Sermon Notes (1st Svc)
Pastor Prince
Theme of the Year 2019
Hesed is the hebrew word for favour or grace. Wisdom is what we need.
We don’t leave the theme when we leave the year. We add on to it.
God’s desire for you to become fruitful. Your career, marriage become fruitful!
God uses those famines to teach us good things. He is not the author of the famines.
We are blessed with all spiritual blessings.
Time of favour. A special season. A time. When God created time, He also created season.
There are seasons in nature. A word spoken in season. When you do things in season you find success
God works with season.
There was a time God dealt with men with their performance
You are blessed coming in and blessed going out.
Blessed in everything you set your hands to.
All means all with God.
God gives us the law to show us we are sinners and need Saviour.
Chronos refers to chronological
and Kairos refers to opportune time (season)
We know we are forgiven much we will ℓσνє God much.
Who you are is who you are when no one is looking.
God judges based on heart.
Jesus is an expert to bring us to the end of ourselves to see the need of our Saviour.
Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship with God.
Jesus Himself removed from all the “deity’s rights” to come and save us
To save us from our sins from the fallen earth.
God hates sin because sin destroy everything.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
The “so” is so intense.
The God of heaven and earth ℓσνє us so much to come up with a plan like this!
All that Jesus did at the cross is imputed to His account. Already punished on His body.
When you fall in ℓσνє with Jesus you fall out of ℓσνє with sin.
Testimony –
Inmate from USA.
He was locked up for 11 years. He was convicted of second degree murder. He got saved and has grown. He had hard time forgiving himself. He killed his son. Guilt was part of his life. He felt he was not good enough for God. He read Pastor Prince’s book. Since then he fell in ℓσνє with Lord Jesus Christ. The book pointed him to Lord Jesus Christ!
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You punish yourself and punish the ones you loved the most. Something inside you say sin has to be paid.
What is gospel? Is good news!
Every year there is an emphasis
The Year of The Latter Rain
Zechariah 10:1
Restoration of Judah and Israel
Ask the Lord for rain
In the time of the latter rain.
The Lord will make flashing clouds (lightnings);
He will give them showers of rain,
Grass in the field for everyone.
Land of Israel speaks something good for us.
Deuteronomy 11:14-15
then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain (yoreh) and the latter rain (malqosh) , that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’
Winter rain are much more than the last four years.
Autumn rain is in the month of October November December. Is for planting. It is not for harvest
Many of you have planted and not seen the manifestation yet.
Latter rain is in the month of Feb, March April. Latter rain is for the harvest! Picture of barley and grapes growing.
The time of harvest and manifestation !
The year of manifestation and the year of the Latter Rain!
It will manifest easily and quickly!
The 5th year the rain are coming!
God did things in Singapore as a sign as well. Sign is a pointer.
New Year Eve rained the whole day. It nearly stopped the celebration. But He stopped it before the display.
When you rest God works. When you work, God rest.
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
It is the time of the Latter Rain! The season of the Latter Rain!
Even though it is the time of the Latter Rain, God asked us to ask ! Ask for the latter rain!
Greedy for His blessings! Covet all His blessings! When the world use all their smarts, we use His blessings!
The art of prayer! Let it happen to our lives.
When Israel was in captivity, they were taken away. It was for their sins. Their captivity last for 70 years.
Earnestly ask for His blessings!
God loves it when we covet earnestly His gifts and His blessings!
Ezekiel 36:35-37
So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it.”
‘Thus says the Lord God: “I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.
God wants them to inquire of Him, to pray to Him.
Increase comes from the Lord!
Grain, (barley) new wine, olive oil
Bread and wine. The greatest picture of it is the Holy communion
Been faithful to partake.
Gather your grain, bread wine, and your oil.
This year you are going to do things with anointing.
There will be an effortless ease. Restful increase. No sweat for it. Increase of anointing within. Moment by moment guidance
God knows all the danger the enemy has put in front of you.
Deuteronomy 11:10-12
For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
Egypt is double stress
A lot of people are doing down and around but not looking up.
Look to the Lord.
Doctors can make mistake, God cannot.
Look up. Man was created to look up.
Jesus said I come that you may have life and have it more abundantly
Yoreh means shoot an arrow
Moreh means teacher
His doctrine will come down as rain.
Rain that come down upon the earth.
His word will not return empty.
Isaiah 55
Malqosh means to gather everything. To take everything. Everything is there!
When you go to a war and you win, you take everything from the enemy.
This is the year you are going to gather everything
God wants you to live long.
Deuteronomy 11:21
that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:21 (KJV)
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
God is a joy giver. New wine is a picture of joy.
God said He will give us a spirit of praise for the garment of heaviness.
God wants your days multiplied
God sees both husband and wife one flesh.
Ask God for days of heaven upon the earth!
Shower of blessings!
Ezekiel 34:26
I will make them and the places all around My hill (church) a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.
We come together and ask together.
We enjoy this coming year with blessings on top.
There God command dew to come and life
God send rain in the season.
Over raining there will be no or bad harvest.
Those who meditate on God’s Word will bring forth fruits in its season.
There will be season refreshing send from the Father above. Shower of blessings.
We want showers! Showers of blessings! Drenched with the blessings !
Even by chinese new year, your relatives will see something different, something they want!
Lets believe God for showers of blessings!
Oil on you, you will go through it. Anointed by God.
Joel 2:23-26
Be glad then, you children of Zion,
And rejoice in the Lord your God;
For He has given you the former rain faithfully,
And He will cause the rain to come down for you—
The former rain,
And the latter rain in the first month.
The threshing floors shall be full of wheat,
And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
And praise the name of the Lord your God,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And My people shall never be put to shame.
Plenty of wheat plenty of wine plenty of oil! Over and abundance! Beyond! Running over!
Our revelation of Holy Communion will be much more this year. We will be full of the revelation this year.
Swarming locust – come fast and when they leave, the crops are emptied
Consuming locust – they are there and stay there to prevent new fruits from coming.
Your enemy is not flesh and blood.
Chewing locust – chewing slowly
Jesus is going to restore to us the years! Only God can restore the years!
God can restore the days of your youth!
Job 33:25
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s:
he shall return to the days of his youth:
God bless us with length of days and long life!
Redeeming the time because the days are evil.
Look to Him !
Eat in plenty and be satisfied
Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
God wants us to claim it!
Joel 2:23-26
Be glad then, you children of Zion,
And rejoice in the Lord your God;
For He has given you the former rain faithfully,
And He will cause the rain to come down for you—
The former rain,
And the latter rain in the first month.
The threshing floors shall be full of wheat,
And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
And praise the name of the Lord your God,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And My people shall never be put to shame.
Teacher for righteousness
Not a law righteousness. Is a gift righteousness.
Than He will cause the rain to rain down.
You will harvest new crops.
Teaching of righteousness first.
We are right because of Jesus!
The more we accept the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe what He has done for us is effective, the more we see the year of of latter rain.
