Hallelujah! Dear Partners, 2025 has begun.

We send New Year greetings to our partners who love NCTC and support our ministry through prayer and donation. The word God has given us for 2025 is "The Year of Expansion."

Message for 2025

Let us revisit Isaiah 54:2-4, shared in last December's Partner Letter:

(Isaiah 54:2-4) 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited. 4 "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

The reason God tells us to "enlarge the place of your tent" is that this year, we will expand to the right and the left, taking the nations. Indeed, throughout this year, we will experience God's Kingdom expanding in all areas of our lives!

Our lives are shaped by what we accept in our hearts and confess with our mouths. We can either repeat the past by speaking of our visible circumstances and past experiences or create a new future we have never experienced before through God's Word. If we desire to move forward into the vision and future God has planned for us instead of remaining in the past or present level, we must consciously and actively embrace the vision God shows us in His Word and continually declare it.

In January 2024, I shared the word God gave me in that month's Partner Letter:

"My son, have you seen the many glorious things that happened in 2023? 2024 will be a year of even greater glory, incomparable to 2023. When you think of the glorious things you will experience in 2024, 2023 will seem like nothing. In 2024, you will experience the greatest achievements, the greatest miracles, the greatest fruit, and the greatest testimonies in your life."

Thus, throughout the past year, I repeatedly declared:

"I will have the greatest accomplishments in 2024.

I will have the greatest miracles in 2024.

I will have the greatest testimonies in 2024.

I will bear the greatest fruit in 2024."

And as the year ended, when I looked back on NCTC's ministry, I saw that these declarations were fulfilled exactly as spoken. Therefore, with even greater conviction, I will hold on to and declare the word God has given for 2025 and experience its fulfillment.

While praying about 2025, God spoke to me in a quiet yet powerful voice:

"My son, time is short. The end is near, so preach the Gospel!

Seek first My Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Realign your focus. Be clear in your purpose.

Proclaim the Gospel of Christ to the ends of the earth!

Ask Me, and I will give the nations as your inheritance. Go to the nations with the message of salvation!"

God gave Psalm 2:8 to emphasize praying for the nations:

(Psalm 2:8) Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance

(Isaiah 54:3) For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.

Dear NCTC Partners, this word is not only for me but for all of us. Through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we learned that the Lord's return is near. The internal and external events occurring in this world may cause confusion. However, the Bible clearly prophesies the tribulation (the seven-year tribulation under the rule of the Antichrist) that will come to this world. Therefore, we will continue to encounter unsettling external circumstances.

However, these chaotic external situations will stir people's hearts to feel the need for the Gospel. Those who boldly obey the Lord's command to preach the Gospel will lead many to salvation because God desires for no one to perish but for all to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now is the time of the great harvest in these last days! If we recognize that we do not belong to this world, we will not seek worldly peace and stability but instead pursue how God's Kingdom can be established in people's hearts amidst these turbulent situations. I earnestly desire that NCTC (you and I) will be used by God in this great harvest of the last days.

(Isaiah 53:10) Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,

When we think of the coming days of tribulation and turmoil, God desperately desires to save even one more soul. In His plan of salvation, you and I play a crucial role! By seeking His Kingdom and righteousness first, we will experience everything else being added in 2025. Therefore, throughout this year, declare and envision the following every day!

"2025 is my Year of Expansion. This year, I will continue to enlarge the place of my tent. (Isaiah 54:2-4)

God is expanding me to the right and left, giving me the nations as an inheritance.

God's Kingdom is expanding in every area of my life.

His Kingdom is expanding in my health, finances, relationships, family, workplace, and ministry.

Through my act of love, people see Jesus, and I win many souls to Christ.

God's Kingdom is expanding through me to my world!"

Sincerely,

NCTC Pastor John K. Cho and Paula Kim

January 8, 2025