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Chapter 11. Leader and Jeongseong

• ¶ 45praying sincerely, the level of our jeongseong reaches a certain point. That’s when God will certainly answer our questions. Therefore, we must wait while believing…
• ¶ 108…the grandmothers from Daegu spent a lot of jeongseong preparing for a whole year just to purchase the ticket to Seoul to come to the Headquarters…
• ¶ 6…So he boasts about his father but his shimjeong and jeonseong that he devotes to his father are all destined to come back to him in…

How should we pray?

Prayer in the Unification tradition is direct, purposeful communion with God oriented toward His will rather than toward personal petition. Rev. Sun Myung Moon taught that prayer is both a daily spiritual discipline — he recommended at least “one-tenth of…

Stepping into Freedom and Cataclysmic War I

• ¶ 2…spirit and body, and all jeongseong conditions established by Western civilization have to be brought here. It was only in 1950 that representatives of sixteen nations…
• ¶ 15About eight hundred people moved from Hungnam toward Wonsan and Jeongpyeong. Originally, we would have started by railroad, but a section of track had been destroyed…

Sincerity and Love

• ¶ 7When you offer jeongseong, you must not offer it merely for your work.
• ¶ 23You offer jeongseong for the sake of yourself and your family; however, your family, in turn, should be an offering of jeongseong as a representative of…
• ¶ 75The heart of jeongseong and love. I shouldn't come to South America and say, “Ah, I miss my hometown. I miss my parents. I want…

How can I get closer to God?

The Divine Principle teaches that every human being was created to live in direct heart-to-heart relationship with God as a beloved child — a bond the Fall severed, leaving a spiritual wall between humanity and the Creator.

Sincerity and Authenticity

• ¶ 3Father Moon views the cultivation of sincerity, what he calls jeongseong, as fundamental to the spiritual life.
• ¶ 40…deeds,” means to completely unite your body and soul in a conscientious life. This means a life of dedication. We call it “utmost sincerity” or jeongseong.
• ¶ 41…Thus, jeongseong means fulfilling everything inwardly and outwardly and offering it. 16 If you do everything with jeongseong you can “move Heaven.” (78:31, May 1…

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Chapter 6 Predestination Christology

• ¶ 9…thought, ‘ I must offer the highest amount of jeongseong if I am to fulfill my responsibility as the Messiah better than anyone in the past, present…
• ¶ 11…want to know about how their True Parents lived on Earth? They will investigate how much jeongseong Father offered and how much he sacrificed for humanity.
• ¶ 18…in a small boat and spends a thousand, perhaps ten thousand times more serious jeongseong while he offers tearful prayers to make the condition of indemnification.

True Mother’s Prayer

• ¶ 4…time, when the True Parents’ efforts and jeongseong make a giant offering to heaven through the maritime businesses and when all material things must bear fruit.

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God's Heart

True Father's Life at the Cheongpa-dong Headquarters

• ¶ 48Instead, I offer jeongseong for more than ten hours before giving a sermon. Let me have deep, sturdy roots before emerging through the surface. Sprouts don…
• ¶ 27Of course, he does. Just offer your jeongseong. If you pour out your heart for church members, God will show you in various ways if there…

Preparation for the Bride

• ¶ 41…years. All kinds of women are included in that range because the jeongseong offered by all women for God is united and ripens as one fruit…

Chapter 1. Introduction

• ¶ 94…this, the things that Father does are not done easily. Father has offered immeasurable amounts of jeongseong to do things that ordinary people could not do.

Chapter 3.The Human Fall

• ¶ 82…while doing something that we don’t like is an important way of practicing self-denial, and offering sincere jeongseong is another way of denying ourselves.
• ¶ 99…of Heaven if we give them true love? Shouldn't we have to invest a lot of jeongseong to bring them to the side of Heaven?

Eschatology and Human History: The Messiah:

• ¶ 162That is why Father told us that if we are to offer jeongseong for something important, we should pray at noon or midnight. Father considered these…
• ¶ 51…between the two nations. At that time, Father told us that if we offer sincere jeongseong to fulfill the Will, something will happen, such as an…
• ¶ 160…offering jeongseong, and most of them offer jeongseong after midnight. People normally go to bed before midnight. However, people who seek God offer their jeongseong after…

Chapter 5. Resurrection of the People on Earth

• ¶ 77If we offer sincere jeongseong to witness to this particular person (the other person), then this person’s ancestors feel grateful towards me. Then, this person…
• ¶ 101If the amount of jeongseong goes beyond the number of good deeds of that other person good deeds, then any repayment becomes unnecessary because your ancestors…
• ¶ 170Father offers sincere jeongseong to make what other people like happen. That itself becomes Father’s joy.

Chapter. 9 Abraham's Family Moses’ Family

• ¶ 126She was the kind of person who offered a lot of jeongseongs to heaven. She started a 40-day fasting and then kept insisting on continuing…
• ¶ 63…you must offer much jeongseong to create a condition for victory just as Jacob put his life on the line and won the fight against the…

Chapter 10. The Parallel Ages and the Providence of True Parents Parallel History is the providential understanding of history discovered by Father

• ¶ 75Father also gave special Words below while he was in Danbury prison about Mother who offered jeongseong to him.
• ¶ 134…what jeongseong is? jeongseong means repeating the same thing over and over again every day like a fool, even if no result appears. That is jeongseong…
• ¶ 56…Father offered a lot of jeongseong to save his two elder brothers from the hands of Communism and invested a lot of money in founding a…