3179 Time of trouble and tribulation for believers too....

July 6, 1944: Book 41

The more lively faith is, the more intimate the connection with God will be and the more noticeable the supply of strength will be that allows people to endure everything that is imposed on them. For the coming time will make great demands on all people and the believers, too, will have to pray earnestly for strength. And it will come upon them like a storm which threatens to overthrow them, and only intimate contact with God will allow them to stand firm. Yet the adversity is never greater than the one Who sends it, Who is also always willing to help if He is faithfully called upon for assistance. Yet for the sake of the whole of humanity the coming adversity is inevitable and understandably the believers will not remain unaffected by it either, only they can reduce it themselves through faithful prayer. People are driving themselves towards the climax, they will stop at nothing if it brings destruction to the one they regard as their enemy, and thereby they plunge themselves into great guilt which cannot be atoned for in any other way than that they themselves have to suffer from what they want to inflict on others. And that is why the adversity will affect everyone, for there are guilty people everywhere, even if there are believers in their midst who now also have to take the heavy fate upon themselves. Their faith will strengthen them and the more lively it is, the easier it will be to bear the hardship. And they will also be able to influence their fellow human beings and lead some of them back to faith in God. For this is why God sends the adversity, so that it will still have an educational effect on the few who can still be saved. And that is why the great coming adversity is a mercy before the end, it is still a means to win souls who become thoughtful through the heavy pressure, through tribulation and misery and seriously seek to change. The living faith of fellow human beings should help them onto the right path, it should also help them to believe and allow them to come into contact with God.... And the believers should always bear in mind that they are needed in this time of need, that God does not call them beforehand in order to have living witnesses on earth in them who stand up for Him and His teachings, who are obvious evidence of God's power flowing from a deep faith and who are to speak and work on earth instead of Him among those who are far from God. Only people can act as mediators on earth, only people can receive and pass on the word of God, because God Himself cannot obviously express Himself in order not to endanger freedom of faith and will. And these must be people who are able to believe in a living way themselves and who do not allow themselves to be depressed by suffering and tribulation but always provide the unbelievers with the proof that the strength of faith flows through them and makes them resistant to all earthly tribulations. They must take the adversity of the times on their shoulders, they must arm themselves with the strength that comes to them from fervent prayer to God. They must always and constantly be ready to serve God as a willing instrument when and where He deems it good, and they must therefore humbly take everything upon themselves and patiently wait for the help of the one Who has assured them of His support, Who will not leave them in adversity if they faithfully trust Him....

amen

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