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3441 Strong faith, inner peace.... undaunted....

February 18, 1945: Book 44

All misgivings should disappear and be replaced by strong faith, then deepest peace will enter the heart and the earthly hardship will be bearable. All of you who are anxious and anxiously looking forward to the future do not yet have strong faith because you are still weak in spirit. And this weak faith must still be strengthened through heartfelt prayer and its answer. As soon as you pray for help in your adversity God will also make Himself known, for He knows about your will to believe, He knows about your struggle for it in prayer. And He will hear you, He will reveal Himself to you if you are in great distress. For He wants to help you to become profoundly faithful for the sake of your fellow human beings, to whom you should still serve as an example. He who calls a deep faith his own is above everything that approaches him. He will master everything that is demanded of him and live in inner peace, for he knows that he is never alone but always accompanied by the heavenly father, and that nothing can happen to him that God does not want.... but that everything also has to happen as God wants it. And he trusts in the heavenly father’s love which protects him from adversity and misery unless it is absolutely necessary for his soul's salvation. But the believing person also seeks to live according to God's pleasure. He seeks to ennoble his soul and therefore he does not fear suffering but trusts in divine love. And divine love must be thought of first if the human being wants to attain profound faith. The father’s heartfelt love embraces everything that has emerged from it and never ever wants to abandon it to ruin.... And the human being must be fully convinced of this heartfelt fatherly love, then he will also unhesitatingly place himself under divine protection, always hoping that God will keep everything difficult away from him because He loves him. And as soon as the human being can muster this complete trust his faith is strong, and then God will not disappoint him but He will grant him every request.... And it can fearlessly await the earthly child every day, He will only bring it what is necessary for its salvation of soul.... and the less suffering the more profoundly the child trusts in the father’s help....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers