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2061 Right prayer.... fulfilment.... "Father, Thy will be done...."

September 8, 1941: Book 30

The greatest power lies in the conscious call to God. Everything can be achieved by a person whose attitude towards God is such that he enters into contact with Him when he is in earthly or spiritual adversity, for he can be relieved of all worry. Another, Whose power is the greatest, now cares for him. God has provided His children with a bridge to Him, prayer. Whoever uses this bridge always and constantly has the opportunity to present his worries and troubles to Him; and to be able to present worries to God also means to become free of them, for God relieves every person of suffering, the more willingly the more trustingly it is presented to Him. Once man has freed himself from the feeling of unbridgeable distance from God, once he feels like His creature, once he recognizes that he belongs to God, then his prayer is also right, for he will now speak to his creator, his father from eternity, like a child and come to Him confidentially in all his needs. Man is powerless.... whatever he begins, it can only be completed as desired if God gives His consent. So if man wants to become master of his worries and suffering by his own efforts and disregard divine help, his endeavours and striving will be unsuccessful if God does not give His approval. After all, all success is dependent on God, and understandably God will help the person who comes to Him directly and asks for His help. The right prayer testifies to the right filial relationship that God wants to be established, and then the father's love comes into action and He fulfils every request of the person.... The relationship with God should be free of any outward appearance, as well as free of exaggerated submissiveness, which is expressed in posture and gestures. The relationship between child and father should be an intimate one, childlike and submissive in obedience, but intimate love should bind the child to the father. Such an intimate relationship must also bring the child fulfilment of every request, for God is love, and love denies His child nothing that brings him joy. The child will also be allowed to make earthly requests as long as it has recognized that the father's love considers the child in a way that is beneficial to it.... This realization has the consequence that the fulfilment of every request is left to the father, that the child prays "Father, Thy will be done" and that he now trustingly abandons himself to the father's love and humbly receives from His hand what is intended for him. Faith and trust in His goodness and wisdom should form the basis of every prayer, then the earthly child leaves the fulfilment of its requests to the heavenly father, and then the prayer is as it is pleasing to Him and He will answer it....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers