Derek Prince — source / teacher profile
Bible teacher, author, and missionary
Description
Who he was
Derek Prince (August 14, 1915 – September 24, 2003) was a British Bible teacher, pastor, missionary, theologian, and author. He was born in Bangalore, India. He studied Greek and Latin at Eton and then ancient and modern philosophy at King’s College, Cambridge. During the Second World War, he served as a medical orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
On July 31, 1941, while in military service, he experienced an encounter with Jesus Christ that completely changed the direction of his life. From then on, he devoted himself to studying and teaching Scripture. He ministered in the Middle East, Africa, Britain, the United States, and elsewhere, while his teaching reached many countries through books, radio broadcasts, recordings, and the work of Derek Prince Ministries.
Main areas of teaching
Prince taught on the foundations of Christian faith, repentance and faith, baptisms, the Holy Spirit and His gifts, laying on of hands, resurrection and judgment, the cross of Christ, healing, rejection, forgiveness, blessings and curses, prayer and fasting, the believer’s authority, spiritual warfare, demons, and deliverance.
Importance for the Library
Derek Prince is one of the Library’s major sources for cards on the foundations of faith, the Holy Spirit, prayer, healing, rejection, forgiveness, curses, spiritual warfare, and deliverance. His work should not be reduced to demonology. A distinctive feature of his ministry was his systematic movement through biblical texts and his emphasis on the practical application of faith.
Key publications
Books particularly relevant to this Library include They Shall Expel Demons; Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose; Foundational Truths for Christian Living / Foundation Series; The Holy Spirit in You; God’s Remedy for Rejection; God’s Medicine Bottle; Atonement; Spiritual Warfare; and Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting. According to the official Derek Prince Ministries biography, he wrote more than one hundred books, and his teaching has been translated into more than one hundred languages.