Jesus speaks: “My children, here I stand in your midst to give you My love. You can feel the love that is now spreading here. This love is a spiritual flame that seizes and permeates your souls so that you may become aware of My presence. And so it should always be, in every phase of your earthly existence, wherever you may be: among crowds of people, at work, in solitude, in the evening when you go to sleep, in the morning when you awaken. I am always with you.
I want to bring this presence of Mine close to you, so that you are always aware that, even while you move through the spaces of this world, you are already moving within My spaces, within My great realm of love, which is My heart. In it you carry this feeling of security within you: ‘Yes, my Jesus is with me. He is in me and I am in Him.’ And when you feel My presence, you also recognize My will. Then you know what you are to do in this world.
Yes, first and foremost it is about living love. Regardless of what you do outwardly, it should always be love that carries you. Then you are within the will of My love. Everything you then do outwardly, whatever decisions you make in the material world, plays a secondary role. And the more deeply you enter into the will of My love, the more you will also become aware of what you are to do outwardly.
Your prayer is: ‘My Father, Your will be done. I want to live in Your will. I know that Your will is perfect and that Your will is only love.’ This longing within you, My children, is what drives you, and it is also what drives and leads Me toward you, so that in this meeting of My will and your surrender we may already form a unity here upon this Earth.
Yes, My children, it is indeed so: the farther one advances on the spiritual path, the farther you move away from the world and the closer you come to Me, the greater the discrepancy becomes between you and worldly people – between the way you think, feel, and act and the way the world thinks, feels, and acts. And then it is not easy for you to look upon the world with love and to bear with people. For the more you dwell within My love and My divine perfection, the more frightening the world appears to you.
At the same time, however, it is also true that the more you enter into My presence, the more strongly the aspect of My mercy unfolds within you. This is the counterbalance to the world frightening and repelling you more and more, to this world revealing itself increasingly to you as a hellish world. Yes, in the ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee,’ divine love grows and reveals itself increasingly within the soul and not only balances the ever-growing discrepancy; the mercy then experienced and lived increasingly fills the soul with the Holy Spirit and thus with My love.
And so for you this is already a life in this heavenly sphere, in this protective mantle of My love, within which you may move through this dark valley called Earth. This is the great privilege of My children: to be protected and accompanied by Me, to be filled with this power of love – always according to your surrender and your trust.
But also according to your willingness to let go of the past. For there are still things clinging to you that hold you back, that separate you from Me. Yet it is not that you are bound to them; rather, you yourselves have the power to open your hands and let go of what you cling to, to release it – it lies with you. And then I stand there, ready to receive you with outstretched arms.
This is the final step My children have to take: this letting go, this complete trust that I will then be standing ready at the moment when you no longer have any support in the world. I am speaking of support for the soul, for I have often emphasized it: as human beings of this world you bear the responsibility of providing for your family, of not becoming a burden to others out of convenience, but of fulfilling your duties. And yet you are to live in this freedom of soul so that all the spaces within you may become free for My love.
Yes, My children, now the time has come. The seeds I sowed two thousand years ago and that lay buried deep in the soil during the winter of this world have survived the cold well, and some have already sprouted. The Earth has thawed beneath the rays of My love (The correspondence to this is global warming, which is not caused by human beings – everything spiritual becomes visible in matter), and from many a seed plants have already grown that bear fruits of life. Yes, the essence of My word, which is the tree of life and which I Myself am, stands mighty in the garden of My children’s souls, and some fruits are already ripe and are becoming nourishment for hungry and thirsty souls.
So now is the time when My word is being fulfilled and these seeds, My word-seeds, are taking shape in the world and becoming reality, when My word reveals itself to all people who are ready to receive into their hearts this spiritual nourishment, which is My unveiled word. Yes, the time has truly come now that has repeatedly been prophesied in the past – often for wrong times: My return.
You, My children, entered this time to fulfill a task. On the one hand, you came here to fulfill your earthly duties responsibly, so that you may earn your bread and be able to exist as human beings in this world. But now it is also time for your true task, into which I am leading you and for which I am now teaching and training you. It is the time when you must remember why you are upon this Earth and what responsibility you bear within you, which you took upon yourselves out of love for Me.
I have sunk a treasure into each of you. Hidden in the depths of your soul rests a divine talent that is now gradually opening and must open so that you can fulfill the tasks I have entrusted to you. And as was already discussed today: each of My children brought a special spiritual talent with them to this Earth. And so, if you have not yet recognized it, it is important that you come to Me with the prayer: ‘Father, I cannot yet recognize which talent You have placed within me; please show me how I can serve people in a special way.’
And I say: My child, the most important and most urgent talent I have placed within you is your love for Me. That is what you must cultivate first. But because the time of times has now come, it is necessary to assign My vineyard workers their calling step by step, so that you recognize: ‘Ah, that is my task and my talent; that is how the Father wants me to be; that is what I am to do for Him; this is the way I am to live now.’
The time for this has now come, My children. That is why it is so important that you meet Me in the stillness of your hearts, for My word is a quiet speaking within you. It does not permeate your soul loudly or noisily; My words are gentle and tender, including what concerns your spiritual activity for Me. Remove yourselves from the noisy media world and use your time for stillness. So few of My children do this. There is still too much world within you. A clear cut must be made so that the old human being can die and the new human being can be born within you through Me.
And I see the thoughts: ‘Yes, my Father, but I cannot think about You all day. I cannot pray all day and devote myself to spiritual things.’ That is right, My child. Fulfill your earthly duties, but take Me with you while doing so. Take Me into your everyday life. Do everything with love, then you do it together with Me. And practice patience, then you are with Me.
Having patience is one of the most difficult forms of training. To stand against the rushing current of time to which you are exposed and to say: ‘I am a child of eternity and not a child of time.’ Yes, in the moment when impatience overtakes you, when inwardly you could almost explode because someone slows you down, overwhelms you, annoys you, or whatever form it takes – to remain patient then is the university of spiritual life.
For this it is important that you become aware that fundamentally you are indeed children of eternity. In eternity there is no time. And in true love there is no time either. The rushing current of time is neutralized in love. There, stillness and quiet and peace reign – a standstill in which you then find yourselves. When the world and time around you press and rage and storm, you are sheltered in this still, peaceful, timeless realm of eternity.
And once you have come into patience, My children, once you have made it wholly your own – this mighty weapon against everything that assails you from and within time – then you have taken a great step forward. Patience also means remaining in calmness and love during an argument and listening to the other person. Love and patience are an inseparable unity. This is what I wanted to bring especially close to you now, for almost every one of you lacks patience, composure, and inner peace, which you find only in Me.
And so go through the day with Me. Become aware of My presence even more often. Think your thoughts together with Me. Be aware that I always hear what you think and feel – then we do it together.
It does not matter if you make mistakes. Spiritual learning is like learning a musical instrument: you make mistakes and produce wrong notes until you become a master. So too the soul is an instrument on which one must practice daily, so that one becomes master of one’s soul. For this you need self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, but also self-respect as a child of God.
My children, all that I have now explained and revealed to you can once again be summed up in one word:
Love
Love Me, and everything I have promised you will fulfill itself almost of its own accord.
Yes, every one of you is in a life situation that challenges you in some way. Each of you has a special cross to bear, an individual path of destiny to walk. It may be a problem entirely your own, a family problem, a professional problem, or a financial one.
That is no coincidence. It is meant to be so. I Myself have allowed it and led you in such a way that you find yourselves in this situation. For this very situation is what makes spiritual progress possible for you, what makes a more intimate surrender to Me possible. The challenges themselves are the steps I have provided for you that lead you closer to Me.
All of you who are here – and also the children of God who are not present here and will later read and hear these words – have entrusted your lives to Me. All of you have walked this path toward Me to a certain degree. You have said: ‘My Father, I love You; I want to give You my life.’
My children, I have taken you at your word. And now I challenge you in these life situations so that these words of yours may become alive. So that they are not merely spoken casually, but so that you ask yourselves: ‘What value do these words of mine that I spoke to Jesus have? Are they truthful words that I truly mean in this way?: Jesus, my life belongs to You. My Father, Your will be done.’
Thus the life situations in which you now find yourselves are precisely those that challenge you to recognize the value of your words. It may even be a decision of life and death. Some of My children are in a situation where it really is a matter of life and death. And then it is important, My child, that precisely then you say: ‘Father, Your will be done. My life lies in Your hand. I entrust my life to You, my health, my illness, everything that concerns me, everything that concerns my family if I am no longer here – everything belongs to You.’
When you speak this way, My child, even if there is the danger that you will leave this Earth, then you open a new door for Me that had not been opened until now, for then I have an entirely different access to your life. In this complete trust of yours, in this perfect surrender of your life to Me, My Spirit flows into your sphere and into your soul to an extent that was not possible before, because your surrender may have been merely apparent or not complete, and not one embracing life and death. And so you see, this too can again be described with this one word: love.
Only in love for Me can complete trust and complete surrender take place. That is why I open My heart again and again in the encounters of the devotional gatherings and in your quiet hours, for only then can you love Me more and more and thus trust Me more and more and surrender yourselves to Me. Amen.”
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Jesus speaks: “My children, you are surrounded by angels without number. And yet I say, and I have said it before: one heart that truly loves Me, one human heart upon this Earth that gives itself wholly and completely to Me, means more to Me than all worlds, than all heavens with everything that worships Me, for I am God, the One and Almighty. One human heart that has set out to become wholly one with Me in love gives Me more than all worship, than all creation in eternity and infinity.
For this is what I as God have always desired: children who move in free love toward Me, who love Me above all things, freely and without compulsion, who do not worship Me but love Me in a completely natural way; this is why I called this creation into life. With this I wanted to tell you once more what it means to Me when you love Me, My little children.”
Jesus now goes around the circle and lays His hands on each of us and says: “My son, My daughter, you have given Me your life; I give you My life. Therefore have no fear and no worry, for I treat you as I treat My own life.
Even if it does not look that way to you: when you walk through this dark valley, I am nevertheless always with you, hold My protecting hands over you, and have power over everything that encounters you. To a child who surrenders himself to Me with his will and his love, nothing happens by chance and nothing happens arbitrarily; rather, I hold everything in My hands and in My heart so that My child may reach his goal. Trust in this also in the dark hours, that I never leave you, for I love you. Amen.”
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Then the subject of the vulnerability of love came up, for Jesus once said: “Have the courage to enter into the vulnerability of love, to accept it …” And we asked ourselves whether Jesus’ love really is vulnerable, as He had already revealed once before.
Then He spoke: “My love is vulnerable, but not because of worldly people who deny Me or mock Me. My love is vulnerable only because of My children when, after having promised Me their love, they turn away from Me again. I could also remove vulnerability from My love, but I do not do so, for with My children I want to be vulnerable; in that way I am closer to them. That is the innermost love of My divine being.
Thus I have shaped Myself for you, My children, by bearing witness to My fatherhood before My true children also in the vulnerability and heartache of My love – I, God and Creator of all being in eternity and infinity. As I once did it for all human beings upon the cross, so I do it now for My children in their hearts.
Jesus now speaks very tenderly: But tell Me, My little children, how can I bear witness to Myself and prove Myself to you even more? Tell Me how I can bring My love still closer to you … tell Me softly in your hearts. My little children, would you like to moisten My yearning, burning heart with your love? My little children, can we not meet one another more often and softly whisper our mutual love to one another? Like bride and bridegroom, heart to heart, far from all time and darkness, but free in the divine light of eternity, to the joy and bliss of us both.”
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