Prayer for Victory by Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Father! Since your young children have gathered here, if there were sorrowful circumstances as you passed through the historical ages, please appeal to each one of us in the depths of our hearts.
Father! People thought that this historical event which occurred in a corner of Korea would be pursued and driven out, and that it would disappear like flowing water.
Father! Your noble, precious, and holy providential history has traced its path through the long history of humankind.
Just as you have related to us with the heart of a parent relating to his children, please allow our hearts to swell with adoration of our parents, while we relate to you.
We know that today is a day when all people should bring their hearts together, offer a bow before the Father, and praise His boundless love, honor, and glory.
We know that the time of hope which you wanted to realize centered on the ideal of the creation of heaven and earth has not yet been able to appear on earth. We know that when you created all the
Father! We must become children. We must become children who insist to you that we are hungry when we are hungry.
We did not know that a historical end was calling to us from afar, and we did not know that you had set us up high and were urging us along the path we had to go.
Each time we bow down and pray before Your sacred majesty, we consider even more the fact that You are not joyful, and we feel more ashamed and remorseful.
Father, we know that the sorrowful path of restoration is filled with complexities.
When the Israelite people were marching to the land of Canaan, if Moses had taken a rod and even beaten those who were collapsing in order to get them to go through the wilderness, the 600,000 people would not have become food for vultures in the wilderness.
Father! We have arrived at the place you told us to go to.
