Joseph Prince - When Mind Games Become Mind Wars (01/27/2026)
We don't know what the year holds, but we know the One who holds it—God goes ahead, making crooked places straight and protecting us. His eyes care for us from beginning to end, providing, leading, and blessing despite worldly threats of recession, plagues, and wars—our bodily redemption draws near as we trust Him, tripartite beings (spirit, soul, body) redeemed fully by Christ.
God Holds the Year – He Goes Ahead of Us
We do not know what the year holds, but we know the one who holds the year. We just have to put our hand in His hand because He knows everything. He's gone ahead of us. You know, the Bible says time and time again, the Bible uses this phrase, the Lord has gone ahead of you. The Lord has gone ahead of you.
You know, David, one time, he wasn't too sure he was running away from King Saul and the enemies were coming and to attack some of the ranks of Israel. But then he said this, God says, wait. When you see the mulberry bush swaying in the wind, the Lord has gone ahead of you. Go. The battle is the Lord's. Amen? So the Lord has gone ahead of you. He's making all the crooked places straight. All the divisors of the enemy. He will care for you and protect you from them all. Amen?
God's Constant Care – From Beginning to End of the Year
There's a beautiful phrase in the Bible that talks about how the Lord cares for us from the beginning of the year to the end. Now, in the context here, it's talking about God's care for the land of Israel. Of course, God prepared the land for His people. Amen? It's a picture of His love and care for His people. Here it says that God cares. Amen? A land for which the Lord your God cares. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
God's eyes are on you. What was the land to them that God cares for? God cares for you even more. Amen? If God cares for the sparrows that fall, and not one of them falls without His knowledge, surely God cares for you. Every one of you. Amen? And His eyes are on you and your families from the beginning of this year to the end of the year. Amen? We only have to realize that. We have to realize that God's eyes are not on us to find fault with us. Amen? God never finds fault with the believer anymore. Praise the Lord. Amen? He will lead us and guide us into areas where we are making mistakes or we are not we are falling short. He will direct us. He will help us. And we want to be helped as well. We don't want to keep on doing the wrong things, right? But His eye is not on us to find fault. Amen? His eye is on us to bless us, to favor us, to lead us, to guide us, to protect us, to provide for us. All throughout this year. Can I have a good amen? Amen?
Facing Global Threats – Our Redemption Draws Near
And as I was preparing for the message to hear what God wants to say to His people this year, the theme of the year. And I'm so excited because I got this during my vacation. And when I received it, I was so excited that I really had to, you know, keep myself from telling my family in the first place. Amen? But I just began to see more and more what God is doing.
Now, by no means is it a year from the view of the world is going to be a bleak, dismal kind of year because there's so many threats going on. Exactly what Jesus said. It all confirms the Word of God. And what Jesus said when He says that there'll be plagues. We just saw that happen a few years ago. Until now, the pandemic. Plagues. Diseases. And then He talks about famines. Famines is recession. Amen? And we are embarking in a year, I'm talking about naturally, not the people of God now. Right? Into a year of recession. Amen? For the people of God, God will provide for you. God will watch over you from the beginning of the year to the end. Amen?
And then also wars. And there'll be news of wars. Rumors of wars. And Jesus says, Dan, lift up your heads. When you see these things happen, don't be discouraged, Jesus said. Lift up your heads. Your redemption draws near. Now, what redemption is it? Because once you are saved, you have been redeemed. Amen? By the blood of Jesus. What is that redemption that our Lord is talking about? It's your bodily redemption. It's your bodily redemption.
Understanding Our Tripartite Nature – Spirit, Soul, Body
You see, even this side of heaven, we know believers, even believers suffer the same fate in the sense, physically, as non-believers. Yes, we believe God for healing and all that, but we are still not the best where we have a body that will never be sick, never be tired, never grow old, never even feeling bored. Amen? The body that Jesus had when He rose from the dead.
You see, the redemption of Jesus at the cross redeemed us in all the tripartite nature of man, in all the three parts, spirit, soul, and body. Let me pause here and just say this. You are... Let's say this after me, okay? It will help you understand. Okay? I am going to say it first. I am a spirit. I am not a body. I am a spirit. I live in a body. I am a spirit. If I die, I will step out of it. No, you say it afterwards. All right? I will lead you. Okay? Um, I have a soul. My soul is my mind, my emotions, and my will. That is my soul. I have a soul. I am not my soul. I have a soul. I am a spirit. God is a spirit. Amen? Spirit brought forth. God brought forth everything physical. Physical is greater than spirit. Sorry, uh, spirit is greater than physical because physical has a time limit. You know, the chair is physical. All right? The body is physical. Everything that's physical can decay and die. All right? But the spirit lives forever. Amen? That's why there's a place that must house the spirit. Heaven or hell. Because the spirit of man is that part of man that God breathed into man. When God made his body, it's like a mannequin. Lifeless. All right? Just a body there. Then God breathed into Adam and Adam became a living soul.
The ultimate thing if you, you burn a body, any body for that matter, all right, it goes back to dust. Amen? The very soil that God made man from. I think God combined a part of his being into us, which is noble, which is the highest, amen, of creation because that part came from God. God didn't make animals out of his breath. Amen? God didn't make the stars, the sun, the moon out of his breath. But God did it out of, out of, out of himself. He gave a portion of himself to man, which is his spirit. That's why spirit is eternal. Amen? But we are more conscious of the physical because we are dead spiritually. But it's the spirit that causes the material to come into pass. Amen?
So, what are you? You are a spirit. Say, I am a spirit. Now, you can say, I am a spirit. I have a soul. That's my mind, my emotions, and my will. I live in a body. I live in this house called a body. Now, look around you. Look at all the different houses. Look at all the different ceilings. Amen? I got news for you. You only have one house. Take care of it. Once you check out, you cannot check in again. Alright? I know we can buy houses, more than one house. You don't like one house, you can buy another house for some of you. Right? But for this, for you, this house matters more than any other house. Amen? You live in this house. Take care of it. You only have one house to live in. Amen? Let this be the year that you take care of your house. You take care of your house by letting God take care of your house. Can I have a good amen?
Healing the Mind – Rejecting Forgetfulness as Normal
But in between our minds is something that the Lord, it surprised me when He said that I want to heal their minds. Because in the beginning, when I made men, their minds were not forgetful. But what has happened, He began to show me that many of us, we have accepted our forgetfulness as normal. We hear reports, we watch, you know, around us at other people and all that, and they laugh and people make jokes about it, you know. People joke like, this man went up the stairs, and he turned to his elderly wife, and he looked up, and then he looked down again, looked up, and he says, now I do not know whether I am going down or going up. You know? And people joke about that, and you know, we have moments whereby we enter into a room and we ask ourselves, why am I in this room? What did I come here for? Don't put up your hands. We call this a senior moment. Right? But we accept it as normal. People even make jokes about it. But what the Lord said to me is that it's a curse. It's a curse that came in because of Adam's fall. And Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law on that cross. Amen?
If you look at Adam before his sin, if you look at Adam, when God made Adam, God made all the animals, God made Adam last, and God made all the animals and everything else so that man can enjoy whatever he has done. God didn't make him first on the second day or the third day so that man cannot glory or take part in what God has done. All the glory goes to God. Man is the recipient of his love, the beneficiary of all his blessings. Amen? That's the life we have to live. Salvation begins when you received, not when you do. It's not your doing that saves you. It's receiving the finished work of Jesus. Amen. The Old Testament, the old agreement was that you do and do and do, but no one can do to the level that God requires. So God said, God knew that. Man doesn't know that. So God sent his Son. He died for us. And now salvation begins with D-O-N-E. Done. Amen. We rest in the finished work. Can I have a good amen?
Tripartite Nature – How Parts Interconnect
So God made man in His image. We are tripartite. Amen. If one part suffers, we suffer. If your mind is restless, the body says, all right, produce disease, produce sickness. And doctors will say like stress can cause sickness in your body. Amen. Your spirit is not at rest. It can affect your mind. Your mind can affect your body. You cannot say that, you know, this part is this part and that part is that part. It's all co-related. It is all symbiotic. Okay. And so when God made you in His image, you are tripartite. Amen. Smile your neighbour and tell them tripartite. Okay.
So watch this. The Lord said to me, He wants to heal your mind. First of all, you must acknowledge this is not normal. You keep on hearing, watching the news. You keep on hearing the news. You keep on looking at man's report. Okay. You will accept that condition. But don't say things like, I'm getting old, I'm being forgetful. Now, isn't it interesting in the Old Testament, in the book of Proverbs, written by the wisest man, King Solomon, whom God gave him wisdom, he said this about this same procedure. Look at what he says. Give attention to what? To my words. That's priority. Then he says this. Incline your ear, now your ear gate, to my sayings. Do not let them depart from where? Your eyes. Then what happens? Keep them in the midst of your heart. Notice the same procedure, right? It's through your eye gate. It's through your ear gate. See God's Word. How do you see God's Word? It doesn't mean that you take the Bible, alright? And you go through an orchard road like this, and bump into everyone and little lampposts and all that. Of course not. It means what? In your mind, you visualize, you imagine God's Word. When God's Word says that you are a tree planted by the rivers of water, you see yourself like that. Whatever He does prospers, you see yourself like that. When the world is saying you're getting older, you see yourself green. The Bible says, they shall bear fruit in old age. They shall be green and full of sap. You see God's Word. You see God's Word. You believe God's Word until it drops in your heart. You see? Keep that in the midst of your heart. It will drop into your heart. For they, God's Word, are what? They are life unto those who find them, not for everyone. For those who find them, those who receive through their eye gate, ear gate, dropping into their heart, they are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Shh! And don't, don't allow the values of the world become your values.
Rejecting Forgetfulness – God's Desire to Heal Minds
If you are depressed, and you think this is normal, don't accept people who say, it's okay. Not to be okay. If you are depressed, alright, it's okay for them to say that. They are not depressed. But I'm telling you, God wants you free from depression. There's a place where you can have peace in your mind and tranquility in your heart. God loves you. He wants you to have that. So, it's easy to go to someone and say, it's okay. Accept your condition. Don't look for relief. Don't look for... No, no, no. Understand, people in depression, you must never condemn them. Never. It's not wrong to be depressed. But to think that it's a normal state, and forever you are in that state where people are saying, it's okay. No, no, no. Easy for you to say. God wants the best for that person. God wants the person set free. Can I have a good amen?
So, in God's house, you hear God's Word, you see God's Word. Yes, at home you can also, but there are so many distractions. So, make sure at least you have that Sunday. Start the year right, my friends. Amen? So, here it says, their life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Now, wisdom is what God wants you to have. The Bible says, wisdom is the principal thing. Now, you think that, well, Pastor Prince, I would have you know I got quite, quite, how to say this, quite high IQ, you know. I don't want to brag, just very high. Super high, you know. Well, wisdom has got nothing to do with IQ. Nothing to do with IQ. Amen? I have seen doctors smoking. Now, he has got intelligence. He has got knowledge. He has got the education. He has no wisdom. Alright? There are people who messed up their marriage and their professors. Alright? They are scientists, alright, who have no good relationship with their children. They just mess it up every time their kids are with them. They say the wrong, and there is no wisdom. Wisdom comes from the Lord. And what happens when man finds wisdom of God? Here is what happens. Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. Her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, her gain than fine gold. All the things you look for today, you know, I promise you this, the stock market, the crypto market, this market, that market, whatever it is, the Bible promises more when you receive wisdom. And this is the Word of God. And she is more precious than rubies.
Wisdom's Fivefold Blessings – Health, Riches, Honor, Pleasantness, Peace
Now you see, she's, wisdom is personified as a woman. And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days, the first thing she gives you, length of days is in her right hand. How many agree right hand is the hand of priority? Would you say that? Your right hand. Hand of priority, right? So priority number one to God is not riches. It's not fame. It's not honour. It is what? Health. Amen. What's the point? If you are the richest man in the world but you are dying. Right? So health is number one in the, in her right hand. Notice that length of days. Longevity is in her right hand. Alright? Then in her left hand are riches and honour. So blessing number two is riches. Number three, honour in her left hand. Her ways are ways of pleasantness. There's a pleasantness. Doesn't mean that things are not, you know, there'll be a lot of things going wrong. There'll be a lot of adversities and challenges that we'll be faced with this year. But somehow it's like, it's very hard to be too sorrowful because like a buoy in the water, there is a joy and there's a peace, a pleasantness that lifts you up. That's what Jesus gives you in the midst of the adversity. Amen? You'll be buoyed up. Amen? You'll be raised up above your sorrows. The joy of the Lord. Happiness depends on happening that happened to happen the way you want it to happen. Then you are happy. There's the word, O-English word for H-A-P, hap. But joy doesn't depend on happiness, on hap-happenings. Paul was in the prison, being bound with chains, and he was singing. Amen. That's the joy of the Lord. Praise the Lord. And all the people said? Amen.
So watch this. Alright? Length of days. There's health, riches. Two, three is honour, four is pleasantness, and all her paths are shalom in Hebrew, peace. All her paths are peace. And peace is also well-being, wholeness. Amen? It's like completeness. Amen? Once again, what does the wisdom give you? Length of days, health, length of days, riches, honour, pleasantness, peace. So she's personified as a woman. You embrace her, both her hands support you. Go for wisdom. Go for wisdom. Ask God for wisdom. Such was Solomon. When his father, David, the one who killed Goliath, who became king later on, he died, Solomon, his son, ascended the throne. And he said to God, you know, one night he had a dream, and he was in a place called Gibeon, where the tabernacle of Moses was. And he had a dream that night, and the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and God says, ask what I shall give you. He asked God for this. He says, therefore, give to your servant an understanding heart, to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. So God was very pleased. You ask God for wisdom today, you are pleased the same God. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen. He asked God for wisdom. And what did God answer him? God said to him, because you have asked this thing and have not asked long life for yourself, you have not asked riches for yourself. Actually, wisdom brings all these things, right? But you didn't ask all these things, but you have asked the life…or not that you ask for the life of your enemies…but you have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice. Behold, I have done according to your words. See, Like you, okay? And I've also given you what you have not asked. Watch this. I've given you what you have not asked. Both riches and honour. What is that? The left hand. Right? You ask God for wisdom, you get everything. But for Solomon, he asked God for wisdom. God says, I've given you what you have not asked, riches and honour. That's the left hand. But what about the right hand? Health, length of days. God says, if you walk in all my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments, by the way, that riches and honour is like there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. Until today, he is the richest man that ever lived. Yes, he's richer than Elon Musk. All right? Considering inflation and all that, you'll find that he's a trillion, trillionaire. Over. And God says, if you walk in my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.
However, if you study the life of Solomon, he didn't live long. He died young. Now, I'll tell you this. Later on, he turned away from God. That tells us wisdom is not an it. It is a he. As you come to the Lord, you spend more time with Him. You're spending time with wisdom. Wisdom is a person. Amen. Later on, he left the Lord. Notice what God said. All right? I gave you the left hand, riches and honour. But for the right hand, you must keep my commandments. Back then, they were under the law. They were under the Ten Commandments. But we are under grace. Jesus fulfilled it all for us. It's like Jesus took your exam and gave you an A+. Jesus took your exam, gave you the A+. All right? That is very simple. We are trying to tell you that Jesus did it all and gave it to you. So, Jesus is known as the son of my right hand. So, you and I today have the right hand. The blessing. Amen! Jesus is the son of the right hand. Hallelujah! So, we have both. Amen! And then, the Bible says, Solomon awoke. And indeed, it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. I want to tell you something. This is one result that you know you received wisdom. How? He was sleeping. All this transaction happened while he was sleeping. Meditate. Meditate on God's Word. Take a verse. Chew on it the whole day. Amen? As you drive to work, chew on it. Chew on it. They are life to those who find them. Health to all. And you memorize. No evil shall befall you. With long life will I satisfy you. Happy is the man who finds wisdom. Let your friend all run the rat race. You win the race, number one rat. Don't get into the rat race. Let God bring you. To where he wants you to be. And his supply will be there.