Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 125

For the annual commemoration of the New Revelation. Prayer

of thanksgiving of the servant Jacob Lorber

14 March 1841 Prayer of thanksgiving of the servant Jakob Lorber. March 14, 1841, Sunday, the last day of the first year of the invisible, most gracious information and revelation of our most holy, most loving Father, Whose first communication in the new living Word had taken place on Sunday, March 15, 1840, in the morning after 6 o'clock.

[1] Oh Lord! You most excellent, most holy Father! A year has already passed since that memorable hour when You remembered us all and began to communicate Your living Word to us unworthy ones.

[2] Oh Lord! Oh Father! How shall we thank You, with what tongue shall we praise You, since we are not worthy of even one, let alone so many holy words and most salutary exhortations?

[3] Oh most holy, most excellent Father! Behold, we have nothing but a still very unclean heart, which is our own. But the good in it is not ours, but Yours forever. And so the cheapest recognition that what is Yours is not ours, is the only thanks, the only praise and the only price we are able to offer You. And this good and true from You, oh holy Father, is a drop of Your love in us!

[4] Out of Your great love You have given it to us, of that we are clear in ourselves. So now, as always, in this holy love of Yours, which has come to us from You, let us offer You our most fair recognition, so that we may begin to love You more and more. For only in love can we offer You a pleasing sacrifice, and that with the holy one given by You. And so receive this thanks from us poor sinners most graciously!

[5] And since we all want to rejoice in Your holy name with all our hearts, today on this holy and memorable anniversary, as well as in all our actions and willingness to love, hear our request and come to us, so that we may not be orphans, since You, our most holy Father, have become everything to all of us, and without You we can no longer taste any joys, nor will we ever taste them again.

[6] Oh holy, best Father, hear our childlike petition and enliven us all with Your holy presence! Amen!