100 Days of Right Believing: Daily Readings from The Power of Right Believing by Joseph Prince
Authors: Joseph Prince
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and listening to a message by Pastor Prince, I felt God prompting me to send Tyler a text message. I felt that God wanted me to ask Tyler, “What does God see when He looks at you?” So while running, I texted him exactly those words. After a long time, I received his text reply:
Tyler: “Are you serious?”
Ron: “Yes.”
Tyler: “Well… I’m sure it’s not good.”
Ron: “Jesus.”
Tyler: “What do you mean?”
Ron: “I mean, when God looks at you, He sees Jesus!”
Thirty minutes later, I got this message:
Tyler: “Thanks, man, you don’t know how badly I needed to hear that!”
Would it bless your heart to know that this is the very message God wants you to receive today? If you are like Tyler, then you believe God’s love for youdepends on your actions. You honestly believe God is ashamed of you because of your mistakes and failures. Well, you may have either not heard or have forgotten that the payment for your sins has already been made in full upon the body of Jesus at the cross. Therefore, when God looks at you today, He doesn’t judge, esteem, and measure you according to your imperfections. He sees you in the Beloved—He sees you in Christ, and He sees the blood that has been shed for you by His dear Son.
When God looks at you today, He sees Jesus. Because of this, His thoughts toward you are thoughts of loving-kindness, forgiveness, blessings, and favor. Jesus paid an immensely heavy price on the cross so that you can live life completely accepted and unconditionally loved by God. Knowing and believing this will make all the difference in how you live your life—no matter what is staring you in the face.
Today’s Thought
When God looks at me today, He sees me in Christ. He does not see my imperfections, but sees His Son’s blood, and therefore accepts me completely and loves me unconditionally.
Today’s Prayer
Father, thank You that on the cross Jesus paid the heavy price for my sins, failures, and shame. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, to see what You see—that I am in the Beloved, in Jesus, and that His blood covers me completely. I receive Your loving-kindness, forgiveness, blessings, and favor. Today, I choose to stand tall, believing that because of Jesus, I am completely accepted and unconditionally loved by You. Amen.
What Actually Happened at the Cross?
Today’s Scripture
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 C ORINTHIANS 5:21
O nce, the Lord showed me a vision of what happened at the cross. I saw how all the sins of the entire human race (lies, deceit, envy, bitterness, adultery, addiction, bondage, murder) and all the consequences of sin (fear, sicknesses, guilt, disease, and condemnation) swirled around Jesus like evil spirits and demons, laughing heinously, taunting and tormenting Him. Jesus became like a magnet for all sin and of His own volition accepted all this sin into His own body.
You and I will never be able to imagine the excruciating pain that tore through His body at the cross. Every malignant cancer, every tumor, every sickness, and every disease came upon Him at the same time. He who knew no sin took upon Himself the mountainous weight of all men’s darkest and foulest sins. He took it all Himself.
The Word says that “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses” (Matt. 8:17). “Himself”—a singular, reflexive pronoun that signifies the exclusion of you and me. Since He Himself has taken the full punishment, judgment, and condemnation for all sin, you and I are excluded from every punishment, judgment, and condemnation for all sin when we receive Him as our Savior.
But the story did not end there. Jesus did not die on the cross in the middle of receiving upon Himself all of humanity’s sins. He took it all and accepted it all in His body. Then the fire of God’s judgment was unleashed upon His own precious Son, and only when every last sin had been punished
Tyler: “Are you serious?”
Ron: “Yes.”
Tyler: “Well… I’m sure it’s not good.”
Ron: “Jesus.”
Tyler: “What do you mean?”
Ron: “I mean, when God looks at you, He sees Jesus!”
Thirty minutes later, I got this message:
Tyler: “Thanks, man, you don’t know how badly I needed to hear that!”
Would it bless your heart to know that this is the very message God wants you to receive today? If you are like Tyler, then you believe God’s love for youdepends on your actions. You honestly believe God is ashamed of you because of your mistakes and failures. Well, you may have either not heard or have forgotten that the payment for your sins has already been made in full upon the body of Jesus at the cross. Therefore, when God looks at you today, He doesn’t judge, esteem, and measure you according to your imperfections. He sees you in the Beloved—He sees you in Christ, and He sees the blood that has been shed for you by His dear Son.
When God looks at you today, He sees Jesus. Because of this, His thoughts toward you are thoughts of loving-kindness, forgiveness, blessings, and favor. Jesus paid an immensely heavy price on the cross so that you can live life completely accepted and unconditionally loved by God. Knowing and believing this will make all the difference in how you live your life—no matter what is staring you in the face.
Today’s Thought
When God looks at me today, He sees me in Christ. He does not see my imperfections, but sees His Son’s blood, and therefore accepts me completely and loves me unconditionally.
Today’s Prayer
Father, thank You that on the cross Jesus paid the heavy price for my sins, failures, and shame. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, to see what You see—that I am in the Beloved, in Jesus, and that His blood covers me completely. I receive Your loving-kindness, forgiveness, blessings, and favor. Today, I choose to stand tall, believing that because of Jesus, I am completely accepted and unconditionally loved by You. Amen.
What Actually Happened at the Cross?
Today’s Scripture
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 C ORINTHIANS 5:21
O nce, the Lord showed me a vision of what happened at the cross. I saw how all the sins of the entire human race (lies, deceit, envy, bitterness, adultery, addiction, bondage, murder) and all the consequences of sin (fear, sicknesses, guilt, disease, and condemnation) swirled around Jesus like evil spirits and demons, laughing heinously, taunting and tormenting Him. Jesus became like a magnet for all sin and of His own volition accepted all this sin into His own body.
You and I will never be able to imagine the excruciating pain that tore through His body at the cross. Every malignant cancer, every tumor, every sickness, and every disease came upon Him at the same time. He who knew no sin took upon Himself the mountainous weight of all men’s darkest and foulest sins. He took it all Himself.
The Word says that “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses” (Matt. 8:17). “Himself”—a singular, reflexive pronoun that signifies the exclusion of you and me. Since He Himself has taken the full punishment, judgment, and condemnation for all sin, you and I are excluded from every punishment, judgment, and condemnation for all sin when we receive Him as our Savior.
But the story did not end there. Jesus did not die on the cross in the middle of receiving upon Himself all of humanity’s sins. He took it all and accepted it all in His body. Then the fire of God’s judgment was unleashed upon His own precious Son, and only when every last sin had been punished
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