Dear NCTC Partners,

Grace and peace to you. I want to sincerely thank each of you who stand with NCTC through your prayers and financial partnership. Your support makes it possible for the gospel of the New Creation to reach many lives around the world.

Recently, I completed a mission trip to Brazil, and I witnessed the Lord move powerfully. Many people experienced healing from physical sicknesses, and others were set free from depression, suicidal thoughts, and other emotional struggles. As people encountered the love and power of Jesus, many also responded to the gospel and were saved.

Brazil Mission Report & Healing Prayer: https://youtu.be/H5W9x-oJo2U

During this mission, I sensed a significant increase in revelation, anointing, and the manifestation of healing. I believe the Lord is continuing to expand this ministry so that more people can encounter Jesus and experience His healing power.

Because of this, I am making myself available to serve churches and communities through healing evangelistic meetings, where the gospel is preached and people are ministered to in the power of the Holy Spirit.

These gatherings are designed to help people encounter Jesus, receive healing, and respond to the message of salvation. Many who come for prayer also hear the gospel and experience the transforming love of Christ.

If you are a pastor or church leader and would like to host a healing evangelistic meeting, revival service, or special ministry event, you can submit an invitation request here:

https://www.nctcdallas.org/booking

I look forward to partnering with churches to see people healed, saved, and strengthened in Christ.

A Better Covenant Established on Better Promises

Through this March letter, I would like to take some time to examine the blessings we can enjoy under the New Covenant by comparing them with the blessings of the Old Covenant.

Hebrews 8:6 speaks about the New Covenant that we now enjoy:

(Hebrews 8:6) “But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.”

The writer of Hebrews compares the covenant that God made with the people of Israel through Moses in the Old Testament with the New Covenant, and explains that the covenant we now enjoy is a better covenant established on better promises.

The promises of a covenant can be understood as the benefits that we are able to enjoy through that covenant. Therefore, if the covenant we now enjoy is called a “better covenant,” then the benefits of the New Covenant must be far greater than the benefits of the Old Covenant.

Let us think about it in this way. When we consider membership benefits, if there are two levels of membership—such as silver and gold—the better membership (gold) includes all the benefits of the silver membership and provides even more benefits beyond that. When a new version includes all the benefits of the previous version and adds greater benefits on top of them, it can truly be called a better membership.

In the same way, if the New Covenant we now enjoy is a better covenant established on better promises, then by understanding what the benefits (promises) of the Old Covenant were, we can more fully understand and richly enjoy the benefits of the New Covenant that include those blessings and go beyond them.

First, I would like to look at the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant in terms of the conditions required to enjoy the benefits of the covenant.

(Deuteronomy 28:1–2) “If you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God and carefully observe all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.”

When we look at the Old Covenant, we see that the benefits of the covenant were experienced when people obeyed the voice of God and kept the commands of the covenant. The blessings of that covenant are described from verse 3 to verse 13.

10 Blessings That Come When the Covenant Is Kept (Deuteronomy 28:3–13)

1. Prosperity in every place of life
(Deut. 28:3) “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.” → Prosperity regardless of location or circumstances.
2. Blessing upon family, the next generation, work, and productivity
(Deut. 28:4) “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds...” → Blessing upon children, family, and productive areas of life.
3. Stability and abundance in daily provision and livelihood
(Deut. 28:5) “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.” → Stability in food, provision, and daily life.
4. Fruitfulness in all areas of work and activity
(Deut. 28:6) “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.” → Prosperity in every area of life’s activity.
5. Enemies and problems cannot stand for long
(Deut. 28:7) “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face...” → Opposition, problems, and attacks eventually collapse.

6. God brings prosperity to every area of life
(Deut. 28:8) “The Lord will command the blessing on your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand.” → Prosperity in finances, work, and business.
7. Honor and influence as the people of God
(Deut. 28:9–10) “The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself...” → Respect and influence as God’s people.
8. Abundance and prosperity beyond basic needs
(Deut. 28:11) “The Lord will grant you plenty of goods...” → Abundant provision and prosperity.
9. Becoming one who lends rather than one who borrows
(Deut. 28:12) “You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.” → Financial margin and influence.
10. Increasing influence and leadership in life
(Deut. 28:13) “The Lord will make you the head and not the tail...” → A life that continually rises in influence and direction.

Up to this point we have looked at the ten blessings that could be enjoyed when the conditions of the covenant were fulfilled. However, under the Old Covenant given through Moses, we also see that curses came upon those who did not keep the covenant and disobeyed it.

(Deuteronomy 28:15) “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God... that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”

10 Curses That Come When the Covenant Is Not Kept (Deuteronomy 28:15 and after)

1. Continual obstacles and failure in many areas of life
(Deuteronomy 28:16) “You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the country.”
2. No results despite hard work
(Deuteronomy 28:17–18) “Your basket and your kneading bowl shall be cursed, and the fruit of your body and the produce of your land shall also be cursed.”
3. Economic hardship and lack
(Deuteronomy 28:38–40) “You shall sow much seed in the field but harvest little.”
4. Sickness and health problems
(Deuteronomy 28:21–22) “The Lord will make pestilence cling to you and strike you with fever, inflammation, and severe affliction.”
5. Fear and anxiety
(Deuteronomy 28:65–66) “The Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.”
6. Oppression by enemies
(Deuteronomy 28:25) “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways.”
7. Plans collapsing and failing
(Deuteronomy 28:30) “You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it.”
8. Social humiliation and lowering
(Deuteronomy 28:43–44) “He shall rise above you higher and higher, and you shall come down lower and lower.”
9. Losing direction and living in confusion
(Deuteronomy 28:29) “You shall grope at noonday as a blind man gropes in darkness.”
10. A life that continually goes downward
(Deuteronomy 28:44) “He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.”

Under the Old Covenant, we see both the wonderful benefits that came when the covenant was obeyed and the curses that came when it was not kept. However, because humanity has a sinful nature, no one could continuously keep the covenant. Therefore, the Bible says that under the Old Covenant we were under the curse of the law.

(Galatians 3:10) “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse...”

But thanks be to God, because we are now under a better covenant established on better promises. To understand how we can now enjoy this better covenant, let us look at what Jesus Christ has done.

(Galatians 3:13–14) “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us... that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”

It says that Christ became a curse for us. This curse is not merely an abstract concept. It refers to the power of death that entered the world through sin. The way this power of death manifests in human life is through the very curses we saw in Deuteronomy 28—disaster, poverty, failure, sickness, and defeat.

However, through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, a new covenant—a better covenant—has now been given to us. The condition for enjoying the benefits of this covenant is no longer obedience to the law as it was under the Old Covenant.

(Romans 5:19) “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.”
(Galatians 3:9–11) “So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.’ Therefore it is evident that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God, for ‘the just shall live by faith.’”

Rather, the New Covenant was established through the obedience of one man, Jesus Christ. Through His obedience, the benefits of the covenant have been freely given to us by grace, and we can now receive those benefits not through works of obedience but through faith.

Then how much do believers today truly understand and enjoy the benefits of this New Covenant, this better covenant?

Many Christians understand the blessings of God too narrowly. For example, when they read passages such as 2 Corinthians 8:9, 2 Corinthians 9:8, and Philippians 4:19, they often interpret them very narrowly, thinking that God will “only give what is barely needed” or that these promises only refer to something spiritual.

However, for the Jews in Paul’s time, the concept of “God’s blessing” had already been shaped by Deuteronomy 28. That blessing was not merely about barely surviving or receiving minimal provision. It referred to a life of prosperity, fruitfulness, abundance, victory, and influence—the flourishing of one’s entire life.

The problem was that this blessing was conditional. The structure of Deuteronomy 28 was: obedience → blessing, disobedience → curse.
Because of this, many people were not able to fully enjoy these blessings.

However, Paul, who understood the New Covenant, explains the gospel in this way:

(Galatians 3:13–14) “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law... that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”

In other words, Jesus bore the curse described in Deuteronomy 28. Therefore, we now participate in the blessings of the covenant through faith based on the obedience that Christ accomplished.

Because of this, Paul could boldly say:

(2 Corinthians 8:9) “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.”
(2 Corinthians 9:8,11) 8 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. 11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.”

(Philippians 4:19) “My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

These expressions describe not a life of barely receiving provision, but a life of abundance. They include everything that Deuteronomy 28 describes—prosperity, fruitfulness, abundance, health, victory, honor, influence, and being the head and not the tail—and even more than that, because we are now heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.

The blessings of Deuteronomy 28 were based on human obedience. But after Jesus came, those blessings are now established not on our obedience but on the obedience of Christ.

Therefore, we are called to live a life that includes—and goes beyond—the blessings of Deuteronomy 28. This is why Hebrews declares: Hebrews 8:6 “A better covenant established on better promises.”

Therefore, dear NCTC partners, I pray that you will receive by faith the blessings that go beyond Deuteronomy 28 and experience prosperity and flourishing in every area of your life through Christ.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, Thank You for delivering us from the curse of the law through the obedience and the merit of Jesus Christ, and for allowing the blessing of Abraham to come upon us. Thank You that we can now receive by faith not only all the blessings of Deuteronomy 28 but even greater benefits. You have called us to be rich in Christ Jesus.
I declare that our partners will prosper regardless of their circumstances or environment. May their families, children, workplaces, businesses, and everything they do with their hands continually prosper and overflow with blessing.

Not only provide abundantly for every need, but cause them to overflow in prosperity. May their honor, influence, and leadership increase as children of God so that they may fulfill their role as the light and salt of the world.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Amen.

John Kyusong Cho & Paula Kim

New Creation Training Center (NCTC)

March 4, 2026