I want to start off by sharing a wonderful testimony
that just came in.
And this is a sister in our church and she's sharing about
how faithful God is during this time.
You know, we hear in the news about people being retrenched
and people losing their jobs and a lot of people are
not even sure whether they will hold onto their jobs
in the coming months.
So this is a word that I want you to receive
deep into your spirit.
You are in the world, but you're not of the world,
child of God.
This sister shares: “A month ago, my daughter
was retrenched from her job.”
“My husband had also been informed earlier this year”
“that the company he was working in”
“would be shut down.”
“I am also jobless due to a lower back injury.”
So everybody seems to be out of a job.
“Things seemed bleak and I worried about how”
“we were going to pay our bills.”
“I have been listening to Pastor Prince’s sermons”
“which always remind me to focus on the person of Jesus”
“and what He did for me at the cross.”
“The sermons also encourage me to believe and receive”
“the supply of His grace.”
“So, I continued to pray and give praise to the Lord,”
“replacing my worries with peaceful thoughts.”
“One day, I came across Pastor Prince’s sermon”
“on praying in tongues and I listened to it.”
“That day, I received the gift of praying in the Spirit”
“and I began to pray in tongues, and felt peaceful”
“despite my circumstances.”
“Then, I listened to another sermon on the”
“anointing oil and I went on to pray and anoint my”
“daughter’s pillow, desk,” Remember her daughter
was retrenched?
“I began to anoint my daughter’s pillow, desk,"
"and the door of her room.”
“Even though she was out of a job,”
“she remained joyful and was subsequently blessed”
“with a number of interviews.”
“Before the month ended, my daughter was offered a job!”
Praise God!
“My daughter is now back to work.”
“I know it is because of God’s grace”
"that she was offered a job in the midst of this pandemic.”
“Not only that, I also received healing for my lower back”
“and I am able to get out of bed without any issues.”
“My husband’s company told him that they would work out”
“a new arrangement for him based on commissions,”
“and he would not be out of a job!”
“All praise and glory to the Lord!”
Hallelujah!
Isn't God good?
And what God did for them, God can do for you.
Amen.
He is doing for you, in fact.
Praise the Lord.
Grace is also defined as God working.
In other words, I am resting
and God is working.
Amen.
Many years ago, God said to me:
“When you rest, God works.”
“When you work, God rests.”
When the spirit of God said these words to me,
I never heard anyone preach on this.
It was like, wow.
You know, the things of God are so simple
but so powerful, and so profound.
And I wrote it down and I remember that
everywhere I saw in the Scriptures then,
it seems like even for Moses at the Red Sea—
God told him: “Stand still.”
And how can you stand still
when behind you are the armies of Egypt?
Amen.
And they are getting closer and closer and they're
coming to destroy you and your people.
And in front of you is the Red Sea.
Talk about being caught in a hard place.
Amen.
Between a rock and a hard place.
And you are stuck in the middle.
And he looked out at the foreboding Red Sea
in front of him and he looked behind
and there's the marauding armies of Egypt.
And God said to him: “Stand still and see"
"the salvation of the Lord.”
That's the hardest thing.
It is not human nature.
It is not our nature.
It's not natural to do that.
Amen.
But if you can just stop— and literally,
in the Hebrew, it is to “stand still and see Yeshua.”
See Jesus— the salvation of the Lord.
Amen.
And God opened up the sea.
Likewise, in 2 Chronicles 20, the same thing
happened with King Jehoshaphat.
God told him: “Stand still and see the"
"salvation of the Lord.”
It came through a prophet.
“You need not fight in this battle.”
“Stand still.”
“Position yourself.”
Amen.
And that's what King Jehoshaphat did.
He sent praisers and worshipers at the front line
and their song was to praise the beauty of holiness.
“Praise the Lord, for He is good.”
“For His mercy endures forever.”
Praise the Lord!
Ki-tov.
Amen.
Hodu la-donai ki-tov, ki le’olam chasdo.
Which means: “Praise the Lord, for He is good.”
“For His mercy endures forever.”
And the Bible says the Lord set ambushments
against the enemies and they started
destroying one another.
Amen.
And Jehoshaphat and his men, all the people of Israel,
went into the valley and that valley of trouble,
that valley of difficulty.
And I'm praying for you as well.
That valley of warfare became the valley—
in the Hebrews, it says it is the Valley of Baracah.
Until today in Israel, it is still called the Valley of Baracah.
“Baracah” means “blessing.”
Amen.
“Baracah.”
So the Valley of Baracah.
And it took three days collecting all the spoils!
I pray in Jesus’ name.
that you and your families will live in the Valley of Baracah.
And your song praises the beauty of holiness.
And I shared last week that we think of holiness
as something apart from grace.
But God thinks of—in fact, the beauty of holiness
is seen in grace.
Amen.
Their song was to praise the beauty of holiness
and the words are: “Praise the Lord,"
"For His grace endures forever.”
"Hesed".
“Hesed”.
Today, in the New Testament
in Hebrew in Israel— If you go to Israel
and you asked your messianic believers to look up
the word “grace” in the New Testament,
theirs is in Hebrew.
Everywhere this word appears, it says “hesed”.
And that's what they say when they praise the Lord.
“Praise the Lord.”
Amen.
“His ‘hesed’ endures forever.”
And God gave them a victory, such a victory that
it took them three days to collect all the
spoils of the war in the Valley of Blessing.
So we need to see what God is doing.
Not so much about what the devil is doing.
In fact, I always say that if you do not know
what God is doing, then you can take a look
at what the devil is doing.
Because what the devil is doing is so obvious and so visible
and so, you know, tangible that we miss—
we are not people of the flesh.
We are not people going by our five senses.
We walk by faith and not by sight.
Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
So God's ways are ways of faith.
Amen.
So we are people that should know what
God is doing in the Spirit.
But what I said was that, if you can't tell
what God is doing in the Spirit, see what the devil is doing
and then reverse it and you will know
what God is doing.
Just like when Jesus was born, it was a silent night.
It was a holy night.
Amen.
Only in one locality did the angels fill the sky.
But notice that the angels did not wake up
all the inhabitants of and the dwellers of Bethlehem.
They slept on.
It was to the shepherds that they appeared
in the night sky, saying: “Glory to God in the highest,”
“and on earth peace, good will to men.”
But the world was oblivious.
Amen. But the world knew.
The world knew.
When the world then— I'm referring to Bethlehem
and all the vicinities of Bethlehem— knew when King Herod
had all the babies under two years old killed
because he was afraid.
He heard the news that a king was born
and he was afraid of this king, that he would
take his place and all that.
He had all the babies killed under the age
of two years old.
And that was visible.
The cries of the mothers were audible.
It was a carnage that was very obvious to the senses.
Amen.
But do you know something, friend?
That's what the devil did!
The devil was playing catch up
because the devil was afraid.
Because God had birthed something.
Something powerful, something that would
redeem us— this lost humanity.
Something that will bring the gift of
God's grace and love to this world.
This world that is dying, crying and sighing
ever since Adam sinned.
Amen.
We live in a fallen world.
But God gave His Son.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His Son,”
“so that whoever who believes in Him”
“shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
And yet, the world wasn't aware.
The world then, wasn't aware that
a champion was born.
If you want to know what God is doing,
see what the devil is attacking you—
the areas that he's attacking you in.
If he is attacking your body, that means God is probably
bringing you to greater health.
Amen.
He's dealing with the health in your body.
Amen.
He doesn't want you to stay stagnant
in that level of health.
Amen.
He's bringing you to a higher place.
But instead, right now, if I tell you that,
you would say: “Pastor Prince, well you could"
"have fooled me, man!"
"Because I'm having all kinds of symptoms"
"in my body and all that.”
No, friend!
It is because God is bringing you to a
new level of wholeness.
Amen.
Your best days are yet ahead of you.
Praise God!
God is renewing your youth like the eagles.
You may advance in years, but not grow old.
Amen Praise God.
So you see if he is attacking you
in your finances, you know,
that there’s a breakthrough.
I was going to say it is coming.
But actually, God has done it already.
Amen.
You'll see the manifestation in the days ahead.
Amen.