Joseph Prince - Don’t Raise Your Fist, Raise Your Faith

July 21, 2025 | 29:45

Anchored in Christ: “No storm, no tempest, no raging sea can flood your mind today.”

Closed captions

Show Timecode
Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Don’t Raise Your Fist, Raise Your Faith | July 21, 2025
  • ...
  • 00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:01.311
  • Male announcer: pain, a negative doctor's report,
  • 00:00:11.054 --> 00:00:13.523
  • Anxieties, and even depression.
  • 00:00:13.623 --> 00:00:16.059
  • You or someone you love may be facing
  • 00:00:16.159 --> 00:00:16.893
  • One of these common enemies right now.
  • 00:00:18.094 --> 00:00:20.830
  • But here's wonderful news: healing doesn't have to be hard.
  • 00:00:20.830 --> 00:00:25.335
  • Joseph prince: god designed the communion
  • 00:00:25.335 --> 00:00:27.103
  • To bring healing to your body.
  • 00:00:27.103 --> 00:00:28.838
  • That is why i want to send you this easy-to-read resource
  • 00:00:28.838 --> 00:00:32.308
  • Completely free.
  • 00:00:32.308 --> 00:00:33.977
  • It will encourage you, recharge your faith,
  • 00:00:33.977 --> 00:00:36.746
  • And be a great blessing to you.
  • 00:00:36.746 --> 00:00:39.215
  • Announcer: in his breakthrough book,
  • 00:00:39.215 --> 00:00:40.750
  • "eating your way to wholeness:
  • 00:00:40.750 --> 00:00:42.652
  • A practical guide to the holy communion,"
  • 00:00:42.652 --> 00:00:45.355
  • You can receive the reality that the holy communion
  • 00:00:45.355 --> 00:00:47.924
  • Is far more than a ritual.
  • 00:00:47.924 --> 00:00:50.493
  • Joseph prince: we have received
  • 00:00:50.493 --> 00:00:51.828
  • Many praise reports from believers around the world
  • 00:00:51.828 --> 00:00:54.063
  • Who have experienced the healing power
  • 00:00:54.063 --> 00:00:56.099
  • Of the communion.
  • 00:00:56.099 --> 00:00:57.567
  • I really want that for you too.
  • 00:00:57.567 --> 00:00:59.402
  • Make sure you request this resource today.
  • 00:00:59.402 --> 00:01:02.805
  • Announcer: call or click right now to request
  • 00:01:02.805 --> 00:01:04.474
  • Your free copy of pastor prince's
  • 00:01:04.474 --> 00:01:06.342
  • "eating your way to wholeness:
  • 00:01:06.342 --> 00:01:08.077
  • A practical guide to the holy communion."
  • 00:01:08.077 --> 00:01:10.680
  • Joseph prince: why did god put "feeding," "bread,"
  • 00:01:12.715 --> 00:01:16.019
  • And "fighting" as the same word, why?
  • 00:01:16.019 --> 00:01:18.988
  • Write this down somewhere: when you feed, you fight.
  • 00:01:18.988 --> 00:01:23.259
  • Feeding is fighting the enemy.
  • 00:01:23.259 --> 00:01:27.163
  • We don't fight by fighting. we fight by eating.
  • 00:01:27.163 --> 00:01:31.134
  • We eat god's word, and the dev-- enemy is defeated.
  • 00:01:31.134 --> 00:01:34.370
  • That's what you're doing right now in church, people:
  • 00:01:34.370 --> 00:01:36.573
  • You are feeding.
  • 00:01:36.573 --> 00:01:38.374
  • And as you are feeding, when you go back,
  • 00:01:38.374 --> 00:01:40.944
  • You find the enemy is defeated, halle--
  • 00:01:40.944 --> 00:01:43.346
  • Many a time when you go back, hallelujah,
  • 00:01:43.346 --> 00:01:45.014
  • God takes care of the problem.
  • 00:01:45.014 --> 00:01:46.716
  • You took time to be in god's house.
  • 00:01:46.716 --> 00:01:48.218
  • You took time to be with the lord.
  • 00:01:48.218 --> 00:01:50.053
  • And god, when god feeds you, god is fighting for you.
  • 00:01:50.053 --> 00:01:54.290
  • Announcer: in today's message from joseph prince,
  • 00:01:54.290 --> 00:01:56.092
  • Find out how god's grace is the answer
  • 00:01:56.092 --> 00:01:57.961
  • To your deepest struggles
  • 00:01:57.961 --> 00:01:59.662
  • And how his presence brings peace
  • 00:01:59.662 --> 00:02:01.531
  • To every storm in your heart.
  • 00:02:01.531 --> 00:02:03.166
  • If you've ever struggled with painful fears
  • 00:02:03.166 --> 00:02:05.034
  • Or felt overwhelmed by emotional highs and lows,
  • 00:02:05.034 --> 00:02:08.204
  • We want you to have a copy of joseph's book "anchored,"
  • 00:02:08.204 --> 00:02:11.341
  • Yours for a gift of any amount to the ministry today.
  • 00:02:11.341 --> 00:02:14.577
  • Joseph prince: i wrote this book for anyone
  • 00:02:14.577 --> 00:02:16.412
  • Who has ever felt like they are not good enough,
  • 00:02:16.412 --> 00:02:18.448
  • Or anyone who has ever struggled
  • 00:02:18.448 --> 00:02:19.849
  • With comparison, loneliness, or shame.
  • 00:02:19.849 --> 00:02:22.552
  • This book is filled with powerful thoughts
  • 00:02:22.552 --> 00:02:24.687
  • And verses that will ground you in god's love for you
  • 00:02:24.687 --> 00:02:27.490
  • And help you build your life on the gospel of grace.
  • 00:02:27.490 --> 00:02:31.060
  • Announcer: for a gift of $75 or more,
  • 00:02:31.060 --> 00:02:33.096
  • You'll also receive joseph's book "no more fear"
  • 00:02:33.096 --> 00:02:35.698
  • And the "perfect love casts out fear" sermon series.
  • 00:02:35.698 --> 00:02:39.002
  • Call or text the number on your screen,
  • 00:02:39.002 --> 00:02:40.870
  • Or visit our website to request your copy now.
  • 00:02:40.870 --> 00:02:43.873
  • And now here's pastor joseph prince
  • 00:02:43.873 --> 00:02:46.542
  • With today's program.
  • 00:02:46.542 --> 00:02:47.910
  • Joseph prince: god is the maker of good days.
  • 00:02:47.910 --> 00:02:52.148
  • You know, the bible says that "he that will love life
  • 00:02:52.148 --> 00:02:55.952
  • And see good days,"
  • 00:02:55.952 --> 00:02:58.421
  • And "good days" is always plural.
  • 00:02:58.421 --> 00:02:59.822
  • "good days" with an s.
  • 00:02:59.822 --> 00:03:02.659
  • But when it comes to the day that you go through a trial,
  • 00:03:02.659 --> 00:03:05.161
  • Maybe some of you are in the midst of a trial
  • 00:03:05.161 --> 00:03:06.629
  • Right now, the bible uses the word
  • 00:03:06.629 --> 00:03:09.299
  • "stand therefore in the evil day"--
  • 00:03:09.299 --> 00:03:13.069
  • And there's no s, singular--
  • 00:03:13.069 --> 00:03:14.904
  • Which means your good days are plentiful;
  • 00:03:14.904 --> 00:03:18.574
  • Your evil day is far in between.
  • 00:03:18.574 --> 00:03:24.013
  • All right, there is something about us.
  • 00:03:24.013 --> 00:03:26.082
  • We all are naturally inclined to the visible,
  • 00:03:26.082 --> 00:03:32.522
  • To the palpable, that which can be touched,
  • 00:03:32.522 --> 00:03:37.460
  • That our five senses can take in,
  • 00:03:37.460 --> 00:03:39.929
  • And that's why the people of god wanted a golden calf.
  • 00:03:39.929 --> 00:03:45.335
  • They want something they can touch and feel.
  • 00:03:45.335 --> 00:03:46.969
  • When god says to israel, "i'll be your king,"
  • 00:03:46.969 --> 00:03:49.072
  • They said, "no, no, we wanna be like other nations.
  • 00:03:49.072 --> 00:03:50.973
  • They have a king they can see."
  • 00:03:50.973 --> 00:03:52.842
  • God says, "i'll be your king."
  • 00:03:52.842 --> 00:03:54.210
  • "but you are invisible. we want visible," you know?
  • 00:03:54.210 --> 00:03:56.312
  • It's our flesh.
  • 00:03:56.312 --> 00:03:57.647
  • Our flesh craves for that which is visible,
  • 00:03:57.647 --> 00:04:00.183
  • For that which is palpable,
  • 00:04:00.183 --> 00:04:01.718
  • For that which is something they can touch, you know?
  • 00:04:01.718 --> 00:04:06.522
  • But god lives in the invisible realm.
  • 00:04:06.522 --> 00:04:09.025
  • So the bible says in 2 corinthians 4
  • 00:04:09.025 --> 00:04:11.561
  • That "our light affliction"--
  • 00:04:11.561 --> 00:04:13.296
  • Whatever you're going through right now,
  • 00:04:13.296 --> 00:04:15.164
  • God calls it "light affliction"--
  • 00:04:15.164 --> 00:04:17.400
  • "which is but for us-- but which is but for a moment."
  • 00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:20.636
  • Whatever difficulties you are going through,
  • 00:04:20.636 --> 00:04:22.905
  • It is only for a moment.
  • 00:04:22.905 --> 00:04:25.208
  • I said it is only for a moment.
  • 00:04:25.208 --> 00:04:27.877
  • But "it's working for us," what? "it's working for us."
  • 00:04:27.877 --> 00:04:30.513
  • This is for people who are going through difficulties,
  • 00:04:30.513 --> 00:04:32.315
  • Through afflictions.
  • 00:04:32.315 --> 00:04:33.649
  • "it is working for you
  • 00:04:33.649 --> 00:04:35.318
  • A far more exceeding and eternal,"
  • 00:04:35.318 --> 00:04:39.989
  • Not temporary, "eternal"-- permanent, not for a while--
  • 00:04:39.989 --> 00:04:45.328
  • "weight of glory."
  • 00:04:45.328 --> 00:04:46.829
  • Whoo, weight of glory. i said weight of glory.
  • 00:04:46.829 --> 00:04:51.667
  • Does that mean that everybody who goes through trouble,
  • 00:04:51.667 --> 00:04:53.636
  • They have these blessings?
  • 00:04:53.636 --> 00:04:54.971
  • No.
  • 00:04:54.971 --> 00:04:56.305
  • It goes on to say, "while we do not look
  • 00:04:56.305 --> 00:04:59.409
  • At the things which are seen," visible,
  • 00:04:59.409 --> 00:05:03.146
  • "but at the things which are not seen," invisible.
  • 00:05:03.146 --> 00:05:06.983
  • So, all these blessings and your trouble works for you
  • 00:05:06.983 --> 00:05:10.753
  • When your eye is on the invisible,
  • 00:05:10.753 --> 00:05:13.256
  • Not on the visible, on the unseen and not the seen.
  • 00:05:13.256 --> 00:05:16.826
  • "for the things which are seen," visible, "are temporary."
  • 00:05:16.826 --> 00:05:20.029
  • Say, "temporary."
  • 00:05:20.029 --> 00:05:22.231
  • The doctors give you a--your x-ray.
  • 00:05:22.231 --> 00:05:24.400
  • Say, "there's a black dot here."
  • 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:25.768
  • Can you see it? temporary.
  • 00:05:25.768 --> 00:05:29.105
  • Amen? amen.
  • 00:05:29.105 --> 00:05:32.008
  • All right, whatever it is in this world--
  • 00:05:32.008 --> 00:05:34.110
  • Look at my wallet: nothing.
  • 00:05:34.110 --> 00:05:35.445
  • Look at my bank account: available balance, nothing.
  • 00:05:35.445 --> 00:05:37.847
  • What is that? can you see it?
  • 00:05:37.847 --> 00:05:39.248
  • Yes, nothing. i can see nothing.
  • 00:05:39.248 --> 00:05:41.617
  • Temporary, amen?
  • 00:05:41.617 --> 00:05:46.255
  • So, you tell your friend, "see, ugly or not?"
  • 00:05:46.255 --> 00:05:48.291
  • "yeah, you're quite ugly."
  • 00:05:48.291 --> 00:05:49.625
  • Temporary. you can see it.
  • 00:05:49.625 --> 00:05:51.661
  • Good news. temporary, amen?
  • 00:05:51.661 --> 00:05:54.464
  • So in god's economy of things, the way god sees things,
  • 00:05:54.464 --> 00:05:57.467
  • You know, everything in this life that is invisible,
  • 00:05:57.467 --> 00:05:59.902
  • That is unseen,
  • 00:05:59.902 --> 00:06:01.237
  • The things which are seen are temporary,
  • 00:06:01.237 --> 00:06:02.572
  • But the things which are not seen, unseen,
  • 00:06:02.572 --> 00:06:04.941
  • Are eternal.
  • 00:06:04.941 --> 00:06:06.976
  • Is god seen? no.
  • 00:06:06.976 --> 00:06:08.578
  • Is god here? yes.
  • 00:06:08.578 --> 00:06:10.346
  • God is eternal. angels are eternal.
  • 00:06:10.346 --> 00:06:15.852
  • Blessings are eternal. you cannot see blessings.
  • 00:06:15.852 --> 00:06:18.654
  • We are blessed with every spiritual blessing
  • 00:06:18.654 --> 00:06:21.090
  • In heavenly places in christ.
  • 00:06:21.090 --> 00:06:22.992
  • You can't see it.
  • 00:06:22.992 --> 00:06:24.327
  • You--what you see are the effects of blessings.
  • 00:06:24.327 --> 00:06:28.631
  • Someone is prospering.
  • 00:06:28.631 --> 00:06:29.966
  • Someone's health is being blessed.
  • 00:06:29.966 --> 00:06:32.268
  • Someone's married life is being blessed.
  • 00:06:32.268 --> 00:06:33.669
  • The marriage come around.
  • 00:06:33.669 --> 00:06:35.004
  • Water turns to wine in that marriage.
  • 00:06:35.004 --> 00:06:36.339
  • You are seeing the effects of the blessing.
  • 00:06:36.339 --> 00:06:40.142
  • You know, the lord is with you all the time.
  • 00:06:40.142 --> 00:06:43.579
  • Learn to live in the invisible.
  • 00:06:43.579 --> 00:06:46.282
  • Learn not to let the devil sway you with the visible.
  • 00:06:46.282 --> 00:06:49.018
  • He say, "look at this. look at that.
  • 00:06:49.018 --> 00:06:50.353
  • Look at your lump, how big it's growing," you know?
  • 00:06:50.353 --> 00:06:53.155
  • And the thing is this: the devil will tell you
  • 00:06:53.155 --> 00:06:54.891
  • All kinds of things.
  • 00:06:54.891 --> 00:06:56.225
  • He will tell you, "you see, everything just rhymes
  • 00:06:56.225 --> 00:06:58.027
  • With this because you're called to this," you know?
  • 00:06:58.027 --> 00:07:00.429
  • Don't believe the devil.
  • 00:07:00.429 --> 00:07:02.064
  • He wouldn't tell you-- the worst kind of persuasion
  • 00:07:02.064 --> 00:07:04.901
  • Is when it's religious:
  • 00:07:04.901 --> 00:07:06.235
  • "god wants you to suffer.
  • 00:07:06.235 --> 00:07:07.937
  • God wants you to have this disease
  • 00:07:07.937 --> 00:07:10.072
  • Or wants your child to suffer this, okay?
  • 00:07:10.072 --> 00:07:11.841
  • Maybe it's god's will."
  • 00:07:11.841 --> 00:07:13.175
  • When you start preaching that,
  • 00:07:13.175 --> 00:07:14.777
  • People start believing that nonsense.
  • 00:07:14.777 --> 00:07:16.112
  • And yet, behind the scene, you are bringing your child
  • 00:07:16.112 --> 00:07:20.416
  • To the doctor.
  • 00:07:20.416 --> 00:07:21.784
  • If you really believe that god wants your child to be sick,
  • 00:07:21.784 --> 00:07:24.487
  • You have no right to try to get the child healed
  • 00:07:24.487 --> 00:07:28.157
  • Because according to your admission,
  • 00:07:28.157 --> 00:07:30.326
  • God wants your child sick.
  • 00:07:30.326 --> 00:07:32.628
  • No, when it comes to your own family,
  • 00:07:32.628 --> 00:07:33.963
  • All of a sudden,
  • 00:07:33.963 --> 00:07:35.298
  • All these silly "doctrines" go down the drain.
  • 00:07:35.298 --> 00:07:37.567
  • Jesus says, "if you as a earthly father
  • 00:07:37.567 --> 00:07:39.735
  • Know how to give good things to your children,
  • 00:07:39.735 --> 00:07:41.671
  • How much more your heavenly father?"
  • 00:07:41.671 --> 00:07:43.873
  • Please. don't malign god.
  • 00:07:43.873 --> 00:07:46.075
  • God made you in his image.
  • 00:07:46.075 --> 00:07:47.410
  • We want the best for our children.
  • 00:07:47.410 --> 00:07:49.045
  • How much more god?
  • 00:07:49.045 --> 00:07:50.379
  • You know what pains god? they refused to enter the land.
  • 00:07:50.379 --> 00:07:54.150
  • So god said this, finally.
  • 00:07:54.150 --> 00:07:56.052
  • Let's look at hebrews, chapter 3:
  • 00:07:56.052 --> 00:07:59.822
  • "therefore, as the holy spirit says:
  • 00:07:59.822 --> 00:08:01.624
  • 'today, if you hear his voice--'"
  • 00:08:01.624 --> 00:08:03.359
  • Now god's spirit is talking now.
  • 00:08:03.359 --> 00:08:05.328
  • He's giving us another chance not to make the same mistake
  • 00:08:05.328 --> 00:08:07.830
  • That the children of israel made, today.
  • 00:08:07.830 --> 00:08:09.532
  • "'today, if you will hear his voice,
  • 00:08:09.532 --> 00:08:11.567
  • Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
  • 00:08:11.567 --> 00:08:14.103
  • In the day of trial in the wilderness,
  • 00:08:14.103 --> 00:08:16.606
  • Where your fathers tested me, tried me,
  • 00:08:16.606 --> 00:08:19.842
  • And saw my works forty years.'"
  • 00:08:19.842 --> 00:08:23.279
  • Look at the word: "my works."
  • 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:24.880
  • Now, i felt that god should have said, "my judgment."
  • 00:08:24.880 --> 00:08:27.316
  • But there's a reason why he says, "my works."
  • 00:08:27.316 --> 00:08:29.452
  • If you don't rest, you're always working.
  • 00:08:29.452 --> 00:08:33.589
  • You see god's works, god's judgment.
  • 00:08:33.589 --> 00:08:35.891
  • "therefore i was angry with that generation,
  • 00:08:35.891 --> 00:08:38.761
  • And said, 'they always go astray in their heart,
  • 00:08:38.761 --> 00:08:40.663
  • And they have not known my ways.'
  • 00:08:40.663 --> 00:08:42.331
  • So i swore in my wrath."
  • 00:08:42.331 --> 00:08:44.800
  • So you have "my works," "my ways."
  • 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:47.003
  • What are god's ways?
  • 00:08:47.003 --> 00:08:48.537
  • Obviously, the ten and the majority
  • 00:08:48.537 --> 00:08:50.106
  • Of the children of israel missed it.
  • 00:08:50.106 --> 00:08:54.210
  • Joshua and caleb got it. they got god's ways.
  • 00:08:54.210 --> 00:08:58.681
  • And what is god's ways? we'll see it presently.
  • 00:08:58.681 --> 00:09:01.584
  • "so i swore in my wrath, 'they shall not enter my rest.'"
  • 00:09:01.584 --> 00:09:07.623
  • Many years ago, when i was reading this,
  • 00:09:07.623 --> 00:09:09.659
  • I said, "wait a minute.
  • 00:09:09.659 --> 00:09:10.993
  • God should have said, 'they shall not enter my land,'"
  • 00:09:10.993 --> 00:09:14.497
  • Because the story here is referring
  • 00:09:14.497 --> 00:09:15.898
  • To kadesh barnea's story.
  • 00:09:15.898 --> 00:09:17.533
  • What did god say? "my rest."
  • 00:09:17.533 --> 00:09:19.301
  • Because today it's not a physical land
  • 00:09:19.301 --> 00:09:21.137
  • For you and i.
  • 00:09:21.137 --> 00:09:22.471
  • Today, your promised land,
  • 00:09:22.471 --> 00:09:24.907
  • The land flowing with milk and honey,
  • 00:09:24.907 --> 00:09:26.909
  • The place where you eat from vineyards you didn't plant,
  • 00:09:26.909 --> 00:09:29.912
  • From wells you didn't dig is the land of rest.
  • 00:09:29.912 --> 00:09:33.849
  • It's a place where you come to a rest.
  • 00:09:33.849 --> 00:09:35.584
  • Even though you don't see the visible yet,
  • 00:09:35.584 --> 00:09:37.953
  • Even though the healing has not manifest,
  • 00:09:37.953 --> 00:09:40.222
  • Even though the provision has not yet come,
  • 00:09:40.222 --> 00:09:42.324
  • Even though the deliverance from addiction
  • 00:09:42.324 --> 00:09:44.527
  • In your teenage boy has not yet happened,
  • 00:09:44.527 --> 00:09:46.996
  • You tell god, "god, i thank you i'm at rest
  • 00:09:46.996 --> 00:09:50.232
  • Because you are fighting this battle."
  • 00:09:50.232 --> 00:09:53.269
  • You rest. i said, "you rest," okay?
  • 00:09:53.269 --> 00:09:57.573
  • So god says-- so see the difference
  • 00:09:57.573 --> 00:09:59.341
  • Between "my wrath," "my rest"?
  • 00:09:59.341 --> 00:10:01.077
  • "my wrath," "my rest."
  • 00:10:01.077 --> 00:10:02.645
  • The opposite of god's wrath: rest.
  • 00:10:02.645 --> 00:10:05.114
  • Rest is how you please god. let's drop down.
  • 00:10:05.114 --> 00:10:08.484
  • "beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you
  • 00:10:08.484 --> 00:10:10.086
  • An evil heart of unbelief
  • 00:10:10.086 --> 00:10:11.420
  • In departing from the living god;
  • 00:10:11.420 --> 00:10:12.755
  • Exhort one another daily."
  • 00:10:12.755 --> 00:10:14.223
  • Thank god for instagram. thank god for whatsapp.
  • 00:10:14.223 --> 00:10:18.194
  • Thank god for your texts. god bless steve jobs, amen?
  • 00:10:18.194 --> 00:10:23.632
  • You can encourage daily
  • 00:10:23.632 --> 00:10:25.668
  • Without being close to your friend.
  • 00:10:25.668 --> 00:10:27.703
  • And the bible says, "daily."
  • 00:10:27.703 --> 00:10:29.739
  • "exhort one another daily, lest there be any be hardened
  • 00:10:29.739 --> 00:10:33.242
  • Through the deceitfulness of sin."
  • 00:10:33.242 --> 00:10:34.710
  • And this "sin" here is singular, referring to unbelief.
  • 00:10:34.710 --> 00:10:37.279
  • You never know.
  • 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:38.614
  • All of a sudden, you feel a prompting
  • 00:10:38.614 --> 00:10:39.949
  • To text someone because maybe their thoughts become hard.
  • 00:10:39.949 --> 00:10:42.451
  • All of us have a propensity in the flesh to have h-a-r-d,
  • 00:10:42.451 --> 00:10:46.489
  • Hard thoughts about god.
  • 00:10:46.489 --> 00:10:48.524
  • The devil is putting those thoughts.
  • 00:10:48.524 --> 00:10:49.859
  • So your text comes in, and all of a sudden,
  • 00:10:49.859 --> 00:10:52.862
  • You feel exhorted, amen?
  • 00:10:52.862 --> 00:10:55.164
  • And you won't be hardened through unbelief.
  • 00:10:55.164 --> 00:10:57.433
  • Praise god. okay, let's drop down.
  • 00:10:57.433 --> 00:11:00.302
  • "now with whom was god angry forty years?
  • 00:11:00.302 --> 00:11:02.471
  • Was it not with those who sinned,
  • 00:11:02.471 --> 00:11:04.106
  • Whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
  • 00:11:04.106 --> 00:11:05.875
  • To whom did god swear they will not enter his rest,
  • 00:11:05.875 --> 00:11:08.444
  • But those who do not obey?"
  • 00:11:08.444 --> 00:11:09.779
  • And the bible says: "so we see they cannot enter in
  • 00:11:09.779 --> 00:11:12.214
  • Because of unbelief."
  • 00:11:12.214 --> 00:11:14.116
  • Unbelief is the very thing that god hates most, unbelief.
  • 00:11:14.116 --> 00:11:20.289
  • "therefore, since a promise remains of entering his rest,
  • 00:11:20.289 --> 00:11:23.058
  • Let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it."
  • 00:11:23.058 --> 00:11:25.628
  • By the way, "rest" here is not heaven.
  • 00:11:25.628 --> 00:11:27.463
  • Heaven does not have giants.
  • 00:11:27.463 --> 00:11:28.798
  • There's no need to battle in heaven.
  • 00:11:28.798 --> 00:11:30.900
  • In fact, when the people of god entered the land,
  • 00:11:30.900 --> 00:11:33.002
  • They had battles, they had to fight, all right?
  • 00:11:33.002 --> 00:11:35.037
  • So it's a land of promise. it's not referring to heaven.
  • 00:11:35.037 --> 00:11:37.840
  • In heaven there's no warfare.
  • 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.242
  • The only place that god tells his people to fear
  • 00:11:40.242 --> 00:11:44.180
  • Is fear that you come short of god's rest.
  • 00:11:44.180 --> 00:11:47.550
  • In other words, fear that you're not restful,
  • 00:11:47.550 --> 00:11:50.519
  • Fear that you're not restful.
  • 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.823
  • Right now, are you at rest?
  • 00:11:53.823 --> 00:11:55.558
  • I know the problem is still not resolved.
  • 00:11:55.558 --> 00:11:57.993
  • I know the difficulty is still there.
  • 00:11:57.993 --> 00:12:00.329
  • You can see it. you can touch it.
  • 00:12:00.329 --> 00:12:05.868
  • But god is saying, "can you be at rest?
  • 00:12:05.868 --> 00:12:09.371
  • I want you to be at rest because this is temporary.
  • 00:12:09.371 --> 00:12:13.943
  • The works are finished."
  • 00:12:13.943 --> 00:12:15.277
  • Okay, i'm getting ahead of myself.
  • 00:12:15.277 --> 00:12:16.612
  • Drop down.
  • 00:12:16.612 --> 00:12:17.947
  • "therefore, since a--indeed the gospel was preached to us
  • 00:12:17.947 --> 00:12:19.982
  • As well as to them."
  • 00:12:19.982 --> 00:12:21.317
  • "the good news was preached to us as well as to the 12 spies
  • 00:12:21.317 --> 00:12:24.386
  • And the children of israel in kadesh barnea."
  • 00:12:24.386 --> 00:12:26.288
  • "but the word which they heard did not profit them"--why?--
  • 00:12:26.288 --> 00:12:29.792
  • "not being mixed with faith in those who heard it."
  • 00:12:29.792 --> 00:12:32.828
  • You know why many of them didn't believe joshua and caleb?
  • 00:12:32.828 --> 00:12:35.998
  • They didn't mix with faith. their mixer was broken.
  • 00:12:35.998 --> 00:12:39.301
  • They didn't mix it with faith.
  • 00:12:39.301 --> 00:12:40.636
  • Some of you are sitting down here,
  • 00:12:40.636 --> 00:12:41.971
  • You are here but you're not here.
  • 00:12:41.971 --> 00:12:44.306
  • You are thinking about lunch.
  • 00:12:44.306 --> 00:12:46.442
  • You're thinking about what to eat, you know?
  • 00:12:46.442 --> 00:12:48.010
  • You are here, but you are thinking about somebody else.
  • 00:12:48.010 --> 00:12:50.713
  • You are here, but you are thinking
  • 00:12:50.713 --> 00:12:52.114
  • About the korean drama you watched yesterday.
  • 00:12:52.114 --> 00:12:54.516
  • You are wondering--i know-- "what's gonna happen next?"
  • 00:12:54.516 --> 00:12:56.452
  • You cannot wait to go back.
  • 00:12:56.452 --> 00:12:58.020
  • You are here, but you are not here.
  • 00:12:58.020 --> 00:12:59.355
  • You are not mixing what i am saying with faith.
  • 00:12:59.355 --> 00:13:04.260
  • Ladies, you all know what i mean, wives,
  • 00:13:04.260 --> 00:13:06.762
  • About your husbands being there and not there?
  • 00:13:06.762 --> 00:13:11.433
  • You all don't have the problem?
  • 00:13:11.433 --> 00:13:13.202
  • New creation church. we are always present.
  • 00:13:13.202 --> 00:13:18.774
  • Okay, drop down: "we who have believed
  • 00:13:18.774 --> 00:13:21.477
  • Do enter that rest."
  • 00:13:21.477 --> 00:13:22.811
  • Very easy.
  • 00:13:22.811 --> 00:13:24.146
  • How do you enter the rest? believe!
  • 00:13:24.146 --> 00:13:25.748
  • When god says, "my son took your diseases on his body,
  • 00:13:25.748 --> 00:13:29.652
  • And with his stripes you are healed,"
  • 00:13:29.652 --> 00:13:31.320
  • Say, "lord, i believe."
  • 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:32.855
  • And the devil says, "but i can still see it!"
  • 00:13:32.855 --> 00:13:35.124
  • You say, "i believe. i believe you, lord."
  • 00:13:35.124 --> 00:13:37.993
  • The devil says, "look, you can feel it!"
  • 00:13:37.993 --> 00:13:39.828
  • Say, "i believe it, lord! i believe i'm healed!
  • 00:13:39.828 --> 00:13:42.798
  • I believe the invisible, not the visible."
  • 00:13:42.798 --> 00:13:46.502
  • Temporary. eternal.
  • 00:13:46.502 --> 00:13:49.104
  • Devil's word. god's word, amen.
  • 00:13:49.104 --> 00:13:53.609
  • "so i swore in my wrath, 'they shall not enter my rest,'
  • 00:13:53.609 --> 00:13:55.978
  • Although the works were finished--
  • 00:13:55.978 --> 00:13:57.479
  • The works were finished
  • 00:13:57.479 --> 00:13:58.814
  • From the foundation of the world."
  • 00:13:58.814 --> 00:14:00.149
  • Can you believe that god doesn't--
  • 00:14:00.149 --> 00:14:01.717
  • It's like this: god did everything in your life,
  • 00:14:01.717 --> 00:14:03.686
  • Prepared everything for you before you were born.
  • 00:14:03.686 --> 00:14:05.321
  • He prepared everything.
  • 00:14:05.321 --> 00:14:06.755
  • Just like a loving couple,
  • 00:14:06.755 --> 00:14:08.090
  • When they're expecting their child,
  • 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:09.425
  • They prepare the room, they prepare the colors,
  • 00:14:09.425 --> 00:14:12.695
  • They prepare the clothing, they prepare everything.
  • 00:14:12.695 --> 00:14:16.565
  • When the baby comes, he comes into a prepared world.
  • 00:14:16.565 --> 00:14:20.936
  • How much more your heavenly father?
  • 00:14:20.936 --> 00:14:22.471
  • He prepares everything, and all the works were finished
  • 00:14:22.471 --> 00:14:25.140
  • Long before the world was created.
  • 00:14:25.140 --> 00:14:28.310
  • "how come god can do that, pastor?"
  • 00:14:28.310 --> 00:14:29.979
  • That's why he is god and you are not.
  • 00:14:29.979 --> 00:14:33.882
  • God doesn't--"hey, but god-- how come he has the time?"
  • 00:14:33.882 --> 00:14:37.753
  • God made time.
  • 00:14:37.753 --> 00:14:40.422
  • God doesn't take time. god gives time.
  • 00:14:40.422 --> 00:14:44.326
  • We take time. god gives time.
  • 00:14:44.326 --> 00:14:49.264
  • God doesn't take time from anybody, people.
  • 00:14:49.264 --> 00:14:51.400
  • God lives outside time.
  • 00:14:51.400 --> 00:14:52.968
  • He knows your ending from the beginning.
  • 00:14:52.968 --> 00:14:54.603
  • He has prepared everything for you.
  • 00:14:54.603 --> 00:14:56.238
  • When you listen to him, your life will be easy.
  • 00:14:56.238 --> 00:14:58.974
  • Not saying there are no trials, no difficulties.
  • 00:14:58.974 --> 00:15:02.077
  • But jesus says, "my yoke is easy."
  • 00:15:02.077 --> 00:15:04.446
  • It will be easy inside.
  • 00:15:04.446 --> 00:15:06.582
  • "the way of the transgressors is hard," amen?
  • 00:15:06.582 --> 00:15:12.087
  • I'm gonna give you, right now, a key, all right?
  • 00:15:12.087 --> 00:15:16.458
  • It's the word in hebrew called "lechem."
  • 00:15:16.458 --> 00:15:21.063
  • You find this in "beth-lehem." bethlehem?
  • 00:15:21.063 --> 00:15:26.201
  • Every time there's a "beth" in front, it's a house.
  • 00:15:26.201 --> 00:15:28.103
  • "bethesda," house of mercy, amen?
  • 00:15:28.103 --> 00:15:31.707
  • Beth-lehem, bethlehem. lechem is bread, house of bread.
  • 00:15:31.707 --> 00:15:36.879
  • Jesus, the bread of life,
  • 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:38.213
  • Was born in the house of bread, amen?
  • 00:15:38.213 --> 00:15:40.315
  • Lechem is spelled like this: lechem.
  • 00:15:40.315 --> 00:15:43.285
  • And it also means bread or feed.
  • 00:15:43.285 --> 00:15:46.622
  • But "lacham" also means fight, to do battle, war.
  • 00:15:46.622 --> 00:15:52.327
  • The only thing--the spelling is the same--lamed, cheit, mem--
  • 00:15:52.327 --> 00:15:56.031
  • Same spelling.
  • 00:15:56.031 --> 00:15:57.366
  • The only thing is the punctuation,
  • 00:15:57.366 --> 00:15:59.501
  • The little, little dots-- you know?--
  • 00:15:59.501 --> 00:16:01.003
  • They put different dots at different places.
  • 00:16:01.003 --> 00:16:02.838
  • One is lechem; one is lacham. lechem is bread or feed.
  • 00:16:02.838 --> 00:16:07.376
  • Lacham is fight, but it's also to feed.
  • 00:16:07.376 --> 00:16:11.447
  • So why is it that god put "feeding," "bread,"
  • 00:16:11.447 --> 00:16:15.084
  • And "fighting" as the same word, why?
  • 00:16:15.084 --> 00:16:17.986
  • Write this down somewhere: when you feed, you fight.
  • 00:16:17.986 --> 00:16:22.224
  • Feeding is fighting the enemy.
  • 00:16:22.224 --> 00:16:26.061
  • We don't fight by fighting. we fight by eating.
  • 00:16:26.061 --> 00:16:30.299
  • We eat god's word, and the dev-- enemy is defeated.
  • 00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:33.502
  • That's what you are doing right now in church, people.
  • 00:16:33.502 --> 00:16:35.571
  • You are feeding.
  • 00:16:35.571 --> 00:16:37.339
  • And as you are feeding, when you go back,
  • 00:16:37.339 --> 00:16:39.908
  • You find the enemy is defeated, halle--
  • 00:16:39.908 --> 00:16:42.377
  • Many a time, you go back, hallelujah,
  • 00:16:42.377 --> 00:16:44.379
  • God takes care of the problem.
  • 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:45.848
  • You took time to be in god's house.
  • 00:16:45.848 --> 00:16:47.349
  • You took time to be with the lord.
  • 00:16:47.349 --> 00:16:48.817
  • And god, when god feeds you, god is fighting for you.
  • 00:16:48.817 --> 00:16:53.322
  • That's why in psalms 23 it says:
  • 00:16:53.322 --> 00:16:55.824
  • "the lord is my shepherd; i shall not lack."
  • 00:16:55.824 --> 00:16:58.560
  • And then it says this: "you prepare a table before me
  • 00:16:58.560 --> 00:17:02.264
  • In the presence of my enemies."
  • 00:17:02.264 --> 00:17:04.399
  • It's a spread, hallelujah.
  • 00:17:04.399 --> 00:17:06.735
  • And notice, not "in the absence of my enemies."
  • 00:17:06.735 --> 00:17:09.438
  • "you prepare a table before me in the presence."
  • 00:17:09.438 --> 00:17:12.241
  • While the symptoms are still in your body, feed.
  • 00:17:12.241 --> 00:17:15.511
  • While the difficulty is still there, feed.
  • 00:17:15.511 --> 00:17:18.947
  • While the addiction is still there, feed.
  • 00:17:18.947 --> 00:17:22.451
  • Feeding is fighting. feeding is winning.
  • 00:17:22.451 --> 00:17:27.556
  • And that's why the only fight for us to fight
  • 00:17:27.556 --> 00:17:30.459
  • Is fight the good fight of faith.
  • 00:17:30.459 --> 00:17:32.494
  • 1 timothy 6:12, "fight the good fight of faith."
  • 00:17:32.494 --> 00:17:35.364
  • You see the word "good fight"?
  • 00:17:35.364 --> 00:17:37.065
  • It's actually--the word in the greek there is "kalos."
  • 00:17:37.065 --> 00:17:39.968
  • Literally, it's not the word "eu," for "good."
  • 00:17:39.968 --> 00:17:42.504
  • It is the word kalos.
  • 00:17:42.504 --> 00:17:43.839
  • Kalos is this-- the first definition of kalos--
  • 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.008
  • Kalos is either "beautiful" or "handsome."
  • 00:17:46.008 --> 00:17:48.210
  • In other words, it's "fight the beautiful fight of faith."
  • 00:17:48.210 --> 00:17:51.914
  • God is saying, when you are in a battle, in a difficulty,
  • 00:17:51.914 --> 00:17:54.716
  • Your only fight is to stay in faith.
  • 00:17:54.716 --> 00:17:58.554
  • Fight to remain in faith. fight the good fight of faith.
  • 00:17:58.554 --> 00:18:03.592
  • In other words, the difficulty is there,
  • 00:18:03.592 --> 00:18:04.927
  • But you say, "father, i thank you this battle is yours.
  • 00:18:04.927 --> 00:18:07.563
  • Thank you, father, my eyes are on you.
  • 00:18:07.563 --> 00:18:09.898
  • Thank you, father, you have overcome
  • 00:18:09.898 --> 00:18:11.233
  • This problem for me."
  • 00:18:11.233 --> 00:18:13.168
  • And devil yells, "you can still see it!"
  • 00:18:13.168 --> 00:18:15.504
  • "lord, my eyes are on you, lord," amen?
  • 00:18:15.504 --> 00:18:18.173
  • You listening, people?
  • 00:18:18.173 --> 00:18:20.576
  • That is your fight, and it's a beautiful fight,
  • 00:18:20.576 --> 00:18:23.545
  • And i suspect god says it's beautiful because you win.
  • 00:18:23.545 --> 00:18:27.916
  • And god loves it.
  • 00:18:27.916 --> 00:18:29.251
  • You know, every time we are using faith,
  • 00:18:29.251 --> 00:18:30.786
  • God loves it.
  • 00:18:30.786 --> 00:18:32.154
  • God loves it.
  • 00:18:32.221 --> 00:18:33.522
  • It's, like, "come on, angels, look at that.
  • 00:18:33.522 --> 00:18:34.856
  • Look at that guy. look at that girl."
  • 00:18:34.856 --> 00:18:37.826
  • Hallelujah.
  • 00:18:37.826 --> 00:18:39.228
  • I'm gonna give you five words of grace
  • 00:18:39.228 --> 00:18:40.963
  • For you to use.
  • 00:18:40.963 --> 00:18:42.297
  • Every time there's a battle, there's a difficulty,
  • 00:18:42.297 --> 00:18:43.832
  • Say this under your breath.
  • 00:18:43.832 --> 00:18:45.167
  • Look at the problem and say this under your breath, okay?
  • 00:18:45.167 --> 00:18:49.304
  • Before i give it to you, let me show you a story,
  • 00:18:49.304 --> 00:18:51.540
  • A very famous story, that happened in israel.
  • 00:18:51.540 --> 00:18:55.077
  • You still can go to that place, that valley there,
  • 00:18:55.077 --> 00:18:57.646
  • And still imagine because the valley is
  • 00:18:57.646 --> 00:19:00.048
  • Almost unchanged--all right?-- the topography and all that.
  • 00:19:00.048 --> 00:19:03.919
  • 1 samuel 17, "when the philistine
  • 00:19:03.919 --> 00:19:05.887
  • Looked about and saw david--"
  • 00:19:05.887 --> 00:19:08.156
  • The goliath has been standing there,
  • 00:19:08.156 --> 00:19:09.491
  • Challenging the people of israel
  • 00:19:09.491 --> 00:19:11.126
  • To challeng--to fight him.
  • 00:19:11.126 --> 00:19:12.894
  • For 40 days, he's been standing there.
  • 00:19:12.894 --> 00:19:14.529
  • No one dared to fight this 10-footer.
  • 00:19:14.529 --> 00:19:16.798
  • Some say about 9 to 11, 12 feet.
  • 00:19:16.798 --> 00:19:19.601
  • We're not sure, but he's one of the giants.
  • 00:19:19.601 --> 00:19:22.070
  • And he was ugly. he was mean.
  • 00:19:22.070 --> 00:19:23.405
  • In those days--all right?--
  • 00:19:23.405 --> 00:19:24.873
  • They are very, you know, their faces are all,
  • 00:19:24.873 --> 00:19:27.542
  • Like, scars and all that.
  • 00:19:27.542 --> 00:19:28.977
  • So when he disdained david--
  • 00:19:28.977 --> 00:19:30.312
  • "when he saw david, he despised david
  • 00:19:30.312 --> 00:19:31.947
  • Because david was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking."
  • 00:19:31.947 --> 00:19:35.684
  • So you're not supposed to be good-looking in the army.
  • 00:19:35.684 --> 00:19:37.853
  • You're supposed to have a scar down here--you know?--
  • 00:19:37.853 --> 00:19:40.422
  • All that kind of thing.
  • 00:19:40.422 --> 00:19:41.757
  • So when he looked at david, he saw--like pastor lawrence--
  • 00:19:41.757 --> 00:19:43.759
  • He'd say that "this guy is not a army guy.
  • 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:47.029
  • I don't know what this guy is but--" say thank you.
  • 00:19:47.029 --> 00:19:54.670
  • You know what? i live by faith, you know?
  • 00:19:54.670 --> 00:19:56.238
  • I'm calling it by faith. it's all by faith, brother.
  • 00:19:56.238 --> 00:19:59.341
  • I'm not moving by what's visible.
  • 00:19:59.341 --> 00:20:01.777
  • No, i love pastor lawrence.
  • 00:20:01.777 --> 00:20:03.111
  • I think he's a real good-looking guy.
  • 00:20:03.111 --> 00:20:04.446
  • Praise god. look at david.
  • 00:20:04.446 --> 00:20:08.650
  • Look at the beautiful girl beside him.
  • 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:10.152
  • That's his wife. so, okay, enough of him.
  • 00:20:10.152 --> 00:20:13.689
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:20:13.689 --> 00:20:16.425
  • "a youth, ruddy and good-looking."
  • 00:20:16.425 --> 00:20:19.594
  • I want to tell all the young people here.
  • 00:20:19.594 --> 00:20:20.929
  • Young people here, listen.
  • 00:20:20.929 --> 00:20:22.264
  • I've studied the bible throughout.
  • 00:20:22.264 --> 00:20:23.665
  • Okay, i'm gonna tell you something.
  • 00:20:23.665 --> 00:20:25.534
  • The bible is full of this.
  • 00:20:25.534 --> 00:20:26.902
  • Now, if god wants to discourage us,
  • 00:20:26.902 --> 00:20:28.570
  • If god doesn't want us to believe for this,
  • 00:20:28.570 --> 00:20:30.672
  • Why is it when it comes to david,
  • 00:20:30.672 --> 00:20:32.607
  • It comes to joseph, it comes to absalom,
  • 00:20:32.607 --> 00:20:34.743
  • It comes to the people of god,
  • 00:20:34.743 --> 00:20:36.345
  • You always find god saying that they are good-looking?
  • 00:20:36.345 --> 00:20:39.181
  • When it comes to their wives-- rebecca, rachel, and others--
  • 00:20:39.181 --> 00:20:41.783
  • It always says they are good-looking.
  • 00:20:41.783 --> 00:20:43.518
  • If they are not good-looking, they become good-looking, amen.
  • 00:20:43.518 --> 00:20:47.055
  • What god is saying is this-- and i've seen it in our church.
  • 00:20:47.055 --> 00:20:49.524
  • I've seen people who, when they came,
  • 00:20:49.524 --> 00:20:51.326
  • They were not good-looking.
  • 00:20:51.326 --> 00:20:52.661
  • But as time goes on, they become really good-looking, amen?
  • 00:20:52.661 --> 00:20:56.164
  • So one of the possessions you need to possess this year--
  • 00:20:56.164 --> 00:20:59.768
  • All right?-- is possess this, amen:
  • 00:20:59.768 --> 00:21:02.704
  • God's people are good-looking, amen?
  • 00:21:02.704 --> 00:21:04.139
  • Not like a philistine. praise god.
  • 00:21:04.139 --> 00:21:05.741
  • You might come in looking like a philistine,
  • 00:21:05.741 --> 00:21:07.876
  • But you will leave looking like a david.
  • 00:21:07.876 --> 00:21:09.478
  • Praise god.
  • 00:21:09.478 --> 00:21:11.513
  • "and david was only a youth-- youth, ruddy and good-looking.
  • 00:21:11.513 --> 00:21:18.019
  • So the philistine said to david,
  • 00:21:18.019 --> 00:21:19.388
  • 'am i a dog, that you come to me with sticks?'
  • 00:21:19.388 --> 00:21:23.392
  • And the philistine cursed david by his gods.
  • 00:21:23.392 --> 00:21:25.861
  • And the philistine said to david,
  • 00:21:25.861 --> 00:21:27.195
  • 'come to me, come to me,
  • 00:21:27.195 --> 00:21:28.530
  • I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air
  • 00:21:28.530 --> 00:21:29.865
  • And the beasts of the field!'
  • 00:21:29.865 --> 00:21:31.266
  • David said to the philistine,
  • 00:21:31.266 --> 00:21:32.601
  • 'you come to me with visible sword, with a visible spear,
  • 00:21:32.601 --> 00:21:37.205
  • And a visible javelin.'"
  • 00:21:37.205 --> 00:21:40.008
  • Today, we will say missile, bombs, rockets.
  • 00:21:40.008 --> 00:21:44.112
  • "'but i come to you in the name of the lord of hosts,'"
  • 00:21:44.112 --> 00:21:46.548
  • Invisible god who is eternal,
  • 00:21:46.548 --> 00:21:48.784
  • "'the god of the armies of israel, whom you defied!'"
  • 00:21:48.784 --> 00:21:52.354
  • Next, "'this day the lord will deliver you into my hand,
  • 00:21:52.354 --> 00:21:55.190
  • And i will strike you and take your head from you.
  • 00:21:55.190 --> 00:21:57.759
  • And this day i'll give the carcasses of the camp
  • 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:59.694
  • Of the philistines to the birds of the air,
  • 00:21:59.694 --> 00:22:01.663
  • To the wild beasts of the earth,
  • 00:22:01.663 --> 00:22:03.165
  • That all the earth may know there is a god in israel.'"
  • 00:22:03.165 --> 00:22:06.435
  • Next, "'then all this assembly shall know that the lord
  • 00:22:06.435 --> 00:22:09.538
  • Does not save,'" with what is visible,
  • 00:22:09.538 --> 00:22:11.640
  • "'with sword and spear; for the battle is the lord's,
  • 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:15.777
  • And he will give you into our hands.'"
  • 00:22:15.777 --> 00:22:18.113
  • Right now--memorize this--
  • 00:22:18.113 --> 00:22:20.749
  • Learn to mutter this when you are in--
  • 00:22:20.749 --> 00:22:24.186
  • Before your difficulty,
  • 00:22:24.186 --> 00:22:25.520
  • Learn to say this under your breath:
  • 00:22:25.520 --> 00:22:26.855
  • "the battle is the lord's.
  • 00:22:26.855 --> 00:22:29.291
  • It's not mine.
  • 00:22:29.291 --> 00:22:30.992
  • It's not mine," amen, amen. are you listening?
  • 00:22:30.992 --> 00:22:34.262
  • "but, pastor prince, my teenage girl
  • 00:22:34.262 --> 00:22:36.264
  • Is mixing around with bad company."
  • 00:22:36.264 --> 00:22:38.033
  • You feel it's your battle. it's not your battle.
  • 00:22:38.033 --> 00:22:39.901
  • Don't touch it. it's--the battle is the lord's.
  • 00:22:39.901 --> 00:22:42.070
  • Just like the tithe. the tithe is the lord's.
  • 00:22:42.070 --> 00:22:44.105
  • Don't touch it. it belongs to him.
  • 00:22:44.105 --> 00:22:45.740
  • Same way, the battle is not yours to touch, amen.
  • 00:22:45.740 --> 00:22:49.177
  • Your arm is not too great.
  • 00:22:49.177 --> 00:22:52.013
  • Your sight is not that far-reaching, amen?
  • 00:22:52.013 --> 00:22:55.283
  • God is stronger. god is greater.
  • 00:22:55.283 --> 00:22:58.019
  • God loves you more than you love yourself.
  • 00:22:58.019 --> 00:22:59.654
  • He loves your teenage daughter more than you can love her.
  • 00:22:59.654 --> 00:23:01.890
  • God is saying, "don't touch the battle!
  • 00:23:01.890 --> 00:23:03.458
  • It's mine."
  • 00:23:03.458 --> 00:23:04.960
  • The battle is the lord's.
  • 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:06.328
  • "but, pastor prince, david still went to meet the--"
  • 00:23:06.328 --> 00:23:08.797
  • Yeah, but how did he go?
  • 00:23:08.797 --> 00:23:10.131
  • Dressed in an armor? no, dressed as a shepherd boy.
  • 00:23:10.131 --> 00:23:12.934
  • With a sword? no, with a sling!
  • 00:23:12.934 --> 00:23:16.671
  • So, obviously, he believes "this battle is not mine.
  • 00:23:16.671 --> 00:23:19.641
  • The battle is the lord's."
  • 00:23:19.641 --> 00:23:21.309
  • So learn to look at your problems now,
  • 00:23:21.309 --> 00:23:23.178
  • And the devil will say,
  • 00:23:23.178 --> 00:23:24.513
  • "what are you going to do about it?"
  • 00:23:24.513 --> 00:23:25.847
  • Say, "the battle is not mine. it is the lord's.
  • 00:23:25.847 --> 00:23:27.182
  • Lord, this is your battle. lord, this is your battle.
  • 00:23:27.182 --> 00:23:29.651
  • Lord, this is your battle."
  • 00:23:29.651 --> 00:23:30.986
  • Throughout this year, "lord, this is your battle."
  • 00:23:30.986 --> 00:23:33.655
  • Now, sometimes it won't be as quick as david's victory,
  • 00:23:33.655 --> 00:23:36.892
  • But the lord is hearing what you're saying.
  • 00:23:36.892 --> 00:23:40.028
  • And the lord loves it. his arms are bigger than yours.
  • 00:23:40.028 --> 00:23:43.832
  • Lord, this is your battle. the battle is the lord's.
  • 00:23:43.832 --> 00:23:48.069
  • Your five words of grace this year, amen?
  • 00:23:48.069 --> 00:23:52.774
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:52.774 --> 00:23:55.610
  • Announcer: pastor joseph prince
  • 00:23:55.610 --> 00:23:56.945
  • Will return in a moment, with a special prayer
  • 00:23:56.945 --> 00:23:58.980
  • To close today's program, right after this.
  • 00:23:58.980 --> 00:24:00.815
  • Announcer: if today's program has blessed you
  • 00:24:01.883 --> 00:24:03.818
  • And you want to learn how to stay grounded in the lord
  • 00:24:03.818 --> 00:24:05.754
  • Through life's challenges,
  • 00:24:05.754 --> 00:24:07.455
  • Request joseph's book "anchored,"
  • 00:24:07.455 --> 00:24:09.858
  • Yours for a gift of any amount to the ministry.
  • 00:24:09.858 --> 00:24:12.894
  • Call or text the number on your screen right now,
  • 00:24:12.894 --> 00:24:15.397
  • Or visit our website today to get started.
  • 00:24:15.397 --> 00:24:18.500
  • Joseph prince: as you read "anchored,"
  • 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:19.968
  • I believe that you'll find the peace and stability
  • 00:24:19.968 --> 00:24:22.737
  • That you've been searching for in our lord jesus.
  • 00:24:22.737 --> 00:24:26.007
  • God bless you.
  • 00:24:26.007 --> 00:24:28.009
  • Announcer: and now a closing word
  • 00:24:28.009 --> 00:24:29.444
  • From pastor joseph prince.
  • 00:24:29.444 --> 00:24:31.379
  • Joseph prince: god who knows the beginning from the end
  • 00:24:31.379 --> 00:24:34.049
  • And the end from the beginning,
  • 00:24:34.049 --> 00:24:36.151
  • God, who knows all the months of this year
  • 00:24:36.151 --> 00:24:39.721
  • And the weeks and the days;
  • 00:24:39.721 --> 00:24:42.023
  • God, who knows all the devices of the enemy
  • 00:24:42.023 --> 00:24:45.560
  • That he has prepared to ensnare you, to stumble you--
  • 00:24:45.560 --> 00:24:50.165
  • This same god keeps you and protects you,
  • 00:24:50.165 --> 00:24:55.270
  • Keeps you from all evil, protects you and your loved ones
  • 00:24:55.270 --> 00:25:00.442
  • From every danger, harm, accident, tragedy,
  • 00:25:00.442 --> 00:25:05.847
  • From the powers of darkness, from terror,
  • 00:25:05.847 --> 00:25:09.084
  • And from the power of the evil one.
  • 00:25:09.084 --> 00:25:11.286
  • This wonderful god who kept the children of israel
  • 00:25:11.286 --> 00:25:14.723
  • Throughout the wilderness,
  • 00:25:14.723 --> 00:25:16.524
  • Who brought them into the promised land,
  • 00:25:16.524 --> 00:25:18.159
  • Who defeated their enemies, defeat all your enemies.
  • 00:25:18.159 --> 00:25:21.930
  • The battle is his.
  • 00:25:21.930 --> 00:25:23.698
  • Today, father, we make a commitment to you
  • 00:25:23.698 --> 00:25:25.800
  • That whatever troubles comes our way, lord,
  • 00:25:25.800 --> 00:25:28.203
  • We'll see it as your battle.
  • 00:25:28.203 --> 00:25:30.739
  • Hands off. it's your battle, not ours.
  • 00:25:30.739 --> 00:25:34.576
  • Thank you, father god, in jesus's name.
  • 00:25:34.576 --> 00:25:37.112
  • And all the people said amen. love you.
  • 00:25:37.112 --> 00:25:39.748
  • Thank you for coming. see you guys again.
  • 00:25:39.748 --> 00:25:42.617
  • Female announcer: thank you for watching today's program.
  • 00:25:42.684 --> 00:25:44.886
  • If you are new to the gospel of grace,
  • 00:25:44.886 --> 00:25:46.888
  • Pastor joseph prince would like to send you a copy of his book
  • 00:25:46.888 --> 00:25:50.158
  • "destined to reign" to help you get started.
  • 00:25:50.158 --> 00:25:52.360
  • It's yours absolutely free just by contacting us today.
  • 00:25:52.360 --> 00:25:55.930
  • Offer is available to u.s. residents
  • 00:25:55.930 --> 00:25:57.866
  • While stocks last.
  • 00:25:57.866 --> 00:25:59.200
  • Just pay shipping and handling.
  • 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:01.102
  • Joseph prince: i wanna take a moment to thank
  • 00:26:01.102 --> 00:26:02.604
  • A very special group of people: grace legacy builders.
  • 00:26:02.604 --> 00:26:07.509
  • You know who you are.
  • 00:26:07.509 --> 00:26:08.977
  • You are the ones who make this possible.
  • 00:26:08.977 --> 00:26:11.279
  • Because of your generosity, lives are changed,
  • 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.449
  • Bondages broken, and families set free
  • 00:26:14.449 --> 00:26:17.385
  • From decades of wrong belief.
  • 00:26:17.385 --> 00:26:19.921
  • Every praise report we receive-- and we get many every day--
  • 00:26:19.921 --> 00:26:23.391
  • Is a testimony of god's grace and a testament
  • 00:26:23.391 --> 00:26:26.327
  • Of your faithful support of our ministry.
  • 00:26:26.327 --> 00:26:29.197
  • Thank you for making a real difference
  • 00:26:29.197 --> 00:26:31.933
  • In the lives of so many.
  • 00:26:31.933 --> 00:26:33.401
  • God bless you greatly.
  • 00:26:33.401 --> 00:26:35.637
  • Announcer: be a grace legacy builder today.
  • 00:26:35.637 --> 00:26:38.106
  • Your giving powers our ability to keep sending
  • 00:26:38.106 --> 00:26:40.375
  • The gospel of grace to the world.
  • 00:26:40.375 --> 00:26:42.410
  • Call 888-847-8831
  • 00:26:42.410 --> 00:26:45.747
  • Or visit josephprince.org to start building.
  • 00:26:45.747 --> 00:26:49.117
  • Male announcer: thank you for being with us today.
  • 00:26:51.252 --> 00:26:53.088
  • Join pastor joseph prince next time
  • 00:26:53.088 --> 00:26:55.090
  • For a fresh word from the lord.
  • 00:26:55.090 --> 00:26:57.459
  • Announcer: joseph prince ministries
  • 00:26:57.459 --> 00:26:58.927
  • Is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,
  • 00:26:58.927 --> 00:27:02.297
  • And your gift is tax-deductible
  • 00:27:02.297 --> 00:27:04.165
  • For the amount that exceeds any fair market value
  • 00:27:04.165 --> 00:27:06.634
  • Of the materials you receive from us.
  • 00:27:06.634 --> 00:27:08.870
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:27:08.870 --> 00:27:08.870