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May 17, 2026

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Hans Dienstknecht and Samuel SurazalHans DienstknechtSamuel Surazal

The Healer and Comforter Dwells Within You

Provenance
Hans Dienstknecht

Meeting of May 10, 2008, in Würzburg

Divine Revelation

Awaken, My beloved children, awaken! My life-giving, gentle light descends upon you as a mighty ray from the depths of your home, and the boundless love from Me, the Godhead, enfolds you and sinks into your inner being—whether you are on this side or beyond the veil; for My love makes no distinctions, no one is excluded. My love does not separate; it does not divide you into here and there, into good and evil; it does not prefer one child over another, sets no conditions, neither evaluates nor condemns nor judges.

Otherwise, would My love, which I give you as Father, differ from what My own usually understand by love? When I say “usually,” this expresses that the number is still small of those who are ready, beyond the limits of their own capacity to love, truly to sense the boundless sublimity of the Father’s love. Human powers of expression know neither measure nor concept for it; and even the beings of light, your brothers and sisters in the eternal home, are not given to discern and fathom the ultimate depth of the Creator’s love.

Love, My children, is the essence and the primal ground of all being. At the same time it is also the motive behind everything that takes place in a human life and happens to a person, as well as everything you perceive around you on this earth. Let whoever can grasp it, grasp it!

Are you aware, My child, you who still lead a carefree, secure, and comfortable life—are you aware that it is I who ask to enter your heart and who urge you to look for your brothers and sisters so that you may give them from what a kindly destiny has richly blessed you with? Let Me transform your hardness of heart, your indifference, for I am the Spirit of merciful, eternally giving love within you and within your brothers and sisters.

And you, My dear one, who are entangled in quarrel and discord, come to your senses and grant Me entrance as well. Strive to create peace and harmony within you and around you by bowing your head, extending your hand to your neighbor, asking forgiveness, and forgiving for the healing of your soul. Give Me the unforgivingness that makes your heart bitter and holds it tightly enclosed, for I am the reconciling love that eternally gives itself away and builds bridges between you and your neighbor.

And you, My child, who spend your life in fear and worry, sorrow and vexation—did I not say: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest”? Do you not believe that this is so? Yesterday as today and likewise for all the future? Do you not know that your Father’s law knows only one goal: the well-being of all His creatures? Do you not know that love has only one concern: to embrace all its children again in the eternal home? Oh come, My beloved, come to Me; I want to teach you the true understanding of the laws of life.

And you who know nothing but the pursuit of money and possessions, recognition and career: remember that your soul thirsts and hungers and strives to acquire riches of another kind. For when you pass through the veil and the garment you lay aside decays into the dust from which it was made, where will you then be? I tell you: “The soul will be where your heart was throughout your life.” And blessed is the one whose heart was with Me.

And to you who have suffering, pain, illness, and hardship to bear: Did I not say, “Let Me be your physician and healer”? Certainly, the child who views life only with earthly eyes can find nothing useful in suffering and pain. But whoever carries within himself the certainty of his immortal, light-born soul—enveloped for the span of an incarnation in a material, dust-born body—knows that your Father neither punishes you nor makes mistakes, but that His love and justice are perfect, and accordingly each person must reap the thorns he himself previously sowed—unless he has transformed them with My help.

Oh, My beloved, listen! When you suffer, when you live through a time of severe affliction, when your body refuses its service and forces you into a sickbed: in such hours I am especially close to you. And yet this cup of bitterness has the deep purpose of purifying and transforming My child. Pain wants to make you aware of your conduct and of wrongdoing committed, so that through purification the soul of My child may regain its original divine purity.

Recognize this: the great Healer and Comforter dwells within you. Direct your requests to Me, and you may be certain that relief and healing will be granted to you in the measure that is best for your soul and your body.

Seen in this way, suffering, pain, and hardship can become for you a luminous experience of the infinite and boundless love and mercy, goodness, gentleness, and grace of your heavenly Father. For what purpose would it serve if I healed and freed you, while you were not inclined to turn toward Me but continued to cling to the cause of your destiny?

Direct your inner being toward Me in prayer; direct the longing of your heart toward Me, your Father, so that I may grant insight to your disposition, clarity to your intellect, and to your consciousness the realization of your lower self, from which all hardship and illness arise. Enter the temple within you; there I dwell, and I have long been waiting for you. I teach you to understand; I help you recognize what blockages and obstacles still lie within you. I support and encourage you to renounce the continuing, destiny-forming seed and to hasten toward Me, the love within you.

Truly, I tell you, My beloved children, this is the way in My footsteps. This is also the way that turns every bitter cup of suffering, whatever its nature, into a cup filled with the exquisite, sweet wine of life from Me, your God and Father. Amen.

Divine Revelation (in response to a prayer)

My beloved daughter, if you could sense how greatly I rejoice over you. I have watched over every step of your life, I have guided them, and I have brought you to this point in your life; and for one reason alone: because I love you above all.

You have experienced much that was difficult; you have gone through highs and lows, yet you did not allow the longing for Me within you to die. And so I was able to bring you to the point where, symbolically, you kneel, bow your head, and say: “Father, forgive me.”

How could I, who am all-embracing, unconditional love, fail to fulfill such a request! In your thoughts stand up, My daughter, lift your heart and your eyes and look at Me, and I tell you: “If you want it, My child, you are free in this moment.”

There is nothing I could not or would not forgive. It is impossible for Me to be unforgiving, no matter what a child may have done. Believe Me, worse things have happened in the course of creation.

You have taken My hand; do not let go of it again. Whenever it is possible for you, enter into this inward, intimate relationship and let love flow out from you and receive My love. It makes you strong to seek reconciliation wherever it is still needed; above all, it also makes you strong and clear enough to become free of the accusations of guilt you direct against yourself.

I take you into My arms once more and tell you, My child: “Everything is all right. You are free.” Amen.

Divine Revelation

My beloved sons and daughters, one more brief word to you. I am life, and precisely in this time life is expressing itself in a fullness otherwise never seen. You do not call this month the “month of delight” for nothing, because wherever you look, everything is blooming.

What does it look like within you? Have you already allowed yourselves to be infected by this life? Have you blossomed too? Are you ready to blossom? This, My beloved, would be an important and necessary change. But most people do not particularly like to make changes. This is connected with the inertia of matter and is also often unwelcome because every change means work.

That is why many people remain in life circumstances they themselves have chosen, and they would not want to change them even if they received advice and suggestions from others. It is their world; here they know their way around, here they have settled in, here they feel relatively safe.

But you know that everything in My creation is evolution and that permanent stagnation cannot exist. So I will also move you, My child, and you and you, to make a change, for I want to draw you closer to My heart.

Remember the days when you first fell in love. Was the world not rose-colored? Did everything not seem much easier than in the weeks and months before? How you looked forward to being together with the one you loved! And whoever looked at you could easily recognize: You have changed; you have blossomed. You have a goal. Joy has entered your life.

It is not difficult to transfer this image to our relationship. If such blossoming is already possible on the human level—in relation to another person who has entered your life—how much more should this relationship be filled with indescribable joy and new strength when it is about the two of us!

If you are basically ready for this, if you agree to a change, then allow yourself to be changed! I stand ready and wait, and I give you a little help: when you think of Me, express as far as possible with deep feeling that you have blossomed:

“I have blossomed because I experience the love of my Father.”

Give yourself to this feeling of having blossomed, and you will—at first imperceptibly, then visibly to others as well—look different; the expression on your face will change, your eyes will shine. Then you will know that you have fallen in love anew. And this love will never disappoint you. Amen.

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