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
Come to earth to taste our sadness, he whose glories knew no end;_x000D_ by his life he brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend._x000D_ Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall;_x000D_ this the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.
Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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