Jesus Says.... "Come To Me!“

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

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

6635 - Mischief and misery.... God's will or permission....

5018 - Destiny according to will and resistance....

6720 - Distress as a means of rescue....

4127 - Cross.... "My yoke is easy and My burden is light.... "

5508 - 'Come unto Me....'

5369 - God takes care of earthly things....

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

6338 - God's constant care for the human being....

6657 - Presence of God safest protection

7047 - "Come all to Me...."

0627 - Prayer.... Call upon Me in time of need....

3734 - Simple form of prayer....

4363 - Prayer: "For the sake of Jesus Christ", "in His name...."

5899 - Prayer for good success....

7417 - Undoubting trust in God....

7523 - Supply of force....

4163 - Spiritual food.... "Come to Me, I will refresh you.... "

3295 - Comfort.... God’s word proof of His love....

4902 - Using the power of the divine word....

7514a - The strength of the Word.... Daily work of improving the soul....

5212 - God is good and righteous....

7229 - God's father love....

3565 - Fatherly Words of comfort....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mischief and misery .... God's will or permission ....

B.D. 6635 from September 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The worldly man is satisfied with what satisfies his bodily senses and does not deprive himself of anything that satisfies his senses, even if he believes that he is indulging in 'spiritual' pleasures and only understands this to mean intellectually acquired goods, if he occupies himself with knowledge which again only concerns earthly things. Thus he feels good and does not deprive himself of anything because his soul does not push itself forward with its desire and cannot push itself forward either, since the body has the upper hand. But this state of contentment does not last until death, or only very rarely, because such a person usually ruins himself physically, because illnesses or increasing age prohibit those earthly pleasures or the fulfilment of bodily desires and the person is then often forced to think about himself, about his life and about the purpose of existence. And then God's love approaches him again and again and tries to hold him back from the world, He tries to impart strength to the soul that it influences the human being from within to detach himself from the previous striving and to free himself from worldly thoughts .... But the soul will only penetrate if it has a certain amount of strength which, however, must come to it from outside .... through help which can consist of good conversation, spiritual conversations or transmission of the divine word, through good books or through loving intercession of a fellow human being .... From this the soul receives the strength to also influence the body, and then a slow change of thinking can occur, and the rest of earthly life can still be used well for the maturing of the soul. Illness, misfortune and earthly hardship are therefore indispensable for people who give themselves too much to the world and are often the best and only means to learn to recognize the world's staleness. And these means are therefore used again and again and become ever more apparent the more humanity turns its gaze to the world. And that is why increased enjoyment of life, excessive earthly pleasures and the sensual performances of the worldly side will always be accompanied by phenomena of a negative kind, by misfortunes, illnesses and blatant misery, which is based on excessive enjoyment of life. People should, as it were, already experience in their own bodies the devastating effects which hedonism and intemperance produce, and they should thereby learn to recognize what the body actually is and what the life they have led up to now has brought them. For other means are unsuccessful with such worldly people, but these can still achieve what ideas and good speeches could not .... that they distance themselves from the world and escape the greatest danger of being devoured by it. For this reason, all apparent disaster in the last days should be regarded as divine will or permission which can also still have a beneficial effect, even if it is caused maliciously or also testifies to adversarial activity .... It can always bring people to their senses and result in a turning away from the world, and then their soul will be saved from a far worse fate after its recall from this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Destiny according to will and resistance ....

B.D. 5018 from December 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Merely the destiny you require in order to change your will, to stop your resistance against Me, is imposed on you. Only I know the extent of your soul's resistance, and your earthly life will be shaped accordingly. The human being's relationship with Me can differ considerably, which cannot be judged by another person, because I also know a soul's most secret thoughts and notions, and therefore a person can be as close to Me as a child, then he will effectively be guided by My Fatherly hand and truly avoid the said abyss and safely reach the goal. Others, however, won't allow themselves to be led, they believe themselves able to walk alone and trust in their own strength .... I let these occasionally run into obstacles so that they will call for a Guide and enable Me to approach them. Others, again, reject My guidance and meet Me with suspicion, they don't believe in Me and walk through life alone. And thus they still resist Me, these are the people I have to deal with strictly and who are spared nothing in earthly life, so that they will still change before it is too late. I will only try to achieve their change of will, and this change may often come about through an event which you consider to be cruel and unkind of Me as long as you are still unaware of the fact that you have not only been created for this earthly life but that the whole of eternity is still ahead of you. And for the sake of this eternity I will use all means, depending on the severity of your resistance. But anyone who surrenders to Me will no longer need exceptional teaching methods, and I will place My hands beneath his feet so that his earthly path will be easily negotiable, although he, too, still requires trials in order to raise his degree of maturity, which impel him to Me until even the last distance from Me has been overcome, until he, in blissful unity with Me, can conclude his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distress as a means of rescue ....

