(The Lord said, ‘Awaken your mind and pray.’ As I got up at predawn, I made up my mind to pray powerfully. At the same time my mind was a little sluggish. I kneeled down and readied myself to pray, however, the next thing I knew, I was asleep. I felt helpless, even frightened as the predawn hours slipped by, and I thought to myself, ‘How did I fall asleep on my knees without even realizing it?’ The Lord replied, ‘It is because you did not put my words into action right away.’ Then He continued.)
Satan interrupts your prayer because your prayer can reach up and open Heaven. Satan disturbs your communication with God so that you will pay more attention to him. Human beings go one way or the other, Heaven or the world of darkness: there is no middle ground. Therefore, evil tries to block your way to Heaven mainly through prayer because prayer connects you to Heaven.
Through prayer, you receive inspiration and realization regarding My Word; those inspirations and realizations allow you to go directly to Heaven. If you receive My word and take action on it, your spirit will change into a heavenly spirit and come closer to Heaven. Satan tries to interrupt this. In other words, he tries to block you from listening to the word of this time period and even if you listen to My word, he disturbs your prayer. In this way, he tries to stop you from hearing My word with your spiritual ears.
I already told you! I told you that you needed to awaken your mind and pray. Even though you said ‘Amen’ right away, you did not take action right away. So Satan was able to quickly take My words away. How could Satan do something like this? It is because you were not on your guard. The moment you were not alert was the moment between hearing My word and taking action upon it. A firm mind set with absolute resolve is fine. However, Satan is trying to catch you off guard — when your mind is not fully alert and while you are thinking, ‘Ok, I’ll do it…’. This is when he takes away the Word.
Satan is good at catching you when you are not on guard. You could call him an outstanding god of catching you off guard. He induced Adam and Eve to think, ‘Should I eat (the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil) or not?’ The crack opened for Satan the moment when they thought, ‘should I eat it?’ after hearing his words. Therefore, maintain your guard from the very beginning.
If you are not on the alert, it is already over. You are powerless. It is difficult enough to live the right way during your daily life. People of Providence; you cannot last long living that way, [without being alert]. You cannot live in My will even for a minute without communicating with Me through My words and through prayer, can you?
I truly tell you, if you do not have absolute confidence in Me in your heart, you will certainly go on the path of Satan. What does it mean, to be ‘armed with the Word’? It means you need to take action on My words immediately with a firm mind and an absolute determination to do it. Also, you should take a firm hold of your heart at every moment of every day, so that you do not give Satan even a small unguarded moment.
You need to take action on My words immediately. Do you know how cunning Satan is? It is already over the moment you are not alert. You may think you are giving your all to Me, but because of your carelessness, you might abandon Me, the Holy Son, and follow Satan. Do not even believe in yourself. Believe in ‘you who are in Me, the Holy Son,’ and believe only My word. Take action completely and resolutely. A hole, the size of a pin can become an enormous opening, the size of the Earth.
Everything begins with something small. Therefore, from the very beginning, you need to prevent small cracks from appearing. Likewise, determination and action the size of a pinhole can lead to the fulfilment of something as big as the universe. Therefore, do small things first. This will naturally lead you to accomplish big things. Please understand. It is not difficult. You just need to take hold of something small. Is that difficult for you? Only [watch yourself] and do not give Satan even a small unguarded moment. Only set your mind on doing something small and take action to do it. From now on, you have to take action immediately upon hearing My words. Even now, instantly take hold of this short moment.