Father spoke to 33-city missionaries and participants of the 43-day workshop at True Parents' house on the grounds of the Hotel Americano in the Pantanal.
They had been invited for a day of fishing with Father, who had arrived there in advance of the Korean national messiahs who were called to make a special 40-day condition there. These notes were compiled by two missionaries, Charles Kannal and Shinichi Washisu, from Alejandro de Souza's translation.
How should people be educated?
Make a plan, consistently develop it, and put it into practice-organize, systematize it. To make strong relationships conditions continuously, especially prayer conditions. Remove walls between your heart and others. We should visit two, three, or four times to give them a good impression. We need to touch their hearts. Prepare many topics with which to inspire them.
Witnessing is like war.
Do you want to lose the war?
Preparation is necessary. Make conditions for three years. If you give sincerely, people will come close to you and follow you. At the beginning of your preparation, planning is important. A four-position foundation is necessary. A foundation of three people is very important. Witnessing people is the same as taking care of children. If you are a parent, you never forget your children.
Invest yourself like a mother. Make conditions. Choose your words, what to say to people. You have to witness. Study and. Research like a doctor. Prepare what people need.
Through prayer conditions you generate love and interest, create parent-child relationships, and understand what people need. Each mission city is like one family whose citizens are like your brothers and sisters.
If your brother goes to hell, do you mind?
You should pray with tears. True Father has already liberated the people's ancestors, so the spirit world has to help them. Study Divine Principle and Father's words to develop an absolute standard. If they understand absolute standards, then people can be restored. The prayer room floor should always be wet with tears.
Why is witnessing so difficult?
The reason is that you haven't made any conditions.
Each missionary must take responsibility not only for people living in his city but also for their ancestors in the spirit world. A spiritual leader should always pray for other people to witness to them. Pray for those who need your time to people as if they were part of your own family. As a church leader, you should pray with tears. You should be conscious of how many people you have witnessed.
Your position in the spirit world is determined by the people you witness. You should have some results.
Father is battling to restore America. Father is going fishing on this tour. When making such a condition, Father is very serious. Prayer and conditions are necessary. When you bring people to Father's speeches, pray first. You should establish a higher standard than Father. The early history of the Unification Church was a foundational time, a time only for making conditions.
Father started the Unification Church from absolutely nothing. From that zero point, he finally reached the point of holding the coronation ceremony on January 13th. If Christianity had united with Father after World War II, this would have been accomplished forty years ago. Jesus was supposed to have conquered Rome by the time he reached the age of forty.
Before Father reached the age of fifty-two (by 1972), he was supposed to unite Christianity. But God's providence wasn't fulfilled at that time. Christianity has been miserable. Heavenly Father has also been miserable. Finally, this year, in 2001, Father actualized the coronation of God and liberated His aching heart.
To be successful in witnessing ,you must pray hard
Pray before meeting people. Through prayer, you should know what to say to a person to capture his heart. Father's life was extremely difficult, but finally, he accomplished God's coronation. Father broke through all barriers, liberating even Satan himself. How difficult it was to overcome all satanic obstacles!
Fishing is also a condition for witnessing.
Jesus told Peter, "I will make you a fisher of men."
Father's heart is the same. While Father is fishing, he concentrates 100 percent. He focuses on the fishing pole. When he catches his first fish, Father feels relief and liberation from all his hardships.
Prayer conditions are necessary. Through prayer, condition, you receive help from the spirit world and can understand and know what is going to happen. Witnessing is the same as war. Compare yourselves to a soccer team. If you don't know your opponent's strategy and ability, you cannot win the game. By studying your opponent, you can score. You must practice hard and unite together as a team-one harmonious unit.
To take dominion over your environment is a subject-object problem. If you have an object of your witnessing, a person to whom you can witness, then you can receive a great blessing. But you must prepare. There is a big difference between simply meeting a person and praying for him ten times before meeting him. You should have a plan and a goal.
Do you have a goal: how many people to witness within a year, two years, and three years?
If you don't have a goal, then repent, double your effort, and decide at this time.
Do Hoon Dok Hae every day, and listen closely to Father's words. You will receive inspiration about what to say to the guests you are witnessing. You should love the guest more than your family. Father has prayed for seventeen straight hours in one day. Life or death prayer. It is a battle, a war. If you make an absolute determination through prayer, then afterward, prayer is no longer needed.
Every year, you should be rising to a new level, constantly advancing. Work night and day toward your goal.
Now is a time for witnessing through all types of media. Research and use every medium to witness. One day, you will understand Father's words; the next day, calculate how much it costs to broadcast Father's words for 30 minutes.
Father is going on a speaking tour throughout America. Two thousand Christian ministers per state make 100,000 in total. By this, the unity of all Christians will be brought about.
If there is unity in North America, it is very easy to achieve it in South America. We are working with the United Nations. Compare doing that to working in your city: your task is very easy.
Many of Father's old friends persecuted him a long time ago. Now they respect Father. Those who participate in ICUS or IIFWP international conferences become good friends of Father. Because Father has a victorious foundation through prayer and conditions, our present situation is quite different from what it once was. Everyone comes because they now understand Father's value.
01God is working for our victory. God wants to help us. If you don't make conditions, then God cannot help.
Does everyone need a Father?
Why? Because they need parents to resemble them. We have to become like Father, resemble him. You have a goal in your lifetime: resembling a True Father.
No one else can take the place of Father.
Satan opposed Father with all his force. God never taught Father how to conquer Satan. Father had to learn how to do it and accomplish it all by himself.
The past forty years of Father's life restore the six thousand years of Biblical history. [To one member] How old are you? [33 years old.] Less than half of Father's age. Father has no time to rest. Father's way is the way of a pioneer.
The Kingdom of Heaven depends on the Father. We are now working with the United Nations and the whole world. We are using radio, television, and the Internet. It is time to witness and mobilize the whole world.
You should have conviction and a challenging spirit. Open up the way of the future.
Uniting mind and body, uniting husband and wife, uniting parent and child: this is the challenge. From now on, parents must give their blessing to their children. It takes time to become competent enough parents to give the blessing.
Charles Kannal remembers: The content of Father's speech was not new. But it was delivered with personal warmth and intensity in a close family environment that engraved this unique experience upon our hearts.
When Father finished speaking. We stood, bowed, and began exiting. True Father came outside and walked with the members. He stood waiting by the dock while we gathered our bags and boarded the boat. It was a long wait. Father leaned with one arm on a light pole. I will never forget the expression on his face as Father waved goodbye to us.
He continued waving as the boat slowly pulled away and chugged down the river. For as long as I could see him, he was still waving. In a newly personal way, I feel reborn and raised up through the love and words of True Parents.
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