Pray for North Korea. Attend a Concert

Eight people from JOY are leaving for NK this afternoon: Carrie Choi, Jacob Chung, Julie Chung, John Hwang, Jeanie Kwon, Mihae Song, Soo Bae and Jason Suh. They will minister at an orphanage in PyongYang and also do some medical missions. As of now, John Hwang does not have his visa, so please pray for that.

On the other hand, there is a free concert at Manhattan School of Music (corner of Broadway and Claremont Ave., north of Columbia University) by a North Korean defector pianist. The concert is at 7:30pm. He was a son of a high official but fled for freedom. Now he teaches at a university in S. Korea and travels in the US and Korea, raising the awareness of the plight of NK defectors living in S. Korea and USA. If you cannot go to NK with the team, you may want to come out to the concert and learn about NK.

Frog in a Kettle

You may have heard about the frog experiment. A frog, if thrown into boiling water, will immediately jump out and incur no harm, but placed inside a kettle with small fire underneath will be cooked to its own death, while feeling no pain. This experiment is a lesson on the slow decline of a person, or a community: If shocked into sharp decline, one saves oneself, but decline done slowly will kill anyone.

How's your heart? Is it aflame with the passion for Christ as it did before? Do you feel the love for people? Is your compassion for the spiritually lost or the poor all over the world growing?

Our hearts easily grow lukewarm. The questions above are good evaluators of our hearts' conditions.

If our hearts grow lukewarm, what causes the decline? One is sin. Sin usually begin small: a little compromise with our hearts in lust, a permitted gaze that stays a little too long, or a little drunkenness or financial compromise. Our mind is powerful, and we can rationalize just about anything. Then, the sin grows, and as sin grows, our hearts decline. Another is distractions. Shopping, entertainments, TV. The space in our heart is limited: once it gets filled with matters of no consequence, we lose the fervor of our hearts, and eventually our life itself becomes of no consequence.

Here are three things we can do to restore our hearts' passion and keep it burning until the Lord's return: 1. Cut off sin. There is no other way. Leave no room for even the smallest sin. Even the smallest can kill us eventually. 2. Fast. Develop a lifestyle of fasting. Fast things that you enjoy, even if they are not bad, if it distracts you and makes you less. 3. Feed. Feast on the things that inflame your heart. Read Christian literature. Listen to messages or watch movies that feed your soul.

Guard you heart, above all, for it is the wellspring of life. (Prov. 4:23) Let us guard, cleanse and seek to burn in our hearts, for eternity.

Gray and Toward the Grave

My hair began to turn gray. First one here and one there, and my kids loved to pull them out. It was a great pastime. Then, gray began to come out in multitudes. I had to tell them, "Sorry to stop your fun, but you have to stop pulling them out, or your dad will turn bald."

A few weeks ago, my gray hair began to bother me. I think I am going through my midlife crisis. It bugged me to the point that I wanted to dye it. I did not understand it before, but I realize that midlife crisis is encounter with your own mortality. We all know that we will die, but we don't KNOW, that is, it does not grab us emotionally and shake us so that we have to face it squarely, until something, or some things begin to happen. In my case, that something is my gray hair.

Honestly, it is aggravating, to have to face this undeniable reminder that I am moving closer to the grave. But there is a great benefit: I get to live each day more fully, for I know that the clock is ticking, and it has always been ticking. I spend less time on frivolous activities. I focus more. I make my day count. I live more fully.

Remember: New Levels, New Devils!

We are living in an exciting time. The testimonies we hear on Sundays are astounding--healing from emotional wounds of many years, liberation from suicidal spirit to giddy joy, prophetic words that breaks open closed hearts, etc. And these things are happening regularly now. We are almost living the Book of Acts. We are grateful.

At the same time, great challenges have come upon several. Near experiences. Violent clashes with parents, and a house being robbed. How often do these things happen in the life of a church. And all these have happened in just this past 2 months! We are living in an unusual time.

Remember: New Levels, New Devils. With the spiritual upgrading, so do the challenges. BUT DO NOT BE AFRAID. God is still in control. God does not allow anything apart from our benefit. The challenges will expose the hidden in our soul and if we would respond with faith, make us more whole. Trials pass, and if we respond right, character remains. If not, we fall away. A month ago I spoke about the time of shaking that is upon us. It is. It is no time to fear. It is rather the time to press on even more into Christ. The devil will not have the last word. He will be vanquished by the faithful with the help of the Holy Spirit. Let us pray. Be on guard, and always respond forward into Christ.

Answers to Questions about Assurance of Salvation

A few weeks ago I spoke on "False Assurance of Salvation." Since then I asked people to send me questions about the sermon and I would respond. Two questions came. First was about clarification of the necessity to bear spiritual fruit: "Unless your life bears spiritual fruit, you are probably not saved." Answer: The statement was made to address false assurance of salvation. In short, "just saying the prayer" does not make you saved as though the prayer is an incantation. Rather, if the prayer was genuine, it would be followed with a life of pursuit after God and His righteousness, which will naturally bear spiritual fruit like love, joy, peace, kindness, etc. Salvation is an organic process; if the salvation is genuine, it will show in life. The statement was not made to turn salvation into salvation of works--that we have to prove it. Rather, if the salvation is genuine, its effect will show. The questioner suggested, would it not be more helpful to say, "you can not be sure of salvation unless there is fruit, so please reexamine your life and receive Jesus as Lord and Savior?" I completely concur.

Second question concerned "people who accepted Christ right before they die (e.g., at a hospital). Are those people saved?" Of course, they can be. The criminal who died next to Jesus on the cross entered Paradise! There is no time to examine whether that person's confession of faith was genuine. We can only hope.

At the end, we must examine our lives. Are we saved? When we received Christ, did we really mean to follow Christ as our Lord? Are we following Christ now? Did we in any way fall away from Christ and need to repent and get back to Him? Paul told the Corinthian believers to "examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith" (2 Cor. 13:5). He was saying it to those who went to church! We must examine ourselves.

New Levels, New Devils

There is an increase of activities of the Holy Spirit at JOY. At the same time some people have mentioned how they have experienced increased level of spiritual attacks, whether in the forms of direct attack such as "physical" oppression (choking sensation with a clear presence of a demon/s) or through people's criticism or opposition. When such attacks come, those who are inexperienced can get discouraged: "I am seeking God hard. Why are these things happening to me?" These attacks, however, are signs of encouragement. They show that you have caught the devils' attention. They consider you a threat, so they come against you. The Bible promises that if you resist the devil, he will flee from you (James 4:7). So that's another encouragement. In other words, the attacks will not last forever. After a season, the devil has to flee.

When I experienced an increased level of attack one or two years ago, Bob Hartley mentioned, "New Levels, New Devils." That is easy to understand, isn't it? You move up the level spiritually, and your opponents will be stronger too. However, be encouraged instead of being discouraged, for that is how we grow. God strengthens us further so that we overcome the new devils, and we move up and up and up.

God's call for us all is that we be fully mature and make differences for His Kingdom. The increase of attacks? These are good news. Let's continue to pray.

Man Hit by Lightening Survives, Power of God

Scott Jough was hit by lightening last week during vacation in Mass. He survived. Fortunately, the lightening was not a direct hit. It hit the ground, traveled and hit Scott near his shoulder, went through his organs and went out of his leg. Scott remembers nothing. He was instantaneously knocked unconscious. He suffered no organ damage and will be released within a day or two. The family is thankful to God. Had Scott been a few feet from where he was, or had it struck his son, Peter, whom somehow Scott covered, the story would have turned out differently. The family is thankful to God's protection.

In the mean time, God is demonstrating His power at JOY in different ways. Regular people are being filled with the Holy Spirit and used by God to heal one another, cast out demons and speak prophetically to one another unto inner healing and encouragement. This has been happening for four weeks now. At the Alpha retreat two weekends ago, I am told, everyone was touched by God through these people. I am very excited because this is exactly what happened in the Book of Acts--God using average people supernaturally.

I am reminded about St. Paul's statement: "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power (1 Cor. 2:4, 5). Also, 1 Cor. 4:20, "the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power." Christian faith is not about arguing better, but about the demonstration of the power of God, and that is what's happening. We cannot be more thankful.

For next few Thu. nights, we will gather to learn more about the Holy Spirit and the ministry through spiritual gifts, and to answer any questions. We welcome all who is interested in what is happening.

Healing ual and Relational Brokenness

Andy was a homosexual. Annette was ually abused as a . Now they are married and leading a ministry dedicated to bringing healing in ual and relational brokenness. It is called Desert Stream.

If one area exists where probably just about everyone is broken, it is uality, my seminary professor once said. The brokenness is manifested not only in conspicuous things like homosexuality or ography, but also in subtle things like power struggle between a husband and a wife in marriage, or fear in dating scenes among singles. The confusion and distortion run the whole depth of humanity, from shallowest to deepest. What God in His goodness has created for beauty and joy has become a source of perversion and pain. How we wish we could restore it! We must restore it, and we can, by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

I am reading Andrew Comiskey’s Strength in Weakness: Healing ual and Relational Brokenness. I hope you will read it also. To whet your appetite, I typed about 1.5 pages of his book below. A caution in reading it though: do not read it to accuse the other (male or female), but to acknowledge our own wrong in this relationship, confess and seek healing.

"The fallen pair set in motion a struggle for power that has raged since time's beginning. Whereas in Eden they complemented one another in wholeness, outside the garden the genders tend to merge in brokenness.

In the case of a woman, we see her greater relational capacity becoming a potential for sin. She now years for a man's love inordinately--a tendency that places her at risk of making a god out of a mere mortal. This occurs when she allows herself to be subject to the broken creation in a manner that eclipses the primacy of the Creator in her life. From this flow the sins of a woman compromising her dignity to satisfy a man's cruel demands. Her idolatry is paired with the sin of self-hatred.

Many men reinforce this idolatry through requiring much of a woman and yet giving little. They want leadership without the cost of serving a woman in love. They may even justify the imbalance on the grounds that men are superior… and thus entitled to receive more than she does. This can lead to all manner of boorish, demeaning behaviors toward women. At the root such sin involves misogyny, or the hatred and dishonor of woman.

Modern women often tend toward a counterreaction to this traditional idolatry. A woman may ignore her ned for men altogether. This is a posture of worldly justice; the woman now exists in reaction to the man's historic cruelty. She becomes larger than the man--more confident, more capable and free to need him no longer. In reaction to his abuses, she now refuses him. Her sin involves the suppression of her good and appropriate need for the man. She complements his misogyny with misandry, the hatred and dishonor of man.

Many men today grow up in a culture rife with misandry and misogyny. The battle for justice has resulted in evolving gender roles. This confusion, combined with a lack of adequate fathering, can leave men boyish and underdeveloped in their masculinity. They are thus prone to bonding with women in their immaturity.

Unsure of himself, this type of male does not lord himself over the woman in his life, but neither does he love her with the clarity and commitment that healthy relationships require. His presence may be underwhelming; hers, larger than life. She retains control through her greater function in the relationship and yet resents him for his littleness. Her disrepect reinforces his disempowerment. He remains at odds with himself and subject to self-contempt. She struggles for security in her oversized, maternal posture. Both need to confess the sins of not standing in their true status: man and woman before the Creator. Their mother-child dynamic undermines God's intent for his image bearers.

Related to this boyish immaturity is a pervasive theme I see in men today--the tendency toward narcissism. Here the man, unaffirmed and self-absorbed, engages the woman with a limited capacity to give himself to her. The relationship revolves around him. Even then he is nearly unable to love her, to extend himself beyond the awareness of his own desires. He sees her only to the degree that she satisfies him.

Such chronic selfishness can be cured only if it is acknowledged. Confessing the idolatry of self is the beginning of healing here. This requires more than the other party's long. It must involve the clear witness that such a self-serving posture is wrong. Otherwise the one partner can contribute to the idolatry of the narcissistic other." (Strength through Weakness, Andrew Comiskey, 103-5)

America My Country?

I am in Kansas City, praying for a couple of weeks. Julie, my beau, and I came here right after JAMA Conference on July 4th. We went straight from the airport (Eddie picked us up) to Bob Hartley's house. He was having a 4th of July party. By the time we arrived, the party was well on the way. About 30 s and children sat in the backyard, thanking God for independence.

As I put my foot in the backyard, I had a culture shock. I consider myself Korean-American. I am an American citizen. Yet, as I saw the non-Asian Americans, mostly Caucasian Americans, I could not help feel less American. (Julie thinks it's because there were older Caucasians.) I had to mentally tell myself that I am an American.

Later people shared prayers and poems for America. When Bob asked if anyone had anything else to share, I shared the "Declaration of Dependence" we drafted for JAMA conference. When Bob asked if I wanted to read it or should he, I said, "I think it will be good to have an Asian-American read it." People were deeply moved. (It may find its way to some newspapers.)

Do we consider ourselves fully American? Korean-American, or Chinese-American, but fully American nonetheless? Or do we consider ourselves less American than fully American? That is to say, do we take full ownership of this great country? Do we feel responsible for this nation's well being, and do all we can to make it blessed? Or do we sit by the sideline of this nation?

The key theme of JAMA conference is to instill ownership of this nation to Korean-Americans. God has brought us here to make this nation great. We must step into the ownership of this nation. When people think of American in the future, may they think of Asians because God is using us to make America great, for God's glory.

How to Overcome Jealousy

Last week I shared about being broken and letting the light of Christ shine. Today's thought is a further reflection on the same theme.

One common struggle among Christians is jealousy. It could be jealousy over a another's Gucci handbag, a better car, a more successful career or even "better" children. As I shared last week pastors are not immune to the same poison of jealousy. If another pastor has a bigger church, we may boil inside with jealousy.

Where does jealousy come from, and how can we overcome it? Jealousy exists because at the heart of hearts we want to be the greatest. We want to be the best--not Joe, not Jane, but me! Jealousy is comparative by nature and stems from our desire to be better...than others. How can we overcome it? God's answer is radical. He says, "Consider others better than yourself (Phil. 2:3)." We struggle with jealousy because we want to be better than others, but God says simply, "Consider others better than yourself." Another person carries a better handbag? Just consider her better: "She is better than I am." Another has a more successful career? Just consider him better than you: "He is smarter. He is a better man." Do not fight and try to make yourself look better. Surrender and acknowledge others as better. That is Jesus' answer.

God's call for us is not to build our name, our own empire, but to serve others, and to disappear. This is the paradox of Jesus' teaching: "Whoever wants to be great must be a servant of all." A servant has no empire of his/her own. He/she serves another. He/she works to make others great. God calls us to serve others, entirely expend ourselves for the sake of others. That person will be called great in God's sight.

When we can consider others better than ourselves, we will be free. We will no longer live to be something that we are not--to impress others, to look better to others than we are, or even just to think about what others think about us. We will be truly free and be what we are made to be.

Break Me and Shine

About a month ago I saw a vision in my prayer. I was praying that God would break me. I knew that I was full of my ego, concerns for my success, my appearance before others, etc., so I was asking God to break me. While I prayed, I saw a small metal ball (the ball had a metal covering, not full of metal), which I recognized to represent me. I asked God, "Lord, break it. Crush it." As I prayed, I saw a bat come down and strike it. When the bat struck it, I was sure that the metal ball would collapse . Instead, when the cover ed, I saw that inside the metal cover was a ball of shining light, which I recognized as the light of Christ, and the light was beginning to shine through the . I realized that when I break, I do not get crushed. Instead, I finally release Christ to shine through me.

I still struggle mightily with my ego. When I hear about someone other pastor's success, I get jealous. I still want my name to be big instead of the name of Jesus Christ. I am desperately aware how little the love of Christ I have in my heart toward other people.

Everyday I pray that God would break me. Paradoxically, when my ego is broken, I will be set free and become truly myself--who God made me to be, how God has made me shine the light of Christ.

P.S. Please pray for the Connections Conference. It is happening this week, Mon-Wed.

The Value of a Soul

I sat in a room full of strangers. Over a hundred people I have never known before. An odd sensation came over me. Who are they? What are they? I could not connect. I felt even if they all died, it would make no difference to me.

One phenomenon of the (post-)modern age is that we are trained to see people as tools. If you are a store owner, when someone walks in, that person looks like a walking dollar sign, a potential consumer. If you are a manager, you look at an employee for what he/she can do in the job. If a politician, a person may simply be a number--the vote he/she can cast for you. We see people not for their intrinsic value, but for their extrinsic value.

Much of this utilitarian view of others te our perspective because we view ourselves the same way. We think our worth is in our utilitarian worth: how much money we make, how valuable we are to the company, etc.

But God says our worth is infinite because He made us in His image. We are more precious than the most ancient artifact--even if broken, infinitely valuable. God cares for each person; that's why each of us is of an infinite value. Yes, even that drunk sleeping on the side of the street, or that person in the pit of sin. Christ died for each soul, you and me, and them, and that's why each person is infinitely valuable.

May we look at each person we meet as a person of infinite value each day instead of a tool. May we look at each person as one that God cares for and Christ died for. May we care for them, as Christ would, and share Christ with them.

Hardship, A Blessing?

When we encounter difficulties or disappointments, we usually deplore. “Why?” It may be the loss of a job, relationship, or sickness. We consider a hardship a curse. God views hardships differently though. For God, hardships are necessary tools to mold a person for a greater purpose for the long haul.

While we live with short-term views, God works with long views. We want to have success NOW! God easily take 10 years and put us through hardship for the purpose of training us. Ten years is an investment for next fifty years, 5 generations, or even 500 years. That was the case with Joseph, David, Lincoln, and FDR among many others.

A Korean saying goes: “Hardship while young is worth even paying for.” There are things that can be achieved only through hardships. Only hardships can produce inner character that produces people who make long-term difference. Money cannot buy it. Even expensive trainers and training programs cannot help us. Only the furnace of hardship can produce a character of steely strength that can endure great challenges.

One key question for people being considered for leadership is “What major obstacles have you overcome in your life?” Without overcoming major challenges people lack the character to endure the future challenges.

Hardship is a not a curse, but a blessing. God is taking you through a training course. If you are experiencing hardship, believe that God is training you right now for a long-term future. Give thanks.

Impart Your Heart , Oh God

I love to build. What I build is the church. I love to think about how to build the church, get strategies from God, bring right people together, and execute and finally see the building rise. There is great joy in building. And what I build is the Kingdom of God!

However, God reminds me there is something more important than building even the church. That is the heart. At the bottom, is my heart growing? Is my love for God growing? Is my heart-connection with God growing stronger? Or is my heart neglected by the excitement of building something, even the church? Heart matters far more. If my heart is neglected because of ministries, at the end I lose. My focus must always be to grow my heart.

If you are like me, you enjoy building something, whether it is a house, a company, or a ministry. But God says, "Grow your heart." Grow your heart toward Him. Develop a bigger love for the Father and the Son. Grow a bigger heart for people. If we build the largest company/church, and lose a heart of tender compassion for another person, we would have lost, not gain. We, human beings, live from the heart. If our heart dies, we die.

I am praying especially for a heart for the lost. "Lord, impart your compassion for the spiritually lost on my heart. Let my heart be broken by their spiritual lostness." It is not "Lord, let the church grow," but "Let my heart grow." Let us pray that God would grow our hearts. Your prayer may be about growing your heart toward God, or your family, or the poor. May we become people of the biggest hearts.

For Your Eyes Only

Would you like to be great?

The phrase "a man after [God's] own heart" which refers to King David is a for every follower of Christ, but many people do not know the context in which this phrase was spoken. This phrase was first spoken by Prophet Samuel to King Saul, whom David later replaced: "Your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader of his people, because you have not kept the LORD's command." (1 Samuel 13:14)

What was Saul's problem that he would be rejected? Essentially Saul cared more about what people thought about him than what God thought about him. He craved for people's praise more than God's praise. He wanted to look great in people's eyes than in God's eyes. That was it. In the scenario that precedes the judgment just mentioned, Saul does not fully obey God's specific command to destroy the enemies. He reserves the best animals so that he can look generous to his generals, and he does not kill the enemy king because he wants to feel magnanimous. Generosity and magnanimity are wonderful characteristics, but not when God has specifically ordered the opposite. Saul was great in the eyes of people, and he wanted to keep his image. That was his downfall.

Even after the judgment, Saul tragically seeks people's praise. He asks Samuel, "Fine with the judgment, but right now, please come and acknowledge me before the people so that they would think greatly of me."

In the mean time, David is a nobody. He is a teenage boy who has no status, no recognition. His own father thinks little of him. But David loves God. While no one sees, he plays his hand harp, and makes songs to God--something a boy who cares about others' recognition would not do. People's praise counted nothing for him. And thus he was chosen.

We do so many things to look before others. Much of our pursuit--clothes, cars, house, jobs, or even spouses and kids--is about looking good to others. God calls all that abominable.

Care not for what other people think. That will be a shackle that binds you. Care for God's eyes only. You will be set free from so many things that holds you. You will be able to make significant differences eternally. You will be great truly, in His eyes.

Myanmar and My Checkbook

Myanmar happened. But my heart was not moved. One of the disadvantages of information world is that we get information-overload. We hear the bad news from all over the world ALL THE TIME. The effects are: despair (it's too much) and debilitation (does what we do make any difference?). Besides, Myanmar was far away.

My perception changed only when I received Eliza's email: that we can make a contribution through World Vision by making a few click on the computer. Here was a practical, easy way to make a difference. Now, I felt I had do something about it. Otherwise, I would feel guilty. If compassion would not do the job, let guilt have its way.

We are taking an offering for Myanmar this Sunday. Constant news of disaster can make us numb to the needs of the world. The only logical life response, I think, is to give up all things for the poor, as Jesus gave all things and became poor for us (2 Cor. 8:9). In not being able to do so, we close our hearts to the cry of the poor. We ignore the needs. We ought not. God will hold us guilty if we do.

I urge you to make a sacrificial giving. Giving must hurt. We must give until it hurts us. Do not transfer your regular offering to Myanmar; you will be cheating. Give until it hurts. Most of us can give $100, or even $1000 without hurting at all.

Jesus told us to invest into eternity. "Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven" (Matt. 5:20). Will you have treasure in heaven when you get there?

I want our church to be a 51% church someday. 51% church is a church that gives 51% of its offering for missions (to the poor and for the gospel). We give currently about 39%. I hope we can make transition to give 51%. If our people would give proper tithe and offerings, we easily can. I hope you get rich, eternally.

Beer, Wine and Spiritual Awakening

Last week I received an email from a JOY member. She said she was happy to hear me talk about "Reclaiming Friday Night for God." (For many Christians, Fri. had become a night of hanging out and even going out drinking We are reclaiming it as a night of worship and intercession.) She said she had been troubled by the worldly behavior of JOY members. One time, she mentioned, a TLC leader joked about a time when he/she was drunk. She was shocked.

The Bible says, "Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish. Let them drink...and remember their misery no more.... But it is not for kings." (Prov. 31:4-7) Drukenness is for those in pain, but not for those who have purpose. Further, 2 Timothy 2:2021 says, "In a large house there are articles ...some for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a person cleanses himself/herself from the latter, he/she will be an instrument for noble purposes...."

We are expecting a powerful work of God in our area. God is moving powerfully throughout our nation. For example, I went to Lakeland, FL last week and witnessed powerful healings. We are expecting a powerful work in our area also. We need to prepare it by holiness. Any revival of God was prepared by prayer and purity. It is that time.

I urge you:
1. Cleanse yourself of all worldliness.
2. If you see a brother/sister in sin, go and "gently restore" (Gal. 6:1). If you see a brother/sister in sin and walk away, you will share in the judgment of that sin because you did not warn him/her. It is like seeing a person walking toward a ditch and not warning him. We share in the blame. We live in a culture where everyone is to mind his/her own business, but that is not a biblical culture. You have a mandate to warn your brother/sister and gently restore the person. We are creating a new culture where we admonish and build each other in love.

War and Victory

Beloved,

I have decided to send out a weekly letter (at least try). So much is happening, and I do not have time to share everything on Sunday. I also wanted to share what God is revealing to me, and let that be an encouragement to you during the week.

War and Victory
This past week as I read through Numbers and Deuteronomy, I felt God highlight the theme of war. Numb 31:1, God commands Moses, “Take vengeance on the Midanites for the Israelites.” Midianites had seduced Israelites into their sexual immorality which was a part of their religion. As result, many Israelites fell under judgment and died. Now, God was ordering Moses, “Take vengeance.” Many in our generation has fallen victim to the seduction of the devil also through materialism and sexual immorality and died spiritually. Now, I believe God is tell us to take vengeance on the devil and wage a war against the deeds of the devil. We are called to destroy the works of the devil and strip him of his trophies. Further on in Deut. 1:29-30, God says, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as He did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes.” Moses’ army faced an army greater than themselves, and they may have feared. At that time, God says, “See me. I am going ahead to fight for you.” Many are saying what we are talking about cannot be done. The enemy is too powerful. Remember, beloved, God is always more powerful. Stand in faith, and do not fall in unbelief. God will not be pleased with unbelief. We’d rather be fools for Christ than wise in the world’s eyes.

There is a lot more at stake than our jobs or family comfort. Souls of a whole generation are at stake, and the future of our children’s generation. It is no time to twiddle thumb in theories. We must join the fray of spiritual battle.

Pray, and come out to pray. Come to MP. Come to Fri WIRE.

The Holy Spirit is breaking out all over the place right now. Check out: http://www.morningstarministries.org/Group/Group.aspx?ID=1000029627. Holy Spirit began to break out in an elementary school classroom in Charlotte. Also, http://www.freshfire.ca. Healing revival is growing like an uncontrollable fire in Lakeland, FL. I am praying about visiting these places this week. Consider it.

Do not fall into unbelief and lose out on God’s move. God is moving, and has given us a commission to take vengeance on the devil. I promise you: God will do amazing things through us. I hope you will be a part of His great move.

Many blessings,

Danny Han
Senior Pastor
Joy Christian Fellowship