That prison, where I saw my sister's
star before my eyes, I've enjoyed the joy of the Lord. Because I got more intimately
acquainted with Jesus Christ. And when you come to Him, He
will give you that joy also in this prison. And I must say,
there was such an open atmosphere there. And afterwards, I told
him, now, you can ask Jesus to come into your heart, and I told
for that man, I said, now, who of you is willing to do that
and ask Jesus to come in your life? And they all raised their
hands, also the guard. Now, when I give an invitation
and everyone raises hands, now then, I always think, hmm, it
is mass suggestion. I don't trust that, but I had
to believe it, because I saw in the eyes the joy of the Lord. The Holy Spirit had done a great
miracle to give joy in such a surrounding. I'll never forget when I went
home, when I left the prison, I came in the street, and the
guards and the prisoners all brought me to the car. I was
amazed that they weren't afraid that the prisoners should run
away and they stood around the car and they shouted something
again and again. I said to my interpreter, a missionary,
say, what do they, what do they shout? She said, they shout,
old woman come back, come back and tell us more of Jesus. Then she told that she had been
in that prison, and she had brought the Gospel, but she said, I didn't
come back. I thought it was just in vain.
But today I have seen what the Holy Spirit can do, and now I
will go every week. And later she wrote me a letter
that every week she went, and the feast is going on, she wrote. The joy of the Lord is our strength,
That was...
Corrie Ten Boom went to a prison and shared the gospel to the inmates and the guards, but when she asked for a hand for those to receive Jesus hands went up all over the prison. How could this be? She trusts in Jesus for the results and can see the joy of the Lord in their eyes.