Beloved heavenly Father, our Jesus, You are already here and go around the circle, and during the opening song You held Your hand over our heads to bless us so that we may feel that You are with us. You touch Your Spirit within our hearts, You touch Yourself within our hearts, so that a connection arises and exists, a divine connection in which You take us along this ray to Your heart. Yes, the soul is flooded with Your light when You touch Yourself within us, and then we become completely still and feel the peace and security that we can feel only with You, a security that the world can never give us, a peace and a certainty of security in Your presence …
Jesus continues: “Yes, I give My children this, this protected space of My love in which you may feel My presence ever more often, for you belong to those who have set out with complete earnestness to follow Me in love and in the deed of love. To do what I have assigned to you is a great challenge: to turn your back on the world, not to heed the words of people of the world who say: ‘Anything too extreme is not good; anything that goes into fanaticism harms a person!’
And there I say: Yes, it depends on what one understands by fanaticism and extremism, for all My children whom I have until now led into My realm of love, into the highest heaven, were extremists and fanatics; all of them turned their backs on the world, they decided entirely for Me, they were extreme in their faith and fanatical in the sense that they gave Me everything that made up their life.
Not the fanaticism that wants to convert other people by force, no; it is a fanaticism of humility and surrender, for as I emphasize and have emphasized again and again: one cannot serve two masters; one cannot walk two paths, one to the left and one to the right, at the same time. It works only in this extreme measure of surrender to Me.
And when people say to you: ‘You are extreme; that is dangerous; you are out of touch with the world,’ then say: ‘Yes, my life belongs to Jesus Christ. I have turned away from the activity of the world. Yes, I live in this world, practice a profession, have a family; I bear responsibility for that. But this world is not my world, for the heavenly Father has called me to enter His world.’
That is a completely different world, and therefore it is necessary, My children, to leave this world as far as possible, to enter into this fanaticism toward Me, into this extreme love for Me. This requires courage and bravery, readiness to allow yourselves to be smiled at when you confess Me before the world. For what does the world want with the old Jesus? – ‘He does not fit into today’s time.’
Yes, people do not want Me and do not need Me, and so for them I am an inaccessible or nonexistent God and My word has no meaning for them, and that is their lostness and their self-created judgment.
Thus My word has two parts: on the one hand, the word I give you, in which I reveal Myself in the depth of My love; at the same time, the word is the law of truth, a guideline and judgment for people who do not want My love. My word judges them – and redeems you. I Myself am the Word, and so I am in a sense a twofold God: Father-God for you, Judge-God for the world – there is nothing in between.
There must be a decision, a separation, which is now taking place in this time; you have decided with all your soul and all your heart, otherwise you would not be here in this room, in My presence. You always have free choice, but the longing in your hearts has become strong, the longing of love for Me, for you have recognized what I mean to you – not only for this time, but beyond it for eternity I am your life, your goal, your end and your beginning. I am everything for you; apart from Me there is no life, only death and darkness, just as this world now presents itself: wrapped in a dark cloud, within which you are trained to be the light, small points of light individually – each person for himself – and in fellowship; these are the islands of love that I have connected with one another across the entire globe.
But here in this land beats the heart of this network; here I build the foundation wall, the foundation of the kingdom of peace, and you are the pillars, My children; you are to be pillars of love. I have already made you strong, and it is important that you become conscious of your strength. The strength of the children of God is the power of prayer, and it is the power of love that I am within you, which you can use at any time when you step back in your human self, when you come out of your habits and conditioning in which the world holds you captive.
Step back in the moment of temptation and trial; deny your ego, and when you deny your ego, then I step forth and then together we will forgive and love, a unity of love of Father and child in the moment of temptation, trial, insult, enmity. In all such moments we form a unity of love. So it is to be; I have intended this for you, My children.
My love is Jerusalem in the symbolic image, and Mount Zion in this city is My will. Now it is so that many roads lead to this city, broad roads, and then one stands before the city walls and thinks: ‘Ah, beautiful to look at!’ Yet many turn around again and say: ‘Yes, God’s love is beautiful, but we want to keep our love for the world.’ And then there are some who enter the city as far as the mountain; they are already within My love, but their will is still self-will while they bask in My love. A smaller company sets out to climb this mountain, to leave the broad road. These children of God make the effort to begin the steep ascent; that is the beginning of entering into My will, so that the human being’s love and will unite with My will of love. This is the climbing of Mount Zion.
But most go partway along the narrow trail and then say: ‘This is too steep for me; I am turning back.’
Only a few continue, and I tell you, My children: Very few reach the summit. Most stop halfway and turn around again. They say: ‘Ah, I would rather go back down and enjoy the love of God below, for I want to live out my own will. I do not want to enter completely into this divine will; it is too uncertain and too strenuous for me; the sacrifice is too great for me.’
But, My children, there is a secret on this path. When one stands halfway, one does not yet see Me coming toward him. But when one then continues and continues – and it truly goes steeply upward – suddenly I become visible, for I come toward My children, toward those who continue and do not remain behind when it becomes too strenuous. They then see Me; I am present to them and take them by the hand, and together with Me the rest of the path to the summit is quickly walked – and it is then very easy, for you then walk in My Spirit.
Thus it is about going farther than you can see, continuing when courage leaves you and apparently the strength is no longer there. Then continue; enter into this room of unconditional trust, and suddenly I am there and you walk lightly upward with Me to the goal. But only at the summit is there complete fulfillment; there I can permeate you entirely with My Spirit, so that you can then look at the world from above, from My vantage point, with My eyes.
And then, My children, everything is very easy for you, for then there is no longer death and no distress, because seen with My eyes everything is only love and mercy. Therefore do not despair in any situation of your life, but go forward courageously, looking ahead and not back, in trust and in firm faith that these words of Mine are truth, which I speak to you here, which I have ever spoken.
That is why you are here and hear these words of Mine: so that you know where you stand, where the dangers lie, and what is possible for you – namely, to reach this highest goal a human being can reach in this world. For this you are called, and here it is also important to give yourselves trust, not to say: ‘I am not worthy of it; why me?!’ My son, My daughter, I know why I called you. You are mature; you have shown willingness; you opened yourself; you said yes: ‘Yes, Father,’ you said.
Therefore I too as God am ready to give you everything, My child, to reveal Myself in a depth of love that this world will never experience, not until the end of time. (‘The end of time’: Jesus has used this expression several times; on the one hand it means the complete spiritualization of this creation, but also – as here – from the point when time no longer governs humanity but eternity does, which will be the case after the very last release and defeat of Satan.) For it will be an ever deeper entering into Me.
But now and here I have already opened for My children the door of the inner chamber of My heart and shown Myself to you as I am in My ground … tender, gentle love, the purity of love … surrender, giving oneself away – that is My life. To give My children bliss is My bliss. I died for you on the cross; recognize in this My love for you. Look at Me on the cross and you see the opened heart of God.
And so I have told you what I mean to you, My child, and I also gladly tell you what you mean to Me, what significance the creatures whom I have made into My children have for Me: this is My Fatherly joy, which I can have only with you. When My little children gather around Me, as here in this room – you sit indeed upon your chairs, yet your souls are full of joy and active in love for Me – this is something wonderful for Me as God. I may be Father of children who in freedom of love have gathered around Me, and as Father I take you by the hand and together we enter eternity, and there will be joy in this divine family, in this unity of love.
Consider this and see the short span of this earthly life, see the brief sacrifice that you now make for Me compared with what I give you in eternity. Give Me your imperfect life, then I give you My perfect life. Step back so that I may arise within you, the risen Jesus Christ. Then together with Me you will rise in this Spirit that I have placed within you. Amen.”
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Beloved heavenly Father, You have given us many words now for this circle. In truth they are always the same words and the same message that is meant to reach us: that we trust You and that we love You. It is all very simple. We want to live in these words that are so important for us, in this message of love from Your heart; in this room of the word into which You place us, we want to move in this world of darkness, lies, and falsehood; in this room of truth we want to move together with You, for You are truth and light. And so at Your side we need not fear this world, and thus we need not fear in trials either. And if a seemingly hopeless path opens before us, or uncertainty so that we begin to doubt what we should do, then You say:
“My children, enter into stillness. And if a thought wants to draw you away, nevertheless remain in stillness together with Me until an impulse opens in your soul in which I tell you how you should act. Thus it lies only with you, for I give the answers. I only wait to give you these indications that you need.
I am Father. Every father wants at least to tell his child, when the child is in a situation where he does not know how to act: ‘This is one possibility, and it is good.’ And so do I. But it lies with you to listen, to wait until the carousel of thoughts comes to rest. And that happens very easily when you enter your heart and speak these words: ‘My Father, I love You, my Jesus, my one and all.’
Then these words take you with them into My heart; then it happens very quickly that you feel love in the heart of your soul. Where the seat of the fleshly heart is, there is also the soul-heart, and there I dwell within you – personally in Spirit. There I wait for you day and night and rejoice over every thought you give Me. Even a single honest and sincere thought of love delights My heart – I wait for this. A thought that gives Me trust, a thought that gives you and also Me the testimony of true being children of God. That is My longing as Father. That is your longing as children of My love. So let us unite our two longings, that they may become one longing and one love.
What is the core of longing? It is love. Longing is the soul of love and the Spirit within it am I. So let us together permeate longing, so that you may find your way into this Spirit, into the source of all longing that has so branched out and scattered and become material addiction in this fallen world. Yet even within this there is a divine core, buried and hidden deep – and that too is My love, which has become lost in this world. Amen.”
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