The Power Of The Loving Intercession

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

4638 - Prayer bridge to God.... thoughts bridge to the spiritual realm....

What is intercession?

4328 - Community of 'Saints'.... Intercession pointless....

8470 - Clarification about intercession....

8611 - Intercession for souls in the beyond.... I.

8616 - Intercession for souls in the beyond.... II.

Prayers for others

2868 - ?resNotTranslated?

3582 - Intercession by fellow human beings....

4743 - Intercession for spiritual welfare....

6577 - Loving intercession for worldly-minded people....

6582 - Intercession for fellow human beings....

7132 - Merciful intercession....

8441 - Power of loving intercession for unbelievers....

Prayers for the souls in the beyond

2381 - Needy souls beg for prayers....

5161 - Strength of intercession....

5313 - Change of will through intercession....

5513 - Wrestling in the spiritual world.... intercession and recitation of the gospel....

5591 - Distress of souls in the deep.... intercessions....

6218 - Redemption work for souls.... intercession....

7345 - Value of intercession for the otherworldly....

7387 - Intercession for souls in the deep....

7438 - Intercession for souls beyond....

9014 - Appeals for a gift of strength for the souls of the deceased....

6266 - No intercession in vain for souls beyond....

6459 - Intercession for Lucifer....

The prayers being heard

2174 - ?resNotTranslated?

2867 - ?resNotTranslated?

5737 - Help for the lost on earth and in the hereafter.... intercession....

8101 - Blessing of loving intercession....

Prayer bridge to God .... thoughts bridge to the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 4638 from May 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The bridge to Me is prayer, the bridge to the spiritual kingdom is the thoughts which grant the beings of light the right to connect with you. Enter this bridge often, come to Me and hold intimate dialogue with Me, entrust all your needs and worries to Me, and thus make Me your confidant, your friend and brother Who wants to share everything, joy and sorrow, with you, and you will soon reduce the gulf between yourselves and Me because you always know a path which leads to Me, because you have found the bridge which removes every separation between Me and you. And likewise seek to reach the spiritual kingdom by letting your thoughts wander to where your true home is, where your soul shall once dwell when it relinquishes its earthly shell and no longer lives on earth. Try to find a connection in the spiritual kingdom while you are still on earth, so that the entrance is not blocked for you, for the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom clear the way for you, they help you to find it, so that you don't go astray or lose your way in the darkness .... The inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom constantly surround you but they can only make themselves known to you if you call them in thought or give them the permission to take care of you through your will. Every spiritual thought is a call for them, an authorization to transfer their power to you and thus to help you on the way up. You now establish the connection with the kingdom, which is a completely different sphere and which you cannot reach otherwise. Thus there is a bridge from you to that kingdom which cannot be seen and reached on earth but which nevertheless exists and wants to exert its influence on you. Pray to Me and send your thoughts upwards, and your soul will leave earth and approach its home, it will strive to return to its origin, it will certainly still leave the earthly cover on earth, it will leave matter behind and rise into spiritual spheres from which it will never return empty, for it will always be considered by beings of light, it will always receive grace and strength from Me Who will meet everyone who enters the bridge to Me. I truly have no greater joy than the return of My children who were once lost to Me and who now come to Me voluntarily in order to be and remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What is intercession?

Community of 'Saints' .... Intercession pointless ....

B.D. 4328 from June 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You humans need considerable support from the spiritual world if you want to survive the last battle on earth, and this help is at your full disposal in every way by just asking for it. For this reason it should be explained to you what kind of help will be given to you and how you can request it. There exists, as you humans call it, the community of Saints, which helps you; but it is necessary to explain the term ‘Saints’ to you if you are to be truthfully taught and free from wrong notions. The beings of light are people’s most faithful guides and helpers who are always ready as soon as they are called. But their assignment to people is determined by God in His wisdom, just as He, corresponding to their degree of perfection, also permeates the spiritual beings with light and strength. People, however, are unable to assess another person’s degree of maturity and therefore have neither the right nor the ability to elevate him to sainthood, because only God knows the quality of his soul when he, having been liberated by physical death, enters the spiritual kingdom. Only God knows the relationship the person has had with Him on earth and to what extent he acted with love.

Loving activity is the decisive factor and could have given him light and strength in abundance while still on earth, enabling him to do extraordinary things on earth if he wanted to. But in the beyond God reserves the right to guide mature souls to the sphere of activity which corresponds to their degree of maturity. He allocates to them the activity in the spiritual kingdom, just as He determines what kind of help should be given to people on earth. The beings of light have abundant strength, they can achieve anything because they work with God and in accordance with His will since they are constantly permeated by His strength. But the being of light moves entirely within God’s will too, i.e. it cannot want anything but God’s will since it has already established the union with God and is therefore totally absorbed in His will. However, since it possesses great wisdom it also recognises the inexpediency of many people’s petitions and therefore also has to refuse when a fulfilment would be detrimental for the soul.

Helping people is a state of happiness for the beings of light, for this reason God allows people to request help from them. But it is not right to call upon specific Saints, because their activity and task could be entirely different and people, in their ignorance, might appeal to a being which is still far from perfect and then, due to their petition, become subject to and get unfavourably influenced by it. Because those who are called will appear, they immediately seek to get close to the caller and try to impose their thoughts on him, which might not correspond to the truth. Besides, the canonisation by people is mainly dependent on a way of life conforming to a church community, i.e. where piety is a prerequisite, although never demanded by God it is insisted upon by that church, and in accordance with the latter the canonisation takes place, which can never be the will of God. Consequently, not everyone canonised may be a being of light, whereas there are many beings of light in the spiritual kingdom whose way of life in fact corresponded to God’s will but did not conform to the rules of an ecclesiastical community. All beings of light possess God’s strength which they want to use, thus people were entrusted into their care whom they should and can help to reach perfection, providing human will is not opposed to it. Appealing to the beings of light will never be in vain, whereas calling upon specific beings may be good but could also be harmful even though help is expected from them. However, the idea to gain intercession by the beings of light is misguided ....

Prayer is an appeal to God. It establishes the relationship between the human being and God, which is requested by God Himself because the appeal demonstrates that the person’s will is directed towards Him. Thus in people’s opinion, the beings of light, which are already in closest union with Him, are supposed to establish this relationship with God. This would relieve the person from establishing the relationship himself which, however, is purpose and goal of his earthly life, because only the contact with God provides the influx of strength without which the soul is unable to mature fully. But the being of light cannot convey strength to the person, because even in the spiritual kingdom are laws which have to be observed by its inhabitants in the knowledge that they were given by God’s love and wisdom. The beings are willing to help in every instance and in accordance with God’s will, consequently the human being has to please God’s will first in order to be considered by Him directly or through the beings of light, which truly will never leave anyone without help if God’s will approves. Hence the appeal for help to the beings of light will never be in vain, but an appeal for intercession is futile. Because the child itself should trustingly approach the Father so that the Father’s love can give Itself to the child, and because this intimate relationship will never be established if the human being believes that he can also reach the goal through intercession. God is a God of love. He does not want people frightened to come to Him, He wants to be the Father of His children and not a strict judge and ruler. People try to please the latter through intercession but approach the former trustingly, and God asks for this trust from His living creations, because His infinite love belongs to them and He will also fulfil their every prayer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Clarification about intercession ....

B.D. 8470 from April 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The real purpose of your earthly existence has been presented to you so often already .... that it is just a matter of your relationship with Me, which you once voluntarily severed because you did not want to acknowledge Me .... For you could not see Me, and therefore you accepted the one whom you could see as your lord and creator: My first created spirit of light, Lucifer .... During your present existence you need only pursue one goal: to restore the relationship with Me and thereby acknowledge Me as your God and Creator again, from Whose love you once came forth .... No other being can establish this relationship for you, it can only be done by you and requires your will, which is and will remain free, even if you delay your decision for the time being. You cannot avoid taking it if one day you are to reach the goal of becoming blessed, as you were in the beginning .... And this final union can only be brought about by love, thus you have to be willing to live with love, nevertheless, you will never be forced to do so .... But due to the original sin your will is very weak and therefore needs strengthening .... And this strengthening of will is the great blessing which the human being Jesus has acquired for you through His act of Salvation .... Consequently, if you are able to give yourselves to Him and ask Him to strengthen your will, you shall certainly arrive at your objective .... However, your will can never be decisively influenced by the kingdom of light, only your fellow human beings are able to render kind-hearted intercession for you, if you yourselves are too weak to walk the path to the cross .... Then the love of a fellow human being can pray for you, and I will truly listen to such a prayer by giving strength to the person for whom it was requested by love. For love is strength, and if you consciously give it to a spiritually troubled human being it will affect him as strength, unless he then takes the path to the cross himself or acts with love himself and becomes enlightened .... Loving intercession for other people is at all times an aid to save erring souls, which should not be underestimated ....

But it is a completely misguided idea to ask beings of light for intercession .... Consider that these beings are utterly permeated by love which is, in fact, intended for all wretched beings .... Consider that no being would be exempt from their willingness to help and that no unredeemed being could exist if the beings of light were not constrained by divine laws which they cannot infringe against. These beings, however, know about a person's last goal on earth .... they know, that the acknowledgment of their God and Creator can only take place in free will, and that this acknowledgment is the passed test of will, which is the purpose of a person's life on earth .... They know that the bond with Me has to be re-established, which every being has to strive for and accomplish for himself in all freedom and without any coercion .... Yet the light beings' love is so profound that it would truly suffice to instantly transform every being, precisely because it is strength that never fails to have its desired effect .... Thus this love has to be limited by Me, i.e., even the beings of light have to be subject to laws which they, however, respect because they are completely merged with My will, and therefore also know what helps the human being to achieve the last goal, the union with Me .... However, the beings of light can use mental influence and motivate other people to intercede, and this certainly will not fail to have an effect. I want people to take the direct path to Me and not try to reach the goal in a round-about way which is unreachable that way .... and you would understand that if you knew about the highly developed degree of love of all beings of light .... If you approach these beings for intercession .... what are they to request of Me on your behalf? .... That I should act in opposition to My law of order and release people from the conditions which facilitate a return to Me, a change of their nature? Anyone who genuinely appeals to the beings of light for help will also be led into the right way of thinking by them, and then he will do whatever corresponds to My will, since the beings of light are inspired by the same will as Mine and therefore merely try to influence you accordingly. But then you will also reach your goal on earth with certainty, for they only ever endeavour to guide you to Me, to remind you of Jesus' act of Salvation .... They will show you the path you are supposed to walk, but they cannot walk it for you ....

And now consider that a prayer to Me already signifies the bond with Me, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life .... that you, .... if you pray to the beings of light for intercession .... thus bypass a direct relationship with Me .... And what outcome do you expect from the 'intercession' these beings should request of Me? Time and again I tell you that you can certainly ask the beings of light for help if you have already proven your will to Me .... and they will help you, because they are only the administrators of My will and therein experience their beatification .... But they will never be able to establish your bond with Me on your behalf through intercession, because they are always connected with Me and will want you to also establish this bond with Me voluntarily, since this is your true purpose of earthly life .... As long as you still appeal to the beings of light for 'intercession' your thoughts are not yet guided by these beings of light, but My adversary attempts to influence you such that you will only lengthen the path to Me, because he wants to prevent your final return to Me .... Intercession can only be made by people for each other or for still immature souls in the kingdom of the beyond. Then the requesting person's degree of love affects the person prayed for as strength, and because then I will, for the sake of unselfish love, give strength to those who need it and who are lovingly remembered by others .... But the concept of 'intercession' does not apply to the kingdom of light. The thoughts of people who rely on intercession are misguided and only prolong their return to Me, which is My adversary's sole intention through this misguided teaching ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intercession for souls in the beyond .... I.

B.D. 8611 from September 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

I repeatedly emphasise that people still live in too much darkness and that therefore a light shall be kindled for them. But much is described as light which is more likely to intensify the darkness. For deceptive lights emerge from My adversary and are transmitted to people by spiritual powers who have no authority to teach but who express themselves where contacts to the spiritual world are established which can be intervened by immature spirits, because the conditions that guarantee the transmission of pure truth do not yet exist .... My adversary will always aim not to lose his followers, and therefore he will try to prevent people from loving activity of any kind. First and foremost he will try to stop the souls from leaving the abyss, from coming out of the darkness into the light of day. Thus he will do whatever it takes in order to prevent the souls being released from the abyss, if they entered the kingdom of the beyond still not having found faith in Jesus Christ. Such souls can only be helped through loving intercession because this means certain rescue from the fall into the abyss, from the worst darkness .... But this is what he wants to prevent people from doing, since loving intercession is the only means to strengthen the will of these unfortunate souls, so that they become receptive to the teachings given to them in the kingdom of the beyond by spiritual guides ....

All unredeemed souls lack the strength to improve their situation. They depend on loving intercession by people which in turn gives them strength without any kind of obligation .... No being will be able to resist love forever, and that is what the adversary wants to prevent ....

If a human being willingly accepts being taught by the spirit within himself, he will always receive truthful clarification .... But if the working of the spirit in the human being is questionable, if he does not receive knowledge from Me directly but from beings in the spiritual kingdom which he cannot control himself, he should be cautious and seriously scrutinise whether the imparted teachings correspond to truth .... For then he can easily become Satan's helper if he spreads spiritual knowledge which contradicts the truth. It is easily verified if a person uses love as a guideline ....

Does it corresponds to My love and wisdom to deny help to an unhappy being? Would I allow a being, which is longing for redemption and light, to remain imprisoned by Satan's claws?

Only the being's will decides whether it accepts help, but help will never be denied, Satan will never be granted this power, for I will never condemn but only ever try to rescue the souls from the abyss. And this salvation .... if the soul itself is too weak .... can only take place by means of strength of love which is imparted to poor souls by people or by the beings of light .... And loving intercession by someone on earth has the effect of strength which benefits the soul and fortifies its will .... but the will of the soul will be complied with. The fact that My act of Salvation is continued in the kingdom of the beyond has its foundation in My immense love for all My living creations .... Time and again I will help the fallen beings to ascend, although I respect their free will.

A person's love on earth for such unredeemed, unhappy souls is a flow of strength which touches the souls and can stimulate their will to accept the instructions which they are also able to receive in the spiritual kingdom, providing them at first with a faint light which will increase in proportion to their willingness to accept instructions. My love has no end, it also applies to these souls, and I will never allow the adversary to stop them when they look for the path to the light .... So I continually entrust these souls to people so that they may remember them in silent intercession and truly, no soul will be lost who is remembered in loving intercession.

Preaching to people the futility of intercession for souls in the beyond is a truly satanic doctrine. This teaching cannot have originated from Me since it is completely contrary to My plan of Salvation, which includes the kingdom of the beyond, and everyone on earth can participate simply through loving intercession ....

Time and again I say to you that you could redeem all inhabitants of hell by virtue of intercession .... For My adversary is powerless in the face of love, love will seize from his hands every soul he would like to keep captive .... Compared to love he has no strength, and thus he wants to stop people from acting with love by lying to you humans about the effectiveness of your loving intercession. And he finds willing people who accept such error and eagerly endorse it as truth .... And if these people considered that their doctrines totally contradict My love and wisdom, they would soon realise their error themselves, for I will always try to redeem and never condemn the souls. And every human being who is willing to love will support Me in this act of Salvation so that I, for the sake of their love, can bestow strength and yet do not act in opposition to the law of eternal order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intercession for souls in the beyond .... II.

B.D. 8616 from September 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Reply to the doctrine that only 'qualified' praying men are entitled to pray for souls ....

I will only ever explain the Gospel of love to you, because you will achieve your task in earthly life when you accept this Gospel, when you fulfil the commandments of love for God and your fellow human beings. Hence you need only ever ask yourselves whether your thoughts, words and conduct correspond to My commandments of love. But only the love which is kindled deep within your heart will be required, for I cannot be satisfied with mere words and gestures .... And thus all labours of love have to be done unselfishly, since the expectation of reward diminishes love, and then the deeds will merely be valued by worldly standards. The innermost feeling of wanting to help and to bring happiness will always be decisive. When I ask you to live a life of love I mean selfless, giving love, as only this will result in your maturity. But this pure, divine, selfless love unites you with Me, and whatever you ask of Me in this love for your neighbour will be given to him, be it an easing of earthly hardship or the conveyance of spiritual values .... Your love for your neighbour will always accomplish it. Prayers without love, which are spoken by the mouth but do not arise from the bottom of your heart .... might just as well not have been spoken, for they do not reach My ear and therefore cannot be answered either.

But since the actual purpose of earthly life is to do works of love, I will not stop preaching love either. I will only ever assign the labourers in My vineyard to spread the Gospel of love, to appeal to every human heart and stimulate it into selfless activities of love .... That I will never prevent a person from doing a kind deed .... goes without saying. It only matters that he is lively and prompted by love, because I ignore formalities since they are worthless for a person's soul. Thus I Myself shall assess the human being's will, and only I know whether or not his heart is involved in everything he thinks, says or does.

You humans should only ever preach love, but you may never prevent people from doing kind deeds .... which also include the prayer for the deceased .... For do you know the degree of maturity of those who pray? .... And do you not cause doubts in people you caution about such prayers? Do you believe that they can judge for themselves whether their prayers are heard by Me? .... Do you also want to stop those from praying who are worried about their deceased and would like to help them or they would not be praying in the first place? .... You will cast doubts into their hearts, because a humble person is not convinced of his maturity, and only that should qualify him to pray for those souls .... . And who can claim to have such a profound basis of faith that only his prayers are valuable?

Judging a prayer's value should be left to Me alone, because I even value every soul's will to help, and truly, I will shield every praying person from My adversary's power. Only empty lip-prayers are worthless, but such praying men are still subject to My adversary's power or their faith would be alive and their prayer would come from their hearts. Thus you should not warn against prayers for the deceased, because it is not true that a praying person becomes subject to My adversary due to his prayer. A prayer cannot simply be answered by Me if it is merely voiced by the mouth. And such prayers will truly not save the souls from the adversary .... These praying people need not fear his revenge because they do not take any souls from him.

Let Me tell you that I only want to correct your thinking which became misguided, because you did not get such teaching material from Me, as it contradicts the truth which I send to earth for a light to shine in the darkness which was spread across humanity by My opponent. Wherever a spark of love is kindled the human being draws nearer to Me, and only such a spark of love will prompt a human being to pray for souls in the beyond .... . And a person like that is not without faith or he would deny all continuation of life after death and never forward a prayer for the souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayers for others

2868 - ?resNotTranslated?

Intercession by fellow human beings ....

B.D. 3582 from October 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

How unwise it is to bypass the direct connection with God and to want to make use of a fellow human being whose prayer is supposed to benefit him. God only respects prayer which is sent up to Him in deepest love for the neighbour, and the power of love is then used for the benefit of the needy. But every other prayer is useless. In His merciful love God sends suffering and adversity upon the human being in order to motivate him to entrust himself to Him without limits, in order to motivate him to establish the right relationship between a child and its father, because only then can the strength of divine love touch the human being's heart and through this influx of strength help his soul to develop spiritually. If this intimate connection is disregarded, then the influx of strength is only slight and also only guaranteed if the intercession for the fellow human being comes from a loving heart .... otherwise the human being will remain entirely without strength and his soul will have to starve. A person can never achieve the transformation of his fellow human being's nature but he has to be active himself, he has to turn his will towards God himself and make contact with Him in order to receive strength. Loving intercession is only useful for him insofar as strength is supplied to him which lifts his weakened will .... that he thus receives the strength through intercession to turn himself towards God. This supply of strength is the effect of the fellow human being's love; but without love every prayer is useless, for only profound love will cause a prayer to be sent to God in spirit and in truth, and then it will also be successful. God requires the connection with Him, which every human being can establish if he wants to. Anyone who relies on the prayer of a fellow human being is not yet doing God's will, and thus that prayer will also remain ineffective. The human being can achieve far more with a heartfelt sigh than a long prayer which lacks this heartfeltness, just as the heartfelt thought of God gives him more strength than a prayer of intercession by a fellow human being. But God evaluates the degree of love of the one who prays for his fellow human being, because love always gives strength and thus a loving intercession does not remain ineffective. And that is why again and again great suffering and bitter hardship befalls the individual person, because he should not forget Him Who alone can help him, because he should establish the right relationship which alone secures him the supply of strength from God, and because he has to become active himself in order to achieve success for his soul. And people should not forget that their fellow human beings can never take the responsibility away from them, that everyone has to take responsibility for himself and therefore also has to become active himself .... and that they can only carry out this activity with God's help, Whom they have to call upon in heartfelt prayer for strength and loving care so that they will reach their aim, so that their souls will mature on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intercession for spiritual welfare ....

B.D. 4743 from September 19th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

I want to help all of you to beatitude but only if your will is likewise willing, otherwise I will not gain free spiritual beings but only directed beings which I could not call My children. And thus your will must strive for perfection .... And therefore you humans can certainly pray for each other, yet the individual person must be willing to take the path to perfection himself. Strength can only be given to him through intercession which, however, can also be rejected by him if he resists the supply of strength, i.e. if he does not pay attention to the inner impulse towards good or the voice of conscience because he does not want to, thus he resists, so to speak, the influence of the spiritual world of light which takes care of him through a person's intercession. Through intercession the human being has a certain advantage in that his thoughts are directed towards his aim in life, towards spiritual development. He is mentally influenced by beings of light. But it is up to his own will how he will act, for this is free and not subject to compulsion, which is why a loving person's intercession for his fellow human being's spiritual well-being can help him but does not necessarily have to help him, since it depends on his will. Nevertheless, love is strength, it has a revitalizing effect and can also awaken a dead soul to life .... The will can be changed through loving intercession and thus rescue a person from spiritual adversity. Yet love must always be the reason for intercession, then it will not be unsuccessful, for resistance against the strength of love is not persistent, because love is always the victor which even the strongest will cannot withstand, because love is divine strength and enforces everything it wants ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Loving intercession for worldly-minded people ....

B.D. 6577 from June 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Very often My word dies away unheard because it only touches people's hearts softly, because it does not sound loudly and audibly like everything that emanates from the world and is mostly not missed by people. But whoever opens himself will also hear it .... But opening is the human being's free will, and therefore everyone has to answer for himself whether My word has found its way into his heart, for it will sound to every person time and again if he does not hear it, because My love and mercy will not rest in order to save a lost soul as long as it dwells on earth. And hardship and illness will often support My efforts, but I will never forcibly influence a person, for this would be wrong. But the most effective means is loving intercession for those people who are still too strongly attached to the world and therefore cannot hear the subtle sound of My address within themselves, for I will always address them mentally but I will not prevent it if even such thoughts are unwillingly rejected because they are opposing their own desires. The human being himself is responsible for his attitude, but he will always feel loving intercession as a temporary receptiveness for spiritual matters, which can also lead to a change of will one day, so that then the ear of the heart will open itself when My word sounds. The world has great power and can also completely gain control over a person, but loving intercession is just as strong a power and often wrests souls from the world which had already fallen prey to it, because My power is always at work where there is love .... And a soul which was strongly attached to the world can suddenly recognise its worthlessness, its staleness, and desire something which satisfies it more when a person lovingly takes care of it and assists it through intercession, which results in the supply of strength for those souls. And truly I say to you: Your love achieves more than My adversary with all his power, for he is no match for this weapon, and where love wrestles he releases the soul, because there I Myself wrest the souls from him and he cannot resist Me. If more love were found amongst you humans, the spiritual hardship would also be less, for you would be able to help all those to come to life whom you would include in your loving prayer .... For no loving thought is ineffective, even though I respect the free will of a still unruly person .... But he, too, will change under your intercession if love prompts you to it. It must be an extremely comforting thought for you to know that no person is lost for whom you do what you can in loving care .... Your love still draws back from the depths those who have already sunk, your love can break the hardest resistance, it can soften a hardened heart, it can become a saviour for a soul because love achieves everything. And thus you humans can constantly help Me to bring the lost back to Me where My love must remain silent for the freedom of will and because the law of My eternal order cannot be circumvented, otherwise I truly would save everything fallen from its distress. And this distress is particularly great because only few people give their love to those who are in danger of getting lost. This is why I address all people through My word, and I admonish them to love so that they include all in their loving thoughts and loving prayers who need such a help in order to also open their hearts themselves when My word sounds to them. The world is a great danger but it can be averted through the power of love .... You all should take this to heart and know that you yourselves can also contribute a great deal towards snatching the victims from the world, i.e. from My adversary, because you yourselves use the weapons to which he succumbs .... if you lovingly take care of those who are enslaved by the world. You can save them, and so that love will flare up in you, remember the unspeakable distress in which such a person's soul finds itself .... which is so weak that it can no longer offer any resistance and therefore needs a supply of strength beforehand in order to free itself from merciless sway .... Help it and give it strength through loving intercession and it will thank you eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Intercession for fellow human beings ....

B.D. 6582 from June 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

To live in darkness of spirit in this world is the fate of all those who are still bound by God's adversary, who have not yet found salvation through Jesus Christ .... who therefore travel their earthly path in ignorance and weakness, spiritually blind and without the strength to detach themselves from this very adversary. The souls of these people are surrounded by very dense layers, and no ray of light can penetrate and enlighten the soul. It has occupied its body of flesh with the determination to reach full maturity therein, yet from the beginning of its incarnation it always relented to its physical body, which became a welcome tool for the adversary to prevent the soul from maturing .... The soul, the spiritual being within the human being, is thus living a pitiful life in its body, for regardless of what this body undertakes it keeps increasing the density of the soul's layer and makes it impossible for the soul to step into the light unless it is granted help. And if the human being purely lives for his body and thus no change can be expected from his side, help has to come from outside .... the soul has to be freed from the control which had seized the body .... And people already having found redemption shall participate in this work of liberation .... which can only ever take place by commending the said soul to Jesus Christ, Who alone is able to deliver it from its adversity, Who is able to release it from His adversary's domination.

Introducing the human being to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ is the quickest way of deliverance for such souls, by informing him of Jesus' teaching of love the human being can change himself and take the path to Him, which will be truly successful for the soul since Jesus Christ will then take care of it Himself .... If, however, the person is fully under Satan's control, he will not want to accept any teaching about the Salvation through Jesus Christ, he will be hostile towards the divine teaching of love since the adversary has knowingly cultivated his selfish love, and thus he will not help his soul in the slightest by trying to dissolve the layers, because this can only happen through deeds of love from which he is prevented by his selfish love. And then his fellow human being will have to take pity on such a soul and support it by providing it with the love which it is denied by its own body .... It can only be delivered through love, and every kind thought will make it feel good, it experiences it like a spark of light, like a flow of strength, and occasionally it also succeeds to influence its physical cover in a positive sense .... Every soul can be saved if it is lovingly supported ....

This should make all you humans think, for you all can play a redeeming part if only your hearts are able and willing to love. Admittedly, your love will be unable to accept the guilt of such souls and make

Amends for it, yet it can impart the strength to change their will and take the path to Jesus Christ, to the cross, where they will find salvation.

The soul is the thinking, feeling and wanting part in the human being .... If the soul is thus provided with strength through selfless love, then it will also influence the human being from within to think and want what is right, then the spark of love will penetrate the darkness within, it will realise the wrong direction of its will and begin to judge itself .... The human being will start to reflect on his life, and the more love he receives from his fellow human beings the more assured will be his change, for love is strength which will never remain ineffective. This is why loving intercession will never be futile, and no human being can ever go astray if loving thoughts will follow him, if he is included in prayer and entrusted to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... What no amount of discussions can humanly achieve can nevertheless be achieved through heartfelt prayer, if love for the weak and darkened soul is the driving force to provide it with light and strength .... And no human being will need to go astray if only one of his fellow human being's love would take pity on him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Merciful intercession ....

B.D. 7132 from May 27th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Do not demand mercy from Me if you deny the same mercy to your fellow human being who has transgressed against you. For no human being is sinless, every individual is dependent on My mercy that I show it to him despite his sinfulness .... And thus I have to show mercy everywhere, just as you should do the same towards those who need help rather than harsh judgement if they are to recover in their souls. Again and again I have to emphasize that all of you humans are oppressed by My adversary .... Admittedly, every individual can defend himself against it by calling upon Me, Who certainly also has power over this adversary and also uses it when a person faithfully and trustingly appeals to Me for protection and help. But he often approaches people under such a mask that they are unable to recognize him and therefore also get caught in his nets. This is certainly also their own failure because they are of dark spirit and do nothing to kindle a small light in themselves, and they will also bitterly regret this failure one day, for they take the darkness with them into the spiritual kingdom and yet could just as well have reached the light in earthly life. But My grace and mercy will always help them, both on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, I will not condemn them but only ever try to release them from their pitiful state. And you should all be mindful of this, you should act in the same way, and your fellow human beings' weaknesses should trigger a hot compassion in you, you should fear for their souls and want to help them, which is also possible for you through intercessory thoughts or prayers, through the allocation of strength of love which will beneficially touch those souls. You must wrestle with My adversary for such souls .... and you will be stronger than him as soon as love moves you to want to help the soul. And so that love flares up in you for such unhappy souls which the adversary keeps captive, you should imagine that he will not release it for a long time once it has been deprived of its body and entered the dark kingdom of the beyond where it lacks all strength to resist, where it is completely under his control. Even then a person's love can still wrest such souls from him, but as long as the human being still stays on earth the strength of intercession can still result in a change of his thinking, and he can still work on himself and come to the realization of his weaknesses and faults. And this realization alone can save him from the lot of darkness in the kingdom of the beyond. Show mercy to all those who are misguided and try to guide them onto the right path. And if you do not succeed in this, then pray for them, but do not abandon them to the enemy who brings unspeakable torment upon those souls from which you can deliver them through your loving intercession. I hear every merciful call and for the sake of your love I am also ready to help. But if such a soul is left to itself it will become ever more entangled in satan's nets without recognizing it itself, because it is completely blind in spirit and does not accept the light itself which could shine for it on the earthly path. For it is precisely the adversary's weakness of will which he seeks to maintain, and this can only be remedied through an influx of strength which loving intercession will always give to the soul .... Do not underestimate the power of intercession .... What a good orator cannot do, loving intercession can achieve .... And therefore I urge all of you to include these souls walking in darkness in your prayers, to show them mercy, for they are poor and miserable and can only receive the gift of strength through loving remembrance. Always regard the adversary as your greatest enemy and help them to become free from him, and you have truly accomplished a work of love for which those souls will thank you forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of loving intercession for unbelievers ....

B.D. 8441 from March 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How far away are people from Me who have no faith in a God and Creator, who only regard themselves as the product of a natural force and don't want to acknowledge anything that points to a powerful being .... Their will of resistance is still unbroken, they reject Me and don't want to unite with Me, and therefore they are still completely under My adversary's control, they are his helpers because they also want to convince their fellow human beings that there is nothing which could be acknowledged as a wise power. They certainly take the path across earth as human beings but they are very close to the abyss into which My adversary will plunge them again if they don't think of something else before their death .... For such completely unbelieving people can hardly expect an ascent in the kingdom of the beyond either, because they are not open to enlightenment and will persist in their point of view. They also misuse the gift of intellect in earthly life, for they could also come to different conclusions by way of intellect if they had the serious will to gain the right light about the purpose of their existence on this earth. But such thoughts, when they arise in them, are rejected and there is no other way to help them believe, for evidence would be a means of coercion which, however, is never used. Mostly such unbelieving people are also of hardened hearts, and thus, since they lack love, it also remains dark in their heart, and only the counter will is strong, which will also try to influence fellow human beings in the same sense because, as a follower of the adversary, he is stimulated by him to work for him. And if you want to try to convince such people of the truth you will hardly be successful, and the only thing you can do for them is intercession, because if this is done with love .... it radiates back to those people as strength and can then also have the effect that the person thinks and his will to defend himself becomes weaker .... And therefore you should also remember all unbelievers in prayer so that their hearts can be touched by the power of intercession .... You should always remember that these souls are still completely under My adversary's control and must be helped if they are to be released from him .... He cannot be forcibly changed, he rejects My direct illumination of love and therefore also loses its effectiveness .... But your love makes the supply of strength possible which he feels beneficially and which can change his thinking without him being forced into it. And if you consider that such a soul is exceedingly weak and therefore cannot offer the adversary any resistance, then this weakness should take pity on you and stimulate your will to love to do everything possible to save it .... And in this case only loving intercession remains, which can still wrest the soul from the adversary after all, because it does not remain without effect. Free will is the divine in the human being, and yet this free will has also been the cause of the deepest fall, and it still is .... therefore the return of a fallen soul often requires eternal times if love does not come to its aid during its earthly existence. For love is able to do everything .... And the adversary succumbs to love .... Then he cannot hold the soul, it will free itself from him and strive towards the one Who is love .... So it will now also acknowledge Me as its God and Creator, and it will then be saved for time and eternity .... No human being would need to be lost on earth if every soul were prayed for with heartfelt love .... For only such prayer is successful, but not lip prayers from the masses which do not ascend to Me in spirit and in truth but are mostly formal prayers without strength .... But if only every person would make the salvation of a soul his goal, that he would turn his love towards this soul and ask Me for salvation, so that it would not be lost again for endless times .... truly, people would change and attain a right faith, and they would do everything to fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... Yet love has grown cold amongst people and everyone only thinks of himself, therefore he cannot believe either, nor can he reach the goal, instead, he unwaveringly heads towards the abyss again and has to start an infinitely long path once more in torment and wretchedness .... For My might cannot intervene where the will is directed against Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayers for the souls in the beyond

Needy souls beg for prayers ....

B.D. 2381 from June 24th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

Listen to the pleas of the dead .... Do not refuse them your intercession when they remind you of themselves, and know that without your help they have to suffer indescribably. The fate of an unredeemed soul is extremely sad, and you don’t know whether a soul is redeemed or whether it is suffering in this painful state and requires your help. You can only help these poor souls with prayer because then they feel your love and this gives them the strength to improve their own fate. They change their will, and this is first and foremost necessary to initiate a transformation of their sad situation. The souls are grateful for even the least amount of support because they completely depend on you or on the mercy of the souls who have already attained a higher degree of maturity. But these are only permitted to help them when the souls’ will requests a change of their present situation .... However, the will of such souls is weak if not completely inactive and therefore they often have to languish for an infinite length of time if they do not receive support by means of intercession which gives them the strength to change their will, i.e. to activate their will. If you could understand such souls’ suffering you would not let them ask in vain .... because every thought of a deceased is their way of bringing themselves to your attention and a call for help in need.

Humanity is very unkind to each other and without belief in life after death. That is why it does not remember its deceased and thus they suffer greatly. Time and again they push themselves into the thoughts of the human being to induce him to pray for them. There is immense hardship in the beyond and even the souls of unknown deceased come close to those who compassionately remember the poor souls .... because they experience every gift of prayer as beneficial, as an increase of strength and will to ascend. Deeply compassionate people on earth are always surrounded by needy souls who are hoping for their help. Even the resolve to help such souls is a gift of strength to them and every loving thought which includes them strengthens their will. And then helpful beings in the beyond can come to aid these souls by conveying the strength which is necessary to lessen their overwhelming suffering. Human beings do not really know how to value prayer as a gift of mercy. They can achieve everything by right prayer because God Himself has offered this blessing to them and imposes no restrictions. However, the soul cannot help itself in the beyond but depends on help. And you should give them this love and help to save them from the most painful condition and to facilitate the start of their self-deliverance .... Once the soul has overcome the point of weakness then its aspiration only strives upwards and its greatest need is remedied. However, it has to receive the strength for this by means of loving intercession because only the action of love leads to the redemption of the soul. If the soul itself is too weak to do works of love the human being should lovingly support it so that it receives the strength which it needs for its progress. For that reason you should not forget the needy souls .... because they implore you to help them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Strength of intercession ....

B.D. 5161 from June 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You should give the strength of intersession to all those who have departed from you, irrespective of the degree of maturity you may think they have, for they all still need strength and are grateful for any help. It is a happy feeling to have helped souls to ascend, which you will only fully realise when you have entered the kingdom of the beyond yourselves and see the hardship of many souls who are not remembered in prayer, because no one on earth will remember them lovingly and provide them with the necessary strength in order to ascend. Once these souls have experienced the strength of love they will work with immense enthusiasm and use this strength, but the first impulse has to be given to them by people’s loving intercession, because this is what will affect them first and change the direction of their thoughts.

But this intercession has to be rendered consciously, i.e. with the intention of helping the souls to advance. You humans should know that your prayers are valuable, you should familiarise yourselves with the suffering of departed souls and with a loving heart pray for a gift of strength for these souls. They will surely experience this gift of strength and also gratefully feel the love intended for them which will cause them to love in turn, which will thus affect their environment like a small light that benefits all souls. You humans could do so inexpressibly much to release the souls if you have the will to alleviate hardship and suffering .... For this will motivates you to pray from the bottom of your heart, and only this comprises redeeming strength. You should do everything consciously, external formalities or lip-prayers have no effect, because they exclude the conscious will to help. Only love is liberating .... this has to be said time and again.

You can achieve inconceivably much with love, you can send bright light into the darkness through loving intercession, so that many souls will gather there and be touched by this ray of light, always with the result that their feeling of love will also be awakened and will want to express itself. Loving intercession is a tremendous flow of strength the effect of which will never fail. Include all your loved ones in your prayer, mentally call them to you and tell them that you want to help them and that they should accept your help quietly and without objection; mentally instruct them that they, too, will be able to ascend it they want to use the strength they receive through your intercession. And always point them to Jesus Christ .... Only One can redeem them, and this One can only be reached through love. Therefore inform them that they should use their imparted strength to help other souls in turn who also suffer great hardship, that these deeds of love will bring them ever closer to Jesus Christ Who, with utmost mercy, will then draw all souls to Himself and guide them into the kingdom of light ....

Once you have helped a soul to use its given strength correctly its progress will be assured, then the weakness of will and lack of strength will disappear and it will eagerly ascend and take untold souls along, for it then will also share its knowledge with them, and thus a single correct intercession will result in unforeseen blessings .... You humans on earth should not underestimate the strength of intercession, but always remember that it should be made with a loving heart in order to truly give strength .... And include all your loved ones, for they all are still in need of strength and will thank you forever if you increase their strength and remember them with love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Change of will through intercession ....

B.D. 5313 from February 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The realm of darkness holds its souls imprisoned because it doesn't require much strength to keep these souls tied up since, due to their weak will, they don't offer resistance .... However, this resolve can receive strength through intercession. You humans must realise that a loving prayer on behalf of these captured souls can be infinitely successful, they thereby begin to feel the arising desire to become free from Satan's chains. Often this desire only emerges in them for moments which, however, become increasingly longer the more often these souls are thought of in loving intercession. Then it is as if they awoke from a deep sleep, they become active and look for an opportunity to escape from their chains, for they experience the darkness as a constraint and desire light. Once this change has occurred as a result of loving prayers these souls will be willing to seek, and the tiniest ray of light will let them rush to its point of origin. They will start to come to life .... Even so, the prince of the nether world won't let them go that easily .... Therefore light and darkness will alternate in the beginning, from time to time they will come to realise their state and then wander about again in complete ignorance. For this reason these souls must be treated with kind-hearted patience, time and again they must receive an influx of strength through prayers, they must be called through loving thoughts and thus, time and again, be pulled out of their dark sphere, they must receive mental explanations and references to Jesus Christ, their Redeemer, so that they will turn to Him themselves and appeal to Him for help and mercy. Although the souls in the darkness are difficult to instruct and often obstinate, they nevertheless feel the benefit of a loving prayer and this also gradually softens their hardened heart, that is, through loving intercession a person can wrest such souls from the darkness and he will always be successful if he does not stop with his will to help, which also improves the soul's will. Evil souls often fight each other in the kingdom of the beyond, yet no dark soul will ever cause harm to a person who prays for them. A person's love will pacify even the most agitated soul, just as, in contrast, it revives and stimulates the weakest soul into improving its state. Loving intercession by people on earth is an immense redemption factor which is recognised far too little by people. Whenever these unfortunate souls are remembered, their desire for light arises and that always signifies a change of the souls' will, which is subsequently taken into account. The soul itself must want to be redeemed, and this resolve often arises as a result of a person's loving intercession .... Hence, love can still be practised even beyond death; souls can still be rescued from the darkness, for the strength of love can achieve anything ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Wrestling in the spiritual world .... intercession and recitation of the gospel ....

B.D. 5513 from October 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

It is an incomparable struggle in the spiritual world, for the number of lower spirits increases immeasurably and they constantly multiply because the people departing from earth are completely under the spell of the one who rules the kingdom of darkness. It is a seemingly overwhelming task to redeem the souls from this kingdom; it is a struggle on the part of the world of light which is only ever conducted with love and requires excessive patience and perseverance, for again and again the dark beings are active to hold back a soul wanting to escape from them, which is why the struggle takes place, as it were, between the beings of light and the forces of darkness for the souls of people who are not yet completely hopelessly enslaved by God's adversary. But the will of the souls has to be stimulated so that it demands upwards, because then the beings of light can intervene with their power, whereas before they were not allowed to use any power at all. And this effort to direct the will of the souls is incomparably difficult and often also without success. Whatever the souls are reproached with, they are unbelieving and accept nothing. And yet they must not be abandoned by the beings of light because only perseverance leads to the aim. Nor can they face the souls of darkness in all their fullness of light so as not to force the will to listen to them. They must appear in the same envelope and illuminate their hardship as if from within themselves in order to induce them to change their situation. Their love touches them charitably, but the spiritual hardship of the souls is often so great that they are dulled and no longer accessible to any instruction. They can only be won over by repeated attempts, because their hardship also becomes more unbearable the longer they resist. If the beings of light are supported by people on earth through intercession or mental attention to the gospel, the souls will be more willing to listen to them because they receive strength which weakens their will to refuse, and then the light beings' efforts will also be successful. People's thoughts on earth can work true miracles in the spiritual kingdom .... As a result the souls are moved into a certain urge to be active, they feel a strength which they now want to use, and they suddenly have the desire to improve their wretched state, they look around, as it were, for an opportunity to escape their present situation, and they will also always find helpful beings .... beings of light which, however, are not recognizable to them as such, which now assist them in word and deed. The beings of light will not tire of guiding those entrusted to them to ascent, only the first beginning is often incredibly difficult before the soul's will is willing to listen to them. For then the opposing forces ceaselessly endeavour to influence them adversarially and reject all who want to help them. A person's prayer on earth can then have an unspeakably beneficial effect, for the strength thereby imparted to the soul is always used in a positive sense. It is as if the soul then recognizes the hostility of the lower forces and the light beings' will to help, and it already turns willingly towards the latter and away from the lower forces. Help must be brought to the souls from one side if they themselves have not yet recognized what is at stake. And therefore loving intercession is the surest supply of strength because it is also perceptible to the being which is still turned away from God as a benefit and it then uses the strength, i.e. changes its will .... thus, through the influx of strength it gives up its resistance and is now easier to guide and influence by the beings which want to help it to ascend .... The struggle for these souls is unspeakably difficult but yet not hopeless, and therefore the beings of light do not tire and do not let up until they have drawn the souls out of darkness into eternal light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distress of souls in the deep .... intercessions ....

B.D. 5591 from January 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Great is the hardship of those souls who are suddenly and unprepared called away from earth if they have not already reached a degree of maturity through a God-pleasing way of life which makes them suitable for the kingdom of light. Yet the majority pass over into the spiritual kingdom in a truly pitiful state .... without faith in Jesus Christ, without the slightest realization and completely without strength, since they lack love and thus no works of love follow them into the spiritual kingdom either .... They are poor and miserable and don't know where to turn for help because they have no faith in the one Who can redeem them from all sin and suffering .... Jesus Christ, Who would truly hear every call for Him. The spiritual kingdom accepts all souls which have departed from earth, yet how different are the spheres which now offer them abode .... But the kingdom of darkness is the most populated, and it constantly accepts new inhabitants because there is also great darkness on earth and the souls seek out the same place they left. There the hardship is so unbearable that the souls want to escape it but they cannot do so by themselves but need support. Again and again these souls return to earth and stay close to people who were close to them on earth or who are welcome objects to them due to their similar nature, in order to transfer their own will to them, thus to continue to work indirectly on earth. Such souls can hardly be improved, and yet they should also be remembered in prayer so that through intercession impulses awaken in them which can lead to a change. Where loving prayer follows the souls of the departed, there is always hope that they will soon be able to exchange their dark abode for a dim place, and they will then seek the light until they find it. The souls of darkness often have to stay in the depth for a very long time because they make no attempt to come out and only the desire for light brings them light. Therefore you humans cannot pray enough for these souls that they will strive towards the light, that the desire will awaken in them to enter a somewhat lighter environment. For the will of the being is decisive, and you humans should pray again and again for the strengthening and transformation of a wrong will if you want to help the souls which suddenly depart from earth, which are called away in the midst of life and possess little or no spiritual knowledge at all. They can be helped if only you want to help them, if only you give them love and want to deliver them from darkness. The adversity is overwhelming and cannot be forcibly remedied. A premature recall from earth is often an act of mercy for these souls so that they don't sink even further and then the redemption from the abyss would be even more difficult because the will would then be even more hardened and completely directed towards God. Therefore remember those who suddenly depart from earth and send loving thoughts after them so that they will feel attracted by you, return to earth and be able to learn from you, for they will always stay close to those who give them love, they will be far more willing, They will be far more willing to accept mental instructions from you than they would have been on earth, and for such souls premature death can still be the only path to a change of will if you give them strength through your love, through your prayer, which is intended for the redemption of these poor souls from the darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption work for souls .... intercession ....

B.D. 6218 from March 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Whatever is done in good will to contribute towards the souls' redemption, to help them in their spiritual adversity, is also regarded as redemptive work and benefits those unhappy souls which you want to save from the fate of darkness .... They feel your intercession and you call them to you with your loving thoughts so that they will never ever leave you again as soon as they feel the strength which emanates from you through your love .... And I know very well which souls need your intercession when you pray for the souls languishing in the abyss .... I also know how these souls behave towards your will to help, and I will also bring those souls to you so that they can let themselves be redeemed with your help .... for the gospel must first be conveyed to them so that they can then become active themselves if strength is imparted to them .... They must know about Jesus Christ themselves as the redeemer from the abyss before they can also lead other souls to Him .... which then also consists of their activity, if a small light of realization shimmers for them .... These souls can do nothing without Jesus Christ, yet in the abyss they are completely without knowledge about Him, Who alone can save them from darkness. And this knowledge shall be conveyed to them through you, only then will they be able to call upon Him of their own free will, and only then will they be saved. But as long as the souls are without knowledge of their redeemer they are also hopelessly exposed to My adversary's power, and your prayer for these souls means a slight loosening of their shackles which gives them the impetus to come to you in the hope of changing their situation. And then they shall receive information from you in which way their situation can be improved, in which way they can become free from the power of their jailer. And as soon as they have been given this knowledge, they can again decide for themselves whether they want to follow your advice or not .... But once they have stayed close to you the return to the abyss is so dreadful to them that they will seriously reconsider and mostly follow your suggestions, that they, in order not to be beaten into shackles again, call for the one Whom you have proclaimed to them as saviour and redeemer. It is the redemption from the depths dependent on the free will of the being .... a soul cannot be arbitrarily redeemed and led to the light against the law of My eternal order if it does not want it itself .... And you should stimulate this will and lovingly inform the beings of My word, which has a strong effect of strength on them and therefore you yourselves possess great attraction because you give them love and strength. Only rarely is a soul so stubborn that it returns into the abyss once it has felt the benefit of light and strength with you. But otherwise it will fall even deeper than before, and it will take eternal times until it experiences the grace of light supply again, for such an obdurate soul is still completely in the adversary's fetters, and it has only followed the sparks of light with the intention of extinguishing them .... even though it will only then be illuminated and could easily release itself from that power. But the will of the soul is taken into account .... But such souls redeemed from the abyss are exceedingly grateful to those who have helped them into the light through loving intercession or mental instructions, and they prove their gratitude to people through help in earthly adversity and through redeeming work in the spiritual kingdom .... they become eager co-workers in My kingdom, they descend into darkness again and help those up into the light who are willing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Value of intercession for the otherworldly ....

B.D. 7345 from April 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

It is of great importance to know the situation of the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who, in their adversity, recognize what they missed on earth and make an effort to improve their situation. Only these can be helped by beings of light, for since the souls' free will is also respected in the spiritual kingdom the beings of light cannot influence the souls against their will; thus the redemption of a still unwilling soul will be extremely difficult and it can often take eternities until the soul makes an effort to improve itself. But it is now a wrong concept if it is assumed that help is never offered to the souls in darkness .... The kingdom of light constantly endeavours to bring light into the darkness, yet where the hearts close themselves the light loses its luminosity and it remains dark there as before. So the souls determine their state themselves, which can be darkness or twilight or light .... they determine it themselves through their will, which must first be turned towards the light if it is to become brighter around the soul. But if a soul is so weakened or even completely in the hands of God's adversary, then it will eternally not be able to rise from this weakness alone. Nor does it know anything about the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and thus cannot call upon Him for help either .... And it would therefore remain in its wretched state for eternity if it is not helped through the intercession of people .... Precisely this intercession is mostly omitted because people do not believe in its effect and urgency. But intercession is a significant factor especially for the kingdom of the beyond, for where the being itself is no longer able to help itself and God's love is legally bound by the soul's free will, a person's love can intervene, and for the sake of his love God's love can now become active and give it to the unfortunate being in the form of strength supply .... The final decision still remains with the soul itself as to whether and how it will use the strength it now receives through the intercession of the human being. But it feels this strength as a blessing, and it begins to relax its previous resistance, and it becomes somewhat lighter within itself so that it begins to think, and its redemption can now take place if only it uses the strength of the intercession correctly. Then the beings of light can also intervene without finding resistance. Every connection of souls of darkness with the world of light or with God is therefore impossible as long as the will is not broken before, which still remains in open resistance with God, otherwise the being would not be in darkness. For it is not decided by the desire for a better state alone, which every being in darkness will certainly have, but it must first recognize the cause of its wretched state and make an effort to change this cause, to change itself and desire light for the sake of light, not for the sake of the associated bliss .... The being must recognize its sinfulness and want to be rid of its sins, it must desire redemption out of the realization that in this sinfulness it is not worthy of God's nearness, and it must want to become free from sin and death in order to come close to God, for Whom the soul must yearn. which will certainly be the case once it recognizes its guilt and confesses it to Jesus Christ, Who will repeatedly approach it in order to cause it to call upon Him in its distress .... The soul must want to find its way out of its state of torment itself, yet always in profound humility and in the realization of its sins. And this requires its transformed will, which can only achieve such a change through intercession, because the soul alone is too weak when it enters the kingdom of the beyond in a state of darkness. Then it can receive so much strength through intercession which it will certainly use in the right way, because God's love is extremely happy to reward the love of intercessory people with the fulfilment of their requests to help an unhappy soul in the spiritual kingdom in its adversity. Love alone removes barriers which God's justice has set up and which cannot be arbitrarily overturned either .... God's love is limited by the will of the soul itself .... Thus, where the soul's will fails, a person's vicarious love can step in, and for the sake of this love God will help the soul to become free from its wretched situation .... for God only wants every being's bliss but not its ruin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intercession for souls in the deep ....

B.D. 7387 from August 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

You know nothing of the suffering of an unredeemed soul in the abyss, and even if it is described to you you cannot imagine it, for it is unbearable and no human being would be able to endure such torment in physical life without losing his earthly life. And yet, these souls remain in darkness where such torments are inflicted on them because they are still so stubborn and God-rejecting in their core that no other fate can blossom for them, for it is their own fault, it is a state which they could change at any time if only they wanted to, and "no injustice is done to the willing person" when he endures a fate .... if he has to endure a fate which his very resistance has brought about. Nevertheless, these souls are pitiful, for their obduracy does not allow a spark of light to flash, for they stubbornly turn away from him and often remain in their self-inflicted condition for an eternity before a slight diminution of their resistance is noticeable. But their fate cannot improve either, and therefore one can speak of 'eternal' torment and damnation if this refers to the fate of souls which dwell at the greatest distance from God and are not in the least bit willing to change their mind. But these souls also try to assert themselves and transfer their evil desires and dispositions to weak people, near whom they sometimes force themselves in order to express themselves through them. All people are beset by evil spirits, and the weaker a person is, the less he succeeds in pushing them away, and then he often becomes a victim of these evil spirits. But every man can protect himself from them by praying for such souls .... It may sound strange to you that you should still give your prayers to those who are open opponents of your God and father .... who rage as true devils in the kingdom of the beyond and also on earth in this last time, when hell has thrown everything out and the earth is overflowing with such evil spirits and pays tribute to them when people give in to them and their urging .... But against all evil you can protect yourselves through love .... You shall not love their evil urges, you shall not gloss over their nature or give in to their desire, but you shall know that they are worthy of mercy, that they have to suffer torments which you can relieve for them through a prayer or a loving thought, and you should not deny them this grace of a prayer or a loving thought and try to appease them, and you will truly also be spared from them, for they feel your love and desist from you because they, too, noticeably feel the grace of a prayer ..... because it is even possible that they will slacken their actions and change their mind for the better .... which indeed requires conscious intercession, because such souls are already too hardened to immediately undergo a change .... But it is not hopeless, and bearing in mind that you are constantly surrounded by such evil spirits in this last time before the end, you should consciously take care of them and again and again send loving thoughts out to those beings who are truly in a pitiable state that they need help .... but through their own fault. Therefore, success cannot always be expected but no prayer is without an effect of strength and therefore no prayer is in vain .... it helps to deliver souls from the abyss if it is intended for such beings which cannot be delivered from the abyss without help. Therefore don't be afraid of their afflictions, to which you are all exposed, but only meet them with good thoughts and a loving will to help, and they will feel this and leave you out for the time being in order to then no longer leave you when they feel that redeeming strength emanates from you. You have so many possibilities to be active in a redeeming way, and if you don't do it consciously then already a compassionate thought is enough for those souls from the abyss who cannot muster the strength and the will to release themselves from the abyss without help. First their resistance must be broken, and this requires love .... You humans cannot be expected to love such beings from the abyss because you are incapable of such love. But you should be filled with deep compassion when you think of the immeasurable torments these beings are exposed to. And you should try to alleviate them, and you can do so through compassionate thoughts and the will to help them. The nature of their torment cannot be described to you but the fact that they have to endure unspeakable torment is certain, and this should spur you on to loving intercession in the will to bring them help. And the sphere around you will be cleansed, for they will all desist from you who are recognizable to them as friends through your light and the strength which emanates from you .... In this way you can accomplish much redemptive work which will one day earn you great thanks in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intercession for souls beyond ....

B.D. 7438 from October 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

You don't know how much the souls have to suffer who stay in the kingdom of the beyond without any intercession and on whose will alone it depends whether they take a step forward. These poor souls are mostly unable to muster this will, and all ideas on the part of the beings of light, which again and again visit them in disguise in order to bring them help, are unsuccessful because they simply have no strength to want and vegetate apathetically until strength is given to them from one side. And this can only be achieved through intercession on the part of people .... Everything must proceed according to the law of eternal order .... God cannot arbitrarily bestow strength on a soul which is completely unworthy of it, which it neither desires nor accepts when it is offered to it or other help is offered to it .... And precisely because the soul is too weak to do anything itself to improve its situation you humans should remember it in loving intercession and often pray for these poor souls so that the father, for the sake of your love, can then bestow His strength and supply it to those souls and will certainly do so, so that no intercessory prayer will remain without effect. A soul taken care of by a person on earth in loving intercession cannot get lost, once it comes to the realization that it has to take action itself to change its fate .... Then it will also do so, for it noticeably feels the strength which is given to it and then also applies it in accordance with divine will, i.e. it will thereby lovingly work on the souls which, like it, are in need. Loving intercession is the only means to help such souls in darkness, because through it they themselves get to know the strength of love and are able to change. These souls suffer indescribably and are extremely grateful once they have attained realization and take the right path which was pointed out to them .... And they carry off their gratitude with redeeming activity, for then they want to help, just as they were helped in their adversity and torment. Yet countless souls have no intercessor, countless souls dwell in darkness, whom no human being remembers in loving intercession .... Include them all in your prayers, just have the will to help them, and this good will will supply them with strength so that they will temporarily feel urged to ascend from the darkness and then sparks of light will also light up for them at times which will inspire them to follow them. Compassionate thoughts which you send into these dark spheres always cause small revolts that the beings try to instruct each other what to do in order to get out of their agonizing state, and if the intercession does not diminish the soul's desire becomes ever stronger. And then a change also occurs by giving them the opportunity to leave the abyss and participate in teachings which are offered to them in the form of sparks of light and which are beneficial to them. To help those souls is a great work of mercy, because they can no longer help themselves alone and are dependent on outside help. They hardly accept the help offered to them directly in the kingdom of the beyond because they are too weak to want it and therefore first need the supply of strength which you humans can impart to them through loving intercession. It is the works of love which you can still do to the souls beyond death and which are often of greater significance because they can be a work of salvation for these souls which leads them out of darkness and lets them come to life. But once such souls have been saved, once they have entered the path of light, then they have also become eager helpers for the other souls which likewise dwell in darkness .... For they never forget their adversity and will therefore also be eternally grateful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Appeals for a gift of strength for the souls of the deceased ....

B.D. 9014 from July 13th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

Whenever you can't help but think of a departed person you should know it is always an appeal for help which you should provide since no one else is taking care of them. And when they see your light they, too, would like to gather around you and draw strength from this light, for they often don't know the meaning of this light, especially if they were caught up in error until now. Then it will suffice to send just one thought to the soul inviting it to join you and accept a lesson. For especially the souls which are not followed by loving intercession suffer much hardship and they, too, shall be helped to come into the possession of truth. Just one conscious invitation to take part in your instructions is already enough to attract the souls permanently, with the result that they will not leave you anymore, that they will join the large group of those whom I will then be able to address Myself. And you will be constantly surrounded by souls wanting to increase their knowledge in order to pass it on to those who are less knowledgeable and whom they want to help as well. And then it will be essential that you inform them of My act of Salvation, for only when they have found Him and deliverance from their guilt will they accept profound knowledge. This first necessitates their activity of love, as they will only be able to understand it if they employ their will to love again in order to help souls which are suffering the same hardship. Only then will they themselves penetrate the truth ever more, and they will find it easy to hand themselves over to the divine Redeemer and appeal to Him for forgiveness of their guilt. Then, however, will the divine Word constantly flow to them and they will also accept it, irrespective of where and how it is offered to them. Yet especially the first step is very difficult for the soul until it has experienced the strength of intercession, which will express itself as a change of will and thus it is easier to influence, so that the soul will also comply when it receives its calling.

Therefore pay attention to every such request and offer assistance to the souls which desire help, which indeed remind many people on earth of themselves yet will only find intercession with those who are able to help them spiritually because they are in conscious contact with Me and I Am able to reveal Myself to them. And the fact that the strength of My Word is tremendously effective may be experienced by every soul once it has joined you, for its progress will be guaranteed ....

Once I Am offered the opportunity to reveal Myself to a person through the working of My spirit, this person will stand amid a gleam of light which will attract many souls willing to accept the same as you have been offered, and due to you all souls which you include in your intercession will then no longer be able to go astray. For then you will only be motivated by love for these souls, and for the sake of this love I will also give strength to those on whose behalf you pray. I also have to apply the laws in the beyond and these first and foremost include the being's free will which may not be infringed upon, neither by Myself nor by My adversary.

Therefore it matters that you .... who also have to respect free will, lovingly remember the souls which are still weak-willed but unable to resist the strength of intercession and whose will you are therefore able to influence. Since they were beneficially affected by the strength of love they will no longer resist and be irresistibly drawn to you so that you then will also be able to convey the Gospel of love to them.

If only you knew how ardently your adherents (the souls) accept My Word, how they constantly feel that they are progressing, and how grateful they are to you that you, due to your intercession, helped them to participate in your instructions, you would not stop praying for such souls and even be pleased with their progress, for they, too, will protect you whenever possible, to prevent the receiving of the Word being interrupted .... you will also purify your surroundings, so that no one will become subject to the adversary's temptations as soon as they surround you. Precisely this makes your activity so important, since it enables you to contribute towards the redemption of many souls by offering them bread and wine, thus the delectable elixir of life and the most effective nourishment, and one day you will feel the inner joy of having been able to contribute towards the ascent of those who, without your help, would still have languished in darkness for a very long time ....

Therefore take notice of every thought which reminds you of someone deceased, consider it a call for help which you must not reject, and then consciously call him close to you and the first step up will have been taken, for as soon as a person intercedes on behalf of such a soul, I will also be able to grant strength to the soul for the sake of this person .... which otherwise would not be possible for Me since it contradicts the law of eternity, as only free will can request strength, but which I now recognise in the loving intercession and thus grant My mercy to this soul and then will also be able to provide it with the grace of My Word through you.

People would be able to redeem all souls through loving intercession, but how few are aware of this and how great is therefore My adversary's power who will try anything to disrupt such contacts from the spiritual world to earth, but who will be unable to take effect if a human being hands himself over to Me with love and thus I will also protect him .... especially if I want to speak through him to the souls in the beyond, which My adversary will never be able to prevent Me from doing .... For where the will for redemption exists people will be delivered from the one who had held them captive long enough and whose only weapon is love which will defeat him and from which he takes flight .... because it is and will remain My share for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No intercession in vain for souls beyond ....

B.D. 6266 from May 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will all experience that My love for you is unlimited and that I therefore do not leave anyone to his self-chosen fate but come to everyone's aid, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. I take care of every soul you commend to Me, for whom you pray, whom you want to help in spiritual adversity. I help wherever My help is requested because I love you all .... But you will only understand this when you enter the spiritual kingdom and all the souls come to meet you whom your prayer has delivered from their adversity .... Only then will you know that I have heard every call from you and that no request was directed to Me in vain .... But you shall already know this on earth from My mouth. I will tell you Myself that you can help every soul to whom you give love .... And I want to tell you because a great deal depends on it, because all these souls only need to behold a small ray of love from you in order to turn towards you, which then already signifies the beginning of redemption .... because they receive from you what they need for further ascent. If you knew what effective means are at your disposal .... you would have no other thought than to rescue souls from darkness. And they all thank you for it and always surround you so that you never do any spiritual work without their presence .... and you cannot imagine the effect of this, for a single ray of light ignites again and makes countless more souls receptive for My word .... That is why I already direct it down to earth, because nothing else extends its effect into the kingdom of the beyond and because it also has a transforming (influence) on the souls from the abyss .... (effect) .... I give but I receive far more in return, My creations find their way back to Me who kept themselves far away from Me, who feel your love as strength and now also turn to Me voluntarily because their hearts become soft and compliant through your love. And for the sake of your love My love can now also express itself in these souls, I can provide them with strength which they can use again to work in love on the souls which are still in darkness .... The work of redemption is so extensive that it can now be done on those unhappy souls of the deep, for a single soul has its appendage again, which will now, as it were, also be redeemed through your help, which is now before the end of the earth .... before the beginning of a new redemption period, is of utmost importance, for countless souls will still be saved from the fate of a new banishment, which would irrevocably befall them if they were still languishing in deepest darkness and had not been shown a path to ascent. I love all My living creations and don't want them to suffer for an infinitely long time, yet I keep My law of eternal order and therefore cannot unlawfully redeem the souls which still oppose Me. But your love can break this resistance and then My love can also become active .... Therefore I help all those you commend to Me, for whom you pray, and I release them from their adversity .... for My love never ends, My love includes all My living creations, My love wants them all to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intercession for Lucifer ....

B.D. 6459 from January 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

I do not withdraw My love from any being, no matter how low it has sunk, no matter how far it is from Me .... For it once came forth from My love and will eternally remain in My love. And this also applies to the first-created being whose sinfulness distanced it infinitely far from Me .... whose arrogance resulted in its fall into the deepest abyss and which requires eternal times until it has found its way back to Me again .... until it returns to its father's house and is received back by Me as My son .... until its love also fully belongs to Me again. This being was called from eternity to supreme beatitude, and therefore it was created in My image, which could dispose of light and strength without limitation and therefore its beatitude was also unlimited. The fact that this being fell made it sinful to an extent which you humans have no idea of, for it had supreme knowledge, it consciously sinned against its creator and father, Whom it also recognized as its source but did not want to acknowledge .... This was its sin because it rejected My love by denying Me Myself and thus established the abysmal distance from Me. It consciously threw itself up to My adversary, to My enemy, and henceforth fought against Me .... A return of this being takes eternities because it has to go back the same way in order to reach Me, and because the turning away from Me also required eternities, because its ascent also has to be covered step by step and cannot be skipped arbitrarily. A sudden change of will is therefore not possible for this being because it did not allow itself to be captured like all other fallen beings, for it was not able to be ascended by My first-created being .... as My first-created bearer of light .... I left him free when he refused to take the same path through creation. But this refusal became a service for Me as well as for the beingness which had fallen into the abyss through its guilt. He now served Me as a counter pole in the free will decision of those fallen ones .... Every possibility to return to the father's house has also been opened up to him because My never-ending love is also meant for him. But I do not force any being's will to be submissive to Me .... This is the difference that I bind no-one by My power while he keeps his beings bound. If I bind the beingness in the works of creation and take away its free will, then this is a work of My love for the wretch, which I only snatch from its power in order to make it able to decide freely for once .... But he himself is not under any power, he is free, and everything he does is his innermost urge, and this is truly evil .... And he will never give up his resistance against Me as long as he is strong, only when he is down with weakness will he call out to Me .... But it is different with the beings he has plunged into the abyss, which lost My strength of love due to the removal, although I Myself did not withdraw love from them, and which would be eternally held in the abyss by his power if I did not assist the completely powerless and withdraw it from his influence until it has enough strength again to be able to freely choose its lord. Then, however, My adversary will demand his right, which I will not deny him because the beings once followed him voluntarily. Then therefore .... in the stage as a human being .... the spiritual battle takes place, the influencing of the human being's free will by good or bad forces .... And this struggle is brought to a decision by love. Love will and must always win the victory .... And you will now understand that and why loving intercession for this struggling spiritual being is of greatest success .... You will understand that My might may not intervene because I do not force any being .... that My adversary can only ever be opposed by love and that this is the only weapon he succumbs to, which weakens him so that he releases what belongs to him. Jesus Christ offered the greatest labour of love for the redemption of the unfree and thereby snatched all the souls from the adversary which took refuge under His cross .... But in order to take the path to the cross many beings also need help, which can therefore be given to them through loving intercession on the part of already free people .... Loving intercession is a great factor in the redemption of the souls under My adversary's control .... who is the only being in all of infinity which wants to rule and exerts coercion on the spiritual being which was originally created in fullest freedom, but who is not under My control insofar as I determine his thinking, willing and acting .... From My point of view this being is also completely free .... To whom, then, do you want to appeal for this being? And what do you want to achieve through your prayer? That I change its will? .... That I might appease his hatred? That I may move him to repentance, which he must do voluntarily? All paths are open to him, I do not hinder him but I do not exert any compulsion on him, even no compulsion of love, because his fall was and is different from the fall of the beings he brought into being with My strength .... and because he is their enemy and acts as an enemy towards them, because he prevents these beings from attaining happiness and bliss again as they once did .... He faces Me as an adversary and he loads sin after sin onto his head as long as he abuses his power and so oppresses the being in the stage of free will that the return to Me is only possible for him through the help of Jesus Christ .... Only love can release you from his power .... and if you wanted to release him then you would have to love him, and that means uniting with him .... Your help you can give only consists of redeeming his followers so that he will be weakened, for he will never change as long as spiritual things still belong to him; only when he stands alone, when everything he once overthrew has reached the height again, will he give up his hatred, his arrogance and his will which is contrary to Me, and then My love can take hold of him and I can be a loving father to him again .... For then he will desire My love again, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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Help for the lost on earth and in the hereafter .... intercession ....

B.D. 5737 from August 3rd 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Use all your strength to bring help to the people living in darkness on earth as well as to the souls in the beyond who are still unredeemed and also need your help to reach the light. Don't let an hour pass without remembering these souls, i.e., arrange your daily work such that you always give them as much time as possible to give them a silent prayer, a hint to Jesus Christ or also enlighten people on earth who listen to you. Be labourers in the vineyard of the lord at every hour, don't neglect your most important activity, don't forget it above your earthly activity. It is certainly a lot to ask of you to completely put the world in the background, to constantly turn your thoughts towards the spiritual kingdom while you still live on earth and are also forced to take up the battle with life, yet believe that you will not feel the struggle for existence in such a way that you can confidently entrust your earthly worries to the One Who has taken you into His service, believe that He will take care of His servants and co-workers if only they eagerly do the work for which they have entrusted themselves to Him .... to help the lost on earth and in the beyond to find the right path .... And you should always take the time for this, you should shift your field of work more into the spiritual kingdom than into the earthly world .... you should bear in mind that people on earth have to carry out this work because the human being's free will must not be endangered; you should not forget that the prayer of people on earth is also of utmost value for the souls in the beyond and that the first help must also be brought to them through you, because the work of the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom can only start when you have given so much strength to the souls through your intercession, through your mental instructions, that they are now also willing to listen to the beings of light. Therefore, don't let a day go by when you haven't worked for the kingdom of God, and always be certain of My blessing, for the salvation of many souls from darkness is at stake, it is the help which shall still be given to souls in the last days who cannot detach themselves from dark power on their own, who need light in order to find their way out of the night of death into the light of life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of loving intercession ....

B.D. 8101 from February 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

No soul shall go hungry to whom you give your loving intercession .... Where My love is bound to the law of eternal order your love can have a redeeming effect, and for the sake of your love I can supply strength to the souls and help them to achieve final redemption. For I only want to induce you to express love, because love is a strength which can bring help to the still unredeemed as well as promote your own ascent development. And thus everything that is based on love has an extremely beneficial effect, on earth as well as in the beyond. If you humans are able to embrace everything with your love you are already far advanced in your development and you can enter the kingdom of the beyond as perfected beings when your soul leaves the earthly body. But people are only rarely able to muster such love, for they usually still judge purely humanly and see their fellow human beings' faults and weaknesses, which is why they don't believe they can love them. But love should be such that it understands everything, that it can forgive everything, that it sees its fellow human being's weaknesses and faults with merciful eyes .... that it is willing to help him .... And anyone who can acquire this degree of love on earth can truly call himself blessed, for he has accomplished the transformation of his nature into love, which was the aim of his earthly progress .... But you should all make an effort to attain this degree of love, and therefore you should only ever try to imagine your fellow human being's soul which is often in deepest adversity and in need of help .... regardless of whether it is still on earth or already in the kingdom of the beyond .... If you could see such souls you would be seized by deep compassion and your will to help would also be immediately stimulated so that you would want to release them from their adversity. And thus you must seriously consider the idea that such souls urgently need help and rarely only receive it because other people take offence at their nature and therefore they don't earn any love from their fellow human beings .... A person's thoughts cannot be good, but the soul is to be pitied because it is in the fetters of the adversary who suffocates everything good in it and it is helplessly at his mercy in its weakness .... because it does not awaken love within itself which would give it strength to resist .... And you should help such souls with your love .... A good thought, an intercessory call to Me and also an unselfish work of help which charitably touches the soul can cause love to flare up in the soul because it feels a strength within itself which has directed your love to it. If you would only ever try to put yourselves into the misery of those souls, then your love would strike them and you could truly be redemptively active on these souls. For every soul is pitiful which still lives in complete darkness, which has not yet felt the strength of love in itself. And you pass by precisely such souls, you pay little attention to them or you turn away from them because people don't appeal to you, because you don't believe you can love them .... Take care of them, try to put yourselves in their shoes, you who have already found light, have mercy on those who walk without light .... give them love and present their hardship to Me, and I will truly be merciful to them for the sake of your love and provide them with strength which they only need to use correctly in order to find their way out of their adversity. Think less of the human being than of his soul, which is grateful to you for the smallest help because it cannot help itself if it does not make use of the strength of love .... And since it has little love itself you should give it to this soul, and you will be redemptively active and likewise find fulfilment of your requests if you are in spiritual hardship yourselves and present it to Me, for you all need help from Me as long as you still live on earth. And even in the kingdom of the beyond I will not deny help to those for whom you pray with love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers