Your Assignment for Session 1 - Ministry Overview

Today, after many decades of ministry and tens of thousands of hours of prayer, God has given Dr. Cho many strategic responsibilities. However, he started in very humble circumstances with no church, virtually no money, and very few responsibilities.

What are the responsibilities the Lord has assigned to you today? Jot them down in your prayer journal. Thank God for entrusting you with these responsibilities. Then reflect a moment on your prayer life lately. Do you have the anointing you need to manage this list of responsibilities? Or are you struggling in your own strength to hold it all together?

Dr. Cho's Introduction to the Tabernacle Prayer

The prayer I use most is the Tabernacle Prayer. Every day I use the Tabernacle Prayer three or four times. This prayer is so effective, so powerful, and so clear that it is a tremendous blessing.

When I was trying to find a way to pray longer, God clearly revealed this Tabernacle Prayer to me.

The most important thing is to pray more than 30 minutes to one hour every day. First, you must learn to pray for at least 30 minutes, then one hour. I say 30 minutes by compromising with Westerners. In the Orient, I say one hour, no compromise. But with Westerners, I give some leniency.

In Gethsemane, Jesus commanded His disciples to pray one hour. "Can't you be awake one hour with me together in prayer so that you may not fall into temptation?" Since the disciples could not pray for one hour, they fell into temptation. So, one hour is actually the basis for our prayer.

How can you pray one hour? If you pray the free-style prayer, you cannot pray for one hour. Usually, people do not have a definite and desperate goal to hit over and over again, and so that is another problem.

But the more you pray, the better you feel about the Tabernacle Prayer.

One day, I was praying to the Lord saying, "Oh Lord, now I should know the wonderful forms of prayer so that I can pray over and over again without feeling any fatigue." Like lightning, God said, "Pray according to the Tabernacle Prayer." Instantly, the whole plan of the Tabernacle Prayer was revealed to me.

During the Old Testament when the Israelites came out of the wilderness, God showed Moses how to build the Tabernacle through which the Israelites would come and worship the Lord. God strictly told Moses to build the Tabernacle according to the plan, which he saw on Mt. Sinai. So when Moses came down from the mountain, he built a tabernacle in the wilderness.

All the Israelites were commanded to come and worship God only at the Tabernacle. They were not permitted to worship God outside of the Tabernacle.

This Tabernacle is a definite type of worship which God wants. God said, "Ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Ye are the Tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. The Tabernacle has disappeared but now you are the Tabernacle. You are the temple in which the Holy Spirit dwells."

So when you pray in your temple, your physical being, in your imagination you must go through the Tabernacle and worship God according to God's plan.

For a summary of what the Old Testament says about the Tabernacle read Ex 40:1 - 40:38.

For a summary of what the New Testament says about the significance of the Tabernacle read Heb 8:1-6; 9:1-27.