Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 325

Blessed commemoration of the fourth year of the New

Revelation 14th March 1844

[1] Just write, I know what you want! Do you think then that one must also come to Me in petition if one wants to receive something? Oh no! Behold, only to the heart belongs the true petition! Whoever comes to Me with it will be heard without paper, ink, and petitioned supplements! Therefore, you do not need to put a written request here and to give all kinds of exclaimations, because I hold Myself only to your heart. And so write:

[2] I know that another earthly year has now passed since your calling to work in My vineyard! The anniversary alone counts for nothing with Me. For every day on which I revealed Myself to you is an equally important day of My grace to you and to My other friends. And that is why the first day is not more special than any other!

[3] But I say to you: Everyone does best when he makes his bad days annual memorial days, reconsiders his unfaithfulness to Me on such a day, turns back to Me and detests and repents of such days with their bad works, out of love for Me!

[4] He who does such things holds a true annual celebration that is pleasing to Me, and especially then, when he makes such anniversaries special days of love!

[5] Blessed is he who daily remembers My good deeds with gratitude and is otherwise without fault and sin! But 99 times good to him who repents of his erring days and improves himself! Verily, I will meet him and will receive him and will prepare for him a great banquet of joy. And there shall be more joy over one than over 99 righteous men!

[6] Such a father would have a son who would have offended him severely one day, but the son remembered the anniversary and spoke to himself: "Oh, thou fateful day! In you I have done great harm to my father; but just today I will go to him, will throw myself down before him, who has long since forgave my wrongdoing, but will still throw me down, and will say:

[7] Good, dear father! Behold, today is yet another sad day of memory for me, your most unworthy son! On this day I have committed such a great offence as to forget that you have always been my very good father! Therefore, on this very day, in the fullest contriteness of my heart, I come to you and ask you that you will never want to commemorate this vile day and that you only want to make me worthy of the least of your mercies! For the evil day shall remain for me alone an ever sad and humiliating day of remembering!’

[8] What will the good father do with such a son? I say he will speak to him:

[9] "My son, it is true, on this day you have saddened my heart. But now that you remembered this day like no-one else, and came to me and confessed your error, you have made this day such a day of joy for me as there is no other! Come, then, and let us rejoice beyond measure on this day when I have found you, my most beloved son, so perfectly restored!

[10] What do you all think, is such a festive day not worth more than a thousand others? Yes indeed, therefore it is also the same with Me! Whoever of you will come to Me in this way, I will receive him just as the Father receives his Son in this parable!

[11] So you too often celebrate such a remembrance, and I will like it better than ten thousand Sabbaths! May this be a good gift to you all on this day of My grace to you! Do so, and you will truly come to life for ever and ever! This I, the Lord, speak, your eternal protection and refuge! Amen.