Prayer - Corrie Ten Boom

the weary ones had let the weary ones had rest the sick had joy that day and wondered how the ploughman sing at his work had prayed God help them now alone in foreign fields they wondered how their words had power at home some Christians though are three perhaps had prayed an hour so we are often wondering why because we do not see a friend at home on vent at me I will speak a little bit about prayer in the session we have word of Prayer together father in Jesus name will you show us a little bit the importance and the joy that we may pray for each other thank you lord I mean in the book the Bible is written that we have to pray for each other in the book of 2 Timothy what is it fiver we pray that intercessions first supplications prayers intercessions and Thanksgivings should be made on behalf of all men for kings and rules in positions possessions of responsibility we do not always realize how important intercession is do you know that in the book of Josiah is i-59 is written God wondered because there was no intercessor once I was in Sacramento and I heard of a group of Christians and the leadership of Robert Allenwood who prayed every day for one person everyone for another person in the government they did it very faithfully they prayed every day and even once a week they fasted miracles happened among the government people there are you praying for people in government for people who have such a terrific responsibility in second Chronicles 7:14 we read that God says if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land what a terrific responsibility we have for our land for a country in sodom and gomorrah if there had been 10 right these people the town should not have been destroyed I remember that when I was in a concentration camp and we are pushed together in a room with 700 people the room was built for 200 some people start to fight other people joined them and at last it was a chaos we heard swearing and beating and Betsy my sister said Cory let's pray that's dangerous and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed I'll never forget it and when she prayed It was as if a storm layed down we heard less swearing and beaten at last it was absolutely quiet and then Betsy said thank you Lord amen do you see what happened there was a room of 700 prisoners in danger and there was one woman who prayed and that woman my sister was used by God to save the situation of that whole room I believe we must understand that we can be used by God to save the situation in the world and very much about our intercession it is possible that you think no I can't do that I know a woman and or men who are real intercessors but I don't know how to pray for other people and I must tell you a story of a little boy someone said to him boy you must pray but he had never prayed in his life was in Africa and he went home and he was sitting in the corner of his the cabin and suddenly his mother hurt him saying abcdefg mother said when I doing is that mom they have said I must pray but I've never prayed before and now I've said Lord I will give you the whole alphabet will you make a good prayer of it is that good that boy had understood a very important word from Romans eight Romans eight was twenty-seven we read we do not know how to pray worth me as sons of God but his spirit within us is actively praying for us and those agonizing longings which never fade find words and God who knows the hearts the heart secrets then the stands of course the spirits intention as he prays for those who love God this is the Holy Spirit who work teach us how to make a prayer even when we have all read alphabet sometimes God's Mills move very slowly but they meal meal very secure I remember that my sister was a teacher when she came home she often said all mum Corey Betty let's pray for my boys and girls in the class and then we prayed for them she had always the first glass of the boys and girls of six seven years old I don't know if I had met faith in that time but I am so glad that God does not ask us to have a great faith when people say to me you must have a great faith I always say no my faith is not great but I have faith in a great God and the Bible says look let us look unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith now when I told you about my sister and who was interceding for the till of her class I had a remarkable experience some time ago I had a meeting in Holland and an old gentleman came to me and he said I was in a school where a mist and boom was a teacher I cannot have been you have you been a teacher I said no it was my sister oh he said I when I bought a boy of seven years old I loved your sister and how is she and I told and my sister was with the Lord and after we had talked a little bit about my sister and about when he was a little boy of seven years old I asked him I should like to ask you a question about a message that you heard today he said what do you mean I said no we have heard a message that Lord gave me that we have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God are you born again I which had of God he said I go every Sunday to the church I said it's very good that's not sufficient a mouse born in a biscuit tin is there for like yet a biscuit and to be in a church building does not make me child of God that is the Lord Himself who says there must happen something you must receive Jesus as your Savior and then he does the miracle in you that you are born into the very family of God then you may say to God father my father I taught a little bit more with him and he understood and he accepted it and then he said his first real yes to Jesus and that's very important now do you see the picture do we see the pattern was about 70 years before that my sister my mother and I prayed for the children in a class in school one of these boys of six or seven years old I met after 70 years and God used me to bring him to a decision for the Lord Jesus I thought that was very encouraging I don't know what if you have that but sometimes I have a little difficulty when I pray for a huge crowd when I pray for one person yes but when I pray for a huge crowd my faith is very very weak but for the Lord is such a prayer not unimportant it was some time ago that I met a lady she called me over the telephone the first time and he told me tonight I go to a meeting of yours and I must tell you I have been in the same concentration camp as you reference Baruch I said then what time she said in 1944 I said that was the same time that I was there what Benedict you live she sat in barrack five I said I bought in barrack 28 now you must understand that when you were in different barracks you could never have come back to the other so I had never met her and she hadn't met me but when we stood on Raw call in the early morning and they were standing around us 17,000 prisoners I remember that Betsy and I sometimes at all Lord all these poor prisoners many will die here or be killed not we cannot reach them we cannot only reach the people in our barrack but Lord you can reach them Oh bless them one of these 17,000 people I met after 30 years and that was that girl that called me over the phone I said to her come tonight to my turn my meeting she said all right I will do it but don't think that I believe in God so now I just come and I ever tell you a little bit of what I have experienced with the Lord she came and the next day she called me she said I cannot understand what I heard last night that you told there that you could forgive and love your enemies I said as but did you listen well I told that I was not able but that it was the Lord in me who gave me the love for my enemies oh he said what must that be oh joy I said yes that's it oh I wished I had that I said did you I don't that's a good first step I said really don't you want to have that peace and joy that you can forgive your enemies that is possible the only thing but you have to do is that you must ask Jesus to come into your heart and then Jesus does the job and I told her the way of salvation and she listened and she accepted the Lord Jesus as her Savior do you see the picture thirty years before I prayed for a group of 17,000 people thirty years later one of them I was used to bring to the Lord I tell you this to encourage you to become a real intercessor oh it is so very important that we are faithful and I must say I have learned to pray when I was in the concentration camp and I was a prisoner yes I had prayed before a long time ago when I was a little girl my mother brought me to the Lord and since that time I have been an intercessor my mother told me that I was five years old when she said Cory you must I may ask Jesus to come into your heart and I did and she told me later from the same moment on I was an intercessor every prayer that I prayed I finished with a word and Lord will you save all the people in this midst route now this made estar that was a street behind our house where were many pubs and you saw always drunken people there and the five year old at a burden for these people and I prayed every day for them I I smile when I think of that I was so young and prayed for other people God smiled but he accepted it do you know that later in my life I have met people who had lived in this midst rat I was in a group of girls in a camp kind to offer Girl Scout camp and I had brought him the gospel and we had a good time together and one of them said auntie Cory they called me auntie that do you know that I am a little bit often neighbor for I live in this made of strata and another said I have lived there a third said my parents had lived there and I found that a whole group of twenty girls that were sitting around we had been in dismay distraught or their parents I said girls I must tell you something well my mother told me that when I was a little girl of five years old I prayed for this MIDI strap and now the Lord uses me to bring the gospel to you girls who have lived all your parents have lived in that Street it is so encouraging when you hear that God hears your prayers I told that I had learned really prayer in the concentration camp yes there I learned more of prayer I learned there that there is nothing too small too great for God's power and nothing too small for his love I remember that I had a rather small problem I said Betsy I've caught a cold and I have no handkerchief and what I do Betsy said you must pray I laughed but bet she did it she said father in Jesus name I pray that you will give Cory a hanky for he has caught a cold almond I laugh but do you know what happened I heard that they called out my name I went to the window and there stood a friend of mine fellow prisoner or all who worked in the hospital I said are you free can you fist me she said no no I am NOT free but come just to bring you a little little present I got how nice of you and she gave me a little package and I opened it and there was a handkerchief him I said how in the world why in the world do you bring me a handkerchief that you know that I had caught a cold just no but I found an old sheet and I was making from that sheet thank you sir and when I was busy to show it there was a voice in my heart who said bring a handkerchief to call it and boom can you understand what handkerchief can tell you on such a moment that hankie told me there's a God in heaven who he is it when on a very small planet the earth Thurmont prays for an impossible little thing for hankie shield and that God in heaven tells an other child of him on that very same earth bring a handkerchief to call it a move I call that the foolishness of God the foolishness of God is the greatest wisdom there's nothing too great for his power oh I remember that sometimes my heart was heavy all the problems in the Suffern in and around me do you know how that feels for your heart is so it her heavy like a heavy handbag like this one I opened my Bible and I said O Lord what must I do and I read in the Bible don't worry about anything whatever tell God every detail in earnest and thankful prayer and the peace of God which transcends all human understanding will fill your heart cast your burden on the Lord I said Lord I will do that thank you for your answer and I emptied my heart like I know empty this handbag as a lord here are these prisoners around to me Lord they came this morning eight hundred new prisoners oh what a dab of seven is waiting them oh lord have mercy upon them I cannot reach them but you can hear they are Lord help them then I brought Betsy my sister were far too weak and too frail to be a prisoner I said lord have mercy upon Betsy that soon liberation come o not I cannot help her sufficiently but you can not fill her heart with your piece here is Betsy I bring her to you he is my queen my queen was in England Oh what terrible was that for her to be in away from her country that had to suffer so much I said Lord will you speak to the Queen and will you fill her heart with your joy and give her your courage he is over my queen Lord and then I brought some sins you will experience it when your heart is heavy that there is often some unrepented sin I had been bitter that morning people had been cruel to my sister and me and there was bitter bitterness all motivated in my heart I said O Lord here is my hate that might be bitterness please will you forgive me forgive me Lord and cleanse me and the joy is that when you bring a sin to the Lord he forgives and he cleanses you with his blood and said Lord here is that whom then sin with you take it liberate me from it so I went on and on to bring all the things that were in my heart to the Lord till my heart was just as empty as this handbag I had cast all the burdens on the Lord that was good then I said I mean that was prayer it was good but what I did after my Armand was not good you know what I did after my Armand I put all my burdens again into my heart and I if you believe it or not my heart was heavier after my prayer than before but that was not free rain means a skew burden on the Lord and leave it there did you understand the message of that little hanky there's nothing too small for God's love I once saw a little girl and it cried that a broken doll very old dirty doll but then I saw her father coming and he said come on come to Daddy I will help you and that man took that dirty old valueless dog and he repaired it I laughed how could a grown-up man take such a valuable doll so serious to mend it you know why because he saw that dog through the eyes of the little one because he left the little one and so God sees your problems through your eyes because he loves you and there's nothing too small for his love just tell him have you ever had that you were frightened because your own player I remember that I was in Russia and I was in a room in a hotel and the woman who cleaned my room I gave a threat tract about the way of salvation woman looked at it and what two women in the room and she said something in Russian I could understand but she gave me back the tract she would not read it or have it I was sorry I went with calmly my what might happen in that time to the dining room and I had to go in an elevator we were only two in the elevator and I was still thinking of that woman you feel always a little bit disappointed when you will do something kind and dis refused so I prayed I said O Lord I cannot reach that one with really care bring her in contact with one of your children who know her language Lord I cannot help her but I've claimed that woman for eternity what is ideas do I never done that before I'd never claimed a soul for eternity before and I said Lord was that good may I do that in the same moment I heard myself praying and other prayer Lord I claim whole Russia for you now I trembled what did I do why did God give me that prayer suddenly I understood it in the Bible is written the earth is the Lord's the world and all who live there and let's also receive it was an answer from God to give me such a prayer for I had not thought about it when I we went back to our room that morning there was no breakfast available so we went to our room and we had had some old burns and we took a little bit Nescafe and we had a very priest full breakfast together but suddenly we heard knocking at the door we opened the door there was a woman when it refused my tract and she started to tell me something in the Russian language I didn't understand one word but then she pointed to my dog I said coming he'll have a tract and gone it took a tract and gave it to her but it was a different one in the first one and then she looked no she would have the tract of the way of salvation was of course in the Russian language I gave her that tract and I can tell you I was so happy that woman left the room with a face beaming love joy and I feel my face beamed of joy for that was an answer from God It was as if God said that first prayer I have already answered that second prayer I will answer oh what a joy that we may claim the salvation of a person and of a nation that a lot dooba miracle in you that he gives you the real faithful and believin and Trustin prayers it was moment later that again came a knock at the door and there was the woman again now she had a big white fresh bread and she put it on the table she had seen that we had been chewing these seven old burns and that was her sacrifice to show us thankfulness we will pay her but no no that was her present to us oh I'm so glad and I think of that experience of course sometimes there is that that question does God always answer our prayer and then I say yes but sometimes God gives the new answer and that is not a mistake for God does not make mistakes but that's because God knows all I remember a little story of Emma Carmichael that one that has worked so beautiful in India to save the the girls the temple girls who were educated to be cross stitute she told that once he was a little girl and she had brown eyes and she had heard that God answered prayers so one evening she said now God I pray in Jesus name that you give me blue eyes she went to bed and she was so happy oh no she should have blue eyes he was so happy and he could hardly sleep that night but in the morning he awoke and he thought now now I have new eyes she went to the mirror and she looked she had brown eyes still do you went door mother and she said God doesn't answer prayers I have prayed for blue eyes and my eyes are brown again her mother said the girls the ones you will understand that and she said I have understood it later for because I had brown eyes later also I could work as an Indian when I went in a temple to save these girls I put on my sari and I just was like an Indian woman had I had blue eyes I couldn't have done that then she saw why God had answered with no we don't always see that but sometimes when I was in prison and I was sitting in a Cell all alone I was still in Holland my homeland and every day I prayed all God that the enemy never bring me to a German concentration camp but God gave no answer and not only that he brought me there but also betsy who had to die there do you know that now already I see a little bit of God's side of the embroidery the book the hiding place and prisoner and death is used to so many people that when you are a child of God when the worst happens the best remains and that is because in these books I tell about the experience of Betsy and me because God has allowed that we had to suffer so much now he gives me a message and that message will be rich that will reach many people also when the film the movie the hiding place will be shown to people had got arms of my prayer in that cell we could not have had such a strong message and see it already once you and I will see it when we are in heaven there we see God side and I have the idea when we are in heaven we will thank God for every answer to end not answered prayer for then we see that God has guided us there's one thing that the Bible tells us that we must pray in Jesus name I heard a little illustration about that from William niganda he said once I was on a trip in other country and my wife's Anna was writing me a letter when she was writing Cristo for her three years old boy said mom what are you doing he said I am writing deddi a letter he said I will also write daddy a letter boys it's all good she gave him and paper and a pencil and he wrote a letter to his daddy it was like this then sanli took it and she wrote at the side this is Christopher's letter to his daddy then she put it in her letter what she had written to her husband and when William opened the letter we found that paper he looked to throw it away in the in the wastebasket but certainly he read this word this is Christopher's letter to his daddy suddenly he was very proud his friend was with him he said do you have a son or three-year-old the yes did he ever write you a letter no of course not my son has written me a letter he had never been so happy when these words had not been there this is Christopher's the letter to his father you know that your and my prayers are never good enough for a holy God even if they are beautiful words or if it is only a cry this is not good enough for God but when we pray in Jesus name then it is as if the prayer each is got with the word of Jesus father this is chorus mrs. Allan's this is John's prayer to your father and suddenly God is happy because Jesus has said that so never forget to pray in Jesus name that is power and don't pray in Christ's name Christ's the title the name that has Richard Mendes power is Jesus Jesus and you may pray in Jesus name I will finish with little poem that has helped me so much that poem showed me what it means to pray better than anything whatever Jesus heard when you played last night he talked with God about you Jesus were there when you fought your fight he is going to help you through jesus knew when you share 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 you could not understand Jesus stood by as you almost fell and lovingly grasped your hand Jesus cared when you bear that pain indeed he bore it too he felt each bang which 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 rejoice when you trusted him and the most trustworthy one his presence shall ever be with you no need to be anxious or fret wonderful Lord he is there all the time he has never forsaken you yet hallelujah let's pray repeat what I see thank you Lord that I may pray for other people thank you that I may that I must be an intercessor thank you that you make be an intercessor forgive me that sometimes I was not faithful in this beautiful work you have given us forgive me and make me faithful through your Holy Spirit hallelujah amen and now may the love mercy and power of Jesus Christ be multiplied to you during these days of Titanic spiritual warfare the Lord wins and is able to hold you up and cause you to triumph in all situations you may face hallelujah amen

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Length: 44min 5sec (2645 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 26 2015