Let Guide You!

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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Please take special notice of the fact that God’s Words addressed to us are non-denominational. The contents of the publication by no means intends to attract members of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into any other religious affiliation.

Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God .... accessible to all people. May this Word of God become a blessing to many people.

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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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

6673 - Answer to questions about the Immaculate Conception and advantages of the souls of light....

Mental step backwards in today's time

2445 - Heartlessness.... The world's battle against the teaching of love....

5776 - Whoever pays tribute to the world pays tribute to Satan....

7176 - Spiritual flattening....

Divine guidance

4503 - Wide way to perdition, narrow way to the height....

3457 - God's great love and guidance....

5777 - Divine guidance....

6606 - God, the right guide on the earth's migration....

6853 - The father's safe guidance....

Spiritual leader: Guardian spirit and light beings

5120 - Spiritual mentor....

6503 - Protective spirit in life....

7880 - Thought waves from beings of light.... Spirit-guides....

Earthly spiritual leaders: right leaders - Teachers - Vineyard Workers

4686 - Rights leaders.... messengers of God....

4794 - Leaders' and teachers' way of life is decisive for truth....

4874 - Spiritual guides....

7882 - A "teacher" must be filled with the spirit....

8749 - A teacher gets educated by Myself....

5984 - Guide and companion.... God's blessing....

7989 - God's guidance of His servants....

8645 - The vineyard labourers trust in divine guidance....

Driven by media guide

1411 - ?resNotTranslated?

3190a - Truth of inspired proclamations.... medial....

7009 - God-blessed spiritual connections.... low spiritism....

7977 - Serious warning against psychic receptions....

Driven by false leaders

4958 - Own will activity.... blind leaders and their followers....

6001 - False christs and prophets.... work of satan....

7705 - False prophets....

8433 - The adversary's activity behind a mask....

8583 - Working of the adversary in the garb of the angel of light....

Testing of spiritual

6284 - Spiritual guides on earth.... Jesus Christ....

7598 - Examining spiritual good.... feeding the word....

8087 - Verifying the truth....

8119 - Test the output of spiritual teaching....

Jesus Christ, the right leader

5667 - Right path with Jesus Christ as leader....

6752 - The right path.... the right guide....

6755 - Companion Jesus Christ....

7632 - 'I am the way, the truth and the life.... '

6993 - God's ways are not always people's ways....

Bond with God by prayer and thoughts

7129 - Call daily upon the name of Jesus....

8455 - Fully Trusting Prayer....

8955 - Only prayer protects from the adversary's activity....

5098 - God's leadership....

Answer to questions about the Immaculate Conception and advantages of the souls of light ....

B.D. 6673 from October 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

I want to help you in all earthly and spiritual adversity so that you believe in My love, in My wisdom and might .... For I love you, My living creations, infinitely, and I also want to gain your love .... I know of your adversity and also how to end it, and I have the power to do so. I gladly demonstrate My love, wisdom and might to children who turn to their Father and trustingly appeal to Him for His consideration and help. I want to eliminate your earthly and spiritual adversity, yet occasionally I demand your patience in earthly hardship for only I know why it had to happen to you. But I will take it from you ....

However, anyone experiencing spiritual adversity will not have to wait long, for as soon as he calls upon Me to consider him I Am will already be willing to help. Spiritual adversity consists of: psychological weakness, thus a diminished will, spiritual darkness and constantly recurring doubts .... spiritual adversity is My opponent's activity and influence, who very frequently especially dares to tackle people who are already My Own and whom he wants to get back under his control .... And as long as the human being lives on earth he will try to exert his influence, intending to weaken him time and again. Yet as soon as the person turns to Me he will displace My adversary, and I will let My strength flow and give the person light and perception, I will fulfil his request to avert his spiritual hardship ....

You should know that it is My adversary's intention to extinguish the bright radiance of the light of truth which penetrates everywhere and disperses the region of darkness where only My adversary is able to work. Thus he will try to extinguish the light. He will want to cast shadows across it by raising doubtful questions in the person and thereby intending to obscure the light of awareness. But I will not allow the latter; instead, My light of truth from above will shine down even more brightly, and the light he tried to obscure will illuminate the night even more .... and wherever a shadow still exists it will be consumed by the all-permeating light from Me, for nothing dark can endure this light .... And thus the 'Eternal Light Itself' will proclaim to you:

You, who are living on earth .... as well as all spirits which once had lived an earthly life as a human being .... you are the 'once fallen spirits', with few exceptions; for beings of light also embody themselves on this earth. Thus beings from the kingdom of light descend to you humans in order to assist you in serious spiritual hardship. Therefore you must differentiate between spirits having fallen away from God and original spirits remaining with God .... the former exist in the abyss as followers of My adversary and the latter stay with Me in all perfection. Furthermore, you have to differentiate between beings which still harbour the adversary's will within themselves and those which have already entered into My will but are not yet perfected and therefore still subject to his influence. And then you will be able to understand that the latter need to be helped because they are too weak to resist his influence. Thus the mission of these beings of light, which also voluntarily embody themselves on earth in order to help them, will be explicable to you too. And then you will also comprehend the mission of the human being Jesus .... Who, as such a being of light, wanted to accomplish a rescue mission which defeated My adversary's power ....

All were children of My love .... the fallen beings as well as those remaining with Me, but the beings did not stay the same, they had become different now .... . they were radiant and dark beings which could not stay in the same spheres together. And thus the 'kingdom of light' and the 'kingdom of darkness' became the abode for these different-natured beings. And no bridge existed between these two realms until the arrival of Jesus, one of My remaining angel spirits, Who wanted and succeeded in bridging this distance through a unique act of compassion. The beings which once had lost their perfection due to their rebellion against Me required someone to help them, since they were too weak by themselves even though the connection had been established, for My adversary also had great power which he was able to use against his former followers. But the beings which had stayed with Me were strong too, since they constantly let themselves be permeated by the strength of My love .... Thus the strength of a non-fallen angel spirit would have fully sufficed in order to achieve victory over My adversary and to save his followers from him .... Yet this contradicted My law of eternal order, given that the free will of all beings which once had followed My adversary would have been ignored, and such an attained victory would have prevented the beings from becoming perfect.

Consequently, another way had to be found .... 'Love' had to make a sacrifice, and it had to be every fallen being's decision to avail itself of this sacrifice, thus to wish that it was also made for itself .... But only a human being can offer a sacrifice; a being of light can indeed have the will to sacrifice itself, but in that case it has to render it as a human being, for a being of light is unable to suffer and also has so much strength at its disposal that it is able to do anything.

A human being, however, is a weak, imperfect being and sensitive to suffering and torment, which needs to muster a vast amount of willpower when it voluntarily accepts sufferings and torments in order to achieve something, not for itself but for its fellow human beings, and which wants to bestow its love on the wretched human race .... It had to make the sacrifice as 'a mere human' for its fellow human beings .... It had to be capable of suffering and dying ....

And thus you will understand that the human being called Jesus was not allowed to demonstrate any advantages which would characterise Him as an extraordinary person, even though His soul was a spirit of light .... Although it had not passed through creation like the human beings' souls, the fallen brothers; nevertheless, this soul, when it entered the body of flesh .... which, like other people's bodies, was a cluster of immature spiritual substances, thus also subject to the same feelings, longings and passions .... had to learn to overcome these as Jesus the human being during His earthly life. For His mission, apart from the salvation .... the redemption of the gravest guilt of sin .... was to exemplify to people the only way of life which would guarantee them a return to Me. Thus, if people who were completely inadequate, weak and captivated by passions were asked to do something it should be possible for them to accomplish this request .... And if the man Jesus wanted to serve as an example He had to be just like His fellow human beings.

His extraordinary origin, like that of the embodied beings of light on earth which want to be of help to people, by no means infers unusual abilities or advantages which would have required a less stringent fight with himself in order to thus find unification with Me on earth, which is the goal and task of every human being on earth and for which the man Jesus set the example that it can be achieved. All the advantages Jesus had as a spirit of light He surrendered before His incarnation as a human being, or His work could not have been what it is: a sacrifice made by love, the blessing of which should benefit all people .... But neither can it ever be denied that 'God Himself' made this sacrifice because love was the determining factor which so infused the human being Jesus that I thus was able to be in Him after He, as a human being, had voluntarily shaped himself such that I could take abode in Him, that He became a vessel for Me and thus He then possessed strength and light in abundance .... which again is a process that could not just take place in Jesus the human being but which all people should and are able to achieve because they now have help through the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... since due to his act of Salvation as a human being he gained an amount of grace which is now available to every person .... And anyone who avails himself of it will also reach the goal. He will likewise find unification with Me on earth, he will be able to receive light and strength without limitation ....

However, you shall continue to receive clarification, because as long as questions arise in you it is also necessary to provide you with the correct answer. And the more sincerely you desire this answer the sooner you will receive it.

The souls evolving from the abyss can expect, as the last stage of their development on earth, to be embodied as a human being, then the process of development will be completed and the soul will enter the spiritual realm, irrespective of how it is shaped when it discards its physical shell. Hence these souls proceed in accordance with divine order, they release themselves from hard matter by way of service and yet rise gradually .... Souls of light embodied on earth, however, only descend to earth for the purpose of a mission, they take abode in the human body straight away but then they indeed travel their earthly path like every other person and are thus also subject to natural law and equally have to struggle on earth .... Their external shell will make the same demands on them, because it is composed from still completely immature spiritual substances, from tiny particles of the soul of a once fallen original spirit which is still in utter opposition to God and which first has to be pacified and changed by the soul, which is always a struggle. The soul is not conscious of its earlier state of light, the earthly body has caused its own darkening, only love will arise sooner and more intense in such a person and disperse the darkness more rapidly too ....

A soul from above will also always turn its eyes upwards towards God, Whom it very quickly learns to recognise. Such a soul will usually not need a long time to unite itself with the divine spark within, which can easily influence it and then spirit and soul will try and succeed to influence their external shell too. Still, the fact that the soul is travelling the path across earth is always associated with the self-evidence that the soul has to fight, because it constantly has to overcome obstacles in this earthly-material world in order to reach the spiritual goal.

Thus no soul is able to ascend without pain, not even a soul of light, since at the beginning of its incarnation it had descended into the abyss, into a state of ignorance, of constraint and weakness .... This should therefore always be taken into consideration when the earthly life of an embodied being of light is assumed to be an easy one. The earthly body is and remains a shackle for the soul until it leaves it. And yet even the body can still vary. The flesh can still be steeped in sin, thus still incorporating much of Lucifer within itself if it is born out of sin, if the people creating a new life are only controlled by satanic attributes. And then again, a being, newly awakened into life, may owe its life to two people's urge to love, predominantly good instincts could therefore also have entered this being, and thus the external shell will be appropriately natured .... It will carry much of the 'genetic makeup' within itself and more or less has to fight hard in earthly life and therefore also arrive at its goal with more or less difficulty .... Yet no human being's earthly existence remains without struggle .... A light being's earthly life is in fact frequently exceptionally difficult, because the soul unconsciously experiences its stay in the earthly world as a torment and, for the sake of its mission, often also accepts a very arduous earthly fate.

The process of procreation is now, due to Adam's failure, unblessed, for it did not correspond to God's will, Who wanted to give the first human couple His blessings at the right time .... Lucifer participated in the procreation of the people, and he will never relinquish this right (granted to him through Adam's will) either .... He will always participate in the emergence of new life, even if people's degree of love can keep him at bay to a point and God's protection against him is requested .... And now you will understand that God Himself, however, opposes His adversary, when He creates a bodily shell for Himself which He wants to take possession of Himself one day and which should already serve Him as an abode at the time of birth. For God Himself will never ever unite with His adversary in His activity .... And likewise He will not allow the natural carrier of His shell to be taken over by His adversary .... For He, the God and Creator of eternity, Who brought everything into being, Who assigned purpose and destiny to everything, truly has the power to externalise from Himself everything He wants .... thus it will surely also be possible for Him to bring forth a human being without the lawful act of procreation; and it will also truly be possible for Him to keep His adversary at bay until His will is done ....

For God only takes shelter inside a pure cover, He will not unite with something impure .... which, however, does not exclude that the human being in this kingdom of imperfection, in the kingdom belonging to His adversary, is nevertheless subject to all harassments and that his earthly progress is therefore no less anguished and full of conflict like that of his fellow human beings. For without fight there could be no victory .... God's adversary, however, had to be defeated, and Jesus truly won the most arduous battle which ever was fought on earth .... and He won it as a human being, not as God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mental step backwards in today's time

Heartlessness .... The world's battle against the teaching of love ....

B.D. 2445 from August 10th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Humanity's conduct cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Christ, for this requires actions of love, people's relationships with each other should be like that of brothers. But at the present time all people face each other with hostility, outwardly often united yet in their hearts only ever bearing their own advantage in mind and regarding their fellow human being as an opponent, because they either feel harmed or disadvantaged by him. The human race is completely devoid of love and therefore also opposed to Christianity, opposed to the divine teaching of love, which it no longer wants to comply with. For it requires effort to practise love, it requires a separation from material things, a shelving of one's own wishes and cravings; it signifies a sacrifice of that which is dear to a person .... Selfish love must be fought against; the human being must educate himself to become modest to enable him to help his fellow human being by giving to him what he gives up. This sacrifice can only be made out of love and therefore love must be practised .... Yet only rarely will a person make this sacrifice for his fellow human beings .... Each person only thinks of himself, this is why he finds the teaching of Christ inconvenient and supports people's intentions to eradicate it .... Where heartlessness exists, the battle against the divine teaching of love will be waged without hesitation. And this heartlessness is widespread throughout the world, people outdo each other with brutalities they inflict upon their fellow human beings, and thus the whole world can be held responsible for the immense world event which purely arose from humanity's heartlessness and which results in ever greater cruelty and must therefore be described as the activity of hell, as the activity of demonic forces. And yet, people do not recognise their low spiritual level. They only look at the purely external consequences of the world event and not at the spiritual state of those whose great heartlessness also incites their fellow human beings to act with unkindness. And as long as this deplorable state of affairs is not recognised, it cannot be remedied either; as long as the human being does not recognise heartlessness as the greatest evil he will not make any effort to live a life of love, i.e., he will not treat his fellow human being with kindness .... And neither will he approve of Christ's teaching, he will reject it, because his compliance with it will not gain him any earthly advantage. However, he will also act accordingly .... love will be pushed aside again and only result in greater heartlessness .... One person will endeavour to destroy the other without inhibition, he will no longer be able to distinguish between right and wrong and thus exceed himself in bitterness and cruelty, and all love will grow cold, lowering the spiritual level to the extreme, and a world without love cannot survive, it is doomed to destruction and with it everything which does not strive to redeem itself through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Whoever pays tribute to the world pays tribute to Satan ....

B.D. 5776 from September 26th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Whoever pays tribute to the world also pays tribute to Satan .... these Words are harsh and will severely hurt all worldly people, for no person wants to be accused of associating with Satan and yet, the world is his domain and thus everyone who is captivated by the world is also his servant. You humans live indeed in the midst of the world, as long as you live on earth you must certainly assert yourselves in the world, yet to what extent your heart is involved in it is the decisive factor as to how much you subject yourselves to the world .... Your innermost striving, your heart's desire, will be judged, and if this concerns the world then you are also enslaved by the one who is its prince, for then you will be purely earthly-minded, whereas you should strive towards spiritual matters and therefore have to overcome material things in order to obtain spiritual possessions. You cannot avoid the world but must overcome it, i.e., at the beginning of your earthly life as a human being you are placed into the world which belongs to God's adversary and have to take up the fight against it in order to emerge victorious and then enter that world which is spiritual, called the kingdom of God .... You must travel the path through earthly life, through the material world, but you must liberate yourselves from the restraints which have to be regarded as Satan's chains as long as you are under the spell of the world, as long as you longingly desire what you should overcome.

The material world is his kingdom .... It shelters the fallen spiritual substances which belong to him but which are not at his disposal as long as they are bound in the works of creation by God's will. He can, however, influence the human being because in the state of free will he must be subject to every influence in order to make a decision, in order to pass the test of will which is the reason and purpose of his earthly life. And God's adversary uses this influence in a truly frightening way .... He does not want to lose the soul due to its own free choice and therefore lures the human being to his side by offering everything he deems desirable but which belongs to his world, which separates him from God, which diverts him from the goal he is meant to reach on earth. He is lord over matter, lord over the material world .... and everyone who serves the world serves him .... everyone who desires the world and associates with material wealth associates with Satan, and he must be told this truth, he cannot be gently treated due to ill-conceived consideration by withholding this truth from him .... He is connected with Satan and his servant, thus he will also share his fate when the day of retribution comes .... Two lords wrest for your souls and both are offering you their kingdoms .... yet one is transient, the other is everlasting .... You, however, are immortal, and if you have not acquired the everlasting kingdom on earth then you will have nothing after the death of your body but profound darkness around you which will torment you indescribably .... the kingdom of Satan, who cannot offer you anything else but whose followers you have increased through your desires on earth. Detach yourselves from him while you are still living on earth, renounce what belongs to the world, strive for spiritual wealth which alone guarantees you an eternal life, a life in light and strength and beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual flattening ....

B.D. 7176 from July 28th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

The spiritual flattening has taken on frightening proportions and people themselves are not aware of it, precisely because they do not take the maturing of their souls seriously. They live and everything happens according to the worldly point of view, i.e. impressions are only ever received and utilized from outside, and what should happen inside a person remains unnoticed because it cannot be seen by fellow human beings. People don't take their own spiritual development seriously but they are so overwhelmed with external impressions that they don't notice their spiritual deficiency and rather believe that they live correctly and in accordance with God's will because they are taught in this way. And this spiritual shallowness is such a great evil, for countless people suffer from it who are satisfied with customs and traditions, with ceremonies and ostentation which only keep the soul in ever denser darkness. But all of these people have been given the gift of understanding by God, all of these people can think in quiet hours about what is prescribed to them as alleged 'means for the salvation of the soul'. All these people have the opportunity to approach the father in silent childlike prayer for the right knowledge, for doubts will creep into all these people from time to time as to whether they are serious about fulfilling God's will .... Yet only a few use their intellect and with God's help also attain the right knowledge .... The majority, however, let others think for them and blindly and unthinkingly follow the leaders who act just as conscienceless and live a superficial christianity devoid of all seriousness. But one day people will not be able to pass on the responsibility to their 'leaders', everyone will have to answer for himself, for every human being will be shown ways and means to tread the right path which, however, can only ever be found if a person is truly serious and calls upon God for truth, light, i.e. true knowledge. The spiritual shallowness is already so deep that people are no longer able to recognize the thickest nonsense as such or that they feel comfortable to move in it. And this spiritual flattening could only come about because God's adversary was able to force his way in wherever there was a lack of prayers in spirit and in truth .... He succeeded in building up an illusory world which seemed to people to be a fully adequate substitute, into which they preferred to take refuge rather than into their 'quiet chamber' where they could have prayed in 'spirit and in truth' .... People seek pomp and splendour and do not know that satan is always hiding behind it .... People enjoy what they can offer to the eye but they do not look inwards into their heart where they could truly discover far more of the glories in intimate union with their God and father, Who only wants this intimate union with Him in order to then pour out His gifts of grace in abundance. And this intimate connection can be established everywhere but will never take place where the eye is directed towards earthly objects of all kinds .... You humans should make better use of your intellect, you should turn away in disgust from the works of satan who seeks to blind people and who has also succeeded in making them unreceptive to a true light, because the dazzling light has taken away their ability to recognize a gentle light .... You should only ever call upon God for true light, but do so by praying in spirit and in truth, which He will truly also answer and no longer let the person walk in darkness who earnestly desires light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine guidance

Wide way to perdition, narrow way to the height ....

B.D. 4503 from December 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The path you should take is passable as soon as you direct your gaze heavenwards, as soon as you desire to reach Me and have no other desire in your heart than to be united with Me again. I truly do not demand anything unfulfillable from My children, I only warn them to take the broad path which certainly appears comfortable and easy but leads far away from the aim, which the children of the world take who lose themselves to My adversary. The path you should take is narrow and not very appealing, and therefore people hesitate to enter it, yet it leads towards a glorious aim which you all should reach. In addition, figures of light will often appear in your path to guide you and draw your attention to obstacles, to stones and cliffs and undergrowth, so that you will not fall or be harmed by them. You can walk this arduous path quite carefree, whoever has entered it will not go a step further without protection. But you must not look across to the broad path, because from there you will be blinded by illusions which will make your path appear dark. Avert your gaze from it, look up to Me and a mild light will illuminate your path, which will do you good and intensify the closer you get to the aim. And entrust yourselves completely to Me, then I will be able to meet you, take your hand and guide you until the end of your life .... until the path becomes wide and even and ends in your father's house .... until the kingdom receives you, which is your true home, which is radiant with light and wonderful to behold, but which can only be reached via this narrow, arduous path. Difficulties have to be overcome, yet they can be overcome with My help, but what awaits you is worth all difficulties and hardships .... But the broad path leads into darkness .... it is beautiful and appealing as long as the human being walks on earth, but it leads astray and finally into a dark and sinister realm, into ruin. Avoid this path, don't try to make your earthly walk easy for it is only short but life after death is endlessly long, and therefore strive towards the right aim and don't let yourselves be deterred even if the path seems less appealing to you. Enter it and stretch out your hands to Me and I will guide you so that you will safely reach your aim ....

Amen

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God's great love and guidance ....

B.D. 3457 from March 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Anyone who desires My nearness is not far from Me either, and he will feel My love if his heart opens and strives towards Me. I desire My children and respect every one who takes the path to Me. I come to meet him and lead him by the hand so that he reaches his aim. And therefore no-one shall feel lonely or abandoned by My fatherly love, for this love never ends and is always and constantly turned towards My living creations. And if you humans have this faith in My love your life on earth will be easier and you need not worry because you are convinced that I will take care of you. If you believe in My love then deepest peace will enter your heart which feels this love and is therefore full of trust in the father Who will not leave His child alone on its earthly path of life. Yet you must try to gain faith in My love by repeatedly imagining how lovingly I have guided you through all dangers, even if suffering and adversity were your companions on your path through life. You must look at everything around you, at the creation around and above you .... and you must think about what purpose it serves .... you must draw knowledge about it from the source of life, from My word, and also recognize the word itself as a gift of grace .... And everything will be proof of My love for you which wants to win you for eternity. The awareness of being in the circuit of My love will make you happy and give you peace which the world can never give you. And because I love you I desire you, and I joyfully accept every heart which returns My desire, which strives towards Me, which desires My word and wants to be seized by My love. I provide for it in the richest measure with My gift of love, with My word .... thus I Myself come to the earthly child which desires to be close to Me and speak to it, audibly or mentally, depending on the degree of its love which is expressed in its way of life. And I do not leave out anyone who lifts his eyes to Me, who wants to be My child .... What once became apostate from Me through its own will I draw back to Me again with My love as soon as it merely relinquishes its will, i.e. subordinates it to Mine. I only require the change of will, then I will take possession of its heart and never ever let it sink back into the abyss. For My love is exceedingly great and is eternally meant for that which once came forth from Me and has lost its way into darkness. I will lead it to the light again, and all the more lovingly the more willingly it follows Me .... And My children who willingly take hold of My fatherly hand and allow themselves to be drawn by Me will be blessed beyond measure. For what is My share from eternity is also destined to work in bliss in the kingdom of light. But in order to do so it has to carry My will within itself, it has to have relinquished its own will which has turned away from Me and become completely one with Me .... Then they will be My true children whom I will provide with My love and make blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

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Divine guidance ....

B.D. 5777 from September 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Trust the guidance from above, it will always be right as soon as you want to be guided by Him, Who is the father of you all. Devotion to Him, the voluntary subordination of your will to His, ensures this right guidance for you .... Your thoughts will correspond to His divine will, and your speech and actions will likewise meet His approval, because you are guided by the forces which create and work with Him in the same will and to whose care you are handed over .... Your will towards Him, your God and father of eternity, determines all your ways, your thoughts and actions. Therefore you do not need to think about what you should do .... only hand yourselves over to Him first in thought, in silent prayer or mental devotion to Him and His will, then you will be relieved of all responsibility, for then you will be guided by His spirit and you will always do what is right before God. Only your own will can act against it, i.e. if you forget the father in heaven, if you believe that you have to and can arrange everything yourselves, if you don't ask for His help .... thus go your ways alone .... then you may well turn off onto a wrong path if you are without a guide, and then you will have to be on your guard. For apparently you have success .... a success which, however, is only a failure because it only blesses the body but not the soul. The right path, however, which God guides you on, can sometimes appear burdensome for the body but make the soul extremely happy, which can increasingly detach itself and feels liberated because the body relieves it of a burden it had to carry, the body is intended to help the soul .... and that often means its own complaints .... If the body shakes these off and wants to go through earthly life light-heartedly, then the soul has to carry on carrying its burden and cannot rise to spiritual heights .... But divine guidance will always take the body's condition into account, for God's love will then take care of the human being who trustingly hands himself over to Him and appeals for His help. And then every walk will be blessed, every path will lead to the right aim, because He leads the way, Who is your father and protector and to Whom you can entrust yourselves in all adversities of body and soul ....

Amen

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God, the right guide on the earth's migration ....

B.D. 6606 from July 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You still have to go far if you don't let yourselves be guided by Me, the leader, Who truly knows the right path and Who wants to lead you all to the aim. As long as you humans walk without Me you will move on a level path or you will walk downwards .... For the path to Me goes upwards. But it cannot be travelled alone without My guidance, for it will not be found by people who do not seek communion with Me. And thus you live your earthly life completely uselessly, for what you find on these paths you have taken is like fleeting mist .... they are foam formations which pass away without leaving the slightest usefulness for you. But if you progress upwards under My guidance you will be granted goods which will remain with you forever, which you may take with you into the kingdom of the beyond, which every one of you humans has to enter once, which will be your abode after the death of your body but which will vary according to your earthly change .... And many people go there 'without God' .... only a small number are so connected to the creator of eternity that they have chosen Him as their guide and unconditionally follow Him wherever He leads them .... There are only a few people who always stick to Me, who remain united with Me in sufferings and joys, in hardship and sorrows .... who always have Me by their side and don't take a step without My guidance .... who don't start any work without having requested My blessing, who entrust themselves to Me in every matter of life, in spiritual or earthly adversity, and ask Me for My advice and My help. But these truly also have the most faithful helper at their side, and they can travel their earthly path carefree, it cannot be missed, and it will not be too difficult either, because I support and guide them and give them strength to ascend. Why don't all you humans choose this right guide? Why don't you listen to those who refer you to Me, who want to help you to a successful earthly change? You can all come to the realization that you are subject to a higher power, that One guides your destiny, if only you think a little about yourselves and everything that surrounds you .... Would I demand faith in Me from you if it were impossible to gain it? You can all procure the inner certainty for yourselves that I Am, that there must be a creator Who let everything come into being .... And then you would truly make better use of the short time of your earthly life than you do. And again and again you will all be made aware of this creator and sustainer .... Again and again you are encouraged to think about it, but again and again you unwillingly reject such thoughts. Again and again there are messengers along the path who call to you to leave the level path and turn upwards, and again and again I Myself approach you as an unknown guide and offer you My services .... because I alone know where your path leads to and where you should go .... But you do not listen to Me, the ideas of My messengers leave you unimpressed, and you wander and wander and get nowhere, for your life is an idle run, it constantly moves in the same path .... if you are not 'bad' and then inevitably end up in the depths .... But you all know that your stay on this earth is not eternal, and every clever person should make the most of this short time to the best of his ability .... You certainly do this but only in an earthly sense; what you acquire has no lasting value and only burdens you, so that you already don't want to take the path upwards because you would have to leave this burden behind and it seems indispensable to you. But if you entrust yourselves to Me as your guide then you can be certain that you need nothing more for your ascent than good will and an open heart which gives itself to Me so that I can fill it with My love .... Then you truly don't need anything else, for with My leadership I will also fully take care of you, and you need only ever turn your gaze upwards and you can enjoy the most glorious region which you behold and which you are now heading for. And your path will only be short if you walk in My company, but it will surely lead to the aim.

Amen

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The father's safe guidance ....

B.D. 6853 from June 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You must walk by My hand and you will truly be guided correctly through your earthly life .... A child which is ignorant of the way will go astray and no longer find its way back. And so do you humans if you remain without My guidance, for you are like underage little children whose knowledge is still weak and who therefore cannot be held responsible as yet but who have to be urged to obey so that they will not be endangered. And I likewise demand obedience from you humans as soon as you have recognized Me as your father Who well knows what serves you or can become a danger for you. And I speak to you with all love, I warn and admonish you, and you should listen to all these loving words of the father and act accordingly .... This is the obedience I demand of you, for again and again I emphasize that I require more from you, that you love Me with all your heart, because then you will enter into My will of your own accord and because I will no longer need to admonish you to obey, which you will then do for Me of your own accord, out of love. But you will remain children as long as you stay on earth, and you constantly need My protection and My guidance. And therefore you should repeatedly take hold of My fatherly hand, you should keep close to Me, you should not walk any path without Me, for I also want to be able to speak to you constantly .... I want you to listen to My words because I have wonderful things to tell you which will never come to an end .... because you shall still experience many things so that your knowledge will increase, so that you will be educated for your later activity which you will one day have to accomplish in the spiritual kingdom and which shall already begin on earth. But I also want to guide you in order to spare you perilous paths, for the enemy lurks everywhere who would like to stop your safe progress and wants you to fall .... But if you hold on to My hand then you cannot fall, and you will never be without support when an arduous ascent requires strength from you which you alone are unable to muster .... None of you shall walk alone and trust in your own strength, for you are all still weak little children who can be knocked down by the slightest onslaught. But if I walk by your side, if you walk your path by the father's hand, then whatever may come may come, you will be able to defy every danger, every resistance, for you will receive strength from Me for this as soon as you approach Me for it. And in close unity with Me you will also entrust all your hardship and worries to Me, you will pour out your heart to Me in childlike love, for My love, which you feel, will encourage you to do so, and your father will gladly assist you and take away from you what is troubling you, for I want to win your love, for which I have been longing for eternity .... I want you to be inseparably united with Me again, as it was in the beginning. But this bond can only be established by the love I solicit until it completely belongs to Me. Your path through earthly life shall lead to complete unity with Me, and therefore I always hold My fatherly hand out to you which you shall grasp in order to be able to guide you through it towards the right aim. And you are to be called blessed if you feel weak and look for a foothold with Me, if you yourselves reach for My hand which stretches out towards you. For then you can safely take the path to the end, for your father guides you with a loving hand ....

Amen

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Spiritual leader: Guardian spirit and light beings

Spiritual mentor ....

B.D. 5120 from April 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Every soul has its spiritual mentor, its guide, who wants to help it to eternal life. He seeks to influence the human being's thoughts and turn them towards the spiritual kingdom, but he also shapes the human being's life fate such that it can lead to great success, yet with due regard for free will. This mentor knows what is beneficial for the soul's development and what could be disadvantageous for it, and therefore he will always endeavour to help the soul's progress, because he is united with it in love and the guidance over this soul has been given to him by God Himself. He promotes everything that serves it; what could be detrimental to it he tries to prevent, but always in wise knowledge and great love. As long as the human being remains on earth the spiritual spheres are closed to him intellectually; even if the soul can soar into the spiritual kingdom it still does so unconsciously to the body and is also unable to convey the impressions from these spheres to the intellectual being in such a way that he could form a picture which corresponds to the truth. The spiritual kingdom will also remain a mystery to the physical human being until the body has spiritualized itself to such an extent that the soul can communicate what it has seen and it remains in its consciousness. Then that degree of maturity is reached which makes a further life on earth unnecessary, which the spiritual leader would also like to reach as long as the soul still dwells in the body. But as soon as this degree of maturity has not yet been reached the mentor carefully guards the intellectual person against creating distorted images of the spiritual kingdom which could only confuse him but not further him, for the human being's intellect still has an influence on the soul as long as it has not already reached the degree of maturity that it is able to see spiritually. It can certainly dwell in spheres in dreams from which it draws much strength and knowledge but it will not take over the memory of it into earthly life as long as the body is not equally spiritualized. In a manner of speaking the spiritual mentor erects a wall and hides everything behind it which is still incomprehensible to the human being's intellect, whereas the soul can cross the wall unhindered and gain insight into the spiritual kingdom. And this boundary is carefully guarded by the spiritual side .... remains hidden from the human being's intellect what is unveiled to the soul .... until there is no longer any danger for the soul to fall into doubt when the intellect tries to shake it. A strong soul, which has become rich in knowledge, can now also convince the intellect and correctly refute every objection, yet it first has to have reached this maturity, then it can look unhesitatingly and consciously into the spiritual kingdom and also communicate itself to the intellect, which then likewise allows itself to be taught about it and does not oppose any doubts of faith. Anyone who seeks the truth will also find it, yet the human being should always leave himself to the spiritual guidance and not try to penetrate knowledge on his own authority, which can only harm him if he does not have the necessary degree of maturity to make proper use of the knowledge. His spiritual guide knows about the state of the soul and seeks to raise it as long as no resistance is offered to him. For he does not lack wisdom and love, and he considers his pupils in such a way that it is a blessing for them ....

Amen

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Protective spirit in life ....

B.D. 6503 from March 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Every soul is given a guardian spirit which guides it from the beginning of earthly life until death. Yet this guardian spirit must also respect the human being's free will, otherwise there would be no question that the human being would reach his aim; but he does everything in order to influence the soul such that it strives upwards. But where the resistance is still too great he must limit himself to warding off dishonest spiritual beings so that they do not take possession of the human being, for he is allowed to place himself between these spiritual beings and the human being as long as the human being himself does not desire them, i.e. as long as he does not awaken unusual vices and desires in himself which then enable those spirits to enter him. The guardian spirits therefore always endeavour to soothe the soul in order to protect it from these evil spirits; furthermore, they always try to stimulate the human being spiritually, they influence the human being in such a way that the good instincts in him are appealed to, that the human being is prompted to think about himself .... The guardian spirits try everything to guide the human being spiritually and therefore also often prevent the fulfilment of earthly wishes, and it is they who sometimes intervene in a disruptive way when the human being is in danger of losing himself earthly, and who create every opportunity to establish spiritual contact, be it with the spiritual world or also with earthly people who strive spiritually .... They will always try to spiritually direct people's thinking because they recognize what the human being lacks and are extremely anxious to guide them to the aim while they are still on earth. If the guardian spirits succeed in spiritually directing the human being's senses for the time being, then they will create many opportunities for the soul to test and perfect itself, they will also promote suitable bonds between people, for they know how they will react to each other, and they can also foresee the successes and shape their charges' lives in accordance with them. For they are of God-like will, they only act on His behalf, enlightened by Him and filled with His strength. And thus no human being goes through earthly life without protection or guidance, all people have guides at their side, they just must not resist, i.e., they must be willing to let themselves be guided by them, which they express through prayer .... through the conscious appeal to God for His protection and grace and through the will to do what is the purpose of earthly existence .... Then he can unhesitatingly hand himself over to the guidance of spiritual beings and his thinking, wanting and acting will be right. But the guardian spirits are also at the side of those who do not yet recognize God .... only it is considerably more difficult for them to gain influence, but they will not give up their charges until the hour of death .... For the human being himself is too weak and would fail if he were not given spiritual support. The human being is a child of the world because he is a child of the one to whom the world belongs .... and the human being's desire for the world will always predominate, and his earthly progress would be unsuccessful if his guardian spirit did not also occasionally push itself forward and express itself, which is always the case when the human being becomes thoughtful, when the world does not satisfy him, then he will be addressed by that guardian spirit which follows the human being's every thought and immediately intervenes when it recognizes an opportunity. And his influence will consist of presenting the goods of the world to the human being as worthless and making spiritual goods desirable to him .... If he succeeds in this, then the human being will turn away from the world more and more; but if his resistance is still too great, the human being will unwillingly reject such thoughts and turn to the world again. But the inner urge of the guardian spirit does not abate, and again and again opportunities arise where it can emerge and express itself. And the spiritual beings are overjoyed when they succeed in changing a person .... when they turn away from the world and towards the spiritual kingdom. Then they will work on him with increased strength and an increased will to love, then the human being will be surrounded by beings of light and all dishonest spiritual substances will be displaced from him, and then there will also be the prospect that the human being will still perfect himself on earth, for the influence of the world of light will now be ever stronger and all resistance on the part of the human being will be broken, and this signifies complete devotion to God ....

Amen

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Thought waves from beings of light .... Spirit-guides ....

B.D. 7880 from April 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

I would like all of you to gain eternal life, so that you will be free from every physical form and can pass into the spiritual kingdom in light and strength and freedom. For My only goal is your eternal beatitude. And I will truly not rest in pursuing you and your love because only love will let you reach the final goal. Yet I will always allow you free will, and this is still refused Me because you lack love; for I Myself Am Love and if love is not within you I, Who would like to provide you with an abundance of bliss, cannot be present in you either. And as long as I Am still far away from you darkness will still be within you, for I Am also the Light of eternity Which has to shine brightly in you if you joyfully want to recognise yourselves and your origin. But as long as it is still dark in you, you are still being held captive by the lord of darkness who wants to prevent you from realising and striving towards the light .... Thus you are still under the control of My adversary from whom I, however, would like to release you yet will only be able to do so if you have the will to escape from him. Consequently, your will determines your fate, for your will has to decide for itself which lord it acknowledges; thus you have to make this decision yourselves as long as you live as a human being on this earth. But until then you are surrounded by shadowy beings which compete for your will and influence you in every way yet without being able to force you. However, you have a great gift of grace: you are able to think, and you need only to use this gift of grace correctly and for once try to ascertain the purpose and meaning of your earthly life .... In that case beings of light will certainly inspire right thoughts in you, since a desire for understanding will be judged as a desire for Me, Who is the Light and the Truth of eternity .... You are all capable of thinking but you rarely use this gift of grace in order to receive clarification about spiritual questions, which can only be given to you by beings of light who work on My instruction when you ask yourselves such questions ....

The spiritual beings will affect you such that thought waves will flow to you concerning questions of that nature .... If you reject them then illumination cannot be given to you; if you accept and contemplate them then you will also mentally receive the answer from these beings of light, and you will subsequently be able to make your own free decisions .... Therefore you can look for light and will find it .... but you can also shy away from light and remain in darkness .... But time and again light will be brought to you, time and again My love will pursue you and help you become aware of yourselves and then also find the path to Me .... But adverse forces influence you in the same way by encircling you with thought currents of an earthly nature, which the human being prefers to accept and ponder about .... for he is totally at liberty to accept or reject what mentally impinges upon him. The infinite patience of the beings of light, their great love for those who are unredeemed, will not cease, and time and again they will try to influence their protégés into listening to them, for they work on My instructions. The work they carry out in the spiritual kingdom is their redemption work, they are only the executors of My will albeit they are extraordinarily happy by being allowed to work for Me because they gladly subordinated themselves to My will, because in their state of maturity they have no other will but Mine, since they are permeated by My love and therefore their love also applies to the unredeemed .... to people who have been entrusted to their guidance and protection. For all of you have spiritual guides who accompany you from the time of your birth until your death and who fight for your souls against the enemy .... Yet your will alone is decisive which, however, will one day submit itself to Me with certainty, because it cannot resist the strength of My love forever ....

Amen

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Earthly spiritual leaders: right leaders - Teachers - Vineyard Workers

Rights leaders .... messengers of God ....

B.D. 4686 from July 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Leaders also lack knowledge if they have not gained it from Me, if they do not fulfil the conditions which earn them the recognition, the knowledge of truth. Then they have elevated themselves to leading positions without being called by Me, and then they can only be blind guides who take the wrong path and cannot guide the people entrusted to them properly either. And I repeat again and again that I Myself call My servants on earth and give them the right training so that they will then administer their ministry correctly and be reliable supports and companions for their fellow human beings. In the last days I need people who know the pure truth, for many will want to detach themselves from those who cannot give them the right information about the meaning and purpose of earthly life. And a messenger from Me must step into their path and gently urge them onto the right path which, although it is often uneven and full of obstacles, nevertheless leads to the aim. These messengers, if they have an enlightening effect, will gain people's trust, and their teachings will be listened to because they reveal divine origin and because the truth will break through if it is conveyed to people in the right way. Blind guides will lead people astray, My messengers, on the other hand, carry a light and thus they illuminate the darkest path .... because My messengers have My word .... Powerful is this saying that I Myself associate Myself with the messengers so closely that they are able to hear My word .... But by this you also recognize My messengers and know how to distinguish them from the opposing forces, that they are representatives of My word which they receive from Me Myself. Consequently, they must also have the right knowledge because I teach them Myself ....

(10.7.1949) And you should join these leaders, you should entrust yourselves to them if you want to reach the aim, to reach Me, Who can only be reached by one path .... the path of truth. But the pure truth is only contained in My word, the pure truth can only be conveyed to you humans through My word, which is why I instruct My messengers to bring you My word and thus to be reliable guides for you on your path of earthly life. I send you right guides and if you pay attention to them you will gain much, for they possess much and can therefore give much to those who possess nothing. But they receive their possessions, their wealth, from Me and constantly accept it from Me, thus you, too, can come into possession of a gift which originated from Me, you can participate in the enjoyment of that which I can only impart directly to earthly children who are turned towards Me and willing to love. You can enter its blessings and then you will take the right path of your own accord, for then you will only follow the guides who, as My messengers, know the right path which leads to Me. And therefore make sure that you don't let yourselves be led wrongly, demand clarification from your guides, and if they cannot give it to you then don't choose them as your guide but search until you have found the right guide, and truly, I say to you that he who seeks will also find, for I Myself come to meet the willing and give Myself to him to recognize .... I approach him in a person through whom I can express Myself, to whom I therefore bring the gospel, unadulterated and pure, and who, therefore .... taught by My spirit .... can convey the full truth to him, which alone leads to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

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Leaders' and teachers' way of life is decisive for truth ....

B.D. 4794 from December 8th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

It is of utmost importance for you humans to be informed of the truth and that you therefore join a school of thought which upholds the truth, whose leaders and teachers are educated by God and thus enable the working of the spirit within themselves. And by the way of life of those who claim to be the representatives of the truth from God you will always be able to recognise the degree of truth, and thus you will at all times know how much value can be ascribed to their teachings. Therefore you should first pay attention to the attitude the leaders and teachers of a school of thought have towards the divine commandments, towards the commandment of love for God and their neighbour. Don't let their speeches alone deceive you, whether they put into practise what they teach is the only crucial factor and places people into the service of God. For a way of life according to God's will makes the human being an aspirant for the spiritual kingdom and therefore he will think correctly, for a person who fulfils God's commandments recognises the truth and his power of judgment is considerably enhanced through the enlightenment of his spirit, which becomes effective as a result of his loving activity. A person whose way of life corresponds to God's will can always be believed, and if he then endorses a specific school of thought he will also work for God and His kingdom, because God will never let a person become guilty of a lie if he strives towards Him and wants to advocate the truth.

The human being's will always has priority, and accordingly God will take care of him or He will turn away from him. The right will, however, is full of humility and obedience towards God; hence he will never try to stand out, that is, he will not want to achieve earthly advantages or honour and fame, no reputation or high office, he will only quietly and modestly serve God and for the sake of truth endorse the truth because he feels that only truth leads to God and due to his love for his fellow human beings he would like to lead them to God as well. The teachers themselves have to be educated by God .... Yet only love will gain them this extraordinary privilege, and therefore a person has to have love if his spiritual knowledge is to be acknowledged as truth, as directly received knowledge from God. Consequently, where you humans cannot detect love in a servant of God you should also reject his spiritual information, for it is not from above, it is Satan's work of deception who, under cover of piety, tries to spread error and will always find good ground where love is missing. Test it and appeal to God for help to make the right judgment, yet do not accept without scrutiny if you don't have the guarantee that the Word of God is imparted to you directly from above. Test all things you are offered, by appealing to God, and keep what is good .... This is God's will so that His spirit shall become active in you ....

Amen

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Spiritual guides ....

B.D. 4874 from April 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I Myself appoint those people as spiritual leaders who are suitable for it. All people can certainly shape themselves such that they are chosen by Me as suitable for spiritual guidance, yet no person can ever elevate himself to this position. Thus My words are to be understood: "Many are called but few are chosen..." All of you can shape yourselves through your will into servants devoted to Me, to whom I assign a task. So you are all called .... But the call to service then already presupposes a degree of maturity, for you can only serve Me if you are able to carry out the work I require of you. My servants on earth, however, have to work for My kingdom which is not of this world. They must enlighten the erring, guide the blind, support the weak and always act as mediators of their ministry .... Receive My will and announce it to their fellow human beings. These are the right spiritual leaders, and their office understandably also requires a mastery of everything they are to teach, thus it requires spiritual training which they, in turn, can only receive from Me Myself in a certain degree of maturity. And therefore I choose My servants Myself, for you humans lack the ability to recognize who is suitable for such a task which only results in purely spiritual success and is therefore little understood by the world. Therefore, only people who accept My instructions from Me directly, i.e. who do not feel bound by knowledge which was previously imparted to them through human mouths, can be considered as spiritual guides. They must establish the connection with Me in fullest freedom and thus unconditionally hand themselves over to My will and My guidance. These are the ones who have recognized their calling and want to let themselves be chosen by Me Myself, since they feel that only I can be addressed as the client. They want to serve Me and ask Me for My approval .... But spiritual leaders also call themselves people who have not waited for their calling to serve Me but who call themselves to a teaching ministry on earth, who therefore also want to work for the kingdom of God and certainly have the best will to do so, yet without My special calling they have entered into a ministry which is for people's spiritual benefit. I place certain conditions on such service; if they are fulfilled then I also accept them as My servants, yet this always requires an unconditional surrender to Me, an opening of the heart to receive My instruction, without which no-one can be active for Me on earth. Every service for Me and My kingdom presupposes the working of My spirit in the human being, for only he who is guided by My spirit himself can take over spiritual guidance. Without the working of the spirit no guidance of the blind is possible. And this should give everyone food for thought so that they recognize who, as a spiritual leader, has been commissioned by Me to work for Me and My kingdom. The working of the spirit in the human being is not a gift I give to those who want to work for Me, but only he can enter My service who has shaped himself so that My spirit can work in him. And thus the words will also be understandable: "Many are called ...." for everyone can shape himself in this way .... "but only a few are chosen ...." Only a few allow the working of the spirit within themselves, but this is the first condition for being chosen by Me for an office on earth: to be a spiritual guide for people. But anyone who is filled by My spirit can distinguish error from truth, and he frees himself from a teaching which is full of contradictions, which therefore did not originate from Me as it is currently preached. He stands in the truth and also represents it, he can enlighten the erring, guide the blind, support the weak and constantly convey My word, My will, to them, because he is in direct contact with Me .... because My spirit is working in him, because I have chosen him as a servant to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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A "teacher" must be filled with the spirit ....

B.D. 7882 from April 30th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

No further explanation is required for the transmission of My word from above other than that I Myself want to bestow the truth upon you because you walk in error, because you have perverted many doctrines of faith and because in the course of time the gospel I taught on earth has been contaminated in such a way that your spirit has become darkened instead of enlightened. You have made assertions which completely deviate from the truth and it is no longer possible for you to recognize Me and My nature correctly .... You interpret the written word, the scriptures, in a wrong way, you go by the letters and don't know the spiritual meaning of the words which I have put into them .... You are no longer able to distinguish 'God's word' from additional human work .... You argue with each other because everyone represents different doctrines, and you are far away from the pure truth .... And I want to give it to you again and therefore convey My word to earth, I bring you a light in whose glow you can recognize error if you yourselves desire the pure truth .... again and again the human being's intellect has intervened and suppressed the truth, because the intellect can be influenced by My adversary who fights against the truth because he wants to prevent you from recognizing Me correctly and then also striving towards Me .... Yet if you want to live in the light of truth you must also do your part: You must live in love and desire the truth .... Then it will also be your share. Yet without love you will not grasp the truth either, and you will distort its meaning again and continue to remain in error. The fact that I therefore manifestly appear by giving you evidence of My presence when I address you should not seem strange to you, for I am the eternal truth and will again and again seek access to you because I want to grant you eternal life which, however, can only be found through truth. But only the person who possesses the truth himself will be able to approach his fellow human beings as a teacher, and this person must have received it from Me himself .... But many people 'teach' who do not yet know the truth themselves, and error is spread instead of proclaiming the truth. The teacher must be so intimately united with Me that he receives the truth directly from Me when he teaches his fellow human beings .... Thus a 'teacher' must be filled by My spirit, then he will only represent the pure truth, because then he will be a true labourer for Me in My vineyard who scatters good seed in people's hearts which shall sprout and bear fruit. Therefore, everyone should first shape himself such that I Myself can speak through him if he wants to instruct his fellow human beings as a preacher, if he wants to bring them the gospel which guarantees pure truth .... which I Myself taught when I lived on earth. If My spirit cannot work in a 'teacher' then someone else will speak from him, for then it will not be his heart which impels him to proclaim the gospel but only his intellect, which My adversary can then also use by trying to obscure the light which, however, the pure truth signifies for the human being. You, who proclaim My gospel, you should be serious about shaping yourselves so that I can pour out My spirit upon you .... You shall not speak out of your intellect, but you shall let Me Myself speak through the heart .... And truly, you will distance yourselves from teachings which are untrue, you will inwardly resist advocating something which does not correspond to the truth, for My spirit will then warn you against it .... And you should check how far your thinking is in accordance with My word, which I Myself convey to you from above .... For I am the eternal truth, and what is from Me must be truth .... And you will also recognize the origin of it at any time if you yourselves are serious about standing in the pure truth .... Only I Myself can convey it to you, and I am truly always willing to shine a light into the darkness on earth, for only in the light will you find the right path, only through the light of truth will you attain eternal life ...._>Amen

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A teacher gets educated by Myself ....

B.D. 8749 from February 10th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

I will fill in all gaps in your knowledge as far as you need knowledge, for it is not yet possible for you as human beings on earth to penetrate the most profound depths of wisdom since it requires a high degree of perfection, which the being usually only attains in the spiritual realm where it can be fully enlightened by My love. Yet on earth the person to whom I assign a teaching ministry shall receive sufficient spiritual knowledge so as to leave no gaps for him, so that no question can be posed to him which he would be unable to answer .... Whatever a human being would like to know, he will always be able to obtain an explanation from those who are taught by Me directly through the spirit, and thus no knowledge will ever be unfamiliar to the teacher. However, he, too, will be slowly guided into it, and I always know when he requires particular knowledge in order to answer questions, hence I will always prepare him at the right time, or I will answer the questions posed to him directly, just as I promised you that you should ask Me if you want to know something .... Yet you who wish to know should always go to the source as well, for that is where you have the guarantee of receiving the truth from Me .... Don't allow yourselves to be instructed by ignorant people, by those who have not been called by Me to the teaching ministry ....

I welcome every person who wants to serve Me as a labourer in My vineyard, however, I assign everyone to the place where he is most suited to work for Me .... And so every servant's task differs .... But not every labourer in My vineyard is suited as a teacher, yet he can contribute towards spreading the truth by passing on the correct teaching material, by seeing to it that the truth from Me gets distributed; he can also use this information himself by verbally reading it word for word to his fellow human beings and thereby convey the direct Word from Me, which then will also emanate strength accordingly and will have the same effect on people as My address .... Yet not everyone should think that he fulfils My will if he makes use of the knowledge he has gained through My Word and then feels entitled and able to teach .... First he must appeal to Me from the bottom of his heart for enlightening his spirit, so that I can speak through him Myself, even if he uses his own words. Then he will speak plainly and simply and thus touch everyone's heart who is of good will. But if the person starts to offer intellectual explanations he will no longer pass on 'My Word' and hardly achieve any success. And then he will not render true vineyard work, he is still too much in the forefront instead of leaving the work to Me. The teaching ministry requires constant direct instruction by Me, since this instruction will also grant the person comprehension and correct judgment which enable him to teach.

But if I convey My Word directly to earth so that it can be written down, then the task of passing the transcript on to other people follows by itself, and for that I need faithful servants again who do whatever it takes to spread My Word, and I will bless them for it, since particularly the distribution of 'My Word' during the last days before the end is the most effective countermeasure of refuting My adversary's activity who ceaselessly endeavours to keep people in densest darkness by means of lies and errors .... Hence you shall help to spread the light, you shall carry it into the world so that many people will be able to gain strength through My Word in order to help them find their way out of the darkness. And truly, I choose the right servants for Myself who always fulfil their designated task, depending on their aptitude and willingness .... However, if a person sincerely asks Me for it I can also grant him the aptitude to speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom, but then he will bear witness to Me in a plain and simple way and try to encourage his fellow human beings' faith and love, he will live a life of love himself and thus also be spiritually awake so that I can use him as a mouthpiece although he will repeat in his own words what I put into his mouth.

And these speeches will not sound scholarly; they will not be guided by the intellect but only come from the heart, for I express Myself only through the heart. Even so, if I let My Word flow to earth directly I will educate a suitable teacher Myself whom I guide into a knowledge which he can understand and also pass on to his fellow human beings, for then he will be the vessel into which My spirit can flow, but as a human being he will also be endowed with the gift of enlightening another person who desires this clarification .... I have assigned this task to him and he will work according to My will, hence he will also be able to truthfully answer all questions put to him because he won't lack any knowledge. I will put everyone who earnestly wants to serve Me in the right place and give him his task, which he only ever shall carry out to the best of his ability, and My blessing will always rest on him and his work ....

Amen

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Guide and companion .... God's blessing ....

B.D. 5984 from June 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Everyone is accepted who voluntarily comes to Me .... anyone who strives towards Me in thought, who wants Me to accept him, can also feel seized by Me and will return to the father's house, even though his path is arduous and he is often of the will to turn back; he may well fall back a few steps .... but once I have grasped him I will never let go, he can always pick himself up again by My hand if he has fallen, and I will never withdraw My hand from him again .... after all, I have been waiting for his return for an eternity. Therefore I bless all those who make Me known to people, who bring Me so close to them that I will also be desired by them as a guide and companion for this earthly life .... People's thinking is often so distant that they don't notice Me when I come to their side .... and then it is good when people are found who draw their fellow human beings' attention to Me, who present the danger of a path without a guide to them and point them to My loving guidance. And then I come forth and offer Myself to them .... and anyone who voluntarily follows Me will truly no longer be able to go astray and lose his way. I know every individual person's thoughts and feel drawn towards those who seek contact with Me, and I will never ever remove Myself from their sides, even if at times no attention is paid to Me .... They are My children whom I want to guide upwards and whom I can guide if only they want to find Me, that I take care of them. I will only let those who openly and firmly reject Me go their own way, I will not force Myself upon them, yet even their farther ways will not be without signposts .... again and again they will be pointed to the right path, and it is up to their free will whether they change the chosen direction and choose Me as their aim. All people are blind in spirit who do not yet recognize Me when I walk by their side .... and I therefore bless those who endeavour to give these blind people knowledge that they need a guide .... I bless all who tell them of their perilous condition and at the same time advise and help them to take refuge in the right guide .... I bless those whose need goes to the heart, that they assist them and that they give love to those who do not receive love because they reject the giver of love .... I bless those who see, who take care of the blind in order to open their eyes for the glories of that world which lies ahead of them and which can be attained by every person who only wants Me to guide him .... who does not reject Me but believes in Me .... For only he who believes comes to Me voluntarily, and only he who comes voluntarily do I draw to My heart so that I will never let him go from Me again ....

Amen

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God's guidance of His servants ....

B.D. 7989 from September 10th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

Everything you undertake in My name, for which you ask for My blessing, will be a blessing for you. And thus you will also experience My support at all times if you let Me walk by your side .... if you entrust yourselves to My guidance .... And I will guide you correctly, for the paths you are to take in order to serve Me are marked out for you. My concern is only ever for people's souls whom I still want to win before the end comes. I want to speak to them and therefore send My messengers to them .... I want them to take notice of My word, and I truly know which doors I can still knock on, where I can desire entrance and also be accepted .... And to all these I still seek to convey My word, and you, My servants, shall be the messengers I send to them .... For this reason I will also take over your guidance and you need only trustingly hand yourselves over to Me that I will guide you. For you must know that the time is only limited and therefore you must not neglect to spread My gospel. But you may also completely rely on Me that I will walk beside you and that you should only ever let everything approach you, for it will come as My will determines and as it is also beneficial for your mission .... And as it comes, so it is also good, even if you yourselves sometimes don't recognize the expediency of an event .... Therefore any worry you have is useless .... You should only believe and turn your thoughts towards Me and then calmly walk by My hand and be full of inner peace .... But you should also be aware of the fact that it is necessary to always seek contact with Me anew, because the world often wants to prevent you from doing so. Therefore you should never let go of My hand, you should only ever want Me to stay with you and guide you, and truly, your paths will be right and always lead to where you will find peace and inner tranquillity. World events will worry you more and more and yet you will no longer be able to avert anything, for it will happen as it is intended according to the plan of eternity .... because the time is fulfilled, because the spiritual turning point has to occur which also necessitates an earthly turning point .... But you, who belong to My own, you shall carry out your mission which aims to redeem the souls. As long as I need you for this, world events will not particularly affect you either, after all, I truly have ways and means at My disposal to avert from you, who want to serve Me, what could prevent your vineyard work. My plan of salvation from eternity is fixed, and your willingness to serve Me has been known to Me since eternity, and therefore My plan, which aims at the return of the fallen spirits, could also be accordingly. Every single soul I still win before the end is known to Me, and I spare no ways or means where it is possible to save even a single soul from ruin. But I will always respect free will and therefore also bless every person who serves Me in free will in accordance with My plan of salvation. And I take special care of him .... And as soon as he therefore places himself at My side in free will he can also be certain that he no longer needs to worry about his earthly existence, about his fate and his task, for everything is now guided by Me and everything is My will or My permission .... And you should live in this certainty and only ever do what you are inwardly urged to do .... Then your earthly walk will be a blessed one, you will be able to be certain of My protection and guidance, you will not take wrong paths, you will be fit servants for Me in My vineyard, you will fulfil your mission and serve Me, and I will bless you in time and eternity ....

Amen

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The vineyard labourers trust in divine guidance ....

B.D. 8645 from October 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You can always rely on My guidance by merely placing yourselves under My protection and choosing Me as your guide. In that case you can rest assured that I will protect you from My adversary's every onslaught, that you will always receive the strength to resist him if he wants to tempt you, for once your will belongs to Me I Am also entitled to protect you from him, otherwise, however, I will not stop him because he, too, is fighting for the souls so as not to lose them. It is always the human being's own decision to whose power he entrusts himself .... Yet I will at all times assist the person who has found the path to Me. Then he will also be active in accordance with My will, for My influence consists of encouraging the human being to live a way of life which is pleasing to Me .... Then he will always feel inwardly impelled to do or not to do this or that and he can be certain of the fact that I Myself place this urge in him, that it is My expression which is felt by the heart of the human being who entrusts himself to Me. Similarly, I will place the right thoughts into your hearts, My servants on earth, when you work for Me in My vineyard, because this should also be done according to My instructions, even if it occasionally seems doubtful to you. As soon as you have offered your services to Me I will also assign your work to you and you can safely follow your inner inclination. Nothing happens thoughtlessly, I always pursue a specific plan or purpose, and you only ever accomplish what I would do Myself if I lived on this earth in the flesh .... Thus you represent Me, and you can believe that I place My will in you so that you seemingly act according to your own will, but that this resolve is always caused by Me because you voluntarily offer to work for Me. But not all people pay attention to the inner voice and therefore I cannot speak to them directly, nor can I speak so frankly to them that they will be convinced of being addressed by the Father Himself .... I must speak to people through mediators whose words they can either accept or reject, yet this is up to them on account of their freedom of will. Nevertheless, no human being shall go without My merciful care, I look after everyone and show them the right path when they go astray .... For this reason I inform them through My messengers of the right path which they, in their spiritual darkness, often can't find or take a path which leads them astray because it is illuminated by the deceptive lights My adversary has ignited in order to mislead people who want to reach higher spheres .... But as soon as these call upon Me Myself and appeal for My protection and guidance they are already on the right path and I will send My messengers to meet them in order to assist with their ascent to Me. Nevertheless, My protection and guidance are only rarely called upon, people believe they have enough strength and light at their disposal and that they will then also be receptive to My adversary's influence who knows how to present them with flowery paths and to conjure up the most attractive regions which, however, will infallibly end up in darkness .... and thus the human being has not ascended at all but walked down into the abyss. Only the person who voluntarily entrusts himself to My guidance can travel his earthly path without worrying, for he will reach the goal .... He has handed himself over to Me of his own free will, and I will indeed be his final goal, he will join Me, the One he always intended to reach .... I only want you to voluntarily give Me the right to guide you through your life on earth, then you will never need to fear going astray or failing, for then you will also always do what is right before My eyes, because this will is in you once you have accepted My will and given up your own will .... in that case the adversary will have no more power over you because you will resist his temptations, you will remain faithful to Me and I will always grant you My protection ....

Amen

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Truth of inspired proclamations .... medial ....

B.D. 3190a from July 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Man has the gift of being able to judge, and he should also use this gift. It is his right and also his duty to observe what is going on around him and to take a stand for or against it, otherwise he will leave the gift of understanding unused and this will be detrimental to his soul, which should mature in everything. A conscientious examination also gives the human being the right to judge, but it is also absolutely necessary for this. A conscientious examination also enables him to pass a just judgment, because then the will to possess the true is recognizable and this will is always blessed, thus the human being is provided with the power of realization and can now judge correctly and justly. The blessing of divine revelations remains reserved for many people because they do not acknowledge them. Conversely, however, many things are recognized and falsely represented as coming from above, even though their divine origin must be denied. This is immensely misleading when it is spread as spiritual knowledge and prevents people from recognizing the truth. If the human being is completely free of prejudice, he will very soon recognize the spirit in what is to be made accessible to people as truth. He will sense where others have to use their intellect in order to reach the same result, and then it is the voice of the heart which instructs the human being and warns him when untruth touches his ear, but which also lets him recognize what is right, which is helpful to people for their salvation of soul ....

The truth of the inspired proclamation can easily be recognized by the fact that it contains divine wisdom. The content of the proclamations must go far beyond human thinking, thus they must contain summarizing explanations which make the essence of the eternal deity clear to the human being, they must make God's love, wisdom and omnipotence recognizable, thus they must be profound in their content and clear in their structure. Their content must be teachings which reveal a high knowledge of the teacher, but on the other hand they must be held in such a way that they are comprehensible to every person who wants to understand them. The gifts which are offered medially often lack the depth of knowledge, and they also do not contain wisdom which increases the knowledge of the human being, because they lack coherence. But as soon as they have an improving effect on people they cannot be denied a spiritual giver who strives towards God; he is just not yet in the degree of light which allows him to teach people. But he seeks to impart his knowledge and uses people for this who surrender their will to unknown powers, which is therefore also not denied to him by God because people bypass the direct path, the path to God, the prayer for the working of the spirit, which gives them the most certain guarantee that erring beings can no longer instruct them. The strength of will is necessary to receive the truth from God, but not that the human being relinquishes his will, which can now also be appropriated by beings who want to assert themselves without being instructed by God to teach people. It is a welcome opportunity for these beings to transfer their still inadequate knowledge to people. Admittedly, they are prevented from imparting error by people's will to live in a God-pleasing way. But as soon as the human being himself clings to an error they will take up his thoughts and return it in detail; they will, in a manner of speaking, use human thinking as a foundation on which they now build, and thereby erroneous teachings arise which are now no longer recognized but eagerly advocated as truth imparted from above, although they originated from their own thinking and will. For the human being himself is the cause of such teachings, firstly through his will and his thinking and then through the devotion of the will, which can now be used by every being that has access to the one who avails himself of his will. The laws of the spiritual kingdom are fixed, they are clearly and unambiguously presented to people through the working of the spirit, through the inner word .... As soon as the human being tries to penetrate an area outside of this lawfulness which is otherwise closed to him, he must also reckon with the fact that he will not be offered unconditional truth, even though he reduces the danger of falling prey to evil beings through his own striving towards God. Yet the guarantee for unconditional truth is only given to him if he subjects himself to divine law, if he wants to receive the truth from within, from the spiritual spark within himself which is part of God and which will never ever teach him wrongly ....

People should contact God Himself, they should ask Him for the truth, for enlightenment of the spirit and then faithfully wait for the fulfilment of their requests. Then God will instruct them through His messengers or directly through the inner word. However, both results must agree, otherwise the divine origin can be doubted, for God's messengers teach nothing else but God Himself, because they always and constantly only fulfil His will. Wanting to receive the truth in a fully conscious state after heartfelt prayer also guarantees God's working through His spirit, and the human being does not need a fellow human being who surrenders his will in order to serve the beings of light as an organ. For the beings of light can mentally communicate themselves to the human being as soon as he surrenders himself to their influence. The human being should practice consciously listening within so that he will always be able to hear God's voice. The mental instructions are therefore far more valuable because they earn the human being profoundest knowledge who desires such and humbly requests it from God. But if God speaks to people through pure spiritual beings then these will announce the same as what is conveyed to people through the inner word, but the proclamations will never contradict each other. And this is the characteristic of the divine mission, that the human being increases in knowledge which he can now also pass on in the most comprehensible way, that he can therefore, as a disciple of Jesus, spread His teaching amongst his fellow human beings, that he preaches love to them, thus teaches love and practices love, otherwise he cannot receive the truth himself. For the reception of divine truth presupposes activity of love, and therefore truth will always be found where love is practiced, because then God Himself can work in the human being and His activity truly guarantees purest truth ....

Amen

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God-blessed spiritual connections .... low spiritism ....

B.D. 7009 from January 2nd 1958, taken from Book No. 75

All spiritual connections to earth are under My protection as soon as people's will is good who initiate such connections. For these connections have to be established on earth because the spiritual world is only allowed to work when the human being's will allows it. If people's will is good then the world of light may also intervene, whereas if people's attitude is low the spiritual forces express themselves which do not radiate light but rather deepen the darkness in which people find themselves. But since it is My will that light shall shine for you humans I will always bless those bonds which are the result of a good attitude and good will. And thus I will also protect those people from erroneous transmissions, for good will gives Me the right to do so, to push away the immature spirits and to prevent them from receiving erroneous thought material .... And thus you can also accept instructions from the spiritual kingdom without worry and with relief, for the world of light constantly endeavours to guide you to the light, which also happens through mental influence as soon as you desire light. But then you will also soon realize that you are also allowed to establish ties, that there is no separation between the earthly and the spiritual world .... that you are constantly surrounded by beings which are only of your will and attitude .... But only those people who have the serious will to come closer to Me and the truth will believe in this, for people who also establish spiritual bonds and are still of a lowly nature themselves have no real faith in Me. Rather, they only seek to satisfy their own curiosity, they try to uncover secrets and seek sensational entertainment .... And these people are also served according to their attitude, and their faith in a God of love will never be awakened in them, instead, they are far more likely to draw closer to My adversary, who pushes them ever further away from Me through lies and error. This is why serious warnings must be given against such ties with the spiritual kingdom, whereas every person who seeks to establish a serious bond with the world of light may feel safe under My protection. For the beings of light are the executors of My will, the beings of light do nothing of their own will, for their will is fully subject to Mine. But I often make these beings happy with tasks by entrusting them with people for guidance who earnestly strive towards Me, who have already entered into a serious bond with Me, so that I can provide them with light, with the pure truth which originates from Me and is thus conveyed to them directly or through My messengers of light, but who will never offer you humans anything other than what flows to them from Me. For you must know that My emanation of light and strength constantly touches these beings and is then passed on by them and that their bliss also consists of being able to provide them with light and strength again which such need and require. Therefore only your will is decisive to unite with Me and the world of light, then you are also guaranteed My protection and blessing, irrespective of whether the light of truth mentally reaches you or you receive it from Me in the form of My word. The eternal truth Itself is always at work, and It will ward off every dishonest spirit which tries to intervene .... just as, conversely, My beings of light are powerless against this dark world of spirits if the human being himself grants them access through his attitude and allows their activities. And every person should account for his motives which drive him to try to exchange spiritual forces .... A serious warning should be given against spiritualism of a lower kind, which brings no blessing but is a great danger to hand oneself over to My adversary if it is not recognized in time ....

Amen

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Serious warning against psychic receptions ....

B.D. 7977 from August 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

You should not trouble yourselves with doubts, but you should also know that you only receive pure truth from Me by merely wanting your thoughts to be correct and true. And you will always receive assurance that I do not contradict Myself, that therefore the spiritual information which originates from Me, which was conveyed to those of you through the 'working of My spirit' who allow My activity in you, must always tally. However, since My adversary's influence confused people's thinking, since falsehood and error are far more likely to be accepted by people, it has also become necessary to convey the pure truth from above time and again, for truth does not remain pure for long among people, for unkindness reigns and this darkens the spirit, so that it is easy for My adversary to proceed against the truth and to intersperse it with error, without this being recognised by people. Light is all you humans need in order to find and travel the path to Me and to ascend .... In the darkness you take wrong paths which lead off course, and since it is My adversary's goal and intention to alienate you from Me and to gain you for himself, he will eagerly strive to confuse your thinking, and he will do so under the mask of an angel of light. And the danger that he will be heeded is particularly great during the time of the end, because people are lacking love and therefore possess no power of judgment either .... They fall prey to error and then he will have won them over. For this reason I keep making you aware of the cover under which he appears. For he is full of cunning and trickery, he tries to slip in where he can show himself as an angel of light, where people look for contact with the spiritual kingdom .... but where the preconditions are missing which guarantee a genuinely pure spiritual bond with the world of light .... However, wherever the preconditions exist he is unable to intervene, and only then will the truth be guaranteed, because all beings of light work on My instructions and can only distribute pure truth which they receive from Me .... Yet can you humans know with absolute certainty that you demonstrate the preconditions which guarantee you this bond with the world of light? And can you therefore be certain that the spiritual realm conveys the full truth to you? Can you do this where it concerns psychic transmissions from the spiritual kingdom? Do you know whether it is impossible for the adversary to intervene if a person as a 'shell' forfeits his own will? Only a high degree of maturity will result in your protection by the world of light .... but in view of the great risk the beings of light will always try to influence people such that they allow the 'working of the spirit' in them in a conscious state, that they shape themselves into a receiving vessel for the divine spirit .... that they improve themselves in order to grant the beings of light the undisputable right to repel everything unspiritual from them and to only let the pure truth flow to them, which they receive from Me, so that they can instruct you humans if it is your will and you fulfil all preconditions ....

You humans must remember that the time of the end has come, that you don't have much time left, and that you should therefore accomplish the work of improving your soul with increased vigour .... And you must know that My adversary will use all his power to try to prevent this endeavour .... Thus he will try this where he is not recognised, where a human being's conscious will does not offer him opposition .... He has great power and makes use of it when psychic receptions are desired whose truthfulness cannot be verified by you humans .... Be warned, for the point is not that it would be impossible for a being of light to express itself through a medium, but the point is that you humans are incapable of judging whether a being of light expresses itself or whether the adversary's clever disguise enables him to spread darkness .... And this darkness can have a disastrous effect on you; misguided teachings can be conveyed to you from which you can only detach yourselves with difficulty .... But a misguided teaching will always obstruct the path to Me, it will obscure the light in you or extinguish it entirely, and the path to Me will be prolonged by you .... I want to caution you of this, for there is not much time left, you are near the end, and once a misguided teaching has taken hold in you it will take quite a while before you recognise it as such, and this time might no longer be at your disposal .... The possibility that you are offered truth certainly exists, but you are unable to judge whether it is offered to you and consequently there is always the risk that your spirit will become darkened if I don't seriously warn and admonish you only to believe those Words which are conveyed to you through My spirit .... for it will guide you into all truth, as I have promised you ....

Amen

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Driven by false leaders

Own will activity .... blind leaders and their followers ....

B.D. 4958 from August 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

People let themselves drift without any resistance. They are brought into existence as beings capable of living and thinking, who are to use their abilities for their upward development. They can want and act and should also use their gifts. For the most part, they let themselves drift like a plaything. What is done to them, they put up with without resistance, and thus there are always only a few who want and act and determine their fellow human beings with their will. And these few are not always good, i.e., they do not always determine their fellow human beings for the good. Rather, it is precisely those people who still spiritually oppose Me who have a strong will. Consequently, this will is transferred to them to the detriment of their fellow human beings and they do not defend themselves. This also explains the acceptance of the many misguided teachings which could very well be recognized by the slightest activity of one's own will and thoughts. But letting oneself drift without resistance is no defence against teachings which are offered to people by strong-willed and energetic fellow human beings. They therefore use their will too little and harm themselves, i.e. their soul. But I have given every individual the task to decide freely during earthly life and this decision inevitably demands his own activity of will and thought. One day you will not be able to excuse yourselves by saying that you only followed the instructions which were given to you as important for your soul's salvation. You will not be able to shift the blame onto those who taught you, even if they were given to you as teachers and also proclaimed the pure truth to you. For this too requires your mental attitude towards it, otherwise you would not be able to recognize it as truth. It is a matter of the upward development of each individual soul .... which certainly needs guides in order to reach the heights, but must not follow everyone who offers himself as a guide. Understand that there are many paths and that you should choose the right one. Therefore you must take care of the path yourselves and not blindly follow a guide who, if he is not good himself, can also take the wrong path. I not only demand accountability from these leaders but also from you, otherwise you could truly receive neither reward nor punishment for the right or wrong way of life on earth but only your leader would have deserved it. How can you claim that you have to be obedient to your leaders? You should only fulfil My will, and you have to get to know it yourselves, which can certainly happen through external instruction, but without your mental attitude it cannot lead to the revival and activity of the will. A good guide will always encourage you to think, and you can also follow him .... but a bad leader demands blind faith in him and his teachings. But I condemn blind faith, for it will not awaken you to life. A blind faith testifies to spiritual sloth, idle will and lack of sense of responsibility; a blind faith kills instead of enlivening, and it will never lead to eternal bliss. I Myself did not create you differently from your guides, I gave you a heart which is capable of love if you are willing and which therefore can also attain realization if the human being strives for it. But if he is weak-willed the guide should help him to use his will correctly, he should certainly support him by instructing him but also demand thought from you, otherwise his instructions are pointless. For every person must make the decision himself and one day also answer for this decision ....

Amen

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False christs and prophets .... work of satan ....

B.D. 6001 from July 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Satan's intention is to cause confusion among the faithful, among those whom he recognizes as lost to him and whom he nevertheless hopes to win back. He is full of deceit and cunning, and he always finds means to use. And he is not afraid to disguise himself and seemingly walk with Me, he is not afraid to feign light in order to extinguish the true light and leave people in utmost darkness .... He is dangerous .... but yet to be recognized by those who have given themselves to Me and are therefore also protected by Me .... to whom I therefore also give the gift of discernment, which also recognizes him through the mask .... Remember that the time of the end has come and that he will stop at nothing because he knows that he has not much time left .... Remember that many false christians and false prophets will arise in the time of the end, that he hides behind those, and therefore be watchful and persevere in prayer .... for union with Me is the best protection against him .... If you let Me stay with you, he cannot be present .... but if you stumble or turn away from Me, even for a short time, he tries to slip in and succeeds in confusing you, he succeeds in sowing discord and strife, impatience and unkindness, where My presence prevents such things .... He can cause confusion amongst people but you can also protect yourselves from it .... You can resist him, you can command him to leave you if only you always let Me stand by your side, if you call upon Me in your thoughts and always commend yourselves to My protection .... Then I will truly not allow him to besiege you, then My presence will prevent him from approaching you. And bear in mind that everything unpleasant is his influence .... consider that unkindness above all opens the gate for him through which he can enter, and therefore beware of every unkind word, unkind thoughts and unkind actions .... For these are his work and can cause you to fall. And lest you succumb to his temptations, pray .... And you will be strengthened and resist, you will realize that My power is always greater, that My love is always ready for you and that I protect you from all attacks of your enemy if only you pray fervently: Lead us (not) in (the) temptation ....

Amen

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False prophets ....

B.D. 7705 from September 20th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Let Me tell you that you will be increasingly more exposed to assaults by My adversary as the end is approaching, because he uses his power in truly satanic ways, and particularly against My Own who want to serve Me and whom he believes he can still win over for himself. But you merely need to be watchful, because you will always recognize his conduct, you will always know who is hiding behind the schemes which disrupt or entirely prevent your spiritual work. Because it will be confirmed that many false prophets appear under My banner, that they will try to belittle My Words and My information concerning the approaching end. It will be confirmed that people are easy prey, that they would rather believe these false prophets than you, because these will always give them the hope that they are approaching a bright future, that they do not have to fear the future, that their worldly efforts will be successful and that an end to this world is thus unthinkable ....

And in that case you will know that you are dealing with false prophets, and then you will have to remain strong in faith and believe what I had proclaimed and continue to proclaim to you, that the time has been fulfilled and that you humans are in great danger if you do not prepare yourselves for the end such that you need not fear it. Anyone who lives righteously and just, who has found Jesus Christ and completely gives himself to Him, anyone who recognizes Me Myself in Him and thus calls on Me in Jesus when he is in distress will survive the dangers of the last days and emerge unscathed. He will live to see the new earth and its paradisiacal life, and his faith will indeed become a blessing to him, because he will not fear the end anymore, he will hold on to Me and thus endure until the end and be blessed, as I have promised ....

But My adversary will rage and try to influence My Own until the end .... You should know this and not allow yourselves to be misled. However, he has his followers, and they will do his bidding and spread misguided teachings amongst people who completely oppose My Word, which is brought to you directly from above, My Gospel, which you may nevertheless believe totally. You should merely examine what is offered to you from elsewhere whether it corresponds to My Word .... since whatever is contrary to it also shows that it has originated from My adversary, and you can unhesitatingly reject those as false prophets who offer you spiritual knowledge which exclude an approaching end, which promise you humans a long existence on this earth yet .... You are on the threshold of the end and should prepare yourselves, and you would do well by doing so since then you would not need to be afraid of it. Because then the time will come which had also been proclaimed to you .... then a happy and blissful life on the new earth will come, but only for My Own who believe in Me and who defend their faith until the end .... Because everyone who perseveres until the end will be blessed .... they will live a wonderful life in the paradise of the new earth ....

Amen

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The adversary's activity behind a mask ....

B.D. 8433 from March 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The adversary will fight using all means during the last days before the end .... And neither will he shy away from availing himself of My Words and portraying himself as an angel of light which intends to bring salvation to people. And in their spiritually unenlightened state people will not recognise who approaches them and takes possession of their thoughts .... They will believe blindly as long as they hear pious words which, however, can be voiced by every spirit, because they are mere words which it does not believe in itself but which it uses in order to deceive people and to lead them astray. These dark forces don't shy away from any lie and often introduce themselves to people as elevated and supreme beings of light in order to deceive them and to stifle their doubts regarding the truthfulness of their statements. And you will be surprised in which way My adversary will continue to influence people through his accomplices during the last days .... For he wants to imitate Me .... Just as I Myself convey the pure truth to earth he, too, will try to impel people to listen to him by disguising himself as an angel of light. And people's obsession with making contact with supernatural spheres, with receiving extraordinary information and thus with entering a realm which is outside of this earth often provides My adversary with the opportunity to push himself forward and to be of service to people in order to confuse their thoughts, so that they are no longer able to recognise the pure truth if it is offered to them, because they, too, want to push themselves forward and regard themselves as recipients of the truth. The adversary plays an unscrupulous game but people themselves support him, for usually it is mere curiosity rather than a genuine desire for truth which motivates them into establishing contact with this spiritual world, which emanates blatant error in order to undermine the pure truth and which does not provide people with enlightenment. Only deceptive lights keep flashing up which so dazzle the eye that it cannot recognise the pure truth anymore. However, I Myself Am unable to do anything else but to repeatedly point out his cunning and trickery to you, for you yourselves give him the reason which makes his activity possible. For as soon as you strive towards Me with profound sincerity and desire the purest truth from Me I would truly not let you fall into his hands, and you would realise brightly and clearly that you are only being deceived by evil spirits, and time and again I have revealed the attributes to you by which you can recognise them ....

Just test them concerning My 'human manifestation in Jesus Christ', ask them to explain this mystery to you and you will realise that they will fail because they are still unenlightened themselves, that they don't know anything about Him and His act of Salvation and that they only avail themselves of His name in order to deceive you, yet they don't mean the name of their God and Creator of eternity, which they cannot voice in awareness of what it signifies .... They certainly make use of Jesus' human name, because they only ever speak of a human being but not of God Himself .... And you will truly not meet many people who, as bearers of light, will be able to enlighten you about this, because they received this clarification from Me Myself. But then you will also be able to make a judgment and accept the light from them without having to fear that you will be wrongly instructed .... And you can believe that a person will not know the truth as long as this problem of My human manifestation in Jesus is still unresolved .... Anyone who does not recognise or has not recognised Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world in Whom I manifested Myself in order to be able to be a visible God for My created beings will never .... be it on earth or from the beyond .... be able to inform you humans truthfully, for he himself does not yet have the truth, the correct realisation, and therefore he is not a right leader and teacher for people on earth either .... However, you humans are easily inclined to accept everything you receive from the spiritual kingdom as truth, because the desire to hear something extraordinary dominates you, thus it is stronger than the desire for the pure truth .... Yet in order to entrust you with an extraordinary task, which consists of receiving the truth from Me directly and of passing it on to your fellow human beings, you still lack too many prerequisites which facilitate a transmission of the pure truth .... requirements which I cannot exclude as not to endanger the pure truth. For you still move within a world of spirits yourselves which you attract through your desire for something extraordinary and, as a result, you are not guarded against influences from My adversary's sphere .... Neither do you free yourselves from this influence: instead you place yourselves at the disposal of these forces time and again which you, however, would definitely repel through heartfelt devotion to Me in Jesus Christ, through devotion to your Father and Redeemer, Who is your refuge and protection against everything that is unspiritual and that wants to encroach upon you ....

Amen

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Working of the adversary in the garb of the angel of light ....

B.D. 8583 from August 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

You will still often be exposed to My adversary's temptations, yet you must not allow yourselves to become discouraged and only ever turn your eyes towards Me, and his influence on you will constantly weaken the more you strive towards Me and maintain your bond with Me. Again and again he will try to prevent you in your vineyard work, but as soon as only your will is strong to serve Me his activity will be in vain. He will run against the strength of your will, which is meant for Me and therefore will press it (you) at any time, because you recognize him. And that is why he will also often disguise himself and appear as angel of light and want to go together with you to then counteract you .... But you, My servants on earth, you stand in the light and therefore will not need to fear his goings-on because you will recognize and unmask him, no matter how well his mask is chosen .... He will want to do the same as you and will stop at nothing, and that is exactly why you should be attentive .... Because it is the last time where great freedom is still left to him, which he uses in the most evil way that he goes against Me, against truth, against everything what strives for perfection .... He will present erroneous spiritual material to men; he will make use of human intellect and judge it wrongly. He will always place the world more in the foreground and seek to undermine every bond with Me .... He will prevent people from thinking about Me, their God and creator, by repeatedly turning their thoughts towards the world and thereby making them unfit to concentrate on Me or to seek contact with Me in quiet hours .... You humans do not know what power is at his disposal before the end, which you yourselves grant him through your attitude, through your indifference towards Me and your wrongly directed will, which strives far more for the worldly kingdom than the spiritual kingdom and which can therefore also be worked on by My adversary .... I certainly also work against him, but I will not touch your freedom of will when you rather incline towards him than towards Me .... But again and again I will also protect those from his influence who have already given themselves to Me, who only ever strive towards Me and consciously turn away from him. And although he will not let go of them and his attempts will continue, he will gain little or no profit, for they recognize him and will not let themselves be deceived by him .... Because already the will to belong to Me protects men from his influence because he is then powerless where he sees Me and My presence. The light, which goes out from Me, blinds him and pushes him back .... and all men would be protected from his temptations, if they would only consciously establish the connection with Me, because then My presence is the safest protection from him. For he can only approach you in weaknesses or in the wrong direction of your will .... And he makes use of such opportunities. But the ones who are Mine can also be reassured that I never leave them without protection. Therefore do not become fickle when obstacles seemingly stand in your way by which you recognize the influence of My adversary .... Then only turn to Me that I give you increased power to be able to resist, that I therefore may be prepared for help, which you then are also allowed to experience at any time. For I will never leave you to him, you who have offered yourselves to Me for service .... he will never be able to push you away from the path which leads to Me, and I will never allow him to poison the seed which you receive from Me .... You will recognize brightly and clearly where weeds start to grow up, and you will remove them because I want to keep the seed pure, which is supplied to you and through you is also to fertilise the hearts of men, the fields, which you are to work and cultivate still before the end .... Therefore you are to prevent all mixing with foreign spiritual material, you are not to let yourselves be dazzled by beautiful words and speeches, which are only ever meant to pretend to be of value, yet are completely worthless, because they did not come forth from Me but from My adversary, who had camouflaged himself well in order to find entrance with blind people, who themselves do not yet possess the right faculty of judgement, in order to ward him off when he offers them his works of dazzle .... I will truly take care that My word remains pure as long as eager servants make themselves available to Me who themselves only desire truth and only ever want to represent the pure truth .... Because it is the last time before the end, and only pure truth can still bring salvation to men out of greatest spiritual trouble. My adversary will certainly try to undermine this, but where the will of man allows My working there he will not be able to assert himself .... And you, My servants, will recognize him despite his mask, and you will declare war on him and also be able to be certain of My support in this fight .... For he certainly has power over you, if you yourselves grant him this, but never over Me Myself, Who is with everyone whose will belongs to Me and who alone wants to serve Me ...._>Amen

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Testing of spiritual

Spiritual guides on earth .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6284 from June 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

People need guides on earth, for they lack the power of realization to find and travel the right path on their own, they are still blind in spirit, their eyes don't recognize the path upwards and therefore they would often go wrong despite their will to reach the right aim. For the depth exerts a greater attraction which they would also fall prey to without help. I therefore provide them with guides whom they can entrust themselves to but are not forced to follow them .... These guides know exactly the right path because they come from above and want to lead everything to where it is light, where they themselves come from. They themselves are full of light but do not know in earthly life that they originate from the kingdom of light, for everything that is human on earth is also subject to the same law .... They lack all recollection so that they remain completely free in their decision of will .... so also these leaders assigned to people by Me, who only differ from their fellow human beings insofar as their whole striving applies to the attainment of a degree of maturity on earth, whereas their fellow human beings have turned their striving towards the world and now first have to be directed towards a different aim .... What seems to be in the nature of the former must first be slowly instilled in the others. And it is difficult both for the leader to persuade his fellow human being to do something that is less desirable to him and for this human being himself to turn away from what is desirable to him and to strive for goods that are completely unknown to him .... Yet precisely this is the actual test of earthly life which the human being has to pass, and that it can be passed need not be doubted because I only demand that from you which can be fulfilled .... But now, at My adversary's instigation, guides will offer themselves to the ignorant everywhere, i.e. at all crossroads, because it is his aim to conceal the right path from people such that they will pass it by and strive to where guides who 'know the way' offer themselves to them .... but who are completely unsuitable to guide them upwards because they don't know the path themselves. This is why you humans must be on your guard and first check every person who wants to lead you whether he is striving towards the right aim himself .... You can certainly do this, for a true leader must lead you past the cross of Golgotha .... he must first lead you to the cross so that you may surrender yourselves to the one who died for you on the cross .... You must learn from your leader's mouth about the significance of the act of salvation, through him you must learn to recognize the divine redeemer's overwhelming love and mercy, and now you must also recognize who He was Who died a criminal's death for you and why He did it .... A right guide will be able to provide you with this knowledge and you may also follow him without worry .... But a guide who does not know the way will lead you past Golgotha, he may mention the work of the man Jesus in passing in order to awaken your faith in his entitlement to lead you .... but you will not receive proper enlightenment about the significance of the act of salvation, you will indeed often hear the name 'Jesus Christ' from his mouth, yet not differently, as if He had only been a historical person, Whose life and teaching certainly had an ethical value .... The deeper connections, however, are foreign to those leaders .... And from this you can test which is the right path and which leader you may trustfully follow .... For the way to the aim leads past Golgotha, and there is no other way upwards. But the divine redeemer Himself sends the right guides to meet you, and those who are not sent by Him are also not right guides .... And thus you will also be able to judge which is the right teaching: only the one which puts Christ's act of salvation first .... Only the one who, as redeemed by Jesus' blood, is now permeated by His spirit and who is therefore entitled and qualified to lead his fellow human beings, because he knows that people first have to hand themselves over to the love and mercy of Jesus Christ before they can continue their path which leads upwards towards Me Myself, Who died on the cross as the human being Jesus in order to redeem you humans ....

Amen

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Examining spiritual good .... feeding the word ....

B.D. 7598 from May 11th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

You may only accept as truth that which has its origin in Me. And thus you have to check where spiritual knowledge has originated which is presented to you as truth. And you will be able to do this if you are serious about recognizing truth or error, and if you approach Me for spiritual enlightenment that you will think correctly yourselves and thus also judge correctly. And you will mostly find out that it is spiritual knowledge passed on from person to person, the origin of which you are no longer able to ascertain. And then you will do well to inform yourselves as to what extent such spiritual knowledge corresponds to the word conveyed to you from above by Me .... The truth has to come forth from Me in order to be able to be addressed as truth. And again and again My pure word has also been conveyed to earth from Me .... Therefore it must be able to be compared and correspond with the spiritual knowledge which is offered to you from outside. And then you will recognize for yourselves to what extent truth has been offered to you. But you should never accept it unchecked, and if you can no longer ascertain its origin then be careful with accepting it, for only pure truth will result in spiritual gain for you, whereas error or lies mean danger for your souls. But this examination is usually omitted .... And therefore much error has crept into My gospel, it is no longer the pure teaching as I Myself proclaimed it on earth. Many changes have been made and people no longer know how to distinguish between the pure truth from Me and the humanly added extras and represent everything as 'divine word'. But if 'My word' is to remain in existence for all eternity I have to convey it to earth again and again anew, because imperfect people do not keep anything pure but in their imperfection also disfigure the most perfect, My word .... and thus I must always ensure that My pure word is conveyed to people so that My word will be fulfilled: “Heaven and earth will pass away but 'My word' will remain for all eternity ...." And you humans should do your part, you should want the truth to be offered to you by Me, you should pay attention to what spiritual knowledge is then brought to you from outside, you should pay attention to the origin and desire that God Himself may address you .... And I will do so by awakening your spirit and you will brightly and clearly recognize where error has crept in and reject it as such. You are capable of doing so if only you are willing to receive truth and intimately unite with Me and appeal for the supply of it. Then your spirit will be awakened and able to precisely distinguish truth from error, and you will be able to book a spiritual benefit for your souls which only truth can bestow upon them. And you need never fear that you yourselves are incapable of rightly judging what is truth and what is error .... Your will and desire for truth also guarantees you such, because I Myself do not want you to go astray, that the truth is withheld from you by My adversary and his representatives on earth. Thus I will help My own to find the truth, only you should want to belong to My own yourselves, i.e. strive towards the truth and thus towards Me Myself, Who is the eternal truth. It is all so simple and should be understandable to you humans that I only ever want to make the truth accessible to you, thus everything is done on My part to bring you into possession of truth .... And you need only want to live in truth and your will will be complied with. But you should never unquestioningly accept spiritual knowledge which is given to you by people, for only a serious examination can guarantee you the supply of truth, otherwise you will be indifferent and never be able to distinguish error from truth because you lack the serious will to do so. You can and will receive everything you desire from Me, yet without your desire I withhold Myself because I respect your free will, because My grace cannot work against your will either ...._>Amen

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Verifying the truth ....

B.D. 8087 from January 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Spiritual knowledge can never be proven .... Nevertheless, you can become firmly convinced that what is presented to you is truth if you receive it spiritually, if it was gained through the 'working of My spirit' in the human being, for then you will know that it did not originate from people but that the human being was taught by My spirit from within .... The fact that it does not appear conclusive to people will nevertheless not let you doubt it, for they will also not be able to provide you with any counter-evidence which invalidates the knowledge gained through the spirit. Thus it is only decisive whether spiritual knowledge has been acquired through working of the spirit .... And such an examination is due to everyone who strives to live in truth. Therefore I choose light bearers for Myself .... to people who are to receive spiritual knowledge from Me directly .... only ever people who lack all knowledge about it, who are not burdened by knowledge which they would first have to repel in order to be completely free to receive the 'truth from Me' .... And this examination will certainly be possible as to whether the recipient was able to demonstrate prior knowledge, whether he drew his wisdom from books or whether he was influenced by conversations with fellow human beings .... But where all this is eliminated, where no spiritual knowledge whatsoever was previously recorded, there one can speak of a completely empty vessel which I Myself therefore now chose in order to fill it with the spiritual current of My love .... in order to convey truthful knowledge to it, which is announced to it by the spirit from Me, Who can never be mistaken .... Such knowledge will be recognized as truth and thus also find convinced faith, for such knowledge is strength of love from Me which will also not fail to have an effect. But most people don't take the trouble of a serious examination .... They reject it without thinking about the way unusual knowledge has reached earth and whether it is within the realm of earthly-human ability to be able to acquire extensive knowledge without any study .... They do not think about it and yet they would have the most convincing proof that forces are at work which they themselves cannot explain without faith .... For if they recognize supernatural powers then it would also be easy to fathom in which realms these powers are to be sought, for the content of knowledge would instruct them about it, which they could not refute .... Yet since the human being's will is free, his thinking cannot be influenced by force either; yet the willing person will look for an explanation and also find the right one .... For he allows himself to be captivated by spiritual knowledge if he seriously examines it. Because it originates from Me it will also work as strength where open hearts are found .... And these again will be able to believe even without proof because they feel the truth in their hearts. For this reason, however, spiritual knowledge cannot be transmitted in a school-like manner, for it will remain dead knowledge without persuasive power as long as My spirit cannot work in the person himself .... so that he will be instructed by Me Myself through the spirit again. The intellect will never be able to fathom spiritual knowledge, yet the intellect will always be able to deal with knowledge which has reached the human being by spiritual means .... And as soon as a heartfelt bond with Me exists the human being's thinking will also be guided correctly and he will recognize and accept the truth without any evidence. For the intimate bond with Me also guarantees My working in him, and he will become wise through My spirit ....

Amen

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Test the output of spiritual teaching ....

B.D. 8119 from March 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Where the seed falls on good soil it will also take root and sprout and bear good fruit. But good, pure seed must be sown, and if you want to be good vineyard labourers for Me you must accept the seed from Me Myself, for I alone know what the fields, which are human hearts, need in order to also bear good fruit for Me. I alone know what human hearts need in order to guarantee Me a good harvest .... that they fall to Me as ripe fruit and I can gather them when the time of harvest has come. The best seed I can plant in a human heart is My word, which I Myself send to you from above .... For all you humans must hear My word, and you can also receive it everywhere if only it is your earnest will to be addressed by Me Myself, thus to hear or read 'My' word .... But if you hear about the direct address of your God and father through My messengers, if you receive My word which My messengers bring to you themselves, which they have received directly from Me, then you will also soon feel that a gift of grace of utmost value is offered to you, for the word will take root in you, it will not fall on your ears but be received by your heart, and you will feel the strength of the word, for you will strive towards Me, Whom you now recognize as your father Who speaks to you Himself. When My messengers convey gifts of grace from Me to you, you must not reject them because then you will reject Me Myself, Who knocks at your heart's door to seek entrance .... You should examine the gifts My messengers bring you, for I don't want you to accept them thoughtlessly; I want you to examine them and only keep what is good .... And if you are of good will yourselves My word will also touch you, and then the seed has already fallen on good soil where it can develop; then you will work your field of life yourselves, you will follow the instructions I give you, you will live in accordance with My will, you will practise the love which will then also bring about the maturing in you, and you will never want to miss My word again because you recognize it as the right water of love and life which you need in order to be able to fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... But beware of adding bad seeds to the field of life, for such seeds would only bring forth weeds .... it would only cause confusion in your hearts, it would not give you vitality but rather lead you to death, because it is watered by poisoned wells which are your ruin .... Your hearts must receive purest truth if the soul is to mature into eternal life. And only My word, which you receive from Me Myself, offers you this truth. Therefore, don't carelessly accept everything you are given as truth but check whether it originated from Me Myself, whether it corresponds to the direct impartations .... otherwise you may reject it as error which is of little value for your maturing on earth, rather, it still puts you in danger of handing yourselves over to death. For error comes from poisoned wells, error is My adversary's activity who never wants to help you to life .... but hands you over to death because he himself is devoid of all love .... And thus take care that My commandment of love for Me and for your neighbour is always preached as a matter of priority and that My word conveyed to you from above always contains these commandments of love .... Pay attention that the knowledge of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ is urgently brought to you through My word and that you therefore may accept everything without hesitation which shows you the way to Him, to the cross .... And know that you will then walk in truth, that I Myself will then be your teacher, that I Myself will speak to you and thus provide you with good seed which will always yield a good harvest .... And you will then not walk your earthly path in vain, you will listen to My servants and accept all their gifts which they bring to you in My name .... You yourselves will endeavour to utilize all these gifts and at the end of days will be harvested as ripe fruit by your God and creator from eternity ....

Amen

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Jesus Christ, the right leader

Right path with Jesus Christ as leader ....

B.D. 5667 from May 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The ways to Me need not always be the same, but I must always be the aim for people to reach, and all ways must lead upward. He who walks on a level path cannot reach the aim, and the paths downward infallibly lead to ruin; but whoever strives upward, whoever wants to find Me, I Myself draw him there .... But when is your way directed upward? When you choose Jesus Christ as your leader, Who is the way Himself. So every person who acknowledges Jesus Christ, who believes in Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world, has taken the right path; he is now led on by Him who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." And to be under the guidance of Jesus Christ therefore also means to be introduced to the truth and through the truth to attain life, which lasts forever. Truth is the light that brightly illuminates the path, so that straying from this path is not possible, while darkness of spirit, i.e. error and lies, darken the right path and the danger is great to get on another path that leads astray. Since Jesus Christ Himself is the truth, whoever wants to walk the path with Jesus must also accept the truth, he must receive the word of God, which Jesus Christ preached on earth, in all purity, he must let it take effect on him and thus now also do the will of God .... for this is the right path, that man fulfills His commandments in order to be able to enter eternal life. When Jesus Himself says on earth: I am the truth .... then it is absolutely necessary to accept as truth everything that He has spoken and taught .... And every deviation from this original teaching is error, is untruth and is therefore not God’s word .... It can therefore also not be the way that leads to me, because this way can only be walked through truth. Understand it, the aim is Me .... The way to Me is Jesus Christ .... The man Jesus was the representative of truth on earth, in Him I was Myself, and I can therefore allow nothing but truth to apply, and I will again and again convey this truth to those who walk along in error, I will always proclaim this truth through Jesus Christ .... by His word spoken on earth, the gospel, being brought to people again and again, who will then have the right understanding for it, as well as (they = ed.) confess Jesus Christ in their hearts and before the world .... As soon as they therefore recognize Him as My messenger, as mediator, Who wants to bring them to Me Himself. And His word is life, because His word teaches love, which is the true life, which awakens the spirit and guides the person into all truth .... Believing in Jesus Christ means fulfilling His commandments, and then a person takes the right path that leads to eternal life .... For he then treads the path of love, which must be walked in order to reach the light and the truth. And so you have the mark of the right path .... a life in unselfish love activity .... So every way leads to the aim that lets love be recognized, and every way that is walked without love is even or it leads downward. Because love is the signpost, love is the giver of strength to master difficult to pass ways to the height, love is the sign of the connection with Jesus, Whose life on earth was only an activity in love and therefore also the sign of the union with me, Who became visible to men in Jesus Christ, Who therefore leads you Himself, if you choose Jesus Christ as your guide. Love itself meets you and wants to show you the way which leads to the union with me .... The eternal love itself teaches you love because only then you can receive and recognize the pure truth when through love the spirit in you is awakened .... because only then I become alive in you, because only then I can be present in you when love has formed you to the receptacle of My spirit, which now introduces you to truth, and My spirit truly teaches you right, and he will live in eternity who walks this way of love because he walks in the following of Jesus ....

Amen

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The right path .... the right guide ....

B.D. 6752 from February 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 72

Enter all the path that leads to the heights .... It is narrow and impassable but the obstacles can be overcome if you entrust yourselves to a good guide Who knows the path, Who will lead you past all obstacles and cliffs with a sure hand and Who also chooses the shortest path to the aim. Do not let yourselves be frightened by the efforts and strains that lie ahead of you, for your guide will also give you strength for this, and you will overcome everything effortlessly and also no longer feel the path to be as steep and impassable as you initially believed. And if you look back, it will seem like child's play to you and you will also call out to your fellow human beings to choose that path which brought you to the aim. But the aim is the gate into the kingdom of light which is open for you who have walked this narrow path upwards. And thus you must regard all difficulties in your earthly life, all strokes of fate, adversity, illness and failures as obstacles which again and again obstruct your path to ascent and which you must bravely overcome, but not flee from them and stray onto side paths which seem easier to you .... For these lead far away from the right aim. Therefore, accept everything that earthly life offers you in terms of difficulties .... Ask for strength, turn to the right guide and be certain that you will overcome them, because the guide will help you and His help is always a guarantee to reach the aim. A level path does not require any effort, but you will also constantly remain on the same level .... But you shall reach the height. Your bliss is at the top, for you are still at the bottom, where the kingdom of the wretched is, from which you should ascend in order to be able to be blissful .... Hence you also have to use strength and therefore entrust yourselves to a powerful guide, and once He has taken over the leadership you will, as it were, be carried upwards, for your will to reach the top is already the strength which will accomplish your ascent. For this reason a laborious, arduous earthly life should always be proof to you that you are on the path to ascent .... Whereas you run the risk of having deviated if life does not demand any effort from you. You must not only think of physical exertion but rather of that strength which requires you to overcome suffering and hardship of all kinds, for you must become still in all the trials you face, and this 'becoming still', this 'bearing in submission' also requires strength which you may draw from your faith and love .... To bear suffering patiently is also to overcome the obstacles on the path upwards by humbly taking upon yourselves what is good for the salvation of your soul, which now becomes increasingly lighter when it can cast off its dross and now the ascent also becomes increasingly easier for it. There is only one thing for you: to entrust yourselves to the divine leader Jesus Christ with complete faith that He will take over the guidance and that you will now follow Him without hesitation, no matter how and where He leads you .... And if it is over suffering and adversity, then He also knows that this path will bring you success, that it is the right and shortest path for you, and then you must be willing to take it without contradiction and you will not regret having entrusted yourselves to His guidance. Only ask for strength to be able to cope with all resistance, but don't ask for averting this .... For your guide is always at your side, and He sustains you and gives you assistance wherever obstacles stand in your way .... And every overcoming of such obstacles signifies the safe distance from the abyss, and the ascent will become ever easier for you the more firmly you trust in Jesus Christ's help that He will open the gate for you which leads into the kingdom of light ....

Amen

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Companion Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6755 from February 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

You must walk all paths together with your lord and saviour Jesus Christ .... Never exclude Him from your thoughts and only ever remember His infinite love, which He demonstrated for you with His death on the cross .... Then you will certainly walk the path upwards, even if it seems arduous to you. For then He will walk beside you and His presence will prevent every misstep and every deviation from the right path. And then you will also always follow His instructions, for you will hear what He tells you or have a feeling for what He asks of you. As soon as you intimately join Him, Who has redeemed you from sin and death, as soon as your gaze is constantly directed towards Him, Who has concluded His divine life of love on earth with bitterest suffering and death on the cross, you yourselves belong to those for whom He shed His blood, and this secures you the forgiveness of your sins, the release from all guilt and the entrance into eternal life. You humans on earth are not yet aware of what this act of salvation means, but you participate in what He acquired for you if only you acknowledge Him and completely hand yourselves over to Him, if you believe in Him and thus also keep His commandments .... the signpost to Him and to eternal life. But an earthly life without Jesus Christ is a futile existence, it is a path which you take alone and which eternally does not lead to the aim. And you, who can nevertheless derive infinite blessings from a right earthly way of life, a way of life with Him, should be warned of this .... A human being has walked the earth in Whom God Himself took abode, a human being Who deified Himself through love and became a shell for the eternal deity, Who now accomplished the act of salvation for you in this shell: to make atonement for the immense guilt of sin of the former turning away from God. All of you should take part in this, you should walk with Him on the way to the cross. You should patiently take on suffering and hardship of every kind and bear the cross that has been laid upon you. And all of you should let yourselves be washed clean by His blood, which was shed for you .... so willingly place yourselves under the cross of Christ and prove before all the world that you cling to Him, that nothing is able to detach you from Him .... You should pronounce His holy name in all intimacy and lay all your sins, your hardships and sufferings at His feet, that He may take them from you, that He may redeem your guilt and you may become free from it. And Jesus Christ will reward you for your devotion, He will never leave you, He will take the burden of the cross from you or help you carry it, He will lay His healing hand on your wounds and His flow of grace will be transferred to your weakened souls and bodies. He will heal you spiritually and earthly, for He has taken all infirmities upon Himself and atoned for them for the one who believes. And His promise will truly come true that you will not taste death when He calls you to Himself into His kingdom. But He will also prove His power and glory to you as long as you still live on earth, for He wants to reveal Himself to you, but He can only do so if your faith is strong and unshakeable .... Walk your earthly path with Jesus Christ and know that you will then walk the right way and that you need no longer fear any danger, whether spiritual or earthly, for this path is bounded by beings of light who will not tolerate you being endangered .... all of whom will help you in the will of God, of the s3aviour Jesus Christ .... and can also help you because you have given yourselves to Him and also stand up for Him and His name before the world. Jesus Christ is the saviour and redeemer of humanity, He accomplished the work of redemption for all of you .... But only those who acknowledge Him can enter into the blessing of the act of salvation. And therefore you should hand yourselves over to Him in faith and love, you should commend yourselves to Him and His grace, and He will safely guide you to the aim ....

Amen

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'I am the way, the truth and the life .... '

B.D. 7632 from June 25th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

I will show you the way you should go during your life on earth .... I Myself am the way, the truth and the life .... He who listens to Me treads the path, he is guided into truth and he attains eternal life .... Whoever listens to Me will also obey what I advise him, what I demand of him, and he will then go the way of love, which irrevocably leads to Me, Who am the Eternal Love .... And thus he returns to Me again, from Whom he once started. He has completed his path of development, and he has returned home to the father's house, he is with his father, as it was in the beginning, and he will work and create with Him, as it is his destiny. So I Myself am the way .... these words I spoke to the people when I walked on earth, and I asked them to follow Me. My way was exceedingly sorrowful, but the love in Me let Me go it ..... And so you should always remain in love for Me and for your neighbor, and you should also bear the suffering patiently, always remembering My way of the cross, which was so immeasurably difficult because I took the guilt of the whole of humanity on My shoulders to carry it under the cross .... I had to go this way of the cross, because I wanted to suffer for the fellow human beings who were My brothers and who, through their fall into the depths, had loaded heavy guilt onto themselves, which they would never have been able to redeem. I took pity on the state of the people, because it was wretched, and they could never have reached bliss, if I had not taken care of them. Love determined Me to all thinking and acting, and love brought the redemption sacrifice for the people .... And if I therefore call Myself the way, then your way must also be a way of love, you too must accept your fellow human beings in every adversity of body and soul, you too must be prepared to make sacrifices, your being must be filled with love, then you will go the same way that I have gone, and then you will also reach the truth and eternal life .... I Myself am the way, the truth and the life .... If you humans acknowledge Me as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I Myself offered the sacrifice on the cross for all people, then you are also on the right path, you will receive the truth from Me and attain beatitude, because only the pure truth can awaken you to life, And then this will always be a life of bliss, because only the right life can be given to you by Me, which means the permeation of My strength of love, which makes the being incomparably happy, which therefore has taken the right path that leads to Me, back into the father's house. And therefore I show you the right way, I instruct you that only love leads to happiness, that only love guarantees you truth and that only love gives life to the soul, which it then also never ever loses. Because then also the union with Me is secured, which is the aim and purpose of earth life .... Then the being .... the soul .... has changed again to love, and it has entered its original state, it is blissful again as it was in the beginning ...._>Amen

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God's ways are not always people's ways ....

B.D. 6993 from December 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Your ways are not always My ways .... You often don't know the goal when you start a journey but I know where your way is leading to and often gently push you into a different direction. And if you give in to My urging you will also safely reach the right goal. But often your resistance is too great, your own will is stronger, and you take no notice of the gentle urges which originate from Me. Then I will have to let you go because I won't forcibly break your will. And then you will be in danger of losing the connection with Me, because it will not yet be tied firm enough and you will not have yet completely submitted yourselves to My guidance.

But you should not be surprised that your plans will often get shattered, that your intentions won't succeed, that the way you take will become difficult for you. All these are gentle indications that it is not the right way, and even then you could still stop short and diverge from this path and get onto the right track that promises greater success .... not in the earthly-material sense but which guarantees you spiritual success. My guidance is only guaranteed if your thoughts aim into My direction, and then you will also realise that every way was right, that you made progress even if you, at first, resisted taking these ways. But if you are purely earthly-minded you will surely walk into the wrong direction and should only ever be grateful if you are clearly prevented from continuing on this path. Yet the more worldly-minded a person is, the more eagerly he will try to overcome obstacles, he often pulls down all barriers, that is, he doesn't question whether what he does is right, and only tries to reach his goal which, however, is only a worldly directed one. And I must let such people have their own way, for their will is still too firmly focussed on My adversary to bow down to My will. But you humans will attain far greater benefits if you entrust yourselves to My leadership and then always let yourselves be guided without inner resistance ....

A father has an overview of where his child is going and what dangers lie in wait for it and, in his love, tries to guide the child onto a path which is safe to take and will lead to the right goal. And like a good father I, too, Am concerned for every individual person's destiny and want his earthly path to become a blessing for him. But the human being often turns his attention into the wrong direction in the hope of finding something there which, however, will be detrimental for him. Although he retains his free will, his earthly way of life can nevertheless be directed by providence other than by that which he wishes for and wants, yet always for the benefit of his soul. Still, as long as the person complains and inwardly rebels against his destiny, this blessing will be small. Only when he surrenders in the realisation that it is determined by a higher will and that it is wrong to fight against it will he achieve a benefit for his soul. And the human being will often be able to observe such fated interventions by Me which should always make him think ....

There is only One Who determines the human being's course of life, and he should learn to recognise His ways as good and right, he should always humbly bow down to his fate and know that a loving father is concerned for His child's well-being and that everything, even what is apparently unfavourable, is a blessing for the person if he does not offer resistance, if he lets himself be guided and also accepts events which the Father recognises to be right for His child and thus applies. And he should yield to every inner impulse urging him to act differently, for such inner stirrings are always My gentle voice by which I attract and call the child onto a different way, onto the way which will truly bear results and lead to the goal, to the right goal, to the purpose of his earthly life.

The human being's will often differs from My will, and thus his ways are not always My ways either .... But he will always have My love, and this only wants to save him, it wants to win him over for itself, and therefore it will also always guide the person such as is good for him, yet even My love will not force his will, for this is and remains free, because the human being shall completely freely decide in favour of his eternal Father ....

Amen

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Bond with God by prayer and thoughts

Call daily upon the name of Jesus ....

B.D. 7129 from May 24th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

With Me and in My name you shall start every day, deal with every undertaking and thus fulfil your daily tasks, and you can also be certain that your work will be blessed, be it earthly or spiritual activity. But as soon as you walk alone, that is, without having asked for My assistance, you will do a lot of pointless work, you will have to struggle with difficulties or it will not always be successful. Just a heartfelt thought of Me will already assure My assistance, and if you consciously call upon Me for My blessing and support then everything will turn out just right by itself, and you will be able to calmly carry out your day's work. You should always know that you are besieged by dark forces which are able to access you if you fail to surround yourselves with a protective wall by calling upon My name, by appealing to Me for blessing your work. And once they have gained access to you it will be far more difficult to repel them again than it would be if you had refused access to them from the start. For they weaken you will, which can only catch up with what it had neglected to do by summoning all its strength: by calling to Me for help.

The battle for your souls is constantly fought, and your victory is often made difficult by these dark forces, but this is frequently up to yourselves, because you can request unlimited strength and should always do this through heartfelt prayer for My guidance, My protection and My blessing .... This is why you should never start your daily work without Me, you should call My name in your heart, appeal for reinforcement of your will and completely hand yourselves over to Me .... Then I can protect you from your souls' enemy, then you will be surrounded by countless beings of light who will refuse to admit him, then you will cheerfully and free of worry carry out your daily work in the awareness of strength and inner peace. And then nothing will be able to upset you anymore because you know that I Am always present and arrange everything.

The inner bond with Me is the best guarantee for bringing all your plans to fruition, be they earthly or spiritual affairs, for then I Myself can always influence you and your thoughts and direct your actions such as is right and beneficial for you. Yet as soon as you isolate yourselves from Me, as soon as you loosen the connection, different thoughts transmitted by My adversary will begin to dominate you and deprive you of your inner calm, they will worry you and leave you open to bad forces which will continue the work of inner disintegration and discord, so that even your daily work will not be blessed and your soul will be at risk of being captured by him.

And again, you can only release yourselves from this danger if you take refuge in Me, for I Am ready to help you in your spiritual difficulty at all times. But without Me you cannot free yourselves from him and his influence, without Me you are too weak and therefore at his mercy. However, you can avoid all such pressures if you hand yourselves over to Me and My protection time and again, if you always appeal for My blessing, if you commend your physical and spiritual wellbeing to Me and never neglect to call upon My name .... and thereby openly acknowledge Me in Jesus Christ .... Then you will be erecting a wall which My adversary will not be able to pull down, for he will take flight from Me and My name, and thus he will also let go of you if you just faithfully speak My name in every adversity and danger ....

Amen

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Fully Trusting Prayer ....

B.D. 8455 from April 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And if you get into earthly distress only a heartfelt call to Me will suffice and I will protect you and keep all adversity away from you, yet this call has to come from the heart and not just be a lip prayer, for a call from the heart is also the evidence of trust, it is proof of a living faith which I will fulfil at all times. How easily your earthly life could be covered by you if you were constantly in intimate contact with Me, always aware that you can entrust yourselves to your father and always be heard by Him .... My love for you is truly endless, and it also grants you everything that is helpful for your soul .... But you will also no longer request anything from Me which could harm you, for the intimate bond with Me also presupposes a certain spiritual maturity, your desire to be allowed to hand yourselves over to Me is also the guarantee that I can now act like a father towards his child, for you are no longer disobedient to Me, you have already passed the test of will which is the purpose of your earthly life .... It is the most beautiful awareness for you that you may feel like children who never ask the father in vain, and henceforth you will no longer walk any path alone, for I will be your constant companion because I want to protect you against every enemy, be he a danger to you on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... Just give yourselves to Me in complete trust and your earthly path will be so easy for you that you will also reach the goal effortlessly. You are only weak for as long as you keep your distance from Me, and you have to fight for as long as you keep your distance from Me; but if you are united with Me through your heartfelt devotion to Me, through your will, your love and constant thoughts, then you will also feel strong and no longer fear any oppression. If you consider yourselves My children, you will also be cared for and looked after by Me as father. But you must not exclude Me from your thoughts, for then you will certainly be harassed by My adversary in many ways and I will not be able to help you, because you will have to consciously turn to Me in order to be allowed to experience My love and help as well ..... However, an intimate bond with Me requires living faith, whereas a formal faith will only ever result in formal prayers which do not reach My ear, because I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth .... A living faith, in turn, demands a life of love, for a person can never believe alive who is without love, because without love he is also distant from Me, Who is the Eternal Love .... But I want to be close to you, so close that you will feel My presence, and then you will also speak to Me trustingly like children, and I can return your address, I can prove My presence to you by granting your requests and by always binding you more firmly to Me .... For My bond of love will be eternally indissoluble, which now unites us for time and eternity. And you cannot measure the blessing you will receive from My presence but you will be able to hear Me, your Father will speak to you and you will recognize My voice and be happy because bright light will flood you at the same time .... For My ray of love, which now strikes you, must spread bright light and make you blissfully happy .... Just always seek closest contact with Me through heartfelt prayer, through the child's intimate dialogue with its father .... And your walk across earth will be easy and carefree, for the bond which you once voluntarily severed has now been restored in free will and can no longer be severed for ever .... But I look kindly upon My children, I no longer let them walk along without a guide, I avert all danger to body and soul, and I always draw My children closer to Me so that they can no longer abandon Me because they feel safe in My care. Entrust yourselves to Me, your Father, at all times and believe that My love will provide you with everything in order to please you, because then your soul will long for Me and I can now also provide for it spiritually and earthly and because My love constantly wants to give itself away and give happiness to all beings on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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Only prayer protects from the adversary's activity ....

B.D. 8955 from March 15th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

The closer it gets to the end the more violent becomes My adversary's activity, and you all will feel it, for no day will pass by without causing you unrest or tasting his treachery in other ways. And nothing else helps but your prayer .... your connection with the One Who is his Lord too, Who defeated him through His death on the cross. A heartfelt prayer will re-establish the inner peace which he wants to deprive you of. For his power will be defeated when you turn to Me, no matter how much he strives to agitate you. The battles against him become increasingly fiercer for he will not let up pushing you, and time and again I have to tell you that only prayer will protect you from his activity. For then you demonstrate that you are looking for Me and want to be released from him, and then I can use My power against him, I can prevent him from continuing his harassments since then your own will gives Me the right to deal with him.

But in the last days his rage will become ever stronger, and yet he will not succeed with My Own, with those who desire Me with all their heart and call upon Me for My protection. And whom else would I rather protect than My Own, who always want to be in contact with Me and have offered their services to Me? You should just believe that I also have power over him, that you have not been defencelessly left at his mercy and that you will have the strength to repel his every intrusion. And you should draw this strength from My Word, you should always engross yourselves in this Word and then you will be surrounded by light which he, however, avoids and so you will be released from him.

And don't allow yourselves to be held captive by the world, for then he can enter secretly and entice you with its goods .... Then he will also have a certain amount of power over you which you won't recognise since he is able to deceive you. However, in that case I cannot help you, for you hand yourselves over to him and forget about Me, and then you will have to struggle for your inner bond with Me, only then will you realise what it means to have detached yourselves from Me, for once he owns something he holds on to it. But I won't let anyone fall who seriously desires Me, he will just have to struggle considerably in order to get back to the same level he had previously been on ....

Make sure that the adversary will not gain power over you and call on Me in your ordeal, for I Am always willing to help you if your call comes from your heart. Just don't let the world get the better of you, for then you will be served by the one who is lord over this world, and all I can do is wait until you find the way back to Me ....

Amen

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God's leadership ....

B.D. 5098 from April 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I Myself want to guide you and you can entrust yourselves to My guidance without worry. Where you lack light on the path through the earth valley I will walk before you as a shining flame, and all darkness around you will fade away, clearly and distinctly the path lies before you which leads upwards, and in My company you cannot go astray. And all those who love Me will willingly follow Me; they will not turn an eye away from Me when I precede them, they will no longer look back to the world which lies behind them, they know no other desire than to return with Me to the father's house which they once left voluntarily and which now keeps its gates wide open to receive them again for eternity. Yet only those who love Me follow Me .... Without love in their heart they don't recognize Me, without love they cannot see the light emanating from Me either, without love they don't strive upwards but look for a broad path which is more appealing, which always presents them with new images beguiling their heart and senses .... without love they chase after deceptive lights and don't see that the path always leads deeper into the abyss; and they lack the right guide, for this they don't follow. It is love which lets you accept My guidance but which then also protects you from every wrong path, which safely leads you to the aim and which you should therefore practice on your neighbour until it flares up into a bright flame in your heart, until you have become love yourselves and have acquired the right to be guided by Me. Anyone who stands helplessly at a crossroads need only direct his gaze to where a gentle light shines towards him, he need only call in his heart for the guide and I will lovingly take him by the hand and gently urge him towards the right path. My light will fall into his heart, it will become bright in him, he will understand what was unclear to him, his spirit will bring him enlightenment and without hesitation he will do and leave as it is evident to him as good and right .... for the light from Me shines in him and shows him the right path.

To all of you who love each other and carry Me in your heart I will be your guide through earthly life, and you need not fear ever getting lost once you have given Me the right to guide you on your path through life. You are My little flock which I lead as the good shepherd .... And I will not let any sheep from My flock fall into the hands of the enemy, I will protect you from his influence, I will watch over you vigilantly and not let anything hostile approach you, I will be your protector on every path you take and carefully guide you over thorns and cliffs, and even if the path seems impassable at times, with My help you will overcome all bumps and difficulties, with My help you will reach your aim safely and unharmed .... I Myself will lead you into the father's house, which you will now never leave, because I am with you, Whom you love and Who returns your love for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers