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7173 Fortification of the faith....

July 24, 1958: Book 76

I will grant you everything if you ask Me for it in deep faith.... And so that your faith becomes deep and alive I often let such hardship come upon you that you only see the last resort to come to Me and ask Me for help.... And then I am also willing to help you because your plea rises from your heart and touches My ear and because I now also want to give you proof of My great love for you, which you always and forever possess and which will also never diminish even if it seems to you as if I have abandoned you.... Every person still has doubts of faith in his heart, for he still stands in the earthly world, and the distance from the spiritual keeps emerging.... especially when he is in distress. And yet, then I am closer to him than ever, I hold My hands protectively over him so that the world does not gain the upper hand, and I guide him through trials with a loving hand.... For I want to bring his faith to maturity, which threatens to flatten very easily if it is not tested again and again. And you don't know how necessary a strong faith is in the forthcoming time, yet you will endure this time much more easily with a strong faith which gives you the firm assurance that I am always with you and that nothing can happen to you in My presence.... Yet you are not yet aware of My presence, you are still on another level, you still keep yourselves separate from Me despite your volitional belonging to Me.... You are not yet firmly united with Me, and you absolutely have to establish this bond if you want to emerge victorious from all inner and outer battles.... And I know the means to cause you to establish such an inner bond with Me, I know how I achieve that you attain a profound, unshakeable faith, and therefore I also know what is a blessing for you.... You can achieve much with Me in full faith in My help, you can achieve everything with Me, for you, who belong to Me through your will, will only ever request that which serves you, which is also My will.... you will not address any unseemly requests to Me, for your heart will tell you and you will also follow the voice of your heart. For through this I Myself address you.... And once you have gained a strong faith then you can consider yourselves blessed, for then you will also live in the awareness of My constant presence, and then little or nothing can worry you anymore, for you know that I stand by your side and that you need fear nothing with Me. And I want to achieve this faith, for it is necessary in the forthcoming time, because I still want to influence your fellow human beings through all of you, because I need all of you, but only in profound faith can you render Me complete service.

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers