Pronounce Yourself Clean!

Matthew 8:3
Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


Most of us are familiar with the healing of the leper in Matthew 8. It is a beautiful account of God's willingness to touch and heal the sick, no matter how unclean they may be. Whenever we doubt God's willingness to heal us, we should listen to the words of Jesus again, who is the same yesterday, today and forever: "I am willing; be cleansed."

Since the Bible is clear about God's willingness to heal, why do we still have problems with our health? Why do we still experience attacks and symptoms in our bodies that seem to imply that we are not healed?

I believe that the answer is found in what Jesus told the leper to do next. He told him to go and show himself to the priest. (Matthew 8:4) This was the law then for lepers who were healed. (Leviticus 14:2–3) And he was to hear the priest pronounce the word "clean" over him. (Leviticus 14:7)

You see, as believers, when we received Jesus, His blood cleansed us from sin as well as sickness. (Isaiah 53:4–5) But we keep hearing people pronounce sin, sickness, poverty and death over us. We keep hearing people tell us we are unclean, undeserving, poor, weak, and that it is only natural that we grow old and sickly, and die.

God is waiting for a priesthood that will rise up and pronounce His people clean!

"But Pastor Prince, where can I find such priests?"

Who are the priests today? You and I! In fact, we have more authority to pronounce good things than the Levitical priests of the Old Testament. They were just priests. But we are king-priests by the blood of Jesus. (Revelation 1:5–6) Where the word of the king is, there is power. (Ecclesiastes 8:4) And by the word of a priest, every controversy and every assault shall be settled. (Deuteronomy 21:5)

Beloved, God has cleansed you, so pronounce yourself clean! Right now, put your hand on your heart and pronounce good things over yourself. Say, "I pronounce myself clean, righteous, healed, whole and prosperous by the blood of Jesus!" By your word as a king-priest, every assault against you shall be settled!

Life Under The New Covenant

Hebrews 8:10
I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts.


What laws was God referring to when He said, "I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts"? God was certainly not referring to the Ten Commandments, known as the laws of the old covenant, since He said that He found fault with that covenant and declared it obsolete. (Hebrews 8:7–9, 13)

The laws that God puts in our minds and writes on our hearts refer to the royal law of love (Matthew 22:37–40), the perfect law of liberty (James 1:25), and the law of faith. (Romans 3:27) These are the laws of the new covenant. (Hebrews 8:8)

You live according to the laws of the new covenant when you know how much God loves you all the time. And the more you know God's love for you, the more your heart is filled with love. You will love God and also the people around you supernaturally and effortlessly. That is God writing on your heart the royal law of love — that we love because He first loved us.

Secondly, when you know that you are perfectly accepted by God because of Jesus, you can have the courage and liberty as a child of God to come boldly into the presence of your heavenly Father who loves you so much. And in His presence, God is able to put in or write on your heart new desires and you will find yourself wanting to do the right things at the right time. You will live life victoriously from the inside out. This is the perfect law of liberty operating in your life.

When you sense what God is writing on your heart and putting in your mind, and as your faith is activated, causing you to trust Him, God calls it obeying the law of faith. When that happens, whatever you believe, you receive!

My friend, God has made it easy — and you will find that it is exciting — to live life under the new covenant!

God's Love Makes You Strong

Ephesians 3:19
... 19to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.


If you were to thank God for something today, what would it be? For me, it's thanking God for giving us Jesus. For when I see Jesus on the cross, I see the love of God overcoming everything for me. It causes me to say, "Thank you, Jesus! I love you, Jesus! I worship you, Jesus! Bless you, Jesus! Hallelujah!"

And as we worship and celebrate the love of Jesus in our lives, we will find ourselves changed and we will see the mighty power of God displayed for us and through us.

This was the case in the life of David. His personal times of worship, of being absorbed in God's love for him, changed him from mere shepherd boy to lion killer, bear killer, giant killer and finally, king over Israel.

Now, no one on earth, no matter how strong he is, can come against a lion and prise open its mouth to snatch back his sheep which the lion had carried away, unless God's anointing and protection is on him. And this was indeed what happened to David the shepherd boy who went after the lion, caught it by its beard, struck it and killed it, and thus delivered the lamb from its mouth. (1 Samuel 17:34–37)

My friend, no man can truly enjoy living in this world without God's strength in his life, God's favour in his work and relationships, God's protection for him and his family, God's increase for his finances, and God's health and healing for his body. Likewise, no woman can survive emotionally, socially or physically without God's tender touch, God's loving presence, God's sweet assurance, and God's Word of life in times of need.

Beloved, as you feed on Jesus' love for you, you'll be filled with the fullness of God. Like David, God's anointing will begin to operate powerfully in your life. And when spiritual lions come into your life, even the devil himself — when he comes like a roaring lion against you or your loved ones or your possessions — you'll grab hold of his mouth and you'll tear him apart!

God Blesses What You Touch

Deuteronomy 28:88
The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


Do you remember the story of King Midas and his golden touch? He made a wish that everything he touched would turn into gold, and his wish came to pass. He touched his food, the trees in his garden and his palace, and they all turned into gold! Then, he hugged his daughter whom he loved very much and she immediately turned into a gold statue!

God's way is better and it has no bad side effects. He wants to bless everything you touch. The Bible says, "The Lord will command the blessing on you… and in all to which you set your hand…" This means that whatever you touch, whatever you set your hands to, God will command the blessing upon it, be it a person, thing or business. So if you touch your child, he is blessed. If you touch your guitar, anointed music flows forth. If you touch your business, it prospers. When you touch a sick person, he gets healed. When you touch someone who is facing lack, his needs are met.

In the Bible, everything that Jesus touched prospered. He touched the eyes of two blind men and their eyes were opened. (Matthew 9:28–30) He touched the open coffin of a widow's son, and the young man sat up and began to speak. (Luke 7:12–15) He touched the leper and the leprosy departed. (Mark 1:40–42) Under the old covenant laws, no one was supposed to touch a leper as lepers were considered unclean. If you touch the unclean, you become unclean. But Jesus touched the leper and the unclean became clean!

Everyone whom Jesus touched received a blessing. And because Jesus lives in you by His Spirit, what you touch will be blessed too. He paid the price for you to have this blessing. His loving hands which imparted blessings to so many were nailed to the cross so that, today, God can command His blessing in all to which you set your hands!

Thanksgiving Can Raise The Dead!

John 11:41–42
41… And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42And I know that You always hear Me…


After Jesus had said these words, He cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!" And the man who had been dead for four days came out of his tomb!

This is one of the greatest miracles that Jesus performed. Lazarus had been dead for four days when Jesus raised him to life. Wouldn't you agree that death is indeed an extreme problem? Having no money in the bank, being sick and losing your job, bad as they are, are not as bad as being dead!

But what I want you to see is this: If Jesus, in the most extreme of problems, shows us that the solution is still, "Father, I thank You," then how much more we should thank God when we face problems that are less serious. If thanksgiving can raise the dead, then let's give thanks in the midst of our problems and see victory.

Unfortunately, we tend to do the opposite — murmur and complain. But murmuring and complaining only magnify the problem. Thanksgiving, on the other hand, is the language of faith, which pleases God. Now, I am not saying that we give thanks for the problems we have. No, we thank God that He is our answer and that He has already given every blessing to us. (Ephesians 1:3)

"But Pastor Prince, what I have is so little."

My friend, thank God for the little that you have and it will multiply. Jesus thanked His Father for the five barley loaves and two small fish, a little boy's lunch, and they were multiplied to feed more than 5,000 people with 12 baskets full of leftovers! (John 6:8–13) And notice that when the Holy Spirit talked about this event again, He specifically mentioned the Lord giving thanks — "... the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks…" (John 6:23) The Holy Spirit seemed to be more pleased with the act of giving thanks than the miracle of multiplication or the 12 baskets full of leftovers.

Beloved, the more you thank God, the more you please Him. What little you have will be multiplied, and whatever is dead in your life will be raised to life!

Standing On No-Curse Ground

Genesis 8:4
4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.


For 40 days and 40 nights, it rained so hard that the whole world perished, except for Noah and those who were with him in the ark. At the end of 150 days, Noah's ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, on the 17th day of the seventh month.

In Hebrew, the word Ararat means "the curse is reversed". The waters of judgment receded, causing the ark to rest on the mountains of Ararat, on new ground, where the curse is reversed. And it happened on the 17th day of the seventh month, on the Feast of First Fruits, the exact date Jesus rose from the dead 4,000 years later!

When Christ rose from the dead, we, too, were raised together with Him. (Colossians 2:12). We, who are in Christ our true ark, stand on resurrection ground where the curse has been reversed. (Galatians 3:13) Today, we stand on no-curse ground, where sicknesses and diseases, poverty and lack, difficulties and failures, cannot operate!

A church member shared how God delivered him from cervical spondylosis, a medical condition which causes the neck section of the spinal cord to deteriorate. An X-ray taken four to five years back showed that that area of his spinal cord was deteriorating fast. He was in pain and had to take medicine to manage the condition. Whenever he had a relapse, he would get depressed.

During the latest relapse, he went to the doctor, had another X-ray taken and was given some medication. He took the medication, believing God for healing. The following morning, the pain in his neck was gone and he was able to turn his head.

When he finally collected his X-ray results a week later, his doctor actually told him that his spinal cord looked better than his own! The doctor was very surprised because patients with this condition usually don't get better. God had reversed the curse of cervical spondylosis for him!

As a believer, you are on no-curse ground. You stand in the blessing zone where it is very easy for the blessings of God to rain all over you, and even cause an overflow!