Prayers - Chapter 9 Devotion - 10. Even Though Our Minds And Bodies Are Inadequate, We Offer Them To You Completely

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Prayers, A Lifetime Of Conversation With Our Heavenly Father - Sun Myung Moon

Even Though Our Minds And Bodies Are Inadequate, We Offer Them To You Completely

Father! Please do not cast away your sons and daughters who are bowing down before you in this place, and please allow us to become sons and daughters who do not hesitate to give you all our minds and bodies. We have many points that, in your view, are inappropriate, points that are inadequate and disloyal, but since, depending on your historical heart which has gone forth toiling in order to find us, we offer all our minds and bodies to you, please personally take dominion over us.

We earnestly hope and desire that you will purify our imperfect parts by burning them away with the fire of the Holy Spirit, Father, and that we will become appropriate for you to take. Please allow us to be able to tie all our minds and bodies into one and to offer them to you.

Father! The rugged footprints of your sons and daughters who have followed coming to this point are footsteps embodying the traces of your tears, and are footsteps, filled with loneliness, that embody your course which has torn at our flesh and blood.

Therefore, Father, since you know what we have determined in our minds and what we do with our bodies, at this time, please embrace us personally with your deep heart of love, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will not allow a single life to be caught by a condition of the accusation of Satan. We know that it is your Will, Father, to convey a new message to this people by establishing us, but we are very anxious that we might cause you sorrow by not being able to handle the responsibility and mission that you desire because of our imperfections and disloyalty.

Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will look carefully at the fact of our imperfection in relation to your Will until now, and that you will add the power of your love and the power of your life which are able to supplement that, and that you will pour down on us your personal grace which allows us to be able to handle any kind of mission or responsibility whatsoever.

Since billions of satans will be active to block our way on the course we are going, please lead us, Father, so that by completely determining our minds and bodies in preparation for that, by offering our lives to you, and by persevering and enduring to the end, we will not fail in the battle with Satan.

Earnestly hoping that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to fight and go forward for the sake of revealing your glory alone, Father, by going ahead with the determination and decisiveness we had in the beginning, we have appealed in the name of the Lord. Amen.

October 12, 1958