2023.08.27 District Message
Scripture Reading: Acts 1:8
One of our ministers once asked me in a counseling session, “There are so many church members who are struggling mentally—what should we do?” The truth is, you must first realize that it is impossible to fix this by ordinary means. Knowing that is the beginning of true healing. Why is it impossible? Because the problem is what has been imprinted. If the imprint is changed, the person can be healed—but they don’t have the time, nor do they choose to change. Wrong things are already imprinted. This must be replaced, but instead, they keep worrying about other matters, filling their minds with other concerns. As a result, their condition worsens day by day. Some ask, “Why doesn’t prayer work?” But in truth, nothing has been changed in their imprint. If you understand this, the solution is actually simple.
In the past, there were many cases of soldiers being beaten severely in the army. There was a man from my town—he was older than me, so we called him hyung. Before he entered the military, whenever he drank alcohol, he would lose control of his mind. Apparently, one day in the military he drank and caused trouble. He was beaten so severely he almost died. He was hospitalized and then discharged. But strangely enough, his mental illness disappeared after that. What does that mean? It means he let go of the thoughts that had captured him. This shows that beating is not the solution—the true healing must come through the Holy Spirit. The same applies today in worship.
This is what you must truly understand.
▣ Introduction – Spiritual [Summit]
In order to experience the 25 answers, you must first become a spiritual summit. A summit means being raised to the highest position. People even call a president a summit. Or when someone reaches the top of their field, we say they have become a summit. But unless you first become a spiritual summit, even after reaching worldly summits, you will still face hardship. As I mentioned earlier, even a little genuine prayer will bring this answer.
Yet many scientists, politicians, and great people do not believe this. Why? Because it seems abstract. It is not something visible or tangible. Scientists demand visible proof. Politicians say, “We must deal with what is realistic—why hold onto something unseen?” But human beings are, in reality, spiritual beings. That is why they miss it. If you simply worship sincerely, you become a spiritual summit. But if you neglect worship and mix it with other things, you miss it. Even a little prayer will raise you as a spiritual summit.
[Environment – Field]
Only then can you change the environment and save the field. Unless you become the summit, you cannot save others. This (spiritual summit) is invisible, so no one can take it from you. But because it is unseen, people do not believe it or value it. When visible problems arise in the environment or the field, people treat those as important. But God, who holds our very life, is unseen, so people disregard Him. Yet if you know this truth and pray, God will use you to transform the field.
▣ Main Message
How, then, can we hold onto this reality that few believe?
1. [Imprint · Root · Nature]
People suffer because they do not know this. The only way to change my imprint, root, and nature is through becoming a spiritual summit. Sickness means that something vulnerable to disease has been imprinted. In the first service I will also mention this: the number of people with mental illness is skyrocketing. I saw a report yesterday that said the number of psychiatric patients has increased tenfold in just one year. The root cause lies in the imprint, root, and nature.
1) Worship (Imprint)
So how do we change the imprint into that of the spiritual summit? Through worship. That is why worship is so crucial. Look at the terms “tabernacle,” “tent of meeting,” “sanctuary”—they all center on worship. Only worship can change imprints.
2) Personal concentration (Root)
After receiving grace in worship, you can engage in personal concentration. This is how roots are planted. If the imprint is wrong, then those wrong things will also take root.
3) Unceasing prayer in the field (Nature)
When you practice unceasing prayer in the field, it becomes your nature.
This is why, with patience, when you help family members or those who are sick, you must help them in this (imprint, root, nature) dimension. Even now, without realizing it, your own imprint is being changed through this message. If you hold onto it and pray through the week, roots will be planted, and as you continue unceasing prayer, it will form your nature. Then the answers of the spiritual summit begin.
2. Three Blessings
When this happens, three blessings will naturally come.
1) Gospelization
As much as you pray, the blessing of enjoying the gospel becomes gospelization. The power of Christ begins to manifest. People do not believe this—especially unbelievers. That is why disasters and spiritual problems multiply in the age.
2) Thronization
As you continue to enjoy this, the blessing of the throne becomes yours. This is thronization.
3) Summitization
Even without trying, the blessing of the summit comes upon you. This is summitization. Some are at the summit without the blessing—that is not summitization. Some know of the throne but it is not theirs—that is not thronization. Do not be deceived. Your prayer matters greatly.
I knew a man whose father was a devout elder. The father prayed much for his son, and the son was a decent man, yet he never attended church. We assumed he had no faith since he avoided worship. But at his father’s funeral, he showed up, and afterward he completely changed. Eventually, he believed even more firmly than his father had. How could that happen? It was the fruit of his father’s prayers. Even that elder had worried constantly about his son’s lack of faith. But just as Moses’ prayers were fulfilled even after his death, so the prayers of this elder bore fruit in his son after he passed away.
3. Summit Movement
The blessing of the spiritual summit does not end with you—it brings about a movement.
1) Position – It is important that you are in the position of a spiritual summit.
2) Timetable – Because you are destined to receive God’s answers, you are within His summit timetable.
3) Posture – Since you will surely receive answers, you must take on the posture of a spiritual summit.
The people you meet are imprinted with worldly things, no matter how good they seem. You must help them change that imprint. This is the greatest ministry. But for that, you must first enjoy this blessing of imprint, root, and nature. When Joseph became a spiritual summit, he changed the thinking of kings wherever he went.
▣ Conclusion
So when we speak of the summit movement, there are always three conclusions:
1. The Triune God – The unseen working of the Triune God begins in your soul. This is where the imprint, root, and nature are changed. Even cancer doctors who truly heal know that healing means changing what has been imprinted in the body. Spiritually, it is the same. The Triune God changes our imprint.
2. The Power of the Throne – This becomes imprinted. The world does not know this, but without it, there can be no true healing.
3. The Age – Though we are powerless, God’s work arises, and through it, the age is changed.
That is why you are important. Today’s worship is important. Do not listen to human words—understand that you are important. Answers are already coming. The standard is this (imprint, root, nature). If this is formed correctly from youth, there is no doubt you will change the world.
From this moment on, may the great power and grace of God be spiritually imprinted upon you. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Prayer. God, grant us the blessing of enjoying Your mystery throughout this entire day. May every difficulty imprinted in our lives be changed into power through You. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.