Morning Devotion Reflection, The Reason Behind the Loss of First Love - July 1

Morning Devotion Reflection

The Reason Behind the Loss of First  Love

July 1, 2020  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 Reflection - Loving People Is One Way of Overcoming Trials, July 4, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection

Loving People Is One Way of Overcoming Trials

July 4, 2020 by Rafael Ablong

Today, Dr. Yong's topic, "Loving People Is One Way of Overcoming Trials" had me shed tears of thankfulness and gratitude to Heavenly Parents. It made me remember many trials and difficulties in the past that testified to God's presence, personal relationship, and active efforts in my life. God is so alive and sensitive. It is just like He is just beside me. Although my physical father had some mental (stress) and spiritual issues, he was always conscious of what he was doing. Although my parents would fight in front of us, we still had time to gather, pray, and be grateful for God's blessings in our lives, together. No matter how discreet they were. Looking back to the days when I passed an examination in hunger because I had no money to buy food, and through those hard times when a broken bottle at the fence or unused cans by the sidewalks are an assurance of cash and food at the end of the day. Everything I have now: my blessing, my family, and enjoyable work come from Heavenly Parents. I can only bow down in gratitude and shed tears of appreciation to God and True Parents for Their Unconditional love and guidance. I just feel so sorry that I have not been so useful to Them. God knows that I am trying my best under the present circumstances to balance my family and mission. These are the highlights of Dr. Yong's message today.

How To Overcome Trials
There are so many kinds of trials and temptations in our life of faith: relationship problems, money, and others among them. Father's advice is first to embrace our inner faith. We need to have a desperate heart to do God's Will. We have to capture God's, sorrowful heart.

The attitude of God's sons and daughters is to always focus on their parents. They always focus on their parents. As human beings, our eternal subject partner is God. We are God's eternal objects. As long as we have God's real heart, we can overcome trials and difficulties. Whenever Father thinks about God's sorrowful heart, his energy comes back.

Have a Heart of Appreciation and Gratitude

We need to have a heart of gratitude. We need to appreciate it every day. To have a grateful heart, we need to start from zero point. We should think that God gave everything to all of us for free. The air is free. If someone cooks for you, you should appreciate the person. You have to be grateful for your wife. You have to think about your mother and think about your parents every day. How much sacrifice they have done for you.

If you have children, you have to think about them and God. The feeling we derive from this kind of relationship and happiness is very different from the ordinary course of life without God. We need to have a grateful heart, and we have to appreciate all things that come to us each day.

We need to remind ourselves of God's wish. Internally we have to have a heart of gratitude. People who are always grateful and appreciate everything that comes to their life every day live longer and happier.

The Original Mind will help You what to do when you are in a difficult situation. God Will help you. Do not remain in the s kind of struggling attitude. You have to solve your problems within three hours, not in three days or three months. If you cannot solve your problems in three years, you will make it bigger.

Do not solve problems by yourself. You need to go to your heartistic Abel, respect his guidance, and receive his advice. We need to go to someone we respect. Each of us should have a heartistic Abel. You become dangerous if you decide everything by yourself. You have to have at least three heartistic Abels. As long as you have a Heartistic Abel, your life of faith will be alright. If you do not have a heartistic Abel, you become very dangerous. Abel is your substantial God.

The foundation of faith is the relationship between God and myself. The foundation of substance is the relationship between Abel and myself. If you do not have an Abel, it becomes dangerous. That is why you need to build your relationship with brothers and sisters. The luckiest guy is the person who has an Abel. You have to develop your heartistic relationship with your Abel. Then I can raise your brothers and sisters. You have to practice substantially. You have to have a heartistic relationship. You need to have this kind of feeling with your Abel. You have to practice your vertical faith horizontally because you are substantial God to others. People see you as the body of God. That is why I cherish my relationship with Rev. Yo Han Lee very much. We have to develop such a heartistic, and inseparable relationship. Without the other person, you will die.

Why can't you raise your brother and sisters? It is because you do not have a heartistic relationship with your Abel. You can love people based on your experience with your Abel. If you have heartistic Abel, you can respect anyone and accomplish anything. It is Abel who gives you opportunities to grow and a strong reason to exist and relate with other people.

Knowing Your Heartistic Abel
If you don't have an Abel, nobody will raise you up, guide you, and help you accomplish many things for God. If we don't experience a relationship with an ideal Abel. We need some training to love and care for my baby and husband. You should know how to relate with Abel. You need to capture his heart so he can build his trust and relationship. In order to know that person, you have to check. No one will raise you up. No one will protect you. How can you raise your children? In this way, you will have idea how to raise your hidden. Everything is connected.

Find More Difficulties To Become Strong and Make Satan Run Away

You have to go to the path of the cross, to gain victory. We all need to go to the frontline to have this kind of experience. How can I protect myself before any trial comes? There is a delay in response if you only act after the problematic situation comes. Prevention is better than cure. The only way is to love people. If you have ten members, you need to love them one by one. You need to have a parental heart when you deal with them. As a leader, if you don't have a personal heart touching experience for everyone, you will lose members. You have to commit to love each one of them equally from the heart. I learned from Heavenly Parents and True Parents. God is the God of union. He approaches each one of us personally in a particular way. Why is God Almighty? God comes to each of us in a personal and unique style. Heavenly Parents uniquely come to each of us. The best way to raise our members is through a personal heart touching experience.

I realized this throughout the 64 years of my life experience and more than 45 years of missionary experience. The best way to take care of each person is a personal touching experience. Parents cannot give up any child. You need to have more love, concern, personal care, and responsibility.

If someone asks me, what is the secret of your leadership? My answer would be, I want to have a personal touching experience with each one of you. Because of my position as group chairman, I can not do that. I focus on leaders. Sunlight is for everyone, for everything. The sun does not choose who gets the sunlight. So if we repent, He comes to us and specially reassures us. Whatever happens, God never leaves us. We have to recognize each one. We should not lose one person. By taking are of each member in a special way. So every child in the family gets the recognition of you are the best. God wants to give everything to each of us. Even if we forget God, God never forgets us.

So if you are a national leader and you have one thousand members. You should know each of them by name. You have to love each one of them. If you have this kind of love or each member, no member will leave. No trials will come. Even if trials come, they stay and continue to live for others. I want to be recognized by members of my HTM area. I want them to feel my personal care and touching experience. You need to serve each person with a parental heart.

Volunteer To Go the Path of the Cross
The disciples of Jesus did not take care of Jesus. But Jesus takes care of each one of them. When you feel difficulty. You have to find a more difficult place.

I learned from Father a special lesson. Father asked, "What did Jesus prepare during his three years of public ministry?. For his three years of public life, Jesus focused on raising three disciples, then 12, then 120. What is the meaning of the twelve disciples? They are the representatives of all humankind. They are the ones who represent humankind and ancestors. They are the present, past, and future of history. That's why Jesus focused on 12 disciples.

Jesus' leadership is what? Take care of them one by one. Guide them one by one, so if you love your members in the center. You have to serve them with a parental heart. We have to think even if you cannot love different kinds of people. These members represent all of humankind. This is Jesus' brand of leadership. So we should emulate him.

As we know, all of Jesus' disciples left him on his way to the cross. Even his three disciples Peter, James, and John, did not understand Jesus's heart. Jesus lost his foundation during his three years of public ministry. That is why Satan came to tempt Jesus to give up everything, including Jesus himself.

The Starting Point of the Kingdom of Heaven

What is the kingdom of Heaven? It begins from the unity of mind and body-centered on God's heart. If three people who are united focused on a heartistic relationship come together. This is the kingdom of Heaven. If three people welcome you, heartistically. God's kingdom of Heaven starts with the three people in heartistic relationship. So we have to create the environment for the kingdom of Heaven in our center. Then, Satan cannot attack you or any member. Even if one is attacked, nobody will leave. You have to ask yourself how many members have a united heartistic relationship with you in the center?

This is a very important point about leadership: two points create a connection, three points generate an area of security and protection. With three points like a tripod, you can stand on anything. The number three is the number of settlements. So if Jesus three disciplines were united with him. He would never have to go to the cross. That is why his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane was a very heartistic prayer. If Peter, James, and John united with him and did not sleep while Jesus was praying. Jesus would not have to do what he did. Jesus did not have to be crucified if his disciples protected him.

The Power of God's Words
Then why did Jesus die? Father said, Jesus had an urgent heart for his disciples, for Israel and the world but nobody responded, and everybody rejected him. So he used the power of miracles to get their attention and respect so he could educate them with his words. Although, he preached to them about God and the Kingdom of Heaven. People followed him not because of his sermons, but because of his miracles.

This is the reason why Father does not make miracles. He needed to educate his disciples by God's words. Jesus' performance of miracles made him gather the people because of the power of miracles, not by the power of words. So they didn't do anything in response to him in response to his teaching. Even when he was hanging on the cross, people expected him to do miracles to save himself. It was a painful sight to see, to feel and to think about it. No amount of miracle can change a person entirely. Internal change happens through the healing and life-changing power of God's words. When people know about the situation of God's sorrowful heart, then, meaningful and realistic change can begin. This is why Father needed to educate. He speaks for long hours, not just three hours but sixteen hours and longer. He does not need to educate the disciples by miracles but by the power of God's words.

Jesus' disciples never understood God's heart, and Jesus did not teach them about God's heart because of their inadequate foundation to receive it. Based on this lesson from Jesus' life, the True Father taught us about God's Heart. He educated us how to liberate God's sorrowful heart. He needed to teach God's word to us, individually. He does not want to believe the people the obvious way. That is why we are the ones who want to liberate God's sorrowful heart. Why was Jesus crucified? It is because his three disciples did not unite with him. That is why Satan attacked him. If they were united, they would have saved Jesus from going to the cross.

Then why did Jesus die? It is because nobody understood the sorrowful heart of God. For if they have understood that. They would not have left Jesus. So as members we need to think about how we can introduce God's longing heart? How can we explain the heart of true parents?

Unity Starts From A Trinity
If you do not have a relationship with three people. You cannot have the Kingdom of Heaven. This inseparable and heartistic relationship is already the kingdom of Heaven. Within his trinity, in place, all members can survive. You can overcome any trials and hardships. Even if you are in Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, you can survive. So if you use your common sense. So why is it difficult? Difficulties come from a relationship. If you make a heartistic relationship, you can quickly solve any chances of trials and hardships.

Apply this strategy to your HTMs, and you will find amazing results. You need to build up heartistic unity centering on three families. Build up the trinity. God's kingdom begins from there. So you build your trinity, expand to 12 , 36, 72, 124, 360 to 430. Trinity is a small kingdom of Heaven. You need to pray for each one of them. Look at each of them as representatives of the world. Build a relationship of longing heart for each of them. This starts from the concept for the trinity,
Trinity is the training ground for the heartistic community. Heaven starts in the unity of mind and body, unity of husband and wife and unity centering on the trinity.

Inherit God's Sorrowful Heart
What Is Jesus' sorrowful heart? Nobody understood his heart. Even his three disciples could not understand his heart. According to the bible, he oftentimes cried. It was a regretful time for Jesus. In our life of fatih, we need to really experience God's sorrowful heart. I need to understand True Parents' sorrowful heart. As sons and daughters, how are we united with True Mother's heart?. We need to teach God's sorrowful heart so our center becomes bright. How to inherit God's sorrowful heart is very important in our life of faith. How can I inherit Jesus's heart and the heart of all the central figures in history.

If you can achieve oneness—no need to worry about how to develop or multiply, if there is a united longing heart, we can easily accomplish anything. This kind of heartistic environment multiplies automatically. Witnessing occurs naturally. The lack of unity and longing heart is the main reason our life is stagnant; the center cannot increase and does not have the brightness of love and life. Three persons uniting together creates a unity for success. This is the starting point of the heavenly community, the beginning place of Heaven.

Longing Heart Multiplies Automatically
So the system is not the problem. Studying systems and approaches to solve problems will not matter at all. What matters is the socio-emotional stability and the heartistic union of the trinity or community. No matter what you learn from anywhere would be of no use at all. Systems need to be developed in such a way. Systems have to be the object. Heart is the subject. Where there is a longing heart, multiplication is automatic. If we lose this kind of longing heart between husband and wife. Our relationship will gradually fall apart. The key is to build such a longing heart. Everything comes into place when we have longing hearts for each other.

