I Appeal to You

... through Bertha Dudde -

22.2.1951

5069 Prayer in spirit and in truth.... Pious gestures....

I take no notice of pious gestures; they are, after all, merely outer
ostentatious covers which are intended to conceal the heart from
onlookers. Anyone who truly sincerely thinks of Me and speaks to Me
with simple, unembellished words considers every ceremony, every
external movement or gesture to be strange; the heart does not need it, it
takes the straight path to Me and exclaims its distress or its love and
adoration of Me and I hear every thought which rises up to Me from the
heart. But where an inner feeling is meant to be outwardly recognisable
too much value is placed on other people's opinion, since I Myself have no
need of such external testimonies and without them a person's heart lies
openly before Me. In that case you only want to convince your fellow
human beings of an apparently intimate relationship with Me, and thus
you don't approach Me with an undivided mind but place too much
importance on other people's judgment. But, in addition, your prayer will
also lack depth of feeling, for heartfelt contact with Me lets you forget
everything around you but also makes every external gesture seem
absurd and derisive.
Therefore, as long as you still outwardly portray what should only
move you within you still have not found heartfelt union with Me in your
thoughts, which does not allow for external actions, because then you will
be so completely seized by Me that you will forget the world around you,
that you will be true children of your Father whose love for the Father
leaves no space for anything else. You should certainly not forget your
fellow human being and always have an open eye and ear for his
problems, you should not carelessly ignore him if he comes to you full of
grief; you should not neglect him, not be arrogant towards him but
humbly stand by him with patience and compassion and do everything in
your power to help him for love of him. However, if you desire to enter
into heartfelt communication with Me your thoughts should only apply to
Me, and nothing of an external nature should disturb or identify this
heartfelt bond.... For I want to be prayed to in spirit and in truth and this
should happen in private, where no-one is a witness of the
communication of heart between Father and child.... And all pretence
should fall away from you, for I Am the Eternal Truth and also want to be
called upon in all truthfulness....
Amen

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