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Happy New Year
of Living in the Upper Room.
What I saw is something
that will steady you,
strengthen you,
and prosper you
in the year 2024.
God wants us to be
so conscious that
we are seated with Christ,
that we relax,
and face our challenges
with the perspective of
all the resources
of God behind us,
we handle it.
What is God saying?
“I got a new problem.”
God says, “You got a
new sitting down to do.”
“No, I must get and
do something.”
“No, you must sit down
and sit well.
“I’m going to handle it.”
But it takes faith
for this position.
Will you live in the upper room?
Hi, this is Joseph Prince.
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from our Lord Jesus. God bless you!
Good morning, church.
Are you ready for some good news?
Praise the Lord.
We have some testimonies
that have come in from our last Sunday’s
time of ministering, and I pray that these
testimonies will bless you and encourage you.
Right, the first testimony comes to us from a
sister from Switzerland, and she writes that she
had been suffering from shingles for some time.
She could feel the pain in her lower right abdomen
near her hip all the way to the lower back.
According to the doctor, it would take at
least a month before her condition gets better.
On Sunday, the 14th of January, Pastor Prince
prayed over a condition of pain on the right
side around the waist and mentioned that the
person suffering from this condition hasn’t
been able to sit for long.
Praise the Lord.
As Pastor Prince prayed over the condition,
the pain in her body went away instantly.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
Wonderful testimony from Switzerland.
And as she goes on to conclude by saying,
“Thank you for your ministry, Pastor Prince.
You’re truly a blessing to the world.
Your teachings have set me free from
a life of condemnation, and we pray that
she’ll be healed of the shingles as well.
Amen, praise the Lord.
” The next testimony is from a sister from
Singapore, and she writes that at the beginning
of this year, she began exercising, and after
jogging, she experienced pain in her right knee.
She wasn’t sure if she had twisted it during the
first service on the 14th of January, 2024.
Pastor Prince called out her condition,
and she claimed the healing for herself.
The following day, she went for a jog,
and her condition was completely healed.
Praise God.
That’s not all.
She could even jog 3 kilometers without stopping.
God has increased her strength.
Thank you, Jesus, for healing me,
and Pastor Prince for calling out my condition.
Praise the Lord for healing this
sister of a knee condition.
All right, the next testimony
is also from a sister from Singapore.
She writes that she attended the 11:30 a.
m.
service at the
New Creation Church on 14th of January, 2024.
On that day, Pastor Prince prayed for various
conditions, including knee pain.
She stood in faith for a friend who
was suffering from this condition, but it did
not occur to her to pray for her own knees.
So selfless, this sister, you know.
While she had been suffering from knee
pain for several years, she could
not carry out certain workouts,
and she would also have to take deep breaths
before she climbed the stairs due to the pain.
The next day, she went to pick up her
daughter at a student care center.
Along the way, she had to
climb a long flight of stairs.
However, to her surprise, she did
not feel any pain in her knees.
It suddenly dawned on her that
her knees could have been healed
during the service the day before.
So she tried to climb more stairs
and did squats the next day.
Amazingly, there’s now no
more pain or cracking sound in her knees.
I’m so in awe of this miraculous healing.
Praise the Lord, hallelujah.
And I’m sure you all are aware
that somehow we’ve had quite a number
of testimonies pertaining to knee pain.
And you know why?
God is healing many people of their knee
pain so that they can walk up to the upper room.
Hallelujah, need to walk up the flight of stairs,
you know, to the upper room.
Right, the final testimony is a special one.
It’s from a brother from Singapore, and he
writes that he used to suffer from a heart
condition known as mitral valve prolapse.
After years of monitoring and testing,
the doctor finally discharged
him with a clean bill of health.
Despite this, he continued to
undergo annual health checkups,
including electrocardiogram, also known as ECG.
And as a precautionary measure, on 19th of
October, 2023, after a routine stress ECG, he
received a notification from the National Heart
Center indicating the need for another heart
test in a few weeks’ time due to abnormalities.
This was unprecedented and raised
concerns about the possibility of a
deteriorating valve condition.
Despite feeling anxious,
he chose to believe God for health and wholeness.
During the Sunday service on the 22nd of October,
2023, Pastor Prince ministered
healing, specifically addressing a
heart condition and using the term “valve.
” He knew it was God calling out for him.
Tears welled up in his eyes as he turned
to look at his wife who was also tearing.
He immediately claimed his healing and shouted
“Amen” when Pastor Prince declared that they
would receive a new valve and a new heart.
Over the following two weeks, he held onto Pastor
Prince’s teachings, rejecting negative thoughts
and reminding himself that he is already healed
and divine health is his through Jesus’ sacrifice.
In November, he underwent the heart test and was
informed that he should return for
the results in two weeks’ time.
During the anxious wait, he would confess, “I’m a
child of God, and Jesus has already taken away all
my sickness and given me his Divine health.
” I also found comfort in Pastor Princess’
sermon on putting on the armor of God.
When the results were finally out,
the doctor told me that everything was fine and
even said that I have a strong, healthy heart.
All honor and glory to Jesus, praise the
Lord for these wonderful testimonies.
And right now, church, let
us welcome Pastor Prince.
“Happy New Year of Living in the upper room,
amen!” You know, when we are believing God
for this place, I actually heard the Lord
tell me this—the very first time ever.
He said this to me years ago.
We moved in in 2012, end of 2012.
And those years before that, you know, there
was a lot of, uh, let me just tell you this:
it’s not easy, all right?
If, uh, it could heal an
average person just through stress alone, at
what we were supposed to even raise, and, uh,
all the different hiccups that happened along
the way, and how, uh, one thing led to another,
unforeseen things and all that.
But all the while, God gave me
a word, two words actually.
Number one, while we are going
through the process, He says, “Sit still.
Sit still until you know how the matter will
recover, for the man, the Lord Jesus
At The Father’s right hand will not
be at rest until he has finished it, amen?
” And that is a word from the book of Ruth
when Naomi, the mother-in-law,
turned to the daughter-in-law,
the Gentile girl from Moab, Jordan, who last
night nearly beat Korea in the Asian Cup.
Today, it’s Jordan, Moab.
She is actually a Moabite, but because
she believes in the God of Naomi, she says, “Your
God will be my God, your people will be my people.
Where you die, I will die.
” Imagine a daughter-in-law
saying that to the mother-in-law, and she became
one of the ancestors of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Lord Jesus came from her lineage, and that’s
what Naomi, her mother-in-law, advised her about
the man who owned the field, a picture of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the wealthy man called Boaz.
She says, “Sit still, my daughter.
Don’t run about, don’t be stressed,
don’t worry about even competition
with other ladies and all that.
Sit still until you know how the matter
will fall because the man will not be
at rest until he has finished, amen?
” So, if you sit still, if you rest,
he will not be at rest concerning your affairs.
That means he’ll be working, amen?
That’s when God began to show me even
clearer that when you rest, God works.
Now, if you are working, no point.
God says, “No point, both of us working, okay?
” Because even if I help
you, you’ll think it’s you.
You give part of the glory to
me and part of the glory to you.
No, God must have all the glory, amen?
So, I always say, if God wants to have all
the glory, let God do all the work, amen?
And that’s our true posture.
Our life is to bring glory to God,
but we are so proud, aren’t we?
We creatures are so proud.
We always want to have
something, we want to do something.
So, when we rest, it is not laziness,
it’s not passivity, it is actually acknowledging
God is the only one who can bring an end to this
affair, who can finish this thing, amen?
Who can bring a successful outcome?
So, that was the word God gave me, that’s one
word, and he brought me through the whole thing.
All the while when things were
difficult, I say, “Until he has finished,
he will finish it, he will finish it.
” And if you think that we have so many,
what we call, fundraising in terms of Love
offering in the church, you are wrong.
There’s another test altogether.
One year, we only have once, another year none,
and the money came in ’cause he finished it, amen?
Praise the Lord, Lord.
And then the other word was this, and I
want to share this with you, all right?
The other word is this: He says to me, and I
remember standing here when all the works were
still being done and the people walking around
with hard hats, you know, with their boots and all
that, and I was wearing also, and with Wendy, and
we walking through this place and all that, and I
said, “Wow, this floor here is very interesting,
is the uppermost floor, in a sense, all right?
Upper room.
” And the Lord said to me then,
He will show you a large Upper Room furnished.
And I never saw that Upper Room, the incident of
Jesus, the upper room where he celebrated
the Lord’s supper with his disciples,
the upper room was first told me by the Lord while
believing God for this place to be furnished.
But He says to me, He will show you a
large upper room furnished and prepared.
It’s done deal.
So, before I saw the seats and
all that, I already saw it furnished and prepared.
So now, he’s telling us to live in the upper room.
So, I began to study, and a lot
of things that I discovered,
I’m sure that you experienced this past week.
If you look in the upper room, there are so many
things to talk about in the Upper Room, amen?
And there are things I’ve just
learned from the Lord.
I know those passages,
I know those stories, but I never saw the
nuggets, the truths in those stories, amen?
And what I saw is something that will
steady you, establish you, strengthen you,
prosper you in these days that we are going
to walk in in the year 2024, this year, amen?
The truths that we have, again, the truths
are Eternal, you apply for 25, you apply
for the year 26 as well, because it’s true.
But we must be established in these truths this
year, that’s the heart of God for us, amen?
So, sit back, watch.
The year of living in the upper room, amen, praise
the Lord! You already are, but you’re going to be
established in it, amen! Every believer is.
Psalms 91 says, “He who dwells in the
secret place of the Most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty,” right?
Right! For those who have ears to hear,
literally, “He who Yash” in Hebrew.
So, a settlement in Hebrew is called mosa.
A settlement in Hebrew, in Israel today,
they call it Mosha.
Which Mosha are you from?
“Mosha” is from “Yasha”.
“Yasha” means sit down, literally is sit down.
“He who sits in the secret
place of the Most High alone
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
” And all the protection promises, the blessings,
and the long life, are all there in Psalms 91.
But if you look at Psalms 92, it opens up.
You look at your Bible, okay?
You can look at it.
If you have a Bible, most Bibles, they will
have this: Psalms 92, a psalm for the Sabbath.
It’s a song for the Sabbath, right?
So ours is what?
The Lord’s Day, as we learn, all right?
This psalm, they read this psalm every Sabbath.
A psalm for the Sabbath, do you see that?
And it ends with those verses that the
Lord shared just now with us, right?
He wants us to plant this in our hearts, okay?
Are you with me so far?
By the way, every week, you need fresh oil.
And in that chapter, Psalms 92, this same chapter,
it also says, “I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
” So every time you come to the Lord’s house,
every week you come to the Lord’s house,
it’s not for nothing.
You’re getting fresh oil.
And again, the word “fresh”
there, what word is it?
Green.
It means fresh, but literally is the word “green”.
Green oil is extra virgin olive
oil, it’s the purest and the best.
So every time we find that we get, we feel
like life is stale, our emotions are dry,
we are spiritually dull, you know it’s
time for us to have that fresh oil.
So every time we come to God’s
house, we have fresh oil, amen?
Amen!
So notice I
mentioned just now that the psalm before this, it
says, “He who sits in the secret place of the Most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
” That’s when all the promises, “He will deliver
you from the snare of the fowler, amen?
And from the noisome pestilence.
” He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings, you will take refuge.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor for the arrow that flies by day, nor for the
pestilence, the disease that walks in darkness.
You don’t even know who is the next victim,
and you should not be afraid of all this.
“No evil shall befall you,” he goes on to say.
Later on, “He gave his angels charge over you.
” And there are many angels around right now,
all over this place, all over the
views that are watching this right now.
God’s people are gathered together, angels
gathered together, and the Bible uses the word,
“innumerable company of angels.
” And many times, we are pulled
back from disaster, we are kept from heading
into danger because angels were involved, amen?
In these last days, you need angels, amen?
So sit down in the secret place.
What is that?
Sitting in the
upper room, sitting in the upper room.
First of all, I’m going to share with you
right now how to sit in the upper room.
Actually, you sit because you are seated.
Living in the upper room is actually living
where you are already established, amen?
Where God has established you.
What you need to do is to establish
yourself in your heart, your mind, your
consciousness, your emotions, amen?
So let’s look at this verse and see if the
Holy Spirit can give you that revelation, okay?
Follow me here.
In Ephesians 2,
Ephesians chapter 2 says, “But God, who is
rich in mercy, because of his great love
with which he loved us, even when we were dead in
trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.
By grace you have been saved.
” So, we were all dead, remember that?
We all dead in our sins.
It is not just a matter of like,
“Oh, I didn’t sin so bad, you know, I wasn’t
that kind of like that sister over there,
she got very bad background, all right?
” No, listen, listen, listen.
We all dead in our sins, all of us.
But God, rich in mercy, I never find
the Bible saying, “God rich in wrath.
” God has anger, but you never find,
“God rich in wrath.
” God rich in mercy.
And then you find this, “For his
great love, wherewith he loved us,
even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ.
By grace you have been saved.
” Amen?
He made you alive together with Christ.
When did that happen?
When Christ rose from the dead.
Actually, positionally, God put you in him, amen?
It’s like, you know, if you take a pen
and you put the pen in this Bible, okay?
And you go to the Singapore River and you
throw this Bible into the Singapore River.
Let’s say, where is the pen?
Inside the Bible.
If someone saw the Bible, all right, and it’s
just below the surface and he picks it out, okay?
That’s resurrection, right?
Where is the pen?
Resurrected, in the Bible, amen?
And if the Bible is brought to the
highest place and the highest mountain
in Singapore, ladies and gentlemen,
let me announce to you, the highest
mountain in Singapore is Mount Faber, okay?
Faber, okay?
All right, so we go to the highest,
and then what do we have up there?
The Bible.
But don’t forget, we talk about the Bible
all the time, but who is in the Bible?
You and I.
So that’s what happened, right?
Our identity with Christ.
God put us in Christ when he
was crucified at the cross to put an end to
our old Adam, so that a new creation arises.
That’s what it means to be born again,
that means you are resurrected spirit.
You see, look up here.
This one that you’re looking at,
my face and I look at your face,
our body, this is not the real us.
This is a house you live in.
Every one, Christian or non-Christian,
when they die, they step out of this house.
The Bible uses word Tabernacle, house,
dwelling place, your body is not you.
You are a spirit and you live in a body.
You live in a body, and your
spirit is breathed in by God, amen?
Your body comes from your parents, right?
And in the womb, it comes together,
but God breathes, so that part of you,
because it’s God’s breath, it is eternal.
That’s why heaven and hell are places to
house eternal spirits, are you listening?
All right, we cannot, in a way,
we cannot stop living, okay?
But we cannot enter heaven with sins, amen?
So Jesus came so that we can be born again.
So when you’re born again, what happens
is that inside, you become the new person.
If you’re blonde-haired before, you are
Sav, after you’re Sav, you’re still blonde.
Hair, black hair before,
you’re Sav, you’re still black.
So it doesn’t affect your physical,
although, listen carefully,
the spirit can affect the physical, the
spirit of man will sustain his infirmity.
It can affect your physical, okay?
But you are the same, so it’s not that
part of you that’s born again, it’s your spirit.
When Jesus comes again, we call the Rapture, amen?
Then our bodies will be completely changed,
all right, into a body that is forever.
When you think about it, think about
it, salvation, when the Rapture happens,
anytime it can happen, when the Rapture
happens, that’s the only thing that’s left
behind of our redemption, only thing that
we have not inherited yet is a new body.
But this new body is a body that can
never be subject to weakness, sickness,
can never be diseased again, can never, never
feel tired, there’s no need for hospitals,
can never feel bored, can never feel
depressed, and he can never die.
You think about it, what an
amazing life is waiting for us.
We will be floating around, no, we’ll
have bodies, I said we’ll have bodies.
So when God raised Christ from the
dead, we are alive together with Christ.
Where are you now?
In Christ, okay?
“Pastor, I’m here, I’m S.
E.
here at the star.
” No, my friend,
the real you is seated with Christ above
the stars, way, way above the stars, okay?
So here, here it says, “He made
us alive together with Christ.
By grace you have been saved, reminding us
again, all by grace, we didn’t do this ourselves.
And raised us up together,
and raised us up together.
” You know another passage in Ephesians says,
“God raised Christ, listen, listen, God raised
Christ far above all principality and power and
might and dominion and every name that is named.
His cancer, a name above every
name that is named, amen?
Anything you can name, any new disease that comes
in, above, far above every name that is named,
every power, every name that is named, far above,
not just above, far above every principality,
power, every name that is named, not only in
this world, but also in that which is to come,
and set him at his own right hand, far above all.
” All this God set Christ down, and the Bible says
in Hebrews chapter 1, “God, who at sundry
times and in diverse manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath
in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds, who being the brightness
of his glory, and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down.
” You see, the reason why Jesus sat down, and why
you see him sitting down today at the father’s
right hand, is that he dealt with your sins once
and for all, hallelujah! Or else he will never sit
down, sitting down means your work is finished.
He will never sit down if there’s
one sin left in your life, and
when God forgave you your sins, where were you?
Not born yet, so God lives outside time and space.
The cross of Jesus Christ is outside time and
space, it’s for all those who ever lived before he
came, and all those who would live in the future.
So all our sins are put there at the cross.
When God says, “I forgive you of all your sins,”
it is not, “I forgive you today, but tomorrow,
fresh sins need fresh forgiveness.
” Fresh sins need fresh forgiveness?
No, God doesn’t look at
events that pass by like this.
God takes the helicopter view, if there’s a
parade, you know you have seen parades, right?
At Disney and all that, they have a parade.
God takes the helicopter view, he can see the
beginning of the parade and the end of the parade.
God saw your entire life of sins when he put
all your sins on Jesus Christ,
nothing takes God by surprise.
So when the Bible says, “Having
purged our sins,” Jesus sat down.
That means it’s complete.
There will never be a sin that rises up and Jesus
have to stand, says, “I forgot to take that away.
” It’s done.
So whenever you see Jesus seated up there, amen?
And you see in the spirit, just know, he’s not
sitting down because he’s God, although he is.
He’s not sitting down because he’s the
son of God, although that is true.
He seated having purged our sins, amen?
Isn’t that tranquilizing for
our souls, for our conscience?
He gives us peace, amen?
But best of all, this far above,
raising Christ far above all principality and
power and might and dominion and every name
that is named, is not only true for Jesus.
God made his identity, his whole history,
start our history start with Christ at the cross.
We are crucified with Christ,
God raised us a new man in Christ, amen?
When God raised Christ, just like the pen in the
Bible, God raised Christ, God raised us in him.
And when God says, “Sit on my right hand until
I make your enemies your footstool,” we all sat
down with Christ, that’s where you are right now.
And my friend, that is seated in the upper room.
That is seated in the heavenly places.
In fact, if you’re B, you look in your Bible
carefully, the word places is actually italics,
that means the translators don’t have it
in the original, they added it in to help.
Sometimes it helps, sometimes it deters actually,
you know, but don’t worry about the italic.
Italics is not in the original, but the original
says, “Heavenly raised us up together and made
us sit together, he made us sit together
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
” The word heavenly is the word app oranos,
which is actually app is upper, upper.
The “oranus” is actually Heaven.
It’s the upper Heavens, so there are three
Heavens the Bible talks about.
Three Heavens.
Number one, like the Devil, he’s
the prince of the power of the air.
What is that?
This uh, atmosphere, atmospheric
Heaven you see around you, the stars, all that.
I mean the moon and all that, not the Stars
actually, but uh, this atmospheric Heaven, the
stars and the moon and the galaxies and all that,
they are in a place called second Heaven.
Universe.
Where is God’s throne?
In the brightest of all Heaven, alright?
It’s above that, you cannot see with your
naked eye, no microscope can look into that.
It’s beyond that.
That’s where those who are dead
in Christ, straight away, they are there.
Some of them who came back says angels
carry them alright, to the father’s presence.
Your loved ones are more alive than you think.
You cry for them, actually they cry for you.
When they realize what heaven is like, and they
look down and see what we are struggling with,
we rejoice over the next smartphone that comes,
and they’re crying, “Oh my goodness,
the little petty joys that we call joy.
” Nothing wrong with smartphones.
I didn’t mention the brand, amen.
Rejoice over gold and silver.
And down there, they use it for street,
so the priorities, it’s like, you
know, we can’t imagine, right?
The prince or in heaven, there’s no
more this, no more that, no more this,
whatever you want to put, no more.
Okay, let me tell you this.
Last time, you don’t know, it
was before God created you.
What is pleasure, what is pain,
you don’t know also, right?
But God saw you in mind, and God created
your lips and your tongue and all that right
to taste different, to enjoy different food.
If God give you one taste that you never know,
so what am I right?
Come on.
God, God have your pleasure and your true
fulfillment and your joy in his heart,
because why?
He loves you so.
You can imagine life in heaven, the joys and
all that, greater than Earth, you can imagine.
You’re so used to Earth, it reminds me of
someone looking at the end, and you tell the end,
“Ail end, you’re eating junk, alright?
” That su, that sugary, that syrup has
been thrown there for sometime with
it, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s stale.
Hey, hey, stop, stop eating from there.
If the ant can talk back, the ant says,
“What do you have to offer me?
I got fresh things up here.
” Sorry, this is my life.
I’m so frightened.
I look up, I can understand,
it’s too high, it’s too bright.
I like dark things, I like smelly things, amen.
I like, I like, uh, dirt, you know?
I like the kind of thing I’m
used to, this kind of life.
And you feel for the end, don’t you?
You don’t feel, you just kill the end, right?
So imagine if the ant, if I can become an ant,
and I talk to the ant, and we both fellowship,
and I tell him, “There’s a better life, amen.
” And all of a sudden, the ant becomes a man and
say, “My goodness, my goodness, I never realized
this kind of life exists when I was an ant.
Now this, they have end, men.
” So it spoils the illustration a little bit,
you know, and, and, and, and, man, you know.
So, but can you imagine?
Now we are human beings here, we
can’t imagine the life in heaven.
I don’t know why I said all that,
but I think the Lord wants to
encourage you because the end is near.
When I say the Lord is coming for us,
he’s coming for us anytime.
Might be this year,
might just be this month, amen.
We will always live expectant, and you know what?
What you’re going to receive?
The only thing, the only thing
that will change is our bodies.
That’s when, that’s when it comes
to pass, death has lost its sting.
Alright, the fulfillment of Jesus did
it at the cross, and his resurrection, but it
is affected in our life when we are raptured.
We have a new body.
But Pastor, I’m so scared of heights.
In that new body, you’re
not scared of heights, amen.
And the pleasures of Heaven cannot
be taken in this mortal body.
It must be in the new body.
Can you imagine?
Never dying again, never feeling tired, never
going to the doctor and say, “I got, I think my
blood pressure went up,” amen.
That’s a real life.
And okay, how do we live in the upper room?
But the Lord wants us to leave constantly
in the upper room.
So where are you now?
Present tense, seated
together with Christ, alright?
Sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ.
Can you see that?
Can you see that?
So have you been raised, past tense?
Were you crucified?
Yes, past tense.
Were you quickened from the dead?
Yes, happened to you, right?
Past tense, yes.
Were you raised up?
Raised up all the way Heaven?
Happened already, yes.
So where are you now?
Seated where?
In the upper Heaven, at least the third
heaven where God dwells, His throne is.
Brilliance beyond the excellence
of shining and radiance of the sun,
beyond all that, brighter than the sun, amen.
We’re seated with Christ in Heavenly places.
Now, when we live Christian life,
listen carefully, we live like this.
We come down and attend to earthly
matters, but our spirit is heavenly.
What’s the effect?
How to describe this?
It’s like if an angel came down, okay?
You’re a drama lover and all that, right?
Middle of the night, you know, when
even the owl is like falling asleep
and people are still watching,
you know, that one is amazing.
That’s really amazing.
You know, I see some guilty faces
I just think that, uh, okay, anyway,
dramas have all kinds of shows, right?
Some, I just read it, I find
it so comical sometimes.
Like, oh, you know, uh, it’s like this
person goes back in time, you know, or this,
this going to the Future, right?
Oh, this one is actually an angel.
He’s from a star.
He comes down, scarly, he fall in love.
Must Fall in Love.
Of course.
Or El who wants to watch?
So, the angel comes down, he falls in love,
you know, but then he lives his life.
He’s like a human being,
but he’s not a human being, you know?
It’s like there is something Heavenly about him.
Uh, he’s not petty.
If anything, you can say he’s like princely.
He comes from another world.
Amen.
And he has powers.
Wow, he has powers.
They wonder, he disappear, you know, he went
back to the star and everyone cries, right?
Something like that.
I remember watching this, uh, sometime far years
ago and I think it’s one of the series, okay.
Oh, don’t get angry with me, okay?
Never mind, I revoked that, child of God.
Don’t forget who you are.
You are not a drama lover, you are a Christ lover.
Amen, praise the Lord, okay?
So, just give you an idea what God wants us to
do is this: we don’t live our Christian Life all
right, trying to be patient, trying to be kind,
trying to do this, trying to be humble, trying,
that’s where people fail.
What God wants us to do
is to live life already seated.
We’re already complete in Christ,
we are righteous in Christ, we are so close to the
Father’s right hand, that God wants us to be aware
of that, that’s living in the upper room.
God wants us to be so conscious that we
are seated with Christ, that we
relax in our approach to life.
Does that mean in our Earth suit,
let’s call this Earth suit, okay,
that you and I are wearing, our bodies on earth?
Does that mean that we won’t face troubles?
We won’t face situations?
No, we will face situations,
but our inner man is seated with Christ and we
face our challenges with the perspective of,
with all the resources of God behind us.
We handle it, amen.
There once I, I, I remember,
um, hearing this testimony.
I think I read this testimony, um,
somewhere many, many, many years ago,
about a man of God who came to town.
And in those days, they would just go,
uh, different towns to preach.
And there was a young man waiting for him.
And after he finished preaching, the young man
came up to him to share with him, said to unburden
his heart, some very shameful outbreaks
in his life and, um, in many, many areas,
especially in the area of lust and all that.
And he says, “I try my best as a Christian,
I try my best not to watch, not to do this, not to
do that, I did my very best, but somehow I cannot
do it, why is that so?
Why is that so?
” And the man of God just
smiled, looked at him and said,
“You’re approaching the whole thing wrong.
You do not know who you are in Christ.
You’re approaching like a human being trying
to suppress all his sinful tendencies,
trying to overcome his bad habits, and
therefore you are doomed to repeat it.
Why?
There’s no Hope In the Flesh in the upper room.
When Jesus says when Jesus got up and washed
his disciples’ feet, Peter says everything
that is wrong three times, first of all,
the flesh, it shows the flesh, our flesh,
so forward like he insulted the Lord’s work.
Are you washing my feet, okay?
Then the Lord says if I don’t wash your
feet, you have no part with me, alright?
Right, he said, “You will never wash my feet.
” Now before the Lord says, “You have no part
with me,” he said, “You’ll never wash my feet.
” Now he says, he denies the Lord
his service of love, okay?
And he thinks it’s because,
you know, I’m doing the Lord a favor.
And then the Lord says, “If I don’t
wash you, you have no part with me.
” Then he says, “Look at the flesh,
wash not only my feet, my hands, my head.
” Then J, Jus says, “He that is completely
clean who has a buff only need to wash the feet.
” We’re going to study all this soon, okay?
So the flesh is like that, either it’s too forward
like the horse or too reticent like the mule,
it’s never in sync with God.
So in the washing of the feet,
you learn to be, you have part with me,
washing the feet doesn’t make you part in me,
that is when you’re saved, that is the bath
already, that bath is a new birth, amen?
You’re completely clean, you only have to
wash your feet, it’s a message for believers,
you are completely clean, you only
need to wash your feet, your daily,
because your daily walk gets contaminated, right?
You don’t wash your feet, what’s going to happen?
Jesus says you have no part with me, not in me.
If he said in me, means you are not saved,
but no part with me, with me, what?
You either go too fast or you are too slow,
you cannot flow with me, and the Christian
Life is a life of flowing in the spirit.
The old, old Testament, old Covenant, old Covenant
is this, just this will help you understand,
old Covenant are written quotes like
the law to be obeyed, new Covenant
is the Holy Spirit to be followed, amen?
One more time, old Covenant are written
quotes to be obeyed or as there’s
penalty, new Covenant is the Holy
Spirit to be followed, you understand that?
You understand you not live in two covenants
at the same time causing confusion, okay?
Are you with me so far?
So this man of God says, you’re approaching the
whole thing wrong, you are actually crucified that
part of you you don’t like that’s causing you
trouble, depression, and problems and causing
you to sin again and again like bullying you is
your flesh, but you need to realize you have been
crucified with Christ, it’s gone.
It sounds so loud,
sounds so real but it’s is gone.
It’s like the feeling you get
when you get off the boat, this is mine
now, when you get off the boat, right?
You still feel like you’re going up and
down, you ever had that feeling, amen?
It’s all in your consciousness, it’s
not real, you’re no more on the boat.
So you’re no more on the boat of the flesh, you
are not in the flesh, you are now in the spirit,
but the flesh will still have its old
habits, old ways of thinking, alright?
So he told the young man this, I want
you to pray like this with me, okay?
Follow me in this prayer, he said it, “Father,
thank you that I’ve been crucified with Christ.
” Then the young man followed line
by line and said, “Died with Christ,
died with Christ, raised with Christ, raised
with Christ, and I’m now seated with Christ.
” And all the while he’s thinking, “What has
this got to do with my sins, my bad habits?
I’m now seated with Christ, I’m now seated
with Christ, far above everything else.
I’m with Christ.
” They pray this prayer every day, thanking God.
No, it’s not a prayer of asking, it’s already
done, it’s a reality, heavenly reality, amen?
You just have to thank God every
day you are seated with Christ.
Well, some years pass, the man of God was
making his circuit, preaching in different,
different parts of America, and then finally he
came back to that town, and he was preaching.
As he was preaching, a young, fine looking
man came in and said all of a sudden,
of all the people there, this man of God
said that he was drawn to that young man,
and after preaching, you know, he just felt
like he was, he was, the guy was glowing.
So at the end, the guy came up, and the
guy looked at him, he looked radiant.
It’s been a number of years now,
and the young man said, “You don’t
recognize me, right?
” He says, “No.
” He says, “That I’m that young man.
” He prayed for a lot of people.
“I’m the young man who came to you with this, say.
” I remember now.
And he asked him, “How has it been?
” He says, “Victory, victory.
” Not only that, he said, even before he
said it, he could see the air of princeless,
like he comes from heaven, like Jesus.
Even though he was dressed in a garb
of that of a Galilean, right?
Probably some people say white and
blue or whatever out, but yet you feel like
you’re in the presence of a prince, amen?
When he speaks, things happen.
When he spoke, demons depart, amen?
He spoke to the winds, they quiet down and obeyed.
It’s a prince, a king in our midst.
There’s something royal, it’s got nothing to do
with your crown, nothing to do with your clothes,
nothing to do your name, title, you might have
a name called Prince, but who cares, amen?
All right, nothing to do with all that, amen?
Nothing to do with all that, it’s got to do
with something that exits from within.
And I’ve seen that happen, I’ve seen that.
So we live our Christian Life in
this position, position, all right?
Every good man of God would tell you that.
We don’t pray up to heaven, actually we are
praying cooperating with God, many times.
And talking about prayer in the upper room,
you learn one thing, Jesus says, up till
now you have asked nothing in my name.
And that’s why people get red up when I say the
Lord’s Prayer is a prayer that’s perfect for
its time during the earthly walk of Jesus.
When he came to present first the kingdom,
he didn’t come to tell them, look, I’m
the Messiah, I’ll die on the cross,
and through my blood your sins will be washed.
Israel rejected him not as the Savior,
Israel rejected Christ as the king
of Israel, that was their sin.
Jesus says, you not see my face
until you say Baraba Hashem Adonai,
blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Now, they never said we reject him as our Savior.
Read carefully the synoptic gospels,
he came to present the kingdom.
In other words, if Israel accepted Jesus Christ as
the king, heaven will come to Earth, he will rule
from Israel, and from Israel all over the world.
But alas, Israel rejected.
He came unto his own, and his own
received him not, that’s to Israel.
But as many, all of us, as received him, to
them gave he power to become sons of God.
So, that was a physical kingdom that Jesus came
to offer them, promised to Daniel in Prophecy,
and also to David, the your line will
continue forever, it’s a kingship,
it’s a literal kingdom, is a real kingdom.
But Israel rejected, so the kingdom is now,
the physical kingdom is held in abeyance in
the second coming of Christ, not the Rapture,
the Rapture is only for the church, it’s
called a mystery, but go beyond that, after
the Rapture starts seven years of tribulation on
Earth, during the time, the Book of Revelation,
people will identify each other by numbers,
in number, what’s your NC number, okay,
stand in line, pick your number, this
is your number, wait for your number.
People identify each other in numbers,
in the end time, in the end times,
things will happen in Jerusalem, and all the
nations of the world will see something happen.
How come?
How come, all the nations of the world, you know,
like many Skeptics today who don’t believe the
Bible, they were Skeptics in the 18th century,
Skeptics in the 17th century, and they will
say, like the Bible is so full of fantasy,
they laugh at the Book of Revelation, it
talks about the two witnesses in Jerusalem,
and the Bible says certain events will happen
there, involving the two witnesses, and it says,
all the nations of the world will see it.
Bible fantasy, well, no one is laughing now
about such a thing happening, because yesterday
Jordan nearly beat Korea, and I happened to see
parts of it from my little Singapore, I saw
something that happened in Qatar, Qatar is not
Santosa, you know, even I cannot see Santosa,
alright, it’s not with my physical eyes, well,
no one is laughing now, amen, are you listening?
The Bible talks about an object that will speak
with intelligence, but it’s not
a human being, in the last days,
the Antichrist will use this object, it’s very
intelligent, right, but it’s not a human being.
I rest my case.
I won’t tell you who it is, all right?
But when Jesus comes, that’s the Rapture, right?
Then you can mark it from, we all in heaven.
We’re not waiting for the Antichrist.
No, no, no.
God will Rapture us first.
Then the worst things will happen on Earth.
Terrible things for seven years, tribulation.
Then at the end of it, Jesus will come for Israel
before they’re completely destroyed.
Jesus will come, all right?
As king of kings and Lord of lords, this time.
He will reestablish the kingdom of which
the Sermon of the Mount is part of, you see?
But during this time before that, we are living
in the church age, the dispensation of Grace.
So the Lord’s Prayer, strictly speaking,
is during.
It’s a kingdom prayer,
and we call it the Lord’s Prayer.
It could be the disciples’ prayer
because the disciples asked him to
teach them, teach them how to pray.
So don’t you think if Jesus taught you how to
pray that prayer, the disciples were praying that
prayer probably every single day, do you think?
So if Jesus, they say, “Please teach us how to
pray,” even disciples of John know how to pray.
Then Jesus taught them the pattern of how to pray,
“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
” Oh, he taught them how to.
Nothing wrong with praying that prayer today also.
Amen.
If the Lord’s Prayer, listen carefully,
don’t you believe that they’ll be
praying that prayer every day?
How come in the upper room,
Jesus turned around and told them, “Until
now, you have asked nothing in my name”?
Peter say, “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Lord, you taught us how to pray the Lord’s Prayer.
Isn’t that asking in your name?
” “Up till now, you have asked
nothing from the Father in my name.
” There is a prayer that’s beyond any
other prayer you have prayed, even though it’s by
the prophets in the Old Covenant, and the prayer
we pray is not like that kind of prayer.
When I pray for you all just now, notice,
I pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
There’s so much more there.
There’s so much more there.
There’s a prayer we ask the Father in my name.
There’s a place where you ask anything in my name.
Listen, you ask the Father in my name,
He, the Father, will give it to you.
There’s another one in the upper room
where He said, “If you ask me anything
in my name, I will do it.
” What’s the difference?
AK coming soon.
Amen.
Also in the upper room, He taught them.
He taught them this, the Rapture.
For the First Time, the Rapture is heard.
We thought it was from first Thessalonians
when Paul said, “This I say by the word
of the Lord about the Rapture,” but
actually Jesus alluded to it in the upper room.
I told you, what upper room are teachings of the
Epistles in its embryonic form?
What did Jesus say?
“In my Father’s, let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions.
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come again and receive you unto myself,
that where I am, there you may be also.
Where I am, there you may notice, I go and
prepare my Father’s house, and many mansions.
Hey, by the way, it’s not a little hot house,
it’s mansion.
Mansion.
In my Father’s house are many mansions.
Singaporeans understand this, like that.
No problem.
You don’t need GRE for this kind,
this interpretation, mansion.
They understand.
Amen.
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come again and receive you to myself.
Notice, no seven years of tribulation mention.
No, some people believe that Rapture,
Rapture is nothing more than Second Coming, that
means we are going through the Great Tribulation.
No.
Jesus says, “I come again and what?
Receive you to myself.
” No mention of the Antichrist.
It just straight from heaven,
receive you unto myself.
Back to heaven.
But what about the Antichrist?
What about the Great Tribulation
prophesied by Isaiah, Jeremiah,
the prophets in the Old Testament, Daniel?
Where all those, he will come to pass.
But in the upper room, these
are truths for the church.
Father and his family, are you with me so far?
Okay.
So the upper room opens with
and bringing this to a close.
So you enjoying this so far, you understand?
So you find in your life,
for example, how do I apply this?
You know you have forgotten who you are.
The problem with all of us,
we have forgotten who we are.
Okay.
Even a prince, a real Prince of a family,
if he’s brought up from young to think that
he’s not a Prince, to think like a beggar, and
to beg in the streets, although in reality he’s
a prince, he will live and think like a beggar.
We’ve got a lot of stories about this.
I think Indian drama also have,
you know, this kind of thing.
I think all kinds of drama, you know.
We have a former Prince,
you know, the kind of thing.
Even like fairy tales have princes and Rapunzel.
So it’s in the mentality.
What we are doing when we come to the word of
God is to renew our minds to who we already
are in Christ.
Amen.
It’s a whole of difference when
I see myself seated with Christ.
Let’s say I have a problem with
anger, bitterness, and whatever.
Alright.
What do I do?
I don’t try to suppress it.
That’s the worst you can do.
To suppress it is to cause it to explode.
It’s the reverse thing that will happen.
What I do?
I just rest.
I just rest.
Why?
It’s finished.
This anger problem is no more.
I rest.
My perspective is
that it’s far below my feet.
I’ve died to sin already.
I’m raised with Christ.
I’m seated with Christ.
You take this posture.
What’s going to happen?
Why does God want to rest and sit down?
Because he has a show for you.
Watch this.
Look at verse six.
That we are seated and raised up together
and made us sit together for what purpose?
Comma, verse seven.
That in the ages to come, he might show.
I told you he a show coming.
So that in the ages to come,
all we’ll see in front of us is not the
Antichrist, you know, tribulation or whatever.
We are seeing all this happened from the top down.
Are you listening, people?
From the top down.
Okay.
The in the ages come, what we see, he might
show the exceeding Riches of his grace in
his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
So when you are seated with Christ, alright,
you must have this posture.
Okay?
Can I sit down?
Tell you, it’s a very scriptural position.
Okay.
In the Bible, the Bible says that before Jesus
preached The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus sat down.
And there were multitudes there, you know.
It’s not that you sit down because there are
a row of 12 people in front of you, right?
It’s easy, right?
But there’s a multitude.
But the Bible says the first
thing he did, sit down.
I’m waiting for preachers everywhere to obey that.
Nothing better than the example.
Amen.
Right?
So he sat down.
Good excuse.
Okay.
So he sat down.
To sit down with Christ means what?
Your word carries power.
Watch what you say.
Don’t use death.
Don’t say, “Oh, d-d-d, say, leave, leave, leave.
” Alright.
I told you last week, alright?
Don’t say, “I’m dying for the piece of cake.
” If you’re dying, you cannot eat it.
So you, “I’m leaving for the piece of cake.
” So why is it so, um, pervasive that every
language has death programmed
already in the language?
Why is it so?
Why is it so that every language,
ma, ma, da, k, kaput, German, kut, mar, all
kinds of it’s all death, death, deaf, death.
Why do you think, he a devil?
He cannot kill you directly, but you can kill you.
But the Bible says the power of
life and death is in the tongue.
So let’s say, God says, “Sit down with me.
” Do you know you’re on the throne?
Yes.
Do you know that what it
means to be on the throne?
Yes, you are enthroned with me.
We are joined heirs with me, Jesus says.
Okay?
Yes, Lord.
Another thing, my word says in Ecclesiastes,
where the word of a king is, there is power.
I understand.
And all things are yours.
That’s so funny.
I feel like dying.
[Laughter].
So that’s the problem with us.
It’s so part of us that when we say, right,
“Come, come on, don’t split hairs over
words and all that.
” Words can kill.
Words can bring you to court.
And depending on words spoken against who,
even the crime is commensurate with the dignity
and the office of the person that you slander.
Speak life to you.
So now, whatever you say will come to pass.
Yes, amen.
Thank God, with long life, God satisfies me.
My family is blessed.
Hallelujah.
This coming week, the Lord has gone ahead
and made the crooked places straight.
And in spite of what you see happening
in front of you, things are not.
There will be bad events and all that.
But in your spirit, you are disassociated.
You must disassociate.
You are in the heavenlies.
When you disassociate yourself, you can
have a right perspective of that problem.
You won’t be crushed.
But if you are a normal
person with all the rest all on the same ground,
earthward, sensual, earthbound, logical, right?
You cannot have that wisdom that comes from above.
So we live life heavenward, earthwards.
Don’t live life from Earth, heavenward,
which a lot of Christians are doing.
You think about it.
When you pray, right?
How do you pray?
“Father in Heaven.
” All right.
That’s taught in the Lord’s Prayer.
At that time, it’s true.
He wanted them, you can see
them, Israel, as disciples.
They were disciples, but they’re not safe.
He has not yet died.
That’s why in the Sermon of the Mount,
there’s not one word about salvation.
It was a perfect sermon for the kingdom, which
that sermon will fully implement when Jesus
comes again in the kingdom.
And we’ll come with him.
So you think about it when you
are in this position with Christ.
What is your posture?
What do you look forward to?
Don’t become earthward.
This coming week, I got a lot of things to do.
Wow, I feel very stressful.
I got to, you know, go higher.
I even shouldn’t say, “Go higher.
” I just say, “Now.
” You are in Christ.
The attempt to go higher, all right,
denotes that you are not where you are.
So don’t even try to go higher.
“And when you pray, have you realized
that you pray, ‘Father in Heaven’?
It’s like, even before you
pray, you imply you have lost.
Why are you implying distance?
But there’s no distance.
That’s why your prayers don’t get answered
because there’s no faith released,
and you’re believing the wrong thing.
Father in heaven, you look up.
‘God, hear my prayer.
‘ Okay, now I look up.
I do look up, but I look up to
someone who is so close to me.
He taught me that one time.
I was praying like, ‘God Is So Far Away.
‘ I look up, ‘Father in heaven.
‘ Now you don’t have to look up all the time.
The Bible says, ‘Thou shalt look up and then
pray,’ or ‘Thou shalt close thy eyes and pray.
‘ Now, it says, ‘Close your eyes,’
and I encourage you not to pray
when you’re driving, doing that, okay?
You might just close it for a long time.
So, we, I say, ‘Father.
‘ Then he says, ‘Why?
Why do you see me so far away?
‘ He rebuked me.
He corrected me in his love,
saying, ‘How do I do it?
Your prayers don’t get answered because
you start out from the wrong premise.
It’s an unscriptural premise.
And the Holy Spirit is a spirit of Truth.
He cannot bear witness with
this love lie that I’m far away.
‘ ‘So I didn’t mean it too, Lord.
‘ Then it says, ‘Pray from now on.
Pray.
‘ Alright,
let your words be few.
Knowing, knowing more
importantly is this knowing, ‘I’m listening.
‘ Knowing and you must know that you’re so close
to me, even at my right hand.
Amen.
So, how do you pray to someone who is so near?
Right now, I want to say loud.
Sometimes I pray loud, right?
I pray off.
It’s not the loudness of prayer;
in your spirit, your conscience.
I say, ‘Father, you must know he’s listening.
‘ Right?
Like, ‘Father, father, father.
‘ You know, not, not our prayer, father God.
He’s there.
Jesus stood before Lazarus’ tomb, ‘Father.
‘ Right?
Someone comes, ‘Hey, God Is So Far Away, up there.
‘ A Jew would say, a Jew who believes what
they believe at time, ‘God is in his Heaven,
you are on Earth.
‘ This, what you
could tell him, but Jesus says, ‘Father.
‘ Next thing you know, Lazarus and Lazarus came
out, ‘Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
‘ There’s this personal relationship and the
world is looking for that, amen.
They’re not looking for formality.
‘Oh, Father in Heaven, thou that makes all.
‘ My son asked me something, right?
‘ABA.
‘ Ask for something straight away.
You know, Hebrew people, right?
They say, ‘Aba.
‘ Miss a child would say, ‘Aba.
‘ Even an older man in his 60s or whatever,
he has a father, elderly father, he’d say, ‘Aba.
‘ Okay, if it’s my father, you,
they would say, ‘ABI.
‘ So what happened
when they did this video, right?
You know, the father says, ‘Benny.
‘ So what happened, they, I told them the
format, you know, the idea and all that,
they came back, they told me, ‘We prepared, ready.
‘ The prodigal son would say, ‘Aba,’ then the
father would say, ‘Aben, Ben, his son,’ right?
‘Aben.
‘ I say, ‘Aben.
‘ So I saw the video, ‘Aben.
‘ I said, ‘Where did you get ‘Aben’ from?
Because ‘ABA, ABA’ is ‘Aba,’ must be ‘AB.
‘ I say, ‘You think this Chinese AB boy.
‘ In Hebrew, when they say, ‘My son,’ they’ll say,
‘Benny.
‘ Benny.
Benny means ‘my son.
‘ That’s why your name,
Benny, comes from.
Benny.
Benny means ‘my son,’ not ‘Aben.
‘ That’s Chinese AB boy.
Okay, so watch this.
There are two attitudes.
I’ll close with this.
Alright, listen carefully,
take this home with you.
Okay, and this is the
position you are seated with Christ.
When you pray, you pray in the sense of
family closeness, in the consciousness.
He loves you.
His great love by which he loved us,
he made us sit together with Christ.
We are there.
No one can remove our position.
Satan cannot remove that position, your position.
So two attitudes, number one, and I don’t have
time to do all this, to show you all
the scriptures, but listen to me, okay?
It’s all in there, in the Bible.
The first one, to show in front of you, what
can you expect when you’re seated with Christ?
There’s a show coming.
He is going to show you the
exceeding riches of his grace.
And you know what?
Listen carefully.
It’s not just when you die and go to heaven.
He will show you while you are living here, with
your spirit in the seated in Christ, he’s going to
show you all the favors he has for you this year.
You know, he will show you the exceeding riches
of his unearned, undeserved, unmerited favor.
Amen, for you.
And let’s not worry about who says what,
who says this, or you listen to prophecies that
people thought, bad things happening this year,
or prophets say this.
Listen, the Bible says,
when you’re seated with Christ, you will
only see exceeding riches of his grace.
Doesn’t mean there’s no persecution,
doesn’t mean, in fact, in the upper
room, there’s a promised persecution.
Jesus says will happen, he even taught us
how to respond to it in the upper room.
Alright, there’ll be persecution,
especially if you are a believer.
But your posture in responding to it,
difficulty and all that, is that you’re seated
with Christ and your family identity is royalty,
but not royalty to dominate people.
Your power is not to dominate people,
but to break their bondage, to destroy
their sin, to cast out the demon that’s
oppressing them, to heal the sick.
That’s the authority you have.
And like Jesus, you can be dressed normal,
look normal, but there’s something about
you that’s radiant.
Amen, that is heavenly.
That, my friend, is the Christian life.
If your version of holiness is such that
there’s a morose face, look like
baptized in tom yum juice, right?
That’s not Christianity, alright?
Because the Bible says, to Jesus, in Hebrews
chapter 1, God has anointed you, father
telling the son, God has anointed you with
the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Your fellows, there is not the angels.
God doesn’t call the angels fellows.
Your fellows means together join with
Christ who are the fellows, all
of us, and Jesus is the happiest.
He’s Anointed with the oil of
gladness above your fellows.
We rejoice in all these things that we
are learning, but you know something,
His joy exceeds ours.
He loves to love you more
than you love to be loved.
Wow, you enjoy hearing
the truths of the finished work.
He enjoys telling you, revealing to you.
Amen.
And that’s why the Bible’s,
to start off, we will just tell you this.
Okay, okay, you saw that.
I’ll try again.
Okay, how fast you, uh, get up.
Okay, is how young you are.
Amen, amen.
So let me give you another
posture and we’ll close with this.
Seated with Christ is also this: the father says
in Hebrews chapter 1, to which of the Angels said
he at any time, “Sit on my right hand until
I make your enemies your footstool,” right?
So we end off with what God said
to me in the beginning, “Sit still
until you know how the matter will fall.
” Now the father in Hebrews chapter 1,
the last two, second last verse, it
says, “Sit on my right hand until I make,
I make your enemies your foot too.
” So will that be spoken to us as well?
Yes, we are in Christ.
Why is God saying I got a new problem?
God says, “You got a new sitting down to do.
” No, I must get up and do.
No, you must sit down and sit well.
“I’m going to handle it.
” H, h, but it looks so big.
Not bigger than me.
Sit down.
“But Lord, if I don’t handle it.
” I don’t need you to handle it.
You’ll make a mess of it.
Sit down.
Sit down because I love you.
Sit down until I make all your enemies.
You can call it what you want.
It’s not a human being, okay?
The one that speaks against you and all that,
he’s a precious jewel on the breastplate of Jesus.
I will not see him otherwise.
The person who comes against you at work,
comes against you here and there, they
are not your enemies, but what their
schemes are, their things are, right?
God will not cause you to prosper.
Those are your enemies.
The hatred is the enemy.
Disease is also an enemy to God.
Amen.
God says all the problem here, marital
conflict, your wife is not your enemy.
The strife is the enemy.
All the spirits the devil
assigned against your marriage is the enemy.
But God promised, “Sit down until I make all
your enemies your footstool.
” And if I got another hour,
I’d preach to you how marriage is breaking
down because the husband is not rested inside.
He brings home this stress and
worry and then pours it out.
His wife may not understand where he’s
been at or what he’s thinking of or his
mind is lost, and then he snaps out at her.
It’s nothing personal, but it’s no excuse many
times because it starts with not resting.
But it takes faith for this position.
Will you live in the upper room?
Will you be positioned and established
where God has positioned and established you?
Then I’ll tell you this: you will see one thing
happen after another, one after another.
Your enemies be made your footstool
because you are in Christ.
And you’ll see something else.
You will see something else
in all the days ahead of you.
The exceeding riches of His favor, His grace.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
I preach myself happy.
Amen.
Every head bowed, every eye closed.
Thank you, Lord.
If you have never put your trust in the Lord
Jesus Christ, the Bible says, “Whoever calls
on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
” What I just now is for believers,
and all this is true based on the word of God.
And if that is you, pray this
prayer with me right now.
You say, “Pastor, I want to put
my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
” The Bible says, “Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and you shall
be saved, you and your household.
” Pray this prayer from your heart.
Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, thank
you so much for the gift of your Son,
my Lord Jesus Christ, who left Heaven’s glory,
came down to Earth to die on that cross for
all my sins, and on the third day, you raised
Him from the dead, and you raised me in Him,
and you made Him to sit at your right hand,
and you made me to sit together with Him.
Here I am now, today.
Thank you, Father.
Jesus Christ is my Lord, forever.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Stand to your feet.
Lift your hands all across this place.
Don’t worry, we are good on time.
Hey, you all give me some, you know, ah.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
The longer you do, the longer you go.
Okay, lift up your hands all across this place.
This coming week, from the perspective of being
seated with Christ, you are blessed with all
blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
And I declare in the name of Jesus that
your lives and the lives of your loved
ones are protected throughout this week.
In the name of Jesus, I declare
that whatever you do prospers,
and all weapons and the scourge of tongue against
you will not prosper throughout this week.
May you find yourself by the power of the angelic
host that God has sent to keep charge over you.
Be at the right place at the right time.
May the power of the Holy Spirit teach
you all things and guide you
into all truths, even the truth
that God wants to show you in this upper room.
And may the Holy Spirit show you things to come,
even in the future, even this year, as you listen
to Him and continue to live in the upper room.
In the name of Jesus, and
all the people said, Amen.
God bless you.
We’ll see you again.
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