The Way Of The Spiritual Leader - 127 Chapter 2. The Work Of A Minister Section 1. Minster And Prayer
1) The Prayer 2. The Content and Order of Prayer
When praying, first pray for this nation and this people, then pray for the Unification Church, and then pray for the descendants who will succeed the proceeding generation. (1968.11.4)
When you pray, you should pray first for your nation. And then pray for the world, then pray for the liberation of God. Do you think God is at a comfortable situation? Without knowing what one must do, without knowing how the fortune of this world is changing, he/she is saying 'Oh lord, please send me to the Heaven." (14-65)
Today you must pray for the ancestors who have toiled until this time and are now in the spiritual world, before praying for your own son and daughter. You must have such mind frame that longs for all of humanity to live well before expecting yourself to live well.
Before dancing, you must seriously worry about the humankind which is still in the realm of lamentation. Also, you must have the mind-frame which can represent the situation of Jesus who could not show the expression of happy even when he is happy, and could not express the expression of joy even when he is joyful. (4-125)
Those who have faith in religion for one's own benefit will abandon God when he/she receives blessing. It is because receiving blessing is the goal. After living for a while will fall apart. You must pray from the viewpoint which seeks to find what God is desiring. Then we must pray God to bestow blessing upon the world. (1983.5. 1)
A person of faith must pray public prayer for something greater. (28-271)
The one who sheds tears for the miserable nation shall received a national blessing, and the one who cries for the miserable church shall receive a church-level blessing, and the one who shed tears for the world shall receive a world-wide blessing. (1958.4.6)
If one has a spiritual experience, then that person will pray for himself/herself at the very last. If you can enter into the realm of sanctified spiritual world, you will come to pray for God first. Don't you think it should be so? At the moment when you meet your owner, you must invoke blessing upon him.
Then afterwards you must also pray for Jesus; only after that you will understand the historical heart. And then you must pray in place of and representing multitude of people who have fought for the great dispensational will in the Christendom.
Following the footsteps of all those innumerable prophets ever since the fall of Adam and Eve, you must pray, "Please allow me to become a offering that can resolve (cleanse) all their sorrows." After that is all fulfilled, you can pray for your loving children, and then pray for yourself. That is the way heavenly law is.
Today if I claim to walk the correct path of faith, then I must shed tears holding onto this world, must cry tearfully holding heaven and earth, must cry holding my nation, holding my church, holding myself, and at the last, pray requesting responsibility to be given to me. (1959.10.18) |