Dear Friend, How are you? Hope you had or are having a good day, today? On July 31st, I had a kind of funny and embarrassing dream. As I felt it was from the Lord, I wrote it down, though, I was not certain whether my interpretation was right. In the dream, I was in a big banquet room. And I looked at a picture of me and other two persons taken on the beach, hanging on the wall on the other side of the room. From a far distance, I looked nice in a swimming suit, and I felt good and proud of the picture. Later, when I looked at the picture from a closer distance, I found myself in the picture, half-naked and my upper body, that of an old fat man. I said to myself, “Oh my goodness!” I was so embarrassed to see it, but I didn’t know what to do with the picture on the wall, as it didn’t belong to me. Then, I saw many people coming to the banquet room, and was so worried about the picture. I looked back at the wall, behind me, where the picture was hanging. Surprisingly, it disappeared. I thought someone had taken it away. I was so thankful and felt relieved. When I woke up, I pondered on the meaning of the dream, but was not one hundred percent sure. I kept it in my heart. The next day, a friend of mine in Singapore sent me a few video links. I did not know which one I would watch first. But, when I was reading a James Goll’s book, “Dream Language: The Prophetic Power of Dreams,” my eyes were stuck in one word that I had been pondering. And I stopped reading the book, feeling I must watch the videos my friend sent a few hours ago. I chose an interview featuring a lady, who had Angelic encounters. She was invited as a guest and she shared her testimonies. When she was asked how to sharpen our discernment, she encouraged the audience to ask the Lord for the Discerning Spirit. She also warned that we should get over ourselves and not think we are selectively supernatural. When she mentioned the expression, “Get over yourself,” I understood the meaning of the expression from the context. But I wanted to make sure of it so I looked up my Korean-English dictionary on my mobile phone. Interestingly, “G.O.Y.A.: Get Over Yourself Award” was popped up at the top. As soon as I saw “GOYA,” I was reminded of a scene, where I certainly saw the word, GOYA, and that I had thought I would look up the word later. But I was not able to recall where I saw it, whether in the dream or in reality. Then, I became so certain about the interpretation of the dream the other night. On July 30th, I had read Lana Vawser’s latest blog, “I Heard Him Say ‘I Care About How My People Carry What They Carry.’” The message was a warning against wrong heart attitudes; it edified the Body of Christ to steward gifting, anointing, platforms, mantles in humility and purity. I felt that the message was for me, that I should really examine my heart. That night, I repented of my pride, and I said to the Lord, “Father, I want my heart to be circumcised,” while laying my hands on my heart. After the prayers that night, the Lord gave me the dream where I was proud of my picture from a far distance, but in a closer look, I was ugly. But by His Grace, He took away my sins and didn’t show them in front of others, to embarrass me. He was the one who took away the embarrassing picture of mine from the wall. He is so kind, gracious and merciful. Right after the dream became so clear to me, another occasion the other night came into my mind, and it made me smile. Before I had the dream, I was watching my favorite TV show on farming. The reporter went to a farm where farmers grow bitter melon, Goya! It was not the first time that the Lord spoke to me through that TV show on a certain matter. I just smiled at His sense of humor. I believe that the Lord wants me to examine my heart and steward what He would bring forth in a new season in humility and purity. He could have smashed me, seeing my heart attitude, but He is always a good Father to teach me in a gentle, yet humorous way. He is very personal and kind enough to give tailor-made teachings to each child of His. Dear Friend, I believe our Heavenly Father would speak to you in a very special way, be it in an affirmation, edification, or correction and so on. Are you excited to hear His voice today? I pray that you and I hear His voice, and obey Him in humility and purity in Jesus’ name. Have a bliss! Yunee Search me, O God, and know my heart; Dear Friend, How are you? Hope you had or are having a good day today? One day in my Singapore church, my pastor said to the congregation that when we are selfless, supernatural power comes. I took his words in my heart and I took a note of it. At that time, I was longing for the supernatural power from the Lord, thinking He might give me the gift of healing. As time went by, though, I realized that becoming selfless actually needs His supernatural power. Without His intervention, it would be absolutely impossible to be selfless. I learned that many times self is a god, the idol in the hearts of many believers. Everything is self-centered. Even ministers put their ministries before Jesus. One of the stories I like the most in Corrie ten Boom’s real story, “The Hiding Place” was Betsie, her sister’s story on sharing her vitamin oil with the sick in the prisoners camp in Germany. Betsie herself was sick and needed the vitamin oil the most. Yet, she shared the oil in the small bottle with other sick ladies in the camp. Corrie was worried about her sister’s health and wanted to save it for the very weakest. Yet, Betsie and Corrie shared the vitamin oil from the little bottle with a dozen of others. Strangely, the bottle continued to produce drops until the supply of vitamin oil bottles was provided by Corrie’s friend who was assigned to the hospital! Do you believe the miracle of five loaves and two fishes is still for real even today? When we are selfless and share ours with others by His love, His supernatural provision comes. Last year, I was listening to a Korean pastor’s sermon online. He was talking about the late elder in my Seoul church who went to the Lord last year. The elder used to be the first president of a newly founded Christian university many years ago. At that time, the devil stirred up some people to file a suit against the late elder, the president of the university. For a certain period of time, the elder had to be imprisoned due to the false accusation. Later, he was vindicated and released from the prison. In the sermon, the pastor talked about the time when the elder was in the middle of going through the difficult season related to the false accusation and legal suit. One day, his wife was worried about him a lot, after attending a meeting in the courtroom. Later, she prepared dinner for him, and she was surprised to see him eat dinner well as if nothing had happened. And he had a sound sleep. In the next morning, she said to him, “How could you be so calm and have such a good sleep, as if nothing had happened, after you went through the humiliation in the court?” And he said to her, “I already died on the cross. Why not calm when dead?” I felt he did live up to his learning from Jesus that we must take up our cross to follow Him. I wrote about being Number Two and being in order in home, school, nation and so forth. I believe being Number Two who carries someone else’s bag and being obedient to parents, husbands, bosses, and authorities are in line with His teaching that “self” is crucified on the cross. The world is saying to us, “Live for yourself! Your rights and your entitlement are more important than anything else! Be the top! Have more!” Isn’t this familiar to you? I think it’s all about “Me, Me, Me” when we watch commercials on TV, social media and even in some churches. I think that the voice already took many Christians’ thoughts and their lives and it made them powerless churches. Dear Friend, Do you like to reduce your time in front of TV or your smart phone and help your mother or your wife in the kitchen and give her some rest? Do you like to give a few dollars to the needy, cutting off your daily coffee or holding your plan to shop something nice for you? Are you willing to share your foods, face masks, hand sanitizers or toilet papers with those in need when supply is short? I pray that you and I choose to crucify ourselves and invite Jesus into the center of every aspect of our lives. May His supernatural power change us to be selfless and we become the channels of His power and blessings to many, in Jesus’ name! Have a bliss! Yunee For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. (2 Corinthians 10:3~6) Dear Friend, How are you? Hope you had or are having a good day, today? In July this year, I had an online meeting with a few brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ. In that meeting, one pastor shared a message from the Lord, saying it would be both for himself and for the Body of Christ. And he read the Scriptures from Isaiah 43:18-19: “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth.” And he also read the Scriptures from Philippians 3:12-14: “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” And the pastor said God would not mix new wine with old wine, or old wine with new wine. When I heard the pastor share this, I was very surprised, because the other night, I had a dream. And in that dream, my sister brought me a baby. I expected someone to come, but I didn’t expect a baby to come. Like Doug Addison shared in his blog, “What Do Baby and Pregnancy Dreams Mean?” one of the meanings of baby in a dream is God’s bringing forth something new. So, the pastor’s message was just in line with the message from my dream. And more interestingly, I was reading the book of Mark and wondered and pondered the Scripture, “No one puts new wine into old wineskins.” Although it was frequently read in churches and the verse is very popular, it was not able to make sense to me. So, I asked the Lord what it meant. When the pastor shared all the Scriptures in the meeting, I felt I understood it and was grateful for the Lord’s teaching me through the pastor. After the meeting, I shared what the pastor had shared with my friend in Singapore, and she also sent me an online sermon where another pastor also mentioned God would do a new thing. And I was also reminded of a pastor quoting a prophecy of a new era. Later in August, I repeatedly saw babies in my dreams. In one dream, I was a kind of a babysitter in a childcare center and a baby’s parents appreciated me. In another dream, I pet a cute baby’s butt. Yet in another, I was an observer. I saw myself and other person in front of me. Maybe it was in a hospital, but I’m not so sure. I was pregnant, and it looked as though the due date was just near. And I heard myself say, “I will get pregnant again, after this delivery!” and I found it funny to hear myself say that, even before the childbirth. But I felt that it would mean “double portion” of new things, or something new would be really surprising. I believe what the Lord will bring forth in the last days might be what we didn’t expect at all. It might be quite different and really new in our sight. Yet, I believe it would certainly turn out to be good, as He is a good Father. I believe He would wake up His churches, and we must forget the old things, whatever they might be. Dear Friend, Are you ready for changes to come? Are you excited for something new the Lord would bring forth to the Body of Christ? I pray that you and I prepare new wineskins for new wine in Jesus’ name. Have a bliss! Yunee “Forget about what’s happened; Dear Friend, How are you? I still remember the late pastor in my Korean church said during his sermon, “Demons live in messy, dirty and unordered places. I encourage you to keep your place clean.” I think it was perhaps two decades ago. It was quite refreshing to hear that, although I wasn’t interested in demonic stuffs and spiritual realms at that time. Then, when I read a Derek Prince’s book, “Entering the Presence of God” two years ago, I found his explanation on the showbread in the Tabernacle very interesting. “ … the bread has to be ordered. There have to be twelve loaves, in two rows of six. You don’t have seven in one row and five in another. This is where many Christians, charismatics in particular, can get sloppy. Without discipline, you cannot be a disciple. If you don’t think it matters that you have five loaves in one row and seven in another, you do not think like God. God says six loaves in each row, opposite of one another. Not haphazard; not askew. If your will is like that, your desk, your office, and your kitchen will be like that. If you have trouble keeping order in your life, check the showbread.” {Prince, Derek. Entering the Presence of God (p. 76, 77). Whitaker House. Kindle Edition.} I think it has something in common with what my late pastor said. I found that our God, the Father, wants us to be orderly not only in our minds and thoughts, but also in our practical tangible living. Then, later when I listened to Sister Margaret Seaward’s sermon that a brother in my Singapore church had sent, I heard her saying, “Do you know God has order?” Then she said husbands are the heads of wives and Jesus is the head of Church and Heads make decisions. She also said, “In my early age in marriage, I thought I was smarter than my husband,” sharing an interesting real story as a metaphor, to teach what it is like not to have a right head. Later, I also heard David Pawson teach that God has order. Israel first, and then Gentiles; Husbands first, and then wives. It’s not that He prefers one to the other, but He has order. I think that these faithful servants of God understood He has order and I got to learn being in order is godly. In our systems such as family and society, we have order. And I think something against the order is demonic, which I believe is provoked by the spirit of rebellion. We know that medical students and doctors should operate like the military and any orders from above must be listened to and obeyed, as they deal with critical situations that might risk patients’ lives. I think both military and hospitals have something in common. There are orders to be obeyed, as they are critical to our safety and our lives. And I think God expects that order to be in place in our family, school, churches, nations and so on, and it’s also critical to our lives. But I think there is rebellious spirit if children don’t listen to parents, wives make decision not in agreement with husbands, students don’t listen to teachers, and so on. I find we are called as warriors many times in the Bible and we are literally warriors and soldiers whose head is Jesus. If we are the followers of Jesus, His soldiers, I think we must know what He said to children, wives, subordinates and citizens. During my winter break with my family in California in 2019, in many shopping malls, I was quite surprised to see clothes and other shopping stuffs scattered everywhere on the floor and some customers happen to step on them. Not only that, but some clothes were hung in the wrong places; Extra-Large size is in Small size or the other way round. In shoe boxes, sometimes one pair was missing, only the other pair was left out. One day in a department store, an old lady, one of the employees in the store was tidying up shoe boxes and shoes that were scattered over here and there, not in the shelf. When she and I were alone together in front of the shelf, and made an eye contact, she said to me, so frustrated, “I cannot understand these people! I CANNOT!!!” I didn’t know what words could comfort her at that time, but I said to her, “Yes, it’s sad.” So much more mess in public restrooms in shopping malls. I believe our Father wants order, no matter whether it’s physical or tangible things or whether it’s a system such as family, schools, or nations. I think wherever there is order, His Spirit is in there. Wherever things are in disorder, there is the enemy. Dear Friend, I pray you and I put everything in our home, work, school, church and so forth in order in Jesus’ name. Have a bliss! Yunee A wise heart takes orders;
Dear Friend,
How are you? I’m well. In late May this year, I had a dream where I was in a revolving door. Each cubicle around the axis of the revolving door was packed and crammed with people. I was one of the crowds. While people tried to push the door to get out, it kept stopping in the middle. A while after the people kept trying to push the door to walk through it and the door kept stopping in the middle, I was finally able to get out. After I got out, I turned my back to see others in the crowds get out of the door. Then, I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the rest room. While I was doing my business in the rest room, half-awake, I said to the Lord, “Father, if the dream was from You, please let me know what it means.” Suddenly, the word “Breakthrough” came into my mind, to my surprise. And the dream made sense to me, and I was grateful for His revelation. I felt that many in the Body of Christ including me had been stuck in the revolving door, though we pushed hard to get out. But I believe that as a few in the dream started to walk through it, we would see breakthrough in our lives. I believe breakthrough is on my way. And just like in my dream, I will be waiting for and see the breakthrough in many, in the Body of Christ, too. Dear Friend, I decree breakthrough over your life! Don’t give up, rather keep on hoping! Have a bliss! Yunee I waited patiently for the Lord; |
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