100 Days of Right Believing: Daily Readings from The Power of Right Believing (40 page)
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Authors: Joseph Prince
I have a Father in heaven who loves me, favors me, protects me, and watches over me and all my loved ones.
Father, thank You that I am not just accepted in Jesus the Beloved, but I am also highly favored in Him. Thank You that I can abide under Your love, favor, and protection. I believe that I am highly favored, greatly blessed, and deeply loved by You today and always. Amen.
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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love this heartfelt praise report I received from Gina, who lives in Maryland. Listen to how she has been transformed by the love of the Father:
Dear Pastor Prince,
I have been a Christian for about thirty-four years. Since discovering your teachings, I feel like I have been released from thirty-four years of being in a prison of Christian legalism, rules, and lists of things I had to do to get God to help and bless me.
Before hearing the unadulterated gospel of grace, I had all but given up on my life as a Christian. Yes, I still believed that I would go to heaven, but just barely. I didn’t even pray anymore because I felt I had so many problems that I would probably not be praying right anyway, so why bother? I hated reading the Bible because to me it was just a reminder of all the things I was doing wrong and all the stuff I had to do if I wanted God’s help.
But now I can’t get enough of God’s Word because I see it as a love letter from God rather than a book of rules that I can’t keep. I also can’t get enough of listening to the sermons that I get from you and feel like I have been given healthy, nourishing food after spending thirty-four years eating junk food. I listen to your sermons over and over again. I find myself spending more time in the Word because it is FINALLY really and truly GOOD NEWS that I am hearing. I want to know more about who God is for real.
For the first time in my life, my kids, who are in their twenties, are EXCITED about God too. We are all reading
Destined To Reign
and constantly listening to teachings from your ministry. Recently I was thinking about the God whom I now know as my Abba Father, and I felt overwhelmed by His love for me. I started to say, “I love You.” Suddenly I realized there are just no words to adequately convey the love I feel for Him now. Those three little words just don’t cover it. Sometimes I feel like my heart will burst from the love I feel for Him now because I finally believe He feels the same way about me!
Additionally, things that I have been trying to quit for DECADES are now beginning to just fade away as I rest in God knowing He’s going to keep loving me no matter what. Who knew that NOT trying to “be good” would bring about a heart change and then change me on the outside too. I cannot believe all this has been available to me all along.
I am so happy now that I can’t even describe it. Yes, I am still having my share of challenges, but things look so much different when you know that God not only CAN handle it, but He WILL handle it when you just rest and let Him be the Daddy to you that He wants to be.
I cannot thank you enough for your ministry and your obedience to God in bringing this life-changing Word to us, His children. I have been forever changed, and I tell everybody about the gospel of grace that you preach. God is so wonderful, and I look forward to the next seventy years of my life walking in His grace and sharing it with His people.
When you see and believe the Father’s love and grace shining on you, darkness fades away. Depression, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, fears, and destructive addictions fade away. The more you place yourself under His grace, the more sin will have no dominion over you. Temptation will have no power over you when you are saturated with the Father’s love, approval, favor, and acceptance. All this freedom can be yours when you truly believe this:
You are His beloved child, in whom He is well pleased.
Here is my prayer for you, my friend. I pray that you will begin to comprehend and believe the width and length and depth and height of your Father’s unconditional love for you. Rest in your Father’s love for you and not your love for Him. And may you experience victory over every fear, every sense of guilt, and every addiction in your life.
Not only can God handle my challenges, but He WILL handle them when I simply rest and let Him be the Daddy that He wants to be to me.
Father, thank You for the power of right believing and all that You are doing in my life through these 100 days of receiving Your grace and love. I believe that You are opening my eyes to see and believe the width and length and depth and height of Your unconditional love for me. I look forward to a lifetime of victories in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Cornwall, Judson and Michael Reid.
Whose Love Is It Anyway?
Closter, New Jersey: Sharon Publications, 1991. pp. 58–59.
2
NT: 1343,
Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words.
Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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NT: 4991,
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon,
Electronic Database. Copyright © 2000, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.
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NT: 1680,
Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words.
Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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OT: 2617,
Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words.
Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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OT: 3258,
The Online Bible Thayer’s Greek Lexicon and Brown, Driver, & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon.
Copyright © 1993, Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario, Canada. Licensed from the Institute for Creation Research.
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Retrieved May 3, 2013, from www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003647.htm.
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OT: 2617,
Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words.
Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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NT: 5487,
Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary.
Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.
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NT: 5487,
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon,
Electronic Database. Copyright © 2000, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.
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