New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5859 - 5962

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Between 1937 and 1965 Bertha Dudde was permitted to receive and record 9030 individual proclamations on a daily basis.

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

5859 - Revelations expression of God's love....

5860 - Prevalence of sin.... Battle of faith.... End....

5861 - False Christs and false prophets....

5862 - Divine guidance....

5863 - Voice of the father.... God's protection of truth....

5864 - The spirit of God works where He wants....

5865 - Two different worlds.... voice of the good shepherd....

5866 - Light sparks....

5867 - Jesus found little recognition on earth....

5868 - God needs workers for His vineyard....

5869 - God speaks to people at every time....

5870 - Promise of preservation of body and soul in time of need....

5871 - Transformational work.... ability to think.... belief in continuation of life....

5872 - Predictions of worldly events.... false prophets....

5873 - Fulfilling the commandments of love....

5874 - Unredeemed souls.... recognition of Jesus Christ....

5875 - God's call for workers in the vineyard....

5876 - Servants of the lord.... vineyard work....

5877 - The short phase of earthly life decides the fate in the beyond....

5878 - Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ....

5879 - The raging of natural forces....

5880 - God's love follows the unbelievers....

5881 - "I know Mine...."

5882 - Great measure of grace at the end....

5883 - Clarification of God on contexts.... blind faith....

5884 - Jesus Christ.... His holy name....

5885 - God’s word always remains the same gospel....

5886 - "What you do to the least of My brothers...."

5887 - Mentally blind.... rays of light....

5888 - Spiritual or earthly goods.... better part....

5889 - Healing the sick in the name of Jesus....

5890 - Living or dead knowledge....

5891 - Forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ....

5892 - God's blessing for vineyard work....

5893 - Incomprehensible gift of grace.... counter gift: love....

5894 - Willingness to accept gifts of grace....

5895 - Living christianity....

5896 - Compulsion law.... free will trial.... purpose....

5897 - Earthly life is the path but not the goal....

5898 - "The kingdom of heaven suffers force...." "My yoke is gentle...."

5899 - Prayer for good success....

5900 - Value of the divine word....

5901 - Bringing the Gospel to souls in the beyond.... Love....

5902 - Acknowledging God as a primordial power.... enlightenment....

5903 - Blessing of spiritual work....

5904 - Blessing of suffering....

5905 - 'The measure you give....'

5906 - Simultaneous teaching of the souls in the hereafter....

5907 - Table of the lord....

5908 - Right child relationship.... become like children....

5909 - Light in the darkness.... no compulsion....

5910 - God’s word is power.... letters without life....

5911 - Faithlessness of the world's people....

5912 - Efforts of God to achieve the change of will....

5913 - Fighting or helping....

5914 - Help from light beings only in the will of God.... Calling 'saints'....

5915 - Maturity level ensures right thinking.... spirit work....

5916 - Swing up of the soul into spiritual spheres....

5917 - Bridging the distance from God....

5918 - Only the willing listener has blessing....

5919 - Voluntary deeds of love.... fulfillment of the law....

5920 - God's love can also be found in suffering....

5921 - Striving for the aim in free will....

5922 - The Word from above.... Outpouring of the spirit....

5923 - The church of Christ.... Living faith....

5924 - Quick end.... world clock....

5925 - In My name you should ask the father....

5926 - Serious reminder to remember the purpose of life on earth....

5927 - Following Jesus.... Living a life of love....

5928 - God's return in the word.... great spiritual need....

5929 - Redemption of hell.... ray of light in the form of a cross....

5930 - Power of the divine word

5931 - Jesus Christ is the gate to the kingdom of light....

5932 - Death on the cross....

5933 - Covenant with God....

5934 - Resurrection....

5935 - Power of the spirit in the end time....

5936 - Near end.... time calculation of God....

5937 - God-spirit spark.... connection with God condition....

5938 - Connection with God.... earth task....

5939 - Decision for the right lord....

5940 - Faithful trust ensures God's help....

5941 - Faith in Jesus Christ .... Doubting Thomas ....

5942 - "Seek ye first the kingdom of God...." free will....

5943 - Mercy....

5944 - Reference to the justice of God....

5945 - God's help in every need....

5946 - God's care for the least - lowest....

5947 - Work of God needed.... presence of God....

5948 - Proclaiming Jesus Christ.... reason for refusal....

5949 - Afflictions of the righteous....

5950 - God does not condemn, people condemn themselves....

5951 - The endtime disciples’ faith without proof ....

5952 - "No one comes to the father except through Me...."

5953 - Bonding with God....

5954 - Trials of faith should produce strong faith....

5955 - Convinced preachers....

5956 - "Seek ye first the kingdom of God...."

5957 - The letter kills.... the spirit makes alive....

5958 - The last judgement is also an act of God's love....

5959 - "I know Mine...."

5960 - God is waiting for the return to the father's house....

5961 - God’s bond of love....

5962 - Supply of the divine word unmerited gift of grace....

Revelations expression of God's love ....

B.D. 5859 from January 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

My love for you knows no limits, and My love for you also causes Me to reveal Myself to you, for what I love I want to possess. But I can only take possession of that which voluntarily comes to Me, and in order to be voluntarily striven for I must also be recognized as worth striving for. You must recognize Me as the eternal love, as your father Who created you in His love. Therefore I must reveal Myself to you .... Everything that is announced to you about Me must be confirmed by My revelations, otherwise it is untrue, and all promises I give or have given to you must come true .... And so I also gave you the promise to remain with you until the end of the world .... And if you want proof of My presence you must pay attention to My revelations, you must believe that I am with you faithful to My promise, and then it will also no longer be improbable to you that I address you in My greater than great love, which wants to give you a sign in order to win your love .... you have come forth from Me .... you cannot deny a creating power, a father Who called you into being .... and you should now also believe that all His love belongs to you .... You shall believe that He created you to remain in union with you forever and ever .... You should believe that the being Which created you in His love is also exceedingly wise and also has a purpose connected with your creation, that you are not merely products of a whim but destined for a high and highest aim and that therefore your creator will not rest until you have reached the aim of your destiny .... that He therefore does not let any of His creations out of His sight and accompanies them with His care on all their paths. You should believe that His fatherly love follows you even if you strive towards the abyss, but that it always steps into your path and makes itself known to you .... that you will therefore always be looked after by My love even if you don't recognize it .... But I want you to learn to recognize Me, and I constantly direct your thoughts (eyes) to My rule and activity, to all My works of creation, to everything that proves to you a creator and sustainer .... I first try to awaken faith in Me as creator in you in order to only then emerge as eternal love, in order to then reveal Myself to you through My word, through My address, which proves Myself to you as father and also makes My will known to you. For by fulfilling My will you also prove your love for Me, and now you voluntarily come to Me and I can take possession of you for My exceeding joy and make you blissfully happy for eternity .... I only want your bliss because all My love belongs to you, but you will only find the path to Me when you are informed by Me of your aim and your earthly task. And therefore revelations continue to reach you in various forms .... Every revelation proves Me .... But if I can be present in you and reveal Myself to you through My word, then you have already come considerably closer to Me, then My love has taken hold of you and will never let you fall again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prevalence of sin .... Battle of faith .... End ....

B.D. 5860 from January 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

When sin gets out of hand, when there is no more faith in God's justice among people, when people irresponsibly live their lives to the full and give their instincts free reign, when no love whatsoever is found among humanity, when all desires purely concern the world and its possessions, then the end will have come and the Scripture will come to pass, the prophesies of the seers, having always announced the end on God's instruction, will come true .... And if you humans look around yourselves, if you keep your eyes open and observe everything that happens on earth, then you will know, providing you are of good will, which hour you live in .... You will recognise that these are all signs of the near end, that humanity itself gives rise to the end because it lives in sin and pays no more attention to God .... As yet there are still people who are not entirely corrupted, who as yet do not belong to the adversary completely but who have no faith either and therefore thoughtlessly go on living .... nevertheless, the closer it gets to the end there will also be increasingly fewer of these people .... They will partly descend further and become subject to the adversary's power and partly be recalled from this life into the kingdom of the beyond .... The number of depraved and evil people will increase, and only a few will remain faithful to God and live on earth as it is His will. They will have to suffer greatly under the former, because they will be hated and persecuted on account of their faith .... And as soon as open actions are taken against all those who profess God in Jesus Christ, the end is imminent for you humans. This, too, was announced to you humans a long time in advance so that you will have to justify yourselves and be judged for the sake of Jesus' name .... So as soon as all spiritual aspiration is treated with hostility, as soon as God's servants are prevented from working for the kingdom of God, as soon as they are ridiculed and laughed at because of their faith, the time will have come when satanic forces are at work which, at the end, will rage against everything that points to God. And all those who are weak and not entirely evil will be recalled from earth, so that they will not fall into the hands of God's adversary when the final days dawn, when the believers are treated in such a way that only people with strong faith and absolute trust in God will stand firm, because their faith will give them strength and because they can be manifestly helped by God on account of their faith. Then Satan's activity will reveal itself, for he will embody himself in all people who belong to him as a result of their disposition .... And the works done by each one of them will scream for retribution .... And retribution will come .... The day will come which will put an end to this activity, when God's righteousness will come to the fore and every person's actions will be revealed .... The Day of Judgment will come as it is written .... when everyone will receive the reward he deserves .... when the Word of God will come to pass because it is the eternal Truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and false prophets ....

B.D. 5861 from January 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

And I keep telling you: The signs and miracles from My adversary’s as well as from My servants’ side on earth will increase, for many false Christs and prophets will arise on behalf of the prince of darkness in order to refute the teachings of My rightful servants .... in order to cast doubt on their miracles and prophesies and to plunge people into ever greater darkness .... Yet the false prophets’ miracles will only aim to increase earthly power and wealth, they will not perform deeds of love. Works will develop which are claimed to have been accomplished with supernatural strength, although they can only be described as an accumulation of material goods, thus they also betray the one who is lord over matter .... True miracles, however, are works of compassion for suffering and frail humanity .... True miracles are obvious effects of strength from above .... And true miracles can only be performed by those who work as rightful messengers of My Word on earth, who profess Me and My name before the world and try to awaken and revive the belief in Me .... Those who proclaim to people in My name what is about to happen to them are indeed true prophets. And I have chosen them because they combine the proclamation of the Word with evidence of the strength of faith in order to make people aware which strength and which spirit works through My representatives .... For many false prophets will arise in the end and try to confuse people by performing miracles .... My adversary will use the same methods, and he will find it easy to mislead people because he does not announce a decline but only ever promises earthly good living standards and earthly progress.

And his miracles consist of emphasising this earthly progress, since his miracles are humanly fascinating material developments and because his prophesy is a future of affluence, honour and earthly success, a world of economic development and earthly perfection. Every such prophesy receives attention, thereby diverting humanity’s attention ever further from what is genuine and true, which is proclaimed to them by My representatives on earth .... that people are approaching the end, that no amount of material possessions can save them from the downfall they will indisputably approach if they do not believe My Words but rather believe those who are influenced by the prince of darkness .... who indeed also perform miracles with his strength .... who are powerful on earth because they subjected themselves to him, but whose works can always be recognised .... For they do not express love, no help for needy fellow human beings can be recognised therein, even though they also use My Words, even though they hide behind My name in order to be accepted as true prophets .... Where love does not prevail My spirit cannot be found, and neither will there be miracles performed nor prophetic Words spoken, but My adversary’s activity will be clearly noticeable who, in the last days, will try anything to disperse My small flock and gain it for himself .... The time of the end has come, therefore take notice of everything I tell you so that you will learn to differentiate between genuine and false, between light and works of deception, between truth and untruth .... so that you will not fall into the hands of the one who wants to corrupt you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine guidance ....

B.D. 5862 from January 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I will lead you all by My hand if you don't resist Me and allow yourselves to be led .... Thus anyone who wants Me to be his companion, who does not oppose My will, can also rest assured that he will be guided right by Me, that he will not take the wrong path and that he will safely reach his goal. I expect nothing else from you but your submission to Me, that you want to be My Own, that you acknowledge Me as your God and Father and are willing to do what is right before My eyes. This will alone is enough for Me to lead you by the hand until you have reached the end of your earthly life, until you enter the spiritual kingdom in order to live in eternity. I want to give you eternal life .... And you will only be able to live if you are permeated by the strength of My love .... My strength of love takes hold of everything that offers no resistance .... And thus you will also understand why I expect your submission to Me, for then My strength of love can flow into you and awaken you to life. You cannot be spiritually dead anymore when you are permeated by My strength of love .... And you cannot be without the strength of My love if you hand yourselves over to Me, that is, if you join Me voluntarily .... The will to unite with Me is the guarantee that I will take possession of you and never let go of you again .... . For this will once turned away from Me and caused your fall into the abyss, your loss of light and strength .... If you now grant Me your will again it will also assuredly give you light and strength again. And everyone wanting to come to Me will reach his goal, whichever path he takes ....

I value your resolve and will also walk next to you, forever taking care that you will enter into eternal life. But anyone directing his will to Me also perceives his own inadequacy which lets him become humble ....He senses His distance from Me and would want to overcome it .... he makes an effort to do My will, he tries to shape himself according to My will because he realises that his imperfection prevents him from reaching Me, from uniting himself with Me forever .... And because he feels that he is too weak he appeals to Me for strength .... And I give, because My love always wants to give itself and because such will demonstrated by My earthly child makes Me extremely happy for it signifies the final return to Me. As soon as the thought of his own inadequacy has awakened in the human being I will also help him to reform himself, and as soon as he joins Me voluntarily by handing himself over to Me, My strength of love will take effect on him and lead to success.

And this is why everyone will reach his goal who strives towards Me, everyone who allows himself to be led without resistance will take the right path and need never fear to go wrong, for anyone who entrusts himself to Me builds on a firm foundation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Voice of the father .... God's protection of truth ....

B.D. 5863 from January 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You will continue to be taught by Me, the light of truth will be brought to you, you will hear My word and thus have visible evidence of My presence and My care for you. You can receive unmeasured strength and grace from what is offered to you, and you can also noticeably become aware of this strength and grace, and you mature in realization, knowledge is made accessible to you which contributes to putting you in contact with your heavenly father, Whom you now consciously strive towards and Whose will you seek to fulfil. The transmission of My word promotes your spiritual development, you are spurred on to be lovingly active and the spirit within you can now become effective .... You must consider all this and now ask yourselves whether you would have reached the same stage of development without the transmission of My word, whether you would have established such an intimate connection with Me in this form without My word and whether you would have attained the same realization which is now your own .... Obviously I took care of you who were willing to listen to Me, and I initiated you into My eternal plan of salvation, I gave you explanations which you could only understand because I enlightened your spirit and because you were willing to accept teachings from Me .... I spoke to you because you opened yourselves and were willing listeners to Me .... And I made known to you My plan of salvation from eternity. Anyone who is Mine also knows who is speaking to him, for My sheep recognize My voice, yet I cannot speak so clearly that all people have to recognize it, because My wisdom and love will not allow My living creations to be forced into believing these words. Yet I emphasize one thing again and again: I do not let people walk in error, who desire the truth, and I give My spirit to those who ask Me for it. However, this prayer must be addressed to Me in spirit and in truth .... In his deepest heart the human being must want to be instructed in the truth and humbly desire this truth from Me as the eternal truth .... Then he is also guaranteed to receive the truth, for I will not allow an earthly child to be misled after this heartfelt prayer by forces which are hostile to the truth .... My plan of eternity is irrevocably fixed. And the predictions of My seers and prophets, who announced to people on My behalf what I have decided since eternity, have always corresponded to this plan. Only those are to be recognized as seers and prophets in whom My spirit was able to work, because they only express what they hear directly from Me Myself within themselves. And I have always announced the same to them because My word is eternally unchanging. Yet the thoughts of those who listened to them became confused as soon as they did not live a way of life according to My will. These did not recognize My voice, for they were not My sheep who followed their shepherd in all His ways. For everyone who walks on earth according to My will hears the same voice within himself, albeit in the form of thoughts, and these thoughts of his walk in completely the same direction as My word, which the seers and prophets hear within themselves. It would truly be possible for Me to direct all thoughts in the same way, yet it is not in My eternal plan that I bring My living creations to perfection, instead, they must perfect themselves, and this includes awakening the spirit within themselves through love, which will order their thoughts and guide them towards the aim. And My word shall help them to achieve this, but it can only be conveyed to all people through a spiritually awakened person. I reveal Myself to all people so obviously that I can be recognized as the source of revelations, yet only by those who are of good will and desire to know the pure truth. As soon as these revelations of Mine are doubted the spirit is clouded .... the father's voice is not recognized because it is drowned out by another voice and because more attention is paid to this voice which comes from the world .... from the realm of My adversary .... and which is rather listened to because it promises earthly-human things, whereas the pure truth .... the father's voice .... proclaims and announces that which shall bring salvation to the soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The spirit of God works where He wants ....

B.D. 5864 from January 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The spirit of God works where He wants .... Only God knows where His spirit can express itself without resistance, only God knows where His revelations are accepted and obediently made use of, and only God knows whose inclinations allow the working of His spirit .... It is His will that truth shall find its way to people, and that erroneous beliefs and lies are brought to light so that the human being can identify them as such. It is His will that human beings find their way to happiness, which is always the way of the truth. And thus He is forever concerned to bring the truth to people because He has only one goal: the happiness of his living creations. On earth, which is ruled by His adversary, the truth will constantly be disputed and polluted by his influence; it will constantly be infiltrated by lies and errors, because it is God’s adversary’s aim to withhold the truth from people in order to prevent their realisation and aspiration towards God .... And thus the pure truth repeatedly has to be sent to earth from above, which can only happen by the working of the spirit .... by the outpouring of the spirit into a human being. And this person is chosen by God Himself ....

His spirit works where He wants .... The working of the spirit can only happen in a state of free will, God will never choose a human being and compel him to receive the pure truth .... It is entirely a matter of free will, and a will thus devoted to God is well known to Him .... hence such a will opens the human heart to receive the flow of God’s spirit. But then it also guarantees an unblemished flow of spirit into the human being, since the fulfilment of God’s requirements to send the pure truth to someone also raises a spiritual shield against impure, lightless influences; because a human being who has completely surrendered his will to God is now inside of God’s sphere of light which may not be entered by the beings of darkness. It is God’s will that the truth shall be sent to earth, and therefore it is reasonable that this can only happen through someone whose will has completely merged with God’s will because it prevents the adversary slipping in .... because God Himself can now provide a guard, to which the person himself gives Him the right as a result of his devoted will. Because the working of His spirit results in the manifestation of a bright light within the human heart from which all beings of darkness take flight .... God’s constant transmission of truth to earth is due to His love for His living creations whom He wants to guide towards happiness; and there should be no doubt that He now puts His will into action .... Hence He chooses people for Himself who are suitable to receive the truth from above, and for the sake of truth He will also protect them from accepting misleading notions, otherwise it would be impossible to impart the pure truth to humanity ....

But it has to be emphasized that only the transmission of spiritual values can be called an outpouring of the spirit .... that the transmission of the pure truth through the working of the spirit only relates to the knowledge of spiritual issues .... to divine-spiritual knowledge .... God can and will also instruct people mentally about earthly matters although the accuracy of their thoughts once again depends on the person’s state of mind .... but the process of the outpouring of the spirit cannot be associated with earthly knowledge .... For this reason earthly and spiritual knowledge always have to be separated. They cannot both be included in the concept of ‘transmission of divine truth’ although the thoughts of a human being who makes an effort to live within the divine order can also be enlightened by the spirit and thus truthful .... But verbal revelations intended to transmit the truth to earth have to be considered differently ....

(29.01.1954) As soon as you exclude all worldliness and make the spiritual kingdom the only goal of your desire, as soon as you intend to broaden your spiritual knowledge, as soon as you aim to improve the state of your soul by only accepting what helps your soul, with other words, as soon as you only focus on matters which ensure its eternal life and disregard the life of your body on this earth you are striving towards the spirit. Then you will truly be guided by the spirit within you, it will communicate with you and instruct you from within to further the higher development of your soul. And then you can also receive divine revelations according to your soul’s maturity, but they will only ever cast a light on the spiritual kingdom, on spiritual correlations, on the spiritual origin and objective of creation .... on everything your intellect could not work out by itself and which cannot be proven to you either for as long as you live on earth. However, you can solve worldly problems by virtue of your intellect, even though a truthful result is in fact also the result of enlightened thinking when the human being’s right and God pleasing way of life strives to achieve this.

But the difference should be observed that the substance of divine revelations concerns the life of the soul, the spiritual development of the human being and the knowledge of origin and final goal, the knowledge of God’s plan of Salvation since eternity .... The closer the human being is connected to God the more he will feel His influence, the more enlightened he becomes in his thinking, and the more assured he can also answer earthly questions, because he permits the working of the spirit within himself which directs and guides him even in his earthly life ....

(30.01.1954) Human beings are intended to receive divine-spiritual knowledge which can only arise by way of direct transmission from God to the human being, consequently the requirements have to be met to permit such a direct transmission. It is a divine plan, and the means to accomplishing it can only be known by God, and He chooses a useful instrument for Himself when it is necessary to transmit the pure truth in order to encourage and enable humanity to strive for higher development. Only God knows the human hearts, hence only God knows which earthly child meets the requirements to receive divine-spiritual knowledge.

And this is whom He chooses .... The spirit of God moves where He wants .... His spirit certainly flows into an appropriate vessel because it concerns an extremely significant rescue mission .... to penetrate the spiritual darkness with rays of light which emanate from God Himself .... This is a process which can still save many people from spiritual death .... it shows a path which leads away from the world of matter into the kingdom of light .... it offers people of good will the option to return by taking hold of the Fathers extended hand, Who does not want His children to get lost for an infinitely long time .... And for this reason every recipient of divine revelations enjoys God’s special protection to complete His work .... so that the light of truth can enlighten the earth at a time of deepest spiritual darkness, to make the best of the short time left to the people until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Two different worlds .... voice of the good shepherd ....

B.D. 5865 from January 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Earth and the spiritual kingdom are two different worlds, and the inhabitants of earth will rarely have understanding for that which penetrates to them from the spiritual kingdom in the form of the divine word, they will rarely have understanding for the spiritual knowledge which is imparted to them from the spiritual kingdom. Yet My word applies here: My sheep recognize My voice .... It is only a small flock whose shepherd I Myself am, it is only a small flock which can be counted as Mine .... there are only a few people who are in living contact with Me, in whom not only the mouth but also the heart speaks when they pray, there are only a few people who have a living faith, in whose life I come first and to whom I can also be a true father, whom I can bestow with gifts as My children which prove My love to them .... The majority of people are far from Me, and even if I speak to them they are not touched by My voice, they do not recognize in My words the voice of the good shepherd Who calls them to follow Him, they go their own ways .... They are only on earth and don't make contact with the spiritual kingdom from which they could draw great blessings for their soul. But just as the two worlds are different, the earth and the spiritual kingdom, so people are also different and belong to one of these two kingdoms .... And therefore My word will only ever be heard by those who hear the call of their shepherd, who are Mine, or by those who are still undecided as to which kingdom they should turn to .... they hear My call and feel it as a call to which they are attracted .... My call always and forever remains the same: Follow Me .... For there is only one path that leads to the aim, which all My sheep must take .... the path of love, and whoever takes this path belongs to My own, and this one follows his shepherd, Who truly leads him to the stable at home, Who does not hand him over to His enemy, Who protects him when the enemy will break into the flock to scatter them .... and this enemy will do everything to snatch My sheep away from Me, he will step as a disguised wolf in the midst of My sheep and likewise try to lure them in order to then rip them apart without pity and consign them to eternal death .... Yet My sheep recognize My voice and stay with the one they recognize as their good shepherd, and only the foreign sheep will allow themselves to be seduced by him, unless My luring call touches them more strongly and pushes them towards Me so that I take them into My flock and protect them from the enemy. My voice truly sounds loud and audible and My call penetrates everywhere so that no-one can say that they have never heard it. Yet only those of good will hear it and recognize it as the father's call of love to His children and follow Him .... And no matter how narrow the path, I will go ahead of them and lead My own safely and securely to the aim .... and everyone who hears My voice will follow Me if he counts as My own .... But it is not the voice of the world, but (it) sounds from the spiritual kingdom and therefore only touches My own who strive for that kingdom and its righteousness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light sparks ....

B.D. 5866 from February 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Consider yourselves as sparks of light which detached themselves from Me, which nevertheless remained light, only diminished in their luminosity, but which can never go out completely but always receive new nourishment from Me so that even the smallest spark of light can flare up again and in spreading its fire can unite with just such sparks and thus also unite with Me Myself, as the source of light, again and shine in brightest luminosity. You are all sparks of light which originated from Me and were therefore sprayed and sent out so that they should embrace each other in order to increase their luminosity .... or also .... My unlimited fire of love, which is strength in itself, gave rise to beings which were likewise love and should now work in their strength of love, which signifies a constant increase of strength of love, an expansion of the flame of love which enabled inconceivable activity. Love therefore emanated into infinity, and love was to create and work and therefore also fill everything with light. But love could not be determined .... it was only effective as long as it moved in complete freedom in order to immediately decrease its effectiveness where it met resistance. And thus the diminishing of strength, the diminishing of light, can be explained in a world where love finds resistance, for although it is direct emanation from Me, although it is something divine of immense strength and light effect, this effect diminishes like that of a tiniest, fading spark where the same love does not flow towards it, where a counterforce opposes it .... a counterforce which, as an originally strong spark of light, also emanated from Me, endlessly distanced itself from Me, which did not want to remain in contact with the original strength and also rejected the ever-flowing influx of strength .... which therefore resisted and thus cancelled the effectiveness of the strength of love and the fire of love until the resistance subsides. If you regard yourselves as sparks of light then you will also learn to regard yourselves as something divine which was destined to be supremely effective and only reduced the abundance of strength and light through your own resistance, because resistance signifies turning away from Me, and it will be understandable to you that you can place yourselves in the state of abundance of light and strength at any time, if you strive towards your starting point again, if you constantly kindle the fire of love within yourselves, if thereby the flames of love within you converge with the fire of eternal love, if you relinquish all resistance, if you allow My light of love to ignite within yourselves and the tiny spark which you carry within yourselves as My share also ignites ..... if you allow eternal love to take effect on you without resistance so that you recognize yourselves as light which took its origin from Me as the primordial light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus found little recognition on earth ....

B.D. 5867 from February 3rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Don't be surprised that you are not listened to, that you are not believed by people when you bring them My word, but remember that I Myself also found little recognition on earth, that I preached My gospel directly to them, that I confirmed My word through miracles, that I explained everything to them in an understandable way and helped them to come to the right realization, and that they nevertheless saw their enemy in Me because I taught and advocated something different from them and because their unkind way of life deprived them of all realization. I had descended to earth in order to let My word have an effect on people; I spoke to them, as I also do today through My revealed word, I showed them the path upwards into My kingdom, yet people did not recognize My words as God’s word, just as they also believe today that you form yourselves into words what your thoughts enter into you .... And that is why they attach no value to these words and pass by the most delicious .... of the bread of heaven which is offered to them by Me through you .... just as they had Me Myself amongst them and could have received divine gifts in abundance if only they had been of good will. And thus today, too, only that beneficiary of My gift of grace is of good will. Only the one who does not reject you can be approached by Me Myself and provided with a delicious gift .... And only the one who listens to you hears Me Myself speak and is touched by My word. When I lived on earth I did My utmost to gain access to people's hearts, I showed them love in abundance, I healed their sick, I helped them in earthly and spiritual adversity, I demonstrated My might and My divinity to them through miracles, and I taught them that they could accomplish the same if they lived according to My teaching .... The word Itself dwelt among men but they did not recognize It .... And thus you will also find little faith, for humanity has sunk to the depths of the abyss and is in a spiritual darkness that it is hardly able to recognize whether a teaching is good and true or bad and erroneous .... It lives in error and does not recognize it, the truth is offered to it and it cannot recognize it as such either, and even miracles no longer impress it because it believes everything to be possible by nature. And yet, you should be active as My disciples and undauntedly preach My gospel, you should try to establish a bridge between the completely earthly-minded people and the spiritual kingdom, again and again you should convey spiritual messages .... My word conveyed to you from above .... among people, you should speak even if people are reluctant to listen to you .... For I Myself still want to have an effect on people through you, and the strength of My word can still take effect in a few people .... just as during My time on earth there were only ever a few who willingly listened to Me and then recognized Me as coming from above .... My direct work on the people of this earth before the last end is an act of grace equal to My descent at that time, and you should always mention that you are My representatives on earth, that you speak in Jesus' name and Him and His divine mission, His act of salvation, you should always emphasize that you don't want to bring anything else to people than His divine word which He Himself proclaimed on earth, that you only preach the teaching of love in order to show your fellow human beings the path again which leads upwards .... And you should only ever remember Me, Who preached the same on earth and was tirelessly active in order to help people in their spiritual adversity. The time is approaching its end and therefore your task is urgent and blessed by Me, for you can still bring help to all who are of good will. And for the sake of these few I will send you out into the world, and they will also recognize you as My messengers, they will recognize Me Myself in the word you offer them and accept it into their hearts .... they will believe in Me and therefore be saved from spiritual death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God needs workers for His vineyard ....

B.D. 5868 from February 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Anyone who wants to serve Me I also place him in the place where he can be active for Me, and I Myself also allocate the work to him according to his ability, his will and his task, for I truly see all possibilities of success and have them evaluated. But it will mostly be an activity in silence in the last days before the end, because humanity is no longer accessible to a great spiritual influence, because the world and its material striving is a great obstacle and people pay little attention to a spiritual action if it were to take place on a larger scale .... and this would discourage My servants on earth and make them unfit for further work. Even if it seems to you that your small-scale work is not very successful .... great successes can no longer be expected in view of people's spiritual low, yet there are still individuals whom you can help, and they will be eternally grateful to you that you have shown them the right path .... For this reason your activity shall continue uninterruptedly to receive My word and to pass it on wherever the opportunity is offered to you. Even the smallest effort will not remain unsuccessful because it will be gratefully evaluated in the kingdom of the beyond, and even on earth you cannot be sufficiently eager to spread My word, because no word will go completely unheard .... because you are always and constantly surrounded by beings which accept it and draw strength from it. Moreover, worldly events will also contribute towards you being heard .... yet people's will remains free, and as they adjust to My gift offered by you they will also derive their benefit from it or go empty-handed. Anyone who wants to serve Me shall hand himself over to Me completely, and then I will also assign him his work, he can be assured of that, for I need labourers in the last days before the end, and I will accept all who offer themselves to Me for work in My vineyard. And no-one should believe that he can be left without, for the spiritual hardship is overwhelming and only people who are willing to help can reduce it by distributing spiritual gifts which they receive abundantly from Me, because I know the hardship and want to help people. Therefore always consider yourselves My servants who only carry out the lord's will and don't tire of working for Me, for the blessing will not fail to materialize even if it is not immediately obvious to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God speaks to people at every time ....

B.D. 5869 from February 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I have spoken to you humans at all times, and thus I also speak to you today wherever you give Me the opportunity to do so, that you open your heart and ear, that you listen to My voice. Everyone will be able to hear Me, for if he makes contact with Me through prayer, if he merely directs his thoughts to Me, waves of thoughts will circle around him and he will seize the right waves sent to him by Me .... he will think what I Myself give him .... Yet in times of greatest spiritual adversity I also manifest Myself to people because I know how people can still be saved; in times of greatest spiritual adversity I express Myself directly by speaking to you humans through the mouth of a person devoted to Me so that you will pay attention and direct your thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, upwards, from where this obvious manifestation comes. But there will only ever be a few people who pay attention to what is said to them from above, there will only be a few who recognize My voice in it because the darkness is already too deep and because people's will is too weak to penetrate the darkness towards the light. Anyone who recognizes My revelations as light also pays attention to them, he follows the light and allows himself to be illuminated by it. But every human being is the master of himself .... He has free will and will never be forced by unusual events to change his will, and even if I stand next to him and hold a brightly shining light towards him .... This light will not force him to Me and to realization but it can only touch him beneficially if he voluntarily exposes himself to its radiation, and then he will open his heart and ear ever more .... But it has no luminosity for the one who is completely darkened in mind and shuts himself off from every influx of My strength of love .... For it is the expression of My love when I address you humans, I only want to help you to emerge from the dense darkness, I only want to give you something but not take something from you .... And therefore I cannot allow anything unusual to occur in order to draw attention to My revelations, I cannot surround My bearers of light with a nimbus (shine) which is intended to influence fellow human beings .... everything must remain within the bounds of the natural and people must be completely free as to how they want to relate to My words from above .... Yet I will constantly give, and those who accept My word as a loving expression of the father Who wants to make His children happy can draw strength and grace from the source of eternal life in the richest measure. Whoever desires to hear Me will also hear My word and recognize it as the father's voice, as proof of love and as the most effective means of salvation from eternal night ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Promise of preservation of body and soul in time of need ....

B.D. 5870 from February 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

And you will be given what you need for body and soul, for My love always watches over you and does not let you go hungry. For a time of tribulation and earthly hardship will come upon you when you are deprived of everything for the sake of My name, when you are denied everything you need to live and spiritual coercion is also imposed on you so that you should deny your faith, then don't worry, for I will take care of you .... I will sustain you and supply your body with what it needs, but I will also give you the spiritual strength to remain faithful to Me .... Whoever believes in Me, in My love and My might, truly need not fear that he will suffer lack of body and soul, for I have promised you that I Myself will take care of you with the words: "Do not worry about what you will eat and drink and with what you will clothe yourselves, but seek first the kingdom of God .... everything else will fall to you." And remember this promise when you get into earthly trouble, and hand yourselves over to Me in full trust, Who stands by My word .... My adversary's satanic influence will be revealed in such a way that people who are in bondage to him will stop at nothing, that they are capable of anything in order to destroy faith in Me, that they will relentlessly proceed against My followers and would unhesitatingly hand them over to death if I were not with My might and strength with My own. And it will be obvious that My own are fed from above, for they will live because they receive from Me what they need for body and soul. And whether you humans also doubt this, whether you incredulously listen to these words of Mine .... Who created the whole world, to Him it is truly also possible to preserve people who believe in Me, who stick by Me even in greatest earthly adversity. And I will rescue them from the hand of their tormentors, I will come to fetch them when satan's activity has reached its climax, that I will put him in fetters in order to render him harmless .... And then all adversity will come to an end .... Then I will reward the faith of My own, then I Myself will dwell amongst them and they will be eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transformational work .... ability to think .... belief in continuation of life ....

B.D. 5871 from February 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I have created you not only for this world but for eternity. Your life on earth as a human being is only the smallest phase in your existence, it is one of the infinitely many stages you have to go through before you can live an eternal life as blissful spiritual beings .... You can no longer perish, even if you are still so inadequately formed by your own will. But your aim is perfection, and in order to achieve it you have to pass through the countless stages of your development .... one of which is earthly life as a human being. If you humans believe that your existence only lasts from your birth until the death of your body, your belief is a sign of even worse deficiency, for then you lack all knowledge which, however, brings with it increasing maturity. As a human being you are capable of thinking and thus you can attain realization, yet this presupposes a right way of life which you determine yourselves through your free will. Hence, as a human being you have the opportunity to change your still imperfect state at birth into a state of perfection, you have the opportunity and also the ability to do so because I have endowed you with gifts and also provide you with graces so that you will reach your aim .... If you now make use of the possibilities, even if you are unaware of the success, then the belief will soon come alive in you that the time on earth is only a transition .... Thus you no longer believe that your life will end with the death of your body, and this belief is already proof of the progress of your soul, which is your actual self and to which the description 'immortal' therefore applies. This self cannot pass away but it can be in constant transformation, and this work of transformation is your task during your earthly life if a stage of development is not to pass by unused. At the beginning of earthly life this self of yours is still a dead being .... without realization and without life, because it first has to be awakened to the right life by a flow of strength emanating from Me and because this flow of strength can only touch it when it wants it itself .... Therefore the intellect, the thinking faculty, was given to people, and the body's vital functions could now be driven by the human being's intellect to let the will become active in one direction. Life approaches the human being such that he is urged from within to be active in love, even if his intellect is not yet strongly developed .... and, depending on his will to give in to this inner urge, it enlivens the still ossified soul, which can now also give the will the right direction because it is already illuminated by the smallest deed of love by that strength which gives it life. Thus love awakens the soul's life, love gives the will the right direction, and love also gives the human being the power of realization which becomes all the more evident the more consciously the human being lives a life of love which pushes him more and more towards Me and also guarantees him right thinking and willing .... This is why a person who lives a life of love will also never deny a continuation of life after death, because his thinking cannot go astray, because My strength of love flows into him with every work of love he performs .... Every work of love connects the human being with Me and gives him brightness of spirit, the soul is no longer dead, it lives and knows that it cannot perish eternally .... and it also conveys this certainty to the human being's intellect, which now cannot help but represent the belief in a continuation of life with all eloquence, but which also believes with conviction because life is in it, and which has also reached a degree of maturity at its demise on earth which assures it a life in eternity, which signifies a state of tireless activity for the soul, which makes it inconceivably blissful and consists of constant activity of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Predictions of worldly events .... false prophets ....

B.D. 5872 from February 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Divine revelations are only sent to earth for the purpose of drawing people's attention to a great danger which threatens their souls .... And worldly events are only mentioned because they are merely the effect of a spiritual low and at the same time the means to remedy it. God only allows worldly events to be announced by His prophets because they are closely related to spiritual development and because they, in turn, are only intended to influence people such that they change their spiritual relationship, that they remember their soul and help it to ascend. The revelations are never intended to influence people in a worldly way, and therefore every such revelation which holds out the prospect of worldly events can be regarded as spiritual information as soon as it is spread by people who obviously endeavour to serve God, to work for His kingdom and to proclaim His word. For such revelations will never be conveyed to earth without the divine word, because proclaiming His word is first the most important task of the one who has the prophetic spirit and who therefore receives both the divine word and the predictions of future world events from above for the purpose of distribution, for the purpose of instructing people who live in spiritual darkness and don't think about their soul. On the other hand, anyone who wants to reveal the future in an earthly sense, anyone who believes he can look into the future with clairvoyance, anyone who informs people of the future for the sake of earthly advantage, is considered a false prophet and must be rejected as untrustworthy, even if he claims to speak on God's behalf .... For a divine commission is only granted to a person who consciously places himself at God's disposal in order to work for His kingdom. But he no longer pays attention to earthly goods and will always strive to liberate his fellow human beings from matter, to present earthly striving to them as useless and only seek to promote the human being's spiritual development, which is why he informs people completely unselfishly of what is made known to him through God's revelation .... You must always consider the purpose of a revelation .... whether only spiritual development or earthly advantages are aimed for .... and you will be able to make a right judgment about the value or unvalue of predictions and adjust your life accordingly. Only that which benefits the soul is to be valued as divine and everything else that promises earthly progress or earthly advantages is to be rejected, for God only reveals Himself for the soul's sake so that it may escape its spiritual adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fulfilling the commandments of love ....

B.D. 5873 from February 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Simply live in love .... I ask nothing else of you, but thereby you will reach an as yet inscrutable goal, a level of perfection which subsequently signifies brightest realisation for you, because then your soul will be able to attain spiritual vision and gain insight into My kingdom with all its splendours. I only require you to love because love is the key to realisation, to strength and to supreme happiness. Any person can be good, but whether he wants to be it, whether he follows the gentle urging within himself is a decisive factor in the achievement of his goal on earth. And this is why he constantly has to be encouraged to practice love, time and again he has to be reminded to do deeds of love and cautioned not to act heartlessly .... This is why he was given the commandments of love by Me, so that he will not forget what alone is important in earthly life .... so that he will use his common sense to help him when the urging of his heart has already become too feeble .... Then he should remember that My will only expects the fulfilment of My commandments of love and rationally try to ascertain why I gave these commandments .... He should consider the Words 'He who remains in love remains in Me and I in him .... ', consequently, if he desires contact with Me he will have to live a life of love .... In that case, however, his spiritual ascent will be assured, then he will fulfil the purpose of his earthly life. Love is Supreme .... Love is the strength without which no human being can live, which has to be understood as the life of the soul, which is everlasting but can succumb to spiritual death if it lacks love, the strength which gives true life in the first place. Anyone who wants to live in eternity must give love to all those who approach him, to all those who want his love .... only then will he be able to create in strength and light, and only then can he be blissfully happy.

However, without love the soul is in darkness and weak, for even the body's life does not signify life for the soul without love, although it can temporarily use the body's life, yet without love always in the wrong direction which thereby merely thickens the layers surrounding it, so that at the end of its earthly life it will enter the spiritual kingdom totally devoid of strength and light, where it is no longer granted the privilege that the body can change its state, for it has not utilised the body's energy of life for itself, it had not given in to the gentle urges and made the body accomplish deeds of love .... For as long as it lived on earth its thoughts and intentions determined the body's activities, the use of vitality, and its wrong intentions and thoughts subsequently also caused its state of death in the spiritual kingdom .... Time and again you are admonished to love, you humans are confronted by so much adversity and helplessness and are so often approached for help that you would be constantly able to carry out deeds of love, for you have the ability to do so, yet whether you have the will shall one day determine your soul's state after death. Actions of love in accordance with My will can never cause you adverse effects, for whatever you give with love will be returned to you in various ways both spiritually and earthly. It will never damage you, for the share you gain by fulfilling My commandments will be unlimited, because when I give I know no limitation where love motivates Me to express My love .... Act with love .... don't be calculating in giving but let your heart impel you into wanting to share and give pleasure .... Then your love will have been kindled in you and its fire will dissolve all impurities which still cling to your soul. By way of love the soul becomes bright and clear, and My strength of love can permeate it, it will live eternally and know all, it will realise that only love can achieve the unity with Me, that only through love can it attain eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unredeemed souls .... recognition of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5874 from February 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Countless souls on earth are still unredeemed, that is, they have not yet attained the graces through Jesus Christ which set them free from the power of God's adversary. These people are still outside of those for whom Jesus Christ died on the cross, and they are therefore outside because they do not acknowledge Him as God's son and redeemer of the world, because they know nothing about the significance of the act of salvation, because Jesus Christ is no more to them than a historical person who is regarded as the founder of a religion which was made by human beings to be so .... They mention His name without any certainty that He is the saviour for every individual person from a pitiable state which the soul will only recognize at its demise. People all know Him .... Yet only a few believe in Him as the one Who has made a spiritual transformation on earth possible .... Who therefore may not be ignored by those who want a spiritual change, a spiritual progress .... who believe that they do not go through earthly life without a purpose .... These therefore must find their way to Jesus Christ, otherwise they will not fulfil the purpose on earth .... And the significance of the act of salvation can still be made understandable to them as long as they are willing to live earthly life in accordance with its purpose. They will not completely reject what is given to them as enlightenment, they will think about it and be more willing than people for whom earthly life is only an end in itself. These find no connection with Jesus Christ because they reject everything .... a life after death, a spiritual earthly task, a human being's weakness and deficiency due to the fall of man, a perfection to be achieved and thus also a helper Who makes this becoming perfect possible .... And for these people there is also no salvation, no ascent .... They will sink ever deeper into the abyss, into the hands of the one who, as God's adversary, will also work against Jesus Christ and His act of salvation with all means and who therefore deprives people of all light about it, who will do everything to prevent the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and to strengthen people's belief in earthly life as an end in itself. And he will also succeed, because these people only live in selfish love and therefore any illumination through the spirit is impossible .... whereas the former .... people who strive for perfection can also develop love within themselves and thereby mentally take paths which can lead to the right realization of the problem of Jesus Christ .... The divine mission of the man Jesus must be recognized and acknowledged so that the divine redeemer will also be called upon for help, so that the graces He acquired through His crucifixion will be given to the human being and he can make use of them .... And already the will to receive information about Jesus Christ, Who cannot be denied as a historical person, will not be accepted if it is not desired to be answered negatively .... will lead the human being one step further, because God gives light to every human being who desires light, and because everyone should find the path to Him, which, however, only goes via Jesus Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's call for workers in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5875 from February 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

To be active in My kingdom is the most beautiful task for all of you who still live on earth, because it results in an eternal reward and because then you will be My co-workers and thus carry out an activity which corresponds to My will. As soon as you decide to work spiritually your earthly life will be steered into a path where you will obviously recognize My guidance. You will find entrance into spiritual circles or form such yourselves, you will be brought together with people who cultivate other than just earthly thoughts, you will be introduced to spiritual knowledge so that you will also be able to carry out your activity on earth, and you will visibly experience My blessing in spiritual as well as earthly work because you will now not create and work alone but with Me. No one shall believe that he is not needed for the work in My vineyard .... I ask every individual whether he wants to serve Me, whether he wants to take care of the hardship of erring souls and be active with My support for their salvation .... I give every individual the promise that I will bless his work, and for every individual who wants to serve Me I have already prepared his field of work where he can work according to his strength for his own and his fellow human beings' blessing. And I need everyone .... The work to remedy the spiritual hardship is so extremely important and urgent that I repeatedly request your help, because it can only be done by people who, in union with Me and in My will, want to bring the gospel to their fellow human beings, who take care of their spiritual hardship, who revive their faith or want to strengthen a still weak faith, who encourage their fellow human beings to establish a living bond with Me and give them an example of the blessing of a person's intimate bond with Me. I need all of you who believe in Me .... For countless people go through life without faith in Me, and every one of them needs a fellow human being who helps him to believe again. I Myself can certainly influence such unbelieving people indirectly but not directly, yet I take pity on their adversity and, in order to help them, I want to put them in contact with you and send you abundant working material with which you can now be effectively and beneficially active if you are willing to serve Me and bring help to your fellow human beings. The time is approaching its end and therefore I still need many workers beforehand and therefore call upon all of you urgently: Remember your brothers and sisters on earth who have not yet entered your path, who only walk the paths of the world and can never reach their aim on this path .... Remember those who are without faith and try to make the power of your faith effective in them .... pray for them and always include them more in your thoughts so that they will feel the strength of your love and also listen to you without resistance when you bring them My word .... so that they will think and can now also be influenced from above .... Do the preliminary work which has to be done by people on earth so that the forces of light can then intervene and in turn try to influence those who are still far away, who only see the world and want to deny a spiritual kingdom, to come to faith .... You can contribute much to this as soon as you consciously offer yourselves to Me for service .... For then I will direct all your steps and provide you with everything you need to work for Me and My kingdom .... I will give you light and strength Myself so that you will also be able to distribute My word again, which is light and strength for everyone who listens to it, receives it with his heart and makes an effort to live it out. For this one has now also been won for My kingdom, he will not be lost when the last end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Servants of the lord .... vineyard work ....

B.D. 5876 from February 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Consider yourselves as My elders, all of you who want to be active for Me, and know that I am a good lord and father of the house to you, Who rightly and justly remunerates every work done for Him and Who is your friend because you place yourselves at His disposal. All My creatures shall serve one another and redeem themselves through service .... If you now serve Me by wanting to help your fellow human beings, you will also serve them and their as well as your own redemption will be guaranteed. And there is great work to be done .... I only occasionally find people who offer themselves to Me for such work, and therefore a very large field of work remains for each individual to cultivate, and each individual needs much strength in order to be able to cope with the work ahead of him .... But alone, without My help, it would not be possible for you. And therefore I endow you with great strength as soon as you are willing to do the work I assign to you as My servants. How much detailed work is necessary in order to first open up the souls of your fellow human beings, to make them ready to receive in order to then be able to distribute to them according to their desire .... Yet all of you could do this work if only you would let yourselves be guided by Me, if only you would give in to the quiet urge within you to talk to your fellow human beings about spiritual subjects, to direct their thoughts towards true life which only begins after death in the spiritual kingdom .... All of you who revive such thoughts are already working unconsciously in My vineyard and I will always influence you more through the inner voice, you will soon prefer to dwell in spiritual rather than worldly spheres, it will give you pleasure to always put Me first and to talk to your fellow human beings about Me, about your earthly task and about life after death .... and you will consciously want to serve Me and request My blessing for your work, which will certainly flow to you and which now also enables you to be active for Me and My kingdom .... And you are already successfully active if you also succeed in directing your fellow human beings' thoughts to spiritual levels, for then you will have established the connection between them and the kingdom, from where they will receive further instructions by mental means. You should know that even the smallest spiritual work is needed and that I bless everyone who is willing to lend a hand to the transformation of the still purely worldly thinking .... I accept everyone as a servant whose love drives him to help .... For spiritual help on earth can only be given by people as long as no connection has been established with the kingdom of light, with the knowing forces, which can only continue their work after such preliminary work and which therefore will always stand by your side and support you in My mission, so that your work will be successful .... so that I can reap a good harvest when the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The short phase of earthly life decides the fate in the beyond ....

B.D. 5877 from February 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Your earthly existence as a human being is one of infinitely many phases of your higher development, for even if you fully mature on earth so that you can enter the kingdom of light your development will nevertheless continue, because once a soul has attained realisation it will never cease going forward .... because it will always and forever strive towards God and thereby try to come closer to Him in order to become blissfully happy in complete union with Him. Consequently, the time on earth as a human being is just like a brief moment compared to eternity, compared to the infinitely long process of development through the material creation, and yet, this brief moment is crucial for the soul's fate, it is crucial for the further process of development in the spiritual kingdom. For there is a difference whether the soul has already achieved a degree of maturity on earth or whether it will not achieve realisation until it is in the kingdom of the beyond .... The latter will indeed ascend as well, but they will have to make an extremely laborious effort to acquire what was abundantly at their disposal on earth and what could have enabled them to reach the degree of light ....

To pass the test of will on earth already denotes a state of light and strength in abundance on entering eternity, it denotes a constant supply of light and strength, because the moment the soul departs from earth as a recipient of strength it also imparts strength, and the more it passes on the more it will receive in return .... Thus it ascends extremely quickly now, for it joins equally mature spirits and works in accordance with divine will and on divine instruction .... It receives all strength from God and uses it on behalf of God, whereas souls having failed their test of will on earth are indeed also able to achieve realisation in the beyond but they first have to shape themselves with the help of other beings such that they can become enlightened, that they can receive the emanations of light and subsequently utilise them according to God's will. These souls, too, have to desire the supply of light and strength of their own accord, only then will they receive, and only then will their higher development begin with the work which they, in turn, carry out on the souls in darkness .... It is effectively a laborious path, a step by step ascent with the utmost effort of strength and will ....

No effort remains without reward, the soul will definitely progress, but because it is still very weak and has little strength as its disposal it has to exert all its will and find much support from the world of light or through human intercession until it has become a recipient of light and strength itself, so that it can distribute in turn and then receive ever more strength. The short earthly life decides the fate in eternity, for the entry into the spiritual kingdom can already be supreme bliss which will never end, if the time on earth was used correctly. But it can also be wasted, and the soul has to suffer the consequences .... it has to carry on struggling and fighting if it doesn't want to descend. And its life in the spiritual kingdom can in many ways still be likened to the struggle on earth, yet it is never hopeless if the soul itself wants to attain light and strength. Only its will is decisive .... if the will is already directed towards God in earthly life, then the soul will constantly pursue its objective of coming closer to Him, which it will soon achieve ....

But while the will is still turned away from God it means darkness and weakness, and the soul will enter the spiritual kingdom in this state, whereas the former is permeated by light and nothing ties it to the earthly realm except its love for those it left behind and to whom it now offers help in every way; the latter, however, will still need help for a long time although they have escaped earth, because they will still remain in the vicinity of earth until they, too, can receive enough light and strength in order to be active themselves in the spiritual kingdom. And every activity only consists of influencing the will of those who still aim in the wrong direction, in order to protect them from the same fate, from a laborious ascent in the spiritual realm which is the result of a wrongly directed will on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5878 from February 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The door to the kingdom of light is open to everyone who chooses the path through Jesus Christ. Without Him, however, the kingdom of light is closed to you and you walk in darkness or in such poor twilight that you do not feel well and therefore are not blessed. Wherever Jesus Christ is preached you will be pointed to the right path, for He Himself has spoken the words: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

And again and again He will step into your path if you have once passed Him by without paying attention to Him .... Again and again He will point you to the truth, to His act of salvation, He will offer Himself as your guide on your earthly path of life, He will woo you with love and patience, He will not turn away from you unwillingly if you don't want to listen to Him .... He will follow you if you are in danger of straying into the abyss and then entice you again and call you to turn to Him and return, so that you enter the path which leads to the right aim, to eternal life. Only He is the gate through which you can enter beatitude, and if you reject Him on earth you will receive a dark kingdom on the other side, everything is shrouded in darkness, for the light which illuminates everything is missing .... Jesus Christ, from Whom the light proceeds .... But in this kingdom of darkness you must call for Him .... then you can also be redeemed from your torment, yet it is difficult for a soul which rejected Him on earth to call for Him of its own free will .... because it did not believe and this faith cannot be given to it in the beyond either. It is difficult for such souls because they are only weak in knowledge, because darkness confuses their thinking and often directs it wrongly .... because they possess too little light of their own which could now stimulate their will to call upon Him for salvation. The rejection of Jesus Christ on earth has an extremely painful effect in the beyond, for the soul lacks everything .... strength and light .... it cannot recognize and is too weak-willed to acquire knowledge. But the divine redeemer's mercy still sends help to such souls even then .... Even in this kingdom of darkness they are pointed to the cross of Christ, which expresses itself in such a way that suddenly a thought of Him appears to the soul like a flash of lightning, that suddenly a glimmer of light touches it in the form of the cross which, however, immediately goes out again but can nevertheless leave a glimmer of realization in the soul, that it reflects on Jesus Christ and promises itself redemption from Him .... that it calls upon Him in its thoughts and presents its adversity to Him .... that it thereby expresses its will to believe in Him, only that it needs help in order not to change its mind again. And then it will also receive help, then the darkness will imperceptibly subside, a slight twilight will let it recognize a path which it will now follow and which will lead it into ever brighter regions .... as long as it does not drop the thought of Jesus Christ .... which, however, immediately becomes dark again when it no longer remembers Him .... The soul must freely want to go out of itself to Jesus Christ, then every obstacle will recede before it, then a light will shine to it, which it will soon recognize as the Christ light that sent it the first thought of Him .... Faith in Jesus Christ is the gate that leads to blessedness .... And blessed is he who still on earth finds Him, the divine redeemer, Who Himself is the Way, the Truth and the Life .... Blessed is he who with this faith enters the kingdom of the beyond, for to him the gate opens to the kingdom of light, to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The raging of natural forces ....

B.D. 5879 from February 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You will hear My voice loudly and powerfully, and all of you who don't want to comply with My gentle call will be terrified when it resounds, when the raging of the natural forces reminds you of Me, Whom you have constantly opposed and Whom you nevertheless have to acknowledge in view of the expression of the elements of nature. Admittedly, you won't accept that there is a relationship between this and your activities in the world .... Yet only the latter prompts Me to express Myself visibly, for your activities demonstrate that you don't acknowledge Me as your God and Creator to Whom you will have to be answerable one day. You don't believe it and therefore don't live your earthly life according to My will .... And that is why My voice will resound, so that you will consider Me and change, so that you will recognise Me and accept My will as your own .... I speak to you, admonishing you at first gently and full of love to turn around .... in order to then raise My voice increasingly until it worries and frightens you because you will then fear for your lives. And many will lose their earthly life, yet if they still find Me in the last hour their physical death will be no loss for them .... it is merely a blessing, for they were in danger of descending completely, and then I can recall them the instant they recognise Me Myself, the instant of the awakening of faith, which facilitates the entry into the kingdom of the beyond and is the beginning of the soul's path of ascent.

I want to make Myself distinctly recognisable through the fury of nature .... Where human will is active faith in Me is only rarely to be expected, but where people are hopelessly exposed to the natural elements they are more inclined to remember their Creator and call upon Him .... And there is still hope that souls will be saved from the darkness of unbelief, that they acknowledge Me and then allow themselves to be guided by Me on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond. What earthly happenings cannot achieve can still be accomplished by a natural disaster on a huge scale .... that the God and Creator of eternity will be remembered and that a human being's heart will establish the connection with Him by way of sincerely appealing to Him for salvation from utmost adversity. And what is apparently an enormous work of destruction can signify a rescue mission for many souls which thereby escape eternal ruin and awaken to life, even if they suffer physical death. I will do whatever it takes to save those who still close their ears to My gentle and loving Words and whom I nevertheless don't want to let fall .... I want to call to them with a loud voice again and blessed are those who then will remember Me, blessed are those from whose hearts I have not yet been completely displaced and who call upon Me before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love follows the unbelievers ....

B.D. 5880 from February 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

My love always finds a way to you, even if you think you can escape from Me, if you think you can hide from Me. When you believe you can walk without Me on this earth, I suddenly stand before you, often unrecognized by you. Then I will seemingly walk the same path with you, yet imperceptibly I will push you away from it, and if you pay more attention to Me than to the path you are taking you will already be on the right path, and you will then also consciously follow it if you look around you with a clear gaze .... These words are addressed to people who still lack all faith in Me, who have, as it were, dismissed Me in order to be able to live freely and unhindered without the awareness of responsibility towards a higher power .... But suddenly they are confronted with an adversity, and this adversity causes them to mentally occupy themselves with questions .... Thus it is I Myself Who prompts him through this adversity, and I present all these questions to him which he now seeks to answer, and his train of thought can now change, he can imperceptibly be pushed onto another spiritual path, still unaware that he is about to abandon the old path .... And once he has become aware of this, he gladly continues on the path he has taken .... He gains another image, his spiritual eye sees it and gives it back to him brightly .... he wins faith in Me, and I have won him through My love, which followed him unceasingly even on dark paths. As long as the human being dwells on earth I will not give him up, and for that long he cannot withdraw from My care either .... He can only turn away stubbornly and thus reject My love with which I would like to win him over, and then I can only call the human being away from earthly life if he is in danger of sinking and, in addition to his unbelief, takes the path downwards .... i.e. gives up his reasonably good way of life and allows himself to be persuaded by My adversary into bad actions .... And this is why many people leave earthly life prematurely, because I have known from eternity until which point in time a change of his attitude towards good is still possible .... and because I don't want to endanger the degree of maturity reached which a righteous and clean way of life has earned the person, even though he travelled the earthly path completely without faith .... As long as there is still the possibility to convert him from his unbelief he does not walk a path without Me .... only he does not recognize Me until I obviously confront him in the aforementioned form. And he only recognizes Me when he wants to .... if he listens to the questions I mentally ask him and deals with them, otherwise My attempts to win him over, to steer him onto the right path .... the path of faith .... are in vain. But without faith his earthly path is an idle run, without faith all entrances into the kingdom of light .... are closed to him after his death. The path to beatitude only leads through Jesus Christ .... And every human being must gain faith in Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world if he wants to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I know Mine ...."

B.D. 5881 from February 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I know My own, and My own know Me .... If I address them they know that the father speaks to them and they follow His words .... For they are My own who strive to fulfil My will and to whom I can therefore also reveal Myself. My sheep recognize My voice and follow it, and all those who listen to My word, who let it take effect on them and make an effort to live in accordance with My word belong to My small flock whose shepherd I am and whom I protect and watch over so that they will not get lost .... for I do not want to lose any of My sheep, and therefore I follow them wherever they go .... I call and entice them so that they do not stray from the right path, I pull them back from the abyss if they have lost their way, I go after them if they have strayed into heights from which they can fall, I free them from dense undergrowth if they have become entangled in it .... I go after every single one of My sheep because I love them and don't want to give any of them away. And yet I cannot prevent them from straying from Me if they allow themselves to be seduced by strange enticing calls, if they don't recognize him as a wolf in sheep's clothing who sneaks in amongst the flock and tries to lure the sheep to himself. They also hear My call .... but if they want to ignore it for the sake of My adversary's enticing calls then they voluntarily leave My protection. And they lose themselves to the one who only wants to harm them, who will soon turn out to be a ravening wolf and to whom they have now handed themselves over, who knows no mercy, who only seeks to scatter My flock in order to snatch them away from Me, in order to mercilessly hand them over to death .... I know My own and My own know Me .... We are united by a strength strong enough to resist him .... My own are not deceived by his voice, they recognize the father's voice which speaks to them full of love and which echoes deeply in their hearts, and My own listen to this voice and are blissfully happy when the father in heaven bends down to them and reveals Himself to them. And they draw much strength from My word and never want to miss it once it has sounded to them. Hence they will remain in constant communion with Me because I constantly let them feel My presence through My word, because they themselves desire to remain in My presence. But anyone who does not pay attention to My voice, who does not recognize My word as spoken by Me Myself to My children on earth, does not belong to My own, nor will he recognize My adversary's call as hostile .... he will follow him and separate himself from My flock, which he could also join in order to be accepted by Me as one of Mine .... I address all, and those who recognize Me in My word can well count themselves among My own, whom I will protect against all attacks of the enemy .... for My love is endlessly deep and does not want any of My sheep to be lost .... yet My love does not force you but gives you fullest freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Great measure of grace at the end ....

B.D. 5882 from February 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I distribute a great measure of grace in the last days before the end, for it is the last act of help for humanity which is already so weak-willed that only an increased influx of grace will make it able to believe and love .... People's will is so weak because they only live for themselves .... because they are devoid of all strength as a result of being devoid of all love for Me and their neighbour. It is such a simple solution to people's spiritual low and they should only test how much stronger their will would be if they practised unselfish neighbourly love. But in order to carry out this test they would first have to believe in Me as the eternal love Which imparts strength to them as soon as the human being unites with it. And therefore I constantly distribute gifts of grace so that the human being will first receive an influx of strength in order to then be able to use it correctly. I give .... despite unkindness and unbelief .... people My word which imparts strength to them if only they listen to it and think about it .... People do indeed possess My word, they know about it and don't need a supply from above, because everything I want to proclaim to people so that they can become blissfully happy was recorded by My first disciples and spread through the scriptures, which thus testify to Me and also inform people of My will. Yet they pay no attention to it, they no longer regard it as My utterance, as My word which was once conveyed to people .... and therefore cannot draw the strength from it which they urgently need either .... And therefore I let My grace prevail again .... I convey My word to them anew, which is certainly the same but directly transferred by Me to willing servants who are to convey it to their fellow human beings on earth, so that people will now learn to believe when they are addressed by Me. This is a gift of grace which is given entirely undeservedly to people who reject the same word in their ignorance and whom I therefore want to help to gain possession of light and strength which can only be imparted to them through My word. The people of the present time do not seek contact with Me, therefore I seek it with them .... I pursue them if they want to distance themselves from Me and pay no attention to their resistance, I nevertheless bestow upon them in order to gain their love through My gift, that they now listen to Me and only imperceptibly receive strength which will then increase the more they let My word affect them. Then they will also find their way back to the scriptures again and recognize the agreement of those with My revealed word .... And then the spiritual adversity will also fade away because their strength will grow with the connection with Me, because they will now endeavour to live according to My word and this therefore signifies loving activity, which will earn them increased strength and salvation from their spiritual state of adversity .... which they will never be able to find without My grace, without obvious help from the eternal love for people. Without the supply of this strength they will remain weak and powerless, and their will will irredeemably fall prey to the adversary, but I want to liberate people from his power as soon as they do not offer Me any resistance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Clarification of God on contexts .... blind faith ....

B.D. 5883 from February 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I don't want blind faith from you and therefore I try to give you clarification through My word about what you are required to believe. Nevertheless, it can only be believed because no evidence can be given to you as to what originates in the spiritual kingdom, what deals with the spiritual kingdom and shall lead to the spiritual kingdom. I want to help you to have a convinced faith, I want to help you that you will not be afflicted by doubts even though you have no evidence of the truth of it .... And therefore I enlighten you about all correlations, about creator and creatures, cause and purpose of My creations, about the origin and aim of everything you humans see, as well as about your task .... about your purpose of existence. If this knowledge is truthfully presented to you, you can draw your own conclusions and then you will see such a coherent and clear picture that you will, as it were, find the proof of truth within yourselves, that you will recognize and no longer be able to doubt .... and yet only have to believe .... but such faith is something completely different than blind faith, where the human being thoughtlessly accepts so as not to contradict. Blind faith has no value because it does not lead the human being one step further in his upward development. Blind faith does not bear fruit, but it can lead to complete unbelief, because it is only a small step from blind faith to unbelief. But only pure truth can lead to convinced faith, whereas erroneous teachings require blind faith which excludes all reflection or must lead to unbelief as soon as the human being's intellect deals with these teachings. Therefore you should be instructed truthfully, your thinking should be stimulated and your heart addressed, and then a light will be kindled in you and all doubt will disappear .... for what you should believe .... will arise brightly and clearly in you and give you the inner conviction for which you now also use yourselves, because your faith has now come to life. I do not want you to go through earthly life without knowledge, I want you to regain what was lost to you through your former apostasy from Me .... I want you to attain knowledge again and I want to smooth the path for you. Faith and love must fill your life .... This is why I instruct you; just as a wise father introduces his children to the basic rules of life, so do I introduce you to the basic rules of My eternal order and explain to you why you must enter into it again, why love must be kindled in you and what else you must accept as true and take to heart .... And you should believe all this, but you will also be able to believe it with good will and serious consideration. For if I demand something of you then I will also help you to fulfil My demand. But by fulfilling what I ask of you everything will be proven, and then you will experience the blessing of a living faith yourselves .... Blind faith does not contribute anything, on the contrary, it is only detrimental to the soul's progress, blind faith is an obstacle to realization, for intellect and heart have to be active together, both of which are switched off in blind faith. This is why blind faith will never bring light to the soul which is still in darkness, and this is why I constantly try to stimulate the intellect and the heart through the transmission of pure truth, so that a right faith will awaken to life, which alone will help the human being to attain light and strength, to spiritual progress, which is the aim of his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ .... His holy name ....

B.D. 5884 from February 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The name of Him Who is supremely holy and Whom you should call upon in every earthly and spiritual distress is known to all you humans .... It is Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of the world .... Who descended to earth as the son of God and, after His work of redemption, ascended to heaven as God Himself .... Who is therefore to be addressed as God because the eternal deity manifested Itself in His human shell, the eternal love, Which completely filled the human being Jesus, and therefore His soul became one with it as completely deified. Humanity certainly knows His name, but for the most part His name is only evaluated as that of a human being who was indeed good and noble, but who is denied divinity. For these His name is therefore without power, they do not call upon Him Who has promised them the fulfilment of every prayer sent up to the father in His name. For the father and He are one, and anyone who professes faith in this by calling upon His name will have his prayer answered. For people who lack all spiritual knowledge this problem of God's incarnation is so incomprehensible that they doubt the truth of such teachings and therefore will never test the power of His sanctified name .... Yet their ignorance does not therefore nullify the truth .... And God does not leave any possibility unused to bring knowledge to them, to give them the right clarification, so that they will understand the holiness of the name of Jesus and also call upon Him in their distress .... The ultimate aim of every being is the divinization of itself in free will. People do not know the purpose and aim of their earthly life and therefore do not pursue the aim which the man Jesus achieved with His earthly life and His death on the cross. He indeed descended to earth as a soul of light to fulfil a mission for the first time, to redeem people from a guilt .... from the sin of the former rebellion against God. For their souls had also been souls of light .... they had also come forth from God and stood in the same perfection as the soul of the man Jesus .... Yet they had forfeited their perfection in free will, they had not remained with God but had voluntarily turned away from Him .... to the one who stood opposite God as an adversary after he had been the first to apostatize from God. This great guilt, which the spiritual beings had once incurred and the consequence of which is earthly life as a human being, was taken upon His shoulder by the man Jesus in order to redeem it through His death on the cross .... And because of this mission the soul of light .... the son of God .... descended to earth. But at the same time He lived to men this life which results in the deification of the soul .... He lived a life of unselfish love for them which leads to complete union with the eternal love, which can also shape a divine image out of a sinful earthly human being and leads to the full possession of strength and light .... The man Jesus gave humanity the proof, for His miracles, His unsurpassable wisdom and finally His glorious Ascension proved His divine strength and power .... they proved the effect of a way of life in love and give all people the hope of being able to achieve the same aim if they live as followers of Jesus .... For He gave people the promise: You shall become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect .... So it is also possible to achieve this perfection if it is seriously striven for and if His holy name is called upon for help. For through the act of salvation the burden has been lifted from humanity which pressed it to the ground and made all ascent to heaven impossible .... But for this reason Jesus Christ must also be acknowledged as the redeemer of the world .... otherwise the guilt of sin is not redeemed, otherwise every human being has to cope with this burden himself and eternally cannot reach the aim .... Jesus knew about this weakened state of humanity and therefore descended to earth in order to help it, yet no-one can be released from his guilt who does not acknowledge Him and who therefore cannot let himself be redeemed by Him either .... No-one can become blessed without Jesus Christ .... But everyone will experience the power of His name who faithfully calls upon Him and hands himself and his guilt over to Him and asks Him for help and forgiveness of his guilt. No one will call upon Him in vain who speaks His holy name and thereby acknowledges Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world, Who said of Himself: "I and the father are one ...." and "no one comes to the father except through Me ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word always remains the same gospel ....

B.D. 5885 from February 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

As I spoke to My disciples when I still walked on earth, so I also speak to you today who, as My disciples, are to fulfil the same mission in the last days: to bring the gospel to your fellow human beings as it originates from Me .... in all purity, unspoilt and easily understandable for everyone who accepts it of good will. My word will always and forever remain the same, for its purpose is that you shape yourselves into love, into vessels which are suitable for receiving My spirit, which will then take effect in you and safely guide you upwards. I only show you the path through My word and at the same time guide you into knowledge which explains all correlations to you and gives you knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation .... As soon as you know about the beginning and the aim, about your end and your destiny, as soon as you know that you are products of My love and that My strength of love wants to flow through you forever, you will also understand why I constantly endeavour to shape you such that you can receive My strength of love, and you will also understand why I convey My word to you. But since this knowledge cannot be proven to you for the sake of your perfection, faith has to be awakened in you, and this shall also be achieved by My word .... For it teaches love .... it tells you that you must first practice love in order to then also gain faith .... And if love and faith have now come alive in you, then your upward development will progress with certainty, then soon there will be light in you, then you will recognize what you should only believe before, and then I Myself can be with you in spirit, I can have an effect on you, and you will let yourselves be guided and attain perfection .... But without My word you will not reach your aim, without My word you know neither My will nor your earthly task, and you live your earthly life in vain. However, I came to earth Myself in order to bring My word to people, and therefore I sent My disciples out into the world to proclaim My gospel of love to people, for only a limited number of them heard Me Myself ...., just as only a few people can hear My voice today and I therefore give them the same task to go out into the world and proclaim to their fellow human beings what I reveal to them .... The adversity is just as great as at the time of My descent, and if I don't want people to meet their downfall I have to help them again through My word as before, that they take the right path, that they have to fulfil My commandments of love, that they walk upwards through firm faith and unselfish neighbourly love and don't have to fear the abyss which, however, inevitably threatens them if they don't comply with My words commanded through you .... And My love for you humans has not yet diminished .... I seek to save every soul, I shout words of love to every person .... for they once came forth from Me and shall return to Me again, to their father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"What you do to the least of My brothers ...."

B.D. 5886 from February 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Whatever you do to the least of My brothers, you have done to Me. Every day and every hour you are given the opportunity to do good, to say a kind word, to helpfully assist your neighbour with advice and deeds and thus to alleviate his hardship, which need not only consist of earthly needs but also requires spiritual help through comforting encouragement or guidance on the right path which leads out of spiritual and also earthly hardship. You should only not harden your heart and turn away your eyes when you see hardship; you should not become indifferent and believe that you have done enough once you have given help .... You should always and constantly practice love, then you will know within yourselves the blissful feeling of a giver who is blessed by Me .... who receives from Me again in the same measure as he gives out, and truly, gifts which make him far more happy than the earthly possessions he renounces .... For you give to Me as you distribute to your neighbour, you give Me the love which your neighbour receives from you. You can only prove your love for Me by showing love to your neighbour. You cannot measure the great wealth you accumulate through unselfish love, yet one day you will be happy to recognize the truth of My word and admit that it was truly not difficult to acquire spiritual treasures on earth .... And I want to create this happiness for you and therefore constantly admonish you to work with love .... As soon as you always remember that I Myself come before you as a supplicant when a needy person asks you for a gift, as soon as you remember that I know about every gift which is offered with love and look at you with blessing eyes in return, then your love for your neighbour will grow, because love always awakens reciprocated love and carries strength and blessings within itself. Whatever you do to the least of My brothers you have done to Me .... You are all My children, and if the children love each other they give the father the greatest happiness, because only love can cause true bliss and because love leads you all to perfection, which can never be achieved without love. Be grateful as long as you have the opportunity to help and advise, for you still possess the strength of life to do so but you will lack it if one day you recognize your neglect and want to make up for it .... Use your time on earth to work with love so that you will enter the kingdom of the beyond with strength and be able to work there with the treasures you have acquired through loving activity, so that you will not be weak and helpless and bitterly regret what you neglected to do on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mentally blind .... rays of light ....

B.D. 5887 from February 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Everything remains hidden from the spiritually blind, he lacks all realization, he is unable to take a look into the kingdom of the spirit, for he has closed his eyes and no ray of light is able to penetrate them; he walks in constant darkness .... and no matter how vividly he may move in the earthly world, no matter how earthly success he may have .... this does not change the blind state his soul is in, a state devoid of all light and therefore also devoid of all strength to leave the darkness. But the spiritually blind person himself keeps his eyes closed to the light. Therefore he cannot be pitied as a victim of his fate, as a being inadequately considered by God, who is deprived of every realization, every ray of light. He, too, is illuminated by the divine light of love and only needed to open himself, he only needed to expose himself to this radiation of light without resistance, then he would also open his eyes in order to see from where he receives the benefit of the rays of light .... i.e., the divine radiation .... the word of God .... will also be supplied to him, and if he only receives it .... and if he merely listened to it it would also have a beneficial effect on him, and the desire would awaken in him to hear ever more, his spirit's eye would open and the light would now shine in and illuminate everything that had been dark in him until now. But the spiritually blind person still resists God .... And therefore it is his own fault that he is unable to see, that he always walks in the night, that the light of the morning cannot make him happy. The spiritually blind person has a strong will which is directed against everything that signifies light .... And he rarely gives up this will. For mostly these blind in spirit feel exceedingly comfortable in the earthly world and are devoted to it with all their senses, thus their will is fully turned towards God's adversary and he keeps them bound .... he deceives them with so much light that they don't feel their spiritual blindness, that they only chase after these blinding lights more and more and don't realize what illusion and deception they have fallen prey to .... But their spiritual darkness also prevents them from recognizing what is offered to them as deceptive light by God's adversary. And this also strengthens their resistance against every radiation of light which touches them from above .... They can become seeing, they can receive much divine light as soon as they open themselves, as soon as they are willing to give up their resistance .... as soon as they desire to become seeing, which is still possible as long as they live on earth. For even the spiritually blind can grow weary of the world with its pleasures, if he has enjoyed them abundantly .... He too can recognize the worthlessness and impermanence of earthly goods and no longer be satisfied with them .... The desire for knowledge about hidden things can also awaken in him, and then it is still possible that his eyes will be opened, that he will turn to where he believes to discover rays of light, and then he can also come to realization, which will-o'-the-wisps he has been chasing until now, and then it is still not too late to turn to the one Whom he has recognized as the eternal light and to appeal to Him for His grace that He may also open his eyes and grant him the light which will henceforth illuminate his path .... And his request will be heard ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual or earthly goods .... better part ....

B.D. 5888 from February 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You have truly chosen the better part for yourselves if you strive to gain Me and My kingdom and pray for it, which could certainly make your earthly fate more bearable but makes it more difficult for you to find the path to Me. You are not at a disadvantage if you give everything away, for your share will last, whereas the former will perish and your soul will remain in poverty if you did not think of it on earth. Although your lot on earth appears poor and meagre to the worldling, one day you will stand in splendour and spiritual wealth, while the latter will enter the kingdom of the beyond extremely miserable despite the greatest earthly wealth and prestige. Don't let them persuade you to give up your spiritual striving .... voluntarily renounce earthly gain on earth and instead seek to acquire spiritual goods, and you will not need to regret that you have indeed chosen the worse part on earth but that spiritually you are far higher and can now work with your wealth for your own and many souls' happiness. On earth you are indeed behind your fellow human beings and yet you are the winners, for you are already aspirants of God's kingdom, which is not of this world, whereas the worldlings cannot take possession of this kingdom because they cannot serve God and the world at the same time, but one day they will stand outside without the right and without the strength to enter a kingdom which had to be acquired on this earth. Therefore the earthly world has to be overcome, a battle has to be declared against earthly joys and pleasures because they prevent the human being's entry into the spiritual kingdom, because victory has to be won over them first so that the path into My kingdom becomes free. Spiritual goods, however, are not so tempting in earthly life that they are desired, and yet they are these goods which retain their value and cannot be taken away from you humans if you lose your earthly life .... Therefore acquire them and strive ceaselessly for the kingdom of God as long as you have the grace to live as a human being on this earth .... For this is your earthly task, to prepare yourselves for the kingdom which lasts forever .... And that it may be a life of bliss for you, create for yourselves on earth the goods which alone will be valued in that kingdom .... Set your mind on Me and My kingdom and you will truly have acquired the best part ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Healing the sick in the name of Jesus ....

B.D. 5889 from February 27th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Lay your hands on the sick and bless them .... and the strength of your faith will heal them, because you entrust the sick person to Me Myself and My strength is unlimited and therefore can also work without restriction as soon as you believe it .... Whatever you do in unity with Me has to succeed .... But do you really feel closely united with Me? .... I must ask you this question because on this alone depends your strength for healing the sick, because it depends on you yourselves as to whether you enable your fellow beings' recovery, because your faith has to be so strong that you can feel My living presence beside you and thus work in unity with Me when you pronounce My name as you bless the sick person in My name .... I have become such a distant God to humanity that it can no longer understand how a human being can be so intimately united with Me as to use My strength according to his will, and even My believers only rarely muster such strength of faith that they won't doubt for a minute that I will support them if they want to help their fellow human beings .... Hence there are only a few with the gift of healing the sick at their disposal, precisely because they use Me and My strength when they need it .... And faith in Me during the last days has become so weak and small amongst humanity that a profoundly devout person with extraordinary strength at his disposal will also attract extraordinary attention, so that he then will either achieve much spiritual success by leading people back to believing in Me and the strength of My name or be treated with hostility by those who lack all strength of faith yet claim the sole right for themselves to proclaim My name to people.

And the latter are more to blame than the complete non-believers, for they know and acknowledge Me and yet lack living faith in Me, they merely uphold words which have not yet come sufficiently alive in them to demonstrate their effects. They haven't put them to the test, which a living faith is able to do .... and if someone sets an example for them they attack him because they sense his spiritual superiority and enviously recognise My assistance which they have not yet laid claim to themselves. In the last days before the end the number of people will increase in whom the gifts of the spirit will take effect, people, who will be in such heartfelt contact with Me that everything they do will be done with Me, in My will and by calling upon My name .... And they will prove themselves in various ways as My messengers, for whatever a person who is permeated by My spirit subsequently thinks, speaks or does will point to Me and My kingdom .... and everything betrays a special strength which is only at his disposal because he allows Me to work through him, because his faith in Me and the strength of My love is so strong that it flows to him unimpeded, and thus he can also help his fellow human beings in a supernatural way .... For he is full of love for them and this love provides him with strength from Me directly .... and thus it will also be possible for him to carry out whatever he wants ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Living or dead knowledge ....

B.D. 5890 from February 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

That which remains hidden from the wise is given to the simple-minded .... as soon as he is devoted to Me in childlike humility and thus can receive My gifts of grace directly .... whereas the wise man goes away empty-handed because he does not ask Me for what only I can impart and because he believes that he can fathom everything with his intellect which, however, has limits which can only be exceeded under certain conditions. And this condition is not fulfilled by the wise man .... the intellectual man .... whereas an ignorant, simple-minded person can fulfil it unconsciously and therefore achieve a significant advantage in spiritual knowledge. And therefore, even comprehensive study cannot provide a person with this knowledge possessed by a deeply humble believer, to whom I can therefore reveal Myself. The former can certainly possess knowledge but it will always remain dead knowledge as long as he does not enter into this humble childlike relationship with Me which earns him enlightenment on My part, so that his knowledge will only then be living knowledge which he can confidently advocate. But he takes a much further path, he first has to descend from the supposed height of his knowledge, he has to recognize that he is ignorant despite the intellectually received knowledge and remains without My support .... For the sake of truth he has to call upon Me to help him achieve it, he has to feel small himself despite his worldly wisdom, only then will he enter into the right relationship with Me and only then will I be able to consider him correctly .... And I want to open these people's eyes by bringing them together with people who have extensive knowledge without any study, so that they seriously consult with themselves how this should be done and draw the right conclusions for themselves from it .... For I want them too .... who call great knowledge their own .... enter into the blessing of My revelations .... I want them to become living representatives of My teaching, but for this the instructions from Me are absolutely necessary .... I therefore want them to feel ignorant too and simply entrust themselves to Me, that I enlighten their spirit .... for they will have to recognize that I Myself am the source of all truth, that I am the source of light, that only the one who receives wisdom directly from Me is wise. Only the direct path to Me in humility and childlike trust will lead him to the right knowledge with which he can now work successfully, whereas spiritual knowledge, acquired through study, cannot be valued higher than any other worldly knowledge and therefore only impresses people worldly .... unless the listeners are in the right kind of contact with Me that I now grant them what the former lack: Understanding for every word which is to lead to the kingdom of God .... But I will always be the dispenser, and I will always dispense to him who in all simplicity and humility asks Me for My gift of grace .... and he will be truly wise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5891 from March 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

There is no sin so great that it would not find forgiveness with Me if you humans demand forgiveness for it .... All guilt will be taken from you if you demand to be released for the sake of Jesus Christ, if you submit the guilt to Him, Who died for you on the cross .... if you want to be redeemed by Him from your guilt of sin. He atoned for your guilt, He took it upon Himself and made satisfaction for it ..... You can therefore become free from all guilt of sin if you take the path to Him, Who accomplished the act of salvation for you as a human being .... Whose love built the bridge between Me and you and Who therefore may not be ignored if you want to attain forgiveness of your guilt .... I demand the recognition of Jesus as God's son and redeemer of the world, because then you recognize Me Myself, with Whom the man Jesus united Himself .... For I Myself was in the man Jesus Whose heart was full of love .... Thus His love made the sacrifice for you, and this love was I Myself .... And love understands and forgives, love wipes out all guilt, love wants to save you and prepare for you all the blisses of heaven .... Love is concerned about you because it wants to seize you in order to give you beatitude. Thus love will also not let a sinner fall, yet how long the sinner burdens himself with his guilt depends on his will .... My infinite love, which wanted to suffer death on the cross for you as a human being in order to redeem your guilt of sin, will truly not shy away from the magnitude of a guilt; it was willing to die for everyone and therefore also redeems the greatest guilt if only the human being is willing to confess it to Me Myself as the redeemer Jesus Christ and to appeal for forgiveness. For only those who acknowledge the 'redeemer' can be redeemed from their guilt .... who therefore place themselves under His cross and want to belong to those for whom the man Jesus died .... And if your sins were as red as blood, I will wash you white as snow .... All of you .... even those who are burdened with the heaviest guilt .... can come to Me in the confidence that your sins will be forgiven for My name's sake. Yet I will never be able to remove your guilt as long as you turn away from Me, as long as you don't acknowledge Jesus Christ's act of salvation, for as long as you don't acknowledge Me Myself, Who embodied Myself as the man Jesus, Who became a visible God for you as the saviour Jesus Christ. My fundamental substance is love, and love embodied itself in Jesus .... Without love the man Jesus would not have been able to accomplish the act of salvation .... Thus it was I Myself Who died for you humans, for I Myself was in the man Jesus because of His infinite love for you humans, because He knew you in the abyss from which He wanted to lift you up. Therefore He took the burden from you which again and again pressed you down, which did not allow you to walk the path upwards .... He released you from this burden and thus the path to Me was also free for you .... Eternal love was able to accept you because the separating guilt had been taken away from you .... because it had found its atonement through the death of the cross. Therefore no sinner need fear eternal condemnation, for all guilt of sin is redeemed by Jesus Christ as soon as He is acknowledged as God's son and redeemer of the world .... as well as the sinner acknowledges Me Myself through the acknowledgement of Jesus and My love now also accepts the greatest sinner and releases him from all guilt ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing for vineyard work ....

B.D. 5892 from March 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I will bless you for your will to serve Me and help you to carry out your will by providing you with strength for blessed vineyard work. And then you need only hand yourselves over to My guidance, you need only listen within yourselves and you will experience My will, you will feel what you should do .... thus you will feel willing to do this or that work and gladly pursue it, for this is My voice within you as long as you are willing to serve Me; then your lord and father of the house will allocate your work to you, then He will give you assignments and you will feel these within yourselves as an impulse, and you will then act according to them .... yet out of your own will and yet it is My will which is now expressed in your will. For I accept anyone who wants to work for Me and also assign him the work he is capable of doing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incomprehensible gift of grace .... counter gift: love ....

B.D. 5893 from March 3rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Do you know what it means that you are able to hear Me Myself? That you, as a human being, can develop the ability within yourselves to hear My direct address, to hear My word which My greater than great love speaks to you? Do you know that this proves a connection between Me and you and that this state is already a state of light and strength which can now be unfolded into infinity? The fact that there is a creator will seldom be able to be denied or doubted by a human being .... but that this creator from eternity addresses you, His creations, although they are still in a state of imperfection .... and that it is even given in the will of His creations to hear Him, that will only be believed by few people or even held as a firm conviction, for only very few unfold the ability in themselves and make the test by listening, by asking in thought and now also believingly expecting an answer .... And I will answer them because they themselves give Me the opportunity through their faith, for I cannot address you humans without such faith for the sake of your freedom of faith and will. This knowledge would have to crush you humans, it would have to make you pass away with joy and happiness if you could fully appreciate what it means to be in such intimate contact with the creator of all infinity that you are able to hear His word .... to be addressed as His child, to receive loving father words from Him, to receive comfort and advice, to be guided and admonished by His address and only ever need to open your heart and ear in order to receive His words of love .... It is a gift of grace which will remain incomprehensible to you forever and can only be explained by My greater than great love. But does such a gift not oblige you? Can you accept it without the feeling of gratitude and the will to offer Me a gift as well? Everything comes forth from Me and yet I also demand something from you in return .... your love .... I only ever solicit your love, and if you give it to Me then I will have achieved what I want through My address; for to possess your love is My bliss, the gift you should give Me if you want to offer Me a gift in return. And you will learn to love Me if you listen attentively to My words, if you let Me be present in you through your will, if you become aware of what you actually are and now grasp the significance of My address .... Then love will flare up in you, and you will be powerfully drawn to Me .... Your longing is for Me and the spiritual kingdom and it will come true: you will return home to the father's house, for then I will have regained My children and will never ever lose them again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Willingness to accept gifts of grace ....

B.D. 5894 from March 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

How people relate to Me is how My grace can take effect on them. It requires a willingness to accept the gifts of grace, and this willingness again requires an acknowledgement of Myself, a faith in Me and thus conscious turning towards Me in the form of thoughts or prayer .... For the gifts of grace are My emanations which can only touch the human being if he establishes a connection with Me. This is quite simply a law that a flow is interrupted as soon as the connection is broken .... and that it is therefore entirely up to the human being's will whether he establishes the connection himself in order to enter the blessing of the flow of strength emanating from Me. For everything that originates from Me is strength which is tremendously beneficial for the human being if it is utilized. And since the human being does not have to claim it because he once voluntarily separated himself from Me, every grant of strength is to be evaluated as an act of love and grace .... Thus undeserved gifts are given to you when My strength is conveyed to you, and these gifts are acts of grace .... They are only intended to help you become powerful again, they are only intended to promote your upward development, because without the supply of strength you are unable to develop upwards. In My infinite love I want to remedy your self-inflicted inability, I want to give you what you lack because you have given it away yourselves .... Light and strength .... but your will is the prerequisite that you are willing to accept it. You must not turn away from Me but turn to Me with an open heart and a flow of strength will flow into you which will remove all weakness from you. Something will be supplied to your soul which it will feel exceedingly beneficent and increase its impetus to come closer to Me .... You need only accept what My love offers you in order to now be able to change completely, in order to brightly and clearly recognize where your beatitude is to be found and what your task is on earth in order to reach the aim. You receive light and strength unmeasured if only you are willing to accept it. It is an undeserved gift, yet without your will even such a gift from Me has no effect .... But for everyone who connects with Me .... be it through questioning thoughts or also conscious prayer .... the flow of grace will not remain without effect .... He will always request and receive more because his will no longer offers Me resistance and I can therefore consider him according to his desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Living christianity ....

B.D. 5895 from March 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

A living christianity should be the effect of My act of salvation, then truly every person would be a 'follower of Jesus' and there would not be the spiritual low in which people live in the last days before the end. A living christianity is a life according to My commandments .... a life of unselfish love for one's neighbour, which also demonstrates love for God .... A living christianity would produce people in whom My spirit could work, and there would be light amongst people, a realization which, however, they now lack. My commandments, of which I informed people during My life on earth, were not so difficult to fulfil; but they were given by Me so that people had guidelines who wanted to follow Me; they were only an indication of My order of eternity which was based on love. Thus I demanded a life in this eternal order, and I lived this life on earth before .... I knew the effect of a life according to divine order, and therefore the call went out to you humans: Follow Me .... I wanted you humans to receive light and strength too and showed you the way to do so .... the way of love, which was therefore the way of eternal order. With My help you were all to take this path, and you were all able to become true christians who followed the path I Myself had taken, for I gave the strength to do so to all who allowed themselves to be redeemed by Me, i.e. who acknowledged Me as redeemer of the world and believed in My divinity .... But people believed in Me too little, they certainly accepted Me as a person who strived towards noble aims but they did not let Me become their role model, Whom it was their task to resemble .... They did not become living christians, christians of action, who would also be convinced of the truth of My word by following My commandments of love. Only few people can be addressed as true christians, and christianity has only become a word for which all justification is lacking .... I can perhaps still be found in some people's intellect but not in their heart, and thus the word 'christian' has lost all meaning, for only someone who walks the path of love on earth follows Me and is therefore a christian .... he lives the right christianity, he lives the teaching which I preached on earth as the man Jesus, and he firmly believes in Me and My act of salvation, he calls upon Me as God and father, for in him is the light of knowledge, the effect of a right life of love, of a true christianity .... And this is why the earth is in deepest darkness, this is why people will not find the right path in this darkness, this is why they will go astray and fall away as long as they don't see their redeemer in Me, their leader, Whom they follow, and thus live a life of love .... This is why humanity is ripe for destruction, because it rejects the one Who preached a life of love and because it hands itself over to the one who is My adversary and whose most eager endeavour is to deprive christianity on earth of its rightful life, to turn it into a sham christianity which has no eternal value for the soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Compulsion law .... free will trial .... purpose ....

B.D. 5896 from March 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Your soul had to travel the path on earth in endless embodiments until it was ready to embody itself as a human being in order to pass its last test of will on this earth .... These endless embodiments beforehand were extremely agonizing for the freely created spiritual being, for it was bound in external forms and could only use its will as it was My will .... It was under a law of compulsion .... it had to bow to My will .... it was bound. The fetter became looser and looser, and finally, as a human being, the spiritual .... soul in you .... does not feel its outer form so as a fetter, because the human being has free will and can now use it .... And in this stage of free will the soul is now to take a test of will .... the will should take a direction which leads to Me, although it can also choose the direction to another aim .... to My adversary .... The soul only embodies itself as a human being because of this test of will, because it thereby decides its fate in eternity. The soul can never perish, nor can it remain in a bound state, because the infinitely many embodiments beforehand have already resulted in a change of its will, so that the soul has reached a certain degree of maturity which entitles it to use free will again. Although there is also the danger of misuse of will, the soul must have freedom of decision in order to be able to enter a state of perfection. But it now also bears the responsibility itself, and according to its decision it creates its own lot in eternity. For an infinitely long time the soul stood under the law of eternal order and could not step out of it .... but now, as a human being, it should remain in order itself despite many temptations and incentives, and it can only do so if it is helped in the form of the supply of grace .... Thus it is not left to itself but is assisted in every way so that it is possible to remain in the right order from Me. But a right decision, which is to earn a justified reward, also includes the influence from the opposite side .... My adversary must also be able to exert influence, he too must be able to show himself in all his merits, because the soul shall nevertheless decide for Me or for him. And therefore the stage as a human being is of utmost importance, and it makes the highest demands on the soul .... to form its own right judgment by virtue of the intellect given to the human being for the time on earth in order to be able to make a right decision. He should not blindly follow one lord or the other but be able to reflect, and he should get to know both lords in order to then join one and reject the other in free will .... And thus the human being is now pointed out to everything by Me and shown a path to attain realization. If he takes this path he will also reach his aim .... But if he does what he is warned against because it is detrimental to him, he will also have to bear the consequences himself. These instructions are given to him through My word, I Myself take care of him as soon as he steps out of the state of the law of compulsion into the state of free will .... I show him the right path with all love and patience, yet I leave him his freedom of will even if he abuses it again .... But the reward for a right decision is an eternal life in beatitude, and I cannot give him this life but he has to acquire it himself, he has to live on earth according to My will and thus enter My eternal order again, which he had once voluntarily relinquished .... Then he will be again what he was from the beginning .... a free, light-filled and powerful being which is eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly life is the path but not the goal ....

B.D. 5897 from March 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The world was given to you for the test of your will, i.e. you had to be placed into a sphere of activity which should stimulate you to use your will in one direction. This world cannot be avoided but has to be overcome by the person who wants to reach his goal. The final embodiment of the soul, the spiritual essence in you, as a human being on this earth is absolutely necessary because an opportunity had to be created for you to exercise your free will which, until then, had been constrained due to your past apostasy from Me. A soul trying to avoid this last embodiment will not be able to come into possession of free will, for its considerable opposition to Me would not allow for it. Only when it is willing to take the path of helpful love on earth will it receive the grace of embodiment, for this willingness testifies of its degree of maturity which is necessary for the last test of will. And every soul prior to its embodiment is indeed willing to take this final path because it can result in its total release from the form, and it has the will to become free.

But it loses all recollection, it enters earth completely without knowledge and then slowly starts to develop .... it learns to use its will, it gets educated and taught until its will begins to make its own decisions, and then it will be offered by Me every kind of assistance to recognise what is right and good and to voluntarily also do both. I on My part will do everything to promote a right decision of will .... And yet the human being maintains his freedom of will, and then the whole of earthly life will effectively affect him like an object which he can select or reject .... For the human being should experience everything in order to reach Me in My kingdom .... but he should not get drawn into it .... he should not get caught up in captivity again when his final freedom beckons. Earthly life is a path he has to take but not the goal itself .... And if he keeps his eyes on the pinnacle then he will follow his path determinedly and without fail, but if his eyes stay glued to the ground he will only see what happens around him and risk being held fast to the ground so that his flight of ascent cannot take place ....

He has to muster the will and the strength to liberate himself from everything he finds desirable on earth, then he will be victorious, he will travel the earthly path as a necessary final phase of his higher development and pass his test of will. His will was and remains directed towards Me in spite of My adversary’s artful temptations, who equally fights for his soul, for his will .... He became a conqueror of this world and an aspirant for My kingdom which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"The kingdom of heaven suffers force ...." "My yoke is gentle ...."

B.D. 5898 from March 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I only ask little of you and yet you will have to use force in order to attain the kingdom of heaven, because you are still far away from Me and thus also from My kingdom due to your wrongly directed love, which you first have to overcome, i.e. judge correctly. And this requires you to use force .... You have to fight against yourselves, you have to suppress the desires within you which only apply to the world, to the kingdom which belongs to My adversary. I only require of you a right love .... but because you are still badly entangled in the earthly world you find it difficult to muster this right love, to transform yourselves such that you only feel love for Me, for the spiritual kingdom, for you have to overcome your selfish love and move in completely unselfish love .... Only then will your love be the right one which brings you closer to Me and which also earns you the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who lives in love will find it exceedingly easy to fulfil My desire, and the burden I impose on him will be light and the yoke gentle .... But anyone who loves himself more than his neighbour first has to use force, and he usually lacks the will and also the strength to do so .... unless he calls upon Jesus Christ to help him. Alone he is weak, and the world with its attractions weakens his will more and more .... he is unable to detach himself .... He considers My commandments of love unfulfillable, and then he often lies to himself by believing to be of service to Me when he fulfils commandments which were given to him humanly and puts My commandments of love for God and his neighbour second. For all those who cannot detach themselves from the world and matter it will be and remain a struggle, they will have to use force in order to enter My kingdom, although My will, My commandments of love, truly only requires little from you: .... only a loving heart which is willing to sacrifice for the other. But as soon as your eyes are spiritually directed it will be easy for you .... And therefore you humans should first consider the impermanence of what you desire and mentally deal with the time ahead of you when everything earthly will be taken away from you .... Then your eyes will be more spiritually directed and then you will gladly and easily do without in favour of your fellow human beings, for then you will also receive strength from the kingdom towards which you turn your eyes .... You will not lose anything if you give up earthly goods but you will only gain, and you will have to use force at the same time .... but the kingdom of heaven is certain for you, and you will praise and glorify Me because of My easy commandment, which is difficult for you to fulfil as long as you love yourselves more than Me and your neighbour .... But My word is also true: "My yoke is easy and My burden light ...." because I stand by you with My strength as long as you are willing to keep My commandments ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer for good success ....

B.D. 5899 from March 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Everything you start after heartfelt prayer to Me shall be a blessing for you, so that I will guide you and help you to succeed. I always want to be your advisor, your giver of strength, your master, Who will only inspire you to do something that promotes your soul. I want to be allowed to influence your thinking, but you have to give Me the right to do so because I don't want to do violence to your free will. But then you need not fear to do something which contradicts My will. I can truly make life easy for you if only you hand it over to Me completely, if you remain in constant contact with Me through thoughts and prayer and if you acquire a measure of strength through loving activity so that you can cope with everything .... Then you only ever need to act in accordance with your thoughts, for I Myself will then guide your thoughts and lead you like a father by the hand .... Your will shall answer for itself one day .... But if you place your will under Mine, if you surrender yourselves to Me and My will in everything, you also place the responsibility in My hands .... Then you will have nothing more to fear, for your earthly life will then be guided by Me so that everything will be for the salvation of your soul .... And you will never be lonely .... Anyone who has Me as his constant companion, who submits every worry, every concern, every question to Me, is never alone, he can lean on Me, he can confidently hand everything over to Me that I will take care of it for him, that I will think and act for him, even if he himself seems to be the executor. How easy you humans can make earthly life for yourselves if you never ever leave Me out of your thoughts, if you start and end your daily work with Me, if you discuss everything that moves you with Me and trustingly leave the worry to Me .... I will truly not disappoint you, and it will be obvious that you have an overpowering strength beside you which accomplishes everything for you. In your bond with Me you will also feel a strengthening yourselves, every fear and worry will fall away from you as soon as you commune with Me .... you will be free from every adversity .... Yet your speech must be alive, it must come from the heart in order to reach My ear, you must let Me stay with you when you pray, and the prayer should be directed towards the father with childlike trust. And I will be with you and remain .... you will not go through earthly life alone, and fearlessly you can let everything approach you, because I stand next to you and arrange everything as it is best for you ....

Amen

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Value of the divine word ....

B.D. 5900 from March 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Nothing earthly is able to replace My word for you, for nothing equals it in value, for My word is a source of strength for your soul which is everlasting .... My word is food and drink from above which shall enable you to return upwards again from whence you came. My word is a spiritual gift which does not benefit the body but only the soul and is therefore not properly recognized by you humans as irreplaceable, as incomparable with earthly goods of all kinds. I Myself address you .... You once voluntarily separated yourselves from Me, yet regardless of this I unite Myself with you again by speaking to you .... you have become weak and imperfect through your separation from Me .... through the connection with Me you can become perfect again, full of strength and realization, because light and strength flow into you through the connection with Me. My word is light and strength, and thus it can be transmitted to you directly by receiving My word, and all weakness, all darkness can fall away from you .... you can become blissfully happy beings again in full possession of light and strength .... but you do not recognize the blessing of My address, the value of My word .... You chase after earthly possessions which only have an apparent value for the short duration of your earthly existence, and you disregard that which brings you eternal advantage because it is spiritual possessions which can never ever perish. You might listen to My word apathetically and with inner resistance if you are still far away from Me .... Yet you could reduce the distance very quickly if you listen to Me attentively and believe that My love for you manifests itself in this word .... You are offered a refreshment for your soul which strengthens it and touches it exceedingly beneficially when it opens itself, when it hungrily and thirstily accepts the bread of heaven which is offered to it by Me Myself. But anyone who has once enjoyed it also knows that there is no substitute for it; everything earthly seems stale and empty to him, and it no longer satisfies him once he has been nourished by Me Myself, once he has drunk from the source of love from which the living water flows. Again and again he will return to the fountain of life because he will not find a substitute anywhere which will give him the same strength and the same light which he can receive from My word .... My word is the bridge, My word is the path which leads to Me; for My word clearly shows it to you .... My word is the connection between Me and you which you need only not interrupt in order to safely reach the aim. For as long as you humans hear My voice, as long as I Myself can speak to you, I am not hidden from you but I prove Myself to you through My word, and you need only follow My word in order to safely reach Me Myself. Yet without My word your path is lightless and dangerous and can lead you into the abyss .... My voice sounds from above and therefore draws you upwards, and no voice of the world can reach you from above but it arises from the abyss and therefore also keeps those in the abyss who respect it .... There is no substitute on earth for My word, and therefore let Me speak to you wherever it may be, so that you can receive what cannot be offered to you earthly .... spiritual goods which are everlasting .... food and drink for your soul, which can only give you true life that lasts for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bringing the Gospel to souls in the beyond .... Love ....

B.D. 5901 from March 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Convey the Gospel to the souls in the beyond, remind them of My commandments of love which also have to be fulfilled in the kingdom of the beyond if the soul wants to ascend. Inform them of My will, which only ever requires them to turn to Me and which has to be heeded in order to be seized by My love .... What is applicable for earth also applies to the kingdom of the beyond .... the transformation of the being's will, which at first opposes Me and therefore has to be changed, and that can only ever happen through love, for an unselfish act of love is the first step towards Me and gives the being strength. Helpless souls in the beyond lack love .... and you have to explain to them that they can only expect help if they are willing to give love to those who are as poor and as wretched as themselves. Without love their thinking is wrong and, just like on earth, they can be approached by beings who will instruct them wrongly, without being able to recognise the error ....

Only a helpful soul will recognise the truth, subsequently you first have to bring My commandments of love to the souls and draw their attention to the fact that they were only given so that people would establish the connection with Me by fulfilling these commandments of love .... since deeds of love will provide them with strength and always help them to ascend further. You can instruct the souls over and over again .... they will not believe or understand you if they are unwilling to love, and if you want to help them then you first and foremost will have to take care to motivate them into lovingly supporting other distressed souls which turn to them for help. Only this willingness to love will open their spiritual eyes and ears, and then they will be able to understand everything you present to them. My Gospel is just the teaching of love, for everything else will fall into place if this teaching of love is complied with. It is not enough only to convey knowledge to the soul in the beyond for it will not understand it as long it is unwilling to carry out works of love, which have to and can be carried out in the kingdom of the beyond just as on earth but which always necessitate the willingness to do so, otherwise the soul will be without strength.

As long as the soul is mentally only involved with itself and its sad fate there is no possibility to provide it with help or to convey strength .... It first has to look at its surroundings or .... if it is alone in a barren region, it has to remember people on earth whom it could have helped but neglected to do so .... It has to regret this and wish to make

Amends, in that case it will be joined by beings in serious need, and as soon as it is willing to help it will instantly receive the strength to accomplish its intentions. First love has to be kindled within itself, which can often take a very long time, but it is possible with loving support from a human being if he explains to the soul what it is lacking and tries to educate it, always being prompted by a loving will to help ....

Love achieves everything, love prevails over everything, love itself is the strength which helps the soul to salvation. As long as the soul only considers itself it can hardly be released from its unpleasant situation, but it can become tender and loving if it is touched by small rays of light, because these are just sparks of love intended to touch and kindle its heart .... Every soul which experiences darkness as torment will be soothingly affected by such rays of light, and there is a good chance that it will pursue the light .... that it thus will also be willing to take other souls to the light. And these souls should only ever be preached to of the love which found its culmination in Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... No other information is necessary for such souls at first, yet they have to know the reason for their hardship and also how to remedy it .... And only when they have this understanding will their progress be assured, only when they want to carry out loving actions themselves will they receive strength and be able to work with love in order to receive ever more strength and enter into increasingly brighter light.

Light makes the souls tremendously happy, and in this happiness their willingness to love will constantly grow, hence a single soul in the beyond is able to carry out a most extensive amount of redemptive work. For as soon as it understands, it will also impart its realisation to other souls and try to encourage them into the same loving endeavour .... For just as on earth there is only one applicable commandment in the spiritual kingdom: Love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Acknowledging God as a primordial power .... enlightenment ....

B.D. 5902 from March 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The spiritual connection first has to be recognized, i.e. people have to accept explanations about it, move it in their thoughts and consider it possible, only then can they also gain faith in an earthly purpose of life, in a task they have to fulfil. To give them the task alone without an explanation why the task has to be fulfilled would be pointless and would only promote a blind faith which, however, has no value. It is indeed still questionable whether the explanations will be accepted as credible, but that is why the human being is given the intellect that he can think about it and now, according to his love of truth and his desire for truth, he feels satisfied by the explanations or rejects them .... A person who wants to have questions about the connection of all things, about the purpose and aim of the creatures and the creations solved, will first listen to an enlightenment in this respect and take a stand on it. Truth will also contain the strength to influence the human being's thinking in the right way, thus the human being will not be able to deny the logic of the knowledge presented to him and consider it possible without first being firmly convinced of it. But the conviction depends on his attitude, on his way of life, on the direction of his will ..... For he can only recognize truth as truth when his will is good .... but then he also recognizes God as the elementary power, as the centre with Whom all created things are connected and in Whom everything is lawfully based .... Then he gains faith in Him which, however, is not blind faith but a convinced faith which now awakens to life, which now determines his thinking and wanting, his acting and his striving. For now he can no longer regard earthly life as an end in itself, he knows it for what purpose earthly life is given to him .... All correlations are known to him and he now lives his life on this earth accordingly. Blind faith cannot be demanded of a person because his intellect has to face up to it .... Yet the intellect will only reject the truth if it is dominated by God's adversary, which is solely determined by its direction of will .... That a bad person cannot believe is fully understandable, for his thinking is completely confused by the opposing force .... He is not of good will and therefore far more amenable to lies and error, whereas a person of good will can only not believe as long as pure truth is not presented to him. And this person should and must first demand truthful enlightenment about the meaning and purpose of earthly existence .... which he will certainly not close his mind to if he desires to know the truth. And this enlightenment concerns the spiritual context, the cause and effect of spiritual processes which, although they are only fully comprehensible to the human being when he is receptive to profound spiritual truths, are nevertheless initially sufficient to stimulate him to think and find faith .... And depending on his desire for truth he will then receive further knowledge which, however, first requires the recognition of a supremely perfect being with Whom the human being is now willing to enter into contact. Every assistance will be offered to him so that he will awaken to life, for the soul shall not remain in the state of death .... in the state of lightlessness, without realization and without faith .... it shall regain the light and strength in earthly life which it once voluntarily gave up ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of spiritual work ....

B.D. 5903 from March 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The blessing of spiritual work will not fail to materialize, for it not only extends to people on earth but also to the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who are in spiritual hardship and require the strength of My word .... What they now receive they likewise distribute as soon as they have once recognized it. And then people on earth will also be blessed again, for there are connections from the kingdom of the beyond to the earthly world everywhere, and as soon as the souls in the beyond have attained a degree of maturity they eagerly endeavour to carry the light everywhere, and now they also mentally influence the people who were close to them on earth .... They carry out redemptive work wherever they can, and this by virtue of My word, which brought them salvation in their adversity and which they recognize as exceedingly necessary to spread. Your spiritual striving, your work for Me and My kingdom, is eagerly pursued by those souls, and what you do they also want to carry out with your help .... They are grateful for every word you convey to them, because they cannot receive it themselves and are dependent on your help, but they also feel the strength which flows forth from this word offered to them through you. It is a gift for them which makes them extremely happy and they don't miss any opportunity to receive My word through you and to work with it in the same way, i.e. to pass it on to those who meet them in utmost spiritual poverty and whom they want to help .... For My word kindles love in their hearts, My word is the emanation of My love which does not remain without effect on souls in the beyond which surround you when receiving My word. Countless souls press towards you because they want help and hope for it from you. And they keep quiet for the time being and follow your spiritual work .... they feel comfortable in the glow of light which, however, diminishes immediately if the soul is unwilling or opposes you .... Then it is dark around it again until it has changed its mind. But the souls which approach you of good will do not go empty-handed .... and what they receive they can quickly increase, as soon as they now also work with the spiritual knowledge they received from you. Therefore no work of yours will remain without blessing, without spiritual success, it will just not always be obvious to you. But precisely for this reason you should not become tired and constantly work .... receiving and distributing and remember the countless souls to whom you thereby bring help. The hardship in the kingdom of the beyond is the same as on earth .... where darkness exists the souls are tormented, and only light can change their state of torment .... The hardship can therefore be called even greater in the beyond because the souls themselves can do nothing more to improve their situation than want to be given strength, whereas on earth every person possesses strength to be able to do what he wants. And therefore strength shall be imparted to the souls in the beyond, which constantly happens through your spiritual work, in which every soul can participate if it wants to .... Although you yourselves have no proof of the truth of these words other than spiritual help again, for you are protected by those souls against bad influences, you are loved by them and again and again stimulated into spiritual activity .... You are constantly surrounded by them, and thus the sphere you are in is exceedingly favourable for spiritual success, for your thoughts and aspirations will only ever apply to the work of salvation for which you have offered yourselves to Me, for which I bless you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of suffering ....

B.D. 5904 from March 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Sooner or later you all will realise why you had to suffer on earth, and you will be grateful to Me if it brought you the success that you would never have achieved without suffering .... I would truly not let you suffer without reason, yet My love recognises the effect of suffering on you and thus makes use of it, even if you are often incapable of recognising My loving care. But believe that every stirring of your heart is known to Me, and that I therefore handle especially My Own seemingly harshly, because I want to give them even more blessings in My kingdom, which they are guaranteed to inhabit when their physical end has come.

On earth you cannot imagine the beatitude I want to provide for you .... But I know how a soul has to be in order to endure this beatitude, only I know how it can attain this quality, and only I know the right means and therefore also use them .... and I do this because I love you and know that your will strives towards Me. But also bear in mind that the soul in the human stage is not yet crystallised enough, that it would not endure the abundance of My emanation of love, that it therefore still has to go through suffering in order to become totally purged .... You should know that the soul's layers were not the fault of your earthly way of life, but that it came to earth already surrounded by thick covers, the dissolution of which is now every human being's task .... Doing deeds of love to a large degree will considerably aid the removal of the soul's impurities, and profound suffering helps where the strength of love is not yet powerful enough .... But you will feel inexpressibly happy when your soul is able to rise freely and permeated by light into the spiritual kingdom after your earthly death .... Then you will have overcome all difficulties, all earthly suffering, and an eternity of supreme happiness lays ahead of you ....

Although every day of suffering seems long to you, and yet it is but a moment in time compared to eternity. At times you deem your suffering to be unbearable, and yet I give you no more to carry than you can endure .... and you can always turn to Me, to Jesus Christ, the bearer of the cross, with an appeal for help when your burden seems too much to bear for you .... Take up your cross and follow Me .... Would I, as the man Jesus, have spoken these Words if it were impossible for you to endure the cross placed upon you? But He Himself also offered you His help with the Words 'Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest ....' And true to His Word He will always give you strength .... For your Saviour Jesus Christ knows you, He also knows that you are willing to follow Him, and He will grant you strength and grace as long as you live on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'The measure you give ....'

B.D. 5905 from March 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The measure you give will be the measure you receive .... You should not anxiously calculate what you think you ought to give, you should hand out what you are inwardly urged to, for only that which you give out of love will be judged, and if you love, you won't be calculating but giving generously. By doing so you will not become poorer as you will be amply rewarded, you will never go without for I will truly abundantly return it to you, I will bestow the same love upon you, and that truly to a far greater extent. This promise of Mine is applicable spiritually and earthly, for you should alleviate people's hardship everywhere, you should give to your fellow human being what he requires .... And the spiritual hardship is far greater still than the earthly one, this is why the spiritual care of the poor has been entrusted to you, especially to those of you with spiritual riches at their disposal and who shall always share this wealth. All those who have possessions themselves should share their possessions. Yet their wealth will not diminish, for the more they share the more they will receive. I can only grant spiritual wealth - and thus also give the assurance that I will not let them go without - to people if they comply with My request to consider their fellow human beings, because they lack what they need to help them attain beatitude .... Anyone who shares earthly possessions acquires spiritual wealth and, at the same time, also receives earthly possessions according to requirement .... And the more wealthy he is the more generous he can and should become, for it will be a blessing for him as well as for the needy, love will flare up brightly, because every expression of love awakens love in return and because .... where love is kindled .... I Myself can be and thus distribute My gift without limitation. Love must flare up in the human heart, then receiving and giving can take place without measure; yet without love every gift is mere calculation or formality which is not judged by Me as a gift of love. Let your fellow human beings' hardship speak to you. Spiritual as well as earthly suffering should awaken your sympathy, then your heart will be involved, then every gift will trigger joy in the giver as well in the recipient, and then I will also be able to give because your love motivates Me to do so, and then your wealth will increase .... you will be endowed in a spiritual and earthly way and will never again have to go short, for My love and grace will flow to you without measure .... you may receive without measure according to My promise 'the measure you give will be the measure you receive ....'

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Simultaneous teaching of the souls in the hereafter ....

B.D. 5906 from March 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

What I have to say to you humans on earth shall also be heard by the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who, like you, are still imperfect or dwell in deepest darkness, because I also want to bring salvation to them and leave no stone unturned to motivate all these souls to change their will. You all lack light .... All of you, on earth and in the beyond, you are still darkened in spirit and therefore do not see the path which leads to Me. But I want you to find your way to Me and therefore illuminate the path for you so that you will emerge from darkness and walk towards the light. And the fate of imperfect souls in the beyond is a very sad one, which is why I show them My mercy and also kindle a light for them which shall shine for them. And the light emanates from the truth .... I must turn the truth to all these souls which are still immature so that it will become bright in them. I must also speak to them as I speak to the people on earth .... These souls must also be instructed, My word must also be conveyed to them, because only My word can bring them salvation. And wherever My word is preached on earth and this happens in the right way I will also guide souls in the beyond so that they can likewise receive teachings if they want to accept them. But I Myself will also address the souls as soon as they only desire the light of truth. And My word always resounds where My spirit is given the opportunity to work .... Where a person unites with Me in love and is filled with desire for truth, where he surrenders himself to Me and wants to be aware of My presence, there My spirit can work and direct all his thinking according to truth .... And there a light will also shine which is visible to the souls in the beyond and which they now rush towards .... and all My thoughts, which I convey to the human being through My spirit, will also be communicated to those souls and will not remain without impression on them .... My working of the spirit is that the human being becomes aware of My thoughts coined into words, thus he hears Me Myself speaking to him, as it were, and the souls also hear these words because they pay attention to the human being's thoughts and through these they also understand what they hear. For these souls, in their state of imperfection, are not yet able to hear My word themselves; on the other hand they can follow people's thoughts like spoken words, and thus they will mostly stay where people are in spiritual contact with Me, with the light of truth, because only there can they perceive the shine of light, whereas it is often just as dark around other people as around the souls in the beyond. And therefore it is understandable that there are not many sources on earth where the supply of My word guarantees truth, where it is therefore light, because a ray of eternal light pours out onto all those who shelter around that source .... But it is understandable that countless souls gather there and that they are often insatiable .... but will also always receive what they desire, because My love is always willing to help them, as well as I Myself am desired as the eternal truth. On earth My gifts of grace are rarely appreciated and people pass by what they recognize and desire in the beyond as solely giving help. And therefore I remember these souls in the beyond full of mercy and satisfy them with the bread of heaven .... I also convey the gospel to them so that they may attain beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Table of the lord ....

B.D. 5907 from March 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Come to the table I have set for you, be My guests and let yourselves be refreshed with My food and My drink. For I truly offer you nourishment for your soul, which serves to strengthen you when it is still weak and through which it recovers when it is sick. I invite you all to partake of the banquet with Me, I distribute and bless the food to you, and once you have enjoyed it you can no longer live without this food; you will always return to My table and strengthen and refresh yourselves at all times .... You shall all partake of My banquet, and therefore I send My servants to announce to you that I am expecting you, so that they will convey My invitation to you, so that they will lead you to My table where I Myself will approach you as host and hand out with full hands what you need for refreshment and invigoration. But I can only offer you My gift .... I can indeed offer you the bread of heaven, the living water, but I cannot force you to accept and enjoy it .... You must first feel hunger and thirst in order to desire My food and My drink and then gratefully receive it, otherwise you will not feel the delicacy of My gift and carelessly pass it by. My table is set for everyone, I make no distinction between My guests if they only stretch out their hands to Me in desire that I fill them with the gifts of My love .... Whoever comes to Me will also be satisfied at My table, for the fact that he comes to My table proves that he hungers and thirsts for food and drink. And I always love a needy person who recognizes his poverty and wants to accept gifts of love from Me. But anyone who has already filled himself with food which seemed more tempting to him will look contemptuously at My table of gifts .... he will turn away and probably also try to persuade My guests to fetch food where he did. Yet his nourishment will not satisfy him, he will not feel any invigoration, he will remain weak and powerless, for only he who drinks from the water I give him will never thirst again, and only he who feeds on the bread of heaven will have his hunger satisfied .... and therefore I invite you all to My banquet, for I have set the table with delicious food and delicious drink .... And I distribute with full hands because I want to help your souls to live and because they can only live if they are fed and watered by Me, and My love has everything ready for them which gives them life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right child relationship .... become like children ....

B.D. 5908 from March 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Unless you become like children you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven .... With these words I already tried to make you understand on earth that you must enter into the right relationship with Me, your father of eternity, if you want to take possession of My kingdom .... that you must entrust yourselves to the father like children and surrender yourselves to Him, so that this intimate relationship will guarantee My influx of grace which will help you to ascend. I only ever endeavour to clarify your shortcoming that you are weak and unable to develop yourselves upwards if you don't make use of My strength .... I only ever want to explain to you that the receipt of strength from Me is only possible when the connection between you and Me is established. And I only ever give you instructions as to how you establish this connection with Me .... It is only ever love and childlike devotion to Me, the trusting relationship which a child has with its father, which causes Me to fill you with strength and grace. And therefore you must become like children .... unhesitatingly hand yourselves over to Me; you must hand yourselves over to My care, you must believe with complete conviction that the father will lead you by the hand and that you cannot go astray as long as you fully entrust yourselves to Him. This childlike faith cannot be destroyed .... I take hold of you and draw you to My heart, I now take responsibility for you because you no longer resist Me, because you no longer assert your own will but completely subordinate it to Mine .... because you have now become My children in truth who have found their way back into their father's house, because you now belong to My own for whom the kingdom of heaven is open, who are allowed to take possession of it and who never ever strive away from Me, because they are now indissolubly united with Me through their childlike love. As long as the human being believes himself to be powerful he is weak and incapable of acquiring My kingdom .... But if he bends before Me in humility and love and in a feeling of weakness, if he lifts his hands imploringly to Me, if he calls to the father for help like a child, then the father's hand will also take hold of him, and then his faith and his love will be his strength which is able to overcome everything and achieve everything. Become like children .... Confess that you need help and it will be given to you .... My grace takes hold of every child who calls to Me and lifts it up .... For I want to be recognized and loved by you as father, so that My strength of love can flow through you, which will make you eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light in the darkness .... no compulsion ....

B.D. 5909 from March 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I want to let My light shine everywhere where there is still darkness .... I want to help all people gain knowledge, I want to impart the pure truth to them and I want them to become blissfully happy through the truth. The earth need not be shrouded in darkness because everything truly happens from Me to illuminate it .... But the fact that it is in such profound spiritual darkness is solely due to people's will who close themselves off from the light when it would like to shine upon them .... who avert their eyes when a ray of light touches them and voluntarily turn to the darkness again. And as long as this human will does not strive towards the light itself it cannot have any illuminating power either, because this has been the law since eternity that spiritual resistance to My emanation of love nullifies its effectiveness. The human being must want light to come into and around him .... only then will his resistance be broken, and only then will My divine light of love shine into the human being with full strength .... only then will he come to realization, and only then will he live his life consciously, i.e. directed towards the aim which is set for him in earthly life .... to become perfect, that is, to be filled with light and strength, as he was in the beginning. In the last days, however, people's will is strongly directed downwards, towards the kingdom of darkness .... because all their thoughts and aspirations are directed towards earthly goods .... dead matter which contains entirely immature spiritual substances. All immaturity is lightless, and light can only shine when such obstacles are removed through which the light cannot penetrate because spiritual resistance is present. Everything earthly-material is still under the sign of resistance, thus the human being's thinking and willing must first rise above earthly-material things so that he can be effectively touched by the radiation of light .... In simple words, he can only come to the realization of truth, to the light from Me, when he detaches himself from the earthly-material world, when this no longer fills his thoughts but everything that exists outside the material world appears more important to him, and when he turns his will and his thinking towards this kingdom. Then an immensely beneficent light will also radiate from that kingdom and fill his heart with joy .... Then he can be introduced to truth by Me, then he will mature in realization and have knowledge at his disposal which can never be imparted to him earthly. It is simply the human being's will which determines his realization and maturity. And I cannot force this will, I can only influence the human being again and again such that he changes his will himself if it is wrongly directed .... For this reason I can certainly light a little lamp everywhere but I cannot force the light upon people who don't want to accept it and feel more comfortable in the darkness .... And this is why the earth is in deepest spiritual darkness, because people don't want it to become light and would rather do anything to extinguish the lights which My grace and mercy repeatedly let shine for them. Yet every rightly directed will is blessed by Me a thousand fold, for such a will is able to influence its fellow human beings again and open doors into which My light can now shine, and in a small circle the darkness of night has given way to the light of day .... And clearly recognizable is the path which people now take and which leads towards the right aim, towards Me, Who is the light and the truth from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word is power .... letters without life ....

B.D. 5910 from March 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

With My word you also always accept the strength to accomplish your soul's work as soon as you desire this word of Mine yourselves. For it can also be offered to you without your desire, and then it will only radiate strength if you willingly accept it. My word contains the strength within itself .... Yet you humans do not use it, you do not make use of the strength of My word .... you often hear it and remain indifferent towards it, it only echoes in your ears and thus cannot convey the strength to you which has to be received with the heart. But how easy your ascent on earth would be if you acquired strength and abundance by accepting My word and .... if you are serious .... by following My will, which is expressed in My word .... You need only ever fulfil My commandments, you need only live according to My will and you would receive unmeasured strength and your soul's spiritual ascent would be assured. For the word is the connection between you and Me through which you can receive what you lack: strength and light. But as long as My word is only letters for you, as long as it is not yet alive in your heart, it has no strength, for as long as you cannot speak of My word but only of letters without meaning and life .... You yourselves must give life to these letters .... you yourselves must try to fathom the spiritual meaning and you will be surprised at the abundance of divine spirit hidden in it .... My word shall awaken you to life .... but this is only possible when you desire to live and then also grasp the significance of My word and then withdraw the strength from it with which I have blessed My word. My word is the emanation of Myself, My word is a ray of light which shall touch you and which now also has life-awakening strength. The infinitely long distance from you to Me is bridged by My word, a connection between you and Me is created through My word, and every connection with Me is a blessing, every connection with Me signifies revival to life for the dead, because nothing can remain lifeless as soon as it is permeated by My flow of strength .... and every connection with Me proves itself through an influx of strength which has a revitalizing effect on the hitherto lifeless. But the being's will is part of it, because I don't let My strength work against its will; and the will becomes active in you humans as soon as you consciously expose yourselves to the effect of My word .... As soon as you accept My word without resistance you must also feel the strength of My word and mature spiritually. And therefore I constantly approach you in the word, I try to encourage you to establish contact with Me, to desire My word and live it out, because then you will become aware of My strength which facilitates your path of ascent, which only gives you the right life .... the life of the spirit .... so that you now walk consciously through earthly life .... conscious of your task and the aim which you will also reach, because you are now never without strength, because My word now sounds to you whenever you desire it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faithlessness of the world's people ....

B.D. 5911 from March 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

It is an extremely difficult beginning to have a spiritual influence on people who have already fallen victim to the world. For they only regard as right what their intellect can grasp .... but they lack all understanding for spiritual truths; they reject that which is supposed to provide information in the spiritual sphere, they are completely incapable of believing because they live in a different world than the one which is supposed to be made accessible to them. They do not recognize this world, and that is why they make no attempt to enter it or to look across in order to spy something that would be proof to them of the reality of the spiritual world. The earthly world stands separating people from the spiritual kingdom, and the earthly world asserts itself more and more because it is coming to an end. What people are asked to believe, what is presented to people as divine teaching, appears ever more unreal to them .... They cannot believe because they don't want to believe, because they don't bother to think seriously. And the distance between God and people will become ever greater because the latter will increasingly strive away from Him by striving for earthly material goods which are the only 'truly' desirable things to them. And this state, this attitude towards the earthly world, will become more and more apparent the closer the end is. A representative of divine spiritual knowledge will rarely be believed by people, the listeners will feel far superior to them and become ever smaller in number, and only a few will awaken to true life in the midst of a completely dead humanity, in the midst of a spiritual desert. Yet all these phenomena are only intended to confirm to you humans that the end is near, for if it were not so then an end of the earth, a destruction and renewal of it, would not be necessary either .... But the spiritual state of people who are completely secularized substantiates the transformation of the earth, it substantiates the end and the judgment, even though humanity is not accessible to this substantiation and prediction either .... Only the few whose senses are spiritually directed will recognize and understand this, but never the worldly people who don't want to hear about it and don't believe it because they are completely blind in spirit and judge according to their blindness. And so it is extremely difficult to free individuals from their spiritual blindness, to make them see and to change their thoughts and actions .... It is extremely difficult, and yet it should not be omitted to repeatedly stimulate their thoughts and direct them towards the kingdom which they are still very far from .... No one should be able to say that no rescue attempts were made on him. Everyone should be made aware of what lies ahead for humanity, and every person's free will should decide ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Efforts of God to achieve the change of will ....

B.D. 5912 from March 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

There are still countless opportunities which offer people the possibility to find faith and to establish the intimate connection with God, for they still possess their life, they still live on earth and have to put their life behind them as fate would have it, i.e., all these opportunities approach them as fate would have it, and only the will needs to adjust itself correctly, that is, to make use of every opportunity. As long as the human being lives on earth there is still hope for a change of his will, which is still wrongly directed, precisely because this will is free. And God's love and mercy also constantly affects him, yet always in consideration of his free will, but He does not relinquish it as long as he lives on earth .... And even at the hour of death His influence is still evident, where there is still a possibility that the human being's thoughts can turn to Him .... Yet God also knows every person's will and state of maturity, and therefore His working will be very different and often divergent and yet recognized by Him as right .... During his life on earth every human being will be given that which can result in a change of will, a turning towards God .... And no matter how different the knowledge is that is brought to him .... he can utilize his own thinking and will, and all knowledge can earn him blessings if it stimulates him to think and thus to unite with beings which are in knowledge and which now intervene in his thoughts. No human being is left entirely to himself, he is looked after by spiritual beings to whom he is entrusted for guidance through earthly life. Every person is influenced from the spiritual kingdom and at the same time earthly experiences approach him in order to guide his thinking in the right direction .... Thus even such a person who has been given completely erroneous knowledge by people can attain the truth if he wants to attain the truth himself .... For in accordance with this will he will be mentally instructed by the spiritual world. But rarely does a person realize himself what his innermost desire is .... and in order to induce him to clarify his thinking, fate influences him .... Life itself shapes his thinking, and all events in his earthly life only aim at the human being entering into the right bond with God and with the spiritual world .... that it will let him find God .... And as long as the human being lives he can find God but he will not be forced to seek Him .... He is only fatefully placed in situations where God Himself steps into his path, so that he can now face Him but also avoid Him .... And how he now behaves towards God determines his spiritual progress, for this is his purpose of earthly life, to learn to recognize and love God .... And as long as the human being lives he will have the opportunity to do so, because God's love is infinite and wants to win over all who are still distant from Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fighting or helping ....

B.D. 5913 from March 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Don't forget that you will have to fight or be of service .... Yet the battle should not be against your fellow human being, against those who are weak and defenceless, nor should one tackle the other in order to defeat him for the sake of worldly success. The battle should be against yourselves, against faults and bad habits, vices and cravings .... This battle is not easy and requires all your strength; yet if you are victorious in this battle you will have achieved a marvellous success .... However, you can also choose a different path in order to attain this success .... the path of helpful neighbourly love. As soon as you are helping you are likewise overcoming yourself, for you voluntarily change your nature. You acquire the strength you need in order to discard all faults and bad habits through your actions of love and receive an abundant measure of grace .... if you serve with love .... In that case you will have overcome arrogance first; you will have become humble and can subsequently receive an unlimited amount of blessings .... You no longer need to wage battle against yourselves once you serve with love. Being of service with love is merely a different form of battle against oneself yet it likewise succeeds in becoming victorious over everything degrading, over all cravings, over heartlessness.

A person's change of character takes place either through fighting or helping, however, helping is far easier than fighting, and anyone who is always a helpful brother to his fellow human beings will meet with far less opposition than someone whose goal consists of systematic self-denial, for his fellow human beings will not offer him the patience and love which the former gains through his conduct with other people. This is why it says: fighting or helping .... because a helpful person will be spared the difficult inner battles which the other person often has to endure. A battle with the weapons of love is always promising, and truly, someone who helps with humility is the stronger, for he reaches his goal faster, because he will always receive grace and strength in abundance .... which someone who fights will in fact have to appeal for as well or he will be defeated in his battle against himself. It will also be conveyed to him by God after his prayer so that he can achieve his transformation of character, yet it will only have been completed when he also helps with love, when, after a tough battle, his selfish love has become selfless neighbourly love .... and then he will also receive strength and grace through loving activity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Help from light beings only in the will of God .... Calling 'saints' ....

B.D. 5914 from March 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You are directly in contact with the kingdom to which you entrust yourselves in My name. Your will to reach Me entitles all beings of light to join you for your protection, because they only ever carry out My will and because they know that it is My will to help you spiritually and earthly. To carry out My will is their bliss, for love for Me and for all beings which are still imperfect constantly impels them into activity. But they will never do anything of their own accord because they have completely entered into My will and also know the laws of eternal order, so that an intervention against My will would only have to result in harm for these beings. Everything that is in the light, that is perfect, carries My divine will within itself and can therefore never act on its own authority against My will. For this reason the beings, thus also the people on earth, must first try to make themselves inclined towards My will before the beings of the world of light can assist them in any way .... and therefore people first have to seek contact with Me in order to then also be able to experience the help of the spiritual world, of the beings of light which are fed by Me with strength and light, for once I have accepted it also embraces every being of light with its love and promotes its perfection. Therefore, anyone who knows that he is united with Me through prayer and actions of love also knows that he is protected by these beings and can also recommend himself to them .... he can want to be surrounded only by inhabitants of the kingdom of light and that they prevent the entry of impure beings, he can consciously place himself into those spheres of light through his will, for I will always be the origin of every thought and also the aim. For then he will only ask the beings of light for help on the path to Me .... And this help will be granted to him all too gladly. Yet the help provided by these beings is completely misjudged when they are called upon as intercessors before Me .... if people don't approach Me themselves .... if they believe to gain My affection through protection .... if they don't first establish the relationship of a child with its father, yet expect help from those beings for which they don't approach Me Myself .... As long as My will to help cannot be recognized by the beings of light that it applies to you, this will is not in them either and all calls for help are in vain, for these My servants do not carry out anything against My will .... And you must first strive to gain My will, thus you may not bypass Me Myself, only then will My messengers of light become active as they recognize it in themselves as being wanted by Me .... A person who sincerely strives towards Me is also constantly in contact with the world of light, and he will move just as freely in the spiritual sphere as among his fellow human beings .... He will always be in contact with the beings of light, he will be surrounded by them on My behalf, and thus they will also influence him on My behalf because they perceive everything they do as being instructed by Me. A being of light cannot carry out anything other than My will or it would not be a being of light, for the abundance of light is only the result of its complete devotion to Me and its entry into My eternal order, which is why there is also complete agreement between Me and those beings .... but this must not lead to the conclusion that they are always beings of light which people imagine themselves to be. For this reason the appeal to certain beings for help is associated with a certain danger .... that beings will also be called which do not dwell as beings of light in the kingdom of light. For you humans cannot judge, you have to leave the assessment of the degree of maturity to Me .... And thus you will now also have a clear answer to the question as to whether the call of 'saints' is expedient and in My will .... Entrust yourselves fully to the beings of light if you have intimately united yourselves with Me and believe that they are now concerned about you in My will and will help you .... But don't call upon those whom human judgement has stamped as 'saints' and whose degree of maturity cannot be tested by you humans, because I alone know who has reached the degree of perfection that he can now be permeated by Me with light and strength and is now active in My kingdom according to My will .... Desire the light and it will approach you and fill you with its strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Maturity level ensures right thinking .... spirit work ....

B.D. 5915 from March 27th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

A certain degree of maturity also ensures the human being's right thinking .... the enlightenment of the spirit and thus also the recognition of truth. And you should therefore also strive for this degree of maturity .... You should lead your soul to perfection by fulfilling the divine commandments, you should acquire strength of love by performing selfless works of love .... You should do everything to become the image of God. For with increasing maturity of soul you will also step into ever brighter light, and this means that you will learn to distinguish between truth and error, between the real and the false, between the real and the illusory .... But for this a certain degree of maturity is indispensable. For an imperfect soul is also blind in spirit, and the soul is imperfect as long as it lives outside the divine order, which, however, is restored by fulfilling the divine commandments. Work on your soul so that it matures, so that you reach the light of knowledge .... Otherwise the light cannot be given to you, for you would not be able to see it in your immature state because you are blind in spirit as long as you are imperfect. But if you stand in the light, in realization, as a result of your soul's maturity, then you need not fear erroneous teachings either, for you will immediately recognize them as erroneous. But error finds good ground and can spread extremely quickly where people make no effort to improve their immature state of soul .... where they are incapable of recognizing error as such. And then it will have a very pernicious effect, it will darken the spiritual state more and more, because at the same time it will also prevent the human being from working on his soul, for an erroneous teaching will never demand the fulfilment of divine commandments because this would illuminate him himself. Therefore, it cannot be emphasized enough that the spirit in a person can only be illuminated through the working of love and that anyone who desires to stand in truth, who does not want to be deceived by erroneous teachings, absolutely has to take the path of love which brings him enlightenment of his spirit. Not the clever person protects himself from error but only the good, willing to love, for he sees things as they are and does not allow himself to be deceived by appearances. Appearance, however, is everything that makes a person lukewarm about the work of the soul .... Appearance is everything that does not correspond to truth and .... because it does not stimulate the transformation of the being .... never results in the state of realization, yet it will always appeal to people who do not strive for the aim of eternity; for these are blind in spirit and feel comfortable in their blindness .... These do not seek the truth, they do not seek the light and will therefore also remain in darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Swing up of the soul into spiritual spheres ....

B.D. 5916 from March 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Enter the spiritual realms as often as you are able, seek to detach yourselves from earth and let your soul soar into that kingdom from which it originated and to which it will also return again when your earthly life is over. In that kingdom it will truly be offered what it cannot find on earth .... Food and drink, the right means to shape it so that it can permanently reside in the spiritual kingdom and be happy. As long as you stay on earth the soul is still deformed, and it shall change, it shall become again as it was in the beginning .... an image of God .... And as long as it stays on earth it can certainly achieve this transformation, however, what it lacks has to be imparted to it, and it also receives it through God's love, but from the kingdom which is meant to be your former home. And therefore, the more often the soul rises there the more abundantly it will return again in order to carry out its work of transformation on earth precisely with the help of that which is imparted to it in the spiritual kingdom. Earth does not hold such treasures, they can only be fetched from the kingdom of light, in those spheres which are certainly made accessible to you but have to be entered in free will. And every soul on earth has the opportunity to ascend into these spheres and to fetch much strengthening nourishment from there, which it then uses in earthly life in order to make itself suitable for a permanent stay in those spheres. Yet no soul will be forced to take this flight of fancy .... but it can undertake it voluntarily as often as it wants. And therefore it is lovingly admonished not to let any opportunity for this flight of fancy pass by, again and again to free itself from earthly heaviness and to rise into the realms of spiritual friends who want to help it into light and strength. And every mental connection with this kingdom, every prayer, every spiritual question is a wandering into the spiritual spheres from which the soul never returns without a gain. The more often you humans withdraw into silence, the more often you detach yourselves in thought from the earthly world and thus mentally know where light and bliss are, the more you will also be cared for by the inhabitants of this world of light and provided with spiritual gifts which will help you to transform your soul .... thus shaping it such that it can enter the kingdom after death which it aspired to on earth .... that the inhabitants of the kingdom of light come to meet it and receive it .... that it has now regained the state in which it was full of light and strength as a divine creature .... that it now returns as a child to its father of eternity .... that it is now active in His kingdom according to His will and filled with His strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bridging the distance from God ....

B.D. 5917 from March 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Do you want to remain at an endless distance from Me? Are you not tempted to always come closer to Me in order to be able to receive My gifts of grace which I bestow upon everyone who voluntarily approaches Me? You can bring about this approach to Me yourselves if only by uniting your thoughts with Me, by letting Me become the object of your thoughts and thus willingly approaching Me .... Even if they are only questioning thoughts, assumptions or doubts for the time being .... the very fact that you allow Me to become the content of your thoughts gives Me the opportunity to influence you without any compulsion of will .... I can now guide your thoughts, I can answer your questions truthfully and I can refute the doubts. Then the desire to remain connected to Me will arise of its own accord, then you will have built a bridge yourselves on which you can move towards Me, you yourselves will have reversed your path downwards; the distance is no longer so great and it will become ever smaller the more willingly you hand yourselves over to Me and My influence, the more often you turn your thoughts towards Me .... and you now also feel My nearness .... My gifts of grace will always be offered to you according to your desire to possess them .... You will feel Me everywhere, for My nearness also has an effect. It is a second life which you now lead next to your actual life on earth, for you now only take this into account as far as your earthly sphere of duty dictates .... But every free minute you will devote to the second life .... you will try to penetrate My kingdom, you will constantly narrow the gulf, you will not rest until you have reached the aim of being united with Me. This is the natural result of your initial mental connection with Me, it cannot be otherwise either, because everyone who turns his thoughts to Me will be seized by Me .... because I will no longer leave anyone out who only turned to Me once, even though it sometimes takes a long time until I have achieved the permanent bond with Me, when the world still intervenes too often and wants to destroy the bridge which is only weak for the time being and cannot bear a great burden .... Yet it is always strong enough if a soul voluntarily enters it in order to reach My proximity .... And a soul which has once voluntarily ventured on the path can certainly slow down its steps at times but it will not give up the path again, for the bridge it has built itself leads into a wonderland, into a realm which appears more appealing to it than the earthly world .... A soul which voluntarily turns its thoughts towards Me will no longer be able to get away from these thoughts, because I will not let go of it and constantly bring Myself close to it in many ways. Only where no attempt has ever been made to bridge the wide gulf there is little hope, because I Myself cannot draw it to Me against the soul's will, because the bridge has to be entered by it Myself, even though I, in My love and mercy, have built the bridge through My crucifixion which is passable for all .... It is not seen by the soul which still turns its will downwards. Yet the slightest thought of Me also illuminates its path. I truly make it easy for every soul to bridge the distance from Me, yet its own will is decisive as to what success it achieves .... I don't force this will but I help and strengthen it if it turns to Me and let every soul that seeks Me find Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only the willing listener has blessing ....

B.D. 5918 from March 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Open wide your hearts when you are addressed by Me, your God and father from eternity. Your inability to hear Me Myself prompts Me to speak to you through a person who is willing to help you and thus serves Me by being a suitable instrument through which I can speak to you. For all of you should hear My word, because you can only become blessed if you know My will and because I make My will known to you through My word. You, who have hitherto closed your ears to the address from above, are therefore still very poorly formed, for you lack the strength to transform your nature .... But in this inadequate state you cannot enter the kingdom of the blessed, the gates to this kingdom are closed to you and you first have to make an effort to attain a degree of perfection. For beatitude means the irradiation of love .... the irradiation with divine strength which, however, would completely consume you as long as you have not yet shaped yourselves into a receptacle for My strength of love. Therefore the gates to beatitude are closed to you until you yourselves have become what is indispensable for entry into the kingdom of light. Yet My word also reaches you, only you often don't recognize it as an act of grace from Me Who wants to help you to beatitude. But I cannot give you any other proof that your father speaks to you from eternity than that you feel a flow of strength as soon as you willingly listen when you are addressed. You must willingly incline your ear to Me and you will be beneficially touched by My word .... But the unwilling listener feels nothing of the blessing and the strength of My word .... I address all of you who are still deficiently formed because you lack faith and love .... And I encourage you to practice love in order to be able to believe and then also recognize Me .... What I have to say to you is always the same if you are still in spiritual adversity: Live in love .... Everything you lack you receive through loving activity, and this instruction applies to your earthly life as well as to the kingdom of the beyond, where lack of love results in inadequate shaping and where only love for other souls imparts strength to you, without which you are wretched. Only love allows you to attain the right faith, and you have to believe in order to enter into contact with the one in Whom you should believe .... with Jesus Christ, Who is your God and father from eternity, Who as your redeemer from death and sin wants to give you life in bliss, Who wants to open the gates to paradise for you .... Through My word I want to lead all of you to this faith in Me in Jesus Christ who are still unredeemed, who are still wretched, to whom the gate to the kingdom of light is still closed. And therefore I speak to you again and again so that the will awakens in you to unite with Me .... so that you call Me yourselves, so that you remember My act of salvation and sincerely desire that I accept you and include you in the group of those for whom I died on the cross as the man Jesus .... I only want you to acknowledge Me in order to be able to give you My love, My grace and My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Voluntary deeds of love .... fulfillment of the law ....

B.D. 5919 from March 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Only that which you do voluntarily in order to live pleasingly for Me is of value to your soul. What the laws prescribe to you is not valued by Me as a deed carried out of your own free will, for neither threats of punishment nor promises of reward shall induce you to fulfil My commandments .... Only the love within you shall determine you, and this cannot be forced by law. Hence you can do the same deeds and yet they need not have the same value .... But I know the degree of love which determines your actions, and the deed will be valued according to it. And thus it will now also be understandable to you that your perfection, the maturing of your souls, solely depends on the extent to which you develop love within yourselves, for your way of life shall allow you to mature, thus it has to be guided by love; everything you do has to be an activity of love .... The path of love is the only path to perfection, and you determine your earthly way of life yourselves through your will. Hence you cannot create spiritual advantages for yourselves by fulfilling humanly decreed commandments which were added to My commandments of love .... Yes, you cannot dutifully fulfil these commandments of love of Mine either .... For love cannot be commanded, it has free will within itself .... Only through these obligatory actions can you awaken love in yourselves, and only then will your works be pleasing in My sight. For this reason I also admonish you to always and constantly work with love, so that you should not carelessly believe that you have done enough through pure works, which can indeed also be helpful but lack the right love .... You must shape yourselves into beings which are filled with love, then you will also understand why everything else is worthless where love was uninvolved .... The soul can only mature through works of love, because maturity of the soul precisely means love and because your only task on earth is to return to the love from which you once emerged, because this return is only possible in love .... because I, as the eternal love Myself, can only unite with you when you have become love again .... when you have deified yourselves again through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love can also be found in suffering ....

B.D. 5920 from April 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Whichever way your earthly lives will shape themselves, you must never doubt My love and care for you which only ever intends what is best for you. Yet only I know what serves you best .... but I also know what dangers are threatening you and how they can be averted. If you were able to judge My love for each one of you earthly children you would truly feel reassured and live your earthly life without worry, for then you would trust your heavenly Father to arrange everything so that it will be bearable for you and you would never be without help, if you just turn to Him ....

The strength of My love would truly explain your earthly destiny to you, since it only wants what is best and most beneficial for you and not to burden you with pointless sorrow and adversity, which weigh you down and make you doubt Me. You should only believe My Words and wait quietly .... that is, humbly entrust yourselves to Me and My help will not fail to materialise. And you will also achieve progress for your soul, which you would hardly gain without suffering. As yet I still ask for the individual person's love and will, as yet people have not completely decided for Me .... as yet My adversary is also making an effort to gain your souls, and there is a considerable risk that he will be victorious. And for that reason I often make it impossible for people to follow him impulsively .... I first motivate them to consider what he has to offer and what he is asking in return .... I draw the person's attention onto himself in order to distract him from what the adversary alluringly presents to him ....

I send illness and adversity, sorrow and suffering, for these will then only be a blessing for the human being, even if he doesn't recognise it himself. But I love him and don't want to lose him to the one who is devoid of all love .... who only gives you illusive possessions, who wants to deceive you and plans to corrupt you. His only true objective is to keep you distant from Me, because he is without love. But you humans don't know him and allow yourselves to be deceived by him when he entices you with earthly possessions but demands your soul in return. I, too, want to shower you with possessions, but they are everlasting and you don't recognise their worth. But a good father will not give something harmful to his child, even if the child eyes it greedily .... Instead, he will stop the child if it asks for it despite the warning .... And thus I, too, often have to stop you if you endanger your lives through misguided intentions .... If your goal is threatening to become any other one but striving towards Me .... For I love you and want to possess you and therefore I will do whatever it takes in order not to lose you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Striving for the aim in free will ....

B.D. 5921 from April 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

What a glorious aim you are heading for if you are eager in your spiritual striving, if you set yourselves the task of living to please Me, of fulfilling My commandments of love and disregarding everything that could bind you to this world .... You will achieve much if only you have the will to ascend, for then I Myself will support you with abundant grace. Admittedly, you yourselves cannot achieve anything because you are still powerless as a human being due to your past apostasy from Me. Yet I am satisfied with your will in order to already provide you with strength so that you can also carry out your will .... that you live in accordance with My eternal order and thereby attain perfection. For this reason everything in earthly life approaches you such that your will can turn towards Me, and once I have achieved this you will be granted an unlimited measure of grace, because I no longer want to leave you in weakness .... because this state of weakness takes pity on Me and therefore I radiate My strength of love through you, as a result of which you will now receive a tremendous boost which will promote you spiritually .... (4.4.1954) You will attain perfection if only you seriously want it, for the strength will come to you in accordance with this will, and I value a serious will extremely highly because it is the sign of the change of will for the purpose of which you live on earth. Although you are not yet aware of the aim in its glory, you also have to strive for it without complete knowledge .... You should certainly know that you should strive towards Me but it must remain hidden from you what it means to be united with Me .... The beatitudes which a union with Me will bring you cannot be illustrated to you, for you must strive towards Me of your own free will, because precise knowledge of the expected beatitude would make your will unfree .... thus you would seek union with Me for the sake of reward but then you would never be able to enter into it .... Love for Me shall urge you, even though I promise you bliss. I only find My bliss in making you happy, and therefore a glorious fate awaits you in eternity if only you always strive spiritually .... if your spiritual development is more important to you than earthly well-being, which always signifies a danger for you as soon as you thereby avert your eyes from Me .... Earthly wealth can certainly also help you attain spiritual maturity if you use it as it is My will .... if you use it beneficially, if you use it in serving neighbourly love, if you help the needy and distressed .... Then earthly possessions will never be detrimental to you, for then you will not place them above Me, then you will administer them in My will and do good in My name .... Then My adversary, who tries to win you over with earthly goods, has lost his power over you, because for you these goods are gifts from Me which you gratefully receive from My hand because you work with them in the right spirit, according to My will, and because I therefore also bless your earthly goods .... Anyone who has chosen Me as his aim can no longer get lost for ever, because he will never again be left to his own devices but will now constantly have Me beside him as his guide .... For anyone who longs for Me, who strives for Me, has already grasped My love in order to no longer let go of him. There is truly only one thing worth striving for on earth: to make contact with Me, because then My flow of grace can flow into the human being unhindered, because then he will be filled with light and strength and grace and his work of perfection will also be completely successful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Word from above .... Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 5922 from April 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You are receiving My Word from above, and this is the obvious proof of My spirit's activity within you .... It is not something supernatural but a completely natural process which only requires your full devotion to Me so that I will be able to pour My spirit into an opened receptacle which has shaped itself suitably through a life of love. The outpouring of My spirit is an entirely natural process .... Yet whether you humans live a life of love as a matter of course and therefore meet the requirements first is often far more questionable, for you are still too far removed from your original nature to practise love as if it were the most natural thing in the world. For this reason the outpouring of My spirit has become an incomprehensible concept for you .... Yet you are surprised once you get to know the effect of a rightful life of love .... I Am and forever remain that which I was from the beginning .... your Father, Who wants to speak to you, Who wants to reveal all His thoughts to you and remain in contact with you; My love will truly not hold back but impart to you everything you need in order to become blessed .... Consequently I will have to speak to you and thus transmit My Word. But although I speak to all of you, only a few are able to hear My speech. My spirit can only take effect in those who submit themselves to Me without resistance, because the least opposition renders the working of My spirit ineffective. Hence it is not up to Me but purely up to yourselves as to whether My spirit will overshadow you, as to whether you will receive inconceivable gifts .... as to whether you receive the evidence of My presence and My working within you.

First you must shape yourselves such that My spirit is able to flow into you; you yourselves must have the will to be endowed by Me with blessings and strength and light .... You must believe that I Am so close to you that My strength will work through you .... And you must live a life of love .... For only love unites you with Me, only love achieves the unification with Me which will result in My spirit's working within you without fail .... It is not a supernatural state but the original state you were in before your apostasy from Me. Try to attain this again and, like gods, you will be able to accomplish things which you can only accomplish in union with Me due to having shaped yourselves into My image .... Become as perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect .... For it is your goal that you should deify yourselves, which only a life of love can accomplish .... But then you will also be full of strength, because love is strength, it is My fundamental substance and must enable you to achieve anything if you make use of this strength of Mine. I Myself will truly not impose any restrictions. Yet you limit yourselves as soon as your love and faith are too weak .... But this is why I address you Myself, because I want to help you attain strong faith .... and because I also show you the ways and means which let you reach the goal .... so that My spirit will work within you, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The church of Christ .... Living faith ....

B.D. 5923 from April 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Only a living faith makes you members of My church, which I Myself established on earth. Regardless of which denomination you belong to .... you have to demonstrate a faith like Peter's, for the church is only based on such faith .... on faith which has come alive through love .... And you can gain this living faith in every denomination if the instructions you receive stimulate you into kind-hearted activity and your subsequently eager work is always based on love. Then you will have a living faith, then you will consciously establish the connection with Me .... Then I will, in a manner of speaking, live in and next to you, and you will also consciously live your earthly life, you will strive towards a goal and everything you start will be aimed towards this goal .... you will strive for Me. And surely you can understand that every human being is able to strive for Me, irrespective of which denomination he belongs to. His mere belief in Me, Who lived on earth as the man Jesus in order to redeem people, is also the cornerstone for My church, and this will be as indestructible as a rock once this belief has become unwavering through love .... Then he can be shaken by the most violent storms, he will prevail, and only faith like that can be the foundation of 'My church', which lasts for all eternity.

Anyone with a right and living faith, which is the result of a life of love, will also know the truth, because the fire of love emanates the light of truth .... And he will also discern between divine and human teachings .... he will more and more let the divine teachings become the principle of his life and ignore the human teachings .... he will feel what My will consists of even if he is humanly obliged to perform actions which are never ever based on My will .... He stands on the rock which carries My church and will no longer step onto ground which threatens to submerge him. He will only endorse the pure truth, because life is in him and therefore he also strives for life and flees from death .... he will avoid everything which belongs to death, which is unsuitable for the awakening of true life .... He rejects error and falsehood because the truth clearly brings them to light. A living faith is the rock on which My church is built .... This, however, presupposes a life of unselfish neighbourly love .... Wherever this is practised is where the gates are open which lead into My church, and all are able to enter it, I accept all who only sincerely strive to belong to Me and My church, which I Myself founded on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Quick end .... world clock ....

B.D. 5924 from April 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Only My own believe without doubt that the earth is about to come to an end, and therefore I can only give My own indications as to what hour the world clock has struck; for My own are intimately united with Me in love and can therefore also hear the father's voice within themselves, so that they cannot think in any other way than in accordance with the truth. And the truth is that the earth is close to its end, that people have to reckon with a quick end of their lives, that an upheaval will take place in the universe which has profound spiritual motives .... The truth is that My eternal plan of salvation is unfolding according to eternal law and that therefore the cause for a transformation of the earth is also given according to law, which signifies a complete passing away of the creations on it and of all creatures .... And it is also true that people are facing the end of a redemption period .... that a new one will indeed begin again but that the end has irrevocably come for the people of this earth except for the small flock of My own who also know about it and are well prepared for the end .... All indications in this respect will have little success, precisely because people do not believe in it; and yet they should not be omitted, so that one or the other can nevertheless mentally deal with it and gain faith in it. But what is very well comprehensible to My own because they recognize the spiritual state of their fellow human beings and because they are aware of the consequences of such a spiritual low .... which is completely unbelievable to worldly people; they don't even consider it worthy of a discussion in which they could be enlightened if it were their will to learn the truth about it .... They do not seek the truth and therefore lack all understanding for processes which certainly have an earthly effect but have spiritual causes .... And the day will unexpectedly befall people, their earthly life will be taken away from them, and spiritual death is also certain for them because they did not allow themselves to be awakened to life while they still possessed their physical life .... My creations are far away from Me or they would not lack the understanding of their situation .... They are darkened in spirit and avoid the light which wants to shine upon them, and the blind cannot see .... But My own have already become seeing, My spirit brought them illumination and the light revealed everything to them. And thus they also know about My plan of eternity, they know about the last time of grace they live in and they know about the eagerly conducted work of salvation; they know about the necessity of enlightenment work; they also know that I require faithful servants for My vineyard and they know that only a limited time remains for them to work for Me .... They believe that the end is near and this belief inspires them to be most eagerly active for Me and My kingdom .... And to those who believe I can also announce the hour of the end as exceedingly near, even though the day and the hour also remain hidden from them .... But suddenly and unexpectedly this day will come for you when you will all have to face the last judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

In My name you should ask the father ....

B.D. 5925 from April 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

In My name you should ask the father, so that you may find your requests answered .... These were My words which I spoke to men while I still walked on earth .... Now how are these words to be understood in order to be heeded by you? .... I taught and lived on earth as the man Jesus, Who was in such intimate contact with the father that He completely entered into His will, that the father Himself spoke from Him, that He guided His thoughts and actions, that He only carried out what was the father's most holy will .... So He was also able to speak the words: Whatever you shall ask the father in My name, that He will give you .... For it was not the man Jesus who spoke, but the father Who was in Him .... No being could behold Me Myself, for I am a spirit Who is incomprehensible to all beings which came forth from Me, the father-spirit. For anyone who wants to behold Me would have to absorb the whole universe, the spiritual and the material world, into himself .... he would therefore have to be greater than Me in order to be able to grasp Me in My infinity, in My unsurpassable abundance of light and strength. This is not possible for any being created by Me, since it is an emanation of Myself, a spark of light, which would never be able to imagine the eternal light, the primary source of all strength, as something limited, something visible to it .... Yet the eternal light and the source of all strength was able to make a form serviceable to Himself and manifest Himself in this form in order to be visible to the beings which desired to behold Him .... And this manifestation took place in the man Jesus, Who fulfilled the necessary conditions for it .... Thus My eternally unfathomable spirit embodied Itself in Him, and thus I became human .... Jesus became God .... For only the external form was human, but that which fulfilled this form was God .... You therefore call upon God when you call upon Jesus Christ .... Understand rightly, if you ask the father for something in My name .... if you call on God in Jesus Christ .... then you acknowledge Me Myself or also .... you acknowledge Jesus Christ, you believe in My incarnation in Him, you confess Me because you confess Jesus Christ .... My name has become the name of your God for you, and now you can also hope in fullest faith that your prayer will be answered, for I Myself have given you the assurance that you will not ask in vain if you call upon the father in Me, in Jesus Christ .... As the human being Jesus I knew about the attainment of My aim, I knew about My mission, the crowning of which was complete deification, so that eternal love Itself could take abode in Me .... I knew about the complete fusion of My body and My soul with the spirit of love from eternity .... This is why I was already able to give you this assurance on earth that you will be answered if your prayers are directed towards eternal love in My name, for you thereby declare that you believe in Me, that I Myself as Jesus Christ have redeemed you from eternal death .... and I will truly not let your faith be put to shame ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious reminder to remember the purpose of life on earth ....

B.D. 5926 from April 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You humans completely forget your purpose of earthly life and therefore don't live in accordance with it either .... What seems important to you is of no use to your soul, for the sake of which you live on earth, and you pay no attention to what alone is important. You only live for your body but not for your soul and yet you are only active as a human being on this earth for the sake of your soul .... Everything you strive for, everything you think and do, will not bring you any success, for earthly success will not remain with you, it is only a dream image which you cannot hold on to, which will pass away and fade into nothingness at the moment of your death. And as long as it still exists for you, it only serves the transient shell of the soul, but not the soul itself. Thus you use all your vitality, your will and your thoughts on completely worthless things, but you don't strive for real goods, and thus you treat your soul wretchedly, you leave it in greatest adversity even though you would have the opportunity to help it .... You love yourselves, your worthless outer shell, above all else .... you are still very much stuck in selfish love, in a love which is wrongly directed and can never lead you to the aim for the purpose of which you dwell on earth. You see every day how transient everything is, every day you lose people close to you through death, you know that they have to leave everything behind which was previously worth striving for and that they will enter the kingdom of the beyond completely empty .... And yet you do not change .... and whether everything around you perishes, you do not direct your thoughts spiritually but only mourn after what you have lost and seek to regain it as quickly as possible .... You are fools, for you are darkened in spirit. The world with its goods makes your eyes incapable of seeing because it blinds you and you can no longer recognize anything correctly. And through your thinking you place yourselves into the hands of the one whose aim it is to keep your soul in his possession, which means as much as to push it into darkness. Your thoughts are only earthly directed and you forget the one to Whom you owe your life and before Whom you will one day have to answer .... You push back every spiritual thought, every thought of responsibility, you don't want to be reminded of it, and you dull your conscience to such an extent that you soon believe nothing more than what is visible and tangible to you and which you strive for with all your senses .... There is almost no connection between the inhabitants of earth and those of the spiritual kingdom which is still beneficial, whereas the bond downwards is extremely strong, for the human being establishes it of his own free will precisely by striving for that which is transient and still belongs to the realm of God's adversary. You completely misjudge your purpose of earthly life and therefore the earth no longer fulfils its purpose of being a place of education for the spirit .... which results in the dissolution of earthly creation, because this is the lawful consequence of living contrary to divine order .... For you humans live against this divine order .... otherwise your spiritual state would let you see brightly and clearly what your task and aim on earth is .... And every act of contravention must have a lawful effect .... which is why the end of this earth has also come, after which the grace of embodiment as a human being will be withdrawn from it and all spiritual substance will receive this external form to which it strives through its own will .... For the grace of embodiment is not utilized but abused, and thus free will itself determines the fate of the spiritual .... it brings about the end of earth because the law of eternal order no longer allows for anything else ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Following Jesus .... Living a life of love ....

B.D. 5927 from April 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You all should take My conduct on this earth, My life, as an example, which was purely a life of selfless neighbourly love .... Try to follow Me and only ever try to live a life of love too, then you will take the same path and surely reach the goal. I descended to earth because people were taking the wrong paths which never led upwards but only ever took them further down. And for this reason I showed you the right path and called upon all people to follow Me on this path .... And I instructed people because they failed to realise why a life of love would enable them to ascend, why they were weak and without strength and how they could remedy this weakness .... I informed them about the strength of love and gave them the evidence of truth about My teaching by proving My strength and thereby also the result of a way of life in love, as I exemplified it on earth .... I knew about people's great spiritual hardship but I also knew the means to remedy it, and thus I made a constant effort of persuading people to apply these means .... The hardship of the last days is the same, and so are the means whose use will guarantee that the human being can ascend from the abyss .... Yet people ignore what I taught them .... they don't follow Me because they don't believe in Me and My teaching. They are leading an earthly way of life which is far apart from Mine; they completely ignore love and are therefore not taking the path of ascent .... For without love there is no connection, without love there is a broad gulf between you humans and your God and Father of eternity ....

Only love bridges the gulf, only love is the path to the Father's heart, and only love is the strength which lets you take the ascending path that requires strength and effort. Anyone who refuses to take the path of love will never be able to lift himself out of the abyss, and My hand cannot take hold of him to pull him up either, for he would never take hold of it as long as he is without love .... He has to follow Me of his own free will, for I do not exert any coercion if a person still resists Me. Love tolerates no compulsion yet it redeems those who are held captive .... I can only instruct you humans and strongly admonish you to practise neighbourly love, showing that you want to be able to emulate Me, so that I can help you because you have the will to follow Me. This is why you should always bear My way of life in mind and make every effort to be like Me, and then you will surely experience My help, for anyone who keeps his eyes on Me will also receive the strength to take the path of following Jesus .... and he will indeed reach the goal of being united with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's return in the word .... great spiritual need ....

B.D. 5928 from April 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Once again I come to earth to help you in an adversity which will cause your death if you don't recognize it in time and accept My help. You are weak and darkened in spirit and I do everything to impart strength to you and open your eyes, yet you turn away indifferently when I approach you and don't realize that you reject divine love without which, however, you cannot live .... which means the life of the soul, which will be released from the body shell in not too long a time and then enter into life or death. As long as you are still alive on earth you believe that you have enough strength yourselves and therefore you do not approach Me for strength .... But at the moment of death you lose all physical strength, and the soul remains helpless who did not receive strength from Me during its earthly life .... And then it cannot live but is dead .... yet not passed away, because .... what is from Me can never pass away again .... She is in a state of greatest distress, lightless and powerless and yet aware of her being .... It lacks the strength from Me which it was able to procure during its life on earth .... I know about the extremely sad and agonizing state of such a soul and I want to save it from this .... And therefore I repeatedly step into your path on earth and try to make you ready to accept My gift of strength .... I constantly endeavour to kindle a light in you so that you will see, so that complete blindness will give way .... And I therefore address you .... I am among people again in the word, I address those who are of good will. But you humans don't have much time left and if you don't listen to Me you will end up in a dreadful situation .... you will fall prey to the horrors of the end, you will suffer physical and spiritual death, for in your blindness you don't see the only path which leads out of ruin .... in your blindness you do not see the light that illuminates this path. I will make a covenant with you beforehand, I will accept all in spite of sin and guilt, if they raise their hands to Me, if they only remember their God, Whom they shall betray to His adversary .... and they will receive strength from Me to confess Me, if only they turn to Me in their heart .... I will accept everyone who wants to join Me, yet you humans will also be too weak to want the right thing because you don't acknowledge Him Who died on the cross in order to purchase a strengthened will for you through His blood, Who redeemed you from the bondage into which My adversary had beaten you. For this reason you humans are still blind in spirit, because he has taken the light, the knowledge, away from you and because you don't acknowledge his lord Who overcame him .... because you don't acknowledge Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, Who truly redeems you from all weakness and bondage if only you would call upon Him for this .... Again I will come to your aid and bring you a light, accept it and let it enlighten you so that you will know what fate you are facing and turn around yourselves and enter the right path on which I walk beside you and safely guide you to the eternal home .... listen to Me when I speak to you, and remember your soul .... remember death and let the day of bodily death become the resurrection day of your soul .... Believe in Me so that I can give you eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption of hell .... ray of light in the form of a cross ....

B.D. 5929 from April 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Hell does not want to hand over its victims, and the beings in darkness lack the strength to resist My adversary who keeps them bound. And thus these souls would be hopelessly lost were it not for a weapon against which the lord of the underworld is powerless .... the weapon of love, with which every battle is won and the strongest enemy is defeated. I use this weapon, and with this weapon I will succeed in redeeming hell, albeit in an infinitely long time, because love does not compel the will either and therefore can only become effective when a soul wants it itself .... But how is its will to change, which still remains in hardest resistance against Me? .... My love also descends into hell, and My adversary cannot deny Me entry because he is powerless in the face of My love .... And thus no being of darkness can take action against Me, they can only turn away from Me and reject My illumination of love .... And these souls are incorrigible for the time being and must continue to remain in their wretched state. Yet I know the state of every individual soul, I also know when the resistance decreases, when the soul enters a state of lethargy and how such a soul then reacts to My illumination of love. And I come to the aid of these souls because they cannot redeem themselves on their own. They are illuminated by a light in the form of a cross which instantly gives them the memory of the one Who died on the cross .... And with the emergence of this thought they now feel a relief, they are suddenly inspired by the desire to get out of their surroundings, and because the cross lights up for them again and again a faint hope arises in them to which they cling and now no longer drop the thought of turning to Him for help .... This desire is the effect of My illumination of love which, however, only occurs where the being has given up resistance. And even this passive state is the result of the love I send to hell and which is able to smooth the waves of hatred in those spheres, to break the resistance and to make a soul compliant .... but without forcing it. Moments speak in the soul's will which are well known to Me and which I will not let pass without doing redemptive work on that soul. But once a soul has been illuminated by the light of Christ's cross, then even the worst forces of darkness are no longer able to hold it back from its intention .... to turn to the one from Whom it promises itself help .... until it once calls upon Him for mercy and pity .... And then My love of Jesus can take hold of it and pull it up from the depth, then its will and its call for Me will have cleared the way for it, for the name of Jesus Christ loosens all chains and opens every dungeon .... before Him the powers of darkness give way, and the soul steps out into the light and is received by servants of love who help it on its way up .... And even if eternities pass, even if the resistance of the fallen is still so great .... one day they will let themselves be taken hold of by My love, for it is infinitely long-suffering and patient and will not let any soul be lost forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of the divine word

B.D. 5930 from April 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Let the power of My word become effective in you. Want to withdraw the strength from My word which shall help you to ascend. You have an extremely effective means at hand which directly gives you the strength from Me .... Use this means correctly and you will lose all weakness, all danger is averted that you will head for the abyss again. Bear in mind .... that when I speak to you .... you have already established the connection upwards and now helping hands are also stretching out towards you from above which want to pull you up; consider that My word .... if you accept it with your heart .... is always the evidence of My presence, that wherever My word sounds to you I Myself must also be and will also be, as long as you only have the will to hear Me Myself .... I have blessed My word with My strength .... Do you know what this means? That you only need to listen to Me in order to enter the circuit of My love at the same time and now also let this flow of My strength of love flow into you .... that I Myself provide you with strength which you previously lacked, that you are now capable of conscious soul work, that you are able to live according to My will. My word is not only the proclamation of My will but at the same time a means to be able to fulfil it .... so that you will certainly reach your aim if you always let My word penetrate you .... if you want its strength to take effect in you. I know about your weakness, about your inability to live in My eternal order. I know about your deficient state, which is the result of your former apostasy from Me .... I cannot give you back your former perfection against your will, you must strive for it yourselves and do everything to achieve it. But you would never reach the aim if you had to remain in a state of weakness .... For this reason I offer you unmeasured strength which, however, you have to acquire of your own free will. And I make it easy for you to make use of it by conveying My word to you and making it dependent on your will to accept it, so that you come into possession of strength in order to use it again in My order .... according to My will revealed to you through the word .... I certainly demand something from you but I also grant you the strength to comply with My desire .... because otherwise you would never be able to travel the path of ascent. Yet My strength cannot reach you against your will, which is why you also have to make use of the means, which is evidence of your good will, which I bless, so that you will never ever cease to strive upwards and always request My word and gratefully receive it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ is the gate to the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 5931 from April 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The gate to the kingdom of heaven will truly be opened for you if you only want to enter it and turn to the right gatekeeper .... to Jesus Christ, Who Himself will then lead you into His kingdom .... There is no other gate where you can exclude the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and still attain beatitude .... Without Jesus Christ the gates remain closed to you and you have to remain outside the kingdom of light until you also decide to entrust yourselves to Him and His guidance .... until you acknowledge Him as the only path to the light, as the saviour and redeemer of all people who live in adversity and misery without Him, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. You all have to surrender to Him, you all have to enter the path He showed you at the time of His life on earth .... you must all follow Him, then your path will lead directly into the kingdom of heaven, then you will have returned to the father from Whom you once came forth .... But without Jesus Christ you constantly go astray, without Jesus Christ you do not see the right path. Everything is without light before you and you don't realize that you are walking downwards instead of upwards .... You must choose Jesus as your leader and follow Him without resistance. For it was through Jesus Christ and His act of salvation that the gates to the kingdom of heaven were first opened, through Jesus Christ and His crucifixion the path was opened for you humans .... He walked it for you, the path of atonement and infinite suffering, He removed all obstacles which blocked your path to the father, and He Himself took the burden from you so that you can now ascend freely and easily if only you follow Him, Who went before you .... Therefore no soul will find entrance into the kingdom of peace and light which rejects Jesus Christ .... which does not acknowledge Him and His act of salvation and therefore is not released from its great guilt of sin either .... which again and again falls to the ground and cannot rise to light heights on its own, which also sees no path leading upwards but constantly strides downwards because the divine guide Jesus Christ cannot assist it as long as it opposes Him. He alone is the gate to eternity, He alone admits into His kingdom or denies entry to the souls which enter the spiritual kingdom after the death of the body .... He alone segregates the souls according to their will .... and blessed who were already His on earth; blessed who acknowledge Him as God's son and redeemer of the world, who see in Him their father from eternity and have also joined Him for all eternity .... These He leads into His kingdom, which offers bliss without number .... But the gates to the kingdom of heaven remain closed to His opponents, who have to remain outside for an infinitely long time until they too call upon the one Who can lead them to the light .... Jesus Christ, Who redeemed the world from death and sin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Death on the cross ....

B.D. 5932 from April 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

An inconceivable work of mercy took place through My death on the cross, and this work of mercy was for the whole of humanity, for the people of the past, the present and the future .... I died for all people, I took upon Myself the burden of sin of all people, for all people come into the world burdened with original sin .... This original sin therefore moved Me to suffer and die for people because I wanted to atone for this original sin before the one against Whom it was directed .... because I wanted to make satisfaction for God's justice .... You humans are neither aware of the greatness of your guilt nor of the depth of My love which accomplished the work of redemption for you .... Yet no matter how My suffering is described to you, you cannot even begin to measure the extent of the suffering and pain I endured for you, because not only the body but even more My soul suffered, which shuddered at people's sinfulness, which was unable to defend itself when all the forces of hell were against it and did to it whatever evil they could do to it. For My soul was clear and pure, the distance between it and the dark people was enormous and it was in the midst of demonic spheres where nothing but satanic activity confronted it. My light- and love-filled soul looked into the deepest depths, and it shuddered before so much sin and darkness .... The body also suffered unspeakably, for whatever torments and humiliations people could think up they did to Me and still rejoiced in their despicable actions .... It was hell unleashed against Me, it was the most difficult battle a human being ever had to fight .... to remain victorious through the love that was meant for all these wretched people whom satan had in his grip and to whom I wanted to restore freedom .... I saw the overwhelming depravity of My tormentors and yet suffered and died for them too .... For I knew that they were only the henchmen of the one against whom I was fighting, I knew that satan himself was against Me and to defeat him was the purpose of My act of salvation, to liberate humanity from his power was the mission I had voluntarily taken on when I descended to earth; My love for people was exceedingly great and therefore I suffered many times over because My love was repaid in such a way that only hatred and heartlessness against Me spoke out of everything that was done to Me. Yet I wanted to suffer .... because I wanted to atone for people .... and consciously I took the difficult path to the cross, I drank the cup to the full .... I did not allow a charitable swoon that freed Me for a short time from suffering and torment .... I forced My body to endure until My hour had come .... For I wanted to suffer because no other work of salvation was possible for you humans than to absorb the effect of all sins and to burden My body and soul with what otherwise every human being would have had to bear himself, who would have collapsed under it .... I suffered for the whole of humanity and therefore had to suffer immeasurably because the guilt was immeasurably great. But you humans cannot imagine My suffering on the cross and the agony of dying on the cross, for you yourselves would collapse under the force of the impression if I only let you have a glimpse of those hours which preceded My death on the cross .... but one day you will be able to participate in it yourselves .... one day it will be revealed to you what I have done for you and why I did it .... And you will praise and glorify Me and be eternally grateful that I saved you from eternal death, that through My work of redemption I delivered you from the hands of the one who wanted the death of your soul .... And then My love will also be revealed to you, which is valid for you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Covenant with God ....

B.D. 5933 from April 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You make a covenant with Me when you ask Me for My protection and My support, for strength and grace and light .... For you then recognize your own inadequacy and acknowledge Me Myself as perfect, as a being Who can help you and wants to help you .... You therefore believe in My omnipotence and love, and you entrust yourselves to Me .... You want Me to take care of you, that My arms embrace you and support you where you yourselves feel too weak .... You unite yourselves with Me .... If you have come so far in earthly life that you establish this bond with Me, the ascent, the maturing of your souls and the attainment of the final aim is also guaranteed to you, for you have handed yourselves over to Me, you no longer walk alone and ignorant of the right path but you have entrusted yourselves to the right guide Who Himself wants you to reach the aim and Who can only use no resistance in order to safely guide you upwards. Then I will truly not let you go astray, and even if you are sometimes inclined to stray from the right path, even if you often run the risk of being lured away onto a broad but dangerous path .... I will never let you go astray again. I will never allow it again once you have chosen Me as your leader and thus granted Me the right to take care of you and protect you from My adversary's attacks, who will indeed still pursue and tempt you but whom I will ward off as soon as you are in danger of succumbing to him. Once you have made a covenant with Me this means that you will hardly be able to detach yourselves from Me yourselves because My love keeps you bound .... Unless you rebel against Me and forcibly tear yourselves away from Me .... Then I will not hold you, for your will is free .... But you no longer have to fear this, you who gave yourselves to Me of your own free will and in the depths of your heart .... you who consciously want to serve Me, who therefore can no longer detach yourselves from Me because you have a living faith in Me .... Anyone who has once attained living faith is Mine and will remain so. And this person places himself completely into My hands .... he is indissolubly bound to Me and will also remain so for all eternity .... And even the most severe strokes of fate cannot detach his soul from Me, even though the body is unable to offer any resistance and seems to be overwhelmed by hostile forces .... But the soul is and remains Mine, its aim was Me, and therefore it will never lose Me again ....

Amen

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Resurrection ....

B.D. 5934 from April 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Be glad and rejoice for He has risen from the dead ....' These were the words of My Own and they believed in Me that I was Jesus Christ, the Anointed of the Lord, that I was really and truly God and had redeemed the world through My crucifixion. I had risen from the dead .... Thereby I had given them the evidence of the truth of My Words: 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up ....' I had broken the power of death .... However, My resurrection was only meant to be the evidence for people that life does not end with the death of the body .... They should learn to believe in life after death, and therefore I allowed people to witness what every single soul will have to expect after its earthly demise. For everyone lacked this faith, even the priests and scribes referred to the prophets' death as evidence that even the most pious people will ultimately fall prey to death .... For they had no idea about the consequences of people's conduct, they doubted the resurrection of the soul, and therefore the teachings of the man Jesus were incomprehensible and inconvenient for them. And I wanted to clearly show people the spiritual consequences of following My teachings ....

I was Lord over life and death .... During My life on earth I raised the dead and yet, people didn't believe that I had power over life and death .... And so I proved it to them, using Myself, that I was also Lord over death .... that life cannot be taken from that person who has already gained it spiritually, even if his earthly life is taken away from him ....

But I also raised the physical body as a sign that nothing earthly adhered to it anymore, that it was also spiritualised and thereby had the inherent strength to arise in spiritual form .... Nothing earthly clung to My body anymore, as it had purged itself completely through appalling pain, because everything of an earthly nature had changed itself into spirit and this spirit was subsequently able to arise fully alive .... For this reason the body was able to emerge from the grave, for nothing kept it on earth ....

The whole of humanity was intended to be informed of this process that, as well as why, it was possible to come back to life after physical death, for on this information .... on this faith in My resurrection .... also depends the faith in My divinity, the faith in My mission on earth as the Son of God, and, as a result of fulfilling this mission, they would attain complete union with God ....

I have really and truly arisen from the dead and visibly showed Myself to My Own .... and thereby I proved to people that I had conquered death as a human being, that the one who had brought death into the world did not have the power to keep My body on earth, which, through the act of Salvation, was already clothed in a spiritual garment .... And this act of Salvation was made for the whole of humanity .... Consequently, no soul can be kept back by My adversary which - having been redeemed by My crucifixion - has escaped his power .... It need not fear death; it will arise to eternal life and can be jubilant and rejoice, for it knows that its Redeemer is alive and that He will give life to everyone who believes in Him and His resurrection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of the spirit in the end time ....

B.D. 5935 from April 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

All of you who believe shall experience the strength of the spirit, for the end is approaching. You will still need much strength during this time and therefore I will obviously grant you My help because you believe and so that your fellow human beings' faith will also be strengthened, so that they will offer resistance to My adversary's onslaught. All of you who live in the last days will have to endure much adversity and hardship because the battle between light and darkness is fierce and will have a tangible effect on you humans. For hell with its powers devises everything possible to make My followers fall away from Me .... it devises everything possible to incite people against each other and to disregard the commandments of love, and it requires much strength and faith to remain faithful to Me in these last days and only ever look upwards from where help will come, as I have promised. And during this time you will all visibly experience My presence, My spirit's travail will touch you, and you will join Me more and more and finally only live your life in closest union with Me and yet also stand in the blessing of this union .... You will be able to work in My name through My spirit, and this means that you need not fear the time ahead of you because you will be able to face everything difficult with the strength of your faith and thus nothing need be impossible for you, nothing need be insurmountable for you. My spirit will work in and through you .... Where a believing circle meets I will also manifestly appear, in that a person filled by My spirit will hear My instructions within himself and will also feel My strength within himself which will then let him carry out what My spirit announces to him. And you will urgently need such strengthening and comforting, for you will be despondent in view of the events and unable to find help elsewhere, for you, My believers, will be ostracized for the sake of your faith. And yet, this time must come so that what is written will come true, that all who believe in Me will be in distress .... But I will help you, and as soon as you have firm, unshakeable faith this time will also pass you by like a difficult dream, because you will be able to banish the adversity yourselves by virtue of your faith. Therefore only seek to attain profound faith .... live in love so that your faith will be strengthened and let yourselves be filled with My spirit .... for it is powerful and if it works in you, you will live and never lose your life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Near end .... time calculation of God ....

B.D. 5936 from April 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You do not have much time left, and even if you refuse to accept these words of Mine as truth, you are already in the last hour, and the minutes will pass quickly, sooner than you suspect, the end will be there and the hour of decision will strike .... My time calculation is probably different from yours, and yet I say to you: The end is near .... so near that you would be terrified if you knew the day and hour when My proclamations will be fulfilled and that everything will come to pass that I had foretold through seers and prophets .... And if you don't want to believe it, then nevertheless reckon with the possibility and make preparations by thinking about your earthly task, by seriously judging yourselves as to whether and how you would survive if you were suddenly called away from this earth. Take precautions, even if you cannot or do not want to believe it; nevertheless, live in accordance with My will and it will only be to your advantage, for then you will learn to believe .... It will no longer seem improbable to you, for the fulfilment of My will is the fulfilment of My commandments of love, and this inevitably also earns you recognition, so that you will also be able to understand and believe these words of Mine .... The end is near, and every day is a lost day which you don't make use of, on which you don't remember your end. And who of you knows whether his life will not also be shortened; who of you can prevent that he will be called away prematurely? .... You must already think of this if you don't want to believe in an end of this earth .... Tomorrow can already be the last day for each one of you, and each one of you should therefore ask himself whether he is willing to stand before the judgment seat of God? .... Whether he has used his earthly life correctly in order to acquire eternal life? You humans go along indifferently and don't think about the death which can surprise each one of you .... In what state will your soul be if you suddenly have to leave earth? Think of your end if you are unable to believe in the end of this earth, and live your earthly life consciously, i.e. mindful of the task you have to fulfil on earth in order to secure a life for your soul after death .... And look around you, pay attention to the signs of the times and you will recognize the hour in which you live, for I constantly draw you humans' attention, and if you pay attention My words will also appear credible to you .... And you will ask Me to help you .... You will ask Me for grace and mercy, for strength for this last time, so that you will be well prepared for the end .... so that you can expect it with faith in My help, so that the last hour will be the hour of salvation for you from all adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God-spirit spark .... connection with God condition ....

B.D. 5937 from April 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You carry the spark of My spirit of God within you, and this is the connection from Me to you, providing you allow it to work in you through your will. For you yourselves also have the option of not paying attention to it, in which case it certainly slumbers within you but is nevertheless completely isolated because you do not allow it access to your soul .... or also because the soul .... the thinking, feeling and wanting within you .... denies him his activity and thus he can also in no way determine the soul to listen to him or to let itself be guided by him .... The human being himself therefore determines his distance from Me, for as soon as he gives ear to the spiritual spark within himself .... thus giving it the opportunity to work .... the connection with Me Myself is also established, Who is the father-spirit from eternity and remains indissolubly connected with that spiritual spark in you .... I have set you free, completely independent of Me, although I provide you with strength in order to be able to exist .... But only the voluntary return to Me, the connection with Me established in free will, makes you entirely free beings which can work full of light and strength, whereas previously they were without light and strength and were, as it were, only held but were not beings able to create themselves. For the necessary supply of strength cannot be supplied to the being without contact with the eternal source of strength .... But to establish contact again requires the being's free will according to the law of eternity .... And it is established by the soul precisely through its willingness to listen to the spirit within itself and to submit to its urging and guidance. That which is issued from Me in isolation cannot pass away, it will remain in existence because it is strength emanating from Me which can never pass away. But in order to be able to work and create freely it requires a constantly flowing strength which it only needs to be willing to accept .... And willingness is already the establishment of contact with Me which can therefore be found extremely easily if only the being itself wants it. My spiritual spark rests in you, you who are such previously isolated creatures with whom I would like to unite .... I Myself am within you but you are not aware of Me as long as you are still unwilling to unite with Me .... Yet again and again I knock at your heart's door and desire entrance .... Whatever can only happen to cause your soul to listen to the voice of My spirit happens, but I do not touch your free will .... For only this brings about the unification but then earns you unimagined blessings. Then you can rightly say: God is in you .... For then you will have become aware of Me and follow what My spirit tells you .... You live according to My will and can now also receive strength in abundance .... For My will is a life according to My order from eternity, a life in love .... But love is strength, I Myself am love, and if I am therefore in you, you are filled with strength and can now create and work according to the degree of your willingness to love .... but which you can always increase, because you now live in constant contact with Me and yet are and remain free beings who are inexpressibly happy because they can now develop and use their strength according to their will, which is also fully and completely Mine ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection with God .... earth task ....

B.D. 5938 from April 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Your task and aim on earth is to establish the connection with Me .... Again and again I want to present this to you, because without Me you cannot start anything and achieve anything .... Although earthly you also feel capable of pursuing your aims on your own, even then it is only My permission, for as soon as I withdraw your strength you are completely powerless, even though you are alive. And this must already be obvious to you if you are approached by illnesses which you cannot control .... These illnesses are mostly evidence of your weakness which you believe you can manage without Me, and they are opportunities to establish contact with Me and call upon Me for help, thus for the supply of strength which you lack. If you consciously draw the strength to deal with earthly matters from Me, the supply of strength will also benefit you spiritually, for My strength has the effect that it leads back to Me again .... Every conscious receipt of strength through previous prayer, which therefore signifies an established connection with Me, is already a spiritual process, a spiritual illumination which also has a spiritual effect .... even though it was requested for earthly matters .... But anyone who believes that he does not need My support .... who does not believe in Me as the source of strength from eternity, from Whom every human being can draw strength without limitation .... stands isolated in My creation, and he can be driven to and fro like a ball, because he has no opposing strength which gives him support, whereas the connection with Me, the leaning on Me, earns him his own strength which always increases the closer he pushes towards Me. As long as a being is still isolated from Me it is also unstable, and only as long as it is silent around this being will it stand upright and therefore believe that it can assert itself through its own strength .... But as soon as a storm starts it cannot hold on, and it inevitably becomes a victim of the storm until it seeks a foothold, a support, until a strength comes to its aid by which it wants to be helped .... But the will also means connection with this power. And you must seek this connection, you must establish it, you must consciously turn to the strength so that it will fulfil you .... You must establish contact with Me so that I can impart to you what you lack and yet need in order to reach your aim. You humans are not sufficiently aware of the blessing of prayer .... you don't know that every right prayer means leaning on Me .... you don't know that you have then left the state of isolation, that you now have solid ground under your feet and that this ground is Me on Whom you now stand firmly and securely and need no longer fear any resistance .... You have everything if you have Me .... And you possess Me if you earnestly unite with Me in prayer .... because prayer in spirit and in truth also secures My presence for you .... And My presence means an influx of strength, My presence also means unity, the attainment of the aim on earth .... it means strength of resistance against all attempts from below to separate you from Me again. Whether I, your God and creator, become a concept for you on earth, that you seek contact with Me, is entirely up to your will .... Yet I will create enough opportunities for you where you will be pointed to your God and creator, Who wants to be your father but to Whom you must go of your own accord and voluntarily submit yourselves to Him as children .... Then you will establish the connection with Me and then you will also safely reach your aim, for then you will receive strength from Me in abundance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Decision for the right lord ....

B.D. 5939 from April 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Whom you give yourselves to, you will also be given to, for two masters fight for your will, for your devotion to themselves, and you decide this fight for yourselves .... You will not be forced to belong to one master or the other, you can freely choose and decide in favour of one or the other .... but depending on this decision you will also receive goods .... Depending on this decision you determine your fate in eternity. Each of the two lords gives you what he himself possesses, and this possession is very different .... it differs completely from each other, just as his lords are completely opposite. And since you now have to decide between the two, you must also become acquainted with them .... For only then can you be held responsible for the right or wrong decision. But it is extremely difficult to give you full understanding for explanations for which no evidence can be produced .... which only your own feeling can affirm if you are serious about receiving a correct explanation. For you can only be instructed through speeches but you have to create the evidence for yourselves by paying attention to the speech and carrying out what is required of you precisely through that speech. You must hear the word of God and live accordingly .... God, as the one lord, enlightens you through His word about the battle between Him and His adversary, He also gives you an account of the adversary's nature as well as His own nature, which is love and constantly courts your love .... He promises you spiritual goods which are everlasting .... But His promises you must believe .... The truth of this cannot be proven to you as long as you stay on earth, because you have to decide for your lord of your own free will ....

God's adversary also seeks to win you over. He promises you earthly goods, he entices you in the world and through the world .... And his goods are tangible and visible to you .... they need not be proven to you, and therefore you also stretch out your hands for those goods and thus, as it were, choose your lord already during earthly life despite the divine word which warns you of him and admonishes you to make the right decision, which admonishes you to strive for spiritual goods which alone are of value and remain, whereas His adversary's goods perish as your body perishes. But it is up to your free will to choose the lord, but your fate in eternity also corresponds to this choice. God's possessions are immeasurable and therefore He can also distribute without limitation, and you can receive without limitation if you acknowledge Him as your lord and devote yourselves to Him of your own free will .... His adversary, however, possesses nothing, and thus the most bitter poverty and darkness is the fate of the one who has chosen him as his lord. And God wants to avert this dreadful fate from you, and therefore He repeatedly comes close to you in His word .... He only requires faith in His power and glory and His unlimited love from you humans, which wants you to share His power and glory .... He meets you in the word, but His word is a revelation of Himself .... which can also become evidence in you if you only live according to His word .... You yourselves decide the battle between Him and His adversary .... Therefore listen to Him when He comes to you in the word, so that you may decide correctly .... so that you may give yourselves to Him, Whose kingdom is light and power and glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faithful trust ensures God's help ....

B.D. 5940 from April 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I Am close to you .... Just a thought will call Me to you, and you can confide all your worries and problems to Me .... I hear you and Am always willing to help. However, you must place your trust in Me .... You must believe that you, as My children, are always embraced by My love, that I will never leave you to your own devices but always watch over you like a good father looks after his children. In that case you can rest entirely assured that nothing will harm you, that everything that is destined to approach you will be good for your soul. But your faithful call to Me will also ward off what seems unbearable to you, for My love cannot deny you anything if you trustingly ask Me for it. But if you doubt My love or My power you will make it impossible for Me to grant your prayer. Nevertheless, I will not disappoint a strong faith .... Therefore I will always admonish you: Make sure that you gain strong faith .... make sure that your faith comes alive through love .... This is My constant instruction, My constant wake-up call, because love is the only solution to dispose of all adversity, since through a life of love you will gain such strong faith that you will subsequently be able to banish all adversity .... You truly would not have to suffer or endure earthly distress if you had the strength of faith at your disposal which is the result of selfless kind-hearted activity. Then the purpose of your earthly life of changing your nature into love and, through love, being in heartfelt contact with Me, would have been fulfilled already .... since My presence rules out all adversity. Yet you humans are still weak in faith and thus also weak in love .... For this reason you should always turn to Me with a request for help to strengthen you. Request the strength you are lacking and believe that I will help you because I love you and want to gain your love as well. The heartfelt union with Me through prayer will assure you My support, and even if there are days and hours in your life when you are fainthearted and want to despair .... you are never forsaken by your Father in Heaven, and He will always help when the time is right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faith in Jesus Christ .... Doubting Thomas ....

B.D. 5941 from April 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Only your faith in Jesus Christ can lead you humans towards consciously working at improving yourselves, for only when you believe in Him will you also accept His teaching of love and make an effort to live in accordance with this teaching .... Consequently, anything that is done in order to lead people to faith in Jesus Christ will have My total approval and is blessed by Me .... Jesus must be proclaimed, His act of Salvation must be clearly emphasised so that people will find the path through Jesus Christ to their God and Father of eternity. The end is near and humankind is far, far removed from the One Who sacrificed His life on the cross for everyone in order to save them from ruin .... Anyone who does not unite himself with Him will go astray, that is, the prince of darkness will retain his power over him and the heavenly kingdom will remain closed to him, for Jesus Christ is the gateway to eternal beatitude .... The end is near and countless people still don’t know Him or refuse to acknowledge him .... Only I know what this means for the vast number of souls who live thoughtlessly without Him and who die without him and perish .... it is no longer possible by natural means to lead them to Jesus Christ. Hence I would have to let My living creations go astray were I to leave it to natural processes which make absolutely no impression whatsoever on people. But I know the few who belong to Me and stand up for Me and My name before the world; I know that a small circle of people recognise Me in Jesus Christ who I now use as tools for the strength and power of the One Who people refuse to recognise. I let them preach the Word of the Lord .... I let them proclaim the doctrine of Jesus Christ and confirm their Words with extraordinary deeds so that they will be believed. But for this the proclaimers require extremely strong faith and the kind of love which will provide them with the strength in order to also work miracles in My name .... It is always I Myself Who performs these miracles, nevertheless through My servants, because it is My will that people shall take notice again of their Saviour and physician Jesus Christ, so that they will remember and learn to believe in His act of Salvation, His crucifixion and His resurrection .... The fact that I will reveal Myself once more before the end through My devout servants on earth is an act of love and mercy by Me; people shall be helped once more to find faith in Him because then they will also have found faith in Me in order to never lose it again.

Even if their faith has not brought forth the right fruits as yet, because it can only become a living faith through a life of love, the knowledge of Jesus Christ will nevertheless have reached a degree which will allow for further progress, even if the soul is prematurely recalled without having found total redemption on earth as yet .... It knows Him and calls upon Him in its adversity, and since it calls upon Me Myself in Jesus Christ I will also be able to help the soul .... Nevertheless, it is incomparably more valuable if a person has found faith in Me in Jesus Christ through My Word .... if he believes it and does not require miracles in order to be convinced of the truth of My Word .... Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe .... But I also helped the doubting Thomas to attain faith. And so I also help the many unbelievers today if they are not ill-willed, and I prove Myself to them as God as soon as a person stands up with fiery zeal for Me and My teaching, in order to increase the number of believers before the end and in order to also gain those people to whom the act of Salvation is still insignificant and who are therefore in great danger that the gates to the kingdom of light will remain closed to them for an infinitely long time .... I take pity upon their fate and accept the will and love of those who want to help their neighbour, and I bless their intentions by granting them the strength of healing and of performing miracles in My name .... For it is My will that My name shall be revealed and the blessings of My act of Salvation shall clearly manifest themselves. It is My will that people shall voice the name of Jesus Christ with profound faith so that I can enter into contact with them .... in order to let My Word be effective again and to make people realise the tremendous importance of acknowledging Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world, in Whom I manifested Myself so that I can be a visible God for you .... I want to save you humans for eternity, and therefore I Myself will still come to meet you in the final hour .... For the end will soon be here.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God ...." free will ....

B.D. 5942 from April 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I distribute My gifts to everyone who desires them, for My love for you, My living creations, is unlimited, and this love only ever wants to give, to make you happy and to help you attain beatitude. And My love and wisdom also recognize what you need in order to become blissfully happy. And thus I first provide you with nourishment for your soul and give you the assurance that you will also be given everything you need for the maintenance of the body .... But you must first remember your soul and request the gifts for the soul first .... I make this a condition in order to then also take over the care for your body .... because the gifts for your souls must be desired by you of your own free will if they are to serve it to perfection. I certainly also offer them to you without your prior desire but they are ineffective until your will is ready to accept them. Therefore My words read: "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness .... everything else will fall to you ...." For your will must first become active itself, you must desire Me and gratefully accept My gifts; only then can your soul be nourished with heavenly food and heavenly drink which will give it eternal life. My treasure of grace is unlimited and is at the disposal of all of you; yet you yourselves must want to have it .... you must strive to attain it and appeal to Me to lead you there or to bring the treasures to you in the knowledge that you need them for your earthly path which shall bring you to perfection. And My love will grant you everything, My love will hand it out to you without restriction, I will not deny you anything which serves to strengthen or heal your soul, and I will grant you everything you earthly need, because I now recognize your will to reach perfection, to live to please Me and to reach Me Myself as your final aim. But what I give you is My word, the bread of heaven, which is the soul's right nourishment .... It will be able to feast on My word, from My word it will draw the strength to do what I demand through My word .... My word will be the medicine for the sick soul, through which alone it can recover .... and My word will be the sign of My love which the soul now wants to reciprocate. And it will press towards Me, it will long for union, it will be eternally grateful for My bestowal of grace, it will return My love and be and remain blissfully happy, for now it has found the life which lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mercy ....

B.D. 5943 from April 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You should practice mercy and always be mindful of the fact that without My mercy you would be lost forever .... But mercy is also based on love, which cannot see suffering and wants to help. The human being who feels compassion for his fellow human beings is not without love, otherwise his fate would not touch him. Mercy is another form of love .... for love seeks to please, mercy first seeks to avert suffering, and every sensitive person takes pity on his fellow human being's suffering, he feels for him as it were and can be touched to his innermost being, and therefore he is willing to help .... Love can also be practiced without tangible hardship, and the human being can also give and want to make happy in full unselfishness. Yet even a person with a colder heart can be seized by his fellow human being's adversity .... then mercy will emerge, love will be kindled in the human being, the other person's misery will cause him to work with love, and a work of mercy will also earn the person My mercy if he is in need. I see all your sins and weaknesses, and I take pity on your condition, even though you are to blame for it yourselves .... And so your mercy should also apply to those who have fallen into misery through their own fault .... the mercy should not appear judicially, it should also apply to the unworthy, for your fellow human being's hardship truly compensates for his guilt but is nevertheless agonizing and worthy of mercy. What would your fate be if I had not taken pity on you and not redeemed your great guilt Myself through My love? .... Your fate was indeed justified, for you had chosen it yourselves of your own free will .... But I only see and saw your weakness, your spiritual low and your shackle which My adversary had put on you .... I saw your powerlessness to ever free yourselves from this fetter again .... And now My mercy took the place of justice .... I helped you to become free from this fetter once and for all .... I sent the redeemer Jesus Christ to earth, in Whom I embodied Myself and fought against the one who held you captive .... My mercy could and would no longer leave you in his bondage .... So mercy did not pay attention to your own sin but helped you to become free from it as well .... And so you should also practise mercy, you should help, (8.4.1954) driven by love, to end the misery of your fellow human being, you should have mercy on those who are guilty and therefore have actually forfeited their right to your help .... But you should not remember their guilt, but their misery .... Merciful love is proof that your hearts are not yet hardened, that you are, as it were, compassionate and feel fraternally united with the wretched. Therefore do not avert your eyes if you are confronted by great adversity .... also consider those in the depths with your love and take My mercy as an example, which applies to all sinners and which prompted Me to accomplish the act of salvation .... For you were all guilty, but I took this guilt upon Myself and paid for it with My death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reference to the justice of God ....

B.D. 5944 from April 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The scales of justice tilt very precariously to your disadvantage and you are in greatest danger, for your God and creator of eternity must judge you according to His justice. And your fate will therefore be a dreadful one if you don't change yourselves and your way of life. And the time is near when you will be called to judgement, when you will be rewarded according to your works, according to your love and according to your faith. His love is indeed infinite, and His mercy is meant for all sinners, for all fallen ones .... but nevertheless justice is also part of His nature, and when the day of judgment has come His love and mercy will recede, because then the hour will come when justice and righteousness will be balanced out, when everyone will receive what he deserves. For then a new period of redemption will begin again, then the time allotted to you humans will have expired, and this time was truly long enough to shape the spiritual if it did not offer resistance itself. And this resistance must one day find its balance .... The spiritual essence is indeed sinful as long as it is bound in material forms, for it carries with it the guilt of the great original sin .... of the spirits' former apostasy from Me .... and is therefore also still sinful. and is therefore still bound in form .... But you humans have been redeemed from this original sin and you were able to become free from all forms if you wanted to. But now, in earthly life as a human being, your will resists God again through every sin, through your lack of love, through all kinds of vices and desires, which you allow to gain power over you again of your own free will and consequently you are not willing to let yourselves be redeemed through Christ's act of salvation either .... And therefore you are not released from the original sin either but increase it many times over, because God's love and grace, despite your guilt, thus completely undeserved, has placed you into a state again where you only needed to take hold of the father's and saviour's hand offered to you .... But you reject it, you pay no attention to the gifts of grace, you add sin after sin to your former guilt .... And God is long-suffering and merciful, He seeks in the greatest patience to make you aware of the seriousness of your actions .... He takes your weakness and inadequacy into account, He gives you what you lack, He constantly strives to give your will the right direction .... Yet He leaves you complete freedom. His love and mercy is endless and will apply to you for all eternity .... And thus the just conclusion of a redemption epoch is again only a work of love and mercy by God, the effect of which is well known to Him as being beneficial .... His righteousness, however, also always requires the still resisting spiritual to be placed into the right .... i.e. corresponding to its resistance. outer form, because a transformation of the will, of the resistance against God, has to be achieved once, but this has to take place in a lawful order .... And so also the last judgement is completely in accordance with the divine order, because justice also irrefutably belongs to the divine order .... And this will be your judge, and no-one will be able to escape its judgement ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's help in every need ....

B.D. 5945 from April 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

There is no adversity so great that I cannot remedy it; and there is no enemy stronger than I .... Therefore, stand by My side and join Me in the battle against the one who threatens to destroy you, and don't be fickle for a second, so that you doubt Me that I will help you. For I am and will remain a saviour from all adversity for anyone who only wants to walk with Me. Whatever troubles you .... be it spiritual or earthly .... come to Me with it and don't try to cope with anything on your own, because in your weakness you won't be able to cope on your own, but you will soon become despondent and fall into ever greater adversity .... But if you turn to Me immediately without first having to deal with your oppressive worry then you will already be relieved of this worry, for whatever you faithfully entrust to Me I will also take care of for you, and truly, in such a way that you will obviously recognize My support. But what does 'full of faith' mean? You certainly come to Me but mostly only with a questioning and anxious heart .... you don't come to Me with the confidence to ask your father for something, Who will certainly not refuse you anything. The more confident you are, the less you doubt My will to help and My might, the more certain you are of My help, for I want your faith, because a strong faith also demonstrates the bond with Me and then the purpose of every adversity is also achieved, that you establish the connection with Me in all intimacy .... Call upon Me in times of need, come to the father like children and present all your needs to Him, and then wait for the help which will surely be granted to you if only you believe ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's care for the least - lowest ....

B.D. 5946 from May 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 64

How often do people doubt that I take care of the lowest and smallest, that I hold the fate of every human being in My hand, even though he plays a subordinate role on earth, even though he walks along inconspicuously, weak and frail in body and spirit? .... How often do I hear the words: God should take care of every single one? .... You humans do not have a proper idea of Me if you let these thoughts arise in you .... You always apply the same standard as you do to yourselves, where only the great, the mighty, the sublime seem remarkable to you but the small, the lowly are despised by you until you also find something there which seems valuable to you. You judge according to outward appearance, you judge according to human discretion .... But I know how valuable every single soul is .... and when I tell you that the human being is the centre of the whole of creation, that creation arose for him alone .... that every soul had its beginning in Me and that the development of this soul to its former height, to perfection, had prompted Me to create the earthly world, because in this world it is offered every opportunity to reach the former height again .... then you will also understand that I will lean down to the tiniest creature in order to help it up from the abyss .... that nothing is too small for Me because it is My share, because it contains sparks of Myself which shall unite again with the fire of eternal love .... Moreover, your capacity is indeed limited but not Mine .... I know no limitation, neither in My strength and power nor in My love and mercy .... I know no limitation of My thoughts and My cognition, I know about everything, I see and hear everything, and the most miserable creature can know itself cared for by Me .... How much more the human being whose soul I want to possess again, who once voluntarily parted from Me .... The fact that these souls are in very diverse and very different situations, that very different paths of destiny are marked out for them, was recognized by My unsurpassable wisdom as bringing success for each individual soul, but it will never characterize the degree of My love for those souls, which is why the thought is erroneous that they are too small for Me to be considered by My love and care .... which is why the grace of prayer is also available to every human being, which establishes the connection between even the most miserable person and Me and also ensures that his requests will be granted. Every person can and should establish this connection with Me, because then the soul, regardless of its external form, its earthly low and wretched situation in life, will develop upwards and also be able to reach its aim far sooner .... the former perfection .... than a person who is great and exalted in the world and does not establish the connection with Me because he lacks faith in the meaning and purpose of earthly life and his associated earthly task. I truly know what serves a soul best, and I do not let a single soul out of My sight .... I truly guide and direct them correctly so that every soul can reach its aim if only it is its will .... And this will remains free and is not dependent on the individual person's situation in life .... But all My creatures experience My love and grace without distinction, and I also remember the tiniest creature so that it may find the path to ascent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of God needed .... presence of God ....

B.D. 5947 from May 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I must be able to work with and in you if you want to reach your aim on earth, to become perfect or at least to mature to such an extent that you can enter the kingdom of light after earthly death. No human being can ever reach this aim if he excludes Me Myself, if he lives without faith in Me and therefore also without prayer, which ensures his supply of strength. Admittedly, he can live in love .... without faith in the beginning, but this will come alive in him as a result of a life of love .... Complete unbelief, however, also indicates complete lack of love, because a life of love already teaches the human being to think differently, namely in accordance with truth, and the human being also recognizes and acknowledges Me Myself in the realization of truth. But then the ascent is also assured, for then I can work in him, I can influence him, then I work on and in him. A person with love is without resistance .... he surrenders to My will, he allows himself to be guided and always willingly complies with My guidance. He does not always acknowledge Me whose mouth honours and confesses Me if love is still alien to him .... The acknowledgement of Myself need not be expressed with the mouth if the human being's nature is affirmative towards My fundamental nature, if he is active in love .... Then he acknowledges Me without words, for then his nature has become such that I can enlighten the human being's thinking, and then he is by no means a denier of Me, because he is already active with Me, i.e. he performs works of love with My strength. Without Me you will achieve nothing .... You need strength to ascend because you are powerless creatures as long as you live on earth. And this strength can only be conveyed to you if you acknowledge Me or seek and establish the connection with Me, even though you don't believe .... thus allow My presence in you by practicing works of love. "He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ...." The will to perform deeds of love also lets him come into possession of the power to perform them .... and I value the will and reward it by leading him to the realization that I am and want to be united with him. And then he acknowledges Me with the self-evidence with which he now performs works of love .... For love and I are the same, and anyone who has love within himself also has Me Myself within himself, and I can always influence him in accordance with the aim he is to achieve on earth. And therefore I admonish people again and again to live a life of love, because then My presence is also assured and My presence can only have a beneficial effect. With Me you will certainly reach your aim, but without Me your earthly life will be an idle one and the consequences will be extremely serious, for you will enter the spiritual kingdom after your bodily death without light and strength, without any realization at all .... your soul is spiritually dead and cannot enter eternal life in this state ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proclaiming Jesus Christ .... reason for refusal ....

B.D. 5948 from May 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You all want to serve the lord .... and thus you must also all be pleasing to Me, for I need labourers in the last days before the end who till My vineyard .... I need many forces who want to be active for Me and My kingdom .... and according to their will, according to their degree of maturity I also assign their activity to all of them. There are many fields lying fallow, there are many human hearts whose soil is not receptive for a good seed, there are countless people who have no faith, no firm foundation on which they could build .... They are countless people in whom no spark of spiritual life glows, and in order to move these people to seek spiritual life it takes unusually strong preachers who have to do hard work to make the petrified ground fertile .... to awaken something like 'faith' in people to make long-buried spiritual goods reappear .... Preachers who speak to people with a strong voice and proclaim My gospel to them. And because the lack of faith amongst people is so great I allow means to be used for the final work of redemption on this earth which give the preacher's words even more effect .... because I want these proclaimers of My word to be heard. I want people to be urgently pointed to the saviour .... I want them to gain faith in Him, because only then is a change in people's hearts possible when the support of the saviour Jesus Christ is requested, for which faith in Him is indispensable .... And therefore I Myself am present with My strength where I am proclaimed with innermost conviction and out of loving will to help. Thus I Myself am with them and bless their work for Me and My kingdom. Nevertheless, they also act of their own free will, without any compulsion from Me. I support them with My strength and I value their profound faith, without which My obvious working would never be possible .... more still .... I let them clairvoyantly recognize if and when they are certain of My support .... when they lay their hands on the sick in My name to heal them. For they work for Me and My kingdom, they serve Me with devotion, and for this I bless them and do not let their strong faith be put to shame .... Yet I also have other means of redemption, for human hearts are different and also require different cultivation of their spiritual soil, and the sowing is also varied which shall bring forth spiritual fruit .... What is achieved by unusual signs in one person can be achieved by the word itself in another, and people's still lacking faith in Jesus Christ as the 'son of God and redeemer of the world' can also be more easily won by them through convincing instruction .... through explanations which neither the heart nor the mind can close itself to for long .... And these can therefore come to the right faith through the word alone .... provided that it is My word which is presented to them in all purity, without any falsification or addition .... And thus for these people My word sounds from above to a servant who is of service to Me, who offers himself to Me to mediate between Me and people. This word of Mine also has an immeasurable effect of strength, it can suddenly heal the soul, whose illness is far more dangerous and significant than a sick body .... Thus I prove Myself as a healer again, yet only when faith in Me in Jesus Christ has awakened to life through My word, which first teaches love, which then also results in a living faith. It is always about the life of the soul which can only be found through Jesus Christ .... Every means to achieve this meets My approval, and I bless every effort .... Such efforts are therefore incomparably successful where I Myself can work through My spirit .... where faith and love are so profound that I Myself can therefore be present.

(5/4/1954) They are always revelations on My part, for My strength thereby becomes evident and can lead to increased faith and a way of life pleasing to Me again, which is the sole purpose of My revelations. For then the soul will also safely take its path of ascent development and reach the aim .... the union with Me. However, there are also people who were pushed away from Me by error and lies and who cannot so easily attain simple faith in Me in Jesus Christ because their previous knowledge obstructs the straight path for them .... People who can therefore no longer believe childlike because they have been required to believe in teachings which seem unacceptable to them, which contradict the pure truth and have therefore been instinctively rejected by them .... For these the above-mentioned obvious expressions of strength on My part are only a blessing when they simultaneously receive clarification about the pure gospel and about the spiritual knowledge which has been deformed or defaced by people and which was the cause of their complete unbelief .... Such truthful clarifications alone can move a willing person into faith even without obvious evidence of My working through spirit-awakened servants, and faith gained in this way is far more valuable and promotes the soul's development exceedingly quickly .... Thus I must also come to the aid of those people who only find the path to Me through truth. And thus the vineyard work is urgently necessary .... to receive the truth from Me directly and to spread it. This work also requires a special willingness to serve and a strong faith in Me that I Myself make Myself known through My word .... But this faith is not often found amongst people, and anyone who cannot or will not believe it cannot be addressed by Me either .... for only the will to hear Me causes the person to feel addressed by Me .... But the will is not present because there is no faith that I am speaking. The will could certainly be stimulated by My word .... but where faith is lacking the human being is more inclined to reject than to accept it, and My word will sound without effect to the human being's ears. And faith in My direct address is completely lacking in those who rely solely on the scriptures, who consider My revelations to be concluded with the written proclamations left behind by My disciples. But they can possess an exceedingly strong faith and be exceedingly successful in working for Me and My kingdom, because they use the strength of faith to glorify My name .... because they cause Me Myself to release My strength without limitation through their strong faith and therefore win many people for Me and My kingdom. They act in good faith that they are doing the right thing when they reject the teachings of faith or revelations outside of the scriptures which are brought to them. They therefore do not believe because they do not have this gift themselves .... but they cannot have it as long as they do not believe that I reveal Myself to people again and again through My word .... Only faith in this makes it possible for Me to speak directly to a person, and only then will My words have an effect on the person's heart so that he will feel who is making Himself known to him and can then receive unlimited gifts in accordance with his will .... according to his will to utilize the gifts for the salvation of humanity.

His working can then be exceedingly beneficial because truth finds entrance wherever good will is present and is accepted for its own sake .... And blessed are those who believe My words and have no need of signs ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Afflictions of the righteous ....

B.D. 5949 from May 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The righteous person's fate is therefore often unbearable because the forces of darkness take particular advantage of him, because they recognize him as an adversary who will never join them and whom they therefore want to take away their faith so that he will become unstoppable and surrender to them without resistance. People who devote themselves to God, who live in accordance with God's will, are detested by those dark forces and their lord, and they vent this hatred by filling people in bondage to them with it and spurring them on to deeds of utmost unkindness .... And for the sake of your maturing God allows it .... You humans will not be able to understand it and will also often be inclined to doubt God's love and mercy because of such deeds which are committed against righteous people .... It is the time of the end and the forces of hell are let loose and raging in the most terrifying manner. They are not prevented from doing so, but nothing goes unpunished .... and the punishment that befalls these devils in human form is truly a just recompense, for they are taken captive .... Those who could act freely and without restraint are bound and deprived of their freedom for endless times, and unimaginable torments are their lot .... Yet the human being can only suffer for a short time until death redeems him .... but what his soul gains is incomprehensible to you humans but would make you understand why God allows evil to prevail over good .... For it can only torment and kill the body but has no power over the soul of man, and this benefits: The path to God is shortened, which is otherwise considerably longer. A particularly difficult earthly fate, however, has its reason, which you humans do not know yourselves but which is obvious to God. God's plan of salvation is well-considered, and God's love and wisdom has designed it .... Every wrong, every sin has been taken into account and every possibility of maturing has been foreseen and decided, and therefore everything that comes upon a person can be regarded as good and beneficial for his soul, even though the human being's intellect would like to judge otherwise .... Yet the prize, the success, is inestimable, and every soul thanks its God and father of eternity who found the path to eternal life through most severe suffering as a result .... it thanks Him that it became free of all guilt which its body took upon itself and suffered for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God does not condemn, people condemn themselves ....

B.D. 5950 from May 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

It is not Me Who condemns people, but they who condemn themselves .... They will not get anything other than what they wanted for themselves, and for this reason their will either leads them to life or death. I Myself want to give life to all people, yet if they choose death themselves then they shall receive according to their will. The eternal law of order, however, will remain in place, and this law corresponds to My nature, i.e. My love. Hence, people who fit in with this law of eternal order will let love reign and therefore choose life, because through love they receive the strength which guarantees a life in beatitude, whilst heartless people are without strength and therefore stand outside the law of eternity .... and consequently condemn themselves to death. For death is a state without strength which all people or their souls have to expect who live without love and have therefore left My eternal order. Nevertheless, every person has the option to choose his fate, and therefore every person will also sentence himself. But I constantly warn those people who still live outside of My eternal order of the Judgment, so that they will change their mind and enter it, so that they will shape their destiny such that they will be awakened to life when the hour arrives which gives everyone what he deserves; I warn them because I take pity upon them, because I love all people and know the dreadful fate they are approaching. Even so, I cannot give anything else to them aside from that which My justice allows for, I respect every human being's will but Am always willing to stand helpfully by his side if he wants to join My eternal order again. For it is My will that people shall awaken to life on the Day of Judgment, that they will not fall prey to death .... It is My will that they become strong and constantly accept strength from Me .... but this is only possible if they enter the circuit of My flow of love again, that is, if they transform themselves into love and thereafter receive light and strength in abundance .... All people are at liberty to let Me illuminate them, yet anyone moving outside the circuit of My flow of love is unable to absorb My emanation of love, he remains weak and will eventually succumb to death, yet through his own fault. And therefore he condemns himself. Only a life within My order, a life of love, assures a person the strength for his soul to live in eternity, and anyone who lives like this will not fear the last Judgment either, for he cannot be expelled again, he has already gained life and will never ever lose it again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The endtime disciples’ faith without proof ....

B.D. 5951 from May 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I expect you, My endtime disciples, to possess strong faith, a faith which convincingly professes Me before the world. This can only be done by people who are in heartfelt contact with Me, because only this contact will result in strengthening their faith to the necessary degree, whereas other people will easily abandon Me because they will find it difficult to have faith at a time which is so far removed from My lifetime on earth that only very little positive evidence can be produced about My life and death, about My life on earth and My path of suffering .... Hence a person must have particularly strong faith if he wants to profess Me before the world. My disciples, at the time of My life on earth, saw Me, they lived with Me and witnessed countless miraculous works; they were able to hear Me every day and were taught by Me; they were enlightened about everything so it was easy for them to believe in Me and My mission .... Yet, despite the obvious evidence of My Divinity, they also failed occasionally .... However, after My death they were so permeated by My spirit that they were able to fulfil their task of carrying the Gospel into the world and therefore also advocated Me with conviction .... But what is the situation with My endtime disciples? They were unable to see and experience anything, they do not witness My visible presence, they must simply believe what they were told about Me .... Nevertheless, My endtime disciples are not without strength and they, too, recognise My working, I also reveal Myself to them in spirit .... which precisely presupposes the heartfelt bond with Me .... I consider them to an exceptional degree because I expect an exceptional faith from them and take the fact into account that their only foundation was imparted knowledge in order to arrive at a convinced faith and that they therefore require exceptional support if they want to accomplish their assigned mission .... of proclaiming My Gospel to people during the last days before the end. I expect much of these last disciples of Mine, for they must solely believe in the Word, they must bear up to all counterarguments which portray My life on earth and My mission as implausible .... They must only believe .... But I bless them for this and tell them again: The last will be the first .... for their mission is a significant one, since it is, after all, essential to still save souls before the end, to introduce these to Jesus Christ as well, so that they will not pass away from this earth unredeemed .... They must stand up for Me, for their Father and Redeemer, they must profess Me before the world when Satan runs against the bastion of faith with all his might .... Then they must prove themselves and their faith in Me, then they must loudly profess My name in public, because this name alone is the power to eliminate Satan’s activity and to render him harmless .... I expect a strong faith from these last disciples of Mine, yet they are not alone in the battle against the enemy .... I Myself will be with them, because their faith allows Me to be present and thus they will be victorious .... and all those who follow My disciples and likewise profess My name before the world.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"No one comes to the father except through Me ...."

B.D. 5952 from May 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

No one comes to the father except through Me .... These words alone should make people realize the importance of acknowledging Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, and yet they have completely lost their impact, for humanity does not respect them, otherwise it would not so thoughtlessly reject Him Who calls Himself the bridge to the father .... The words of scripture are for most people only letters without spirit and life .... They speak them without being aware of their meaning, they completely disregard the lord's words and therefore do not find their way to the father either, because they do not believe in Him with the conviction which would result in heeding the divine word. No one comes to the father except through Me .... Yet people lack the will to reach the father, which is why they do not seek the path to Him either .... which is also why the divine redeemer Jesus Christ is of no significance to them. This attitude leads to downfall, to spiritual death .... Since they do not reach the father, they remain in the power of the one who is God's adversary, they remain in the depths because they do not desire to ascend. It is an exceedingly regrettable state that people do not show any striving upwards, that they do not think about their earthly task and that they are also indifferent to Christ's teaching, the gospel, that they do not accept any of His words as important and think about them .... that they cannot attain realization because they do not seek enlightenment, because they are completely indifferent to what God wants to convey to them through the scriptures and what the man Jesus, as God's spokesman, preached to people .... And no-one thinks of the fact that he only stays on earth in order to bring about the return to the father, and that he is constantly offered the opportunity to do so, which he rejects in his rigid mind because he does not believe. The distance between the human being and the father is great, yet one offers Himself for guidance, for mediation .... One has built the bridge which makes the path to the father passable, and this one offers His help to all people .... But He is not listened to, He is not heeded, if He wants to remind people of Himself .... Blind and deaf they pass Him by, although He calls out to them: "No one comes to the father except through Me ...." He says of Himself: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." Therefore, anyone who seeks truth and life must take the path via Jesus Christ, he must make use of His mediation, he must request strength from Him to be able to cover the earthly path with the success which is the purpose of life: to find union with the father which only ensures a life of bliss, a life which lasts forever. People do not know what fate they are facing through their indifference and unbelief, they do not know what they are forfeiting by not respecting the divine word, by not taking refuge in the one Who alone can save them from ruin .... They don't know and don't believe the words of those who know and want to help them. And even if the word sounds from above, they do not accept it, for they listen to another voice, to the voice of the world with which God's adversary addresses them and to which they willingly open their ears .... They seek not life but death .... they reject the one Who promises them life, and therefore they will remain in sin and death, because without Jesus Christ there is no redemption and no return to the father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bonding with God ....

B.D. 5953 from May 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

And once you have found Me on earth your path through the earthly valley is no longer so difficult, for then you will regard everything that approaches you as My will, you will know that you are looked after by Me and you will only direct your eyes towards the aim, the attainment of which is the purpose of your earthly life. And I can constantly stay with you because your thoughts are also constantly with Me .... You have found the foundation on which you now stand firmly and securely, whereas before you felt no real security because you had no solid ground under your feet. And in the end time you will urgently need this security, for what you experience, what happens around you, would confuse you and make you completely lose a shallow or dead faith. But the bond with Me gives you explanation and you understand My plan of salvation from eternity .... The lukewarm and faithless are plunged into grave doubts, for they believe they have to deny or completely negate the love of a God because they are completely without knowledge and only see misery. And they also do not know to what extent people themselves are to blame for this misery and how all evil has an effect. Those who have joined Me, who are connected to Me and try to explain everything to themselves spiritually, for this explanation will become theirs and nothing will be able to shake their faith in Me. There will be strong contrasts, strength of faith on the one hand and complete unbelief on the other, and the events in the last days before the end will contribute towards a part of people professing Me with full conviction, while the others will stand just as convinced against Me because both their way of life is an explanation for it. Those who have found Me see and recognize Me everywhere .... My opponents, however, only see the world which means more to them than a God and creator of eternity .... and where the world is in danger, where visible decay or revolutionary destruction should make them think, there they only hurl hatred towards the power Which they don't want to acknowledge and yet have to acknowledge .... And they deny this power, driven by the one who is My adversary. Yet nothing more can shake the faith and their security of those who have joined Me, who surrender and trustingly place everything into My hand and fear nothing but that they might lose Me .... The bond with Me is what gives them the strength and realization, and in this bond they will also remain faithful to Me until the end .... they will be allowed to constantly receive My strength, for they are Mine and will remain so forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trials of faith should produce strong faith ....

B.D. 5954 from May 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I will often still have to send you tests of faith because I want to train you to become strong fighters who are needed in the last days, who are to fight for Me and My name and with their strength of faith also win over their fellow human beings for Me. And therefore you have to climb step by step; every passed test of faith will bring you further, and every renewed bond with Me will strengthen your soul and enable it for the task it has been given in the last days .... to defend the faith and to be a guide for fellow human beings who knows the path himself because he only relies on inner guidance, on My steering through My spirit .... Often obstacles will still pile up in front of you which you never think you will be able to overcome .... But I am already ready to remove the obstacles, yet only when you have made contact with Me, when you ask Me to help you because your strength alone is not enough. You should always remember Him Who alone can help you, no matter how great the adversity may seem to you .... Your faith that I can help and want to help will cause even the greatest obstacles to dissolve and the path is free again, which you should now continue with Me .... As soon as you separate yourselves from Me, as soon as you think too little of Me, worries and hardships will pile up in front of you again which I cannot spare you as long as you do not exclusively devote yourselves to Me, as long as you do not allow yourselves to be satisfied with My presence and your eyes are still longingly directed away from the path where many things still tempt you which you do not yet want to miss completely .... I know that My means of education sometimes hit you hard, I know that you sometimes find it difficult to see the loving father in Me, yet it is only love which lets Me act this way towards you, for I alone also know where you would end up if I didn't let you get into situations again and again where only the intimate connection with Me .... a call from the bottom of your heart .... and such hardships and their overcoming are extremely beneficial for your souls and strengthen your faith immensely. There is a way out for all hardships, and nothing is insurmountable with My help .... Thus earthly worries and hardships should never make you despondent, for you can banish them through strong faith, and this is what you should try to gain .... I only ever want to show you that I will not let My adversary oust Me, and if he succeeds in turning your eyes towards him I Myself will put a wall between you and him .... and My own understand My call of love and humbly bow down .... and their prayer to Me is now such that I can hear it, that I lead them out of all adversity .... For I will never lose them again, I only want them to completely surrender to Me and thereby attain a faith which is unshakeable and which will also emerge victorious from the last battle on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Convinced preachers ....

B.D. 5955 from May 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Ample spiritual food will be offered to you in the last days before the end so that you will not lose your strength, so that you will become strong and resilient and remain in the last battle on this earth. My gospel is preached with all zeal, for everywhere there are awakened servants who work for Me and My kingdom. All proclaim My name and seek to kindle faith in Me as the divine redeemer and to bring it to new life, and it will be noticeable with what conviction these preachers stand up for Me. My spirit blows where it wants to .... and it always blows where the prerequisites are given which allow My spirit to work: Love and faith, and the desire for the pure truth and such an intimate connection with Me that I can express Myself directly through the mouth of the one who advocates Me. I enlighten his thoughts and put the words into his mouth, I Myself speak to the people who listen to him and he listens to Me, Who speaks through him .... everywhere the gospel will be proclaimed in the last days before the end .... For it is necessary if souls are to be saved from the end. And all will be able to draw strength from the divine word, from the nourishment of the soul which is offered to you humans from above as soon as you earnestly desire to hear My word .... For it is always the same word, whether you hear it through preachers who let My spirit take effect or whether it is directly conveyed to you from above, whether I address you Myself and offer you the bread of heaven .... You are always guests 'at the lord's table', to whom I Myself offer the lord's supper, whom I provide with food and drink in order to strengthen them and give them the strength to pass their last test of faith .... You are all still weak in spirit, you all need healthy and strengthening nourishment for your soul, and therefore I take care of all of you spiritually and physically if only you grant Me the right to take care of you. For this is solely determined by your will, which is free and not touched by Me .... Therefore I call to you in admonishing fatherly love: Come to Me, all of you .... Let Me offer you the bread of heaven, come voluntarily .... want your father to address you from eternity, and pay attention to the way the father fulfils your desire .... For I have many ways that lead to your heart, and I have many workers who are active on My behalf to proclaim My word .... however and wherever it is offered to you .... it comes from Me if only you desire to hear Me. For there is great spiritual hardship, a spiritual drought has occurred and the souls must starve if I Myself do not nourish them .... if I Myself do not offer them the living water which is the most delicious refreshment for them. And all of you need nourishment for your souls and should therefore lie down at the spring of life, which I will never let run dry, and you should let yourselves be given by Me. Then your soul will mature, your faith will become strong and you will be able to cope with the last battle on this earth, you will emerge victorious from the battle which will still erupt before the end for the sake of My name and which will bring about the separation of spirits ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God ...."

B.D. 5956 from May 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all else shall be added unto you .... Believe My words and interpret them literally. As soon as you let spiritual striving become your purpose in life, as soon as you strive to live right before My eyes, as soon as you have the will to fulfil the will of the one Who called you into life, as soon as you want to acquire eternal life because you desire to become united with Me, your whole earthly life will unfold according to your striving. You must also take these words of Mine literally, that I ask nothing more of you than that you turn your eyes upwards, that you seek Me and want to join Me in order to then truly prepare an easy earthly life for yourselves according to My promise: "Everything else will fall to you." Earthly worries fill your whole mind as long as you value earthly life too highly. Again and again new worries or desires will fill you, all of which are only intended to increase your physical comfort and which will also be fulfilled to you if you live entirely without Me .... for then My adversary will consider you as a reward for having given Me up and surrendered to him. And this is no gain for you, even if you are earthly rich and the worldly people honour you .... for you have lost Me and My kingdom and disregarded all small admonitions and warnings on My part. You truly need not worry about your earthly well-being if you want to give Me first place in your heart, if you first strive to gain Me and My kingdom .... For what your body needs will be given to you if you first seek the salvation of your souls, which can only be found in Me. I will truly take care of you, for He Who sustains the whole of creation out of His strength will also be able to sustain His living creations and they will truly lack nothing. Yet you often apply a different standard, you demand things which are not a blessing for you, and that is when your striving is not yet exclusively meant for Me .... when you believe that you cannot completely renounce the world. But I consider you in such a way as I recognize it to be necessary and beneficial for you, because I want to distance you from the one who is lord of the world but not share your possessions with him. And if you seriously strive for Me and the attainment of My kingdom, even those things are no longer desirable to you, yet you are grateful for everything I provide for you because it makes earthly life bearable for you and because you feel My love for you in your daily care for yourselves .... you know that you are cared for by your father Who truly does not let His children go hungry who have taken the path to Him and whom He refreshes and strengthens spiritually and earthly, as He has promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The letter kills .... the spirit makes alive ....

B.D. 5957 from May 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The letter kills, only the spirit brings life .... all of you who proclaim to your fellow human beings what is written must take this to heart .... You must know that without My spirit you can give every word many different meanings, that you can interpret everything in many different ways and that you can thereby distance yourselves far from the truth, that you can acquire dead knowledge which is of no value to the soul. Only the spirit brings life, and only the spirit illuminates what was previously dark .... Only My spirit enlightens you as to the meaning of My word, and only enlightened thinking grasps and processes the word such that the interpretation corresponds to the truth. You can read everything from the scriptures .... You can completely change their meaning and also kindle brightest light in you again, depending on your will and your ability to let My spirit work in you. And thus erroneous teachings can also arise and find their way in amongst people, because My adversary intervenes wherever I Myself cannot yet be in spirit, because he is also not afraid to distort My word if only he can work against the truth. You know yourselves that every person's thoughts can take a different direction and that everyone nevertheless wants to represent his thoughts as right and true .... but you also know that different opinions cannot claim to be true, and therefore you must consult the one Who Himself is the truth from eternity .... You must ask Him for enlightenment of your spirit before you start to interpret the scriptures which testify of Me .... You must not only deal with My word intellectually, you must know that every word allows for many different meanings and seek to find the right meaning, yet not without first calling upon My help .... And if your will is good, if you only try to proclaim the pure truth, your thinking will also be enlightened for the sake of truth, for I want truth to find its way in amongst people and I want light to shine in people's hearts, but only pure truth can kindle it .... It is not the word itself, the letter, which is decisive but the meaning which is hidden in the word .... And even though I spoke to you humans so clearly and unmistakably when I walked on earth and also before .... even these words of Mine can be misinterpreted if only the intellect and not the heart deals with them and if My assistance is not requested. And then the letter can 'kill' in the true sense of the word .... it can cause death to the soul which is not addressed and thus falls prey to spiritual death without any nourishment or is offered completely wrong food so that it cannot awaken to life. For only the spirit brings life .... And I truly want to give this to all those who sincerely ask Me for it, who are willing to proclaim Me Myself and the truth in order to serve Me and to help their fellow human beings out of their souls' adversity .... They will receive what they request and then also be good servants to Me in My vineyard, who will only ever do their lord's will and thus are also in truth My representatives on earth, who will speak in My stead .... the same word in the same sense which I taught on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The last judgement is also an act of God's love ....

B.D. 5958 from May 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You all came forth from Me, and this must also be an explanation to you for My greater than great love which unites Me with you. And this love does not diminish, it increases with growing danger for you, it applies to the deeply fallen and seeks to save it .... And My love therefore never gives up what opposes it, what is still at the furthest distance from Me. For My love is infinite .... You don't grasp the whole meaning of this word because your thinking and feeling is limited, but the awareness of being constantly seized by My love could make you the happiest beings, because it would banish all fear, chase away every fearful impulse, for the child does not fear a loving father but nestles trustingly into His arms .... But you are unaware of My greater than great love as a result of your inadequacy, which is the cause of your earthly life, for due to your past apostasy from Me you have closed yourselves off from My flow of love and now also lost the light, which is synonymous with realization and knowledge of your beginning and your destiny. You entered the darkness yourselves, you fled from the light, you turned away from the source of light and strived towards darkness. Nevertheless, My love pursued you and will not let go of you until it finds your reciprocation in order to then prepare unimaginable beatitudes for you. My love therefore seeks to redeem you but it does not condemn you .... But if you are in condemnation, if you are in a state of extreme adversity and torment and eternal darkness, then you have chosen this condemnation for yourselves, then you have resisted My love, you have consciously turned away from Me and striven towards My adversary .... by virtue of your free will, which I will never ever make unfree as long as you, as beings freely set free from Me, have the opportunity to turn to Me again .... Only then do I bind this will of yours when every possibility has remained unused and the return to Me is impossible .... Then My love chooses the last resort .... renewed binding and insertion into the law of compulsion .... in order to induce the beingness to give up its resistance, in order to reduce the endless distance from Me again, so that the possibility exists again to enter the circuit of My love. I truly know how to win what has emerged from Me, and My infinite love will never stop wanting to bring it deliverance .... For love will never want to condemn and put it in chains but only ever redeem .... what has fallen into the state of eternal damnation through its own fault .... And thus judgment is not an act of wrath either but an act of love, because one redemption period is thereby ended and a new one begins until even the last spiritual being which resists Me has found its way back to Me and is blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I know Mine ...."

B.D. 5959 from May 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I know My own and My own know Me .... My own also know that I am close to them, so close that they can hear My voice if they listen within .... And they also believe that I speak to them because My presence, which they feel, gives them this certainty. They have overcome the separation through their faith and love, for without love and faith they cannot belong to My own, and without love and faith I cannot be present to them such that they are aware of it. My presence is felt to be pleasing .... because no-one goes away empty-handed who lets Me stay with him, who has accepted Me into his heart, who is Mine .... And My gifts are truly delicious, which I distribute when I have taken abode in a human heart, and no-one shall miss them once he has received them .... My gifts are strength and light and grace .... I share unmeasured strength from the heart that has become Mine through its will and love .... I give light by enlightening his thoughts and thus he can mature in knowledge, and I shower him with graces without measure .... I help him wherever he is still in a state of weakness, so that he may reach his aim .... the deification of his soul .... reach. I Myself address him as a sign of My presence, for My word contains light and strength and is the most valuable gift of grace for My living creations, so that they will become My children. And anyone who receives My word .... who feels himself addressed by My word, no matter how and where it is offered to him .... belongs to My own, for he recognizes My voice and follows it in a feeling of bliss to know himself so united with the father that he is honoured by My address, that he is allowed to hear My voice which sounds full of love in order to let you all become My children .... Whether it touches you, whether you feel connected to Me through My word, that alone reveals whether you belong to My own. But I will approach everyone and speak to him so that no-one can say that he has not been touched by My love and grace .... I knock at every heart's door and desire entrance .... but whether he opens it to Me is solely determined by his free will, which I bless if he turns to Me, if he desires that I enter him and satisfy his desire .... Then he will allow My presence, then he will want to belong to My own, and then he will also recognize Who addresses him when My word is offered to him .... And then he need never fear that I will abandon him who has once found the path to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is waiting for the return to the father's house ....

B.D. 5960 from May 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Return home to the father .... Thus I want to call out to you all and welcome you with open arms in the father's house .... For an endless time you have been far from your homeland, and for an endless time I await your return, for you have come forth from Me, and My fatherly love is yours undivided .... even if you delay your return again for an endless time .... I will never give you up and I will not rest until all My creatures are gathered again in the father's house for My and their bliss .... As long as you are still far away from Me you are not blissful, for you can only be blissful in union with Me. But I, as your father, want to prepare supreme bliss for My children and therefore I want to draw you to Me, I want you to unite with Me again in order to be able to communicate to you what makes you blissful .... in order to fill you with My strength of love which, however, can only flow into you if you unite with Me, if you accomplish the return to Me, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life .... Yet you humans isolate yourselves from Me, you turn away from Me because you are ignorant of what you thereby lose .... You do not strive towards Me because you are still held by My adversary who wants to prevent a return to Me in order to keep you in bondage and wretchedness himself .... And you don't see through his game, you don't resist and don't offer any resistance .... otherwise you would turn to Me and also be able to receive the strength to escape from him. And this ignorance of yours I want to take from you .... I want to enlighten you about him and his plan, I want to awaken in you the desire to become free from him, and I want to reveal Myself to you as your father of eternity Who waits for your return and pursues you with immense love in order to show you the right path which leads to Him .... And therefore I keep sending messengers to meet you, My messengers, who are to enlighten you in My name, who are devoted to Me in love and also know about your spiritual hardship .... who want to help you and thus approach you on My behalf and announce to you your father Who loves you and awaits your return .... I call you all through these My servants on earth and I put the right words into their mouths .... I address you Myself through them so that your hearts may be touched by My love and return it. I constantly solicit your love, for only love can unite us, only through love does the union with Me take place, and only the path of love leads to Me, to your father of eternity, from Whose love you once emerged. Therefore I will send preachers of love into the world again who shall proclaim My word, and anyone who listens to them will already turn his face towards Me, and when he looks up a light will shine for him and brightly illuminate the path he is now being lured to take .... and I Myself will approach him as a guide as soon as I see that he is preparing to return to the father's house .... And there will be great joy in My kingdom if a soul has found its way home, for only now will it be happy because My love will shine through it and make it happy for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s bond of love ....

B.D. 5961 from May 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Allow yourselves to get captured by My love and you will be free from him who is entirely without love, and who therefore also tries to deprive you of My love when you are his slaves. My love certainly will wrap a solid band around you, it will tightly tie you to Me, so to speak, and yet you will endure this bond with joy and happiness and will not want to loosen it again .... You will submit yourselves to Me as your God and Lord but you will also recognise the Father in Me, Whom you voluntarily hasten to meet in order to show your love for Me as well. Although the bond of My love does not compel you, you will certainly never leave Me again, but you are nevertheless completely free living creations, you are My children who take up the Father's inheritance and thus work and create with Me in blissful happiness. Because I do not wrap My bond of love around you against your will, I wait until you allow yourselves to be bound, until you push towards Me yourselves so that I can take hold of you and never let go of you again ....

But in order for you to want to connect and stay connected to Me I talk to you, because I want that you learn to recognise Me as your God and Father, Whose love belongs to you since the beginning, so that you also recognise Me Myself as love .... Because you first have to recognise Me in order to strive towards Me .... And I give you light because it is still dark in you .... I Am still so veiled before your eyes that you are unable to recognise Me and thus have no desire to unite with Me .... until your eyes perceive a gentle shine coming from Me which soothingly enters your heart. And then you will open the door of your heart to Me and you want Me to enter .... Then you already desire My closeness, and then you will also do everything to hold on to Me, and then My love will embrace you and keep you captive, and you will be happy and never want to let go of Me again .... Allow yourselves to be seized by My love, and you will already be blissful beings on earth .... Enter consciously into unity with Me and you will become free from the enemy of your souls who cannot follow you when you seek My closeness .... Remember that the mere longing for Me will liberate you because I will then be able to approach you Myself, and where I Am My adversary takes flight. You throw away an oppressive chain and gladly submit to My might, you voluntarily allow yourselves to be bound and are pleased with this captivity, because in My love you will be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Supply of the divine word unmerited gift of grace ....

B.D. 5962 from May 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

When the gospel is proclaimed to you humans open your ears and hearts and gratefully accept what is offered to you, for it is always an act of love by God Who wants to help you and bring you what you need for your soul. He always approaches you Himself and tries to speak to you, and then you can receive a rich blessing if you willingly listen and move what you hear within you, if you then also act according to His word .... If the gospel of love is proclaimed to you, a path will be shown to you which leads upwards, you will be pointed to God, as it were, and the path to Him will be marked out for you, and if you then follow the teachings, if you carry out what is required of you, then you will also safely attain maturity of soul and walk on the path upwards .... As long as you stay on earth there is still a certain gulf between you and your father of eternity .... God Himself wants this gulf to be bridged, He wants you to enter the bridge which allows you to reach Him, and therefore He will also show you the path. He will never try to prevent you from finding the right path .... And therefore He Himself sends messengers to meet you who thus announce to you how and where you should go during your earthly life .... He lets you proclaim His gospel, the divine teaching of love; He lets you hear His word; He addresses you Himself in His word and only admonishes you to accept it and let it take effect on you. It is His love which determines Him to do so, because He wants you to return to Him, you who once came forth from Him, because beatitude only exists where He Himself exists, and because He wants to bestow this beatitude upon you, because He wants to bestow upon you according to His greater than great love. It is an undeserved gift of grace when He conveys His word to you humans, for it will safely lead you to the aim, to union with Him .... Yet you have to accept it voluntarily .... It cannot be forcibly imparted to you, yet no person is excluded who wants to use this gift of grace. And therefore the flow of grace is particularly evident in the last days, for there is great adversity which can only be remedied by proclaiming the teaching of Jesus Christ to people and by them having to seriously take a stand on it .... Everywhere the spring of eternal life will open up, everywhere the living water will flow from the source .... everywhere the word of God will be preached, and if people open their ears and hearts they will receive the greatest blessing, as well as they now also let their will be active .... as well as they pay attention to what is preached to them and thus fulfil the will of God which is proclaimed to them through His word .... For the fulfilment of His will is: working in love .... But love brings union with God, Who is the human being's first and last aim on earth, and eternal life in bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers