Joseph Prince - The Truth That Will Change The Way You Pray Forever (01/27/2026)
Being in God's presence strengthens, heals, and energizes us, just as multitudes sensed Jesus' majesty, meekness, and perfect balance of qualities—altogether lovely. We are conformed to His image by looking at Him in Scripture, speaking with authority like Him, and living in kairos moments where God makes everything beautiful in His favorable time, reaping in due season through patient endurance and joyful patience empowered by the Spirit.
Strengthened in God's Presence – Like the Multitudes with Jesus
Right now, you are stronger, you are healthier, you are more energized. Amen. For having been in the presence of the Lord. You're experiencing something that the people, the Galileans, the people who followed Jesus, the multitudes that flocked to Him when He was here on earth, they sensed, they sensed the presence of the Lord, the majesty of the man. They sensed the princeliness of that carpenter by all outward appearances, a lowly man, and yet there's such a dignity, the Bible says, excellent as the cedars of Lebanon.
There's meekness and yet majesty. I just love looking at Jesus in the Bible and to be like Him, you need to understand why we want to be like Him because there's no one as lovely as Him. He has no characteristic that preponderates one is greater than the other. You know, His meekness is not at the expense of His majesty. He has it all in beautiful balance in the holy sanctuary. When He's kind, He's not soft. I've said before. Amen. When He's zealous, He's not fanatical. For us, we go into extremes.
And we are all known for certain characteristics. You look at Solomon, he's known for his wisdom. You look at Paul, he's known for his revelation of the church, of the mysteries of the New Testament. You look at Peter, Peter, you see a person who is very zealous for the Jewish things, for his nation Israel. Different ones have different characteristics. All of us like that, but Jesus has all of them altogether lovely. The Bible says, altogether lovely, that verse in the Bible.
Jesus' Perfect Balance – Never Vexed, Always Majestic
And I see many of times that He's not vexed. He's not easily vexed. Look at you and I. We are so easily vexed. Look at Him. Every time, you know, the people will interrupt Him. And these are people who are anti-Him. Alright? These are not friendly people. These are people who have animosity in their hearts towards Him. And yet, He's never vexed. He's never frustrated. Amen?
Sometimes He will speak sternly, especially the Pharisees, but He never speaks sternly in that way to the tax collectors or the prostitutes or the sinners, the common sinners of the day. It's only those who are blind that Jesus use strong words. And yet, such a beauty even in His words, even in His strong words, that He's a revelation. And a man, He's a real man's man. A man who single-handedly drove out all the money changers from the temple. Now, you know, right? Money changer and their money. No one can separate them. Amen. He did it single-handedly.
He spoke two words, follow me, and strong fishermen, who have worked for years in the industry. Look at him. He's not a fisherman. But two words, follow me, that the Marines have copied, the U.S. Marines have copied down through the years. Follow me. And they left everything and followed Him. What man is this? That's exactly what the disciples says. When He was sleeping at the end of the boat, and there was a storm, and He was still sleeping. What calm, what majesty, what beauty, what peace that you and I can have looking at this man.
When He rose from the dead, He's still the same Jesus. Amen. When the Bible says that we are all to be conformed to the image of Jesus, amen, you need to know what is the image of Jesus. What kind of man is He? A man who speaks and it's done. You must include that as well. To be conformed to the image of Jesus is someone who speaks and it's done. Amen. And I see that parents, we need this in our lives. Not force our will upon our children. Not to make them obedient by threats and bribing, bribing them or blackmail, but we speak and it's done. The effect goes right into their hearts.
Kairos – God's Favorable Time for Beauty and Harvest
I want to speak more on this a while on, okay? But let's go to Ecclesiastes 3:11. He's made everything beautiful in His kairos, in His time, in His favourable time. What is kairos again? The opportune time. A time of favour. Amen. And for you, this is your inheritance. Every kairos moment, He'll make things beautiful in your life.
Not only that, we reap. We've been sowing, we've been doing a lot of things, but we see that there's no harvest, it seems. Amen. We do it for Him nonetheless, right? But we want the harvest as well because harvest meets our needs. We've plenty left over to meet the needs of others. Am I right? But when will we reap? The Bible tells us in Galatians 6, very clearly, that let us not be weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. We don't lose heart.
Now notice, when will we reap? In due season. Do you know in due season is one word in the Greek? Kairos. Kairos. When will we reap? In Kairos. When will God make things beautiful in your life? In His Kairos. Amen. We want to live in that Kairos place. I say we want to live in that Kairos place. Amen. As much as possible. Amen.
You know, the, the, the Bible talks about good days and evil days, right? Right? Am I right? Like for example, Ephesians 6, he said, put on the armour of God that you may be able to stand in the evil day. In the evil day. The, definite article, evil day. Day is singular. I love it because the Bible says in more than one place, Old Testament and New Testament, that quotes the Old Testament saying, for he that will love life and see good days. Plural. So good days are plural for God's people. Evil day. Good days. Evil day.
So we all go through an evil day or an evil season even. But whatever afflictions you go through, it is only for a season. People talk about Job's sufferings and all that. It's all, it's about nine months, scholars tell us. About nine months. Less than a year. Amen. And God gave him double all that he lost. Right? It's good days are upon you.
But you see, but every time I look at the news and all that, you know, like evil days, pastor. Again, you are projecting into the world. And not only that, worse, you are taking from the world and putting it into your life. Now, I am not against people watching all these things, but if you don't watch the Word and you are watching, you are not reading the Word or spending time in the Word and you are looking at all these things, no wonder you are depressed. No wonder you are fearful. No wonder you are no longer going to have the helmet of salvation, hope of salvation. Because hope means a positive expectation of good in your future.
Watch your mind. Watch your thoughts. And then when you are depressed, when you are dead, then you are very easily irritated. You don't mean to be irritated with your spouse, but you are irritated because you are worried. Your spouse doesn't know that. So your spouse responds to your irritation and then you get more irritated because he doesn't understand. Then he doesn't understand why you don't understand. He tries to be understanding. Then you get irritated. All the while, the problem goes free because the problem is actually your worry and your care.
Spirit-Strengthened for Endurance and Joyful Patience
See, all these One of those things that the Bible teaches us makes for a successful, beautiful, wonderful life. He makes things beautiful in his time. Amen. If you are a person who is not easily irritated, for example, and the Bible says, pray this prayer. Paul prays this prayer. Listen, you know what prayer he prays? He said that, to be strengthened, I pray for you all that you'll be strengthened with all might by your Spirit. Wow! That sounds like there might be something, a purpose for this. There might be something powerful that you'll be able to accomplish, maybe performing signs and wonders and miracles in the lives of people. Maybe that's it, but no.
Why strengthen with all might, with all might by God's Spirit? You pray that prayer, it says, strengthen with all might by His Spirit unto all endurance. This is adverse circumstances. And not only that, and patience with joy. Patience is towards people. With joy! Wow! That part, I've been praying this prayer, you know? Some parts I get. The joy part, I haven't got. Still working on it. Sometimes I'm joyful, sometimes I'm not. That means what? Endurance towards adverse circumstances and patience towards difficult people. With joy! It only happens when the Holy Spirit strengthens you with all might. Amen?
I just want to drop one thing in your heart about Kairos, okay? About right time, right place this year. The thing that He wants us to do, and this is what He's saying, said to me very strongly. He says, my people need to learn to pray and get more into prayer. Now, the moment I said that, some of you are saying, oh, you know, it's very hard. I don't have the time and all that. Because you have this religious idea about prayer. Your idea of prayer is that one hour prayer or two hours prayer, like you hear some men of God, they kneel down there, they pray for one, two hours, and three hours, or whatever it is, and there's no way I can do that, Pastor Prince.
No, I'm talking about communication with God. One of the most outstanding things that the disciples saw about Jesus is that at any time, he'll talk to God. And one time, they were persecuting Him and all the, he was talking about the cities that rejected Him. Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, and all that. At that moment, he lift up his eyes and says, Father, I thank you that you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent of the world, but you have revealed them unto babes. He praised his Father. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. And he turned to his disciples and said, Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden.
While he was being persecuted, while he was being rejected by all these towns and villages, amen, he was rejoicing, talking to the Father, and then looking at the disciples and says, Come unto me, all you that labor. Oh, the beauty of the man. Amen? Amen? I want to say this. Okay, listen carefully, especially for this church and those that are following this ministry. Do you know that you can even allow the knowledge of grace to stop you from praying? Because you will say, It's by grace, like. Grace will happen. Grace, you know. No, no, no, no. Grace is the idea, you cannot, but the Lord can. It is actually conscious weakness.
You will always, your place of strength before God, your place of power before God is conscious weakness. But don't stop there. If you're, I'm so weak, I'm so weak, I'm so weak. No, don't stop there. But you need to know, or else you'll be going around the mountain to learn the lesson that you are weak. You'll find that you'll fall and fall and fall until you learn that you are weak. People think they are weak, but they're not weak enough. That's why you cannot save a drowning person too fast. You cannot jump in the water too fast. Why? As long as he still has strength, he will pull you down. You must wait until he is weak. He cannot help himself. He cannot save himself. Then you can save him.
We are still quite strong. We think we are weak, but we are not. But we are actually weak. That's why all these daily irritations, God allows them to come in, so that you want to be more like Jesus. All the best things you can do when you are arguing your spouse, and you are impatient, and all you can think of is, it's her fault, his fault, her fault, his fault, her fault, his fault, is to stop and judge that irritability in you. And tell yourself, I judge that irritableness. Joseph brings, why are you so irritable? Don't talk about the rightness of the situation. Live that for a while. Why are you so irritated? Why are you so vexed? Why are you so angry? I don't want that in me. I judge that. Hmm. And then you realise, that has been taken at the cross. Amen.
So, conscious weakness on one hand, and then dependence on God, on Christ. These are the twin... These are the power twin for victory in your life.
Kairos Moments – Prayer for Right Time, Right Place
So, we see the first occurrence of right time, right place, Genesis 24, is this, when the servant at the well, he prayed his prayer. Then he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. So, we all know the story. The servant doesn't know which girl. The village has a lot of young girls, and they are all coming out at the same time to take water. It was the responsibility of these young girls to take water for the family. Okay? Usually, they have two timings. Early in the morning, and in the evening. Alright? When it's less hot. And they will all come. So, at a time in the evening, the Bible says, the Abraham's servant, who was sent on an assignment by Abraham to look for a bride for Isaac, right, he sat at the well.
He doesn't know which girl, right? So, he prayed, O God, give me success. So, the word there is, the word there in the Hebrew is qarah. Qarah. Qarah. Alright? Which is right happening. Right happening. Good happening. Fortunate happening. The world calls it serendipity. Alright? You happen to chance upon a favourable opportunity. Amen? A surprise, but a pleasant surprise. You didn't plan for this. That is what qarah is all about. Right time. Right place. That's qarah happening to you.
So, he prayed for qarah. Give me a right time. Do you know that God actually stopped, for some reason, God actually stopped all the young ladies from coming out? That while he was praying, he didn't finish his prayer yet. He told God, the woman that will come and offer me water, the young woman that will come and offer me water, he thought that there will be many, many women that will come and draw water. But the one that comes, Lord, the one that will come and offer me water, and not only me give me water, but all my ten camels. And one camel, thirty gallons minimum, water. Can you imagine? She will also give them water. She is the one that you have appointed. He made it hard.
But while he was still speaking, before he finished speaking, the Bible says, before he finished speaking, show them verse 15, and it happened before he had finished speaking that, behold, Rebekah appeared. So I want to know something. We learned that prayer is mentioned with qarah. Prayer is mentioned. And it's not a long prayer. If you count the length of the prayer, some of the most powerful prayers are short prayer. Yes, we have instances of Jesus praying through the night. Amen. We have instances of a certain protracted prayer in the disciples' lives. We have a corporate prayer. They all pray together. But most of the prayers you see are short prayers. You can count the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples, our Father who art in heaven. You count with a stopwatch. It's fast.
But this idea, religious idea, you got to spend hours in prayer, it's not from God. At one time, we made a law out of one hour prayer. I still remember that. I tell you, I put a clock there. I started praying. And I thought, oh, one hour already. I looked at my clock. Ten minutes. But we don't do that. We were talking to our good friend, you know, in a cafe. We sit down there. And then we always say what? Wow, the hour just flies. How do you think God feels? You know, it's the, it's the, prayer's conversation with God. Amen.
So, you don't just dream, by grace, I'll have success. You know, by grace, I'll have success. Did you pray? I said, did you pray? I'm going to talk to my son afterwards. You know, he did something just now. Did you pray? That God will give you wisdom, favour with him. That your words will go deep. Did you pray? It's a small thing to pray. God is telling us. This is conscious weakness that I cannot convince him. But you, only you can. This is conscious weakness and dependence on God. Dependence through Christ that you will get through to him. Amen.
Oh yeah, I, I, I, you got to make an important decision. You know, in fact, I was confronted with a number of important decisions to make. You know, for, for, for someone else even. I got to ask God, God, give me wisdom. But if I think that I'm smart, oh yeah, you know, let's go with the pros and the cons and the pros and the cons. And all the pros and cons cannot put you at the right time at the right place. We shared that before, even stopping accidents. Smart people die. Professors die. Doctors die. Amen. In an accident. It's not even their fault. Other people's fault. Wrong time, wrong place. It's not their fault.
I'm just telling you, church, we need to depend on the Lord. So, the amazing thing is that before he had finished speaking, Rebecca appeared. So, even when you are praying, God has answered. So, God is outside the time zone. He sends the answer that you're going to pray later on, on, on this earth. He sends the answer before you pray because He knows you will pray. So, the prayer that He put in your heart to pray, you think you are praying, but actually He put it in your heart to pray the prayer that He wants you to pray. And the answer is on the way.
There's a beautiful promise here in Isaiah 65. It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer while they are still speaking. And that's what happened to Abraham's servant. Wait, wait, wait. When do you believe you receive them? When you see it happen? When you touch it? You can feel it in your body. You can see it outside? When the manifestation comes? When? When you stand praying, Mark 11, verse 24. Therefore, when you stand praying, believe. One more time. What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and you shall have them.
So when do you believe you receive? While you're praying. It's this, while they're still speaking, I will answer. I believe that when I pray, God answers. You've got to have that posture that, you know, you are redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Again, all these religious thoughts and all that, you know, you've got to find out your sin before you can talk to God, before God can hear you and all that. You know, and your unconfessed sin, right? That's why I'm telling you, this kind of consciousness can rob you of a prayer life.
You've got to know that you're forgiven of all your sins. Amen. And thank God for that. True confession is homologeo to say the same thing with God about our sins. What did God say about our sins in the New Covenant? They are all forgiven by Jesus' blood. Confess that. The more you believe that, you won't fall into sin. I'm telling you. Because you won't be sin-conscious. Before you fall into sin, you are sin-conscious. Okay? Pray. God hears your prayer. You're a child of God. Pray. Every situation, pray. Be like, every day, it's not so much hours of prayer. It is like, the whole day, right, any situation comes up, you are praying.
You find you are lacking or something. Pray! That pain I felt in my body, Pastor Prince, can you pray for me? Did you pray? I fell late this morning and you've got no time to pray. You've got no time to pray. You've got time to eat or not? You've got time to go to the toilet or not? When you feel the urge, you do it, right? Right? Prayer is so simple. God is so close. Another thing. That, you know, you've got to demolish all these religious thoughts. You must get close to God. You must get close to God. You are so close already. You are in Christ. In a way, are you not? Seated in Christ at the Father's right hand. Pray. Amen.
And know that while you are praying, not after, while you are praying, God is hearing. God is really sending the answer already. And sometimes, just like Abraham's servant, boom! He appears right before you.
Pray for Prosperity and Health – Conscious Dependence
So, another thing I want to see is this. While he was praying, what did he pray? Give me qarah in the Hebrew. In your English Bible, it says success. Right? So, listen. Pray for success. The amazing thing is that, you know 3 John 1-2? Right? It says, well, 3 John 1-2 says what? Beloved, I pray that you prosper and be in health. Now, that's the King James Version. You know what's the word there, I wish? It's actually, I pray. It's used in other places for prayer. Do you know you can pray? I pray for my children. I pray for my spouse. I pray for my church. And I pray this for you also. I pray that you prosper and be in health even as your souls prosper.
The very area that you are frustrated about, when I am weak, not before or after. When I am weak, then I'm strong. But you don't realize you are strong at that point. So, the world glorifies your strength. So, we show our strength. We don't show our weakness. We show our strength. We build our strength. We cover up our weakness. In the Kingdom of God, it's the opposite. Show God your weakness and His strength manifest in that area. Believe as you are praying. Alright? God is answering. Believe as you are speaking. The words are entering. Believe. Amen.