The Beatitudes

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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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

7958 - The grace of life on earth as a human being....

4307 - "I want you to be blessed...."

"Blessed are those who are poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven."

2465 - ?resNotTranslated?

5014 - Spiritual poverty....

5502 - The lowliness of the spirit.... Humility.... Grace....

0998 - ?resNotTranslated?

5825 - No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world....

"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."

3472 - Blessing of suffering....

5995 - Afflictions of the body.... suffering for the soul....

1402 - ?resNotTranslated?

0470 - Death in the lord.... mourning.... poor souls - prayer....

7247 - "I will send you the 'comforter'...."

7378 - Spiritual comfort....

5827 - Consolating and loving father words....

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

1003 - Admonition to exercise self-control.... Gentleness - Peacefulness....

1910 - ?resNotTranslated?

2879 - ?resNotTranslated?

3808 - Dwellings in the father's house.... eternal home....

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."

1869 - Sense of justice.... Judging one's fellow human being....

5432 - Thinking and acting righteously.... Love your enemy....

7326 - Justice....

8786 - 'The measure you use will be the measure you receive....'

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."

3460 - ‘Blessed are the merciful....’

1032 - Compassion.... Sick and weak people....

4697 - Help to erring souls greatest work of love and mercy....

5943 - Mercy....

6025 - Mercy.... do not harden your hearts....

6352 - God's mercy....

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

2046 - ?resNotTranslated?

5515 - Purification of the heart as the temple of God....

5296 - God's dwelling in the heart of man....

5617 - The Father’s house and beatitude ....

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."

4706 - Charity....

0605 - Work of love towards enemies....

0892 - World of peace.... leader of the people....

8704 - Peace to those of good will....

7943 - Peace in God.... Power supply....

"Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: their is the kingdom of heaven."

5949 - Afflictions of the righteous....

5169 - Public confession.... living faith....

4433 - Final battle.... Frankly professing Christ before the world.....

6012 - Silent prayer.... Public confession....

7216 - ‘Whosoever shall confess Me before men .... ’

8866 - Acknowledgment of Jesus.... Final decision of faith....

4578 - Bliss in the spiritual kingdom ....

4890 - The reward of a life of love, blissful fate in the beyond....

2233 - Heavenly bliss ....

8527 - "You shall be saved by grace...."

The grace of life on earth as a human being ....

B.D. 7958 from August 5th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Every human soul is a fallen original spirit which is close to its perfection, i.e., whose path is only a short one left until unification with Me, provided that it is in the last stage of development .... as a human being .... turns his free will towards Me, that he thus professes Me again, Whom he once refused to acknowledge. And every human soul has an infinitely long path of development behind it, because this was necessary in order to emerge from the bottomless abyss, to ascend to the height where it originally dwelled .... In this stage as a human being the soul is also again receptive to a light, i.e., it can again gain a degree of knowledge which it had lost when it fell away from Me .... For the soul is self-aware, it can think and want again as in the beginning, only to a weak degree, but it can increase it during its earthly life .... The degree of realization is also decisive for the soul when it has left its existence as a human being and now enters the spiritual kingdom, for this degree of realization signifies light, without which the soul can never be blissfully happy. The human being himself can acquire a high degree of light during his earthly existence, he can be far advanced in realization if he uses his earthly existence to shape his nature into love, which was his original state and which absolutely has to be attained again in order to be able to dwell in the spiritual kingdom in blissful union with Me. This transformation into love is the work which the human being has to accomplish himself but which he can also do because he is granted help in every way. But at the beginning of his embodiment the human being's nature is still in perverse love as a result of his fall into sin in the spiritual kingdom and also of the renewed fall into sin of the first human beings .... Ego love dominates him, and this is to be changed into unselfish neighbourly love. For this purpose the human being is on earth, or also: The fallen original spirit must accomplish this transformation to love in free will itself, so that it achieves its divinisation and can now create and work in union with Me in freedom, light and strength .... And this transformation into love is the purpose of earthly life and no being can be spared, for it is at the same time the being's passed test of will .... It is the evidence of the being's divinity, which emerged from Me and was created perfect but now has to strive for this perfection in free will itself in order to be able to exist next to Me as a divine being, in order to be able to dwell with Me as 'My child', from Whom it once originated as a 'creature' .... The divinisation of the beings created by Me was and is My aim which I will certainly achieve but the duration of which is determined by the being itself. And once it has reached the stage as a human being it is close to its aim, and the human being should now make every effort to make good use of the last short period of time for its final perfection. He should acquire the knowledge of his purpose of earthly life, of all correlations and of My will, for the fulfilment of My will is working in love, and working in love also brings him light .... knowledge which corresponds to truth, knowledge which gives him full realization and which impels him to only pursue the aim of perfecting himself on earth, to shape his nature into love and thereby always establish the bond with Me, which is then indissoluble and the attainment of the aim is now also assured. The human being should also evaluate his self-awareness, i.e. think about himself, and then I will always be at his side, I will guide his thoughts correctly and I Myself will support him in every way so that he will reach his aim. Yet one day his remorse will be bitter if he lets the time on earth pass by unused and knows about the endless course of development before .... Yet as a human being he must not be given the recollection because then a life of free will would be impossible, because he would then live in fear and thus under a certain compulsion and his will and actions could not be judged as a free decision of will .... You should never forget that earthly life as a human being is a grace which you only need to use correctly in order to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I want you to be blessed ...."

B.D. 4307 from May 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I want you to become blessed .... My aim is not earthly bliss, for earthly life is only short compared to eternity. But you shall be granted an eternal life of bliss, and this eternal life shall be the price for your probation on earth. Nothing on earth shall seem desirable to you anymore, your gaze shall be directed towards life after death, and if you can give up everything with a light heart you will be ready for eternity. Your heart must be able to detach itself from earthly things, you must be able to sacrifice what is dear to you on earth, you must strive with all your heart and soul for what belongs to the spiritual kingdom, goods which are denied to you by the earthly world, which no-one can offer you but Me alone and which I offer you because I want to make you blissfully happy. Learn to value spiritual goods and despise earthly goods .... and be certain that I will provide you with the earthly goods you need in order to be able to fulfil your earthly task. Make yourselves completely My own and I will take care of you in every way, I will provide for you earthly and spiritually and not let you go hungry, yet in order to become blissfully happy your soul first requires spiritual nourishment which will ensure its life in eternity. You humans put earthly needs first and believe that you cannot exist without over-anxious worry .... But I know that you lack spiritual nourishment much more, and you have to strive for this yourselves because I cannot impose it on you due to freedom of will. Earthly food and earthly drink only ever sustain your body for a short time and can never prolong your earthly life if I call you away from earth. Spiritual nourishment, on the other hand, ensures your eternal life .... And what you have once received in spiritual nourishment will never ever perish or become ineffective; you take it with you into eternity and build your life on it. In order to be able to live eternally in beatitude you also have to carry out a pleasing activity and therefore need capital with which you can work, which you can distribute to those in need, you need spiritual wealth which does not diminish but always increases the more you give of it. And I want to give you this spiritual wealth so that you will become eternally happy. But you can only accept it if your heart is completely empty, where My treasures can spread out, for spiritual treasures are not compatible with earthly treasures, a heart cannot contain both, and it is up to you which goods you want to keep your heart free for. But if I love you and want you to become blissfully happy, I, as a wise father, must also advise My children and help them to cleanse their heart chambers of unsuitable goods which displace the true treasures and make it impossible to receive them. And thus I will help you to detach yourselves from what the world offers you, what your heart still desires but is a hindrance to you for eternal life .... And therefore consider all earthly failures as an aid on My part to detach yourselves from the world and its illusory goods, recognize My care in it which only applies to your final aim of making free, exceedingly happy beings out of you who will know no more sorrow and worry in eternity but will only ever be blissfully happy and live .... i.e. be continuously active in loving activity. I want you to become blissfully happy, I want to be able to provide you with spiritual nourishment because you need it for eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Blessed are those who are poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven."

2465 - ?resNotTranslated?

Spiritual poverty ....

B.D. 5014 from December 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

True filial piety must fill the human heart who wants to pray to Me in spirit and in truth. And only a deeply humble person has this filial piety who feels small and insignificant, who is aware of his great distance from Me and yet has the filial faith that I accept him when he comes to Me in prayer. He has nothing but this faith in My love which does not let him fall, and this spiritual poverty of his makes him humble, but I grant My grace to the humble and through grace he will become blessed. Spiritual poverty is therefore only the admission of his unworthiness and the desire for My grace and mercy, which everyone who lifts his eyes to Me in such humility will also experience. All who feel spiritually poor, who are aware of their deficient state, long for help and look for it where they hope for love and grace. And I praise them blessedly that they entrust themselves to Me in their spiritual poverty, that they recognize themselves and therefore also appeal to Me, for such a prayer will always be humble and always be heard by Me.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The lowliness of the spirit .... Humility .... Grace ....

B.D. 5502 from October 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Those who feel poor in the spirit draw Me towards themselves, for they are humble and in need of help, they feel weak and unworthy and ask Me for mercy .... They are humble and therefore find grace with Me. I lean towards all the weak if they call upon Me, for nothing is too small and too insignificant for Me, and My merciful love protects and strengthens the weak and helpless; I draw it up to Me so that I will never let go of it, ever .... But who is low in spirit, who is so deeply humble that he finds grace in My sight? The one who recognizes himself as standing at a far distance from Me, who bends his knees before Me in spirit, who fully submits himself to Me in order to be accepted by Me in grace .... who only ever seeks to gain My love and yet feels unworthy of My love. The humility of an earthly child attracts Me immensely, for humility towards Me also conceals love for Me, a love which does not dare to come to Me uncalled. And yet, the soul calls Me unconsciously by its humility. For a gentle light emanates from it which attracts Me because something divine already beams at Me, because spiritual lowliness is the sign that the soul has recognized Me and that the recognition also results in a turning to Me. Whoever feels spiritually poor has won My love for eternity, and My grace will unstoppably overflow, for it is the humble upon whom I bestow My grace .... I know the human being's heart thoroughly, I am not deceived by gestures, I know everything the soul thinks and wants, and nothing remains hidden from Me what remains unspoken but still moves the thoughts and is always obvious to Me. And therefore I can bestow but also restrict grace, I can lift up the child kneeling before Me and I can let the one fall who, with an arrogant spirit, certainly presents himself to the world as humble but never testifies to true humility .... That is why grace flows to so many people without measure, while others go along empty. Yet I would like to give all people an abundant measure of grace, I would like everyone to recognize their spiritual poverty, I would like them all to feel their remoteness from Me and from the bottom of their heart stretch out their hands to Me imploringly, because I then would be able to make them happy with My grace, for anyone in possession of My grace will soon be in possession of Me personally, because I will never leave out anyone who is in the right relationship with Me, who comes begging to the father like a child calling upon Him for help and strength. Anyone who feels important and exalted of oneself will fall, anyone who believes himself in the depth because he recognizes himself as weak and sinful will be lifted up by My love and will always be My own, he will be able to receive a rich measure of grace from My hand and therefore safely ascend to the top ....

Amen

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0998 - ?resNotTranslated?

No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world ....

B.D. 5825 from December 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

To pay tribute to the world is to forfeit the kingdom of heaven, since the human being cannot gain both at the same time. And anyone who pays homage to the world will not endeavour to attain the heavenly kingdom either, for he will only recognise the earthly world and its attraction and not believe in a kingdom beyond this world. And yet the path to the kingdom of heaven has to be taken through this earthly world, it cannot be avoided, for the human being lives in this world, he has to cover the last stage of his development on earth, in the midst of the realm which belongs to God's adversary. But he can overcome this kingdom, he can pass through the earthly world without allowing himself to be extraordinarily impressed by it, without coveting it with his senses .... he can experience it and yet be its master ....

And it is your task to overcome the world, for it was given to you as a means for your soul to become fully mature therein, to detach itself voluntarily from everything pertaining to the world, because this separation is at the same time also a separation from the one who is lord of this world, and a turning towards the spiritual kingdom and its Lord. Hence it is understandable that anyone enslaving himself to the world will never be able to take possession of the spiritual kingdom, neither in earthly life nor after the human being's death .... it is understandable that the lord of the world will keep him tied up because the human being gives him the right to do so himself, for the separation from his power, the separation from the material world, has to be endeavoured towards and accomplished by the individual himself.

He has to wage battle against himself; he has to be able to go without in order to gain something valuable, he has to resist all temptations during his short lifetime on earth in order to then take possession of the spiritual kingdom with all its glories, which will compensate him a thousand fold for his renunciation on earth .... And he will only do so if he recognises the irrelevance and impermanence of what he deems desirable on earth. Only this realisation will give him the strength to change his will correctly, and he can gain this realisation by merely contemplating the material world  .... For he cannot be forced to change his will .... he can only be prompted by experiences into inner contemplation, at which point the result is up to him. And God can only help him by time and again demonstrating the fleeting nature of things, so He allows the destruction of what the human being loves on earth, He intervenes by affecting him painfully, taking from him what his heart is set on .... just to point out to him how worthless the goals of his endeavours are.

But those who learn from such experiences can consider themselves fortunate, for they will gradually change the direction of their will and relinquish the world in order to occupy the spiritual kingdom one day .... But no one should believe that he can make compromises, no one should believe that he can pay homage to the world with impunity .... All striving will have an effect after his death, and if it related to the world then it will result in spiritual death, then he will have relinquished the spiritual kingdom for the sake of earthly gain and the world will have brought him death .... Then he will have handed himself over again to the power of the one in the abyss, and the path of ascent will yet again take an infinitely long period of time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."

Blessing of suffering ....

B.D. 3472 from April 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

And anyone who submits to My will will find the most loving and faithful father in Me, for I will no longer leave him in the soul's distress. And if the soul is no longer in distress then the body will no longer need to suffer so either, although its substances can still spiritualize themselves through suffering and this signifies a faster upward development for the spiritual, which is still bound in the human being's external form. You humans don't know how much I would like to shorten the path which leads to Me and which has your final liberation as its aim .... You had to live on earth for an unspeakably long time before your embodiment as a human being, and this last period of development is only short and yet can result in your complete liberation if your will is directed correctly. And I want to help you to reach your aim on earth, that you turn your gaze to Me and walk the path together with Me until the end of your life, for then you will not be able to go astray .... But you often turn your gaze sideways and let yourselves be tempted by the attractions of the world .... Your will still strives for earthly goods which you desire, and you are in danger of falling into My adversary's sphere. And therefore I often have to nudge you to wake up and pay attention to the path again, so that you don't forget Me and call out to Me in times of need, so that your will will be directed towards Me again .... Yet as long as you don't stray from the path, as long as you raise your eyes to Me and strive to fulfil My will, I am tangibly close to you and watch over your every step, I guide you by the hand and lead you over all obstacles on the path which you, however, have to overcome because this promotes your ascent. But then nothing should frighten you, nothing should make you despondent or tired, for as long as you have Me as your companion through your will, which is turned towards Me, you will never be without strength. Again and again I will strengthen you, and even if you travel the path with difficulty you will nevertheless gain the greatest advantage for body and soul, for they will become more and more spiritualized and your end will be a blissful one .... And one day you will look back and recognize the blessing of the suffering you had to endure. For I truly only want the best for you, yet I cannot give you the bliss of eternal life as long as you are immature in spirit, as long as you cannot yet face Me completely cleaned and purified, for only My nearness is bliss for you, and this presupposes purity and sincerity, and I want to help you achieve this as long as you are still on earth, for My love for you is exceedingly great, it wants to shorten your suffering so that it will not be granted to you in the beyond, where you will suffer twice because then you will be powerless ....

I take little pleasure in you having to suffer on earth, and My love would also like to spare you this suffering, yet then it would only be your disadvantage, for you could never ever attain eternal bliss, you could never ever be active in strength and freedom, and your fate would forever be that of prisoners .... powerless and bound in sin and eternally distant from Me. But My love for you is greater than My compassion, and because My wisdom recognizes suffering as the only means to win you back, to release you from bondage, you have to go through a hard school on earth and for a short time accept a fate which certainly seems difficult and unbearable to you and yet is only evidence of My love for you. But you yourselves have the power to reduce your suffering .... You yourselves can make it bearable for you if you make an effort to fulfil My will, if you live in love .... For love is strength, I Myself am love, and if you practice love you will also be permeated by strength, and you need no longer fear that suffering will push you to the ground, for now you will overcome it together with Me, and I will truly not leave you without help if you have become My children through loving activity. Remain in love, then you will also remain united with Me, take part in your fellow human beings' adversity and put your own adversity aside, then you will reduce the suffering yourselves, you will not feel it, and earthly life will always be bearable, for then you will purify yourselves through love and not need the suffering so much to mature your soul .... As soon as you learn to recognize suffering as evidence of My love, as soon as you regard it as a means through which I try to change your will in order to make you blissfully happy, it will no longer affect you so painfully, you will bear it patiently and no longer rebel against fate, which seems hard to you but which can already shape you on earth into beings of light if you thereby find Me. But know that you are able to reduce it yourselves through love .... And thus use the time until the end .... Do everything to practice love and shape your heart so that I can take abode in it and thereby you will be filled with strength to overcome all opposition. For where My love can work there is no weakness, no despondency, no discouragement and no worry .... where I can work there is peace of mind, hope and strength and a constant feeling of security, for I lead My own by the hand, I protect them from the power of evil. And they feel My protection, they give themselves to Me with complete faith and let Me rule .... And I incline towards My children in a fatherly way and take care of them until the end of their lives .... until they enter the spiritual kingdom, where they will be unspeakably blissful in My presence for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Afflictions of the body .... suffering for the soul ....

B.D. 5995 from July 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The body will pass away but the soul will leave it in order to enter eternity in radiant abundance of light if it has used its earthly life correctly. Therefore do not grieve when the body is afflicted with infirmities, for this body then carries a burden for the soul so that it can swing up in freedom into bright heights .... Do not grieve but rejoice, for it is a plus for the soul at the end of earthly life .... It is the path you once voluntarily agreed to take, even if you knew nothing about it in earthly life, yet the soul recognized its opportunity to mature and took upon itself the fate which seems difficult for you to bear. But if your body can no longer cope with its burden, if you feel too weak to carry the cross imposed on you, then look up to Him and ask Him to take your burden onto His shoulder, and He will help you carry the cross .... He will give you strength and support you, He will always be ready for you if you call upon Him for help. You, who have to suffer on earth, experience God's love to a special degree, even if you don't understand it, even if it seems incomprehensible to you that His love has burdened you with a cross. Yet only the body suffers and passes away, but the soul is spared unspeakable suffering, and God's love and care is meant for this soul which He wants to protect from a fate which is far more painful than the suffering the body had to bear during its earthly life. And as soon as you surrender to God's will, as soon as you patiently carry your cross, the soul's shells will dissolve, it will become receptive to light, it will become free and need not fear death either .... it will welcome it as an entrance into the kingdom of light, it will lay down its body with joy and be grateful that it suffered for it .... For now the soul will live in light and freedom and eternal bliss.

Amen

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Death in the lord .... mourning .... poor souls - prayer ....

B.D. 0470 from June 17th 1938, taken from Book No. 10

A blessed death is to fall asleep in the lord and to awaken in the beyond in fullness of light .... What you are given in life will be much easier to bear if you accept it with a view to eternity, for then you live, as it were, only for this .... also know that all suffering will come to an end in a short time if you measure it against eternity .... but that you may enjoy the fruits of this suffering for an eternity. And so you should always take comfort in the fact that your end can be a blissful one and that your entry into the heavenly kingdom will be even more blissful. So you bury your dead and weep for them, and yet this day should be a day of inner joy for you if you consider that the soul has only exchanged this earthly life for a far more beautiful one, that the human being has stripped away all suffering and now enters a new life carefree and redeemed from all suffering, which outshines all earthly things in beauty and happiness .... Why then do you want to mourn? So try to attain such a fate in the beyond already on earth, try to detach yourselves from everything that binds you to the world and you will easily be able to depart from this earth .... But whoever loves the earth too much will also find it very difficult to part from it .... he does not want to part with the goods of this world, his heart is all too attached to earthly things. And this person will not find a place prepared for him over there either, where he can continue the good life of earth. He has neglected to work for such a life in earthly life and must now serve for a long time before he is worthy of happiness in the beyond. There the human being then has the right to mourn such a soul .... but not that it has departed from earth, but only that the soul must now agonize unspeakably in order to become partaker of what it should acquire on earth .... Pray for this soul .... give them your strength through prayer, which they so urgently need .... Whoever truly loves such a soul will be able to save it through this love, for love will be constantly active for such poor souls who did not recognize their life correctly and now have to live in want until they are redeemed from their guilt. The lord's care applies to you incessantly, so let your care also be given to those who are grateful to you from the bottom of their hearts for every help .... Bear in mind that they, too, were erring people who, having been led onto the right path, struggle and fight in order to finally enter the kingdom of light .... But you, who still walk on earth, use this time wisely and only ever long for the lord, so that you will not taste death but live for eternity ....

Amen

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"I will send you the 'comforter' ...."

B.D. 7247 from April 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall all be comforted who go through your earthly life grieving or anxious. My love will always pursue you and My love does not want you to suffer. And thus I will send you the right comforter, My spirit, which imparts words of love to you, words of comfort and words of strength. I have promised you My spirit that it will comfort you when I no longer dwell in the body on earth. And this promise applies to all who take the path across earth .... I Myself will always be with them in spirit and address them so that they will not feel lonely and abandoned, so that they will not need to mourn, so that they will not fear and tremble .... For I Myself am with all who ask Me for comfort and strength and love. My spirit is truly a comforter, for can a human being address you more lovingly than eternal love Itself does? And eternal love expresses Itself through the spirit, as It has promised: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ...." And this spirit, which is My emanation, will truly lift you up and comfort you, it will not leave you powerless, it will strengthen you and again and again give you courage and strength, and you will always be able to master earthly life because you lean on Me Myself when your spiritual spark unites with the father-spirit of eternity in order to let Him comfort you. Therefore there will only ever be one path when the heart is sad, when the human being wants to despair in earthly or spiritual adversity, the path to Me Myself, so that My spirit will become active in you, so that it can express itself and truly does so in such a way that you will continue your path strengthened and comforted towards the right goal. For then I will speak to you Myself and My words will touch your heart like balm, they will alleviate all pain and remedy all secret hardship, My word will penetrate your hearts and bring everyone the comfort he needs in his suffering. Not arbitrarily have I spoken these words: "I will send you the comforter ...." For I knew about the many hardships into which My children will fall if they want to walk the path of following Jesus. Suffering will not be able to be kept away from them on this path, and in this suffering I wanted to assure them of My comfort .... and since I was no longer on earth in a purely physical sense I promised My own the 'comforter', My spirit .... thus Myself, only not visible as a human being, yet present to everyone who needs comfort and strength and calls upon Me for help in his adversity. But I cannot intervene in a comforting way where My spirit is not requested, where there is no bond between the spiritual spark in the human being and the father-spirit of eternity. I have to wait until the call reaches My ears that a person is in distress and that he expects help from Me. Then I will certainly be ready to help, for I have promised My comforter to all who believe in Me and long for Him .... And therefore no human being need be despondent, no matter what distresses him .... for he will always find comfort and help with Me, and I will quite obviously grant him such, so that 'My spirit' will become manifest and its working, true to My promise: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ...." You can keep this promise of Mine when you are troubled or distressed, for My word is truth, and no one who turned to Me in his distress will need to go from Me without being comforted ....

Amen

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Spiritual comfort ....

B.D. 7378 from June 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Every spiritual consolation is a refreshment for the soul which is open to it as soon as it feels the love of the consoler. For the soul is always in distress when it needs spiritual comfort. Then the human being performs a work of love for his neighbour which must sometimes be valued more highly than the administration of earthly gifts which only benefit the body. But the soul, which needs spiritual comfort, is in need of a work of love, and it can be helped far more .... always provided that true love gives it comfort. For then it will feel this love and be inspired to love itself, and love always has a redeeming effect. But giving spiritual comfort always requires the right attitude, thus the human being has to be in the right relationship with Me, with his father, then he will always also point his fellow human being to Me, he will tell him where he can expect comfort and help, he will encourage him to turn to Me himself and establish the same relationship with Me as he himself has, and his words will therefore also be alive and have an effect on the fellow human being to whom he seeks to give spiritual comfort. And it is precisely this bond which will comfort him .... the hope that there is one Who hears him and heeds his call, and that he can unite with Me in every adversity of body and soul. No one should let his fellow human being leave him without consolation. But he can only ever give true comfort by referring to Me, Who can and will change all suffering if the person trusts Me and asks Me for help. For then he will acknowledge Me as his God and father, and that alone is the purpose and aim of earthly existence, to enter into the relationship with Me again in which the being stood in the beginning, to lift the separation itself in free will, which it once aspired to, and to unite with Me again in order to be blissfully happy. This is why every reference to Me is a spiritual comfort which every human being needs as long as he is still distant from Me and, as it were, lonely and abandoned, exposed to all attacks by the adversary. He is in spiritual adversity where he needs consolation .... Take care of all of them, regardless of whether they are still on earth or already in the beyond, and give them this comfort by referring them to Me, that they should call upon Me and through calling upon My name will also find salvation for their souls. Remember them in prayer and in thought and don't leave them in this adversity, and they will thank you eternally if you have helped them to find Me and to attain beatitude in Me, for which the bond with Me is indispensable. And you, too, will be comforted if you are in the same distress of soul, I will take special care of you and give you what you need in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Consolating and loving father words ....

B.D. 5827 from December 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All of you shall be comforted by My word, you who are sad and afflicted, you who are despondent in earthly adversity and distress .... You shall draw courage from the words which I convey to you from above in the realization of My creatures' state, in the realization of their weakness and loneliness when they do not carry Me in their hearts. I want to promise comfort to all, I want to restore everyone's trust that they will find help with their heavenly father if only they call upon Him. I speak to you from above because you no longer believe the word I handed down to you, because it seems unlikely to you that I take care of My children on earth, that I know about all their hardship and suffering and am always willing to help .... And I want to assure you of this again and only let you know about the conditions that I want to be called upon by you if I am to help you .... I have to impose this condition otherwise My help for you could not result in a blessing for the soul, for if I helped you without your call you would never establish the connection with Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life, and then I Myself would have contributed towards you not reaching your aim. I want you to believe in Me as God and creator of eternity Who is always in contact with the created by Him, Who will never sever this bond and Who only requires of you that you consciously establish this bond yourselves .... that you recognize Him as your father and then trustingly turn to Him in every earthly and spiritual adversity. But because all faith in this has been lost to you I try to approach you through My word and to awaken faith in you anew. I speak to you and address every person directly, albeit through the mouth of servants devoted to Me .... but he only speaks what I Myself deem necessary for you, he only speaks as My instrument, he speaks for Me and in My stead .... But it is My words which you hear, which shall touch you with all strength and entice you to take refuge in My arms in every adversity of body and soul. You who are despondent shall be lifted up, you who are afflicted shall be comforted, you who are weak in body and soul shall receive strength, and you who are blind in spirit shall see, I want to prove My love to all of you through the word which sounds down to you from on high .... For I Myself, as father, incline towards My children who shall recognize Me and learn to love Me so that they may become blessed ....

Amen

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"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

Admonition to exercise self-control .... Gentleness - Peacefulness ....

B.D. 1003 from July 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Learn to restrain yourselves and become gentle and peaceful, for your time on earth is given to you as a probationary period during which you should reach full maturity, training and shaping yourselves for the benefit of your soul. You will hardly be able to fulfil your earthly task if you don't strive for this first, for all your soul's difficulties arise from your own lack of self-control. And thus hear what the Lord Himself is proclaiming to you:

You, My children on earth, have to make an effort to treat each other with love .... You have chosen this stay on earth in the knowledge of what you are lacking; you have many opportunities to combat your weaknesses and mistakes, yet you must also have the good will to make use of the possibilities offered and, through constant self-restraint, grow stronger and overcome your mistakes. Bear in mind, My children, with how much patience I have to overlook your weaknesses again and again, and yet My love for you does not diminish .... Consider how much more reason I would have to become impatient, and how I, nevertheless, in utmost patience and mercy, embrace My children again and lovingly forgive them when they have trespassed .... consider that My life on earth demanded an abundance of patience towards sinful humanity, which nevertheless did not recognise My love and repaid all the good I did for people with ingratitude, and finally made Me suffer so indescribably ....

How much did they humiliate Me and devised all sorts of torments and, without any blame, handed Me over to be crucified .... And I patiently shouldered even this most bitter injustice and nevertheless did not withdraw My mercy from those who wronged Me .... I implored the Father in heaven to forgive them their sins and did not turn away from humanity but tried to win them over with patience and love and thereby bring them redemption. And therefore you should also practise the virtue of self-denial, one should live for the other and only ever endeavour to ease each other's suffering, so that you will become perfect and will not have lived your earthly life in vain. And sacrifice all your worries and pains to Me, and you will become as gentle as doves and communicate with each other patiently and with love, and inner calm will enter your hearts .... and I will help you if you are in danger of losing yourselves.

Amen

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Dwellings in the father's house .... eternal home ....

B.D. 3808 from June 22nd 1946, taken from Book No. 48

And I will introduce you into My father's house .... If I have given you this promise, you may be blissfully happy in the knowledge that one day you will enjoy the delights of eternal life as children of God, for My word is truth and My promise will be fulfilled if you comply with My will .... All adversity will come to an end for you, every earthly worry will fall away, and in freedom of spirit, unbound by earthly matter, you will be allowed to dwell in those realms which belong to the kingdom of the blessed spirits and are exceedingly glorious. On earth you cannot grasp the bliss which is granted to the souls in that kingdom, and yet you should believe My word and live such that you will be able to move into the father's heavenly dwellings after your death on this earth .... the dwellings which the father's love has prepared for His Own and which will truly be the abode of those who have become Mine through their will and a way of life in love .... Why then do you still worry about your physical well-being if you know that your earthly life is only a short transition to true life in eternity? Only use your earthly life for the right shaping of your souls, and your fate in the beyond will be incomparably blissful, for you will be given everything your heart desires .... But make sure that your heart's desire is not for the body, for the body will pass away, but what remains eternally is only spiritual good, and desire this with all your heart. Then your soul will dwell in exceedingly beautiful surroundings, it will move in creations which you are unable to imagine on earth, and it will be in its home, in the father's house, where the father's nearness makes it infinitely happy and His love provides it with everything which increases its bliss. For My love for you, My children on earth, is exceedingly great, and I prepare a blissful life for all of you if you return to Me of your own free will. For there are many dwellings in My house and they are all waiting for you to occupy them and to be able to behold My glories which I have prepared for you. Live on earth in love and My love will be granted to you in the spiritual kingdom .... Give to your neighbour in love what he needs physically or spiritually, and My love will give to you in the same measure, for as you measure out, so will it be measured out to you in My kingdom. And believe in My promise, then the short earthly life you are still granted will be bearable for you despite all adversity, for whatever is taken from you on earth .... I will give you a thousandfold in My kingdom if you voluntarily devote yourselves and thus detach yourselves from matter in order to receive spiritual good .... For the time of your earthly adversity is short, but your life in eternity will last forever, and there will be no end to your bliss in My father's house ....

Amen

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"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."

Sense of justice .... Judging one's fellow human being ....

B.D. 1869 from March 30th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

The human being has to have an inherent sense of justice or he would be unable to pass judgment on apparently heartless conduct. Anyone who deems himself so exalted that he will not tolerate any objection because he believes himself infallible will never think righteously either, for he does not allow others the same rights he claims for himself. A substantial difference has to be made between people. Anyone being strictly critical of himself and his actions will also always make an effort to judge other people fairly. However, anyone who only looks for faults in his fellow human beings and believes himself without error will regard all conduct from a superior point of view, and thus his judgment is wrong.

Every human being can err; every human being can make mistakes .... Yet he has to know himself, then he can fight his faults and improve himself .... But anyone who does not recognise a fault in himself will not strive for perfection either.

When he acts unkindly he will not be aware of it, he will not hold himself to account and is incapable of judging his actions fairly. He lacks a sense of justice; he will always consider his own actions beyond reproach but try to demean his fellow human being for the least mistake. It has to be clear to the human being that he has no right to accuse a fellow human being of a degrading action as long as he does not live up to a high moral standard himself. He should always consider his own shortcomings if he wants to criticise the failings of other people.

But someone with an inherent sense of justice will not hastily judge someone else, for he will try to put himself into the same situation and then also understand the failings and faults of the other person. However, in order to be able to do so he has to be truthful, he has to see things as they are .... he should not rate himself too highly and underrate his fellow human being, for then he will apply a different standard to his own faults than to the other person's faults, and that excludes all righteous thinking and judgment.

It is exceptionally valuable to firmly call oneself to account, then the human being will stay true to himself and not do his fellow human being an injustice out of selfishness by unfairly condemning his conduct and putting himself above the other person. And thus the human being should first look at himself and his behaviour before he criticises his fellow human being and elevates himself as his judge ....

Amen

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Thinking and acting righteously .... Love your enemy ....

B.D. 5432 from July 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You ought to think and act righteously. This includes meeting all people with love and not excluding anyone, for all people are My children, who should love each other .... thus you should not deny your love to any person while granting it to another, because you should not make judgments if one of your brothers has done wrong but leave the judgment to Me, as I Am truly a righteous Judge. It is certainly difficult for you to feel the same love for all people, but if you consider that you all have only one Father, if you consider that His love created all of you and that His love always and forever belongs to His living creations, even if they don't want to know Him .... if you are aware yourselves of being seized by the Father's love and feel constantly sheltered by His loving care, then you should not curtail your Father's love, but this is what you would be doing if you acted and thought unkindly of your fellow human beings who are, after all, My children too whom I love .... Even those people you think you can't love have a soul, although it is frequently pitiable because it lingers in profound spiritual hardship .... precisely because the human being is bad and thus does not awaken love in you. Were you, however, able to see the hardship of such a soul you would, if you only had one spark of love in you, want to help it with deepest compassion and would not rest until you have reduced this soul's suffering. Then you would only see the soul, the human being as such would no longer seem detestable to you but you would support him like a completely blind person and forget whatever he has done to you. And you should always remember a fellow human being's soul if he cannot awaken love in you .... The soul's torments are inconceivable, and I have mercy upon every soul and would like to help it .... Nevertheless, I cannot infringe upon its free will, I must allow it to take its own path .... you, however, can grant it love and thus so influence a person that he, too, can ignite love in him and thereby reduce his soul's spiritual hardship. Hence, you can help where I Am effectively powerless as not to endanger the person's free will. And you will only think righteously if you help a fellow human being, who is still bound in sin, to attain the level which you have climbed already, for you were helped by My grace when you were still weak and My grace also wants to help those who are still below yet held captive by My adversary .... And you should help to loosen the shackles, you should lovingly bring the children who have gone astray back to Me, the eternal Father, you should help them to find the same that you have found through My love and My grace ....

Amen

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Justice ....

B.D. 7326 from April 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Justice will also be done to the righteous in My kingdom, for anyone who thinks and acts righteously on earth can also expect a judgment for himself from Me which will fully satisfy him. Every person should do his fellow human being fullest justice, and this means that he should treat him as a brother with whom he shares everything he has been allotted by the father .... He should treat him justly, i.e. as it is in the spirit of the father, Who loves both children equally and never wants to see one set back before the other. And this applies in particular to spiritual possessions which are necessary for people to mature their souls .... Earthly justice should also be shown to the fellow human being by never taking advantage of him or unjustly causing him harm. Yet earthly it cannot be avoided that people receive earthly goods in different ways, because this is based on My eternal plan of salvation, that the individual people's different situations in life serve to increase their mutual will to help and that voluntary giving or voluntary helping are works of unselfish neighbourly love which has to be practiced on earth for the purpose of their own perfection. Yet spiritually, helping one's fellow human being signifies even deeper love for him, after all, everyone shall be led back to the father, after all, every person shall find the path to Me. And therefore every person should regard the other as his brother who has the same right to be accepted again as My child, and no person should believe that he alone is entitled to this right. And everyone should help his brother to mature spiritually, even though the will first has to be ready for this. But the human being will have shown justice to his fellow human being if he first provides him with the means to reach perfection. How he then uses the evidence of his love is his own responsibility, but the reward of the righteous is certain .... he will be rewarded by Me in the same way, he will be given as he himself has given out .... And thus righteousness is a work of neighbourly love, that every person should be provided with what he does not possess himself but which is necessary for his salvation .... And the human being, who is allowed to enjoy it, should justly think of his brothers who are not in the same situation, and he should supply them spiritually and earthly, because he himself is also supplied by Me, Who takes pleasure in justice and blesses everyone whose thinking and actions are just, as right neighbourly love also dictates. And thus the human being in the spiritual kingdom will also be considered and blessed by Me, for righteousness belongs to My fundamental nature which you humans should conform to .... it belongs to the essence of love which you should shape yourselves into again on earth, and it is one of the virtues which were your own in the beginning, which you have to adopt again if you want to return to Me, to your father's house, as perfect again ....

Amen

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'The measure you use will be the measure you receive ....'

B.D. 8786 from March 21st 1964, taken from Book No. 92

And regardless of how impossible it seems to you, I will intervene (affect you extraordinarily) when the time is right, for nothing is impossible to Me .... Just try to raise your degree of love, make an effort to live in accordance with My will, take care of your fellow human being in his adversity and demonstrate your love for Me by seeing in your fellow human being your brother, who has also come forth from Me in order to inherit beatitude one day. Believe that love alone is enough in order to accomplish the greatest miracles, in order to make things happen which you would humanly find impossible. Yet I Am a God of love, wisdom and might .... I can do anything, but at what time My might will express itself is always determined by My love and wisdom. And truly, with your will, with your love you can determine My will and My love, you can apply coercion on Me which I will extremely gladly put up with, because love will never be a nuisance but always give pleasure ....

And if you grant Me your love, My love will also express itself such that it will make you happy. I will give you humans the most diverse tasks, I know how and in which way every person can help, and I also know, whether and when he is willing to help, and I will send people his way whom he can please with his helpfulness, to whom he will give what they urgently require, be they earthly or spiritual possessions .... By passing on earthly possessions you are always demonstrating love to Me, for whatever you do to the least of My brothers you do unto Me .... Furthermore, you also prove to Me that you have already overcome matter and are spiritually progressing .... But if you pass on spiritual possessions then it is My work that I send people to you whom you should consider spiritually, whose souls are going hungry and are in urgent need of your help to nourish them, so that their souls will strengthen and recover. This helpfulness will be particularly rewarded by Me, for it signifies a distribution of spiritual possessions which will give life to the soul. And whoever is thus of service to Me by passing on what he receives from Me directly .... whoever has the salvation of his fellow human being's soul at heart, can be absolutely certain of My support, for he is implementing a labour of love which has to be far more highly valued, because he first has to feel sincere love for Me and for his fellow human being in order to acquire the possession of these spiritual values which he shall share again .... And then I will also always show Myself to him as a loving Father, I will guide him on earth and bless all his ways .... And My promises will fulfil themselves such that I will also work in an unusual way when the time is right.

All people in spiritual and earthly adversity are your neighbours, and you shall give to them what they require .... You should have the sincere will to help them and, truly, you will then also always have the means which you should pass on again, be they of a spiritual or material kind. Therefore, don't calculate anxiously but be generous, for the measure you use will be the measure you receive, what you give with love will be rewarded to you a thousand fold, always depending on the degree of love which impels you to help. So, don't worry, for I will take care of you .... always just work at improving yourselves, so that you will resist all temptations, so that you will not become heartless and put your degree of maturity at risk, and then you will also always be allowed to feel My love to an extent that you will feel My presence and be happy .... I love you, and I Am all-powerful, thus I want to make you happy and I Am also able to do so. However, My love knows when the time is right that I can affect you in an unusual way, that you will obviously experience My love and I can release you from all adversities of body and soul .... For My willingness to help is far greater than yours, and My gifts of grace are immeasurable, which I can and want to bestow on everyone who loves Me and keeps My commandments ....

Amen

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"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."

‘Blessed are the merciful ....’

B.D. 3460 from March 9th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Blessed are the merciful, who support their neighbour in adversity and hardship and help him overcome it .... My grace visibly rests upon them for they fulfil My commandments, they love Me Myself because they meet their neighbour, My living creation, with love .... Someone helpless and forsaken will feel grateful for the love offered to him; it will awaken reciprocated love, the significance of which cannot be assessed by you on earth .... the fact that every spark of love signifies a release from the opposing power, a change which starts the return to Me, which can only take place in love. Loving help will always be comforting for a person in any earthly and spiritual adversity. Love gives strength, after all, it originates from Me, the eternal love, and can only have a life-giving effect. Helping someone brings forth positive thoughts and feelings, it touches the other person’s soul and encourages similar actions, and every activity of love distances a person from My adversary, hence it shortens his distance from Me. Carrying out merciful deeds are essential in times of trouble, when body and soul are ailing, when physical ailments must be the results of psychological adversity, so that people will come to their senses and find the path to Me. And you show this path to them if you practise mercy, if, in unselfish neighbourly love, you lift up your fellow human being in body and soul with kind deeds, comforting words of encouragement and loving care. Then body and soul will be able to recover, for the latter feels the strength of love and becomes strong and willing to strive towards Me .... Love will awaken love in return and where the spark of love has been kindled I Myself can work, because I can be wherever love exists. And where I Am the adversity will ease .... according to the degree of love the person feels. Therefore, try eagerly to arouse reciprocated love and you will redeem the souls through your works of mercy .... Redeeming souls, however, will lead to a blissful fate in the beyond for you, where only love will be valued and the souls will forever be thankful to you that you showed them the right way ....

Amen

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Compassion .... Sick and weak people ....

B.D. 1032 from July 31th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Take care of the sick and the weak, and consider that they are suffering and need your help. You should be compassionate and constantly consider the welfare of these poor people, whose physical afflictions make their life intolerable, you should try to alleviate this suffering and selflessly help them at all times. This is pleasing to God, and since you are all children of God, one shall also be concerned for the other and not allow heartlessness or indifference towards your fellow human being arise in you. How often do people pass by the sick and the weak without offering them a comforting word, it is very depressing for these sufferers. They are helpless in their state and grateful for every word granted by love .... And how often do they have to go without because no considerate word is spoken to them. They are lonely, and their soul is seized by profound sadness, for it hungers for love and is only scantily considered ....

And the Lord teaches compassion .... and promises eternal bliss, for compassion presupposes love, and only a labour of love will bring salvation to the soul. Compassion is purest neighbourly love, for it wants to help and expects nothing in return .... A person can be ailing in body as well as in soul .... and bringing him help is always inexpressibly valuable .... speaking words of comfort to the physically weak and offering the psychologically sick and frail the right remedy out of kind-hearted neighbourly love .... For the body’s suffering will come to an end one day but not that of the soul unless it is approached by active neighbourly love bringing it help to escape its adversity.

The weak and ailing person, however, needs twice as much support, for the body’s weakness often also lets the soul descend into helplessness, and it can only be helped by selfless love which, as it were, awakens the soul from its lethargic state and thus stimulates it to take care of improving its condition. Then the human being will also bear his physical suffering with patience, if only the soul has come to the right recognition on account of its fellow human being’s active help which supported it during its adversity.

Any actively compassionate person can bestow untold blessings, for the earthly child will feel this both earthly as well as spiritually, and the thus considered person will have to feel relieved and, on account of the spiritual strength which shines across with every deed of love, turn his gaze upwards. And thus will love and compassion for sick and weak people result in twice as many blessings .... It will help to improve the physical condition of the sick and weak and simultaneously be extremely beneficial for the soul, and therefore, don’t forget to grant them your help and kind-hearted sympathy, lift them up physically and spiritually, and thereby also let their time of suffering become a time of spiritual maturing for them .... and the Lord will bless those who are full of compassion towards their suffering fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Help to erring souls greatest work of love and mercy ....

B.D. 4697 from July 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

You will be granted manifold blessings if you endeavour to help erring souls who cannot find the right path because they are blind in spirit. Bringing them light, pointing them to the right path and thus making it possible for them to reach the aim is a work of mercy and neighbourly love which is significant for eternity and which is therefore highly valued by Me, Who loves all My creations and wants to bring them salvation through you. Physically helping your neighbour is certainly also a work of love which will be rewarded to you; however, putting a soul into the state of recognizing its situation and subsequently changing itself, thus entering the right path which leads to My kingdom and is the only aim worth striving for, is far more meritorious, for at the same time it is evidence of profound faith if a person imparts his knowledge to another which has only been acquired spiritually, thus it cannot be proven. Moreover, such a work of love has an effect for the whole of eternity .... If you imagine that your efforts to enlighten an ignorant person can result in a state of light for his soul which it will never lose again, then this awareness must already be the greatest reward for you to have spared this soul unspeakable suffering which, however, would have been its fate in the beyond if it had entered it in darkness. To have brought light to a person is the greatest work of love, for it proves sincere, unselfish neighbourly love. Although the efforts for an erring soul are often seemingly unsuccessful, what a soul has once received will emerge again in it in cases of great earthly adversity, and then it is still possible for the person to confess it, and this will always be and remain your merit, for a saved soul will eternally thank its saviour if it once stands in the light .... if it has recognized the fate it has escaped through His help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mercy ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mercy .... do not harden your hearts ....

B.D. 6025 from August 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Whatever you want people to do to you, do it to them. Always put yourselves in your fellow human being's position of need and think of how grateful you would be if you were helped out of this adversity, and then act according to your strength and it will be right in My eyes. But if your brother's adversity leaves you cold, then your heart will already be hardened and then it will be difficult for you to enter the kingdom of heaven, for then you will be without love, then you will not fulfil My commandments and your soul will not be able to mature .... the change of nature will not take place, but this is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. Your fellow human being's adversity can certainly also be your fault and yet you should help him, for you yourselves can also fall into sin and thereby become adversity, and you will also make use of My love and mercy because you feel unhappy .... If your heart is hardened, if you pass by a person in distress indifferently, mentally place yourselves in the same predicament .... and the ice will melt, a wave of mercy will flood over you, if you are still able to change at all .... For know that you can all get into the same predicament; know that you do not determine your own fate and that you therefore cannot avert from yourselves what I want to bring upon you for the purpose of your education .... What concerns your neighbour today can already be your own fate tomorrow, and if you expect help then also give it to your neighbour and you will do well by it .... Don't think self-righteously, don't feel exalted and don't look down on your fellow human being because you are earthly better off or seem to master fate better .... For then you cause Me to put you in the same position so that you feel what you did not want to understand before .... Do not harden your hearts .... but let yourselves be touched by every adversity and seek help. For you give and receive back abundantly what you have given out. And you win the hearts of those you give to, and that is your greatest gain, that good thoughts follow you, that you are remembered with love, which your soul feels as strength to mature itself. And always remember My words: "Whatever you do to the least of your brothers, you have done to Me." Then it will be easy for you to alleviate hardship .... And as you now love God above all things, you will not fail to love your neighbour either .... and you will fulfil My commandments and mature in your soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's mercy ....

B.D. 6352 from September 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You all experience God's kindness and mercy, for His love is never-ending and applies to all His living creations which suffer hardship but still resist Him and therefore would actually have no right to be loved by Him .... on account of which God's mercy remembers them in their distress. He cannot be angry but only be willing to love, forgive and help .... No sin is so great that His love would not want to absolve it and only His righteousness has to maintain a certain order, in view of which God cannot make His creatures blissfully happy as long as they still openly oppose Him .... However, He does whatever it takes to overcome their antagonism, in order to then be able to give Himself in abundance .... Thus God does not condemn, even if the measure of sin is overflowing, but full of compassion He looks upon the sinner and pours endless blessings upon him, so that he will change and voluntarily turn to Him in order to find complete forgiveness with Him. For God Himself is Love, and love cannot be angry as it only ever tries to give happiness. God is a merciful Judge to every soul, i.e., forgiveness can always be expected from His side .... because His love is never-ending. Only if the soul itself objects to it then it will challenge God's righteousness .... because it is the law of eternal order that opposition renders God's love ineffective and also makes every act of compassion futile. And therefore God's greatest care only ever applies to the human being's change of will, which subsequently enables His mercy to intervene when a soul has fallen and is unable to lift itself up again on its own .... Then it will receive help which, admittedly, it does not deserve but which it will not reject either .... Then it can become blessed due to grace .... for the merciful love draws towards all wretched beings. But only He is compassionate Who knows about the endless misery of those who languish in the abyss .... And only the person who knows the fate of the fallen souls can feel compassionate, even if he is emotionally unable to assess it. Yet the knowledge of the fallen beings' wretchedness can also awaken profound compassion in him, and if he thus, in merciful love, supports these souls which are far away from God .... if he appeals to God to help these unhappy souls, then his merciful call for help can overcome the resistance in these souls, because they feel the petitioner's love and become more compliant ....

For merciful love is valued very highly on God's part, it is, after all, a sign of the soul's higher maturity, a sign of a human being's true love, which can never remain ineffective. God takes pity on every soul, and everything would truly be redeemed from the abyss already were His merciful love unhesitatingly accepted .... Yet it remains ineffective as soon as it meets with resistance. Hence every state of adversity, every misery has not been imposed on the being by God but was aspired to in free will, against which even God's mercy cannot undertake anything but merely continue influencing the person's will so that he will change and clear the path for the merciful love, so that the being will allow itself to be seized and lifted up by it. Every act of Salvation is an act of compassion, because the being shall be redeemed from self-inflicted adversity .... where righteousness should impose punishment were mercy not to express itself first and make a final attempt to break the opposition .... Nevertheless, in the case of opposition even mercy will be to no avail, and then justice will consider the being according to its resistance .... God's love will never end, and this love tries to save all wretched beings, and His mercy will time and again draw down to earth and gather those who let themselves be seized by it, and no being will be able to resist His greater than great love forever, for it is very strong, and one day even the hardest heart will be melted by this strength of love, and it will voluntarily surrender to Him in free will and be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

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Purification of the heart as the temple of God ....

B.D. 5515 from October 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I want to dwell in you: .... Therefore your heart should also be such that I can dwell in it, and I can only dwell where all ungodliness has been removed beforehand, I can only be in a temple of love, in a vessel which is worthy to shelter Myself in it. And it requires a great deal of work on oneself to shape the heart in such a way that I can dwell in it .... for as soon as a piece of rubbish is removed it spreads again, and the work has to be done tirelessly until the heart is adorned with the virtues which now allow Me to take abode in it .... I am full of love and patience, thus you must also be so; I am gentle and peaceful beyond measure, and thus you must also make an effort to become like Me; I am full of forbearance and understanding for all weaknesses and demand the same from you, even if you will not reach the degree which still shapes you into a divine being on earth. I forgive those who have offended Me and repay them with all kinds of gifts of grace, and thus you should not hold any wrong against a fellow human being, you should treat those who have offended you with equanimity and kindness, and you should give them love and thus also try to win their love .... You should always take My life on earth as an example, since I, as a human being, had to struggle with the same oppositions and yet remained victorious because love gave Me strength, which you, too, can receive at any time if only you give much love. Such a purified heart will soon realize Whom it contains, for love attracts Me so powerfully, love adorns the heart and nothing can remain next to it which could prevent My presence. And you should not judge .... You should leave it to Me, and I truly judge justly but still differently than you, because I also love that which is still distant from Me and want to win it one day. Try to live on earth according to My example and the attempt will be rewarded to you .... For anyone who seriously wants will also receive My strength in full measure in order to be able to carry out his will. Anyone who seriously strives for inner perfection will achieve it, for he will soon feel Me as his helper within himself, and together with Me everything will become easy for him, even the attainment of a degree of maturity, which shall be the striving and aim of all of you. Your heart will become and remain a dwelling place for Me, and I Myself will be present to you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's dwelling in the heart of man ....

B.D. 5296 from January 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I want to dwell in you .... I want My living creations to be completely permeated by My spirit, I want them to be filled with My fundamental substance, with love, so that I Myself irrefutably dwell within them and they have, as it were, become the envelopment of Myself, which signifies unlimited bliss for the being. I would like to dwell in all human hearts and be able to call all My creatures My children who have received the father within themselves .... Inconceivable beatitudes emerge from such a relationship of a child with the father, and to procure these beatitudes for My living creations is always and forever My aim and My striving. This is why the visible and the spiritual world were created .... the visible world in order to give My living creations the opportunity to achieve a deification of their nature for the first time, the spiritual world in order to offer these deified beings undreamt-of bliss. And in this spiritual world I Myself will then visibly present Myself to My children, in this spiritual world the child's relationship with the father will first take shape and through constant intercourse increase love to highest ardour until a complete fusion with Me can take place, which signifies unimaginable bliss for you. In the spiritual kingdom a constant ascent is certain as soon as the soul has found Me on earth or only in the spiritual kingdom. But until this turning to Me has occurred, often endless times pass, and during this time I struggle for every soul by wooing its love, because only love changes the will which previously did not belong to Me. But the change of will and conscious turning to Me then also guarantees the attainment of the final aim, the union with Me on earth already or also in the spiritual kingdom.

I want to take abode in your hearts .... The short time of earthly life shall bring it about that you have found your way to Me, and that is why earthly life is often difficult and arduous, yet once the aim has been reached you will be fully compensated for even the most difficult earthly life, for the spiritual kingdom will open up to you in a glory that surpasses all imagination .... For no human eye has ever seen and no human ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me .... I only require your love, then the kingdom of beatitudes will belong to you, then you will enter the father's inheritance as My children, for then you will have truly become My children, because you have shaped yourselves through love into My image and now also possess light and strength in all fullness, which you now use in My will for the indescribable bliss of yourselves .... Let Me enter your hearts, open wide the door to Me .... become what I Myself am in My original being, become love .... so that I can abide in you and you in Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Father’s house and beatitude ....

B.D. 5617 from March 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You shall enter into My paternal house, you shall dwell in eternity where I once placed you to be most blissfully active. But then you will be able to behold your God and Father of eternity in Jesus Christ, I Myself will be amongst you and your bliss will be and remain without bounds, for in eternity the glory of My kingdom has no end. That which you can achieve on earth is so inconceivable and overwhelming that you would no longer strive for anything else on earth were you able to imagine this glory .... But you must strive for My kingdom without this knowledge, you must return to your Father’s house of your own free will, because beatitude will only be your fate on condition that the being has voluntarily attained perfection. One day this beatitude is destined for you, nevertheless, it is left up to yourselves as to how long you still want to delay your home-coming into your Father’s house, the time is determined by yourselves, and when your body dies it can already be over and have gained you perfection on this earth. I await all of you and have prepared the mansion for you .... Allow these Words of Mine to take effect in you, let yourselves be motivated to seriously strive towards coming to Me in My kingdom, imagine the most glorious fate and you will not come anywhere near the true idea of that which I have prepared for My Own, for those who love Me with all their heart and soul .... And you can attain all this by merely keeping My commandment of loving Me and your fellow human being .... Through unselfish love you shall shape yourselves such that you can be accepted into the spiritual kingdom with all its light without fading away. Then you will be able to enter into your Father’s house, then I Myself will come to meet you and guide all of you towards the glories and in My presence, permeated by My love, you will be and remain indescribably happy for all eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."

Charity ....

B.D. 4706 from August 7th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

In christian neighbourly love lies the foundation of peace and harmony, both on a large and small scale, i.e., nations and states will live in peace with each other, just as people will live together in harmony among themselves if their behaviour is based on the principle of neighbourly love, if they only want to do good to each other and strive to keep suffering and worry away from their fellow human beings. Then there will truly be peace on earth .... but how far away are people from this now ....? They offend each other and are full of ruthlessness, even though they don't consciously want to harm people, yet there is no sign of love for each other, and that is why the great spiritual decline is so obvious, for without love the human being cannot strive spiritually either, without love there is no spiritual progress .... people do not reach their aim .... Only a few still accept the law of love which, however, has to be fulfilled or there can be no peace. And so every individual should seriously ask himself how he behaves towards this law .... he should ask himself whether he is doing everything in his power to bring joy, to alleviate suffering and to control the hardship which becomes obvious to him and requires his help. Man should think more of others than of himself, then he will also see what is lacking and be able to remedy it. Man should avoid everything that offends his fellow human beings, but do everything that makes them happy. Seriously ask yourselves whether you could justify yourselves if such a justification were demanded of you. And you will discover many omissions which are then a sin if the fellow human being suffers or suffers as a result, be it mentally or physically. Help where you can and protect your neighbour from suffering where you can .... Never let self-love prevail, never let your neighbour go hungry if you yourselves are doing well .... This is to be understood literally and also figuratively, for even a kind word, a good look, a helpful action can refresh and strengthen the fellow human being, therefore don't let it be lacking. Practice neighbourly love .... and your earthly life will be harmonious, there will be peace and harmony in and around you, and if all people lived according to this commandment it would truly be paradise on earth. But how does it look in the world? All bad qualities, greed, hatred, envy, discord, insincerity and self-love dominate people, they are not friends but enemies, they do not respect each other but seek to exalt themselves, they do not lay a soothing hand on wounds but inflict new ones, and thus evil becomes ever greater and plunges people into ruin. Love has grown cold among people, and that is the end .... For where love no longer exists all substance hardens, where the heart can no longer feel love all knowledge is lost, thus all life will also die, for only love alone is life .... Hence you humans can certainly still live physically but spiritually you are dead if you are devoid of all love. Again and again love will be preached to you, don't let these admonitions fall on your ears but know that they are the last calls from above; know that there is not much time left until the end but that you will be judged according to your love. Therefore take care that you do not need to fear the judgement .... Practice neighbourly love and thereby acquire eternal peace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of love towards enemies ....

B.D. 0605 from October 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 13

Let it be your concern to do good also to your enemies, and take heed that every work of love, no matter how small, is blessed threefold .... It helps you to remove the sting of enmity .... it helps you to grace yourselves, and it reawakens counter-love in those to whom you do good. And you thereby make a sacrifice of self-conquest. You have time and leisure enough to prepare yourselves for such an act of love for your neighbor, wherever you are in enmity with him. It may be difficult for you at first, but gradually the inner voice will make it easier for you. It will speak to you well and will not be silent until you have carried out the work of love .....

And the only danger then is that you do not realize what an unspeakably beneficial effect such a work of love has, if the adversary does not want to admit that your love benefits him .... then you are easily discouraged and inclined to refrain from further works of love .... and do not believe how erroneous this view is. You do not recognize the spiritual blessing so clearly, but for the soul it is of unnameable value, and any lukewarmness of which you are guilty, you will one day bitterly regret. In the spiritual world, work is constantly being done to shape people into peace-loving beings, to bridge enmity and to transform hatred and unkindness towards each other into love and kindness.

As valuable as the work for each other is, it is unspeakably damaging when people stand opposed to each other in hatred and enmity. This destroys all spiritual fellowship between people, and souls who turn away from each other always in an effort to harm each other get so deeply entangled in the nets of the adversary that it becomes more and more difficult for them to free themselves from them and this is only possible through mutually performed works of love. Striving upward with enmity in the heart is not easily possible, first it must be eradicated .... man must try to remove all hatred and resentment from the heart and then establish a good relationship in the same measure.

Then all assistance will be granted to them, and for the time of their earthly life, they are ensured of the help of the good spiritual forces, which protect them from renewed hostilities and thus also the soul from setbacks in it's work on itself. Therefore, always observe this commandment to love your enemies and do good to them, so you will gain immeasurably in spiritual treasures for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

World of peace .... leader of the people ....

B.D. 0892 from April 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the world of peace only one law applies, which is love .... Whoever willingly submits to this law is in God and God in him .... Whoever strives to give peace to the world must live in love, i.e. to constantly endeavour to help, to comfort, to alleviate hardship, to ward off oppressors and to do everything in order to awaken love in people again, and this is the greatest necessity in order to restore people to true life, for spiritual knowledge is only rooted in love .... Only someone who loves will be able to receive the spiritual nourishment the lord God offers people. People will therefore first have to live in love before they are worthy to receive .... and first have to be active in love in order to recognize the truth of it. Whoever serves the people as a leader must, as it were, exemplify the right life, he must be active in love and only ever let love become the motive of all action. For whatever he undertakes must never have the opposite effect; it must not give rise to hatred or unkindness, for then the life of the soul of the one who persists in hatred would be endangered. Truthfulness and justice must guide action and love must condition everything. He who lives in constant threat cannot be open to love, he will go through life in bitterness, and this cannot be beneficial to the soul .... But he who gives to people, and does so constantly, who does everything to win people's true love, also awakens love continually and will also conquer all hatred and all discord, so that a world of peace will surround those who are truly willing to love and give. Man therefore has the right to apply the standard to the individual's way of acting, whether and to what extent this produces love or only seeks certain advantages in earthly relations. Anyone who fulfils all his tasks and does not seek his own advantage .... who is only ever driven by love for the people to be active for their good, his deeds must also have such an effect that a state of calm, a deep inner happiness takes hold of people, they remember their leader's heart with love and can now devote themselves to the care of their inner life in all tranquillity without having to fear being in constant danger, which is caused by greed, envy and unkindness and results in the very decline of everything spiritual. And by this you will know whether the world of peace is in you and around you and what your inner life is like, and you will be able to judge whether the tasks of a leader are fulfilled correctly for the blessing and salvation of his people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Peace to those of good will ....

B.D. 8704 from December 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I wanted to bring peace to people on earth when I Myself descended and walked the earth .... And also today I want to bring peace to those who are of good will .... For truly, when they let Me Myself into their heart then a peace will also fill this heart which only I can give them, for they will feel My presence and feel blissfully safe and secure, they will not fear any enemy who approaches them from outside, for they know about My love and might which can and will ward off all harm which threatens them. Only in Me will you find true peace, because if you are intimately connected to Me, then you also feel father love, and you know that a father protects and looks after his children and does not let them get into trouble. I want to bring you peace of soul that you are certain to have taken the right way, which leads away from My opponent, whom you want to flee and to Me, your God and creator, to Whom you flee as children, that My father arms embrace you and safely guide you on the way up. But as long as you have not yet found Me, you also wander restlessly along; you know no real peace, because you are still inwardly too much pressed by My opponent, who does not let you come to peace, who is always only anxious to cause restlessness, impatience and agitation in you, who hurries and chases you, who puts you into the world gear, so that you can find no inner peace, because all contact with Me is prevented and without Me you cannot come to a true inner peace. But I came down to earth to bring peace to those who were of good will, for I gathered them around Me and revealed Myself to them as the saviour from deepest spiritual adversity. Only few believed in Me and My mission but these also found peace through Me, they found the path to Me, their God and creator, and walked it consciously by confessing Me in Jesus and being the first to also accept the blessings of My act of salvation, by being the first and most redeemed to be able to enter their eternal home again after the death of their body. To them I brought peace for their souls in truth .... the endless long fight since their apostasy had been endured, and it ended with a victory over the opponent, because they consciously turned towards Me and let themselves be redeemed by Me through My blood, which I shed on the cross for all men. I therefore had defeated My opponent, and everyone who now joins Me also no longer needs to fear My opponent; he will go through earth life in inner peace and also be able to enter the kingdom on the other side after his death, because I have bought this peace for him with My death on the cross. But he must be of good will .... otherwise he will still remain attached to My adversary, because he does not acknowledge My work of salvation and therefore also Me Myself, and for so long he will live a peaceless life in My adversary's chains .... be it on earth or also in the beyond, until he liberates himself from him, until he takes the path to Me and asks for redemption from Me, thus also for inner peace, which makes him blissfully happy. The earthly world has always been an area of dispute where men have to fight against him who holds them captive, and they will not reach true peace until they have defeated him and found to Me, Who alone can give them peace. But you men will also only then be happy when this peace fills your heart, because then you have found home, even if you still live on earth, but you have gone the right way to Me; you have intimately united with Me, received My love power and also found peace of the soul with Me. Then you have become Mine and eternally escaped from him who once plunged you into the deep. Then you have successfully covered the way from the deep to the height, and the gate to the eternal home is no longer closed to you .... I Myself receive you and guide you into My kingdom, where there is light and bliss and peace for all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Peace in God .... Power supply ....

B.D. 7943 from July 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Enter into intimate contact with Me and you will find the peace which the world cannot give you .... As soon as you allow My presence by intimately praying to Me, the sphere around you will also be purified, for the unspiritual flees the light, and light is within you when I am with you. The bond with Me is truly an act which you accomplish yourselves and which is also associated with visible blessings .... And even if your body does not feel this, your soul does, which ascends step by step and matures until perfection. You truly can do nothing better than to let your thoughts wander to Me again and again .... again and again to send a silent prayer to Me and thus express your love which fills you otherwise you would not seek My presence, otherwise you would keep your distance from Me and your thoughts would be turned towards the world. But as soon as you establish the bond with Me through intimate thoughts you also draw Me to yourselves, for these thoughts affect Me because they are spirit and life if they apply to Me .... And you have now inwardly made a confession to Me .... you acknowledge Me again, as you once refused to acknowledge Me. But this apostasy from Me did not bring you beatitude. And you are and remain wretched as long as you remain distant from Me by virtue of your free will. But the fact that the return to Me, the intimate bond of free will, will also bring you beatitude is only understandable, and therefore I say to you that you will find the peace which the world cannot give you .... The peace of the soul lets the human being endure all physical adversity, he hardly feels it and is harmonious in his thoughts and actions, for he lives in peace with Me, he is no longer My adversary, he is in intimate bond with Me; he sees in Me the friend, the brother, the father .... And he thus knows himself to be in faithful guard, he no longer needs to fear the world and nothing that still belongs to the world .... And his earthly life is now only a time of purification for his soul, which shall enter the kingdom of the beyond clearly and without slag when its hour has come to leave the body and return to Me in its father's house. And truly, you will succeed in purifying your soul quickly and well if you repeatedly take refuge in Me, if you don't leave Me out of your thoughts .... If you want Me to be present to you and earnestly seek My nearness in heartfelt prayer, then I will truly let Myself be found, for I Myself want to be united with My children, I Myself want to reveal Myself to them, which is only ever possible if a person induces Me to be present through silent, heartfelt prayer. You can achieve much through your mental dwelling with Me, your God and father of eternity, for although you do not address any requests to Me you will nevertheless be able to receive an abundance of strength which you also need for your pilgrimage on this earth. Again and again your tempter will approach you and want to turn you away from Me. But if you possess strength from Me you will be able to push him away from you and he will no longer have any power, for he will have to give way to My strength and leave you .... And therefore don't miss any opportunity which earns you a supply of strength .... Join with Me again and again and long for My presence .... Always remain united with Me in thought .... Only want to be and remain Mine, and this will will be blessed. You will achieve what you strive for; you will receive what you ask for; I will always be close to you and guide you, and you can now walk all paths without hesitation. As long as you let Me walk by your side through your thoughts and intentions you are in good hands and you will safely reach your aim. The bond with Me will become ever more intimate until one day you will be merged with Me and remain with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

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"Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: their is the kingdom of heaven."

Afflictions of the righteous ....

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

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

Amen

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Public confession .... living faith ....

B.D. 5169 from July 12th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Anyone who only confesses Me with his mouth will not stand firm if it applies to confessing Me before the world, for he does not belong to those who are inwardly firmly convinced of Me and My teaching. And there will be many who will not stand firm because they have only superficially dealt with the truth so far, with spiritual thought material which testifies to Me. They are merely idioms which they use lightly when they are moved to religious views, yet if they are to take a serious stand they fail because they lack all realization, because their faith is only a formal faith and their life on earth, as good as it seems, is just an illusory life. They have not yet awakened the divine spark within themselves, it is buried and therefore cannot bring itself to bear, and this means ignorance, spiritual blindness and thus also lack of strength when strength is required. People are unaware of the spiritual hardship they are in because they have no strength to resist when this is demanded of them, when it concerns the public confession of Me and My teaching, because they are not convinced of it. And they could so easily acquire this conviction if only they were willing to gain knowledge of what My will consists of and how it is to be fulfilled. For faith also depends on the fulfilment of My will, the inner conviction, which then the human being can and will firmly uphold. Anyone who lives correctly, thus in accordance with My will, also knows the truth, and his faith is a living one, and he will confess such faith before the world without hesitation, such faith cannot be taken away from him, it is deeply rooted and withstands every external threat.

At present there are countless people who call themselves believers and yet would not stand up to any test of faith, there are countless people who have not yet bothered to seriously think about what they claim to believe, who avoid every religious debate because they know nothing and do not want to admit their lack of knowledge; there are countless people who, if they were to think seriously, would reject everything as untenable because the intellect cannot cope with it and because the heart is not involved in the form of loving activity, the only means of understanding what seems incomprehensible .... Yet all of them pretend to be believers in their fellow human beings until they are forced to make a decision .... to speak out publicly for or against, until they are forced to make a decision of faith .... Then many will discard what they have been holding on to without thinking whether what they are doing is wrong. Others will reflect and come to wrong conclusions because they believe they can fathom intellectually what requires the working of the spirit. And only a few will have the courage to openly profess Me and My teaching; and these few have gained the knowledge through their spirit, which was able to take effect in them as a result of a right life of love. These stand firm in faith in Me and courageously and without fear confess My name, for their faith has become a living one through love and they are in possession of strength in the face of every onslaught. They will remain faithful to Me until the end, for anyone who confesses Me before the world will constantly draw strength from Me, and he will receive what he believes .... an eternal life in bliss ....

Amen

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Final battle .... Frankly professing Christ before the world .....

B.D. 4433 from September 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

War will be declared on everything of a spiritual nature during the last days before the end. Thereby you will recognise which hour has struck on the clock of the world and that the day is drawing to a close. Then you can expect considerable commotion as a result of the rigorous measures taken by the worldly authorities. You will be beleaguered with questions and threats about your attitude towards Christ and faith in general. They will not shy away from watching you, from eavesdropping on your conversations and will take you to court for your words and actions. That is the time when you must profess Me openly and speak without fear about how you think and feel about Me. This open admission is what I require as evidence of your affiliation with Me. I Myself certainly know how you think and feel in your heart; nevertheless, it is a final battle in which a separation of the goats from the sheep shall take place. And this final battle must be openly conducted so that the battle itself becomes evident, so that the opponent's guilt clearly emerges before the world in order to push the undecided into a decision due to the believers' as well as their enemies' conduct. The battle will only last a short time and will happen everywhere, albeit in different ways. Heartlessness will always fight against love, the material world will mock and intimidate the spiritual world, two camps will be distinctly recognisable wherever the teaching of Christ has been accepted and where the divine teaching of love is the principle of what is preached to people and what they are required to believe. For this reason the apostasy from Me will be clearly discernible in the whole world; but where the Christian teaching of love is widespread the battle of faith will proceed extremely ferociously, and that will be the end. At this time you humans have no idea how the forthcoming events will proceed and, therefore, it seems incredible to you; nevertheless, it will happen as I proclaim to you through My spirit, and the time is so near that it would scare you were you to know the day and hour of destruction .... And yet you should not worry, for your loyalty to Me will also assure you My full protection and supply of any strength so that you will be able to stand firm, and the knowledge of it will make you confident and strong in faith, so that you will survive the time, particularly since I will shorten the days, so that you will become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Silent prayer .... Public confession ....

B.D. 6012 from July 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Let those who worship Me do so in spirit and in truth .... Only what comes from the very bottom of your heart is pleasing to Me and will reach My ear .... Hence, I only look into a person's heart and disregard the words spoken by the mouth if the heart is not involved. If you are able to completely withdraw from the world in order to enter into heartfelt dialogue with Me, then you are already praising Me without words through your willingness to make contact with Me, then you are sending Me in thoughts a silent prayer, true worship, which will be a great blessing for your soul, for the connection with Me lets you gain strength and grace which is experienced by the soul as help for its maturation. This sincere form of prayer is the true prayer which is pleasing to Me, for then you have voluntarily approached Me so closely that the strength of My love can touch you, drawing you ever more affectionately towards Me. If you want to speak to Me then the spoken word is truly unnecessary, for this can easily intend to hide or pretend something, which I certainly recognise but which need not be evident to another person who allows himself to be easily deceived and then will use the same form of prayer himself ....

Step into your closet if you want to pray .... Withdraw into complete silence, you will be able to find Me there far easier and communicate with Me like a child with its Father .... And you will tell Me everything without fear and in childlike trust .... And your requests will be granted to you because then your prayers will reach My ear .... For I have promised you this with the Words 'Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' .... Thus I will keep My promise with anyone who comes to Me, and this more evidently so the more trustingly he approaches Me, the more intimately he unites with Me and entrusts himself to Me in silent conversation. The spoken language is intended for your communication amongst yourselves .... But I don't need words for I know everything, I look into your heart and read your thoughts, and thus you cannot deceive Me no matter how beautiful your words are .... just as no words are needed if you want to exalt and praise Me .... because a silent expression of thankfulness, a humble call upon Me, a life following My will, a faith brought alive through love will truly please Me and include praise and thanks as well.

Yet you shall confess Me to your fellow human beings with your mouth .... Where it concerns your attitude towards the faith you shall confess Me freely and openly and not fear the consequences of your courage of conviction .... For this confession shall in turn be an incentive for your fellow human beings whose faith is still weak, and at the same time it demonstrates that you support the truth, that you don't want to give an outward impression which does not concur with your inner thinking, with your conviction. You shall always be true and put Me and My name above all else if this confession is demanded of you ....

But whatever you want to tell Me can be presented to Me by you silently and in secret, for I want to hear the voice of your heart and not just words spoken by the mouth without the involvement of the heart. And such prayers are tremendously powerful if they are sent to Me in unison .... if people come together imploring Me to grant a particular request .... if they all appeal for the same, if they send the same plea to Me, and even if it is just a short call .... I will hear it and grant it if they pray to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

‘Whosoever shall confess Me before men .... ’

B.D. 7216 from November 28th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Anyone shying away from confessing Me before the world is not permeated by My spirit, he is just an empty vessel, a lifeless form without spirit and life, for life knows Me and also confesses Me to fellow human beings. And you will also be able to recognise the Christians who merely observe formalities by the fact that they anxiously avoid mentioning My name, that they do not speak about Me and My act of Salvation, that they only rarely let themselves be drawn into spiritual conversations and even then only with a sense of discomfort .... And you will recognise them as ‘dead’ followers. For wherever My spirit is able to work, My name will be confessed with the greatest of joy, the human being will be impelled from within to confess Me before the world .... If you then watch how rarely people behave in a ‘Christian’ manner, how they try to avoid everything relating to religion or Christendom .... be it in relation to church or other proclamations of the Word, if you watch how everything is only covered with secrecy, how people in company of others shirk from touching upon a subject which concerns God, Jesus Christ, the spiritual kingdom or the human being’s task on earth .... then it is easy to guess what people’s decision will be one day when it is necessary for them to confess or deny the One Who had redeemed the world from sin and death. Then only a few will stand up for Me and My name before the world with full conviction .... however, the majority will keep a low profile, perhaps not entirely having detached themselves in their heart but lacking the strength of faith in order to accept the consequences of a true confession .... Only a few will bear up against the pressures, My adversary’s activity is approaching its end. Then it will be proven as to who is redeemed from sin and death, for only this person will loudly confess My name before the world, only he will summon the strength to resist when he is requested to renounce Me. Only a living faith will give people this strength, only a living faith will ensure the working of My spirit in the human being and thus also a certain confidence in My support during the time of the end. And this is the time when the separation of the spirits will take place, when it will become clearly obvious who belongs and wants to belong to My Own and whose Christianity has so far been a mere formality .... Then it will not be enough to be a follower of this or that school of faith, instead, a person must follow Me Myself in Jesus Christ, his bond with Me must be so alive that he cannot help loudly proclaiming My name as that of his God and Redeemer .... In that case he will also be accepted by Me, I will also confess him in the kingdom of light, I will fulfil My promise ‘Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father .... ’ For he has acknowledged Me Myself in Jesus Christ, and the fullness of My spirit is in him .... Yet woe to those who renounce Me .... They still belong to My adversary’s followers and are and will remain his for an infinitely long time again. However, they knew that I demand the acknowledgment of My name, they were not left in ignorance and must therefore also be answerable on the day of Judgment. Then I will come to judge the ‘living’ and the ‘dead’ .... Understand these Words correctly: Life only comes from Me, and anyone who is My Own will live .... but all those who turn away from Me by renouncing Me when the final decision is demanded of them will die .... And their number will be great, yet only small will be My flock which I will guide into beatitude.

Amen

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Acknowledgment of Jesus .... Final decision of faith ....

B.D. 8866 from October 11th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

It depends on your free decision of will as to whether the gate into the eternity of light after the death of your body will be open for you, it depends on whether you establish such a close bond with Me that you acknowledge your God and Redeemer, that you recognise Me as the Saviour from sin and death and completely hand yourselves over to Me .... and thus can no longer separate Me from Jesus, that you bring all your guilt to Me under the cross and appeal to Me for forgiveness of this guilt .... I really don't ask much of you in order to then receive you into the kingdom that is permeated by light .... I only want your acknowledgment of Jesus, who descended to earth as the Son of God and became My external shell so as to enable Me to become visible to you .... I don't ask for much and yet you find it so difficult to acquire the heavenly kingdom because you have to fight against pride, selfishness and all bad habits which are the signs that you still belong to My adversary, who transferred all these vices and bad habits onto you so that you became like-minded and distanced yourselves from Me abysmally. And for the most part these bad habits still exist in you when you live as a human being on earth, but with the help of Jesus you can easily discard them, for he has acquired a stronger will on your behalf, thus it is not impossible for you to free yourselves from these bad habits.

But then again it depends on to whom you grant your will, and this alone shall determine your fate in eternity. The knowledge about the Salvation through Jesus Christ is only very weak these days, only a few believe in the act of Salvation and completely hand themselves over to Me in Him, who make use of the blessings acquired on the cross and want to liberate themselves from all guilt .... But they are certain to find redemption and will be able to enter in brightly radiating light through the gates into My kingdom. Time and again I speak to people and explain to them what is most important, what they have to know .... about Jesus Christ's act of Salvation .... However, the fact that most people keep their ears closed, that hardly a single spiritual Word can be spoken to them, is My adversary's doing, who in the last days will make every effort in order to still seduce those of weak faith, presenting everything to them as a myth which no-one believes anymore.

And again, I can only admonish you to establish a heartfelt bond with Me, your God and Creator, and to look for the light inside yourselves which I will kindle in every one of you if only you have the sincere desire to get to the bottom of the truth. Then you will also receive enlightenment about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation and no longer be unbelievers. But try to obtain this enlightenment before the battles of faith begins, for then you will be required to make the decision for or against Me. Then you will have to stand firm and must have acquired so much knowledge about it already that you will not need to fear any contradictions, that you can stand up for Him and His act of Salvation with full conviction .... Yet this time ought to be feared by all those whose faith is still so weak that it will only take a small push to surrender it completely .... And that will be the last decision of faith which nevertheless has to be taken before the end .... And then it will become evident how many will forsake their faith and how many people will be lost and have to approach a new banishment because there is no way out anymore. Therefore I can only ever speak to, let you know in advance what fate awaits you and admonish all people to establish a more heartfelt bond with Me, who have not yet entirely abandoned Me and also know about the divine Redeemer even though they lack faith .... But it is My serious endeavour to guide them into faith, to describe the blessings of the act of Salvation to them and to admonish them to obtain a true light in regards to it, which I will gladly kindle in them so that they, too, will find redemption from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bliss in the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 4578 from March 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The bliss of those who discard their physical shell and are allowed to enter the kingdom of light, their eternal home, is beyond your grasp. Having left all sorrows behind, they are no longer weighed down by difficulties nor plagued by enemies. Fear and sadness are unknown to them; their eyes only see beauty, exceptionally charming surroundings, magnificent formations of My creative will, and figures of light approaching them in order to introduce them to the kingdom of peace and beatitude. And in this environment they may stay and occupy themselves according to their own will. Their bliss rests in this freedom after a state during which their souls were still constrained and surrounded by earthly matter. Their hearts are able and willing to love and they are so aglow with love that this alone makes them happy already, for they find constant fulfilment. They join souls which resemble themselves, that is, which possess the same degree of maturity, and these associations increase their bliss, because unity out of love also increases the individual being’s strength as well as the urge to be active which results in joint kind-hearted activity which makes them exceedingly happy since the activation of strength results in increasingly more strength. The influx of strength, however, is a feeling of utmost delight, for it is the evidence of being close to God .... My living creations feel Me and, depending on their degree of maturity which enables the permeation of light, also get to see Me Myself in a way which is endurable for them. Their inner bliss intensifies, for their longing for Me increases constantly and is always granted .... No-one on earth can understand what that means, because earthly love is just a pale reflection of spiritual love and already the most desirable on earth, in the spiritual realm, however, it surpasses all other glories the soul is offered, because it signifies the constant influx of light and strength and therefore also the constant nearness of God. However, once My living creations have entered the kingdom of light, I Am the epitome of bliss for them and they will never ever abandon Me again. Then everyone will receive the reward for the love he showed Me on earth .... I constantly increase their happiness, I permeate the soul with My love and provide it with constantly new delights .... because ‘what no eye has seen and no ear has heard, that is what I have prepared for those who love Me .... ’

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The reward of a life of love, blissful fate in the beyond ....

B.D. 4890 from May 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Those of you who heed My will on earth are granted a blissful fate. I expect nothing else from you other than that you conduct yourselves on earth like your Father's children, that you love and help one another like true children of the same Father do. No other commandment is given to you by Me, for true love includes everything, from true love emerges everything that leads to unification with Me. Consequently, true love is all you need to strive for on earth. Your nature must shape itself into love, it must become again as it once was when it originated from Me, the Eternal Love .... Then you can stay in your true home again, in the kingdom of light, in My presence and illuminated by My strength, which signifies eternal beatitude for you. A blissful fate is granted to you if you respect My will .... Therefore, make My will your own, live in Me and with Me, and My will shall be yours too. To live according to My will is all I expect of you. But anyone who lives according to My will cannot be anything but good, and thus is kindness of heart also the evidence that a person has entered into My will, that he is a true child of his Father. And I watch over My children with all love and care, consequently they can go through earthly life without worry as soon as they feel themselves as My children and are closely united with Me through love, which characterises the human beings as My children. Be kind to each other, support each other in every adversity, try to keep all suffering at bay and help wherever possible. Prove yourselves as My children, and your Father's love will be your eternal reward ....

Amen

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Heavenly bliss ....

B.D. 2233 from February 12th 1942, taken from Book No. 31

Any comparison intended to illustrate the beatitudes of Heaven to people would be inappropriate, for nothing on earth can even roughly describe these joys, nothing can be likened to them should an attempt be made to reveal a picture of them to people. The souls’ infinite happiness in eternity is not caused by something tangible, this is why a person cannot imagine anything either, instead, he must content himself with the Lord’s promise ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which I have prepared for those who love Me .... ’ The knowledge of the delights of eternal life would, in fact, be extremely disadvantageous for the souls’ maturing, because the human being shall become prefect and thus he must be good of his own inner accord and not for the sake of reward. What a perfect being can expect in eternity will make it so incomparably happy, that the human being would do anything as well as suffer anything were he to know the degree of bliss; were he to know what this bliss consists of. He can only be informed of the fact that the feeling of love is decisive in the beyond, that no happiness is thinkable without it, that love connects everything and that this creates a state of bliss which is inconceivable for people on earth. For there is vanishingly little love on earth, compared to the light beings’ degree of love in the beyond; consequently, the human being cannot imagine that love is the epitome of bliss, even though love on earth, that is, the kind-hearted activity and the feeling of love, is already experienced and desired as something delightful on earth, once it is known to the human being, for only divine love causes happiness, the love which is giving, hence unselfish. Desiring love only brings happiness if the object of the desire is God and His love .... because this desiring love simultaneously results in fulfilment, since divine love flows to every person desiring it. If love for God already causes happiness on earth, how much happier will the being be in eternity if God, in His infinite love, comes close to it and satisfies its burning desire .... The delights of this fulfilled longing are indescribable and cannot be expressed in words since it is a purely spiritual process providing the being finds union with God and receives His emanation of love. Consequently, no human being can imagine what eternal bliss is like as long as he still lives on earth, for God keeps this knowledge concealed from him until he has gained the spiritual maturity in order to gain an insight into the spiritual kingdom which will reveal the eternal glory to him if it is God’s will.

Amen

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"You shall be saved by grace ...."

B.D. 8527 from June 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Remain deeply united with Me, and I will pour out My favours over you unlimitedly. You are just to gratefully accept them, and you will also not reject My gift of love when you join Me yourselves, when you pray to Me or carry out works of love and are thereby closely connected with Me. Everything that helps you upwards I give to you, and these are favours, because they are gifts of love, which are not your own merit, because you once rejected My love and therefore have no more right to it ..... But My love is exceedingly great, and it wants to give itself away, and that is why it pursues you and offers you gifts of favour, which are truly significant for you, because they are the means, which make your maturing possible. And your course of life is so directed by Me that every event can serve you to the best. Therefore everything is favour, what you meet in life, because it can promote your ascent development. But how you evaluate all these favours, that is left to you, because compulsion is excluded from My side. I bestow gifts upon you but do not force you to accept My gifts, your free will must decide on this. But without My help you would be completely incapable of maturing while still on earth; but if you seek contact with Me of your own accord, you will also certainly evaluate the gifts of grace I bestow upon you, for the bond with Me demonstrates your will which is turned towards Me, and it will then also subordinate itself to Mine and thus also recognize My love in everything it encounters .... And he will become blessed out of grace .... The whole earthly life as man is a grace, because I open up the last possibility for him to return again as a perfected spiritual being into the kingdom, which he once had left voluntarily .... And what can happen from My side during earth life to help man to perfection, that also happens. These are all favours, which My love gives to My creatures, which no being can claim, because they once left Me voluntarily, but which prove My great love, which I feel as father towards My children. I want to remedy the great weakness of men, their shortcoming, and give them so much favour and power that they can carry out the return to Me themselves, and I also want to strengthen their will, which must tackle the work of transformation itself .... I will not omit anything that could contribute to the soul's ascent to Me .... only one thing I cannot do .... make your will unfree and forcibly pull you up .... That is why you men yourselves also set limits to My supply of favour, because as soon as you do not voluntarily evaluate them, they remain without success, and no matter how deep My love is and would like to win you for Me. But I will not make free unfree; I will not curtail a man's free will .... And that is the reason for the spiritual low of men, who leave all My gift of favour unused and unnoticed and therefore do not get any step further in their development and therefore are also once again put before the decision in the last faith struggle .... where their responsibility will be presented to them. Because it also then again depends on them themselves how they adjust themselves to Me, to their God and creator, whom they once did not want to acknowledge and therefore became unhappy. Also now only the right decision of will is necessary that help is given to man in great measure .... that also now again graces without measure are at his disposal and that he truly can also reach the aim to establish the final union with Me, which makes him again to My child, to the original being, which it was in the beginning .... In every way I seek to change the will of man, which is still directed towards Me; in every way I bear My love to man, and he only needed to feel touched by it to now also give Me his whole will .... But everything has to happen voluntarily .... And this is to be helped by My word, which sounds down from above to earth .... My word is to stimulate man to live out My love commandments, and truly, man will now voluntarily turn towards Me, because with every work of love he also establishes the bond with Me and I now also seize him and eternally no longer let him fall .... That is why My word from above is the greatest and most effective gift of favour, which you are all allowed to receive and only need to open your heart when you are addressed by Me, because then you give your will to Me, and I no longer let you go from Me; I accompany you on all your ways, and you will establish the connection with Me more and more often, because you will no longer leave Me out of your thoughts .... Then you will also evaluate all blessings correctly, you will take every opportunity where you can carry out works of love, for My supply of blessings also means the supply of strength which you will always use for works of love. And then you will truly have become happy out of grace, and you will return to your father's house as My children ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers