The Spirit Of God'S Work

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

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

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

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

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

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

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

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

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

Outpouring of the spirit

1063 - ?resNotTranslated?

7130 - Understanding the outpouring of the spirit....

8145 - John 7:38-39....

8674 - Calling upon the 'Holy Spirit'....

What is mind-operation

2806 - ?resNotTranslated?

5059 - Outpouring of the spirit....

7046 - Divine spark of love.... spiritual work.... knowledge....

8610 - Through the working of the spirit light is given to man....

Conditions for the operation of the spirit of God

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1963 - ?resNotTranslated?

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4060 - Conditions for the working of the spirit.... God-connectedness through love....

4483 - Prayer in spirit and in truth prerequisite for the working of the spirit....

7363 - Overcoming the world.... spiritual work....

Working forms of the spirit

4470 - Various spiritual activities: wisdom, seeing, prophecy.... (Konnersreuth)

5270 - Forms of spiritual work.... healing.... speaking in tongues....

5430 - The effusion of the Spirit means spiritual help....

8214 - "Working of the spirit" in spiritual exchange of ideas....

8979 - Enlightened thinking is also a sign of the "working of the spirit"....

Satan's counter

6857 - Admission of the spiritual work....

7088 - Unbelief in spirit-work.... lack of understanding of the scriptures....

7103 - Wrong interpretation of the Scriptures.... The working of the spirit....

7855 - Divine Working of the spirit.... Speaking in tongues.... I.

8416 - Difference between the 'working of the spirit' and 'psychic' receptions....

Order to work in the vineyard

3695 - Obvious work of the spirit connected with mission....

4339 - Love life - spiritual work.... holy scripture....

4716 - Gift of speech testimony to the work of the spirit....

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

8325 - True servants of God.... Instituted words.... Working of the spirit....

5174 - Characteristic of the church of Christ: The working of the spirit....

6612 - Let the spirit work in you....

Outpouring of the spirit

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Understanding the outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 7130 from May 25th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

The working of My spirit has become an incomprehensible concept for most people, and this, too, is a sign of the profound spiritual darkness which is spread across the earth. They do not understand the actual meaning of the outpouring of My spirit, and it is only ever the 'outpouring of the spirit upon My disciples' that they understand by it. An event which was announced to all people, which all people could experience themselves, they only limit to My first disciples .... And thereby they make themselves unfit for My spirit to pour over them. They lack the understanding for this process which only appeared for the first time with the first disciples but was announced by Me beforehand with the words: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ...." And all the words I spoke were also directed to all people; they did not only apply to My disciples but to all those who, like My disciples, endeavour to follow Me, who fulfil My commandments of love, otherwise I could not have said: "He who fulfils My commandments is the one who loves Me .... to him I will come and reveal Myself to him ...." But I Myself could only announce Myself 'in spirit' because My life on earth as a human being had ended with My death on the cross and My ascension into heaven clearly marked the end of My mission on earth .... But I had promised My spirit to those who believed in Me, I wanted to be with them always 'in spirit' .... And most people do not understand this saying, otherwise the 'working of My spirit' would not be unknown or improbable to them either. For it is precisely this working of the spirit which causes doubt or rejection everywhere because, on the one hand, it is only rarely possible and, on the other hand, it does not come to light where people pretend to be followers of those disciples .... who, however, are not the right followers in truth, who also do not fulfil the conditions which entail the working of the spirit. For these alleged 'followers' or 'representatives of God' are also completely ignorant of the meaning of the 'outpouring of the spirit' .... The spirit from Me is My share, it sees everything, knows everything and will therefore spread light and brightness, enlightenment about things which human knowledge does not reveal to it. The spirit from Me is the strength which can also fill the human being when My spirit flows through him. Thus the spirit from Me guides everything out of order into the right order, it also orders the human being's thinking, it opens his eyes to see what has never been seen before .... He opens his ears to hear what he has never heard before. And I have promised people this outpouring of the spirit if only they live according to My will, i.e. fulfil My commandments of love .... But if this outpouring of the spirit is evident in a person, if he reports out of himself about things which are hidden to humanity, if he can clearly and understandably enlighten people about many things which were hitherto incomprehensible to them, then fellow human beings will not recognize that My spirit expresses itself, that My promise is fulfilled, instead, they will reject everything and only describe that person as a fantasist or liar and thereby only testify to themselves that they are completely ignorant and not at all filled by My spirit. Nor can they register the slightest degree of spiritual working in themselves, otherwise their thinking would be rightly guided insofar as that they would reverently face My unusual working and seriously want to think about it. And precisely the outpouring of My spirit has been the cause of endless persecutions and hostilities of those who, as true followers of My first disciples, became receptacles for Me to pour out My spirit into .... Countless crimes have been committed on the part of those who claimed the right to be enlightened by My spirit and yet could not show the slightest sign of the working of My spirit in themselves .... All understanding for this has dwindled and only a few made it possible for Me to reveal Myself in spirit, for My promise to be fulfilled, for Me Myself to come to My own in spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

John 7:38-39 ....

B.D. 8145 from April 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

"Out of your body will flow rivers of living water ...." These words, too, were a divine promise given by the man Jesus when He walked the earth to proclaim My word to those who willingly listened to Him. This promise was also intended to point people to the process of the 'outpouring of the spirit', which gave them the guarantee that the living water, the pure word of God, would flow to them if they believed in Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, Who was only the shell of My eternal God-spirit .... Faith in Me, Who accomplished the act of salvation on earth in Jesus, is necessary for this outpouring of the spirit .... It is necessary because only then will the burden of the original sin be removed from the human being and only then can My spirit pour itself out. The flow of the spirit should flow out of the body of the one who believes in Me .... My word should resound from within him .... For I Myself address the spiritual spark in the human being which slumbers within him until it is awakened through a life of love and now conveys My utterances to people .... Living water now flows out of the human being's body .... My word resounds in him and is held fast by the human being's will and passed on to his fellow human beings .... You humans do not pay attention to this promise of Jesus either, or you do not understand its meaning, otherwise the transmission of My word from above should truly not seem special to you who do not want to believe in it and reject revelations of this kind .... You do not understand the word which is written and which proves that you yourselves are still unawakened in spirit .... However, the process of the outpouring of the spirit upon a person is so easy to understand, yet it presupposes certain conditions, and anyone who does not fulfil these conditions does not understand the words of scripture in their spiritual sense either. But anyone who is seriously concerned with the value of divine revelations must also know that Jesus Himself made this promise to give the 'living water' to the human being ..... His word .... to man through His spirit. And he will not be able to reject Jesus' words, he must try to fathom their meaning, and then he will also be able to believe that I speak to people time and again, that I repeatedly convey My word to them from above. If the earth were not a valley of sin, if it were not the kingdom of the one who seeks to keep his followers in darkness, then the pure truth which Jesus Himself brought to people during His life on earth would truly have been preserved .... For no deformation of the truth would be possible without the influence of My adversary .... But this one will wage his battle against the light of truth as long as the once fallen spiritual is not yet redeemed. And therefore he will always try to enforce the truth with error, he will also deprive people whose spirit is darkened of all understanding for the pure truth, and nothing will remain as pure as it originated from Me .... Thus pure truth has to be conveyed to earth from Me time and again, which is also possible and happens time and again if a person prepares himself such that My spirit can work in him .... if he believes in Me, as the scriptures say .... if the living water, My word, can now flow through him and his fellow human beings can also drink from such a spring opened up by Me and refresh themselves with it .... But the 'scripture which testifies of Me' is of no use to you humans either if you yourselves do not understand it... because your spirit is unawakened. Then it will be necessary for you to be informed of what you must do in order to awaken the spirit in you to life ..... For it is necessary that you are admonished to live a life of love which first leads you to a living faith. And only then will you be able to properly recognize your God and creator of eternity, Who approaches you as father and wants to speak to you with words of love .... Who seeks to guide you into truth, because you can only become blissfully happy through truth. And then you will also understand that this is possible, that you humans hear Me Myself within you, and then you will strive for the heartfelt bond which is the prerequisite for you to hear My voice and recognize it as the voice of your father .... And only then will you also understand Jesus' promises which have to come true because His word is truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Calling upon the 'Holy Spirit' ....

B.D. 8674 from November 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans often call the 'Holy Spirit' that it may come upon you, and you are unaware of the fact that it is within you and only requires your free will so as to be able to speak to you .... The spirit is part of Me, it is inseparably connected with the Father-Spirit .... thus it is a divine spark which was added to your soul when it incarnated on this earth as a human being, in other words: you once emerged from Me as an emanation of love and therefore consist of the same fundamental substance as I Myself .... This substance solidified after your past apostasy from Me and you, who once had been full of life, became lifeless beings. For My strength of love permeated you and this strength was only able to be constantly active. However, since you rejected My strength of love it also left you incapable of any kind of activity. And you are still in this weak state when you enter the earth as a human being. In order that you will be able to accomplish the task given to you in your earthly life I radiate a spark of My eternal strength of love into every human heart, which thus is My share again .... You are alive with the once emanated strength and that means that you are in possession of vitality, that you can be active in an earthly way and therefore also comply with your task as a human being .... Your real task, however, is and remains your spiritualisation, the retransformation of your nature into its original state. And you can only accomplish this task if you change yourselves into love .... In order to be able to do that a spark of love has to be radiated into you first, since you, due to your past apostasy from Me, are completely without love. This spark of love is the emanation of Me Myself .... it is the emanation of My spirit into your soul which, however, only awakens you humans into life if you apply your will .... You all possess the spiritual spark, which is part of Me Myself, within you .... Hence it need not come to you anymore, it is inside of you but can only manifest itself if, through a life of love, you provide the possibility for it, because it will not impose itself and influence you against your will in any way .... Therefore you can at all times awaken the spirit in you but you will not be compelled to it.

When you pray for the Holy Spirit to come to you, you demonstrate your lack of knowledge regarding the right correlations, furthermore, you prove that you have a false concept of it, because you personify it to a certain extent and call upon it as an entity .... It is, however, My 'emanation', for I Myself Am the Holy Spirit of eternity, and I Am present to anyone who calls upon Me. However, you must never think that the spirit you call upon is separate from Me, and it will and cannot comply with your call as long as you do not shape yourselves into love, for even if My strength of love is unlimited it will never be able to radiate into a closed heart, and a heart remains unreceptive as long as it is unwilling to love .... since precisely due to the spiritual spark or spark of love it received from Me it is capable of loving .... Willingness to love, however, prompts the spirit to reveal itself to you, even if you don't call upon it expressly .... It is within you but will remain silent as long as you disregard love, because it is love itself and therefore can only speak to love. It is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit, and therefore enables 'My spirit' .... or the divine fire of love .... to flow into you humans in abundance and thus cause the spiritual spark to continuously educate you from within; for then divine light of love must also illuminate your hearts and that signifies brightest realisation, it signifies the receiving of knowledge which corresponds to the truth, because My spirit knows everything and can therefore only impart the pure truth to you. Therefore you can only ever pray that I Myself may be present to you, but this also requires you to shape yourselves to love, otherwise the Eternal Love cannot be present to you. You can therefore only pray to be granted the strength to fulfil My commandments, then you will always become aware of My presence, for with every work of love you draw Me close to you because I Am Love Itself .... And then I will also work through My spirit in you, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

What is mind-operation

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Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 5059 from February 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I want to work in you and unfold My love and strength in you, I want to put you into a state where you feel My presence and are blissfully happy .... I Myself want to work in you, that is, My strength shall make you alive, it shall give life to your soul, for without My working in you it is dead, although the human being is alive. I want to awaken the soul to life, and since it cannot live without Me I Myself must be able to be in you, which also results in My working in you. But I Myself am spirit and can therefore only be with you in spirit. You don't need to experience Me in a physically visible way and yet I can have taken abode in you and give you life through My influence. And then you can also speak of My presence with conviction, for you bear obvious evidence of it: inner enlightenment through the spirit .... you mature in inner realization, you gain knowledge which can never be conveyed to you by a human being unless the same process has already taken place in him and he then imparts the knowledge thus gained to you. Thus My spirit awakens you humans to life, but My spirit is eternally inseparable from Me, and consequently, anyone who has been enlightened by My spirit must have received the light from Me Myself, he must have allowed My working within himself, which, in turn, is only possible if love indwells the people in whom I Myself want to work through My spirit. Without love the spirit from Me can never express itself, without love the divine voice in the human being falls silent, and without love there is also no understanding for what is conveyed to a person by a spiritually awakened fellow human being. For My spirit is an unheard-of fire of love, full of strength and effect, yet only ever when it is in its element, when it awakens in a heart which is capable and willing to love, otherwise the spirit withdraws and completely shuts itself off from everything ungodly in a person.

Thus, when the outpouring of the spirit is spoken of it always means closest union with Me so that My working can take place in the human being, so that I take care of the human being Myself and bring about his realization, that I make him a knowing human being who moves in fullest truth, who then purposefully travels his earthly path looking upwards, who turns away from the world and strives towards the spiritual kingdom because it became bright in him and he recognized the spiritual kingdom as his true home, which he now strives towards with all his strength .... He becomes alive in his wanting, thinking and acting .... He consciously works on himself in order to shape himself such that he can constantly unite with Me because My working in him makes him happy and he now no longer wants to separate himself from Me. Thus My working in him is evident when the human being strives upwards; then he no longer resists Me and accepts Me into his heart, and then he will be permeated by My love and My strength, he will stand in recognition and the spiritual darkness will have departed from him forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine spark of love .... spiritual work .... knowledge ....

B.D. 7046 from February 21st 1958, taken from Book No. 75

You carry My divine spark of love within you which will instruct you from within if you allow it yourselves. For it cannot take effect in you until you are completely unresisting towards it, that is, until you are willing to make contact with Me. This spark of love in you is My share, it is spirit of My spirit, love of My eternal love .... it is what connects you with Me, but only if you want to enter into this bond with Me again yourselves. In the beginning you were able to hear My word, in the beginning My thoughts flowed to you in the form of My word. I was able to give you fullest knowledge through the everlasting illumination of love. Thus there was light in you .... But your human state is one of darkness, because you once rejected that illumination of love from Me yourselves .... Nevertheless, I have placed a tiny spark of My light of love into your heart, and this tiny spark can spread within you and fill you with brightest light again if you are willing to open your heart to Me, if you turn to Me again and desire My divine flow of love. Then it will no longer stop flowing, and that means that you will receive this flow of thoughts from Me again, that you will attain realization again, that you will step out of the dark state into brightest light. Understandably, however, the degree of realization will also correspond to the degree of love in you, and only rarely does a human being on earth already reach that degree of love which allows him to recognize and see through everything as it was possible for him in the beginning when he was created by Me as a perfect being. And therefore the human being will only rarely be able to completely penetrate the deepest secrets on earth which are hidden behind My reign and activity. And in the kingdom of the beyond his bliss will then also consist of always being supplied with new light and thereby also constantly increasing his degree of light. But anyone who has once allowed the glow of My small spark of love, who once allows the part of Myself to work, will also always be truthfully instructed from within, and it will not be difficult for him to distinguish truth from error. For light no longer allows darkness, light will always displace darkness, light will also chase away the shadows which sometimes still want to lie over an area which is not yet brightly enough illuminated. But My divine light of love cannot flow to a person who has no contact with Me, who has not yet established the bond, who therefore has not yet brought the spark of love to shine .... in which it still lies buried and could not yet unfold its luminosity. But people often seek to attain realization anyway because they believe they can fathom through their intellect what is still hidden from them. And then the concepts easily become confused. For the darkness, which is the portion of the once-fallen, cannot be chased away by means of intellectual research. You humans have already been told many times that I Myself must work in you if you want to be rid of this darkness, the consequence of which was your separation from Me. And this presupposes that you first re-establish the bond with Me so that the original process of radiation can begin again, the transfer of light and strength into you, which can only happen through Me Myself. But this influx of light and strength is not restricted by Me; you yourselves can cause Me to release it to an unlimited extent if only you constantly open yourselves and desire the influx from Me .... if you pray in spirit and in truth .... if you perform labours of love in complete unselfishness .... if you believe that in My love I will not deny you anything you desire. Then the spark of love will spread within you and soon become a bright flame which will completely change your initially deficient state. Nature will also have to obey you and your will if you draw the strength from Me which will also let you become masters over all living creations. You will enter your original state again and no longer know weakness, no longer know darkness, for as soon as you allow My ray of light of love to touch you again you will then also work with Me and in My will again, and you will use My strength which is available to you without measure. You humans could all achieve this but your will usually fails because your faith in it is not strong enough and it can only attain this strength again through loving activity .... The little spark of love in you must therefore be ignited, and then it will urge you from within to constantly work with love. And you must comply with this urge, again and again think of your neighbour who is in need and want to help him as far as it lies within your initially still weak strength. And your strength will increase, you will grow beyond yourselves and be able to work for the benefit of your fellow human beings, you will become full of light and strength yourselves and then also use your strength in My will in utmost realization .... Seek to achieve this, for it is within the realm of possibility, and constantly request My support .... Remain in constant bond with Me and do not slacken in your struggle for profound faith .... Then you will achieve much in earthly life and be able to enter the spiritual kingdom in brightest radiance of light when your course on this earth is over ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Through the working of the spirit light is given to man ....

B.D. 8610 from September 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

What the spirit teaches you is truth and can therefore be convincingly represented as such .... I say: what it teaches you .... i.e., he must open up a knowledge for you which you did not possess before .... You literally have to be led out of the state of ignorance into the state of brightest knowledge, then you can say that My spirit has taught you, that therefore I Myself have spoken through the spirit spark in you and then there can also be no error, because the spirit in you knows about everything, since it is My share .... This I emphasize again and again that I want to bring light to you men, that I want to supply you with knowledge, which enlightens you about everything what reaches into spiritual area. They are not empty words without deep meaning, they are not sayings which are already known to you, which My spirit imparts to you, even if it reminds you, as I have promised, of what I Myself have told you .... remember what I Myself told you when I walked on earth .... For also these once spoken words of Mine will be explained to you in detail; a right light will also be brought to you about these words, how they are to be understood .... You must always know that the earth is a dark area, that men have little or no knowledge at all, for what occasion and for what purpose they go over the earth .... and that I Myself, as the eternal light, also want to shine light into this darkness, that I want to give people an enlightenment which shall now determine them to also lead a right way of life .... And therefore I want to instruct them; I want to send them information about all connections, which they cannot find themselves, but which also only I Myself can impart truthfully and this therefore has to happen through the voice of the spirit .... that I Myself can work through My spirit in man. A comprehensive knowledge now, which man possesses, whose possession he also can prove, is a quite certain sign of the work of My spirit, because from no other side such knowledge can be received, which concerns areas, which are inaccessible to the human intellect alone. "You shall all be taught by God ...." He who is taught, his knowledge will increase .... But it cannot be spoken of "teachings" if man does not receive something which he did not know before, for he is taught for this reason, that his knowledge may increase. He can indeed receive a teaching material from his fellow human being .... but as soon as it concerns deeper knowledge, processes and conditions in the spiritual kingdom which no human being can know about .... the understanding for it must always be made accessible to the human being from Me .... Therefore also he must be instructed by Me, to whom spiritual material is supplied .... the spirit must be able to work in him, otherwise all knowledge will remain incomprehensible to him. You all have to be taught by God if you want to attain the right knowledge. And that you reach knowledge, to light, that alone is necessary for you, but also always a proof of My work in you. Therefore .... when you examine .... always ask yourselves whether you increase in wisdom, whether a light is kindled in you in whose glow you are able to clearly recognize everything .... And only then can you speak of the 'working of the spirit' in man when such a light shines in you .... But if your thinking remains confused or if you are only ever given words which are well known to you but whose meaning is not explained to you in an understandable way, then no divine working can be assumed, instead purely human intellectual thinking produces results which are of no value, because the intellect can err and intellectual results cannot have a good influence on the soul either, for it needs spiritual strength which can only be supplied to it by Me Myself. I know it that you lack light, that you dwell in dark areas and still need light so necessary to find the right way to Me, and that is why it will always be My care to break through the darkness through a bright ray of light, which falls down from Me to earth, and this ray of light goes to you yourselves when you intimately unite with Me and ask for enlightenment of the spirit. Then My spirit radiates into you, then the spirit spark in you is caused to express itself, and then you can be instructed from within, and you will truly receive a bright light; you will be enlightened about your purpose of existence, and your knowledge will increase the more often you establish the union with Me and ask for enlightenment from Me Myself .... Then you will also know that it is I Myself Who instructs you, that the eternal light Itself enlightens you ...._>Amen

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Conditions for the working of the spirit .... God-connectedness through love ....

B.D. 4060 from June 9th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You can receive knowledge from all fields if you so desire and allow yourselves to be instructed by the voice of the spirit. But the condition is that you first fulfil what I demand of you, what is made known to you through My servants .... that you thus accept My teaching of love and act accordingly .... This is the prerequisite for then also penetrating deep knowledge. If you receive the same knowledge through human instructions without first working with love you will not know what to do with it, you will also not be able to pass it on to your fellow human beings in a living way, for since it has not yet found its way into your heart yourselves you lack both the gift of speaking about it as well as the zeal of inner conviction, and it will remain entirely ineffective in the ears of those who listen to it unless the required working with love makes the listener able to receive the wisdom with heart and intellect. Then My spirit will work as in those persons, he will be instructed by the spirit within himself, albeit through the mouth of the one who is full of understanding himself for what he passes on. The right attitude towards Me, towards My commandments, is the basic condition in order to have truthful knowledge, no matter in which way and in which form it is offered. And therefore, these proclamations, which are conveyed to people from the spiritual kingdom as mental spiritual knowledge, can never be examined by a person who lacks the main thing .... the bond with God through love. A just examination and a just judgment irrevocably necessitates the working of the spirit, and My spirit only works where all influence on the part of the adversary is eliminated, where the divine spiritual spark establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit, which is only possible by shaping oneself into love. In every situation of life the human being can shape himself into love, and therefore every human being can also let his spirit become effective, yet the reception of spiritual knowledge must also be practised, otherwise the voice of the spirit cannot be heard, just as the thoughts must be paid attention to if the spirit cannot express itself audibly. It is not a language of the world which the spirit speaks, they are words of light and love, words which convey realisation, profound knowledge and purest truth and which express God's great love, which a good father speaks to His children. And thus the heart has to accept these words, for the intellect alone can certainly receive the content but never grasp its depth, because the divine word has to be felt, not merely heard. And this is a matter of the heart, otherwise God's love cannot be recognised and thus cannot become effective either. The human heart is the seat of feeling, i.e., the soul communicates to the body through the heart and equally the spirit also wants to express itself through the heart. The spirit intervenes in the soul's life of feeling and thus likewise wants to be heard by the body; it wants, as it were, to unite with the soul for the same activity. It wants to draw the soul over into the spiritual kingdom and also make the body submissive to its will. And therefore the human being must help in this unification of the body with the soul, he must want to be given to by the spirit within himself, to be instructed, and do everything in order to hear the voice, which is only possible when he has shaped his soul through an unselfish life of love such that it now leans more towards the spirit than the body, that it is driven by the heart to desire light and love, so that its desire will now be fulfilled. For this is the condition that the gifts of the spirit are desired. The intellect alone, however, will certainly examine or judge but never be influenced by feeling; the intellect alone demands evidence which cannot be produced in spiritual truths, but the heart is content and lets its feeling pass for an evidence and will therefore judge more reliably and correctly and recognise truth as truth. It therefore possesses an ability which the intellect cannot claim. And thus it is understandable that the results of the working of the spirit can only be judged correctly if the examiner himself consults the spirit within himself and if he makes himself worthy of its expressions, i.e. fulfils all conditions which earn him the working of the spirit. For then his knowledge will also become profound and extensive and all relations will become clear to him which he would never be able to fathom by merely thinking intellectually. For God hides Himself from people who are still distant from Him so that they will come to Him and appeal for His help, so that they will call upon Him for enlightened thinking, for this call comes from the heart and will also result in what is helpful for the soul to unite with its spirit .... The heart will be allowed to receive love and grace and never come away empty-handed if it opens itself through heartfelt prayer to God, Who will always hear it ....

Amen

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Prayer in spirit and in truth prerequisite for the working of the spirit ....

B.D. 4483 from November 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You can only hear the voice of the spirit within you after you open your heart through heartfelt prayer. And this prayer must be directed towards Me in spirit and in truth, otherwise I will close My ear and you will wait in vain for divine enlightenment. This is a law which has to be fulfilled, but which was not always fulfilled where the enlightenment of the spirit was necessary in order to be instructed in the pure truth. Anyone who is responsible as a teacher and leader for the souls of those he instructs must first stand in truth himself and make the transmission of truth possible through intimate contact with Me, he must know that I and truth are one, that therefore truth cannot be received without Me and that the connection with Me must be established first, otherwise the connection with truth cannot be achieved either. But the connection with Me depends on the human being's free will, and therefore he must turn to Me of his own accord, which happens through heartfelt prayer, through prayer in spirit and in truth .... Anyone who prays like this will also hear My voice, his thoughts will be guided such that they will move in truth, even though My word is not audibly heard by him due to his lack of maturity of soul. For this presupposes a certain degree of maturity which is not reached by all people who ask for the truth. And therefore people who proceed intellectually can also live in truth if they have first established the most intimate connection with Me, however, their way of life must also correspond to My will, they must live a life of love, otherwise My working on them through the spirit is impossible. For I, love and truth are one .... Again and again this has to be explained to you humans, that you recognize people's spirit by their fruits and thus can never grant right thinking to someone who does not live according to My will, and thus you will always have a standard if you want to test a person's statements for their credibility. Anyone who lives in love, who acknowledges Me and seeks the truth, will also live in truth and his thinking will be right, for I will enlighten his spirit so that the truth will spread through him ....

Amen

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Overcoming the world .... spiritual work ....

B.D. 7363 from May 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

You will hardly ever hear the voice of the spirit in the world's bustle unless you are so permeated by My spirit that it can also assert itself in the midst of the world, that you always pay attention to its voice, because the world is no longer able to captivate you such that it drowns out the voice of the spirit. But it is rare, for as soon as the human being is in the midst of the world, his senses are also captured by it, even if it is only temporarily. Therefore you should avoid the world to the best of your ability and only make it useful to you as far as it is necessary for your earthly life, for you are placed in the midst of the world and now also have to prove yourselves in it .... And this means that you should try to become its master but not become slaves to the world. Anyone who seriously strives spiritually also knows how obstructive the world is to his spiritual striving, how again and again he is held back and his thoughts stray from what alone is important in earthly life: spiritual further development. The worldly man will not ask for it, and the spiritually striving man also puts such questions aside as long as the world holds him captive, as long as it offers the body pleasures, which he now also seeks to fulfil because they are offered to him. Such indulgence of bodily desires need not be a sin, but it is certainly an impediment to spiritual development, for what is granted to the body is lost to the soul, because its need is of a spiritual nature and worldly enjoyment does not cover the soul's need at all. The more worldly a person's attitude is, the more his soul will suffer .... For the voice of the spirit does not penetrate either, the soul cannot assert its will and express its desire, for the body pushes it back and fulfils its own desire first. But this need not be a permanent state, the human being can satisfy his body's desire and then deal with his soul all the more eagerly again and give it what it desires: spiritual food from the kingdom of light, to which the human being now voluntarily gives himself again and finds greater satisfaction than in the goods of the world. But My spirit is already active in this human being, which did not withdraw even in the world's gear but had an effect on the human being so that he could quickly detach himself from the world again and turn to the kingdom which gave nourishment to his soul. This is why a spiritually striving person will only rarely find satisfaction in the world, it will no longer be able to completely captivate him, he has already become a stranger to it and his body only rarely desires its goods and pleasures because the spiritual gifts give him greater pleasure and he has already recognized the worthlessness of worldly goods. Then the spirit in him will also express itself in the midst of the world's hustle and bustle, it will direct and guide him and make him look at everything in view of his spiritual development, and again and again the desire will prevail to withdraw into silence again, because the soul's desire prevails and only approves for the body what it necessarily needs for its preservation. But then the world will no longer mean danger for a person, then he will have already achieved in earthly life that the soul will listen to the voice of the spirit within himself, and then the world will no longer be able to exert much influence because the spirit will be able to assert itself even if the person has to move in the world. And anyone who has once awakened the spirit within himself will no longer need to fear that it will withdraw completely. It will assert itself again and again because the human being's will is to mature spiritually, and because such a will also signifies an influx of strength, so that it will always be stronger and also take up the battle against the world and emerge victorious ....

Amen

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Working forms of the spirit

Various spiritual activities: wisdom, seeing, prophecy .... (Konnersreuth)

B.D. 4470 from October 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My spirit can only become effective where people have aligned themselves with My fundamental nature, where they have shaped themselves into love. The individual's life, which denomination he belongs to and which origin he has, is irrelevant, and therefore everyone can cultivate different habits, everyone can practice different customs and traditions, everyone can have been educated in different religious doctrines .... as soon as he lives a life of love according to My will he can also be filled by My spirit and achieve supernatural things. However, the working of the spirit is of a different kind insofar as one person is imparted profound wisdom, profound spiritual knowledge, while the other is able to see spiritually, thus he can see and experience things which are most closely related to the spiritual kingdom, to Me Myself and the host of pure spirits. Thus he can look into the spiritual kingdom, which is the last aim of all human beings. With others again the gift of prophecy is the working of the spirit, so that they are able to look into the future and see the coming events taking place before their eyes. These, too, are filled with My Spirit, so that they must speak to their fellow men about their visions and about their prophetic gift. To see past, present and future things is the sign of an already high degree of maturity of the human being who is deprived of every concept of time as soon as he directs his gaze spiritually and thus now dwells spiritually in spheres far away from earth, his present sphere of activity. Such people are to be believed as long as their life is an exemplary life of love. Then no other than beings of light can make themselves known through them, then My spirit works in these people, for they are united with Me through love and can never stand apart from My will and act and think according to their own will. Love is therefore the surest sign of My presence, love is the guarantee for My working, no matter in which form the working of the spirit is expressed.

Thus My spirit can and will also work where a person was educated in the wrong direction of faith, where his thinking was steered into the wrong path by incompetent teachers in whom My spirit could not work and impart the pure truth to them. However, a person who thus thinks wrongly can nevertheless experience the working of My spirit through a right life of love, yet in a different form than through the transmission of truthful knowledge, for this would sometimes contradict the teachings of faith imparted to him and be of little use to the recipient. Thus My spirit works first by allowing the human being to gain insight into spiritual spheres which visually convey the truth to him, so that spiritual events are presented to him which correspond to the teachings of each individual denomination, which correspond to the truth, so that the working of the spirit will therefore only ever result in truth, even though the form is different ....

(27.10.1948) People shall be given evidence of the truth of what is taught but can no longer be proven by documents, then the working of the spirit will extend to past results and it will make them visible to the person in whom it can work so that he will bear witness to things which can no longer be proven otherwise. Such people will see the past and the future with spiritual eyes, and they must always be granted the working of My spirit, which necessitates a profound, strong faith which can be found where love is present. Truthful knowledge cannot be conveyed from above to earth everywhere, because the acceptance of it requires a completely neutral heart which is free from a specific teaching, which, as it were, offers no resistance through its own spiritual knowledge which contradicts the truth. It must unconditionally accept what is offered to it from above. And therefore the human being may not be bound by knowledge which was given to him from outside and which does not correspond to the truth .... And therefore spiritual working in this form is rarely possible, because mostly the seekers have already joined a school of thought, whereas people outside of every school of thought are rarely seeking, rather they have no faith at all, but faith in Me and My working is the first prerequisite for My spirit to become effective in a person. A person who lives in love but is weak in faith likewise opposes My direct working in him through the spirit, otherwise I could express Myself far more through the human mouth; yet they don't want to acknowledge a direct working, a transfer of My word to a person, because they lack this faith. And thus I can certainly arrange their thoughts and give them understanding for the only truth, I can also mentally introduce them to knowledge which they cannot accept from outside, yet they will always regard their thoughts as their own and not want to see My working in them. But where My spirit can work in an obvious way, where love and faith enable a direct transfer of My word to a person, there the power of the spirit clearly appears, and there all people should seek clarification, because then they can be certain of the fullest truth, because it is I Myself Who gives them this clarification through a person's mouth and hand. And I will always make sure that a source of truth gives living water to those who are thirsty; I will always make sure that bearers of truth walk the earth who can be true guides for their fellow human beings, who only impart to them what they have received from Me, who have prepared themselves to be the receiving vessel of the spirit and are therefore constantly instructed by My spirit in the truth, so that they will pass it on and be active in teaching according to My will ....

Amen

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Forms of spiritual work .... healing .... speaking in tongues ....

B.D. 5270 from December 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

My spirit's working is based on love for Me and the neighbour, thus the person who lives a life of love, who helpfully supports his neighbour in spiritual as well as in earthly adversity and who is devoted to Me in profound love and humility so that he will always endeavour to fulfil My will, will always be filled by My spirit. Thus My spirit can become effective in him .... And it now expresses itself in many ways .... Many gifts of the spirit can be bestowed upon a person, yet rarely will all of them be recognizable in one person, for every individual person's maturity of soul and spiritual abilities are different, and thus My spirit will be particularly prominent where certain prerequisites are present for the gifts of the spirit to come into their own, so that fellow human beings will recognize how the spirit of God can work in a person .... Where there is true love, faith will also be powerful .... But a powerful, living faith is able to do everything, and then My spirit will work in such a way that the strength of faith will become evident .... Then the human being can heal the sick, remedy states of weakness, cast out devils and thus achieve unusual successes which affect physical ailments. Then My spirit is obviously active and bears witness to My love and strength ....

Others again, who stand in love, fatefully have the opportunity to work enlighteningly amongst humanity .... Then the working of My spirit is recognizable in a different way, then knowledge is made accessible to the human being through My spirit which enables him to teach. Then the human being will be instructed by My spirit, his thinking will be ordered, his feeling will be refined, his spiritual ear will be trained so that it can hear the voice of the spirit which conveys everything to him which is to be said through him to his fellow human beings. Thus the human being can then preach in the spirit of God .... My spirit is effective as soon as the human being wants to work for Me and My kingdom out of love for Me and for his fellow human beings ....

Another gift of the spirit is the gift of prophecy, the seeing into the future and proclaiming it in order to warn and admonish fellow human beings to prepare themselves spiritually for a sudden end, for events which have a spiritual reason and purpose. This proclamation of coming events is also work for Me and My kingdom and therefore the gift of sight is to be addressed as spiritual work, because only spiritual successes are to be achieved through it and humanity shall never be surprised by a judgment without being warned but, if it believes, can draw spiritual benefit from such prophecies. Only a person filled by My spirit will draw fellow human beings' attention to coming judgments and admonish them to a way of life which is pleasing to Me, for he knows about the spiritual adversity and his love impels him into redeeming activity ....

Another form of My working of the spirit is the gift of speaking to people in all languages they understand .... Whatever language the human being speaks, he hears his mother tongue from the one who speaks to him impelled by the spirit, he understands every word, he is addressed by My spirit which expresses itself in the speaker. But My spirit only works in this way when it is necessary, i.e. when people of all nationalities are gathered in desire to hear My word and a person filled by My spirit speaks to them in the urge of love to help them, to speak of My love, might and wisdom, thus to make them acquainted with Me and to preach the gospel to them. Then he will be able to speak in his usual language and yet be understood by all who hear it in their mother tongue .... Then My working of the spirit will be so obvious that it can no longer be doubted, yet every weak believer will assume that it was spoken in his own language, and therefore this working of the spirit is not a compulsion of faith for the weak believer, yet it is such obvious evidence for the awakened person which, however, also requires the strongest faith and the most unselfish love in order to be given to people by Me. My spirit works where it wants and how it wants .... But enlightened thinking, recognition of truth and spiritual striving is always a sure sign that My spirit is permitted to work on the part of the human being, who thus opens himself to its working through a life of love and then also safely reaches his aim on earth .... the union with Me, the eternal father-spirit ....

Amen

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The effusion of the Spirit means spiritual help ....

B.D. 5430 from July 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

When My Spirit flows over you it is always a sign of My love and grace, it is a sign of My willingness to help you in great spiritual adversity .... mind you: out of spiritual adversity, that is .... I have to tell you this again and again, that the spiritual hardship on earth causes Me to be unusually effective, for what I give to you will only ever be a spiritual goods, and a spiritual good will only ever reduce spiritual hardship. Earthly adversity, however, is meant to make the spiritual adversity recognized, and I will also remedy earthly adversity when it is time, when it has exerted a favorable influence on the human being's spiritual state; for I only allow earthly adversity to come upon people so that they will gain a spiritual advantage from it ....

But if I effuse My Spirit upon a person I give spiritual help, I give knowledge and strength .... certainly also knowledge of the cause of his earthly adversity, which the person then can also remedy with My support which is fatefully sending him help, thus he is active himself, so to speak, to master the earthly adversity. You must therefore make a distinction between the answer to prayer .... after an appeal sent to Me in earthly adversity for help, which will then be given to him in a way which does not seem unusual .... and the help offered to the human being in the form of spiritual possessions which give him the strength to master every difficult situation in life through the right spiritual attitude towards Me, where therefore the help is to be found in the fact that the human being enters into the right order by himself and then the earthly adversity is eliminated by itself, so to speak .... The effusion of My Spirit certainly always means enlightenment of the spirit, and thus the human being can now recognize the cause of earthly adversity and control it, but the effusion of the Spirit must never be understood as a purely earthly instruction, earthly admonitions and advice, which an enlightened person can indeed give of his own accord but must never be presented as God's Word, as received from the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God only dispenses spiritual goods .... My Spirit speaks to the human being's soul through the spiritual spark, it tries to instruct it spiritually and to motivate it to again enter My eternal order. It influences the soul in a spiritual way, so to speak, and creates the state which then eliminates all earthly adversity by itself. But without the human being's will to establish the order My Spirit will never help him to put an end to the earthly adversity, for the adversity is only the means to make the human being realize that he is found in a wrong way of thinking and lives a disorderly way of life, and thus the cause has to be recognized first, about which My Spirit enlightens the human being in order to then consciously strive for a change, for which I impart strength to the human being through My Spirit at all times ....

Amen

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"Working of the spirit" in spiritual exchange of ideas ....

B.D. 8214 from July 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

A light radiates from Me and this light will always prevent you from thinking wrongly if you desire to think correctly. When I Myself illuminate your spirit it means that you feel emotionally attracted or repelled when you should pass judgement yourselves on a body of thought which is presented to you as truth. You should only ever pay attention to your feelings, yet always in the will to be right and just, and now immerse yourselves in the thought material without prejudice, and you will feel whether it appeals to you or whether you oppose it with an inner resistance .... "I pour out My spirit on all flesh ...." This is My promise, which is also truly fulfilled .... Yet you often don't recognize the 'working of My spirit' because you always expect it to be an unusual process. And My spirit often expresses itself in secret, and I can only rarely reveal Myself through a person so that I can address people directly through him .... People usually believe that I Myself speak out of them, but then they would be in a mediumistic state, i.e. they would relinquish their own will and allow spiritual forces access which can now express themselves .... When I address a person through My spirit then his heart perceives My words as clear thoughts which he now, however, expresses in his usual way of speaking, that is, he writes them down or .... expresses his views during a spiritual exchange .... expresses his views which, however, are guided by My spirit and thus correspond to the truth, or else he hears the sounding word within himself .... which requires a very high degree of maturity of the soul .... so his thoughts are formed, he hears himself addressed inwardly and then also passes on this address to his fellow human beings. And precisely the knowledge of the latter can lead to erroneous assumptions when spiritual beings express themselves who are secluded from earth and seek to transfer their knowledge to people who have a certain inherent mediumistic ability .... which is why I repeatedly emphasize that people can indeed hear My voice within themselves but can never literally convey 'My voice' but can only pass on the content in its meaning by writing it down as it is comprehensible to them and thus take in My voice dictatorially or they are filled with the content of what I have conveyed to them, that they express themselves to fellow human beings and try to reproduce in their own way of speaking what they have heard, for which I put the words in their mouths .... thus direct their speech and their thinking according to truth. "I pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and servants and handmaidens shall prophesy ...." The working of My spirit is the result of a life of love, and therefore, where love is lived My spirit will awaken, and this spirit will now constantly correct a person's thinking, it will instruct the person from within and radiate My divine light of love to him .... And thus these are also spirit-filled and can rightly call themselves My servants and handmaidens, for they will always feel urged from within to testify for Me and My kingdom, to confess My name before the world, and to proclaim to their fellow human beings what God and father requires of His children, that He loves them and wants to make them blissfully happy ..... and wherever they speak, whether in a large or small circle, they will only speak pure truth, because I Myself can pour out My spirit into such vessels .... Thus you can regard every deeply believing, love-filled person as also being filled by My spirit, and his thoughts will always be rightly directed and turned towards Me, for Whom he now works in silence and can bestow many blessings .... And they (these people through My spirit) will also receive information through the spirit in Me about the coming event, because everything earthly is always connected with the spiritual maturing process, with people's spiritual state .... And My spirit will protect them from spreading untruth, yet their silent work will often not be recognized as work in the vineyard of the Lord ....

Amen

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Enlightened thinking is also a sign of the "working of the spirit" ....

B.D. 8979 from May 22nd 1965, taken from Book No. 94

My word sounds in the whole of infinity, everywhere where I-conscious spiritual is, no matter whether it is people on earth or also light beings in the spiritual kingdom, everywhere where beings open themselves to My illumination of love. I address all of them because this illumination of My love is an act of happiness which people on earth are certainly unable to grasp in its depth but which is extremely blissful for all beings which have already matured. I am in contact with all through the word; to all I supply My word directly or indirectly; to all I supply knowledge; I give them brightest knowledge of My rule and work in the whole of infinity .... so that they learn to love Me ever more and also feel loved by Me, so that they become ever more blissful because the radiance of love no longer ceases .... But if this process of receiving My word is now to take place on earth, then the redemption from original sin, the redemption through Jesus, must irrevocably have preceded it, otherwise it would be impossible for people to hear My word .... as well as the transmission of My word on the part of the beings of light can take place on people's thoughts who certainly also live in love but nevertheless don't believe in the direct working of My spirit and therefore don't listen themselves to the voice which quietly sounds in them .... Only love is necessary that it is ignited, to therefore also be able to be put into clear, truthful thinking on the part of the light beings. And then a person's train of thought will naturally be the same as that of a 'word recipient' .... Yet the human being himself, to whom My word is sounded, is unable to feel the bliss which My word triggers in the world of light, precisely because he still lives on earth, where he cannot be granted such bliss which would render him incapable of further activity on earth. Nevertheless, it is a process of utmost importance when a person shapes himself into a vessel which receives an influx from the spiritual world and also wants to supply his fellow human beings with this influx, who do not themselves have the intimate bond with Me .... as the origin of that strength of love .... in order to also be able to hear My word .... But all those already move in the light who make contact with a transmitter of spiritual messages, and they will always find support on the part of the world of light, because everything which is radiated through by My love holds together, because no being can exclude itself from it anymore, if it has ever been a right messenger of light .... a person who has let My divine flow of love flow into him .... For this one is already in contact with the spiritual kingdom, and he only still carries out the mission on earth, which he himself had taken over as light spirit .... You therefore see that the radiating of light to earth is an act, which therefore can only rarely happen, because also only rarely a conscious union with Me is established, while men can often mentally stand in truth, only then will not find the confirmation that they stand in right thinking. Because light shines everywhere where only love is kindled, and therefore also there will be mental agreement. And still My direct word from above will again and again be the standard, by which you will be able to determine the rightness of your thoughts, because since in the last time great confusion is among men, My opponent will also know how to throw you into doubt, and then you are to cite My direct word for comparison, and you will also experience the truth of the effect of a love life, because "who remains in love, he remains in Me and I in him ...." So he cannot think wrongly, because I Myself am with him and in him .... And thus humanity is never left to itself, it is unceasingly looked after by Me and the world of light, it only needed to direct its will right in order to be guided onto the right path with certainty. For My word, which gives them light, will always and forever sound, and there will always be people who can receive it .... the beings of light will only ever take care of the distribution of that which they blissfully unmeasured, and the willing human being will always be receptive to what is conveyed to him by Me directly or through beings of light. For My word is the emanation of My strength of love, it is 'I Myself' in all fullness, it is the nourishment of the soul, My flesh and My blood, which I bestow upon all those who want to be united with Me and find their highest beatitude through the supply of that which none other than I Myself can offer them ....

Amen

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Satan's counter

Admission of the spiritual work ....

B.D. 6857 from June 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I do not resist the spirit in the human being, nor should you resist it if it wants to express itself, otherwise you run the risk of another speaking in and through you which can then take possession of you and completely confuse your thinking. The spirit within you is My part which only influences you in such a way that your return to Me is guaranteed if you listen to it. For the spirit from within Me continuously points you towards Me and shows you the path which leads to Me. But the opposing spirit also tries to gain influence over you but will never penetrate as long as My part of the spirit is active in you, because it cannot exist next to Me. But if you resist the spirit within you then you voluntarily open the door to the other, because you push Me away, as it were, which means the other's taking possession of you. My spirit is always ready to give, you can constantly request clarification through My spirit .... quite simply said: You can always pray to Me for enlightenment, for My guidance, for My protection .... And you will always receive enlightenment from within, you will receive instructions, for I Myself influence you humans through My spirit .... If you unite with Me through heartfelt prayer, then you will also allow My spirit to work in you, you will hand yourselves over to Me in prayer and I will reward you for your trust .... you will think and act logically in My will, which you also feel as an expression of My spirit. And it is understandable that My adversary also makes use of all these possibilities when he gains power over you .... But you grant him this power yourselves if you live your earthly life alone, if you exclude Me, if you have no connection with Me whatsoever .... You don't need to consciously unite with him but you are already enslaved by him because you belong to him as long as you don't consciously want to separate from him, which requires the very bond with Me. You make an expression of the spirit impossible because the spiritual spark in you is inseparably united with Me .... thus it does nothing without Me, without My will, but which you first have to incline through conscious recognition and devotion to Me. Then a light can shine in you which is so bright that it permeates everything, that wrong thinking or wrong speaking and acting is simply no longer possible. Then My spirit's working will be obvious, then I will have completely won you over for Me, and then My adversary will also no longer be able to intervene because he shuns the light and can only work where there is still darkness, which is why he always tries to spread and intensify the darkness. I can only ever call out to you: Do not resist the spirit in you through ungodly attitudes and sinful actions, for then you will render it ineffective yourselves and open yourselves to all evil influence. And you walk in complete blindness, in ignorance over this earth and cannot reach the light. But a spark of light slumbers in you which can become a bright fire, a light which illuminates everything and makes you unspeakably happy. Ignite it and chase the prince of darkness out of you, so that then the Eternal Light Itself can take abode in you and you will no longer need to fear darkness forever .... so that My Spirit may now work in you and fill you with light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

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Unbelief in spirit-work .... lack of understanding of the scriptures ....

B.D. 7088 from April 10th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Anyone who does not believe in the working of My spirit in the form that I Myself speak to people, that they can hear My word within themselves, also has no right to refer to the bible as the allegedly only scripture through which I made My will known .... For he does not know this bible, he only reads it with his worldly mind but not with enlightened thinking, otherwise he would also find the indications of My working of the spirit in the human being in this word written down by My disciples: "I remain with you until the end of the world ...." What else should this mean but that I always and constantly dwell among you in spirit, since I physically left you when I ascended to heaven? And if I have now promised you My presence, do you then believe that I will remain silent and give you no proof of My presence? "I will reveal Myself to you ...." - "I will send you the comforter, who will guide you into all truth and remind you of all that I have said to you ...." Could I possibly give you even clearer indications of My spiritual working on and in you? How else should you be 'guided' into the truth than through teachings which the 'eternal truth' itself sends to you? How else could I remind you of My word spoken at that time than by speaking to you and calling everything to your remembrance? How could I reveal Myself to you other than that you become aware of My nearness, that you receive a proof of My presence? .... And what moves you, who reject My word spoken from above, to this rejection? But never the urge for truth, rather, you do not want to be led out of your spiritual blindness; it pleases you to remain in it, you do not long for light .... and you are inwardly arrogant .... This must be said to you so that you may know an explanation why My words do not touch you, why you do not recognize them as the 'voice of the father' .... For profound inner humility would open your heart to receive gifts of grace which are incomparably delicious, which only become gifts of grace when the human being is humble .... Again and again during My life on earth I mentioned the outpouring of My spirit, and people know from scripture that this promise was fulfilled in My disciples after My ascension to heaven .... But My promises did not only apply to My disciples, they applied to all people who, like My first disciples, firmly believed in Me and lived in love .... Why should I only have spoken to My disciples of that time through the spirit? Why should I not be allowed to speak again and again to those who are devoted to Me in love, who serve Me and want to carry My gospel out into the world again? You, who reject Me, are truly not yet enlightened by My spirit, you do not hear Me, nor do you understand My written word, although every letter is known to you .... You are still dead in spirit or you would like to recognize My voice, for I truly speak in such a way that I can be recognized by every person of good will. But your will is not good because you still let yourselves be controlled by My adversary who has also placed his arrogant attitude in you .... And My grace will not break through arrogance, arrogance will always reject what My love offers as an immeasurable gift of grace, for arrogance is part of the adversary, and he will always influence the human being to reject the father's words of love and grace .... And until you become humble in your hearts you will not be refreshed by My gift of grace either, instead, you will reject everything that is conveyed to people through the voice of the spirit for the salvation of their souls .... And neither will the scriptures be and give you more than dead letters, you will not attain life through the scriptures either, because even through the scriptures I can only speak to those who in deepest humility ask Me to speak to them Myself .... For I only bestow My grace on the humble ....

Amen

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Wrong interpretation of the Scriptures .... The working of the spirit ....

B.D. 7103 from April 26th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You humans often interpret the Words of the Scriptures according to your need .... The spiritual meaning of the Word does not correspond to the aims and plans you pursue, and you interpret the letter which can have various meanings. Consequently, many errors were spread among people who nevertheless tenaciously hold on to them by always referring to passages in the Scriptures. It has become almost impossible to expose and eradicate these errors, because the spiritual darkness keeps deepening the closer the end is approaching. Even so, precisely these errors are the cliffs which can cause people to fail, who strive to find the truth yet then start to doubt and finally use the same doubts to oppose everything written in the Book of Books .... If they are strict seekers of truth, then they will find the truth, if only by different means than the usual, through the proclaimers of God's Word .... However, if they lack the necessary earnestness for truth, they will easily be satisfied with those errors in order to completely detach themselves from believing or from religious doctrines, which nevertheless can correspond to truth. This is the great danger inherent in every misguided teaching .... Wrong interpretation of the Scriptures can be assigned to the influence of God's adversary as well, for he also tries to instigate much confusion within the circles of people willing to believe, and, if he can exert his influence on their leader, he will have succeeded in causing immense darkness. Many Words of the Scriptures are indeed encrypted, that is, their meaning is not self-evident to the human intellect, they can be differently interpreted and will only be correctly interpreted when the person's spirit has awakened and wants to ascertain their meaning. It is God's will that people should read every Word with complete sincerity, with the desire for truth and in contact with Him .... so that God Himself can speak to them, and then He will truly educate and enlighten them correctly. But since God's 'supposed' representatives usually allow their intellect to speak first, since they study and ponder in order to discover the meaning of the Word, its spiritual meaning will remain concealed from them until they are in closest contact with God and appeal for His spirit .... And the spirit of God will instruct them correctly, but it will always reveal the same to people. No person should deem himself capable of understanding the Word of God by himself .... by merely using his intellect .... and no person should deem himself entitled to interpret it without God's support ....

No person ought to believe that performing formal prayers is sufficient in order to ensure divine support for himself. God expects more .... He expects a life of love which shapes the heart into a receiving vessel for the divine spirit, because He can only unite with 'love', and because His spirit can only take effect in a person who has shaped himself into love .... And from this it is evident again how an interpretation can be assessed in relation to truth .... Even the sharpest intellect is incapable of ascertaining the truth where a way of life makes it impossible for God's spirit to manifest itself, for the working of the spirit cannot be replaced by intellectual activity. So many misguided teachings could not have been spread in the world had this basic rule always been observed that 'thorns cannot yield any fruit ....' And precisely those people who were great helpers for God's adversary distinguished themselves most with interpretations and translations of the Scriptures, although the results only revealed themselves at a later time, because they led to divisions and disputes and caused ever more confusion. And it is only possible to tackle such errors again with the pure truth from God, the transmission of which, therefore, also necessitates an awakened spirit. But only people who live in love and offer the indwelling spirit the opportunity of igniting a light in people's heart will accept such corrections .... However, only the truth results in blessings .... Every error is an obstacle on the way of ascent. For this reason the pure truth should be proclaimed emphatically by those who receive it from God Himself. For this is the task they were given at the same time as they received the truth, because only truth is light and only truth leads to beatitude ....

Amen

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Divine Working of the spirit .... Speaking in tongues .... I.

B.D. 7855 from March 20th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

It is My will that everything will become clear to you, that you will receive the answer to the questions you entertain and which you present to Me for a reply. For it is necessary to still correct many errors you humans received from ignorant sources and which can only be clarified through My spirit, for it will guide you into all truth. Only My spirit can give you the right answer, but My spirit must be able to express itself, which presupposes a certain degree of maturity of soul. And it is definitely a blessing for you humans if you don't reject this spirit within you, if you allow its working by shaping yourselves such that I can illuminate you with My spirit .... that your indwelling spiritual spark therefore seeks contact with the Father-Spirit of eternity and instructs you, that it enlightens you, that it informs you of spiritual knowledge, that it guides you into truth .... Since you still live in spiritual darkness as long as My light cannot shine in you, you urgently need light which I Myself will ignite in you if you live according to My will, if you thus work at attaining the said maturity of soul which allows for the working of My spirit in you .... And now I Am asking you: What blessing do you humans derive from My working of the spirit if you merely hear the sound of unintelligible words? .... If a person goes into raptures and speaks words you cannot understand? .... Do you believe, My spirit works like that? Do you believe that you thereby become enlightened in your thinking, that you attain realisation, that truthful knowledge is imparted to you in this way? .... You call this 'speaking in tongues' and don't know what to make of such a tangle of words which are voiced by people who are controlled by evil spirits, who want to show off and deem themselves beyond being tested .... Such 'working of the spirit' is a deception by spirits .... which can take possession of people whose need for admiration is still too strong, who want to stand out and send themselves into ecstasies .... For that which comes from Me is light and clear, it does not spread renewed darkness amongst people. And thus, as long as you experience things which do not grant you light, not complete clarity, I Am not at work, as I Am the Light of eternity .... You humans need only ever apply the yardstick as to whether and to what extent you gain light and realisation .... Then you will have the clear answer to the question, who is at work .... For forces will never express themselves such that it only causes confusion, and I will never want you to be plunged from one question and ambiguity into another and for this emanate My working .... It is My will that there shall be light amongst people who desire the light themselves, but I also want you to turn to Me Myself and shape your hearts such that I Myself can work through My spirit in you .... I do not want you to hand yourselves over to immature spirits which throw you into ever greater darkness and are able to do so because you merely want to be imbued by 'a spirit' .... but not awaken the spiritual spark in you to life through love, which will then seek contact with the eternal Father-Spirit .... And this spirit will truly guide you into truth, it will speak to you clearly and comprehensibly, it will give you light, providing you seriously desire light ....

Amen

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Difference between the 'working of the spirit' and 'psychic' receptions ....

B.D. 8416 from February 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You should always bear in mind that the truth is intended to be distributed everywhere, therefore I must convey it to earth in all places, and this is always possible as soon as a person fulfils the requirements which the 'working of My spirit' in a person are based on. First, the willingness to be of service to Me has to motivate a person to enter into heartfelt contact with Me, and he will indeed be accepted as a labourer in My vineyard, since he is living a life of love otherwise he would not offer himself to Me as a co-worker. Hence, love is likewise the precondition that I can choose him as a suitable vessel into which My spirit can pour. Another requirement is the strong and living faith that I speak to My child as a Father, when it desires Me to speak .... And a further indispensable prerequisite is that he is permeated with the desire to be taught the absolute truth and that he therefore turns to the Eternal Truth Itself in order to receive it .... Now you will say that you humans are meeting every one of these requirements and that I should therefore be able to give My Word directly to many people .... Consequently, you will also gullibly accept messages from the spiritual world although they cannot be rated as the 'working of the divine spirit'. For many people have an overwhelming urge to make contact with the supernatural world, and since all of you humans are surrounded by inhabitants of the world beyond, you will surely find it understandable that they will also make use of every opportunity to make contact with you in order to express themselves to you.

It is indeed difficult for you to recognise the difference between such communications from the spirit world and the genuine 'working of My spirit' .... Yet the one thing I want you to consider is that I merely want to assist your soul to become perfect on earth .... and that therefore the contents of My imparted spiritual knowledge through the working of the spirit will be the Gospel of love .... furthermore, that you, in order to find redemption on earth from your original sin, need to receive the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... about the cause and spiritual reason for His mission .... and about My human manifestation in Him .... And you need to be enlightened by Me about your origin and your goal and about My eternal plan of Salvation, through which I will one day reach the goal I set for Myself when I created you .... This extensive knowledge can only be conveyed to you through the 'working of My spirit' in you, and therefore only those people can claim to be true Word-recipients whom I have initiated Myself either directly or through My messengers of light, through perfect beings in the spiritual kingdom which absorb the light ray of My love and forward it on My instruction. And thus everyone believing himself to receive My Word should first seriously question whether he received this knowledge from Me, whether he can state with conviction that he was 'initiated' by Me into the truth, into a knowledge which was previously still unknown to him .... The information about My plan of Salvation can only be conveyed to people by Me directly, for anyone who only accepts it intellectually from other people will not understand it, even if it corresponds to the truth, because it requires spiritual enlightenment in order to comprehend it .... And I certainly convey this knowledge to earth in a clear and fully understandable way in all countries on earth, and it will totally concur, because only pure truth can come forth from Me and this will never contradict itself .... And the recipients of such extensive knowledge should do everything in their power and try to distribute it.

And this can always be used as a guideline for proclamations from the supernatural world, for as soon as they fail to impart to people the profound knowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation they do not originate from Me but are expressions of those spirits which are not yet entitled to teach because they are not yet permeated by the light which they should forward on My instructions. It is particularly important to know in which way such messages are conveyed to a person, whether he, in a fully conscious state, mentally or audibly hears clear Words or whether a spiritual being speaks through the mouth of a person in a psychic state, who surrendered his will and is therefore unable to test which spirit takes possession of him. This examination must always be carried out first, for although truthful messages can be received in a psychic state too, such momentous and extensive knowledge which provides complete clarification about My eternal plan of Salvation will never be conveyed to people in this way .... Then partial truths may well be imparted but to the same extent misguided teachings can also slip in, such as the wrong description of the Deity in Jesus, Whose correct portrayal is, however, of utmost importance. And as soon as people are taught wrongly, especially in this respect, they still live in error and every error has a disastrous effect on the human being's soul. I don't keep clarifying this time and again for no reason, because Jesus Christ's act of Salvation and My human manifestation must be fully understood by you humans .... For the purpose of your existence on earth is that you will be free from all guilt when you pass into the kingdom of the beyond. And only if you possess a truthful explanation about this act of Salvation by Jesus Christ will you consciously take the path to the cross, you, who once denied Me your acknowledgement, will consciously acknowledge Me again of your own free will ....

But precisely as long as this problem of My human manifestation is not yet solved by you, you will still live in spiritual darkness .... And if you are now being taught by those in the spiritual realm which are instructed by Me to teach you and to convey My Word to you, then these beings of light will first of all provide this significant knowledge, and thereby you will also recognise the working of My spirit in you .... Then you will not need to be afraid of being used by other spiritual forces, which certainly will also disguise themselves and claim to be your guides and yet do not have the knowledge themselves as to be able to enlighten you. However, you humans don't know how My adversary influences people as well as the still immature beings in the beyond, and you don't know that he will try everything in his power in order to undermine the pure truth and to make people believe that they know the truth. Their skilful disguise will cause much harm, because people allow themselves to be used and are far too gullible themselves .... For they lack the right judgment, and they confuse the transmission from the supernatural spheres with the 'working of My spirit', which irrefutably grants truth to those who are instructed by Me to spread the truth throughout the world. And you should accept this truth and comply with My will, you should not just be listeners but doers, and then you will no longer need to doubt and question but know that you possess the truth ....

Amen

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Order to work in the vineyard

Obvious work of the spirit connected with mission ....

B.D. 3695 from February 23rd 1946, taken from Book No. 47

If you were always devoted to Me, inspired by the will to serve Me and to work for My kingdom on earth, if this is necessary, then you would also be My children in truth and full of the spirit which always and constantly instructs you .... But thus there are only a few who allow the working of the spirit within themselves precisely through their will, which, however, does not exclude the fact that the rest of you would also be able to do so if you endeavour to do what I announce to you through those .... if you shape yourselves into love of your own free will and participate in the redemption of erring souls on earth. My spirit indeed works in many people if only they make themselves worthy of My working, yet it is only recognizable to fellow human beings in the form of regular instructions if the person is to be trained for an activity on My behalf .... if he is called to an office on earth, if he is to work for My kingdom .... For then he must first be introduced to knowledge, because it is his task to spread truth .... A person who lives in My will and always practices unselfish neighbourly love can also clearly feel the pure truth within himself, it can be in him as mental knowledge, because this, too, is the working of My spirit, that I order a person's thinking, that I guide it into the right direction, as soon as he, too, belongs to My own through a pleasing way of life. Yet this way of thinking will always completely correspond to the eternal truth which I impart to those who shall work as My servants on earth in the last days before the end. For the truth always and forever remains the same, and all who strive to live in My will and work tirelessly on the transformation of their being, all who strive for perfection and appeal to Me for My assistance, will also be able to ascertain agreement of their thoughts, because this is My spirit's working. But if the working of the spirit is evident then it is also linked to a mission, then I educate the human being for a wider sphere of activity. And every serious will to participate in the act of salvation, to bring help to fellow human beings in greatest spiritual adversity, will also result in an increased overflow of My spiritual strength, because I bless everyone who offers himself to Me for this work, who wants to help build up My kingdom and is willing to take up the fight against the power which seeks to bring ruin to weak souls .... I can only express Myself through the mouth of a human being because otherwise My activity would mean a compulsion of faith. And therefore I fill all with My spirit who want to let Me speak through them .... And this must be an explanation to you who take offence at the fact that I express Myself in isolation and not where you first expect My activity .... I require other conditions to be fulfilled in order to be able to work through My spirit. But where these conditions are fulfilled I am also obviously recognizable .... And these are My conditions from which I never ever deviate in order to pour out My spirit in all fullness: .... That you are active in unselfish love .... that you entrust yourselves to Me in order to work for My kingdom .... that you believe in My obvious working, in a direct connection with Me, and that you believe that I come to you in the word Myself and that you can hear Me in your heart .... that you therefore listen within and wait for My word .... that you completely detach yourselves from the world, close yourselves off and commune with Me in silence, otherwise you will not be able to hear the subtle voice of the spirit .... that you therefore believe without doubt in the working of My spirit within you .... And if I keep you worthy, if I recognize your earnest will, you will feel Me, My strength of spirit and love, which enlightens you and constantly draws you to Me. And My spirit will overflow you, brightly and clearly you will recognize the truth, I will instruct you and train you for your activity on earth, and you will be blessed to be allowed to serve Me ....

Amen

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Love life - spiritual work .... holy scripture ....

B.D. 4339 from June 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Therefore you should live in love so that My spirit can work in you, so that you become enlightened and understand My word which will speak to you through My messengers and which you can read in the scriptures which testify to Me. And then you will realize that you will always be confronted by the same word, that you will find full agreement between the written word and that which is directly commanded to you from above, that My word will therefore always and forever remain the same. It can only be interpreted differently by people but I will always correct this through My word spoken from above. For I want you to live in truth, that your thinking is not misled and that you always recognize Me Myself in the word, but this can only be the case if it affects you as it originated from Me. I Myself approach you in My word, thus you must feel Me and My presence, regardless of whether you hear My word or receive it through the scriptures. If you feel Me then you will be in truth, for I am not present in the erroneous word, and you can only feel Me again if you live a loving way of life, otherwise My word will be lost on your ears, even though it is purest truth and therefore not shaped by people. Thus only a loving person can pass judgment, for only a loving person is of sound mind and can distinguish truth from error, because the latter seems strange to him and he senses that it is not the father's voice which sounds to him. This is why every debate about truth will be unsuccessful with people who lack love, but it will always lead to a result where My commandment of love is respected and the working of the spirit is thereby made possible. They will draw comparisons between the spoken and the written word and accept what is directly conveyed to them by Me through My messengers. For the written word shall be pointed to as confirmation, so that people will recognize the profound truth and My obvious working will strengthen their faith. A truthful explanation and interpretation of My written word will also appear much more comprehensible to them and confirm the divinity of My word, and every thinking person will feel satisfied by My word spoken from above and yet not need to reject the scriptures because they completely agree with it. And as long as you conform to the scriptures in your teaching you, My servants on earth, need not fear any spiritual debate either, you will be able to refute every objection, you will clearly and distinctly reproduce the meaning of the written word and be able to reconcile it with that which is commanded from above, you will be successful with every seeking person who is in love and therefore always have to point out to people that love is the first and most necessary thing in order to be able to understand My word and recognize it as a fatherly voice. For only love enlightens the spirit and makes you receptive for My word ....

Amen

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Gift of speech testimony to the work of the spirit ....

B.D. 4716 from August 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

What is given to you at this time speak and don't be afraid to speak it, for you are only driven by your spirit, which is My manifestation. So let everything come to you, whatever is done against you, for everything is firmly planned from eternity, and anyone who works for Me and on My behalf is under My special guidance and does nothing but comply with My will, for he has already surrendered his will to Me, he has given himself to Me of his own free will, and thus he is now My instrument, thus merely the executor of My will. The gift of being able to speak, if he uses himself for Me, must alone convince him that I have taken care of him, for it is proof enough of the presence of the one Who works in him .... "I am with you always until the end ...." this promise is to be taken literally, for I am truly present in those who love Me and keep My commandments .... who want to be active for Me out of love for Me and for their neighbour who is in need. I am with you and will not leave you forever, and even if you have to suffer because you are still in the midst of the world, because your body is not yet spiritualized and because your soul shall attain a higher degree of maturity, yet don't doubt that I Myself am with you. For with My will you also walk the earthly path through thorns and undergrowth, yet never without My guidance. And thus nothing can happen to you but what My will allows because My love and wisdom recognized it as good for you. Yet if you speak on My behalf it will be clear to you that you are under My protection, for even if you are harassed by opponents who try to make you unfit for your spiritual work you will be able to refute everything they say and visibly be filled by My spirit, you will speak on My behalf and stand up for Me and My kingdom with innermost conviction. And you will recognize My Working by the fact that a calmness will come over you as soon as it is necessary to fight for Me and My word, and that you will therefore fight successfully with the sword of your mouth .... For I am constantly with you and you do not go any way alone ....

Amen

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

True servants of God .... Instituted words .... Working of the spirit ....

B.D. 8325 from November 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You, who believe in Me and the working of My spirit within you, receive extraordinary knowledge from Me .... And this knowledge obliges you to communicate with your fellow human beings, for you don't just receive it for yourselves, you merely act as mediators between Me and people whom I cannot address directly but who urgently require truthful information in order to be able to fulfil their earthly task. Their will to draw closer to their God and Creator again has to be stimulated, and therefore they must be enlightened about Me and their relationship with their God and Creator .... They know about My will and their task on earth .... Only then can they be held to account as to whether and how they make use of their earthly life. They must also be informed of the process of return they are going through themselves and the reasons on which this is based .... For all this knowledge can help people to reflect about themselves and give their presently purely worldly attitude a spiritual outlook so that their pilgrimage across this earth will not remain unsuccessful but result in their return to Me and to supreme bliss, as was destined for them in the very beginning.

This task of distributing the knowledge conveyed to you from above is your most important work, the implementation of which can lead to tremendous blessings .... I Myself will support any task you undertake on My behalf, for the result could be that I will win back countless saved souls which My adversary has to return to Me if it is their own will. And then these souls will have completed a process of development which has lasted for an infinitely long time already .... but which can be prolonged for an infinitely long time again if the human being fails on earth .... I convey to you, My messengers of light, such extensive knowledge as to enable you to carry much light into the spiritual darkness .... And your fellow human beings need only open their hearts and ears in order to partake in a greater than great treasure of grace which you are permitted to unearth because you want to be of service to Me. You shall only ever distribute the bread of heaven and the water of life, the healing strength of which is true wine for your souls .... Then you will be My true disciples to whom I give this instruction just as I gave it to My first disciples when I took the last Supper with them. Although I handed them food for the body they nevertheless knew that My instruction meant the distribution of spiritual food .... they knew that My Words called them to the teaching ministry, that they should carry My Gospel into the world, that they should nourish their fellow human beings' souls with My Word which they had received from Me and continued to receive through the working of My spirit within them ....

Thus I called these disciples and instructed them to go out into the world .... But this instruction first required them to receive from Me the bread of heaven, the water of life, for they were meant to pass on divine gifts and not human ideas which do not benefit the soul. Thus, as long as these proclaimers of My Word and their successors were called to teach through the working of My spirit within them, they were My representatives, My disciples, and therefore the successors of My first disciples who had received the true Gospel from Me .... And everyone can regard himself as My disciple, as successor of the first disciples whom I had called to the teaching ministry .... in whom My spirit works such that he is introduced from within to extensive knowledge which cannot be intellectually acquired .... And even traditionally adopted spiritual knowledge first necessitates My spirit's working in the proclaimer so that he can fully understand this spiritual knowledge and pass it on in a way that it will have a truly beneficial effect on those who are being taught ....

Only a spiritually awakened proclaimer of My Word is a true successor to My disciples .... and not those preachers who decided for themselves to make it their career and who believe that they can academically acquire the knowledge with which they then want to work in My vineyard .... These labourers are unsuitable for they have to wait until I call them Myself, prior to this they cannot work properly in My vineyard because I Myself want to work through My spirit in those who are active for Me and My kingdom. And neither can this calling come from fellow human beings, from someone who, in turn, has also taken up his office without an inner calling, who was also made a 'servant of God' by his fellow men .... This teaching ministry carries so much responsibility that it truly also requires the qualifications for it and human will or human action can never suffice to confer such an office .... I descended to earth Myself in order to bring My Word to humanity, the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, which grants complete enlightenment and returns a person into a state of realisation which was his share before his apostasy from God .... I brought this Word to people Myself and .... since I was only able to stay for a limited period of time on earth .... chose suitable vessels for Myself whom I filled with My flow of spirit, whom I instructed Myself and .... since they lived a life of love .... to whom I also promised the working of My spirit while they carried out My instructions ....

And you humans know that due to people's free will the purest truth can be spoilt if the conditions no longer exist which permit the working of My spirit .... Do you really believe that all people who claim to be My 'representatives on earth', who claim to be the successors of My first disciples, displayed the prerequisites which enabled the working of My spirit? And thus the pure truth was no longer guaranteed, for a person who has not shaped himself into a vessel for My spirit can be easily influenced by My adversary, whose sole intention is to always undermine My pure truth .... This is why countless misguided teachings were able to assert themselves without being recognised by them as such .... For wherever My spirit is as yet unable to work darkness still prevails, for only My spirit ignites the light in the human being, for My spiritual spark is love, and love is also light and strength ....

As the divine spark of love in the human being .... the spark of God's spirit .... unites with the eternal Father-Spirit a bright light has to shine which no error can endure, because it will be exposed and refuted by the truth from Me, Who will only ever support the pure truth and make it accessible to you humans .... Understand that this was the real meaning of My last Supper with My disciples, that they thus received the instruction to bring the pure truth to people and at the same time mention My act of Salvation and My human manifestation in Jesus, therefore I said: Do this in remembrance of Me .... For only by proclaiming the pure Gospel was it also possible to provide people with the knowledge of My act of Salvation .... And since this knowledge is extremely important I mentioned it with the above Words, for all people who want to become blessed should remember Me .... But as long as precisely these 'instituted' words are misunderstood and associated with a completely senseless action there is still profound spiritual darkness in people .... And this I why I now instruct My last disciples again to carry My Word into the world, the pure truth which I was able to convey to them through My spirit 'which effectually worketh also in you that believe' ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Characteristic of the church of Christ: The working of the spirit ....

B.D. 5174 from July 19th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The church of Christ is not an organisation, it is the unification of all spiritually striving people from all denominations who believe in Jesus Christ and live a life of love, for not the creed provides the evidence of their belonging to the said church but the spirit which speaks through the people who are its members. Surely you will understand that it can never ever be enough for God that a person joins this or that school of thought, either because of its name or also due to being impressed by the customs and traditions which every organisation and denomination exhibit, but that God only evaluates a person's attitude which can vary in every denomination, i.e., more or less corresponding to God's will, more or less heeding the divine commandments. And yet, the only decisive factor as to who may count himself a member of the church of Christ is whether a life of love has awakened God's spirit within the human being .... The church of Christ is a purely spiritual organisation which makes no concessions to the world whatsoever; it is only based on a human being's spiritual life, on the conscious will to attain the spiritual goal which is the human being's task on earth. The church of Christ unites all believing, that is, inwardly convinced followers of Jesus who accept the divine teaching of love as their law of life, who acknowledge Christ's act of Salvation and through conscious unity with Him know no other endeavour but to develop the strength of the spirit .... who thus are enlightened by the divine spirit, which will always be the evidence of belonging to His church.

The church of Christ needs no other external characteristic in order to be recognised as His true church, which He Himself founded on earth, apart from the spiritual rebirth, which is verified by the expression of the divine spirit in the human being. And this, in turn, is recognisable through enlightened thinking, through the realisation of truth, through realising the purpose of the human being's life, through strong faith and its resulting extraordinary working, be it by healing the sick, by averting great earthly adversity, by the influx of the divine Word or the commanding of the elements for the benefit of other people. A power, which is of divine origin, will always emerge once the human being has achieved spiritual rebirth, and he will belong to the church of Christ, which is outside of every ecclesiastical organisation but which can number people from every denomination as its members. It is a spiritual community of profoundly devout people whose leader is Jesus Christ Himself, with whom every member must enter into heartfelt contact in order to be admitted to His church. For His church is something that is alive, it is not a dead structure which exists in the world by name yet lacks all spirit. His church is based on living faith which was brought alive through love .... This is why love and faith are the first condition in order to belong to His church, why people from all denominations belong to His church, whose living faith arose from their love for God and their neighbour. All these people are being united by Jesus Christ in the church He established on earth, and He also bestows them with the gifts of the spirit depending on their maturity, ability and purpose of activity on earth for His kingdom. Wherever God's spirit is working there stands a pillar of His church which is and will remain insurmountable for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Let the spirit work in you ....

B.D. 6612 from August 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You must not resist the spirit within you if it wants to express itself .... You must always be ready to listen to it, you must often go into silence and listen to what it wants to say to you. You must consciously open yourselves, for he will never force or try to penetrate too loudly but always wait for your willingness and then offer you delicious things. The spirit within you is the voice of My love which is always ready to sound for you, which constantly wants to speak to you but can only speak to you if you are also willing to listen to Me. And if you seriously consider what a great grace it is that you are privileged to hear My word, then you must only ever give thanks in profound humility for this gift of grace and never miss an opportunity to receive it. And thus the more often you open your heart the clearer you will hear My voice, and I will be able to impart inexhaustible wisdom to you which will make you profoundly happy .... And then you will soon be able to rise above all earthly things, you will learn to regard everything as a quickly passing final test and trial which will then be followed by an eternal, unclouded spiritual life .... Soon nothing will bother you anymore, because your soul will detach itself more and more from the material world and only longs to return home to its father's house. Only My spirit can convey this to you, and only your spiritual ear can receive it, but you yourselves can shape yourselves through your will such that you will become able to hear My voice, and My gifts will never be limited to you .... But you determine the measure yourselves. It is the law that free will is not ignored, that you must turn to Me yourselves if My ray of love is to affect you. But I do not restrict you, I do not withdraw from you but you yourselves give the reason when it seems to you as if I am not present to you, because a wall immediately pushes itself between us when your will is looking for another aim. And you must also remove this wall again yourselves and you will find Me again because I was never far away from you .... But that you are at a considerable advantage if My nearness is constantly proven to you through the receipt of My word need not be told to you, for your state of soul will prove it to you yourselves, you will feel an inner peace in My nearness and be full of strength because you receive it directly from Me. Let the spirit within you often have its say, just always create opportunities for it to express itself .... So often give yourselves over to inner contemplation, shut yourselves off from the noise of the world and listen to the subtle sound within you .... Want Me to speak to you and listen to Me .... And you will truly go through earthly life richly blessed and also be able to pass on much of the blessing .... For you all need strength and light .... which My spirit gives to everyone who opens himself to it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers