I just wanted to share a little about the devotional for today. It has become increasingly obvious to me that Christians suffer because they to not make a conscious effort to renew their minds with the word of God. I have subscribed to a number of marketing mailing lists (almost too many to count), but lately I have been unsubscribing from them and searching for Truth. There are few really good newsletters. I feel like The One Thing - Daily Devotional from Joseph Prince Ministries is one of them. I wanted to share something too. I subscribed to this newsletter four different times. There was an error the first three times. I thought that maybe the newsletter wasn't being sent anymore. That just goes to show how valuable it is. I had to fight to get on this mailing list.
I believe the "one thing" that is needful is to behold the Master Jesus, trusting in His finished work. I have written a little about God being outside of time, but I did not consider what that means for us. God is both outside of time and space. These are His creations. So if we are in Him we can experience miracles that are not possible inside of time and space. This is why we experience miracles when we touch Him in worship, and this is why we are healed when we just believe it was done (It is finished).
The part of the devotional that spoke to me today was Pastor Prince's story about his depression as a young lad. He said that he thought that he was possessed, but it turns out that he was being oppressed by Satan because of the calling on his life. God connected Joseph with one of His ministers, and that minister prophesied to him that he would be preaching to thousands and impacting thousands of lives.
What does that mean for you? It means that you need to acknowledge God's power and His plan for your life. It might be the dream in your heart or God might send someone to tell you His plan, but your current circumstances are nothing, even if they seem good, compared to all that God has planned for you.
Friday, October 23, 2009
The One Thing - Daily Devotional From Joseph Prince Ministries
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Bride and The Bridegroom
I've been getting up early to hear Joseph Prince on the ABC network. It's funny that I really needed to begin with God and end with God to be able to focus. My sleep. If I decide to sleep is sweet knowing that I have gotten a little bit of His word and a better understanding of Him.
From the first letter of bride and the first letter of bridegroom in Hebrew one gets the word for "power" KOACH (from the Hebrew word "כח", meaning "strength")
Joseph Prince elaborated on the fact that marriage was the beginning of two agreeing on earth. He was telling the story of Isaac in Gen 26. How he had lied concerning his wife in saying that she was his sister. Then he pointed out that after the lie was brought to light and their relationship made right that he sowed and reaped one hundred-fold in the time of FAMINE. We can look to God in this time of famine. The basis of his argument was when they were in agreement they had the power to get wealth.
Prince explained the completeness of a marriage covenant and how two people together on a mission for God cannot be stopped. "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 18:19)
Deut. 8:18
18But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
The word power in the previous verse is KOACH in Hebrew. It is made up of the symbols for the bride and the bridegroom. He used it to explain the beauty of a man receiving his help through his wife. I understood it in the larger sense of Jesus (The Bridegroom) and the Church (The Bride). When we are united; we are unstoppable. Desperate poverty results after people forget God.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Romans 5:17
Excerpt from: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 5:17
Through the grace of God, the gift by grace has abounded to many through Christ; yet multitudes choose to remain under the dominion of sin and death, rather than to apply for the blessings of the reign of grace. But Christ will in nowise cast out any who are willing to come to him. | |
This message has been kicking down many doors to get to me, and I see it now and I am in awe of God. This is a commentary on the central Scripture of Joseph Prince Ministries. Sin reigned, but now righteousness reigns, and those in Christ have overcome the world. Amazing, we are so often taken back to the law and reminded of our sins, but verses prior reveal that the law was to show the need for grace and grace to take the place of the law. You must choose the law and death or grace and life. You must choose to look on the brazen serpent and live or let sin and judgment destroy you (Numbers 21:4-9). Leia Mais…
