14/03/2010 Sermon Notes Pastor Joseph Prince

Topic: Meditation on the Word of God leads to Prosperity What the world needs now is Gospel of Jesus Christ- one gospel fits all. Some say it is Western gospel, but it truly is Eastern. Its all about the breath. When God breathes ur way, something wonderful is happening to u. Meditation in Hebrew is Hagah. See Ps1:1-3 and Josh1:8. Hagah is to mutter or to speak Gods Word under our breath. Confession is borne out of meditation. Meditating is as easy as worrying. Same principle but in reverse. Taking a thought and taking it in a diff angle. U can meditate on the light or on the dark side. Meditation is not legalistic. How we go abt it is key. God didnt say He will supply ur needs according to Ren min bi or USD, but according to His riches. Meditating forward. If u can worry, u can meditate. Replace with Gods thoughts instead of ur fears. Gods riches are always full for the receiving but most of it stays unclaimed. Ppl are leaving His riches there becoz think havent done enought to merit it. The key to His riches is JESUS. U dun have to be good but it depends on His goodness.

As long as there is LIFE, it transcends the Law of sin and death. We swim vs current not float down the river. We have life and life more abundantly. Meditation brings abt prosperity. Even our mistakes bring abt prosperity. His waters bring refreshing and evergreen life. We r perpetually young and nourished. A man made millions of dollars through selling his ideas. When asked, he shared about how he meditated each day on Ps23. Stop worrying abt business, or about having ideas. As he focused on the Word, a creative idea would pop up into his mind. Note Josh1:8- MOUTH n Hagar. Observe to do. Meditate on THIS BOOK leads to good success. Success= more than just money, but it does include money becoz poor cannot help poor. Note that it is a holistic success. Success in all areas. God speaks the loudest when The Book is open. Joshua was most likely reading the Word. God speaks to u when u read His Word. Matt 8:17- if sick, meditate on this. When u feel body unwell, meditate eg. The Man Himself loves me. His value and worth then grows in ur mind and faith rises up in u. If Himself took it, it is taken. If it is an angel or man took it, can doubt. BUT HIMSELF took it. Himself. Himself. Good success is by product of chasing after His Word, not wealth. Gerar- chewing the cud. Meditation. Think of cow chewing and digesting one stomachto another. Nothing in the bible is there for no purpose. Everything in the bible has a meaning & purpose. Even a slight detail has significance.

Gen5- genealogies from Adam to Noah. Tells us number of years they live too. Names in genealogy in Gen5 (English/ Hebrew): Adam/ Man Seth/ appointed Enosh/ frail man or mortal Kenan/ sorrow (But) Mahalalel/ the blessed God Jared/ to descend, shall come down Enoch/ (Heb11) teaching (that) Methuselah/ his death will bring ( the flood He was longest living, loved to 900+yrs, see the mercy of our LORD? Dun just look at His actions, look at His heart.) Lamech/ powerful Noah/ rest Look at the English- reveals the story of the Gospel. God hides the gospel, the good news in the names!! When we have no rest, it doesnt gloriy His finished work. Akin to saying His work is not complete. Our rest glorifies Jesus. Forgiveness is a gift of grace u give to ppl who dun deserve it. God is long suffering. Story of EstherEsther was in Persia which is Iran. King Ahasuerus was reigning then. Prep- 6mths oil of myrrh, 6mths perfume & prep for beautifying women Before King would give them audience. Esther 2:15 She was very smart. She went according to what Hegai recommended. He knows what the King likes. Think of the type of men she submitted to- bws. Submission leads to favour. Every scripture is God breathed. Hegai means meditation (root = meditation) We want nothing but the fruit of our mediation. Fruit of meditation brings prosperity.
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Not enuf to juz hear a sermon on Sunday. Must meditate and internalise it until it is urs. Dun eat animals that dun chew the cud and divide the hoof/ dun feed on ministries that dun meditate on the Word and rightly divide the Word btw law and grace. Favour comes from meditating on the Word. Delight. Not legalism. We meditate on the New Covnenant and delight in meditating on it. Many a times heart troubled first then fearful. So when u let not ur heart be troubled, u nip it in the butt. Hagah in Hebrew letters: Hei Gimmel Hei Hebrew Pictograph (numbers as well) 5 Hei -open window (breath), revelation of Gods grace/ breath 4 Dalet -door 3 Gimmel -camel hump 2 Bet -tent or house 1 Aleph -ox Tet -snake Revelation- Meggidoh. Vultures there have increased in recent years by a lot. Gods Word is a blessing that keeps keeping on. The devil when he steals, steals the Word first. He knows if he can steal the Word, he can steal anything he wants from u. The same Word that creates can recreate when anything goes wrong. Tetragramaton- The Name (Hashem or Adonai). Wont say Yud Hei Vav Hei (Yahweh) Gen1 God said let there be Elohim Gen2 when human appears. LORD God- Yahweh Elohim. Yahweh has to do with relationship.

Yahweh saves = Jesus If u are broke, Yahweh saves If u are sick, Yahweh saves The name of Jesus judges disease, saves the sick; judges the demons, saves the people. Yud- open hand. Five fingers. Hand of grace Pics are consistent in Hebrew. Open hand see nail see Hand of grace nailed in grace. If God spared not His Son, how will He not with Him freely gives us ALL things? If God withdraw health from u when He gave Jesus, means ur health above Jesus?! NO! All means ALL. Meditate on His Word until the LORD reasons out every carnal wordly reasoning within u. Abram- Aleph Bet Resh Hem (high father) Abraham- father of many nations When God breathes grace in ur life, increasing influence breathed in. God can trust u. U have increasing influence. Sarai (shin resh yud) - domineering/ sar means captain/ Lord; Then, God removed the yud and replace with hei to get to SARAH (princess) Yud- 10 Hei- 5 God removed the TEN COMMANDMENTS (work of man) and replace with GRACE. And within a yr the impossible became possible.
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When Jesus hung on thr Cross, Pilate put a sign over the LORDs head. What His said- Yeshua HaNazarei Vemelekh HaYhudim (Jesus Christ King of the Jews) Satellite Map of Israel Beth- El mountains and valleys seem from a satellite image forms the Hebrew for YHVH!!!! It is the place where Jacob slept and saw ladder. Gospel of John also mentioned- Jesus is the ladder that connects Heaven and Earth. God didnt judge Jacob but blessed him unconditionally. Gimmel- camel carries goods. Bridge. HGH - alphabets showing HAGAH or meditation Pic of Grace Transports more Grace= meditate!!! Grace upon grace!! Reminds us of John1:16!!!! It takes grace to meditate but as u meditate u get more grace. Both ways it spells grace upon grace ie whateer u do prospers!! AMEN!! God breathes Hei over every area of ur life so u will not be unfruitful. George Muller prayed into His ministry, what in todays currency is equivalent to more than $2m bucks- without any fundraising- fir the orphanages he ran. He started travelling at 70 and died at 93 in perfect health. George Muller quote-

It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost for more than fourteen years. The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever that the first great primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord not how much I might serve the Lord, but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit. Before this time my practice had been to give myself to prayer after having dressed myself in the morning. Now, I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditation on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed; and that thus, by means of the Word of God, whilst meditating on it, my heart might be brought into experimental communion with the Lord. God is not just teasing us when He said the meditator, whatever he does, shall prosper.