Derek Prince

If you don't mean it, don't say it.

The Price of Friendship
June 20, 2026

I am a friend of Christ

Often, the measure of God’s commitment to you is determined by the measure of your commitment to Him. God never makes partial commitments, and He does not want any partial commitments. God has established the price of a relationship with Him. It is everything you have.

“He… that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33, KJV)

You may say, “That sounds hard.” But it is realistic. Let me tell you two facts about God’s kingdom. First of all, God never has a sale. He never reduces the price on any item. If you want the relationship that Peter, Paul, and John had with the Lord, you must pay what they paid. God has not offered a discount.

The second fact is good news: in God’s kingdom, there is no inflation. The price has never gone up, and it has never gone down. It is always the same.

The outcome of a commitment to God is peace, security, and joy. Do you want it? You have to make the decision. Jesus said:

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” (Revelation 3:20, KJV)

Notice the order Jesus established in this verse. First, you give Jesus your supper, and then He gives you His. As Jesus said to His Father, “All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine” (John 17:10). Are you willing to make that kind of commitment to God?

Quote from the book, "Hear God's Voice."

The first step we can take to humble ourselves before God is to confess our sins. First John 1:9 says,

If we confess our sins, He [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Let me emphasize that God does not want to hold your sins against you. Through Christ, He has made total provision for you to be completely forgiven and cleansed. But the Lord has laid down a condition: “If we confess our sins….” (1 John 1:9).

If we do not confess our sins, those transgressions continue to be reckoned or counted against us. The only way we can escape from the consequences and guilt of our sins is by confessing them. We simply must acknowledge, “Yes, God, I did this. It’s true.”

Escape deception by applying the truth of God’s word.

Perfect Fellowship
June 19, 2026

I am a friend of Christ

In his first epistle, John said:

“What we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:3, NASB)

In other words, the gospel is an invitation from the Godhead for us to share the fellowship that the Father and Son share with one another. The Greek word for fellowship is koinonia. It is an important word in New Testament Greek that literally means, “sharing in common.” So, fellowship is sharing in common. We are invited to share the same relationship that God the Father and God the Son have together. One thing is clear about this relationship: God the Father and God the Son have everything in common. Neither withholds anything from the other.

In John 17:10, Jesus said to His Father:

“And all [things that are] mine are thine, and thine are mine.” (KJV)

That’s perfect koinonia, perfect fellowship—the perfect sharing of all things. It is the perfect pattern of relationship into which God wants to bring us.

Quote from the audio/video message, "Four Truths for Life."

Anyhow here is my simple recipe for success, and I make no charge. You can have it the way I got it, for free. “Freely I receive, freely I give.” But I want to tell you, it’s worked in my life. 1 John 2:17:

“And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”

You need to understand what’s meant by the world. The world is all of society that is not submitted to the righteousness government of God’s King Jesus. The world can be very religious, very intellectual, even in a way very moral. But they are not submitted to the Kingship of Jesus. They seem good, but you begin to speak to those people, those moral religious people about a personal unreserved commitment to Jesus and something rises up in them, the old rebel. And you discover that beneath all the morality there’s rebellion. So we have to learn what it is to live in a different way.

God’s Standard of Friendship
June 18, 2026

I am a friend of Christ

Alas, in the world today, the word friend has been watered down. It has become a cheap word, and friendship can be a cheap thing. But I want you to know that God’s standard of friendship has not changed. For God, friendship is based on covenant commitment. Through covenant commitment, Abraham became a friend of God. Under the new covenant, Jesus wants to bring us into the same relationship with Him—as His friends—that Abraham entered into under the old covenant.

In John 15:15, Jesus said to His disciples:

“No longer do I call you slaves... but I have called you friends.” (NASB)

That is a promotion, from being a slave to being a friend. But we need to understand that, for us just as much as it was for Abraham, friendship is not cheap. It costs something to be a friend of Jesus. For us, the basis of friendship with Jesus is the same as it was for Abraham. It is covenant commitment. Jesus was about to lay down His life for us when He said:

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13, NASB)

But remember, if we are to be Jesus’ friends, we have to lay down our lives for Him. It is a two-way commitment.

Whether we look to the light or the dark we will reflect what we are looking at.

Quote from the audio series, "Spiritual Conflict, Pt 10: The Cross Canceled Satan's Claims."

“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds.” (Colossians 3:9, KJV)

You'll notice the most distinctive single feature of the old man is the thing they're told not to do there, it's what? Lying. Because he's the product of deception. His whole nature is deception and corruption. He's the product of the serpent. And I challenge anyone, no one has ever seen a straight snake. There isn't such a thing. And the old man is just as crooked as the snake that brought him into being. There is no truth in him. He's crooked to the core. When he tries to be straight, he's the most crooked.

“Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds.” (KJV)

His deeds being primarily lying. You see, the thing about lying is if you're going to commit any other sin, sooner or later you'll have to join lying to it to cover up the other sins. So if you keep from lying, you have to live right. There's no alternative.

I believe what the Bible says about Jesus!