I can imagine being the only man at
the head table and getting my work out.
I'm sorry I didn't introduce Stan Gilliam, who
is here with me, who is our ministry
coordinator.
He's up making sure that you can hear
all right.
Both of my grandparents, or my grandparents on
both sides of my family, were born in
Holland.
And so you can imagine that this is
a very wonderful day for me because being
of Holland descent, we're also proud of one
of the great ladies of that country and
one we've adopted here in the United States.
And I was so delighted to meet both
Corey and Ellen this summer.
And I was in a press conference where
Corey was being interviewed by a lot of
members of the press.
And I watched her intently because she was
ready with the answers before they were finished
with the questions.
And that impressed me.
And at 82 years of age, it should
impress anyone.
And to fulfill that promise she made to
her sister, she has been traveling now these
many years, from country to country and from
group to group, to share the love of
Christ.
And we're very honored that she would be
with us this weekend.
And we're very happy that you came to
enjoy this special treat with us.
I saw her for a few minutes yesterday,
and she was looking at her schedule.
Next weekend she'll be with Youth for Christ
in Kansas City.
And then she's going someplace else, and then
she's going someplace else.
And this summer she has personally supervised the
filming of the story of her life, which
will be released hopefully by the end of
the year.
It's been produced by the Worldwide Pictures organization.
And she has made certain that it's authentic
in every detail, and has made them shoot
some film over to make certain that it
was authentic in every detail.
And so she is intensely interested in that
film and the many lives that it's going
to touch.
And I know that you want to be
praying for that.
And we're hoping that it will be released
by the end of the year so that
there is a possibility it could be nominated
as an Academy Award film, which would be
the first time that that would happen to
a Christian film.
And so I simply would like to say,
here is Auntie Corrie.
Welcome her to Denver, will you?
Many things in the 27 years that I
have been a tramp for the Lord, but
they have never given me tulips made from
the shells of animals.
I'm very happy with that song.
But it's that beautiful, and it's so true.
And I felt almost guilty that I so
often worry.
And I thought of that little poem that
I have in my room in Holland.
Said a robin to the sparrow, I should
really like to know why these anxious human
beings rush about.
And said a sparrow to the robin, Friend,
I think that it must be that you
have no heavenly father, which is scarce for
you and me.
Yes, I don't know if you know that
rascal, Wally.
I know him.
Even yesterday, I had still a visit from
that man.
No, I had a heart that was heavy
of all the things I had to care
for and the worries.
Do you know how that feels?
Your heart is so heavy of all the
things.
And then I read in the Bible that
beautiful text, Don't worry about anything whatever.
Tell God every detail in happy and thankful
prayer.
And the love of God, which transcends all
human understanding, will fill your heart with His
peace.
Now, when I read something in the Bible,
then when this arrives with me, I immediately
do it.
And really my heart was feeling as heavy
as this case.
Here is the schedule of these dear people
here in Denver.
But Lord, here it is.
I give you that whole schedule.
And you must just make that it comes
all right.
And Lord, here is my age.
Sometimes I feel 82 and I am 80.
You are sad, I must cancel.
And Lord, here Ellen got.
I have so many friends over the whole
world.
And they write beautiful letters, but they need
help.
And there is much to arrange.
And Lord, here is all the mail of
yesterday.
Oh no, the mail of the last.
I brought also my worries.
I think that when you go to unburden
your heart, that you will also find here
or there a little sin.
Perhaps a big sin.
But a sin, for a sin can burden
your heart so much.
That is not necessary.
For we must bring also that burden on
the Lord.
And we have the answer in Jesus Christ.
And the Bible tells us when we confess
our sins, He is faithful just to forgive
all the sins we confess.
I said, Lord, here is my worry.
Will you forgive me?
And so I went on and I put
everything in prayer to the Lord till my
heart was empty.
Just as empty as this bag.
And then I said, Amen.
That was praying.
That was good.
But do you know what was not good?
What I did after my Amen.
And that we are able to pray.
Perhaps some of you say, now I don't
know quite how to pray.
And I sometimes have difficulty with it.
And that helped me so very much.
A little story that I heard over the
radio in Holland from a little African boy.
Someone said to him, boy, you must pray.
He had never prayed in his life.
So he went home and in the corner
of the cabin where he lived, he sat
down and when you pray, you fold your
hands and you close your eyes.
And he did.
And then he started.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
It's not hard to pray.
Jesus, I will give you.
But the Holy Spirit himself prays for us
and teaches us how to pray.
And that makes the life with the Lord
is so relaxed.
And I am so glad that I may
tell you a little bit of what I
have experienced from here.
There are certainly about a thousand ladies.
Many of you pray.
I don't know perhaps every one of you.
A child of the light.
When you are a child of God, when
you have received Jesus as your Savior, immediately
you are a child of the light, the
light of the world.
Very, very dark.
I have not to tell you that.
You know it.
You know it when you read the newspaper,
when you hear the radio and you see.
We have never been in such a dark
time.
And is there a hope for a better
world?
When you read the newspapers, you fear.
But we have something more than the newspapers.
And here we read the plan of God.
And in this book we know the answer.
Who is it that overcomes the world?
He who believes that Jesus is the Son
of God.
Do you believe that Jesus is the Son
of God?
This world, this dead, ill, sick world, will
be overcome by you and me.
This is the plan of God.
God has no problems with this world.
And I like that little poem that I
learned in your country.
My life is like a weaving between my
God and me.
I do not choose the colors.
He walks steadily.
Oft times he weaves sorrow.
And I in foolish pride forget.
He sees the upper and I the underside.
Not till the loom is silent and the
shuttle cease to fly will God unroll the
canvas and explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful in the
skillful weaver's hands than the threads of gold
and silver he has planned.
And that is the answer for your and
my problems.
There is a tremendous riches in the word
of God.
And I will just praise the Lord and
talk a little bit about what is for
the sins of the world.
And that we have a Jesus who is
alive, who is with us.
And a Jesus to
the hopeful expectation of the coming of the
Lord.
And we know when we read the Bible
and the newspaper together that we can expect.
I heard a couple of
times they love each other and they live
together very happy for the rest of their
lives.
Now I can also read the rest of
the book.
See, this book tells us sad things that
after we
will see the future.
And that future, for
he died for purifying.
And when we know that plan of God,
we must be very sure and that is
possible in this hall.
When I strive, I
change with the changing sky.
And the Lord will show you that your
sins make you deceitful faces of people.
But the devil is a liar.
There is still a little decent sin.
The Lord says, you may not, but then
he always tells it to you in the
flood light of the finished world at the
cross.
At the cross, at the cross where I
first saw the light.
And the burden of my sins all the
way.
It was there by faith I received my
sight.
And now I have guidance every day.
Listen to the Holy Spirit and then do
what the Bible says.
Confess your sins and be cleansed.
And the Lord is willing to make you
ready.
But in the meantime, there is a work
for you and me to do.
We must be realistic.
And we know that there is so much
sin and darkness and danger.
The world is perhaps more terrible.
I can see, I can perhaps more, see
it better how terrible it is than you.
Than some of you.
Because I have been in so many countries.
And I was in Africa where I heard
that, asked, is it true that there are
10,000 Christians killed?
And they said, oh yes, that is true,
but it is also true that this year
200,000 Christians were killed.
We didn't know that.
There is terrible much persecution in this time.
And I believe that God is training his
army.
And you are, when you belong to the
Lord Jesus, a soldier of Jesus Christ.
And you have to be ready for a
still greater coming of struggle and difficulties.
And the Bible gives you everything that you
need to be victorious.
You have nothing to fear.
And I believe that in this time we
must try to gather the richness of the
Bible.
To put our wealth in the store.
I mean this.
When I read text in the Bible, God
does not give us a spirit of fear,
but of power of love and a sound
mind.
I write it down.
I think that can help me when the
times will be more serious than now.
When I read, God himself will wipe away
the tears from the eyes.
The suffering of this time is not worthy
to be compared with the common glory.
All the things I write down and I
learn by heart, you must do that too.
That is, as if you gather your army
for a greater struggle and fight, that you
and I have to fight.
And don't be afraid.
And when you are filled with the Holy
Spirit, and the Holy Spirit will fill you,
your heart to the brim, then you have
not a spirit of fear.
And then you will not fear.
Even when the earth were removed and the
mountains thrown into the heart of the sea.
Just cash your checks.
Do you know what I mean?
These promises of the Bible are riches written
on your name and signed by Jesus Christ
that moment that you said for the first
time yes to Jesus.
And that you have never done it before.
And when this hour, this moment, you say
for the first time a real yes to
Jesus, like a decision for Him, then the
angels rejoice for you are very important in
the eyes of God.
But at the same moment all the promises
of the Bible are yours.
And you have not to wait till you
are a mature Christian or till you know
very much.
No, the riches is yours.
All the promises of the Bible are in
Jesus.
Yea and Amen.
And so you must read your Bible as
a love letter from God.
And it's for you.
Even when you are a Pope of five
minutes old.
All the riches is yours.
And one of the tremendous great riches that
we have now in this time is the
ocean of God's love.
Not far away only in the heart of
God in heaven, but shed abroad into our
hearts till the Holy Spirit was given to
us.
And when I read Ephesians 3.14 then
you can hear a little bit about it.
When I think of the greatness of God's
great plan, I fall on my knees before
God the Father, from whom all fatherhood, earthly
or heavenly, derives its name.
And I pray that out of the glorious
richness of His resources, He will enable you
to know the strength of the Spirit's inner
reinforcement.
That Christ will actually live in your heart
by your faith.
This is the translation of Phillips.
That's an English that even a Dutch can
understand well.
And I pray that you firmly fixed in
love yourself may be able to grasp with
all Christians how wide and deep and warm
and high is the love of Christ.
And to know for yourself that love so
far beyond our comprehension.
May you be filled through all your being
with God Himself.
Now to Him who by His power within
us is able to do far more than
we ever dare to ask or imagine.
To Him we glory in the church through
Jesus Christ forever and ever.
Amen.
You know that ocean of love is available
for you and me.
In this time that we are living in
a world full of bitter hatred, one of
your bishops has said, we do not live
in a neutral world.
This world is not neutral.
It is full of hatred, it is full
of love.
And it is, you belong to Jesus or
you belong to Satan.
And there is no compromise in between, it
is or either.
But the great joy that Jesus is the
way.
And when you know I am still living
in the dark part of the world, Jesus
has come to me and I will give
you rest and peace.
And when you know I am so glad
that the future is still far greater than
what we have now, I can only see
a little of the ocean when I stand
at the rocky shore.
But out there beyond the ice horizon, there
is more, there is more.
And I can only see a little of
the ocean of God's love.
But out there in heaven, there is more,
there is more.
The best is yet to be.
What a joy!
And I have experienced this joy even when
it was so dark that it could not
be worse than what you read in the
book The Hiding Place and what you will
see in the movie.
It was so terrible, but the light of
Jesus Christ was stronger.
And Paul wrote once, when he was in
a terrible prison and he did not know
what the enemy was going to do with
him, and he wrote to his friends, I
count everything as loss compared with the priceless
privilege of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord and
of progressively getting more intimately getting acquainted with
Him.
And that is what I have experienced.
I got more intimately acquainted with Jesus Christ.
And that is why I can tell you
in your life whenever there are difficulties, Jesus
is victor.
And the best is yet to be.
But it is not only that we must
gather our riches for a future that can
be difficult, but today you need it.
And it is there.
All the riches is available for these problems
that you have with your children, with your
husband, with your finances, these problems that make
your heart heavy as a heavy bag.
Jesus is the answer.
And you have love to bring and to
live in a world of hatred.
And the Lord will use you for that.
I will never forget when I was in
Ravensbrück and I was in a room that
was built for 200 people.
We had to live there with 700 people.
We were packed together and suddenly people started
to fight.
Oh, that was dangerous.
And immediately other people joined to fight and
more and more people were swearing and crying
for this is dangerous.
And Betsy prayed and prayed and prayed.
And it was as if a storm laid
down.
And the noises were less.
And at last it was quiet.
There was peace.
And then Betsy said Amen.
Do you see the situation?
Do you see here a room with 700
prisoners who were in great danger?
For when the officers had found that they
had been fighting, the whole group had been
punished in a cruel way.
And also they were in danger because their
feelings of hatred were just more and more.
And there was a weak, starving old woman.
She starved and she prayed.
And do you see that Betsy, that that
was a representative of heaven.
And she was praying and God used her
to bring peace in this parable room.
And we must understand how God sees you
and me.
What He expects from you and me.
When in Sodom there had been only ten
righteous people, Sodom should not have been destroyed.
Do you know that God sees the world
also in you?
And that there is hope for this world
because of you and me?
Because we are His ambassadors.
And God sees us with joy.
I read in Sephaniah 3 verse 17 that
God was looking with joy on His children.
And in the translation of the Living Bible
it was, I thought that I heard a
beautiful choir.
But no, it was not a choir.
It was God rejoicing over His children.
Oh my, did you know that?
That God so rejoices over you and me.
That even when we so rejoice that we
think it is a choir so beautiful.
Oh, how good is it when the Lord
answers the prayer that Paul prayed for the
Colossians.
I hope that God will keep you very
close to His heart that you will see
the things as it were from His point
of view.
And then you see the things from God's
pattern and there is hope.
And then you see yourself in God's pattern
and there is hope for the world through
you.
And then you see the future.
But in the meantime we have not to
fight with flesh and blood but with the
very representatives of headquarters of evil.
And the devil tries to get this down.
And we have many temptations but there are
always ways to escape.
And you must not forget that when you
pray that he hears.
Jesus heard when you prayed last night.
He talked with God about you.
Jesus was there when you fought your fight.
He is going to help you through.
Jesus knew when you shed those tears so
you did not weep alone.
For the burden you thought too heavy to
bear He made it His very own.
Jesus Himself was touched by that trial which
you could not understand.
Jesus stood by as you almost fell and
lovingly grasped your hand.
Jesus cared when you bore that pain.
Indeed He bore it too.
He felt each pain, each ache in your
heart because of His love for you.
Jesus was grieved when you doubted His love
but He gave you grace to go on.
Jesus rejoiced as you trusted Him, the most
trustworthy one.
His presence shall ever be with you.
No need to be anxious or fret.
Wonderful Lord, He was there all the time.
He has never forsaken you yet.
Hallelujah!
Jesus was victor, He is victor and He
will be victor.
And He will be coming again very soon.
And He will make you and me in
this time the light of a very dark
world.
So, who is it that overcomes the world?
You, who believe that Jesus is the Son
of God.
Hallelujah!
Amen.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you.
That this is far more true than we
can tell each other.
Oh Lord, fill us with your Holy Spirit
and we praise and thank you that you
do not give us a spirit of fear
but of power, of love.
We praise and thank you that you have
promised us, Jesus, you will have power when
the Holy Spirit has come.
And oh Lord, that ocean of love that
is available, we praise and thank you for
it.
And now Lord, some of the people here,
they know already, much of you, they know
their Bible, perhaps they go to the church,
but they have never invited you, Lord Jesus,
to come into their heart.
Now listen Lord, who at this moment says,
Yes, Jesus, come into my life.
I've heard your voice.
I too will have that victorious life.
I will bring you my problems of sin
and of death.
And I know, I believe that you will
answer it.
Oh, thank you Lord, that you have promised
those who come to me I will in
no wise cast down or send away.
And now listen Lord, who of those who
give in to you already a long time,
pray, Lord, take my life.
I surrender everything.
I surrender my children, my husband, my finances,
my whole life.
Take it over Lord.
I will lay my weak hand in your
strong hand.
Oh Lord, and you will teach us not
to worry, but to trust.
Hallelujah.
Amen.
Oh my friends, when I was speaking so
about the riches that we have in Jesus
Christ, I had the idea that I could
go on a very long...
there is so much to tell you from
this word.
But now, in that moment when I prayed
and I gave you the opportunity to say
yes to Jesus, I trust that many of
you have done it.
Now, we cannot counsel you now, but you
need fellowship.
I need fellowship.
And if you have come here because a
Christian friend has brought you, don't be afraid
and say, I have said yes to Jesus
and he will help you.
Do you need any counseling?
Write on that envelope what you get or
what you have.
Just a cross.
And then we will take care that you
get someone to visit you who will listen
to you when you have problems, who will
pray with you perhaps, who will give you
an address where to go.
And don't be shy, for this is very
important.
And God bless you.