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2762 "Open your hearts...."
June 1, 1943: Book 34/35/36
Open your hearts wide and be ready to receive Me in the word.... and let your will become active for this, for only if you seriously want Me to stay with you will you also be strong enough to shape yourselves such as My presence with you requires. My word testifies to My love, and you must also be full of love if My love is to make you happy. Your heart must be full of love towards Me and long for Me, only then can I dwell with you in the word, I can speak to you as My children and make you happy through My closeness. Therefore, open your hearts, want Me to come close to you, prepare yourselves to receive Me and become love.... Nothing else can merge you with Me but only love, for when you are in love you become like Me, Who is love Itself. Love should fill your whole heart, love for your neighbour should express your love for Me, then I will also be with you with all My love and you will be Mine forever. And this is your task on earth, that you shape yourselves into love, that you practice humility, gentleness, peacefulness and patience, that you always take Me and My way of life on earth as an example and thus follow Me through a life which you lead just as I have led it.... in merciful neighbourly love. This is your task on earth, for which I will give you strength if you request it and open yourselves to the flow of strength which flows to you through My word, through My divine gift of grace, which is always and forever imparted to My living creations who shape themselves into love, who therefore turn their will towards Me and want to be close to Me and express this through loving actions. My word is the inexhaustible stream of strength which flows down to you humans. And anyone who has My word, who awakens it to life within himself, is flooded by My strength and now strives towards Me with all his senses, he carries out what I tell him to do through My word, he fulfils My commandments and matures in his soul, for now he will not lack strength because he constantly receives it from Me. And My love for you knows no bounds, and that is why the flow of strength will never dry up, that is why I will always and forever descend to people in the word in order to lift them up to Me through the strength of My love, through the strength of My word, for anyone who has My word pushes towards Me because love, which is My share, is also in him and wants to unite with Me. Open your hearts wide and grant My love entrance.... prepare an abode for Me in you so that I can move in and work in you.... And you will already be happy on earth.... My love offers you incomparably more beauty than the world can offer you, My love makes you free from all bondage, My love gives you eternal life in all power and glory.... Yet you must want to receive this love of Mine because I cannot give to you without your will, because I want to call free creatures My own and cannot influence you through coercion for the sake of your happiness. And therefore behold Me with all your senses, do not seek the world and its pleasures but look for your true life, your true joy with Me, Who can provide for you abundantly if you grant Me entry into your heart.... Let Me speak to you in the word and give you strength, let Me dwell in you and be close to you as a constant companion, and you will never again feel the burden of the earth, you will be led by Me on safe paths towards your eternal home - the kingdom I have prepared for you....
Amen
Translated by Doris Boekers