Today I would like to share the grace of God under the title, ¡°God Is on My Side.¡± In my childhood, I thought that my mother was a type of almighty woman. There was a well down the valley from my house. When my mother was busy, she used to tell me to draw water from the well. At this, I thought, ¡°Now I am dead!¡± Why? Wild animals hid behind trees along the road to the well and jumped out of them, or birds abruptly flapped their wings and flew away, at this I collapsed right away. How terrifying it was! However, if I went that way, with my mother, I was in no fear at all. Any animal or bird couldn¡¯t scare me and I thought that even a ghost couldn¡¯t win, with my mother by my side. Therefore, I enjoyed peace of mind when I went with this almighty woman. If I could have been bold with a weak woman like my mother, there should be no fear if God is with us. As God is on our side, we must believe and obey to be on His side. To be on God¡¯s side can be possible through our thinking, dreams, faith, and mouth confession. We should have the same thoughts as God, dream the same dream as His, have the faith He wants us to have, and speak the same words He wants us to say; this is what we are on His side.

In this New Year, we are making our lives with the materials of life which are thinking, dreams, faith, and spoken words. Your thoughts will make tremendous things in your life. Your dreams will let you have unimaginable things and your faith will call things that are not as they were. Your creative declaration will bring a new world to you. In this New Year, you ought to believe that an unimaginably wonderful spiritual world will come to you. When our thinking, dream, faith, and spoken words are on God¡¯s side, we will overcome any circumstances.

As the Holy Spirit our Advocate has His own personality, He thinks. His thoughts occupy our thoughts. When we embrace the thoughts the Holy Spirit our Advocate uses, He will go with us. When our thoughts go together, our lives will also go together. When we put our thoughts into those of the Holy Spirit, as he thinks with us, amazing power will come forth when we pray in those united thoughts with Him. We must surrender our thoughts to those of the Holy Spirit and make them to be like His.

Romans 8:27 says, ¡°And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.¡±

When the Holy Spirit accepts our thoughts and blesses us through our thoughts, a wonderful thing will happen.

¡°Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.¡±(Psalm 100:3)

As God is the Lord of our life, when we surrender our thoughts to His, our soul will prosper as everything in life will also prosper along with prosperity in health. Don¡¯t forget that the Lord is God in life. There are many times when God has different thoughts from ours.

Isaiah 55:8 says, "¡®For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,¡¯ declares the LORD.¡±

When our thoughts are not God¡¯s thoughts, we must put down ours first and accept His. Our thoughts should not drive away God¡¯s thoughts. When the Israelites conquered the city of Jericho, God told Joshua, ¡°March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times and have all the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse.¡± In human thoughts, to fight against the enemy within the city, they have to fight against them, not stand in a long line and march around it to make it collapse. However, God¡¯s thoughts are not our human thoughts. When God told them to do that, they gave up their thoughts and surrendered to His thoughts; they marched around it for six days and on the seventh day when they finished the seventh round, they began shouting toward the city and it suddenly collapsed!

At a wedding at Cana in Galilee, Jesus and His mother were invited to it and the wine was gone, What could they do?
Guests might have drunk too much wine so it was gone! It was a huge disaster that the wine was gone during the ceremony. Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no more wine."
¡°Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied.
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you. He is quite different from us."
Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water; Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." Even though they couldn¡¯t understand, they filled the jars with water and then took it to the master of the banquet; it turned out to be the best wine! When Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, gave thanks, and told His disciples to distribute them to those who were seated, it was far beyond their imagination. However, when they committed their thoughts to Jesus and entirely followed His thoughts, they all had enough to eat and there were twelve baskets with leftovers.

It is the same with a dream the Holy Spirit uses. When we obey a dream the Holy Spirit gives us, it will become a dream the Holy Spirit our Advocate uses. Joseph embraced the dream the Holy Spirit gave him and wherever he went he boasted about it.
He proudly boasted about it so often that his brothers wanted to kill him. Joseph was always proud of his dream in which his brothers¡¯ sheaves gathered around his and bowed down to it and the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to him. You know, there is a terrific dream.

Philippians 2:13 says, ¡°for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.¡±

Desire is dream. God puts His dream in your heart and enables you to act according to it.

Psalm 62:5 says, ¡°Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.¡±

Our hope and dream in our hearts all come from God.

Psalm 145:19 says, ¡°He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.¡±

When we look up to God and dream dreams, God will fulfill them. It is a dream the Holy Spirit uses.
And also we must use faith the Holy Spirit uses. When we surrender to the words of the Holy Spirit, He will give us faith He uses. If we want to strengthen our faith, we must read the word of God and pray to Him. Then the Holy Spirit inspires us and gives faith in our hearts.

Romans 10:17 says, ¡°Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the Word of Christ.¡±

When we pray with a dream, we can have faith that can own the dream.

¡°He replied, ¡®Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.¡¯" (Matthew 17:20)

If we stand before a mountain and say, ¡°You mountain, move from here!¡± people may say that we are out of our minds. In my youth I went to my hometown and saw a vast field there and said that this would become a huge airfield. Then those people around me and also the missionary rebuked me, saying, ¡°It sounds like a dream! Yonggi Cho really likes to say a dreamy thing. Others would say, ¡°People say he is crazy when they listen to him. You must be careful in dreaming.¡± If we everything already existed in the natural about our dream, it can¡¯t be a dream at all. After I went up to Seoul and became a pastor, one day I happened to pass by the field in Kimhae, and there was an airfield there!
Those people who once criticized me passed away a long time ago, but I was impressed in my heart. When I had a dream, God fulfilled it!

Pastor Moody wrote down an acronym for two words, ¡°T.P¡± throughout his Bible. T.P meaning:¡°Tried and Proved.¡± When he applied the word of God in his own life, it really worked! Pastor Moody said that we should not be satisfied to just read the bible, but should apply it to our daily lives and obey the word of God to prove that His Word is true. We must experience that we can have a bigger faith by passing through a process. The more we experience faith, the bigger our faith will be. My congregation of the Yoido Full Gospel Church, I want each and everyone of you to write down the Word of God in big print and paste it on the wall and always look at it when you come in and go out and have a greater faith than before. ¡°It will be done according to your faith.¡± When we obey the word of God, we will see it come true. Then we can have a bigger faith.

During the Korean War, when the UN forces carried out Operation Chromite directed by General MacArthur known as the Incheon Landing Operation, most people said it would be impossible. In the history of war, there was only one successful operation that attacked from the sea to the land, the Normandy Invasion. Furthermore, there was unfavorable terrain off the coast of Incheon so they said they couldn¡¯t make it. But Genenral MacArthur said with the absolutely positive faith, ¡°If only one of 500 operations had succeeded, this operation would succeed!¡±
He earnestly prayed to God with absolute faith and God used his faith to make the Incheon Landing Operation succeed.

Today our country has serious problems not only as a nation but also as individuals. No nation or individual that leave God can have peace of mind. When God is on our side and we are on His side, only then peace will come to us. Therefore, the harder our situation becomes, the more earnestly we should pray to God.

Psalm 107:4-7 says, ¡°Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.¡±

When the Israelites suffered from hardships, God delivered them and made them experience great faith. When any nation or individual pray to God, He will help them. Our God has a father image. Isn¡¯t He like a father? Jesus has an image of big brother. We must hold hands of our big brother. What kind of image does the Holy Spirit have? He has a mother¡¯s attributes. Our God is God the Father, Jesus is our Big Brother while the Holy Spirit has the motherlyattributes. When we have these images in our hearts, we can walk with the Holy Trinity more easily. When we have the Holy Spirit in our hearts like a mother, we can overcome any anxiety, worry, restlessness, or fear. Rather we can have a hopeful life and future hope.

Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, ¡°For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.¡±

Our God is a good God. If God the Holy Trinity is with us, we do not need to fear at all.

Isaiah 41:10 says, ¡°So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.¡±


Psalm 46:1-3 says, ¡°God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Selah¡±

What a wonderful thing this is! When we rely on God, He will make it happen no matter whatthe worldly people may say!