Meditate On
Sweet, Sweet Grace
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not
under law but under grace.
Romans 6:14
In many places today, all you hear is more teaching on
right doing, right doing, and more right doing! But I believe what we need is
more teaching on right believing. What we need to do is keep pointing people to
Jesus, His grace, His finished work, and His forgiveness. I have no doubt then
that their right believing will produce right living. They will become people
whose hope is not in the righteousness they can produce, but in the gift of
righteousness from Jesus Christ and what Jesus can produce in them.
Let me share with you a testimony I received from Lucas
that demonstrates this truth:
Even though I was raised in a Christian home with parents
who are both totally dedicated to Jesus, I fell into drug abuse. I tried
attending church, but listening to the sermons made me feel like I just
couldn’t confess my sins enough, repent enough, or hate my sins enough to get
God’s forgiveness.
Then one day a very dear friend gave me a copy of your
book, Destined To Reign. The book rocked my spiritual world. I saw that sin was
not the issue. The issue was not understanding the grace of my wonderful Lord
and Savior. When I saw the finished work of Jesus, I realized that God is not
up there with a big stick waiting for me to mess up so that He can beat me with
it.
As I continued reading your book and feeding on the
gospel of grace, I was set free from a five-year drug addiction in just five
days! And I know it’s all through the sweet, sweet grace of Jesus being
revealed in my life.
Thank you, Pastor Prince, for your book, resources, and
sermons. I want to know this God of grace more, and I want my family to also
know Him as a God of grace and not a God of law who condemns His children. I
have never known a loving God as I do right now!
Can you see how powerful living with a consciousness of
Jesus’ forgiveness can be? Sin has no dominion over your life when you are
under grace. Sin cannot take root in your life when you are established in
God’s forgiveness. Receiving His forgiveness and gift of righteousness puts you
in a cycle of victory over sin, whereas those who receive condemnation for
every wrong thought in their mind enter into a never-ending cycle of defeat. Do
you see the difference?
BLESSINGS
JOSEPH PRINCE
