Dear brothers and sisters, the Father is awakening more and more of His children to proclaim His Word and reveal His heart in this final time, just as He prophesied. There are differing forms of expression because of the different colorings of souls.
Imagine it like this: Every soul corresponds to a pane of glass, each with its own particular color and thickness. Through this soul-substance and individuality the pure divine light shines, the Word of God expresses itself. On this side it arrives through the personality, that is, through the soul-color and the more or less material consciousness of the medium. If there is a strong coloring of its own, the heavenly message can be distorted or even falsified. The weaker the soul’s own coloring because of its humility and surrender, the clearer and purer the Father’s word reaches this side.
The differing revelations can therefore be assigned to different soul structures and stages of development of the children of God and thus have a helpful effect on different levels. This is why the Father also communicates through people who in some areas are still caught in material thinking and/or are not yet fully formed in love for God. Yet even if a divine message arrives on this side in a somewhat peculiar form, God’s love-wisdom-truth always shines through—if one considers the words rightly.
If a person is not a genuine seeker of truth, if his desire for truth and love is not authentic but founded on selfishness and self-love, he usually finds himself in the questionable messages, for `like attracts like´. He cannot recognize the divine statement at the core of the soul-manipulated message; only the apparent contradiction or illogic asserts itself and carries weight. Deep down, such people are afraid to place themselves permanently on a firm spiritual foundation. They wander more or less blindly through their self-created labyrinth of faith until they recognize themselves in their self-love and selfishness and then, in humility, turn their hearts toward God.
Absolute sincerity toward God and toward oneself is therefore necessary in order always to recognize truth within falsification, both in the word and in world events. In love for Jesus Christ the light awakens in the heart of the soul, immersing everything in what is true. Everything depends on love for our heavenly Father.
Naturally, there are also completely false spiritual gifts, poisoned words of Satan that are deadly to the soul. They are handed over wrapped in the gift paper of hypocrisy. They correspond to the apple of paradise offered to us by the cunning serpent; shining and seductive, it holds out sweet candies to the children, and they readily reach for them. Thus caution is always required so as not to walk into a trap of Satan.
If a child of God is unsure whether a message can be accepted or not, it is best to put it aside and hold to those in which one is certain that the Father is speaking and that the messages correspond to truth. Or one may ask brothers and sisters who are already living in the Spirit.
Dear brothers and sisters, time is pressing; it is necessary to take a step farther. It is time to penetrate more deeply into the heart of Jesus. We need more support in the Spirit, otherwise we will not let go of the world. The soul needs something to hold to, one way or another—we decide what we hold on to.
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Testing Words of the Father
Dear brothers and sisters, there are several ways to receive the Word of God. It does not always happen word for word; rather, God’s Word can reveal itself as a thematic package that gradually opens, while the recipient clothes the divine flow in his own words. In this case he receives from the divine Spirit the soul of the message, that is, from the Father’s love the light, which he clothes in material understanding—according to his soul structure, his conditioning, and his own use of language.
At times one thinks, `Surely God does not speak like that,´ but forgets the individuality of the child of God who is revealing. Therefore it is necessary first to examine the content and leave the form aside—just as one should also do with a person. In both cases, however, when a form feels strange, one readily enters into the content with a certain prejudice. As a rule one tests it against one’s own thought material, usually acquired from reading, or, if one already stands in union with the Spirit of God, against the truth recognized in the heart in Jesus Christ.
In the former case, it depends on what one has read or heard—one compares with the intellect. If one stands on the foundation of Christian truth, one can (but need not) calmly read and hear everything, for the perishable form is neutralized in love and what is distorted on the soul level sorts itself out here by itself. What remains is the spiritual essence, the original Word.
For this reason I have learned not to dismiss any word of the Father or any prophecy too quickly, but in prayer to receive divine insight into the revelations that come to me—and since then I often find, in seemingly strange words of the Father and prophecies, a divine statement that broadens my spiritual horizon and enriches my heart. For there are more and more divine revelations, and so it is indeed important to discern the spirits, to test the words in humility, and not to judge prematurely out of a certain spiritual arrogance. Here too love is the key to right recognition and right action.
With this explanation I do not wish to call upon us to immerse ourselves in every message; I only want to show how one might perhaps deal more easily with the beginning flood of prophecies and divine messages.
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