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Please Take Dominion Over Our Minds and Bodies

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Father! Please take dominion over our minds and bodies.

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Father! Please take dominion over our minds and bodies. We have minds, but we know that they are not ours, and we have bodies, but we know that they are not ours.

Although our minds head toward goodness, our bodies go in the direction of evil; so between them, we find ourselves struggling. We know that you relate to us knowing that we are not able to escape the realm of heaven's lamentations. Father, please have compassion on us who are like this, and please give us the grace of the life of heaven. It will not do unless you give us the strong power of resurrection in our hearts.

Our bodies seek to subjugate our minds, but the will of heaven is to find and establish a standard of victory where the mind strikes the body and can eternally subjugate it. Today we know that it will not do unless that standard is realized through us, and that inevitable battle remains before us.

Accordingly, the battles that continuously appear before us are not battles we should fear. The many kinds of sorrow we run into in this situation of struggle are not great sorrows. Rather please allow us to feel today that a greater sorrow is the fact that in the battle between our minds and bodies, our mind is dominated by our bodies.

Oh, Father! Please raise strong minds, and please add powerful grace to them. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will help us to possess the ability to be able to have our minds subjugate our bodies.

Through living centered on the mind we know that if this work is not accomplished by us, the complete resurrection of life will not be able to be accomplished. Therefore, oh Father, it will not do unless our minds are stirred up.

Our minds deal with life, and deal with grace, and can be transformed by the work of resurrection. Please allow the stimulation and inspiration that our minds receive to be able to shield our bodies and to be able to shield our environments. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that such a work of heavenly re-creation will appear amid our bodies.

Although our minds are endlessly soaring up toward the glory of our father our bodies which are heading toward our father are endlessly exhausted and struggling. Therefore, Father, please alter this environment and please allow a garden of joy where our bodies can move as our minds desire to appear quickly before all people on this earth.

If there are sons and daughters like that, please bless them to be able to move heaven to have dominion over this earth and to remain long in history.

We have humbly prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.

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CITED IN · 2 REFERS TO · 1 The Secret of Entering…The Dignity of Go…, 1977 Thisprayer God's Will in Creating…
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    The Secret of Entering HeavenBook chapter · ¶ 4…inherit God’s lineage and be directly connected to heaven in the spirit world. People should unite their minds and bodies in God’s love, become united couples, and become one with their children. They should live a heavenly life…
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    The Dignity of God and ManSermon · 1 Apr 1977 · ¶ 37The separation took place, and because we are the reflection of the spirit world, a separation between our minds and bodies also occurred. Do you realize that there are two persons living within you, two minds? The conflict within…

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APA 7

Moon, S. M. (1969, April 29). Please Take Dominion Over Our Minds and Bodies [Prayer]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/over-our-minds-and-bodies

MLA 9

Moon, Sun Myung. “Please Take Dominion Over Our Minds and Bodies.” True Parents Legacy Archive, 29 Apr. 1969, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/over-our-minds-and-bodies.

Chicago 17

Moon, Sun Myung. “Please Take Dominion Over Our Minds and Bodies.” Prayer, April 29, 1969. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/over-our-minds-and-bodies.

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@misc{moon1969,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon},
  title = {Please Take Dominion Over Our Minds and Bodies},
  year = {1969},
  month = {apr},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/over-our-minds-and-bodies},
  note = {Prayer}
}
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Text bySun Myung Moon, Founder of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
TranslationWorking translation from the Korean. Official editions are reproduced verbatim.
Editorial scopeTexts are not abridged or paraphrased. Paragraph numbers are stable for citation. Report an error