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1004 "Behold, I am with you always...."

July 13, 1939: Book 19

"Behold, I am with you always...." These words shall be your comfort and confidence at all times. I will not abandon My own if only they desire Me, and I will help you bear all suffering if only you trust Me with faith. I will certainly make you bear your suffering, but only so that you remember Me and call upon Me for help in all adversity. For I want to strengthen your faith, I want you to let your faith become that strength that no earthly suffering can make you anxious and despondent anymore. You are still despondent and threaten to collapse under the oppositions I send you, but when these can no longer harm you, when nothing can make you waver in your faith in My help, you have reached that degree of strength of faith that I can work through you. Behold, how much easier life will be for you when you no longer have to pay attention to the daily oppositions and no longer have to worry about daily life. To be a true child of its father in heaven also requires complete trust that it will be protected in every adversity and danger, and thus I want to know My children standing in faith and trust in God.... I want them to always and constantly seek Me, that they approach Me fearlessly and in full faith in order to be able to fulfil their requests at any time.... They should always turn their hearts to Me and never become of little faith, and My love will take notice of their need and deliver them from it. What an indescribable abundance of grace is therefore always at your disposal if I promise you My help when you desire it.... And it is only necessary that you believe and ask.... I will not abandon you, for I know of all the suffering on earth and am willing to help wherever you believingly desire it. You alone create all difficulties for yourselves; if you are distant from Me in your heart, I have to direct your thoughts to Me, and that through hardship and suffering. But if you carry Me in your heart, you are also secure in My heart, and what you are then still obliged to carry only serves your own salvation.... One day you will thank Me when you realize why you were given this.... Yet you cannot grasp it on earth and should therefore only take up the little cross without grumbling and complaining and carry it humbly for My sake. The body passes away and with it earthly pain.... But you should fear for your soul, whose suffering is far greater if the body is spared suffering on earth. I love all My little children and do not want them to suffer throughout eternal times, yet this would be your fate if I kept earthly suffering away from you, which is truly not the hardest thing to bear. And if I promise you My presence, then trust Me and do not become faint-hearted. He who imposes suffering on you can also take it away from you, and He will truly not let you call in vain if you ask Him from the bottom of your heart....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers