Please enable us to become sons and daughters who remain loyal

Father! Through your words, we have come to know that heaven and earth are like one body. When we recognize that heaven is the subject partner, and we are like branches and leaves, we realize that we cannot live even one day or one moment without receiving heaven's sap of life and love.

Furthermore, although we are meant to live as branches and leaves of heaven, we have not sustained our existence by receiving the sap of love flowing from our eternal Father. We ask you to forgive us for not having lived like that.

Father! We are in the Last Days, the harbinger of the Day of Judgment, and we ask that You enable each of us to be grafted to Your love, with Jesus Christ, the perfect root, at the center.

We know, Father, that You long to gather from each of us the fruits of love produced through the love of our eternal Father and the love of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

However, we are too inadequate, imperfect, and immature to reach that point on our own, and we worry that we might be obstacles when you gather the harvest.

Since we now commit ourselves to You, Father, please raise us and take care of us. Amid trials and tribulations, place us in pulpits and allow us to become complete as mature fruits.

Furthermore, please allow us to become people who bear fruit and who realize the eternal kingdom of heaven by holding on to Your love, our dear eternal Father. Please let us become workers who reap the harvest for You.

Father! We know that this work we are doing was not proclaimed for the first time at this hour, but it was foretold in the Old Testament Age and again at the time of Jesus two thousand years ago.

Knowing this, each of us should bear fruit today, be the harvest that can be reaped before Heaven, and be people who can bring the Sabbath to Heaven. However, if we were to evaluate ourselves, some of us would feel that we are not yet fully mature.

In that case, Father, we earnestly hope and pray that You will allow us to become children who lament for our deficiencies, repent before You, our Father, grieve about our shortcomings, and suffer the sorrows of Jesus Christ in his stead.

Father, since we have gathered here today, as the sole center of the entire providence, please take complete dominion over our hearts and govern us. In so doing, please do not tolerate any evil ideas, teachings, or opinions, for they are not in accord with Your Will.

Father, we sincerely hope and pray that You will allow this hour to be one in which the people gathered here can be consecrated over and over again, so that Satan's work can be brought to an end, and we can be Your fully consecrated children, through whom You alone can operate and intervene.

Please grant that we recognize that you are now pressing for the realization of the day of Christ through us. Please enable us to understand that this is the time when you want to manifest the love of Christ by raising us.

Furthermore, please allow us to realize that you have been raising us, and that you are waiting for us to embrace the sufferings of Christ and go forth. Father, please lead us so that our steps running toward the castle of heaven are not self-centered, and please do not let us focus our prayers on ourselves.

Please allow us to come forward and kick away all the elements that evil can invade. To fulfill the Will that You desire and pursue, we earnestly hope and pray that You take hold of us, Father.

Help us endure and persevere even along paths on which we cannot help but despair, collapse, and struggle immensely.

We know that, since we are not people of this world, we cannot receive the glory of this world. Furthermore, we are aware that, just as you foretold through Jesus Christ, no citizen of heaven or son or daughter of heaven during the last two thousand years of history was welcomed on earth, regardless of the century or age they lived in.

Father! Today, we stand as representatives of Jesus. When we, who are engaging in the work Jesus could not complete, are persecuted, please grant that we may endure the persecution.

And when we live for the sake of Heaven, even if we are insulted by people on earth, have difficulties, and experience anguish, please enable us to overcome everything capably and persevere to the end.

Six thousand biblical years have passed, and, as Jesus longs for this day of harvest, he is calling us. Therefore, please consider using us to wipe away the stains of blood and tears lingering from the cross and the historical anguish, and lead us, that we may become the shields of victory.

Please do not allow us to forget that Jesus, who was the incarnation of hope, is waiting for us to be qualified to take dominion over Satan. Accordingly, today we need to harbor the joyful Will of our Father in our hearts and fight on Heaven's behalf.

We earnestly hope and pray that You allow us to become sons and daughters who are determined to subjugate the enemy, Satan. If we are unable to complete the mission even after having dedicated our lives to this work, then grant us the determination to complete it even through our descendants.

As we are about to usher in the new year, we should be preparing deep in our hearts to walk the path of the battle between life and death.

Father, we sincerely hope and pray that we can be the sons and daughters who do not succumb, regardless of the enemies that oppose us, and instead maintain our loyalty to You.

In so doing, Father, we earnestly hope and desire that You allow us to become Your sons and daughters, the ones who can appear before all things in the world as the sons and daughters who represent You and represent heaven and earth.

Please reveal to us the power of the words You have granted us today, and allow our hearts to connect with one another's.

Furthermore, we beseech You to allow this gathering to be one in which spirits can move other spirits, and we can be molded once again through the touch of Your power. I offer all these things in the name of the Lord. Aju! (December 30, 1956)