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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

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Corrie Ten Boom
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 15
Died: 1983
Died: April 15
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Resistance Fighter
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
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Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.
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Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
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The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.---Each New Day
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
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The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.
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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
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Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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Children need the wisdom of their elders the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
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Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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