Prayer Journal: December 19, 2025
16. Mar. 2025 Immanuel Church Sunday Worship 2nd Service
Scripture Reading: Exodus 20:22-26
Thank you. For our second service, we need to look at an important message. In the past, after the Korean War broke out and ended, there were tremendous difficulties. Remnants today may not understand, but there were many people everywhere who carried tin cans and went around begging for rice. Even in our village, there were several orphanages. So, because they were hungry, they had to beg and eat. These people would come to our house or somewhere and say something because they were hungry: “Please give me just one spoonful of rice.” They did not say, “Please give me a bowl of rice.” They said, “Please give me just one spoonful of rice.” If someone came and said, “Please set a full table of food for me,” would that make sense? That is not a truly hungry person. A truly hungry person says, “Please give me just one spoonful.” That is what they say.
Right now, the Israelites are suffering tremendous pain in Egypt, and even in the wilderness they are actually going along a very difficult path. At this time, God said, “I will bless in every place.” Where? Why did He say that? You must confirm that today.
There are also roughly two kinds of people who go to church. People who are truly going through spiritual hardship feel so thankful even when the words “Jesus Christ” are spoken. But people who have gone to church from childhood feel little emotion, just like that. Of course not everyone is like that, but most are. So those who have truly seen the forces of darkness know what the gospel is.
So He said, “I will bless in every place.” For someone who has suffered much, how important are these words? For someone dying of thirst, water is important. When I went to Africa, there was no water. And because they cannot survive, even children drink filthy water. So many almost die when they are young, and by around age 35 they die. Because we live receiving so much blessing, we do not even know what it means to say water is good or bad. In the same way, there are so many people who live not knowing that this gospel is this blessing. Why did He say words like this—“I will bless in every place”?
▣ Introduction_ Why
It is important. It is found only in the Bible.
With regard to idol worship, it says, do not worship idols. If you worship idols, you will perish to the third and fourth generation. This is only in the Bible. The Bible is God’s Word. Other books are not God’s Word. That is why there are many wrong things in them. The command not to make an image and bow down to it appears throughout the Ten Commandments, and then it is spoken again here.
First, I will present evidence. Strangely, great powers emphasized this matter of idol worship. Why is that? Every great power made huge idols and forced people to bow down. It was like that in Egypt, in Babylon, and in Rome—exactly the same. A major event was when Japan, after taking control of our nation, forced Shinto shrine worship. Can’t you see the flow? Can’t you see that spiritual flow? It is the same in every nation. They pressured people so strongly to do shrine worship that they even killed those who refused. People who realized the gospel do not do that. Because they refused, they killed people like Pastor Ju Gi-cheol, and did things like that. After that, tremendous disasters came upon Japan. Every great power did that. It is very strange. So every great power suffered disasters. Schools do not teach these parts, so politicians do not know. This is something tremendous.
Sometimes, in 2 Corinthians 11:14, Satan appears as an angel of light. What does that mean? He appears as if he is something good. There is no such thing as a good spirit, but he appears as if he is good. As if he is good. In 2 Corinthians 4:4-5, he appears as the god who rules the whole world, so people go to fortune-tellers and do things like that. In John 16:11-14, he appears like a ruler who governs the world, like the god of the world, and he deceives like this. So in John 8:44, Satan is originally a deceiver. If you go to fortune-telling, they get everything right. Why? Because they are demon-possessed. But in the end, Satan deceives through those demons. John 8:44 says he is a deceiver, a liar. So it says the father of lies, your father, like that. It is frightening. Will Seoul National University teach this? Harvard University does not teach this. Not at all. So the whole world is being deceived without knowing.
So how does he make humans? If you look at Genesis chapters 3, 6, and 11, he drops them right into a trap. Because it becomes so hard, and because they do not know God, they have no choice but to go worship idols. He locks them into a frame and binds them with a snare. This is what the Bible reveals. And that is not the only problem.
The further evidence is that it is happening exactly the same right now. As you know, Genesis chapters 3, 6, and 11 are appearing as they are. This is Nephilim. You probably do not even know the word. The Bible contains the fundamental cause of human disasters and curses, but you probably do not even know the term. It is in the Bible. It is within John chapter 6.
Because of this, disasters, wars, continue. When disasters come, individuals suffer, but nations have no choice but to keep fighting wars against each other. You do not know what will happen. It is almost madness. Look at Russia and Ukraine right now. They are killing so many people. It sounds simple when you say it, but if that fell in your neighborhood, what would happen? That is why we must truly pray earnestly for North Korea whenever we have time. We may think we have lived to some extent, but our next generation, children, truly fall into a curse. You do not know what will happen. That is why Ephesians 6:12 says Satan seizes rulers and authorities and moves them.
Then spiritual problems keep coming, don’t they? So inevitably people suffer mentally, and illness comes. That is why God’s Word says not to do it.
Then if you do ancestral rites or rituals, what happens? If you do shamanistic rites, what happens? Ability appears, I tell you. That is why people do it. Exodus 20:3-5 speaks of it. If you do ancestral rites, rituals, idol worship, power appears. If you go somewhere in Miryang, they say that actual tears come out of some statue-making place. If you ask, “Can tears come out of stone?” they say, “Something must come out.”
In 1 Corinthians 10:20, it says demons come. The Bible clearly says, “What you sacrifice is not to God but to demons.” People say, “But my parents are coming.” That is right. A demon comes disguised as your parents. And you should not serve it—you must break it. It is an evil spirit imitating your father and mother. If it were truly your parents, they would help you. Isn’t that so? That is why in families with many ancestral rites, tremendous disasters later come. And that is not even the end—down to the third and fourth generation. That is why I have seen people who were demon-possessed struggling desperately so that it would not go to their children. But it goes to the children as well. Who would understand such spiritual things? People think it has no value, but this is the problem.
