Be Conscious You're On Favor Ground

The redemptive work of Jesus Christ has placed you on the unshakable ground of God's wonderful grace! Join Joseph Prince in this powerful message as he shows you why you are not called to Mount Sinai, which represents the law that demands and condemns, but Mount Zion, which represents His amazing grace that supplies and saves! Build every area of your life on unshakable Mount Zion where God's limitless favor and blessings abound. Be conscious every day that you are on favor ground wherever you go, and be secure, stable and unshakable in these volatile times!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-03-18 BE CONSCIOUS YOU’RE ON FAVOR GROUND [Ncc 1st svc sermon notes by Gav]

Tongue

The tongue is a muscular hydrostat on the floors of the mouths of most vertebrates which manipulates food for mastication. It is the primary organ of taste, as much of the upper surface of the tongue is covered in papillae and taste buds. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva, and is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. In humans a secondary function of the tongue is phonetic articulation. 

There are many figures of speech concerning tongue…. A common temporary failure in word retrieval from memory is referred to as the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. The expression tongue in cheek refers to a statement that is not to be taken entirely seriously; something said or done with subtle ironic or sarcastic humour. A tongue twister is a phrase made specifically to be very difficult to pronounce. Aside from being a medical condition, "tongue-tied" means being unable to say what you want to due to confusion or restriction. The phrase "cat got your tongue" refers to when a person is speechless. To "bite one's tongue" is a phrase which describes holding back an opinion to avoid causing offence. A "slip of the tongue" refers to an unintentional utterance.  A smooth-talking person said to have a silver tongue and a deceptive person is said to have a forked tongue.

The Chinese Character on Tongue

The lower part of this character is 口 (mouth), and the upper part is the tongue extending out from a serpent. Probably because the difference between the man's tongue and the animal's tongue is very slight, the serpent's tongue is used to be the indicative symbol for the character of tongue in general.

Mankind was brought into sin by a forked tongue. Ever since that fall until Jesus’ had finished His work at the cross, James described that the tongue is like a spark. It is an evil power that dirties the rest of the body and sets a person's entire life on fire with flames that come from hell itself. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be tamed and have been tamed. But our tongues get out of control. They are restless and evil, and always spreading deadly poison.

On the night before our Lord Jesus was betrayed, He gave His last word... He told His disciples that He would send another Comforter. The Holy Spirit is here to convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment. Concerning sin, because they do not believe on Jesus... not because of their deeds. Concerning righteousness, because Jesus had went to the Father and we see Him no more... The Holy Spirit is here to convict of the believers on righteousness. And finally, concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world who had a forked tongue, had been judged!

On the first Pentecost after Jesus’ death, the Holy Spirit came like a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! He filled the house where 120 of disciples met. Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there. The Holy Spirit took control of their tongues, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit led them speak.

If you are born again, the Holy Spirit had arrested your tongue when He first filled you. Ever since, believers' tongues are no more evil but righteous! Speaking in tongue is therefore, the language of the righteous man. Speaking in tongue is the language of a born again believer. Speaking in tongue is the language of a New Creation. If you are born again, you are forever righteous in God's eyes!

We are not living in the Old Covenant. We are living in the New Covenant where Jesus had finished His work at the cross. We are not subscribing to any denominational teaching, but we are subscribing to  Apostle Paul's doctrine in the Bible. God the Father had made us born again in the Spirit and changed our tongues through the Holy Spirit. Born again believers are to speak of His grace instead of law.  Born again believers are  to speak of His grace instead of the mixture of law and grace. We can never curse God the Father when we speak in tongue; for every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Therefore, in view of our tongues, James went on to question that, whether it is possible for us to speak both praises and curses with our tongues. We praise our Lord and Father, and we curse people who were created to be like God, and this isn't right. Can clean water and dirty water both flow from the same spring? Can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine produce figs? Does fresh water come from a well full of salt water? Can grace be mixed with law?

There is no other gospel but grace. To tighten up the loose truth, the righteous are inclined to His GRACE. Speaking in tongue is the sign and an affirmation that we are a righteous New Creation. There is no other gospel but grace. Other than that is just another lie from a forked tongue…

Praise Opens The Door To Grace

Sing in your valley of trouble and open the door for God's bountiful grace to come flooding in! Joseph Prince shares inspiring biblical truths on the power of praise and shows you how you can release God's presence and grace into every trial and challenge. Learn how speaking or singing to yourself in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs allows you to be filled with the Spirit and able to redeem the time as you walk in His wisdom. Discover how you can live a lifestyle of praising the Lord and continually experience His grace working out all things for your good!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: PRAISE OPENS THE DOOR TO GRACE [Ncc first service notes by Gav !]

Lift Up Your Eyes and Look...

After Lot had separated  from Abram, God started to reveal to Abram regarding His promises. The name Lot in its root word means veil... So, in Abram's case, when Lot departed from him (when the veil was taken away from him) , God began to reveal to him the spiritual things...  

2 Corinthians

3:15 ~ But until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is on their heart. 

3:16 ~ But whenever it turns to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 

3:17 ~ And the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 

Thus, in our dispensation of grace, if we are covered by a veil, we are unable to see because our spiritual eyes are covered. When we are able to read the Old Testament to find Jesus in them, such insight is the evidence that the veil has been taken off our face... it is the evidence that we are able to understand the spiritual things...and wherever you see the Spirit of the Lord in the Bible, there is liberty. 

Genesis

13:14 ~ And after Lot was separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram, Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are northward and southward, and eastward and westward. 

13:15 ~  For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever. 

 View from 16th Floor of Kasuma Resort, Kuching.

When Abram looked from northward and southward, and eastward and westward, his sight was actually creating  an invisible cross. Northward and southward made up the vertical  part of the cross while the eastward and westward made up the  horizontal part. From the beginning to the end, God is very consistent in His conduct... He want us to focus on the cross where Jesus finished His work!

So, if we can see the cross and the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ, the promise in verse 15 is ours...  i.e. For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever. Of course, He is not talking about the land where we look from the 16th Floor of Kasuma Resort but the LAND in His Kingdom... the LAND of all blessings!

It is the old concealed and the new revealed! It is all about His finished work, even in Abraham's time...

A Thought On My Birthday

Our parents did not ask for our consent when they gave birth to us into this world. As parents, we too, did not seek the consent of our children before we gave birth to them. For everyone born into this world, if we do not have Jesus' salvation, our life is bound for eternal destruction.

Before God opened up the floodgates of the heavens to judge the world with flood during Noah's time, He made Methuselah (Noah's grandfather) lived for 969 years. (Methuselah had Lamech at 187 years old. Lamech had Noah at 182 years old. The flood came when Noah was 600 year old.) (187 + 182 + 600 = 969).

When God gave His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ to save the world, He died young at the age of 33.

God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. No one who has faith in God's Son will be condemned. But everyone who doesn't have faith in Him has already been condemned for not having faith in God's only Son.

John

3:16 ~ "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

3:17 ~ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

As for salvation, when Abba Father wanted to give birth to us into His world, He mobilized the resource of Heaven and His Spirit to seek our consent to believe in His Begotten Son, so that we could put our trust in Him and bound for everlasting life!

This is The WAY to eternal life and he who has ears, let him hear....

Therefore, do not complain that we were not given a choice as to which family we were born into naturally... Here is the chance for each and everyone of us to exercise our consent to be born again into the richest family of this universe, the Kingdom of Light! 

Joseph Prince In New York

Is grace a license to sin? What is the Bible's definition of true repentance? How can believers live right each day?

Find out the answers to these burning questions and more in this exclusive interview of Joseph Prince on TBN's Praise The Lord Program. Hosted by Pastor Phil Munsey, Joseph was accompanied by his wife Wendy, and Pastor Joel Osteen—of Lakewood Church, America's largest church—and his wife Victoria.

Not only will you be encouraged and inspired by Joseph's insightful and heartfelt sharing in this interview, but you will also gain a better understanding of how a revelation of God's grace and goodness is His chosen way of gloriously transforming lives, and allowing His people to have a loving relationship with Him.

Finally, receive and be tremendously blessed by the prayer that Joseph prays at the close of his first-ever interview in the United States.

Exclusive Interview By Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN)

The Word "LORD" In Chinese Character

A note by Chin San Soh in his Facebook Page.

This whole thing started when I was in Kinokuniya 2 years ago, and I came across a secular book "Fun with Chinese Characters" - which some of you may have read it when you were young.

 I came across Berinda's Chinese name "慧" which means "wisdom" - and right there when the secular book explained the pictograph, I saw it! A Bible revelation! I'd share that next time. 

Pastor Mark Ng and Pastor Alan Hiu have also been instrumental in helping me to be sensitive to seeing Jesus, Bible stories or revelations in Chinese Characters. And their revelations are beautiful.

This one I just saw in the book 4 days ago, I'm not sure if this has been shared before but my heart just explodes when it became clear - and light came. 

I came across the pictograph explanation of the word "主" which means Lord in Chinese. The word "Lord" is important to Christians. In the Bible, it says

Revelation 19:16 ~ And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." 

The word "Lord" in Chinese Character is derived from the picture of a lamp.

Jesus is Lord - that's why Christians refer to Jesus as "Lord Jesus" in our prayers.

As you can see, the Chinese Character "主" which is "Lord" shows a picture of a Lampstand.  A Lampstand! In the Holy Place of the Tabernacle that God asks Moses to prepare, there is a golden Lampstand. 

Exodus 

25:31 ~ “You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece. 

25:32 ~ And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side."

                           Golden Lampstand                  Lord in Chinese Character                            

As we learnt from studies of the tabernacle in New Creation, this Golden Lampstand is a picture of Jesus! For example, it is made of pure gold, not gold plated. Gold speaks of divinity in the Bible. It shall be "hammered work" - and speaks of the beating that Jesus endured on the cross. 

  

And now we see the pictograph of "Lord" is the picture of a Lampstand. Hallelujah! 

Psalm 119:105 ~ Your Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. (added)

Not only that, if you realized, for the Lampstand, there are 3 horizontal lines across the centre stick that eventually branches out to be the 6 other lights (representing churches). It is once again no coincidence that 3 horizontal lines across the Chinese word "Lord", "主“! 

And finally, the explanation of why "Lord" is represented by the Lampstand in this secular book. 

 "It symbolizes a man who spreads light".

There was a story of a woman caught in adultery. And the pharisees wanted to condemn and stone her. But Jesus saved her, and gave the woman the gift of no condemnation, which gave her the power to sin no more. What a beautiful Saviour we have! He could condemn her, but He would not, instead showed the sinner perfect grace.

After that, Jesus spoke and said  in John 8:12  ~ I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

The Lord declares that He is the Light Himself! 

If your life is now surrounded by darkness, or confusion, or you lack revelation in a certain area, just proclaim "Lord Jesus you are the Light that casts out ALL darkness. In You, there is no darkness, no confusion, no fear and worry. You are Lord! You are Light! You are Life! I am in You. Amen!" 

Jesus the Golden Lampstand, the Lord of our lives, the Light of the World!

God hides BEAUTIFUL pictures of our Lord Jesus in Chinese Characters! 

There is a lot more to share which I'd take a picture of next time. 

Many thanks to Pastor Mark and Pastor Alan. :)