Busy Outside Restful Inside (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner Episode

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Everywhere I see in the Word of God is always position before blessing. I’ll tell you this. Worry, busyness, anxieties, they are all but symptoms. We are trying to battle, we are cutting off the leaves, but after a few days, it comes back again. When you’re busy, your enemy wins. Get back in the realm of faith! Fight the good fight of faith.

That means stay in faith because when you stay in faith, a good fight means it ends in victory for you. We feel like God is giving us a cold shoulder. We pray. We don’t see immediate answers. We feel like we feel. We feel, we feel. We feel. That’s the problem, in the senses. There’s the time the Holy Spirit rises up and says: “You’re still the righteousness of God in Christ.

” When you are at peace, good will come to you! The Lord has been good to us today. I see him like He’s just being a shepherd over us, pouring the oil and the wine and hopefully the day comes that those who will get healed are people who are not safe yet coming in the house.

Alright? I want a church that are praying for the sick. They themselves are healthy and strong. Pastor, it’s impossible. You are just dreaming pastor. Well, there was a time in the early church the Bible says everyone was healed. Everyone was healed. And it was a time when great grace was upon them, all upon them all. And in the same verse way it says, great grace was upon them all.

It says with great power gave the apostles witness of the Lord’s resurrection. So if we come to a place, even in the Old Testament, God’s desire for us was that we come to a place where God says, there’ll be none poor among you. This isn’t in the panther, in the Torah. God said the day will come.

Well there’ll be no poor among you. Now that was God’s dream for them. But they rebelled against God and God’s plan for them. They fell into bondage right into Babylon captivity. You know that. But God’s word for them was that God wants to prosper them in a way that there’ll be none poor among you.

So I believe that’s true for the church as well, that we have all our needs provided for we have more than enough to be a blessing and to be a channel to bless others. So I believe not only now, I know that I’ll expose myself to people who are anyway going to criticize anyway and they’ll say this is a health and wealth gospel and all that.

Well you know what? We got no time to address all that. We are busy blessing you. Amen. Then to answer the critics, I know that these people when they get sick or their children get sick, they bring them to the doctor. I dunno who they pray to because they should be praying to God to heal their son.

So they want healing, right? And when their son grows up, they want a good career for their son. Yeah, fulfill God’s will, but probably not in ministry, maybe in a career somewhere. They want their son to prosper, right? It’s only when we come through this side of things. So don’t worry about all this, I’m sure you hear all this. Don’t worry.

Just prosper in every area of your life. And I’ve said it before, that the gospel is not health and wealth gospel. No, no, no. A thousand times no is the gospel of grace and peace. But I’ll be lying if I say it does not produce wellbeing for you, spirit, soul and body. Peace for your mind, hell for your body. Amen.

That’s God’s dream. Just like God’s dream for Israel. But they never achieved it. They never achieved it, right? But through God’s grace in the new covenant, we have established upon better promises. We have that dream before us. Amen. Amen. You want to look younger in your advanced years, not look important to be younger, renewed in your youth.

I have a friend who recently, he’s a well-known pastor in America and I’ve preached in his church also probably the most well-known. And he said recently he went for a checkup for his eyes and the doctor says, he said that he’s having problems, his eyes getting blur, all that the doctor says, because you are wearing contact, your eye is actually getting better and he’s the same age as me.

What’s your age pastor? 25. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Amen. Yeah. I’m just five years younger than Pastor Lawrence. Okay, ready for the word. And let’s go right to the word. Praise God. We are living in the upper room and everywhere I see in the word of God is always positioned before blessing.

And the Lord says, even in Deuteron 28 under the law, God says, and this blessing shall come on you and overtake you. Right? You all know that, right? But what are the verses before that? This is in de 2028. God says, we’re not going to show you up here, okay? Just want to challenge you to see, to see whether you know that portion.

It says what? And the Lord your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth. Position the Lord your God will set you on high. Now, has that happened to us in the Old Testament? God told them if they keep all the commandments, in fact God commanded them. God says, if you keep all the commandments, I’ll set you on high.

So the position was contention upon their obedience to the law. But now Christ has come and all that we are enjoying today is a result of his work. God made Jesus who knew no sin, he never sin in thought, word or deed. God made Jesus. God made Jesus on the cross to be sin with your sin. With my sin that we might be made say made the righteousness of God in Him.

Okay? So there is a divine exchange. That’s the purpose for which God sent his son. Okay? Now, not just that, the Bible says our old man as sons of Adam, we died with Christ at the cross. The old man, the old identity is finished at the cross. Amen. Okay? Now what has happened is that when Christ died and he was buried, we were in him, our history in Christ began at the cross.

It wasn’t just Jesus dying on the cross. God took that part of you that you don’t like that part of you, that you try your best not to think those evil imaginations or not to be depressed or not to be addicted and all that. But you still find yourself, you are helpless because in the flesh dwells no good thing.

Well that whole person is crucified at the cross. And now you’re born again because your history happened with Christ at the cross, where at the cross your old man was done away with and you are still in Christ, right? And when God raised Christ from the date you were raised with him, amen. And not only that, when God raised Jesus far above say far above, far above all principality, you need to know this because those things that are attacking you and bullying you, those things are actually way, way, way,

way below you. Hallelujah. That’s why it’s so vital for us to always be reminded of this place in the upper room. So God raised you far above. Listen, he could have said, far is enough. It is far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named you can name any disease.

Alright? Covid, whatever new disease will come in the future, right? God says He has raised Christ far above every name that is named not only in this world, but also in the world to come. But then the very next chapter in efficiency tells us that. And God raised Christ together. God raised you together with Christ. He quickened you in the grave. Amen. At the cross you died.