Believe and persevere in prayer.... It is a particularly high task which you have been given for earthly life, and a far higher maturity of soul depends on its fulfilment than a person can otherwise achieve on earth. And God will give you the strength you need if you do not forget Him and ask for His help. What is life on earth.... Just a fleeting moment in eternity. What are the sufferings and sorrows on earth compared to the bliss that awaits you if you walk in faith and live in God. But to live in God means to stand in love.... Living in God means making Him your own, putting Him first in all your thoughts and actions and doing what He asks of you.... give love to your fellow human beings.... Those who live in God will no longer take any notice of themselves, but will only ever be active for others, because God is love.... To live in God therefore means to be completely permeated by divine love. But anyone who is lovingly active is in intimate union with God.... He is in Him, just as God is in everyone who shapes himself into love by practicing works of love. You must learn to regard the fact that you are now faced with tasks which require great love and a willingness to make sacrifices as a favour, a favour which is to earn you the soul's higher development. You must never believe that the lord God brings people together indiscriminately in order to bring suffering upon them, but that He wants to mould you into a higher maturity of soul. Often the tests are so difficult that you are in danger of failing, and yet such tests must be put to you, for they will strengthen your strength. Wherever you have to overcome resistances, your soul will take the course of higher development as long as you are active yourselves in order to master those resistances. Earthly life will soon be over, in eternity you will be rewarded many times over for the sacrifices you have made for your neighbour. And you will be thanked by the soul of the person you have done good for. Yet you must do what you do in patience and love.... You must resign yourselves to all strokes of fate, you must always and constantly desire help from your spiritual friends, who will always stand by your side where you need them. You must call upon them so that they can stand by you in every adversity of soul and body. And if you only ever have God before your eyes and in your heart.... if you firmly and unshakeably believe that He is the lord, to Whom everything is subject in heaven and on earth.... if you seek to gain His love, you will also have the power, and you will become master over all adversities, you will increase in strength and vigour, and your lot on earth will now also be an easier one. For he who overcomes the trials has nothing to fear forever, for his faith and his prayer will help him in all adversities, even though it may seem as if the trials are insurmountable.... you always have a helper at your side, if you desire His help.... But He has great power and will truly also use His power if danger threatens you.... Therefore believe and persevere in prayer....

Amen

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