03/18/2025
“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows those who take refuge in Him.”
—Nahum 1:7, ESV
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Corrie ten Boom: "During the last world war, I spent time in a concentration camp in Germany because my family, friends and I had saved Jewish people.
In that prison camp was also W***y, one of my girl guides who was then 15 years old. W***y was very brave. Every morning she asked me, 'Aunty, what is your message today?'
I gave her a very brief message. Once I said, 'Jesus is Victor,' another time, 'Underneath are the everlasting arms of God,' or 'Fear not, only believe.'
W***y had to work in a factory together with hundreds of poor prisoners who did not know what the cruel day would bring them. When W***y was working, the woman next to her whispered to her, 'W***y, what is your message today?' W***y answered, 'Jesus is Victor.'
The woman then passed it on to the next prisoner and so they repeated over the whole hall, 'Jesus is Victor, Jesus is Victor, Underneath are the everlasting arms, or Fear not, only believe.'
That girl, when she enters the beautiful city and the saved all around her appear, she will hear from her fellow prisoners, 'It is you who invited me here.'
Was she something unusual? No, W***y was just a high school kid of 15 years but her secret was that every morning she prayer, 'Here I am Lord Jesus, use me.'
When you pray that prayer in the morning, that day the Lord will use you to build gold and silver and precious stones on the one foundation, Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11-14)."
Note: Taken from “Harvest” newsletter by Corrie ten Boom, 1958. After WW2, CTB traveled the world as an ambassador of Christ. Newsletters are found in the archives of Billy Graham Ministries.
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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
—Isaiah 55:8, 9
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight."
—Proverbs 3:5, 6
