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Luke 2:12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
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ou are probably familiar with the story of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. The Bible says that when the time had come, Mary “brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger”. (Luke 2:6–7) But have you ever wondered why the angel told the shepherds that the Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger was a “sign”? A manger is actually a feeding trough for livestock. Do you know what a feeding trough in those days looks like? I have seen a similar one at Solomon’s stables in Meggido, Israel. It is basically a big rectangular block of stone with the trough hewn out of it. So baby Jesus, who was wrapped in swaddling cloths, was placed in such a stone trough. But why was that a sign? Because if you have seen the empty tomb of Jesus at a place called The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, you would have noticed that the place where His body was laid, inside a tomb hewn out of rock, resembles a stone trough. The Bible says that after Jesus’ crucifixion and death, Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus’ body, wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn out of a rock. (Mark 15:43–46) Can you see the similarities? Wrapped in swaddling cloths and laid in a manger, baby Jesus would one day be wrapped in linen and laid in a tomb. That was the sign the angel was referring to. It pointed to Jesus’ death. Jesus was the only child in all of humanity born to die. Once you realize that, you will realize how much God loves you.You will realize that He gave up His Son for that one purpose, and that His Son willingly came for that one purpose—to die for your sins and mine. Beloved, can you imagine living your life knowing that you are just qualifying yourself to die on the cross to save the world? That was the life that Jesus lived. He lived to die, so that we might live and enjoy life abundantly today.
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Until God Makes Your Enemies Your Footstool ’Tis the season when Christians the world over celebrate the birth of Jesus. But do you know that you don’t have to wait for the festive season to walk in peace and joy? You can rejoice in spite of your circumstances because God wants you to take a throne attitude and rest while He takes care of everything else for you!
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oday, Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father’s throne. (Hebrews 8:1) And the Bible says that as Christ is, so are we in this world. (1 John 4:17) This means that we are also seated at the Father’s right hand. Now, being seated is a picture of rest. In the Old Testament, the priests never sat down. There were no chairs in the tabernacle of Moses or in the temple of God because their work was never finished. But Jesus sat down because His work is finished. (John 19:30, Hebrews 10:11–13) And God said to me, “Son, tell My people to have a throne attitude.” So what does it mean to have a “throne attitude”?
Having A ‘Throne Attitude’ Psalm 110:1–2 1 The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” 2The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! In Hebrew, the first “LORD” refers to Jehovah, or Yahweh, and the second “Lord” is Adonai. Therefore, the first verse actually reads, “Yahweh said to my Adonai…” After Jesus conquered sin and death, and rose from the dead, He returned to the Father. And the Father said, “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” So Jesus’ throne attitude is to sit and expect His Father to bring all His defeated enemies under His feet. In biblical times, defeated enemies were brought back in chains and the victorious king would sit on his throne and put his feet up on the backs of his defeated enemies as a sign of victory. Likewise, Jesus’ conquered enemies are being dragged to Him one by one, and put under His feet. Ephesians 1:20, 22–23 (NIV) 20 ...He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand...22And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, 23which is His body... We, the church, are the body of Christ. And who is the one who makes the enemies our footstool? It is not us, but God Himself! God’s Word is the truth and He keeps His Word. God is telling us to have the same throne attitude as Jesus—to rest, while He makes our enemies our footstool. So with each passing day, we have all things, including the defeated enemies of disease, poverty, depression and all kinds of curses, being put under our feet.
Jesus’ throne attitude is to sit and expect His Father to bring all His defeated enemies under His feet. Enter God’s Rest Do you want to know God’s definition of His rest? Hebrews 3 describes how the children of Israel were not allowed to enter the promised land because they doubted God’s Word. However, instead of saying “They shall not enter My promised land”, God called the promised land “My rest”. Hebrews 3:11 11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ This means that what the physical land was to the children of Israel in the Old Testament, God’s grace and rest are to the believer under the new covenant. That is your inheritance today. God wants to bring you out of lack and into the land of abundance! He wants to bring you out of sickness into robust health! And this promised land is the place of His rest. God’s Word always tells us “Fear not, fear not”. But do you know that there is only one thing the Bible tells us to fear? Hebrews 4:1 1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. In Hebrews 4:1, God tells us to fear that we don’t enter His rest. Now, many of us worry about many things and everything that God tells us not to be afraid of, we fear. But the one thing that God tells us to be afraid of, we aren’t!
Be Rest-Conscious, Not Giant-Conscious There is another lesson that we can learn from this story. God told the children of Israel that He had come to bring them into “a land flowing with milk and honey”. (Exodus 3:8) This means that the promised land was a place flowing with abundance and provision. It was also a sure promise, a statement of what God will definitely do. However, what was the posture of God’s people when they reached Kadesh Barnea, the border between the wilderness and the promised land? They sent 12 spies into the land for 40 days and chose to GOSPEL REVOLUTION
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believe the report of the 10 spies who said that the Israelites could not take the land because it was inhabited by giants from the tribe of Anak. (Numbers 13:33) In Hebrew, the word Anak means chain or neckchain. A chain around the neck is a picture of a yoke which weighs you down. Although God had delivered the children of Israel from their taskmasters in Egypt and they were no longer slaves, they still had a slave mentality. Instead of focusing on God’s goodness and promise, the children of Israel focused on their giant problem—the Anakim—and they were weighed down with anxiety and fear. Today, some of us still have this slave mentality. We are so focused on our “Anakim”— our problems and symptoms—instead of Jesus’ finished work on the cross, that we cannot enter our promised land of rest. Now, I want to pose to you a question that God asked me which I had to answer as well. Have you ever read the story of the 12 spies and asked yourself if you would side with Joshua and Caleb—the two spies who said, “Let us go immediately and take the land!”—or if you would agree with the 10 spies? Well, the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, like your fathers in the wilderness.” (Hebrews 3:7–9) In other words, are your problems bigger than what God is saying about your situation? Before your body is healed, before the money is in your bank account, before every problem in your life is resolved, will you believe that God will deliver you according to His Word and still walk in rest? God wants you to have the revelation that whatever you need Him to do for you has already been done because Jesus has accomplished all for you. And God is asking, “In spite of the giants, would you go up and enter the promised land of My rest? Can you be rest-conscious, rather than giant-conscious?”
When You Rest, He Works What happens when you become rest-conscious? Let’s look at this secret hidden in the story of how Jesus healed a man who had been suffering from an infirmity for 38 years. John 5:8–9 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.
Whatever you need Him to do for you has already been done because Jesus has accomplished all for you. I asked the Lord why He asked the man to take up his bed. Why not just ask him to rise and walk? And He showed me that the bed is a picture of rest. So what Jesus was actually saying to the man was, “Rise, take up your rest and walk!” Notice that that day was the Sabbath, the day of rest. Therefore, what God is saying is that when you rest, He works! Isn’t this amazing? Yet, there was a group of people who were unhappy that the Lord had healed this man. John 5:10–12, 16 10 The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.” 11He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’” 12Then they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”...16For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. The religious people were upset because it was the Sabbath. They saw healing as work. To them, healing the man on a day of rest meant that Jesus was working on the wrong day! Now, if you had known this man, wouldn’t you ask him, “Hey, what happened to you? How did you get cured?” Instead, the people he met said, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.” Look, this man hadn’t walked in 38 years! But the people around him were only concerned that he had carried his bed on the day of rest. This is how legalistic people are. They cannot see the blessings, only the problems. The last phrase “had done these things on the Sabbath” in the original Greek is in the imperfect tense. The imperfect tense generally represents continual or repeated action. This means that it was a habit for Jesus to heal on the Sabbath and He had repeatedly performed such miracles on the Sabbath. On the day that man rests, God is able to work!
Your Healing Is In The Rest Another example is the healing of a woman who was bowed down for 18 years. When Jesus healed her in the synagogue, the ruler of the synagogue, the woman’s “pastor”, said, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.” (Luke 13:14) What was Jesus’ response?
Seek Rest First That It May Be Well God does not say, “Wait until all your enemies have been destroyed, until every problem in your life has been resolved, then you can rest.” He says, “Rest first until I make all your enemies your footstool.” What do you see when it comes to healing for a condition in your sick body or breakthroughs for your financial challenges? Do you see lack and say, “Let me get out of this situation first. Let me hear the doctors’ reports say that everything is clear, and then I can rest”? We find it hard to rest because our human nature is inclined toward worry and restlessness. The devil loves to see human nature reign in the church and to have you believe that you can only rest when things go well or when you see your breakthroughs. Stop saying, “When my child finishes primary school, I will stop worrying and rest.” You know what? After primary school, there is secondary school. Then, after your child completes secondary school, you will say, “I think when my child finishes university, then I will rest.” And you will never rest! I want to share about two women who faced a financial situation during a time of famine. Now, Naomi was a woman of God and this is what she said to her daughter-in-law Ruth. Luke 13:15–16 15 The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for 18 years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” Jesus said that her healing came just by being a daughter, a child of God. But some Christians still think that healing is man’s work, not God’s work. They go around thinking, “I’m not doing enough, that’s why I’m not healed.” They cannot believe that healing can be as simple as being at rest in God’s finished work, saying and believing, “Lord Jesus, as You are free from every disease and sickness, so am I in this world.” Did you know that even the words “healed” and “relaxed” are linked in Hebrew? One of the Hebrew names of God is Jehovah-Rapha which means “I, the Lord, am your healing”. (Exodus 15:26) The Hebrew word rapha not only means “to heal”, but one of its root definitions also means “the relaxed”. So healing comes by being at rest, not by working. Jesus’ death has given us life and wholeness.
Ruth 3:1 (KJV) 1 …My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? In other words, Naomi told Ruth, “Shall I not seek rest for you, so that things will go well for you?” Isn’t it strange that Naomi mentioned rest first? Isn’t human nature more inclined to say, “Shall I not seek for things to go well with you, so that you can rest?” But God wants His nature to reign and He loves you so much that He says, “You are already seated on the throne. You rest first. Sit down until I put the conquered enemies—that financial situation, that symptom in your body—under your feet.” God wants you to find rest in the midst of the storm. And when you rest in Him, things will go well. This doesn’t mean that there are no enemies. But you will rule in the midst of your enemies! (Psalm 110:2) Psalm 23:5 says that God prepares a table for you in the presence, not the absence, of your enemies. Some of you may say, “Lord, how can you expect me to eat now? The symptoms are still in my body! My bank account still shows the lack! Lord, I will eat well and I will celebrate when all my problems are resolved.” But the Bible says that God doesn’t follow human nature. God says, “I will prepare a table. You eat first! You eat in the presence of your enemies, and I will take care of your enemies.” GOSPEL REVOLUTION
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Don’t Postpone Your Rest Isaiah 53 describes Jesus’ suffering and what He accomplished for us on the cross. It says that He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes, we are healed! The reason we can rest and rejoice in the midst of our enemies is because Jesus defeated them when He took our place and bore our sins on the cross. He has done it all and the work is finished. (Hebrews 10:12– 14) We only need to take up a throne attitude and rest in Him. So as we are resting in His finished work, what should our response be? How do we partake of all that Jesus has done? Right after Isaiah 53, the Scripture says: Isaiah 54:1–3 1 “Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman…2Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords... 3For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations... Jesus has defeated the enemies and God is telling the barren woman to rejoice! The “barren woman” is a picture of someone who has not seen results, signs of health in her body or signs of abundance in her situation. Being barren is not God’s will for you. The Word says that God never meant for us to be barren. God blessed man and told him to be fruitful. (Genesis 9:7) So in Isaiah 54, God is saying, “Sing now, and prepare for your blessing! Enlarge your tent and prepare for growth! Do not spare. Expand your territory and your descendants will inherit the nations.” Imagine you are a barren woman singing, “Hallelujah! I’m a mother of many! The Lord loves me!” The devil will come and say to you, “A mother of many? Where is your child? Aren’t you a hypocrite?” But don’t stop rejoicing. God wants you to enjoy life before the problem is resolved. Start singing even before you see the manifestation. Stop postponing your joy and peace. Stop waiting for Christmas to celebrate. Make every day a celebration of life, and learn to rest in the midst of your problems. It should be a daily response to go to Jesus for our rest. Jesus Himself tells us to come to Him and He will give us rest.
We can rest and rejoice in the midst of our enemies because Jesus defeated them when He took our place and bore our sins on the cross.
Matthew 11:28 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Whenever you are heavy laden with worries or cares, weighed down by the yoke of the law, or in the midst of any enemy that is weighing you down, go to Jesus and you will find rest in Him. Rejoice, sit down and prop your feet up, because God has promised that He will deal with your enemies and make them your footstool!
This article is excerpted from the message, Have A Throne Attitude —Rest Until God Makes Your Enemies Your Footstool, preached by Joseph Prince on 24 February 2008. © Copyright Joseph Prince, 2008. All rights reserved. To obtain a copy of the full message, visit our online store via www.josephprince.org
PraiseReports Able To Sleep With A Touch Of His Presence Dear Pastor Prince, I am 62 years old and I do the nightshift at a home for the elderly. For a while now, during my one-hour break, I would lie down on a couch, take my iPod and listen to the music from your A Touch Of His Presence worship CD. After my break, I am always refreshed and so full of life that my colleagues can see it and are astonished.
Severe Sinus Healed After Taking Communion I was truly blessed and refreshed after reading your book, Health And Wholeness Through The Holy Communion. Many questions were answered and the explanations for “unworthily”, “discerning the Lord’s body” and healing taught me a lot. I began to look forward to taking the Lord’s Supper. One day, I experienced a very severe sinus congestion, which resulted in a very severe head cold, the worst ever. I decided to lay it all down and take the Holy Communion.
Every day, I also read your Destined To Reign Devotional and listen to one of your sermons. I have been so blessed by the messages and my life has begun to change because I realize now that I reign in the authority of Jesus Christ.
I did so and believed that Jesus’ body was broken at Calvary for my wholeness and His blood was shed for my redemption. It was a beautiful experience. I rested after taking Communion and within hours, began to feel better—thirtyfold, sixtyfold then a hundredfold. It was all gone.
Some nights ago, an amazing thing happened at my work place. There were three old people who had been crying through the night. They were not able to articulate what was bothering them. To help them get some rest, the staff administered sedatives. One man was given three doses in one night. But the sedatives did not help.
I received my healing freely, glory to Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords! The best part of it all is that I understand Communion now and partake of the bread and wine just the way the Lord intended it.
The next day, I began to pray specifically for these persons. I commanded Satan to leave their bodies, spirits and souls. I put a CD player in the corridor along their rooms and played A Touch Of His Presence. As the music played, I just believed that Jesus could help these people better than any medicine could.
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Praise the Lord, all three persons calmed down and became quiet. They could sleep that whole night and the nights after that. My colleagues were so surprised! I praise my Lord Jesus for such a miracle! I know that I can completely rest in the presence of God—HE works for me, hallelujah! I thank the Lord Jesus and I thank you, Pastor Prince, for preaching the gospel.
Sophie | Calgary, Canada
I want to thank the Lord Jesus for your ministry and for His grace upon my life. Last year, I sent a prayer request about needing God’s guidance as I wanted to start my own business. A month ago, I literally “bumped” into a perfect business opportunity. I was also given a bank loan I had applied for without having to strive for it. I have started my business and things are looking very good. Thank you so much for your prayers. I know that more blessings are on the way. God bless you. Fella Mohaule | Johannesburg, South Africa
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Son’s Foot Healed After Taking Communion As A Family One evening, before I went to sleep, I began reading your book, Health And Wholeness Through The Holy Communion. I fell asleep but woke up at 5am so that I could finish reading it. For about half an hour, I just sat and meditated on what I had just read. The revelation of the Holy Communion just exploded in me. It was awesome. About that time, my four-year-old son woke up. As he got out of his bed and his feet touched the ground, he collapsed to the ground in pain. My wife immediately went to his bedroom to find him on the floor crying in pain. For some reason, he could not stand on his right foot. For 10 minutes, he tried to stand, but every single time, he would scream in pain and fall to the floor. My wife then carried him downstairs to where I was and shared with me what had happened. I told them that we would take the Holy Communion together as a family and our heavenly Daddy would heal him. Before we partook, I briefly explained as simply as I could to my four-year-old son and six-year-old daughter what Jesus accomplished for us on the cross. Together, we thanked Jesus for taking all our sicknesses and pains in His own body, so that we could be completely whole in our bodies. We then partook of the Communion elements. As soon as we finished taking the Communion, my son jumped off his chair and stood perfectly without any pain or problem whatsoever. Praise God! Jesus is Lord! Thank You, Pastor Prince, for persevering in preaching the gospel of grace. God has used your teachings to transform the lives of my family members and friends. May God continue to bless you richly. Joe | Pretoria, South Africa
We discovered your ministry on one of the Christian channels “by accident” and were amazed and liberated by what we heard. Ten days after becoming a partner with the ministry, my husband sent out an email to all the letting agents in our area, saying that we wanted a large three or four-bedroom house (which was still too small for our needs) for £550 per month. In the area that we live in, this would usually cost more than £700 per month. However, late that night, a letting agent called and offered us a new house with six bedrooms, six bathrooms (two of which are en-suite) and a double garage for the price we were able to pay! At the time we moved in (six weeks ago), the property was on the market for £700,000. (In the North of England, anything over £200,000 or £1,500 per month rent is considered out of most people’s reach.) Because the council tax is much higher compared to the one for our last house, the agent offered to pay three months of council tax for us! The house and the way God has provided for it is way beyond anything we could have hoped or imagined. He has poured out so many blessings in the last few weeks it would be far too lengthy an email to write. We are quite literally living in Psalm 23—green pastures and still waters. People are in awe of what God has done for us, and even unbelievers are questioning how we managed to move into a property of this caliber! All we can say is that we believe in God’s undeserved favor. More important than the material blessings we have received from God is the fact that my husband and I have both fallen in love again in a deeper way with Jesus. Worship and thanksgiving are becoming more of a way of life for us, and we are living holy lives by accident more so than we ever did on purpose. Thank you for teaching us the true gospel of grace. Glory to God! Gary and Jenny Fuller | Foulridge, UK
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Recently, my 26-year-old son, Jared, got into a very bad car accident—he went through the windshield and landed 20 feet from the car onto the highway. When we got the call about his accident, I could hear Pastor Prince saying, “If you need a miracle, stay in peace.” My husband and I have been studying the Word through Joseph Prince Ministries.
On Monday night (5 July 2010), the news featured a four-year-old girl (Alisa Maier) who had been abducted from her front yard in Louisiana Missouri. I started praying and talking to Jesus about the incident. I can’t remember the whole conversation, but I do recall saying, “Lord, I don’t know how to pray for this girl.”
Jared was in the Intensive Care Unit for two weeks, and we have seen miracle after miracle, while nurses and doctors have seen us remaining in peace and heard our prayers of faith over him.
Immediately, the Holy Spirit reminded me of a true story in your book Destined To Reign. You had, prompted by the Holy Spirit, prayed for a 12-year-old girl who had been abducted by a serial killer in Singapore. You covered her with the blood of Jesus for protection and that led to her abductor releasing her unharmed.
After multiple surgeries, he was moved today to a regular room. His whole life has been changed. He wants to come home and stop using drugs, and start living for Jesus. Praise God for your ministry! MB Kellogg | Michigan, USA
Peace Keeps The Blessings That Grace Gives Two years ago, I started watching Destined To Reign and read Pastor Prince’s book (of the same name). But it wasn’t until last year that the message of grace really took root in my heart. Since then, my life has changed and is still being changed. Since 2009 and in 2010, my income at my job has been increasing. In 2009, I was blessed with enough to finally shoot my first short film, which I am now submitting to film festivals! I was the top seller of gift cards at my restaurant for the Christmas contest in 2009. In 2008, I had only sold $300 worth of cards. But in 2009, I had been blessed with selling more than $1,100 worth of cards! And this year, while my coworkers complain about their incomes decreasing, mine is increasing! My heart is also changing. I’m falling in love with Jesus. In fact, I just watched Pastor Prince’s message, Peace Keeps What Grace Gives, and that message has brought great fruit and change in my life. My heart was always troubled, but now I guard my heart and let the peace of Christ take care of me, while God guards every other area in my life. I’m still growing in grace, but He’s brought me to amazing places so far and has promised greater things still.
Remembering the story increased my faith. I believed that the same could happen for this little girl. So it was a simple prayer. I just asked Jesus to cover her with His blood and I understood it to mean that He would meet her need to be saved because He had already paid the price on the cross for her to be protected and delivered. I simply believed that she would be released unharmed. The next day, when I was at work, I found out through the Internet that the little girl had been released and was safe. I was so excited. But it wasn’t until after I got home and told my son the good news that I remembered what I had prayed for the day before. I’m so glad that the Holy Spirit reminded me of your story. They are calling it another “Missouri miracle”. How precious His POWERFUL blood is! Jane Nelson | Oregon, USA
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Praise The Lord Special With Joseph Prince Sunday, 23 May 2010, marked a milestone for Joseph Prince Ministries when Matthew and Laurie Crouch of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) went onstage at New Creation Church (NCC), Joseph’s home church, and announced that the entire Sunday service would be recorded for broadcast on TBN. Reaching up to more than 102 million households in the United States and broadcasting in more than 150 countries, TBN is the world’s largest Christian television network. Matthew, TBN’s vice-president, and his family had travelled from the US just for this special recording, which featured an exuberant praise and worship session by the NCC worship team, the partaking of the Holy Communion, and a powerful Sunday sermon by Joseph on the loving heart of God that always provides for His children. Later in the day, Matthew and Laurie sat down with Joseph for an exclusive interview. The recording aired on 18 June 2010 and 24 June 2010 as a two-hour special on TBN’s Praise The Lord program, a primetime segment that has featured other speakers such as Brian Houston and Joel Osteen. Due to popular demand, it was broadcast again as a threehour special on 22 August 2010.
“The essence of grace is supply.” Joseph in his element during the TBN recording.
Joseph with TBN’s Matthew and Laurie Crouch. The Crouch family flew in from the US just for the special recording.
Left: Matthew and Laurie warmly greeting the New Creation Church congregation. Below: Matthew, Laurie and their son, Cody, partaking of the Holy Communion led by Joseph.
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CHARISMA Charisma, a leading monthly Christian publication in the United States with a readership of more than 600,000, featured Joseph on the cover of its June 2010 issue. The article provided an insight into the man and his message of God’s grace, which he cited as the reason behind the growth of the international broadcast ministry since its inception in 2007.
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Send The Gospel Of G race We have a simple vision burning in our hearts. We want to boldly declare the good news that we are no longer under the old covenant of law, but under the new covenant of grace through our wonderful Savior Jesus Christ. The world needs to hear that the cross really did make a difference! Wonderful testimonies from thousands of people have poured in to share with us how their lives, marriages and careers have been radically transformed as they hear more and more of Jesus and His abundance of grace through Joseph’s ministry. If you have been blessed by this ministry and want to share in our vision to touch the nations with the gospel of grace, we invite you to partner with us in any of the following categories:
Destined To Reign Partner Sow a monthly gift of US$10 or more (or a one-time gift of US$200), and you will receive a personalized partner’s card (Classic Blue), a complimentary DVD†, regular newsletters and ministry updates.
Grace & Favour Partner Sow a monthly gift of US$50 or more (or a one-time gift of US$500), and you will receive a personalized partner’s card (Royal Purple), a welcome package*, regular newsletters and ministry updates.
Gospel Revolution Partner Sow a monthly gift of US$200 or more (or a one-time gift of US$2,000), and you will receive a personalized partner’s card (Gold Elite), a welcome package*, regular newsletters and ministry updates, PLUS special personalized gifts from our ministry.
Joseph’s Inner Circle Partner Sow a monthly gift of US$500 or more (or a one-time gift of US$5,000 or more), and you will receive a welcome package*, periodic gifts of specially selected items from Joseph’s range of resources, in addition to ALL the partner benefits listed such as a personalized partner’s card (Platinum Elite), regular newsletters and updates. Join us as a partner today! For special promotions, please use the order form enclosed with the newsletter or visit www.josephprince.org to sign up online. †
Only applicable to new partners. *Only applicable to new partners. Our welcome package contains a book, audio sermon CD and DVD. Note: Partners who have given a one-time gift will receive a renewal package when they renew their partnership.
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Now you have a choice to make— to live your life based entirely on your own efforts, or entirely on the unmerited favor of Jesus.
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