Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 365

House blessing

1st January 1847

[1] Yes, yes, just write a little house blessing to the brothers and sisters who were looking for Me and are still searching diligently, who loved Me and who still love in Me My poor brothers and sisters!

[2] But this is My special wish for all of you who were Mine and still are, if you want to be – that you all have a special joy in My poor brothers and sisters and gladly share your supply with them. And the more ragged and poor they are, the more expensive they should be to you, since these are much closer to Me than those who have the right to be called less poor and needy.

[3] Ask the poor man before you give him something, but do not ask: "How did you get into this misery? Why did you not work and save at the right time? Or, "Why, since your financial circumstances were so meager in the beginning, did you take a wife for yourself and, to the greatest detriment of your existence, fathered children with her?" – and more such unloving questions.

[4] Verily, verily, he who does these things, is he who demands an account from My household. But whoever demands an account from Me and wants to judge Me in My arms – from him I, too, as the eternally almighty God and Lord of all life and death, will demand an account in his time, in which even the most perfect angel would not know how to answer one for a thousand, let alone first such a wretched worldly judge, who wants to investigate and judge the poor before he has handed them something.

[5] As long as you still have poor people, you also have Me and My blessings for a long time. But if these leave you one day, then the plague of hell will break in on you and destroy you for ever! Doesn't the scripture say: "Sell all your great goods and share them all among the poor and then follow Me, and you will find great treasure in heaven!?"

[6] You may sure save for your children, and yet I have never commanded such things – how then do you do this which is My express will, with so much difficulty?

[7] But I do not want to reproach you with this as if you were such barren creatures, worthy of such a curse – but I only want to show you the right way with this, so that you may recognize at all times, how you are to be pleasing to Me in the poor brothers and sisters, and should not do like the world, which has My judgment and eternal death in all that it does.

[8] Blessed the merciful – they are to find mercy also with Me and will certainly be saved from eternal death!

[9] This good little word be a good "house blessing" for you all! If you pay attention to it, I will also regard you at all times and My grace will be yours forever! But if you disregard it, I will also disregard you and My grace will behave towards you the same as you behave towards the poor, with whom I live on earth physically!

[10] Whoever wants to search for and find Me, seek Me among the poor. I say this, your God, Lord and Father for ever! Amen.