Once a man saw a cross lying beside him.
Then he heard a gentle voice say:
‘Pick it up and carry it to Me.’
Thereupon the man looked at the cross,
lifted it here and there and hesitantly began,
at first unbelieving and complaining,
to lift this cross of his and carry it to the place
from which he heard the voice.
He stumbled often, let his cross fall,
cursing, sad, despairing,
yet again and again he picked it up,
full of trust in the voice
that had asked him to carry it.
And the farther he went,
the lighter this cross became
and the mightier his strength became,
until one day he no longer noticed the cross—
and realized that he was no longer carrying it at all.
See, love now carries his cross.
And the words he once heard as if from afar
he sees shining brightly in his heart
as words of his heavenly Father.
Dear brothers and sisters,
the struggle for the soul begins already at birth. It continues through the whole earthly life and beyond. The dark powers struggle cunningly and loudly for the soul; the heavenly powers quietly and gently hold against them. The struggle ends only when the human being says, ‘Dear Father, not my will but Yours be done!’ as Jesus did in Gethsemane.
Good and evil must be accessible to every human being, otherwise there would be no free will. The human being himself opens the doors of the soul that lead into different spaces of light and darkness.
What happened to Adam and Eve long ago also happens to us: we fall prey to the serpent of temptation winding through the branches of our self-love and addiction to pleasure = the material-egoistic thoughts and desires for pleasure that report themselves permanently and insistently and often, because the soul is already surrendered to them, carry it away without resistance into the land of transience and death. Does our Father condemn this? Never! Jesus’ will is to help His children in their need and distress.
Dear brothers and sisters, look at His heart! See how it longs for our love! See His arms stretched out toward us! See His kind eyes! See His love! That is our God! That is our Father! That is our destiny: to be divinized in God and to live and create with Him and in Him for all eternity as gods ourselves, as true children of the one true and eternal God Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Dear brother, I find myself so deeply in these words of yours: ‘I feel like a divided soul. Sometimes the good comes through and sometimes the bad. I live in phases of being pulled back and forth and therefore find no inner peace. It drains me deeply. I never wanted to be an adult either—childlike, carefree and cheerful, not having to pretend and fulfill expectations in order to be loved; that is how I wanted my social life to be. But because that rarely happened, I became a rebel. Now I have recognized that this is not helpful either and harms me in the long run.’
This is our struggle. The ‘two souls in our breast’ struggle for supremacy: the worldly human being and the child of God. Every called soul knows this struggle in its own very special way. The man Jesus too had to walk this path of inner struggle in order to become the Son of God (the Word, the light, wisdom) and finally, in and as the Word, to become God Himself again as the eternal Father. His victory is contained in our hearts. In advancing love for Him, His power over evil within us unfolds. With Him and in Him we become free from all evil.
This is an ongoing process. Yet in these days God’s grace is mighty. What once required a lifetime and more, the Father gives us in a few years—if we allow ourselves to be prepared by Him. For this is a special time in which we live; it is the time of decision—of separation.
The Father separates death from life and darkness from light; He separates night from day so that it may become bright in our souls. Twilight is long past; the sun of life is already visible on the spiritual horizon, sending its rays over the Earth into the hearts of the awakened while the peoples still sleep. But what will happen when God comes like a thief in the night and the rays of divine truth penetrate the hearts? There will be a terrible awakening! This is the judgment of the world, for then all lies and falsehood will become manifest.
We are now in the comparatively gentle awakening. Even if inner struggles repeatedly throw us out of balance, in the end we will be filled with God’s light of love and truth before the final great storm begins.
Therefore let us be of good cheer, even if the heartless world torments us. For its conduct ignites and increases our longing for redemption. And we know: this longing of ours is already Jesus’ presence within us.
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Demons can influence us or even temporarily possess us only through our weak points/weaknesses (egoism, pride, anger, addictions …). Therefore it is so important to keep these doors closed. How is that done? By confessing our sins in humility before God and asking Him for His protection, that He may free us from earthly bonds and intrusions.
For this the Father makes available His power and might of love, to which we can and should surrender ourselves. This is our cooperation: to go along with divine love in the challenging situations of everyday life, so that we put off the old human being and put on the new human being of love—our true and actual identity.
Thus being called by God as His child is no free pass to health and protection. It does not happen by itself; protection and redemption require our active readiness to serve love. This works best when we have insight into the heart of our heavenly Father.
Look at Jesus on the cross—then you see the Father’s heart, whose blood washes us clean and has washed us clean of all sin. His resurrection represents His resurrection in our hearts. Yes, this is what He wants: to rise now in our hearts, so that He lives in us and we in Him.
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Dear sister, dear brother,
it is understandable that anger, fear, and worry repeatedly rise within us because of the present satanic activity in this world. Jesus does not say, ‘You must not have fear and worry.’ He says: ‘Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened; I want to free you and make you happy, I take all sorrow from you.’
In moments of temptation, when the serpent, which can be active within us in every form and trait, entices and provokes us, we are to collect ourselves briefly, not take hold of the negative thoughts or, if they have already taken possession of us, let them go again and direct our gaze toward Jesus.
Direct your awareness toward the region of your heart; then you will feel how the spirit of God touches your heart and drives away the evil thoughts. At the same time ask the Father to lay His hands upon your head so that the thinking of your intellect may be cleansed.
Then see Jesus Christ standing before you. He has shoulder-length blond hair, expectant kind blue eyes, a short dark-blond beard, a gentle smile; His figure is upright and dignified, His radiance love and mercy. His arms are outstretched to receive you into His heart, whatever condition you may be in.
That is God. Is it not wonderful that we have such a loving God! That we may recognize Him in this way is a great gift, a privilege of His children. Who is His child? A person who, full of longing, has set out to seek and find his heavenly Father. A person who lets himself be guided by love, who surrenders himself to divine love until at last he is filled wholly and entirely with this love.
Thus being a child of God does not mean being free of sin, but as a sinful human being following the call of love in humility, so that Jesus Christ may cleanse us and lead us home into His divine heart.
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The Rhythm of Love
At school I had drum lessons; even today I judge music by how the drums are played and whether they are played well. The rhythm of the drums can be a driving, almost overpowering force for the other instruments, but it can also accompany and support them, all the way to gently, almost humbly, underscoring and carrying them. Sometimes the drums fall silent and leave the other instruments as individual and collective soloists in the song, now free to act apart from the prescribed rhythm.
In a similar way, by way of analogy, God too acts and works in the background of our Christian communities. We are the instruments that He drives, accompanies, carries, or releases accordingly—depending on which part of the song, of the path of life, is revealing itself at that moment.
According to the rhythm of love in which our hearts beat, according to how they are tuned, so every one of our thoughts and words acts upon ourselves and other people. When our words come from the spirit, we always have the right tone and the correspondingly necessary strength in our speaking and doing, so as not to create any discord in the divine song of this creation. Yes, then we share in the eternal heavenly tone, in the sound of the Word that opened this creation, accompanies it, and leads it back into itself. That is the Son who has prepared for us the way into the eternal song of bliss.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
I have made, and continue to make, my most intimate spiritual progress when I have fallen. When in lukewarmness and lack of conscience I have once again given myself over to old addictions and material desires and afterward wander through the abysses of my soul spiritually numbed and doubting myself, Jesus comes to me, takes me into His arms, and says: ‘Come, My child, get up again; look to Me, look at My heart—what do you see in it? See, I write your sins in the sand; come, let us keep walking together, hand in hand and heart in heart.’
Jesus bears no grudge; His love is always new, like a spring of fresh water, clear and pure. His mercy is open love (the Father’s love) for those who struggle for redemption and freedom with and in Him; His mercy is closed love (law) for those who serve the world and think that they do not need God.
To experience, see, and feel this readiness of His to love and show mercy, to recognize what a loving and patient God we have—this living recognition humbles the soul, makes it powerless in the face of God’s forgiving affection, fills its heart with contrite love, so that it becomes receptive to Jesus’ spirit and life.
Now, all of that is well and good, but obstacles and snares lurk everywhere on the spiritual path: a great danger is hidden in the recognition of God’s forgiving merciful love. For if a soul is repeatedly caught and raised up by divine patience and merciful love, and the child recognizes that the Father never abandons it and always accepts it again, it ultimately relies upon this and secretly—and sometimes without being conscious of it itself—appeals to God’s love and mercy before and even during the sinful act. Satan does the same.
These acts cause the divine heart great pain, for in this way it is used and soiled for selfish purposes. These are the lashes that tore open Jesus’ back so that the cross cut deeply into His flesh. This is also the drink of vinegar and gall—and this is the spear thrust into His heart.
Yes, sometimes sin overwhelms us and we cannot escape, yet I have often deliberately sinned against Jesus’ heart because I knew what was contrary to God—and did it out of self-will and provocatively before God, knowing that He would accept me again. But I did not consider His pain—‘after all, He is God; surely He can bear it.’ That in His love for His children He is very vulnerable, yes, that He turns His face away and quietly weeps when He sees how blindly we push Him away and expose ourselves to great danger—that I did not want to see and at times still do not want to see.
Therefore it is so important to ask Him to open His heart for us. To ask Him to reveal His innermost Being to us, so that we may recognize Almighty God as a loving Father, as a Father-God who loves each one of us so much that He gave and gives His life for us.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
it really is the case that the heavenly Father’s grace and mercy write our sins in the sand—but! The prerequisite is that we strive not to sin carelessly from now on. That means we must and may recognize in His light what we have done and are doing wrong, in order then to set these errors right in love for Him. Thus for the present it is a matter of earnest striving; the success is His.
Thus He makes us true children of His fatherly love only when He sees in our hearts an earnest and genuine readiness to surrender our lives to Him with all our imperfections. Even if in our weakness we repeatedly fall, we remain in His grace if we maintain this resolute readiness and longing within ourselves and humble ourselves in remorse—that is, sincerely confess our sins, repent of them, and lay them upon His heart.
If a person has a weak will or has fallen into a severe addiction, this can continue for some time. The important thing is to get up again and again and ask Jesus for help, even if one feels wretched, for precisely having recognition of the evil within oneself is a sign of God’s presence.
In order not to lose His child, the Father will also send it small crosses, but He no longer lets it go unless it consciously renounces Him and serves the world again. Then in free will it surrenders itself to death again and stands under the law. But His child can also come back again—that is the prodigal son. Another parable is that of the stray little sheep, where the Father leaves all His good little sheep in order to seek, find, and lead home the one sheep that has strayed.
Now there are souls whose names are written in the Book of Life. And there are souls that are not yet entered there. The former stand under special protection and grace; the Father now wants to and will in any case lead them home. The others are the children of the world who have not yet come that far, but now have the possibility of accepting God’s Word in free will in order to begin the return to the Father’s house. Among these the spirits are separated; here a sifting and sorting takes place—we know the parable of the wheat and weeds.
Jesus has accomplished His work of redemption for everyone, yet this work of His has its own meaning and effect for every stage of soul-development. His children of grace He mercifully leads into heaven. To the children of the world He mercifully gives the possibility of awakening, so that, humbled under the fateful law, they may ask for divine assistance and thus pass from universal lawfulness into grace-filled childship of God. Those who continually choose the false and evil are led by God’s love into corresponding institutions of purification.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
we must take care not to presume to name those to whom the Father supposedly says, ‘Depart from Me, I never knew you,’ for then it may be that He Himself will one day test our sins with these words. No one can determine whom God’s mercy will redeem. Even for the worst sinner the Father’s heart is wide open, even if to us it seems that such people are incorrigible evildoers. God alone separates the spirits. We can and should distinguish, but not condemn.
This is a delicate subject, a tightrope walk between forming a judgment and condemning, between the worlds of justice and mercy, between judgment and redemption. It is the Father’s world; here we may look only with His eyes and feel with His heart. Yes, He has also given us an intellect for distinguishing; it shows us the poisonous fruits that we are not to eat. But the plant is His.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
addiction is an important subject not only for unbelieving people but also, and above all, for children of God. These in particular are at times addicted to things they practice in secret and, out of shame, do not dare confess openly. Often this involves sex addiction or masturbation addiction; hidden food or alcohol addiction and gambling addiction are also not uncommon. Anger, curiosity, and impatience can likewise become addictions. Spiritual pride is an addiction, an addiction to self-display and self-love that, however, expresses itself very subtly and is not (gladly) perceived by the addict.
Spiritual pride for the purpose of self-display shows itself in all kinds of ways and is usually perceived only by humble children of God because it manifests very subtly. Like a serpent it hypocritically winds around the heart and sprays its poison unnoticed. Only after weeks, months, or even years does it take effect and lead the child of God in secret self-love into a spiritual dead end of delusion and falsehood.
Even the confession of being a lazy and useless servant, as Jesus invites us to view our actions, can have grown on the soil of self-love and self-deception, for one can imagine even that about oneself or become conceited about it.
What can one do when, as a believing person who has fallen into addiction, one constantly acts against one’s Christian conviction and therefore can no longer feel genuine joy in life? When one becomes the will-less puppet of one’s unbridled desire and makes oneself a contemptible fool in one’s own eyes every day. When one no longer dares turn to Jesus Christ because one is too ashamed of one’s unspeakable behavior.
Then the first thing is: Never give up! There are indeed phases in which one simply lets oneself go without a fight because the conscience remains closed for a short time. But this does not last long, and once again one is exposed to gnawing pangs of conscience; it starts all over again, and the daily defeats keep the spiritual talents from opening and prevent any obvious progress. Thus it goes month after month and year after year, until at last one reaches the threshold of death and cannot and does not want to believe that one has thrown away one’s life for an addiction.
Dear brother, dear sister, I have no other prescription for ending and overcoming addictions than love for Jesus. Only in love for Him is it possible to become free of all earthly burdens. Therefore it is so important that in and despite an addiction one seeks Jesus’ love every day and never rejects it, no matter how wretched one may feel, even if one has already trampled one’s Christian conviction underfoot countless times. He is always there to raise us up, to comfort us, to dress the wounds of our battered souls and hearts with His balm of love. For Jesus Christ is our Savior; He is the Savior of the fallen, of sinners, of the desperate. In this mercy of His we find His love; in our need we begin truly to recognize Him as heavenly Father. Thus humiliating addiction, every inability, and every wrongness become servants of love. Just as Satan too, in his vileness, must ultimately serve the good and true.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
Jesus prepares His children in different ways. One goes over Golgotha according to one’s individual constitution and soul-structure. Every human being needs a very particular treatment. A fundamental cleansing of the soul can, for example, be brought about by an addiction with which one struggles for a long time, or by seemingly insurmountable weaknesses such as impatience, constant underlying anger and condemnation (pride), curiosity, greed, or envy.
I have met brides of Christ who were cleansed through severe illness or other blows of fate; all the dross was burned away. Thus they were crucified and rose together with Jesus.
Others are prepared through loneliness, contempt, and persecution. The Father alone knows what He can ask of each soul, at times going to the utmost in order to prepare for His child the greatest possible bliss in eternity.
To some He simply gives Himself in order to test our humility. When those who appear free of suffering are given the same gifts as a soul battered by fate or a persecuted and suffering martyr, our self-righteousness is tested.
Jesus says: ‘Pain humbles you violently; love penetrates you tenderly with humility.’ And: ‘I take no pleasure in the suffering of My children.’
It is always absolute necessity that requires a fateful course. The Father never places more upon His child than it can manage and bear, even if the child itself does not see it that way. Being a child of God therefore means accepting from the Father, trustingly and in love, whatever He gives from His heart—whatever it may be. And in honesty and truthfulness the child knows very well what is necessary and what is not. And it senses when, in a hardship, it may and should ask for liberation.
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There is an obvious discrepancy in the thoughts of brothers and sisters concerning humility and self-worth. It is a matter of knowing oneself accepted and loved as a child of God and bringing this into harmony with the statement that one is a ‘useless servant.’
As we know, in our hearts we have a spark of spirit from God that is to be awakened and unfolded. This spark is God’s abiding gift and is actually God Himself. Everything apart from this heart-spirit is fallen soul, that is, sin, what is contrary to God, part of which has already been purified and part of which has not; this is what we must accomplish in our earthly life.
The human being is usually dominated by his negative soul-elements in connection with the body, which is likewise bound soul-substance and which, if the soul continually surrenders itself to increasing material needs, completely takes possession of the soul and draws it into its death.
Only when a person comes into contact with God, recognizes Him as his Redeemer, and begins to love Him and from that love his neighbors as himself, are the negative soul-specific traits penetrated by the divine spirit of the heart and transformed into the divine. Naturally, the child of God must cooperate in this through surrender, overcoming, and faithfulness, by surrendering and bringing its own will into God’s will, which is one with the loving will of the spark of spirit in the human heart.
In this phase the human being remains a sinner until this process is accomplished. This is his nothingness, for all imperfection is untruth. Since only truth has reality, everything else is deception and appearance and fundamentally has no life in the sense of divine reality and vitality; in the face of true life it is therefore dead. This is our nothing, our uselessness.
Thus the expression ‘useless servant’ refers to the inability to bring about good without God, not to the human being as a child of God’s love. To confess oneself a useless servant therefore says: all the good I accomplish is God’s part; all the bad comes from my fallen human nature. This confession is true humility in love for Jesus Christ. Together with unrestricted trust in God, it is the greatest possible act of surrender and leads the child straight into the freedom of the spirit. Here the soul’s powerlessness and nothingness become divine self-worth.
As servants of no account we enter the Father’s heart, where His heart unites with ours; as one heart we go out into the world to reveal truth and love.
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Dear brothers and sisters, I was asked to comment on the subject of humility, which I experience in this way:
Strange as it sounds: only in humility can you draw near to God’s heart, yet true humility you recognize and experience only at and in God’s heart. True humility is not possible without God’s presence, yet you come to God’s presence only in humility.
What does that mean? As in all matters, when a person sets out to become a true child of God, the heavenly Father comes more than halfway to meet him. That means He accepts His child’s honest and sincere striving for humility as an accomplished deed, takes His child by the hand in this way, and leads it into His heart. Only here does the child recognize in depth the realm of love of its heavenly Father; this intimate divine experience and fulfillment tenderly penetrates the child of God and leads it into true humility, which unites it with the Father. In the encounter with Jesus Christ’s heart, the soul is touched so penetratingly and tenderly by love that it can no longer do anything but melt in devoted love for Him. This is humility in God. Thus there is a humility before and toward God and a humility in God, which fundamentally, at their root, are nevertheless one.
True humility cannot be described or explained in words, for in its actual nature it is found only in the core of the Word, there where what we call language never reaches. Therefore Jesus explains the nature of humility to us chiefly in parables.
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The soul/soul-consciousness is formed from fallen Luciferian substance; it is the link between matter and spirit, although because of its origin and composition its pull toward matter is stronger than toward the spiritual. Thus it does in itself have a significant structure and a certain specific individuality, but at its birth into this earthly world the areas of experience and lived experience intended for this one incarnation are at first still empty for it.
Its infinite space, in which the entire universe with all existing life is present in spiritual reality, is likewise inaccessible to it. At first the spark of God’s spirit in its innermost being, in its heart-temple, which is its personal Ark of the Covenant, is also closed to it.
The unfilled, free areas of the soul are flexible and are gradually shaped and filled out by the world. Depending on earthly influences and impressions in family, circle of friends, and school, this usually takes place more or less to the soul’s disadvantage, since this world in every area is held and penetrated by satanic energies which first secretly and later obviously correlate with certain negative parts of its own.
This usually has the result that the human being experiences earthly madness as normality, finally wants to see it that way as well, and defends it, because otherwise his worldly foundation, on which he believes he stands securely, would collapse. He becomes a defender and fighter for falsehood and lies, smiles at every viewpoint that does not correspond to the general worldview and ‘rational thinking,’ though often he simply does not know any better. As a slave of the worldly intellect, he is convinced that there can be no universal, all-encompassing, generally valid truth, since everything is supposedly a relative world of opinions.
The awakened child of God, however, knows that there very much is a fundamental truth, but that it cannot be found in this world as long as one serves the world. And it knows that love for Jesus Christ clears all earthly filth from the soul, and that the spark of God thereby released in the heart of the soul immerses all earthly darkness in the light of truth, and that only then does the soul, freed and redeemed in God’s grace, become aware of its true identity: to be a child of God for eternity.
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Heart and Intellect
The intellect tends to dissect, evaluate, and comment on everything. Its activity may be necessary up to a certain degree of knowledge, yet it then likes to remain in the foreground and claims that the heart needs it as leader—in the world and also on the path to God. Yet in truth it is the other way around: the intellect needs the heart as leader, for it knows humility and love only theoretically and doubtfully.
The heart always sees what is essential in everything and gives the soul from everything given the nourishment it needs. Yes, the heart sees truth in and between the words. It needs no confirmation and no surrounding explanations, for it simply knows and is always satisfied with what it receives from God.
The intellect draws its energy from the world—the heart lives because God dwells in it. Our good decision consists in going to the Father in quiet humility in order to develop trust and surrender toward Him as well as true knowledge of the world, and not walking the road of the intellect, which knows no living God but only a dead one and moreover never falls silent. The godless intellect leads the human being into an endless labyrinth of doubt, ignorance, and falsehood, while in its true function as servant of the heart-spirit it leads the soul into divine truth and wisdom.
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Opinions and views can occur with and without God. The truthfulness of every person depends on God’s presence in his heart. Wrongness and falsehood are rooted in his distance from God. Thus there are right and false viewpoints and insights. In order to leave the relative world of opinions, it is therefore absolutely necessary to place earthly understanding under the care of heartfelt love for God, so that the human being can think and live in a divinely reasonable, soul-insightful, and truthful way, whereby divine reality first becomes his own.
The more filled the soul is with God’s spirit of love, the more far-reaching and profound its knowledge = its field of vision becomes. Ultimately it is love for God alone, founded on the ground of true humility, that includes or penetrates everything that life means and is. It alone understands and looks upon every event in its own particular divine nature and experiences everything in the divine sense, in which the imperfect reveals itself within divine perfection.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
for several days I was permitted to live in Jesus’ presence. When by my own will I turned away from Him, I fell into my spiritual death, which dwells in the abysses of every soul. This fall after divine experience is difficult to describe. Nothing remains that holds you. Darkness closes the soul off from light. Love suddenly becomes rage and hatred. Patience becomes blind drivenness. Self-destruction spreads through the soul and turns outward. Demons come and feed on this ‘dark light’; their weight burdens the soul still more. Pride and arrogance allow no tears and no remorse.
Why was I permitted to experience this? Why do I write this? My knowledge concerning Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection has broadened and deepened. In this divine act of redemption of His, He went to the outermost edge of spiritual death in order to catch it there and initiate its return. Jesus had to suffer and experience all the dreadful states of spiritual death, the satanic conditions and effects; He had to enter total God-forsakenness (‘My God, why have You forsaken Me?!’); divine light had to break through the outermost darkness, God’s Word had to speak itself there anew in order to anchor itself again and forever in what was lost, to proclaim the manifesto of the return of all fallen life.
I was permitted to experience a faint echo of this suffering of Christ. Now, for His children the Father brings good out of every evil; thus after He had raised me up again, He showed me life in spiritual death, showed me light in darkness, showed me mercy in judgment. In His love I was and am permitted to see that His death on the cross stripped our spiritual death, indeed spiritual death itself, of its power. Even if we turn away from Him, He stands in every place of darkness and picks His child up from there again in order to lead it into His heart.
The Father also showed me that all His true children are already within the realm of the rapture. That means we are already in a super-earthly vibration into which we enter/have entered so slowly that we do not notice/have not noticed it. If we were suddenly to fall entirely out of divine grace, we would feel as though dead. Yet the Father holds us; we need not be afraid. We only have to seek His presence every day and nourish our love for Him; then we remain with Him and in Him.
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Our bodies/souls are to be temples of God in which the Holy of Holies rests: the heart of our heavenly Father. If we defile this temple and continually wallow in this defilement through self-love and thereby turn away from God, He must correct our behavior through fateful events and thereby cleanse our souls. That hurts.
But if we recognize and admit that our body-soul temple is dirty and then ask Jesus in humility to cleanse and clean this temple together with us, He comes toward us with open arms and an open heart and gives us a grace-filled and loving cleansing.
As I write this now, He looks at me with loving eyes, opens His arms, and gives Me His heart. In the center of my forehead a point of light shines sweetly and brightly; my soul is flooded with love. I have to weep because of my sins and because of our Father’s forgiving mercy. Yes, He forgives His child everything if it shows readiness to love Him with all its soul and all its heart. My Father, I find no words within Your love; You alone can and may be my life. In You I die the sweet death of awakening.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
imagine that you have reached the end of your earthly life and left your body. You stand before your Creator and see in His light what you missed through your egoism, stubbornness and lukewarmness, your excessive love of the world. That hurts very much!
Then the piercing wish arises: ‘Oh, if only I could turn back time once more, I would do everything better; I would forgive here, not complain and accuse there, love more where lovelessness rules, dedicate my earthly existence to God, devote my life to loving God above all things and my neighbor as myself—and daily, not occasionally. Please, dear Father, give me another chance!’
Then it may be that after a certain period of time, after cleansing of the soul and processing what was experienced, one can undertake another earthly incarnation.
Yet we can do this now without another incarnation. This is an offer from our heavenly Father, a divine gift from His grace. We now stand at the point where we can stop time, step out of the pull of the spirit of the age, in order to begin a new life in God. A life as true children of God by entrusting our body, our soul, and our spirit to Him, by giving Him our heart.
Amen, in Jesus’ name.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
amid the present and coming unrest, let us continue to walk the path of love confidently and trustingly, so that Jesus Christ can fill our hearts, so that in this surrender we may already experience a piece of heaven on Earth. For the heaven of love in which we may one day live in the house of our heavenly Father is nothing other than His heart. And just as our heart first makes our existence, our life, and our love possible, so God’s heart also makes His own existence, His life, and His love possible. Thus, if we have entered into God’s heart, we are a true part of divine Being, we ourselves are gods in eternity.
Consider this most deeply until you have penetrated into wordless and thoughtless Being. There, where nothing more can be said, eternal love rests. From there the divine spirit radiates into infinity and clothes itself in thoughts of love. From there the Word, which has always been and is God Himself, speaks itself out into infinity and creates life outside itself within itself and again outside itself and again within itself. Understand it rightly.
The Father says: ‘Yes, I am the Word and am it down into the deepest depths and beyond, for the Word is infinite—just as every word bears infinity within itself. I have spoken Myself out from Myself into Myself and have given Myself within Myself to Myself. Grasp, My children, what this means: You are the I that I gave to Myself; you are truly children of My Being, you are to be like Me and already are; you need only realize it in Me. Amen, My beloved children, Amen.’
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