B.D. 6720 from December 23rd 1956, taken from Book No. 72

You humans still have to go through great hardship, you are still completely devoted to the world and have not yet found the path to Me. I try to save everyone, I throw the lifeline to everyone, yet whether you take it is up to you, for I cannot force you to do so. But spiritual adversity dictates that earthly adversity should come upon you .... For you don't know what it means when you experience the end in this adversity .... You only see the world, and you reach for its goods and don't realize that your feet touch the edge of the abyss .... And if I want to pull you back from it, then a distress must come over you which causes you to look around .... And when you then step back, when you see the abyss and flee it, then the adversity was a blessing for you. After all, in a short time you humans will lose everything you own in earthly possessions because you are facing a great turning point, a spiritual turning point which includes the passing away of earthly creations. But in this short time you could acquire a great treasure of spiritual possessions which are everlasting. And I want to help you humans achieve this through hardship and suffering which cause the desire for earthly goods to die in you .... I Myself want to enter your circle of thoughts through these hardships, I want you to remember Me again, you who have forgotten Me .... I want you, in great earthly adversity, to turn to the one in Whom you did not want to believe .... that I, your God and creator, will be recognized by you as the last resort after all if you no longer know any other way out. And I would truly make it easy for you to believe in Me through unusual help which you can no longer describe as coincidence .... But I can only ever use such means of help on you which do not force you. Adversity is indispensable and will approach you humans in the most diverse ways but only have the one purpose to let you find Me. For whether I address you, whether I send messengers to you who bring you My word, whether the gospel is proclaimed in the world and you are informed of the end .... none of this brings about a great change in the thinking of those people who are slaves to the world, who are so under its spell that only its goods seem desirable to them. And they must turn away from the world through tangible earthly hardship if they still want to find salvation from ruin. These words are incomprehensible to all worldly people, for they don't know that their souls are in distress, that they are in a terrible state due to the fact that the lord of this world still has them under his control and that they cannot become free as long as the human being clings to the world, as long as he is still unable to detach himself from it. For this reason they do not see adversity as a means of salvation for their souls, but they can become disgusted with the world and its goods if they can no longer enjoy them due to physical infirmities or illnesses or other hardships, and then their thoughts can still move in another direction. But as long as the world still tempts them with its pleasures and delights they will not resist these temptations and the last time until the end will pass unused for eternity. But great adversity can still touch hearts, great adversity can still open the eyes of individual people and make them recognize the staleness of the world and its goods. And blessed is he whose heart lets itself be addressed by adversity .... Blessed is he who can now himself do without for the benefit of his fellow human beings in need .... For he turns back on the path he had taken, and the danger of falling is averted .... and he will bless the hardship that saved him from death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cross .... "My yoke is easy and My burden is light .... "

B.D. 4127 from September 21st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Take up your cross and follow Me .... And I will walk beside you and help you carry it, for My love will not let you suffer where it can take away your suffering without harming your soul. But if the cross weighs you down, then know that this is necessary for your soul's maturity .... And bear in mind that I know about your spiritual adversity and try to remedy it first, for the soul is in greater danger than the body when the hour of death has come. Consider that all adversity will end with the end of this earth and that this end is not far away. And therefore try to shape yourselves such that your stay in spheres of light will be assured, that you will gladly give up your earthly body and exchange it for a life in the beyond in complete freedom, if you have passed the test of will on earth. And this life will compensate you for everything you have suffered on earth and you will never desire this earth again. And the more suffering weighs you down the sooner you will have to (be allowed to?) give up earthly life and yet be purified for the spiritual kingdom. And you will thank Me eternally that I let you suffer for your own sake. Nevertheless, I give you comfort that your suffering can be averted through heartfelt prayer to Me, that I will take it away from you if you trustingly come to the father like children. Then I will lovingly take care of you and carry the cross for you, i.e. I will find a solution which is equal to a reduction of the hardship .... I lighten your cross so that it no longer weighs so heavily on you, and you will be able to carry it because you draw the strength for it from Me. "My yoke is easy and My burden is light..." I Myself gave you this word. Do you want to doubt its truth? Therefore always believe that every cross is bearable for you if only you carry every burden with your eyes turned towards Me, and if it seems heavy to you, consider it a sign of My love for you, for I want to make My kingdom accessible to those I let suffer without guilt already on earth, because I know about their direction of will, about their activity of love on earth and about their state of soul, which I want to elevate. And therefore patiently accept all suffering, it is only imposed on you for your own good, and you will never reach your aim in the same time if you are spared suffering, if you are not burdened with a cross, if earthly life gives you fulfilment of all your wishes and much more. And if you know of My word that it is a sign of My great love for you, if you get into earthly adversity which almost makes you despair of life, then do not complain and grumble but surrender to your fate and think that your father in heaven truly does not burden His children with suffering if it would not bear far greater blessings for your soul, the maturing of which is the aim of every human being on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

'Come unto Me ....'

B.D. 5508 from October 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

All of you who labour and are heavily laden can take refuge in My arms .... For My love wants to embrace all of you and nobody who comes to Me in his distress and appeals to Me for help will be pushed back by Me .... I want to comfort and give strength, I want to heal wounds and fortify the weak, I want to awaken hope and confidence in all hearts, I want to bestow My blessings upon everyone, because no one's soul can recover without grace. 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden .... I will give you rest ....' However, someone who is weak in faith might well hear these Words but he will not accept them as being spoken to him too .... he will continue to carry his burden, which I would gladly take from him if he handed it over to Me. Come to Me .... your own will must impel you to Me, for I only placed the burden upon your shoulders so that you should find the path to Me .... Every adversity is a coaxing call from your heavenly Father Who, in His love, longs for your love, for your coming to Him, in order to be able to please you. And thus, psychological distress shall also lead you to Me, you should entrust everything to Me, for it is My will that you should let Me know what troubles you .... Admittedly, I know all your afflictions and problems, yet I can only help you when you present them to Me, because it is My will that you conduct yourselves like children to the Father, it is My will that you always take the path which all good children take .... the path to the Father Who, in His love, wants to relieve them from every worry and support them with help and advice in order to make them happy now and forever. Take refuge in My arms at all times, they will shield you protectively, carry you across cliffs and stony lanes, they will take loving care of you as long as you live on earth. Put your trust in Me always and forever, for I will push no-one away from Me, even if they are sinful .... I want to release you from sin and guilt, just come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden .... Call upon My mercy and I will answer your prayer, I will extend My hands to you to make your path to Me easy, for I want to help and heal you, I want to please the sick and weak who can no longer help themselves on their own, and you all shall recognise in Me the One Who has redeemed you because of His boundless love for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God takes care of earthly things ....

B.D. 5369 from April 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I will take care of your physical well-being if you strive for spiritual well-being, which is the meaning and purpose of your life on earth. I have given you this promise that I will provide you with everything you need if only you seek My kingdom and its righteousness .... if you strive to walk righteously before My eyes and to acquire the degree of maturity for your soul which entitles it to enter the kingdom of light. And I stand by My word, I take fatherly care of your earthly life, because I can certainly take over this care but I cannot promote your ascent development out of My abundance of power, which presupposes your free will. But you should not be prevented from spiritual striving by earthly worries, you should only be able to devote yourselves to your spiritual task completely carefree; therefore you can trustingly burden Me with every earthly worry, I want to carry it for you, I want to help you in every adversity, as a loving father I want to do everything for My children that makes earthly life bearable for them, I want to provide you with food and drink, with clothing and shelter, I will give you health for body and soul, and you shall want for nothing if only you make an effort to fulfil your task in earthly life, to always and constantly strive to shape your nature into love and thereby come close to Me Myself as your father of eternity. To anyone who seeks to win Me I will give Myself and everything else that will make him blissfully happy .... But on earth he has to prove his will, his love and his desire for Me, he has to live according to My will, he has to fulfil My commandments which only demand love for Me and for his neighbour. Then he can truly be certain that I will take over all care for his physical well-being, because I don't want My earthly children to be held back from spiritual striving by worries of any kind. And even if it seems as if My love has withdrawn, even if it seems as if I don't remember you .... wait patiently until I obviously make Myself known to you .... Often I want you to become aware of help from above, which can only happen when you seemingly hopelessly face adversity. There is no adversity so great that I could not banish it, and there is no love as profound as Mine, which is always ready to help, but which often waits until the moment when it expresses itself in order to be able to reveal Myself to you in My love and might .... But don't let yourselves be put off by the fact that I sometimes keep Myself hidden .... I know exactly what you need, just as I know how I can help you so that it will be a real help for you .... But don't forget your soul, whose hardship is truly far greater if no help is brought to it. For the soul will continue to exist when your body passes away, and the care you have given to the soul can no longer be taken away from it, they are treasures which it will take with it into the kingdom of the beyond and which are incomparably precious compared to what the body needs in order to live on earth. But you need never worry and look anxiously into the future .... what you do for your soul is the only thing that matters, leave everything else to Me, your creator and father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's constant care for the human being ....

B.D. 6338 from August 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

How often do I come close to you humans, how often do I speak to you, how often do I pull you back from danger and offer you My guidance on your path of life .... But rarely do you recognise Me. My obvious guidance is regarded by you as mere coincidence and My Words do not reach your hearts, you are unable to recognise Me because you have set you sights beyond Me towards the world. Yet My care pursues you. And even if you live within in the midst of worldly commotion I will nevertheless not leave your side, I will just wait for the moment when you notice Me so that you voluntarily place yourselves under My protection .... so that, amid the joys of the world, you still feel your hardship and look for the One Who pursues you and Who can help you. I will not stop revealing Myself to people .... Even if success is very slight, if it is scarcely perceptible .... I take notice of the faintest willingness to approach Me, and then I will never ever leave his side again ....

My love motivates Me into not abandoning you, even if you spend your earthly life in utmost indifference and don't try to find a bond with Me. Yet I do not force your willingness to hear Me, and this is why My Words are so soft and unobtrusive that you can easily not hear them if you don't take any notice of Me. They don't sound as loud as the voice of the world which therefore finds your full attention. And because your will shall turn to Me of its own accord I will never show Myself conspicuously but neither will I leave you without small contacts, I gently push you onto paths where you, lonely and weak, look around for help in order to then be able to emerge and offer My help to you .... I do not exclude anyone of you humans as long as he has not yet found and recognised Me, and since there is not much time left until the end people will have to cover shorter paths and these are far more arduous and laborious, because I want them to need and request My guidance.

Strokes of fate will increase; people will still have to endure much adversity and misery because they are further removed from Me than ever, even if I pursue them wherever they go .... Until the end of their life I will not abandon them, and My blows will become ever more severe in order to shake them out of their indifference, yet their reactions are not determined by Me, nevertheless, one day they will determine their fate in the spiritual kingdom .... For their will is and shall remain free, and even My greater than great love does not determine a resolve which chooses death although it would have been able to acquire eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Presence of God safest protection

B.D. 6657 from September 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You can be certain that My fatherly hand constantly guides you and that you cannot go astray if I Myself am your aim. In times of earthly adversity you often believe that I have withdrawn My guiding hand from you, that I leave you to your fate, and then you become anxious and despondent .... Yet in every adversity of body and soul I am closer to you than ever, I only want you to strive to come closer to Me, that you long for Me, and therefore I seemingly keep Myself hidden in order to awaken the feeling of abandonment in you which then makes you look for Me, that you seek Me and desire to be intimately united with Me. The intimate bond with Me also brings you back the certainty that I am always ready to help. I always walk beside you but at times you are not aware of it because you turn your eyes to the world or because you are too busy with yourselves and therefore don't think of Me. And every lonely walk will frighten you, for then you will also be exposed to harassment on the part of your soul's enemy, which I will not prevent because you should realize that you need Me Who wants to be your protection and shield, your guide and companion. The dangers for you are becoming ever more imminent if you walk your earthly path alone, because the number of your enemies in the last days is immense, and therefore you need ever more of My help and guidance in order to withstand the tribulations. But you humans are not aware of this danger and therefore often careless because you distance yourselves too far from the one Who alone can help you .... And therefore I always remind you of Me through hardship and suffering which you cannot cope with on your own .... because I want you to turn to Me, to let your thoughts wander to Me ever more often, to grant Me a permanent stay with you, but which your will alone only makes possible, that you mentally unite with Me and thereby draw Me to you. The closer it gets to the end the more strongly the world will bind you, not only due to your love for the world, which you may already have overcome, but the demands of the world will still be on you, because every individual has to fulfil his duties in the midst of the world, which often seem unfulfillable to him .... And there is the danger that worldly worries and thoughts will try to displace Me, that you will hardly find time for a quiet hour which you give to Me and therefore neglect to let Me take part in your worries and turn to Me for advice and help, for the allocation of strength for your earthly path of life .... And then you will become weaker and weaker, and yet you could also provide yourselves with ample strength for the most difficult situation in life, because I am always willing to impart it to you if only you ask Me Myself. Let it be said to you that you need not fear any weakness as long as you let Me walk beside you and consciously remain in constant contact with Me. But don't exclude Me from your thoughts, don't let the worries of the world push themselves forward, no matter how great they appear. I certainly have the power to take them away from you but that is why I want to be intimately approached, I always want to be felt as present by you and therefore always be the main content of your thoughts. As soon as you withdraw Me I will also obviously withdraw Myself, and then the world will always oppress you more .... However, if you grasp My hand to guide you through all adversity then your fear and weakness will also leave you, for then you will receive My strength, it will flow into you through the intimate bond you establish with Me .... And I require this intimate bond which, unfortunately, you often sever and thereby cause Me to seemingly withdraw .... You will still need much strength in the coming time, and it will always be at your disposal if only you, like children, reach for the father's hand, Who will safely guide you until you have reached your aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Come all to Me ...."

B.D. 7047 from February 23rd 1958, taken from Book No. 75

In prayer you have an extremely effective remedy for every earthly and spiritual adversity, for a right prayer which is addressed to Me in spirit and in truth truly does not fail to have an effect. I cannot and will not close My ear to it, and I will use My power to help you even where earthly help seems impossible. But first you must enter into trust in Me, you must know that I am the father of all of you Who loves His children and does not want to leave them in hardship and suffering, even if these are necessary for your soul .... and you must know that there is nothing for Me which I cannot change, and that there is also no illness which is impossible for Me to heal .... entrust yourselves to Me, present all your needs to Me in all childlikeness, speak to Me as a child speaks to its father, and be not faithless but believing .... You all don't yet know how to appreciate the power of prayer, otherwise you would truly be spared much adversity and suffering, because I gladly listen to the pleas of a child which comes to Me in all confidentiality and hands over its small cross to Me so that I may carry it for it. I have borne all your sins and died for them on the cross, I have suffered for you the suffering which your guilt of sin had burdened you with .... You could go through your earthly life without suffering if you wanted to unite with Me so intimately that all your burden would rest on My shoulders and that you would walk freely and light-heartedly along the path to the height .... But you all still keep yourselves too far away from Me, you don't come closer to Me in confidentiality, and therefore you yourselves often still feel the burden of the cross which, however, should only urge you towards Me because you should live in intimate communion with Me. But you can prove this intimate fellowship to Me in right prayer, I always hear and listen to a right prayer which is spoken to Me in confidence, for I have promised you this with the words: "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" and "Ask and it shall be given you..." My promises are truth, and you will always be allowed to experience the proof of this if only you turn to Me in right prayer. But as soon as you doubt, your prayer will lose its effect of strength. And only rarely is your faith of such strength that all doubt is excluded .... Only rarely do you have the certainty that you will be helped when you pray, which only proves an undoubted faith. But you should know that My word is truth and that when I Myself speak to you .... you have to ward off all doubt, for you should believe that no thing is impossible with God .... always remember that everything you see only came into being through the strength of My will, remember that I let new creations arise at any time, which cannot be denied by people. And therefore also remember that it is truly possible for Me to restore the old order which is disturbed due to illnesses or other earthly circumstances which cause you humans problems. I can put everything back into order, and I will do so as soon as you approach Me with faithful trust, as soon as you come to the father like children and present your requests to Me. The grace of prayer is available to all of you, you can all make use of it, for I have said: "Come to Me, all of you ...." but do not just speak words without spirit and life, call Me very close to you and then pour out your heart to Me and truly, you will be helped, I will not let your faith go to waste ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer .... Call upon Me in time of need ....

B.D. 0627 from October 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 13

Trusting in the Father's help will make everything in life easy for you to bear, for all suffering is sent to you by the Lord and Savior, so that you may find your way to Him .... If, however, you go out of the suffering only hardened and embittered, then you deprive yourselves of all help from above. You may take refuge in prayer at any time and thus have the greatest confidence that you will be heard, because whatever you are destined to do .... there is nothing so bad that the heavenly Father could not turn it into a blessing. Every child has the right to turn to the Father in supplication. Those who turn to the heavenly Father in humility, will never make a wrong request ....

But you all use the power of prayer too little .... You must first find yourselves in great need before you approach the Lord for help. And yet every day, every hour should bring you blessings .... you should not undertake anything without having implored God's blessing .... you should turn upwards in sorrow and joy .... you should use the power of prayer at all times, because your soul constantly needs help so that it already reaches the goal in earthly life. And also in other respects you lack strength .... alone, without prayer you can do only little, but since you are entitled to the grace of prayer, use it as far as possible, beg for help in need, for purity of heart, ask for grace, for firmness of faith, for energy in charity .... ask with all your heart that the Lord may give you His love and take care of you with His care forever.

You can ask without ceasing .... if you pray for your soul's salvation, you will find an answer, because if you recognize what you lack, every requested support will be granted to you. "Ask and it will be given to you ...." , says the Lord. He invites you to turn to Him in your need .... , so heed this call and lift up the treasures the Lord promises you .... . Only do not fall prey to the mere form .... , for the Father never hears those who only appeal to Him for help with their lips .... and whose hearts are far away. And if your prayer is not answered, then inquire what you have not done right .... whether the prayer was sent up from the depth of the heart or only came from the lips and therefore did not reach the Father's ear .... inquire whether you have asked for earthly things which the Father withholds from you out of Fatherly insight and wisdom ....

And always be careful to submit your will to the will of the Lord in every prayer .... For the Father knows what is good for you and necessary for your salvation .... He will consider you in a right way, but never will He grant you something out of false fatherly love, which is only to the detriment of the soul. Therefore submit yourselves to His will and believe that He always only thinks of you in such a way as is helpful and beneficial to the soul .... And if you faithfully call upon Him in earthly trouble, His help will not fail to come .... So that His word may be fulfilled: Call on Me in times of need and I will hear you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Simple form of prayer ....

B.D. 3734 from April 3rd 1946, taken from Book No. 47

The simple form of prayer is pleasing to Me .... Anyone who talks to Me in elaborate words and sentences will not be able to generate the depth of feeling which alone finds its way to My heart. But when a prayer comes from the heart it is like a simple expression of innermost feelings and its simplicity will not fail to have an effect because I will hear that call every time and comply with it. I ask for a child’s trusting prayer to its Father, which holds nothing back and is unpretentious and thus pleases the Father; whereas all stilted speech originates more from intellectual thought than from the heart and restricts the relationship of the child towards its Father. A devout prayer is a silent dialogue with Me in all humbleness and love, in trust of My constant assistance, of an affectionate answer .... Such a prayer finds My favour .... But I take no notice of formal prayers because they do not arise from your hearts and therefore cannot be experienced like a personal prayer. And it is not the length of a prayer which increases its effectiveness but only its sincerity ....

You should indeed pray incessantly, however this Word should not be taken to mean that you should linger in the practise of long formal prayers, which are not of the slightest value before Me, rather you should think of Me constantly and communicate with Me. This will give Me pleasure and you can derive endless grace from it, because your permanent unity of thought with Me makes you receptive to My grace: when you start your day’s work with Me, when you consult Me in everything you do and thus allow Me to stay near to you due to your own request which you prove in your thoughts every time you unite with Me in prayer. Your heart has to be involved if I Myself want to work on and within you. But you will not be able to achieve an effect with an empty prayer, even if you spend much time on it, because then I cannot hear the voice of My child, which alone receives from the Father what it requires and requests. And when you feel like My children your prayer will be childlike and simple too, you will not need formal prayers because they will not give you the comfort and strength, they will appear as empty talk to you. Because the right relationship with Me also urges you to use the right words, like a child speaks to its Father, and then your prayer is indeed pleasing to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer: "For the sake of Jesus Christ", "in His name ...."

B.D. 4363 from July 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

He who allowed Himself to be nailed to the cross turns all love towards people who call to Him for help. He will not leave anyone in distress, for He has spoken the words to you: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He will help you carry the cross, He will take the burden upon Himself for you, He will stand by you in word and deed if you believe in Him and that He died for you, that He suffered so that you need not suffer. You should turn to Him, for He Himself calls you with the words: "Come to Me ...." He promises you His support, His comfort and His strengthening. And so heed this call and accept His offer of love. He will truly not let you plead in vain, He will be your comforter in adversity and suffering and take the burden from your shoulders which weighs you down because He loves you. His love is unchanging, it is divine love which knows no limitation, He does not apply the measure of people but knows no measure, He gives where only His grace is required, and you can entrust yourselves to His love. And therefore you should always turn to Him when you need help, for He and the father are one, the father of eternity has chosen His shell as abode, He has united Himself with Him for eternity. And thus you call upon the father when you call upon Jesus Christ, you call upon the most powerful spirit from eternity Who can truly fulfil everything for you and also wants to fulfil everything in order to testify to His love and His power. He embodied Himself in the man Jesus, He Himself spoke the words through Him to you: "Come to Me, all of you." And thus every call you make to the cross-bearer Jesus Christ is meant for the father Himself from eternity .... And thus you will not make a wrong request, for the sake of Jesus Christ you will be helped in every spiritual and earthly adversity. In His name you should pray, for His name is blessed for all eternity, and whoever speaks His name in all devotion will also feel the blessing of the name upon him .... He will be helped, he will receive what he asks of God for the sake of His hallowed name. Therefore call upon Him when you are in need, remember His words and keep in mind that they were spoken in love and will also be kept in love, for His promise also says: If you ask the father in My name, He will give it to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer for good success ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Undoubting trust in God ....

B.D. 7417 from September 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

All your prayers will be granted to you if only you pray in the right way .... But as yet you do not know what to understand by the 'right way of praying'; otherwise you would live a completely carefree life on earth, because you would trust Me at all times. However, you lack this firm trust in Me, hence you cannot pray properly either, you doubt and still keep asking although you need only wait for help without doubting. Time and again tiny doubts still arise in you as to whether I will actually fulfil your requests, and then your prayer is already not as it should be in order to be granted. You should always know that My love for you is infinite and that love never denies itself .... If you pray in realisation of this, then you will also know that I cannot refuse anything you pray for, because My love wants to avert all difficulties from you, My love wants to make you happy, and My power is so great that nothing is impossible for Me, even if this seems impossible to you humans. Even so, you are unable to grasp My boundless love and this causes you to doubt, which weakens your trust in the fulfilment of your requests and thereby also restricts My working .... You only ever apply the yardstick which is applicable to you humans; you also limit My love because you have no idea what it means to love without limitation and to bestow limitless love. But no boundaries exist for Me, neither for My love nor My power, and therefore nothing is impossible for Me, just as I do not curtail My will to love those of you who pray to Me from the bottom of your hearts and with complete confidence that I will help, that I will grant your prayers. It is only your trust which must yet grow stronger .... the firm conviction that I hear your appeal and will come to help you, whatever it may be .... Your trust can overcome everything, since then you will only work with Me Myself and thus you will also be able to undertake what you want .... it will always be blessed by Me .... You will clearly feel My hand after heartfelt and trusting prayer to Me .... You will be guided as it will be in your best interest, and all worries will fall away from you, so that you can walk through earthly life cheerfully and unburdened, always holding on to My hand and never letting go again because you constantly unite with Me in prayer. By simply finding this heartfelt bond with Me, you will be able to pray correctly, then you will speak to Me in the simplest way and I will hear you and not prolong the moment in order to help My child .... However, you must trust Me .... I must insist on this because every doubt prevents Me from My activity of love in you .... given that it is an eternal law that love must not meet with resistance, but that a lack of trust constitutes resistance which prevents the strength of My love from becoming fully effective .... I Am concerned for each individual person's well-being and each individual person can speak to Me like a child speaks to its father .... Thus anyone who does that will truly be well taken care of for time and eternity, he will always and forever receive help, for as soon as the child places its trust in Me I can take effect in him according to his will. And only then will he be able to pray correctly in spirit and in truth, only then can he be certain that his prayers will be answered, for I will not deny Myself to anyone who fully and trustingly calls to Me for help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Supply of force ....

B.D. 7523 from February 16th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You can overcome yourselves if you approach Me Myself in Jesus Christ, for I acquired the strength for you through My death on the cross, which you can now draw from Me without restriction .... Therefore you must take refuge in Me again and again and entrust your worries and needs to Me in prayer, and I will take care of you, I will help you, of that you can be certain. You need strength to overcome .... for you yourselves are still powerless as long as My adversary can still harass you because you don't keep close enough to Me .... The intimacy of your connection to Me would also convey an abundance of strength to you, and then you would also be able to work together with Me in an unusual way. Yet only few people possess such profound love that they are intimately united with Me at all times. But where this love is, faith is also exceedingly strong, and there My strength can come into its own .... Yet I will never deny you My supply of strength if only you ask Me for it. Your spirit and soul will be strengthened even though your body feels weak, and soon the soul will also be able to transfer strength to the body and it will be resistant in every way. Thus you need not complain about weakness as long as you can call upon Me in Jesus Christ, for every such call will find fulfilment. I don't want you to pass away in weakness, and therefore strength is always available to you from My side, but I want you to come to Me Myself and appeal to Me in order to then also be able to provide you abundantly with everything you lack. For I have promised you this help with the words: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ...." But you shall come .... I await your supplication, I wait for your bond with Me, but then I will also be able to communicate Myself to you, for your blessing and spiritual gain .... You will never send a request for strength to Me in vain, you will always receive fulfilment, and if you don't feel it physically your soul will nevertheless benefit from it, which will then also convey to the body what serves it .... But at times the weakness of the body is also suitable to push the human being ever more intimately towards Me, and then the supply of strength will also take place as surely as I bend down to every child to help it in its adversity .... (16.2.1960) And in view of the approaching end you will still need much strength and help, you will often believe that you are too weak to meet the spiritual and earthly demands placed upon you, but you need not be weak because My strength is constantly at your disposal which you can request at any time. Even a thought which you send up to Me in prayer will convey this strength to you, for no prayer is in vain which is directed to Me in spirit and in truth, which is not merely spoken by your lips but felt by your heart and sent up to Me .... And the strength will first fill your soul, because it has to be taken care of first, for it concerns its maturing while you still walk on this earth. But the body will also be provided for, the body will also receive noticeable strength if only you believe that I love you and want to release you from every adversity .... But this is also the purpose of every adversity, that you approach Me for help, that you seek the bond with Me and that My strength can overflow into you in this bond, so that you will always feel strengthened if only you open yourselves in heartfelt thoughts of Me, so that I can give you what you desire: strength and grace and an enlightened spirit which recognizes Me everywhere and in every event, so that you will then also learn to love Me and love will unite us ever more firmly and then all weakness will also fall away from you, because then you will walk with Me and be fed by Me with light and strength at all times ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual food .... "Come to Me, I will refresh you .... "

B.D. 4163 from November 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Receive spiritual food as often as it is possible for you. You are at the start of such a difficult time that you have to be anxious to make yourselves resistant to hardship and suffering of all kinds. You will need much strength if you want to fulfil your earthly as well as your spiritual task, and My word imparts this strength to you. For this reason I admonish you again and again to make use of My gift of grace; I draw your attention to the adversities of the coming time and only warn you humans against living thoughtlessly from day to day, fulfilling the body's every desire and leaving the soul in want, for it is merely a matter of the soul's good .... your life in eternity. I would like to help you to be saved, yet your will has to become active and you should not believe that eternal beatitude can be acquired effortlessly, that it will fall to you against your will, without any help from you. You must be aware of the fact that with the death of your body the opportunity to work with your own strength is over, that you will bitterly regret every passed-up opportunity when you come to realise what earthly life has been for you. You only have a very short time left but it is enough if you have the serious will to mature your souls, for I will see to it that you are offered a thousand opportunities to fulfil your actual task in life, the work of unselfish neighbourly love. But there is one thing you must not neglect to make My word your own, to draw strength and comfort from it, because you, who let My word speak to your hearts, unite with Me Myself and thereby receive great blessings for your soul. Do not be satisfied with the fact that My word is offered to you from time to time but look for the opportunity yourselves with a hungry heart to put yourselves into its blessing .... Come to Me, I will refresh you .... Let Me speak to you often, do not be lukewarm and indifferent but hurry up and build up a store of strength in yourselves so that you will become strong in faith and be able to walk the most difficult path of life serenely and calmly, remain constantly aware of My presence and thus walk with Me towards the aim .... to be completely united with Me in the kingdom of light .... Take every word seriously which is conveyed to you through My servants on earth, think about how urgently you need My admonitions, about the danger you are in if you slacken your striving, if you attach too little importance to My word which is offered to you in deepest love in view of the great adversity. You stand in a great extraordinary grace that you receive My word .... make use of this gift of grace, feed your soul with the bread of heaven, do not let it go hungry, for it needs spiritual nourishment .... Therefore pay more attention to your soul than to your body, pay more attention to spiritual life than to earthly life, for the latter will bring you great disappointment if you attach too much value to it. But even a difficult earthly life need not frighten you who strive spiritually, you will live it with Me if you always and constantly let Me speak to you in the word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Comfort .... God’s word proof of His love ....

B.D. 3295 from October 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

If you take the life of the soul seriously every day and every hour will be beneficial for you, for I consider you according to your will. And if you believe that you are in danger, spiritually or earthly, you should always bear in mind that I Myself am close to you because you have already proven yourselves to be Mine through your will, because you therefore belong to those who want to be Mine, who desire to be under My fatherly protection. And I do not leave these children in adversity but save them as soon as it is beneficial for the soul. I have tremendous love for you, however, this also involves a certain amount of suffering which has to be imposed on your soul in order to mature. And therefore hardship cannot be completely excluded from your life, you must take a measure of it upon yourselves because it is necessary for the purification of your soul, and therefore you must not regard the suffering as a lack of love and believe that I have abandoned you, instead I am closer to you than ever in adversity and strengthen your soul so that it overcomes the hardship. And therefore you will be led out again and again as soon as you humbly accept everything I allow for your soul's salvation. Love for you determines your fate, and this love will not leave you helpless if you need help. Therefore always trust in My love and don't let yourselves be depressed by the hardship and suffering of the time, for I will end it at the right time .... Amen

My word is the most valuable possession you have on earth .... And this word shall be everything to you, for I Myself am in the word. Therefore, if you have Me Myself you should no longer strive for anything else, otherwise you will share your love for Me with whatever you desire. But if I am with you in the word, the highest measure of grace is at your disposal, and thus your longing for the goods of the world shall then be satisfied. For what are these compared to My word, to the evidence of My heartfelt love for you, to the gift of strength and grace .... You have the highest when you have My word and should desire nothing more apart from it. For with My word you also receive the promises that I will take care of your physical and spiritual well-being. And since My word is truth, don't worry about what your body needs but only about what is helpful for your soul. And be satisfied with My word, which is truly the most precious thing My love can offer you on earth. If you have My word you will also not lack the strength to master your earthly life, for then you will have Me Myself, and thus you must nevertheless be powerful and be able to successfully overcome the battle of life. Let nothing take away your faith and confidence that My word is the only source of strength from which you may draw daily and hourly and which will never leave you unfortified. For if you accept My word then you accept Me Myself, and where I am there can no longer be spiritual or earthly adversity, even though you seem to be in the latter. Let Me be with you in the word and your life will only be a constant upward development; earthly adversity, however, will no longer affect you, for then you will hold your body in low esteem if the soul is united with Me. You have a sure proof of My love for you in your hands, and My love is truly the most delicious thing you can attain .... it takes hold of you and never leaves you until you are completely united with Me and can leave earth. It won't be long now and earthly life will be over .... But the time before that is a time of struggle which you have to endure. But if I am with you in the word it shall not frighten you but only make you courageous, for I have assured you of My help and will not abandon you. And no matter how much you are surrounded by threatening dangers, as long as you receive My word you also know that I Myself am with you and that you need not fear anything which appears threatening to you. But you must not desire anything else either in order not to fall prey to the power of the one who tries to approach you by awakening your desires for earthly pleasures and earthly possessions. Disregard everything that still belongs to earth and only strive towards Me with all your senses, with all your love .... shape yourselves into love so that I can completely take abode in you, listen within so that you hear Me, and accept My word as a pledge of My love which applies to you forever and will also lead you through all dangers of body and soul .... For My word is truth, and My word promises eternal life to all who faithfully receive it into their heart and live accordingly. Rest and refresh yourselves with what My love offers you and ask for nothing else if you have My word and can build yourselves up on it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Using the power of the divine word ....

B.D. 4902 from May 23rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Constantly strengthen yourselves with My word, which will be refreshment for you in times of deepest adversity, but which also already provides you with strength and fortification for your will and your faith. Consider that My word is a direct gift from Me to you and that My gift truly has to be of utmost effectiveness; furthermore, consider that I Myself am with you with My word, that you receive eternal love into your heart yourselves when you accept My word. You make far too little use of the strength of My word or you would never be weak and discouraged, otherwise no worries would weigh you down and you would always be able to walk your earthly path joyfully and cheerfully. You give yourselves far too little to the effect of My word, you don't deepen yourselves enough into the meaning of the word and your thoughts too often stray into the earthly world, which need not frighten you at all if only you would strengthen your faith, which My word helps you to do. Immerse yourselves in My word often and thus let Me speak to you in every adversity of your life, in happy as well as in gloomy hours .... My word radiates strength into you which lets you endure or feel less weak whatever oppresses you. Always make your heart receptive for Me, Who wants to come to you in the word to strengthen and comfort you. I constantly want to be with you with My love, yet if you close the door of your heart to Me by turning to the world you will also be and remain weak, because no strength emanates from the world to refresh your soul. My word alone is food and drink for your soul, My word is the right nourishment which you should constantly supply to your soul if you also want to receive Me with the word within you. But to receive My word does not mean to merely read it or to accept it with your ears, for then you will feel no strength, then it will remain ineffective, for then it will only be empty letters in which I can never be. Intimately unite with Me in thought and desire to hear Me, then let Me speak to you and you will feel My presence through the strength which flows to you with every word from Me. You will feel that I speak to you and be happy, for the awareness of My presence fills you with peace and tranquillity, with an inner bliss which lets you endure everything that is allowed to happen to you for the sake of your soul and also for the sake of your fellow human beings. Immerse yourselves in My word and the effect of My word will not fail to materialize ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The strength of the Word .... Daily work of improving the soul ....

B.D. 7514a from February 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You should draw the strength you are lacking from My Word. Consider that I speak to you Myself after all, and that this is truly an act of grace which can never be ineffective. Consider that I Myself illuminate you with My love and that you, therefore, should feel it as a flow of strength which is a truly great blessing for your soul. And you will feel physically strengthened, too, if you sincerely unite yourselves with Me .... And new blessings will flow to you time and again because I see your weakness, your spiritual and earthly failure during times of psychological hardship .... But you need not fear failure if only you always keep to My Word: 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden .... I will give you rest ....' You will always find the help you require with Me. You only need to turn to Me with complete trust and time and again hear or read the Words through which I always address My children as a Father. Through these Words you will receive strength and your desperate situation will always resolve itself, you will be able to wait with perfect certainty until your help arrives. My Word contains the strength which will subsequently flow into you if you allow Me to speak to you, however, you must also be convinced of the fact that you are being addressed by Me. You should not read the letter of the Word but be wholeheartedly involved in it and listen to Me, and you will feel the effect of My Word within and on yourselves, as is to be expected, because everything coming forth from Me is strength and must also have the effect of strength. If, however, you still believe yourselves to remain unaffected then it is only due to the fact that you did not establish your bond with Me closely enough, and then you should only remember that My love is intended for you and you will feel this love in My Word and your soul will be strengthened ....

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God is good and righteous ....

B.D. 5212 from September 15th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

I Am a good and righteous God, and time and again My kindness and mercy will be experienced by you humans if you have done wrong, although I cannot disregard anything sinful .... yet I take all your weaknesses into account, I do not judge you humans as I once judged you when you had been perfect; for now you are imperfect creatures without correct realisation and of weak will. Nevertheless, I must urge you to regain your perfection. I must reproach you for your sins, I must inform you of what is right and what is wrong, what corresponds to My will and what you should do in order to become perfect again. And therefore I cannot ignore any transgressions either, although I look upon them through the eyes of clemency and mercy. For you need not sin even if you are weak, because you can use My strength and grace which is at your disposal. Thus I have to remind you to always request My strength, to appeal for My gifts of grace and not to go through life without imploring Me for support. I Am good and righteous .... therefore I cannot abide you acting wrongly but have to confront you with injustice until you have recognised it as injustice and endeavour to think and act righteously. You must recognise sin in order to avoid it and I want to help you in this, for I Am a good God, a God of love and not a God of wrath Who punishes when His living creation has transgressed ....

I Am a Father of My children, and a father wants to win his children over with love. All the same, He cannot overlook the injustice due to false love, because this will not lead the child to perfection; perfection, however, is the human being's ultimate goal on earth. Let yourselves be drawn and educated by Me, also humbly accept a reprimand, for it is just a means of making you realise a wrong action in order to subsequently avoid it. And always keep to My commandment of love .... Then you will also conduct yourselves in a good and right way .... be kind and merciful yourselves and don't judge heartlessly; try to emulate Me in everything, My patience, gentleness, humility and peacefulness, and if you are at risk of failing call upon Me for help, for strength and grace. And you will receive it whenever you appeal to Me for it. Only I know your weakness, your spiritual hardship and also your will .... I Am a God of love, I Am a Judge Who is full of forbearance and tries everything in order to change you before His judgment of you .... You only need to direct your will towards Me so that I can help you if you become weak .... Then I will always let kindness and mercy prevail, even when you have done wrong ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's father love ....

B.D. 7229 from December 13th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You could go through earthly life cheerfully and carefree with the right attitude towards Me, your God and father of eternity .... You need only ever feel like My children and all fear would leave you, all worries would become invalid, for a child's right relationship with the father eliminates all worries and fears. The child knows that the father has the strength to protect it from evil, from hostility and affliction, and thus you should also grant Me as your heavenly father, Who loves you, the power and the will that He will protect and guide you like a loving father does. You only have to imagine this father of yours as eternal love Which embraces you with all intimacy, Which only ever wants happiness and bliss for you and Which truly also prepares everything for you if you don't prevent Me from My activity of love. You are My children and will remain so forever .... yet I can only think of you like children if you see your father in Me .... As long as you keep yourselves far away from Me, as long as I am still the 'foreign God' to you, Who is infinitely far away from you, you are not yet in the right relationship with Me, and My love cannot embrace you as it would like to embrace the child. For My love also demands your trustfulness, your open heart and your will to intimately join Me and give yourselves to Me like a child gives itself to its father. Once you muster this inner trust towards your God and father and all fears and worries will leave you, you will walk your path through life joyfully and serenely and truly always be guided correctly, for then the father will have taken over the guidance because the child will have taken Him by the hand and can no longer go wrong. The God Who is love does not want you to be in adversity but He cannot avert this adversity from you if you withdraw yourselves from His care, if you consciously walk alone, if you don't call upon Me as 'father' to guide you Myself. A child has great power over its father if only it strives to gain His love .... the father's love certainly belongs to the child, but the child itself must desire it, it must likewise feel love for the father, and then it will also come to Him of its own accord and no longer want to separate itself from Him. Then the bond of love is tied, and then the child is embraced by a blissful peace. It feels safe at the father's heart and every worry and fear has left it. And as long as you humans don't establish this right relationship with your father, earthly life will also be difficult and full of worries for you, for then you will carry the burden your father would gladly take from you if only you would ask Him for it. Just try again and again to imagine such an intimate relationship as that of a child with its father, and then enter into this relationship with Me .... And you will certainly experience so much love that you can already call yourselves blessed on earth. But every external relationship hinders Me from working My love on you, and you are still in an external relationship as long as you don't trust Me, as long as you still have doubts that I could leave you without help, or as long as you think that I want you to suffer .... I love you and only want to make you happy .... Accept this love and let yourselves be blessed and carried over all difficulties of earthly life. You have the power if only you meet Me with love yourselves, then I will not refuse you any request .... I will do everything in order to make My child happy who fully entrusts himself to Me, for I am the father of you all and only want to be recognized and loved as a father ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fatherly Words of comfort ....

B.D. 3565 from October 2nd 1945, taken from Book No. 45

He who feels weak in spirit should come to Me, I will give him strength .... he whose faith is in danger of wavering should call upon Me and I will revive his faith again .... I want to lift him up again through My Word so that he will become spiritually and physically so strong that he will overcome all obstacles which discourage him. I will nourish and refresh him and he will certainly feel the strength of My manna from Heaven in him by confidently fulfilling his earthly duties and lifting his heart up to Me in prayer more often. Taking refuge in Me will always lift him up, for no-one comes to Me in vain, no-one knocks at My door without it being opened, and no-one who desires a gift will walk away from Me with empty hands. But I especially consider the spiritual hardship and in order to resolve it I often let people take difficult paths so that they will learn to recognise Me and request My help. However, anyone who comes to Me of his own accord, who accepts Me as his daily Advisor, who does not start anything without having prayed for My blessing first, who opens himself for My influx of strength through prayer and kind-hearted activity daily and hourly, who therefore lives consciously and works at improving his soul, will constantly be cared for by Me and be able to confidently leave his spiritual and earthly wellbeing to Me .... he will not be harmed, even if he is assailed by earthly adversity in order to test his faith. The path to Me is always open and the bridge is, at all times, the prayer, the heartfelt contact with Me and the call upon My name .... Then you will always receive an answer, your adversity will always be remedied as soon as you merely believe firmly and confidently and place your trust in Me. I Am aware of your every problem and worry and always know how to remedy the situation, yet you should believe in order to recognise the strength of faith when you receive help. Let Me be in control and only consider your souls so that they won't live in want, for this is entirely up to your own will, whereas I will take care of the body if you believe in Me and consciously strive towards Me. And therefore, always come to Me if you labour and are heavily laden, I will give you rest .... I have given you this promise and I will truly keep it, you will never call upon Me in vain if you suffer adversity of body and soul, I Am always willing to help because I love you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna