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5979 Request for the divine spirit....

June 17, 1954: Book 65

You stand in the strength of the spirit as soon as you desire Me and My spirit, for this desire secures the influx of My strength for you, because every spiritual request is fulfilled, because this is the confession of your own weakness and humble submission to your God and father of eternity. Once you rejected this strength and thereby fell into darkness.... you lost all knowledge, you could no longer distinguish truth from error, you turned away from Me and became devoid of strength and light.... you voluntarily separated yourselves from Me, you did not acknowledge Me as the source of strength and therefore also lost all strength. Your request for the strength of the spirit, for enlightenment, for knowledge completely overrides your previous will of resistance.... you have decided to return, you turn your eyes towards Me again, you long for the bond with Me which you once voluntarily destroyed.... So you ask for what you once spurned.... And this request will always be granted to you.... it is, after all, My constant plan of salvation to put you back into a state where you can work in My will, permeated by light and strength.... Thus no human being will ask in vain if he is serious about recognizing what is right and appeals to Me Myself to grant him My spirit. This earnest desire will not remain unfulfilled.... but it must be serious.... it must arise from the heart, it must not merely be voiced with the mouth as an empty form of prayer which does not reach My ears, because I am a true spirit Who wants to be called upon in spirit and in truth. The earnest request to be permeated by the strength of My spirit presupposes a profound desire for truth, and the human being recognizes that he can only find this truth with Me and with My help.... And therefore it simultaneously signifies recognition.... faith in a supremely perfect being. Only a profoundly devout person can make an earnest appeal for the divine spirit, a person who does not deny the existence of a deity or he would not call upon it. And I don't disappoint this faith either, and I reveal Myself to him by him receiving evidence of the granting of his request.... I reveal Myself to him and he becomes aware of My presence. And now he no longer departs from Me eternally, the power of My spirit has worked on him, the return has been accomplished, the former defence, the sin of apostasy from Me, has been voluntarily discarded, it was recognized and found forgiveness.... for desiring and receiving the strength of the spirit also means recognition and redemption through Jesus Christ at the same time, Who only created the possibility through His sacrifice on the cross that the divine spirit could fill a person.... that the human being could direct his will upwards in the first place.... that his desire is therefore turned towards God and the truth. And anyone who earnestly desires the truth cannot reject Jesus Christ either; through Jesus' blood he has, as it were, already become free from My adversary's bondage, he fled from darkness and seeks the light, which he will now certainly find through the power of the spirit.... through My working in and on him....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers