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-Clippings From My Notebook~
-By: Corrie ten Boom
-(April 15, 1892- 1978)
[One of the few survivors from Ravensbruck Concentration Camp]

~~COMMITMENT~

-God never gives power to be a martyr in advance.

-When we deepen our message, then God will expand our ministry.

-In witnessing, our primary function is proclamation, not defense.

-Brilliance is sterile unless it is coupled with commmitment.

-A visitor saw a nurse attending the sores of a leprosy patient, "I would not do that for a million dollars," she said. The nurse answered, "Neither would I, but I do it for Jesus for nothing."

-Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

--'When man listens, God speaks.
When man obeys, God acts.
When man prays, God empowers.'-
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--ETERNITY ~ --

A man may go to heaven
without health
without wealth
without fame
without a great nature
without learning
withut big earning
without culture
without beauty
without friends
without ten thousand others things,
but he never can go to heaven
without Jesus Christ. ~~

-The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation.

-This life is only the first page of the book, not the last page.

-"My times are in thy hand..." (Psalm 31:15 KJV).
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-Corrie's life was lived in the presence of Jesus Christ.~~

-Our Hands in His
-By: Corrie ten Boom
-Clippings From My Notebook~

"But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere." (2 Corinthians 2:14)

Sometimes the responsibility of all my work has burdened me. There is so much to do, and we all understand that we must redeem the time, because the days are evil (see Ephesians 5:16). What joy that we may and must surrender everything.

When I talked my concern over with the Lord, He showed me an empty suitcase. He said: "You possess nothing, you have surrendered all, so you have no responsibilities at all. I carry all responsibilities, you are only my steward."

What joy came into my heart! I prayed: "O Lord, let me see You a moment."

"Look at your left hand," He said. I saw that my hand was in another hand. That hand was pierced...it was Jesus' hand. I never before understood what surrender meant--one weak hand in Jesus' strong hand! His strength in our life! Surrender to the Lord Jesus is dynamic and relaxed. What joy! Hallelujah!
What a Wonderful Savior!~~
-Is It Any Wonder? / Phillips, Craig, and Dean
<http://youtu.be/AS26JvF125c>

-Clippings From My Notebook/ Corrie ten Boom

--Living a Fruitful Life~~

"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control."
[Galatians 5:22,23]KJV

Love is the love of Christ that passes knowledge.

Joy is the joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Peace is the peace that passes all understanding that Jesus promised when He said: "My peace I give unto you."

Longsuffering is forgiving--even your enemies, just as Jesus forgave His enemies when He was on the Cross.

Gentleness is the reproduction of the gentleness of Jesus.
Goodness is Christ-likeness: kindly dispositioin.

Faithfulness: The disciples were not always faithful. At the betrayal of Jesus in the garden they all forsook Him and fled. But when the Holy Spirit came down at Pentecost they all became faithful unto death.

Meekness is not the same as weakness. Nor is it a native fruit of the human heart. It is an exotic fruit of heaven.

Self-control is mastering the appetites and passions, particularly the sensual.

All this fruit can be seen in you, but only when you are in contact with the Vine, Jesus.~~

--Clippings From My Notebook
--By: Corrie ten Boom~
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--Should Women Preach?

--Corrie was interviewed once on the subject of women who preach. The following is a portion of that interview.

-Question: Have you ever had the difficulty that some people do not like women to speak in public?
-Answer: No, because I have never been where they do not allow me to go.

-Question: But do you not have the feeling that you are being disobedient? Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:11,12 and 1 Corinthians 14:34,35 that women must be silent.
-Answer: Yes, that is so, but we must know what these words mean and what they do not mean. We must find their meaning for the present age. Peter gave us a sketch of the present age in the words of Joel, "I will pour forth my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy..." (Acts 2:17 KJV). Now, what is prophecy? First Corinthians 14:3 says, "edification, exhortation, and comfort."

-Question? But did Peter not mean that these things happened at the first Pentecost (See Acts 2:16-21)?
-Answer: Yes, they partly happened then, but in carrying on with the quotation he talked of things which were not then happening. "Blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke" (Acts 2:19) have not yet come to pass, nor the sun being "turned into darkness" and the "moon into blood" (Acts. 2:20).
We know from other Scriptures that this will happpen before the return of the Lord Jesus (see Matthew 24:29; Revelation 6:12). We live in days past the beginning of the prophecy and before the end of it. Acts 2:18 quotes Joel, "Upon my male and female slaves [the literal meaning] will I pour forth of my Spirit and they shall prophesy." There is no distinction of race in this verse; the power is to any devoted servant of Christ, Jew or Gentile, male or female. The one hundred twenty on the first Pentecost included certain women, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and all spoke languages they had never learned (see Acts 1:13-15; 2:1-11).

In 1 Corinthians 11:5 we find that women prophesied in the assembly, and this was not forbidden by Paul but merely regulated--the covering of the head being commanded. This verse also tells that women prayed in the church. In Acts 21:9 it is told that Philip's four daughters prophesied, not because it was rare for women to prophesy, but that it was unusual for four women in one family to do so.

-Question: But what about 1 Corinthians 14:34 and 35, where it is clearly said that women must keep silent in the churches?
-Answer: I believe that this must be interpreted in the light of these other Scriptures and not in conflict with them. Here is meant silence while another is speaking. ("Let them ask their own husbands at home"--1 Corinthias 14:35). I believe that Miriam, Deborah, and Anna (who were prophetesses) are good company for me. And Psalm 68:11, in the original, gives them and me the encouragement, "The women who proclaim the good tidings are a great host..." (NASB).

There is one thing that neither man nor woman can be without--the anointing of the Holy Spirit which equips us to speak for God (see Acts 2:18).
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"From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the women who testified..." (John 4:39).

---The battle is not ours, but God's. ~~~~

-Clippings From My Notebook/ By: Corrie ten Boom
-[Once a prisoner of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp]

--Learning to Forgive~~

"For if ye forgive their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
--Matthew 6:14,15 KJV~

-IT WAS in a church in Munich that I saw him, a balding heavy-set man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands. People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken, moving along the rows of wooden chairs to the door at the rear. It was 1947 and I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives.

It was the truth they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out-land, and I gave them my favorite mental picture. Maybe because the sea is never far from a Hollander's mind, I liked to think that that's where forgiven sins were thrown. "When we confess our sins," I said, "God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever."

The solemn faces stared back at me, not quite daring to believe. There were never questions after a talk in Germany in 1947. People stood up in silence, in silence collected their wraps, in silence left the room.

And that's when I saw him, working his way forward against the others. One moment I saw the overcoat and the brown hat; the next, a blue uniform and a visored cap with its skull and crossbones. It came back with a rush; the huge room with its harsh overhead lights, the pathetic pile of dresses and shoes in the center of the floor,the shame of walking naked past this man. I could see my sister's frail form ahead of me, ribs sharp beneath the parchment skin. Betsie, how thin you were!

Betsie and I had been arrested for concealing Jews in our home during the Nazi occupation of Holland; this man had been a guard at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp where we were sent.

Now he was in front of me, hand thrust out: "A fine message, Fraulein! How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!"

And I, who had spoken so glibly of forgiveness, fumbled in my pocketbook rather than take that hand. He would not remember me, of course--how could he remember one prisoner among those thousands of women?

But I remembered him and the leather crop swinging from his belt. It was the first time since my release that I had been face to face with one of my captors and my blood seemd to freeze.

"You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk," he was saying. "I was a guard in there." No, he did not remember me.

"But since that time," he went on, "I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fraulein---" again the hand came out--"will you forgive me?"

And I stood there--I whose sins had every day to be forgiven--and could not. Betsie had died in that place--could he erase her slow terrible death simply for the asking?

It could not have been many seconds that he stood there, hand held out, but to me it seemed hours as I wrestled with the most difficult thing I had ever had to do.

For I had to do it--I knew that. The message that God forgives has a prior condition: that we forgive those who have injured us. "If you do not forgive men their trespasses," Jesus says, "neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses."

I knew it not only as a Commandment of God, but as a daily experience. Since the end of the War I had had a home in Holland for victims of Nazi brutality. Those who were able to forgive their former enemies were able also to return to the outside world and rebuild their lives, no matter what the physsical scars. Those who nursed bitterness and remained invalids. It was as simple and as horrible as that.

And still I stood there with the coldness clutching my heart. But forgiveness is not an emotion--I knew that too. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. "Jesus, help me!" I prayed silently. "I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply the feeling."

And so woodenly, mechanically, I thrust my hand into the one stretched out to me. And as I did, an incredible thing took place. The current started in my shoulder, raced down my arm, sprang into our joined hands. And then this healing warmth seemed to flood my whole being, bringing tears to my eyes.

"I forgive you, brother!" I cried. "With all my heart!"

For a long moment we grasped each other's hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God's love so intensely as I did then.
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--'The greatest sin for a sinner is to refuse Jesus. The greatest sin for a Christian is to refuse the fullness of the Holy Spirit.'

--'Guilt never heals; its purpose is only to lead us to the Healer.'

"For because He himself has suffered and been tempted, He is able to help those who are tempted." (Hebrews 2:18 RSV).'

'Faith is not just "believing"; faith is relating yourself to a person. If I commit myself to a chair, it is not the strength of my commitment that holds me up, but the strength of the chair.'~~~

--Clippings From My Notebook
--By: Corrie ten Boom
-[A Survivor of Revensbruck Concentration Camp]
--CHOICES ~~
"He will keep you steadfast in the faith to the end, so that when his day comes you need fear no condemnation." (1 Cor 1:8)[Phillips]

--Several years ago I was in Vietnam. It was one of the times I suffered with the people in the war. I remember that I went as far as I could go through the jungle and rice paddies to the front lines so I could speak to the American G.I.'s--young men, yes, in my eyes still boys. Their life was hard. Days and days they had to live in the jungle. They suffered and made people suffer.

We heard around us bombs falling and the "ric-a-tic" of machine guns. The soldiers were thankful--almost too happy--for a visit from an old lady who had come from a country where there was peace. And now I was with them on the battlefield. They seldom saw women there, perhaps only the prostitutes. I had such pity for them.

I tried first to tell them all the jokes I could remember in English. Then I said, "Now boys, I want to talk "turkey" (straight-forward)'" (I tried to use some slang I had learned from the students.) "There are two possibilities. Either you come through the war alive or you fall in action. Let us think a moment if that last thing happens. Are you ready to meet a righteous God? Are you not ready? Come to Jesus. He is willing and able to prepare you."

A lady told me later that her son had written her from Vietnam: "Now I know what it means to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior. I did it and what peace there is in my heart."
Three weeks later he fell in action. ~~
"To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."~~

--Corrie ten Boom~~
--'Love In Action"

--From: Vine and Branches
-Love For Christ/ Love for Jews /Love Put to the Test/ Love in the Fires and more....
Corrie ten Boom, a true Evangelist that lead many people to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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