Declarations Activate Favor

• Job 22:28—“You will also decree a thing, and it will be established unto you. The light of God's favor will shine upon your ways.” (15:36)
• Favor must be spoken, decreed, and personalized.
  • “There's a connection between declaring favor and experiencing favor. In other words, God's favor is available, but you have to declare it.” (16:00)

Illustration

• Pepe la Joie, her dog: just like the dog responds only when called, favor must be called for—it doesn’t just show up uninvited (17:00).

Practical Steps: How to Walk in Favor

• Terri shares her daily practice: Recites personalized scriptures about favor every morning, and encourages listeners to do the same.
  • “God’s favor is activated by your confession. This is the most important thing you can do to experience God’s favor.” (18:24)
  • Download her free list of “10 Favor Scriptures” to declare daily (19:12).
• Set reminders: Terri suggests setting an alarm titled “Speak Favor” to prompt daily declarations (23:41).

Notable Quote

• “You have a choice to walk in as much favor as you want. It’s all connected to what you decree out of your mouth.” (21:10)
• “The moment you declare favor, things start changing. Speak it continually, every single day.” (23:10)

The Benefits of Favor (and Passing It On)

• List of benefits: Preferential treatment, supernatural increase, petitions granted, battles won without fighting, and more.
• Quote from her father, Jerry Savelle, and connection to family legacy.
• Encouragement to take “personal responsibility” to activate favor:
  • “Winston Churchill said, personal responsibility is the price for greatness. Well, you have greatness in you.” (24:02)

Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On discipline and dreams:
  • “Your dreams don’t manifest because of talent or opportunity. They manifest because of discipline.” (01:26)
• Umbrella image as a faith declaration:
  • “Never wonder and never waver, pop open my umbrella of favor.” (08:05)
• On expectation:
  • “Your hope and expectation shall not be cut off... that word ‘expect’ means to look with an outstretched neck.” (12:54)
• On the power of choice:
  • “Humans are the only life form that will settle for doing less than they can. Every other life form strives to their maximum capacity.” (20:21)
• Daily confessions of favor:
  • “Declare: I see myself the way God sees me. I’m highly favored of God. I declare by faith that I walk in divine favor.” (22:08)
• Encouragement to share in the spiritual benefit of partnership:
  • “When you become a monthly partner... you’re positioning yourself to experience the same grace, the same anointing, the same discipline and results that are on my life and on this ministry.” (25:10)

Important Timestamps

• 01:26 – Key insight: Discipline activates dreams, not merely talent or opportunity.
• 05:09 – Terri defines the far-reaching impact of God’s favor.
• 07:28 – The “umbrella of favor” revealed in prayer.
• 09:35 – The role of expectations in life outcomes.
• 12:26 – “You can't have a negative mind and expect positive results.”
• 14:42 – The little girl’s umbrella: simple faith in action.
• 15:36 – Declaring favor from Job 22:28.
• 17:00 – The Pepe la Joie story: favor responds when called.
• 18:24 – Terri’s morning routine: declaring favor scriptures.
• 21:10 – The choice and responsibility to decree favor.
• 23:10 – “Speak [favor] continually, every single day.”
• 24:02 – Greatness, favor, and personal responsibility.

Takeaway

Terri Savelle Foy’s episode is a passionate, practical call to not just hope for the favor of God but to actively expect, speak, and partner with it daily. By personalizing and declaring specific scriptures, maintaining positive expectancy, and taking ownership of personal discipline, Terri encourages listeners to walk “under the umbrella of God’s favor” throughout 2025 and beyond.

Resource Mentioned:

• Free download: 10 Favor Scriptures and 10 Benefits of Favor (Link provided in original podcast description)

Host closing reminder:
“You have greatness in you. And remember, I’m cheering you on to live your dreams.”