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8657 Paternal address....

October 28, 1963: Book 91

You are to experience My love and favour again and again and feel justified as My children, whom the father surrounds with His love and guides them safely through earth life. You are to go all ways in the awareness that I walk next to you, that you always just need to reach for My hand when the way seems to be difficult for you and you have to fight with obstacles. In Me you will always find the right support, no matter how steeply the path ascends. And you will also not need to walk in darkness, for I Myself radiate the light which brightly illuminates your path.... How gladly I lead My children by the hand and smooth all paths for them, how gladly I speak to them to make them happy, how gladly I let them feel My fatherly love and again and again prove My presence to them.... I only want that they return My love, but then I also hand out My gifts of favour without limitation. For truly, all My love belongs to you, who again and again unite with Me in thought. Because I know it whose longing is meant for Me, and fulfilment will also come to him. But as long as you still stay on earth your earthly body still keeps you imprisoned, and your soul cannot free itself completely; it is still held by matter which encloses it, which itself is not yet completely spiritualized, and therefore also your thoughts will still be subject to earthly restrictions; you will simply not be able to grasp intellectually the pure spiritual processes in which the soul has moved and also still moves. Much will seem incredible to you because the intellect is unable to penetrate spiritual processes which you will nevertheless one day brightly survey when you have discarded the material body. You can perhaps suspect them, but not grasp them in their entire depth. But if you could do this, then you would be unspeakably happy already on earth, because you then recognize My endless father love and this would make you happy in excess. But this you may believe that you, who serve Me as loyal co-workers on earth, will soon be able to move again in blissful realms.... you may believe it that you will soon forget again all toils of life and dwell in light heights where My nearness makes you unspeakably happy. I have sent My messengers of light to earth for the sake of a great mission, and you voluntarily take this walk on earth upon yourselves to help Me in the work of redemption for men, who go through earth life in great spiritual trouble. And you can be certain that I will support you in every way so that you will successfully complete your missionary work. But also you yourselves can increase your degree of light through this earth walk, and you can come so close to Me that you feel My constant presence and your soul now moves more into spiritual spheres than on earth. And then also your spiritual activity, the work in My vineyard, will be a blessed one because I can flood you with My power, which now directly flows over to you through your complete devotion to Me. And so it will then also happen that you do a work of redemption, which is so extensive as you do not think it possible, because it does not only extend to this earth, but far into the kingdom on the other side, and you will once experience deep thanks from all those souls, which through your activity for Me and My kingdom have come to light and become free from the fetters of the opponent. But as long as you yourselves still stay on earth, this great blessing remains hidden to you; you work as man in the midst of men; you can well believe it, what unusual mission was given to you, but all spiritual connections with it you do not know, but you can suspect them, for I let your soul take a small glimpse into My eternal plan of salvation, and flashes of light will also shine within yourselves which momentarily illuminate the darkness, and then no restrictions will be imposed on your thoughts which will one day also find their confirmation, because I also guide your thoughts correctly since you belong to Me. For a short time only you still dwell on earth, to then return again to your true home, to again move into the kingdom of light, from which you went out to serve Me, and you will only love Me, your father from eternity, more and more intimately; you will devote yourselves to Me, and My love will seize you; you will again be united with Me, as you were in the beginning...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers