Luke 22:44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
‘Prayer’ is a basic element of faith. Even between people in the world too – their lives are determined by conversations [they have]. In the same way, even before the Trinity too – your life is determined conversations.
‘What kinds of conversations you have’ with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son – the contents of those conversations ‘determine the outcome.’ God treats people and carries out the history of the time period according to the conversations [they have with Him]. The destiny of that time period and the destiny of individuals are also determined by conversations. According to ‘the conversations [they have with Him]’ God makes promises, makes plans, works with them, and decides whether it will become something or become nothing.
Prayer is ‘conversation.’ You have to create conditions in order to entangle. That condition is ‘prayer.’ We have to pray. Then God will entangle [with us] and He will carry out things and work with us even on things that are our responsibilities.
You have to pray and converse earnestly with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son. When you don’t pray earnestly, you will be hindered by Satan even more. When you pray earnestly, you will focus on the Trinity and thus, Satan cannot mess with you. Just as someone confesses his love earnestly when he meets the person he has a crush on, you have to earnestly pray to and converse with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son.
Half-hearted prayer, ordinary prayer, superficial prayer, and prayer done with physical nature – almost all of them don’t get conveyed to God. Answers to prayers are received by those who prayed earnestly and those who asked for appropriate things. When you offer sincere and earnest prayers and conversations, you will do it while realizing that your own prayers are conveyed to God.
Not only your conversation and prayer, ‘your thoughts and actions’ also have to be earnest and perfect in line with God’s Will. Why? This is because your thoughts and actions become your ‘prayer’ and ‘conversation.’ Therefore, by taking action earnestly and perfectly according to God’s Will, your actions and life must become earnest prayers.
Average thoughts and actions become only average life. It is to have earnest conversation, earnest prayer, and earnest life. Even if you pray earnestly, what you prayed for comes true in ‘your daily life.’ Therefore, you have to pray earnestly and take action earnestly in your daily life. If not, even if what you prayed for’ comes true, it will come true in an average way befitting of your actions. Earnest conversations, earnest prayers, and earnest actions are all conveyed to God and thus, are seen in His eyes and heard in His ears.
- ‘To do things earnestly’ is: – like carrying out your plan in the best way possible by focusing your heart, mind, and thoughts and being united in actions.
- ‘Earnestly’ is: a word that combines ‘being detailed’ and ‘doing it with all your heart, will, and life.’
- ‘Earnestly’ is: to take action meticulously, carefully, and devotedly. When you do things earnestly, even things that would not have worked out otherwise will work out.
When you do things earnestly, you will accomplish most things. When you don’t do things earnestly, you will not accomplish most things. Things don’t work out even if people have the skill and ability because they don’t do them earnestly. If you want to succeed, you have to take action earnestly with all your heart and will and do it with dedication.
No matter what you do, you have to do a good job. The secret to success and the way you can do well is ‘doing things earnestly.’ With clothing too – if you dry it after washing it only roughly, it will be so dirty that you can see it with your own eyes. Your room too – if you clean and organize it only roughly, you can see the mess with your own eyes.
Work too – if you do it only roughly, problems will always arise. God does not do things only roughly. He does things completely, perfectly, earnestly, and surely. That is why God will surely fulfill the Will and purpose. Human beings too – they have to do things earnestly and completely. Only then will they fulfill the will perfectly.
If you have received the Lord and are living [with him], you have to earnestly converse and pray, and earnestly want according to the Lord’s thoughts and take action. The Trinity too – if you do not treat Them in an earnest and sincere way, you will live with very little knowledge [of Them] and the Trinity will also treat you only that much. Therefore, They will not tell you profound things and thus, you will live at that level without knowing profound things. God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son treat people according to what people have done and according to how people treat Them. Your devotion and earnestness toward the Lord is ‘your own free will’ However, God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son and the Lord all treat you differently according to how you treated Them.
Just having an earnest heart is not enough. Things don’t happen with just heart alone. You have to take action. Even though ‘the ignition of thoughts’ was turned on as step one, as step two, ‘the ignition of your body’ has to be turned on and you must take action. If your thoughts and body do not take action together, it will end as just ‘self-ignition.’ ‘The thoughts and body’ must become one. Then ‘the purpose’ will be fulfilled.
An earnest person is ‘a wise person.’ A person who does things earnestly will do things till the end and thus, gain ‘what lies at the end.’ You have to be earnest. Then ‘the desire to do it’ will be continual and thus, you will take action continually. You have to feel and realize earnestly and profoundly. Then you can take action.
- You should be earnest, but you should be earnest to ‘righteousness.’
- You should be earnest, but you should be earnest with the Lord as your head.
- You should be earnest, but you should be earnest with ‘God’s Will.’
With that earnestness, you have to converse, pray, think, and take action honestly and earnestly. If you do, God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son Lord will all surely work with you and let things surely come true.
In ‘earnestness’ there is no formality. Therefore, a person who lives with earnestness does not do anything out of ‘formality’ when observing service, praying, conversing, thinking, taking action, and living daily life. Therefore, that person’s service, prayer, conversations, thoughts, actions, and daily life all get conveyed to God. God answers him, treats him, and rewards him appropriately. If you don’t do things earnestly, you will quit in the middle. If you quit in the middle, all of your hard work will end as worthless effort. If you don’t do things earnestly, you cannot become the owner. Therefore, no matter what you do, you will treat the work as if it is someone else’s work. The Lord entrusts work to ‘those who take action earnestly.’
The Lord looks for ‘people who take action earnestly.’ To those who make the Lord their head and take action to the end to the degree that their earnestness soaks into God’s heart, ‘blessings’ will go to them, ‘the will’ will go to them, and ‘love’ will go to them.