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3796 Gaining faith requires the will of man....

June 10, 1946: Book 48

Everyone should seek to shape himself according to My will and desire strength and grace from Me.... Then his soul is saved for eternity, for with his prayer to Me for strength and grace his will has become active, which is turned towards Me and which I now seize and no longer let sink back eternally. And therefore it is absolutely necessary to direct his thoughts towards Me, therefore he has to acknowledge Me first, otherwise he would not ask Me in thought. And thus he has to believe in Me.... that I exist and possess power and strength in order to be able to distribute them. Faith in a Being full of power and strength is therefore the first thing a person must possess, if his soul is not to perish for eternal times.... And this belief can be gained by anyone who seriously reflects on himself and his relationship to the whole of creation. Just as he must attribute meaning and purpose to everything, even to the smallest work of creation, he will also not be able to deny the meaning and purpose of his own earthly existence, for serious reflection about himself will definitely give him this certainty, because I will come to meet everyone who merely has the will to penetrate the truth. And once he has recognized his earthly existence as a means to reach a certain goal he will also consciously pursue the goal himself, because now faith awakens in him, in an Entity Which created everything precisely because of that goal, and he now leans towards that Entity, he enters into contact with It.... But man has to come this far on his own, in free will he has to turn to Me, but then I seize him and draw him to Me, yet always taking his free will into account, because this is the law of eternity. The gift of intellect and the influence of spiritual beings of light are constant help to gain faith in Me, and if the human being's will does not oppose Me he will irrevocably progress in his development, for faith will then drive him to prayer, to thoughts which are turned towards Me, and I can now provide him with strength and grace in abundance. Anyone who has recognized the creation around him as meaningful and purposeful will also try to explain the earthly adversity to himself as appropriate, and he will soon find the right answer to the questions posed mentally. For I enlighten every person's thinking who is of good will and seriously desires the truth. And in the adversity he will only find the confirmation of what he receives as a mental answer, the adversity will no longer be incomprehensible to him. And he himself will make an effort to live in accordance with My will on earth and join Me ever more intimately, and he will never again be without strength and grace. Yet all this is only brought about by his will, which has to turn to Me freely in order to be grasped and to find My constant support. But the will only becomes active once the human being has gained faith in Me as Creator and Sustainer of everything that exists.... And all means of help are at the human being's disposal to gain this faith, for he can grasp and process what he sees and hears with his senses and the end result has to be a convinced belief in a Being from Whom everything emerged, for I Myself gave the human being the ability to recognize this, yet he has to use it himself of his own free will....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke