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2840 God's protection for the despondented and fainthearted....

August 7, 1943: Book 37

The task of those who want to serve Me is difficult, yet My strength and grace will always be with them, I will always stand by them and they will always recognize My guiding father's hand.... They will have to pass many a fatherhard test of faith and will always need new strength in order to be able to face all opposition. However, they can always be sure of My guidance, and thus I will lead them over cliffs and rocks, over thistles and thorns, always along the right path that leads upwards towards Me. My spirit will always be with them and they will (always and) constantly hear My voice within them, which will strengthen, comfort or call them. And if they are unable to hear Me, I will knock more strongly at the door of their hearts, and their anxiety and timidity will give way if they are afflicted by it, their faith will be strengthened and all weakness will fall away from them. And so hear My voice, you who are discouraged or fainthearted: I will not let anyone fall who wants to fight for Me, I will give you My word as a sign of My everlasting love. And this love will truly not leave you in your soul's adversity, it will help you in every weakness of will, for I know of your will to be Mine and to serve Me. Your task is not easy and yet you will accomplish it as long as you take refuge in Me in every adversity of the soul.... I will increase your strength and time and again you will be able to take up the battle for Me, newly strengthened and full of confidence that you will succeed. You live in the midst of a world which no longer wants to have any connection with Me and which is therefore full of dark thoughts. And this darkness also wants to overshadow you, it wants to extinguish the light which shines in you through your love for Me and your faith in Me.... And therefore the darkness tries to devour you, and these are the struggles and resistances which oppress you and make you despondent.... But you should know that I, the light Itself, stand beside you and that the darkness can do nothing against Me.... you should know that you are in the sphere of My radiance of light and that you are therefore equally immune to the efforts of darkness. And therefore the darkness will never succeed in corrupting you as long as you have a desire for Me in your heart. And once you have surrendered to Me and offered Me your will and your services you will also remain My property forever, which the adversary can never ever dispute with Me. Yet he will harass you time and again, and these are the inner battles you will face and which will make you lose heart.... But I hold My hands protectively over you, I am never far from you, even if you feel weak and abandoned. Great tasks still await you and you have to be well prepared for them, you have to oppose all resistance with your will towards Me, then it will disintegrate into itself, for you draw Me to you as a helper, as it were, and everything has to give way to My power. And therefore don't let yourselves be depressed even if the world around you is darkened and wants to obscure your light.... I Myself illuminate you and even the worst darkness cannot resist My rays....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers