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8665 Confession in the struggle of faith....

November 6, 1963: Book 91

You all continue to experience My great love and grace when you allow yourselves to be addressed by Me.... You, who receive My word directly, and also all of you, who accept this My word from My messengers, who recognize it as the voice of your father from eternity, you can never ever get lost, as soon as your heart receives My words and you seek to obey My will, which you recognize through My word. You all do not know in which flow of favour you stand, that My opponent cannot dare to approach you as long as you stand in contact with Me, as long as you read My word and stand under its effect. And that is why you all can praise yourselves happily, who are directly or indirectly addressed by Me, because so long you are also intimately connected with Me, and that always means influx of spiritual power, which your body certainly feels less, but the soul all the more and it will mature in earth life. A process, to which I have already pointed out during My earth walk, now takes place, and many men do not want to believe that it is possible to stand in direct communication with Me, so that My voice is audible.... And so long these people are also still outside of My divine flow of grace, although they believe to be able to create advantages for their souls through a so-called divine service.... But only conscious contact with Me will ever earn the soul this advantage, and then the human being will also hear My word.... even in the places where it is usually offered.... But that conscious intimate contact ensures man that he also hears My address in the sermons, which are held in the usual way. Because I will direct his thoughts so that only truth touches him and he remains completely untouched by erroneous spiritual material. But My word directly conducted to earth is a gift of favour of inestimable value.... And still it is only accepted and recognized by few men as voice of the father. But I know about the hearts of men; I know about their maturity of soul, about their willingness to hear My word, and that is why I can also send My pure word to all those to grant them the help in the last time before the end, which they need to stand firm in the last faith struggle. Because then it will prove how deeply the man stands in truth, because this alone will give him the power to hold out.... And there will not be many, because only truth carries the power in itself, which man needs to stand firm when his confession is demanded.... He who stands in error gives up everything, for his faith in Me is a dead faith that never confesses Me in Jesus and My work of redemption.... And when you now know that an abundance of favour is sent to you through My word from above, then you can praise yourselves happily to be allowed to take part in an act of love and mercy, which gives you knowledge, which conveys purest truth to you and which makes you able to assert yourselves in the coming difficult time, because you are constantly supplied with power by Me, as soon as you listen to My word and sink into it. Then you truly draw from the source of all power; I Myself flood through you.... And whether you lose or have to do without earthly goods, you are nevertheless much richer than your fellow human beings, for you possess imperishable goods.... Your intimate bond with Me earns you spiritual possessions which no-one can take away from you, and no matter how hard earthly powers press you, they will not be able to push Me away from you, and where I am the adversary has lost his power. Grasp the fact that you are in contact with Me Myself.... understand that this process certainly appears unusual because the majority of people do not know that such is possible.... but that all of you, who hear My word directly or indirectly, can no longer deny this process and that a bright light has been kindled for you, in the glow of which you will find the path to Me and no longer need to fear a wrong path. You can gain insight into spiritual secrets, into My plan of salvation from eternity, and the understanding has been opened to you for much, which before caused you to ask questions. You can attain a living faith because you were always taught love through My word and because love only made you worthy to hear My word, because love only opened up the understanding for you.... For I can only address those people who shape themselves through love such that My love can also become effective in them.... My word will only ever touch hearts when they are opened to My illumination of love through a life of love, but then the human being will be in the midst of a grace-filled experience, and he will safely reach his aim on earth: unification with Me, Who am love Myself from eternity...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers