My grandmother, who is 83 years of age
when she died just a few months ago,
would have been so proud to be here
tonight.
To hear the marvelous story of one of
the most remarkable ladies that the world has
to offer today.
And so you can imagine that being a
Dutchman myself, that I'm proud of this citizen
of Holland, and this adopted citizen of America,
and this citizen of heaven.
And I'm thrilled that she would be here
tonight to help us commemorate our 30th anniversary.
She's no stranger to Youth for Christ, because
she attended one of the early congresses that
was held back in 1948, which was one
of the founding congresses of Youth for Christ.
And I want you to really give her
a warm welcome to Denver, Tati Corey.
Would you welcome her, Corey Tindley.
I feel
really quite at home.
Although you can understand that I feel myself
more the riper Youth for Christ.
It was really one of my great joys
many years ago when I was in Seattle
in the house of Dr. Jackson, and there
were some people sitting around the table, and
they talked, it was Torrey Johnson, and Billy
Graham, and Bill Bond, and some more, and
they talked about how they could bring the
gospel to the young people in Holland.
And how they could start the Youth for
Christ in my country.
Oh, I felt a little bit as if
I was in heaven, that I found there
people who were thinking about that.
And I've always been very happy and thankful
that the Youth for Christ was a movement
in Holland where many, many young people have
found the Lord, and also have found what
it meant to be the light of the
world.
Tonight I will speak about the words of
the Lord Jesus who has said, like the
Father has sent me, so sent I you.
And I will read from 2 Corinthians 5,
17.
I hope you don't mind when I read
it from the translation of Phillips.
That is an English that even a Dutch
well can understand.
There we read, if a man is in
Christ, he becomes a new person altogether.
The past is finished and gone.
Everything has become fresh and new.
All this is God's doing, for He has
reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and
He has made us adjurants of the reconciliation.
God was in Christ, personally reconciling the world
to Himself, not counting their sins against Him,
and has commissioned us with the message of
reconciliation.
We are now Christ's ambassadors, as though God
were appealing direct to you through us, as
His personal representatives.
We say, make your peace with God.
And I speak to the youth of Christ
this evening, that you are called to be
an ambassador of Jesus Christ.
Like your astronauts were representatives from the earth
to the moon, you and I, we are
representatives from heaven on this earth.
We are representatives not from Christianity, but from
Jesus Christ Himself.
And when I speak, will you be so
kind to pray?
You can listen and pray at the same
time.
You can have the horizontal and the vertical
connection at the same moment.
Pray that a lot will work in our
hearts, that we can understand a little bit
better what it means to be the light
of the world in a very dark time
of the world's history.
Perhaps the world has never been so ill,
so deadly sick.
And you and I are called to be
the light and the representatives of Jesus in
this world.
And there is a terrific work to do
for you and me and every child of
God.
I once read a little poem, and it
has shown me really a little bit what
it meant, that a person, when he never
hears of the Lord Jesus, can get lost.
It is such a tremendous opportunity, but also
responsibility, that you and I are representatives from
Jesus and that we are sent in this
world as the light and the salt.
I said to one who stood at the
world's far crossroads, which is the way that
leads to eternal light.
And he lifted his eyes to the hills
ahead, and he answered, younger it lies, and
the guide is still inside.
Who is the guide?
I asked.
And he answered, Jesus.
Who is this Jesus, of whom I have
never heard?
And therein, to a worn, distressed, and bewildered
comrade, he told of the Savior, word by
precious word.
I left behind me the dark and troubled
valley.
I took the road ahead and found him
there, a light to my feet, a radiance
to my pathway.
And ever within my heart I am aware
that I might have missed the way of
the far-off crossroads if one had failed
me and had not the words to say,
Follow your leader.
Follow the glory way.
How shall they believe in him of whom
they have never heard?
How shall they hear without a preacher?
People will ask, why was I not told
back of the crossroads of this Jesus?
My friends, you and I have to tell
a poor, sick world the way of salvation.
I read once a legend.
It was about the return of the Lord
to heaven.
The angels gave him a fantastic welcome and
then gathered around him full of questions about
his death, resurrection, and ascension.
What is it all about, they asked.
The redemption of the world, Jesus replied.
But you have come back here.
How will the world know about it?
I have trained my men to evangelize the
whole world.
Yes, indeed, every corner of it.
How many men did you train for such
a mumbled task?
A handful, Jesus said.
A handful?
But what if they fail?
If they fail, I have no other plans.
But is that not a great risk to
take?
And Jesus said, no, they will not fail.
Isn't that a joy?
When Jesus looks at you and at me,
he knows that we will not fail.
It seems in the world that it has
gone down and down with the world.
But in this book we know the secret
of God's plan.
And God has no problems with this world,
only plans.
There is never a panic in heaven.
And in this book is written about the
great future that this world will be covered
with the knowledge of God like a water
scupper at the bottom of the sea.
The best is yet to be.
I heard a priest say, when I read
a book that is sad, and I do
not like it, then I always look a
moment at the last page.
And when I read at the last page
that they get each other and they lived
happily for the rest of their life together,
then I read also the sad things in
the story.
He said, when I see that will happen
and that are happening at this moment, then
I get scared and I get sad.
But then I do the same.
I just look at the last page of
the book.
And there is written that Jesus has said,
I will come and I will make everything
new.
Friends, we stand on victory ground because Jesus
is coming and every knee will bow for
Him.
Those who love Him will bow in great
joy.
Those who have refused Him will bow in
great fear.
And you and I have to tell the
people, use the time and come to the
Lord as soon as possible.
It is time to become dead serious with
the Lord.
And we have to get ready, all of
us.
When I was arrested in Holland, together with
my family and my friends, because we had
saved Jewish people in Holland, and we were
brought to prison, but first in a police
station, my nephew Peter van Woorden came to
me and said, Aunty, what have you in
your shoe?
I said, Romans 8.
I said, what have you boy?
He said, I have Ephesians 1.
Do you know what mom has?
2nd Corinthians 4.
What did he mean?
All of us knew we were going to
a place where we could not have a
Bible.
And all of us had put in our
shoes and under our hair some pages of
the Bible.
We were prepared, Peter was prepared, a boy
of 16 years old, because he knew, now
I have come in prison and I must
have a little bit of the Word of
God to pass on to others.
It is such a great joy that in
the Bible we have everything we need to
be equipped to be the light of the
world, the salt of the earth.
And when we are longing to bring the
Word of God, the Lord Himself will use
us as channels of streams of living water.
It is not we who are building the
Kingdom of God, it is the Lord who
is building His Kingdom, and He will use
you and me to bring in this world
the real peace that Jesus only can bring.
Perhaps you will say, but I have not
always an opportunity.
But the joy is that when you stand
at Jesus' side, you stand on victory ground.
And when you don't know what to do,
the Lord knows.
I was in Russia, and I was not
allowed, a foreigner was not allowed to stand
on the pulpit and speak in the churches.
But we could bring greetings.
And I brought greetings standing on the pulpit,
and I took half an hour.
And then we sang a hymn, and
then I say, I go to Russia, there
I gave a message on the whole hour.
But there was one thing, I once was
in my hotel room, and I said, Lord,
I am so glad that I can bring
the Gospel in the churches, but Lord, I
should love so far as they have an
eternity to lose or to gain.
Lord, I need a miracle, but you are
a God of miracles.
And the same moment, I saw on the
floor little holes in the form of the
holes of a pepper box.
And I understood, aha, that is the secret
microphone that is in all the hotel rooms
in Russia and the other communist countries.
And I said, thank you, Lord, that will
be answered.
They listened,
not only they listened, but they took my
whole talk on a tape, and they didn't
keep the tape, they brought the tape to
their superiors.
So I was very happy.
I said, people, I have in my hand
a book, almost bursting of good news.
In this book is given the answer for
a too paramount problem, the problem of sin
and death.
And in this book is said, told everything
that we have to know of Jesus Christ,
who died to give us forgiveness of sins,
and who lives to give us the deliverance
of sins.
Once we heard that in a Jewish orphanage,
all the babies had to be killed because
they were Jewish babies.
And when I heard it, I called my
boys, and I said, boys, you must save
these babies in Amsterdam in the orphanage.
And my boys stole hundred babies.
And my girls distributed these babies within one
day.
That was not difficult.
Just imagine when there came someone to you
with a baby in the hand and said,
will you save the life of this baby?
And if you don't do it and I
cannot find someone else, this baby will be
killed.
I'm sure not one of you should say,
no, but you should take the baby.
Ah, we were so happy when we had
saved these hundred babies.
Piet Hartog was one of my bravest boys.
And he said that evening, Aunty, I think
we do the most important work that exists,
just saving lives from the morning till the
evening.
I don't long to go back to college.
This is life.
This is worthwhile.
I said, Piet, I'm so happy when I
think of the babies that we have saved
today.
But there is a work that is still
more important, and that is not only save
lives, but save souls and tell people about
Jesus.
Then Piet smiled.
And Piet said, perhaps something that some of
you say.
He said, I'm a Christian boy.
I go to church.
I read my Bible.
And I pray.
But telling people about Jesus, that is good
business for my pastor.
Perhaps some of you say the same.
And I say the same to you what
I said to Pieter.
I said, Piet, every Christian is called to
be an ambassador for Christ and to bring
the gospel.
And Piet, in your life there will come
a time that you will see the most
important work for you, to tell people the
way to heaven, who is Jesus Christ.
It was half a year later that Piet
was arrested and came in prison.
And there he heard that he had only
one week to live.
And the day before he was killed, he
wrote us a long letter.
And he wrote, all the boys and the
men in this cell are sentenced to death.
And I am so glad that I can
tell them that Jesus Christ has died for
the sins of the whole world, also for
their sins.
And that when they ask Jesus to come
into their heart, that he will give them
eternal life.
And that when we will be shot tomorrow,
that it will be for us to go
to heaven.
Now I know, Pieter wrote, now I know
that the most important thing for a Christian
is to win souls for eternity.
Young people here, I have a message for
you from Piet Hartog.
Don't wait till the last week, like Piet
has done, the last week of his life,
the last week of your life.
But say tonight, Lord take my life and
use it.
And make me a channel of streams of
living water.
Make me a real ambassador for you, a
light in this dark world.
And when you surrender for service tonight, then
there will be a tremendous future for you.
Once when you enter a beautiful city and
the saints all around you appear, many of
the people will tell you, it was you
that invited me here.
Then you will know that you have not
lived in vain.
Perhaps some of you think, I am not
good enough.
And then I think of a talk that
I had in a prison in New Zealand.
I spoke to these prisoners, these criminals, you
are the light of the world.
They do not hear that often.
They hear most of the time, you are
the darkness of the world.
But I told them, when you give your
heart to Jesus, and they listened, and I
saw that they were happy to hear that
God could use them.
And one of the prisoners stood up afterwards
and he said, fellows, this morning I was
reading in the Bible, and I read about
the story of three murderers.
One was called Moses, one David, one Paul.
What?
Were they murderers?
Yes, he was right.
Once all these great men of God, Moses,
Paul and David were once murderers.
And this criminal said, fellows, what can God
do with a total surrendered murderer and criminal
like you and me?
What can God do with a total surrendered,
decent sinner like you and me?
Isn't it a joy that God can use
us?
And if the Lord Jesus has warned us,
if anyone is ashamed of me and my
words, the Son of Man will be ashamed
of him when he comes in the glory
of the Father and the holy angels.
You understand that I speak tonight for the
youth for Christ.
And I mean really not only the younger
youth, but also the riper youth for Christ,
for every child of God here.
