Freedom From The Spirit Of Depression (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner Episode

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All of us at certain times
in our life experience

a certain measure of depression.
Why?

If you’re a believer,
you’re under attack.

That’s why you need to
put on the armor of God

and the helmet of salvation.

Jesus is anointed with
the oil of gladness

above his fellows.
He’s the most joyful one.

The joy of the Lord
is our strength,

the joy of the Lord.
The Lord has joy.

It is not my joy.
Jesus took our sorrows.

He felt the pain of it,
the weight of it.

He carried that depression
that you feel at night.

He carried it even unto death.
He saw you.

He saw you.
We need this anointing,

this oil of gladness upon our young generation,

upon our people because
they’re under special attack with depression.

Amen.
He’s no respecter of persons.

However,
he’s a respecter of faith.

I’ll tell you that.
Something about faith

that makes God bypass hundreds of people
just to focus on the one that has faith.

Amen.
There can be a multitude touching him,

pressing on him,
a lot of superstitious touch and all that.

But when the touch of faith comes,
it stops him in his tracks and he will turn

around and look at the one person who has faith.
And that’s why faith is the greatest holiness

because the Bible says that our
hearts are purified by faith.

Acts 15,
right?

Having purified their hearts by faith.
I think Pastor Lawrence alluded to this

right in your sermon.
See,

they didn’t listen.
I was listening.

I was listening very intensely
that people are saying,

how do you purify your heart?
Oh,

you do this,
you do that.

We are putting more effort
in holiness and all that.

Actually we want holiness.
All of us want holiness because holiness

actually leads to a life of victory,
freedom,

peace,
love,

joy,
and the best part of it,

it glorifies the Lord.
Amen.

And we all want to glorify the Lord,
but how to get there from here,

that’s a question.
And where I think

some people would dispute my teachings,
which I believe is based on the word of God,

would be how to get there from here.
A lot of how to get there from here is by

efforts and by disciplines and all that.
And I believe it’s by faith,

more revelation,
more faith,

more experiencing of the holiness of God,
and then it works out in your conduct as well.

Okay?
Do you understand that so far?

Amen.
The story I was

just talking about refers to a time when God
spoke to Peter to preach in Cornelia’s house.

That’s the first time the Gentiles had the
opportunity to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And Peter was first unwilling,
but then God gave him a vision.

And after that vision,
he realized that God

is calling him to preach to the Gentiles.
He came to this Italian house was run by a urian.

By the way,
all Urs in the New Testament,

you find that they all appear in a good light.
All Urs in the New Testament

appears in a good light.
Even in the book of Acts,

the one who took care of Paul and save him
from the madness and the frenzy of the crowd

is a good illustration.
Not all of them are safe,

but one or two became believers.
But you can see like Cornelius,

he got saved.
We can see it’s always a good effect,

a good impression.
So Cornelius was from the Italian regimen.

So as they were having pasta
passing out the ness and all that,

Peter knocked on the door
and they had a crowd there.

And Peter’s first announced opener was like this,
this is how you open a speech in case you don’t

know how to open a speech.
Learn from Peter.

People like me normally don’t
fellowship with people like you.

Talk about this generation
saying things like that.

He says,
people like me,

me,
don’t fellowship people like you.

But then God has taught me that I
should not call things that are unclean,

unclean.
He taught me to call.

Y’all know the vision that God says,
right?

What I have cleansed.
Don’t call unclean or don’t call common.

And that’s how the Jewish
people treated the Gentiles.

So Peter also had his own prejudices
and he has to learn that the Lord,

his heart is bigger than just Israel.
And the reason he raised Israel,

and he’s not finished with Israel yet
they have a place in the covenant.

Even in these last days,
they play a major part.

You find that God’s heart is for the world.
Jesus himself said to Nicodemus,

for God so love Israel.
No,

the world that he gave his only,
but the reason he chose this nation is so that

everyone can see that if this nation follows him,
how blessed they are,

they’ll say that How wise is this nation whose
God is the Lord happy is the nation whose God

is the Lord.
They’ll see,

obviously it’s going to be a manifested
blessings where they can see God’s goodness,

God’s grace on this nation,
but they fail.

Then God says,
if you fail,

then all the nations will see.
When the curses come,

when bad things happen,
they’ll see why did this happen to this nation?

Because of all the curses that came,
but praise be God.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Amen.

Amen.
So he’s in Cornelius’s house and the

Bible says he was preaching and preaching.
By the way I quoted that just now,

that’s from Paul’s Peter’s.
I say Paul Peter’s lips where he says

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about
healing all that were oppressed of the devil.

He was saying,
no,

the Holy Spirit didn’t fall at that time.
And Peter himself,

the preacher wasn’t expecting
the Holy Spirit to fall.

But when he came to this point,
he says about Christ,

he says to him,
everyone who believes receive forgiveness of sins.

The Bible says at the very next verse,
when he said that,

what he say again when true Christ or to him all
who believe in him receive forgiveness of sins.

While Peter spoke these words,
the Holy Spirit fell on all of

them that were in the house and they hurt
them speaking in tongues praising God.

No author call nothing because Peter most
likely might not pray for them to receive.

I come already enough.
One,

I appreciate the gospel.
He might even think that

God gives the Holy Spirit only to the Jews.
So God didn’t wait for his permission because

this occurrence never happened again.
So it was unique in that situation.

Of course it’s going to happen
still today while I’m preaching,

things happen.
Amen.

Why not?
While Joseph spoke these words,

amen.

But it’s got to be words from the Holy Spirit
because Joseph in and of himself has no healing,

no power.
Amen.

It’s got to be the words of the Holy
Spirit and you’re always praying for me,

right?
That when I preach you will hear the ram of God.

And I always pray also,
I endeavor to preach,

ask the Oracles of God.
Oracles of God doesn’t mean that

every word must be from scripture,
like lineup online,

everything from scripture.
Yes,

it must be based on scripture.
And I think I have a lot of

scripture verses down to the years.
I preach a lot from a lot of scripture verses,

but speaking as the Oracles of God means
you speak as if God is speaking to you

and God will never deviate from the scriptures.
But it’s not speaking Bible chapter and verse.

Amen.
So while Peter spoke,

the Holy Spirit fell and the
word fell is this very same word

in the Greek as when the prodigal son came home,
the Father fell on him and you read the word in

the modern version,
embrace him.

The word fell means embrace him.
So the Holy Spirit embrace everyone in Cornelius’s

house until they started speaking in tongues.
So what was the words that So Gladden the heart

of the Holy Spirit because we know
that the Holy Spirit can be grieved.

If the Holy Spirit can be grief,
he can be gladden.

Amen.
We can bring delight to him.

What makes him happy when he
hears words like to Christ,

everyone who believes in him
receive forgiveness of sins.

That’s why this message,
every time you preach it,

if nobody gets safe,
you make the Holy Spirit happy.

Hallelujah.
You glad the Holy Spirit in you.

Amen.
I can feel it when I preach

about the cross and Jesus Christ,
you make the Holy Spirit happy.

Amen.
Okay,

so that is a very telling thing.
While he spoke those words,

the Holy Spirit fell.
So later on,

the Jerusalem Council called them to the carpet
because the Jerusalem council is run by James the

half brother of Jesus.
He said,

we heard Peter,
you went to Gentiles and you spoke to them.

He says,
yes,

and this happened,
this happened,

this happened.
And he says,

well,
I have this to say that something

is happening to the Gentiles.
So while I spoke,

the Holy Spirit fell on them the same
way He fell on us in the beginning.

Who was I do withstand God?
He said,

and God purified their hearts by faith.
Amen.

God purified their hearts by faith.
He said that Now their hearts,

their hearts that their there
is referring to gentiles,

the Italian gen,
the mafia who are inside there even Amen.

God purified their hearts by faith and that was
their purification is not a process hearts made.

Holy is not a progression.
One instance,

if you believe correct,
you believe right?

And there’s believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
your heart is purified there and there.

Amen.
And then your progressive change

happens because now you have a clean heart.
What’s the point of doing?

Right works If your heart is evil,
you do the right thing,

but your intention is impure.
You are doing for selfish reasons,

but because you don’t want to be penalized,
you have right actions outside to impress people.

But God looks at the heart can.
Amen.

We want the heart to be purified.
The very first beatitude when Jesus

opened up the seminal mount,
he says,

blessed are the pure in heart.
For day shall see God.

Amen.
Amen.

Amen.
So without holiness,

no man shall see the Lord.
And I believe that that is

really a revelation of seeing the Lord
because we all know when people die,

they will see God.
Right?

Even unbelievers,
you’ll see God from afar.

But here he’s talking about seeing God.
Now,

so how do you become blessed at the
pure in heart to be pure and heart?

How do you do that?
By faith,

it’s not your works.
Can I have a good amen?

Okay,
let’s go home.

Alright.
Praise the Lord.

You heard that you’re blessed.
It takes a lot of people to realize,

I mean a long,

long time to realize that
faith is an important thing.

Faith is what gives birth to all the
virtues and the graces of the spirit.

Amen.
The fruit of the spirit comes by faith.

Amen.
It’s true that Peter says,

pastor,
you must preach things like add your faith,

virtue,
moral excellence,

moral excellence than knowledge,
and then brotherly kindness.

Charity.
If these things are bound in you,

they will think you need it.
You become unfruitful,

not unbearing in the knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yes,
but you should read the next verse.

He elects these things is blind and he’s
shortsighted and he has forgotten that he

has been forgiven or perched from his old sins.
If people like all these godly qualities can

imagine someone,
a woman,

guys,
if you’re single,

imagine you’re going to spend time you the
rest of your life with a woman who is godly,

kind,
loving.

She has kindness because
kindness is mentioned there.

Amen.
She has sweetness,

temperance,
self-control,

amen and love.
Best of all,

she loves you.
Wow.

Even when you are short tempered,
you don’t feel good that day.

You’re a big cur in the way you speak to her.
She has patience.

Whoa,
pastor,

I’m married to one by faith.
Amen.

So we are all in the process.
We are all in the process.

Amen.
None of us are

married to a man like that or a woman like that.
But I’m just saying imagine being married to

someone like Jesus.
Amen.

A Jewish rabbi said that
every family to be successful,

he said every family,
he mentioned family,

but also companies can learn this as well.
To be successful,

to have a family life that’s successful,
you must at least have one person there who

is a non-anxious presence.
What does that mean?

Or accomp successful when things go wrong.
There is someone there who is a non-anxious,

cool person who can think through the problem
if everyone is running off like chicken with

their head cut off.
By the way,

I saw a news report recently because my
son told me that there was a chicken,

true story,
a chicken whose head was cut

off and still leave for more than one year.
So when Justin told me that I laughed,

but when I Google it,
it’s there.

Don’t Google it.
Now apparently the chop off the head,

the brainstem was still there.
So the rest of his life,

this poor chicken,
headless chicken,

they had to feed him with a year dropper and
finally there was more than one year they’ll

bring them on a circus everywhere he goes,
make money for the owner until one day the

owner heard him choking and then he died.
And that goes the hitless chicken.

I myself have seen when I was young,
the decapitation of a chicken and he’s

still running around without a head.
He was still running around.

The poor guy didn’t know he’s dead.
That shows revelation is not of the head.

He doesn’t know he’s dead.
He is running around.

And finally he had a revelation
in his heart that he’s dead.

Then he died.
So every family,

every company needs a non-anxious
presence that when things go,

things are going crazy.
A time of turbulence in

the family or in the company.
There is a person who is a

non-anxious person who is this person.
Actually we can aspire to be that person,

but Jesus is the kind of person,

even when there’s a storm,
they had to wake him up,

right?
He got up,

he rebuked the storm and he
turned around to them and says,

where is your faith?
Amen.

And he went back to sleep.
I love it.

I mean imagine that demons begging him.
What a picture.

Demons begging him.
We know you who you are and he says,

hold your peace.
Be silent in the Greek,

be muzzled.
He didn’t want,

doesn’t want promotion from demons.
We are all today crazy about

advertising us ourselves,
our products or whatever.

We don’t care about who advertises them,
right?

Jesus doesn’t take advertisement from demons,
they’ll have,

they’ll shout when Jesus comes in.
I know you who you are,

the holy one of God.
Even demons know He’s holy,

but not a kind of holiness
like stand away from me.

I’m more holier than you.
No,

no,
no.

It’s a holiness whose eyes
burn at sin at injustice,

unrighteousness,
but eyes that becken the

sin in ear and they could feel that about him.
They knew that he doesn’t approve of their sin,

but he loves them and his love will
cause that sin in them to be destroyed.

That’s the way the Lord loves
you cannot have a good amen.

Under the Old Testament,
under law.

Under law,
when Moses came down the mountain,

he saw the golden calf being worshiped by Israel.
What did he do?

Well,
all those who worship,

he killed all of them,
right?

Yeah.
He had all of them killed.

There’s no solution for people saving people under
the dispensation because it was off the flesh.

It was natural,
it was material.

The spiritual haven’t come yet,
but when Jesus came down the mountain,

there was a boy who was demon possessed and the
father ran to Jesus and they all ran to Jesus.

And then they said that the Father says,
I’ve asked your disciples to cuss this

demon out out of my boy.
And it’s terrible,

sir.
My boy is like,

he’s tormented.
He’s like self-harm every day.

I’m concerned about him
doing some harm to himself.

He would throw himself in the fire or something.
He would throw himself into the deep water.

I have to save him and other things as well.
There’s not record in the Bible.

This too is recorded in the Bible,
but he probably do things to

himself to harm himself.
And today there’s a generation

that’s harming themself,
hurting themself.

What’s the solution?
We ask your disciples to cast this demon out,

but they can’t do it.
What did Jesus do?

I tell you this.
Jesus,

if you can believe all things are possible to him.
That belief and the Father is to me,

this one here is like wisdom from God
in their particular instinct from him.

He’s just said it out loud,
Lord,

I believe help my unbelief.
I love it.

Amen.
The Lord will help your unbelief because

God loves faith and where he finds faith,
you find him working,

you find him doing healing.
Amen.

But let’s say you feel your faith is weak,
tell him,

bring all your troubles to
Jesus plus your lack of faith.

And that is faith.
That is faith to bring your lack of faith to him.

Amen.
Does he stop Jesus?

No.
Jesus is the one,

the only one there who believe all
things are possible because he believes

so you can’t believe,
I can believe for you.

And he cast the demon out this time
He separate the demon from the man.

From the boy.
Moses could not under law,

they could not all those who were demon
possessed at the foot of the mountain all killed.

There’s no separation.
But under grace there’s a separation.

You are not your sin.
This can serve of sin is trying to destroy you,

but I’ll separate it from you and I will love
you and I will hate it and cut it out because

it’s trying to destroy you.
But I love you.

And he separated the demon left.
The boy was restored.

That is grace.
Amen.

But it’s not the kind of grace whereby,
oh,

we accept your sins and we
accept you and we accept.

We accept all the problems
that you have and all that.

Now you need to understand if someone
has a problem and you say you love them,

you don’t handle that problem in their lives.
They’re dying slowly and you let them die slowly.

There’s no love.
Amen.

True love wants to kill that cancer.
And I always say this,

how much do you hate the
cancer in someone you love?

Someone you love has cancer and they
are slowly becoming weaker and weaker.

You can see them wasting away.
They’ve lost all their muscles

and their fat and they’re just sticking bones.
And you look at that and there’s no hatred in

your heart for the cancer.
That’s how God hates sin.

You understand?
But how much do you

love that family member?
You love that person,

but the cancer is in the person.
So you need to know this about God.

God hates sin.
Exactly in the same intensity that he loves you.

Because if you love someone,
you will hate the problem.

If you go by a hospital the other day I
passed by a hospital and it was a cancer.

What I had this thoughts playing in my mind
to just lay hands on everybody down there.

I dunno how they respond.
The authorities,

if I do that,
maybe one of them might start walking and healing.

They were in the wheelchairs
and all that just in my mind.

You must always do things led by the Holy Spirit.
Not because someone tells you to jump down,

angels will come and catch you.
You cannot do that.

But I Pac by and I was thinking to myself
the number of people that were there and I

was thinking this disease,
I hate this disease,

but in a way because I do not know those people.
My compassion for them was supernatural from God.

But it’s not a family kind
of love God don’t know them.

When you watch someone on TV
and they experience a tragedy,

you don’t care unless you’ve been watching
that particular character for some time.

And then if the character is a
dog and at the end the dog died,

you’ll cry more than if a whole group
of people die that you do not know why.

There’s no compassion.
They didn’t build the empathy right?

Do you know why God hits sin?
Because God hits.

God loves you intensely.
You know why God really is against sin?

Rebellion?
Because this is like cancer in you.

Amen.
With every generation.

I dunno,
why?

When will the world wake up and realize that even
the lifestyle they promote fame being famous,

this will make you happy.
How many people who are famous,

who have taken their lives,
how many people who are famous are into

drug addiction and then their lives are cut short?
They didn’t plan to die early,

but they overdose.
How many famous

people do we know that have done that?
How many famous people have taken their own lives?

They have fame,
which is what our young people want.

That’s why they get into
social media and all that.

They want fame.
They want to be recognized,

right?
It doesn’t satisfy money doesn’t satisfy,

Amen.
And the Lord is say from the very start,

I come that you might have life
and have it more abundantly.

Amen.
I look at the generation today.

Last few weeks the Lord spoke to me about
certain topic that he wanted me to share.

And I know that this is time for me to
just share with all of you that I think

is coming upon the world.
When the Bible says arise,

shine,
that means the world is in a bad state

and it’s telling the church in Isaiah,
arise in Hebrew,

Kumi,
kumi,

URI Uri shine,
rise and shine.

That means what?
Rise from what?

There must be a low level that we have
fallen into and it is a time of darkness.

The next verses for darkness shall cover
the earth and cross darkness the people,

but the Lord will arise upon you
and his glory will be seen upon you.

Amen?
So you all know,

right?
I’ve shed

before that when things are really
dark and there’s a spock of light,

okay?
How dark it is,

the darker the better.
You can see the light in a clearer

way than if you see during the daytime.
But because of the darkness,

you can see the light no matter how far it is.
Just one light.

I have another brother in church also,
and he told me one time,

Hey pastor,
praying.

That’s why we must never
judge the book by the cover.

Oh,
now we judge the cover by the book.

Then the same brother,
I had someone coming in,

I want to guess because this was years ago.
Pastor Prince,

where is he coming from?
Terminator one or Terminator two.

He’s a natural.
He’s a natural.

He’s a natural.
I’m just teasing.

One time I was playing bowling
with all the pastors and all that.

We used to have competition bowling.
Remember that last night I used to

play bowling and he was sitting down there.
Then he would make some noise when I’m playing,

when I’m throwing.

Then I miss right?
Then I look at him,

I said,
you got something to say it.

He says,
he told me this.

Wow.
So I go to him.

You got to be humble.
Must not always be humble.

Okay?
So I went to him.

Then he put me down and he told me,
by the way,

he can’t play bowling,
but he looked down there,

see when you throw the ball,
he told me he throw the ball,

please throw straight.
My hands were like this.

It was close to like this for
some reason is a vice like Rick.

Anyway,
okay,

back to this.
It’s been a few weeks.

The Lord put this on my heart
and then about people suffering,

this darkness that Isaiah talks about,
it’s going to happen the last days.

Darkness covers the people.
It is not physical,

the kind of physical darkness it is depression,
gloom.

The world gets the duck.
But people who describe

themselves as having depression,
it’s like the world becomes dark.

It’s like they step into a room,
it’s a bright room,

but all of sudden the room becomes,
it’s like nighttime.

That’s how they describe it.
They’re suffering from depression.

Whereas they pastor parent,
this is not relevant to me.

I don’t suffer from depression.
Listen,

all of us at certain times in our life
experience a certain measure of depression.

Why?
If you’re a believer,

you’re under attack This way,
you need to put on the armor of God

and the helmet of salvation.
If you don’t watch it,

this depression can become what Isaiah says.
Gross darkness covers the people.

Gross means ha heavy almost to
the point that you can feel it.

And this is bad because I’ll
tell you what’s going to happen.

I believe there’s a revelation here from
the Lord and I can prove to you from the

Bible that depression next negativities and
pessimism and worries and anxieties that

formulate themselves into a state of depression,
regardless of whether you’re on medication or not,

don’t matter.
It’s daily.

And until we see it’s daily,
we’ll not try to do anything about it.

Alright?
Medication deals with the results.

I mean the symptoms usually,
but doesn’t deal with a root.

If you are on medication,
please continue.

Okay?
Listen to your doctor,

but understand the problem is
spiritual and isn’t the Bible.

Amen.
The people who are depressed,

even ministers get depressed.
They can shut themselves in the room and all

kinds of movies are playing in their mind.
That’s just negative,

always negative.
Amen.

What is happening?
Well,

it’s dangerous because long before the devil tried
to produce a disease or sickness in your life,

you know what he does?
He produces depression,

sorrow of the world.
It’s called sorrow of the world.

In two Corinthians seven,
verse 10,

it says,
godly sorrow produces repentance

leading to salvation.
Now,

Paul is writing to Christians Corinthians.
So this salvation here is not salvation from hell.

He’s not telling them to be safe.
Don’t forget the word.

Salvation is an all inclusive word.
It’s not just salvation from hell,

being safe from eternal punishment,
safe from the kingdom of darkness

into the kingdom of light.
It’s also a word they use for healing.

For example,
when Jesus heals someone,

he said,
your faith has saved you the woman,

the issue of black member.
Look at the word safe.

It’s from the word salvation soso.
Amen.

Many of times the healings that happen
in New Testament is physical healing,

but the word salvation or soso,
the verb form is used.

So it’s telling you Godly sorrow
actually leads you to wholeness,

leads you to peace of mind.
So it’s a godly sorrow that

produces that change of mind.
When something bad happened and

you realize that maybe you went to the doctor
and then the doctor tells you something bad,

but it’s not so serious,
you stay a chance to turn around.

You come back and you say,
how stupid I was to keep on having

this habit to do what my friend said or to smoke.
And now there’s something awry in the diagnosis

of the doctor on your lungs.
Now you’re saying,

and doctors,
okay,

still early stage,
whatever,

we can do something about it.
What happened then is that

there’s godly sorrow if you’re a believer,
because the first thing you think of is God.

This is the temple of God.
You might think why God allowed it.

We always blame God when God is the
perfect love that cast out all our

fears and that’s how he loves us.
But we always want to blame him.

And then we don’t sit and ask ourself,
how did we allow this to happen in our lives?

Okay,
so understand this.

The only sorrow that God allows
you to have is godly sorrow.

And of course another place
where he allows you to.

He says,
whip with those who whip.

There are times something happened,
like a loved one goes to be with the Lord.

The Bible says,
whip with those who whip.

But know this,
let us not whip or moan

like those people with no hope for we know
we say this to you by the word of the Lord,

that we who are alive and remain
until the coming of the Lord.

When he comes in with the shout of the angel,

the voice of the ark,
angel,

and the trumpet of God.
We shall not go first.

They will precede us.
Amen.

They shall arise first.
Amen.

And then we’ll join them together.
We shall be with the Lord.

Amen.
The date in Christ are not dead.

They are more alive than we have grown accustomed
to this encumbrance of our body with all these

weaknesses that we think we are alive.
They don’t have encumbrance anymore,

but the real damn is alive.
See,

you are not you body,
you are not.

When I talk to you,
I am talking to your body.

Right?
I’m looking to your eyes.

Amen.
But actually it is not you that’s alive.

You.
The moment your spirit leaves your body,

your heart stops beating.
Even your heart is not the thing.

The source is the spirit and the soul.
So when you step out of the body,

the body will drop because it’s just a vehicle.
It’s your earth’s suit if you would in heaven.

In fact,
it’s not exactly an earth suit.

It’s a glorified body that you have that’s
still a body because God made us originally

spirit so body,
but in heaven,

it’s a different kind of heaven suit,
heavenly suit,

amen.
That cannot grow old,

cannot be bought,
cannot lie,

cannot sleep in the pastor,
preach none of these things,

and will never die.
Amen.

So let’s rejoice in a way.
We rejoice,

we cry because of the temporary separation.
Like your son will be in a far country

studying in a university somewhere.
You cry because of the temporary separation.

Oh,
you cry tears of joy because finally he’s leaving.

Hallelujah.
Darling,

he’s leaving.
Amen?

I do not know,
but there’d be tears.

There’d be tears,
initial tears.

Okay?
So whatever it is,

if that’s the case,
amen.

It’s temporal.
We know that we miss the person,

but the person who is there actually should
be crying for us because when he’s there,

it’s perfect happiness.
There are no hospitals there.

There are no funeral palaces there.
No one dies there.

Even the flowers never fade.
Amen.

We live forever in our young state forever.

No more pain,
no more tiredness.

So they look down at us and then
we say they’re crying over me.

I’m crying over them.
You know what I’m saying?

But we understand being human.
We cry for a while.

So that’s godly sorrow,
okay?

But sorrow of the world produces death.
You see that the Bible says produces death.

You better take it seriously.
Sorrow of the world works.

Death.
Perhaps you had a

bout of a bad season with your spouse.
And right now as I’m preaching this,

you just crawled your spouse last night and
these are the words you said to your spouse,

okay?
Whether or not operate in that.

And now you are in the state whereby it all
depends on how and when this message comes,

right?

But that kind of thing,
we all go through that,

right?
Come on.

If you have a perfect marriage,
stand up.

None,
none,

none.
Amen.

It is ever going from strength to strength,
from glory to ever increasing glory.

Amen.
Amen.

Amen.
Praise the Lord.

And remember this,
when you marry someone and you say,

I do,
I do take the person,

right?
They didn’t tell you I do what?

Okay?
I will tell you right now,

you better write this down.
Those of you are not married.

All right?
I do grace.

I do forgiveness for the rest of my life.
Okay?

That’s what you need to do in this house.
We do grace in this house.

We do forgiveness,
which means I’ll always have to forgive my spouse,

and my spouse might have the mentality,
I’ll always have to forgive him.

You can not want to talk to each other.
If you still want to do the childish thing

for while,
okay?

For a while,
it’s okay.

Understandable.
You’re still in the flesh.

I understand that.
Amen.

But don’t let it go too long.
Let not the sun go down upon your wr.

Amen.
Amen.

So if you’re in that state right now,
and I’m preaching this right,

you is the pastor,
I’m in godly sorrow.

No you’re not.
You are sorrow.

That sorrow shall not be prolonged.
Okay?

I just advise you that sorrow
shall not be prolonged.

Praise the Lord.
See,

it tells you in this New Testament,
it tells you sorrow of the world produces death.

This is serious business.
But then Jesus,

listen,
Jesus at the cross,

Isaiah 53,
verse four,

surely he has born our Greece
and carried our sorrows.

Now this is interesting.
King James version says,

he carried our Greece.
I got to bring this to a close

already because I’m just starting.
You want some more.

You keep on coming.
Amen.

Surely he bought our Greece
and carried our sorrows.

Can you see that?
Can you see that King James version,

new King James men translation
actually say grief and sorrows.

But actually in the Hebrew,
the word there should be Cali for griefs,

sorrows,
ov and listen,

CLI can be used for griefs,
but most of the time,

like 12 times,
choli is used for sicknesses.

Five times for diseases.
Only four times for griefs.

So you see the emphasis,
right?

And then the word mark of carried our sorrows.

Markov is sorrow.
And again,

most of the time the word is used for diseases.
Is there sorrow?

Yes,
there’s sorrow.

But how do you know then that Jesus
carried our diseases and our pains?

First of all,
I’ll show you Young’s translation.

Young is the Hebrew scholar.
Young says,

surely our sicknesses,
he has born and our pains,

he has carried them.
So you see,

it’s not our sorrows.
It is actually our pains and our disease.

And if that is not enough Bible interpret Bible.
In the New Testament in reference to this,

it says that Jesus went around,
show them the context.

Verse is referring to Jesus casting out demons.
Verse 16,

they brought to him many who were demon possessed.
He cast out the spirits with a word,

heal all who were sick,
heal all people who were

sick and that he might be fulfilled,
which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet,

saying he himself took our
infirmities and bore our sicknesses.

Do you see that?
So this is in Greek very clear.

The context is not.
The context tells you it’s not sorrows.

It’s referring to he carried our diseases because
when he went around healing all who was sick,

it’s like paying through visa.
He has not yet died.

But whenever someone gets healed and they go away,
Jesus says,

like to the Father,
put that on my tap.

He’ll pay for it at the cross.
Amen.

So the context is very clear,
but what it tells me is this,

the Hebrew word for Ali and
Marco is also grief and sorrow,

and therefore it is in the disease.
Could it be the very thing

since the etymology is there,
there is also the root of disease,

grief and sorrow.
It should not be prolonged in your life.

And that’s why the Lord says the
joy of the Lord is our strength.

Amen.
You see,

if I say the joy of the Lord is my strength,
listen,

the joy of the Lord is my strength.
That means the joy of the Lord.

The Lord has joy.
I don’t believe in this Jesus that

walks around with a faithful morals.
Peace be still.

Why is it you don’t have faith?
Bring him to me.

Then on the night,
in the upper room,

in the upper room,
these things I say to you that my joy,

my joy battle you,
my joy.

Thomas might remain in you.
And Thomas says,

I doubt so no.
He came to them and says,

guys in the world you’ll have trouble,

but be of good cheer.
I have overcome the world.

I believe he did it with a smile.
And these things I say to you,

sorrow has filled your heart.
But listen,

these things I say to you that my joy might
be in you and that your joy might be full.

I believe they had so much joy.
These disciples with Jesus see the joy.

It’s his joy,
the joy of the Lord.

That is my strength.
It is not my joy.

Can I have a good amen?
But apostle Prince,

I remember years ago I was preaching in a
youth group in a school somewhere in Singapore,

and I was preaching about Jesus
and how joyful the Lord is,

and a young man stood up while I was preaching.
Pastor Prince would,

he was trying to impress me
about his Bible knowledge.

Pastor Prince,
I would have you know that the

Bible says there’s a man of sorrows.
Isaiah 53,

verse three,
right,

A man of sorrows.
He’s despised and rejected by man.

See a man of sorrows.
But I just read verse four for you.

The context there is referring to the cross,
referring to his suffering,

his passion.
So I told this young man,

yeah,
where do you find that verse?

Isn’t the Bible?
I said,

no,
which part of the Bible?

He says somewhere in the Bible I say,
I quote to you,

okay,
Isaiah 53,

A man of sorrows.
The only time he’s called

a man of sorrows is when he went through,
he carried our sins and went through it.

He’s always joyful.
In fact,

I’m going to quote you right now.
Hebrews chapter one,

he says,
and unto the son,

I’m quoting word for word and unto the son,
the father says unto the son,

he says,
dron God the Father,

God calls the sun God.
Thone oh God is forever and ever.

A scepter of righteousness
is a scepter of your kingdom.

Thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity.

Therefore,
God,

even thy God has anointed Dee with
the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

He imagine that he’s anointed with
the oil of gladness above his fellows.

Amen?
Amen.

We need this anointing,
this oil of gladness upon our young generation,

upon our people because they’re under special
attack with the depression of all kinds of young

people are taking their lives
All over the world

And they’re increasing.
They’re even doing it in Singapore.

We need to reach out with joy.
You might think that they’re happy

because when you see them in the group,
they’re joking and all that,

but probably say there’s the kind of joke
that is a laughter that is empty deep down,

they’re not happy.
Amen.

So if Jesus is anointed with the
oil of gladness above his fellows,

have you seen pastor,
he can stand down here and laugh for hours,

Right?
If he’s anointed the oil

of gladness above all his fallows,
referring to all the believers,

all his disciples,
all that,

he’s the most joyful one.
Knowing this,

that my joy might remain in you
and that your joy might be full.

Yours is still not full.
I want to be full.

Amen.
The only time the Bible

tells us that he ever said,
I’m so sorrowful.

What’s in the garden?
When the passion started,

right?
He says in Matthew 22,

26,
then he said to them,

his disciples,
my soul,

I believe said my soul probably
had tears exceeding sorrow.

Because why?
The sorrow of the world is now coming on him.

He’s going to carry it is
exceeding sorrowful even to death.

Immersion,
the Lord saying is a sorrow that leads to death.

It’s not his.
He he’ll never talk like that.

He said just in the upper room,
just a few hours before this in the Ghana,

he was in the upper room.
He says that my joy might remain in you.

Something happened.
He’s no longer Jesus the king.

Jesus the good shepherd that watch over his
now He’s becoming Jesus the Lamb of God.

The shepherd has become the lamb.
So it is our sins that he’s carrying.

It is our curse that he bought.
It is our sorrow that afflicted him.

He carried that depression that
you feel at night when you’re

thinking that no one knows you feel all alone,
but you feel like the whole room is getting dark.

Jesus carried that.
He carried your exceeding sorrowful,

the feeling like killing yourself even unto death.
He carried it even unto death.

Now,
Jesus did not contemplate suicide.

No,
no,

no,
no.

But he carried that even to death.
Stay here and watch with me.

He went a little farther and
fell on his face and prayed.

See in the garden.
Oh,

father,
if it’s possible,

let this cup pass from me.
Nevertheless,

not as I will,
but as you will.

No wonder the Father loves the Son.
Amen.

He’s a son and the father is well pleased.
You say,

I don’t understand Pastor.
He’s Jesus.

He can handle all these things.
Lemme tell you something,

you have never been where he was.
Can you imagine the son of God?

His nature is holy.
It’s full of grace.

And that’s why His holiness
is not like I stand here.

Okay?
I I’m too holy for you to

come near or to touch.
No,

no,
no.

His holiness has sinners around him.
Amen.

Yet he never was default by them.
They were touched by him.

Amen.
Into wholeness.

Into holiness.
But here,

Jesus took our sorrows.
He felt the pain of it,

the weight of it.
But especially if you are Jesus,

we can’t imagine because all of us,
our minds are default dirty and we think

it’s natural for the son of God.
He never experienced sin.

One time,
the very thought of sin,

he shudders.
It’s not in his nature.

But to think that just the contemplation,
that in a few hours he’ll be on the cross.

And he who knew no sin will
be made sin with our sin,

not just carry our sins,
be made sin at the cross.

That thought is like a holy shock
reverberated through his body.

His whole being is like
almost like he take the cup,

the cup that symbolizes all the
judgment and the condemnation,

all our uncleanness and all that.
He push it aside,

father,
it’s possible.

Take this cup from in the book of Hebrews,
he cried with strong crying.

You should know the nature of our Lord Jesus.
But he saw you.

He saw you.
He saw you.

He saw you.
He saw you.

He saw me.
And Father,

if it’s not possible,
there’s no other way.

Not my will,
but your will be done.

And he drank it to this very drex.
Amen.

That’s the love that he has for us.
So he borrowed it in his own being.

Do you know that this is the reason why
the Old Testament people were freed from

depression and all that?
You all know the story,

right?
You’re heard in

the cam recently also for those of you who were
at cam about the deliverance of the evil spirit.

True worship,
right?

But if you look at the word of the
evil spirit coming on king soul,

by the way they say the evil spirit from God.
That’s an expression in Hebrewism.

Listen carefully.
In hebrewism they say even bad things

from God because they show God as sovereign,
but not the one initiating it,

but allowing it to happen because of
man’s sin that is always hebrewism when

they say it’s from God,
it’s not from God,

it is from the devil.
But God allowed it.

So they see God as sovereign.
That’s how the people,

the Semetic people speak.
One day I’ll teach on this,

how when the Bible says the
law will cause this pastor,

how young taught it also.
Okay now,

but watch this First Samuel,
it came to pass when the evil

from God was upon Saul that David
took and hop and played with his hand.

So Saul was refreshed and was well,
and the evil spirit departed from him.

So it’s anointing on David’s plane.
David was a worshiper.

Do you see that?
But this word,

evil spirit in Hebrew is rah,
but rise in all inclusive word.

It can mean a lot of things.
They’re all evil,

they’re all dark,
they’re all negative.

But Youngs,
who is an exceptional Hebrew scholar in Young’s

literal translation,
he says,

it has come to pass in the spirit
of sadness from God being on Saul,

that David through his heart,
played his hand.

Saul has refreshment and gladness,
and the spirit of sadness has stood

aside from often he calls it a
spirit of sadness came to Saul.

He was melancholic,
he was depressed.

Amen.
And that’s why the

joy of the Lord is our strength.
And I’ll close with this.

Listen,
I’ll close with this in the New Testament,

Peter says,
pastor,

I heard you preach on this before,
did you?

I thought there are some things
I preached for the first time.

You must have heard from the
Holy Spirit make you happy.

Amen.
You say,

pastor,
why do you repeat something?

Sometimes you’re about to hear whether your
pastor is a New Testament preacher or not.

All right,
Philippines three,

one.
Paul,

the greatest apostle I believe that ever lived.

This is my brethren.
Finally,

my brethren rejoice in the Lord.
You had joy before.

Now you know it’s re right.
Refuel my glass means what It was once filled.

Rejoice means what?
You always rejoice,

rejoice,
always get yourself full of the joy of the Lord.

It’s safe.
If sorrow can produce disease,

joy can produce healing.
A merry hot do of good life medicine.

Hallelujah.
Amen.

There’s a true story of a guy who
was diagnosed with cancer and he shot

himself in a hotel room for about a few
months and just watch the tree stooges.

And back then they had all this funny and
just watch that kind of video for a long,

let’s laugh and laugh and laugh and came out heal.
And that’s in the natural.

A cheerful heart makes a glad countenance,
a mery heart,

do a good like medicine with no side effects.
Amen.

But what do you say for me to write
the same things to you is not tedious,

but for you it is safe.
Joseph Prince says,

for me to push the same
things to you is not tedious,

but for you it it’s safe.
You need to hear it

again and again and again and again.
But let’s ask this question before we close.

Why is it safe?
What is safe?

Another version,
another translation says,

it’s a safe God to you.
When you rejoice in the Lord,

you know something this is so important
to me of upon telling you again and again,

Peter,
why are you telling us?

Yeah,
you got no what?

A sermon is there.
Why you tell us this?

Why are you telling us this?
Another translation says for me to say the

same thing is not troublesome for you.
It’s a safeguard.

What?
Save us from what?

I’ll leave that with you.
But there’s safety there.

There is safety there.
When you rejoice in the Lord.

Amen.
Put a smile.

Amen.
You have every reason to be happy.

Oh,
pastor,

I got this pain and all that.
You are 97% healthy.

You thank God for the 97%
you’ll take care of yourself.

Okay?
Stop your murmuring.

Nothing.
God hates more than murmuring from his people.

You’ll see that in the 40 years
of wandering in the wilderness.

God hates murmuring because we have so many
blessings to count and to thank God for.

We don’t even thank God for
that Something bad happened.

We focus all our attention on it.
Stop that.

Thank God for every blessing you have.

You are alive.
You can walk,

you can talk.
You walk up today.

Let everyone that have breath,
praise the Lord.

Hallelujah.
Amen.

Okay,
I just finished my introduction.

Every head bow,
every act closed.

Just for a moment,
friend,

whoever calls on the name
of the Lord shall be saved.

It’s not hard to be saved.
It costs Jesus everything,

all the pain,
all the hurt,

all the suffering.
Jesus was the one that paid it all with.

But for you to be safe,
it’s by grace,

true faith in an instant.
It is not the process.

So if right now you say,
pastor Prince,

I want to be saved.
I want all my sins forgiven.

I want to follow Jesus for the rest of my life.
I want Jesus Christ to be my savior,

my Lord,
my God.

If that is you,
pray,

pray with me right now.
See,

heavenly Father,
thank you,

the true Christ blood,
all my sins are forgiven.

I declare now Jesus Christ is my Lord,

my God,
my savior.

I thank you that you raised him from the dead
and he’s at your right hand now watching over

me as my good shepherd.
Thank you,

father.
I’m greatly blessed,

highly favored,
and deeply loved,

always loved in Jesus’ name.
All the people said,

amen.
Stand to your feet.

Lift up your hand like this
is put a smile on your face.

Big smile.
Big smile.

I’m trying my best Lord,
pastor,

big smile.
Rejoice in the Lord.

Not rejoice that I didn’t get the unblock.

I cannot rejoice because I
didn’t get the kai wanted.

Stop that nonsense.
Okay?

There are more important things in life.
Rejoice in the Lord in him.

He’s all together.
Lovely.

He’s all together.
Gracious.

Praise God.
He’s so beautiful.

Amen.
Keep on rejoicing in Him.

Amen.
This coming week,

father,
we pray in Jesus’ name.

Let us become a people Lord,
that is not like the people of Israel.

Murmuring,
murmuring,

murmuring in the wilderness.
Lord,

we pray,
father,

they’ll keep our eyes on the blessings and
all the goodness you have done in our lives.

Lord,
you have done so much for us.

Please give us a greater
capacity to say thank you,

especially at the end of the day,
to notice,

Lord,
those moments

that you protect us from a clear danger.
And we didn’t even realize that those

moments when cancer was knocking on the
door of our lives and then you said,

no,
no entrance here,

and he left and we didn’t know about it.
We only thank you for what we know,

Lord.
And even that is limited.

We forget so many times.
But we thank you now,

father,
and we pray that this coming week,

Lord,
you give us a life,

a heart full of Thanksgiving
and in the name of Jesus,

I take authority right now over every person
having a spirit of depression under the sound

of my voice and in the name of the Lord Jesus,
be free in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.
Thank you Father,

you’ve done it.
And whom the Son sets free is freed indeed.

In Jesus name.
Amen.

God bless you all.
We’ll see you again.

Love you all with a smile on your face.
Okay?

And give a smile with someone
who is depressed out there.

God bless you.
I have some testimony to share with

you this morning to encourage you as you believe
God for your very own miracle and breakthrough.

The first testimony comes to
us from a sister from India,

and she writes that I’m 24 years old
and I have suffered from depression,

anxiety,
and post-traumatic stress.

For seven years I grew up in a broken family.
And at 17 I decided to prepare for one of the

toughest engineering entrance
examinations in my country.

After a year of hard work and anxiety,
I failed exam and ended up with more stress.

My relatives looked down on me
and my family was disappointed.

I was disappointed.
I managed to join a local university to

pursue an undergraduate course in engineering,
but soon life took a turn when some of my

classmates started bullying
me already feeling helpless.

I gave into the suffering
caused by people around me,

slowly losing the will to live.
And that’s what bullying and depression

does to many people,
sadly.

So she goes on to add that
darkness clouded my soul,

and I felt incomprehensible things in my head.
My anxiety caused nightmares,

including one time when I saw my soul waking
up in hell filled with pain and suffering.

I started having suicidal hallucinations
and the depression only grew darker

and slowly overtook my will to live.
I walked around the path of self-destruction,

facing thoughts of suicide every day,
continuously for several years.

But my hope prevailed as I listened
to Pastor Princess sermons.

Listening to his testimony gave
me hope throughout this journey.

Last year was the year of healing for me.
I started getting better

and made some good friends,
pastor Princess Sermons continue to give

me hope to move past the trauma and suffering
and to believe in God’s grace over my life.

Praise a lot for this wonderful testimony.
Hallelujah.

And we have some testimonies related to the
ministry time from two Sundays ago when Pastor

Prince minister with strong healing anointing,
and the first testimony from that Sunday comes

to us from a sister from Malaysia.
She says,

I suffered a fall one and a
half weeks ago and twisted my

left ankle living it swollen and badly bruised.
Walking was painful and I could only hobble around

the house wearing an ankle guard.
On Sunday,

the 7th of July,
2024,

during Pastor Prince’s healing session,
he prayed for all painful joints and asked us

to jump and check if the pain was gone.
I did it and there was no pain.

I was also able to walk normally without
the ankle guard and without pain.

Praise the Lord.
In addition,

the pain in my right heel,
which has been with me for six months,

is also gone.
Thank you,

Jesus.
I’m so greatly blessed.

Praise the Lord that the pain in the ankle,
the pain in her heel is gone.

Hallelujah.
Next we have a testimony from a sister from

Singapore and she writes that I’ve been suffering
from a painful muscle strain on my right hip,

lightly due to long hours of sitting at work.
And many of us,

we have long hours of sitting at work,
right?

Every morning I would wake up with stiffness
around the hip bone and thigh muscles,

and nothing I tried seemed to relieve the pain.
I usually attend services at Marina Basins,

ballrooms.
On Sunday,

the 7th of July,
2024,

pastor Prince prayed for those
who were sick to receive healing.

I prayed and move the affected areas.
As Pastor Prince called for testimonies

and a sister shared her experience
of a touch from the Holy Spirit,

I too felt the presence of God.
I started praying in tongues and suddenly I

felt a sensation on the right side of my body.
My pain just disappeared.

I was stunned by the encounter and my right
side felt lighter and imperfect condition.

I started to twist my hips and to shake
my right leg to search for the pain,

but I couldn’t find it.
That’s one of the things you don’t want

to find when you search for your pain.
Hallelujah.

So she says,
hallelujah.

The next morning I woke up
with no pain around my hip.

I tried to rub the area to locate the pain,
but it was truly gone.

Thank you Lord Jesus.
Praise the Lord.

Hallelujah.
And the final testimony is

one that we’ve heard from our connect points,
and there was a sister who was invited to

New Creation Church by her friend.
It was her first time in church and

she almost didn’t make it to church because
she was experiencing discomfort in her neck.

However,
when Pastor Prince was praying for the sick,

she received instant healing during the first
service at the star performing at center.

And not only that,
she was deeply moved by

the experience that she gave her life to Jesus.
When Pastor pray letters in the Salvation prayer,

praise the Lord.
That’s what it’s all about.

Church,
not just healing our bodies,

but salvation our souls.
Amen.

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