Intro
So,
we got to have hope. America is not as bad as El Salvador right now, so there
is hope for 2024. Also, to the sister who tried to rebuke Father in Jesus’ name
as a demon for one year, I said, “Baby, True Father whooped your ashtray”. She
just cried; she was laughing and crying. I said, “Father loves you so much; he
whooped you, baby.” Oh my gosh, how amazing is that? Isn't that incredible? She
will put that out at some point, I am sure. She is very open with her
testimony. What an incredible, powerful testimony.
Today's Word, again, we are 1 Corinthians
chapter 8 and it’s talking about the idols.
One other important point about
this chapter that I forgot to mention is that they were talking about eating
the meat that is offered to idols. The Bible says, “That is not what makes you
defiled. But if it's going to cause a stumbling block for your younger brother,
don't eat it.” You see what I'm saying? He's saying, “Have a sense of duty for
your brother and your sister in the Lord. Even though it doesn't affect you
because you're under the authority of Jesus and Christ, don't do stuff that's
going to lead them to the idol.” So, before we get in, I just want to remind
everybody that this is in 1 Corinthians chapter 8 as well.
Contemplative Prayer (3)
Everybody else join me with
closed eyes as we lift up God and we lift up our thanks. Breathing in, “I am
alive.” Breathing out, “Thank You, Father” or “Aboji, Kamsahamnida.” If you
want to go more authentic, go. “아버지 감사합니다 Aboji, Kamsahamnida”.
Breathing in, “I'm alive.” You
can say, “Thank You God.” You can say “Thank You, Father.” You can say, “Thank
You, Jesus.” You can say all three. Mix it up. Keep it fresh. We're always
going to return to this; this is our fundamental baseline. We need to train.
When we're training, we create new baseline. We don't freak out. We don't go to
fear or anxiety or worry of the future or blaming or jealousy. No, we go to, “Thank
You, Father,” Breathing in, “I'm alive,” breathing out, “Thank You, Father.”
We have to come back to gratitude
to Father. Breathing in, “I'm alive.” Breathing out, “Thank You, Father.” You
can switch it. Sometimes say, “Thank You, Father”, say, “Thank You, Jesus”,
say, “Thank You, God” or say, “Thank You, Holy Spirit.” Breathing in, “I am
alive”. Breathing out, “Thank You, Father.”
The
Bible says that we come into God's presence with praise and thanksgiving; that
means gratitude. We come into the presence of God with praise and thanksgiving.
Not praising ourself, not worrying about the future, not being hateful or have
any emotion about this or that situation, that incident. No, we turn to God's
presence with praise and thanksgiving. That means “Thank You, Lord.” That means, “We honor
You, Father.” That means, “We glorify Your name. We
love You. We thank You.” All these things are praising the Father, offering
thanksgiving to the Father, centering our hearts back to the zero point.
Don't
let Satan take you to the 1, 2, 3, 5, 20, 30, 90 points. No, come back always
to the zero point. Don't let Satan take you to the minus 2, 3, 5, 8, 20, 40,
80. No. Always come back to the zero point. The zero point. Okay. The zero
point. That is praise and thanksgiving. Breathing in, “I'm alive”, breathing
out, “아버지 감사합니다.”
Pastor
Sean’s Contemplative Prayer
Father,
we thank You for all that You are doing at this critical time. It is a
dangerous time, a time like no other. You have walked through world wars,
Father. You not only walked through the world wars, you were tormented,
tortured, imprisoned, forcefully detained, forced to work in labor camps for
preaching and teaching people of the truth of God, of the truth of God's
suffering heart. You were silenced. You were put into solitary confinement. You
were abused, beaten, tortured.
They
did all manner of torture upon our True Father from electrocuting Him in His
private areas, beating Him with batons, to hanging Him in the airplane
crucifixion, that is a rope tying your hands behind your back and then
suspending you in air as your lung cavity collapses and you die by suffocation
and the filling of the lungs with liquid.
You
went that torturous path, the path of indemnity, to redeem humanity from the
sins that they have heaped up against You. You walked the path of 10,000
crosses so that Your children would walk into the age of liberation and
complete release. You not only paved the way, You not only opened the door, we
not only saw Your footsteps in the sand but we saw them drenched in blood. We
saw the doorknob of the door that had been opened covered in blood. Your
sacrifice is not pink heart emojis; Your sacrifice, just like Jesus on the
cross, is blood.
You
went that torturous path, the path of indemnity, to redeem humanity from the
sins that they have heaped up against You. You walked the path of 10,000
crosses so that Your children would walk into the age of liberation and
complete release. You not only paved the way, You not only opened the door, we
not only saw Your footsteps in the sand but we saw them drenched in blood. We
saw the doorknob of the door that had been opened covered in blood. Your
sacrifice is not pink heart emojis; Your sacrifice, just like Jesus on the
cross, is blood.
About Our Young Queen’s Testimony
Father, we are so moved by that
incredible testimony by our sister, young queen, who gave such an inspirational
testimony offered to the Three Kingship this week. We could see the tears of
joy in her parents’ eyes, and in her shaky voice as she relayed this incredible
story. For one year, she rebuked You, she cursed You; she called You a demon and
a devil. She did all that she was trained to do. She rebuked You in Jesus'
name, knowing that any demon who had come against her, by the authority of the
name of Jesus Christ had to flee, but You just kept on showing up. She would
curse You and rebuke You in Jesus’ name and You'd be sitting there.
And at that time when she went to
the Philippines for a mission trip, thinking that she had separated from You or
had chased You away, You gave her such an incredible experience; her entire
body was overcome by the spirit realm, and she couldn't move. You appeared to
her saying, “My daughter, why do you persecute me like Paul?” When she uttered
those words in her shaky voice telling us that incredible testimony, Father, we
just want to report we were just filled with so much gratitude. Seeing her
supportive parents in the background of that Zoom call, holding on to her and
weeping with joy. Wow! We thank You, Father. We thank You.
This young sister may not be a
prime minister or some famous person in the “world”. It is often said that,
“Satan fishes with a big net trying to catch generations and everybody, but God
fishes after hearts, one by one.” And even though this young queen is not a
famous person in the world or some recognized person, we feel so much gratitude
that You would leave the 99 to show up to the one that was lost. That in this
young sister's darkest time, You just kept on showing up. She heaped those
curses upon You; she heaped those rebukes upon You in Jesus' name, but You just
kept popping up around this corner, that corner. You just kept on appearing.
Father, thank You.
Why We Pray
Father,
right now we know there are similar situations across the world; people who
have left You and cursed You. People who have made it their lives to destroy
Your name; to defile anything that is connected with You. But we want to
resemble Your heart, Father. We want to pray for them right now. We want to ask
Your grace upon them. We can't turn their hearts around; we can't convince them
in the end. Their heart can only be pierced by You. In the very same way, You
showed up for that sister of ours, albeit it was a time when she was truly
battling, having an existential crisis, and somehow You found a way. We thought
we had lost that sister; we thought she had become Your enemy -which she had-
and that she would pursue this. So, we prayed for her; anybody who knew her
situation was lifting up her name in prayer.
But
we know that it's not the reason. You tell us to pray for our brothers and
sisters, but You also tell us to pray for our enemies. Not because our prayers
have some type of mystical power, but You tell us to pray so that we train our
heart to be more like Yours. Let us not be foolish thinking our prayers are the
things that change human history and change all these things. No, we don't have
that power. Father, we know the one who does and as we pray, we just want to
try to resemble You more. The harder she fought against You and tried to rebuke
You in Jesus’ name, the more You showed up, indicated to her, “My daughter, I'm
not a demon; I'm not the devil.” You showed her who You were and whose she was.
We
want to thank You, Father, for that incredible work that You have done;
something that is beyond human touch and human ability. None of us can do that.
You are not our genie who must obey our commands and our prayers and our
demands. NO! You are the Father, and we must obey and submit to You and Your
Will. And if You don't answer our prayers, it's because there's a reason; if
You stay silent when we are begging You for an answer, there is a reason. But
we are so thankful for what You did in our sister's life. You've given her a
new life and she now prepares for the Blessing again with her wonderful husband
as they return to Your authority once again. Thank You, Father.
Do not be a Stumbling Block for others in
the Faith
We
are reminded in 1 Corinthians 8 not to become stumbling blocks to others who
are in the faith, who are trying to become more Christ-like. There are times
when we may feel, “Hey, I'm just going to go out with these guys that don't
have faith and I’m just going to try to fit in with them so that they come to
Christ. So, I'm going to drink with them, let's say.” But that drinking with
them doesn't lead them to Christ; it only validates that they pressured you to
sin, so in their hearts they’re validated that they had dominion over You.
For
those who are in inner cities in gang-ridden areas with drugs and all that
around, Father, we know that there are brothers and sisters out there that are
trying to witness, spread the Gospel to the hearts of all those around them, to
their towns, communities, cities and world. We pray a hedge of protection upon
them; that even though they are in the world, they are not of it. That even
though they are soldiers fighting against the evil one, they may not be
consumed and absorbed by him. We pray for a supernatural hedge around them. We
pray that You always keep them strong, always make them be the light in that
darkness. Let Your light shine through them as they reach out, as they become
fishers of men, as they fish in the ocean of men.
As
You give us that heart Father, to reach beyond our own self, You give us that
heart to become a better sacrificial husband, better sacrificial wife, better
sacrificial parents, better sacrificial children, better sacrificial brothers
and sisters, better sacrificial to our community, to our neighborhood, to our
nation, our world and cosmos. As You raise us up in these many levels, we pray
that we would not become stumbling blocks. We pray that You would give us
wisdom. We ask for Your forgiveness. We repent of our sins. We admit that we
are not perfect before You, Lord.
Through Hardship We Become More Brave
We
need You in this season more than ever because this season is the season. This
season that we are approaching is the most important election cycle in all of
world history, and we happen to be alive during this incredible time.
Father,
in the midst of this big battle,
Let
us not allow our marriages to fall apart.
Let
us not be so hyper-focused on the big battle that we let the enemy in through
our back door into our home.
Let
us do both, keeping our eyes on a North Star while also keeping the wolves at
bay from entering and predating on our children, on our marriage, on our
community.
Let
us have good alertness and have vigilance.
Let
us have both the far view and the close view in mind and heart, and even though
we are not perfect, we pray that You would train us to become better.
Father,
You don't train us to overcome fear or suppress fear or anxiety of the future
or those things. You teach us through hardship how to become more brave. You
teach us that the only way to build our muscles is through pain and lifting heavy weights and doing hard things. We know
sometimes we're stupid. Sometimes we think that doing those hard things makes
us worthy in Your eyes. Let us not be foolish. We fall so short. We are so
imperfect before Your perfection. We are so stained before Your purity, no
matter how hard we try.
That's
why we need You, Father. We need You, Jesus. You cover us. You make
these stains go away and You wash us as white as snow as the Bible says. You
make us clean. We become purified by wearing You. Father, many times You spoke
about 성령의 두루마기, the garment of the
Holy Spirit, to be wrapped in Christ. Our sins get covered by Christ wrapped
around us. We appear as light since Christ is the light of God. Because even
though we are sinful, we are wrapped in His garment, in the 성령의 두루마기.
Your Day of Deliverance
Father,
we pray for every broken heart that is out there right now listening to this
broadcast. You may feel like Your heart is broken, you may feel like Your heart
is bending, you may feel like your life is at the end. That you're on that
cliff, standing with the wind whirling around you; nowhere to return to,
nowhere to go back to. Your family and your friends and your co-workers and all
those whom you believed would help you have stabbed you in the back, have left
you alone and now you are ready; you're ready to jump into the abyss.
But
don't do it, man of God. Don't do it, woman of God. Your life is worthy. Not
because you are perfect. None of us is perfect. Your life is worthy because God
has created you in His image. He has a purpose and a plan for you. Step back
from that edge right now. This is your
day of deliverance and salvation. The Father knows your heart better than you
know yourself. All the betrayal, all the backstab, He has encountered that
first in multitude and in proportions which you cannot comprehend. He suffered
and died for you. He was hated by the world before you were hated by anybody.
So, we speak life into you and you know who you are. Step back from that edge.
Put the gun down. Put the bottle down. Put the drugs down. Put the fake media,
social media groups and all those things down. Stop running. Stop running. Stop
hiding.
You
know who you are if you're hearing this word. Even though we may not know, the
Holy Spirit knows, and the Holy Spirit now is going out. He is with you. I want
you to come into agreement NOW. If you know that's you, come into agreement now
and throw it in the trash. Go! Throw it in the trash. Whatever it is that you
are giving your life to other than Christ, whether it be cigarettes or drugs,
bottle, whatever, dump it down the toilet; pills, drugs, prostitutes, whatever
it is, dump it down the toilet, throw it in the trash and don't look back.
If
you feel the swelling of your heart, if you feel the move of the Holy Spirit in
you right now and you know you hear the chastisement of His voice, then take
action. Come into agreement. Come into agreement with Him. Your Father loves
you. He is not forsaking you, even though you have turned on Him so many times.
He is still there. Even though you cursed Him and rebuked him in Jesus’ name
time and time again, he just keeps on showing up. Stop running.
Repent! Repent!
I
know you're tired. There's somebody out there in the internet landscape and
those listening to my voice who is tired of running, tired of lies, tired of
faking, and wants to make a real commitment to the Lord, to give their heart
and submit. For once in their life, they want to stop submitting to the
passions and the entertainment, submitting to the internet website, submitting
to the bottle, submitting to some drugs or needles. No! This is your day to
submit to God, your Creator. This is
your day now.
If
you know that's you, you don't have to stand up, you don't have to run around
and shout, you don't have to be slain in the spirit, you don't have to do any
of that. All you have to do in your heart is repent. Repent. Repent.
Just
tell God:
Father,
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I forsook you. You never forsook me.
I
want to be with You.
I
want to stop running from You.
I
want to walk with You every day and every hour.
I
want to stop being a burden to my husband and nagging him and my children.
I
want to stop being a burden to my wife and my children by doing this or that.
I
want to stop being a burden to that person or my sibling, or my brother in
Christ.
I
want to stop being a burden and I want to be in You.
You
said that within You the burden is light. The burden is light.
Blessing Our Enemies
We
thank You for that peace that You give us through forgiveness. And as we
receive Your forgiveness, as we repent of our sins, Father, we pray that You
would forgive our sins, but also forgive those who have hurt us. We pray that
You would bless our enemies in a way that would allow them to come to reality
to Your truth and to Your sacrificial love, the blood drip emoji not the pink
heart emoji.
That
You would move in their spirit and call them back to You, call them back to
repentance, call them back to mercy, call them back to forgiveness, call them
back to your sacrificial love. Because it's Your sacrificial love, it's Your
blood that heals and protects and covers and lifts us into the realm of glory.
It's Your sacrifice. That same blood; as we come into Your covenant of the
Blessing, we have Your blood as Your children running through our veins. We're
not only covered by the blood; we are now made up of the blood.
But
dear God, we know that You come not just to bless us, but You say, “If you
follow me, pick up your cross. Be willing to be persecuted and mocked, even
killed for my name's sake.” For You have gone that path first. You have showed
the example on the battlefield first. You paid the ultimate price.
Blessings upon the Repentful
We
are so grateful Father for Your presence. If there's anybody who wants to give
their life to You, we pray for them. We pray strengthen them. We pray words of
encouragement upon their spirit right now, so they would have the courage to
leave death and come into life, to leave the heavy burdens of fakery and
failure and sin, and come into the light refreshing joy of redemption
salvation.
We
thank You Father as You replenish us from our fears where You have said in
Timothy that “You have not given us a spirit of
fear but of love, power and a sound mind.” We thank You for purifying
our hearts and our minds, bringing us back to the zero point, the zero point.
We
want to give You praise today, Father, because there are hearts right now that
are turning; there are hearts right now that are giving their lives to You.
We
pray blessings upon them right now.
We
pray for those who are repenting of their sins right now in their hearts.
They're not saying one word to anybody else, and they don't have to. It's all within
that secret place in the heart, where all true change begins, where all new
life truly begins, where the seed of hope is planted.
We
pray for that soul who is addicted to drugs and has no hope.
We
pray for the prostitute who is on the street pimping and prostituting herself.
We
pray that the seeds of hope can be planted in their heart right now,
supernaturally through this broadcast or any other means.
We
pray for all those who are being touched by the Spirit in their heart who want
to repent of their sins, that they do it now in Jesus and True Father's name as
one.
We do it again with them, stand
in solidarity with them, stand in agreement with them; as brothers and sisters
in Christ we stand with them in repentance.
We repent of our sins again.
We ask You to be the center of
our life, the center.
We’re not trying to make
ourselves the center.
We make You the center.
We submit to You,
We obey You out of love;
We put Your Will before our will,
Your glory before our glory,
Your plans before our plans,
Your life before our life.
We put it down for You because
we've tried our own ways and it never works, never works.
Jesus and True Father as One
We thank You for the new life
right now that is being breathed in, the new spiritual salvation that is being
breathed in to those who are giving their lives to You at this moment
throughout the world hearing this broadcast. Repent of Your sins. Believe in Jesus
and True Father as one, that He is Lord, that He suffered and walked the path
of indemnity, died for your sins and was raised up on the third day. That same
power of resurrection and new life is now planted within you. Let it germinate.
Let it flourish even though the thorns and thistles will try to come and
suffocate it. Be as good soil. Let that word of hope pierce through the
darkness of despair. Let that seed germinate and push down roots into the hard
stone. Life and its failures and the vicissitudes and the betrayals have
hardened your heart. Let the roots penetrate that stone in Jesus’ name and True
Father as one.
We pray a new future upon every
single one who has rededicated their life to You, Father. We pray a new vision
for their lives, new plans being downloaded from heaven, new spreadsheets being
opened up in the ether; things that they never thought possible now opening up
not with a false hope but with a strong hope and with discipline, as You raise
and sanctify them through training.
You are victorious
Let us come strong and build
strong community by sacrificial love and by loving You and loving our neighbor.
Let us reach out and be fishers of men and cast the lines into the ocean
waiting with great anticipation which fish will be caught today. We know You
love that metaphor Father, and you lived that metaphor. So many times, we were
with You on the boats experiencing that. We can't do it upon our own strength
or our own desires or wishes and our own prayers. It would really mean nothing if
it wasn't for You, Father. For You are victorious; You are victorious.
We want to remind the Devil of Your victory. We want to
remind the Devil of Your triumph
over him, sin and death. We want to remind him every day with every footstep,
because he doesn't want to remember Your victories. But we want to remind him.
We want to be a living testimony every day with each footstep. New life with
each footstep. The devil's kingdom is crumbling because we are walking
following Your footsteps.
As kings and priests and as men
of God, let us not pursue just our own kingdom, but always Yours, Your Kingdom
first. Let Your Kingdom pillar of self-sacrifice and the shedding of Your own
blood to save Your people, let that be the ideal and the model that we as men
and kings and priests from the family level on, always keep our eyes on.
And as women of God let each one
of Your daughters, Father, remember Your love, not as heart emojis but as blood
drips, the blood You had to pay to free them from Satan. Let them be great
queens and evangelists, excited and with hearts that are burning for You and
burning to share the Gospel, to bring people to the Kingdom, and let them live
life abundantly in Your Kingdom of heaven on Earth as it is in Heaven.
We Thank You, Father
Father, You are such a good
father. We want to praise You, we want to lift You up, we want to honor You
today. We love You. We are not perfect, Father, but we are Your sons and
daughters who love You and we try. We fall short many times, but we thank You
for covering us in Your grace. We thank You for covering America with Your grace
at this particular time. So many people now are waking up in this critical
year. We pray for all the patriots, we pray for President Trump, we pray for
all those who are on the Abel side of this World War III in the situation that
we are in now.
We pray from the micro to the
macro, that we never lose sight of the micro while we are fighting on the
macro, that we never lose sight of the macro while we are building the micro.
Let us be men of God, women of God who do both, that can be sensitive to Your
Will at the micro and the macro.
We thank You, Father, we thank
You. Once again, we thank You for touching our sister who has now returned
under Your authority after one year of incredible journey. We want to celebrate
her as well today.
As we lift up all our prayers and
all our hearts to You, we want to lift up the glory, the thanks and the honor.
All praise, all joy is Yours and You give us joy unspeakable through Your
grace. We thank You Father, we thank You. We know that we are alive as we
breathe in, and as we breathe out, we want to say, “Thank You, Father.” As we
breathe in, we are alive, and we recognize it today. As we breathe out, we want
to thank You, Father. Breathing in, “I am alive”. Breathing out, “아버지, 감사합니다. Aboji, Kamsahamnida.”
Al right, folks, let's all rise
up and give Father the praise, the glory and the honor, and lift up our songs
in praise to Him. Praise God!
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