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MAKE and BREAK LOUISE SNYDER/CHRISTINE BADENHORST
Hoofstuk 22
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Chapter 22
Baptism. Take up My cross and I will make your burden lighter.
Those of you who have comprehended the previous chapters very well, can now proceed to the following aspect of Life. If you did not comprehend the previous ones, you can now come and ask on you knees (it is humble), so that I can open your hearts and minds, so that you can also comprehend the words of life and be saved through it. The next point which I would like to go to, is the baptism. Everyone knows what the baptism is. Or so you think. The baptism you know, is the baptism of Johannes with water. It is not the baptism which I refer to. The baptism which I speak of is the baptism in your hearts. It is the baptism of humility and victory over death. With My death on the cross on earth, people went through a baptism of fire. Those who loved Me were under the impression that by only loving Me, they were ready for My Kingdom hereafter which I have prepared with My death. But this was not so. For each human on earth there are certain things which he has to go through to become worthy of Me. This is the purification of which it is spoken. Each one who gives his heart to Me, is assured of all My love, but must also be able to suffer for Me. That is why things sometimes come on your path which are not pleasant. In your country there are many such opportunities to suffer for Me. The oppressors ensure that you suffer wherever possible. Just look at the farmers and the land claims. Nothing is so unfair, but I allow it and here and there it so happens that certain places are dispossessed. But look what is happening with the nation now. The farmers come together and start talking. Here and there someone stands up in My Name and tries to encourage the people by referring to your nation’s history where I have saved your ancestors from the claws of cruel barbarians. But most of them grab at straws and try to collect money to run to a human who can do just as little in this matter as they can themselves. Discord now starts to originate among them about what to do. Some mean to sell, otherwise you will not get the price of your land. Others want to fight it. Everyone goes home unsatisfied. Just to hold a meeting again after a few weeks about meaningless things. The few who really believe in Me, now starts to pray fervently and each time the telephone rings, they wonder with fear and trembling what the land claims commissioner has decided this time. But the one or two who has a love relationship with Me, go their way as if the wind only blows outside, because he knows, he has nothing to fear – I, his Creator, Saviour and tender Father fights the case for him. What can a whole world do when his DAD is with him? But the rest is not so lucky. Sleepless nights lie ahead and in fear they roll around with the following questions: Where do we go? What will we really get for the land? What if we are suddenly dispossessed out of the blue?
What kind of questions are these for a person who is supposed to trust in his Creator? Man now quickly begins to doubt My power and in the process his soul suffers damage. He has suffered for Me. Not in the sense of that which you think of, but he has nevertheless suffered. Despair makes the heart heavy and there is now enough on his heart to push his heart into the ground. He tries to make his heart lighter with all kinds of earthly pleasures like “socializing”, as you call it. I call it a booze party, but forward with the strugglers. Plans are devised, but nothing is done. At the end of the day that person goes home without a solution, with great sadness in his heart, which he hides with difficulty from his fellow-man. This thing presses heavier on his heart. He will carry on like this until he realises where his salvation lies. If he would just come to Me in full faith and trust, his situation would look much different. He will carry on until he has placed his problem on My shoulders.
The persons who have called Me first, were baptised with a soft baptism of fire, because they came to seek shelter with Me. They stand fast like a rock on Me, their Saviour, and wait. And just like I have always redeemed in the past, I will redeem again, but it is their great luck I have taken all the fire of the baptism of fire on Me and made the pain so much less as for the other who are still rolling around in their beds. And I am a God who keeps My word. I have said: “Cast all your troubles on Me. I will make your yoke softer and your burdens less. Just pick up My yoke.”
But the others have chosen to carry their yoke by themselves and My soft yoke and light burden they did not want to carry. Whose fault will it then be if they suffer and perhaps lose their land in the process? Accusingly they will then point a finger at Mine and give them the blame, because they did not go to court with them. Who will find Me in today’s judicial system? I am not to be found in court, where dishonest verdicts are at the order of the day and therefore you must seek Me in the quiet of your inner rooms (your hearts). There I can be found and it is also the only honest courtroom which exists and there justice and fairness will prevail, because nobody has to swear on the truth. I know each one’s heart and knows how far the innocence goes. The baptism of fire is the process through which each person on earth goes and it already starts when you are small. Brothers and sisters fight since they were babies and it is to teach them to handle confrontations in life that follows. It now depends on the parents to get the children’s focus right. They must be taught to come and discuss all problems with Me in the inner room of the heart. There is not one person on earth who does not have to suffer for Me and it happens in peculiar things around you. Small problems which look very big to you, but which I can turn around in your favour if you would entrust it to Me with a passionate heart. For Me nothing is impossible and by entrusting it to Me, you and I exchange burdens. I take your heavy burden from your shoulders and you take My soft yoke and light burden on your shoulders. In other words, I avert the warm flames of the baptism of fire from you and you will walk away unharmed and with the least scorch wounds. The people who do not want to come to Me for help, they must go and stand in the flames themselves where they must avert the full heat themselves. It is not the fault of My children who trust in Me. It is also not My fault if they do not want to be helped. But each one must go through the baptism of fire to purify you when it is given over into My hands. But those who want to carry it themselves, they will not be purified. They are scorched closed and then they are not receptive to Me anymore. (they lose their faith in Me) and then a harsher fire is necessary to try to purify them. That is why some people have problems frequently. They refuse to be purified and stubbornly cling to the heavy burden which they could easily have given to Me. I am prepared to carry everyone’s burdens, if they would just give it over to Me. My children, I love you so much that I have given My life for you. The heavy cross I have carried and you do not have to carry a heavy burden. Take up My cross and I will lighten your burden.
Amen
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