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The Cry From the Depths
Basilea Schlink

Basilea Schlink (1904 - 2001). German religious leader, writer, and co-founder of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, born Klara Schlink in Darmstadt to a professor of mechanics. Raised Lutheran, she studied at Fröbelseminar in Kassel (1923) and Berlin’s Inner Mission girls’ school (1924), later earning a doctorate in psychology from Hamburg University in 1934 with a thesis on adolescent faith struggles. From 1933 to 1935, she led the Women’s Division of the German Student Christian Movement, resisting Nazi exclusion of Jewish Christians. In 1947, with Erika Madauss, she founded the Sisterhood in Darmstadt, taking the name Mother Basilea, growing it to 209 sisters across 11 global branches by 2001. Schlink authored over 60 books, including My All for Him, translated into 60 languages, and published tracts in 90. Her radio programs aired in 23 languages, emphasizing repentance and reconciliation, especially between Germans and Jews. Unmarried, she dedicated her life to prayer and ministry, shaping interdenominational Christian communities.
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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of crying out to God for deliverance from sin and bondage. They explain that when we cry out to God with all our heart, he will hear us and deliver us, for he is a deliverer. The speaker encourages listeners to be thankful for distress and bondage in their lives, as it forces them to cry out to God for help and freedom from Satan's power. They also warn against listening to the voice of Satan and not crying out to the Lord, as it can lead to being tightly bound by sin. The sermon references Isaiah 45:17 and Ephesians 6 to support the message.
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God lives and works today. Perhaps you've often longed to experience his miracles in your life. Perhaps you've even prayed about it, but nothing happened. You wonder what's wrong. Did you perhaps not pray right? Why didn't God hear? Or when does he hear us? Listen to the following meditation by Basilia Schlink called The Cry from the Depths. Recently, I was praying with a sister about a sinful bondage in her life. This sin seemed to grip her like steel, because she had really inherited it from her parents and ancestors. However, in prayer, she received the word from the Lord, but Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation. You shall not be put to shame or confounded. Isaiah 45 verse 17. What a joyful message. Christ the Savior has come. However, we can only respond in a correct way to this news if we have understood the message of Ephesians 6, that all the powers of darkness, the spiritual hosts of wickedness, are continually fighting against us. Whoever has been alarmed by this verse learns how to cry from the depths of his soul. Lord, deliver me. Lord, deliver me. Jesus will hear such a cry from the depths. When we cry to him with all our heart, he can do nothing but deliver us, for he is a deliverer. If a person goes swimming and starts to drown, and he doesn't cry for help, no one is likely to notice and come and save him. Therefore, when it concerns our drowning spiritually, we can't cry enough. The Lord will hear the cries of suffering, the cries from the depths. Be thankful if there is a great distress in your life. Give thanks if you sense that you are especially bound to a sin on a certain point. For then you are forced to cry out for help, and those who cry out will become free from Satan's power. There may be others who are just as bound to sin as you, but perhaps they don't realize it, and therefore don't cry out to God for help. Satan will draw those people even more tightly into his clutches. That is why it is actually good when you are upset about your sinful bondages. For then you have to cry out, and cry from the depths of your heart. I have known people who were so close to the Lord Jesus. But then they began to listen to the voice of Satan, and they no longer cried to the Lord. Later, I didn't recognize these people at all. They had changed so much. Their sins had grown into an avalanche and had completely changed their appearance and character. May each one of us become one who cries from the depths. For he who cries out for help and deliverance will experience the help of the Savior, and that person will be protected from all the powers of hell. He has subdued the devil's might, for he has won the fateful fight on Calvary's cross so dreadful. You have been listening to a program written by Basileus Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan. To learn more about how God lives and works today, visit us at our website, www.canaan.org. That's K-A-N-A-A-N dot org. If you contact us, we would be happy to send you a free inspirational booklet. If you do not have access to the web, please contact this radio station for our postal address. God bless you.
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Basilea Schlink (1904 - 2001). German religious leader, writer, and co-founder of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, born Klara Schlink in Darmstadt to a professor of mechanics. Raised Lutheran, she studied at Fröbelseminar in Kassel (1923) and Berlin’s Inner Mission girls’ school (1924), later earning a doctorate in psychology from Hamburg University in 1934 with a thesis on adolescent faith struggles. From 1933 to 1935, she led the Women’s Division of the German Student Christian Movement, resisting Nazi exclusion of Jewish Christians. In 1947, with Erika Madauss, she founded the Sisterhood in Darmstadt, taking the name Mother Basilea, growing it to 209 sisters across 11 global branches by 2001. Schlink authored over 60 books, including My All for Him, translated into 60 languages, and published tracts in 90. Her radio programs aired in 23 languages, emphasizing repentance and reconciliation, especially between Germans and Jews. Unmarried, she dedicated her life to prayer and ministry, shaping interdenominational Christian communities.