Which Is Easier To Say? by Joseph Prince

Which Is Easier To Say? by Joseph Prince

Colossians 2:13
13And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

Let me ask you a question which Jesus asked the Pharisees: “Which is easier, to say [to the paralytic], ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’?” (Luke 5:23)

In the context of ministering to a paralytic, saying “Your sins are forgiven” is probably easier. Why? Because you don’t need an outward manifestation to prove that his sins are forgiven. But when you tell him, “Rise up and walk,” he must rise up and walk, or you will look very foolish! So that makes saying “Your sins are forgiven” easier than saying “Rise up and walk”.

The truth is, what is seemingly more difficult for man in the natural is not so for God. With God, physical healing is clearly “easier” for Him than forgiveness of sins. The latter is the “harder” and greater miracle because it required God to deliver up His beloved Son to take on all our sins and shed His blood on the cross.

Yet, when faced with a loved one stricken with cancer, or when gripped by mounting debts after being jobless for a long time, we seem to find it harder to believe and say that God has already given us the breakthroughs we need, than to believe and say that our sins are forgiven. Saying that our sins are forgiven seems easier than saying that God has already given us the miraculous physical healing, supernatural financial breakthrough or divine favor at the next job interview.

But since God has done the “harder” and greater miracle of “having forgiven you all trespasses”, there is nothing He will not do for you! (Romans 8:32) In fact, if you think that there is something that God is withholding from you, you are implying that that something is greater than the forgiveness of sins which Jesus died to give you! But nothing can be greater than the perfect sacrifice of Jesus.

So hear the Lord telling you today, “Your sins have been forgiven you. You have perfect acceptance before God. Rise up and be healed! Rise up and walk in health, wisdom, favor, protection and wholeness!”




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Moved By The Spirit, Not Human Honey by Joseph Prince

Moved By The Spirit, Not Human Honey by Joseph Prince

Leviticus 2:11
11‘No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the Lord made by fire.

Imagine yourself walking past the prodigal son sitting in the pigpen. (Luke 15:11–24) You look at him and see him salivating for the pigs’ food. Believing that it is good to show kindness, you give him money to buy food for himself.

That is human kindness which says, “I am a Christian. I should be kind, good and forgiving.” Such human sweetness or kindness may be likened to honey. Interestingly, while we elevate it, God tells His people not to bring Him a grain offering with honey in it.

The grain offering speaks of Jesus’ life on earth. Not mixing honey in the grain offering speaks of how the compassion and goodness we see in Jesus during His earthly ministry were all divine. There was no “honey” of human goodness that is tainted with human weakness.

In retrospect, the worst thing one could do for the prodigal son was to give him money when he was in the pigpen. Not only would he not have gone home, but what the Lord was doing in his heart would also have been spoiled. This is what happens when we go by the goodness of our human hearts instead of the goodness of God in our hearts, which is directed by His love, wisdom and perfect timing.

My friend, God does not want you to be moved by what you see but by His Spirit. There were many needy folks surrounding Jesus during His time on earth. But He did not heal every sick person around Him, feed every hungry stomach he passed or raise all who were dead. Isaiah 11:2–3 tells us that the Lord was not moved by what He saw or heard. He was moved only by the Spirit.

You too have the Spirit in you. (1 Corinthians 3:16) Be moved by Him. Follow the peace that He puts within your spirit to do or refrain from doing something. That peace is the peace of God. Acting on that peace will cause God to be exalted, and His divine goodness and kindness to really be a blessing to you and others!




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22 Puppies For Adoption in AVA Singapore

Saw this in my Facebook wall's friend. If you're in Singapore and a dog lover, are you going to let this opportunity pass you by?


Help!! Puppies for Adoption

Please help to pass the email below around to your friends and anyone interested. These puppies need a home. Damn those smugglers. And AVA is not making things easier by slapping a 6 mth quarantine and an exorbitant fee. The most urgent case is the Golden Retriever. She will be out of quarantine in June. I do not want to think of what AVA would do if no one adopts her. I have someone who is willing to sponsor the $3200 fee for the Goldie if the person can give the doggie a home. (She already has many dogs and cannot take another one.) ___________________ From:Noorain_JUBLI@ava.gov.sg Dear Sir/Mdm, Thank you for your interest in adopting the puppies that were smuggled into Singapore. We have 22 puppies that are currently looking for homes. Details of the puppies are as follows :

1. Golden Retriever Female Date of quarantine release: 22 June 2011 Approx age at time of release: 10 months Pug (tan) (1 female, 1 male) Date of quarantine release:29 July 2011 Approx age at time of release: 7 months Shih Tzu (white & brown) (2 female, 1 male) Date of quarantine release: 29 July 2011 Approx age at time of release: 7 months Poodle (red) (3 female, 2 male) 29 July 2011 7 months British Bulldog (white & brown) (2 female, 2 male) 29 July 2011 7 months Poodle (red) (2 female, 1 male) 10 September 2011 7 months Japanese Spitz (3 female, 1 male) 10 September 2011 7 months

2 . The puppies have to undergo a 6 month quarantine to ensure that they are free from rabies. In addition, the puppies will be sterilised, microchipped and licensed before they are released from quarantine. The new owners for the puppies will be required to pay the quarantine fees which will include the costs of all vaccinations (such as puppy vaccinations and rabies vaccinations), rabies antibody titre testing, de-worming, external parasite treatment, feed and care for the 6 month quarantine period, sterilisation, microchipping and licensing. The total estimated quarantine fees is approximately $3,200 and will be billed progressively to the successful adopters during the quarantine period.

3. Members of the public who are interested in adopting the puppies are required to go through interview at AVA, during which they will be able to interact with the puppies. If you are interested in adopting any of the puppies, please send an email to

Sheikh Adra Bux, (Manager, Sembawang Animal Quarantine Station) at sheikh_adra_bux_abdul_latif_bux@ava.gov.sg ;

or ii. Dr Prabhpreet Kaur (Ag Assistant Director/Animal Quarantine Section ) at Prabhpreet_kaur@ava.gov.sg

4. Please indicate the breed and sex of puppy you would like to adopt in your email and send it to Mr Bux or Dr Kaur at the above email addresses by 23 May 2011. If you are interested in more than one breed, please rank them in order of preference. We will follow up with you on the interview appointment as soon as possible.

5. We look forward to hearing from you.


Noorain Jubli | Admin Executive | Communications & Corporate Relations Department | Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority Tel 6325 7315 | Fax 6223 5383 | Website www.ava.gov.sg

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How The Devil Is Holding Me Back From Tithing

As I looked at the balance in my atm awhile ago,
The devil said,"Look at the meager balance that's left in your bank account, are you still going to tithe??"

Then suddenly, fears came rushing in like tsunami. Shaking my every thought here and there....I paused for awhile and say," oh nooooo! Am i still going to tithe??"

Well, the devil almost convinced me not to tithe right there because He had effortlessly put fears in my heart for a little while. Suddenly, I've asked myself, what do I need? What do I want?? Is everything really about money that I can't give it away like that?
Why is the devil making me so hard to give that 10% of my salary away to God??

Mmmmmm... There must be something special in this somewhere.

But hey!

God is leading me the way. AND He's gona change the way I deal with money. Aftreall, having money is not the root of all evil. It's loving it and become slave with it where all the problems lie.

Now,
I say," Yessssssss!!!!
I'm still going to tithe because God now is my financial partner! I'm giving back what's due to Him Not because He needs it BUT because I need it!

Excites me. :)

To be con't after this coming Sunday's service. Will update you...




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Jesus is above my little headache!

Right now, as I'm typing this blog, I have a little headache that won't go away for two days. This is part of my menstration cycle.
Few years back, everytime I had this inevitible moment, I can say that my life back then was terrible.

As far as I can remember, my menstration was giving me soooo much pain from head to toe. That everytime that I had it, I would wish that I was dead.
I get sick, feeling all the pains in my body, throw up and bang my head on the wall, pulling my hairs off to divert the pain and just lie down on bed all day. I had no life!

I heard women also experiencing the same things. So out of my innocent mind and lack of knowledge of God's truth. I took it as normal.

But then, as it happened to me every month...I got bored of getting worse,
I said to myself," This can't be happening! There must be a solution somewhere!"

So I asked God to lead me to the answer.

I thought, the solution was a certain medicine, lifestyle, diet or anything.

But I was wrong.

The solution was....

JESUS!!!

Yes!

Forward to this day...(I don't mean to sound so religious)
I can say, Jesus has healed me!!

As I learnt this truth everyday, it has stopped me from wondering anymore.
Wondering if I'm gona get healed or not.

You see, even if right now I have a little headache, that doesn't mean
God is lying to His promises of healing and wholeness to His children.

I'll show why I'm so sure about it.

As it is written in
Matthew 8:14: “Himself took our infirmities and bear our sickness."

And in Isaiah 53:5 reads,

“But He was wounded (pierced) for our transgressions (Breaking the law), He was bruised (crushed, punished) for our iniquities (sins); the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed!"

Now what to do?

What you should do?

Me?

I will speak to my little headache like this,
" headache, you don't have the right to stay in my body so now
I curse you down to your roots and command you to leave my body now!
Go away and be cast down unto the sea! Don't ever come back because my body is holy and this body belongs to the Lord! This I pray in Jesus mighty name. Amen!

You see, Jesus' name is above all names.

Jesus is above my little headache..He has crushed it down long time ago so
why must I acknowledge its presence !

Now, I have learnt to speak only of Life and not death!

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
- Jesus (John 10:10)

That's why Jesus said, "it is finished!"

Healing is one of my inheritance that I received from accepting Jesus as
my savior. I shall keep claiming it no matter what happens till the day He comes back!

Thank you Jesus!

You are an awesome savior!

Halleluyaaaaaah!

Goodnight everyone...
It's 11.15pm, Sunday here in Singapore.

Be blessed....and smile because beautiful Monday is coming..

Wooohooooo!!!


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Forgiveness and Healing From Jesus

When Jesus took our punishment on the cross, it did not just bring us forgiveness, it also brought us healing.

At the cross, Jesus bore our sins and our sicknesses. And so healing, like forgiveness, is not a promise. It is the blood- bought right of Christians!
Because of what He did at the cross, we do not just have forgiveness, we also have healing. Forgiveness and healing go hand in hand.
The faith that you have for forgiveness is the same faith that will bring your healing.

Source: Health and Wholeness Through The Holy Communion
By Joseph Prince


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Just Ask God for it.

All you gotta do is...Believe...Pray and that's it.

Do you need healing?

God has given you healing.
By Jesus' stripes you were healed!

Do you need restoration in some areas of your life?


Do you need financial enlightment and total freedom?

Do you want a victorious life?

Ask God that He will lead to it.

Just ask..

Keep on hoping

And wait.

He shall come and will lead you to more exciting in life.

It may not be right away..but it's the BEST way!

He is an awesome God. And when He promise..He does not lie!

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”

(1 John 5:14-15)




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