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I want you to know you’re
not like the people of the
world. You are in the world
but you’re not of the world.
Hope is a positive
expectation of good. Today,
the world says what? “Don’t
raise your hopes.” Can I
tell you something? Don’t
raise your hopelessness. The
reason you can believe for a
confident expectation of
good is because at the
cross, Jesus bore all your
sins. If you are sick in
your body, you should have
hope that you will be well!
If you are suffering from an
addiction, you must have
hope that you will get out
of it! It’s not just: “I
hope it will happen one
day.” But you are without
any power. No! The God of
hope is behind your hope!
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You know what a joy it is
every time I see all of you,
I feel like this is God’s
dream being fulfilled. In
the heart of the Father for
aeons before time, God had
you in mind. The Bible says
that we were born in
predestination to fulfil
this dream, to be conformed
to the image of Jesus. So
that’s the first dream that
God has when God planned for
a family, even all creation
is to serve this purpose.
The second thing is the
church. God’s dream is for
the church. Amen. Yes there
is Israel, Israel was chosen
to demonstrate to all the
nations around the world.
“You know how does all these
pertain to me Pastor Prince?
Last night I didn’t have a
good sleep. This past week
has been terrible for me, I
have had challenges after
challenges and last week I
got a bad report from the
doctor, how would all these
God’s dream affect me?” Well
many a times the larger
incorporates or encompass or
includes the lesser. All our
needs actually compared with
eternity is less. Amen. We
understand God’s purpose, we
fit in, we see where we have
lost our bearings. Where we
have you know, not followed
that compass, the true north
which is God’s plan for our
life. Today we see the world
no longer wanting to follow
God’s pattern. We see the
world abusing their bodies,
abusing the gifts that God
has given. All the gifts
that God has given, whether
it’s their body, we only
have one body by the way,
take care of it. This house
you live in, you got no
other house you know. I know
you are Singaporeans, I know
you can buy more than one
house, I know you can invest
but this is not like HDB you
know. This is not like
selling off a property and
then buying another one. You
got only one property, this
house that you live in. God
has given you this house,
take good care of it. Amen?
And the devil wants to
destroy it. The devil wants
to destroy it. There is a
very beautiful verse in the
Bible that says, “My flesh
shall rest in hope”. And
it’s in reference to Jesus
when He was in the grave, He
knew the Father would
resurrect Him. He knew
resurrection day is coming.
So He says, “Even my body
rest in hope”. And His body
never decayed. He is the
only Man whose body never
decayed, because there is no
sin in Him. Amen? All the
sin that He carried in His
body was finished at the
cross, put away, and when He
was buried, on the third day
God raised Him from the
dead. You will not allow
your Holy One to see
corruption. So God’s dream
is for all of us to be
conformed to the image of
His Son, the pattern Son,
the model Son, the sample
Son. Amen? And then God’s
dream is the church. All of
you are the church. That’s
why I say I am so happy to
see all of you. Amen? You
are the church, not the
building. And the church,
the devil has you know down
through the centuries, the
devil has attacked the
church, made the church
appear like it is a
hierarchy, it is an
ecclesiastical order, it is
a building, it is a city, a
place, makes you think that
the church is a massive type
of human government. It is
not. The church is the
greatest organisation you
can say it, in the entire
universe. Where God stores
His wisdom. If you want
wisdom, the place to go is
the church. Amen. If you
want the supply of health
that the world cannot give
you. Peace that Jesus says
the world cannot give. Amen.
Relationships that is
blessed of God because God
is the One that gave
relationships, and God put
the first man and woman
together and God instituted
marriage. God is the One
that gave marriage. Amen?
But today man is abusing
everything that, by the way
the word ‘Abuse’, ‘Ab-use’.
‘Abuse’, abnormal use, Amen?
If I need to nail something
into a wood and I use my
shoe ok? I am abusing my
shoe, how many know that? If
I take someone’s head, the
bad image, anyway, that is
abuse. Abnormal use. Say
‘Abuse’. So there is all
kinds of, there is physical
abuse, your body is not
designed to take some of
these drugs and you are just
pumping your body full of
the drugs and you know, you
know you are addicted but
you don’t seek for help,
that’s abuse. Amen? Then
there is also abusing your
body in other ways like
overeating, Amen? No Amen
for this one for sure.
Overeating Amen? Over
drinking, over staying up
late, Amen, not having
enough rest, that’s not
using your body correctly,
that’s ‘Ab-use’. Abnormal
use of your body, Amen? A
marriage, Amen, if you
physically disparage,
discourage, hurt, Amen, your
loved one, your spouse,
that’s abuse of your spouse,
spouse abuse. Or even
physically, if you hit your
spouse, that’s physically
abuse, Amen? Sexual abuse,
look at God’s pattern. A man
and a woman. In the
beginning, God made man and
woman and God brought them
together, it’s God’s idea,
and everything that God
dreams for man is full of
glory, Amen? It’s the
fullness of joy, Amen? It’s
the intenses of all
pleasures. God’s ideas, “My
thoughts towards you are
thoughts of good and not
evil”. Because God is a good
God. His heart is love. It
is always giving. Love is
always giving. And He never
skims on what He gives,
Amen? He gives with a large
hand, with a bountiful
heart, Amen. Yesterday my
son and I, my son was saying
that there is a verse he
learned from Rock kids, “If
any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God”. Amen, and
then we look at the verse
together. We try to find the
version that he memorised
from. So finally I showed
him all the versions, he saw
the version, New
International Version, he
was so excited, “This is the
one! This is the one!” So I
said, “Let’s read it”, “If
any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God who gives to
all generously and does not
fault find”. That version
says, “He does not fault
find, He gives to all
generously”. That’s how God
is. When you see God, even
when you come in prayer, you
see God is generous with
you. Can I have a good,
Amen? So today because of
abuse, we are in the state
that we are in, and God
never says, “Unless you line
up, I will not touch you.
Unless you change I will not
heal you”. God never does
that. God comes in the
fullness of His love. He
comes when man is at his
extreme wickedness, there
was a time. You know the
most extreme wickedness of
man is not the other
historical events, you think
of all the dictators and all
that and what they have
done. Wicked as those things
are, the most wicked thing
is when God sent His Son,
who did no sin, in Him is no
sin, he knew no sin, and
then it’s almost like we
take Him and we put Him on
the cross. He came loving,
healing and we put Him on
the cross. It’s almost like
telling God, “This is what
we think of your Son”. And
then God took the cross and
made it the very thing to
redeem all of us from those
things that are destroying
us. Amen? Sin, destruction,
the curse. You know you
cannot out-sin the grace of
God. You cannot. When man
comes to his end, usually
many a times God waits for
man to come to his end. Like
in the Bible, if you want to
look in the Bible, the Old
Testament, it starts with
man in the garden in
innocence. Even in a perfect
environment, man still wants
to sin against God. Amen?
Then God gave the Law.
Alright? You obey this and I
will bless you. Again, man
cannot, and God knew that
man cannot. But man does not
know that he cannot. Today
even man does not know that
he cannot keep the Law.
There are still those who
fighting to keep the Law,
not knowing the purpose of
the Law. That’s abuse of the
Law. I am for the Law, for
the reason God gave the Law.
Amen? Then the Law, after
the Law period was the
Judges, the period of the
Judges, even the last of
them failed, Samson. The
blinded judge, Amen, between
two pillars. Then God tried
Judges, failed, man failed.
Then after judges, we have
the kings. The kings all
failed miserably, with the
last king also blinded when
Nebuchadnezzar came in and
pull out his eyes. Amen?
Everything that is the
organisation or the
administration of man will
always fail. Amen? Then God,
God brought Grace. The Bible
tells us when all these,
when man has come to the
end, instead of turning His
back on us, God says I was
just waiting for you to lose
your strength. Like you
cannot save something who is
drowning, Amen, in the
water, because if you jump
in too early he will pull
you down, Amen? You got to
wait until he has lost his
strength. He cannot save
himself anymore then he is
in the position to be saved.
So don’t wait until you come
to that time. Amen? God is,
your weakness doesn’t turn
God off, God loves it. God
loves it, Amen, when you are
willing to be weak because
His strength is perfect,
when our strength is gone.
He’ll carry us when we can’t
carry on. Raised by His
power, the weak become
strong. His strength is
perfect. His strength is
perfect. My grace is
sufficient for you for my
strength is made perfect in
your weakness. So sometimes
we go through all these
sufferings and we don’t
realised that God does not
want you to suffer but many
a times the suffering is
self-imposed plus there is
an enemy of your soul. We
wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against
principalities and powers,
Amen? These are
principalities and powers
and they are no respecter of
persons. They will attack
your children if they get a
chance. Amen? And that’s why
we are not, listen
carefully, we are not in the
world, before you hear the
good news sometimes got to
know what’s the bad news, or
else the good news is not
good. If there is no
problem, if it ain’t broken
why fix it? But it is
broken. Amen? If something
is broken, praise God, thank
God. If your phone is broken
and the guy sitting beside
you right now is a phone
repairer and he has his tool
box with him, Amen? Are you
happy? Amen? I know you are
addicted to your phone many
of you. So are you happy?
Yes. But if it’s not broken,
it’s not good news to have
someone like that beside you
right or not? Am I right?
Amen. So let’s talk about
the bad news first. The bad
news is that there is an
enemy of your soul. And he
is the one behind your
restless sleep, not God. He
is the one behind your
broken heart. He is the one
that destroyed that
marriage. He is the one that
brought those symptoms on
your body that you are so
afraid of when you hear the
diagnosis of the doctor. He
is the one behind every
sickness and disease. We are
in a fallen world. We got to
face the facts. Amen? And
there is sin. I say there is
sin. Without sin, you won’t
have all these problems that
man is facing. Today the
world don’t want to talk
about sin, Amen? They don’t
want to talk about judgment.
There is judgment at the
end. Yes, and without
Christ, there is a
Christ-less eternity, there
is hell. Jesus talked more
about hell than anybody
else. And it’s not
spiritual. Jesus says it’s
the worm does not die,
cannot be spiritual. The
fire is not quenched, cannot
be spiritual. It is a place,
Amen, it is hell. Amen? So
today people don’t believe
in hell anymore, Amen. They
want to talk about God of
love, you know God is just.
Like I said before, if I
sinned against my son
Justin, he might not trust
me for a while, Amen, he
might even cry. Not much
repercussions. If I sin
against my wife, it might
mean I sleep on the couch
outside. Alright so far I
have not done that, alright.
If I sinned against you as a
friend or as a colleague,
Amen, you might not just
give me anymore assistance
or whatever, you just ignore
me. That’s the price I pay,
that’s the penalty. If I
sinned against my boss, I
might not be in for
promotion anytime soon. But
if I sinned against the
president, if I sinned
against you know in a major
way, I did something really
bad, whatever, I mean the
repercussion can be, not
just imprisonment, can be
death sentence. Even in the
natural we talk about this.
And the world understands
this, and yet when people
sinned against God, they
think it’s nothing. We are
sinning against a thrice
Holy God. Amen? God is Holy,
Amen? And sin will be
punished, but God so loved
the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him
shall not perish but have
everlasting life. This is
the gospel of Jesus Christ,
that God intervened when all
of us actually on like a
chute, going down on the
rubbish chute to be burned
in an incinerator, and you
wouldn’t even know, you can
shout, “I don’t like God”,
but you are going there.
Listen, you can shout all
you want, you can use the
breath that God gives you to
shout up to the highest
heaven, alright that you
don’t believe God and all
that, you are still not
going to change your
destination. You cannot, you
see, yes you are free, but
you cannot change the result
of your choice. You put your
finger in the fire you
cannot say, “I choose to put
my finger in the fire but I
do not choose to be burn”.
Sorry, the consequence is
established. Finger in fire,
burn. Very simple. It’s like
two and two is four, equals
burn. Amen? So the thing you
can shout and all that but I
look at the world that is
professing themselves to be
wise become fools. We have
much more help than we ever
have people at our
fingertips. Amen? We got
assistants, we got things to
help us save time, and yet
we are rushing for time. We
are supposed to be happier
now, we have more wealth.
Many countries are
developing, Amen? Right? But
it’s not enough. Even our
previous or present phone is
not enough. There is a new
phone. The phone is supposed
to help us save time. All
these devices are supposed
to help us save time, like
the washing machine, helps
us save time to washing and
all that, and it’s
convenient, helps us save
energy and effort, and you
know time use for other
things. But we don’t have
time for family. We sit down
in the same table, four,
five, six, seven of us, and
then we are looking at
something else. Things that
cannot love us, things that
cannot repay us. Amen?
Archibald Hawke, a man, a
professor, a Christian
professor said this that
there is a condition called
‘Anhedonia’, ‘Anhedonia’,
‘Hedonia’, from the word
‘Hedonistic’, like you know,
‘Pursuit of pleasure’. ‘An’
means ‘Neutralise’. That
means it is, there is no
more pleasure. We are a
society that doesn’t
understand what is pleasure
anymore. We have so much
pleasure that pleasure is no
more pleasure. We become
jaded. So when God tells us
His ways is to enhance your
pleasure, is to complete
your joy. “These things I
have spoken to you”, the
Lord said, “That my joy
might remain in you, and
that your joy might be
full”. God is not a joy
killer, He is a joy giver.
Have you noticed when the
devil takes hold of someone
in their mind and all that,
they become depressed? Have
you noticed that there is no
joy? That’s what the devil
produces. He produces
depression. And then he
tells you, “Alright you take
this tranquiliser it will
help you”. Next thing you
know, you are addicted to
tranquiliser. You try to
stop the tranquiliser, you
go in spiral downward in an
even worse depression. So
what’s the answer? Another
type of tranquiliser to
neutralise the effect of the
first tranquiliser. Amen?
And then now you are a drug
addict. Amen? “Pastor, where
are we heading with this?”
Good news is coming. And
recently I read in Singapore
that more young people are
committing suicide. They
have, they have more
clothing, and shoes, and
gadgets, Amen, and
knowledge, and social media,
I think they are supposed to
have more friends right? And
yet they are still unhappy.
Are we missing something?
Yes. We forget, sin is sin,
and there is a devil. We
need to find God’s plan,
Amen, and God wants you to
know His plans, He loves
you. And all the people say?
Amen. So now that we are
saved, alright I am speaking
to the people that have put
their trust in Christ,
Christ died for our sins and
rose again from the dead
without our sins. He
effectively put them all
away through His blood.
Amen? And when He rose from
the dead from then on your
identity is now in Him. So
Romans 5 tells us,
“Therefore since we have
been justified through
faith, we have peace with
God”, not trying to look for
it, “Through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom also we
have gained access by faith
into this grace”, into this
favour, “in which we now
stand”. Folks once you are
justified by faith, you have
access. It’s like speaking
to this generation.
Everything you must have
access, Amen? You go into a
building, you got to have
access to that building. You
got to know the password,
the pin, the code, anything.
Your ATM, got to have
access. You got to have
access to your ATM, you got
to have the, your pin
number, am I right? Well now
that we are justified by
faith with God, we have
access into this place
called favour, grace. In
this grace where we stand,
wherever you go is grace
ground. I want you know you
are not like the people of
the world. You are in the
world but you are not of the
world. Therefore the things
of the world should not
affect you, should not come
on you. But we know
Christians are also known
for divorce cases,
depression, and being drug
addicts and things like
that. This should not be.
But God wants you to be set
free, and whom the Son sets
free is free indeed. Amen?
We are not going to join the
ranks of people, Amen,
justifying their sin,
negating God, making
themselves cast as God. “I
know better than God”.
Always saying, “How can God?
How can God? How can God?”
You with your peanut brain
want to judge the Almighty
God? Wrong. We got the whole
thing in reverse. Amen. God
is the judge. Compared to
Him, you won’t last long you
know. He will outlast you.
Let me tell you this, Amen.
So we have access by faith
into this grace. So now we
have access by faith into
this favour. Grace can be
favour. It’s favour, this
place of favour with God.
Favour ground. We boast in
the hope of the glory of
God. That means hope is
always future. Hope is a
positive expectation of
good. In fact, Vine defines
‘Hope’, the Greek word for
‘Hope’ is, think of ‘Elvis’
ok, then you will understand
this. You memorise this
‘Elpis’, say ‘Elpis’, not
‘Elvis’, ‘Elpis’. Shouldn’t
have mentioned ‘Elvis’ then.
Instead of ‘V’, ‘P’, ok.
‘Elpis’ is a ‘Positive
expectation of good’. Vine,
this Greek scholar. He says
that ‘Elpis’ is a
‘Favourable and Confident
Expectation’. He also said
it’s a ‘Happy Expectation of
Good’. In fact the most
frequently used is ‘The
Happy Expectation of Good’.
That’s hope. Amen? And the
Bible says we boast,
literally the word is
‘Boast’ in the positive
expectation of good in our
future, and this good is the
glory of God. Glory of God
manifested in our lives,
Amen? In our person. For sin
is defined as ‘Coming
short’, or ‘Forfeiting the
Glory of God’, we are back.
Amen? And the Glory will
manifest in your marriage.
It will manifest in your
body. It will manifest in
your relationships. It will
manifest in everything you
touch, think, say, and do.
Amen? Praise God. So next
verse it says not only that
we glory or boast in
anticipation of the glory of
God, not only that, we also
boast in our sufferings. The
Old King James says
tribulations. Sufferings,
now this is like weird, if
you think about it, “We
boast in our sufferings?”
Sufferings is not from God.
Look at God’s original plan
in the Garden of Eden. No
one suffered. Everything was
there in abundance. Alright,
suffering came because of
sin. But it’s just telling
you, when suffering
happened, now God is going
to deal with the world as it
is because of what Jesus did
at the cross, now suffering
will produce something in
you, if you know the plan of
God. So whatever suffering
is, Amen. It does not say
you will stay in that
suffering. It says that
suffering, when we boast in
suffering, knowing this,
suffering produces
perseverance. I told some
Pastors you know the other
day that, “I don’t think I
will be the Pastor I am
today had I not learned in
my teens, suffering”. Not
learned. You don’t learn,
don’t go to a school to
learn. I am more or less
forced into it. Amen? I
suffered, I suffered
thinking that I had
committed the unpardonable
sin. I suffered very young.
Compared to my friends, I am
thinking to myself, “Why
can’t I have an enjoyable
life?” I suffered having
sleepless nights. I suffered
feeling like demons talking
to me at night, oppressing
my sleep. I suffered
thinking I have lost my
salvation. I suffered all
those things at a young age.
18, 19 years old. You know
when I looked back it
produced something in me,
perseverance. So much so
that the other sufferings
now, and I suffered people
saying bad things about me,
Amen, even as a pastor. I
have suffered, Amen? People
saying lying things about me
and I feel like defending
myself and the Lord says,
“No, suffer it”. Like David
did, alright because I want
you to know, you cannot
defend yourself. But when I
look back now whatever
people say doesn’t matter.
It’s like there is something
inside me already that I
have persevered through that
and now is like what you
call it ‘Chicken feet’,
‘Water off the duck’s back’.
This is just a little
comment, Amen. “Who said
it?” “Oh that person said
it”. “Ok fine”. Amen? It’s
no more, I really don’t, I
am not one of those that
there are ten comments, one
negative comment, you zero
your mind on it and you
think about it, you are
obsessed with it. I got no
time. I don’t even have time
to look at my social media.
I don’t even know what’s the
latest following. Amen. So,
I know many of you, you
can’t understand that kind
of life right? Amen? You are
looking all the time right?
Halfway I’m preaching you
are also looking. Amen? You
know what I call that? If
your name is James, that’s
call ‘James Bondage’. I am
trying to say it nicely.
It’s bondage. It’s bondage
to have to look all the time
to see how many are
following, how many are you
know. And uh, “But, Pastor
Prince, you got no one
following you.” Maybe, ok?
Maybe I, that’s the reason
why I don’t want to uh, look
at it, alright? But, but,
really uh, that’s not the,
uh, the life that God wants
us to live. It goes up when
someone comments well, and
it goes down when someone
comments really bad. To see
who is following you, or,
or, or fear of missing out,
you know, the FOMO syndrome,
Amen, or I call it FOLO,
alright, Fear of Losing Out
here in Singapore. Amen?
And, and, you know, heh,
it’s a bondage. It’s really
a bondage. Life should be
happier than just at, every
time there’s a, there’s a
“ting”, you gotta look in
your phone. I mean like,
life gotta be, come on, life
gotta be simpler than that,
happier and peaceful. Can I
have a good “Amen”? No, I’m
not knocking those phone and
all that, I have a, I have a
handphone and I carry it
everywhere I go, ok, not
now, Amen? But, it’s a
function. It’s a tool. I do
not serve it. It serves me.
When it calls, I don’t
kowtao and obey all the time
and say, “Yes, master, here
I am. What is thy message?”
“Open the gate first.” “Yes,
master.” “Release me. Access
code. Your thumb print or
whatever.” “Yes, master.”
I’m sorry, I’m trying to
make you fear, to see that
the whole thing is bondage.
Whether it’s James Bondage
or Jane Bondage, I mean
it’s, it’s bondage. “Pastor,
you are so corny.” I know.
Perseverance will produce
character; character, hope
You see, see what produces
“hope” – positive
expectation of good?
Suffering produces
perseverance, perseverance
produce character.
Character. That’s what I’m
looking for when I, when I
think of uh, leaders to
govern this great people; to
provide over-sight for this
great people here in New
Creation Church. I look for
proven character. I don’t, I
don’t just go for, “Oh, you
know, I mean, I look for
proven character. Character
of people who know that they
are weak, depending on His
strength. People who have
gone through hell and come
out the other side, knowing
the, the, only the Lord, His
strength, Amen, His love
that matters. Not human
effort. These are the ones,
proven character. Then, it
will produce hope. Hope for
your future. And Hope does
not, Listen carefully. Hope
does not put us to shame.
When you have hope, it will
not put you to shame. Today,
the world says what? “Don’t
raise your…?” Can I tell you
something? This is your
pastor talking to you. Don’t
raise your hopelessness.
It’s already there already.
Don’t raise it anymore. You
don’t need help to raise
your hopelessness. Every
time you look at the News,
it’s raised. Every time you
hear someone say something,
it’s raised. The world, by
default mode, is negative.
Amen. You don’t hear, uh,
uh, you know, News does not
thrive on, on good news.
Today, uh, 3-million and uh,
500-thousand and 345 planes
landed safely. Which is
true. Maybe not 3 million
but I’m just rounding off
figures somewhere from my
head. I’m just saying that
there are thousands and
thousands of planes that
landed safely but they will
not announce that. They
announce the one that has a
engine trouble. Right?
That’s how News work. But
then what do you focus on?
That one. So, you take the
plane, guess what? Maybe
mine is the one. You are the
one. Instead of being
powered by “one”, you are
being disempowered by that
one bad news. Huh? That’s
not hope. It’s the opposite
of hope. It’s no positive
expectation, expectation of
good. The Bible says God
wants us to have hope. Amen.
God wants us to have hope.
And this hope will not put
you to shame. And the world
says, “You raise your hope,
you’ll be disappointed.” You
raise your hope, you’ll be
disappointed. Because once
upon a time, when we were
younger, without Christ,
yes, we raise our hopes, we
were, we were people that,
young people are very
optimistic; you know what
I’m saying? They, they, they
have a positive expectation
of good, they believe they
can become the president,
uh, they can become the, uh,
uh, uh, a doctor; they
believe they can become an
astronaut, you know, they
have, they have hope. But
then, without Christ, hope
has no power. Amen. The
reason you can believe for
a, a, a good in your future,
for a, for a confident
expectation of good, for a
happy anticipation of good
in your future, is because
at the Cross, Jesus bore all
your sins and cancelled out
all the effects of those
sins and the harvest of
those sins. There’s no bad
things that will come back
to haunt you. All your,
your, your harvest of wages
of sin, the harvest of your
sins, have all been, been
uh, been uh, harvested at
the Cross, if I can say
that. And, and those
harvests is, is cut down.
Amen. When Jesus cried
“finished”, there’s nothing
waiting for you in the
future except good. So,
believers should raise
their, their hope. Elpis.
Are you listening, people?
And this hope, the Bible
promised, will not put you
to shame. If you are sick in
your body, you should have
hope that you will be well.
If you are suffering
addiction, you must have
hope that you will get out
of it and you will be
delivered from it and much
better, much free-er, much
stronger than ever before.
Amen. If you are advancing
in years, you must have hope
that there are people who
are young and strong and you
will feel stronger and
younger than you were to,
half your age. When you were
half your age, uh, Amen, you
were weaker, you were always
tired, you’ll be stronger
than that age. You gotta
have hope. So, when you hear
people talking about hope,
you don’t get angry. You
know, he’s just painting
pictures for people to be,
uh, to be hopeful about.
Amen? And see? I told you
there’re, there are a lot of
evangelists of hopelessness.
We don’t need anymore. Amen.
We need people to give hope
and the Bible, the Bible
preaches hope. Amen. When
you read the Bible, it gives
you hope. The Bible says
that through the comfort of
Scriptures, we might find
hope and consolation.
There’s a verse that says
through the Scriptures we
find hope. Now the God of
hope God is called the God
of Hope. Now the God of Hope
fill you with all peace and
believing, in believing.
Amen. So that you can have
hope. It tells us that. The
God of Hope gives you hope.
You have a God. It’s not
just a, “I hope it will
happen one day.” But you’re,
you’re without any power to
see it come to pass. No. The
God of Hope is behind your
hope. So, if you are
oppressed, Yes, you can be
free, but uh, you can’t
imagine how is, how does
freedom look like, Amen, how
does a peaceful night of
rest look like, how, how is
freedom from, from uh,
bitterness and unforgiveness
look like. How is life like
without being negative
towards people all the time,
fault finding with people
all the time. You know, how
can, how, how does it look
like, Pastor Prince? Amen.
You gotta have hope first
before you can see it. No,
Pastor, the Bible says that
faith is more important. The
Bible says that Jesus turned
to the woman who touched
his, the hem of his garment
and she was healed, Jesus
said “your faith made you
well”. The Bible says
without faith it’s
impossible to please God.
You are right. Faith is like
the currency of heaven. Show
God your faith, He shows you
what you want. I, I’m
putting it very simply.
Amen? Like, if, if you go to
Euro, Europe, you must have
the Euro. You go to Japan,
you gotta have the Yen.
Alright? It doesn’t work for
you, they mana accept your
Singapore dollar? Amen? Not
because there’s no value,
it’s not their currency. The
currency of exchange. So,
Heaven’s currency is faith.
Yes. And faith comes by
hearing and hearing by the
word of God. That’s why you
are hearing now. Amen? But,
friend, have you ever read
this verse? Hebrews 11 verse
1. Faith, Now, faith is the
substance of things hoped
for… Which one comes first?
If English is your language,
tell me now, which one comes
first? Faith is the
substance of things hoped
for… Which one comes first?
If there’s no hope, faith
has no substance. Cos faith
is the substance of what?
Things hoped for. You gotta
have some, you gotta have
hope. Hope your body will be
well. To, and some people
are taught, you know, some,
I, I, your, your background,
you are taught that you
gotta have faith; faith is
what heals, not hope. I
understand that. But listen
carefully. Without hope,
there’s, there, there can be
no faith. You gotta believe
that your child will be
well. You gotta have that
hope. You gotta pray, like,
you know, thanking God for
that. Amen. Then your faith
will work because faith is
the substance. Hupostasis,
which is “under”, “Hupo”,
“stasis” is “stand”. Faith
is the thing that makes you
stand, in the things that
you hope for. Faith
undergirds you. Amen. For
the things that you hope
for. So, faith is actually
under your feet in this
verse. Hupostasis, which is
the Greek word “Substance”.
“Hope for” is in front of
you; your goal, your
destination. So that pain in
your body, you gotta hope
for a future where you are
free from it. It can happen
in one fell swoop, it can
happen gradually as you
partake of the Lord’s
supper, Communion. There’s a
lot of sick people, you
know. There’s a lot of pe,
uh, physically sick, I mean.
There’s a lot of sick people
in the world. Someone knows
someone, very close who is
sick. And that’s why the
Lord has provided “The
Lord’s Supper”. Amen. And
it’s called “The Lord’s
Supper” not “The Lord’s
Breakfast” because it is for
the night seasons of your
life. It is, the Bible says
the Passover was, was
instituted, Amen, between
two evenings and the Bible
says “twilight” time. But
they actually partake,
partook of it night time.
The Passover. Jesus, in the
L, in the Last Supper, He
instituted the Lord’s
Supper, Amen, for us
believers. After He took the
Passover, He, He, institute
the Lord’s Supper. The Lord
in the night, in the night
that He was betrayed, He
took bread. Maybe it’s a
night season as well. Maybe
you have been betrayed. What
do you do? Take the Lord’s
Supper. Remember Him. Maybe
right now, you feel like,
like all your exercise, all
your observing good diet and
all that has betrayed you.
All of a sudden you are
stunned. The doctors give
you this, this diagnosis,
this prognosis and uh, you
do not know what to say
because you’ve, you’ve eaten
well, I mean, you, you, you
observe all that; you feel
betrayed, don’t you? Or you
do a lot of things for
someone and then that person
turns around and pours the
love or favour on somebody
else instead. You feel
betrayed, don’t you? Well,
Jesus, in the night that He
was betrayed, 1st
Corinthians 11, took bread.
I think it’s an example for
all of us. In the night
season, take bread. Remember
Him. And, by the way, the
bread is not just for
physical healing, alright,
the broken body of Jesus, is
also for your deliverance,
for your oppression, your
mind. Your mind. Your mind
that is full of worry and
care. You know the, the, the
old English word for
“worry”? Is, is a, is a word
that means “strangle”. And
sometimes worry does that,
isn’t it? It, it strangles
you like, you can’t breathe.
When you worry about
something, it’s like hah,
you gotta wake up because
you are so full of worry.
Worry is from the word
“strangle”, an old English
for the word “strangle”.
That’s where worry comes
from. Fear, anxiety, it’s
the same. Oppression. I tell
you this, it’s gotta do with
your mind. The Lord’s
Supper, when Jesus, on the
road of Emmaus, at the end
of the journey, the
seven-mile journey, He went
into the house of the two
and then He took bread.
Amen. The guest became the
host. And when He took the
bread, the Bible says, He
broke the bread, their eyes
were open. Their mind was
beginning to comprehend. The
understanding returned.
There’s another verse where
He appeared in the upper
room then “open He their
understanding”. So, the
Lord’s Supper is to open
your understanding to the
wisdom of God. Amen. Many a
times, if you are oppressed,
you are depressed, you can
hardly even hear a sermon
like this. You’re, you’re
tst, tst, tst, listen,
listen, chuup, chuup, yup,
yup. It’s not going to
happen. Chuup. Now. Now.
Now. Now. Faith is. Now.
Now. Be in the “now”. People
cannot be in the “now”
because you know what? Fear
and worry got to do with,
nothing but, nothing to do
with the “now”. Fear is
something to do with the
future, alright? Worry is
the future. Guilt,
condemnation, regret, the
past. So, if you are in
regret, you’re worry, you’re
not living “now”. You can be
in a very beautiful place.
You are in Hawaii.
“Aloha-oi, Aloha-oi”, and
they, and, and they are
dancing in front of you,
calling, “Oi, Oi, Oi” so
many times and you are
like…. You are, you are
worried. You are living in
the future, not living in
Hawaii. I’m just giving you
an example that, you know,
people don’t live in the
“now”. The Bible says, “Now,
faith IS”. Both “now”,
between “faith” is “now” and
“is”. Both are present
tense. Live in the “now” and
you live in the realm of
faith. The Bible says the
time of salvation is now.
It’s never in the future.
Amen. “The time of
salvation,” the word
“salvation”, Soteria is also
for healing, wholeness,
deliverance, is now. If you
live in the “now”, the Bible
says God is a very present
help. He is a very present
help. Very present help in
our time of need. Amen? So,
our minds are the ones being
attacked. We are attacked
like, you know, it’s crazy.
Yah, people cannot focus
because, today especially,
the phone and urm, our
social media and the s, the
kind of culture that we live
in, is full of distractions.
We are so afraid of missing
out that we want to have
every information that we
can have but that knowledge
isn’t re, does it remind you
of the Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil? The tree
that God didn’t want man to
eat from is not just a tree
of evil. It’s a tree of
knowledge of good, of good
even, and evil. Amen. God
wants man to live from the
tree of life. Amen. So,
knowing that knowledge, what
has it done for you, for
your marriage? What has, has
it done for your health?
What has it done for your
peace of mind? What has it
done for you financially?
What has it done for you
especially in your walk with
God? Amen? In enjoying the,
the, the kingdom life, Amen,
that God wants you to enjoy;
the abundant life that Jesus
came to give you? What has
it done for you? You spend
so much time, you should
spend time, why, but the,
Isaiah says it like this,
and so relevant for our
times, he says, “Why do you
spend time for what is not
bread? And for that which
does not satisfy?” Why do we
spend so much time? Amen. We
should, I’m not saying we
don’t, throw away your phone
or whatever. I didn’t say
that. I’m saying control it.
Don’t let it control you.
It’s almost like there’s an
invisible chain, you know,
sometimes. And, and best of
all, in church today, no one
knows you are reading the
Bible on, on your phone or
you are actually surfing on
the phone. I know there are
pastors who are not happy
when people fall asleep in
thoughts. I was so sincere.
I want to be so close to
God, all of a sudden, Bang!
Blasphemous thoughts start
coming in my mind. And I
thought it was like this,
from me. I never knew it’s
from outside in. I didn’t
know the devil can give you
thoughts. Like, like uh,
Peter told Ananias, “Why has
Satan put in your heart”.
Judas Iscariot, Satan put
into his heart. Likewise,
how does God speak to you?
Nehemiah. God has put in my
heart. Man of God, God has
placed in my heart a desire.
It is God who works in you.
Not outside. In you. In
fact, God, God works in you.
The devil works from outside
because God forbid the devil
works from inside. Oh, you
don’t want the devil work
from inside. What’s your
name? “Legion”. Today,
what’s your name? “Zombie”.
And that’s what a person who
is, who is uh, a zombie is a
person who is half dead,
half alive. You know, the
living dead, the walking
dead. It’s literally sinners
without Christ. They are
alive, their hearts goes
“Boob boob, boob boob, boob
boob”, but they are dead.
And they feed on flesh. Only
fleshly pursuits. You are
not created for the dust.
You are created for heavenly
things, child of God. Amen.
Just like, a little uh,
eaglet among the chickens.
Somehow it was born among
the chickens but, when it
looks at the eagle scream
high up there, with that
streak, that cry, something
inside the eaglet says I
belong there. And all the
chicken say, “No, no, no,
no, no. Not practical lah,
you. Not practical lah. Wake
up to reality. Wake up.
Don’t raise your hopes so
high. No chicken can fly so
high. One day he will fall.
One day he will fall. One
day he will fall.” Amen?
Phoouah! Next thing you
know, “Hey, you heard
brother Cockadoodledoo?
“Yah, what happened?”
“Yesterday a snake came and
gobbled him up.” “Oh, but
the other day, I saw that
eagle with a snake in his
mouth. He flew really high,
then he dropped the snake
among the rocks then I saw
him fly down and eat the
snake.” They that wait upon
the Lord shall renew their
strength. They shall mount
up with wings as eagles.
They shall run and not be
weary But before this verse,
it says, Even the youths
shall faint And those who
don’t wait upon the Lord,
they shall faint. Even the
youths shall faint and the
young man shall utterly fall
but they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their
strength. Regardless of age.
Amen? They shall mount up
with wings as eagles; they
shall run and not be weary
They shall walk and not
faint. Can I have a good
“Amen”? Listen. Here’s where
we gotta watch it. The devil
attacks here. Anyway, you
know what he does or not? He
throw that thought in you,
“I’m an addict.” He use the
personal pronoun. He doesn’t
use the second person “You”.
He use the first person “I”,
as if you are thinking those
thoughts. So, many a times,
I would have blas,
blasphemous thoughts and I’d
think it’s from me against
God. “Aah! Oh no! Oh no!”
and then he will, when I’m
praying, bad thoughts about
God, “Zhook, zhook, zhook”,
a lot of blasphemous
thoughts. Then I stop
praying. Then slowly,
slowly, I, I just left. I
know He never leaves me, but
I left the Lord. Amen.
There’s just the blasphemous
thoughts and I own it, you
know, just like the saying,
“You can’t stop birds from
flying over your head, but
you can stop them from
making a nest.” You can, you
know. You can stop them from
making a nest. It’s not, not
sitting down there, “Is he
making a nest?” I think so,
sure looks like a nest to
me. I can’t tell because
sometimes your hair is a
nest but I think there’s a
bird there. Oops, sorry, now
there’s an egg in the nest.
On your nest. You can stop
the bird from, you know, you
can’t stop thoughts from
flying. Some bad thoughts
will come. Amen. It happens
to all of us. Now, here’s a
word of deliverance: When a
bad thought comes, listen
carefully, when an evil
thought comes, blasphemous
thought comes, don’t own it.
It’s a bird flying, that’s
all. It does not define you.
Yup, including the bad
thought you had about me
when I came up just now.
It’s not you. You love me
and I love you. Hehe. Amen?
1st Thessalonians 5, it
says: Now, let us who are of
the day be sober, Alright,
we, we don’t belong to the
night season but we go
through the night season.
One day there’ll be no more
night, the Bible tells us.
But we are children of the
day, we are children of the
light. Let us put on the
breastplate, …putting on the
breastplate of faith and
love So, the breastplate
protects you, your heart.
Your heart is where the
accusation comes in. The
devil accuses you on your
heart. Your conscience is
always this realm. Faith and
love will protect your heart
and that’s why, regardless
of what you hear, a, a
sermon, whatever it is, if
you leave with fear, if you
leave with, with, with a
attitude of “holier than
thou”, bitter towards other
Christians and all that, you
have not heard the Word of
God. Because the Word of God
will always cause the
breastplate of faith and
love to be on your heart, on
your conscience. Can I have
a good “Amen”? And then it
says, …and as a helmet, the
hope of salvation. The hope
of Soteria. Salvation is a
all-encompassing word,
all-inclusive word. It
includes not just salvation
from eternal destruction,
salvation from hell, but
salvation from sickness.
Look it up. The word
“Salvation” is a noun,
feminine noun, but the word,
“soteria” is a feminine
noun, but it comes from the
verb “Sozo” where Jesus told
the woman, just now we
talked about the woman who
came behind and re, receive
healing, Jesus says, “Your
faith has sozo you.” So,
sozo is al, soteria is also
healing. Cos sozo is in it.
It’s the verb form of
soteria. Amen? Healing. It’s
rescue. Rescue from danger.
Deliverance. Protection.
H’wah! It’s, so when, when,
when the angel was sent and
said, “And you shall call
his name Jesus”, in the
Greek, it will be: You’ll
call his name Soteria.
Salvation. His name. It is
all-inclusive name. And He
demonstrated His name
everywhere He went. He set
people free. The L-Legion,
uh, the, the guy who was
possessed with the, with so
many demons, He set him
free. So much so the man
wants to be with Jesus.
Amen. He healed. Everywhere
He went, He healed all those
who were oppressed of the
devil. God was with Him. Can
I have a good “Amen”? I, I
feel like the Holy Spirit is
telling me to tell many of
you watching this, you are
having bat, battle with your
thoughts, you know why? You
know why those thoughts
linger? Because you own it.
You say it’s you. So as long
as you own it amen, it
becomes yours. And it stays
because it’s yours. But the
moment you say no this is
not my thoughts, these are
not my thoughts. Many of you
have had thoughts like like
you look down a very high
building and all that and
the thought comes, “Jump.”
Amen? Don’t say how can I
think that way, how can I?
Don’t accept it it’s not
you. But the problem happens
when young people start
accepting that and I think
that’s the reason why many
are now very susceptible to
those thoughts. And they
don’t have this hope of
salvation. Hope of salvation
means like positive,
confident, happy expectation
of good in your future. As a
result that you know you are
saved, Jesus took your sins
at the cross, there is no
sin that will penalise you
or produce a bad fruit in
your future. It’s all been
paid by Jesus. It’s a hope
of salvation. You have
salvation. You have Jesus.
You have forgiveness of
sins. You have deliverance
from the curse of the law.
You have a good future amen.
Only the blessings of God
are in store for you in the
future. So hope is a helmet.
It’s a helmet on your head
amen. To protect you from –
you got to have a hope.
Because of salvation you are
saved that’s why the world,
the world cannot raise their
hopes and rightly so they
cannot they have no
foundation for their hope.
They just hope for the best
and that’s the language they
use. That is not your
language child of God. You
have a solid, rock solid
foundation to believe the
best good in your future.
Amen? Jesus paid for you,
it’s a rock-solid
foundation. Why can you
believe that you can be free
from that addiction? Jesus
shed His blood for it. Amen.
Why why can you believe that
you can be well from that
symptom, even though it’s a
chronic symptom for years.
Because Jesus paid for it
and you are partaking the
Lord’s Supper. You are
getting better and better
and better and better. Eat
your bread with joy and
drink your wine happily,
cheerfully. Let your head
lack no ointment child of
God. Amen. You listening? So
put on the breastplate. You
know as a young person I was
sharing with you that I read
a book that says you can
lose your salvation. And for
some reason I believe this
author. I believe you can
lose your salvation. The
moment I did that, bang! All
those blasphemous thoughts
came. I can point to the
very time when I started
believing what I read. I
don’t fault the author ok? I
believe it ok? And I believe
you can lose your salvation
which I know now you cannot
amen? It’s called eternal
security praise God. And and
but I believe that. But the
moment I believed that
that’s when all those
blasphemous thoughts came.
You know why? There is no
more helmet. There is no
hope of salvation. Even
though I was saved, I have
salvation, there’s no hope.
Because I believe I was
lost. The moment the first
thought came against the
Holy Spirit, blasphemous
thoughts, bang, I said I
committed the unpardonable
sin, which is not. I nearly
lost my mind, both Pastor
Mark and I. The helmet, the
breastplate are so vital to
guard your heart from an
evil conscience, from
accusations. Say I am the
righteousness of God in
Christ. Amen? And the helmet
got to be there because when
the devil says no, you will
die, you know why you will
die? Because your parents
died. Your father died of
this disease, your father
has this disease. So your
father has it aright, you
will have it. That’s how
science goes, natural
things. Now the chickens are
talking right? But you are
an eagle, eaglet. And you
are sprouting wings now
amen? You belong to the
heavenlies, not dust bound.
Not dirt bound. You belong
to the heavenlies, child of
God. Listen, so when you
hear that kind of talk,
albeit sincere and all that,
in your mind, reject it in
Jesus’ name. Don’t accept
natural verdict of men lest
their verdict becomes a
sentence ok? You believe
that word more than your
Father’s word? Yes, I am
like my Father, tell the
person. And I’ll end up like
my Father. The question is
which heavenly Father or the
earthly father? Amen?
Because when I got born
again I received a brand-new
DNA amen? Amen. That’s what
old things are passed away
all things are become new
amen? That is the statement
of our church. New Creation
Church. Therefore, if any
man be in Christ, he is a
new creation. Old things are
passed away all things have
become new. Number two,
bringing this to a close
already. Hope is an anchor
for your soul. It’s an
anchor for your soul. In
those days when Paul wrote
this and I believe Paul is
the author of Hebrews and by
the Holy Spirit. The picture
then was that they travelled
by ship, they travelled by
boats ok? Vessels in those
days. They don’t fly in
those days. But there is a
promise that God says I will
cause you to ride the high
places of the earth, I think
it’s written to our times.
Amen? But during that time
they go by boats, they go by
vessels. Amen. So if they
stop somewhere in the middle
of the sea or somewhere near
a port or whatever, they
cannot go in yet or
whatever, what they need to
do, not in the middle of the
sea usually but where there
is even though it’s very
deep but there is ground,
they will lower the anchor.
Lower the anchor. Now once
the anchor takes hold, the
heavy anchor, it drops
bottom, once it takes hold,
listen carefully, the heavy
anchor will stabilise the
boat. Get the picture? Let’s
read the verse first. It
says that by two things
which cannot, that is
impossible for God to lie,
we might have strong
consolation, who have fled
for refuge to lay hold of
the hope set before us.
Church, this is the language
to the Hebrews. They
understand the city of
refuge. Paul is using their
analogy from the Old
Testament. Amen. From their
law where someone who
commits manslaughter, he
kills someone, albeit it’s
not intentional, he can flee
to a place call a city of
refuge. Amen are you
listening? And there are
cities of refuge all over
Israel. But he must run in
before the avenger of blood,
that person’s brother or
cousin or whatever who wants
to avenge his dead brother.
He’s going to find you. If
he finds you before you
reach the city he can kill
you. He can kill you
legitimately. Amen? It’s a
picture of sinners and there
is an avenger of blood amen.
And he is after you because
he has a right to destroy
you because you have sinned.
And the wages of sin is
death. So he is coming after
you but Jesus came as a city
of refuge. Amen. And when
you enter the city of
refuge, listen carefully,
your identity is no more
that of a sinner. Because
the city of refuge is
inhabited by priests. And
the priests they eat the
best. They drink the best.
They have to be in the best
state because they come
close to God, to offer the
offerings of the people and
the priests are never
neglected. The priests, I am
saying never neglected in a
generic way. In the Bible
Old Testament there was a
time even Nehemiah knew it,
they were neglected and all
that. I am speaking of God,
God’s plan for them was
never to be neglected. So
the cities of refuge is a
place where there is
abundance. So the sinner
lives as if he is one of the
chosen ones to come close to
God. Priests are close to
God. So it’s a picture of us
going to Jesus as our
refuge. You understand that
so far? So we have fled for
refuge, to lay hold of the
hope. Remember it’s
impossible for God to lie.
There are some things that
are impossible for God to
do. One is impossible for
God to lie. Impossible.
Impossible. Impossible. So
that we can have a strong
consolation. Those of us who
have fled for refuge to lay
hold of the hope set before
us. Lay hold of this
positive confident
expectation of good. Church,
don’t just listen to a
sermon, tell yourself I lay
hold of it! In your specific
circumstances whatever you
are faced with right now,
the doctors gave you a bad
report and all that, shift
away from there, instead of
looking at the dark future,
I told my friend Samuel
Smadja, I told my friend who
was suffering from that
bladder cancer, very rare
form of bladder cancer where
the doctor says even with,
even with treatment there’s
only 20 percent of survival
chance. And he told me he
started taking communion
many many times. Many times.
He said, in fact I talked to
him the other day on the
phone and he said that I’ve
never taken holy communion
more times than during these
months when he was
diagnosed. Even with
treatment only 20 percent of
recovery. When I was in
Israel with the pastors this
past March and I looked at
him and I talked to him,
I’ve never seen my good
friend so downcast, so
depressed you know. And when
we prayed for him, I had
this in my spirit, this
verse from Isaiah 54,
because of Isaiah 53, what
Jesus did at the cross,
Isaiah 54 says spare not.
Come on, lengthen your
cords, because they live in
tents. Lengthen your tents
amen. Get ready for growth
for you will break forth on
the right hand and from the
left. You will have many
children. For them in those
days it’s a great blessing
to have many children amen.
Lengthen your cords prepare
for success. Prepare for
healing, prepare for a
healthy life. Amen so I said
I see this my friend and I
see your future. Right now
you are not planning for
your future. All you see is
darkness. Friend, don’t do
that. Start seeing yourself
going to America, start
seeing yourself having
holidays there. Start seeing
yourself enjoying yourself,
because he has relatives and
friends in America and all
that. I start saying start
planning. You are not
planning right? He said no.
Start planning amen? Plan
for a person who is
successful, healthy and
strong going to all these
places. And when we talked
the other day you know he
was still reminded of what I
said. What was I doing? I am
giving him hope. Now some
people will say you know,
when they hear me talk like
that, the chickens will
gather and say you should
not raise his hopes. Sorry,
I wasn’t talking to you. It
was an eagle to an eagle.
One eagle is hurt, I am just
telling that eagle amen, I
know my Father. Today he is
completely healed.
Completely healed,
completely well. Had I, had
I received his testimony
just as our book Eat Your
Way to Life And Health went
into print, had I heard his
testimony amen, I would have
included that last testimony
in the book. By the way that
book has so many
testimonies. And one of the
best things to do when you
have been given a bad
diagnosis by the doctor and
all that is to just go
through the testimonies one
by one. And you’ll be
surprised, they did that?
Sometimes I myself who
preached the sermon, I look
at their life and I – they
did that? They take what I
share really all the way.
And I see the life, these
are real life testimonies of
people. Every chapter has a
testimony. Even that
Alzheimer. We are having
testimonies of more than one
testimony of people
suffering from Alzheimer,
reversed, start recognising
their family members. Come
on. Taking the Lord’s
Supper, yes. The whole fall
of man happened because of
eating. You say that just
eating alone can change? The
whole fall of man happened
because of eating. And God
has ordained just by simply
eating, but eating the
Lord’s body amen, you enter
back into all that God has
for you. Can I have a good
amen? It’s an anchor of your
soul. So what happen? When
when a ship drops anchor and
a storm arises? Come on talk
to me. What happens? He has
dropped anchor then a storm
arises, then the winds blew,
blew against that that
vessel that boat. And the
waves come and hit the boat.
Will it just move off and
sway somewhere, amen, and be
at the mercy tossed to and
fro by the waves of the sea?
No why? Because of the
anchor. You don’t see the
anchor but the anchor holds
you. And hope is an anchor.
O I am getting ahead of
myself. This hope we have as
an anchor of the soul. This
hope is an anchor. It holds
you. First of all you think
you think you have hope you
raise you hope man. You see
the hope of your future the
way the Bible says that you
have amen. And those of you
who are planning for
marriage. You say you know
Pastor Prince I look at my
available balance in my ATM
not much. I look at my
future I want to marry this
girl, I don’t think next
year can do it. No friend,
if you want to marry her she
wants to marry you, ok, you
want to marry her, she wants
to be married, ladies must
give her the respect you
know. And then you are
ready, amen, you are never
never never really ready
until you are there, past
the 50 percent point. You
are never really 100
percent. You also marry by
faith. Listen carefully it’s
not like I need to stay with
the person to know the
person. You are not
following the way of God.
Without faith it’s
impossible to please God.
You don’t stay together.
Most people stay together
break up. Amen? Once you are
more than 50 percent sure
there is 20 percent you are
not sure and all that, don’t
worry about it, that is the
person for you. Amen? If you
have quarrelled that is. And
you quarrelled and you still
love one another, that’s the
person. Haven’t quarrel,
quarrel first amen? Some
people say I love him Pastor
Prince. Have you quarrelled?
No. How can I quarrel with
my darling you know. Ya
Pastor Prince look at this
face, how to quarrel with
this face. Ok, go back and
quarrel first then come and
talk to me amen? If you
quarrel and still want to
get married – listen what’s
the problem? Money. That’s
the number one thing in
today, I mean in this nation
of Singapore as well as all
the nations of the world
that is listening to this
sermon. One of the biggest
problems especially for
young people is money. They
want to establish their
career and all that. And
because they push and push
and push they compromise,
sin comes in and many a
times they break up you
know. They open their
Christmas present too early,
the excitement is no more
there, they don’t want to
get married. So, the thing
is this, God ordained
marriage. What you do is
that you have hope. The
money is not there. In the
ATM you don’t see it amen.
The money is not there but
you fix a faith date. Show
God your faith, fix it, have
hope amen of a glorious
wedding even. Amen. Fix the
date. Agree in Jesus name.
That’s the date. We will get
married on this date. Show
God your faith, God will
show you the money. He will
give you the supply. And
time and time again we have
seen it happen in our
church. It starts with hope
then faith amen. And God
will supply. You wait until
you have it that is not
faith. You marry by faith my
friend. Can I have good
amen? In everything in life
you do it by faith. If you
are sick in your body, start
planning. See yourself well.
See yourself well. See
yourself well. Praise the
name of Jesus. Amen. I just
want to tell you that this
anchor of the soul will
stabilise you. I did not say
that you will not be hit
when you have hope. In fact,
the reason for the anchor is
the possibility that the
waves, strong waves will
come and try to hit you. But
you know what? The anchor
will pull you back. In fact
it’s very interesting, it
goes on to say that this
hope we have as an anchor of
the soul, both sure and
steadfast, and which enters
the Presence within the veil
or behind the veil, drop
down, where the forerunner
has entered for us, even
Jesus, having become High
Priest forever according to
the order of Melchizedek.
Which is the highest order,
which is the new covenant
order. Listen carefully,
it’s telling us, you know
what it’s saying? This
anchor has gone, it’s like
first of all an anchor is
for a boat right? Amen. It’s
amazing how Paul uses this
picture. When I realise what
he is saying it blew me
away. Listen. I’m still
here, anchored. Blew me away
is an expression. Alright
so, when I saw that it’s
amazing. It’s like an anchor
that goes into the Holy of
holies where God’s presence
is. Amen. It stabilises me.
I am outside here but
there’s a like a rope you
know, a strong, tied to the
anchor. No matter how I
sway, no matter how I move
and all that I will never
lose my salvation. I’ll
never lose my righteousness
with God. I may stray for a
while, I may go here go
there but the anchor holds
steady, sure and steadfast
inside. You know why? The
Forerunner Jesus, my elder
Brother, my Lord and
Saviour, He has gone in.
Amen. He is where the anchor
is. It’s almost like saying
this and I realise this,
it’s like, it’s like in
England right, there is a
place called Plymouth,
southern you know, south of
England there is a place
called Plymouth, where it’s
a harbour. The ship will
have to cross the English
Channel. Let’s say the ship
wants to go to New York
Harbour. The ship will have
to cross the, facing you all
ok, the English Channel,
then go to the main ocean
all the way to, right, the
Atlantic all the way to the
New York Harbour. What it is
saying is like this, this
ship that is still in the
harbour about to take off
has not even cross the
English Channel, but his
anchor is anchored in New
York Harbour. Which means no
matter what he will make it.
Like you pull it, it’s
almost like the picture of
you know, he’ll come
through. You want some more?
When Paul use the word where
the Forerunner has entered
for us even Jesus, I tell
you this, time just flies, I
just got started you know?
Just got started. But let me
tell you this, the word
forerunner, when Paul used
it during his time, during
that time and culture, the
forerunner is someone who
comes ahead of an important
personage. Let’s say an
important king or a
important high noble man or
whatever it is during that
time ok. He will send his
forerunner. The forerunner
will come to the presence of
the other king and say he is
on his way now, he just
passed by this place. His
presence in the presence of
the other king is a
guarantee that important
personage is coming. What
blew my mind is this, this
is the part that blew my
mind. When I realised that
Paul was using the analogy
of his day and age, the
forerunner usually is a
person of no reputation. It
is who he represents. The
important person is coming.
And the Bible says Jesus
took the place of the
Forerunner. He took the
place of the Forerunner. We
are all the after runners.
But the Forerunner is the
one that God is looking at.
If the forerunner is good,
God says you are good. If
the forerunner comes in
rude, God rejects the
important personage even
before he comes. Amen? But
Jesus is accepted with God.
He is the Son in whom God is
well pleased. Therefore,
doesn’t matter who you are
in the natural right? You
are accepted in your
forerunner amen? And for
sure you will make it
because the Bible says that
it’s an anchor behind the
veil. Amen? Are you all
blessed? And I just got
started alright. Praise the
Lord. Lift your hands all
across this place and say
Father I thank You my
future, the days ahead of me
are full of blessings, full
of good things Lord that You
have in store for me. Every
day you will load me up with
Your benefits, with Your
goodness because You love me
and because of what Christ
has done, He died for my
sins, He was raised for my
justification, and now I
have access into this favour
ground. This grace ground in
which I stand. I boast and
hope, I have a positive
expectation of the glory of
God being fulfilled in my
life, in my ministry, in my
career, in my marriage, in
my children, in all my loved
ones, in my church, I will
see Your glory and the glory
is always manifesting. The
glory is always something
visible. Thank You Lord. I
rejoice in that. And I
rejoice and I boast in my
current sufferings knowing
they are fulfilling the
objective of producing a
character that is never
having depressive thoughts
but hopeful thoughts. A
character that believes for
your goodness to be seen in
the future in the land of
the living amen. No death in
the future. No disease in
the future. No curse in the
future. Your blessings. Your
health. Your shalom. Your
well-being. Your protection.
Good days for my family and
I. Thank You Father. And
even my sleep will be sweet
in Jesus’ name. Real quick.
I just want to say this I
talk about sleep because I
saw people struggling with
sleep. Let me just tell you
this, you don’t look forward
to your bed. Bedtime is like
you, you are afraid, you’ve
been attacked with
nightmares. You’ve been
attacked with night visions
that is scary and all that.
You just – or you don’t
sleep well. You don’t look
forward to that. But friend,
I prophesy to you in Jesus’
name right now that you will
look forward to your bed.
Because it’s will be a time
of refreshing. Amen? And
you’ll look forward because
it’s a time God gives to
you. And you can’t wait to
get up to new blessings, to
new provisions, to new
supply amen. You will see
that as I sleep, God gives.
As I sleep God gives. That
thought will dominant you.
And even your sleeping time
becomes something you can
hope amen. In Jesus’ name
and all the people say? Real
quick also someone here,
real quick, someone here I
see you all having lots of
quarrel, married couple, you
are quarrelling a lot. It’s
intensified this past few
weeks. And the thought of
divorce has come up amen?
Don’t do it. You are under
attack. The problem is that
we are not wrestling with
flesh and blood. It is not
your husband, friend, it’s
not your wife. It is a
principality and a power
that is coming against you.
I prophesy to you in Jesus’
name that God says a
turnaround is coming. A
turnaround where the
restoration will be 120
percent. You’ll be
surprised. You never said –
You said I never thought
that this could be possible
for our marriage. We’ve been
married so long and we
thought we know each other.
But these days are sweet.
You will say those things.
Those things will come out
of your mouth. Don’t give
up. What I’m saying is don’t
give up amen? You need to
take a walk from each other,
walk go somewhere in the
park and all that, talk to
God and come back amen. And
love by faith. Love is not a
feeling. Love is a decision
amen. Do the first works, do
the first romance. Just do
it by faith and the feelings
will follow in Jesus’ name.
Amen. Praise the Lord. Are
you all happy you came to
church today? Amen? Now one
last one, every head bowed,
if you have never received
the Lord Jesus Christ as
your personal Saviour and
Lord, you never put your
trust in Him, my friend,
believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and you shall be
saved and your house. Pray
this prayer with me right
now, say heavenly Father, I
thank You that Christ died
on the cross for all my sins
in my place. He bore all the
punishment, all the curse,
of a Holy God. Therefore,
there is no more curse over
my head, there is no more
punishment in my future.
There is no more judgement
for me now. Jesus Christ is
my Lord and Saviour. And He
was raised from the dead
because He is now my high
Priest to become my
Forerunner. Death is not in
front of me. Death is behind
me. Thank You Father God. My
future is as bright as Your
grace, as Your love in
Jesus’ name. And all the
people said, amen. Stand to
your feet. If you prayed
that prayer just now and you
made Jesus your Saviour and
Lord, congratulations. You
have a new set of DNA. You
are now a New Creation. Old
things are passed away, all
the bad things, the old
things that are negative are
passed away. All things have
become new. Believe it, you
are now an eagle. No more a
chicken amen? Praise the
Lord. So soar high, fly
high. Praise the Lord. Lift
your hands all across this
place. Father in heaven this
coming week as all the
eagles gather together Lord,
as they gather together in
this wonderful nest Lord
called the church, Father
they are releasing their
faith for a wonderful
future. Even the future of
this week Father, this
coming week, we look at this
week with hope. We ask in
Jesus’ name that they’ll run
smack dab in the middle of
great blessing, a surprise
blessing that You have in
store. And I pray that when
they experience that they
will remember this prayer
that they prayed Father. And
throughout this week in the
name of Jesus, be thou their
shield, be thou their
defence, their protection
from every evil, from every
infection, from even the
dengue mosquitoes Lord, from
all the powers of darkness
in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Be thou their
favour in their workplace,
in their ministry, wherever
they are. Be thou their
favour with one another in
their marriage, in their
family relationships Lord.
Be thou their peace,
wonderful peace, shalom
peace, shalom well-being,
that they wake up every
morning with a wonderful
expectation of good for that
day. Thank You Father, thank
You for the discernment to
know that evil thoughts
flying through our heads,
they may come, but they are
not from us. Give us the
gift of ignoring them. Give
us the gift of knowing Your
thoughts which are good for
us and never evil. In Jesus
name. All the people said.
Amen. God bless you. Love
you all. Amen. See you
again.
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