![]() ![]() And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. Jesus Christ had died for this man was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him…. Love is the strongest force in the world.Įven as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy. When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, when he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, ‘Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours. When people come up and give me a compliment… I take each remark as if it were a flower. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength. She told her story in The Hiding Place.Let God’s promises shine on your problems. Later, she became a “tramp” for the Lord, spreading the Gospel around the world. Through the generosity of a rich woman, she was able to open a home for survivors of the camps. “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have,” she said. When she finally reached the Netherlands, she was dizzy from hunger and could hardly stand.Īs soon as she recovered a little, Ten Boom began to speak for the Lord, telling others the lessons of obedience, forgiveness, and trust she had learned in the concentration camps. There she discovered her ration card had either been lost or stolen and she travelled several days without food. On this day, 30 December 1944, the gates finally opened to release Ten Boom to a waiting train. Although she desperately wanted to prop up her feet to ease her swelling, she hobbled around, helping patients who could not walk. The hospital was a scene from Dante’s Inferno. Because of swelling in her legs, she would have to remain in the hospital until she was better. Only reasonably healthy individuals were allowed out. (After the war, she learned her discharge had been the result of a clerical error.) However, she quickly learned she was not really free to go. Two days later, an officer handed Corrie a certificate of discharge. Thanks to swarms of fleas in her barracks, the guards did not search her bed or enter the room any more than necessary, and she was able to read to the other prisoners. Ten Boom had been able to sneak her Bible past searching guards. They shared with others the faith that had made them risk their lives to protect Jews from the Nazis. ![]() In prison, the two sisters clung to God, strengthening themselves with the thought that His will was their hiding place. Their father died just ten days after his incarceration began. Soon the Ten Booms-father Caspar, Betsie, and Corrie-were headed to prison. The Gestapo searched the house and interrogated the Ten Booms, but could not find the secret compartment. The Jews managed to dive into their hiding place before Ten Boom shut its disguised door. He pleaded for money to bribe the police so he could free his wife, whom he claimed had been arrested for hiding Jews. She did not recognize the man and his eyes would not meet hers. Ten Boom dragged herself down the stairs. Her sister Betsie gave her a cup of tea and told her that a man was at the door, asking for help. ![]() On the morning of her arrest in February 1944, she was suffering from the flu. Resistance workers had built a secret compartment in her bedroom to hide Jews from the Germans. She was a prisoner because she and her sister had worked with the underground resistance in her native Holland, sheltering Jews from the Germans during World War II. Corrie Ten Boom almost forgot to react when she heard her name, as she was so used to responding to prisoner number 66730 instead. “TEN BOOM, Cornelia.” The call came over the loudspeaker of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Northern Germany. Corrie in prison, sketch from the Torchlighter video. ![]()
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