- Matthew 24:44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
When God does the work of individuals, nations, the world, and history, He starts after first preparing for it ahead of time. At Jesus’ time too, the people who failed to prepare ahead of time were sleeping the sleep of the time period and thus, failed to receive the Lord. That was because they did not know the new Word of the New Testament and the Word of truth. Only those who prepared ahead of time and were awake received the Lord in his lifetime, received salvation, and lived. The same is true with this time period. If you don’t do things ahead of time, even if the new history has come, your eyes of the time period are not open and thus, you can never receive the new history. Because you don’t do things ahead of time you are unable to take action in sync with the appointed time.
You have to do everything you do in life ahead of time. If you don’t do things ahead of time, even things that would have worked out will not work out and you will fail. [On the other hand], if you do things ahead of time, even things that would not have worked out will work out and you will succeed. Let’s say that you are running a 100m race. You have to be ready to start ahead of time and then immediately start as soon as you hear the start signal. This is so important that it will determine whether you will win or lose. Additionally, even if it is a person with skills, if he doesn’t practice ahead of time, he is unable to show his true abilities when he is are racing. Even a skillful person will lose to ‘a person who does things ahead of time.’ If you do things ahead of time, you will defeat the fastest runner in the world even if you are just a child. ‘Doing things ahead of time’ determines your fate like this. If you do things ahead of time, you will succeed because you will be ‘victorious with time.’ If you do things ahead of time, it is easy. If you do things ahead of time, you can do it.
Even when you are setting off on a long journey, if you leave ahead of time, you are relaxed and it is not difficult. You will be the first to arrive there. Life of faith too – you have to do it ahead of time when you are as young as possible. If you start your life of faith after growing up, it is hard for you because you keep heading toward your experiences and physical nature. Therefore, you have to evangelize people ahead of time when they are in middle school or high school. Since they are young, the Word of the Lord enters them easily~ and ‘the Lord’s thoughts’ enter them more easily because they have not collected a lot of experiences or perceptions. Consider athletes. If they [start training] after they are fully grown, it is too late. They have to do things ahead of time from the time they are young.
Health too – you have to take care of yourself ahead of time before you get sick. You have to go to the hospital and get examined ahead of time. Even if you contracted cancer, as long as you get examined ahead of time and find out about it, you will most likely survive. Especially when people of faith get sick, they try to be healed only through prayer. Then they go to the hospital late and end up advancing their disease. Of course you should pray too. But, you should not only pray. You should pray and also go to the hospital. God allowed medicine to make progress by giving wisdom to human beings. God treats people through the doctors because then, the diseases will be healed most easily. Whether you take medicine or go to the hospital, it is ‘God’s hands’ that go with you and heal you. People just wait with vague expectation for sickness or problems to be solved only through prayer.
If they do only that, they will end up dying of diseases, failing at what they do, and even the things that God prepared for them are taken away. When you are hungry, will you be full if you only pray? You have to eat in order to solve [the issue of hunger]. You should realize this and instead of pushing your work off to God, you, yourself must do things ahead of time. If you put off the work you should do, only ‘failure’ remains. And if you put off treatment for a disease, only ‘death’ remains.
You should both pray and do the work you should do ahead of time! If you do things ahead of time, even Satan cannot find a condition against you. Because you repent ahead of time before judgment happens, Satan cannot find a condition against you. Because you do things ahead of time before Satan blocks you, Satan cannot block you. ‘Doing things ahead of time’ is the method of God who surely fulfills [His Will].
- ‘A person who does things ahead of time’: is like a person who evacuates when the water is only up to the knees before the heavy monsoons strike and torrential waters sweep in.
- ‘A person who does things ahead of time’ is like a person: who leaves a location ahead of time before a snake or a wild beast come to kill and eat him.
- ‘A person who does things ahead of time’ is like a person: who goes to a hospital as soon as a serious disease starts, gets surgery, and removes it through a simple procedure.
- ‘A person who does things ahead of time’ is like a person: who is riding in a bus and gets off before an accident happens.
- ‘A person who does things ahead of time’ is like a person: who escapes judgment by repenting before judgment brought on by sin happens.
- ‘A person who does things ahead of time’ is like a person: who leaves a spot before fire breaks out and escapes the fire.
You have to cross the railroad crossing before the train comes. Only then are you safe even when a train passes by. In this way, ‘it is to prevent tribulations before they come.’ You end up having accidents, dying, or being treated unfairly because you fail to do things ahead of time and avoid what should be avoided. A person who prepares, readies, and takes action ahead of time in everything he does in life will avoid death, harm, accidents, and various suffering.
- A person who does things ahead of time: is ‘a person who has received God’s wisdom.’
- A person who does things ahead of time: is ‘a person who is fastest.’ Even a child will become the fastest if he takes action ahead of time.
- A person who does things ahead of time: is ‘a person who succeeds.’
- A person who does things ahead of time: is a person who takes possession of the blessing God gave to human beings.
- A person who does things ahead of time: will take possession of what he wants.
- A person who does things ahead of time: exerts only 1/1000th the effort and solves the problem.
In order to save and let human bodies do well as well as their spirits, God teaches man through the savior about ‘how to be saved and how to do well,’ and guides man to the path of salvation, the path of prosperity, the path of blessing, and the path of doing well. I bless you to have ‘the strategy and secret knowledge of taking action ahead of time’ and do things ahead of time every day!