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2097 Spiritual nourishment.... grace of God....

October 4, 1941: Book 30

The influx of divine grace is clearly recognizable when the human being's desire for spiritual nourishment awakens. Then God's love comes into action by the human being's thoughts being extraordinarily influenced by good spiritual beings who thereby carry out God's will and want to help the human being's soul. As long as the human being does not consciously oppose it, this influence is successful and the soul willingly follows into the kingdom which the friends in the beyond want to open up for it. This process of mental influence is a favour which God bestows upon the person who trustingly turns to Him in prayer for His help. And every questioning thought to God is an unconscious prayer which already finds an answer. Conscious prayer, however, also earns a person divine grace, i.e. help in spiritual adversity. Once the desire for spiritual food has awakened in a person, it will always remain in him, even though a soul hungry for truth will always be satisfied. "Ask and it will be given to you...." God wants people to call upon Him in prayer and He assures them that their request will be granted. However, as soon as a person desires spiritual possessions and sends his prayer for such upwards, he will never be short-changed and yet his desire for them will never be satisfied, for God's grace makes him constantly desire spiritual nourishment. And thus he will also be constantly provided for. Spiritual nourishment, however, is knowledge of the truth. The fact that the human being is instructed in the truth is God's greatest grace, for God offers the human being a precious gift.... He offers Himself, for God is the eternal truth.... And as soon as the human being desires the truth, he also desires to be united with God, and thus God also accommodates him, for He leaves no desire unfulfilled which applies to Him. Whoever desires Him will no longer make a wrong request, for the will for God also earns the human being His deepest love, and God's love gives.... It gives everything that man lacks.... light and strength.... And both flow to people in the word, which conveys His love and grace to those who hunger and thirst for the divine gift of love, for they will gratefully receive it and also pass it on.... they are in the grace of God, they are seized by His love because they have found God....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers