Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 66

Be careful with physical pleasures!

13th October 1840, from 2:30 until 4:30 pm

[1] So write here, you My very lazy, useless, very bad and extremely foolish servant, who only looks at Me with one eye and hears My voice with one ear – and the other eye and ear are still attached to the world!

[2] Turn everything to Me, so that in the light of My eternal day, you may recognize the infinite value of what I give you unworthy ones in such abundance that even the angels of heaven cannot understand and grasp such abundance of My grace and dare not come close out of awe, because such a holy light flows out of My love for you vile sinners!

[3] Therefore consider what you are receiving and from Whom you are receiving it! And in the future do not pay homage to the cup too much; for in wine lies the spirit of the flesh and thus of all fornication. And if you will continue to do that, then I will let you fall into all whoring – like everyone who pretends like you! And then it will be a long time until you would find the way to My grace again.

[4] And now write to N.N. and tell him that I want to say to him:

[5] Every belly- and stomach-pleasure, if it happens unnecessarily, is not suitable for My kingdom. Because the unnecessary juice makes the flesh of the breast – My future dwelling – black and dark, because the spirit cannot be awakened in the threefold night, i.e. in the night of love, in the night of will and thereby the night of sin.

[6] I give you no law, that you would not become slaves of sin again; but that you shall become free in My love, I only give you to recognize the ways of My love.

[7] Therefore let your flesh rest in death and do not wake it up with new stimulants – so that your spirit may live in My love through a sure hope, from the root of a true, living faith, which is a true light, flowing out of My great sun of grace, whose center is the warming resting place of My eternal love.

[8] Look around, and you will soon see this My sun already high in the morning and you will also feel it's gentle warmth. But you are not to want to awaken your flesh to sin; otherwise I will have to let My sun set for you. Your ground will turn into a hot sandy desert. And instead of the true bread of heaven and My living water, you will have to be satisfied with the fata morgana of the world.

[9] Consider this well, My dear N.N., see, I love you and help you over your neck and head. Therefore let the flesh rest in death so that I can awaken your love and you may soon taste the eternal life in you out of Me.

[10] Keep your children in check and don't let them jump into the world, and block the windows of your house so that they don't confuse their senses! The world has all it's gates and shutters of their houses open. But so it should not be with those whom I want to accept as My children.

[11] Amen. This say I, Father of you all!