Although you should work during the day time, religious work should be done at night as well. What I am saying is that teaching at night is effective. So you should make a guest who visited the church once feel like coming back even if he or she may have to escape from home. For this to be done, you should first become such a zealous person. Without the cause, can there be any result? Everyone, if you have not been able to do it, from now on you should work harder to make it possible, by coming up with something creative. (97-196) In the future, people will come to have more spiritual power, and their spirits will become more clear. There should not be any defect. You should not live away from the public position. In order to safeguard the church, Blessed members should form trinities, and should not sleep too much. To have dominion over the nighttime-currently governed by Satan-we should stay awake at night and protect the church. The church should not remain vacant. That is the way we should protect the church until we feel safe from all four directions. At a place with many members there should not be nights without members doing a prayer vigil. They should not doze. In the future, many meetings will be held at nighttime. It is because we should break darkness. In order to do it, you should have a serious and sincere heart. How precious it is to take responsibility for a public mission! (110-247, 11/1/61) Can you work in place of God? You should have the concept that you are responsible for the entire world. If there is a problem with the whole, you should take it as your own, and even if you have to stay up all night, you should do your best with all of your heart and mind. God will cooperate with such a person since he or she is doing His work on behalf of God although he or she is living on earth. Therefore, he or she cannot help but to make progress. There, joy, glory, and hope will dwell, along with strong energy, and God will be present. Because God is there, life will also be there. Further, loving heart will be residing continuously. What is the first condition to become such a person? One should think: "I exist for all people. Therefore, regardless of day and night, for 24 hours a day I am there for them." Such a person will never be destroyed or defeated by Satan. (44-13) People who do not miss God everyday cannot attend God. This you must understand. Whoever it may be should always be pierced with a yearning heart. Nevertheless, if you think: "It is now midnight, and it is time to go to sleep," you will end up worrying God. There is no distinction of day and night in Heaven. If you are connected in heart, it does not matter whether it is day or night. (17-293) Now, two thirds of the year are gone. That means that we have only one third left. Then, what is there to worry about? Such a thing is nothing to be worried about. I do not pray because of that. I will never pray due to economic problems. How can I pray to God for money? I just cannot offer such a prayer. Prayers should be principled. If you pray for anything, you will have to pay indemnity for doing it, and you will be in trouble. I never pray with a greedy heart. With this in mind, I suggest that when you have no money or material things, you do a prayer vigil. But during the prayer, you should not lament over your own situation. You should pray for people in North Korea centered on the Republic of Korea, for laborers groaning in the Communist countries centered on Russia, and for pitiful people suffering and dying in the wilderness of Siberia. When you should pray for God to open a way for you to go to North Korea for the liberation of its people, God will listen to your prayer. (166-191) On Saturday night, you should pray at the church. (17-347) Ladies and gentlemen, do you do prayer vigils? You must. Lecturers must fast for a meal. They should make a special condition. Otherwise, everything will be flown away. You should appeal to God with all of your heart and mind-more than parents do for their own children; more than teachers do for their students; more than a spouse does for his or her spouse. Otherwise, God will not be with you. (166-181)
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