In this Gospel Partner episode, be reassured and encouraged as you catch a fresh revelation of God’s heart to provide for you day by day.
God wants us dependent on Him all
the time. Whatever obstacles you
are faced with right now, God does
not give you the faith before you
step right up to it. In spite of
your fear, do it! And you find the
strength will flow, the provision
will flow. So what if the cost of
living goes up? God is more than
able to over-supply! He is the
Great Giver! And grace is giving.
Grace is supply! He keeps on
giving! Which means, people, we
have to keep on going back, keep on
going back, keep on going back to
Him. Amen. He keeps on giving. Are
you there to receive?
Hi, this is Joseph Prince! Thanks
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God’s Word today!
Thank you, Pastor Lawrence, and
blessed Sunday church indeed. Today
I have some exciting, good news to
share with all of you. You know,
since the launch of the Gospel
Partner Initiative in January 2022,
Pastor Prince has taken the step of
faith and began making his messages
available for free on YouTube. And
so far, based on the data from
YouTube, the latest messages have
reached 5 million views, praise the
Lord. All right, 2 million watch
ours in 150 countries all around
the world, praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. And not only that,
while Pastor and his family were
having their family vacation in the
month of June 2022, all right, um,
Pastor’s, uh, YouTube channel has
crossed over 1 million subscribers,
hallelujah. Let’s give Jesus the
praise, hallelujah. So, while
Pastor was resting, right, God was
accelerating the gospel of grace
all around the world, praise the
Lord. And uh, here’s a snapshot of
some of the testimonies that we
have been receiving. Uh, Andolo
Kimwelli from, uh, Kenya in Sou–in
East Africa says of us, “I can
confidently say this Gospel Partner
vision is the doing of the Lord.
Thank you for adding the sermon
notes. It is helping me preach the
same message here in Kenya. Thank
you, Pastor Prince and the team.”
Joseph Agiopong shares, “These
messages are pure truths and
vitamins for the spirit. I’m only
midway through, but I already feel
so blessed. A huge thank you to the
Gospel Partners who are helping to
bring these full sermons to some of
us who would otherwise not afford
them at this moment. God bless you
all. All praise to Jesus.” And
finally this other person shares,
“I’ve had shoulder pain for six
months. I watched this service
while I was in the bathroom.” Well,
I believe he was in a bathtub. “And
when Pastor Prince said, ‘Touch
where you have pain in your body,’
I touched my shoulder, and I
believed that the pain was gone.
So, I moved my shoulder into the
position that caused me pain, and
the pain was gone. I spent a few
minutes looking for the pain,” he
was looking for the pain, “but it
was totally gone,” he couldn’t find
it. All right, and he says, “Thank
you, Lord Jesus, for your finished
work at the cross and healing my
shoulder. I’m so grateful for your
great love and the divine exchange
at the cross for me. Thank you,
thank you Lord Jesus. All the way
from London, my name is Ivan.” So,
praise the Lord that the gospel of
grace is restfully accelerated all
around the world and to 150
countries. Let’s give Jesus a
praise, hallelujah. And right now,
church, please join me as we
welcome Pastor Prince. Praise God.
Isn’t that wonderful? All those
testimonies and what the Lord is
doing in the–in the ministry. See,
you’re all part of this, because
you belong to this church, all
right? And just like every pastor,
every church is unique around the
world and each one has a specific
purpose for which God placed them
there, this church has its purpose.
And I believe it is to uncover,
amen, dust off, bring to the
forefront the gospel of grace the
way Paul preached it, amen. And uh,
we have done this for all these
years now, and last year something
happened. Um, middle of the year, I
remember that, uh, I couldn’t sleep
at night. Now, sometimes when you
find you cannot sleep at night,
don’t always blame the devil, all
right? Or don’t blame the–the
nasty biryani you ate last night,
okay? Sometimes if you try your
best and you find you’re not sleepy
and all that, especially if there’s
a kind of, like, awakeness, you
know, uh, the enemy one comes with
oppression or headache or things
like that, but God one is always
like you feel alive, you feel
fresh, but you only slept, like,
uh, one, two hours, then you wake
up, and you wonder why you couldn’t
go back to sleep. Maybe he wants to
talk to you. All right, so ask the
Lord, speak, Lord. Remember Samuel,
the boy, when he learned to hear
God’s voice, amen, God spoke to
him, but he did not know that he
was hearing God, so he needed
someone who– I am that someone, I
am that– that Samuel that tells
you, the next time, ask him, Lord,
speak. I am listening. Amen? And
uh, he might rebuke you then and
there, he might show you a inner
vision, he might give you a hazon
vision, he might give you a, uh,
just a word, or he might just drop
into your heart a desire to do
something, amen. But, uh, ask the
Lord. I believe that many a times
we miss, uh, God because we do not
know the ways of the Lord,
especially in hearing God, okay?
So, some of you had a recent
experience of that, I’m sure. So,
somewhere middle of last year,
2021, I couldn’t sleep, and I asked
the Lord, “Lord, are you–are you
saying something to me that, you
know, during the day especially,
like Job says, you know, God says
to Job that it is in the– in man’s
sleep, in deep slumberings, when
man is on his pillow that God opens
up the ear and instill the
instruction.” I think it’s because
many a times we are too busy. It’s
not that God is not speaking to you
during the daytime, it’s just that
we are too busy, we are running
around, amen, we are looking at our
phone all the time, especially
today’s, uh, you know, today’s
world is–is just, uh, it’s like
there’s an invisible chain to our
phone. And uh, any free time we
have, we don’t meditate, we just
look at our phone. And I think the
enemy has succeeded. The phone
itself is not wrong, it is amoral,
all right? But what you do with it.
So, the thing is that God speaks to
us at night, and–and I’m just
reminding you of that, but let me
tell you what happened then. So, I
asked the Lord, and the Lord began
to show me something that has been
brewing in my heart, something that
has been growing in my heart, a
desire to see the gospel go faster.
And this was the words the Lord
placed in my heart, that the gospel
should go faster, louder, and
stronger, amen? Go farther than
where it has gone. And I know that
missionaries of times past and all
that, they had to go physically to
bring the gospel. They had to learn
the language of the people there,
amen? And uh, they had to, uh, uh,
uh, surmount hurdles like– like
high cliffs, mountains, and even
traverse, uh, deep valleys, gorges,
and even through the seas and all
that. It takes time, but I believe
that God ordained technology,
that’s why I say the phone is not
wrong, amen, for the gospel, amen.
In fact, the Bible says, uh, you
know, “We ought to exhort one
another daily,” that’s why we have
WhatsApp, we have Messages, we can
encourage each other daily. Use it
for the glory of God, amen? So, God
said to me he wants the–the gospel
to go faster, stronger, but then
I–I felt like, you know, I have an
intellectual property, which means,
uh, uh, the messages, all right,
are sold, amen, and, um,
that’s–that’s–that’s the lot of
all the pastors and leaders all
over the world. Now, I don’t draw a
salary from this church, all right?
It’s something that the Lord has
placed on my heart, it’s a very
unique thing which I don’t
encourage any other pastor to do.
So, this has gone on for many years
now, and now I felt like the Lord
is telling me to give that up. So,
I’m thinking to myself,
how–how–you know what I’m saying?
How am I going to do this, Lord?
But still I felt in my heart the
gospel must go out. And I felt also
that, you know, if you sell the
messages, okay, even though our
price compared to, uh, you know,
some other places and all that,
is–is competitive, okay, it’s a
very good price, but I felt like
I–I–I–I want to remove the
price, I want to remove the–
especially on my latest, uh,
messages, my latest messages are
the lion’s share of the income.
Okay, let me stop for a while and
say, are you following me so far or
not? Can I share my–can I share my
heart? Can I–yeah. It’s not often
I do this, okay? It’s not often I
open up my heart and become
vulnerable, amen. So, I wanna bring
you up to speed to what is
happening. So, uh, because of that,
I felt like, uh, the latest
message– messages are usually the
lion’s share of the, you know, the
income from the intellectual
property, okay? Of course, not–not
the old messages. In fact, we give
away a lot of the old messages,
and, uh, um, but the–the main–
the main block come from the latest
messages. And I felt like the Lord
is saying, “Give it up. Have no
wall.” God says, “Let there be no
walls,” and I saw the walls all
being–being broken down. “Let it
go forth stronger, further, louder.
Are you willing to?” Again, back
when the Lord told me to give up my
income in the church, the church
was doing very well, all right, the
church was already a large church,
and but I said, “Lord, how?” But
there was a–he was quiet. Same
thing, he was quiet. He asked me,
“Will you?” I–I know him by now. I
know he loves me, amen. I know I’m
not dealing with a tyrant, I’m
dealing with a Father who loves me,
who loves you, when the very hairs
of your head are all numbered,
amen. He knows number zero, so he
knows. He cares for us. Every
detail, he’s concerned for every
detail of our life, amen? There’s
not one thought in your mind, the
Bible says, that he doesn’t know,
and yet he loves all of us, amen?
So, I–I–there was a silence for a
while. “Will you do it?” I said,
“Yes.” All right, so the next day I
spoke to, uh, Pastor Darren, who is
the one that’s running the
ministry, and–and–but at the same
time Pastor Darren has had his own
experience with the Lord, and what
he heard was this word wall, to
remove the wall around the latest
messages. Now, how can that be? How
can he hear, you know, around the
same time that I’m hearing unless
it is the same Lord? That was the
time I knew that Pastor Darren was
truly born again. No, I’m just
teasing. He’s someone with what I
call Solomonic wisdom, and, uh, so
we both talk, and I shared, you
know, I shared with him, uh, uh,
some of the things at first, and
then I told him that last night I
couldn’t sleep and all that, and
then he starts sharing with me what
he received from the Lord, and I
start–I start to get excited, and
I start telling him, “I was about
to tell you to look into this,”
because I’m not gonna go into the
details and all that, because my
job is always to prepare message,
you know? And uh, you prepare a lot
of messages, because Sunday comes
very fast, very fast, you know? And
uh, I’m preparing messages, then
spend time with my pastors, sharing
messages with them, sharing the
Word with them, and, uh, it’s
always, like, things to prepare,
amen. That’s my life, and that’s
what I–I–I’m called to do. So,
I’m not called to administrate or
govern. So, I told him to look into
it, and, uh, what–what a job he
has done. In a short time–you
heard the testimonies just now,
amen? Now, I did not do all that
because I saw all that, amen?
I–I–I don’t even know about the
YouTube hitting 1 million
subscribers and all that, and it
happened while I was on holiday.
Remember what I told you last week?
As you rest, amen, enjoy the Lord,
the Lord provides for you. Here’s
another example. I come back to
this. So, uh, the best of all, the
lives that have been impacted.
These people are wanting the gospel
to go out. They are–actually, the
people themselves are sponsoring
the gospel to other people. They
are–they are getting, like, books
like “Destined to Reign” and
putting it in the hands of all
these people. So, instead of one
person, my messages are there. And
then something else the Lord showed
me that night was that– and I
shared this with, uh, Darren the
next day, it’s like all these years
of my–my sermons, all these years
is like Joseph’s storehouse. Just
so happen my name is Joseph,
Joseph’s storehouse. The seven
years of plenty that he’s to save,
amen, and at the right time when
the seven years of famine
commenced, God says, “Open up the
treasure house.” I felt like the
Lord is telling me, “Open up the
treasure house,” amen. And uh, so
it’ll be given to anyone that asks,
it will just bless, and the people
become a blessing, so I just wanna
thank everyone that has become a
Gospel Partner here in this church
as well as all over the world. You
are truly, truly my hands reaching
out, extended hands, as if my hands
are not long enough, you know? And
you are reaching out to all the
four corners of the earth, and the
gospel will be preached, amen, to
the four corners of the earth, and
then Jesus will return, amen, and
you are part of this, praise the
Lord. So, that means, uh, by the
way, this is not, uh, uh, unique,
because Paul talk about his
partners, amen, time and time
again. Read the Bible, Paul talk
about, uh, your fellow partner in
the gospel, my fellow partner, my
fellow partner. It’s the same
thing, gospel–we call it Gospel
Partners. Amen, so whatever
blessing, amen, whatever rewards
even that I receive, you will
receive, amen. Because it is fellow
helpers and Gospel Partners. That’s
what partners get, amen? Praise the
Lord. So, we are seeing the gospel
spread all over the world. That’s
why in a short time now we are
seeing people wanting more. But you
see, there’s something that–that
we cannot do is to make people want
to hear. That’s the Holy Spirit.
But what–what we are hearing now
is that people wanna hear, so
that’s really something good, amen.
And uh, by the grace of God, by the
grace of God for the next 60 years
we’ll still be providing the
people, amen. Amen, I–I–I wanna
be around. All right, how many
wanna be around with me? Amen. Stay
strong, stay young, stay blessed,
amen. And all the people that say
amen receives it. Amen, praise God,
ha, ha, praise the Lord, amen. You
ready for God’s Word? Okay, in a
way we are continuing from what,
uh, where we left off last week,
but it is a brand-new sermon. But I
just wanna tell all of you this,
okay, that there’s a principle in
the Bible that that which has been
is that which is, present tense.
And that which is, is that which
shall be. Now, this is what Solomon
says in Ecclesiastes. You look up
here, he says, “What has been is
what will be.” So, you read all the
Old Testament stories, why do you
read them if it happened, like,
3,000 years ago, it happened 4,000
years ago, some of them as you go
far back, amen? Now, why are we
reading them? Because the Bible
says in Corinthians that they are
written for our admonition, and the
word used also is all these things
are– that happened to them are
tupos, types, they are types,
there’s a pattern that we can
learn. In fact, they faced the same
crisis we face. Let’s see what
equipment God gave them. Let’s see
what steps they take. Let’s see
how–what was their posture that
they took, amen? Because we are
seeing the same trouble. Are you
seeing what I’m saying? All right,
you need to understand that there’s
nothing new under the sun. Solomon
says, “What has been is what will
be, and what has been done is what
will be done, and there is nothing
new under the sun.” So, even seven
years of plenty, have we passed
that? I do not know, okay. But I
sense that, uh, we have not–we are
entering into some– some years of
famine, all right? We had seven
years of plenty, seven years of
famine, and the fact the Lord spoke
to me last week about–last
week–last year about this, uh,
opening of the storehouse, the
storehouse was only opened at the
beginning of the famine when the
famine started and the people felt
the brunt of it. And uh, the Lord
allows that to happen, because, uh,
sometimes, you know, when people
are prosperous, people are doing
well, they don’t think about God.
And God loves them. They don’t
think about their souls, that they
are lost. They don’t like to think
they are lost, amen, but the Bible
uses the word sinners. “And Christ
died for sinners. It was while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for
us.” You know, that’s love. It
wasn’t God says, “Shape up or ship
out,” amen, “Clean yourself before
you come to me.” God never said
that. God never said that. Man says
that, amen. God says, “Come as you
are,” amen, “and I’ll change you.”
Receive Jesus first, and then he
gives you power to become sons of
God. Amen, praise the Lord. It was
while we were still sinners Christ
died for us. Are you listening,
people? So, as we look at the
pattern of the–what has–has
happened, we see what will be.
Amen, what will be. So, the same
resources, the same wisdom God gave
Joseph, the same wisdom gave the
people in the, uh, Old Testament,
and the same resources God gave
them is what God wants us to do
study. “Pastor, is there a time we
see all over the world right now
the church– the church are being,
you know, it’s like the church is
being subjugated.” There was a
time, uh, even in America, uh,
statistics, uh, you know, um, polls
taken about the church, people who
don’t even go to church respect the
church, they speak kindly of the
church. Yes, I do know that some of
it is the church’s fault, it’s our
fault. We have, uh, we have fallen
publicly, we have done things that
we shouldn’t have done, so the
church–I’m talking about the
church world as a whole. And I
understand that, but, you know, uh,
falling down and all that are
people who also happened in the–in
times past, you know? Decades ago,
even a century ago, last century,
and even during the time of Martin
Luther there were no perfect
Christians in terms of moral
behavior, amen. But–but that’s why
we need to be, uh, established in
the fact that we are the
righteousness of God, and
righteousness is a gift. If I can
be my own righteousness, I can work
to a place where I can have my own
righteousness, I don’t need Jesus’s
righteousness. If I have my own
clothes to wear and it’s very
bright and shiny, why do I need
somebody else’s? No, we don’t. All
of us are sinners. But there’s good
news, we qualify for the Savior. We
qualify for his robe of
righteousness, and that’s the
gospel. We–listen, there’s no
other set of belief that tells you
that righteousness, right standing
with God, righteousness can be
given to you as a gift. Only in the
gospel. No other set of belief. You
can show me any set of belief,
amen, you won’t find where they
provide righteousness as a gift.
Only the gospel, amen. Only the
gospel. So, we have received this
gift, and that’s why I’m very
excited, I’m still excited, I’m not
over it yet. I’m not over John
3:16. I’m not over 2 Corinthians
5:21 where “God made Jesus to be
sin for us at the cross that we
might be made the righteousness of
God in him.” I’m not over that yet.
And I’m very excited, amen. It
makes my day, especially when you
look at yourself, and you can be so
self-absorbed, and you look at your
thoughts, they can be so dark, and
the more you look at the dark
thoughts, the more dark your
thoughts become, and the more you
see your thoughts become dark, the
more dark your thoughts become,
and–and this vicious cycle is what
causes this condition nowadays,
they call it mental health. But God
never meant for us to be
self-occupied. God never meant for
us to behold our goriness. He meant
for us to behold his glory and be
transformed from glory to glory
into the same image of the Lord,
amen? We have someone to look at
that is so beautiful. If you look
at a diamond, right, amen, you turn
it around, you will see all the
sparkles, the gems, the radiance,
the brilliance, amen. And it’s only
a created thing, the diamond. The
one who created the diamond, all
things were made by him, and
without him was not anything made
that was made, and the Word became
flesh. He came as man. If what he
created is beautiful, how much more
he? If your children, you find them
so adorable, your grandchildren,
amen, so endearing, the one who
made them must be more endearing.
If he made the beautiful flowers,
amen, to give you this sweet
fragrance that you enjoy, you look
at the majestic mountains, surely
the one who made them is more
beautiful, more fragrant, more
majestic than the lofty mountains,
amen. Because, you see, the greater
cannot come out from the lesser.
There’s never such a thing. It’s
always the lesser comes out of the
greater. So, if that can–if that
is true, how much more he, amen?
But the devil has, uh, blinded
people’s minds, lest they should
see the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ. But we endeavor to
let people know, amen, and we’ll
continue to let people know. Can I
have a good amen? Praise the Lord.
So, as we step in, what has been is
what will be, amen. If you look
carefully at the first, uh, part of
the Bible, you’ll find that the
first man, the first woman, right,
you have the Tree of Life, the Tree
of Knowledge of Good and Evil,
right, and you have the–the rivers
that flow through Eden. What do you
have in the last book of the Bible?
You have no Tree of Knowledge of
Good and Evil, but the Tree of
Life, amen. Do you see that? You
see paradise forfeited, paradise
regained, restored. So, in a way it
is a mirror image, except for the
book of Revelation. There it is
greater in its glory and grandeur,
amen, compared to the time of Eden.
So, you have a mirror image. If I
look at that carefully, if book of
Revelation is the final part going
back to the– it’s in a sense we
are going forward by going
backwards. So, somewhere along the
way, where are we now? Noah’s
flood? Something will happen before
Noah’s flood. Men become more and
more evil. The Bible says, “And God
saw the wickedness of man–man’s
heart, and the thoughts of his
mind–of his heart was only evil
continually, and it grieved God.”
It grieved God. And God only saw
Noah righteous. What did Jesus say
before he comes again? He says that
“As the days of Noah, so will
the–” remember, “As the days of
Noah.” So, it’s like he’s telling
us about our future. When he spoke
that, amen, he’s talking about our
times, but our times are like
before his time, Noah. Are we
seeing the days of Noah? Amen,
people think there are some brand
new, uh, sins now being invented,
no. They are as old as Noah’s time.
It’s just brought back to in style
and in vogue where everyone accepts
it. So, man will become more and
more evil and more and more
rebellious against God, refuse to
acknowledge God. You can say
anything you want to say, amen, but
you talk about God, all right, that
becomes, like, taboo. Now, friend,
we are coming to those times, and
it’s important for our children to
grow up in a family. See, what Noah
did is this, I love this verse. “By
faith, Noah prepared an ark for the
saving of his house.” By faith,
Noah prepared an ark to the saving
of his house.” If others wanna
perish, okay, and they refuse to
hear the gospel, listen, you
prepare your house. Every day by
your words to your children and by
your behavior, amen, by what you
portray, you are actually putting
another plank on your ark. You are
preparing your ark, every day
you’re preparing your ark, amen, to
the saving of your house. I pray
that be a word for some of you,
amen. And start reading to your
children if they are younger, start
reading– if they are teenagers and
all of that, encourage them, but
start saying something about Jesus.
Start somewhere, amen. Have a deal
with them, even if it’s, like,
Saturday night. “Every Saturday
night you are mine, okay? Can I
r–can I share you some things from
the Bible?” Start with once a week,
then maybe slowly, all right? If
they are younger, you can influence
them even more. If they are older,
not so–so easy, amen. And many of
you feel uncomfortable, “I’m not a
pastor, Pastor Prince,” and all
that. Everyone reads the Bible.
Everyone ought to spend time in
God’s Word, not just pastors, amen?
So, that’s the reason we are
opening up the storehouse. We have
so many teachings. And then we have
to start this Grace Academy, amen.
And we will tell you what to study,
what you need, because the Grace
Academy covers every kind of
teaching. I even have a teaching
that is still so relevant today
that God gave me called– a series
called, “How to Find Your Life
Partner.” Amen, and it–it–it was
a search in my own life, and I
found verses that tell you
that–that, uh, there is an
appointed one. So, I used the Bible
phrase, “An appointed one.” Some
people, uh, during their time they
teach on God’s perfect choice, and
I–I had it from the God’s perfect
choice, because I always thought to
myself, if there’s a perfect choice
and one and only choice, amen,
instead of the appointed one like
Rebekah for Isaac– Can I just talk
about this for a while? Okay, never
mind. For the next five hours, I’ll
just share with you, lah, whatever
comes in– so, make three sermons
into one, amen? Ha, ha, ha. And
then, uh, so, uh, the Lord showed
me there’s an appointed one, like–
like the servant was asking, “God,
show me–” the women are coming to
the well– “Show me who is the
appoint–your appointed one,
appointed one.” Not God’s perfect
choice. Those who say that there’s
one and only and all that, okay,
what happens when your one and only
dies? That means everyone, everyone
in the–um, every Christian, all
right, is meant for someone, right?
So, if your one and only dies, can
you remarry? Whoever you remarry,
you are robbing the person who is
supposed to marry this person.
Because this person is the perfect
choice for the other person. But if
you remarry this person, your
perfect choice has died, you
remarry this person, this person is
being robbed of her or his perfect
choice. You see, so it doesn’t make
sense, amen. But there is something
called God’s appointed one, amen.
And if a person loses, you know,
for some reason, amen, which we
all, uh, understand that these
things happen, amen. For some
reason they lose the–the, uh,
appointed one, or the person wants
to leave, it doesn’t mean the
person has no one else out there,
or the person that– the next
person’s gonna be second best,
amen. You know, this is worth its
weight in gold, this teaching.
“Preach it, Pastor Prince, praise
the Lord, ’cause people have all
kinds of ideas,” amen. Are you with
me so far? I’m still with the
appointed one, and I intend to go
on forever with my appointed one,
amen? Yup. Praise the Lord. So, as
we see, like what we said in Hosea
6, look at that again. “What has
been is what will be.” “After two
days He will revive us,” we saw
that last week, “And on the third
day He will raise us up.” So, on
the third day he will raise us up,
something will happen on the third
day. It did not say it would happen
on the first day or the second day.
By the way, these days–in God’s
estimation, the days are like– in
2 Peter real fast, the principle–
“But, beloved, do not forget this
one thing, that with the Lord one
day is as a thousand years, and a
thousand years is like one day.”
See the principle? Amen. So, you
tell God, “God, give–” you know,
you’re praying for a life partner.
“Give me the most beautiful–” or a
woman is praying– “Give me the
wealthiest man, or give–” and then
God says, “Wait a minute,” okay?
Then you calculate. A thousand
years with him is like one day, all
right, how many minutes are there
in one day, you calculate, then
you’ll come to it. No, I’m just
kidding, okay? In fact, last week
we talk about God says, “Before
they pray, I will answer.” As they
are speaking, all right, God hears,
all right, amen. How many of you
had that experience? You–even
before you pray, God answers. Now,
that’s not to encourage
prayer–prayerlessness. I’m just
telling you that that’s that verse,
and it’s happening on the third
day. So, after two days something
gonna happen, “He will revive”
after, not during the two days. So,
the first 2,000 years, the
Christians then, even during the
time of Martin Luther and all that,
they cannot claim what we can
claim. We are the generation. And I
think, perhaps, January the 1st,
2001 we stepped into the very early
morning of the third day, amen,
because we are 2,000 years from
Jesus, amen. So, two days has
passed. As far as God is concerned,
only two days has passed. God
doesn’t live in the time zone. God
is outside time inasmuch as he
created time. So, two days has
passed, we are now on the third
day. “On the third day He will
raise us up, That we may live in
His sight.” Something will happen.
“After two days He will revive us.”
And by the way, the word revive is
chayah, say chayah. And chayah in
Hebrew means give life, also to
heal and to restore. It’ll be a
time of restoration on the third
day. So, when we study what has
been, it’s what will be, amen, and
what is, is what shall be in the
future. The principle, “There’s
nothing new under the sun.” We
learn that this principle is to
assist us, amen, to see what is
happening, amen, and to gain
wisdom, to draw wisdom from God to
handle it, praise God. So, we see
that there’s another principle in 2
Kings 20, I believe it is. It says,
talking about Hezekiah, Hezekiah
was told by God that he’s gonna
die. Imagine, what a word. God sent
Isaiah to tell Hezekiah, “Set your
house in order, you’re gonna die.”
Imagine you receive that kind of
word from a prophet. So, he was
crying, he turned to the wall and
he cried. He cried, and he cried,
and he cried, and he wept, and then
he–he–he called upon God, and God
says, “Return.” God told Isaiah.
Isaiah was walking out of– out of
the palace, and– and God says,
“Return,” and he made an about
change. So, you saw that? I’ll try
that again, amen. He was walking,
and then he, “Return.” Yo. You can
tell by the way I use my walk, I’m
a man of God, no time to talk.
Yeah. All right. Ha, ha, ha. Okay,
I’m sorry, that was free. All
right, so “Thus says the LORD, the
God of David your father: ‘I have
heard your prayer, I have seen your
tears.'” It’s one thing to hear the
prayer. God sees your tears. Every
teardrop you cry, he sees it. You
might think no one sees it. Even
one tiny drop, he sees it. Even the
one you hold back, he sees it,
amen? And he says, “I have heard
your prayer, I have seen your
tears; surely I will heal you.” Not
maybe, surely I will heal you. So,
who says that even though God
ordained for him to die at a time,
okay, for some reason, don’t ask,
this is, uh, with God. It’s one of
those things with God. But God told
him, right, but you can still talk
to God. You can still negotiate
with God. Isn’t a lot of prayers
negotiation as well? Amen, not that
you have anything to give God.
That’s the only difference. But
it’s actually–you can actually
talk to God in a way. All right,
one of these days I’ll probably
teach on that. There are some
prayers you can actually in a way
not argue, but present to God your
case, amen. And you tell God. When
you see things happening to people,
you can tell God. “Don’t let these
things catch me by surprise, Lord.
I’m particular about these kind of
things for me and my family,” or
whatever, you can talk to God. You
have not because you ask not. So,
he asked God for life, amen. He was
supposed to die. Not the devil told
him, God told him he’s supposed to
die, but he talked to God, the same
God who said that, and he asked God
for life. So, God sent the prophet
back, amen, God says, “Surely I
will heal you,” when? “On the third
day you shall go up to the house of
the LORD.” Listen, church, as we
see the day approaching, Jesus
coming back for us, more and more
we should gather in the house of
the Lord. Amen, come together in
the house of the Lord, and, uh,
worship the Lord. “Don’t forsake
the assembling of ourselves
together,” the Bible says, so much
the more as you see the day
approaching. And that which was is
that which shall be. Who are the
ones that actually knew, were the
first ones to be told that– I’m
not talking about the prophecies
and all that, I’m talking about the
actual event when Jesus was born,
who was the–who are the first
group that was told that Jesus
would be born in Israel? Outside
Israel, probably in Iraq, it would
be the Magis, amen, but in Israel,
who were the first ones? Shepherds,
very good, who said shepherds?
Brilliant, amen. You are from New
Creation Church, I know, amen. So,
uh, uh, the–the shepherds. In the
second coming of Jesus, that which
has been is that which will be.
Amen. Who will be the group of
people? Shepherds. This shepherd is
telling you, so much the more
that–as you see the day
approaching. You must have people
who will see the day approaching,
or else how can you see? You see
the day approaching, right? So, we
see the day approaching more than
any other generation. So, we see
the day approaching, and I’m
telling you I see it. So much the
more we must not forsake the
assembling of ourselves together,
so much the more as we see the day
approaching. Okay? So, gather more
and more. When we are sad, we
gather together. In fact, when we
were persecuted in the book of
Acts, they got together and prayed
to God with one accord, and God
shook the place, man. I’m telling
you, the place where they prayed
was shaken. It’s time to shake this
performing arts center, I’m telling
you, amen. Gather together, pray,
amen. Amen. Every time they are in
trouble, they got together, and
they were–they were powerful,
because why? When–how–how good
and how pleasant when brethren grow
together in unity, for there God
commands life, there the dew of
Hermon falls, amen,
the–the–the–the anointing of the
Holy Spirit, and then good things
happen, amen. When God’s people get
together, great things happen. The
miracles, a lot of the miracles
that happened, the greater part of
miracles happen when they are
together. Praise the Lord. So,
don’t forsake the assembling.
Another thing, another thing you
see that happened, there was a man
that came when baby Jesus was about
to be dedicated. So, that’s the
first coming of Jesus. Second
coming of Jesus, he will come back
not as a baby, amen, he will split
the clouds for us. And we know he’s
gonna come back. But there was a
man who lived a long, good old age.
What’s her name–what’s his name?
Simeon. There’ll be those who are
alive and remain until they see
Jesus face to face. There’ll be
a–a–a–a generation of Christians
that’ll be living long. I said
they’ll be living long. Say amen at
this point, and you might get it.
They live long. They are alive, not
just alive because they’re young,
some people are alive just because
they’re young, but they’re alive
and remain alive. They have some
secrets from God revealed from them
to–to know how to be alive and
remain alive, amen. They don’t grow
old too early. In fact, they–they
have this promise, “As thy days,”
that means as your days increase,
“So shall your strength be.” They
live in that promise. Ah,
naturals–natural knowledge tells
you, as your days increase, as your
days increase, the lesser shall
your strength be. Increasing days,
decreasing strength. God’s Word is,
“As your days, so shall your
strength.” This is not natural. It
belongs to an extraordinary God,
amen, praise the Lord, and that’s
the promise that God has for his
people. So, there’s a lot of
parallels we can see, and now I
think from this passage of Hezekiah
we know that on the third day
there’s gonna be healing. Gonna be
healing, even the times past there
are people who are supposed to die
at a certain time and all that, but
in this generation, the third day
generation, which all of us are,
there’ll be healing. Not only
healing, provision. Remember the
story of, uh, Abraham? God told
Abraham to, uh, bring his son to a
mountain. He didn’t tell what
mountain, “A mountain that I will
show you of,” all right? Later on.
So, God’s way is always he doesn’t
show us everything. “Thy Word is a
lamp,” where? “Across my path, all
the way to the end,” No, no, I can
see–I can see the end from here
because it’s so bright. No, no,
God’s way is never like that. God’s
way is, “Your word is a lamp unto
my feet,” so the more I walk, the
clearer it becomes, the path, amen.
Every step is a step of faith. You
trust the Lord. “Thy word is a lamp
unto my feet, then a light unto my
path,” because as you are walking
it becomes brighter and brighter,
your path, amen? Amen, so some
things you don’t understand now,
don’t worry. It will get clearer.
Some provisions you don’t have
right now, don’t worry, it will
come. But God doesn’t–doesn’t let
it happen, the obstacle is not
removed, the gate is not opened,
the supply is not given until we
are faced with– until we come up
to the closed gate. Until we come
up to the–to the obstacle. Have
you noticed that about God? Like
last week saw the ark–the priest
of the, um, of Israel carrying the
ark of the covenant, a picture of
Jesus Christ, amen. All right, they
were–they were carrying the ark,
and they were the first one to step
into the river Jordan, but God says
the river Jordan–God’s Word says
the river Jordan was overflowing at
that time, probably in the month of
March, April, springtime. It was
overflowing because the mountain,
uh, the–the ice and all that, the
snow during the wintertime is now
melting, and it’s melting a lot,
and it’s just like, uh, a tsunami
of water, just going through, uh,
through the river Jordan. It’s
wider than usual, and at this time
God says, “Step into the river
Jordan,” and the Bible says it
didn’t happen the night before.
They were all in their camps. They
came out at night with their
torches and lanterns to look, no,
it’s the same. They can’t even come
near. It is overflowing. They can
hear it. Even as they–they come
near the next day, it wasn’t open
until the one bearing the glory of
Jesus, the one who has a heart for
the glory of Jesus, the one
who–who, uh, lifts Jesus high, all
right? That’s a priestly ministry,
the priests, they step, they step
in an overflowing river. An
overflowing river that flows from
the highest mountain in Israel,
Mount Hermon, at the foot of Mount
Hermon, that’s where the river
Yarden, Jorden, begins. Jordan
means in Hebrew descender. And do
you know that it’s the only river
in the world, all right, for so
many miles descends to the lowest
place of planet Earth, the Dead
Sea. The Dead Sea is the lowest
place on planet Earth. So, it’s a
picture of down, down, down, down,
down, and God says, “Ever since
Adam fell,” and along the way
there’s a city called Adam. And God
says, “Ever since Adam fell, man
have been going down, down, down,”
down where? To the Dead Sea.
Sulphur, amen, brimstone, the place
of hell, finally, and then Jesus,
the ark of the covenant, came in
between and stopped the whole
thing, and God slapped back the
river all the way. “And it stood
like a heap,” the Bible says, all
the way where? It mentioned the
city of Adam, which means God will
slap back the curse all the way,
all that came because of man’s fall
will all be reversed, will all be
restored because of Jesus Christ,
amen. So, Jesus went in, uh, the
ark of the covenant, and it’s born
by priests, people who have
priestly ministry in these last
days, amen. They’re gonna step into
the river. But notice the ri–as
they come close, as they come
close, they can hear the roaring,
floodtide, the torrential river,
but they still walk in faith. They
are bearing the glory of Jesus, so
whatever needs you may have,
whatever obstacles you are faced
with right now, God does not give
you the faith or God does not show
you the miracle before you step
right up to it. That’s God’s way.
It was only when the priests
stepped, “As soon,” the Bible says,
“as the sole of their feet touched
the river,” bang, the river was
slapped back. So, that’s how God
supplies. God wants us dependent on
him all the time. He wants us
dependent on him all the time.
Like, he doesn’t put strength in
me, you know, when–when–when
I–when I– I remember the first
time I was called to preach many
years ago. I was a teenager, and I
was so nervous, I was so scared
that I memorized my entire sermon.
I memorized my joke, I memorized
everything word for word. That’s
how nervous I was. To the point
that if I forget something, I don’t
know how to get back because the
memory– when you memorize verses
or memorize your sermon, you cannot
go back to where you left off, you
know, because, “Was it this line or
this line?” I memorized because I
was so nervous. I had to speak to a
lot of people, and–and–and my
nature, as it is, even in secondary
school I told I was a stam–a st–I
was a st–st–I was a stam– I was
a stammerer. See, that’s a
demonstration of it. Amen. So, I
was a stammerer, I couldn’t speak
well, amen, and that which has been
was Moses who was also stammering,
right? That is, is also stammering.
God uses people who stammer to
speak for him. God–God manifests
his strength in our weakness. The
world says, “Hide your weakness,
it’s shameful to look at. Don’t
display your weakness.” We tell our
children, “Don’t display your
weakness.” God–God manifests his
strength only–only in weakness. A
donkey came along, the donkey died,
heart attack or sunstroke. Then the
vultures came, ate up all the
flesh. The wolves came, jackals ate
up all the flesh, left the bones.
And all the ants came and the
little creatures and finish off all
the bones. Now left only bone. The
poor donkey is dead. Along came a
man, a skinny man, all right? And
he was surrounded by a thousand
men. They’re surrounding him. This
is not Chinese Wei Yan, this is for
real. This is not some–some
superhero, Marvel, you know, those
are fictitious, okay, this is real,
in the Bible. And I know he’s
skinny because I know that Samson
wasn’t strong, why? I know because
when the Holy Spirit comes on him,
that’s when he can–when he can
unhinge that–that bronze gate,
amen. If not, he–he’s just an any
mere man. So, God’s way is what?
His strength is made perfect in a
skinny person. So, you see the
skinny guy, you know? And all the
Philistines are surrounding him, a
thousand– He turn around, there’s
nothing in his hands but something
dead, something there are flies
buzzing around. You look at the
jawbone of a donkey, he took it,
and with the jawbone of a donkey he
killed 1,000 Philistines. No one
would think to pick the jawbone of
something that’s dead and deader
than dead. You know deader than
dead? All right, but God uses that.
When you say you are dead, God
says, “I can resurrect you.” All of
us are–are–are testimonies of
that. We’re all dead in our sins,
but you has he quickened, make you
alive, amen. If God can–God can
raise the dead, come on, people. We
are all raised from the dead
already, you know. We’re not gonna
die. We’re gonna fall asleep if
Jesus tarries, amen, if Jesus
tarries, we’re gonna fall asleep,
amen, but we’re not gonna die.
Death is behind you already.
Remember that death and judgement
are behind you for the believer.
That’s why the Bible use for the
believer, “Fall asleep,” amen. Just
take off to be with Jesus. So,
God–God’s strength is made perfect
in his weakness, amen. But the
supply comes as you go. There
were–there were ten lepers, and
they needed what? Healing, right?
So, they–they–they came to Jesus
and says, “We need healing,” and
Jesus says, “Go show yourself to
the priest.” Now, you–under the
law, the law says, “Go show
yourself to the priest after you
are well.” There’s no law, check
out the– the book of Leviticus
where it’s given. You never find
that the priest, all right,
examines someone who has been
healed. He examines to see if the
person is sick, to determine he has
a sickness, all right? Now, this is
when Jesus says, “Go show yourself
to the priest,” which means, act
like you are healed, trust my word.
The Bible says, “As they went, they
were cleansed,” “As they went, they
were cleansed.” Are you listening,
people? Amen. So, again, it’s like
right at the very last moment the
provision comes. Let’s say you have
presentation tomorrow, amen. Like I
said just now, my first time I–I
had to memorize everything. I had
to learn the principle, because
I–I felt no courage in my heart, I
felt no inspiration in my spirit. I
was thinking, how, how am I gonna
prepare. I just memorize something,
you know, I think, just– I’ve
learned then that you don’t have to
worry about all that. Just do what
you need to do, pray, ask God,
prepare your message, and then when
you are there, many a times even
the last moment, he’ll give you the
inspiration, he’ll give you the
strength, he’ll give you the words,
amen, I’ve learned that. You know,
a soldier during the time of Joshua
and all that, he–he–he–he needs
to learn that–that God will not
put strength in his muscle as he’s,
uh, looking at his, uh, polishing
his sword the night before the
battle of the Phillistines. No, it
doesn’t happen that way. The
courage comes when God says, “Fear
not,” that means they are fearing.
In spite of your fear, do it. And
you find the strength will flow.
The provision will flow. The supply
will flow. Can I have a good amen?
Jesus says, “Fill the water pots
with water,” but they–they need
wine. “Fill the six water pots with
water,” but they need wine. See,
one of the things about the
Royal–it’s the Royal Academy of
Grace. I just called it royal,
right? Royal Academy of Grace is
that we’re gonna fill you up. The
six earthen pots are actually a
picture–stone pots, actually, not
earthen, stone pots are actually
pictures of men. Number six is
number of men. Men might be full of
the water of the Word, then God can
turn it into wine. That’s the
supernatural, amen. So, when you
fill yourself with God’s Word, God
will turn it into wine, into wine,
intoxicating wine, praise God,
hallelujah. But when did the
transformation happen? When Jesus
says, “Fill the water pots with
water,” they were all in the back
parts of the wedding feast in the
kitchen somewhere, and–and Mary
was there, and the servants were
there. They looking at it, it
changed? No, he said something
else. “Bear it to the governor of
the feast.” Now, who dares to bear
it to the governor of the feast?
It’s just water. “You’re making fun
of me or what?” Let me do it
Israeli style. “You’re making fun
of me?” Right? But the Bible says,
“As they went,” amen. The jars
passed by Jesus and blushed before
its maker and became wine,
hallelujah. Are you listening,
people? Amen. So, as you obey,
“Whatever he says to you,” Mary
says, “Do it.” As you obey.
“We–we–we caught–we caught no
fish. We toil all night, all day,
and–you carpenter, we fishermen,
experienced fishermen.” “Throw your
net on the right side.” “Right
side, left side, we try every side.
We know this–this lake. But
because you say so,” Peter say that
“I’ll throw the net.” And this
time, all right, he threw the net,
he could not catch. I mean, he
could not pull, sorry, he could not
pull because what? There’s such a
great catch, draught of fishes.
Until finally he pull it, the nets
begin to break. He never prepared
the net that tight because he never
could imagine a harvest that much.
And finally when he got it into the
boat, and–and–and other boats
came to help, the boat began to
sink at the weight of it. So, that
tells us how the Lord provides. I
don’t know how people who are
against prosperity, that God does
prosper, preach that. God gave you
one fish. God supplies what you
need, not what you want. They’ll
rewrite the Bible. The Bible
doesn’t say God–the Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not need. “I
shall not want.” Which means lack.
Whatever lack there is in your
life, amen. Yes, God doesn’t want
us materialistic. You see, you
cannot serve God and money, and–
and what I see nowadays is people
serving money. It’s one thing,
listen, to work, amen, to–to look
for profitability because you owe
it to the Lord. The–you know, when
God made man, God made men, and
this was God’s command: Be fruitful
and multiply. It’s not just to have
children and all that, it’s to be
fruitful. What–what are you–be
productive. Wherever you are put
in, be productive, amen. Serve the
company, serve the boss, whoever
God has put above you, amen. Serve
the government. Amen, and by the
way, uh, uh, the position in Romans
is very clear, the Bible says,
“Honor the authorities.” In the
book of Peter, “Submit to the
king,” and if you know Peter, who
wrote Peter in saying that, and
Paul who wrote Romans in saying,
“Be subject to the government” and
all that, they were under the Roman
rule. And the Roman rule, your
government cannot be more worse
than the rule, all right? They were
the Romans, they were–they were
very harsh. Their governance was a
harsh governance. They rule with an
iron rod. They worship Caesar, and
Israel was under them, and yet Paul
wrote that, obey the government,
unless they tell you to worship
something else. What I see in the
body of Christ now is a breakdown
in all this to the point it’s so
breakdown, you’re just despised.
It’s like, “No more seeing the
good, but seeing the bad.” It’s not
a matter of, like, you know, the
honor is gone, “But you don’t know
why–” God didn’t tell you to obey
because they are perfect. Jesus was
12 years old when his parents came
to look for him. He was in the
Temple, and he went back with them.
The Bible says he was subject to
them. At that time, 12 years old,
he was more smart than all the
rabbis that was questioning him,
the doctors of the law, who were
the who’s who, you know, the top
people, the VIPs of Jerusalem. The
very top of Israel, in fact, were
there, and they were asking him
que– they were amazed at his
understanding, 12 years old. But it
was not proper for him to teach.
The fact that they were amazed at
his answers, at his understanding
and answers, which means what? He
waited until they asked him
question, then he answers. It was
not his place to preach the Sermon
on the Mount. There’s something
beautiful about his moral–the
Lord’s moral beauty. He is
altogether lovely. At the age of 12
he knew how to be a boy. He knew
more than them, he knew more than
his parents, and yet the Bible says
when the parents came, he went with
them, and he was subject unto them.
And the next verse says, “He
increased in wisdom and stature and
favor,” in favor with God and men.
God’ll take care of you. No one can
abuse you. When you work for your
boss, you’re drawing a salary from
the company, honor the boss. “He
doesn’t deserve my respect.” You do
it for the Lord’s sake. The–the
verse in Peter I quoted just now,
“Submit to every ordinance of men
for the Lord’s sake.” “Preach it
Pastor Prince, hallelujah, thank
you, Lord, hallelujah.” So, I was
saying something very good just
now, but never mind. There was–I
don’t believe even my rabbit trail
is for no purpose, there’s a reason
for it, amen? So, as we–as we look
at, uh, uh, all this, we realize
that God is teaching us the supply
comes as we obey him, as we flow
with him. And sometimes it means
we–we call it a bit late, but for
God it’s nothing late. Why is God
doing this? Why? Why, as soon as
the sole of their foot touch river
Jordan, he open? Why does God wait?
Because want a dependent people.
You see, for us, “God, give me all
the courage right now, God. I don’t
wanna pray, just give me–give me a
supply of courage for one month.
Why I pray, ‘Give us this day our
daily bread,’ then tomorrow I must
pray some more?” Yes. That makes
you talk to him, that makes you
reliant on him, amen. Just like one
parent I know who tell their kids,
okay, “You need to call back and
talk to me,” all right, and–and
then this–every time you come and
talk to–back to me, this amount of
money will come flowing to you,
amen? So, he doesn’t give the kids,
okay, “One lump sum, here, 1,000,
200, 5,000, here 10,000,” and the
kid will never talk to you, never
call you. When they call you
overseas and all that, uh, usually,
money. So, there–there–it’s a
smart parent who knows how to
dispense in portions. It makes you
come back. Isn’t it so? One more
time. “Preach it, Pastor Prince.”
So, why that is so, “Give us this
day our daily bread,” God says, um,
to Israel, “Okay, listen, you don’t
take your–don’t, uh,
don’t–don’t–don’t save your
manna. Your manna will come, trust
me.” All right, God says, “Trust
me, I will supply you everything,
amen. Your manna will come. Don’t
eat yesterday’s manna. Don’t–don’t
horde it, don’t save it, don’t keep
it,” amen, but some of them did.
You know the story, right? They
kept the manna, and what happened?
It bred worms and stank. That’s
what happens when you don’t listen
to God, all right? There’ll be
worms, and it will stink. Amen. So,
God gives manna every day. They had
to trust God. So what if the cost
of living goes up? God is more than
able to oversupply. His name is El
Shaddai, the God who is more than
enough, but how will the supply
come? And–and this is a thing. You
know, Jesus said in the Sermon on
the Mount, he says this, all right.
I, uh, I remember what I was
saying. “You cannot serve God and
money.” You see, one thing to serve
profitability and honor your
company and honor, you know, where
you are set and all that and be
productive, but to aim for wealth
and to live for wealth, I’ll tell
you this, you’ll never be
satisfied. Even when you’re lying
on a–on a–on a silk, uh,
mattress, all right, how much will
you enjoy that? One month, two
months, new car, how long do you
enjoy that? Half a year before you
start looking for– What–what is
it? What is it that you– You know,
I’m not against all these things.
Money’s to be used. Don’t let it
use you, amen. Jesus said, “You
cannot serve God and money.” You
see, Jesus said it like this, okay,
uh, look at the verse in Sermon on
the Mount. He said, “Therefore I
say to you this boy, this lovely
boy is now grown.” He’s about 30
years old now. Now as a man he
preaches. As a boy it’s not right
to preach to the elders, but
he–you can answer. That’s how they
were–you got that just now, okay.
Now he’s preaching, Sermon on the
Mount, okay, Matthew 6, “Therefore
I say to you, do not worry about
your life.” Do not worry about your
life. Okay, I will–I–I–I need to
finish what I said just now. The
third day, Abraham did not know
which mountain, but the Bible says,
show them the first verse, “On the
third day Abraham lifted his eyes.”
He saw the mountain, saw the place.
Where’s the place? Mount Moriah.
Later on in the same chapter he
will call Mount Moriah
Jehovah-Jireh. In that mountain,
all right, is a place of supply.
So, we see that on the third day
there will be healing like– not
like the previous, you know, the
church history and– You cannot
look at church history and say,
“Oh, there wasn’t much healing
then, it–you know, they didn’t do
this, they–” You cannot look at
that. Even then there were a lot of
healings going on. It’s just many
people don’t want to record that
part, right? But there’ll be
healing on the third day, and
there’ll be provision, why? Because
Mount Moriah is called
Jehovah-Jireh, he called the altar
Jehovah-Jireh, because in the
mountain of Moriah it shall be
seen, he shall be seen. The same
Mount Moriah where Abraham offered
his son, didn’t offer his son, God
stopped him from offering his son,
but God–so that God can give up
his Son. That’s another story and
another mystery that I’ve–I’ve
shared before. God was referring to
his Son all the time. Okay, on the
range of Mount Moriah, the highest
peak of Mount Moriah, I believe
that Abraham had a vision. He
turned around and saw not just the
ram caught by the–by the horns, he
saw Jesus on the cross. That he
will come 2,000 years later from
Abraham’s time and down that– The
highest ridge of Mount Moriah is
Calvary. Are you with me so far?
It’s Calvary. That’s where all the
supply comes, amen. Forgiveness of
sins, being–the gift of
righteousness, not only that,
healing for our bodies, peace for
our minds, amen, aggressive peace
that garrisons our hearts and minds
from worries, cares, anxieties,
depression, amen. Even–even
prosperity in the sense of not
materialism, not greed, but more
than enough supply to be a blessing
to others the way God ordained it.
God did not bring Israel to a land
that has milk and honey. The–the
word God used time and time and
time again is the word flow, tsuph.
The word flow in the Hebrew is very
clear, it’s a flow. It’s not the
land has milk and honey, I bring
you to a land flowing with milk and
honey, flowing with milk and honey.
Deal with that. I didn’t write it.
God wrote it. So, back to this, you
cannot serve God and money. If
you–listen, some people say,
“Well, you don’t–you know, you
serve God, that means you become
poor, all right? Don’t talk about
money. You cannot serve God and
mammon,” all right. But, no, it’s
not that. You can’t even say, “You
serve him, you’ll be poor.” You
can’t–look at all the of the Bible
that–that served God. They never
lack. David says, “The Lord is my
shepherd. I got a lot of lack,
though.” Ah, yo. No. “The Lord is
my shepherd, I shall not lack,” I
shall not lack. Amen? Now, it says
to you, “Don’t serve God–you
cannot–you cannot–” not don’t
serve, “You cannot.” There’s no
such thing, it’s impossible, “You
cannot serve God and materialism.”
Now, be productive, but does that
mean that you will not be provided
for? He never say that. In fact,
Jesus said something that I don’t
know why preachers don’t preach it
the way Jesus said it. One time,
the one disciple, and we thank God
for Peter. You know, we laugh at
Peter and all that, he ask all the
kind of question, but you know,
thank God he asked. We also wanna
ask, or we dare not to ask, you
know that kind of thing? We’re
always grateful, right? Amen, we
are grateful in the group and all
that, somebody wanna ask me a
question, then somebody go and egg
Pastor Mark to say something,
Pastor Mark says it. You know,
everyone is happy, even though we
all laugh at the question, but
actually it’s somebody egg him on,
and I know who is that somebody.
We’re all grateful for Peter, amen?
Peter asked this question, okay,
look at the question first. Peter
began to say to Jesus, “See, we
have left all and followed You.”
What does that mean? “We have left
all and followed You.” It means
that, “What shall we have? We left
all and followed You.” And Jesus
said this–so his idea is what?
Poverty, you won’t have enough, all
right? He left everything. What did
Jesus answer him? Jesus answered
and said, “Assuredly, I say to you,
there is no one who has left
house–” house, say house
Singaporeans. Yeah, I think some
other countries as well, you can
say house. “There is no one who has
left house,” this has come to an
amen, okay? Assuredly there is
amen, which means it is an
affirmation, all right? A true
statement, or truly, truly, I say
to you, “There is no one who has
left house or brothers or sisters
or father or mother or wife or
children or lands, for My sake and
the gospel’s,” this does not say
abandon them. He didn’t say
abandon, he said leave, because
there are times, all right, because
of the Lord, we sacrifice time,
time with them, we are not with
them, we–we are serving the Lord.
Today it’s another thing
altogether. Today you ask you
someone to serve, they’ll say,
“My–let me ask my wife.” Usually
it’s ask the wife, not ask the
husband, “Ask my wife.” I thought,
you know, uh, you can decide,
“Yeah, I have the final word.” I
always tell my wife after she
say–she–I give her that, I just
say, “Yes dear,” that’s my final
word. Like in heaven, right, there
was a queue, you know? There’s a
queue, and one queue says, “Man,”
all right, “Man dominated by their
wife,” as far as your eye can say,
the queue went far away, you know?
And then there was one person
standing on the other side, no
queue, only one person, and the
queue says, “Man not dominated by
their wife.” It’s just a joke,
ladies, just a joke, okay. “Man not
dominated by their wife,” and
there’s only one person. So, this
guy just–just came to heaven,
right? He’s very curious, how come
only one person? So, he went to
Pastor Mark, and–and he said, he
said, “How–how do you do it? How
do you do it?” He says, “I don’t
know, my wife asked me to stand
here.” Okay, so, ha, ha, so, it’s
not a matter of abandon, it’s a
matter of– it’s a matter of
sacrifice, for who’s sake? Now,
it’s not just sacrifice. Don’t
spend time with their children and
all that to do what they like, to
play golf, all right? Now, I’m not
against, uh, golf. I’m not against
golf, okay? But I’m just saying
that if you wanna qualify for this,
look at what Jesus says, “For my
sake and the gospel’s.” There is a
sacrifice involved, but you know
what? You cannot out-give God. He
says what–whoever is left,
whatever you leave, you–whoever
leaves all that, “There’s no one
who has left all this who shall not
receive a hundredfold now in this
time–houses and brothers,” and
say, now, you know why it’s now in
this time? Because a lot of people
like to put it in the sweet– “In
the sweet by and by, we shall meet
on that beautiful shore.” He didn’t
say, “You will receive a
hundredfold,” all right, everybody
will have a hundredfold and more in
heaven. But this, “Now in this
time,” why do we preach that? Why
don’t we preach that? He’s talking
about tangible things or spiritual
things? Houses, fathers, mothers.
My father is real, eh? My–my wife
is real. My sister is real. My bro
is real, amen? I mean, there’s–you
receive what? A hundredfold.
However you wanna, he didn’t say,
“Hundred more,” he says
hundredfold, whatever you want to
interpret that as, hundred more or
hundredfold or whatever it is,
listen, it is a lot more. Right,
it’s a lot more. “Who shall not
receive a hundredfold now in this
time–houses and brothers and
sisters and mothers and children
and lands,” Singaporeans, “lands.”
Singapore, “Lands.” If God has to
make land for you, he’ll make land.
I claimed this promise many years
ago when–when, uh, there were
people telling me, Christian
leaders telling me, right,
“Nowadays, Singapore, there’s no
more land. You cannot build
anything.” I said, “God, I trust
you can. I don’t know how. Your
word is a lamp unto my feet. I just
trust you, provide for us.” You are
sitting in a miracle, okay? You are
sitting in a miracle. And by the
way, you can come and sit in this
miracle, don’t sit at home. Come,
join us. The–the dew–the dew and
the presence is different from
being alone at home. At home you
can be distracted. Ah, see, see,
see, see, see where you go? All
right, you can get distracted at
home, amen. So, notice, it says you
will receive when? “Now in this
life,” amen? Houses, brothers,
notice, “with persecution.” Okay,
when you start to prosper–notice
that persecution come, he promised
persecution when you receive a
hundredfold. You receive a lot of
persecution. Trust me, when you
prosper, you received persecution.
And you know, persecuting don’t
come from a dog, doesn’t from, uh,
from a cat. It come from a being
with two legs and a mouth, you
know? They will persecute you. But
you know something? Jesus promised
you that, so you cannot escape. And
by the way, in case you are
thinking, wah, “Whoever leave– has
left house, brothers, even wife, I
wanna leave my wife. I’ll get a
hundred wife.” Wife’s not mentioned
here in the hundredfold, you see.
“Houses, brothers, sisters,
mothers, children, lands, with
persecution.” Your wife, wife is
not mentioned there. You receive
many more brothers, yes. I–I, you
know, something for the gospel’s
sake, ever since I preached the
gospel, I’ve had so many brothers
and sisters all over the world, and
they’re all watching right now,
praise God, amen. “And in the age
to come,” ah, now he says in the
age to come. What do they have?
They have, “Eternal life.” Not
because of giving up, but because
of Jesus, amen. So, this is not a
promise when you go to heaven. “Now
in this time.” Everyone say now in
this time. Say it again, now in
this time. Believe God for it.
Don’t listen to people that are
trying to stop you from–from
prospering and all that. Yet, I
wanna close with this, remember,
you cannot serve materialism. See,
go back to Sermon on the Mount, and
Jesus says, “Therefore I say to
you, do not worry about your life.”
Notice it starts with therefore.
You all know I preach on this a
lot. In my “Let Go Life” the whole
sermon is based on–on this, amen?
“Therefore I say to you, do not
worry about your life. What you
shall eat, what you shall drink, or
what you shall wear, for all the
Gentiles, the unbelievers, seek for
these things. Your heavenly Father
knoweth.” I love that. “Your
heavenly Father knoweth what you
need. But notice it start with
therefore. You cannot start
something therefore. Therefore
means what? There’s a previous
verse. Find out why therefore is
there for, okay? The previous verse
says this, “No one can serve two
masters,” same Jesus talking, amen.
“For either he’ll hate the one and
love the other, or else he’ll be
loyal to the one and despise the
other.” You cannot serve God and
money. And yet that doesn’t mean
you have lack. When you serve God–
You see, it’s one–it’s one thing
to prosper with, you know, prosper
materially only. There are many
poor rich people. And there are
many Christians who are prosperous,
prosperous. In, out. I mean, are
you with me so far? So, he’s
telling you, you cannot serve God,
and all you’re thinking of, like,
it all depends, the bottom line is
that–yeah, I’ll–I’ll go to church
on Sunday, as long, you know, I–I
have nothing on, on Sunday, to
build my wealth, build my assets,
build my–you know, it’s all about
money, money, money, money. It’s
something beyond. The people who
will sacrifice time with their
family because of money, it’s the–
it’s the opposite of what Jesus
says. “For my sake and the
gospel’s,” it’s for money.
Wha–wha–what’s the big deal,
you’re driving a big car? It will
last only a while, you can just
impress people– Then my wife says,
“Something to compensate.” He’s got
something to prove. Again, I’m not
against these things, I’m not
against nice watches. You all have
your preference, some people like
nice watches. Nice watches are
really beautiful. A few weeks ago I
saw–I saw a shop that had all
the–how they did the watches, it’s
intricate, it’s beautiful. But you
know something, to live just for
that watch–you spend it–you
rock– your kids are growing up,
you never had this chance and all
that just for this watch, for that
car. Mm, for that car, for this
watch. And there’s no peace. You’re
making money than you ever made
before, but you are restless, you
are stressed, you cannot sleep
well, lost a lot of precious
friends all because of your pursuit
of mammon. You cannot serve God and
mammon. By the way, mammon is a
transliteration from the Aramaic.
Jesus spoke Aramaic. A lot of
Hebrew in Aramaic, but Aramaic’s
like a slang. You say, like,
Hokkien, Mandarin. You say Mandarin
is Hokkien? No, we explain to
people it’s not. It’s a–it’s a
slang. I mean, it’s not a slang, it
is a dialect. So, uh, um, Aramaic
is a dialect, and–and–and–and
they–they personify– when someone
personify, um, materialism or
wealth, they call it mammon,
mamonas in Aramaic. Mammon is
a–like you say a woman. Wisdom is
like a woman, embrace her, and
she’ll embrace you, right? That’s
personification, so personified
wealth is mammon. You cannot serve
God and mammon. He’s referring to
wealth. Does that mean that God
wants you to have little? No, he
says don’t worry about all these
things. Look at that, right at the
end of the p–the portion. And
I–I’m bringing this to a close.
“Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, tomorrow will worry about
its own things. Sufficient for the
day is its own trouble.” That means
what? Every day got its own
trouble, don’t worry about
tomorrow. Jesus is saying, “The
grace I give you is only for
today.” He wants you to live today.
A lot of people live tomorrow
today, or they live in the past
today. You know, the past is like,
if only, you know. If only. If only
I was born in the richer family,
wealthy family. If only I had
succeeded doing that. If only I had
gone to university. If only, if
only my–my–if only, if only, if
only. Then the future, they live in
the future, it’s like what? What
if? What if this happens? What if?
What if? What if? If only. You are
here today. Every day is precious,
’cause time pass so fast. When I
see my Justin grow up, and I’m
thinking to myself, he tells me the
other day, “I think my molar is
coming out.” And then he says, uh,
“The dentist told me that molar
comes out at 12 years old.” I say,
“Boy, you are ten.” You know what
I’m saying? “You are ten years old,
you are not twelve years.” I mean,
the mom–mom’s–my mom. My wife. My
wife said, “He eats a lot of
cheese. He loves cheese, and that’s
what’s causing the whole thing, you
know? Oh man, so fast, that little
boy. I’m sure you felt that when
your son grew up, right? Your
daughter grew up. You thought
they’d be small forever. I knew it,
of course, with Jessica, I already
have experience, but you still
wanna live in this, you know?
Friend, every day there’s enough
grace. Enjoy every day, don’t live
in the future. You see your mind
going to the future– By the way,
the exponents of mental health says
that people who are– who can live
in the present are mentally
healthy. Jesus knew that a long
time ago. Save your money on
research, he knows. Go to him. He
is the same yesterday, today, and
forever. He says what? “Enough
trouble, there’s enough trouble.”
There’s no grace– “I gave you the
grace, right, the manna, the supply
for today. I give you the peace and
all that. It’s not to be used for
tomorrow.” Worrying about tomorrow,
when tomorrow come, the grace will
be there, just like the manna comes
every day, okay? Are you with me so
far? “So, how do I get this supply,
Pastor Prince, how do I get this
supply?” Okay, I’ll close with
this. For many years I thought that
when Jesus multiplied the loaves
and the fishes, I thought that he
actually, um, broke it, he looked
to heaven– what was his five
things he did? Number of grace,
amen. He received the five loaves
and two fish, he received or took,
one. He looked up to heaven, two.
In all our needs, supply is there.
Supply is–we are in the kingdom of
God, there’s no lack. It’s only
invisible, and invisible does not
mean non-tangible, does not mean
it’s not real. In fact, the things
that are invisible are eternal.
Now, lest we go into the next
service, I’ll stop here. Just
enough for you to know that. Amen,
like the radio waves, TV waves
around us, they are all eternal.
The waves, the waves are there all
the time. The air around us, amen,
it’s eternal. But you cannot see
it, amen. Whatever you can see–in
fact, the Bible says, “Whatever you
can see is temporal. It grows old
and then perishes,” okay? So, watch
this. I always thought that, okay,
number one, he took the five loves,
two fish. He looked to heaven,
that’s where the supply comes from.
He’s the pattern man, he’s showing
us how all provisions come into our
life, look up to heaven, number
two. He thanked God, he blessed
God, blessed God, that’s the third
thing he did, number three, he
blessed God. Number four, he broke
the loaves. Number five, he gave it
to his disciples, right? Where did
he multiply? Where did he multiply?
For years I thought it multiplied
as the disciples gave, all right?
Five thousand men, not counting
women, probably around ten to
fifteen thousand, children
included. And as–as the–as they
gave, wow, some more, as they gave,
some more, right? The
multiplication. But let’s look at
this verse here in–in Luke’s
account. By the way, all the
synoptic gospels– by the way, all
the gospels, rather, Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John. Synoptic, Matthew,
Mark, Luke, plus John, has all this
account. “Then–” it must be very
important for it to appear in all
the four gospels. Now, this is
Luke’s account, “He took the five
loaves and the two fish.” All
right, took, one; looking up to
heaven, two; he blessed, three; he
broke them, four; and gave, five.
All right, number five, “He gave
them to the disciples to set before
the multitude. And so they all ate
and were filled, and twelve baskets
of the leftover fragments were
taken up by them.” So, would you
say that’s more than enough? Would
you say that’s more than enough? In
fact, Phillip says, “Can 200
denarii–where can we go and buy?”
So, their solution’s go and buy
food for these hungry people, go
and buy. People think the solution
to this is just go and buy, but
Jesus had a higher solution. Even
after you buy with 200 denarii,
which is half year’s wage, he says
only–everyone, everyone can only
take a little, right? Show them a
little, can only take a little.
“‘Where shall we buy bread?’ This
He said to test him. ‘Two
hundred,'” yeah, “‘that every one
of them may have a little.'” So,
even after you buy, the scarcity
mentality is in man, the flesh.
Everyone takes a little, right?
Now, what did Jesus do? He look up
to heaven, all the supply is there.
You know where it multiplied? Go
back to Luke. “He blessed and broke
them,” the loaves and fishes,
’cause he took the five loves and
two fish. So, he broke the five
loaves. He also broke the fish. The
Bible says small fish, there were
two fishes. Watch this. Which part
did the miracle happen? As he
looked up, the miracle multiplied
in his–where? Where did it happen?
As they gave? So, for years I
thought the disciples–and I’ve
preached that, as they gave it
multiplied in their hands, but the
answer is here. If you look
at–taking, it is aorist tense,
once and for all. All right? “Look
up to heaven,” once and for all,
it’s in the past tense in the
Greek. And your–your New
Testament’s in Greek. “He blessed”
is past tense, but when it comes to
“Gave” to the disciples,” imperfect
tense. He kept on giving to them.
From whose hands? Jesus’s hands, he
kept on giving. The NLT says it
like this. NLT got it right. “He
kept giving the bread and fish to
the disciples.” Notice kept giving,
he kept giving, kept giving. It
multiplied in his hands. The NASB,
“He gave them to the disciples,”
say it, “again and again.” Again
and again, the fish, the loaves,
the fish, the loaves. Here comes
Bartholomew, here. Here comes
Thomas, here, amen. They had
to–which means what? They had to
go to the people, give, all right,
probably their cloak, put a lot
here, they go, but sooner or later
you run out of it, they have to go
back to him. They have to go back
to him again and again, and that,
my friend, is the key. It’s go back
to him again and again. Because he
keeps on giving, amen? How many
days has it been, you didn’t talk
to the Lord, you didn’t come to
him? Do you–don’t you know that he
keeps on giving and giving and
giving, and you were not there to
receive. The answer is keep on
coming to him, and I’ll close with
this. He kept on giving, which
means what? Every time we come to
him, we gotta see the supply
coming, but we must be in position,
we must be there before him to
receive. I wish I have time to take
you through the scriptures to show
you every time someone come to
Jesus’s presence because they are
weak or whatever, they are
strengthened. If they are sick,
they are–they are healed. If they
are blind, they see. Something is
imparted, something is given,
something is released when they are
in the presence of Jesus. Not that
they give to Jesus. We talk as if
we are the great giver, he is the
great giver, and grace is giving.
Grace is supply. He keeps on
giving, which means, people, we
have to keep on going back, keep on
going back, keep on going back to
him, amen. Because he keeps on
giving, he keeps on giving. We keep
on going back, how often? Again and
again and again. Your last week’s
going to him won’t suffice for
today, amen. Keep on–why not God
just give me a month’s supply? He
knows you will forget him, so you
go back to him and say, “Cost of
electricity’s going up, cost of
living as a whole is rising, but
here you are, Lord. Nothing takes
you by surprise. And just being in
his presence, something is
imparted, amen? He keeps on giving.
Are you there to receive? I always
see my time with the Lord as he’s
giving me, even before I kneel down
or even before I pray and talk to
him, he keeps giving. Those
moments, those days that are gone
when you didn’t spend time with
him, you cannot get them back, but
let’s start today. And you are
here. You came to him today.
Something has been supplied.
Something has been imparted, amen?
Every head bowed, every eye closed
all across this place, wherever you
are. Friend, if you have never
received, now, again, he is giving
what now? Salvation, forgiveness of
sins, a new birth. You can be born
again, amen. You don’t like your
life, yourself, the way you are?
All this time you can be born
again, born a child of God, born
righteous, born in the royal
family, the priestly family, born
again. Friend, if that is you,
wherever you are, pray this prayer
from your heart. I’ll lead you.
Say: heavenly Father, I confess
with my mouth Jesus Christ is my
Lord. And I believe in my heart
that because Christ died for my
sins, he died in my place, and on
the third day you raised him from
the dead, that was the time I was
justified. It was because you
justified me from all my sins,
acquitted me from them all that
Jesus was raised from the dead.
Thank you, Father. I am now a child
of God. All my sins are forgiven.
Fill me now with your Holy Spirit.
Teach me to follow you all the days
of my life. In Jesus’s name. And
all the people said amen. Stand to
your feet, people, stand to your
feet. Hallelujah. Lift your hands
all over the place, wherever you’re
watching this, online as well. The
Lord bless you this coming week,
you and your loved ones. The Lord
bless you with the blessings of
father Abraham, the blessings of
Deuteronomy 28, the blessings of
Psalms 23. The Lord bless you with
the land flowing with milk and
honey, and let it manifest in the
days to come. The Lord bless you,
and the Lord keep you, preserve you
and your families throughout this
week from every infection, from
every harm and danger from evil
people, and from all the powers of
darkness. The Lord lift up his
countenance, smile on you, and
grant to you, impart into your
heart and into the hearts of your
families his wonderful shalom peace
to guard your heart and mind from
worry, fear, and care throughout
this week. In Jesus’s name. And all
the people said amen. God bless
you, we’ll see you again.
When I learned about the freedom in
grace, it was just amazing for me.
I know I’m loved and I know I’m
righteous and that’s what people
are hungry to hear. The Lord also
led me and opened the door for a
jail ministry I do in the city
where I’m at and I’ve seen guys
just get radically transformed
through this message. I had four
lumps in my breasts, two in each
breast. Due to holy Communion,
Jesus healed me. He’s teaching the
Word of God. He’s teaching the
Bible and I think it’s awesome that
men and women are coming back to
God the way God intended, through
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