When you fail, do you go to God telling Him what a lousy sinner you are? Or do you go to God boldly, believing you are still righteous in Christ? Joseph Prince shows you why it is the latter that will cause you to find grace to overcome your weaknesses and challenges. Get back on your feet again, walk tall, and be bold as a lion in life because Jesus has made you righteous. The victorious Christian walk, where you enjoy intimacy with the Father and reign over sin, begins with knowing how you are forever forgiven, righteous, and complete in Christ!

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excerpt from Joseph Prince calm

I started by saying in Christ dwells all

the fullness of the Godhead bodily and

you child of God you are complete in

Christ 30 states in Christ dwells all

the fullness of the Godhead bodily

and in God says but you know something

you are complete in Christ God has put

you in Christ and you are complete the

amazing thing church is this God says

you are righteous but they are preaching

going on in churches today that says you

know if you are holy enough one day

you’ll be righteous no no no my friend

you are not holy righteous and blameless

your actions might not correspond yet my

son does not walk like an adult because

he’s still a baby

but one day trust me here walking an

adult and he won’t want me to baby him

anymore so keep on feeding the people

amen

pastors and leaders keep on feeding the

people don’t beat the people feet and

they come to a place where their actions

were correspond but meanwhile the truth

is that whether you are rich or poor

Christian whether you are young or all

believer you are complete in Christ you

are not less complete than one who is 10

years Christian you are complete in

Christ and it cries dwells all the

fullness of the Godhead bodily so what

we have done is that we take the

starting post you are complete in Christ

and we have we have made it the

finishing post that’s the problem we

tell people one day the finishing posts

we think in the natural we think like a

human instead of reasoning from God

downwards we are reasoning from man

upwards God’s reasoning God’s God’s

reality is that you are completing

Christ even though you’re safe this

morning you’re completing Christ

now walk out that completeness and if

you’re fall and appear incomplete you

are still complete your fall

does not incomplete you because your

action in the first place did not

complete you

it was Christ so that’s the finishing

that’s a starting close the starting

posit your complete don’t make the

starting post the finishing post one day

you’ll be complete I wanna show you

right now how many Christians think and

that’s the reason you don’t see that

deliverance because there’s something

you know very profound

if you come to God if you’re a child of

God and you come to God like a sinner

God doesn’t respond to you because he’s

no more God to you his father even when

you fail you come to God as a sinner and

say God I have sinned God I’m a sinner

Lord I am a sinner saved by grace God

God have mercy on me be merciful to me

the sinner

and you think you’re copying the guy

that Jesus talked about who wasn’t even

safe now you’re confusing the issue are

you a child

addressing the father or are you a

sinner addressing God once upon a time

we were all sinners and we addressed God

as a sinner we addressed God we can

Satan to be merciful to me the sinner

and that’s right but God is no more just

God to us his father and we are no more

sinners to him we are his children and

our cry is ABBA when we teach things

like this the thing is the miracles

happen something about the truth that

the Holy Spirit bears witness with truth

you know when I push on rest in Jesus

faith for miracles I have a title clock

resting in 2008 I think I preach it I

don’t know when I preach it but anyway

rest in Jesus

rest in Jesus faith Jesus is faith for

miracles I’ll talk about when you know

you’re competing Christ what you do yes

there is no rest when you’re trying to

get something trying to get something

striving for victory praying for victory

but that’s not a rest when you’re

praying from victory you see pray by you

pray this time you pray must come to God

before you come to God don’t do that

don’t just come and throw your requests

so fast just come and know that he loves

you you’re coming to a father

don’t talk about the God of the universe

he isn’t God of universe but you must

not allow how people see him to be how

you see him you have a different

relation he’s your father a father that

loves to hear your voice in the song of

songs he says this let me hear your

voice but before he says let me hear

your voice he says let me see your face

let me see you by countenance and then

let me hear your voice notice the order

it is your presence that he wants not

just your voice it’s one thing for

Jessica to talk to me on the staircase

or in the living room and I’m in the

room daddy

yes you know but I would love for her to

come in my presence I don’t want to talk

I can hear her voice so the Bible says

God wants to see your face and then hear

your voice so you come to God you have a

prayer request you know just and just

know that he loves you when you come to

his presence stop there and just say

just know he loves you he’s a God who

gave Jesus to die for your sins but now

he’s your father and talk to him say

father have a continent you know the

presence of the one who loves you

infinitely he finds no fault with you

and he delights that you are coming to

him he delights that you’re trusting him

he’s your prayer requests see that and

see your prayers are not answered

because when you come in a lie you come

to him like he’s God you sense distance

it’s a lie everything is a lie God

cannot own that lie God cannot answer an

own that life for God to give you an

answer is to own that lie and there’s

the reason why you don’t see results

sometimes it’s not the words you say

it’s just coming to his presence if

father and we know this he loves you the

new carbons about your love for God is

but his love for you in Hindi note that

he wants to hear my voice he wants to

see my face father you know many times

when I pray for the father I usually

start off by saying father thank you for

loving me have you ever thanked him for

loving you thank you for loving me it

gives me a sense that he loves me long

before I bring my prayer request I must

have that sense I’m ahead of center he

– to have me in his presence to hear my

voice to see my face first then to hear

my voice I’m telling you these a

confidence we have in him if we know he

hears us we know that we have the

requests we desired of him

hmm it’s amazing how we you know that

this testimony here I just want to share

real quick

hey you’re blessed this is from Honolulu

the director in 1993 this brother from

Honolulu he said that is a short one in

1993 I was in a car accident that

injured my spine messing up my fourth to

fifth lumbar vertebrae as I could not

walk I had to undergo back surgery in

1995 the operation only made my

condition worse and I was in pain every

single day some days worse than others

even my right knee and right shoulder

were affected for 15 years my daily

prayer was for healing and released from

this excruciating pain then in 2008 I

listened to a teaching by Pastor Prince

vital rest in Jesus’s faith for miracles

even the faith of miracles you don’t you

don’t come with it

I need the faith I need the faith you

know it’s like so much strife you’ll be

your complete means what it’s faith

lacking no it’s not just rest in him if

I need faith he was supplying not the

analogy of the vine and the branches

whatever is in the vine flows in the

branches the only way to stop that SAP

is for the vine to try to tighten up I

must try my best

nothing flows you know okay he says that

for 15 years my daily prayer was for

healing and released from this

excruciating pain then in 2008 I

listened to a teaching chorus and Jesus

paid for miracles by Pastor Prince I

shared it with my husband we were both

excited and blessed by what we had

learned and it revolutionized my

thinking about faith I began to repeat

that’s all she did I began to repeat

what pastor Prince taught about Jesus

faith but I

wasn’t praying about anything in

particular that night 15 years

excruciating pain that night as I

prepared for bed my back made this snap

crackle and pop sound twice when I bent

slightly over the sink crawling into bed

I noticed that my back didn’t really

hurt when I awoke the agony in my back

was gone what a miracle praise God

hallelujah amen no hula Balu jumping up

and down you know like commanding all

the time just resting just repeating

what I said to her husband when I at the

day progress at work both my knee and

shoulder became free of pain as well I

was even able to walk up and down two

flights of stairs I’m so thankful for

the teachings on grace by pastor Prince

what a blessing now the praise God thank

you Jesus you know church you gotta be

careful with this man’s teachings even

your friends your colleagues I can tell

you this this is not natural teaching

grace it’s not natural what is natural

is this do your best to please God and

one of these days if God sees that you

are sincere enough you’re earnest you

know you know maybe you’ll be more

complete than John over there then Lucy

over there you’ll be better off

hallelujah I’ll tell you I might

exaggerate a little bit here but that’s

what people think it is it is it boggles

your mind to say you’re complete to

start off now with that sense of

completeness walk out I’m gonna show you

something back-to-back okay III don’t

know why my ministry is such that you

always give me ministries back-to-back

chapters back-to-back and I’m a

contextual preacher which means I preach

things in context in the way it appears

in the Bible in John chapter 19 is a

story of the cross right

what did Jesus cry the cross it was the

end it is finished all right it is

finished John 19 verse 30 he cried it is

finished am i right

that’s way all starts where he cried

finished we start we start our Christian

life with the finished work when Jesus

says it is finished what is finished the

cup that he prayed in the Garden of

Gethsemane full of our sin full of our

curse full about judgment he drank he

drank it he drain it dry last dregs

finish the judgment is gone there’s no

more judgment for you and me

what about God’s law satisfied what

about God’s holiness magnified because

God’s holiness takes it is sin you die

somebody died God did not say okay never

mind I’ll compromise my holiness no

Jesus died in our place God’s holiness

is magnified God love expressed for men

for sinful men it’s finished his first

words recorded in the Bible when he was

12 years old was this didn’t you know it

was father and mother didn’t you know I

must be about my father’s business his

first recorded works his last work was

finish in the Gospel of John his earthly

life what was finished the father’s

business to have our sins forgiven

righteously on a judicial foundation hmm

then this job John 19 right then he rose

from the dead on the third day the

disciples were afraid they were in the

upper room they were hiding behind

closed doors Jesus appeared and by the

way he’s not a ghost he told one of them

to touch him flesh and bones that’s the

kind of body you and I how I have and

it’s flesh and bones yet it can

transcend time

and meta you can understand everything

not because we are so confined in this

world but in the world to come in the

body gonna have is a body that’s

physical we and you and I can shake

hands yet will transcend time and matter

and that’s why when the rapture happens

he transforms us first before he

raptures us because in our new body two

things you can transcend matter even

though you’re in a cinema even though

you either star your your body can

transcend number number three many of us

can take the height in our body we are

afraid of heights so it changes a new

body where there is no fear

I think solar the last five okay so when

he rose from the dead after it is

finished he meets them and he shows them

his wounds which is the righteous

foundation for him to say this peace be

unto you so peace be with you comes next

John 20 that’s John 19 it is finished

John 20 in the next chapter peace be

with you huh peace is founded on the

finished work and then the next chapter

we are going to John 21 now one week

after he rose from the dead he was

walking by the lake of Galilee the

fisherman his disciples were fishing in

the lake of Galilee y’all know the story

he made breakfast to them after he

finished breakfast with them he asked

this question do you love me do you love

me next chapter John 21 look at the

sequence do you love me comes after it

is finished

peace comes based on the finished work

then he asked do you love me I’m going

in other people the all of the Holy

Spirit and at the end of that chapter 21

he look at Peter and say you follow me

you follow me you got it now the true

Christian life starts with is predicated

on it is finished you’re completing

Christ is finished your sins are

forgiven past present and future you are

the righteousness of God in Christ amen

now you should possess the

he says peace be with you receive it

therefore being made righteous with God

we have peace therefore being justified

by faith we have peace with God okay

possess it then after that he asks you a

next question after you are resting the

finished work after you were enjoying

the peace with God you know that there’s

not no more war between you and there’s

nothing you know between you and God

anymore God is your father you’re so

close to him yes after all that I’ve

done for you is there anything in me

that you see they would cost you to love

me

it’s a question we say yes then he asked

do you love me and then when you say yes

Lord I love you then he says follow me

got it

I’ll tell you what traditional

Christianity teaches start from here

begin by following Christ you people too

lazy to follow Christ and I’m lazy to

wake up in the morning lazy to do this

lazy that must begin to follow Christ

only those who follow Christ will be

raptured

depending on your doctrine your

background only those who follow Christ

will make it don’t think easy

Christianity is sloppy agape greasy

crazy and get you into heaven okay it

sounds so amazing it sounds of wow man

this guy’s preaching the fire yeah what

fire is it

it’s strange fire starting on the wrong

foundation begin the teacher began to

follow Christ alright and do your best

to love him

do your best to love him and then you

have peace

when the work is finished don’t laugh

how many of us still believe this and

I’ve shown you the the sequence of

the appearance of these words it is not

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