Joseph Prince - Right Now, Jesus Is Ready to Help You
All the promises of God in Jesus is yes and amen unto us, and watch out that you don’t see any blessings and then you push it to the future. The only thing I see that is pushed to the future is our glorified body that we receive in the rapture, but every blessing, you can receive it here, right now. Now, some are like Martha. Lazarus, her brother had died. Martha and Mary, remember? Lazarus has died. Then Jesus came, and the Bible says four days later he came, and then Martha says to him, «If you had been here, my brother would not have died».
So, she put the Lord into the past. The Lord is here now, say now, but she put him in the past. In other words, it’s possible that some of the blessings we see in the Bible, we put it in the past, which actually happened in the past, amen, but we don’t realize there is a God here, in the here and now, who wants to minister to you, who wants to supply you, right now. Or, listen to Martha’s response. She said, «If you had been here, my brother would not have died». Jesus look at her. Actually, it was a gentle rebuke from Jesus when he said, «I am the resurrection and the life». What does that mean? I am the resurrection. It’s not a matter of timing, amen. I am, amen? I am the resurrection, and then you know what she said? «Oh yes, I know my brother will rise again at the last day».
Now she pushed him what, where? Into the future. So when we hear teachings and all that, oh yeah, these blessings will happen in the millennium. Yeah, these will happen in the millennium. Many things will happen in the millennium. I now believe in the millennium when Jesus comes back to rule. But listen, we can receive the blessings now. Except for a glorified body, amen? But we can receive healing as well, which is my focus today. Are you all with me so far? So never, even right now, right now, present tense, right now, Jesus is at the point of your need. You know, he stands there, but how do you see him? How do you see God? Do you see a justifying God or do you see a fault-finding God? A God who’s waiting for you to sin.
Do you see a demanding God, or a God who is supplying, a God who is loving? All love, all grace, not a trace of judgment towards you, amen, and until you are comfortable in his presence, let me tell you this, you have not yet become a normal Christian. This is a normal Christian life, to be at home in God’s presence, at home in the presence of this thrice holy God, but with you, listen, he is all love. Jesus says, «I am the bread of life. He that eateth me shall live by me». In fact, if you read that portion, the Greek word used here in there is chewing on his flesh.
Now, that cannot be a spiritual, it’s literally eating. I come to give life to the world, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Not «aiónios zoe,» which is eternal life. We know that he came to give us eternal life as well, all right, but here, the bread that I’ll give is my flesh, which I’ll give for the life of the world. Do you hear that? For the «zoe,» your natural life as well, your health! Are you listening, people? Plenty of corn, plenty of grain and wine, plenty of grain. Plenty, say plenty! I don’t know why this church, every Sunday, they have Communion. I don’t know why these people from this… what church, what creation is that? They keep on talking about Communion all the time. Too many times! Too many times! Plenty of times!
They talk plenty of corn and wine. Grain, grain, grain, oh King James guy, grain and wine. Plenty of grain and wine. Plenty of grain and wine. Plenty, our revelation will be plenty and your threshing floor will be full of wheat in the year of the latter rain, and your vats will overflow with new wine and oil. It’s not enough just to know, I know a bit about Communion, but you know what, Pastor Prince, if I have it, I have it. You know, once in a while also can.
Let me read to you a testimony. «My younger sister was recently diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. During that difficult time, understanding God’s goodness towards us made all the difference. We prayed for God’s grace and healing to be upon her. I also advised her to lay hold of a healing each time she took the Holy Communion. I also did the same each time I partook of the covenant meal, constantly thanking God for her healing, knowing he is too faithful to fail. Eight months later,» eight months later, taking Communion every month, every day.
«Eight months later, her surgeon called her and declared that it was a miracle! All the 13 lymph nodes and breast tissues taken from her for a biopsy, all came back with no trace of cancer. I praise God for his undying love and mercy that I’ve delivered my sister. Since I came in contact with the gospel of grace, my life has not been the same. I am now convinced of God’s love for me and the fact that he is for me and on my side». Hosea chapter 2. Now, don’t leave like you are not, you know, you’re a firstborn, you know. We are all in Christ the firstborn, amen. We have the firstborn blessings. So what kind of Christian do you want? Just a nominal Christian or you want to be a firstborn Christian, amen. Who receive the best. The firstborn receives the best, and the best here is plenty of wheat, plenty of grain, plenty of bread and wine, amen.
Make sure your revelation is plentiful. This is going to be the year for it. In other words, the harvest is going to be great. And then Hosea 2 says this, «'It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer, ' says the Lord; 'I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.'» So God says, «I will answer the heavens, the heavens answer the earth, and the earth will answer with grain, with new wine, and with oil. They shall answer,» Yizre’el, «Jezreel,» which is «God sows,» God sows, or the sowing of God. What does all this mean, Pastor Prince? Let me just tell you, it’s a poetic language but the truth here is amazing. God is saying, I will respond. I will answer or respond. I will respond to the heavens because the heavens respond to the earth, amen? You know how the earth responds? The earth answers with what? Oh please, please! God, please! No, the earth responds with grain, new wine, and oil, and they will answer, this is the sowing of God.
Every time you take, you are sowing for the harvest of your healing and health. Imagine responding. Isn’t that what happened when Melchizedek came? The response was grain and wine. It’s a response, amen, to his love for Abraham. Abraham responded to the tithe, but look at this, «The earth will answer with grain, new wine, and oil». Answer who? The earth answers the heavens, and God listens to the heavens, okay? So here, in other words, like saying God is responding to the heaven, that responds to the earth, the earth that responds with grain, wine, and oil, and here is a secret God put down there. «They will answer, Jezreel».
In fact, there is a valley of Jezreel in Israel today. It means the sowing of god, wow! That is the first rain. The first rain is for sowing. The latter rain is for harvesting. I’m going to share with you a revelation that I don’t think I’ve shared before. I received this probably a number of years ago. I don’t remember sharing this but I’m going to share this with you, but before that, I’m going to show you the sowing of God, okay. Look at what Jesus sowed for you and I, what Jesus did for you and I. First and foremost, Isaiah 53, 53. «He has no form or comeliness, and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief».
Actually the word here, grief, is sickness. «And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him». This is all referring to Jesus when he was beaten, scourged, all right, spat upon, his beard was torn, and you know, he was just suffering. All kinds of wounds, you know. Abrasion, laceration, incision, the crown of thorns. They put a crown of thorns on him, the Bible says, and after that, they hit him. Now, if they hit him on his head first, okay, he’s suffering enough already. Then they put the crown of thorns, but they put the crown of thorns first and then they hit his head, the Bible says, thus embedding it even further, okay, the crown of thorns. He suffered so much, blood everywhere, and then he was lacerated, his back, the stripes, and all this for what?
Remember what I said to you? The Levitical offering of which Jesus came, he’s the fulfillment of. All the five offerings in the Bible, amen, of which Jesus is the fulfillment of. You find that when they bring the lamb to the temple, the lamb is not tortured before it is killed. In fact, there’s a humane way of killing the lamb or the ox. They find a vessel and they slice it, and he’s unconscious and he dies. That’s the Jewish kosher way. That’s why kosher food is actually, they give a brand when they are killed like that. Even a chicken, they don’t make them suffer. In fact, if you eat meat that is… the animals suffered, usually it’s bad meat. They release poison into their system, but they never torture the sheep. They never torture it before they kill it, never. Jesus, before he went to the cross, he was tortured. Why? The Bible tells us why.
All right, drop down, verse 4. «'Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.'» Very unfortunate here. I don’t know why they don’t use the Hebrew word. The Hebrew word there, as Young’s brings it out. «'Surely He has borne our diseases and carried our pains». It’s confirmed in Matthew 8:17 that says, «Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses». Surely He bore our «makob,» our «choli,» diseases, and carried our «makob,» our pains. So, «we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted». Everyone down there says, yeah, he’s suffering for his sins. He must have done something bad, all right. «But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our well-being was upon Him».
This word is very beautiful. That means the punishment with a view to your well-being fell on him. I repeat, the punishment with a view to your health, to your well-being, fell upon him. «And by His stripes we are healed». Now Look at 1 Peter 2:24. Now in the Greek, it says, 1 Peter 2:24, the last part, «by whose stripes you were healed». Now in the Greek, it is «molopi,» by whose stripes. Now, I say that because I want to say this to you. «Molopi» is the singular noun, masculine noun. It’s a singular noun. It’s not stripes. It is stripe. A Greek scholar says it like this. The Greek scholar, T.J. McCrossan, he says it like this.
«The stripes that fell on Jesus were such a beating that if there is one sliver of skin left, he cannot use, the inspired writer cannot write 'molopi, ' singular, if there is one skin left». That means if there’s no skin left, you don’t say stripes, one stripe. Do you understand? Becomes singular. That means he was beaten until no skin is left. This is the bread. How do you get bread? You take barley or wheat. Ah. Put butter on it, It’s really nice. No, how do you make bread? You have to crush it, sift it, pound it, the dough, burn it. All speaks of suffering. «I am the bread of life. He that eateth me shall never hunger». Hmm? How do you get wine? «These grapes are so fermented». Sorry. Do you see anyone eating grapes and getting drunk? No, that’s not wine, but wine comes from vine, from the grapes, right, amen? But how do you get wine? You have to crush it.
Step on it, amen, and then leave it in the dark. Let it ferment. All that happened to Jesus, even leaving him in the dark, so that he can become wine to you, and that’s why you partake of the bread and the wine. The blessing is when you partake in faith, seeing the body of Jesus broken for you and his shed blood. Are you with me so far? And then you partake. «Molopi,» singular, not a sliver of skin left. He was crushed. So how do you explain this? There’s no beauty. It’s talking about when he’s suffering. His suffering is such that people turn their face away. When they look at him, it’s so horrible, they turn their face. Do you know how horrible it was? The context, the context. This is Isaiah 53.
Look back at Isaiah 52 in the closing verses. God the Father is talking. «Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently,» sakal by the way. «He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high». Now, this word here, «He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high». A lot of people think that, oh, this refers to his resurrection and his ascension, but actually, why repeat with three words? And the three words here is this. The Jewish people know, three different words are used for the cross. They will say, Lift up! That’s the first word, exalted. Extolled, raise it. And be very high! Put it in the hole, boom, and the whole thing, you know, his body shuddered with pain. Those are three words. He’s suffering, and when they look at him, you know what they saw?
«Just as many were astonished as you, so His visage,» his face, «was marred more than any man». His face, marred more than any man. Can you imagine how terrible that is? He said, no movie can portray it. How about his body? «His form more than the sons of men». Think of the love he has for you. Meditate for a while on that love he has for you. When you partake of the Communion, don’t do it mechanically. Oh, Pastor Prince says take, you’ll be okay. No, that’s taking grain and wine in a meagerly fashion. Plenty means what? With revelation. Think of his love when you partake. His face, marred more than any man. He doesn’t look human anymore.
You know, when they beat him up and they scourge him, he doesn’t look human. Even his form. What form was that? They say the form is marred more than the sons of men. What kind of form is it? It doesn’t look like a man. No wonder they turned their face from him. The Bible says, the people turn their face away. There’s no beauty in him. To give you beauty. So that our faces that are marred and our form that are marred will be healed. Do you love him? I feel like it’s raining inside here. Let me give you a revelation right now that I shared just now. For years, I saw this. That when you take Communion, this is going to happen to you. Psalms 129, it says here, «The plowers plowed upon my back». It’s a prophetic psalm, by the way.
There’s a lot of Messianic psalms, I should say. There’s a lot of Messianic psalms in the Psalms. That’s why Jesus, when he walked with them on the Road of Emmaus, you still remember? He stopped short. He expounded from Moses, the first five books, and the prophets. What comes after the prophets, the Psalms. But then that same night, he appeared in the upper room, he continued. Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms concerning himself. So one of the places I believe he touched on was this, «The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows». There are two kinds of stripes that the use, the Roman people use. I was told, usually is only two. One is a short one, like an octopus tentacles, all right, and they hit you with it. Another one is a long one, which is the worst, with a hook, because when they hit you once, it wraps around your body and it’s embedded and then they jerk it.
Now I can prove to you that Jesus was the latter one, the long one, from this verse. Scholars are saying we do not know which one. I’ll tell you, it’s the long one. Why, «They made long their furrows». «They made long their furrows». The furrows is what, listen, when I read this, «The plowers plowed upon my back,» the language he uses is amazing, and this came as a revelation from God one day. I was reading this and God says, don’t rush through. Meditate on why I use the word, «The plowers plow,» and the word, «furrows». These are words of farming. When people farm, am I right or not? Plowing instead of saying, they beat my back, they scourge my back, they hit my back, they smite my back, he says, «The plowers plowed upon my back,» and, «they made long their furrows».
You know the long furrows is for sowing seeds. Am I right? Look at this. There’s a picture here of the furrows. Now of course, this is a modern picture of a tractor making furrows, amen, and then the lines, this is how his back looked like. No skin left. But what I saw, what the Lord showed me was this. The whole thing is like farming. When his back was made into furrows, there was a seed for your healing from the high blood pressure. There was that healing for that tumor. There was that seed sown for that growth that you have in your body you are concerned about. There was that healing for your heart condition. There was that healing for your hernia. There was that healing.
Whatever condition you are suffering from, the seeds are all sown when they beat him and made long furrows, and friends, the way you partake is to have plenty of grain and plenty of wine. Do not just let this, you know, someone said that the tragedy with the church is that, oh, we do it once in a while. It’s not a once a while thing. The early church did it day by day, from house to house. They must have had a revelation. Oh, Pastor Prince I took once and nothing happened, all right. Wow, your perseverance amazes me. This is a sowing and a reaping thing. Did I start by telling you a sowing and reaping thing? Did I tell you that, amen? You incrementally receive.
You see, this is like Mark 11:24, for example. You must believe you receive everything. You’re healing right now, from the crown of your head to the sole of your feet. Sometimes that puts pressure on some people, okay, but whereas, taking Communion, you can believe your faith may be at the level, I believe I’m getting better and better, amen? Yeah, I would to God you get instantly healed. I would love that to happen. Like in the gifts of the Spirit. Many a times in the gifts manifestation, you find that people are healed instantly, but you can partake knowing you’re getting better. You’re getting better. You’re getting better. You partake for a chronic condition. Amen, the doctor says you have prostatitis, you have a lung infection, whatever it is. You partake the first time, you still have the symptoms. You partake the second time, you still have symptoms, but keep on partaking, amen.