Derek Prince Legacy Radio International

God's Word is the source of mental illumination. Derek explains how it penetrates our minds like a ray of light and dispels the darkness that has been produced by our alienation from God; and how, just as there is no substitute for light in the physical realm, so there is no substitute for God's Word in the spiritual realm.

God's Word also provides for your physical body. Through His Word, God offers us healing and health for our physical body. How? Scripture says, that God's Word did three things for the people who cried out to Him. It says He saved them, He healed them, and He delivered them from their destruction.

Derek explains how God's Word provides suitable spiritual nourishment for the new life that has been produced in us by the new birth. This nourishment comes in various forms based on the stage of our spiritual development: first, milk for new-born babes; then bread for those who are growing up; finally, solid food, or a complete diet, for those who are mature.

God's Word in you can produce the greatest miracle that any human being can ever experience-the new birth. Derek explains that God's Word is like a seed received into our hearts. The Holy Spirit brings forth out of that seed a completely new kind of life-imperishable, eternal, divine.

Derek discusses the first specific result that God's Word will produce in us-that is, faith. Scripture says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The three successive phases: first, God's Word; second, you hear it; and third, as you hear it and receive it, it imparts to you faith.

God's word is alive, energetic, penetrating. That God's Word and God's Spirit, working together, contain in them the total creative power of God. The results God's Word produces in us depends on the way we respond to it.

Today's topic is such a solemn and serious subject, that Derek brings to you a special word of warning regarding conduct that undermines covenant. God's demands for covenant commitment as the basis for relationship are clearly set forth in Scripture, as Derek will bring to light.

In today's message Derek speaks about the distinctive New Testament ordinance or sacrament that symbolizes and perpetuates a special lifestyle. God's people over the centuries have adopted various names for this: the Eucharist, Communion, the Lord's Supper, or the Breaking of Bread.

Entering into covenant with others brings us into a distinctive new lifestyle. In New Testament Greek, the the word koinonia is used to describe this lifestyle. In most English Bibles, this word is translated "fellowship" or "sharing in a common life."

There never was a valid covenant without a sacrifice and a sacrifice represents the death of the one who makes the covenant. A person enters into covenant through his own death. This is not merely established in the Old Testament, but carried on into the New.

The same covenant that brings us into relationship with God also brings us into relationship with God's people. Thus relationship with God's people also is based on covenant.

Using examples from the Old Testament in how God dealt with Israel in the Old Testament, Derek explains that when God redeemed Israel out of Egypt and made a covenant with them, He became their husband. This covenant relationship was as binding as that of a husband and wife, so their subsequent disobedience was referred to by their prophets as adultery.

Listen today as Derek traces the outworking of God's covenant with Abraham in history, and also in the personal relationship that it produced between God and Abraham.

Today Derek speaks about the covenant that God made with Abraham in Genesis chapter 15. This is a most beautiful and detailed picture of how God enters into covenant with man.

The vertical beam of the cross speaks about a personal relationship with God. Derek will explain the only basis on which God will enter into such a relationship with man.

Christianity is primarily a religion of right relationships rather than right doctrines. If our relationships with our fellow human beings are wrong, our relationship with God cannot possibly be right.

Derek finishes this study by using the Word to show that through the finished work of Jesus, we are accepted by God into His family. He leads us in a prayer to receive what God has provided; for guilt you are pronounced NOT GUILTY, for shame you have been given His GLORY, and for rejection you have been ACCEPTED. You’re not just tolerated, you’re WELCOME into His presence and all He has.

Derek continues looking at kinds and causes of rejection such as an orphan might experience, or the break-up of a marriage, or self-rejection. He then looks at the remedy… the cross, where Jesus experienced first rejection from His own people, the Jews, and then from His own Father God, leading to His death of a broken heart.

Beginning in this session Derek looks at rejection, which he terms the deepest wound of the human spirit. It is more than emotions although that is affected; it’s something that goes deeper into the very spirit of a person and can begin even while in the womb before you are born.

Today Derek looks at shame we experience and how Jesus bore our shame on the cross as He hung there, despising his nakedness. He was put on view for all to see, bearing that shame for all mankind that we may see ours exchanged for His glory and be cleansed and healed.