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6868 Mission of the lord to His servants....

July 9, 1957: Book 74

Only ever regard yourselves as My messengers who are to carry the gospel out into the world, who pass on on behalf of their lord what was imparted to them themselves. Receive and share out.... For this is the service you should render Me, because you have voluntarily offered yourselves to Me to work in My vineyard. People do not come to Me themselves in order to receive My gifts from My hand, they do not seek Me Myself because they do not know the path which leads to Me. Therefore you should show them the way, but you should also convey gifts from Me to them so that they will have the desire to seek Me themselves. And if you render this service to Me I will bless you. The fact that you have voluntarily placed yourselves in My service also obliges you to obey Me, which only consists of willingly carrying out My instruction to pass on My gospel.... that you don't self-willedly carry out work which does not serve the spreading of the gospel, or that you don't become complacent.... because then you would not be good servants to Me in the last days before the end. The seed has to be scattered in the fields which have not yet been sown.... and the seed can indeed fall on infertile ground, it can fall on stony ground or in sandy desert.... but a little seed can also sprout anywhere if the necessary water of love also flows to it to ensure its flourishing.... Only the little plant which is carefully nurtured and cared for can flourish and bear fruit, and you should also give this care to the seed.... Again and again you should deliver My word to them, simultaneously imparting good 'seed' and 'living water' so that the seed can flourish. If I admonish you again and again not to neglect this work of yours, you should realize from it how important it is, how necessary I need labourers in My vineyard and how diligently you should carry out this work so that a good harvest will still be achieved in the last days.... And you, who want to serve Me, you truly no longer need to attach importance to earthly activity, for this will be taken care of for you as soon as you only prioritize the work for Me. Consider, however, that you are already blessed by the fact that I have accepted you as servants in My vineyard, that you yourselves constantly receive gifts from My hand which not every human being can show.... consider that you are unusually gifted by the fact.... that you thus also have a sure sign of My love but also a sign of My mission which the lord gives to His servants: For what you receive yourselves you should not keep for yourselves alone but pass on in unselfish neighbourly love.... And you should always prove yourselves worthy of this great gift of grace and faithfully serve Me. I only require of you that you smooth the path to those who are still distant from Me, that you announce Me Myself so that they don't keep their doors closed when I come and knock. I need you as mediators, and your mediation also requires that you are not recognizable as My messengers through unusual radiance but that you walk along just as simply as your fellow human beings, whom no compulsion of faith may determine to accept My word. This is why you should speak to people as human beings, this is why your ministry is more difficult and first requires your complete dedication and readiness for Me in order to obediently fulfil your lord's command as His servants. You should only pass on My word, and only from My word can you draw the strength for your work. You should not let yourselves be held back by those who have not yet properly recognized your mission, even though they are no longer hostile towards Me.... you should unwaveringly take the paths which are shown to you by Me, which lead to where there is still barren, uncultivated land, where you should take up the spade in order to dig up the field and sow it with a seed which I Myself provide for you. Only with this shall you work, and you will be faithful servants to Me, whom I bless now and for eternity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers