God blesses you not because you are good, but because He is good. It is based on His faithfulness and goodness toward you. It is not contingent on your performance, but on His undeserved favor.

Gospel Corner

16/01/26

Joel Osteen Ministries

Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:19, NIV

Bind and Loose
We all have things that come against us and try to hinder us and keep us from our destiny. It might be a sickness, depression, an addiction, low self-esteem, or poverty. Sometimes we’re dealing with a dysfunction that’s been passed down in our family line for generations. It’s easy to accept it and think that’s our lot in life, that we’ll always be held back. But God didn’t create you to live restricted, bound, or broken. That may be the way it’s been, but that’s not the way it’s going to stay. The good news is that Jesus came to free you from what’s bound you.

He has already ordained times of release when He looses you from what’s holding you back, when He breaks chains, frees you from the sickness, delivers you from oppression, stops the dysfunction.

Jesus says that whatever you bind will be bound and whatever you loose will be loosed. So get in agreement with Him and bind whatever is hindering you and loose whatever needs to be released. You’re about to come into supernatural release, something you couldn’t make happen.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that Jesus is the chain breaker who frees me from whatever has me bound. Thank You that You have given me the keys of the kingdom to bind whatever is hindering me and to loose whatever needs to be released. I believe this is my time of release. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Our enemy the devil is well aware that the moment you learn to receive God’s grace, you will start to reign in life. So he has been working hard to prevent you from receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.

The devil has been using controversy as a device down through church history to prevent believers from having access to the most powerful truths of God. He has built fences of controversy around healing, prosperity, and grace (calling them heresies) to keep believers from reigning over sickness, poverty, and sin. You can always tell how powerful a truth is by the number of controversies the devil surrounds it with!

Please pay close attention to what I am saying. Not all controversies are based on the truth of God’s Word. We have to test everything against what the Bible says.

Nevertheless, controversy is a tool that the devil uses to prevent God’s people from accessing His truths. He is a crafty liar and deceitful thief, so we have to base what we believe on the Scriptures and test everything against it. If you want to know the truth about God’s grace, study His Word yourself and see what it has to say about grace!

Pastor Prince, are you one of those “prosperity gospel” preachers?

My friend, there is no such thing as a “prosperity gospel.” There is only one gospel in the Bible—the gospel of Jesus Christ.

However, when you believe the gospel of Jesus, which is based entirely on His grace, it will result in health and abundance of provision. In fact, the gospel of Jesus Christ leads to blessings, success, healing, restoration, protection, financial breakthroughs, security, peace, wholeness, and much more!

God blesses you not because you are good, but because He is good. It is based on His faithfulness and goodness toward you. It is not contingent on your performance, but on His undeserved favor.

If it were contingent on how good you are, then it would no longer be grace but the law. It would be deserved favor. This is the difference between the old covenant of law and the new covenant of grace:

Law is deserved favor—When you obey the commandments perfectly, you will be blessed.

Grace is undeserved favor—Jesus obeyed God perfectly, and you will be blessed by believing in Him.

My friend, which covenant are you under today? Law or grace? Deserved favor or undeserved favor? How do you see God—as your Judge or loving Father?

If you think that being blessed by God today is dependent on your doing, your ability to keep the law, and your ability to make yourself righteous, I ask you to test your understanding of grace against the Scriptures.

Read today’s Scripture again and open your heart to what it says about God and His grace toward you: God is your loving Father in heaven who loves you and has nothing but good gifts for you. He sent His Son to die for you so that you can enjoy every one of these good gifts. Today, receive His abundant grace!