Unity is God
All the systems we have put in place, or we will put in place should be based on our heartisitic relationship with each other. It is effortless to correct and make systems more useful for our mission when we have a longing heart to support and love each other. Father's guidance is incredible. Father said, God does not want us to march alone. Marching alone will most likely fail us. We need to have a heartistic teamwork. The teamwork of the longing heart. We need to march cooperatively together. Unity without God will not accomplish anything. Unity is God. God is Unity. Where there is unity of mind and body, definitely God will come down. If there is unity between husband and wife, and If there is unity between Cain and Abel. Heavenly Father will come down. This is the power of unity.

This is the best opportunity to know and remember each other. So let us take this opportunity to make a personal touch with each other, create a united trinity, and make a heavenly community quickly happen if we do not build up a relationship with the Almighty God. Nothing will happen to God and me. That is why we need to work hard in our relationship with a longing heart for each other.

Thank you so much Dr. Yong. I cannot thank you enough for resurrecting my spirit every time i listen to you and repeat your words in my head and heart. It is hard to describe in words how much I am moved by your heavenly and missionary spirit. No matter how many waterfalls of tears I will shed for Heaven, if I do nothing from where I am, nothing ever happens at all. Right now, the spirit is willing, and our bodies are growing old. The reality is we are racing after time with a heart full of gladness and a life guided by Heaven. Yet, time does not stay still, and our opportunities and usefulness are slipping out into space each second. We need to remain meaningful and relevant to God's providence by putting whatever we have left into full and unified efforts to make substantial results and expand the Heavenly Kingdom.

It is true. God touches each one of us, especially and uniquely. Each time He feels me, tears flow like a waterfall in the pouring rain, and it is hard to talk. With just this mind and heart talking to Him, I feel that it will take time to heal the world and to recover its goodness for God and humankind. But just as God has never stopped working hard day and night. We will continue to finish the building of God's Kingdom, no matter what happens, no matter what it takes. Take care of your health, Dr. Yong. We love you very much!!

-Rafael e. Ablong

Morning Devotion Reflection -- The Way to Revive Yourself - July 21, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection

 Title: The Way to Revive Yourself"

 July 21, 2020

By Rafael E. Ablong

Thank you, Dr. Yong for reminding me about the importance of attitude. Yes, it is true. Even though the content is principle and right, but if the attitude is off the line, it makes little sense or none at all. Attitude can make or break the meaning of whatever we say or do. So please, forgive me for not being consistent. Anyway, I am still alive, and I can always correct myself and get back up again.

Honestly, the morning devotion messages are making me shed tears most of the time. Sometimes, I just have to close my eyes, wash my face, and take a deep breath before starting again. I feel like I have been acting "new normally" during this devotion period. I remember before stopping to write my reflections for more than a week. I was crying and crying. I decided just to sleep because my eyes cannot see the words, and my eyeglasses are always wet either with tears or moisture from the rising temperature around my eyes. That attitude of resting and reflecting is not good when I have done it differently at the beginning, in the first place.

The devotion messages of Dr. Yong are always profound, and "sanitizing" the spirit. If I were a coconut, I would feel like my husks are gradually chopped off by the sharp words of truth to get to the hard shell before scooping the meat. Sometimes, I feel like I am a dirty cup half-filled with water, just about to be thrown away and replaced with a new one or washed with a strong detergent.

Today's message about "Revive Yourself Through God" is straightforward to the point and brings me back some unforgettable experiences. By experiencing the trials and difficulties in life, we can understand God's heart and situation. How do we keep the quality of our spirit all the time? How can we know God's heart? When we experience hardship and difficulties, we are undergoing the experience of God's heart. So the more we experience hardships in life, the more we understand God's heart. We cannot understand God in a happy place but miserable and stressful situations or difficulties. God intends to make us experience His hardships so we can understand His situation. We cannot revive ourselves by our effort. We can only be revived through God.

Suffering and hardships are the best opportunities for us to grow. We become strong and more capable of handling more hardships. We should not look at them as our own but as a representative of humanity who have always been longing for a touching relationship with Heavenly Parents and True Parents. We become stronger each time we overcome trials and challenges. We go wiser every time we respond to these challenges.

Understanding His situation and being with Him would promote unity and an excellent heartitistic relationship between parents and children.

We should not complain when we are placed in the position of suffering. However, we need to be grateful and thankful for them because they help us to become mature, strong and resilient to future challenges in life. It is like the "development through our responses to challenges in life" as suggested by the British historian, Arnold Toynbee.

Father's ministry started in the bottomline of human hardships and miserable situations. It was God who put Father in the Hungnam prison for the sake of God's providence. As a parent, God sometimes puts His precious children to experience hardships so they will get to understand God's heart.

We need to treat our hardships and suffering as good learning experiences. They bring us opportunities to understand God's heart better. Anyone who complains to God for these hardships and suffering are ignorant of God's Will and situation. Moreover, they lose the chance to grow in heart and closer to God, our Heavenly Parent. If we do not feel and understand God's heart, we cannot revive ourselves.

The Hungnam prison experience is the worst one ever for True Father. God placed the True Father there so he could experience God's painful and sorrowful heart. The terrible situation battered him. God brought Father there and released him the day he was about to be executed to death.

The fall of Adam and Eve brought God to His sad state. Without experiencing His sorrowful situation, we will never know His heart and painful condition. Father cannot stop his tears from falling as he realized God's agony for many years. Complaining about our troubles and misfortune is a sign of ignorance and irresponsibility. When he allows us to undergo hardship, God's intention is to make us learn and grow from it. Through encountering trials and challenges, we become mature and united with God's emotion and will.

How painful must God feel before we can even notice his bleeding heart for man? Can we imagine when Father was in Hungnam prison? It was the lowest position he could go but still, he witnessed and gained disciples. He looked beyond his circumstances and determined to decimate all Satanic obstructions by starting a new ministry to liberate God and humankind.

Father had to stay in that subhuman condition at the Hungnam prison camp armed with a clear vision to overcome everything. The only weapon he had was a longing heart for God and a loving heart for humankind. So many trials came to Father in Hungnam prison, and although God was there, He could not intervene and overcome those trials and difficulties for Father.

Without understanding God's heart , we will never understand Him as our eternal parent and cannot even prepare ourselves to teach our young generation.

Those of us who have stayed long in Japan must have felt so much hardship and suffering in this country, especially during the early years. For me or for some of us who have worked day and night to provide for our family and achieve our church's financial goals, life was hard but filled with internal and eternal rewards.

How much more for our Japanese wives? It must have been doubly difficult and challenging for them since they were raised in this country of Spartan discipline, financial challenges, and strict traditions. They have kept their sanity and composure despite the family, social and traditional pressures, and our public mission. I respect the Japanese wives for their stability under pressure, sanity over some insane necessities in life, and their faith in God and True Parents. I truly appreciate them for being victorious over countless hardships and immeasurable stress brought by circumstances, including the husbands' difficulties. It was rewarding because even if we gave a part of our hard-earned money from a difficult situation, we felt so touched and elated by the turn of events after that. Modesty aside, it is my or our happiness to give something because some of us experienced how it is to have nothing.

When Father thinks about being in prison, he thinks of God's heart. Under the most miserable situation and closer to God's heart, I can be easily revived again. There is no way for us to restore ourselves without connecting to the suffering heart of God. Without God, there is no way for us to be revived. To meet God by going through the path of suffering is a guarantee of reviving our spiritual life. Thus, encountering God through difficulties is a blessing. We need to be thankful for God's active involvement in our daily life.

The secret of overcoming our trials and hardships is to look beyond our suffering. As connected beings to the original giver of life, we need to connect our pain to that of God's sorrowful and painful heart. We need to construct a connection of anything we experience based on the heartistic relationship between parents and children.

We must follow True Father's sterling example. Even in the most difficult situation, he would still offer his food, place, or things to other people. Like when he was in Hungnam prison, he would cut his normal food ration into three so that those who want more will have fewer. If our neighbors do not have food and we have a little Then, we can still give even if we have little.

To maintain our first love and motivation.
We need to go to the frontline When there is too much freedom and less responsibility to make our children relax. We even have to cry to witness other people. We need to cry out to witness other people. God's top priority is the salvation of His children. Salvation is witnessing. When we focus on salvation or witnessing, we can inherit God's heart. So without seeing, we cannot save people and we cannot feel the heart of God.

We are God's sons and daughters. The salvation of God's Children also rests on our shoulders. As long as we focus on salvation and witnessing, our spirit will always be alive. If you focus on witnessing, you will meet God. If you are not seeing, you will feel dead. If you witness, you gain more life. One of the essential things in life is to gain experience out of witnessing.

God's Top Priority

What is God's top priority? It is saving His children. Saving means witnessing. Why are our blessed families having different kinds of problems? If we do not go to the frontline to do witnessing, we feel nothing. We will feel dead. Witnessing is about giving life. When we give life, we get life as well.

Thank you so much, Dr. Yong, for another day of positive and healing inspiration. Your messages actually clean us internally and externally. It gives us new hope, new life, and a lot of energy. Thank you so much again for everything.

---Raffy Ablong

Morjing Devotion Reflection, The Way to Revive Yourself, July 21, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection 

Title: The Way to Revive Yourself

 July 21, 2020 By Rafael E. Ablong

Thank you, Dr. Yong for reminding me about the importance of attitude. Yes, it is true. Even though the content is principle and right, but if the attitude is off the line, it makes little sense or none at all. Attitude can make or break the meaning of whatever we say or do. So please, forgive me for not being consistent. Anyway, I am still alive, and I can always correct myself and get back up again.

Honestly, the morning devotion messages are making me shed tears most of the time. Sometimes, I just have to close my eyes, wash my face, and take a deep breath before starting again. I feel like I have been acting "new normally" during this devotion period. I remember before stopping to write my reflections for more than a week. I was crying and crying. I decided just to sleep because my eyes cannot see the words, and my eyeglasses are always wet either with tears or moisture from the rising temperature around my eyes. That attitude of resting and reflecting is not good when I have done it differently at the beginning, in the first place.


The devotion messages of Dr. Yong are always profound, and "sanitizing" the spirit. If I were a coconut, I would feel like my husks are gradually chopped off by the sharp words of truth to get to the hard shell before scooping the meat. Sometimes, I feel like I am a dirty cup half-filled with water, just about to be thrown away and replaced with a new one or washed with a strong detergent.

Today's message about "Revive Yourself Through God" is straightforward to the point and brings me back some unforgettable experiences. By experiencing the trials and difficulties in life, we can understand God's heart and situation. How do we keep the quality of our spirit all the time? How can we know God's heart? When we experience hardship and difficulties, we are undergoing the experience of God's heart. So the more we experience hardships in life, the more we understand God's heart. We cannot understand God in a happy place but miserable and stressful situations or difficulties. God intends to make us experience His hardships so we can understand His situation. We cannot revive ourselves by our effort. We can only be revived through God.

Suffering and hardships are the best opportunities for us to grow. We become strong and more capable of handling more hardships. We should not look at them as our own but as a representative of humanity who have always been longing for a touching relationship with Heavenly Parents and True Parents. We become stronger each time we overcome trials and challenges. We go wiser every time we respond to these challenges.

Understanding His situation and being with Him would promote unity and an excellent heartitistic relationship between parents and children.

We should not complain when we are placed in the position of suffering. However, we need to be grateful and thankful for them because they help us to become mature, strong and resilient to future challenges in life. It is like the "development through our responses to challenges in life" as suggested by the British historian, Arnold Toynbee.

Father's ministry started in the bottomline of human hardships and miserable situations. It was God who put Father in the Hungnam prison for the sake of God's providence. As a parent, God sometimes puts His precious children to experience hardships so they will get to understand God's heart.

We need to treat our hardships and suffering as good learning experiences. They bring us opportunities to understand God's heart better. Anyone who complains to God for these hardships and suffering are ignorant of God's Will and situation. Moreover, they lose the chance to grow in heart and closer to God, our Heavenly Parent. If we do not feel and understand God's heart, we cannot revive ourselves.

The Hungnam prison experience is the worst one ever for True Father. God placed the True Father there so he could experience God's painful and sorrowful heart. The terrible situation battered him. God brought Father there and released him the day he was about to be executed to death.

The fall of Adam and Eve brought God to His sad state. Without experiencing His sorrowful situation, we will never know His heart and painful condition. Father cannot stop his tears from falling as he realized God's agony for many years. Complaining about our troubles and misfortune is a sign of ignorance and irresponsibility. When he allows us to undergo hardship, God's intention is to make us learn and grow from it. Through encountering trials and challenges, we become mature and united with God's emotion and will.

How painful must God feel before we can even notice his bleeding heart for man? Can we imagine when Father was in Hungnam prison? It was the lowest position he could go but still, he witnessed and gained disciples. He looked beyond his circumstances and determined to decimate all Satanic obstructions by starting a new ministry to liberate God and humankind.

Father had to stay in that subhuman condition at the Hungnam prison camp armed with a clear vision to overcome everything. The only weapon he had was a longing heart for God and a loving heart for humankind. So many trials came to Father in Hungnam prison, and although God was there, He could not intervene and overcome those trials and difficulties for Father.

Without understanding God's heart , we will never understand Him as our eternal parent and cannot even prepare ourselves to teach our young generation.

Those of us who have stayed long in Japan must have felt so much hardship and suffering in this country, especially during the early years. For me or for some of us who have worked day and night to provide for our family and achieve our church's financial goals, life was hard but filled with internal and eternal rewards.

How much more for our Japanese wives? It must have been doubly difficult and challenging for them since they were raised in this country of Spartan discipline, financial challenges, and strict traditions. They have kept their sanity and composure despite the family, social and traditional pressures, and our public mission. I respect the Japanese wives for their stability under pressure, sanity over some insane necessities in life, and their faith in God and True Parents. I truly appreciate them for being victorious over countless hardships and immeasurable stress brought by circumstances, including the husbands' difficulties. It was rewarding because even if we gave a part of our hard-earned money from a difficult situation, we felt so touched and elated by the turn of events after that. Modesty aside, it is my or our happiness to give something because some of us experienced how it is to have nothing.

When Father thinks about being in prison, he thinks of God's heart. Under the most miserable situation and closer to God's heart, I can be easily revived again. There is no way for us to restore ourselves without connecting to the suffering heart of God. Without God, there is no way for us to be revived. To meet God by going through the path of suffering is a guarantee of reviving our spiritual life. Thus, encountering God through difficulties is a blessing. We need to be thankful for God's active involvement in our daily life.

The secret of overcoming our trials and hardships is to look beyond our suffering. As connected beings to the original giver of life, we need to connect our pain to that of God's sorrowful and painful heart. We need to construct a connection of anything we experience based on the heartistic relationship between parents and children.

We must follow True Father's sterling example. Even in the most difficult situation, he would still offer his food, place, or things to other people. Like when he was in Hungnam prison, he would cut his normal food ration into three so that those who want more will have fewer. If our neighbors do not have food and we have a little Then, we can still give even if we have little.

To maintain our first love and motivation.

We need to go to the frontline When there is too much freedom and less responsibility to make our children relax. We even have to cry to witness other people. We need to cry out to witness other people. God's top priority is the salvation of His children. Salvation is witnessing. When we focus on salvation or witnessing, we can inherit God's heart. So without seeing, we cannot save people and we cannot feel the heart of God.

We are God's sons and daughters. The salvation of God's Children also rests on our shoulders. As long as we focus on salvation and witnessing, our spirit will always be alive. If you focus on witnessing, you will meet God. If you are not seeing, you will feel dead. If you witness, you gain more life. One of the essential things in life is to gain experience out of witnessing.

What is God's top priority? It is saving His children. Saving means witnessing. Why are our blessed families having different kinds of problems? If we do not go to the frontline to do witnessing, we feel nothing. We will feel dead. Witnessing is about giving life. When we give life, we get life as well.

Thank you so much, Dr. Yong, for another day of positive and healing inspiration. Your messages actually clean us internally and externally. It gives us new hope, new life, and a lot of energy. Thank you so much again for everything.

---Raffy Ablong


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.

                                                 

---Raffy 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.

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 so much again.

--Raffy Ablong

Addendum:

In my sharing above this, 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.

Thank you, Brother Jun, for reminding me. Thanks, Kuya Dante, for listening to me and sharing your dream as well.