Joseph Prince - Jesus Gave You This Prayer to Fight Panic (01/26/2026)
As joint heirs with Christ, believers inherit healing, renewed strength, and evergreen vitality even in old age, fulfilled through promises like those in Psalm 103 and the blessing on Asher, where Jesus brought rich healing bread to a Gentile woman. To possess this inheritance, we must be strong, courageous, and meditate day and night on God's Word, speaking "Amen" to claim peace, health, and prosperity as our portion.
Claiming Our Inheritance – Healing and Renewal in Christ
Our inheritance is healing. One of the inheritances that we have. We have so much inheritance. Of course, the very first thing we receive when we are born again is salvation, eternal life. Praise the Lord. What a gift in our inheritance.
And the Bible doesn't say that we are heir apparent. You know what's an heir apparent? Someone waiting to receive the inheritance. The Bible doesn't say that. The Bible says we are joint heirs with Christ. So we receive the inheritance now. The Bible says all the promises of God in Him are yes and amen, now in Christ.
Because every one of the blessings is actually in Christ, the Messiah, who was yet to come. But He has come already for us. Amen. And He is our Lord and Savior. He is our Shepherd. So in Him, all the promises of God—you don't have to look at a promise in the Old Testament and say, Pastor, Psalm 91, is it a protection psalm? Is it for us today? Is it for Christians? Or only for the Jews? No, it's for all of us who are born again. Amen. All of us who are sons of God. Amen.
So all the promises of God in Christ are yes and amen. What about the one where God satisfies our mouths so that our youth is renewed like the eagles? Is that for us? Amen. The one that says we shall renew our strength. We will run and not be weary. We shall walk and not faint. We will still bring forth fruit in old age. We shall be full of life and sap and we shall be evergreen. They shall be green. They shall be green.
In the Hebrew, it says they shall be raanan. Green. The word raanan means green. Even in old age, where they are still bringing forth fruit, they are still green.
The Rich Bread of Asher – Jesus' Healing Ministry
What's the first area that God said in order for you to possess the land? I was telling you just now about the blessings of Asher. Remember? The tribe of Asher had coastal sites here where Tyre and Sidon were. And the father said, gather around before he died. And to the son Asher, he gave this prophecy. Alright, the prophecy was, bread from Asher shall be rich and he shall yield royal dainties.
So the word royal gives you the idea of a king. A king will come and eat and dispense bread from Asher which is rich. We saw that the only time this happened was Jesus went 130 miles to the area of Asher. At that time, literally, it's out of the proper area of Israel, where the Gentiles would live. Jesus went all the way. And along the 130 miles, there's no miracles recorded. There's no major act noted for us. All the way back is nothing major.
The only thing is that he went all the way to minister to a Gentile woman, to give her the children's bread. Which means healing. We all know from the context that it's healing. She was in the region of Tyre and Sidon, and he gave her the children's bread. And how I know that this bread is so rich, bread from Asher shall be rich, because a crumb drove the demon out of the daughter, and the daughter was healed. Just a crumb.
So when you take communion, remember this story. The blessing of Asher is in this. By your stripes I am healed. So, he came and yielded royal dainties. Jesus gave royal bread. Rich bread. And it's healing. This is the blessing of his father, Jacob, upon his son. Before he was a tribe. Before he became a tribe.
Moses' Blessing – Strength Increases with Your Days
Later on, fast forward, during a time when there are all 12 tribes already, it was Moses' turn to leave the world. And Moses gathered them together, and Moses gave all the blessings to the 12 tribes. And this is a blessing on Asher. Asher is most blessed of sons. Let him be favoured by his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil. You walk in the Spirit. Okay, that's the idea. Your sandals shall be iron and bronze. As your days, so shall your strength be.
Okay, look at me. Have you claimed that? This is your inheritance, you know. Read carefully. Read carefully. It doesn't say, as your days, you'll become weaker, but praise God, you'll see Jesus face to face. Right? It doesn't say that. It says, as your days, that means as your days increase, so shall your strength be. Amen. Do you see that? Have you claimed it? Have you spoken it? Do you act like it? Amen. Start walking it out. Amen? Amen.
Okay, so how do I possess the land? How do I possess it? Go back to Joshua 1. It says here, Moses my servant is dead. Think about the big pair of shoes that Joshua will have to fill. Moses is dead. Now, bring these people, go over Jordan to the promised land. Every place the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you, as I said to Moses. I have given every place the sole of your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours.
And then God encouraged him, I'll be with you wherever you go. And then God said these words, only be strong and very courageous. Amen? Only be strong and very courageous.
Overcoming Fear and Anxiety with God's Peace
What about you? Are you faced, sometimes you find that in the middle of the night your heart beats real fast? I'm thinking about someone here. Amen. A few someones. Amen. Your heart beats real fast. Or you start, you don't know why, but you find that you get anxious really fast. Amen. Is it panic attack? Recently? You know, the front news, headline news of Straits Times. I just passed by and I looked down in my house at the headlines and I was stunned. One out of three youths have mental health challenges. And then the subtitle says, anxiety being the leading reason.
And you talk about social media, its impact, cyber bullying, things like that. But we can teach our young people, amen, that Jesus has given us His peace. Amen. Let not. That's our part. Let not your heart be troubled. The more you start, let not your heart be troubled. Just quote it. Quote it to your heart. Let not your heart be troubled. Say it under your breath. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid.
You know what's going to happen? More shalom will flow. Because shalom is there already. He has given us, He has bequeathed us His shalom, well-being and peace. So the more you let not your heart be troubled, the more well-being flows into your body. You know, there's a verse that says, a sound heart is the life of the flesh. I'm quoting the King James. A sound heart is the life of the flesh. You know, the word sound is the word healing. Marpeh. From the word rafa. Marpeh is the noun. A marpeh heart is the life of the flesh.
Then, you look carefully at marpeh. It's also the Hebrew, when Hebrew says tranquility and peace, it's marpeh. A tranquil heart, a heart that is tranquil, is life to your body. Life to the flesh. Amen? So, God is saying, be very courageous. Be strong and very courageous.
Possessing Your Inheritance Through Meditation on the Word
Now these are instructions on how to possess the land. Chapter 1 itself, from the onset, God advised Joshua, listen, every place you step will be yours. Even though I've given it to you, you have to lay claim on it. You have to possess your possessions. You have to inherit your inheritance. You've got to place your claim. Amen? And every place you place your claim, even though I have given it to you, it becomes actually yours when you lay a claim on it. Amen? Amen? Amen?
So, there are places where they don't teach Jesus heals today. So, you know what goes on in the church? People are finding freedom from sin and from powers of darkness. They are born again. They love the Lord. But they don't preach healing. You don't see the healing manifestation. Notice that. Praise the Lord.
So instructions to possess the land. Then God says, only be strong and very courageous. And then comes verse 8. Wow. What has this got to do with possessing the land? Joshua 1:8, it says, This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. It's all about possessing the land, you know. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then, for then, for then, you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
You'll make your way prosperous, and you will have good success when you meditate on God's Word, day and night. Amen. Psalms 1, same thing. But His delight is in the law of the Lord. Say the law of the Lord. I'm going to explain that. But His delight, His joy is in the law of the Lord. And in His law, He meditates day and night again. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. He's not a tree just growing. He's planted. Planted, someone who cares for that tree, planted. Planted means it's done by someone. To care. Care. The idea of caring for it.
You shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth your fruit in your season. Your leaf shall not wither. Aha! Wither. Brown. Your leaf will always be green. And I believe this refers to your health and your wholeness. To a good old age. Its leaf shall not wither. You will not dry up. And look at the last part. And whatever you do shall prosper. Amen. Whatever you do shall... This is greater than Midas touched. Midas touched. Midas wanted. Whatever I do becomes gold. So, whatever God says, don't limit it. If God says whatever, you didn't say some parts of it. Only the spiritual part of it. Whatever is whatever, okay? Amen? I believe my God. Amen. What about you? Whatever you do prospers.
The Power of Daily Meditation and Declaring Amen
And the key, the only key it seems like is meditate. Meditate. The part you are supposed to do actively is meditate. Day and night. So, take the verse for example. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. John 14, verse 27. Okay? And all this is my meditation. All these past years. So, I take it... It began as a meditation. Peace I leave with you. Before I ever thought on it. Before I ever have a teaching called Live the Let Go Life. I meditate. Alright? I take peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Is there a difference? I meditate on that. Peace I leave with you. My peace is His peace. Amen. Not as the world gives. What does that mean? Not as the world gives. Give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled. Why is this put right in this verse here. Why? That's our part.
So, if I don't experience His peace, even though it's given to me, there's a blockage. It's my fear. Allowing my heart to be troubled. I must let not. And then it flows. The peace and the well-being flows. So, it comes from meditation. You meditate. You meditate. Whatever you're worried about. You're worried about old age. Fear of old age. Alright? Meditate on Psalms 92. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. By the way, I meditate in advanced years. Because the word down there is actually advanced years. Advanced years means advanced years. Hundred years old is advanced years. But old age have the idea of old. Right? So, it's actually old age, but old age doesn't mean you're old. Do you understand? Some songs are old, but they're evergreen. So, you can be evergreen. Amen?
Okay. Another thing I do is that when I hear good things, right, I always say, Amen! That means, Amen means so be it unto me. Amen! Because the Bible says, for all the promises, I didn't quote the whole thing, for all the promises of God in Him are yes and amen unto the glory of God by us. So, by us means we do the Amen, we are glorifying God because we are saying Amen is actually the root word of imunah, which is faith in Hebrew. So, God is glorified because I've just expressed faith. Alright?
Understanding the Law of the Lord – It's All God's Instruction
Now, I told you just now that the word, remember the word, His delight is in the law of the Lord. The law of the Lord. As well as also Joshua 1:8, we saw that this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. This book of the law. Pastor, you see, it tells you to meditate on the law. Now, here's where I think in times past, I didn't pause to share this, to teach this, but I think it's time for you to get this. Okay? This book of the law or the law of the Lord. The law of the Lord. Whenever we find the phrase the law of the Lord or the book of the law, it is always the law of the Lord. Always. Not, not can mean. Again, it is.
The law of the Lord is not the Ten Commandments. It is the entire Word of God. In Psalms 19, there's a beautiful phrase that says, The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The law of the Lord here is instruction. Torah is instruction. Torah can mean instruction. That's all. You ask a Jew today, you ask any Jew. It's Torah instruction. They'll tell you that. Amen. In fact, the Christian Standard Bible have this here. The instruction of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. We all know that it is the instruction of the Gospel that converts us. The soul cannot be converted by the Ten Commandments. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. By the law, no flesh is justified.
So how can the law of the Lord convert the soul? Unless it's the instruction, it's the sermon, it's the preaching, it is the Word itself. So when the Bible says meditate on the law of the Lord, it doesn't always mean Ten Commandments. Okay? So the testimony of the Lord is perfect. How many agree the Word of God is perfect? So talking about the Book of God, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth.
Now let's go back to Joshua 1:8. The Lord is talking to Joshua and the Lord used this word, Zeh in Hebrew. Zeh. Alright? Or Zeh. Zeh. Zeh. Zeh. Zeh. Sefer. Book. Zeh. Zeh means this book of the law. What do you think Joshua was doing when God said, hey, this book of the law? Meditate in day and night. What do you think he was doing? He was reading. He was reading. He was reading the book. For God to say, this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate. And the word meditate here, as well as in Psalms, is hagah. Hagah on it day and night.
Now, now we meditate on God's words, some things happen to you. Okay? And we look at a messianic prophecy. You want some more? Can we take a bit more time? Okay? Can? Alright. Let me go to Psalms 119, okay? It says here, oh, how I love your law. Now, again, it's not how I love your Ten Commandments, okay? I love your law. I love your word. Amen? Whether it's the word from five books of Moses, or even the Psalms. And for us, it's even, we have the New Testament. Amen? It's all God's word. But David expresses it as, oh, how love I your law. How I love your law. It is my meditation all the day.
You, through your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies. Okay, people look up here. You know your Bible, right? It's divided into Old Testament, New Testament. Now, Old Testament is written in Hebrew, okay? New Testament is in Greek. But many many years ago, even before Christ came, right? There was a group of 70 Jewish people that came together. Amazing scholars. They are amazing scholars. Very smart people, very sharp, alright? And godly people. They came together and they produced the Greek version of the Old Testament, which is actually in Hebrew. It's called the Septuagint. Septuagint, alright? Seventy. The 70, name after the 70 elders.
In the Greek, I'm going to tell you the Greek Septuagint of these verses. Are you ready? I have more sunesis than all my teachers. I have more sunesis than all my ancient elders. Okay? Who is this speaking of? It's speaking of Jesus. But of course, that's the first application that I see here. It's a Messianic application. When he was young, he meditated on God's Word. By the way, people think he was instant in his knowledge of the Bible, even though he wrote the Word. No. He came as a man. He had to grow as a boy. The Bible says he increased in wisdom. Right? So, he had to meditate on God's Word day and night. We found his secret.
So, in the word sunesis, now sun means together. There is two things coming together. Sunesis means to put two and two together. You see something by putting two and two together. There are people who read the Bible, alright? And all they see, they can memorize it even, and all they see is the superficial reading of the Bible. But someone else comes along and they put two and two together. Or this means this. That means, this means, this verse is saying, that means we can, they are able to put two and two together.
Now, Jesus at the age of 12, they found him at the temple. The parents found him at the temple. And he was asking the doctors of the law, the most brilliant people of that day. Amen? These are like the professors in Jerusalem. Professors of the law, the Word of God. And they are also professors of education because education back then was in the temple. And they are very smart people. Very sharp. And Jesus was asking them questions. And then the Bible says, and all who heard Jesus were astonished at his understanding and answers. And you know what is this word understanding? It's the word sunemi. Same word as the one we saw just now. I have more understanding than all my teachers. Alright? Except that that one is in the verb form. This is in the noun. That one is in the noun, one is in the verb. But it's the same word. Sunesis. Got it?
But that tells us how he grew. Amen? And became, he began to see more and more. He see the Scriptures. And the rabbis who know the Bible back to back, they saw it and they were amazed how he can put two and two together and said, this is it. Whoa! Have you been there before? I love to listen to Bible teachers, alright, of familiar passages, but they, they bring out things that are out in the world. Do you see that? I want that. Amen! Hey, this kind of, once you get addicted to this, oh, I'm telling you, it's the best kind of addiction. Yeah, no, no, no bad effects, no bad after effects. It's like, it gives you from glory to glory. You become a revelation addict. I'm hungry for revelation from the Word. I'm going to read this passage, I'm going to break the code. You know, that, that desire. That's how you should read the Bible. It's the glory of God to conceal a thing. It's the glory of kings to search it out. Amen! God, God, God let you purposely find and hide things so that it gives you the thrill of finding it. Wisdom comes from God.