Come Broken before HIM

Luke‬ ‭7:37-38‬ ‭(AMP‬‬) “And behold, a woman of the town who was an especially wicked sinner, when she learned that He was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment (perfume). And standing behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with [her] tears; and she wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed His feet [affectionately] and anointed them with the ointment (perfume).”‭‭

This woman represents all of us. She had lived a sinful and difficult life full of hurt in her heart. People had rejected her, treated her with contempt, and no one had recognized her. Nevertheless, she was determined to step out of her past life full of many problems. Therefore, she came broken and humbled before God, Jesus.

Breaking an expensive alabaster jar with spikenard perfume was everything she had. Not only financially, but rather, she had given all of herself to God without holding any of herself back.

There were no excuses of how she had become such a sinful person, and why she had to act this and that way. She did not give any excuses for her sins. She was broken in tears and realized that she was a sinner who desperately needed Jesus. Her genuine act of repentance had moved Jesus. Her genuine brokenness had brought a great affection toward the sinner and Jesus defended and protected her when the people around her began judging and criticized her.

John 12:3 said “...And the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”
‭‭Song of Solomon 1:12 (voice) Her: When the king was relaxing at his table, the seductive fragrance (nard) of my perfume filled the air.

The perfume she used was made of spikenard. It can also be called nard. In Greek, the word for “spikenard” or “nard” means “genuine and pure.” In Hebrew, it means “light”.

The woman was genuinely repenting with a pure heart. She had come into the light to be saved. She had come to get out of her old life, old habits, old thinking, old way of speaking, and be set free from all kinds of problems. She decided to live a life of light. Our genuine, pure and humble repentance will bring forth beautiful and rare fragrance. This fragrance will attract the God’s (King’s) attention. This humble act will fill the atmosphere and bring forth the presence of God in our lives and within our hearts. Ancient people believed the fragrance of spikenard had a romantic power. Yes, we can spiritually be involved in a romantic relationship with Jesus, our King. I have had experienced this kind of relationship and I am still experiencing how romantic Jesus is. But this type of relationship requires some hard choices.

Psalm 51:17 (voice) What sacrifice I can offer You is my broken spirit because a broken spirit, O God, a heart that honestly regrets the past,You won’t detest.

Psalm‬ ‭51:17‬ ‭(AMP‬‬)“My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.”
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Psalm 51 expresses how we must become. Such a way in one’s repentance will prevent oneself from going back to the same sin over again and again. Come before the Lord totally broken without giving any excuses nor throwing a pity party for yourself. God is willing but GOD WILL NOT FORCE YOU NOR WILL HE MAKE A CHOICE FOR YOU. God will lead you and help you to rightly choose.

Grace is given to all of us. Too many are lightly treating grace. Grace is not there to pardon your sins, nor to cover up your sins and faults so that you may sin and make faults over again and again. Grace is not there to give you a free "pass" for your sins. God desires to empower us through Grace. Empower to overcome the spiritually battles, empower to repent of our sins, pray, love, endure, be patient, stop blowing up with anger, forgive, let go, move forward and much more. Grace will feed and cloth you but grace will not make the right choice or bring some sort of breakthrough for you. Grace will not bring miracles unless you properly utilize it.

Let us desire to please God. Let us bring smiles to His face. Let us stop grieving Him. Let us stop breaking His heart. If we say we love Him and If you call God your King and the Lord, you must act accordingly.

Pastor Yoojin

Fire of God Church

Come Broken before HIM

Luke‬ ‭7:37-38‬ ‭(AMP‬‬) “And behold, a woman of the town who was an especially wicked sinner, when she learned that He was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment (perfume). And standing behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with [her] tears; and she wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed His feet [affectionately] and anointed them with the ointment (perfume).”‭‭

This woman represents all of us. She had lived a sinful and difficult life full of hurt in her heart. People had rejected her, treated her with contempt, and no one had recognized her. Nevertheless, she was determined to step out of her past life full of many problems. Therefore, she came broken and humbled before God, Jesus.

Breaking an expensive alabaster jar with spikenard perfume was everything she had. Not only financially, but rather, she had given all of herself to God without holding any of herself back.

There were no excuses of how she had become such a sinful person, and why she had to act this and that way. She did not give any excuses for her sins. She was broken in tears and realized that she was a sinner who desperately needed Jesus. Her genuine act of repentance had moved Jesus. Her genuine brokenness had brought a great affection toward the sinner and Jesus defended and protected her when the people around her began judging and criticized her.

John 12:3 said “...And the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”
‭‭Song of Solomon 1:12 (voice) Her: When the king was relaxing at his table, the seductive fragrance (nard) of my perfume filled the air.

The perfume she used was made of spikenard. It can also be called nard. In Greek, the word for “spikenard” or “nard” means “genuine and pure.” In Hebrew, it means “light”.

The woman was genuinely repenting with a pure heart. She had come into the light to be saved. She had come to get out of her old life, old habits, old thinking, old way of speaking, and be set free from all kinds of problems. She decided to live a life of light. Our genuine, pure and humble repentance will bring forth beautiful and rare fragrance. This fragrance will attract the God’s (King’s) attention. This humble act will fill the atmosphere and bring forth the presence of God in our lives and within our hearts. Ancient people believed the fragrance of spikenard had a romantic power. Yes, we can spiritually be involved in a romantic relationship with Jesus, our King. I have had experienced this kind of relationship and I am still experiencing how romantic Jesus is. But this type of relationship requires some hard choices.

Psalm 51:17 (voice) What sacrifice I can offer You is my broken spirit because a broken spirit, O God, a heart that honestly regrets the past,You won’t detest.

Psalm‬ ‭51:17‬ ‭(AMP‬‬)“My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.”
‭‭
Psalm 51 expresses how we must become. Such a way in one’s repentance will prevent oneself from going back to the same sin over again and again. Come before the Lord totally broken without giving any excuses nor throwing a pity party for yourself. God is willing but GOD WILL NOT FORCE YOU NOR WILL HE MAKE A CHOICE FOR YOU. God will lead you and help you to rightly choose.

Grace is given to all of us. Too many are lightly treating grace. Grace is not there to pardon your sins, nor to cover up your sins and faults so that you may sin and make faults over again and again. Grace is not there to give you a free "pass" for your sins. God desires to empower us through Grace. Empower to overcome the spiritually battles, empower to repent of our sins, pray, love, endure, be patient, stop blowing up with anger, forgive, let go, move forward and much more. Grace will feed and cloth you but grace will not make the right choice or bring some sort of breakthrough for you. Grace will not bring miracles unless you properly utilize it.

Let us desire to please God. Let us bring smiles to His face. Let us stop grieving Him. Let us stop breaking His heart. If we say we love Him and If you call God your King and the Lord, you must act accordingly.

Pastor Yoojin

Fire of God Church

God said HE will pour out a Great Blessing

Malachi 3:8-12 8"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings you have withheld. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this whole nation! 10 Bring all the tithes the tenth into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you so great a blessing until there is no more room to receive it. 11 Then I will rebuke the devourer insects, plague for your sake and he will not destroy the fruits of the ground, nor will your vine in the field drop its grapes before harvest,” says the Lord of hosts. “All nations shall call you happy and blessed, for you shall be a land of delight,” says the Lord of hosts.

People say this is the only place where God allows us to test Him. When we withhold our tithes and offering, HE says we are robbing God. Pastor Kim Yong Doo once said that it is a very fearful thing to be robbing God. He said it is better you rob a bank than God because he was shown how so many Christians are ending in hell for robbing God.

Many people have actually started to tithe based on the promise in verse 10. God said HE will open the gates of heaven and pour out a Great blessing. Verse 11 shows a condition with the word "then" and in other translation the word "and". However, we should not be tithing to obtain a blessing, we should tithe because it is a commandment of God. We tithe to stay in the blessing.

Many people assume this great blessing is physical so they tithe hoping to receive a great physical financial blessing. But it appears the physical blessing is in verse 11 as God stops the devourer from destroying, cursing, eating our finances.

When we are properly tithing/offering and is generous with God, HE will pour out a Great spiritual blessing first. Just as Cornelius was greatly blessed as the Holy Spirit had come like the wind to him and all of his household. All of his household were saved as a result of his unselfishness. Cornelius was a man of prayer and he was very generous to the poor. Since he was a gentile, he could not tithe to the synagogue so he gave to the poor.

We can be greatly blessed financially but the order is always spiritual first. Many Christians tithe and offer for financial blessing but we need to realize that we need a spiritual blessing first so that it may manifest to the physical. When we obey God's commandment to tithe and offer, we are a blessed people. This is not an option but a commandment.

When our spiritual health is restored, favor and blessings will be greatly manifested in the physical. All this does not happen overnight. A harvest does not produce over night. We must go through seasons passing our tests as we become more like HIM.

Please remember you are to tithe off your gross and NOT your net as net can be manipulated.

Pastor Steve Yong Kim

When is our eye clear or good?

Luke 11:34-35 AMP The eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive, focused on God], your whole body also is full of light benefiting from God’s precepts. 35 But when it is bad [spiritually blind], your body also is full of darkness [devoid of God’s word]. Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness.

The amplified makes these scriptures more clear. Our eyes are clear or good when we are Focused on God. As we put God, His Will, His Desires first above our own, our eyes will be clear and good. The first commandment reads,

"You shall have no other gods before or besides Me.”
Exodus 20:3 AMP

We all know that we cannot have any other gods before Him. However, many Christians fail to realize they have made gods besides Him. When we put other things (idols) before or besides Him, we become spiritual blind. When HE is our everything then as His light fills our bodies and the light that fills our bodies will give us light to see with our eyes. We will be able to spiritually see as we discern and see properly.

Many cannot see what I see because they have yet to grow to more maturity. How do we grow to more maturity? Children need to let go of their toys and grow up. Christians need to let the things of the world go for they have put them before or besides our God. Many Christians need to forgive, let hurt go, repent properly, stop getting jealous or angry, and die to themselves. Such sins are idols before or besides our God. When they let go and turn fully to Him, they will begin to see with proper spiritual perspective.

"Your Whole body also is full of light benefiting from God’s precepts."

Our whole body becomes full of light from what benefit? God's precepts are His commandments and rules. When we properly Obey in all areas, then His light will fill our bodies and the veil is removed so that we may see clearly and good as we move from glory to glory coming to the fullness of our God. We will be moving forward closer to Home.

Pastor Steve

False prophets loves to watch the news

“Even if the forest should be destroyed and the city torn down, the LORD will greatly bless his people. 20 Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up. Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.”

Isaiah 32:19-20 NLT

For the people of God, it does not matter what is happening on a global level. It does not matter if the world is falling apart. There are news of great forest fires, wars, rumors of wars, terrorism, politics, famine, earthquakes, and etc. Those who are truly focused on Him rather than focused on thorns and thistles (worldly concern news) will be GREATLY BLESSED. Those who walk in faith and be led by the Spirit are not focused on thorns and thistle. We are moved and led by the Will of God.

“As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.”

Matthew 13:22 AMP

In Matthew 13, the thorns are the cares of the world and pleasures of the world. Many Christians focus more on politics and what goes on in the world because it may affect their finances, standard of living, or comfort. It works directly at their fear. They have made fear their god. They are living by sight. Their worries suffocates faith as it suffocates the Word. 

Many false prophets preach around thorns and thistles. They use fear and the concerns of the world to rally a crowd. Rather than teaching them to overcome and draw closer to Jesus, they are the false prophets using fear and worldly issues to give Christians a false purpose. 

“Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”

Matthew 7:15-16 NLT

False prophets will preach on worldly concerns. Rather than teaching them to be transformed and be born again from above, they draw people using emotions, anger, and fear. Such false prophets are only a form of godliness. False prophets will heighten the emotions of Christians by erroneously preaching pre rapture messages. 

Yes, at times these false prophets can get a prediction right. Yes, they can even move in signs and wonders. They are but thorns and thistles that bear no good fruit. Why would God allow false prophets to rightly predict here and there?

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 EXB Prophets or ·those who tell the future with dreams [dreamers of dreams] might come to you and ·say they will show [give] you a sign or a ·miracle [wonder.] The sign or ·miracle [wonder] MIGHT EVEN HAPPEN, and then they might say, “Let’s serve other gods” [gods you have not known] " and let’s ·worship [go after them].” But you must not listen to those prophets or dreamers. The Lord your God is testing you, to ·find out know if you love him with ·your whole being [all your heart/mind and all your soul]. 

Many false prophets come with dreams/visions or their own imaginations. I have observed false prophets for many years. They have no inspired Word to teach. They only bring their dreams, visions, and imaginations hitting people's emotions and fear. Most of them all take your money. Many of them tell people such and such disaster is coming so they need to pray against it while they take your money. The Christians who follow such false prophets have miserable lives. They can't get their own prayers answered but yet they think their prayers will stop world events. The blind is truly leading the blind.

Please stop following these so called prophets. Many of them wear potato bags as an outfit and have long beards to makes themselves look credible. We will go through the Great Tribulation. You need to prepare yourselves in prayer and Word. You need to be trained in overcoming as you die to yourselves. Preparing for rapture is not having the knowledge of rapture. Those who teach pre rapture are leading God's people astray. 

As scripture promises, even if the world falls apart, we shall be greatly blessed IF we are properly following and obeying the Lord. 

Pastor Steve

Fire of God