So brothers and sisters,let us make use of the spoken wordfor success in our personal lives, for material with which the Holy Spirit can create, and for the purposes of creating and releasing the presence of Jesus Christ. Many people think that they will receive just by asking. By clicking Accept, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. Expand your thinking life according to Scripture; then God can have absolute freedom to express Himself through your thoughts. After I speak these words those associates become increasingly motivated. If you pray this way God has no channel through which to flow. Jacob went out to the mountain, cut down poplar, hazel and chestnut trees, and with his penknife made them all spotted and speckled. When I was building the present church structure, which seats 10,000, even before they poured the concrete, I saw it clearly in my imagination. He said that the speech nerve center had such power over all of the body that simply speaking can give one control over his body, to manipulate it in the way he wishes. You can converse with another person only through a known language, and you can never converse with an unknown language. It was your idea for me to tell it like that. Sensing God calling him to the ministry, Cho began working as an interpreter for the American evangelist Ken Tize. No. What kind of husband have you been asking for? She shrugged her shoulders, Well, thats up to God. How about my going into the retail business of selling salt? If you believe in it, I said, go right ahead. A Changed Thinking Attitude Your first step must be to change your thinking attitude from that of a negative attitude to that of a positive one. So for the duration of the construction I lived with my eyes closed more than I lived with my eyes open. Everything seemed impossible, and I was tired and hungry. You ask us to believe in God, but where is He? In the first portion of my ministry I would reply to them, Just speak to the Heavenly Father. That desire was burning in me so much that I was living with it, sleeping with it, and walking with it. My children are like angels, and they come and hug me, saying, Mama! And I hate myself. Let me illustrate this point with an actual example. Feeling totally alone, I was one of the hopeless. The arena of your thinking engrafts Gods thoughts and produces faith, and through faith God can flow through you to others. I told her that sometimes it takes only a minute, and if she would have peace and assurance in her heart in that instant, she would not need to pray any longer. The Sin of Inferiority Many people live with inferiority complexes, and are constantly frustrated; this feeling of inferiority is the third problem area I will discuss. Most outstanding in my mind was Christs mercy to the demon possessed. I say to my people, God is not a million miles away; He is not God of two thousand years ago; He is not just God of the future. In the Greek language there are two different words for word, logos and rhema. In his fourth dimension the Holy Spirit began to use that language. We Christians are becoming perennial beggars, for constantly we are begging. From that moment on I was waiting for the delivery of each thing I had prayed for. I talked with the board of elders, and all of them thought like the disciples of Philip. Now in my prayers I always try to see clearly. He had faith, but he endured trials for years; Jacob endured hardship for twenty years, Joseph for thirteen, Moses for forty, and the disciples of Christ passed through trials and temptations all their lives. If for no other reason, you should carefully study the Bible Genesis to Revelationin order to give the Holy Spirit the material with which He needs to work. I am not a fanatic. I dont know His address or location. His original name was Simon, meaning a reed. When Peter came,led by Andrew, Jesus looked into his eyes and laughed. That particular day we were making pledges for the fifth stage of our building plans. For the Release of the Presence of Christ There is a third reason to use the power of the spoken word: through it you create and release the presence of Jesus Christ. Im so very old, and am tired and cant do anything, then right away, the speech central control responds, giving out orders to that effect. Where is the tabernacle of the wilderness? I dont know now, Moses answered. Without receiving Gods faith you cannot do this. Then keep those visions, keep those dreams, and let the Holy Spirit flow through that language, and create. Before psychology found the subconscious, Apostle Paul had already discovered it 2,000 years before, writing of the inner, hidden man. But your mind, your thoughts, must be renewed according to your born again spirit; that task of renewal is one that requires a lifelong process, taking time, energy and struggle. So after listening to you, I am going to go and carry out all of my plans. If you are going to answer my prayer after my death, what kind of profit will that have for me? A Renewed Thought Life Many people experience a spiritual rebirth, but they do not renew their mind in order to truly grasp the thoughts of God. Gideon also provides us with an example, for he, too, asked for a sign. I had found the address and the location of God. Ive got faith that my problem will be solved. This is because I helped supply to them the rhema. Now go. I calculated roughly with a contractor about costs. That means that God performed miracles, calling those things which be not as if they were. Abraham was one hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety. Jacob soon began to have a vast multitude of spotted and speckled animals, and he became one of the richest men in the Orient. Once I had tuberculosis. But this information was only of a negative and impossibility nature, information that refuted the teachings of Jesus Christ, and directly opposed His command. All of our then 0,000 members prayed, storming the Throne of Grace. God is like thought. Immediately my son caught the meaning, and he nodded. Dont try to understand it. I thought, This is not the work of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says clearly that whosoever controls the tongue, controls the whole body. I laid hands on her, prayed, rebuked, shoutedI did everything I could, but God did not touch her. The Bible says that whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you release on earth shall be released in heaven. You have the responsibility of carrying the presence of Jesus Christ. You must ask definitely and specifically. In his Greek lexicon Dr. Ironside has defined logos as the said word of God, and rhema as the saying word of God. Many scholars define this action of rhema as being the Holy Spirit using a few verses of Scripture and quickening it personally to one individual person. Many people still live with their old minds after conversion. God gave His only begotten Son to be crucified on the cross so that this world could be saved and redeemed. His wife laughed when the deacon came to take the pledge card. Humanly speaking, there was no way for me to meet the president. Do you think impossibility? Receiving Rhema People have come to me and commented, Brother Cho, I can pray through about the various promises from the scriptures, and I can wait until the Holy Spirit quickens and applies them to me. Brothers and sisters in Christ, right now you have all Gods power dwelling within you. That inferiority complex brought about a feeling of destruction in me, and I had a difficult time struggling out of that situation. She got married! Who got married? Do you remember thatgirl you prayed for? This is the secret: pray until you get the substance, the assurance. Just pray for our divorce. But I had already overruled this third dimension decision by using the fourth dimension in my heart. Eat anything you want. When Gods thoughts come down to us clothed in the Korean language we Korean people understand. She claimed, Pastor, you are prejudiced. If you have a definite request, and if you really see it, then you can have it. This is not from the devil, he disagreed. I married when I was thirty years old, and throughout the years Ive saved my money so that I could build a beautiful home and give it to my wife. Can you see your husband now? Yes, I can see him clearly. Okay. Now when we think of it, we cant understand why we argued so much, and why we were going to separate. Many people have great problems in their homes because they do not have family altars. When we needed five million dollars to build the church already contracted, I had a clear-cut vision, a clear-cut goal, and a burning desire to build this church which would seat 10,000 people. Now I see differently. God is going to do exceeding abundantly, according to the renewal of your thinking life. Bless your enemy and do good to him. Why am I a failure? But as he was praying and waiting upon the Lord, he received the rhema, and a man from Macedonia appeared in a vision and said, Come into Macedonia and help us! So he took a boat and crossed over to Europe. For example, a mans grandfather died from high blood pressure in his fifties, His son, when in his fifties, also died of a stroke. I had no desk, no chair, and no bed and was eating on the floor, sleeping on the floor and studying on the floor, but walking miles and miles everyday to carry out soul winning. I asked her to stand up by faith. Many times the best action to take is to fast and pray, for if you eat too much you get so tired that you cannot pray. Then at ten oclock a telephone call will come: Pastor, my grandson has a high fever, please pray for him. So I pray. Well, it seems that both my small pebble and your big rock went to the bottom when they were thrown. How can I ask them to put their faith in the Lord, and truly live by the Word, and not by bread? Once in Korea a lady by the name of Yun Hae Kyung had a tremendous youth meeting on Samgak Mountain. They began preaching, expecting the people to flock in by the hundreds, and their debts to be paid; but nothing like that happened. I was amazed coming to America and reading the books some American ministers gave me, for these books had almost made the subconscious into an almighty god, and that is a great deception. Most Oriental people grow up under the influence of heathen worship, and they need the location or address of their god in order to go and worship it. He commanded the sea to be calm. She stood up and exclaimed, Pastor, Im saved! It was a sharp dagger, and I was frightened. Now she has no sickness and is completely healed; when she let go of her clogging sin of guilt, the power of God flowed forth. The burning desire, just like youve preached about. That desire is from your own flesh, I replied. This old way of thinking is limiting; thus God becomes limited by the wrong kind of thinking life. No. I knelt down and prayed, Father, now I am praying. We would need at least two hundred denarii to feed even a small portion of them. We should live by the revelation knowledge found in Genesis to Revelation, not by our sensual knowledge. Visions and dreams are the language of the fourth dimension, and the Holy Spirit communicates through them. There were young couples who gave their whole years salary to the church, deciding to live by faith. God is the same, for Jehovah never changes; but before a person changes, God cannot manifest himself to them. Water could take away my salt, but water cant take away the total resources of the presence of God dwelling within me. Now the grandson lives in fear of dying of a stroke. Then two months, three, four, five, six, and still I was waiting; but nothing happened. After preaching the Word of God we have two or three specialsthen we conclude. Now after twenty years it has been said that my church is the largest church in the world. Then I went to the contractor and made a contract to build that church and apartment house complex, also on credit. I told him I had $2,500. You borrowed money from some of the elders and members. Moreover, Philippians 2:13 reads, For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Through the Holy Spirit God puts in your heart the desire, making you to will to do His will. God took it away; but as you always told me, I have all the resources here. We are ready for the grave. God, therefore, had no responsibility to support their faith, and the difference between the way these girls exercised faith and the way Peter exercised faith is as the difference between night and day. She had memorized scripture after scripture regarding divine healing: I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26); With His stripes we are healed(Isaiah 53:5);He Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17); And these signs shall follow them that believe they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17-18). But in the next moment he would see all the water breaking against the rock, and sliding off, and the rock still stood. Whenever my husband makes love to me I feel like a prostitute, for I have no right to receive his love; inside I am torn and crying. Father, please give me your address! Therefore, when Orientals come to Christianity they have a real struggle, because they cannot find the address of God. But when the problem of finance came up, immediately they would say, Let a missionary come and take over. They used the missionary just as financier. Look carefully when you read Genesis 13:14-15, And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. God did not say, Oh, Abraham, Ill give you Canaan. Whenever I see him on Sunday morning, sitting in the balcony, I say to myself, Praise God! Why is He hanging there? Yes, I am like a rock. Peter became a strong rock of the Early Church. She had left me, taking all of my savings, and was running away with another man, and was living in another part of town. Now nowhere in this passage is it necessary that someone send up to heaven and bring Jesus Christ down to earth to give salvation. I was not married, and was living in one small room. He prayed, Oh God, I bless my wife. Large tears rolled down her cheeks, reflecting a compassion foreign to my wellorganized and sterile Buddhist philosophies and rituals. Faith does not just well up from your inner spirit. If people feel that they are inferior because they live in a slum area, you cannot pull them out. There are plenty of magicians in the Egypts of this world, but let us use all our visions and our dreams for our Holy God. The imminence of my death had brought me to the realization that I needed something greater than a religion, greater than a philosophy, and even greater than sympathy for the trials of human existence. Nobody wants to stay in a sinking boat, and I was sinking fast. The surgeon and those nurses began to feel fire. Christ wants to give you life eternal and be a present part of your daily living. Crying she said, I cant love him. These promises, however, are a bit different, for these promises are all spotted and speckled by the blood of Jesus Christ. His storehouse also was flooded, and I was struck with fear. Go then with full speed, with Gods blessing and Gods rhema. No professor in the Bible college ever taught me along these lines. You cant build a church and apartment house like that. Then I called the 600 deacons together. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. If you look at your circumstances with your physical eyes and live by your senses, Satan will destroy you with fear. But in my church I preach about the saving Jesus, the sanctifying Christ, the baptizing Savior, the blessing Son of God, and the healing Jesus; and we have all of these aspects manifested in my church. I will draw a new picture of your daughter. You never ordered a specific desk, chair or bicycle. That was a turning point in my life. Do it! So he went out, selling salt on a small scale. God never works by Himself, but only through you. God wants to manifest Himself through you today, just as He manifested Himself through Christ ,000 years ago. Revolutionize your thinking life! God is only going to work through your thinking, through your beliefs; so, whenever you want to receive answers from the Lord, bring out that clear-cut objective. No. She has become a hippie, and she sleeps with friends of my husband and with friends of my sons, going from this hotel to that hotel, and from this dance hall to that dance hall. The doctors, nurses, and all the patients daily became saved. He asked, What have you done to her? God has performed a miracle! I answered joyfully. Father, Ill start with headaches. After this when I preached, visions of healings would spring up from my spirit; but when in my minds eye I could see cripples healed, or tumors disappearing, I ignored them. In mid-morning a telephone call comes from the hospital, Pastor, such and such a person is dying now. I prayed that my wife would consent about the selling of our home. Chapter 4 Rhema The spoken word has powerful creativity, and its proper usage is vital to a victorious Christian life. Before this time she had never danced for joy before the Lord, but this day she jumped and danced, making quite a bit of noise. The evening before, I had all the faith in the world, but while I slept faith took wing and left me. CONTENTS Foreword by Robert Schuller Preface Chapter 1 Incubation: A Law of Faith Chapter 2 The Fourth Dimension Chapter 3 The Creative Power of the Spoken Word Chapter 4 Rhema Chapter 5 The School of Andrew Chapter 6 Gods Address Foreword I count it a great honor to write these words as a foreword to this exciting book by my brother in Christ, David Yonggi Cho. You cant do it. If you wont do it, I interjected, then I have other places I could go. Then I came to the bicycle, and I really gave much consideration to the matter, because there were so many kinds of bicycles: Korean, Japanese, Formosan, German. ! My wife rushed out of the kitchen and when I looked at her I saw that her face was absolutely pale. After receiving this revelation from the Lord, Jacob went to his uncle. Have you ever gone through the Bible to see if what you would be doing is scriptural? No. Your desire must be screened through the scripture, I instructed her. Andrew had possibility thinking, and through his thinking, caught the vision of Jesus Christ. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. When you bless, the blessings start from you and go out; you are going to be more blessed by your words of blessing than she is. People easily adapt to speaking in a negative way. 12, THE MYSTICAL DIMENSION Volume One When I was in my third year of college my elder sister went into the hospital to give birth to her last child. Cant you see your daughter forgiven, cleansed, born again, and filled with the Holy Spiritcompletely changed? He has a vision and a dream. I would just stand, without thinking, worrying about the five million dollars. The blood of Jesus cures all sins, big and little. This touched her soul, and she woke to the truth. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Yes, I made a mistake. And I began to feel sorry for myself. This is all superstition. But the Holy Spirit said, Wait a minute. Now let me share something from my personal experience with you. It is interesting that Abraham got his child Isaac when he was one hundred years old, and when Sarah was ninety. But I also have my wife and children. Look, I replied, you forget about this, because its from the devil. Oh, no, no. In Genesis 19:17 the Bible reads, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee. It is a simple command: do not look behind you. Throughout Scripture God always made use of this law of the fourth dimension. You do have certain limited powers to carry out dominion over the third dimension, influencing your circumstances. The Role of the Subconscious In America I saw a lot of mind-expanding books, and I see similar things happening everywhere because of all this emphasis on the subconscious. In Korea there is an old saying, If you want to smear the face of others with mire, you will have to smear your hand first. So if you curse your wife, the curse will flow out of your mouth first, and you will be cursed first. You would be ready to meet any challenge, ready to conquer it. If you start from the Book of Matthew, you will have enough time. Expecting to find deep moral and philosophical religious teachings, I was shocked at what I read. You can give me the answer then, because I can take care of it quickly. For one week I prayed, and the next week he returned to my office. God never lacks for anything; you should have abundance consciousness. But one summer night it rained heavily, and in the morning when I got up all the area had completely flooded. Sometimes God wants to stiffen and strengthen your backbone; and sometimes while being strengthened you can almost hear the bones cracking. I can do the work of a young person no matter what my chronological age is. The nerves of that person will then come alive and thus receive power and strength from the nerve center. Romans 10:17 shows us that the material used to build faith is more than just reading Gods Word: Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. In this scripture word is not logos, but rhema. Hating sin, Christ loved the sinner, accepting all who came to Him. These girls did just that, so why didnt God answer? I am satisfied. But that spirit is not a spirit with salvation, even though you can exercise those kinds of miracles. You really are like a reed, but I am going to call you a rock. As I walked in I said, Dear Holy Spirit, now Ive gotten this far. Cho, should we operate on him? Eventually he bled so badly he was carried to the hospital and operated on. This can be seen in the lives of the disciples of Jesus Christ. One day a schoolteacher came to see me. I became hopeful that He might heal me, too. Many of my members were worried, and they complained, Where is God? Tobacco, you know. Forget about it, I retorted. But Ive searched through my heart and so far I have not found any gift in me. I should never have believed God in such a way. Pastor, please forgive me. Her mother came out, and when she saw her daughter, her countenance lit up as if the sun was rising on her face. If you never have time to wait upon the Lord, then the Lord can never come and quicken the needed scripture to your heart. Neutral Gear The first step is to put myself in neutral gear not forward or backward, but completely calm in my heart. Their congregations are simply fed grass, and not even given the milk of the Word. You can meet God only through the arena of your thinking life. To bring this church to Yoido would take an enormous amount of money, and we would have to buy at least three or four acres of land. Once again I was in the school of Andrew. It was found that the parents had loved the younger son very much, constantly praising him in the presence of his older brother; eventually the older brother began to feel inferior. Many people were filling in pledge cards; when a pledge card came to this man, he wrote in $100 with his bound hand. You please pick up a big rock. Over 8,000 promises. I know that you know the address. And even though our church has more than 50,000 registered members, when I go to the office I do not have a great deal to do, for I follow a path of faith, and am not constantly striving in my flesh to bring to pass those things that the Holy Spirit can easily do. Despite the prognosis and old feelings of fear, I soon knew I was going to live. There are over 8,000 promises in the Bible, and each of those promises is like a spotted and speckled tree for you. The Sin of Guilt Many people also suffer from feelings of guilt, the fourth problem that needs to be overcome before the Christian can work actively with God; for as long as someone suffers from guilt, God can never flow through him. Give the command and the Red Sea shall be divided. There are times for you to pray, but there are also times for you to give the command. They cry that this is the wilderness and that it is too late, and that the people cannot be fed. I trust you to keep your promise, he told me as he wrote out a check for $50,000 from his own personal savings. Dont go by the thinking and teaching of Cho. Chairman, do you know any bakery that could produce so much bread at one time? No, said Philip, I dont know any bakery around here. Well then, itd take weeks to feed these people, and thats impossible! Yes, I agree with you, said Philip. Then I went to a meeting of our churchs elders and told them the plan. Once I have delegated power, that power remains delegated, and I no longer worry about it. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. No. Please send me a desk, chair and bicycle. I believed and praised God. If you want to see rebellious and irresponsible youth changed into responsible adult you must teach them this new language. They took care of me wonderfully, and I lived with them while attending junior high school, high school, and college. When God deals with you, He always deals with you through the healing of your soul. She would then claim to me that she had all the faith in the world, but her faith never would work. But when you said those words and gave such strong commands, we felt something break down in our hearts. God did not deliver them, but almost all of those people who watched this execution became Christians, many now members of my church. I rejoiced in my heart to find the address of God. I cant do this job, then right away all the nerves begin to declare the same thing. I had been invited to speak in an evening service at a church in Alabama. The pastor asked, Cho, would you please pray for a lady here? I asked, For what? Well, she wants to get married, and she still hasnt found a husband. Ask her to come in. So in she walked, a nice spinster over thirty years old. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. That evening I bought gifts of flowers and scarves home to my wife. This is it, I said. Ive heated my minds computer, and now its become overloaded. If we dont give them a living faith, rhema, then they are going to go back home with out receiving their solutions. During that time I took care of the home and children. You are more beautiful to me each day. After a time, when I felt the moment to be right, I said, Honey, I have a big problem. Concerned, she looked at me, insisting, Tell me. We are going to build this big church which will seat 10,000 people, I told her. Then the Holy Spirit can use you, for His language is carried with a vision and a dream. Without ridding themselves of these sins their channels will be so clogged that God would have no opportunity to flow through them. If you are ever going to answer my prayer, please speed it up. So I am still sick. Save our Pastor! Then God began to move. She straightened up and with anger glaring in her eyes said, Am I in a police station? Those of you who have not, come to Jesus Christ, receive Him as your personal Savior; and the Creator of heaven and earth, with all of His resources, is going to dwell within your heart. Your thinking life is so important; you must renew your mind. But since many neglect the family altar, they neglect speaking the clear presence of Jesus Christ, and their children are left without the full blessings of God. Therefore, if you do not renew your thinking, you cannot fully understand the Word of God; and without the renewal of mind and the hearing of the Word, you cannot have faith. I dont know your address and I cant tell my people your location. The Solution Then the answer came. I turned in the money just as the bank was closing at six oclock, and I was saved. The Holiness Church next door speaks day in and day out about sanctification. Faith specifically comes by hearing the rhema. When I saw her tears, my heart was deeply touched. We are not common animals. I will trust God and see. After the ground breaking service I went out to look around. I am personally indebted to him for spiritual strength, and for insights I have received from God through this great Christian pastor. Unfortunately the Church of Jesus Christ seems to have become a perennial beggar: begging and begging, afraid to speak forth the words of command. Why dont we just scatter them and tell them to each find a place to sleep and eat? The meeting was then concluded, and Philip gathered the information.