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5749 Winning people for God.... God is love....

August 17, 1953: Book 62

What use is it that I speak urgently to people if they close their ears and don't listen to My voice, what use is it that I announce the end to them and warn and admonish them if they don't believe what they are told, what is conveyed to them from above through My servants and prophets. Nevertheless, I do not cease to address every individual person, and if it does not happen through My word I touch people's hearts in another way, for everything that fatefully takes hold of them is a touch from Me which happens so that he finds the path to Me and learns to believe. Everything that testifies to Me will be rejected by the person whose will still resists Me, but as soon as he is willing everything also proves Me Myself to him, he no longer doubts, he believes in Me because the abandonment of his resistance already brings him light, for I accept him who no longer resists Me and help him to find his way to Me. And My word can also be brought to a willing person, he will gladly and joyfully accept it, he will believe that it is offered to him by Me Myself, and he will also believe that the end is near, he will believe the seers and prophets because he will now also think correctly. And thus you, My servants on earth, can only be successful with your fellow human beings if you try to induce them to give up their resistance against Me.... if you speak more of My love than of the judgment, which will certainly come irrevocably but only because the order of eternity has to be restored, which can only be where My will is observed and followed without resistance. People must first experience that they themselves have stepped out of order due to their rebelliousness and unkindness and that they have created a state of tribulation and hardship for themselves. They must know that I do not want to punish but educate people into beings which completely move within My eternal order.... that I only send judgment upon earth because My will is completely disregarded and because a chaotic state has to come over people who live against My will. Where people are found who recognize people's spiritual low and want to help people find their way back to Me, they have the opportunity to influence people, albeit not always with the same success. Admonitions and warnings do not always bear fruit, and therefore the end and the judgment shall also be mentioned, but far more My word shall be proclaimed, which can enliven hearts through its strength and as a truly divine means can still have an effect on people who are not yet completely hardened. But those who are hardened of will also remain unimpressed by all references to the end.... And even if they were directly addressed by Me.... they would still not believe that it is I Myself Who has addressed them.... For they do not give up their resistance against Me.... and thus My strength of love can no longer take effect either, because the will is still fundamentally directed against Me....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers