Confidential Commune With The Father

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

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

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

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

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

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

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

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

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Belief in God as a loving father

6009 - Acknowledgement of God.... belief in connection with Him....

7648 - God as a loving Father....

Child's relationship to God

2317 - ?resNotTranslated?

4654 - "Become like the children...."

7229 - God's father love....

The Father speaks to His children

6615 - God speaks as a Father to His child....

6921 - God's address is something quite 'natural'....

Desire of the divine speech

7498 - Child's request for father's address....

8544 - The Word of God ought to be listened to....

Mental connection with the Father

5463 - The will determines one's thoughts.... Responsibility....

6859 - Blessing of mental communication with God....

Retire into silence

1590 - Inner reflection.... Hours of rest - Introspection....

4343 - Inner life.... Withdrawing into seclusion....

5629 - Retreat into silence.... time of need....

Listen to the inner voice

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3199 - The inner voice....

3955 - Instruction by God Himself.... Audible Word.... Jesus' disciples....

Blessing of confidential commune with the Father

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

4769 - Blessing of prayer....

5686 - Right prayer is the bridge to God.... Jesus Christ.... The bridge to Me is the prayer....

5899 - Prayer for good success....

7441 - Dialogue with the Father.... His Word from above....

8466 - What is prayer in spirit and in truth?....

Presence of God

4456 - Spiritual dialogue.... presence of God.... doubt - worry....

5056 - "Where two or three are gathered in My name...."

8128 - Faith in God's presence....

Power by God's word

3687 - Power of the divine word....

6959 - Increasing temptations.... intimate prayer.... power of the word....

7026 - Blessed effect of the divine word....

8076 - Blessing from the connection with God....

God's guidance, protection and assistance

3507 - Inner retreat.... answer to prayer....

5804 - Taking refuge in the Father....

6254 - Connection with God secures His protection....

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

7334 - Total surrender to God....

7462 - Fear is insufficient faith....

2752 - Fatherly Words of love....

3487 - Comforting Fatherly Words....

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Belief in God as a loving father

Acknowledgement of God .... belief in connection with Him ....

B.D. 6009 from July 27th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I only ask little of you .... that you merely acknowledge Me .... For if you do this out of innermost conviction then it will not be difficult for you to enter into My will. You gladly submit yourselves to My will because by acknowledging Me you have already given up your former resistance, because acknowledging Me already means turning towards Me .... in short, because then you will also learn to love Me. I want to be acknowledged by you, and therefore I will always reveal Myself to you .... to each person in a different way, but everyone's attention will be drawn to a higher power in earthly life .... All will be able to recognize a determining power in their experience, in their destiny, yet each individual will try to explain this power according to his own will .... as acting arbitrarily without any connection to the human being .... Then he does not recognize Me as I want to be recognized .... Or also as a guiding being working in wisdom, as Which I want to be recognized. I only want you to believe in a connection between you and Me .... that you feel like creatures of a creator with Whom you are inseparably connected. As long as you believe yourselves to be completely isolated in the universe you are also isolated from Me. For you establish the connection with Me precisely through your recognition of Me, Whom you now also try to join. The fact that you once did not want to acknowledge Me, although you were aware of your departure from Me, was your fall into the abyss, into ignorance, thus into darkness .... And you involuntarily step into the light again with the moment of My recognition .... with the moment of the bond which your will establishes with Me when your thoughts wander to a being Which is undeniable for you, Which stands above you, Which has you in Its control and to Whom you owe your life. Faith in this being will also infallibly change your will, for believing in Me and yet resisting Me is impossible .... otherwise faith would not be alive and a dead faith cannot be called faith.... As long as the human being still resists Me and, as a bondage to My adversary, leads a sinful way of life without scruples of conscience, he does not believe in Me either .... But if there is a slight fear of responsibility in him then he certainly considers the existence of a God to be possible, yet he still has a long way to go to living faith, to inner conviction .... I only want you to acknowledge Me, to be inwardly convinced that you are connected with the power that called you into being .... I want you to believe in Me .... Then all revelations on My part will be a blessing for you, then you will soon experience My love and grace so obviously that you will now learn to love Me, and then the union with Me .... the first and last aim of your earthly life .... will be certain for you, for what you love you strive for, and if you strive for Me, your God and father, you will also surely reach your aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God as a loving Father ....

B.D. 7648 from July 15th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

For the majority of people I Am the distant, inaccessible God, providing they still believe in Me .... But they have no bond with Me, they look for Me in the distance, they indeed see in Me their God and Creator but not their Father .... they have not yet established the relationship of a child with its Father and therefore dare not address Me like a Father nor do they expect help because they exclude My Fatherly love and only see in Me a punishing God, a merciless Judge Who condemns them without pity if they don't live in accordance with His will. People do not know about My greater than great love for them or they would approach Me trustingly and communicate with Me .... They don't know that they came forth from My love and that My love belongs to them despite the fact that they became sinful .... They are still distant from Me and therefore cannot be permeated by My strength either, because then they would have to turn towards Me devotedly .... because they would have to seek My presence and muster the will to be accepted by Me as My child ....

And it is difficult to convey this knowledge to them .... for I Am and will remain an unattainable Being for these humans, Which stands sky-high above humanity and has little or no contact at all with them. They don't believe in a correlation between the Creator with His living creation, they feel and are indeed isolated as long as they don't lift the isolation themselves and try to join Me. I, however, want to be the Father of My children; I want to be close to people, so close that they will be able to hear Me. But this first requires the human being's free will to be in contact with Me. The human being, too, must want to approach Me, he must abolish the vast distance between us himself by his very will to be in contact with Me. And this resolve can awaken in the human being if My love is proclaimed to him time and again, if I Am presented to Him as a supremely perfect Being Which is pure love and Which wants to give His great love to His living creations in order to make them happy. I must be presented to people as supremely perfect, and perfection includes an abundance of love for My living creations. Only when the human being can believe in My love will his love for Me ignite and he will yearn for contact with Me ....

And then he will also feel like My child and long for the Father in order to intimately communicate with Him. He will no longer feel any inhibitions, he will speak to Me like a child speaks to its Father, and he will also feel My love and therefore approach Me trustingly .... And then I can be present with him, then the vast distance will have been abolished, then the child will also be able to hear My voice because .... if it strives towards Me .... it has become love itself, which causes the unity of the child with the Father .... And as soon as you are able to portray Me to your fellow human beings as their God and Creator, as a most loving Father Who only desires to be united with His children again as it was in the beginning .... as soon as you present Me as a God of love, people will lose their immense shyness in regards to Me and trustingly turn to Me when they are in trouble. They will receive My help and then try to come ever closer to Me, for then they will be seized by My love and gently but steadily be drawn upwards. And one day the union will take place too, for once the human being has felt My love he will not detach himself from Me again but ever more eagerly strive towards Me, and the vast distance will finally have been overcome, with the human being no longer only seeing in Me his God and Creator but his Father, to Whom he will then take his path and with certainty also reach his goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Child's relationship to God

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"Become like the children ...."

B.D. 4654 from May 31th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

"Become like children ...." I am pleased with the quiet, humble love of children who trustingly approach Me, who press towards the father's love and seek a response from Him. Become like children .... If you truly feel like children and direct your steps towards the father, if you seek refuge with Him, you will enter into the right relationship in which you stood in the beginning and which you resolved yourselves of your own free will. If you now return to the father the spell is broken, you become free children of God again, you have found your way back to Me and can now be blissfully happy in My presence. You must feel it alive within you that I am your father, that you are My children who emerged from My love, who eternally possess My fatherly love .... you must be happy and calm in your thoughts of Me, remain untouched by all adversity and affliction, firmly trusting that the father will protect you from every danger of body and soul. Only the right trust characterizes a child's relationship with its father, and until you place this trust in Me you are not yet in a child's relationship with Me, then you are still far away from Me and I am a stranger to you and not constantly present. Where a heart opens itself to Me, where it communes with Me in the desire to receive Me, to hear Me and to feel Me, there is no longer a gulf between the child and the father, it is with Him and the father is constantly with His child, the father hears every request, every question, and He considers the child as it is helpful to Him. Therefore, first of all strive for the right of childship which arises from the right relationship with Me. For if you are My true children you are also entitled to many rights .... that the father will continue to care for His child, that He will help it spiritually and earthly towards perfection, that He will instruct it and feed it with nourishment for body and soul. As My true children you can demand everything from Me, I will deny you nothing and constantly make you happy with gifts of love which I always have in store for My children. Become like the children! .... Leave all self-conceit aside and humbly come to Me with a loving heart and accept the abundance of My love which I want to bestow upon all My living creations. This relationship between children must still be established on earth if you want to become true children of God with all rights in eternity. And once you have handed yourselves over to Me as weak-willed little children I will never let you leave Me again, I will watch over you and prevent all evil from gaining access to you so that you can no longer get lost to Me or hand yourselves over to My adversary. I am your father from eternity and only wait for the moment when you lift your hearts to Me full of childlike love. Then I will have won you back eternally and you will be free. For the father does not keep His children under compulsion as soon as they are subject to Him in love, since their will is now the same, and they will only want what is My will and can never ever lack My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's father love ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Father speaks to His children

God speaks as a Father to His child ....

B.D. 6615 from August 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Just as I spoke to My disciples when I lived on earth I still speak today to all those who want to hear Me .... Wherever someone exists who believes in this and opens himself to Me that is where My voice will be heard. However, I only rarely find this faith and therefore Am only rarely able to speak to a person directly, even if all other conditions are being fulfilled, if the person so shaped himself that I can be present to him, if he has purified his heart and prepared it as an abode for Me .... But the belief to be able to hear Me directly nevertheless does not exist and therefore the person fails to do what is most important: to carefully listen within for My voice, for the manifestation of My love, for the sign of My presence, for My Word .... The fact that belief in this has gone astray, that they think it implausible to hear Me directly, is a particular attribute of people's spiritual state, it is the evidence that the 'working of My spirit' is no longer a right concept for them and that they no longer understand the Words of the Scriptures either. Furthermore, it is proof that the striving for the 'gifts of the spirit' is omitted, that they are therefore ignorant of the results of a life of love, of a righteous life before Me .... otherwise people would certainly make an effort to attain spiritual gifts and subsequently also penetrate this information regarding the strength of the spirit.

It is indeed very worrying that people no longer see the Father in Me but only their God and Creator, providing they still believe in Me .... The relationship of a child with its Father is unheard of by them and thus they also deem the most natural thing to be impossible, namely the fact that the Father speaks to His child .... This faith only rarely exists and yet every person should be filled by it, only then would every person also make an effort to be addressed by Me and to comply with all required conditions for it. For I Am unable to manifest Myself if conscious attentive listening has not taken place first so as not to impose a coercion of will, but occasionally I will also let My voice be heard by those whose hearts are striving to reach Me, who are devoted to Me in love .... so that they will more often attentively listen to Me within and give Me the opportunity to speak .... But anyone who lacks this faith has not established the right relationship with Me as yet, even if he deems himself called to work for Me and My kingdom. For as long as he still doubts My direct speech his faith will not be alive enough to turn to Me like a child to its Father and desire to hear His voice. However, the fact that people are still so distant from Me even though I would like to be present to all of them .... is a shortcoming which also testifies to the spiritual adversity experienced by humanity during the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's address is something quite 'natural' ....

B.D. 6921 from September 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The process of spiritual transmissions from the kingdom of light is basically something quite natural, for as soon as a person is intimately connected to God it is also possible for him to hear His voice, the word of eternity, which also expresses itself through His angels, through the inhabitants of the world of light. But people have distanced themselves far from God, they don't know that they can connect so closely with God that they also feel His presence and that His presence proves itself through His word. And therefore something quite natural is regarded as unusual and as a result not valued; God's revelations are rejected as unbelievable, and thereby people deprive themselves of the greatest grace, for to hear God's address directly or also conveyed is a gift of grace of immeasurable value: God Himself shows people the path they should take in order to become blissfully happy, and He also gives them the necessary strength for this through His word .... However, addressing God must not be a compulsory act of faith. And therefore the process of spiritual transmissions takes place such that it also allows for other explanations if the human being is not willing to acknowledge this process. For he may not be forced to believe, and he will also not be forced to do so .... His will alone decides whether he recognizes a gift of grace as such and evaluates it accordingly. And a willing person also feels addressed by God. He is not only a listener but a doer of the word and soon finds proof of the truth of the divine word because his life of action itself brings the 'working of the spirit' into him. Every person can create this proof for himself if he would only put into action what his ear and heart have heard. For not only the direct transmission of the word has a beneficial effect in this way. The word of God can be received wherever it is proclaimed .... If only the listener willingly opens his heart and ear and sincerely desires God's address and now also aligns his way of life accordingly, then the effect of the divine word will not fail to materialize. The bond with God will become ever more intimate and the human being himself can hold a heartfelt dialogue with Him and also be certain of His loving response. For God is a father .... and a father also speaks to His child .... But if the child closes its ear and turns away from its father, then it cannot hear anything either. And God is love .... Love seeks to save, to help and to make happy. And therefore God will warn, admonish and give strength and light to those who let themselves be addressed by Him. He will also speak to those who still stand apart from Him, but His address will not force them to listen to Him. Yet they shall be offered the graces, they shall have the opportunity to hear Him and, depending on their will, they will also experience the blessing of His address. But it would be far more unbelievable that a 'God of love', a 'father of His children', keeps silent, that He leaves people to their fate and does not offer them any help at all .... For people would be irredeemably lost if they were only dependent on what is offered to them by human beings. For there must be water of life, it must be drawn from the source which is God Himself, the original source of all strength and all light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Desire of the divine speech

Child's request for father's address ....

B.D. 7498 from January 11th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The power of the spirit fills your hearts as soon as you desire to hear My word, and I will never remain silent in the face of a request which proves My child's willingness to serve Me. I will speak to him and through the child to all people who want to listen to Me. It is a gift of love from the father Who knows His children in adversity and wants to help them .... It is a gift on My part which you don't deserve but which My infinite love offers you in order to help you in spiritual adversity. My word resounds in infinity and you humans may hear it if only you open your ear and heart to My word, if you, desiring to hear Me, enter into silence and listen to what your father says to you. You cannot hear My word without this inner desire, otherwise My words will only resound in your ears and not be able to touch your heart. But I want you to listen to Me and will therefore bless everyone who opens himself to My words, for this signifies an illumination of strength for the human being which he needs more than necessary. He is in a state of complete weakness, for he is still far away from Me and can only gain strength if he receives it directly from Me .... And this includes My address, because thereby he enters into contact with Me and can now also receive unlimited strength. But he has to establish the connection himself through heartfelt thoughts and prayer .... Then he will hear My voice, even if it sounds to him indirectly, when My word is conveyed to him through My servants on earth. Then he will feel addressed by Me, he will hold a dialogue with Me because he has sought and established the bond with the one Who now addresses him in the most loving way, just as a father speaks to his child. All of you should often give Me the opportunity to communicate with you directly in speech and counter-speech, you should present all your questions, worries and concerns to Me in your thoughts, you should speak to Me like children about everything that moves you and I will answer you, even if you don't receive My answer straight away because you are not always able to hear Me. But you will receive the answer as surely as a father fulfils the requests of his child who loves him and whom he loves far more than you can imagine. All you have to do is enter into silence from time to time and unite with Me in thought, and you will always derive the greatest spiritual benefit from such a bond, for it always signifies a direct reception of strength which often only your soul feels but which constantly progresses in its development as a result. I always want to feel your childlike love which expresses itself in your desire for Me and My word. And then I can also fulfil your desire, I can speak to you and you will be able to hear Me and also understand Me. And I will always tell you that My love for you is endless and that it only ever desires your return to Me, to your father's house .... Again and again I will tell you that I will not rest until you have started this return journey, until you feel the same longing to return home to your true home .... until you have the desire to unite with Me forever and to be and remain blissfully happy with Me and near Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Word of God ought to be listened to ....

B.D. 8544 from June 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

You should listen to God's Word .... For His Word grants you the strength you need for the maturing of your souls .... You should only want to be addressed by Him .... And truly, He will speak to you, regardless of how and in which way you hear His Word .... Only your serious wish to be addressed by Him is the decisive factor, for then His spirit will penetrate you when you hear His Word, and then you will no longer hear the speech of a person but the voice of God Who speaks to all those of His children who want to hear Him. You can then, in solitude, attentively listen within and enter into a dialogue with your Father of eternity, then all subsequent thoughts will originate from Him directly, and thus you will hear the Father's voice too, only in the form of thoughts .... You can also read His Word in the Scriptures, and again, it depends on your attitude towards Him, your God and Father, as to whether and how you will be affected by the Word you are reading .... Then He is also talking to you through these, providing you sincerely desire the Father's communication .... His Words can also be imparted to you through a human mouth if, in religious places, you listen to a sermon with the desire to hear Him, your Father of eternity .... if your thoughts are so closely united with Him that you consider every Word to be addressed to yourselves, then you can also truly say that you have been addressed by God Himself .... Additionally, you can accept the Word of God from servants sent to you on His instructions in order to convey God's direct communication to you, which informs you that He Himself speaks through the spirit when He has a suitable vessel at His disposal which receives His flow of love that wants to pour into such a vessel .... And if you are touched by these Words you will also feel yourselves addressed by Him and you will not have anymore doubts that God Himself speaks to you indirectly .... But you can receive His Words from Him directly, too, if you unite yourselves with Him in profound love and believingly listen within .... Then you will hear His direct communication and be extremely happy .... And an abundance of strength will flow into you which will truly enable you to still achieve your perfection on earth, for the direct communication is the greatest gift of grace which all of you can acquire if it is your sincere will. You need to hear the Word of God because you require a light from above which illuminates the path which will lead you to perfection .... You require a small pointer in the right direction; you simply need help in order to be able to reach your goal on earth .... You are weak and blind in spirit .... you must receive strength and regain your ability to see. And both occur through the imparting of the divine Word, which you therefore need to hear in some form or another .... As soon as your heart desires to be addressed by God Himself, the divine Word will not fail to be effective and give you what you require in order to enable you to fulfil your task on earth ....

The one and only point is that you humans should establish the connection with your God and Creator of eternity, that you should enter into the relationship of a child with its Father and desire to be addressed by Him, then your earthly life will truly not be futile. The connection with God had once been voluntarily severed and in so doing the being, which He created out of His love, became wretched and of darkened spirit .... The connection must consciously and voluntarily be restored again in order to come out of this unhappy state, and therefore the human being must also want for God to speak to him, for this proves that he strives towards a connection with God once more, and then his higher development can proceed in his earthly life, for then the person will receive strength through accepting His divine Word and he will become inwardly bright and clear .... Then his spiritual blindness will have been overcome too, he will know about the meaning and purpose of his earthly life as well as about his imperfection and guilt and how he can be released from them .... The divine Word first imparts to a person the knowledge about the divine commandments of love .... And if they are already being lived in accordance with then the person will gain further knowledge, he will become enlightened because the eternal Light will shine into him since the connection has been re-established, which is the meaning and purpose of earthly life by itself .... And for this reason you need the proclamation of the divine Word, of the Gospel of love .... And new disciples have been chosen again to proclaim God, Who is the Word of eternity .... And they will bring the truth to people again, because God's Word is truth and will affect every person as truth .... if he seriously desires it. How else should you accept it if not from Himself .... which is purely determined by your desire .... Who hath ears to hear, let him hear .... For an inexhaustible measure of grace will still be poured out before the end, because it is God's will that all people shall become blissfully happy and therefore He will also address all people who desire to hear Him .... And they can all still become blessed through His Word ....

Amen

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Mental connection with the Father

The will determines one's thoughts .... Responsibility ....

B.D. 5463 from August 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Thoughts are born out of the human being's will, for according to one’s will, the spiritual forces in the beyond can work and direct their thought-currents towards the human being .... Thoughts are always expressions of those forces which are accepted where the human being's will corresponds to the one of the spiritual transmitter .... Hence the spiritual forces intervene in organic activity as soon as the human being himself forms thoughts .... and the content of these thoughts is the spiritual material which the spiritual forces possess. And thus the human being's thinking is stimulated by these spiritual forces, as it were, only they cannot have a compulsory effect on the human being's thinking but, instead, the spiritual forces become active according to the good or evil will, so that it is therefore up to the human being himself which spiritual knowledge he mentally accepts, whether it touches him from the kingdom of light or from the kingdom of darkness, whether it is truth or error, for through his direction of will he himself also determines the beings who impart their thought -material to him. The will determines one’s thinking .... So the human being is responsible for one’s own thinking. And therefore there is only one way to be relieved of one’s responsibility: That the human being trustingly hands himself over to God and the beings of the light-world so that his wanting and thinking will be directed correctly .... Thus the human being need not fear misleading thoughts, he then will be guided and led into a right thinking, light-beings will then take over responsibility, and they will truly exert the influence only on the human being that promotes good and right thoughts. He needs not fear anything if he commends himself to the heavenly Father before every decision, before every activity in thought that requires right thinking, if he appeals to all good beings for protection and help. His thinking will then be right, for the beings of darkness will thus not find access, they then will not be able to cause confusion in whatever area. A good will turned towards God protects the human being from erroneous thinking.

You humans, however, still have hours when your thoughts, i.e. your will, is again turned towards the world and this is used by God's adversary to invalidate what good beings have imparted in you. Doubts then set in, and the opposing forces then take immediate effect. A worldly desire can hand you over to these opposing forces, for the bond with God, with the light-world, that is, is loosened by every thought that is still directed towards the world, by every desire that does not have spiritual aims. For this reason every person should observe himself to what extent he is still earthly-minded; in decisive questions, he should loosen every earthly bond as much as possible, he should without reserve devote himself to the spiritual light-world, and he will then be certain to be cared for by it always, he will speak and think as is right before God and also feel the inner firmness as soon as he represents the thought material which was imparted to him in this union ....

Amen

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Blessing of mental communication with God ....

B.D. 6859 from June 28th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Anyone who listens to Me when I speak to him takes the reliable path of ascent .... And I speak to all those who receive My Word, who in turn accept it from those who question Me in thought and who thus also may regard the thoughts they receive as My Words. You cannot think wrongly once you have acknowledged Me as the source of truth by directing your thoughts to Me, once you want to know the truth. Nor can you take misguided paths anymore once you appeal to Me for guidance .... But you must willingly offer Me the opportunity to speak to you, and that always happens when you mentally occupy yourselves with Me, your God and Creator, for every thought of Me calls Me to you, and I follow this call.

You should often occupy yourselves with Me in thought, because this means that your heart is receptive for My communication and because you can only ever gain by this, for then you will also constantly receive the strength to do what I ask you to do, what My communication conveys to you as My will. You have to establish the connection with Me yourselves, because you had once isolated yourselves from Me .... You need not do anything else but think of Me without a will of resistance .... I Am always willing to meet you as soon as I recognise in your thoughts the resolve to make contact with Me .... And then you are truly protected from taking misguided paths, since now that I can speak to you I have also gained influence over you. Thus it is truly not difficult for you to acquire an immeasurable amount of everlasting riches in earthly life, as this is the result of your mental bond with Me.

It is completely impossible to leave Me empty-handedly, it is completely impossible that I will not make use of such a bond and remain silent in you, for I Am only waiting for such quiet moments when you make contact with Me, when you enter into conversation with Me or approach your God and Creator with questions, and I will certainly answer you again in the form of thoughts, if I cannot speak to you directly through the inner Word. This is why every person has the opportunity and the right to communicate with Me, and every person will receive as much as he desires. Even if nothing is visibly given to the body, the soul can still receive unlimited riches for itself. I want to speak to you, and I will speak to every one of you who thus is willing to listen to Me, who wants to hear My voice .... You all should avail yourself of this assurance, you should excel yourselves and devote every free minute to Me, and you would truly use your time on earth well. Then the connection would be established ever more frequently, because you would desire Me from the bottom of your heart, Whom you now recognise as your Father and constantly wish to be spoken to by Him. And you will also gladly comply with everything, you will fulfil My will because you have already adopted My will as your own, because the constant bond with Me also results in a constant submission to My will and because you have become enlightened as to Who I Am and what kind of relationship exists between us .... Think of Me daily and hourly, never exclude Me from any undertaking, constantly let Me be present with you by mentally calling Me to you .... And you will truly not take the path through earthly life in vain, you will grow and mature and reach the goal .... You will join Me once more in order to never ever separate from Me again ....

Amen

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Retire into silence

Inner reflection .... Hours of rest - Introspection ....

B.D. 1590 from August 31th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

It requires some time of reflection as to be able to listen to the inner voice, for it does not express itself in the midst of earthly commotion, that is, it is not perceptible to the person. Only someone who withdraws into his inner life will be able to perceive it, precisely because it only sounds deep within the heart. Thus, in order to establish a connection with the spirit, it is absolutely necessary for a person to shape his inner life by trying to harmonise it with the will of the One Who gave him life. An inner life after divine will can give rise to inconceivable success, for this guarantees access to spiritual knowledge. It opens the gate to life beyond earth for the human being. The human being is unable to penetrate these areas from the outside, but if he takes the path by means of his innermost life, by means of his thoughts and feelings which are deeply rooted within his heart, he will take the right path and will reach the right goal.

The human being needs many heart-to-heart talks with himself and needs to subject himself and his actions to self-criticism and must always want what is best, then he will shape himself according to God's will. However, the more he is prevented by the outside world from times of inner reflection the harder it will be for him to establish contact with the spiritual world, for every pensive hour will already be, so to speak, the unification with spiritual beings which try to influence his thoughts and which, precisely during such inner introspections, can speak to the listener of the inner voice unimpeded. These beings can only make themselves noticed through the most subtle spiritual vibrations, hence they have to be received during profound silence otherwise they cannot be sensed and ineffectively glide past the human being's soul. The more easily you are able to detach yourselves from the earth and desire spiritual contact, the more clearly and perceptibly the voice will sound in you, and therefore you should do everything in your power to avoid earthly experiences which might detract you from the inner work of improving your soul, from introspective hours of rest, during which you seek spiritual contact. You will undeniably have far more success than you can ever achieve by earthly means ....

Amen

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Inner life .... Withdrawing into seclusion ....

B.D. 4343 from June 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Go into seclusion and allow Me to speak to you, and you will hear an abundance of wonderful things, a world of ideas will be revealed to you which otherwise would remain unknown to you, for I Myself will guide you into regions which are new to you and yet seem appealing to you once you have entered them. Spiritual instruction is extremely valuable because you will keep it forever; it is truly far more beneficial for you than any increase of earthly knowledge, for all this will fall away or be forgotten the moment you physically die, spiritual knowledge, however, shines like a bright light and casts a gentle gleam which attracts entirely uninformed souls because it affects them beneficially. Thus you may accept spiritual knowledge from My hand if you withdraw into seclusion, if you enter into silent communication with Me in your closet. You should seek seclusion, that is, leave the world behind you, live an inner life in frequent union with Me .... And I will always be a willing Teacher for you Who will convey the knowledge you need, which you are missing and which makes you happy. As long as you are attracted to the world, you will find it difficult to make spiritual contact with Me, for I stand outside the world, yet I Am at all times within reach for you if you turn away from the world. I Am always available, but whether you have time for Me remains up to you, nevertheless, every minute you think of Me is a blessing for you.

Therefore gather spiritual wealth, it is extremely precious, and make good use of your time, be aware of the fact that it will never be wasted if you enter into contact with Me, if you withdraw from the world, and remember that you merely acquire illusive possessions with every service the world demands of you. Only love for other people has the same value, because it equally results in a connection with Me and enables My working in you .... So you should often talk to Me if you want to gather eternal treasures for yourselves. I will always assign the right task for you, I will guide you to where you can be lovingly active, I will send people to you whom you can inspire into discussions which direct their thoughts to Me again, as your Teacher I will provide you with the knowledge which you should pass on to them, and I will always be with you, because every connection from earth to Me is beneficial and will help you to ascend. For this is My promise to you 'I remain with you until the end ....' Understand these Words and realise that you yourselves have to enable Me to be present with you through your will, that you must withdraw into solitude and lift your thoughts up to Me .... Then I will be and remain with you for all eternity ....

Amen

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Retreat into silence .... time of need ....

B.D. 5629 from March 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Often dwell on spiritual thoughts, withdraw into silence, commune with your father of eternity and thus establish the connection with the spiritual world so that its radiations can touch you, so that you are open-hearted .... and there is no resistance in you against the flow of grace from above. God's strength of love cannot take effect on you as long as you close yourselves off, thus your will must be ready to receive the strength from God. You have to practice this conscious opening very often and you will happily perceive a spiritual strengthening, you will no longer have the feeling of being alone, then you will establish a relationship with the spiritual world which will give you a certain security compared to the earthly world. Don't let the earthly world gain control over you, but always put the spiritual world before it .... i.e., let God Himself always be present to you through conscious desire for Him .... Only in this way can you mature your soul, for then you will do everything consciously, you will seek to live according to the divine will in everything .... You have directed all your senses spiritually .... In the coming time you will need this attitude very much, for the world will give you a hard time, you will need a lot of strength and will only ever be able to receive it through living contact with God, with the world, which supports you in your striving upwards. And it will become increasingly more difficult for you to only direct your senses spiritually .... Therefore practice diligently beforehand, don't live a purely worldly life for a single day, again and again withdraw into silence, use every opportunity to send your thoughts upwards, and even if you only let a short call arise from your heart .... it will be heard, and the beings of light will not leave you alone if you request support from them .... Strive to secure God's presence for yourselves .... remain in love .... and trust in Him that He will straighten what is crooked, that He will heal those who are sick, and believe that He is stronger than everything you fear, that which threatens you .... Trust in Him and give yourselves to Him as your own .... And He will truly not leave you .... Begin and end each day with Him, and He will be your constant companion, He will lead you out of all trouble ....

Amen

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Listen to the inner voice

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The inner voice ....

B.D. 3199 from July 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Listen to the voice of your heart, it will show you the right way. A person's will is often undecided which proves that he is influenced by different spiritual forces which want to win him over for them. At this time the person must make a decision; he must not remain indecisive but ought to turn his will in one direction, and then he should pay attention to the inner voice which wants to advise him to use his will correctly. The more diligently he aspires to take the right path, the more clearly he will perceive this voice. Then it will warn him during temptations, it will strengthen his resistance, it will admonish him and always faithfully tell him if the person is in danger of wanting to take his own paths which don't entirely correspond to God's will. But it is almost imperceptibly faint in those who live their life unscrupulously, who care little about right and wrong. And frequently it will be silenced completely because the person fails to listen and the gentle voice will be drowned out by the voice of the world. In that case, the human being will be in great danger, he must make his own decisions and is more likely to allow himself to be determined by ungodly forces and he will act accordingly. A person with the will to live a good life, thus to live according to God's will, is never left without spiritual guidance, he will be guided, his thoughts will be directed, i.e., although his freedom of will is not being curtailed, the thoughts will come so close to him that he has to accept them if he does not consciously reject them. And if he is weak-willed the spiritual forces will try twice as hard to convey their thoughts to him and he will merely need to listen within, i.e., the human being need only enter into a silent dialogue with himself, and he will be mentally clearly instructed as to what he should or shouldn't do.

However, people often don't remain in this short contemplation, their thoughts fly all over the place, one moment here, one moment there, and this results in indecision, in hesitation, both in regards to good as well as to evil .... For this reason you are admonished time and again to pay attention to the voice of the heart, so that you will act clearly and determinedly and not digress from the right path. An indecisive resolve offers God's adversary an excellent target, for this is the start of his control over the former, and every temptation confronts the will with a decision to be for or against it. If, however, the person pays attention to his inner voice he will not have to fight for long, he will resist the temptation since he will be supported by the forces of light as soon as he pays attention to them and complies with their admonitions. Then he will also grow in strength, for his will entitles the beings of light to give him strength, whereas a lack of will prevents them from doing so. For no human being receives strength against his will, although the beings of light are concerned for the human being's soul with utmost love. Yet their activity is subject to divine law as well, which respects free will first and foremost. The inner voice, however, is only audible to someone who voluntarily listens within, and therefore it can never be considered coercion, it can be heard or ignored, it can be complied with but also disregarded, all depending on the person's will. It merely gently admonishes and warns the person, it assists the weak and guides the undecided; it will never push itself to the fore but will only be heard by someone who listens. But he will be guided correctly and able to live his life without worry, for if he complies with the voice of his heart he will also know that he conducts himself correctly and lives in accordance with God's will ....

Amen

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Instruction by God Himself .... Audible Word .... Jesus' disciples ....

B.D. 3955 from January 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Your knowledge can be increased in all directions if you entrust yourselves unto Me as a student and want to be instructed by Me. In that case you can ask any question and you will receive an answer. However, you will have to listen within or you will be unable to hear the answer. How this listening has to take place is not known to you because you don't practise it and therefore you don't hear My voice, although it speaks to you. First you have to withdraw into seclusion, that is, you must detach yourselves from the world such that your thoughts can unimpededly consider the problem you want to solve. In addition, you must make contact with Me through heartfelt prayer so that I Am present with you, so that you can therefore communicate with Me and speak to Me like a child to its father, like a brother to a brother or a friend to a friend without any inhibition. And then you will need to think about the problem that bothers you .... And a light will shine within you, you will have thoughts which seem acceptable to you, which you are inwardly convinced are right and which are indeed right because you have entered into union with Me and thereby entitled Me to direct your thoughts onto the right path.

However, you can also hear My voice directly within you, but this process needs to be practised, for it requires patience and complete seclusion from the environment, i.e., your thoughts must be able to completely detach themselves from everything around you. Then you will be able to hear gently spoken Words, mentally or even audibly, depending on your degree of maturity and receptivity. The audible Word puts an end to every doubt, and once you have reached this state of audibly hearing My voice in you, you will be the happiest people on earth, for then no more question will exist for you which would remain unanswered for you, then you will be able to speak to Me and receive the answer no matter where you are, then My voice will be louder than the voice of the world and will always and forever drown it out. And this audible Word was heard by My disciples on earth, and thus I was able to instruct them personally and answer their every question after My ascension to heaven. I was with them in spirit and will also be with you humans in spirit until the end. And therefore you should endeavour to reach a state of maturity of soul on earth, so that you will be able to perceive My voice audibly in you, and you should practise receiving My Word, you should mentally remain in constant contact with Me and leave the answer to all questions to Me, you should listen within and you will receive an answer, the eternal Teacher Himself will instruct you as He has promised, that He will guide you into all truth ....

Amen

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Blessing of confidential commune with the Father

"Come all to Me ...."

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

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

Amen

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Blessing of prayer ....

B.D. 4769 from October 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

You all don't make use of the grace of prayer often enough, you all don't speak to Me often enough, for every silent conversation with Me is a prayer which earns you inconceivable blessings for your soul. As soon as you mentally establish the connection with Me .... because every good thought attracts Me .... the supply of strength is also immediately possible, because I constantly emanate strength which permeates everything that opens itself to it. A connection with Me must always have a good effect for you humans, and therefore you cannot put yourselves into a state of receiving strength often enough, even though you feel little of it physically the soul is nevertheless immensely strengthened in order to be able to continue striving upwards. Even the will to approach Me, which is expressed in every thought turned towards Me, has an extremely beneficial effect, because I seize this will immediately and this therefore means a plus for the soul. The will turned towards Me will not rest until the connection with Me has been established, until the human being quietly communes with Me, until a prayer rises up to Me which not only deals with earthly concerns but also appeals for grace and strength, for the soul's salvation. And I will always listen to My child because I want to make it happy spiritually and earthly. If you knew the blessing of a silent, humble prayer to Me you would make much more use of the blessings of prayer, you would often let Me be present to you through heartfelt remembrance, for this is an elevation into spiritual spheres, this is a dwelling in the kingdom of light, which you don't feel physically but one day you will become aware of when you have left the physical shell. Your soul is already there where it will one day dwell .... it leaves the earth behind for the time of prayer, the soul reveals itself before Me and lets Me clothe it with a garment of light which, although it is extremely transparent, is nevertheless a cover for the soul which is beneficial to it. The soul reshapes itself, so to speak, and the more often this process takes place, the more radiant the cover of light becomes, the greater the desire for Me. The soul no longer feels endlessly distant, it comes towards Me in a familiar way, it wants to hear and feel Me, it wants to receive light and strength .... It now, earthly speaking, holds silent communion with Me, it prays in spirit and in truth .... and, spiritually speaking, is in spheres of light, close to Me, only open to the emanation of Myself. Heartfelt prayer must bring the soul to maturity, for a person who intimately turns to Me also seeks to fulfil everything I ask of him .... Therefore often detach yourselves from this earth, let your thoughts wander upwards, seek Me in your thoughts, come to Me trustingly and faithfully .... Therefore, in prayer, quietly and devoutly listen to Me, listen to what I say back to you, and soon you will also learn to understand Me, you will hear My voice within you, you will then make use of the grace of prayer because you will directly connect with Me and every connection with Me will help you attain maturity of soul ....

Amen

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Right prayer is the bridge to God .... Jesus Christ .... The bridge to Me is the prayer ....

B.D. 5686 from May 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

There is no insurmountable gulf between us, for your prayer will always bridge it as soon as it is a prayer in spirit and in truth .... And the prayer's depth of feeling determines the length of the path to Me. You can enter into direct contact with Me if you speak to Me like a child speaks to its Father. For then I will be with you, then every distance will have been overcome, then you will have breezed across the gulf between us and come close to Me, for I comply with your call and come to meet you as soon as I hear the voice of your heart. Do you now know the exquisite means at your disposal in order to come to Me, do you know what effective gift of grace prayer is for you? Due to your imperfection you are still far away from Me as your God and Creator of eternity, yet I do not deny you to enter into a dialogue with Me and draw close to you as a Father, Who also embraces his still imperfect children with love and takes account of their faults and weaknesses. I listen to you as soon as you speak to Me in childlike faithful prayer. Yet on the other hand, you can only pray to Me correctly if you believe in Me, thus every prayer in spirit and in truth requires your belief in Me, in My love, wisdom and might .... If, however, you believe in Me, then every word will also arise from your heart, then it will no longer be a formal prayer, then only the child will speak with its Father .... and then it will also achieve everything that is only in its best interest. But in order for you to have a living relationship with Me you must also be able to have the right concept of Me, Who gives you the opportunity for this as the Saviour Jesus Christ.

Imagine your Saviour in His overwhelming love that embraces all of you humans, and remember His suffering and His death on the cross on behalf of sinful humankind and you will also be able to love Him in return, to confide in Him and to tell Him whatever weighs you down, and you will, because He Himself was a human being just like you, be able to expect complete understanding from Him for all your suffering and adversities, and you will turn to Him, Who is your friend and brother, Who due to His love wants to help all of you, Who wants to draw you to Himself into the celestial kingdom in order to make you forever blissfully happy. I Myself became a visible God for you in the Saviour Jesus Christ, and if you offer your love to Him you also give your love to Me, your God and Father of eternity, for He and I are one, and anyone who sees Him sees Me, Who lived on earth as the human being Jesus in order to gain your love, in order to sacrifice Myself for love of you, who were wretched in your sinful state and in your infinite distance from Me would have had to perish had I not established a bridge in order to make the path to Me passable .... You all can cross the bridge if you speak to Jesus, your Saviour and Redeemer, in heartfelt prayer, if you love Him and therefore also comply with His simple commandments. Then you will also be allowed to experience His love, He will help you spiritually and bodily. He will guide you and smooth all paths which lead upwards to Him, into His kingdom, to eternal life ....

Amen

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Prayer for good success ....

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

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

Amen

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Dialogue with the Father .... His Word from above ....

B.D. 7441 from October 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

You must withdraw into solitude if you want to speak to Me .... I merely require you to withdraw from the world and into your closet and then turn your thoughts to Me alone .... so that you mentally detach yourselves from the world and all its requirements, so that you give no room in your heart to anything but Me and so that you approach Me in a childlike manner in order to hear Me and My Words. I want a prayer in spirit and in truth .... which necessitates that you completely detach yourselves from all worldly thoughts, it necessitates listening within, a silent dialogue with your Father and an attentive ear within for what answer your Father might give you. Your words will not remain without reply, if only you listen for it .... if you truly desire a dialogue, so that you address Me and subsequently wait for what I have to say to you in response .... This private dialogue with My child is exceedingly pleasing to Me, after all, the child is opening its heart to Me so that I can provide it with an answer which is intended only for the benefit of its soul. Yet I can never do this in the midst of the world, when the human being is distracted in every way from heartfelt thoughts of his eternal Father .... He can certainly send a quick prayer up to Me even in the midst of the world, and he will be well advised if he tries as often as possible to send a short thought to Me and thereby remains in constant contact with Me .... But a right prayer in spirit and in truth, when he may distinctly receive My Fatherly love, can only take place in the closet of his heart, in silent retreat and the heartfelt devotion of the child to its Father .... Then peace will enter the person's heart and he can hold a heart-to-heart talk with the Father .... and he will never regret spending any spare time in such silent dialogue, because I very gladly speak with My child and it will draw much benefit for its soul from every conversation.

Detaching himself from the world will often be difficult for a person, My adversary will hinder him from doing so in every possible way, time and again he will try to disturb or prevent it .... But the human being's will should be stronger and resist My adversary .... Then the person will receive strength and be able to accomplish his intention: to unite with Me in heartfelt prayer and to hear the Father's Words. Only an intimate bond like this will enable you humans to hear My Word from above through a fellow human being .... only a union in spirit and in truth makes it possible for My spirit to pour itself into an opened vessel .... And therefore, great blessings rest in this beginning, this intention of becoming receptive to Me and of allowing My flow of grace to pour into oneself. For countless souls participate in the transmission of My Word which also desire to hear the Father's voice and with heartfelt longing are waiting to be addressed by the Father .... You should all withdraw into solitude and listen .... And you may truly hear your Father's voice, it will sound to you like pleasing music, for that which comes from Me can only grant you happiness and blessing, that which comes from Me has to touch your souls like exquisite nourishment for which you long and which you will receive without limitation as soon as you desire it. Send a prayer up in spirit and in truth .... Lift your thoughts to Me and listen. And I will speak to you like a father speaks to his child, and your soul will cheer and rejoice at every Word that comes forth from the mouth of God ....

Amen

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What is prayer in spirit and in truth? ....

B.D. 8466 from April 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

This is your actual task, that you enlighten those who are mistaken, that you give truthful answers to those who ask questions and that you thus bring light into the darkness .... For humanity walks along in darkness, their thinking is misguided and therefore they do not recognize the right path which leads to Me .... to the final perfection. Truth alone can bring about this perfection, but never error or lies .... And if you, who want to serve Me, want to give clarification you must first receive it from Me yourselves, because only I can convey truthful knowledge to you .... And therefore you should come to Me with all questions which move you, so that I will answer you and thus train you to become teachers who will now work beneficially amongst their fellow human beings .... When you pray to Me it is only important that you intimately unite with Me, that you don't call upon a distant God like a being Who is inaccessible to you, Who certainly has great power and therefore you hope for help from Him .... from Whom, however, you consider yourselves far away but would like to make use of His power because you are in need .... Such a call gives Me no pleasure .... But if you see your Father in Me, Who lovingly cares for all His children .... if you now converse with your Father in all humility, if you trustingly present your adversity to Me and thus have entered into an intimate bond with Me through your trust, then this is a prayer which I hear because it is a living call from the child to the Father .... Such a prayer has nothing veiled, nothing secret, it is also nothing formal, but something deeply felt in the heart .... Hence it is a true prayer where the child's heart exposes everything before the Father, where it spreads itself out before Him and confesses its weakness and helplessness and is therefore also valued by Me as such, for it demonstrates profound humility and love for Me and I can now pour out the cornucopia of My grace in abundance. Then you will pray in spirit and in truth, and then you can also safely hope for fulfilment, for as soon as you are devoted to Me with love you will only address such requests to Me whose fulfilment will not harm your soul, because your love for Me enlightens your spirit and your thoughts are already far more turned towards the spiritual kingdom than towards the world and its illusory goods .... But now consider the nature of the prayers which are mostly uttered by people. Consider that a true prayer in spirit and in truth requires a 'withdrawal into the quiet chamber', by which I only want to be understood that at the moment of prayer the human being must mentally withdraw into the chamber of his heart. And no matter how short the prayer is, if it is only a call to Me in adversity .... But this call has to come from the heart, and then a prayer truly needs no learned words or a certain form .... for I understand the babbling of a child and don't want to hear any high-sounding words which have already been born again by the intellect or which are taken over by other people .... This is why a mass prayer can only have a beneficial effect if everyone prays silently in his heart, even if everyone has the same request, for as soon as masses say the same prayer aloud they have to use a specific form, and then it will not be possible to have a confidential dialogue with Me which alone guarantees the fulfilment of the request. You humans can achieve a lot through right prayer but for the most part you don't pray right .... As soon as you believe in a God your heart shall impel you to unite with this God in thought, and then you will speak to Him like a child speaks to its father, and then you will pray correctly, you will pray in spirit and in truth, whereas formal and general prayers usually lack the intimate, confidential bond with Me, which, however, is entirely human, because external impressions always have an effect and therefore the withdrawal into silence is required. But you cannot expect any particular blessing for the souls from loudly spoken formal prayers, from general prayer actions, except for those people who are able to completely close themselves inwardly and pray in their heart .... who don't listen to what their fellow human beings say aloud .... I only want to explain all this to you so that you will understand why so many prayers remain unanswered and why I require of you a prayer in spirit and 'in truth' .... Only the core is ever valid before Me, not the outer shell, and I see into a person's heart and cannot be deceived by lip prayers or daily habits which are performed soullessly. However, if a person calls loudly to Me in his heart's distress, then such a call is also proof that it is not just a form but deeply felt internally, and this is how it is also valued by Me, Who always endeavours to help in order to prove the Father's love to My children .... because I also want to win your love. And therefore you should always give account to yourselves when you pray whether you first establish a child's heartfelt relationship with the Father or whether you are satisfied with a habit, with a form, with prayers which cannot reach My ear. For prayer to Me is also an immense gift of grace, because you can thus establish the bond with Me at any time and thereby also provide the evidence of having passed the test of will, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life ....

Amen

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Presence of God

Spiritual dialogue .... presence of God .... doubt - worry ....

B.D. 4456 from October 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The clearest answer to your mental questions will not satisfy you if you don't firmly believe that the mental answer is My spirit's working. As long as you doubt this you will not be able to have inner peace either, because you are constantly tormented by thoughts which require a clear answer from Me. Always feel so intimately united with Me that you are certain of My constant participation in your life, then you will also be able to believe that I live with you and know your every adversity and worry. You must acquire this awareness of My participation and constant presence, then your life will also be easy, then you will be filled with the feeling of togetherness which fills you with strength, then you will always know in Me the strong companion Who helps you over all obstacles, Who guides you and guards your every step, Who will not leave you unprotected against any enemy attack, Who is always with you because He loves you. Only gain faith in My love .... What you entrust to Me in thought, in the adversity of your heart, will not go unheard by My ears, and if you listen quietly and attentively within, you will also hear My answer in thought: only believe that I speak to you through your thoughts and therefore do not reject them .... After heartfelt prayer to Me My spirit's answer is active, which gives you the inner conviction to be right, for if you implore Me I will not remain silent because you should believe that I will help you. You are still weak in faith in Me and My love and therefore live in restlessness, in fear and worry and in a feeling of loneliness. Yet believe that I am with you, believe that My love applies to you and that I will never ever leave you, and let this awareness of My presence become so strong in you that you therefore fear nothing that approaches you from outside. For I want to give you peace of mind which, however, can only make you happy in the feeling of togetherness with Me. You are never alone, and My word is the visible sign of My presence .... How can you, who receive My word, doubt My presence? And what else but doubts about it are your fear and worry, which are invalid if you firmly and convincingly believe that I am with you and help you in every adversity and distress of body and soul? And therefore you will be able to do without any other help if it is denied to you by your fellow human beings. You will never turn to Me in vain, and therefore always come to Me when you are weary and burdened .... My love is always ready to help you if only you request My help, if you pray to Me in spirit and in truth and believe .... for I will never let a strong faith go to waste ....

Amen

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"Where two or three are gathered in My name ...."

B.D. 5056 from February 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... You draw My presence yourselves if you call upon Me in your heart, if you come together for My sake, if you make Me the subject of your conversations. I am in your midst and intervene in your conversations Myself, for I fill you with strength and guide your thoughts correctly. Therefore you can always be certain of My presence and also that I will dispel everything that would like to oppress you from the dark side, for where My light shines the dark spiritual element which wants to harm you will flee. Then you will be inaccessible to its evil influence and open to the light radiation from the spiritual kingdom. Then you will also hear My word as it emanates from Me and feel its strength and effect. I Myself dwell in your midst and distribute My gifts of grace, considering each one according to need, and your soul shall rejoice because I Myself give it nourishment .... then you all dine at the lord's table .... I distribute and you receive, bread and wine .... My flesh and My blood .... you are My guests whom I have invited to the lord's supper and who have willingly accepted My invitation and are therefore abundantly provided by Me with gifts from heaven, with My word, which is delicious refreshment for your soul. If I am present to you, you will never need to go hungry, for your father truly provides abundantly for His children who love Him and want to be obedient to Him. If you now gather in My name, then you press towards Me, your father, like children, and My heart rejoices in your love and comes to you in order to also announce My love for you. I fulfil every call of a loving heart, every desire for Me,

(7.2.1951) for I want to speak to you and I want you to listen to Me. I am always with you if you grant Me entrance into the circle where you live. Where My name falls, spoken with the mouth or also in the heart, there is the place where I like to stay, even though you are not able to see Me with bodily eyes. Every thought of yours attracts Me, thus you need not doubt My presence. And where people gather to converse about My kingdom there is also the opportunity to express Myself, for their hearts are completely unresisting towards My divine strength and this strength loosens their tongues .... they speak, driven by My spirit .... their thoughts will be rightly directed because they can never ever be in error where I Myself am working. My working is certain if a person is devoted to Me with love. My blessing will always rest on spiritual conversations, after all, they are proof to Me that My children desire to know the truth, that they love Me and that their thoughts apply to Me .... Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... You should take these words of Mine seriously, for they are a promise from Me which can give you comfort and strength at any time .... that you will never stand alone if you remember Me. And then you can confidently expect all kinds of help from Me, for if I am with you I also see and hear your suffering, I know about your heart's every request and fulfil it according to your faith. I dwell in the midst of you .... The stronger this faith in My presence is, the stronger your faith in My help will be when you are in need. But I also want you to ask Me and thus prove your faith in My presence. And therefore I bless those who open themselves and listen for My answer .... who are willing to hear My voice if I want to speak to you. For I always speak through the mouth of your fellow human beings, be it in speech and counter-speech or also in direct address to the one who listens inwardly for My voice. I want to reveal Myself to you humans and am always willing to do so, but I do not always find people who are also willing to listen to Me. I will give them words of love and wisdom in abundance, words of advice and comfort, as I have promised, for if I am in your midst I will not keep Myself hidden, and since you are unable to see Me you shall hear Me. And blessed are those who believe and gather together in My name, for I will bless them and they will feel My blessing as strength which expresses itself in the desire for above, for Me and for eternal life ....

Amen

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Faith in God's presence ....

B.D. 8128 from March 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I Am present to you as soon as you make contact with Me in spirit and in truth .... But you humans still search for Me in the distance; only a few hand themselves over to Me like a child and thereby establish the right relationship with Me .... The majority of people certainly speaks about a God and Creator, they believe in an exceedingly powerful Being, but they also deem this Being to be infinitely far away; they don't know that I would like to be in contact with them as their God and Creator and that they need only establish this contact, because they distanced themselves from Me and thus they must also strive towards Me again. But neither are they capable of heartfelt prayer , that is, of communicating with Me in spirit and in truth, or even just of sending a sincerely felt call from the heart to Me. They merely use memorised prayers which are of no value to Me, which I do not hear and therefore cannot grant either .... I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth, I want that heartfelt thoughts ascend to Me which will induce Me to lean down to the petitioner, to draw close and be present to him .... Yet blessed are those who have already established this heartfelt bond and through a prayer in spirit and truth motivate Me to be present to them, to whom I therefore can also speak, in thought or audibly, if their state of maturity allows for it. You should only yearn for and allow My presence, for My presence also necessitates a purified heart which love has prepared for Me as an abode in which I Myself can dwell .... But if you humans believe in a God with Whom you can make contact, your way of life will also be a life of love otherwise you would not have this faith .... For faith will only come alive through love .... Humanity, however, is devoid of all love, love has grown cold amongst people .... This is why a living faith is only rarely to be found, a faith which seeks Me and motivates a person to make contact with Me, for love is already the bond with Me, the human being draws Me close to himself and induces Me to be present .... And thus love alone determines the relationship between the human being and Me. Where love is kindled in the heart, a gentle inner urging to reach Me can already be felt .... Consequently, the loving person will also pray in spirit and in truth, for the love within establishes the connection with the Eternal Love .... with Me, Who can then be present to him. And once I Am present I can also speak to him, I can guide his thoughts, I can grant him a wealth of thoughts which he can only receive from Me directly .... I Myself can work in him, as I have promised .... However, My presence is always essential, only kind-hearted activity will motivate Me to be present to him.

But how far have people distanced themselves from Me as a result of their heartless life .... They cannot recognise Me because they are still spiritually unenlightened and thus make it impossible for Me to take direct effect in them through mental communications, for they cannot hear My Words in their distance to God and even if their fellow human beings informed them they wouldn't understand .... It is also difficult to make them believe in a God Who wants to be their Father, Who wants to give pleasure to them as children if they look for this bond with Him .... They cannot believe because they have no love within themselves which would awaken the faith in the first place. Therefore they will not be capable of praying in spirit and in truth .... unless great adversity overwhelms them and they call upon the powerful Creator of Heaven and Earth, Who also created them .... And if such a call comes from the heart I will hear and grant it .... Nevertheless, only I know the heart of every individual person, and only I know whether earthly help is a blessing for him or whether a premature recall into the kingdom of the beyond is more favourable for the soul which can no longer find Me on earth ....

Amen

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Power by God's word

Power of the divine word ....

B.D. 3687 from February 15th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

You can draw comfort and strength from every one of My words because they originated from Me and are therefore strength in themselves. You only ever have to let Me speak to you, you have to unite with Me beforehand in heartfelt prayer, entrust your needs to Me and then take My words as a counter-speech, and you will constantly be strengthened, for if I speak to you Myself you will have to lose all weakness of spirit and body. Every one of My words will proclaim My love to you, and if you know yourselves to be loved by your father from eternity, every fear must also fall from you, for He Who loves you is also powerful and nothing is impossible for Him. And if you believe this you are powerful yourselves, and you overcome all opposition, for you always get the strength for this from My word. Therefore let Me constantly speak to you, never neglect to open your heart to Me at times through silent dialogue with Me, open yourselves so that My strength can flow over to you, for this requires your own will. He who wants to receive must also prepare himself as a receiving device, and this more often if spiritual and earthly hardship threatens to overwhelm him. The frequent mental connection with Me also guarantees him an influx of strength, and for this he needs to detach himself from the world. He must often find the time to accept My word again and again, to let it speak to him, and thereby join Me ever more firmly .... and his faith will become strong and unshakeable, for then I Myself will displace the spiritual substance which, banished in matter, tries to approach the human being again and again in order to distract him from Me. I hold the heart which has fled to Me, I protectively hold My hand over the one who has become Mine through his will .... And if you therefore want to face all adversity full of strength, don't pass by the source of strength but constantly draw from it .... I am always ready to give you the cup that refreshes your soul and increases its strength .... You receive food and drink with every word that goes out from Me and touches your ear and heart .... And you can therefore receive unmeasured strength from Me, because My gift is not given to you in a limited way but you yourselves determine the measure .... Let Me speak to you, listen to what My spirit announces to you and constantly draw from the source of life .... My word will never lose its strength if you hungrily receive it, if you eagerly listen to My voice, for it is I Myself Who comes to you in the word, and My presence will always signify strength and grace and thus never be without effect. The time is short and you should still make eager use of it and absorb strength so that you will then be able to survive every battle with the spiritual and earthly world. And thus make My word your concern and receive strength in abundance from My hand, which lovingly guides you until the end of your life ....

Amen

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Increasing temptations .... intimate prayer .... power of the word ....

B.D. 6959 from November 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You will still often find yourselves in spiritual distress, for My adversary will do everything in his power to win you back whom he fears to lose. And his means are only ever those which cause you severe distress, mentally or physically, so that you should doubt Me .... in a God Who promised you His help, Who said to you: Ask and it will be given to you, knock and it will be opened to you. If he succeeds in causing such doubts to arise in you then he has already taken you one step back, but you yourselves are decisive, for he cannot force you to follow the thoughts which he tries to transfer to you. You can immediately ward off every such thought as soon as it touches you if you are always aware that it originates from My adversary who wants to tempt you. You, who strive towards Me, need only ever fully consciously reject My adversary, you need only want not to fall prey to him and his temptations will bounce off you, for this will of yours gives you the strength to do so. You need not doubt My love for you, and even if your fate in life depresses you, you must still firmly believe that this, too, is only for the salvation of your soul and that one day you will thank Me, Who truly knows what is good for you. But again and again My adversary will also try to intervene and want to exploit every weak moment for himself and his plans. But the fact that you acknowledge Me and turn to Me is an abomination to him, and it is his greatest endeavour to prevent this, to tear you back from Me again. And therefore he tries to cast doubts into your hearts about a God Who loves you and helps you at all times, as He has promised. And whenever such quiet doubts arise in you, then remember that he is at work and resist him, and know that you are My children whose well-being is close to the father's heart and from whom He never withdraws His love. And then take everything upon yourselves with submission, for it will only benefit your soul. His activity in the last days, however, will assume devastating proportions and it requires strong faith to resist him. For this reason I repeatedly draw your attention to the fact that you should not cease to struggle for a strong faith; that you should pray for strength and grace which I can then also supply to you in great measure; that you also acquire the strength for yourselves through a life of love and that your faith will then also increase .... and that you again and again hold heartfelt dialogue with Me, your God and father, from Whose love you came forth. You will be able to draw much strength from this intimate dialogue, for it can flow into you directly if you give Me the opportunity to speak to you. For My word is a source of strength which will surely supply you with what you lack .... And as soon as you immerse yourselves in My word, as soon as you give Me the opportunity to speak to you Myself, it will be completely impossible for My adversary to harass you, because then you will stand in a glow of light which he will flee, which is your best protective barrier against his attacks. And if you are therefore in spiritual or physical distress then test the strength of My word. Give yourselves to Me in humble dialogue, let My word take effect in you and you will be equal to My adversary's every attempt, you will be able to resist, and your faith in My love and mercy, in My might and wisdom, will grow, and you will increasingly push towards Me and detach yourselves from the one who is My enemy and yours ....

Amen

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Blessed effect of the divine word ....

B.D. 7026 from January 27th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

The human being's highest benefit is that his soul receives spiritual nourishment, for only then can it mature on earth, only then will its purpose of earthly life be fulfilled. Therefore, whatever contributes towards making the human being receptive for the word of God also corresponds to God's will .... and whatever contributes towards deepening the bond with God will also always earn the soul spiritual goods, for this nourishment of the soul can only be imparted to it in a direct bond with God. This is what people cannot yet understand, that God can only feed them with the bread of heaven if they willingly come to Him with hunger and thirst, Who has promised them food and drink. But 'coming to Him' does not mean going to places of worship, it does not mean outwardly-recognizable actions or beautiful words .... It only means the deep, inner bond with God, which is like opening the heart to receive His stream of love-power, to receive His word, the bread of heaven from His hand. For His word is flesh and blood, it is the right nourishment for the soul, it is His direct emanation of love into the heart of a person, which the soul feels as right food and right drink. The human being must first be informed of God's will through the word of God .... And through the word of God he must also be given the strength to fulfil His will. But the fulfilment of His will brings spiritual progress to the soul, which is why the word of God absolutely has to be conveyed to the human being so that he will become blissfully happy. However, the 'conveyance of the divine word' is not to be understood as every sermon which can indeed touch the human being's ear but which lets the words fall flat if the human being has not first entered into a heartfelt bond with God, so that he hears the sermon as a direct address by God and thus it will not remain without effect on him. For the word can only be spoken letters which lack all spiritual meaning or is also only understood as spoken word but not according to its spiritual meaning. And this spiritual meaning is only made accessible to the human being by God Himself, which is why the bond with Him is indispensable. Only then does the word have an effect as refreshment for the soul, as nourishment which it needs to build itself up, which gives it the strength to develop upwards. And in order to establish the bond with God, one's own will is necessary again, for an intimate bond with God can never be established dutifully or as a form .... A true seriousness must animate the person who is to be blessed by receiving or hearing the divine word. And this true earnestness can fill a person at any hour and in any place, he can always and everywhere intimately unite with God and await the influx of His word, for even a devout thought of Him will secure an influx of strength for him, a gift which will be distributed to him from the lord's table .... And the longer the human being's thoughts dwell on his God and father, the more love-filled his thoughts will be, and God will mentally speak to him and impart to him what his soul needs. Being able to receive God's word is the greatest benefit a person can achieve in earthly life and need never come to an end, for God constantly speaks to those who desire to hear Him and who therefore hear or read His word in heartfelt contact with Him or allow themselves to be mentally addressed by Him .... And their souls will mature, for they will receive abundant nourishment, food and drink will constantly be offered to them, they will constantly be refreshed and strengthened at the lord's table, as He Himself promised with the words: "Receive and eat, receive and drink .... do this in remembrance of Me ...."

Amen

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Blessing from the connection with God ....

B.D. 8076 from January 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You will achieve great spiritual gain if you often unite with Me in thought, if you commune with Me and thus turn away or withdraw from the earthly material world which will only ever satisfy the body but not the soul. But the soul receives strength from Me, from every bond, because such a bond always means an opening of the heart for the illumination from Me. Understand that contact only ever has to be established in order to guarantee an overflow of strength .... and that every mental turning towards Me creates such a contact which is of greatest blessing for the soul. I cannot have a determining effect on your will because it is free; therefore you must seek the bond with Me of your own accord. But you will never regret it, for you will never go empty-handed, you will always receive strength and grace from Me because I can now illuminate you with My strength of love. The clearest form of this illumination is My word directly conveyed to you .... But your soul can also receive an unusual impetus for loving activity, for spiritual activity .... And this is always proof of My illumination of love, which you make possible yourselves through a conscious bond with Me .... But if you receive My word then the blessing is inconceivable, because not you alone but countless spiritual beings are co-recipients who can draw strength from the word and mature .... Every bond with Me is a source of inexhaustible strength for you .... Physically you don't feel anything of it, and that sometimes makes you indifferent. But your soul will thank you if you repeatedly switch Me on in your thoughts .... it matures itself, and it will not remain powerless but spiritual strength will be at its disposal as often as it needs it .... You only ever need to turn to Me in thought, be it questions or requests which move you .... only ever come to Me with them and thereby allow Me to illuminate your open hearts, which results in every voluntary bond with Me .... And then you can also assume with certainty that you will be able to make spiritual progress .... because it cannot be otherwise when you receive strength from Me than that it helps you to ascend. And thus every work of love will also establish a direct bond with Me, because I Myself am love, because .... "whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him ...." In your earthly life alone it is a matter of restoring the bond with Me which you once voluntarily broke off .... You turned away from Me of your own free will, and you must turn to Me again of your own free will. Then you will have passed your test of will on earth for the purpose of which your existence as a human being was given to you .... The distance from Me still exists when you enter embodiment as a human being .... And only when you live a conscious life will you be able to reduce this distance, and blessed is he who kindles love within himself and thereby re-establishes the intimate bond with Me .... blessed is he who often raises his thoughts to Me and converses with Me .... Now I Myself can influence him again as before, I can illuminate him with My love, and his earthly life will now not be an idle one either, he will bring the soul to its aim, for it is no longer powerless as it was at the beginning of its human existence but it can constantly receive strength from Me through the bond with Me, and it will be able to mature and perfect itself while still on earth. The human being needs My strength .... Although vitality is at his disposal he needs spiritual strength to mature his soul, which he can only receive from Me if he opens his heart, i.e. if he consciously turns to Me in thought, in prayer and through loving activity .... And I will truly provide you abundantly with strength, for I want you to return to Me .... I want you to become perfect, and I long for you who once came forth from My love and who shall find their way home again into their father's house.

Amen

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God's guidance, protection and assistance

Inner retreat .... answer to prayer ....

B.D. 3507 from August 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Lift up your eyes to Me, from Whom comes your help .... I remember My own in greatest adversity and grant them My protection. And what I have promised you will be fulfilled to the letter. But My promise is: The father will not leave His child forever if it does not abandon Him. He faithfully leads it by the hand so that it will emerge from all dangers unharmed in body and soul. Therefore, do not become anxious and despondent when hardship grows and threatens to overwhelm you. Let everything take its course and only listen to the voice of your heart so that you will become aware of My nearness and draw comfort and strength from the awareness that you will never be abandoned. Often turn inwards and speak to Me and I will answer you, I will chase away all doubts and anxiety and make you cheerful and confident, for you constantly draw strength and grace from the connection with Me. And you lack this if you are anxious and fearful. If you are able to have a heartfelt conversation with Me you will also have a strong heart, for you will not feel alone but constantly surrounded by My protection. But if you pay too much attention to the world, to the adversity around you and its effects, My strength cannot flow over to you without resistance and you feel weak. Only the intimate connection with Me makes you strong .... Always speak to Me like children who unreservedly entrust their father with everything that presses them, and like a father I will listen to you and come to your aid. But don't doubt My love and power .... I can help you and I want to help you as soon as you trust Me unconditionally and humbly and childlike ask Me. For I love you from the start, and My power is unlimited and banishes every disaster in an instant if this is My will. And therefore hope and believe, come to Me in every adversity and distress, and don't cease to pray for strength of faith .... Trust Me that I will consider you with utmost fatherly love, that I will hear you if you enter into heartfelt dialogue with Me and desire My grace and strength ....

Amen

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Taking refuge in the Father ....

B.D. 5804 from November 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Anyone who takes refuge in Me will not go wrong, for I will always help him even if the help is not as obvious as he would like it to be. Anyone who takes refuge in Me comes to the right place, because I alone can and want to help where human help seems to be impossible. Anyone who takes refuge in Me will feel as though he is My child and can also fully confidently expect of Me the understanding of the Father. He will not call upon Me in vain. Earthly adversities and problems shall impel the person to Me if he does not enter into frequent communication with Me of his own accord. Then I will have to send him worries and afflictions so that he will remember Me and turn to where help will come from. Yet blessed are those who seek contact with their Father of their own accord .... blessed are those who often look for Me in thought and expect Me to talk to them, who turn the direction of their thoughts towards heaven .... blessed are those who do not need earthly adversities and worries in order to come to Me .... blessed are those who cannot exist without Me, who always and forever speak to Me like children to their Father, who therefore already identify themselves as part of Me and try to contact Me .... because I can draw close and reveal Myself to them .... I can give Myself away, that is, bestow blessings without measure, because they are always willing to use them and thereby come closer to Me .... But how often do people fail to find the path to Me even in adversities and worries because they lack faith in the One Who can and wants to help them ....

Being powerless and without strength their misery goes on and on, if only they could still be won over for Me .... or they will receive strength from below, from My adversary, to whom they are more inclined than to Me, because they commit themselves to the world and its commodities and therefore also to the one who is lord of this material world. And then they will be lost for infinitely long periods of time .... Then their distance from Me will increase ever more, and every gift of grace through which I want to help them attain realisation will be rejected by them. Therefore, wherever you humans see adversity and suffering that is where My care is recognisable, that is where I still struggle for every soul, that is where My adversary has not yet attained control and therefore there is still hope that the hardship will let them find their path to Me. And every person suffering hardship should be referred to this One and advised to appeal to Him .... he should trustingly take refuge in Me and I will reveal Myself and show him that I Am also Lord over life and death .... People in serious difficulties occasionally also accept an instruction and grasp the life line, they turn to the One Who is recommended to them as Saviour and as Helper .... And I will truly help them in order to then strengthen their extraordinarily weak faith; I will manifest Myself where I usually keep Myself concealed because I Am not being called upon .... I will truly not keep any of My living creations in distress if it comes to Me in prayer ....

Amen

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Connection with God secures His protection ....

B.D. 6254 from May 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Stay in constant contact with Me and you will emerge safely from all difficulties which still have to befall people before the end. No human being need fear this time as long as he has found Me Myself and does not let go of Me, for as long as he walks by My hand, as long as I walk beside him, he is immune to all adversity .... And My presence is certain for him if he never leaves Me out of his thoughts, if he always converses with Me, if he commends himself to Me daily and requests My nearness .... And if he lives in love .... For then he is intimately united with Me for time and eternity .... To all of you I promise My protection in the days of coming adversity, you who only want to be united with Me, you who have recognized Me .... you who believe in Me .... reflect that I have created you to mould you into My children .... Think about the fact that My fatherly love never ends, then you will also know that I don't want you to suffer unless it is necessary for you. But the necessity exists as long as you exclude Me from your thoughts, as long as you still turn away from Me and pursue aims other than Me .... Then I will have to be hard on you so that you remember Me and turn to Me, so that you learn to recognize the father in Me Who will help you if you want to let Him help you. Then you may well suffer and be in need until you appeal to Me for help .... Yet as soon as you seek Me of your own accord and have also found Me you can be without worry that you will still be threatened by danger, for My nearness eliminates such. Yet you must call a living faith your own, for words which are only spoken by the mouth do not secure My presence for you; on the other hand, a thought of the heart draws Me to you and then you will truly be under safe protection. You must achieve in your earthly life that you always feel Me close to you, you must pray to Me 'without ceasing', that is, you must consult Me in everything you do ..... I must be the first and the last in your world of thoughts, you may no longer live without Me, and the closer I will be to you because you yourselves secure My presence by thinking of Me. Great strength lies in thinking of Me, which you can let take effect at any time, which is why nothing will touch you painfully and no danger can threaten you as long as you remain united with Me in your heart. I give you this comfort for the coming time, which should therefore not frighten you because I Myself watch over you and constantly grant you My protection ....

Amen

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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

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Total surrender to God ....

B.D. 7334 from April 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Everything you hand over to Me to take care of for you will be resolved to your satisfaction. How easy it would be for you in earthly life if you would approach Me with all your concerns, needs and worries and ask Me to take care of them for you .... How gladly I comply with My children's requests and guide their thoughts so that they take the right path, but I want to be approached about it. Whoever remembers Me always and at every hour will also be remembered by Me, and he will truly also become aware of it because he will now calmly walk his earthly path by My hand and under My care. A child which trusts Me unreservedly and expresses this trust by submitting all its concerns to Me possesses My love, and a constant will to help now also gives it evidence that I love it. Your days shall begin with the call of Myself that I bless you and determine all your doings, that I place the feeling into your heart what you should do or refrain from doing, which is in My will. You should simply completely hand yourselves over to Me and My guidance and then always act as it approaches you of its own accord, and this will always correspond to My will because you have previously subordinated your will to Mine. You can truly easily go through your earthly life if you only ever remember that I am your father and want to be called upon by you as father .... A father's love always extends to his child whom he wants to make happy, whom he wants to protect and save from fear and adversity .... And My love is truly even greater than the love of an earthly father. My love wants to give the child even far more, earthly and spiritual goods, He wants to make earthly life easier for the child and yet also let it find spiritual life, but the child has to make use of its father's help, it always and in everything has to entrust itself to Him and never loosen the bond, for the father rejoices in the child's heartfelt love which no longer leaves Him out, which does nothing without having conversed with Him, which always asks Him for His protection and His blessing. And even if earthly things may frighten you again and again .... hand them over to Me in complete trust and I will resolve them so that they lose all terror for you. I want to ensure that you will no longer hesitate for a moment to call upon Me or to hand over seemingly insurmountable things to Me, and you will truly not be disappointed, for I keep My promises, and I will comply with your requests and wishes with great joy if they are directed towards Me in true love .... when the child sincerely asks the father to take care of it. Then the father will not abandon His child either, for He loves it and also wants to give it joy. But as long as the human being does not yet see the father in Me, as long as I am only the distant God to him, he also lacks trust and torments himself with his worries and troubles, which I would so gladly relieve him of if he could establish the relationship of a child with the father, which is necessary in order to speak to Me such that I see the child's love for the father and can now reciprocate with My love. For My love for you is unlimited, but you must open yourselves of your own free will and desire My love, and it will already make you happy on earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

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Fear is insufficient faith ....

B.D. 7462 from November 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

It is My will that you should not be afraid but only ever believe in a loving and almighty God and Father, Who will not leave you in distress. Fear, however, is insufficient faith. Fear does not know God's love and omnipotence Who wants to be your Father .... For as soon as you believe that I love you like a father loves his children you will also be convinced that I will not let anything happen to you, no matter what the enemy of your souls will do to you. My protective Fatherly hand is always ready to intervene when it means providing help for My child in need. And you are in need when you are afraid, be it physically or spiritually .... you are in need when you are anxious and despondent because you lack the strength of faith that nothing can happen to you as long as you turn to Me and appeal to Me for protection and help.

Yet even if your own common sense keeps telling you this, your heart nevertheless remains scared and sad, and this is where you have to improve matters yourselves .... by establishing your bond with Me as intimately as possible, with your eternal Father Who is just waiting for you to come to Me in heartfelt prayer and confide your worries to Me. I require this sincere devotion to Me in order to provide your heart with the inner calm that is still lacking in you. You have to come to Me with your every concern and in a completely childlike manner appeal to Me for help .... And I will listen and answer your prayer because I love you like a father loves his children. But you often find it so difficult to approach and discuss matters with Me .... you so often remain distant and struggle to cope with your worries although it would be so simple to burden Me with them and free yourselves of them ....

You have a loving Father Who would like to arrange a pleasant earthly life for you if only you would grant him the right to do so by forming a heartfelt bond with Me as a matter of course .... Anyone who is connected to Me will truly no longer suffer hardship; but difficulties arise as soon as you loosen the connection, because I do not tie you to Me but long for your voluntary devotion to Me .... And this is what you should demonstrate through heartfelt love and personal communication by confiding your worries to Me and appealing to Me to take them from you .... Then all you have to do is wait and it will happen as you wish .... all your worries will be taken from you. And you need not even fear if you are besieged by the powers of darkness, for they cannot harm you as long as your will applies to Me, as long as you yearn for Me and the final unity with Me .... And therefore you should only ever question your deep-down desire, and if it applies to Me you can also firmly trust in the fact that My longing for you will not allow Me to abandon you, that I will protect you from every difficulty wherever it may come from .... I want to own you one day and will not allow you to go astray as long as you yourselves also aim for and strive towards Me .... That is why every worry and apprehension is unnecessary .... You belong to Me and shall remain My Own eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fatherly Words of love ....

B.D. 2752 from May 24th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

Simply remain devoted to Me in love, then you will have nothing to fear, regardless of what will happen. And do not forget that I Am in control of your destiny, that everything that comes upon you is good. Do not forget that My love arranges your life such that it will benefit your higher development. Believe in My love, then you will also understand everything, you will patiently endure even the most difficult situation and confidently expect My help if life seems unbearable to you. After all, My love and My will only intend to bring about your perfection, and My wisdom knows the means and ways for you; therefore trust Me that I only have your spiritual well-being at heart and will not send you anything which would not benefit the latter. Become like little children, let yourselves be guided by Me without hesitation, always hoping and believing that I will not let you take the wrong path, even if the path is stony and laborious. Your soul will thank Me one day that I let you suffer during your life on earth. What is the short earthly life compared to eternity .... where glories await you which for you, as human beings, are beyond your imagination. Why do you despair if you believe in Me? ..... I Am Love .... and love would truly not let you suffer if you did not need this suffering for your soul .... I let you suffer because I love you and want to help you, and because you will not find the path to Me by any other means. Your path is thorny and laborious, yet the wide passable path does not lead to Me, instead, it leads into My adversary's camp, and My love can never allow you to enter this path which will inevitably lead to disaster. Trust Me and willingly hand yourselves over to Me, take the cross upon you and appeal to Me to help you carry it; don't become disheartened and despondent but be glad that, through suffering, you become aware of My love which you shall recognise in all distress. Be patient and wait for My help which is certain to come if only you believe .... And if you are overcome by weakness, if you waver in faith, then pray .... Call upon Me for strength, send merely a thought up to Me and commend yourselves to My grace .... I will truly not leave you without comfort, I will strengthen you and your soul will rejoice. For it will feel My presence and experience the strength it receives from a heartfelt prayer to Me. For as long as you can enter into a dialogue with Me, you will not be lonely and forsaken, for I will always hear you and I Am constantly concerned that your soul shall mature as long as you still live on earth. And I will help you, even if your body does not feel this help ..... My help applies to that which is immortal, because this immortal part belongs to Me and thus shall also attain Me. And so you should recognise My love at all times and humbly accept everything from My hand, be it joy or suffering .... Your adversity on earth can be called small compared to the adversity in the beyond, which I want to spare you by treating you harshly on earth. Be faithful and trust Me .... One day you will realise that I was only motivated by love to send such immense suffering upon the earth, that I made you learn the hard way in order to win you over for My kingdom, in order to help you gain eternal life in blissful happiness in this kingdom. As long as you are still burdened by earthly difficulties you do not recognise your Father's love completely, yet I call to you with comforting Words: Don't let go of your love for Me, so that My love will be able to take hold of you and compensate you a thousand fold for all earthly suffering and adversities .... Take refuge in Me, so that I can help you carry your suffering and don't despair, for your life on earth won't last forever .... I will finish it when your hour has come and call your soul to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Comforting Fatherly Words ....

B.D. 3487 from May 26th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

All those of you who view the future with concern have a strong Helper by your side to Whom you can faithfully entrust yourselves, providing you want to accept His help .... I Myself will guide and protect you from all danger of body and soul, if only you will choose Me as your Guide. Turn to Me, call upon Me in your adversity, take refuge in Me whenever you are in danger, and firmly believe that I will help you, that I will not leave you in distress and that I will direct everything such that it will be beneficial for you .... Then you will be able to look forward to every day without worry, all troubles will disappear into nothingness, a solution can always be found and, time and again, My help will be recognisable. Don't hide yourselves from Me, instead, bring all your problems to Me .... look for Me so that I can let Myself be found .... Don't keep your distance from Me but desire My presence and I will always be with you and never leave you again, regardless of what happens. And believe that the Word I gave you is truth when I promised that no prayer will touch My ear without being granted if you profoundly believe in Me and have limitless trust in Me. Don't weaken in your faith, but time after time envisage that I love you like a father loves his children whom he will not deny any wish if it does not harm them .... Give yourselves to Me as My Own with everything that is dear to you and I will direct your destiny such that you will not go short, I will guide you through all dangers and shape your life on earth so that it will be endurable for you .... Just do not forget Me and My kingdom .... Let your thinking be spiritually inclined, lift your eyes up to Me and always carry Me in your heart; enter into dialogue with Me, remain so intimately connected to Me and I will tend to you, both in a spiritual and earthly way. Nothing shall trouble you, for I will look after you and this truly in the right way .... because My love for you is unchangeable and I always keep My protective hand over those of you who want to be My Own and strive to fulfil My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna