Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Prayer is more important than eating.
I go out to nature because it gives me a better environment for prayer, and I love nature for that reason. I love the quiet of midnight. I don't say much about the visions I receive, but if you receive them then don't you think I do, too? That kind of new world can only be reached through prayer. In that position, you can taste love.
This world is desert-like, but the world created through prayer has a climate where love can thrive.
You must learn to generate your own power. You should not expect to be pushed and pulled out to your mission. Be self-propelling.
In order to have this, you must have prayer as your daily diet of life.
Even if people do not recognize your efforts, you must do your duty enthusiastically because you have a covenant with God. With this determination, day and night you move on without pause. This is a living testimony.
Each year, this topic of prayer changes in Father's speeches, which shows that we are progressing into a new era. Through having a prayerful mind, Father knows precisely God's timetable. This kind of preparation is needed for self-perfection, and you must learn it through the power of prayer.
Do you prayer for His kingdom and righteousness?
Pray that this country can become the center of God's righteousness. Many fervent patriots have come through this nation, but you must be able to pray with more fervor than any of them. If you have the determination to care for this country more than God, then this country will prosper, otherwise it will crumble.
You are being led where God desires for you to be. Obstacles do not matter, the important thing is not in getting there, but getting there in the shortest possible time. If we are able to go quickly, then there is less danger. If the process is stretched, there are many opportunities for disaster that we must not allow.
This is, therefore, a critical moment for you and God. The ability to witness the Completed Testament to 360 homes, or home church, to spread this new truth is a gift to mankind.' This has never existed in history and will not again in the future.
This is a transitional period; we are entering into a new era, a new plateau and history of faith.
When you take this gift as your own, you are definitely becoming a true son and daughter of God.
This gift has been freely given to you and is an incredible opportunity.
Your home church area should be the subject of your prayer.
You should pray for the people in your area with a parental heart, just as your own children who are struggling in hell.
As a parent, your heart should grieve and desire to save them. If you have not reached this level where you feel you are in a dire emergency, you must open your heart to parental feelings of love toward your people. If you do not have real love for the people you witness, just push yourself until you do.
No one really has to teach a parent to love his own children.
If you are able to feel that you are a parent to people in your home church, then your love will be the same and no one will have to teach you.
Elementary school takes six years to complete, how much more important is this home church? You should give your heart and soul for your home church area because this is the best teaching you can receive.
The entire universe is represented in your area. When you work hard serving and witnessing your home church, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire universe. By serving your area for three years, is the same as serving the universe. You may be able to do so in six months time.
Home church should be your priority.
You can test this power of prayer: take one person and pray for them fervently, constantly, but do not tell them you are doing so.
When you pray tearfully for this person, they will feel a magnetic attraction to you.
Such phenomenon happen once you adapt this prayerful life. You may receive a revelation in your prayer that you will meet such and such a person when you go to a certain place.
The power of hypnosis can place someone in a trance like state, but how much more powerful would prayer change lives? You can mobilize the entire spirit world through your prayer.
There is no limit to the power of prayer.
When you have the right attitude in prayer then miracle after miracle will happen.
The foundation is the most important part of a launch pad. Your prayer is like a missile firing. When it is time for take off, it should not break under the intense heat and pressure. When you pray, you must not pray for greed for yourself.
A selfish prayer will be harmful to you. Public prayer will cleanse you and elevate you higher and higher.
When you live in this high sensitivity to the spirit world, you are able to sense what is about to come. Your perception will be keen and it will help you prepare for the future.
You are really two people in one. Your inner man is like a mirror, clean and bright. When the inner and the outer man does not synchronize into oneness, you will feel pain and anguish. When the two
are perfectly aligned, you then feel joy and power.
Everyday, this inner battle is within you. Your inner man can tell you about a person like a sixth sense and how truthful they are.
Everyone should experience these spiritual things.
Do not neglect this inner man. Just like you need to feed and nourish your physical body, you also need to nourish your spiritual body. When you are working at a higher spiritual level, you are always speaking with this inner man.
Don't pray empty prayers.
A person like this will pray for the nation and the world before they pray for their own family. God would concern Himself with this person's well-being because he would be concerned with God's well being.
If I only paid attention to my family instead of to the world and God, my family would get sick. I don't concern myself with my family's well-being; I concern myself with the Church and God's work and I know God will take care of them in the meantime. This is the principle of give and take.
Those who want to do more for others will receive more.
The Principle states that those who want to go down will be lifted up and vice versa. Now you fully understand the power of prayer.
You should know beforehand, whether the things you do will succeed or fail.
You will be able to feel a pull in the direction of things that will lead to your success and you will be eager to go ahead.
Think of your body as a receiver of the radio.
You should be able to free yourself from thinking that is only centered on you. Once you are able to free your mind, then it becomes like an open valve. You have the right to ask for God's power, but only if it is for the sake of righteousness and His Kingdom on earth. Then God will come down.
Pray then act.
Once you are able to have this attitude toward prayer and live this prayerful life, you will feel different from yesterday and you will know when the power of prayer is in action.
Today is only the beginning. You can pray and report to God that you are just beginning to live in this daily prayerful life and that you need His help to continue to do so as a frontline soldier.
Make this kind of showdown prayer with God everyday. This way of praying should become second nature and not forced along the way as a daily habit.
You can then live this way all the time without even being conscious of it. Let's do it then; take action.
Let us pray.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: We Must Get Rid of Barriers
This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Importance of Prayer
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