Christmas 2021
To be prepared courageously to sacrifice one’s earthly body as a martyr for Jesus Christ already requires a firmly established spiritual state in which the consciousness of eternal life rests in the Father’s kingdom. But something far greater still is to consecrate and give one’s earthly life to the Father and thereby, while in the body, surrender one’s ego-being for Jesus Christ.
Thus there are three deaths: the death of the body, spiritual death, and dying away from the world in order to be born anew in the spirit. Hence it is also said: Die before you die, and you will live eternally.
The old human being must therefore pass away so that the new one can be born in Jesus Christ. He must pass through the eye of the needle called self-denial, humility, and trust in God. And it is also said: Fateful pain humbles the soul by force; love for Jesus Christ gently permeates the soul with humility. As children of God we may walk the path of humble love. That is the eternal Christmas gift of divine mercy.
The Father says that at Christmastime He wishes to give His children rich gifts. This is a great need of His. Yes, at Christmastime, when darkness spreads its black wings over the children of the world, God’s light of grace shines brightest for His children. But we must be ready to receive His gifts. What is needed for this? Nothing more than an open heart directed toward Jesus Christ.
Oh, dear brothers and sisters, perhaps you sense it and yet it sounds strange: our heavenly Father can hardly restrain Himself, for His heart presses strongly toward us. Thus He speaks in my breast, which is why I may make this known. His love is overwhelming when a child is faithful in word and deed. He showers His loved ones with divine gifts in a care and loving surrender beyond description.
Yes, at heart God is fundamentally humble, gentle, and tender. Only toward the world must He show severity in order to shake it into order. But to His children He reveals Himself in a loving gentleness and affection for which there are no words. He leads them safely through every storm and earthquake. When the waves of the world roar and rage, He commands the sea of our soul to be still, whereupon joy and peace enter our hearts. Then it truly is: Silent night, holy night, for Jesus Christ makes the world’s night for us into the quiet holy night of the soul, while outside the storm rages through the cold world.
Yes, joy and peace because of this divine truth are in our hearts, while the children of the world tremble and despair because of the events now breaking over this world. Thank You, Father, that we may be with You. In Your name we bless this world and everything that is in it, upon it, and above it.
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Easter 2022
Dear brothers and sisters, many of us are being shaken hard right now on the most varied levels of the soul. This comes from the Father pressing for a decision. The instrument for this is the Antichrist, who with his evil deeds wraps the Earth in a dark fog of fear and falsehood. All kinds of negative energy currents and fields to which we are exposed cause the abysses of our souls to open and much that until now has been repressed within us to become present and active. This often also leads to physical symptoms such as extreme fatigue, dejection, and headaches; even parts of the body long believed healed can hurt again. Resignation and doubt too can burden us and weigh down our hearts.
I am told that this intensity will last until Easter, when we can experience a kind of crucifixion of our old human being and then, according to our surrender and longing for love, may share in the resurrection of Christ—within us.
We should therefore shape the coming Easter season, and every Easter season, intensively and, if possible, spend especially the days from Good Friday through Easter Monday withdrawn at Jesus’ side. We may accompany Him in our hearts; He will open His God-man sphere to us and show us the Son in Him, in whom He became and remains our redeeming Brother and will be so eternally.
Jesus’ gaze is full of love, but I have rarely seen Him so serious. In this solemn moment He shows His fatherly-motherly care for His children, who now and in the near future are exposed to great danger because of their free will. Therefore He stresses again and again that we should flee to Him in every distress. We should not approach Him in human self-confidence, but run toward Him as children in need of help. For this it is necessary to let go of the old human being whom we love so much. Yes, we love ourselves more than God, even if we do not want to admit it; the Father tells me this again and again.
Yet we should not think that we must be worthy in order to approach God, or be spiritually ‘advanced.’ This is a trap of Satan. No one is worthy before God; such sovereignty = equality of rank does not exist. And spiritual progress exists only to the degree that Jesus lives in a person. And that happens not through wisdom or knowledge but solely through childlike love for Him. Childlike, not in wanting to be grown-up. It is worth pondering this in the heart.
Your blessing is with us, dear Father. We do not worship You, but as Your children we love You with a childlike heart. Yes, we have such longing to embrace You and for You to embrace us. Come, dear Jesus, come now!
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Easter 2022
Gethsemane – the Father Speaks
‘My children, this is a special night for you, and it was and is a special night for Me. On the one hand I was a human being like you, with all the depths of soul that are receptacles for dark thoughts and fears and that weigh down the soul until the sun appears on the horizon.
Yes, it was very dark around My soul and within it, so that it was pressed to the ground in spiritual darkness. In that night I could only with difficulty find My love. Again and again My humanity came to the fore in fear of the unspeakable suffering that awaited Me. My divinity was at times completely overlaid by the human, so that I saw no way out of the storms of the soul. In addition, the gates of hell were open before Me and within Me, and all satanic wickedness and falsehood struck Me in the face and stabbed Me in the heart.
There I sat, left alone, exposed to terrible images, torn back and forth between My being human and My being God. Yet one thing became ever more intense during this struggle and increasingly took up space within Me: the fate of humanity and My responsibility for it. These recurring thoughts fanned the love of My heart so strongly that, over the course of the dark hours, the stings and blows of darkness became weaker and weaker. Finally I felt the sun in My heart, the love of My heart; the connection to My Father was restored—and I spoke the words that confirmed My decision: My Father, not My will, but Your will be done.
Although I now stood in time very near the cruel event, I felt an indescribable joy and confidence. Since the decision for sacrificial death had been made, every burden had fallen away from Me; the joy alone over the revelation of My heart for all time and eternity, and the redemption for all people contained therein, carried Me through every suffering to the outwardly wretched death on the cross. Yet I was happy even into bodily death, for love for My children overlaid and permeated every pain.
My little children, look at My heart—it beats for you! For you I gave My life. You are My all in all. So that I may love you and give you My divine life, I called this creation forth from Myself. You are the ones whom I have destined to live with Me and to rule the infinite with Me for all eternity.
Therefore do not despair because of the state of the world, but be glad that I have called you and speak to you through this child words of comfort and confidence, words of truth, words of love.
Amen, My children, Amen.’
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