What is God’s attitude toward you when you’ve failed? Can you still come to Him without fear to receive His love, forgiveness and help for your struggles? Let Joseph Prince show you from the account of Jesus’ restoration of Peter why you can have bold faith today to run to Him even when you’ve failed. Be strengthened by the Lord’s grace and discover how to grow in true spiritual maturity as you develop a strong sense of His love. Open your heart to the incredible magnitude of God’s love for you today, and be empowered with bold faith to overcome every temptation and challenge!

one of the first times Jesus met Peter

he still didn’t know Jesus well he was

fishing all night just like John 20:1

this looked fine

let’s follow Luke fight right now one of

the first times Peter met Jesus so it

was as the marketed press about Jesus to

hear the word of God that he stood by

the lake of the Nazareth the one you saw

on the screen just now the lake and saw

two boats standing by the lake but the

fishermen had gone from them and we’re

washing their nets

then Jesus got into one of the boats

which was Simons I’ll tell you something

whenever Jesus steps into your boat he’s

setting you up for a blessing he’s

setting you up

you know never feel like when Jesus

comes to you and you know he tells you

would you like to serve me as an usher

he’s setting you up don’t think for one

moment he wants your ministry trust me

he has myriads of angels you know

something else

the Angels never get tired like you can

when it comes into your boat he comes

into your family is always to set you up

for a blessing that’s the nature of love

and he’s perfect love amen and he got

into Simon Peters boat and asked Peter

to put out a little from the land and

Jesus sat down and taught the multitudes

from the boat

we even know what he thought it was a

soul in the sea

then after he thought when he had

stopped speaking he said to Simon launch

out into the deep and let down your nets

for a catch but Simon answered and said

to Jesus don’t forget he’s won his first

times he is new to Jesus all right he

says master which we have tried all

night and caught nothing

nevertheless at your word our let down

the net and when they had done this they

caught a great number of fish and their

net was breaking so they signal to their

partners their business partners in the

other boat to come and help them and

they came and filled both the boats so

that they began to sink I call this a

net breaking both thinking Lord of

blessings when Simon Peter saw it he

fell down at Jesus knees saying depart

from me for I am a sinful man O Lord one

of the first times he met Jesus what he

sends about the Lord His Holiness

rightfully he is holy but my friends

listen is it amazing that in the

Christian

Saiki today what is taught all right

it’s like this when you yeah you know

you grace people you talk about God’s

love cost love all the time you know and

and that its basic grace and love is

basic yeah God loves you we receive

salvation but then after that you throw

in the Lord we’ve grown the Lord you

must know his Holiness the Rizzoli it’s

a holy God it’s almost like you begin

with grace and love but then you

progress into holiness so our idea of

the Lord is this all right when you

first get to know him you send his love

and grace all right and and as he grow

you send his holiness but what we read

is the opposite what we read is that

when Peter one of the first times he

first met Jesus he sends his holiness is

Jesus holy yes but his holiness can go

to a sinner to a prostitute to a tax

collector to a leper touch the leper and

cleanse that person restore them back to

life and wholeness His Holiness is not

like you know in the Old Testament where

God is kept in the Holy of Holies and

many separated from God through a thick

veil and through the priests no more God

has come to man and he is holy yes twice

holy but Oh faith says all right I see

his grace I see his love whereas natural

flesh would say no God is holy depart

from me I’m a sinful man why did Peter

say depart from me I’m a sinful man in

one of the first times he met Jesus

because he had a sense of his holiness

more than a sense of his love and we got

his upside down we say that as we grow

in the Lord you a sense mob is holy no

no everyone everyone when they had the

thought that God might appear to them in

India in your bedroom tonight whatever

they are afraid why because they know

God loves them no they know God is holy

every one flesh knows instinctively

flesh the flesh of man knows God is holy

doesn’t have to be taught

that’s why in the Old Testament as well

as in the new every time the Lord

appears to someone or an angel appears

to someone be afraid they will say

things like like manoa Samson’s father

we die we have sinned a lot we’re going

to die Gd and also I’m going to die I’ve

seen the Lord

everyone had this idea when they see the

Lord they are afraid why no one when the

Lord I’ve seen no one when the lot of

peers is it Oh Lord thou who loved me so

what does that tell us to know his love

takes the Holy Spirit flesh flesh can

teach you God’s holiness and we think

that’s deep but the sense of his love

and grace that is faith that is growth

when you see more and more of his love

why do you think at the end I mean many

many years have passed right okay at

least Trina – more than three years

Peter now knows Jesus yet denied knowing

him we can say like he knew the lot for

some time he’s been safe for some time

we can use that same analogy and yet he

denied knowing the Lord with cursing and

swearing yet what was the thing that

brought him back in love to the Lord

the censor his love his grace is the law

still holy

oh yes and he’ll forever be holy but

more than that he wants us to see he

loves you you see you will never know

that you are loved until you know that

that person sees everything about me and

the person loves me then you feel loved