I came across this message from an old volume, Messages From Jesus and Celestials, and feel it might be of interest to readers.
“I am here, John the apostle, I come today because I see your condition and that you need encouragement. I am your special guardian and could not abstain from writing. Trust in the Father and in our help and you will not be disappointed.
While your material affairs are important, yet these spiritual truths are of more importance, not only to you, but to the world for whom they are primarily intended. The sooner we can complete our book of truths the better it will be for suffering humanity, many whose hearts are lacerated because of the great destruction of human life caused by the war (WWI).
I know that many believe that in some way God has an overpowering direction as regards the progress and outcome of war, and in a certain sense this is true, for He is always interested in and seeks to reach the souls and hearts of human beings; and, of course, desires that the suffering and devestation shall cease. But as the cause of all this was the evil desires and ambitions of mortals, God will let the mortals, themselves, control the conduct and outcome of the war.
God will not exercise arbitrary power to end war or determine which of the contending nations will be victorious, except in this: that through the instrumentality of His spirit will influence the minds and consciences of men in such a way that right and justice will prevail, and evil thoughts and deeds of mortals be stopped in their operations. His Spirits have been working to this end for a long time, and so have the evil spirits been working to bring discord and destruction upon humanity. The leaders of the nations have been, in large degree, obessed by these evil spirits, and have been influenced in many of their thoughts by these dark ones who delight in seeing humankind suffer, and evil assert itself.
The spirits of truth are exercising wonderful power over the hearts and souls of mortals, and one that will cause them to realize that evil must not be allowed to prevail, and that truth and right must assert themself, so that the war will cease and mortals come into unison with peace and justice. In this way God will answer prayer. Amen