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6742 Strengthening of faith needed....

January 20, 1957: Book 72

How weak your faith still is.... You could achieve everything if only you firmly believed that nothing is impossible for Me and that I love you. And in such faith you should then hand yourselves over to Me, no longer want anything yourselves and only wait for My help with complete trust. And you will receive it.... My love is also undiminished for those who do not yet recognize Me, who form a wrong impression of Me if they want to accept Me at all. And I am still trying to win them over. The 'love of God' shall also be revealed to them as well as the 'power of God'.... They, too, shall get to know a living God so that they will stretch out their hands towards Me and I can draw them to Me. You humans do not know My plans of salvation and therefore many things are incomprehensible to you, but you should accept and recognize everything as My will and My plan and unhesitatingly submit yourselves to Me. You humans are unable to do anything on your own, even if you try to change things on your own when you find yourselves in difficult situations.... You cannot do it as long as My will is against it. But you can all the more join Me, you can always come to Me and ask Me to change your situation and you can be certain that I will then always help you as it is beneficial for your soul's salvation. But your soul is no longer at risk if you fully trust Me, if you willingly give yourselves to Me, if you let Me think and care for you.... And then you will achieve much, because then you will have reached that degree of faith you should have in order to be able to serve Me in the coming time. For then your fellow human beings who still lack faith and who shall also find Me in their adversity shall be lifted up by your strength of faith. But those who still look for their God in the distance, who have not yet experienced God's obvious working in themselves and who shall now come alive, shall also become thoughtful.... For they are still dead in spirit, their faith is also still a dead faith that lacks strength.... And with such a dead faith they will not stand firm when the end comes. I would like to come to the aid of all these, and I truly also know the right ways and means, and I also apply them.... People's spiritual state in the last days before the end often causes Me to work in unusual ways which, however, should not force them to believe but are suitable to make certain people think, and only then can I Myself mentally influence them and achieve a change of heart, and what was previously dead in spirit can awaken to life. Be satisfied with My words that I know everything and that nothing is in vain which happens.... that My will or My permission always aims at something which is a blessing for you humans. And in this realization only ever hand yourselves over to the father Whose children you want to be.... Press ever more intimately upon Him and you will truly not seek protection and help from Him in vain. For your father is love.... and love will only ever act in a way that is best for a child. But also stand firm in this faith, don't let yourselves be overthrown, no matter how doubtful My love and help may seem to you.... Your faith alone determines the strength with which it is effective. But I will not disappoint My child who trusts Me. And profound faith will also reveal Me in all glory. For what seems impossible to you now lets My love become possible.... Yet for the sake of the many dead souls I must also, in accordance with them, veil My might and power and only ever let it become effective to a degree which does not compel faith.... But I shine forth when it is time, and then I also reveal Myself to those who, however, can still close their eyes if they don't want to accept the light which is kindled for them through My grace.... For the will of man is free....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers