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8512 Declaration of sufferings and afflictions of the last days....

May 28, 1963: Book 89

I give you to consider that you can use every day for your perfection, which is still granted to you.... And even if you are still so far away from Me, you can bridge the wide gulf yourselves as soon as you pray to Me intimately.... Then you have voluntarily walked the path to Me, and I truly come to meet you and draw you to Me.... And even if the time is only still short when you stay on earth, as long as you possess free will, you can turn it towards Me, and from that time on you also give Me the right to take you by the hand and to lead you. Only this free will must become active from you, which you give to Me when you pray to Me as your God and creator, whom you acknowledge as powerful, and appeal to his love that it helps you. I only demand an intimate prayer to me, and truly, you are rescued for time and eternity. Because through this prayer you again acknowledge Me as your father, from whom you once went out, and through this prayer you also again seek the union with Me, and then also My power can again radiate into you, and every relapse to the deep is now impossible, because I now also assert My right towards My opponent, because you are also My share, which I no longer give away, when it has once decided for me. And you still possess the I-consciousness; you still walk over earth as man. And you only still need to make good use of the short time to complete yourselves, because you can now also be sure of My support for it, because I still wrestle until the end for every soul, that I win it for me. Only I cannot take possession of you as long as you yourselves still turn towards My opponent and he therefore also has the right over you, which I do not dispute with him. However, I cannot impress you humans very much with spiritual warnings and admonitions; earthly worries and hardships must weigh you down, then there is more of a chance that you will remember Me and take the path to Me with the request to help you.... And that is why I cannot turn away hardship and worries from you men because they are the last means to cause you to change your thinking.... For this reason suffering will also be rampant in the last days, every person will be affected by it himself or will have to experience it in his fellow human beings, for love is to be kindled in people's hearts, and every earthly adversity can be the cause for hearts to soften and willingly help their fellow human beings.... And where just one spark of love glows I will help and provide people with the strength to continue to be active in love.... And then they already establish a quiet bond with me, which they deepen according to their degree of love. Until the end opportunities will present themselves to the human being where he can help unselfishly.... whether he takes advantage of them is decided by his will, which is free.... but precisely for this will he is responsible, for his will is influenced by My side as well as by the adversary's, and he must now decide. But he can think, and mentally My light beings will assist him, but always have an effect on him without compulsion, as also My opponent cannot direct them compulsorily. But My love does not let him fall; My love pursues the soul until the death of the body, and it is touched by Me so often that it can truly decide for Me.... And as soon as it only carries out works of love, I have won it, because now it approaches Me and again and again receives power for love work. And love joins us together.... this soul can no longer get lost.... But without hardship and suffering I will no longer achieve anything on this earth, and that is to be an explanation to all of you why the end-times often seem to be unbearable.... What My love no longer brings about can only still happen through trouble and suffering that I Myself am called upon in suffering and am asked for help. And this call will be assessed by Me as recognition of Myself, and man will also be considered accordingly; I will announce Myself so obviously that man now first learns to recognize Me and he also shows love towards Me..... And I will still accept him in the last hour.... He will remain protected from the lot of the new banishment, and even if his degree of maturity is still so low he will still be able to increase it in the kingdom on the other side because the danger of a fall into the abyss now no longer exists.... Because who once has recognized Me, he no longer gives Me up for ever....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers