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6201 Decision of faith.... confessing before the world....

February 28, 1955: Book 67

There will be no way out for you, you will have to decide for Me or against Me.... And you will have to do it before the world, for the decision will be demanded of you. Therefore, don't believe that you can deceive the world or Me, don't believe that it is enough for Me if your will is good but it bows to My adversary.... that you pretend to reject Me outwardly because you fear worldly power, even though inwardly you don't want to deny Me.... I demand an open decision from you, I demand a confession of My name before the world. And I know why I demand this of you.... because I require faith from you which is alive and which places Me higher than everything in the world. And because through such faith it is also possible for weak people to strengthen themselves so that they can withstand the oppressions of earthly power, but who would helplessly fail if they lacked faith in their fellow human beings whom they had considered to be believers.... And therefore I spoke the words on earth: "Whoever confesses Me before the world, I will also confess him before the father...." i.e. I, as the father Myself, will draw him to Me and give him strength to resist.... I Myself will hold him so that he will not fall, in order to be able to fetch him on the last day when he will receive the reward from the father for his confession, when I Myself will rescue My children from greatest adversity.... It is of no use if you humans only confess Me with your mouth, but it is also of no use if you only confess Me inwardly and deny Me before the world or are afraid to bear public witness to Me and My name.... The final decision of faith demands a strong will and much courage.... But living faith musters this will and this courage because it is the result of a life of love and love gives it strength in abundance. Therefore I only demand love from you humans again.... For this gives birth to a deep, living faith and gives you the strength to confess Me before the world. The end time will still give you many opportunities to practice love. More and more your hearts will be addressed by your fellow human beings' adversity, more and more you will see spiritual and earthly hardship around you, and anyone who is not completely hardened of heart will kindle the flame of love within himself and happily realize that his faith will become ever deeper, his desire for Me will grow and he will also be aware of My presence.... Everything will gain life which was previously still dead knowledge to him, which he certainly did not consciously reject but which was also no conviction to him.... He will now look at and understand everything with the eyes of love, and his faith will also gain that strength which is required in the last battle of faith on this earth.... He will gladly and joyfully confess Me and My name before the world because he has experienced Me Myself through his life of love and I Myself can work in him.... And he will never ever give up this faith.... He will bear witness to Me and My kingdom and also be accepted by Me into My kingdom when the end of this earth has come....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers