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Book 77 · BD 7246–7281

Book 77 · BD 7246–7281

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Habitual customs and words ….

B.D. 7246 from January 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Neither words nor outer forms are sufficient for a change of being if the heart does not give life to the words or is not involved in your actions. You humans have been given many rules and regulations, and you only ever try to comply with these rules and requirements, regardless of whether you are wholeheartedly involved or whether they are really only empty forms which you fulfil through actions that lack any attitude of your own. But such ‘fulfilments’ of demands will not earn you a blessing, they will not bring you a step further upwards, they will always only remain empty actions or words which are as good as not carried out or not spoken. And you should therefore be more accountable for your thinking, speaking and doing, you should observe yourselves and practice self-criticism so that your whole being does not become a template and your earthly life remains an empty run. Seek above all the truth …. Whatever it is, think about it, and then consciously adjust yourselves to it. Whether you speak or act, it will always correspond to your innermost feelings, the heart will be involved and everything will gain life through it. And then you will certainly recognize what is wrong, what is pushing at you or being pushed at you. And only then will you consciously adjust yourselves, reject the wrong, accept the right and act accordingly. But what use are words or actions that you only speak or carry out at the request of others without being clear about what you are actually saying or doing? You can well imagine that God cannot judge you according to what your heart is not involved in, that He cannot credit you for something you dutifully do without being aware of what you are doing. You may have been brought up to do such things, you may have been brought up to repeat words, and you need not be involved in them with a thought. How should God judge such words or deeds? Only once you have taken a stand your words and actions will be judged. But you will also have to answer for such deeds or words because you misuse your vitality and carelessly spend the time which is only given to you to mature your souls. And thus you must be aware of the fact that you must subject everything you receive from outside to scrutiny …. that you do not merely keep the customs from your childhood as a template and thus adopt them into your manhood, but that you should think about everything as soon as you are intellectually capable of doing so …. which, however, does not mean that your intellect alone is sufficient to decide on truth or untruth …. But for once you should consider the value of what has settled in you as a habit and only then take a stand on it yourselves. You should not be satisfied with empty words or dead actions that only gain life when the heart participates in them. Only then will you live your life consciously, only then will ever new questions arise from one question, only then will the knowledge come alive, which you also absorb mechanically, and only then can you speak of an ascent, as long as you are of good will …. You must help yourselves to life, the heart must participate everywhere, and you must abhor any form or dead words …. Then your life will not be an idle one, then you will have a success to report at the end, you will have matured and your soul will have achieved a gain for eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

"I will send you the 'comforter' …."

B.D. 7247 from April 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall all be comforted who go through your earthly life grieving or anxious. My love will always pursue you and My love does not want you to suffer. And thus I will send you the right comforter, My spirit, which imparts words of love to you, words of comfort and words of strength. I have promised you My spirit that it will comfort you when I no longer dwell in the body on earth. And this promise applies to all who take the path across earth …. I Myself will always be with them in spirit and address them so that they will not feel lonely and abandoned, so that they will not need to mourn, so that they will not fear and tremble …. For I Myself am with all who ask Me for comfort and strength and love. My spirit is truly a comforter, for can a human being address you more lovingly than eternal love Itself does? And eternal love expresses Itself through the spirit, as It has promised: “I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ….” And this spirit, which is My emanation, will truly lift you up and comfort you, it will not leave you powerless, it will strengthen you and again and again give you courage and strength, and you will always be able to master earthly life because you lean on Me Myself when your spiritual spark unites with the father-spirit of eternity in order to let Him comfort you. Therefore there will only ever be one path when the heart is sad, when the human being wants to despair in earthly or spiritual adversity, the path to Me Myself, so that My spirit will become active in you, so that it can express itself and truly does so in such a way that you will continue your path strengthened and comforted towards the right goal. For then I will speak to you Myself and My words will touch your heart like balm, they will alleviate all pain and remedy all secret hardship, My word will penetrate your hearts and bring everyone the comfort he needs in his suffering. Not arbitrarily have I spoken these words: “I will send you the comforter ….” For I knew about the many hardships into which My children will fall if they want to walk the path of following Jesus. Suffering will not be able to be kept away from them on this path, and in this suffering I wanted to assure them of My comfort …. and since I was no longer on earth in a purely physical sense I promised My own the ‘comforter’, My spirit …. thus Myself, only not visible as a human being, yet present to everyone who needs comfort and strength and calls upon Me for help in his adversity. But I cannot intervene in a comforting way where My spirit is not requested, where there is no bond between the spiritual spark in the human being and the father-spirit of eternity. I have to wait until the call reaches My ears that a person is in distress and that he expects help from Me. Then I will certainly be ready to help, for I have promised My comforter to all who believe in Me and long for Him …. And therefore no human being need be despondent, no matter what distresses him …. for he will always find comfort and help with Me, and I will quite obviously grant him such, so that ‘My spirit’ will become manifest and its working, true to My promise: “I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ….” You can keep this promise of Mine when you are troubled or distressed, for My word is truth, and no one who turned to Me in his distress will need to go from Me without being comforted ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Suffering purifies the soul ….

B.D. 7248 from January 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will be given far more than is taken away from you, for you will receive spiritual possessions in exchange for relinquishing earthly goods. Thus you will feel apparently neglected, you will think yourselves weighed down, you will feel earthly under duress and depressed, but just as certainly you will ‘receive’ spiritually …. even if you just receive ever greater purification of your soul as a gift in return for these earthly limitations or all kinds of oppositions. You can only mature through opposition. If, however, your earthly life proceeds smoothly there will be few or no opportunities for maturing and your soul’s development will lag behind. But as soon as you feel encumbered turn to Jesus Christ and he will help you carry the weight or take it from you. And be in no doubt whatsoever that he will hear you …. He knows why you have to struggle on this earth, and therefore He always stands beside you just waiting for your call which offers Him the opportunity to place Himself between you and the enemy …. This request has to come from yourselves but then it will certainly be successful. However, your weakness of faith or the smallest doubt will time and again give God’s adversary the right to encroach on you and to steadily weaken you …. And then you will have to defend yourselves by handing yourselves over to Jesus Christ, by calling upon His help to displace him and to protect you from him. And truly, no appeal will be in vain …. For His love does not leave you but it requires your love and request for Him in order to take effect.

But every successful test provides your soul significant advancement and one day you will realise how much these inner struggles contributed towards the soul’s purification, which yearns for its perfection and still has to assert itself until the end of its life. Therefore bless every hour of your suffering on earth, physically or psychologically, and know that you are nevertheless advantaged compared to those who go through earthly life cheerfully and unburdened and don’t experience this purification process of the soul because they don’t seriously aspire towards it and are therefore still offered many attractions in earthly life to take pleasure in. They don’t surrender anything and therefore cannot receive anything either …. They get out of the world whatever they can and their souls’ condition is of no interest to them, on account of which the soul does not suffer, yet it will have to suffer twice as much at a later time when it realises its imperfection and has to admit that it had done nothing to purify itself on earth. Every suffering human being on earth is advantaged compared to those who live an easy and carefree earthly life …. Nevertheless, a true Christian can also be cheerful in confidence of the fact that he only ever needs to encumber Jesus Christ with his worries and burden and that life will also always become bearable. For his trust will not be disappointed, and the certainty of always having a helper by his side will also result in this cheerful joy which should grace every good Christian. Therefore, once again: Bless the suffering as long as it impels you towards Jesus Christ, to Him Who will help you carry your cross providing you appeal to Him for it ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

'The measure you give will be the measure you receive ….'

B.D. 7249 from January 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall receive a good measure …. The measure you give to your neighbour shall be the measure you receive again, according to My promise. My love constantly wants to give and make you happy, My love wants to provide for you in abundance, but love can simply only join love, therefore, if I want to bestow happiness upon you, you must do the same, you must want to give and make those people happy in your environment who want to accept your love. I cannot give love to a person with a heart of stone, who is not lovingly active and therefore neither deserves love nor wants to be made happy himself …. But wherever I recognise love I give without restriction, and My gifts are truly not scanty. And if I then see the effort My children make to please each other, if I see that they try to alleviate hardship, that they are willing to give to a needy fellow human being, then I Am truly also willing to consider a friendly giver because of My love for him. The measure you give will be the measure you receive again. But it should not be understood that you only do such works calculatingly in order to receive again in return …. Only true unselfishness, the urging of the heart to please, is valid before My eyes. And to the same extent I will also shine My love upon the person who only lets his love speak when he gives whatever it may be. All possessions are included in this promise of Mine, earthly as well as spiritual ones …. and likewise I will consider the giver in an earthly and spiritual way. For both the fellow human being as well as the lovingly active person require earthly and spiritual possessions during their earthly life, yet more attention should be given to spiritual possessions, for these alone ensure the soul’s salvation, and anyone who considers the salvation of his soul first need not worry about the preservation of his earthly life. Here, too, he will receive from Me depending on his conduct towards his neighbour. And so you can receive without limitation, both spiritually as well as earthly, if only you always remember My promise ‘The measure you give will be the measure you receive ….’

You need never fear to go short yourselves if you overexert yourselves …. I don’t count the cost, I give to you ‘unmeasured’, that is, according to the love you imparted with your gifts. And truly, you will not be disadvantaged even if you relinquish without qualms what you might possibly need yourselves. You will not go without and be able to gather a rich harvest again, because My love knows no bounds either when it wants to make you happy. For this reason, no hardship need exist on earth if you all bore My promise in mind, for you would help each other and I would help you, whenever the need arises. But anyone who anxiously calculates as not to disadvantage himself by helping another person will not gain many blessings, for his love and trust in Me is still very small, nevertheless, I have to demand both in order to be able to give and to make him happy without restriction. You have a Father Who only ever wants to give joy to His children, but He wants His children to be of the same spirit, so that they, too, would like to please and that everything done by a child is expressing love. Then My love can be so evidently directed towards the children that it gives and causes joy without measure and goal, so that the children recognise their Father in His gifts and love Him with such depth of feeling that it impels the child towards the Father in order to join Him forever, in order to be and to remain His Own for all eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Evidence of Jesus' existence on earth ….

B.D. 7250 from January 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every human being has the opportunity to discover the secret of God’s human manifestation, and every human being will then also have proof of Jesus’ existence, Who will be revealed to him as God’s Son and Redeemer of the world, which will render all other evidence superfluous. And anyone who has finally understood the human manifestation of God also knows that, and why, faith is required, why proof is not favourable but rather unfavourable for the soul’s process of development, which is the reason for a person’s life on earth.

The fact that God embodied Himself in Jesus Christ, in Jesus the man, is and remains beyond belief for people who have no spiritual connection at all, to whom spiritual aspiration is unfamiliar …. And thus ‘spiritual aspiration’ should be understood to mean the ‘soul’s process of development’, which was not given earthly life as an end in itself but merely as a means to an end. Consequently, anyone not spiritually motivated is not ‘awakened’ either, i.e. his reasoning is more influenced by error than truth, he will rather accept misconceptions and regard them as truth, and the pure truth will seem unacceptable to him …. precisely because his spirit is still dark, which does not refer to his intellect but to the spiritual spark within a person, the divine part. This person will not accept purely spiritual causes and thus God’s human manifestation as the ‘result’ of such a spiritual ’cause’ will be beyond his understanding. But it happened, God Himself embodied Himself in a human being, and this human being was Jesus, the son of Mary, Who was begotten by the spirit of God. Nothing was allowed to happen which could force people to believe, even Jesus’ birth was subject to human law, but not the conception …. People should not be so arrogant as to doubt this when they consider that all living beings as well as the whole work of creation emerged out of God’s strength, thus it is indeed possible for this strength to create a human being out of His will.

But this birth without conception also had spiritual reasons which an awakened spirit can quite easily understand. However, the human being has to know that there were spiritual reasons for the entire work of creation which were based on the free will of the first created spiritual beings, and that this free will also plays a part in the existence of the human being …. the first created original spirit …. which is significant and at the same time also an explanation why no or only little evidence can be found for the existence of Jesus the man, since a human being may not be compelled by any means to take a positive or negative attitude towards Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour. His attitude towards Him must be the result of complete freedom of will because this alone determines the human being’s spiritual rebirth into the first created being, which is the purpose for the human being’s life on earth.

Whatever can be proven enforces a decision …. No person may be forced to make a decision if the previous perfection of the first created being should be achieved once again, which is the purpose and goal of the entire work of creation. Hence, first of all a person has to know about the origin and goal of everything in existence, about the meaning and purpose of creation and all created beings within it. Yet he will never be able to gain this knowledge from books, it has to be conveyed to him through the spirit of God, Who is eternal truth Himself. This, however, requires conditions which all people certainly could but only few want to meet …. Nevertheless, the spirit of God can only express itself where these conditions are met: a living faith in God which can only come alive through love, and a conscious request for God’s truth in the very belief to receive the truth from Him …. And it will be given to the person because the spirit of God now contacts the spiritual spark, which is a part of Him, in the human being and the person will be taught through the spirit ….

Anyone who cannot or does not want to believe this will never attain wisdom, the light of knowledge …. But the most marvellous revelations will be unveiled to anyone who believes, he will see brightly and clearly that which is incomprehensible to other people, he will be able to understand the correlations, and the problem of God’s human manifestation in Jesus will be resolved in such an amazing way so that he will not require any further proof and yet he will be able to perceive everything more clearly than even the keenest intellect could. But then the period of time between Jesus’ life on earth and the present is irrelevant to an awakened spirit because Jesus’ life was not an event intended for a certain group of people but it was intended for all people in the past, present and future …. All people will know of Jesus’ life but they need no evidence of His existence if their spirit is awakened, yet without the awakening of spirit even the most distinct evidence would be useless for the attainment of the maturity of the soul, because faith on the basis of proof is no faith which respects free will, and only free will is taken into account. The intellect is of no or very little significance to the awakening of the spirit within the human being …. The latter is the result of a life of love, a life of unselfish love for other people, hence researching the most profound secrets is not the privilege of keen intellectual activity but solely the prerogative of those who keep God’s commandments, which Jesus the man taught on earth ‘Love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself ….’ The result of fulfilling these commandments is the most certain and obvious evidence of Jesus’ existence because then God’s spirit will lead the person to finding the truth and also explain to him all correlations which the human intellect alone would never be able to achieve ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Love is the key to wisdom ….

B.D. 7251 from January 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will continue to think incorrectly as long as you ignore the commandments of love for God and your neighbour …. No matter how much you study and ponder, it will be of no use to you. Without a life of love of your own, the success of your research will only ever be a false success, i.e., it will not correspond to the truth. But if you put it to the test you would be surprised at how your thinking changes. Everyone can change himself to love, because the ability to love has been placed in his heart and it is mostly only due to his will if he does not use this ability, if he is not lovingly active. For this reason only a few people will go through this test, but by doing so they could so easily get the evidence which would make them infinitely happy, because their hearts would suddenly become enlightened. But the fact that wisdom, the light of realisation, is only the result of a life of love, is not accepted by people as truth, for they cannot associate an impulse of heart with the activity of their intellect, they don’t want to link their emotional life with lucid intellectual thinking. And yet, love is the key to wisdom, and no-one who ignores the commandments of love for God and his neighbour will know the truth. However, the explanation that God is Truth as well as Love Itself is so simple.

One is unthinkable without the other, just as fire emanates light by natural law, so must the fire of love emanate the light of wisdom. The intellect is not enough in order to ascertain the truth, but intellect united with love will explore the most profound depths of divine wisdom …. Even if this statement seems presumptuous to you humans …. you would be able to prove it yourselves if only you seriously wanted to know the truth. This is why all efforts will be futile when you want to ascertain spiritual secrets, things, which cannot be proven by earthly means and yet are meaningful to a truth loving person. But the thoughts of a person who changed his nature, which at the start of his embodiment as a human being mainly knows selfish love, into unselfish neighbourly love, will indeed correspond to truth or be far closer to it than that of a rationalist who is devoid of love. You humans should believe this and transform your nature to love, then you will have accomplished your task on earth and the bright light of realisation will be your reward on earth and even more so in the kingdom of the beyond, which all of you will enter again after your life on this earth because it is your true home, which you once dwelled in and left of your own free will when you threw yourselves into darkness by extinguishing the light of love in you. On earth, you are not aware of the spiritual correlations, but the factor of lack of love also played a part in causing your spiritual darkness, and you can only become enlightened again if you transform your selfish love into unselfish love and thereby approach the Deity once more, Who is Love in Itself and wants to win you back …. And so, in order to clarify your thinking and to learn to understand the correlations which are associated with your earthly task, you must rekindle love in yourselves, you must, quite simply, return to God and unite with Him, Who is Love Itself …. Then light and strength and freedom will be yours again, as it was in the beginning, and once brightly enlightened you will realise everything, you will be blissfully happy because the Eternal Love permeates you once more as before ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Mediator for the transmission of truth ….

B.D. 7252 from January 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

And what you hear from Me take into your heart and know that it is purest truth with which I want to make My children happy, who devote themselves to Me, who open their heart and ear to hear My voice. I speak to you continuously, yet you can only hear Me as soon as you demand it. Then My word will resound in your heart and inform you of My will, it will guide you into truth, it will comfort and admonish you, it will promise you My protection and My grace …. But now you should also represent it as My word, you should not evaluate it for yourselves alone but also give your fellow human beings the opportunity to take notice of My word …. You should convey it to them, even at the risk of not being understood and meeting with resistance. But you should make the attempt, I Myself will initiate everything else, and even a failed attempt can have positive results one day. But it is about the supply of truth, and whose heart is capable, who recognizes the truth and also accepts it. Especially the supply of truth is difficult to achieve with people, for their thoughts are too little concerned with spiritual questions and therefore they remain unmoved even if a ray of My eternal love hits them. Yet again and again there are individuals who feel the ray of love beneficially and want to bask in it …. And to these I also turn all My love, and I also seek to address them through My word. Passing on the truth from Me is your task which I gave you when you agreed to be of service to Me. For the spreading of truth is of such great importance, after all, people are in a tangle of error that they should be helped to find out, that their thoughts should be directed to the giver of truth Who wants to and can guide them into right thinking if they don’t resist Him. Everything should be tried in order to win fellow human beings over to My word, even if many attempts are unsuccessful …. But you cannot judge this, and I foresee and know how and when My word will be accepted. I know those who desire truth and hungrily accept it, and even if it is only ever one, then I have already won a soul for Myself, which can only be won through truth alone. This is why I address you who consciously open yourselves for the acceptance of My word, because I also want to speak through you to your fellow human beings to whom you now have to take the path with My support. For I will truly guide your paths, I will lead people into your path or knock on doors for you so that you can bring the lord’s gifts to your brothers or sisters, and anyone who opens them will receive delicious gifts and also recognize the lord Who bestows such gifts upon him. But I require mediators for this who grant Me access into their hearts, who make it possible for Me to speak through their mouths to their fellow human beings who do not take the path to Me of their own accord and approach Me for truth …. Yet without truth they cannot become blissfully happy, and therefore you must convey the truth to them, you must use every opportunity to acquaint them with the truth from Me, and it will truly be a blessed undertaking for all who take part in it, for all who are willing to give and also to take ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Right use of the life force: working in love ….

B.D. 7253 from January 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every day places new demands on you, and again and again you need strength to be able to meet these demands. And as long as your vitality is still at your disposal you will also be able to fulfil your earthly as well as spiritual task. For even the only earthly used vitality can earn you spiritual strength if your earthly activity consists of works of love. But once you have gained spiritual strength you need no longer worry about being able to fulfil your task, for through the supply of spiritual strength you will always be more stimulated into loving activity, and thus you will accomplish the change of nature for the purpose of which you live on earth. Thus not much is actually demanded of you humans other than the change from selfish love to unselfish neighbourly love. But nevertheless you need strength for this, because love is strength, and if you have not yet ignited it in yourselves you are devoid of all strength. But selfish love is not strength, on the contrary, it still robs you of strength, for it will always demand your life force for the highest achievement in order to be able to do justice to itself; selfish love demands everything for itself, and thus it also only abuses the life force for the benefit of the body, because only that is helpful to the soul which works itself out as unselfish love …. Hence, if a person uses his vitality for loving service his soul will derive the greatest benefit from it, the person will receive much spiritual strength and this, in turn, will irrevocably bring the soul to maturity, for a person who is of service with love will never refrain from this activity, the works of love will increase, the supply of spiritual strength will impel him to work with love and bring ever greater maturity to his soul. And it is such love which the human being should kindle in himself and let flare up into a bright flame, for it is divine love, whereas selfish love is an inheritance from God’s adversary and therefore will not make him happy either. For although the human being strives to gain all advantages for himself and will also mostly receive them through the adversary’s support, he is and remains a weak being which has no light of realization and no strength to recognize and strive for the true purpose of earthly life …. He will depart from this earth in this powerless and lightless state and enter the kingdom of the beyond in exactly the same way, whereas the loving human being already acquires light and strength on earth and enters the spiritual kingdom in a garment of light, thus he need not fear darkness or weakness because he has gathered much spiritual strength on earth, because he has used his vitality correctly to work with love. Love is strength, but without love there can be no strength either, only lightlessness and powerlessness. You humans need all strength, and if you want to fulfil your earthly task and are still powerless, then appeal to God for the supply of strength to work with love, and He will guide your senses correctly so that you make good use of your vitality and thereby acquire spiritual strength. But don’t believe that you will always be left with the strength you currently still possess …. Even vitality is a gift which will be taken from you again when the hour of departure from this earth has come. Therefore make sure that you will have plenty of strength at your disposal then, that you will have gathered spiritual possessions so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom full of light and strength and then also be eternally blissful ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Content of the divine word: love ….

B.D. 7254 from January 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

If you immerse yourselves in My word you will realize more and more that I only demand love from you, love for Me and for your neighbour …. Your whole process of development is only based on the principle of love, regardless of whether you are still bound in forms of creation or already walk the earth as a human being …. serving love is always the only important thing, it is always love which favours this process and brings you to the goal: that you become perfect again as you were in the beginning. And whether I inform you of My will, whether I reveal deeper wisdom to you, whether I reveal My plan of salvation to you …. I will always emphasize love, and you will only be able to understand everything if you live in love yourselves. If you lack love then everything will be incomprehensible to you and you will also be unwilling to let Me teach you. And yet, you must experience that My commandments of love are the most important, otherwise you will never muster the will to fulfil these commandments of Mine …. unless you kindle the little flame of love within yourselves, and then you will be able to recognize with the fullest of light and find everything comprehensible which is incomprehensible to others. This is why the transmission of My word is so necessary for you humans, for through it you will be made aware of My will for the first time and you can then take a stand on it yourselves. My word is My address to you, and depending on your nature you will feel it to be an address or it will fall on your ears like an empty sound. You cannot be forced to feel it in your heart as My address; your will remains free but your will determines you to respect and obey My will, thus to put into action what I demand of you through My word. If you do this you will soon become enlightened, you will know why My will is to fulfil the commandments of love, because you yourselves will experience the evidence that love is a strength which has a positive effect. As a human being you have the opportunity and also the strength to do works of love, and then your ascent will certainly proceed. But first you must know that you can only ascend through love. And this knowledge is conveyed to you by My word …. Therefore it cannot be avoided on earth that My gospel is preached again and again. Again and again My word must be proclaimed, again and again people must have the opportunity to experience My will, and only then must their own will become active to utilize the knowledge, for hearing the word alone is not enough if it is not followed by action …. But then the fulfilment of My commandments of love will take effect in many ways. The human being will have the strength to always be lovingly active anew; he will receive light in that nothing will remain unclear to him anymore which will help him to ascend, he will also stand up for My word with conviction, because this also results in the strength of love that he also wants to help his fellow human beings to ascend. And he himself will strive without ceasing to reach the goal which he has now also clearly recognized. My word must be proclaimed, for people live in ignorance because they live in unkindness, and they must be stimulated to love through My word. Therefore they shall also receive knowledge of the serving task of all works of creation, so that they will first learn to understand what the whole of creation is about, and that they themselves have also travelled this path before they are given the final task on earth of serving with love in free will. You humans achieve everything if you serve with love, earthly and spiritually you will be richly blessed, but only through serving love will you be able to release yourselves from the power of the one who is devoid of all love and therefore infinitely distant from Me, Who is eternal love Itself. There is only one path to reach Me …. the path of love which leads via Jesus Christ and His cross to the goal, back to the father, from Whose love you all once emerged ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Scrutiny of spiritual values for divine origin ….

B.D. 7255 from January 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You can only receive spiritual food directly from Me, therefore everything offered to you as ‘spiritual nourishment’ has to be scrutinised for its origin. Indeed all presenters of the divine Word claim to offer the pure truth from Me but in that case all presenters would also teach the same, there should be no different schools of thought or denominations all of which, however, differ from each other in their teachings. Consequently it is absolutely necessary to examine which teachings can be traced back to Me as the originator. And that requires thinking about …. which is not to say that thinking alone results into an undisputed judgment because that too might lead to different results of thought …. intelligence alone is therefore not decisive for the judgment of the claim of truth in spiritual values. But at least the desire for truth is a step forward, given that the human being actually thinks about whether he was offered the truth or a misleading notion.

Then the will for truth ensures his correct reasoning during the ‘investigation’ for truth, the person begins to critically review what is offered to him. And such a review is necessary because misguided spiritual values do not have the sanctifying strength to heal the soul so that it can fully mature and feed itself with the food it needs. A misguided doctrine is not the right food for the soul, on the contrary, it can even contribute that the soul remains ailing and weak and yet does nothing to recover …. because the human being simply fails to notice that he is given unsuitable nourishment. Hence spiritual food has to originate from the kingdom to which the soul should return one day because it is only a guest on this earth to become suitable for the spiritual kingdom. Therefore it has to become suitable by way of food and drink, by way of nourishment which helps it to achieve a certain maturity of soul. And this maturity in turn is necessary to enter the realm of light, which is the soul’s true home but which requires the soul to be in a state which it must first accomplish on earth.

And now I Am offering the right food, and blessed are those who accept the heavenly bread directly from My hands, blessed are those, who do not look elsewhere for nourishment, blessed are those, who drink from the source and refresh themselves for their pilgrim’s journey across the earth. Their souls will mature with certainty and become suitable for the spiritual kingdom …. but not the souls of those who accept misguided values, whose nourishment is impure and can no longer claim to have been given by My hand. They will not derive much healing power from the food they accept and would do well to retrace the river’s flow to discover whether it leads to the right source …. whether I Myself Am the provider of what they are offered. And now they much rather take their nourishment from the source. Now the human being is no longer satisfied with a diluted teaching, now he can also judge for himself what is beneficial for the development of his soul because he can sense the truth when he is given strengthening food and stimulating drink, the truth which he previously could barely feel.

The soul which is ailing and wants to get well needs healthy and strengthening nourishment. And no soul walking across the earth is fully mature; each one needs support, it needs food and drink which enlivens and restores it, which returns it to the state it once was but which can only be guaranteed by My hand …. when the human being takes the direct path to Me and now allows himself to accept food and drink from Me. Then the soul will recover, it will approach its perfection because what is given by Me can only be a blessing for the soul …. because My love wants to help the soul to get the life which it will never lose again ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Living christians …. power of faith …. presence of God ….

B.D. 7256 from January 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Only when you are faced with great adversity will it become clear whether you are living christians or only call yourselves formal christians who will fail when they have to prove themselves. And this time will come upon you when only a living faith can help you, when you have to prove yourselves, when the strength of faith has to be tested, which only a living faith can muster. The majority of people only have a formal faith; they do not reject what they have been taught but they have not yet seriously thought about the teachings. And as soon as they are prompted to call upon their God and creator, they will look for Him in the distance because they do not yet have communion with Him, a communion which manifests itself as a feeling of God’s presence. And as long as this feeling is not yet in the human being, God has not yet come alive in him, and faith in God is only an empty expression, because he does not possess Him. Only the feeling of God’s presence characterises a living christian, and then he will also possess the strength of faith which lets him take the path to the father in great hardship and ask for help from Him. Much suffering and misery will befall people, precisely in order to put their faith to the test. And it does not depend on the denominations, for every denomination can include living and dead followers, people who have entered into intimate bonds with God and those for whom God is and will remain the distant God, Whom they certainly know by name but have no bond with Him themselves as yet in order to call upon Him for help and assistance in cases of sudden adversity. But the need comes …. It must come for the sake of people who walk along indifferently and have not yet decided for themselves how they will relate to their God and creator from eternity …. It must come for people who believe to be christians and are only christians in name …. A confession of Jesus Christ is required of all, and only those who have a living faith can make such a confession …. but not those who only know about Him but have not yet established the right relationship with Him, which He requires in order to be able to be their redeemer from sin and death. Every person can decide once for the right relationship with Him, and he should do it of his own free will, because earthly life repeatedly gives him the opportunity to make this decision. But anyone who is foolish, who only ever remains a formal christian, that is, who is well aware of the divine redeemer but has never made use of His love and grace in order to be redeemed from his bondage …. who has not yet spoken to his father like a child, will first have to go through suffering and hardship in order to find the path to Him; he will first have to be so severely affected that only one way out remains for him, to take refuge in God in Jesus Christ and thereby confess that he believes in Him alive …. whereas the formal christian often still loses his shallow faith when the going gets tough and thereby proves that he has not yet had any bond with Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, with God Himself …. The closer it is to the end, the more necessary this testing of faith will be, for more and more people separate themselves, even if they belong to an ecclesiastical community, but it is only an illusory bond for the sake of fellow human beings, there is nothing true and living left which can be counted as a ‘community of believers’. The churches are only worldly organizations, but no longer the union of deeply believing people who see in Jesus Christ the founder of their church, which was only founded on firm faith. And people will therefore be forced by life to make a confession, for the coming time will be very difficult for many people but nevertheless also a blessing for the living christian, because he will establish the bond with God ever more firmly and he will also be led out of all adversity and distress by his faith, because there is nothing for the living christian which cannot be overcome with the ‘strength of faith’ ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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The path of return to God ….

B.D. 7257 from January 16th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

I will always come to meet you when you take the path to Me. Believe Me that your distance from Me is giving Me little happiness, although you humans should not imagine a concept of sorrow on My part either, but I long for your love, and as long as you remain separate from Me I feel the absence of this love. Hence it will also be comprehensible to you that I watch your every step, that I see when you turn them into My direction and that I will then also come to meet you in order to shorten your path of return, so that you arrive at your goal faster. Even so, I will have to stop in My track if you come to a standstill yourselves, if you change your mind again or look back to the region you want to leave. I don’t want to determine you free will by any means, I can certainly lure you, which in fact I do, but I cannot compel you, for your return to Me must be and has to remain a completely free act of will. Yet you ought to know and believe that no thought of yours which applies to Me will fade away or fail to reach its goal. And every such thought will be assessed by Me as free will and appropriately rewarded by constantly staying near to you and doing everything in order to attract your attention time and again. You don’t know how infinitely profound My love is for you, My living creations, you don’t know that this love will only ever yearn for you and that I therefore will not write off any one of My living creations, even if it still keeps its distance from Me of its own free will …. Even then My love will still take care of it and try to approach it, but how much more so with a child who is and wants to remain My Own, which just keeps looking sideways because it gets excited and attracted from all directions …. But I know how it thinks in its heart, I know that its love is intended for Me and that it is just too weak to resist all kinds of enticements. For, time and again, it will assuredly find its way back to Me, it will remain on the path to Me and will not divert from it either, since the longing of its heart applies to Me alone.

The path to Me leads steeply upwards, it is arduous …. it just won’t do that I should make it easy, that I should combine it with enticement, because this path should be taken for pure love of Me and not for the sake of other advantages …. which is only ever a hostile intention to attract people into taking other paths which will lead far away from Me. This is why you will quite often get tired during your excursion to the top and yet longingly look back to the world you want to leave. And I allow this to happen but only for your own sakes, for every voluntarily accomplished ascent will have the most glorious results …. I will come ever closer to him and he to Me, and in My presence the human being will then experience the bliss which will compensate him for everything he had relinquished for My sake. And this presence should be the goal which you should pursue with absolute determination; you should not rest until you have reached Me, Who will assuredly shorten your path by coming to meet you …. Thus you will not be separated from Me for much longer, as long as you only desire My presence and steadfastly continue on the path you have taken …. even if you occasionally find it difficult because you can’t see any obvious progress and believe not to have climbed up even one step …. If you were able to look back into the abyss you would also be able to assess the significant distances you had covered so far, and you would happily cover the last short stretch of the path which still separates you from Me. But you can rest assured that I will prevent you from falling back into the abyss …. I will invisibly hold on to you and continually pull you upwards, after all, My heart rejoices in the fact that a child is returning into the Father’s house, and I will truly help on this last short path to reach it and walk beside him imperceptibly until he sees Me at the goal and My arms are able to embrace the child which has returned home to the Father, from Whom he once had originated ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Prerequisite for hearing God's voice: Detachment from the world ….

B.D. 7258 from January 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You must listen deeply within yourselves if you want to hear My voice. And that requires you to completely withdraw from the material world and engross yourselves in spiritual thoughts …. it requires you to completely empty your heart from earthly thoughts so that it can then be filled by thought currents of a purely spiritual nature. People will always find it difficult to completely detach themselves from the world, but My voice can be heard more distinctly the less the heart is burdened by mental impressions of worldly origin. Once the heart is completely empty the flow of My spirit can pour into it unimpeded, and then you will experience this as an uninterrupted talking to you, as a flowing-over of My spirit into you, as My direct Word which you can hear as clearly as a spoken word. The more you resist earthly thoughts, the more clearly will you hear My voice. And this requires a constant battle with the external world which, impelled by My adversary, wants to intrude time and again in order to disturb the intimate conversation between Father and child. You can prevent this by not yielding to it, by rejecting all thoughts pertaining to the world …. by instantly addressing Me in thought asking Me to prevent this interference …. And your will shall be taken into account, because it is solely directed towards Me.

Only those who are able to detach themselves from the world are therefore entitled to hear My voice, for whom I have become a Concept Which no longer can be replaced by the world …. who have recognised Me as their eternal Father Who wants to turn you into his children and will not let go of you again until He has accomplished His goal. Once this separation from the world has taken place, the world will no longer succeed in winning the human being back, because My direct Word will have granted enlightenment to him and he will not want to miss this light again. However, he will nevertheless constantly have to struggle with the world, since he still lives in the midst of the world and it will try to influence him in every way, because it is precisely this intimate dialogue which My adversary wants to disturb as and wherever possible. This is why it always requires a strong will to establish such an intimate bond with Me that My voice can come through, drowning out the voice of the world. The human being’s will can accomplish that, and then he will only ever sing My praises and give thanks to the One Who speaks to him and thereby bestows an invaluable gift upon him ….

For My Word is the visible or audible sign of My infinite love for you, My living creations. It demonstrates that it is in your own hands to establish such close contact with the highest and most perfect Being that you will be able to hear His voice …. and that you have the evidence of this communication when you write His sacred Word down just as you receive it …. This supremely perfect Being speaks to you …. Contemplate the meaning of these Words …. I speak to you from above, you hear My voice, your comprehend what I tell you, and thereby you can recognise your Father’s voice Who loves you and wants to possess you forever …. I speak to you because I want you to come to Me of your own free will, so that you will start your return to Me into your Father’s house, which I want to achieve by addressing you. But in order to hear My Words your will must be firm and strong, time and again it must look for the heartfelt bond with Me, Who cannot be found on the surface of the world but far away from it …. Consequently, all worldly thoughts must be suppressed and you must listen into the stillness of your heart, and then you will truly hear My Word in all clarity, because My love especially applies to all those who try to reach Me, who desire to hear Me and to whom I therefore reveal Myself according to My promise ‘that I will come to My Own in spirit and remain with them until the end of the world ….’

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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The soul's process of pre-development ….

B.D. 7259 from January 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

It is difficult to convince people of the fact that they had already travelled an infinitely long path before they reached their existence as human beings. It is difficult, given that precisely this knowledge is not included in the Gospel, which is the foundation of every church organisation. But God knows why He did not incorporate this knowledge, why He did not give his disciples the instruction to spread this knowledge, of which Jesus’ disciples were most certainly informed. He only gave them the task of proclaiming the divine teaching of love, He made the commandments of love for God and one’s neighbour the subject of what they were to proclaim as Gospel to their fellow human beings, which were also proclaimed by Jesus as a human being on this earth. For every person who lives up to this teaching of love will gain increasingly more knowledge and subsequently also find out about the human soul’s infinitely long process of pre-development, which only has to pass its last test of will on earth.

The commandment of love is, in fact, the first and most important commandment, a person will not benefit from any knowledge, regardless of how profound it is, if he fails to live a life of love. For even this knowledge would just be misconstrued intellectual information since only love is the key to realisation and without love everything will remain incomprehensible …. which is evident in the present time …. since the said information will not be believed because it cannot be realised as long a person’s thinking is not illuminated by love. Everyone willing to love will dwell on it and not entirely reject it but he might perhaps question why such knowledge was not given to people earlier, why it isn’t mentioned in the Book of Books. And the same answer applies that knowledge is only of value for a person if it has come alive through love …. This is why every kind-hearted person will also be guided into deeper knowledge when the time is right. But since humanity is near the end they shall live even more responsibly. The knowledge about the soul’s process of preliminary development can increase this sense of responsibility in people which, in view of the near end, is not to be underestimated. Even people who are as yet unable to believe can be prompted by thoughts to change their way of life. On the other hand, however, this knowledge is not necessary if a person lives a life of love according to God’s will. Then he will receive the knowledge instantly when he enters the kingdom of the beyond; he will brightly and clearly recognise what appeared unbelievable or was entirely unknown to him on earth.

But during the last days everything possible will be done on the part of God for the human being to reach the goal with ease. His attention will be drawn to his earthly task and the great significance of fulfilling this task, and in view of the end he will also be informed of the previous development, although without proof. However, everyone can obtain this proof for himself if he lived a life of love which could enlighten him and also grant him the ability of spiritual vision. In that case a person would also be able to observe the bustling spiritual activity within the various works of creation, he would come to see the lives of animals and plants in a different light and he would no longer doubt that he, too, would have passed through all these stages of pre-development …. But this presupposes a high degree of love, hence the divine teaching of love must always take priority, i.e., the human being’s attained degree of knowledge or realisation on earth depends on his fulfilment of the commandments of love. Love is absolutely necessary for the human being but he does not need to be knowledgeable, because he can suddenly become brightly enlightened if he has lived a life of love on earth. And this is why you humans should not be surprised that the Gospel does not openly state something which nevertheless can be found concealed within …. For the Word of God has various meanings, which only a person living in love will come to understand …. Then he will also find many references regarding the human being’s pre-existence in the creations of earth, and he will only ever attempt to pass his findings on to his fellow human being although they will only be believed if this person, too, is permeated by love ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Supply of food and drink ….

B.D. 7260 from January 19th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Much bread from heaven will be offered to you in the last days before the end, because there is great need for food and drink which will help you to heal. The streams of grace pour down to earth in many places, again and again I reveal Myself to you in the word, again and again I try to touch people’s hearts and make them receptive for the word which comes to them directly from above, which they shall therefore recognize as My word. But it can only ever happen in a form which does not compel faith, the word from above will never be one hundred percent proof that it originates from God Himself, from the highest and most perfect being, for this would compel its acceptance, and this would not be a success for the soul which should want, think and act in complete freedom of will as long as it lives on earth. But My word is such an unusual gift of grace that it can also be recognized as My word, even if it may not be regarded as evidence, even if the unwilling person seeks or is able to give himself many other explanations for the origin. The willing human being needs no proof of this, he feels it when he is addressed and his heart opens to this address from above. But you humans are only slightly aware of the fact that My love gives you a very unusual proof, yet My love is great towards you humans who are in such spiritual adversity that you are almost no longer able to recognize Me. And therefore My love comes to your aid, for the adversity of time dictates it if I don’t want you to get lost again for an infinitely long time. I know about your fate after the end of this redemption period and I would like to spare you it, I would like to save you from the extreme, from the new banishment into matter, I would still like to save you from the end. But since you have free will I can only quietly guide, admonish, warn and lovingly address you, and this could also be enough to persuade you to turn back if only you would listen to My address and then seriously take yourselves to court. For I inform you of everything you should or should not do on your earthly path of life, I only inform you of My will through My word, and if you only make an effort to live according to this will then you will have escaped all danger, for I bless your will and I will never let you fall back into the abyss once your gaze has been turned towards Me, which I want to achieve by conveying My word from above …. I speak to you and give your soul food with My word which it needs, without which it cannot mature and which only I Myself can offer you. I bring you the bread of heaven on which it will recover and eternally no longer fall back into weakness and darkness, for My word is light for every soul which accepts it and lives by it …. My word brings ‘strength’ to the soul as spiritual nourishment, My word brings ‘light’ to you as an emanation of My love, and My word finally brings ‘freedom’ to it, it will be able to detach itself in strength and light from the one who has held it captive until now. You humans cannot come to life without My word, and because I know this I provide you with it in abundance, again and again I open the fountain of life from which you can draw so that you will never lack food and drink, spiritual nourishment, which you particularly need now in view of the end. Yet it is up to you whether you open yourselves to My loving address, for no matter how delicious My gifts are they will never force you to accept them, for your will is and remains free ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Compulsory work …. only works of love are rated ….

B.D. 7261 from January 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Only that which was done of one’s own free will has eternal value, as soon as it concerns works which are to be valued as works of love. The human being should not ask for reward or retribution when he performs a work of neighbourly love, nor should he merely fulfil a duty and believe that such service will be valued just as much as a deed performed by free will which exceeds the measure of the fulfilment of duty …. Only that which love accomplishes can be valued before God, and true love is always selfless and without calculation. And such works therefore have eternal value, for they have an effect on eternity, they give the soul the maturity which determines its degree of beatitude, and thus they determine the soul’s fate after the death of the body. People’s earthly life, however, is mostly filled with demands or dutiful work which they like to believe fulfils their purpose of earthly life but are not aware of the fact that it is not about the nature of their activity on earth but about the degree of love in which everything that fills people’s lives is carried out. Admittedly, a part of self-love is also necessary in order to meet the demands of the body, because the human being also has duties towards his body, thus he has also been granted a part of self-love on the part of eternal love. Nevertheless, not only self-love may determine a person’s every action, but only work which has been carried out entirely without calculation, where only love which wants to give and make happy was the impetus, and which therefore also achieves imperishable spiritual values, which is the soul’s wealth when it departs from earth, has an eternal value. Every activity which is carried out dutifully can indeed also be a blessing if it is done willingly and selflessly, which is precisely why every work must be based on love if it is to have a beneficial effect on the human soul and its fate in eternity. For what is done for the earth also passes away with the death of the body, which alone was the beneficiary of that activity which was determined by self-love. Therefore, it is not indifferent how the human being approaches his earthly activity …. He can do his ‘duty’ and yet not gain a blessing for his soul; but he can also fulfil every duty with inner joy and love, he can consciously serve his fellow human being and do so gladly and joyfully …. then it is not only ‘duty work’ but at the same time activity of love, for the impetus originates from his free will, and free will alone determines whether selfish love is pushed back and unselfish love comes to the fore. Every human being’s work on earth can fulfil its serving purpose if it is not consciously done on behalf of God’s adversary, i.e. an effect which harms people is quite clearly recognizable …. Then no blessing can ever rest on the performer who indulges in such activity which is obviously done on the impetus of the adversary from God. And this activity will indeed also have an eternal value but in a negative way …. it will also affect the human being’s soul, and the soul will have to suffer again for an infinitely long time, for the human being was only motivated by selfish reasons to indulge in this activity, and he has to answer for it. But every human being can feel the urge within himself to perform unselfish works of love. And if it is not possible within the scope of his fulfilment of duty, then he can do it in addition, and this will have a particularly beneficial effect in that he will soon also be allowed to fulfil his duty in a ‘serving’ way, for the human being’s will alone determines his direction, and the right-willing person will also be given the opportunity by God to use his will correctly: to ‘serve in love’ …..

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Resurrection …. Decomposition of the flesh ….

B.D. 7262 from January 21st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Everyone of you living on earth will physically die, but your soul will either arise into life or remain dead, if it did not strive for life on earth. Thus, resurrection is assured to all of you who desire to live …. For those who do not believe in the resurrection do not desire life for their soul either, instead, only the life of their physical body is possibly desirable for them, which they seek to prolong as far as they are able to do so. But they will die and remain dead for an infinitely long time to come, even though one day resurrection will be assured to them too …. However, anyone who seeks and strives towards attaining life for his soul can also be certain that it will rise from the dead after the death of the body, for Jesus Christ provided the evidence for this, Who arose from the dead on the third day, Who had conquered death and the one who had brought death into the world. Admittedly, His resurrection is being doubted by believers and unbelievers, for even the believers are unable to grasp this greatest of miracles and are often inclined to harbour quiet doubts as long as they merely ‘believe’ but have not yet brought this faith alive properly. But as soon as My spirit can work in the human being these doubts will be clarified and Jesus’ resurrection will be the clear evidence of his own resurrection for him, he will know that he will not die but only enter from this life into the kingdom of the beyond, where he will live forever.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a constantly disputed problem amongst people, for on the one hand they want to doubt it, on the other hand they want to deduce from it a resurrection of ‘the flesh’ because they believe that Jesus also arose in the flesh on the third day …. They don’t yet realise that Jesus only made Himself visible to people in order to help them to believe, but that they only ever saw his spiritual body which presented itself to them visibly. All the substances of his physical body had spiritualised themselves through His crucifixion, and thus the ‘man’ Jesus had put on a spiritual garment when He visibly approached His disciples …. And you, too, will put on this spiritual garment at your resurrection into life …. The physical body stays behind and its substances continue the path of higher development; hence the body of flesh decomposes and its substances animate other forms again which are still at the beginning of their development …. Thus they will never enclose the soul again, they will never be the shell for the soul again and be resurrected with it at the same time …. And yet the soul will arise from the dead if it has fulfilled My will on earth, if it strives to enter the life I promised it when I lived on earth as Jesus, the human being. A resurrection is assured to all of you, yet you determine the time yourselves. However, you must gain the right understanding of a ‘resurrection of the flesh’, for the works of your flesh will certainly be judged and according to these will be your resurrection …. either to life or, if your works give evidence against you, to death, the banishment into hard matter. And this is once again an infinitely long lasting state of helplessness and darkness, a state of death which, however, you aspired to on earth yourselves because you lacked the faith that you are destined for life and not death, which you caused yourselves …. For this reason I arose from the dead in order to provide you humans with this evidence …. And yet, you can only believe it again if you, through a life of love, awaken your spirit which will subsequently explain and instruct you about everything, and then you will also be able to believe with conviction what cannot be proven to you. Strive towards life and you will never ever need to fear death, you will live forever in strength and light and freedom ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Every human being experiences God's revelation in himself ….

B.D. 7263 from January 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every person shall experience that God’s love takes care of him, and therefore every person is sometimes harshly touched by fate, and depending on his attitude he will receive help in his adversity. But he will be able to visibly recognize where help comes from if only he has a spark of faith in God and His might within himself, for he is often affected by adversity from which there seems to be no help anymore …. And yet, help will come to him, even if it seems natural but obviously proving the intervention of a loving and powerful God. For God wants to reveal Himself in His love, He wants people to recognize Him and then also learn to love Him, because God is only ever interested in the human being’s love which shall turn towards Him. Yet the human being’s will is also part of it in order to recognize God and to love Him …. Anyone who always rejects God would also not feel touched if he once visibly experiences God’s help …. For him it remains a coincidence or his own merit when an adversity is reduced, when help arrives or fellow human beings assist him. Then he will always be inclined to explain everything to himself naturally, without accepting a God and controller of his fate. And he cannot be forced to think differently, only such strokes of fate can repeat themselves and slowly cause him to think about it, but with positive success only when the inner resistance against God diminishes, when he plays with the thought that a higher power is decisive in every person’s life. But anyone who repeatedly feels God’s love and allows himself to be seized by it has drawn blessings from his course of destiny, no matter how difficult it may have been, for recognizing God’s love is of such great importance for people that this also explains the hard fate of many people who are repeatedly touched in order to decide for God once they have recognized Him in His love …. because only this decision determines the human being’s conscious life. For the human being only becomes thoughtful when such ‘revelations’ of God obviously reveal themselves to him, and as soon as he looks at all events in his life from the point of view that they were imposed on him by God, but that God also orders and levels them again in His love for the human being, his life will become a conscious one, he will take everything upon himself in the certainty that he will also be helped because God loves him. To have gained this realization is a great spiritual progress which will certainly result in an easier earthly life for him, because now there is no longer the necessity of severe strokes of fate, because the human being is convinced of God’s love and surrenderingly submits to His will, which he has recognized as loving. Every person has this opportunity to come to recognize God’s love, but His will is not anticipated, and therefore many people still remain untouched, although God’s love often speaks a very clear language. But the strokes of fate naturally accumulate in order to make the human being deal with them mentally and learn to recognize what he would rather deny: that there is a God Who directs and guides everything and Who lovingly takes care of all His living creations so that they will still find and take the path to Him in earthly life ….

Amen

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God's address to every human being ….

B.D. 7264 from January 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Let yourselves be addressed by Me at every hour, which is already caused by a heartfelt thought of Me, for I will respond to it and answer you, even though it is often only received by your spirit as soon as you don’t dwell on My thoughts for long. Yet My answer can also touch your heart at any time, for it is only necessary that you intimately unite with Me and wait in this bond until you hear My answer. Believe this, that only a heartfelt bond is necessary in order to hear My voice, that you thus cause My presence in you yourselves through your will, which seeks Me and remains with Me in thought. And once I am present to you I will also grant your requests because you present them to Me in childlike trust and therefore I can also act upon you like a loving father acts upon his child. You can strive for nothing better than My constant presence in you, for then you will already have won everything. My presence is the guarantee that you have become My own, that the child has found its way back to the father, for where I dwell the adversary is displaced, and where I am there must therefore also be bliss. But you are free at any time to secure My presence, for this is solely caused by your will …. If you call Me then I am with you, if you don’t leave Me in your thoughts then you also bind Me to you, then I must be present to you, and My presence will never be without effect …. You will always derive blessings from it by receiving strength which constantly flows into you from Me Myself when I can be present to you. And every person who longs for My presence can be certain of it, for I fulfil such a desire of the heart. The fact that I now also speak to you is the most natural consequence of My presence, and therefore you should only ever listen inwardly to what I have to say to you. I will warn and admonish you, I will comfort and uplift you, I will instruct you and constantly inspire you to love, I will speak to you as a father Who wants to protect His children from adversity, Who loves them and in His love would also like to make them happy …. And therefore I will also make demands on the child in order to make the gratification possible, which can only take place under certain conditions. My love, however, is so great that it tries to make everything easy for you and therefore also addresses and instructs you that you should only practice love likewise in order to then also receive strength for an earthly change according to My will. Whom I can address need not fear to go wrong, because I can only address him if his will is good and turned towards Me, and because then he will also not consciously sin against Me and My love. He will not want to, and all his weaknesses and afflictions are manifestations of his body’s still immature substances which become all the more prominent the more they are challenged by the soul’s will to completely hand itself over to Me. The body has not yet reached this degree of maturity and tries to defend itself, but it will not succeed with the soul’s strong will to enter into My will. And as soon as the human being allows Me Myself to be present, as soon as he mentally tries to establish the bond with Me again and again, the resistance in him will become ever weaker, for the soul constantly receives strength and its will asserts itself. Let Me address you often, come to Me again and again if you are in adversity and distress, let your thoughts take the path to Me and often withdraw into silence in order to listen within …. And My address will always sound clearer to you, for My love uses every opportunity to make itself known to you …. The father will use every opportunity to speak to His child who only surrenders to Him in love and wants to hear His address ….

Amen

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The soul consciously starts earthly life …. Past memory ….

B.D. 7265 from January 25th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Prior to your embodiment as a human being your destiny of life was presented to you and you entered this final embodiment in full realisation of what will happen to you in earthly life, because the final goal you would be able to reach was simultaneously obvious to you and because it was your own free will to release yourselves from the final form through this earthly progress. Afterwards, however, this past memory was taken away from you and thus your life proceeds without you being conscious of the success you could achieve. However, there is no other option, otherwise free will would not come into its own, which has to accomplish your final perfection in the first place. But it is certainly possible for you to overcome all difficult strokes of fate granted to you, for no person will have to bear more than he is able to cope with, albeit with the strength of God, which is always at his disposal …. However, if a person only relies on his own strength, life’s offerings can undoubtedly devastate him. Yet he always has the opportunity to request strength from God …. he has the opportunity to pray …. But this presupposes his belief in a God and Father of eternity, otherwise the person would never call upon a God for strength and help. Yet every person who still lacks faith can find it if he reflects on his life, his destiny and everything that surrounds him. A thinking person will truly not find it difficult to attain faith in a powerful and wise Creator, he just does not often want to admit that his relationship with this Creator is so close that He is even willing to help him in every adversity, no matter how small or great, if He is asked to do so. Such people lack belief in the correlation between the Creator and His living creation, thus a God of love is barely credible to them, consequently, they keep themselves distant from the One Who, however, wants to be called upon by His creatures so that they prove their bond with Him. For this reason people will time and again be afflicted by strokes of fate which are not only intended to make the affected people themselves but also their fellow human beings think about their attitude towards a God and Creator, Who also wants to be the Father of His children to Whom He gave life.

With God’s strength every individual human being is capable of overcoming even the most severe strokes of fate. And he also agreed to this before his embodiment as a human being, for he was not placed into this or that embodiment against his will, he voluntarily started his earthly path with the view of complete liberation from every form and also with the firm confidence that he will master life in the right way. But as a human being he often fails and the challenges often seem insurmountable to him as long as he does not avail himself of help by His God and Creator, Whom he must acknowledge without fail if his earthly progress is not to be in vain, without any success for his soul. This is why the first and most important requirement is the belief in a God Who is love, wisdom and omnipotence in Himself …. And in order to gain this faith the human being must first kindle love within himself …. Love, however, is strength in itself too, and thus every person who lives a life of love will irrevocably be able to cope with even the most difficult destiny of life because he already receives the strength from God, hence he will also have a living faith, so that he will call upon God as his ‘Father’ in every earthly or spiritual adversity and truly be guided through it, because God Himself is love and He has the power to put everything right again that has become disorderly …. because He helps the person with His strength to master even the most difficult situation in life. And He will always be prepared to be of assistance to him in every adversity ….

Amen

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Characteristic of the living christian ….

B.D. 7266 from January 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

As long as My spirit is not yet working in you, you are merely followers or formal christians, for My spirit’s working is the characteristic of the church which I Myself founded on earth. Only then will you belong to this church founded by Me when My spirit can express itself in you, that you hear its voice, that you are thus awakened to life, which proves My spirit’s working in and on you. And the sign of My spirit’s working is that you are alive, that you have become true christians, thus also true doers, not just hearers of My word. A dead christian does not have these signs, he goes about his life, he will hardly speak of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, he will also not make an effort to live a life of action; yet he calls himself a christian because he has not yet understood what I mean by this. A christian is a true follower of Jesus, a person who makes an effort to live his earthly life like Him, which consisted of unceasing activity of love and an intimate bond with His father, Who was in Him. This intimate bond must first be established with Me in Jesus Christ if My spirit is to become effective, if it is to be able to express itself by gaining influence over all thinking, willing and acting. Then the human being will be guided by My spirit, for I express Myself through the spirit and make My will known to the human being. Thus the human being must live a second life next to his earthly life, he must strive spiritually, for which a formal christian has no time because he is imprisoned by the world which does not release him. The spiritual christian lives his earthly life on the side and the spiritual life fills his purpose in life, for he is impelled by the spirit from Me which never lets him rest. And thus every spiritual thought, every bond with Me, every impulse to do a good deed, every deeper understanding of spiritual knowledge and ever new desire for it is all to be regarded as ‘working of the spirit’, and all this also characterises a living christian, whereas the formal christian is completely lacking, for he is not so much moved by the life of his soul as by the life of his body, and spiritual bonds are alien to him because they are inconvenient to him and he therefore avoids them. And therefore he is a dead christian who will not be able to prove his ‘life’ when he is put to this test. For a person is not a dead christian with impunity, and one day it will become apparent how deep he is still in the grave, how darkened his spirit is and how far away he himself still is from being a true follower of Jesus Christ. And that is why only a few people have the right to call themselves christians, because most of them are not, even if they belong to ecclesiastical organisations but do not honour them. For in all these organizations people can take the right path of following Jesus in order to then also possess the characteristic of My church as true christians: the awakened spirit which now guides and teaches them, which brightly illuminates their path of life and which truly has an effect on the human being in the best sense, because it is My spirit which expresses itself in you and I also truly only give you what is good for you and your souls. And every one of you can awaken the spirit in himself to life if he only seriously wants to fulfil his earthly task, if he seriously wants to unite with Me, Whom he recognizes as his God and father and establishes this intimate union through loving activity …. For anyone who practices love establishes unity with Me, Who is love Myself, and My spirit will radiate through him and give him light …. He will now only ever be active in My will and gain eternal life while still on earth ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Grace of the word reception ….

B.D. 7267 from January 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You cannot grasp the grace of the proclamation of the word or you would not hesitate for a minute to contact Me in order to be addressed by Me. But it is also due to your imperfection that you are unable to grasp the magnitude of such an event that I address you directly. For you yourselves are so limited in your perfection, rather, you are so imperfect that you cannot imagine anything perfect and are even less able to grasp that the most perfect being bends down to the imperfect creature in order to communicate with it, in order to give it love and evidence of grace and to draw it close to Itself again. But you know that you once came forth from Me, and I love this created being with all the fervour of My love, which is incomprehensible to you. And this love impels Me to draw close to you and to enter into such a connection with you that you will be able to hear My voice if you want to. Admittedly, none of you humans is in such a degree of maturity that this imparting of My audible word would be nothing unusual, but precisely the weakness of people …. of My creatures which once came forth from Me …. causes Me to help them out of their state of weakness. They take pity on Me, and hot love for the weak is now also added to My primal love, and thus I approach people despite their imperfection, and I seek to supply them with the lacking strength so that they emerge from their state of weakness and start their way back to Me again with all their strength …. for they are previously still at an infinitely long distance and must voluntarily return again in order to give Me the evidence of their love for Me too, which seeks to unite with Me. I have come down into the sinful world, although this is not My kingdom, but I also seek to bring My kingdom into this world …. I seek to turn people away from the world and therefore come to them with My kingdom. I take care of the imperfect creatures and want to help them attain perfection, which they are eternally unable to do without My help …. This is why I speak to them but they don’t grasp the unusual, they accept My gift of grace as something self-evident. And yet it is the evidence of My infinite love for the fallen, which I don’t want to leave in the abyss and therefore always try to pull it up to Me again. If people could grasp this overwhelming grace they would no longer want to live on earth but long for their father with all sincerity and for the kingdom which is their true home …. they would simply no longer endure earthly life, which weighs down an originally freely-created being like a burden and thus is a shackle for this being which it would like to cast off just in order to reach Me. But I cannot suddenly give perfection back to the imperfect, the being itself must strive to become perfect again, as it was in the beginning …. And so that you will muster this will I speak to you and show you the path which leads to perfection. For you must receive information about what you should or should not do in order to become perfect again. And if your fellow human beings proclaim this to you, if they try to make the gospel accessible to you, you still lack living faith in it, which is why I Myself convey My word to you from above in order to help a few to gain a living faith if they are doers and not just hearers of My word. No human being is aware of the great grace of ‘receiving the word’ but nevertheless it can help to lead fellow human beings to perfection who are only of good will and listen to what I say to them. Then My word will not fail to have its effect, and people will mature and devote themselves to Me ever more; they will do what I request through My word, and love will also flare up and spread in them, and only then will they grasp the great significance of the father’s speaking to His child in order to help it attain perfection ….

Amen

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God's plan of salvation always requires new creations ….

B.D. 7268 from January 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

New creations will still arise on this earth for eternities, and the upward development of the spiritual will continue, which is still bound in hard matter and other works of creation, for eternal times are already required by a once-fallen original spirit for this return from the deepest depth to the height, up to the stage where it may walk across earth embodied as a human being to pass its last test of will: for or against God, to Whom it once offered its resistance and therefore fell …. An infinite amount of fallen spirits still have to take this path, and it takes eternities for these spirits to remain far away from God in utmost wretchedness until they are even allowed to take this path of return …. until it becomes matter according to God’s will and then slowly ascends in material creations. For this reason all matter is already a state of constraint which proves that God’s love has taken care of the hardened spiritual substance in order to shape it according to His will, for it is then already seized by God’s strength of love which enveloped it in order to give it a helpful purpose, irrespective of whether it is at the beginning of its development or has already progressed. All matter is hardened spiritual matter enveloped by God’s strength of love, which has received its envelopment for the sake of a purpose. It is not always possible for you humans to recognize the purpose, but nothing in the whole of creation is without meaning and purpose, only it is often only known to God alone, because human thinking and conceptual ability is still limited. But only as human beings can the original spirits recognize themselves again as beings, because before they were not aware of themselves. And as long as the earth exists and harbours creations of the most diverse kind, countless original spirits are bound in it, all of which still have to gather and find themselves in order to one day be able to animate the form of a human being when those bound little particles have attained their appropriate maturity. And as long as there are creations in, on and above the earth there can be no end to this earth which serves as a maturing station for the fallen spirits. For this reason it is not possible to speak of a downfall of the earth if this is understood to mean a complete decay, a total dissolution of the earth’s body, for the bound spiritual substances require shells and thus again and again new creations which offer them shelter depending on the state of maturity which the individual particles have already reached. One day the earth will indeed be a purely spiritual creation, yet eternities will pass until then, because a spiritual creation can only shelter mature spiritual beings and the countless creations on earth only ever prove how much unredeemed spiritual substance has taken abode in those creations. And this spiritual substance cannot jump over developmental phases at will, it has to ascend from the abyss according to natural law, in accordance with the divine order in which God’s plan of salvation …. the return of the apostate to Him …. was conceived and is carried out. And this very plan of God’s salvation requires eternities and it requires new creations again and again, otherwise the change of external forms could not take place, which is necessary again and again in order to give the spiritual the opportunity for serving activity through which the ascent development is guaranteed. The constant coming into being and passing away in nature is a process according to divine order, which takes place according to natural law …. Yet from time to time acts of violence also take place according to God’s will in order to repeatedly dissolve hard matter and release the spiritual within, which is now to begin its course of development in lighter external forms …. and at the same time to capture and bind fallen spiritual again in hardest form. And the earth will still have to serve this task for eternities, it will certainly be transformed again and again but it will not be able to pass away, for an incomprehensibly long time is necessary for you humans until even the last spiritual substance will be embodied on this earth, which you can well describe with the word ‘eternity’. And yet, you can also speak of a downfall of the earth, for what lies ahead of you signifies an end of your life for you humans, for nothing will remain alive, people and animals will lose their lives apart from the small flock of those who will be raptured in order to then become the tribe of the human race again on the newly formed earth which shall populate the new earth, as is God’s will ….

Amen

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(Personal) ….

B.D. 7269 from January 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Surrender everything, worries and hardships, joys and sufferings, health and sickness, for everything comes from My hand. And I will not impose anything on you other than that which is conducive to your soul’s salvation. But I also determine the duration of everything, and therefore it is good and right to leave it up to Me when I want to end a state or let it occur, for only that can be a blessing for you which I deem good for you. And thus only surrender yourself in full trust to your father of eternity that He will hold you firmly in His hand …. and the path you take will truly be right and lead to the goal. You don’t know the path, but I know it and guide you, so that you can be unconcerned about whatever may come. However, a small cross will remain imposed on you, after all, this cross is only destined for perfection, and your will shall accept it as burdened upon you by Me, Who truly knows what you are capable of bearing. You can be certain that I will always guide your thoughts correctly, and what you therefore do in My name will not remain without blessing, both spiritually and earthly …. by which the physical condition is to be understood …. As long as you are in My service you will also be able to perform the service, for My love cares fatherly, and even as a householder I give My servants everything they need to work for Me as long as they want to serve Me and I make use of their services. Therefore, you can cheerfully face the future, which will always be bearable for you as long as you entrust yourselves to Me and My love ….

Amen

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Law of divine order is love ….

B.D. 7270 from January 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

This is the fulfilment of the law, that you live in love, for love is the law of eternal order, love is the only existing thing which no opposing will is able to overthrow …. love is the strength of God and thus the primal element which has its origin in God but which is also the primal being of God Himself. And thus the law of eternal order can only be fulfilled or maintained if love is the principle in which all beingness moves …. Without love the law of divine order will be overturned, without love there will be a lack of strength and light, without love there will be sin, i.e., every violation of the law of eternal order is a sin because it is directed against the original source of love, against God Himself, Who is eternal love. Nothing can find approval before God’s eye that does not take place within the framework of the lawful order, which is love. Everything that opposes it must be wrong before God because it is based on unkindness and because unkindness opposes God’s love, thus it is part of God’s adversary whose nature is devoid of all love. Whatever you humans encounter in earthly life has to be tested for the degree of love which determines every event. Only that which is evident as ‘activity of love’ will stand before God, and where there is only the slightest lack of love God’s eyes will turn away, since He cannot be pleased with sin. And you humans can easily judge whether an action, a speech or even a thought was caused by a degree of self-love or even unkindness, no matter how small it may be …. And therefore you will also know that you often play with sin, that you often violate the law of eternal order if you merely allow an unloving thought to arise within you and don’t push it away when it arises within you. And likewise you are very quickly prepared to speak unkind words or to carry out an action which lacks love …. You move far more outside of divine order because you are not always filled with love, on the contrary, you easily let yourselves be carried away into unkind judgment or thinking. And it need not always be actions which do not meet with God’s approval, but you humans should all pay more attention to your thoughts or words that they do not violate the law of divine order …. for divine order can only exist where love is the highest principle which fills the human being and determines his thoughts, speech and actions. You all still practice love far too little, you all do not yet recognize love as the most important thing which alone brings your maturing process to a successful conclusion. Only through love do you reintegrate yourselves into the law of divine order, and only then do you take on the being again which you were in the beginning and once gave away. But you have to become again what you were in the beginning, and therefore you have to accept your original being again, which is love in itself …. Only when you live in love again will you enter the divine order and fulfil the law …. you then join the eternal love again, there is no longer any separation, there is then also no state of imperfection but from then on you move in strength and light and freedom, because then you have become perfect, just as your father in heaven is perfect ….

Amen

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Does the human being possess free will? ….

B.D. 7271 from January 31th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Human will is not controlled by Me, instead I allow it its freedom. Even if you humans, time and again, would like to doubt free will …. your thoughts and intentions are free. You will not be able to dispute this even if someone else’s will or destiny prevents you from implementing your intentions. Your thoughts and intentions, however, are the expression of your innermost feelings, which you can aim in any direction, for this is within your power and is not determined by another person’s will. If you humans spent more thought on your freedom of will you would also learn to regard your earthly life, to some extent, as the ‘consequence’ of your will …. However, you come to the exact opposite conclusion; you look upon your course of life with all its events as proof of your lack of freedom of will, because it frequently does not correspond to your wishes and thus you regard it as a coercion of will …. but which, in truth, was only caused by your wrong will, albeit I presented it to you such that it is helpful for you, even if you don’t like it. And even in the most unpleasant situation you can still think and want unimpededly. Implementing a deed is only the next step of your will, but even then I only rarely oppose it, instead I let you have as much freedom as possible, nevertheless, only within limits. And thus you can use your freedom of will to try and order your earthly circumstances, you can change their course. You can do anything in order to completely change your circumstances of life …. sometimes you will be successful and at other times not, for without My will and My permission you are unable to do anything …. but that never revokes your freedom of will.

You should learn to differentiate between ‘free will’ and ‘implementation option’ …. As long as you only acknowledge the latter as free will you are right, for this still depends on My will or My agreement. But one day you will only have to justify yourselves for your will, which does not depend on the deed, but it will equally be judged according to whether and how it was made use of. Will and deed certainly belong together, for the will without the deed is no will if the human being himself omits or prevents its implementation. Hence you should critically observe yourselves in this respect; this is why the significance of your free will is constantly presented to you, which you humans cannot deny if you seriously think about what is to be understood by it. Your innermost thoughts and intentions are your very own possessions, and no-one can stop the direction you give to your thoughts and intentions. However, you are also accountable for it, because free will is a very significant factor in earthly life on which My plan of Salvation is based, it was the cause of the past apostasy from Me and must also accomplish the final return to Me, or the work of return would have been completed long ago had My will alone determined that My living creations should take the path to Me within a specific time. The fact that this is determined by the human being’s free will itself is so tremendously important that it repeatedly has to be explained to people who dispute free will and who are therefore not aware of their great responsibility, who go with the flow and believe they are living creations with no will of their own in regard to their God and Creator Who, however, once created them as free beings and also wants to help them regain the freedom they possessed in the very beginning. Freedom of will is not a mere object or concept of faith, instead, through serious deliberation, the human being can find out for certain, and then he will live his life responsibly and safely reach the goal ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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God's love pursues man until he himself opens his heart ….

B.D. 7272 from February 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will never ever lose My love, no matter how far you distance yourselves from Me, for you emerged from My love and your fundamental substance is and remains love, just as My fundamental nature is love. Yet as long as you yourselves are in opposition to Me My love will also find resistance against which it cannot force itself. My love waits until you give up your resistance and voluntarily turn to Me. And this has to happen during your earthly lifetime as a human being where you are endowed with intellect and free will, for you have to consciously turn the latter towards Me and thereby open yourselves to My illumination of love. As long as you don’t do this, as long as you still turn away from Me, My love cannot take effect on you, thus you will feel nothing of My love, and yet it applies to you, it pursues you even in times of resistance, it does not let go of you, because love constantly seeks unification with the object of its love. But since this can only happen voluntarily on your part …. because My love is always willing to do so …. it constantly follows you, seeking to determine you, likewise seeking love which will then truly flow into you in richest measure. If only I succeed in turning your thoughts and intentions towards Me then I can also draw your attention to the God Who wants to be your father …. I can make you aware of all works, through the works of creation I can draw your attention to a being Which loves you and wants to give you joy, and then I can slowly kindle love in you for this being, I can present Myself to you as the father Who, in love for you, wants to do everything in order to make you happy. And I have won you as soon as you feel touched by My love yourselves, as soon as you think about the God and creator Who is your father from eternity. If only once such thoughts occupy you then I will have taken root in your hearts and you will then also never be able to displace Me from them again, even if you temporarily turn your thoughts to the world again, but the God Whom you once recognized as father you will then no longer give Him up yourselves, for I love you and My love keeps you captive once it could only ignite in your hearts. You had to travel a long path in order to learn to recognize Me in the stage of self-awareness; but once you have recognized Me as the being from Whom you once approached your origin, then you will soon have reached the end of your development, for then My love will be able to take hold of you, and you will feel this because you will no longer be able to get away from thoughts of Me, because again and again you will turn to Me, Whose love you now long for and will certainly be granted to you. And if you can now also love Me yourselves then the bond has already been established, which is the goal of every human being on earth …. Then My love will have ignited in you, and what it grasps it will never let go of again. Because I Myself am love I must one day also succeed in the work of return, for your fundamental substance is also love which one day will also remember itself, which will ignite as soon as a spark has ignited …. And this spark of love has been placed in every person’s heart, and if it comes into contact with My fire of love then it must ignite and seek to unite with the fire of eternal love, because love seeks union and will not rest until it has entered into it …. One day you will all become Mine on this path of love, and in order to shorten the time of separation between us, which your free will has to abolish, My love pursues you until you turn around and open yourselves to Me, until you yourselves open your heart to Me, into which My love now shines with brightest light …. until the fire of My love completely transfigures you and you have become one with the eternal love, with Me Myself, Who is your father from eternity ….

Amen

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Receiving the truth through the spirit ….

B.D. 7273 from February 3rd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

And when My spirit descends upon you much knowledge will be made accessible to you, knowledge which no human being’s intellect could ever fathom without My spirit working in him. For this I choose the appropriate vessels for Myself into which My spirit can flow, for ‘spiritual things’ can only be received spiritually, i.e. what is conveyed to you humans from Me can only be received by the spirit within you which is in contact with Me because it is part of Myself, thus My share …. The intellect remains untouched by the spiritual influx until it also submits itself to this spirit. But before that it would not have the ability to grasp spiritual things, which is why it is also very difficult to win over researchers of intellect to first awaken the spirit in themselves to life if they want to penetrate spiritual knowledge. They cannot grasp this condition because they only seek to clarify everything with the intellect. But the intellect must be addressed by the spirit, then it will be able to record most marvellous results. And every person could manage to be addressed by My spirit within himself, yet this requires a life of love which not everyone is willing to lead. A loveless person denies the spirit within himself every expression, whereas a loving person gives him the opportunity to express himself, which is also extensively used by My spirit. Love determines the human being’s intimate bond with Me, Who is in him with every work of love …. And love then also gives life to the faith in Me that I will give to the human being what he lacks: the light of realization, the knowledge, which is wisdom and cannot be gained in any other way than this way of expression through the spirit. It simply requires the will to receive the light, the knowledge, from the highest source …. And this will will cause the human being to turn to this source and open himself in order to let the divine flow of love flow into him …. But the will is free and therefore cannot be forcibly directed towards Me in any way, which is why faith is necessary beforehand, so that the human being can make contact with Me through the spirit within himself in order to request what he lacks. Every person can tap into this source, everyone can draw from it in abundance …. But anyone who does not decide to seek out the source, who does not bow down in order to drink from the spring of life, can never be approached by the spirit within himself either, he will always remain outside the well, he will do nothing in order to procure light and strength for himself, and he will also never be able to experience the truth about spiritual correlations because he does not take the spiritual path which alone makes the truth accessible to him. Not for a second will I sever the bond with you, My living creations, but only when you also want it, when you consciously seek the bond with Me, will the contact be established, because it was you who once turned away from Me …. even if a complete separation was impossible. Yet your will was the decisive factor, and this will now has to make the decision again, it has to turn fully towards Me again in order to receive My ray of love, which previously could not touch it, so that it becomes aware of it. But love is a prerequisite for this again, for the human being’s will only turns towards Me when this love has been kindled in him …. But then it also means that the human being grants the spiritual spark within himself the right to flare up and illuminate the human being’s inner being, or also: My spirit now pours into the open vessel and bestows truly delicious gifts upon you …. My spirit guides you into truth, into the recognition of your being, your earthly task and your goal …. And you will become knowledgeable of what you will never be able to achieve through intellect alone ….

Amen

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What is a right prayer? ….

B.D. 7274 from February 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You can get anything from Me if you pray for it in the right way. You shall not demand but appeal to Me with a humble heart for help in earthly and in spiritual adversity. And you shall believe that I will help you because I love you. Hence I request a right prayer in spirit and in truth, so that I will then be able to support you in accordance with your faith. Whatever it may be, everything is possible to Me, even if you humans don’t think it possible, but My power is unlimited, and My wisdom also foresees everything and accordingly can always work for the salvation of your soul. And My love will also carry it out, you are, after all, My children, to whom I will not deny anything that is beneficial for them. A right prayer is a prayer that will reach My ear, because you make the effort to let Me be present with you …. when you are aware of you own weakness and beseech Me to provide you with strength and help …. Such a prayer will not remain unheard because it is addressed to Me in profoundest humility ….

But anyone who demands is not praying correctly …. and demands are made by many prayers which are merely voiced by the mouth, because the human being imagines that it merely requires the speech of a praying person in order to attain the blessing of a prayer …. Not the words but the feeling of the heart gives a prayer depth and spirit. It is only ever the intimate relationship with Me which the human being enters when he prays in the right way. And his prayer will be answered by Me …. For this reason just a few words suffice to touch My ear and to be heard by Me. Long formal prayers, however, are abhorrent to Me, for the human being will not be able to keep concentrating on his words, only his lips are speaking, and the prayers won’t come through to Me, they will be spoken in vain and only serve to displace people’s faith, for since I cannot grant such prayers, faith in a powerful, wise and loving God will also be undermined, it will get progressively more lost because I only expect the heartfelt bond which has to be established by the heart and then will also guarantee My presence in the person, to whom I can reveal Myself as a Father to My child by granting his prayer …. Learn to pray correctly …. For what you have so far called praying is not a right prayer in spirit and in truth. Believe Me that I prefer a short deep sigh to prayers which last for hours, which are possibly said on instructions and do not arise by themselves from the heart of the person …. But just a few words are enough when the heart is involved in what the mouth is saying or what is mentally moving the person. Then I will not close My ear, I will help and grant whatever the child requests which is imploring its Father ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Convincingly spreading the truth …. right doctrine ….

B.D. 7275 from February 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You, who have come into possession of the truth yourselves, shall stand up for the truth …. And the fact that you live in truth is guaranteed to you by your receipt of My word, which originates from Me Myself as the eternal truth. Hence you can be certain that you are offered truth, and therefore you can also pass this truth on from Me with the same certainty, you can impart it to your fellow human beings without hesitation and also advocate with all conviction that you only spread purest truth. You will not lack this inner conviction as soon as you take your work for Me and My kingdom seriously, for at the same time as My word you also receive the power of judgment, at the same time as the truth you also receive the gift of recognizing the truth, and therefore you can also vividly represent this word of Mine because you know that you are instructed by Me Myself, Who alone can offer you the truth. But it is also necessary that the truth is spread because it alone gives light and because the earth is in deepest darkness, i.e. people have taken possession of error and lies and cannot release themselves from this darkness unless the path is illuminated for them …. which is only ever possible through the light of truth. In the last days the spiritual darkness will become ever more dense, people will be blind in spirit, they will not recognize anything and not know about the correlations, they will also not know about the one Who can guide them to the light, Who wants to lead them to the eternal light, to the brightest realization of truth from Me. And therefore My word shall be brought to them through you who receive it directly from Me …. Again and again you should open yourselves to receive My word, you should pass it on in such a way that it will not be changed and thus the pure truth will be distorted again, as very often happens on the part of people. You should teach and let yourselves be taught, for only he who has a right teaching material himself will pass it on and bring blessings. And therefore you should not work with knowledge which you have received elsewhere but only pay attention to My instructions and proclaim My words to fellow human beings who desire them. You cannot open yourselves up to Me often enough so that I can let My spirit flow into you …. My gift of grace, My word, cannot be offered to you often enough, for the light in you shall increase, it shall shine ever brighter, and this is only possible if your heart lets light shine into it again and again, if the flame flares up ever brighter and finally can completely illuminate the heart …. But then it will also be easy to spread and advocate the truth, then the human being will speak with utmost conviction what was conveyed to him by Me Myself. And as a living representative of My word he will also be successful with his fellow human beings, for they will be able to hear Me Myself, albeit through the mouth of My servant who speaks to them. Only the light of truth can make people happy, whereas every knowledge which lacks pure truth remains misunderstood and will not bring light. But humanity languishes in darkness, the soul cannot mature without truth, it cannot find the right path if everything around it is darkened, and it cannot recognize the cross of Christ either, which is only recognizable to the one who walks in truth, whereas it remains an empty sign without meaning and purpose to the others because they do not recognize the meaning and purpose of the cross. The truth must first provide enlightenment, the truth must first illuminate the incomprehensible sacrifice which the divine redeemer made for humanity. And for this reason alone the truth must be spread, because the cross of Christ cannot be ignored by the one who wants to become blessed. But a person will not go to the cross of Christ who does not know its deepest meaning and who has never been given proper light about the man Jesus, in Whom I Myself offered the sacrifice on the cross for all people. I Myself make such obvious contact with you humans that I speak to you in order to enable you to receive truth and clarity about that sacrifice on the cross, in order to illuminate the path for you on which you can ascend to the height, to beatitude, if you walk this path in accordance with My word, which leads out of the darkness of night into the light of day but which is only taken if the human being accepts the truth which is offered to him by Me in an unusual way. And you, My disciples of the end time, should zealously advocate this truth and know that you are thereby fulfilling a task which is equal to the task of My first disciples whom I ‘sent out into all the world’ ….. Guide all people back to the pure truth and know that it alone is the light which leads out of darkness and makes them eternally blessed ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Sounding of the divine word in infinity …. participation of beings ….

B.D. 7276 from February 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My word resounds far out into infinity and can be heard by all beings who want to hear Me. Thus I address the self-aware beings, the people on earth, the beings on all celestial bodies as well as all souls in the kingdom of the beyond who have not yet found a permanent place for their further development, who are still undecided and wander about in the twilight …. My word resounds to all of them, which should make them seek ever more contact with Me, Whom they shall learn to recognize and love through the fatherly address which continues to sound to them. And the more light flows to the beings the more they desire it and the more attentively they listen when My word is spoken to them. But people on earth are not very receptive to it because they have not yet spiritualized much, because they still dwell in a sphere where My adversary has more influence and they are more likely to listen to his language, for it is the world through which he addresses people and also wins them over for himself. In the kingdom of the beyond, however, My word is already more respected, for the soul which has once felt the strengthening effect of the word constantly longs for it, even though this influence is only high (great) according to its degree of maturity and can only touch the being very minimally in the beginning. But this degree of maturity irrevocably increases through the influx of My word, and the soul’s desire for My words grows ever greater, which it feels like rays of light in which it feels a sense of well-being which it no longer wants to miss. But even more highly developed beings are already recipients of My word which sounds in infinity …. They are beings of light who likewise accept My word, which they feel as a source of strength and always accept in order to pass it on again in the still dark spheres where they know unfortunate beings who still completely lack light. It is the endeavour and activity of the beings of light as well as the inhabitants of highly developed worlds to whom these beings are handed over for care. For My word must resound everywhere and where it cannot be received directly from Me, mediators must be active who pass on My word. On earth this is the task of those who have voluntarily offered themselves to Me for service, who have placed themselves into the state of maturity that they can be directly addressed by Me and who are also willing to pass on what they receive, because great darkness prevails on earth which urgently should be chased away by light but can only be dispelled by the light from the heavens. I also have to address people directly if it is to become light amongst humanity, I have to convey an unusual gift of grace to those who only have the will to serve Me, even if their own state of maturity still leaves much to be desired, but the will to serve Me as a mediator also encourages them to live in accordance with My will and to make themselves suitable as a vessel into which I can pour Myself. And countless spiritual beings take part in such transmissions of My word to a person, for wherever My word sounds this is always evident in the spiritual world through flashes of sparks of light or rays which attract countless spiritual beings; and active participation now takes place when I speak to people, to the seeking souls and to all beings which open themselves to hear My word. This is why such transmissions of My word from above are particularly blessed, even if all beings are called to them through the human being himself who require help …. For the souls hear this call and don’t hesitate to comply with it …. And souls also come from the abyss, for My word will also work there as a spark of light and entice them to follow it wherever it sounds, so that it will bring light to all souls on earth as well as in the beyond and chase away the darkness in which they previously found themselves. People are always free to decide if and when they want to hear Me …. I always speak, I don’t impose any restrictions on you, but you can only hear Me if you want to, if you open yourselves to Me and My speech and make it possible through your will that I can speak to you. But you should also know that you do not hear My voice alone but that countless beings attend the teachings …. And this should impel you to seek ever more frequent contact with Me in order to prompt Me to speak to you, to convey My word to you. You humans, who want to be of service to Me, should remember all starving souls even more than yourselves, for the number is great to whom you simultaneously give spiritual help and nourishment when you yourselves lie down at the source which My love has opened up for you …. when you yourselves prepare yourselves to receive that which brings you light and helps you to ascend …. Remember that My word resounds into infinity, and therefore help all to the light who desire it, for only the light will be able to change wretchedness into bliss …. Only the light from above will break through the darkness and help all souls on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond to become blissful ….

Amen

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God's plan of Salvation is based on the human being's free will ….

B.D. 7277 from February 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My work of returning the fallen spirits is based on My eternal plan of Salvation and according to this plan of Salvation everything will run its course over infinitely long periods of time for which you humans lack all concepts. My plan of Salvation has been designed again in love and wisdom and My power implements it, consequently, one day I will reach My goal …. that all fallen spiritual beings will start the path of return to Me into the Father’s house. Yet the implementation is not determined by My will alone, but the free will of the beings, which were once created in all perfection despite which they fell away from Me, decides the length of time this said return to Me requires, thus every single being determines for itself how much time its process of development, its return to Me, will take. Therefore, My plan of Salvation is also based on the free will of each individual being …. which is a fact that is inconceivable for you humans but which I deemed to be essential if one day I want I to be surrounded by truly free and totally devoted children to Me, because this is the purpose and goal of My eternal plan of Salvation …. I knew each and every being’s will from the beginning, both as original spirits as well human beings later, when the original spirit has had to prove itself and once again can decide of its own free will which path it wants to take …. I knew your direction of will and was able to design My plan of Salvation accordingly, which includes your every thought and expression of will and is based on these accordingly. And truly, it was planned such that every being can cover its process of development with ease, because I will always helpfully stand by its side when it is at risk of making a wrong decision. Time and again it will be able to make a choice but not be forced to make the right decision, yet his destiny will affect a person such that the right decision will always be closer at hand, that inwardly he will be urged to take the right path but that this urging may never be felt as compulsion.

My love applies to every individual being, and whatever I can do to shorten its course of development until the final return to Me will certainly be done by Me. And thus no person will ever be able to say that his situation in life forced him to make an opposing decision …. My wisdom is truly beyond all doubt, and thus I foresaw all opportunities which served a person to make the right decision and based My plan of Salvation on this. Admittedly, I also forever know the direction of every individual’s will but during his time on earth as a human being I do not want to know it, and thus the human being can nevertheless make a free decision, for precisely because of his wrong will I let destiny so affect his life that he has every opportunity to change his will, and My side will eagerly support him in this …. for ‘there is joy in My kingdom over one sinner that repenteth ….’ This should be understood as a complete change of will which is indeed intended in My plan of Salvation but does not definitely determine this said plan of Salvation. You are completely free during your life on earth, and even if I know …. you are by no means bound, because originally you were entirely free beings and this freedom will not be taken from you as soon as you live on earth as self-aware beings again or even when you enter the kingdom of the beyond …. No force of any kind is exerted on you, and what or how you are was created by yourselves. But My plan of Salvation also plans an assured and final return into the Father’s house …. However, the day will come …. it is just that the time it takes can be brief but also very lengthy, and this is taken into account in My plan of Salvation, always in consideration of your will, which is free and cannot abide any kind of force. But the fact that you will reach your goal one day is certain, and it is equally certain that a thousand years are like a day to Me, that no law of time exists for Me …. You yourselves, however, are still subject to this law, your imperfect state keeps you bound to the law of time, and that is extremely painful for you, for your distance from Me is a painful state which you immeasurably prolong again if you don’t unite with Me …. if you have not achieved your return into the Father’s house as yet. I would like to protect you from this long state of torment, therefore I will urgently admonish you time and again to use your will correctly, that is, to subordinate yourselves to My will, of which you are repeatedly informed. Receiving My Word and thus the knowledge of My will is part of My plan of Salvation, which will be implemented with love, wisdom and might …. but you will always be at liberty to consider it according to your own will. Consequently, the length of time you require for your return differs considerably but it can already be over for you at the end of your life on earth and can finally have resulted in freedom, light and strength, if you strive for it yourselves and make every effort to desire My help for it …. for this striving is already the correctly directed will which safely lets you reach your goal ….

Amen

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Tribulations and trepidations of Jesus, the man ….

B.D. 7278 from February 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

I, too, found life on earth as a human being difficult at times, for I was subject to the same laws as you are, I had to fight against the same weaknesses and temptations, and it was not always easy to face up to them even though My heart was full of love and was therefore permeated by divine strength when I needed it. But hours of psychological distress were also part of My journey through life and had I not experienced it like you, I would not have been as ‘human’ as you either …. My soul had to go through the process of spiritualisation on earth which led to My complete unification with the Father, the complete becoming as One with Him. Although My soul had indeed come from above, it nevertheless had come into flesh with all its immature substances which every material shell basically consists of, and all these substances had to spiritualise themselves, for the body with all its wishes and cravings exerted an extraordinary influence on the soul which was unable to ignore these temptations but had to bear up against them …. just as is the task of the human soul who wants to take the path of following Jesus in order to release themselves from sin and death. However, the battles I had to go through were difficult and My earthly progress often weighed Me down like an overwhelming burden which wanted to make Me doubt that I would ever be able to travel this path until the end. Time and again I drew strength from love …. For by virtue of My love and its consequences I also foresaw the difficult path I had to take, I foresaw the suffering and death on the cross as well as the people’s spiritual state who nailed Me on the cross …. And yet I had to continue My path until the end …. Time and again I had to endeavour to master My fears and weaknesses and cling to the Father to strengthen Me in every adversity of body and soul, for I experienced all these tribulations like you and even far more severely, because My life surrounded by sinful humanity was already a torture for Me, Who lived in all purity in the midst of those for whom I wanted to suffer and die.

However, the more My body matured, the deeper became My soul’s union with the Father Who was in Me, and the clearer became My mission, which I indeed began as a ‘human being’ but concluded as ‘God’ and which I was able to accomplish because the strength in Me grew constantly, just as the love for the unhappy human race became greater the nearer I got to the end. And Love was the strength which made Me accomplish the act of Salvation; Love was the Father in Me Whose will I wanted to fulfil in order to help My fallen brothers. I consciously travelled My earthly path, at first I only had vague ideas and every now and then bright thoughts and insights; yet the more the spiritualisation progressed in Me the clearer I saw the plan of Salvation on account of which I had descended from the kingdom of light to Earth. But as long as human substances were still clinging to My body I also had to endure human suffering and torments which, last but not least, also included the inner distress of not being able to cope with My task …. for I knew what it would mean were I to fail in the battle against the one who was, is and will remain everyone’s enemy for eternities to come. Yet I gained victory over him, I took on the battle with incredible pain and suffering and constantly gained more strength because My love for you also kept growing since you must suffer until you are released from him and his power. My strength grew as My love intensified …. And so you humans know that you can only draw the strength for your earthly task from love, for My adversary will always try to weaken you by driving you into unkindness, by wanting to prevent you by any means to carry out an act of love in order to keep you weak …. But then remember that I, too, have struggled against him, and that he also tried to weaken Me through trepidations and anxious questioning of whether I would have the strength for My mission. Then turn to Me for help and appeal to Me for strength against the enemy of your soul and for every battle in life, be it of an earthly or spiritual nature …. And you will not ask in vain, for I will truly grant everyone’s prayer who calls to Me in his distress ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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God is a "God of love", not a God of wrath ….

B.D. 7279 from February 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My love and mercy does not allow a being to be eternally in death, to be eternally exposed to the torments of hell, to be eternally unredeemed …. There is no eternal damnation, and even My first-created being …. now My adversary …. will one day be accepted by Me again and be able to enter into supreme beatitude when the time comes. For I am a God of love but not a God of wrath Who mercilessly condemns everything that once opposed Him. A God of love, however, does not punish but seeks to raise up the fallen, He seeks to lift it from the abyss to the height, He wants the lost to find its way back to Him again, with Whom it will always find loving acceptance, because I am a God of love. And thus the state of separation from My once-fallen creations will never last forever, it will end one day and heartfelt communion will unite every being with Me again, as it was in the beginning. Yet the periods of separation can be immeasurably long. The being can certainly spend eternities at a distance from Me and thus be in an unhappy state, and it determines the duration of its departure from Me itself. Thus it also creates the state of hell for itself, for I do not condemn the being due to its past guilt of sin but the being creates the distance from Me for itself, the being itself strove for distance and therefore must also strive for approach itself, because it was initially created free by Me and misused its freedom. Therefore it will once again enter the state of freedom and then it will also have to accomplish the return to Me. A state which the being created for itself must also end itself if it wants to become a truly blissful being again and not just be a puppet which places My will in a place which it did not desire itself. The being is in the state of death for as long as it is at a distance from Me, and My will is and remains to restore the being to the life it lost through its own fault …. Hence there can be no question of condemnation on My part, which portrays Me as an unmerciful judge Who inflicts the most dreadful punishment on a guilt …. to be eternally separated from Me …. My nature is love, and even the creature which has become sinful still possesses My love, because My original nature knows nothing but love …. And love always seeks to please but never to punish or banish, for you are My children whom I created out of My love and who will also always and forever possess My love, even if they are at the greatest distance from Me. And if they stay in hell, if they gather together in droves with a truly satanic mindset, My love will still seek to save them even then and to detach them from My adversary to whom they still cling. And I try everything to win them back again and snatch them from their lord. But this cannot be done forcibly but also requires their own will …. and it is this which often extends the duration of their separation from Me for eternities, and you humans then deem an ‘eternal damnation’ credible when you are thus taught. You should always remember My love which does not cease, and a loving father does not leave His child forever to His enemy and adversary …. A loving father will pursue His child wherever it may be and always show it a path which leads back to Himself again, into the father’s house. But justice also dictates that the child has to take this path itself, because it once distanced itself from the father on this very path …. justice dictates that the child recognizes its wrongdoing and repentantly pleads with the father that He may help it to cover the long and difficult path …. And I will truly not hesitate to come to this child’s aid, I will go to meet it and do everything to shorten its way back, but I will also always leave it the free will to likewise seek the father’s nearness, just as I seek My child’s nearness and don’t deny Myself to it. For My love lasts forever, therefore I do not want to be separated from My child forever. Yet it must also give its love to Me and then it will truly be awakened from death to life, it will live eternally in My kingdom and be blissfully happy ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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Conditions for attaining childship to God ….

B.D. 7280 from February 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every one of you is destined to walk the path across earth who wants to attain childship to God, but not every one of you attains it, rather, there are only a few whose earthly path is so successful that they can depart as true children whom the father can receive into His kingdom. For conditions have to be fulfilled which could certainly be fulfilled by people but which nevertheless cost too much self-conquest to be taken seriously by all people. The prerequisite for attaining childship to God is a life of love which results in a high degree of maturity, and very few people are prepared for such an activity of love. But it is nothing impossible, God does not demand something that would be unfulfillable for human beings …. But childship to God ensures the being an immeasurably blissful existence in the father’s immediate proximity …. What this means cannot be explained to you exhaustively, but it is a fate which promises supreme bliss to the being which has become God’s ‘child’ from a ‘creature’ …. God has then achieved His goal, which He already planned when He created countless spiritual beings and which also provides Himself with unlimited bliss. But to reach this goal requires the free will of every individual being, and therefore there will also only rarely be people on earth who so seriously strive towards the goal and are completely absorbed in love during their earthly life. And yet, every human being could achieve it, for living in love is not that difficult if only the human being would muster the serious will to do so. But love must be practiced for its own sake, not out of calculation, for the latter would not be love. Love must be kindled in the heart and then flare up ever more brightly through loving activity, then the fire of love will quickly spread and take hold of everything …. or also: Anyone who is once driven from within to work with love will never let up, because every work of love is a bond with the eternal love and fills him with ever new strength which he uses again to work with love. But the human being is too full of selfish love and as long as he does not conquer it, that is, as long as he does not overcome himself, he will only ever try but never seriously strive to fulfil the commandments of love. Yet only the beginning will cost overcoming, for nothing can soon tempt a loving person to do it to himself …. He finds far more happiness in loving his neighbour than in fulfilling his own wishes and desires. And this degree must be reached if the attainment of childship to God is to follow, which only requires pure, selfless love, which one day will bring him endless happiness, such as the father provides for His child whom He loves above all else. You shall certainly all become God’s children, yet His children will have the right to the father’s inheritance, who will immediately return from earth into the father’s arms, who will directly receive His strength of love and therefore also be directly permeated by Him, which signifies unlimited beatitude. Only the path across this earth earns the once fallen original spirits the childship to God, although other souls can also expect beatitude in the spiritual kingdom if they have developed into beings of light on earth or in the beyond, but the degree of light of all beings is different, and the highest degree which can be attained on earth is the degree of childship to God, which you should all strive for and which you could also achieve with good will and heartfelt bond with the God and creator Who wants to be your father …. For this heartfelt bond will give you the strength to overcome yourselves, and once you have become completely selfless you will only ever work with love, you will try to make happy and not think of yourselves but only of your fellow human beings. And then your degree of love will increase and you will be certain of God’s presence, which is also a guarantee that you will be close to the father …. For the father desires His children, for whom He wants to prepare an eternal life in unlimited bliss ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Spiritual helpers respect free will ….

B.D. 7281 from February 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every soul shall be saved, and spiritual friends join every soul in order to bring it to maturity during earthly life with their support. Thus every soul has support as soon as it desires it, but it cannot be influenced against its will to subordinate itself to its spiritual friends in order to safely reach perfection. It must declare its willingness to be guided by these friends and to accept admonitions and warnings for its salvation. If it does not do this, then the spiritual helpers are also powerless towards it, they must withdraw because a person’s free will may not be touched. But it is well advised to listen to the voice of its spiritual friends, and it does so when it is mentally warned of this or that or when it is mentally urged to do or refrain from doing this or that and now gives in to this inner urging or resistance, always in the will to think or act right. This will is decisive as to whether the beings can intervene, for their activity is only ever mental influence which is only successful if the will is good. If the will is fickle, that the soul itself is not clear how it should decide, then other spiritual beings will also try to intervene, and then the human being will be harassed by different, opposing thoughts, because both his spiritual friends as well as the opponents want to win the will and do everything to be able to register success. The human being is never left to himself, he constantly has faithful helpers at his side whom he only needs to give permission to assist him. Then he can also safely rely on the fact that he will be well guided and advised and that he will also receive strength to live on earth according to God’s will. For his guardians will not leave him, they will constantly influence him in a good sense and also push away the opposing forces if possible, because they have the right to do so through the conscious call from people. This certainty of having faithful helpers at your side should make you confident that your earthly change will be successful, for these helpers are capable of much, and once they are allowed to take over the office of looking after you then they will also not let up in supporting you with advice and deeds and helping your soul to maturity. But this will only ever be possible if your will is good, which means that it freely turns towards God. Then the spiritual helpers have every right to exert their influence on you, for God Himself has given them this office of care and they carry it out joyfully and gladly in His will. Then it is also easily possible to achieve perfection on earth, for the spiritual friends’ efforts are only aimed at spurring people into loving activity and to subordinate themselves to divine will in everything, because then the return to God is also guaranteed if the human being serves with love …. which is solely God’s will …. And thoughts will therefore constantly be directed such that the human being can literally call himself a ‘christian’ …. for he will live in love, therefore recognize and acknowledge Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and thus also be redeemed from sin and death …. he will take the path to the father because there is no longer any resistance in him, because the child longs to return to the father’s house, because it wants to return home to the one from Whom it once took its origin ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 77 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

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