Dear beloved NCTC partners,

Greetings in love to all our partners who are faithfully standing with NCTC through your prayers and financial support. Through this April Partner Letter, we would like to share an important word the Lord has given us concerning the last days.

As born-again children of God, we continue to grow in the knowledge of God through His Word and the help of the Holy Spirit. Yet, we can never fully comprehend all the attributes of our great God. In this partner letter, we would like to highlight an aspect of God’s nature and character that has not often been emphasized.

 (Deuteronomy 4:24, NKJV) “For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.”

 (Hebrews 12:29, NKJV) “For our God is a consuming fire.”

 The Bible clearly tells us that our God is a consuming fire. It does not merely say that God possesses fire, but that God Himself is a consuming fire. This is deeply connected to His nature and character.

 In the context of Deuteronomy 4, Moses warns the people of Israel against idolatry, emphasizing that God is so holy and jealous that He consumes sin. In Hebrews 12, the same truth is declared in the context of serving God with reverence and godly fear, maintaining holiness. Both passages reveal not only God’s judgment but also His holy nature that consumes sin and purifies.

 (1 John 1:5, NKJV) “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”

The apostle John declares that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. Fire produces light. Therefore, God being light can also be understood as God being fire. Just as light and darkness cannot coexist, anything that does not align with God’s nature and character cannot withstand His fire and must ultimately disappear.

 Now let us consider God from the perspective of fire.

 Through salvation, we have been born again and have received, by grace, everything that pertains to life and godliness. Through this gift of salvation, we have become new creations and partakers of the divine nature. Eternal life, God’s nature, righteousness, love, faith, the fruit of the Spirit, and authority—these are all gifts given to us in Christ by grace.

 However, in order to experience and enjoy this inheritance, it must be activated. One of the ways this activation takes place is through the fire of God—the fire of the Holy Spirit.

We can understand it this way: God is fire. Since God is fire, everything that comes from Him—our inheritance in salvation—also comes from fire. Therefore, these gifts are sustained and activated by fire.

That is why Jesus told His disciples, who were witnesses of His resurrection, not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait until they received the Holy Spirit. He promised that when they received the Holy Spirit, they would receive power. Indeed, as they waited in prayer, fire came upon them, and through those who were filled with the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the early church began.

(2 Timothy 1:6–7, NLT) “6 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”

 The apostle Paul exhorts Timothy to fan into flames the gift of God within him. He explains that this gift is not a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-discipline. This implies that the gift of God can remain inactive, or it can be ignited and activated by fire.

Although every believer has received the same life and power through salvation, many Christians live as though that life and power remain inactive, no different from the natural man, instead of activating them through the fire and experiencing their fullness. There are several reasons for this inactivity:

1. Ignorance of the inheritance – If we do not know who we are in Christ and what we possess, we will not even think to use it.

2. Spiritual laziness – Even when we know our inheritance, we may fail to activate it through meditation on the Word and prayer.

3. Limitations of the flesh – Though we know the Word and apply faith, the desires of the flesh, sin, doubt, and unbelief hinder the full manifestation of God’s life and power. These limitations can be overcome through wholehearted devotion and fervent prayer.

As believers living in the last days, we must awaken from our sleep and continually receive the fire of the Holy Spirit, igniting and activating every gift God has given us, so that we may walk in the glorious destiny and purpose He has prepared for us. A life that burns for the Lord—free from spiritual ignorance, laziness, and the limitations of the flesh—is only possible through prayer and a life fully consecrated to Him. There is no shortcut.

 (Leviticus 6:12–13, NKJV) “And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out…

A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.”

Furthermore, the move of God in the last days will be revealed through a mature Church—the spotless and blameless Bride of Christ—in whom God Himself dwells, manifesting His kingdom, power, and glory on the earth without limitation.

Legally, God already dwells within us. However, for that indwelling to be manifested outwardly in reality, certain things must be dealt with.

(Daniel 7:9, NKJV) “…His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire.”

 In Daniel’s vision, God’s throne is fire, and its wheels are burning fire. God dwells in fire.

 (1 Timothy 6:16, NKJV) “…dwelling in unapproachable light…”

 The apostle Paul says that the Lord dwells in unapproachable light. Since fire produces light, we can also say He dwells in unapproachable fire.

God, who is holy and a consuming fire, dwells in fire. Therefore, for Him to fully manifest Himself in us as His dwelling place, we must burn with His fire. To burn with God’s fire means that the works of the flesh lose their power in His holy fire, and our bodies are presented as a holy living sacrifice to Him.

 (Matthew 3:11, NKJV) “…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”

 (Psalm 104:4, NKJV) “Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.”

Jesus baptizes us not only with the Holy Spirit but also with fire. When we receive this baptism of fire, everything in us that is not from God loses its power and fades away, and we become vessels through which God can dwell and be revealed. This baptism of fire is experienced as we present our bodies as a living sacrifice and earnestly seek the fire of the Holy Spirit in prayer.

 Therefore, we must make a choice. Will we remain in a form of godliness, limited by the flesh, or will we choose to live a life in the fire of God?

 Even now, God is moving among His people with fire, seeking vessels prepared to carry His glory in these last days. We are not called merely to remain in a saved state, but to burn with the fire of God and manifest His life and power.

 We have already become God’s dwelling place, and the Holy Spirit lives within us. Now we must yield our entire being to Him so that His presence may be manifested through our lives without limitation.

Desire the fire of the Holy Spirit!
Choose to burn with His fire!
And may you become vessels used by God in what He is accomplishing in these last days.

Prayer

Father God,  I pray for all NCTC partners.

As they read this letter, let the fire of the Holy Spirit come upon them.
Let You, who are a consuming fire, move powerfully within them,
so that everything not from You loses its power and fades away,
and the life and holiness of Christ within them may be revealed more clearly.

For the desires of the flesh oppose the Spirit, and the Spirit opposes the flesh,
but by the fire of the Holy Spirit, let the influence of the flesh grow weak,
and let the power of the new life flowing from the spirit be released freely without limitation.

Fill those who long for You with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
and let Your glory as Your dwelling place be manifested more and more within them.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

Sincerely,
John Kyusong Cho & Paula Kim
NCTC
April 2, 2026