But there are some of you who do
not yet belong to the kingdom of God,
because you have never accepted Jesus Christ as
your Savior.
Now, then, this call, what I said, is
not for you.
But you must not stand up and disappear
and say, oh, now this message is not
for me.
No, it can be for you.
But first, there must happen something with you.
I must warn you.
If you neglect too long, it becomes reject.
When you harden your heart, your heart gets
hard.
And before I go on with my message,
I invite all the people here who have
never said yes to Jesus, to say, tonight,
Lord Jesus, I need you.
I am a sinner and I say, yes,
Lord, come into my life.
And the moment that you say that, the
Lord Jesus will come in your life and
that same moment there is work for you
to do in this world.
I'll never forget that I was in Bermuda,
in a prison, and I saw a man
in a cell, and he had a red
rag on his back, the back of his
uniform.
I asked the guard, has that man tried
to run away?
He said, yes, how do you know that?
I said, when we tried to run away
in the three prisons where I have been
a prisoner, we also got a red rag
on the back of our uniform.
The man said, that man is a murderer,
and he has the sentence of whippings, and
whippings are terrible cruel.
And that man had been so terribly afraid
that they had to run away.
And they had found him, and they had
given him a double portion of whippings.
And he was sitting there in the corner
of his cell like a wounded animal.
And I went to him, I said, hey
fellow, have you had a whipping?
Yes.
Was it bad?
Yes.
I said, did he bring you to a
hospital afterwards?
No.
He stood up and came to the bar
door.
He thought, what a strange question this lady
asks.
And I said, did they treat your wounds?
Yes.
I said, is there hatred in your heart?
He said, hatred?
My whole heart is full of hatred.
I said, that I can understand.
Heh, you.
I said, yes, I.
And then I told what I felt when
they whipped my sister in prison because she
was too frail, too weak to shuffle sands.
How there came hatred in my heart.
But a miracle happened.
I claimed the text in the Bible, the
love of God is shattered, brought into my
heart through the Holy Spirit who is given
to me.
And I said, thank you, Lord Jesus, that
you have brought into my heart God's love.
And thank you, Father, that your love in
me is stronger than my hatred.
And I could love these enemies, these people
who are cruel for backstabbing my sister.
And I said, when you ask Jesus to
come into your heart, he will also make
you full of his love and peace and
joy.
And I showed him the way of salvation
and that man accepted the Lord Jesus as
his Savior.
And we prayed together.
And after we prayed, I left.
And then he said, wait, lady, have you
another five minutes?
I said, yeah, sure, why?
He said, in the third cell there is
a man who is in great darkness.
And will you please tell him also of
Jesus.
A baby Christ of five minutes old.
And he had already a burden for souls.
How old are you?
Have you a burden for souls?
I went to the man in the third
cell.
And when I told him about the cross
of Jesus where the sins were carried over
the whole world, when I told him, that
man, that he could come to Jesus and
confess his sins and that the Lord would
cleanse his heart and fill him with the
Holy Spirit and the joy of the Lord.
I prayed and at last that man also
made that decision that the angels rejoice.
For every person is so important that the
angels rejoice when they come to Jesus.
I prayed with him too.
And then when I left, I went to
the murderer.
I said, say fellow, that was good what
you did.
That you have sent me to that man
in the third cell.
He also has accepted Jesus as his savior.
And the murderer stood up and he looked
around me.
And he shouted over the corridor, Hi brother!
Hi brother!
That is what you will hear when you
come in heaven.
And you will meet people that have found
the answer for their problems and the way
for eternity.
Who have found the Lord Jesus through your
testimony.
What a joy!
I know that there are here in this
town many workers in Youth for Christ.
I never have known that there were such
huge groups of Youth for Christ people who
were full time in the work for the
Lord.
And they told that they give instruction to
other young people.
So when there are here who are willing
to go in the work for winning souls,
you are in a very good opportunity to
get instruction.
But you and they will experience that sometimes
you will fail.
It will not go always so easy.
It will not be always such a success
as with the murderer in Bermuda.
But when you have failed, then don't be
afraid.
Once I heard a story of a weaver's
school.
And these weavers, these students were making most
beautiful patterns in their weavings.
And the visitor asked, Say, when you make
a mistake, must you cut it out or
start from the beginning?
And the student said, No, when I make
a mistake, our teacher is such a great
artist that he uses that mistake to improve
the beauty of the pattern.
That is what the Lord does.
When you bring your mistakes and your blunders
to the Lord, He will use that to
improve the beauty of the pattern.
I see that some of you look happy.
Some look at me as if they say,
I can't understand it.
So I will tell you what happened in
my life.
I was in, for the first time, in
Japan.
And I could not recognize the people there.
They had all the same flat faces.
And there was a Mr. Sekiya and there
were three Mr. Sekiyas.
At that time, I could not see who
was who.
Once I had a student's group and when
I was speaking, I saw a man enter
him who came late.
I thought, oh yes, that is the director
of the seminary, the Bible seminary.
But he was not.
He was a professor of a non-Christian
university.
But when I was through, I said to
him, Sir, will you please now close this
meeting with a prayer?
The man said, I?
I've never prayed in my life.
Suddenly I saw my blunder and I saw
who he was.
I said, oh professor, it doesn't matter, I
will close.
And I prayed, but he came to me
and Japanese people are very polite and he
bowed several times for me and said, I
was so sorry that I could not do
what you asked.
I said, professor, I honor you that you
said no.
If you had been more superficial, you should
have said a prayer without believing it.
But you didn't do it.
But tell me, why are you not a
Christian?
He said, I?
No, then first I must study Christianity.
I said, no, sir.
In this book it is written, not those
who study Christianity will become children of God,
but those who receive Jesus Christ as their
savior, they become Christians and children of God.
And I talked with him, I prayed with
him, and that man made a decision for
Jesus Christ.
He was a strategic point in the University
of Tokyo.
Now do you see the pattern?
God used the blunder of a dumb Dutch
to save them.
But I had to surrender it.
So don't be afraid when you make a
blunder.
Just bring it to the Lord.
He will improve the pattern.
In this time, it can be very dangerous
to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ.
Many, many Christians have to suffer persecution.
I know it.
But there comes a moment that the Christians
will be translated before the tribulation comes.
I do not know.
There is now a tribulation.
There is now a persecution so enormous that
about 60% of the body of Christ
is suffering persecution.
And we must understand it.
We are one body of Christ in the
world.
And watchman, he said, when my feet were
whipped, my hands suffered pain.
And when people in Africa are tortured to
death, we have to pray for them.
And over the whole world, we must be
faithful to pray for the Christians who are
in concentration camps, the people behind the iron
and the bamboo curtains.
There are many, many Christians who are suffering.
And it is not impossible that you have
to suffer over some time.
But then think of Peter, Peter van Woorden,
my nephew, who had in his shoe Romans
8.
He was prepared.
And I believe you and I must prepare
to be ready even when we have to
suffer for the Lord.
And I would like to find in the
Bible the text that can help me when
I come in the tribulation and when I
was in tribulation in the concentration camps.
When I read, God does not give us
a spirit of fear but of power of
love and a sound mind, I said, thank
you Lord.
When I read that Jesus said, you will
have power after the Holy Spirit has come
upon you.
And when I read that God has a
telescopic and a microscopic interest in us, the
hairs of our head are numbered and God
has the whole universe in His hands.
I was in Africa in a Christian boys
school.
And oh, what a joy it was.
These boys were full of the joy of
the Lord.
And they really were in their way ambassadors
for Jesus Christ.
I met a missionary with whom I had
worked.
And I asked him, tell me, how are
my boys in that boys school?
We had such a good time together.
And he said, these boys?
They are all murdered, all killed.
I said, oh, how terrible.
These beautiful boys.
Then he said, do you remember that boy
who had such a beautiful voice?
Yes, I said, yes.
There was a boy who had such a
beautiful voice.
You could listen to him always.
And he said, when he had to be
shot, he asked the soldier, will you wait
a moment?
May I first sing?
And with his beautiful, heavenly voice, he sang,
out of my bondage, sorrow and night, Jesus,
I come.
Into thy freedom, gladness and light, Jesus, I
come to thee.
Out of the depths of ruins untold, into
the peace of thy sheltering fold, ever thy
glory in space to behold, Jesus, I come
to thee.
And then he was shot.
Do you see?
That boy had grace to be a martyr.
He had not a spirit of fear, but
a spirit of power, of love, and a
sound mind.
I remember that I was in Ushubora, and
it was a terrible time.
I heard that many Christians were killed.
It was in Burundi.
And that week, every day, Christians had got
a letter, you must be registered in the
police station.
And they had come, and they were all
shot.
And when I stood there in the church,
I saw that there was fear.
It was Sunday morning, and the people looked
at each other.
And they looked and thought, will he be
shot this week?
Will she be alive next week?
Will she be killed?
Will I be there?
And there was such a fear.
And I said, Oh Lord, give me a
message for these people.
And the Lord gave me.
And I read 1 Peter 4, 12.
Now, dear friends of mine, I beg you
not to be unduly alarmed at the fiery
ordeals which come to test your faith.
As though this were some abnormal experience, you
should be glad, because it means that you
are called to share Christ's sufferings.
One day, when He shows Himself in full
splendor to men, you will be filled with
the most tremendous joy.
If you are reproached for being Christ's followers,
that's a great privilege, for you can be
sure that God's Spirit of Glory is resting
upon you.
And I told these people the story that
you can read in my book, The Hiding
Place.
When I was a little girl, I said,
Daddy, I will never be strong enough to
be a martyr for Jesus.
And Father said, When you go with the
train, when do I give you your train
ticket?
Three weeks before.
I said, No, Daddy, the day that I
go to travel.
And Father said, So God does.
And you do not need to have grace
and strength to be a martyr for Jesus.
But the day that you have to travel,
the Lord will give you the ticket.
And I said, people, you will get the
grace, for God will not give you a
spirit of fear, but of power of love
and a sound mind.
I was in Switzerland, in Lausanne, and I
met a lady from Ushubwura.
And I asked her, Tell me, how was
Radio Cordak?
That was the radio where I had worked
there.
And she said, Oh, so good.
Two years it has been closed.
Now it is open and 24 hours a
day the gospel goes from that radio over
Africa.
I said, Tell me, how are my friends?
She said, Your friends?
They are all killed.
Oh, she saw how sad I was.
And then she laid her hand on my
shoulder and she smiled.
And she said, Corrie, they are promoted ahead
of us.
Do you see that?
I said, And you?
Are you staying now in Europe or America?
She said, No, as soon as this is
over, I go back to Ushubwura.
I said, But are you not in danger?
Oh, yes, she said, We are all in
danger.
But that doesn't matter.
She was ready to give her life for
the Lord.
And I am going to ask you tonight,
Are you ready to give your life for
the Lord?
And when you are not quite sure, then
I must tell you something that I experienced
in the concentration camp.
One of the most terrible things I had
to suffer was that I had to stand
naked.
They stripped us of all our clothing.
And I said to Betsy, my sister, I
cannot bear this.
I have never felt so unhappy.
And suddenly it was, if I saw Jesus
at the cross, and the Bible tells, they
took His garments.
He hanged there naked.
And through my suffering, I understood a fraction
of the suffering of Jesus.
And it made me so thankful that I
could bear my suffering.
Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life,
my soul, my all.
We follow a scarred captain.
Should not we have scars?
Under his mighty banners we have gone to
the wars.
Lest we forget, Lord, when we meet, show
us your hands and feet.
Are you willing to be a grain of
wheat that must die?
A grain of wheat that is not willing
to die cannot have fruit.
But when you are ready, the Lord will
use you.
And look at the cross.
I was at the cross when I first
saw the light.
The burden of my sins rolled away.
It was there by faith I received my
sight.
And when you look at the cross, you
hear the voice of the Lord saying, if
any man will come after me, let him
deny himself and take up his cross and
follow me.
And I'm going to ask you, will you
have a talk with the Lord tonight?
Are you willing to surrender?
Are you willing to surrender to be the
light of the world in a very dark
time?
This world is dead sick.
But who is it that overcomes the world?
He that believes that Jesus is the Son
of God.
Listen!
You who believe that Jesus is the Son
of God, you are called to overcome a
world, a world that is ill, that is
broken.
And the Lord will use you.
But you must surrender.
You must be willing.
When I look at the missionaries, so often
I see more missionaries, lady missionaries than men
missionaries.
And sometimes I doubt when a young man
gives himself to the Lord for service, that
he says, Lord, take my life, but send
my sister.
No!
Say, take my life and send me.
Yes, Lord, also when it means suffering, the
cross, perhaps death.
I ask you to surrender all.
Also that little bit, that shelf behind the
door.
Tear it down.
Throw it out.
Don't use it anymore.
For Jesus wants you to dwell from the
ceiling to the floor.
He even wants that little shelf you keep
behind the door.
And 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.
He who calls you is utterly faithful and
he will finish what he has set out
to do.
We pray.
Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you that
you have talked to us.
And we know that we have all to
give an answer.
And it is yes or no.
There is nothing in between.
Lord Jesus, you have talked to those who
have never asked you to come into their
hearts.
Listen who now says, yes, Jesus, come into
my life.
I will bring you all my sins.
And I believe that at the cross you
have also my sins.
Yes, Lord, oh make also me your ambassador,
your child of the light.
Thank you, Lord.
That those who come to you you will
in no wise cast out.
And Lord, there are far more here who
have to answer that other question.
Listen, Lord, who says, yes, Jesus, I belong
to you already a long time or a
short time, but I know that I am
a child of God.
I know that you died at the cross
for my sins and that you live for
my deliverance.
Then I may follow you and that you
will use me as light as your ambassador.
And tonight I understand it better than before.
Yes, Lord, yes, take my life and let
it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Yes, Lord, even if it could be persecution.
I am ready, I am willing to take
up my cross for you will give me
not a spirit of fear, but of power,
of love and a sound mind.
Hallelujah.
Amen.
My friends, the Lord has spoken to me
and he has spoken to you.
And I am going to ask you, before
you will have the official invitation, are there
here who has said, so during this prayer,
yes, Lord, take my life, I will also
be saved.
Did you accept Jesus and did you say,
come into my life, Lord Jesus?
Just raise your hand one moment that I
see it.
It is far too dark here, I cannot
see it, but the Lord sees the hands.
But I am also asking, are here people
who are children of God and have said
this evening, yes, Lord, yes, take my life
and even if it is the cross and
persecution, use me as your ambassador.
And now I am going to ask you
if you will raise your hand, but if
you do not mean it, don't raise your
hand.
I have done it.
Are there more?
Thank you.
The Lord has seen which hands were raised.
There were many.
And I invite you to have a talk
with the Lord tonight and ask him, Lord,
what did it mean that I said yes?
And the Lord will tell you what it
meant that you belong to the Lord lock,
stock and barrel.
And I have now a word to those
who did not raise your hands.
Have a talk with the Lord tonight and
tell him why you didn't do it.
Perhaps you must say, Lord, I don't like
to raise hands, but you know, Lord, I
will belong to you, use my life and
the Lord is happy.
Perhaps there are some of you who must
say, Lord, I did not raise my hands
for I am afraid.
And then the Lord will tell you, don't
be afraid.
I will give you a spirit, not of
fear, but of love and power and a
sound mind.
And when there are also people here whom
I say, Lord, I did not raise my
hands for I am not willing to belong
to you.
I will belong to myself.
My friends, I will pray for you that
you cannot sleep.
May you accept.