Sermon Power of Prayer v.1 — de Paulis · Following the Stories of Real People

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual, hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. - Ephesians 6:12

Introduction

• Prayer – was the focus of Jesus life

• Prayers are central to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike

• Sun Myung Moon = Lord of Second Advent and Unification Movement no difference

• Prayers is the core lifeline of a True Religious Life

• The superfast “phoneline” to God and Spirit World – faster than Einsteins speed of light

•Had Eve prayed to God when Lucifer approached her…

• Had Adam prayed to God when Eve tempted him…

• Had Cain prayed when angry on his brother…

/William Haines See www.slideshare.net/williamhaines/living-our-life-through-the-principle

Prayer by Eve could have pervented the Fall

• Had the Scribes, Pharicees prayed to God about the return of Elijah, God would surely have told them that the Return of Elijah was manifest inJohn the Baptist, as Jesus claimed.

• Had John prayed in prison…

• Had Saul (later St Paul) prayed about Jesus and his followers he would surely not have percecuted the early Christians.

• Had the Christians in Korea 1945 prayed about SunMyungMoon and his mission.

Prayer is the Answer that brings Truth!

True Father praying in the 1960s

Pak Sul-nam, recalled that Moon once was praying in the church with the others when his head suddenly jerked so forcefully that it dented a plank of the wooden wall. They saw it as evidence of his spirituality.

Rev. Kim told his followers that Moon had profound spiritual wisdom.

On March 2, 1946, the Holy Spirit came down, Jesus is said to have appeared, and they began receiving continuous revelations concerning Korea’s apparent role as the new chosen country.

Those were days when many others had evicted Father.

Despite such circumstances, people would hear his tearful voice early in the morning saying, “Father!”

He was so shooked up that his voice did not come out clearly.

Father would cry bitterly, saying, “Father, I had promised to achieve this by this time, and then…” in his prayer. More… www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks2/Kang/Kang-140800.pdf

The Importance of Prayer Reverend Sun Myung Moon April 15, 1979

From the Book: A Life of Prayer, 1991 HSA-UWC

Reverend Moon gave this sermon at Belvedere, New York. In it he describes his own attitude to prayer.

If you receive in your prayer that you will meet a person at such and such a time, when you go there then that person will come.

If you are dead serious then these things will happen.

Hypnosis can transfer a person into another state of consciousness, but how much more can prayer change lives.

There is no distance or limit to its influence because the power of thought travels everywhere.

You can mobilize the entire spirit world by the power of prayer.

You have experienced that I will work through your prayers and tell you certain things.

There is no limit to the power of prayer.

The Structure and Functions of the Spirit Self

Spirit Grows and reaches Spirit body perfection self Spirit Becomes mind good ___________ __ Decides own heaven and hell Physical Physical mind self Physical body It is not God who decides whether a person’s spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself (p. 50).

PRAYERS ANSWERED PRAYERS

• You should know that you are like two people in one.

• Your inner man is like a mirror, clean and bright.

• When the inner and external men are perfectly aligned you feel joy and power. This is happening every day within you.

• Don’t neglect this inner man but consult him all the time.

• When you are higher spiritually you are always there, always speaking with this inner man.

• You have a spirit man and he wants to talk to your physical man.

• You may not have any intention of saying anything yet suddenly you find your mouth moving.

• That is not you but your inner partner speaking.

• For your inner and outer man to become one you need the power of prayer!

• If I only paid attention to my family instead of to the world and God, my family would get sick.

• I don’t concern myself with my family’s well-being; I concern myself with the Church and God’s work and I know God will take care of them in the meantime.

• This is the principle of give and take.

• Those who want to do more for others will receive more; those who want to go down will be lifted up.

Common photo in the UC-prayer rooms world-wide.

• You know that certain things will succeed because you feel pulled in that direction and are eager to go ahead.

• Your body is like the receiver of a radio. 5 Spiritual sences <=> 5 Physical sences

• Free yourself from self-centered thinking, and then mighty things will happen to you.

• You must open that valve.

• You are entitled to ask for God’s power, but only for the sake of His righteousness and Kingdom. Then He will come down.

• Make a showdown with God every day.

• It shall become second nature, and without being conscious of it you can live that life all the time.

Let’s do it then.

Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus said:

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, 24

and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, 25

and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Mary Magdalene by Ary Scheffer (1795–1858).

When Jesus prayed the Lord’s payer, he didn’t mean for us to just recite that prayer and call that a prayer life.

In Matthew 6:9, Jesus says “Pray ye, after this manner”; in other words, prayer in this tradition or style, but not word for word.

Jesus’ Message to Christians and All People on Earth April 5 2001

Dear Christians and all people on Earth, please pray over this matter while fasting. Then I will appear to you and clearly tell you the truth. When you do it, you should be totally focused on praying with a pure heart. Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the one who came to Earth to complete my mission that was not fulfilled through the redemption of the cross.

He comes as the True Parent to conclude God’s providence in the Completed Testament Age.

I came with the mission of the Messiah in the New Testament, but people at that time crucified me.

That is why there remained a task for God to fulfill, and the necessity of a Second Coming.

The Messiah in the New Testament Age brought salvation to people in the spirit.

Still, history continued with the homework of physical salvation remaining to be fulfilled.

Wandering in the alleys of grievance, suffering, sorrow and pain, God endured endless tension and pressure while He waited to send the Messiah again to Earth.

After separating good and evil in order to prepare his lineage, God could send Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Source: www.messagesfromspiritworld.info/

A Prayer before Dying by Elisabeth Targ https://www.beliefnet.com/news/science-religion/2002/12/a-prayer-before-dying.aspx

Google ”Elisabeth Targ”

A lot of studies had investigated the effect of prayer on healing

• Forty patients were recruited.

• They filled out questionnaires, had photos taken, and signed consent forms that indicated they had a 50/50 chance of being prayed for by faraway psychic healers.

• They were free to pray for themselves and have family and friends pray for them as well - the trial design assumed everyone would get a “baseline” amount of prayer from loved ones.

• Their blood was drawn, and a computer matched them to a statistical twin - a counterpart with a similar CD4+ level, age, and number of previous AIDS-related complications.

The computer randomly assigned one of each pair to a control group and the other to a treatment group.

• The photos of those in the treatment group were sent to 40 healing practitioners, ranging from rabbis to Native American medicine men to bioenergetic psychics.

These healers performed their rituals one hour a day for six consecutive days. Each week for 10 weeks they rotated, so each test-group patient received distant healing from 10 practitioners.

• The healers kept logs and were not paid.

• The photos of the control group were kept in a locked drawer.

• Six months later, the data was unblinded.

• The healers kept logs and were not paid.

• They never met the subjects in person.

• The research results showed that the subjects who were not prayed for spent 6 times more days in the hospital.

• They contracted 300 percent as many AIDS-related illnesses.

• That’s a pretty sensationalistic way of saying those who were prayed for were a lot less sick.

All based on Prayer

Millions of messiah(s) – All of Mankind for Eternity! Millions of “christlike-true parents”

Lets pray that some day all shall be like him - like Christ.” /SMM 1965

End of Sermon

References: Main Source: Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96 Speeches by Sun Myung Moon: www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm

On the worldwide level, through the first, second and third world wars, God has been separating what is His side from what is Satan’s side. By doing so, God has expanded His domain.

Looking at history, we clearly can see that Satan strikes first. But then God, who is beaten first, eventually is the victor It is Satan’s pattern to strike first and God’s pattern to be struck, then win.

God is always on the side of the one who is struck. In the three world wars, the ones who struck first, lost.

/SMM Jan 10, 1993

This might interst people in

William Haines’ next lecture series “Tracing God’s Providence: After the Fall of the Berlin Wall” commences this coming Monday.

If you register by Sunday 27th March, the zoom link to join the lectures will be sent to you in time for the 6pm (UK time) 20.00 Finnish time start on Monday March 28th.

Artist: Benny Andersson

Remember the beauty in Gods nature is there to inspire us all! Have a great Blessed week. Prepared for 2nd,3rd… Gen. inspiration /Bengt&Maarit