No Progress Without Change

Divine Revelation

Whether a group is large or small, My beloved brothers and sisters, is not what determines whether My Spirit moves there. I am always in the midst of those who open their hearts to Me, to love, and who ask Me to remain with them.

And so I am now in your midst as well and raise My word to proclaim to you from My truth and wisdom. First, I will lead you into a brief reflection, and I ask you to follow Me in your deepest inner feelings. Let this image arise within you:

I receive each new day as a gift.

I am full of joy and gratitude, for inwardly I am so close to my God.

I am grateful for everything that comes my way.

I am grateful for everyone who comes my way.

And because everything comes from my Father’s hand, everything is good.

I feel sheltered in this light, in this love, in this strength, and I know:

However things may sometimes look outwardly—everything is nevertheless good.

I look forward to everything the day brings me,

even to what may not seem so pleasant at the moment.

But it comes from my Father’s love, and it is good.

I like myself as I am, with all the faults and weaknesses I s t i l l have.

I give thanks for what there is still to learn,

and in this too I know myself sheltered in my Father’s love.

Everything is good, for I am loved—and I love.

My beloved, I want to deepen a little what I have just shown you through inner feelings and images. Remain in this inner stillness and receive with your open hearts what I want to place within you.

I know that, as human beings, it is not always easy for you to give heartfelt thanks for everything that comes to you in the course of a day, indeed in the course of a life. Or can you truly already say from the depths of your heart: “Lord, everything, absolutely everything, is good”? Then we—you and I—are already close. Yet sometimes it is still difficult to accept situations and people at once as they are and at the same time say: “Thank You, Father, it is good.” I want to look more deeply with you into this aspect.

In My recent revelations I spoke about the vibration of your soul, the ground of your soul, the law of attraction, and your soul-spiritual milieu. I will build on that.

Every creature created from My love is absolutely individual, and no two are alike. This is also true in the realms outside the heavens and in matter. Purely spiritual beings differ in their mentalities, in their abilities, and in what they create with their free will; they do not differ in their love for Me and for their brothers and sisters.

Human beings also differ, but here it is not only positive qualities that make up a person; rather, there is a “mixture of character,” and this mixture is composed in many different ways. One strong factor is what you bring into this incarnation in the way of strengths and weaknesses from your previous incarnations. So you do not enter this life at birth “fresh and untouched”—where otherwise would My justice be, in view of the different human destinies from birth onward?—but you already have a distinctly formed character, even though this is naturally not so easy to notice in the first years of childhood. Yet your characteristics are already within you because you bring them with you.

Into this mixture your upbringing then contributes its share; influences from your surroundings are added, your interests, your inclinations, the attachments you build up in the course of life, but also the freedom you work out for yourselves—and then My strength within you. All this together, and much more besides, makes up each person’s unique, unmistakable nature.

This picture of a human being naturally changes continually, for you live in time and space and are subject to the influences of your past, while through your decisions and actions in the present you determine your future. No soul outside the purely heavenly realms is as perfect as it was in its home and will be again. All souls and human beings are burdened to a greater or lesser degree. These burdens shape the radiance of your soul. The greater the love you put into practice, the more of these burdens you transform into light with My help, and the clearer, whiter, and purer the garment of your soul becomes. And I am the One who continually sets this process in motion and helps you, to a degree you cannot imagine, both in gaining insight and in putting what you have recognized into practice, for I am your divine brother and friend, Jesus Christ.

Each of you—which means every human being and every soul—therefore has his own soul-color, his own state of soul, his own soul-radiance. And now think of the law of attraction: each person accordingly attracts, to differing degrees, what corresponds to him. I not only allow this; I foster it, because it is My desire that every one of My children find the way back to My heart. On this path a change m u s t take place within My child; without this change, no further progress is possible.

But how are these impulses toward change given? By your being confronted in everyday life with what triggers corresponding negative inner feelings, thoughts, words, and actions within you, what causes you difficulties, what awakens fears, and much more, so that—if you wish—you can recognize from this what is still within you and waiting to be transformed. What you have recognized and overcome n o l o n g e r attracts the same or something similar. And no matter how violently negative forces may rage around you, they no longer find any point of attack for their evil activity!

Now you understand why the destinies of My human children are so different—because the conditions of their souls are different.

