You are not alone!

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

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

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

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

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

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

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

0823 - Father words.... God’s word refreshment from the heavens....

Signs of the times - faithlessness

1002 - Unbelief reason for world events.... grace period.... frame....

5911 - Faithlessness of the world's people....

Signs of the times - lovelessness

2445 - Heartlessness.... The world's battle against the teaching of love....

3173 - Lovelessness - destruction of creation.... eruption....

5633 - Love acknowledges Jesus Christ.... lovelessness rejects Him....

Signs of the times – earthly temptations

6177 - Wide Street.... temptations.... narrow way to the height....

2778 - Temptation in form of earthly amusements....

4957 - Love for the world - disease.... No-one can serve two masters....

God’s answer to people’s faithlessness and lovelessness as well as to their material addiction

5381 - Great need through faithlessness....

1575 - Justice.... End of the world.... New Earth....

6581 - Stream of grace or great need through natural events....

Separation from the world through hardship and suffering in order to connect with God

6987 - Process of purification through strokes of fate....

5491 - Earthly adversity should result in contacting God....

8556 - Adversity and suffering are means to find God....

4876 - Christ's path to the cross....

The loneliness of the man Jesus

8486 - Jesus' life before His teaching ministry....

8964 - Good Friday....

7764 - Jesus' last Words on the cross....

Withdraw into silence, into solitude

2834 - Language of nature - Creation and Creator....

1620 - Hours of loneliness.... inevitable separation from the world....

3968 - Turning inwards.... Detachment from the world and its matter.... Achievement of truth....

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

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

8040 - Bonding with God.... thoughts.... prayer.... work of love....

Blessing of the mental connection with God

4700 - Hearing the divine Word.... Thoughts....

4462 - The ability to hear God's voice.... Conditions....

6200 - Every person is addressed by God....

6116 - God's reply to thoughts.... Presence....

The prayer – the connection with God

3427 - Faithful prayer.... power of faith and prayer....

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

5899 - Prayer for good success....

6012 - Silent prayer.... Public confession....

Connection with God through working love

6553 - Connection with God: Loving activity....

5371 - Strengthening of faith through love work....

1032 - Compassion.... Sick and weak people....

6191 - Only love is valued....

6687 - Active in love signs of God's presence....

Connection with God through receiving his word

0733 - The word of God.... love.... truth.... wisdom....

2858 - Who has my word....

5753 - Listening to God's voice....

4448 - The audible Word and conditions....

5827 - Consolating and loving father words....

Earthly life task – change of will and nature

8064 - Introspection....

5486 - Change of will.... Overcoming matter....

5587 - Humility....

7217 - Trials in old age.... Love and patience....

8019 - Change of nature into love with the help of Jesus Christ....

Spiritual demand

1416 - Outpouring of the Holy spirit.... Joh. 14, 13-26.... pentecost....

8390 - Turning away from the world brings in spiritual gain....

9029 - Only truth leads to the goal....

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

The help of God and the beings of light from the loneliness

5282 - Jesus came to the weak, sick and needy....

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

6657 - Presence of God safest protection

6636 - Guardian spirit.... Spiritual guides....

7012 - Rescue work of the beings of light on the people entrusted to them....

7701 - Effect of the spirit on the immature particles....

God’s help during the end time

3949 - Reference to a natural disaster.... Urgent admonition to prepare....

4126 - Calm before the storm.... Visible appearance of the Lord....

5088 - Exhortation not to forget God.... coming need....

Jesus – your constant companion

7367 - Purifying the heart....

6580 - The true peace....

6363 - Contact with Jesus Christ in every adversity....

7356 - Constantly calling upon Jesus ensures His presence ....

8363 - "I am with you all the days.... "

Help for abandoned, unredeemed souls in the hereafter

6678 - Friendship of the lord.... prematurely call-up....

1387 - Entrance to eternity.... many stages.... kingdom of light - darkness....

3952 - The souls' state of darkness in the beyond and help by beings of light....

5855 - Distress of souls in the hereafter.... Jesus Christ....

7418 - State of twilight in the beyond....

4305 - Prayer for poor souls....

God’s help with the isolation and the feeling of being alone of the vineyard workers

4325 - Significance of the spirit's voice.... Close to the goal....

4532 - Making use of the power from God....

4955 - Small flock at the end.... gap widens.... God's help....

7999 - Mission of the last disciples....

5586 - God Himself will appear....

Raising the lonely and the abandoned – task of the vineyard workers in the end time

4561 - Passing on the divine Word....

6128 - Preaching the gospel to those who need spiritual consolation and to souls in the hereafter....

6763 - Loving help for fellow human beings in distress....

2738 - Comforting encouragement....

Trust in God’s help

5940 - Faithful trust ensures God's help....

4720 - Shield of faith.... Trust.... God's protection....

8455 - Fully Trusting Prayer....

1850 - Comforting words from the father....

7940 - Man's conscious approach to God....

Father words .... God’s word refreshment from the heavens ....

B.D. 0823 from March 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 17

Love for you has moved Me to send you My word again and again, and thus you stand in great grace and pay no attention to it. I am your God from eternity, I am your creator, your father and at the same time also the redeemer for you who became man .... And anyone who recognizes this and believes in Me is cared for on earth by My love until his end. I know My own and My own know Me .... and well to those who see their saviour and redeemer in Me, who have My word and can build themselves up on it. What is a person's life on earth without this faith; how forsaken does he feel in great distress of heart, for he walks his difficult earthly path without hope of help and only becomes more aware of his loneliness when he has to go through suffering and affliction. Then I will always bring My word close to him, I will show him the right path with love and care .... And now I will again give people on earth the advice to seek contact with the one Who holds all fate in His hands .... But who hears My words, who pays attention to the signs, who gives Me the honour and longs for My love .... There are only a few who fully grasp the meaning of life, and these few shall be My helpers on earth, servants through whom I want to work and guides who shall fight for My name. Mankind wants to renounce Me and does not see the disaster which this plan entails .... it thinks it knows and yet is unspeakably wrong .... it thinks it is progressive and always goes back. And that is why I am active everywhere and announce My word to those who seek connection with Me in faith in Me, and I see their hearts, which are ready to receive, and give them constant thought, so that whoever is in trouble and wants to recognize should lift himself up at this word received from above, so that he who desires such shall fetch wisdom from it. The refreshment from heaven shall flow to people on earth in such abundance that it will truly suffice to revive the spiritually weak and give them strength for their life on earth. For only My word will protect people in greatest adversity, only in My word can true salvation be found, and only in the word can the father be recognized, for His word is always the same .... it is love, truth and life .... it is the word I Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Signs of the times - faithlessness

Unbelief reason for world events .... grace period .... frame ....

B.D. 1002 from July 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The distress on earth has never been so great, that the eternal deity felt compelled to violent intervention to such an extent, that unnamable misery is granted in earthly relationship of humanity. The more faithless people walk their paths, the harder they will be shocked by those measures, because only this faithlessness alone is cause of all suffering, but this is the last chance still to influence the people educational in a way. If even then man passes suffering and misery all with closed eyes, without thinking of the Lord, there is any help for the soul impossible. Deepest loneliness and abandonment human can only recognize, that any other purpose is the reason of his earthly existence, and the reasoning is only steered then correct, when the man is striving to fulfill his purpose on earth. What formerly moves his mind, is earthly and therefore completely useless .... Only in the state of knowing the direct influence of spiritual strength is so far perceptible, that now all gains form and life, which so far touched man only in an unreal mental way. But at times of deepest unbelief people’s sense is much more willing to find favor to superficial, unimpotant things, and always strive, to exploit earthly as possible for the short time on earth, but to reject all spiritual thoughts, and thus spiritual forces have little influence on those people .... Where now all effort of these remains unsuccessful, where the human is completely outside spiritual work, it is necessary now, to make use of means, which probably bring unspeakable misery, however are not completely unsuccessful, and so the events on earth are increasing day by day, visible by notify the transitoriness of earthly goods and bodily life .... Incessantly people is pointed the way, they have to go, but this way does not appear them passable precisely because they do not want to believe. They will oppose each natural disaster and also all other events again and again their arguments and objections full of wisdom, but never want to recognize the admonitions and warnings of the eternal Godhead in it. And the strangest events are quite natural in their view, phenomena explained with forces of nature, which is attributed no extraordinary importance. A repetition of such events from time to time will only achieve, that mankind gets used to it and always opposes apathetic to them, and the inevitable consequence from it is, that the eternal Deity will give now correspondingly more powerful signs and its ministry to people, so that even the weak in faith, not completely stubborn people realize this as mission from above and save their souls, before it is too late. Such signs must indeed always happen to the people within one’s natural means, in order not to influence the will of the same compulsorily, but the magnitudes of these signs will yet many people cause to think. And will even become suspicious, who engaged in purely scientific pursuits till then, when they will realize, that their studies and results do not withstand and all earthly calculations get irrelevant in face of such events, which intervene disturbing and catastrophic in the earthly life. Because the work of the Lord will appear everywhere .... people will notice the extraordinary of His ministry, but not recognized as such. People will look too much for an explanation corresponding to their thought and will, but also recognize the inadequacy of their knowledge .... Truly their doubts will be a blessing to them, because it is the begin to believe, because who is not afraid to admit, that his knowledge to explain is not sufficient, he looks involuntarily to get a spiritual way after a statement, and then is no longer left in unknowing or doubts, because he seeks the truth and therefore he is very close advised to the right path. So then he pays attention only to the emotion of his heart, he will come to the right knowledge soon, and this will redound to the benefit of his soul. There is still bestowed a short grace period upon the people, and yet the day will dawn very soon, when death will bring in a big harvest, and blessed is the man, who regards all signs and will not be indolent to work in his soul. For God will go to see each, and also the big coming event is only a demonstration of the infinite divine love, which is directed at all creatures on earth, and therefore leaves nothing undone, to save these creatures from desperate straits of the soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faithlessness of the world's people ....

B.D. 5911 from March 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

It is an extremely difficult beginning to have a spiritual influence on people who have already fallen victim to the world. For they only regard as right what their intellect can grasp .... but they lack all understanding for spiritual truths; they reject that which is supposed to provide information in the spiritual sphere, they are completely incapable of believing because they live in a different world than the one which is supposed to be made accessible to them. They do not recognize this world, and that is why they make no attempt to enter it or to look across in order to spy something that would be proof to them of the reality of the spiritual world. The earthly world stands separating people from the spiritual kingdom, and the earthly world asserts itself more and more because it is coming to an end. What people are asked to believe, what is presented to people as divine teaching, appears ever more unreal to them .... They cannot believe because they don't want to believe, because they don't bother to think seriously. And the distance between God and people will become ever greater because the latter will increasingly strive away from Him by striving for earthly material goods which are the only 'truly' desirable things to them. And this state, this attitude towards the earthly world, will become more and more apparent the closer the end is. A representative of divine spiritual knowledge will rarely be believed by people, the listeners will feel far superior to them and become ever smaller in number, and only a few will awaken to true life in the midst of a completely dead humanity, in the midst of a spiritual desert. Yet all these phenomena are only intended to confirm to you humans that the end is near, for if it were not so then an end of the earth, a destruction and renewal of it, would not be necessary either .... But the spiritual state of people who are completely secularized substantiates the transformation of the earth, it substantiates the end and the judgment, even though humanity is not accessible to this substantiation and prediction either .... Only the few whose senses are spiritually directed will recognize and understand this, but never the worldly people who don't want to hear about it and don't believe it because they are completely blind in spirit and judge according to their blindness. And so it is extremely difficult to free individuals from their spiritual blindness, to make them see and to change their thoughts and actions .... It is extremely difficult, and yet it should not be omitted to repeatedly stimulate their thoughts and direct them towards the kingdom which they are still very far from .... No one should be able to say that no rescue attempts were made on him. Everyone should be made aware of what lies ahead for humanity, and every person's free will should decide ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Signs of the times - lovelessness

Heartlessness .... The world's battle against the teaching of love ....

B.D. 2445 from August 10th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Humanity's conduct cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Christ, for this requires actions of love, people's relationships with each other should be like that of brothers. But at the present time all people face each other with hostility, outwardly often united yet in their hearts only ever bearing their own advantage in mind and regarding their fellow human being as an opponent, because they either feel harmed or disadvantaged by him. The human race is completely devoid of love and therefore also opposed to Christianity, opposed to the divine teaching of love, which it no longer wants to comply with. For it requires effort to practise love, it requires a separation from material things, a shelving of one's own wishes and cravings; it signifies a sacrifice of that which is dear to a person .... Selfish love must be fought against; the human being must educate himself to become modest to enable him to help his fellow human being by giving to him what he gives up. This sacrifice can only be made out of love and therefore love must be practised .... Yet only rarely will a person make this sacrifice for his fellow human beings .... Each person only thinks of himself, this is why he finds the teaching of Christ inconvenient and supports people's intentions to eradicate it .... Where heartlessness exists, the battle against the divine teaching of love will be waged without hesitation. And this heartlessness is widespread throughout the world, people outdo each other with brutalities they inflict upon their fellow human beings, and thus the whole world can be held responsible for the immense world event which purely arose from humanity's heartlessness and which results in ever greater cruelty and must therefore be described as the activity of hell, as the activity of demonic forces. And yet, people do not recognise their low spiritual level. They only look at the purely external consequences of the world event and not at the spiritual state of those whose great heartlessness also incites their fellow human beings to act with unkindness. And as long as this deplorable state of affairs is not recognised, it cannot be remedied either; as long as the human being does not recognise heartlessness as the greatest evil he will not make any effort to live a life of love, i.e., he will not treat his fellow human being with kindness .... And neither will he approve of Christ's teaching, he will reject it, because his compliance with it will not gain him any earthly advantage. However, he will also act accordingly .... love will be pushed aside again and only result in greater heartlessness .... One person will endeavour to destroy the other without inhibition, he will no longer be able to distinguish between right and wrong and thus exceed himself in bitterness and cruelty, and all love will grow cold, lowering the spiritual level to the extreme, and a world without love cannot survive, it is doomed to destruction and with it everything which does not strive to redeem itself through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Lovelessness - destruction of creation .... eruption ....

B.D. 3173 from June 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 41

No love can be born out of (in?) a world of hatred, and therefore people will always act hostile towards each other and thus accelerate their own downfall, for unkindness means the end of what God has created, unkindness favors destruction in every way. It is the driving force of the will to destroy, and since God has given human will the freedom to carry it out and it receives strength to do so from below, the human being goes on a frightening rampage and this must result in an accelerated downfall. A world of hatred and unkindness is extremely distant from God and can no longer receive His strength, to which it closes itself off. Consequently, there can no longer be any existence for this world, and thus the spiritual reason for the downfall of the old earth is given, and countless spiritual beings take action on God's behalf and bring about a powerful eruption, for these spiritual beings want to leave their old abode, they long for liberation in order to start the earthly course of upward development in various forms. Earthly it means the shaking of the earth in its core and a total change of the outer form, the passing away of old creations and the emergence of completely new forms, which grant the still immature spiritual beings a stay. It further means the end of innumerable men and every living creature; it means a destruction of the works of creation through divine will because God wants to give the spiritual again the opportunity in new works of creation to approach him, to decrease the over great distance and to change first in bound and finally in free will. Hatred and unkindness destroy, but God's love restores .... Nothing shall be lost, and what through wrong will makes itself unreceptive to the power it receives will pass away and must remain in another form until its will has changed and it desires the power from God. For without this no being can reach ascent, without this no being can become happy, because only the power from God gives life and life is only the final goal of every being ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love acknowledges Jesus Christ .... lovelessness rejects Him ....

B.D. 5633 from March 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 62

As the redeemer of humanity I am easily recognizable to those who live a life of love, whereas unloving people will always reject and fight Me because they do not understand what the act of salvation is all about, because they also do not understand the human being's development, the ascent from a stage of imperfection to perfection. For My death on the cross is closely connected with it, it was not only an act of human error by those who put Me on the cross, but it was an act of liberation of incomprehensible significance which can only be understood by people in whom My spirit can express itself. A person's life of love only gives the spirit within him the opportunity to express himself, thus to guide his thinking correctly, so that a problem is now revealed to him brightly and clearly which the human being will never be able to solve without love. This is why the rejection of Jesus Christ, the lack of faith, the final battle against the believers is also understandable, because love is no longer amongst people and therefore I Myself am no longer recognized in Jesus Christ and the act of salvation of the man Jesus has become completely meaningless for these people. Only love can and will recognize Me. And yet, unloving people must also be pointed to Jesus Christ .... His teaching of love has to be proclaimed to them, they must not yet be completely abandoned because their hearts are also capable of love and the willingness to love should be stimulated in them. And even the intellectual approach to the problem of God's incarnation in Jesus Christ and His crucifixion can be successful and should therefore not be disregarded, so that the human being cannot say that he has remained completely uninstructed about it, for every human being will find himself in a situation where there is a loud knocking at the door of his heart, where I Myself announce Myself and ask to be let in .... And one or the other can still open the door in remembrance of the teachings imparted to him. Full understanding cannot be expected from unloving people, yet every person once lets light radiate onto the surroundings and in such softer heart emotions can make inside (inner) concessions which can bring him a small step forward, which is why no person should be abandoned as long as he still lives on this earth .... And again, you should not cast pearls before swine .... You shall not offer My word, which testifies to the saviour Jesus Christ, to those who are obviously satan's servants .... Then withdraw, for open unkindness prevents all understanding, because the will is also openly directed against Me. You should turn your backs on them, for every further word would be pointless and only gives them opportunities to attack Me and you. But you should instruct those of weak will, and if you proclaim the gospel to them in love it can also kindle love in them, and they can feel addressed and listen to your words. For this reason it will also not be difficult for My adversaries in the last days, in the time of the last battle of faith, to eradicate faith in Jesus Christ, because where love is missing there is also no faith in Him, but this only has to hasten the end, the day when the separation of spirits takes place .... And then the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will be victorious over the one who is against Him .... Then truth will triumph, light over darkness .... love over hate .... And blessed will be those who through love knew Me, who believed in Jesus Christ and through Him attained eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Signs of the times – earthly temptations

Wide Street .... temptations .... narrow way to the height ....

B.D. 6177 from January 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

The road along which most people walk is wide and level, and it leads through beautiful gardens which are walked through with pleasure, it constantly offers variety and will always entice people to linger and savour what seems appealing to the walker .... And he will never need to walk along alone, there will always be people in his company who walk the same path with the same joys and the same hopes as him, because they all only seek worldly pleasures and enjoyments, because they all succumb to the same temptations and therefore one always has understanding for the other's goings-on .... It is the broad road that is trodden by countless people, which only a few avoid in order to walk narrow paths that lead upwards .... These know that the narrow path leads towards another aim, and in the knowledge of this aim they therefore avoid the broad road, which .... unnoticed by people .... and therefore cannot be the right path to the heights. Again and again narrow side roads branch off from the broad road, and messengers will always stand along these roads and offer to guide those who want to leave the broad road and earnestly strive upwards. Only a few will follow their offer, only a few will be able to separate themselves from the broad road of pleasure and lust .... Only a few will respect those who offer themselves to them for guidance .... For wherever a narrow path branches off to the heights, there the broad road offers special pleasures .... there flash so many dazzling lights that the narrow path is overlooked and all strive only towards these lights which lead them ever more astray. This wide road is laid out by the lord of the world, who always sees to it that it does not become dull and boring for its passers-by, and who especially uses all the arts of seduction where the narrow paths branch off upwards. Then the eye remains spellbound, and the person very easily overlooks the side path and falls victim to those arts of seduction. But there are also people who turn away from all these temptations of the world because they recognize their unworthiness and because they pursue a different aim .... to reach God, Who can never be reached by the broad way. And these seek diversions from the broad road, and they gladly and willingly entrust themselves to those who want to lead them upwards. And they also endeavour to entice other people onto the narrow path and hold the right aim up to them and induce them to join them on the path to ascent .... And they will all reach their aim .... They may give up many earthly things, but they receive far more valuable things .... they take possession of the kingdom which offers far more glorious things, but which can only be reached through constant overcoming, but not through earthly pleasures, through worldly enjoyment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Temptation in form of earthly amusements ....

B.D. 2778 from June 18th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

You should not think that the opponent will bypass you even if you strive towards God .... His influence is unrestricted as long as the human being's will is weak. Only a strong will can offer him the resistance which he cannot overcome. The will is always decisive as to whether he gains control over a person. But if the will weakens his influence becomes stronger again, and the temptations approach a person in the most varied of ways. For this reason he must constantly struggle, he must constantly appeal for strength and grace, for strengthening of his will, he must constantly be on his guard so as not to succumb to the temptations of evil, he must watch and pray .... for the prize is worth the battle .... The world and its enticements approach the human being time and again, it is the adversary's most effective means to cause the human being's downfall, for everything which belongs to the world separates the human being from God. He cannot possess God and the world at the same time, he must sacrifice one if he wants to win the other. The world, however, only offers illusive goods which are phantoms that make a person only temporarily happy and which crumble into nothingness. They have no lasting value but still destroy spiritual values, that is, they distract the human being from spiritual striving, and this is a regression on the path of development. The opponent constantly intends to detach the human being from God, therefore he repeatedly approaches him in the form of worldly amusements, he entices him with worldly pleasures, he tries to turn his mind to them and thereby desert God. And if a person does not oppose him with a firm will he will succumb, and the opponent will have won his game. The human being's body enjoys the experiences but the soul gets into difficulties, for to the same extent as the person enjoys earthly pleasures the soul has to go short. If the soul can become stronger than the body then it will succeed in making the person feel discontented; these are the inner admonitions and warnings which are imparted to the person through the inner voice, if only he pays attention to them. Then he will make every effort to overcome his inclination for the world and with increased determination strive spiritually again. And this determination will also give him the strength and the grace of being able to achieve it.

But the voice of the world is frequently stronger than the inner voice, in that case the latter will fade away unheard, he will throw himself increasingly deeper into the whirlpool of worldly pleasures, he wants to enjoy himself and gets caught in the opponent's nets of lies, who will tie the human to himself ever more firmly by offering him the pleasures of the world and making him totally unreceptive to spiritual possessions. He has bound his will and the person will find it very difficult to release himself from him, for the human must turn away from him of his own accord and desire God before the strength and grace can take effect in him. And therefore beware of the temptations by the world! .... Consider that God's adversary will approach you time and again and that only your will is able to banish him. And in order for this will to become strong enough, you must watch and pray .... Pay attention to the danger which constantly lies in wait for you in the shape of worldly temptation, and constantly request the strength from God to withstand them, for every fall is a spiritual regression, and every overcoming will bring you closer to the goal. What God offers you is incomparably more valuable and can never ever be compensated by worldly goods, worldly pleasures or amusements. Be vigilant and know that you are constantly put under pressure by God's adversary, who intends to make you fall .... Therefore appeal to God for strength and strengthening of your will so that you can resist every temptation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love for the world - disease .... No-one can serve two masters ....

B.D. 4957 from August 27th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The love for the world is a creeping disease which will definitely lead to spiritual death. And thus you can appreciate that your Father in heaven will quite often have to resort to painful means in order to rescue you from this death, in order to enable your spiritual recovery, in order to make you relinquish the world and its pleasures and attain eternal life .... It would be misguided compassion were I to shy away from such means only to prevent you from suffering during your earthly life; it would be misguided love which would not be a blessing but only a disaster for your soul. My wisdom, however, looks ahead and My love tries to help you. The fact that you have to relinquish the world in order to attain Me is inevitable, and if you do not sacrifice it voluntarily I will have to take what is dear to your heart. And this is why you so often have to suffer on earth, even if your way of life is not blatantly evil. Yet you are still permeated by wrong love, by love for matter, by the kind of love which first has to be redirected if it is to make you happy. And as long as you don't eliminate this love from your hearts I cannot enter them, for where I stay all earthly longing must have been overcome.

And again I must say: No-one can serve two masters .... I Am not content with shared love, however, My adversary, the prince of the World, will not allow that you do not give him the sole right over your soul either. And thus the human being has no choice but to make a decision .... for Me or for him. But as long as he desires the world his decision is for him, who pulls him down into ruin. He will indeed give you plenty during your earthly life, but after your death you will be utterly poverty-stricken in the beyond, and torment and darkness will be your fate .... My gifts, however, are less enticing on earth for they consist of spiritual possessions which have little attraction for you humans during your earthly life, but after your death they represent an immeasurable wealth which makes you blissfully happy and turns you into children of the kingdom of light forever. I offer incomparably more than My adversary, yet his gifts dazzle you and make you hanker after them. But remember life after death .... remember the hour of your passing away is not known to you, that it can be very soon and that you then will lose whatever earthly goods you possess. Then you will have to fear the hour of death .... Yet you will yearn for it if you have gathered spiritual treasures, if you renounce earthly goods in order to exchange them for gifts offered by Me. Then you will long for the hour of death, for you know that when you leave the earth it will be the hour of entering eternal life. Earthly life will seem like a fleeting moment to you, and yet it is decisive for the whole of eternity. And therefore you should understand it when I afflict humanity with all kinds of calamities and take everything away that seems desirable to them. It is not cruelty but love and wisdom, which indeed realises and understands why you humans are in danger and wants to rescue you from it.

Anyone who must suffer should know himself loved by Me, but anyone who receives the possessions of life in abundance is already subject to My adversary, for I know his will and do not compel him to change it. Yet even these people will be approached by Me through their fellow human beings who shall touch their hearts so that they will change their nature into love. Then even they will still be redeemed with certainty. But if their hearts are hardened their good living standard will noticeably continue to get better, for the 'master of the world' will give to them in abundance, because they sold their soul for the sake of earthly possessions and their spiritual death will be assured to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s answer to people’s faithlessness and lovelessness as well as to their material addiction

Great need through faithlessness ....

B.D. 5381 from May 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You are truly in dire straits if you don't believe in a creator of heaven and earth, in a God and father of eternity, a righteous judge Who controls all of infinity, Who also created you and therefore also wants to be acknowledged by you humans. Without faith in Him you live a useless life, for you do not fulfil your purpose in life, you completely isolate yourselves, whereas you should make an effort to find unity with the one Who created you. And what you do on earth of your own free will will also be your fate one day .... You will walk in isolation, perhaps for eternities, where no-one will help you to find your way out of adversity because you don't want to, because in your ignorance you don't know a path which will lead you out of your loneliness. You cannot measure the adversity on earth but it will be your fate, for without faith in God you will not seek Him, you will not desire Him Who alone can save you. Faith in God changes your thinking and your will, faith in God drives you to Him, and only then can you receive strength from Him and fulfil your earthly task. Without faith in God your thinking and will is only directed towards where earthly goods can be gained, for then you know nothing better than what the body demands, you are enslaved by matter, you are servants of him who, to a certain extent, sees in matter that which belongs to him and also wants to keep that which seeks to detach itself from matter. You are at his will, whom you indeed also do not want to acknowledge but nevertheless serve him, who then also pays you the reward .... eternal bondage .... from which you will find your way out with difficulty, from which only God's love can release you, but this requires your will again, which, however, first requires faith in a God and father. You are in great distress and don't recognize it as long as you stay on earth. But one day you will recognize it, and then it will be unspeakably difficult to remedy it, and you will need much help and then you will have to look for loving beings who are willing to help you. And be happy if you find such, if loving intercession is given to you which can lead you out of the adversity. Blessed are you when a loving being succeeds in bringing you to your senses when you change your thinking, on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... But before that you will be in dire need and have to bear the suffering you have caused yourselves. Again and again God comes to meet you and tries to make Himself known to you, yet you pay no attention to Him .... God offers you His love but you reject it, God sends messengers to you who are to instruct you in His name .... you do not receive them, and all the effort of these messengers is in vain .... And therefore God will manifest Himself in an unusual way, He will reveal Himself through the forces of nature, He will speak to people with a language which must be heard and will give many food for thought .... For He will take pity on humanity which is facing a fate that is extremely difficult and sorrowful. And His love wants to bring help to people before it is too late .... He wants to awaken faith and thereby avert the fate from them which, however, will inevitably be theirs if they remain stubborn and don't want to acknowledge Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Justice .... End of the world .... New Earth ....

B.D. 1575 from August 19th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

There is no possibility of evading divine justice once God has decreed the general judgement. For then the time will have come that has been announced in word and scripture. And the people who did not want to believe in divine justice will have to answer for themselves. They will now realise that only the righteous find mercy before God, but the fate of the unrighteous is damnation. And this judgement will come unexpectedly. It will certainly be preceded by many prophecies announcing God's intentions; many will still be given the opportunity to turn to God and repentantly confess their sins to Him; God will reach out to them and pull them back from the edge of the abyss, yet the hour will inevitably come when the whole of humanity will be confronted by the dreadful, the hour of the supposed end of the world, which, however, is never an end of the world in the sense of the word but only a downfall of the previous world, that is, of humanity, which is only worldly-minded and no longer recognises God. And this downfall will mean a complete transformation of what people understand as earth .... Nothing will remain unchanged on the earth's surface, and everything that has apparently existed powerfully and vigorously since time immemorial will therefore be exposed to decay .... The earth must cease to be what it is at present .... namely the place where materialism alone rules (is striven for?) and no-one recognises God and His working. For the earth is supposed to be the educational centre of the spirit, yet it has become the place where only the body is considered (observed) but not the spirit, and thus it has completely missed its purpose. And God therefore destroys everything that did not grasp its mission and strives for the opposite of its true purpose. And this is an event which can no longer be changed and which, according to divine justice, will come to pass as it is written .... not one stone will be left upon another .... But a completely new time will also dawn. The new earth will be populated by people who are spiritually on a higher level, and these people will gather as survivors of an event which will be unforgettable to them and which has obviously proven to them God's greatness and omnipotence. For God will take them away from earth in order to lead them back to the newly created earth so that they will form the tribe of a new congregation, so that they, who remain in fullest faith, will now act and work in divine will on earth, that is,. in the kingdom of peace which the Lord has now created for Himself and which He will enliven with His own who were faithful to Him and showed themselves worthy of His love. For His divine justice will reward everyone as they deserve .... He will grant life to those who serve God and love Him .... and He will take from the world those who never recognised God, and thus walked the earth in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Stream of grace or great need through natural events ....

B.D. 6581 from June 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You humans allow day after day to pass without opening your heart to the radiations from the spiritual kingdom which are intended to revive your souls and help them to mature. And the time of grace granted to you will become ever shorter and you will not make use of it. Whatever can still be done on God's part for their salvation will truly not remain undone, yet no matter how abundantly the stream of grace flows it will pass by closed hearts and thus cannot fill empty hearts. But neither does it forcibly gain access to you, your will must open your hearts for it and you fail to do so. And therefore God will use other means which will severely strike hardened hearts as well, and yet are also suitable for people to awaken from their dull rest and to become introspective. It is the world which prevents them from directing their thoughts into the spiritual realm, and this world will therefore be struck by God's power so that people will recognise the One Who is stronger than everything that holds their senses under its spell and realise that He can also destroy everything because He has the power. In the last period before the end, God's power will obviously come to the fore in natural events against which people are completely powerless. But only the recognition of their own powerlessness can turn their eyes to the Most Powerful in the universe .... Provided that they still have a little faith in a God and Creator, in a Sustainer of all that has been created. But even this faith is almost non-existent, and it is to be revived. The ground on which people believe they stand so firmly is to be shaken in such a threatening way that there is only one way out to the One Who has all power. What the constantly flowing stream of grace cannot achieve, that hearts voluntarily open themselves to it, must now be brought about by a great adversity which was not caused by human will but has its origin in nature itself .... where there is no salvation through people, where only the One can help, Who wants to be recognised and can only remind hardened people of Himself in this way .... For people all know about Him .... And they can, even if unbelievingly, remember Him in hours of extreme danger to their lives and make the attempt to experience His grace and mercy. But even then they are not yet forced to take the right stand on Him. You humans do not pass by these events of the time to come .... For God does not neglect anything which makes the slightest success possible, and if only a few souls find salvation .... for the sake of these few souls He will leave no stone unturned before the time of grace, which is only very short, comes to an end. But these events are still preceded by a great many on a smaller scale .... Time and again people are shown how powerless the individual is in the face of fate in order to learn to recognise a ruler of all people's destinies. Yet God will never express Himself in such a manner that He has to be recognised, because the will should remain free and thus make the decision, and no one hundred percent proof of God's existence may exert a compulsion of faith. But God does not give up on people and seeks to save them until the last hour, and His stream of grace flows incessantly, and it could still revive and awaken many hearts if only they wanted to open themselves to it .... But soon the fixed period of time will have expired, soon the voice of God will express itself audibly .... His last call to repentance, which will then be followed by the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Separation from the world through hardship and suffering in order to connect with God

Process of purification through strokes of fate ....

B.D. 6987 from December 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

No matter how your earthly lives shape themselves, they are determined by My will in order to give you ever more opportunities for your souls to mature. But you will only become psychologically fully mature if you faithfully accept My will, if you humbly bow down and completely subordinate yourselves to Me .... Then you will also experience My obvious help in every earthly and spiritual adversity. The aim of life is the spiritualisation of your soul, the purging of all impurities which still cling to you, so that it can be completely permeated by My divine light of love when it leaves its earthly body. This purification, however, will not take place if the human being's earthly existence passes by without any struggle .... unless the person lives an exceptionally loving life. Then the layers will disintegrate and the soul will have achieved its goal at the end of its life.

But often it will still have to accomplish this process of purification through suffering and adversities, through personal struggle. And since My wisdom knows this, My love always takes care to help it to mature. Consequently, you will not be able to live your earthly lives in constant calm, storms will rage around you, and often enough you will be despondent as a result of your fate .... And yet you need not be afraid, you will be able to overcome everything by merely joining Me even more firmly the harsher you are affected by fate.

I Am mindful of everything and you are never alone, even if you are earthly entirely on your own, even if you believe that you have been abandoned by all people .... I will truly never leave you, and to be united with Me compensates you a thousand fold for the loss you suffer or have suffered. But you also always have to recognise Me Myself in every happening that comes your way. If I Am your first and last thought you will be strong, no matter what happens to you.

But if you distance yourselves from Me by complaining and grumbling and rebelling against your fate, then you will also get steadily weaker and the adversity will burden you ever more .... because then there is no other available means for Me to win you back, to make you bow down to My will again .... I truly only have your best interests at heart, and nothing will happen to you without My will or My permission. But in constant contact with Me it will be easier for you to carry your burden .... And then everything that at first looked like an inextricable tangle will be beautifully resolved. And the soul will have achieved a great benefit if, during the greatest difficulties, it has not severed its bond with Me.

Especially in these last days before the end people are at great risk of forgetting about Me in their hunt and rush for worldly goods .... And if I want them to remember Me again then I can only employ such means which will shake their very way of thinking, by using hard blows of fate I have to put them into a situation of wit's end, so that they then will remember the One, Who alone is able to help them. For their souls are still wrapped in dense layers, they have not yet done much to purify their souls, that is, they neglect to do unselfish deeds of love, and a different process of purification is therefore necessary to make the soul transparent enough for just a little bit of light, for which it will be extremely grateful to Me one day ....

And no person is exempt from experiencing misfortunes, because I love all human beings and want to help them find their way back to Me one day if they are still distant from Me, or to encourage a closer unity with Me whereby they can receive increasingly more strength to improve their souls and to achieve full maturity while still on earth. For I want them to pass over with a degree of light already, so that they will be spared the agony of darkness in the kingdom of the beyond; I want that their earthly progress should not have been in vain .... And for this reason you humans should only ever see My will or My permission in everything that happens to you and humbly submit yourselves to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly adversity should result in contacting God ....

B.D. 5491 from September 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Everything on earth is given to you for you to achieve perfection .... You can mature in every situation, but you can also obstinately and with bitterness regress in your development because you have free will, which will never be compelled by external influences to adopt a specific attitude. You have to want to ascend from the bottom of your heart, then everything will also serve you in your aim to become perfect. For then you will be seized by God's will to love, Which only ever creates opportunities for you to shape yourselves, and to Whom you merely have to give yourselves in order to be raised up. You all are granted a measure of grace; how can you possibly fall or relapse in your spiritual development if you make use of this grace? For the blessings are a reliable and effective means of help, they are a special kind of help which only aim upwards, for whatever is offered to you by God's love will also lead to Him.

Divine gifts of grace contain exceptional strength and therefore should not be spurned. Hence every earthly adversity should also be considered as a blessing, because it can lead to progress if it is considered as such, if the adversity makes the human being aware that he ought to direct his gaze upwards in order to appeal for help from the One, Who can and always wants to help. With this prayer you establish contact with God, which always signifies another step upwards, for turning to Him in itself is already demonstrating your will, which is being tested by God in your earthly life. But it is worse for you humans if earthly hardship does not result in contact with God .... Then you will often also receive help, but from the one to whom you, due to your will, still belong, whom you have not turned away from. Then God will not be able help you, but you will always receive help, as it were, from the one whom you willingly serve due to your attitude. God wants to be recognised, and He will often come to you in the shape of suffering and adversity .... But as soon as you take flight to Him, as soon as your thoughts turn towards Him, you can also be absolutely certain that He will help you, that He will not leave you on your own if you are in serious difficulties. No thought fades away, no call remains unheeded, for the slightest thought affects Him and motivates Him to help you. And everything He does is only determined by His love, which applies to you and your perfection. There is no adversity which could not be resolved, for nothing is impossible for Him, yet He shapes everything in a way that it will help you achieve perfection, if only you always think of Him and commend yourselves to His grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Adversity and suffering are means to find God ....

B.D. 8556 from July 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Much spiritual misery will still be spread out before you, and you are to always seek to relieve it, because men need comfort and strengthening, and this you can give to them, you who receive My word from Me, which is power and will also have an effect as power everywhere where it is willingly received. All men still move in spiritual darkness and are therefore also unhappy, but as soon as a small light is lit for them, which now illuminates their way, they will now continue this way full of hope and reach ever brighter light, then it will become day in their hearts, and they have escaped greatest trouble .... For they shall get to know Me Myself through you, they shall know that I as father take care of all My children, that they need never go through earthly life alone and abandoned if only they let Me Myself walk beside them, if they join Me, take hold of My hand and want to be guided by Me through earthly life .... Then they will also soon feel secure in Me; they will know about My will and seek to fulfil it, and thus they will establish an indissoluble bond with Me and henceforth no longer be lonely. As long as a person knows nothing about his purpose of earthly life, as long as his eyes are only turned towards the earthly world, he will still be distant from Me Myself, and he will be helpless as soon as he is struck by a stroke of fate. But if it is possible for him to turn his eyes towards the spiritual kingdom then he will also receive help from there, which can already consist of him being prompted to think about his life and its meaning .... And if it is possible for him to call upon his God and creator in hours of earthly adversity, then he need not despair, for this God and creator hears him because He is also his father and wants to be recognized as father by the human being .... And not infrequently I therefore use sorrowful means to turn the human being's thoughts towards the spiritual kingdom, for many hands now reach out to him from this spiritual kingdom and pull him up, i.e., the thoughts will then increasingly deal with the kingdom which is not of this world .... To you men, who are pressed by suffering, I am always close and only wait that you turn towards Me, that you grasp My hand and ask Me to be your companion, and you will now be able to continue your earth way unconcerned, because you are now so guided that you can mature spiritually, as soon as only your will is good .... Recognize that you alone are weak, lightless creatures, and therefore entrust yourselves to Him Who is full of light and strength, believe in My infinite love, Which does not want to see any of Its creatures unhappy or even lose them .... He will always be ready to help, be it in earthly or spiritual adversity; He will give you the right nourishment for your earthly life .... Food and drink for your soul, which He alone can administer to you .... He will impart His word to you, the bread of heaven, which you can receive at any time if you long for My word, which gives you strength because My word is blessed with My strength .... Believe that you are in close contact with your God and creator, with your father from eternity, and that only you yourselves have to turn to Him of your own free will in order to be seized by Him and safely guided until the end of your life .... If you come to Me yourselves in prayer or unite with Me in thoughts or through work in love, then you have done everything what corresponds to My will, and then you will also reach your aim, the final union with Me, which earns you eternal life. That is why you have to go over earth for a short time and are not to complain when you have to suffer or fight, but bear everything devotedly, what I let come over you, because they are always just means, which are to let you find to Me, that you join Me inwardly, that you devote yourselves to Me fully trusting .... that you establish the child relationship to Me, your father from eternity. In the world you are mostly kept from sending your thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, and I then have to touch you painfully because I want to bring Myself close to you. But blessed are you when you then take refuge in Me, because then I truly no longer let you go from Me .... And I help you to get through earth life with all burdens and sufferings, because it passes, and even if the body passes away, the soul remains, and it can now enter into an eternal life, where it will forget all sufferings and pains of this world .... And believe it, life only still lasts a short time, because soon the period of time is over, which was granted to men, soon one redemption period comes to an end, and a new one begins .... And because the way is only still short it will also be arduous at times because men shall still reach the destination who are of good will ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christ's path to the cross ....

B.D. 4876 from April 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Anyone who wants to follow Me will walk a lonely path, misunderstood by his fellow human beings as was My share, too, despite the love I gave to fellow people. Anyone who wants to follow Me will have to accept his cross just as I did, although My eternal love will not let anyone's cross become as heavy as that of the man Jesus .... He will have to carry it, yet he can ease his burden at any time if he calls upon Me for help. Then I will place the cross on My shoulders and carry it for him, and with Me everything gets easier, with Me he no longer walks on his own, I will empathise and share his suffering and joy at all times; he can always follow his earthly path in silent togetherness with Me, and therefore he will find his cross bearable and humbly submit to his destiny .... I took all of humanity's suffering on My shoulders as I walked along facing crucifixion and endured unspeakable physical pain. I walked the arduous path that ended with death on the cross for everyone who wanted to follow Me one day. I suffered indescribably as a human being so that people's suffering would be lessened. I participated in all of humanity's suffering and carried the cross on its behalf. And anyone who loved Me followed Me .... There were only a few, compared to the whole human race on whose behalf I died, only a few shared My pain, they suffered with Me and for Me. They, too, carried their cross because they followed Me, since their love for Me made them feel all their suffering twice as much. Yet their love was like balm on My wounds which were inflicted on Me by pitiless people; their love increased My will to suffer on behalf of humanity and to bring help to them through My crucifixion. Many followed Me on the way to the place of execution yet only few sympathized with My pain .... Many people live on earth but only few are My disciples .... I died for all people on the cross but only few accept My sacrifice and make use of the attained blessings. Only few people follow Me and yet, only by following Me can they become blessed. Everyone should take his cross upon himself and remember My sacrificial walk to Golgotha, which was almost too difficult for a human being to bear and made Me fall .... But the love of a person came to My aid when I had almost failed as a human being and I made the sacrifice, I emptied the cup of suffering completely ....

And if you humans have to suffer remember My Words 'Whoever wants to follow Me let him take up his cross ....' You should know that all suffering you humbly endure in My will is taken into account as a path to the cross which signifies redemption and liberation from all guilt for you .... You should know that you are living on earth in order to release yourselves from guilt, the magnitude of which cannot be estimated by you as human beings, for which I have indeed died in order to lessen it but which every one of you also has to remove, as far as it is within your power, if you want to take part in the act of Salvation which was started by My love with My crucifixion. You humans were only given a small cross to carry because I have taken the heaviest weight from you, but you cannot remain entirely without suffering in order to keep going towards the One Who wants to help you at all times, Whom you should follow so that you will become eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The loneliness of the man Jesus

Jesus' life before His teaching ministry ....

B.D. 8486 from May 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will always educate you in all truthfulness, as soon as you desire it .... And I will also always answer the questions that arise in you, because you only desire the answer for the sake of truth .... that is, you would like clarity where various opinions prevail .... If I give you the instruction to spread the truth, you shall also always receive an explanation, no matter what it is: The earthly path of Jesus, the man, can no longer be verified, only by spiritual means can you humans be informed as to how and where Jesus spent the years which preceded His actual work as a teacher .... Even so, it is certain that he lived a very simple life with His family and that He always remained reticent even within the circle of people who frequented His parent's house.

He kept away from all festivities, as well as larger gatherings; He always kept Himself to Himself and inwardly matured as a result of His exceptionally helpful attitude towards His needy fellow human beings .... For His heart was full of love and this love increased His wisdom, knowledge revealed itself to Him so that He clearly recognised everything .... even though in the beginning this inner light came to Him in a flash only to withdraw again for a while, and then He spoke and thought like everyone else again, yet in His knowledge He was far more advanced than His contemporaries. However, He refused to accept instructions from people ....

You humans may well believe that love is the best teacher and that someone .... who correctly develops his love .... will gain inner knowledge which can never be offered to him so comprehensively by another person .... You should know that Jesus' soul had come from the kingdom of light, that it had indeed forfeited the light during its life on earth but not the love within itself because, as a purest being of light it was illuminated by My eternal Fatherly love .... As a human being the light of love could not shine in abundance, because His fellowmen would have been unable to endure it, yet in Jesus the man it glowed on and revealed to Him all knowledge, on account of which He soon recognised humanity's immense hardship and His mission and consciously prepared Himself for this ....

But you also know that He already preached in the temple as a boy .... that He gave answers to the scribes which took them aback .... Thus it testifies to the fact that He already possessed knowledge as a boy which He was not taught by people but which was caused by the bright flame within Him .... His love grew ever stronger and thus His wisdom increased .... and the Pharisees and scribes already treated Him with hostility because He wouldn't allow Himself to be taught by them, instead He stayed away from every school ....

No records survived for future generations about the time between His sermon in the Temple and the beginning of His actual ministry, and therefore many different assumptions and descriptions are being advocated, as worked out by human intellect .... The reason why no records exist is because Jesus' life proceeded quietly in His parental house, because He seemed to have lost all divine abilities during this time, He stepped out of public view and led a very secluded life and, as a carpenter's son, also worked in His profession as such .... Nothing extraordinary happened to Him, for during these years Jesus had to mature as a 'human being' because He wanted to exemplify to people the way of life which leads to full maturity, to perfection ....

Throughout this time His life was quiet, He did not possess any remarkable abilities, in fact, He gave the impression of a simple-minded person, because He withdrew from all people and only ever gave short answers and even the usual worldly knowledge seemed unfamiliar to Him .... Most of all He avoided contact with those who belonged to the Temple and whose task it should have been to provide spiritual guidance to people .... And so, soon there was no-one in His environment .... not even His close relatives .... who were still convinced that the once so extraordinary child had a divine mission ....

This time of Jesus' life on earth had been especially grievous, for what was no longer externally visible was nevertheless deeply hidden within, it is just that Jesus had to deal with it Himself, He had to come to terms with everything as a human being, He had to fight as a man against all inner cravings and passions which besieged His body just like all other people .... He had to suffer and fight and mature through being of service .... For by virtue of His love, which emanates wisdom, He soon realised all correlations and He knew that He Himself first needed to attain the degree of maturity which would enable Him to accomplish His mission ....

And He covered this process of development in silence and solitude as a plain carpenter's son .... Who did not leave His hometown, Who often merely looked for solitude for the purpose of attaining inner maturity by withdrawing into remote regions, by climbing hills and frequently staying alone for days, only in contact with His God and Father and remaining in prayer for strength and fortitude for that which was ahead of Him, which He often saw before His eyes in great detail and which plunged Him into dreadful states of fear. During these times He turned to Me in search of help .... And I was with My Son, I gave Him strength and granted Him increasingly brighter realisation, so that He time and again offered Himself to complete the work which was intended to bring humanity salvation from sins and death ....

However, the notion that the man Jesus acquired more profound knowledge through association with philosophers and teachers in foreign countries is completely misguided .... Who else could possibly have taught Jesus better than I Myself .... But I Myself dwelled in Jesus, the human being, as a result of His boundless love .... It is an absolutely absurd idea that Jesus would have needed instructions from another person .... in order to then be able to undertake His teaching ministry on earth in His country of origin .... If you humans have proof that I Myself convey the truth to earth providing specific preconditions exist .... how much sooner was Jesus therefore able to be taught by Me directly, after all, His love and total devotion to Me surpassed all of you .... Only someone who has no idea as yet about the consequences of a life of love, can make such allegations that Jesus had acquired the knowledge in other countries in order to appear as a teacher, that He had to visit other people in order to study their doctrines ....

That which I evidently allow to happen to a simple earthly child: that I convey to it through the spirit the pure truth from above, you humans must truly grant the man Jesus as well, Who descended to earth in order to let Me Myself speak through Him to you, Who really did not need any teachers, instead, He accepted the most profound wisdom from Me directly and through these instructions became suitable to teach and to impart the pure truth to His fellow human beings .... And now you can also accept these very Words of Mine as purest truth, after all, it is My will that you should not live in error and that you shall receive an explanation where you yourselves are still lacking knowledge.

Most of all, it concerns the fact that you humans gain a clear impression as to Who Jesus essentially was and why He came into the world and grew up in the humblest and poorest circumstances .... For although He was as human as anyone else, He nevertheless proved to people that every person can develop the highest spiritual abilities in himself and that the knowledge He possessed and imparted to people came from within Himself .... but that He never had the need to be educated by others or to take notice of doctrines, since everything was, after all, known to Him, otherwise He would not have attained the highest perfection on earth which resulted in complete unity with Me, so that He became as One with Me .... in Whom I Myself became a human being in order to redeem you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Good Friday ....

B.D. 8964 from April 16th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

The sin I had taken upon My shoulders was an inconceivably heavy burden and could only be redeemed through an equally immense sacrifice of atonement, as the path to the cross and the extremely painful suffering and dying on the cross was for Me. For this had been excruciatingly painful .... You humans are incapable of even remotely imagining that measure of suffering, for I felt abandoned by the strength of God, I .... Who had always been united with the Father .... had to walk the path alone, which seemed to last forever but which I nevertheless took upon Myself in infinite love because I pitied the human race and knew that only this sacrifice of Mine could bring salvation to humanity .... Time and again I had to experience the brutalities of the executioner's servants, and the whole world of hell participated.

Yet I was not allowed to defend Myself by using My indwelling divine strength, for this act of Salvation had to be an act of free will, on account of which I covered this path of suffering as a 'mere human being', always praying that I would be able to complete it, that I would not fail before the end, that I was also permitted to endure the death of the cross, which concluded the act of Salvation in the first place. You will only be able to assess the whole extent of torments and humiliations I had to endure when you enter the kingdom of the beyond, where you will be able to behold My crucifixion. Yet during your human existence you lack all concept of My torments, since a lesser measure would have killed you already, however, My will to redeem you was so strong that it gave Me the strength to taste all suffering to the extreme .... that I also endured the death on the cross consciously and still was able to pray for My tormentors 'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do' ....

They did not know that by nailing Me to the cross they nailed the Father Himself to the cross, Who wanted to redeem all people from every sin .... I knew that He had merely withdrawn Himself from Me so as not to exert force on Me as a human being, for only the human being Jesus was able to suffer and this suffering reconciled the Father. For this reason I spoke the Word 'It is finished ....' in order to state that an eternally predetermined act had been accomplished.

However, its results encompassed the past, present and future .... And thus all beings which once had fallen away from God are redeemed .... One day in the beyond you will always be able to witness the crucifixion of Jesus, the human being, but no person will ever be able to assess the appalling torments as long as he still lives on earth .... for he will lack the understanding. His immense suffering, the immense suffering of the man Jesus, not only involved the physical pain inflicted on Him, instead, the suffering of His pure soul, having descended to earth from the kingdom of light for the sake of this act of Salvation, was far greater .... Only a soul which already dwells in the kingdom of light is able to comprehend what it means for a pure soul to be in the slough of sin .... what it means for a perfect soul to stay in the midst of imperfect creatures .... but then it is also able to understand the depth of love which motivated Jesus to provide help for His sinful brothers, and then they will tremble with awe and give thanks and sing their praises to the One Who has redeemed the world from all sin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus' last Words on the cross ....

B.D. 7764 from December 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

I always want to give to you what you desire. You only need to take notice of your inner voice and it will instruct you truthfully, because I want you to live in truth and gain a clear understanding: My crucifixion has brought salvation to you humans, it has redeemed your past guilt of sin .... As the human being Jesus I took extreme pain upon Myself, and a most bitter death was My fate .... However, since I was unable to suffer as 'God' I took abode in a human shell which was capable of suffering and which also mustered the will to suffer on behalf of His fellow human beings in order to satisfy My justice, in order to open up the path to Me for His fallen brothers. Yet His will was free .... He was not impelled by the Deity within Him to accomplish the sacrifice He wanted to make for Me .... although love .... Which was Myself .... was the cause for which He mustered this will .... Yet I Myself never coerce the will of a human being and neither does My love. However, anyone who has love can't help himself but emanate it. And thus, the human being Jesus, too, radiated love and thereby only wanted to please humanity. Hence He only ever wanted what would help people to become blissfully happy. The will of the human being Jesus was free .... yet He had completely subordinated Himself to Me and My will. Consequently, His will could not be different to Mine. For the love in Him was so powerful that it had merged with the Eternal Love, with Myself .... Thus I Myself was in Him, and I Myself achieved in Him the act of Salvation ....

And yet, the human being Jesus had to take the final decision Himself when He undertook the most difficult journey .... the path to the cross. And even though I, the Eternal Love, was in Him, My divine Spirit withdrew, that is, Love .... the spirit .... no longer urged Him into action; it kept quiet and apparently left the human being Jesus to struggle on His own .... And this was the most difficult of all, the fact that the man Jesus felt alone in His suffering and nevertheless walked the path until the end .... He was not alone, for I would never have been able to separate Myself from Him again, Who had become one with Me .... But I no longer expressed Myself, because the atonement of the original sin necessitated an extreme amount of human suffering and torment which the human being Jesus had readily taken upon Himself, and therefore the sacrifice of atonement has been the work of the most merciful love that was ever accomplished on earth. And these pains lasted until His death on the cross and made Him proclaim 'My God, my God, why have You forsaken me ....' I was in Him but I did not speak, yet it was only the body which suffered until His soul recognised Me again, when He called 'It is finished ....' and 'Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit ....'

The body suffered until the end and I had to withdraw Myself during these hours or His already spiritualised soul would have rendered the body insensitive to pain, because My spirit is unable to suffer. And the human being Jesus had already attained the spiritualisation of soul and body as a result of His way of life on earth .... But the purpose and objective of His earthly progress was the redemption of the guilt of sin, which was only possible by way of an excessive extent of suffering and pain .... Hence the 'Deity' withdrew and left the 'human being' Jesus to His tormentors, who truly carried out the most shameful work on behalf of My adversary, because Jesus Himself wanted it this way .... For His soul had offered of its own accord to descend to earth in order to make the sacrifice of atonement for His fallen brothers; it had offered to take on flesh in order to accept these said immeasurable pains and torments because only a human being was capable of suffering. And I accepted the sacrifice since it was, after all, made by 'love' .... which may never be rejected. And 'love' stayed in Him until His death, even if It no longer allowed It's strength to take effect .... Thus I Myself must have been in Him too, even if I remained silent at the end so that the act of Salvation could find its culmination: that a human being allowed Himself to be crucified for His fellow human beings .... that He truly made a sacrifice which I accepted as an act of atonement for the whole human race .... No 'divine strength' alleviated the sacrifice for Him, for 'Love' Itself remained quiet, although it had taken complete possession of the human being Jesus ....

And this, too, is a mystery you humans are as yet unable to grasp .... The man Jesus had to taste the greatest suffering: to feel alone and abandoned. And precisely this suffering redeemed the sin which every being had burdened itself with when it left Me, Who had given them all My love, which they rejected. The human being Jesus had to experience this suffering, and therefore He spoke the words 'My God, my God, why have You forsaken me ....' Yet you humans will never be able to understand the magnitude of the act of Salvation as long as you live on earth. Nevertheless, one day it will strike you with a sudden, blinding realisation and you will praise and worship Me without end .... For this act of Salvation applied to all of you, you all may participate in the blessings of the act of Salvation, and as a result of the act of Salvation the path was opened for all of you to return to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Withdraw into silence, into solitude

Language of nature - Creation and Creator ....

B.D. 2834 from August 1st 1943, taken from Book No. 37

Let nature speak to you .... it illustrates indescribable works of wonder and constantly reveals My love and omnipotence to you .... Listen and behold .... Look at each creature and become aware of My creative will and My strength .... and of Myself in all My works of creation. See, how uniquely delightful and varied these creations are and how meaningful each one fulfils its intended purpose and how the purpose of every work of creation is the preservation of all creation .... Let Me speak to you Myself through nature and listen to My voice, then you will recognise My omnipotence, love and wisdom and bow before it, then you will know that you are the greatest work of creation on earth made by My hand and understand how infinitely much I care that you remain within Me .... Since each work of creation only came into being because of you, it is a mere preliminary stage from which you evolved into what you are now, into free, independent creations which can become infinitely more than they are now.

Observe nature and see its development, its progression, which can be recognised in all creations of nature. The tiniest being is My work, the tiniest blade of grass is My thought which took on shape. And every creature obeys My will, it does what I have assigned it to do and serves the human being again by ensuring his existence. Nothing is without purpose and aim, nothing happens without My will, everything is based on My wisdom and love. Should My wisdom not be evident to you because you don’t know of the relationship between all works of creation then recognise My love, which consistently expresses itself in the wonders of nature.

See how everything around you grows and flourishes, how it matures and bears fruit, see, how the same process repeats itself over and over again .... for you .... to protect you human beings and to preserve everything that is alive on earth .... I shaped innumerable creations of most diverse proportions, of most diverse forms and purposes, and if you open your eyes and ears nothing escapes you and My infinite love and wisdom has to become evident to you .... Because I give so that you can receive, I create so that you can benefit from it, I maintain and care for the creation so that your heart can rejoice in it and you recognise Me .... Me, Who I Am since eternity and Whose existence you doubt .... Whose will and being you want to exclude and Whose creations you regard as having evolved by themselves.

You blindly pass by all wonders of creation and don’t understand the language of nature, you see the creation but not the Creator within; indeed, you see the effect but not the cause, the will, which is the foundation of every creation. You believe yourselves to be full of wisdom and able to discover the origin of all things yet your knowledge is patchwork as long as you don’t acknowledge Me as the primary origin of creation. I move close to you in every work of nature, it is the expression of Myself, it is a thought that took shape in accordance to My will; every natural creation is proof of My existence because nothing would exist without Me, because My will alone called into being what you see and what surrounds you. And nothing can be or become without My will, nothing can exist if My will and My wisdom do not approve. But My will, My love, My wisdom and My power must also teach you to believe in an Entity, they must make you realise that they belong to a Being which also wants to speak to you through the wonders of nature, which wants to be closely united with you because you, also being His work of creation, are the sole reason for the origin of all creation ....

I want you to become aware but then you have to listen to the language of creation, to the voice which expresses itself in nature, you have to communicate with Me, the intrinsic Creator of all things, and I will answer your questions and give to you according to your will to seek the truth, providing you acknowledge Me as the provider of truth. I Am near to you at all times, as soon as you desire to hear Me, as soon as you send just one thought upwards to Me. And therefore you shall find Me wherever you are, but more likely if you look for Me in solitude, where everything around you reminds you of the Creator, Whose will created heaven and earth, because His love decided to give the essence, which formerly had separated from Him, the opportunity to come closer to Him once again. And the knowledge of this shall be given to you human beings, the knowledge of this you shall desire yourselves, and therefore you should listen to the language of nature because through it I speak to those of you who want to hear Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hours of loneliness .... inevitable separation from the world ....

B.D. 1620 from September 19th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

The hours of solitude are well suited to cause a person to reflect and he should therefore often seek the opportunity to escape from all earthly hustle and bustle in order to indulge in inner introspection, which can have a beneficial effect. In his arrogance, the human being often believes that he fulfils the demands God places on His earthly children .... i.e. he does not do the slightest thing to educate himself spiritually or to achieve a higher degree of maturity, i.e. to ennoble his nature. He believes that he was created by God as he is, and he gives himself no account of the extent to which he himself is responsible for shaping his nature. And he can only be enlightened about this if he subjects himself to critical scrutiny, if he compares his actions and thoughts with God's requirements, which He places on man through His commandments of love. Then his inner voice will reproach him for his way of life, or he will be made aware if his actions and thoughts deviate from what God wants .... And again, it depends on the extent to which he listens to the inner voice; it depends on whether he is prepared to contradict or willingly accepts the admonition of those who want to help him .... Accordingly, he will also adjust his further life, he will either endeavour to ennoble himself or try to drown out the inner voice with counter-talk that still expresses too much desire for the world. For the person who is still so attached to the world does not take the fulfilment of the divine commandments seriously in order to secure earthly advantage for himself. And so the earthly-minded person will also not be willing to go into solitude often, i.e. his soul does not long for hours of inner contemplation but seeks to numb itself and drown out the inner voice through the hustle and bustle of the world. And it is God's grace that He forcibly places such people in situations where they are exposed to loneliness .... It is true that the desire for the world can also arise in that person with increased strength and such loneliness can bring him no benefit for his soul; but often the person also comes to the realization of his useless way of life and returns to worldly life as a different person. Inner contemplation has brought him the realization that his previous thoughts and actions were not the right ones, and he tries to change himself and his nature and to pay more attention to his inner life, which he will also succeed in doing if his striving is serious, i.e. if his will remains turned towards right thinking. And so an apparent evil can often .... an inevitable separation from the world .... can often have an extremely beneficial effect, for when the earthly world has moved away from a person, the spiritual world can come closer to him; where earthly distractions do not influence a person's thinking, forces from the beyond can now take effect and, in the form of thoughts, enlighten a person about the actual meaning and purpose of life. And success in spiritual matters can fully compensate the human being for the earthly pleasures he was denied ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Turning inwards .... Detachment from the world and its matter .... Achievement of truth ....

B.D. 3968 from February 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

The greater a person's desire for truth the more deeply he will penetrate it. To God, as the Giver of truth, nothing is hidden, and therefore He also knows and answers every question moving a person's heart; and thus you humans can easily increase your knowledge if only you let God, the Eternal Truth, speak to you, that is, if you attentively listen to your inner voice, which will always instruct you correctly. You have to look for the answer within yourselves, you should not expect it to come from outside, then you will be instructed directly, and you can be certain that it will be utter truth. Hence you should take notice of what He says to you:

Do you want to serve Me or the world .... do you want to gain My favour or do you want to attain other people's admiration? Your will alone determines your actions and innermost thoughts, and therefore a spiritual rebirth will only ever be possible when you are moved by the utmost desire to be in contact with Me, when you look for Me and completely withdraw from the world in order to unite with Me.

But how can you detach yourselves from the world since, after all, you have to live in it and see yourselves faced by earthly obligations which you should not neglect? How can you establish the heartfelt relationship with Me while you constantly live amongst your fellow human beings and are thus time and again required by them?

Only through turning inwards, through a withdrawal into seclusion which, however, can take place everywhere and at any time depending on your will, and which will proceed more sincerely and unhindered the less external impressions a person receives. A most intimate contact with Me requires detachment from all matter, for I Myself, as pure eternal Spirit, exist outside of matter, even though matter itself is My emanated solidified strength, yet it is always situated at a certain distance from Me.

Anyone who wants to look for and find Me first has to turn his will away from matter, but since he nevertheless still lives within matter, since he has a physical body, he has to withdraw into his innermost being .... Then he will find Me, and the complete detachment from matter will take place when the physical eye is shielded from every external impression, when it is closed and no longer receives physical images, for they are reflected in a person's soul and disturb its silent contemplation and union with its spirit. Spirit and matter are opposite concepts and will always remain in opposition to each other, and since I Myself as a pure Spirit want to be active within you, you first will have to achieve this inner separation from matter and then you will come closer to Me, but you will never be able to establish a close contact with Me as long as your eyes and senses are held captive by external impressions ....

I want that you only desire My presence, that you have no space for anything else in your hearts, and that you muster the will to relinquish all earthly things for My sake and the sake of My presence, that you mentally detach yourselves from everything opposing Me .... And all matter is spirit in opposition to Me .... I also want human customs to be avoided where possible, for they distract from an inner composure if they are not thoughtlessly observed, or they will be automatically performed and are then equally worthless. Anyone who sincerely looks for Me first has to sever his contact with the world, and everything that is not spiritual belongs to the world, that is related to earthly matter, that is taken in by the human being's physical senses, thus everything that keeps the soul captive, that prevents it from uniting with the spirit within itself. Only when this detachment is accomplished it is able to talk to Me as it is My will, so that I Myself can work in the human being's heart with My love and grace.

And I truly favour the silent, profound worship; it can never be replaced by external customs and actions which automatically affect the human being's thoughts, which have to distract him from what is essential, from the purely spiritual contact with Me. I look into every person's heart and truly don't require any external evidence of your love for Me, and depending how you approach Me you will be considered by My love and grace, and you yourselves determine the extent. Although you will not act wrongly by performing external ceremonies, by observing human customs, but you harm yourselves by reducing the flow of My love and grace yourselves as long as any other thought but Myself still finds room in your heart. You should approach Me in spirit and in truth, then My eyes will look upon you favourably .... and then you will feel the blessing of such intimate contact in yourselves, then you will feel My presence and be happy .... And yet you will remain profoundly humble in your happiness, because you will be aware of the extraordinary grace that is bestowed upon you by the fact that I take abode in your hearts, and humility will increase the amount of grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bonding with God .... thoughts .... prayer .... work of love ....

B.D. 8040 from November 14th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

Make contact with Me and I will truly no longer leave you out, I will no longer leave your side, I will guide you to your aim because then I will possess your will which is for Me .... I only want you to turn your thoughts to Him Who created you .... I only want you not to walk thoughtlessly through earthly life and only pay attention to the earthly world .... I want your thoughts to occasionally wander into the kingdom which you cannot see and which cannot be proven to you but which nevertheless exists and is everlasting, whereas the earthly world is a transient kingdom of which you cannot take possession forever. And since you know that you will have to die, that your life in this world will not last forever, you should also think about what will happen to you afterwards, and you should ask yourselves whether you yourselves will also perish completely or whether it will be possible for your actual self to become a living being .... for your soul .... there is a continuation of existence. If you seriously ask this question I will also answer it by giving your thoughts a direction which corresponds to the truth .... For I want to bless every spiritual thought if it is not negatively directed, because I want you to think correctly. But you can also establish the bond with Me through loving activity, even if you don't consciously acknowledge Me as yet, if your faith in a God Who wants to be your father is still weak or completely lacking .... As soon as you live a life of love your resistance will become weaker and weaker if spiritual knowledge is imparted to you which gives you knowledge of Me, your God and creator, Who seeks contact with you .... Love is the bond which joins us together; love is the light which illuminates your thinking; and love is the strength to be able to live a life according to My will .... And the latter means working in love again, which will inevitably awaken a living faith in you in Me, your God and creator of eternity. Your earthly life will never be an idle one if you unite with Me through thoughts, in prayer or through loving activity. For you shall only establish the bond with Me and you will be saved for time and eternity. For it was you yourselves who loosened this bond with Me and broke it off through your own will ..... But you are unhappy as long as you keep your distance from Me .... But I want your bliss and thus also your return to Me, I want you to unite with Me again .... and then you will also have escaped My adversary's power, for the will towards Me makes you free from him .... The serious will towards Me also soon earns you a light, and in this light you now also consciously walk the path which leads back into your father's house. However, anyone who refrains from any bond with Me, who only sees and desires the earthly world, his life will be an idle one, and he will stand on the same level at the end of his earthly life as he stood on at the beginning of his embodiment as a human being .... And there is a great danger that he will not take the path of ascent in the kingdom of the beyond either but will always sink more and more into the abyss and be banished into matter again when a period of redemption comes to an end and the 'judgment' comes .... where all spiritual substances will be transferred to where they belong according to their state of maturity .... I want to save all of you humans from this last 'judgment', I want to help you to find the path to Me before the end, and I will truly still do everything to inspire your hearts to love, to prompt you to earnest prayer to Me or to turn your thoughts towards the one Who gave you life .... I only want you to remember Me, to call upon Me so that I can take you by the hand, so that I can guide you until the end of your life .... Just seek to establish the bond with Me and truly, you will be saved for time and eternity. But don't live thoughtlessly into the day, for you only have a very short period of grace left which you should make use of for your soul's salvation .... I don't want to lose you, but you have free will .... Direct it correctly and turn it towards Me, and truly, it will only be a blessing for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of the mental connection with God

Hearing the divine Word .... Thoughts ....

B.D. 4700 from July 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Only through the inner Word are you able to receive clarification about questions which cannot be answered by earthly scientists. An appropriate Authority regarding spiritual questions certainly exists, yet people rarely take the path to it. For this reason a truthful answer will also rarely be received which can only be provided by the One to Whom nothing is unknown, Who knows everything, Who also wants to impart the knowledge to humanity which enables people to recognise Him. Hence God manifests Himself through the Word and anyone who wants to hear it must gain God's love, he must make Him well disposed towards him by doing everything God requests of him .... then God will come so close to you that you will be able to hear His voice, for He expresses Himself through His Word, He makes Himself known to you, He speaks to you humans in easily understood language, He speaks through your heart to your intellect and deals with every question you voice or consider in your thoughts. He responds to you .... His Word is therefore a sign of affinity from Him to you, for you will only be able to hear His Word if you unite with Him either mentally or through activity of love .... And as long as the earth has existed God has always spoken to people in this way, however, until now He was more easily understood, whereas now His language is only seldom appreciated. These few people, however, are considered by Him to an unlimited extent. He wants to explain and substantiate everything to them so that they will be able to impart the knowledge they gained in this way to their fellow human beings for their souls' salvation. And in order to stop them from doubting further He allows them an insight into His eternal plan of Salvation, and thus He ignites a light for them which will never ever let them descend into darkness again .... He approaches those people in the Word who are willing to let themselves be taught. And thus the Word will forever remain the bridge between God and people which, however, can only be entered by a person if he withdraws himself from the world, if he avoids the broad roads which seem more attractive to his eyes and entice him to take them .... He can only perceive God's voice in solitude, i.e., he must avoid the world and let his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom. Then he does what he should do initially: He makes mental contact with God, he enters into a dialogue with Him, he presents Him with questions which move him by allowing his thoughts free rein .... And these thoughts are already emanations from the spiritual realm. For the human being is unable to produce anything by himself.

The intellect is certainly capable of receiving and processing the thoughts which flow to him, yet the thought itself does not arise in the person, instead it touches his heart, but it flows from the kingdom which lies beyond earthly spheres .... The thought is a spiritual product, thus a strength which takes on a specific form as soon as it is received by the intellect, thus the intellect is influenced by the heart to become active by shaping the influx of thoughts and giving them a certain order. The intellectual activity consists of retaining the thoughts which touch the heart as waves and cannot find a response if, due to the bustle of the world, a person's will only uses his mental activity for worldly things and pays no attention to spiritual currents. However, if the person seeks solitude and turns his back to the world, his heart will be touched and beneficially affected by spiritual currents and eagerly accepted by the person. Due to this willingness of reception the Word shapes itself, that is, the person becomes sensibly and clearly aware of what God Himself wants to tell him. Thus he hears His voice in his heart, the thought waves are received by the heart and conveyed to the intellect, and the person as such is able to rationally take possession of the received spiritual information and also understandably explain it to his fellow human being. This process is in fact simple and uncomplicated, it is just not understood by a worldly person because he does not appreciate the soul's sensations and therefore also only tries to explain mental activity purely organically. Yet the actual source of the thought is unknown to him and a relevant explanation not acceptable to him because he does not acknowledge anything of a spiritual nature, he only acknowledges what he is able to see or touch. But God continues to provide evidence of forces which human intellect is unable to explain and provides the information about everything through His Word .... Anyone who allows the Word of God to speak to him will have comprehensive knowledge at his disposal, for nothing will remain unknown to a person who allows himself to be taught by Him, and therefore the human being is able to broaden his knowledge, he can delve into everything and get any information he desires. For God does not impose any restriction on a person as soon as he gets in touch with the Giver of knowledge and truth and allows himself to be taught by Him .... as soon as he believes that God Himself speaks to him through the heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The ability to hear God's voice .... Conditions ....

B.D. 4462 from October 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You are only able to hear the voice of the spirit if all your thoughts and intentions apply to Me alone, if you thus completely detach your thoughts from the earthly world. This does not imply that you should not perform your earthly duties or totally withdraw into solitude. For this does not correspond to My will, but in the midst of the bustle of the world you should look for the opportunity, and you will indeed find it, where your soul disassociates itself from the world, where you can briefly detach yourselves from all earthly thoughts, hence where your soul lifts itself into spheres which are unrelated to Earth, where I Am the focal point of your thoughts, feelings and inclinations, where it looks for and wishes to speak to Me. Everyone can establish such short contacts with Me if he wants to, he can even turn his thoughts towards Me for a few minutes during his earthly work, and I will pay attention to every thought and impart My Word to him; and if a person mentally remains for a longer time in My kingdom, if he takes the time to hold an inner conversation with Me and pays attention to the thoughts flowing to him as a reply, he will develop the ability to hear My voice, and it will soon sound to him like a gentle but clearly pronounced Word in his heart. You all can develop this ability within yourselves; however, it requires complete detachment from the world .... Nothing externally must affect the human being if he clearly wants to hear the voice inside. For this reason it also takes considerable strength of will to withdraw from the outer world and not to allow any part of this world take effect upon oneself .... I must be desired and be able to completely permeate his heart, otherwise I cannot be present to him and he will not be able to hear Me either. No-one can serve two masters .... When I speak everything else must be silent, and anyone who shall possess My love, which manifests itself in the Word, must also grant Me his love and willingly detach himself from all worldly matters, for My gift is precious and must also be appropriately appreciated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Every person is addressed by God ....

B.D. 6200 from February 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

In every situation in life God comes to meet you in order to motivate you to make contact with Him, in order to step from the earthly into the spiritual sphere .... in order to mentally place yourselves into the latter. As long as you humans take your earthly path of life with purely earthly focussed thoughts you will live an unsuccessful earthly life, you don't achieve anything for your souls for whose sake you live on earth .... And if you have not changed this attitude of yours by the time your body dies, your existence as a human being will have been pointless and the grace of your embodiment entirely futile .... You are unaware of the serious significance of earthly life, you are unaware of the immense regret you will suffer when you eventually realise in the kingdom of the beyond what you neglected to do due to your own fault, what you could have achieved had you made the right use of your life on earth as a human being. And because you spend no thought on this, God crosses your path time and again. Time and again he provides you with a reason to think about the actual purpose of your earthly life, He more or less affects you such that you should feel Him and could start to wonder, He Himself enters your thoughts but leaves it up to your free will whether you want to occupy yourselves with Him, whether you allow yourselves to be mentally addressed by Him. He does not exert any force but He is constantly concerned that you should turn to Him so that you will not live your life on earth in vain, without any success for your soul, which continues to exist after your body fades away. No-one will be able to say they have not been addressed by God, for every stroke of fate, every illness, every sorrow is an expression of God through which He wants to manifest Himself .... through which he tries to divert the thoughts from the world and motivate the person to take stock of himself. Every human being is granted hours of privacy when he can enter into solitude and seek contact with God .... and anyone who merely spends a thought on Him will be lovingly seized by Him and receive nourishment for his thoughts which benefit his soul. And no matter how far-away the person still is from God of his own will .... God follows him and tries to persuade him as well to turn around, yet always by different means. However, no one is left to his own devices, God leaves no one out in His endeavour to change his thinking .... no one need to do without the love of God, for all people are His living creations, whom He wants to win back as children .... He extends His hand to everyone, yet the human being must voluntarily seize His hand and allow himself to be pulled without resistance .... Then his earthly life will not be in vain, the soul will benefit from it and he can calmly await the hour of death, for it will merely be the gate to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's reply to thoughts .... Presence ....

B.D. 6116 from November 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 66

You can always be convinced of My presence if your thoughts revolve around Me, if you send an appealing call to Me, if you mentally entrust your problems to Me .... In that case you can consider yourselves addressed by Me and need only pay attention to the thoughts coming to you if you quietly listen within .... For I will answer you .... even if you believe this answer to be your own thoughts .... It is My will and My goal that all people shall establish contact with Me in thought .... yet only a few put it into practise .... Consequently it should be self-evident that I will delight these few with My presence because they turn to Me in their thoughts. For every such thought affects Me like a childlike call which I will not fail to hear, after all, I Am waiting for it .... And the nature of the call determines My reply .... as long as you are not yet so intimately connected to Me due to your loving activity that I will be able to impart knowledge to you independently from your thinking .... which, however, requires your belief that I speak to you through the spirit .... In that case, however, you will also be completely convinced of My presence which will give obvious evidence of itself.

Yet the fact that your thinking of Me will likewise affect My presence and that I will then also speak to you is unknown to you humans .... and neither do you know how easily you can draw Me to yourselves and enter into an ever more intimate relationship with Me if you accomplish unselfish neighbourly love, since thereby you draw Me, the Eternal Love, close to you. Then you will be able to strengthen your bond with Me and finally attain a degree of love which is the prerequisite for an obvious working of the spirit within and for you .... You just have to believe that you yourselves are the cause of your God and Father 's presence due to your thinking of Him .... If you look at your daily life from this point of view you will soon consider every hour wasted you have not thought of Me; for if you know that I can and want to be present to you, you will only be happy when you are in silent mental contact with Me .... And you will comply with My gentle urging to perform loving actions and also become aware of the light and strength which will arise in you from such contacts with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The prayer – the connection with God

Faithful prayer .... power of faith and prayer ....

B.D. 3427 from February 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

A believing prayer will work miracles if you send it up to Me in distress. And thus you have a means which banishes every adversity .... Why then should you still be timid? .... For I hear and listen to such a prayer because it is pleasing to Me. Believe in Me and in My love, believe in My omnipotence and call upon Me, and I will come to your aid, for I do not want you to suffer .... Yet I want to be recognized by you as the father of His children, and therefore I want you to trustingly come to Me with every worry so that I will take it away from you. For I have the power and also the will to do so, I can help you, and I want to help you as soon as you are not apostate to Me, as soon as you feel like My children and desire to come to the father. And you express this will through believing prayer .... Stand in profound faith and ask for My grace, for strength and help .... this is the state which is to be achieved on earth and which enables you to gain insight into the spiritual kingdom. But this state also earns you the fulfilment of your requests, for now you are such that I can call out to you: Ask and it shall be given you. I Myself have given you the promise and I will truly fulfil it if you pray to Me in the right way. But a right prayer should ascend to Me in childlike trust, you should not doubt for a moment that I will grant your request, you should imagine My greater than great love for you and rely on this love so firmly that it will not deny you anything. Yet your prayer should predominantly be for your soul's salvation and earthly only for the prevention of severe adversity, but you should never ask for futile things, for I will give you what you need for your earthly life if you seriously strive for My kingdom. But if you are in earthly distress then trustingly take refuge in My fatherly heart and I will banish all adversity. And thus you are never alone, never helpless and abandoned, for you always have prayer as soon as you believe. And a prayer coming from the heart will always please Me, and I will grant My help to the earthly child, often in a miraculous way, because nothing is impossible for Me and therefore I can also banish the most severe adversity if I thereby want to prove the strength of faith and prayer to a believing earthly child ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer for good success ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Silent prayer .... Public confession ....

B.D. 6012 from July 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Let those who worship Me do so in spirit and in truth .... Only what comes from the very bottom of your heart is pleasing to Me and will reach My ear .... Hence, I only look into a person's heart and disregard the words spoken by the mouth if the heart is not involved. If you are able to completely withdraw from the world in order to enter into heartfelt dialogue with Me, then you are already praising Me without words through your willingness to make contact with Me, then you are sending Me in thoughts a silent prayer, true worship, which will be a great blessing for your soul, for the connection with Me lets you gain strength and grace which is experienced by the soul as help for its maturation. This sincere form of prayer is the true prayer which is pleasing to Me, for then you have voluntarily approached Me so closely that the strength of My love can touch you, drawing you ever more affectionately towards Me. If you want to speak to Me then the spoken word is truly unnecessary, for this can easily intend to hide or pretend something, which I certainly recognise but which need not be evident to another person who allows himself to be easily deceived and then will use the same form of prayer himself ....

Step into your closet if you want to pray .... Withdraw into complete silence, you will be able to find Me there far easier and communicate with Me like a child with its Father .... And you will tell Me everything without fear and in childlike trust .... And your requests will be granted to you because then your prayers will reach My ear .... For I have promised you this with the Words 'Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' .... Thus I will keep My promise with anyone who comes to Me, and this more evidently so the more trustingly he approaches Me, the more intimately he unites with Me and entrusts himself to Me in silent conversation. The spoken language is intended for your communication amongst yourselves .... But I don't need words for I know everything, I look into your heart and read your thoughts, and thus you cannot deceive Me no matter how beautiful your words are .... just as no words are needed if you want to exalt and praise Me .... because a silent expression of thankfulness, a humble call upon Me, a life following My will, a faith brought alive through love will truly please Me and include praise and thanks as well.

Yet you shall confess Me to your fellow human beings with your mouth .... Where it concerns your attitude towards the faith you shall confess Me freely and openly and not fear the consequences of your courage of conviction .... For this confession shall in turn be an incentive for your fellow human beings whose faith is still weak, and at the same time it demonstrates that you support the truth, that you don't want to give an outward impression which does not concur with your inner thinking, with your conviction. You shall always be true and put Me and My name above all else if this confession is demanded of you ....

But whatever you want to tell Me can be presented to Me by you silently and in secret, for I want to hear the voice of your heart and not just words spoken by the mouth without the involvement of the heart. And such prayers are tremendously powerful if they are sent to Me in unison .... if people come together imploring Me to grant a particular request .... if they all appeal for the same, if they send the same plea to Me, and even if it is just a short call .... I will hear it and grant it if they pray to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Connection with God through working love

Connection with God: Loving activity ....

B.D. 6553 from May 23rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You enter into contact with Me when you rise your thoughts to Me, but this bond can be severed again at any time because your thoughts never linger on the same subject for long and therefore the will has to be active again and again so that your thoughts deal with Me. But it is different when you establish the connection with Me through loving activity .... Then you yourselves draw Me to you, and then you also receive My power of love which chains you to Me ever more, so that the bond cannot be loosened so easily. For anyone who has once kindled love within himself will also nourish the small flame, he will not be satisfied with some work of love but will precisely be stimulated by My power, by My presence, to ever new loving activity. Love is truly the firmest bond which unites you to Me. But a person who repeatedly raises his thoughts to Me will likewise be stimulated to work with love, for his thinking of Me, of his God and Creator, is always a sign of a good attitude, and such mental bonds, if established frequently, will not fail to have an effect on his will and thinking, which will inevitably move along paths which correspond to My will. The bond with Me can never fail to have good effects, and therefore it cannot be recommended to people sufficiently; but the most powerful effect will always be works of love. In every situation in life the human being is offered the opportunity to unite with Me, and anyone of good will will also make use of the opportunities .... But as long as the human being's thoughts concern other goals, as long as the human being lives in self-love, he does not seek Me but keeps himself separate from Me, and as soon as he lacks any bond with Me he is still under the sway of My adversary, who directs his will wrong and therefore is an influence on him, because the human being cannot resist him, because he has no strength which arises from his loving activity only .... because I Myself cannot assist him, for he makes My presence impossible through his wrong will and thinking. There are two goals which the human being can strive for in thought, but both goals are fundamentally different .... If, however, I Myself am the goal of his thoughts, then the human being can record a great plus at the end of his earthly life, for the bond with Me also yields him a great treasure of grace which precisely presupposes the human being's willingness in order to be utilised. I truly do everything to turn the human being's thoughts towards Me in earthly life .... to prompt his activity of love, yet My adversary leaves no stone unturned either .... And the human being himself is the deciding factor, for his will is free. But his life will be an idle one if he does not find his way to Me .... whereas it can also be richly blessed if he unites with Me in thought and ensures My presence through loving activity .... For then he will remain connected to Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Strengthening of faith through love work ....

B.D. 5371 from April 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You strengthen yourselves enormously in your faith if you live a life of love and are always intent on serving Me and your neighbour. Whatever you undertake, you should always be driven by the will to help, love should always determine you and inspire you to think, speak and act. Then you will enter into closest contact with Me, and the result of this is a firm and unshakeable faith which fills your whole being, a faith which gives you inner peace and security, that you are under My protection, that you, as your father's children, are never abandoned and lonely, that therefore nothing can happen to you but what I deem good for you. Love must be deepened in you so that your faith will become stronger. You must help your fellow human being and want to make him happy, you must alleviate suffering and reduce hardship, you must want to support him with advice and action and divest yourselves of what he lacks if the hardship is thereby reduced. You must support him spiritually, help his soul to believe, give him a good example through loving actions, you must instruct him and take care of him if he is weak in faith and does not recognize Me correctly .... You must do everything you want to be done for you in the same adversity. And you yourselves will have the greatest blessing, for you will thereby kindle a light within yourselves which will then shine upon all those around you. You will be able to prove the strength of a strong faith to your fellow human beings, you will be able to achieve great things as a result of love and the faith arising from it. Then there will be neither lack of strength nor fear, neither worries nor anxious questions .... You will feel safe in Me because I must be where love is and My closeness will give you peace and security .... Don't let up in your activity of love, give and make happy, and then let yourselves be made happy by Me, Who gives you everything and fails you nothing if you only believe ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Compassion .... Sick and weak people ....

B.D. 1032 from July 31th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Take care of the sick and the weak, and consider that they are suffering and need your help. You should be compassionate and constantly consider the welfare of these poor people, whose physical afflictions make their life intolerable, you should try to alleviate this suffering and selflessly help them at all times. This is pleasing to God, and since you are all children of God, one shall also be concerned for the other and not allow heartlessness or indifference towards your fellow human being arise in you. How often do people pass by the sick and the weak without offering them a comforting word, it is very depressing for these sufferers. They are helpless in their state and grateful for every word granted by love .... And how often do they have to go without because no considerate word is spoken to them. They are lonely, and their soul is seized by profound sadness, for it hungers for love and is only scantily considered ....

And the Lord teaches compassion .... and promises eternal bliss, for compassion presupposes love, and only a labour of love will bring salvation to the soul. Compassion is purest neighbourly love, for it wants to help and expects nothing in return .... A person can be ailing in body as well as in soul .... and bringing him help is always inexpressibly valuable .... speaking words of comfort to the physically weak and offering the psychologically sick and frail the right remedy out of kind-hearted neighbourly love .... For the body’s suffering will come to an end one day but not that of the soul unless it is approached by active neighbourly love bringing it help to escape its adversity.

The weak and ailing person, however, needs twice as much support, for the body’s weakness often also lets the soul descend into helplessness, and it can only be helped by selfless love which, as it were, awakens the soul from its lethargic state and thus stimulates it to take care of improving its condition. Then the human being will also bear his physical suffering with patience, if only the soul has come to the right recognition on account of its fellow human being’s active help which supported it during its adversity.

Any actively compassionate person can bestow untold blessings, for the earthly child will feel this both earthly as well as spiritually, and the thus considered person will have to feel relieved and, on account of the spiritual strength which shines across with every deed of love, turn his gaze upwards. And thus will love and compassion for sick and weak people result in twice as many blessings .... It will help to improve the physical condition of the sick and weak and simultaneously be extremely beneficial for the soul, and therefore, don’t forget to grant them your help and kind-hearted sympathy, lift them up physically and spiritually, and thereby also let their time of suffering become a time of spiritual maturing for them .... and the Lord will bless those who are full of compassion towards their suffering fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Only love is valued ....

B.D. 6191 from February 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

It is love alone which I value, because everything that has love as its principle has to be good before My eyes. And I will also bless everything which, driven by love, is undertaken .... and it will not harm people but only benefit the soul, although no earthly advantage will emerge. Whatever is undertaken with love must also always correspond to My will, for it will not be done without Me, Who is love Myself .... Yet it is only ever to be understood as giving, wanting to please, sacrificing love, not the love which wants to possess, which as self-love can also be the cause for actions and undertakings of all kinds .... You must make this distinction and seriously examine yourselves as to what kind of love moves you, if you intervene in a helping way, as it were, if you feel prompted to act and ask yourselves whether it is right before Me .... whether you may expect My blessing for your actions .... Only unselfish love is ever decisive, for selfish love belongs to the world, it is not My share and therefore cannot be blessed. I tell you this because much is done under the guise of love and because this, too, is an activity of My adversary who, as it were, appears under a mask in order to kindle and strengthen selfish love .... For this is the opposite of pure unselfish love which unites you with Me because it is divine. Anyone who seeks his own advantage is not yet Mine, even if it appears as if the person sacrifices himself .... I see the heart, I recognize every impulse in it; therefore the human being must examine himself whether he wants to give or whether he wants to achieve something. In the first case he can undertake everything without worry, My blessing will always rest on him and I will not leave him .... He will be strengthened and My help will visibly be granted to him, because then I Myself will be in him and then I will truly also guide him correctly, order his thoughts and give him the strength to master his task .... If he is only driven by unselfish neighbourly love he can undertake everything and My blessing will be assured to him. However, every selfish thought is known to Me and I want to warn people against it, because they cannot deceive Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Active in love signs of God's presence ....

B.D. 6687 from November 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

The inner urge to be active in love is the surest sign that I Myself am present to you, for 'love' impels you and I Myself am love .... And I will constantly impel you to be active in love if you allow My presence within you, if you first unite with Me in prayer and thereby call Me to you .... And then you cannot but feel love, for you will be illuminated by My strength of love, you will be constantly urged by Me Myself to work with love. What a delicious assurance it is for you to know Me Myself present to you .... And therefore you will now also understand that unkindness also means being distant from God, that I cannot be where love has grown cold amongst people and that therefore little hardship is alleviated because people lack this inner urge to be lovingly active. And yet, this activity of love is the purpose of your earthly existence, for it means the transformation of your being or reshaping into what you were in the beginning. Every day of your earthly life is lived in vain which does not bring you one step closer to Me through love, for the purpose of earthly life is the approach to Me, the complete union with Me, which can only take place through love. And anyone who has kindled love within himself, who has kindled it into bright embers, can say with certainty that he has found Me, for where love is I Myself must be, because I am love, and where I Myself am present it is also possible to speak of the return to Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life. What bliss could people prepare for themselves already on earth where it is possible for them to completely unite with their God and creator, their father of eternity, through love? You only need to ask Me to come to you, to accept you .... and truly, this request would not remain unfulfilled for it is the purpose of life .... it is the conscious change of will towards Me from Whom you once turned away .... And as soon as you express this will to Me through your prayer, I take hold of you .... Your call attracts Me and lets Me be present to you, because this call also only comes from a loving heart .... And if My illumination of love touches your heart because it no longer offers any resistance, your heart will also ignite and then you will feel inwardly urged to be active in love, for then I Myself can be in you and My activity will always be love. And therefore the loving human being will also have inner peace, for it is I Myself Who smoothes all paths, Who always stands by your side, Who now takes care of you, to Whom you can safely hand yourselves over and in Whom you can trust that He will guide you safely and unharmed through earthly life .... You humans can all ignite the spark of love I have placed in you and let it flare up into a bright flame. And from that moment on you will all feel that I Myself am present to you, and then you can also be free from every anxious worry, for then you will have found the father and you will also walk the rest of your earthly path by the father's hand. But no human being can expect to be able to win Me Myself without prayer and without loving activity, for I keep Myself away from those who don't remember Me and whose actions only ever betray unkindness, for he is still full of opposition to Me, his nature has not yet changed, he is still a follower of My adversary who is devoid of all love .... But everyone has the opportunity to recognize Me and to change his nature into love, for I Myself step into every person's path, although I am not recognized by him, but I do not lack admonitions and warnings, I also illuminate the hearts of those people .... to kindle the spark of love in them with My warmth of love. But everyone must also allow the effect of love in his free will, he must give up his resistance against Me. Then I will also come to him and will not let up inwardly stimulating him into loving activity until he completely gives himself to Me and I have won him for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection with God through receiving his word

The word of God .... love .... truth .... wisdom ....

B.D. 0733 from January 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 15

And those who refuse to accept the word of God will be foolish .... they will have no comfort in adversity and suffering and will also have to do without all support in difficult times, for if the lord Himself is prepared to give you everything with His word and you do not respect His gift, you will have to live in want and will be lonely and abandoned in life. The pure word of God is the creator's gift from the beginning .... it came to people from above at all times .... it was the connection from the eternal deity to the beings on earth. This word was heard by whoever wanted to hear it and was in love with God .... For it happens what man wants .... The father makes Himself known through His word to the one who longs for God. The word is the bearer of divine love and divine power, and this word is heard by anyone who makes himself worthy of God's love and power .... The love of God reveals itself to the earthly child through the word, and until the end of the world God will reveal Himself in the word to those who are His children. Whoever has this word is already blessed on earth, and whoever lives according to the word of God has the kingdom of heaven .... eternal bliss. But woe to those who oppose the word of God, they not only lack everything that is necessary for salvation, but will also fall victim to judgement if they do not recognize their wrongdoing at the right time. What the lord gives to His own should make their earthly path easier and show them ways and means to find their way back to the heavenly father. But how can such help be offered to you who reject the word of God and His grace visibly shown to you? The father's love repeatedly endeavours to inform the earthly child of its earthly task, of the child's right relationship with the father and of all means of grace, the application of which will lead to the goal in a short time, and time and again the father imparts the word to His children so that they should not be abandoned and go through life without any help. And thus everyone will be blessed by God's word who does not close his ear to the gift that comes from above but, hungering and thirsting, receives the refreshment that the lord has blessed with His strength. How empty is the life of a person who does not draw everything from the word of God .... knowledge, faith and from this love of God and neighbour. When the lord God makes a visible appearance, when He imparts His word to humanity and preaches His love to people of good will, then he who takes His word to heart and is permeated by the spirit of love that speaks from the word of God will also stand in the love and grace of God. The lord gave the same .... the truth .... at all times, to all generations and to everyone always and forever. For the word of God can only be pure truth because it emanates from God, as the truth Himself. The word of God must also be pure love, where the starting point of the word is likewise love itself .... And all wisdom must be made accessible to the earthly child through it, since the eternal wisdom Itself teaches the earthly child. And so whoever accepts the word of God will stand in truth, love and wisdom .... And it will endure for all eternity because the love, truth and wisdom of God cannot pass away .... But whoever rejects the word of God, all truth, love and wisdom is also closed to him indefinitely ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Who has my word ....

B.D. 2858 from August 23rd 1943, taken from Book No. 37

Those who have My word will not be lonely and forsaken, for with the word I Myself am with them and thus their constant companion, I am their protection and shield, their comforter and helper in every trouble, as I have promised you who love Me and keep My commandments. I am with My own and My own recognize Me by My voice, they hear My word and know that I am close to them. And that is why they believe in Me with all steadfastness which nothing can shake .... But anyone who has My word also has a task .... to stand up for this word to the world, to spread My word and to inform all those who still walk in error, who still lack the pure truth. For whoever has My word is the bearer of pure truth because I, as the truth Myself, convey the truth to him through My word. And you humans should listen to these bearers of truth, you should allow yourselves to be imparted what they have received from My hand, for you all need the truth if you want to mature spiritually, if you want to recognize Me and learn to love Me. love for Me has to come from the heart, and if you want to love Me dearly then you have to recognize Me first, you have to know about My love and wisdom and strive to be accepted by Me as children in order to partake of My love. And this knowledge is conveyed to you by My word alone, which I convey to you as a pledge of My love .... With My word I Myself am with you, as I have promised you. As soon as you have prepared your heart as a dwelling place for Me, I will take up residence in it and never leave you again. For now you are in truth My children, whom I consider like a father and whom I will never leave alone in adversity. I reward your love for Me with My love by speaking to you as a father speaks to his children and by introducing you to the truth, by giving you the light of knowledge and imparting knowledge to you which illustrates My love, wisdom and omnipotence to you, so that your love for Me becomes deeper and more intimate and I can provide you with spiritual gifts according to this love, with treasures which will last for eternity .... so that My word can always and constantly reach you and you become aware of My greater than great love for you through My word. For My word is light and strength, wisdom and power .... And whoever has My word is Mine; he serves Me in time and eternity, for he has chosen Me and prepared his heart to receive Me ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Listening to God's voice ....

B.D. 5753 from August 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You should listen to Me, and I will always speak to you such that you will also be able to recognise My love for you .... Everything around you can and will change .... but My love for you remains the same, it pursues you whether you are far away or close by, and it constantly seeks to influence you, that is, to awaken reciprocated love in you, which signifies your ultimate return to Me. And if I can address you, if you listen to Me, you will open your heart's door to Me, and then the full strength of My love can be effective, then I can ignite a fire in you which cannot be extinguished anymore, because My love is so powerful that its fire dissolves all resistance, that it takes hold of the person's nature and changes him completely .... that it shapes the person into love. I desire contact with you, this is why I speak to you .... If you listen to Me willingly then you will establish the connection with Me, and then I can revive what is dead, I can give true life to you who are still dead while you are far away from Me. My Words shall change this dead state, for My communication is a ray of love that intends to awaken you to life.

If you then give Me the opportunity to lower My ray of love into your heart, if you make it possible by willingly listening to My Word, you will soon feel the effect in yourselves, you will become aware that you are no longer alone .... you will, as it were, sense the presence of a benevolent being to Whom you will give yourselves without resistance, for My ray of love has the effect that it lowers your resistance when I have the opportunity to speak to you, and you will listen to My Words carefully. And you will always listen to My Words if you withdraw into solitude for a short period of time, if you collect your thoughts in prayer or quietly think about yourselves. Then you always give Me the opportunity to speak to you, albeit you won't recognise My voice at first but merely believe that you hear your own thoughts ....

I always enter your thoughts since you are, after all, pursued by My love which always tries to embrace you when you become silent and turn your vision inwards. In that case you listen, and then I can speak to you .... And the more consciously you practise this turning away from the world and looking within, the more willingly you open the door of your heart to Me and the more clearly will you hear My voice, which answers your questions or instructs you such that your love for Me flares up, because you will recognise Me as a God of love as soon as you listen to Me, as soon as you turn inwards and your thoughts turn towards Me ....

I always want to speak to you, yet rarely do you listen to Me .... But if you seek solitude by turning your thoughts inwards you will hear Me speak, even though you will not immediately recognise it as an expression of My love, because the intellect cannot grasp as yet what the soul has already felt or comprehended. Yet My communication will ever more consciously become an indescribable blessing for you and all those whom you inform of the fact .... that the Father speaks to His child as soon as the child wants to hear the Father ....

And you all can establish this bond with Me, you all need only listen carefully in order to hear Me, and I merely want to stimulate you to sharpen your spiritual ear, to practise listening to spiritual communications by often withdrawing into solitude and longing for My presence. Then I will be with you and speak to you .... Then I will come to you Myself in the Word, and then you will also know that I love you and want to gain your love as well ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The audible Word and conditions ....

B.D. 4448 from October 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You need to pay attention to the slightest emotion if you want to hear My voice within yourselves. For this reason the transmission of My Word can only take place if you are in complete seclusion from the world. Although you are still living in the midst of the world everything around you can nevertheless subside into nothingness, it can stay completely unnoticed by you, if you direct your thoughts inwards and look for Me. Then you will observe different spheres to the earthly one, then you are already in the spiritual realm, your soul has lifted itself across while the body remains on earth but without having lost the connection with the soul. Anyone who succeeds in dismissing all worldly thoughts and concentrates will soon hear gentle Words in his heart, and the more the soul has detached itself from the body the clearer they will sound, that is, the more the soul strives towards the spiritual kingdom where My Word originates from, where I Am Myself amongst the beings which educate you on My instructions, if the teaching does not directly come forth from Me. The world certainly does not want to admit that God speaks directly to people, it finds it implausible because the world, that is, worldly people, will never be able to hear this gentle voice since they only take notice of their body's demands and what it achieves. The soul is an implausible concept for them, they do not acknowledge the soul and therefore do not accept what the soul receives from the spiritual kingdom and wants to impart to people on earth.

They don't believe it because they also lack the will to live up to the conditions which enable them to hear My voice. They don't mentally detach themselves from the world but constantly strive towards it so that they have no time for turning inwards, thus they never lead an inner life without which, however, My Word cannot possibly be heard. I do not approach people from outside but meet them in their hearts .... Although I also work so evidently that it is externally visible to whom I Am present, who receives strength from Me .... but only ever where a life of love is being lived, where I can enter a heart because I Am called upon in the heart. I only manifest Myself where an earthly child firmly believes in Me and loves Me with all its heart, and both are feelings of the soul which are unrelated to the body as such. Thus anyone who wants to hear Me must come to Me and I Am not in the world but in the spiritual kingdom, even though My will is also in charge of the world but only to win worldly people over to Me, to entice them away from the bustle of the world into seclusion in order to make those possessions desirable for them which alone are of value for eternity .... Withdraw into solitude and listen within and you will clearly and distinctly hear Me if you pay attention to every thought, for as long as you don't perceive the audible Word in you which needs a particular maturity of soul and most intimate contact with Me .... However, I reveal Myself to everyone who fulfils My will and desires to hear Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Consolating and loving father words ....

B.D. 5827 from December 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All of you shall be comforted by My word, you who are sad and afflicted, you who are despondent in earthly adversity and distress .... You shall draw courage from the words which I convey to you from above in the realization of My creatures' state, in the realization of their weakness and loneliness when they do not carry Me in their hearts. I want to promise comfort to all, I want to restore everyone's trust that they will find help with their heavenly father if only they call upon Him. I speak to you from above because you no longer believe the word I handed down to you, because it seems unlikely to you that I take care of My children on earth, that I know about all their hardship and suffering and am always willing to help .... And I want to assure you of this again and only let you know about the conditions that I want to be called upon by you if I am to help you .... I have to impose this condition otherwise My help for you could not result in a blessing for the soul, for if I helped you without your call you would never establish the connection with Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life, and then I Myself would have contributed towards you not reaching your aim. I want you to believe in Me as God and creator of eternity Who is always in contact with the created by Him, Who will never sever this bond and Who only requires of you that you consciously establish this bond yourselves .... that you recognize Him as your father and then trustingly turn to Him in every earthly and spiritual adversity. But because all faith in this has been lost to you I try to approach you through My word and to awaken faith in you anew. I speak to you and address every person directly, albeit through the mouth of servants devoted to Me .... but he only speaks what I Myself deem necessary for you, he only speaks as My instrument, he speaks for Me and in My stead .... But it is My words which you hear, which shall touch you with all strength and entice you to take refuge in My arms in every adversity of body and soul. You who are despondent shall be lifted up, you who are afflicted shall be comforted, you who are weak in body and soul shall receive strength, and you who are blind in spirit shall see, I want to prove My love to all of you through the word which sounds down to you from on high .... For I Myself, as father, incline towards My children who shall recognize Me and learn to love Me so that they may become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly life task – change of will and nature

Introspection ....

B.D. 8064 from December 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You too, My loyal servants, have to be admonished by Me to improve your souls more eagerly, for as long as you live on earth you all still carry immature substances within yourselves. You all more or less still have to fight against inclinations, longings and all kinds of weaknesses, and you should always remember that you ought to spiritualise these substances during your earthly life. A constant struggle will have to take place, and you should overcome them, you should try to influence the unspiritual substances with much love to let go of you, to join the desire of the spirit within you, to stop pestering your soul so that it will be able to ascend to the pinnacle with ever greater ease and without being held back. I want to make the path to happiness easier for all of you, but you also have to work on yourselves, you seriously have to examine yourselves as to what weaknesses and faults are still burdening you; you have to question yourselves whether your soul is still constrained by any cravings .... you have to fight against every impure impulse, suppress each irate motion, you must not send out any ignoble thoughts and deny any human being your love .... you have to try to put right every injustice you have inflicted on a fellow human being ....

Your thinking shall always be noble and pure, which excludes every thought of hatred and vengeance .... You should avoid every unkind word and always remember that you expect love, compassion and forgiveness from Me, thus you should also grant the same to your fellow human being .... In everything you think or say you should know that I know it too, and you should ask yourselves whether you are behaving correctly in My presence? .... I know that you are all still weak, that the battle which you should wage against yourselves is indeed the most difficult .... But My strength is always at your disposal and you only need to send a pleading thought to Me and, truly, I will give you the strength and you will be victorious .... You will be able to pacify the evil spirits within yourselves. They will leave you progressively more alone, they will become modest and also comply with the soul's desire to calm down and make use of the strength for their own purification ....

For they have this possibility to reach maturity themselves within the earthly body and to join the soul, because it will take all fully matured spiritual substances along into the kingdom of the beyond when it has to leave its earthly body. The soul itself still has various instincts within itself from its previous embodiments, which it is supposed to change for the better .... And it is also pestered by the body of flesh, because that is shaped from unspiritual substances .... But the human being also has the possibility to exercise a redeeming influence on these evil spirits .... if he tries to change all negative qualities to the contrary until he has become humble, gentle, peaceful, compassionate and just .... until he has become love himself, which includes all those virtues, and then the human being will also be able to enter the spiritual kingdom fully matured. And therefore you should seriously examine yourselves as to what virtues you are still missing .... investigate, whether you have changed your nature completely already .... check, what you still need and seriously work at improving yourselves ....

And you most certainly will be successful if only you have the serious intention and appeal to Me to give you strength because you are too weak on your own. Call upon Me in Jesus so that I will strengthen your will, so that you will lose your weakness of will, so that I will forgive you when you have become sinful, and truly, My help is assured to you, for it is My own will that your souls shall mature, and I Am truly pleased in those who take changing their nature into love seriously .... For as soon as you are full of love all unspiritual substances within you will also become spiritualised, because they cannot resist the strength of love. But wherever these evil spirits are still active, love is not yet profound enough, in other words, I Am as yet not able to work in all fullness within you and you will have to fight to become pure so that I can take abode in you .... And then you will also have been redeemingly active within yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Change of will .... Overcoming matter ....

B.D. 5486 from September 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The spirit, which still keeps you bound to earth, stands against Me, for everything you desire belongs to him; he still possesses spiritual substances which are far removed from Me and which he wants to prevent from returning to Me. As a human being you yourselves are already considerably advanced in your development and yet you are still under his control as long as you have not yet learnt to despise matter as something that still fully belongs to him. You have to know about the spiritual connection, you have to know that everything that is visible to you is imperfect spiritual substance, therefore part of My adversary. But if this now also holds your senses captive, then you also still stand in his area, will-wise turned towards him. But if you can free yourselves .... from the desire for that which belongs to him .... then you will also escape his control, then you will, as it were, lift yourselves from earth into the kingdom of the spirit which belongs to Me and which you should inhabit according to your destiny in order to be able to rule and reign in it according to My will. On earth you shall now accomplish this transformation of your will, you shall learn to despise the material world, you shall learn to regard it as what it really is .... a conglomerate of immature spiritual substances which are still opposed to Me and which shall purify itself .... You should therefore place yourselves abovematter because you are the spiritual beings with the highest level of development in this earthly material world, and you should endeavour to sever the last ties with this world but instead establish a bond with the kingdom where I Am ruler, where everything is spiritualised and indescribably happy. You should consciously free yourselves from My adversary's dominion and come to .... But as long as matter still binds you, as long as you feel the desire for it, you are not yet Me free from its dominion and therefore not yet fit for the spiritual kingdom, for I want to possess your undivided love, I want to take your whole thinking captive; I can only work in you once you are completely free from its nature. But then freedom, strength and light will be your share, then the spiritual inside you will have liberated itself from its control and lifted itself up to Me, from Whom it can now no longer separate itself eternally. As long as you live on earth he will constantly tempt you, yet without the desire for matter you will be immune to his temptations, then you will have overcome matter, then you will only desire the possessions of the spiritual kingdom, and in possession of these goods you will be strong and thus also victorious over the one who is My adversary .... But to have overcome him means to have become My child, to be a candidate for My kingdom, which is not of this world, which gives you bliss that is immeasurable and which truly outweighs the difficult battle on earth against the adversary, yet can never be acquired other than through battle ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Humility ....

B.D. 5587 from January 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Approach God in all humility and He will lovingly draw close to you. Listen to the voice of your heart, don't become arrogant in spirit when His love becomes obvious to you but always remain humbly devoted to Him, then the measure of grace He pours out on you will be inexhaustible, then you will truly be His children who have found the path to the father's heart .... Humility must completely fill you, and even the greatest gift of love must not let you become arrogant, for it is only His greater than great love which bestows that gift upon you but not your worthiness. What is weak is lovingly regarded by God as soon as it recognizes its weakness and humbly withholds itself from eternal love .... Then it will truly be showered with an abundance of grace which will secure you a high ascent. And thus a simple explanation is given to you humans when and how God bestows His gifts of grace; information is given to you as to what alone is necessary in order to receive a richest measure of grace .... Humility is presented as the virtue which is looked upon by God with eyes of love, which moves Him to empty Himself, to distribute an abundance of grace which surely leads the human being to the aim, to the union of the child with the father .... Just as a child approaches the father in all humility, so the human being must also feel humble towards the eternal father. But where humility fades, God also withdraws His grace. Humility, however, demands nothing for itself; humility feels so infinitely small in the face of the divinity, which it certainly suspects but does not dare to address. True humility will only produce a slur, it will not be able to express itself with words, for it does not dare to address words to the highest being, Which can already destroy with a thought what It once created .... Humility is silent and only falls down before the face of God, pleading for His mercy .... Humility waits patiently until it is raised up by His benevolent hand. And where you humans recognize this humility, there the flow of grace also flows uninterruptedly into the heart, there God's presence is evident, there the connection from earth to heaven is created, there God inclines Himself to earth and fills the vessel with His grace which is held out to Him openly, the heart which humbly surrenders itself to God in the knowledge of its unworthiness and weakness .... (27.1.1953) For humility of heart is the soul's highest adornment, it opens, as it were, the gate to the spiritual kingdom, it opens the source of grace, for where humility is there is also love for God, Whom the soul acknowledges as a supra-holy being, Whom it hardly dares to look up to but Whom it strives towards, to Whom it would like to make itself entirely its own: The soul's humble devotion to its creator and father from eternity is the shortest path to Him, for a powerful wave of love and grace carries it over all obstacles to the father's heart, Who graciously draws it to Himself because a humble soul is well pleasing to Him. True humility of heart need not be outwardly recognizable, rather it often hides behind an impenetrable nature, for true humility does not apply to people but to the God and creator from eternity, true humility does not venture forth, it walks silently, true humility does not dare to come forward, it walks quiet, solitary paths in modesty and never comes forward, it is without any self-love but always endeavours to make its fellow human beings aware of God's greatness and holiness, because it itself feels how small and miserable the human being is in comparison to His holiness. And it will find grace in abundance .... for its whole being is an abhorrence of the former sin of apostasy from God, Whom it would never ever want to offend and Who therefore grasps its will, which is fully turned towards Him, and draws the soul to Himself in the most ardent merciful love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trials in old age .... Love and patience ....

B.D. 7217 from November 29th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

I quite often have to admonish you to persevere with love and patience until the end of your life. These trials cannot be prevented if you want to reach the final pinnacle. And you consciously started your course of life with the resolve to complete it in order to achieve a degree of light which will turn you into blissfully happy beings. And as long as this path has not come to an end the trials will not end either, the triumph over each one signifies time and again yet another step of ascent. But you don't have to be at all afraid of the last stage of your earthly progress, for you have formed a bond with Me and that means that I always walk beside you, even though you occasionally think that you are alone and abandoned by Me, Who is nevertheless even closer to you the more desperate the situation is in which you find yourselves.

And therefore you should always remember that love and patience have to be practiced by you at all times, that deeds of love give you the strength to achieve or overcome even the most difficult situation, that patience will give you inner strength, that it is a solid defence against the adversary who above all wants to unsettle your patience in order to create conflict and agitation in you .... a state in which he can then work more easily and successfully. Remember that you can master everything with patience, then you will be his master, and then you will also very soon sense My presence, although I had never left you.

If, however, your life proceeded completely uneventfully, without any tests, without any upheaval, your development would come to a halt and the remainder of your earthly life would be a waste of time, which you would regret one day in the kingdom of the beyond. For every person will naturally find it more difficult towards the end of life, consequently their spiritual achievements will be far more valued, after all, they require greater will and effort than is the case with more robust people who are still in the midst of their vitality .... And remember that every day that is still granted to you on earth is a blessing, for you can work towards your salvation and will only be able to appreciate its value when you have entered the kingdom of the beyond. I surely know that it is an effort for you, and I will certainly also reimburse you with the just reward .... whereas you could not expect anything special if your earthly life proceeded uneventfully and did not require you to use your will or to demonstrate your faith. And when the last day comes you will thank Me that I granted you the blessing of a long earthly life, for then you can also assess the wealth you had been able to gather, providing you used the time on earth well. No matter what happens to you, I Am close to you .... Always remember this, then love and patience will prevail in you when you are tested by suffering and have to prove yourselves. But do not give your soul's enemy the right to control you by inwardly objecting and losing your patience .... for that is his weapon, to deprive you of your composure and to influence you, frequently with success. But if you stay calm and full of patience and humbly accept your fate then he cannot touch you, but I can be even more effective and truly will not leave you in hardship and distress, providing you always pass such tests and hand yourselves over to Me in complete trust of My help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Change of nature into love with the help of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8019 from October 15th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

Your path of earthly life as a human being is the last short phase of your process of development from the deepest abyss into higher spheres .... But whether it will lead to completion is determined by you in your human state where free will has been returned to you, which you must use correctly in order to attain final perfection. Hence you bear great responsibility since you decide your fate for an infinitely long time of constraint again or for life in eternity .... With a correctly inclined will you can become free of every external form when you leave your earthly body; but you can also enter the hardest external form once more if you abuse your freedom of will, if you don't make full use of your life on earth, if you don't accomplish the transformation of your nature which must become love again, as it was in the beginning ....

This transformation of your nature into love is the only purpose for your life on earth as a human being and it is possible for you to achieve this work of transformation because I will truly help you in every way .... For I long for My living creations to return to Me as 'children' and will truly do everything within My power to enable them to reach their goal .... but I will not enslave their will .... They must return to Me of their own free will, just as they once left Me and thereby plunged into the abyss. I take all weaknesses and faults into account, I help where you humans are too weak on your own; I reveal Myself to you so that you will learn to recognise and love Me; I shower you with an unlimited measure of grace which you need only make use of in order to enable you to become victorious in earthly life .... For you must wage battle against My adversary who refuses to let go of you but who likewise cannot determine your free will if it turns away from him .... You must fight against all instincts and cravings which still cling to your soul .... you must firmly want to move forward and to successfully complete your path of earthly life .... You must long for Me and, truly, I will come to meet you and draw you close to Me and never let you go again. For I love you and yearn for your return to Me ....

You need never fear that you will lack the strength for your perfection, because One acquired it for you through His death on the cross .... Jesus Christ, Who redeemed you from sin and death .... And this One wants to bestow the blessings of His act of Salvation upon you and is waiting for you merely to request them, to also want Him to have redeemed your guilt of sin, and for you to appeal to Him to strengthen your will in order to accomplish the transformation work into love on earth .... As soon as you turn to Him you also acknowledge Me again and your return to Me will be assured, your return into your Father's house which you once left voluntarily ....

You can truly reach the final goal during your short life on earth if only you acknowledge Jesus Christ as Redeemer of the world, Who sheltered Me Myself in all abundance .... Through this acknowledgement and the plea for forgiveness of your guilt, your original sin of apostasy from Me will be redeemed .... because the human being Jesus died on the cross in order to atone for the great guilt with His blood for the sake of justice ....

You would never have been able to remove this guilt and make

Amends for it yourselves, this is why I Myself died in the human being Jesus on the cross, because only love was able to absolve such guilt, which Jesus, the man, mustered for His suffering brothers and which so permeated Him that He took all suffering and pain upon Himself .... But I Myself was this Love .... And therefore the path to Me was cleared for you humans again, so that you can return into your Father's house; I can accept you again as My children because your guilt has been redeemed by Jesus if you acknowledge Him and thus Me in Him, for He and I are one .... Anyone who calls upon Him, calls upon Me, and anyone who may behold Him one day will behold Me face to face ....

Amen

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Spiritual demand

Outpouring of the Holy spirit .... Joh. 14, 13-26 .... pentecost ....

B.D. 1416 from May 12th 1940, taken from Book No. 23

He who fulfils My will is the one I love, for his love belongs to Me .... And so I send him My spirit and am therefore constantly with him. For My spirit is the emanation of My love, My spirit is will and strength at the same time, My spirit is always and forever the emanation of Myself, and thus I am with the one who desires Me and My spirit .... And I never leave him, for with his love he gave himself to Me, and thus I give Myself to him through My word. Whoever now truly desires My word, his heart longs for Me, and this desire testifies to his love, thus I Myself can come to him because he loves Me dearly. For I do not want him to remain lonely, I want to be with him and he shall feel My closeness; I want that no more suffering shall oppress him, I want to be his support in every adversity and My consolation shall refresh him if he needs it .... And thus My word shall be his comforter, for I Myself speak to him and am with him in spirit .... And all of you who walk on earth should desire this spirit of Mine. For if you have My spirit, you have overcome. If you desire My word you will seek the connection with Me .... and being in close union with Me will earn you My fullest love and you will be safe in My love. You are not lonely and abandoned, neither are you helpless and weak, but you are strong if you have My spirit. The outpouring of the Holy spirit is My visible sign that I will not leave you defenceless if you ask for Me and My protection. I have assured you of My protection, I have told you that the father .... love .... will not abandon you to your fate if you love Him, i.e. if you keep His commandments .... And if you believe My words and desire My love, I will send you My spirit, which will guide you into the truth .... For your faith and your love shape you such that I can take abode with you in the spirit, that I can shower you with My grace in abundance, that I can be with you in the word and bring you strength, comfort and light unmeasured .... And so My spirit will enlighten you and you will be given all the gifts of heaven .... you will become knowledgeable, you will stand in fullest truth, and your earthly path will truly be a walk entirely according to My will .... You will keep My commandments because you love Me ....

Amen

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Turning away from the world brings in spiritual gain ....

B.D. 8390 from January 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Again and again My love feeds you spiritual food, again and again questions are answered for you or problems are solved because I want that you recognize Me more and more clearly and reduce the distance from Me Myself because you are supposed to feel it that I Myself am so close to you and that I live with you as it were and all daily events are wanted or allowed by me. Only when you yourselves feel intimately connected to me, your faith will have the strength that you walk your earthly way completely calmly, because you know it that I walk next to you and you can rely on me. And you will also understand it when I demand of you to turn away from the earthly world, because although you still live in the world, it is nevertheless a difference whether you still cling to it or have already overcome it, because as soon as nothing can cause you anymore to give up the intimate union with Me, the world has also lost its attraction and you no longer need to fear it as a temptation. You are truly far better off than your fellow human beings who are still attached to the world, although you .... earthly seen .... no joys and pleasures that can only be found in the world .... You seek your happiness and your inner peace elsewhere, and you will also find it. For is there anything more beautiful than to hear the voice of your father, Who speaks to you as a father speaks to his children .... full of love and kindness .... and who offers you treasures that are everlasting? As long as you still belong to the world, these treasures will not inspire you, because they are unreal for you, and you have little earthly use for them ..... And nevertheless it is the most delicious thing which can be offered to you on earth, and your soul is touched by it, which feels it exceedingly beneficent when it receives gifts from the spiritual kingdom, which is its true home ..... In earthly life the soul often cannot appreciate it, if it still clings too much to the world, which is transient, and it always only strives for what it can see and grasp .... But one day it will recognize that only spiritual treasures are valued, and it will be exceedingly happy when it possesses such treasures at its entrance into the kingdom on the other side. If I now can address My child Myself, because it has established the intimate bond with Me through prayer or unselfish works of love, then it will receive a wealth of greatest magnitude, for I do not limit My gifts of grace, I give unlimitedly, only man must also accept and utilize them voluntarily, otherwise he can also have no advantage from them .... And therefore I will also explain everything to you and give you information, what you also desire to know .... But you may only demand spiritual treasures from Me, therefore do not expect that My address refers to earthly questions and their answer, because I distribute spiritual goods unlimitedly, which however does not mean that I do not pay attention to your earthly needs .... Rather, these will be added to you if you strive for the spiritual gain as the most important thing. But who still wants to have earthly questions answered, he is not yet on the spiritual way, his senses are only earthly directed, and he will still need a long time until he also has overcome the world and strives to win the spiritual kingdom. Because this alone is your earth life aim, and if I Myself can address you, then I will always only give you knowledge of this kingdom and open up a knowledge for you, which alone concerns the spiritual processes, which are the basis of your being as man and are only explained to you so that you gain knowledge of the right nature of your God and creator, who wants to be loved by you because you once came out of his love. And such knowledge is not to be gained in the world, rather the world only serves the efforts of My opponent to keep that right knowledge away from you, because he does not want that you learn to recognize and love me, and that is why he works against Me wherever he can. But I will take care of your spiritual need, and I will truly provide you with everything you need .... I will also strengthen your body so that it can fulfill its spiritual task and the soul matures in it .... Again and again I will reveal Myself to you men, because alone you lack the strength to go the way up, but which has to be covered by you in free will, so that you reach Me again, and that with rich treasures, which started in the spiritual kingdom and will also help you again that you return to your father's house. For I do not rest until all My creatures have returned to Me as My children, so that I can now also make them immeasurably happy for all eternity .....

Amen

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Only truth leads to the goal ....

B.D. 9029 from August 11th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

You can travel a long path on earth and still not reach the goal if this path leads you astray. For this reason, I constantly send messengers of light to cross your path, even though you can reject them and ignore their advice when they show you the right path .... And I always do this because My love does not want you to be misled .... If only you paid attention to the fact that you will never go anywhere without warning, that one side will always advise you to act virtuously and with kindness, then you would always receive light, you would realise that you are living in error, and then the risk of unnecessarily prolonging your path of ascent would be over .... Then I would always be able to give you strength for constantly new loving activity, and you would soon be brightly enlightened so that you would be able to cover your earthly path without worry in order to reach the right goal. Erroneous belief is the only stumbling block for your assured progress, because error is My adversary's activity, who will do whatever he can in order to fight the pure truth .... And as long as you are subject to his rule you will resist the truth. However, I gave you common sense which you should use in the right way by pondering what reason your imperfection .... which you should be able to recognise .... could possibly have. And as soon as you seriously think about it you will also receive a satisfactory response, and although you will only believe it to be the result of your thinking you will nevertheless not be able to refute it with such compelling substantiations to the contrary that you will be fully convinced by these. For a silent admonisher was given to you which .... if you are honest with yourselves .... can be recognised as My voice ....

Everything will be easy for you if you only recognise a God and Creator above yourselves and willingly submit yourselves to Him. Then I Myself will guide you, and truly on a path which will not appear laborious to you, for I Myself Am the support for you which you should hold on to, which you will not lose again, for I will guide you until you have reached your goal. I only expect this belief of you, otherwise you will walk lonely and forsaken through earthly life and become a plaything for the one who wants to lead you toward the abyss. You only need to be offered the pure truth, which shines like a bright light and will make you very happy .... For truth comes forth from Me, and sooner or later it will be offered to every person, yet it has to be voluntarily accepted because it cannot be imparted by force .... Not even My adversary can force you to reject the truth .... your attitude towards the truth and thus also towards Me is entirely up to you. But one day you will be triumphant over the one who wanted to lead you into error when you are able to confront him with the truth. And then you will be illuminated again as you were in the beginning, when you possessed brightest realisation and were blissfully happy. Therefore, take notice of My messengers who stand by the wayside and still want to kindle a small light for everyone, and listen to them without objection, even if you can't instantly agree with the contents of their message you should nevertheless think about it and let Me, your God and Creator, be part of it .... and I will truly guide your thoughts right and also always draw your attention to any error, so that you won't accept it without checking it. Thereby you already testify to wanting to know the truth, and this will be taken into account. For the greatest evil is the fact that the earthly world is only based on error, since it shelters the spirits which once fell away from Me and which My adversary plunged into wrong thinking .... so that they will not be released from it until the pure truth prevails, but which the human being has to do himself by using his own free will. For this reason there is only a little light amongst people but everyone can attain light if he has the serious will and hands himself over to Me with complete trust so that I can guide him into truth .... so that he then will also receive it according to his will ....

Amen

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

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

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

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

Amen

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The help of God and the beings of light from the loneliness

Jesus came to the weak, sick and needy ....

B.D. 5282 from December 27th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

I came into the world for the weak, sick and needy, for the strong and healthy did not require Me, they found their own way, at least they believed they could, and only when they went astray did they recognise their weakness and called for Me .... when their own strength did not suffice to master their lives. All those who call for Me, who need Me, are weak and their souls are ailing, and all those will be helped by Me, because by calling for Me they acknowledge their distressed state, from which they hope to be rescued by Me. All you humans are weak and ill, and good for those who recognise it .... However, those who feel strong and healthy are in a bad way, for they cannot be helped .... And there are many who believe that they don't need help, there are many who are convinced of their own strength and very easily use the strength of the one who wants to gain them for himself, who increases their arrogant belief and therefore gives them strength, but not without a service in return .... He wants the soul and in exchange gives the body what it wants ....

I, however, Am the physician of the sick and weak, I Am the comforter of the sorrowful and the hope of the disheartened .... They all come to Me and they will not ask in vain, I agree to help them all even if they do not experience it immediately. But in that case I also know why, and yet you are not abandoned, for no one who calls to Me for help from the bottom of his heart will ever call to Me in vain. Come unto Me, all you who are weak and heavily laden, I will refresh you .... Thus I have promised you My help, and so you will certainly receive it .... Always remember this when you are confronted by hardship, when you feel physically or psychologically distressed, when earthly life is a heavy burden to you, when you need help. Then remember that I once and at any time came to the poor, sick and weak and only await your call to reveal Myself to you, but that I want to be called upon, so that you freely recognise your weakness and ask for Me, your physician and helper, that your call demonstrates your faith that I can and will help you .... and I will never allow this faith to be destroyed ....

Amen

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

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Presence of God safest protection

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

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

Amen

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Guardian spirit .... Spiritual guides ....

B.D. 6636 from September 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

A loyal spiritual guide accompanies you throughout your earthly life wherever you might go .... You are never without spiritual protection, and if this guide, as well as the beings of light surrounding you, were permitted to work unrestrictedly, your full maturing on this earth would be guaranteed, since their love for you leads them to do whatever will help you to ascend. But they are not allowed to affect you unreservedly because your will itself is imposing restrictions on them .... They, too, are only able to influence you according to this will, and you humans often prevent the activity of the beings which guide you due to your opposing will. Nevertheless, your guides will not abandon you and will keep trying to exert their influence until you die. Hence you are constantly surrounded by guardian spirits, and you can always turn to them for help, yet they are only permitted to help if you have established the bond with Me first, for it is the law that the beings of light only ever implement My will, that they only ever act in accordance with My will.

Thus a God-loving-person can live a truly carefree earthly life .... because he will always be granted much loving support if he, after heartfelt prayer to Me, hands himself over to My helpers and also asks for their protection and support. These guardian spirits and guides are permeated by light and strength; consequently it is easily possible for them to shape your earthly existence such that it will be bearable for you .... They are able to resolve adversities which confront you on an earthly level or which arise through the influence of evil forces ....

These spiritual guardians are instructed by Me to take care of you as soon as you have established your bond with Me through your will, through your attitude, through labours of love and through prayer. Thus a person devoted to Me can always rest assured that he is protected by Me directly, and My heavenly servants merely implement My will .... And My will always has your well-being at heart, since you have already given yourselves to Me and desire My protection.

And thus you know that you are never alone, regardless of how lonely or abandoned by the world you believe yourselves to be .... You are surrounded by a host of helpful spiritual beings which, instructed by your spiritual guardian, take care of you and protect you from physical and spiritual harm.

But it would be wrong if you only made contact with these beings due to a certain sense of superstition, if you saw in them anything else but My servants who are only allowed to help you once you have established the connection with Me .... For as soon as you call upon spiritual beings for help without faith in Me and without love for Me you will call upon adverse forces and place yourselves under their control .... For these adverse forces, too, are in your vicinity and only waiting for the opportunity to take possession of you, and this opportunity always presents itself when I Am excluded from your thoughts, when you live and act without Me on this earth .... In that case even your spiritual guide will be unable to take precedence, since your will does not allow for it.

And then the adverse forces will be especially busy, which you are just as able to feel around you as the good beings which work on My behalf. But you will invariably fall prey to these evil forces since they are very powerful and they will use this power because your will is giving them the right to do so .... However, you need never fear these evil forces if your will only ever applies to Me and you commend yourselves to My protection. In that case I have numerous helpers at My side wanting to be of service to you. And then the path of your earthly life will always be under the protection of your spiritual guide, whom I placed by your side Myself from the time of your birth until your death ....

Amen

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Rescue work of the beings of light on the people entrusted to them ....

B.D. 7012 from January 8th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

What happens in the spiritual kingdom is hidden from you humans, but the beings of light know about the fate that awaits earth and its inhabitants. And therefore they are extremely eager to carry out rescue work and to touch all people through events of various kinds in order to make them think and then to gain entrance for themselves in the form of thoughts. Again and again they try to do this with those who are entrusted to them, to whom they were assigned as guardian spirits at the beginning of their human existence. Their concern is for them from birth until death. And with love and zeal they fulfil this task, which is not always easy when people resist their influence and go their own ways. For the beings of light are not allowed to use any coercion either, and it is precisely the human being's freedom of will that often makes the act of saving his soul difficult. But thousands of possibilities are at their disposal, and they always take advantage of these possibilities because they know how close the end is and what fate awaits the souls they could not win. But they also often have to try to reach their aim in a painful way, they cannot spare them hardship and suffering of all kinds because these first grant them access, because only then people direct their thoughts differently than before. Since the beings of light now know what is coming as well as the state of maturity of the souls entrusted to them, no delay is advisable, they cannot wait until people's thinking slowly changes, they have to anticipate and forcibly shake that thinking, for their love determines them to do so if the souls are not to get lost. And from God they also have the power to act according to their discretion, for it is only God's will which fulfils them and impels them to their course of action. And if you humans look at every disaster, every case of misfortune and every sorrowful event in such a way that many beings of light struggle for their charges and that all these beings of light therefore participate in carrying out rescue work for the souls of the affected and their relatives, then the accumulation of such sorrowful events will also be understandable to you, for those beings of light recognized them as a possibility and therefore also used them. The love of those beings of light for the unhappy souls who still dwell in darkness is overwhelming and they want to bring them light. For this reason there will always be agreement in the spiritual kingdom as soon as rescue possibilities are planned, because they are all full of love for people on earth and also recognize in their wisdom what advantage sorrowful events offer which you humans are unable to comprehend. The spiritual turning point which will come will also have an effect in the spiritual kingdom in increased willingness to help, and wherever there is only the possibility to come to the aid of a soul it will also be utilized. And therefore every vineyard labourer on earth will always experience the support of the world of light, and their rescue work will be a joint one in that the beings of light will also induce them to carry out certain vineyard work, that is, the labourers in the vineyard of the lord will very often be guided in their activity by these beings of light, because their only endeavour is to open human hearts, to direct people's thoughts into the kingdom of the beyond .... so that the beings of light can then continue their work and also help and advise the people whose well-being and salvation they look after .... Everything is arranged according to God's wise plan, and you humans will be guided as long as you allow yourselves to be guided and don't resist it. But in the end time everything will be rushed, hurried and piled up .... For the time is hastening and the end is near ....

Amen

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Effect of the spirit on the immature particles ....

B.D. 7701 from September 16th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

When you hear My word in your heart then all unspiritual things must leave you, for My word is divine light and divine strength from which that which resists Me flees. Therefore don't pay attention to the adversities which sometimes cling to you physically but remain in remembrance of Me, listen to Me and don't give space to anything else in your thoughts, and you will be and remain victorious over the evil which tries to oppress you in order to turn you away from Me. The power of My word will penetrate and always give you the upper hand. And therefore you should not be afraid but only ever believe. For I am truly stronger than the one who wants to separate you from Me, and I can use My strength if only you have the same will: to remain united with Me. It is a long path you have already travelled and you have also covered it successfully if you have striven for and found the bond with Me. And you only have a short way to go, which may still be made difficult for you by My adversary who, in his blindness, believes that he can still win you back for himself and therefore does not let go of you. But you should always know that I will no longer let anything fall into his hands which has consciously entered into a bond with Me .... you should know that he can no longer harm you, that he can only still oppress your body, because he seeks to determine everything still immature spiritual in you to work according to his will. But even these substances will calm down if you yourselves adjust yourselves such that you take pity on this still unredeemed spiritual substance and want to help it to join your striving and walk the path of ascent together with you .... Love achieves everything, and all still unredeemed particles in you need love in order to calm down and then also to be at your will. And as soon as your nature is full of love My adversary can no longer influence you because he flees love. But the immature substances in you also feel love beneficially and let go of their oppressions, they keep quiet and can also be persuaded to change and comply with the spirit's desire in you if you repeatedly try to oppose them with the strength of My word .... if you immerse yourselves in My word and thereby the flow of strength from Me constantly flows into you, which can truly bring about a great change of nature in you if only this is your serious will. You need not fear that you will become weak, that you will succumb to the oppressions of immature beings .... The strength of My word protects you from this, and this is the only thing you should try out and again and again listen to or read My word .... you should be spiritually active and not pay attention to the physical afflictions .... And they will give way if they are no match for the power of My word. For you who join yourselves to Me in the earnest will to become and remain Mine for all eternity .... you will truly also constantly enjoy My protection, for as soon as you only allow Me to be present to you, you will also be under the influence of My strength, and this will truly be master over all spiritual substances which try to oppress you ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s help during the end time

Reference to a natural disaster .... Urgent admonition to prepare ....

B.D. 3949 from January 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 49

My call goes to all those of you who receive My Word: Prepare yourselves for the coming time which will considerably change your circumstances of life, which will confront you with immense spiritual and earthly tasks and which you therefore cannot take seriously enough if you don't want to damage to your soul. For you must already draw strength in advance because overwhelming requirements will be demanded of you, both spiritually as well as earthly. Earthly life will burden you so heavily that you will only be able to endure it with Me and My help, and therefore you must first of all remain in contact with Me, you must not waver in your faith and think that I have forsaken you, for you can only find comfort and strength in your faith in Me, then you will come to Me and I will help you. And although many people around you will lose faith in view of the immense adversity which will irrevocably occur .... remain steadfast and devoted to Me in your heart and you will feel Me and My presence, you will always find the help which I had promised you. As yet you are unable to believe that which I have proclaimed to you time and again, as yet it still seems questionable to you that I Myself will visibly appear .... Nevertheless, the hour comes constantly closer and with it a complete change of your normal living conditions .... And you should prepare yourselves for this already by detaching yourselves from all material things in advance, by leaving your further lifestyle entirely up to Me and in complete faith in Me only take care of your soul. For regardless of how much care you take you will be unable to keep earthly things if I consider it more helpful for you to lose them .... Yet whatever I want you to keep will not be touched by the forces of nature through which I will manifest Myself.

Believe that I direct everyone's fate according to My love and wisdom and that any anxious worry by you is unfounded. I Myself look after My Own such that they will still be able to achieve as much maturity of soul as possible on Earth.

The time until the end is but short and for many people it will also signify a shortened life on earth; they should and would indeed be able to reach the goal, even in a shorter time, because My love makes every opportunity available to them. Therefore, take My Words seriously, count on a speedy end and on the natural disaster beforehand, and expect it daily, for it will come suddenly, even for My Own. And utterly entrust yourselves to Me .... I will never ever leave you if only you remember Me, and if you call upon Me in your heart I will hear you. Yet make full use of the time before, let go of all earthly striving and only try to gain spiritual benefits. And remain faithful to Me even in times of greatest adversity and you will have Me as a constant helper by your side, you will evidently experience My often miraculous help, for I have promised you this and My Word is and remains eternal truth. Believe in this and also in the forthcoming great time of adversity and prepare yourselves for it by constantly drawing strength from My Word, by seeking Me more sincerely then ever and by remaining in constant contact with Me through prayer and actions of love, for you will need much strength so as not to falter when I manifest Myself through the forces of nature .... However, don't fear anything regardless of what will happen, for I will protect My Own so that they will be strong supporters for Me during the last days before the end, who shall help to spread My Word in order that souls of good will shall still be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Calm before the storm .... Visible appearance of the Lord ....

B.D. 4126 from September 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A time of anxious misery and suffering lies before you and you can regard the time prior to this, the time in which you presently live, as the calm before the storm, during which you can still live your life within the scope of tradition, during which you can still speak of a certain extent of prosperity compared to the poverty and the deprivation which await you afterwards. And yet it will be a time of grace, a time when I will be clearly recognisable, when life will only be bearable if you deeply unite yourselves with Me in your thoughts, since then you will never be alone but will always be able to have Me as your protection. And I will also manifestly reveal Myself to you, I will approach individual people in the shape of the One Who harboured Me in all fullness within Himself. And I will be recognised wherever people's love for Me is strong, even if I dwell as a human being amongst people, for My eyes will tell them who I AM, and their hearts will come aglow with such burning love for Me as they would never be able to offer to a fellow human being. I will come to meet them with ardent love, I will illuminate them where they lack knowledge and comfort them in hours of distress and they will be able to overcome the most difficult situations and not despair, for they will sense My help, and wherever I visibly approach them they will be full of strength and profound faith. And once this fills a human heart no oppressive adversity will be able to exist anymore, for then they will only utterly rely on Me and I will truly not disappoint their faith. Yet anyone who lives without Me will hardly be able to endure this time. I cannot leave him in his spiritual adversity and will therefore have to sorely strike him with earthly adversity until his opposition against Me slackens, until he starts to believe and expects help from Me ....

Thus all of you will be subjected to anxious distress and suffering through which I want to win you over completely. Nevertheless, you also have abundant strength and grace at your disposal which will help you to gain Me. I only want your love and once I own it I will come to meet you .... in the last days even visibly in order to strengthen your and other people's faith, because you are in need of extraordinary strengthening and consolation. Consequently, you won't need to fear the difficult time ahead of you either, for you will survive it with My help. Nevertheless, it will remain a time of grace, and the yoke I impose upon you will be an easy one if only you make correct use of the gift of grace. To be allowed to behold Me with your physical eyes is truly worth the cross you will have to bear until the end. Yet I will also offer Myself as a bearer of the cross to those who take refuge in Me and appeal to Me for My help .... And for their sake I will shorten the days until the end. I know every individual person's problems, and those who are faithful to Me are My true children who will really not call upon Me in vain for help. Therefore don't let My announcement frighten you, approach the coming events determinedly and calmly, detach yourselves from the world and wait for Me .... And I will come .... at first appearing to individual people, in order to then fetch My Own into My kingdom .... in order to lead them away from the place of perdition into to the kingdom of peace, where their life will be as blissful as in paradise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exhortation not to forget God .... coming need ....

B.D. 5088 from March 19th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The call from above goes out to all of you: Do not forget Me so that you will not be helpless and alone when the great adversity comes upon you. For in this adversity no one earthly will be able to help you, then you will only be dependent on My help, yet you will not call upon Him Who could help you because you have forgotten Him. But to forget Me means to be the servant of the one who is My adversary. For if you forget Me, My adversary has won you over and you must be in bondage to him. Yet he cannot help you in the great coming adversity and therefore you will be lonely and forsaken and inevitably abandoned to ruin if you don't still turn to the one Who gave you life in the last hour. For the adversity will become so severe and your helplessness in the face of it can make you remember Me, for I Myself come close to you through this adversity in order to remind you of Me. Nature will speak to you with a voice of thunder, its roaring and roaring will cause you to be terrified, yet you will not be able to escape, death will threaten you from all sides and people will not be able to help and save you from your situation, which I did not put you into without intention. You shall be reminded of Me again, Whom you well know but have forgotten .... you shall also recognize My reign and activity in the elements of nature .... You shall experience Me, for it is I Myself Who speaks to you through the elements of nature .... And you must listen to this voice, and good for him who recognizes it as My voice .... good for him who feels himself addressed and allows My voice to penetrate his heart .... good for him who does not let Me speak in vain but goes within himself and converses with Me .... I will teach him with love, I will reproach him for his sin, for having gone without Me in this world .... but I will also accept him into My little flock and he will never regret having followed My powerful words from on high .... Then you will firmly stand by Me and My adversary will no longer have power over you, for those who have then found their way to Me will also remain faithful to Me, they will never be alone and abandoned, and even the adversity will be bearable for them, because I, Who send them upon you humans for your own sake, can also remedy them again when the time is right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus – your constant companion

Purifying the heart ....

B.D. 7367 from May 19th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

I want to be the only ruler in My house, and therefore you should have discarded everything if you want to receive Me in your heart, for there may not be any space for the other one anymore, because I cannot dwell where he still resides. It is certainly a difficult task for you to completely purify your heart, to cast off all cravings, to fight against all faults and weaknesses and to prepare your heart for Me as an abode where everything is bright and clear and where I can subsequently stay in order to make you already happy on earth as well as one day in eternity. For My presence will result in this beatitude, My presence will not remain ineffective, My presence signifies for you the soul's increasing maturity, wisdom and strength to accomplish that which was previously impossible for you. When I Am within of you, you will no longer feel lonely and forsaken; you will know yourselves safe and secure at your Father's heart, that you will no longer be threatened by dangers, that My adversary will no longer be able to oppress you and that you are ever closer to your perfection, because your unity with Me is assured to you, which means everything to you. But first you will have to purify your hearts, you must do everything in your power to throw out the one who wants to possess you forever but who is your ruin. But I, too, want to take abode in you and possess you forever; however, I cannot share you with him, your heart must be entirely My possession, and this can only happen if your love belongs entirely to Me, and that means that you no longer desire or would like to possess anything else but Me alone ....

Hence, all earthly craving must have been eradicated; you should not desire anything else but only to be your Father's child and to be able to communicate like children with your Father. And heartfelt contact also requires a heartfelt union, the child must be close to the Father, the Father must be with His child .... thus take abode in your hearts. You are unaware of the supreme bliss felt by the child when it feels utterly secure in the Father's arms, when it is no longer afraid, when it no longer needs to fear adversity, hardship or persecutions, when it has found peace within itself, which only heartfelt Fatherly love can bestow on the child. And all of you can attain this peace if only you are serious about purifying your heat so that you will be able to receive Me in it .... All anxiety will disappear, all restlessness will leave you, weaknesses and afflictions will be unknown to you, you will take your paths in strength and clarity because you will no longer walk alone but will live your earthly life in constant company with Me and thus your enemy .... My adversary .... will no longer be able to pressurise you either, since he will no longer find any crevice in which he could hide, for My presence in your heart has made it so bright that he is no longer able to hide anywhere, for he takes flight from the light and even more from My presence. Therefore, if you want to attain inner peace then you should merely allow Me to move into your heart and purify it from everything which might still prevent Me from entering .... And I want to help you with this work as soon as I perceive that you yearn for My presence .... Then I will grant you the strength to do everything in your power in order to make your heart worthy as an abode for Me, and I will gladly move in and remain with you forever, for I then will never leave My child again once it has completely handed itself over to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The true peace ....

B.D. 6580 from June 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is not the world that can bring you peace, but I alone can give you true peace .... And therefore you should not neglect to approach Me Myself for inner peace for you and your fellow human beings. For on the part of the world many things will still assail you and worry your heart, but I can pour oil on troubled waters, I can lower peace into your heart so that you can truly live peacefully in the midst of the world, in the midst of greatest turmoil and commotion, because you feel My presence. Wherever I am there is peace, and therefore ensure that I can be with you, then nothing will be able to touch you and nothing will be able to shake you, for I Myself will spread My hands over you .... "I give you what the world cannot give you" .... peace in Me .... And even if you have to go through this world, the confidence that I walk beside you, that you do not walk alone through the valley of the earth, gives you that feeling of inner peace, the peace in Me. And what can the world do to you if you feel safe in My presence .... if you entrust yourselves to the One Who is stronger than the world, if you win His love through your will to be and to remain His .... Then the storms may rage around you, you will not hear them because I command them to spare you. Only strive for this inner peace because it proves your bond with Me, and give Me the right to always walk next to you through this intimate bond with Me, or rather: Want to be Mine and only ever achieve the goal set for you, to mature spiritually. Then the world will take second place by itself because you turn away from it. But do not seek to find inner peace in the world .... For the world cannot give what it does not possess itself, because it is the realm of the one who tries to mix up everything and therefore also makes all people become peaceless who pay homage to his world .... For he does not love peace but will constantly seek to disturb it. And the more disturbing things are in the world the more clearly his activity emerges. And therefore I warn you time and again about the world, and I admonish you to take refuge in Me if you want to find peace, for all of you will still be in commotion because of the events which emanate from the world .... All of you will be in very difficult situations and will only be able to escape to Me so that I may give you what you are deprived of .... the peace of the soul .... And therefore you know who is at work when you are seized by uneasiness, when you are frightened an run into trouble, when you feel lonely and abandoned .... And then I only wait for your call to come to you and accompany you on your path through life. And then peace which the world cannot give you will enter your heart, which can only be found with Me and in Me, and which you will need in the time to come. Then your gaze will always be directed heavenwards, your thoughts will dwell with Me and in My kingdom, and the world will have lost its horrors for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Contact with Jesus Christ in every adversity ....

B.D. 6363 from September 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You humans must be in heartfelt contact with Jesus Christ if you want to release yourselves from all flaws and weaknesses, from vices and cravings, from all kinds of bad habits .... if you want to become perfect. He alone can help you achieve it, and He will do so if you appeal for it and thereby testify to your faith in Him as the divine Redeemer. Therefore, as soon as you have to struggle, as soon as you are inwardly dissatisfied with yourselves, turn only to Him, for He fully understands every human weakness, because He lived on earth Himself as the human being Jesus .... But He also has the means to help you .... He strengthens your will and gives you the necessary strength for it from His treasure of grace, which He acquired through His death on the cross .... You will not take the path to Him in vain, you will definitely receive help if only you desire help .... And thus you should always take care to establish and maintain the connection with Him. No-one else can grant you help, He alone can and also wants to do so, because it is His Own will that you should become free from all shackles which pull you down, it is His Own will that you should regain your past perfection, so that He can admit you into His kingdom when you must leave this earth. He wants you to return into your Father's house to become as happy again as you were in the beginning .... For this reason He will do everything in His power to make this return possible for you, and He will not hold back His gifts of grace, for He descended to earth in order to help you, because you were no longer capable of ascending to the light on your own .... He died for you humans on the cross and does not want to have made this sacrifice in vain, it is His will that all people shall partake in the blessings of the sacrifice on the cross .... that they will all reach the goal for which He sacrificed Himself ....

However, you must come to Him yourselves, you must entrust yourselves to Him in your distress and appeal for His help and it will be given to you. For this reason you should always become conscious of His presence .... You need only call Him to your side with a thought and He will walk beside you wherever you go .... The mental contact with Him will assure His presence, and if Jesus Christ is close to you, you will speak to Him like a brother and confide in Him; tell Him everything that bothers you, but let your requests be more of a spiritual nature, even though you will also receive His full support in earthly adversities .... But first consider the state of your soul and, if you discover imperfections, approach Jesus Christ trustingly with the plea to release you from every shackle, from every evil which separates you from Him. Treat Jesus Christ with the same familiarity as you treat your brother, and don't be shy to reveal even your most secret faults and sins to Him. His love is infinite and He will forgive them and help you achieve complete freedom because you acknowledge Him, because you believe in Him and His act of Salvation. Yet no-one who excludes Him from his life, who does not acknowledge Jesus' act of Salvation and God's human manifestation in Him, can cope with his faults and vices by himself, for he will lack all strength and his resolve to seriously tackle the work of changing his nature will be weak .... He will not be able to achieve anything until he has entrusted himself to the divine Redeemer .... for every person who wants to be released from the control of God's adversary must call upon Jesus Christ and hand himself over to Him with complete trust .... Only then can he be saved, only then will he have the strength to change himself in order to enter the spiritual kingdom in a redeemed state, in order to return into the Father's house for good ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Constantly calling upon Jesus ensures His presence ....

B.D. 7356 from May 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Rest assured that I will not abandon those of you who want to be My Own. Many trials will still come upon you but I Am aware of them and will always stand by your side as protection. Nevertheless, you should do everything in your power in order to stand up to these trials. My adversary is entitled to prove himself on you, because he will only govern this world for a short time longer and will try to hold on to his followers by any means. And he will also notice My Own who had withdrawn themselves from his power and will put them to the test with increased strength. However, you need not be afraid of him, for I will not let My Own be snatched from Me, I will protect My Own from him and his power. You have a reliable means of repelling him by only ever calling upon Me Myself, by voicing My name with profound faith in My help; even if it is just a thought .... But you must always turn to Me Myself, and you will liberate yourselves from him. He has not much power over My Own anymore, because your love for Me repels everything, no matter what he does to you. However, he frequently uses means which will cause you great difficulties, and yet you need not fear them either if you always bear Me in mind Who, on the cross, carried everything for you that burdened you as guilt of sin. I have redeemed you, I have liberated you from his control, and thus you only need your own will to accept My sacrifice on the cross, to regard it as having been accomplished for you and believe that My adversary will have no more power over you once you have voluntarily handed yourselves over to Me. Remember Me at all hours and you will induce Me to always be present with you .... What can possibly happen to you when I Am close to you? .... You need not be afraid of anything and anyone, for even the usually powerful adversary is powerless once I Am by your side, and the fact that I will remain by your side is entirely determined by your will not to exclude Me from your thoughts, to call upon Me in every adversity and distress and to utter My name in confidence of receiving My assistance, which I promise you at all times. Just let your faith come alive through constant kind-hearted activity and you will no longer be exposed to any adversity, for a living faith banishes every spiritual and earthly adversity, a living faith knows no fear and no failure, a living faith is united work with Me Myself, Who can’t be matched by any opponent, Who is victorious over the greatest enemy and to Whom you should therefore completely hand yourselves over, because then you will be and remain My Own and will never ever have to fear anything again .... For My love belonged to you from the very start and My love will never stop .... And so the Father will also protect His child from all danger threatened by the enemy, He will walk by its side and spread out His hands protectively, and the child’s every path will be smooth so that it will safely reach the goal.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I am with you all the days .... "

B.D. 8363 from December 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

"I am with you always, even to the end .... "You are never abandoned, even if you are burdened with earthly hardship, for there is always one Who is ready to help you .... I always walk beside you as soon as you only allow My presence, as soon as you consciously request My guidance. Hence you yourselves determine whether I can stay with you, for as soon as inner resistance is still put up against Me I withdraw, i.e. you will then not be able to feel My love either, even if it never gives up on you .... But I have promised you that I will remain with you until the end. And you can truly believe this promise, because every word that flows out of My mouth is truth .... But if I am with you, you need not fear any disaster either, for I can avert it and also want to avert it if you unite with Me through prayer and activity of love. Thus you, who want to belong to My own, are constantly under My care .... And I constantly give you proof of this by speaking to you as a father speaks to his children .... I admonish and warn you, I make My will known to you and inform you about My nature so that love for Me will ignite in you which then also guarantees My constant presence .... But you will experience what it means to be present to you in the coming time when it will storm and roar around you, when you will have to go through a time of tribulation because it has to come for the sake of the whole of humanity if individual people are still to be saved from ruin .... You, who are Mine, will certainly constantly experience My protection and My help, but the magnitude of the adversity will also demand a strong faith from you, otherwise you will not be able to withstand the tribulations you are exposed to by My adversary and in which you shall prove yourselves .... You need not fear this time of adversity, for as soon as you commend yourselves to Me, as soon as you call upon Me, I will always be present to you, for I promised you this when I Myself walked across the earth .... Only allow this presence of Mine to be with you by asking for it, by not allowing yourselves to be captured by the world, which will approach you overpoweringly with its temptations .... But you would make a bad exchange, for it is transient, just as everything that is around you will very soon fall prey to destruction, as it is announced through word and scripture .... And what people possess they will lose and stand poor and naked on the day of judgment. But you can always know yourselves to be safe in My protection, and your possessions will truly be imperishable; they will secure your entrance into the kingdom of light if you depart before the end of this earth .... or enter a life in the paradise of the new earth, which you will then enter with great wealth and can now work in bliss. And then you will be allowed to experience Me Myself, then My promise will obviously come true, for 'I will stay with you ....‘ because you show Me the love which makes My presence with you humans possible .... Always remember these words of Mine and don't be afraid whatever may come, for I have foretold to you that a time of tribulation will pass over the earth which heralds the near end and which also has to be endured by My own .... but the strength to do so will be supplied to you at any time .... And you should acquire much strength beforehand, you should always open yourselves to Me and allow My presence in you so that your faith will become unshakeable and you will no longer let go of My hand which guides you and lovingly leads you through all adversity .... And if you do not leave Me out of your thoughts I will not leave you either, I will fill you with extraordinary strength in every hour so that you will feel My presence and constantly give Me more love which will unite you ever more intimately with Me .... for one redemption period will be concluded and a new one will begin, as I have predicted from the beginning of this period through seers and prophets .... And everything will come to pass, for My word is truth .... And this word of Mine you can hear until the end, for I remain with you, and My presence is proven by My address to you who desire to hear Me, who want to be and remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Help for abandoned, unredeemed souls in the hereafter

Friendship of the lord .... prematurely call-up ....

B.D. 6678 from October 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

How lonely you humans are without Me, even though you can list many earthly friends .... They can leave you every hour, they can be called away every hour and leave you alone, and no-one can guarantee you that he will be there to help you when you need him. For these friends of yours are people who are not yet perfect and therefore can also fail .... But if you have chosen Me as your friend and brother, if you have joined Me, then you can also safely count on Me in every adversity and distress, for I will never leave you, I will never leave you or stand idly by if you get into trouble. You can be called immeasurably rich if you have gained My friendship, which is extremely easy if only you want this friendship, if it is your desire to surrender to Me with all your love. For I, too, long for you and therefore immediately come to meet you when I recognize your will. An earthly path without Me will never lead to success, and even if you are granted a regular earthly life with apparent success .... But the soul gains nothing during its earthly life, and this has therefore been lived in vain. This is why I say: How lonely you humans are without Me, because I thereby describe the soul's fate, which has no-one at its side to help it to perfection. If only all people would at least make an attempt to entrust themselves to their God and creator, their father from eternity, to give Him a place in their hearts and to let Him advise them as a friend and brother .... But where faith in Me is lacking or where faith is only a dead one, I am not remembered there and My help is not utilized either, but earthly life is consciously lived out with a self-assurance which clearly indicates by whom people are dominated. And their souls remain lonely because the worldly friends cannot give it what it needs. A life without Me cannot lead to the aim, and therefore I very often end a person's earthly progress prematurely in order to still give him the opportunity to progress one step further in the kingdom of the beyond, which is also still questionable but nevertheless possible .... And before the end of this earth My mercy still has to inflict many a wound which can contribute to a healing of the sick soul, be it through a sudden call-up of this or also through hardship and suffering of a different kind which can already have an educative effect on the human being in earthly life .... I have to put them into such hardship that they look around for a helper in order to then approach them Myself, in order to then be recognized by them as a friend and brother to Whom they now entrust themselves unconditionally. A life without Me is an empty run .... and it will therefore mostly be accompanied by earthly success, because My adversary can work where My presence is excluded. But I try to approach every person, and therefore every person will also have to struggle unusually at times and experience failure, and then I expect his attention to Me .... If this is in vain then My adversary will be at work again and the distance from Me will constantly increase .... The soul becomes increasingly more wretched and My mercy then often releases it from its shell, and then the struggle for this soul begins in the beyond so that it will recognize its loneliness and wretched state there and now turn to the one Who alone can help it .... But one day its remorse will be very great when it realizes how little earthly life was of use to it and how little it achieved because it did not let Me walk beside it, Who truly would have guided it correctly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Entrance to eternity .... many stages .... kingdom of light - darkness ....

B.D. 1387 from April 21st 1940, taken from Book No. 23

The gate to eternity has to be passed through by every human being .... and likewise every being which has once taken the path on earth also has to go through the embodiment as a human being, consequently every being is once faced with the task of shedding its earthly shell and passing bodilessly into the kingdom of the beyond. But how different this transition from the earthly realm into the eternal kingdom can be. This transition does not always mean redemption for the being, i.e. liberation from all fetters, although all earthly body weight falls away from it. However, the bondage it now feels can be far more burdensome than the earthly shell ever was for the being .... But it is also possible for an immensely free, happiness-inducing state to replace the previous earthly life and for the being to be relieved of all torment, all fetters and all suffering. For example, a person living in poverty on earth can expect the most marvellous fate in the beyond and nothing will remind him of his earthly state, for his life from now on is light, freedom and unspeakable happiness. Again, many a person exchanges an earthly life in full comfort, joys and physical pleasures for a miserable existence in the beyond, where he lacks everything that could make his present life bearable. And this change is unspeakably bitter for the being as long as it realizes its own guilt and regocnizes its unused life on earth as well as the endlessly long life on earth before. For now the memories of the many previous stages it had lived through emerge in it, and the more it realizes this the more agonizing its state becomes, while the liberated being likewise sees this spiritual development and praises and glorifies God above all else for His kindness and care which made its final liberation possible. Thus the transition into the kingdom of the beyond will reveal an inconceivable number of spiritual levels. The beings who awaken in a radiant fullness of light will only be few, but the dark forms will be indescribably many and the awakening for them terrible. For their sojourn is just as dark and lightless as their state of soul, they enter those spheres which correspond to their state of maturity .... They have never desired light during their life on earth, and they have now been granted the fate they aspired to on earth. They are not treated unjustly but receive what they asked for .... They are in an environment that completely fulfils what their spiritual state demands. But correspondingly blessed are those who already desired the light on earth, for it shines for them in all its fullness and power. The striving of the spirit on earth now has an effect in the beyond, for the human being has previously accumulated wealth, which now brings about his blissful state. Now there is no other difference between the beings than that of the strength of light .... But woe to those beings who lack the light, who have never desired it and are still fleeing .... Oppression, sadness, indignation and darkness is their fate, and this cannot be changed at will as long as the desire for light is not awakened in the being. The being has to suffer, i.e. it is deprived of something although its will does not desire it .... it feels the torment of darkness and yet does not try to escape it because this darkness simultaneously inhibits the will, and this through its own fault. Only the desire for light lets the will become active, but rarely does a being in the beyond desire light which has rejected it on earth. This is the regrettable fact that the human being's attitude on earth rarely changes in the beyond, that the being often remains in the same rejection for an inconceivably long time .... and that it cannot be forcibly guided towards realization .... but that the beings then also have no opportunity to behold the spiritually mature since they would be unable to endure its abundance of light in their imperfect state .... that therefore no visible evidence can be given to them again which could change their wrong attitude. For such proof would again only judge them, i.e. lead them forcibly to realization. In every state, no matter how devoid of light it may be, the being must try to free itself, it must want to become free and only then will it feel light around itself. Yet everything full of light sees and regocnizes the glory of God .... It sees things it was previously unaware of, it sees the correlation of all creation, it is in the knowledge and is therefore also close to God .... for God is the light Which illuminates all these beings. And so the entrance to the life beyond is always a separation of light and darkness .... a separation of the beings who were in the desire for God and those who only knew the world and its goods .... The former consciously desired the light, the latter the prince of darkness, and thus everyone will receive what he desires during his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The souls' state of darkness in the beyond and help by beings of light ....

B.D. 3952 from January 4th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

And your share will be light or darkness. You will stay in the light if you had allowed the light to enter you, if you had let it flow into your hearts and thereby dispelled the darkness you lived in until you were touched by the light from the heavens. However, if you avoid the light darkness will be your fate .... And spiritual darkness means wandering about lonely, it means being all alone in darkest surroundings without goal and without hope for a change in your situation. Hence a soul staying in darkness in the beyond suffers indescribably, since previously it had physical eyesight enabling it to recognise everything surrounding it, but now it will require spiritual vision in order to behold spiritual things, however, the soul will be spiritually completely blind. And thus it will stay in a dismally barren region, and if it encounters other souls it will be unable to recognise them and thus will have to depend on other soul's help for guidance, for providing it with an occasional glimmer of light to recognise its environment.

The enlightened souls, however, will take care of such poor souls, yet their help is limited according to God's will, for they are not allowed to give light to them against their will. As long as the soul does not miss the light it has to languish in darkness, no matter how long it will last. It has to long for light, its condition has to become intolerable, and it must demand a change of its situation, only then will the bearers of light approach and provide it with a small glimmer of their light .... they will offer a few explanations and, depending on its willingness to listen and to accept them, the light will then take effect on the soul.

Its insufferable situation can awaken or enhance the soul's willingness to help as soon as it encounters other suffering souls. It will clearly recognise the suffering even though it is unable to recognise much, and as soon as the suffering of these souls stimulates its will to help it will become brighter within and the opportunity to help a suffering soul will present itself. Then it will feel an influx of strength, and it will use this strength to render assistance and in turn will be assisted itself by the beings of light, which will never leave such a soul again. It will receive because it gives, because love will have awakened within and every activity of love on earth as well as in the beyond results in receiving strength; strength and love, however, are always together .... its will becomes stronger and its realisation will grow .... The darkness is penetrated, and for the time being it will give way to a twilight which is followed by a golden dawn .... when the sun of the spirit has risen, that is, when the soul receives knowledge on every subject from the beings of light, which delights the soul and will impel it into constant actions of love, that is, into giving of what it owns itself, to souls which still languish in utter darkness.

Every soul is able to escape the darkness; every soul is able to deliver itself, yet the reason for imparting light must always be a loving thought, for without it the beings of light are not allowed to distribute gifts, because free will has to strive for light or eternal night will continue to engulf the soul and the consequence can be a descent into the deepest abyss. Light, however, belongs to beatitude, and once the soul has developed spiritual vision it will recognise its task and behold splendours and never again descend into darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distress of souls in the hereafter .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5855 from January 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Visualize the hardship of the souls in the spiritual kingdom who are imperfectly secluded, who had no faith on earth in a life after death and who now see themselves displaced into dark, desolate regions without light and without peace .... They wander around and cannot find their way, their fate is a sad one, for they are mostly lonely or together with equally unhappy beings, and because they lack all faith they do not take refuge in God either, for they arrive on the other side just as they left here and their thoughts still go in the same direction as on earth. They only believe themselves to be displaced and don't think about how such a thing could have happened .... And therefore they are in great spiritual distress and know no way out of it. People who are not followed by loving thoughts into that kingdom can often remain in this situation for an infinitely long time, and these souls are extremely pitiful, yet they can only be helped through intercession, so that they receive the strength to direct their will correctly .... But if a soul follows thoughts which are willing to help, then it also feels them to be beneficial and constantly stays close to those from whom the flow of strength emanates .... Then the soul will also find a way out of its situation more easily, it will not sink into an apathetic state but easily allow itself to be guided by helpful leaders. Faithlessness demands the most sacrifices, for a soul which did not want to believe on earth cannot be shown a path in the spiritual kingdom which it has always rejected, and therefore such a soul first has to become aware of its agonizing situation into which it has fallen due to its unbelief .... In its greatest abandonment it is grateful when a being approaches it, and then it also accepts instructions .... it thinks about it and will already feel small reliefs if it is willing to accept, whereas its agonies will deepen even more if it rebels against them. All possibilities are utilized on God's part to help even these souls in darkness to reach the light, yet free will remains untouched even in the kingdom of the beyond, and therefore great redemptive work is necessary in order to change this will after all, so that it turns towards God, so that the soul nevertheless comes to realize that it acknowledges a lord above itself, to Whom it must now surrender if it wants to be released from its torment. It must learn to believe, for only through faith does it understand the love of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And only through faith does it call upon Him, and then it will also be helped. If people knew the dreadful effect unbelief has on them after their physical death they would truly do everything on earth in order to attain certainty about what they are required to believe. They would desire enlightenment in order to do the right thing on earth .... Yet the torments of such souls can certainly be described to people but they cannot be granted insight into the spiritual kingdom. And countless souls depart from earth in a state of complete faithlessness, and good to those who lived on earth in such a way that good thoughts follow them .... good to those whose intercession is remembered and to whom strength can be imparted as a result. For beings will soon join them and guide them to the source of light .... But the souls who receive little help or reject the helpers remain in darkness for an infinitely long time .... who do not find their way to Jesus Christ, Who alone redeems them from the night of death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

State of twilight in the beyond ....

B.D. 7418 from September 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Souls passing over into the kingdom of the beyond without having found their Redeemer will find themselves engulfed by thick fog, providing they don't enter the kingdom of darkness due to their totally God-opposing way of life on earth. But there are people who have not become guilty of any explicit wrongdoing, whose offence generally consisted of failing to do good works, who can neither be called bad nor good and whose spirit is therefore not so dark as to be expected by profound darkness in the beyond. Nevertheless, they are not suitable for the kingdom of light either, for their souls are not yet receptive to light, their souls are still encased in thick twilight, they have absolute minimal realisation, depending on their deeds of love which a soul will be able to look back on.

And most souls called back from earth are in this kingdom of twilight .... people, who were apparently righteous in the world and yet have little faith because they lacked love on earth. And these souls are now facing a time of utter barrenness .... a time when they wander about lonely and alone with their thoughts. They are unable to recognise anything in their surroundings, they are spiritually blind and also incapable of perceiving anything but themselves, however, they have not lost their sense of identity, they also remember their past earthly life yet only rather indistinctly and occasionally .... They are in a permanent state of drifting about and searching, for they cannot find what they are looking for .... a place of peace and safety, since they failed to acquire it during their earthly life. They effectively had been parasites on earth, they had lived without having fulfilled their true purpose of life, they have only ever taken and given nothing in return .... irrespective of whether it is understood in an earthly or spiritual way .... They had not acquired any spiritual possessions for themselves but utilized their earthly life in line with their demands. They had spent their earthly life without having seriously thought about its meaning and purpose and living their life accordingly .... And this is what they will receive in the kingdom of the beyond; they won't find anything because they didn't acquire anything that is of lasting value in the spiritual kingdom.

Only now will it show as to whether such a person will be lovingly remembered .... For every loving thought is like a firm foundation on which the soul is now able to move with a certain sense of confidence .... Every loving thought provides the soul with a glimmer of light wherein it is able to recognise its surroundings, if only for a brief moment, but it is stimulated to reflect on it, and its state can only change through deliberation, by experiencing the blissful relief of every loving thought, by starting to regret when it realises what it had failed to do on earth. And, depending on its nature, its willingness and its resistance, the state of such a soul can change equally soon, if it is not entirely obstinately-minded, in which case its blindness can last for an extremely long time before the twilight will give way to a small ray of light .... And since only loving thoughts can provide this relief, much strength of intercession has to be bestowed upon the soul, it should not be left to its fate, which would merely infinitely prolong its lightless state, for only love will be able to change it, love, which fellow human beings will forward to such a soul and which the soul itself lacked in earthly life, but which will be accepted by God on behalf of such a soul ....

But it is possible for all you humans on earth to render much help with your love, and you should therefore constantly stay in mental contact with the souls of the departed, time and again you should tell them about the Gospel of love and that they, even in the beyond, will still have to comply with these two commandments, to love God above all else and their neighbour as themselves .... For this is the only way by which they will be able to make contact with Jesus Christ, without Whom it will be impossible for any soul to enter the kingdom of light. The souls still wandering about in the twilight have not yet made any contact with Jesus Christ, they have not yet found salvation, which was the reason for their life on earth, but they absolutely have to attain it in the beyond if they don't want to descend into the abyss .... Souls wandering about in twilight have not yet been pushed into the abyss, they still have a slight opportunity to find their path into the kingdom of light, for after a long time of barrenness beings of light .... which, however, do not identify themselves as such .... will repeatedly direct them towards the right path leading to Jesus Christ.

And in order that they follow the beings of light, in order that they surrender their opposition, they will require much intercession which you should not deny to the souls. They will be eternally grateful to you if your love prevents their fall into the abyss, if you help them to find their way out of the twilight into the kingdom of light, for your loving intercession will prevent their regression, their souls will become softer and more yielding, and they will find Salvation through Jesus Christ, Who forgives everyone if only he remembers Him and calls upon Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer for poor souls ....

B.D. 4305 from May 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Souls in darkness suffer terribly. Their strength is depleted; it is a state of utter hopelessness as long as they don't know about the strength of love, which can lighten their fate. They wander around, their will is lethargic, and they will remain in this agonising state for an extremely long time if they do not receive help through prayer. You humans on earth are able to help them if you lovingly remember such poor souls and would like to ease their plight. For only love will give them strength. A prayer without love is worthless; it is a mere formality without effect. Only the degree of love determines the amount of strength they will receive. And thus you have to visualise the fate of these poor souls and know that they will beseech you to give them strength once they have felt the strength of love. They depend on your help as long as they are still in the abyss, as long as they cannot increase their strength themselves through knowledge, which, in the beyond, consists of loving actions for other needy souls.

Every kind, compassionate thought for those souls eases their plight, they feel this and then remain close to you. They ask for your loving intercession by pushing themselves into your thoughts. Don't forget them, don't turn your thoughts away from them. Give them a loving prayer and thereby help them to ascend. Alleviate their torment and, most of all, demonstrate the power of love to them, so that their love for other distressed souls arises and, by helping these souls, that they can liberate themselves from their own hardship. Their surroundings correspond to the state of their soul, dark and desolate, and when a prayer for these souls rises up to God a faint state of twilight occurs which gives the soul a glimmer of recognition and benefits the soul after the constant darkness. The degree of love in the intercession determines the brightness of light emanated into the darkness, and the soul turns towards the ray of light always expecting and pleading for more rays. Grant them their wish, don't leave them alone in their need, and give them the help which you are still able to give to them. But also bring the Gospel to them in thought, remind them that they should lovingly consider others in their environment and help them to receive a blessing of light as well by giving to them in turn what they received from you. You can alleviate immeasurable amounts of suffering, you can participate in the redemption of these souls because the gift of strength through your prayer affects their will which then becomes active in the right way. The soul uses the strength it receives to lovingly help other poor souls, and it begins its ascent for which it will be eternally grateful to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s help with the isolation and the feeling of being alone of the vineyard workers

Significance of the spirit's voice .... Close to the goal ....

B.D. 4325 from June 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You are hearing the voice of the spirit .... do you know what that means? It means that you are removed from the weight of earthly matters if you accept My Word, be it directly or through mediators, that you are in contact with the spiritual world which is beyond all matter. Do you know that you are already close to the goal, that you have almost overcome matter if My Word penetrates your heart and does not merely bypass your ear? Do you know that My Word is a ray from the kingdom of light which you may be permitted to enter after the death of your body, that you are therefore being honoured to be in the spiritual kingdom while your body is still earthbound? Do you know that you, if you receive My Word, are in connection with Me, your God and Father of eternity, your Creator and Preserver? That the connection is the final goal of every human being and that you therefore have reached the final goal already if you not merely intellectually accept My Word but allow it to affect your heart. And you may already consider yourselves incredibly fortunate on Earth, for you accept My emanation of love noticeably and demonstrably, for I give Myself to you, I give you My flesh and My blood, as I have promised .... I take supper with you because you allowed Me to enter when I knocked at the door of your heart. And thus you are My exceedingly beloved and precious guests to whom I will only serve that which brings you joy, I will endow you with spiritual possessions, with everlasting treasures which you may take into eternity with you; I want to provide you with everything you desire, yet you will only request that which will be spiritually beneficial to you and make you happy. And all My angels and beings of light will be at your disposal, they will enlighten you if you desire such and your knowledge will increase, your fear will dwindle, you will be conscious of being in most intimate union with Me when you accept My Word, for My Word demonstrates My love for you ....

My Word is the greatest gift of grace, for I Myself dwell amongst you in My Word; hence you do not just accept it as an expression of Myself but you accept Me Myself in your hearts when I speak to you. Then I will have taken abode within you, as I have promised. Would you then still be lonely and forsaken? Can anyone on earth replace My closeness? And would you then still want to be fearful and sad, timid and of little faith? Just take care that every Word of Mine takes root in you, that it comes alive, that you don't just read or hear it but that you let it penetrate your heart; live your life such that I can work within you, that you will also soon hear the audible Word which will suppress all doubt, all anxiety and make you blissfully happy. Then you will be willing to sacrifice everything, then your faith will be firm and steadfast too, then anything can confront you and you will not waver, for you will feel Me, you will know that you are protected in My proximity and are full of love for Me. My Word is a gift of grace for which you cannot be thankful enough, and you ought to demonstrate your gratitude by passing it on in the world, you should tirelessly work to spread it, you should inform your fellow human beings of My activity of love in you and through you in all people. Speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, for people need comfort and help in their spiritual distress, they need you, who receive My Word either directly or through mediators, as knowledgeable, experienced and on the path; don't be half-hearted and complacent in your work for Me; live up to My Word by being lovingly active and by providing earthly help wherever it is needed. Work in cooperation with Me and, in so doing, thank Me for My love for you, which manifests itself in My Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Making use of the power from God ....

B.D. 4532 from January 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Make use of My strength and prepare yourselves for an extraordinary event which will soon surprise you. Only with My strength are you able to pass the tests which arise from the fact that you spread My word as a mission from above. I will always stand by you, I will not leave you, yet you will find no worldly support, only spiritually striving people recognize you and seek to help you, yet the world prevents them from doing so. But help will obviously come and then you will know that I am at work, that I will never leave you in adversity if only you trust Me. And you should acquire this trust by immersing yourselves in My word as often as you can. Your faith will experience a strengthening which you will never gain if you don't make use of the strength of the word. But in adversity you will feel it if you intimately unite with Me and never have the feeling of being abandoned, of loneliness and helplessness. And then you will fearlessly speak up when you have to answer for yourselves, and My spirit will tell you what you should say. Therefore do not be alarmed when My word is fulfilled in you .... as soon as you have to answer for your spiritual work you can be certain of all protection, even if the world is threatening you. There is only one thing I urge you to do: to draw strength from My word before the world's shameful activity begins, because it fears the power of the word or it would not take action against you. For the world .... i.e. opposition of the spirit .... also shows itself where it pretends to represent Me .... The world is everything that goes against Me, attacks My word from above and thus works against Me. But you are not inferior to this world, for it is My adversary, consequently I stand against it and thus on your side, and with Me you will also be victorious over the strongest opponents and therefore need not fear anyone if you are active in My name for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Small flock at the end .... gap widens .... God's help ....

B.D. 4955 from August 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The gulf will become ever wider between My own and satan’s children, for people are increasingly distancing themselves from Me and turning to the one who is the master of matter insofar as it still harbours the spiritual, which is completely of its own mind, i.e. of a will turned away from Me. Therefore you, who strive spiritually and turn your thoughts and aspirations towards Me, will always stand more and more isolated in the midst of the world, you will be shunned by the children of the world or scorned and ridiculed by your fellow human beings who have already become devils and are devoid of all love and faith. But then you will also realize that the end is not far away, for I have foretold you that in the end there will only be a small flock which is Mine, which recognizes its shepherd in Me and respects My voice. But the majority no longer know Me, yet not without fault, for My love also wooed them, yet they did not accept My love, they strove ever further away from Me and fell into deepest night because they shied away from the light which I offered them in My love. In the world, however, only will-o'-the-wisps shine and they chase after their appearance and splendour, they do what the prince of the world commands them, they strive for earthly possessions and seek fulfilment in the pleasures of the world, they only think of physical comfort but not of their soul. Again and again I step into the path of the individual, again and again narrow paths branch off from the broad path, paths that are difficult to pass, where I stand and try to pull them over from the path that leads to ruin. But they walk past Me with their eyes turned away, they do not see because they do not want to see .... But if they meet a messenger from Me they blaspheme and try to harm him wherever they can, driven by My adversary to whom they are in bondage through their will. My gift of grace is not appreciated and you, My servants on earth, will stand alone the closer it gets to the end. But you need not fear anything because I am always with you and therefore you will never be lonely. You will certainly stand alone amongst unbelievers but My own will recognize each other and stick together and draw comfort and strength from My word. And this word of Mine will compensate them for everything they have to do without. Those who are in bondage to My adversary are earthly well provided for, they lack nothing. And therefore they look down on the meagre, needy people and are without mercy. Yet My love does not abandon My own, even though earthly hardship approaches them in an unusual way. My own can be recognized by the fact that they certainly live in physical adversity but their souls are free from fear because they recognize Me as their father and are certain of My care. And thus they will often be strengthened and comforted by their fellow human beings; yet My help will also be obvious, just as satan is obviously effective. The separation will always be more and more accomplished the closer the end is, and the two camps will wage a battle with each other, the children of satan in hatred and unkindness, My own, on the other hand, still want to convert them and try to win them over for Me and My kingdom in love. But the gulf will widen until it has become unbridgeable, until the last end comes, the Day of Judgment, when the goats will be separated from the sheep and both will receive punishment or reward according to merit. For he who is not for Me is against Me, he who does not gather scatters .... He who believes in Me also confesses Me before the world .... but he who does not confess Me belongs to My adversary, and he will also share his fate, he will be condemned on the Day of Judgment, when My justice will speak, because the time is fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mission of the last disciples ....

B.D. 7999 from September 21st 1961, taken from Book No. 84

You, My last disciples of the end times, I address you especially, for you shall help to complete the work .... You should completely surrender yourselves to Me, you should not pay attention to what is going on in the world; you should only pay attention to what you feel in your heart .... you should listen to Me whenever and wherever I speak to you. I have brought you together so that you will become aware of the great task you still have to accomplish before the end. I Myself work with and in each one of you, and each one of you will be allowed to experience Me, and one shall lift himself up by the other, for each one will need spiritual strength which, however, will also flow to him abundantly from Me at all times. And always feel yourselves as pillars of My kingdom, as cornerstones of My church, which I Myself founded on earth. I sent you to earth for the sake of this mission, for I need you in the last days before the end, My spirit must be able to work in you and My will must be proclaimed to people on earth .... they shall be allowed to hear My word in its purest form, and My flow of grace shall be poured out upon people who are of good will. And therefore I need mediators on earth who allow My spirit's working in them .... who have voluntarily offered themselves to Me to administer this mediatorial office. I bless you for this, for earth is not a blissful abode for you who have descended from the kingdom of light in order to serve Me .... But I need strong pillars who resist My adversary, who do not fear him when he takes action against them. I need supporters who are intimately united with Me and therefore are also active on earth out of My strength. And each one of you will fulfil that task to which he has voluntarily offered himself. But you should know that My will sent you to earth and that therefore your ways are also determined by Me, that you always think in accordance with My will and that your actions are also guided by My will. Therefore always trust in My strength which is also powerful in the weak .... For you will be called to account when the final battle of faith breaks out .... But then you will never be alone, nor will you ever need to worry about what you will say, for I Myself will put the words into your mouth, and you truly need not fear the adversary, for I stand by your side and Me he flees .... And because I Myself am present to you, you no longer know earthly fear .... My light in you shines so brightly that a holy peace comes over you and you now also know about your origin and blissfully await the hour when you may return home to Me again, to your father's house. But before that your mission has to be finished, for a time of tribulation will come upon the earth where you can still provide much help if you don't find open resistance. And this help is the supply of My word, the result of My direct address, which is blessed with My strength. I still want to address many people because I know that they will then succumb to My illumination of love, that they will turn to Me and still try to detach themselves from My adversary before the end. And I know about all these possibilities, and I use you wherever a soul is open to My word. And I will also provide you with strength for as long as you shall serve Me on earth .... I will take over your guidance in all earthly matters, I will take your earthly worries upon Myself, and you shall only carelessly hand yourselves over to Me and do what you feel impelled to do, for this is always My will which I place within you and which you will also make your own. For the time is coming to an end .... a short while yet and My arm will intervene and create a tremendous change which will have a spiritual and earthly effect .... But love for My living creations will still do everything beforehand to save them from ruin .... And this love of Mine has also brought you together so that you recognize each other and know about your outcome .... (9/21/1961) You all work out of My strength because love is in you which lets Me Myself be present in you .... And thus My will is also predominant in you who devote yourselves to Me and want to serve Me. Yet your service for Me and My kingdom starts to become extremely difficult, for worldly circumstances will not remain as they are, and then great strength and a strong will is required in order to master all opposition on the part of those who serve My adversary. And one should strengthen himself on the other, for at times weaknesses will also attack you when you see how little your fellow human beings allow themselves to be impressed when they are offered spiritual food .... when you speak to them in My name .... You descended to earth of your own free will in order to assist humanity in greatest spiritual adversity. You are like oases in a spiritual desert and every wanderer will find rest and refreshment for his soul with you. But your fellow human beings are chasing a mirage, and they pass you by except for a few, to whom you can now impart food and drink on My behalf. A pure, clear spring lets the freshest water of life flow out, and everyone may draw from the spring .... no matter where I have opened the spring of life for you. Where My spirit can break through, there the connection with Me is also evident, and there My blessing will also be obvious, because I embrace all with My love who are united with Me in spirit and in truth. And My guidance and direction is truly obvious, nothing happens without My will or My permission. And My love knows your will at all times, which is meant for Me alone. And much blessing will emanate from you because love impels you to your vineyard work .... Love will also ensure success, because love is a strength which never remains without effect. Love will overcome many a resistance and penetrate your fellow human beings' hearts, providing they have not already fallen prey to the adversary, that their will is completely opposed to Me and they are then hostile towards you. Then all effort would be in vain, then turn away from them and go into silence .... and request strength from Me for renewed activity for Me and My kingdom. And in the close bond with Me you will also be shown again and again the path you should take in order to bring salvation to the souls in spiritual adversity. My strength will flow towards you, I will speak to you, your hearts will beat towards Me with love because they are filled with love for Me and for your neighbour .... But you will also very soon realize how little time humanity is still granted, for you, who serve Me, you also know about My plan of salvation from eternity .... you know what lies ahead for earth and humanity, and you also know that the time is fulfilled .... But you also know about My love and that it truly protects you even when the world is threatening you. For I need you, My disciples of the last days, and I will be your constant companion on all your paths, and you will be able to work with Me and My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God Himself will appear ....

B.D. 5586 from January 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

I still appear inconspicuously, My working is not yet obvious to all people. But a time will come when I will not only work in secret but unusual appearances will proclaim Me Myself and My working which, however, will only ever be experienced by the believing human being, whereas fellow human beings will always have the opportunity to doubt it, although their affirmations will make them wonder. And I want people to pay attention and think about it, and therefore I will reveal Myself often, even though this is only possible with believers who then, however, will also firmly and convincingly stand up for these signs of My presence. And the believers will experience great strengthening as a result, the believers will recognize the time they live in; they also need an unusual supply of strength and will eagerly confess My name and My teaching and thus successfully work for Me in the last days before the end .... I reveal Myself to you in many ways .... I still want to save whoever can still be saved from the downfall, I want to make it easy for people to believe, I want to help them in every way to find the path to Me, I want to let them experience and hear unusual things in great adversity so that they then take refuge in Me themselves and with a small glimmer of hope approach Me for help, which I then so obviously want to grant them so that they learn to believe and no longer give up on Me. Yet My adversary will also take advantage of this time and likewise try to win people over for himself .... He, too, will distribute strength to those who completely oppose Me, and these are the ones who try to invalidate My unusual activity, who want to destroy all faith in Me, who ridicule and hostile all believers and gloat over their adversity, which appears greater to the world than it is felt by the believers. For I give them strength and make them happy with My presence so that they will no longer have any doubts within themselves once they have experienced Me .... And they will experience Me .... Where there is profound faith and a right loving attitude I will manifestly appear and leave a quiet happiness in My own; they will feel secure in Me and fearlessly let everything pass them by and clearly recognize the last days by it, I Myself will assist My own, strengthen their faith, alleviate earthly hardship; I will convey My word to them and also personally be with those who love Me and want to remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Raising the lonely and the abandoned – task of the vineyard workers in the end time

Passing on the divine Word ....

B.D. 4561 from February 8th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

A word-for-word rendition of the information you receive through the inner voice will always have the greatest impact, even if you are also capable of educating your fellow human beings yourselves people will nevertheless be less able to close themselves to the direct Word from above, for this reason written distribution is a blessing. And therefore I will bless every work which concerns the distribution of My Word and help you in every way, for it is particularly necessary that people take notice of My extraordinary working, which they can ascertain through the written Words if they are of good will. Anyone who wants to reject it will reject it in any form. But in the written rendition people will recognise My spirit, My voice, and open themselves to its effect, for My Word speaks for itself, no explanation needs to be added, it will always be understandable to people because I speak to every individual person Myself if he attentively and, with a desire for truth, accepts it in his heart, thinks it through and pays attention to the feelings he experiences as a result. You humans have so many means of help at your disposal, all of which are gifts of grace from Me to make the path of ascent easier for you .... However, My Word offered to you from above is the greatest and most effective means of grace which will guide you upwards for sure, for it is blessed by My strength, it is a direct emanation of Me Myself which must always have an extraordinary effect on you, it just depends on your will to let it take effect on you. And this is why many people shall receive knowledge of it, many people shall experience the blessing of My Word on themselves, they shall be born again, they shall live again and forfeit everything lifeless, all formalities for My Word. They shall recognise Me Myself in the Word, believe in Me and learn to love Me, they shall accept Words of wisdom which they can never ever be offered elsewhere if they did not originate from Me. They shall know that I, as the Creator of eternity, do not forget My living creations, that I as the Father do not leave My children on their own, that I want to help everyone to return to the Father´s house, and that they desperately need My help and that they therefore should approach Me in prayer and appeal to Me for grace and strength in order to be able to shape themselves into love .... that they must know My will in order to fulfil it. Every work concerning this endeavour is blessed, for the time is rapidly approaching the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Preaching the gospel to those who need spiritual consolation and to souls in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6128 from December 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

Wherever you meet people who need spiritual consolation, there you should exercise your ministry .... bring them My gospel .... And they will gratefully accept it as soon as you lovingly offer it to them. But how will it become apparent to you that they need spiritual comfort? If you recognize from their speeches that they are desperate because they lack faith .... if they ask bitterly or despondently "Why all this? ...." if they do not know the purpose of their life on earth, if they do not find joy in the world and are unhappy due to all kinds of strokes of fate .... Then lovingly point out to them that they have a father in heaven Whose love also applies to them and to Whom they should turn in their hearts so that they may find peace and help in their adversity .... Just make them acquainted with the God of love .... for the awareness of not being alone and abandoned will comfort them and also motivate them to entrust themselves to the one Who loves them, and a turnaround can occur in their earthly life, the spiritual path can be taken which also leads to the aim. Love must be preached to people .... they must know that they are loved by their creator and father from eternity and that they should equally love all creatures which came forth from the same father .... their brothers on earth .... And if you impart this knowledge to them then you proclaim My gospel to them, then you work for Me and My kingdom, then you take care of those who need help in their spiritual hardship. And you should make an effort to live a life of love yourselves so that your words are alive, so that your fellow human beings can take you as an example. You must not forget for a minute that you are My children after all, that you came forth from love and therefore your nature must also be love if you want to count yourselves as My own, if you want to be true representatives of My teaching of love. Then your fellow human being's spiritual hardship will also be apparent to you, it will touch you and prompt you to help, and you will be happy to be allowed to bring him My word .... For I will bring people to you who are in need of spiritual comfort, and I will bless you if you are willing to carry out your missionary work for them. And if you succeed in bringing just one soul to Me you will already have done a blessed work for Me and My kingdom .... But don't grow weary, be diligent servants in My vineyard, for people are in great need, they require much love and encouragement and your guidance in order to come to peace in and with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Loving help for fellow human beings in distress ....

B.D. 6763 from February 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

You shall help and comfort those who suffer earthly or spiritual hardship. Then you will truly exercise neighbourly love and also awaken love in your fellow human being. The last days cannot pass people by without sorrow and adversity for they are the last means used by Me to win them over for Myself. I want to speak to every human heart by way of such adversity, and if they hear Me, if they recognise My voice in their distress and then turn their heart and ear to Me they will have taken a step forward, they will have entered the path which leads to ascent. But there are still untold people who keep their heart and ear closed to Me .... And you should speak to these and direct them in their adversity to Me, where they will find true comfort and help ....

You are already helping them by not ignoring their distress, and this help will be gratefully received .... You should believe that only love is the correct remedy, that love heals wounds, that love soothes pain and that no human being is immune to a deed of love. And thus, every deed of love will awaken reciprocated love in another person, and only in this way can souls be won. Souls only mature through love, and if a soul is capable of love, then suffering, too, will result in great blessings, for then the soul will purge itself of all impurities and let every ray of love take effect on it .... Therefore you should talk to all people whom you know to be in difficult situations, who endure much suffering and are without hope and despondent. Comfort them and refer them to Me .... Don't leave them to their pain, so that they won't feel lonely and despair .... Every kind word is soothing to them, and compassion lets them feel their pain less intensely .... Provide them with earthly and spiritual comfort, so that all suffering will have a beneficial effect on their souls .... For you all still have to face much adversity and misery, you will all still experience situations when you will be grateful for comforting advice, for all kinds of assistance.

In the coming time one person will have to depend on the other, and where people don't support each other the hardship will appear almost unbearable unless they turn to Me, Who will never leave a person if he calls to Me. And that is all I want to achieve, that people establish such a heartfelt bond with Me that they will never feel lonely and abandoned but always know that their Guardian and Helper is next to them, and that they then will no longer feel their adversity as harshly and as bitterly as the person who is still distant from Me. Every adversity is endurable for a person who takes refuge with Me, but you, who want to serve Me, can work as mediators between Myself and them .... you can show them the way to eliminate their distress, and if you do it with love you will also be successful.

Don't let your hearts harden, don't ignore your fellow human beings hardship, look around yourselves and you will see much adversity, and your help will always be comforting to others. But you all can help, for the right kind of help consists of kind-hearted thoughts, kind-hearted words and of actions that your love asks you to do .... True, compassionate love for your fellow human being in distress will always let you find ways and means to ease their hardship, and spiritual guidance is frequently of greater value than earthly assistance, for you thereby open the door to their hearts for Me, and once I can enter them Myself they will also be comforted and gladly carry their cross for their soul's sake. And then their adversity will have been a blessing, for then they will have found their way home to the Father, I will have won them for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Comforting encouragement ....

B.D. 2738 from May 14th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

Bring your will towards Me so that I can embrace you with My love. I want to help you in every adversity if only you firmly believe in Me and prove to Me that you belong to Me through your faith. For I am a constant helper to My own, I am always close to My own, they are My children whom I will not abandon in adversity. You will often have to prove your faith, the world will press you hard and want to make you weak. But then call upon Me, look up to Me with trust and My love will stand by you and strengthen you .... As long as you remain connected to Me, as long as your heart takes refuge in Me, you will not be lonely and abandoned, for I am constantly close to you because you feel like My children through your will, because you recognize Me as your father and thereby also give Me the right to care for and protect you like a father. Your will to belong to Me makes you My children, which I also desire because you are a part of Me and have recognized this. And therefore do not be afraid when the world pressurizes you and do not be discouraged and despondent, for no-one can harm you in body or soul unless I allow the former, but then it is My will because it is beneficial for your soul. You need never worry, for I take care of you and what I allow to come upon you is good for you, and My strength is constantly at your disposal which allows you to endure everything. For the sake of your fellow human beings you have to put your faith to the test, you have to prove to them that your confidence and faith will not waver despite the onslaughts and temptations of the world. You must stand up for My name before the world, and you can only do so if you firmly believe that I am always with you, that I will not leave you alone in adversity and that My love will protect you even if it seems as if the world has the upper hand. The deeper your faith is, the stronger you will be and the greater resistance you will be able to put up against the world. And the strength of your faith banishes every danger, you are able to do everything if you deeply and unshakeably believe that My strength flows through you and that there is no resistance for the divine strength. And so the world can certainly threaten you but it cannot defeat you because I am with you and because no-one can defeat Me. I am with you, you who want to be Mine, I know about your will and about your love, which is meant for Me, and what is more understandable than that I also show you My love and take you into My care. Therefore do not be afraid but trust in My love which has seized you and will never let you fall ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trust in God’s help

Faithful trust ensures God's help ....

B.D. 5940 from April 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

I Am close to you .... Just a thought will call Me to you, and you can confide all your worries and problems to Me .... I hear you and Am always willing to help. However, you must place your trust in Me .... You must believe that you, as My children, are always embraced by My love, that I will never leave you to your own devices but always watch over you like a good father looks after his children. In that case you can rest entirely assured that nothing will harm you, that everything that is destined to approach you will be good for your soul. But your faithful call to Me will also ward off what seems unbearable to you, for My love cannot deny you anything if you trustingly ask Me for it. But if you doubt My love or My power you will make it impossible for Me to grant your prayer. Nevertheless, I will not disappoint a strong faith .... Therefore I will always admonish you: Make sure that you gain strong faith .... make sure that your faith comes alive through love .... This is My constant instruction, My constant wake-up call, because love is the only solution to dispose of all adversity, since through a life of love you will gain such strong faith that you will subsequently be able to banish all adversity .... You truly would not have to suffer or endure earthly distress if you had the strength of faith at your disposal which is the result of selfless kind-hearted activity. Then the purpose of your earthly life of changing your nature into love and, through love, being in heartfelt contact with Me, would have been fulfilled already .... since My presence rules out all adversity. Yet you humans are still weak in faith and thus also weak in love .... For this reason you should always turn to Me with a request for help to strengthen you. Request the strength you are lacking and believe that I will help you because I love you and want to gain your love as well. The heartfelt union with Me through prayer will assure you My support, and even if there are days and hours in your life when you are fainthearted and want to despair .... you are never forsaken by your Father in Heaven, and He will always help when the time is right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Shield of faith .... Trust .... God's protection ....

B.D. 4720 from August 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 54

I Am giving you a genuine gift, and in realising it you should be joyful. How can the world possibly harm you if I stand before you as a shield and let nothing harm you? Hence, take your stand behind the shield of faith and you will be protected against all attacks by those with ill intentions. I will always stand by you, always ready to protect you whenever you are in danger. And this belief has to be so certain in you that you thereby banish all fear and distress. I Am with you and hold on to you so that you will not get caught in the undergrowth, in the many worldly obstacles to which you fear to succumb. Just look up and call to Me in thought, then you will never walk alone but always in My company, able to live untroubled until the end of your days. Although the world will still badly bother you it should not cause you fear, for I Am stronger than the world, and if the world pesters you though I want you to be at peace, then it will be unable to harm you. Therefore, be joyful and happy and despise the world, that is to say, ignore it and what emerges from it. My kingdom will compensate you for what the earthly world denies to you, and to dwell in My kingdom is truly more desirable, for it will not disappoint you.

I Am also Lord over this earthly world and control your earthly life too, but you should leave this concern entirely to Me and not burden yourselves with it, because the state of your soul is far more important and you alone have to improve it. I can put your earthly life in order for you but you will have to shape your spiritual life in accordance with your will. And in order that nothing shall stop you from improving your soul I will take care of your body and all it requires to maintain and fulfil its earthly task. And because I make this promise to you, you can truly commend yourselves to Me, every experience will be for the benefit of your soul. Therefore I only expect your complete trust in My assistance and you will be helped with every problem you have. For nothing is impossible to Me, and all threads in eternity are controlled by My will, in wisdom and greater than great love .... always for the benefit of My living creations, for whom I want to prepare an eternally blissful fate ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fully Trusting Prayer ....

B.D. 8455 from April 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And if you get into earthly distress only a heartfelt call to Me will suffice and I will protect you and keep all adversity away from you, yet this call has to come from the heart and not just be a lip prayer, for a call from the heart is also the evidence of trust, it is proof of a living faith which I will fulfil at all times. How easily your earthly life could be covered by you if you were constantly in intimate contact with Me, always aware that you can entrust yourselves to your father and always be heard by Him .... My love for you is truly endless, and it also grants you everything that is helpful for your soul .... But you will also no longer request anything from Me which could harm you, for the intimate bond with Me also presupposes a certain spiritual maturity, your desire to be allowed to hand yourselves over to Me is also the guarantee that I can now act like a father towards his child, for you are no longer disobedient to Me, you have already passed the test of will which is the purpose of your earthly life .... It is the most beautiful awareness for you that you may feel like children who never ask the father in vain, and henceforth you will no longer walk any path alone, for I will be your constant companion because I want to protect you against every enemy, be he a danger to you on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... Just give yourselves to Me in complete trust and your earthly path will be so easy for you that you will also reach the goal effortlessly. You are only weak for as long as you keep your distance from Me, and you have to fight for as long as you keep your distance from Me; but if you are united with Me through your heartfelt devotion to Me, through your will, your love and constant thoughts, then you will also feel strong and no longer fear any oppression. If you consider yourselves My children, you will also be cared for and looked after by Me as father. But you must not exclude Me from your thoughts, for then you will certainly be harassed by My adversary in many ways and I will not be able to help you, because you will have to consciously turn to Me in order to be allowed to experience My love and help as well ..... However, an intimate bond with Me requires living faith, whereas a formal faith will only ever result in formal prayers which do not reach My ear, because I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth .... A living faith, in turn, demands a life of love, for a person can never believe alive who is without love, because without love he is also distant from Me, Who is the Eternal Love .... But I want to be close to you, so close that you will feel My presence, and then you will also speak to Me trustingly like children, and I can return your address, I can prove My presence to you by granting your requests and by always binding you more firmly to Me .... For My bond of love will be eternally indissoluble, which now unites us for time and eternity. And you cannot measure the blessing you will receive from My presence but you will be able to hear Me, your Father will speak to you and you will recognize My voice and be happy because bright light will flood you at the same time .... For My ray of love, which now strikes you, must spread bright light and make you blissfully happy .... Just always seek closest contact with Me through heartfelt prayer, through the child's intimate dialogue with its father .... And your walk across earth will be easy and carefree, for the bond which you once voluntarily severed has now been restored in free will and can no longer be severed for ever .... But I look kindly upon My children, I no longer let them walk along without a guide, I avert all danger to body and soul, and I always draw My children closer to Me so that they can no longer abandon Me because they feel safe in My care. Entrust yourselves to Me, your Father, at all times and believe that My love will provide you with everything in order to please you, because then your soul will long for Me and I can now also provide for it spiritually and earthly and because My love constantly wants to give itself away and give happiness to all beings on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Comforting words from the father ....

B.D. 1850 from March 17th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them .... Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest .... Can I give you more assurance that you will not be lonely and forsaken than through these words of Mine? I am the father of the wise, the friend of the poor, the comforter of the afflicted and the defender of all who are oppressed .... Whoever takes refuge in Me can truly be relieved of every worry. And that is why you should come to Me in every adversity and present your concerns to Me, I want to be present always and everywhere where you need Me and My help, I want to guide you on all your paths towards Me, I want to turn away suffering and turn it into joy, and thus you will not be abandoned and helpless in the suffering that I allow to come upon you as a test. I desire your hearts, I want you to unite yourselves intimately with Me, I want you to be strengthened in your faith in Me and My love in the forthcoming time of adversity .... I want you to be able to stand up for Me with full conviction, that you can represent Me before the whole world. I want My love to be revealed to you so that you feel Me close to you .... I want you to become calm in your suffering, that you devotedly and faithfully entrust yourselves to Me so that I can visibly work on you, so that you realize My power and strength, so that I live in your hearts, so that you commune with Me as with your brother, so that you do not fear but believe. For My love is greater than all adversity, My arm is stronger than danger, and what means great suffering for you will bring you a state of maturity which you can never reach otherwise. And so I call out to you: Believe, love and trust .... Become like little children who carelessly leave everything to the father because they know that His love only wants the best for His children .... And come to Me in all distress, I will help you, and you shall never call upon Me for help in vain, for I hear the prayer of those who recognize Me as their father and plead with Me in all distress ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Man's conscious approach to God ....

B.D. 7940 from July 11th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

And I will be your companion in all your ways .... I will guide you, I will walk beside you, I will instruct you and advise you and make My will known to you .... and if you fulfil this will of Mine you will also successfully complete your earthly path of life .... You will have reached the aim of being eternally united with Me and now be able to work in freedom, light and strength .... Thus I Myself want to be your companion, then I will also always be able to ward off My adversary from you who will not stop harassing you, and this the more the closer the end is. And therefore I inform you again and again through the word that you are in danger as long as you don't let Me Myself walk next to you through your free will to be united with Me. You live your earthly life and don't know that an everlasting battle is being waged around you in the spiritual world which applies to your soul .... And you don't know that there is a continuous struggle for your soul on the part of the world of light and the dark world. Both forces want to win you over, and you yourselves make the final decision as to which forces will gain victory over you .... You yourselves determine in which sphere you want to dwell, and you determine this through your will, which is turned towards or away from Me. And truly, only a brief thought is enough for you to call Me to your side and I will not leave you and protect you from further influence by My adversary and his helpers. Just let Me always walk by your side and your pilgrimage on earth will be blessed .... It is only a matter of your conscious approach to Me in earthly life. If you achieve this of your own free will, you will also have passed your test of earthly life, for the purpose of which you were allowed to embody yourselves on earth. Yet I cannot force you to turn to Me either, I can only ever try to draw you to Myself through loving words, I can only ever approach you, force Myself into your thoughts and fatefully intervene in your life .... But I always have to leave the effect to yourselves. You must decide for yourselves in free will .... You must grasp My hand yourselves and want Me to be with you and no longer leave you .... But this will also decides your fate in eternity. But all of you humans don't have much time left .... the end is near and you will all be taken by surprise, and your fate will now also be according to your attitude towards Me, which is why I admonish you again and again to seek the bond with your God and creator of eternity, to draw close to Him like a child draws close to its father, and now also to stand under My protection until the end has come. Precisely the time of the end prompts Me to repeatedly make My will known to you, which will always remain the same: that you live in love, because then you will establish the most secure bond with Me, Who am love Myself .... work in love and remain in constant prayer .... And you will draw Me to you and I will never leave you again forever .... For I Myself am love, and he who abides in love abides in Me and I in him .... And intimate prayer likewise unites the child with the father and enables My strength to overflow to always carry out My will .... And if you are united with Me then you no longer need to fear anything .... neither My adversary nor the coming end, for then you belong to My own who will stand firm until the end and whom I will protect in physical and spiritual adversity .... You need only give your will to Me, subordinate it to Mine and let your thoughts wander into spiritual spheres from time to time .... And My love will take hold of you and guide you until the end of your life .... I will walk beside you, you will no longer be lonely and abandoned .... Then you will walk by My hand and return home to the fatherland ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers