Jesus Christ Knocking At Your Door!

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

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

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

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

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

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

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

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

8707 - Christmas 1963

8280 - Why Jesus Christ must be acknowledged....

8618 - Faith in Jesus Christ is in danger, therefore revelations....

4016 - "I knock and you do not receive Me...."

4575 - ‘They ate and drank....’ just as it was before the Flood....

5928 - God's return in the word.... great spiritual need....

5116 - God’s word truth.... living faith recognizes father's voice....

7443 - "Hear My addressl...."

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

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

5812 - Constant connection with God....

6348 - Mental care....

8737 - The bond with God.... Adversity and suffering....

5240 - Expression of the divine spirit.... Satan as an angel of light....

7854 - Sacrifice and renunciation....

8409 - "He who abides in love.... "

3795 - "Let Me take up residence in the heart.... "

4107 - 'He that keepeth My commandments.... to him I will come and manifest Myself ....'

3676 - Prepare a dwelling in the heart.... communion.... "Behold, I stand at the door...."

4379 - Last Supper.... Spiritual meaning.... Flesh - blood....

6721 - Redemption.... Last Supper....

7600 - God's revelation.... "Receive and eat...."

2505 - ?resNotTranslated?

4491 - "Forerunners you shall be to Me on earth...."

6341 - Mediator.... intercession....

7952 - Carrying the divine word into the world....

4053 - Sin against the spirit....

7589 - "Behold, I stand at the door...."

7997 - You humans should strive for perfection....

2762 - ?resNotTranslated?

Christmas 1963

B.D. 8707 from December 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Remember My coming into the world with gratitude and joy, for it signified for you an act of immeasurable love and compassion, a light came to you which was intended to illuminate for you the path out of the spiritual darkness of night .... an era of utter hopelessness came to an end for you humans and a new period of development began .... The path was prepared for you which lead back to Me again .... And this path was exemplified for you by the man Jesus, Who accepted this mission for love of Me, and you, His fallen brothers .... For He wanted to return My children to Me, who had been distant from Me for an infinitely long time already and who languished in deepest wretchedness. Jesus' human shell was occupied by a soul of light, a being which I had once externalised, which was lovingly devoted to Me and had remained with Me when the host of originally created spirits fell away from Me .... This soul sheltered within the infant Jesus, and miracles over miracles already testified at Its birth to the divine spirit Which inhabited this infant .... Yet Jesus, the human being, had to start His life like any other human being, He was born of Mary, the virgin, who was so exceedingly immaculate that she was able to give birth to the divine infant without ever having sinned .... This Jesus-soul had to enter a pure body because I Myself wanted to take abode in His human external shell and therefore His body remained pure and without sin, for although the beings of darkness constantly exerted pressure on Him with the intention to make Him fall He nevertheless resisted them and redeemed all impure spirits clinging to His soul through His greater than great love. He resisted all temptations and spiritualised everything unspiritual which pestered His body, because He lived in this material world, He made it compliant with His soul's wishes, for He was full of love and love conquers everything, even the greatest enemy. Jesus, the man, first had to bring all still immature substances clinging to the body to maturity, only then was I, the Eternal Love, able to take abode in Him, and only then was it possible to conclude the great act of compassion, which He wanted to accomplish for the guilt of sin on behalf of the whole human race .... When I descended to earth, when the infant Jesus was born, My spirit was in Him, because the earthly body sheltered a perfect soul within, thus it was intimately united with Me, enabling Me to express Myself through Him .... And events took place during His birth which you would like to assign to the realm of myth, but which truly happened, for everything is possible for a perfect spirit .... However, only a few experienced these miracles pertaining to the child Jesus, whose hearts where full of love and who recognised in Jesus the promised Messiah and worshipped Him .... People with unclean hearts approaching Him only saw a child which was like any other child .... Yet generally, only those people came close to Him who were prompted towards Him by their spirit, who sensed the miracle that had happened in this night and who thus paid tribute to Him with their adoration, because they saw in Him the promised Messiah. Nevertheless, the fact that God Himself came into the world and took abode in an infant was the greatest miracle of all times which will never repeat itself. For Love came into the world, the infant Jesus was full of love, since the great love for the once fallen, wretched beings had motivated it to take on flesh and to redeem the original sin, which could only be redeemed by love because it consisted of the fact that love had been sinned against. And the man Jesus accomplished this act by giving up His life for the sake of love, by offering the greatest sacrifice any human being on this earth has ever offered and will ever offer .... by relinquishing of His own accord all light and all power He possessed as a result of the love which dwelled in Him .... by suffering in the midst of the dark world as a mere human being and by dying the most agonising death on the cross ....

Jesus .... a being from the kingdom of light .... voluntarily offered Himself for this mission to walk across earth as a human being and to accomplish a work of atonement of inconceivable suffering and pain in order to help his fallen brothers. Love permeated all beings which had emerged from Me and remained with Me when Lucifer turned away from Me and drew an immense number of spiritual beings into the abyss with him .... And Jesus' love was so strong that it wanted to make

Amends to Me for the inconceivable offence against Me, their God and Creator, against the Eternal Love Itself. And I accepted this love which Jesus offered Me and thus also His sacrifice, because it was made by Love and because the original sin could only be redeemed through love .... And thus the being of light took on flesh and walked across earth like all other people, burdened by a heavy earthly body which was a restraint for the being of freedom and light and experienced as agony by the soul. However, He had to travel the earthly path as a human being, because He was meant to serve as a shining example to His fellow human beings so that they would follow Him. He had to fight against the same weaknesses and oppositions which burden every person by nature, because all failings and flaws had to be disposed of by way of the work of improving the soul .... The man Jesus lived in the midst of the earthly world, in the region which belonged to My adversary, and it was twice as difficult for the soul from the kingdom of light to assert itself in this dark area, to resist all satanic attempts to cause its downfall and to treat everything unspiritual in the flesh and in its surroundings with love. For even His body was badly besieged by immature spirits which Jesus did not fend off because, in His wisdom, He realised that these spiritual substances also wanted to be redeemed and His love was constantly willing to bring help to all wretched beings. His soul suffered incredibly through its environment, it was used to freedom and light and love and thus to supreme bliss and now found itself in darkness, bound by the body and in the most heartless environment. And thus from childhood on His earthly path of life had been a state of suffering through which He atoned for many of His fellow human beings' sins .... until He finally accomplished the great sacrifice of atonement by sacrificing Himself for the original sin of all human beings, past, present and future .... You humans will never be able to comprehend this act of compassion, for no human being would have been able to take such an extent of suffering upon himself in awareness of its conclusion, for He was constantly mindful of His end which did not allow any joy to arise in Him; He had human feelings and lived through it all in a state of fear which was caused by every thought of the forthcoming event. And He endured until the end, the love in Him for Me and for all which is unredeemed grew constantly and gave Him the strength to carry out His act of compassion .... I Myself was able to permeate Him completely, I Myself was in Him in My fundamental nature, and thus it was I Who atoned for the guilt of sin on behalf of all people, for it was Love which gave Jesus the strength to suffer and to die on the cross in order to redeem humanity, in order to make

Amends for the immense original sin, which could only be justly atoned for through an act of love as was accomplished by the man Jesus on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Why Jesus Christ must be acknowledged ....

B.D. 8280 from September 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again you have to be reminded that you cannot ignore Jesus Christ, that you have to acknowledge His act of salvation if you want to be released from your original sin, if you want to be accepted again into the kingdom of light and bliss. You have to find Him, the divine redeemer, during your earthly life in order to be released from your guilt, for He took this guilt upon Himself and travelled the path to the cross with it, He suffered for you and died an agonising death for the sake of your original sin .... If you do not accept His redemption, you will remain burdened with the great guilt of your former apostasy from God, and you will enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed .... But even then you still have the great grace that He accepts you and redeems your guilt of sin if you call out to Him of your own free will that He may deliver you from darkness .... But it is far more difficult in the kingdom of the beyond to come to the realization that sin keeps you in darkness and that you must first have found forgiveness for your sins if you want to ascend and enter the kingdom of light. Without Jesus Christ there is no redemption. For this reason the great act of mercy of the man Jesus is repeatedly brought to your attention on earth, in Whom God embodied Himself, because His great love wanted to redeem the guilt for you and therefore this love took abode in the man Jesus, Who suffered unspeakably and died on the cross because the love in Him drove Him, because He wanted to purchase beatitude for His fallen brothers again, because He wanted to help them to return to the father from Whom they had detached themselves of their own free will .... and this was the great guilt which they were unable to redeem themselves, which kept them separated from the father for an infinitely long time and which can therefore only be taken away from people through Jesus Christ, who acknowledge Him and His act of Salvation and thus also God Himself in Him .... Whatever is possible will still be done in the last days before the end so that people will be informed of the great act of mercy of the man Jesus, for to enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed after the death of the body means profound darkness and an extremely painful path of suffering in the spiritual kingdom until this soul has also found the divine redeemer and appeals to Him for mercy .... Every soul can find Him but equally it can also sink to the abyss if it resists all efforts of the beings of light and does not accept any instructions from them, if, as on earth, it closes itself to all better knowledge, if its will is not directed upwards, if its resistance does not abate and the efforts of spiritual friends are in vain. Then the soul will remain burdened by its original sin and descend into the abyss again in order to take a new path across earth .... but again the course through all works of creation, from hard matter on through the plant and animal kingdom up to the human being .... And endless times pass again until it once more starts its walk on earth as a human being in order to find redemption from its guilt in free will. Jesus offered the sacrifice on the cross for humanity's sins, and the blessings of the act of salvation are accessible to all people, all people can be released from their guilt if only they take the path to the cross, if they acknowledge Jesus Christ as the son of God in Whom the eternal deity manifested Itself and now approach Him for forgiveness of their guilt, for which the eternal love sacrificed Itself in Jesus. And time and again people are therefore given truthful knowledge about Jesus and His act of salvation so that people learn to recognize why they have to acknowledge Him, why they should appeal for His forgiveness and why the acknowledgement of God in Jesus is demanded of them .... And the process of the spirits' apostasy from God is explained to people and the consequences which can only be cancelled by Jesus Christ because love was in Him, Which alone was able to redeem this great original sin .... And therefore people experience the truth time and again so that they voluntarily take the path to the cross and thus enter the bridge into the kingdom of light, for Jesus Christ opened the gate through His crucifixion, and He Himself leads the souls through this gate who acknowledge Him and avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation, which He acquired for sinful humanity through His death on the cross .... For He died for all people of the past, the present and the future, but He must be acknowledged and the forgiveness of the guilt of sin must be requested by everyone who believes in Him and wants to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faith in Jesus Christ is in danger, therefore revelations ....

B.D. 8618 from September 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world will dwindle ever more, for everything will be done on the part of the adversary to place doubt and rejection into people's hearts .... and since no direct evidence can be produced, only faith in Him will ever have to be strong so that people will not succumb and completely exclude Him from their thoughts, which, however, signifies great spiritual darkness with the danger of falling back into the abyss. But this is the plan of the adversary so that he does not lose his following, which only Jesus Christ can wrest from him through His death on the cross when man believes in this His work of redemption. That is why the most unbelievable assertions are made, which all amount to denying an existence of Jesus completely or to put Him down as man like every other man, to call all His miracles until His resurrection from the dead a lie or legend and therefore to deny the whole work of redemption and to make it ineffective. And the adversary finds many receptive ears for his work of lies, who are all too willing to believe him because they do not want to believe in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption .... but just as he also shakes the faith of those who are indifferent and not fully convinced of the teachings concerning Jesus Christ .... And even these easily separate themselves from their former views .... and only he who earnestly seeks the truth can have his faith strengthened again, for it will be clearly given into his thoughts what the redemptive work of Jesus Christ is about, or he will gain exact knowledge through My word, because this is the most important reason for the transmission of My word to earth, that people will be truthfully informed about the act of salvation so that they will take the path to the cross and fulfil their most important task on earth, to seek forgiveness of their original sin from Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Because you men can only then speak of success in earth life when you become free of your original sin in this, and that alone only requires the acknowledgement of Jesus and the intimate request to Him for forgiveness of all sin. Then your existence as man was truly not in vain, then the aim has been reached by you, which however can never be reached without Jesus Christ. Redemption through Jesus Christ means complete solution and becoming free from the enemy of your soul, who then has lost all power over you men. But that he wants to prevent this with all means (in every way) is understandable, and that is why he also reaches for all imaginable plans (means) to take all faith in Jesus Christ from men. And since men in the last time before the end are also completely without love, they also possess no living faith, which would withstand the onslaught of the opponent, but they voluntarily also give up their weak faith; they accept erroneous teachings without hesitation to also shake off all responsibility, because they then also hardly believe in a God, Who once demands account from them for their walk of life. But My counteraction will now also take effect to a greater extent, and what cannot be made credible to people through evidence will be proven through the 'working of My spirit', and clear knowledge will be given to people as a result, and Jesus' act of salvation will also be truthfully explained and substantiated. These clarifications of Mine give such an understandable picture of the mission of the man Jesus that this human being comes to a convinced faith who is only serious about standing in truth .... And whether it is only few, but these also represent their knowledge, and the opponent will no longer be able to shake their faith. For they need no evidence, because the evidence alone is the 'working of the spirit', which also only became possible through Jesus' death on the cross and which only ever imparts pure truth to the human being and explains all spiritual correlations, so that the human being can no longer doubt .... But he has free will, and he can withdraw himself from the influence of My adversary, but as he also can be at his will and closes himself to pure truth. And the adversary's activity will become ever more apparent until he will finally also want to eliminate Me Myself and also want to deprive people of their faith in a God and creator, in a power which stands and works above all things .... And then his hour has also come, then he exceeds his authority and thereby ends even the time of his work on this earth .... Then he will be bound again for a long time, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I knock and you do not receive Me ...."

B.D. 4016 from April 4th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Anyone who does not listen to Me deprives himself of the greatest grace, and one day he will regret it when he has come to realize what My revelation means for the human being. I Myself descend to earth and incline towards My creatures who do not make the slightest attempt to come close to Me. I speak to them as a father speaks to his children .... words of love .... and seek to win their hearts and make My children blissfully happy by instructing them and introducing them to the eternal truth. I offer them spiritual wealth, a treasure which is indestructible and which you can also only receive from Me, for which there is also no substitute, neither on earth nor in the beyond, and which secures eternal life for you. I make provision for eternity so that it will be blissful for you, so that you will live and not fall prey to spiritual death .... And therefore I Myself come to you in the word because I want to make you blissful creatures .... And you do not receive Me .... You let Me knock in vain, and you don't open the door of your heart to Me, which I want to possess because I love you. And one day you will realize what a precious gift of grace you left unnoticed, and the remorse will be great .... Yet I cannot order you to accept My word, for you are of your own free will and have to decide for yourselves, and I also have to offer you the most precious gift, My word, in such a way that you are not forced to accept it. And therefore I have to convey it to you in such a way that you can certainly believe the divine origin but not prove it, for proof of it would be compulsory faith, which I will never use if you are to attain the degree of perfection. Yet it will be easy for you to believe that the word originates from Me, Who is the word Myself from eternity. For My word only teaches love, and anyone who seriously examines it will only recognize love in it and the divine origin will be undoubted to him, for love always demonstrates divinity, because love and I are one. But anyone who rejects without examining has no desire for Me, for truth, for love, for grace and for eternal life. And he will have to answer for it himself that he did not listen to Me .... and he will also prepare himself little for eternity. He will live without thoughts as to how his life should be shaped after the death of his body, he will only pay attention to his earthly life, and he will not hear My voice because he will let it be drowned out by the voice of the world. And the end will come, the day when everything will be cleared away and only those will be saved who have become My own, who accept My word and live accordingly and thus have a rich treasure of grace at their disposal which will make them blissfully happy in the spiritual kingdom .... in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘They ate and drank ....’ just as it was before the Flood ....

B.D. 4575 from February 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

As the end comes closer it will become again as it was before the great flood. People will be seized by an increased lust for life and be influenced by the world with all its attractions. People will no longer be able nor want to control themselves and will therefore unscrupulously enjoy life in sinfulness. For they will not desire harmless pleasures, instead, sin will prevail everywhere, selfish love will displace all neighbourly love and thus people will become sinful by harming their fellow human beings merely to satisfy their body’s every wish. Other people’s possessions will not be respected and thus all laws will be violated. The increased pleasure of life will stifle the voice of conscience and what the world has to offer will be relished to the full .... The world, however, is My adversary’s realm and thus only bad can come from the world, it can only denote a danger for the soul, for the satisfaction granted to the body must be atoned for by the soul, it must pay for what the body demands. People may therefore seemingly delight in the pleasure, only those belonging to My Own will know which hour has struck when people seek to intoxicate themselves in the ecstasy of pleasure. Then the end will be very near, for I have long announced to you already that it will be like before the great flood .... They ate and drank, they married and were given in marriage and took no notice of the admonitions and warnings from above. And it will be difficult to preach the Gospel to these people, for since they only pay attention to and aim for earthly life they lack all understanding for spiritual life, and therefore they mock and ridicule every bearer of truth who will try to convert them. Yet in the midst of euphoria comes the last Judgment .... It will be dreadful for all who look upon the world as their God, for they will fall from the height into the abyss, from joy into immense fear, they will fall from heaven into hell .... For the world and its attractions was their heaven, but the world will be destroyed .... and harshest incarceration will be the fate of those who used their freedom on earth wrongly, who live in sin and also die in sin. Beware of the world for it is a great danger for you .... at the moment it certainly still offers much that is desirable yet it is better that you refrain from it and strive toward the heavenly joys which come afterwards, and do without, so that you can enjoy the delights of heaven in all abundance. Don’t belong to those who only love themselves and want to provide the body with every pleasure. The euphoria is short-lived, yet it will be followed by a dreadful awakening, as it is announced in Word and Scripture .... The human race, however, is in great danger, for it is already dazzled by the world’s deceptive light, and it will not stand still in its demands but it will increase them .... It aims with giant strides towards the final end .... it seeks life and will find death, it seeks joy and walks into ruin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's return in the word .... great spiritual need ....

B.D. 5928 from April 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Once again I come to earth to help you in an adversity which will cause your death if you don't recognize it in time and accept My help. You are weak and darkened in spirit and I do everything to impart strength to you and open your eyes, yet you turn away indifferently when I approach you and don't realize that you reject divine love without which, however, you cannot live .... which means the life of the soul, which will be released from the body shell in not too long a time and then enter into life or death. As long as you are still alive on earth you believe that you have enough strength yourselves and therefore you do not approach Me for strength .... But at the moment of death you lose all physical strength, and the soul remains helpless who did not receive strength from Me during its earthly life .... And then it cannot live but is dead .... yet not passed away, because .... what is from Me can never pass away again .... She is in a state of greatest distress, lightless and powerless and yet aware of her being .... It lacks the strength from Me which it was able to procure during its life on earth .... I know about the extremely sad and agonizing state of such a soul and I want to save it from this .... And therefore I repeatedly step into your path on earth and try to make you ready to accept My gift of strength .... I constantly endeavour to kindle a light in you so that you will see, so that complete blindness will give way .... And I therefore address you .... I am among people again in the word, I address those who are of good will. But you humans don't have much time left and if you don't listen to Me you will end up in a dreadful situation .... you will fall prey to the horrors of the end, you will suffer physical and spiritual death, for in your blindness you don't see the only path which leads out of ruin .... in your blindness you do not see the light that illuminates this path. I will make a covenant with you beforehand, I will accept all in spite of sin and guilt, if they raise their hands to Me, if they only remember their God, Whom they shall betray to His adversary .... and they will receive strength from Me to confess Me, if only they turn to Me in their heart .... I will accept everyone who wants to join Me, yet you humans will also be too weak to want the right thing because you don't acknowledge Him Who died on the cross in order to purchase a strengthened will for you through His blood, Who redeemed you from the bondage into which My adversary had beaten you. For this reason you humans are still blind in spirit, because he has taken the light, the knowledge, away from you and because you don't acknowledge his lord Who overcame him .... because you don't acknowledge Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, Who truly redeems you from all weakness and bondage if only you would call upon Him for this .... Again I will come to your aid and bring you a light, accept it and let it enlighten you so that you will know what fate you are facing and turn around yourselves and enter the right path on which I walk beside you and safely guide you to the eternal home .... listen to Me when I speak to you, and remember your soul .... remember death and let the day of bodily death become the resurrection day of your soul .... Believe in Me so that I can give you eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word truth .... living faith recognizes father's voice ....

B.D. 5116 from April 27th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My word is conveyed to earth in all purity .... You humans are not aware of what you receive, for you are indifferent to the truth and don't know that you absolutely have to accept the truth in order to become blissfully happy. You receive all kinds of knowledge from outside of which you have no certainty that it is the truth. And thus you are completely unclear as to what you should accept as truth, and on the other hand you are aware that you have to give yourselves an explanation and that you can decide for yourselves whether you are far from or close to the truth .... You can find it but you don't look for it, and therefore you also miss the great miracle which your father and creator works on you from eternity, that you hear His word directly from above and thus the purest truth is imparted to you from above, a knowledge which gives you information about everything that is unclear to you. It is an act of greatest mercy towards you humans, for your indifference towards the truth makes you unworthy of this bestowal of grace, yet I pour out My spirit upon a few devoted people in order to bring the truth closer to all of you, which you urgently need for your beatification. A connection has been created from the spiritual to the earthly kingdom, and therefore people have to adjust themselves spiritually in order to grasp the gifts imparted from there and let them take effect, they have to disregard the world as long as the spiritual influx touches them in order to feel its effect, otherwise they will also pass by the spiritual knowledge from the heavens unimpressed and not recognize its value. The truth comes to you and you pay no attention to it .... I Myself am the Truth, and thus I come to meet you in the word from above and want to be received by you .... Yet how often do you refuse Me the door, you keep it closed and do not grant Me entrance, and this always when My word is offered to you and you reject it, when the truth is brought to you and you prefer the world and for its sake take no notice of Me, of what My love and grace offers you. You certainly have the excuse that you don't know whether it is the truth, yet you don't take the trouble to examine it either, otherwise you would very well recognize the abundance of wisdom hidden in it, which can only come from a giver Who is wise in Himself and lovingly seeks to introduce you to the eternal truth .... You do not seek and therefore cannot find either .... for as soon as you seek Me I will also let Myself be found, and then I Myself will offer you nothing but the truth. Hence the indifference towards truth also extends to Me, and all you humans who pretend to believe in Me do not speak the truth if you simultaneously reject My word which originates from Me, for if you believe in Me alive you will also recognize My voice and gladly accept My word because it testifies to Me and only strengthens your faith. Anyone who believes in Me also seeks to fathom Me, and the words from above sound to him like a sweet promise and confirmation of My Self .... Yet only a few seek Me and will find Me, for the people of the world are blind and deaf and the light of My word does not penetrate their eyes and ears, and therefore humanity walks in darkness and only rarely can lights flash and illuminate the surroundings .... but anyone who prefers the night flees from the light and will remain in darkness forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Hear My addressl ...."

B.D. 7443 from November 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 78

I seek to address every person when My word is brought to him .... Whether he hears it in his congregation, whether he reads it or it is presented to him in conversation .... it is always an opportunity where I Myself can address him if he wants it himself. For it can also fall on his ear, his eyes can read over the words, he can be careless in conversation, it need not touch his heart .... but only then, when it has touched the heart, have I Myself spoken to him. But he should not let any opportunity to hear Me pass him by, for My address can only be a blessing for him. And therefore no human being can say that he has never had the opportunity to hear Me Myself, for I approach everyone because I want to win everyone for Myself and this can only happen if I address him Myself and he listens to Me. But I cannot force him to do the latter .... otherwise everyone would truly be touched by the power of My word and it would already have found its way into all people's hearts. Yet a 'forced response' to My demands which My word makes on people would not be successful for your souls, and therefore I have to wait until you open yourselves voluntarily, until you lend Me your ear of your own accord, until you listen to My words and then comply with them .... but I address each one of you more than once in your life .... Again and again I try to make Myself heard by you because your salvation depends on it, your fate in the kingdom of the beyond when you have to leave the earthly body. My word must have sounded to you, i.e. it must have resonated in your heart and caused you to live your life according to this word .... Then bliss will also be your fate in the beyond, then you will not need to fear adversity and torment, for then you will already have been in contact with Me on earth because you opened your heart and ear to the address which sounded for you .... Don't let My word fall on your ears, take notice when it sounds to you, think about it and try to live it out, and you will be delighted about the effect of the word .... It will touch you like a gift of love, and it will have an effect as a gift of love: It will bring you light and strength, whereas otherwise you will remain lightless and powerless, and no matter how rich earthly treasures you may have in earthly life. You can only make your soul happy with spiritual strength, and you receive this through the transmission of My word, regardless of the form in which you receive it .... Always and everywhere let yourselves be addressed by merely having the will and desire to be addressed by Me Myself. Then it will always be My word, whether you hear or read it. The desire for My word also ensures its reception, and the strength of My word will always flow to you if only you sincerely desire to be addressed by Me. For then your will is turned towards Me, and then everything you want and undertake must also establish the bond between us. And then My word must also sound to you, for you yourselves open your ears and hearts through your desire and I can speak to you .... I can speak to you as a father speaks to his children, and you will always be blessed by this address of Mine ....

Amen

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

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

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

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

Every day offers you the opportunity to mature psychologically, for you can make contact with Me every day through loving actions and heartfelt prayer, and every time you contact Me it enables My strength to flow over to you, which will always affect your soul beneficially .... And if you only make it possible once a day to receive a flow of strength then you can also assuredly expect your maturity to increase and your soul will have won, the day will not have been lived in vain .... And you always have the opportunity, both for loving activity as well as for a heartfelt dialogue with Me, and therefore your process of maturing need not come to a standstill, you can confidently and cheerfully continue on your path through life, for gaining a plus for your soul means a great deal in view of the near end, which precisely requires the increased work of improving the soul. And although you won't physically perceive it, it concerns predominantly your soul, and this need not be left empty-handed, even if you did not greatly benefit in an earthly way from the day. However, you will also receive earthly strength if you earnestly appeal for it to your Father in heaven, for He is aware of all your problems and will gladly resolve them too ....

After all, you are My children, I take care of all your worries and difficulties, but I also expect your will to be aimed at attaining full spiritual maturity .... Every prayer leads to spiritual blessings, for yourselves as well as for the loved-ones you pray for. Therefore you will also at all times be able to carry out your psychological task, just as you will always be able to pray, by merely uniting yourselves closely with Me and mentally stammering words .... I hear and understand them and I gladly grant requests which a child sends to Me with confidence in My help. And thus no day need be lost for you, since you can always benefit spiritually, providing, of course, that you are of good will and want to belong to Me, because I Am addressing My children with these words who have already established the relationship of a child with its Father and are no longer apart from Me. The others, however, can let many a day pass by without seriously considering their soul, and they are in great spiritual distress. You may also pray on their behalf and it will be a blessing for them as well as for you, for all people shall find their path to Me, because beatitude can only be found in and with Me, because unification with Me is the first and final goal which all of you should reach. Always remember that I love you, that you are My children and I only long to be in constant contact with you which, however, must be established by yourselves. And if you confer your love to Me you confer your will to Me too, and then your thoughts will always be directed towards Me, and you will assuredly help your soul attain maturity, you will not live on earth in vain, because then every day will bring you closer to Me until you are united with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Constant connection with God ....

B.D. 5812 from November 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

My will is that you constantly remain in contact with Me, that you constantly carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love and remember Me in prayer, that you desire My strength and open yourselves to receive it, which you can only do consciously through prayer or through loving activity .... My will is only that you don't exclude Me from your thoughts or make My approach impossible through unkindness. Then you will walk your earthly path without Me, then someone else will immediately join you and try to make you submissive to himself, and then you will be abandoned to ruin. As long as I can still influence you in some form or other .... but this is determined by your own free will .... you are not endangered, for then you will be illuminated by My strength of love which will infallibly help you to ascend; without Me, however, you are powerless and exposed to My adversary's activity who even uses effective means to gain control over you. I respect the least will which turns to Me in order to now also reveal Myself to the human being, yet this will must be present .... The human being is not allowed to show any resistance towards the being Which created him and Which he recognizes as his God and creator .... he must allow himself to be guided, he must want to surrender to Him, the human being must want to gain My affection, then I will recognize his will as being turned towards Me, and then I will always stand by him with help and advice and fend off the attacks of the enemy of his soul .... Then he opens the door of his heart to Me and I can now provide him with My strength of love .... However, people's will is mostly indecisive, i.e. the person lives into the day and only pays attention to what seems advantageous to his body .... He does not mentally deal with problems which could clarify his relationship with Me .... And therefore he not infrequently completely excludes Me from his thoughts without consciously being at My adversary's will .... He lives only to the world and is content with the fulfilment of earthly work and duties .... he does not think .... He does not need to sin against Me, he does not need to act lovelessly, he does not need to be a slave to My adversary yet, and yet he has not yet recognized Me as the aim either .... And this person is in greatest danger of losing himself completely to My adversary, for he unconsciously strives towards him and his kingdom and I cannot help him as long as he does not let Me enter his thoughts, as long as he does not consciously turn to Me in prayer and as long as he only lives for himself but not for his neighbour. And these people are in the majority who are not obviously bad or materialistic and yet only think of themselves, who therefore completely neglect an activity of love and consequently cannot draw strength of love from Me, but who fall prey to My adversary's slightest onslaught, who counts on the human being's selfish love and therefore quickly gains influence .... but which I cannot suppress or ward off either, because I am not called upon for help, because the human being has not yet recognized Me Myself and therefore does not take the path to Me either if he is in need. The connection with Me is indispensable for the attainment of the aim which you humans have set for your earthly life. And this connection first has to be established mentally, although at first it is more of a question than a certainty .... or else the human being has to unconsciously perform labours of love, then he will acquire strength from Me which will gradually also let him remember Me .... The separation from Me gives My adversary the right and the opportunity to exert his influence .... the connection with Me, on the other hand, repels him and renders his activity powerless .... for a person who unites with Me does not react to the influence of his soul's enemy. And this person need not fear being lost because I will not let anyone fall who remembers Me ....

Amen

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Mental care ....

B.D. 6348 from September 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You need spiritual support at all times, for none of you is so strong that he can resist My adversary without help from Me which, however, will always be granted to you if I recognize your will turned towards Me. You are always surrounded by beings of light, regardless of whether you are already high or still low in your development. They always want to help you but they can only do so if you yourselves do not offer resistance .... if you have the will to become Mine, if you inwardly reject My adversary's temptations. But you would be too weak despite your will, yet your will is enough to now determine the beings of light, your spiritual guardians, to work on you. Then they will form a protective wall around you behind which you will be well protected from the temptations of the enemy of your souls .... But the same help is not possible for those who still have their will turned away from Me .... These open all doors to My adversary, and My beings of light are not allowed to intervene, for the will of man is free .... And if the beings of light did not have this restriction of their activity .... they would truly oust the adversary, but it would not be of much use to you yourselves, for your will could not be tested and further your maturity. You, who want to be Mine, you are under My protection and thus also under the protection of those who want to serve Me .... Admittedly, the law of order must always be observed, and therefore you must first acquire this protection yourselves through your will .... If this belongs to Me, then you no longer need to fear anything despite your weakness and bondage .... Just in moments of temptation you will be imperceptibly released from the dark forces, you will believe to have overcome them yourselves, which also corresponds to the truth, since your will achieved it .... yet precisely with the help of those who look after you, guide and lead you on My behalf. For their will of love is powerful and only ever intent on helping you, on rescuing you from My adversary's power, whose activity they know in detail and try to thwart if you yourselves allow them to do so through the direction of your will. And this assurance shall take away all fear of My adversary .... He can only harm you if he succeeds in ousting Me from your heart .... and this should therefore be your greatest concern, never to give up the bond with Me or to loosen it .... Then he has power over you, for then My beings of light stand powerless next to you .... because they are not allowed to intervene against your will according to the law of eternity .... But the striving earthly children will always be granted protection and help because My might and love is truly greater and therefore will not allow any injustice to those whose will has already decided in favour of Me ....

Amen

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The bond with God .... Adversity and suffering ....

B.D. 8737 from January 27th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

And if you succeed in closely uniting with Me in thought by longing for Me with a loving heart, then I will be present to you too, because your love for Me attracts Me tremendously, and I will never deny Myself to love. My presence, however, always assures you an influx of strength, albeit it is only felt by the soul, but it will steadily mature and become ever more perfect because then I will no longer exclude it. Then you will have demonstrated your free will to belong to Me again, then you will have passed your test of will which is the reason why you live on earth as a human being.

Yet only few people occupy themselves with Me in thought, and if they do then only at certain times, and a process which should be deeply internal in order to result in spiritual success always just becomes an external formality. Only few people think frequently during the day of the One Who is their God and Creator and Who wants to be acknowledged and called upon by them as Father .... The world and its demands leaves people almost no more time for inner reflection, their thoughts are taken up by earthly affairs and worries which are utterly pointless and without value, and they completely exclude any spiritual considerations. Therefore they are never able to notice the divine blessing which rests on their daily activities .... Only when they are troubled by worries do they occasionally think of the One Who is powerful and able to help, and then it is already a considerable achievement if they turn to the One with a silent appeal, for then they have to establish contact with Me as soon as they send a prayer in spirit and in truth to Me up above. But mere lip-prayers will not reach My ear, for they lack the heartfelt contact which ensures that their plea will be granted. And yet, adversity and suffering are the only means to turn people's thoughts to Me, adversity and suffering can cause hours of inner bonding with Me, and then they will always attain benefit for their soul since no connection will remain without an influx of strength, and this influx of strength will always have a spiritual effect.

Blessed are the people who often raise their thoughts to Me, who don't have to be prompted to do so by adversity and suffering first but whose love impels them to unite with Me, who only find true comfort and true happiness of heart in a close relationship with Me .... blessed are those who have already detached themselves from the world to a degree that they find time for spiritual thoughts, that they communicate with Me because they feel the urge to enter into contact with Me .... For these will be constantly pulled by Me Myself and their souls' maturity will be assured. The separation between the beings and Myself, which they once undertook voluntarily, will then be annulled by a voluntary bond with Me which is evidenced by every heartfelt thought, every prayer and every deed of love .... for now, in the human stage, the being has changed itself back to its original state again, which also signifies an innermost bond with Me .... And I will try everything in order to awaken the desire for a bond with Me in people, I will step into every person's path Myself, or I will answer the call for help of those who are suffering in order to give evidence of Myself and My love .... I come to meet every person Myself with My love but I cannot force him to accept it .... They have to accomplish the return to Me completely of their own free will and entirely voluntarily appeal to Me for strength and love (light) and My presence .... But then I will never ever leave them again. Then their earthly path will truly not be in vain, for My strength will constantly flow to them so that the soul will attain a degree of maturity which will guarantee it a blissful life in the spiritual kingdom. And it is truly easy to gain the certainty of a blissful fate after death, for a heartfelt bond with Me is the right relationship I want My child to establish with Me, and a Father will always want to make His child happy .... He will constantly give to the child what it needs, and thus He will also convey to the soul what it needs to mature: light and strength and grace .... Only the contact has to be established first which will ensure that My emanation of light and grace can flow across. Then the human being will safely reach his goal on earth .... he will acquire for himself eternal life in absolute bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Expression of the divine spirit .... Satan as an angel of light ....

B.D. 5240 from October 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

'I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world .... ' These Words of Mine shall be your confirmation that I will stay amongst you wherever you allow Me to stay. Although I Am not visibly with you, My spirit is nevertheless your constant companion, yet you yourselves open the door for it or you keep it closed, but then you cannot say that I Am with you. You all can certainly let Me be present if you want to draw Me to you with your love, indeed, with a high degree of love you would even be able to behold My image in you .... Yet how few desire Me and prepare an abode for Me, how few shape their hearts such that they can receive Me therein. Even so, I also come to meet those who feel no desire for Me .... I come to meet them in the Word, because only the Word can awaken love in them if they listen to it, think about it in their heart and act accordingly .... This path to Me is not difficult and yet it safely leads to the goal .... of experiencing My presence so that every person would then be able to say: The Lord is with me always .... Nevertheless it requires profound faith to be convinced of My presence, and this faith can only be gained through love again. Consequently, love always comes first .... Without love no contact whatsoever can be established with Me, without love everything that intends to make My presence credible are lies or formalities.

You all should remember that no-one can become aware of Myself if he is devoid of love, but that everyone who lives in love will have Me as a constant companion .... However, My presence will always reveal itself in some form or other .... through exceedingly strong faith, through a variety of spiritual gifts, through missionary work and the appropriate aptitude, through hearing My voice in the conscious state, through all kinds of helpfulness which require exceptional strength .... Then My spirit will always and forever be at work, which is the obvious sign of My presence and can therefore not be denied by people who are unselfishly and lovingly active. You humans should pay particular attention as to whether and how the love for Me and fellow human beings shows itself, then you will be able to test the origin of every such spiritual expression. But the right kind of love also guarantees the human being My protection against impure spiritual forces, which will indeed always encroach on you humans but due to your nature, your will for truth and your urge to love will always be deterred, because they effectively sense My presence and retreat.

However, occasionally they will find access if the person himself does not exercise strict discipline, that is, if he, with only the slightest unkindness, entitles them to do so .... For unkindness embodies the one who lacks all love but who also has power where it is granted to him. And that is why only love is the guarantee for My presence, and you are all entitled to examine this love if you want to convince yourselves of the truth of what is upheld to people as the working of the spirit. I truly only face you with beneficial gifts, I will not offer you anything which might offend your heart. I Am a God of love and loyal Father of My children, and if I speak to you, you will also be able to recognise the Father's voice, and you need not be afraid that you will fall prey to deception if My Words affect you in a Fatherly way. But you must likewise come to meet Me like children, you must approach Me full of love .... otherwise you will not be able to hear Me or you will fall prey to My adversary, who wants to win you over with misleading words, who deceives you, at times even as an angel of light if he can thereby accomplish success. Love is and always will remain decisive, and My adversary will never be able to draw near to a loving human being because I will stand between him and the adversary since I Am love Myself. A good and kind-hearted person can therefore never be deceived by My adversary, yet he can always approach those whose nature lacks love, whose selfish love is still too great, who want to be important in the world and try to make an impression, who lack true humility. I know the human hearts and keep away from those who are devoid of love, yet I will give pleasure to My children with My presence .... And they can always rest assured that their love will invite Me, that they then can entrust themselves to Me, that I will take abode in them and remain with them because love strives towards love and inseparably unites ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sacrifice and renunciation ....

B.D. 7854 from March 20th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

The father fulfils all your requests which you send up to Him in spirit and in truth .... For it is only possible for you to receive true enlightenment in a spiritual way if you desire it. Yet you should also be aware of the fact that you must also prove yourselves worthy of being addressed by Me and that you therefore must also have the firm will to live for My pleasure .... Hence your salvation should prompt you to ask Me questions, not earthly motives, for I want to win your souls and for the sake of this purpose you listen to My word. And so I ask you: Why don't you give yourselves completely to Me? .... Why do you still seek the world and its lust? .... Why is it so difficult for you to renounce the latter when you know that I have far more glorious joys in store for you which will compensate you a thousandfold for everything you voluntarily sacrificed to Me on earth? .... All My love belongs to you, and this desires your love in return .... and you shall prove it to Me by also being willing to make sacrifices to Me. And you will know for yourselves when and how you can bring Me a sacrifice .... and truly, every sacrifice will result in its blessing. You yourselves have free will and I can only call out to you: Remember your souls .... But whatever you do or refrain from doing must be done entirely voluntarily, you must not be influenced by anyone, for every influence can also have the opposite effect, that you inwardly rebel and distance yourselves from Me. You should put self-love on the back burner but let neighbourly love come to the fore, and you will truly achieve much .... and always seek refuge with Me .... For you should know that My adversary constantly tries to harass you and that you only reject him if you take the path to Me. (20.3.1961) And I want your love .... as soon as it is meant for Me you will no longer be able to love anything apart from Me which still belongs to My adversary .... Do you understand this? Love for Me also protects you from physical desire, for then I will be above everything, you will also want to gain and keep My love forever. Hence love should always motivate you to give yourselves away, love should always motivate you to relinquish .... You should always place your fellow human being's well-being above your own desire, and through your love for your fellow human being you will also prove your love for Me. You should fight self-love, and that also means overcoming your own desires if you can help your neighbour by doing so, i.e. by making your neighbour happy, by giving and helping him when he is in need .... If you have love within you, then you also know what you have to do, for love guides your thoughts right .... Love also awakens counter-love, and you should always bear this in mind that every lack of love awakens hostility and you will then no longer be able to cope with the evil spirits which will beset you .... You should always bear in mind that I do not evaluate the deed but the will, that I always judge according to whether love is the impetus for your will and action .... I condemn all self-love, I will bless all self-sacrificing love. But where all love is missing the door is opened for the adversary and you will not easily get rid of him again. And yet I know your innermost thoughts, you cannot hide anything from Me, your thoughts are open and clear to Me. But nevertheless you should come to Me and present everything to Me with complete trust that I will help you in all adversity. But I want to see your love, for if you are without love you will never be able to unite with Me, you will not be able to pray to Me intimately either, for there is resentment in your hearts if love is not in you, because My adversary has planted the seed which will now sprout where I Myself cannot be. Therefore seek to purify your hearts from such thoughts which are not in accordance with love for Me and your neighbour. Free yourselves from every kind of selfish love because it will prevent you from showing your neighbour the love he needs in order to be able to radiate love in return. And you will join Me ever more intimately, for true love, giving love which wants to please will always lead to Me, for it does not seek its own happiness but only that of the other person. And this one alone will now also live his life with Me and I will help him if he needs My help, I will bless his good will and protect him from every adversity of body and soul ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"He who abides in love .... "

B.D. 8409 from February 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

"Whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him .... "You should always remember these words of Mine in order to grasp the great significance of every activity of love which you carry out .... Since I am love Itself, you must also be in direct contact with Me when you practise love, for then you will also make use of the strength which originates from Me .... but you can only ever say this when one of your activities is based on love. For you can also utilize your vitality by working on earth for the sake of earthly goals, yet the bond with Me, Who is eternal love, is only guaranteed if love impels you to work. Then I will be present to you, I Myself will work in you, and My presence is the greatest success you can achieve .... Your love draws Me to you, or: love is My fundamental substance, and you are the same in your original being .... Thus, when you perform works of love you receive Me Myself into yourselves, your love unites with Me and your being slowly returns to the original state where it was completely permeated and stood in most intimate bond with Me .... Time and again you should remind yourselves of these words of Mine, that you cause Me to be constantly present if you constantly carry out works of love; and I will explain to you what it means to constantly be certain of My presence, so that you strive for this bond with Me with all your senses: I then direct all your thoughts, I determine your doings and intentions, I guide you on all your paths, I protect you from every danger of body and soul, I give you strength in abundance, spiritually as well as earthly .... I keep My adversary away from you, for he can never be where I am .... I enlighten your spirit and I also lead you safely to the goal .... All this is brought about by love within you, for as soon as you perform works of love your will also belongs to Me and you consciously take the path of return to Me, from Whose love you emerged. Being certain of My presence will make your earthly path easy for you, for then you will fear nothing because you feel safe and secure in My presence. "You remain in Me and I in you .... "As soon as you move in love, as soon as you work in My will and with My strength. And you should be aware of the fact that I only require love from you and that you will then completely fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... so that you will not walk this earthly path in vain but safely reach the goal. For you should only allow one thing on earth, that My strength of love can illuminate you again, and this happens when you accomplish works of love yourselves .... when you think of your neighbour with unselfish love, when you support him in every adversity and distress, be it spiritual or earthly .... when you take care of all those who are still distant from Me and try to lead them to Me and only ever let love impel you to work on earth. Every activity which is driven by love is blessed by Me, for you always open the door to your heart for Me Myself, into which I can radiate My love, into which I Myself can move and take abode, because I, as the eternal love, can only dwell where there is love. You will now also understand that people who do not perform any works of love are still very distant from Me, for only love allows My presence, but without love the distance remains, which you should reduce and completely remove during your earthly life if you don't want to have lived it in vain. In the last days, however, love has grown cold amongst people, therefore My presence with them is impossible, therefore no living faith in Me as God and creator can be found anymore, and earthly life is an idle run for many and will therefore end prematurely for them. For without love there is no spiritual progress, there is no bond with Me and no redemption from the form .... Without love there is no light, and the human being remains in the power of My adversary, the prince of darkness, for without love the human being lives without God .... He remains distant from God and meets an agonising fate when the end has come ....

Amen

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"Let Me take up residence in the heart .... "

B.D. 3795 from June 9th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

Let Me take abode in your hearts, let Me become effective in you and thus be in you with all strength .... This is your aim on earth, that you shape yourselves in such a way that nothing will prevent Me from dwelling with you and that, through unification with Me, you will become My children forever. However, you first have to remove everything impure from your hearts because I cannot dwell where there is filth, where My eternal order has not yet been established, which My living creations have overthrown through their own will. Only where there is order, where My law of eternity is observed, can I Myself be there and make you happy temporally and eternally. But My law of eternity demands love, and to walk without love also means to live in disorder which excludes My presence. Thus you must shape yourselves into love and you will fully and completely fulfil My will, and if you keep My commandments of love you will be pleasing to Me, I will approach you Myself, I will find a well-prepared dwelling place in your hearts and can take abode therein, and you may then constantly cultivate contact with Me .... You now carry My spirit within you, recognisable to yourselves, for you can always and constantly hear it. There is now no longer any separation between the spiritual spark which rests within you and the father-spirit of eternity, for you carry Me Myself in your heart, you have united yourselves with Me through love. All of you should try to reach this aim, let Me already take abode in your hearts on earth and you will already be blissfully happy on earth. For what My spirit offers you are treasures for eternity which will make you more happy than earthly possessions which you will no longer desire once you have accepted Me Myself into your hearts. My spirit guides you into all truth, My spirit gives you the power of realisation .... I Myself always and constantly teach you the highest wisdom, I give you food and drink and take over every care for your spiritual and physical well-being .... For now I am the Lord in My house, I rule and reign in you who have freely accepted Me into your heart, into My house, which I will never ever leave once you have offered it to Me as a dwelling and prepared it well. And My presence is now your bliss .... In My presence you will feel safe, I am a comforter to the forsaken, I am a protector to the anxious, I am a friend and brother to My Own, just as I am the most faithful father to all My children from eternity. And I constantly distribute gifts of grace, strength and light, as I have promised .... I consider My Own because they have given Me the right to care for them, because they have offered Me their hearts themselves and prepared them for reception through love. And thus My word comes true, for it is truth and will remain truth for all eternity ....

Amen

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'He that keepeth My commandments .... to him I will come and manifest Myself ....'

B.D. 4107 from August 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Let Me speak to you in all places, at all times and in all situations of life, in joy and in suffering, in hardship and worry of body and soul by turning your thoughts to Me and desiring to hear My voice .... And I will speak to you, and everyone who expects My communication shall hear Me. For I have promised you that I will manifest Myself to the one who loves Me and keeps My commandments, who thus strives towards Me and lives a life of love .... Anyone who fulfils My commandment will also recognise My Word, he will accept My revelations and be joyful in the knowledge that I Am talking to him. The awareness of hearing Words of love from Me will make him happy, he will strive towards Me even more sincerely and ever more longingly listen to My Word in silence, he will open his heart to Me and I Myself will enter him, I will take abode in his heart, I will unite with him and remain in constant communication with him. This is the state every person on earth should strive for, to be in constant contact with Me, to mentally establish this bond and, in blissful unity with Me, to relish My flesh and My blood, that is, to accept the strength of My Word. Once you have reached this state on earth you can confidently consider yourselves as My children, you can come with every concern like a child to its father, you may know yourselves loved by Me and need not be afraid or feel abandoned in any earthly adversity for then I will constantly be with you, I will safeguard every step you take, I will guide and protect you and grant every wish you request of Me in spirit and in truth.

I will hear your call, regardless of how secretly it is being sent up to Me .... For I love those of you who have the will to come to Me. And since I Am connected to you by greater than great love I will not allow you to go astray if, faced by a crucial decision, you don't know which way to turn. I will very gently push you towards the right path, I will take you by your hand so that you will not stumble, I will illuminate the path if it gets dark and you are no longer able to recognise it properly. And time and again you may be permitted to hear My voice which intends to give you the assurance that I Myself Am with you. You should only look upon the earth as a stage of transition in order to achieve on it the degree which allows for My presence. However, once you have achieved this you no longer need to fear anything of an earthly nature, for then you will be earmarked as aspirants for the spiritual kingdom and they will infallibly attain their goal. Consequently, don't be afraid of that which will still be imposed upon you in an earthly way, because it is only temporary and will just last a very short period of time, which you will no longer have to go through on your own but in constant company with Me you will also be protected from all harm. The hearts in which I have taken abode belong to Me without fail, and I will never again let go of that which has become My possession, and this assurance should make your life easier to bear, you should believe it and always consider yourselves as My children who will safely return to their Father's house under My guidance ....

Amen

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Prepare a dwelling in the heart .... communion .... "Behold, I stand at the door ...."

B.D. 3676 from February 4th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

O enter yourselves and don't let Me knock in vain at the doors of your heart, open them and let Me enter and bring you salvation, and receive Me with a glad heart and prepare a dwelling place for Me within you, make My will your concern and serve Me by serving your neighbour with love for My sake. And happiness and peace will enter your heart with Me, for once you have recognized Me you will no longer desire the world and its goods but sacrifice everything for the sake of My presence, for the sake of My love, which I bestow upon you if you accept Me into your heart. I bring you My word, I bring you nourishment for your soul, and thus you will no longer hunger and starve and also feel this earthly as a benefit. For flooded with strength you will overcome all earthly difficulties because I Myself stand by your side and convey the strength to you. For now you no longer walk alone through the earthly valley, you have Me as your constant companion once I have taken abode in your heart, once you have prepared it to receive Me through your will, through loving activity. If I knock at your heart's door and offer My word, only your will is decisive to let Me enter .... Then this will will be directed towards the right aim because it was meant for Me at the right time. First you accept Me as a stranger, then you recognize Me and establish the right relationship, you let Me be your friend and brother, you see in Me the father of eternity, you feel deeply united with Me as My children, and your relationship with Me will become ever more intimate until you have found unity, until you are united with Me forever through constant activity of love. Let Me into your hearts when I approach to bring you the word .... offer no resistance, receive Me with a joyful heart and a rich blessing will blossom from your willingness .... I will not leave anyone out in order to bring him salvation, yet anyone who keeps his house closed when I speak, who refuses to receive Me Myself, will eternally no longer have to expect a gift of grace, for his will itself closes itself to it and will never ever be forced by Me. Yet don't let My call go unheard, open yourselves to Me for your own sake so that your soul need not hunger and starve, offer the nourishment which I Myself bring to you, be My guests, let Me feed and water you with My word, with the bread of heaven, the strength of which you need in order to become one with Me .... Receive Me Myself into your hearts so that I can give you communion, so that I can satisfy you with My flesh and My blood .... with My word, the strength of which must flow through you in order to become blessed. and therefore open to Me when I approach to desire entrance .... do not fear that a false prophet wants to mislead you, that he might offer you nourishment which does not suit you .... My word is recognizable because it preaches love .... and thus it is commanded by love Itself, by Me, Who comes to people in the word to help them in their great spiritual adversity, Who desires entrance into their hearts in order to be able to work in the hearts Myself for the blessing of all who receive Me and prepare a dwelling for Me .... Do not let the admonition fall on your ears but pay attention to it, and when I come open wide the door of your heart to Me and receive Me .... And you will be unspeakably happy, already on earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

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Last Supper .... Spiritual meaning .... Flesh - blood ....

B.D. 4379 from July 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The constant desire for nourishment at the table of the Lord assures you His love .... And thus I repeatedly invite you to take communion with Me, as often as you desire it. My table is always set for all who are hungry and thirsty and want to be refreshed, and they will be able to satisfy themselves with the bread of life, with the manna that comes from heaven. Every nourishment at My table is communion, it is the unification with Me without which the offering of My flesh and My blood .... of My Word and its strength .... cannot take place. Thus you, who receive My Word directly or through My messengers, are communing when you desire to accept My Word in your heart. Then My spirit will unite with the spiritual spark within you, then marriage will take place, the union, the spiritual communion. Then I will give you the bread of heaven Myself, I will give you food and drink, I will take supper with you .... you will experience the same event as My disciples, for whom I broke the bread and offered the wine with the Words: Take and eat, this is my body, take and drink, this is my blood ....

Do you now understand the meaning I attached to these Words? How immensely important it is that you take communion at My table, because My flesh and My blood will give you the strength to reach eternal life. You have to be nourished with food for the soul so that it matures, so that it safeguards its eternal life .... it constantly has to receive strength which it can only receive from Me directly and which I will give every time it unites with Me. Then I will break the bread and offer it to the soul, and when it thus eats My flesh .... My Word .... it is permeated by strength .... the blood .... with which I have blessed My Word. No one who longs for food for the soul, who wants to be My guest, need ever starve and go without .... I will come to him Myself and invite him, I will stand before his door and knock and if he opens it for Me I will enter and take supper with him .... I will feed him at My table and he will be truly satisfied and never need to go without ....

And thus, everything I said on earth should be understood in a spiritual sense. I taught My disciples and they understood Me and carried My Word into the world. And since people were taught correctly they understood and lived in accordance with My will, in accordance with My Word in complete understanding of it. Consequently, My church, the community of believers, was established entirely in My spirit at first.

But later this was no longer enough for the overzealous representatives of My Word, they wanted to excel before the world. And thus events, which were only intended for the soul, were visually presented to people and associated with external actions, which at first could not be condemned since they were carried by the spirit, since people took My will and its fulfilment seriously. But people changed and with them changed the characteristics of My church .... What was meant to be a profound inner experience became an external action which was placed at the fore and the deeper spiritual meaning became lost .... until the simple process of spiritual communion, of union with Me and the direct acceptance of My Word, was no longer understood by people. So now they no longer believe that a direct transmission of My Word is possible, although I Myself clearly and comprehensively promised them My direct working through My spirit, although I Myself .... the Word that had become flesh .... referred to the sustenance with the bread of life, with the manna from heaven .... People no longer understand the simple meaning of My Word and in their blindness don’t want to accept the simple explanation either. But anyone who wants to hear and understand will realise it, and the truth will be plausible to him, he will strive to establish a connection with Me Myself, he will be My guest, and I will take supper with him and he with Me ....

Amen

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Redemption .... Last Supper ....

B.D. 6721 from December 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

Every person suffers hardship as long as I have still been unable to come to him Myself in order to redeem him, because he still keeps the door of his heart closed to Me. For I want to bring salvation to his soul, I want it to become enlightened and therefore I approach you as the 'Light of eternity' in the Word .... Hence I knock at your door and wherever it opens I will enter and take supper with him and he with Me .... But who gladly and willingly opens the door of his heart for Me? Who gratefully accepts from My hand the gift I have to offer? Who refreshes himself with nourishment and drink which I prepared Myself as powerful food for your soul? Mostly I come to closed doors and My knock remains unheard; mostly people don't want to be addressed by Me although their souls are starving and go without, and the burden of sin has an effect of weakness and constraint .... I can't bring redemption to it because this necessitates the willingness to accept Me Myself in the heart .... For the human being has to believe in Me as the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ so that he can be redeemed, and if he believes in Me with a living faith then he will also open the door to Me and take Me in, then he will adorn the abode of his heart in order to receive Me .... he will allow Me to be his guest and yet he is My guest to whom I can bestow supper for his salvation. Love for Me and faith in Me also assures his redemption and releases him from his soul's hardship.

However, love and faith have become rare amongst people and their souls are in a desperate situation which becomes increasingly more difficult to remedy. For although I Myself descend to earth in the Word, I Am no longer recognised, I Am far more often rejected than accepted when I want to make My living creations happy, and even the light accompanying My appearance will not be seen because people deliberately close their eyes, because they have no desire for light, because they are more comfortable in darkness and therefore shun bright light. I would like to bring Salvation to people yet they won't accept it .... I would like to offer them delectable nourishment yet they neither hunger nor thirst for it .... I would like to remove the chains from their souls, I would like to redeem them from their bondage, I would like to release them from guilt and suffering and from My adversary's control .... But they don't long for this freedom, they willingly remain in this control, even if their souls are languishing in their hardship .... And therefore a time of grace is coming to an end .... A new period of redemption will start and prior to this I Myself will come to earth as I have promised .... And this second coming of Mine is close at hand. I will take those who had accepted Me before into My kingdom and those who had kept their ears closed to Me I will leave on earth, but in an undesirable state for they will be banished in the creations on earth again .... Since they did not allow themselves to be redeemed they will have to remain bound for an infinitely long time to come. I was unable to bring them salvation, I was unable to approach them as Saviour and Redeemer for they didn't know Me or didn't acknowledge Me. However, My Own will then remain in close contact with Me, I Myself will be in the midst of them and take care of My children both physically and spiritually .... For the new Earth will become their domicile where My promises will come true that I will dwell amongst them and reward their love and faith, that I will grant them beatitudes, that they will be able to be active in light and strength and all hardship will have been eliminated .... that peace will be amongst people because they are of good will ....

Amen

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God's revelation .... "Receive and eat ...."

B.D. 7600 from May 15th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

My word gives you everything you need on earth .... For as soon as you are addressed by Me you will not lack strength and grace, and you will be well provided for spiritually and earthly .... for My promise is “I will not leave you orphaned ...." I will reveal Myself to you and thus make Myself known to you as your father. And a father truly provides for his child spiritually and earthly if only it allows itself to be addressed by Him. For then you will give Me the evidence that you love Me and I will likewise prove My fatherly love to you by speaking to you. And a loving father's heart is always ready to give. Thus you will not need to do without anything when you hear My address, for then you will know that you are My children who are also subject to My spiritual and physical care. And how happy you may praise yourselves that you hear My word, for thereby you are given the evidence that you belong to My children who have already taken the path to the father and who will also safely reach the aim. And no more anxiety should befall you, for your very will to let Me speak to you also gives you the strength to continue on your earthly path in the certainty that you will cover it until the end .... For it is "My flesh" that you eat and "My blood" that you drink .... It is bread and wine which you may enjoy for the strengthening of your soul. You receive Me Myself within you, for I am the word made flesh .... Just consider the depth of these words .... that I Myself am within you when you hear My word, when I speak to you, when I offer you My greatest gift of love which you can ever receive from Me on earth. I am in you or you would not be able to hear Me, and My presence must make you overjoyed. Therefore you can truly consider yourselves blissfully happy when you are in the grace of My direct address, when you receive My word directly conveyed to earth through messengers, when you are honoured by My address which stamps you as My children, for only My own can recognize My pure word and only My own accept it into their hearts. And the fact that you hear or are allowed to read My word will be proof to you that you belong to My own, and you should be happy in this certainty and only desire ever more eagerly to hear My word, you should not let any opportunity pass by where My word sounds to you, for then you will also have the guarantee that I Myself am in you and with you, otherwise you would not be able to hear Me, otherwise you would not recognize the father's voice Who speaks to you Himself. And you shall hungrily enjoy the food I offer you .... you shall eat My flesh and drink My blood and thus receive Me completely into your heart .... You shall receive bread and wine from the heavens and let yourselves be strengthened in a way that no other nourishment your earthly body is able to receive. For I offer My nourishment to the soul, and this nourishment lets the soul mature and helps it to attain eternal life .... Do you now know why I sent the words to you through My disciples: “Receive and eat, receive and drink”? do you know then that I also addressed My disciples, that they heard My word and that they should carry this word out into the world? "Do this in remembrance of Me ...." What have you humans made of My words, and what meaning have you given them? That in the end only a few still know that I still give people bread and wine, that I give them My word as proper nourishment for their souls .... and that I am present to them when they can hear My speech, My voice. And My word will endure for all eternity .... Again and again I will address people where they allow My presence, and again and again they will be able to draw strength from My address so that their souls mature, that they fulfil the purpose of earthly life, that they shape themselves into love and now seek and find union with Me because My love constantly addresses them, because My love draws them and thus the soul can no longer resist My illumination of love, My word ...._>Amen

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"Forerunners you shall be to Me on earth ...."

B.D. 4491 from November 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You shall be forerunners for Me on earth, I have hired you for this purpose, because people have to speak to people so that they open the door of their heart to Me and grant Me entrance. For they cannot hear Me Myself as long as they have not removed everything from the chambers of their hearts which prevents My entry. Until then they will not hear My voice either. Yet they have to experience what I have to say to them, otherwise they will not make any effort to prepare their heart for My dwelling. Therefore I need you to enter them before Me, to call out to them: The lord comes and wants to enter you .... They can hear your call but whether they heed it is up to them. But if they have listened to you, they also know that I follow and knock at their door, and blessed are those who let Me in .... blessed are those who have prepared themselves for My coming, to whom your words gave cause to work on themselves. I speak to all who have heard the announcement through your mouth, and your work opens many a door of the heart to Me that would otherwise remain closed. You shall be forerunners for Me on earth .... you shall go before Me and listen to what I Myself say to you, so that you will then proclaim My word and speak in My name. And the more eagerly you are active in My name the more urgently My word will affect people, the doors will open of their own accord and hearts will wait for the coming of the lord, Whom His servant has announced, for a good speaker is capable of much .... But in order for you to be good speakers I will take possession of you Myself and speak through you, unrecognized by those whom you should make receptive for My coming, yet recognized by you because you serve Me with love, because I can already work in your hearts through your voluntary devotion to Me. And thus your ministry will not be too difficult, you will be guided by Me and led to all gates where I want to enter, and you will always speak in a way which is appropriate for the individual .... Only you must not tire and become lukewarm in your work for Me .... And therefore you yourselves must often grant Me entrance into your hearts by also letting Me speak to you, by desiring to hear Me Myself and thus longing to be fed by Me, to take supper with Me as I have promised you .... "behold, I stand at the door and knock; whoever opens to Me, I will come in and take supper with him ...." Open the door to Me, all of you, and let Me enter in, pave the way for Me, whoever you want to work for Me, and thus invite all guests to the supper, so that they may be strengthened and receive nourishment for their souls from My hand, for only then can they become blessed when I Myself feed them with the bread of life ....

Amen

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Mediator .... intercession ....

B.D. 6341 from August 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Leave the care for people's souls to Me but help Me where I need you in order to serve Me as mediators. It is a great work which still has to be done, for access to people's hearts is mostly barred to Me and since I do not use force I have to wait until the door of the heart is opened to Me .... And since this rarely happens by people themselves, every helper is pleasant to Me who lets his voice sound instead of Mine and demands entrance. How often does the path first have to be paved for Me because I don't take over a territory against a person's will which is disputed with Me .... And how rarely are people found who work for Me, who prepare the way for Me, who announce My coming and influence their fellow human beings to such an extent that they no longer refuse to open the door for Me if I come Myself to bring them peace .... I know where I am needed, but I also know where I find resistance .... And I also know where your help is appropriate, where resistance is to be broken when I Myself speak to people through you .... You only ever need to do what I inwardly urge you to do, you can carelessly leave it up to Me which means I use .... for I know about the adversity of My earthly children .... But very often I need you, for people are far more inclined to listen to the words of a fellow human being than to My words, because they don't want to believe that I Myself want to and can speak to them .... And therefore, in accordance with their will I choose the right means which can be effective but which do not force the person. And if you are concerned about a person's salvation then only commend him to My love and grace and trust Me that I will help as far as possible while respecting his free will. However, the resistance is often still so great that My omnipotence recedes, but that My love especially comes to the fore and tries to influence the person such that the resistance becomes ever less. Thus I have to use various means of education and I will also always use you where your help is appropriate. But you can trust Me without worry .... As soon as you intercede for those who still stand apart, who have not yet recognized Me correctly, you will also give them strength and their resistance will decrease through your loving intercession. You can achieve much, and where you don't succeed obviously, where you don't see any success of your vineyard work, there let go and call upon Me Myself to take over the work which you don't believe to be able to overcome. No intercession is in vain. And there is always a way where love intervenes .... And when a call of love sounds, the door opens by itself .... And then I can enter and bring light to the person who still dwells in darkness .... be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... Once I find access to the hearts, and once every soul gives up resistance ....

Amen

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Carrying the divine word into the world ....

B.D. 7952 from July 30th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Whatever is offered to you earthly .... Nothing can replace My gifts of grace, and nothing can give your soul the riches it receives spiritually through My address. And therefore you must never forget this gift of grace above earthly pleasures, earthly joys or earthly riches .... you should take nothing so important as the daily intercourse with Me, which gives you My direct address .... I can give you everything, but I can also take everything away from you. But as long as you possess Me Myself, as long as you are able to hear Me Myself, you truly possess the best, the greatest wealth and the most desirable thing a human being can possess on earth .... I Myself am close to you and My presence is your greatest benefit. And you should not want to give this away for anything, you should rather do without everything if you thereby run the risk of forfeiting Me Myself and My presence for you .... You should be willing to give up everything just so as not to lose My gift of grace of being directly addressed by Me .... And if you prove this willingness to Me then you belong to Me completely, and then you are faithful servants to Me whom I can now also use for every work, for every task, and who will also serve Me with all devotion. And then I can also give you without having to fear losing you to the world again. You should gladly give up the world with its pleasures, then there is no danger that it will demand you back again, that you will become enslaved by the world again, for as soon as you were once allowed to receive spiritual possessions from My hand they are more important to you than what belongs to the world. Yet again and again My adversary will try to chain you to the world again, and he will use all arts in order to achieve his aim .... Yet you can also be certain of My protection, for inner strength will also flow to you to resist him because you don't want to give up the bond with Me and this will secures My protection and My strength for you. (7/29/1961) You should indeed always be mindful and know that the adversary will leave no stone unturned in order to push you onto another path again, but the strength of My word is stronger, and therefore you will always desire My word, because it will always make you more happy than all the goods of the world and because everything seems stale to you in view of these gifts of grace which you may accept as often as this is your will. And therefore you are also constantly under My guidance, you who serve Me as an instrument in the last time before the end. And I Myself always guide you on the right path .... And if this path leads through the midst of the world I will try to influence souls there as well and address them through you, for I truly still know how to gather My sheep and lure them away from the dangers which threaten them because they are still too exposed to My adversary's attacks .... and they shall also hear the shepherd's call .... The world offers great danger but I am also to be found in the midst of the world if only a silent call reaches My ear, if only questioning thoughts are sent into the spiritual kingdom, from where an answer will then certainly come. For this reason I require strong supports which do not fall themselves when they are placed in the world, when they are blown around by strong storms of all kinds .... when temptations assail them or attacks by hostile-minded people who will always be represented in the world, in the world's gears, and proceed against everything spiritual because they are much closer to the world and thus to My adversary's territory, to whom the earthly world belongs. But I can also be close to such strong supporters in the midst of the world, for they will always keep their ear open to the words which sound from above, they will always open their hearts for My flow of strength of grace, they will not take a step in the 'world' without Me. And thus they will also carry My word into this world where only one heart willingly opens and receives it. I know where a receptive heart can still be found, I know where My word is recognized and accepted, and I also want to guide My word there, I want to scatter the seed so that it will still sprout and bear good fruit. For there is not much time left until the end .... My ways are strange, yet you walk them under My guidance .... and if you now willingly let yourselves be guided without offering Me even the slightest resistance, you will only ever be amazed at how easily even difficult problems can be solved if I bring about this solution Myself. I still seek to create clarity everywhere where there is ambiguity .... I am still knocking on many doors in order to be able to enter Myself in order to offer spiritual gifts to human hearts .... I still know many souls who hunger and thirst and long for strong soul food .... I still know many sick people who need good, healing medicine .... And I want to draw their attention to the spring which I have opened up, from which truly springs the best water of life, which refreshingly touches people who bow down at it and expect healing and strengthening for their pilgrimage to the eternal home. And I send My messengers to invite all the weak and sick to My table so that I can give them food and drink and good medicine, which I keep ready for everyone because I know all people's suffering and weaknesses and want to help them. And thus My gospel shall also be carried into the 'world', because people can be found everywhere who are willing to accept it if only it is offered to them in the right form .... i.e. as pure truth ..... And I will accompany My messengers, I will guide them and protect them from all attacks by My adversary .... because My love is always with those who want to serve Me .... My wisdom recognizes their will and My might truly protects them in every adversity and danger ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sin against the spirit ....

B.D. 4053 from May 31th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It has to be regarded as a sin against the spirit if people recognise the word offered to them by Me as truth and yet they do not want to accept it, that is, they reject My servants on earth or do not attach importance to receiving My word. It is a special grace when My word is imparted to a person, for it is the bread which comes from the heavens and therefore also has a special effect on the human soul. It is given through the voice of the spirit, it is My spirit which unites with the spiritual spark in the human being, it is supreme spiritual good, a gift of grace of such inconceivable value, and it should be received with gratitude and also be valued as an exquisite gift of grace by the one who recognises it as My gift, who feels touched by truth, who has to acknowledge it as valuable in terms of content, as of divine origin. And understandably such a person sins against the spirit if he accepts My word indifferently, if he resists making the content his spiritual property by thinking about it and taking a stand on its content. For I Myself have approached him and he pays no attention to Me; I have knocked at his door and desired entrance and he does not receive Me; I speak to him and he does not listen to Me; I offer him bread and wine, My flesh and My blood, and he rejects what is meant to be refreshment and strengthening for his earthly path through life .... And whoever I once approached without having found reception will have to struggle for a very long time before grace is granted to him again; he will not easily be invited by Me to the Lord's Supper again, for he did not accept My first invitation .... And the sin against the spirit is extremely serious, for it can result in complete lack of knowledge, the human being can become completely blind in spirit, because then I Myself will take away his ability to recognise, once he tries to extinguish the light through his refusal, because he certainly perceives the shining of the light and yet does not take the path which is brightly illuminated for him; because he prefers to continue on the old path from which I want to guide him onto the right path. Anyone who is able to recognise the working of the spirit is also obliged to take notice of the content of the announcements which originate from My kingdom, for I truly bestow a precious good upon people on earth, and if people believe that the spiritual good originated from Me it must also be regarded as a divine gift, it must be joyfully received and spread everywhere so that even those fellow human beings who are unable to hear the voice of the spirit within themselves will be blessed by My revelations. And those who accept it as My gift will be blessed, for they receive Me Myself and henceforth stand in My grace .... I Myself am now with them, and My presence assures them constant guidance, constant help in every adversity and a measure of grace which they can increase themselves through their love for Me, and they can safely reach their aim on earth .... that they shape themselves into beings of light, because My word simultaneously imparts strength to them, which is why every person who sins against the spirit understandably comes away empty-handed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

"Behold, I stand at the door ...."

B.D. 7589 from April 28th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Open wide the door of your heart when I desire entrance .... I knock at your door again and again, for I want to offer you a delicious gift; but I want to enter, you shall receive Me joyfully, you shall rejoice in My coming and desire with all your heart that I remain with you .... You shall recognize your father in Me, Who loves you and therefore wants to bring you good gifts .... You should not deny Me access to you .... This is all I ask of you, that you open the door of your heart wide to let Me enter. For this tells Me that you also show Me love, it tells Me that you have prepared the dwelling for Me in order to receive Me therein .... And now I can rule and reign in My house, and truly, it will only be for your blessing. For what I now offer you daily is food and drink for your soul, which now no longer needs to live in want, which unites with the spirit within itself and which will soon have found union with Me, because it will no longer let Me be displaced from its heart, because it is devoted to Me with all its senses and only ever wants the father to stay with His child in order to make it happy for as long as the soul lives on earth and also for eternity. Anyone who voluntarily accepts Me into his heart when I knock and desire entrance has achieved the greatest gain on earth, for he cannot be offered anything more delicious than My daily nourishment which I administer to the soul and which lets it mature already on earth. And thus I knock at all doors and seek admittance, and blessed is he who hears Me and opens his heart and prepares himself for My reception .... blessed is he who cleans and decorates the dwelling of his heart and at any time the lord can enter His house .... blessed is he who joyfully receives Me and no longer lets Me go away .... For I will never ever leave him, I will remain with him and bestow My love upon him, I will constantly speak to him and introduce him to the truth, because he has to know about it in order to attain the right knowledge, the light, without which he cannot be blissfully happy. And whose heart I was once able to take possession of belongs to Me, and I want to provide for him earthly and spiritually, for I will bring everything to him as soon as he lets Me enter his heart. For I do not come empty-handed, I have a rich cornucopia, and My gifts which I distribute will never end because I love you .... And My most delicious gift is My word .... for it is food and drink for the soul, it is My love's pledge, it is spiritual wealth with which you will one day be able to work in the kingdom of the beyond. And everyone will have such wealth at his disposal who opens the door of his heart to Me when I desire entrance, because I never come without gifts of grace and because I always know what the soul needs most. And I knock on many a door of the heart .... but not all of them open for Me, and then I have to move on and could not bring the soul any strengthening; I could not impart any gift of grace to it, and therefore the soul's nature remains miserable and it will also enter the kingdom of the beyond miserably when its hour has come. But it has forfeited the grace to accept Me into its heart, and one day it will bitterly regret it when it recognizes Who it was who knocked at its door without finding admittance. But I do not force My way in where the door is kept closed, I go further and only enter where I am joyfully received, where love opens the door wide for Me, where I can take abode and remain there, where the soul recognizes its God and father from Whom it never wants to leave ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

You humans should strive for perfection ....

B.D. 7997 from September 19th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

I have no other goal but to guide you into supreme perfection, because you shall create and work with Me as My children and for this you need to attain perfection, which you should achieve of your own free will. And I will help you to do so as long as you live on earth, where you should pass your test of will, where you should demonstrate that you desire to return to your God and Father, from Whom you once voluntarily separated yourselves. Hence, your free will can let you reach the goal during your earthly life, but it can also cause your standstill or renewed regression into the abyss, and I will never force your will but always allow it full freedom. But I will do everything in My power in order to let you reach perfection on earth. For I love you and yearn for your return, because you emerged from My love. And love always wants to give pleasure, it wants to permeate you, because then you will have abundant strength and use it for your ascent into higher spheres. Yet right now you are living in the last days, that is, a spiritual and earthly turning point will take place, and a limit has been set on your development, many people will be recalled ahead of time .... and you can all only count on living on earth for a little while longer .... And yet, even this short time is still enough for you to attain perfection, if only you seriously strive for it, if you want to fulfil the purpose of your earthly existence and appeal to Me for strength and grace, for support and the strengthening of your will. You can believe that you need only look for Me and I will allow Myself to be found by everyone who seriously tries to find Me .... However, once you have found Me I will truly not let you walk your earthly path alone; I will seize you and firmly hold you by My hand, and I will guide you towards your perfection .... And a tiny spark of My divine spirit has been placed into every person's heart which urges you from within to turn your thoughts into My direction .... But whether you take notice of its urging is up to you, for I do not enforce the direction of your will to Me.

However, I will not stop revealing Myself to you, and thus all happenings in earthly life will affect you such that you will be able to recognise your God and Creator if you have not entirely become enslaved by My adversary who also fights for your soul, because due to your past apostasy from Me you entitled him to do so .... Even so, My love belongs to you, it will never ever change and neither will it let go of you but persistently seek to attract your love in return .... And this love of Mine is so strong that you will voluntarily surrender all resistance if only you open your heart once and let it shine into it. But this has to be achieved by your free will, for although I knock at the door of your heart, you yourselves will have to open the door and allow Me to enter .... But then you will be saved for time and eternity; then your free will turns in My direction and I will take hold of it .... I will never again leave you to My adversary once you have voluntarily handed yourselves over to Me and thus separated yourselves from him .... And this turning to Me can occur at any time, and it will also guarantee you spiritual success during the short time you still have left on this earth. Yet you should believe that there is only a little time left, and you should take My admonitions and warnings seriously and diligently work at improving your soul, for it should still cleanse itself from all impurities in order to be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss in all clarity and purity when its passing away from this earth has come. The fact that it will not go astray once it has demonstrated its will to belong to Me is certain .... But it has to attain the degree of light on this earth itself, but I will also truly help so that it will achieve it. A complete surrender to Me will also result in My taking complete possession of you, and then strength will flow to you in abundance, which the soul will subsequently use for constant actions of love .... Your soul will purify itself, it will become increasingly more perfect and thus live a life on earth according to My will .... it will be so intimately connected with Me that I will also be able to influence it directly, so that it will be permeated by My spirit and only ever comply with My spirit's urging .... It will hear My voice and as a child let itself be guided by the Father, and thus it will truly reach perfection on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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