Sun Myung Moon
October 3, 1965
Japan
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Heavenly Father,
We are studying Your woeful principle of indemnity. Although we can seek Your comfort in times of hardship, we cannot establish the standard that meets with Your own satisfaction unless we rise above a given standard of indemnity. When we see that we cannot subjugate the substantial Satan to achieve even the smallest victory, we feel disgraced before our responsibility to account for our ancestors' sins. We realize that countless ancestors trod this same path, aiming for the goal that You desired, but unknowingly always ended as sacrifices for Satan. We pray with deepest sincerity that in this age You may place us in a position where we will not simply repeat their failures.
Father, have mercy on these brothers and sisters of Japan. These are a people that, by centering on their nation, at one time sought to realize one goal, the greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere. I am aware how they have blemished their history by standing in the position of Satan rather than of God.
These brothers and sisters are all so grateful that You have opened a road before this new Japan and have granted us a heavenly mission, enabling us to contribute to the future of the world. I sincerely hope that their hearts may grow daily to move their environment, until they can reach the point where their substantial selves become the starting point which can move all things and determine Your standard of existence.
Father, we pray that we may never forget that our mighty mission encompasses all other missions around us. We must make ourselves inseparable from You and desire Your purpose. And we must valiantly enter the realm of Your purpose so that we may be the victors qualified to attend You. We pray sincerely that You may protect us and continually extend the manifestation of victory so that we may be welcomed by heaven and by earth as princes and princesses and stand as central points.
We truly beg that Your grace will be with us that we may become persons who give thanks that You have passed on to us the mission of Jesus, that through a life of gratitude we are able to attend You, and that You will establish us as the standard that is perfectly proportional to the value of this life of attendance. We give thanks, Father, that You have guided us in every way today and offer these prayers in Your name.
Amen.