BD.8816
June 21, 1964

THE POWER OF FAITH IN THE LAST FIGHT

I can only tell you that solely through a life of love you gain a strong, unshakable faith, for love unites you with Me. - Then you will also be convinced of My power which will be at your disposal whenever you want to use it. Therefore, I keep calling upon you to perfect yourselves to love, so that you may adapt yourselves to Me. Then all powers will return to you, which now are buried within you to break through once more, depending on the degree of love that you develop.

But when you now are making use of My power, convinced to be able to overcome everything with this, My power, then your soul has already a high degree of maturity.

And then it will become evident what you can achieve, for I do not deny you My power - since I want to give you everything to help you towards perfection, - for I am very sorry for you in your state of weakness.

However, I cannot work on you contrary to My eternal order, as My working is subject to a living faith in your part which can only be awakened through love. You have to have this faith to be able to resist the onsets in the last fight, for only then it will become evident whether you stand up for Me or apostatize, when the pressure is on. But I shall see to it that My own rely on Me, that their strength of faith keeps growing, that they can draw strength from Me, whom I am so close that they will sense Me and no longer do anything without My direction.

Then also the strength of faith will become evident; they shall receive whatever they need, be it earthly food, which will be denied them by the enemy, be it My Word that will supply them with abundant strength. Then their faith will be strong enough to profess Me before the world, and thus to stand firm in the last religious conflict, so that they will belong to the ones that are removed, who believe every- thing to be possible that proves Me. Therefore, they are not astounded at the process of removal, for their faith accepts everything that is outside the laws of nature, that is miraculous - thus also the new earth with all its creations that did not exist on the old earth, which are incomparable in their magnificence and splendor. Therefore, I set great expectations on all, that want to be My own; they still have to strengthen their faith and I want to help them with My Ward to achieve this, that they are better able to resist - for there has never before been such a struggle on earth as the one that will now be taking place, and it will require great strength to remain steadfast in it. But I want to help you by PERSONALLY speaking to you and revealing My endless love which wants to be requited, so that it can provide you with the strength to remain steadfast.

And the reward I promise you will be a life in the paradise of the new earth ... a life in association with Men, who can always be where there is love, and only love can be the foundation for a living faith. Therefore, the first and last commandment will always be: Love God above everything and your fellow-man as yourself... Then you are fulfilling your task on earth and can once enter the realm of light and beatitude ...and see God.

AMEN