Joseph Prince - Own Your Calling and Portion (01/21/2026)
Pastor Prince returned refreshed from a personal retreat the Lord told him to take every year, to spend deep time alone with God and read. He explained how ministers burn out without such times of replenishment, then used David's story—coming fresh from God's presence to defeat Goliath—to show that we must stay more conscious of God's greatness than our problems. The message closed with a strong prophetic word on faith, fruitfulness, and overcoming spiritual attacks on conception in these last days.
Returning Home Refreshed
It is good to be home after being away for so long. In case you are wondering where I was, I was not sick, all right? I did not go somewhere because I needed to get things right or whatever. No, nothing like that. It is something the Lord told me last year during my sabbatical: that every year He wants me to go off on my own for a personal retreat where He wants me to catch up on all the reading that I need to do, spending time with Him. Because just being with all of you is a lot of work. And not only that, my responsibilities at home with my family—to make sure that they do not live normal lives like my children. They realize that, and they pay the price of it sometimes. And when people are enjoying themselves, the Father is not there on the day that is most favorable for them, which is Sunday, probably a family day as well. But all the pastors here, their kids have learned to accept that. And so pray for us. Amen.
The Danger of Running on Empty
So God said to me last year to take the sabbatical. And for this reason, the Lord says many ministers do not have that longevity either. They work themselves to exhaustion caring for people, nonetheless pastoring and doing that work, but they get burnt out. And then when it is like your petrol gauge—there is F here and there is empty, right? F means full, and it is going down, down, down. And they do not realize that emotionally they are going down; they are running on empty. And that is when you see them doing things that you do not expect. “How can he do that?” But anyone can do that when they are running on empty. And you know, when you are empty, you have not spent time with the Lord; you have not received some word that feeds you, strengthens you for that day. You have not done your quiet time. Especially then you realize that your wife is the first person that will detect that something is wrong, right? You are a little bit short. You might say the right things, but it is the way you say it. Amen.
The Sensitivity in Marriage
In marriage, many times it is the way you say it. It is not so much what you say; it is the way you say it. And our wives are very sensitive to the way we say it. Okay? Okay? Okay? Yeah? Yes? Okay, I will do what you say, Lord. Right? You detect the unhappiness in it. Amen. So our wives can pick that up, and our journey is still a journey. Well, at first I must learn to say the right thing, right? Pastor Lawrence taught me that: when the wife is wrong and you are right, keep quiet, right? She is going to be right for you. But when she is right and you are wrong, be very loud about your wrong. Right? Do not get angry at me—it is from him. And he is sitting right in front here. Do you not just love our pastor? Amen.
Catching Up on Reading and Time Alone
So in spending time with the Lord, I endeavor to be alone. I try to catch up on all my reading. You see, my bag is so full of my books; I have to transport them back by shipment because I bought some more books. And I love to go to those old bookstores and look up some books that are out of print—things like that. Most of them are just study books, and I just love to read. I was telling my daughter the other day—my daughter Jessica—I was saying that my mom, who is now with the Lord, she used to nag at me about studying hard. “Please study. I do not see you studying during my school days.” And now I have got a whole library of study, and I love studying. I love studying things I did not like to study. I love studying about words. I love studying about the etymology of words. It is just something that—so I would smile and think about my mom. If my mom could see me before she left to be with the Lord—of course she saw me studying and all that. But it is like the things that you worry about your kids now—do not worry; do not live in the future now.
Living in the Present
So Jesus says, “Do not worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have enough trouble of its own.” But just like His grace and His manna comes one day at a time, He says live now. Live now. Have you realized that those moments that you have with your children, with your spouse—they are now memories? And you thought that they will be like, “Oh, I remember that particular holiday we were together,” because nowadays holidays are far in between, right? By the way, just to let you know that my family was not with me during this time. It was because of Justin's PSLE and all that. They were here in Singapore, and she was also ministering at the youth camp—the different youth camps that we had. And she was there; Justin was there to assist her and to assist all the speakers as props. You probably might have seen him in the picture just now. And he loved it. He loved it. His taste of camp—this is the first time he has his taste of camp. Next year he is going to attend camp, right? One year away.
Missing Family and Church
So they were here, and I was alone, but I miss them so much, and I miss the church so much. All right. So I love the Lord. I love spending time with the Lord. I love being away from everything, but I have come back full. Okay? In case you are wondering where I was—just a bit of explanation why. This is family. Amen. This is family. No, no, no, no—moral failure? By the grace of God, no. And no disease—by the grace of God. I did not go for an operation. No, no, no. Face lift? No, no, no. Even though we know that Pastor Mark needs it, but no, no, no—we do not. Okay? So I was away just to be. And I exercised a lot. I tried my best to also exercise a lot, which I do not get often when I am here. So of course within means, but my focus is just to be with the Lord. And the Lord said some things about you all. I do not want to tell you yet. I do not want to tell you yet.
A Past Encounter in Korea
Many years ago, when just before I got married—and that was in the early nineties—I was a young pastor, very young pastor. And I remember going to South Korea because the largest church in the world was there, which at that time now is David Yonggi Cho. But the late David Yonggi—back then he was called Paul Yonggi Cho. His church was the largest church in the world. So I felt I always wanted to visit the church. So I went there at a low peak. They were not having anything special or conference; I was just there. And I remember that they had prayer grottos in the prayer mountain—prayer grottos, small, small little caves where you can go in and spend as long as you want. So I thought of doing that, and I remember going into one of those grottos and I just prayed. And I remember looking at all the candles that were all worn out from a previous person who was there. And I brought in my own light, and I was praying, and I expected to be there for a long time. I expected it to be for hours because I was just visiting. Okay?
God Speaking About the Future
But after—I forgot—one hour, one hour plus, I felt the Lord speak to me. And back then our church was a few hundred people, but He said something about our church, and He spoke like 20 years ahead. And everything that He said about our church has now come to pass. For the reasons that I do not want to say the things I want to say in case people feel slighted or they say, “Oh, you are trying to say this.” And no, I will not tell you the whole thing that He said. But everything I see now—I am not surprised what I see in the church, what I see in the ministry. My ministry, of course—when He said it to me, I said, “You cannot be right. I am not a good speaker. I was a stammerer. I do not think…” And what He showed about this church and how you will just explode and what He is going to do through this church—I did not believe also as fully as I should, although I knew the Lord was speaking to me. I felt like Zechariah—good thing He did not strike me down—but it was clearly His voice. And my attitude was this: if it is God, it will happen. If it is God, it will happen.
Prophecies Confirmed
And at that time we were about 200 people, and boy, has it happened. It has happened. And there are other things that He said that are now happening. Amen. Of course there were prophecies from men of God that came through Singapore. I remember when Reinhard Bonnke was preaching at the national stadium, and he would send his intercessor—Susan, I think her name was—and I remember her looking at a crowd of pastors and leaders. At that time I was just one of those participating pastors among the crowd. Many of those pastors that were involved as committee members of the rally were standing; I was sitting in front, but she caught me out at the time. And our church again was only a few hundred people. And she says, “God is going to use you in this way and that way and that way. God is going to use you.” And of course you all know about Paul Cain the prophet—his calling, ministry as a prophet—and he prophesied openly, not to me as a participating pastor who was sitting down there, but up there among the others who were just members of the church or different members of different churches here in Singapore.
Part of God's Dream for Singapore
So I know that you are all part of God's dream. When God selected Singapore in His sovereign grace—Singapore was just a jungle-like place. Is it not like God to choose things that are weak and small to confound things that are mighty—things that seem insignificant to put to naught things that are great, like Goliath? The more I think about Goliath, I think about the giant and how the one that should fight him is the one who is head and shoulders above everyone in Israel. Who was that? King Saul. The Bible says he was head and shoulders above every leader in Israel. He should be the one out there fighting Goliath, right? Next to him was his son, who was also a warrior. And since he was an up-and-coming king standing in line, he should be the next one. He did not go down; neither did the commander-in-chief Joab. He did not go down to fight. It was an insignificant, seemingly insignificant shepherd boy around 17 years old—a boy who was keeping sheep—who had a secret.
The Secret of Time with God
His secret was that he was taught in the school of God when no one saw him. No one paid attention. And you might think that no one is looking, but time with God is never wasted time. You know, when you spend time with God—whether it is in the Word of God or in prayer—that time cannot be used like you said, “Oh, today I got so many things to do this week. I do not know—I want to continue my gym, or I want to continue doing this work that I am doing, or this extra thing that I am doing, or whatever.” You say that because when I do those things, I do not have time this week. But when you spend time in prayer or in the Word with the Lord, whatever time—somehow either it is extended or it is multiplied back to you in the days to come. Amen. It is never wasted time waiting on the Lord. And you wait—something is going to happen—wait until He has come.
Waiting on the Lord
I am not talking about normal prayer, but you just go to the Father and all that. I am talking about waiting on the Lord: doing nothing, saying nothing—most of the time saying nothing. Just sensing His presence and then let Him come when He comes. And I am telling you, your life will be changed, and sometimes you will hear that still small voice speaking to you. Amen. So we are creatures of action. We are always in a hurry. There is a hurry sickness, and this hurry sickness in modern society now all over the world—they are paying the cost. We have heart troubles, high blood pressure, mental health issues. We are not created to go at cheetah speed. We are created by God to go at camel speed. Have you seen a camel? Relax. Relax. Take my own sweet time. I know there is no provision; water is not in sight, but it is all within. I got my supply within—so cool. And it just goes on.
God's Rhythm of Grace
But we are moving at cheetah speed. I think when we were young, right? In our age, we always laugh. We kind of like cars—fast cars, right? Right? Not so much bicycles. We are like anything fast. But God's pace is always the rhythm of grace. You follow His rhythm; your heart will beat with the rhythm of grace. You will not have problems with arrhythmia and things like that when you follow God's rhythm. And God is never in a hurry, right? God is never in a hurry. So why are you? Because you are afraid you do not have time, and that is destroying you—destroying your mental health, your physical health, your emotional health, time with your family. You can just tell your wife, “Okay, I am spending time.” A pastor pretty much must say we have been hearing sermons about spending time with the wife and all that. So I give it 20 minutes. “This breakfast here is for you. I am spending time. Do not sit with people—I did not spend time with you. 20 minutes—your time starts now.” Okay?
True Quality Time
No one does that, I know, but in essence the spirit carries that: “I am spending time.” No. When you are in love, you cannot tear them apart. They want to spend time. You hang. “No, you hang first.” You hang down the phone—“Do not hang, you hang.” We hang together at the count of three. Just hang out the phone, right? Open the door—“Now this—something wrong with your hand?” Amen. Go back to your first love. Amen. The things that you enjoy doing with the Lord. Amen. Remember those times you heard God's voice? You open the Bible, right? You are not a Bible graduate of any seminary and all that, but a simple heart, a humble heart, a teachable heart. You say, “Lord, speak to me,” and you are so excited. It might be a story of Ruth; it might be a story or something else that is not pertaining to you, but all of a sudden you find your life there. God is speaking to you, and God is encouraging you, and you find a word down that is just—God is saying, “This word is for you. I am talking to you.”
Fresh from God's Presence
It is like you read and a lot of words. Then all of a sudden there is a word that jumps out at you. You say, “Oh, God spoke to me today. Wow.” And you have an Emmaus road experience—a warm heart experience. Amen. Amen. What happened to those times? To every great man of God—I was reading just the other day; I have not started this preaching yet. I am just letting you know—I am just pouring; I am just pouring out what God is saying to you. Okay? I was just reading the other day the entire account of David, and you see that David just came fresh from the school of God out there alone with God. And that is why he did not have the fears that Saul, Jonathan, Joab the commander-in-chief, and all of them had—fears because they were looking at the giant. They were looking at his armor. They were looking at his great spear. David was looking to the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel.
Conscious of God, Not the Problem
As far as he is concerned, he is an uncircumcised Philistine. He has no covenant with God. He did not even talk about his great spear, his huge size—nothing. He looked at God. That is what David did. David considered God. Amen. Why? He is fresh out of the presence of God. He is more conscious of God than the problem, than your challenge that you are facing right now. If you see your symptoms—the doctor tells you this; it has this condition; it can last, but this it can go on like that. It can become this. It can become that. You are looking at armor, and you are studying his armor. You are studying how long his armor is. You are looking at him—how tall he is. You are not spending time looking at the Lord—meditate on His attributes, how great He is, and He loves you. Amen.
The Battle Is the Lord's
And that is why when he attacked the Philistine to the people of Israel, he says the Lord—He used the name Jehovah, the God of Israel, right? When it came against Goliath, he told Goliath, “You come to me with spear and a sword, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the Lord of hosts.” He did not use the word “the Lord of hosts” on his people when he talked to them—the people of Israel. Why? Because the Lord of hosts—He is an army host, a host of angelic army plus the army of Israel, and the Lord is the host. And what did he tell Goliath? “The battle is the Lord's.” So right now you may have a child that is sick back at home. You may have some looming debt that is presenting itself to you—still unpaid. You may have challenges about the future. You are afraid because it looks bleak, looks frightening. But God is saying to you, “This battle—it is not yours. This battle is mine. Take your hands off. Take your worried thoughts off. This is My battle, not yours.”
More Than Conquerors
You are acting, thinking, reacting, planning as if it is your battle and it is your responsibility. No, no, no. I will tell you what is yours: you receive the spoils. Amen. You receive what I will achieve. Remember, more than a conqueror. Amen. A conqueror goes into a fight. He fights until he is all bruised and black and blue, and he cannot see his face anymore clearly. He goes home, brings the prize money to his wife who is very beautiful. Now he is the conqueror. She is more than a conqueror. You understand? Does that help that sermon also to understand “more than a conqueror”? Amen. So you are now enjoying the fruits of His labor at the cross—what He did for you—because why? He loves you. Amen. So Israel was more conscious of the giant. David was more conscious of the Lord.
Need for Revival
And I wish that in this generation we so badly need a revival in churches, but there must be someone who comes out of God's presence and tells the people, “Look, what God is looking for is faith in Him.” He is just looking for someone who has faith in Him because of all the attributes and all the good characteristics and morality that you can have in your life, the thing that God desires the most and pleases Him the greatest is faith—someone who will take Him at His word. Amen. Someone who has a good opinion of God. Amen. And I love the way Samson's mother—before Samson was born, the angel of the Lord came to them, and the angel of the Lord said to Manoah's wife—her name was not given to us; Manoah is the husband, Samson's father. So these are Samson's parents. So the angel came to her first and talked about the boy that she will bear, which is Samson.
Reasoning from Faith
Then later on the husband said, “Okay, pray that this angel that came to you will come to me also.” Then the angel appeared to him also and said the same things. Amen. That he said to Manoah's wife. What was the first reaction of Manoah? He said, “Oh no, I just realized I have seen the Lord. It is the Lord.” Now sometimes the angel of the Lord is an angel—one of the many myriads of angels that God has—but sometimes the—and the—angel of the Lord, especially with the word “the” angel of the Lord, the definite article, is referring to the pre-incarnate appearance of Christ, our Lord Jesus. Just like when building an altar for burnt offering for the angel of the Lord, he asked for his name, and he says, “Why do you ask my name?” Your old King James says “saying it is secret,” but the word “secret” is actually the word “wonderful,” and “wonderful” is one of the names of Jesus, right? So the angel of the Lord can be Jesus.
Faith's Best Reasoning
So she said, “I have seen the Lord. I am going to die. We are going to die.” Now I love the way the wife answered him. Do you remember what the wife said? “If the Lord wants to kill us, why tell us about our son to be born and how to take care of him?” Faith has the best reasonings in the world. When you reason from faith. A lot of us, we logic things and reason things man—from man to God. God wants us to reason from His perspective towards man. Amen. And we are living in the upper room. We are in Christ sitting in the heavenly places. We see things with God's perspective. You see all these things—all the troubles in the world. Now once in a while sit in your position and say, “God looks at all this,” and God says, “I am in control. Everything is working right. Even the bad things that is happening—there is not God-initiated, but the devil-initiated, man-initiated. God said, ‘I am going to work everything out after the counsel of My will.’” Amen.
Since God Is for Us
You are listening, right? So when you know that and you are seated with Him, you have a heavenly perspective. Amen. “Why would God want to kill us when He has shown us all these things?” Amen. Because in those days they felt like if they see God, they will die. But her reasoning is amazing. Now I call that the Old Testament reasoning of Romans 8—the New Testament reasoning of the apostle Paul. And God wants us to have all this same attitude. Paul says like this: “Who is he that will condemn us? Who has the right to condemn us? Who has the power to condemn us? It is Christ that died—yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the Father's right hand making intercession for you.” Look—why did He die for you? Why is He at the Father's right hand right now, raised from the dead, glorified? Why is He there? For you. Will He condemn you when He is for you? So our counterpart is to say, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
The Meaning of "If"
All right. And that “if” there is not an idea of doubt. It is actually the word “since.” The origin means “since.” For example, “if” can be “since.” For example, you say, “Well, if you are a member of this, you ought to be doing this.” This—no. “If you are a member”—there is a doubt. But “since you are” is not a doubt—you are a member. You understand? “Since God is for us, who can be against us?” There might be temporary trials and troubles, but since God is for you—who? And by the way, we check the word “who,” right? It is not “who” but the word which can include “who,” but “what disease can be against you?” Amen. “What climate change can be against you?” Whatever it is—“what can be against you? Satan—what can be against you?” Hallelujah. And the idea there—can be successfully against you.
Battles Will Come
God being said the battle will not happen—Goliath will not come, right? You will not be surrounded by enemies, Jehoshaphat—no. God never said that. They were. He came. He challenged. They were surrounded. Amen. So God is not saying the battle will not be there. Okay? Amen. Okay, I better stop here because the rest are safer next week. Amen. You like it so far? You enjoy it? So God is bringing our perspective higher. Maybe just maybe at this point in time you are looking at the armor; you are looking at the natural. You are looking at what your eyes see because you are spending time reading the news too much. Honestly, do not spend too much time reading the news. They repeat news. It is a repetition that is a killer. You want to know the headlines—just know the headlines. Do not worry; you will survive. Do not have the FOMO problem, right? Just know the basics. What is the main thing—you will survive.
Fear from Focusing on the Giant
Do not worry; you will not be running short. But the problem is that you spend too much time looking up news and all that kind of thing. I am telling you right—you are asking for fear. Get a hold of your heart. That is what Israel—Israel was so fearful. Why? Because they heard Goliath challenging them. They saw Goliath's armor. And there was a boy who did not go by what he saw and what he heard. He spent time with God. Amen. Okay. Amen. So reason from faith: “If God has justified us, will He kill us now?” Amen. Amen. Amen. There are those who are against the teachings like “God wants to heal you; God wants to prosper you.” Right? Okay, I agree—there are people who abuse the teachings. But just because there is an abuse of money, for example, does that mean you throw away your money? The abuse will always be there.
Abuse Does Not Negate Truth
Will there be abuse in the ministry? Yes. And there will be in the future as long as there are humans and they are still not glorified. Amen. Will there be abuse in your industry? Yes. Will there be abuse among your friends? Yes. Will all your friends stay with you next five years? I am afraid to tell you that not all of them might be staying with you in the same spirit. Okay? Friends come; friends go. New levels—new friends. Some friends cannot reach the new level you are at. Some friends cannot understand the call of God on your life, and they were there for a season. But if they step away, say goodbye and welcome the new friends that God has for you. And God is doing a new thing, and stop looking at the past.
Moving Forward
I can imagine—look at Samuel the prophet. He wept tears over Saul when he realized he got rejected—Saul. Why? Because as a prophet, Saul was the first king he anointed, and he saw Saul when he was humble. He saw Saul when he was a young man—the day that came for his coronation. You know where Saul was? Hiding among the stuff. He did not want to be crowned. What happened to Saul? Just after a number of years, his hands are in his pocket, playing with his crown, ever so often looking around saying, “I am king.” Where is the humble young man who was hiding among the stuff? That is why I will tell you something: you need to wait on the Lord and just realize sometimes you are nothing. Whatever you have comes from Him.
Avoid Jealousy
Someone tried to make John the Baptist jealous. “Hey, Jesus' disciples—they baptize more than we did. And your name is Baptist.” John the Baptist—this one is Jesus of Nazareth, and His disciples are baptizing more people. John the Baptist—what do you say? You know what he said? And this is a good thing to keep in your heart. Whenever the devil tries to tempt you with jealousy towards someone, keep this in your heart, all right? Do not block about them; do not talk about them. Do not attack them. Your life is too precious, too short—even if it is 120, okay? It is still too short compared with eternity to spend time looking at other people. Build your house. Amen. Do not use your energy to destroy other people—and you cannot destroy; God is for them. Amen. Build your house. Amen. Amen.
God Has Better Ahead
So do not use your energies for all these kinds of things. Poor Samuel—I can feel him. First king anointed—after some years you see him now strutting like a peacock. He is proud. He disobeys God. Amen. He keeps the best for himself. “What happened to this king? Where is the humility?” Right? You know how I know he was mourning? Because the Bible said God said to the prophet Samuel, “How long will you mourn, Samuel? How long will you mourn over Saul? Fill up your horn. Go—I have provided Me a son of Jesse.” See, he never saw David. David was greater than Saul. If he saw the beauty of David, he would never think of crying one tear over Saul. David is a man after God's own heart. Amen. So you have lost something—God has something better. Hallelujah. Amen.
Grace Supplies
You might think you lost Saul, but he has a lot of flaws, a lot of challenges, a lot of problems. But there is a David in the future—but only God can see. Amen. And God says, “I will provide you—I have provided Me a son among the sons of Jesse.” Amen. Grace is all about supply: “I provided Me a son.” Amen. So if there is a loss you feel, do not forget—you have not lost the Giver. He will still supply. There is still provision. Amen. Now we look at David now, and after a few short years he became king also. Right? Now this is where I am coming to—what the Lord said to me about you all. But I am going to tell you through a story the way Jesus does. You are telling me what He is telling me about you all. Okay?
David's Season of Fear
Now when I say “you all,” do not get offended because you say, “Well, Pastor, I have been spending time with God and all. I have not been watching Korean dramas like Pastor Lawrence—or I do not know if he does or not.” But I think when God speaks to a church, He speaks generally. I think all the seven churches that Jesus addressed—I am sure that some of them were passionate about the Lord. They had not lost their first love. And yet the Lord says, “You have left your first love” in a generic way, in a general way—because many of them were suffering from that. After a few short years, David is now being pursued by King Saul because of his victory over Goliath. Saul was jealous—extremely jealous, even murderous jealousy. He was hunting David down to kill him. Right? Remember? So David went to the wilderness here and there, right? It is not—some of the best songs and psalms were written during that time.
Losing the Vision
But there is a time in David's life that David realized, “Okay, I am being pursued.” David lost the vision that the prophet prophesied over him. He lost what God—He lost the purpose and the reasoning of Manoah's wife: “If God is for us, who can be against us,” right? “If God did all this for us—He accepts our offering.” Amen. “Why would He want to kill us and tell us about how to bring up a boy?” Amen. “Because if He kills us, I cannot bring up any boy,” right? So that reasoning is amazing. Amen. She reasoned from God down to the husband. So David lost that reasoning. I am just going to show you something—that it is possible to be strong in faith at one time, and another moment he went to a priest's camp when he was running from Saul, and he said, “Do you have any bread for me and my men?” And the priest says, “Yes, he has some bread.”
Depending on Carnal Weapons
By the way, “Do you have any weapon? Do you have any weapon?” What do you mean, David? David needed no weapon. By the way, when he ran against Goliath, did he have any weapon? He had what—a sling. You can call that a weapon if you want, but it is more for the animals—a sling, a shepherd's rock, right? In fact, the king wanted to put his armor on him. “Your armor is so good,” and you go, right? Again, the trust of the king was—King Saul was actually in things that are carnal. David's trust is that “I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts.” The weapons of our warfare are not material. They are not carnal; they are not fleshly. But boy, they are powerful. But what happened to David now? After a few years of running away from Saul—amen—in the wilderness. Perhaps this is where we are right now. “Do you have any weapon?” Our eye is no more on the Lord.
Taking Goliath's Sword
We are looking at our enemy pursuing us. We are reading all the emails that are negative. We are listening to reports that are troubling. We are reading all the comments. I told my son the other day—caught him reading some comments—and I said, “Do not read the comments.” And I pity kids that have the iPhone too early. “So when do you think we should give them?” Ask the Lord. So what shall it be? You have—at this point David was being hunted down by Saul in the natural. You understand him, but all the while in the natural you are going to try to understand him in front of the Valley of Elah—a young boy, no experience, right? No armor against a man of experience, head and shoulders above him with a long spear. Your logic would tell you it is an uneven battle, is it not? But all this we put God out of the picture. We put God out of the equation. That is the problem here. He put God out of the equation. “Do you have a sword?” “Oh, nothing like it.” You know what sword it was? The priest says, “Goliath's sword is with me.” Goliath's sword. And David says, “Wow, give me that sword. Nothing like it.”
Faith Replaced by Worry
Wait a minute. Remember when Goliath held that sword—it did not help him, did it? You were the one that killed him, and you killed him because you came against him in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel. Amen. What good did his sword do for him? And now he says, “Nothing like it.” That is what happens to all of us. If you hear our conversation now compared to what it was—if God showed you a picture of how you trusted Him—you have changed, and you changed because of your faith. You do not see more of the Lord; you do not see more of His beauty, His glory. So your worries are more; your cares are more. Your anxieties are more. When someone is encouraging you to have faith—more faith in God—“Easy for you to say. You must also be practical,” as if faith is the least practical. If Jesus—all these kinds of victories and answers—is the greatest practical thing you can do.
Spiritual Attacks Today
You think the world has the answer? You think AI has the answer? All right, this new thing about AI, right? I am not knocking it. I am not saying do not use it. No, no, no. In fact, I have checked ChatGPT on my—as one of my apps as well. I got no problem with that. Sometimes I am quick, but my questions are more general out there about politics or about donations or things like that. I do not ask ChatGPT for spiritual things. Come on. Okay? Why do you think there is a spiritual thing? Why do you think, for example, right now there is an attack? It seems like these few years there has been an attack. I noticed it; my wife noticed it also. And she just spoke to me about this again after she noticed it. And not only that, a man of God I told you that came from Brazil—a pastor with thousands of churches, no exaggeration, right? Pastor Lawrence—he met him—and he came and he told me that he noticed this without us even saying anything to each other about this. He said, “I know there is a strength—there is demonic attack against women conceiving children in the body of Christ.”
Attack on Fruitfulness
That seems to be an attack on this generation. The devil is so afraid of what is coming in the future. Have you noticed that more and more women seem to have problems or challenges in this area? They are fertile—many of them. They are fine. They are young; I mean the husbands and all that. Some of them even doctors say there is nothing wrong. Some of them there are some things wrong medically and all that. And they are telling you, “Do this, do that.” And it is okay—even you go for IVF. Listen, it is perfectly okay because at the end you can do all the IVF, but it is only God that gives life. You can ask any doctor that puts the IVF together and all that—they hope it will happen. There are many times it does not happen. Only God can make it happen. So it is still God. So I am not against IVF—you understand? But here I am just trying to tell the church that there is an attack—not just on this church. I am talking about all over the world.
Perilous Days
The Brazilian pastor tells me he prays for more women with challenges in this area. My wife—when I was away, she met a group of ladies in our church, and it seems like one of the main challenges is this area. It is a spiritual thing. And we do not use carnal, material weapons against spiritual enemies. Okay? I have to preach. Shall I just preach what I prepared already now instead of telling you prophetically the things that are? Because in these last days the Bible says—and it shall come to pass—Timothy—Paul wrote to Timothy. The last books of Paul are actually First Timothy, Second Timothy, right? Of course Second Timothy being his last. And he said this: “Perilous days, dangerous days are coming.” He did not say because of the invention of nuclear weapons or creation of nuclear—no, he did not say that. He says perilous, dangerous days are coming because men shall be lovers of themselves. There you see it. All right?
When Man Changes
Dangerous days are created by men. Take care of the men—all these climate changes that is happening, you can trace it back to men, right? Sinful men. You get the man right—circumstances will be right. In fact, when a man is right—I used to preach for a man called Pastor Åge over in Norway. Remember Pastor Åge? All right, we had great fun in Norway. And if you ever see a picture of me looking at the snow and snow falling down and there is music playing—my “it is oh oh” song—and that is actually done in his church. There was just me before a service. And I love the photo because the snow was falling. It is so beautiful, and I love snow. And we experienced snow during that preaching—the pre-session. And Pastor Åge had a friend who was actually a security guy, and he looked fierce—tattoo all over. And he has the fierce dog. What dog was it? Remember—Doberman, one of the kind of fierce dogs—Doberman.
Grace Changes Everything
And the dog was with him attending church with him. And I was thinking—I was very fascinated by looking at that dog. And I said this to him: “Who is that guy?” “Oh, that guy—” he mentioned his name. “Do you remember his name? There is a funny name.” Okay—that is amazing. That was actually a gangster. And all the police force in Norway—they all know him, especially in Oslo. That was Oslo, the capital of Norway—I was in Oslo. So all the police force in Oslo knows this man. When they came to arrest him, they came with full force—armory, the weapons. They said to arrest him. I said that—oh, then I got even more concerned now because I was a guest speaker that day. Either he unleashes his dog or whatever—I do not want that to happen. I mean, dogs can carry rabies or whatever, and then I become a zombie or whatnot. Honey, I saw that—the one that kind of thing. But the dog looked fierce. Looked fierce.
The Dog Changed Too
As I was preaching, I look at him—you are smiling, nodding his head, saying amen. So later on Pastor—he took his time telling me the story, and he told me this: “You know what happened to him?” He said, “No one can change him.” But one day I was preaching in a place, and he was there. He was there to challenge me, actually—and had a gang and his dog. And his dog was known to—he used his dog to really get at the people. It was a fierce dog just like him—both of them. But he said when I gave the altar call—and it was a grace altar call—he came up. Only grace can touch hardened criminals. He gave his life to Jesus—God's grace. But this amazing thing, Pastor Prince—until then I never saw anything like that. His dog completely changed. Remember his dog? It is like he can be near us, and it looks very fierce—it looks like a Doberman. But you can touch him. He is very gentle. He said, “I saw for myself that when the master changes, the dog changes.”
Man at the Root
So the point I am trying to say is that when man is changed, the animal kingdom changes—his animals. Even the environment changes. Even the climate changes. Sometimes I think the climate is responding because the Creator of all things made the climate, made everything on the earth. And we rebel, and the system is out of whack. Like you are putting water where you are supposed to put petrol in your car. Trust me—you can say, “I do not care all this nonsense about God's laws and God's ways of doing things. I just want to do things my way—lovers of themselves.” And you try to put petrol—you put water where petrol is supposed to be, right? Thou shalt not move. There is a commandment—I will give you for sure this one. You sure obey one. Yeah. The system is there. Some things you think you break—it breaks you.
Worldliness Defined
It was put there long before you were born. The system of the world, right? Corresponds with the One God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds. So He knows how it runs. So we think that Christ and following Christ and all that—we are going against the world. No, no. The world that we are standing against and we do not want—worldliness that comes in—is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. When people say “do not be worldly”—do not AI is the world rejected or this is of the world invention rejected and all that. And there are some cultures that do not drive cars so that they do not become worldly. We do not knock that—we and some of them are very close to God in their walk with God. Amen. But I am just saying that this is not worldliness—the way you tie your hair and all that—that is worldly. There is not worldliness. Okay?
Love of the Father
Worldliness is all that is in the world: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And you know what God says about this? “If any man love the world, these things—the love of the Father is not in him.” That means what? Does not say He does not love the Father. Some people read that and say if you love the world, it means you do not love the Father. It did not say that. Read carefully: “If any man love the world—they love the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh—they love these things. The love of the Father is not in him.” Lust of the flesh—one of the biggest areas we know it is always illustrated is in the area of porn. Why do people have problems with porn? Why? That is worldliness, by the way. Why? Because the love of the Father is not in him, and they do not know how much they are loved.
Root of Addiction
Many people who have problems with porn in their adult life can be traced back when they were lonely, not receiving the love of the Father. And I am talking about earthly fathers now, but the verse is talking about the love of the Father which is greater than all the other loves of any father. But basically it is the love of the Father. It is not even the love of the mother there. If the father is hard on him, the father is—it can affect him in a sexual way. Fathers have a part to play. We are seeing only the harvest and the result. Of course everyone is responsible—you can—the pastor—you just tell them, “Tell them to repent.” Yeah, but I am talking about the root cause—sexual addiction, sexual problems and all that. The manifestation is—the root cause is actually feelings of rejection. Again, even psychologically it is the love of the Father. And that has been proven, by the way, by people who are secular psychiatrists—not Christian, not Christians—even. How much more the love of the Father.
Fathers, Do Not Provoke
In other words, God raised up an army of preachers that unveiled the loveliness of Jesus, the finished work of Jesus, the love of the Father. Even your child—your boy that is growing up. It might not act like it, but fathers—you have a place that mothers do not. God ordained you both to raise the children. Your part is to father him with love. And the Bible says “provoke them not to wrath.” Our tendency is that we tend to provoke our kids to wrath—the father part. The mother part is usually very much of nurture. They commit less of this crime. Every time I read—whether it is Ephesians or Colossians—when it comes to fathers: “Do not exasperate your children. Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath.” It is very easy. You know why? That tells us you can only provoke to wrath—ask yourself—people who make you angry are people you care about.
Anger and Care
Actually, to a certain extent, those who do not care about do not really make you angry. The reason why a wife really gets angry with the husband is because she has invested a lot in the husband—and the husband vice versa on the wife—that kind of thing. People you do not care about—you do not get so angry for too long. You get angry on the road, right? The way they cut you and all that—I mean you feel like jumping on their car and say “Shazam” or whatever—but it is only for that day. It stays with you when it comes to people you care for. While the anger can stay. So the Bible says “be angry and sin not. Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.” In other words, do not let the sun find you after the sun—you are still angry. Amen. Some serious faces here. Now I will say it again: do not let the sun go down today. Okay? Outside there—no sun; all went down already. Amen.
Your Calling in This Church
So we still get angry, do we not? Amen. But the Bible—what the Bible is saying is that the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, right? The pride of life—lust of the eyes are covetousness. You want things that you know you are not supposed to have. These are things that are destroying your happiness, your peace. Are you with me so far? No, I want to tell you this, okay? I believe that you are part of the ministry that God spoke to me all those years back then, right? My ministry is not just a calling on me personally from the Lord, but it has been confirmed by men and women of God that were recognized at that time. Okay? So you are part of this church. Why do you think you are part of this church? Because we have the same call. So each of you has a specific call and assignment from God to support what God is doing through me also—because it is not a one-man thing.
A Shared Voice
All the pastors there—they have the same voice. Have you noticed this? Also in the past weeks especially—when they speak, it is like Pastor Prince speaking, right? Pastor Lawrence, Pastor Mark—okay, Pastor Mark all over the place, but he be prophetic. He will say things, and he can be prophetic. Amen. I love him when he laughs. I think he smiles when he laughs, but I think God put us all together. So we were all growing up in different places. I was born in Singapore—I am a Singapore citizen—but my father worked eight years in Malaysia, so I was there. Imagine God brings all of us—God saw us at different places. God brings us all up here, down here. God foresaw that you will be born. See—why was it? God foresaw you before you were born. You are not an accident. Even if your birth, your conception was an accident—you might think that it was an immoral thing—you are not an accident.
Everything for Purpose
Once death's life—God puts a spirit from Him. God chooses, right? God puts a spirit in him. So I really want to—I talk about the women, and again we are not talking to each other. I just met that pastor from Brazil, and I did not discuss with him about this, but all of a sudden he mentioned that. Wendy has been talking to me about this. Wendy met some ladies recently from our church—they were challenging this. Both of us have been talking about this. We know because we had a child before Justin that had no heartbeat in the following weeks of the conception. So we know what it is like to lose a child. She would have been 16, I think, this year. And I know—and the Lord allowed me, I believe, to go through that to have a position to minister. So even your life—everything is for His purpose. It is not for you to have money and more money, to have a house and bigger house, and then you live in the house one day—you look at a bigger house; you get used to it.
True Happiness
Sure, I will tell you that—any gadget you have, any new iPhone you have—give yourself some time; you will get used to it. And nice clothes you have—you will get used to it. It is a fantasy that when you live there you will be more happy. No, no, no, no, no. Live by your means. I am not saying you got a small place or you got there—must be a place where you can call home. So when you go there, you are happy, right? But what makes the happiness is the family growing up there—is the memories. Even a small place with the memories—you are reluctant to leave it behind when you move out. It is the memories. When I go alone and all that—I love being with the Lord, and the Lord knows; the Lord understands what I am trying to say—but I miss my family. I saw some attractions, some places here and there. I love museums, and I am a museum freak. I really love museums, right? I love spending time.
Redeeming the Time
You all heard about a good advice: if you want to marry someone who appreciates you more and more as you grow older, marry an archaeologist. I am coming back to that again. Okay? I am coming to it. And I believe that God has a solution. But you need to understand one thing about women with this challenge and all that. By the way, for me also—I was thinking if I had a child born then—I said at least now I got a teenage and I got a grown daughter in her twenties and I got a teenage. But now my son is coming into their teenage years—very far in between. And the Lord began to speak to me: “Everything in your life is not your choice.” Amen. Your life is to reflect My glory and My plans and My purposes. So I think I have an older daughter so that no one can say, “You do not have an older daughter. You do not understand the struggles and all that teenagers go through.” I had one during the teenage years already.
Your Piece in the Puzzle
Then I now have one that came from the babyhood stage—and you all followed me in the journey—and toddlers when a lot of our young people were having young kids. Do not ask about my age, but God made me such that I have very young kid and I have an older one, and I can preach in such a way—not just the Word but with the experience—of teenagers, of toddlers, young people. I still—a lot of people when they grow older, they forget what it is like to be a child—having a child at home, right? For me it is still fresh—2012. I still remember waking up nights and all that thing here—a kid that is crying all the time, right? It is still fresh. I can relate to parents. I can relate to leaders. That is why my mom must see to all of you. So my life becomes what? A service in His hands. The same goes for you. All of you have a call from God. You have a piece like a jigsaw puzzle, right? Makes that whole picture. It is not just Pastor Prince.
Serve Now
I am saying that everything that went through is to have—to pastor a church. A church is raised up of people with specific calling from God, and it is important you fulfill that call. Come on—time is passing. Redeem the time. Do you realize with every Sunday that passes—the end of the year, Christmas is coming again. Again? Wow. We just finished Christmas. We just had the year of living in the upper room theme message, and now half the year is gone, and we are now coming—I heard the other day, some yesterday, some flights—jet planes flying over—and my son told me, “Oh, National Day is coming again.” I said, “National Day coming again?” We just had that—and just in school actually attended the rehearsal last year. I thought there was only a few weeks ago. Time is passing you. So before you know it you are 40. Before you know it you are 50. Before you know it you are 60. Before you know it you are like what our guest speaker said the other day: “I am now 70—17,” right? 17. Before you know it you will be like Pastor Mark—80, right?
Find Your Gift
Time is just passing. When are you going to serve the Lord? “Oh, I am studying the Lord now.” Pastor—it is like do you have a sense of purpose that whether you are a banker, a school teacher, whether you are a marketer, whatever it is you are doing right now—YouTuber—must mention that in these days. I am a YouTuber. Give you some time, okay? If you are a YouTuber—no one follows, okay? Do it. All right? It is just you in the tube. We tell people, “Come up here. We need volunteers to sing.” All right? At least you can sing like you know—sing before you volunteer. Amen. There are always people who believe they can sing. They are the only ones—and their friends love them too much to tell them the truth. Okay? So when do they invite—“We want new singers and all that.” At least you can sing and hold a tune. You know what I am saying? Do not keep on holding fast—“This is my gift.” For God has a gift for every single one of you. Start using it. Start getting involved.
Lose Your Life to Find It
“Pastor, I am scared.” Time is precious. It is like “I am going to save this; I am going to save time here, save here, save time here—even what me. The reason I am watching—the reason I am watching from home is because it saves time. It saves a lot of things. I can save time here. I can save moments to eat. I can save this. I can save my Korean drama while I am watching halfway—I feel bored, I can watch this part here. I can watch this. I am saving a lot of things. I am saving a lot of things.” That is the thing—they are trying to save time. Even traveling here—I am saving time. But you know what Jesus said about saving? If you save time for yourself, you will lose it. Jesus says, “He that loses his life for My sake—you would not lose it. You actually find it.” It is a paradox. It is a heavenly paradox. If you do it for My sake, you will find it.
Marked by God
In other words, even the journey you take to come here—amen—the Lord is saying that is marked down. You will not lose it if it is not for My sake—you will not lose it. But you just came here because you have an appointment to do some business and all that—you have to go back home. You did not lose it for His sake. You are still losing yours, right? Because you are trying to save yours. Is it a parable? No, it is not a parable. It is a truth—a statement of truth put in paradoxical terms like “He that loses his life for My sake…” Let me see what you lose—time. You lose relationships, it seems, because you are going to spend more time—more time. But then said, “If I do not spend time, the relationship will not be built.” But because of the Lord's work, I am going to serve the Lord. Amen. Make sure it is the Lord in your eyes—not the praise that people come in. You are not serving the Lord for the praise.
Prophetic Word on Fruitfulness
Okay? I always tell people in this platform ministry—I say that do you know that you are in the worst-off place to serve the Lord in a sense? Because there is more out-there reasons to serve the Lord. People see you. So it is okay if we demand more from you—more high morals, more excellence. Why? Because when we put you up here, people think that to do business with this person, that person is safe because the pastors trust them. That is why we put them up here so people can sing—but you cannot trust them. So I always tell them this in case you are wondering—this family time, okay? Today is it okay? Yeah. My sermon is also inside there already somewhere. Amen. Are you with me so far? Yes. So we have to—for me, I am not satisfied. My ministry—I am not satisfied with just a pat answer: “Why did this happen? Get pat answer—God in His sovereign will made this happen.” I think I want to know why it happened. So I seek the Lord, and that is when I get a lot of answers from the Lord.
Prayer for the Barren
I get a lot of answers from the Lord, right? So I pray—I have prayed for—by the way, just let you know—and Senior Pastor can also verify that—by the grace of God I have prayed for many women who are barren, and many of them now have kids. Amen. Amen. I have prophesied in different settings—even over your life in a camp. Over—was it, right? Even before it was a thought in their heart, in their minds to have another one—I say, “I see a boy—an adorable boy, a baby.” It was in camp—I prophesied for Matthew and June that they will have a baby boy. So I prophesied a lot before it happens. And it happens in many cases. But there are cases whereby—like what my wife has been sharing with me and what I see and what a pastor says and all that—all over the world collectively we see a lot of struggles in this area. I tell you this—the devil is so afraid of the next generation—this generation and the next generation.
Champions Are Rising
Could it be he sees a lot of angelic activities in these last days because Jesus is coming back? Jesus is coming back for us. Amen. The devil knows it. Now you see that no one knows the day nor the hour. No one—yes, I agree. No one knows the day nor the hour. But there are seasons where you can sense activities, and demons can see it. Demons can see angels' activity. For example—how did they know it was the kairos moment for Moses to be born? How did they know? Because you know why—he had Pharaoh kill all the Hebrew children. That means he knew that there was—I can see a lot of activity. That means a child is going to be born, and this child might destroy all my plans and my purposes for Israel not to bring forth the Messiah. I wonder who is it. But he is not omniscient—he does not know. So he had Pharaoh kill all the new babies, and baby Moses was preserved. Remember—floating in the bulrushes. Amen.
God’s Way Brings Supply
And not only that—not only preserved—come on—God had Pharaoh's daughter adopt him as her son, and then pay the mother a salary to take care of her son. Now the boy goes back to the real mother's house—and paid now to take care of her own son. You do things God's way—you get paid more than the people of the world. They take care of their son—if that is normal, they will do it with joy. But you get paid for it. Things like this will happen to you. Things like this will happen. You do not lose anything that you give money to the Lord. You do not lose it. If you are going to show off—to put your name down there and all that—that is different. By doing it for the Lord, you will never lose whatever you give. Amen. Was it Jim Elliot who says, “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”? There is only one life to live for Christ. This is it.
Faith Reasons Best
Praise the Lord. This is it. How many of you have cars? You try to keep your car well-maintained as long as possible. Do you? You do, right? Why is it highly important to show off to people? I have no—I am sure many of you know like that, right? Is to carry you—transport you. If the car looks good but you do not like the inside—your legs feeling cramped and the functions no—you want something. It may look good outside—usually they do. It has good convenient functions inside—you like that. Why? Because it carries you. You think for one moment—now faith is the best reasoner. “God wants to kill us? Why tell us about the baby and tell us to take care of the baby?” Faith's reasons are amazing. “If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can condemn you when Christ died for you? Christ will condemn you? He died for you.” Now reason with me—if your body is the temple of God, will He take care of your body?
He Bore Our Barrenness
Come on. God does not want you to abuse His temple, right? Does not want you to abuse His temple with smoking, overeating, overdrinking—over, over. Amen. And your body is not for sexual outlets with any partner or whatever because that itself has its own built-in judgment. The more you do it, the less you enjoy it. The less you enjoy it—the less and the less and the less. You do not do things God's way—do not think these people are enjoying themselves. They have lost it. They are jaded. Lose it for the Lord's sake—you will find it. Lost glory, lost sweetness, lost good days—you will find they will come back in the future. “Forgot to say—I will restore to you the years the locust has eaten.” How do you restore? “Yes, Lord—I have learned not to question. I am the Lord.” There is always a response: “I am the Lord.” Amen. Amen.
Closing Prayer and Benediction
People of the world—they try to reason out, “Oh, you mean you believe a whale swallowed Jonah?” Hey, listen—if God said in the Bible, right, Jonah swallowed the whale, I will believe it. Because as far as you are concerned—as far as you are concerned, right—as far as you are concerned, you take God out of the picture. That is why you are so confused. You cannot see the reason—you become stupid. For me, I put God in—I can believe. Amen. If He is God, He will act like God. And God does the impossible. The things that are impossible with men are possible with God. Amen. He bore our sins in His own body on the tree. He bore your barrenness also on that tree. Amen. And I do not care if Goliath is shouting 40 days and 40 nights—which is quite a long, long time—more than a month. And the Bible says he does it every morning, every evening. I am telling you—deliverance is coming. Amen. You will conceive. Amen. You will conceive.
Champions in This Generation
And if you are a champion child—one of our pastors cannot conceive. All right? He—on his wife—I do not know. But anyway—he was prayed for. We prayed for him—I prayed for him. I still remember—I am sure others prayed for him as well. When he conceived—he cannot stop—seven kids. Seven? Right—four, four—sorry, sorry. Prophecy a trinity of babies. But I say to you in the name of Jesus—you need a church that will tell you this is not God's will—not a church that tells you, you know what? “Never mind. Just accept it. You have got cancer—okay, God takes away.” Easy for you to say until it happens to you or your loved ones. In this church we fight. Amen. We fight to get answers—not fighting against God. Amen. We are fighting because we know there are forces. So you need to keep on coming because there are so many things—I see the plans and purpose of God for the church that we are still not fulfilling yet. There is yet much land to be possessed. Amen. Amen.
Prayer for Fruitfulness
That is what God spoke to Israel through Joshua, saying, “There is yet much land to be possessed.” And this one area—we are going to pray in the name of Jesus that there be more fruitfulness. Amen. More babies born. Amen. Within marriage, rich of course. Amen. Praise the Lord. And there our young men and women will be like Davids—like Manoah's wife, like Ruth. Amen. Men after God's heart, a woman after God's heart. When God says, “Who will fight this giant—who sees him differently, who sees Me in a way that others do not?” He is looking for you. I pray that you be the one. Amen. That God will raise your faith. Father, in Jesus' name I pray, Father, for every couple under the sound of my voice that is struggling in this area. Father, in the name of Jesus—if they are under attack by a spirit of barrenness—in the name of the Lord Jesus I bind that spirit in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ off their lives, off their reproductive system. In the name of the Lord Jesus.
Be Fruitful
And I declare and I decree healing and fruitfulness to both their bodies in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Cause them to conceive, Lord—a child from You. Father, I pray, Lord, that this child will be a champion fulfilling Your purpose as, Lord. In Jesus' name. Send forth Your Word, Lord—right now—in Jesus' name. And if there is anyone else, Lord, suffering, Lord, from self-condemnation, self-guilt—perhaps in the past they have indulged in something that now their minds cannot let go of, and they think that You are punishing them—remove, Lord, I pray, that wrong conception of You. Remove that veil off their minds. See how You love them and how You want them fruitful more than they want to be fruitful. In the name of Jesus—be healed. Be healed. Be fruitful. Be fruitful and multiply in the name of Jesus. And all the people say amen. Amen.
Salvation Call and Benediction
Do not forget—in the time of a lot of kids not being able to see adulthood, Moses was born. Same thing with Jesus—a lot of them. Jesus was born. Champions are rising in this generation. Amen. Many of them are teenagers already. Many of them are young men. All right—where are you? You will be a David when others are fearful. Amen. If you are here today and you have never made Jesus your Savior and your Lord, I pray that this will be something that will speak to you of the love of Christ on that cross. When He bore our sins, He bore every one of them. God does not live in a time continuum. God lives outside time. So God took all your sins—your past, your present, your future—God put it on His Son, His darling Son. And Jesus died for your sins. And my friend, on the third day God raised Jesus from the dead without your sins. That means God has accepted what Christ has done—more than accept. God is pleased—infinitely pleased—with His darling Son. Now if you call upon Jesus—if you love His Son—if you accept His Son—God accepts you. What you do with His Son is what God does with you.
Pray—please pray with me if you want to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. Pray: “Heavenly Father, I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior, as my Lord. I acknowledge Christ died for my sins. He was raised from the dead when I was justified in Him. Thank You, Father—Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Savior now and forever.” In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Stand to your feet, church. Raise your hands all across this place. Again—I never pray out of just soothing people. I pray because it will accelerate this week—cause events, good events, even good days to be set in motion in your life. Amen. There could be a trial here and there, but listen—good days are released when God's people pray. Father, in the name of Jesus the Lord bless you—every one of you and your families—throughout this week. The Lord keep you—preserve you from harm, danger, from all the powers of darkness, from fear and terror and from stress. The Lord preserve and keep you from the power of the evil one. The Lord make His face shine on you, and the Lord cause you to enjoy His favor and His goodness throughout this week. The Lord lift up His countenance on you and grant you and your loved ones His shalom. In Jesus' name. And all the people said amen. Amen. God bless you. We will see you again.