Father God'S Endless Love

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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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

7826 - God is Love.... He wants to give happiness....

8975 - The act of creation was an act of gratification for God....

God’s declaration of love: The creation

5311 - Infinite love and patience of God in the development of the spiritual....

6393 - Recognizing God's love in creation....

8248 - God's infinite love for His living creations....

Father's love in Jesus Christ

6572 - God's infinite love and patience....

6804 - Work of love and mercy of Jesus Christ....

7575 - God's love expressed in the work of redemption....

God's fatherly love keeps people in life on earth

7134 - God's love is only effective when resistance is abandoned....

7285 - God's endless love can be recognized by every human being....

7532 - God's endless love....

7801 - Defence and illumination of the divine love power....

God's fatherly love in painful events

3317 - God's love determines people's destiny....

3450 - Free will.... fatherly love....

5485 - Earthly hardship is often a revelation of God's love....

God's love in the end time

4080 - God's love and mercy in the last time before the end....

7324 - The final judgement is grounded in the love of God....

7985 - Dissolution of the earth is God's act of love....

God's power of love in death

3260 - Early death.... God's mercy.... Old age....

7480 - Death, where is your sting....'

God’s fatherly love in the beyond

1399 - ?resNotTranslated?

6550 - God's infinite love.... Eternal damnation....

6638 - The concept of 'hell'.... Renewed banishment.... God's infinite love....

Turning to God ensures God's loving kindness

1542 - Fatherly Words.... Return to the Father's house....

4162 - Relationship with God - love or reverence, respect, worship....

6293 - God's loving address....

7681 - 'I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world....'

8359 - Bonding with God guarantees His illumination of love....

Word of God proves His love

3698 - God's Word reflects the spirit of love....

4695 - The word of God proof of His love....

8368 - God's address proves His presence....

Guidance and care of the father

6181 - God's father love.... orphans....

7060 - God's guidance.... will.... faith.... love....

God's fatherly love requires reply

6272 - God's boundless love.... return....

7518 - Endless fatherly love seeks reciprocation....

God is Love .... He wants to give happiness ....

B.D. 7826 from February 15th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

Believe that I want to guide you into beatitude .... Believe that you were created by a God of love in order to bestow His infinite love upon you, in order to make you happy, in order to let Himself flow into you. And believe that this love will never end, that it has belonged and will belong to you for all eternity. Then you will know that everything in relation to you only serves to guide you into beatitude. However, you must also realise and believe that you, in the state of a human being, would not be able to endure unlimited happiness and neither can My infinite love give you the degree of happiness I would like to give you .... And you are in this state because you once turned away from Me of your own free will. You closed yourselves to the flow of My love and your nature became imperfect. So you are taking the path across this Earth in order to regain your perfection again, because My love for you is greater than great and tries to make you receptive again for My illumination, as I want to make you happy. Hence, your life on earth is not pointless, instead, it shall result in highest bliss when your soul leaves the body and enters the spiritual kingdom. The earthly realm is only a passageway for your soul into the spiritual kingdom; the earthly realm is only the means for your soul to mature fully, to prepare it for My eternal light of love .... Earthly life is only a short preparation time for you humans in order to attain the state again which you were in when I created you .... For you emerged from My love, you were perfect and constantly permeated by My love which made you indescribably happy. The fact that you forfeited this beatitude of your own free will must be reversed by you of your own free will again, that is, you must voluntarily attain perfection and return to Me once more, for your separation from Me signifies wretchedness but unification with Me unlimited illumination of love and thus supreme happiness. If you are able to believe this while you live on earth, if you accept the information of this, if you want to return to Me and appeal to Me Myself for help, then you will fulfil your purpose of life on earth, for then My love will take hold of you and will never ever let go of you again, because then you will voluntarily have acknowledged Me, Whom you once rejected and therefore changed your nature into the opposite .... The fact that you are still imperfect is the result of your apostasy from Me, but you will attain perfection again if you want it yourselves, for the love I grant you is the strength to implement your will, and so you need only accept My love .... you need only hand yourselves over to Me, which requires faith in Me, and love will also be kindled in you, and it will strive towards Me and seek unification with Me. Just believe that I Am a God of love and that you emerged from this God of love .... and you will no longer doubt that I would like to give you happiness .... Then you will also learn to love Me Myself and your path across earth will lead to the goal. For My love will not rest until it can permeate you entirely. My love wants to please; it wants to make you happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The act of creation was an act of gratification for God ....

B.D. 8975 from May 16th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

The cause for My rule and work in the whole of infinity was given by My incessant will to form, My unchangeably strong power as well as My exceedingly great love, which had to be active, but which only then found a kind of fulfilment when it created beings for itself, which were able to receive this love and give it back. Because My love needed a vessel, which opened itself to it and received My love and then again radiated it back to Me, whereby an unimaginable act of happiness took place, which will never be comprehensible to any of the created beings. After endless long time of being alone the desire for a mutual exchange became stronger and stronger, although I could already enjoy the spiritual creations put forth by Me in excess before, because I saw every thought as an accomplished work by virtue of My will and these of My thoughts have been innumerable, so that I could create incessantly and still felt no decrease of the power of creation, on the contrary, this constantly increased the more I used it .... But when then the thought moved Me to create a vessel for Me for the love power, which therefore should be formed like Me, which I wanted to endow with all qualities, which therefore should be put out as My image with the same creator power and strength, then already the thought of it was enough that this work of My will stood before Me in all glory, so that I recognized Myself in it and enjoyed what I had created .... The communion with this being made Me abundantly happy, it was after all an image of Me, but who could not be visible to this being, because it would have passed away in view of the original fire, which was certainly also the original substance of that spirit, which however .... as created .... could not have endured the abundance of My love, might and strength. For that being was always only an emanated spark which, although immeasurably blissful, was always only a creature of Mine. was only ever a creature of Mine which was unable to behold the eternal light. Nevertheless, this creature was the vessel for Me into which I could let My strength of love flow, which used this strength of love again in order to likewise be creatively active .... and since its desire was the same .... it again let the same beings come into being together with Me and the bliss was immeasurably great which the act of creation meant for us .... Always new beings came forth out of our two wills of love, for space was unlimited, there was no limit, neither of the creative power nor of love, nor of our will, which was equally directed .... for I revealed My will to him as well as to the beings which had emerged from both of us through the word, which gave them the evidence that they all recognized (had) their origin in Me; they could constantly hear Me and also return the answer to Me .... they could ask Me questions which I answered them through My word, and since I had also given them the ability to think at the same time, which they could apply in free will .... the sign of a divine being .... thus they were not compelled to interpret the word in only one particular direction but they were able to move My word within themselves in all directions, and thereby the possibility was given that they could also interpret it wrongly, according to their will .... But in the beginning all beings did not contradict My will, they were unlimitedly happy, they understood My word correctly, and this state would not have needed to come to an end if the first being emanated from Me had not been unable to come to terms with one thought: that it was unable to behold Me .... and it had given itself the explanation that I therefore lacked the power to do so .... Although it recognized itself as created by Me, it knew that it had a beginning, while I was from eternity .... But it began to doubt and did not present these doubts to Me so that I could have corrected them .... And it believed to be able to hide its thoughts from Me, because they were not always in it but only appeared in it from time to time, but it again and again gave itself to My love and also received it undivided .... But since it once doubted My love flowing towards it undividedly and did not express itself, the doubt returned again and again, and thus it created the state of mistrust, which should not have been between the created being and Me for ever .... But in this first created original spirit the distrust became stronger and stronger, especially as he now regarded himself as creator of the innumerable beings, which could see him in all glory, but to whom I could not be visible. And since the ability to think was just as peculiar to him, he drew wrong conclusions in his mistrust .... yet he recognized Me as his origin, but he hoped to also be able to convince all other created beings that he was their creator, since they were unable to behold Me .... He therefore exalted himself above Me and now rejected My strength of love, believing himself to possess so much strength that he no longer needed My strength and this was his sin as well as the sin of all fallen beings who followed him ....

(5/16/1965) A second world was now created, as it were, a world in which everything was wrongly directed but which was now also ruled by My now adversary. But since everything created had its origin in Me, also this world was subject to My will and My power, and all positive powers fight against the negative ones, always with the aim to win back everything negative again .... For although I had endowed the first-created spirit with the same creative power and strength, it had nevertheless lost it through its apostasy from Me .... But to him himself I left his freedom, while I took all fallen into My care and therefore took it from him and formed it to creations of all kind. Because I took pity on its state, which was unhappy and would have had to remain unhappy for ever when My love did not find a way out to once again lead it back to Me. But the process of the return is of such endless duration that one can speak of eternities .... during which My adversary can always only temporarily assert his right to the spiritual belonging to him .... when it goes over earth in the stage as man .... But then he does everything to get the being back into his possession .... if it does not let itself be helped otherwise .... if it does not accept the redemption through Jesus Christ and becomes free from his power .... His power is mighty at this time, and it requires a strong will to break away from it, but also My grace is unmeasured and can always be held against his power .... so that it is well possible to surrender to Me voluntarily, and then his wretched state will be over .... But eternal times will still pass until the former apostasy from Me has finally been atoned for, and eternal times will still pass until he will also decide to return, who once emerged from Me as greatest spirit of light, until he returns to his father's house, because endless is the flock of fallen spirits, and these also still need endless times until they have freed themselves from the chains, which were put on them from his side, to be able to enter the kingdom of light and happiness as redeemed .... Yet My love is endless, My power knows no bounds, and My wisdom is unceasingly intent on achieving the aim I set Myself when I created the spirit world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s declaration of love: The creation

Infinite love and patience of God in the development of the spiritual ....

B.D. 5311 from February 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The spiritual's course of development requires infinite love and patience on the part of the heavenly father, regardless of whether the spiritual is in the stage of bound or free will. The return of the spiritual substance to Him is a process which takes an infinitely long time because the individual substances first have to find each other again, which were once banished as the tiniest entities in the works of creation, and this finding and unification takes place in the state of bound will .... As a human being, in the state of free will, this unification of substances has already been accomplished and the spiritual being has its self-awareness again; but now it is to purify itself completely, it is to unite with God, its creator and father from eternity, which it can certainly do .... But it can also fragment again, i.e. strive downwards, it can develop regressively and completely disregard unification with God and yet not be hindered in its will. It can only be won through love and prompted to strive for eternal love. And this reclamation requires infinite love and patience on the part of the father Who does not want to lose His children but cannot force them to belong to Him. But God's love is boundless .... it does not tire, it does not become impatient, it is not angry and it never gives up what it believes to be able to separate itself from Him. And He also inevitably wins it, yet endless times can pass over it, and that to the detriment of the spiritual being itself, which just spends an endless time in an unhappy existence, be it as a human being or also as a still bound spiritual being .... And therefore God's love will constantly come to its aid and support it in every way. He will constantly let new creations arise so that the course of development in the law of compulsion can be covered uninterruptedly, but just as He will also help the spiritual being as a human being with all love to find the path to ascent. What can happen from God to further it happens, but the human being's inevitable free will determines itself how long the spiritual is still in the bound state, i.e., how long time it needs until the union with God and thus the separation from all material form is accomplished. God's love will never stop looking after the spiritual substance, even if it appears as if it turns away from people, for it will never relinquish what has belonged to it since eternity, which should only join it fully consciously in order to be able to feel unlimited bliss, which is otherwise denied to thespiritual substance, because only a creature which has become love can feel God's love and His courtship for this love will never stop ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognizing God's love in creation ....

