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2734 Visible appearance of the lord.... "Where two or three are gathered in My name...."

May 12, 1943: Book 34/35/36

God reveals Himself when He is honoured; He dwells in the midst of His own, certainly invisibly, yet He reveals Himself in various ways to strengthen faith. He speaks to people through His spirit mentally or also audibly, thus He dwells in the word among people who love Him and keep His commandments. But He will also appear visibly to a few whose love for Him is deep and willing to make sacrifices. Yet only a few will recognize Him, for He will be among them in a simple form, and only the love of the heart will recognize Him because it feels strongly drawn to Him and recognizes the closeness of the lord. There will be peace and tranquillity and harmony among people where the lord visibly appears, and everyone will approach each other in love, and as a kindred spirit He will suddenly be in their midst and radiate love and make people happy.... His eye will rest full of gentleness and kindness on His own, and His word will be comforting and energizing, and a calm will take hold of people, and every heart will be turned towards Him full of love, every ear will receive His words. And suddenly He will disappear from their sight, and by this they will recognize who has been among them. And His appearance will strengthen people's faith, all doubts will vanish and they will now stand up for Him and His name full of confessional courage; nothing will frighten them, no matter what is done against them, for they will feel accompanied by Him, Whom they may behold in all ways.... The lord will come to His own when they are in great need, visibly and invisibly, but always tangibly in the hearts of those who love Him. He will show Himself to all who are gathered in His name, or to individuals who are particularly strong in faith and love.... And so even an individual will be able to see Him, while others will not be able to behold Him.... Invisibly, however, He is always present where two or three are gathered in His name. And so everyone can also draw strong faith from this promise of Jesus if they always keep these words of His before their eyes: "Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them...." His word is truth, and where the lord dwells, man has nothing more to fear from the world.... God will reveal Himself everywhere; where there is a small congregation of God-fearing and deeply believing people, there He will also make Himself known in the time to come in order to strengthen them for the battle that will break out for the sake of faith. And this is why He descends to earth long before already in the word and thereby proves that He dwells amongst them, that He comes to everyone who wants to hear Him, that He directly and indirectly conveys His word to them so that they shall take notice of His ever caring love for His own, whom He has chosen as His fighters. And if it is necessary He will also visibly manifest Himself if His word has kindled love for Him in their hearts and they have become able to absorb His image through love, to behold Him with a physical or spiritual eye. And the image will burrow deep into the heart and the person will always be able to see Him when his faith needs strengthening. And time and again he will be able to draw comfort and strength, for the lord's love is constantly with the one who loves Him with all his heart....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers