Friday, June 19, 2020

I Cannot Rest, June 19, 2020

Morning Devotion
I Cannot Rest, June 19, 2020
Dr. Yong's message today is, "I cannot Rest."  True Father cannot rest when God is still in pain and suffering and when there is still a lot of chaos, confusion, problems, and challenges in the world. He needs to lead and go to the frontline to fulfill the Will of God. We need to go beyond our present circumstances to demonstrate our genuine understanding and unity with God and True Parents' longing heart

This COVID 19 pandemic has a mission to reset the world. In Japan, all citizens stayed at home, and the government gave each citizen money to survive through the experience. It feels like God is making all members rest and remain together with the family. It is like we were asked to learn from True Parents' words again, this time through Dr. Yong.  It is a time of growing internally, in preparation to fulfill our vertical and horizontal mission These are the highlights of this 40th day of morning devotion.

Can you think of True Father talking about Tribal Messiahship in 1965? This was in the 1960s. Father's attitude is very admirable.  When you say until his eyes popped out and cannot see anyone because of crying due to the longing heart. This means he was too serious and so moved to understand the sorrowful heart of God.  He ultimately inherited the Heart of God. He is so full of a longing heart. He wants to see Cain and all the people he needs to love. He puts a lot of Jeong Seong into this kind of condition. 

His incredible longing heart automatically multiplies the power and attractive force of God's words. Since the liberation of Korea in 1955. Many Christians received a lot of revelations. They suffered so much because of the war and then the problems with North Korea. More than 3- 4 million people were killed because of that war.  Many people also received inspiration like "You are the Lord." But, who met the Messiah first?  It is Hyun Shil Kang, and Rev. Yo Han Lee. They were guided by the Spirit World to meet True Father first. If you have a longing heart, God can intervene to help you find the Messiah. As a church leader or as a Unificationist, what is the essential part of our faith? It is the restoration of Cain. We need to restore Cain.. We need to have  that kind of experience too, Let us not move back when we have to move forward to understand the Heart of God and True Parents

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Because of Father's longing heart, due to his loving other people, the spirit world cannot help but mobilize on earth.  How do we inherit Father's longing and yearning heart?  When I relate to Cain and Abel. We need to resolve to love Cain more than my wife, more than my children, more than my teachers, and more than my parents. We need to love Cain more than our own family, children, spouses, and grandparents. We need to love True Parents more than anything else.

One reason why people love Father is that he loves other people more than his children.  It was the first time to see True Father. We need to have the experience of meeting God beyond what is written or seen in the photographs.  This loving attitude is the reason why the True Father can mobilize the spirit world. How can I love my Cain?  As leaders, we need to be responsible for our members 

No matter what, God will love us.  He will surely educate us until our spouses are fully restored to God. Father said anyone who received the blessing from me is my responsibility. No matter how much they create problems. He will raise them continuously. He will continue to love them as His children. 

We need to become a True Parent, True Teacher, and True Owner. As a leader, as an Abel, we have to have the kind of faith that can mobilize the spirit world. The Spirit World is easily touched by a longing heart. No matter what, God will protect us. We have not reached the standard of Father's Heart yet. We need to imitate True Father's attitude. We need to do our absolute best. We cannot treat our members as our neighbors.

What is the problem of our movement? We do not have this attitude. When we have our children, we feel that we have been responsible for them. Why can't we apply this kind of attitude to our tribal area? If we have this kind of attitude, we can just quickly mobilize the good spirit world. They can help us accomplish our mission. 

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We should ask ourselves, why are we here? It is because of True Fathers' blood, sweat, and tears. We are here because of our Heavenly Father's undying resolve not to give up on us. We have to commit to True Parents not to give up on whoever we love, whatever mission we take for True Mother, for True Parents. We have to pledge to help our True Mother. We need to stop this one-sided love. We need to reciprocate God and True Parents' love. 

I need to love my members more than my family, more than children. We need to be crazy to love our tribe, to love our mission. We need to have a True Father's attitude. Where there is love, there is magnetic power. We need to focus on ourselves regularly. We have to ask ourselves if we are serious about achieving our goal. We need to have a longing heart for God so that God can intervene to help and mobilize. We need to be responsible for loving our members more than our family. What mobilizes the members? It is our Heart and love for them.

Formerly, I am just one of the followers. Why did God invite you here? Each of us was raised by Heavenly Father to become a central figure to our tribe, clan, and society. God asked all of the central figures. Every day, we do the Family Pledge. We need to fulfill our responsibility as the tribal Messiah. What is the purpose of tribal messiahship? We were told to witness our tribe. But only recently, we are focusing on our tribal Messiah. What is lacking with us? It is lack of love, lack of Heart, and lack of memory. We cannot go to the spirit world without bringing Cain. If you cannot bring Cain, what is the result of true love?  No matter what, we need to establish the foundation of the tribe and clan.  True Father made this speech before 1965. True Father is an extremely dedicated perfect human being with a great vision of the future.

True Parents cannot rest during the 24 hours in a day. Why? It is because they know God cannot rest. He needs to fight a bloody battle for all of us. This reality makes True father uneasy. He cannot rest while God is working.  He feels so ashamed to relax while God cannot rest. God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, but God's real internal situation is not like that. He is an incredibly sorrowful God. When the True Father knows about the pain and suffering of God. He decided to commit to console and comfort God. All the fighting that we encounter every day is already known to God.  We only need to connect to His Heart, so we will have the power to mobilize for the spirit world. This is the incredible attitude of the Messiah. 

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When we rest while God is not sleeping, we will be unfamiliar and unloyal to God. Like real children, we cannot rest when our True Parent is flying to another place in the world under tremendous pressure and traveling stress. When we know the longing heart and lonely situation of God, we cannot rest. A filial child means being able to suffer more than God and work more than God. Even though we cannot follow True Parents' standard of attitude, we need to be at least like them in Heart. 

God is rushing to set up the new normal. I am living in the era of the Chun Il Guk normal. What is the CIG normal? It is Heart or Shimjung. Shimjung is deeper than love. We lost the shimjung culture and God's sorrowful Heart. The fall lost our Heart. Restoration is about bringing our Heart. What is the most important revolution is the Heart Revolution. Why does Heavenly Father give us this COVID 19 crisis? It is to begin the revolution of the Heart. When we restore our hearts, when we revolutionize our Heart, we can meet God and True Parents.  

This situation we are in now is the new CIG normal centered on the Heart of Shimjung. What kind of Shimjung?  It is the sorrowful Shimjung. This education is not just for the living but also for the dead.  Everyone has to enter the world of the Heart. You have to think all of your ancestors and descendants will listen and understand God and True Parents' sorrowful Heart. There is a very internal purpose of the Covid 19 virus, and that is to educate all of us through the morning devotion. 

We should have the spirit of the True Father when he carried Mr.  Park on his back. He didn't mind walking miles and miles of distances to carry Mr. Park. Father can carry him because he believed he was bringing with him all humankind on his back. He cannot avoid this responsibility and feeling because he Understands the Heart of God. If Father were here physically, he would tell us to work harder to offer one nation to True Mother. We need to fulfill our Heavenly Tribal Messiahship

Thank you very much, Dr. Yong, for your excellent leadership and enlightening inspirations. As you said, the COVID 19 problem is limiting our horizontal movement and physical distance. There is only one way to move, and this is only vertical movement. We need to keep our vertical alignment and movement upward. Thank you, thank you so much. - - Rafael E. Ablong

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You Must Be (Able To Feel) Ashamed, June 18, 2020


Part 2
Dr. Yong's message today is about "You Must Be (Able To Feel) Ashamed" 
June 18, 2020

Have a Shameful Heart in Front of God
We always need to have a shameful heart. We have not become the very people God wants us to be from the individual, family, to the tribe, and the nation as Unificationists.  You should be ashamed you have not fulfilled the responsibility in the course of restoration. There are three kinds of hearts Father talked about.  "We should fulfill our portion of responsibility. Those who are arrogant. Are not shameful people. They are not ashamed of their selfishness and arrogance because they do not understand the heart of God.

Three Kinds of Hearts
Filial piety, loyalty, and self-denial start from the parents. So we should be an example. We need to have a heart of repentance, a heart of shame, and a heart of gratitude. Today, True Father emphasized we need to be ashamed. Why do we need to be ashamed? We need to be embarrassed because we are fallen people. We have not fulfilled our responsibility due to our selfishness, pride,  and arrogance. All kinds of fallen attitudes are about arrogance and selfishness.

Filial piety is about obeying parents. The purpose of denial is filial piety. When your heart is centered on True Parents, then you can easily overcome selfishness. If we are self-centered, we become arrogant.

I have to accept before God that I am a sinner of sinners. My blood lineage betrayed  God and True Parents and betrayed Jesus. We need to repent because of this sinful heart. Even how much God raised me through True Parents, I m not a genuine person of God yet. I cannot become the True Parent to my children. I cannot become the Cain of True Abel. I should be ashamed d myself because I have not established the ideal in my daily life of faith. As a blessed family, I have not yet restored the sovereignty of God. I still could not overcome my physical, sexual desires.

We should be ashamed of our imperfect ways of overcoming our desires. I should be ashamed in front of God because I have not fully restored my family, my tribe, and one nation. If we have not realized all these, we should feel ashamed of ourselves. I have been in the church for so many years, yet I still have a lot of selfishness and arrogance before God. If we don't have shame, we don't have a pure heart.

The Conscience is Always Honest
It always feels so much shame before God. It always has a shameful mind and shameful heart. If there is no shame, there is no heart. If there is no heart, there is no conscience. Where there is conscience there is always a shame.

If we have a shameful person, we become humble and cannot insist on our opinion. Arrogance comes from self-centeredness. Filial piety always comes from parents. It is always centered on True Parents. Self-denial means we should be centered on God and True Parents.  As Unification Church members, we should have that kind of shameful emotion whenever we think of God's sorrowful heart.

No one on earth knows about how God and True Parents have embraced each other and shed tears of sorrow. If God's Jeong Seong is not connected to our hearts, we can easily be arrogant and self-centered. If we are spiritual, we can easily recognize that God and True Parents are in a miserable situation. They are always alone in the path of enduring and overcoming their struggles for the sake of humankind.

Parents and children are in a miserable state after the Fall. When we experience this kind of God's sorrowful heart, we can move anyone's heart. We never get tired to work for the liberation of God,  True arents, and Mankind. If we truly understand God's heart, then we will reap what we sow.  So, wherever we go with this kind of heart and understanding, the Good Spirit World will be able to help immediately. If we do not know God'S sorrowful heart, we will become arrogant and unable to realize God's Will.

Dr. Yong cannot forget Rev. Yo Han Lee because he was the one who introduced to him God and True Parents' sorrowful heart. Without Rev. Yo Han Lee, he cannot understand God and True Parents. How do we become worthy and valuable to our children? It is only when we introduce God's Heart to them.

Why Did Jesus' Disciples Run Away?
How much are you loyal to me? How deep is your loyalty to your Abel. Can you die for me?  Why are people running away from Jesus? Even his three disciples fell asleep while he was praying all night. If they did not sleep, Jesus would not have gone that way. Why did his disciples run away? It is because nobody among them truly understood God and Jesus' sorrowful heart. Nobody understood the relationship between God and Jesus. Nobody wanted to die for him. They just wanted to follow him externally through his miracles. No one inherited Jesus' sorrowful heart. When they were in danger, they ran away. That is why, without inheriting God and True Parents' heart, we can betray and run away anytime.

The Power Behind True Father's Heart and Deeds
Why can't True Father run away even if he was tortured to death? What is the reason? It is because he understood the God of sorrow that not even death could stop him from doing the restoration efforts to liberate God's pain and suffering. This deep understanding and compelling desire to console and comfort God is what keeps him from running away. It is this powerful feeling of filial love, sympathy, and overwhelming willingness to comfort the sorrowful God that makes endure agony and pain unconditionally and tirelessly.

Most Important Mission in our  Life of Faith
What is the most crucial mission in our life of faith?  It is to inherit the heart of God. It is to inherit True Parents' spirit. It is to inherit True Moither's heart. If we inherit their heart, we will never tire, and we will continue to work hard until we have offered the nation of God. We should go beyond learning the Divine Principle. We should go beyond concepts. It is time to apply what we learned and experienced from God and True Parents.

How to Recognize the Messiah
To recognize the Messiah, we need to know the person who has the longing heart of God.  We need to teach our children about God and True Parents Heart so they will not run away. To understand Father's words, we need to understand its background. Many spiritual phenomena happened in Korea, especially centering on Christianity.  Even Rev Yo Han Lee was told to go to the South Korea because the Second Coming is going to be there. Later, he was asked to move by the spirit world to go to Cheju Island, and then to Pusan to meet the Second Coming. Many people during that time received so many spiritual revelations about the coming of the Messiah. This was a good time for people on earth to understand God's sorrow and yearning through the Messiah. It was the peak of the time to receive the Messiah. Both the spirit world and the spiritually open people were receiving messages about his coming.

The Attribution of Longing Heart
Chan Shil Kang and Rev. Yo Han Lee were the first man and woman to receive the revelation and meet the Messiah for the first time. As long as we have a longing heart, we will meet him. One of our  Japanese sisters was crying because of longing to see True Father. When she started to hear Dr. Yong's morning devotion, True Father appeared to her in a dream and told her to listen to the devotion because He reveals his message through the morning devotion of Dr. Yong. This encounter of the sister is the attribution of the longing heart. If you genuinely have a longing heart, then you can meet True Parents in your dreams. When Rev. Yo Han Lee had a longing heart, the spirit world was helping him to find the Messiah. When we sleep with a longing heart,  God will reveal himself to you.

Revolution of Heart
We need to have a revolution of the heart. We need to unite with True Mother. Without upgrading our hearts, realizing this would be impossible. We need to unite with True Mother to achieve our goal.

For the 2nd 40 -Day Condition, God specially prepared this workshop to eradicate the Coronavirus problem. He initiated it through Dr. Yong to transform this world into the new world of God's sovereignty. Within the period of the 2nd 40-day Condition, True Mother proclaimed the Heavenly Parents Holy Community. Internally, we need to have a complete revolution of the heart.
How can I be responsible for my object partner, eternally? There are many trials, difficulties, temptations, and problems. How can I raise my children, my members, my spouse, my people, and my tribe so that they can understand God and True Parent's heart?

Without upgrading the level of our heart, God will not be able to enter our Hearts. We need to create that reciprocal base with Him so that He can join the revolution of heart for everyone's growth and overall development.

Longing Heart Makes Things Happen
One day, when Rev. Yo Han Lee went up to the mountain and knocked on the door of the poor little house of True Father at that time. When True Father opened the door, he knew who he was already. If we do not have a longing heart for True Mother, we are not filial children. When we have a longing heart, we will immediately feel oneness. Longing heart goes beyond space and time to realize the goal of the yearning heart. When you genuinely miss your guest, that person will come to visit the center. If you want to see someone soon, that person will appear. Even when you ask that person, he will not know why he came to meet you. This is the secret power of witnessing. It is a longing heart. If there is no longing heart, nothing like this will happen.

We become spiritually sensitive when we have a longing heart.
When we do not have enough time, praying for 5-minutes for the people we want to meet or witness; then the spirit world will help and make the things you have in mind unfold before you. Unseen things become visible reality when we have a longing heart. Short moments of very intense prayer would be answered. God will always make things happen if you are connected to him in your heart.

The Position of the Church Minister is Important
A church minister's position is very important. You have to have a personal touching relationship. You must establish this kind of human connection centered on God. If you cannot pray for each of your 430 couple, say a prayer for a small group of them until you can pray for everyone within the week. We need to forgive people and restore your relationship with them. If Jesus' disciples understood the heart of God, nobody would have left or betrayed him when was going to the cross.

Longing Heart is the Key to Victory
It is through a longing heart of love. When you win over your enemy's heart. You are truly a victor. We learned from True Parent's greatness. Do we have a longing heart for True Parents?  Hwa chai hoy ha - Having a longing heart makes us closer to each other until you will no longer have a choice but to love, appreciate, and unite with the person. Chak Sarang will be recognized in the end.

Thank you so much, Dr. Yong, for all these deep and powerful words of guidance. Many times, I feel God through your profound messages of faith. The time of believing in God as a concept is over because we can already feel Him through the heartistic power of your words. I pray that God will continue to use you to educate all the people in the world to accomplish our mission in life and realize the purpose of our faith in action through the longing heart of God. Uniting with the longing heart of God ad True Parents, will naturally give us the magnetic power to attract people and things closer to the loving and yearning heart of God and True Parents.

-Rafael E. Ablong


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Three Missions of Life, June 18,2020


Morning Devotion Reflection
Three Missions of Life
June 18, 2020, Part 1 of 3

Three Missions in Life
Before the main message today, Dr. Yong said that we have three primary missions in life: to become True Parents, to be True Teachers, and True Owners.

To Become a True Parent
We need to become True Parents. One of our missions is to become like True Parents. Always giving and sacrificing for people. Still giving and forgetting. Unconditional giving, unconditional sacrifice, and investment and forget. We need to have a heart of True Parents in a servant's body. Our principal concern is to be united with my object partner.  We need to think about how to protect all humankind. How can we feed them physically and spiritually?

To Become a True Teacher
To become a true teacher, we need to introduce our God and True Parents Heart. Also, we need to let people know about the sorrowful heart of all the historical people. Then, how do we convey God's words and heart to all the people? We need to show a model nation. What is the sorrowful and regretful heart of Adam, Eve, Noah, and all the other historical figures? How to promote the teachings of True Parents in the world? These should be the concern of the true teacher.

To Become a True Owner
We must have the right to true sovereignty. To become a true owner, I need to restore people, things, and sovereignty. So God gave me a special mission.  We need to show the kingship. As the owner, we should have a model nation. To become an owner means to restore kingship. Always bring the right of sovereignty.

The Result is Very Important
When we become a model of the True Parents, the True Teacher,  and the True Owner but we cannot restore sovereignty. Where is the result? The tribal messiah mission is essential. But more importantly, we need to restore a nation. We need to think about how to make this country God's nation.

This condition during this COVID 19 virus should raise the level of our hearts.  We should upgrade the level of our victorious tenacity to overcome evil. Our awareness, experiences, feelings, and understanding of God's heart are not in the realm of Heaven yet. So we need to improve ourselves. Let us upgrade our heart, not just on the formation stage, not only on the growth stage. We need to jump to the level of completion.

Revolution of Heart
We need to have a revolution of the heart. We need to unite with True Mother. Without upgrading our hearts, realizing this would be impossible. We need to unite with True Mother to achieve our goal.

For the 2nd 40 -Day Condition, God specially prepared this workshop to eradicate the Coronavirus problem. He initiated it through Dr. Yong to transform this world into the new world of God's sovereignty. Within the period of the 2nd 40-day condition, True Mother proclaimed the Heavenly Parents Holy Community. Internally, we need to have a complete revolution of the heart.
How can I be responsible for my object partner, eternally? There are many trials, difficulties, temptations, and problems. How can I protect and raise my children, my members, my spouse, my people, and my tribe so that they can understand God and True Parent's heart?

Without upgrading the level of our heart, God will not be able to enter our Hearts. We need to create that reciprocal base with Him so that He can join the revolution of heart for everyone's growth and overall development.

-by Rafael Ablong


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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

I am a Person of Endless Bitter Heart, June 17, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection
I am a Person of Endless Bitter Heart
June 17, 2020 

Dearest Dr. Yong,
I am so touched by your tearful testimony of Daemon Nim telling you that True Father wanted to talk to you. In Japanese, True Father said to you "Yoroshiku ne". and I felt your heart.  You are the only leader who always tells us to deeply know and understand God's sorrowful situation. God knows you are doing your best to comfort Him and we are learning and growing so much because of your morning devotion. This has never happened to me before. Due to so much inspiration, I lose some sleep and my fingers sometimes just move to find the letters on the keyboard. Sometimes I don't notice the time and the length of my reflection. Even FB messenger tries to reject my reflection because it is too long. So I have to cut it into pieces or delete some of them to make it short. I agree with you. True Father also wants to say the same words to us. True Father has no physical body so we are his physical body now. Our main goal is to restore one nation in unity with True Mother's goal, hope, and vision. We will do our best Dr. Yong!

You are such a great, warm leader and a humble person of God. You have not changed your heart as a real person. I am sorry for not doing enough. I have to do my best from now on to fulfill my HTM mission and my mission to liberate my spiritual ancestors and have them attend the Ancestors' Blessing Ceremony.

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Dr. Yong's Topic today is "I am a Person of Endless Bitter Heart". In this message, he encouraged us to go beyond our background to be the best filial sons and daughters of God, worthy of God and True Parents’ blessing and embrace. We need to ask ourselves if we are doing our best. We are still alive because we did not do our best so we have to prolong our life so we can still do our best. These are the highlights of his message today.

Why God cannot reveal His Sorrowful Heart to us? Why God and True Parents cannot reveal their hearts of sorrow to us? How did True Father reveal Heavenly Parents' Sorrowful Heart? Why can’t God open His heart to me? What is the reason why God cannot reveal His sorrowful heart to me? God is a God of so much suffering. Why can't I feel it? It is not just because we do not have a passionate desire to know God. But more importantly, God cannot find a reciprocal base to give and take with us. It is like an elementary school who cannot understand his parents' heart. It is only when he reaches a certain level, age, and heart when he can understand his parents' heart.

As parents, we have to hide our problems and difficulties in our children. We only want to show goodness and happiness to children. However, when the children begin to understand their parents' hearts, they try to communicate their understanding and feeling to their parents. AT this stage, parents begin to open their hearts to the children.

When you reach the divine spirit or a certain level of God’s heart. Then we can realize how we should reciprocate to God. It is like the True Father realizing that God is not a happy God. He always cried for God. When he consoled and comforted God from the bottom of His heart. God at first tried to hide His real Heart until such time that He can no longer hide and have to reveal His heart to True Father. When True Father touched God’s heart, God revealed everything to True Father

When children truly understand their Parents' Hearts. Then, parents will start revealing their true situation to true children. When children make a very good condition to understand their parents' hearts. It is not just Jeong Seong. It is also about how he will touch this heart, discover His situation, and find solutions to God’s sorrow. Heavenly Parents’ cry and cry revealing his situation to Father and revealed the various situations to Father.

True Father has not met anyone in the movement who could understand his heart. He cannot find any member like this. This means that no member has ever reached the level of his heart.  Even God surrendered His heart to the True Father. God was moved by Father’s heart, motivation, and resolution to understand and comfort His Heart. True Parents’ Jeongseong is more than anyone in history. When True Father asked God if this was true? God said yes.

A Japanese member who is married to a Filipino member in Japan has not seen True Father even in her dreams. But when she started attending this morning devotion, he had a dream of True Father and True Father told her that True Father is revealing his heart through the daily morning devotions of Dr. Yong. Heavenly Parents and True Parents will reveal to you when your whole being is 100 percent the same with God. We have to become this kind of Unificationists.

God reveals His heart even in the smallest stone on the road. Even the single blade of grass can make you understand God’s heart if you strongly and passionately connect to His Will, Purpose, and Situation. Even Father would gaze at the stars and resent asking them the same questions about God’s sorrowful heart. Everything he sees from the perspective of this kind of heart. Father is like a poet in his communication with nature and God’s heart. He appeals to all things with this kind of internal communication.

We can easily communicate with anything and anyone when the level of our heart reaches the level of God’s heart. We have become ignorant of God’s heart that is why we lost this kind of ability. However, If we have the kind of heart that Father said, “I endured everything until now with the resolve that at the moment I face death, I will not leave behind a will of regret that says, “ I should have offered more Jeong Seong, or I should have done things differently.” Then, we have reached that level of being a true Unificationist individual or family. Just by reading these words, I could say he truly understands the standard of God’s heart how far I am far from this standard. He truly understands God’s heart.

When we truly understand God’s situation then our determination to solve God’s problems, avoid mistakes, and comfort God’s heart will go beyond the boundaries of life and death. Father cannot rest and relax when he knows God’s heart and situation. His strength comes from his understanding and unity with God’s sorrowful heart. Enumerating how many things or challenges we need to control is not the way. There is only one way to become like a True Father. It is to deeply understand God’s heart and resolve to be God’s true filial sons and daughters.

Father is such an amazing and incredible person. He does not want to leave a will of regret. He cannot die like this. Regret means I did not do my best to understand and comfort God’s sorrowful heart. He does want to leave anything in this world with regrets. If we can it as True Father did. We have to resolve always to do our best so we will not leave behind a trail of regret.

We all cannot perfectly deliver God’s real heart of sorrow. If we sleep during a condition of devotion. This means our heart is still at a very low level. If we follow True Father’s way then we will become a true Unificationist or individual with that kind of heavenly heart, heavenly will, and heavenly purpose.

All kinds of restoration centered on God’s heart starts from individual salvation. True Father’s concept of restoration and salvation is beyond the family, the nation, and the world. Father’s concept is cosmic restoration. If we are following True Parents’ teachings then we need to have the same concept, the same goal, and the same vision. It is not just talking about restoration at all levels. At least, we all need to have victory in the restoration of the tribe. Our mission is true to restore the tribe to help in the overall goal of restoring one people, one land, and one sovereignty, one nation under God. True Parents' wish is to have one country restored as a Chun Il Guk nation.

Father feels so sorry to God every time he sees Unification Church members who are not able to truly understand God’s heart and apply that understanding in our real life. That day will come when we are all able to fulfill God’s will with the heart of the Father, tears for Heaven, sweat for the earth, and blood for mankind. Filial piety always moves the parents' hearts.

We need to repent and push ourselves everyday so we can restore the nation of God. We need to express our complete confession to God. We need to follow True Father’s example so that we can comfort God’s heart and God will be so grateful to us. When God expresses His thankful heart to you for doing your best for doing the mission that many people normally would not do. We need to love our mission country more than your own country.

Each of us has to make a strong resolve to die in the place of our mission.  We need to read Father’s mind and heart through his word because if we don’t. It won’t make any sense. We have to go beyond our background to be the best filial sons and daughters of God, worthy of God and True Parents’ embrace. We need to ask ourselves if we are doing our best.   We are still alive because we did not do our best so we have to prolong our life so we can still do our best.

Thank you Dr. Yong for this very important message today. I truly feel that Heavenly Parents and True Parents are using you as Their mouthpiece on earth at this time to guide us on how to become real filial children.  I hope that many more people will get to hear your message and live by the teachings of True Parents so we won’t live our lives in regret.

Thank you so much for sharing with us the sincerity of your heart to console and comfort God and True Parents heart!  -- Rafael E. Ablong


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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

How to Overcome Hardships and Difficulties, June 16, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection
How to Overcome Hardships and Difficulties
June 16, 2020 (Video of May 12, 2020)

Since I cannot open the morning devotion message today of Dr. Yong due to some youtube copyright and access issues, I would like to reflect on Dr. Yong's message about “How to Overcome Hardships and Suffering “ that was given on the 12th of May.

How to deal with hardships. Hardships are a gift of love from God. 
Don't avoid the pain and face it squarely, head-on. We need to receive all hardships and challenges with love and gratitude. Accept hardship with joy. This is God’s strategy to make your overall environment grow better and large for you. You should seriously feel that the greater is the suffering and hardships, the stronger your conviction grows to move you closer to God.

Who is the scariest person in the world? We need to look at pain and suffering positively with a joyful heart. This kind of person is the scariest person. Why? Because he accepts hardships with a smile of gratitude. People naturally avoid hardships and suffering. However, if we face these trials and difficulties in our life with gratitude each time. We will grow strong and successful. Through this way, we become strong and stable in life. 

You must think that even if you are in a very difficult situation, you should never be bound to Satan by making the situation worse. Think that each hindrance is an opportunity for personal growth and future victory. So we have to look at it as a gift from Heaven. These hardships are given to us with love so we need to receive it with gratitude.

How do we conquer hardships and difficulties?  What do hardship and sufferings mean and where do they come from?  There are reasons why we experience hardships and sufferings. It is not just because of the fall of Adam and Eve. We need to know how to overcome it by following True Parents' guidance and inspirations. We have to solve it from God’s point of view. We cannot solve internal problems and challenges, pain, and suffering by using our human standard of thinking.

1. We need to think it comes from God and this is my destiny. Some of our sufferings come from ancestors. They had to pay a lot of indemnities and they have suffered so much. They also made terrible mistakes that their descendants have to pay many years after. So I have to think, I have to be responsible for them. I need to pay indemnity on behalf of my ancestors. These hardships are my destiny so I have to take with a sincere and responsible attitude. So we should not complain.

2. Believe that God is preparing a gift of happiness for you at the end of hardships. All kinds of accusations against yourself, your family, and your ancestors will not solve its cycle or stop its occurrences if you do not take responsibility for it. Empower yourself to be the person who can solve it for everyone.  If nobody takes responsibility to pay all indemnity, the cycle will just repeat. Unless someone takes the responsibility of the sins and mistakes, trials and difficulties, problems ad challenges in the past, things will not change. 

3. Do not avoid pain and suffering, trials, and difficulties. You should face them squarely and take them all by the horns. We should not avoid suffering. the point at other people as the origin or cause of the problem. Through loving and conquering the environment, we can stop the sins from multiplying. Thatis why we need to love our destiny.  All kinds of complaints and resentment will not solve unless someone takes responsibility and starts paying the indemnity needed to restore everyone including yourself. In this way, you can stop these cycles of suffering and avoid passing it over to your descendants. We have to think: this hardship and suffering is my destiny. There is a meaning to it and so do not complain about it. Those who can accept the responsibility for everyone’s sins and liberation will become closer and closer to God. This is God’s Will. So no matter what,  I have to overcome it. God gave me these because God trusts me and loves me to this extent. God is a suffering God so if you suffer more, God will come to you.

4. Hardships are God’s plan to bequeath a greater environment for you. We are the result of 6,000 years of fallen history. Most of our trials and tribulations come from our ancestors. So someone has to take responsibility to pay indemnity and do an indemnity course. Do not compare your destiny to somebody. If you start complaining and accusing the people close to use from parents down to Adam and Eve, and the Angel. We cannot go back to God. When something is on fire, we need to get water to extinguish the fire quickly. We do not argue to put out the fire, we need to agree and act on it quickly before it becomes big.

5. Face any hardship with joy.  That is why the life of faith is a life of overcoming.  Even each child in the family has a different spiritual background. Each child has a course. That is why we should avoid complaining about why you have such and such a trial and difficulty. If you do this, the problem and indemnity will not stop and it will continue to multiply. So we have to accept it as God’s Will for our life.

6. Suffering makes me become one with God. God will never give you anything you cannot handle. He will not give you any impossible tasks or difficult problems you cannot carry or solve. If you are the teacher, do you give tests and challenges to your students they cannot solve? God will give you difficulties you can overcome. Do not be depressed and do not question God or others why you are having such difficulties. When True Father was in Hungnam prison, some people receive inspiration to give him food.

Accept your trials with gratitude and it becomes easy to solve. If we have that kind of attitude, trials and difficulties will just become nourishment for the soul to grow and for you to enjoy. Believe that God has prepared something great for you at the end of hardships. So when you overcome it, God will rejoice and come to you.

When True Father was in Hungnam prison, some people receive inspirations  The spirit world started witnessing to people around Father. They started having dreams and inspirations so they started attending True Father. We should inherit this kind of spirit from True Father. We should think we cannot solve the problem if we run away. We should have a Messianic attitude.  When we have this attitude, good things will fall into their rightful places. We should welcome all trials and difficulties.

Face all hardships joyfully with confidence. Through suffering and hardships, we can experience “Sanbong” or reunion. It is the best chance to meet God and the best way to console and comfort God.  Without experiencing pain and suffering, we will not be able to understand the heart of God.

7. Suffering is training me to become one with God. Without encountering trials and difficulties, we cannot experience and understand the sorrowful heart of God. So hardships are the best opportunity to comfort God. God is asking me to grow no matter what kinds of trials and challenges come. We can ask God to make us grow quickly. Without paying the price, we cannot liberate ourselves. Even in the market, you cannot get anything without paying money. Heavenly fortune belongs to us. We become villains if we do not pay the right price.

8. Hardships are about knowing the pain of suffering to inherit God’s heart. We have to know the true meaning of suffering. The more we suffer and overcome each level, the more we inherit God’s heart. We have to inherit God’s heart from the individual to the national level.  We will experience God’s true heart through suffering. The more we suffer, the more we understand the heart of God, the more we receive God’s comfort and consolation.  We need to look at suffering from a joyous mind.

We need to reflect and evaluate ourselves whenever we face the mirror. Console God as you look at your face. Feel like you are looking at the face of God. Talk to God as if He is just by your side or just in front of you looking at your face from the mirror in front of you.  Feel that closeness with Him and your mind will expand in recognition of His heart and presence. Look at yourself in the mirror and determine to use your whole being as God's body to give love and comfort to other people. 

Thank you so much,  Dr. Yong, for showing us the way to conquer hardships and difficulties in life. God shared with me His suffering when I was very young. I remember I used to cry a lot every time my mother leaves the house to do her work at the market to buy or find food. It was so hard to eat a good satisfying meal back then. Whenever my younger brother (now the parish priest of St. Vincent’s Church in Siqujor island) and I would wait for the restaurant food to be thrown in the garbage, we felt so miserable and united in that misery. We get that garbage and food and re-cook it for the whole family. Whenever ship passengers throw coins to the ocean and my older brother (the former Vice Mayor) dived to get those coins from the ocean floor, we feel so miserable yet so lucky to have a chance to live the day recognizing God was helping us to survive and experience a difficult life only to rejoice about it later.

Yes, God will never give us anything we cannot handle. He gives us those trying days of misery and hardships because He loves us so much. Honestly, we also enjoyed our misery in those days because it was also exciting to dive for coins, to crawl under the floor of my aunt’s house to find coins. We enjoyed finding broken bottles, scrapped wires, and kitchen utensils for selling at the recycle shop. We enjoyed eating porridge from a can of rice and viand from a cup of pork soup with little meat. Food was more delicious when we seldom have it during the week We suffered but we enjoyed it with God because He always provided us with something we can live on and learn from, to make our lives better, and to see the future now. 

We did not know how we will become, we did not know how things will turn out for each one of us. Eleven of us in the family, including my parents, have a sad story to tell. But we never complained to God of the misery. We only asked to make us survive so we can enjoy life with Him as simple human beings. 

Thank you so much again for healing my heart by exposing the trauma of my past. It was God’s way of loving us and I truly thank God and True Parents for keeping me alive until now and for bringing me to this blessed family so I can multiply His love and blessings to other people. Thank you, thank you so much again.

-Rafael Ablong



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List of Dr. C.S. Yong’s 2nd 40-Day Morning Devotion Messages




2nd 40-Days Morning Devotion
May 11 - June 19, 2020

Heavenly Asia Pacific Heart Network Morning Devotion with the  Heavenly Asia Pacific Region Group Chairman, Dr. Cheong Shik Yong at the Asian International Headquarters in Thailand.

Feel the power of God’ and True Parents message through the unconditional and parental heart of Dr. Chung Shik Yong. Here are the YouTube Links of his messages. Click or copy and paste the link on your browser if clicking on each link does not work.

May 11: No Link (Special IG for Thailand members only)
June 13: (un accessable)



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List of Dr. C.S. Yong’s 1st Morning Devotion Messages , April 1- May 10, 2020


First 40-Days Morning Devotion, April 1 - May 10, 2020
Heavenly Asia Pacific Heart Network Morning Devotion with the  Heavenly Asia Pacific Region Group Chairman, Dr. Cheong Shik Yong at the Asian International Headquarters in Thailand.

Feel the power of God’ and True Parents message through the unconditional and parental heart of Dr. Chung Shik Yong. Here are the YouTube Links of his messages. Click or copy and paste the link on your browser if clicking on each link does not work.

(38) May 8: (60th Anniversary of True Parents' Holy Wedding)



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