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31-DAY DEVOTIONAL
31-DAY DEVOTIONAL
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Copyright Joseph Prince, 2007
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Foreword by Pastor Joseph Prince
W elcome to the family of God! There are probably 1,001 things competing
for your attention every day. So what should your focus be? Well,
Jesus gives us the answer in the Bible.
In Luke 10:3842, when He entered the house of two sisters, one of
them, Mary, sat at His feet and listened to Him. The other, Martha, rushed to
the kitchen and began cooking for Him. Guess who Jesus praised?
He praised Mary.
It might surprise you that Jesus didnt praise Martha for serving and
cooking for Him. Instead, He praised Mary because she focused on
doing the one thing needful. So all you have to do is that one thing and
God will take care of everything in your life, both big and small.
This 31-day devotional has been specially put together to help you
do that one thing to feed on Jesus Word and be strong. It will help
you build a firm foundation for your new life as a Christian. You will
discover how to live a life worth living an abundant, blessed,
fulfilling, stress-free and victorious life!
The Bible says that your future is as bright as the promises of God
and God never breaks His promises! So you can look forward to better
days ahead because God loves you and He wants you to have good
success in every area of your life.
Does that get you excited?
Then lets get started!
6Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not
1 one of them is forgotten before God. 7 But the very hairs of your head are
all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Luke 12:67
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God sees you with no flaw, spot or you can have a perfect conscience,
a conscience that is free from the
imperfection, so honor His Word and
the finished work of His Son by guilt and condemnation of sins.
saying, Amen! Dont doubt When you find yourself
your perfection in Christ. conscious of your sins, just say,
To see yourself as far from being Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your
perfect is not modesty, but a failure to wonderful work at the cross. It is a
understand the perfect sacrifice that perfect work that has removed all
Jesus has made for you. my sins completely.
The Bible tells us, For by one Holy Spirit, thank You for
offering He hath perfected forever convicting me of righteousness,
them that are sanctified. Did you not my own, but Gods
get that? You have not only been righteousness given to me as a gift.
sanctified, that is, made holy, but by Keep on convicting me in the days
the same offering of His body, you to come, reminding me especially
have been perfected. You are both when I fail that I am still the
holy and perfect in Gods eyes! righteousness of God in Christ.
Your sins have been purged My friend, God sees you
perfectly. Today, Jesus is seated at perfect without any spot of sin. He
His Fathers right hand not sees you covered in the beautiful
because He is the Son of God
white robes of His own
(although that is true), but because
His work of purging your sins is righteousness. He treats you like a
completely finished and perfect! righteous man because that is what
So instead of being conscious He has made you. So expect good
of your sins, which is to have an things to happen to you because
evil conscience (Hebrews 10:22), blessings are on the head of the
righteous! (Proverbs 10:6)
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
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Matthew 6:27
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finished! And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
John 19:30
It Is Finished!
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labor, and cities which you did not build, and you
dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive
groves which you did not plant.
Joshua 24:13
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Do you know that it is Gods will doctors to get well. They take their
for you to be healed? In fact, Jesus medication and rest. Why do they
always healed the sick do that if they really believe that
who came to Him. The blind, God wants them sick? Doesnt
lame, maimed, mute, deaf and make sense, does it?
demon-possessed He healed Come on, what makes perfect
them all! (Matthew 8:16) sense is this: God wants you well. He
The Bible says that he who has wants you whole. His will is for you
seen Jesus has seen the Father. (John to be healed! In fact, He is so willing
14:9) You want to see what God is that He took all your sicknesses and
like? Look at Jesus! He never gave diseases upon His own body, so that
sickness to anybody. You never find you dont have to suffer them today!
Jesus looking at a person, a fine He allowed Himself to be beaten and
specimen of a man, and saying, scourged, so that by His scourging
Come here. You are too healthy. by His stripes you are healed!
Receive some leprosy! In fact, when (Isaiah 53:5) Since He has already
a leper came to Him for healing, suffered the sickness on your behalf,
Jesus, full of compassion, told the why should you suffer it today?
leper, I am willing; be cleansed. So my friend, if you are sick,
Unfortunately, there are some know that God did not give you the
Christians who say, It is Gods will disease. Read every healing miracle
for me to be sick. God has some that Jesus did in the Gospels and see
purpose, some mysterious purpose for how Jesus is the Lord who heals you.
my situation. It is all part of His divine (Exodus 15:26) Hear His gracious
plan and we shall all know in the words, I am willing, be healed, and
sweet by and by, the reason why! But know that they are as much for you
these same people go to their today as they were for the leper!
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
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Gods elect? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:33
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Lord and in the power of His might.
Ephesians 6:10
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Mark 5:2829
Believing Is Receiving
Y ou have heard people of the world and loving Jesus was fired her faith to
believe that He could and would heal
say, I will believe it only when I see
it. Generally, that her. So convinced was she (even when
is the way the world thinks. But Gods the condition in her body was still
ways are not like the ways of the evident) that she said, If only I may
world. The world says, If I cant feel touch His clothes, I shall be made
it or see it, I cannot believe the well. Did she experience her healing
miracle is here. God says, If you first before she believed? No, she
believe it before you feel it or see it, believed first in Jesus goodness and
you will see your miracle. power, acted in faith and only then felt
Believing first before seeing the the healing in her body.
evidence of what we are believing for In the same way, God wants
is called faith. Faith is like a spark and you to believe in His goodness and
Jesus is the dynamite powder. love toward you. He wants you to
In the story of the healing of know how willing He is to act on
the woman with the issue of blood, your behalf to bless you, and how,
there were many people who with Christ, He will freely give you
touched Jesus (Mark 5:31), but every good thing. (Romans 8:32)
nothing happened to them. They He wants you to declare by
didnt touch Him in faith. But when faith that all is and shall be well with
the woman who had been bleeding you, and to expect to see just that.
for 12 years came to Him and And then, no matter how long you
touched Him in faith, He felt power have had the problem, no matter
leave His body (Mark 5:30), and it how bad the experts say it is, an
sparked off an explosion of healing
explosion of healing and restoration
in the womans body!
will take place, and you will receive
Hearing about how good, kind
what you are believing for!
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tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21
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to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.
Luke 13:12
W hen you have a need, do you pray did not pray, Oh Father! She has
been suffering for 18 long years! I
or do you plead? Do you begin your
prayers with words beseech You, Father, have mercy on
like, Please God, please! God, I her. Please, please heal her! No,
beg You to have mercy! when Jesus saw her, He immediately
Prayers that plead and beg proclaimed, Woman, you are
imply that your heavenly Father is loosed from your infirmity, because
not willing to do it. Yet, He is far He knew the heart of the Father. He
more gracious and willing to give knew that the Father wanted her
to you than you are willing to ask, delivered from her crippling
think or imagine. (Ephesians 3:20) condition.
He desires above all things that At the end of a church
you prosper and be in health, even service, I dont stand and pray,
as your soul prospers. (3 John 1:2) Oh God, please bless Your
In fact, long before you have a people. Oh God, do keep them. Oh
need, God has already met that need. God, be ever so gracious to them!
Long before you knew you needed a Instead, I proclaim, The Lord
Savior, He sent His Son to be your bless you. The Lord keep you. The
Savior. This is your God! He is a good Lord make His face shine on you
God. So when you beg Him for and be gracious to you!
something, you are actually saying Beloved, when you pray,
that He is reluctant to give and needs proclaim your healing, protection
to be persuaded strongly before He and provision because your
will move. Yet, He is not like that. Fathers heart overflows with love
Jesus knew the heart of the for you. And when you declare it,
Father. When He saw the woman He sanctions it. When you declare
bound with a spirit of infirmity, He it, He establishes it!
that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to
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John 8:11
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the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight
I may find favor. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
Ruth 2:2
Isaiah 55:11
In the early church, whenever the where as the Word of God goes forth,
it produces the very effect that the
Word of God was preached, there Word promises. So if the Word on
were miracles of salvation, healings,
healing goes forth, know that healing
and other signs and wonders. The
demon-possessed were set free. The is already exploding in your body.
paralyzed jumped up and walked. Your miracle has already happened.
People received their Very often, as you are reading the
loved ones back from the dead. Word on your own or listening to
I remember saying in one of our anointed preaching of the Word, you
church services that there was an will feel Gods peace and joy, and feel
anointing for couples, who were told faith springing up in your heart. As the
that they could not conceive in the Word goes forth and you find that you
natural, to receive the children they are strengthened to receive your
had been believing God for. As the miracle, that is the time to say, Lord, I
word went forth, many couples receive my healing right now. That is
received their miracle in that service. the time to say, I receive Your
One of the ladies who received restoration for my marriage. That is
was serving that day as an usher. She the time to say, I receive Your
and her husband had been believing breakthrough for my finances.
God for a child for a few years. A few You dont have to wait until a
months after that service, she realized church leader or friend prays for
that she was pregnant with twins! you. Every time your faith is
Gods anointing is always greater than strengthened as you hear the Word,
our asking.
release it through your mouth to
I believe with all of my heart
receive your miracle, for Gods
that we are truly coming to the place Word is out to bless you!
13 And when I see the blood, I will pass over you;
Exodus 12:13
afternoon. As I was praying, I was
prompted by the Holy Spirit to pray
The Blood Of Jesus Protects
For Israel
400 years, the children
were slaves in Egypt.
of
Genesis 15:89
Guaranteed By Covenant
A re you discouraged because a
breakthrough that you have been
is a covenant, not a contract. It is
praying for has yet to manifest?
permanent Till death do us part.
Maybe it has been days or even In Bible times, when you cut a
weeks and you are asking, How covenant with someone, you bring
will I know that I will get it? an animal, usually a ram or goat,
Abraham faced the same situation and kill it by cutting it in two. Next,
and asked God the same question. you will face your covenant partner
And God answered, Bring Me a and walk toward each other between
three-year-old heifer, a three-year- the two pieces of the animal, passing
old female goat, a three-year-old each other in the center.
ram, a turtledove, and a young What all this means is that both
pigeon. What a strange answer! parties are obligated to protect and
But if you read on (Genesis provide for each other. Whatever
15:1021), you will realize that belongs to you is your partners and
God took Abrahams question very whatever belongs to your partner is
seriously, and went on to show yours. Of course, the one who
him just how serious He was about benefits is the lesser or poorer party.
being his provider, protector and Today, God is in covenant
blesser. God was so serious that with us. We are the lesser, poorer
He was willing to bind Himself to party. We have nothing to offer
a covenant. God. But God, the richest and most
What is a covenant? It is like a powerful being in the universe, has
contract. Yet, it is more than a everything to offer us!
contract. A contract is binding only for My friend, God has bound
a period of time, like five years or Himself to a covenant, an iron-clad
seven years, or until certain terms are guarantee of His blessings and
fulfilled. But a covenant is perpetual. provision in your life, and it is all for
It is permanent. The only way out is your benefit. The breakthrough you
through death. That is why marriage are waiting for is guaranteed by
covenant!
Now when the sun was going down,
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Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor
Galatians 4:27
Rejoice, O Barren!
B arrenness. What a painful and
frustrating condition. Yet, in Isaiah 54,
You may say, Pastor Prince,
you dont understand, the banks
Gods Word to those who are
experiencing barrenness is to are chasing me!
rejoice Sing O barren! God says, Rejoice because
Why? Because in the previous you are well provided for in Christ.
chapter, it tells us that the In Christ, you are already blessed
chastisement for our peace fell upon with every spiritual blessing,
Jesus. (Isaiah 53:5) The word including financial provision.
peace here in Hebrew means (Ephesians 1:3) For you know the
completeness, soundness, health, grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
safety and provision. In other words, though He was rich, yet for your
all these benefits are yours today sakes He became poor, that you
because Jesus has already been through His poverty might become
punished at the cross for your peace. rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9)
That is why you can start rejoicing. If you are sick, start planning to
So God wants you right now, do what you have not been able to
in whatever area you are barren, to do. Dont rejoice only when the
start rejoicing as if the fruit or healing manifests and the pain is no
yield you want to see has already more. Rejoice now in your healing
come. He wants you to start because Jesus has already borne
thinking, speaking and acting as if your diseases and carried your pains,
the barrenness is no more. and by His stripes you have already
If you are financially barren, start been healed. (Isaiah 53:45)
planning for what you would do when Whatever barren situation you
your finances increase. I am not are in, rejoice and tell God, Father,
saying that you go out and spend because of the sacrifice of Your Son, I
recklessly, but start making plans for am blessed with all spiritual blessings
increase. The time to do this is when in heavenly places in Christ. You have
you are still in what your natural eyes already given me everything. So I am
see as a barren stage. going to act like it is so and rejoice!
4 Surely He has borne our griefs [sicknesses]
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and carried our sorrows [pains]
Isaiah 53:4
Surely!
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Romans 10:6
Call It Forth!
astor Prince, I feel the can just hear their neighbors saying,
They want a child so much they
P pain in my body. How can
I go around saying that Christ has have gone mad! But God changed
redeemed me from this sickness? the way Abraham talked so that
How can I say that by His stripes I he called forth what God saw him
am healed? already blessed with.
Well, Gods way is to call those You know, when Jesus saw the
things that are not as though they are. man with a withered hand, He didnt
And because you are made in Gods say, My goodness! It is so withered!
image, you can also call those things He said, Stretch out your hand!
that are not as though they are! (Matthew 12:13) He called forth
When God wanted to make what He wanted. He looked at the
Abraham a father of many nations, paralytic and said, Rise, take up your
what did He do? He changed the bed and go home! (Matthew 9:6)
way Abraham talked. At that time, He didnt see the way it was in the
Abraham did not even have a single natural. He saw the way God meant
child from Sarah because she was it to be and He called it forth.
barren. So how could he become a Genesis 1 tells us that in the
father of many nations? beginning, there was darkness over
God changed the way he talked. the face of the whole earth. God saw
How? By changing his name from the darkness and He said, Light
Abram to Abraham, which means be! And light was. God called forth
father of many nations. (Genesis what He wanted and it became so!
17:5) If it had been me or you, we would
Just imagine: From then on, probably have said, Whoa! It is so
every time he met someone, he dark!
would say, Hi, my name is Father My friend, despite the pain, call
Of Many Nations. Every time forth your healing. It is pointless to
dinner was ready, Sarah would call state the obvious. So change the way
out to Abraham, Darling Father you talk. See the way God meant
Of Many Nations dinner is ready! it to be, and start calling forth your
Father Of Many Nations You healing and wholeness!
Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray,
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believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
Mark 11:24
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forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Ephesians 1:7
Be Christ-Conscious
H ave you ever woken up in the
morning and said, Today, I will not
it, I was oppressed in my mind and
sin. And as you leave your so sin-conscious instead of Christ-
house, you say, I must be careful not conscious!
to fall into sin today. I dont want to My friend, when you fall into
sin. I will not sin! My friend, when sin, God wants you to be Christ-
you do this, you are no longer Christ- conscious. This means that when
conscious but sin-conscious, even you have missed it, God wants you
though you have not sinned yet. to be conscious that in Christ, you
Men, have you ever caught have forgiveness of sins through
yourself thinking, I dont want to His blood. God wants you to be
look at any woman in case I lust? conscious that Christ was wounded
You are being sin-conscious when and bruised for your sins, and that
you think like that. And sooner or the chastisement for your peace
later, you will lust in your heart. was upon Him. (Isaiah 53:5)
You may not sin outwardly, but When you are Christ-conscious,
you will sin inwardly. you will have peace with God
Have you also tried confessing through our Lord Jesus Christ.
every sin? I have! As a teenager, when a (Romans 5:1) You will know that
bad thought came, I would quickly say, you are the righteousness of God in
Im sorry, Lord. Forgive me for this Christ because He who knew no sin
was made sin for you. (2 Corinthians
thought in Jesus name. Then, another
5:21) He took your sin and now you
thought would come and I would
have His righteousness.
quickly say, Forgive me, Lord, for that
So when you fall, dont be
thought in Jesus name. Then, if I
conscious of your failure and feel
happen to doubt His forgiveness, I
would confess my unbelief and ask for bad or condemned. Instead, be
forgiveness: Forgive me, Lord, for conscious of who you are in Christ,
doubting You. Before I knew pick yourself up, dust yourself of
and continue your walk with God!
Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
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If you would like to receive all that Jesus has done for you and
make Him your Lord and Savior, please pray this prayer:
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