B.D. 6393 from November 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

No human being knows the omnipotence of divine love .... No human being understands its fullness and therefore also God's strength and power, yet it is constantly expressed in His creation, which demonstrates infinite love, wisdom and omnipotence. For this reason creation alone should make you humans reverently remember Him Who brought it into being .... And you should look up to Him in deepest humility .... But you mostly walk thoughtlessly past everything that should be a sign of God's presence for you .... You take everything for granted which should be considered a greatest miracle, and therefore God's love and wisdom remain hidden from you and your faith in God is lifeless. Yet His love is so infinite that it also works despite your indifference, that it constantly lets new creations arise, for one day you will recognize what lies at the basis of His creative activity .... And then you will tremble at the thought of not having recognized and valued divine love when you were still on earth as human beings .... For to recognize God's love and to devote yourselves to it means to be able to work full of love yourselves and to become free of all faults and imperfections .... Divine love expresses itself so obviously in creation so that you humans will recognize it and voluntarily allow yourselves to be permeated by it. Receiving divine love is like the transformation of a weakened being into strength. You have to be permeated by God's strength in order to be able to be powerful yourselves, and this strength is God's love which constantly draws you humans and only requires your willingness to let it draw you. If you are now first of all aware that the creator wanted to prove His love to you through everything He let come into being, then the love for Him must also flare up in you, and then His divine flow of strength of love will also flood into your heart and you will ascend to the top .... You should only learn to love God, which you can do when you look at His creations which prove His love and His wisdom .... Therefore you should not walk through the world with closed eyes, you should look at that which was not brought about by human will, which came forth from the strength of a creator Whom you cannot see but can nevertheless recognize, Who did not let anything come into being without meaning and purpose and therefore must be full of wisdom .... and Who let creation come into being for you because He loves you infinitely .... Although you cannot know the cause of creation and your own relationship to it as long as you thoughtlessly observe everything around you, you can attain this knowledge as soon as you reflect and enter into a bond with the creator. If you learn to love Him and entrust yourselves to Him in the recognition of His might and power, in the awareness of His greater than great love .... Then you will be cared for by Him and provided with everything you lack .... You will receive light, i.e. attain knowledge about yourselves and about your aim .... And you will learn to look at everything with different eyes because you will open yourselves to God's love which can now work in you. And you will be filled with love yourselves, because God's love is a strength which brings you to life, and to live also means to love .... His life overflows into you who accept His love .... And you must come alive yourselves and ignite love in yourselves as soon as you are in contact with Him. The light of love ignites from His flame of love and will never go out again. And God's love will pursue you, and no matter how low you have sunk, no matter how long you persist in resistance .... It will not give you up, but it will not force you. Yet how much more blessed you could be if you let yourselves be permeated by His love without resistance .... For it is possible for you to recognize Him and His love because you live in the midst of a creation which manifestly demonstrates His love, His wisdom and His power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's infinite love for His living creations ....

B.D. 8248 from August 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

If you are granted insight into My reign and activity then it should also be evidence for you that you humans mean incredibly much to Me even though you live your earthly life in an imperfect state and thus your nature is still very poorly shaped. Nevertheless you can regard yourselves as the crowning glory of creation, for apart from you no other being exists that ranks higher than the human being, merely the individual soul can be shaped differently according to his degree of love. But he is always the being I once externalised in all perfection, which was an image of Myself and shall become it again .... But My work of creation will never lose its value for Me even if it voluntarily degenerated itself by reversing its perfect state into a completely opposite one .... However, since this occurrence entirely contradicted My eternal order I will leave no stone unturned so as to establish order again and I truly know how this can be achieved .... For love let you arise and love will not let anything go astray .... Love seeks unity and also changes wrong characteristics back into their original state. For love is a strength which can accomplish anything, yet again it only works in lawful order. I created beings for Myself with whom I wanted to work together and who therefore had to have the same will as My own .... And they had been indeed supremely perfect, and My love for them was intense and constantly gave itself to these living creations. Love wants to give, it wants to make happy but it also wants to receive love in return .... I want My emanated love to reflect back to Me which also constantly increases the Creator's as well as the created beings' bliss .... And because it is only possible for the living creation to reverse its nature to its original state in the stage as a human being .... since the living creation is able to respond to My love again when it lives on earth as a human being .... the human being means so incredibly much to Me; he is, after all, close to achieving the goal and My help will constantly be granted to him and he can always know himself to be supported by My love .... He can rest assured that he will always be well cared for by Me, that he will not be left at the mercy of his self-chosen destiny, because the return to Me, the change of his nature into its original state, is My goal and I will never lose sight of this goal even if the human being still resists Me, because I do not compel his free will.

However, I know that one day he will voluntarily return to Me and I will do whatever it takes in order to shorten the time in which he is separated from Me .... even though the human being's free will remains decisive .... And for the sake of achieving this retransformation the whole of creation emerged around you, for My love searched for and found a way, and My wisdom guided you to this path when you had fallen .... My love did not diminish, and this is why your return to Me will take place one day, for love will achieve everything .... And even your process across earth as a human being is an incredible offering of love on My part which I gave to the once fallen beings because I created them as God-like beings, as My images, which were extremely happy in My proximity .... And they shall be allowed to experience the same blissfulness again and also stay in My presence again if they voluntarily take the path to Me in earthly life, if they feel so strongly illuminated by My love that it draws them to Me because they want to reciprocate My love. Your love is only so weak because you are still unenlightened or in possession of little knowledge .... But with increasing realisation it will grow and I will be able to convey more knowledge to you, I will be able to reveal more profound wisdom to you which will also increase your love for Me and you will recognise your Father in Me, and it will become ever more understandable that you are being held and carried by My greater than great love, that I do not write any of My living creations off or leave it at the mercy of its destiny .... And your love will also grow as soon as you learn to recognise Me and My nature, as soon as all correlations become clear to you .... as soon as you allow yourselves to be taught by Me Myself and thus are permitted to gain insight into My reign and activity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Father's love in Jesus Christ

God's infinite love and patience ....

B.D. 6572 from June 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

I must have infinite patience towards you humans, for you do not reward My great love for you in such a manner that you live according to My will .... You constantly oppose My eternal order, you violate My commandments of love, you do nothing to earn My pleasure. You live completely wrongly on this earth, you do not make use of the short earthly life in order to change, and you constantly obey the wishes of the one who is My adversary .... And if I wanted to be just then I would have to leave you to your fate, which you have chosen voluntarily .... But My love is infinite and so is My patience with you, who are wretched and would remain so forever if My love and patience did not take pity on you and thus not look at the length of time when you resist Me. Therefore I permit of your activity and do not annihilate you, for you are My share .... My love created you and My love will not let you cease to exist again for ever .... And what I fail to do in a certain redemption period, because your free will is decisive, I will nevertheless succeed to achieve one day, for in My patience I always create new opportunities for you to mature, and no matter how depraved you are .... even if you are still devoted to My adversary with all your senses, I am not angry, but you only move Me to pity, I only see your weakness and inability to free yourselves from that one by your own strength, and I come to your aid .... Only I cannot snatch you from him against your will, but I will not slacken to influence this will without using force. And this is an undertaking which requires utmost patience and perseverance .... You often put My love and patience to a hard test, yet I am Love Itself, I cannot condemn you because you are Mine and because the counteracting force still determines you too much to contradictions, for My adversary does not leave you to Me without a fight, and therefore you still succumb to his influence too easily. You certainly did not need to fall into the abyss, for once you possessed strength and also light, i.e. realisation, and you voluntarily turned away from Me .... And this sin weighs upon you, but even this great sin has not diminished My love for you, but it is the cause of your present unhappiness .... it is the cause of your weakness .... And therefore I brought you redemption from this guilt for the first time .... which, however, requires your free will again. You can never return to Me again unredeemed, yet My adversary has lost all power over you as soon as you only want to become free yourselves and call upon the One Who redeemed you: Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross .... But as long as you reject Him, you remain under the sway of the adversary .... For this reason his mind is constantly directed towards presenting Jesus Christ's act of Salvation to you humans as implausible, to deny Him Himself, thus to prevent you from taking the path to Him .... And you humans willingly follow His influence, you defy Me through your behaviour, you keep adding more and more sins to the great sin of old, because you live completely contrary to My order from eternity, because you disregard the commandments of love which the man Jesus taught you in order to help you rise from the depth to the height .... As long as you reject Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation there is no will in you to turn back and take the path to Me, and despite greatest love and patience I cannot save you from the abyss .... precisely because you do not call upon Me in Jesus Christ .... nevertheless I do not relinquish you, even if eternal periods of time pass by, for I do not repay evil with evil, I do not strike the fallen with eternal darkness, I do not condemn but seek to redeem .... I want to fill the unhappy with bliss, I want to give light and strength to those who are weak and darkened in spirit, I want to free those who are bound .... But you yourselves decide upon the time when this is possible .... You cannot be forced to love, to return to Me, therefore I solicit your love with untiring patience, and I will never slacken to pursue you with My love until one day you voluntarily turn away from My adversary and take the path to Me, until I can draw you to My heart, until you have given up all resistance and want to be and remain Mine forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Work of love and mercy of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6804 from April 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

For all people I shed My blood, for all I suffered, and for all I died on the cross .... No human being is excluded from My act of salvation, for all people are burdened with sin which keeps the gate into the kingdom of light closed to them. And therefore all people are wretched who cannot find forgiveness from this great sin of their past apostasy from Me. Nevertheless, every person is free to make use of My act of salvation. For people were not redeemed abruptly when My act of mercy was accomplished, instead, it also requires the consent of the human being himself in order to be considered redeemed, otherwise there would truly be no being left on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom which still walked along under the burden of sin. But the human being's free will can never be eliminated, everyone must freely confess Me in Jesus Christ and thus also My act of salvation, and then everyone must also avail himself of the blessings of the act of salvation in order to become free from his burden of sin. Hence people's free will explains the spiritual low in which they find themselves despite My sacrifice on the cross .... For only very few people consciously stand by Me, by their divine saviour and redeemer of the world. The majority, however, take little notice of the greatest act of love and mercy that has ever taken place on this earth, although they are not unaware of it. They have an immeasurable treasure of grace at their disposal which they pass by, which they do not evaluate, which does not at all tempt them to take a closer look at it ..... And they don't know what they are forfeiting through their indifference, they don't know what an unbearable fate they will have to take upon themselves after their physical death through their own fault. For they enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed when they could have found complete redemption on earth .... What I as the man Jesus have taken upon Myself in terms of pain and suffering, in terms of abuse and bitterness, in terms of hostility and hateful actions, I only did out of love for you in order to atone for you, in order to pay off your guilt of sin .... I wanted to suffer for you in order to turn away from you the effect of your sins, I wanted to atone for them and thus redeem your guilt .... It was a measure of torment and suffering which you humans cannot measure, for what I did for you was superhuman .... It was truly a work of love and mercy, for I would not have been able to endure all this as a human being if My love for you had not given Me the strength .... and My love for you was infinitely great, and therefore I suffered and died for you .... And you humans need do nothing more than imagine My great love for once, think about what the man Jesus endured for your sake, you only need to imagine the agonies of His crucifixion, the maltreatment by His tormentors and His superhuman suffering and death on the cross .... and you should be seized by a fervent love for Him, Who endured for you all that you yourselves would have had to endure for the sake of your great sin .... And your love should now drive you to Him, to Whom you now repentantly hand over your guilt of sin, asking Him that He may also have shed His blood for you .... And you would be free from all guilt, you would recognize My great love for you, Who accomplished the work of salvation for you Myself in the human being Jesus. How easily you could acquire eternal life, how safely you could enter through the gates of the kingdom of light after the death of your body, if only you would avail yourselves of the blessings of the act of salvation, if only you would remember Him Who accomplished this great act of love for you, and if only you would appeal to Him for strength where your own will is too weak .... if only you would entrust yourselves to Me in Jesus Christ with complete faith .... You must believe in Him as the divine saviour and redeemer, because then you will also acknowledge Me Myself, Who died in Him for you on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love expressed in the work of redemption ....

B.D. 7575 from April 12th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

You are all touched by My love which has never left you and which will follow you even if you reject it .... which will apply to you for all eternity and therefore will not rest until you have become Mine again. And I gave you all the evidence of My great love and mercy when I suffered and died for you on the cross .... For this greatest work of love brought the lost back to Me, although it is up to My living creation's own will whether it wants to return to Me. But one day every being will have the desire to return to Me, one day I will also possess the love of My living creations, and the creature will be blissfully happy like Me that it has found the father, as I have found My child .... But the act of salvation was necessary for this, My love had to enter into supreme action, love had to suffer unspeakably because only through this could the great guilt be redeemed which separated you, My living creations, from Me, your creator and father. The great debt had to be paid, and My love did do that. It suffered for you, and it died on the cross for you. And you humans should take part in this work of mercy, and therefore a human being accomplished it on earth, in Whom I Myself took abode. And this human being was Jesus, My only begotten son, Whom I sent down from above to earth so that He should save people from their adversity .... He had emerged from My creative power and His love for Me was immeasurable .... the love for His fallen brothers likewise and this impelled Him to the work of mercy, because He knew the hardship of His fellow human beings, because He knew that they could not become blissfully happy as long as they were burdened by the original sin which kept the path into the kingdom of light closed to them. People's guilt was enormous and I had to receive satisfaction for it for the sake of justice .... The man Jesus offered to do so out of immense love and I accepted the offer because I did not want to and could not resist love, for what love does is always right before Me and My eyes. The man Jesus walked the earth and His life was love which He constantly increased, which completely filled Him and which therefore completely deified the man Jesus, for love is God .... You humans will never be able to unveil this secret and yet it can only be made understandable to you in this way, that I am eternal love and completely sheltered Myself in the human being Jesus .... Only the outer shell was still human, but His whole being was God, for it was love and love is God. Love moved the man Jesus to suffer and die on the cross in order to redeem people. Only love could take on such a degree of suffering as Jesus endured, because love is strength and enabled the man Jesus to endure until the end without succumbing beforehand. And Jesus knew about this measure of suffering long before, and therefore He also travelled an extremely painful earthly path, always aware of the time that lay ahead of Him. He often feared to fail and not to be able to accomplish the work of salvation, yet love always gave Him new strength again .... For My love was meant for all My creations which had fallen away from Me, and this love sacrificed Itself for all My creatures. You humans will never be able to completely fathom the mystery of My human manifestation until your nature has completely changed again into love, as you were in the beginning. But I try to make it understandable to you so that you will learn to believe that He and I were one, that you call upon Me when you call upon Jesus Christ .... For it is about the recognition of Me, Whom you once did not want to recognize because I was not visible to you .... Now you shall recognize and acknowledge Me in the visible saviour Jesus Christ, and only then will you return to Me again, from Whom you originated. And therefore My love pursues you until this return .... I will not let go of you and will not rest until you acknowledge Me and return My love .... My love will touch you again and again, it will shine upon you again and again until you open yourselves to My radiance and then find your way home again into the father's house and be eternally blissful ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's fatherly love keeps people in life on earth

God's love is only effective when resistance is abandoned ....

B.D. 7134 from May 29th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

My love carried you in never-ending patience during your whole course of development to the height .... This love of Mine also applies to you during your earthly life but I have to contain it because of your free will, its strength and effectiveness has to be held back until your free will declares itself willing to make use of it, until you voluntarily open your hearts to My love. And this happens if only you turn to Me, if you acknowledge Me, your God and creator .... and desire to be united with Me. Hence, if a person has no living faith in Me he will hardly cherish this heartfelt desire, he will go through life in utter indifference towards everything of a divine-spiritual nature, he will not occupy himself with thoughts which concern his inner life, a second life next to his earthly life will be alien to him which, however, is lived by every person who seeks the bond with Me. And then it is impossible that My illumination of love will touch him in an unusual way, because I don't use coercion to draw people to Me during earthly life. Nevertheless, My love does not rest .... I try to gain influence over such people, for I will not give up any soul until its departure from this earth. My love finds many means which all only serve the one purpose of changing people's thoughts, even though these means are often very painful. Love gave you birth in the beginning, and this love never ends. Anyone who seriously considers these words will not close his heart to My illumination of love either, and he will then have a considerable advantage over the unbelieving person who is still distant from Me, even if the latter appears to be richly blessed in earthly terms .... But earthly life is short, but if a child knows that it is safe in the father's arms it will not fear the hour of death. And this certainty is given to the person who voluntarily turned to Me, who opened his heart and in whom My love could now also take effect because it no longer found resistance. But the state of soul will be different for someone who closed himself to Me .... who lived on earth without Me and now, in view of death, cannot muster the happy confidence of being carried by caring fatherly arms into another kingdom .... who did not want to acknowledge such a kingdom but who nevertheless unconsciously expects something threatening in fear and anxiety because his soul feels that it will not cease to be .... My love certainly constantly courts it but it will not influence the human being against his will, it will not force itself upon him, for it remains ineffective in the case of resistance, and the human being has to give this up himself according to the fundamental law, but he will be helped at any time; I leave no human being to his fate, I struggle for his soul until his death .... And if weak means are not enough I use stronger means to achieve success, which is why people's lives will not proceed in regularity, in peace and comfort, but again and again strokes of fate will interrupt an apparent calm which could be the reason for the human being to seek a bond with Me .... And the closer the end is, the more painful My means of education will have to be until finally such a visible sign of My might is given to people that a turning to Me could take place on a large scale .... Yet even then their will will remain free, even then I will only impose My love on them but I will not force them to accept it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's endless love can be recognized by every human being ....

B.D. 7285 from February 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall only become aware of My infinite love for you, and then you will also ignite the spark of love within yourselves which will become a flame and strike Me again. And that is all I want to achieve, that love will ignite in you which will then unite us eternally again, just as unkindness once separated you from Me. And the fact that I love you could become evident to you again and again if you were to look at everything around you and also your whole earthly life in thoughts of Me, Who directs your destiny, Who created everything that delights your eyes and your senses .... as far as it is not My adversary's means to chain you to the earthly-material world. But you can see My love for you everywhere if only you look around you with open eyes. If My love did not keep you then you would be surrounded by unimaginable chaos, for your earthly life would already lack all order, since I must rule by natural law even over those whose will is completely turned away from Me. They would have supremacy and destroy everything that is still meant to serve their fellow human beings for upward development. My love, however, puts a stop to them and prevents them by natural law from encroaching, which would be extremely harmful to all of you. But you humans often don't recognize My rule and activity when it is openly evident, because you take everything for granted and accept comforts as a matter of course. And yet, it is love which applies to you, My living creations, whom I want to make My children and who therefore shall return My love to Me so that I can unite with them as it was in the beginning. My love for you has not yet diminished and will also not cease eternally .... Yet you will not feel it as long as you are without love yourselves and do not open yourselves to My illumination of love. But once you become aware of My great love for you, then the ice around your heart will melt and then My illumination of love will have taken effect .... You begin to reciprocate My love, you ignite the flame of love within yourselves and the now flaring fire seeks to unite with the fire of love from eternity. You humans should only pay attention to how often a merciful fate saves you from unusual sorrow and suffering, you should pay more attention to everything beautiful and happy in your life and gratefully remember Him Who allows you to experience it .... You should pay attention to every smallest event in your life which reveals a wise guidance of your heavenly father, and you should know that nothing happens without My will or My permission, that I constantly remember you and let everything happen to you out of My love as it is beneficial for you .... You should know that only My love ever speaks out of all events which affect you .... And if you are now fully aware of My love then the hot feeling of love for Me will also ignite in you, then you will want to make contact with Me, you will enter the circuit of love and allow yourselves to be illuminated with the blissful feeling of resting on the father's heart and being well sheltered in His love. And then I will also be able to have a direct effect on you, and My love will give you further evidence which you will only be able to experience in heartfelt union with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's endless love ....

B.D. 7532 from February 26th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

And you shall experience My love and grace forever, for I will not let you fall, even if eternities pass until you voluntarily return to Me. But as long as My love and grace pursue you I will always be ready for your salvation, I will always provide you with gifts of grace without measure, and it will only ever be up to you yourselves whether you accept My love and grace so that they can take effect on you. For even if you are still apostate to Me, even if you consciously keep your distance from Me .... you are helpless, weakened beings which My adversary still has under his control and which cannot free themselves from him by their own strength. But first they must freely give their will to Me, only then can I provide them with strength, and in order for them to carry out this direction of will I repeatedly turn My love and grace towards them; I pursue them with My love and will also one day achieve that they consciously turn towards Me and now also accept My love and grace .... And then they will be saved for time and eternity .... But the freedom of will determines the duration of their turning away from Me, the freedom of will must be preserved, and this alone also evaluates My love and grace. And thus the being can cover the path of return to Me in a very short time as soon as it turns its will towards Me again .... But since it cannot be forced to do so, it can also take eternities until it takes the path of return to Me. And therefore My love constantly endeavours to influence the being's will as soon as it walks across earth as a human being. I shower it with graces which can motivate the human being to seek contact with Me and thus also consciously turn his will towards Me .... But it can also be unsuccessful because My adversary tries to influence the will in the same way and often gains more influence .... Yet My love and patience is infinite, I do not cease to woo the being's love, and I use such means which are all suitable to change the will and therefore are means of grace of great value. For all of you are My children, and a father's love does not diminish, it will care for and strive for the child until it has found beatitude, which it can only find in union with the eternal father. And even if I don't reach My aim in one redemption period My love will nevertheless not give up on you, only it will have to use such means again which you humans don't want to acknowledge as God's love .... I have to let you go through the works of creation again with the same final aim that one day you, as a human being, will be able to decide for or against Me again .... But even then My love is at work, and a renewed earthly progress is also a grace for the fallen being, for it irrevocably brings the being upwards, it gives it the opportunity again to ascend from the abyss and to one day reach the stage as a human being again. And once again My love and grace will take effect as soon as the being as a human being offers no resistance, and once I will also reach the aim: The being will join Me again in love and now be eternally and inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Defence and illumination of the divine love power ....

