Corrie Ten Boom

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Godsgirl83

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Here is a 3 part interview/testimony with Corrie Ten Boom, in her own words.

Born April 15, 1892 she went home to the Lord on her 91st birthday April 15, 1983.

 

shittim

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what a wonderful testimony, been aware of her for years, she is reunited with her sister and family for eternity.
bless you for sharing
 

TabinRivCA

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She will get many rewards in Heaven for her bravery esp in that evil atmosphere then(y)(y)(y).
 

shittim

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You did it again GG, you brought a lot of people together in one accord with your ministry.
bless you
 

BillG

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She was such an amazing person.

I watched a documentary about her, it included real life footage of her talks and seminar's.

Her recollection of meeting the guard who at one of her smeniars, the guard in the prison camp who at that meeting had become a Christian yet was part of the process of her sisters death really humbled me.

As follows.

Healing was linked to forgiveness, Corrie wrote.

Each had something to forgive, whether it was a neighbor who had turned him in to the Nazi authorities or a vicious camp guard or a brutal soldier.

In mid-May 1945 the Allies marched into Holland, to the unspeakable joy of the Dutch people. Despite the distractions of her work, Corrie was still restless, and she desperately missed her beloved Betsie. But now she remembered Betsie’s words: that they must tell others what they had learned.

Thus began more than three decades of travel around the world as a “tramp for the Lord,” as Corrie described herself. She told people her story, of God’s forgiveness of sins, and of the need for people to forgive those who had harmed them.

Corrie herself was put to the test in 1947 while speaking in a Munich church. At the close of the service, a balding man in a gray overcoat stepped forward to greet her. Corrie froze. She knew this man well; he’d been one of the most vicious guards at Ravensbrück, one who had mocked the women prisoners as they showered. “It came back with a rush,” she wrote, “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.”

And now he was pushing his hand out to shake hers, and saying:

“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. I was face to face with one of my captors, and my blood seemed to freeze.

“You mentioned Ravensbrück in your talk,” he was saying. “I was a guard there… 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 again and again to be forgiven — and could not forgive. Betsie had died in that place — could he erase her slow terrible death simply for the asking?

The soldier stood there expectantly, waiting for Corrie to shake his hand. She “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.”

Standing there before the former S.S. man, Corrie remembered that forgiveness is an act of the will — not an emotion. “Jesus, help me!” she prayed. “I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply the feeling.”

Corrie thrust out her hand.

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. But even so, I realized it was not my love. I had tried, and did not have the power. It was the power of the Holy Spirit.

Lewis B Smedes.

To forgive is to set the prisoner free, only to realise that prisoner was you.
 

shittim

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yes, I remember this part as well, and am experiencing the Holy Spirit move as I read these words, thank you and bless you.
 

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I read a book about her but that was years ago while I was in the army. I believe that she was a prisoner of war and supposedly passed out vitamins every day to the other prisoners from a bottle that never went empty.
 

shittim

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not exactly as I recall it, there was a person she ministered to who walked down the line of prisoners handing out vitamins, was caught and punished.
 

TabinRivCA

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Another true story to the best of my recollection . While she and her sister were in a 'bunker' together at the concentration camp, Corrie noticed lice in the straw . She told her sister how she hated lice. Her sister told her that they are to be thankful for everything, even the lice. So Corrie in her prayers thanked God and also thanked Him for the lice.
A few days later the troops were raiding the bunkers looking for any suspicious items, esp Christian material. For some reason they walked right by Corrie's room. Later they found out that the ss troops heard about the lice and didn't want to go in so then they REALLY thanked God for the lice. God certainly works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform:)(y).