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About this episode You are watching the sermon, Pursue The Healer And Be Healed, preached on Aug 20, 2017 by Joseph Prince. This episode was made free on YouTube because of the support of our gospel partners. Thank you for partnering with us! Chapters 0:00 In Today’s Gospel Partner Episode… 0:35 01 Introduction: God wants you well! 8:40 02 Jesus bore your sicknesses on the cross 18:48 03 By His stripes, you are healed! 24:54 04 Let Psalm 105 be your faith picture 37:34 05 “How much longer, God?” 48:20 06 Healing is a rest 58:58 07 When your healing seems delayed 1:09:37 08 Don’t give up on your miracle! 1:20:02 09 Salvation prayer & prayer of blessing If you are dealing with a health challenge, we are believing with you for your breakthrough, and we speak the Lord’s healing over you. As you stand in faith for your complete healing, be sure to practice both faith and wisdom. Be sure to consult a qualified medical practitioner or healthcare provider regarding your health status, and do not, on your own accord, disregard any professional medical advice or stop taking your medication. We are praying for you and look forward to hearing your praise report! #gospelpartner #josephprince #healing
God wants you well.
He wants you well
because He loves you.
I want to preach on,
if you are saying:
“How long?
How long, oh Lord?”
“I have believed you and my
manifestation has not yet come.”
“I’m still not healed.”
Have you gone through that?
It’s okay.
All right, but don’t stop there.
Go into faith.
You are in the right posture
when you don’t give up
trusting in the grace of God.
All of us have moments
where we feel like,
you know, we can’t
see the future.
But your future is beautiful,
it is as bright as God’s promises.
Let’s believe God and
let’s walk in our inheritance.
God is teaching us that
He is not a formula,
He wants you.
Beautiful!
This is the love of
God.
This is the love of God,
amen?
God loving people.
That’s
why God wants you well.
You must
know that God wants you well –
not because He just wants to
demonstrate His power.
He wants
you well because He loves you.
Amen?
Just turn to your
neighbour, smile at the person
and just say – , you have no
idea how much God loves you.
We
still don’t.
How many of you can
say amen?
We have no idea how
much God loves us.
Amen?
And we
are still discovering His love.
You see, when I see all of you,
I don’t see you as people.
“Oh
Pastor Prince, how can you do
that?”
I see you all as the
flock.
The flock of the good
shepherd.
And the Lord says that
if I see you that way, you’ll be
healed.
The Bible says, “All we
like sheep have gone astray, we
have turned everyone to his own
way.
And the Lord has laid on
Jesus the inequity of us all.
The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him, and with His
stripes, we are healed.”
Notice
that it starts by saying what –
all we like sheep have gone
astray.
We have turned everyone
to his own way, and the Lord has
laid on Jesus the inequity of us
all.
The picture of sheep and
shepherd.
Years ago I wrote in
my wide margin Bible which I
use.
I love wide margin Bibles
because I can put down my own
commentary instead of reading
other people’s commentary, you
know?
Get my own, my own Word
from the Lord that He has for
the now moment in my life.
So in
my wide margin Bible, there is a
lot of notes.
And you can go to
that portion in Isaiah, and 1
Peter 2 that quotes Isaiah, and
you will find me saying, writing
down there, “This imagery of
shepherd and flock promotes
healing.”
Amen?
The prophet
Ezekiel says that, “The Lord is
against the shepherds of Israel
because they have not sought
that which was lost.
They have
not bound up the wounds of the
sheep.
They have not poured in
the oil.”
So it is a picture of
healing, but in a flock and a
shepherd imagery.
The number one
image – I’ve said this and time
and time again, I’ve said it.
And I hope that you received it
in your heart.
The number one
image that we have of God.
God
can be a fortress, a stronghold,
a tower, but the number one
image of God is that of a
shepherd.
David knew the Lord as
that before he was even a king.
Amen?
It gives you leadership.
A
leadership spirit as well as
even the skill that you need,
amen?
So for the past few weeks,
the Lord has been teaching us a
lot on healing.
I have prayed
and I have pressed through
asking the Lord.
Ok.
When I say
pressed through, it is not as if
God needs that kind of
persuasion.
But when I said I
pressed through of my own sake
because there are barriers on my
mind, there are wrong believing
that I have to press through.
You understand that?
God is
always willing to share.
And I
have asked God – unveil to me
the secrets of healing, because
I see people struggling still.
I
still see myself struggling in
some areas.
The pastors are not
perfect, amen?
So we are people
who are learning just like you.
But how many are not satisfied
with where you are?
There was a
time in ancient Israel that
there was not one feeble person
among their tribes.
Hey – not
one feeble!
That’s amazing isn’t
it?
So for the past few weeks,
the Lord has been showing things
like number one, when someone
falls sick, don’t judge them.
I
said don’t judge them.
You still
remember that message?
Amen.
A
man had dropsy in a synagogue.
And Jesus was there on the
Sabbath day.
And then the people
watched the Pharisees – that
man’s pastor watch Jesus to see
whether He would heal on the
Sabbath day.
How terrible is
that?
They knew that Jesus would
heal.
They are not watching to
see if He could heal, they are
watching to see if He would
heal.
How terrible is that?
Whether He would heal on the
Sabbath day so that they can
find fault.
And Jesus says,
“Which of you, when your child
or an ox fall into a pit, you
would not immediately rescue him
on the Sabbath day?”
Remember
that story of Jessica McClure in
1980 something?
The baby girl
that fell into the pit?
The
whole world was riveted on that
situation – until she was
rescued.
Simple analogy – Jesus
says that sick people, the way
we see them, are people that
fall into a pit.
Like that
little girl, the toddler who
fell into a pit.
Don’t find
fault with people, don’t look at
people who are sick and say
that, “They should have
exercised.
They should have
watched their diet.
Or they
should have, they should have,
they should have.”
Until you
fall sick.
Then you realise that
it is more than just diet
because it’s something
spiritual.
I say it’s something
spiritual.
Now by all means
diet, by all means eat well, by
all means exercise.
But you will
still have challenges that you
cannot cope with, even in a fit
body.
Because sickness is
spiritual.
Sin is spiritual.
There ought not be any sickness
in the world.
And those who are
against healing and all that –
they will have a lot of problems
when they go to heaven.
Because
there are no hospitals there,
alright.
And I don’t know what
they are praying when they say
“Your Kingdom come, Your will be
done on earth as it is in
heaven.”
They are going to have
a problem, amen?
So we are
believing something that we are
gonna enjoy in eternity.
Can I
have a good amen?
Except we will
not need healing, we will be in
our glorified body, not in need
of healing.
Can I have a good
amen?
So Pastor Prince – what
about those who believe God, and
then they are dead and now…
Hey – you know what?
They got
the total healing.
Because right
now they are happier than you
are.
They are more alive than
you are.
Amen?
But this side of
heaven, let’s believe God, and
let’s walk in our inheritance.
Let’s walk with what God has for
us.
Amen?
Can I have a good
amen?
The woman who was bowed
down.
Again, the Pharisee, her
pastor looked at Jesus.
And he
was angry when she got healed.
And he says that there are six
days in which men ought to work.
Ought to work is in his mind.
Jesus said this woman ought to
be loosed.
Ought to be loosed is
in Jesus mind.
On the Sabbath
day.
Six days man ought to work.
In those days, come and be
healed.
This man, this woman
ought to be loosed.
And Jesus
said this – “Which of you,
having a donkey that is thirsty,
will not bring your donkey on
the Sabbath?”
Isn’t this lady
better than a donkey?
She is a
daughter of Abraham.
So the way
we see people, we need to know
this.
That people who fall sick
are like someone who fell into a
pit.
And a pit has an idea of an
enemy sometimes.
Someone lay up
a trap.
So it’s a spiritual
attack when a brother of sister
is diagnosed with something and
all that.
As far as I’m
concerned, it’s a spiritual
attack.
It’s not time for us to
find fault.
Can I have a good
amen?
It’s time for us to pray
and bring healing.
Can I have a
good amen?
So church, we have
shared the last few weeks on
healing because I have been
pressing in, asking God – Lord,
if there are things that I am
not believing right, please show
me.
It’s not about doing
something more, God show me what
I can do.
Even though we pray –
Lord what can we do, ok?
But the
thing is that it’s about seeing
more, people.
It’s not about
doing more.
It’s about seeing
more.
First of all, you need to
have images from the Bible.
Can
I have a good amen?
I mentioned
just now, “All we like sheep
have gone astray.” 1 Peter
chapter 2.
Let’s look at 1
Peter, “… who His own self bear
our sins in His own body on the
tree.
Now I love this because
the first thing you need to know
is the person of Jesus.
Have you
noticed that whenever the Bible
talks about Jesus carrying our
sins or our diseases – because
He carried both our sins and our
diseases, amen?
In Isaiah 53
“Surely He has borne our
diseases, our coli, and carried
our markov?”
Alright?
Our pains
in Hebrew.
Notice it says,
“Surely He” and the emphasis is
not on the work, but on the
person.
Surely He bore our
diseases and carried our pains.
Matthew 8 verse 17, quoting
Isaiah, says, “Himself!”
The
person.
“Himself took our
infirmities and bore our
sicknesses.”
Have you had a
child, who is just crying
because of a viral attack, or
some sort of pain that the child
is going through, and it’ is
someone you really love, with
all your heart.
And you are
there, and you feel helpless?
Mothers?
Were there ever times
where you felt like, “If I can
take this pain on myself, I
would do it.
If I can take this
fever on myself, I would do it.”
Well, Jesus had love for you
like what a mother would have,
but exceeds that.
That Himself
took our infirmities and bore
our diseases.
We need to know
that because the emphasis is
Himself.
It is not so much the
work.
We all want healing, we
focus on the work.
But the
person gives value to the work.
When you have the person, you
have the value of the work.
Can
I have a good amen?
Like for
example, 1 Peter 2 says, “If any
man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father and He is the
propitiation for our sins.”
It
does not say, like some people
say “Jesus makes propitiation
for our sins.”
Doesn’t say, “He
makes”.
He’s like someone there
to do things for us, amen?
No!
He is the propitiation for our
sins.
1 John 2: He is the
propitiation for our sins.
And
down here, notice the emphasis.
Who His own self.
It wasn’t an
angel!
It wasn’t a prophet, it
wasn’t somebody else!
Who His
own self.
I pray that you see
the heart of the Holy Spirit.
Now let me illustrate.
The
person carries the benefits of
the work.
Let’s say you are
studying to become a doctor ok?
And what happens when you go,
you walk through the hospitals,
you know, when you can be out
with your friends, but you walk,
you know you spend so many hours
walking through the hospitals
while you are an apprentice and
while you are learning, you know
as a medical student, and you do
a lot of thesis, a lot of
homework.
You do all that kind
of thing.
And after a few years,
you are a full-fledged medical
doctor.
Now, how can we take
advantage of all that you have
learnt?
How?
How can we take
advantage of all your work, all
your thesis that you have passed
or you have excellent
credentials and all that?
How
can we take advantage of that?
How can I take advantage of
that?
I go to you!
When I go to
you, you have all the benefits
of all your work.
I don’t have
to know your work, I just have
to go to you.
Can I have a good
amen?
You carry all the benefits
of the work.
Hence, the Holy
Spirit emphasises the person and
not the work.
Now if we don’t
watch it, grace teaching can be
such that today, people
disassociate Jesus from the
work.
They talk about
redemption, they talk about
grace, they talk about the
finished work.
But look –
without Jesus, there is no
finished work.
You want the
benefits of the finished work,
you go to Jesus.
Amen?
So there
are times, like I remember years
ago when my daughter was down
with viral fever.
And the doctor
says virus, so you know, it will
take its course for either seven
days, or at the most one week.
It’s the same.
Ok?
And then I
remember Jessica was crying, her
little cherubic face, and her
little dimples like her mother’s
right.
She was crying, crying,
and I look at her and there is
nothing we can do.
And I
remember, I go over her cot and
I look at her, and I started
singing over her.
Because I am
helpless.
I prayed, alright, I
took Communion.
And you know –
we can turn Communion into a
formula.
At last, I just looked
to the Lord.
And I know the Lord
never leaves me nor forsakes me.
But there is something called
manifest presence, the glory
that I needed in this moment,
because daddy was just helpless.
So I was crying, right and when
she was crying, I just had tears
rolling down.
And what can I do
Lord?
So I started singing.
You
are the Lord that healeth her.
You are the Lord her healer.
You
sent your Word and healed all
her disease, You are the Lord
her healer.
You are the Lord …
And I sang it over and over
again.
In Your presence, in your
presence there is peace.
And the
more I sang, the more I took my
eyes off my daughter, which I
was absorbed with her, her pain,
her afflictions, her crying and
I started getting focused on the
Lord.
I started seeing His
power, His glory.
The more I
sang, the more I saw His love,
His grace.
You see, singing and
praising the Lord doesn’t
benefit Him.
When you say
magnify the Lord, He is already
magnified.
You are magnifying
the Lord to yourself.
You are
enlarging the consciousness of
God, and we all need to be in
that place.
How many of you
understand that?
Now some of you
might say, “Pastor Prince are
you saying that God is not there
until you start singing and all
that?”
No, no, I am not saying
that.
I am saying I needed to
break through my smallness.
Amen.
I need to see the Lord,
and not my daughter’s
afflictions.
His greatness, His
love must be greater than what’s
going on, than what the devil is
doing.
Can I have a good amen?
And I sang and I sang and I felt
His tangible presence.
You know
something?
Wendy was bathing,
she was you know, washing up and
all that in the room.
And when
she came out, she was healed.
She took her temperature, the
fever broke.
Alright?
Now, there
is one instance I remembered how
I could not do anything and just
have the person in the room.
Worship the person.
All the
benefits of the work comes with
the person.
Can I have a good
amen?
Now the 1 Peter 2:24 says
that, “Who His own self bear our
sins.”
I hope that you see this
by now.
And by the way, the
rapture when He comes again, the
Lord Himself shall descent.
Shall descent.
The Lord Himself
shall descent.
Amen?
We are
looking for Him.
We are not
looking for Gabriel or Michael
the archangel, we are looking
for Him.
Amen.
We are not
looking for all the saints that
have gone on before us.
It would
be nice to meet up with Smith
Wigglesworth, and all that.
Some
heroes of faith.
But we are
looking for Himself.
Amen
people?
Who His own self bear
all our sins in His body on the
tree, that we being dead to sins
should live unto righteousness.
Righteousness here is a noun,
not a verb.
A lot of people when
they read this, they think that
we stop doing sin, and we start
doing right things.
It is not
saying that.
It is saying that
you are dead to sins.
It’s a
done deal.
You should live unto
righteousness.
Which means what
– believe you are righteous.
You
are the righteousness of God in
Christ.
Live into that.
Amen.
Live in that new identify, and
then it puts a colon.
Can you
see a colon there?
By whose
stripes you were healed.
Now if
you studied punctuation, you
will learn that you put a colon
there, to – listen, to either
share something you want to
emphasise.
You are saying
something, and you want to
emphasise it, you put a colon
and then you emphasise it.
So
whatever follows, you emphasise.
Another thing is that whatever
follows the colon, alright, will
translate or give meaning to
what goes before.
In other
words, because you are living as
a righteous person, not your
behaviour, your new identity,
you are now saying I’m the
righteousness of God in Christ.
You walk in righteousness
consciousness.
Now by whose
stripes you were healed, is
yours.
And that’s why there is a
colon, ok?
Watch this now, for
you were as sheep going astray
but are now returned unto the
shepherd and bishop of your
souls.
Right?
Remember this
quotation is from Isaiah 53?
But
Isaiah has a negative picture
there “All we like sheep have
gone astray, and the Lord put on
him the inequity of us all.”
Right?
But here it says we are
no more going astray.
We are now
returned, unto the shepherd and
bishop of your souls.
And please
don’t turn this into – you must
return.
An active voice.
No.
This is in the passive voice in
the Greek.
You have now been
returned.
Somebody returned you.
Who is it?
The Holy Spirit.
You
are now returned unto the
shepherd.
Notice the word
shepherd?
Amen?
We are no more
sheep going astray, we are now
sheep in the flock.
Sheep taken
care of.
Hallelujah.
For you as
sheep going astray, but you are
now returned, unto the shepherd
and bishop of your souls.
Can I
have a good amen?
So there is a
difference in Isaiah 53, and now
that Christ has finished the
work.
Another thing that is
different is this, very
interesting.
In Isaiah, it says
that by His kabourrah, by His
stripes we are healed.
And over
there you will find the plural,
by whose stripes, you were
healed.
But what happened to
Jesus, and it is an idea of the…
In Hebrew, when something is so
violent and done, they use the
plural word, amen?
Like someone
died a violent death, they use
the word deaths, with an s in
Hebrew.
You understand that?
Like water is abundant.
Mayim is
plural.
Can I have a good amen?
Alright.
So by His stripes, we
think there are many stripes.
Yes.
It includes many stripes.
But over here in the Greek it
says who His own self, ok by
whose stripes – the word stripes
there should not be s, it should
be whose stripe you were healed.
Now T.J.
McCrossan, a Greek
scholar says this, “That if the
word, if the word stripe is used
in a singular way, that means
knowing that He received many
stripes, alright, in Isaiah 53,
that means what Jesus received,
there is not even a sliver of
skin left.”
If there is a sliver
of skin left, it cannot be the
singular.
The singular cannot be
used.
It must be stripes.
But in
the Greek, Greek is very
accurate.
That means His whole
back is one big hole.
There is
not even a sliver of skin left.
Now, when I meditated on this, I
felt that people will not, you
know, take it lightly, so I’m
gonna show you once again,
right, how by His stripes you
were healed.
Now this is 40 odd,
minus 1.
Which means 39 stripes.
But in the Roman, culture, it’s
also proven they beat people 39
to 40 times.
Ok?
So the thing is
this – the Jewish beating is
different.
Their 40 times is
using a leather thong.
Ok?
But
the Romans use something called
cat-o-nine-tails, where they
have jagged rusty nails, and
crushed glass and different sort
of things.
And that is only one
of its tendrils.
It has many,
many, many, what do you call
that?
Like an octopus – right, a
lot of hands.
And it is all with
embedded with these jagged rusty
nails and sharp objects.
So one
stroke, you have many lines
behind you.
So for the Greek to
use that – by His stripe,
singular, it must have happened
like this.
Watch.
See it’s
possible.
Video playing.
We
still see sliver of skin don’t
we.
Ok?
We are going to go
faster.
Back again.
By His
stripes, you are healed.
Not a
sliver of skin left.
Do you know
why He went through that?
Because He loves you.
Remember
mothers, that feeling that you
have?
If I can take it, I’d do
it.
Now I know some of you say,
“Pastor, you know, you should
not be showing gross stuff like
that?
You are adults, and it’s
best that you know the reality.
And by the way, what is gross?
I
didn’t show you what really
happened.
I didn’t show you His
bones, His arteries, you know,
His veins, His muscles.
Actually
the Bible says in Psalms, “My
bones look and stare at Me.”
People you are loved.
He loves
you so much, amen that He went
through that scourging, that by
His stripe, you are healed.
Amen?
And I used the singular,
because that’s how it is in the
Greek.
By His stripe, you are
healed.
And that means not a
sliver of skin left.
Hallelujah.
In the Old Testament, Levitical
sacrifices, the Bible says the
burnt offering, the skin belongs
to the one that offers the burnt
offering.
So every time I think
about – Lord Jesus I come to
You, and You are my burnt
offering, amen.
I think that I
receive His skin.
Now what is
His skin?
His health, His
strength.
How many want Jesus’
skin?
Amen?
How many want His
radiance, His complexion?
And
you know in Heaven, Jesus is not
old?
He is young?
And by the
way, God the Father is young,
right?
I used to pray “Father
God”, and I see an old man, and
I heard a rebuke many years ago.
“Son”, I said yes.
“Why do you
see me like that?”
“I said like
what?”
“Like an old man?”
I
said, “Err…
You are Father?
And my father happened to have a
beard.
And in his older years,
you know, he had white beard.
So
I think Father – you know,
Father should be, should be
old.”
He said, “Son, up here,
there is no curse.
Growing old
is part of the curse.
Up here,
we are all young.”
Then I saw a
young Father God, a young Jesus,
young angels.
, The Bible says
when they went to see Jesus’
tomb, in the Gospels right?
The
Bible says they saw a young man
sitting on His throne shining.
A
young man, they said young man.
Angels are young.
Amen?
They are
older than any vampire, you
know.
But they are young.
Amen?
So there is a place in God.
Look
at Psalms 105, Psalms 105.
God
brought them out.
Children of
Israel.
Them here is the
children of Israel.
God brought
them out with silver and gold,
and there was none feeble among
His tribes.
None feeble.
So
there was a time where God’s
people – not a single person was
sick.
Now I know, right, you
don’t have to go out here and
find people that are sick.
There
are people that are sick.
Amen?
I mean even among us pastors,
depending on where you find us
sometimes, we still get sick.
Amen?
Amen?
And the pastors are
not saying amen.
But I’m telling
you a secret – they are ok?
Sometimes fall sick.
You find
them at a good time – praise
God.
Alright?
Amen.
But the
thing is this – we are not happy
about that.
We want the
hundredfold that God has.
How
about you?
We want our people
where there is none feeble among
them.
Now, do you know how many
people were there?
That came out
of Egypt that day?
By the way,
the context here is Egypt, let
me prove to you.
The verse
before that says, “He destroyed
the firstborn”.
That’s what
happened on the Passover night.
The verse after this says,
“Egypt was glad when they
departed.”
Egypt was so happy –
finally you all go!
In fact the
officers of Pharaoh told
Pharaoh, during one of the
plagues – “Hey please!
Let them
go!
Lest we die.”
But because of
the hardness of his heart, he
refused to let them go.
So Egypt
was very happy when they left.
So the context is very clear,
that the next day when they came
out, there was none feeble.
And
guesstimate of the number of
people that came out – 3
million.
Even if you say 2
million.
Ok, let me use that
very conservative.
2 million
people.
Now, 2 million people –
people who were slaves, people
who don’t have proper diet,
people who live in stressful
situations – doctors.
Are you
listening?
Stress is the silent
killer.
Amen?
People who don’t
have enough sleep, everyday!
They wake up about 4 and they
sleep at about 10 at night
because they are slaves.
The
Bible uses the term hard bondage
many times, about what they went
through.
The Bible says they
were serving with rigor.
More
than once.
the Bible says they
groan and they cried out to God!
Amen, again and again.
These are
people that were stepping on
straws, amen?
Making bricks is
back breaking.
They have to lay
the brick, and they have to
carry things.
It is a back
breaking task, I’m telling you
people.
Hey listen.
This is not
the environment, and “But Pastor
Prince, probably it’s their good
exercise.”
Hey!
Even doctors
tell you, you over exercise, you
destroy your body!
This is not
exercise!
This is over
destroying their faculties.
They
are pushing themselves too far,
and too much.
What kind of diet
do you think they have?
Very
little to eat.
They probably
have beriberi.
They probably
have things that lack calcium,
the proper nutrition, and yet at
the end, the next day when they
came out, none feeble.
None
feeble.
So let’s go interview
them, shall we?
Hey.
Shall we?
Because sometimes we read the
Bible, and leave things, just
show them that verse 27.
We can
just look at the Scripture and
think – ok, these are just words
on a page.
No!
This literally
happened.
And I am here to tell
you, if this can happen when
they partook, the night before
they partook of the Passover
lamb, which is just a shadow of
what we have.
We have the true
Lamb of God.
Hello!
Amen?
They
partook of the roasted lamb the
night before, amen?
The blood
was on their doorpost on the
lintel making the cross.
The
angel of death sees the cross,
amen?
The Lord also sees the
cross and tells the angel of
death he cannot go in, because
why?
There’s been a death.
But
what were they doing inside?
They were discerning the body,
they were eating the body of the
Lord, amen, the lamb.
And it was
just a picture of the substance.
If a shadow can do that for
them, how much more the
substance that you and I have?
We have the true Lamb of God,
people.
But for a while, just go
back to the shadow.
They are
there for our examples, they are
there for our admonition upon
whom the ends of the world are
come.
The Old Testament is there
to show us in detail the
doctrines of the New Testament.
So let’s interview.
Shall we?
Doctors?
Mental doctors?
Psychiatrists?
Amen?
Self-doctors?
Self-made doctors?
Those who promote health
products?
Ok?
All the organic
food guys here?
Amen?
All the
good guys, amen.
All, everyone
has their role in modern
society.
Without these people,
you will see a lot more sick
people, ok?
So thank God for
this.
Here I am talking about
super natural, healing.
So I
want you to interview.
Because
my knowledge is limited.
So
let’s interview them as they
come out.
Number one – do you
think only young people came
out?
So let’s put the young
aside for a while.
We know the
young came out, but put that
aside for now.
You might think
that they are naturally young,
so that, you know, they are
healthy.
Let’s interview those
who have been slaving there for
years!
40 years, they have been
slaving there!
Alright!
Shall
we?
Ok.
Let’s go to this old
man.
He looks old, but he’s
upright, he is walking straight.
“Excuse me sir, excuse me.
How
old are you?”
“I have been here
since the time we became
slaves.”
“Oh, that’s quite a
long time sir.
And how old are
you?”
“Don’t ask my age, how
young do I look?”
“Don’t ask my
age.
How young do I look?”
“Wow,
sir, you look strong, upright.
Usually a person that’s about
70, 80 starts stooping down
already.
You know, erm,” “Yeah,
I’m 80.”
Another one says, “I’m
90.
Hey, this is my friend.”
Amen?
Then we see another guy
chasing his wife, the grandma,
“Haaaaah!”
She’s laughing.
“Haaaaahh,” and then he’s
chasing, “Come here, girl, come
here, girl.”
Amen?
And the word
‘none feeble’, and the word
‘feeble’ here is also the word
‘kashal’ which has to do, many a
times, with not just general
sickness but, but “strong feet”.
Amen?
Kashal is when your feet
is not strong.
Amen.
So God
prepared them for their journey
into the wilderness.
But listen.
If you have cancer, you cannot
walk.
If you have tuberculosis,
you cannot walk.
Amen.
If you
have any uh, uh, uh, problems,
arthritis and all that, you
cannot walk.
So none feeble is
correct.
It covers everything.
Amen.
Not a single person had
problem walking the next day.
So
you ask them, “Uh, sir, is it
uh, uh, your, your your diet is
good diet?”
“What good diet?
For
years we’ve been eating junk.
We’ve been eating leftovers.
You
think diet is the reason?”
“But,
but, but, but my YouTube, I see
a lot of YouTube says that, ‘Eat
this, eat that, eat this and
you’ll be like that.’”
“What
YouTube?
The only tube I know is
straw tube to make bricks.
Don’t
waste my time, you Medianite.”
You got it?
Media-knight.
OK.
So, let’s interview somebody
else.
Ahh, we go to this person
here.
“Look like you are
running.
You’re running after
your…”
“That’s my wife.
I just
have new power, O!”
“O, you’ve
been on that huh, huh…!
You’ve
been taking something huh?.
You’ve been that…”
“What?
Take
what?
Just last night,
everything came alive.”
“Have
you been taking ginseng?”
“What’s that?”
“Uh- it- uh-
never mind.
It’s ok.”
“Aaahh, I
just know when I took the lamb,
everything came alive.”
Can you
imagine all these things
happening?
What what do you
think?
They came out, all came
out like that?
No, they came out
singing and they were rich.
He
brought them out with silver and
gold, which I didn’t expound
yet.
Right?
So, let’s interview
another one who is looking
around and you ask him, “Excuse
me, sir, have you had your
health screening?”
“Health
what?”
“Health screen?
Test on
your body.
Have you had it
tested?
Cos you know, at your
age, right, you’re probably
having a lot of block here,
block this, block that, even
your mental block, you know, the
potential for Alzheimer’s those
kind of test, have you taken
those test?
Have you had your
blood test?”
“I tell you
something about my blood,
alright, needs no testing.
I’ve
been shedding it, working with
my hands, you see all these
hands?
See this finger?
Dried
blood, you know.
I’ve been
working like this for years.
Blood drop, is there a test?
It’s a testing for me ok?
What
you talking about, boy?
You
Medianites talk strange.”
So,
we…
everything we asked for, we
are concerned about, amen?
We
can ask them and the fact
remains, ‘none feeble’, among,
being conservative, two million
of them.
None feeble.
We’ve got
a church of about 30,000 now,
Amen, and my ministry goes into
millions of homes, can we
believe God for none feeble?
Yes, even us pastors here and
there we’ll come down with a
sore throat, we’ll come down
with a sneeze, whatever and all
that, ok, while we are working
towards the 100 fold, let’s
believe God together.
Amen?
That’s not my message today.
That’s not my message.
But let
me finish off with the
foundation first because we
always have new people, new
people, alright, who are
wondering, if I come to the
message itself, my message today
is totally something else about
healing and I want you to
understand this part here
because a lot of people are
discouraged.
I might as well
tell you now.
I want to preach
on, if you are saying, “How
long?
How long, O Lord?”
Like
the psalmist.
“How long, O Lord,
I believe You and my
manifestation is not yet come.
How long?”
That’s my message.
But I have to lay the foundation
first.
You understand, people?
The night before, in Exodus 12,
they ate this, from verse 8,
they ate the flesh on that night
roasted in fire with unleavened
bread and with bitter herbs they
shall eat it.
Do not eat it raw.
A lot of people present Jesus
Christ as a great example.
Beware of that.
They treat Jesus
as a great example, He’s a
master teacher, He’s the great
physician, He’s an example for
us to emulate, now that is not
going to get your body healed.
You must eat Him roasted in
fire, means He died for you, He
was under God’s judgment for
you.
We preach Christ crucified.
If Jesus live a perfect life and
didn’t die for us, we’ll still
be lost.
Amen?
No amount of
imitating Him can save you.
No
amount of imitating Him can make
you right with God.
Amen.
He has
to go to the judgment.
So, eat
Jesus knowing that He was judged
for you, for me because He loves
you.
And then you eat it with
faith.
Amen?
Like the body that
you saw just now that was the
striped, everytime you partake,
see the image and just know
this, He loves me.
The Son of
God who loves me and gave
Himself for me.
It’s one thing
to take it, alright, just uh, as
a ritual, it’s another thing to
take it knowing He loves you.
Like I said, sometimes, you
know, for some cases, instead of
just rushing through the
Communion and all that, if your
child is there, it’s a bit more
difficult I understand that, but
if your child is not there, take
time to worship the Lord.
Something serious especially,
amen, worship the Lord until you
sense His presence, until, until
the consciousness of His
greatness is greater than your
feeling about your infirmity.
Can I have a good amen people?
Now, they, God said don’t eat it
raw nor boiled at all with
water.
We call this the
watered-down version, don’t
water-down Jesus, amen, but
roast in fire, its head with its
legs and its entrails.
I find
this interesting that “legs” is
mentioned there.
So, when you
partake of the Lord Jesus, know
that the part of your body, what
they needed was strong legs,
many of them had beriberi, the
lack of uh nutritious uh like
vegetables and all that, you get
beriberi, alright, and many of
them were suffering from knee
conditions and and uh, just
old-age-problems they call it,
right?
So they partook of the
leg of the lamb knowing that the
leg of the lamb is whole,
complete and as they partake it
as judged for them, they
received the benefits of Jesus’
healthy legs and that caused
them to walk the next day.
Can I
have a good amen?
Amen?
Praise
the Lord.
“I’ve been taking
Communion, Pastor Prince, but
how long?
I am still not
healed.”
Remember the testimony
I shared with you about the boy,
the boy who from India, who had
stroke?
We have this testimony,
ok, I’m trying to find the boy’s
testimony.
Ok.
Joy, the lady
from our church, who went over
to India, to Coimbatore, right,
Lawrence?
The founder of Grace
Revelation.
Now, she’s an
amazing lady doing a great work
there in India and she shares
about this boy.
In May 2017,
this 8-year old boy, John Rufus,
started having stroke like
symptoms.
His face drooped on
one side…
Look up here.
And he
was unable to speak, eat or
smile.
He felt very ashamed and
refused to go to school.
The
couple brought him too many
doctors.
Many doctors but no one
could help him.
So they
approached me and I gave them
Pastor Prince’s book, ‘Health
and Wholeness’ Joy said.
Joy and
‘Health and Wholeness Through
The Holy Communion’ and I showed
them the Calvary animation
video, what happened at the
cross that Pastor Prince has
used in his sermons.
They
started partaking of the Holy
Communion as a family and John’s
condition began to improve.
Within 15 days, John’s face was
back to normal.
Within 15 days,
ok.
Now, here, we have someone,
did you hear what I said?
I
emphasised purposely because you
all heard me share this before,
just last, last was it last two
weeks?
Alright, but this time I
want to answer the question by
the grace of God, if I may,
alright, “How long, Lord, will I
wait for my, I’ve been taking
Communion for some time now and
still no manifestation.”
Well,
the last line here says, “Within
15 days” of taking Communion,
John’s face went back to normal.
What if they had stopped on the
6th day?
What if they had
stopped on the 11th day?
What if
the mother says, “You know what,
you better go and look for other
doctors, you better go to
another country or whatever.”
What if they stopped on the 13th
day?
What if they had stopped on
the 14th day?
“Well, Pastor
Prince, is it you must do for 15
days?”
No, Pastor Mark.
You
don’t have to.
Alright, I’m just
illustrating.
The people of
Israel.
I’m still pressing in to
ask God for this because they
received instantaneous the night
before they… they the next day,
they went out instantaneously
but when you partake, you
partake with expectation that
you’re going to be healed
instantly.
Go back to Exodus 12
again.
Look at Exodus 12.
Exodus
12.
“Do not eat it raw.”
Look at
the next verse.
Verse 10, ok,
“Thus you shall eat it.”
Verse
11, “With a belt on your waist,
sandals on your feet, staff in
your hand.
So you shall eat it
in haste.
It’s the Lord’s
Passover.”
What does it mean?
Belt on your waist, sandals on
your feet, staff in your hand?
Get ready for physical
deliverance out of Egypt.
Now,
what was true for them
physically?
Alright, for us, get
ready out of your Egyptian
disease for I will put none of
the diseases of Egypt upon you.
So you must get ready.
Start
dressing up, I’m not referring
to physical dressing again.
Have
an attitude of when I partake,
I’m getting my physical
deliverance.
God told them, told
them to be in a posture “Get
ready to go out”.
“But, but you
don’t understand,” an old man
says, “I, I can’t move.”
Another
person says, “The doctor says
that if I move, it’ll be bad for
my heart, you know.”
But the
Lord said “Get ready for the
physical, start posturing
yourself, whatever you can do
right now, at least show your
faith.”
Can I have a good amen?
They got ready.
None of them
said, “What if it doesn’t work?”
Amen.
An old man, that old man I
told you about, he started
wearing his belt.
Alright?
Gird
himself.
He started putting on
sandals.
“I’m moving out of
Egypt.
I’m moving out and I
don’t care what I’ve been told,
I’m going to step out in faith,
I’m going to believe God.”
Amen.
Are you listening people?
I
think we got to have that kind
of faith and attitude.
They
received instantaneously.
Wow.
The next day, they received it.
Have we seen manifestations like
this?
Yes.
Very often.
Many a
times while people are
partaking, we see that happen.
But we are answering the
question.
We want to answer the
question “How long?”
First of
all, don’t condemn yourself for
asking, “How long?”
You people
of grace, you know, we believe
in no condemnation and we are
the worst, in condemning
ourselves for every little
thing.
We’re sick, we condemn
ourselves.
No, you just fell
into a pit.
Now let’s get you
out.
“No, you don’t understand,
the doctors told me, I was so
disappointed that I have high
blood pressure.
The doctors told
me I have this condition.
Now I
feel so down, I feel so bad.”
But really, why?
Why do you feel
so bad?
You just fell into a
pit, let’s get you out.
No one
is condemning you.
Stop
condemning yourself.
In some
circles, you know, it’s like
your…
It’s a sin to be sick.
So
no one tells anybody that they
are not feeling well.
Amen.
No,
just the other day, I told uh- I
was doing a shoot and I had sore
throat, you know, and I told
them we are doing it.
Let’s do
it.
Amen.
Praise God.
I’m not
going to consider my body.
Like
Abraham, use Abrahamic faith.
Abraham, when he was 100 years
old, considered not his own
body, considered God’s promise
instead.
Strong in faith, giving
glory to God.
Consider not.
I
know it’s staring you, it’s
painful, its, you can feel it,
consider not.
Consider God’s
Word.
God’s Word says, “By His
stripes you are healed.”
Amen.
So, walk in that.
Can I have a
good amen?
So, don’t condemn
yourself for saying, “How long,
how long?”
It’s ok, alright, but
don’t stop there.
Go into faith.
Some people even have this idea
that that faith means don’t even
say how long.
It’s ok to tell
God but make sure you tell God.
David did.
David says in Psalms
13, “O Lord, how long will you
forget me?
Forever?
How long
will you look the other way?
How
long must I struggle with
anguish in my soul, with sorrow
in my heart everday?
How long
will my enemy have the upper
hand?”
Actually this is from the
journal of Pastor Lawrence.
I,
it’s not, it’s not Psalms 13, I
just took it out actually.
No,
it’s Psalms 13.
Have you gone
through that?
Have you had this
in your heart?
Huh?
You feel
like God has put you aside?
Amen?
So it’s ok.
When David, a
man after God’s heart, says,
“How long?
How long, Lord?”
That
means he’s believing God for
something, he doesn’t see it
happen, amen?
But look.
Don’t
stay there.
Look at Psalms 13,
drop down, look at David.
“But I
have…”
But.
The ‘but’ makes all
the difference.
“I have trusted
in Your mercy.”
Guess what
‘mercy’ here is?
Hesed. Grace.
“My heart shall rejoice in Your
salvation.”
The Hebrew there is
“Yeshua”.
So you are in the
right posture when you don’t
give up, trusting in the grace
of God.
By His grace the
manifestation will come.
By His
grace, amen.
Thirty fold, sixty
fold but don’t give up.
Amen.
And it is ok to say, “How long,
Lord?”
It’s, as I say, it’s a
relationship.
You know, we, in
the word of faith background and
all that, we have this idea
sometimes that the moment you
say it, “Ah!
I bind that word in
Jesus’ name!”
It’s almost you
can’t express anything to one
another that’s negative.
Hey,
you can talk to God about
everything.
Everything David
told God about, David had
victory.
Even when he shared
with God in a negative way.
But
the very area, in all his psalms
you cannot find this – he never
told God about his sexual life
and that’s the area he fell.
Whatever area he told God about,
he had victory.
Even when he
exposed it out of bitterness of
soul or anguish, God gave him,
then there is Selah.
Have you
noticed there’s the word ‘Selah’
in psalms after he had poured
out his complain?
In the
presence of God.
If you want to
complain, complain in God’s
presence.
Don’t complain to the
waitress, don’t complain to
Pastor Mark, he’ll just laugh it
off.
Don’t anyhow.
Alright, talk
to God.
You want to complain,
tell God.
“This is how I feel,
Lord.
This is how I feel, Lord.
How long?
I feel like…”
As you
are talking to Him, there will
be a Selah moment.
And in that
moment you’ll feel His comfort.
I’ve done it before.
When things
get so pressurising, I go for a
walk and in that walk, I talk to
Jesus and I don’t pray the usual
prayer of faith.
I just tell Him
what I am afraid of, I tell Him
what I am concerned about, no
one hears about it but Him.
It’s
for His ears and at the end of
that walk, there’s always a
Selah or during that walk
there’s a Selah moment, I stop
for a while, sometimes it is
just knowing, tell it to Jesus,
tell it to Jesus.
Amen?
What a
friend we have in Jesus, all our
sins and griefs to bear.
What a
privilege to carry, everything
to God in prayer.
O, what peace
we often forfeit, what needless
pain we bear.
All because we
don’t carry, everything to God
in prayer.
Ok, so, here is the
turning point.
Look at David in
Psalms 35.
David says this, “How
long, O Lord, will You look on
and do nothing?
Rescue me from
their fierce attacks.
Protect my
life from these lions.”
Do you
feel sometimes, alright, maybe
your colleague or someone you
know, is attacking you or poison
social postings and all that on
social media, you know, do you
feel like these people are
lions?
And you feel God is not
doing anything?
Amen?
This is
how David felt, “Will You look
on and do nothing?
But the next
verse, Verse 18 says, “Then I’ll
thank You in front of the great
assembly.
I’ll praise You before
all the people.”
Look at this,
look at these words here.
Word
for word.
“I’ll thank You in
front of the great assembly.
I’ll praise You before all the
people.”
While he is
complaining, Jesus is giving
praise on his behalf.
Doesn’t
seem together right, these
verses?
And yet, it’s next to
each other.
I’m going to show
you this verse right now in the
New Testament.
Hebrews.
Hebrews
quotes this verse and this verse
again is used in Psalms 22 Both
Jesus who sanctifies and those
who are being sanctified, all of
us, we are all of one, for which
reason He’s not ashamed to call
them brethren.
We are all of the
same vine as Jesus.
We are same,
one with Jesus.
That’s why Jesus
is not afraid to call us
brothers, saying, “I will
declare Your name to my
brethren; in the midst of the
assembly I’ll sing praise to
You.”
This appears twice, Psalms
35 and Psalms 22.
So guess what?
While you are complaining,
Jesus, your High Priest, is
praising.
Ok?
Ok.
Now, let’s go
before they came out none
feeble, loaded down with silver
and gold, long before that
happened, God sent them who?
Moses, right?
So this is, we’re
backing back, we’re going back
now before they were delivered.
God sent Moses and Moses was
sent to Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Watch this now, the first time
Moses and Aaron stepped into
Pharaoh’s court, to ask for the
deliverance of God’s people,
look at this.
Exodus 5.
After
this presentation to Israel’s
leaders, Moses and Aaron went
and spoke to Pharaoh.
They told
him, “This is what the Lord, the
God of Israel says, ‘Let My
people go so they may hold a
festival in My honour in the
wilderness.’”
“Is that so?”
retorted Pharaoh.
“And who is
the Lord?
Why should I listen to
him and let Israel go?
I don’t
know the Lord and I will not let
Israel go.”
When you read your
Bible, you gotta be there, ok?
Ok, let’s drop down, “That same
day.
The same day that Moses
went in, for the first time, to
exhort the king to let Israel
go.
That same day, Pharaoh sent
this order to the Egyptian slave
drivers and the Israelite
foreman: “Do not supply any more
straws for making bricks.
Make
the people get it themselves!
But still require them to make
the same number of bricks as
before.”
So now, you cannot give
them the straw.
Tell them to
find their own straw.
Wow.
And
yet the number, daily number,
the daily rate, alright, of
those bricks must still be
delivered.
“They’re lazy.
Don’t
reduce the quota.
They’re lazy.
That’s why they are crying out,
‘Let us go and offer sacrifices
(to God) to our God.’
Load them
down with more work.
Make them
sweat.”
Can you hear the voice
of the devil?
Pharaoh is a type
of the devil.
Can you hear it?
“Load them down with more work.
Make them sweat.
That will teach
them to listen to lies!”
Some of
you, you don’t realise that you
are under a hard taskmaster.
For
years, the devil doesn’t always
come and speak directly to you.
He may use friendly people,
friendly voices, even relatives
and your colleagues or your boss
even.
And even right now, when
you learn about rest, and you
try to rest, like what I am
preaching right now, one of the
best thing to do is sit down
because Jesus, He sat down and
taught the people.
He sat down
in the boat, He taught them, He
sat on the mountain He taught
them.
I don’t know why we are
standing.
And I am sure that
Jesus is as strong and healthy.
Amen?
Amen?
And yet we are
standing.
Something is wrong.
I
thought of starting a new trend.
What do you think?
Shall I?
What
do you think?
Shall I?
I know
Pastor Mark will love this.
He
might just fall asleep.
Alright,
every time some of you do this,
you know, without doing
anything, whether it’s at home
or your leisure time, you can’t
even rest inside.
You know why?
Inside your mind, you say, “Get
up, do your work.
You won’t
accomplish much, you are wasting
time.”
That taskmaster is still
in your mind, and that’s the
devil’s voice.
Many of you, you
feel like you are wasting time,
alright just, I am not talking
about watching on the computer
or watching TV.
That is not
relaxing.
I am talking about
just look at the garden or
somewhere look at the beach or
whatever, just doing nothing,
you know.
Do these thoughts come
to you?
“Get up, do something.
Read something.
Look at your
phone, someone is calling,
someone you know, is trying to
contact you.
Respond.
Respond.”
I am so glad that my phone fell
into the toilet bowl.
I had
peace for two days because my
secretary told all the pastors
that my phone, you know, is not
contactable and she gave me
another phone actually to
contact, but I didn’t use that
phone, you know, just one side.
So everyone knows that I have an
excuse not contacting them.
Two
days I had peace, and then the
phone got healed.
I don’t know
why these devices supposed to
save time, makes us lose time.
You know what I am saying?
And
every time you rest, there is a
voice down there saying, “Get
up, do more work, that’s why
your colleagues will go ahead of
you, your competitors will get
an edge over you.”
But you don’t
believe that when you rest, it
is a posture of faith in God
that God will take care of your
business.
Amen.
“That is what I
do Pastor Prince, I don’t work,
I don’t do nothing, I let my
wife work.
I relax all the
time.”
No!
You are a lazy
person, alright, that is the
real word.
Ok so, “Load them
with more work (that’s the
devil’s voice), make them
sweat.”
Ok.
So they have to
deliver the daily quota of the
bricks at the same time.
By the
way, brick making is terrible
alright.
They have to step on
the straw, amen, they have to
bend down, they have to collect
like this, and they have to form
the shape and get up, down, it’s
back breaking work.
Are you
listening?
Alright, drop down.
The Israelite foremen could see
that they were in serious
trouble when they were told,
“You must not reduce the number
of bricks you make each day.”
As
they left Pharaoh’s court, they
confronted Moses and Aaron who
were waiting outside for them.
The foreman said to them, “May
the Lord judge and punish you
for making us stink before
Pharaoh and his officials.
You
have put a sword into their
hands, an excuse to kill us.”
Then Moses went back to the Lord
and protested.
Now imagine,
imagine.
You are the pastor sent
to preach.
So when you preach to
them about healing, the very
first thing that happen is this
testimony.
They said that, “Of
all the weeks, this week I fell
sick.
Actually we were ok you
know, I think you put a sword in
the devil’s hands.
You know, for
no reason, alright, we were ok,
when I started taking communion,
I fell sick.”
Now these are the
things I want to answer.
Because
you might not know, it happened
to them.
These are the same
people who later on says, “I am
strong man, woah, I can run, I
can fly, I feel I can, I am a
new man,” when there was none
feeble among their tribes.
But
long before that manifestation,
there is these moments that we
don’t see.
And leaders, take
heart, find comfort in these
stories.
They are there to
encourage us.
Moses says,
“What’s happening?”
I was sent
by God.
I saw the burning bush,
I saw the signs on my hand and
how God healed my hand of
leprosy and the signs that God
showed me the snake and become a
rod again.
I saw all that, I
heard God’s voice telling me,
“Go and I will use you to
deliver My people.
I’ve heard
their cry and I’m sending you.”
Didn’t God send me, didn’t I
talk to Pharaoh?
Now they are
worse off!
I tell you this,
sometimes there is a voice,
almost like a voice telling me,
“Don’t preach healing to the
people, because you know what
happens right when you do that?”
And there were times in the
past, that when I preached on
healing, Jessica would fall
sick.
So much so that there is
something spiritual going on
that I almost held back from
preaching.
I rather preach on
other things than healing, why?
Because invariably someone falls
sick in my family.
Now, that
doesn’t happen as often anymore
because I’ve got an army to pray
for me.
Before Sunday comes, I
get them to pray for me and my
family, amen, praise God.
Amen.
But there is this fear, now
listen carefully, you say,
“Well.
I don’t want this
pressure Pastor, so I’m not
going to take communion.”
Then
you are lost.
You become
natural.
You, like people of the
world, will have to depend on
natural things.
But if I tell
you that your sickness is
supernatural, it’s spiritual,
carnal means cannot overcome
something spiritual.
The weapons
of our warfare are not material.
They are mighty through God, to
the pulling down of strongholds.
Can I have a good amen people?
The Chinese say hong, wind, you
know, the pain comes on my hand,
you know, it’s the wind.
I feel
like, it’s literally they say
it’s the wind.
And yet evil
spirits in the Greek is wind.
In
Hebrew, ruach, it’s literally
like the Holy Spirit, like the
wind.
He manifests Himself like
a wind, and yet you feel like a
wind come on you, you feel the
pain in your body.
No!
Rebuke
that in Jesus’ name!
Amen!
Don’t
just use natural koyok, whatever
you call that, what’s the word?
Natural ointment, ointment,
amen, because that’s natural.
And that is spiritual that you
feel a wind come and you feel
the pain, talk to that wind.
Say, “Spirit of infirmity, in
the name of Jesus Christ, lose
my body and let me go in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and do it once, believe it”s
done.”
Amen, and you won’t be
wind up.
Ok, so Moses went back
to the Lord.
Good practice!
Leaders listen, when your people
complain to you and they bring
you questions you cannot answer,
and when you find that results
are not happening the way you
want it to happen.
In fact, it
is the opposite, what do you do?
Go back to the Lord.
Don’t leave
the Lord.
Don’t say I am going
back to sales, I am going back
to my practice, I am going back
to this, I am going back to
that.
Hey, go to the Lord.
You
don’t understand, ask the Lord.
You want to complain, complain
to the Lord.
You want to pour
your heart, go to the Lord.
It’s
the person that is the most
important.
The person carries
the benefit.
And sometimes He
wants us to learn so that others
can be blessed.
So you go to the
Lord, see what Moses did, he
went back to the Lord, back to
the Lord and protested.
“Why
have You brought all these
trouble on Your own people Lord?
Why did You send me?”
I am very
encouraged when I look at Moses
you know.
We always have him
like Charlton Heston, “Let my
people go”, but actually it is
like “God, why have You brought
all this trouble on Your own
people?”
Would you like to see
God’s answer?
Would you like to
see God’s answer?
I love it, God
answers like this.
Ever since he
told God, look at this, drop
down, “Then the Lord told Moses,
‘Now you will see what I will do
to Pharaoh.
When he feels the
force of My strong hand, he will
let the people go.
In fact he
will force them to leave his
land.’”
So God has a purpose,
and the purpose is not just for
your deliverance.
That plan
never changes, your healing
never changes, alright.
He wants
you to be healed.
But sometimes
there is a process by which
before the manifestation comes,
God is dealing with you and God
is dealing with your enemy.
Are
you listening people?
Sometimes
alright, we tend to like, we
hear something, ok take
Communion, alright it becomes a
ritual.
When nothing happens, ok
let’s resort to, you know.
But
the problem is this, we make it
a ritual.
Nothing ritualistic is
effective in the kingdom of God.
Once it becomes a ritual, it’s
no more effective.
“But Pastor
Prince, don’t you think
partaking every day can become a
ritual?”
No, do you kiss your
wife every day?
Ok forget it,
No!
Ok, do you eat every day?
Yes Singaporeans, do you eat
every day?
Do you eat every day?
Yes, oh yes!
How many times a
day?
And do you eat sometimes
the same food?
So when it comes
to something you know about God,
it’s always like it can become a
ritual.
No, just make sure that
you don’t rush through it.
Amen.
Just meditate, sing if you need
to, whatever it is, I know with
children around, sometimes you
partake.
Like my son, if one of
us or whatever, you know, we
don’t feel well, he will, “Take
Communion!” he says and he loves
it, he loves it.
He will look at
us and he will look at the
Communion, and then he will peel
off by himself and before I can
pray, it’s in his mouth already.
One time he went to his sister’s
room, alright came out, his
mouth was full of, and all the
bread of the Communion was gone.
He still doesn’t know how to
peel off the, for the drink, you
know, so all the bread was gone.
So he loves Communion but the
motive and all that, I am not
too sure yet.
He knows it is
Jesus’ body.
He knows that,
amen.
So if you want to spend
time doing it with them as a
testimony, Amen, like he will
always say, “Take Communion’,
right.
That’s a good testimony,
but the thing is you can do it
on your own.
You can take time
with the Lord.
Alright, just
worship the Lord and make sure
but even then, sometimes it’s
not as spectacular as the
children of Israel, next day
they came out without any
disease.
So what happens?
Pastor, how?
How then?
By the
way, when God says what, “He
will force them to leave his
land”.
Do you know that it
wasn’t until 10 plagues
happened, even after God said
this?
Do you know there were
days and days before this can be
carried out that God will force,
that Pharaoh be forced to leave
the people, Pharaoh wanted the
people out.
God had to deal with
Pharaoh.
Do you understand?
Amen?
At the same time He was
dealing with the people, because
every plague, I don’t have time
to teach this, every plague that
was mentioned, every plague has
to do with an idol of Egypt.
God
was showing they trusted in
this, they trusted in the sun,
God blotted out the sun.
There
was darkness all around.
Amen.
They worshipped frogs and frogs
came out alright and flooded
their land.
So God was dealing
for His people as well to learn
that He is the true God, the
true Jehovah.
Do you understand
what I am saying?
Alright, now
maybe our delay, God is teaching
us.
God is teaching us that He’s
not a formula, He wants you.
And
He wants you to see His person.
Can I have a good Amen!
Alright
yet, He paid for you to have it.
Alright, we all know this, amen.
And we all know that finally the
answer came.
How many will feel,
you know, like you will be
embarrassed right, you see Moses
and you were one of those that
said, “God judge you for talking
to Pharaoh”.
Now you see Moses
and you say “Moses strong”,
Moses says “Never mind what you
said, I forgive you”.
“Thanks
Moses”.
All of us have moments
where we feel like you know, we
cannot see the future but your
future is beautiful.
It’s as
bright as God’s promises.
Amen.
Maybe you are discouraged
because you’ve been waiting, you
have been taking Communion and
all that, nothing seems to
happen.
Or you got a bad
prognosis and all that, and you
let go of the Communion.
Imagine
the boy letting go of the
Communion, or the parents
letting go of the Communion on
the seventh day, on the eight
day, on the ninth day.
There is
nothing magical in 15, I am not
saying how long.
Ok, what about
now, Abraham.
“But Pastor
Prince, men of God always they
receive their instant…”, no it’s
not true.
We come to Abraham.
Abraham in Genesis 14 received
Communion right?
Look at this,
“Melchizedek”, now who is
Melchizedek?
Some people say he
is a real person.
Amen.
Some
say, and I subscribe to that,
that He is a pre-incarnate
appearance of Christ, amen.
Whatever you believe, one thing
is for sure we are agreed on, He
typifies the person of Jesus
Christ and He is priesthood for
us today.
It’s not Levitical,
its Melchizedek priesthood
right?
Ok, so Melchizedek, King
of Salem.
Now Salem, later
become Jerusalem.
Salem is king
of perfection, wholeness,
completeness.
He’s the king of
completeness.
King means what?
He has mastered that realm.
That
kingdom is his.
Ok?
Are you with
me so far?
Well Jesus is the
King of completeness, Salem;
completeness.
Completeness,
nothing broken, nothing missing.
That is Salem; completeness,
where you get the word shalom,
peace, completeness, health,
wholeness, safety.
Melchizedek,
King of Salem brought out bread
and wine.
That is how you
introduce Melchizedek, He
brought out bread and wine and
He is the King of completeness.
So what do you think this bread
and wine is all about?
It’s
Communion.
Am I right?
So we all
know this passage here, I know
you all know it very well so we
won’t spend too much here, but
just to show you that Abraham
partook of Communion.
Abraham’s
response was, the last line, “He
gave Melchizedek a tithe of
all”.
I can’t begin to tell you
that this was done before the
law and I don’t want to put a,
you know, like a law over your
head because this was done
before the law.
A tithe is a
glad response to knowing that
God is the source of all your
blessings.
Material especially
in this area, alright.
And God
brought them out with silver and
gold.
And their forefather, the
very one, the father of the
Jewish people gave tithes.
Alright, are you with me so far?
Question, question!
What chapter
is this?
Genesis what?
14!
Abraham, wanted what above
everything else?
What did
Abraham want at this time in his
life?
Talk to me quick!
A son,
right?
Someone says, Pastor
Prince, this is Genesis 14,
don’t forget, 14, 14 ok.
He took
communion in Genesis 14, what
does he want above everything
else?
He wanted healing for his
wife’s womb.
He wanted him to be
fruitful, he wanted a child from
Sarah.
In other words healing,
right?
And by the way, who says
after you take Communion, you
will never be attacked by fear
and all that.
Right after
Genesis 14, the very first verse
of the next verse, next chapter,
“After these things,” after he
took Communion, after he gave
tithe.
“After these things, the
Word of the Lord came to Abraham
in a vision saying, ‘Don’t be
afraid Abraham.’”
That means
what?
Abraham was afraid.
So who
says taking Communion means, “I
am strong, there is no more
fear.”
No, you will still be
attacked, in fact you will be
attacked.
It’s not a prophecy,
I’m just telling you.
But then
God comes on, and God says,
“Don’t be afraid Abraham.
I am
your magen in Hebrew, I am your
shield.”
You see the Magen
David, David’s?
That’s a shield
for Israel.
I am your shield, I
am your shield, protection, like
we have medishield.
Right,
shield.
He says I am your
shield.
When God is your shield,
you are shielded.
I am your
shield.
How big is God, your
Father?
Don’t be afraid Abraham!
Don’t be afraid Lim Peng San!
Lim Peng San, in Chinese means
someone who faints.
“Don’t be
afraid Abraham.
I am your
shield.”
I was told some years
ago, I’ve been using this for
years, and someone told me one
day, “Pastor Prince, do you know
there is a Lim Peng San in our
church.”
So, I apologise,
brother Peng San, I really
apologise.
But, it’s time to
call yourself Timothy, or
Zachariah ok.
Zachariah Lim
sounds good doesn’t it, Amen.
If
your name is Tay something,
T-A-Y, something, Tay Kheng Guan
or whatever, don’t call yourself
the Christian name Habakkuk, ok.
It is a Chinese joke.
Habakkuk
Tay, no, doesn’t sound right.
Doesn’t sound right.
That is
Chinese dish, it’s a pork dish,
pork soup.
Stop it Joseph
Prince!
Come on.
“Don’t be
afraid Abraham, I am your
shield”, I am your shield, and
look at this, not just your
reward, not just your great
reward, your exceedingly great
reward.
In the Hebrew, m`od
rabah.
Both words are big words.
I am your exceedingly great
reward.
Check the word reward,
in the Hebrew, it’s the word
salary, remuneration.
It’s used
for that.
Don’t be afraid, I am
your shield, I’ll protect you,
and I am your exceeding great
reward.
You know what is his
response?
That’s fine, some
people don’t mind, you know, all
that, say, I am not into
prosperity and all that like
Abraham’s response was, “What is
the point if I go childless?”
That is what his response was.
My question is this, Genesis 14
says he received Communion, when
did the child come?
When did the
child come?
You who say, “I have
been taking Communion for so
long Pastor Prince, nothing’s
been happening?”
How long have
you been taking?
“One month”.
Ok, how long after Abraham took
Communion?
Hey listen, he took
Communion not like the children
of Israel, partook of the lamb,
a shadow, a picture, he took it
straight from the hands of
Melchizedek – Jesus.
And it’s
not roasted lamb as a picture of
the bread, it’s literally bread
and wine from the hands of
Himself, the Lord Himself.
Ok,
how long before the
manifestation came?
How long?
How old was Abraham at this
time, this will help you all.
Alright, he had the
manifestation, Isaac came when
he was 100 years old.
But then
Sarah was pregnant nine months
right?
The year before, and
that’s why the Bible says, when
he was 99, the Lord appeared to
him.
“I am God almighty
(right?), this time next year”,
you know so she was pregnant
that year when he was 99.
99.
How old was he in Genesis?
By
the way, Genesis 21, show them
Genesis 21, “The Lord visited
Sarah, as He had said the Lord
did”, this is 21, you know how
far 21 and 14 is or not?
Don’t
go by chapters.
I’ll tell you
how old he is.
“And then, Sarah
conceived.”
Would you like to
know?
He was 83 when he met
Melchizedek.
That means how
long?
How many years?
How many
years?
How many years?
16 years!
Your math is so bad, I mean,
come on, 16 years!
16 years!
16
years people and he never gave
up.
Abraham persevered in faith.
I want to tell you something
about faith and patience.
Hebrew
6 says, and I’m closing, Hebrew
6, “We desire that each one of
you show the same diligence to
the full assurance of hope til
the end that you do not become
sluggish but imitate those who
through faith and patience
inherit the promises”.
Patience
here is not patient towards your
family members, your colleagues
or whatever Patience here is
endurance, steadfastness.
Imitate those who through faith
and patience inherit the
promises.
So sometimes it’s not
instantaneous, you’ll have to
persevere, endure.
I said
‘endure’.
Pastor Darren, a few
days ago, shared with us that he
was struck with migraine like he
never had it for many years, he
said more than 10 years I’ve
never had this kind of migraine.
And he had the attack like in
the evening and he tried to
sleep it off at night, he woke
up even more worst he said.
And
then the next day he got up, it
was terrible and then the day
after we are supposed to be
doing a shoot.
There’s something
about this book ‘Live The Let Go
Life’, the new book that is
coming out that’s gonna set a
lot of people free from stress,
worry and anxiety, that even we
were, like for me I was under
attack when I was in the States
I had like terrible nightmares
that I never used to have.
Night
after night after night before
my shoot, you know.
And I know
that this message will go into
millions of homes.
Amen.
It’s as
if the devil is threatening me
not to preach it.
And even when
Darren was struck with this, he
was supposed to be doing a major
part of the whole thing because
he is writing the script and all
the planning and he is the
leader for the entire thing and
he was struck down, he felt, but
he said, when he got up it
became even worst.
So he told
his wife he will just take time
to go somewhere and just be with
the Lord, you know, and then he
persevered to prepare, he
persevered patience.
The Bible
says, “Those who received the
Word”.
Sometimes we received the
Word and Jesus says, it falls on
stony ground because people have
joy for a while but when
tribulation, trouble come
because of the Word they are
offended, they are stumbled.
Right?
Jesus shared this about
the four grounds.
Listen, but
those who in a honest and good
heart, understand the Word and
they will bring forth fruit with
perseverance.
That’s Luke.
Luke’s version of what Jesus
shared.
Shares that part, what
Jesus says, bring forth the
fruit with perseverance.
So he
said, “I will just persevere,
I’ll just persevere”.
That’s
what happened to me also.
I had
the symptoms in my body and I
said, “I’ll just persevere”.
Amen.
I won’t excuse myself, I
won’t say, “Postpone to another
time”.
I’ll just persevere.
Amen.
And guess what, the moment
he said that, ‘poof’ the whole
thing left.
There’s something
about this that I want to
encourage you in closing, that
when you serve the Lord,
something happens.
In Exodus 23,
“So you shall serve the Lord
your God”, this will be our last
verse, “and He will bless your
bread and your water and I’ll
take sickness away from the
midst of you”.
Those of you
having heart conditions
whatever, check the word ‘from
the midst of you’.
It’s also the
Hebrew word for heart.
There’s a
word called ‘left’ and there’s a
word called this word here.
In
the midst of you, includes your
heart.
In fact Young’s
translation says, “I’ll take
away sickness away from your
heart”.
Young’s literally says,
“I’ll take sickness away from
your heart”.
“No one shall
suffer miscarriage or be barren
in your land, I’ll fulfil the
number of your days”.
I have
suffered miscarriage, once in my
life.
Wendy and I. Ok so don’t
feel bad when you do, amen, but
we are pressing on for the 100
fold.
And guess what?
My son
came along and he’s definitely a
restoration.
Amen.
So “No one
shall suffer miscarriage or be
barren in your land, I’ll fulfil
the number of your days”.
Now
notice what God says, “You shall
serve the Lord your God and He
will bless, and I’ll take
sickness away”.
Listen, listen
look up here.
Serving is not
something you pay for your
healing.
It’s not.
It was paid
for when the stripes fell upon
His back.
You saw that just now
but I tell you something,
listen, when you say you are
healed by His stripes, you have
taken Communion, you know why
the devil is stopping you and
giving you all kind of symptoms
in your body?
He doesn’t want
you to serve the Lord.
He
doesn’t want you to be effective
for the Lord.
Pastors, leaders
if you are attacked physically,
he doesn’t want you to be
effective, he just wants you to
just retire early.
Are you
listening?
Start serving the
Lord!
Because after you take
Communion, you must have an act
of faith to show the Lord and
when you act out, “I’ll still
serve the Lord.
I don’t care I
have this condition whatever I
am going to serve the Lord”.
When you do that, you’re acting
in faith.
And then when he came
for the shoot we had in the
studio and all that, and then
when he shared with our visual
people about his challenge, they
said that, “Wah these few days
we had, one this person had
this, that person had that, one
guy had a back condition, but he
said he will persevere but as he
persevered, it all left”.
Are
you listening?
As you step out
to serve, now you say, “Pastor
Prince, I know people who served
the Lord and now they are down
with something or they have left
and gone back to heaven you
know” and listen, listen: I’m
not saying, listen, I’m not
saying all these things are
automatic, I’m just saying to
you ‘serve the Lord’.
In the
Hebrew, there’s Aleph Tav there.
You shall serve, you shall serve
Aleph Tav the Lord, serve Jesus.
Go back again to the verse, ok
go back to the verse, Exodus 23,
“You shall serve the Lord your
God”, serve Jesus.
But Pastor
Prince “I know of this guy in
full time ministry”.
Can I say
something to you?
Look up here.
Just because you see me here it
doesn’t mean I’m serving the
Lord.
Just because you see
people around, it doesn’t mean
they are serving the Lord.
It’s
possible for someone to be in
fulltime ministry and they are
serving their ego.
Or they are
in ministry because they are
serving their pocket book.
Some
of them are serving their
interest.
They are serving the
adulation of people or they are
serving all kind of things.
No
one knows who is serving the
Lord but the Lord.
If your heart
is for the Lord, no one, even if
people say you are doing it for
money or whatever, you’ll have
the assurance.
The Lord and you
know.
Just because you see
people serving doesn’t mean they
are serving the Lord.
Just
because you see a musician, I’m
not reflecting on any musician,
doesn’t mean they are serving
the Lord.
But when you serve the
Lord, He will bless your bread
and your water.
He will take
sickness away from the midst of
you.
So whatever you do, don’t
give your sickness as an excuse,
step out and say, “Lord, I have
taken Communion, I am going to
serve You Lord”.
Amen and see
health spring forth speedily.
Are you blessed?
This portion
here, I said one last verse
right?
One last chapter
actually.
This chapter, I still
stick to the chapter ok?
Drop
down, drop down.
“I will not
drive the enemies out from
before you in one year lest the
land become desolate and the
beast of the field becomes too
numerous for you”.
What did God
say?
Little by little I will
drive them out from before you
until you’ve increased and you
inherit the land.
Little by
little.
Little by little.
We
always tell God, “Drive all the
enemies out!”
Today our enemies
are not physical people, our
enemies are not the Hivites, the
Hittites, the Canaanites.
Our
enemies are diseases that have
names.
Sicknesses and all that.
High blood pressure, alright
tumour whatever it is.
Ok.
God
says, “I will not drive them out
in one year”.
I will not drive
them out immediately, in another
words.
But I’ll drive them out
little by little.
Why?
Because
you’re not strong yet.
I want
the process to benefit you.
I
want you to be strong.
It’s on
the same chapter as “I will
bless your bread and water and
take sickness away”.
Amen.
Child
of God, don’t be discouraged.
Ok.
Your healing is coming.
The
manifestation of it.
And it’s
coming speedily.
Don’t give up,
give praise to God.
Amen.
Has
this blessed you?
Praise the
Lord.
Every head bowed, every
eye closed all across this
place.
In the name of Jesus I
set you free right now, to
receive the Lord Jesus.
No power
of darkness and no unbelief can
stop you when you say yes to
Jesus.
Amen.
Perhaps you’re
here, you have never said yes to
Jesus as your Lord and Saviour.
Christ died for your sins.
Christ is risen for your
justification.
Christ at the
Father’s right hand, wants to be
your Shepherd and Lord.
Will you
allow Him?
He wants to be your
shield and your exceedingly
great reward.
If that is you,
pray this prayer with me right
now, wherever you are.
Say:
Heavenly Father I thank You for
Your love for me.
I thank You
for the Word I’ve heard.
I
confess from my heart that Jesus
Christ is my Lord and my
Saviour.
I believe Christ is
risen for my justification.
Thank You Father, all my sins
are forgiven.
I’m greatly
blessed.
Thank You Father.
In
Jesus’ name and all the people
said?
Amen.
Stand to your feet.
Thank You Lord Jesus.
Lift your
hands all across this place.
This coming week the Lord bless
you and the Lord Himself keep
you, keep you from every harm,
danger, from anything that would
hurt or destroy.
Jesus says,
“Nothing shall by any means hurt
you”.
And the Lord Himself
protect you from every sickness
and disease.
The
on you, cause doors of favour to
open to you, shut doors that are
no good for you.
The Lord make
your crooked path straight that
you walk with rest.
You walk in
a place called green pastures,
by the still waters.
And know
that surely goodness and mercy
will follow you.
Even this week,
goodness and mercy will hurt you
down.
In Jesus’ name, I bless
you.
I bless you with that peace
that garrisons your heart and
mind through Christ Jesus.
In
Jesus’ name and all the people
said.
Thanks for coming.
God
bless you.
You are dismissed.
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