When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
Interpretation
The quote highlights the difference between organizational work and personal, spiritual commitment.
Corrie Ten Boom's quote emphasizes that when people seek to serve God through structured committees, they may focus on administrative tasks rather than genuine spiritual growth. In contrast, forming a prayer group signifies a desire to collaborate intimately with God, fostering deeper personal connections and collective faith.
In practice
In a church meeting discussing community outreach, one might reference this quote to encourage more prayer-focused initiatives.
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 Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
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.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.
I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever.
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