Book 78 · BD 7328–7363
The disciples' doubts after Jesus' arrest ….
B.D. 7328 from April 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
My Own left Me when I was taken to the place of execution, because their faith in My divinity, in My power and strength had gone and they regarded Me as a weak person under the control of the henchmen …. This was the strongest test of faith imposed upon My Own and they failed, for not one of them recognised My real mission properly nor understood the events which necessarily had to follow if were I to complete My mission. But this difficult test was unavoidable so that My Own would believe even more firmly when I appeared to them after My resurrection. They were still so under the spell of My miraculous works that they were unable to grasp that I weakly handed Myself over to My enemies without resisting; they could not understand that I did not avail Myself of My strength and power and thus they seriously began to doubt Me, even though it didn’t have to be a permanent state. But I wanted them to quickly gain a strong faith again; I did not want them to remain in their state of doubt for long as it caused them much psychological misery and I felt sorry for them in their distress. Hence they needed to be extraordinarily strengthened, which could only happen by appearing to them again and personally providing them with the comfort and strength they required. This is how weak people are as long as they are still subject to My adversary’s power, for My disciples had much knowledge, they had always been in My presence and received so much evidence of My divinity that they truly should no longer have doubted …. And yet they failed because they were not entirely redeemed until My appearance, which subsequently gave them an abundance of light and permanently released them from My adversary’s shackle, who still tried to make use of their last disbelief and caused tremendous anxiety in My Own …. However, My appearance released them from him for good …. I had conquered death and thus was also able to give My Own true life after My resurrection. And so, every person’s weak faith is a sign that My adversary still intervenes and that it is necessary for Me to come to every individual person of little faith …. therefore you should open the door of your heart for Me so that I can enter when your soul is frightened and urgently needs comfort and strength …. Then you should always look towards the cross, direct your eyes to Me, your divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and open the door for Me, and you will truly receive comfort and strength, for I want to strengthen the faith of everyone who is still weak and doubtful that I Am the best and kindest Father Who wants to snatch you from the adversary’s hand, just like I appeared to My disciples, in order to fortify your faith in My power and strength and glory, which will never ever perish ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God's presence protects against the adversary ….
B.D. 7329 from April 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
It is essential that you do not isolate yourselves from Me. As long as you remain in mental contact with Me through loving actions or heartfelt prayer, you will be protected against all onslaughts by the enemy of your souls. However, as soon as your bond with Me slackens, he will be by your side and then it is not always easy to push him away again because you are weak without Me. Consequently, if you don’t let this weakness arise in the first place, if you always remain in contact with Me, you will always be able to repel him by availing yourselves of My strength, which flows through you as soon as you have joined Me, thus, as soon as you have become one of My Own by your own choosing. I have told you this many times already, yet, again and again, you are in danger of falling prey to him because you discard My admonition and distance yourselves from Me just a little further, particularly when you allow worldly thoughts to arise in you or you slacken in your spiritual aspiration, when you pay more attention to your worldly than your spiritual life …. You must constantly remain close to Me, or you must constantly draw Me to you through your thoughts and actions, you must live in love… then I will always be with you …. or you must establish your bond with Me in prayer, which will reliably protect you from any approach by the enemy. In My presence he will not pester you; he cannot come close to you as long as I walk beside you …. You must always remember that there is no better protection against him than Me Myself, than My presence, which you determine yourselves. I want to be present with you at all times, I don’t want to leave you again but you must also have this desire for My presence, because only then can it take place, but I will not remain with you against your will if you are indifferent to this presence of Mine …. But if you are so deeply united with Me, then you truly need not fear anything, neither spiritual nor worldly harassments, for I Am Lord over all of them and truly protect My children, who want to belong to Me and cling to Me in their love and their desire for My proximity. Admittedly, time and again he will try to intervene, yet as long as you carry Me in your heart it will remain closed to him and he won’t be able to slip in, and thus he will leave again and wait for the next opportunity. Therefore, be vigilant and stay only with Me, don’t exclude Me from your thoughts, always be lovingly active and frequently let a prayer rise up to Me in spirit and in truth …. You should only ever maintain your bond with Me and you will truly be able to live an easier life, for My adversary won’t find any target and cannot pester you because I Myself will always confront him everywhere. And he takes flight from Me, the ‘Light of eternity’, he does not wish to meet Me, since he does not want to acknowledge Me as his Lord …. Nevertheless, I remain Lord even over him, and truly, I will protect you from him, providing you always wish to remain close to Me, if you want to be My Own now and forever ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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There is no redemption of guilt without Jesus Christ ….
B.D. 7330 from April 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
No person will succeed in detaching himself from My adversary by his own strength, everyone will need My support because he himself is powerless without the supply of strength from Me, but he can only receive it if he wants it himself, thus consciously requests it from Me. This is why it is so important in earthly life that the human being consciously confesses Me in Jesus Christ, this is why he must be required to take a stand himself on the problem of salvation, on God’s human manifestation in Jesus, as well as on the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself …. For once he has to mentally decide for or against Him if he wants his earthly life to bring him the success for which he received it. And therefore he is repeatedly addressed by Me, every person is led to the cross, i.e. the cross is held before his eyes, and the impression this cross makes on him is decisive for his further fate in eternity. It is held up to many people, they look up and away from it again, because it does not touch them, and an opportunity to confess has passed …. But the cross will haunt him until his death, again and again it will flash before him in various forms, and he himself will also often have to walk a cross walk which, however, will only be of use to him when it leads him to the cross of Christ, for there the decision of his life will fall. And very many people believe that it is enough to believe in Me as ‘God and creator’, and the divine redeemer Jesus Christ has not yet become a decisive concept for them …. But then he himself will never be released from My adversary’s bondage, for he has not yet made atonement for his original sin and will never be able to do so if he does not appeal to Jesus Christ for the redemption of his guilt. The human being has to take this path irrevocably, for only this path leads back to Me again, from Whom he once voluntarily distanced himself …. And if he believes that he can also reach the aim of his life without acknowledging Jesus Christ, if he believes that he has fulfilled his earthly task with only earthly activity, he will one day arrive in the kingdom of the beyond in bitter poverty, burdened by guilt and without strength, and even then he will not be released from his guilt until he has called to Jesus Christ for redemption …. He cannot become free without Him, he cannot return to Me without having acknowledged Him, for He and I are one …. in the shell of the man Jesus I Myself was, and I Myself redeemed you humans from sin and death, I Myself redeemed the guilt for you. And whoever acknowledges Him also acknowledges Me and will be accepted into My kingdom …. But anyone who passes Him by also passes Me by, and his fate will be darkness and torment for endless times again, until one day he will decide to call upon Jesus Christ so that his guilt can then also be forgiven ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God's exceptional help after the natural disaster ….
B.D. 7331 from April 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
There will be indescribable chaos amongst people after I have spoken through the forces of nature, for they all will fear that the event might repeat itself and thus live restlessly and afraid amid the ruins caused by the elements of nature and yet due to My will, which had expressed itself therein. People will have to go through an appalling time, a time which was hardly ever experienced by people inhabiting this earth.
Yet it is the time of the end when everything takes place to an exceptional extent in order to still awaken people. But again, even the natural disaster will only make a few people think, whereas the majority of people will indignantly dismiss every belief in a God and Creator Who allows such destructions to happen as can be seen by everyone. Yet no-one considers his own behaviour or how he should behave before God, before Me, to Whom they had merely paid lip-service without, however, having a living faith in Me or having made contact with Me …. And only a few will then turn to Me in their great distress, but these few will also visibly get a taste of My help, I will so obviously support them that it will strengthen their faith in a Power Which holds their destiny in the palm of Its hand. Everything only happens in order to let people find the bond with Me but only ever a few will derive a blessing from the forthcoming event, for humanity is already too enslaved by My adversary to turn to Me and appeal for My help. And therefore I cannot reveal Myself to them either, but I will most certainly do so with those who subsequently take refuge with Me in their adversity. The severity of suffering will let many pray more sincerely which makes the fulfilment of their prayers much easier for Me, because their belief in a God capable of help is evident and because they will then so beseech Me that I will truly come to help them in their distress. And then My servants will have ample opportunity to convey My Word to the people, who will so hungrily accept it as will rarely be found. The disbelievers, however, will be filled by even more hatred than before towards the preachers of My Word as well as towards those who visibly experience My help …. But they will not allow themselves to be converted, instead their unkindness will merely testify to their affiliation with My adversary and will clearly resist Me and My love, which also wants to win them over but cannot get through to them.
There will be much adversity and yet, it will not be hopeless, because I can always be approached in prayer with a request to improve matters and because I will grant a true prayer in order to reveal Myself to those who are not entirely enslaved by My adversary. But it has to be left up to people to call upon Me, and therefore everything has to happen within a natural framework, yet easily perceptible to people who still harbour a glimmer of faith and to whom I will reveal Myself so that their faith will not be lost but gain in strength and intensity. The occasion is ahead of you and cannot be prevented by you since you yourselves don’t endeavour to make the effort to change your ways and since, due to your disposition and activities, you will bring the time to fruition …. because you yourselves will hasten the end as a result of your attitude and because the time is fulfilled which you were granted for the maturing of your souls ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God's presence and help requires conscious commitment ….
B.D. 7332 from April 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
In undiminished love I accompany you from the beginning of your embodiment as a human being until your death. Yet you will only become aware of My company when you want it yourselves, when you establish the bond with Me of your own accord, because My love may not force you and therefore restrains itself when this desire for My presence is lacking in you. But as long as you do so you are also in danger that your earthly life will remain idle, for only when you pass through it together with Me will it bring you success for your soul. Obviously, therefore, I cannot have an effect on you without this conscious bond with Me. But since My love is infinite it uses other means which therefore exclude a compulsion of love and yet can lead to a desire for My presence. And such means are suffering and pain of all kinds, sorrow and adversity, misfortunes and disasters which are so great that they cannot be mastered by people and involuntarily push towards the one Who is lord over all …. Who has the power to avert everything, but Who wants to be approached for it. Admittedly, a small amount of faith in Him must always be present, otherwise the human being will not remember a God and creator but will be even more strengthened in his lack of faith. But where there is still little faith much can still be achieved through suffering and sorrow, for then the human being will take the path to Me in order to appeal to Me for help. And then he establishes the bond, and an influence on My part is now permitted because his free will leads him to Me, which gives Me the right against My adversary, who had an equal right to the soul but has to hand over the right to Me when the human being comes to Me himself and has voluntarily established the bond with Me. And I truly make good use of this bond by helping the human being to find his way out of his adversity and then also keep reminding him of Me, so that he will certainly no longer completely abandon Me, even though there is a danger that he will become more indifferent towards Me again once the adversity has been overcome. But his faith in Me has nevertheless been strengthened and he will always use it again when new adversity comes upon him in order to protect him from falling into the abyss. People should only ever know that one is always ready to help and they should entrust themselves to this one in every adversity …. The more intimate the devotion to Me is in such times of adversity, the more willingly I will stand by his side, because My love will not diminish but will increasingly take hold of My child, which allows itself to be grasped by Me, its God and father of eternity …. My love will pursue the human being until the end of his life and always patiently wait for the moment when the child needs Me to intervene in hours of utmost adversity, when only a thought reaches Me, when only a cry for help touches My ear, which I will certainly listen to because it testifies to My faith in Me, which I truly will not let be destroyed. Just remember that I Myself am love …. that I cannot help you in adversity, that only My love restrains itself where it is rejected by the human being but is fully effective where it is accepted, where the human being himself appeals to Me for My presence and I will also prove it to him by fulfilling the requests, by averting the adversity and strengthening his faith …. For My love does not change or diminish eternally …. But it can only become effective when you want it yourselves, when you voluntarily hand yourselves over to Me so that I can radiate My love through you, which also includes the help you receive in adversity of body and soul ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God, love and truth are one ….
B.D. 7333 from April 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
You would all think in the same way if only you would always ask Me for enlightenment when you are afflicted by doubts which concern Me and My kingdom. For only one can give you the truth and He will truly do so if you ask Him for it. The truth is My fundamental nature, thus I must also want you to live in truth yourselves, because in your fundamental substance you are the same as Me, you only distorted yourselves and your nature through your own fault. Yet I want you to return to perfection again, to become again as you were from the beginning …. Thus I must also want your nature to return to truth again, which you had left due to the darkening of your spirit when you apostatized from Me of your own free will. Hence truth will always be conveyed to you from Me if only you have the prerequisite which makes the conveyance of truth possible. And this includes free will to be in possession of truth …. (to come into possession of truth ….) it includes that you entrust yourselves to the one Who is truth Himself from eternity, that you desire to receive it from Me and thus approach Me for it. And anyone who does so can also be certain that his thinking will now be guided by Me and that he will soon only move in truth, for only through truth can imperfection be changed into perfection again, only truth shows the human being the right path, the path of return to Me, and only truth is the right path to Me. And if all people took the path to Me, then all people’s thoughts would also be guided correctly and there would already be a state of peace on this earth, because people would live on earth in My will which, through the imparting of truth, is very clear and unambiguous to them and has to lead them back to perfection, because My will is simply the law of divine order: a life in love. Love and truth cannot be separated from each other, for love and truth belong to My fundamental nature, thus ‘God’, ‘love’ and ‘truth’ must be one and everyone close to Me who moves in love and in truth. Believe that you only come close to Me through truth and that truth also demands a life of love at the same time, for the unloving human being cannot possess truth because it only originates from Me but I cannot give Myself to people whose nature is still far removed from love …. Only a life of love awakens the human being’s desire for truth. Yet again, the supply of truth can stimulate the human being into a life of love, because truth can guide him onto the right path, because it can point him to the commandments of love and a person of good will seriously takes a stand on it and love can now also ignite in him and thus the desire for truth then also awakens …. and thus the path to Me has now been taken through the supply of truth …. There must only be the will in man to experience the truth …. And this will is the approach to Me, which I never leave unnoticed but can now influence him mentally or also through experiences which, however, will always cause right thinking, which contribute to the recognition of truth and now also consciously let him establish the bond with Me so that I, as the eternal truth, can now reveal Myself to him ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Total surrender to God ….
B.D. 7334 from April 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Everything you hand over to Me to take care of for you will be resolved to your satisfaction. How easy it would be for you in earthly life if you would approach Me with all your concerns, needs and worries and ask Me to take care of them for you …. How gladly I comply with My children’s requests and guide their thoughts so that they take the right path, but I want to be approached about it. Whoever remembers Me always and at every hour will also be remembered by Me, and he will truly also become aware of it because he will now calmly walk his earthly path by My hand and under My care. A child which trusts Me unreservedly and expresses this trust by submitting all its concerns to Me possesses My love, and a constant will to help now also gives it evidence that I love it. Your days shall begin with the call of Myself that I bless you and determine all your doings, that I place the feeling into your heart what you should do or refrain from doing, which is in My will. You should simply completely hand yourselves over to Me and My guidance and then always act as it approaches you of its own accord, and this will always correspond to My will because you have previously subordinated your will to Mine. You can truly easily go through your earthly life if you only ever remember that I am your father and want to be called upon by you as father …. A father’s love always extends to his child whom he wants to make happy, whom he wants to protect and save from fear and adversity …. And My love is truly even greater than the love of an earthly father. My love wants to give the child even far more, earthly and spiritual goods, He wants to make earthly life easier for the child and yet also let it find spiritual life, but the child has to make use of its father’s help, it always and in everything has to entrust itself to Him and never loosen the bond, for the father rejoices in the child’s heartfelt love which no longer leaves Him out, which does nothing without having conversed with Him, which always asks Him for His protection and His blessing. And even if earthly things may frighten you again and again …. hand them over to Me in complete trust and I will resolve them so that they lose all terror for you. I want to ensure that you will no longer hesitate for a moment to call upon Me or to hand over seemingly insurmountable things to Me, and you will truly not be disappointed, for I keep My promises, and I will comply with your requests and wishes with great joy if they are directed towards Me in true love …. when the child sincerely asks the father to take care of it. Then the father will not abandon His child either, for He loves it and also wants to give it joy. But as long as the human being does not yet see the father in Me, as long as I am only the distant God to him, he also lacks trust and torments himself with his worries and troubles, which I would so gladly relieve him of if he could establish the relationship of a child with the father, which is necessary in order to speak to Me such that I see the child’s love for the father and can now reciprocate with My love. For My love for you is unlimited, but you must open yourselves of your own free will and desire My love, and it will already make you happy on earth and one day in eternity ….
Amen
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Mental blindness ….
B.D. 7335 from April 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
No light can shine on the spiritually blind unless he asks for his eyes to be opened so that he can see the light that shines on him. Therefore, the request for this is a prerequisite, which arises from the will to be allowed to see the light that has been withheld from him for so long. Therefore the human being must feel his own blindness, it must be a nuisance to him, he must be aware of the lack of being allowed to enjoy himself like sighted people, and he must therefore want to become sighted. Then the eye will also be opened to him, he will be allowed to receive light, for My light of love from eternity denies itself to no-one and finally to a person who desires it. But as long as people live in spiritual blindness, as long as they lack all knowledge about spiritual things, about spiritual correlations and about their own relationship with Me, their God and creator of eternity, then these people will not be aware of the fact that they are inadequately formed, that they are spiritually blind, instead, they will only consider their earthly abilities as important in order to successfully live their earthly life …. and they again only see earthly success and are satisfied when the world offers them what they desire. And since they themselves don’t feel inadequately formed they also don’t ask for what they lack …. for the light of realization …. and they remain blind in spirit. Thus the will has not yet become active, but without it the supply of light, of truth, is fruitless, for although they hear such through their fellow human beings they do not recognize it but only hear words and do not grasp their meaning. And the will again cannot be forcibly directed, it has to decide on its own. But through sermons they can nevertheless be made aware of their spiritual blindness, because it is sometimes possible that their hearts will open to such a sermon and then the will can be kindled to receive more light. For such people cannot be influenced in any other way than by conveying My word, and even this can still be fruitless but should nevertheless not be omitted, because the blind person should first experience that he is blind …. For what he has never known before he does not lack. And so the light shall be brought to every man, and the benefit of light shall be explained to him …. He should be told what other people can see with their healthy eyes and that it is also possible to give him the healthy eyes if he wants this himself …. Spiritual blindness is so serious because it has an effect in the kingdom of the beyond, for the human being enters that kingdom after his death in profound darkness if he has not succeeded in at least acquiring a glimmer of light on earth, in which he would then also know his way around the spiritual kingdom better. But the completely blind will hardly reach the light on the other side because they will then resist every spark of light which touches them; after all, they don’t yet know the blessing of light, and the bliss of being able to move in spheres full of light will also remain denied to them until they enter a circle of light themselves and allow their eyes to be opened there, which, however, is much more difficult for them than on earth. For this reason the light shall already be brought close to all people on earth, and anyone who accepts it will do well, for then the darkness will have left him and he will never ever need to fear being devoured by it, for the light will then shine for him forever ….
Amen
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Dwelling of God in the heart …. childhood of God ….
B.D. 7336 from April 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Let Me enter your hearts and take abode therein, so that I will remain with you and never ever leave you, so that I will live in you and you will be intimately united with Me. I only long for this intimate bond, for then the relationship between child and father is established which ensures your union with Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life. If I can be in you then you will also have changed into love, your heart will have been purified and reshaped into love, and thus it will also have become a place of residence for Me, which I will take possession of above all others and never ever want to leave, because I, too, long for unity with My child and have now achieved the aim …. that you have become My children who, as living creations, approach your exit from Me. Purify your heart with all eagerness and then await Me with all devotion that I take abode with you …. And from now on you will no longer walk your earthly path alone, but you will now walk the path under My guidance and truly always in the shortest way into the father’s house. But the fact that you still have to stay on earth is also part of your trial life on this earth, for you all still have to cast off dross, you all still have to perfect yourselves on this earth if you want to reach the degree of childship to God which makes you the most blissful creatures in the spiritual kingdom. And once I have been able to take abode in your hearts you will also still reach the aim of becoming true children of God, for you will succeed with My support, after all, I am present to you and you will now travel the last part of your path under My guidance, because you will completely submit yourselves to Me as soon as I can take abode in you. Just sincerely want this presence of Mine within you and then you will also sincerely work on yourselves so that your heart will be free from sin and can serve Me as a dwelling place. And if you want My presence …. then I am already with you and will never ever leave you …. Then the child has found its way home to the father and He now leads it back into the father’s house in order to prepare a blissful life for it in the spiritual kingdom, in its true home, where the child is now allowed to always stay close to the father in light and freedom, in strength and bliss and now creates with Him in love and wisdom and strength. Childship to God is the highest degree of bliss, and this possibility is open to you humans on earth to leave earth in this highest degree and enter a kingdom of unimagined light and unimagined bliss …. But on earth you already have to carry the desire for love for Me in your heart, and this desire for love will impel you to work diligently on your soul, and thereby you will attract Me to you, because I like to be where love causes Me to express My love …. where I can give Myself to a person who loves Me …. Then I will take abode in you and never ever leave you. Then the union will have taken place which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life …. the child will have found its way home to its father’s house ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Recovery of divine qualities through love ….
B.D. 7337 from April 16th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
The spiritual abilities in you shall be awakened, which can only happen through a life of love, for love awakens the spirit in you to life, and whose spirit is alive enters again into the state which existed in the beginning, even if only to a small degree in the beginning, but which can and will constantly increase if the human being is serious about his perfection …. The human being was originally a spiritual being in all perfection, and thus he also possessed all abilities in highest perfection. He was created in God’s ‘image’ and therefore also had all abilities to create and work like Him out of his own strength. For the strength from God constantly flowed through the being and it felt no lack or restriction of strength from God until it closed itself off from this constant supply of strength, until it rejected the constant supply of strength of love and thereby became powerless itself …. It became arrogant in spirit and believed itself to be superior and powerful …. But it was only so as long as it accepted the strength from God which flowed to it without restriction. And due to the rejection of God’s strength of love the being became weak and lightless. It fell down into the abyss and had to remain there in its powerlessness until God’s infinite love supported it, which was not dependent on the being’s will itself, for it resisted God’s strength and help. Therefore God bound it beforehand, i.e., the will was already bound by His adversary, as whose appendage those beings had fallen into the abyss. They would have remained in this abyss forever if they had also been left to God’s adversary forever, but God wrestled this hardened spiritual from it, however with the consent that the adversary retained his right to it and could assert it again when the being was allowed to dispose of its freedom of will again in a clearer state and can now decide for itself for its lord. And the being reaches this state with God’s help through its walk through material creation, but it is still completely blind in spirit and devoid of all divine attributes when it enters earth as a human being to take its last test of will. Nevertheless, it can achieve much during its earthly course as a human being: It can reappropriate its divine qualities and leave earth as a supremely perfect being in order to re-enter the spiritual kingdom from which it had once originated …. But this change back into a perfect being requires a high degree of love and thus also a great strengthening of will in order to constantly work in love, in order to reawaken all those abilities in itself which it had lost through its own fault. For love is divine, it is God’s fundamental nature, and if a human being changes his nature into love again then he also takes on God’s fundamental nature again, which once adorned him, and then he must also accept or regain the divine characteristics which he once voluntarily relinquished but now receives again through the divine illumination of love, which he now no longer opposes but voluntarily opens himself to receive the emanation from God, which lets him become the most blissful being again, as it was in the beginning …. The time on earth is truly sufficient for this change back to love, and as soon as the human being awakens the spirit within himself through a life of love, it will seek and find unification with the father-spirit, because it will no longer pause until it has reached this aim …. the unification with God, which also guarantees the being’s complete radiance of love and thus brings about the change back to the divine being it was in the beginning ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Help of the spiritual beings to perfection ….
B.D. 7338 from April 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
All angels in heaven participate in the great task of redeeming the still unfree spiritual …. All are active in the same will with the father from eternity, and all know only one aim: the return of the fallen brothers, the homecoming of those into the father’s house …. And thus every being could know that it is in divine care when it walks the earthly path as a human being, for all spiritual beings full of light are concerned that the human being reaches its aim. And even before the earthly walk as a human being the spiritual being is looked after by the luminous spiritual when it still passes through the works of creation in a bound state. This spiritual being shall one day also have the possibility of embodiment as a human being, where it can then, conscious of itself, therefore also consciously entrust itself to these beings of light and ask them for help to become perfect. The redemption of the spiritual is the task and aim of all perfection, which is why it is also certain that one day the work of return to the father will succeed. But the human being’s free will often sets limits to the light beings’ activity, for even the angelic beings cannot do anything against this, which is why the human being himself first decides how far he approaches the aim …. the final unification with God …. But until the hour of death the beings of light strive for the human being’s soul, and so long the hope need not be given up that it will still find its way back to the father before its passing away, which, however, can always be attributed to the eager work of those beings of light who certainly have the assignment from God but must respect the human being’s will and therefore will always try to influence the will such that it turns towards God itself. If the human being knew how many beings of light endeavour to help him he could be completely reassured about his fate if only he would allow himself to be guided without resistance and not push through his own opposing will, against which even those beings cannot fight, which they also have to respect. This is why it is often so difficult for a person to find God and consciously take the path to Him. But where the will changes of its own accord it will also be seized by the beings of light, and they will no longer leave the human being out and push him ever more towards his God and father, and their work will become increasingly easier the more the human being gives up his resistance and allows himself to be influenced by them. But the human being will not remain without help once he has declared himself willing to take the path back to God by turning his will towards God. Then the beings of light can help him without touching his free will, then his will is the same as theirs …. to return to the father’s house …. and then the human being will truly experience the help of these beings to such an extent that the way back will be easy for him and he will also safely reach the aim. For these beings have great power which they gladly use where they no longer encounter resistance. And the human being himself will have broken the resistance when he demands to be with God …. Forces of light are active on earth as well as in the beyond and tirelessly carry out redemptive work …. And truly, the whole world would already be redeemed if the human being’s free will did not have to determine for itself whether redemptive work can be done on him or not …. But no human being is helplessly left to himself, they constantly have helpers at their side who pay attention to the slightest change of will in order to intervene and provide assistance until the aim is reached, the unification with the father of eternity ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Dialogue …. Forerunner ….
B.D. 7339 from April 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Wait in all humility for what I must send upon humanity for its own benefit and what will also lead to the brightest realisation in yourselves, hence this preparation time must happen first. I Am by no means a God of wrath even if the forthcoming event appears to make it look that way, in fact, you will all experience My love far more which will protect you from extreme danger; but then I will also clearly highlight My Own, I will draw so much attention to them that their fellow human beings shall realise where they can appeal for real help, for I want to win people over for Myself and not lose them to the adversary. Nevertheless, the damage will be huge and countless people will lose their lives, yet it will benefit many who will still be able to catch up in the kingdom of the beyond on what they had failed to do on earth …. so that they will still be able to reach the light if they are of good will. And you can all believe that soon afterwards the end will follow but that I will still grant you humans a time of grace because the end signifies a drastic turning point in the spiritual process of development of the beings which ought to mature fully on this earth.
For this reason I have chosen servants for Myself who shall loudly proclaim the forthcoming end after the natural disaster …. For this reason I constantly pour out My spirit and through awakened people draw attention to everything that is due to happen shortly. And I only instruct them to spread My Word and, where possible, also to mention these events which intend to reveal My might as well as My love, for people shall know that a God is enthroned above them Who holds their fate in His hands. And anyone who is chosen by Me as a proclaimer of My Word must also have been chosen by Me as a recipient of My Word, and thus you can utterly believe him, even if it seems implausible what he proclaims on My instruction. For I will provide an obvious sign that He is My messenger, My representative, who shall speak on My behalf …. He will always be guided through anything, no matter what happens, he will not need to fear illness and death as long as he has not completed his mission, and I Myself will lay out his path which will lead him to where many people can hear him so that, when the time has come, he will loudly and publicly speak about Me and My Word ….
Until a great light begins to shine when the battle between light and darkness will openly erupt …. when the battle of faith will be waged in an extremely brutal way …. then this light will flare up so as to strengthen all those who work in My vineyard …. Then they will be able to draw strength from it and work even more diligently for Me and My kingdom. And this light will come when the last phase begins, when I have spoken from above, when people’s situation has become chaotic and the separation of the spirits starts …. for or against Me …. And then I will give great strength to the weak, I will give strength to all who need it, and I will be their Leader in the battle against the enemy of souls …. and truly, I will be and eternally remain victorious and you, too, may rejoice at the victory over him …. You will be liberated from him and thus can live in peace in the paradise of the new earth ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Bondage of divine love …. freedom from the adversary ….
B.D. 7340 from April 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
All of you will become free from your adversary as soon as you trustingly hand yourselves over to Me, as soon as you grant Me the right over you which you once relinquished to My adversary. He is truly your enemy, for he wants to prevent you from attaining beatitude …. But with Me there is light and strength and bliss, and therefore he wants to prevent you from making contact with Me. And he also keeps you bound until you desire Me yourselves …. But then his power will be broken, for I know about your desire and fill you with great joy, for thereby I will regain My children again, whom I had lost to My adversary for eternal times. Every heartfelt, fully believing prayer is therefore your voluntary acknowledgement of Me as God and father to Whom you want to return …. And you can give Me no greater pleasure than to often dwell with Me in thought, to enter into a silent dialogue or even to expect an answer from Me to questions you address to Me in the belief that you will receive an answer from Me. Then you will only testify that it is your will to return to Me, and then My adversary will have lost all power over you, although he will not stop struggling for your soul so that it will fall prey to him again. But My might and strength is stronger, and once you have turned to Me I will not let you go again, after all, My bondage is only bliss and therefore cannot be compared to the bondage of bondage by My adversary. I wrap My child in an unbreakable bond of love from which it will no longer want to release itself because it causes it bliss. And thus you need not fear My adversary as your enemy either, for he is powerless the moment you unite with Me through works of love, heartfelt prayer, secret dialogue and every desire to belong to Me …. And therefore it is extremely easy for you to attain beatitude again, because you only need to establish the bond with Me, but this has to happen of your own free will and out of love. And you can easily kindle love for Me in yourselves if only you see all the good that surrounds you and which you experience yourselves in earthly life, for all these are My gifts of grace to you which My love has in store for you. And if you can recognize My love therein, love for your God and creator will also soon be kindled in you, and you will approach Him as a child, you will love Him as your father of eternity and you will become free from My adversary, for he is powerless against love, love is the only weapon he succumbs to. But once you are free from him you have already fulfilled your task, for then you belong to Me, and this is your earthly task to seek and find unity with Me, which you will certainly establish through love for Me and your neighbour. But to be free from My adversary also means to have found redemption from sin and death, for if you acknowledge Me as your God and father you also acknowledge the one in Whose shell I walked the earth to redeem you …. Love has brought you light, you know that I and Jesus Christ are one, and you have given yourselves to Him, thus to Me, you have become Mine of your own free will and will remain so for all eternity ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Spiritual exchange …. "Where two or three …."
B.D. 7341 from April 19th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
It is immensely beneficial to hold spiritual conversations because many spiritual beings can also participate in them …. On the one hand those who are with you as guardian spirits and use every opportunity to influence you mentally, and on the other hand those souls who want to receive themselves and as silent listeners also become partakers of the blessing which arises from spiritual conversations. In every spiritual conversation beings of light first intervene which then direct people’s thoughts such that their conversations precisely touch on what people as well as the beings in the beyond should be informed about, because the beings always strive to spread light, which they are instructed to do by God as soon as people’s will is willing to do so. However, holding spiritual conversations will always be an act of free will, for a person who is not willing to do so will flee every opportunity to exchange spiritual matters with his fellow human being. And it is also only rarely an opportunity, only rarely do people come together for such spiritual exchanges …. Yet you are not aware of how beneficial it is or you would already place yourselves into this blessing and also remember the souls which surround you in expectation and desire for spiritual nourishment …. If you now gather in the name of Jesus, this is tantamount to an invitation to come to the lord’s table. For Jesus is then in the midst of you, even if you only come together two or three to exchange spiritual food. But the countless beings surrounding you also want to be fed, and then they will truly receive proper food and drink, for Jesus Christ offers it to them, just as He also hands out His bread to you humans, for then you will only ever speak what you hear from Him, you will enjoy what you receive from Him in terms of spiritual nourishment. “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them ….” This promise shall make you all happy, and you shall remember it when you gather together for spiritual conversations. And you will be allowed to experience divine blessings in unlimited measure. But you cannot measure what is offered to the world in the beyond when you repeatedly gather in My name, but it would spur you on to eager exchange if only you could see the multitudes around you who want to fetch nourishment and are grateful to you when it is offered to them through you. Therefore you should use every opportunity to guide the conversations into spiritual channels, and you will also be supported from the spiritual side, you will be brought together with those who, like you, have the desire to exchange spiritual information, and the blessing you may experience yourselves as well as the souls in the beyond who may participate, who want to be fed and watered by Jesus’ love, Who Himself is in their midst, as He has promised. For His love never ceases, it seeks to help and to save, it seeks to give and to make happy, and it blesses all its creations which want to transform themselves into children who want to belong to the father and therefore need His blessing ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Becoming one with God through love ….
B.D. 7342 from April 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
You can only reduce the vast distance from Me through love, for love binds us together, love is My fundamental nature which you must also irrevocably accept yourselves if you move within love. Hence, every person who strives to come close to Me is already seized by love for Me or he would not feel this desire within himself to unite with Me …. Yet the degree of love determines how far he reduces the distance from Me or how long he allows time to pass until complete unification with Me. The human being can ignite love within himself with all fervour, and then he will also be very eager in his activity of love for his neighbour because he is urged to do so from within …. Then he will already have come close to Me and his whole being will soon be nothing but love, and he will have accepted Me into his heart, he will be intimately united with Me because love urges one another and never lets go of each other. Hence love bridges every gulf, love reduces the distance between Me and My created being, and love brings about the final union which turns the created being into My child, for the purpose of which I created the being. Nothing else can replace this love, there is no other path to union with Me, there is no other means to unlimited beatitude which results in that union with Me. Only love can achieve everything, and this love has to be practiced of its own free will, it cannot be forcibly demanded by Me, the human being has to kindle it in his heart himself, and he can do so because the spark rests in him and because I Myself also let My ray of love radiate into the heart if the human being does not consciously resist it. As long as the human being’s heart is able to love there is also the possibility that it wants to give itself away, that it approaches his fellow human being in love and wants to express itself, and then the spark of love is already ignited and it will reach out and take hold of everything it can consume. And as a result the flame of love will grow ever larger and brighter, and then it will not fail to turn this flame in the human being’s heart towards the fire of love which had lowered a ray into his heart …. The spark of love falls back into the fire of eternal love and the union is already accomplished, love has ignited and has become one with the original love …. Man’s nature has changed and he has again assumed the original being he was in the beginning. The distance between Me and him has been abolished …. The child can once again communicate with its father, and I can make My child happy and grant it unlimited bliss, for now all separation has been abolished, father and child have become one and will remain so forever ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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The soul’s continuation of life after death ….
B.D. 7343 from April 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 78
You can be certain that you will live even if your body falls prey to death …. But the state of your life after your physical death depends on yourselves, whether your life will be a happy one which could truly be called life, or whether you will find yourselves in darkness and helplessness which are comparable to death, albeit you will remain conscious of your existence and therefore will have to suffer agonies. But it will never be the case that you will completely cease to exist, that you will no longer be self-aware and that your existence will be obliterated. And precisely because you continue to exist you ought to ensure that you create a happy situation for yourselves while you are still living on this earth. Your future fate in the kingdom of the beyond is a matter of your very own will, since you create it yourselves by your way of life on earth. If it is a life of selfless love for other people you can also be sure that a blissful fate will await you …. But if you only live to please yourselves, if you lack this love for your neighbour and therefore also for God, you can expect a painful fate indeed. Then you will be poor and wretched because you will lack everything …. light, strength and freedom, and all you will experience is indescribable torment.
The fact that you humans on earth have such little faith in life after death also determines your conduct, for you are irresponsible towards your soul because you do not believe that it will continue to live after your body has passed away. And you do not believe that the soul is, after all, your real Self. It will feel exactly the same as it did during its earthly life, it will long for happiness and light and suffer bitter regret once it has gained but a glimmer of light whereby it recognises its real task on earth and in retrospect blames itself dreadfully for not having fulfilled it …. Whereas souls who may enter the spheres of light will sing praises and give thanks and are able to occupy themselves in full strength and freedom for their own happiness.
The soul will never perish, but how it will experience its continued existence is decided by people themselves while they are still on earth. For this time was given to you in order to improve the state of your soul which, at the beginning of its embodiment, is still rather imperfect. Hence, the work of the human soul should consist of providing for itself a true, immortal ‘life’, so that one day it can enter in freedom and light the kingdom where it can be active in accordance with its state of maturity, which is in fact possible at various degrees but which can only be called ‘life’ when it is allowed to enter the kingdom of light. But it is also possible that the soul will still be as imperfect at the end of its earthly life as it was at the beginning. Indeed, it can even have grown darker, and then its state will be comparable to the state of death, for it will have misused its earthly life, it won’t have taken advantage of the grace of embodiment, and yet, it will not pass away …. This is a very sad, pitiful situation and yet, it is its own fault, because only the human being’s will decides the soul’s fate, and this will is free. If only people believed that they will continue to exist after the death of their body …. they would live more responsibly on earth and endeavour to ascend from the deepest abyss …. But no person can be forced into faith, yet everyone will be helped in order to become a believer ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Everlasting battle against the world ….
B.D. 7344 from April 23rd 1959, taken from Book No. 78
And if you crave for the pleasures of this world only remember that you will forfeit spiritual pleasures because you cannot possess both at the same time, the spiritual and the earthly kingdom, for My kingdom is not of this world. The pleasures offered to you by the earthly world will only ever satisfy the body but not the soul, which needs something different in order to attain beatitude, which cannot be fobbed off with earthly enjoyments but needs spiritual nourishment in order to become happy. And therefore always take care that your desire will not get out of hand and stifle the soul’s desire; always take care that earthly pleasures will not stop you from spiritual striving, that they are, as it were, contrary to them …. that the person’s spiritual striving diminishes to the same extent as he tries to provide for himself, that is, his body, physical pleasures. And always remember that ‘My kingdom is not of this world ….’ Consequently, whatever you enjoy or deem desirable and which still belongs to this world will always signify a small obstacle on the path of ascent, into the spiritual kingdom. Not everything is denied to you by Me, it just should not include the danger of straying from the path to Me …. As long as this risk does not exist, you may also give to your body what it requires …. And it is up to you to establish whether and to what extent you will be prevented from your contact with Me, from your earnest striving for My kingdom and its righteousness. And if you then let an opportunity pass you by which might have been able to provide your soul with spiritual saturation merely in order to gratify your body then it will be an injustice to your soul, which is equally famished and in need of strengthening.
The spiritual aspirant will never shelve the spiritual kingdom or his soul, he will always place it in the forefront, he can’t help but consider his soul first and will not pay too much attention to his body until he first has taken care of his soul. And whatever he then will give to the body is right before My eyes, for he first considered My kingdom and My will before he considered his earthly existence, and this is right and also in accordance with My will. For I placed you into this world because you can fully mature in it, and your soul will indeed mature fully if you always bear My will in mind and live on earth accordingly. And it will always be My will that you should lift your eyes up to Me, that you strive towards Me, that you look for the connection with Me, that you are therefore held captive by the spiritual realm and don’t bury yourselves again into matter for the sake of the earthly world, which is your demise. And if you are attracted by great earthly temptations then be always careful that you do not forfeit the treasures of your soul …. that you voluntarily relinquish that which your soul had already taken possession of …. that you disregard its desire and leave it to suffer hardship for the sake of earthly possessions or earthly pleasures. The world is your enemy, try to become its master, you can certainly make it compliant but don’t allow it to become your master to whom you subjugate yourselves and thereby suffer defeat instead of gaining victory. Remain constantly in contact with the kingdom which is not of this world and you will truly be victorious over the earthly world; it will serve you to reach perfection, because this is your only goal ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Value of intercession for the otherworldly ….
B.D. 7345 from April 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
It is of great importance to know the situation of the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who, in their adversity, recognize what they missed on earth and make an effort to improve their situation. Only these can be helped by beings of light, for since the souls’ free will is also respected in the spiritual kingdom the beings of light cannot influence the souls against their will; thus the redemption of a still unwilling soul will be extremely difficult and it can often take eternities until the soul makes an effort to improve itself. But it is now a wrong concept if it is assumed that help is never offered to the souls in darkness …. The kingdom of light constantly endeavours to bring light into the darkness, yet where the hearts close themselves the light loses its luminosity and it remains dark there as before. So the souls determine their state themselves, which can be darkness or twilight or light …. they determine it themselves through their will, which must first be turned towards the light if it is to become brighter around the soul. But if a soul is so weakened or even completely in the hands of God’s adversary, then it will eternally not be able to rise from this weakness alone. Nor does it know anything about the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and thus cannot call upon Him for help either …. And it would therefore remain in its wretched state for eternity if it is not helped through the intercession of people …. Precisely this intercession is mostly omitted because people do not believe in its effect and urgency. But intercession is a significant factor especially for the kingdom of the beyond, for where the being itself is no longer able to help itself and God’s love is legally bound by the soul’s free will, a person’s love can intervene, and for the sake of his love God’s love can now become active and give it to the unfortunate being in the form of strength supply …. The final decision still remains with the soul itself as to whether and how it will use the strength it now receives through the intercession of the human being. But it feels this strength as a blessing, and it begins to relax its previous resistance, and it becomes somewhat lighter within itself so that it begins to think, and its redemption can now take place if only it uses the strength of the intercession correctly. Then the beings of light can also intervene without finding resistance. Every connection of souls of darkness with the world of light or with God is therefore impossible as long as the will is not broken before, which still remains in open resistance with God, otherwise the being would not be in darkness. For it is not decided by the desire for a better state alone, which every being in darkness will certainly have, but it must first recognize the cause of its wretched state and make an effort to change this cause, to change itself and desire light for the sake of light, not for the sake of the associated bliss …. The being must recognize its sinfulness and want to be rid of its sins, it must desire redemption out of the realization that in this sinfulness it is not worthy of God’s nearness, and it must want to become free from sin and death in order to come close to God, for Whom the soul must yearn. which will certainly be the case once it recognizes its guilt and confesses it to Jesus Christ, Who will repeatedly approach it in order to cause it to call upon Him in its distress …. The soul must want to find its way out of its state of torment itself, yet always in profound humility and in the realization of its sins. And this requires its transformed will, which can only achieve such a change through intercession, because the soul alone is too weak when it enters the kingdom of the beyond in a state of darkness. Then it can receive so much strength through intercession which it will certainly use in the right way, because God’s love is extremely happy to reward the love of intercessory people with the fulfilment of their requests to help an unhappy soul in the spiritual kingdom in its adversity. Love alone removes barriers which God’s justice has set up and which cannot be arbitrarily overturned either …. God’s love is limited by the will of the soul itself …. Thus, where the soul’s will fails, a person’s vicarious love can step in, and for the sake of this love God will help the soul to become free from its wretched situation …. for God only wants every being’s bliss but not its ruin ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Right thinking is working of the spirit …. love ….
B.D. 7346 from April 25th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
The power of the spirit will always break through if only no obstacle is placed in its way through open unkindness. For the spirit can only work where there is love …. but there it also expresses itself, albeit in different ways …. It need not express itself obviously so that unusual abilities become apparent …. The human being’s thinking can also be guided in such a way that the working of the spirit becomes apparent, that the human being is enlightened and will always speak and think in accordance with the truth, because the spirit in him orders his thinking, thus it ‘introduces him to the truth’, as it were. For the understanding of truth must also be made accessible to the human being, only then can the truth make him happy …. And this is the working of the spirit in the human being, that it opens up the right understanding for him. Therefore, as soon as the human being endeavours to live in love he can also expect with certainty that God will grant him right thinking, that He will give him understanding for spiritual teachings, that He will help him to recognize the truth as such and to dismiss error. But this will to love must also be present, because without love the spirit cannot express itself out of God. And thus you can also safely condemn or reject a teaching which unkind people want to present to you as truth, for no truth can come from an unkind mouth, for this is the right of the divine spirit which, however, never uses an unkind person to express itself. On the other hand, a loving person cannot and will not be able to speak anything but the truth, because he is prompted to do so by the spirit within himself, which now guides his speech and thinking and certainly always in accordance with the truth. It must always be kept in mind that the human being is first required to change into love, that the change of nature from selfish love to unselfish neighbourly love is the purpose and aim of a human being on earth …. Where this change has already begun, where love has been able to break through, the effects must also already be recognizable, the consequences which arise from a loving way of life …. But where love is, there is also God Himself …. where God Himself is, there must be truth …. Thus the thinking of a loving person must also correspond to the truth, because God’s presence expresses itself through the spirit in the human being, which gives the human being the truth from within, for it is not the spiritual knowledge which is brought to the human being from outside which conveys the truth to him, but only the thinking of the human being himself, how he attunes himself to this spiritual knowledge. And this is brought about by the spirit which was awakened through a life of love and is now constantly active …. For this reason the divine commandments of love are repeatedly emphasized as the only priority for the salvation of the human being’s soul, for they absolutely have to be fulfilled if the human being wants to live in truth, if he wants to enjoy correctly guided thinking, if he wants to be taught from within and attain full understanding for everything spiritual which remains incomprehensible to him as long as his spirit is still unawakened. But his life will only begin to give him full satisfaction when he can live it fully consciously with an awakened spirit, because before that a spiritual blindness closes everything off to him as long as he does not pay attention to the divine commandments of love …. as long as he does not move within the law of divine order himself. Only love establishes this order, only love clarifies his thinking, only love makes the human being see, and only through love does he learn to recognize, to differentiate and to think and judge rightly …. But then there is also light in him in all his ways …. Then the spirit from God, whom love has awakened to life, will guide him ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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The pure teachings of Christ ….
B.D. 7347 from April 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
My teaching will certainly be offered to you as pure as it was preached by Me Myself when I lived on earth. For only pure truth can ever emanate from Me, only teaching material can ever be imparted to you from Me which is free from all error, free from all ambiguity. And it will also always be offered to you such that it is comprehensible to you as soon as you are willing to understand it. For to the indifferent the most understandable will nevertheless remain incomprehensible because he lives in spiritual darkness and does not want to reach the light. And therefore error can also be presented to the latter, he will accept it rather than the truth, because truth also requires willingness of heart in order to be recognized and acknowledged as truth. What you now receive from Me as truth gives you bright and clear information about all questions concerning your soul’s life, and again and again only the same teaching is imparted to you which was spread by Me and My disciples. I gave the disciples the command: “Go out into the world and teach all nations ….” And My disciples of the end time shall now also carry the same teaching out and proclaim it as ‘My word’ to all who are of good will. And they will also recognize it as the glad message of salvation which their God and father Himself sends to them in order to help them attain maturity of their souls. For anyone who accepts My teaching will soon be enlightened by the light of realization, he will be able to understand everything and therefore gladly and joyfully fulfil My will, which is expressed in My word …. He will also soon not only be a listener but an eager doer of My word and soon be allowed to experience the strength of the divine word on himself. And My teaching can only ever be conveyed to people in its basic features, for only then can deeper wisdom be made accessible to them when they have grasped those basic features and fulfil them …. But then the human being will be able to look into infinite depths of wisdom, and he will be able to draw from the well of life without limitation …. And this is why I only ever preached love on earth …. For the fulfilment of My commandments of love is the basic condition in order to be able to penetrate immeasurable depths of wisdom, for I have set no limits to people’s knowledge. Yet without love the human being sets himself insurmountable barriers, without love he remains of dark spirit, without love he is unable to distinguish pure truth from error and without love he also lacks the will to absorb spiritual knowledge. For this reason only love must ever be preached, also by My disciples of the last days, and then the person who endeavours to live in love will also easily be able to recognize the truth, which will always remain the same, which will never change and which every person must accept if he wants to live in the light of knowledge and become blissfully happy …. And My word guarantees you humans the pure truth, for “Heaven and earth will pass away but My word will endure for all eternity ….” And therefore it will always sound to you humans from above, unadulterated and pure, and everyone who is of good will will recognize it as ‘My word’ ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Free will …. Opportunity for ascent ….
B.D. 7348 from April 28th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Your will is not subject to compulsion, neither on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond, that is why it is so difficult for you to arrive at perfection because spiritually you may not be influenced such that you effectively will be forced into implementing actions which will benefit your soul. Everything is based on free will, even though many people would much rather doubt than acknowledge this, but it is nevertheless the most important factor in earthly life and will remain so in the beyond. For against his will no human being will be able to become blessed, against its will no soul will attain enlightenment, otherwise all spiritual beings would have been redeemed by now. But free will is part of the being created by Me or I would have created something imperfect and that can never happen. The being was in My image, it was an emanation of My fundamental nature and anything ‘divine’ is unthinkable without free will. Free will was the cause of the being’s apostasy from Me …. free will is also the basic condition of return to Me …. No side …. neither Mine nor My adversary’s side …. will be able to forcibly influence a being into wanting and acting in a particular direction …. The being freely determines its own will and can only in this way attain perfection one day, but it can also remain far away from Me for an infinitely long time.
And if you humans think about this then you will also understand the battle on earth, for good as well as evil forces try to pull you over to their side by striving to influence your will with notions which you should take up by yourselves. Both directions, the light as well as the darkness, would like to win your will over for themselves, but neither can force you, in the final analysis it remains your own decision and therefore you can only be influenced by being informed of teachings, of My Word, of all pros and cons and then you will have to decide as to whether or not to accept these notions. And this free will concerns your innermost attitude …. and not always that which you actually do. You can also be prevented from implementing your will, but the innermost intention and thinking are decisive for the direction of your will, and accordingly your will affects your soul and promotes or prevents its perfection. But free will is a divine attribute, it identifies the human being as a being which once originated from Me, which I created as a totally free entity that was not intended to be different than its Creator and which would also have remained in this perfection had it not misused its free will …. but for which it had to have the capacity or the being could not be called ‘free’. This is why the process of returning the spiritual beings is a work which will extend through eternities, because freedom of will is the crucial factor, since the being will never be forced to decide for or against Me …. It has to remain completely free. However, greater than great will be the bliss of the being which voluntarily finds its way back to Me one day …. which turns its will in the right direction so that it will return home to the One from Whom it once came forth in all perfection ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Vineyard work must be done in love ….
B.D. 7349 from April 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
None of you will miss out on the blessing which lies on a work for Me and My kingdom which is carried out in true neighbourly love. This heartfelt, unselfish love for the neighbour must be present if it is to have a successful effect on people on earth and also on the souls in the beyond, which also need this neighbourly love in order to progress in their spiritual development. For without love the work also only remains a mechanical activity which will not bring much blessing. The will to help must be present for all unhappy souls which have not yet found their way to Me …. Thus the servant in My vineyard must first want to help and then tackle the work, and he will succeed, it will bring him success, in that the human being or the souls in the kingdom of the beyond are willing to accept and thus respond to the efforts of the worker in My vineyard …. by listening to My word, which he proclaims to them, and by trying to live it out. And the soul is already won for eternity …. The souls feel the love of the one who brings My word to them, and therefore they no longer have the resistance which was initially still in them …. But the proclaimer’s love gives way to this resistance, the proclaimer’s love has its effect on the heart of the one who now hears My word, and it therefore opens willingly and also receives Me when I follow My servant and desire entrance. A great blessing rests on the work of a loving vineyard labourer …. Wherever this love is lacking, the work will be fruitless …. and it is missing where My word is preached by profession, where a preacher’s profession is only a matter of existence and true unselfish neighbourly love is missing, where the preacher does not see the great need of the soul of those he is supposed to help by proclaiming My word …. Where there is no love, love cannot be worked, and the success will not be great unless the listeners include people who have a great desire within themselves for My address …. The word will be a blessing for them even if it is not offered from a heart full of love, but it was received with love for Me, and My word will now also have the strength of a direct address and bring blessing …. But love is always first the strength which can work in a person’s heart, and a gift of love from Me should therefore also be offered with a loving heart and hands, and the blessing will truly not fail to materialize ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Living faith ….
B.D. 7350 from April 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
It is the living faith which gives you strength …. and it is love which makes faith come alive …. Therefore no-one can call himself a believer who lacks love, for he will never possess such strength of faith that what seems impossible will nevertheless be possible for him. A living faith can move mountains …. i.e. as much as that a person with living faith is so deeply in love that he is closely united with God and thus can also accomplish everything he wants together with God …. For through love, which is God’s fundamental nature, God Himself is in him, and then the human being will also have the same will as God, thus he will not want anything which goes against God’s will. A person who has become a lover is already so intimately united with God that he no longer does anything of his own accord but everything out of God, for God’s will is in him because the union with God has already taken place through love, and consequently the strength of faith must also be so strong that the human being doubts nothing, that he is able to accomplish everything because he does it with strength from God …. with God Himself. But where can such strong faith be found? …. Where is love so deep that man’s faith has come alive through it? Where does a person feel so intimately connected with God that he no longer doubts the success of what he wants to accomplish? People’s love is not very deep, it is only superficial feelings which you humans take for love, but it is not unselfish love which wants to give everything to the neighbour which makes him happy. Selfish love is still predominant and therefore the strength of faith is still weak, and until this selfish love has changed so that the human being puts all his own wishes aside for the sake of his neighbour, who needs his help and love, faith will not yet be so alive that it will be able to cope with everything. For love itself is strength from God which accomplishes everything, for God, Who is love, is in every work of love …. And with God no thing is impossible …. This faith has to come alive in a person’s heart, then he will no longer doubt for a moment that God Himself will support him with His strength if the person wants to do something out of love for which he alone lacks the strength …. But he can draw strength from God at any time, for it flows to him with every work of love …. For love, strength and God are one, and it is truly possible for him to accomplish everything who intimately unites with God through love and makes use of His strength of love. His faith will be alive because this is the effect of a right life of love, that faith is awakened to life. And the human being who only allows love to become a bright flame within himself will no longer doubt, for he will constantly receive the influx from God, and he will be able to create and work with His strength …. He will already be able to accomplish things on earth which are impossible for a person without love. For love is the strength which conquers everything and achieves everything ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Change of character into love …. God´s presence ….
B.D. 7351 from May 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 78
I can only be present to you if you change yourselves into love …. However, My presence is the epitome of bliss for you. And therefore you should do everything in your power to shape yourselves into love again, which was your nature in the beginning …. My presence is the equivalent of being permeated by love, and this permeation of love in turn assures you strength and light, without it you cannot be called blissfully happy. But if you are full of light and strength you will also be able to work in complete freedom of will which, however, will no longer be directed against Me but will be utterly absorbed in My will. You will be happy to be able to create in this freedom and strength, because this had been the purpose of every originally created spirit, it merely disregarded it and thus placed itself into the wretched condition in which the still imperfect human being finds himself on earth …. But he himself can change this situation; he can change the unhappy fate into a blissful one by merely doing everything in his power in order to assure My presence with him …. by changing himself into love again …. And this is truly not so difficult, for he need only use My commandments of love for God and his neighbour as a guiding principle for his life on earth and always live according to these two commandments. And since he claims the right for himself to be respected by his fellow human being, since he feels the benefit himself when the latter helps him with kindness, he knows exactly which path he ought to travel in order to do justice to the commandments of love …. He need only treat his fellow human being as he would like to be treated himself were he in the same situation as the other person. What he considers beneficial he should do to his neighbour, and he will always have the strength and the means for this providing he really wants to do it. And what he initially does deliberately will soon become his heartfelt need and he will experience for himself how gladdening it can be to do good deeds for his neighbour, to give and help where it is needed …. Love will fill his whole being and he will come ever closer to Me, for with every act of love he draws Me to himself and ensures My presence ….
And then he will fulfil the purpose of his earthly life, he will accomplish the transformation of his nature, he will live up to the reason why earthly life was given to him: He will try to become as perfect as he was in the beginning. With My grace and support He will certainly succeed in doing so but never without Me, because he is too weak for it. He must ensure himself of My presence …. He must appeal to Me and thus through prayer come close to Me one day, he must beseech Me to grant him strength for his change of character into love …. This prayer will be granted to him without fail, for it gives evidence of his sincere will to accomplish this change of character, and once a person has appealed to Me for this he will time and again encounter opportunities where he can practise love, where it is no real effort of will for him because he will clearly receive the strength he appealed for from Me. Just take your change of character into love seriously …. and appeal to Me for help …. And truly, I will remain present to you and inwardly impel you to be lovingly active wherever the opportunity presents itself, for I want to be united with you and this can only take place through love which you voluntarily have to demonstrate, but you will always be supported by Me providing you sincerely ask Me for strength to accomplish your intention. You are incapable of doing anything without My presence, but you can always ensure My presence through activity of love or a prayer in spirit and in truth. I will hear it and answer your prayer, I will be and remain with you, I will draw you until you will no longer want to detach yourselves from Me, until you have so strengthened the bond with Me through your activity of love that I can constantly be present to you and then the re-transformation into love will have been accomplished, you will have brought your nature into line with Mine and thereby fulfilled your purpose of earthly life, and you will be able to work again as you were destined to in the very beginning ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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"He who believes in Me …."
B.D. 7352 from May 2nd 1959, taken from Book No. 78
“He who believes in Me shall not die for eternity…” These Words of promise of Mine very often cause you humans to draw erroneous conclusions if you believe that it is only enough for you to confess with your mouth or not deny that I walked the earth in the man Jesus …. if you believe that it is enough for you not to dispute the existence of the man Jesus, Who is said to have died on the cross for humanity …. if you only accept without contradiction what you have been taught since childhood without having seriously dealt with it yourselves. For the fact that you believe that I Myself lived on earth in the human being Jesus does not yet testify to your inner attitude towards this greatest act of mercy of My divine love, it does not testify to Me whether you want to belong to those whom I have redeemed through My blood which was shed for you on the cross. You first have to realize what I mean by a right faith, which I require in order to be able to give you eternal life …. Accepting a teaching without contradiction is not yet faith, for a right faith first requires serious reflection about this teaching, it demands a serious opinion about it …. And the result of a person’s reflection can also be wrong if he lacks the good will to arrive at the truth and if he is without love …. which completely excludes a right faith. For a person without love will never be able to believe correctly, because a true faith is only awakened to life through love, but without love only a confession with the mouth can be expected but never an inner conviction of the truth of what the person should believe. And thus a person without love can never refer to My promise that “he will not die for eternity ….” if only he can believe My word …. if he only acknowledges My life on earth and the crucifixion because he was taught this way but his inner attitude towards this teaching is still lacking …. because he does not have the will to live in love and to attain the right truth. So then his faith is a dead faith which can also never give him ‘life’ in eternity. But very many people hope for this promise, who only go through earthly life as formal christians, who do not think seriously but only allow themselves to be satisfied with such words and believe of their own accord that they belong to those who “will live in eternity ….” But I demand more from people, for I want them to become truly blessed. And thus I also demand a clear decision from them in all truthfulness …. I demand that they also follow Him in Whom they claim to believe, that they live a way of life in love as Jesus lived it …. And if they do so they will also start to think about this person and His actual mission, and only then will they themselves mentally take a stand on the teachings which so far only their intellect but not their heart had processed. And only then will it be decided whether and what the human being believes of the teachings which were conveyed to him educationally, and only then will his faith become a living faith which has the strength within itself to let the human being penetrate ever deeper into the great problem of God’s incarnation and His act of salvation …. Only now is faith the way I want it to be in order to reward it with eternal life, for only now is the human being’s attitude towards Me as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ such that it is possible to speak of a right faith which secures the human being ‘eternal life’ in accordance with My promise. And if you humans seriously ask yourselves then many a person will have to admit to himself that he, too, lives in such a formal faith which certainly accepts Jesus Christ because he does not presume to reject Him outright but which does not yet have the inner conviction of Jesus the man’s mission and of My nature which has taken abode in Him for the purpose of your redemption. You also have to ‘live’ on earth, i.e. let your thoughts and your will become active, if you want to attain eternal life, living faith in Me in Jesus Christ, Who has redeemed you from sin and death …. Only then will you “not taste death for eternity”, you will enter into life as I have promised you ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God's infinite Fatherly love ….
B.D. 7353 from May 3rd 1959, taken from Book No. 78
My love will carry you across all obstacles if only you entrust yourselves to Me and want nothing else but to fulfil My will …. because My love for you is boundless, and were you able to imagine the degree of My love, truly, you would no longer experience any hardship or worry since you would know that I will keep My hands over you and protect and bless you. However, your anxious doubts keep Me away from you so that the full strength My love cannot take effect. And I must allow this to happen if I don’t want to restrict your will, which must aim towards Me in complete freedom …. But although I keep telling you that I love you with all fervour and that you have nothing to fear …. you must ponder these Words within yourselves, for only then can their effect permeate you and make you truly happy …. Imagine a Father Who faithfully guides His children by their hand and will not allow dangers to approach them. A Father’s love is truly selfless and only wants to make the child happy, but the child must also fearlessly stay close to the Father, it must not distance itself from Him and want to take its own paths; it must listen when it is called by the Father and must do what the Father asks. And this is what you should do as well by living up to My commandments, which I only gave to you so that I can make you indescribably happy. If you comply with My commandments of love for God and your neighbour, you will also give Me great pleasure, for then you will voluntarily return to Me, you will voluntarily take hold of My hand and let yourselves be led on your future path of life. From that moment on you will be released from all hardship and worry, because I will take care of these for you, because I will deal with everything on your behalf, because My power and strength will carry you across everything that seems to hamper you on your way towards ascent. Just imagine often and sincerely that I hold you by your hand and watch over you …. that I love you and that I Am concerned for you to mature …. that I will not abandon you to My adversary once you turn to Me of your own free will …. Try to penetrate the nature of My Divinity ever more deeply, Which is Love Itself …. And you will feel more and more that a God of love will not want your misfortune, that it will therefore be kept at bay if you merely follow Him …. if you merely take My hand, which I will always extend to you if you walk alone, and walk with Me. My eyes constantly watch over you and recognise all dangers …. Do you really believe that My love will leave you unprotected in such dangers? Do you think that I would let you walk alone even if you wanted it? I follow you because I know you and your hearts and because I know that you belong to Me as a result of your will. But you will be put under pressure and burdened for as long as you walk alone without taking My hand, and you will experience problems which shall remind you of Me and make you call for Me …. And I will be with you in every adversity of body and soul, for My love is always close to you and only waits for your call in order to walk by your side again and to provide you with reliable protection, which will make you feel safe and secure because you will then be walking consciously next to Me. Don’t lose this consciousness of My presence …. Time and again you should turn your thoughts to Me, and time and again you should think of the One Who follows you with tireless love and patience, Who wants to possess you completely, to Whom you should hand yourselves over in complete faith that He will lead you out of all adversity ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Agonizing way before being human ….
B.D. 7354 from May 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
You have made a tremendous ascent. You would only be able to judge this if you could look back into the depths from which you have broken free in order to reach the heights step by step. But you would shudder and be horrified that you once dwelled in these depths, and be glad to find yourselves already at a height that only needs to be climbed a little further, that you would finally have reached the aim. You don’t know about this dreadfully long path of return and must also not receive evidence of it so as not to make your will unfree for the final ascent to the height, but you should believe that you bear great responsibility for your soul so as not to push it down again into this depth from which it had thus worked its way up so far. Again and again the responsibility is therefore held up to you, again and again the horrors of the past are presented to you, but just as the aim is described to you as a blissful state in freedom and light and strength. For you shall cover the last short distance as a human being of your own free will for love of God, Whom you shall come ever closer to in order to be infinitely happy in His presence one day. But in the last time before the end you will be given much information about your past life, about the time of ascent development which you all already have behind you according to your soul …. You will be given knowledge of it, even if it cannot be proven to you, but you shall not be able to say that you knew nothing about what earthly life means for your soul …. You will be given the knowledge of it, which you may or may not believe but which can always stimulate you to think about it and to make your own statement about it, so that you will now live your earthly life consciously or even disregard all indications and they will remain without impression …. But it is called to you again and again: Believe that it is your last stretch on this earth, the last stretch of a path which was endlessly long and which you have already covered in the creations of earth. And now live according to this belief …. so that the last stretch of the way brings you complete freedom from the form …. Only live according to the divine commandments and transform your being into love in free will …. For you cannot be transformed by compulsion, but your will can achieve a change of nature which will clear the way for all the glories of the spiritual kingdom when your earthly progress is over and you are allowed to cast off the last material form …. Then you will be able to rejoice and in retrospect see your course of development as successful, you will praise and glorify God for His love which was also meant for you in the depths and which has led you to the aim …. For once every soul will find its way home to the father, but that this aim will soon be reached is determined by your own free will, and therefore you should listen to God when He speaks to you in His love in order to soon be able to draw you to His heart, in order to be able to fetch you home into the father’s house ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Effect of the strength of love ….
B.D. 7355 from May 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Anyone who is able to hand himself over to Me in profound love can also be permeated by Me with My strength of love, which means everything for him …. For to be permeated by My strength of love is the simultaneous guarantee that every impurity will be dispelled, that the ray of love dissolves or cleans everything which previously still burdened the soul. For this reason I ask you time and again to keep your heart prepared for Me to take it as an abode, that is, to wholeheartedly desire that I may take abode in it, and also to sincerely wish that this abode shall be clean and adorned with works of love …. For only love cleanses your heart and only love adorns it such that My stay with you is pleasing to Me. However, where love exists no evil can take root, for My adversary takes flight from love because it contradicts his nature. And thus love is the first and most important thing …. Love has to be ignited in you and erupt into a bright flame …. on the one hand, the love for Me Who is your God and Creator and wants to be addressed by you as your Father …. and on the other hand, the love for your neighbour who is your brother, who is also His child and is just as entitled to be loved by you as well as by the Father. And it should, after all, be easy to muster this love for Me and the next person if only you become aware of the countless blessings you receive from Me every day because I want to please all My children ….
