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8293 Feeding the soul....

October 6, 1962: Book 87

Whatever food and drink is offered to you for your souls will certainly not remain without effect; your soul will recover when it is ill, it will be strengthened when it is weak, and it will mature and reach perfection while still on earth. For truly My word is a bread from the heavens, it is a true wine that will strengthen you.... It is My word, My flesh and My blood, which I Myself offer to you, just as I offered it to My disciples on earth when I took supper with them.... For this supper was the symbol of what I commissioned My disciples to do: to pass on My word, which they had received from Me, to all hungering and thirsting souls.... Just as I satisfied them earthly, they were also to pass on spiritual food.... And they also understood Me, although the final knowledge was only given to them through the outpouring of the spirit on My disciples.... And thus you humans will only understand My working and acting and also the act of the lord's supper when My spirit can be poured out upon you, for before you only pay attention to the sense of the letter and you don't understand what I wanted to express through these words.... But you also have to awaken the spirit within you to life, for before you are still dead in spirit, and then you will not obey My will either, you will not listen to My word such that it will truly be food and drink for your soul.... For the word shall enter your heart, only then will I Myself be in you, and then you will eat My flesh in truth and drink My blood.... You draw the strength from My word which you need in order to mature while still on earth. And thus you will also recognize the urgency of your vineyard work, after all, it is a matter of conveying My word to people so that they establish the bond with Me themselves and My word can now also work in them. No human being's physical life would be able to exist if the body did not constantly receive nourishment, and the same applies to the soul which, although it cannot perish, is in a wretched state if it is not supplied with nourishment.... And yet, few people think of satisfying the soul's needs, although I have said: „Eat My flesh and drink My blood...." I Myself am the word made flesh and I offer Myself to you, thus I also urge you to listen to My word and to obey it, for only when you are not only hearers but doers of My word will you experience the blessing of it.... Again and again I say to you: "Receive and eat, this is My flesh; receive and drink, this is My blood...." and again and again I speak to you and only ask that you listen to Me, that you thus partake of the supper which I Myself have prepared for My guests who accept My invitation.... And if you have the will to be addressed by Me then you can also accept My word everywhere, for your will now also determines the spiritual knowledge which flows into your heart, because then I Myself will address everyone and he will only accept what he receives as My word.... Understand that the human being's own desire protects him from accepting misguided spiritual knowledge if you are offered it by preachers who are still unawakened and only preach according to form.... For I Myself will bless the listener and give him bright knowledge as soon as he desires the right nourishment for his soul. But if I Myself can address people then they will eat My flesh and drink My blood in truth, for then the word will sound to them from above through a servant chosen by Me who lets Me Myself speak through him, who receives purest truth from Me and can now also pass it on.... I invite everyone to take part in the supper which I Myself prepare for you, because I know what your souls need in order to mature and because I know every person's state of maturity. And if he now wants to receive the right bread of heaven, the water of life, from My hands, then it will also be given to him without restriction, and his soul will reach the goal and attain perfection....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers