Workers In The Vineyard Of Jesus – God As A Teacher

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

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

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

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

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

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

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

6048 - "Carry My gospel out...."

Vineyard workers must be taught by God

3188 - Conditions for teaching activity....

4480 - "You must be taught by God...."

God as a teacher

3987 - God as Mentor.... He allows Himself to be found....

4666 - God as teacher.... truth bearer....

6863 - The disciples were also taught by God....

Training for teachers

5374 - Instruction for teaching ministry by God Himself.... Mission....

5439 - The training of teachers by God Himself.... Servants....

6119 - Right vineyard work.... education for this....

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

God as a teacher by light beings

4093 - Spiritual conversations influence of light beings....

4621 - No partial knowledge.... light beings as teachers.... only truth....

4863 - Training of teachers directly or through light beings....

5002 - Light beings embodied as human beings .... Disciples of the last days ....

5425 - ?resNotTranslated?

6188 - "Taught by God...." good teachers....

8720 - Light beings help vineyard workers....

God as a teacher through mediators

4113 - God as teacher also through mediators....

4114 - God as teacher also through mediators....

4659 - Radiance of God.... instruction from within.... gift of speech....

4763 - Spiritual seers.... teacher and adviser oft he fellow human beings....

8225 - Complete instruction....

Right teachers

2334 - ?resNotTranslated?

2385 - ?resNotTranslated?

3175 - ?resNotTranslated?

3730 - Gift of teaching.... Teaching ministry....

4534 - The right kind of teacher.... Truth - Error....

4656 - Instrument of God.... holding up the errors right of the disciples....

4855 - The right to teach.... holy office....

4859 - Teachings in compulsion.... love in free will.... (cath.!)

5140 - Teachability.... spiritual work.... love.... truth....

5150 - Whoever is taught by God requires no further external knowledge....

6728 - A teacher’s duty: to examine teaching material....

7022 - "What is given to you at this hour, speak...."

3731 - Teaching activity in times of adversity – Last days ....

4586 - God's involvement in the work for His kingdom.... self-will - God's will....

6736 - Labourers for God's kingdom.... Jesus Christ....

4785 - Followers of Jesus.... spreading His teaching.... working of the spirit....

"Carry My gospel out ...."

B.D. 6048 from September 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

To spread My word is your task, you who want to serve Me. To you, too, I say the words: "Carry My gospel out into the world ...." People hear much .... religious knowledge is offered to them from all sides, My word is proclaimed to them in the form of doctrines of faith, and it should therefore appear as if My command, which I once gave to My disciples, is being carried out .... And yet, it is more necessary than ever that I raise up disciples for Myself again whom I can send out into the world .... for those who are to proclaim My gospel must be taught by Me Myself .... they must allow My spirit to work in them because they hear through the voice of the spirit what they should preach to their fellow human beings .... Unawakened preachers speak empty words without spirit, although they adhere to My once proclaimed word. Without the working of My spirit they don't understand what they are saying themselves, that is, they cannot offer My word to their fellow human beings in a living way, and therefore it will only touch the listener's ear again but not his heart. But if My spirit can be active in the proclaimer of My word he will speak with conviction .... he will explain the spiritual meaning of My word, he will appeal to people's hearts, he will be the link between Me and the listener, and he will let Me speak to him Myself and truly be impressed by My address. You shall spread My gospel throughout the world .... Many more people shall hear My word, and for this I still need many disciples who are qualified to spread My gospel correctly .... whom I can send out because they want to be true servants to Me, who are now active on My behalf, who speak nothing of their own accord, who only ever listen to what I instruct them to do and who, driven by My spirit, now distribute what they receive from Me .... For when I commission them to spread My gospel .... My word .... into the world then they must have received it from Me themselves beforehand, otherwise they cannot offer anything. It is not enough that they gather the treasure they are to distribute themselves, that they offer something they cannot testify to themselves as a divine gift .... They must receive these treasures from Me Myself, otherwise I cannot give them the commission to go out into the world and proclaim My gospel .... I truly know what ails humanity, I know what dubious gifts have already been offered to it and how little healing power it has been able to extract from them, I also know what it lacks and therefore want to convey it to it .... I want to confront people Myself, yet I can only do so in the word which is conveyed to them through mediators who have received it directly from Me .... And what is now done in order to spread My pure word I regard as the fulfilment of the assignment I have given you, My disciples of the last days .... And I will bless you .... For the hardship is great, people are starving because they are offered weak food and yet they need strength in order to successfully cover their earthly path of life .... And you, who receive abundantly, you can also distribute abundantly; you, who are in possession of My word, you can carry it out into the world .... You can bring My gospel to all people who are of good will, for they will recognize it as My word because it goes to their hearts, because their souls are now healthy .... because they recognize it as the enticing voice of the father which they now follow without resistance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard workers must be taught by God

Conditions for teaching activity ....

B.D. 3188 from July 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The gift to teach as a servant of God must be consciously requested, by which the human being declares his willingness to be active for God and on His behalf. For in order to be able to carry out the teaching ministry he has to be pre-educated, he first has to have absorbed what he is to teach himself; he has to be imparted a body of thought which enables him to teach, he has to be able to think skilfully and logically, and this requires a training which can only be carried out by God Himself or by His spiritual messengers. And the human being must declare himself willing to do so, he must let his will become active and constantly accept instructions until he has attained a degree of knowledge which is now also sufficient to instruct his fellow human beings again, to refute objections, to correct errors and thus to spread the pure truth from God. Anyone who offers himself to God for this office, who is willing to serve Him and his fellow human beings, will also be accepted by God, because it is extremely necessary that people are guided into truth, and because only a few people are able to muster the will to accept mental instructions until they can call clear knowledge their own. For they must have strong faith, they must unconditionally accept what is offered to them, above all they must consider direct instruction from God possible, otherwise they would not listen to the inner voice which announces itself to them .... They must believe in the working of the spirit in the human being, otherwise it cannot be effective. And they must work tirelessly on themselves in order to increase their ability to hear the inner voice; they must do everything that requires a strong will so that they will now also be able to utilize what is offered to them, for the gift of being able to teach is now the result of their strong will, which God blesses and rewards by training the human being so that he can carry out his ministry as a teacher when it concerns proclaiming the gospel to fellow human beings. For God wants to convey His word to the world through His faithful servants on earth, He wants to give knowledge to all people through people who have received the knowledge from Himself and thus can now carry out their mission correctly for the blessing of humanity, which is seeking and willingly allows itself to be taught by them without resistance. For by the way a gift of grace is offered people will recognize where it originated from, and their willingness to accept or reject what is offered to them will be correspondingly. And therefore God needs servants on earth who offer themselves for it, and He imparts strength and grace to them, He instructs them and conveys His word to earth, He enlightens their spirit so that they understand what is offered to them and can transfer it to their fellow human beings in the same way and thus the truth is spread on earth, as it is God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"You must be taught by God ...."

B.D. 4480 from November 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

And you shall all be taught by God .... My spirit has to work in you so that you can meet spiritual instruction with understanding, no matter in which way it comes to you. If you are taught directly by Me it is only a result or sign of My spiritual working in you; if you receive instructions from outside, through My servants on earth, through fellow human beings who are instructed in truth or through the written word, you will only understand it when you receive enlightenment through the spirit within you, when the one who is My part can work in you .... when you have a divine teacher. And you should all commend yourselves to him, otherwise every external instruction is useless for you. Divinity wants to be grasped with the spirit and human intellect alone cannot comprehend it, and if he tries to assimilate it without the spirit's support then it will emerge as human work, deformed and incomprehensible, in a form which no longer has anything in common with pure truth, and then people will not know but be in error. You must therefore let yourselves be taught by God .... you must not oppose Me if I am to instruct you, and thus you must first seek contact with Me through heartfelt prayer and then, if you present questions to Me, listen within and wait for the answer. And most people don't pay attention to this process and don't wait until the answer clearly and distinctly arises in them, their thoughts wander and thereby make an instruction impossible which, however, will certainly be granted to them if they devote themselves to Me and listen inwards. Heartfelt prayer and the desire for the right answer will also let them think clearly and truthfully, for I enlighten the spirit of the one who calls for Me and asks Me for it. Then he can also consider himself taught by Me, and I will truly not instruct him differently than the recipient of My direct word, for what My spirit imparts to people is always and everywhere the same, because truth can never change. And thus you all have the opportunity to acquire the pure truth if you come to Me and approach Me for it; I will always be a true teacher for you and introduce you to the truth as soon as you request it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God as a teacher

God as Mentor .... He allows Himself to be found ....

B.D. 3987 from February 28th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

I draw close to anyone who looks for Me and participate in his thinking, that is, the strength of My spirit makes contact with the spiritual spark in the human being and thus the association with Me is established for the duration of his mental activity regarding Me. And then people's thinking will be correct because My spirit will put it into order and guide it. And thus all kinds of questions can be raised mentally, whether the person desires an answer for himself or for conversations with other people .... he will receive the right answer because I Myself stay as a Mentor with those who are looking for Me. But I truly know best to what extent people strive towards Me and therefore I consider every person differently, depending on his desire and the compliance with the conditions which enable the working of My spirit .... And it will often seem as if I treat people unfairly if the effort of one person is not outwardly noticeable to his fellow human beings .... Yet someone who withdraws into solitude need not display his striving, however, it will be easier for him to make contact with Me and he can therefore be a diligent student of Mine, whereas his fellow human being is incapable of looking inwards due to lack of practice and is therefore not able to hear My gentle voice. In that case his connection with the world is still too strong and this obstacle has to be removed first if someone wants to find Me and hear My voice. The spirit within the person is not interested in the world, it only seeks contact with the Father-Spirit. For this reason I draw close to anyone whose heart desires Me, and I allow Myself to be found by anyone who looks for Me .... for love is in everyone who seeks Me, and therefore he longs for Me, the primary source of love .... He will indeed reach his goal of being eternally united with Me, for anyone who lives in love is in Me and I Am in him. And he will feel My presence because I allow Myself to be found by someone who looks for Me. Thus he will also be aware of My presence and therefore already be happy on earth ....

From this time on the world has nothing to offer him anymore because he desires different goods, gifts offered to him by My love in the form of Words which he either perceives mentally or audibly and which are the most precious gift he can receive on earth because they originate from the spiritual kingdom, because it is My voice he hears, the voice of the Father Who speaks to His child. Anyone who lives a life of love on earth is indeed a most blessed creature since he will never ever need to miss Me again for I will permeate him with My strength of love and he will receive knowledge in abundance. Then the spirit in him will be able to express itself and indeed be listened to and understood, his soul will merge with the spirit and subordinate the body so that its substances can also spiritualise themselves as long as it is the soul's shell on earth. But I draw everything to Me which adapts itself to Me by shaping itself into love. There will be no more separation, no gulf between the person and Me once he lives a life of love. Then I will be close to him and accessible to him at all times, then he will always and forever be able to hear My Word, he can communicate with Me by withdrawing into his closet .... by looking inwards and listening to My voice .... He will no longer need to look for Me for he has found Me and will not distance himself from Me again because My proximity makes him happy, because My Word is the greatest bliss for him and because an abundance of strength and light pour into him and testify to My presence. Seek, and ye shall find .... knock, and it shall be opened unto you .... Communicate with Me mentally and you will hear My answer, you will mature and safely reach the goal of blissful union with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God as teacher .... truth bearer ....

B.D. 4666 from June 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Anyone who undergoes My instruction will increase his knowledge and be a suitable labourer for Me in the last days before the end. For the knowledge he receives from Me will take root in him and never ever disappear from his memory. My way of teaching is adapted to his later activity, and the frequent repetitions are therefore necessary so that the knowledge becomes so firmly anchored in him that he can never lose it. And it will become apparent in debates of a spiritual nature that My disciples are fully instructed and can represent My teaching completely and convincingly. If I Myself am their teacher, knowledge and full realization are guaranteed. This is why you humans can adhere to what is offered to you by such a disciple without hesitation as long as you are of good will and believe that I reveal Myself to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Then it will also be easy for you to believe that I want to convey the gospel purely to humanity again and again and that I choose as mediators precisely those who are receptive and willing, who are able to hear Me Myself and to whom I can therefore convey the purest truth. But anyone who is taught by Me listens, and you hear My word in its purest form. Admittedly, I can only communicate Myself directly to a few, and only a few believe that I communicate Myself directly to a human being .... Yet it is the time of the end when true faith in Me is only rarely to be found. As soon as humanity is distant from Me due to a lack of love, it also does not believe in such an obvious working of My spirit and thus of Me Myself, and therefore it distances itself more and more from the pure truth and can no longer recognize it as such if it is offered to it. For this reason, however, I constantly advertise for servants on earth who are willing to accept My word and spread it, so that truth will take hold again amongst humanity, so that the darkness will be penetrated by light, for humanity languishes in the darkness of spirit and is heading towards ruin. I recruit servants on earth and bless everyone who allows himself to be taught by Me, whom I can train as bearers of truth and who is now eagerly active for Me and My kingdom, for there is not much time left and salvation shall still be brought to the few who are not against Me in spiritual adversity through the supply of pure truth, so that they will find the path to Me and enter it, so that they will still become Mine before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The disciples were also taught by God ....

B.D. 6863 from July 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I Myself want to teach you and proclaim the gospel of love to you again, as I did on earth. My disciples, too, had to receive this gospel in the same way as I now impart it to you, they, too, had to listen inwardly to what I spoke to them, and after My earthly death they had to let My spirit speak to them, which told them the same as I Myself did during My life on earth. My disciples, too, were previously ignorant of it, and I imparted to them a knowledge which was completely unknown to them, but the basis for receiving such knowledge was present in them .... And thus I can now only speak directly to those who can also demonstrate the necessary prerequisites .... which enable the working of My spirit within themselves through a life of love, through complete devotion to Me and complete submission to My will. For only these are able to hear the subtle voice within themselves which gives them knowledge of My will again, of the divine teaching of love, which is the epitome of the gospel which shall be proclaimed to you humans. And it makes Me Myself happy to be able to introduce you to knowledge which shall reveal My love, wisdom and omnipotence to you .... You shall learn about My plan of salvation, about My infinite love for you and about the aim you can reach if you accept the gospel of love and make an effort to live accordingly. I also want to make you happy with this knowledge which, however, will only come alive for you when these prerequisites are present: a life of love .... a fulfilment of My commandments of love for God and neighbour .... For only then does that knowledge signify 'realization' .... whereas otherwise it can certainly also come to you but remains dead knowledge which does not result in progress for your souls. But if I Myself can instruct you, if I can speak to you directly, then these prerequisites will also be there, then you will be able to understand everything like My first disciples and also pass it on, because My spirit will enlighten you so that your thinking will be right and you need not fear any erroneous thoughts. And I truly take pleasure in being able to guide the truth to earth, for truth is My nature, and people who are still subject to the prince of darkness mostly live in a world of lies and error .... If I can now bring light into this world I can oust him from his territory, I can gather people around the light which emanates from Me, I can give them the truth and thereby chase My adversary away, I can invalidate his activity, for the truth will make him and his activity recognizable and he will lose his following because the truth will also drive him towards Me Myself, Who is the eternal truth. I have promised you the 'comforter', the 'spirit of truth', who will guide you into all truth .... and I also let My promises come true .... But I set conditions for this which you now also have to fulfil because I do not unlawfully invade a territory which belongs to My adversary .... But if you fulfil these conditions you thereby also prove your will to detach yourselves from My adversary's territory, and then I can come to you and in the form of My word .... through the working of My spirit .... bring you light and freedom. So then I can teach you like My first disciples .... I can give you the proof that I still dwell amongst you just as I did at the time of My life on earth. I can speak to you and you will hear Me, I can let you gain insight into My reign and activity, into My plan of salvation which only aims at your perfection; I can make you see who previously walked blindly through earthly life .... I can guide you into all truth, as I have promised, for my word is and remains eternal truth, and every promise comes true ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Training for teachers

Instruction for teaching ministry by God Himself .... Mission ....

B.D. 5374 from April 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I place each of My servants into a position in which he can work most effectively for Me, and that means that I determined every person's destiny in accordance with this activity for Me and My kingdom. It means that I also determine the nature of his activity, depending on his suitability, his degree of maturity and his willingness. Working for Me requires a certain amount of knowledge where it concerns the spreading of the truth, thus anyone who is chosen to carry out the vineyard work of proclaiming the pure Gospel must also be intellectually capable of recognising errors and take action against them. He himself must have the kind of knowledge which stands up to intellectual scrutiny. I can only use servants for a teaching ministry on earth who acquire this knowledge themselves, that is, who voluntarily desire and accept it from Me .... I Myself must be able to teach them, and this in a way that they will completely understand it and can also support it rationally, although the information will at first be received in the heart .... However, most people with good intellectual thought are not devout enough as to hand themselves over to a higher power in order to let themselves be instructed by it .... And therefore it is difficult for the truth to be accepted amongst people, since those who receive it from Me Myself are not accepted by their fellow human beings because their power of judgment is not being trusted, in fact it is more likely to be denied to them. But anyone who receives the pure truth by hearing My Word in his heart will also be granted realisation and strength of judgment by Me together with the pure truth. Nevertheless, being instructed by Me is not possible without the person's free will .... on account of which I can only impart My Word when this free will requests it from Me. Hence you will understand that only a few people can be initiated into My plan of eternity, who can pass the pure Gospel on to their fellow human beings so that everything is understandable to them.

However, once I have found a recipient of My Word who unconditionally hands himself over to Me in order to be of service to Me, then I will also watch over him with much love, for I consider him a capable instrument for Me which is able to accomplish a great mission. And thus I will also give him additional skills which can facilitate his ministry, which protect him from falling prey to error himself and thus could endanger his mission. I give him a stronger sense for truth and error. I watch over him because I watch over the truth which on My instruction shall be passed on to humanity. The truth is clear and pure, without embellishment, without additions, the truth can also be accepted by every person who wants to know the truth .... But if a seeker of truth hesitates to accept something then he does not understand that which he is offered, then he feels an inner resistance to that which does not correspond to the truth. And this feeling is placed by Me Myself, the eternal Truth, into the heart of a person who wants to be of service to Me, who is willing to work as a bearer of truth on earth and spread the pure Gospel throughout the world .... I instruct him Myself, and this truly in a way that he will understand and accept everything he receives from Me. If subsequently something comes to him from outside then his heart will tell him what he should accept or reject .... For then I will also speak through the heart Myself. Everything that comes from Me will appeal to him and make him happy, and that which leaves him indifferent does not come from Me .... even if it also endorses Me and My kingdom it nevertheless has not originated from Me directly and cannot lay claim to absolute truth .... Nevertheless it need not be directed against Me but it can be surrounded by many additions which therefore no longer reveal the pure truth. The pure truth will meet far more often with opposition than acceptance, even so, I instruct bearers of truth for Me, especially during the last days before the end, and anyone who listens to them also listens to Me .... anyone who rejects them also rejects Me .... And therefore it is I Myself Who places the sense of rejection into the heart of the recipient of truth when a cloudy light approaches him, and then he shall listen to Me and only endorse that which he has received from Me Myself .... Then he will never spread anything wrong and faithfully carry out the work which he himself has offered to do for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The training of teachers by God Himself .... Servants ....

B.D. 5439 from July 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I need many servants and handmaidens, for My vineyard is large and there is much work to be done, yet I can only employ willing servants who are devoted wholeheartedly to Me for this work, servants who fulfill My will in everything, who only abide by their master's instructions since I alone know what work has to be done in order to be successful. Whoever acts arbitrarily is not suitable for My vineyard work, nor does he do Me any service by doing so, instead, he is far more likely to spoil what was still good before. In everything you, My servants and handmaidens, ought to fulfill My will and thus abide by what is clearly recognizable to you as My will .... You ought to lovingly proclaim to your fellow human beings the gospel which you have received from Me .... But for this work I train My teachers Myself .... And thus only those shall teach whom My wisdom has recognized as suitable for it and whom My love has put into the degree of knowledge that they can teach now on My behalf .... Although every person is able to preach love, I want people to gain a degree of knowledge through you, whom I therefore send out into the world; it goes without saying that they can only gain this knowledge if they fulfill My commandments of love, yet the knowledge of the correlations shall also be made accessible to people so that they learn to love Me and thus also fulfill My commandments of their own accord. The meaning and purpose of the earthly life shall be explained to people, they shall know why they are on earth and what they should do in order to successfully live their earthly life, they shall know about the correlation of everything created, to which they themselves belong, together with Me .... from this knowledge they shall come to a realization which will yield them blessings for their soul .... I want you, My servants, to instruct people so that the truth will be brought close to them, because they live in the midst of error and lies and therefore lack all knowledge which would influence their way of life for the better. But in order for you to be able to carry out such an instructional activity for your fellow human beings also presupposes corresponding knowledge on your part, and therefore only someone who has received this knowledge from Me Myself is suitable for it. Only someone who has been given light by Me can be a bearer of light himself, and this is vineyard work of utmost importance, for the activity of such a worker is a weeding out of weeds, so to speak, a cultivating of the field into which the good seed is then to be planted .... a preparing of the human heart for the reception of My Word, which I Myself convey to the earth .... Much work is still to be done, and therefore I accept everyone as a servant who makes this Word guided to earth his own, who receives it into his heart and, by wanting to serve Me, likewise passes it on. The end is near and much land still lies fallow, countless laborers are still needed, yet they should not act on their own authority but always await My instruction which they will but feel in their hearts, if they are willing to carry out the proper vineyard work for Me .... to spread My pure Word, which I only convey to earth because people are without knowledge, without proper understanding, and because I pity them in their own spiritual darkness, I therefore send messengers towards them for this reason, who are to bring the gospel to them in My name, the pure divine teaching of love, which alone shows them the path to eternal life ....

Amen

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Right vineyard work .... education for this ....

B.D. 6119 from November 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

In My vineyard every servant shall do what he is assigned by Me as work .... He shall use all his strength to completely fulfil My will, he shall only ever pay attention to his master's instructions, he shall never tackle anything on his own, because I demand complete submission to My will from My servants and this will will also be revealed to everyone as soon as he enters My service .... I have hired him to cultivate the soil so that good seed can be sown in it which shall bear fruit for Me .... And as he now endeavours to do this work to the best of his ability, he is an efficient worker for Me, a servant whom I will bless on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom .... For I have endless stretches of land lying fallow for which I need labourers .... It is My land, My soil, which requires much love and strength to work, otherwise only half work is done, which cannot satisfy Me .... These fallow fields are the hearts of men, which must first be prepared before the good seed can be planted .... My word, which shall come up and take root .... which shall spread more and more and bring forth the most glorious fruits. And in order to accomplish this work, to make human hearts receptive for My word, much love and perseverance as well as great strength is required .... My servants receive the latter from Me if I see their good will .... But they have to kindle love in their hearts themselves, and it is only love which will make the hearts of their fellow human beings open and want to receive them .... And only the one who has love within himself, who is gentle and patient, who recognizes the danger his fellow human being is in and wants to help him escape this danger, will become a true servant in My vineyard .... It is impossible to do vineyard work without love, for then they will only ever be sluggish servants who do not bring Me any success and who are therefore unfit to work for the lord .... In the end time, however, diligent work is required and therefore I will always look for servants who willingly serve Me .... I have easy and hard work to forgive and therefore accept everyone who voluntarily comes to Me .... then always assigning him the place which corresponds to his still weak strength and ability .... Thus no-one need fear not being sufficient for Me if only his will is good. For I can also train a willing servant for more difficult work, and the strength comes to him from Me as soon as he wants to work for Me and My kingdom. For human hearts are everywhere which are empty or overgrown with weeds, which believe nothing at all or erroneous teachings and whose soil now has to be cleansed or carefully prepared in order to be sown with My word .... It is a glorious activity, for it bears fruit for eternity .... And whoever takes pleasure in the shaping of human hearts, whoever feels pity for those who are like barren, dry gardens, where not a healthy little plant can flourish, let him be discipled by Me as My servant .... Let him enter My service and be an efficient labourer for Me, whose labour I will truly reward. If only he brings along a willing heart that beats with love for his fellow human beings, then he is pleasing to Me .... And I will provide him with everything he needs for his work .... he himself will receive from Me in abundance of the seed he shall scatter. His heart will itself resemble a lush field, and therefore he himself will be able to give, because he possesses abundantly .... And he will rejoice in every little plant which sprouts from the ground .... which he shall now also water with the water of life of love so that it will grow and flourish .... You must be involved with all your love yourselves, you must not do your work as a burdensome task for your lord but joyfully do everything I tell you, then you will also be delighted about the smallest success and do everything to achieve a good harvest ....

Amen

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A teacher gets educated by Myself ....

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

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God as a teacher by light beings

Spiritual conversations influence of light beings ....

B.D. 4093 from July 29th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

All spiritual conversations ensure success, just not always immediately afterwards. Some time may pass before they are utilised, but they do not remain entirely without impression if there is mutual interest during the conversation. If, on the other hand, one part only listens reluctantly or inwardly rejects it, then success is doubtful, unless fate puts him into life situations where he recalls such conversations. Then there will also be success, and he will be grateful for the instructions he received from the spiritual conversation. And therefore, My servants should use every opportunity to promote My kingdom. They should take every opportunity to inform their fellow human beings of My working, they should teach where teaching is possible and always bear in mind that the spiritual forces are also active and influence the thoughts of those who have spiritual conversations, and that these forces also subsequently still try to exert their influence by repeatedly intervening in people's thoughts and reminding them of the speeches, and thus My servants on earth helped them to direct people's thinking in a spiritual direction. And this spiritual activity is incumbent upon you, for only then is full understanding present for the spiritual knowledge offered by Me when the human being mentally deals with it, and this is only the result of debates of spiritual content, providing the will is present to be told the truth .... (28.7.1947) If people are willing to engage in spiritual conversations then their course of thoughts will be directed as if by itself towards a subject which the beings of light want to explain to them, so that they will progress in realisation and knowledge. They certainly believe to have raised this question themselves but the influence of those beings has preceded, for they are in knowledge of the spiritual state of the people entrusted to them, whom they now try to instruct in accordance with divine will. But it absolutely requires an open heart, thus the human being must have the will to broaden his knowledge, he must desire the truth. Then the beings of light will teach him, they will often intervene in his thoughts .... Anyone who makes the spiritual kingdom the aim of his thoughts will always be guided by his spiritual guardians in such a way that he will be offered the opportunity for spiritual conversations, that he will be able to express his thoughts and thereby will benefit himself from it as well as his partner in the conversation can increase his knowledge according to his desire. And thus the beings of light also determine the human being's fate to a certain extent, i.e. they also intervene in earthly experience but with the aim of the spiritual progress of those who are entrusted to them as protégés. But they always guide the human being according to God's will, so that the human being's destiny has been determined by God since eternity but is carried out by the beings of light, just as the human being's will itself is decisive for his destiny. Then they will influence the human being's thoughts in such a way that he will undertake what is advantageous for his spiritual upward development. It is no coercion which is exerted on the human being, only a representing of this or that thought which the human being can now freely take up or let flow, and he will also use his free will if he feels little coercion and yet listens to the spiritual influences, although he believes he shapes his life himself through his free will. The spiritual guardians are full of love for their charges and also guide their life's destiny such that spiritual development can always be furthered, that great spiritual danger can be averted and the connection with God can be established and eagerly cultivated, but always respecting the human being's free will, thus never exerting coercion on his decision. But if the human being is pleasantly touched by spiritual conversations, if he seeks them or does not avoid them, then he will gain inconceivably much, for then the spiritual working of the beings of light can be infered with certainty, and then he will also be certain of his ascent, for where beings of light can work the human being is relieved of all danger .... he will progress in his upward development, he will reach the aim on earth, he will enter into contact with God and never ever be without spiritual protection and help ....

Amen

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No partial knowledge .... light beings as teachers .... only truth ....

B.D. 4621 from April 23rd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I tell you that you need have no doubts about the truth of the proclamations offered to you from above, because I Myself watch over what spiritual knowledge is imparted to you and because I will never ever tolerate erring or untrue forces making use of you in order to impart their spiritual knowledge to people. Many beings of light are certainly willing to participate in people's instructions, and these beings of light are so knowledgeable themselves that they can be unhesitatingly recognized as teachers and the value of divine revelations can be attributed to their impartations. For as soon as a being is receptive to light it dwells in the kingdom of light and, since it always receives light, can also constantly emit light. These will only impart purest truth to people, moreover, they always act in My will, which is also their will. They are commissioned by Me for their teaching activity, thus it is not possible to speak of partial knowledge, for the knowledge they possess far exceeds that which they impart to people. Thus they can very well provide a teacher for people, they will never impart worldly or (wrong) spiritual teachings which do not correspond to the truth. At the same time they will also be able to give people the ability of realization, which they are equipped and also entitled to do by Me, because pure truth is to be imparted to people and this can only happen in such a way that beings which have spiritual knowledge also transfer it to people.

(24.4.1949) As soon as a person has prepared himself to receive spiritual gifts, as soon as he is in contact with the spiritual kingdom and receives mental knowledge in a fully conscious state, beings of light are his teachers, for this spiritual state completely corresponds to My will, it is a degree of ascent development which all people should strive for, thus such people will not allow themselves to fall into the power of beings which want to impart misguided mental knowledge to them and harm the souls instead of leading them towards perfection. Consider seriously what you expect of Me if you assume that a person who wants to serve Me is influenced by evil forces. You then either deny Me love or wisdom or power if I could not or would not prevent such. I want My living creations to recognize and learn to love Me, thus I will not want or know how to prevent a person striving towards Me from being offered untruth if I endow countless beings of light with the ability or the power to convey the truth to those who desire it. I want people to turn to Me and can only achieve this if people learn to recognize Me. For this purpose the truth has to be offered to them without fail, and therefore I, as the eternal truth, will do everything in My power to impart it to people and to push back the beings of darkness, which can therefore certainly also exert their influence on people but only if they abandon themselves to them through a way of life which contradicts My will. For these people will have no desire for the truth and therefore it will not be offered to them, especially since they do not consciously establish a spiritual connection either but only gather purely intellectual thoughts and those ignorant forces try to influence these thoughts in order to obscure the truth and spread lies and error. But you can easily check this, for what points to Me is good, what leads away from Me is the adversary's influence, who fights against Me and wants to defeat Me but will never achieve victory over Me ....

Amen

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Training of teachers directly or through light beings ....

B.D. 4863 from March 23rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

In darkness a ray of light blinds the eye and prevents it from recognizing what surrounds the human being. And thus the spiritual flash of light is first a blinding light for the human being's soul which makes all recognition impossible for it, for the soul is also still in darkness when the first ray of light touches it. Then it is impossible for it to understand spiritual knowledge immediately. And therefore it has to be slowly guided to brightness, it first has to come out of darkness into twilight, which then increases in brightness so that the soul's eye can become accustomed to the images it is now allowed to take in. A person who suddenly receives profound wisdom cannot grasp it, and it will therefore never appear to him as wisdom but rather remain incomprehensible to him until he is slowly introduced to knowledge which can now be called true light. For this reason the human being also has to be taught from the bottom up, he has to be educated for deeper knowledge in such a way that he will always receive more and more wisdom, yet only when he is mature, i.e. receptive for it. And that is why only teachers who have mastered what they are to teach themselves are admitted to a teaching ministry, in order to strengthen the human being with light food until he can bear heavy food, until spiritual knowledge has become so comprehensible to him that he can now be active as a teacher himself. Therefore, if I want good teachers to be given to people, then I must first train these teachers and first impart the knowledge to them, which they should then pass on to their pupils. Thus I instruct them Myself or let them be instructed by first forces which, however, are only active on My behalf because I want to provide them with the bliss of a transmission of strength from Me, which therefore never ever do or teach anything other than My will and which they themselves carry within themselves as their own will. For understandably only such beings are admitted to teaching activity who are knowledgeable themselves, thus who have reached a high degree of maturity, because they are receivers of light and strength, thus they can also distribute light and strength. I know about people's degree of maturity on earth, I know about their will, about the degree of desire for truth, I also know about the benefit of the gifts of grace which I impart to a person; thus I also watch over every individual person of good will that he will not be unlawfully bound by My adversary. And thus I will also not tolerate that a person devoted to Me falls into My adversary's hands, I will not tolerate that a person's will is inevitably alienated from Me, just as I will not tolerate that a person desiring the truth is wrongly instructed by forces which lack all knowledge. The lower spirits have their kingdom to themselves and are bound to it, i.e. they cannot freely move into areas where the light is and participate in the transmission of spiritual knowledge to people. For the beings of light recognize every spirit, and they know about everyone's maturity and ability. They are also concerned about people on earth and their state of soul, and in their love they also grant the human being protection against all harassment by dark forces as soon as his thoughts and aspirations are turned towards the kingdom of light and he detests evil. The beings of light do not miss the slightest thing that could endanger earthly people, and thus they form a wall around the one who has professed Me through his way of life and is now to be introduced to higher knowledge by Me. And no lower power is allowed to intervene in order to impart error or to distract people from the pure truth. For Mine is the kingdom of light, just as I also rule over the kingdom of darkness .... The beings of light work in My will, and those who oppose My will I banish from My sight, but I also deny them access to those who strive towards Me and thus prove to Me through their will that they acknowledge Me as father ....

Amen

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Light beings embodied as human beings .... Disciples of the last days ....

B.D. 5002 from November 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The will to serve Me links the human being to My flock of disciples who I instructed to proclaim the Gospel. Every person wanting to work as a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord is welcome by Me, because many reapers are needed during the time of the end. I only value free will and assign to everyone work they are capable of doing. Hence, I do not reject anyone because I need all of them. The work first of all consists of spreading My teaching of love, and this mission is extremely important because during the last days people will thoughtlessly spend their lives entirely without love. Understandably, someone who is to spread the truth must live a life of love himself, otherwise his words would have no effect on his fellow human beings. Hence I can only use people as labourers in My vineyard if they observe the commandment of love for God and other people themselves, because only those people are capable of accepting My instructions, but in fact, only those people voluntarily offer to be of service to Me. The first condition to be a suitable worker in My vineyard therefore consists of activity of unselfish neighbourly love, and I also grant My special love to such a person who lives a life of love himself .... I regard him as My child, for it has recognised Me as its Father and wants to serve Me obediently .... For this reason, every person can regard himself as My child who places himself at My disposal for spiritual cooperation, while the others are indeed My living creations which I love and never want to lose but which must prove themselves as My children first by fulfilling My will. Consequently, I send My children to their brothers and sisters who have not recognised their Father as yet and let them be taught by the former .... which is a mission of such importance that I will always work together with My children in order to save souls from their eternal downfall. Children who have already found Me shall also show the path to the others, so that these, too, can experience the bliss of My presence, which equally turns them into My children. During the time of the end even light beings must descend to earth in order to help people, because they are extremely strongly influenced by the opposite side and people are too weak to offer resistance. These light beings embodied as human beings possess strong souls which strive towards Me, even though they lack the past awareness of their origin. They will always strive upwards and will never let themselves be influenced by low forces; nevertheless, as human beings on earth they wage a battle with them but will emerge victoriously. Powerful psychological strength often suggests a soul from above, yet the soul is not aware of this, otherwise its mission would become less important, which must always be and remain a free decision of will. The soul might well suspect it as a result of increased knowledge, yet for the soul’s own sake this fact will remain hidden from it until the time of complete spiritualisation, shortly before its demise, when, during a spiritual vision, it will recognise its origin and will long to return, full of yearning, to where it will be blissfully united with Me again. Such an incarnated being of light can be of great benefit on earth due to its spiritual strength and its love for its fellow human beings, however, as long as it lives on earth it is just a human being who, like any other human being, has to go through a process of development in order to be able to increase its spiritual powers, for he shall be an example for his fellow human beings who can attain the same powers as him, if they are willing to do so. A person on earth can even muster these light beings’ greater willpower by availing themselves of the blessings of the act of Salvation, on account of which precisely this teaching is diligently endorsed by those who are to proclaim the Gospel. Jesus Christ as the divine Redeemer and His teaching of love shall be proclaimed to people, and for this I need My servants on earth, so that all people will find the strength to strive towards ascent and release themselves from their tormentor who wants to plunge them into ruin if they are not being helped. For that reason I will bless every person who wants to help these souls, who serves Me as a servant in My vineyard, who, as a spiritual assistant, spreads light in the darkness of night in which people walk without reaching the right goal. And spreading light means instructing people in the truth, which I Myself impart upon those who thus want to be of service to Me.

Amen

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"Taught by God ...." good teachers ....

B.D. 6188 from February 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

I want to take you into My school, I want you to learn from Me, I want you to become wise and be able to teach your fellow human beings again in My name .... And I have good teachers who instruct you, who work according to My will and supply you with the knowledge you need in order to likewise be able to teach, for it depends on this that the knowledge you are to impart to your fellow human beings corresponds to the truth. Whatever you receive from Me directly or through My representatives must also correspond to the truth, because it originates from the eternal truth .... And therefore you, who receive the knowledge through the spirit, can also be convinced of its truth, even if I don't speak to you Myself but let My messengers of love and light speak to you, for they, too, cannot give you anything but truth because they are entirely permeated by My light of love. Such a word is by no means less valuable, and you are always taught by God, because I watch over My disciples that no foreign or wrong teaching material is conveyed to them. And thus you can also safely and with full conviction represent everything to your fellow human beings, you need not fear spreading misguided ideas if you pass on My word .... For as soon as you make yourselves available for spiritual work, as soon as you are thus active in the work for Me and My kingdom, all your thoughts will be directed in the right direction, for then you will be in My school where all My teachers can influence you and truly prevent other forces from intervening which mislead you .... Just always want to be taught by Me, then error will never ever be able to be presented to you .... And this certainty should also accompany you in all conversations you have in the spiritual realm .... For then I Myself will be with you, and then you will be able to speak nothing but the truth, because it is your will to be active for Me and because you yourselves are already so permeated by truth that error will no longer find room in your thinking. Your will has led you into My school .... And therefore I will now also ensure that you receive the training which will enable you to become teachers for your fellow human beings again. For it is My will that light be brought into your world of thought .... My will is that the truth shines brightly and displaces error .... I Myself can only let the light shine through you earthly children, if people's free will is not to be coerced .... And where this free will lets My light of love and wisdom shine in, there it can work for the blessing of fellow human beings, for there I Myself work through those people .... and I protect them from wrong thinking for the sake of truth ....

Amen

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Light beings help vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8720 from January 9th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Countless light beings have joined you to promote the fulfilment of the mission, which you have taken on, as every man serving Me eagerly and unselfishly can be sure of all spiritual help, because it is about a great work to supply men with that, what they lack and still is exceedingly necessary: truth, which goes out from Me directly. None of My servants is without spiritual protection, and that is why everyone can go through earth life completely carefree and be convinced of it that My light messengers protect him on all ways and always only let that come over him what serves him for his soul's salvation, because they act and work on you in My will. You can fully entrust yourselves to these light beings; you can submit all your secret worries to them, as you do it to Me Myself, because they are so intimately connected with Me that they also always only carry My will in them and therefore help you, as I Myself have promised you My protection and blessing, because you serve Me. A relationship of love exists between the inhabitants of the kingdom of light and those on earth who eagerly want to serve Me .... And the thoughts of the latter are always so guided that their work is successful .... that souls are still rescued, which are in great danger to get lost when the end comes. But if you, My servants on earth, could see how you are surrounded by beings of light, you would truly rejoice and exult and no longer imagine yourselves on earth .... But such bliss would impair your serving activity in My vineyard, you would not be able to put yourselves into the misery of fellow human beings to whom you are to bring spiritual help .... For this help can only be given by people, otherwise the beings of light could have a direct effect .... but which is not possible due to people's lower degree of maturity and their will, which is often turned away from God. You therefore have to do this work and establish contact with fellow human beings and try to change their attitude. You can certainly always rely on the help of the beings of light, but you yourselves must also remain clear and sober and must not be under a certain compulsion, but which every unusual experience would mean for you if you want to be suitable to work for Me and My kingdom. But as I Myself love every one of My vineyard workers, because he is active for Me in free will, so also the love of countless light beings belongs to you, who can appreciate the value of your activity and also know how necessary it is, and therefore do everything to support you. But I know if and when I can initiate you more closely into spiritual connections, and I also know if and when I can open the spiritual eyes for you that you can see the crowd of My messengers of light around you .... And that is why I also consider My light children differently, because every degree of love is different and also determines the kind of My revelation towards him. And I Myself also always determine the living conditions of every individual according to his work for Me and My kingdom. What can be possible with one excludes with the other, what I alone can justify, but is not to hinder you in your work for My kingdom. Every man needs a different environment, and every man is assigned his own field of activity; all men are different, with whom the individual comes into contact, and so every task is also to be solved differently. But every redeemer work carries its blessing in itself and is the actual mission of a man who is prepared to serve Me. And when one is given information about spiritual connections, then the other needs to know nothing about these, and still everyone can accomplish exactly the task, which I have set for him, because power is constantly supplied to him and spiritual helpers stand by his side, even if he does not see them .... For his will shall remain free .... The power, which every vineyard worker needs for his work, goes to him, because he is cared for in love by My messengers of light, but they will not openly make themselves known to him, so as not to confuse his thoughts and to divert them to unimportant problems, which once will solve themselves when it is time. But you can constantly be certain of My love and care, for anyone who serves Me is Mine, and I will never let him leave Me again for ever ...._>Amen

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God as a teacher through mediators

God as teacher also through mediators ....

B.D. 4113 from August 28th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

What you receive from Me not only applies to the individual person, to the recipient himself, but everyone who hears My word through him is, in a manner of speaking, My student whom I instruct Myself. The fact that the ability to receive varies and is often completely lacking does not justify the assumption that the human being is not offered the opportunity to penetrate the truth, just as, conversely, the other person does not therefore become wise, i.e. full of spiritual knowledge, because he is in direct contact with Me. The only decisive factor is the human being's will to penetrate the truth and his way of life in unselfish neighbourly love. Thus I also give every person an answer if he desires such .... first through the transmission of My word to My servants on earth, to whom I, apart from their ability to hear My word in their heart and write it down, also give the ability to recognise and utilise everything correctly, i.e. to speak about it freely and proficiently. Thus anyone who receives My word through a mediator is likewise taught by Me, for he will recognise it as My word. But if the case has occurred that My word has lost its purity by passing it on frequently, then the person desiring truth will no longer be fully convinced but want to raise objections which can only be refuted again by My awakened disciples. The pure truth will always have a convincing effect on a person taught by My spirit. Where would My love, My wisdom and My strength be if I did not want to grant them to a person who seriously desires the truth? How would I relate to you, My children, if you were helplessly left to My adversary's arbitrariness? I only require your will to turn to Me in full seriousness .... that you inwardly realise how ignorant and imperfect you are and therefore appeal to Me to guide you into knowledge of the pure truth. This expressed will will also inevitably bring you the truth. But very few people muster this will, and yet I cannot influence them to think right against their will, because My adversary likewise has a share in them and they have freely conceded their will to him. Thus the separation from him first has to be accomplished in terms of will before I can influence the human being with My power of grace .... But then I am only concerned to make it easy for the human being to recognise error, because this is the greatest obstacle to attaining maturity of soul. Whatever comes from My adversary with the intention of displacing Me can never be tolerated by Me but it has to be fought with perseverance and patience. And therefore, My adversary will never triumph where only the slightest will for truth is present ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God as teacher also through mediators ....

B.D. 4114 from August 30th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Only those who are actively engaged also in an earthly respect will ever be able to be mediators from Me to people. They must be willing and able to work constantly. For I demand this when someone starts work with Me and must demand it all the more when it is a matter of training a servant who serves Me and preparing him for an activity. Only someone who is dutiful and diligent in an earthly respect can be called upon for work which certainly touches the spiritual but also requires the use of physical strength, which thus can be called earthly to a certain extent. Thus, anyone who is deemed suitable for this work by Me will be given My gift of grace which can then be regarded as coming forth from his hands until the fellow human being tackles the work himself .... to shape his soul according to My will, which is made known to him through the gift of grace offered from above. Then he will understand the urgency of a transmission from above and recognise the purely spiritual task of the one who is active on My behalf. But anyone who disregards this working on the soul will never consider the announcements to come from above but will only see earthly work in them which, in his opinion, is completely useless. But I attach great importance to it and will not slacken to remind My servants of the urgency as well, and I always admonish them anew to be extremely active and not to let themselves be disconcerted by disparaging words of fellow human beings, for it concerns the highest, it concerns the soul's fate in eternity. Whoever seriously keeps this in mind will also pay more attention to the announcements, and they will not remain without success. (29.8.1947) But in order to be able to receive the announcements, the recipient must first believe that they come from above. If this belief is missing, then it is also not possible for beings of light to intervene in the thoughts of the receiver. And then the fellow human being is also inclined to believe in human influence and rejects it. Faith in My working in the human being through My spirit is absolutely necessary in order to receive such a gift of grace from Me. And therefore, it will be rare that I can express Myself in this way, despite people's will to live in My will and despite faith in Me, My love, omnipotence and wisdom. For only faith causes the human being to listen inwards, and then he can hear the inner voice if he is sensitive, i.e. if he can interpret every sensation. For hearing the inner voice is a refined feeling and likewise a necessity, for establishing a connection from the earthly to the spiritual kingdom requires thoughts turned towards the spiritual kingdom which, however, must be paired with the firm will to serve God. Both of these factors provide the human being with refined sensitivity, and only through this is it possible to hear My voice. Yet the time to come is so difficult and will make people of little faith waver. But I give every person the opportunity (30.8.1947) to take note of the eternal truth and therefore not only speak directly but through mediators to all people, thus they receive the same, so to speak, as the servants on earth who are directly taught by Me, only that I speak to them through their mouth in order to eliminate a compulsion of faith in those who are still weak in faith. For the word spoken by Me must be offered to them in such a way that they can accept it of their own free will or also reject it. And therefore I also reserve the method of transmission for Myself by also putting the words into My servants' mouths in a way which is most helpful to their fellow human beings in order to stimulate them to think. And therefore the conversations will also take the course which I deem favourable, i.e. My servants will speak as it is My will, if they speak up for My word, if they work for Me, thus if they have conversations within the scope of the spiritual. Where the human being is sensitive, he has to be touched if the words are not to remain without impression, and where he is in erroneous thinking the battle has to start, for error has to be fought first, and this cannot be achieved with tolerance, with consideration for old tradition. Anyone who fights for Me must fight with the sword of his mouth, he must not become unfaithful to Me for the sake of people; My word must be more important to him than the affection of a person whose life or views contradict My word. And therefore I choose fearless, intrepid fighters on earth who uncover the slightest contradiction against My word, who eagerly speak up for everything they have heard through the inner voice, who, once they have recognised My truth, give it up no more and use every opportunity to spread it. And their work will be blessed .... However, the extent to which it is successful for fellow human beings is entirely up to their will and desire for truth. For their will is free .... I want to help people recognise the truth and offer it to them, however, I do not coerce them to accept it but give them their freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Radiance of God .... instruction from within .... gift of speech ....

B.D. 4659 from June 5th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You need constant instruction in order to change the state of ignorance, in which you start earthly life as a human being, into the state of knowledge. You need to be constantly instructed because you are not receptive to the extent that you could immediately tolerate brightest light; you need to be slowly introduced to the right knowledge so that your heart and intellect will grasp it and your soul will derive the right benefit from it. Therefore teachers must be given to you who are qualified to guide you into truth. These teachers can be trained by Me Myself, but they can also indirectly receive everything they need to know if it is their firm will to enter My service and be active for Me and My kingdom, for this will guarantees that they will be taught correctly and thus also be able to carry out their teaching activity in accordance with My will. For I want the truth to be spread, I want people to step out of the darkness of spirit into the bright light; I want them to learn to recognize who and what I am and what task they have to fulfil as My living creations on earth. Thus I am the right teacher who imparts the right knowledge to those who want to be active as teachers again .... But you cannot hear Me in any other way than through the spirit .... I certainly speak to you, yet My word does not sound to your ears from outside but you have to hear it inwardly. And thus I am also at work where the instruction happens indirectly, thus through intermediaries. It is always My spirit which first has to work in you in order to make what has been imparted to you effective, in order to make your intellect receptive and to awaken the feeling in your heart for the depth of truth. Where My spirit is not at work, the deepest wisdom can be offered to you, it would leave you completely untouched and fall on your ears like empty words. My spirit first enlivens the dead word, My spirit is the strength which flows through every word so that it can have an effect on the human being and thus is also perceived as divine. My working of the spirit is the sign of sympathy for you, for only when you open yourselves to Me do I take a share in you by helping you to perfection through the working of My spirit. Then you will be able to understand everything you receive directly or through intermediaries, you will be able to leave the state of ignorance into the most enlightened state, for then you will be in direct contact with Me if I work in you through My spirit. My spirit is simply the emanation of Myself, the gift which is not material, which cannot be seen or grasped but only felt, which is therefore something effective but not visible, and which nevertheless proves Me, thus it is a living testimony of Myself. My spirit is the emanation of My love .... My love expresses itself in the form that it radiates a tiny spark of what it is itself into the human being's heart, who thereby can develop into a divine being and always progresses more and more towards perfection. But to be perfected means to be in the brightest knowledge in the spiritual realm, to have overcome the state of lightlessness and to have become a being of light with My help, which can now dwell in My vicinity and, constantly permeated by My spirit and My love, is exceedingly blissful for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual seers .... teacher and adviser oft he fellow human beings ....

B.D. 4763 from October 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Anyone whose spiritual eye is opened can see through all matter, there is no impenetrable form for him, just as there is no distance for him and he can therefore willingly place himself everywhere in order to observe the spiritual working, which is only visible to someone who has reached a certain degree of maturity. He who is able to see spiritually can now also teach his fellow human beings truthfully about the essence of creation, about the activity of everything that is visible to people as a divine work of creation. He can perceive the life of seemingly dead matter as well as that of the plant and animal world, which is otherwise hidden from people and therefore it is not believable to them how tremendously active the spiritual is in every form. But the spiritually observant person transcends the limits which God has set for the mortal human being, the spiritually observant person sees the spiritual kingdom just as clearly as he sees this earth, he can put himself into a state at any time where all things become apparent to him, and thus his knowledge is increased and his love increases immeasurably. However, he is unable to communicate everything he sees to his fellow human beings because there are no possibilities of understanding many things, because the spiritually observant person sees something in his maturity of soul which would be incomprehensible to his fellow human being if he wanted to explain it, because there is no possibility of comparison for it on earth. Thus the spiritually seeing person has reached a maturity of soul which allows him to see more than is comprehensible to the human intellect, which is why he finds no faith in his fellow human beings but gains immeasurably much for his soul. For every act of spiritual vision is a profound and intimate connection with the spiritual kingdom which never remains unsuccessful for the soul, for it absorbs even more than the eye of the spiritually seeing person, it can communicate with the beings of light and receives great wisdom from them which remains hidden to the human being's intellect. And therefore it is already a state of maturity of the soul which announces a person's near end, for once a person is able to see spiritually his soul can leave the body and carefree enter the spiritual kingdom, he has already reached this maturity on earth and no longer needs further maturing, only a time on earth can still be granted to him for the sake of his fellow human beings, for a spiritually seeing person is a teacher and advisor for his fellow human beings, and his experiences can be believed, for he sees and hears more than any other mortal, because his soul can leave the body at any time in order to receive ever new impressions in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Complete instruction ....

B.D. 8225 from July 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Just always abide by My word which says: 'My spirit will guide you into all truth .... "As soon as you are willing to receive from Me yourselves, knowledge will be made accessible to you which you cannot describe as 'piecemeal' .... For although you will only ever receive wisdom which you are able to comprehend, which corresponds to your state of maturity, the knowledge you receive will nevertheless be a complete instruction which encompasses everything you need to know: a correct portrayal of My nature .... a reason for your existence on earth and the purpose of creation .... My plan of salvation of the return of the spiritual that once fell away from Me .... and the pure gospel, which contains the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, as well as the divine teaching of love, which is the epitome of that which is the human being's task on earth. Whoever is informed about all this cannot truly speak of a "piecework". His knowledge can certainly still be extended by much, he can certainly still penetrate deeper wisdoms, yet even this little can be regarded as completed knowledge, because it corresponds to the human being's still deficient state, his spiritual degree of maturity, which therefore would not be able to draw to the bottom of divine wisdom, for such knowledge is the epitome of the beatitude of supreme beings of light, and even then it still remains unlimited, for My love and wisdom knows no limit. But I have promised you that My spirit will introduce you to all truth .... And I will truly withhold nothing from you which serves you to mature your souls .... And you may also penetrate further and further yourselves if you shape yourselves such that ever brighter light can shine into you .... Yet even that which you have already received can be called light, for when My spirit is working it will only ever radiate light, yet the light can shine in different degrees, and thus knowledge can always deepen as a person's degree of maturity increases .... However, divine instruction can never be described as 'piecemeal' if I Myself want to guide people into truth through these instructions, for where I Myself am at work there must also be light, and the human being must be able to fill every gap in his knowledge, there will be nothing which could cause the human being to ascertain a gap in his knowledge, for he will receive enlightenment about everything he merely desires to know. Yet it is understandable that My love will never overspend itself, I will always want to and be able to make My children happy, and thus the measure of knowledge full of wisdom will also be able to increase indefinitely, because this is the bliss of the beings of light to constantly receive and be made happy by Me. Human knowledge, on the other hand, will always remain piecemeal, for the intellect is limited and whether it tries to penetrate spiritual knowledge or earthly knowledge .... it will always be limited, and it will always remain piecemeal as long as the spirit from Me does not switch off the intellect and can instruct the human being truthfully, so that an awakened spirit can also provide his fellow human beings with correct earthly enlightenment .... However, if I convey My word to earth in order to bring the truth to people, I will also choose the suitable vessels for Myself into which My spirit can flow, and then the knowledge will reach people which will give them the right explanation and also answer their every question .... I will also try to make people understand what they don't absolutely need for the maturing of their souls .... if they have an earnest desire for light to come to them .... And people very often ask questions which I then answer in the form of My gifts of grace from above .... that My word is then conveyed to them through which they receive proper enlightenment .... For divine wisdom is inexhaustible, My love is unfathomably deep, and I know about every question asked on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond and I will answer as soon as I only recognize the earnest will for truth, which only I can distribute but will always distribute according to the questioner's degree of spiritual maturity, so that My promise will be fulfilled: 'I will introduce you to all truth .... "

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right teachers

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Gift of teaching .... Teaching ministry ....

B.D. 3730 from March 30th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

You will be granted the gift of teaching once your mission starts .... You will feel imbued by My spirit and consequently also be able to speak with conviction, because I will express Myself through you. I will place the Words in your mouth and yet your intellect will grasp what you say, what you, impelled by My spirit, are conveying to your fellow human beings, because you receive the meaning of My Word from above, from the kingdom of light where the truth originates from. And therefore you will only spread pure truth if you teach in My name. Thoughts will flow to you which your heart and mind will grasp and it will fill you with inner joy that you are allowed to spread exceedingly valuable spiritual knowledge. And thus, impelled by the love of your heart, you will distribute that which makes you happy yourself. For the teacher has an abundance of knowledge and is therefore called by Me for his teaching ministry. Yet he must confront the wrong teachers and prophets in all seriousness and seek to invalidate their doctrine insofar as they do not correspond to the truth. He should not fear that he is not up to the challenge; for once again it is not he himself but My spirit which speaks through him. And My spirit is superior to all human reasoning, it can solve the most difficult problems, expose and refute the greatest error and no opponent on earth can surpass its wisdom. But the opportunity of its working must be given by your willingness to adopt the teaching ministry even with those people, that is, you must not shirk or allow yourselves to be intimidated if you are confronted by the wisdom of human intellect in order to disarm you or to undermine your teachings. Then you need only enter into heartfelt unity with Me and you will be able to defeat even the greatest speakers, because I Myself will speak through you and, truly, no-one is a match for Me .... Let your spirit carry you along, it will guide you correctly, it will let you act and speak in the right way, it will put your thoughts in order, for anyone who receives a teaching ministry from Me will also receive My help to administer it correctly. For it is My will that the truth shall be spread, that untruth and error shall be denounced and that people's thoughts shall take the right direction, because only through truth can people become blissfully happy. This is why you, My disciples on earth, shall place yourselves at My disposal as bearers of truth wherever and whenever I need you, and My spirit in you will be informed of this, so that you will be absolved from all responsibility of acting wrongly, for I Myself will guide and direct anyone who has offered himself to Me, so that he can fulfil My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right kind of teacher .... Truth - Error ....

B.D. 4534 from January 7th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

People must hand themselves over to a good teacher if they want to be taught correctly, so long as they don't come to Me Myself for schooling. They could be instructed by Me directly at all times, yet they would lack the knowledge of this as well as faith. Consequently, they will have to receive the knowledge from somewhere else and need only make sure that the instructor knows the truth and is able to teach them correctly. Being instructed in the truth must be very important to them, therefore they must investigate the origin of the teacher's knowledge; they should first clarify the relationship the teacher has with Me. Hence, they must first believe in Me as Creator and Father of eternity, they must inwardly acknowledge a Deity and make an effort to get to know this Deity. This is the first condition or hardly anyone would try to penetrate spiritual knowledge. A distinction must be made between people who allow themselves to be instructed and those who want to be instructed .... The first let themselves be pushed into a school without resistance, they let themselves be seized by teachers looking for subjects to whom they want to impart their points of view. The latter look for their own school in order to receive knowledge, and they are serious about attaining the truth. I will come to meet these seekers and guide them to the right teacher. However, since My adversary also wants to gain your soul he will not miss the opportunity to let representatives of error cross your path. Anyone who seeks the truth will also come across incompetent teachers, and therefore indications are given to you that you should conduct an examination in order to entrust yourselves to the right teachers and how you should do this. And again it should be said that your attention must first be drawn to the teacher's attitude towards Me, whether he spiritedly advocates My Word or whether his lips merely pass My Words on, which is very quickly recognisable for the serious seeker, since the repeat of the living Word ignites the listener's heart, whereas the lifeless Word is tiring and puts people off listening. Although someone with a hunger for truth can also derive some benefit from this dead Word, he will nevertheless feel dissatisfied with such teachings so that he will expect more, then he should give in to this longing and look for a different teacher. But teachers who inspire people's keen debates, who repeat My Word animatedly and cause a positive response in people's heart, whose bond with God can be recognised by their kind and loving nature, are true representatives of My Word and in possession of truth. You can trustingly hand yourselves over to them, they will teach you correctly and contribute to the fact that you will soon establish heartfelt contact with Me and thus can be instructed by My spirit directly, either mentally or through the inner Word. The origin of their knowledge might well be the same with both teachers, both might have gained the knowledge through study, and yet their teaching ability will differ and therefore their knowledge will also be either of purest truth or interspersed with errors, depending on their maturity of soul. For this reason you must always pay attention to the teacher's way of life, to what extent the human being follows Christ, that is, to what extent he is permeated by love for his neighbour, which will characterise his entire nature and will always be recognisable, because love does not hide itself. Truth can always be found where love is present because it cannot be gained academically; instead, it can only be gained, recognised and taken possession of through the working of the spirit, which is the result of a life of love. And thus it can always be noticed whether a teacher expresses his own thoughts or merely words which have not yet found the right response in his heart and therefore cannot be repeated spiritedly. Test the teachers and choose a suitable teacher for yourselves, for you will come into contact with both. The right ones will lead you to Me, yet the others will not be prevented from approaching you because you can and should decide for yourselves if you seriously want to be taught the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Instrument of God .... holding up the errors right of the disciples ....

B.D. 4656 from June 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Where My grace flows to you in such abundance that you are taught by My spirit, there is also a certain justification to draw your fellow human being's attention to his faults without being accused of self-conceit. This is, so to speak, the office of the one who receives the pure gospel, that he carries it out into the world, that he thus opposes the right to the wrong, that he passes on My word in the same sense as he receives it. Anyone who is enlightened by My spirit also has the gift of righteous judgement as soon as he is active as My disciple, thus working for Me and My kingdom amongst his fellow human beings. He will recognize people's faults and weaknesses and also know their cause and effect, he will also recognize the truth of My word by the latter, for through My word I initiate the spiritually enlightened person into knowledge which explains everything that is and happens around him. And thus it will not remain hidden to him why My word is not fully accepted, for he knows that the cause of this is the human being's way of life himself, his will and his wrong attitude towards what I demand of people through My word. And therefore he is also entitled to reproach his fellow human being for his faults and shortcomings so that he will change. He even has the duty to draw people's attention to them, even though he is rarely listened to with pleasure and a change in this respect is also rarely striven for. Nevertheless, My disciple is in the right, for I make use of him in order to speak through his mouth to those who are unable to hear Me Myself. And again and again you should be told that your ways are entirely subject to My guidance, that you are only the tools for the work I Myself want to do for My living creations, but that I cannot approach them directly and therefore need you as mediators. What you notice in your neighbour, what you recognize as being contrary to My will, what appears to you as error and vice, you should also reprimand or kindly and patiently draw the fellow human being's attention to it, so that he will now work on his soul himself and try to adapt himself to My will. For I train you as teachers .... therefore instruct your neighbour, enlighten him where he errs .... be it in wrong knowledge or also in wrong assessment of himself; make him aware, but in love, not in anger. And you will only administer your office correctly into which I Myself have appointed you, for it merely concerns the recovery of the souls which are ill, and anyone of good will will listen to you and not become angry with you, he will recognize that he has to keep your office and your own nature apart, that you only do to him what you have to do in order to be obedient to Me. For your office obliges you to be at My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The right to teach .... holy office ....

B.D. 4855 from March 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You have been given a sacred office .... to teach people in My stead who willingly listen to you. This office is to be taken seriously, and therefore you cannot be reproached if you try to convey My teaching, which comes from above as purest truth, to your fellow human beings and confront them as opponents, yet not in a hostile way, but as My representatives you try to bring them peace, the pure teaching from Christ, which has to be heard by people if they want to become blessed. Hence you only carry out My will if you try to spread the truth, even if it earns you enmity, even if you are rejected and My teaching is ridiculed. You shall first fulfil My will before people's will is taken into account, especially if people's will is opposed to Mine. If people are in a defensive position you can do little. Nevertheless, every attempt is blessed by Me, after all, it makes the adversary think and can lead to success after a certain time. This office has been given to you and I know about every possibility of success for you .... I guide you along paths which may indeed seem unsuccessful to you, nevertheless you should allow yourselves to be guided without resistance, because often only a single soul sees a light flashing through you which breaks through its state of darkness, and this soul is eternally grateful for it. You have been given the office by Me Myself to administer, and therefore you are first entitled to teach as My representatives on earth. But anyone who has acquired a teaching ministry for himself without being appointed by Me may not dispute your right, after all, he does not possess part of the knowledge which is imparted to you from above, and therefore he is not really suitable for the teaching ministry either, he will not be able to give anything because he does not possess anything himself. And by the degree of knowledge you can test the ability of every individual for the teaching ministry and from this it already follows that whoever wants to teach has to be taught by Me Myself. It follows that such an office cannot be given by people but that I alone determine who is suitable for such an office. Therefore, don't let yourselves be disturbed if you are attacked and your spiritual activity is to be prevented .... I protect My servants and help them, and he on whose side My help is will also feel this and neither be timid nor despondent. He will feel that it meets with My approval if he takes action against people's ignorant and error-spreading teachers. No counter-speech will make him incapable of his office, for he knows that those are not only his opponents but also My opponents, and thus he also knows that I stand on the side of those who stand up for Me and My teaching, whom I teach Myself from above and whom I train for an office which I Myself have given them because I recognized their will from eternity ....

Amen

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Teachings in compulsion .... love in free will .... (cath.!)

B.D. 4859 from March 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I don't want to give you a commandment, I only want to advice you what you should do for your soul. For even My teaching of love is not a commandment, because love has to be practiced of your own free will if it is to bring you success. A work of love also requires love in the human being's heart; the work alone can be carried out purely mechanically and will then also be evaluated accordingly. I never say to you: you must, but always: you shall .... A compulsion is a law, the non-fulfilment of which entails punishment. But I will not punish you if you transgress the law of love, because this is indeed a law in itself, i.e. adapted to My eternal order, but I, as the law giver Who is love Itself, will not punish you since this contradicts My love. I can only warn you to live without love, thus I advice you to shape yourselves into love in order to be able to enjoy bliss, which you will never feel without love. However, what you obey as a commandment will not bring you bliss .... Thus I am also an opponent of all compulsion, since freedom is the right of the being which emerged from Me. Admittedly, I also use coercion in the stage of the being before the incarnation, yet this coercion arises from love which could not win you back in any other way, which cannot procure your freedom in any other way but through coercion .... but unconsciously. But in the human stage you are aware of every state of compulsion. If your free will is curtailed it violates My eternal order, since I have given you free will which you can and should use at your own discretion.

And now judge for yourselves who violates My eternal order .... judge by observing where compulsion determines people's way of life. I cannot approve of coercion as a means of spiritual education, for no human being will strive to ascend under coercion. Therefore, where coercion is used for spiritual development you will be able to recognize anti-divine activity, and coercion is everywhere where a punishment is threatened or a reward is promised, for both are means of pressure which are intended to determine a person's way of life. And coercion is everywhere where organizations are formed which seek to bind their members by measures, thus making them unfree in their thinking and acting .... (17.3.1950) Coercion is also present where people are not tolerated to acquire knowledge elsewhere, that is, where they freely research out of themselves and seek to arrive at the truth. Every lack of freedom of the human will is not in accordance with My will, for what the human being will one day have to answer for also presupposes his freedom of will. Wherever people are obliged to live their way of life, through commandments or threats of all kinds, it is not My will which is represented but the will of the one who is My adversary and therefore your enemy, even though My name is spoken. For countless false doctrines and countless offences against My will arise from the impersonation of the will. A person's will may never be considered so infallibly right that thousands of people blindly follow it and don't use their will themselves or are forced to think and act against their will. Even My pure teaching conveyed to you from above may not be forcibly conveyed to people but they should freely decide for or against it of their own accord, but how much less a teaching which is no longer as unspoilt as I Myself preached it on earth. People must always be granted the duty and also the right to examine and judge spiritual knowledge given to them by fellow human beings. And if the pure teaching is preached it should be done with love, and the inner conviction will then let the teacher find the right words to win over his fellow human being, yet all coercion should be refrained from. The person who is willing to believe and seeks Me also recognizes Me and can believe with conviction; then he will also practice love of his own accord, yet no longer out of duty but out of love for Me, in Whom he believes .... Compulsion kills love, and then every work of love is merely a mechanical exercise which cannot be valued by Me. You shall love .... because every ascent makes love a condition; yet you will not be forced, nor can you be forced to do so, because then love would not be love.... Consider this well and then realize what an error the spreading of My teaching of love is on the path of denominational regulations .... Everything the human being does to attain eternal life presupposes freedom of will, thus no commandment may be given to him whose fulfilment is enforced by promise of reward or threat of punishment .... He shall only be instructed about My commandment of love, which alone is significant and on the fulfilment of which eternal life depends ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Teachability .... spiritual work .... love .... truth ....

B.D. 5140 from May 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Heaven is open to all of you who want to serve Me. And My spirit shines down upon you and brings clarity into your thinking if you are willing to recognize the pure truth. You only have to fulfil My commandment of love or My spirit cannot work in you, which guides you into all truth .... And now understand that it is only love which makes you suitable to work for Me and My kingdom. Anyone who has love will have comprehensive knowledge which also corresponds to the truth, for anyone who has love has Me and I will truly offer him nothing but truth if he desires it. But I can only use truthful people again as servants on earth, because their work consists of instructing their fellow human beings, of spreading My divine word which comes from above .... Therefore they must also be given the right knowledge according to their vineyard work. And this is decisive when a person can consider himself taught by Me, whether he is called by Me Myself for his service, whether he has been commissioned by Me Myself to spread My word, whether I Myself have recognized him as suitable for this activity and prepare him for this mission Myself.

The work for Me and My kingdom is a matter of free will and I do not reject anyone who thus wants to serve Me. But he has to wait for the calling, for I truly know best which abilities he possesses and assign him the place where he can utilize his abilities. Yet it is not always the teaching activity which My servants on earth are meant to carry out, for instructing fellow human beings is extraordinarily responsible and requires more than intellectual study, which can also be proven by such people who are completely unsuitable for teaching activity because they have not yet gained the right knowledge which only My spirit can impart to you humans .... i.e., I Myself must be able to work in you if you want to be guaranteed to stand in truth. However, I bless every work for Me and My kingdom where the will to serve Me and help the neighbour is the sole driving force. And I enlighten the thinking of those who spread My word, which they have penetrated intellectually. For I recognize and bless all good will. And if a person, desiring to hear My word, is instructed by those then I will also give him correct knowledge, because I only ever value the will and desire for Me and will never allow them to be wrongly instructed if they desire the truth. But those who are in direct contact with Me and now hear Me in the word will never be able to think wrongly because My spirit flows over them and gives light and clarity. And again and again My spirit will admonish you humans to love, for wisdom also emerges from love, and to be wise means to know the pure truth and to have knowledge of all things as far as the human being is receptive to it. And every person can gain Me through love. This is why love is more important than even the most serious thinking about unsolved problems, for love solves them by itself, for it is the light which radiates wisdom and which can never be replaced by human explanations or intellectual research. I Myself am love, and if you are united with Me through love you must also have the right knowledge and then you can believe without doubt what I communicate to you as the eternal love, because I am also the eternal truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Whoever is taught by God requires no further external knowledge ....

B.D. 5150 from June 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Whoever receives the remarkable grace of being taught by Myself, whoever receives and accepts this directly imparted teaching material certainly has no further need to find knowledge elsewhere, for I will completely satisfy him with the bread of life. He no longer needs to accept other spiritual nourishment; he no longer needs to draw from a cistern when the clearest water flows to him from the spring which is indeed far cleaner and better. However, if fresh spring water is not accessible people should gratefully accept the water at their disposal and carefully protect it from pollution .... Do you understand what I mean by that? I do not, in any way, want to scorn what has been sacred to you since ancient times, the Book of the Fathers, which shall never lose its value to people who, in good faith of Me and for love of Me, try to derive knowledge from it .... since it conceals profound knowledge, but it can only be found by someone whose spirit has come alive .... But when I instruct you Myself, I give you the teaching and the explanation at the same time, because I adapt all lessons to your degree of maturity, I give to you in accordance with your understanding. First of all I inform you of My will, since it is your task on earth to comply with it .... But I also reveal Myself to you as God and Father, as Creator of all infinity and as the most loving Father to My children, who ought to achieve the childship on earth and hence require help and support. The meaning of My Words has become incomprehensible to you, and thus I want to explain their meaning in plain and simple terms to you. Consequently I Am once again sending My Gospel to earth as I had proclaimed at the time of My life on earth.

I don't merely want to be present as God in your intellect, I want to live in your hearts, I want you to believe in Me with a living faith, and I want to teach you how you can arrive at this living faith .... not by means of much intellectual knowledge, even if you have taken it from the Book of the Fathers .... but only by means of a completely unselfish life of love. Your knowledge will become far more profound and your faith more alive when you fulfil My commandments of love for God and other people .... Then you will become knowledgeable and closely united with Me too, and you will also become able to educate other people in turn and inform them about the results of the right conduct in life. And then you will be My true followers on earth, you will be preachers after My will, because then you will draw all knowledge from within yourselves, then My spirit will guide you into eternal truth and you can make use of knowledge which you do not receive from an external source but always because of My grace. Then the fountain of life will have opened up for you, then living water will flow from the source of My love for your refreshment, and you should also offer the revitalizing drink to other people, so that they, too, can taste the pure clear water and never want to be without it again. All people could refresh themselves at the source of life yet only few will find it, only the few who are not satisfied with what is inexplicable and therefore look for truth. And since they approach Me Myself for revitalizing nourishment I will not refuse it to them. Take from the source of life, accept with a thankful heart the contribution of My love and appreciate the immense grace to be taught by Myself .... For you still will need much strength which you can always extract from My Word, which comes to you from above, because I have blessed it with My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

A teacher’s duty: to examine teaching material ....

B.D. 6728 from January 4th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

It is a great responsibility to offer people spiritual information as long as it is doubtful whether it corresponds to the truth. Hence anyone, who believes that he is called to educate his fellow human beings, first has to arrive at the inner conviction that his teaching material is the pure truth. But he can only gain this inner conviction if he forms his own opinion first, if he seriously examines his acquired knowledge .... And, again, these examinations have to be conducted with My support, he must sincerely ask Me to enlighten his spirit, to guide his thoughts correctly, to protect him from misguided reasoning .... Only then will he be able to differentiate between truth and error, and only then is he a true servant to Me, a true messenger of My Word, who will now be able to work for the benefit of people on earth.

But anyone who unhesitatingly passes on spiritual knowledge which he has equally unhesitatingly accepted, is not in the right position. He is no messenger of My Word because he is not in My service but serves someone else, and his activity on earth cannot be blessed, for he acts irresponsibly towards his fellow human beings by leading them into error but asking them to believe him.

Everyone will now raise the objection that he believes to be true what he is teaching or spreading .... But it did not even occur to him that he, too, could have been given the wrong information .... And that in itself is blatant carelessness, it is a sin of omission, because he did not think about his spiritual information seriously enough .... When someone wants to work for Me then it is not unknown to him that I have an opponent .... It is not unknown to him that light and darkness oppose each other .... Thus he knows that the opponent’s work intends to darken the light, he knows, that he spreads error in order to refute the truth .... Consequently he has to guard himself from being taken in by error and to request My protection from My adversary’s activity, from accepting misconceptions .... And if he is serious, then I will draw his thoughts’ attention to misguided knowledge and he can be certain that his thinking will clarify itself. For I will leave no human being’s thoughts in error who prays to Me for truth.

But anyone who refrains from the latter and yet believes to dwell in truth, is mistaken .... Then he has to come to terms with his wrong information himself, but it is irresponsible to pass this information on, and therefore such a person burdens himself with much guilt, even though his listeners, too, have to do the same when they are instructed: to first ask Me Myself for truth and for enlightenment of thought in order to recognise it as truth ....

You humans examine every commodity for its value .... and thus you should also examine spiritual information and not accept it thoughtlessly and without hesitation. Something that does not correspond to truth will only be detrimental to you, it will never benefit your soul because it can only reach its goal through truth. Anyone who wants to be a teacher to his fellow human beings, first has to acquaint himself with what he wants to offer them, and he may and should only pass it on when he is sure of his teaching material, when he himself is convinced that it is the truth. And this conviction cannot be imparted to him academically, but he has to acquire it himself .... He has to desire the pure truth and turn to the Eternal Truth himself so that it can be bestowed on him .... Heartfelt contact with Me needs to be established in advance, but then he can confidently act as My representative, for he will only ever teach the truth when he wants to bring Me closer to his fellow human beings, and his work will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"What is given to you at this hour, speak ...."

B.D. 7022 from January 21st 1958, taken from Book No. 75

"Whatever is given to you at this time, speak, for I will put the words in your mouth ...." And thus you can confidently hold debates as soon as they concern Me and My kingdom, for then I Myself will be with you and I Myself will speak through the mouth of the one who seeks to glorify My name, who is a true representative for Me on earth due to his will to serve Me and his desire for truth, which also always lets Me be present as the eternal truth. You will still often be confronted by objections but you will not lack the right realization either, and you will not be misled because you have received the truth from Me Myself and will receive it again and again as long as you are inspired by the will to be true warriors of Christ. And anyone whose spirit is enlightened will also always recognize error and fight against it. He will also always contact Me if questions of doubt need to be clarified, and My cooperation will always be assured to him. That is why you need not fear any debate, no matter how eloquent or rational your partners are. Only those I Myself introduce to spiritual knowledge possess it, but even the purest truth can experience a change through human will, which is often the cause of disputes in the spiritual sphere. Yet again and again I will try to purify what has often been contaminated, again and again I will have an enlightening effect through those people who allow My spirit to express itself in them. And precisely in the last days before the end humanity's spirit is predominantly confused, it is not filled with the desire for truth and therefore My adversary easily has the opportunity to misguide their thoughts. But this is why the supply of pure truth is more necessary than ever, because only truth is light, which is indispensable for humanity if they want to reach the right aim. Every erroneous thought darkens the path and also lets people go astray .... But again and again I place light bearers by the wayside where every wanderer can kindle his light who does not want to walk along in darkness .... But again and again people will also try to dim or completely extinguish the light of these light bearers, yet they will not succeed because the light which is emanated from Me spreads brightness and illuminates people in the far vicinity who come close to it. And thus also everything of a counter-divine nature can be recognized and will be repelled before it can spread. Therefore a light bearer need not fear anyone who approaches him, because he can see through everyone, for I, as the light from eternity, shine there and I truly uncover everything .... And if you, who are such bearers of light, speak then I Myself speak through you, and My word is truly clear and understandable for anyone who desires clarification, My word will also be able to refute every objection, and My word will give full assurance to the person who is of sincere will. But as long as there are people, different opinions will also clash .... But how would you, as human being to human being, assert yourselves in the conviction that you represent what is right? Every person can err, and he will also err as soon as he does not consult Me Myself, as soon as he does not ask for enlightenment through My spirit .... But if I Myself can work through the spirit in the human being, then his thinking will also be clarified, and then he will be able to express his opinion with certainty, for it has been whispered to him from Me, and thus he only speaks what I Myself instruct him to speak .... And you have therefore received a glorious promise that you should not worry about what you say .... but you must never rely on your intellect alone. You must call upon Me as the giver of truth and ask Me to remain with you Myself as soon as you intend to conduct spiritual debates .... If you want to fight for the truth I Myself will lead you into battle, for the truth shall be helped to victory because it alone will lead you to beatitude, because without truth you will not find the path to Me, Who am the truth Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Teaching activity in times of adversity – Last days ....

B.D. 3731 from March 31th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

A concerted effort must be made by all those whom I have appointed to preach My Word in times of greatest earthly adversity. People will be needed in all places to proclaim Me and educate their fellow human beings, because great adversity will be everywhere, people far and wide will be disheartened and no longer able to understand anything if they lack all knowledge about My reign and activity, about the purpose and reason of what is imposed upon them, for as long as their goal is unknown to them they will not know the means of attaining this goal either. For this reason I will dispatch My servants to places where their efficiency is needed, where I know there are receptive hearts which are willing to listen to My Word. Each one will be able to be effective within his circle, the size of which will vary depending on the teaching ability of My servant on earth, who will then fully consciously take up his office of working for Me and My kingdom. Consequently, no-one should be hasty but, instead, wait patiently until he receives his call, until I Myself instruct him perceptively through his heart .... because everything will first have to take its course according to My will .... My Own certainly need strength of faith in view of the adversity which will be apparent everywhere, which will seem unbearable for many people and which I will nevertheless allow to happen in order to gain their hearts. My Own are aware of the purpose of the adversity and shall convey this knowledge to their fellow human beings, and thus I also allow the adversity to give My Own the opportunity to influence their fellow human beings through the strength of their faith, which makes everything easier to endure and to overcome. I will support My Own as soon as they call upon Me and therefore their adversity will always be bearable, for time and again there will be a way out where no human help seems possible. But they shall be of service to Me during this time, they shall speak on My behalf and mention My love, wisdom and omnipotence, they shall profess Me before the world and advise their fellow human beings to adopt the right attitude towards Me, which alone will ensure them protection and help .... They shall teach and proclaim My Word wherever possible but especially during the time of great adversity, which will precede My intervention on earth and will continue afterwards. Wherever you see great adversity you will know that your action is needed and your concerted activity will not remain unsuccessful if you are strong in faith yourselves and always and forever carry Me in your hearts. Then the hardship will not frighten you, even though your eyes and ears will witness it daily .... For you will know why I allow it to happen, you will recognise its necessity and the blessing every person can derive from it. And therefore every one of you are needed for spreading My teaching, and every one of you will be able to work according to his ability but always assured of My blessing, because I need robust labourers for My vineyard at the time which will pave the way to the final end.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's involvement in the work for His kingdom .... self-will - God's will ....

B.D. 4586 from March 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Your thoughts and actions are guided by My will as soon as you carry out spiritual activity and thus consciously want to serve Me. Hence you will not undertake anything contrary to My will, and therefore the inner connection with Me through prayer or heartfelt thoughts is enough for Me to grasp you and guide your thinking correctly, and then you need not fear to act wrongly. Anyone who wants to work in My vineyard and is willing to listen to Me first will now also be assigned the work by Me, and that is through the voice of the heart. Therefore, as you are urged from within, so is My will, accordingly you should now also act. If the inner voice holds you back then you should follow it as well, yet don't fail to carry out what I prompt you to do. Speak when you are urged to do so, for I am always at work and you never speak out of yourselves when spiritual matters are up for discussion. For this is My working, that I lead you into opportunities where I can speak through you. Every opportunity shall be used, because every door shall be opened and because you must contribute to it by lending Me your human form, which I now use in order to speak to people, in order to influence the spiritual state, which can only be raised through the mediation of truth .... Thus you must spread the truth, you must mention My working and, with firm faith in Me and My presence, fearlessly and without inhibition preach My word to those who are still of dark spirit. You will not take a step without Me .... you can be sure that nothing is by chance and every path is marked out for you ....

Everything you think and do is My concern, for you don't know how unspeakably important your mission is, how I want to approach humanity through you and how necessary I need you for this office of a mediator in order to preserve people's freedom of will and faith and yet to bring them help because they don't want to help themselves. I approach all who lack the right realization and who still have a steerable will, who are not yet hardened of heart and therefore can sense who speaks to them through you if they want to feel it. And you often have to take strange paths which you, as it were, choose yourselves and yet only obey the voice of My spirit which urges you onto this path. There is no coincidence for you, for your destiny has been determined since eternity, and anyone who serves Me is especially prescribed by Me every path he has to take. And therefore you should not worry about what and how you should act. Carry out what is in your will, what appeals to you, and then you will always do what is right as soon as you have given your will to Me beforehand, as soon as you entrust Me with the task I give you through your heart. Then you will act sensitively and it will correspond to My will. But you should not start anything without Me, you should always listen to My instruction, i.e. pay attention to what seems emotionally right to you and also do it, you will act in accordance with My will and be active for Me and My kingdom for the benefit of your fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Labourers for God's kingdom .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6736 from January 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

Working for the kingdom of God is the most glorious task a human being can accomplish on earth, which will gain him maturity of soul and is also of greatest benefit for untold beings, for only the spreading of God's Word can enlighten the souls and lead them to Me, to their Creator and Father of eternity. And therefore I will bless everyone who offers his service to Me, and I will grant each person the strength to administer his position on earth correctly .... Once he makes an effort to make Me and My Word accessible to people in the realisation that this is necessary for their soul's salvation, he will be a true labourer in My vineyard. But this willingness to help humanity must predominate in him, he must not be impelled by selfish motives to accomplish work which then .... instead of being spiritual work .... would merely be a worldly task, even if it seemingly aims for spiritual gain. And I can truly judge who serves Me or purely his own ego .... And by this alone I judge the work of people who hold a spiritual position, and only by this. This should make you humans pause for thought, for then you will also understand that you can derive a blessing from all schools of thought if the willingness to serve Me motivates a preacher to make My Word known to his fellow human beings. In that case he will always receive My support as well and I will guide his thinking correctly so that he will speak to people on My behalf. But then he will always only speak in accordance with the truth, because I Myself will address people through him and I can only ever offer them truth. Humanity suffers immense spiritual hardship which can only be remedied by offering them My Word, for My Word is the light and strength which is lacking in people. My Word teaches love, and light and strength only flow to people through loving activity .... Thus people first need to be instructed through My Gospel that they must live in love in order to mature in their souls. And every person is blessed by Me who proclaims this divine teaching of love to people and, at the same time, refers them to the One Who, out of love for humanity, suffered and died on the cross .... to Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, in Whom I embodied Myself on earth .... All people need to know about this greatest act of love and mercy and about Jesus, the man, in Whose shell I Myself accomplished this act. And My instruction for all who go into the world as My true disciples is to convey the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His divine teaching of love to their fellow human beings .... And everyone who willingly fulfils this instruction out of love for Me and his neighbour is a true servant for Me, he is a labourer in My vineyard whose work will always be blessed .... And if he opens his heart and ears to Me, he will also always hear My directives within himself, be is through the audible Word or through his feelings which impel him to speak and act according to My will .... Each person who has totally handed himself over to Me, who seeks to comply with My will, who has recognised Me as the only desirable goal to strive for, is a faithful servant to Me .... For this servant will also establish an essential bond with Me in order to serve Me as a suitable tool, so as to make Me and My kingdom accessible to people .... And his deeds will always be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Followers of Jesus .... spreading His teaching .... working of the spirit ....

B.D. 4785 from November 21st 1949, taken from Book No. 54

In My name you should be active .... What I have done on earth you should also do, always leading Me and My activity, My teaching of love, so that you identify yourselves as My successors or also fulfil the lord's command as servants. Then you will work in My name for the kingdom of God, you will continue the work of redemption which I have started by giving your fellow human beings the means and ways to redeem themselves. This is a beautiful service you render Me if you, like Me, preach love to your fellow human beings, if you impart My teaching to them, which is given to you purely and unadulterated for this purpose. I Myself train you for this, I give you what you should pass on to your fellow human beings .... I instruct you so that you may spread the gospel throughout the world. I ask nothing of you but that you do what I have done .... live in love and thereby kindle the light of wisdom in yourselves; then you will be able to let this light shine and illuminate the darkness which is spread across the earth. Warn and admonish your fellow human beings and announce the near end to them, just as I have also announced the judgment to people. Then you will be My right servants, My supports in the end time, then you will be faithful workers in the vineyard of the lord. The time of your work will only be short, which will only begin in its full extent when I have revealed Myself to people through the elements of nature. But even before that you should be diligently active and do the preparatory work which will condition your work later. You should familiarize yourselves with My word such that you become living representatives of it, you should let yourselves be taught by Me and be My eager pupils. You should make an effort to follow Me in your way of life, you should serve Me with your heart and mouth, that is, let Me speak through you so that My will will be made known to people. You should receive the pure truth and also represent it, i.e. take action against error which is corrupting for people and prevents them from becoming blessed. And everything you are to do you learn through My word .... Therefore be grateful that you may receive My word, that I speak to you directly or through messengers, that I accept you as co-workers and instruct you on the work you should do for Me and My kingdom. Love shall drive you to activity, yet I will help you as I have promised you, and your reward one day will truly be no less ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers