Morning Devotion Reflection: The Person Living a Heavenly Lifestyle, July 22. 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection, July 22. 2020 

Title: The Person Living a Heavenly Lifestyle

by Rafael E. Ablong

Dr. Yong's speech today is full of meaning and internal firepower. It heightened our sense of purpose and mission in life. I feel that God's spirit is using him so well due to his understanding and unity with God and True Parents' heart. He emphasized the concept of living a healthy, heavenly lifestyle and stressed the significance and praxis of total salvation. These two concepts today are so strongly connected. Resembling God's identity and integrity, and having the natural desire to witness as a result of our integral connection with the Loving God. These are highlights of his message today about "The Person Living a Heavenly Lifestyle."

How can we apply the heavenly lifestyle? It is about "living a life of faith centered on God's heart within the internal relationship of parent and child, obtaining oneness in heart and externalizing this internal aspect" from the level of the individual and the family to the world. How can I unify with the world, the nation, the people, you and me? How can I harmonize with all things? Everyone tries to unite with all these people and things around us. What is the main harmonizing point?

We need to clearly understand that we need to go back to the origin, which is the fundamental truth. If we do not know the origin of the universe, it will be hard to harmonize and unite with all existences and relationships. We need to go back to God and use our understanding of His Heart and Situation to understand and harmonize with others.

The absolute truth is that God is our Heavenly Parent, and we are His children. We need to apply this understanding and relationship when we relate with people and all things. We cannot deny this truth. When we think about this, we will get the idea that we need to witness others and not deny our relationship with God. If this vertical alignment is not clear, we will not have the energetic spirit and witnessing passion that we need to undertake the responsibility of witnessing Heavenly Parents and True Parents.

We cannot have the desire and inspiration to witness when our vertical alignment is not clear. When we understand and internalize our relationship with God as our Heavenly Parent, we will have the power to externalize His words and substantially connect everyone else. We will automatically have the heart to witness people when we feel God's Heart and active presence.  

When our faith and the conviction in our relationship as parent and child are not clear, our life's direction becomes unclear as well. Your heart will automatically want to witness others when our purpose, motivation, vision, and connection are clear.

We should be like the famous fruit farmer who raised his trees like his own children. He likes to see plants after he wakes up in the morning. He wants to touch them like touching his children. This story shows us that things can grow up through love. Even plants, trees, and animals grow well when we love them like our children. When the farmer treats them like his children, they feel his heartistic treatment, and they naturally show their health, beauty and goodness. This farmer does not know the Divine Principle, yet he applied the same parent-child relationship principle. He treats the individual trees with a heartistic feeling like he does for his children. That is why they grow so well, and people love the farmers' produce for them.

All things look for true love. Even the sun, moon, planets, and everything look for it. If we truly feel that God is my parent. If we genuinely sense that we are God's children, we would strongly feel that His desire is to restore all His children. If our children cannot swim and need to get off the water, how would you feel like parents? What would you do, and how do you save them? This is the same feeling of our Heavenly Parents. We cannot just look. We have to do something. Each second is urgent and important to save His drowning children. He needs to get them out of the water and restore them to the original position before they went into the water. They need to be alive. If this is how we feel for the people around us who need to be witnessed to God and True Parents, then automatically the parental heart and the urgency of the moment comes out naturally and it pushes you to witness and help God restore the other people. Thus, to experience God's heart, we need to have the concept of total salvation. If we have this concept of salvation, we can immediately connect to the heart of God. 

How to relate with Heavenly Parents? How to resemble God? There are three things we need to do. One, we need to have the same concept of total salvation. Two, we need to have a personal touching experience with each member or human being. Three, we should not miss anyone. You should have a personal touch experience with everyone if you are the leader. Suppose we apply this principle in our family, center, community, nation, and the world.

To inherit God's spirit of salvation, we cannot let one person stay in hell. We need to save everyone. God is thinking of the whole world. Salvation is not just for the family, society, and nation, and the entire world starting from Korea. 

True Parents always have the same concept of total salvation. That is why Heavenly Parent is always with him. This is what John 3:16 says. God is giving His only begotten Son for the salvation of the whole world. How can God always focus on True Parents? It is because True Parents are always concerned for the salvation of the whole world.

So that is why, as a leader,  I need to pray every morning without missing. Always pray, pray, and pray for the whole world. When we pray, we need to pray for True Parents. We need to pray for Korea, the father nation, and Japan, the mother nation. Then, I pray for the American region: Canada, Central America,  USA, South America. Then, I pray for Africa region, Europe region, and finally for Asia. It is because God is concerned with the whole world. If I am the son or daughter of God, I need to be concerned about the whole world. Not just for one nation or one person. That is why we need to pray for the sake of the whole world. 

If you want to have the world to pray for you. You need to pray for the world. Then the world as a whole will pray for you. For the sake of the world, I never miss to pray for each continental director. This is my secret. Since God is concerned about the whole world, I should be concerned and pray for the whole world. We have to have the same thinking. And then I came to pray for Asia, because Asia is the representative of the world. When I think of the Philippines, I pray for the Philippines. 

Recently, I prayed for Thailand. Thailand is representative of the world. Thailand has 77 provinces, so I need to treat all provinces as the 77 nations of the world. So I want to be the representative of the whole world. We should not miss one province.  Each province is one nation. We should have members  and VIPs in all provinces. The national leader should embrace the whole nation.

The national leader has to have a concept of total salvation for the whole nation. The national leader has to pray for all provinces  True Parents are talking about the nation's salvation and the world. We need to resemble their thinking. National restoration is about saving all provinces.  We have to think day and night about national restoration and world restoration, too. We have to have the same resonance. Our relationships and resonance should resemble that of God in dreams, ideals, and vision. We should have the same thoughts, feelings and aspirations. 

Our thinking should become our dream, and dreams should become our vision. With these thoughts, dreams, and vision,  our united aspirations for humankind's total salvation will come true. Then ,we will have inspired individuals and families around us in the community who could do more to save or restore this world. We need to have the same concept of total salvation and the same kind of education about patriotism to our fellow brethren.

How can we remember something very important?  Our brain capacity is limited, especially when we get older. We have dementia and Alzheimers when we grow older, but when we really want to remember, we need to feel the heart of members and places. This can be done if we visit and witness the different places of the country. 

When I have the concept of total salvation, Heavenly Father gives money, resources, and the people I need to actualize total salvation. That is why if we have the same concept of total salvation. Then, God can give us support. God is our sponsor. God is our parent. How can He take care of His children as a parent? 

We need to inherit God's way of loving and managing his children and things. It is through his personal touching experience. As a parent, God needs to have a personal touching experience with all his children. God's ministry is an individual touching of the heart. So even if you have ten children, you need to have a personal touching experience with each of them. As a leader, we have to do the same. We need to follow this kind of ministry. 

Third, as a parent, we should not miss anyone. Everyone should have a personal touching experience with each member. You should not miss anyone. It is essential to have everyone have an unforgettable touching relationship with each other. This is how to take care of each member. No one should be missing. We need to inherit God's heart. 

The person who lives a heavenly lifestyle could truly witness,  So let us love our nation: have a personal touching experience with each other and make sure no one is missing our touch. In this way, we can give total salvation to all people in the world.

Thank you so much Dr. Yong, for this very inspiring message today. It makes us feel closer to you. It inspires us to help God, and True Parents give total salvation to all the people in the world.  Having a personal touching experience and seeing to it that nobody is left behind missing our personal touch of the heart. Living a heavenly lifestyle will not just need a lot of internal effort and enthusiasm to unite and sustain our valuable relationship with God and True Parents every day.  It will also need a lot of heartistic commitment to unite with God and His purpose and, above all, end His Sorrowful Heart. 

---Rafael E. Ablong

Morning Devotion Reflection God's Heart is in Saving the World July 19, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection

God's Heart is in Saving the World

July 19, 2020 by Rafael E. Ablong

Two Dreams in a Row
Two significant dreams happened in the early morning of Friday, July 17th, and Saturday, July 18th. Last Friday morning, I dreamed of True Mother in a crowd of people (church leaders and VIPs) looking at brothers and sisters' presentations. I was leading a group of performers. After the performances, True Mother got close to me and showed me a thumb up sign with a smile. She was in her sunglasses. This is the 2nd time I dreamed of True Mother very clearly. I dreamed of her and Heung Jin Nim in 1985 when I struggled during the reconstruction of the Antipolo 2 Training Center. At that time, they brought me to the spirit world to know the difficult situations of my ancestors.

Last Saturday morning, July 18th, at almost the same time as the day before, I dreamed of Dr. Yong. He appeared professionally older, wiser, and looking relaxed during the morning devotion. I was asked to read a part of Father's words in front of the leaders and members. However, as I was holding the written speech, I moved around to help brothers and sisters who were aligning the chairs where people would sit. I asked Dr. Yong if we could just finish aligning the chairs first before I read the speech. His response was, "don't worry about the written speech because they already heard it. Just align the chairs." His words powerfully struck my consciousness, and I woke up feeling that I have to reorganize my life to actualize his message and realize the mutual desire of our longing heart. I have to go beyond my limitations and go back to writing some reflections again because this is the only way to connect to him substantially and make my presence felt.

I told my dream of True Mother to Kuya Dante Negre and both dreams to Brother Jun Jumawan. Our Filjap leader reminded me of Dr. Yong’s explanation of the Longing Heart of God and His People. If we want to see the other person, they will appear to you in a dream. He also told me that maybe because I have not written my reflections for more than a week. So I have to try hard to write even if it is difficult to do it due to our work schedules, just like Brother Jun does. So I have to write from the heart as soon as possible.

Dr. Yong must be longing to see his family, and all of us so much, too. But his movement and schedules are limited due to the social and territorial repercussions of Covid 19. At the same time, he has to attend to his regional responsibilities and make closer "touching relationships" with brothers and sisters in the region online. The longing heart that he has explained and established with Heavenly Parents and True Parents is at work with all of us, as well. So the least that I can do is to energize and inspire him by my active participation online as much as possible.


Longing Heart
I feel sad, concerned, and at the same time, happy that I have to dream two days in a row. I feel so glad, and a bit worried because the spirit world has to remind me of my relationship with True Mother and Dr. Yong to focus on what I have to do this summer. I wonder what's up with my life ahead, and I have to reflect on what I am doing or undergoing now, profoundly. Any change in my external life has to start internally. So the message of the dream is to respond to the longing heart of True Mother and Dr. Yong. To successfully solve various problems, challenges, and correctly respond to opportunities in life, we need to focus or reorganize ourselves according to our internal priorities, spiritually and physically, centering on Heavenly Parents longing heart and Their hopes for humanity and the world.

Dr. Yong's speeches are an expression of God's Longing and Sorrowful Heart for all of us. He has been guiding a lot of leaders and members through Dr. Yong. We have more "touching relationship" opportunities with our families while he has been in Thailand away from his family for some time now. His missionary life manifests determination and persistence, originality of heart, unity of purpose, and harmony with God's desire. To give beyond giving, share beyond sharing, to touch our mind and spirit to resurrect our life. The divinity of God and the heartistic humanity of Dr. Yong are expressed in his devotion messages. Our Heavenly Parents want to have a touching relationship with us so we have to be of the same value and divinity as Them. Otherwise, true reciprocity of heart cannot happen.


The Message Today, July 19
Dr. Yong's message today is about "God's Heart is in Saving the World." In this message, he provided the heartistic and principled declaration to expand the Thailand movement to all its seventy-seven provinces. The same principle he has followed, based on the substantial model exemplified by True Father, in other countries in Asia especially in Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and more. He explained how True Parents started a worldwide movement. These are the highlights of his message today.

True Father’s Strategy
God's providence begins from external to internal, internal to more internal. It is one of the essential principles True Father has followed when establishing the different organizations to save the people from the different levels of society, nation, and the world. Before God created the human beings, he made the external environment and the things that go with it to sustain His children's lives. He made the house for human beings to live.

This systematic and principled process is then replicated from external to internal, internal to more internal until people understand the coexist with the heart of God. Understanding and uniting with God's longing and sorrowful heart is the key to having a stable and undivided power to reverse the fallen iniquities of man and finally restore him to his original position.

Establishing the Holy Grounds
To start saving the world, we need to send our missionaries. So Father established holy grounds for each of the 120 nations in 1965 before sending the missionaries, his representatives, in 1975. After Father made the 120 national Holy Grounds, he sent the Unification missionaries to these 120 nations. Through these 120 national representatives, True Father began the movement in each of these nations before expanding to other countries. Establishing the holy grounds in 1965 is the foundation of faith and sending the 120 national representatives ten years later in 1975, is the foundation of substance.

Sending 120 Missionaries
Through the 120 nation representatives, he started restoring the people. When we think of national restoration, we need to think about what we need to do based on the model demonstrated by True Parents. There is a need to establish the holy grounds in each province of the country. And then, to fully execute a follow-up system after that. There is a need to send the representatives of the movement in each province after establishing the holy ground to start restoring the people. There was no clear concept about this when we started the national movement. So from now on, we need to follow True Father's methodology.

Raise Our Young Leaders
The representatives' role in each province is to establish the VIP foundation first: the governor, the city mayors, down the line. A minimum of three VIPs could start the foundation. So when we go to each province, we need to find the VIP people already prepared by God to support our movement. The next step is to raise our young leaders in each of the provinces. These young leaders need to work together with the VIPs. This is the internal condition, and the most important here is to restore their heart. So far, our centers and provinces are still weak. We need to expand from seven or eight to all the provinces.

When we do not follow our Father Moon's steps, we won't succeed at expanding the movement's foundations and restoration activities. This is the problem. We need to start from the external to the internal. We need to find and raise the VIPs, our John the Baptists. They can support and multiply the foundation in other provinces.

Educate Our VIPs
We need to educate our VIPs about their position and responsibilities. We need to send our pioneers and gradually go to other provinces. Also, we need to know the names of the blessed families in the areas and make them the pioneers of that place. Before they are sent as pioneers, we need to pray for that province. To decide which couple need to be responsible, we need to decide by lottery.

After establishing the responsible couples in the area, we can start raising young members by educating and training them. You need to send them to the provinces. That is why our VIP couples are important. They VIPs need to work together with the pioneers to increase the number of members in the different provinces. This is the model of building and expanding the foundation of the movement demonstrated by True Parents. True Father is our idol. We have to follow the idol course.

Multiply Goodness Through the VIPs
True Parents' hope is always how this nation can become God's nation? This should also be our hope. We need to utilize the VIPs. That is why God has chosen them. Let them multiply goodness and ideal families by using their external foundation. We need to find, educate, utilize, and multiply the VIPs from the government, NGOs, the academe, business, media, and others to promote True Parents' teachings and practices. We need to make our VIPs feel they are the core members: no longer the guests or VIPs. They need to multiply.

Dr. Yong wants to hear VIPs calling him to visit places to create the foundation or do follow-up activities to expand the movement. The responsibility of restoring this world rests on our shoulders. We are critical people. We know the Divine Principle and True Parents. Our job is to multiply. Okay? We need to have our blessed families accomplish this. It is a significant time in God's providence. This time never comes back ever again.

It there is a Will, there is Money
Money is secondary. If there is a Will, there is a Way. If there is a Will, there is money. Don't worry about money when you determine with a righteous will for the nation and the world. Somehow, the money will appear. God is our sponsor. Will does not just provide the way but also the resources we need to accomplish our ultimate goal. True Father never started with cash to achieve his mission. He started with the right faith and foundation, and money just flowed in.

Finding money before accomplishing a dream is the secular way. As long as we have the absolute faith for the restoration of the nation, God will show the way and give the right resources to support us to fulfill the mission. We need to find the VIPs.

Total Salvation
Many young people are asking Dr. Yong to become a pioneer in their area. God's wish is to liberate all of humankind. God's concept of salvation is not just for one person, family, society, or nation. It is total salvation. Nobody should be left in hell. He does not allow even one person to be left behind. God does not care about your religion or nationality. God is only concerned about our salvation as His Children.

For God So Loved the World, that He gave True Parents
Heavenly Parents so loved the world that He gave the True Parents that those who believed in Them will be saved. God loved the world so much, not the church, so that He gave Jesus and then our True Parents. Messiah does not come to keep only one religion or one nation but the world. All religions should focus on saving the country beyond the salvation of their own churches and families. In the future, the world's boundaries will disappear, and everyone will be able to interact and reciprocate with one another without any limitations of true love.

Due to the CoronaVirus. It takes time to recover. We need to make a plan. We need to have a one-day seminar. Go to places where there is no foundation and mobilize for a day seminar to find the VIP or John the Baptists. We need to multiply the blessing. We should not miss any place or province, even if only a few people are attending.

Make a Plan
Worry about budgeting later. If there are a Will and a plan, God will provide the money. God is our sponsor, so we should not worry about budgeting first. If we have the right internal foundation following the True Parents mobilization and organization model, we can easily support the spirit world. They will come down and help us find the people who can promote our plan and realize it.

If we love our nation more than anyone else, then God will support us. The problem is the lack of vision, passion, and enthusiasm to do God's Will. Suppose God sees us and feels our passion, vision, and motivation. He will support us naturally. That is why the Bible says, where there is no vision, people will perish. If there is a will, there will be money.

Raise the Pioneers
Raising pioneers needs a good condition, a great vision, passion, enthusiasm, and planning. If you complete a good state of Jeong Seong and have a great vision, God can immediately support you. Money is the second matter. Mother proclaimed a 7-year course. She will be 85 years old. This is a great time in history. As long as we have a righteous way, the spirit world will help and support us.

Why God blessed America?
It is because she is representative of the world. God blessed America for the sake of the world. If America cares only for itself, it will cease to be great. If America sacrificed and became responsible for the world, communism would have disappeared a long time ago. We need to think of serving the higher or more significant purpose, not just for a few provinces but for the world. God will bless this nation if you sacrifice for the world.

Be of Maximum Use
We need to make the maximum use of our bodies. Money is secondary. It will follow our plan if we have the vision, passion, and enthusiasm. Vision, will, passion, and enthusiasm make money. If we follow a righteous course, absolute faith, love, and obedience to the Will, then we can succeed if the young people of the nation work hard centered on God's Will at this time. This nation will receive a great blessing. You should love the world more than the nation, love other religions more than your own, love other families more than your own. Then God will bless you more.

The Messianic Concept is a Unificationist Concept
Our entire vision and passion to do it should encapsulate the world. This is a Messianic concept, a Unificationist concept. So our vision should have the world first before our nation, other families before our family. Any religion that cares only for its own will decline. It is hard to develop a religion that only focuses on themselves. Denominations are declining because they forget their mission. They should go beyond their own self-concepts and prosperity. If the family concentrates exclusively on itself, it will not achieve more than the family. We have to raise our children for the nation and the world. We have to think of world salvation.

Those who do not love the world cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. People in the world are my brothers and sisters. We have to treat them as our family members. Our vision is for the world, but we have to save our nation first then go out to the world.

Why do I respect Father and Mother Moon? It is because they want to save the entire people of the world. They do not want anyone left behind to go to hell. Everybody has to be saved. According to our Universal Principles of Peace, God is our parent. If religions and nations do not have this kind of concept, we cannot save the world.

True Mother’s Situation and Sincerity
True Mother said I could not sleep. I cannot rest. I am so serious. You look at me and my age and the 7-year course. After seven years, I will be 85 years old. No one knows when we go to the spirit world. We must make a heavenly unified world by 2027. She wants to restore one-third of the population of the world. We only have six years left. We have to make a plan to restore the remaining provinces. We have to go beyond the areas where we exist. We need to include everybody to receive the benefit of the blessing.

We have to mobilize our doctors' team. Why do you get a doctors' degree? It is for the sake of living for others. We have to truly love our family, province, nation, and the world. Our life is very short. Let us be serious.

Dr. Yong's pioneering, missionary, and heroic spirit always inspire us to dominate our bodies and properties and go beyond our limitations. Having a vision, passion, and enthusiasm to do God's Will is essential to having the resources to turn dreams into reality.


Thank you so much, Dr. Yong for showing us the way. We sincerely appreciate your heart for Heavenly Parents and True Parents, and we want to emulate your example. We will do our best to follow your exemplary leadership. Thank you, Brother Jun, for reminding me. Thanks, Kuya Dante, for listening to me and sharing your dream as well.

--Rafael E. Ablong

Jun Jumawan’s MD Reflection, July 1, 2020

MD Reflection

“The reason behind the lost of First Love”

By: Jun Jumawan

I was born in order to give.If I will not give, I will be dying.
Where there’s God, there there is public mission.
Private means there is no God.
Whatever we do is public even serving our own spouse, children and family is public mission.
Thank you so much beloved Heavenly Parent, True Parents and Dr. Yong for today’s Morning Devotion message.
“The reason behind the lost of First Love”

Our first love should be our love to our first eternal Parent, our Heavenly Parent.
The reason behind the lost of the first love is because we lost our sight of God’s Sorrowful Heart.
Our first love is Gods sorrowful heart.
To recover our first love, we need to to recognize God is our eternal absolute parent.it should be in-separable.

If we cannot recover our first love means we belongs to Satan. Three import points to recover our first love;
We need to accept that God is our eternal Parent.
We need to experienced God’s sorrowful heart.
We need to take action.
We need to have longing our heart.

When we wake up in the morning, how much do we think and really miss God and a True Parents. Do we kiss their picture as means of expressing our care and love to them?
We have forsaken our first love.
To recover our lost, we need to remember to the point where we fall away and need to repent.

The reason our resolve doesn’t last; even if we realized God’s sorrow yet we become stagnant is because we don’t take action in saving God’s lost children. We don’t do witnessing.
Our understanding of God’s sorrowful heart and relationship is just conceptual.

As blessed family, the best way to raise up our second generation is to let them do witnessing.
We must create a spirit if witnessing atmosphere.

The weapon Satan needs the most.
When we are half-faith and doubting.
When we complain and defiant.
When we create conflict, disunity.
When we felt dissatisfaction.

The Essenes of Satan is always doubting.
True Father said; complain is a short cut way to hell. It will delay the Providence.

The best example is Moses time. When husband and wife have disunity and complain problem, there is always a problem of misfortune, lost of money.

Those who always hate and complain can easily be sick of cancer.

To resolve; instead of complain, we should live a life of gratitude and appreciation. This is the reason why Dr. Yong encourage all of us to practice a life of writing 10 words of appreciation everyday for 6 months, to see great changes and miracles to happen in our life.

Thank you so much once again ,Dr. Yong...Kamsahamnida!

Morning Devotion Reflection, July 1, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection

"The Reason Behind the Lose of First Love"

by Rafael E. Ablong

Today's message was preceded with practical and robust guidance of members about the Principle of giving and receiving.. I find them so useful and reminiscent of the early years of my life in the movement. These are the highlights of today's message.

Sometimes it is easy for us to become workaholics. When we become workaholic, our life becomes habitual, just facing reality squarely every day. It is very hard to appreciate every time. Without giving love, our Heart will not be stimulated. As long as we are alive, we need to give. Even just a glass of water is enough to stimulate reciprocal relationships centering on true love.. We need to give first to be stimulated. Those who are always giving have a heart that is always stimulated.

Until the moment of death, we need to give and serve and attend.a while we are alive. The importance is the quality of our serving and giving. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to be stimulated and survive. Our job is giving and giving until we die. As long as we breathe or as long as we are alive, we need to give. If there is no heart to give. You have to force yourself to give because giving stimulates the Heart. Until the moment of our death, we need and serve from the Heart. To survive in our spiritual life, we need to give and serve even by force to make it into a habit. There is no other way.

Formation stage, we need to give by force. Growth stage, half-volunteer. The other half is conscious about giving. Completion stage is forgiving that you provided. Giving has already become natural. Here giving has become a habit. If we focus more on our work, we cannot find the meaning of life. This is the secret. We need to see and feel the gift of giving. When members look at their leaders, they will feel. It . Fallen man does not have a natural heart of giving. This concept of giving has to be stimulated even by fore. If there is sincerity and consistent attempt to give, then it becomes a good habit. With your sincerity, if you really want to give, even if you force yourself to do it. Then you learn to give until it becomes. If I give, I grow. f I don't give, I will decline.

When we finally get to the level of our Heart. We have to think that we were born to give. Without giving , we will die. Giving is life. Not giving is death. We are going to die spiritually if we fail to give. Children should receive this kind of experience. Not knowing how to give means not having received enough love when we were young. That is why children need to receive a lot of love when they are young from the people surrounding them in their daily life: especially their parents, grandparents, and brothers and sisters.

We don't get mature without love. Love is very important to create maturity. We need to receive a lot of love from the family to know how to give love or live for others. The inability to live for others or to serve people from the Heart is a problem coming from the family environment. Abel has to be responsible. Abel should set the example of living or serving others with love. People who cannot practice love or live for others could not receive love from their parents. I need to be responsible for giving more than I receive from Abel and members.

"This is why I love Rev. Yo Han Lee very much. This man is a man of giving through God's words. Never let anyone leave with empty hands. They should be able to give love. True Abel starts the giving and loving. Don't scold members if they are self-centered. Study that person's background. You need to study that person first. He learned love from his parents. Start giving your love to this person then he will follow you eternally. If a leader loves the members more than their parents.

SIxty-four years of front line experience is not about theory. This is about the real praxis and Principle of life. A true Abel always feels regretful when he looks at members and learns from them. He regrets not having given or served enough. If you have this kind of attitude, wherever you go, you can always create the kingdom of heaven. I am talking from experience.

If Abel is a giving person, you can create a heavenly environment. Abel should live a life of giving. Even our leaders do not know how to give. This is the Principle of Giving and Receiving. Not the other way around. Give first, then receive. There is no other way for children to know how to give, but through receiving love. So that they will learn how to give, they need to have people who will model them as good examples of loving, giving, and serving so they can follow their case in the future.

You need to think. I believe in God, and I believe in True Parents. Do you have to ask yourself? What am I doing in this Providence? Some leaders do not know how to give back. What is the Principle? Give and then receive. We should feel regretful if we don't give more.

Tong-Il Moo-Do is not the central Providence. It is not that way. You need to think I believe in God and True Parents. Sleeping, eating, and whatever you do. Serving your parents, serving your wife, serving your children. You need to think: I am participating in God's central Providence. Take care of them so you can do more for Heavenly Providence. If you go home from a public mission and you think that your home is a private place. This kind of thinking is not right. It is terrible.

Where there is God, there is public. There is no privacy in God. Everything is open with God. Even sleeping, eating, or whatever you do in your home. Everything is public because God is always everywhere. He is omnipresent. So public-mindedness is natural and should be omnipresent. Love makes it omnipotent, indeed. Always think you are participating in God's Providence.

Do not think that doing HTM is public, and living in your family home life is private. Where there is God, there is public. Only you and God are private, yet it is still public because God is. If you think you want to make Tong-il IMoo-Do as one of the main Providence. I will bring results though TIMD. You need to be proud of yourself.

Today's message "The Reason Behind the Lose of First Love." It is futile when we do not know why God is working so hard to recreate his ideal. Because of the Fall, Adam and Eve lost their first love. Our first love is parental. I receive first love from my parents. Human beings are poised to receive love from Heavenly Parents. Then Adam and Eve lost their first love. When the True Father needs God's reality, he comes to realize that God is sorrowful. He cannot describe his sorrow. True Father's love is our Heavenly Parents heart. The reason why you lost your first love is that you lost sight of God's grief. If you miss a sorrowful situation, your life becomes related to Satan. You immediately come back to reality. You become more humanistic.

When the True Father experienced and understood God's Heart. When he knew about God's reality, he began to understand his fundamental relationship with God. He came to understand this unbreakable relationship. God is an unchained God. Even though man is unstable, God is unchanging. He has to be an unchanging God. M¥No matter what, someday He and human beings become one.

The first love of the True Parents was God's, sorrowful Heart. When you lose God's sorrow, you won't recognize God's sorrowful Heart. God is our Parent, and we are His children. That is a fundamental relationship. Even if children forget their parents, the parents never forget. God as a parent never forgets His children. The relationship between God and His children is an unbreakable relationship. This relationship cannot be divided. That is why it is eternal.

How can I recover my first love? First, we must recognize our eternal Parent. God is my unchanging absolute parents. Godi is my Parent. Right now, we are in this position: You lost the relationship between parents. If you do not know why God is sorrowful . You need to accept God is my eternal Parent. God will never forget and Secondly, we need to understand. God's character is unchanging, that is why He needs to love human beings. He always hopes that someday God and human beings will be united. Your relationship with God is inseparable. First love is eternal/

How can I recover my first love.? We have to recognize God is our unchanging parents. You have to bring mass with you together. Always, true Father remembers. Good is an unchanging God. Our venly character is always unchanging.

No matter what happens, my relationship with God is inseparable. First love is eternal. How do you recognize the love of God? Will you recover from my first love? E need to love. Right now, we're in position to goe love and express our love for each other.

No matter what, God needs to love His children, easily. Our character should be absolute. . We have to be Absolutely united with God. First love never changes. It is always eternal.

How can we recover our first love with God? First we need to accept God as our Eternal Heavenly Parents. Second, We need to experience God's Sorrowful Heart. Third, we need to take action. This is putting our belief into praxis or practice. Fourth, we need to have a longing heart for God and True Parents. This longing heart should be more than eating, sleeping or anything the physical world has to offer to gratify our physical body. Without experiencing God's pain and sorrow as our own and without a longing heart, we cannot overcome all the temptations and carnal pleasures the fallen world can offer.

Recognizing God as our eternal parents is just the first step of recovering our original existence, original human nature and relationship with Him. When we recognize God as our Parent then we can liberate our first generation of spiritual ancestors. Without knowing why God is working so hard, our situation would be futile. This futility becomes evident in the kind of work or mission that we do. Without recognizing God's real situation from the time before the Fall, after the fall, and in restoration history, we would not be able to work harder and have results in our love and longing for God.

We have to examine ourselves everyday when we wake up. How much do we really miss God and True Parents? Do we kiss True Parents pictures to express our lour care, love and longing for Them? To restore ourselves and recover the first love, we need to always remember the fall, repent for our sins and strongly fight against our inclinations to practice fallen behavior. We should forget this point.

The reason our resolve does not last. Why is it like this? We feel God's sorrow but it does not last longer. We are confronted by the realities of the world. Our conceptual understanding of God cannot keep our first motivation. We cannot maintain our first resolution and motivation every time we are confronted with reality. This is our problem. When we lose our first motivation and fail to comfort God's sorrowful Heart. When reality dominates our first motivation. How can I comfort God's sorrowful Heart. To keep our first motivation and resolution. Everyday we have to remind ourselves of our motivation and think how to keep our loving Heart. We should not just be workers.

How to overcome this reality? We need to understand and experience God's Heart.

Second reason why our motivation does not last. Our thinking is full of negativity. We need to know how to get rid of negative thinking because Satan always wants it. Negative environment is everywhere. This is the reason why we need to testify. We need to testify that God is ave and using this power power that God is alive. We need to kill to overcome our negativity. We need to have a mindset and attitude to overcome negativity and fallen behavior.

We should avoid complaining and defiance in our life of fatin. The essence of Satan is always doubting. Even if we have the Principle, sometimes when we are confronted with chaos and challenges in our daily life, doubting and defiance come out, Satan comes in in the form of doubt and complaining. This is the problem. When we start doubting God, True Father as the Messiah, once we doubt True Mother, we go back to Satan. When we have half-faith, half-doubt or when we constantly fluctuate between daunting and belief, we cannot accomplish anything meaningful and Satan uses it to completely end our life with the living God.

To overcome our half-faith, half-doubt we have to have absolute Faith, love and obedience. We need to accept True Parents as the Messiah. We should be like Father who never changes his absolute love. We are a historical offering. When we have absolute love, faith and obedience, we can overcome problems of faith, doubt and defiance.

Thank you so much Dr. Yong for this message today. We really need to experience God's sorrowful and painful Heart so that we can easily overcome all the trials and difficulties, doubts, complaints and defiance that feed on our fallen limitations. Thank you for revealing to us the secret source of True Father's internal and external power. Thank you very much.

--Rafael Ablong 
                                                

Morning Devotion: "The Attributes of a Longing Heart," June 27, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection 

"The Attributes of a Longing Heart,"

June 27, 2020 by Rafael E. Ablong

I feel like I am living in the time of True Father when he started putting his revelations with Rev. Hyo Won Eu writing. In this age and time, Rev. Yong is genuinely used by True Parents to deepen our understanding of God's Heart and become with Him in His sorrow after the Fall. We, the listeners, are like Rev. Hyo Won Eu. We are writing the revelations of True Father. God knows that the only way for us to be saved, restored, and perfected is through this new normal ideology of God's longing heart.

Dr. Yong has been explaining the Longing Heart. In his message today, "The Attributes of a Longing Heart," he summarized his internal realizations and discovery from years of missionary work, pioneering spirit, and leadership. This revelation was given through Dr. Yong for a higher purpose and a deeper reason. We can inherit from the longing heart of God and True Parents. These are the main points, and they are most substantial so far.

Forget the prosperity of the world and go the path of Heaven. That is glorious and a great thing to do. When True Father was in Hungnam prison, he did not witness it with words. He witnessed without words, and the spirit world cooperated with him. The spirit world knew that bad things could happen if they did not work with Father.

Heavenly Parents and True Parents are parents with longing hearts. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is a world of Heart. What is the essence of Heart? It is the longing heart. If there is Heart and love, there is always a longing heart. That is why we need to have a certain degree of this kind of Heart. It is a heart that is thirsty and desperate to experience God's Heart and do His Will.

What is the best way to develop a longing heart? It is through Jeongseong. What is the purpose of Jeong Seong? It is to raise the longing heart. If we don't have Jeong Seong, we cannot grow a longing heart. We need to have a longing heart with desperation. We can realize our dreams and see people in our dreams if we have a longing Heart.


Have you experienced shedding tears because of a longing heart? Because of this longing heart, you cannot stop your tears from longing. If you do not have this kind of experience, you are not growing and loving tTrue Parents more than you should to become a true man and woman if we want to be a true man or woman who does not deal with fallen nature. We have this kind of longing Heart to be an ideal man and woman. We will have unity between mind and body.


What is the most crucial preparation before starting your family? It is the longing to start an ideal family with ideal parents and ideal children. If we dream of this longing heart of a perfect family, someday it will become a reality. Unseen things become visible. Impossible dreams become possible. This is God's hope for all of us. God knows everything. Yet we should establish this ideal connection of longing hearts, so the two hearts of God and ours will become one.

So many problems and challenges will come to you, but if you have a longing heart. You will quickly go through many obstacles. If we don't have a longing heart, reality becomes big and insurmountable. However, if we have a longing heart, reality becomes small, and dreams become real. We have to have a longing heart for an ideal family so that it will become a reality.

How much do you have a longing heart for an ideal nation? If we have this nation, Father wants to stay with us. But he could not do this because there is no perfect Chun Il Guk nation yet. Our most important preparation is a longing heart. If we understand God and True Parents' hearts. This will be the driving power for the realization of the ideal nation. God's wishes are our foundation to receive or build it.

If we want to see the ideal world where all the races come together, celebrate our relationships and with God. Then we need to calm down and look again. Together we can do something. How much do we long for the ideal kingdom? How much longing heart do we have for each other? Our family pledge number 5 tells us about doing our responsibilities centering on true love. Whenever we recite the family pledge, we should have a longing heart. A longing heart gives you the internal power to mobilize the spirit world. The longing heart provides an inherent attitude to make everyone come together without limitations. It goes beyond the boundaries of ideology, race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, passions, and persuasions. There is no fighting between people. This is what realizes one family under God, and one world under God. How much do we long for the ideal universe where there is no hell and no middle world?

These are the attributes of the longing heart. First, it has the magnetic power of attraction. It has the potential to pull two things together. It has the force to meet and unite with anyone you love. Longing heart comes with the power of attraction. It has the charismatic energy that attracts others' attention and love. It pulls the universe and anyone we love. So, at the end of human history, all humanity will become one together. Longing heart has a magical power of having two people meet to unite and stay together.

Second, a longing heart transcends time and space. It is the fertile ground for growing heavenly cooperation and heartistic intuition. It does not care about distance, history, time, and space. It provides a shortcut to the Kingdom of Heaven. If we have a longing heart to meet all the Biblical or historical figures, they will appear in front of you. Even if you have children somewhere, they will exist within your Heart. So that before they experience something dangerous or difficult, you will immediately know before they happen.

Thirdly, it unites beings together. It initiates the unity of mind and body, unity of husband and wife, parents and children, siblings, Cain and Abel, subject and object. It reinforces the unity and strength of all relationships. If I have a longing heart to become a perfect person, the holy spirit will come down, and she will tell you it is the longing heart. If we truly long to have an ideal spouse, then we will have a longing heart to do it. Through this longing heart, we can eliminate our arrogance, elevate our humility, resolve conflicts with our spouse, find the best solution to children's development concerns, and other challenges. With it, we can forget all our quarrels. It helps us compromise our pride and find the answers to everything we want to know and do for a higher purpose.

When we touch our spouse without a longing Heart, it feels like rubber. There is no human electricity. But if there is a longing heart, electrical charges immediately spark and stimulate a love response. With a longing heart, we get closer and closer physically. Without a longing heart, women won't open up. Our sexual problems and fallen nature result from the lack of a longing heart of the ideal world, God and True Parents. How do we unite mind and body, husband and wife, parents and children, God, True Parents, and human beings? It is through the longing heart.

Fourth. A longing heart makes you dream. Father said if you don't see me in your dreams. You are fake. If you have a longing heart for True Father, you will see him in your dreams and vision.

Fifth. Tears always accompany a longing heart. If you truly miss your loved one, tears will flow naturally. If you have a longing to see your spouse, you will see your spouse in your dream. If there is true love, there is a longing heart; you will have tears. If a longing heart accompanies your leadership, then no member will run away.

Sixth. It will connect to a meeting in person. You will have substantial Sangbong experience. Reunion and spiritual growth occur when you have a longing heart. The more you don't see someone, the more longing you develop, the more your hearts yearn to be reunited with your loved one. Sangbong experience happens when you have a longing heart.

Seventh. A longing heart multiplies itself. It multiplies your ability to make results happen. It increases the multiplicative potential of your results. It means your results will multiply. If you have witnessed a few people and your Heart touches them, they will naturally witness other people in the same way. In the end, you will just be waiting and educating people to have a longing heart of unity and peace, which will multiply and reach out to many people. You will not have results if you witness without a longing heart. So the most significant instrument of witnessing is a longing heart. If you have no longing heart, you can quickly multiply.

Eighth. It makes you experience the objects' Hearts. It makes you understand their situation and allow you to go through any difficulty to accomplish their wish. Because he follows God's Heart, he keeps longing for God, and he always tries to achieve his wish for God. If we don't have a longing heart, we won't be able to break through our circumstances to console and comfort God.

Ninth. It brings unimaginable power. When parents have a longing heart for children, they don't have money to send them to school. They will have incredible power to find work or money to provide for their children's education. That strong sense of responsibility and power of a longing heart could easily overcome various kinds of situations.
Tenth. It helps you surpass life and death. You can always do anything out of love. Even the outside world has this experience. People die because of fallen love. Jesus' longing heart made him go through the boundary of death into the paradise of eternal life because of this incredible power of longing heart.

Eleventh. A longing heart mobilizes the spirit world. Due to Father's longing and loving Heart for God, the spirit world assembled to witness and bring him food. He was able to avoid death and accomplished great things for God and humanity because of his longing heart. He didn't care about dying and resting because He knew God is in pain and suffering. He was the only filial son to liberate God from His sorrowful and painful experience for thousands of years.

Twelfth. A longing heart gives us the right to participation, equal status, right of inheritance, and the right of common abode. When you love God and True Parents, you will always want to participate with whatever they do. The power of equal status is a result of a longing heart. When a poor countryside girl meets a prince and marries him, she becomes a princess. The right of inheritance is a natural result of love and longing heart. That is why we need to become a role model. If we want to become successful men and women, we become one if we have a longing heart. Living together is a result of a longing heart. Who would ever let go when we have a longing heart for each other.

While we are on the earth, we need to fulfill our portion of responsibility. Otherwise, we will pass this responsibility to our children. Our body does not belong to us. We have to take care of our body by feeding it with spiritual and physical food. We are a historical offering, so we need to live longer and do more for others, God and True Parents.

We have a significant debt to Father because of his love and everything that he did for us. That is why we need to educate our children the way True Parents taught us. There are meanings to each of the numbers. One is for God; two is for the reciprocal base; three is for perfection and settlement; four is for position foundation and safe settlement; five is for all things; six is for resentment; seven is for rest or sabbath; eight is for restarting; nine is for completion, and ten is for restoration and unity.

God's providence will settle in the third generation. As fallen people, it is hard to have a longing heart. God does not have a sabbatical year. When we keep the heavenly faith, blessing, and tradition for seven generations, we can already experience Heaven on Earth. God and True Parents can have a sabbatical year. Our dreams will come true when we set up a goal of having the third to the fourth generation live together if we have an ardent desire and desperate efforts to accomplish God's Will and purpose at this time through following the model example of True Parents. We have to keep our three generations pure and powerful with God's Heart. The only way for them to keep their heavenly character and blessing is to truly understand and unite with God's sorrowful Heart and situation.

Thank you so much, Dr. Yong, for sharing your internal discovery, missionary experience, and pioneering spirit with us. It is truly giving us a lot of inspiration, positivity, and optimism to continue what we have started. We need to integrate your guidance with our biorhythm. We genuinely feel that we are like rockets with this high power and energy ready to take us off into the atmosphere of God's love. Thank you so much again for everything. --Rafael E. Ablong

                         

Morning Devotion Reflection, June 25, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection

June 25, 2020

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Today, Dr. Yong's message reveals his heart of always trying to inherit God's sorrow and True Father's example of restoring the places and the people after the Fall. His incredible experience with visiting the families of members, the External Cain (politicians), and the internal Cains (the religious leaders) give us an insight into how to fulfill our mission the Principled Way indeed. These are the highlights of his speech today.

We have to be the representatives of God and True Parents. So we should not treat ourselves" as our own. This kind of representation is significant. When we recite the family pledge, we are speaking as a representative of my family, tribe, ancestors, God, and True Parents. Our recitation of the pledge has a remarkable impact every time we say it. Adam and Eve treated themselves as their own. They never knew about being representatives of humankind. They do not have the concept of representative. Each one of them treated themselves as their own. So we should change our concepts and go beyond it.

We are not just ourselves. We belong to God and True Parents. Each of us is a representative who needs to convey God's precious blessing to all over the world. Our True Parents always remember that they are the vanguards on indemnity in place of history. Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us. How much Heavenly Father loves each one of us. Why did God choose each one of us an adopted person to stand the representatives of our family, tribe, and all of humankind?

There is a particular reason why. Through loving us, Heavenly Father wants to love many people. Through us, He wants us to save our ancestors, our tribes, ancestors, and all humankind. There is an individual purpose for us to become His heavenly sons and daughters. Through us, he wants all humanity to receive the blessing.

To restore the world, Father made it a point to visit each country, beginning with visiting all the cities in Korea. Whenever True Father visited any place, he would always take note of the ancestors' investments. He wants to inherit the ancestors Jeongseong and heart. We all need to be the courageous pioneers of faith. Rev. Yo Han Lee advised us a long time ago. When we are a pioneer, how do you restore your area of pioneering? As a minster, as a center leader, as a blessed family and as a pioneer.

There is a principle of how to restore the tribal area, village, nation, and others. Without following the Principle, we cannot regain our respective pioneering areas. God created that atmosphere in each area. Without following the Principle, we cannot follow True Father's way to restore our mission area. Exactly, we need to follow the Principle.

We need to inherit God's tears for each area when he started his world tour in 1965. In the future, all of us will become leaders. God created in the order of creation. He created the environment first. Then He created Adam and Eve. In the creation process, God prepared the external environment first. We need to inherit God's tears and suffering in this area,

First, wherever we go. We need to restore the environment. Making the Holy Ground is the condition to restore the environment. Secondly, Father promised to God, three years later, he will send the missionaries. That is why in 1975, he sent the missionaries all over the world. And then, he called all the missionaries to educate their heart more internally. So God's restoration approach is like this. To restore a nation, there is a need to visit each city of the country. We need to restore members. So when Father went to America, he did a 50-state tour. At least once a year, you need to visit the entire nation. We must educate the people to remember God's, Will, and Heart. Thus, Father visited each corner of South Korea, first. So he knows every corner in Korea. He cries for each province in Korea.

Father said when you become a missionary or pioneer. First, you need to visit the area like the top politician in the city to the provincial level. How much have you visited the holy ground? Then the spirit world will try to assist you. The national leader should have a concept of total salvation. Secondly, you have to visit your parents. Father always thinks of all humankind.

We have to go through the external first. We have to visit the top politician first. Visit the city mayor and the provincial governor. You need to show who you represent. Next, you need to visit the religious leaders, and then you need to focus on direct witnessing. You came as a representative. The external Cain is a politician. The internal Cain is the religious leader. Through this, you can quickly mobilize. If you do not do this, it is hard to succeed.

The Principled way first is to start from the top to bottom, not the other way around.. We need to repent if we haven't done this. We need to visit all the Christian churches. The religious people are the ones who are prepared by God. You have to find the right people God has prepared.

The other important point is to love the members' origin. The center leader should know this. Have you visited the members' house? If you have not visited them, you are not doing it in a principled way. You have to go to each home. Do not miss any house. You have to visit every house. After six months, incredible things will happen. This is what we can learn from Rev. Yo Han Lee's experience. We have to proceed from external to internal to more internal.

The leaders should visit the members' houses. You should love the member' parents more than your own. You have to remember their names and their birthdays. If you do like this, no member will leave the church. They will feel important and connected to you. When you know your members' origin, you will feel connected to each other and begin to love them more than your own, internally. This is why Dr. Yong visited all the cities in the Philippines, Korea, Indonesia, India, and other countries. The spirit world will begin to reveal to you things that will help you succeed. If we do this, Satan will not accuse us.

After you finish, you visit again every year. Everything is about Jeong Seong. Heavenly Parents is the origin of our life and the universe. Ask yourself: how many politicians have you visited? How many religious leaders have you met with brothers and sisters? We need to teach our brothers and sisters properly. When you visit the members' house, you need to bring something. If you do this, the members' will have this unforgettable experience. You have to inherit the origin of a place: its history, its families, and its people.

We have to love people internally and eternally. How many times have True Parents visited each state in America? Father showed us the way. So, we need to follow Father's example. We have to be the representative of Heavenly Parent and True Parents? The voices of the people's ancestors are still alive until today. This is why studying the place, people and their history is very important.

"Try going to the highest pace in the city and pray for its people. Even if you just come and go, the spirit world will help you inherit it and its people. Miracles will begin to happen. The holy spirit will come down. When I wrote to True Mother about my experience with visiting every place in the country where I go. True Mother got so inspired. The letter I sent to her was shared with all the leaders, and they started calling me." They wanted to learn from his experience and apply it.

You have to determine to leave a trace of your presence, blood, sweat, and tears. The evidence of your Jeongseong should be left in those places that you visit. If this is your commitment and way of serving those places, nobody will accuse you. Miracles will start happening after a certain period.

No pain, no gain. If there is no investment in pain and profound experience., it is hard to gain something. Gaining comes after investing pain and suffering. We need to think about how Jesus and True Father did it when they were alive. If they were to go now and visit you, they would quickly feel our love and tears. We always have to think we are a historical offering. We have to inherit our ancestors Jeong Seong. If you shed tears more than the historical figures from Adam to Noah, Abraham, and all, then they will feel your heart and spirit.

We need to go beyond the concept of faith and works. If we do not do our mission correctly from the Principled point of view, we will not gain enough victory. We need a united effort and character to show our faith and commitment and realize the world we all want to live in peace together. There is a trace of fallen blood, sweat, and tears for historical people and God's experience with them in blood, sweat, and tears. When we inherit the spirit and character of God, True Parents, the historical figures, and the ordinary people in the area, you can feel their incredible experience and God's sorrowful tears.

When we discover the blood, sweat, and tears of the people and the places we visit. Then we begin to inherit its spirit, character, and heart, sweat, and tears. And, we can fight for the restoration of those places. If we meet God's sorrowful tears and overcome our sleep, and everything our physical body wants. Then we can succeed in anything we want to accomplish. We need to unite our mind and body, heart, and lineage with God's sorrowful tears. When we repent bitterly, atonement commences, and unbelievable things start to happen for the good of your mission and your relationship with God and True Parents.

Let us take every opportunity to grow from the experience of investing our Jeongseong in everything. By repenting bitterly, we can remove our sins. We need to restore one people, one sovereignty, one territory to God and True Parents.

If we raise the level of our heart from this kind of motivation, effort, and experience, we can quickly get the response and the result of our investment. The good spirit world will open up, and they will help us mobilize for the realization of God's Will. If we genuinely love Heavenly Parents, we need to love the origins of our brothers and sisters, the love of the people, and the places we go.

Thanks a lot, Dr. Yong, for such a beautiful account of your leadership and pioneering history. We feel God is active and alive through you. Thank you so much for everything you have done. And for all the things that you continue to do for all of us. Kamsahamnida!

--Rafael E. Ablong

Morning Devotion Reflection -- June 26, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection:

 "A person who cannot love their own country cannot love Heaven."

June 26, 2020 

The famous song, "Non Mori De" they sang before the main message reminded Dr. Yong of his feelings for True Father. It reminds him of the True Father: his love, thoughts, admiration, and yearning for him, making his tears naturally come down. I like this song very much. Although I don't understand Korean, I can feel the heartistic character and melody of the song. Listening to it is like watching Korean movies. Once you start watching it, you cannot help but finish it.

The speech of Dr. Yong today urges us to continually remind ourselves of God's sorrowful Heart so we will succeed in our efforts to liberate Him, True Parents, and humankind. After all, what strictly connects us to him is the Heart of understanding and unity with His Sorrowful situation. With this kind of longing heart and mindset, we will overcome our small battles to win the bigger war, retake this world from Satan and bring it to God. We have to regularly remind ourselves of God's Heart to stabilize or rectify our motivation and purpose for every action and reaction. These are some of the highlights today.

The topic today is, "A person who cannot love their own country cannot love Heaven." We need to learn from our True Parents. Whenever True Father studied the Bible, he would shed tears for each page. He reads it over and over again until all the pages tatter. When he reads with tears, his goal was always to find the secrets of God. When he studies any textbook, he always wants to find the truth.

Father selects the books carefully so he can find God's truth. He was always motivated to study to discover God's truth. He wanted to know each page's secrets that might lead him to understand his people's destiny. He always had a desperate and thirsty heart to find God's truth. When he went to America at over 60 years old, he wanted to study the book of glory. He tried to remember one word. He studied this way like it was life and death for him. He always had this single-minded purpose and extraordinary attitude when he reads other kinds of books.

Seriously learning the Korean language and learning Father's words will have everybody become a master. The problem is we don't have the sincerity to study hard for Heaven. Father always connects everything he does to God's Heart and Purpose. He always remembers his past because every moment was so serious for him. Every second was a life and death situation. So he was always so serious. Do you know why? It is because Heavenly Parents is so serious about saving His children. He cannot rest just thinking and doing something to save His children from the pits of hell and misery.

Whenever you seriously study and do God's Will, you can inherit Father's attitude. Our True Father is always amazing. He does not care about his age when he studies. Even when he was 90 years old, he studied English. He wanted to save the English-speaking people. By following the background of the language, we can understand how to save those people who speak it. We have to inherit this mind and attitude.

Prayer is done the same way, too. Our prayers should be done thoughtfully in tears. Father knows God's reality, so whenever he does anything, it is not a job. He always does things for the sake of Heaven, and every second of doing it is an issue of death or salvation for the people he wanted to restore. He does not even care about when he focuses his Heart to do or understand things for God and humanity.

We have to ask ourselves. Why am I doing this? What is the purpose of my study? I have to study for the sake of God's Will. We have to inherit Father's attitude. He is always crazy for the sake of God's Will. When he left Korea to study in Japan during Korea's Japanese occupation, he shed tears for his country and people. So he entrusted his nation to God while he was away. He was twenty years old at that time, but he already had the Heart for Heaven, his country, and his people. Father knew that for Korea to be a chosen nation, Korea has to undergo so many years of tearful and bloody sacrifices. True Father truly understands the Korean people's suffering. He shed tears for his country as he left for Japan on that boat.

Dr. Yong's research of Father's prayer life revealed that Father' says his prayers verbally with tears. The tearful prayers don't just last minutes but hours. He always prayed from when he was 19 years old. A Christian lady noticed that Father's prayer was different. His prayers are sincere and desperate. She was so moved by Father's attitude in prayer and life, so she became Father's protector, she brought him food, and ultimately, she became a member of the church.

Father loved the nation of Korea, like his parents or children. How about you? How much do you love your country? Have you studied your nation's history? Before this nation became what it is now, so many righteous people laid their lives and offered their sacrifices for its foundation and birth. They shed a lot of tears, suffering and sacrifices. This is why Father is the patriot of patriots, the holy man of holy men.

Father decided to go to Japan at the age of 20. When he left Korea for Japan on the train and the boat, he felt like he was leaving Korea as an orphan. He loved Korea like a God, like his parents, like his children. Who can protect this nation, which can protect this nation? A Japanese lady who was seated beside him on the train noticed his uncontrollable tears, but she doesn't know why Father was crying that much. At that time, he said that a person who cannot love their nation could not love God. A person who loves God cannot help but love the people God loves. You must love your nation. You cannot abandon your nation.

In Cambodia, more than two million were killed during the war. So you definitely love your nation. We need to inherit Father's Heart. Father said if you go to a foreign country. You should love that country more than your own, more than Father. So if you go to Thailand, you should love the nation of Thailand. If you marry a Cambodian citizen, you need to have your body buried in that nation. You have to love the kingdom of Cambodia. If you have done this following the True Father's example, Father will recognize you and be happy for you as long as we carry our mission in the mission country. You should have that kind of spirit. You did not just come to the country as a missionary and go after a month or a year. You need to have your body buried in your mission country. This makes your life more valuable and your time more famous.

That is why I genuinely love and respect Japanese missionaries who have come to join their spouses in another country. They only have a love for God and True Parents. They depended on their faith when hardships came and lived by their faith with a dedication to overcome their new environment's language, culture, and tradition. They have sacrificed so much. They only had one thing, only love for God and True Parents. Without Japanese missionaries' love and sacrifice, our movement cannot exist and expand. That is the missionary spirit.

That is why you need to have that kind of spirit for your children. You need to send them out to the world. So that is why my family lived internationally. We always moved here and there. My wife raised our small children. Sung shin was born in Puerto Rico. Her baby was always crying on the plane. She did not know what to do. So every time a baby cries on the plane, I remember my Sung Shin. We have to love our nation. If we can not love our nation, we cannot truly love God.

Our prayers should be as sincere as Father's prayer. We should pray in tears. The most dangerous minister is a minister without tears for God. If you have no tears for God, You are fake. Whenever you think of God and humankind and people in the world, tears would fall. Your tears for them are your tears for Heaven when you love your children.

Happy birthday to your son Dr. Yong! We feel so sorry for your children because you have to do your mission away from your children. How much more for God? If we truly love your children, you will always be in tears. Where there is a longing heart, there is always tears. Human history is a history of tears. Patriots and saints shed tears for Heaven. When a person thinks and prays for his nation in tears, that kind of a person is a patriot. Saints feel the same way.

Father's Heart is like that and more. Have you ever cried for your nation? If you have never cried for your nation, you are not a patriot. If you haven't cried for your parents, you are not a filial child. If you have never cried for the world, you will never be a saint.

Love equals tears. Longing heart is equal to tears. If you really have a longing heart for God and True Parents, then your tears automatically come out. Some people hide their tears. I want to experience tears with God. How can I shed tears for God as Father does? If we love our members, they will never leave the center. Why am I still here? It is because of Father's incredible tears. If you cry for your members, they will never run away. If the leader himself struggles with his private matters, he cannot take care of his members. I have to repent, and my prayers are not enough.

What is the fallen man's main problem? It has no heart and no tears. If we cannot emotionally involve ourselves with God and others' situations, we cannot become the faithful people God wants us to be. If this fallen reality is not changed, we will not have hope for our restoration if we experience God's sorrowful Heart and connect everything to Them and Their efforts to restore humankind. The messiah's behavior is always serious. His prayers are always in tears. My sad situation should meet God's sad situation to find the right solution when our sorrowful Heart meets God's. When our sorrowful Heart meets our members' sorrowful situation, we solve situations.

For us to be in the movement, God and our ancestors have to undergo incredible tears and indemnity. We should go through uncomfortable situations in the path of unhappiness to give comfort and happiness to God, True Parents, and humankind. We should have this kind of missionary spirit like Father when we go to the frontline to serve God and humanity.

What drives the nail to God's chest? It is betrayal and lack of filial piety. How much have we hurt God and True Parents? Many of our members join spiritual groups. Father said that is what makes me afraid. In our life, we should not betray True Parents even if we don't have results. We should not become unfilial children. The most important thing is not to become an unfilial son. To True Parents, being an unfilial son means avoiding God's sorrowful tears. If we avoid God's tears, we will not become filial sons and daughters. No heart to heart connection means not having a good relationship with our object of love.

We have to continually think and find ways to develop our heart-to-heart relationship with God and True Parents' Heart by always connecting our situations with God's situation. Centering everything on God's Heart, Will and Purpose will definitely give the highest value to our existence and relationship with God and others. As Father said, the greatest place of blessing in life is the place of hardships. So we must not avoid difficulties in all its forms. Rather, we should rejoice in it to give God hope and console His sorrowful Heart.

Thank you so much, Dr. Yong, for your precious words of guidance today. If we do not always remind ourselves of God's Sorrowful Heart and Situation, we will quickly fall or get off the way. As members of the movement who want to become filial sons and daughters to God and True Parents. We have to feel, think, sense, and perceive things like them. We have to become the embodiment of their Heart, the visible manifestation of their heavenly spirit, and the victorious substance of their eternal love.

Thank you, Dr. Yong. Kamsahamnida!

--Rafael E. Ablong

Morning Devotion Reflection, June 20, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection

June 20, 2020 by Rafael E. Ablong

Dr. Yong's morning devotion topic today  speaks of how God and the spirit world help people fulfill their tasks and missions. We must ask ourselves. How much have I loved God and True Parents in a single moment?
Chak Sarang or one-sided love may not be felt quickly, but over time, it will increase its power and capacity to penetrate people's hearts.  It does not matter if you are recognized or not. Just love and love unconditionally. It looks one-sided love, but someday it will be accepted by the spirit world. And later on, it will be recognized entirely with sincere apologies and appreciation. This is the sorrowful heart of God for many thousands of years. He has been giving and giving unconditionally. Even if his prophets are killed by the people after the fall, he just keeps on trying to take good care of them. Even, Jesus Christ his son, the 2nd Adam, came to establish God’s kingdom by fulfilling the ideal family was killed by the very people God had prepared for many hundreds of years.  If we really love God and True Parents then we should demonstrate that love by doing His Will and giving no room for Satan to invade or accuse even for a second.

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The goal of the 3rd stage of 40-Day morning devotion is to internalize God's sorrowful heart, become one with its content and actualize its concepts into visible action so we can all feel the love of God to make these things happen to unfold before our eyes. Another goal for this 3rd stage is to solve individual family, social, and national problems resulting from the human fall or the lack of sense of responsibility and public purpose. All these will be our substantial offering to God and True Parents.

We should keep the fire of morning devotion burning. It should be kindled and supplied with sincere prayers and good intentions consistently, so it would keep giving its light and growing opportunities to others. We should not put its fire down. Let us keep it burning because where there is sincere morning devotion, individuals and groups, churches, and organizations will never perish.

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How seriously do we regard God's Will?  This is a fundamental question that needs a one-hundred percent spirit of devotion, filial piety, loyalty, hard work, and single-minded action. We should sincerely regard this as a way to know God and console His sorrowful heart.  Each moment is critical, so we should be 100 percent devoted and connected to God and True Parents. If we say, we love True Parents and do not have this 100% effort and yearning for God. Then, we are fake.! We have to be absolutely united with God and True Parents' hearts without any  space in between. This is so that we won't give Satan an opening to accuse us. We have to make it a goal to be earnest to go back to the original state. God is always so serious to fulfill His Will. True Father is equally serious and vigilant of Satan's accusation. We cannot give him an opening to invade us wherever we go.

If we always connect ourselves to God's viewpoint and fulfill our mission or do specific actions, then God cannot help but come down to help us, and the only way to make Satan not survive,  give up and run away. This kind of Jeong Seong spirit will be able to restore the tribe and fulfill our purpose.

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When we feel hungry with this kind of spirit, we will not die. The spirit world will come down and help us to overcome hunger, disease, insanity, and problems. The spirit world will be there with you providing you with food; people will support and provide you with things to make you succeed. We should never be discouraged by external circumstances if our internal stability and resolve are so strong. Why can the spirit world not work with you? It must be because our Jeongseong is not enough to be felt by the spirit world. They won't be able to connect to the urgency of the situation because of our lack of heart and motivation.

When we work so hard and put our best effort all the time, even forgetting our needs and reasonable desires for the family, the spirit world will get involved and help us accomplish our goal for Heaven.

If we have an honest heart and conscience, the entire spirit world will mobilize. If we lack desire and Jeongseong, the spirit world can not help us. If we align ourselves with God's desire, the spirit world will mobilize with us, and people will start coming.  So much so that sometimes, they just come even without us telling them about it. Dr. Yong experienced it when he was a missionary in Korea, Japan, Philippines, India, and other countries.. He was able to meet many high school students. Some of them will appear at the center to receive his education.

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I genuinely admire Dr. Yong's pioneering spirit, which substantially shows his heavenly character. I have gone to 40-50 places in the Philippines. But this pales in comparison to the number of locations he has visited in the past due to establish the holy grounds.

We should not be ashamed of what we do for Heaven. We should not be scared of not having food or anything because God and the good spirit world will always help, absolutely. Miracles happen in places of danger and difficulty in situations that call for urgent assistance and support. Yes, it is true. If we are members and we cannot understand God's heart and are not able to shed tears due to the seriousness of God's heart and the need for immediate relief to his pain and sorrow.

Dr. Yong, your spirit and power of Jeong Seong is incredible. I think you have gotten used to it that you don't notice it anymore. You beat us all with your amazing spirit and enormous potential to travel anywhere in the world. If you have true love, you can visit anywhere in the physical world and the spirit world.. If we have true love, once we yearn for a person, that person will immediately appear.
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What is more astonishing is that true love is the language of communication in the spirit world. The more love we have, the more able we are to communicate or to be understood by other people. I think this goes with the physical world as well. The more love we have, the more capable we are to substantialize that love into reality. Jeong Seong is shown by the strength of the organization we lead,  by the sense of responsibility people will have with us, and by the number of people following us. These activities are present in the projects or activities that you have done in the Asia-Pacific, Dr. Yong.  So we should be following your model.

We truly admire your effort and experiences in the Philippines and other parts of Asia and the world. It shows your adventurous spirit and indomitable character.  You have endured and persisted in any environment. Your ability to move around anywhere is proof of your pure heart and unbreakable connection to True Mother and Heavenly Parents. As ordinary members, we need to inherit your ability to connect to God, to True Parents, to our direct Abels or leaders in Asia. Ultimately, making a perfect offering to True Mother, True Father and God.

The spirit of Jeongseong can overcome the danger of persecution. The habit of praying and making devotion helps us to overcome all kinds of dangerous and strange situations, to be victorious.  Making Jeongseong conditions centered on God helps us to go beyond trials and difficulties. When we show our utmost sincerity to move Heaven and Earth for the sake of restoring God's kingdom. God can not help but mobilize the good spirit world, and the spirit world will have no choice but to help us.
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We must have the adventurous and pioneering, missionary spirit. There is a need to re-examine ourselves and re-plot our purpose centering on God and True Parents' desire.  We should not care about where we want to go or what to eat or wear. What matters to us is to fulfill our goal. We need to carry out the spirit of witnessing because this is the frontline spirit. We need to have the heart, unity, and sense of responsibility. So God Will reveal it to us quickly. If we do not have the spirit of sincerity and salvation, then we cannot fulfill our purpose.

We have to learn from True Father's Jeong Seong. For him, each second is precious because it could mean life and death for all of us. We have to have a longing and yearning heart for God. To do this, we need to understand and unite with God’s sorrow and pain.

Thank you, Dr. Yong, for this first day of the third stage of the 40-day Morning Devotion. You are able to educate all of us together with the help of the Corona Virus crisis. Without this crisis, we won't have this opportunity to learn directly from you. Truly, with great crisis comes great opportunities for growth and development. This crisis is definitely one of its kind.

Thank you so much for all that you do for all of us.  Kamsahamnida!!

--Rafael E. Ablong

Jun Jumawan’s Reflection - June 20, 2020

MD Reflection

June 20, 2020

By: Jun Jumawan

Good morning our beloved Heavenly Parents, our True Parents of Heaven and Earth and Humankind and to our very passionate and very hard working  for sincere Jeong Seong, our beloved Appa, Dr. Yong!

I am very grateful today, I could join the first day of the 3rd stage of 40 Day Asia Pacific Heart Network Morning Devotion. I also have a strong belief that after the end of the 3rd stage of this 40 day of heart revolution and resurrection thru MD condition, Covid-19 pandemic will be solve and all kinds of family, society and National problems can be solved. We just have to always turn on the fire of the Morning Devotion and always welcome every truth and words to wash our souls.

I am also grateful to be reminded once again today about the word”Chak Sarang” or “One sided love”. It doesn’t matter wether my object or subject partner loves me or not, recognize me or not, I just have to continue to put my earnest sincere dedication of jeong Seong and sincerely giving my un-conditional love.

Today’s morning devotion is about “How Much Do I Love You (True Parents and God) in a Single Moment” The question is,How serious I am regarding God’s Will? How much do I offer honestly my earnest and sincere Jeong Seong for my mission area and to my tribal mission area. Because of my lack of honest heart and desire in putting Jeong  Seong condition, that’s why I cannot see good results and cannot receive the support from the spiritual world.

If we can invest 100% degree of absolute Jeong Seong condition, we can also expect 100 % good results. When God look at us doing earnest sincere Jeong Seong for our Cain and for people, God cannot ignore Himself to help us and poured out all of His blessings  unto us.

How much are we serious about God’s Will? We are fake central blessed family/families if we cannot wake up in the morning to a offer our sincere devotion and heart of prayer with tears. If we want to put so much in Jeong Seong, Spiritual World will be mobilized. God doesn’t give up in any situation, that’s why we don’t have no room to make excuses and complains. The quality of our Jeong Seong is very important. In one moment, how much do we offer sincerity in putting our Jeong Seong/our longing heart.

We can measure the degree level of our heart, our personality base on how much we desire to save someone. How much do we think of peoples salvation. How much do we have sincere affection to save someone’s soul. If I don’t have this level of heart, then even if I have the name of being alive, I am dead. How much do I feel and know God’s urgency to save people this time.

Covid-19 pandemic is a shortcut of settlement to welcome the new era of a new world of Heavenly Parent Holy Community. During this period, together with our family; God purified us, educate us and resurrected us through His words. We cannot go anywhere except to just focus and develop on our vertical connection.

This time, we have to ask ourselves, how much do I love God, True Parents in every moment, not just in a single moment, How much do I know their desire and how much do I feel their heart of urgency to save people. True Parents cannot afford theme-selves to be spaced out even one single moment. This is our True Parents standard. Even if we cannot reach this standard but at least we know it and start to practice it in our daily life.

Eug Mansei to God and True Parents!!!Aju!.. 

Eternally grateful to you Dr. Yong always!..

Kamsahamnida!