Joseph Prince - The Unexpected Way God Restores Mental Health (02/01/2026)
This is a season for God's people to be reestablished in the gospel of grace. Using Ephesians 1:7, the preacher stresses we have present-tense forgiveness of all sins through Christ's blood according to the riches of His grace—not partial, not case-by-case. Living in this full forgiveness lets us experience God's love, forgive others freely, and see good things happen, including healing and wholeness.
The Rhema Word for This Season
I've been asking the Lord to just speak to all of you, the area where the season and the rhema word for the hour. But the Lord keeps on bringing me back and saying that this is a season for the people to be reestablished in the gospel of grace. And the more I see it, the more I realize that people cannot just receive it one time and then, you know, they got it, because it's so against our natural human flesh to believe in the forgiveness of God, to believe that in spite of all that, you know, Pastor Prince has been preaching this, some of you know this for years, but even then, when you listen to it afresh, you know that there are some things that you went through last week and all that that you find that you didn't respond the Bible way.
You didn't respond in the supernatural way because we are no longer natural people. It is very natural to believe that God has something against us, even after he has forgiven us, or we find ourselves hard to forgive others... one indication that you have not received the forgiveness of God.
You Already Have Forgiveness – Present Tense
Now, first and foremost, let me just tell you this: do you know that you have it all the time? The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 6... I believe it's verse 6... it says, "In Him we have redemption". "We have," present tense. "We have redemption through his blood". The forgiveness...we don't just have redemption, we have forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.
Our forgiveness of sins is not like this: God gives it in a meager way, the way we forgive others. "Okay, I forgive you, okay"? But, you know, we...no, it is not like this. It is according to all that he is, according to the riches of his unearned, undeserved favor. Amen? Come on. It's not out of his grace, it is according to the riches of his grace, amen? We have the verse up here. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace". Do you see that? Now, how many of us believe it?
Exposing the Error of Partial Forgiveness
You know, we... so we have teachings that I grew up on that I realized today is error, and it is this, that we have partial forgiveness. In other words, when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, God forgave us from the day we were born until the day we accept Jesus. So our past sins are forgiven. From now on, you receive forgiveness on an item, on a...you know, on a case-by-case basis.
In other words, you must catch yourself sinning. The problem is, people only confess or catch themselves...actually, they are playing the role of the Holy Spirit, right? Because no one can search you. Even David says to God, "Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Search me and try me. Try my ways". He didn't say, "I search myself". You are in no position to search yourself.
When you search yourself or you confess your sins, usually it's the big, big sins that you know of. But you miss the sins like I mentioned just now about complaining. Do you know complaining is a sin? And it is actually like an abomination to God. You see, that one sin robbed Israel and caused a lot of people to die in the wilderness. And that complaining is something that we all take as natural. It's normal for us to complain.
But other sins, we take as big sins. Depending on your culture, where you are from, different churches, different denominations, you know, they have different views. So they are told your past sins is forgiven, but your future sins are not.
God Doesn't Speak of Past or Future Sins
Now, I don't like to use the word "past" or "future" because God doesn't. He just says we have. Well, should I go ask the apostle Paul, "Excuse me, yeah, which one are you referring to, past or future"? The apostle Paul will tell you something: Jesus died in the past or your future? For all of us, you are 2,000 years too late.
When Jesus died on the cross, he died for you, your sins, are all future. Even your past sins are all future. Why? It's more than 2,000 years after he died. Of course, the cross is outside time as God is outside time. The work of Jesus is outside time. It's for people who live in the Old Covenant as well as people all the way to Adam and all the way to our...wherever it is... the fullness of the time, and God says for his Son to go back.
All our sins are borne by Jesus. Amen? No, it's not only at the Rapture. It goes beyond that as well. God is still working. So we don't know when the fullness that God says, "Okay, enough is enough". Amen? That's the end. But for us, all our sins are borne by Jesus, amen, from all our pasts, until the Rapture. Praise the Lord! Can I have a good amen?
Forgiveness Flows from God's Love
So we must live in the knowing, in the comfort, in the joy of the love of God, because the way love is expressed is forgiveness. If you love someone, one of the greatest ways you can let... make the person feel loved is to make the person feel forgiven. Some people, they love with no forgiveness. That's not love. If you love, you forgive.
"Now, Pastor Prince..." I'm talking about people that are close to you and love you and all that. Forgiveness again does not mean that you have to have the person back in the same position. Like, for example, if a boss has someone stealing from his account or whatever it is, amen, the boss being a believer must not hold a grudge. Because why? That grudge, that bitterness, that unforgiveness will only destroy the boss, not the person.
So the boss, for his own sake, better forgive that person. You see, God didn't make you to function in hatred and bitterness and resentment and complaining. You're not designed for it. Everything in your cell, in your body, you know, in your genes, and all that, you know, they just, they cannot live like that anymore than your car can move on water. Amen? Or now electricity, okay? Whatever it is, it's not designed to do so.
Some are designed to move by petrol. Some are designed to move by... you are designed to move by love, the love of God, and then the love for one another. And that's why the greatest commandment, the only commandment that Jesus gave us, is to love one another as he loved us. That's the commandment for the believer.
Love Proves New Life in Christ
Why? Because it is in our nature to love. We know we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren, amen? "No, Pastor Prince, I...if that's the case, then I'm not safe because I don't really love Christians. I always find fault with them". No, your head is finding fault, your head. Deep down, deep down, can you get up and curse them freely? No.
Deep down...I'm touching the real you... if you're truly born again, you love in that place where you're born again. The love of God is shed abroad in your heart. It's there. But you have been taught wrongly. You don't attend church. You don't...your mind is not renewed by the Word of God, by good teaching, you don't have right believing, and that's why you think you hate, but you don't.
And all the more, that hatred or that bitterness or that unforgiveness in your heart shows that you don't understand the forgiveness of God. God forgave you even of the bad thought you had this morning. Even when you're in church while worshipping, you had the bad thought. God forgave you for it already.
And if you live in that consciousness, you'll feel the love of God. And when you feel the love of God, something wonderful happens to you.
Good Things Happen to Those Who Believe God Loves Them
I have a message I preached many years ago called, "Good Things Happen to People Who Believe God Loves Them". There was a family in America, a pastor and his family. They live in a small community, and they had a special cat that was dear to the children in his family.
And one day, the cat was playing outside, and, all of a sudden, the cat climbed a tall tree and got suspended in the branch. And no one could climb the tree, it was too high, and they didn't have a ladder that could reach the cat. So the father says, "I'm going to do this. I'm going to throw a rope over that branch where the cat is hanging, okay, I'm going to tie it to my car".
Oh, he's got this brilliance. You know, all pastors, they got all these kind of ideas on...amen? So he tied it to his car, all right? It start pulling the branch. "As the branch comes lower, remember, when the cat drops, as much as you can, reach out, grab the cat". So they say, "Okay". All the kids are on standby to grab the cat.
So the father reversed, and the rope was tied to the branch, the branch ... then, boom, the rope snapped. Okay, but one week later, the pastor went visiting. You know, it's a small church, and it's almost like the small community there who are Christians there. He would go visit his people, all right?
So he went to this particular house, and he stepped in, he said, "How are you all"? And the lady was there, her young little daughter was there, and the daughter was playing with his cat. This is about one week later. And he didn't want to say anything, so he said, "Hmm, nice cat over there. Where do you find the cat"?
"Oh, pastor, you gotta listen to this miracle story. My daughter has been pestering me to get a cat, and I said, 'No, no, no, we can't afford to just always feed the cat and take care of the cat's mess and all that, no, no.' But she keeps on pestering me, so I said, 'You know what? You believe in the Lord Jesus, right? You know he is a good God, right? Why don't you pray? If the Lord gives you a cat, a cat, especially from heaven.'"
So the child did that. See, the child prayed. The child knelt down and said, "Lord, Father God, I'd like to have a cat. Please give me a cat. I know you love me. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus's name, amen". It wasn't long. "They went outside the garden, and from heaven, pastor! Pastor, from heaven! I kid you not, pastor, a cat flew".
You know, cats are amazing. They can fall from a high altitude, all right? They should have learned this, you know, from the beginning right now. They can fall, and they can fall in style, you know? Cats and Pastor Mark have a style, you know, whether they're falling down or carrying weights, you know? "And the cat fell into our garden. Pastor, it's a miracle". Amen? True story.
Healing Flows from Sensing God's Love
So I tell you this: when you feel loved, the love of God, when you sense the love of God, good things happen in you, even in your health. You become whole. Even mental health, you become sound, amen? And good things happen to you. I find it so true.
My daughter, Jessica, when she was about three years old, younger than that, I still remember she was crying. She had a viral attack. She cried and cried. We brought her to the children's hospital, and they had a blood test taken and all that, and they couldn't really figure out what was happening, and then brought her back. She was still crying, crying, crying.
My heart couldn't take it, you know? It was my first child, and I really have never faced this before, where I prayed and nothing seems to happen. I prayed and prayed, and nothing seems to happen. And she's crying and crying like in pain. And there's nothing as a parent... you all know how it feels like as a parent, you want to do something, amen?
So I told Wendy, "Just take care of...bring her into the room. I need to be alone". It sounded selfish, but I think she knew that I'm going to pray. So I went to my room, closed the door, and I just wept before the Lord and said, "Lord, I can't take it anymore. I cannot hear her cry. Please, Lord, speak to me. I need you to speak to me".
So I saw my Bible down there. I opened up my Bible, and it fell to Genesis 22. And Genesis 22 is about Abraham and Isaac, amen? The sacrifice, that God told Abraham, "Offer your son, your only son. Take now your son, your only son, the son that you love, and offer him on a mountain I will show you oft".
The Bible says, "On the third day, he saw the place afar off. In Hebrew, Ha-Makom, the place later on we know as the place where God is known as Jehovah Jireh, where God provides for everything. It is actually the place of the cross. It is Mount Calvary. Mount Moriah's highest peak is Mount Calvary.
The Cross Reveals God's Unwithheld Love
And God told Abraham, "Bring your child there," okay? "And there, you will sacrifice him". But only on the third day, he saw the place. So the third day is the place of the cross, the place where God becomes Jehovah Jireh. Through the cross, he supplies all our needs. First of all, we need salvation. He supplies that, amen? He's just Jehovah Jireh, the God who supplies and supplies and supplies, amen?
So as I saw that, and then I saw this part here, which I've been preaching all down through the years since then. I saw this where now I'm absorbed in the story that, wait a minute, this is God talking about his son, when he told Abraham, "Take your son, your only son". God will one day take his son. God knew he would take his son, his only son, and offer his son in the Ha-Makom, the place...the same place Jesus Christ will be crucified so that God can be released to the forgiveness of all our sins, to bless us with everything that is beyond... exceeding beyond anything we can ask or think, amen?
So the Lord showed me that Jesus carried the cross, just like Isaac carried the wood, and then asked the father the question. "I see the wood, I see the fire, but Daddy, Abba, where is the lamb for the sacrifice"? How that must have wrecked that old man, you know? He just looked at his son and says, "God will provide himself a Lamb". Literally in the Hebrew, it can mean both ways. God will provide himself a Lamb, God will provide himself a Lamb, because Jesus is God. He will provide Himself a Lamb. Amen?
And you all know that in that place, exactly where... most likely it's the highest peak of Mount Moriah, Mount Calvary, he was about to plunge that knife into his son, and the Lord stopped him, and the Lord said to him, "Now I know you fear me or you worship me because you have not withheld your son, your only son".
And I saw that, now I know God loves me. Why? Because God has not withheld his Son, people, his only Son, the Son that he loved for you, for me. Amen? He gave him up freely for us. And tears fell from my eyes as I read that, and God was showing me all this, you know? "I have not withheld my Son because I love you. That's how much I love you".
And for a while, I forgot my daughter was crying. I forgot the reason I went into my room, all right, to seek God for an answer. I just felt the love of God. When I felt the love of God, it's like the Lord says, "Look for the crying. You look for the crying, and it's no more". Stop, and from then on, she was all right. She's healed. Praise God.
And today, she's healed. Amen? And she has become a young, beautiful, lovely girl. Looks like her fa...amen. Both. Amen.
Nothing Changes God's Love for His Children
So when God gave me Justin, amen, it was like now he's literally a son. I began to learn again. Every time I...my interactions with him, it's like the father and the son, amen? I love him, and I love him always. Nothing he does can change my love for him. I love him because he's my son, right?
Would I give up my son for you? Okay, for sinners? No, for people that will take him, scourge him, put nails into his hands, his feet? No, no way. I'll just say, "Let 'em die and go to hell". You would for your kids, too, right?
But God gave up his Son, not to people that would treat him well... people that would nail him, spit on his face, strip him naked, mocked him, and scourged him, and then crucified him. It's the most wicked act to do with perfect love who did nothing but went about doing good.
And yet, God took the most wicked act, the most wicked act is what happened at the cross, and God demonstrated his greatest love for you and I by putting our sins on his Son. Amen? And it became the greatest testimony of love.
When you see the cross now, it's a symbol of love. Amen, you don't think of it as the most wicked act of man, but the love of God. Amen? Amen?
Something good happens in you or to you and around you when you sense God's love.
The Power of God's Love for Health and Life
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, he has this to say. very interesting quote. It'd be good for you to remember this quote. He's a great man of God, and he knows what he's saying. He said this: "The love of God is the most powerful of all means of health and long life".
The love of God...hey, listen, he didn't just say "a means". He didn't just say "powerful means". He said it is the most powerful of all means. Whether it's medicine, operation, food, diet, exercise, whatever it is, of all of them, the love of God is the most powerful of all means of health and long life, amen.