BD.6663
October 6, 1956

THE POWER IN THE NAME JESUS

When you utter My name with deep reverence, spiritual power accrues to you in overabundance, because you manifest your faith therewith in Me, and the reverence and love you accord the divine Saviour Jesus Christ; and this faith I can reward with provision of strength, which you all urgently need. And when you meet in My name, you are streamed with power and your soul perceives My presence, because I then dwell in your midst, since through your faith-filled thinking you permit My presence.

And you find yourselves within a development period which guarantees salvation, as soon as you confess Me in Jesus Christ. Since My crucifixion therefore, your redemption depends on whether you acknowledge this My redemption-work of the Man Jesus - on whether you believe that your God and Creator descended to earth in order to carry out the work of your redemption in the Man Jesus. Hence you are called upon to prove this your belief, and you do this when you utter My name in faith, when you recognise and express this in Jesus Christ by the calling upon My name.

The call you make to Me in Jesus Christ I shall always hear and acknowledge and it shall permit My presence. And I shall bless every meeting in My name. I want to guide your thoughts and enlighten your spirit; I want Myself to speak to you, and I can also do it then because I can be in your midst, since you believe in Me. And you should therefore assemble more often, and where tow or more meet in My name, there I shall be among them.

At any time therefore I can join in on your talks, your thoughts; I can provide everything you are in need of. I can clear you up where doubts remain, and I can advise and help you, because you all are in need of My advice and help: you still resemble feeble children who must be led by the hand to their right destination.

But you then make such guidance possible, as soon as you utter My name with a faithful heart. And for this reason men shall not be able to say; "Christ is here, Christ is there", because I am not to be searched for by locality - I am only where a believing human heart allows My presence, through works of love; and where, in small circles, My name is uttered with living faith and reverence.

And hence I can indeed by proclaimed anywhere, yet take abode only in a few hearts, when My Name is uttered with the fullest conviction by just a few: that I brought them salvation through My death on the cross. And only for these few has My name the power to penetrate their soul and truly make it live, and these obviously shall experience My blessing: they shall feel intimately united with Me and thus relate to Me as a child to its father; they shall be conscious of My presence, and their lot shall be harmony and inner peace, because where I am there is peace and bliss.

AMEN