yonggi cho books on church growth pdf

Every evening before you go to sleep read those ten points aloud, and every morning when you get up read those ten points aloud, and praise God for the answer. One year passed, and I was through that area again when the wife of the minister called me on the telephone. Number one: now, you really want a husband, but what kind of husband do you wantAsian, Caucasian, or Black? Caucasian. Okay. The heat is too high. But the weather was very cold. We must prepare ourselves to be part of an incapable person. If someone keeps saying, Im very old. I found the address of God. Again discouraged, I came to King Solomon. We dont want you to preach to us. I found that His address is my address. I am the father of three children, and would almost feel like going to hell rather than see my children killed. Go to someone else, and I started arguing with God. Then you can see the birth of Isaac again and again in your life. The Holy Spirit manifests Himself through me; I do not have any of the gifts, only the Holy Spirit, and I just obey Him, and believe in Him. After the service I shook their hands and asked the wife, What happened? Well, we dont know, she answered. One Sunday morning as I was preaching at the second worship service, I saw a man I knew was mentally sick, brought in with his hands and feet bound. The doctor then came to my church, asking that I pray for his healing. Not high up in the sky, or below the ground. I was foolish, for if I had lifted her up in the beginning I could have brought heaven down to that service; but I was scared. But you are a businessman. The Bible does not say that a sign shall go ahead of you; the Bible says that a sign shall follow you. If your soul is not right with God, no amount of prayer, shouting or jumping will bring the rhema of healing to you. The Bible calls the subconscious the inner man, the man hidden in your heart. God always comes to you through your sanctified desire. I was scared to death of letting my sister know, so my brother-in-law continually intimidated me; I was slowly being destroyed. I listened intently but I couldnt understand one word, because you were speaking with such a strong Southern provincial accent. And pray for the sick and speak in strange tongues? Thats right, I responded. I would come to the church, and notice after notice came, filing suit: the electric company, the sewage company, the construction company. Suddenly I felt a serenity, and a feeling of tranquility come into my soul. We order him in the name of Jesus Christ. Sister, take this written paper to your home and paste it on a mirror. 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. At the close of the sermon the Holy Spirit suddenly spoke in my heart, Walk down and lift her up. I replied, Dear Spirit, you really mean that I should go down and lift her up? Ive tried everythingpsychology, psychiatry, and all the internal and external medicine imaginable. Please send me a desk, chair and bicycle. I believed and praised God. Moreover, we dont have any assets for collateral. He prayed all night, but when He came out to the front lines He commanded that the people be healed. If someone says, Well, I have no ability. Look at the Lamb of God who carried away the sins of the world, Jesus Christ. I simply close my eyes and speak forth. Why should a child of the King of kings, and of the Lord of lords, live without a desk, chair and bed, and walk mile after mile everyday? I then said, Lord, do you really want me to pray in definite terms? This time the Lord led me to turn to Hebrews, the eleventh chapter: Faith is the substance of things, clear-cut things, hoped for. I knelt down again and said, Father, Im sorry. By reading Scripture you can enlarge your visions and your dreams. The Holy Spirit will never contradict Gods written Word. We Christians are becoming perennial beggars, for constantly we are begging. Jehovah God never changes, and the Word of God never falls on the ground without being fulfilled. Thats your chance to escape to America. I cant do that. But these girls had only logos, a general knowledge of God, and in this case, the working of God through Peter. The Lord wants to cleanse your life and make you surrendered to Him, The Lord will never give promises promiscuously. Then you will become victorious, for you will be completely conditioned to meet your environment and circumstances, and achieve success. But one day the Holy Spirit said, Dont shout, pray and rebuke. 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. He was one of the famous doctors in biblical times, nearly two thousand years ago, I replied. But if someone does come to my door he must first come through my secretaries, who carefully screen people. So it is vital that we renew our thoughts, and think positively. Oh, inside me its growing! What do you have? I have five million dollars, I strongly asserted. God is like thought. Immediately my son caught the meaning, and he nodded. Whenever I have a session with my 100 assistant pastors of our church, I give them a strict command: Its your responsibility to create the presence of Jesus Christ wherever you go. Exactly as the Bible said nearly 2,000 years ago, it is so today. They began preaching, expecting the people to flock in by the hundreds, and their debts to be paid; but nothing like that happened. Downloads 643 He became worse and worse. Then I wait upon the Lord, saying, Lord, Im here. Ive lost my friends, my prestige, and my credit. 1 Cant you see your daughter forgiven, cleansed, born again, and filled with the Holy Spiritcompletely changed? But his uncle changed the salary so many times that Jacob was being deceived; Jacob was in turn also deceiving his uncle. All through life I have carried out and conducted my business by using these five steps. They gave me $40 and then chased me out of their house. That is why speaking in another tongue is the initial sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. yonggi It is interesting that Abraham got his child Isaac when he was one hundred years old, and when Sarah was ninety. I meant I was sent from God, but she thought that I had been sent from the President of Korea, for in Korea the President is the highest authority. Eventually God persuaded me, saying, You go out and build a church which will seat 10,000, a church that will send out at least 500 missionaries. Father, I replied, I cant do that. Give the word. Im going to cast myself down, I continued. But if you close your eyes and look to God, then you can believe. You cannot put these things away simply as a manifestation of the devil. cho dimension fourth yonggi paul books david pdf author editions coa bi I am not worthy to receive this kind of love from my children. Nobody wants to stay in a sinking boat, and I was sinking fast. 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. Its all you have! Christ then told Peter to come. When I married him he never got a job. The Bible says that soon afterward all those animals gave birth to spotted and speckled offspring. I would roll out of the bed and go to the corner and cry, sobbing my heart out. I have heard that you have really helped many people, and they have been healed. I told him that this was true, and I looked at her, searching for the discernment and wisdom she needed in this situation. Before you can be changed, you must change your language. This means that Abraham was totally unbelieving. Since the spiritual world hugged the third dimension, incubating on the third dimension,it was by this incubation of the fourth dimension on the third dimension that the earth was recreated. I dont know what happened to me, but we fell into an immoral relationship; then guilt really struck into my heart. Sometimes He comes to me, and other times He doesnt. I would often cry to Him, for I could not keep on preaching like that. But Jesus spoke, I am Christ. If we dont give them a living faith, rhema, then they are going to go back home with out receiving their solutions. If you keep on saying that you are poor, then all of your system conditions itself to attract poverty, and you will feel at home in poverty;you would rather be poor. I see one great fault in American services. Dont pay any attention to anyone else, but just walk straight through to the presidents office. So I straightened up, walking through. Ready to die, I hung a three month calendar on the wall. I slumped down crying, Oh, God, then what can I do? After I preach, people in the congregation come to me and say, Pastor, you preached exactly the word I needed. These visions and dreams carried dominion over his one-hundred-year old body, and it was soon transformed as if it were like a young body. So I would need five-and-one-half million dollars. I read all the scriptures, but the Bible does not say whether I should go marry Elizabeth, Mary or Joan. But the Word of God is always uppermost. The Confusion In 1958 I went on my first pioneering work in the worst slum area of our city. Hating sin, Christ loved the sinner, accepting all who came to Him. We human beings are supposed to walk on land, not on water. He is dying. You have the resources within you, and now you know the elements needed in incubation to make your faith usable. Lets see your daughter through His spotted and speckled cross. But there they were, digging as if they had to develop a lake, with dozens of bulldozers digging the earth. I knelt down, travailing and crying. You are prejudiced. Sister, I replied, I have done everything. So I visited her, praying with her, and she became filled with the Holy Spirit. Sensing God calling him to the ministry, Cho began working as an interpreter for the American evangelist Ken Tize. He can cast out Satan, and give you confidence, faith and peace. The Holy Spirit began to carry out dominion. But they fail to differentiate between the Word of God which gives general knowledge about God, and the Word of God which God uses to impart faith about specific circumstances into a mans heart. The Greek, however, says that you should have the faith of God. Chapter 5 The School of Andrew When you receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior your spirit is instantly reborn. Divine healing is all according to Gods sovereign will. You, yourself, can never own a spiritual gift. I opened the door and this man came into the room. If you do not develop your way of believing to cooperate with God, God will be limited. You can have all the material goods of this world, but if there is hatred in your family, those material things will be no blessing at all. As you pray many desires, beautiful desires, will probably flow in. You can meet God only through the arena of your thinking life. I have sent the Holy Spirit to each and every one of my followers. Then, if you know that you are really calmed down, you come to the second step. She had never done that before, and her husband was unbelieving. She had gone to every hospital but could not be cured. And in his book, chapter three, the first few verses, Dr. James clearly defines the activity and importance of the tongue and the speech center. The neurosurgeon was completely amazed. You really are like a reed, but I am going to call you a rock. You must be ready to move. Oh, Lord, I said. If you do not exercise this law of faith you can never really get an answer to everything you request. Right away I knew that I would get tuberculosis. 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. 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 wants us to submit five loaves of bread and two fishes and those five loaves and two fishes are our house! My wife turned pale, and then looking straight into my eyes she said, This home is mine, not yours.

I am personally indebted to him for spiritual strength, and for insights I have received from God through this great Christian pastor. I cant see my thoughts, but I still know that I have them. Visions and dreams are the language of the fourth dimension, and the Holy Spirit communicates through them. Miracles follow a renewed mind, and as Peter renewed his mind, he began to walk on water. So I prayed for her with all my might, but nothing happened. This is mine, this is mine! NO! I will never come out to the world with power, without coming through your life. You are the channel. Then keep those visions, keep those dreams, and let the Holy Spirit flow through that language, and create. I asked Christ to come into my heart, to save, heal and deliver me from death. This father was shaken. Lets save our preacher! they cried. But that hatred, that unforgiving spirit, will be the number one enemy to your faith life. Youve got to help me. Then I listened for a still, small voice within my heart and suddenly got an idea. He was healed in spirit and body. So I claimed it, and in my heart I see 50,000 members. Sometimes God wants to stiffen and strengthen your backbone; and sometimes while being strengthened you can almost hear the bones cracking. Americans have often turned churches into a place for lengthy entertainment. Abraham, you are a father of faith, and you met God often. He was always hanging around her, and before he left he asked her to marry him. Gideon also provides us with an example, for he, too, asked for a sign.

God is not there sleeping. Lets save the man of God! In this way a Save Our Pastor movement began. So if you do not renew your thinking life and if you do not renew your mind after conversion, then God cannot really manifest Himself to you. This is a grave mistake. But if you stand on the Word of God and have faith, then God will never let you down. Instead of dying in three months, I was out of my deathbed in six. If you wait patiently your own desire and desires from satan will become increasingly weaker, but the desire from the Holy Spirit becomes stronger and stronger. God wants to manifest Himself through you today, just as He manifested Himself through Christ ,000 years ago. spirituality dimensional 4th institute growth church david cho yonggi flip 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. In a profoundly practical way, Jesus was bringing salvation to humanity. In recognition of the fact that they have been healed, people stand up. Every day you curse and hate him; in your imagination you have never divorced your husband. Let me show you the five steps I use to get the rhema about these types of decisions. I said it as if I had it, and now how can I explain this? But I dont want to go to hell. That desire was burning in me so much that I was living with it, sleeping with it, and walking with it. God took it away; but as you always told me, I have all the resources here. Mine made a plop, yours made a boom. 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. That couple now attend my church, and whenever I look at the face of that lady, I cannot help thinking of the love of Jesus Christ. He would watch as the windtossed waves of the Sea of Galilee would hit a rock, engulfing it with white foam; and the rock looked conquered. There will be no way for us to cure him? But I said, You go ahead and operate on him, and as soon as I finish the Christmas sermon, Ill run to the hospital. After the Christmas service I rushed to the emergency room of Seoul National University Hospital, and there he was, totally unconscious. They were happily married in that church, and on their marriage day her mother took that paper written with the ten points, and read it publicly before the people, then tore it up. It sounds like a story, but it really works like that. When I met him after a month he excitedly said, Oh, Pastor Cho, I rejoice in the Lord! 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. Please begin to bless your husband. I then began to work through her, thinking to myself, If Ive got the wife, I know I can get to the husband. So I instructed her, Youve got to bring your husband to church. But he is so busy, she replied. In the future you need no longer be confused about the promises of God. My stomach and chest soon filled with blood. Jesus said, I died and I am resurrected. Go ahead. I have renewed my license as a bulldozer driver. If you can answer my questions, Ill show you all of those things. I went to my wifes father and mothers home and protested. He is your living Lord. Write it down. I was amazed that just by my speaking these things they would come into being. Peter never walked on the water by knowledge of God alone. Gods Uppermost Goal The healing of the physical body is not the Spirits ultimate goal. God is going to convince you Himself by imparting His faith into your heart. Jesus said to go to the ends of the world and preach the Gospel. 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. They beg me, demanding every kind of request, but they ask in such vague terms that I cant answer. Before he was sold as a slave God had already imprinted in his heart pictures in the fourth dimension. Those solid colored animals have a very slim chance of giving birth to many of the spotted and speckled offspring. Sarah, Im coming. What? They were all in agreement, so youve got to think this over again. Then the Spirit spoke strongly in my heart, Son, when did I ask you to go and talk with the elders and deacons? Am I not supposed to? I asked. 4. 10. God never works by Himself, but only through you. What becomes pregnant in your heart and mind is going to come out in your circumstances. I didnt even have the money to hire my own lawyer. You may try to feel faith, but when you need faith, then faith is there. Turning the pages to Matthew, she smiled: Sir, you are so sick that if you start from Genesis, I dont think you will last long enough to finish Revelation. But I kind of like you; you are a bold person, and I like your faith. I once wrote a $50,000 postdated check, payable December 31. When you read the life of Jesus Christ you see that He always gave the command. My friend advised me to come and attend one of your services before I do all these things, so I came and attended the fourth service.

I can eat out of cardboard, and I can eat with my fingers. My heart was broken. Does God have any form? 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. No. Then Jesus blessed that bread and fishes, multiplied them, and that great crowd was fed. I know that you are the total Resource, and I put my trust in You. When I prayed I could envision Gods workings and I no longer had any fear; but when I opened my eyes and looked at the situation, again I became fearful. But God had no reason to support their faith. It takes time for you, too, because you become pregnant with all of your clear-cut objectives. Poor but persistent, I held several jobs in the course of a single day. I call my wife about every two days, and she is continually giving me information which has served sometimes as a blow to my ego. So I, too, joined the school of Philip, and I came to Jesus and told Him I could not build that church. However, if the victim were only injured, then the driver would have to pay for all of the medical and hospital bills. Large tears rolled down her cheeks, reflecting a compassion foreign to my wellorganized and sterile Buddhist philosophies and rituals. She wanted to have a child so badly in her ninetieth year that shes started calling her husband the father of many nations! Shes lost her mind. That evening I bought gifts of flowers and scarves home to my wife. He is the address of our God. So in my journey to find the address of God I came to Jesus. If I do not receive rhema, I will not go to the platform. Im going to die. I have no time five minuteand if you dont answer me quickly, forget about it. They are not waiting upon the Lord. Then I went to the contractor and made a contract to build that church and apartment house complex, also on credit. 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. No, I havent seen my thoughts. Then you have an empty head, I answered. As a result of his paralysis, he was slowly dying. When God speaks to your heart He can in one second do far greater things than you could do in one entire year. 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. Save our Pastor! Then God began to move. When he saw that I could not personally pray for him, he changed his thinking;his thoughts regressed, and he returned into his old self. He cast out demons and restored the possessed to a life of normalcy. I was also scared that nothing would happen when I spoke forth; then what would people say about me? I know that you know the address. Ministering to 50,000 regular attending members is not an easy task. If I had pleaded with them or if I had silently prayed for them, I would have missed the target. He was a single man, and all of the young girls were crazy about him;they wanted to date him, but this guy was nonchalant to the young girls. Jacob looked at that wall so much that his mind became filled with the sight; he slept and dreamed dreams of the cattle giving birth to spotted and speckled offspring. Moses, surely you know the address of God the Father. In his imagination he immediately began to see himself portrayed as a rock. The Bible says clearly that whosoever controls the tongue, controls the whole body. You misunderstood my teachings. It does not store any personal data. You know her husband. How can I receive Gods will about that? These are legitimate questions. Yes, they respond, we received instruction from the central nervous system saying that we have no abilities, to give up striving to develop any capacity for capability. How can I ask them to put their faith in the Lord, and truly live by the Word, and not by bread? The Language of the Fourth Dimension My ministry has been revolutionized by discovering the truth of the fourth dimension, and you can revolutionize your life with it. I follow this pattern in my church, and I dare not go up to the platform without first waiting upon the Lord and receiving the rhema God would have me give for that message. Why is He hanging there? My husband cannot go to his office. Here is my definition of rhema: rhema is a specific word to a specific person in a specific situation. I asked, Lord, why did you put her in front of me? The man, now an elder in the church, was sitting in the middle of his warehouse, singing and praising God. I cant do it. He just brought the five loaves and two fishes to Jesus. Claim and speak the word of assurance, for your word actually goes out and creates. You were presenting the wrong kind of mental blueprint to Him. He had been deeply suffering from an inferiority complex. But God had a way to make them believe, for God used the fourth dimension, the language of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ came and died for you and your sins on the cross. Not even Jesus can forgive my sins, she cried. Through Jesus God spoke, and through the one and only Son He performed miracles. The fear creates this situation in his body, and soon he does die of a stroke. The contractor asked me how much money I had. I used the Word of God, and I even jumped, but nothing happened.

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