Your entire earthly existence consists of gifts of grace which are based on My infinite love. And even if you largely consider earthly life hard and difficult, you nevertheless cannot deny the fact that it also offers beauty, that you may time and again experience My love or you would not feel anxious when you think of death, which will liberate you from this earthly life …. You all don’t want to relinquish your earthly life, therefore it also offers you beautiful things which you would not want to miss …. And all these are gifts of grace which My love bestows and keeps bestowing on you, which should also contribute towards loving the Provider of all that makes you happy. And you will experience My love increasingly more the more consciously you open your heart so that I will be able to radiate My love into you …. You will also be allowed to feel the happiness of My illumination of love providing you are willing to wholeheartedly hand yourselves over to Me and to sense My presence, which subsequently will make you abundantly happy. How I long for such voluntary dedication to Me which is prompted by your heart and which therefore meets My full response by moving into your heart and never leaving it again because your love keeps hold of Me. How happy you then will become if you are convinced of My constant presence and feel protected by My love. Then My adversary will no longer be able to oppress you since he takes flight from Me and My love and will therefore also keep his distance once you have received Me in your heart …. For My love is powerful and averts whatever might cause you harm ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Constantly calling upon Jesus ensures His presence ….
B.D. 7356 from May 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Rest assured that I will not abandon those of you who want to be My Own. Many trials will still come upon you but I Am aware of them and will always stand by your side as protection. Nevertheless, you should do everything in your power in order to stand up to these trials. My adversary is entitled to prove himself on you, because he will only govern this world for a short time longer and will try to hold on to his followers by any means. And he will also notice My Own who had withdrawn themselves from his power and will put them to the test with increased strength. However, you need not be afraid of him, for I will not let My Own be snatched from Me, I will protect My Own from him and his power. You have a reliable means of repelling him by only ever calling upon Me Myself, by voicing My name with profound faith in My help; even if it is just a thought …. But you must always turn to Me Myself, and you will liberate yourselves from him. He has not much power over My Own anymore, because your love for Me repels everything, no matter what he does to you. However, he frequently uses means which will cause you great difficulties, and yet you need not fear them either if you always bear Me in mind Who, on the cross, carried everything for you that burdened you as guilt of sin. I have redeemed you, I have liberated you from his control, and thus you only need your own will to accept My sacrifice on the cross, to regard it as having been accomplished for you and believe that My adversary will have no more power over you once you have voluntarily handed yourselves over to Me. Remember Me at all hours and you will induce Me to always be present with you …. What can possibly happen to you when I Am close to you? …. You need not be afraid of anything and anyone, for even the usually powerful adversary is powerless once I Am by your side, and the fact that I will remain by your side is entirely determined by your will not to exclude Me from your thoughts, to call upon Me in every adversity and distress and to utter My name in confidence of receiving My assistance, which I promise you at all times. Just let your faith come alive through constant kind-hearted activity and you will no longer be exposed to any adversity, for a living faith banishes every spiritual and earthly adversity, a living faith knows no fear and no failure, a living faith is united work with Me Myself, Who can’t be matched by any opponent, Who is victorious over the greatest enemy and to Whom you should therefore completely hand yourselves over, because then you will be and remain My Own and will never ever have to fear anything again …. For My love belonged to you from the very start and My love will never stop …. And so the Father will also protect His child from all danger threatened by the enemy, He will walk by its side and spread out His hands protectively, and the child’s every path will be smooth so that it will safely reach the goal.
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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)
God's eternal plan of salvation is being carried out ….
B.D. 7357 from May 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
There is no spiritual change for the better on this earth, even if individuals will still attain realization and thus a spiritual change will occur for them in their earthly life. But the general public is far more on the path to the abyss, it is sinking instead of striving upwards, and these people will increase in number the closer it is to the end. Whatever is done to change their will, to proclaim the gospel to them or to bring the truth to them …. they reject everything and rather persecute those who want to help them rise from the depths to the light …. They are wholly in the hands of satan and do his will, who plunges them irrevocably into the deep, as is his plan …. And because these people are in the majority judgment will also have to pass over this earth, although everything will be done first to release the few from his chains who go into themselves and thus accomplish a spiritual change within themselves, for they will live forever even if they lose their physical life before the end of this earth, but their souls will enter the kingdom of light and beatitude. But whoever perseveres until the end will be blessed …. This promise will be fulfilled, for people who remain faithful to God even in the time of the most difficult faith struggle will be allowed to inhabit paradise on the new earth and will be blessed …. Then one can certainly speak of a spiritual turning point, for people will no longer be in battle with evil forces, there will be peace on earth and people will live together in love, in harmony and bliss, and no-one will need to fear their fellow human being as an enemy and adversary …. It is a completely different life than it is on earth now among people who are hostile towards each other and harm each other because love has completely grown cold …. And this state cannot remain like this, but it would no longer be changed on the part of people, but it can only experience a change through God’s will by establishing the law of divine order again …. by separating the goats from the sheep, by banishing in matter that which is completely contrary to Him and by transferring those who remain faithful to a new earth …. by “making all things new”, as He has promised. But anyone who still hopes for such a change on this earth is mistaken, for God’s adversary has too much power over people who grant him this power themselves, and he also uses it because he knows that he does not have much time left …. Thus he will do everything in his power to further increase the confusion on earth; and people themselves will do nothing to counteract him, they will willingly go along with everything he urges them to do. And thus the spiritual darkness will grow ever greater, people’s weakness to resist will constantly increase and satan’s activity will likewise increase, and people’s complete deterioration and apostasy from God will be the inevitable result, which will therefore be countered by God such that everything on earth will come to an end, that all creations will be dissolved and all spiritual substances will receive a new form again in accordance with their degree of maturity …. but the human being will likewise be incorporated into the material creation again in accordance with his maturity …. except for those who are raptured because they remain faithful to God until the end …. Whether you humans want to believe this or not …. it is God’s plan of salvation which will be carried out according to His will and which will therefore also one day be carried out when the time is fulfilled …. And the fact that it will soon be fulfilled is proclaimed to you again and again through seers and prophets so that you cannot say that you knew nothing in order to be able to prepare yourselves for it. You reckon with the distant future …. but one day the future will also become the present, and one day you will have to reckon with the course of events according to the predictions …. And you should imagine this end as close as possible, and this will only be good for you …. For you stand before the end …. You are facing an earthly and spiritual turning point, and you do not have much time left …. Use it well, for you can still achieve much if only you are of good will ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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)
Jesus' Ascension ….
B.D. 7358 from May 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
It is difficult for people to believe what cannot be proven when it concerns phenomena which are outside the law of nature, which therefore can only be taken on faith as true. This also includes My ascension, the final event of My presence on earth, which truly took place against the law but could only be witnessed by perfect people. And these perfect people were instructed to include this information when they told other people of the Salvation through My death, of My suffering and dying on the cross and My resurrection …. Hence My disciples also spoke of My ascension but they were only believed where people, due to their faith, were already more spiritually minded and who were therefore also able to believe what was conveyed to them. Nor did they dare doubt the witnesses of My ascension because they felt that these, My witnesses, were speaking the truth and proclaimed the Gospel to them on orders from above. For this reason the faith in the Ascension of Jesus was preserved for a longer time, it was not as doubted as is the case now, where love has grown cold among people and faith can already be called completely dead. Besides, there are no credible witnesses of this event and people must unconditionally believe that what is known to them as tradition or from the Book of the Fathers is true …. But living faith is missing, for this can only be awakened by a life of love, so that a person’s spirit thereby wakes up and enlightens him and an easy solution to this problem is found, which can never be discovered without an awakened spirit. When I ascended to Heaven I was surrounded by spiritually awakened men and women with loving hearts who adhered to Me with ardent devotion. And thus they were able to observe a process which was entirely natural because My earthly body no longer existed, instead, I only adopted a completely transfigured body in order to be able to remain visible to these people until I left them to return to the kingdom where I had come from. My kingdom is pure light and love and cannot be seen with physical eyes, only the spiritual eye can behold it, just as every pure spirit dwells within an ocean of light and can also only be seen with spiritual vision.
At the time of death a perfected soul takes on a garment of light and radiates full of magnificence and glory, and were people already spiritually perfect then they could also occasionally see such a figure of light when the soul leaves its earthly body behind after the completion of its physical life and enters the kingdom of the beyond. For every soul making an effort to attain perfection on earth will already be spiritualised to a certain degree so that it can clothe itself with a radiant garment, it is just that only very few people have this gift of grace to be able to spiritually see when a soul leaves its earthly body. This is why spiritually dormant people cannot be convinced that after My resurrection I ‘ascended to Heaven ….’, which was a process that only took place in all splendour for the sake of My disciples, so that they were able to comply with their task with convinced faith in My power and glory, for they were supposed to carry the Gospel throughout the world and make My resurrection and ascension known to people …. To what extent a person is able to believe in this depends entirely on the strength of his love for Me and his fellow human being …. Everything is rooted in the fulfilment of My two commandments: Supreme realisation and a living faith arise from the love for God and one’s neighbour, yet without fulfilling these commandments it will be impossible for you humans to believe what cannot be proven to you due to your freedom of will. But you can consider yourselves blessed if you believe without evidence, for you will be rewarded for such faith one day if it was the result of a selfless life of love …. Then you, too, will put on a radiant garment of light and not taste death, you will also ‘ascend to Heaven ….’, you will be able to enter the kingdom of peace and beatitude and be permeated by brilliant light, because then you will dwell in light for all eternity ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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 kingdom of heaven suffereth violence ….'
B.D. 7359 from May 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Remember, you humans, that you only live for a short time on this earth but that your soul, which is your real Self, is everlasting, and then it will also be understandable to you that you must provide for your well-being in eternity and not for the short time of earthly life, which can end even faster than you would naturally assume. For not one of you can be certain that he will live to see the next day and everyone must take into account the thought that they might be suddenly recalled from this earth one day. If you seriously thought about it you would also become conscious of the great responsibility you have taken upon your soul, thus for yourselves, during this short time of your life on earth. And you would ask yourselves how much you have done already for your soul’s benefit …. For this is a question you should really seriously asks yourselves for once, it would truly only be a blessing for you if you thought about this for a little while. You can create incomparable riches for your soul if only you are of good will; you need only ever make an effort to live a life of love, to love God above all else and to consider your neighbour like a brother and help him when he is in trouble …. Nothing more is expected of you from God than this love for Him and your neighbour. And if your will is good then you should ask yourselves to what extent you comply with God’s will in your daily life and you will still discover a lot that is not according to God’s will if you look at your way of life critically and honestly.
For the human being still loves too selfishly, he loves himself more than his neighbour and yet he should give the same love to him that he grants to himself. And that requires a person’s firm will, the will to attain perfection and to submit himself to God’s will. But the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and only the violent take it by force …. The will must be strong and assert itself, then the human being uses force in order to attain the kingdom of heaven …. But then again, Jesus gave people the promise ‘My yoke is easy, and My burden is light ….’ And that, too, is right, since a person who is willing to love will find it easy to fulfil God’s commandments, he need not use a lot of force, because love is in him and love is strength, so that he will acquire the kingdom of heaven for certain, because he no longer lacks firmness of will through his life of love …. And just for once you should seriously think about the extent to which you still have to use ‘force’ or whether it has already become your nature to help your neighbour with love as a matter of fact …. In that case you will also know what you require, for then you will first have to appeal to God for strength in order to be able to comply with his requirements, because it is still difficult for you …. However, you will receive it, and what initially is a great effort becomes easy and will no longer be experienced by you as a burden …. You will not be under a yoke which you deem difficult to bear. You will not experience a burden because through love you will constantly receive strength from God and then easily attain maturity of soul, which it needs to live the real life in light and strength and beatitude …. But prior to this you must give account to yourselves so that the hour of death will not take you by surprise and your soul will not have to enter the kingdom of the beyond in a poor and wretched state …. For no-one will know when his hour has come ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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)
Purification of the soul through love ….
B.D. 7360 from May 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
It contributes a lot to your purification if you only keep reminding yourselves of the commandments of love for God and your neighbour and ask yourselves how far you comply with these commandments. For if you are honest with yourselves you will never be satisfied with yourselves and your way of life, because you could always be more eager in your activity of love and often miss an opportunity. But already the will to act right and already the fact to carry out this self-examination is an advantage for your soul, for every good will has a beneficial effect. And during such a serious examination you will also become aware of your weaknesses, which every person still has, even if his will is good, until he is so eagerly active in love that he is now filled by the strength of love which also gives the will the right strengthening. Just never believe that you no longer need to purify your soul; never believe that you have already reached the degree which secures your entry into the kingdom of light. You must strive and work on yourselves as long as you live on earth, and you will only do well if you often devote yourselves to such inner reflections and try to fathom your faults and weaknesses. And your will will also be strengthened to constantly carry out the work on your soul, because such introspections already testify to your serious will to become perfect. Every omission of a good deed will come to your mind during self-examination, every failure or disregard of the divine commandments of love will come to your mind, and then you should only ever firmly resolve to improve yourselves and use every opportunity to make up for what you have neglected, and it will only result in a blessing for you that you will always fulfil the commandments of love for God and your neighbour more easily, because you will receive strength if your will is serious. The human being should once consider his duties towards his neighbour if he wants to fulfil this very commandment …. He should always remind himself that he should help his neighbour in every adversity and distress, be it of an earthly or spiritual nature …. And therefore he should not close his eyes to his neighbour’s adversity, he should always remember how helpful help would be to him in the same adversity and how gratefully he would accept it. And he should always consider what his fellow human being is in need of, be it spiritually or physically …. For he should also try to remedy spiritual hardship where possible, because this is a work of love with a special effect on his fellow human being’s soul. For this reason the human being cannot go into himself often enough and think about everything God requires of him through His commandments of love, for these are always the guideline for a correctly lived earthly change, he can always keep to these commandments if he wants to live his earthly life correctly and according to God’s will, always as a blessing for himself and his fellow human beings …. For God requires nothing else of the human being than that he change into love, He only requires that he fulfils His commandments in order to grant him a blissful life in light and strength and freedom, which, however, is inconceivable without love …. And all perfection of the soul solely depends on the transformation (of selfish love) into unselfish love, which then also guarantees love for God and establishes the union with Him, on which all beatitude in the spiritual kingdom depends ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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)
'The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence ….' II.
B.D. 7361 from May 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
Much is expected of those who are still too attached to the world, they truly must use violence in order to acquire the kingdom of heaven, for due to their various weaknesses and cravings they are chained to the one who is lord of this world. If they want to release themselves they need a strong will to take a different path. It is therefore not an easy intention for a downright worldly person …. He needs help to do so; he needs the support of a Power which opposes the lord of the world, which is capable of releasing him from the control of the former. Hence he needs help from Jesus Christ, Who alone has this power and can snatch the human being from the adversary …. The more captivated a person is by the world the greater is the adversary’s power over him, and this person truly has to fight against the temptations and attractions of this world. And this battle is not an easy one and neither would a person succeed, but as soon as he has resolved to release himself the thought will not leave him again, for then God Himself will intervene and try to exert His influence in every way without, however, forcing the person into changing his way of life. But once the thought of renouncing the world for the sake of a higher goal has arisen in a person, his thoughts will occupy themselves with God and His will increasingly more, he will also remember the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and may receive a strengthening of will from His side, depending on his own will and its inclination. Then the severity of the battle against worldly temptation will ease but the kingdom of heaven will come ever closer, because the person will have taken up the fight against the ruler of the world and he will begin to become captivated by the kingdom which is ‘not of this world’ …. ‘The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force ….’
These Words were said to worldly people who can only separate themselves from their previous lord by the use of force, because for all others apply the Words ‘My yoke is easy, and My burden is light ….’ In that case, however, the world, with all its temptations, must have been overcome already, then a person will no longer feel the burden as much, he will deem God’s wishes easy to live up to because he will already be in contact with Him and will be consciously walking the path leading into the spiritual kingdom …. He will have already conquered the world with the result that the kingdoms will then be exchanged …. that this world will lie behind him and the kingdom of God will rank first …. that the person will no longer be burdened by excessive weight and will therefore be able to travel the earthly path almost unburdened …. with an easy yoke and a light burden …. Nevertheless, this path leads to the goal, just as a violent battle against the world will let the person reach the goal, so that he will be able to take possession of the ‘heavenly kingdom’ when he discards his physical body and enters the spiritual realm …. For his will, which aimed towards the spiritual realm, was victorious, because he will always be granted the strength he needs as soon as he has the serious will to take possession of the ‘heavenly kingdom’ …. And this decision must be taken in earthly life, the world must be recognised as the possession of God’s adversary and God’s kingdom as not of this world …. Then the human being’s good will is enough in order to be granted the strength for taking up the fight against the earthly world with all its enticements and attractions and only to strive towards the kingdom of heaven, which certainly requires violence by someone who belongs to this earthly world but also wants to attain life in beatitude. The earthly world, however, will never be able to grant a person eternal beatitudes, the earthly world can only give earthly, that is, transient things which disappear when the human being dies and must leave earthly belongings behind …. But anyone who has already turned towards the spiritual kingdom will not fear physical death, for he knows that he cannot cease to exist, instead he will go on living in a kingdom which is incomparably more beautiful than the earthly world and therefore it should be everyone’s goal and endeavour to acquire it as long as he lives on Earth ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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)
Refreshment for the soul ….
B.D. 7362 from May 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
People will come together who are intimately united with Me, who serve Me and want to advocate the spreading of My word, which is conveyed to them from above through My will. For My word has the power to influence the human being so that he cannot help but stand up for it, so that it impels him from within to become active for Me and My kingdom. And as soon as a person has experienced the strength of My word himself he also wants to give it to his fellow human being who needs its effect just as much. And I bring together those who thus want to serve Me and give all of them plenty of seed so that they can scatter it in people’s hearts, which are the fields that are to receive the seed so that it will sprout and bear good fruit. But someone who is not addressed by the word is not yet mature; he is not yet willing to be addressed by Me, and therefore My word has no effect on him and will also remain without effect as long as this serious will is missing. Yet such people are and remain powerless, even though they assert themselves in earthly life and appear to be full of strength. But their souls are miserable, and because it lacks proper nourishment it remains poorly formed and is in danger of entering the spiritual kingdom from earthly life in this meagreness, which means much agony and hardship for it. Therefore you humans, who have the grace to receive My word, should do everything to spread My word so that it will also be conveyed to those who are still weak in will to reach maturity. Again and again you should knock at their heart’s door and again and again offer them the gifts which come to you from the spiritual kingdom without restriction …. And it will be bliss when the heart’s door is voluntarily opened, when you recognize that a hungry soul turns to you again and wants to receive from you. For I still want to address many people through you, and therefore I direct those to the source who want to drink and refresh themselves with the water of life. You can believe that you walk weakly and powerlessly through earthly life if you don’t often visit the fountain of life, if you don’t often lie down at the spring during your pilgrimage, from which the pure water of life flows. And you will then have covered the earthly path with difficulty and without success for your soul, although you could walk the path with all your strength if you did not pass by that spring. You need the water of life for your soul to thrive because it needs strength in order to mature. And I will truly ensure that it will not remain without refreshment; I will still lead many people into your path to whom you shall bring My word …. the pure truth …. and who shall gratefully accept it …. and who will gratefully accept it from you. For I know who longs to be addressed by Me, I know who recognizes Me Myself in ‘My word’, for I know My own and My own recognize My voice …. Therefore you should be diligent in spreading My word and offer it to every person I bring to you …. Whether he accepts or rejects it is solely his will, which is respected, which is why My word cannot be forcibly conveyed to his fellow human being …. For he himself determines what his heart wants to accept, and depending on his desire the success or effect on his soul will also be …. Yet like a refreshing drink My word will touch the soul which is willing to let itself be fed and watered by Me. And the soul will be satisfied and now also mature during its earthly progress, yet without the strength of My word it will remain weak and wretched and enter the kingdom of the beyond just as weak and wretched ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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)
Overcoming the world …. spiritual work ….
B.D. 7363 from May 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 78
You will hardly ever hear the voice of the spirit in the world’s bustle unless you are so permeated by My spirit that it can also assert itself in the midst of the world, that you always pay attention to its voice, because the world is no longer able to captivate you such that it drowns out the voice of the spirit. But it is rare, for as soon as the human being is in the midst of the world, his senses are also captured by it, even if it is only temporarily. Therefore you should avoid the world to the best of your ability and only make it useful to you as far as it is necessary for your earthly life, for you are placed in the midst of the world and now also have to prove yourselves in it …. And this means that you should try to become its master but not become slaves to the world. Anyone who seriously strives spiritually also knows how obstructive the world is to his spiritual striving, how again and again he is held back and his thoughts stray from what alone is important in earthly life: spiritual further development. The worldly man will not ask for it, and the spiritually striving man also puts such questions aside as long as the world holds him captive, as long as it offers the body pleasures, which he now also seeks to fulfil because they are offered to him. Such indulgence of bodily desires need not be a sin, but it is certainly an impediment to spiritual development, for what is granted to the body is lost to the soul, because its need is of a spiritual nature and worldly enjoyment does not cover the soul’s need at all. The more worldly a person’s attitude is, the more his soul will suffer …. For the voice of the spirit does not penetrate either, the soul cannot assert its will and express its desire, for the body pushes it back and fulfils its own desire first. But this need not be a permanent state, the human being can satisfy his body’s desire and then deal with his soul all the more eagerly again and give it what it desires: spiritual food from the kingdom of light, to which the human being now voluntarily gives himself again and finds greater satisfaction than in the goods of the world. But My spirit is already active in this human being, which did not withdraw even in the world’s gear but had an effect on the human being so that he could quickly detach himself from the world again and turn to the kingdom which gave nourishment to his soul. This is why a spiritually striving person will only rarely find satisfaction in the world, it will no longer be able to completely captivate him, he has already become a stranger to it and his body only rarely desires its goods and pleasures because the spiritual gifts give him greater pleasure and he has already recognized the worthlessness of worldly goods. Then the spirit in him will also express itself in the midst of the world’s hustle and bustle, it will direct and guide him and make him look at everything in view of his spiritual development, and again and again the desire will prevail to withdraw into silence again, because the soul’s desire prevails and only approves for the body what it necessarily needs for its preservation. But then the world will no longer mean danger for a person, then he will have already achieved in earthly life that the soul will listen to the voice of the spirit within himself, and then the world will no longer be able to exert much influence because the spirit will be able to assert itself even if the person has to move in the world. And anyone who has once awakened the spirit within himself will no longer need to fear that it will withdraw completely. It will assert itself again and again because the human being’s will is to mature spiritually, and because such a will also signifies an influx of strength, so that it will always be stronger and also take up the battle against the world and emerge victorious ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 78 (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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