Derek Prince

Quote from the audio series, "Protection From Deception."

In Leviticus 19:19, God warns us against mixture. He is opposed to mixture. God says this:

“You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed, nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.”

So, God warns against three things: breeding mixed livestock, sowing with mixed seed, and wearing a mixed garment.

We could say that sowing with mixed seed represents the message that we bring when it is partly truth and partly error. Wearing a mixed garment would be like a lifestyle that is partly scriptural and partly of this world. And letting livestock breed with livestock of an incompatible kind would be equivalent to a Christian ministry or group aligning itself with a group or ministry that is non-Christian.

It's an interesting thing about such breeding: its product is always sterile. For instance, you can mate a horse with a donkey, and the product is a mule. But a mule is always sterile. It cannot reproduce. I think that's one reason why there are so many sterile operations in Christendom. They are being bred with the wrong mate.

Now, I've observed this carefully, and I've had grievous experience of this condition of a mixture of spirits. I find that it is something which the scripture warns us against. For instance, there's a character in the Bible, King Saul, who had a mixture of spirits. At one time, he prophesied in the Holy Spirit; at another time, he prophesied in a demon.

His career is really a warning. He was a king who ruled for 40 years. He was a successful military commander. He had a lot of successes, but mixture was his undoing, and his life closed with tragedy. On the last night of his life, he went to consult a witch. The next day, he committed su***de on the battlefield. Surely that offers no encouragement to any of us to cultivate any kind of spiritual mixture in our lives.

The Joy Set before Him

May 17, 2026

Jesus bore our shame that we might share His glory

Hebrews 12:2 calls Jesus the “author and finisher of our faith.” The same verse in both the New International and New American Standard Bible versions refers to Jesus as the “originator and perfecter” of our faith.

Let me encourage you with those words. Whatever Jesus begins, He is going to complete. If He has started something in you, He will complete it. That is His faithfulness—not our cleverness.

Hebrews 12:2 continues, saying that Jesus, “for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” On the cross, Jesus endured shame, but He did not let it deter Him. For the joy that was set before Him, He did not consider shame a worthy reason to turn away from His purpose. What was “the joy that was set before Him”? The joy of bringing many sons to glory. In order to bring you and me—and millions and millions of others like us—to glory, Jesus Christ endured the shame of the cross.

There is no form of death more shameful than crucifixion. It is shameful because it is the lowest form of punishment reserved for the most debased of criminals. It is shameful because of the very way in which the death occurs. The Scriptures state clearly that the Roman soldiers took all of Jesus’ clothing away from Him. Jesus hung naked on the cross before the eyes of the people for three hours or more. People walked past and made fun of Him. How would you feel in that situation? In a single word: shameful. Jesus endured the shame because He saw that through it, He could bring us to glory.