Jesus speaks: “Amen, My children, I have entered this circle and spread the shelter of My love over you. I have opened My love within your hearts so that you may rightly hear My word, so that you may receive it with the love of your hearts and the mind, as a subordinate consciousness, may share in it but not be the principal recipient. The word I give you is bread for the heart and not primarily for the mind.
So I open this circle by telling you: many of your ancestors and parents have also been invited today. And many others from the beyond as well, who joyfully enlarge this small circle of brothers and sisters and thus form a great circle. And around this great circle there is an even greater circle of hosts of angels and the hosts of heaven. Thus it is a wonderful heavenly fellowship, with Me in the midst as your heavenly Father, who now distributes the bread and the word and the love in this Advent season, which is observed in preparation for My birth upon this Earth long ago, for Christmas.
And so this end time is the Advent of My renewed birth, My spiritual return upon this Earth. The preparation for it is now taking place within you, and together with Me you walk through this final Advent, hand in hand and heart within heart.
This final time, My children, this special time, I would like to discuss with you. Together with My children I want to accomplish the work of redemption, and so I ask you: should I bolt the door of hell now already and bring everything to an end? What do you think about it, My children here in this circle? You may gladly give Me an answer, here and now. So I ask you, My son Josef; give Me your counsel. What do you feel and think about this time? How would you act in My place?”
Josef: Actually one would have to bring it to an end, because it is terrible beyond measure and from my point of view it is only getting worse. But on the other hand, You, dear Father, must know best Yourself when the right time is, and whether we children are far enough along to endure all of it and remain faithful to You …
Jesus: “Yes, those are your thoughts, My children, and yes, I certainly know best what is to be done. Yet it is so that I want to discuss it with you; I want to involve you more deeply in My counsel, so that our union becomes still more intimate. And yet I say: if one wants Me to put an end to the evil activity upon this Earth because it has become so terrible and these falsehoods and lies can no longer be endured, I reply: there is a great ‘but,’ for My body is not yet complete. Most of My children are not yet ready, are not in the condition that permits their rapture, their being filled with My Spirit. And so, if I were already to draw the final line now, the entire work of redemption would be called into question.
The final time therefore depends not only on the conduct of the world, but also on the development and condition of My children; this is what causes Me to hold back and wait a little longer.
And how do the people of this world stand toward the events of this time? On the one hand they say: ‘Why does God allow such a thing!’ and ‘What kind of God is this who permits such suffering!?’ and they revile Me. On the other hand they mock My children and laugh at them when they tell people that God will not permit evil much longer and will soon bring the wicked activity to an end, when they speak of God’s intervention and judgment. Yes, My children, what is one to say to this? … it is difficult to tell and teach people what is now truly happening.
And then there are the so-called Christians who want to be judges themselves and wish judgment upon everyone who does not share their distorted views of faith. These are the ones who cling to the outward word and have not recognized the Spirit within it. They want eternal damnation for all sinners and those who think differently, yet in their self-righteousness and judging they condemn themselves. They dig their own graves and have already dug them. To them I say: ‘Depart from Me, for I have never known you, just as little as you have known Me!’
That is, so to speak, the overall situation now in this time, in which I nevertheless bring My own together and place them beneath the protective mantle of My love. For you I am Father-God and not the God of judgment. For you I am Redeemer and Liberator and lead you into your spiritual home. And even though you still carry much within you that is sin and does not fit the condition into which you are to come in order to receive My Spirit, you are nevertheless already nursed and carried by My love and care in every phase of your earthly existence. I am always there for you, My children, and every prayer you address to Me reaches My heart, touches My heart, for I have opened My heart wide for you and it remains open. For once I have called and touched someone, I no longer let him go.
And if you were to lose your way again in the world, My child, then I would go after you. I go with you into your sin, into the darkness of your soul, and wait for you to turn back to Me. And then, My child, I heal the wound you may have inflicted upon yourself through your wrong conduct, through the error and blindness into which you sometimes still enter. Then I am there for you, take you by the hand, lay My hands upon you so that the wound of your soul may heal and we may continue our path together.
I do this at all times; I am always ready for it. It is important for you to know that I am there even in your darkest hours, when you have a guilty conscience before Me and do not dare to look at Me again. My gaze is directed toward you in the expectation that you will turn toward Me once more.
When you have a guilty conscience, My child, because you have gone astray, it is good if you carry it within you for a short time, for the voice of conscience is a child of truth. But then let it lead you into repentance; repentance is a fire in the soul that burns up your sin and may calmly burn for a time and should do so, so that you no longer want to commit that sin. But, My child, then place your repentance into My heart so that your heart may breathe freely again, for lasting repentance separates you from Me. The heart must become free again in love. Therefore use repentance as an instrument for cleansing your soul for a certain time, but then release your soul again into unburdened love.
Yes, much darkness is still within you in rooms of your souls that you have not yet entered, waiting for redemption. But I also say: I work with My angels in these rooms without your noticing it. Hidden redemption takes place here. And you do not have to know everything that is still present within you, at least not at this point in time. What I allow to come to the surface of your consciousness is precisely measured by Me according to what you can process and bear of sin and bring to Me in surrender to My love.
But other things, hidden in the depths of your souls, I transform into light without your noticing it. This is something I do for My children, something I do only for My children. This too is an aspect of My redemption for you. For if I did not cleanse these rooms, your paths would take much longer, and one day darknesses of soul would rise up within you that would overwhelm you. Yes, sometimes it even happens that through a great distress or great pain such a door opens and darkness then spreads through a soul. For certain reasons I allow this with some of My children, but by and large it does not happen.
With worldly people and unbelievers, however, it is so that I do not perform this work beneath the surface. And as you see in this time, when darkness has spread upon this Earth, the darkness from the depths of souls also rises upward. This is why there are already many people with psychological problems and depression. It is this connection of the darkness of the soul with the darkness in the world. And there will be more and more who fall into this darkness, into depression, into psychological distress. Then, My children, there will be many who take their own lives – and it has already come to that. But there will be many more, because they cannot endure this darkness.
And unfortunately this is not the case only with worldly people; believers are also affected who do not stand in truth, in whose faith the dark side, the demonic world, also flows. Thus the separation of the spirits is now taking place on many levels, in many areas.
But, My children, you who hear My word of truth, you stand within the ray of mercy and beneath the protective mantle of My love. Therefore you can continue your path without worry and fear and need not enter into the anxiety of the world. Always keep Me in view and fight and struggle for joy. Joy is found in humility, in freedom from care, in love. In love for love, the soul blossoms in My light so that everything dark falls away from you.
And then My child is ready to receive the Holy Spirit from My heart: the rapture out of the world into the life of the Spirit. And this is indeed to happen already in this time with My children, just as I once permanently raptured My apostles into My Spirit; they too were prepared as you are, but they could see Me and were therefore favored by My bodily presence.
Yes, it was easier for the people then, because they saw Me and My word touched and quickened them directly. You have it more difficult, because you receive My word through an intermediary and cannot see Me. Therefore your faith has a higher value and the measure of My mercy is accordingly greater. And yet, My children, your faith has long since gone beyond the ordinary measure. You have become those who know. Your faith has passed over into knowing that I am with you. And this knowing is already the perception of My presence – no one can take it from you anymore. Therefore hold fast to Me, whatever may come in this time. With Me everything is good, My children. Amen.”
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“My children, your longing for My word is what draws Me to you again and again and causes Me to gather you around Me. And I as Father then so gladly distribute My bread and communicate My love to you, and what it means to Me, My children, that you have set out to win My heart in the struggle of this world.
And so each of you stands in a battle all his own, in a process of individual liberation. It may be that a Christian has a struggle that would be no struggle at all for another, but something easy to pass through. And for this reason it is very important that you do not judge when someone stands in a process that seems easy to you and does not know how to go on and asks for prayer. For to this person, with the condition and structure of his soul and with what he has experienced upon this Earth until now, distress has an entirely different meaning than it does for you. And the reverse can be just the same. Therefore always be one in love toward one another and for one another, and also in prayer, when you do not understand why a brother or sister is asking for prayer precisely for this situation that seems so trivial to you. And so you are to come ever closer to Me in this common advance, far from the activity of this world.
Yes, when you feel more drawn to the poor and needy, to those overlooked by society, to those held in little esteem, to the despised, than to the rich and prominent people presented in the media and practically worshiped; when you withdraw your delight from the glamorous events, from the glitter and illusion and luxurious living of this world, and your joy consists chiefly in wanting to stand by the needy and the poor, then you are already quite close to Me and ready for My heavens. For then you have chosen poverty and sacrifice and not the riches of this world.
And, My child, if you were ready to give up your place in heaven for a brother or sister whom you love, so that this one could enter the realm of bliss, if you would make this sacrifice joyfully out of love for your brothers and sisters – yes then, My child, I already live within you. For then I have become your love and your life. That is the highest good a human being can attain: absolute willingness to sacrifice together with Me. And what happens when I have become your life and your love, My child? Then you are everywhere in Me and I in you – that is the highest heavenly consciousness, and that is actually the highest heaven. My children, in this way you can examine yourselves and determine where you stand and how far you would be ready to follow Me in turning away from the world and in willingness to sacrifice. That is the essential thing on this path toward and with Me.
And so, My children, there are many believers who rejoice loudly and exult in their faith, believing they are redeemed and filled with the Holy Spirit and spiritually reborn. Yet they want only joy in the world and comfortable living. Sacrifice is foreign to them. That is not the path of truth and life. The path of truth is the path of renunciation, including the willingness to suffer.
But on this path a treasure opens within the heart, though only when one walks it earnestly and truthfully. Then the thorny path becomes a path of unspeakable joy and bliss in My Spirit. Therefore have the courage to enter the realm of humility, the surrender of your lives to My life, so that I may rise within you and you with Me to eternal life; so that the little Jesus in the manger of your hearts may become the great Jesus, from the human child to the Son of God and finally to the heavenly Father within you, and through this you will become true children of God in eternity. Amen.”
We play the song ‘Amazing Grace’
Samuel’s spiritual vision: During the song I saw Jesus here in our midst with a large basket of bread. Then angels went to Him and He gave each of them a piece of bread. The angels then went to each one of us and gave us a piece of bread. Our souls received this bread that Jesus distributed here. And this is what we now want to reenact in matter.
Samuel’s wife now prepares Communion while he reads an incident from The Great Gospel of John:
Lazarus immediately had fresh wine brought and said, “The great and most sublime things that we have now heard from Your divine mouth must also be confirmed with fresh wine and sealed in our hearts.”
Jesus said: “There, My friend and brother Lazarus, you are right. Everything good and true finds its full correspondence in bread and wine. Therefore, after Me, when you partake moderately of bread and wine in remembrance of Me, you will always be able to rest assured that I will be personally in your midst, My children, brothers, and friends, in the Spirit as I am now in the body, until the end of all times of this Earth.
Even if you will not always see Me with your eyes of flesh, your heart will nevertheless tell you. Rejoice, for your Lord, God, and Father is among you and blesses the bread and wine for you. Therefore be joyful and cheerful in His name, and remember the poor brothers and sisters and especially the poor in spirit. Whenever your heart gives you such an admonition, always think and believe that I am personally among you. And whatever good and true thing for the life of the soul you ask Me for then, I will at all times most willingly give it to you in a way you can readily understand. But those who greet Me there with great love of their hearts will also soon convince themselves with their own eyes that I truly am personally among you.”
We now partake of bread and wine
Jesus speaks concerning this: “My children, now take the bread as a sign that you have received My word of truth into your hearts, that you have sunk it deep into your hearts so that the word I speak here to you and the word I placed within you from the beginning may become one word and one love. And then drink the wine as testimony that you put into action, in the loving faithfulness of your hearts toward Me, what you have recognized as true and good. This is the true Communion, and it is the true bread and the true wine.
Thus this is a special moment in this time, when I Myself am present and distribute My body to human beings and My blood, as I once did when I sacrificed Myself upon the cross and shed blood for the sins of human beings. So it is again today that I sacrifice My body – that is you – and My blood – those are your sacrificial deeds of love. Do this now in the joy of your hearts. To those from the heavens who are present I have also given the bread and wine, and so you now do it together with them, and thus a heavenly unity is gathered here. Amen.
My children, by eating the bread and drinking the wine I renew and deepen My covenant with you. This Communion is the testimony and proof of faithfulness that you give Me that you are true children of My love. Amen.”
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“My children, I still have to untie a knot in this circle, a constricted heart that I see, and so I say: My child, it is not the case that on this sacrificial path upon Earth you are to go through life with your head hanging and despise everything that means the world, but you are to go across this Earth with joy in life and joy in love, full of courage and energy and confidence and trust that I am with you. Yes, you may rejoice in your fellowships and exult, exult in love and express the joy you feel within yourselves on this path together with Me.
Thus the path across this Earth is on the one hand a sacrificial path and yet it is a path of joy. Like two rails of one track, both belong together and cannot be separated. Joy in life and love on the one hand, and self-denial and letting go of the world on the other – this complete decision for Me. I must stand in first place, and only then comes the world in which you also live and to which you sometimes must pay tribute according to your basic earthly needs and everything else that makes up your life upon this Earth. Therefore place joy at the center of your path and not sacrifice, for if you place sacrifice at the center, then you become the victim, then you yourselves are the center of your life, and I am the One who should be there.
I hope I have now made one burdened heart a little lighter. And so we want to continue this wonderful afternoon full of joy and love toward one another. Amen.”
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The Holy Night Through the Changes of Time
When I was still a child – that was a long time ago –
Christmas was an experience, a fairy tale, and so much more.
There were only little gifts, for we were not rich,
yet these modest gifts seemed equal to paradise.
There were apples and nuts, sometimes even a pair of shoes,
and if the purse allowed it, a little doll as well.
How blissful the child’s heart was at all that splendor,
and a heavenly whisper surrounded the quiet Holy Night.
Then I grew older and bigger and wished for this and that,
I stopped believing in the Christ Child
and in doing so lost paradise.
Then came the war with hunger and distress,
and I became modest again
and was thankful for a little piece of bread.
We all became smaller then, and only one wish had power:
we wanted to be united with those we loved
on the quiet Holy Night.
But the wish was seldom fulfilled,
for the soldiers lay outside and kept watch
and we were lonely on the quiet Holy Night.
And when the war finally ended,
a new generation grew up,
and it too had its wishes for Santa Claus.
Only they were not small and modest,
for prosperity came into the land,
the wishes grew bigger and bigger
and giving gifts got out of hand.
Now people wish and give,
and no one asks about the value;
war and poverty are forgotten,
and the lonely hours at the hearth.
From the most beautiful of Christian feasts,
human beings have made a fairground,
and everyone wishes for the best of the best
and thereby forgets the meaning of the Holy Night.
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Jesus speaks: “My children, fundamentally I would like to speak to every one of you in your heart. You can already perceive Me, not necessarily as a spoken word, but as an impulse of love and in the fact that I send out the soul of the word. This is a field of thought that takes form within you and through you becomes a word. You clothe the soul of the word with your use of language, with the condition of your soul, and in this way you receive it in the stillness of your hearts. I have placed this within all My children.
But for this it is necessary that you take these quiet hours, this withdrawal from the world, in order to make Me present within yourselves, in order to be able to speak with Me.
Then there can be a further step: that you, My child, also make My word available to the public and distribute the bread of life to your brothers and sisters and to the people who long for it. Or you draw from My Spirit within you and speak, in your own words, words of truth and life. And so there are many possibilities for distributing the bread of life. Service to your neighbor, supporting someone in his need, is also the bread of life. Or when you bear no grudge against a person but remain in love when someone insults you, when someone wishes you no good. With your forgiveness you also give the bread of life.
And so today I too have distributed the bread among you, and from the beginning of your existence I already placed this word-bread within you, which is to reveal itself in this time, entirely individually and in a very personal way. This time has now come, My beloved ones, so do not underestimate the value of your earthly existence. Take time to enter the stillness; listen into your soul, into your heart. Then the divine impulses come; then you hear My word within you. And this gives us an even more intimate connection, this intimacy of the soul, as I emphasize again and again.
Only you and I, My child, are then together in this hut, in this simple hut of your heart. There we sit together at a table and speak with one another. You tell Me all your worries and thoughts and needs and joys and what you have done that day. I listen to you. And then I fill your words with My love and fill your thoughts with My love. And so it should really be every day, this encounter with Me. I am always there and ready for you. As if you were the only human being upon this Earth, I am there for you and wait full of longing for your word, for your love. Amen.”
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Jesus speaks: “My children, fundamentally you are all rough diamonds of My love that I cut and polish for one task or another. You are pearls of My love that I string together into a necklace of pearls. This is the fellowship of your hearts, which is so important to Me and so important to you, this unity in love. My children, with this I bring this devotional gathering to a close. And yet it is important to Me that you continue to exchange spiritual things with one another, that you have conversations among yourselves concerning the spiritual, for then the spirit becomes active in the heart. It moves and wants nourishment, and that is good.
Thus this year now ends for you with this devotional gathering, the year of devotional gatherings. Yes, I have given you many words in these last two years. You have received much nourishment from My heart. But it is also important that you develop greater independence, so that I may become still more alive within you in word and deed. And so in the future I will keep My word somewhat shorter, so that in the devotional gatherings you may exchange more with one another, so that the Spirit may flow between you and your independence, your divine independence, may receive new growth – in love for Me, in love for one another, and in love for your neighbors.
So be blessed at this hour and beyond it. My blessing will never leave you. I will never leave you. The prospect in the spiritual home is a wonderful one, but now this life is what counts. This moment of eternity that contains your earthly life is important. To serve Me here and now in the love of your hearts is your task. Everything that comes afterward: keep it, carry this treasure of the blissful life in eternity and look into it occasionally, but what matters is the here and now.
So go courageously and bravely through the time ahead. Do not lose heart and never give up when you fall. I am always ready and extend My hand to raise you up again. And then shake the dust from yourselves – that is the world – and continue onward at My hand along this path, which is the path of truth and life. Yes, I Myself am this path and I am the goal for every human being in this creation. Invisible to most, visible to you. Amen.”
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“My children, once you went to the Earth,
filled with the desire to become My children of God.
And so I sent you here,
you put on the Earth’s mortal garment.
Beforehand you addressed to Me the heartfelt prayer:
My Father, guide our steps at all times.
Then Earth’s mortality received you,
you set out upon the long path.
You were filled with childlike trust,
tried to look ahead full of courage.
The world stormed upon you with violence,
seduced you with earthly deception and illusion.
Yes, the world had hypocritically captured you;
you forgot that you wanted to reach Me.
My beloved ones, I was with you at all times,
was always there and always ready
to lead you by My hand,
to touch your hearts intimately.
You see that I am full of love and faithfulness;
to draw you to Me is all My purpose.
You lived in lies, distress, and suffering;
through this your heart became ready for Me.
My children, I love you so very much,
so you too love Me more and more.
My love wants to gather you around itself,
wants to protect you from sorrow.
For this you are to trust Me completely,
you are to build your confidence on Me alone.
My children, so give Me your life,
then joyfully I can give you Mine.
You enter firmly into My loving heart
and will be Mine for all time.”
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