B.D. 7801 from January 19th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

My love carries you and therefore you cannot be lost forever. You emerged from My love, for love is My fundamental substance, love is the strength which brought you into being .... And thus you are My share and will remain so forever. And what belongs to Me can indeed temporarily separate from Me, yet only willingly, otherwise it would perish if My strength of love did not keep it. But the voluntary, willful separation from Me also means the loss of light and strength, because the willful turning away from Me on your part prevents the permeation of My strength of love, which is only ever effective if it is not opposed .... For this is the law of eternity, and therefore only the voluntary acceptance of My strength of love can signify the possession of light and strength for you, and therefore you can only be blissfully happy if you do so, for a lack of light and strength makes the being miserable .... But you nevertheless possess all My love which follows you even into the deepest depths, because My love never stops, because it never decreases but always requires an open vessel into which it can pour itself. And this is what you humans should do in earthly life: You should open yourselves again in free will, you should turn to Me again as you once turned away from Me and closed yourselves to My flow of love. My love is always ready to radiate towards you, thus you should also make yourselves ready to receive My love .... You should return My love and thereby restore the union with Me which you once severed of your own free will .... This is your whole earthly task, which each one of you can also fulfil because he will receive My support in every way. For My fatherly love longs for the children to return to Me again, so that I can make them happy again as I once did. Yet you left Me voluntarily, you must also return voluntarily or you would truly have been My undivided possession for a long time already. But thus you also still belong to My adversary who is to blame for your fall into the abyss, for you followed him voluntarily .... Thus he also still has a right to you, and you yourselves should now decide in earthly life to whom you want to belong .... For neither My adversary nor I have a violent effect on you. But this is why you should also learn about Me as well as My adversary, you should know the aim which both I as well as My adversary pursue, you should know the nature and the will which is completely opposite, so that you will then also be able to freely decide to whom you want to surrender. And therefore you humans are addressed by Me, I Myself convey this knowledge to you, I inform you of your purpose of earthly life, of all correlations and of the infinite love which fills Me with all created beings .... And if only you are of good will you will love Me again and choose Me as your lord and leader, and then you will be saved for all eternity .... Then you will have escaped My adversary's power, then you will have taken the path home, you will voluntarily return to your father's house, you will unite with Me again and My love will shine through you as it once did, and you will be immeasurably blissful ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's fatherly love in painful events

God's love determines people's destiny ....

B.D. 3317 from November 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

My love constantly flows to My living creations with undiminished strength, and this love also directs people's destiny on earth. My goal for everything that happens is always spiritual maturing. Nevertheless, I play a part in every happening and its effect. I always and forever accompany the human being, perceptibly for him if he hands himself over to Me, or unnoticed, if he does not seek to be in touch with Me. My love for My living creations will never lessen, and thus you humans must always consider this love as the reason whether you encounter joy or sorrow on your earthly path, for I truly know best what helps your spiritual maturing. And therefore you should never feel despondent or be disappointed by your destiny, for since it was determined by My love it is good for you, even though you experience it painfully at times. My love applies to you for eternity, yet you fail to understand this as long as you have not changed yourselves into love; My love constantly remains the same, and the depth of My love expresses itself in My plan of Salvation, which forms the basis of every happening and every work of creation. If I did not want to save you from spiritual hardship, if I did not want to draw you to Me because I love you, the whole of Creation would not exist, for its only purpose is your approach to Me. And just as the whole of Creation arose from My love for the spiritual beings which had deserted Me, just as I let inconceivable and incalculable works arise for you in order to regain these spiritual beings, so the earthly life of the spiritual being in the embodiment as a human being is directed by My love and every detail of life is predetermined, so that you will reach the final goal of uniting yourselves with Me again. Yet you must know and believe that you are always and forever surrounded by My love and must also recognise this love in suffering, in living conditions which you find difficult to bear, in earthly failure, in sickness and misfortune of all kinds.

Were My love not to recognise that this is beneficial for you it would truly not come upon you. But I use means which can be successful for you, because My love for you is greater than great but you are in danger of being lost to Me if I spare you whatever disheartens you on earth. Put your trust in Me and My love, which will never end .... And completely hand yourselves over to My guidance, let Me take care of you in every earthly adversity and only consider your soul's salvation. Work diligently for your soul, strive towards My kingdom which is not of this world, and leave every worry about your earthly existence to Me. It will not be much longer, and you should make use of every minute by striving spiritually. I alone know every person's course of life, and it will be travelled according to My will, thus every anxious worry is unnecessary, because you cannot change what I have determined, thus you cannot improve anything through your anxious worry either. Just be kind-hearted to each other, help where you are able to help, and where your strength fails you put your trust in My help, for My help is always ready for you and will not leave you in trouble any longer than is beneficial for your soul. And even if you deem your destiny harsh, you should not doubt My love. After all, can anything come upon you without My will? And My will is determined by My wisdom and love, which forms the basis of everything that happens. Even evil is sent to you by My love for the good of your soul if you don't oppose My will and humbly accept and bear everything I send to you without resisting .... And therefore don't worry and don't despair, My love is always with you, because it can never ever become less than it was for eternity .... Just strive so that you will be able to feel this love by living a way of life according to My will, by practising love and thereby becoming capable of receiving My strength of love in you. For whether or not you make yourselves receptive to My illumination of love is entirely up to you .... However, your life will be far easier if you know yourselves to be guided and cared for by My love, if you feel Me and in everything recognise My love. Therefore remain united with Me through prayer and loving deeds, and you will receive strength on your earthly path of life and need not fear anything, regardless of what comes, for I Myself will guide you until the end of your life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Free will .... fatherly love ....

B.D. 3450 from February 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

I do not command the human being's will but leave him his freedom .... Yet I will call and pull My living creations as long as they walk the earth as human beings in order to gain their will for eternity. And so it is now up to the human being himself whether he comes to Me voluntarily and does not need My gentle pressure .... whether he submits to the gentle pressure or resists, so that I have to guide and direct him more tangibly .... towards Me .... It is up to him which relationship he establishes with Me, whether he feels My gentle fatherly hand or I have to intervene educationally in harshness and severity. Only love for My living creations ever determines Me to treat them as they need it in order not to get lost forever. Yet they themselves will feel little of My love as soon as they still resist Me and thereby force Me to use means in which they do not see fatherly love. And yet it is love .... And every kindness towards them, every granting of earthly requests for the body's well-being would be unkindness from Me, because it would cause the souls' ruin. Earthly life passes quickly and every day should be used for the souls' maturing. And therefore the human being's free will has to be active. But they usually use it wrongly, they don't turn this will towards Me but towards the world, which is My adversary's kingdom. But I do not force the will .... And thus I have to show people the transience of the world, I have to deprive them of earthly pleasures in order to show them how wrongly the will is directed. I must put another aim before their eyes .... I have to make imperishable wealth accessible to them so that their will will strive towards it and therefore towards Me Myself, Who can give them imperishable wealth, spiritual goods, if they desire them. And therefore earthly matter must approach dissolution. People have to separate themselves from it in order to more easily recognize and desire spiritual possessions. Thus I must try to change their will so that it will strive towards Me in fullest freedom, as is the human being's aim on earth. And the more desirously the human being's heart clings to matter the more painfully My loving father’s hand will strike him, which will take from him in order to give far better things back to him if he is willing to accept My gift. Yet it is the apparent calamity which strikes people, a helping hand for their souls, which now have to part with what they do not voluntarily give away .... I painfully intervene in people's lives but only in order to save their souls, that they should recognize how futile earthly matter is, that they should look for more valuable possessions which they will find more easily if they are not captivated by earthly things. For My love recognizes the right means and applies them .... Yet it is always left up to people whether they make use of My love, whether they want to let themselves be guided by My hand which safely leads them towards the aim .... For I certainly direct their will but I do not force it .... The human being's will is free because without freedom of will he can never become perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly hardship is often a revelation of God's love ....

B.D. 5485 from September 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

My love for you is boundless and yet you often believe you have reason to doubt this .... You often feel abandoned by Me, earthly adversity approaches you overwhelmingly and you know no way out .... But I then have withdrawn from you just seemingly in order to be sought by you, because again and again I want to reveal My love to you anew by helping you. For the adversity is never so great that I cannot remedy it .... I want to reveal My love to you .... because I want you to return my love; your faith in Me and My might, your reverence for Me and your obedience are nothing without your love, for it alone lets Me find My children. And where there is love, there is also faith and reverence and obedience, but love is the most powerful aspect because it alone makes you happy. Just consider all that I do to win your love! .... Yet, if I prepared the most beautiful earthly life for you, if I also gave you everything that makes you happy on earth, this would just increase your love for the world but not for Me, Whom you don't see because your eyes are directed towards the world. For this reason I often have to withdraw from you, even though just seemingly; I have to let you fall into worldly abandonment, into a state of hardship and suffering, you have to recognize your own powerlessness and also the unkindness of your fellow human beings in order to then look for Me, to call for Me and then also recognize My great love for you after I have released you from your adversity. Your love will then awaken in you also and become but stronger, because you will recognize your most faithful friend and brother in Me, the helper from all adversity, the Father Who dearly loves His children ....

You will not be able to resist My love forever, yet I cannot force your love in return, therefore I woo you with all patience without ever slackening My love, which created you after all. And every loving thought from you increases My love because it is a sure sign that I will soon have won you for eternity. Therefore know that you are never abandoned when you are in earthly adversity, know that I will immediately come to you who are calling for Me, know that I then want to only kindle your love, that I long for your call, for your love, like a father who wants to embrace his child in order to make it happy with his love. But love does not want to be one-sided, only returning love makes you happy, and this is what I want to receive from you .... I always desire you, yet you sometimes have to get into adversity, for you are in the midst of the world and your desire is still very divided, it is often directed towards earthly things .... and sometimes I then resort to means which are intended to turn you towards Me again, in order to then come forth with My love again, in order to show you My love again in such a way that you will also become inflamed with love for Me, so that you will become and remain Mine forever ....

Amen

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God's love in the end time

God's love and mercy in the last time before the end ....

B.D. 4080 from July 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

God's great love and mercy will evidently become apparent in the last days before the end when the believers will live in hardest tribulation. It will be a time of most bitter hardship for people who want to remain faithful to Him, for the adversary will take drastic measures against anyone who stands up for his faith and for Jesus Christ and His teaching. The measures taken to enforce faithlessness will be of such severity that people will offer little resistance and almost without exception profess themselves against God. But those who know the truth, who live in love and therefore also in the right knowledge of God, who call upon Jesus Christ as redeemer for His help, will also recognise in the measures the one who is announced as the Antichrist for the last time before the end. And for this reason, they will stand all the firmer and wait full of confidence for God's help and His coming, and they will not be disappointed either. God's great love will be revealed to them, for He is close to them at all times, so that even the unbelievers would be able to recognise Him if they were not of bad will and therefore completely under the sway of Satan. Yet anyone who is still weak and not completely apostate will still be seized by God's mercy, and he will be offered many proofs of divine activity so that it will be made easy for him to believe and to withstand all threats from the world. Only good will must not be lacking, then God's hand will reach out to him even in the last hour. It is difficult to predict to people what will happen in this time, because Satan continues to work out new plans and outdoes himself with cruelties, inhuman decrees and shameful actions against the believers. The believers' fate is apparently unbearable and yet they will draw so much strength from God that they will be able to endure all oppression and not to feel the hardship as much because their gaze is directed heavenwards and the world and earthly things no longer tempt them. Moreover, they hear the voice of the Lord .... they know that He shortens the days, for His promise has given them comfort, and thus they every day expect to be delivered from earthly adversity .... And yet the last day still comes as a surprise even to them; it will come when there is no longer any possibility of winning souls, and this will be the case very quickly, for the separation will soon be completed, the courage of people's conviction is only slight, and the decision for or against God will be demanded in a short time, and therefore it will also be the prelude to the end, for the tribulation to which the believers are now subject calls for God's help, otherwise the small flock of His Own would also be overcome by weakness and God would never allow this to happen again .... And thus He will come as Saviour in utmost adversity and take His Own to Himself .... And then comes the Judgment as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The final judgement is grounded in the love of God ....

B.D. 7324 from April 2nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My love is meant for all My living creations, but especially for those who are still far away from Me and whose course of development upwards is still in its early stages. Eternal times will still pass until this spiritual being in the human stage will also be able to release itself from its last restraint, whereas you have now reached this stage where complete release from the form is possible for you if you use this short earthly existence correctly .... But this spiritual being is still to go the endless long course of its development, an abundance of torments and sufferings still lies ahead of it in the bound state, of which you as a human being cannot form an idea .... The higher development through the works of creation requires a period of time which is equally inconceivable to you .... The being always suffers because it is not free as it was originally created, and because its ascent development can only proceed under agonies of bondage through the world of rocks, through the world of plants and the world of animals up to the human being .... As a human being it is now given a certain freedom, both in terms of will and purely physically, for it can act and move according to its own will and is no longer subject to the law of compulsion as it was in the time of pre-evolution. The duration of a human being's life on earth is also only very short compared to the infinitely long time of that pre-development period. With good will he can easily reach his goal, the liberation from form. If, however, he lacks good will, then this is his own fault, and the punishment is then also very severe .... or also: Man creates the consequences of his wrong will for himself .... Now consider what a privileged position the human being already has in comparison to that beingness which is still to begin its course of development or has already covered a short distance of it .... Consider that this spiritual being also possesses all My love, the love of the father, Who wants to help His child to find its way back up from the deepest depth in order to one day also be able to travel the path to the father in a state of free will. Thus this spiritual essence also needs My help, it is so weak that only My help can enable it to move into ever higher stages of development, to release it from the hardest fetters for the time being and to loosen the fetters again and again according to the state of maturity which the spiritual essence has reached in the state of compulsion .... Consider that you humans are basically the same as that spiritual being, that you also had to travel the same path, that My great mercy also helped you to be able to break the first shackles before infinitely long times .... And now consider how indifferently you now exploit your freedom .... how you could easily reach the last degree of development on earth and how tardy you are to strive towards this your last goal. My mercy and love, however, is and remains the same as it was in the beginning, and this love and mercy remembers the still languishing spiritual as well as the human being and helps where it cannot help itself on its own .... But the human being can reach maturity in earthly life, and if this is not the case then his free will has failed, for which he has to answer. And the fact that he has to answer for himself is preached to him again and again through My word, so that he thus knows full well that he cannot sin 'with impunity' .... but which he does if he does not respect My word, disregards God's commandments and only pays homage to the earthly world and his bodily pleasures, thus he willingly concedes to My adversary and thus forfeits his own goal of becoming free of his last restraint. For this reason he will also meet with the fate of being banished into matter again, which is My adversary's realm .... But then you cannot speak of 'unkindness' on My part when the just punishment befalls those people, when a judgment falls upon earth which, in My eternal plan of salvation, is always imposed upon humanity when I want to restore the order which you humans have overturned of your own free will .... And even if countless people lose their earthly life in the process .... My love also applies to that being which I thereby give the opportunity to come one step closer to Me in its development. And thus only My love always underlies everything that comes upon humanity, for I am a God of love and justice but never a God of wrath and condemnation, for even the spiritual being, which failed as a human being in the last test, is now given the opportunity again to attain freedom once more after all .... For deepest wisdom and deepest love always determine My rule and activity in infinity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dissolution of the earth is God's act of love ....

B.D. 7985 from September 6th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

My love alone is also the reason for the last work of destruction on this earth. You may well object that a God Who wants to be recognized as 'creator' will not destroy His own works of creation .... Yet I know and have known since eternity why I let material creations come into being, and I also know when they have fulfilled their purpose, when they have to be dissolved again for the sake of the spiritual substances bound in them .... I know the final purpose of everything I created .... and the final purpose has again only been determined by My greater than great love .... And it will always be My love's reason, whatever happens on earth and in the whole universe .... Admittedly, you humans cannot overlook this because you don't know the correlations of all this, because you lack the understanding for it as long as your soul has not reached a certain degree of maturity. But I could never do otherwise than work with love and bring My wise plans to fruition .... For I have set Myself the aim of the beatification of all beingness which has emerged from My love. Thus My love is the reason even if you humans are unable to recognize it. Yet you are still limited in your thinking and understanding, you are mostly still in a state of wretchedness, and this also signifies a lack of light .... You cannot recognize anything and you don't know about My eternal plan of salvation. You only see with the eyes of a still immature human being, and you also compare Me with yourselves in your limitation. Thus you judge Me and My reign and activity according to human judgement .... And thus a work of destruction, such as will take place at the end of the earth, is also an act of unkindness for you, because then you yourselves will lose your life as well as everything of substance which testifies to life in creation .... For you don't know that every work of creation contains fallen spiritual substances which shall develop upwards .... You don't know that every destruction of such works of creation, which originate from My will, signifies an act of redemption for that bound spiritual substance, a new stage in the ascent development which has to take place according to eternal law .... which again is only based on My great love. But as soon as this knowledge can be conveyed to you, as soon as you receive My direct instructions from above or are indirectly instructed by My messengers, you will already have reached a certain degree of maturity of your souls, and then you will have understanding for My eternal plan of salvation, and you will also look forward to the end without fear, you will no longer regard a 'destruction' of earth as an act of unkindness .... You will know My plan and My aim and be in such close contact with Me that you will be able to recognize My love in everything that happens. You will reciprocate My love and therefore also endure it and confess Me before the world when this confession is demanded of you. And therefore I instruct you again and again and inform you about My nature .... For this nature of Mine is misrepresented to you if you portray Me as a God of wrath and vengeance, as a God of heartlessness, as a punishing judge or overly strict lord Whom you should or must fear because you do not recognize Him as a being Who is love in Himself .... And this is why I repeatedly bring the truth to you humans, for you live in darkness, you cannot distinguish truth from error, and you are far more likely to accept error than the truth which originates from Me. And therefore a purification must also take place on earth, which started with the purification of the word which you have represented as 'My word' until now and which can no longer be acknowledged as 'My' word, for it has lost its claim to be regarded as My word due to constant contamination. As long as you humans are unable to recognize your God and creator as an exceedingly loving father you are not in the right knowledge about Him, about His nature, His rule and activity and about the connection of all events which are only intended to achieve the highest aim of shaping you, His living creations, into His 'children' .... For love is My fundamental nature, you also emerged from love, thus you were originally of the same substance, and one day love will also bring about the union with Me again, which will make you the most blissful beings again, as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's power of love in death

Early death .... God's mercy .... Old age ....

B.D. 3260 from September 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God's will determines in which degree of maturity a human being is called from his earthly life into the spiritual realm. This is also an apparent injustice which could further the opinion that God selects certain people to become blessed while others have to suffer being distant from God. And yet this attitude is totally wrong .... because divine love and wisdom always knows the human will and therefore cuts a life short when higher development on earth is doubtful.

During the state of constraint before embodiment as a human being there is only progressive development until the spiritual substance's degree of maturity is ready for this last embodiment. But now the human free will makes its own decisions and development can continue, remain static or even regress; and again it depends on whether the human being as such has already improved his initial degree of maturity and is in danger of coming to a standstill or whether he has remained on the same level as at the beginning of his embodiment and is in danger of regressing. In that case it is always due to God's mercy that the human being is recalled when he has arrived at the highest level of his development on earth, i.e. when God's love protects him

from regressing or from failing to advance his soul during a longer lifetime .... because his guilt will increase the longer he uses his embodiment's time of grace without making proper use of it.

The human being can advance during his younger years and then stop, his development up till now comes to a halt, and then God will recall him and give him further opportunities to mature in the beyond .... But the human being can also change his will in later years and his yet inadequate development can experience a sudden improvement and thus he can attain a higher degree of maturity even though for a long time he had ignored his soul until then. In that case God will give him a long life, because God knows the human being's will since eternity and shapes his life accordingly .... For every human being's destiny is considered by God's love and wisdom and does not depend on God's arbitrary use of power ....

God would not withhold the opportunity to mature on earth from any human being if he is willing to use it. But people pay little attention to His mercy and are unwilling to accept the relevant information. And because God knows since eternity which humans are particularly resentful to Him, because He knows when a person has reached the highest degree of development on earth, the duration of his earthly life has also been established since eternity and varies, depending on what divine wisdom deems best and most successful. God will never cut short an earthly life if the human being could still achieve higher maturity because God's love is forever concerned that the human being should attain highest possible maturity on earth; He would never withhold an opportunity from a human being which would result in complete maturity. But He knows since eternity the human will's every inclination and protects the soul from complete desertion, i.e. from certain regression if He would not end that earthly life.

For that reason anyone who constantly strives will reach old age while, at the same time, old age is proof of steady higher development even if this is not evident to other people. A long earthly life is always a mercy but even a short life is evidence of God's love, which is forever active although it is not always recognised by the human being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Death, where is your sting ....'

B.D. 7480 from December 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

And your end will be a blissful one if you die in Me, in your Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, Who has promised that you will not taste death if you have a living faith in Me .... Then I will come and take you to Me into the spiritual kingdom, and your hour of death will just be a change of environment .... Your soul will exchange earth with the spiritual kingdom and be indescribably happy, for all heaviness will fall away and it will trustingly follow Me with burning love, because it has recognised Me as its Redeemer, Who is waiting for it at the threshold to the spiritual realm. Why are you afraid of death? .... Through My death on the cross and My resurrection I have taken the sting out of death, I have bought you life with My blood, and this life you will then take up and never ever lose again.

As long as you live on earth you dread your hour of death .... and regardless of how it may appear to your fellow human beings .... your faith in Me in Jesus Christ will give you a happy ending, even if it seems otherwise to your fellow men, for I alone Am also Ruler over death, and I know whom I can grant eternal life .... And he need not fear death and its horror any longer, for I died the excruciating death for him, so that My Own will be spared, who follow Me and thus want to be and have been true confessors of Jesus Christ on earth.

Take My Words seriously and believe that I Am also a Lord over death and that I can ward off all horrors from someone who has become My Own through his faith and love. And even if his body seems to suffer .... I determine the degrees of pain, and truly, My love will not give the person more to bear than he is able to carry and as is necessary for his soul. This is why I was able to convincingly say 'Death, where is your sting; hell, where is your victory ....' For I remained victorious over the one who had brought death into the world, and I will truly let My Own have a share in this victory, which I gained over the price of darkness .... I will grant a happy hour of passing away to those who hold on to Me and remain faithful even in times of struggle and of hardship, for I will also give them the strength to endure and to prove their loyalty for Me. And the greatest victory on earth is to follow Me in firm faith until the end, and this faith will be bestowed upon you by your love which alone brings forth a living faith.

Therefore, you who endeavour to live a life of love need not fear the hour of death, for it will only mean an entry into another world for you, and you will gladly leave earth and exchange its domain with the kingdom of light and blissfulness. You will cross over in peace and harmony of soul, you will not have to pass through any darkness but in a garment of light may enter the kingdom which belongs to Me and promises you glories which you have never seen or experienced before. For if you have found Jesus Christ He will lead you into His kingdom Himself .... into the kingdom which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s fatherly love in the beyond

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God's infinite love .... Eternal damnation ....

B.D. 6550 from May 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You do not know God's love and mercy and His unceasing efforts to help you, His creatures, from the depths to the heights. He wants to leave nothing in the depths, everything that once fell shall return to Him again in order to be able to be unspeakably blissful in His nearness. What is separated from Him, what is at a great distance from Him, is unhappy and moves Him to pity .... And His love enticingly calls for this wretched creature to turn to Him again, from Whom it had voluntarily turned away .... Yet everything happens without coercion, it is not possible to force those beings to return to God, the return to Him can only be achieved through love, but that it will happen some day is certain, for God's love will not relinquish anything that is His, that has emerged from Him. But because only love can influence the fallen being in that way that it voluntarily returns, therefore the irradiation of love must touch the being again and again until it opens itself and is determined by the power of love to approach God again. And this process takes place in earthly life when the human being becomes aware of the fact that he is guided and led by a higher Power, that he now hands himself over to this Power and follows his inner voice, which is a silent address from God .... Then his resistance is broken and the being is on the path of return to God .... for now God's love draws it, and His mercy also helps the still unworthy to ascend. God's love is infinite .... And therefore no being can be lost forever .... God's love and His mercy pursue that which has sunk into the abyss, and that is why there is also ransom from hell, because God's love is greater than the sinner's guilt .... and because mercy wants to compensate for the fallen being's weakness, and that is why every being is wooed by God's love until it opens itself and allows a ray to work in it. And then the spell is also broken, for love has great power. This is why people must not speak of an 'eternal damnation' .... For eternal damnation presupposes a severe, unloving judge who deprives the being of all freedom and mercilessly passes his sentence .... But God does not want the state in which the wretched finds itself, into which it has fallen through its own fault, in free will .... God wants to save the wretched from it, He wants to lead it to salvation, He wants to irradiate it with His love, and His mercy does not make a distinction as to the magnitude of the guilt of sin. But He does not force any being into salvation .... And therefore such wretched states can also last eternities, for they must be ended by the being itself .... You humans can believe that all help will be granted to them, because God's love is infinite and will never diminish or decrease, no matter how long His creations persevere in resistance .... God is not angry but He takes pity on the unhappiness of those creatures, yet He cannot put them into a state of bliss exercising His power because this would neither correspond to His justice nor to His creatures' freedom of will .... Thus He will only try to influence the souls' will in that way that they will voluntarily turn to Him .... But then a complete return is also guaranteed, for God's love is so powerful that it conquers everything where only its effectiveness is permitted .... And one day every being will have returned to Him, one day even the abyss will have to release everything, because God's love is stronger than hatred and because even God's adversary will one day voluntarily turn to God again, even though this will still take eternities, but God's love will defeat him.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The concept of 'hell' .... Renewed banishment .... God's infinite love ....

B.D. 6638 from September 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Even the most depraved living creation is a child of My love. Therefore it also has My unabated care to return to Me one day, even though it will have to travel a far longer path in order to bring itself into line with Me and My fundamental nature. But I will not let it fall, and whatever can be done on My part will be done by Me in order to help the creature to recognise and change itself. However, the distance is often so vast that the opposing force has greater influence and My illumination of love remains ineffective. For this reason it may also take eternities until it comes a little closer to Me but I will never abandon it .... However, when we talk about hell this relates to an accumulation of such depraved living creations in the beyond, which had already passed through earthly life with negative results and which continued to descend ever further in the beyond because they submitted themselves to My adversary anew .... Therefore, before a renewed banishment of the creations on earth takes place, which always signifies the beginning of a new era of Salvation, these adherents of Satan move within spheres where they can indulge in their most evil passions, where they inflict all kinds of evil deeds on each other and where constant fighting and arguing prevail and where they always try to draw weaker beings into their domain .... hence where they, on instructions of My adversary, act such that they will sink ever deeper. These places have no boundaries; hell is, in a manner of speaking, wherever such deeply fallen beings congregate, where they rage against each other .... on account of which one can also speak of on earth of hell and of states of hell when evil-minded people are hostile towards each other and wreak all kinds of havoc. All these beings are nevertheless My living creations on whom I take pity and whom I would like to release from their sin and their bondage to My adversary, for they are still wholly under the influence of the one who rose up against Me and who also incited all of his created beings to revolt against Me so that they, too, apostatised and became wretched.

But they had also been My children because they emerged from My strength which permeated My adversary without limitation and which enabled him to create these beings in the first place. Therefore My love also belongs to these beings no matter how deep they have sunk .... which will now also explain to you humans why a new creation of earth will have to take place. For I Am just as concerned about these unhappy creatures in the deepest abyss as I Am about the people on earth .... I also want to prepare a path again for those which have already languished under My adversary's control for an infinitely long time; I want to wrest them away from him and constrain them once more in solid matter so that their path will go upwards again, so that the immense resistance they still offer Me will slowly wane .... My love for those having descended remains unchanged and will never diminish either, but there is no other way to demonstrate My love than through a renewed banishment into earthly creations, there is no other way to achieve success or their return, therefore it follows that a transformation of earth is necessary, as I always and forever proclaimed to you. Only love determines My every activity and reign throughout the universe, even if you humans are unable to detect love therein .... Sooner or later you will understand My plan of Salvation and give thanks and sing your praises to the One Who also guided you out of darkness and death, Who wants to give happiness to all beings which emerged from Him .... and Who, with invariable love, also considers those which require His love most urgently because His adversary is keeping them enslaved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Turning to God ensures God's loving kindness

Fatherly Words .... Return to the Father's house ....

B.D. 1542 from July 28th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

Become as little children so that you will be able to enter into My kingdom. Trustingly hand yourselves over to your Father in Heaven and let Him take care, and His love will make your path across earth easier. This is why the admonition goes out to all of you to bear Me in mind wherever you go, for only if you call upon Me can I help you such that you will recognise My help and only then can I remove your worries. The path you had to travel was long and, with your life on earth, it shall now come to an end. If you want to be totally united with Me at the end of the path you must already yearn for My presence before the end, you must long for the Father like children, you must desire My nearness with all your heart and it must be your innermost requirement to communicate with Me in spirit and in truth. Never believe that I Am out of reach for even one of My earthly children, you must always and in all places be aware of My loving care with solid trust and therefore come to Me with every request so that I can grant you My Fatherly love and guard and care for you like underaged babes. For you are in truth My children whom I long for; I yearn for your return into the Father's house, I do not let anything fall which comes from Me and bears My spirit within itself. I live and suffer with you, and I long for your release. And if you thus bring Me your heart, you will entitle Me to take the shackle off you, for you will be offering your will to Me and that will signify release from the control of the one who is to blame for your apostasy from Me. And the moment of liberation from his power is the moment of unity with Me, for I draw every child to My heart which voluntarily detaches itself from this power .... which longs for Me and acknowledges Me as its God and Father .... so that it will forever remain close to Me. A murmuring is going around the world, My love is seeking to attract all beings, it knows the willing earthly children and draws them to itself .... For I instruct My messengers to impart strength to those of good will, and this flow of strength enlivens them; in a manner of speaking, it releases the earthbound beings and enables them to hear the gentle voice which is the expression of My love for them and which sounds wherever the heart wants to perceive the voice and thus wants to let itself be permeated by My love. I continuously consider My Own, I will not let this spring run dry as long as they desire it, I will never ever disappoint My earthly children's faithful trust by leaving them without assistance if they require it and call upon Me for help. And anyone who desires My love will feel it in his heart, for I will be with Him and work in him and through him .... For this is My gift, that I permeate those with strength who wholeheartedly turn to Me .... so that they will already feel the bliss of unity with Me in earthly life and strive for nothing else but the fulfilment of their most ardent yearning of being forever united with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Relationship with God - love or reverence, respect, worship ....

B.D. 4162 from November 9th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Every person has the right to decide for himself which relationship he wants to have with Me. He can regard Me as father, as brother or friend, but he can also only see his God in Me, the highest most perfect being, Whom he wants to submit to and Whose commandments he wants to fulfil because he acknowledges Me as the highest power. This latter relationship, however, will never be accompanied by profound love for Me in a person but only by awe and admiration, respect and worship. But I want love, I want an intimate relationship with Me to be established, for love alone is bliss. How poor a person is who lacks love, and how rich he is who possesses it .... I certainly take pleasure in the humility of the one who submits to Me as the highest Power, who acknowledges Me and wants to gain My pleasure, I will also meet him halfway and bestow My love upon him, yet My aim is always to change his attitude towards Me into the right relationship .... into the relationship of a child to its father, of a bride to her bridegroom, into the relationship which has love as its foundation. For I can reciprocate this, I can give away that which is My fundamental nature, I can let My love radiate, thus make happy with My fundamental substance which flows as strength towards the object of My love .... I can grasp My living creations and draw them to Me .... I can make them blissfully happy forever. But every human being has free will, I woo his love, his trust and approach him as father by bestowing My care upon him, by taking care of him in adversity and distress and constantly granting My grace to him .... Yet where My love is not reciprocated in the same way, where the heart does not press towards Me with a fervent desire for union with Me, where the child does not call for its father and approach Him in childlike trust, confidently expecting His help in every spiritual and earthly adversity, there I cannot reveal Myself in My fatherly love either, although I will always be recognisable as God, as the all-creating and sustaining Power, and I will not leave My living creations empty-handed who strive towards Me. Nevertheless, I will not cease to woo their love, to push them into the right relationship with Me, always respecting free will but nevertheless bringing the human being into situations where he can take refuge with the father as a child and thus establish a trusting relationship and completely win Me over for himself. Only then will he progress quickly, because My power of love can now flow into him unhinderedly and this signifies the soul's upward development, which is the aim and purpose of his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's loving address ....

B.D. 6293 from June 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Words of love I want to give to every child who desires to be addressed by Me .... For I embrace all My children with tremendous love and therefore cannot speak to them other than full of love .... And even if I have to admonish and warn them, then it is still My love which wants to protect them from making themselves unhappy .... And very often people are in this danger, even if they seriously strive towards Me, because they are constantly besieged by My adversary and he tries everything to bring them down. For you humans are still completely immersed in the world .... and the world is a danger for every serious striver .... Not only that it can affect the human being's senses with its charms and its dazzling work, but also the demands made on you by the world often cause derailment, unkindness, restlessness or even anger, because My adversary will always affect the people in bondage to him such that they will make the children striving towards Me the target of their attacks .... For My adversary works with much cunning and trickery .... especially when he has little success to show, when he cannot oust Me from My child's heart .... So then My words, despite all love, are warning and admonishing in order not to let My child fall into the hands of the one who wants to possess it .... Yet a brief thought to Me is enough to chase him away, and you can always send this thought up to Me and a delicious peace will surround you, which I Myself will lower into your heart if you faithfully adhere to Me and are not submissive to the adversary. And I constantly watch over those who want to belong to Me, I just have to allow their will freedom and instil vigilance in your hearts, for every child means too much to Me to want to lose it to My adversary. But you always have an extremely effective means to drive away his desire for you and him: The smallest act of love already makes him unable to fight, with the smallest act of love you already establish the connection with Me, and where I am, he must flee .... where I am, you no longer have to fear him .... Therefore, when the world is pressing upon you, when situations arise where you are put into unrest or displeasure .... speak a good word, let a good thought arise in you or do a good work .... And of your own accord all afflictions will subside, you will emerge victorious in every battle of words, in every situation where you are confronted with hostility .... For then you will direct your will rightly in all freedom, and then you can never again be defeated .... But this will always cost you an inner struggle .... If you pass this battle, if you emerge victorious from this battle against yourselves, then you will also have defeated the one who is My and your opponent .... And I bless you for it and surround you with constantly increasing love, and what first appears to be a battle to you will now be easily mastered by you, and the world will also no longer have an effect on you because you prove to Me through your will that you want to belong to Me completely. And again and again I tell you: You can know that you are loved by Me always and forever, especially if you want to take the path upwards as a human being on this earth .... Then I pursue you, My children, with My fatherly love, and on every path you take I walk beside you .... and over thorns and cliffs I lead you through suffering and hardship towards the right aim .... I will guide you back to your father's house, where My love has glories in store for you which you will never be able to imagine .... which the father has prepared for the children who love Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world ....'

B.D. 7681 from August 24th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

'I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ....' Every one of you has the inherent ability to hear the voice of My spirit, for a part of Myself, a spiritual spark of My divine spirit of love, rests within yourselves and will always be able to make contact with Me, through it My Word will radiate into you, for this spiritual spark is an emanation of Myself which will strike you effectively if you are prepared for it. As long as you stay isolated from Me this spiritual spark will remain silent .... If you unite with Me, then the spiritual spark will be in contact with Me too and can impart to you the light and strength which comes forth from Me; it will be able to convey to you the pure truth from Me and by receiving this truth enable you to gain realisation and thus step out of the darkness of night into the light of day. I Myself promised you when I lived on earth that I would not leave you by yourselves anymore .... that I will always be with you until the end of the world .... I pointed out the working of My spirit in you, which will guide you into truth .... but which would only become possible after My crucifixion, because prior to it the soul was still burdened by the original sin which made it impossible for a bond between the human being and Me to become so intimate that he would hear My voice within himself. First redemption through Jesus Christ had to take place, which reversed the separation from Me .... The human being had to completely consciously acknowledge Me in Jesus Christ .... thus he deliberately had to have taken the path of return to Me, which then also resulted in the emanations of My strength of love, which assured that he would hear My Word if he wanted to, if he therefore consciously opened himself and thus activated the spiritual spark in him to unite itself with the eternal Father's spirit. For it only requires an earnest will to enter into My will, it requires the acknowledgment of Me Myself Whom the being once refused to acknowledge, and it requires a life of love for My spirit to express itself as I promised.

Physically I was unable to remain with you humans but I gave you the consolation of sending you My spirit and thus of always staying with you until the end of the world. And this promise has to be taken seriously, you can always be and remain aware of My presence, you need only have the will for Me to be present with you and to establish a bond with Me in thought, in prayer or in kind-hearted activity .... In that case you will always be able to hear Me, for I Myself Am in you, and the spiritual spark will never lose contact with the eternal Father spirit .... it is merely unable to express itself if the human being is not receptive of his own free will, if he does not carefully listen in order to hear what My spirit imparts to him through the spiritual spark. And thus it is always up to the human being himself to ignite the spark in him, to provide it with the opportunity of expressing itself by appealing to Me Myself such that I might be present with him and teach him and guide him into truth according to My promise .... And I will truly stand by his side as a comforter; I will guide him into truth and will give evidence of Myself through My Word .... I will be 'with him always, even unto the end of the world ....'

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bonding with God guarantees His illumination of love ....

B.D. 8359 from December 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

This is the surest sign of My love that I am always in contact with you, that you only need to raise your thoughts to Me in order to draw Me to you, that I always lean down to you and speak to you when you ask Me for it, when you want to hear My voice yourselves .... No-one will call to Me in vain if his prayer is directed to Me in spirit and in truth. For I long for this bond between you and Me because you are My children and because My fatherly love wants to find unity with you, which has to be accomplished of your own free will. But as soon as you yourselves are convinced of My love you will also give your love to Me, and then your return to Me, for the purpose of which you live on earth, will also be assured. I know no limitation, and therefore you can receive My illumination of love unmeasured .... Only open yourselves to this ray of love by never leaving Me out of your thoughts, by turning to Me time and again and conversing with Me in secret as often as possible, for then I will be able to answer you even if it is not obvious, but My emanation of strength is also an answer, and since you constantly need strength for your ascent upwards, there is no better way to receive My strength than that you intimately remember Me and mentally speak to Me. Yet what you receive yourselves you should also be able to distribute to your neighbour again, and therefore My flow of strength is sent to you in the form of My word, as a direct address which you can hold on to and pass on .... And this process is such visible evidence of My love that you should not give it up, for you are to be called rich, after all, you receive a gift of grace of greatest value which cannot be surpassed by anything earthly .... You receive the proof of My existence and My presence .... You can no longer deny God because you hear His address .... And you also receive an unmistakable sign of His love, for what He gives you are imperishable goods which you can no longer lose for ever .... I give you again what you had lost through your former apostasy from Me .... Light and strength are imparted to you again because My love knows about your lightless and powerless state and wants to remedy it .... For love always wants to give itself away, love wants to give and make happy .... And My word, which you receive, is truly a gift of grace which will make you happy, even if you are unable to appreciate its value on earth .... But in the kingdom of the beyond you will be able to look upon a wealth over which you will rejoice and exult, for you will be able to recognize Me Myself and My love and praise and glorify Me eternally .... Every person on earth could accept these proofs of My love, yet his free will alone decides whether he allows himself to be addressed by Me or rejects a gift of grace .... And only a loving person will correctly recognise this gift as a gift of love from his God and father of eternity .... And so that you now also feel a right love for Me, I would like to illuminate you, and therefore you should often and intimately remember Me to make this illumination possible .... For then you will open your heart for My flow of love which now touches you and fills you with strength which you use again for loving activity .... Time and again I want to fill your thoughts, I only want you not to switch Me off, that your daily routine often gives you the opportunity to send your thoughts upwards to the One Who created you and Who wants to make you endlessly happy, Who wants to help you to live a life of bliss which lasts forever. And truly, I will always be with you and you will feel My presence, for you will go through earthly life cheerfully and carefree, because you will never be without strength and therefore also able to cope with all demands made on you .... And you will mature spiritually, for the strength flowing to you from Me impels you into loving activity, and thereby you will also find unity with Me, which is the purpose and goal of your life on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Word of God proves His love

God's Word reflects the spirit of love ....

B.D. 3698 from February 26th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Recognise the spirit of love speaking to you through My Word .... Consider that you are spiritually weak, that you certainly carry Me within yourselves as a very tiny spark but that this spiritual spark will continue to rest dormant in you until you awaken it through acts of love. The Father-Spirit speaks to you with Words of love in order to awaken love in you, so that you will activate your indwelling spiritual spark and give life to it through love. Once you have gained realisation you will also understand why I constantly remind you to love, yet those of you who are still spiritually blind must first pay attention to the fact that every Word you hear through My servants on earth was given by Me with love and shall motivate you to love. Were you able to say that even one of My Words lacks love, you could be forgiven for not having accepted it. Yet every Word must prove to you the love of the Giver, every Word must testify to Me as the eternal Love Which only wants to regain what it had lost through heartlessness. And I only want to win you back because My love wants to make you blissfully happy for all eternity. Time and again I point your wretchedness out to you, your imperfect state, which cannot make you happy and which I want to resolve. And since only love is able to do so I incessantly preach love to you and remind you with each one of My Words, that you can only shape yourselves through love into blissfully happy creatures which are indescribably happy when they are close to the Father, the eternal Love. As soon as you have gained the conviction that all My Words are given with love, that they merely draw attention to love, you will also have to recognise their origin, you will have to regard My Word as the outpouring of Myself, as a work of love for the sinful human race in order to provide it with help. And if you recognise the spirit in My Word, you will soon also recognise Me, it will no longer be incomprehensible to you that I speak to you Myself, for love brings forth wisdom. If you allow the Words of love to take effect in you, then you will soon comply with them, and then you will also think correctly, you will become knowledgeable, recognise the immense truth inherent in My Word and thus also learn to recognise and love Me ever more profoundly. But this serious examination has to be conducted by you of your own free will .... you must ask yourselves, if My Word is offered to you, whether the spirit of love speaks through it .... You cannot be forced into asking this question, it must arise of your own free will, for this proves your will for truth, for right understanding. And you will receive an answer, the spirit of love itself will speak inside of you and aim to influence your heart and, providing you are willing, not without success. Truth exists where you can recognise love, for love is divine and can only originate from the eternal Love. Those of you who doubt the truth of My Word should bear this in mind. You may accept without hesitation what is inherent in the spirit of love, and you need never fear to be led astray by this spirit, for God is the source of love, and the goal of love is God .... And you will always reach Me if you allow yourselves to be drawn by My love, which approaches you in the Word time and again, which can be recognised in every one of My Words by anyone who wants to recognise it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The word of God proof of His love ....

B.D. 4695 from July 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Nothing can prove My love for you more than My word. And therefore you cannot do anything more reprehensible than reject My word, because you thereby also reject My love. You humans do not yet understand what the latter means, yet your lack of strength, your spiritual low, is proof that you cannot ascend in your development without My love, without My word. Where My word is received through listening or reading or directly from Me, people will also draw strength from it, for I Myself speak to them and transfer My strength to the recipient, and this expresses itself in an increasing desire for Me and My presence, it expresses itself in spiritual striving, in loving activity, in turning away from the world, furthermore, it expresses itself in increasing realization, thus in correct, truthful thinking and knowledge about the beginning and destiny and thus in a way of life according to My will. All this is brought about by My strength, which you receive with My word .... Thus the transmission of My word is also evidence of My love which wants to make you happy in every way and help you reach perfection. For through My word the striving upwards shall become easy for you, through My word you shall gain an insight into My rule and activity and come closer to Me willingly and through activity in love. And since you yourselves, due to your imperfection as a human being, are unworthy to be addressed by Me but I nevertheless do so, you have proof of My love for you again, for with My word I give you a gift of grace of inestimable value and undeserved. Yet your will is too weak to desire My word and therefore I communicate with you in the word without being asked, yet it can only become effective for you if you accept it of your own free will, that is, you will only feel the strength of the word if your will is ready to receive it. And thus My word can also remain completely unsuccessful with people who certainly hear it but don't make use of it, for whom it is just an empty sound because they don't receive it into their heart but only hear it with their physical ears. They feel no effect of strength and therefore cannot recognize My love from it either, because they themselves have a hardened heart which is incapable of love. They don't know Me and don't desire Me, for their love still applies to the world and matter and they disregard what comes to them from the spiritual kingdom. But then it is never due to My word that they go empty-handed but due to themselves, because My gift of grace has to be accepted with desire and gratitude in order to be effective and to testify to My love for people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's address proves His presence ....

B.D. 8368 from December 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

And when you hear My speech you know that I am present to you, that I am not a God Who is to be sought in the distance but that I am like a father with My children and speak to them because My overwhelming love urges Me to do so .... And then you, too, should come to Me trustingly like children, listen to Me and return My love for you by doing everything I advise you to do, so that you will become blessed .... You should only submit yourselves to My will, and truly, you will now no longer do anything which would not be pleasing to Me, for My spirit within you impels you to always fulfil My will and you will also listen to it. You, who experience this love on a daily basis, can justifiably speak of My presence, and you should only once consider what it means that I Myself am present to you .... You should know that I am the most perfect being in all of infinity, that everything that exists has come forth from Me and that you have therefore also taken your origin from Me .... You should often think such thoughts within yourselves, you should consider that you yourselves are the same as Me in your original element, only that you no longer recognize yourselves correctly in your present state because you lost perfection due to your former apostasy from Me .... But when you walk the earth as a human being you are close to perfection, and you can also reach it if this is your free will .... And as soon as you yourselves make it possible for Me to be present to you .... which happens through a conscious life of love, through your serious will to enter into My will .... then you will also be allowed to experience proof of My presence, you will be able to hear Me, for your father Himself speaks to you who desire to hear Him .... And then you will be able to rejoice and be glad, for My infinite fatherly love has seized you in order to never let you go again .... You have come back to life, you who had spent eternal times in a state of death that was agonizing and miserable. For the most part you will not be able to grasp this great grace of My direct address. For I Myself take away your full understanding of it so as not to make you unfit to fulfil your earthly task until the end. For you would be filled with immense bliss if you were able to measure the grace of My presence .... But I want you to complete your earthly journey unaware of the bliss My presence means for a human being .... And therefore you are still going through earthly life burdened in some way .... Nevertheless, you should constantly occupy yourselves with the thought that I am present to you when you hear My word. And you should always glow more in love for Me, your God and creator of eternity, Who proves Himself to you as a loving father through His address, because He also wants to be loved by you, for this is My bliss that My children long to return to the father from Whom they originated. You will never grasp My great love because you yourselves are not capable of love to the extent to understand that My whole being is only love .... But love gives itself away, it wants to make people happy, it hands out unmeasured blessings, it is constantly ready to help and redeem the unhappy, bound person who languishes in My adversary's bonds .... And I express My great love by speaking to you because you need help and a supply of strength which is now granted to you through My address. Because I long for you, because I want to promote My children's return to Me in every way, that is why I address you, that is why I delight you with My presence and bestow gifts of grace upon you which shall prove your father's love to you. And thus the highest and most perfect being of infinity bends down to you, His children .... Can you measure this great gift of grace? Can you measure My infinite love, which applies to you and will apply to you for all eternity? Try to move this thought within yourselves time and again and believe that you will achieve everything with Me if only you sincerely believe that everything is possible for Me and that My love will not deny you any request .... Seek to gain this profound, unshakeable faith in My love and you will come ever closer to Me until you completely unite with Me, until the father can draw His child to His heart and now prepare all beatitudes for it because He loves it as only a father can love his child ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Guidance and care of the father

God's father love .... orphans ....

B.D. 6181 from January 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

I will truly not leave you orphans who give Me your love. As father I take care of you, and standing in the father's protection you can travel your earthly path without worry, for I will always walk by your side and protect you from every danger .... Anyone who walks by the father's hand need not worry whether he is walking correctly, he feels secure in His guidance because he trusts the father completely .... And I am your father from eternity .... the father's love is for His children, wherever they may dwell .... and if they are far away, the connection with them nevertheless remains, because My love always follows them, even if the child is not aware of it .... But those who voluntarily remain with Me, who only ever respect the father's will, who love Him and therefore want to love (live) to please Him, I also outshine them with My love and they need never ever feel lonely, as orphans whom no-one takes care of .... They are My children and all My love is also meant for them .... Just believe that you can entrust yourselves to Me like children, that I hear your every word, that I know your every worry and have the power to guide everything for your good if you pray to your father like true children, if you lose all shyness and come to Me with a humble heart, if you yourselves see your father in Me and also give Me your love .... Remember, you possess the love of the highest and most perfect being, Which surpasses everything in power and wisdom and love .... And you can make this being inclined towards you, this being lovingly bends down to you if you call it as father .... if you childlike trustingly throw yourselves into the father's arms .... And therefore you can truly make earthly life easy for yourselves if only you always trust in your father that He will guide and protect you on all your paths. And the stronger your trust is, the more naturally you will be granted what you ask for .... For you are not orphans, you are My children .... You need not go through earthly life without guidance because I Myself want you to let Me walk by your side, because I Myself want the connection with My children which, however, you alone can only establish if you voluntarily join Me, if you feel like true children and don't want to go any way without your father .... Who has loved you from the beginning and will love you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's guidance .... will .... faith .... love ....

B.D. 7060 from March 9th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Anyone who walks by My side can travel his earthly path with peace of mind, he need not fear anything because he is under My protection due to his voluntary affiliation with Me. Thus I must always be your guide, you may not travel the path alone so that you will not be joined by the other who does not want to protect you but only seduce you. Therefore it is not difficult to successfully travel the earthly path, because nothing else is necessary for this but that you entrust yourselves to Me, that you quite simply desire to be united with Me, for this desire will certainly be granted to you. I only let the earth as well as the whole of creation come into being for the purpose that you return to Me again, from Whom you once turned away. And as soon as you as human beings acknowledge Me as your God and creator and desire to be united with this God, I will also reveal Myself to you as father .... I will take you by the hand and lead you on the path to the father's house, for My joy is exceedingly great if you want to reach it as My children. But if you feel Me next to you then you will also hold a dialogue with Me, and you will follow all My instructions, you will pay attention to what I advise you, and you will increasingly recognize that My fatherly love cares for you, and you will safely and calmly travel your earthly path. But the worst thing for you humans is to walk alone, for you will not stay alone for long but only give My adversary the opportunity to approach you, who does not reveal himself to you as an enemy but makes you seemingly friendly offers which are very tempting and which you cannot well resist because they correspond even more to your nature. However, I cannot oust him as long as you do not call for Me. But the knowledge of Me, of a God of love, wisdom and might, will not remain hidden from all of you, you will all receive knowledge of Me .... But whether you seriously turn your will towards Me is up to you but it is always decisive for the success of earthly life. But you are also given a silent admonisher who warns you of My adversary and urges you towards Me .... And you must give in to this quiet urging within you and it will not be to your detriment. And once you have established the bond with Me you will not easily loosen it again, because I will hold you with a loving hand or again and again entice you like a good shepherd to follow Me. And every person who starts his day's work with thoughts of Me, every person who asks Me for My guidance and My blessing, can now also move in the world without worrying .... I will always walk by his side and make sure that he does not stumble, I will also give him strength to resist My adversary's temptations which approach him again and again .... for I truly guide the one who chooses Me as his leader. Yet again and again it has to be emphasized that this devotion to Me first requires faith in Me. And this faith does not only arise from the knowledge of Me but it requires a degree of love which only allows faith to come alive .... And because so many people lack love they also lack the right faith in a God Who wants to be a father to His living creations, Who also wants to guide them through earthly life as a loving father and in Whose guidance they can therefore entrust themselves. For this reason, despite the knowledge of a God, there are few ties between people and Me, and even if I often approach them unrecognized and offer Myself as their guide, they trust their own strength and wisdom and walk alone .... but are not averse to the other companion who tries to exploit their unbelief for himself and also succeeds. This is why the greatest evil in the world is unkindness, for even small deeds of unselfish neighbourly love would open up the human being's feelings and his thinking, and the human being's spirit, which is My share, would be able to express itself and urge him towards Me, in Whom he would then also be able to believe once he has kindled love within himself. Without love no human being's will will turn towards Me, and therefore there is also great spiritual hardship on earth, it is a struggle for existence which would be much easier if the human being allowed Me to take care of him and be a faithful helper and guide for him. Yet every person can kindle love within himself, every person can therefore also recognize Me and consciously turn his will towards Me and thus also desire My guidance .... But since earthly life is given to him for the purpose of testing his will, all coercion is also eliminated. Yet I try everything to encourage the human being to be lovingly active in order to win him over to faith in Me, for this faith will truly make his earthly life easier for him, he will .... once he has recognized Me .... also entrust himself to Me and will not want to walk without Me .... And now he will no longer walk his pilgrimage path alone, I will accompany him wherever he goes, and he will truly have a strong support in Me, he will be able to lean on Me in every adversity and danger, and the way home to the father's house will now be covered without fail because I Myself will guide him there ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's fatherly love requires reply

God's boundless love .... return ....

B.D. 6272 from June 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My love made you come into being .... Boundless love filled Me for you, My created beings .... and boundless love will embrace you for all eternity .... It is not possible for you to grasp these words of Mine in all their depth, for you do not know divine love, you are unable to form an idea of it, and therefore you can only accept My words as true and believe that I will never let you fall into depths from which there will be no return for ever .... As long as you keep yourselves distant from Me by virtue of your free will you will not feel anything of My love for you either .... But the closer you come to Me the more you will be permeated by My love, and then you will also slowly understand that and why you cannot remain separated from Me forever .... you understand that My love follows you and does not cease to woo you, because only reciprocated love can unite you with Me and because I have been longing for this love of yours since your departure from Me. My endless love is the explanation for everything .... for the coming into being of creation, for its constant revival and renewal, for your course on earth and My fateful guidance .... But My love is also the explanation for all adversity, for catastrophes and nature-related destruction .... My love is also the reason for the dissolution and change of the old earth, when the time has come that My love is no longer recognized on the part of My creatures, when they are more distant from Me than ever .... For if I did not love you then I would truly not be interested in your return to Me .... but then there would also be no need for creation and also no people who embody the spiritual striving away from Me. Yet I also love you despite your imperfection, despite your self-inflicted weakness and imperfection .... because love never ends and thus cannot let you fall either, even though you resist Me .... And this love also once achieves your return to Me in free will, for it is a strength which nothing could oppose if it wanted to rule over everything .... Yet it wants to work together with you, it wants to inspire, and it wants to be reciprocated with the same intimacy, and therefore it courts you, your counter-love .... And thus you will not be able to detach yourselves from My love for eternity, yet it can only make you happy if you reciprocate it of your own free will .... But then you will be able to experience and behold the unimagined .... Then you will find yourselves in inexpressible bliss and you will realize what My love has done for you and had to do because it does not and cannot give up on you, you who emerged from My love and remain in My love forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Endless fatherly love seeks reciprocation ....

B.D. 7518 from February 9th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

I only ask little of you, for I only want your love .... And if you were to recognize Me in My perfection, you could not help but love Me, for you would overflow with happiness and gratitude that I desire you and want to be united with you .... You would give Me all your love because you want to reciprocate My great love for you .... But you do not recognize Me as yet, you are so imperfect yourselves that a great gulf separates us which requires much work on your part to bridge and which you still find difficult to accomplish. And because I am still far away from you, you are also unaware of My infinite love for you which only ever wants to see the right relationship established between you and Me, the right relationship between child and father, in order to be recognized and loved by you as your father. Although I approach you again and again, I try to make Myself recognizable to you, I prove Myself to you as creator Whose wisdom and might you shall learn to recognize, and I approach you as father in order to win your love for Me, yet it requires your willingness to also come close to Me, only then will you be able to recognize Me and learn to love Me. For only love alone unites us, only through love can the union be established which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life .... But once you have found Me, once love for Me has ignited in you, then you will also know that I truly don't ask much of you, for then you will give Me the love of your own accord which I long for, and then you will fulfil your actual purpose of earthly life: you will establish the union with Me, your God and father of eternity, which once was the original relationship which you yourselves voluntarily relinquished. And then you will also return to the original state where deep, pure love united us and the being was immeasurably blissful. But since you once voluntarily renounced your love for Me you must now voluntarily offer your love to Me again, and this is what I try to achieve during your earthly life. Therefore I cannot use any coercion towards you, I can only entice you, I can reveal Myself to you as extremely lovable, but I must leave you free to give Me your love .... just as you yourselves will only find your salvation when your love is meant for Me, because the soul only enters the original state again when it has found Me. And finding Me also means loving Me .... And I have been longing for this love since the beginning, and My love for you will have no end and therefore also pursue you until it is reciprocated, until you open your hearts to Me, until you receive Me Myself into your hearts, because love drives you to prepare a dwelling for Me in order to be united with Me forever, in order to be able to create and work with Me as a true child of the father in unlimited bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers