Don’t underestimate the power of expecting good in your future! This excerpt is from: The Power Of Positive Expectations (26 Jul 2020)
I want to start off by sharing
a wonderful testimony
that just came in.
And this is a sister in our church
and she’s sharing about
how faithful God is
during this time.
You know, we hear in the news
about people being retrenched
and people losing their jobs
and a lot of people are
not even sure whether
they will hold onto their jobs
in the coming months.
So this is a word
that I want you to receive
deep into your spirit.
You are in the world,
but you’re not of the world,
child of God.
This sister shares:
“A month ago, my daughter
was retrenched from her job.”
“My husband had also
been informed earlier this year”
“that the company
he was working in”
“would be shut down.”
“I am also jobless
due to a lower back injury.”
So everybody seems to be
out of a job.
“Things seemed bleak
and I worried about how”
“we were going to pay our bills.”
“I have been listening to
Pastor Prince’s sermons”
“which always remind me
to focus on the person of Jesus”
“and what He did
for me at the cross.”
“The sermons also encourage me
to believe and receive”
“the supply of His grace.”
“So, I continued to pray
and give praise to the Lord,”
“replacing my worries
with peaceful thoughts.”
“One day, I came across
Pastor Prince’s sermon”
“on praying in tongues
and I listened to it.”
“That day, I received the
gift of praying in the Spirit”
“and I began to pray in tongues,
and felt peaceful”
“despite my circumstances.”
“Then, I listened to
another sermon on the”
“anointing oil and I went on
to pray and anoint my”
“daughter’s pillow, desk,”
Remember her daughter
was retrenched?
“I began to anoint my
daughter’s pillow, desk,”
“and the door of her room.”
“Even though she was
out of a job,”
“she remained joyful
and was subsequently blessed”
“with a number of interviews.”
“Before the month ended,
my daughter was offered a job!”
Praise God!
“My daughter is now
back to work.”
“I know it is because
of God’s grace”
“that she was offered a job
in the midst of this pandemic.”
“Not only that, I also received
healing for my lower back”
“and I am able to get out of bed
without any issues.”
“My husband’s company told him
that they would work out”
“a new arrangement for him
based on commissions,”
“and he would not
be out of a job!”
“All praise and
glory to the Lord!”
Hallelujah!
Isn’t God good?
And what God did for them,
God can do for you.
Amen.
He is doing for you, in fact.
Praise the Lord.
Grace is also
defined as God working.
In other words,
I am resting
and God is working.
Amen.
Many years ago,
God said to me:
“When you rest, God works.”
“When you work, God rests.”
When the spirit of God
said these words to me,
I never heard anyone
preach on this.
It was like, wow.
You know, the things
of God are so simple
but so powerful,
and so profound.
And I wrote it down
and I remember that
everywhere I saw
in the Scriptures then,
it seems like even for
Moses at the Red Sea—
God told him: “Stand still.”
And how can
you stand still
when behind you
are the armies of Egypt?
Amen.
And they are getting closer
and closer and they’re
coming to destroy you
and your people.
And in front of you
is the Red Sea.
Talk about being caught
in a hard place.
Amen.
Between a rock
and a hard place.
And you are stuck
in the middle.
And he looked out at the
foreboding Red Sea
in front of him
and he looked behind
and there’s the
marauding armies of Egypt.
And God said to him:
“Stand still and see”
“the salvation of the Lord.”
That’s the hardest thing.
It is not human nature.
It is not our nature.
It’s not natural to do that.
Amen.
But if you can just stop—
and literally,
in the Hebrew, it is to
“stand still and see Yeshua.”
See Jesus—
the salvation of the Lord.
Amen.
And God opened up the sea.
Likewise, in 2 Chronicles 20,
the same thing
happened with King Jehoshaphat.
God told him:
“Stand still and see the”
“salvation of the Lord.”
It came through a prophet.
“You need not fight in this battle.”
“Stand still.”
“Position yourself.”
Amen.
And that’s what
King Jehoshaphat did.
He sent praisers and worshipers
at the front line
and their song was to
praise the beauty of holiness.
“Praise the Lord,
for He is good.”
“For His mercy
endures forever.”
Praise the Lord!
Ki-tov.
Amen.
Hodu la-donai ki-tov,
ki le’olam chasdo.
Which means:
“Praise the Lord, for He is good.”
“For His mercy
endures forever.”
And the Bible says
the Lord set ambushments
against the enemies
and they started
destroying one another.
Amen.
And Jehoshaphat and his men,
all the people of Israel,
went into the valley
and that valley of trouble,
that valley of difficulty.
And I’m praying
for you as well.
That valley of warfare
became the valley—
in the Hebrews, it says
it is the Valley of Baracah.
Until today in Israel, it is still
called the Valley of Baracah.
“Baracah” means “blessing.”
Amen.
“Baracah.”
So the Valley of Baracah.
And it took three days
collecting all the spoils!
I pray in Jesus’ name.
that you and your families
will live in the Valley of Baracah.
And your song praises
the beauty of holiness.
And I shared last week
that we think of holiness
as something apart from grace.
But God thinks of—in fact,
the beauty of holiness
is seen in grace.
Amen.
Their song was to
praise the beauty of holiness
and the words are:
“Praise the Lord,”
“For His grace endures forever.”
“Hesed”.
“Hesed”.
Today, in the New Testament
in Hebrew in Israel—
If you go to Israel
and you asked your
messianic believers to look up
the word “grace”
in the New Testament,
theirs is in Hebrew.
Everywhere this word appears,
it says “hesed”.
And that’s what they say
when they praise the Lord.
“Praise the Lord.”
Amen.
“His ‘hesed’ endures forever.”
And God gave them a victory,
such a victory that
it took them three days
to collect all the
spoils of the war
in the Valley of Blessing.
So we need to see
what God is doing.
Not so much about
what the devil is doing.
In fact, I always say that if
you do not know
what God is doing,
then you can take a look
at what the devil is doing.
Because what the devil is doing
is so obvious and so visible
and so, you know, tangible
that we miss—
we are not people of the flesh.
We are not people
going by our five senses.
We walk by faith
and not by sight.
Without faith,
it is impossible to please God.
So God’s ways
are ways of faith.
Amen.
So we are people that
should know what
God is doing in the Spirit.
But what I said was that,
if you can’t tell
what God is doing in the Spirit,
see what the devil is doing
and then reverse it
and you will know
what God is doing.
Just like when Jesus was born,
it was a silent night.
It was a holy night.
Amen.
Only in one locality
did the angels fill the sky.
But notice that the angels
did not wake up
all the inhabitants of
and the dwellers of Bethlehem.
They slept on.
It was to the shepherds
that they appeared
in the night sky, saying:
“Glory to God in the highest,”
“and on earth peace,
good will to men.”
But the world was oblivious.
Amen.
But the world knew.
The world knew.
When the world then—
I’m referring to Bethlehem
and all the vicinities of Bethlehem—
knew when King Herod
had all the babies
under two years old killed
because he was afraid.
He heard the news
that a king was born
and he was afraid of this king,
that he would
take his place and all that.
He had all the babies killed
under the age
of two years old.
And that was visible.
The cries of the mothers
were audible.
It was a carnage that
was very obvious to the senses.
Amen.
But do you
know something, friend?
That’s what the devil did!
The devil was
playing catch up
because the devil was afraid.
Because God had
birthed something.
Something powerful,
something that would
redeem us— this lost humanity.
Something that will
bring the gift of
God’s grace and love
to this world.
This world that is dying,
crying and sighing
ever since Adam sinned.
Amen.
We live in a fallen world.
But God gave His Son.
“For God so loved the world
that He gave His Son,”
“so that whoever
who believes in Him”
“shall not perish
but have everlasting life.”
And yet, the world wasn’t aware.
The world then,
wasn’t aware that
a champion was born.
If you want to know
what God is doing,
see what the devil
is attacking you—
the areas that
he’s attacking you in.
If he is attacking your body,
that means God is probably
bringing you
to greater health.
Amen.
He’s dealing with the
health in your body.
Amen.
He doesn’t want you
to stay stagnant
in that level of health.
Amen.
He’s bringing you
to a higher place.
But instead, right now,
if I tell you that,
you would say:
“Pastor Prince, well you could”
“have fooled me, man!”
“Because I’m having
all kinds of symptoms”
“in my body and all that.”
No, friend!
It is because God is
bringing you to a
new level of wholeness.
Amen.
Your best days are
yet ahead of you.
Praise God!
God is renewing your youth
like the eagles.
You may advance in years,
but not grow old.
Amen
Praise God.
So you see if he is
attacking you
in your finances,
you know,
that there’s a breakthrough.
I was going to say
it is coming.
But actually,
God has done it already.
Amen.
You’ll see the manifestation
in the days ahead.
Amen.