But, uh, oh, my times are in God's
hands.
And I go where He tells me to
go.
You go with our prayers, and I'm going
to ask people to pray for Corrie Ten
Boom.
You've heard this marvelous, just a little bit
of her testimony, but as you think of
this dear Saint of God and, uh, who's
growing stronger than most of us at 82,
but I, you know, she is, uh, most
of us in 30, 40 are severe about
it.
And, and serving God and leading thousands of
people into a deeper walk with Jesus, you,
you pray for her.
The following testimony from Corrie Ten Boom was
given in the same year at the 1974
Lausanne Conference.
And it's all what you heard has taught
me to obey the Lord.
In the Bible, we read in Colossians 1,
11, as you live this new life with
Jesus Christ, we pray that you will be
strengthened from God's boundless resources, so that you
will find yourselves able to pass through any
experience and endure it with courage.
God's boundless resources we find when we obey
the commandments, be filled with the Spirit.
This is not a suggestion.
The Bible has no suggestions, only commandments.
And this is the most happy commandment of
the whole Bible.
When the Lord told us to witness and
make to disciples over the whole world, He
promised you will receive power after the Holy
Spirit has come upon you.
To me, a little story of a bird,
a woodpecker, has helped me in this.
A woodpecker picked with his beak against the
stem of a tree like they are used
to do.
At the very moment, a lightning struck the
tree and destroyed it.
And the woodpecker flew away and said, I
didn't know that there was so much power
in my beak.
I don't ask you, have you the Holy
Spirit, but has the Holy Spirit you?
When I was a little girl, I remembered
that I had talked with my father and
I said, Daddy, I will never be strong
enough to be a real witness and a
martyr for Jesus.
And Father said, when you go to travel,
when do I give you the train ticket
or the money for it?
Three weeks before, I said, no Daddy, the
day that I go to travel.
And Father said, that is what God does.
You don't need to have the power to
be a sufferer for Jesus at this moment.
But the moment that you have the great
honor to be a martyr for Jesus, the
Lord will give you everything.
And I have experienced, we have not a
spirit of fear, but of power of love
and a sound mind.
And the Holy Spirit is there always to
do the job, to make us ready.
We live in a time that we can
expect the Lord Jesus coming very soon.
Many of the signs of the time are
so very clear.
And it is very important that we are
ready for Jesus coming.
Peter writes, because you have a hope like
this before you, I urge you to make
certain that such a day would find you
at peace with God and with men.
Clear and blameless in His sight.
Sometimes I tremble when I think that that
is necessary.
We are right with God and right with
men.
But in Russia, once I got a great
comfortable story.
There was a big apartment house.
Many people lived there.
And they all put their junk in the
basement.
But there was in the basement also a
beautiful house.
But it was broken and nobody could repair
it.
Once there came a tramp and said, May
I sleep this night in your house?
It is such a terrible snowstorm.
And they said, we have no restrooms but
you can sleep in the basement.
After some hours they suddenly heard beautiful music
in the basement.
And the owner of the house came down
and said, How can you could you repair
that house?
And the man said, I have made this
house.
And when you have made something, you can
also repair it.
Who has made you?
Wasn't it God?
Wasn't it that nothing has been made without
Jesus?
Do you think He is able to make
you good and blameless and right with God
and men?
So that you will be ready for Jesus
coming?
He is able and He will do it.
For it is written that Paul prayed, May
the God of peace make you holy through
and through.
May you be kept in spirit, soul and
body in spotless integrity until the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is that possible?
In spotless integrity?
You and I?
Yes.
For the rest of the text is, He
who calls you is utterly faithful and He
will finish what He has set out to
do.
The Holy Spirit shows as many things as
it were from God's point of view.
The Holy Spirit gives you wisdom to cast
your burdens on the Lord because He gives
us spiritual insight and understanding.
I was in Vietnam and I was there
not a thermometer but a thermostat.
Do you know what I mean?
The thermometer goes with the heat and the
cold up and down.
A thermostat brings a cold room immediately in
contact with the source of heat and so
restores the temperature.
I carried the load of suffering that I
saw in the hospital, in the tribes, in
the front line.
And the Holy Spirit showed me that I
had to cast my burden on the Lord.
We are not called to be burden bearers
but cross bearers and fruit bearers so I
could be used as an open channel of
streams of living water.
In my work to bring the gospel in
many places, I sometimes feel weak and old,
not adequate to speak in so many different
meetings.
But I trust that we heard today again
and again, the viewer shall receive power after
the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
The Holy Spirit gives power and we can
never expect too much from Him.
He points to the cross where Jesus finished
all for our redemption.
And obedience and surrender is the answer.
I was comforted by a story told in
New Zealand.
A little boy went with his father over
a bridge.
It was a very small bridge and he
was scared and said, ''Daddy, I'm afraid.
Do you see this water underneath us?'' And
the father said, ''Boy, give me your hand.''
Then he was not afraid any longer.
But in the evening he had to go
again over the bridge and now it was
pitch dark.
He said, ''Daddy, I'm more scared than this
morning.'' And then the father took the little
boy in his arms and immediately the boy
fell asleep and awakened in his own little
bed.
That is surrender to the Lord Jesus.
And that is what the Holy Spirit teaches
us how, that we are safe in Jesus'
hands.
When I was in prison, when my sister
died and 95,000 women were killed or
died, I experienced the same.
What Paul has written to the Philippians, when
he was in a terrible prison, the Holy
Spirit had pointed him to Jesus and he
did with me.
And I can say with him what he
wrote in that text, ''I found everything as
lost compared with the priceless privilege.'' I read
it from the Amplified New Testament.
''The overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and the
supreme advantage of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord
and of progressively more intimately getting acquainted with
him.'' That happened when I was in that
terrible prison.
That can happen with you when you let
the Holy Spirit turn your eyes more and
more to the Lord Jesus.
Even when we are perhaps entering now a
time of very great darkness and suffering over
the world.
The world is very sick, is very ill.
Who is it that overcomes the world?
He who believes that Jesus is the Son
of God.
And I am sure that all of us
believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
That means that you and I, that we
all have to overcome a world.
And that is hope for the world.
The best is yet to be.
Jesus is coming and he has said, ''I
will make everything new.'' And that this world,
yes, this sick, ill world will be covered
with the knowledge of God like the waters
cover the bottom of the sea.
What a joy to know from the Word
of God that God has no problems, only
plans.
There is never a panic in heaven.
And we have to be right with God
and we know it.
That is because of the finished work of
Jesus at the cross.
And we have to be right with men
also because of Jesus' presence.
The love of God he will bring into
our hearts through the Holy Spirit who is
given to us, Romans 5, 5.
I love the Germans.
There is not a country where I work
with such a great joy.
And my greatest friends live in that country.
But sometimes I find people who have been
cruel to me in the concentration camp.
Once I saw a lady...