Dear beloved NCTC partners,

Greetings in the love of Christ to all our partners who faithfully stand with NCTC through your prayers and financial support. As we enter the second half of 2026, Paula and I would like to share an important spiritual principle that the Lord has been emphasizing to our ministry.

Many believers begin each year with faith, vision, and expectation. We set goals, write down dreams, and believe God for breakthrough. Yet, many discover that despite their sincere efforts, they repeatedly encounter the same limitations, frustrations, and cycles of defeat.

Why does this happen?

During a recent Sunday service, the Lord reminded us of one of the most profound principles Jesus taught:

(Matthew 12:33, NKJV) "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit."

Jesus reveals that if we desire different fruit, we must first change the tree.

The circumstances we see today—our current financial condition, marriage, ministry, health, emotional state, or spiritual life—are not the source; they are the fruit. The true source is the tree within our hearts.

Many believers spend tremendous energy trying to change their external circumstances while neglecting the inner image, beliefs, and vision hidden within their hearts. Yet Jesus teaches us that true transformation begins internally.

(Proverbs 4:23, NLT) "Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life."

The course of our lives is determined not primarily by external opportunities or obstacles, but by the condition of our hearts.

As I reflected on my own journey in America, I realized that for many years I was attempting to change external circumstances while carrying internal pictures shaped by fear, failure, disappointment, and limitation. Although I preached faith and confessed the Word, I discovered that many areas of my life were still governed by old images and past experiences.

At the end of 2022, after years of repeating the same cycles of frustration and limitation, I made a quality decision before the Lord.

I stopped trying to force external change and began intentionally changing the picture within my heart through God's Word, prayer in the Spirit, meditation, and confession.

I began to intentionally build seven areas of the "tree" in my heart:

1. Attitude & Integrity – seeing myself as a man of honor, humility, purity, and God's approval.
2. Soul Winning – seeing myself preaching the Gospel all over the world and winning millions of souls to Christ.
3. Divine Health & Healing – seeing myself walking in divine health and ministering healing, signs, and miracles.
4. Prosperity – seeing myself walking in supernatural financial increase and Kingdom abundance.
5. The Holy Spirit – seeing myself moving in the gifts, power, and manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
6. Faith & Ministry – seeing myself teaching and preaching the Word of God confidently and fluently in English, building ministries, discipling nations, and fulfilling God's vision.
7. Love & Relationships – seeing myself as a loving husband, father, pastor, and friend who reflects Christ's love.

At first, these images felt distant and unrealistic. Yet day after day, through prayer and meditation on the Word, I began to see myself differently. Gradually, the image inside became more real than my external circumstances.

Today, as I look back, I realize that many of those things that once seemed impossible have already become reality.

This is the principle of faith.

(Hebrews 11:1, AMPC) "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, [a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]"

Faith does not derive its confidence from external evidence. Faith receives its assurance from the reality established within the heart.

As we enter the remaining months of 2026, I believe the Holy Spirit is inviting each of us to examine the "tree" within our hearts.

• What picture do you have of yourself?
• What picture do you have of your family?
• What picture do you have concerning your finances?
• What picture do you have concerning your job, career, and business?
• What picture do you have concerning God's calling on your life?
• What picture do you have concerning your future?

The remaining half of 2026 does not need to repeat the first half.

God has not called us to recreate our past. He has called us to walk by faith and bring His future into our present reality.

Therefore, let us refuse to be defined by circumstances, limitations, disappointments, or past failures. Instead, let us embrace God's vision, God's Word, and God's picture for our lives.

As many of you know, during our recent Korea Healing Revival Tour, we witnessed the Lord move powerfully across multiple cities. Through your prayers and financial partnership, thousands heard the Gospel, hundreds testified of healing, and many gave their lives to Jesus Christ. We saw blind eyes improving, hearing restored, chronic pain disappear, and countless believers renewed in faith and hunger for God.

Korea Healing Tour: https://youtu.be/7KNgrXUi5g4?si=YuwzItn57YyAzV3o

These testimonies are not merely reports of what God has done; they are prophetic signs of what God desires to do in the nations.

We believe that this recent Korea mission trip has opened even greater doors for the Gospel internationally, and we are expecting many more opportunities for healing revival meetings, evangelism, and the training of end-time soul winners in the coming months and years.

Thank you for standing with us.

Because of your faithful partnership:

• The Gospel continues to be preached.
• The sick continue to be healed.
• Believers continue to be trained as a New Creation Army.
• Souls continue to be saved.
• New doors continue to open among the nations.

We also want to declare God's blessing over every partner and every seed sown into this ministry.

(2 Corinthians 9:8, NKJV) "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work."

We declare that every financial seed you have sown into God's Kingdom will produce a supernatural harvest. May the Lord rebuke lack, enlarge your capacity, increase your influence, expand your business and career opportunities, and bring supernatural provision into every area of your life. May you prosper in spirit, soul, body, family, and finances as you continue to partner in the Gospel.

The best days of 2026 are not behind us—they are still ahead.

Let us together declare the end from the beginning, embrace God's vision for our lives, and step boldly into all that Christ has prepared for us.

Prayer

Father, I pray for every NCTC partner.

As they enter the second half of 2026, I pray that You would renew their vision and strengthen their faith.
Help them to reject every limitation, fear, disappointment, and failure that has attempted to define their future.

Plant Your vision deeply within their hearts.
Give them eyes to see what You see and faith to embrace what You have spoken.
May every partner experience supernatural breakthrough in their spiritual life, family, finances, health, and calling.
Open new doors of blessing, increase, and divine opportunity.
As they have partnered with the preaching of the Gospel and the advancement of Your Kingdom, may abundant grace, earthly blessings, and divine favor abound toward them in every area of life.

Let the remaining months of 2026 become the most fruitful and glorious season they have ever experienced.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Sincerely,

John Kyusong Cho & Paula Kim
NCTC
July 1, 2026