These are notes on the sermon, Good Happens When You Sense His Love, preached by Pastor Joseph Prince on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at The Star Performing Arts Centre, Singapore. We hope these sermon notes will be an encouragement to you!
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Our natural tendency is to focus on our failures and shortcomings. We replay our mistakes and disqualify ourselves, wondering if God still loves us after all we’ve done. It goes against our natural human flesh to believe that God has forgiven us of all our sins. This is why we need to be re-established in and to hear the gospel of grace preached again and again.
Grace is not based on what we deserve, but on what Jesus has done. So we need to keep returning to His finished work—not to fix ourselves but to be reminded that we are completely forgiven by His blood (Eph. 1:7)!
And this forgiveness is the clearest demonstration of God’s love for us.
Think about it. No parent would willingly give up their child for someone else—especially not for people who would reject, mock, and torture them. But that’s exactly what God did. He gave up His beloved Son for a world that didn’t want Him.
When Jesus went to the cross, He wasn’t just carrying the sins of that generation. He carried your sins—past, present, and future—so that today, you can live free from guilt, fully forgiven, and completely loved.
Even in our own lives, we know how powerful it is to be told, “You’re forgiven.” It’s one of the deepest ways we show love. And that’s what God has done for you.
The more you receive His forgiveness, the more His love will begin to flow through you—to heal, restore, and help you forgive others too.
If God was willing to give up His most precious treasure, His beloved Son, for you, how would He ever hold back anything else (Rom. 8:32)?
Yet many a time, we live as if we are without His love. We know in theory that God loves us, but we don’t always sense it, especially when life feels overwhelming, uncertain, or disappointing. The truth is, when we become conscious of His love, we start seeing His goodness flow in unexpected ways.
Pastor Prince shared about a time when his daughter, Jessica, was unwell. Like any concerned parent, he did everything humanly possible to help her. But nothing seemed to work, and Pastor was very troubled. In that moment, the Lord gently led him to shift his focus from the situation and onto His love for him.
That simple realignment changed everything. As Pastor Prince became more aware of how much God loved him, peace entered. Fear left. And healing followed. Jessica recovered—not through Pastor’s striving or worrying but through his resting in God’s love.
Pastor Prince then shared a powerful thought from John Wesley, acknowledged as the father of Methodism:
This is why it’s so important to live daily in the comfort and joy of knowing we are loved by our heavenly Father. You don’t need to strive and struggle to earn His blessings—just stay positioned to receive. And you begin by being aware that you are deeply loved by Him.
As believers, we often feel the pressure to do more—to serve more, pray harder, be better. But according to Jesus, He is not after our service or self-efforts. Instead, He wants us to first receive from Him.
In Luke 10, we see the familiar story of Mary and Martha. Martha was busy serving, while Mary chose to sit at Jesus’ feet and listen. Nothing wrong with Martha’s service, but it led to stress, frustration, and eventually, complaint and blame. She questioned if Jesus even cared.
Mary’s posture of receiving, however, brought peace and clarity. She wasn’t trying to give to Jesus—she was letting Him give to her. And Jesus said she had chosen “what is better” (Luke 10:42 NIV).
Later, in John 12, we see Mary doing the right thing at the right time when she anointed our Lord Jesus for His burial. It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t out of effort. It flowed naturally because she had spent time close to His heart. She did the right thing at the right time for Him because she had first received from Him.
This is the posture God is inviting us into: Receive from Him first before doing anything.
David understood this long before Mary did. In Psalm 116, he asked,
How do we honor God for all He’s done? Not by trying to repay Him, but by receiving more! He wants you to take what He freely gives: Salvation, healing, peace, wisdom, and every good thing He’s already made available through our Lord Jesus’ finished work at the cross.
One of the greatest barriers to receiving from God is trying to reason everything out with our minds. But the promises of grace aren’t received through the mind; they’re received in the heart.
In Luke 5, Jesus was in a house filled with religious leaders. The Bible says the power of the Lord was present to heal, but nothing happened for these leaders. Not because the power wasn’t real but because the people were busy reasoning in their minds and judging our Lord.
Then came a paralyzed man, lowered through the roof by his friends. Jesus didn’t heal the man immediately. Instead, He said, “Your sins are forgiven.” The religious leaders were offended and questioned Jesus, but the man received our Lord’s forgiveness and walked away healed.
The Lord used the man’s healing to demonstrate the miracle of forgiveness. The man didn’t receive healing because he understood everything. He was healed because he believed in his heart that he was forgiven.
The same is true for us. You can be in God’s presence and surrounded by His power, just like the religious leaders were, and still miss out because you’re reasoning with your mind what God has already released by grace. But when you believe you are forgiven and loved, His supernatural power flows—not just into your spirit, but into your body, your mind, and every part of your life!
When you truly sense how much God loves you, not only does it change your situation, but it also affects how you treat others.
In Matthew 18, Jesus told a parable about a servant who owed his master a huge debt that he could not repay. Out of compassion, the master forgave him completely. But that same servant refused to forgive someone who owed him a smaller amount and had the other man thrown in jail. Why? All because he didn’t understand or appreciate the forgiveness and love he had received.
The Bible says we are forgiven according to, not out of, the riches of our Father’s grace (Eph. 1:7). That means God doesn’t forgive us with only a portion of His grace. He forgives us lavishly, fully, and freely.
And He forgives us richly because He loves us deeply. When you know how completely you have been forgiven, you won’t hold on to unforgiveness, but will instead forgive just as you have been forgiven.
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