Whitney Houston & GOD’s Love

00:01 Praise Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, today is the 6th of July 2015. Power of Christ Daily. The title is Whitney Houston and God’s Love.

00:10 Whitney Houston and God’s Love. In an interview, Whitney said, don’t pray about the drugs, Leave the drugs alone. And the interviewer asked, why? Why? Houston replied, don’t, don’t pray for me as a person.

00:31 Pray for me as a person, for my soul, that I’m stronger. And man, I don’t care what anybody else says or did or what they claimed I was. I know I’m a child of God and I know he loves me.

00:46 Jesus loves me. This I know. Yeah, just replied.

00:51 And then they interviewer later asked, ten years from now, Whitney, give me the perfect life for Whitney Houston. Houston said, Whitney said, retired, sitting, looking at my daughter grow up, become a great woman of God and grandchildren. Now isn’t
that a fair request? What happened? Sadly, sad.

01:18 Sad she died like that. They say it’s drug overdose, but we won’t know. We only know what we read, what they tell us in the papers.

01:30 But the fact is she clearly said this. I know Jesus loves me. I’m a child of God, God loves me.

01:40 And she wants her daughter to grow up, become a great woman of God. And that’s her desire. Isn’t it sad? So what happens? Did Whitney Houston go to heaven? Went to Christ? I want to believe, so I want to believe because she said she knows God loves
her.

02:03 And so she must have declared somewhere along the line that the sinner’s prayer that we all say, plainest prayer, that we all say what is a plainer prayer. We say that if we believe in our heart that Jesus Christ was risen, died and rose again.
Believe in our heart that God has raised him from the dead, he will be saved.

02:28 We confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, that our God and Lord is Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ is my Lord. And believe in our heart that God has raised him from the dead, you’ll be saved. For with the heart one believes into
righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

02:47 And I believe she would have said this. And I hope and pray that she has meant it. And I believe she would have meant it because in the interview she’s saying that Jesus loves me.

02:59 But when Jesus gives us salvation, when we come to Jesus Christ and he gives us his salvation, it is more than going to heaven, it is more than going to be with him. When our body dies. He says the thief.

03:16 John 10:10. He says now, sadly, John 10:10, most people will Use only half the phrase of half the verse. The whole verse is the thief.

03:27 That is, the devil does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. That means the thief. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.

03:37 I, Jesus, have come that they may have life and that they have life more abundantly. You will have life more abundantly. So people say always Jesus came to give life and life more abundantly.

03:52 They don’t tell the first half of the verse. In the same verse, John 10:10, the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. This is what has happened.

04:01 Very sad. And this is happening all over the world in countless lives. It was happening to me.

04:10 Oh, it was destroying my life. I didn’t have Jesus at the time. I didn’t go to Him.

04:16 People told me, but I didn’t go for a long while. But finally I couldn’t do anything. Finally I went to Jesus when I didn’t know what else to do.

04:26 So when, by default, that’s mercy of God. He allows circumstances and draws us to himself. This is the mercy of God.

04:34 Brothers and sisters, this is important for us to know that even all the troubles that I faced, and finally I came to Jesus and Jesus still, still showed me mercy and grace. Loving God, he loves us. Now, Whitney Houston, while she was doing drugs
and whatnot, did God love her? Of course he loved her.

04:58 Why? Because he says he loved us. God says he loved us even before. While we are still sinners.

05:05 While we are still sinners. Not known him and all that. He already loved us.

05:13 He loves us. He loved us. While we are yet sin sinners.

05:17 While I was a sinner, he loved me. That’s why he drew me to himself. So after coming to him, he’s not going to hate you.

05:27 He still loves you. But of course he grieves. He grieves.

05:32 The Holy Spirit grieves. The Spirit of God grieves. When we don’t change, we don’t change.

05:39 And we simply. There are people who say, I’m saved by grace. And that’s all there is to it.

05:44 I don’t have to do anything else and God will settle it. But God’s command is, if you love me, keep my commandments. Can you imagine in John 14:15, clearly the Bible says, if you love me, keep my commandments.

06:02 This book of John was written, I think, 20, 30 years after Christ, at least 20 years after Christ has left and went home to heaven. Sit on the right hand side of Father God, and there, if you love me, keep my commandments. He is quoting Jesus.

06:17 If you Love me, keep my commandments. And in 1423, John, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him.

06:32 If anyone loves me, the person will keep my word. God, Jesus is saying, and my father will love him and will come to him and make our home with him. Now, see this problem here.

06:46 First of all, he loves us, but he is saying, if you love me, now it is a question of we loving him. The issue is not about God loving us. That is true.

06:58 So God’s love for Whitney Houston did not translate, did not transform her into having an abundant life. Yeah, she had a lot of money. Money is only one element of our earthly life.

07:13 Abundant life is relationship with people. Our characters were changed from day to day. Glory to glory.

07:20 We will not lie anymore. We will change what we were doing before. We are stealing before.

07:24 We won’t be stealing. Our addictions will be moving off, go out. Addictions will go.

07:30 So our life changes. And we have relationships, we have family being put together. People are putting together around us.

07:38 And people begin to see that we are acting in the love of God. We are acting our character, our conduct is acting in the love of Christ. And they will see and they will be drawn to you because they know truly you actually love.

07:54 And why are we able to love? Why am I able to love? Because he loved me first. God loved me first. And now I am able to love him.

08:02 And. And with that love, I released the love to others. But Whitney was written and so many.

08:10 It’s a real pity. It’s very sad because there’s one other scripture that I know. When Jesus already told us the devil came to steal, kill and destroy.

08:21 And in Mark 16:17, Jesus Christ before he left earth, these are some of the last words he was speaking to us. He was speaking the last words, Jesus Christ, before he left earth. He said, those who believe in my name, they will cast out evil spirits.

08:37 They will cast out demons. Now demons of addiction can be cast out. But many do not want to agree to this.

08:47 Many do not want to do this. And in his name, ask anything he said in my name. Of course, anything in God’s will, He will do for you.

08:55 If you ask Lord Jesus, I am willing to be holy. Holy. Make me do the holy things.

08:59 Make me do right things in Jesus name. In the name of Jesus Christ, I ask the Holy Spirit. Make me do the right thing.

09:04 In the name of Jesus Christ. I ask the Holy Spirit to make me obey God’s word. To keep God’s word.

09:17 And that way I can show God that I’m loving him. If I love him, I keep his commandments. Holy Spirit, make me give the commandments of Jesus Christ.

09:25 So that way I know Jesus says I love him, I love him in my heart and mind. They won’t be willing to keep the commandments. My body won’t be willing to keep the commandments.

09:38 My body will hate the commandments of God. It’s a fallen nature. So in the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind and my body to obey God.

09:48 Every cell in my body, because they are supposed to have cell memories, cellular memories. Remember we talked about heart trans. And the memory was following through with the heart to the new person.

09:59 So these memories. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every cell in my body to hate and reject drugs, hate and reject drinking, drunkenness, hate and reject smoking. You command every cell as you command every cell in the name of Jesus Christ
every day.

10:19 And at the same time, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command the spirit, spirit of addiction, of cigarettes, of drinking, of drunkenness, of alcohol, of whatever. Sexual immorality, adultery, fornication, love of the world, craving to buy shop, just
shopping and shopping, this kind of rubbish. Spirits causing us financial destruction.

10:44 Oh, you can cast everything out in the name of Jesus Christ. You can cast the spirit out in the name of Jesus Christ. The wicked spirits and you can receive.

10:51 Lord, I receive your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, make me have good spirit, loving spirit, kind spirit. Let kindness flow out of me.

11:01 Lord Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters, being saved by telling the sinner’s prayer is the first step to have an abundant life. Yes, Jesus will save us. Because we believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again.

11:19 And he came. And his blood washes away our sins so his righteousness comes upon us. We are in Christ Jesus.

11:25 Our spirit man is in Christ Jesus. But on earth, to live an abundant life, we have to love Jesus Christ by keeping his commandments. We can’t love him the way we feel, the way my mind says, how another human being tells me how I should love Jesus.

11:43 If we should love Jesus Christ, the way Jesus Christ himself has dictated, has ordered, has commanded how we must keep, how must we love him now most important other things, these commandments, commandments. People say, oh, if you’re going to keep
the commandments, you’re going back to works, works. You’re working out your salvation.

12:02 No, keeping my commandments. You’re trying to work yourself to salvation. No, no, I’m keeping My commandments of Jesus Christ to love him so that what I sow, I will reap.

12:13 I’ll reap the good things. If I sow rubbish into myself, I will reap the rubbish. Now the word commandment.

12:20 Brothers and sisters, there’s a definition that includes authoritative. Authoritative prescription, authoritative prescription. Can you imagine? It’s a prescription.

12:40 Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments, keep my prescription. Keep my prescription. Prescription is what? When we go to the doctor, they give a prescription.

12:50 Why does he give us prescription? To heal, to heal us, to heal us. That’s why prescriptions are given. Now, if you love me, keep my prescription.

13:02 This is an email. Ask the email. Brothers and sisters, I can’t paste the definition there.

13:07 Prescription, keep my prescription. This is for our sake, so we can have an abundant life here. And then if he says one prescription is before you left in my name, they will cast out evil spirit.

13:20 That’s a prescription. So we use this prescription to cast out the evil spirit of anger, cast out evil spirit of addiction, evil spirit of fear, confusion, whatever. And then we use the prescription.

13:31 And then we use a prescription to love God and to know the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. And we use the prescription to have a great life. Brothers and sisters, today, brothers and sisters, keep his commandments, Keep God’s commandments,
Keep Jesus commandments.

13:50 By the power of the Holy Spirit, by the power of Jesus Christ’s name, by the blood of Jesus Christ, we can keep his commandments. We can keep his prescriptions for a great life. Health healing, healing, physical healing, financial healing, family
healing, relationship healing, character healing.

14:11 Oh, the prescription. Heal all this in Jesus Christ’s name. Brothers and sisters, take this message seriously.

14:18 Spread it to others because it’s a wonderful way to live life. In Jesus name, I pray.