Your Answer Is Found in a Person - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (May-15-2023)

Joseph Prince (May-15-2023) Daily Devotional: Your Answer Is Found in a Person

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! - Romans 7:24–25

The flesh in us can produce a whole gamut of emotions and thoughts, from defeat, jealousy, greed, and lust to anger, inferiority, condemnation, and arrogance. As long as we are in this physical body, the flesh is active in us.

But we can rejoice because when Jesus died on the cross, the Word of God tells us that He “condemned sin in the flesh” (Rom. 8:3). All the negative thoughts and toxic emotions from the flesh have already been judged and punished at the cross. Today we can experience victory over the flesh through the power of the cross.

You can read all about the apostle Paul’s struggle with the flesh in Romans 7:18–19: “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice”.

Did you notice how many times the words “I,” “me,” and “my” are mentioned in just the two verses above? I’m sure you can identify with the apostle Paul here in his struggle with the flesh.

It’s the struggle we all face when we are occupied with ourselves and warring with the flesh within us. It’s a life of vexation, angst, defeat, and despair.

This is not where God wants you to live, my friend. A believer doesn’t live in Romans chapter 7. Through Christ Jesus, we should be living in Romans chapter 8. Let’s read on and discover how Paul broke free from this bondage of self.

Just a few verses later, Paul cries out, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom. 7:24). The answer, my friend, is found in a person, and Paul tells us this person is Jesus: “I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Rom. 7:25).

Only our beautiful Savior, Jesus Christ, can deliver us from the flesh. And in Christ we can step into the first verse of Romans chapter 8, which proclaims, “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (NASB).

This is where we as new covenant believers ought to live. Not in the domain of constant struggle and despair, but in the domain of no condemnation and victory.

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Your Answer Is Found in a Person - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (May-15-2023)
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  • Comment Link My darling Legae Tuesday, 16 May 2023 02:40 posted by My darling Legae

    AMEN 🙏

  • Comment Link Joy Monday, 15 May 2023 13:50 posted by Joy

    Thank you. I have been struggling. I am putting all of my faith in the Lord to protect and heal me. I’m having terrible anxiety and worry after I was attacked. I know Jesus is helping me. I have been having a hard time sleeping, eating and leaving my apt. I’m disabled and am counting on God for everything. Thank you for your daily words to start the day. It helps. I do communion every morning and have been for years now. Just thank you. Thank you.

  • Comment Link Linda Sunday, 15 May 2022 00:41 posted by Linda

    I'd love the book in audio with that lady's voice. I felt peace when she spoke those fantastic words about God. I think it would also benefit people who can't read or are blind.

  • Comment Link Rosendo Martinez Vazquez Saturday, 14 May 2022 08:54 posted by Rosendo Martinez Vazquez

    Gracias por el mensaje. Amén

  • Comment Link Maurice wright Saturday, 14 May 2022 08:48 posted by Maurice wright

    God bless you man of God I'm in the ministry called by God jer1 spoke to me directly by God and I've prayed the holy spirit giving prayer in ephesians and God has sent you to open my eye's to this great gospel of grace I'm listening and growing in a whole new and living way thank you for allowing God to use you to bless the body of christ and helping me return to my first love Happy birthday may God continue to enlarge your territory with his hand upon you

  • Comment Link Maurice wright Saturday, 14 May 2022 08:44 posted by Maurice wright

    God bless you man of God I'm in the ministry called by God jer1 spoke to me directly by God and I've prayed the holy spirit giving prayer in ephesians and God has sent you to open my eye's to this great gospel of grace I'm listening and growing in a whole new and living way thank you for allowing God to use you to bless the voxy of christ and helping me return to my first love Happy birthday may God continue to enlarge your territory with his hand upon you

  • Comment Link Claudette Saturday, 12 June 2021 15:56 posted by Claudette

    Pastor Prince! Thanks for opening up the scripture to us. You are another-centered! God bless you member of The Body of Christ!

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Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince (born 15 May 1963, Singapore) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, one of Asia's biggest churches. He was one of the church's founders in 1983.

Joseph Prince, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother, spent his primary school years in Perak, Malaysia.

Prince changed his birth name to Joseph Prince during his previous occupation as an IT consultant.

Prince has been ...

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