For better understanding I will give you an image: imagine a large switching yard with countless switches and countless railcars. Each railcar represents a person. I have already spoken of the fact that you are never alone, that you live within invisible fields of energy, and that these fields are constantly trying to push you in a direction pleasing to them—when they are negative forces—or to bring you into the light, which is what the selflessly serving forces intend. Thus forces you do not notice are constantly acting upon the railcars on the rail networks. These forces can influence those people whose soul structure contains aspects that are the same as or similar to the forces acting upon them. If they succeed, the corresponding “human railcar” rolls a few meters or a few hundred meters in the desired direction—away from the light and into darker zones when low-vibrating whisperings have gained the upper hand. In the worst case the opposing forces cause the railcar to derail, for that is their intention: to disturb, to destroy, and in this way draw energy from the negative thoughts and actions of these seduced people.

If, by contrast, the forces of light can reach a human child within, if the conscience begins to stir, if impulses can be received inwardly or also from outside, then it is easy to imagine that at that moment the journey of a railcar toward darker regions is stopped. The forces of light have intervened to the extent that the person’s free will allowed. A switch is set, and the railcar changes direction—away from darkness and toward the light.

How long the journey in the new direction lasts is decided by the person himself. The moment he opens himself again—in inner feelings and thoughts, in words and actions—to the opposing forces, because something contrary still exists within him to a greater or lesser degree, the journey into the light is stopped. And depending on the extent to which he gives himself over to darkness, his railcar is pushed again into less luminous regions.

So, My beloved, now take this image and apply it to yourselves and your lives. Do you recognize that you often resemble such a railcar being pushed back and forth, one that has the best intentions and yet repeatedly stumbles over its own correspondences, its unexamined faults and weaknesses, and therefore in those situations can be influenced, disturbed, impaired, or perhaps even brought down? This explains why on the path to Me things sometimes go better for you and sometimes worse—because then you are still, and repeatedly, a plaything of various forces.

And if I now ask you for the solution, each one of you knows it: no longer to offer the forces of darkness a point of attack, so that they may indeed try—and are allowed to try, for they too have free will!—to attack you, but their successes in seducing you become fewer and fewer. For in free insight and decision you have come to Me with your weaknesses and faults and asked Me to help you overcome them. In this way the breeding ground is taken away from the opposing forces.

Your decision, however, presupposes that you know your weak points and that you are wholeheartedly ready, out of love for Me and your neighbor, to set the switches in the direction of the light. Do you know what happens then?

Your railcar runs more and more easily, for I am the One pushing it! I am the One who helps you return to where all your longing draws you, namely back to the Father’s house. Then the attempts of darkness to influence you become fewer and fewer, and what you desire so deeply enters your life: peace, harmony, healing, a sense of safety, trust, and freedom. I stand for all of this, My beloved brothers and sisters.

I wait for you with outstretched arms and try more and more to draw you to My heart. If this is your desire as well, then see in everything that comes your way the invitation: If it is unpleasant for you, or annoying or troublesome—look within, My child, at what is still in you that triggers these inner feelings. And when you have recognized the causes—which in most cases is not so difficult when you look honestly—and come to Me with them and place them before Me so that I can help you overcome them, then before very long you will be able to say from the depths of your heart: “Thank You, Father; thank You, Jesus Christ, that I am free of this. Now I k n o w—and do not merely have to believe—that everything that comes to me is good for me.”

I wish that these words may fall deeply into you. I love you. Amen.

Divine Revelation

You sang, “Bind us together, Lord.” I tell you, this is My desire and My will as well. And because it is My will, I will bring together again everything that is still separated. For this is why I came into the world: to unite. I came into the world not only to proclaim God’s love, but to live this love before you. I reached many hearts, and a wave of enthusiasm and joy spread across many lands, and everywhere My own stepped into My footsteps. I lived in their midst and taught them through My Spirit, who blew and still blows wherever and whenever He wills.

This called the forces of darkness into action. They tried to alter My teaching, make it ridiculous, trample it underfoot, and extinguish it. Sometimes, My brothers and sisters, it seems as though the opposing forces have succeeded. But I tell you: “I am the victor for all eternity. I am love, and I am and possess almighty power, and nothing can resist My will, which is nothing but love.”

There are infinitely many of you who set out to help My teaching prevail, not only now, in this time; many of you were already there long ago, were together with Me, and were there in the years that followed as My teaching of love spread. And I tell you: “They are here again.”

Look into one another’s eyes, My beloved, and you will recognize one another.

Together we will show the forces of darkness—who despite their actions are and remain children of the heavens and your brothers and sisters—that My teaching of love is not merely empty words, but that it is possible to live this teaching. And through this example new life will arise on this earth, even if your times sometimes seem as though darkness were gaining the upper hand.

But I tell you: “Do not lose heart. Know your divine inheritance; know the power that is within you.” Come to Me, unite yourselves with Me, and let Me rise within you. Do not ask when all this will happen. Time lies in My hands. Fulfill what you have promised—and thus we will be victorious. Amen.