The Way Of The Spiritual Leader - 136 Chapter 2. The Work Of A Minister Section 1. Minster And Prayer 4) Prayer Vigil 1. Night Has Strong Mysterious Quality
Night, the deep night, has strong mysterious quality. Therefore, when you hold a revival, you feel more grace in the night revival than the day revival. The reason is that at day-time, all our senses are dispersed. In other words, sight, hearing and all other senses through which we can perceive, are easily dispersed.
However, at night-time, they are not like that and on the contrary they become focused. At night time, all things make me more salient by surrounding me and in such realm I come to stand naturally. For that reason, at night time, it is more easy to evoke the work of grace together with God. God can more easily work.
Therefore, if you talk with the members in the field at night, then that talk comes to hold certain mysterious character. Also, as you travel from one village to another, if you talk while escorting members to their homes then those members can never forget that experience throughout their lives. When a person lives a life experiencing such value, then there is progress.
You too try to convey God's word from midnight until you hear the first crow. How mysterious it is! At a quiet and tranquil night, convey God's words hearing the barking of neighbor's dog at a distance.
You will feel as if you have just entered into a new life after finding a glowing sun light, and as if you are a captain who is navigating with a fresh feeling after discovering a light from a distant beacon.
You will feel your courageous, bold, and solemn self going alone in the world filled with mysteries. If you want to hold such heartistic relationships, then guide them centering on the night time. Therefore there is a need to work and be active at night and in early morning.
However, if the people are married women then there will always be problems. Therefore, you have to make them understand the significance well and enable them to break out of their environment even at night. It is necessary to possess such heartistic generating power.
Therefore, you should make them follow as you instruct them in any environment. If you make your members like this, first through the word, then through your action, and finally through your heart, then they will never fall away.
Then let your members do witnessing. You have to educate and raise them until they can witness other people. If this is accomplished, then you will not even loose one person out of all you have witnessed. (29-196) |