Everything depends on God’s blessing

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

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

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

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Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on.

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

7487 - The grace of God's direct address....

3521 - God's blessings to those who are of good will....

God’s blessing means constant help

8328 - God’s ceaseless help on the earthly path....

3781 - God as a constant guide and companion....

7332 - God's presence and help requires conscious commitment....

God’s blessing means constant grace

4023 - Grace.... God’s word greatest grace....

7230 - Evaluating grace....

1566 - Claiming and imploring divine grace....

God’s blessing means constant supply of power for higher development

1168 - Divine blessing.... striving for higher development of the soul....

7523 - Supply of force....

8313 - God's power current....

Blessing and power of the divine word

3217 - Blessing of the divine gift, the word of God....

6171 - Spiritual fare.... perpetrators, not just hearers of the word....

7226 - Power of the divine word....

7443 - "Hear My addressl...."

Blessing of the divine word in the hereafter

6092 - Blessing of the divine word on earth and in the beyond....

5732 - Otherworldly listeners.... questions.... about Jesus Christ.... blessings....

7444 - Effect of the divine word on otherworldly souls....

5903 - Blessing of spiritual work....

Blessing activities - blessing of spreading the word

6057 - Blessing of receipt and distribution....

5055 - God's blessing rests on every vineyard work....

5713 - Forwarding the divine word.... blessing....

8344 - God's commission to His servants....

God’s blessing during persecution in the battle of faith

5143 - Hostilities.... Working in secret.... Greater activity....

5528 - Persecution of the disciples of the last days....

6538 - Battle of faith.... Hostilities.... Antichrist....

God’s blessing on his servants

3640 - Blessing of God's servants in their work....

4910 - God's blessing to the workers in the vineyard.... time of need....

6198 - God's blessing to all proclaimers of Jesus Christ....

Blessing of the mental bond with God

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

6771 - Blessing of mental bonding with God for the soul....

6874 - The blessing of doubting.... Truth....

7489 - Bonding with Jesus Christ....

Blessed connection with the spiritual world

6956 - Blessing of connections from earth to the kingdom of light.... rays....

7009 - God-blessed spiritual connections.... low spiritism....

7470 - Taking stock of oneself and contact with the spiritual realm....

Blessing of the spiritual work

7327 - The blessing of spiritual work....

5091 - Spiritual community.... Working together....

7224 - Blessing of the spiritual exchange of thoughts....

2306 - Meaning of the words "My church...."

5171 - God's blessing, i.e. help, in every spiritual work....

Blessing of the prayer and the intercession

4769 - Blessing of prayer....

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

5899 - Prayer for good success....

8101 - Blessing of loving intercession....

3927 - The fulfilment of prayer in firm belief.... 'Father, Your will be done....'

Blessed redemption work

6356 - Blessing of the work of redemption.... cross of Christ....

5326 - God's blessing rests on every redeemer's work....

5543 - Redemption work.... success through love.... asking for blessing....

7396 - Redeemer work on souls beyond....

God’s blessing for earthly work

0332 - God’s blessing – earthly and spiritually....

1577 - God's blessing for work....

4436 - Relinquishing the world.... Fulfilment of earthly duties and the blessing of God....

6940 - God’s blessing for every action.... Marriages....

2122 - "Take and eat.... Do this in remembrance of Me...."

Blessing of the unselfish charity

5635 - All willingness to help is blessed by God....

6191 - Only love is valued....

7563 - Neighbourly love....

7638 - 'The measure you give will be the measure you receive....'

Blessing from illness, suffering and hardship

7263 - Every human being experiences God's revelation in himself....

5194 - Blessing of illness and suffering.... Maturing fully....

3472 - Blessing of suffering....

7968 - Purpose of need: Bonding with God....

8653 - Diseases and cure....

8980 - Severe suffering can result in childship to God....

Blessing of suffering in the end time

2812 - Gracious end time....

2820 - Suffering of the end times last resort....

3422 - Suffering - means of grace....

6444 - Words of comfort from the father....

Blessing of surrendering your will to God

7081 - God's blessing.... Plan of Salvation.... Change of will....

5918 - Only the willing listener has blessing....

6273 - Subordination of will.... responsibility....

6510 - Voluntary surrender to God is His desire....

Asking for divine blessing

8728 - Explanation of ‘blessing’....

5183 - Asking for God's blessing.... power and impact....

5838 - Asking the blessing for everything you do....

8993 - Requesting divine blessing....

0241 - God's blessing gained, all is obtained.

5482 - Fatherly Words of blessing....

The grace of God's direct address ....

B.D. 7487 from December 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You are granted the immense grace that I Myself bend down to you and address you as a child is addressed by its father, but you are unable to assess the value of this great grace .... You take My address for granted and are not aware of the greatness of the gift of grace which you are allowed to receive from My hand every day. Nor would you be able to bear it if you grasped the deepest meaning of My address, for you still live in a very earthly sphere and yet make contact with the spiritual kingdom because My greater than great love provides you with this bond. For in order to be able to hear My address you have to be connected to Me, because you establish this bond yourselves of your own free will, therefore I lean towards you and speak to you .... which presupposes a voluntary devotion to Me. And then a miracle of My love takes place .... you can hear Me, you can hear My speech and always feel the love of your father in heaven which expresses itself to you in such a way that it speaks to you. For My words are now also words of love and mercy, words of concern for you and, arising from this, words of urgent admonition and warning, because the father cares for His children and He wants to help them at all times .... You humans should live on earth according to My will; and if you do so you will also fulfil My commandments of love for God and your neighbour, and you will receive strength in various forms, and then I will also be able to address you Myself and convey the strength from Me directly to you .... And in order to encourage you again and again to fulfil My will, therefore I speak to you and personally inform you of My will. As long as I can speak to My children, as long as they open their ears and hearts to Me when I want to speak to them, the direct supply of strength which you humans need so much is also possible .... For you cannot ascend without help, you will only ever move on level ground, and the ascent will be too difficult for you, which the final aim requires .... But you must take the path upwards, you may not remain on the ground, for the aim is above and you shall reach it. And therefore I speak to you from above so that you lift your eyes to Me, so that you behold Me and strive towards the aim which I Myself want to be for you. And therefore I want to win your love first, I want to ignite this love in you through My address, and then you shall leave everything behind and only want to belong to Me for time and eternity .... I want to win your love and therefore speak to you, for you shall feel My love in My words and reciprocate My love in your hearts until the heart is completely filled with love and I Myself can take abode in it in order to make you eternally happy. My infinite love expresses itself through My word, which I convey to you again and again, through which I want to win you, which shall make you happy temporally and eternally and which shall lead you to Me, Who is the word of eternity. Again and again I want to address you, even if you cannot grasp the magnitude of this gift, but one day you will know what the transmission of My word has meant for you. And blessed is he who has accepted it, blessed is he who listens to it and puts it into practice .... blessed who accepts My word and moves it in his heart .... For he will still experience the blessing of it as long as he lives on earth, he will be seized by My love which will never let him go, and he will constantly unite with Me until he will never be able to separate himself from Me again, until he is inexpressibly happy in constant union with Me. Therefore try to imagine your father's profound love, Who again and again sends His word to earth, Who again and again addresses you in order to win your hearts, Who bends down to the smallest and lowest in order to make it happy through His word .... Listen to it, move it in your hearts and live it out, and you will experience your father's love ever more, He will touch your hearts and they will return His love, you will come to Me of your own free will and unite with Me, and you will be blessed and remain forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessings to those who are of good will ....

B.D. 3521 from August 23rd 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Blessed are those who are of good will, who recognize in Me their father from eternity and who strive to live to please Me .... I will always be a loving father to them and take care of their needs, both spiritually and physically. And thus they will progress in their development, for I only require their will in order to be able to count them as My own. Once this has decided in favour of Me the human being will inevitably strive upwards, he will seek to perfect himself, he will look for unity with Me and will also safely reach his aim, because I will never leave him out as soon as his will is meant for Me. To a certain extent he has already passed the test of life which consists of his will deciding for Me or for My adversary, as soon as he makes an effort to be and act well, as soon as he expresses this in living together with his neighbour and thus ignites the spark of love within himself which now becomes a bright flame the more he turns his will towards Me. And then he can never sink back or fall prey to My adversary's power, for I hold him, I no longer let anything escape Me which wants to escape My adversary's power. He has decided in favour of Me and fulfilled his purpose of earthly life, and if I nevertheless leave him on earth it is only for his own good, so that he will increase his degree of maturity and be able to leave earth as a being of light which offers him enough opportunity for ascent development. I want to give him the opportunity to acquire the childship to God, and therefore he has to live earthly life, even though he has decided in favour of Me .... But now I constantly stand by him with My strength of love, stimulating him to love activity, and thus I bless him. And My blessing means constant help, constant grace and constant supply of strength for higher development. And I bless everyone who is of good will, I stand by his side and never ever leave him out, I draw him up to Me, and anyone who is seized by My love will eternally no longer need to do without it, because it cannot diminish but only deepen, and because it applies to all My living creations who turn to Me and are therefore My true children ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s blessing means constant help

God’s ceaseless help on the earthly path ....

B.D. 8328 from November 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I forever want to bestow My gifts on you because My love knows no limits .... And if a person consents to My direct action in himself then it is also his will to receive My gifts, then it does not amount to compulsory faith since he opens himself to My gift of grace because he believes in Me .... But I cannot work openly where this faith is absent, therefore no human being will hear My voice if he does not enter into conscious contact with Me due to his living faith as a result of love .... I want to give people whatever they need, be they spiritual or worldly possessions, for as long as My living creations are still imperfect they require constant support to accomplish perfection; and for as long as they live on earth as human beings they also need earthly support in every sense. But only I know to what extent ....

I know the state of the soul's maturity and thus I also know what it needs to mature .... But I also know of its earthly needs, I know what can be useful for the soul and what causes it harm and I give to everyone according to his nature .... because not all human beings have the same nature. Due to your pre-existence, due to your development through the creation, every soul has shaped itself differently, thus I have to take care of everyone individually in order to give him what he needs .... Even earthly I have to consider you differently since your soul's condition necessitates this. You all need My particular care, therefore you should believe that everyone's spiritual success, which I intend to advance by using the right means, is close to My heart .... My love wants to guide you into highest maturity because I want and can make you infinitely happy in My kingdom.

Since you voluntarily turned away from Me some time ago, and thus your imperfect state is your own fault, everything you receive is a means of grace. My love will not cease until you are united with Me again because you came from My love and will irrevocably return to Me again one day. But you can be certain that My means of grace will be successful, just don't resist them, you should not close yourselves to My love by opposing Me, by giving yourselves to My adversary who will use any means to prevent your return to Me .... I require of you a conscious change towards Me which simultaneously means a turning away from My adversary .... But then My love will take hold of you and will never let you fall again ....

However, if you have no room for thoughts of Me in your hearts then it belongs to My adversary, and then it is only filled with worldly thoughts, with earthly wishes, with all kinds of lust, and then he has taken complete ownership of your (hearts) soul and can only be cast out with great difficulty. Although My love will persistently attempt to bring about a change of your will with all manner of strokes of fate, you must always fight for yourselves to change the direction of your nature. And you cannot be forced to do so, thus I cannot talk to you directly, because such a communication would amount to a compulsion of faith and will. You have to take the path to Me voluntarily and truly, you will find helpers everywhere to ease your path and carry a light ahead of you so that you may know the way. And then I will accompany you Myself, I will offer Myself as your guide and you will be blessed if you accept My guidance and completely surrender yourselves to Me .... Admittedly, I will guide you away from the world but you won't look back, you will no longer desire the realm you have left voluntarily, instead your eyes will be directed upwards and only seek one goal, Myself .... And you worldly people can believe that I will fight for your souls and pursue you with the same care, that I will cross your path time and again because I don't want to lose you, I want to direct your mind towards spiritual possessions which are eternally unchanging, and therefore I want to open your eyes to the fleeting nature of the world .... You still have a short time during which My love and grace pursues you, as long as you don't resist Me you will be blessed with My love and grace .... And I will talk to you time and again through My servants, I will give you a most effective means of grace if you don't oppose Me and consciously accept My grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God as a constant guide and companion ....

B.D. 3781 from May 26th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

Choose Me as your constant companion and guide and you will be lead correctly. You will reach the goal I have set for you so that you will be blessed. I truly know of no other goal than to know you blessed, and thus you cannot take any other path with Me than the path to eternal bliss. Yet your will has to submit to Me, you have to allow yourselves to be drawn by Me and not, through your own wrong will, push yourselves away from Me onto a path which may seem more even but leads you astray. If you choose Me as your guide and companion then you can leave yourselves completely carefree to Me, you only have to express your will to entrust yourselves to My guidance through heartfelt prayer. For I will not seize you against your will .... And therefore your way of life also has to correspond to My will, because it also gives Me evidence of your correctly directed will, which may not just remain a will but should be put into practice. I do not demand a great sacrifice from you if I demand the fulfilment of My will, for the latter only signifies an insertion into My eternal order. And the law of My eternal order is truly not too difficult to keep, for it corresponds to the original state of the beings who originated from Me. It only becomes difficult for you when you are still too far away from this original state due to your own will. But then you will have to endeavour to reach it again and ask Me for help .... Then you will indeed have to fight a battle with yourselves, yet you always have to take My will, My commandment of love, as a guiding principle, you have to seriously want it, and you will also be able to do so because I bless every serious will and provide the person with the strength to carry it out. And submission to My will is the surest guarantee that I shall also assume leadership, that I shall guide you on all paths and lead you towards the right goal. And then do not resist Me, do not look after the temptations of the world, that is, do not desire to walk on the byways which seem more comfortable and attractive to you, but only ever follow Me with your face turned away from the world, for the goal will be incomparably more marvellous for you, and the world can never offer you what I offer once you have reached the end of the path under My guidance. Do not shy away from bumps, from seemingly insurmountable obstacles .... Under My guidance every path is passable, under My guidance there is no obstacle that is insurmountable. Yet do not believe that you can travel the path alone without My help .... For your strength is too weak and your will likewise, and only I can increase your strength, take you by the hand and lead you safely .... And therefore entrust yourselves to Me, give up your own will and walk the path without any concern of going astray. For I want to lead you into My Father's house, I want to fetch My children back and prepare dwellings for them in the spiritual kingdom .... Yet only one path leads to it, and you all have to walk this path if you want to reach your goal .... But I always and constantly want to be your guide because I want to make you happy, because I love you since the beginning and will love you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

God's presence and help requires conscious commitment ....

B.D. 7332 from April 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

In undiminished love I accompany you from the beginning of your embodiment as a human being until your death. Yet you will only become aware of My company when you want it yourselves, when you establish the bond with Me of your own accord, because My love may not force you and therefore restrains itself when this desire for My presence is lacking in you. But as long as you do so you are also in danger that your earthly life will remain idle, for only when you pass through it together with Me will it bring you success for your soul. Obviously, therefore, I cannot have an effect on you without this conscious bond with Me. But since My love is infinite it uses other means which therefore exclude a compulsion of love and yet can lead to a desire for My presence. And such means are suffering and pain of all kinds, sorrow and adversity, misfortunes and disasters which are so great that they cannot be mastered by people and involuntarily push towards the one Who is lord over all .... Who has the power to avert everything, but Who wants to be approached for it. Admittedly, a small amount of faith in Him must always be present, otherwise the human being will not remember a God and creator but will be even more strengthened in his lack of faith. But where there is still little faith much can still be achieved through suffering and sorrow, for then the human being will take the path to Me in order to appeal to Me for help. And then he establishes the bond, and an influence on My part is now permitted because his free will leads him to Me, which gives Me the right against My adversary, who had an equal right to the soul but has to hand over the right to Me when the human being comes to Me himself and has voluntarily established the bond with Me. And I truly make good use of this bond by helping the human being to find his way out of his adversity and then also keep reminding him of Me, so that he will certainly no longer completely abandon Me, even though there is a danger that he will become more indifferent towards Me again once the adversity has been overcome. But his faith in Me has nevertheless been strengthened and he will always use it again when new adversity comes upon him in order to protect him from falling into the abyss. People should only ever know that one is always ready to help and they should entrust themselves to this one in every adversity .... The more intimate the devotion to Me is in such times of adversity, the more willingly I will stand by his side, because My love will not diminish but will increasingly take hold of My child, which allows itself to be grasped by Me, its God and father of eternity .... My love will pursue the human being until the end of his life and always patiently wait for the moment when the child needs Me to intervene in hours of utmost adversity, when only a thought reaches Me, when only a cry for help touches My ear, which I will certainly listen to because it testifies to My faith in Me, which I truly will not let be destroyed. Just remember that I Myself am love .... that I cannot help you in adversity, that only My love restrains itself where it is rejected by the human being but is fully effective where it is accepted, where the human being himself appeals to Me for My presence and I will also prove it to him by fulfilling the requests, by averting the adversity and strengthening his faith .... For My love does not change or diminish eternally .... But it can only become effective when you want it yourselves, when you voluntarily hand yourselves over to Me so that I can radiate My love through you, which also includes the help you receive in adversity of body and soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s blessing means constant grace

Grace .... God’s word greatest grace ....

B.D. 4023 from April 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Grace flows to you in abundance .... for grace is the whole of earthly life for you, grace is all suffering that comes upon you, and grace is that you are constantly guided by Me until the end of your life .... Your whole life is an uninterrupted grace in its individual experiences for you, for nothing approaches you arbitrarily but everything is imposed on you by Me in foresight of your will, as it is helpful for your spiritual development. Therefore it is also a grace if you are granted an exceptionally difficult earthly life, for then you also have the opportunity to mature exceptionally. But the greatest grace is the attention of My word .... For My word is the most effective means of help, and it will certainly lead to the aim if you let it take effect in you. Everything that helps to change your soul, to turn your will towards Me and to let you strive spiritually is a grace. And thus you are surrounded by gifts of grace during your earthly life which you only need to use, i.e. open yourselves up to their effect, by only wanting your earthly progress to be successful for the soul, by thus recognizing Me and choosing Me as your aim. And then you will certainly reach your aim, for I will draw anyone who wants to come to Me and the ascent will be easy for him. He must not forget that he is in the abyss and has to strive upwards in order to reach Me, and that he therefore constantly needs My help, and every means I use to make it easy for him to climb up is a grace .... If you thus grasp the meaning of the word 'grace' then you will never need to fear that the aim is unreachable for you. Let yourselves be drawn by Me and just don't resist Me, listen to My word, accept it in your hearts and comply with it, then you will fulfil My will, and then every grant of grace will also have an effect on you, your desire for Me will be intensified, your faith in Me will deepen and your love for Me will become more intimate, for this is the effect of My grace that you increasingly turn away from the world and unite with Me more deeply, for grace originates from Me and also leads back to Me again if the human being does not close himself off to its effect. But if My word is offered to you directly from above, a gift of grace is at your disposal whose value you cannot measure .... I speak to you Myself .... is there anything more powerful and effective than hearing Myself speak and being able to receive strength in abundance with the word? Can there still be any doubt that My word will surely lead to the aim? Is My word not the most telling proof that I draw the willing to Me? That I love you and want to lead you to eternal life? If you therefore have this certainty of possessing My love, if you feel My love for you through the acceptance of My word, can you then still doubt that My grace is available to you without measure, and can you then still be anxious whether you will reach your aim? You can receive My word at any time and in all places, directly or through My servants on earth, and if you make use of every opportunity to listen to Me and now make My will your own, you will always be in the midst of grace and safely reach your aim, your soul will mature on earth and you will be able to enter the light when judgment day has come for you ....

Amen

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Evaluating grace ....

B.D. 7230 from December 14th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You shall be allowed to take grace for grace out of My abundance .... This is My promise, which I will also fulfil true to My words. And as long as you humans stay on earth you will need help to reach your aim of returning to your father's house. You would be helpless and abandoned without Me, for you would stand on the path without strength and light and feel unable to ascend because you would neither recognize the path nor be able to muster the strength to ascend, for the path into the father's house only leads upwards and ascends steeply, and it is difficult to travel if it should be covered without help. Help is always available to you because I love you and long for your return to Me. And therefore I pour out grace upon grace upon you humans, and you need only evaluate them in order to effortlessly cover the path to ascent. I help you wherever possible, and I offer you My help without demanding anything in return from you other than just the one, to accept the help. For this has to be accomplished by your free will; you have to be willing to reach Me yourselves and therefore also take My hand when it presents itself to you. And that is 'making use of the gifts of grace' which I bestow upon you. Every day anew I approach you with My gifts of grace, every day you can hear My word, you can listen to it or read it, you can hear it directly from Me .... but it always demands your own will to hear Me Myself in the word .... it requires an opening of ear and heart so that it can resound in you. Only then will you also evaluate the gift of grace, My word, and it will become effective in you. Through My word I now seek to bring light to you .... and if the light is to shine in you, if it is to illuminate your spirit, then you must move it in your heart, think it through with your intellect and want it to bring you blessings .... And again you will use the gift of grace correctly .... You must continue to live out the word, that is, do what I ask of you through the word, which your heart and intellect have previously taken a stand on. Then you will not only be hearers but doers of My word, and again you will have let the gift of grace become effective, for acting in accordance with My word will always let brighter light flare up in you, the flame will spread and you will be in an abundance of grace which will make the way home to the father's house easy for you, because every grace is help, offered to you by Me Myself, so that you will effortlessly cover the path to Me, Who longs for your return. And if I long for you it is also quite natural that I Myself do everything to win back My children, and since I do this out of love for you, My living creations, it is all grace, for it is not your merit but pure gifts of love which you receive undeservedly. Graces are benefits which you do not have to claim because you once voluntarily turned away from Me and had actually forfeited all love from Me. But nevertheless I help you because My love is infinite and does not want to let you get lost. For you certainly left Me voluntarily but I will not rest until you voluntarily return to your father's house again. And I will continue to bestow blessings upon you until you also burn with love again for your God and father of eternity .... until you also want to go to Him and now your return home is also secured through My everlasting gifts of love, through graces without measure and number ....

Amen

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Claiming and imploring divine grace ....

B.D. 1566 from August 14th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

Call upon divine grace and invoke God's blessing upon yourselves, and your whole course of life will correspond to God's will. You will be able to accomplish everything you want, because you will then do everything with divine support. And if you now devoutly entrust yourselves to the Father in heaven, He will lead you by His hand and you can rest assured that you will safely reach your goal. Divine grace is the outflow of His love. He knows about your adversity and weakness of will, He knows about your task, and if you are now willing to fulfil your task He will not let you struggle alone, but He will help you by strengthening your will and giving you strength. And therefore you should never neglect to implore divine grace, for God wants to be called to every beginning. Yet without making use of divine grace your path cannot lead upwards, for whatever you do will only fulfil your earthly desire but will not result in any spiritual success. But your earthly life is only given to you so that you seek the connection with God. If you ask for His grace then you trustingly hand yourselves over to Him, and thus you seek the connection with Him. And then your path must inevitably lead upwards, then the infinitely long path on earth will not have been in vain, for it will have brought the being close to God again. And the more intimately it requests His help the closer it is to God, for the heartfelt prayer presupposes an intimate relationship .... the right relationship of a child to its father. The separation between the being and God is now overcome when the child stretches out its hands pleading for help, and asks the Father for His grace and love. Everything will now seem easy to him and nothing impossible, for God Himself takes care of the endeavour, and gives the earthly child the strength to accomplish it. Therefore, you should not begin anything without asking for God's blessing, so that your endeavours will not be in vain. It is something precious to be allowed to stand in the divine sun of grace, for then life will seem exceedingly easy to you, since God is always and constantly with you and guides you .... towards Himself. Constantly ask for His grace, and thereby prove to Him your desire for Him .... and you will be able to walk your path through life without worry, for God Himself will guide you and help you to manage ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

God’s blessing means constant supply of power for higher development

Divine blessing .... striving for higher development of the soul ....

B.D. 1168 from November 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 20

I promise My blessing to those who follow Me, who do everything that corresponds to the commandment of divine love and who completely subordinate themselves to My will. And thus he will be able to enjoy My constant benevolence who unconditionally gives everything on earth in order to receive spiritual possessions. He will be certain of My constant blessing and need not suffer hardship, for if the soul is offered to Me then the body shall not go hungry either, so that the work on the soul will not be impaired. There must be no end to the endeavour on earth, for as long as the human being remains on earth he is offered opportunities which serve his perfection. The end of earthly life is set for everyone in wise foresight of what is to come, and since no-one knows his end in advance, the time on earth is to be utilized so that the recall can come every day without frightening him. And all endeavours should be directed towards the higher development of the soul, but concern for the body should be put second. It is incomparably more valuable for the soul to think of the welfare of one's fellow human beings than to constantly consider one's own welfare. The human being in his outer shell is transient, this only serves the purpose of harbouring the soul within itself, thus the soul should also always be considered first and the human being should only use all opportunities as such which can serve the well-being of the soul. And so man's life on earth is only of value when the life of the soul is cultivated, when every thought of man is for his spiritual good .... The ailments of the body are often necessary to support the soul when it begins to become lukewarm and careless. The work for the salvation of the soul must be constant and uninterrupted if the earthly path is to bring it the final maturity. The short time on earth, which seems difficult to you, will seem insignificant to you in view of the glory which you may receive in return when earthly life has brought you perfection. And if you now follow Me, if you make an effort to become perfect and fulfil all My commandments with a joyful heart, if you do nothing without Me and ask for My strength for everything you do on earth, you will remain in My love and I will bless you. And life will become easy for you if you put your spiritual well-being before everything else and live earthly life according to My will. And so always ask for My blessing, for My grace, so that the path on earth will seem easy for you and you will reach your goal ....

Amen

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Supply of force ....

B.D. 7523 from February 16th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You can overcome yourselves if you approach Me Myself in Jesus Christ, for I acquired the strength for you through My death on the cross, which you can now draw from Me without restriction .... Therefore you must take refuge in Me again and again and entrust your worries and needs to Me in prayer, and I will take care of you, I will help you, of that you can be certain. You need strength to overcome .... for you yourselves are still powerless as long as My adversary can still harass you because you don't keep close enough to Me .... The intimacy of your connection to Me would also convey an abundance of strength to you, and then you would also be able to work together with Me in an unusual way. Yet only few people possess such profound love that they are intimately united with Me at all times. But where this love is, faith is also exceedingly strong, and there My strength can come into its own .... Yet I will never deny you My supply of strength if only you ask Me for it. Your spirit and soul will be strengthened even though your body feels weak, and soon the soul will also be able to transfer strength to the body and it will be resistant in every way. Thus you need not complain about weakness as long as you can call upon Me in Jesus Christ, for every such call will find fulfilment. I don't want you to pass away in weakness, and therefore strength is always available to you from My side, but I want you to come to Me Myself and appeal to Me in order to then also be able to provide you abundantly with everything you lack. For I have promised you this help with the words: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ...." But you shall come .... I await your supplication, I wait for your bond with Me, but then I will also be able to communicate Myself to you, for your blessing and spiritual gain .... You will never send a request for strength to Me in vain, you will always receive fulfilment, and if you don't feel it physically your soul will nevertheless benefit from it, which will then also convey to the body what serves it .... But at times the weakness of the body is also suitable to push the human being ever more intimately towards Me, and then the supply of strength will also take place as surely as I bend down to every child to help it in its adversity .... (16.2.1960) And in view of the approaching end you will still need much strength and help, you will often believe that you are too weak to meet the spiritual and earthly demands placed upon you, but you need not be weak because My strength is constantly at your disposal which you can request at any time. Even a thought which you send up to Me in prayer will convey this strength to you, for no prayer is in vain which is directed to Me in spirit and in truth, which is not merely spoken by your lips but felt by your heart and sent up to Me .... And the strength will first fill your soul, because it has to be taken care of first, for it concerns its maturing while you still walk on this earth. But the body will also be provided for, the body will also receive noticeable strength if only you believe that I love you and want to release you from every adversity .... But this is also the purpose of every adversity, that you approach Me for help, that you seek the bond with Me and that My strength can overflow into you in this bond, so that you will always feel strengthened if only you open yourselves in heartfelt thoughts of Me, so that I can give you what you desire: strength and grace and an enlightened spirit which recognizes Me everywhere and in every event, so that you will then also learn to love Me and love will unite us ever more firmly and then all weakness will also fall away from you, because then you will walk with Me and be fed by Me with light and strength at all times ....

Amen

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God's power current ....

B.D. 8313 from October 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Every bond with Me, every thought that applies to Me, is of greatest blessing for your soul .... I tell you this time and again, for then you will be touched by My flow of strength time and again, because then you will also open yourselves so that this flow can flow into you. You cannot measure what this bond means, after all, it is the conscious turning away from My adversary and return to Me which, as it were, cancels your former sin of apostasy, for your thoughts will only stay with Me if you yourselves want the separation to be lifted .... And then the possibility is also created that My ray of love will strike you again, because then you will no longer reject it .... And to be illuminated by My love again also means that your being will slowly change again into what it was in the beginning: strength of love radiated by Me, thus beings full of love who were immeasurably happy. Believe that every thought turned towards Me makes this illumination of love possible and that your soul has to irrevocably mature on this earth so that it will no longer be denied entry into the kingdom of light .... For to be able to be illuminated by My love again also includes everything else, which is the prerequisite that the gates into the kingdom of light are opened for you .... For you will work in love yourselves because the strength flowing to you from Me impels you to do so, and love will kindle bright light in you so that you can already attain a high degree of realization on earth .... And thus you will also understand Jesus' act of salvation and fully turn to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, and this also means that He will open the gates into the kingdom of light for you upon your entry into the kingdom of the beyond. And your purpose of earthly life will only be able to be fulfilled if your soul constantly receives strength from Me .... But the flow of strength from Me necessitates the voluntary opening of your hearts, it necessitates the conscious bond with Me which you establish through thoughts turned towards Me, for no such thought remains unnoticed by Me, you draw Me to yourselves when your thoughts deal with your God and creator, and now I can also guide these thoughts correctly, I can, as it were, take possession of your soul and push the adversary away from you. For then you will give yourselves to Me, and this devotion to Me will then also take place consciously, that you will give your will to Me yourselves, that you want to be seized and guided by Me, that you will mention Me as your guide through this earthly life .... if you ask Me to be your friend and brother, your father, Who walks with you on your pilgrimage path on this earth .... then you can also leave yourselves to Me completely carefree, for then you will also safely reach your goal on earth: complete union on earth with Me .... Then you will have successfully made your way back to the father's house, you will be with Me again, from Whom you once started .... For this reason every minute of the day you give to Me is blessed, and then you will stay with Me longer and longer, for the strength of love which touches you also has the effect of a desire for My presence, then you will not only lead your earthly life but the spiritual kingdom will be ever more desirable to you, and your earthly life will be increasingly spiritually oriented. Then there will also no longer be any danger that you will sink back and long for the world with its goods. For these no longer tempt you once you were allowed to take possession of spiritual goods which were offered to you in the form of knowledge through the increasing flow of love. And My love will draw you, the impulse for loving activity will grow ever stronger in you, and thus you will also fulfil your purpose of earthly life. For love alone will release you from all bondage, love will free you from all forms, and you can leave the earthly body at the hour of death as mature and enter the kingdom of light and bliss as a free spiritual being, in which you can now create and work in union with Me, as is your destiny ....

Amen

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Blessing and power of the divine word

Blessing of the divine gift, the word of God ....

B.D. 3217 from August 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A great blessing will overflow people who do not close themselves off to God's grace, who allow themselves to be taught by the word of God and make an effort to put it into practice. For they will have a foothold from the start, they will feel relief everywhere even though earthly life is hard for them, the heaviness will only touch them to a certain extent but will soon be overcome. For through the word of God they receive knowledge of the meaning and purpose of suffering, they know about the necessity of it, but they also know that they are never helplessly left to themselves but have a constant helper at their side Who is always ready to respond to their plea for help. And this awareness is deep faith, which must always have a beneficial effect. Thus only the will is necessary to observe the gifts from above, then the blessing of the gifts will also become apparent, for the receiving person will pass them on and want to introduce many people to the knowledge he has received himself. This first requires a good relationship between people, and from such a relationship they already draw spiritual advantage, for they cultivate love, and love redeems .... But then the human being will also be strong, whatever comes over him. He will walk his path unwaveringly even if he is pushed away, he will always know that he has the most powerful One over heaven and earth as his companion and that it is truly not too much to remain faithful to Him if His holy name is fought against. And this knowledge will let him go joyfully into battle .... God Himself blesses His labourers in the vineyard, He helps them not to grow weary because they only have a short time at their disposal and should use it to initiate many people into God's plan of salvation and redemption. People on earth will indeed feel little of this influx of increased grace before they have decided to accept the divine word, but then they will become wide awake and they can be active again in enlightening God's will. The chaos of the end time will divide many people and put them into an earthly hardship which seems almost unbearable to them. And yet, at the same time the best means has been made accessible to them .... the word of God .... And this divine word brings about a balance, it heals where wounds have been inflicted, it gives light where there is darkness and it gives strength where previously a feeling of weakness made people look anxiously to the future. And the human being will feel the blessing of the divine word, for it will be the only salvation when everything threatens to perish. Yet God's love considers His own, i.e. all those who take refuge with Him in adversity .... He speaks to them Himself, and thus His word is spiritual strength which is able to banish everything, even the most difficult things on earth .... For it is His emanation, His spirit, which therefore has to be felt beneficially wherever the human being willingly opens himself to it ....

Amen

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Spiritual fare .... perpetrators, not just hearers of the word ....

B.D. 6171 from January 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 66

You are offered spiritual food which can never be compensated by earthly food, for what comes from earth only serves earth again or the lord of the earthly world, but what comes from above also leads upwards, it comes from the spiritual kingdom and shall help you to enter this kingdom as well when you leave the earthly body. Your soul shall be nourished through this spiritual food .... Not that which perishes benefits from it but only that which is imperishable but which nevertheless requires nourishment in order to mature, because it is in an imperfect state but which it can change if it is helped to do so. And this help is the spiritual food which is offered to the soul .... This help is My word, the bread of heaven, the right food for the soul which desires to ascend. You will not find such food on earth, for even that which is offered to you by your fellow human beings as food from heaven will only become such when I bless it for you .... Thus the blessing must come to you from above, only then will you receive the right food which is nourishment for your soul. I must bless it for you .... I must let My strength flow into the word you receive, be it directly or also through servants on earth who want to work for Me .... And only My blessing guarantees you the right food from which you can draw all strength and which therefore helps you to ascend, which helps you to become able to create and work in the kingdom of light according to My will. But how do I bless you with this word of Mine? By letting the strength of My word have an effect on you .... by receiving it with ear and heart and the heart now feeling touched by it, by My word now stimulating you again into deeds of love .... by My word now moving you deeply and your will now becoming active to serve Me and your neighbour with all devotion .... Then you withdraw the power from My word and it has already become effective in and on you .... Then you will not only be listeners but also doers of My word, then your soul will take the path of ascent, it will increase in light and strength, it will become wise, recognize everything and fully consciously strive towards its aim, for it recognizes Me as the only aim worth striving for and wants to unite with Me forever. But it can never attain this realization, the strong will to ascend, if it is not already offered spiritual food, if it is still weak and unable to decide what it should and should not do ..... Then I Myself will give it food and drink, I will give you what you need for your soul in order to first give it so much strength that it alone will be able to ascend .... For its will has to become active, it has to work on itself, it has to be strengthened again and again for this work of the soul, otherwise it would be too weak to achieve only a small transformation within itself. Just as the human being takes care of his body, so do I take care of his soul, and it will never need to live in want if only the human will accepts what I offer .... For as soon as it resists, the soul will remain powerless and imperfect, and it can never enter the kingdom whose gift it does not want to accept. It must be fed and watered by Me if it wants to live .... And therefore it must listen to My word, which is blessed with My strength and which assures the soul an eternal life in light and bliss ....

Amen

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Power of the divine word ....

B.D. 7226 from December 10th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

There are only a few people who open themselves to the word conveyed to you from above, who accept it as My direct address, who allow themselves to be touched by it in their hearts and who also draw the blessing from it which My word emanates to every grateful listener or recipient. But there is still the possibility that My word will be passed on through these listeners, that small circles will form everywhere which also feel addressed by Me when this directly conveyed word is proclaimed to them. For My word has great strength, only it requires opening oneself and immediately becomes ineffective where it encounters resistance. If people would only listen to My word without inner resistance then it would not fail to be powerful, hearts would be touched and people would feel that they were offered a divine gift. But precisely this conscious opening is necessary .... But the human being prefers to remain defensive than to merely examine the gift once it is offered to him from above. But once he has accepted it, he will no longer want to miss it. And only he can expect the blessing from above on an ongoing basis, for I always speak to him in such a way that it serves his soul to progress in its perfection. For I know every individual soul's degree of maturity, I know its willingness and degree of light and can therefore distribute or increase the light according to its degree of development, which happens through My constant address when My word is conveyed to it through My servants on earth. The human being need only willingly listen to Me, and truly, he will receive food and drink entirely in accordance with his need, because I will no longer leave him out and want to increase the light of realization in him as far as this is possible. Therefore the person can call himself blessed to whom My word is offered directly or indirectly, for he is in direct contact with Me or he would not hear My words. And all listeners and readers of My directly conveyed word are also directly addressed by Me as soon as they are willing to take notice of My word which is conveyed to them through messengers. Only the will is necessary to listen to Me, to be addressed by Me Myself .... And My word will also sound to them, no matter in what way. And the word is the surest sign of the bond between Me and My living creations which want to become My children and sought or took the path to Me. Anyone who hears or reads My word, who receives it directly or indirectly, has entered into the bond with Me and will also feel the strength emanating from My word insofar as that he will always feel more drawn towards Me, that he will always be less able to withdraw from My word but will desire food and drink with increased hunger and also constantly receive it. And the human being will also feel My love and return it to Me, for this, too, is the effect of My word, that it generates love because it is strength of love itself. It is no longer possible for the human being to remain unimpressed as soon as he once seriously let Me speak to him, so that not only the eyes or the ears accepted the word but it found its way to the human being's heart, which now also reacts in such a way that it feels love, both towards Me Who addresses him as well as towards his fellow human beings, to whom he would like to pass on the same which makes him happy and willing to love himself. My word is strength, and the effect of strength will always be increased activity of love .... Therefore it is a great advantage if only the human being allows Me Myself to speak to him without inner resistance. For then he will already experience the effect of My word's strength in himself .... But resistance also makes the word ineffective. And every person should make the attempt and give up his resistance, and he will truly not regret having placed himself into the circuit of My love, but he must do so of his own free will and he will truly experience the blessing of My word ....

Amen

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"Hear My addressl ...."

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

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

Amen

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Blessing of the divine word in the hereafter

Blessing of the divine word on earth and in the beyond ....

B.D. 6092 from October 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

An unimagined blessing flows from the pure word of God to everyone who listens to it and evaluates it as His word. People often lack the ability to judge, they listen to it and do not recognize its great value for their souls. And because they therefore don't follow it either, because they don't act according to the divine word, they cannot feel any blessing either, even though it contains divine strength .... Yet the once spoken word of God is a source of strength for all who faithfully accept it in their hearts on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. The souls which open themselves to the word of God will receive strength and light, because the word is strength and light in itself. And this effect is particularly felt by the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who are still without light and strength when they are touched by the divine word .... or also .... when they willingly allow themselves to be touched by it .... for the word of God is visible to the souls who still dwell in darkness as sparks of light to which they must now voluntarily turn in order to then also feel the benefit of light and strength. The word of God constantly sounds in the spiritual kingdom .... yet it is only recognized and felt when the souls are willing to be addressed by God .... when they desire knowledge, strength, in order to utilize it in God's will .... Since God constantly emanates His love into infinity, His holy word will therefore also constantly resound but only be heard when His living creations want to hear it. For God's love does not force itself upon any being but is always ready to be illuminated. And God's word is the emanation of His love, which therefore has to signify an immeasurable blessing for all spiritual beings which open themselves to His emanation of love .... On earth the beneficial effect of the divine word is not so obvious but it is gratefully recognized by everyone who receives it with his heart and acts accordingly .... But in the beyond there is light where the divine word resounds .... And these sources of light are the gathering point of countless beings who hunger for the word of God, who accept it gratefully and joyfully and thereby increase their abundance of light and strength, because the word of God stimulates them into loving activity and the souls in the beyond follow such stimuli exceedingly willingly but which are little heeded on earth. Earthly inhabitants have much light and strength at their disposal, yet they pass it by .... But in the spiritual world the light is sought, and where it shines the souls' will of love is so stimulated that they also want to convey the light to the darkness and therefore redemption work is continuously carried out .... to also lead the souls from darkness to light .... And the beings' activity will not diminish because ever new strength and ever brighter light will flow towards them, which will impel them to increase their activity of love .... This effect of light and strength can also be felt on earth, but only when people consciously request this address from God .... For then God reveals Himself and shines His divine light of love into the human heart, who then also feels God's blessing and is grateful to Him for imparting light and strength to him .... the right realization and a strong faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Otherworldly listeners .... questions .... about Jesus Christ .... blessings ....

B.D. 5732 from July 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Countless souls in the beyond come into possession of spiritual goods which follow you and your activity for Me and My kingdom and are willing to be taught. A source of life has also been made accessible to them, for completely dead souls experience a boost once they have participated in the teachings which are recognizable as rays of light and attract such souls. And once the power of the divine word has become perceptible, they constantly long for it. And ever new souls call for it, ever new souls desire to receive light, and ever new souls are therefore brought close to the gospel, which now utilize it again in turn in order to help other souls out of the same adversity ....

If you humans knew about the blessing of such spiritual work you would be happy to be able to help and participate ever more eagerly in the work of redemption. But the assurance should suffice you that your help is dearly desired and eagerly awaited, that the flock of those who surround you is constantly increasing and that much light has already been kindled which will never go out again. For anyone who has once been touched by a spark of light in the spiritual kingdom no longer wants to remain without light and now earnestly strives to increase his knowledge which, because it is truth, now surrounds him as light whose glow he no longer escapes from but feels blissfully happy in it. And they ask you for information in the form of thoughts which are conveyed to you from the kingdom of light in order to be able to be answered truthfully. The questions of the listeners in the beyond are often the same, because they are always preoccupied by certain problems which arise again and again in them because they were taught about them wrongly or not at all when they still lived on earth. And I know about these questions and gladly provide clarification in the form of instructions, in the form of My word ....

(7/27/1953) Now on earth people's teachings were untrustworthy as soon as they were not offered by a spiritually awakened person who could certainly have given them the right clarification. And thus it is especially the problem of Christ which was incomprehensible to them and which they therefore believed they could not accept. And therefore countless beings enter the kingdom of the beyond with wrong or insufficient knowledge and therefore almost no faith in Jesus Christ, and they are in great distress .... because without Jesus Christ no-one can become blissfully happy and because they therefore have to believe in Him if they want to ascend from the abyss. And deep darkness will surround these souls as long as they are not given a light in whose glow they can behold the cross of Christ .... as long as they do not hear the truth about Him, Who Himself is the light, the truth and the life .... The souls have to be taught about Him, and often they even lack all knowledge because they did not possess it when they ended their earthly life. These souls see it shine particularly brightly where a light is kindled about Christ, where spiritual instructions take place which deal with the problem of redemption, God's human manifestation and His crucifixion. Countless beings push towards this light, and although they initially lack all understanding they nevertheless feel the benefit of the rays of light and remain in it .... they no longer turn away but wait patiently until they are enlightened, until they understand everything they hear, until a desire arises in them to always remain in this light and to participate in Jesus Christ's act of salvation .... To receive light about Jesus Christ and His work of redemption is synonymous with certain redemption through Him. To know nothing of Him is to dwell continually in darkness. What you humans now do to spread the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, apart from the direct blessing for those who receive it from you, also results in undreamt-of blessings for the beings in the beyond who surround you and no longer leave you because they see this Christ light around you and want to be permeated by it. And the more it is your will to consciously convey light to them the more successful your work will be, for the souls in the beyond accept more easily and more quickly than people on earth, only pure truth has to be offered to them, because this strength is in itself and has to work where it is not rejected. And since the souls are in darkness and powerless, light and strength are the most desirable things to them, for they feel both as a blessing and are grateful for the attention. As soon as the connection from earth to the spiritual kingdom is established the light already radiates and attracts countless souls out of darkness. And what was still in darkness will be illuminated by the light of truth, and full understanding will be given to those who desire light over every misunderstood teaching. Questions on earth or in the beyond always precede the instructions by beings of light, for every soul shall be instructed which asks questions so that it will find it easy to believe, so that it will now also find Jesus Christ, so that it will recognize Him as its redeemer, without Whom no-one can become blissfully happy .... that it may cry out to Him for His love and grace, for His mercy .... so that it may be saved from darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Effect of the divine word on otherworldly souls ....

B.D. 7444 from November 2nd 1959, taken from Book No. 78

You are in the midst of a multitude of souls when you receive My word or pass it on to your fellow human beings. You cannot see them but you would be overjoyed if you could feel their gratitude which makes them seek ever more contact with you. They feel that nourishment emanates from you which satisfies them, which does them good and which gives them the strength they need. Every word which penetrates their hearts is also felt by them as being spoken by Me Myself, and therefore they are particularly happy that I dignify them with an address and they burn with ardent love for Me. You do no spiritual work unnoticed by these souls, for once they have accepted food and drink from you they will not leave you again, and they only ever wait for you to establish the bond with the spiritual world, which they notice as a ray of light and then follow everything with utmost attentiveness and take part in what is offered to you by Me .... You do not know about the great blessing of spiritual bonds through listening to or passing on My word .... You don't know how many people you can make happy with it and what effect My word has on all these souls which need light and strength but which are also willing to accept light and strength. They greedily accept every word and think about it, and once a soul has discovered this source of life it will no longer leave it, for it will always derive more benefit from it the more eagerly it accepts the food and drink. And then it works with it itself because it cannot help but repeatedly mention the grace it is offered by being allowed to participate in the feeding of countless souls. And if you humans remember these souls to whom you can only do good by letting yourselves be taught, by accepting My word directly or indirectly .... if you consider that every spiritual conversation always spreads brighter light around the soul, then you should not miss any opportunity to hear or read My word and again and again hand out nourishment to the souls surrounding you which will help them to mature in a short time. You should remember these souls with compassionate love and know that you can help them to salvation if you proclaim My word, silently or aloud, as the occasion arises. You will never be without a listener, for even if the children of the world don't want to listen to you, but the beings in the kingdom of the beyond are always willing to listen to you, they are waiting for it because a spiritually directed thought already expresses itself as a spark of light which they rush towards so as not to miss anything. These souls truly hunger and thirst for the bread of heaven and the water of life .... You can satisfy them and again and again supply them with strength, and the knowledge of this shall inspire you to let My word resound into infinity quite often, be it through direct receipt, through the transmission of My word from above, be it through passing it on, through proclaiming the pure gospel, which you receive from Me if only you desire it .... You never hear it alone but you are always surrounded by a multitude who receive it extremely gratefully, who fill themselves with it and are happy that they, too, can now work with it for the benefit of the souls to whom they would like to bring light .... Their spiritual poverty will dwindle, they will be able to detach themselves from the darkness, they will feel bliss, for the light will shine upon them and shine through them, which emanates from Me, Who is the light and the truth from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of spiritual work ....

B.D. 5903 from March 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The blessing of spiritual work will not fail to materialize, for it not only extends to people on earth but also to the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who are in spiritual hardship and require the strength of My word .... What they now receive they likewise distribute as soon as they have once recognized it. And then people on earth will also be blessed again, for there are connections from the kingdom of the beyond to the earthly world everywhere, and as soon as the souls in the beyond have attained a degree of maturity they eagerly endeavour to carry the light everywhere, and now they also mentally influence the people who were close to them on earth .... They carry out redemptive work wherever they can, and this by virtue of My word, which brought them salvation in their adversity and which they recognize as exceedingly necessary to spread. Your spiritual striving, your work for Me and My kingdom, is eagerly pursued by those souls, and what you do they also want to carry out with your help .... They are grateful for every word you convey to them, because they cannot receive it themselves and are dependent on your help, but they also feel the strength which flows forth from this word offered to them through you. It is a gift for them which makes them extremely happy and they don't miss any opportunity to receive My word through you and to work with it in the same way, i.e. to pass it on to those who meet them in utmost spiritual poverty and whom they want to help .... For My word kindles love in their hearts, My word is the emanation of My love which does not remain without effect on souls in the beyond which surround you when receiving My word. Countless souls press towards you because they want help and hope for it from you. And they keep quiet for the time being and follow your spiritual work .... they feel comfortable in the glow of light which, however, diminishes immediately if the soul is unwilling or opposes you .... Then it is dark around it again until it has changed its mind. But the souls which approach you of good will do not go empty-handed .... and what they receive they can quickly increase, as soon as they now also work with the spiritual knowledge they received from you. Therefore no work of yours will remain without blessing, without spiritual success, it will just not always be obvious to you. But precisely for this reason you should not become tired and constantly work .... receiving and distributing and remember the countless souls to whom you thereby bring help. The hardship in the kingdom of the beyond is the same as on earth .... where darkness exists the souls are tormented, and only light can change their state of torment .... The hardship can therefore be called even greater in the beyond because the souls themselves can do nothing more to improve their situation than want to be given strength, whereas on earth every person possesses strength to be able to do what he wants. And therefore strength shall be imparted to the souls in the beyond, which constantly happens through your spiritual work, in which every soul can participate if it wants to .... Although you yourselves have no proof of the truth of these words other than spiritual help again, for you are protected by those souls against bad influences, you are loved by them and again and again stimulated into spiritual activity .... You are constantly surrounded by them, and thus the sphere you are in is exceedingly favourable for spiritual success, for your thoughts and aspirations will only ever apply to the work of salvation for which you have offered yourselves to Me, for which I bless you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing activities - blessing of spreading the word

Blessing of receipt and distribution ....

B.D. 6057 from September 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Undreamed-of blessings can arise for you humans from My word and its distribution, for you are touched by a flow of strength both when receiving as well as when passing it on, because you establish the connection with Me or make the connection of your fellow human beings with Me possible, for which you are also assured of My blessing. All your efforts on earth for the purpose of attaining earthly possessions do not outweigh the success which the connection with Me earns you, for what you thereby receive is everlasting, it is a possession which alone is of value for eternity. When you receive My word you carry out a spiritual activity .... you direct your thoughts into spiritual spheres, you stay with Me and hold out your open hands to Me in supplication, which I then fill with gifts of love. And if you now also offer these gifts to your fellow human beings My gifts of love are already working on you, you recognize them as extremely valuable and therefore also want to pass them on to others because love is kindled in you .... Again, your striving is spiritual and also has a spiritual effect .... so that your fellow human being also establishes contact with Me and likewise comes into the blessing of My word. And these connections from earth to Me are also felt by countless souls in the kingdom of the beyond or noticed as a shining of light, and now they, too, enter the circle of light, and they, too, are affected by the blessing, for they feel a flow of strength which triggers an ever greater desire for My word in them. For they understand the meaning of My word just as you humans do, and they accept it far more eagerly in order to increase their strength. Hence the spreading of My word is not only My will for the sake of people on earth but the souls in the beyond shall also take notice of it because they, too, require light and strength as long as the gates to the kingdom of light are still closed to them and they can likewise withdraw light and strength from My word. For these souls such impartation of My word signifies the only possibility of ascent, for without it they have too little strength to be able to perform works of love, which, however, they could easily do in earthly life with the help of the life force .... This is why people on earth pass by the most delicious things indifferently because they overestimate their vitality but use it wrongly. But the souls in the beyond are infinitely grateful for the help which signifies My word for them. And therefore both the receiving as well as the spreading of My word is of inconceivable blessing for everyone, for the strength of My word will always be felt, and souls will always be found which are grateful for this attention, and these, in turn, will pass on again what they have received, and thus a redeeming activity will also start in the kingdom of the beyond where the strength of My word has once been felt, because My word awakens love and love is always willing to provide help, on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing rests on every vineyard work ....

B.D. 5055 from February 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I want to guide you and you should only let yourselves be guided without resistance. I know the hearts of those who want to work for Me and am with them with My love and grace, assigning to each one the work he is able to do for Me and My kingdom. You, therefore, who want to serve Me, do not take a path of your own will but My will guides you and you carry it out. And therefore you will also only ever act, guided by My will, as soon as you ask Me for advice before every activity and request My blessing. Then you can want, think and act at your own discretion, and it will always correspond to My will because it is active in you. Your task is to inform your fellow human beings of the blessing of spiritual activity, to admonish them to tackle their own soul work and to draw their attention to the urgency of it because the end is near. Anyone who has penetrated spiritual truth himself should also impart it to his fellow human being so that the life of the soul is promoted, because the body is transient but the soul is imperishable. Everything that is done to inform fellow human beings is blessed by Me because it signifies help for the erring souls to emerge from the darkness of night into the light of day. Your work should always be to bring light into the spiritual darkness, and every activity in this sense corresponds to My will. I Myself have kindled a light in many places, it constantly shines for you from above in the form of My word which gives enlightenment to all who desire it. And this light shall be carried everywhere where darkness still exists. Thus I will also bless every activity which applies to the spreading of My word, which is offered to you from above as evidence of My greater than great love for you humans. The fact that I speak to you humans expresses the urgency of extraordinary help, and yet you humans must participate of your own free will if My help is also to become noticeable and bring salvation to the spiritually blind people .... I need you, My servants, to be active as mediators, to receive My gifts from heaven and distribute them to your fellow human beings to whom I cannot speak Myself because they are unable to hear My voice. You should offer the full cups of the water of life, which you are allowed to draw daily, to those who are thirsty so that they, too, will find refreshment on their journey through this earthly life .... And you should also call to those to refresh themselves at the spring of life who want to hurry past it carelessly, you should point them to this spring which is open for the salvation of people's souls, accessible to everyone and promising refreshment. For people will all need much strength and fortification in the coming time and will only be able to receive it where the flow of grace from heaven pours out, where I Myself stand and call out to them: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you refreshment ...." I Myself send you out as messengers of light to step into the path of those who become weary and weak on their long journey through the valley of the earth and are in urgent need of strengthening. You shall illuminate the path for them and then they will also walk correctly .... on the path which leads to Me, from Whom they can now constantly receive their soul's nourishment. You shall be active on behalf of your lord to gather the weary and hungry of the street, you shall invite them to supper at My table .... you shall bring the gospel to your fellow human beings in My name, you shall be restlessly active as My disciples of the last days to proclaim Me Myself to people so that I will not find any closed doors when I Myself come to take abode with them .... And therefore I bring you together so that you are active together in My name, and I Myself will always be with you with My grace and My blessing and guide all your steps .... And whatever you undertake in My name will be right and blessed by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Forwarding the divine word .... blessing ....

B.D. 5713 from July 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Spreading My word is the task of all those to whom I convey My word. Anyone who receives gifts of grace from Me should also pass them on, for love for one's neighbour dictates that everyone receives what he needs in order to become blissfully happy, that everyone gives what he owns himself and what makes him happy. In addition, people need to know that I reveal Myself, that I obviously help people on earth in their great spiritual adversity, for spiritual adversity consists precisely of ignorance about the purpose of earthly life and the human being's task. If people are now facing a turning point, if they are threatened by greatest danger and do not know about it themselves, then I would not be a God of love and mercy if I did not want to draw their attention to this danger through warnings and admonitions and not give them the opportunity to turn it away from themselves, to escape from it. Precisely because people are blind in spirit, a light shall be given to them, and light can only be kindled by the one who possesses light himself .... Therefore, what you receive from Me through My love and grace also impart to those who walk in darkness .... My eternal plan of salvation remains in place and nothing can change My will, and what has been decided since eternity will also be irrevocably carried out, yet the state in which humanity experiences the planned state is decisive, and I still want to improve this state as far as the human being's will itself allows .... Tell all people about what is about to happen, draw their attention to the fact that their life is in danger, but that they can also lose the life of their soul with their physical death, that they are preparing a dreadful fate for the soul if they don't change, if they don't recognize and acknowledge Me and thus also live according to My will .... Present to them the significance of their way of life, that they attain spiritual things if they strive for spiritual things, but that hard matter will infallibly become their fate if they do not detach themselves from matter, if they only live a purely worldly life and do not remember their God .... Pass on your knowledge and believe that I bless you for it, that you can thereby reduce the hardship of erring souls and that you are thus helping to redeem those who still languish in hard bondage .... who, in blindness of spirit, follow the one who is against Me. To release them from this is a blessed work which you carry out for Me, for I love all My living creations and want to win them over for Myself, I want all to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's commission to His servants ....

B.D. 8344 from December 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I will bless your work which is meant for the spreading of My word, for truly, the spiritual hardship is great, the darkness is almost impenetrable, and humanity needs a light through which the path it should take in order to achieve the purpose on earth is illuminated: to return to Me, from Whom all beingness once originated .... People know nothing about the most important thing in earthly life, about the return to Me, just as they don't know about the meaning and reason for their existence as a human being. And therefore they know nothing about it because they don't kindle the light of love within themselves which would give them spiritual brightness and thus truthful thinking .... And therefore a light has to be brought to these people, through the shine of which they can gain a small enlightenment if they accept the advice you bring to them through My word, which reveals My will. People must be helped, for they are helpless in their spiritual blindness, and there is only one help, that they are admonished to live a life of love, that My will is made known to them, which consists of fulfilling the commandments of love .... If you, My servants on earth, succeed in informing them of this, if you merely induce them to think, then a blessed work will already have been accomplished, for then it will also be possible for the beings of light to intervene in their thoughts, for everything will be done to pull people out of their spiritual hardship, to bring them help, to save their souls from the end. And thus you only ever have to be diligently active for Me and tirelessly work in the vineyard: to plant the seed, with which I provide you so abundantly, in fertile soil .... to convey My word to people's hearts, so that the seed will sprout and bear abundant fruit .... so that My word will give strength and light to all who willingly accept it. Every assistance will be granted to you from Me to carry out the work for Me and My kingdom, and the more willingly you comply with this work the richer blessings will flow to you as well as to all people to whom you convey a delectable gift which originated directly from Me and which therefore cannot remain without effect either: .... provided that this gift of grace is not consciously rejected, which, however, only proves the hard resistance of people who are still under My adversary's control .... But remember the many weak and undecided people who only need strong support, who only need to be enlightened about their purpose of existence, who are not unwilling when they are truthfully instructed .... You should help them and create the opportunity for them to receive My word through you .... For I will not stop speaking to humanity and I only want you, My servants, to continue praying My word, because I cannot address people directly but there is no other option but to convey to them what they need for their ascent upwards .... Don't let any work spoil you, be diligently active and believe that My eye rests favourably on you who willingly serve Me and fulfil the task I repeatedly give you because time is pressing. Yet My concern for love will not cease, it will not let up and time and again will try to bring help, for which you, My servants on earth, should support Me insofar as it is easier for you to gain access to people's hearts than it is for Me, Who, due to people's imperfection, cannot come into contact with them so closely that they would be able to recognize Me and give up their resistance .... But they can accept you because you do not force them to believe but leave it up to their free will whether they listen to you or not .... But you receive the seed from Me which you shall impart to them, and I will provide for you abundantly so that every person can receive what it needs. The great adversity causes Me to repeatedly stimulate you into eager activity, for I need you and therefore explain to you time and again in what way you can be of service to Me .... Yet I do not force your will either .... If, however, you have love within you, you will do everything yourselves to participate in the redeemer's work, you will take pity on your fellow human beings' great spiritual hardship and strengthen your will to find a remedy, and truly, you will always be able to be certain of My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s blessing during persecution in the battle of faith

Hostilities .... Working in secret .... Greater activity ....

B.D. 5143 from June 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

As yet you are only opposed by a few people, however, the time will come when your will be attacked by many, when there will only be a small number of you compared to the many who will fight you, some of whom will also call themselves believers but who will treat you with hostility for the sake of a true and living faith, for the sake of the obvious signs of the working of the spirit, which will turn them against you. As yet you have a small circle of supporters who are touched by My Word and consider it in their heart and acknowledge it; however, the time will come when you will even be separated from them, when everyone will have to rely on himself and realise that he is surrounded by enemies who want to destroy his faith in Me and My teaching. Then the fruits of the fact that they had been nourished by Me Myself with My Word and accepted the nourishment with complete faith will come to light. For they will stand firm against all the challenges of the world and will always find like-minded people again with whom they can exchange ideas and thereby strengthen their faith. Yet all of you will be prevented from being openly active, you will have no opportunity to spread My Word publicly. Nevertheless, I will strengthen everyone who longs for Me and My Word .... The hostilities against you will increase alarmingly and yet will fail to shake your inner determination, for then My spirit will also clearly manifest itself and My Word will come alive in each one of you .... External hostilities will be unable to make you inwardly waver because I will protect everyone who wants to remain faithful to Me. I recognise this will and will always give him the strength he needs in order to remain steadfast. Prior to this, however, there will be a time which you can certainly use well for the distribution of My Gospel, and I want to draw your attention to this so that you will not let it pass by unused. For you will be able to talk everywhere without fear of being banned; you will also have the talent for talking and often come across the opportunity when you will be listened to and find understanding, when your vineyard work will not be in vain. Then you should be very busy indeed and not put off what you can do .... you shall preach love and draw people´s attention to the end .... They will remember a lot once the final time of battle begins, the final battle of faith, and even if you are prevented from spreading My Word .... the seed you have sown will take root and grow and, during the last days before the end, also bear fruit. And you will continue your activity in secret, for your own and your fellow human beings´ blessing, because I will bless all your spiritual work until the end of this earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Persecution of the disciples of the last days ....

B.D. 5528 from November 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Just like My first disciples you will be severely attacked when the time comes that people will have to decide for or against Me. Then everyone who is for Me, who defends Me and My name before the world, will be treated with hostility and you will need much strength in order to be able to resist their demands to renounce Me and to revoke everything you upheld until then. All the same, you will not be afraid, for just as My disciples you will, permeated by My spirit, gladly confess who your Lord is, and you will always want to remain loyal to Me, and since you know of My might and strength you will not fear those who are certainly able to kill your body but are unable to kill your soul. And I will bless you for upholding My name, for admitting to your fellow human beings that He alone is your strength. Although you will be persecuted just like My first disciples you will not feel quite so distressed by everything the enemy of souls wants to inflict upon you .... it will bounce off you because you are protected by the shield of faith. And just like My disciples you will even then still win people over for Me, who are led to faith by your example and who recognise in My name a strength to Which they willingly entrust themselves .... And they, too, will receive the reward I promised to all those who believe in Me .... they, too, will reap eternal life and be admitted into the kingdom of light. But only those will openly profess Me who have found Me, who became enlightened by My Word, who attained a living faith through love and are also fully convinced that I will deliver them from all adversity of body and soul ....

However, anyone who has not attained this living faith prior to the battle of faith will easily relinquish it; he will be enticed by the world and thoughtlessly abandon what should be his highest possession on this earth .... he will relinquish Me because he never properly recognised Me. But you, My disciples of the last days, you shall stand firm, and the strength to do so will be given to you in abundance, for your will to remain loyal to Me also guarantees My help and My unlimited flow of strength. You can only lose your earthly life but even this will not come to an end until it is My will; but then you will exchange it with a glorious life in the spiritual kingdom. But you will not let go of Me again regardless of how much you are promised by the one who can indeed give you earthly wealth but not eternal beatitude .... You will certainly still have to battle on this earth yet victory is assured to you, for you will fight with Me and on My behalf, you will argue for My name and My teaching, you will argue for truth, for light, for your happiness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Battle of faith .... Hostilities .... Antichrist ....

B.D. 6538 from May 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

I want to bless you so that you will be My firm supporters when the edifice of faith which, for My Own, is the essence of the church of Christ, is being shaken .... when they shake what I have erected Myself and what I keep teaching people time and again through My Word. The time is approaching when not only the representatives of misguided teachings will treat you with hostility, but when all faith per se is intended to be rooted out, regardless of whether it is misguided or corresponds to the truth, because then My adversary will be determined to use his sharpest weapon: to displace all knowledge and belief in Me and My act of Salvation and replace it with materialistic points of view and plans. And this will be the dawning of a period which you as yet consider impossible, for My adversary will embody himself within a worldly ruler and start his work so cunningly that at first he will only be recognised by few people as to who he really is ....

And so he will win many over who will subsequently follow and obey him blindly as he inconspicuously changes his plans .... For in the beginning he will only proceed against individual denominations and will be supported in this by others who will be only too willing to help him when it concerns removing their opponents. And this is why you will at first believe that you are only subject to hostilities by those who only fight the pure truth because they are representatives of errors and lies themselves. And then you will have to be careful as not to endanger yourselves deliberately. Not long afterwards they will be treated with the same hostility, and then the Antichrist's activity becomes obvious .... And even then he will still be followed by many, because they will already be under his control and he will have an easy game with them. Not much time will pass anymore before the first signs become apparent .... The battle of faith will not start with an act of violence, for My adversary will proceed cunningly and even deceive many believers, who will consequently follow him and, at a later time, become his welcome servants. Yet he will be unable to deceive you, who are spiritually awake, for I will open your eyes and guide your thoughts into the right direction .... For then it will be time to arm yourselves for the final battle, which will be waged with inconceivable brutality. But I will bless you .... I will be with you Myself and leave no one defending Me and My name without protection. For this battle will be decisive since it will, after all, separate the sheep from the goats and be the work of My adversary which will condemn him .... As soon as he fights Me Myself, as soon as he wants to stop the distribution of knowledge about Me and My act of Salvation he will have passed his own judgment, he will be bound and deprived of his every power without fail.

But a clear separation must nevertheless take place, because far too many people are still neither fish nor fowl .... because far too many deem themselves devout and first have to pass this test and regretfully fail because they are not living in truth, because they have little love and therefore can neither receive nor recognise the truth for what it is .... This is why you, My servants, still have to be incredibly active, for then many opportunities will still present themselves where you can enlighten those who then .... beset by doubts .... will be incapable of discernment and desire advice. And you will indeed succeed in helping those who are weak of faith into becoming strong believers; you will succeed in drawing a few over into your camp, you will be able to give them clear and intelligible information and present Me as a loving God and Father Who only requires firm faith in order to also be able to help them in utmost adversity and to grant them the strength to persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s blessing on his servants

Blessing of God's servants in their work ....

B.D. 3640 from December 29th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

I bless all My servants on earth if they are active for My kingdom, if they are redemptively active on earth where people are in greatest spiritual adversity. I endow them with strength in order to be able to work for Me, I instruct them so that they can spread the truth, I loosen their tongues as soon as they speak for Me, for My teaching and My name .... Thus I prepare them for their mission which begins after I have manifestly made Myself known to the world, after I have spoken to people with an iron voice which is more or less recognized by them as My voice. Then they will find a large field of work, people who, in earthly adversity and great misery, long for a word of comfort and encouragement, who desire an explanation for the immense event which brings unspeakable suffering and costs many people their lives .... And then you shall give them this explanation, you shall speak for Me and My name, for My teaching, you shall mention the forthcoming end and reproach them for the great spiritual hardship they are in .... you shall preach to them about My love and thus lead them to Me so that they will now turn to Me Myself and desire My help .... And I will bless your activity .... I will give you strength to speak in such a way that you will be successful, I will make their hearts receptive for My word .... I will help them to direct their senses spiritually and speak through you as is beneficial for their souls. For there is only a short time left when you can work unhindered by worldly measures, and you must use this time and be diligently active. The hardship around you will be great but bearable for My servants so that they shall visibly feel My help and grace and proclaim Me and My love. And anyone who listens to them, who allows himself to be instructed in the sincere will to do what is right, his hardship will likewise be obviously alleviated, he will noticeably feel the strength of My word which is conveyed to him through you, for thus I want everyone who is willing to recognize Me. And therefore I need you as My labourers, because human mouths have to proclaim My will, because I cannot manifest Myself where humanity is unbelieving or too weak in faith. I require servants on earth who are strong in faith, who are in contact with Me Myself and constantly fetch strength for their ministry on earth, who are knowledgeable and shall convincingly spread their knowledge to those who desire it, who call for help in physical and spiritual adversity. And I will always bless My servants' work, after all, it is of great urgency for the salvation of erring souls. And therefore try to shape yourselves first so that I can take complete possession of you, so that I will no longer find the slightest resistance if I want to work through you .... Strengthen yourselves constantly through My word, give your soul the nourishment it needs in order to become mature for the acceptance of Myself into your hearts, and then let Me work through you so that a work of salvation can begin before the end which the souls will eternally thank you for, to whom you bring salvation in deepest spiritual hardship ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing to the workers in the vineyard .... time of need ....

B.D. 4910 from June 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I want to give you My blessing who are active for Me. For you alone recognize the spiritual hardship and do your utmost to remedy it or to save souls which allow you to help them. The spiritual adversity consists of the fact that the world, which is to be overcome, determines people's thoughts and aspirations and therefore they forget what purpose earthly life has in the first place. But since earthly life is limited for every human being and yet it is the last chance for him before his final entry into the spiritual kingdom, they do themselves the greatest harm if they have not made use of earthly life and enter the kingdom of the beyond naked and poor. But they do not consider this because they do not believe .... But faith must awaken in them without coercion or become a conviction. But people do nothing to gain it, they do not think about their outcome and their purpose in life. Thoughts of the world fill them and leave no more room for thoughts of what is after their death. There are only a few who carry a living faith within themselves, for even those who outwardly profess Me only do so in form; they have a traditional faith, they call handed-down knowledge their own which they have certainly received with their ears and also dimly considered in thought but which has not penetrated their heart and therefore did not have a life-awakening effect on their spirit. People are in great spiritual distress, for one day they will have to answer for their will which they do not use properly in their earthly life. Furthermore, they enter the kingdom of the beyond completely blind; as soon as they have left the earth in ignorance of their origin and their destiny, so they also stay there and therefore have to expect a twofold death, the death of the body and the spiritual death. Mankind endures Me, for they are My creatures to whom My unceasing love applies. I know about their hardship and torment which they have to endure, I know about their helplessness which they cannot overcome themselves if they don't change their will, and I cannot forcefully correct the will if I don't want to deprive them of the possibility of becoming perfect. And therefore I want to create opportunities for them to change their will while they are still on earth, which you should and can help Me to achieve if you work for Me and My kingdom with love for the suffering human race. This is certainly a thankless task compared to the world and its real pleasures, for the success of the spiritual work is only spiritual again, you can only win souls for the spiritual kingdom .... yet how much more valuable is a single soul than the whole earthly world .... The latter will pass away, but the soul is immortal and has all of eternity ahead of it, which it can spend in utmost agony or in supreme bliss. To release a person's soul from endless darkness and agonizing bondage is the greatest work of love you can do on earth and for which both the soul will eternally thank you and unspeakable reward from Me is assured to you, which outweighs all pleasures of the world .... I will bless you for your work, because only loving people can help those who do nothing for their soul by themselves. Don't leave them in their distress but stand by them, for their fate is so sad that it would take pity on you if you could see these souls in the spiritual kingdom. I will bless your work and assist you in every way so that you can carry it out according to My will; I will give you what you earthly need so that you can work for Me without worry; I will guide you so that you will always take the right path; I will mentally instruct you what you should do in order to successfully work amongst your fellow human beings, I will guide your spirit and body and take care of you so that you will feel My love and also give Me your love which enables you to work for Me and My kingdom. Always remember the suffering souls, remember that they are all My children whom I want to help to return into the father's house and that I need servants devoted to Me for this purpose who are to speak on My behalf and in My stead, who are to proclaim to people what they can expect here on earth already and later in the spiritual kingdom; who are to tell them the danger they are in, that they are not only threatened by bodily death but spiritual death when the end comes, which you are to announce to them and the last judgment. People are so far away from Me, they are so unbelieving that I Myself can no longer speak to them without forcing them to believe. That is why you should speak for Me, that is why I want to make use of you and speak to people through you in order to admonish and warn them of eternal ruin. Blessed be your activity if it applies to Me and My kingdom, if you take pity on the erring souls and help them to believe and to recognize .... And you will always feel My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing to all proclaimers of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6198 from February 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Everything that is done to spread My gospel I will bless .... For My name shall be proclaimed, people shall be led to faith in Me in Jesus Christ, they shall be informed of My act of salvation so that they, too, will come to Me and request forgiveness of their sins from Me. In view of the approaching end it is extremely significant that people still on earth take the path to Jesus Christ, that they acknowledge Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself on earth .... For if they enter the kingdom of the beyond without this faith, then a less than pleasant fate awaits them there .... They are still weighed down with their burden of sin and cannot ascend, they will be inexorably pushed towards the depth or pulled down if they do not get rid of their burden .... They are without light and strength and no one can help them but Jesus Christ alone, Who can also save them from the depths .... But Whom they do not know or believe in Him .... It is a bitter fate they will face when they depart from this earth in that faithless state .... And I bless all people who make it their task to acquaint their fellow human beings with the divine redeemer .... who preach to them about the one Who proclaimed the divine teaching of love on earth, who present His crucifixion as a work of salvation which He accomplished for the whole of humanity .... I bless those who proclaim My name aloud, because no man can be blessed who does not profess Him .... I bless all those who carry My gospel alive, who fight with the sword of their mouth and thus wage a battle against the one who seeks to oust Me from the hearts of men .... For it is a dead christianity in which people are going along, and this is no less bad than complete ignorance, than complete rejection of the divine redeemer .... They are to be awakened to life again, they are to think seriously about Jesus Christ, His suffering and death and His mission .... so that they will have found Him when they pass over into the kingdom of the beyond, so that they will then be able to walk on by His hand, Who takes care of every soul that only speaks His name in full faith in redemption through Him .... Precisely this faith is lacking in people, and therein lies the great adversity which requires extraordinary work on the part of My servants on earth .... And I will support them in every way in their work for Me and My kingdom .... I will put the words into their mouths, and therefore everyone will be able to proclaim Me who only has the serious will to do so. For I Myself will make him capable and bless his will. Anyone who confesses Me before the world I Myself will also identify as My representative, for he will speak driven by My spirit .... I Myself will speak through him and give all words great strength .... For it is the time of the end when diligent work has to be done if still those souls are to be saved who lack faith in redemption through Jesus Christ and who therefore do not yet take the right path to Me and to eternal life .... which the man Jesus preceded you and which you now have to follow if you want to reach Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of the mental bond with God

Blessing from the connection with God ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of mental bonding with God for the soul ....

B.D. 6771 from February 26th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

Spiritual progress is only ever achieved when My strength of love can pour into the human being, for this means increased activity of love and thus also perfection of the human being. And My strength of love can only radiate through the human being again when his heart turns to Me in love, which is already testified to by a heartfelt prayer to Me. Then he consciously opens himself to My influx and then I return his love. This is why the blessing is immeasurable which is triggered by the frequent mental bond with Me .... A person who repeatedly turns his thoughts to Me, who often enters into silence and has a silent dialogue with Me .... A person whose soul often rises into spiritual spheres will always be showered with gifts of love, strength and light will flow to him even if he has no earthly evidence of it .... The soul is constantly nourished, and although unusual activity is not recognizable in the earthly body it is nevertheless filled with light and strength, and at the hour of death it need only leave its physical shell in order to then be admitted into the kingdom of light for undreamt-of activity, because it is able to do so due to its spiritual wealth which its earthly change has brought it. For a person who remains in constant contact with Me mentally and through prayer will also constantly work with love on earth, because this is the natural effect of the flow of love which he constantly receives from Me. And thus its soul must also shape itself into that perfection which was once its own .... It feels its belonging to Me, there is no longer any separation, for its will is fully My own, and thus its return is accomplished, and it can return to its home full of light and strength and be inexpressibly blissful .... Only the close bond with Me is necessary, which has to be established by the human being of his own accord without any coercion .... Then the influx of strength of love from Me is already assured, and then the person's soul can never sink, for it will be held by Me and prompted to everlasting activity of love, because strength from Me can never remain inactive, thus it has to work according to My will. And every person should know that My strength of love is available to him without measure, that he only needs to request it in prayer and through mental contact with Me also establishes the contact which enables the transfer of My strength of love .... It is truly not difficult to reach the state of perfection again, and the path is so clearly shown to you humans, yet you have to take it yourselves, you may not be forced but do in all freedom what helps you to become blissfully happy: You must take note of your earthly task and seek to fulfil it .... You must listen to My word and live accordingly .... And you can be sure that My love will help you as soon as I recognize your earnest will to attain beatitude and to be reunited with Me as it was in the beginning .... For My love for you has remained unchanged and will not change in eternity, it will do everything in order to also shape you into beings full of love and strength again, it will shine upon you again and again until you, too, desire My love and now open yourselves to Me in the will to become and remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The blessing of doubting .... Truth ....

B.D. 6874 from July 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The fact that doubts creep into your hearts time and again is insofar favourable as that you will think about the questions that move you and subsequently can also be influenced by the beings which try to clarify your doubts. However, only such doubts are meant by this which befall a serious seeker, which motivate a person to keep searching and asking for more .... and not those doubts which makes indifferent people feel justified into rejecting the information offered to them because they don't actually desire it, who will therefore never acknowledge a bearer of truth. Their doubts are merely excuses and an escape into darkness again. Serious seekers, however, are not instantly satisfied and their doubts can become a blessing for them since they do not stop questioning, and precisely this provides the beings of light with the opportunity to mentally influence them time and again until their thinking becomes clarified and what previously had still been doubtful to them will become a conviction. The thinking human being will generally not be superficial either by simply dismissing what does not seem credible to him, but he will dig deeper before he completely rejects a teaching he has received. Thus doubt can lead to clarification as well as protection against the acceptance of errors if a person endeavours to know the truth. This is why a person should not be condemned by voicing reservations, for they only testify to genuine seriousness. But he should also consider the possibility and not rest until he has completely gained an inner conviction so that he can either accept the information as truth or safely dismiss it as error. And doubts help him in order to gain this conviction. A person who deems himself knowledgeable cannot be instructed anymore, for he is no longer receptive to the currents from the world of light, he only uses his intellect but he doesn't hear what is whispered to him by enlightened beings.

However, someone who doubts listens within, he asks questions and then certainly also believes that he is able to solve these doubts himself in an intellectual way, but as soon as he seriously strives for the truth he can rely on the fact that his thinking will be guided correctly, for the serious seeker of truth has this guarantee, because God as the Eternal Truth will also allow Himself to be found by him. This is why the human being determines the value of knowledge he acquires himself .... since it only depends on how seriously he desires the truth. And for this, too, he should give account to himself, for everyone knows that 'people can err' .... that he therefore cannot rely on knowledge he has received from other people, and that he therefore must also be willing to relinquish that knowledge if he can receive the 'pure truth'. And he can only ever desire and receive pure truth at the source of the truth. Hence he must inform God of the knowledge he received previously and appeal to him for clarification as to what extent it corresponds to truth. And God will truly grant this appeal and perhaps even place doubts into his heart, for the transmission of pure truth can only take place if the person opens himself in order to receive what he desires from the highest source: the pure truth from God .... This mainly concerns spiritual knowledge, but even earthly thoughts will be guided correctly in a person who has taken this path to God, to the source of truth. And the profound inner certainty, the firm conviction, which he will then feel is the best assurance that he has taken the right path, for no objection to the contrary will be able to shake his point of view, he will also be able to maintain it towards his fellow human beings without doubting it again .... unless new problems arise which he will also safely be able to solve again in the same way .... For God gives the truth to all who merely desire it sincerely but withholds it from those who rely on their own strength, who try to intellectually ascertain that which is known by God alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bonding with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7489 from December 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You may speak the name of the lord at any time, and you will always find a hearing with Him, because He only waits for you to turn your thoughts towards Him and He can lower His ray of love into your hearts. Because to the latter it belongs that your hearts open, and this happens by turning your thoughts to Him. Every spiritual thought is a connection of you with the kingdom of light. Every thought of Him, your God and father in Jesus Christ, is a bond with Him, which is the most valuable thing for you at any time, because every bond brings you power and light, which your soul feels even beneficially, even if your body is not able to feel anything of it. That is why you should turn to Jesus Christ even in the smallest needs, because you always establish the bond with Him, which will never remain unsuccessful. And the many small needs in human existence should only ever cause you to turn to Him .... because He wants you to remember Him always and everywhere, and because your bond cannot be intimate enough, you want to experience great blessings from it. You should come so far that you only go your ways with Him, that you entrust everything to Him, that you do nothing without Him, that you ask Him for advice, whatever you do .... that you no longer walk alone, but in constant company of Him, Who wants to be and remain your guide on your earthly life path .... because then you will also safely reach your aim. And even if your concerns are small .... the bond with Him is the only important thing, and even the smallest concerns shall cause you to do so, and your father will be pleased with you, with whom He desires to be connected for all eternity. For you had once voluntarily separated yourselves from Him and must therefore voluntarily return to Him again .... In your thoughts you have to turn to Him again, from Whom you once strove away in complete blindness of your thinking. But as humans you cannot be forced to do so, and that is why you stand in the world with free will, which you can now also direct towards the world and its charms, but then you yourselves are still very far from God, Who however wants to win you back for eternity. And every thought, which you turn to Him in the middle of earth life, is a beginning return to Him, which is now to be striven for more and more seriously, i.e. that you lift your thoughts more and more often to Him, from Whom you once went out. For this reason, however, the freedom of will also remains with you, because you are to find and go the way to the father out of love; He does not want to force you to do so, because only love is the only binding agent which re-establishes the old relationship as it was at the beginning .... Love alone connects the child with the father, the creature with the creator from eternity .... And God wants to possess this love from you humans, and He therefore entices you in every way and courts your love .... and whether this happens through hardship of all kinds, He seeks to persuade you to join Him, which will then also take place in love, which the father will now prove in many ways so that He wins the child's entire love and the union can now take place which eternally unites the child with its father. Let your thoughts wander upwards again and again, to Jesus Christ, your God and father from eternity .... And your life will soon take place more spiritually, you will easily overcome earthly life with all its difficulties, and you will soon live only for the spiritual kingdom, for the kingdom which is your true home and into which you will enter when your earthly course is finished ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessed connection with the spiritual world

Blessing of connections from earth to the kingdom of light .... rays ....

B.D. 6956 from October 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

When the eternal love descends to you in order to prove Itself to you, countless rays emanate into the darkness of this earth, and attracted by these rays countless beings find themselves, to whom the darkness causes agony and who also notice the tiniest glimmer of light and rush towards it. A connection from earth to the spiritual kingdom is exceedingly blessed because it is a possibility to also impart a glimmer of light to the souls in the beyond, for these keep themselves .... especially when they are still very immature .... near earth, and through such connections they can come to the realization that they themselves no longer dwell on earth and that nevertheless a contact exists between the earthly kingdom and their present abode. Yet even such souls are attracted by the rays who no longer have an earthly bond but feel the torments of darkness in darkened spirits .... A small ray of light can now also give them a little illumination of spirit, and it is therefore a great blessing if a person enables the eternal love Itself to send a ray of light to earth, for the light cannot shine down into darkness against people's will. The benefit such souls feel when a ray of light also touches them is indescribable, and even a hardened soul can soften and give up its resistance, for it was love which had touched it and which also does not remain without strength as soon as the soul voluntarily finds itself where it beholds light. And if you humans now consider that every intimate connection with the spiritual kingdom, every spiritual thought and especially every prayer in spirit and in truth always transfers you into radiant light .... if you consider that you are always surrounded by souls which are only waiting for the flashing of a ray of light because they have already been able to observe it with you, then it is a conscious work of redemption on your part if only you often establish this bond which enables the shining down of the divine light of love. For the souls in darkness can only ever be shown the path through a glimmer of light to you .... where, through God's love and grace, the path leading out of darkness to the light is also shown to them. And if those souls only once receive light about the redemptive work of the man Jesus, if only once they can be truthfully informed of the greatest work of love and mercy which was offered for all people, for all sinners, then even the unredeemed souls in the spiritual kingdom will know that they themselves have to take the path to Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... Then the small glimmer of light will have helped to ever brighter light, and every soul which allowed itself to be touched by the divine light of love will now bring large crowds of souls from darkness again and likewise seek to push them into the circle of light where it found help and a light which did it unspeakable good .... which is why it seeks to pay off its gratitude with redeeming activity. It is difficult to address the souls in the beyond who dwell in darkness, for they are still in the same defence as on earth, and light cannot be given to the souls against their will either .... But as soon as a connection is established between earth and the spiritual kingdom, which is not concealed from such souls by God's grace, a quite human curiosity first awakens in them and they unconsciously enter the circle of light which surrounds these people in order to also be touched by a ray of light from which they then no longer want to separate themselves .... Once such a bond is lifted again that the human being pursues his earthly thoughts or duties again, these beings nevertheless remain close to him in order not to need to do without a ray of light when it shines again. And therefore every spiritual activity is an immense blessing, for it has far more effect in the kingdom of the beyond than on earth, where you humans often have little success. But the souls you called out of darkness through God's ray of love, which you yourselves granted access to through your will, are eternally grateful to you. And if you still consciously call upon these unredeemed souls you can truly accomplish a work of redemption of the greatest magnitude, for there is great hardship in the kingdom of darkness where many souls are already languishing for endless times and are approaching a new banishment if they don't escape the darkness before the end and allow themselves to be touched by a ray of love .... Always remember those souls in prayer and often give them the opportunity to experience the merciful love of the divine saviour Jesus Christ by giving them light through your will to help them by consciously calling them to every spiritual mediation .... And it will be a blessed work that you do ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God-blessed spiritual connections .... low spiritism ....

B.D. 7009 from January 2nd 1958, taken from Book No. 75

All spiritual connections to earth are under My protection as soon as people's will is good who initiate such connections. For these connections have to be established on earth because the spiritual world is only allowed to work when the human being's will allows it. If people's will is good then the world of light may also intervene, whereas if people's attitude is low the spiritual forces express themselves which do not radiate light but rather deepen the darkness in which people find themselves. But since it is My will that light shall shine for you humans I will always bless those bonds which are the result of a good attitude and good will. And thus I will also protect those people from erroneous transmissions, for good will gives Me the right to do so, to push away the immature spirits and to prevent them from receiving erroneous thought material .... And thus you can also accept instructions from the spiritual kingdom without worry and with relief, for the world of light constantly endeavours to guide you to the light, which also happens through mental influence as soon as you desire light. But then you will also soon realize that you are also allowed to establish ties, that there is no separation between the earthly and the spiritual world .... that you are constantly surrounded by beings which are only of your will and attitude .... But only those people who have the serious will to come closer to Me and the truth will believe in this, for people who also establish spiritual bonds and are still of a lowly nature themselves have no real faith in Me. Rather, they only seek to satisfy their own curiosity, they try to uncover secrets and seek sensational entertainment .... And these people are also served according to their attitude, and their faith in a God of love will never be awakened in them, instead, they are far more likely to draw closer to My adversary, who pushes them ever further away from Me through lies and error. This is why serious warnings must be given against such ties with the spiritual kingdom, whereas every person who seeks to establish a serious bond with the world of light may feel safe under My protection. For the beings of light are the executors of My will, the beings of light do nothing of their own will, for their will is fully subject to Mine. But I often make these beings happy with tasks by entrusting them with people for guidance who earnestly strive towards Me, who have already entered into a serious bond with Me, so that I can provide them with light, with the pure truth which originates from Me and is thus conveyed to them directly or through My messengers of light, but who will never offer you humans anything other than what flows to them from Me. For you must know that My emanation of light and strength constantly touches these beings and is then passed on by them and that their bliss also consists of being able to provide them with light and strength again which such need and require. Therefore only your will is decisive to unite with Me and the world of light, then you are also guaranteed My protection and blessing, irrespective of whether the light of truth mentally reaches you or you receive it from Me in the form of My word. The eternal truth Itself is always at work, and It will ward off every dishonest spirit which tries to intervene .... just as, conversely, My beings of light are powerless against this dark world of spirits if the human being himself grants them access through his attitude and allows their activities. And every person should account for his motives which drive him to try to exchange spiritual forces .... A serious warning should be given against spiritualism of a lower kind, which brings no blessing but is a great danger to hand oneself over to My adversary if it is not recognized in time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Taking stock of oneself and contact with the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 7470 from December 3rd 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You should quite often abandon yourselves to thoughts of eternity, you should leave the earth and everything relating to it behind you at times and mentally occupy yourselves with the fact that everything is transient after all and question what you should do in order to gain everlasting possessions which will last for eternity. Furthermore, you should consider your relationship with God, whether it is the relationship of a child with the Father or whether God is still far away and out of reach for you, to Whom you only rarely turn to with the right kind of prayer. You should take a seriously critical look at yourselves as to how you conduct your life .... whether it complies with God's will which is, after all, known to you: whether you live a life of love, true to His commandments .... An introspection like that will always be a blessing, even if you can only spend a short time on it but every spiritually directed thought will be taken hold of by the beings of light and answered accordingly and you will always derive spiritual benefit from it. But you should not only consider the world and its demands. For its commodities are transient and will only serve your sense of well-being for a short time but they will not bring you spiritual achievement. However, the time is approaching its end and you all still have to do much work to improve your souls, that is, you have to discard your own faults and weaknesses, for which a continuous battle needs to be waged and the strength it requires should constantly be requested from God. Therefore, you should pray ceaselessly, i.e., always direct your thoughts heavenwards and present all your worries and concerns to the Father and appeal for His blessing. Whatever you do, be they spiritual or earthly tasks, shall be done with God's blessing, and they will always benefit your soul, for God only requests your bond with Him in order to convey His strength to you which you require for the work of improving yourselves. And a constant bond with Him requires you to frequently dwell with your thoughts in the spiritual kingdom and a conscious turning away from the world. Every minute you withdraw into silence, every thought you send upwards, is one step higher to the goal, which you will then also surely reach. You should not just live an entirely unspiritual life, for then your earthly life will be a waste of time and will not result in spiritual achievements ....

However, your bond with Him will detach you ever more from the world and tie you to the spiritual kingdom, into which you will withdraw even more frequently the more insistently the world approaches you, which soon will no longer attract you, because once a soul has entrusted and joined God He will hold on to it. But it always involves an inner battle, for the world keeps the person captive with its enticements and attractions and it requires a serious will to resist these temptations and to be content with spiritual possessions, the true value of which cannot be judged by a person for as long as he lives on earth. But one day he will be happy about the treasures he acquired on earth, one day he will know that they alone are of value and that only the soul with spiritual treasures at its disposal can consider itself happy, for it will be able to work with them in the spiritual realm after everything of an earthly nature has fallen away from it and it has to relinquish all transient possessions of the world. Then it will be wealthy and blissfully happy, a worldly person, in contrast, will stand deprived and lonely at the gate to eternity, for the possessions he acquired on earth do not follow him into eternity and he will have no spiritual possessions to show .... For this reason you should think often of death and your spiritual state, and try to gain spiritual possessions on earth, which one day will constitute the degree of light and bliss when your soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of the spiritual work

The blessing of spiritual work ....

B.D. 7327 from April 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Active spiritual work increasingly releases you from the material world and you become its conqueror as well as its master. The more you occupy yourselves with spiritual work the more the soul releases itself from its physical form even though you live on earth, yet it raises itself into other spheres, it enters the path to its true home, it is just a guest on this earth which has not forgotten its true home but steadily strives towards it. But what does the ‘spiritual work’, which lifts you from the earth’s sphere, consist of? ....

Every thought concerning the spiritual world initiates such spiritual work because as soon as the soul grasps the thoughts which come from that world the beings of light enter into contact with it and, as you might say, enter into conversation, i.e. one thought develops into another, the thoughts lead to God and in turn open the dialogue with God and the effect is that the human being now talks to his fellow human beings about spiritual matters, that he is no longer content with worldly knowledge, that all his thoughts reach precisely into that spiritual sphere from where he is now taught, from where his soul now receives spiritual nourishment. In this manner the soul matures fully, it will persuade the body to conduct itself during earthly life in accordance to its spiritual insights, the human being will work on himself, he will live consciously, i.e. he will be conscious of the purpose of his existence and his goal and make an effort to achieve this goal. Although he continues to live his earthly life he won’t consider it the most important issue but his thoughts will repeatedly lift themselves into the kingdom which is not of this world. And he cannot help himself but work on behalf of this kingdom by seeking to encourage his fellow human beings to take more notice of the spiritual kingdom than of worldly life, he will draw their attention to the emptiness of a worldly orientated life .... he will have conversations with other people about the cross of Golgotha .... he cannot help himself but mention the Divine Redeemer Jesus Christ time after time because the spiritual kingdom captivates him as well as Jesus Christ Himself, Who takes pleasure in His children who love and strive to follow Him.

You will learn to appreciate the value of an earthly life which enables you to be spiritually active and which offers spiritual success for your soul .... Because you are guided by beings of light to whom you are assigned for care during your earthly life. And their influence will not cease and only ever relate to your soul which can only profit from spiritual activity, which will mature fully during earthly life and also is a shining example to your fellow human beings. Because a spiritually striving soul is outwardly recognisable by constantly working for the kingdom of God and always performing labours of love in God’s vineyard as it feels the inner urge to serve God and to lead other souls back to Him, because its inner love expresses itself at all times in work for God and His kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual community .... Working together ....

B.D. 5091 from March 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

A spiritual community can convey many blessings, for it distributes My Gospel in Words and deeds. However, I do not call members of an organised association a spiritual community but only people who, in spiritual unity, strive towards the same goal of coming close to the truth and thus to Me and who therefore also want to lead their fellow human beings to Me. For organisations can also exist without truly spiritually striving members, and I only acknowledge spiritual aspiration as the right desire for Me. An association of people who seriously discuss spiritual topics, whose hearts silently love Me and desire a bond with Me, is a spiritual community which is pleasing to Me, My blessing will always rest on them and the very spiritual work they do will be blessed by Me. Wherever they are together I dwell among them and guide their thoughts in the right direction, I intervene in their conversations Myself by expressing Myself through a person who is particularly devoted to Me, who will then effectively instruct the others and also be acknowledged because the others will feel that I Am at work, because they will feel addressed by Me and will be convinced that what they hear is true. A spiritual community will always render Me a great service, for they will achieve far more than an individual person can achieve by only working for Me and My kingdom. Yet every individual person should try to gain followers for Me, every individual should strive to expand the spiritual community and always lead new labourers to Me because many reapers will be needed during the last days and the work that still needs to be accomplished before the end will require every effort. Together you can be very successful, for people will always look at a solitary person with distrust and lend little credence to his words. However, as soon as other like-minded people join him everything he says and does becomes significant. Therefore try to find like-minded people with the same striving to be of service to Me and to do redemptive work on earth during the last days before the end. By doing so you will gain very much yourselves but you will also gain new souls which you can lead to Me, which you can prepare for their mission of becoming co-workers for Me and My kingdom, to whom you can proclaim the Gospel so that they will pass it on to all those who suffer spiritual hardship. What is not possible for an individual person can be achieved by many; they will find it easier to be believed and will always be strengthened by Me, for I bless all who are of service to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of the spiritual exchange of thoughts ....

B.D. 7224 from December 8th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Every spiritual exchange of thoughts is a blessing since countless spiritual beings take part in it which, in turn, can benefit from it if the exchange of thoughts is conducted by representatives of Jesus Christ, by people who have a living faith in Him and whose conversations are also about Him. For their thoughts will be guided correctly because I Myself can be where two or three are gathered in My name. And you can be certain that I will intervene in your conversations and that I will ensure that your thoughts are guided and thus your conversations will also correspond to the truth. And then the souls surrounding you will be able to take an active part and benefit themselves. For the sake of the souls in the beyond who need instructions such spiritual meetings are also blessed, and you humans cannot indulge in such conversations often enough; but they are only rarely held because people no longer find the time due to earthly demands. And the souls which surround you are therefore also in spiritual hardship if they can only participate a little, but they surround people where they can repeatedly see spiritual thoughts and wait for the flashing of sparks of light which indicate such to them. And if only you humans could visualize these souls, for they hunger and starve without the supply of spiritual food, and thus they only ever look for it where they could already receive spiritual nourishment. People, however, are mostly silent in the spiritual sphere, yet they can provide blessings if they occupy themselves spiritually, and the souls will also find nourishment with them. Only worldly-minded people have no such spiritual followers and companions who would like to receive from them, whereas many spiritual beings, who in turn try to influence the human being into thinking the opposite, then the human being gains nothing but rather loses far more, for he does not allow himself to be taught by beings of light either .... teachings in which the souls in the beyond also participate. This is likewise a spiritual exchange which is of greatest blessing to the individual person, for the beings of light are constantly ready for mental instructions which always take place when a person of good will asks mental questions and now receives a corresponding mental answer. The human being's will, his attitude, will always be decisive as to what extent his thinking corresponds to the truth, and spiritual beings of the same attitude will always come to receive. But if a spiritual exchange between people takes place conversationally then it means an extremely favourable opportunity for Me or My messengers of light to speak through the mouth of those who want Me to dwell where two or three are gathered. For people's will to be united with Me is part of the fact that I am also truly with them and express Myself, i.e. influence the thoughts of My own such that they only speak purest truth, so that the souls surrounding them will also be won over and such conversations are a blessing for all involved. And you should always remember that you are constantly surrounded by knowledge-hungry souls which hope for light from you, and for their sake you should often talk to each other and always let Me Myself become the content of your conversations, and you will be allowed to radiate much light and make countless souls happy, who will be eternally grateful to you that they found illumination from you for the path they have to take in the kingdom of the beyond in order to also still reach ascent ....

Amen

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Meaning of the words "My church ...."

B.D. 2306 from April 19th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

It does not correspond to My will to disregard the blessings of the church, for I Myself founded the church so that My word may be taught within the church, so that My word may be brought to people on My behalf for the salvation of their souls .... But what is My church? .... Who belongs to My church and what blessings have I promised to those who belong to My church? .... Time and again it has to be explained to people that I have only spoken of My faithful followers and that even today I still understand My church to be those people who are deeply devout, that is, who come together in faith in Me and form a congregation. A congregation of believers .... that is the right meaning of the word "My church ...." I Myself founded this church when I chose My apostles and sent them out into all the world; I gave them the task of proclaiming My word to those who believed. And to these believers of Mine I promised My blessing .... My support, My Spirit .... I have given them the promise to be in their midst if they believingly receive this word of Mine. And My presence signifies the distribution of My love, for where I dwell My love must also be felt, which expresses itself in the transmission of strength, thus in the bestowal of My grace. And thus I bless everyone who receives My word with faith in Me, for he will also live according to My word and consequently be honoured with My grace. Thus I bless the believers who, in union, form My church and, understandably, I cannot approve of it if My blessing is valued lightly and the union of the believers is thus called into question, for anyone who does not believe My promises cannot belong to the circle of My believers either and thus to the church which I founded and which presupposes profound faith. The blessings of My church are the foundation of faith, for if I am with My own with My support they will be permeated by My love and grace and then also be able to believe firmly and unshakably and be true followers of My church, for the spirit within them is pushing towards My father-spirit. And therefore My church is nothing external but something deeply internal, which is why it need not be outwardly recognizable. My church has to unite truly believing people so that the blessings of this church will have an effect on these believers and so that My true church can also be recognized by them. And anyone who belongs to this church of Mine does not disregard its blessings either, for he believes in Me, My love and My strength and wants to receive them from My hand .... love, strength and grace .... My church is the community of believers whose shepherd I am .... And My will is that they recognize in Me their shepherd, that they hear Me when I let My voice be heard .... that they feel Me when they receive My word and then willingly follow Me, i.e., strive to fulfil My word and put it into practice ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing, i.e. help, in every spiritual work ....

B.D. 5171 from July 15th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The spiritual work, the work for Me and My kingdom, is so extremely important at this time because you no longer have much time left to work for Me. And therefore I bless every activity which is meant for this work, be it the transmission of My word to fellow human beings or also the conscious pointing out of the end to them, be it admonitions or warnings or also good thoughts which apply to the souls in need on earth or also in the beyond. Everything that is done to release souls from this adversity meets My approval and thus also My blessing. For the will to help is valued which prompts you humans to work for My kingdom, to redeeming activity. And I will support you in every way so that your work will be successful .... I will not, as people do, disregard or disrespect your work, I will always help you and straighten out what you have bent out of ignorance .... thus never allow those who are taught by you to be wrongly instructed or those who hope for salvation from you to be disappointed. For I also help and rejoice over every soul I win back, on earth as well as in the beyond. For you, My initiates, know that even after death the soul can make up for what it neglected to do on earth but that it has to be helped in the beyond when it leaves earth imperfectly. And therefore I bless every effort which is also meant for these souls, and to bless means to help that all work is successful. Be eagerly active, for time is drawing to a close and I need labourers who shall cultivate the many fields which still lie fallow, I need many labourers for My vineyard who shall influence people's hearts so that I Myself can accomplish the further work on them .... to give them My word in order to make Myself recognizable to them. I need you who want to be of service to Me, who possess knowledge which you can also impart to those who are still completely ignorant. I guide you to those who need your help and smooth all paths for you so that you can work for Me unhindered. But I also want you to remain eager, so that you don't become lukewarm and forget the great hardship which causes Me to serve you .... You should always remember this hardship and be diligently active .... Then the work in My vineyard will not be in vain, then you will redeem the souls before the end comes, and these souls will thank you eternally for having taken care of them ....

Amen

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Blessing of the prayer and the intercession

Blessing of prayer ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

Blessing of loving intercession ....

B.D. 8101 from February 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

No soul shall go hungry to whom you give your loving intercession .... Where My love is bound to the law of eternal order your love can have a redeeming effect, and for the sake of your love I can supply strength to the souls and help them to achieve final redemption. For I only want to induce you to express love, because love is a strength which can bring help to the still unredeemed as well as promote your own ascent development. And thus everything that is based on love has an extremely beneficial effect, on earth as well as in the beyond. If you humans are able to embrace everything with your love you are already far advanced in your development and you can enter the kingdom of the beyond as perfected beings when your soul leaves the earthly body. But people are only rarely able to muster such love, for they usually still judge purely humanly and see their fellow human beings' faults and weaknesses, which is why they don't believe they can love them. But love should be such that it understands everything, that it can forgive everything, that it sees its fellow human being's weaknesses and faults with merciful eyes .... that it is willing to help him .... And anyone who can acquire this degree of love on earth can truly call himself blessed, for he has accomplished the transformation of his nature into love, which was the aim of his earthly progress .... But you should all make an effort to attain this degree of love, and therefore you should only ever try to imagine your fellow human being's soul which is often in deepest adversity and in need of help .... regardless of whether it is still on earth or already in the kingdom of the beyond .... If you could see such souls you would be seized by deep compassion and your will to help would also be immediately stimulated so that you would want to release them from their adversity. And thus you must seriously consider the idea that such souls urgently need help and rarely only receive it because other people take offence at their nature and therefore they don't earn any love from their fellow human beings .... A person's thoughts cannot be good, but the soul is to be pitied because it is in the fetters of the adversary who suffocates everything good in it and it is helplessly at his mercy in its weakness .... because it does not awaken love within itself which would give it strength to resist .... And you should help such souls with your love .... A good thought, an intercessory call to Me and also an unselfish work of help which charitably touches the soul can cause love to flare up in the soul because it feels a strength within itself which has directed your love to it. If you would only ever try to put yourselves into the misery of those souls, then your love would strike them and you could truly be redemptively active on these souls. For every soul is pitiful which still lives in complete darkness, which has not yet felt the strength of love in itself. And you pass by precisely such souls, you pay little attention to them or you turn away from them because people don't appeal to you, because you don't believe you can love them .... Take care of them, try to put yourselves in their shoes, you who have already found light, have mercy on those who walk without light .... give them love and present their hardship to Me, and I will truly be merciful to them for the sake of your love and provide them with strength which they only need to use correctly in order to find their way out of their adversity. Think less of the human being than of his soul, which is grateful to you for the smallest help because it cannot help itself if it does not make use of the strength of love .... And since it has little love itself you should give it to this soul, and you will be redemptively active and likewise find fulfilment of your requests if you are in spiritual hardship yourselves and present it to Me, for you all need help from Me as long as you still live on earth. And even in the kingdom of the beyond I will not deny help to those for whom you pray with love ....

Amen

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The fulfilment of prayer in firm belief .... 'Father, Your will be done ....'

B.D. 3927 from December 2nd 1946, taken from Book No. 49

You can obtain everything from Me, if you only believe in Me firmly and steadfastly .... For if you bear My greater than great love for you in mind you will also know that I will not leave any prayer unanswered. However, firm faith in Me also includes absolute trust in Me, it includes the certainty that I, in My wisdom, also recognise everything that is a blessing for you, and that I will not allow you to be harmed by granting you something that will not be beneficial for you. And this is why a profoundly devout human being will hand himself over to Me unconditionally, he will leave it up to Me what I choose to give to him, he will not demand but humbly present his requests to Me, always making My will most important and commending himself to My love and grace. And I will give to him abundantly; I will never let him go short physically and spiritually, for I will never close My ears to My child's prayer. If, however, I deny you the fulfilment of a request then don't doubt My love anyway, for it is precisely My love which wants to protect you from harm. And you, yourselves, are not always able to recognise the effect of a fulfilled request. Therefore, present your wishes to Me trustingly and leave everything else to Me, and My love will consider you such that your path to Me will run smoothly, so that you will safely reach your goal, so that you will return as My children into the Father's house in order to live a blissful life in eternity. Yet always and forever make use of the strength of prayer, call upon Me in every situation in life, come to Me if you are in difficulty and also think of Me in hours of peace and quiet.

Don't forget Me so that I will not forget you either, and establish contact with Me quite often through heartfelt prayer, and thereby constantly call Me close to you, then strength without measure will flow to you, if you look for Me of your own free will, if your thoughts apply to Me and your heart is urging towards Me. You have to find the way to Me yourselves and therefore enter the bridge which I have established for you from earth to Me .... You have to pray, for in prayer your soul is rising into the spheres of light, in prayer you enter the bridge to Me, in prayer the child steps in front of the Father, it establishes the relationship of a child to its Father, as it is My will. And if I Am called upon as Father when a childlike heart is beating for Me I will answer every beseeching request, for I will not disappoint My children who come to Me in complete trust. And My love will express itself to them, My love will hand out gifts in abundance, My love will take care of the child spiritually and earthly, and it will never ever again have to suffer adversity if its appeal to Me is truly childlike, that is, if it sends its prayer to Me in spirit and in truth.

You all should make use of the grace of prayer, for you are able to achieve everything in firm, living faith in Me and My love .... Yet don't demand and complain or grumble if I seemingly won't grant your prayer, for then My Fatherly love knows that the fulfilment of your prayer will only cause you harm, and in order to protect you from this it will deny itself .... Yet anyone who always submits his will to Mine will never be disappointed, for his is the true prayer which is pleasing to Me if he adds to all his requests 'Father, Your will be done ....'

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessed redemption work

Blessing of the work of redemption .... cross of Christ ....

B.D. 6356 from September 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You will all be under the blessing of My act of salvation if you consciously confess Me and My redemption from sin and death .... What I have acquired for you in grace through My redemptive work, through My death on the cross, your soul also receives through your faith in Me and through your willingness to participate in the work of redemption .... For thereby you acknowledge Me, and you are already recipients of light and strength, your will is strengthened, and your striving upwards must now also be successful because you are no longer powerlessly at My adversary's mercy. And then you will also understand everything that is connected with My human manifestation and with My earthly life, which was ended by the death on the cross .... You will know why Jesus Christ has to be acknowledged by people and how important it is that His teaching of love is spread. And as soon as you have gained this knowledge yourselves you will also be suitable to represent Me and My name in the world, you will be suitable as true proclaimers of My word and as helpers on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, welcome co-workers for Me .... For countless souls are still awaiting their salvation who have not found Me in Jesus Christ on earth, just as countless people on earth are still unable to muster this faith, precisely because they were not taught in the right way, because Jesus' teaching of love was not accepted by them and therefore they were unable to attain the truth themselves, for they lacked the inner light which is kindled by a life of love .... All of them are in greatest need, for anyone who does not take refuge under the cross of Christ of his own free will, who does not fully embrace Jesus Christ, will never find the gate which grants entrance into the kingdom of light, nor will he have the blessings of the act of salvation at his disposal which impart strength to him for the battle against the enemy of the souls .... My ray of love and grace affects all who have placed themselves under My cross but remain untouched, who are far from the cross .... Lightless and powerless remain all people on earth and all souls in the spiritual kingdom who do not want to acknowledge the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, who do not take the path to Him and to the cross .... Every thought turned towards Him in humility and love testifies that it is in the radiant circle of the divine redeemer, and the blessing of the divine redeemer will also fall upon it .... My blessing hand touches all who want it .... and anyone who is blessed by Me will no longer fall back to the abyss because My hand holds him, because he belongs to the redeemed for whom I shed My blood, whom I ransomed from My adversary through My work of grace and mercy, through My death on the cross. And all of you will enter into life in light and power .... The darkness must release you as soon as you call upon Me in faith in Jesus Christ, Who embodied Myself in the man Jesus in order to redeem you .... Even My adversary can no longer hold you back, for I have broken his power through My work of love, I have delivered you from his power .... And if you want it yourselves you will also be free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing rests on every redeemer's work ....

B.D. 5326 from March 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Every redeemer's work finds My blessing .... Anyone who is seriously willing to help and to reduce the spiritual hardship on earth as well as in the beyond can also be certain that he will always find My support and that I will bless his work. The will is always decisive, not just the word, i.e. the thoughtless utterance of a good intention which lacks the will. Again and again I emphasize that I need labourers who are active for My kingdom, who are to carry out an extremely urgent work in My vineyard. And this work is always to be understood as the release of the bound beings which, as human beings on earth, still walk on wrong paths or, having entered the beyond immaturely, have to endure an unhappy fate there in spiritual darkness. To release everything that is bound, to lead it out of darkness into light, to change the wretched state into a blissful one .... is redemptive work which will always be blessed by Me because it is done of free will, because love for the wretched person is the reason for this redemptive work. And thus only that which is done out of love can be regarded and evaluated by Me as redemptive work .... And thus you also have clarification as to whether and when My blessing is certain for you .... I will approve everything that helps even one soul to ascend. Whether you speak words of love to your fellow human beings on earth, whether you bear witness to Me and My working, whether you admonish them to work on their souls .... whether you pray for the poor dark souls on earth or in the beyond and mentally instruct them in order to help them .... as well as only your intention is to help, you act well and righteously and will always experience My blessing. There are only a few people who seriously work for Me and My kingdom, who have the well-being of their fellow human beings or the deceased at heart, there are only a few who know about the great spiritual hardship and want to control it, and My love also applies to these few, which makes all work easier for them again and lets it become successful. A spiritual vision into the places of darkness, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, would certainly shake people up and perhaps also make them willing to help, yet this would then be conscious work which would be done out of fear, because people still lack knowledge and have to acquire it through works of love. Every person who lives according to My will will become knowledgeable, and the spiritual hardship will also be recognizable to him very soon. But too little attention is paid to My will, i.e. My commandment of love is not fulfilled, and the effect of this neglect is so dreadful that the fetters around the souls become ever more oppressive and they have to be helped to get rid of them. But only a loving soul can provide this help again, and therefore every worker is welcome to Me who is driven by love to work for salvation .... For where only one soul is rescued from darkness My love will reward it a thousand fold and bestow My blessing on those who thus want to serve Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption work .... success through love .... asking for blessing ....

B.D. 5543 from November 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I will bless you for everything you do for Me and My kingdom, yet not for the sake of blessing shall your work be done .... Consider that only a right work of love can be successful and that the work of redemption can only be based on love, otherwise the redeeming strength is missing. Therefore, your work has to be done entirely unselfishly, even though I rate it as the highest achievement, because it concerns the souls of beings which languish in adversity without help. For people on earth are also unhappy beings as long as they live in spiritual darkness, except that they don't recognize their state of misery in earthly life because they only pay attention to earthly things. But you can contribute a lot to give these people light, and I want to bless this effort of yours .... Nothing you do for your fellow human beings out of love shall be done in vain, for a labour of love cannot fade away forever, and even if it is not immediately successful the effect will not be absent, for in a shorter or longer time the human being's soul will remember your love and make use of it. Nothing is lost that is born of love .... But you should always ask for My blessing so that your work will be more effective, because My blessing means a great help .... And I will never deny you the blessing, after all, it is My will that you shall be successfully active, and My blessing will rest equally on your activity as well as on yourselves, for the work for Me and My kingdom shall give you pleasure, you shall not do it with the feeling of having to carry a burden, you shall do it gladly and voluntarily, precisely because love shall impel you to do it, and I will repay your love with My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work on souls beyond ....

B.D. 7396 from August 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Every contact with the spiritual world is beneficial if it is established with the will to do good, if the will to help is the impetus and if it happens under the invocation of Jesus' name that He may bless it. You must consider that there are no longer any earthly incentives for the inhabitants of the world of the beyond, that they are, as it were, deadened by the length of time they have already understood that they are no longer surrounded by earthly matter and that they therefore accept every spiritual stimulation like food they have needed for a long time. And so this is the effect of good bonds which you humans initiate from earth to the spiritual kingdom. If your conversations, your thoughts and your suggestions are of a spiritual nature then it is like an administration of food for these souls, for they are so empty and needy that they hunger and thirst and every spiritual presentation of the gospel's teachings means food for them for which they are extremely grateful. You cannot imagine such depleted souls in their poverty .... You don't know what kind of benefit you do for them by offering them food and drink, but this is only to be understood as a spiritual gift which you want to give to them in love in order to help them. Your intention to help first blesses this spiritual knowledge and turns it into nourishment for the souls, for your will then concerns the transmission of the gospel to those souls which have entered the kingdom of the beyond poor in spiritual knowledge and have to live in want there if they are not given the right nourishment. And you possess this nourishment and can therefore help the souls if only your will intends it. And if you now intimately unite with Jesus Christ so that He will give His blessing to your plan, then it will certainly be blessed and the souls will be able to fill themselves with the food you give them in His name. You who receive the pure word of God should work with this word .... you shall convey it to the people with whom you are brought together, but you shall also remember the souls who dwell in the kingdom of the beyond, by whom you are surrounded if only you call them in thought, and who will always accept the word if it is lovingly offered to them .... Consciously and unconsciously you can pass nourishment to these souls, for as soon as you only mentally occupy yourselves with spiritual knowledge, as soon as your thoughts dwell in spiritual territory, you are surrounded by souls which fetch spiritual nourishment from you, because the soul's will, in turn, determines the amount of spiritual knowledge it receives .... But they will always stay close to you and wait until you establish this spiritual bond, which will be a great blessing for them if only you remember them, if you want to help them yourselves .... if it is your will to carry out redemptive work wherever possible .... And therefore don't miss any opportunity to do so, gather together in Jesus' name and know that your willingness to help will be blessed at every hour, because great need exists in the kingdom of the beyond and because every soul is eternally grateful to you, which you lead out of darkness into the light of day, which finds Jesus Christ through you and is then also saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s blessing for earthly work

God’s blessing – earthly and spiritually ....

B.D. 0332 from March 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

There is no blessing from God for this world if man does not turn to the heavenly Father asking for it. For every action for earthly life already has it's blessing in itself in the fulfillment of bodily needs, and no farther blessing can be expected for eternity, because every action on earth is worthwhile in itself .... Only when man is able to separate the earthly activity from the spiritual, will he appreciate the difference, which lies in the blessing from the heavenly Father.

Every event, no matter how small, upon which the blessing is implored from above and which is begun with the same, bears it's fruits both on earth and in eternity. For there is a significant difference between blessed and unblessed activity .... A thought sent to God let the spiritual beings protecting man, take care of the human child immediately and guide him well and give him advice. And so a beginning, on which God's blessing rests, will not easily fail, and also the corresponding spiritual activity will be accompanied by success, since it is the most important thing assigned to the earthly being ....

Therefore, always turn to the heavenly Father, and do not start anything without having recommended yourself to His grace. And you will gain priceless goodness .... your earthly activity will be secured for you, and the Lord will also take care of your spirit and bless it as well so that it will be promoted for eternity .... In His name you will succeed in every work, and you can go through life untroubled, because the blessing of God keeps away physical worries, and you will become stronger and stronger in the spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

God's blessing for work ....

B.D. 1577 from August 21st 1940, taken from Book No. 25

Good and bad spiritual support ....

The success of any work is always dependent on God's blessing, and God shall bless the work so it is started and completed with faith and trust in Him. It is by no means to be assumed that human intelligence guarantees the success of a work, but rather that intelligence itself is the work of otherworldly spiritual forces, namely good forces if the work was preceded by a faithful thought in God, or also bad forces if the person feels capable of mastering a difficult work alone in arrogance.

Good spiritual forces are also often at work without the human being consciously requesting God's blessing, namely when the human being is not yet cognisant but otherwise thinks correctly and is of a good disposition. Even then he receives the strength from above to direct his thoughts upwards and to make him aware of God's blessing so that he consciously strives for union with God, and no longer starts any work without praying for God's blessing. Conversely, evil spiritual forces take possession of the human being because his thinking corresponds more to these forces, and the effects of these are accepted without resistance. And the result of such bad influences will be that the human being will always become more arrogant and aware of his worth, that he will believe that he can manage everything by his own strength and never think of asking for God's blessing for a work. And thus only those spiritual forces are active in every work which correspond to the human being's thinking .... The success of a work will always depend on his innermost attitude towards God, for even if a work which has been accomplished without God's blessing appears to bring earthly success, it will only ever bring earthly success, but through such work the human being will fall prey to evil powers, that is, they will increasingly capture his thoughts and attitude. They provide him with many earthly advantages, but pull his soul down and thus increase his distance from God. Nothing should be started without God, if the earthly work should bring success to the soul. Then it will also be blessed in earthly regard, and the human being will be able to fulfil difficult tasks with ease, because the good spiritual forces will take care of this work and ensure its success ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Relinquishing the world .... Fulfilment of earthly duties and the blessing of God ....

B.D. 4436 from September 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

What does the world offer you? If you really think about it, it only offers things which make your earthly life more pleasant for a short time but which have no lasting value. And if you consider that you could be called from this earth any day then you work, from a worldly point of view, just for one day, because tomorrow could already be your last day. But even a long earthly life cannot be compared to eternity and it is simply unwise to provide for oneself for this limited time and not to consider eternity. But not until you occupy yourselves with thoughts about life after death can you know that you are chasing after illusive possessions and then you will understand the spiritual aspirations of those who don’t see the earth as an end in itself but as a means to an end. And then you too will strive for the truth, for enlightenment and for Me, Who can impart all that to you.

But one thing you should not fail to do: to appeal to Me to become your support and adviser, that I should take care of you and continue to guide you during the course of your life, that you choose Me and for My sake relinquish the world, i.e. that you have no great expectations to live a life of external comfort but that you, deep inside of yourself, live your life with Me, away from the world. This detachment is imperative, just as it is imperative that you take notice of the pure truth which, when you receive it externally, worldly people cannot offer you. If you entrust yourselves to Me I will walk with you and also ease your earthly labour because no one who works for Me and My kingdom shall be harmed. You shall indeed do your duty, that is, take up your position that has been allocated to you but who blesses your worldly labour if I don’t?

You cannot automatically enforce your success and if My will opposes it you are helpless even though you are laboriously and constantly working. Alternatively, I can favour your work and help you to accomplish it. I do, however, ask that you accept My gift from above, that you give it your whole attention and help to pass it on. Then you can live completely carefree because I will take care of every problem. First carry out your spiritual work and everything you do to accomplish your earthly allocated task will be blessed, because I truly provide better for you than the earthly world .... But I will not change My prerequisite that I as Father, will give you, My children, everything that you require spiritually and earthly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s blessing for every action .... Marriages ....

B.D. 6940 from October 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

All blessings have to come from God Himself in order to take effect. A human being’s blessing will only ever be a ‘blessing’ for another person when God is called upon, that is to say when this blessing is given in His name. And therefore you humans may also contact Him yourselves if you want to receive His blessing because your plea that God should sanction your planned action will also gain you His caring help in every situation of life. God has indeed chosen His servants on earth who shall impart on His behalf the gift He Himself wants to give to people .... who speak to people on His behalf since He cannot speak to them Himself due to their freedom of will. And His representatives are also able to implore God to bless his fellow human being, to direct the results of his actions such that they will benefit the person. But this is entirely under God’s control, hence only God alone can give His blessing and the human being can only do so on His behalf, with other words in the name of God. This is why every human being is also able to request God’s blessing for his undertaking without those whose office makes them feel entitled to give blessings. Because much of it is a mere formality, and the inner state of mind is not greatly observed anymore. A person with an inner connection to God will no longer do anything without first having prayed for God’s blessing, and God’s blessing will also be assured to him ....

However, the conferring of blessings which has become a formality, which is mechanically carried out, which is tied to customs, will always just remain a formality and have little effect on people, or many things which will never correspond to God’s will would have to find God’s approval. For instance, formal marriage ceremonies are also blessed, for which God would not give His approval and which He would prevent if He did not observe the free will of people. Marriages take place for worldly, materialistic reasons which do not deserve the description of ‘marriage’ .... Unions are entered into which do not show the prerequisites required for a good marriage before God .... However, the blessing of the church is not denied to such unions, but whether God Himself will bless such a marriage remains to be seen .... even though an ecclesiastical blessing need not always be ineffective, when both the person conferring the blessing as well as the recipient have established sincere contact with God, thus when God Himself is petitioned for His blessing by all participants. Hence only this sincere contact with God is decisive as it proves the human being’s willingness to be blessed by Him. God will always be ready to direct everything for the benefit of a person’s soul, and He will also know how to direct worldly events such that they result in a blessing for him, if the person prays for God’s blessing himself.

But people’s entirely unblessed beginnings will not result in much benefit, just as the purely formal blessing cannot be considered a divine privilege, a ‘blessing of God’. Only what is prayed for spiritually and in truth and carried out can be of value .... that is why every heartfelt prayer for God’s blessing will be granted because it is God’s will that the person should enter into heartfelt union with Him and his blessing will only evolve from this bond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Take and eat .... Do this in remembrance of Me ...."

B.D. 2122 from October 19th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

The awareness of having the right knowledge also gives a person the right to pass on what he recognizes as truth to his fellow human beings. He must therefore never anxiously ask whether and to what extent this truth is desired. He must try to convey it to his fellow human being, and only stubborn rejection releases him from the duty of passing on what makes him happy. It is a time of struggle, and only those who are not afraid of the struggle will be victorious where it is necessary to fight for God and the truth. Since people have little desire for the truth, the truth cannot come to them directly, but through mediators it is possible to awaken the desire for the truth in them by offering it to them for acceptance. If a person rejects it, then it is his free will, which cannot be forced, but equally his will can also decide to accept it. Thus the attempt must be made without hesitation to guide ignorant people into knowledge. And this is the task of the one who wants to serve God .... As soon as he submits his will to God, he no longer does anything at his own discretion but is guided and directed according to God's will. And so he does not need to be timid about his task, for since he serves, he is relieved of all responsibility .... "Take and eat, this is My flesh .... Take and drink, this is My blood .... Do this in remembrance of Me ....", thus says the lord, and His word shall be obeyed for all eternity. His will is that people always remember Him when they eat physical food. He blessed the bread and wine beforehand, and so people should do the same .... They should call down the blessing of God on everything they eat, so that the food may give them physical and spiritual strength .... and He wants them to do the same, because then their own will becomes active, because they then desire the blessing of God when they call it down of their own accord .... So whoever eats the bread and drinks the wine, remembering the lord that He may bless the food, receives spiritual strength at the same time as the bodily food, and now he eats the lord's flesh and drinks His blood .... For if spiritual strength flows into his soul, it will crave spiritual food .... And spiritual food is the word of God .... So whoever eats bodily food in the right way, i.e. in fervent remembrance of the lord, will hunger for the food of heaven, which is strength and spiritual nourishment for his soul. For if man's thoughts are with God, he cannot but desire His divine word, for the intimate connection with God is speech and rejoinder .... it is question and answer .... And the starving child gratefully accepts the food that the father offers him in His love .... His flesh and His blood .... spiritual food that strengthens man and gives him strength for his upward endeavours. The words "Do this in remembrance of Me" therefore apply to the blessing of that which serves man as bodily nourishment. Everything a person eats can only serve the body if it is savoured without remembering the giver .... In addition to the body, however, it can also give strength to the soul, but then every food must be blessed by God, and this blessing must be asked for through heartfelt remembrance .... For he who thinks of God will also desire Him, and his thoughts will be a silent prayer, a longing for His love and the bestowal of His grace .... A heartfelt thought of God includes all these requests, for a heartfelt thought testifies to love and therefore the desire for union, and God only wants this love of man .... He wants them to think of Him always and constantly. That is why He demands an act in His memory .... He demands that the human being allows all bodily food to become food for the soul at the same time by asking the lord for His blessing. If he eats bodily food without remembering the lord, he eats bread and wine .... But if he asks for His blessing in fervent remembrance of Him, he eats His flesh and drinks His blood, for spiritual nourishment now flows to him .... These words have also been misunderstood and a correct explanation is not accepted. Human wisdom and human will allowed earthly actions to emerge from these words, and they did not recognize the true meaning. Consequently, the desire for the truth is also weak because spiritual nourishment can only be offered where the truth is desired. People are starving, and only because they think too little of the lord and because they only give all nourishment to the body, but the soul in man goes out empty .... therefore the soul also does not feel spiritual hunger in order to request spiritual food. When you eat and drink, you should always remember that the lord blessed every meal before He gave it to the disciples and said the words: "Do this in remembrance of Me ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of the unselfish charity

All willingness to help is blessed by God ....

B.D. 5635 from March 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Believe in My Words that I bless everything which is done with the intention to help. The willingness to help is unselfish neighbourly love which can never arouse My displeasure. And I often give you humans the opportunity to put your will into action, I stimulate your thoughts and also give you the strength to accomplish whatever you feel impelled to do. Just don't strive for earthly gain by doing so, for only unselfishness characterises the right kind of love; you should always want to give but never want to achieve anything for yourselves by your action. Consequently, wherever you think you are able to help you should never hold yourselves back, for your labour of love not only helps to reduce suffering but also awakens reciprocated love and therefore achieves the noblest purpose .... to kindle love in the person's heart who receives the labour of love and thereby to give life, for only love awakens life and can therefore also soften an obstinate heart and achieve a transformation which signifies redemption for the bound soul. Never allow yourselves to be held back from active unselfish neighbourly love and send kind thoughts to your fellow human beings, remember their souls which are in spiritual darkness, on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, and try to bring them light by igniting love in them through kind-hearted deeds .... You can have an incredibly richly blessed influence on all those who live in darkness by merely loving them, by including them in your heart of love and giving them a lot of love, which they will feel with gratitude and reward with love in return .... Never fear that you are doing wrong if you want to help .... For I see your will and this alone is valued by Me .... The hardship is enormous and any reduction of it is an act of mercy, a loving deed, the consequences of which you are incapable of recognising .... But where love is active there will always be detectable success which consists of activity of love again, and this shall spur you into untiring loving activity, so that every ray of light will be felt beneficially on earth as well as in the beyond and ignite again .... so that every small flame will spread and radiate light and that, where the light is shining, there will also be happiness .... so that you therefore make those happy, whom you lovingly take into your heart, whom you grant love .... be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond ....

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

Neighbourly love ....

B.D. 7563 from March 31th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

You will always benefit when you look after a neighbour in need .... because you will always be fulfilling My will which is expressed in My commandments of love for God and your neighbour. But you should practise love for your neighbour of your own free will, you should feel prompted from within, only then will you kindle the spark of love in you, and only then will your soul mature. Your every thought, word and action has to be based on love if it is to have a spiritual effect, or you will only ever accomplish earthly duties without the slightest gain for your soul ....

It is always just a matter of love .... of the inner urge to do good, to help where it is needed, to please and bring joy to where the opportunity presents itself .... it is a matter of the person's inner nature which should become completely absorbed in its love for Me and the next person, which overcomes all selfish love and is completely imbued by love, so that I Myself can be present in him and thus work in him through My spirit. Then the human being cannot be anything but good and will always live in unity with Me, then the earthly world can no longer tempt him but in thought he will always be in the spiritual world since the spirit in him determines his every thought and intention.

But as long as a person's thoughts are held captive by the world it will not be possible for him to develop love in himself, for then the world will still appeal to his selfish love and this will be satisfied first, which will always be at the expense of the next person. In that case he has to be noticeably confronted by his fellow human being's suffering; he has to see a lot of misery in order to motivate himself to help and to enable the spark of love within him to ignite so that he feels the benefit of a good deed. Hence much tribulation has yet to be experienced on earth, because love has grown cold amongst people, because My messengers of love are hardly ever appreciated and thus the spiritual hardship, which can only be remedied by love, is also extensive.

People's lack of love is spiritual hardship which always entails earthly hardship too, therefore the latter will continue to increase in the last days in order to still touch human hearts and awaken in them merciful neighbourly love. However, only a few people will escape this spiritual adversity, for selfishness is gaining the upper hand and that also means that worldly love will become ever more widespread, that people will become enslaved by matter and in their pursuit of it also prepare their later fate, that they will again become matter which they had already surmounted in the past.

And there is only one way out from this banishment, and this way out is and remains love .... Not even My love can release you from the commandment to practise love, for love is the first law, and without love no one can become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'The measure you give will be the measure you receive ....'

B.D. 7638 from July 2nd 1960, taken from Book No. 80

And you will receive the same measure you give to your neighbour .... you will receive to the same extent as you are willing to give, you need never suffer hardship if you share your possessions with your fellow human being in need .... And I will bless you at all times, because you will be acting according to My will by merely being lovingly active. You should know that your reward in heaven will only be small if you only selfishly consider yourselves on earth, if you get as much out of life as possible without considering your neighbour; in that case you will have received your reward on earth already, then you will receive earthly possessions which are transient because you aren't acquiring the love which can follow you into eternity .... Yet you should give with love, the prospect of reward should never motivate you to be lovingly active, for then true love will be missing which turns your offerings into true gifts in the first place. And you will receive the measure you give yourselves .... You will receive in a spiritual and earthly way according to your will to give and be able to travel your earthly path richly blessed and never suffer adversity. The reward you receive in the spiritual kingdom for your way of life will make you very happy, for every deed of love results in light and strength in the beyond, with which you will subsequently be able to work for your own blissful happiness .... I Myself will give to you, just as you gave to your neighbour .... except that My gifts are boundless, that I give an abundant measure, that My love for you will reflect your gifts a thousand fold and that you therefore will not suffer deprivation, neither on earth nor in the spiritual kingdom. Hence you can gather immense wealth for yourselves on earth, which will follow you into eternity .... if only you always let neighbourly love speak, if you take notice of the other person's adversity and try to reduce it. And this adversity can be spiritual as well as earthly .... If you ease his spiritual adversity, your spiritual gain will be great indeed, for then you will be providing for yourselves for eternity and one day the soul will be grateful to you for what you offered it. Earthly adversity will come to an end because the human being will not live on earth forever. Spiritual adversity, however, is persistent and can last for an infinitely long time if the soul does not receive help to release itself from it. And since I send you an unlimited amount of spiritual knowledge, you should also pass it on and thereby please your neighbour, who will experience spiritual adversity for as long as he does not know the truth, as long as he has not found the path to Me and seriously thinks about his purpose on earth. You can help him to do so, then you will truly have carried out an act of Christian neighbourly love, for which you will be richly rewarded one day, for then you will have worked on My behalf, you will have tried to attract your neighbour to Me and allowed Me Myself to speak through you, which will never be without blessing for you and for your neighbour. For every person suffers adversity who has not yet actively approached Me, and every person shall be offered the opportunity to establish a heartfelt relationship with Me, his God and Creator of eternity .... For I want to be a Father to him and I want to be recognised by him as his Father .... and if you help him with this and thereby return My child to Me, your work for Me and My kingdom will be blessed. And I will give to you as you give to others, and you will never go short, neither in a spiritual nor earthly way, for your Father in Heaven grants you gifts in abundance, because He loves you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing from illness, suffering and hardship

Every human being experiences God's revelation in himself ....

B.D. 7263 from January 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every person shall experience that God's love takes care of him, and therefore every person is sometimes harshly touched by fate, and depending on his attitude he will receive help in his adversity. But he will be able to visibly recognize where help comes from if only he has a spark of faith in God and His might within himself, for he is often affected by adversity from which there seems to be no help anymore .... And yet, help will come to him, even if it seems natural but obviously proving the intervention of a loving and powerful God. For God wants to reveal Himself in His love, He wants people to recognize Him and then also learn to love Him, because God is only ever interested in the human being's love which shall turn towards Him. Yet the human being's will is also part of it in order to recognize God and to love Him .... Anyone who always rejects God would also not feel touched if he once visibly experiences God's help .... For him it remains a coincidence or his own merit when an adversity is reduced, when help arrives or fellow human beings assist him. Then he will always be inclined to explain everything to himself naturally, without accepting a God and controller of his fate. And he cannot be forced to think differently, only such strokes of fate can repeat themselves and slowly cause him to think about it, but with positive success only when the inner resistance against God diminishes, when he plays with the thought that a higher power is decisive in every person's life. But anyone who repeatedly feels God's love and allows himself to be seized by it has drawn blessings from his course of destiny, no matter how difficult it may have been, for recognizing God's love is of such great importance for people that this also explains the hard fate of many people who are repeatedly touched in order to decide for God once they have recognized Him in His love .... because only this decision determines the human being's conscious life. For the human being only becomes thoughtful when such 'revelations' of God obviously reveal themselves to him, and as soon as he looks at all events in his life from the point of view that they were imposed on him by God, but that God also orders and levels them again in His love for the human being, his life will become a conscious one, he will take everything upon himself in the certainty that he will also be helped because God loves him. To have gained this realization is a great spiritual progress which will certainly result in an easier earthly life for him, because now there is no longer the necessity of severe strokes of fate, because the human being is convinced of God's love and surrenderingly submits to His will, which he has recognized as loving. Every person has this opportunity to come to recognize God's love, but His will is not anticipated, and therefore many people still remain untouched, although God's love often speaks a very clear language. But the strokes of fate naturally accumulate in order to make the human being deal with them mentally and learn to recognize what he would rather deny: that there is a God Who directs and guides everything and Who lovingly takes care of all His living creations so that they will still find and take the path to Him in earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of illness and suffering .... Maturing fully ....

B.D. 5194 from August 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The body's decline is often a useful warning for a person who is still too earthly-minded and thus endangers the soul. Sooner or later he must learn to realise that nature can impose a limit and as a result of this realisation become aware of what will happen after the body has become completely unsuitable for this earth. As long as the human being fails to think about his soul of his own accord he must often be warned and admonished. Physical ailments, diseases and the loss of bodily abilities must therefore also be regarded as means for maturing the soul, since they can change a person's thinking considerably and consequently are often used as a remedy for the soul if it is at risk of succumbing to spiritual death. Yet they don't always serve their purpose .... then a state of obstinacy ensues, a complete avoidance of all divine-spiritual issues, and despite disease and misfortune affecting his body the human being tries to live life to the full.

Nothing that is inflicted on a person is without meaning .... the body's illness often achieves the soul's recovery; then it has been a blessing because the person learned to despise the world after he had to go without and looked for and found a substitute in the spiritual world. He will receive precious possessions as compensation for the goods denied to him by the world and which he now knows to be worthless. But that involves that he humbly submits to the fate imposed on him for the sake of his soul, that he obediently endures what indeed seems arduous to him but what can also be overcome. As soon as the human being gains just a little faith he feels the hand of God above him and humbly submits himself to God's will; and then he can only win but never lose, thus he need not be pitied either because he owns infinitely more than someone completely healthy and full of physical vitality without contact to the kingdom which one day will also be his abode after the death of his body.

Only the degree of the soul's maturity on passing away from earth is relevant .... Everything that can contribute towards becoming more mature is used by God, even if the human being does not experience it as a benefit while he is without realisation .... One day he will recognise the blessing of suffering and illness and be grateful to God for using successful remedies without curtailing the human being's free will. A sick body is not as bad as a sick soul, and if it is to become healthy the body must endure illness until the soul has become charitable, until it looks up to heaven and has learned to regard the world merely as a temporary school of trials .... One day it will be able to soar freely and without hindrance up into high spiritual regions and be eternally grateful to its Creator for the grace bestowed upon it of letting the body suffer so that the soul can recover ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of suffering ....

B.D. 3472 from April 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

And anyone who submits to My will will find the most loving and faithful father in Me, for I will no longer leave him in the soul's distress. And if the soul is no longer in distress then the body will no longer need to suffer so either, although its substances can still spiritualize themselves through suffering and this signifies a faster upward development for the spiritual, which is still bound in the human being's external form. You humans don't know how much I would like to shorten the path which leads to Me and which has your final liberation as its aim .... You had to live on earth for an unspeakably long time before your embodiment as a human being, and this last period of development is only short and yet can result in your complete liberation if your will is directed correctly. And I want to help you to reach your aim on earth, that you turn your gaze to Me and walk the path together with Me until the end of your life, for then you will not be able to go astray .... But you often turn your gaze sideways and let yourselves be tempted by the attractions of the world .... Your will still strives for earthly goods which you desire, and you are in danger of falling into My adversary's sphere. And therefore I often have to nudge you to wake up and pay attention to the path again, so that you don't forget Me and call out to Me in times of need, so that your will will be directed towards Me again .... Yet as long as you don't stray from the path, as long as you raise your eyes to Me and strive to fulfil My will, I am tangibly close to you and watch over your every step, I guide you by the hand and lead you over all obstacles on the path which you, however, have to overcome because this promotes your ascent. But then nothing should frighten you, nothing should make you despondent or tired, for as long as you have Me as your companion through your will, which is turned towards Me, you will never be without strength. Again and again I will strengthen you, and even if you travel the path with difficulty you will nevertheless gain the greatest advantage for body and soul, for they will become more and more spiritualized and your end will be a blissful one .... And one day you will look back and recognize the blessing of the suffering you had to endure. For I truly only want the best for you, yet I cannot give you the bliss of eternal life as long as you are immature in spirit, as long as you cannot yet face Me completely cleaned and purified, for only My nearness is bliss for you, and this presupposes purity and sincerity, and I want to help you achieve this as long as you are still on earth, for My love for you is exceedingly great, it wants to shorten your suffering so that it will not be granted to you in the beyond, where you will suffer twice because then you will be powerless ....

I take little pleasure in you having to suffer on earth, and My love would also like to spare you this suffering, yet then it would only be your disadvantage, for you could never ever attain eternal bliss, you could never ever be active in strength and freedom, and your fate would forever be that of prisoners .... powerless and bound in sin and eternally distant from Me. But My love for you is greater than My compassion, and because My wisdom recognizes suffering as the only means to win you back, to release you from bondage, you have to go through a hard school on earth and for a short time accept a fate which certainly seems difficult and unbearable to you and yet is only evidence of My love for you. But you yourselves have the power to reduce your suffering .... You yourselves can make it bearable for you if you make an effort to fulfil My will, if you live in love .... For love is strength, I Myself am love, and if you practice love you will also be permeated by strength, and you need no longer fear that suffering will push you to the ground, for now you will overcome it together with Me, and I will truly not leave you without help if you have become My children through loving activity. Remain in love, then you will also remain united with Me, take part in your fellow human beings' adversity and put your own adversity aside, then you will reduce the suffering yourselves, you will not feel it, and earthly life will always be bearable, for then you will purify yourselves through love and not need the suffering so much to mature your soul .... As soon as you learn to recognize suffering as evidence of My love, as soon as you regard it as a means through which I try to change your will in order to make you blissfully happy, it will no longer affect you so painfully, you will bear it patiently and no longer rebel against fate, which seems hard to you but which can already shape you on earth into beings of light if you thereby find Me. But know that you are able to reduce it yourselves through love .... And thus use the time until the end .... Do everything to practice love and shape your heart so that I can take abode in it and thereby you will be filled with strength to overcome all opposition. For where My love can work there is no weakness, no despondency, no discouragement and no worry .... where I can work there is peace of mind, hope and strength and a constant feeling of security, for I lead My own by the hand, I protect them from the power of evil. And they feel My protection, they give themselves to Me with complete faith and let Me rule .... And I incline towards My children in a fatherly way and take care of them until the end of their lives .... until they enter the spiritual kingdom, where they will be unspeakably blissful in My presence for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose of need: Bonding with God ....

B.D. 7968 from August 15th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

You will be guided through all hardship and visibly experience My love and care. Yet hardship is indispensable and you are approaching a time which will be difficult for everyone who does not devote himself to Me with complete faith, who does not entrust himself to Me and appeal for My help. Yet My own will not feel this time of adversity so much because I take care of them .... And again and again I announce the adversity to you, for it is therefore inevitable because I want to offer you another opportunity where you can turn to Me and call upon Me, for this bond with Me is your salvation; both earthly as well as spiritually it will only be a blessing for you if you remember your God and creator and try to approach Him. As long as you walk alone, without Me, on this earth, every day is useless for your salvation of soul, for your spiritual development .... You will not take a single step forward, and your earthly life may have been an idle run for you if you don't enter into a bond with Me before your death and then your soul will be saved from darkness when you lose your physical life and enter the kingdom of the beyond. And there are only a few who find their way to Me even in a time of good living conditions .... Only a great adversity can bring it about that people remember Me and call to Me .... And this adversity comes for the sake of it, after all, it is far more bearable than the great spiritual adversity which awaits those who do not find their way to Me. But My own can confidently look forward to the coming time, for the bond with Me will lift them above all difficulties, and every thought they turn to Me will give them strength, and they will also work for Me by trying to point their fellow human beings to the saviour and helper from every adversity .... Who lets suffering come upon you humans, Who can truly also turn it away from you .... But you must confess Him .... you must always know that every turn towards Me is a turning away from My adversary .... And this is the only thing I want to achieve, and thus if adversity drives you towards Me then it was truly a blessing for you, for then you will also be released from the enemy of your souls who will bring far greater adversity upon you if you don't detach yourselves from him. And detachment from him can only be possible by turning to Me, because your will alone is decisive as to who may now take possession of you. But I can help you out of every adversity and visibly grant you My help .... Therefore nevertheless believe in a God of love, even if this God allows suffering and adversity .... For I am only ever concerned about your salvation, about the life of the soul which lasts forever and does not end with the death of the body. And so that the soul does not need to suffer in eternity it must sometimes bear increased suffering on earth but it will always be a blessing for it if it contributes towards entering into a bond with Me, its God and creator of eternity. I want to win you as long as you still live on earth, and I also have to use means which seem cruel and unkind to you but which only ever aim for your salvation, your bliss in the spiritual kingdom .... Just always trustingly pray to Me and truly, you will be guided through all adversities of body and soul, you will feel that your father cares for you, that He will give you what you need earthly and spiritually and that you will also recognize His presence in every event .... For I will always be with My own, with those who turn their thoughts towards Me, who remain united with Me in love and prayer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Diseases and cure ....

B.D. 8653 from October 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

If you know the blessing of disease, if you know that disease contributes towards the soul's purification .... that disease aids your patience and humility to accept My will and you consequently no longer oppose My will .... if you accept that everything happening to you is recognised by Me as beneficial for you, then you will know that I also recognise the moment in time of your recovery ....

However, the fact that I will not cure you instantly is due to your freedom of will, for then you would be forced to believe in Me and My might, but you shall attain this faith without coercion .... Furthermore, you know that the purpose of earthly life consists of providing loving service .... Thus one will always have to work for the other if he wants to fulfil his helpful earthly task. And thus I will also bless the people who are always willing to help even where it concerns physical ailments and pains, and who are able to do so insofar as that they recognise the cause of an illness and the correct remedies to heal it. For depending on their helpfulness and their love for their weak and suffering fellow human beings they will indeed be successful. But in the final analysis every cure is based on My will which therefore imposes a limit on a human being's work when I recognise that the effect of a long illness is of value for the soul. My will determines a human being's destiny, thus it also includes diseases which the human will is unable to cure despite all applied treatments.

I will never condemn people's attempt to discover methods which are intended to help those who suffer .... For as long as loving helpfulness is the reason for all kinds of research My blessing will rest on it too .... If, however, the motive for producing such remedies is based on the acquisition of earthly possessions, they will generally be ineffective or damaging for the human body despite apparent improvement .... The most harmless remedies can equally suffice to result in a cure, because it is My will and I deem the moment of a cure to have arrived.

An illness shall primarily further the bond with Me, the human being shall take refuge in Me and appeal to Me Myself to be healed, then I will send people to cross your path who only want what is in your best interests, whose thoughts will be guided by Me if they are in contact with Me in thought or through a life of love in accordance with My will. But such healers are only rarely to be found, and therefore people more than ever use remedies which likewise originate from unblessed work .... And then neither the body nor the soul will be able to derive a cure from them because I Myself don't allow that the soul shall be helped against the human being's will .... so that he learns to turn away from the world because the body is no longer able to meet the demands of the world.

Thus you humans can always call upon the help of a physician, but the cure is determined by Me, however, I will often bless the efforts of the latter so that you will recover; yet you shall also derive from every illness a blessing for your soul, that you submit yourselves to Me and My will, that you patiently and gratefully bear the suffering, because it is greatly beneficial for your soul when you prove yourselves during an illness.

But with a rock-hard faith you will also be able to free yourselves from every ailment .... just as I Myself during My life on earth was able to heal people 'whose faith had made them whole ....' For nothing is impossible to Me and if your love is so profound that it brings forth a living, strong faith then you will not doubt My love and might for a second.

Then you can be instantly healed, because then this recovery will not be compulsory faith for you since you will possess an unshakable faith .... But which one of you can muster this strong faith? Who can use My might without doubt, who will give himself to Me so completely with the plea to heal him and is also convinced that his plea will be granted? Then any miracle can truly happen, be it on yourselves or on a fellow human being on whose behalf you voice this request in strong faith .... But anyone who is very sincerely united with Me has already completely accepted My will and lets Me rule and does not use his will in advance .... He will bear even the most difficult suffering with humility in My will and thus renders a far greater service to his soul than through the healing of the body .... But I will always work in you such that your fate will be endurable .... and when a human being has to suffer immense pain it also just expresses My love for his soul, which one day will be grateful to Me in the spiritual kingdom that it was able to dispose of many impurities on earth, that it was also permitted to remove guilt on earth enabling it to enter the spiritual kingdom far less burdened, which it could never have achieved with a healthy body ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Severe suffering can result in childship to God ....

B.D. 8980 from May 23rd 1965, taken from Book No. 94

You have been told several times already that you can only attain childship to God if you surrender to Me with love and also humbly bear the sorrow which you have to experience in order to purge the soul from all impurities, so that, on entering the kingdom of the beyond, you can be completely permeated by My light of love, for every ailment, every suffering the human soul still has to endure on earth dissolves the layers, and then the full light ray of My love can touch the soul, because it has relinquished all resistance ....

Therefore, don't be discouraged by a difficult earthly life but believe that it will be a blessing for you which fully offsets all suffering, and be patient, for the reward will be greater than great and the time of the human being's suffering on earth is but short compared to the glorious fate awaiting the soul throughout all eternity. This is why you should gladly accept a life of suffering; you should know that such an earthly life is imposed on you by My immense love so that you soon will be able to reach the goal set by Me since eternity. For what follows your earthly life cannot be explained to you, it is the most magnificent fate which is only destined for My 'children', who will be invested into all the rights of the Father, able to work like Him .... without difference, because they have attained the highest goal.

Yet even for these very children I Am unfathomable, that is, they incessantly strive towards Me .... they long for Me and their longing will always be fulfilled .... And the essence of their bliss rests in the fact that they will never cease yearning for Me, that they thus can never be entirely satisfied because I Am and remain eternally unfathomable. For this reason you have to take the most difficult conditions in earthly life upon yourselves, you will be tested time and again, and you have to remain steadfast even in utmost suffering and always know that only your great love for Me and your neighbour can alleviate your suffering, but that you are incapable of such love which could entirely eliminate suffering .... and thus you should be grateful that you are allowed to bear sorrow as it only serves to perfect you. I did not say to you without reason 'Take up your cross and follow Me ....' For I knew that only a path of utmost suffering will result in your childship to God, because as human beings you are incapable of the love that also leads to childship of God, and also because earthly life is too short unless you accept suffering at the same time.

Therefore, do not ask why I let a human being suffer .... Rather, think of the benefit of suffering, bear in mind that it dissolves all layers which prevent the soul from receiving the full illumination of love .... and that it is always just a temporary state which is then replaced by eternal happiness, for which you would have accepted even more suffering if only your physical strength would allow for it. Thus you who have to suffer so much should remember that it is the longing for 'children' which motivates Me to put you into this state .... and that you yourselves will be grateful to Me one day for all the adversity you had to endure in earthly life.

Yet this always presumes firm faith in Me, faith in life after death and faith in My infinite love, then you regard every happening as a return of the once fallen spirit to Me .... with the goal of childship to God, which I cannot achieve in any other way but by means of the path across earth. And if you have this faith then you will also patiently endure every suffering, you will only ever see one purpose in it and accept everything that you, as a human being, cannot change anyway, but you will humbly bear it as imposed on you by My wisdom and love in order to guide you to the highest goal.

But only few will reach this goal, yet they can nevertheless be happy if they don't (even those people can be happy who don't) enter the kingdom of the beyond entirely without light, for they will still be able to enhance their degree of light there. They will also be able to rise ever higher and experience infinite beatitude but they will no longer be able to achieve the 'childship to God' which necessitates a life on earth .... Nevertheless, they will be able to repeat this life in order to fulfil a mission, and even then they will not be spared all kinds of suffering in order to achieve utmost maturity .... in order to enter the spiritual realm as the Father's true child, in order to then be able to eternally create and work at His side, in accordance with His will and yet in all freedom, as it was His intention from the start ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of suffering in the end time

Gracious end time ....

B.D. 2812 from July 15th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

And yet this time has to be called a time of grace, for God helps people in every way to find the path of ascent, time and again He makes His word accessible to them, He tries to guide them into truth, which alone directs their thoughts into the right direction. He tries to make them understand that they live their earthly existence for the sake of a higher goal in order to induce them to establish the right relationship with Him. These are all favours which flow to people through His great love and mercy. And the believing person is also given extraordinary care in order to be able to successfully survive the final battle of faith. He will likewise provide them with extraordinary strength in the form of the divine word, which He will impart to them directly and which will strengthen the believers in the most difficult time of affliction. For He will be among them and, through His visible appearance, encourage and strengthen His own to fight for Him. And even if it may seem as if God has abandoned people because the earthly hardship is so great .... He is closer to them than ever .... He is only waiting for their plea to be able to strengthen their souls, even if He abandons the body to earthly suffering .... For it is not the body that is in danger, but only the soul, and the suffering that the body has to endure only serves to purify the soul, which will thank God one day in eternity. Where the human being does not decide of his own accord due to the weakness of his will, God urges him to make a decision, for He knows of the human being's weakness of will and comes to his aid, even though the human being as such is not yet able to recognize His help. Many an earthly life is shortened and therefore requires increased means of education in this short time. And that is why the time is so extremely painful and yet it can be a blessing for many who, without suffering, would sink hopelessly into the abyss .... It is a time of grace, even if it is a time of immense suffering, but only through such suffering can humanity still be transformed, whereas a carefree life only increases the distance from God and would no longer result in spiritual success. Yet the consequences are so extremely significant for those people who have failed in earthly life, the further course of development is so agonizing and dreadful that the suffering of the last days can be called minor because it is only of short duration compared to the suffering which the spiritual substance, which has failed on earth, has to go through. And this is why the suffering on earth still has to be regarded as grace, after all, it still gives people the opportunity to establish the bond with God and thereby avert the worst from themselves .... the renewed banishment into a solid form after the end of this period of salvation .... but this is the fate of the spiritual substance which remains resistant to God and which even the adversity and tribulation of the last days did not let it find its way back to God. These have ignored God's grace and must also accept the consequences .... God's longsuffering, love and mercy are immense, yet the redemption of the spiritual has a goal. God, however, stands by the spiritual with all means of help, He still tries to save the souls which are not entirely in the adversary's power and therefore bestows grace upon grace upon people .... and only the will of those is needed to let this grace take effect in themselves, then even the immense suffering of the last days will be a blessing ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Suffering of the end times last resort ....

B.D. 2820 from July 21st 1943, taken from Book No. 37

This battle in the last days has been foreseen since eternity, and the divine will, which guides (governs) everything that happens in the universe with wisdom and love, has been in force since eternity. And thus God also knows the only means that are still successful in these end times .... And no matter how cruel they may seem, He nevertheless applies them so that a part of humanity will still be saved from the final downfall. It is a time of horrors, a time of extreme unkindness and most terrible events, but also a time of grace .... For grace is every suffering, no matter how severe, that brings man to recognize his own helplessness, that allows him to find and walk the path to God and pulls him back from the abyss of complete faithlessness. God's merciful love does not let go of His creatures and He applies what can bring them salvation, even if it is not recognized by people as God's act of love. And thus there is still no end to the suffering and it increases from day to day, for disinherited humanity itself is the instigator and cause of this suffering on earth. Since eternity God foresaw the will and the lack of love of men, and since eternity the rescue plan for the souls still to be saved is based on it. For God does not prevent what people want, what they inflict on themselves, but He still allows the effect to be a blessing for those people who have not completely fallen prey to God's adversary. These are in great distress and can only be saved through extreme suffering, which is hardly bearable for them and yet it can be a blessing .... The end times are a time of purification, a final testing period in which man can prove himself once again if he has previously failed. The end times are a time of dissolution and separation, and spirits will part from one another. And those who recognize the end times as such are no longer in danger, because they have already found the path to God .... But anyone who still only sees world events and sees no divine guidance in them, his soul is still very worldly minded and his distance from God still very great, otherwise he would have to recognize the last days by their cruelty .... For people are raging against each other and are under the control of those forces which are completely distant from God and without love, which want to destroy everything and make use of people's will because they themselves do not possess the power and strength to have a destructive effect on that which God's love has allowed to arise in order to help the spiritual beings which have become apostate from Him. These works of destruction betray satanic influence, thus the will of those who carry them out will have to answer to God for their thoughts and actions. And yet God also allows this because His love and wisdom has already prepared the following possibilities of development, because He also gives the spiritual, which is bound in form, new opportunities again to develop upwards. Yet the released, still completely immature spiritual substance still contributes towards people's tribulation, and thus people's suffering and hardship will become ever greater; it will assume unimaginable proportions and yet be permitted by God again as a means of education for humanity, for the last time of grace will only last for a short time .... Then the gates to eternity will close for a long time, and therefore God will use all means beforehand because His merciful love wants to save what can still be saved ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Suffering - means of grace ....

B.D. 3422 from January 30th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

People do not recognize the gracious end time as such, for they do not know about the blessing of suffering, they do not know that suffering is also a grace through which the soul can still be saved, which is distant from God and eternally cannot reach the aim if it does not reduce its distance from God through loving activity. And loving activity can be the result of great suffering .... God gives people the opportunity to practice love, for suffering takes on the form that the fellow human being is stimulated to be active in love as soon as he is not completely hardened. What a person would not do of his own accord in a time of orderly circumstances, he can nevertheless do out of inner impulse in the face of overwhelming need .... He can take care of his fellow human being and helpfully assist him, the flame of neighbourly love can be kindled in him, and then his soul will have gained the greatest advantage from the earthly adversity. God is constantly intent on leading the souls to greater maturity or to put them into a state where their soul's cover is detached so that they can at least enter the kingdom of the beyond in a state of recognition before the end of days or join the small congregation of their own accord which perseveres until the end in faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer ....

If man reaches this aim through suffering, then suffering is the last salvation for him, it is a grace that is still granted to him shortly before the end. For without suffering he remains in a state of remoteness from God because love is not active in him. The means God uses to help people's souls must be particularly sharp shortly before the end if they are not to remain without effect. And people in their spiritual blindness only see the sharpness of those means but not their blessing. But once they have been put into a bright state through the working of love, once they have joined the flock of Christ's fighters, then they look back with gratitude on the days of their physical hardship, they recognize the purpose and the blessing of the sufferings and also God's love, which is always mindful of the maturing of imperfect souls. The time until the end is no longer long, but people are so far behind in their spiritual development that they need a significantly longer time to catch up with it ..... Consequently, they have to go through a school in which they can mature faster if they pass every test of life, if they make use of every opportunity. They have to pass a purification fire, the wrapping of their souls has to be melted through suffering and love, then it is possible that they will still perfect themselves in this short time so that in the end they will belong to those who argue for Jesus Christ. And then eternal bliss is assured for them. And the sooner a person of his own free will practices the love to which his fellow human being's suffering should impel him, the easier the latter will seem to be bearable to him, for if the actual purpose is achieved through suffering, thus the sooner the person has made use of grace, the sooner this can also be taken away from him. The blessings of the last days will only be truly recognized in the spiritual kingdom, for the human being as such does not have an overview on earth, he does not recognize the great spiritual adversity, he does not know the danger he is in if he fails and what a tremendous concept it is to have to live through another period of development. This realization will only be granted to him in the spiritual kingdom, and then he will be grateful for every help he received in the form of suffering on earth .... Only then will he realize the measure of grace God has granted people on earth and that without suffering it was never possible to reach the aim. But as long as he lives on earth he is offered the opportunity for the higher development of his soul, and for as long as he lives he also has graces at his disposal. And suffering is one of the greatest blessings, after all, it is the most effective means to educate the human being into loving activity. And therefore God uses this means before the end has come in order to still win souls for His kingdom, in order to help them so that they will not be eternally lost ....

Amen

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Words of comfort from the father ....

B.D. 6444 from January 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Whatever suffering and pain you experience in earthly life will help you to achieve perfection if you surrender to My will .... Yet bear in mind that I know everything and that what I allow can always result in good success for your soul. I certainly don't approve of the actions of those who cause you pain or hardship, yet all people have free will and will one day have to answer for this will .... Yet you need not suffer any harm to your soul as a result, you can emerge from all hardship and suffering unscathed but then you will also have a plus, yet always provided that you remain in contact with Me through love, that you don't let yourselves be tempted into thoughts of hatred and revenge but humbly let everything pass you by in the certainty that I know about it and will help you as soon as you turn to Me in prayer .... You have a father in heaven Who loves His children .... Trust in your father with complete faith and you will not be disappointed, for He always knows a way out, no matter how confusing it may seem .... for truly all things are possible to Me .... My adversary's activity also appears strongly, you must always remind yourselves of this .... He wants to get you under his control, he wants you to give up your faith in Me, to detach yourselves from Me and surrender to him through equally bad actions and unkindness .... Do not let yourselves be deceived, wait in patience and trust in My help .... Wherever you are met with hatred, repay it with love; wherever you are hostile, bless in My name, speak My name often and sincerely when you are in need, and you will be inwardly strengthened and have the strength to repay bad with good. In contact with Me, trusting in My help, you will be able to do everything, and My adversary's activity will remain unsuccessful, only pushing you ever more towards Me, Who is your father from eternity .... And after heartfelt prayer hand yourselves over to the beings of light who are only waiting for your call to them, who will now assist you on My behalf but may not do so until they are instructed by Me .... until you approach Me Myself for help .... They are happy to be allowed to help you, and where you yourselves feel too weak their work begins because they are with you to protect and help you as guides on your path through life .... You are never too weak to resist your enemies if only you first take the right path to Me, because then countless helpers will stand by your side but they are not allowed to intervene until they have received the order from Me .... Why then do you want to be timid? There are all kinds of means which will help you in times of need .... you only ever turn to your God with complete trust .... But what benefit your soul can derive from all the trials and sufferings that are imposed on you, that you cannot measure, but one day you will thank Me for the earthly path you had to cover for the sake of your perfection .... which earned you the close bond with Me, which was indeed a crusade for you but unimaginably beneficial if you covered it in My discipleship .... And never forget that no adversity is so great that I cannot remedy it .... One is always at your side and only waits for your call .... And His help will truly not fail to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of surrendering your will to God

God's blessing .... Plan of Salvation .... Change of will ....

B.D. 7081 from April 2nd 1958, taken from Book No. 75

My hands rest upon you with My blessing, you will feel it and sense an inner peace. For My blessing is a gift of strength, My blessing is the help you need in spiritual and worldly adversity. Thus be comforted wherever you may go, for I escort you, I walk next to you and you will safely reach your goal. Someone who only has Me at heart need not fear any downfall, I carry him through difficulty and danger into a safe haven. I only want to win you over, your heart and your will .... I only want you to lift your eyes up to Me so that you turn to Me again, just as you once turned away from Me. And I see what goes on in your heart, even if your mouth remains silent, if you outwardly give no sign of your affinity to Me .... But I will not let go of My hand again, I will always try to strengthen your bond with Me until you have finally entered into union with Me, until the goal has been reached that was set for your path of earthly life .... Nevertheless you should know that his direction of will is left up to each person .... You are not compelled to think one way or another; your thoughts will always remain free even if you are forced into specific actions .... For were I to forcibly influence your will you would be Mine already, since this power is truly at My disposal; however, it would neither make Me nor you so happy that you could praise yourselves blessed forever .... Yet a free decision of will for Me assures the most blissful fate, and that is what I want you to have. As long as you have not attained knowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation you cannot grasp the implication of such free decision of will either.

For there is more at stake than the short time of your earthly existence, it concerns eternity, it concerns something that exceeds your comprehension as long as you cannot be placed in a state of realisation by My spirit, which enlightens you also in regards to that which so far was incomprehensible for you. Even if the knowledge of it were conveyed to you, you would nevertheless not understand it as long as you have not established a bond with Me .... But you can rest assured that no human being who sincerely desires it is denied this realisation. What once threw you back, what once deprived you of this realisation, what turned you into imperfect beings, was solely caused by your apostasy from Me, by your deliberate separation from Me .... although you will never ever be able to disconnect yourselves from your God and Creator. Therefore it only requires you to deliberately turn towards Me again in order to lead you back to the light of realisation, to strength and to your once perfect state. For this reason I only seek to achieve redirecting your will towards Me. You will indeed only be truly happy again in your conscious bond with Me .... I, too, long for My children who once left Me as a result of their conceited thinking, this is why I incessantly pursue them with My love and try to persuade them to return to Me .... nevertheless, I often use means in which you humans are unable to recognise the love of a Father for His children .... And yet, it is love .... a love which wants to make you immeasurably happy and which only ever tries to reach the goal that the child will find the path to the Father in order to remain with Him forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Only the willing listener has blessing ....

B.D. 5918 from March 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Open wide your hearts when you are addressed by Me, your God and father from eternity. Your inability to hear Me Myself prompts Me to speak to you through a person who is willing to help you and thus serves Me by being a suitable instrument through which I can speak to you. For all of you should hear My word, because you can only become blessed if you know My will and because I make My will known to you through My word. You, who have hitherto closed your ears to the address from above, are therefore still very poorly formed, for you lack the strength to transform your nature .... But in this inadequate state you cannot enter the kingdom of the blessed, the gates to this kingdom are closed to you and you first have to make an effort to attain a degree of perfection. For beatitude means the irradiation of love .... the irradiation with divine strength which, however, would completely consume you as long as you have not yet shaped yourselves into a receptacle for My strength of love. Therefore the gates to beatitude are closed to you until you yourselves have become what is indispensable for entry into the kingdom of light. Yet My word also reaches you, only you often don't recognize it as an act of grace from Me Who wants to help you to beatitude. But I cannot give you any other proof that your father speaks to you from eternity than that you feel a flow of strength as soon as you willingly listen when you are addressed. You must willingly incline your ear to Me and you will be beneficially touched by My word .... But the unwilling listener feels nothing of the blessing and the strength of My word .... I address all of you who are still deficiently formed because you lack faith and love .... And I encourage you to practice love in order to be able to believe and then also recognize Me .... What I have to say to you is always the same if you are still in spiritual adversity: Live in love .... Everything you lack you receive through loving activity, and this instruction applies to your earthly life as well as to the kingdom of the beyond, where lack of love results in inadequate shaping and where only love for other souls imparts strength to you, without which you are wretched. Only love allows you to attain the right faith, and you have to believe in order to enter into contact with the one in Whom you should believe .... with Jesus Christ, Who is your God and father from eternity, Who as your redeemer from death and sin wants to give you life in bliss, Who wants to open the gates to paradise for you .... Through My word I want to lead all of you to this faith in Me in Jesus Christ who are still unredeemed, who are still wretched, to whom the gate to the kingdom of light is still closed. And therefore I speak to you again and again so that the will awakens in you to unite with Me .... so that you call Me yourselves, so that you remember My act of salvation and sincerely desire that I accept you and include you in the group of those for whom I died on the cross as the man Jesus .... I only want you to acknowledge Me in order to be able to give you My love, My grace and My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Subordination of will .... responsibility ....

B.D. 6273 from June 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You are no longer responsible for your earthly life once you have handed yourselves over to Me .... as soon as you have granted Me the right to influence you, as soon as you have relinquished your will and fully subordinate it to Mine. Then I can act on your behalf, then My will can take effect in you, then My spirit can work in you, which will truly always guide you in a way which is beneficial for you .... But this requires a strong faith, a convinced belief that you are My children and can confidently hand yourselves over to your father because He loves you and is powerful and wise. Once you have established this relationship with Me, then you will be blissfully happy already on earth .... Then you will only go your earthly path in order to be able to help others attain the same realization, for you have recognized Me yourselves and have become My own of your own free will through the surrender of your will to Me. Your thoughts, will and actions are now determined by Me and yet you have free will .... You yourselves think, want and act in accordance with My will, because My will has already become so powerful in you that it fills you and you cannot act against it .... But then you need not fear that you can grieve Me either, then everything you undertake will be good and right .... as long as you maintain the intimate bond with Me .... yet you will always be exposed to temptations .... i.e., My adversary will always want to disturb this intimate bond with Me by trying to direct your eyes and thoughts towards things which belong to his kingdom .... And if he succeeds in making you fall prey to his wishes then you will loosen your bond with Me yourselves, and then you will have to be on your guard .... Therefore commend yourselves anew to My love and grace every day and want Me to guide and look after you, and then you will always give Me the right to put Myself between you and My adversary when he wants to seduce you .... This is your sure weapon against him, that you make Me your guardian .... that you want to be Mine and surrender yourselves to Me. Then all attempts will bounce off you, then you will close your eyes to the attractions of the world, then you will only live for Me and in Me, then all your thoughts will be directed towards your spiritual perfection, then you will only be tempted by intercourse with Me and your work will only be devoted to spiritual aims .... And then you erect a strong wall around yourselves which My adversary is no longer able to tear down .... You cannot even measure the blessing of devotion to Me .... but when I tell you that you will then be free from all responsibility, from all concern for your spiritual well-being .... when I tell you that you will then no longer be able to fall because I will hold you and safely guide you upwards .... then you should not concern yourselves with anything but securing My love, you should want to belong to Me and now leave everything to Me .... And it will turn out right .... Therefore do not worry about earthly things, for everything is included if you devote yourselves to Me, so that I will take care of you .... Spiritually and physically you will now be in My care, and spiritual and physical needs will be covered by Me, for you will have given up all resistance which once separated you from Me, if you now unconditionally hand yourselves over to Me .... Then the separation is lifted and being united with Me again is a sure guarantee for thinking, wanting and acting according to My eternal order .... For you yourselves are now only executors of My will, yet in full freedom, for you no longer feel any compulsion from any side because you carry the same will within yourselves and now belong to Me for all eternity ....

Amen

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Voluntary surrender to God is His desire ....

B.D. 6510 from March 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everything will be a blessing for you if you submit to My will and desire My blessing .... Then you will be unable to do anything but what is right, because now My will is also in you as soon as you have voluntarily handed yourselves over to Me .... And now you will also understand why I demand a close bond between you and Me, otherwise this heartfelt devotion cannot take place, which is now the guarantee for right thinking and right wanting and acting .... Anyone who has found the path to Me need no longer be afraid of getting lost, for he will now always be accompanied by forces of light which I Myself have allowed to guide and protect you against all attacks, to which you will indeed always be exposed because My adversary will not give up fighting for you until death .... But you are now in safe protection, for anyone who has handed himself over to Me I will never let fall into his hands again. You humans do not know how rich you are who voluntarily hand yourselves over to Me .... for you have won My love which, although it always and forever is to every one of My living creations, can now really take effect on you through your voluntary surrender, which, admittedly, only your soul actually feels, for it feels the power flowing towards it, it unfolds and matures, it pushes ever more towards Me and can now be eternally assured of My presence .... For My love also kindles a bright flame of love in it, and then the union can really take place which cannot be loosened anymore. If only all of you humans would want to unite with Me in convinced faith in Me .... if only you would voluntarily take the path to Me, have a heartfelt conversation with Me in your thoughts and then willingly hand yourselves over to the God and Creator you have recognised, so that He will guide your further earthly path according to His will .... You have no idea what you can gain by this .... For this is already the passed test of will that you voluntarily turn to Me again, from Whom you once turned away. Many people certainly acknowledge Me as God and Creator from eternity but they are still so far away from Me and make no attempt to approach Me .... They may fear Me but they do not love Me and therefore do not entrust themselves to Me either. First the great distance from Me must be reduced, it must be bridged, the creature must come close to Me or at least have the will to be closer to Me .... One day it must enter into living contact with Me and it will never ever have to regret this, for only then I Myself can work on it if it voluntarily turns to Me for help, guidance, or enlightenment .... For I will truly hear such requests .... But I cannot work on people who are still completely indifferent towards Me, even though they believe that there is a God Who is the Creator and Sustainer of all things .... This God wants to be a Father to His children, He wants to possess their love, their trust, and their will in order to then definitely lead them and draw them to Himself, to the true home, to the Father's house. Only when the inner surrender to Me has taken place does the human being live his earthly life consciously, and he can live it in firm belief that he will reach his goal, for I now guide his ways, I direct his thoughts right, I urge him to be lovingly active and constantly provide him with strength. And then he will unite with Me ever more intimately and can travel his path of life in the certainty that he will be accompanied everywhere by My beings of light which I Myself provide for his protection. I do not ask for much, but what I do ask for is indispensable: voluntary surrender to Me .... which, however, will certainly bring the human being maturity of his soul, because then My blessing will rest on everything he starts ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Asking for divine blessing

Explanation of ‘blessing’ ....

B.D. 8728 from January 17th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Everything leads to the salvation of your soul as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me and My grace .... Then you will also clearly feel My grace since I will always walk by your side as your guide and you will be relieved from your own responsibility .... As long as you are not perfect, as long as you are still living on earth, you will be weak and need support in order to reach your goal, you will need the One Who walks by your side at all times, Who watches your every step and protects you from falling when the path is narrow and perilous .... Thus you should always commend yourselves to Him, you should ask Him to help and protect you. You should ask Him to bless you and all your thoughts, intentions and actions .... you should ask Him to be your aide, to Whom you can entrust yourselves in order to safely walk your earthly path ....

You should never forget this request for My blessing, you should not start your day without first having commended yourselves to Me and My care, but then you can be sure that every path is right and every deed you do is good. Then your life will also guarantee the maturing of your soul because you will completely entrust yourselves to Me, because you will have handed yourselves over to Me and no longer want to live your life without Me .... Thus My blessing is a very important factor which should not be disregarded, since a way of life blessed by Me can only lead to the right goal, to the final union with Me. And I will not withhold My blessing from anyone who asks for it, who consciously asks Me for My blessing. Because My blessing means the flow of My strength of love, it means the Father's guidance, Who wants to guide His child to the right goal .... And truly, you cannot ask for anything better than My blessing, no matter what you undertake .... I will grant you this request spiritually and earthly, I will guide your thoughts in the right direction spiritually and earthly, and spiritually and earthly you may experience My obvious help .... For then you will prove to Me that you desire Me and My love and that you love Me too or you would not desire My presence, which you are always guaranteed by My blessing ....

But you should know that a true blessing can only be given by Me, because a blessing is a ray of grace which Love wants to give to the object of its love, and this ray of grace can only originate from Me, thus only I Myself can bestow a blessing .... You humans can indeed pray and petition Me to send this ray of grace to another person, but you yourselves are unable to give a 'blessing', because you are not yet able to radiate strength since you have too little yourselves .... You can only pray on behalf of someone who is weak and powerless that I should send him strength .... You can appeal to Me to give him a 'blessing', i.e., to touch him with My ray of grace .... And thus a silent prayer will always suffice if you want to help a fellow human being, then you entrust his weaknesses and faults to Me at the same time, and you implore Me to send a flow of grace to this person, which I will surely do if love urges you to such a prayer and if the will of the weakened person does not openly resist Me. It always depends on your love which takes pity on those who are weak, vulnerable and sinful in your surroundings, and such a silent prayer will not fail to have the desired effect .... But large scale blessing events lose their significance as soon as they are turned into an externally visible formality by people who believe they are bestowing My blessing and yet only make gestures .... A heartfelt relationship and a sincere prayer for My blessing is out of the question in view of the many people who expect much benefit for their soul's salvation and yet feel neither an influx of divine strength of love nor an inner beatification since My presence cannot be expected to be where thoughts are merely earthly orientated, where only external customs are observed and a profound inner union with Me is impossible during such mass meetings.

A most profound inner union with Me ensures a person's right to bestow My flow of grace on his fellow human being, if the person sincerely asks Me for it. Yet this inner union is largely non-existent in those who carry out acts of blessing and thereby believe themselves to be of service to Me or to be helping their fellow human beings .... Render genuine intercession on behalf of your fellow human beings and support them with kind thoughts but do not believe that you can give them My emanation of grace yourselves by making a gesture of blessing .... Even the word 'blessing' has, to a greater extent, already become a concept of formality, yet it means nothing else than to kindly intercede on behalf of a fellow human being, and this has to arise from deep within the heart and should not become a visual gesture .... For you know that I have no pleasure in any external formality, that every outward action soon loses its deeper spiritual meaning, but that I Am very pleased with every heartfelt thought, and that an appeal to provide a fellow human being with strength always fills My heart with joy. But this can be the case everywhere and without being externally recognisable when loving people endeavour to ease spiritual and earthly adversity ....

However, all people need a supply of grace and every will to help is already a thought of blessing which I gladly fulfil, and I grant My protection and My grace to everyone who is entrusted to Me by the love of a fellow human being. Because no person can reach his goal without My help.

And you should request this help for yourselves, but also pray for those who have too little strength of their own to make direct contact with Me, who still need a lot of strength and grace before they are so closely attached to Me that I can permeate them with My eternal love's emanation of grace .... You need My blessing and should request it every day anew by asking Me to always take care of you, to permeate you with strength and to give you My grace .... And you should request the same from Me in loving intercession for your neighbour .... Then you are also asking Me for My 'blessing' on his behalf .... And you should say all such prayers in the privacy of your closet, no-one needs to see the external characteristics that you are contacting Me .... For everything that is outwardly recognisable can easily turn into a formality and increasingly lose its real meaning. Your prayer should be heartfelt and short .... so that it does not turn into a mechanical action which soon loses its value and distracts you from true effort which alone helps you to mature ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Asking for God's blessing .... power and impact ....

B.D. 5183 from August 6th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Again and again you must be told that you are unable to do anything without My strength and that you must therefore constantly appeal for it if you want to be earthly and spiritually blessed, i.e. if you want to achieve success in your endeavour. For you should also appeal to Me for strength for your earthly activity, so that this, too, will be blessed by Me and also bring you advantage for your soul. But spiritually you cannot accomplish anything without My blessing, without My supply of strength which, however, will never be denied to you because it pleases Me if you strive towards Me and I support you in every way. With Me you are able to do everything, without Me nothing .... For as soon as you achieve earthly success without having asked Me for blessing, you may put this success on My adversary's account, who will then provide you with abundant strength if you forget Me, if you turn away from Me. Therefore don't let yourselves be deceived into thinking that your strength alone is enough but be warned of his support, for it is your downfall, it is the purchase price for your souls .... Turn to Me that I will bless every beginning, and this blessing will truly be beneficial for you, you will ascend spiritually and also be thought of earthly as it is beneficial for your soul. And understand that your call to Me establishes contact and that My strength can then be transferred to you; but understand that the contact has to be made because the bond with Me is indispensable for your spiritual development. Even if you only ask for earthly success you have nevertheless entered into contact with Me, and thereby you give Me the right to influence you, because I respect your free will and do not impose anything on you which you do not request. Through your call to Me you consciously place yourselves in the circle of My receivers of strength, whom I constantly provide because I love them and want to facilitate their path upwards. Everything will go well for you, for now I Myself can be active, I can provide you with strength which, because it is of divine origin, will have a favourable effect on everything you touch .... be it the work of your hands, be it earthly or spiritual care. Every work will be successful for you if you only do it in remembrance of Me and with the request for My support. But you cannot yet measure what you create spiritually with the help of My strength, yet you will be amazed at the extent of your spiritual work when you look back on your work in the spiritual kingdom one day, which will have a tremendous effect through My blessing for which you will be eternally grateful. Don't start anything without Me and often let your thoughts wander upwards, let Me be your spiritual and earthly co-worker so that everything will go well for you, so that you can demonstrate rich success which will then always have a spiritual effect because My strength has brought it about and My strength will ultimately return to Me again in the form of beings which have reached perfection and become blissfully happy through My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Asking the blessing for everything you do ....

B.D. 5838 from December 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All your efforts are in vain if you don't ask for My blessing, if you don't first commend yourselves to Me that I Myself work with you. For only My cooperation will ensure the right success and the success of what you plan. Everything is done in vain if My blessing does not rest on it, and My blessing can only come upon you if you submit everything to Me and My will. And you, who are diligently active on earth and create and work, but not in connection with Me, your God and lord, your creator and father of eternity, should consider this. You, who stand apart from Me because you don't acknowledge Me, because you don't believe in Me and cannot gain this faith either because you don't have the will to do so, you believe yourselves capable of only exploiting earthly life for your selfish purposes .... I will not prevent you from your plan, and you can also gain treasures to the greatest extent .... earthly treasures which make you believe to be abundant and powerful .... But if My blessing does not rest on them they will only be detrimental to you, spiritually and earthly, for even if the body has an advantage the soul will only be burdened by that which serves the body's well-being. But My adversary creates the body's comfort in order to keep the soul in darkness and not to lose it. If only you humans wanted to believe that you only harm yourselves if you live on earth without Me .... if only you would recognize how much right you thereby grant My adversary and voluntarily give him what you deny Me .... You cannot become blessed without faith in Me, and you do not live forever on earth .... Therefore, whatever you achieve on this earth is useless for eternity if you exclude Me, if you don't request My blessing, which at the same time secures you protection from the enemy of your souls. You live indifferently and My name is only empty sound .... and if you think of Me because you have been taught about Me there is nevertheless so little faith in you that you are not afraid of the account you have to give to Me. And therefore you live your earthly life irresponsibly and can no longer make up for what you neglected in earthly life .... For time is irretrievably lost .... But if you would only seriously think about your creator for once, then the right thoughts would come to you because I will send them to you as soon as you seriously consult yourselves .... Yet you refrain from everything that could bring you closer to Me, but you use all your strength to create and work earthly and thereby only hand yourselves over to the one who will draw you down into his kingdom again, from which you have already descended .... You must not switch Me off if you don't want to get lost again for an infinitely long time .... You must believe in Me, your God and creator, you must call upon Me for My blessing, whatever you undertake .... But then blessings will also blossom for you, and then you will create and work for eternity, and your soul will reap the wealth you have acquired on earth .... goods that will last for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Requesting divine blessing ....

B.D. 8993 from June 11th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

Whatever you undertake, you must always ask for My blessing, then only everything can earn you the success, which you hope for. And that you especially then work with My blessing when you undertake spiritual work, that will also give you the power for it, because where I Myself am approached for help, there a work cannot be done in vain. And My blessing will rest on every spiritual work, because it is the most important, which you are to do for the sake of the redemption of your fellowmen. And since you fulfil My will with it, that you take care of the neighbour's spiritual trouble, My blessing will also always be certain for you, but you are to request it consciously, because then I can give to you unlimitedly. You thereby prove to Me that you place yourselves completely under My will, that you are only ever prepared to serve Me, that you want to do nothing that does not correspond to My will, and that you love Me as I want to be loved .... Your request for My blessing I also comply with immediately, because this is a spiritual request, which is certainly also to be assessed spiritually, if you ask for earthly things and I will certainly also fulfil these for you, because you then also only ask for something what is not to the harm of the soul for you. Therefore always pray for My blessing, whatever you also want to undertake. Pray that I bless you every conversation, every action and every thought. pray for My blessing in every undertaking you want to carry out, and thus never leave Me out of your thoughts, for you will experience for yourselves how important it is that you submit yourselves to Me in everything, that through this request you always long for My presence and that it is also certain to you .... I always just want that you constantly think of Me, because only then I can obviously stand by you, and I will also do that that I give you clear signs of My presence and through this your faith is strengthened more and more. Because this will still be exposed to many onslaughts from the side of My opponent, and only when you are strong in faith, you will be able to resist these onslaughts. And if you now ask Me in every spiritual or bodily trouble to bless your doing, you will also be able to meet all disaster, because it is now always Me, to whom you have entrusted yourselves and who now acts for you, you therefore only carry out what is My will .... You must always be connected to Me, every thought should always be directed towards Me first, then all your actions will also be under My blessing, and then you will mature in love and also in knowledge, for then My strength of love will constantly flow into you, and a quiet peace will be your lot .... Do not leave Me out of your thoughts any longer .... This is My perpetual care for you that I want to be the content of your thoughts, that I can constantly go to your side, but what presupposes your will to request and accept My guidance. But then you can cover your earthly way of life without worry, for I Myself desire you and expect nothing more from you than that you also have this desire in yourselves, that it may also be your most ardent desire never ever to separate and to be united with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing gained, all is obtained.

B.D. 0241 from December 29th 1937, taken from Book No. 5/6

And once again we want to speak to you in accordance with the Lord: All those of you who live on earth shall be in agreement with each other in His name. And listen, as before .... Each one shall be offered what he needs, for the Lord knows where it is needed and is a loving and caring Father for His children. Therefore pay attention: Everything depends on His blessing .... If you truly want to penetrate these Words, the Father will give you a parable, for He endeavours to write His Words deep into your heart .... A father allows his child to leave with his blessing .... and so the child goes on its way always feeling that it is accompanied by the father’s love .... therefore it is never abandoned, even in its sadness. All those of you who appeal to the heavenly Father for His blessing likewise share His immense love, for if the Father gives his blessing He gives you everything you need. And so you should always pray to the Father in Heaven in order for Him to bless you so that you can walk through life with riches .... you will not be lacking anything that will benefit the salvation of your soul, the Lord’s love will be with you every day and you will feel sheltered in this love. And if earthly burdens then depress you, if earthly suffering is imposed upon you, it will not frighten you, for the Father’s blessing protects you from all evil .... your soul will emerge unscathed from these bleak days on earth and will emanate bright light even during dark days which are sent to you purely for your soul’s progress. If you pray for the Father’s blessing it will result in an unimaginable abundance of grace, for you will constantly receive the strength to work at improving yourselves and this work will never be unsuccessful, instead, it will take you closer to the goal, you will become perfect and take the path through earthly life according to your task. Praying for God’s blessing means appealing for His love, and this will be granted to you now and forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fatherly Words of blessing ....

B.D. 5482 from September 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You, My children, have My blessing. A bond of love shall embrace you, now and forever. No matter what earthly hardship still approaches you, submissively endure it in My will. Lift your eyes up to Me, from where help will always come. And let the spirit speak in you, it will always convey Words of love and solace from Me and you will sense that you are never alone, that I spread My hands upon you, that I take hold of you in love and lead you to the goal .... Yet also speak to your fellow human beings in favour of Me .... Remember that they suffer great hardship as long as they don’t possess Me Myself and help them to attain Me, help them to gain faith in Me, so that they, too, will trustingly look up to Me in every adversity. For I want to help all people, I want to pull all of them to My heart, I want to be the good Father Who guides and protects everyone, Who draws close to them as soon as a mere silent appeal penetrates through to Him. Promote Me and My kingdom amongst your fellow human beings, impart to them the Words you receive from Me and establish a faithful community together, become members of the church which I Myself founded on Earth, which is based on a firm and unwavering faith. Such a community will bring about many blessings because I Myself dwell in the midst of you if you remember Me with love, if you, by calling upon My name, let Me stay among you, as I have promised you with the Words: Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there Am I in the midst of them. And My Word is truth and therefore always assures you of My presence when your thoughts are with Me, when you speak to Me or about Me, when you long for Me with a loving heart. Then I will be with you and will place My hands upon your heads with a blessing .... My blessing follows you wherever you may go and My love grants you strength and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna