Prayer Journal: April 6, 2026
21. Jan. 2025 237 Tuesday Disciple Training, Lecture 1
Scripture Reading: Acts 1:3
♠ Introduction
Now your time schedule—true revival must arise for you. The purpose is to crumble the culture of darkness. This is Lecture 1 today.
You are likely thinking something right now. You might have already decided, “Our church region is a bit like this, so it will be difficult to revive further.” Believers might also have already decided, “Our region is like this, our pastor is like this, our elder is like this, so it won’t work.” You must break that. Why must you do it? If you say you must evangelize just to revive the church, you are a merchant, aren’t you? Such people have all left. Most will leave after this time. Some people come thinking, “I can do this or that [for success].” Such people have no need to come. Isn’t that saying you will use the church for something? Truly, you must ask the question wherever you go.
I went into Young-do, and that church had the worst conditions, didn’t it? Right? It’s natural that there was no church building, but there was nothing at all. It was my first time seeing a place with no parsonage (sa-taek). Usually, you prepare a parsonage before welcoming a pastor, right? There was none. So I thought, “There’s nothing I can do,” but what else could I do? So I asked the question: “God, why did You send me here?” There must be a plan of God, right? You must ask that question unceasingly. “Why did God send me here?” Even after a short while, I received calls from large churches to come. I said I wouldn’t go. Someone even came from Seoul with a car to fetch me. It turned out he was an elder from my former church who became a pastor in his old age; he built a church in Seoul and was retiring, asking me to take over. He said to go because he came after receiving an answer. I told him I was here because I received an answer too. If I had followed him, it would have been a disaster. I wouldn’t have met you. So I kept asking the question. From this, an amazing renewal emerges. More importantly, God blesses wonderfully. Without God’s blessing, we can’t do it, can we? If God doesn’t answer, we can’t do it. We can’t do it in those situations. Now many things have been built up. In the past, there was nothing but the seashore and drying fish. When I arrived, there were wire fences all along the coast, and the female congregants were mostly haenyeo (divers); they brought me lots of fresh sea squirts, but did that provide a large income for them?
Word (Power) Movement + Word Answer (Fulfillment) + Word Guidance
So the most important key is that history starts with the power movement of this Word from God. A Word movement must take place. A living Word movement starts in our church and starts within me. The moment I asked why I must do church and the Lord’s work here, the Word movement began to arise. I was a bit surprised; the congregants started coming alive. There were only a few, but when the congregants come alive, it’s a different story. Then the second thing follows. Simply put, it is fulfillment. Word answers start occurring rapidly. So I have to follow the Word, and the believers have no choice but to follow the Word. And what then? It continues with Word guidance that meets you. So I keep telling our workers: “Don’t keep expanding things, but start practically.” This means you must continue to receive this guidance.
If the power of the Word continues to appear for you, the Word is fulfilled, and you receive Word guidance, nothing is impossible. Because the pastor and you all are evangelists, you must keep this in mind. I haven’t done anything just because I wanted to. If the Word is fulfilled, I follow that way. If the administration or workers say, “Let’s do it this way,” others might misunderstand, but I decide nothing. If it comes up, “Okay.” I have never said “No” to what was brought up. “Okay.” Even if something doesn’t fit me, if many people say so, “Okay.” I am like that. I speak up even when someone keeps saying the wrong thing. “My thought is this, but since the elders’ will is that, let’s do it that way.” I do that.
When we were in Jangji-dong, I saw that it was wrong. I thought it was wrong, but since we had already come this far and the elders’ preparation was set that way, I said, “Let’s go.” That led to an accident. The accident turned out well. Because of that, we moved to a large temple. It was nothing, but people kept picking fights in Jangji-dong. They had reason to. Because construction had stopped and he hadn’t received his money in the past, now that we moved in, he wanted it. I told our elder to pay him, but our elder said he couldn’t. It went to a legal battle. Since it was legal, we had no reason to lose, right? We won; the court ruled to pay only a small amount. But that person started reporting us until the end. He said, “That land is for welfare, but a church is there, so make them leave.” So the city told us to leave. They said stop doing church and leave. The law is like that. Right, so we became urgent. In that, God guided us again and we went to the current temple. Where we went now is so good. We can do many things. So do not fear problems. God leads those who receive this guidance to better places.
Introduction: Reason for giving 7/7/7 – “Answers First”
Receive Answers First!
Now then, what is the reason Jesus gave this? The reason is simple. What is an answer, and receive answers first—this is the important key of the Gospel. It is to receive answers first. Do not try to evangelize, but “Follow Me”; “I will make you,” and “with all authority in heaven and on earth, I will be with you always.” So don’t act like a merchant, but find disciples, go to the sick and pray for them, feed the lambs—this is what He said after resurrecting. Then how easy is it? He finds all the answers and gives them; it doesn’t matter what your job is. You must receive answers.
1) Things to Change (Imprint) – Root, Nature: Explaining this answer for 40 days means He spoke of things to change. If you don’t change your thoughts today, you receive answers exactly according to your thoughts. Ultimately, “Our church won’t work,” “I won’t work”—yes, it won’t work. That is called “May it be done to you according to your faith,” right? You should say, “How? What is God’s plan?” Saying it “will work” [without a plan] is also unbelief, right? Saying what will work “won’t work” is a failing faith. Saying what won’t work “will work”—what kind of stubbornness is that? What won’t work won’t work; saying it will work makes no sense. So, what is God’s plan? It is finding this. What is God’s absolute plan? If you find this, three things emerge. The power of the Word appears. Even if your congregation is small in number, if they gain strength from the power of the Word, history unconditionally takes place. No matter how many congregants, if it isn’t the history of the Word’s power, it’s useless.
Here too, even though they are very busy—in Busan, and in our Im-Seo (Immanuel Seoul)—there are elders who move holding the Word. From the early days until now, there are elders who hold the Word. Because of these people, this movement arises. You must keep this in mind. The Word is bound to save us, be answered, and guide us. So you must keep in mind the fact that He did this for 40 days. He changed everything. What? The things that were imprinted. You just need to change the imprinted things. In some ways, just thinking about it is enough. If you change the imprint, roots are lowered and it becomes your nature accordingly, right? This must happen for answers to continue coming.
2) Things to Find – Throne: And He spoke of things to find, didn’t He? Doing it for 40 days means He spoke of things to find. There are many, but let’s talk about it exactly as it is in the Bible. It is the power of the Throne. He explained this for 40 days. If so, this is a completely different story for us. If I say I will just eat and live, you can eat even without receiving salvation, right? If you say you will eat, live, and then die, you don’t really need to do religious life, do you? We are not that; He explained the blessing to overcome darkness and save the world—this Throne—for 40 days.
3) Things to Establish – Ends of the Earth: Next, He spoke of things to establish. He spoke of the things to establish in order: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. There, the most important word is ends of the earth. The ends of the earth can be different for each person. At that time, they said going to Rome and Spain was the ends of the earth. Christ did not mean it only in that sense. This ends of the earth means going to places without the Gospel. In a way, because the earth is round, it started with the Jews, but coming back to the Jews is the ends of the earth; for some, saving the disabled is the ends of the earth; it’s different for everyone. But what is clear is that He spoke all the words for what to establish: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. If so, these answers have already come to you, right? Because the answer has already come, we move toward the true blessing God gives, carrying that. We go to deliver this. Because we are enjoying God’s blessing while going to deliver it, you must now enjoy the blessing of starting anew.
Main Body: Blessing (Delivery) → Three Starts
So start three things this year. ① Start the 40-Day Blessing. ② Start the Blessing of Concentrated Prayer. ③ Start the Blessing of the 5 Foundations in all places. You must do these first. The Bible verse is Acts 1:3. Also, the verse for the blessing of concentrated prayer is Acts 1:14. Understood? This is an immense resolution. And the 5 Foundations in all places is Acts 2:46-47. Day by day in the temple courts and day by day from house to house—the grace received during worship becomes history when you go to the field. You must absolutely receive this blessing. So even if the pastor’s sermon is a bit lacking, if you wait for this blessing of God’s covenant, God will bless you. Right? You must believe that. God doesn’t bless because of someone or not bless because of someone. He does it to you.
1. 40-Day Blessing (Acts 1:3) – “Mission of the Throne”
Throne – Mission
→ Acts 1:8 (Fulfillment)
Now, this word is what you must find first; I will mention one word. Here we spoke much about the Throne. While speaking of this, what did He mention? He spoke of each person’s mission. This is what’s important. What pastors are doing most wrong is: they must be able to give a precise mission to each individual believer.
So I have interviews every week. Intentionally. And I meet the materials team—simply put, the evangelism team—every week. And various parts in the church, like the Tychicus team, I meet continuously. And I meet the multi-ethnic people continuously. In Busan, I set aside people for interviews and meet them. It was recently restored, but I give the message to the session members (dang-hoe-won) separately. By creating a breakfast session (jo-chan-dang-hoe), both places have been restored. It’s so good. It looks like nothing, but didn’t I mention it during the message? Do you know what request Esther made when she came to King Ahasuerus? It was nothing else. She asked to have a meal together. King Ahasuerus said okay. What does that mean? It doesn’t mean “let’s just eat.” What does it mean? It means there is something important to say. So the king knew and said okay. Eating isn’t the problem, is it? Is the king hungry? As soon as she arrived, he asked what she wanted to say, didn’t he? “I will give you even half my kingdom, so speak.” So what did she say? She could have just said it, but she said she would invite him to a meal once more—that means she wanted an opportunity to think. “Okay.” She said he must come with Prime Minister Haman then; he said he understood. Haman was invigorated. “He recognizes me,” he thought—even though his time to die was near. A breakfast prayer meeting is that meaningful. I am telling you that. Here, there is something even more important.
1) Absolute Mission: To be most important, you must find the absolute mission. That is why we pray. Prayer has no other reason. It is finding the absolute mission. This becomes visible. So it can be found easily. There are many legal professionals. There are no legal professionals who truly enjoy and deliver the Gospel. Right? You can find them like that. There are many doctors. But there are few doctors who truly enjoy the Gospel and power while delivering it. Luke the physician is one of the two protagonists who wrote the book of Acts. A legal professional and a doctor, right? This overturned the world, didn’t it? Truly, this doctor thought well. How did this person evangelize? “It is good for me to go out and evangelize, but I must deliver this Gospel to that influential legal professional named Theophilus. Since I must do it this way, and the Word is more important than my own words,” he sent it like this. This, I tell you, overturned the world. Absolute mission…
This year, no matter what, to each and every believer—it’s okay even if you give them a wrong mission. Why? Because you have to give it to be able to correct it. Right? Once they receive it and it’s not right, then it can be revised; if you don’t even give it, there’s nothing to correct. Because they aren’t given one, believers mainly find it themselves. This is also important. Finding it myself is important, but finding it through the pulpit is more important. Right? If the pastor gives it, it’s even more important. People don’t really know that importance. Why? Because pastors do it haphazardly; you shouldn’t do it haphazardly. Giving it thinking, “This will benefit me”—you shouldn’t do that. When I went to America, I saw this child would be much better off going to Washington, but they were holding onto him in the countryside. Why? To see their own benefit. If we are not careful, our instinct becomes like that. We aren’t merchants, but we become like merchants, I tell you! “This child needs to be with us to be helpful,” it becomes like that. It’s right for this person to go to Washington, then you must send them. By contacting them, only then will an absolute mission emerge, won’t it? It’s not difficult.
2) Absolute Background: What you must believe is the absolute background. Now, it appears like this. It comes upon you through the blessing of the Throne. Through the Kingdom of God, how does history take place? Through the work of the Kingdom of God—you must believe this. But people can’t wait. The biggest problem for Korean people is they can’t wait. They are in a hurry. One by one—looking at how people work, they don’t receive guidance one by one, but they just do something hastily.
3) Absolute Door: And what then? If you grab hold of the word “absolute,” in Acts chapter 2, they went down after receiving this, didn’t they? To Mark’s Upper Room—it became an absolute door. Among those, the most important is Acts 2:9-11. Fifteen countries came. There, another historical figure exists: Acts 2:10, the visitors from Rome. This person later meets Paul, right? They perform world evangelization. They enter the evangelization of Rome. You must keep this in mind. The answers you must receive—you must implement them step by step from now on. In doing so, what was fulfilled? This (Acts 1:8) was fulfilled, wasn’t it? “You will receive power… and will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth.” You must not miss this.
2. Blessing of Concentrated Prayer (Acts 1:14) – “10 Days Exclusively”
10 Days, Exclusively
→ Acts 2:42
What is it here? They devoted themselves exclusively to prayer. They prayed exclusively, and what secret is there? For about 10 days, “exclusively,” “only”—they are the same words. This was fulfilled exactly.
1) Three Feasts: From here, the most important answer—when the day of Pentecost had already come—the power you must always receive comes out. To the saved person, Pentecost (God’s power) and the Feast of Ingathering (background) appear clearly.
2) Acts 2:9-11: As you know, what I mentioned earlier is this.
3) Acts 2:17-18: And even more important is this. Do not worry about anything. It comes out like this, I tell you! You offer one worship well; you offered worship properly, and what comes out? “They will prophesy”—that means the Word appeared. “Prophesy”—the reason we don’t prophesy now is that the Word is complete, so you can find it here (the Bible), but then it wasn’t complete. “They will prophesy, dream dreams, and see visions”—this kind of certainty, you must not miss this. On Sunday, you are evangelism disciples. You must go and receive the answer that sees the future clearly through the pulpit. If it’s not visible this week, there’s no need to be in a hurry. If you are waiting just as it is, it combines with this week and comes accurately again, doesn’t it?
Ultimately, this is fulfilled. Acts 2:42, following the apostles’ teaching—that means following the flow of the Word, following the fulfillment of the Word; the Word is alive. Following this Word—you see, even words spoken by humans, if they are right, continue to be fulfilled, right? It is God’s Word; even your words, if they are right, are fulfilled! God’s Word inspired by the Holy Spirit is fulfilled exactly. You must not miss it.
3. Blessing of the 5 Foundations (Acts 2:46-47) – “Simultaneously (All Believers), Work of the Kingdom”
Simultaneously – All Believers
→ Acts 5:42
Work of the Kingdom
With this, finally, what happens? This happens simultaneously in the regions where all congregants are, for all congregants. What? In 5 ways—you must not miss this. Darakbang—then a saved person will emerge there, right? Team Ministry—then history will take place in that person’s life and home, right? Mission Home—God’s blessing must appear in your workplace. Specialized Church—then disciples will gather in the region, right? Regional Church—in the Early Church, this happened in everyone’s house. I caught on to this exactly. “I see; for those who know the Word movement, because the Word movement happens simultaneously, amazing things take place.” It’s not too late.
You must always think. “How can I make it so that the Gospel can be heard simultaneously in this region?” Keep thinking about that. Every history takes place from there. If such a person performs a broadcast sermon, history takes place. Right? Otherwise, you perform a broadcast sermon—what are you trying to do? God isn’t making me do broadcast sermons right now, is He? It’s a relief. If He did, I’d go out and yell, “Pastors, preach the Gospel! Why do you keep saying other things besides the Gospel? The Jews were ruined because they did that; the Pharisees were ruined because they did that!” Even now, pastors are doing exactly what the Pharisees and Jews did, aren’t they? Right? Look closely! The church is not being revived. It cannot be. They only keep doing what doesn’t work. Every day, “I am right,” “you are right”—is that correct? Anyone must come to Christ, be saved, be healed, gain strength, and become a witness. Right?
Just now, Pastor Jong-yoon Kim, who was an assistant pastor at Immanuel Seoul and moved to Gyeong-in Immanuel, came to say hello, and I told him: “There’s nothing else for a pastor; just preach the Gospel, the message is important, and prepare a vessel that can embrace many people.” You must be able to embrace many people. Is a pastor a judge? “This way, that way”—the church won’t work like that. You must prepare a vessel to embrace everything. Why? Because you have to save them; history took place for all the people who made the Word enter simultaneously. Look at Paul. In some regions three months, in some regions two years, in some regions three weeks, and in some regions, even if he was stoned and came out, he went back—it’s very important. Simultaneously in the 5 Foundations—what this means is, it is the field where the very, very important Throne, Kingdom of God, and its work are fulfilled; specifically, it is the place where this work is fulfilled. Consequently, this work happened first:
1) Acts 6:7: Priests received grace and returned. Right? When we started from Darakbang, who was first? Pastors [said], “Right, we must preach the Gospel!” It came alive there. Thousands followed like that, but when they were struck politically, they all left; you are truly evangelism disciples—believers don’t know. You came after suffering all the losses. The rest who are calculating must leave, and should leave. We must only preach the Gospel. These priests returned.
2) Acts 2:41: Also, this happened. To the extent that the Word’s history took place, 3,000 disciples arose.
3) Acts 4:1-4: In 4:1-4, even more history took place. 5,000 disciples arose. To the point that the power of the Word was so strong, 5,000 disciples arose. Ultimately, Acts 5:42 emerges. What is it? Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Christ!
Believers must be busy receiving this blessing. A believer without this Gospel gains strength when fighting, even if they were still before. They even give offerings then. There is something called an “offering out of spite” (o-gi-heon-geum). God does not accept such things. Right? You shouldn’t build a temple out of spite; I said that. “We shouldn’t build a temple out of spite; we must do it as God gave it; create the three courtyards.” The elders have better faith. I suggested building it with 500-600 million KRW, but they said no. They said it must be done with 100 billion KRW. You must absolutely receive this blessing. Today, because I am talking about important revival, you must truly take it to heart; it must be you. Because you are the witnesses.
♠ Conclusion: “Formation of Evangelism Team (Kwon-sa)”
Formation of Evangelism Team (Kwon-sa)
So, for pastors and elders alike, form an evangelism team to pray together quietly. You don’t have to make this obvious. I am not saying create a program and just do it. I am not saying make a noise in the church. Quietly form an evangelism team. It is inside. When I was an assistant minister, everywhere I went to every church, while doing all the work, I did this without making a sign. When I tried, naturally, there were many women. Especially among adults, there are many kwon-sas. Among the kwon-sas, there were many capable of evangelizing. Just [gather] those people slightly—only for evangelism. And then give them directions. When that was done, history took place. Because these people are the real deal, because the “real ones” are moving, even a small movement brings history to the entire church. You must not miss it. I will talk about other things in Lectures 2 and 3. You shouldn’t miss those either. In a way, isn’t it natural?
When I was an assistant pastor for the last time, the church was a fighting church. When people fight, their feelings are hurt, so the Word doesn’t enter. So the head pastor lost his strength. So I told him: “Pastor, there are many mission workers (samyeongja) in our church; there are those who fight, but there are many mission workers. What should we do?” I told him I would handle the content, so he just needed to give the orders; let’s start an evangelism school. The pastor said it was good. So we started the evangelism school, the pastor gave one lecture, and I said I would do the evangelism training. This is where mission workers flocked. Because mission workers flocked, even the people who were fighting came. They came and received grace. Because we talked about evangelism, the atmosphere of the church was completely changed like this. Slowly, you all must pray for this. Among elders too, there are those who truly evangelize. You must hold onto these people, pray for them, and buy them meals; that becomes a blessing. The atmosphere of the church gradually changes. So look at the Bible verses:
1) Acts 1:12-15 (Mary): It started in Mark’s Upper Room. Who is most important here? In creating this background, invisibly, it is this: Mary. Without that person, it wouldn’t work.
2) Acts 9:36-43: Next, look. If you look a bit larger, who is it? The female disciple Tabitha; he didn’t just say her name but “female disciple.”
3) Romans 16:1-27: And look. From Romans 16:1-27, almost everyone here is a woman. Of course, there are men. But almost all are women. Do this. It looks like nothing, but it starts to change the church atmosphere and the spiritual atmosphere. And in your occupation, in your industry, God starts to work through the Word. There is no doubt. So the Word movement is something immense, isn’t it?
Why is that? Conclusion: because the Word is God. Why? God works through the Word; He doesn’t appear like an idol and work. Through the Word—I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that today becomes a day of deep prayer for you. I will pray.
Prayer. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings, the infinite love of our God, and the eternal power movement of the Holy Spirit God be upon the heads of all evangelists, from now until forevermore. Amen.