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6422 Readiness for redeemer work....

December 11, 1955: Book 68

You already declare to Me your willingness to work for redemption by the fact that you take care of the souls which pass away in wretchedness, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, for your will to help will start at the same time if you remember them with merciful love or commend them to Me.... Then I will also know that you are willing to help redeem these souls. An infinitely large amount of redemptive work would be done if people knew about the overwhelming hardship of all these souls which are still in the hands of their tormentor.... But this state of torment cannot obviously be shown to them because then they would be seized by horror and also become incapable of their own soul's work. Yet the mere thought that these souls are in distress should cause or stimulate people to help them, and this willingness to help would already have a beneficial effect. For these souls feel it when they are thought of with love.... You cannot imagine the effect of your thoughts, both in a good and in a bad direction.... And therefore your thoughts should always be filled with love, because then they will always exert a good influence on all people with whom you think.... And if your thoughts are predominantly of a spiritual nature they will also have a spiritual effect, and you can do nothing better than to always think of the souls' adversity and want to remedy it.... Every soul which is drawn into your circle of thoughts feels good thoughts as strengthening and as an occasion for a change of will. You cannot yet ascertain the effect on the souls in the beyond on earth, although you can certainly believe it..... But you will be able to observe the effect on earthly people if you include them in your prayers because of their spiritual hardship, if you want to help them with love, if your will does not slacken to struggle for their souls.... if you do not exclude them from your thoughts but provide them with assistance until they have risen up and are now strong enough themselves to cover the path upwards.... Your thoughts are forces.... and if they are determined by love then they are also a weapon with which you can defeat the enemy of the souls and save the souls to whom your love applies.... He can only be defeated through love, for he cannot resist it. He flees and refrains from his sacrifice.... And now you will also understand how you can carry out redemptive work which can extend to people on earth as well as to the souls in the kingdom of the beyond.... Include them in your loving intercession, remember them with a merciful will to help, speak to them in your thoughts and let them feel the strength of your love.... Take care of all souls you know to be in need and approach Me with this love for these souls.... And I am gladly willing to give those souls the strength which your love wants to impart to them. Then you can always be co-workers with Me in a redeeming sense, then you will receive ever more strength yourselves, and then I can also have an extraordinary effect on the souls for which you appeal to Me for help. No prayer of yours is unsuccessful, and often only a small impulse is missing for the souls to find Me, and it can be triggered by your loving intercession.... Know that you can all help Me and that you are all welcome co-workers for Me if only you are willing to help with a loving heart, for there is great need, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers