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Free, joyful trust in God
26th September 1848
[1] Listen, My dear Ans. H.-W., thus says the Lord your God and your Father:
[2] Why are you so anxious and angry about the world you are in love with, as if the salvation of your house depends on it alone? Am I not after all the Master of the life of your wife, all your children, your and your sister-in-law's life and wealth?!
[3] If you love Me and have welcomed Me, who should be able to harm you? Who do you want or may fear still by My side ?! I speak to you through My servant and speak to you through the girl on whom you lay your hands. Yes, I go in and out of your house almost visibly! I also knock on your heart, I strengthen you with My hand, I forgive you and have long forgiven you for your sins and weaknesses in your flesh! But that's not enough for you; you are still full of secret fear, full of fearfulness, full of faintheartedness, and I tell you, also full of little faith!
[4] See, that is not right! You suffer the most because you still cannot seriously say to Me with a trusting, free mind: “Lord, Father! Your will be done!"
[5] You must rise above all that; in the apparitions containing the cross in your house, you must recognize My will, which wants to straighten you up and redeem you from all spiritual evil, but not crush and destroy you! Then you will walk about with a free and easy mind and will enjoy all appearances of existence because from and in them you will recognize and see the best will of your Redeemer, your God, your Father.
[6] For My sake you must be able to leave everything! If I would also take everything from you: wife, children and property – you still have to say with Job: “Lord, you gave it to me, you can also take everything again! Your will alone is holy!" If you will speak thus within yourself, then I will say to you all the more effectively:
[7] Brother, because you love Me more than your wife, your children and much more than an earthly, only too perishable fortune, so I also want to give you back everything that is still dear to your heart after Me! Because I alone am the owner of infinity, everything belongs to Me alone. I alone can give and take and reproduce what I have taken a hundred times over.
[8] I see your infirmities and choose the most suitable means to help you, first spiritually and then also bodily, if the spiritual is in order. But if you know this, how can you be fearful?
[9] I tell you, you are not afraid because of science, but only as My disciples once at sea, when a storm drove the waves strongly against the ship. They well knew that I could save them if I were awake. But because I was sleeping, so to speak, they became full of fear due to their little faith and shouted: "Lord, wake up and help us, otherwise we will perish!" Say, wasn't this cry of fear a vainly stupid one? Fear at the side of the almighty Creator of infinity, if any storm blows that emanates from the same Creator who created the sea ?! See, only a person of little faith can do that! And so you too are of little faith and therefore fearful!
[10] You do not lack the most well-founded science that is firmly established by many experiences. But you lack true, firm great faith! And that is why you still have a strong fear of the world – because according to the truth, you believe and expect earthly support much more from the hands of the world than from Mine.
[11] Believe Me, I can and will keep you and your children also then, when all your possessions would be taken from you, and can also prepare and give you earthly tenfold more. But you must be firmer in your heart than you have been until now! You need not constantly apologize with the weakness of your nature! For your nature is much stronger than you believe it to be.
[12] Only the soul is weakest with you, because it is still more attached to the world than to Me. But in the future cling only quite firmly to Me, then you will immediately see whether your nature is weak or strong.
[13] I say to you: Be glad and cheerful, for I am with you. Eat and drink (but a real wine, of course in moderation, with water)! For it depends on Me whether food and drink serve you or not.
[14] I say to you that you may fast and groan and mourn, yet I will not help you because of this. But through full faith and through your true love for Me and from this for your brothers, I will help you always!
[15] If you say, full of fear and faintheartedness: "Lord, your will be done!" – that means nothing to Me. But if you speak this with a free and joyful heart, you will always find help. For only in a heart that is free and joyful in My name do I dwell powerfully; but a depressed, sighing and fearful heart, is likewise depressed, sighing and powerless.
[16] Or can a master builder build a strong and powerful house on soil that is too soft, damp, and sandy? I think that rocky ground will certainly be more suitable for that. So your heart, too, and the faith in your heart must become a rock; otherwise My power will find no support in you so firm that, leaning on it, it could express itself completely effectively according to your and My wishes.
[17] So be courageous and free with a joyful heart and truly believe, without fear of the world, that I can not only help you and your wife, but also want and will help – it will also happen, as you believe and will in My name. But with a heart full of fear and therefore little faith, you will not achieve much – except in time, make yourself, your wife and your children even weaker and more fearful than has been the case up to now.
[18] See, I am truly with you, and I will also help your wife. So don't be afraid! Make up your mind to sacrifice everything to Me and I will give everything to you! Because My love for you is much greater than yours for Me.
[19] You know, of course, that I have said that he is not worthy of Me who loves anything in the world more than Me. So truly love Me above everything else, and I will then give you everything above all!
[20] But consider your wife’s sickness as an effective medicine against the sensual cancer of your flesh, whom I want to and will help through this, that you may become a perfect spirit. Then you will breathe more easily, because you will clearly see in it only My great Fatherly loving care for you and your children's well-being!
[21] Now your wife suffers naturally; but her soul is thereby strengthened mightily, and her spirit is made free, which you can easily take from her patience and great perseverance. But if you have to see this irrevocably and recognize My work in your house, then you may only rejoice mightily and not become anxious.
[22] Let the world talk and be amazed and rebuke, or pinch and nag! I am with you! And when I am with you, who should be able to harm you? Believe then and trust in Me with a free and joyful heart, and I will help you here and beyond, that is, temporally and forever, from all evil! Amen. Amen. Amen.