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You Won’t Find God in Church!

This statement is particularly current these days. Once more the pope is traveling through European countries – this time through Austria. In large church events, he is attempting to bind the masses to himself and his institution. However, many Austrians meet him with skepticism. A mere 15% go to church. And it is even less among young people. According to a recent survey, people are talking about Austrian youth “de-churching“ themselves. More and more believe in God and fewer and fewer in the church. Why? Fewer and fewer people seek God in incomprehensible dogmas and the antiquated rituals of a worship service, for example, like those presently being celebrated during the papal masses in Austria. If one can no longer find God with the priest in splendid church buildings, then where can He be found?

It is known that Jesus of Nazareth taught: “The Kingdom of God is within, in you.” – thus particularly not in golden tabernacles and temples. What Jesus said is suppressed by the caste of priests that wants to bind the people to itself and at that, even though Paul, who is so highly praised by the church, wrote: “Do you not know that you are temples of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” – When we take this seriously, then we are more likely to find God in a quiet chamber or the free nature than in a Catholic mass, in which a host, or wafer, is allegedly transformed into the living flesh of Jesus Christ through the formulation “Hoc est enim corpus meum,” from which it is known that the saying “Hocus-pocus” developed.

More and more people want to pray to God in a relaxed manner, just as they feel, be it in great need, be it out of thankfulness, be it simply to immerse in God; it is the inner prayer. When we pray freely from the heart, we become more and more aware of how close God is to us. Then we do not seek Him in a distant heaven or in a monstrance, but we find Him, the All-Spirit, in the beauty of a landscape, for instance, or in the grace of an animal or a plant or also in reconciliation with a fellowman – in many situations of our life, be it in great need, in which we have a request to God, be it in great thankfulness, or be it that we seek and find secureness in God, as our Father.

Perhaps we remember that Jesus of Nazareth withdrew for forty days into the desert, not into a temple, to pray there. In nature, in prayer He struggled with the adversary, as it is reported in the Gospel of Mark. And the wild animals were around Him, and the angels served Him, as it says.

In the Great Christ-Revelation “This Is My Word – Alpha and Omega,” the Spirit of the Christ of God tells us the following: “ You need not go here or there — I Am in you! And wherever you are, I Am there. Withdraw into a quiet chamber and enter into the little chamber of your heart in order to pray from your heart. In prayer, bring your heart’s concerns to Me, who dwell in you, and be­lieve that I can do everything.”

This kind of prayer is the bridge to the Spirit of God, which every person who makes an effort can step onto.

We human beings, every single one of us, are the temple of God. In us, in our soul, dwells this mighty, all-eternal Spirit of love. Why churches made of stone? It is also written: “Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands...” or „Heaven is my throne and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me?”  (Acts 7:48-49).
People who think from the heart, people who have warm feelings, suddenly realize: If heaven is God’s throne and the earth the footstool for the feet of the Lord, then we have to say that God is omnipresent. God is in His temple; we are it. God is in nature, in every animal, in every plant, in every stone, for the earth is the footstool for God’s feet.
“What house will you build for me?” – Why actually do people give countless money to build church-palaces embellished with gold? For they are houses made of stone. And to pray to God for all concerns, to pray to God in joy and in thankfulness; to pray to God in need and desperation, in illness or in loneliness, means: I can be anywhere; God is in me, because I am the temple of God. I can walk anywhere in nature – I sense God in me and God around me. I sense this mighty Spirit at the sight of an animal, of a plant, of a stone. I find God in the wind, in the rays of the sun. I find God in and on the earth. I find God everywhere, and very particularly in my neighbor. To make peace with my neighbor means to find God in myself.

To where then are we drawn to pray? Into a house of stone? Or are we drawn into our inner being, in order to pray?

Gabriele, the prophetess and spiritual ambassador of God, reports of herself: “I have learned to pray no matter where I am. For example, in my room I have a small corner where I have a chair, a table, a candle. I can always withdraw there, even in the early morning, to pray. Or I go out into nature, sit down on a tree stump, and I sit on God’s All-Power and presence, because He is also in the trunk of a tree. And I pray. In nature, I usually pray with open eyes, and I see the flowers that suddenly come alive – they irradiate me. I see a small beetle walkng – I notice God’s presence in the tiniest animal. I feel how the wind goes through my hair. “Thank you Father, that I feel You. It is Your power!” I pick up a stone, and I see that there is life in it; life is God.

The splendor of nature is the most glorious and beautiful thing that a person can experience externally, but also internally, for nature speaks to him – the splendid church buildings do not. The plant speaks. The stone has its word. The eyes of the animals look at us – it is the Creator looking at us. The God’s cathedral in nature is the most glorious cathedral; it embraces you; it embraces the earth. Go out of the churches of stone; go to the wonderful cathedral of life, to God’s cathedral, which embraces the earth and you!

When I pray at home “in my quiet chamber” then I close my eyes and turn within. It says in a song “Where shall I turn to?”.
We know from the mighty revelations of Jesus, the Christ, that a great heart is pulsating near our physical heart. It is the light-heart of the Christ of God. And so, I turn to the heart that is beating for everyone. It is the Christ of God, the light in us, in the vicinity of our physical heart. Or I take all my senses to within, into the very basis of my soul, and I feel: God’s presence dwells there! I feel the very basis of all Being, and I pray to within, to God in me. I have learned to switch off my head, to not seek and struggle to find words of prayer. I take a few deep breaths, become calmer, close my eyes and let it pray.

You may ask: Well, who is praying in you? My soul is praying in me. Learn this prayer and you will suddenly experience that a spirit body dwells in you. We call this spirit body soul. It is the divine being in us, which is praying. And it prays deeply. Practice this, and you will experience that you are not alone, that God is in you and that in you is a being that lives eternally. And in this way, you can also overcome the fear of death.
Why then do you need to go into gold-embellished house of stone, which people call houses of God, when you yourself are the temple of God? – So out of splendid church buildings, and into ourselves, into the Kingdom of God, which dwells within us! This is the teaching of Jesus, the Christ. Let us follow Jesus of Nazareth, and we will pray in a relaxed manner. We become free.“

The “Follow Me” of Jesus of Nazareth means: Follow Me, the Spirit of God. – and the Spirit of God is everywhere – in each plant, in each animal, in the macrocosm as in the microcosm. We find Him in nature. And therefore we could say: True Christianity in the spirit of Original Christianity, as Jesus of Nazareth taught it, is something that could also be described as a nature religion, as a religion of the inner being, to which one can go in nature. The essential difference between what is prayed in the denominations and the inner prayer on the other hand is that inner prayer is a God experience. A God experience that develops in that I become quiet, that I let my sensations become active, without waltzing fixed prayer formulations around in my head, be it in the form of a litany to a saint or be it in the form of a rosary, which is also very arduous, It is an external exercise, during which the heart is not full, but becomes ever more empty.

Perhaps some are thinking: “I belong to a church and I have always prayed these predetermined prayers.” And some may say: “I couldn’t possibly pray freely.” Oh yes! We can begin to pray freely – when we pray the prayer that Jesus, the Christ, taught us, the Lord’s Prayer.
Gabriele gave us the following help for this “If we just reel off the Lord’s Prayer, then we will not feel the presence of life in us. But just try once to pray the Lord’s Prayer into yourself. Not the same old way that is prayed in church, reeling if off so fast, but letting it sink slowly into your inner being. I’ll just speak a few lines from the Lord’s Prayer, and we’ll pray them into ourselves. We let them sink into us. Let’s try it together!

We close our eyes. We breathe in and out deeply a few times. We become aware that in us dwells the mighty Spirit of love, which loves us.
And now we let it pray. We affirm the Christ of God in us. And now we pray into our inner being; we accompany the words of prayer; we become aware of what it means:

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed is Your name.
Your kingdom comes, on earth as in heaven.
You give us our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Father, You lead us in time of temptation
and You, Christ, deliver us from all evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory

in all eternity.

The Lord’s Prayer, prayed into our innermost being, helps us, in time, to pray in a relaxed manner. Then very gradually the soul will pray and we will experience God in us. Yes, we even make the God experience that so many people are longing for.”

Jesus, the Christ, brought us the power that redeems and liberates us from our sins. This is accomplished when we walk the path of recognition: When we recognize that we have sinned against the commandments of God, against the heavenly laws of love. We recognize that we have acted against our fellowman or against the nature kingdoms, in that our thoughts were hateful, envious, envious and hostile. When we quarrel with our fellowman, when we hate our fellowman, when we violate the Mother Earth, then we increasingly sense that this is not the will of God, who loves everything and everyone.
Very gradually, also through inner prayer, comes the remorse for what we thought or did. We begin to feel remorse more and more for the wrongdoings we have recognized – we also call them sins. We repent of them with all our heart. Where do we go then, to repent, to receive help for deep remorse? Of course, to Christ in us. We again immerse into the Spirit of the Christ of God, into the loving heart in us, and ask for support and help. We pray for deep remorse. We repent of our ugly, negative, hate-filled thoughts, words or even actions. We ask for forgiveness – at first in our thoughts. In our thoughts, we ask our neighbor for forgiveness, or if he knows about what we have done to him, we go to him at the next opportunity and personally ask him for forgiveness. We forgive. We firmly resolve to no longer commit spiteful or malicious acts, neither against people nor against animals and plants, that is, against the Mother Earth. At the same time, we say to ourselves: “I will not longer think that!” “I will not longer act that way!” And from deep within then comes the questions: Well how should I think in the future, how should I think and act in the future?
Suddenly thoughts come to us, such as: Take the Ten Commandments in hand and you will know how you should think! Pay attention to the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, the Christ, and you will know how you should act! – If we then firmly resolve to do this and remind ourselves of our promise over and over again, to live according to the commandments, according to the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, then in time we will also do it, step by step.
Then we are redeemed and liberated from these sins, because the redeeming power, which Jesus brought us on the cross, which went into our souls, redeems and liberates us from the sins. Our soul becomes more light-filled, our body more pure; we become happier and more free and again experience God in us. And so, we have a small God experience again. – Isn’t it wonderful to experience God ourselves?

And so, out of the churches of stone, out of the splendid church buildings, because the Kingdom of God, with all its beauty, with the splendor and glory of the Father, is in us! And remember: You, each one of us, are a son or a daughter of God. To live in this awareness means not to worship any human being, not to want blessing from a person, no matter what status he adorns himself with. You are blessed by the One who dwells in all of us, by the Christ of God in us, by our Redeemer, who liberates us, who takes us by the hand and guides us to the Father.

Original Christians, each one of us, say: “I do not belong to a church institution. I belong to God and pray to God, my Father, and to Christ, my redeemer. I am free. I am a free child of God, a free son, a free daughter, of the Almighty”

“Your kingdom comes” pray the Christians in the Lord’s Prayer. – Why is it not yet here? For thousands of years it is prayed and prayed and again and again the vessels of incense are swung back and forth and then it’s prayed anew. Where is the Kingdom of God then? Why is it not yet here?

Because it has not yet risen in the hearts of those praying! It has to happen in the heart. Then we will keep peace with our fellowman; then we will keep peace with the Mother Earth. And then people will set out, who little by little, step by step, establish a land of peace on the earth, like, for example, the Original Christians are doing. A land of peace where people live in peace with each other and with the Creation of God, with the animals, plants and minerals. And so, this small piece of the earth lives, and it is growing ever bigger – and very gradually the Lord will take His foot from His footstool and gradually place it on the earth, in the joy that animals are living in peace, that nature is flourishing and that people worship Him in the Lord’s Prayer and let His kingdom develop. Similarly on earth as in heaven.