Samuel on receiving the Father’s word
The word of God speaks itself forth in the ground of the child’s heart and must then pass through heart and soul – that is, through the love and consciousness of the medium – before it reaches the surface. In the ground of the heart, at the source of divine utterance, the word is pure, just as God speaks it. But both the heart and the soul of a human being can alter the Father’s word. The heart can be filled with a misguided love, and the soul is like a landscape with its own imprints, conditioning, patterns of opinion, and experiences. Everything a person has gone through over the course of life shapes and forms heart and soul. The word is therefore, to a greater or lesser extent, always imprinted or colored by the individuality and personality of the medium.
If the medium lives in the truth of God by holding to divine Scripture, loving Him, and doing His works, the word of God naturally remains correspondingly pure, reaches the surface in that form, and there takes on acoustic or written form. But if, for example, a medium’s consciousness is anchored in a false teaching, in an error, or in a misguided pattern of opinion, the word is distorted accordingly and reaches the surface in that form.
Thus it happens that there are words from the Father that differ greatly from one another because these individual soul-landscapes alter the word of God. At the same time, these words too can address children of God at different stages of development and can lead them onward and toward the heart of God, for ultimately everything serves the good.
Samuel continues: I am the donkey that Jesus rides, but it is also beautiful when Jesus uses you in this way – as a means of transport for Him. Yes, my soul is full of sins, and yet I am happy because I know that every day He forgives me anew, and because again and again I am allowed to look deeply into His heart and there see His great love for us. He has atoned for our sins; everything we have done wrongly in our lives He has expiated for us.
We can accept this atoning sacrifice by believing that it truly is so, that Jesus Christ has atoned for our sins – but that is not enough. For this sacrifice of His is not a license for us to go on sinning, to go on living an earthly life of excess. That is not how it works.
If we accept Jesus’ atoning sacrifice, we are under an obligation from that hour onward to live a different life, a life according to His commandments. To love God above all means letting go of the world, leaving it inwardly in the soul, withdrawing one’s heart from what one loves in the world and directing it wholly toward our heavenly Father. This requires unconditional love of one’s neighbor together with Jesus Christ – that is, loving people in His love, making sacrifices, putting oneself aside in order to serve one’s neighbor selflessly in the divine sense.
We do make the effort; we struggle and wrestle for love. By now our longing has become so strong that we can no longer imagine life without Jesus. In Him we have found the greatest treasure there is … in the whole creation, in infinity. There are countless beings in this creation who pass through ages and eternities in search of divine fulfillment, and we here, the little human beings on this inconspicuous Earth, have found this treasure, this unique treasure that so many seek through aeons.
This grace has been given to us: we know where the treasure is to be found, how it is to be raised, and we know its name. And so it is important to recognize the value of this grace, what a gift we have received here from the Father through being allowed to come to know Him and through being able, in this earthly life, to enter into this redemption, so that we may then dwell in the house of our heavenly Father for all eternity. He has prepared this for us; this is what He wants to give us. He wants to make all His children happy for eternity, and He does everything for it; He struggles and fights for every soul.
Jesus takes over: “Yes, My children, you do indeed have a thorny path to walk … a narrow, thorny path. Many of you carry wounds with you, wounds you feel every day, some in the soul, some in the body. And today you have opened your hearts here and brought before Me what burdens and oppresses you, what you cannot cope with in this world. (At the beginning, the brothers and sisters in the circle shared their joys, but also their worries and hardships.)
I have heard everything – as I have emphasized more than once: I know all your thoughts, and I know the root of your thoughts, which you yourselves do not know. And so I have placed everything in My heart. What is important, My children, is that you do not hand your worries over to Me with the intellect, but with the heart, for the intellect holds on to its worry; it does not give it away because it needs it in order to feel vitality, in order to experience an illusory life.
But when from your heart you bring your hardships before Me, and when from the heart you give Me the cross that weighs upon your heart … full of trust, then I unite your cross with the cross that I have already carried for you. I carried all your little crosses then; I carried all the crosses of all My children; they became one great cross. Yes, all the crosses of all beings in the whole creation united into one cross, to which I was nailed.
What does that mean for you? It means that you can hand all your hardships over to Me and that you are freed from your sins in the surrender of your hearts to Me; and it means that you do not have to carry your cross beyond this earthly life, that you do not remain bound to this cross of matter, but that after the crucifixion comes the resurrection, which I have also prepared for you.
I have prepared and readied the entire course of your existence and lead it to a good end, to an end of eternal joy and security in Me.
Now, in this earthly life, where you are firmly anchored in matter – for matter alone is already a cross that you carry – it is not always easy to accept this in the sense of saying: ‘My Father, Your will be done.’ Often you come into situations and circumstances of life where everything appears dark, where no outlook can be seen any longer, where the heart grows heavy and darkness fills the soul. Then you stumble, and then the enemy comes and whispers doubts to you.
And these, My children, are the moments that decide your life. Precisely in this night of your soul, to speak the words: ‘My Father, I trust You, I believe in Your love; may Your will be done with me.’ With this you set the course for your further life on this side and in the beyond.
Just as I too had to wrestle and struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane for this decision in the darkest hour of My earthly existence. I had to struggle and wrestle for many hours, and the enemy of life confronted Me too and weighed down My fear of the unspeakable pain that lay ahead of Me. Yet I wrestled My way through to the words: ‘My Father, Your will be done, and not My will.’
And in truth, with that it was already accomplished, for I held to this decision, and this decision contained a great joy for Me in the knowledge that by it I was preparing the way for all beings of this creation, building an indestructible bridge into the heart of the heavenly Father, who is the love within Me. That was My great joy, both as a human being and as God, in that moment, and this joy accompanied Me throughout the entire martyrdom – all the way to the last words I spoke on the cross: ‘It is accomplished.’
My children, I tell you this so that you too, in all situations of your lives, in all your dark hours, remain in this faithfulness to Me, trusting that I have everything under control and that behind all demonic and satanic powers I stand, seeing everything, knowing everything, and always having the final word.
Therefore remain faithful to Me in love. It gives you a sense of security; if you are faithful to Me and move within My will, your soul will be filled with divine love and will give you a peace this world does not know. If you walk straight along the paths I have prepared for you, you walk free of fear and worry, for then you know: ‘My life belongs to Jesus Christ; in Him I am secure at all times, no matter what happens in this world.’ And then it does not matter, My children, whether or when I call you away from this world; that is not to be your concern.
My children, I have built for Myself a network of many small and larger communities of faith, and everywhere across this Earth where there are people who stand in true faith; invisible to the material world, yet all of them are connected with My love and through My love. In the world beyond this network is visible, and it forms a divine power on this Earth.
And so a spiritual battle is now taking place, for there is also a network of the devil. He too has spun his net, a sticky, dark net in which not only people of the world but also children of My love can become entangled … and yet I have the power to lead all My children out of this dark network and into My luminous work of love.
This is what is now taking place on this Earth: this gathering, this uniting of all those who are ready to serve Me, who are ready to walk the paths I have prepared. Thus a great family has arisen, even though not all stand in the same faith. There are different views within the Christian faith as well, and yet I am the foundation, and the foundation is love. That alone is what matters, not differences of opinion, which will be resolved at the proper time.
Thus the New Jerusalem is now descending upon this Earth; the New Jerusalem is My word and is the truth. In this word live those who have recognized and accepted Me as truth and love. My children, the New Jerusalem is the living word of the truth and love of God.
Now, as I speak these words here, this room is filled with light. Angels have gathered around you, full of joy that they are permitted to take part in this community. A wonderful event in the spiritual world, and the inhabitants of heaven also look in here now, full of joy and gratitude. Their hearts glow in love for Me, and these glowing hearts shine into this room and fill it with this love from Me, and I stand in the midst: a King of kings – and for you, My children, a Father of mercy.
I love you, My children, I embrace you, I bless you. My heart is opened wide, My longing is great. There are not many people on this Earth who return My longing, but here in this room our longings meet, and it is the great joy of a God to be here with you now, to embrace you with love and give you these words: You are Mine. Amen.”
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Jesus speaks in conclusion: “Yes, My little children, once more I step not only into your midst but go around the circle to lay My divine hands upon you, upon your heads and upon your hearts, so that you may be pulsed through by the divine ray of grace and mercy.
And now I have also enlarged this space; I have taken away the walls of this house so that a great circle has arisen, with many who are already in the world beyond: departed souls who have already gone through a certain process so that they may receive My word and whom I have now had brought here, and spirits from the luminous worlds who have now also been brought into this gathering.
And this great community, to which the angels of heaven also belong, has now become an island of love that not only forms this light here in this place, but this light shines outward, spreads across this land, and I now spread My mantle of love over this whole Earth. The light spreads ever farther, out into this galaxy, penetrating suns and planets, penetrating the Cosmic Man who moves through the consciousness of My love, which appears to you human beings as empty space.
Thus here, in this moment of eternity, is now the heart-center of this creation – and in truth it is always so: where I am is the center of love, for I am the source of love, I am the source of all life. And you are at this source and drink from My word, which is the water of life that I give you at all times – not only here and now outwardly in receiving My word, but this source is also within your hearts, from which you can at all times drink My word, in which I offer you the bread of life and the wine of truth, which are My flesh and My blood: My flesh, which I sacrificed for you so that you may live, and My blood, the pure blood of forgiveness.
All this is contained within you; all this am I within you. And so, as the God standing here, I mirror Myself in your hearts and thereby awaken Myself in your hearts a little more, so that the process of spiritualizing your souls may advance, which is so important and so necessary precisely now in this time. Thus there is a moving forward in time and at the same time a penetrating into the depth of the presence of My love.
Thus moving forward in time and the manifestation of My eternal presence form a unity in love for Me. Your path through time is therefore blessed and accompanied by the presentness of divine love, and the foundation on which you walk consists of divine love and mercy.
My children, in truth everything is wrapped in the mantle of My mercy, and yet it is as I already emphasized today: the free will of the human being decides his destiny. I am not the judge and decider; rather, the human being judges himself, the human being decides which path he takes, what nourishment he takes in for soul and spirit. All of that is your decision, and I say this also to those who are not here in the body now but have already laid aside their bodies:
‘I am your nourishment, Jesus Christ, God from eternity. Apart from Me there is no one. I alone am the way, the truth, and the life. Only in Me and through Me can you attain redemption. Therefore call My name; awaken My name, which is written in the ground of your hearts, through love for Me. Then I will arise within you, and you will find the way to your spiritual homeland.’
Thus once more I have spoken Myself out from within Myself and placed Myself within you, so that you may also feed on this nourishment when you do not have access, as often happens in everyday life. Then I offer Myself to you from within your hearts and present you with the bread of life, which in turn means: I give you the impulse that I am here, that I am with you – a small impulse, a thought to which you can respond, and already you are back in My presence.
But fundamentally, My children, we will no longer be able to lose one another, for as I have already said: You are Mine, and I am your life and your love for eternity. Amen. Amen. Amen.”
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