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Inner Work — The Heart of the Path to Me

Source: Hans Dienstknecht

Original title: Innere Arbeit - Das Herzstück des Weges zu Mir

Original date: 2012-03-24/25

If one reader or another notices repetitions of earlier revelations or similarly worded guidance or admonitions, or is bothered by them, we ask you to bear in mind that the word of God—wherever and whenever He reveals Himself to His children—despite its universal validity is naturally addressed first and foremost to those present and is, so to speak, “tailored” to the particular occasion. It may also be quite meaningful for one aspect or another to be pointed out repeatedly, since this can foster a deeper understanding.

Divine Revelation

Truly, I, the Source of all life, am in your midst. And this life is My divine love, which sustains everything I have created—sustains it for eternity. You have opened your hearts; you have turned toward Me. How could I, your Father, not be in your midst and lower My love into your hearts? It is a love that flows in greater measure to every child when, by free decision, it turns more and more toward Me. And so I wrap you all—as you have sung—in My love, and beyond you this house as well, so that it may radiate light and be able to draw those who inwardly are ready to let themselves be touched by this light.

There is great joy in My heart that My children have come together in My Spirit and endeavor to walk their path through life at My hand. I desire nothing other than that this connection, which exists eternally between Me and My child, become ever more intimate, so that My guidance too can become ever more direct.

Meetings like today’s serve, among other things, to give you further help and support. And so I tell you: Even if you believe that you were the ones who called this meeting, in truth it was I, the great director, who guided all of you to this place at this time. I gave you the corresponding impulses, and I will be the One who guides you through these days and shapes your program, because I alone know what is good and right for each one of My children.

If, then, you let Me act and arrange things, you will feel, when you set out again on your way home, that you have changed, that you have become different from before, that the fire of love within you burns brighter, a fire of love that I want to fan and will fan if this is your desire as well.

What is happening here in these hours is happening in countless places throughout the world, for everywhere people have awakened in My Spirit. They are your brothers and sisters, My sons and daughters, who recognize themselves as such and no longer allow themselves to be bound by prohibitions, regulations, traditions, and rites; who see the path that lies before them and have said yes to that path.

See, two thousand years ago, as far as spiritual awakening is concerned, things were very similar to today. After My death on the cross I poured out My Spirit upon My male and female disciples, My servants, and many allowed themselves to be awakened and filled by this Spirit. They were the ones who joined with like-minded people in order to put My teaching into practice, a teaching that was free, is free, and will remain free for all eternity of every attachment to structures of belief erected by human hands. For freedom is what I have laid in the heart of every child as its divine inheritance. From this freedom, when the time has come, it will give Me its yes, and afterward it will experience what it means to walk with Me the way back to the Father’s house.

The enthusiasm at that time was great; but it was not limited to proclaiming My love by words alone, but by life. More and more people recognized the eternally valid truth behind what I had taught, and more and more people decided to make a corresponding change of direction in their lives. They were laughed at, insulted, persecuted by the ruling priestly caste and its followers; yet whoever had recognized Me in his heart was not deterred by this.

And so this new movement grew and grew, disparagingly called “the sect of the Nazarene.” But no one who truly loved Me allowed himself to be unsettled by it. A new consciousness matured that—like a sweeping blaze—took hold of many people in many countries. This was a thorn in the side of the opposing side, and so it did everything it could to infiltrate this young, rising, and attractive movement with the aim of changing My teaching through it. It succeeded by making, in a highly sophisticated way, use of the weaknesses present in human beings. Within a few decades a distorted image of My original teaching arose in this way. Much was added, much removed, and some things were regarded as necessary for salvation and prescribed as the only way to blessedness even though they had not the slightest thing to do with My teaching. Step by step a powerful organization was built; and the more it arose outwardly, the more the Spirit within it withered, until in the end not much remained of My teaching.

But Me and My word cannot be silenced, nor can My eternally outpouring energy of love be stopped. Yet the abilities of darkness were and are insufficient to recognize this. At all times I have called My male and female disciples, and despite all persecutions, distortions, and changes, groups arose again and again that were serious about putting My commandment of love into practice in their daily lives.

Precisely your present time, more than any before it, needs such people who free themselves from imposed constraints and restrictions, who recognize Me and the truth of My teaching and My life and begin not only to believe in Me but to love Me. And these people are awakening everywhere. You see, fundamentally nothing has changed from what happened two thousand years ago.

A long time ago I once said that you indeed have a confession of faith, but no confession of love. Does it not say in your Scripture that love is the greatest? Why, then, does Christianity have no confession of love? You can give yourselves the answer; it is obvious …

But I desire that those who awaken in My Spirit make a confession of love—not, or not primarily, with words, because that is not the point, but through action. And through action means: in your daily life, by endeavoring to recognize yourselves, to clear up what you have recognized with My help, and thereby take the next step toward a different, new pattern of behavior that corresponds more and more to My commandment of love for God and neighbor.

Very little is known in your religions, and correspondingly little or false teaching is given by churches, about the activity of darkness and its methods. Because this is so, it can disturb, break in, and seduce everywhere. That is why I repeatedly enlighten My own about this background as well and thereby call into your hearts: “Be watchful, also with regard to your circle; for the adversary does not sleep. He will try again and again to smother a newly blazing fire, and he will always succeed wherever other interests prevail, wherever discord creeps in. Take care to remain in love with one another.”

Then, My beloved sons and daughters, you will become a bulwark that cannot be taken, that radiates out into this world and can be a refuge for many who long to find Me and live with Me.

And so I bless your hours and days. Remain with Me, just as I am with you, and let yourselves be filled with My love, which will make new human beings of you if you wish it. Amen.

Divine Revelation

I see the love that is within you, that shines through you. You awaited Me with joyful hearts, and I tell you that My heart too is full of joy.

For truly, you came of your own free will; you are attentive, you endeavor, and the fruits of your endeavor become visible within you and around you. Your surroundings notice your change, a change that is possible only with Me, with Me, who am love.

The most important thing is that you recognize that it is necessary to walk at My hand so that I can guide you. Then you experience again and again, and ever more deeply, the warmth and the sense of safety with Me.

And when it becomes difficult, My beloved, then I carry you. I have carried you so often, then set you on the ground again and said: “Come, let us try walking on again.” You were courageous, gathered yourselves, and said: “Yes, Father, we will go on with You. You have our trust, and we place everything in Your hands, no matter what happens to us. Father, help us not to let go of Your hand so that we cannot lose our way. Help us recognize that everything is good as You have intended it for us.”

I, My beloved, keep you safe in My wisdom, My patience, and My love; for I watch over you. And I tell you: “Not one of My children is lost to Me, not one do I lose from My sight, not one do I release from My heart!”

And so I bless your day. I am glad to be in your midst, and you will feel that I love you, that I am the love within you. Amen.

Divine Revelation

Light fills this room. It is light from My light, and it flows into your hearts turned toward Me. My joy is great, and you too have felt how this joy took hold of you, how it became easier for you to view this or that with different eyes, how you succeeded in taking a step forward and making decisions. Above all, however, you experienced My immediate nearness and grasped not only with your intellect but with and in your hearts that I am the love within you and that there is nothing that separates us, neither in time nor in space.

You have felt that you do not need to go into cathedrals and churches or on long pilgrimages in order to be close to Me. Close your eyes, become still—and in that very moment you are with Me, for I live within you. What could be more beautiful than to live and nurture this intimate connection between the Father and His child?

Yesterday I told you that I would shape the program. And of course I kept My word. With a touch of humor I ask you: “Were you satisfied? Was I able to reach you? Was I able to show you ways that in future will make it easier for you to live with Me in your daily life?” For that was the point, and that will remain the point in future.

What I teach you, what I call “inner work,” is the heart of the path back to Me, into the Father’s house. A child who wants to move from belief in Me to love for Me will say yes to this path because in it he recognizes the invaluable, the greatest help a human being can receive from the Source of all life.

Part of this help is also enlightenment about the background of your problems and difficulties, which despite all sincere endeavor will repeatedly arise in many cases. Seen from the human perspective this is normal, for the moment you decide to follow Me, increased energy of love indeed flows to you, and in the invisible realm you begin to become a light that illuminates darkness; but this also calls the dark forces into action. On the one hand, through your decision to follow Me you have become a point of attraction for all those who long for the light; on the other hand, the opposing forces too notice that something is arising here that cannot be acceptable to them, something that does not fit their plans. And so they will try to disturb you, seriously hinder you on your path, or even bring you down permanently.

It is important that you know this; and it is important—this is why during yesterday’s hours I laid it so strongly upon your hearts—that you acknowledge in principle that a change must take place. For whoever remains the old person he or she was stagnates on the way to Me—and I want and will bring all My children back to My heart. Therefore a gradual change is needed that transforms your weaknesses and faults. This is also the reason for the many details I give you, the many helps toward insight, toward looking within to see where there is something to change and then—out of love for Me—to make a free decision for a different pattern of behavior than in the past. This is the fulfillment of the commandment: Love God above all and your neighbor as yourself.

On another occasion I once said that I am neither blind nor deaf. I am omnipresence, which means: My Spirit is in everything that is, and nothing is hidden from Me. For I am who I am! Thus I look into the hearts of all My children, and of course I also see what still burdens them. But that changes nothing about My love for each one. I tell you this because I want to encourage you to proceed in the same way on your path of self-knowledge: on the one hand, not to be blind and deaf toward yourselves and toward what you encounter in daily life; on the other hand, not to let what you recognize pull you down, still less to condemn yourselves, but to build upon My love, My mercy, My help, which support every one of your steps in many ways.

Sometimes it is necessary to look a little more closely within yourselves in order, for example, to get to the root of a deeply embedded old pattern of behavior that needs to change. If you ask Me, I will help you with this. Sometimes it is enough simply to look at a matter, recognize the fault, come to Me and say: “Father, I behaved foolishly. I am sorry; please forgive me.” But in every case—whether it involves a deeper examination or simply turning to Me in a situation—in every case I am at your side and give everyone who comes to Me in this way a degree of support unimaginable to him. For such a state of mind is founded on the desire to fulfill My commandment of love.

Look with joy at what you have already been able to change, and remember that the strength for the next step comes from joy, not from feelings of guilt or devaluing yourselves.

This is the way; you have spoken about this way in great detail. You have received many impulses, and I will not rest or cease from addressing you inwardly again and again in the coming days—lovingly, for I am love. But I want to point with a “raised warning call” to one thing, because here there is a danger that many among you have not recognized or, if they know it, assess incorrectly:

Remember that knowledge brings responsibility! Whoever over a long period accumulates knowledge, gathers information upon information, whoever knows who he truly is and knows what he ought to do, but does not begin, according to his possibilities, to set out on the way home, can run into difficulties. For his knowledge will at some point turn against him. I want to explain why with a simple image:

Before a human being “awakens,” his soul has already become active and, with support from heaven, has figuratively nudged the human being: “Come, there is something there that can help both of us. There is light; go toward it.” The soul longs to become freer and freer; and if the human being does not follow these nudges, his soul will call and nudge him until finally he recognizes the direction he must go, until he understands that the accumulated knowledge is waiting to be put into practice. These nudges can take place in various ways; in the worst case they are blows of fate. They do not come from Me; it is you yourselves, your spiritual being, that thirsts to come nearer to the light and tells the human being: “You know so much; now put it into practice!”

With deep seriousness I lay this admonition in your heart. Become doers instead of hearers, and in that moment a power is released within you of which you still know little. It is My power of love within you; it is as though you remove debris from a well so that the spring can begin to flow again. This is what I have intended for you, what I desire, and this is the reason I enlighten My children, why I extend My hand to them and thereby say: “Come, let us walk together.”

For it is My will that you awaken to the spirituality dwelling within you. That you not only know that you are My beloved children, but that this becomes so conscious to you, becomes so much part of your flesh and blood, that you express it in your life. And the more you walk this path with Me, the more I can begin to live through you, so that you are enabled to speak and act from My authority.

For you are sons and daughters of the heavens!

Then, when you are asked who God is, you will not need to point to writings or statements of others and say: “Here or there it says that God is love.” No, you will say: “I know that God is love, for I live with Him!”

These are My sons and daughters who change the world! If this is your goal as well, then give Me your yes—in silence—and I promise you that a wonderful time will then begin for us. I love you, I already see you as perfect, and I bless you. Amen.

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