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Authors: Joseph Prince
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Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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ot too long ago, I received an email from George, who lives in California. He shared that he had been diagnosed with Evans syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease where a person’s antibodies attack his or her own red blood cells and platelets. At one point, this brother had to be rushed to the emergency room because he was at risk of spontaneous bleeding. His blood platelet count had dropped dramatically to just 4,000/mcL (the normal range for a healthy person is between 150,000 and 400,000/mcL).
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This is what George wrote:
The doctors administered infusions of blood products and had me on super-high doses of steroids. The steroids, which I reacted terribly to, made me so depressed and at one point suicidal. I couldn’t think or even have normal conversations. I cried constantly. Our three kids didn’t know what to think of what was happening to their daddy. I actually started telling people that God was punishing me for things I had done.
Every time I received an infusion and the doctors upped my steroid dosage, my platelets went up to a normal range, but it would never last for very long. My immune system continued attacking and destroying my platelets no matter what treatment I was getting. I was constantly getting my blood drawn, constantly checking to see what my count was, constantly aware of all the symptoms Evans was causing and the side effects of my medication.
Then, somewhere in the middle of all of this, the Holy Spirit led me to your television ministry. By the grace of God, I ended up on a channel I had never turned to before and saw the Grace Capsule. The lady on the phone told me that it would take one to three weeks for it to arrive, but it came in two days!
And let me tell you, your Grace Capsule was a gift from God. Through your teachings, Daddy God showed me His love. I went from feeling condemned, feeling like God was punishing me, to beholding the finished work of Jesus on the cross. He miraculously took all the bondages in my life away—the cigarettes, the pornography, the marijuana, everything that had been a struggle.
I had had back pain and acid reflux for years, but by listening over and over again to your sermons and hearing them constantly—at home or in the hospital, all through the night—the pain and acid reflux went away. It is now four months later, and PRAISE BE TO JESUS, I still have no acid reflux or back pain!
Three months ago, my spleen was removed with the hope that the Evans syndrome would go away, or at least be lessened. But even after the surgery, my count dropped again. The only two options for treatment were more severe in our minds—one of them being chemotherapy. By this time, I’d been listening to the Grace Capsule for about a month, and finally I decided to give the Evans syndrome to God. I stopped doing blood counts, stopped giving weight to all of my symptoms, and started thanking the Lord for my complete healing.
Now Jesus has restored everything to me better than it was before. He has given me more strength, more energy, and a lot more love. I thought I understood love before, but now I know what true love is because of my Father’s love and Jesus’ love for me. I haven’t had a count done in months. My wife and I take the Lord’s Supper every day. We thank Jesus every day for healing us with the stripes He bore for us. All praises be to Him!
You may be wondering what the Grace Capsule is. It’s an MP3 player preloaded with more than seventy hours of messages that I had personally selected from my message library. Each message is full of the person of Jesus and His grace.
Beloved, I want to encourage you to listen and keep listening to messages that are all about Jesus as this brother did. You can’t worry your problems away, but I believe that you can certainly listen your problems away. Faith indeed comes by hearing and hearing the good news of Christ!
Listen and keep listening to messages that are all about the good news of Christ.
Father, thank You that there is power in reading and hearing messages that are all about Jesus and His grace. Help me to make listening to anointed messages of Jesus a daily priority. I acknowledge that I cannot worry my problems away, but I believe that by hearing the good news of Jesus, faith to receive every miracle I need will come. Amen.
And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”
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want to encourage you to make listening to the good news of Jesus a daily priority. Listen, I know just how crazy and busy our days can get. But when the day is over and we have heard nothing about Jesus, we feel empty, stressed out, worried, fearful, and depressed.
My friend, Jesus is the bread of life and the living water. No matter how busy we get, it is prudent not to neglect feeding on His person. I know that in the natural, this can sound simplistic. You may be asking yourself, “How can simply listening about Jesus change things in my life and circumstances?” The truth is, the things of God are really not complicated. Just think about the woman who suffered from hemorrhaging for twelve years. Simply hearing about Jesus and His grace infused her with so much hope, so much faith, and so much courage that she was able to receive the healing she had started to believe for. Don’t underestimate the power of hearing about Jesus just because it sounds simple.
There is a beautiful verse in the psalms that says, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Ps. 90:12). Do you want to know the secret of numbering your days and not allowing a single day of your life to be put to waste? The key is found in verse 14, where it says, “Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy.” The word “mercy” here is the Hebrew word
hesed
, which means God’s grace.
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God is telling us to be satisfied every day with His grace.
I suggest that before you do anything—read the papers, check your emails, or make that important phone call—start the day with Jesus and be satisfied with His grace. You can read a devotional about God’s grace, feed on the Father’s love, meditate on His grace, listen to a message that is all about Jesus, and open up His love letter—His Word—to you.
But Pastor Prince, my mornings are crazy! How long do I spend doing this? How much must I read, listen, or pray?
Beloved, the key is not to be legalistic about it. If morning doesn’t work for you, then find a time that best suits your schedule. It could be during your lunch break or just before you go to bed. The key principle here is to be
satisfied
daily with His grace. Feed on Him until your heart is full and satisfied with His grace. It’s really not about the duration or how much, but your level of satisfaction.
Enjoy God’s presence daily. He loves having a relationship with you and wants to fill your heart with His grace, peace, wisdom, and joy.
Feeding on my Father’s love and meditating on His grace are key to gaining a heart of wisdom and living a life of wholeness.
Lord Jesus, thank You that You are the bread of life and the living water that satisfies the depths of my soul with grace. Thank You for inviting me to feed upon Your love and to meditate on Your grace. I believe that as I listen to Your good news You will satisfy me with Your tender mercies and give me a heart of wisdom so that not a single day of my life will be put to waste. Amen.