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4404 Work of the servants of God.... carrying the light forward....

August 14, 1948: Book 51

I have chosen you as My servants and thus you should faithfully administer your service and do whatever spiritual work is incumbent upon you. And if you have been commissioned to spread My word you should not be timid but always speak in My name, in My stead, wherever possible. For the world wants to be conquered, people's attention must be drawn to the spiritual kingdom because they themselves no longer know where and how to find it. Everywhere are people who desire the truth, everywhere are people who live in love and who want to make contact with Me, only due to insufficient faith and insufficient realization they cannot do the simplest thing.... listen within or recognize My word in their thoughts. They wait and hope that the truth will be conveyed to them, thus you, My servants, must convey it to them and thus speak where the opportunity presents itself. It will never be unnecessary, you will always be able to give and the listener will be able to win, every word you impart to them from Me will increase his knowledge and mean light for him. And if he only seeks truth he will find truth, for the word Itself will speak to him. But anyone who rejects it does so on his own responsibility.... he will not be offered the pure truth again straight away if he spurns My gift and does not listen to you. The spiritual darkness is great, and anyone of good will seeks to emerge from the darkness and follows the faintest ray of light which occasionally breaks through the darkness and touches him beneficially. And around him it will soon become light until the sun of the spirit rises brightly and he has escaped the night. You, My servants, will therefore often have to carry the light into the darkness, you will often be offered the opportunity to work for Me and My kingdom, only you must not become lukewarm and indifferent and place the world above My kingdom. Your work will only start to the full extent when people are roused from their sleep by My voice from above, by My utterance through the elements of nature, by which I will soon make Myself known to all doubters and also to the believers, so that they will increase in strength of faith. Then you will have an easier time speaking, for they will not oppose you so much, they will listen and take your words into consideration, for their souls are frightened and receptive for every word which reaches them from Me through you. Then I will need many labourers for My vineyard, I will need you to work the field and sow My seed so that I can then reap the harvest on the day of judgment.... But even before that you must be eagerly active in order to win people who will join you in the difficult time before the end and likewise be active on My behalf. For the field you have to cultivate will be large, and in order to prepare a good harvest many labourers still have to be hired, for which you should help by spreading the pure truth in My name. Even if the work often seems unsuccessful, it is not done in vain, for the coming time will ensure of its own accord that all words will come to people's remembrance and they will seriously take a stand on them. Peace still seems to be in the world, a state where people only seek to acquire earthly matter and goods and disregard spiritual goods. But soon they will realize how transient and worthless earthly goods are. And they will pay more attention to the spiritual, and because of this time you must already be restlessly active in My name, and your work will be blessed....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers