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I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

Jim Elliot

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Jim Elliot
Age: 28 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 8
Died: 1956
Died: January 8
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Portland
Oregon
Philip James Elliot
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God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
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Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
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He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.
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