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1577 God's blessing for work....

August 21, 1940: Book 25

Good and bad spiritual support....

The success of any work is always dependent on God's blessing, and God shall bless the work so it is started and completed with faith and trust in Him. It is by no means to be assumed that human intelligence guarantees the success of a work, but rather that intelligence itself is the work of otherworldly spiritual forces, namely good forces if the work was preceded by a faithful thought in God, or also bad forces if the person feels capable of mastering a difficult work alone in arrogance.

Good spiritual forces are also often at work without the human being consciously requesting God's blessing, namely when the human being is not yet cognisant but otherwise thinks correctly and is of a good disposition. Even then he receives the strength from above to direct his thoughts upwards and to make him aware of God's blessing so that he consciously strives for union with God, and no longer starts any work without praying for God's blessing. Conversely, evil spiritual forces take possession of the human being because his thinking corresponds more to these forces, and the effects of these are accepted without resistance. And the result of such bad influences will be that the human being will always become more arrogant and aware of his worth, that he will believe that he can manage everything by his own strength and never think of asking for God's blessing for a work. And thus only those spiritual forces are active in every work which correspond to the human being's thinking.... The success of a work will always depend on his innermost attitude towards God, for even if a work which has been accomplished without God's blessing appears to bring earthly success, it will only ever bring earthly success, but through such work the human being will fall prey to evil powers, that is, they will increasingly capture his thoughts and attitude. They provide him with many earthly advantages, but pull his soul down and thus increase his distance from God. Nothing should be started without God, if the earthly work should bring success to the soul. Then it will also be blessed in earthly regard, and the human being will be able to fulfil difficult tasks with ease, because the good spiritual forces will take care of this work and ensure its success....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke