BD.5161
June 30, 1951

THE POWER OF INTERCESSION

You should intercede for the soul of your loved ones, who are departed from you, no matter what grade of maturity you think they are in, because they all are in need of strength and are thankful for all the help they are given. It is such a happy feeling to have helped souls upwards, which you will fully realize when you yourself enter the spiritual realm and see the suffering of many souls, because they are not remembered in prayer and have no one on Earth who thinks of them in Love, which would give them strength to strive upwards.

As soon as they experience the power of Love these souls work with exceeding fervor using this power. But the first push has to be given them by the loving intercession of people, because that is what will touch them first, so they may change their thinking. This intercession should be made consciously, which will help the souls in their development.
You should know that your intercessions are helpful. You should make yourself familiar with the need of the departed soul. Pray for those souls with a loving heart. Pray for strength. This strength and Love will be felt as a blessing. They will be thankful and feel an urge to love other souls and to be a blessing to them. If you have the desire you can be very busy lessening their need and misery. This desire causes you to send up heart-felt prayers, which has redeeming power. Do everything from the heart, not just with the lips because that would have no effect. Only Love has redeeming power, this has to be said again and again.

With Love you can reach inconceivably much. You can bring Light in the darkness with your intercessory prayers, because many souls will be gathered together and will be touched by this ray of Light, with the result that Love will be awakened in them and they will get the desire to become active.

Loving intercession is a great power the effect of which can never fail. Show all your love in your intercessions. Lift them up in your thoughts and tell them that you will help them, that they should listen in trust and accept your help without rebellion. Instruct them through your thoughts that for them as well ascent is possible, if they use the power they receive through your intercession. Direct them at all times to JESUS CHRIST. Only One can redeem them and this One can only be won with Love.

Therefore tell them that they must help other souls, who are also in great need, with the power they received, that they also through deeds of Love may themselves come nearer to JESUS CHRIST. He then will draw them all to HIMSELF and lead them into realms of Light. If you help a soul to accept the strength it is given in the right way then their progress is assured. Then the weakness of will and powerless- ness will disappear and with fervor it will strive upwards, drawing innumerable souls with it, because it shares its knowledge with others. A single intercession brings unsuspected blessing.

You on Earth do not underestimate the power of intercession, but remember always that it has to be uttered with a loving heart to be effective. Put all your Love into it because they are all in need of strength and will thank you forever if you increase their strength when you think of them in Love.

AMEN