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God gave me this word for you
all: “Guard your heart.”
“If you guard your heart,”
“I will guard everything.”
Your heart has eyes!
The eyes of your heart
speaks of what? Vision.
Imagination. So, the way to
overcome a negative imagination
is to have a better imagination.
You fill your heart by spending
time in the Word, by reading, by
filling your imagination until
your inside becomes
a new picture.
“His leaves shall not wither and”
“whatsoever He doeth”
“shall prosper!”
Whatsoever!
Can you see it?
My dear friends, today I want to
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Praise the Lord! Hallelujah.
Alright, so wonderful to share
good news in the house of the
Lord! And so wonderful to listen
to good news in the house of the
Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord. You
know church, we have 3
testimonies to share with you
out of the many testimonies that
have come in over the past
couple of weeks. And the first
testimony comes to us from a
brother from Singapore. And he
writes that: “Lately, I have
been experiencing pain in my
ankle. Whenever I turned it to a
certain degree, I would feel a
sharp pain. At times, when I
walked, my ankle would hurt and
this affected me. As a result, I
decided to stop going for runs
in hopes that the pain would go
away. Before my next Individual
Physical Proficiency Test,
otherwise known as IPPT.” All
the brothers will know that very
well. “On Resurrection Sunday, I
attended the second service at
the Star Performing Arts Centre.
When Pastor Prince asked for the
people to receive their healing,
I felt my ankle get better. That
night, my friends started
sharing their healing
testimonies and I was
encouraged.” See, when you share
your testimonies with one
another, even your friends get
encouraged. So this brother was
encouraged when his friends
started sharing their healing
testimonies. So he was
encouraged and he said: “I
decided to check my ankle and
started rotating it and jumping
around. Praise the Lord the pain
was all gone.” Hallelujah. So
wonderful. And I rejoice with
this brother because now he can
take his IPPT without pain.
Hallelujah. Alright, the next
testimony comes to us from a
brother from Australia. And he
writes that: “I’ve been
suffering from back pain for a
number of years. During the
pandemic, my condition worsened
as I had to sit in front of my
computer for hours.” How many of
us can identify that for these
past two years. “While the pain
would come and go over the past
couple of weeks, it became an
issue for me. Even walking to my
car, from my car to the front
door was a challenge. During
Resurrection Sunday, I stood up
when Pastor Prince prayed for
the rest of the congregation to
receive their healing. Though I
did not feel any warm sensation,
I decided to test my condition.
I started bending over, twisting
my body, jumping and running
around my living room.” He did
not mention whether he did
cartwheels or somersaults,
right? But he started: “twisting
his body, jumping, running
around the living room, there
was no more pain! God has healed
me! I’m in awe of what God has
done for me. I’m so grateful to
Him! All glory to Him and thank
you, Pastor Prince.” Hallelujah.
So this brother received his his
healing, right, while he was
watching the online service in
the living room. So if you’re
watching this online, you can
receive your healing and
breakthrough as well. Amen.
Alright, the final testimony
comes to us from a brother from
Taiwan. And he writes that:
“I’ve been struggling with
depression, addictions and fear
since I was young. When I was in
high school, I got saved.
However, the teachings that I
received were a mixture of law
and grace. I found myself often
burdened to obey God’s
commandments. No matter how hard
I tried, I would experience
failure again and again. I
regarded myself as a
disqualified Christian, and this
affected my marriage. I spent 13
years at odds with my wife. And
finally, I decided to leave home
and contemplated a divorce. But
God kept speaking to me in
amazing ways. Through Pastor
Prince’s sermons. I learned that
I’m a joint heir with Christ and
a royal priesthood. I also
discovered that God loves me.
And this has nothing to do with
what I have done. I started to
proclaim that I am righteous in
Christ. And unconsciously, I was
set free from depression,
addictions and fear. It was
delivered unconsciously.” Wow.
“One day, a video popped up on
my phone screen. It was a
message by Pastor Prince on the
Year of The Latter Rain, which
was in 2019, our theme of the
year. When I saw a picture of a
family reunion, I started to cry
and look forward to receiving my
own family miracle. Incredibly,
my wife and I met two days
later, in January this year,
after 14 months of separation.
God changed our hearts. God
didn’t just fix our marriage. He
gave us a better one. This is
the first time we feel peace,
love and joy in our marriage. We
are falling in love again.
Everything seems incredible and
like a dream. Praise God. And
thank you Pastor Prince.” Praise
the Lord for this wonderful
testimony of a marriage
restored. Amen. Praise the Lord!
And what God did for them, God
can do for you as well. And
right now church, please join me
as we welcome Pastor Prince!
Praise the Lord. What a
wonderful testimony, Amen? Isn’t
God good, church? You know what
God does for all these precious
people means so much to them if
you are the one going through
it, Amen? And the whole purpose
for us sharing miracles like
this…it’s a miracle.
Especially instantaneous; it’s a
miracle. How many know that.
It’s so that you can find
courage, hope. That if you are
going through the same thing or
you know someone who is going
through the same thing, there’s
hope, Amen? The world is so full
of hopelessness, negativism,
pessimism. Everything seems
dark. And the more you look at
the world, the more depressed
you become. You know, we have
devices that, a hundred years
ago, they would die for. Our
grandparents would go to the
cinemas, and never dreamed that
one day we can see all the
favourite actors and players on
screen, in our hand. We can
communicate without having to go
to the phone booth. Even the
greatest man, Superman, at that
time, can’t do that. Right? I
mean, he can go there, but to
get changed, but he doesn’t have
an instant communication; we
have. Think about all the
devices we have. Solomon would
give a part of his wisdom to get
all that you have. And yet, we
are one of the most unhappy
people on earth of any
generation. You go to a simple
village…and I encourage you
to, in our mission trip… you
see all the children playing
without their Pokémon and
Minecraft, and Nintendo Switch
and all the modern games that we
have; and you see them happy.
You see the children happy with
a simple stone, or a piece of
branch. Have we become a people
with a sense of entitlement,
that after we get one, we want
some more, you know? We crave
what we can’t attain, and we
discredit what we have. It’s
human nature. We long for, we
appreciate very much the things
or the people that we cannot
have or attain, but we are most
discourteous to the people that
we love. You know, we are more
polite to strangers. “Pastor
Prince, say hello lah, before
you say all these things.” This
is the hello. It’s preparing us
to hear what the Spirit of God
is saying to us today, so that
we appreciate what we have,
Amen? Watch out for the tendency
to be more kind and polite to
strangers who really don’t care
about you, but you discredit and
you under-appreciate the people
that you love. Because we tend
to treat the people that we love
as ourselves, so it shows that
we don’t really care much about
ourselves. We despise ourselves,
so we feel like our loved ones
are also the same. But friend,
this tendency has got to die at
the cross, in Jesus’ name, Amen?
Amen? So turn to your loved one,
your family member, whoever it
is, Amen, say, “I love you and I
appreciate you,” Amen? If you
are dating, go by the Spirit.
And the greatest gift that God
has given us is His Son, Jesus
Christ. You know, think about
it. We are…people, we are
saved. We are saved. We know Him
who loves us. We have found
someone who loves us regardless.
And you know, we are not made
righteous in God’s eyes by what
we do, by our works. Even until
today, believers are not
justified by your efforts or by
your doings, but by Jesus. He is
our righteousness. You know,
last night I came before the
Lord and I just told the Lord,
“Lord,” at whatever level of
walk I’m in with the Lord, I
still tell the Lord, “Lord, it’s
not my doings. It’s not my
works. Jesus, Father, Jesus is
my righteousness. Father, Jesus
is my righteousness.” And then
all of a sudden, there comes a
sense of, like, if it’s Jesus
and it’s His righteousness, how
can God withhold any blessing
from you? There comes that
sense. So just a while right
now, believers who know this,
Amen, it is not your doing, it’s
not your works, declare this
with me. Father God, I thank You
that Jesus Christ is my
righteousness. Your beloved Son,
all that He is, You’ve credited
to my account, You’ve imputed to
me. Because on that cross, Jesus
became sin with my sins that I
might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. Thank You,
Father, Jesus is my
righteousness. Jesus is the
measure of my right-standing
before You. Wow, do you feel
that? Do you feel that? You see,
when you pray like that before
you make your request before
God, when you come to God’s
presence, once in a while it’s
good to remind yourself of this,
Amen? Then there comes that
faith, because you know it’s
based on Jesus. And really see
that, Amen? See that. Praise the
Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Thank
you very much. We might need you
guys at the end, okay? Only at
the end. The end is the best
part. Thank you. Give them a
good hand. Praise the Lord,
hallelujah. Good to see all of
you once again. You know, it is
something that I will never get
tired of saying, because, you
know, like I said just now, we
crave what we can’t attain, and
we discredit what we have. Even
pastors and leaders, or bosses
and people like that, you know,
they can…we all can come to a
place, even leaders, where we
don’t disdain, but we forget to
appreciate what we have, Amen? I
appreciate all of you very much,
Amen? And how many of you
appreciate the corporate
gathering of God’s people? And
we also wanna welcome those
online who are watching, and we
appreciate you also. But you
know, there’s something about
being in the house of God
corporately, physically, that
you can’t experience at home. So
after two years of that, you
know, it is like running with
weights on. You know, when you
run with weights on your ankles,
you know that feeling? Alright,
after a year of doing that, and
then they take the weights off.
How do you feel? That’s how I
feel. That’s how I feel. So for
the next three hours…ha ha.
For the next three hours, we’re
gonna have Genesis to maps,
Amen, all the way. And it’s
gonna be a tag team with Pastor
Mark, Pastor Lawrence. How ’bout
that? You all willing? Ha ha ha
ha. Like Israel was taken
captive for 70 years in Babylon.
Because of what? Idolatry. The
main sin that caused that
captivity was idolatry. You see,
even when they were sinning,
they were still offering burnt
offerings. As long as they
worshipped the true God, they
were offering the sin offering,
and the sin offering covered
their sins. Of course, the sin
offering is only a picture, it’s
a shadow of the real offering,
the Lamb of God who takes away
the sin of the world. But as
long as they were offering sin
offerings and they were offering
trespass offerings; God
overlooked their sins. Back
then, God overlooked because
it’s only the blood of the lamb.
For us, God doesn’t overlook.
The sin has been removed, y’all.
It’s removed from your life. I
mean, God doesn’t play around
with words. When God says, “The
sin has been removed,” the Lamb
of God has removed your sin.
It’s like, you know, you have a
stain. Let’s say there’s ink
here, all right? I just
accidentally used my pen and now
there’s a blotch of ink, right?
What do I do? I cover. Now, this
is called “atone” in the Hebrew.
“Atone” means cover. The mercy
seat is called covering seat.
It’s to cover sin. But below,
it’s still there. But God
doesn’t see the sin as long as
the mercy seat covers it. The
blood is on the mercy seat, and
the blood covers the sin, so
every year, all right, year
after year after year until
Jesus came. And that’s the
reason why John the Baptist
says, “Behold, the Lamb of God
who takes away,” not cover,
“takes away the sin of the
world,” Amen? Finally, you can
open up your jacket and
you…you know, people look at
you; the sin is gone. Now, I’m
not saying we are sinless.
There’s still sin in our flesh,
but I’m saying before God, there
is no sin on us. You understand
the way God sees? There’s no sin
on us absolutely, though there’s
still sin in us and we all know
that. And that will change only
when we have a new, glorified
body, Amen? So, as long as
Israel was offering the sin
offering, God overlooked all
that they did. Though they were
transgressions, Amen, though
they were sins, God just
overlooked because of the blood
of the lamb that covered it. But
the moment they exchanged God,
they stopped offering the sin
offering, because their new
idol, their new god doesn’t
require the offering of the sin
offering. It required their
children to be sacrificed, and
that doesn’t cover sin, my
friend. Because every sin
offering must point to Jesus
Christ. And that’s why it’s a
lamb. It’s always domesticated
animals, and not a cheetah or a
lion or a tiger, okay? It must
have the nature of Jesus. So,
now, instead of God sacrificing
His Son, they are sacrificing
their sons. So they changed gods
for idolatry, and they stopped
sacrificing. The moment they did
that, they went into captivity
for 70 years. And you know
something? When they came back
after captivity, they never went
back to idolatry. Never again.
Now, for us, we went into
captivity two years, but it
cured us of a lot of things. And
one thing that it cured us is
this: we appreciate what we
have. We always had it, it was
always with us, but we
appreciate it more. And even
leaders at varying degrees
appreciate what we have more. We
appreciate even this building
that God has blessed us with. We
know the building is not the
church, but I tell you, it’s one
heaven of a building, Amen?
Amen? We thank God for places
like MBS where our…you know,
another group is meeting right
now. Praise God. Thank You,
Jesus, Amen? We thank God that
we are able to afford that. We
thank God for all the resources
He has given us. We thank God
for the people. The people
resource is the best resource in
the church. I thank God for all
the leaders I have. I thank God
for all the servers I have. I
thank God for all the musicians
I have. I thank God for every
one of you, Amen. I appreciate
you all even more and I hope you
all appreciate Pastor Mark,
Pastor Lawrence, Pastor Gabriel
even more, Amen? Amen? Okay,
let’s dive into the Word of God.
Are you all ready? So remember
this tendency to discredit what
you have. You know, children
have this tendency to discredit
what they have, and
then…because they are
children, but we are not, but
sometimes we act like children.
We crave what we can’t attain,
but we discredit what we have.
For example, a child comes to
the house and the child sees a
toy…A friend, a friend brought
a child along to your house, and
all of a sudden…Your child is
still young; the younger they
are, they have this tendency.
That shows that people who are
immature have a lot of this
tendency. So they have a toy
lying around. And the new child
saw the toy and wants to play
with it, and all of a sudden, of
all the multitudinous toys that
are available in the toy room of
this child that they visited,
right? The very toy that the new
child went for is the toy that
this child wants to have. And
then next thing you know, they
start crying, right? There’s a
bit of fight, pulling and all
that. Some of the parents get
involved. So you see tendency
that they…the toy is lying
down there for the most part.
They get used to it. They put it
one side. When someone wants it,
then that becomes a passion for
them to want it.
Husbands…appreciate your wife
before somebody else does. Now I
can do this already. It’s been a
long time. Let me try again.
“Preach it, Pastor Prince!” And
you look good from the back as
well. I can talk behind my back
again. Hallelujah. It’s like the
husband almost, like, don’t
really notice all the beautiful
virtues and, you know, the great
traits that God has given his
wife for him, Amen. But when
somebody start appreciating
that, he starts feeling jealous.
All the sudden, he looks at his
wife. Now he doesn’t see a ah
ma. Boy’s mama, you know, John’s
mama. Now he sees woman. Because
a man wants her, means she’s now
a woman. But all the while,
she’s a woman. Just that you
don’t see it, Amen? And of
course, women, don’t go for the
new turkey. Turkey is male or
female? Peahen, I know there’s a
peahen…turkey. Don’t go for
the guy, Amen? You feel
flattered, but you know
something? Flattery won’t carry
you far in a good relationship,
Amen. But I think sometimes, you
know, we have this tendency. We
discredit what we have. We crave
for what we can’t have, right?
And this is what’s happening
again, that childishness comes
up. It’s of the flesh, and we’ve
gotta watch it, Amen? “Pastor,
are you preaching or not?”
Starting already. You don’t
know, man? I mean…You know,
one of the best ways…I’ve said
this many times. One of the best
ways to do a marriage seminar is
just to do it. If you advertise,
right, “Marriage seminar, this
coming May,” okay? May the 15th,
what a great day to have
marriage seminar, Amen? Ha ha,
why? Because Israel’s
independence, 15th May, 1948.
Okay, so if I advertise it,
guess what? Many of the husbands
who need to come won’t come.
It’d be the wives who come, and
the wives will tell the husbands
what they heard, that the
husbands are not interested to
hear what the wives are saying,
that they should have heard. And
then it is shared in such a way
that the anointing is not there,
it becomes a lecture, and the
husband gets angry; not with the
wife alone, but with the man who
is supposed to have preached
this at the conference. So I
decided a long time ago that
people who need to be there,
right, might not be there, those
who really need to listen. The
guys who are there are guys who
wanna learn more. “Give me the
Word, man. Smack me with God’s
Word once again. Old Testament
also can. New Testament, maps
available. Come on, give it to
me,” Amen? These are people who
are hungry for the Word, Amen?
Like Pastor Mark, hungry for the
Word, Amen? Yes, so many of our
people are hungry for the Word,
and these are the people that
attend every seminar. You say,
“We have a seminar for widows,”
they will attend. If I say, “I
got a special revelation from
God for widows,” they will
attend. It’s just because they
are hungry, Amen. So how do you
get those guys who really need
to attend a marriage seminar? I
decided a long time ago, you
know, in our church, we’re not
gonna have marriage seminar. I
mean, we have special, you know,
classes and all that, but you
know something? Right, the best
way is Sunday. Too late, lock
the doors. Praise in Jesus’
name, hallelujah. Thank You,
Lord. Lock the doors everywhere,
hallelujah. You are stuck, Amen.
You thought we’re gonna teach,
right? Yeah, the teaching
started already. Amen? But I’m
not gonna teach on marriage
today, okay? I wanna share with
you something that the Lord has
put on my heart, and because of
the lack of understanding this
and watching over this, it’s
more of a warning today as you
can see that the Lord cares and
loves us, and He wants us to
flow with Him and to flow with
what He’s doing, Amen? We need
to know His ways. His ways are
not religious. For example,
religiously, the more you do
good things, okay, the more you
give to the poor and these are
good things, giving to the poor
and all that. But if you are
giving to the poor so that you
think that God will hear your
prayer, that God will bless you,
then you are doing it to be– to
obtain righteousness, which is
the very antithesis of the New
Testament gospel, Amen. The
Gospel of Jesus Christ says
there’s nothing you can do, all
right? It’s all based on Jesus
Christ. He is your
righteousness. We are justified
by faith. A man is not justified
by the works of the Law but by
the faith of Jesus Christ. Just
by having faith in Jesus Christ,
Amen, you are justified. How
many think that’s beautiful? It
cost Jesus everything at the
Cross. He bore our sins, Amen.
He was wounded for our
transgressions. By His wounds,
we are healed. But it costs us
just really nothing but to
believe in the finished work. So
when people say, “I wanna be
religious,” be careful because
when they say, “I wanna be close
to God,” yes, but do you have
the information? Do you have the
knowledge that is accurate,
that’s in line with heaven, with
what God has for you, Amen? And
one thing that you need to guard
is in the area of your heart. So
turn to your Bibles right now to
Proverbs chapter 4. Turn to your
Bibles, Amen. You all brought
your Bible? Let me see your
Bible? Let me see your Bible.
It’s pathetic. Now that–you all
still remember books or not?
There once existed an object
called books, okay? You should
bring your Bible lah to church
Amen, no matter how small. I
mean, your phone is okay lah but
the problem with the phone is
that the Bible app is there
together with so many enemies
vying for its attention. So the
moment you look at your phone,
instead of look–your intention
is–you mean well. You are
looking for that chapter and
verse. You are looking for that
chapter and verse, but the
moment you open it, “Hey,
there’s a message.” An early
morning message, all right? Or
ding, you know? There’s a ping
of something like that, and then
before you know it, you are
distracted. But with this book,
there’s no distraction. It
doesn’t ping. It makes you ping,
Amen, with power and enthusiasm.
Praise the Lord. Feeds you,
Amen? So Proverbs 4 tells
us–you are wondering why I
didn’t put it up there, right? I
gave, you know, Estee, the
wonderful lady behind the scenes
preparing the verses and all
that. I gave her so many verses,
more than ten verses, except for
this verse. This is called being
led by the Spirit, y’all.
Proverbs 4, verse 20, “My son,
give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your
eyes.” Isn’t it interesting God
says, “Do not let them depart
from your eyes”? Does that mean
that every day you take God’s
Word like that? You’d be walking
over cats, bumping into lamp
posts, Amen. Of course not. So,
“Do not let them depart from
your eyes,” is what? Your
vision, Amen? Now you are
saying, “What’s the result,
Pastor Prince, of doing this?”
Keep on reading. “Keep them in
the midst of your heart.”
Notice, what you see will go
into your heart. So first of
all, attend to God’s Word. How
do I do that? This is God’s
medicine bottle. How do I do
that? All right, I attend to it.
I incline my ear to God’s
sayings, that’s the ear gate.
Say, “Ear gate.” All right, hit
somebody and just nudge somebody
and say, “Ear gate.” They say,
“Huh?” If they say, “Huh?” their
ear gate is definitely closed,
all right? Either the gate is
closed or there’s something
clogged up inside, all right? So
the next one is, “Keep them–Do
not let them depart from your
eyes.” Now, look at somebody and
say, “Eye gate.” Eye gate. Watch
your eye gate. Your eye gate,
what you see. What you hear,
what you see, and then the next
one is – “Keep them in the midst
of your heart.” This is how
things enter your heart. It is
always through your eye gate and
your ear gate. So God gave me
this word for you all: Guard
your heart. Because the next one
says, look at the result, if you
allow God’s Word, if you pay
attention to God’s Word, you
incline your ear gate to God’s
sayings and you open your eye
gate to God’s Word not any other
human word that brings fear and
depression, and if you do that,
God says the result is it will
drop into your heart. That’s
only there and only then, “They
are life to those who find them,
and health to,” how much? “All
their flesh.” What a promise.
What medicine. You know when you
are sick, right, you gotta take
this medicine, and then you
gotta take this medicine. And
the doctor say, “By the way, you
gotta remove your phlegm by
taking this cough syrup,” right?
By the way, the inflammation
that caused your cough and all
that has got to be removed by
this pill. But if you take this
pill, it might cause gastric, so
we prepare something for
gastric. So the thing that he
prepared for gastric to stop the
inflammation thing from becoming
gastric into your– in your
stomach, the thing that was
prepared, does the thing also
have side effect? So you gotta
have a side effect for the thing
that had a side effect for the
side–okay? And we all still
take it, why? It’s the best–
this side of heaven. It’s the
best this side of heaven, Amen.
So this is God’s natural gift.
Are you listening? But there is
a every good and perfect gift.
So this is under the category of
good but there’s every good and
perfect gift is from the Father
above, comes down from the
Father of lights. So the gifts
of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of
healings, for example, like it
has operated before, all right?
And just as I share the Word,
sometimes the gift of healing
explode in someone’s body, and
that person says, “Where’s that
pain? It’s gone!” “I came here
with a headache, it’s gone.” “I
came here with gastric and it’s
gone.” That is the gift of
healings operating, Amen? So we
thank God for all these
instruments and all that and
means by which we can facilitate
the healing. Actually it helps
our body. Our body is the part
that God has made the immune
system and all that, and it’s
only assisted, right, with the
symptoms most of the time. So
keep the symptoms down and your
body can fight the thing. So but
it’s still natural. At the end,
it’s the Word of God. It’s the
only medicine this side of
heaven, all right, that God has
given us that we can hold in our
hand. That’s why I’m saying
whenever you hold the Bible, you
are holding a piece of heaven,
Amen. It is God’s greatest gift
to us, God’s instruction manual,
the manufacturer’s handbook. And
it’s the only medicine that
says, “Health to all their
flesh.” All. When you take God’s
Word like you are taking right
now, it is health to all your
flesh, Amen. No side effects. Oh
yeah, there is lah. You become
joy–you are filled with joy
unspeakable, Amen, peace that
passes understanding. You cannot
describe it, Amen? Praise the
Lord. You know, I love the
Apostle Paul because he’s an
example of how believers should
be. He was so full of joy, so
full of peace that when he was
standing in Caesarea as a
prisoner he was bound with
chains. And so they told him to
come up, all right, “The king is
here. Let us hear what you say,”
Amen? And he says that “Hey,
people, I want you all to know,
I think myself happy.” I love
it. “I think myself happy.” He
says, “I consider myself a happy
person, all right, and I want
you all to be as I am, except
for these bonds. I want you all
to be like me except for these
chains. I don’t want that for
you all. Be like me. Even though
I’m a prisoner, I’m happy.”
Amen? So that’s God’s dream,
Amen, for His people, to be
conformed to the image of Jesus
Christ, Amen. So all that we are
learning is to become a
Christian who is joyful, you
know, with joy unspeakable,
peace that passes understanding,
and a radiant personality, Amen?
Smile at your neighbour and say,
“You’re gonna be a radiant
person.” A radiant. Say,
“Radiant.” You don’t–you know
something? All right, honestly,
you can be the most prettiest
person, right, that people have
looked at physically and become
like just an empty– like an
empty shell after people talk to
you. There’s no personality.
There is a bit of
vindictiveness. There’s vanity.
There’s pride. There’s–you
know? And some people will turn
away. It’s not radiant. But I
tell you something, sometimes
people’s looks are plain, but
when they are radiant, they
attract people. People wanna be
with them, Amen? That’s why I
love this word, “radiant
personality.” God wants you to
have a radiant personality. It’s
part of evangelism, Amen. “You
shall be witnesses.” What does
that mean? That means your very
persona is a witness to the
world that you are saved, Amen.
So we are battling all this to
come to this place. You have the
vision? All right, so watch this
now – God says before it can be
life to you and health to all
your flesh, it’s gotta go
through your eye gate, your ear
gate, and then drop where? Into
your heart. That’s the way God
ordained it, then it will
manifest. Now, God didn’t say,
“I give you health. Now take
it.” All right, that is the
gifts of the spirit operating,
Amen? And God can do that,
right, of course, but God’s norm
for all of us is to receive from
His Word. That’s why we need to
read God’s Word every day. Give
us this day our? Not weekly
bread, not monthly bread, daily
bread. Not just Sunday bread,
Amen. Amen. Sunday you receive
good word, but daily bread,
Amen? So notice it enters your
heart first. Okay, but what is
the heart? That’s the big
question, because the next verse
says, “Guard your heart.” Am I
right or not? What does it say?
“Guard your heart.” Someone talk
to me. Let’s all read together –
“Keep your heart with all
diligence.” Now, this is the New
King James. Because I study mine
in the Old King James, it says,
“Guard your heart with all
diligence, for out of it are the
issues of life!” Can you see it?
Guard your heart with all
diligence. And in the Hebrew, it
is like this. The Hebrew, “With
all diligence,” comes first.
It’s like, “With all your
guarding, with all your
guarding, guard your heart,
because out of your heart come
the issues, the forces of life!”
Amen! Guard your heart – We
guard our children. We guard
their–what they eat. We guard
what they study, Amen. We guard
our finances. We make sure that
we guard, so many of you, stock
market, you know, what’s
happening. We guard the
movements and the fluctuations
of the market. We guard these
things. We guard all the while
thinking that these things will
guard us, guard us, our
financial well-being or our
health or whatever. But let me
tell you this – God is saying
where it really, really matters
to– where you need to guard
above all your guarding. Guard
all these things. By all means,
guard all these things, but
they’re all outside. God says
actually the only way you can
guard, the only thing you can
guard is your heart. In a world
where there’s no more privacy,
you do not know whether your
phone is being tapped or there
are people– you know, all over
the world there are scammers
trying to hack into your phone
and things like that, so privacy
is really a lost commodity,
Amen. I mean, it’s something
that we have to fight for. The
only privacy you have, my
friend, is your heart and your
mind in these last days, right?
Your heart, Amen? So you protect
your heart. No one should enter
there. Only the Holy Spirit,
Amen? Christ in you. Don’t let
anything get to your heart. “So
what is the heart, Pastor
Prince?” So I used–I was
taught, all right, that your
heart is your spirit, but it’s
not true. As time went on, I
realised that even in the Greek,
the words are different for
both. “Spirit” is pneuma. In
Hebrew ruach. Right? And the
word for “heart” in the Greek is
cardia, right? We use that in
English as well, cardiac,
cardia. Cardia is heart in
Greek, Greek New Testament. Old
Testament in Hebrew, “heart” is
lev. Lev which I suspect is
where the word for “love” comes
from, Amen? Lev, lev, L-E-V,
lev, okay? So you see, the word
is different, Amen? The word for
“heart” and the word for
“spirit.” “Spirit” is ruach, so
your heart is not your spirit. I
know we are tripartite, that
means I’m a spirit; I live in a
soul, that’s my mind; and I live
in a body– I’m housed in a
body. I dwell in a body. My body
is my house. Check your
neighbour. Look around you,
Amen? Look at all their houses,
how it’s painted. Oh, some of
them are painted. You know, the
windows are really painted blue.
And some of them got, you know,
flying window–what do you call
that? I don’t know what is that.
It goes up and down like that…
you know? And you stand in
front, you feel the breeze. You
know what I’m saying? All right,
and some–look at the roofs. The
roofs, all kinds of colours:
brown roofs, dark brown, all
right, and some are blonde,
Amen? And some just don’t care
about roof, Amen. Just–but this
is the temple of God,
hallelujah. So look at your
neighbour and say, “This is not
you.” Say, “This is not you.
This is your house.” And the
Bible calls it that way. It’s
our house, Amen? And by the way,
you got only one house this side
of heaven. Take care of it.
Don’t check out. You check out,
no more house. In heaven, you
have to wait for the Rapture for
you to have a new house, Amen?
But it’s only one body. Take
care of it. But it’s your house.
Your house is not you. You are a
spirit. Say, “I’m a spirit, I
have a soul, and I live in a
body.” So where is the heart?
Where is the heart? Spirit
connects God–with God. Soul
connects with your surrounding,
Amen? Body – physical connects
with physical. And notice,
nothing to do with the spirit.
Body and soul has nothing to do
with the spirit. So where is the
heart? So some will say, “Well,
to believe the heart is to
believe your spirit man.” I
found out that it’s not. When
Jesus says, “Shall not doubt in
his heart,” He’s not referring
to the spirit. He’s referring to
something that you’re about to
learn today. You ready?
Sometimes you can understand
something better not by its
definition, like cardia all
right, lev all right? You can
actually learn it by what it
does, you recognize. Like for
example, the wolf and the dog.
Night time, full moon, the dog
doesn’t howl the way a wolf
howls. It is very eerie,
hair-raising, spine-tingling.
You can tell by what it does
that it is not a dog. It’s a
wolf. Looks like but it’s not.
So sometimes you can know
something by what it does. What
does a heart do? By that you
know your heart. And God says
what? Guard your? With all your
guarding, guard your heart. If
you guard your heart, Jesus
says, “Let not your heart be
troubled.” Let not your heart be
troubled. He didn’t say, “Guard
your family. Guard your
finances. Guard your health.
Guard everything outside.” No,
He says, “If you guard your
heart, I will guard everything
outside.” Your part, your only
part, is don’t allow your heart
to get troubled. You hear bad
news, uh-uh, quote that verse
under your breath, “Let not your
heart be troubled.” Guard your
heart. Guard your heart, Amen.
So the Lord told me, “Tell the
people — guard their heart.” So
what is the characteristic of
the heart? How can I recognize
this part is my heart? So let’s
look at the Bible. Let’s go to
the very beginning in Genesis
chapter 6. We have it here. “And
God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.” And that’s
the reason God brought the
flood, okay? Here you see that,
“GOD saw the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart.” Why
didn’t he just say, “And every
evil thought in his heart”? That
would suffice, shorter. It says,
“Every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart.” And the
word imagination– remember this
word. Put this in your spirit,
Amen, this word here. Of course,
it’s in Hebrew because it’s in
the Old Testament. The word
“imagination” is the word yeser.
Say, yeser. Very easy to
remember. I just told you
something you know. “Yes, sir,”
right? Yes, sir, yeser, right?
Yeser. Now, this is noun. Yeser
in the Hebrew is a noun. So only
God can see the heart, and God
saw that the heart, the
imaginations in the heart, was
evil. And God knew it’s a matter
of time it will manifest
outside. Already they were doing
all kinds of wickedness. The
Bible says–if you read later
on, it says that it repented the
Lord to see the– it made the
Lord feel sad, grieved the Lord
to see man wicked. Wickedness
was rampant throughout the
earth. Only God found Noah and
his family, right? But what did
it start from? The heart, the
imagination of the heart, and
God restored the heart. Are you
listening, people? And the word
is what, “imagination” – Yeser.
Now, later on, after Noah’s
flood, all right, God saved Noah
and his family, kept them in the
ark, a picture of Jesus Christ,
Amen. And that’s why the word
“pitch within and without with
asphalt,” right, the word
“pitch” there is “atone” in
Hebrew. It is atone and covered
well and tight within and
without the ark, Amen. So Noah
and his family were safe in the
ark. So even sometimes there are
people who teach, like, you can
be saved and still be lost. No,
no, no, you know? Every time
that Noah or any of his family
members fell, maybe they had a
wave a bit too strong, they fell
in the ark. They never fell
outside the ark. And my friend,
it wasn’t they who closed the
door. The Bible says the Lord
shut the door. And when the Lord
shut the door, it was to secure
the people in, His people in,
Amen! They are kept safe!
Hallelujah. Are you with me so
far? Amen? You are safe forever.
Even you fail, you fall here and
there, you fall in the ark. You
never fall out of the ark. Some
people say, “I’m just holding
onto Jesus outside the ark. I’m
just holding onto Jesus,” Amen?
No, you are lost. If you’re
outside, you are lost, and no
amount of your doing can save
you, Amen? Are you with me so
far? So later on, after the
flood came to an end and Noah
and his family came out, Amen, I
love it. You know, when God
says, “Come into the ark”? God
says, “Come into the ark.” God
is the first one in, inviting
them in. When God told them to
go out, He says, “Go out of the
ark.” That means He is the last
one to say, “Go,” or else He’s
outside, saying, “Come.” But no,
He says, “Go.” First one in,
last one out. That’s leadership,
Amen? Hey, hallelu? Yeah, one
reason I preach to you all live,
you all better give me a good
response, okay? Amen? Right,
because I don’t want to be
preaching better than your
response, Amen? You think about
it, you don’t have much, you
know? You just have, like, at
the most, one hour, “Pastor
Prince, come on, one hour,
you?”. Okay, 1:10, 1:15, 1 you
know, right? You’re getting
God’s Word. What am I giving
you? I’m giving you what? For
your eye gate, for your ear
gate, what’s going in? God’s
Word, not that will cause you to
be depressed. It will give life
to you and health to all your
flesh. You should get very
excited, Amen. You should shout,
scream, praise the Lord, Amen.
Amen! Don’t be so dead you can’t
shout that deadness away. Come
on! No, you got to shake
yourself, Amen. Praise the Lord!
Like Samson, “I shake myself
like times before.” That
means–that tells us before the
anointing of power and might
comes on him, there’s a shaking
going on. He shake himself. Why?
Shake himself off the dust of
the earth. Shake yourself from
the dust, O daughter of Zion.
No, captive daughter of Zion.
The way you get out of captivity
and you’re a daughter of Zion, a
daughter of God, the way you do
that is shake yourself from the
dust, from the devil’s food,
Amen. He’ll try to clutter on
you, you know, thoughts, and
depressed thoughts, and you
watch the news, and then you
look at social media, then the
news, social media, you know?
Then your friend tell you, “Ya
lor, ya lor, ya lor, it’s true.”
Then you watch the Netflix or
whatever. There’s a lot of
negativism. The whole thing
thrives on negativism, all
right? They only resolve it at
the end. Sometimes at the end
also, very negative, all right?
They didn’t end up together, you
know, so, you know, or things
like that. You get more
depressed, you know? Wah, I wish
I didn’t watch that show, you
know? And then Pastor Mark calls
you, right? No, Pastor Mark is a
joy bringer. Some things bring
joy, Pastor Mark, just by being,
like puppies. They don’t have to
perform. Just by being themself,
you love them. Little children,
just by being. Flowers, just by
being, and you, just by being.
Love you, bro. Love you, bro.
All right. The imagination is,
watch this, “Yeser” is used
again when Noah built the ark
after the flood, and for the
first time the Bible says, use
this expression. God says, “I
smell sweet perfume.” Let’s look
at the verse. “And the Lord
smelled a soothing aroma.” Why?
It reminds Him of Jesus. That
sacrifice reminds Him of His
Son. Every time you remind God
of His Son, that’s what worship
is, you know, and God smells a
soothing aroma. “Then the Lord
said in His heart, ‘I will never
again curse the ground for man’s
sake, although the imagination,
“yeser”, of man’s heart is evil
from his youth; nor will I again
destroy every living thing as I
have done.’ Although the
imagination of man’s heart is
only evil continually.” And this
word is “yeser.” Notice God
could say, “Man’s heart is
evil,” enough. We understand. We
can understand that, right? But
God put this word, “The
imagination of man’s heart,” the
“yeser”. Now you say, “Pastor
Prince, why talk about all
that?” Remember Ephesians 1?
Look at Ephesians 1, the prayer
I told you all to pray last
year. Paul says, “I keep asking
that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may
give you the Spirit of wisdom
and revelation, so that you may
know Him”. How does the spirit
of wisdom and revelation
operate? How many want the
spirit of wisdom and revelation?
Amen, Amen. Don’t forget, God
gave wisdom to a young man
called Solomon, and he became
the wealthiest man that ever
lived, and still up to today
wealthier than even Elon Musk.
Amen. If you look at considering
all the inflation rates and all
that, he’s the richest man. All
that he received from God is
wisdom. And there are five
things that wisdom gives you,
right? Length of days, riches,
honour, pleasure, peace. Don’t
forget that, and this is found
in the book of Proverbs. Amen.
And this is what people want.
Praise the Lord! Wisdom gives
you that, the spirit of wisdom.
When you ask God for wisdom and
the spirit of wisdom operate,
and Paul is saying pray for this
every day. Pray, pray, pray.
Paul says, “I pray this prayer
for you, that the spirit of
wisdom and revelation operate.”
How does it operate? Operate
like this, “I pray that the eyes
of your heart.” Your heart have
eyes. Your heart have eyes. Your
eyes–the eyes of your heart
speaks of what? Vision,
imagination. So we have seen
something here. When you say,
“Guard your heart,” guard your
imagination! And that’s why when
Jesus says things like, “Whoever
looks on a woman to lust after
her has already committed
adultery with her,” it’s already
act. Imagination is the act. But
what do you think the guy is
thinking of? The guy is thinking
in words, “I am committing
adultery with this woman.” No,
it is imagination. And to Jesus,
imagination is the deed. But you
see, imagination is out there,
you know? It’s like
something–it’s not real, you
know? It’s just in my mind. I’m
just imagining. No, with God,
imagination is creative. Let me
prove that to you. I told you
“yeser,” right? The word for
“imagination” is “yeser.” Guess
where it first appeared? It
didn’t appear as imagination.
Same Hebrew word, same spelling.
I’ve been showing you the noun
of that word “yeser.” You wanna
see the verb? When God used it
as a verb, “yeser,” same
spelling, “yeser”? You know when
it appeared? In Genesis 2, verse
7, “The LORD God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a
living being.” Which part of
this is “yeser”? “God formed
man, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life.”
Which one is “neser”, “yeser”?
Formed. Formed. Formed. Formed,
my friend, is something–in
fact, the word here in the
Hebrew means to squeeze into
shape, like a Play-Doh, right?
Literally that action. It’s a
verb. The verb form of all the
nouns that I gave you just now
from Noah’s story, right, all
that is noun, “yeser,” noun, in
noun, and this one is in verb.
And notice that it is something
to do with creating,
formulating. So, imagination, my
friend, to God, is creative.
Long before we have a crowd of
this size in our church, I had a
dream when our church was small.
I saw all of you. And I loved
you before I, you know that
song? I met you. I saw you all
in my vision. And the best time
to practise all these godly
imaginations, and powerful
imaginations, and positive
imaginations is during time of
prayer. So, one of the best,
exciting prayers is like this.
You pray and see what the Holy
Spirit brings up to you. And you
pray, you walk the floor, you
walk somewhere in the park or
whatever, you say…[speaking in
tongues] “Thank You, Father. I’m
praying for my son.” As you pray
for your son, be alert to the
pictures that come up. That’s
how the Holy Spirit speaks. And
that’s why the Bible says, “In
the last days, it shall come to
pass I will pour out My Spirit
upon all flesh and your young
men shall see visions, and your
old men shall dream dreams.”
What is dream? Dream is visions
when you are sleeping, when your
physical eyes are closed. A
vision is when your physical
eyes are open. They both are
pictures. God speaks through
pictures! But we are so much in
our minds we think in terms of
words. When God said, “Meditate
on My Word,” we meditate on the
Word literally, and that’s fine,
but God has pictures. God’s Word
is, the Bible is chock full of
pictures. Even in Psalms,
talking about meditation, He
tells you, “You shall be like a
tree, planted by the rivers of
water.” You can see a lot of
water, not just one water or one
river. Rivers of water that
bringeth forth his fruit in his
season. His leaves shall not
wither. Can you see it? His
leaves shall not wither. No
brown leaves. Amen. All green
leaves. His leaves shall not
wither. There’s no such tree.
This animal doesn’t exist on
planet earth, but it’s God’s
vision for you. You’re gonna
live the supernatural life,
supernaturally perennially
green, Amen. Forever young,
hallelujah, green. His leaves
shall not wither and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper.
Whatsoever! So, can you see it?
Can you see it? When you go to
work and you see yourself, I’m
all green. Amen. I’m healthy,
always healthy, always young.
I’m strong. I see myself like a
tree, planted. “Planted” means I
didn’t plant myself. “Planted,”
passive. Someone planted me. The
Lord, hallelujah! By where? The
rivers of water. And I don’t
care if it’s famine time in the
world. I don’t care if the world
says it’s not enough, Amen, it’s
time of inflation and
hyperinflation, whatever it is.
I know that I’m not planted
where the world is planted. I’m
in the world but not of the
world. I’m planted by the
rivers! And whatsoever. I love
that. God does not exaggerate.
God’s Word is truth. When God
says, “Whatever he does
prospers,” even my mistakes.
Whatever is whatever. Imagine
going to work, meditating on
that word. But what are you
meditating? Words? No! You are
seeing and you are saying, “I’m
that woman. I’m that man.” By
the time you arrive at work,
whoa, you don’t have that– you
have a presentation or whatever,
you don’t have that fear.
Whatever I do prospers. And you
repeat that word. Whatever I do
prospers. I’m like a tree
planted, cared for. Not a tree
growing wild by itself. It
doesn’t say, “A tree growing
wild,” Amen? “Planted” means
someone cared enough to plant
it. Are you with me so far? So
to God, when God formed,
“yeser,” man, and used the word
“yeser” for imagination, He is
saying “yeser” creates. It forms
your life. And that’s why Jesus
said in Matthew 12, “Out of the
abundance of your heart, the
mouth speaks”. You know we teach
about, be careful what you say,
Amen? What you say is what you
get, Amen? That’s how you get
saved, right? You get saved by
saying. If you confess with your
mouth and you believe in your
heart, right, Jesus Christ is
Lord, and you believe God raised
Him from the dead, you shall be
saved. With the heart, man
believes unto righteousness, and
with the mouth. So it’s always
heart, mouth; mouth, heart;
heart, mouth; heart, mouth;
heart, mouth, okay? But which
one comes first? Jesus says your
heart. “Out of the abundance of
the heart, the mouth speaks.” It
is not by talking a lot about
God’s Word and then you hope it
will fill your heart. No, you
fill your heart by spending time
in the Word, by reading, by
filling your imagination. And
that’s why when you are not
feeling well, spend a lot of
time in healing Scriptures. I
have one myself where I just
read and you just lie down
there. Many times you don’t feel
like reading if you’re not
feeling well, right? Just listen
to healing Scriptures, Amen.
Mine comes with a bit of rain
because I believe that, you
know, rain, God gave rain as a
picture of “Moreh,” latter rain,
to bring forth the harvest. So
just hearing it is very
soothing, Amen. So there’s water
and then Pastor Prince’s voice,
Amen? If you think you like to
sleep under my voice, you’ll
want these healing Scriptures,
Amen? But what’s the idea? The
idea is to listen to all the
verse until your inside becomes
a new picture. It’s not what the
doctor tells you, the worst case
scenario. And they have to tell
you sometimes what is the worst
case scenario, but
unfortunately, many times the
worst case scenario becomes the
only scenario you can look
forward to, and that’s not hope.
Hope is the positive expectation
of good in your future. And you
think about the consequence of
this disease. You think about
the worst case scenario. Why?
Your heart is not filled. And
you’re saying that, “No, I guard
my heart. I guard my heart.” You
do not know what is the heart.
How can you guard it? You say
you’re guarding your heart, but
your imagination is full of
lust. Your imagination is full
of pessimism and depression.
You’re looking at the worst case
scenario. You’re not guarding
your heart. And the devil–what
is the devil after then? Your
heart. Now it’s creative. Look
at what Jesus said. Jesus says,
“Out of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaks.” Oh my
goodness, time. I bind this
clock! Can you believe that?
It’s the intro, friend. It’s the
intro. Oh yeah, we talk about
three hours, right? So, “A good
man out of the good treasure of
his heart brings forth good
things.” So I see good things in
your life. I ask you the
question, “Where did all these
good things come from?” You are
at a loss. Many Christians are
at a loss, right? But actually,
the good things come from your
heart. Now, we know it’s from
God, finally, because your heart
is all just nothing but empty
without Jesus. But then you
receive the vision from God,
from His Word, and it fills your
heart. “A good man out”. Say
“Out.” Say “Out of. Bring
forth.” So the good things come
from where? “A good man out of
the good treasure of his heart
brings forth good things, and an
evil man out of the evil
treasure brings forth evil
things.” So right now there is a
battle going on in the world.
The devil knows these principles
as well, so he tries to fill
your heart. And that’s why the
very first sin, the very first,
the very first sin ever recorded
in the Bible that caused all the
sins of man to come forth, the
fall of man in the Garden, what
did the devil say to Eve? He
painted a picture, so much so
that Eve actually, before she
even tasted the fruit, she
actually saw that the tree was
good. How does she know? She saw
the tree was good. “Saw the tree
was good” means she imagined
eating it. Look at this. “When
the woman saw the tree was
good,” she saw the tree was good
without eating it, “that it was
pleasant to the eyes, a tree
desirable to make one wise, she
took of its fruit and ate. She
also gave to her husband with
her, and he ate. Then the eyes
of both of them were opened, and
they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig leaves
together and made themselves
coverings.” Of course, we all
know that these eyes being
opened is not physical eyes.
They already had physical eyes.
She could see the tree, right?
She can see her husband. She can
see all the animals. So, these
eyes being opened is spiritual
eyes. The spiritual eyes here.
God wants their spiritual eyes
to be opened by the other tree,
the picture of Christ, tree of
life, Amen. They should have
opened their spiritual eyes by
the tree of life, but they
opened their spiritual eyes to
the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, and now they see their
shortcomings. They were naked.
Actually, they were not naked.
If you look carefully at the way
God made man, “All have sinned
and forfeited the glory of God.”
The Bible says God has crowned
man with glory and honour, and
glory is a stronger clothing
than the best silk clothing or
linen or whatever it is, all
right? Man was completely, like,
in a golden halo. It’s a
clothing. God crowned man. And
the word “crowned” there is a
surrounding crown, like an aura.
I don’t like the word “aura”
because it’s been used by the,
you know, the new ages and all
that. It’s like, man is
completely radiant, and this
radiance is a protection as
well. But when man sinned, poof,
whole thing disappeared! That’s
what it means, “Man forfeited
the glory of God,” Jerusalem
Bible. Man forfeited. Your Bible
says, “Come short of the glory.”
The glory just disappeared, but
Jesus came and gave us back the
glory, Amen? And there’s a glory
surrounding you. Are you
listening? So she imagined
eating. She imagined. We do not
know how long it took. The more
you imagine, you fantasize about
another person’s husband,
another man’s wife, you know,
you keep on doing that kind of
thing, it doesn’t mean you end
up with that person, you end up
with some destruction in your
future. Either your marriage is
destroyed. Something is
destroyed. Adultery destroys. So
Jesus says, to Jesus, “Whoever
looks on a woman to lust after
her has already.” Already. The
imagination is the deed. Are you
with me so far? This is amazing.
So God told Abraham, after Lot
left him, right, and God told
Abraham this, “Abraham, look
north, look south, look west,
look east. All that your eye can
see, I will give it to you.” And
then God says something very
strange. God says, “Arise, go,
walk through–” listen, walk.
“Arise, walk through the length
of it, the breadth of it, for
all this land I have given to
you.” But the next verse says,
“Then he built a camp.” He
didn’t walk. Look at this, this
portion here, right? God said,
“Arise, walk in the land through
its length.” God says, first of
all, “See,” right? “Arise, walk
in the land through its length,
I give it to you. Then Abraham
moved his tent, and dwelt by the
oak trees of Mamre, in Hebron.”
He didn’t walk through the
length, through the breadth. He
stayed somewhere. Abraham knew
God is referring to what? Walk
in your imagination. Visit the
north. See yourself possessing
it. Go to the south in
Beersheba. See yourself
possessing it. The north, you
see yourself walking on the
Golan Heights. You see yourself
enjoying Galilee. And see the
south, Beersheba, luscious,
fertile, where sheeps can graze.
It’s a plentiful field for
sheeps and all that. Look at the
Mediterranean Sea, the west. You
can go swimming there. See
yourself swimming. See yourself
enjoying, Amen, all the fruits
that come from a Mediterranean
kind of diet. You know,
Mediterranean diet is considered
healthiest diet. That comes from
there. Go, see yourself involved
in all these things. Can you see
it? Arise, Abraham. Walk through
the length of it. How?
Imagination. “All that you see,
I give it to you,” God says.
“All that you see, I give it to
you,” Amen. So right now, maybe
you are at this age and recently
you saw a photo of yourself when
you were younger. You say, “Oh,
that’s the best period of my
life. I looked so good.” I
looked so good! Yo, I looked so
good! Mmm, mmm, cute. Amen? So
you got that photo? And you feel
so strong, great sense of
vibrancy and vivacity, and you
feel so alive. You got a picture
of that? All right, take that
picture out. Print it, put it
somewhere, Amen. Thank God for
it and keep on looking at that
picture and tell the Lord that
is your land. That is what God
wants you to possess or
repossess, Amen. Amen. Now, if
you can, don’t find somebody
else’s picture ’cause it takes
greater… you know, your faith
can believe for yourself because
you were there before, you know?
But you take someone else’s
picture, you take Pastor
Lawrence’s face, with the
muscles and all that. You all
heard Pastor Mark share before,
right, that he used this
principle, right? He took a body
builder, but then you cut off
the head, is it? You did cut off
the head? Did you cut off the
head? No, you left the head. At
least superimpose your head,
lah. Lawrence, do you do that?
Yeah, you cannot superimpose the
head. It’d be too small for the
body. But then his wife came
into the room, into his
bathroom. He has a picture of
this bodybuilder. He always
said, “That’s my body. That’s my
body.” And you know something?
It was one of the healthiest
period of his life, strongest
period of his life. I think you
were hitting 50 at that time,
right? And he was, you know,
feeling down. So he was feeling,
like, tired, so he start looking
at it. And the more he looked at
it, the more energy he had. And
the wife didn’t understand. The
wife went in and the wife said,
“What’s that?” Some…use some
Chinese word, lah? Wow, you are
very confident, let your wife
see this kind of man. Huh? Very
secure. So every day he says,
“That’s me, that’s me, that’s
me,” Amen? All right, so if you
wanna use a bodybuilder, you
know, at least put your face
there. Different things, but
don’t go crazy and get carnal
and say I put a Ferrari here, a
Rolls-Royce here, and a big
house here and all that. This is
not about houses and about–you
know? I mean, the principles is
the same, yes, yes. I can tell
you of testimonies of people who
received material things even,
the very thing that they saw,
all right? But more than
anything else, Amen, it’s for
your life. You know, if you talk
about the Bible, the pictures
the Bible gives most of the time
is all pictures of your family.
And let me close with this,
okay? I just got started, you
know? Let me finish the verse in
Ephesians first. Ephesians 1
again. So God says, “I pray that
the eyes–” Paul is praying. He
says, “I pray that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened.”
So, notice the eyes of your
heart. So the way…the way the
spirit of wisdom operates and
revelation is like through the
eyes of your heart. You just, “I
see it.” You know when you talk
to people, and then when they
understand you, sometimes they
don’t say they understand,
right? What do they say? “I see.
I see,” right? Doesn’t mean they
see physically. They see it
inside, right? That’s how the
spirit of wisdom operates. I
just know it. “Pastor Prince,
how do you know you’re…” I just
know it. “Can you teach me?”
That’s the problem. I have to
pray for the spirit of wisdom to
come on you the way Paul prayed.
And if Paul had to pray for it
and Solomon has to pray for
wisdom, what makes you think
that you don’t have to? But the
way it operates– you need to
know how it operates. It
operates by the eyes of our
heart being enlightened. Another
thing that I wanna share with
you real quick is this. When you
pray for people or you pray for
yourself, like I said just now,
even in the privacy of your room
or whatever, you’re walking
around, “Oh, thank You, Lord
Jesus. I thank You, Father God,”
and you’re praying over your
wife’s health. Lately she’s not
been feeling well. You pray for
her, “In Jesus’ name, thank You,
Lord.” And all the sudden, the
Lord begins to bring up fears,
you know? You can even see her
sometimes. The Holy Spirit will
bring up that she was a child, a
fear came in, and you say, “In
the name of Jesus, I bind that
fear in the name of Jesus, and I
free her from that fear,” and
you go on praying again and
being alert to the pictures that
come up. It’s very exciting to
pray that way. What is God
saying? That the sickness that
she has right now, the root of
it is the fear, and now you
dealt with the fear. Or you pray
for your son who’s very
depressed, very morose, hide
himself in the room. [speaking
in tongues] “In Jesus’ name, I
command his depression–“
Sometimes God wants to go
deeper, but you just pray, pray
and be alert to the pictures
that come up. [speaking in
tongues] And there’ll be
pictures coming up. Sometimes
it’s just a picture showing his
future. He’s smiling. He’s
outdoors. He is tan and enjoying
the sun, and he’s happy, no more
depressed. And you say, “Father,
I thank You that’s my boy.
That’s my boy. Thank You,
Father, in Jesus’ name. I see
him that way, Lord. As Jesus is,
so is he in this world. He’s
free, I see him free from
depression.” That is prayer, my
friend. Prayer is not just, “I
ask You this, I ask You for
that. I ask You for that.”
Usually it’s a more desperate
kind of thing. The substratum of
that kind of prayer is based on
fear. No, God wants you to just
learn the language of the Holy
Spirit. And I just got started.
Ugh, so unfair. Praise the Lord,
Amen. Is it possible to do this
part one here and then the next
service is part two? Two
different services. Can or not?
Amen? One last picture to give
you and then you can take this
as your homework, all right?
Like I said, God always have
pictures of family, family
success and all that. Look at
Psalms 144 real quick. “That our
sons may be as plants grown up
in their youth; That our
daughters may be as pillars,
sculptured in palace style.”
What is God doing with all these
details? Giving you pictures to
fill your heart with, because
the world is always– listen,
listen, listen. The world is
always giving you pictures. The
way you overcome a negative
picture isn’t, “I won’t think of
that. I won’t think of that.”
The more you don’t think of
that, the more you think of
that. Like, don’t think of a
pink elephant. Don’t think of a
pink elephant. Don’t think of
this elephant that is pink. Pink
elephant, don’t think of it.
Don’t, don’t, don’t! Guess what
you are thinking, right? So the
way to overcome a negative
imagination is to have a better
imagination. And whenever a
negative imagination comes,
right, that’s your clue to
switch. Take it as a blessing.
You know, not a blessing, but
working out for good in that it
reminds you to imagine rightly,
Amen. You see a dark future. All
of a sudden you see, “Praise the
Lord, my leaf is green. How can
I end up in an early grave? My
leaf is green. At this age, I’m
still green.” Amen! I like the
old hymn says, “Forever young,”
Amen? Because always–his leaf
shall not wither means always
green. Praise the Lord. So our
daughters, you say, “What kind
of a picture to have of my
daughter? What kind of picture?”
Look at her like a pillar. In
those days they are familiar
with the pillar of Solomon,
right? It’s like adorned,
pomegranates, beauty, stately.
The pillar is straight, she…her
posture, her beauty, her shape,
you know? And best of all, her
character and all that is
princessly, like the child of
God she is. My daughter is a
sculptured pillar, palace style.
My sons, my son as plants grown
up in their youth. You know what
that means or not, “Grown up in
their youth”? That even though
they are in their youth, they
are grown up. I like what
Young’s Literal Translation
says. It says, “Becoming great
in their youth.” We all say that
you become great when you have
gray hair, once…you know, I
think by the time you get gray
hair, you should be great, all
right? You should be wise,
right? But it’s called the
school of hard knocks. But it’s
not true also. There are also
old people, and very grumpy, you
know, very stressful, very
troubled in their hearts, okay?
But our young people, believe
your children that he will be
great in his youth, already
mature in his youth, grown up in
his youth. See, there’s a
picture right there of your
family. Drop down. “Our barns
may be full, supplying all kinds
of produce; That our sheep may
bring forth thousands and ten
thousands in our fields.” You
see that? All right, that means
what? Prosperity. I don’t know
how else to describe this.
“Pastor Prince, you said that
word, the P word.” What word?
The P word. You don’t say that
in church or else they will call
you a prosperity cult. Okay, I
didn’t say it. Okay, I revoke
that word “prosperity.” I just
tell you this, lah, right? God
wants you barns to be full,
supplying all kinds of produce.
Your sheep, don’t bring one,
two, three, four. Thousands, and
not only thousands, also ten
thousands in our field. It’s a
picture. Have that picture. In
those days, it is husbandry, and
you know, they worked with
animals, and they’re shepherds
and all that. And this means
prosperity for them, right? Drop
down. “That our oxen may be well
laden; That there be no breaking
in or going out; That there be
no outcry.” And this word
“outcry” is the word
“complaining in our streets.”
You will live in Praise Avenue.
You have moved away from
Grumbling Street, next door to
Complaining Alley. You left–you
left that house already. You are
now parked. All of you, in
Jesus’ name, you are parked at
Praise Avenue. When good things
happen, you say, “Hallelujah.”
When bad things happen, you say,
“Hallelujah anyway. All things
work for my good,” Amen? Praise
the Lord. Give Him praise,
church, hallelujah. Thank You,
Lord, Amen. Just for a while, no
one moving around. Every head
bowed and every eye closed.
Perchance you are here or
watching online and you have
never made Jesus your personal
Saviour and Lord, I wanna pray
for you right now. It’s very
simple, like I said, if you
confess with your mouth, believe
in your heart. Actually, the
very righteousness of faith
teaching that Paul drew from was
from the story of Abraham, when
he says, “I see myself with no
child,” and God brought him out
to see the stars. He believed in
the Lord, just believed, and God
imputed to him for
righteousness. If that is you,
wherever you are, friend, Jesus
Christ died on the cross for
your sins, and He bore your
diseases, took your curse, and
redeemed you from it so that you
can enjoy the abundant life that
He came to give you, forgiveness
of sins, healing for all your
diseases, redemption from
destruction, renewal of youth
like the eagles. If that is you,
wherever you are right now, pray
this prayer with me, right? Pray
this, say, “Heavenly Father, I
thank You that You sent Jesus
Christ, Your beloved Son, to die
on that cross. He bore my sins
and all my diseases. He was
wounded for my transgressions,
and by His wounds I have been
healed. I thank You that on the
third day You destroyed death,
and You raised Jesus from the
dead. I thank You because He
lives, I live also. Jesus Christ
is my Lord forever. In Jesus’
name, Amen.” The Bible says,
“With the heart, man believes
unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto
salvation.” Stand to your feet,
church. Praise the name of
Jesus, hallelujah. I feel like
singing, but bind that in Jesus’
name. Lift your hands all across
this place. We’ll see you again,
okay, this coming week. I
might…I might continue this
series. The Lord bless you and
your families with the blessings
of Deuteronomy 28. Christ has
redeemed you from every curse in
Deuteronomy 28 and all the
blessings keep on keeping on in
your life, even throughout this
week. The Lord make His face to
shine on you and keep you and
your loved ones, preserve you
and your families from harm,
danger, from every sickness,
from all the powers of darkness.
And the Lord give you His
smiling radiance into your life,
that you will be a joyful,
smiling, radiant person
throughout this week, it starts
this week. And the Lord grant
you and your loved ones His
shalom peace that guards your
heart above all the guarding and
keep your heart and mind through
Christ Jesus. In Jesus’ name,
Amen. God bless you all. We’ll
see you again!
Well, about two years ago, I was
just on my couch and listening
to Christian television, and
just happened to be flicking
through the channels. And there
was Joseph Prince. And he was
speaking a message about grace
and I’ve been listening to him
ever since. And I’ve fallen in
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I’m a pastor’s son. So you know,
I kind of got out of the way and
through his message, he had
brought me back into the path
where I should have been from
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