Prayer Journal: June 24, 2026
20. Nov. 2025 Addiction Prevention Committed Worker’s Conference
Theme: 『 Fundamental Healing, Fundamental Power, Fundamental (Com-)Mission
Lecture 01: 『 Fundamental Healing 』 (Acts 1:8)
Because this is a task of our era, and because you have come knowing this, it will be an important time. It is increasing more and more. Even these days, drugs are coming in through the sea wrapped in blankets, and so many things are happening right now. The situation is such that there is a high possibility of nearly everyone falling into addiction.
So if we dig down to the root cause, scientifically speaking, this is a disease of the brain. Biblically speaking, it is a spiritual disease. Drugs are secondary. That is what people are getting caught up in.
Medically speaking, it may be a blunt thing to say, but it is a mental illness. Who can do ministry for these people? Only you who carry the gospel can do it.
And among these things, there are parts of the Bible that even unbelievers can understand. There are parts of the Bible that only believers can understand. And there are many parts of the Bible that even believers cannot understand. That part is precisely the spiritual part. Even many believers do not know enough to help those who are held captive by Satan, by these evil spirits.
So right now in this session we will have one lecture, and then in the afternoon we will have three consecutive lectures. Because we must help people at the root level. If root-level healing does not happen, it is practically impossible. And they need to gain root-level strength. They also need to have a root-level calling. Methods are important too, but that is why the last, 4th lecture is this: the greatest healing within healing is prevention.
Because things are becoming urgent, do not wait until things are finished — we need to carry out preventive healing from kindergarten age on up. Starting from elementary school, if we do not do preventive healing, a rapidly accelerating age is coming. You know that in the span of just a few years, mental illness has doubled, right? In Korea as well, young children are having mental breakdowns, and it has now come to the point where schools are handing out medication. And because there are so many mentally unstable children, schools have no solution. It is hard to send them to another school, and it is hard to keep them either — so I asked a currently active teacher: how do you handle it? The answer was that they just designate a special-care teacher. That is the situation. These children go to America. There are two types of people who go to America — those who go with a proper purpose, and many who go because they could not study in Korea. They go like that. And then drugs are everywhere and easily accessible. They encounter drugs easily. A person without mental problems, a healthy person, might try it unknowingly and then be able to get out — but these people cannot get out.
So today in the 1st lecture I will speak briefly, but root-level healing is needed. And it cannot be done except by this power. Now, one premise to establish: there are many people with addictions and many with spiritual diseases. Among those with spiritual problems, the severe cases — in common terms, what people call a “spirit sickness” — are ones that even doctors cannot handle. And as a result, disease comes to the brain. Addiction affects the body, but it is rooted in the brain. What is addicted to the body can disappear if the person is confined for a long time, but what is in the brain does not disappear. Even among people like this — addicts, those with spiritual problems, those with brain disease — there are many who have done great things. So what is important for us is how we will utilize and help these people.
Introduction: Three Causes — Dispersion (Fragmentation), Obsession, Addiction
First, in terms of how it appears — how does it begin? It begins with three things. At some point, these people keep getting ①dispersed. They keep fragmenting. That is why early childhood education is so important — if they find answers when young, healing can happen quickly. But as they grow older without answers, they have to grab onto something, right? Because things are hard. And so they end up grabbing onto the wrong things. That is called ②obsession. Obsession in English is “obsession.” It is grabbing hold of the wrong thing. From there comes ③addiction.
It is not only drugs — some children fall into games and play games all day long. That is also no small problem. Locking the door and being alone — one of our members called me directly from abroad. They said their child does not listen to anyone, but might possibly listen to Pastor Ryu. They said they would put them on the phone and asked me to talk to the child just a little. I asked what the child was doing — apparently the child had gone into the room, would not open the door, and was playing games all day, sometimes not even eating. I could hear the parent’s voice calling to the child: “Hey, Pastor Ryu is on the phone, come take it.” The child said: “Do not lie to me, why would Pastor Ryu call me?” And in the end, the child would not pick up. The child was saying the mother was lying. This is serious. What will become of that child’s future?
1) Problems of the Brain
First, before we discuss various things, we need to know that the brain has been damaged. It will eventually become disease, but currently the brain has been damaged — and dementia is no different, right? It is the inability to flush out the brain’s toxins. Some doctors say that trash accumulates in the brain and because it cannot be flushed out, dementia results.
2) Mind and Thoughts
Then, the mind and thoughts keep fragmenting. The mind and thoughts may at times be the same but they are also different. These two keep fragmenting. One says this should not be done, but still wants to do it, and because one wants to, one thinks one must do it — and the two keep going back and forth, fragmenting. Some children have even died from inhaling too much glue.
3) The Body
The result, of course, is that the body develops problems.
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So then, whether it works or not, this is what must be done. It may seem impossible, but because these people are already in this state, treatment is impossible. That is right. However, in some ways the answer is in a simple place.
So only you can do what needs to be done. First, ①three root-level healings must be carried out. After that, ②the root-level spiritual state must be healed. Why do I use the word “root-level”? Because it is deeply rooted. You must help people heal the root-level spiritual state. This may seem ineffective, but because it is invisible, for the person themselves it is greatly needed and helpful. Of course, in some cases a person is healed immediately. We met that pastor in Taiwan, right? This person received the gospel and was healed immediately. And now this person goes into prison and shares the gospel with drug patients. ③Root-level healing of another world is needed. Because those who are addicted to drugs and struggling — they are physically here with us but are living in another world. How difficult must that be?
1. Root-Level Three Beginnings
1) Holy Meditation (Prayer)
Why does the Bible mention holy meditation so often? Of course, holy meditation is prayer — but it does not just say “prayer.” The word “holy meditation” appears very frequently. It appears an enormous number of times. And it is a word used often by important figures, someone like David. What does this have to do with healing? When one practices holy meditation, though many people do not understand it well, tremendous spiritual transformation takes place. When one practices holy meditation, changes occur in the brain. Actually. And when one practices holy meditation, actually, as a result, changes also occur in the body. So then, how does one practice holy meditation? This must not be missed. Even just 5 minutes a day is enough. When one truly practices holy meditation, there is one change that occurs in the body. It is the same change that happens when I look at a distant mountain and think, “Oh, that’s beautiful.” The same thing that happens when you look up at the sky you never usually notice and think, “The sky is clear and beautiful,” or on a bright day you look at the distant sea and think, “The sea is so vast,” or you think, “The moon is especially bright and beautiful tonight” — all of those moments share one thing in common. What is it? Breathing becomes stable. We are anxious, right? The breathing is not stable. And when we are angry, it is not stable. But breathing — the actual act of breathing — is everything, right? So for my brain to live, for my body to live — what is the timing of the most stable breathing? It must be no more than 6 breaths per minute.
Now, let’s say I am praying. Then my breathing becomes slow and comfortable. Without realizing it, 4 seconds have passed. Then as I pray, I slowly exhale. Without realizing it, 5 to 6 seconds have passed. That is 10 seconds. That means I breathe 6 times per minute. This has been scientifically proven. It even won the Nobel Prize. When we breathe only 6 times per minute like this, my brain and entire body begin to come alive. This has been clearly proven scientifically. In 2019, two people wrote about this and received the Nobel Prize. Even doing just 5 minutes of this brings you to life — but what if you did it all day long? History would happen. First the brain begins to heal. The more you exhale, the more toxins are released. You must do this without fail. But what are you doing right now? You are doing 60 breaths per minute when you should be doing only 6. That will kill you. You might be doing about 2 seconds at least. That is killing your body. So your brain cells are being destroyed 0.1% at a time, or 1% at a time as you age. Your nearest organs — your lungs and heart — are being destroyed. People who happen to be healthy — they do not know it themselves, but these are people who breathe strongly and with ease. That is why haenyeo (diving women) live long. Without realizing it themselves, they inhale deeply — they have to inhale a lot to stay underwater long, and when they surface they exhale. Healthy.
Holy meditation is not simple prayer. Many things are transformed through it, and the standard of that is what I just described. If a depressed patient or an addiction patient understood this, history would begin to happen. First, when you have instilled this — when someone says, “Ah, I see” — that is when it begins. Even just 5 minutes produces an effect. Last time, one scientist came with a laptop, right? That person had heard Pastor’s message and looked it up — what happens in the brain when breathing is lengthened. If this does not happen at all, one becomes urgent. It becomes harder. More urgent. More angry. More urgent. Eventually, if one breathes incorrectly, one ends up like Kim Jong-un. When I met our country’s president at that time, when I took the microphone and looked, I was startled. Until then no one knew, but I thought, “That person is sick.” Sure enough, as I later found out — it is all because of incorrect breathing. And when one becomes ill, breathing becomes difficult. One must understand this oneself. You must also understand this. Right now you are just sitting here, so your breathing is insufficient for your body and is not helping you.
2) Soul (Focus)
Then the second beginning — what is the standard for soul healing? In the end, the standard for soul healing is also about where you focus. If you do not teach this to patients, they can never be healed for the rest of their lives. Where do you focus? With what do you focus? I am not in pain, but I focus through breathing and prayer. This must be done without fail. Why did someone become an addict? Because they focused on the wrong thing and it became obsession. It has already taken root without the person even knowing. No matter how much one struggles, it does not work. It is enduring — not refraining, but enduring. Even with mentally ill patients, when they go back and forth, in their lucid moments they regret their actions. But when it comes back again, it is out of their control. The brain must be healed without fail. There is no other path to brain healing. The fact that you are not doing this well is evidence that you have not yet realized it. To become healthier, to heal faster, breathe longer and breathe less. There is even this joke: “You are given a certain number of breaths on this earth — so if you breathe fast, what happens?” You leave sooner. If you breathe slowly, you cannot leave quickly. There is such a joke. But even though it sounds like a joke, it is true. This is the beginning. If this beginning is not established, that person’s brain cannot be healed. And through exercise, eating well, and excretion, only 16% of toxins are removed. 84% must be removed through breathing — but you are not breathing that way. Toxins elsewhere in the body can be left alone, but toxins here (in the brain) cause problems. Being too healthy and enduring too long can result in dementia. When dementia arrives, it becomes a different conversation. They will not even recognize you.
3) Body (Food, Exercise)
Body healing, more simply than you might think, involves two things: food and exercise. I am not just casually speaking to you who are seated here.
You and your patients must exercise 5 minutes every hour without exception. Why? Because that is how human beings were originally designed to live. Adam and Eve did not eat delivery food. Right? Eve did not walk around in high heels. They walked barefoot on the ground. They walked to find food. That is how humans originally lived. At some point, as culture developed, this was lost.
I do squats once every hour without fail. Do it. Sometimes I do squats even while brushing my teeth. I am telling you to do it. You can restore all your health from that alone. Running is fine too — I am not saying not to run — but you must keep doing it constantly in daily life. Sign up for a gym, try it. Go to a gym and you will find shoes left behind packed full by members who never came back. It just does not get practiced. And so people cannot be healed.
Let me mention just one thing about food. Just one thing about food, not many. We need to know what brings healing — there is a food that can even eliminate cancer from our bodies. What is it? It is garlic. Now, which country eats the most garlic in the world? Korea. And yet the country with the highest cancer rates is also Korea. Why is that? Because it is being eaten wrong. The moment you peel garlic, its nutrients begin to disappear. And if you store it in the refrigerator and just one day passes, different toxins form. You have been continuously eating that. There is no way to get better. You need to be eating medicine, but you have been continuously eating poison. I just gave one example right now.
If the root-level beginning is already wrong, how can that person achieve some enormous drug healing, some mental illness healing — that itself is impossible. You must do this without fail. Even though this seems like nothing, it gradually, at the root level, brings life. Really — one practices holy meditation, and then one day the brain slowly begins to come alive. This is how it must be. Medication is a temporary prescription, not a cure, right? Blood pressure goes up, something happens, and then you take the medication the doctor prescribes and regulate the blood pressure. But that is not treatment, right? The conditions that cause blood pressure to rise need to be eliminated, but because they are not eliminated, it keeps rising. How long is that going to continue? You must do these three things. Try them yourselves. If you do squats even just 3 times a day, your blood sugar and blood pressure will drop.
2. Root-Level Spiritual State
After establishing this, the spiritual state is healed. A certain Remnant sent me dozens of text messages asking me to heal their mental illness. I was sorry but I first asked about their weight. When I asked how much they weighed, they said they were embarrassed to say. It seemed to be a female student — she said 79 kg. I told her: exercise every day first. If you do not exercise, do not contact me. If the basics are not in place, what spiritual healing is there to be done? In some ways, if one truly awakens to this, even a drug addict — if they just keep doing this properly — will one day be root-healed. Having used drugs and being addicted are different things. Addiction started from the spiritual state. That is why people do not know the reason it is not working.
1) Long-Ingrained Imprinting (Wounds)
Long-ingrained imprinting — what is it mainly? Wounds. Trauma goes without saying — wounds. Wounds are spiritual cancer cells, so even the person themselves does not know. This seems like a small thing but is tremendously large. People say: “Just endure it, why get a divorce?” — but it is not like that. When this man touches the deep wound within me, I cannot endure it. It is because of the wound. There are many of these, but the most important thing is the wound…
2) Long-Established Roots (Spiritual Disease)
From there, long-established roots take hold. This must be healed. What are long-established roots? It is having already contracted a spiritual disease. So the drugs themselves are not the primary issue, right? A spiritual disease has taken hold.
3) Long-Established Constitution (Mental Illness)
And an already long-established constitution has formed. What is this? A mental illness has already arrived. There are many types of mental illness — it is all complex. But all of it is disease of the brain. If you begin slowly from this point, it begins to disappear. Root-level strength begins to come. When it begins to come, the battle against this area begins to take shape. “Right — my wound, I need to turn it into a blessing. The spiritual disease in me, there is no need to be afraid. I need to gain spiritual strength now.” When it becomes this way, things work. Then gradually it gets healed, right? Because what I say and what I think keeps being imprinted into the brain. So if you say “It’s too cold,” the brain registers that and it truly becomes cold. The body is like that. Even when it is cold, if you say “I’m fine, it’s refreshing,” the brain registers that. “It’s refreshing” — the brain immediately delivers that to the body. This keeps repeating.
3. Root-Level Healing of Another World — “Focus”
So we must begin to enjoy the root-level other world. If one understands these two things, one will come to understand this. In some ways, what I am talking about is not about drugs. Why? Because their problem is not a drug problem. Right? We must speak precisely — otherwise we cannot treat it. The mental illness of these people is not something that simply happened because their minds snapped. It has been collapsing like this over a long time. What is the most common thing these people say? They say they are lonely. Even when they are not lonely, when there are people all around helping them, they say there is no one. And that is correct for them — for themselves, it is true. And when a husband goes somewhere — “What are you doing?” — they pin it on that. They call it morbid jealousy. It is not morbid jealousy. The brain is sick. Women too — there are women who keep suspecting men, going through their pockets. They call it pathological jealousy. It is not that. Having fallen into this disease, they cannot help but act that way. And so what Jesus has given us — if this is established, things work. If this is not established, nothing works. From the start it is impossible, so it is all in vain. But when this is established, things begin to change. At this point, focus is needed. What should one focus on? Jesus spoke on Mt. Olive about the bartizan/journey/guidepost, and it is said He spent 40 days explaining the matters of the Kingdom of God. Right? We must do as Jesus did — He explained the matters of the Kingdom of God for 40 days. I have never heard that spoken of in church. The matters of the Kingdom of God for 40 days…
1) The Bartizan, Journey, and Guidepost of the Throne
Now we establish the bartizan of the throne. Who will prevail? We walk the journey of the throne. We leave behind the guidepost of the throne. These are the words Jesus spoke. “Teach us to pray.” “You do not need anything to pray for — just pray for the Kingdom to come. Do not ask for this and that. God already knows everything. Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” In the end, if one does not understand this, one cannot understand from the beginning. “My brain is confused right now, my spiritual state is confused, my body has no strength, and on top of that — ‘The throne, what is this?’ ” Starting from this point and slowly bringing life — I think this is tremendously important. In the end, this is the conclusion. How much did you focus? For 40 days — this is the key.
2) Another World
Then that other world is destroyed. What do I mean? Jesus spoke directly. He told the Pharisees, who were the best at religious life: “A demon has built its house in your home.” Right? Jesus spoke directly. It must be destroyed. Paul, who understood these words, what did he say? In 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 — “There is a stronghold inside you. A stronghold of the devil — destroy it.” Jesus said it directly. “Satan, the ruler of this world, has you in his grip.” Right? One should be startled. John 16:11-14. Paul understood and spoke directly: Satan is the god of this world and is deceiving you — 2 Corinthians 4:4-5. This must be demolished. So in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 it says there are powerful words that tear down strongholds. The Word is the Word of creation. Right? “It is alive and active.” If the Word spoken by Christ concentratedly enters into me, no one knows what might happen. And so Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
3) The Presence of the Holy Trinity
What is it? Through that Word, the Triune God comes to dwell within me. This must be taught. Until they understand it — even if they do not understand, it must be done. Even if healing does not come, it must be done. Nothing else should be done.
Conclusion: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
This is the conclusion. What do we do if someone is not healed? What if they keep not getting healed? What will you do? If not healed — conversely, if healed, what will you do? If healed, that is wonderful — hallelujah, you become a witness. But you cannot teach it that way and expect results. Paul confessed: he prayed to God three times to remove the thorn of Satan from his body — and he did it going all the way into the third heaven. Paul healed many who were spiritually ill. Right? But he could not heal his own condition. Yet he confessed: that was God’s great grace. If it comes to this point, that is enough. “Even if I am addicted and cannot be healed right now, there is no reason to be discouraged. Because of this, God will give you great grace.” I say this to families of the mentally ill: small answers are still answers. Small problems are still problems — wait. God has a different plan. Is it your sin? Is it the parents’ sin? It is neither the parents’ sin nor your own sin — “God is going to display what He intends to do.” That is John 9:3.
1) The Third Heaven
He said “the third heaven.” What is the third heaven?
2) My State
And Paul answered immediately. “I do not know whether I was in the body or out of the body” — he prayed so earnestly, whether he was in the body or out of the body — this state is what Buddhism calls a state of selfless absorption, and when one enters a state of selfless absorption, tremendous things happen. Paul expressed that as “the third heaven.” We need to enjoy things to that degree.
3) Special Grace
Paul confessed that there was God’s great grace.
Now, people who are going through mental difficulties, or their families, or those who are addicted — those who are addicted are somewhat better off. They can understand what is being said. Begin root-level healing. If even one person in a mental hospital who can understand these words is present, no mistakes will be made. They pray calmly and proceed. Then a message for each individual person will come forth. I shared before about healing one mentally ill person, right? I could not spend time with this person constantly, but the person kept following me around. But while praying, such wisdom came to me. Now, this student listened well to me. The student did not listen to others. I used that. That meant the child trusted me. I wrote down every Bible verse through which this child would inevitably be healed. I said: keep reading and memorizing, keep praying. I wrote down all the truly core things there. Do you know what became of this child? I was astonished. Now this person has become a ministry worker. I was astonished. This is the power of the Word. We say “the Word, the Word,” but we do not actually enjoy it. Because imprinting, roots, and constitution are overturned — because the power of the throne comes within me — that is when the other world collapses.
In the afternoon we will continue with lectures 2, 3, and 4. What we need is root-level strength. Right? That strength is needed. And the ministry we must carry out must be done with a root-level calling. And because the age of addiction is coming at such rapid speed, preventive education is the greatest healing. Please try to predict the future somewhat. In my view, psychiatrists will be the busiest people going forward. The elder who is doing important work for our nation is here — that elder’s work is the work of this age. God has commissioned it, so things are going to be teeming. Mental illness. Before, even murders had reasons — now there are no reasons. Because minds are broken. If someone is in a bad mood they kill. Even if someone is just looking at them, they go and kill. “Why are you looking at me?” — that is the age we are in.
So I pray that today will be an important timetable where you pray much and begin to think — and I bless this in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us pray.
Prayer. We give thanks to God. We give thanks, praise, and glory to God who sends us as errand-runners for what this age requires. Please give us the wisdom and the Word to truly help them. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.