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0483 Tests.... resilience.... live or die for the lord....

June 25, 1938: Book 10

Behold, My child, the lord is testing the children of earth as to whether they will persevere and remain active according to His will despite opposition and apparent difficulties or whether they will despondently abandon their endeavour and thus fail to comply with the lord's will.... Every resistance has the advantage of stimulating a child of God to fight, and whoever fights for the lord must be tested in his power of resistance so that it can also withstand the temptations. That is why you receive so many teachings which you should first use to strengthen your faith, and indeed you must wrestle for this strong faith yourself.... For if you are inactive, even a strong faith will weaken and become weak, whereas a faith that has been hard-won will not waver so easily. An ever easy acceptance would certainly make you secure, but in the storms experienced by God's fighters you could easily damage your faith.... therefore I must stimulate it more and more and let you fight for it until nothing can make this faith waver, and then you will mature for your mission. Therefore suffer and fight and put your trust in Me.... you must always and constantly know how carefully I nevertheless look after My own, even if they also feel My closeness less.... I must keep Myself apart in order to be sought and desired, for sluggishness of spirit can destroy everything that My love has established.... But fighting keeps you awake and alert.... and so shall My fighters be.

Your task will be to always carry Me in your heart and thus, strengthened for every battle, to convey the word of God to people where it should no longer be publicly offered.... And then courage and holy fervour for this word of Mine must enter.... then the heart must be inflamed with love for the teacher of this word, it must be willing to die for the divine teacher, i.e. to give up its body, if the word of God cannot otherwise penetrate people.... And all this can only be brought about by faith.... only those who stand firm in faith give everything for their saviour.... because for them there is then only one goal.... to serve his lord as it is in His will.... to live or to die.... The earthly child must gratefully accept both from the hand of the divine father. Living for the lord is divine law, and dying for Him is blessed, for giving everything for the divine saviour makes the earthly child worthy of the promises of Christ.... and the lord Himself takes him into His kingdom. The lord places boundless trust in His servants that they will recognize His grace and strive to fulfil their task with all zeal.... However, this requires a deeply believing heart, and out of this deep love will also be born, which is the prerequisite for spiritual vision.... which in turn will make the earthly child unspeakably happy who shows himself worthy of this grace. And so first take care of rock-solid faith, then everything else will be granted to you as a result of this faith, and you will not need to fear that you will have to live in want or that the grace of your saviour will be withdrawn from you.... For those who persevere in the lord are eternally in His favour....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers