Prayers, A Lifetime Of Conversation With Our Heavenly Father - Sun Myung Moon |
Filial Piety [Part 1 of 4]
Please Allow Us To Become Filial Children Who Comfort You, Father
Today even if we see something evil, we don't sense anything, and today with hearts that are unrighteous and incomplete and frozen by suffering while facing the will of heavenly fortune, we are unable to feel our responsibility. We have been people who have not experienced heartbreak penetrated by sorrow and have not had minds to cast aside the enemy; we have been people who have not been able to bring results in battle, or to believe in the Almighty God. We did not know the filial devotion of Jesus Christ in relation to heaven.
Your will to raise up Jesus Christ and to be proud of him has passed through history through the disciples and connected to us today. Please let us know that you are hoping that your Will shall bear fruit through us. And please allow us to realize that today, in addition to the joy of having received life, we also have a central responsibility which can be welcomed by myriads of saints.
Now please allow us to become sacrifices to resolve the enmity of heaven and earth, of all things of creation, and of Jesus Christ. And we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become children with filial hearts who devote ourselves heart and soul.
Father! Please allow us to realize that today it is each one of us and all of us together who have the responsibility to resolve the grief of heaven, and we are in a situation where it is through ourselves that we must bring to an end the battle to resolve the enmity of heaven. Since we have realized this, please allow us to have minds that seek to accomplish more than anyone else, minds that are able to be grateful to you alone, Father.
Please allow us to be grateful even if we are carrying a cross, and please don't allow us to become unmanly fellows in front of you, Father, even if we fight: with billions of satans. Please lead us to become children who can say, "Father, I'm here, so don't worry," even if we are carrying a cross and standing in a difficult position. We earnestly hope that you will allow us to become children who are able to offer comfort to our Father who is in sorrow over seeing his children in difficult situations.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
May 16, 1956
Please Allow Us To Become Children Who Completely Fulfill Our Responsibility
Father! Since a rugged path still remains before us, we earnestly hope and desire that you will personally hold us and allow us the strength to be able to remain to the end, even if we go over all the paths of death.
Please embrace these foolish children who are only gazing up at you, and please allow us the courage to be able to push forward along this way to realize the will of heaven alone. We earnestly hope and desire that you will help us to be able to go forward as heroes of heaven and as the children of heaven who have been called.
Please help us not to be found lacking while fulfilling the mission we are shouldering as believers who have the responsibility of awakening all your sleeping children and guiding them to you. Please help us to become children who walk the proper way responding to your grasp, and we earnestly hope and desire that you will help us not to become children who are the objects of Satan's derision. Please help us not to be foolish people who calculate heavenly morality centered on ourselves. We earnestly hope and desire that you will help us to become children who can exalt your grace on this earth and reveal your glory alone.
Since we have the mission to find and bring before you the four billion people of humankind who are sleeping, oh Father, we earnestly hope and desire that you will help us become children who are able to exalt your glory and joy, high on the earth by letting flames of life rise up everywhere we go and by bringing about the work of resurrection when we go out confidently with the Word you have given us,
Please allow us to believe clearly that it is our responsibility to relieve the lamentations of Christ, who has been appealing to you for our sakes, and to relieve the earnest heart of Christ, who has been working for the sake of the people of this earth for thousands of years until today.
Please help us not to become children who drop back onto the earth the mission we have already shouldered, and by establishing us as your children of ability, as your beloved children who can reveal your glory to the end, we earnestly hope and desire that you will help us not to leave behind any unresolved grief.
Father, please carry out your work and personally embrace your children who are raising up a lonely altar in the midst of a difficult environment and are crying out to and appealing to you. And we earnestly hope that you will allow us to become heaven's children who are able to receive your extraordinary Will and go forth.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
May 23, 1956
Please Allow Us To Become Children Who Resolve Your Heart Of Enmity, Father
Father of love! We have come to know that you lament that there is no person to bring to a conclusion the history of struggle which remains as the enmity of heaven. Humankind must pull out the original root of the fall which was planted because of humankind, but since in spite of passing through a long history, humankind still has not been able to pull out that original root of sin, Father, please allow us to be able to pull it out. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us all to be filled with your heart and to become one with it.
Please allow us to resemble your frustrated mind, and please allow us to have once again the hope that you are hoping for. Please allow us to become brave people who appear representing heaven, who are able to fight with the billions of enemy satans and take responsibility for the remaining history of enmity, and please allow us to become brave people who are able to go forth representing the earth.
On the remaining field of battle, please allow each of us to be able to take responsibility and to go forth for your Will until we realize the garden of joy where we are able to share with each other the heart of love of our eternal father. We earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will allow us to become your dauntless sons and daughters who are able to fight with Satan, each one of us representing your entire Will.
Please allow our minds and bodies to experience and feel keenly the grace of your joy, and please carry out your work of re-creation centered on us. And we earnestly hope and pray, beloved Father, that you will allow us to become children who are able to return glory to you and experience and feel your love keenly due to having taken hold of the root of sin and fighting and winning over it.
Now pouring out the fire of your holy spirit like water which is pouring down, please act to let your chosen children gather into one, and be able to face and fight against this dark world, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters who go forth and conquer all evil representing your heart of the enmity of 6,000 years.
Now on the remaining field of battle, please do not allow us to become people who are indebted to you, Father, and please allow us to be able to be equal to the grace of eternal victory. We earnestly ask you to allow us to be able to establish your will and go forth with the hearts of indomitable heroes until the ideal garden is built which can reveal your heart of blessing on the earth.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
October 7, 1956
Please Let Us Become Heartistic Sons And Daughters Who Are Strong And Of Good Courage
Beloved Father! Please let those of us who are here become heartistic sons and daughters who are able to bear the heart-rending appeal shouted out by Abel. And through our senses and through our blood, please let us relieve the heart of Christ which was pierced by enmity over not having been able to say all he had to say to the people when, representing the blood of Abel, he offered himself as a sacrifice of blood on the mount of Golgotha.
We thought that the footsteps of the many saints and sages who have come and gone in the course of history were their footsteps alone, but now finally we have realized today that those footsteps are the very footsteps we also must take today. There are many people on earth, but since you have come to us who are so unworthy, please guide us to become sons and daughters who know your situation, oh Father, as you hope we will resolve the grief of 6,000 years for you.
On this earth there are many distinguished people, and there are many outstanding people, and there are also many people of ability, but you have come to us, even though we are so inadequate. -We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will guide us to become sons and daughters who are able to experience and feel keenly your forlorn situation as you ask us to understand the situation of heaven.
Just as long ago Joshua was strong and of good courage, today representing the people, we must be strong and of good courage, and representing the world, we must be strong and of good courage, and representing the earth, we must be strong and of good courage. Therefore, Father, please be with our inadequate selves. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will lead us to be able to indemnify and go beyond all the sufferings of history through our own selves.
From among the Christians of the world, please allow there to appear quickly many people who are strong and of good courage like Joshua and Caleb who said they would have to go into the promised land of Canaan even if they died over and over again. We earnestly hope that you will lead us to be able to quickly greet a day of glory when we can harmonize with you, Father, and feel the throb of your life, the throb of life of resurrection through hearts based on heavenly morality.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
June 23, 1957
Please Let Us Fulfill Our Responsibility Completely From A Bride-Like Position
Father! Please bear with our having been disloyal and unfilial people who have not known your heart which is worried about our lonely selves, but rather have appealed to you to resolve our frustrations up until now.
Now that we have realized how pathetic and frustrated the heart of heaven is, please let us understand that we dare not tell you about our own situations.
Father! Since that alone is not sufficient, please allow us to be able to resolve your worries and your concerns through our own selves today, and we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can offer everything we have to you.
Since today we are attempting to establish valuable conditions for the sake of heaven in the realm of our real daily lives, Father, please be with us.
In establishing heavenly conditions with the value of the whole, we have been showing ourselves to be unworthy by not being able to be happy about our sacrifices, but since from now on we will become sons and daughters who have minds that can enjoy it even if we are used for you without limit. Father, please allow that. Since we know that even Satan cannot block our footsteps, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will help our minds not to change today or tomorrow.
Father, if we seek to become the brides of Jesus who is the groom, please allow us to realize that we are in a position such that if the groom is worried, we too must be worried, and if the groom fights, we too must fight together, and whether we live or die, we must move together with the groom. Please establish us in the position of brides who experience and feel keenly the joy of the groom who, having finished the course of the battle, sings of your glory in the grace of liberation.
In that way everything that has been lost will be found, and we earnestly ask that you will allow a day when we are able to sing praises to your glory with joy to appear quickly in the courses of our lives, in our daily lives, and in our hearts.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
October 4, 1957
Please Let Us Become True Children Who Represent The Cosmos
Father of love! I had thought that Jesus came to the earth for the sake of finding me alone, but that was not all; I had thought that he came for the sake of my family, but that was not all; and I had thought that he came for the sake of the chosen people of Israel, but that was not all. He also was not a person who came for the sake of any one denomination.
We have come to understand that at the same time that Jesus was the hope of the created world, he came representing its entire value. Father, what kinds of minds do we have today in relation to Jesus who had the mission to restore everything like that? Please do not allow any of us to become a person who says, "I will die clinging to my family." Please do not allow any of us to become a person who says, "I will die clinging to my people, my nation, my world." We earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will allow us to become people who are able to live risking our lives for the problem of the life and death of the cosmos, that is to say, even if I live, I represent heaven and earth, and even if I die, I die representing heaven and earth.
Today if there remain the sounds of the shouts of lamentation among the things of creation because the will Jesus had to restore was not accomplished, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become true sons and daughters who are able to give Jesus and you rest by letting us eliminate that, and please let us be able to form an eternal, destined relationship with you and even penetrate into your heart.
And please work together with us, Father, in order to resolve all historical enmity and to be able to receive the comfort of that resolution, and please allow us to be able to go forward together with you. Earnestly hoping that you will allow us to become true filial sons and filial daughters who are able to forget everything and praise heaven.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
March 23, 1958
Please Let Us Become Children Who Are Able To Comfort You, Father
Father! If we have life, please do not allow the driving force of that life to limit itself to my one being, and if we have the power of the word, please do not allow the word to remain in our own individual selves.
And furthermore, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become people who can make the power of the word and life go beyond the people and move heaven and earth by swaying the world.
We who have gone forth seeking you now did not know that you are not just a father of glory as we had thought; rather, you are going through crises of crucifixion. Today there are many people who are waiting for the Lord of glory, but since there are no people who have a true will to follow the Lord of suffering, Father, please bear with these pitiful human beings.
Father! Now we are those who must go over the peak of sacrifice, but when we realize that you have struggled indescribably before us in order to find us, we come to feel that we cannot help but go this way whether we want to or not.
Since we know that today we have the entire mission of having to indemnify all the historical debts that remain, if we are unworthy, please eliminate that, and please allow us to be able to be capable of carrying out the mission given to us.
For the sake of this people, and for the sake of the world, and for the sake of heaven and earth, please allow us to be able to establish this people first before you, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can do that and much more.
We, who hear the sounds of the screams of sin which are left from the course of the 6,000-year history, know that we are standing in a position of having to break through from now on as new ancestors of goodness by going through the positions of Adam and Eve. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will establish us as heavenly workers who build a new world stepping over all of the present realities.
Until now we sought you, our father, who comforted us, and we sought you in order to be comforted, but now please allow us to become people who represent you, the father who is comforting us, and attend the Lord instead. And we are earnestly hoping that you will guide those of us who have sought to be capable of fulfilling this mission so that all our power will be able to remain until that hope in our minds is realized.
We have prayed in the name of our beloved Lord. Amen.
May 4, 1958
Please Let Us Find The Rest That Comes From Your Love, Father
Father: Many people do not know the flow of history, but we know that you have been personally directing the Will of the providence.
Today please allow your sons and daughters who are here in this place to critique on their own the kind of situation they are in now. Is there anyone who is living for the sake of finding rest for his or her body? Is there anyone living only for the sake of finding rest for his or her mind? We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will now allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to find the rest that comes from your love.
We have come to realize that this is the inevitable course of restoration humankind must go. Because humankind lost that due to the fall, please allow us to stand up imposingly before human history which has groped to find faith, substantial beings, the Word, and love, and we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to go forth unblamable with heavenly hearts, heavenly love, and heavenly hope before all the things of creation on this earth.
Father! Earnestly requesting that you will eternally embrace our minds and bodies with eternal life.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
December 14, 1958
Please Let Us Become Children Who Respect' Your Counsel
We know that it was you who blessed this chosen group and it is you who will make them succeed. We know that the origin of our mind is goodness, and that we move through goodness, and we know that the purpose of goodness, the historical purpose, and the providential purpose all become one centered on you, Father.
Accordingly, please allow the ideological apex which we are longing for to bear fruit through spirits of goodness, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow this time to become one when we establish ourselves as people who go forward steadily in order to become this ideology itself.
Please allow us to take a good look at the direction our minds are heading and our bodies are heading. Now please allow our minds to be able to devote their entire energies to longing for you and to admiring goodness. And please allow our bodies to be able to struggle in order to hold on to goodness and to thirstingly, urgently fold our hands and call out to you, Father.
Since we know that the history of 6,000 years is a history through which we have held on to you and appealed to you, Father, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will allow this to become a moment when we are able to reveal ourselves honestly and bow down before you, and report to you truthfully about all our situations, and receive the counsel of your bidding.
Since it was you who drove us out along the way to which others said no, and it was you who guided us along the way that was so difficult to go, please take responsibility for this way, Father. We have not moved in accordance with any kind of human mind, and we have not been pulled along by any kind of human situation. And since we have come to this point led by the power of the mind and could not help coming whether we wanted to or not, please lead us not to be lazy.
Since we do not know your words of counsel which urge us on, please give us hour by hour the stimulation of your power to realize your word and to head out in the direction of that word. And we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will not let any person fall behind on the course going towards you at long last.
Please allow us to place everything we have before you now, Father, and please do not allow your altar to be defiled because of us, and we earnestly hope that you will allow this to become a time of our bowing down to make an offering to you with complete sincerity.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
January 18, 1959