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8708 What is grace?.... God's word unusual gift of grace....

December 26, 1963: Book 91

Let yourselves be satisfied with My grace.... Because as soon as you evaluate these, you reach your aim on earth, to perfect yourselves to My children, who are to enter the inheritance of the father. You are of yourselves nothing but only weak men, who lack all strength and all light.... But you are so constituted out of your own fault. And everything what I now do for you to turn power and light towards you again is favour; it is a gift, which you did not deserve, because you once voluntarily had rejected My love. Yet I did not and do not let you fall, for I love you.... And so I continue to bestow favours upon you, and if you accept these, you will lack nothing; you will increase in light and power; you will again become what you were in the beginning: highly perfect beings, which stood in radiant light and were powerful. That is why I say: "Let yourselves be satisfied with My grace, then you are truly to be called rich, then you can no longer sink back into darkness, then you will come to the knowledge through graces, what you were, what you are and what you are to become again...." You will know your God and creator as your father, Whose love is unlimited, which He wants to bestow on you.... Graces are gifts that love offers you.... Only he who is full of love hands out gifts of favour, because love considers those men or beings who have forfeited the right through their own fault to be given gifts by the father, but He gives them nevertheless, because love does not stop to want to make happy, and although the gifts are not requested or asked for, love is always willing to give itself away, and these are favours, which never remain without effect, if they are just willingly accepted and evaluated. Let yourselves be satisfied with My favour because then you truly need nothing else; My gifts of favour include everything in themselves what makes you happy and helps to the last perfection. And I truly do not hand out meagrely; I shower you with favours, and the more you open yourselves to receive them, the more abundantly they flow to you. And no man can get lost who moves in the area of My sun of favour, who uninterruptedly receives the flow of love from Me, which contributes to his perfection still on earth.... The human being can still be so weak.... if only he opens himself to My gifts of grace, then he will be filled with strength and need not fear any state of weakness. And such a flow of grace.... an undeserved gift which helps people to gain strength and light.... is My divine word which is constantly conveyed to earth, which pours into people's hearts like an inexhaustible flow of grace, which safely strengthens all souls on earth or in the beyond in their still weakened state, which also lets a bright light shine into all hearts.... which penetrates with its strength and enables every soul to perfect itself.... With My word I penetrate the darkness and kindle a light wherever hearts long for light, for My word is truly a gift of grace, a gift which I bring to unfortunate people who are still too weak to consciously request it but who are to reach the point where they consciously make contact with Me and now ask for an influx of grace which they will truly receive without limit.... My word is an unusual gift of favour, and who strives for it, he will truly also soon have reached his aim, because My word will show every man the way, which leads to perfection; My word will impart power and light at the same time to men, and all darkness and weakness will fall away, the human being will enter the circuit of divine light of love, and full of strength he will be able to accomplish everything that is required of him, he will gladly and joyfully fulfil My will and thus also recognize the meaning and purpose of earthly life and now lead the earthly life in accordance with My will.... Then he will have made use of the blessings, then My word will have helped him to take the path of return to Me, that his earthly life will not have been in vain, that he will have changed his nature back into his original nature again, where it stood in the light and was able to dispose of immense strength.... Only My favour can help men to this aim, because My love must give you that what you lack, so that you find out of your state of weakness and become again what you had been in the beginning.... exceedingly perfect beings who were blissfully happy in immeasurable abundance of light and strength and in freedom because their love united them inseparably with Me, Who is love Itself from eternity...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers