Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 42

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Part 2 Entreaty: Please Allow Us To Become Living Sacrifices of Goodness Alone, Page 62

Please Allow Us To Become Living Sacrifices of Goodness Alone

Oh, Father of love! Oh, Father of compassion! By ourselves alone, with just our strength, we cannot possibly separate goodness and evil and raise goodness up to be goodness. Therefore, please reveal the power of goodness which heaven has sheltered and the power of love which heaven has hidden, and please work through the power of resurrection. Please allow us to be able to reveal a power capable of being good even in our unworthy position. And our beloved Father, we earnestly hope and desire that You will allow us to be able to have the glory of resurrection, and to be able to bow before You, having given our minds and bodies fully for You and to be able to reveal glory having spent our minds and bodies completely.

Father! Please purify our minds, and please work with Your purifying touch in the soul of each one here. Please reveal what is in the mind and body of each one, Father, and purify each thing. Since it will not do unless all the improper elements are divided out and cast away, oh, Father, please personally become the master of separation and the master of our hearts.

I earnestly hope and desire, my Father, that You will allow us to be able to separate good and evil and then do away with evil, and to be able offer ourselves through one center before the majesty of our father as living sacrifices of goodness alone.

Oh, Father! Please allow us to recognize the unworthiness of our selves in front of Your manifested external form, and to discover that our selves are in the realm of death, having received the power of the sins of the past. In front of You, Father, in front of the altar of the glory of goodness, please let us be able to reveal ourselves and please eliminate any improper habits from the past and any concepts that keep us from believing You. Please allow us to receive a new stimulation of goodness and to feel anew the value of Your internal nature and to feel an impact in our minds and bodies. We earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that You will carry out a work of repentance and inspiration.

Father! Please accept us and take dominion over us. Please don't allow even one person among us to be dominated by Satan. After going through Your almighty works and Your works of efforts for recreation, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that You will allow us to cast away the force of today's habits.

Please eliminate at this time, Father, all the unacceptable, improper elements of sin, and by personally intervening, please act to fill all of us with only the elements of glory that You can take dominion over, and we earnestly hope and desire that You will completely take dominion over us.

We humbly pray this in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(July 11, 1956)