True prayer requires true humility, only then will it be pleasing to Me, for humility towards Me is also proof of love for Me, because love will never want to dominate but only ever be of help.... Anyone who therefore appeals to Me with a feeling of love in his heart will also be able to humbly approach Me and I will respond to his love and grant Him My grace.... However, anyone lacking true humility merely sends a fearful call to Me, Whom he certainly acknowledges in his heart but Whom he does not love because he has not become love himself and, because he does not love his neighbour, cannot receive love and grace from Me either. This is also often the reason why prayers remain unanswered, for I request humility of heart since it is the evidence of love for Me. Humility of heart excludes every arrogant thought, it excludes heartless actions, for love and humility go together and are not in opposition to each other. This is why a humble heart is well-pleasing to Me and which I will provide with grace and love in abundance. Profound humility, however, does not show itself in a person's external demeanour, for this is at all times abhorred by Me.... Humility towards Me only manifests itself in prayer and humility towards another person in helpful neighbourly love. External gestures, however, often feign humility while the heart does not feel it. I, however, look at the soul's motivation.... I won't let Myself be deceived by appearances, and therefore the sign of My grace will only rarely be found where an outward appearance of humility is given, where fellow human beings are intended to recognise such in gestures, in attitudes or humbly sounding words....
I only pay attention to the humility of heart and these are the people I consider, although outwardly they assert themselves and don't display any kind of subservience. But anyone who actively engages himself in helpful neighbourly love will not elevate himself, he will always remain a servant of the Lord, for he complies with My commandment, he lives up to what his Lord requested of him, he subordinates himself to My will without having been forced to do so. And if he thus prays to Me his request will likewise be that of a servant to his Lord or that of a child to its Father, to Whom it subordinates itself in love and profoundly humbly entrusts its worries to Him.... it will not demand but request, which is a sign of humility, the acknowledgement of the One Who should grant its prayer.... and its request will not remain unheard.... Pray correctly and your wishes shall always be granted.... request but don't demand.... remain deeply humble in your heart so that My grace can flow into you and know that I will never require an external gesture, that external gestures are never pleasing to Me because they easily become a cover for those who are not profoundly truthful, who want to deceive and whose hearts feel different than it seems. Therefore take no notice of them or copy them, but be of loving service to your neighbour and you will be graced by true humility of heart which will find My pleasure and which I will be able to reward with grace in abundance....
Amen
TranslatorResnična molitev zahteva resnično ponižnost, ker bo le tedaj Meni prijetna, ker je ponižnost do Mene obenem tudi dokaz Ljubezni do Mene in ker Ljubezen ne želi nikoli dominirati, temveč vedno želi samo pomagati.... Vsak, ki Me glede na to roti z občutkom Ljubezni v njegovem srcu, bo obenem tudi sposoben ponižno pristopiti k Meni, in Jaz bom reagiral na njegovo Ljubezen in mu podaril Mojo milost.... Vsak, kateremu primanjkuje resnične ponižnosti, pošilja k Meni samo boječ klic; on Ga (Boga) sicer prizna v njegovem srcu, vendar pa Ga ne ljubi, ker sam ni postal Ljubezen. In ker ne ljubi svojega bližnjega, ravno tako tudi od Mene ne more prejeti Ljubezni in milosti. To pa je tudi pogosto razlog, da molitve ostajajo neuslišane; Jaz namreč zahtevam ponižnost srca, ker je to dokaz Ljubezni do Mene. Ponižnost srca izključuje vsako prevzetno misel; ona izključuje brezdušna delovanja, ker gresta Ljubezen in ponižnost z roko v roki in ne nasprotujeta ena drugi. To je razlog, zakaj je ponižno srce Meni tako milo, katerega bom Jaz v izobilju oskrbel z milostjo in Ljubeznijo. Zelo globoka ponižnost se ne izraža v obnašanju osebe navzven, ker Mi je to odvratno.... Ponižnost do Mene se izraža samo v molitvi in v ponižnosti do druge osebe, v pomoči in Ljubezni do bližnjega. Zunanje kretnje pogosto ponarejajo ponižnost, medtem ko je srce pač ne čuti. Jaz namreč gledam na motivacijo duše.... Jaz si ne bom dovolil, da Me bodo prevarale zunanjosti, zaradi česar bo znak Moje milosti le redko najden tam, kjer je ponižnost izražena samo navzven, kjer bližnja človeška bitja to prepoznajo v kretnjah, stališčih ali pa v besedah, ki zvenijo ponižno....
Jaz usmerjam pozornost samo na ponižnost srca; in to so ljudje, katere jemljem v poštev, četudi se oni dokazujejo navzven in nikomur ne prikazujejo nikakršne vrste podložnosti. Vendar pa se vsak, ki se obda z Ljubeznivo pomočjo do bližnjega, ne bo povišal; on bo vedno ostal Gospodov služabnik, ker on izpolnjuje Mojo zapoved: on živi v skladu s tem, kar je Gospod zahteval od njega; on se podreja Moji volji, brez da je bil prisiljen na to. In če on moli k Meni na ta način, bo njegova prošnja takšna, kot je od služabnika h Gospodu oz. kot od otroka k njegovemu Očetu, Kateremu se on podreja v Ljubezni in Mu v globoki ponižnosti zaupa njegove skrbi.... on ne bo zahteval, temveč bo prosil, kar pa je znak ponižnosti oz. priznavanja Tistega, Ki bi lahko uslišal molitev.... in njegova prošnja ne bo ostala neuslišana.... Molite pravilno in vašim prošnjam bo vedno odobreno.... prosite, toda ne zahtevajte.... ostanite globoko ponižni v vašem srcu, da tako lahko Moja milost teče k vam in vedite to, da Jaz ne bom nikoli zahteval zunanjih kretenj, da Mi zunanje kretnje niso nikoli všeč; one namreč kaj hitro lahko postanejo maska za tiste, ki niso globoko resnični, ki želijo prevarati in katerih srca čutijo drugače, kot pa se to zdi. Zato jih ne opazujte in jih ravno tako ne oponašajte, temveč bodite služabniki Ljubezni vašim bližnjim, da boste tako okrašeni z resnično ponižnostjo srca, katera bo naletela na Moje zadovoljstvo in katero bom Jaz lahko v izobilju nagradil z milostjo!
AMEN
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