Meditate
On
How Do You See God?
“If you
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
Matthew
7:11
Our
enemy the devil is well aware that the moment you learn to receive God’s grace,
you will start to reign in life. So he has been working hard to prevent you
from receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. The devil
has been using controversy as a device down through church history to prevent
believers from having access to the most powerful truths of God. He has built
fences of controversy around healing, prosperity, and grace (calling them
heresies) to keep believers from reigning over sickness, poverty, and sin. You
can always tell how powerful a truth is by the number of controversies the
devil surrounds it with!
Please
pay close attention to what I am saying. Not all controversies are based on the
truth of God’s Word. We have to test everything against what the Bible says.
Nevertheless, controversy is a tool that the devil uses to prevent God’s people
from accessing His truths. He is a crafty liar and deceitful thief, so we have
to base what we believe on the Scriptures and test everything against it. If
you want to know the truth about God’s grace, study His Word yourself and see
what it has to say about grace!
Pastor
Prince, are you one of those “prosperity gospel” preachers?
My
friend, there is no such thing as a “prosperity gospel.” There is only one
gospel in the Bible—the gospel of Jesus Christ. However, when you believe the
gospel of Jesus, which is based entirely on His grace, it will result in health
and abundance of provision. In fact, the gospel of Jesus Christ leads to
blessings, success, healing, restoration, protection, financial breakthroughs,
security, peace, wholeness, and much more!
God
blesses you not because you are good, but because He is good. It is based on
His faithfulness and goodness toward you. It is not contingent on your
performance, but on His undeserved favor. If it were contingent on how good you
are, then it would no longer be grace but the law. It would be deserved favor.
This is the difference between the old covenant of law and the new covenant of
grace:
Law is
deserved favor—When you obey the commandments perfectly, you will be blessed.
Grace
is undeserved favor—Jesus obeyed God perfectly, and you will be blessed by
believing in Him.
My
friend, which covenant are you under today? Law or grace? Deserved favor or
undeserved favor? How do you see God—as your Judge or loving Father? If you
think that being blessed by God today is dependent on your doing, your ability
to keep the law, and your ability to make yourself righteous, I ask you to test
your understanding of grace against the Scriptures. Read today’s Scripture
again and open your heart to what it says about God and His grace toward you:
God is your loving Father in heaven who loves you and has nothing but good
gifts for you. He sent His Son to die for you so that you can enjoy every one
of these good gifts. Today, receive His abundant grace!
BLESSINGS
JOSEPH
PRINCE
