Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 31

False and true charity

7th July 1840

[1] Every poor person in need of help is a close brother to Me, like the miserly rich man to Satan.

[2] If I send My poor brothers to your door, you rich, wealthy and able, think that I have not yet withdrawn My love (from you).

[3] But once you have got it – I am speaking here in general – that the poor no longer dare to come in front of your home, then know that My love has also taken a leave of absence from you for all times. Such a rich man is then worldly, to all seductive appearances, under the protection of hell. But in all his supposed happiness there is not even a spark of My love and much less of My grace.

[4] The same is true of those worldly and financially wealthy people who, for reasons of prestige and a certain duty, give either much or little as alms. And an abomination are those so-called "mild", I would like to speak and say: "whore’s" contributions, which sparingly come from certain dance, play and many other amusement opportunities that I hate above all else, merely for the sake of their name, and to grant the public courtship all the more freedom of action! Oh the eternal shame of erecting an altar of sacrifice to Me in the chapels of Satan!

[5] Therefore, My dear ones, do not act as the children of hell do, but let your gift be seen by no-one but Me, by the poor and by you. And let everyone give abundantly according to the proportion of his wealth!

[6] For verily, verily, I say to you, you shall have an earth for a penny and a sun for a drink of living water and you shall be princes there! But if you do so out of pure love for Me – there, friends, I tell you nothing but this: first of all no-one will ever see death nor feel it in his physical life, for his sweet death will be a great awakening in the arms of his most Holy Father. And what, for the second, will mean: "to be a friend of God forever" – that, friends – oh consider, He who calls you His friends! – you cannot believe it!

[7] But now My servant will show you a poor man – he is doubly poor, in body and in spirit, help him first bodily, but then also spiritually. Whoever will be the first will have much joy. Do not ask "to whom?" but help him who is brought before you! He is your brother, and you should not worry about anything else if you want to be true children of your Father in heaven, who lets his sun shine over good and evil and gives food even to the ravening animals. Amen! I, Jehovah, your Father! Amen, Amen, Amen.