Various gifts of the spirit.... Speaking in tongues.... Warning against wrong spirit....

I APPEAL TO YOU
... through Bertha Dudde - 31.7.1954

Various gifts of the spirit.... Speaking in tongues.... Warning against wrong spirit....

The spirit of God manifests itself in various ways, since its working depends on a person's ability, on his spiritual maturity.... and it also depends on his disposition which spiritual gift will be given to him.

The receiving of a spiritual gift always presupposes that you are shaped by love, thus a voluntary total transformation of the being.

God's spirit can only flow into a suitable vessel.... a vessel, which thus has been prepared for the reception of the divine ray of love through unselfish deeds of love....

Anyone who has not yet achieved this transformation into love cannot expect a gift of the spirit.

Consequently, the gifts of the spirit are always merely the result of a loving way of life and never arbitrarily granted gifts.... They have to be `endeavoured', which anyone could do but which is rarely done.

The way God's spirit takes effect depends on the task given to a person who was shadowed by God's spirit during his earthly life, which God's wisdom certainly recognised to be beneficial for humanity but nevertheless requires the human being's free will. God truly knows who wants to serve him and how that person shapes himself, He will therefore place him where he is able to work most effectively....

People in the last days have to be shaken up since their thinking will become completely superficial, thus they will need to be extraordinarily impressed in order to disturb their contentment. But even unusual phenomena have a completely natural explanation, yet what appears to be natural to one person is inconceivable to another because he is spiritually blind. Hence these `spiritually blind' people will be confronted by someone with `vision' who can detach himself from his earthly tie and, as you might say, be lifted into the spiritual realm, and who returns from this spiritual realm to earth with a gift which cannot be gained in an earthly way....

He will work with powers which enable him to achieve the seemingly impossible.... by way of the Word he will be able to heal the sick or see the future clairvoyantly, he will possess profound wisdom and thus will also be able to inform his fellow human beings.... or he will know what is otherwise concealed from people.... He will be able to speak foreign languages.... the working of the divine spirit will clearly manifest itself.... but only in order to gain people's souls for the spiritual kingdom, because the spirit of God only affects people spiritually and does not promote earthly interests.

Hence the holder of a spiritual gift will always be a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord.... As a result of this gift he will be God's representative on earth who wants to establish and increase His kingdom and has made it his task in life. God's spirit will only manifest itself noticeably to other people through His willing servants, although every person can be permeated by His spirit and thus is also able to understand clearly and precisely and be qualified to pass his knowledge on to other people. Nevertheless, people only receive in accordance with their will, and a prerequisite for receiving an obvious gift of spirit is their willingness to work for God and His kingdom. For God wants to reveal Himself through people to all of humanity.

God wants to be recognised in His working, hence a person has to act as an intermediary as long as God cannot approach people Himself, as long as unbelief and spiritual blindness make this utterly impossible.

It follows that God reveals Himself through His spirit, which manifests itself through a human being, in order to guide people into faith, to enlighten them, to make them see the light shining from above onto people.... in order to let them know the purpose of their earthly life and to illuminate the path to the goal....

All spiritual gifts only serve to influence people's souls in the divine sense. Then powers will be released in a person which clearly testify of a divine influx.... the influx of strength that originates from God.... the strength of divine spirit....

Amen
B.D. 6013a



And then the human being will accomplish things which seem unnatural to other people, which far exceed a human being's natural ability.... He will know about things which are usually hidden to people, he will be able to clarify matters convincingly and comprehensibly to his fellow human beings, which a person cannot ascertain with his intellect alone.... he will be able to enter regions which are inaccessible to others....

He will have the strength to cure the sick, to perform miracles or even be able to see the future clairvoyantly, abilities will become evident which he never developed in himself.... he will speak and also understand foreign languages when it is necessary and beneficial for other peoples' spiritual development.... He will be influenced by divine strength in every way.... but will generally only have one of these gifts, since the requirements vary for each spiritual gift and all requirements are rarely found in one person.

But each spiritual gift has to fulfil its purpose, i.e. it has to be possible to derive a benefit from each one.... The gift of healing the sick, apart from physical recovery, will undoubtedly also contribute towards the souls' recovery, since people learn to believe in the power of the spirit, which is activated by the healer's as well as the sick person's firm faith.

Predictions of future events, too, can motivate people to change their way of life, to do penance and return to God, because these predictions only ever relate to the earthly consequences of people's spiritually low level....

Proclaiming the truth through the divine spirit also contributes towards the awakening of faith and a change of lifestyle, and again, should be regarded as a purely spiritual factor of utmost importance. Only what contributes towards achieving spiritual benefit can be described as the working of the spirit, because whatever originates from God can't be anything but illuminating.... It has to bring light and reveal the ambiguous, it cannot emanate even more darkness than is already amongst humanity....

However, God's spirit can also affect a person in order to remove his state of darkness, to kindle a light in the person's heart.... to reveal the soul's layers, so that the soul rejoices and cheers and praises its God and Father, Who bestowed it with enlightenment. This influence applies more to the soul than the person's intellect, hence the spiritual gift need not be perceptible to people, but it occasionally affects the outer person so intensely that he tries to express himself with incomprehensible words.... People call this process `speaking in tongues', but it always just affects the human being himself.... it is a gift of the spirit which almost every spiritually awakened person can call his own but only in rare cases is it so intense that other people notice a change. For every spiritually awakened person feels the contact his soul experienced such that his soul raises itself to God praising and thanking Him, that it gives itself to Him and finds inner peace and beatitude....

Then his inner ego communicates with God in thought, then he will constantly talk with God without words..... Everyone should endeavour to gain this spiritual gift for themselves in order to speak to his fellow human beings on behalf of God and His kingdom, in order to accomplish the redemption work himself as His co-worker, which is blessed.

But beware of the wrong spirit, because this, too, makes itself perceptible wherever it can slip in, where pride, self-satisfaction and need for recognition still prevail, thereby offering this spirit the opportunity to express itself in a manner that seems equally unusual. But instead of light it only leaves confusion and agitation.... caused by conditions which are off-putting to serious fellow human beings and only result in joy and approval in those who belong to this spirit themselves.

Therefore: Do not believe every spirit.... and scrutinise it by taking notice of the gleam of light, of its intensity of light.... Because God is light.... what comes forth from God is light.... and therefore divine gifts of spirit categorically have to leave an effect of radiant light, otherwise they are Satan's works of deception, which he will particularly use during the last days with the intention of dazzling people's eyes as well as their souls in order to plunge them into even greater darkness and render them unable to recognise the true light....

Amen

B.D. 6013b

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