3305 Prayer of the awakened.... fulfilment....

October 24, 1944: Book 43

Hear the divine spirit: In every way God is intent on helping people to the salvation of their souls, and everything that happens, that He Himself does or allows, is a means to this end. And therefore everything from God's hand must be gratefully accepted, even if the body feels it as suffering, because it is helpful for the soul. And this thought should also determine your prayer, you should only pray for the well-being of your soul and leave the well-being of your body to God's will, because His love and wisdom only remember your soul and the soul's eternal life is the aim and purpose of everything that comes upon you. Therefore you should pray that God will protect your soul from every danger and hand your body over to Him completely; you should leave it up to Him as He thinks of it and always trust in His love and wisdom, which must be your guarantee that everything God sends upon you is good. This applies to the awakened person who knows the meaning and purpose of suffering and who also recognizes humanity's spiritual hardship and knows about its consequences for the souls. His pleas and supplications should always be for spiritual well-being, it should be a constant prayer for light in the darkness of time, it should be a struggle for spiritual goods, for firm faith, for realization of truth and for spiritual knowledge, for this alone remedies the spiritual hardship and also the earthly hardship at the same time, because the latter is a consequence of the former. Anyone who is in knowledge should only pray for salvation from spiritual adversity.... nevertheless, he can also place all earthly adversities on the heavenly father's heart by completely handing himself over to His guidance, by believing that he, as His child, is lovingly sheltered by Him.... His faith in God's love must be strong, then all earthly worries will disappear, for if a child knows itself to be loved by the father it will no longer fear anything because God's love will turn away from it if it is beneficial for its soul. The human being must be certain of God's love.... And he will be so if he himself stands in love. Depending on the degree of his love for God and his neighbour and its activity God's love fills him and also becomes noticeable to him.... And the loving person will be completely carefree even in earthly adversity.... For he firmly trusts and therefore knows no worry. And this is the strength of divine love which flows through him as soon as he is lovingly active himself. He will no longer believe that he can master anything by his own strength but will completely hand himself over to the father in heaven and thus also place all earthly worries at His feet because he knows that only God can take them away from him, that only God directs his destiny as it is good for him. And thus he trusts that God, in His love, will not burden him with more than is necessary for his soul. And his prayer will be a surrender to divine will, he will not demand but surrender to God's will and determination.... Nevertheless, the soul can also take refuge in God in great physical adversity and call upon Him for strength and fortitude, for this adversity often comes upon a person in order to motivate him to intimate contact with God if he is in danger of slackening in prayer....

(24.10.1944) And then God reveals Himself by fulfilling the requests, for the power of prayer is to be proven to people so that the divine promise will be fulfilled: "Ask and it shall be given to you...." For God takes care of all His children who see their father in Him and express this to Him through faithful prayer. But God knows when His children are in need, He knows their earthly and spiritual shortcomings and considers them accordingly. The supplicant is given, and the sincerity of the prayer also guarantees fulfilment. But the strength of prayer is increased when the fulfilment of every request is entrusted to God's will, when the human being surrenderingly submits to His will, then he completely entrusts himself to God's guidance and then everything will be for the salvation of his soul. God’s word says: Ask and it will be given to you.... thus the human being may ask for everything, he may come to the father with earthly and spiritual requests.... he will always be considered according to his faith. But if he is willing to forego the fulfilment of a request, if this corresponds to divine love and wisdom, then he completely submits himself to God's will. And this will truly only aims at what is best for the human being. For the most part he will also be fulfilled because he has already progressed so far in realization that he no longer has to fear straying into the world, and then God will consider him spiritually and earthly, He will avert every adversity from him, He will make every test easy for him and lovingly guide him on his earthly path, and he need not fear that God will not hear his silent prayer.... For God's will will then also be his will as soon as he has submitted himself to Him, and God's will will also guide his thinking right.... he will then only pray for that which is conducive to his spiritual development and never think of his body again, and then God will give him what he needs for soul and body.... For His promise is fulfilled to the letter....

Amen

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