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by Hannah Julian\/Kentucky Today<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) \u2013<\/strong> Eleanor Gorin, born March 5, 1921, grew up in the first house built on Cherokee Road in Louisville and received Christ after meeting the famous Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom.<\/p>\n

It was the late 1960s, in the middle of the Jesus movement, when Gorin says \u201cthe Holy Spirit jumped across the water,\u201d all the way to Bermuda, where she and her husband were living at the time.<\/p>\n

There, Gorin became involved in a seven-person prayer group of \u201chungry, thirsty, cultural Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lord worked it so\u201d that Ten Boom stopped there on a tour to share the story of her time in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had such an impact on my life,\u201d Gorin said.<\/p>\n

Ten Boom, best known for her book\u00a0The Hiding Place<\/em>, was a watchmaker from the Netherlands who became imprisoned for hiding Jews in her family home during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

At the time Ten Boom visited Gorin\u2019s prayer group, already \u201cThe Lord had been drawing us to Himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten Boom stayed for nearly two weeks, and Gorin recalls how she shared her testimony, starting with her ministry to the mentally handicapped during her teenage years, then her imprisonment and her love for the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Gorin recalls Ten Boom said, \u201cWith the mentally handicapped, you don\u2019t worry about the intellect. The Holy Spirit goes straight to the spirit of the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten Boom illustrated the Holy Spirit coming into the lives of Christians by pulling out \u201cher little carpet bag,\u201d holding up an empty glove, shaking it and saying, \u201cthese fingers in the glove can\u2019t do a thing,\u201d like an individual without the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, we are like gloves without fingers inside, and can do nothing spiritually.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were hanging on every word,\u201d said Gorin, \u201cour mouths were wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n

After hearing from Ten Boom, Gorin heard from other influential speakers including Abram Vereide, some from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Cannon Wallace Bird.<\/p>\n

One night, Gorin went to a service led by Bird, an Anglican priest.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis face was radiant\u201d as he shared his testimony. At the end of the evening, he led the listeners in a salvation prayer, one that Gorin prayed for herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was when I knew that I knew,\u201d said Gorin, and she \u201ccame to know Jesus in a personal way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you make it real in your own heart,\u201d Bird told attendees, \u201cthen go home and tell somebody before you go to bed tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Gorin went home and told her daughter, \u201cHoney, I want you to know that tonight I asked Jesus into my heart.\u201d Gorin then woke up her husband and told him the same. His response, which Gorin attributes as being from the Lord, was, \u201cWhat\u2019s going to be different?\u201d<\/p>\n

One difference, Gorin said, was that her \u201cvalues began to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whereas before, music and art had been idols in Gorin\u2019s life, \u201cthe Word of God opened up to me \u2018like the petals of a flower,\u2019\u201d as she recalls someone explaining it, and God began convicting her of idols and sin.<\/p>\n

Previously, Gorin had struggled with sin, wondering why she could not change. Now those idols in her life became less important.<\/p>\n

Gorin says she started to \u201cunderstand those mysteries\u201d in the Bible after she \u201cbegan to yield to the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a six-year stay in Bermuda, when she and her husband came back to the States, they settled in Richmond, Va., and began opening their home for college student Bible studies, where they shared the Good News they had received and \u201csaw miracle after miracle after miracle\u201d as students turned from \u201cdrugs and other things\u201d to the Lord.<\/p>\n

Now, the advice Gorin gives to young believers seeking to grow in Christ is to \u201cbecome saturated in the Word of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gorin\u2019s husband, Lewis, who was saved some time later, spent later years reading the Bible to Eleanor. After he passed, Eleanor said \u201c18 times he\u2019d read the whole Bible\u201d out loud to her in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Gorin says that people need to \u201ccome to a place of deep commitment and surrender\u201d to the Lord for growth.<\/p>\n

It is in the Word of God that we understand \u201chow black our sin can be and how much he can forgive if we repent.\u201d<\/p>\n

All through the Bible we receive \u201ctremendous encouragement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus still speaks to us from the seat next to the Father,\u201d says Gorin, and we must read and listen.<\/p>\n

Gorin, previously a part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, is now a member of Hurstbourne Baptist Church in Louisville, where she attends faithfully.<\/p>\n

She feels she has been given the gift of a long life so that she can \u201ctouch more people with her testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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