In Matthew 12:26-30, Satan is completely unknown to people, but Jesus said, “He has entered your house and seized it.” Then in Matthew 12:43-45, after they barely carried out ancestral rites and rituals, seven more demons entered. It becomes worse and worse. “The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.”
Because of this, God gave a very important Word while they were going on the wilderness road. First, what did He say? “In the place where my name is remembered, I will bless; I will bless in every place.” What is that name? In Genesis 3:15, He already gave the Word: “The offspring of the woman will strike the head of the serpent, and in the place that believes this covenant, God will truly bless.” When the age of Nephilim came, there was no other way. In Genesis 6:4-5, when curses came again, He said, “If you enter the ark, you will live. Build the ark for you, build the ark for your children.” And in Exodus 3:18, on the day they offered the blood sacrifice, they were liberated and came out.
So that name—He said, “I will bless every place that remembers it.” What is every place that remembers it? That is why, during the wilderness journey, they treated the tabernacle as important. Because worship is important, He said, “In the place where my name is remembered, I will bless in every place.” There were the three courtyards there. Imagine your children losing their parents and wandering alone in an empty wilderness. In war, that happens. They have no parents. They are small children, but when you look at their eyes, they are anxious. They are so anxious that they do not know where to go. Save the next generation and multicultural people who are spiritually like that—this is the three courtyards.
Bring them and build strength in them. That is the Sabbath, and the three-day weekend age. Therefore, because it is precious, He said, “Here I will bless you.” And to enable them to gain the power of prayer, that is the age of holy meditation. This is what you teach. On the wilderness road, He said, “In every place that remembers my name, I will bless.”
In verse 24 it is even written like this. In verse 24, it does not just say, “I will bless.” It says, “I will come upon you and bless you.” That is Immanuel. “I will come upon you and bless you.”
So for this missions conference, it is important that you invite one person. You are one person, but if you join strength, you can shine light to many nations. You must not think lightly of it. Remnants do not know when our nation was miserable. We grew up seeing it. When it was miserable, missionaries came in. If women got sick with no help, they died. So they built hospitals. Our nation became so difficult that curses came. When children had nothing to eat, foreigners came and brought milk, milk, and mixed it thin and poured it into bowls. It may sound strange, but if war breaks out, that is what happens. Even now, Ukraine and Russia are like that. At that time, missionaries who carried the gospel came into our nation and gave their lives doing it. Some died as soon as they arrived, some came and died of tropical diseases, some died in accidents. What is astounding is that their families did not give up and came back in again to preach the gospel in our nation, and they informed the whole world about the injustice suffered by Korea, a nation that never invaded others. Korea is a nation that can do world evangelization. Why? Because it has never invaded another nation. But everywhere, in all directions, others invaded whenever they had a chance. Therefore, praying for even one missionary is extremely important. It seems new church leaders are being established, and after today they asked me again to give a lecture, so I am preparing, but now church leaders must truly receive answers.
When we pray for one nation, that is conscience. Isn’t that right? We received help—so we must do it for other nations. During the war, soldiers from many nations came to Korea and died. Even now, if you go to Busan, there is a cemetery near Namchun-dong. When I went, I thought, wow, young people from all over the world came and gave their lives. And in Busan, I saw that many Turkish people died there. And the rain is still there. Yet we received such benefits, and now Korea has become a rich nation. In Korea today, desertion is the desertion of people who are full. So we too must save nations that have fallen into darkness.
We must help remnants who are in darkness. If you think of that as an expense, the whole world will be covered in darkness. “Here I will bless you.” It has no choice but to be so.
“I will come upon you and bless you in my name and in every place that remembers my name.” You must hold onto this covenant.
When you pray, what is certain is the name here. This word “name” is important. Jeremiah 33:1-3 has words like this. Jeremiah suffered great difficulty, and “the word of the LORD came again to Jeremiah.” And what came out? “The LORD who does the work.” This means the LORD did what happened now. “The LORD who does the work, the LORD who forms it to fulfill it.” God is saying He will accomplish something. Then the phrase came: “Thus says the LORD—whose name is the LORD—Call to me and I will answer you, and I will show you great and hidden things that you do not know.”
In Isaiah 7:14, it says, “A virgin will conceive and bear a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.” The name. In John 14:14, Jesus came and spoke: “Now you do not need to offer a blood sacrifice.” Right? “Pray in my name. Now you do not need to slaughter lambs. Pray in my name.” In John 17:11-12, it says, “That name is the name of the LORD.” Jesus is the name of the LORD. Jesus—salvation of the LORD. In Philippians 3:21, it says, “That name to which all things submit,” the name that makes all things submit by the name of Jesus Christ. “May the forces of darkness be bound before the name of Jesus Christ.” They are bound. When you pray, it may look like nothing is happening, but spiritually tremendous things are taking place. After time passes, strong Jews perish, and a small number of people with the gospel do world evangelization. After time passes, mighty Rome perishes, and those with the gospel do world evangelization. That is what came out. There is evidence.
This week as well, I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that you will receive great answers through a very important prayer—Jethro’s prayer—and through this important covenant, “I will bless in every place.” The words “every place” do not mean every place. They mean every place where this exists—where my name is remembered. May you be those who receive great answers this week in the name of Jesus Christ.
I will pray.
We give glory and praise to God. In this time today, may the blessing of the throne come upon all people. May the kingdom of God come, and may darkness be bound. May the work of God’s kingdom arise, and may this day and time become a time when light shines. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.