The Power of Your Testimony

by Marilena Fackerell

LEARN ABOUT THE POWER OF YOUR TESTIMONY AND HOW TO EASILY REACH MANY WITH IT

Malachi 1:11:

' For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My Name shall be GREAT AMONG THE GENTILES. In every place incense shall be offered to My Name, and a pure offering; for My Name shall be GREAT AMONG THE NATIONS, says the Lord of hosts.'

Malachi 1:14b:

' For I am a great King,' says the Lord of hosts; and My Name is to be FEARED AMONG THE NATIONS.'

God's purpose, desire and expectation is that His Name (which speaks of who He is and what He does for people) shall be great among the Gentiles, not just in the church. Is God's desire and expectation fulfilled to the fullness? Is God's Name - the name of Jesus - vastly known as GREAT amongst the budhists, the hindus, the muslims, the atheists, the pagans? Is the name of Jesus FEARED by the unbelievers?

Many people have asked, why doesn't God just write something on the sky? Then His Name will be great and feared by all and it will all be easy! The answer is found in the book of Proverbs. God says in Proverbs 27:2: 'Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.' In the same way as God tells us to let someone else praise us and not praise ourselves directly, He has chosen to have His Name made great on the earth mostly through His people and not through direct revelation. Therefore, the responsibility lies with us - under God's leading - to glorify His Name in the earth.

Many times when we, Christians, think of glorifying God's Name, we think of praise and worship or testimonies spoken in church by believers to other believers about what the Lord has done for them. While this is good and very needed, there is another aspect of glorifying God's Name that I would dare to say has been partly neglected by the church: MAKING HIS NAME GREAT AND FEARED among the Gentiles, among the nations, AMONG THE UNBELIEVERS.

Think of all the unbelievers you know personally. How many of them, if asked what they think about God, would say: 'Your God is renowned to be a great God and I fear Him! If this is not yet happening, then we need to come before God personally and ask Him what can we do individually and as a body to make His Name great among the unbelievers. He will show us ways that will even astonish us. He wants His Name glorified on the earth through us, and when we align ourselves with His purpose, He will turn heaven and earth so-to-speak to help us achieve this goal.

There are many ways God would want us to make His Name great among the nations and He will show each of us individually what is our part if we ask Him.

But what are a few of His ways to glorify His Name through us before the nations? Remember, this is not about glorifying God in secret, but in public, before the eyes of the unbelievers, before the nations. We will name some of the most important ones. We can glorify God's Name before the unbelievers:

     1. Through being a good example in our daily lives and through our good works - Matthew 5:14-16:

     "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so SHINE BEFORE MEN, THAT THEY MAY SEE your good works AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER in heaven.?

     Let us draw nearer to God and let more of Himself live through us and through our works, so that Christ is revealed more and more to unbelievers through our livestyle and actions. Let's behold and imitate Jesus in our daily lives and we will be transformed from glory to glory into the same image we are beholding (2 Corinthians 3:18). Let us submit ourselves to God's cleansing fire so that the dross is removed and we shine more and more as pure gold and thus become a very shining light before the unbelievers.

     2. Through our mouth - the easiest and simplest way. We can use our mouth to tell unbelievers what God did for us at the cross by sharing the Gospel with them and also by letting them know the miracles that God did for us individually in our lives - our salvation and the blessings we have received from the Lord in every area of our life. Nobody can dispute our testimony of the miracles God did in our lives.

     3. Through mass-media - the way the modern society receives information today and gets greatly influenced in their belief system is mostly through the many forms of mass-media: television, radio, books, videos, CDs, internet, newspapers, magazines, etc. For too long, the devil has been brain washing the nations with his filth through mass-media.

     Now it is time for God's church to rise and take the authority given by Jesus and make use of the mass-media to mass-tell the nations who God is and what He does and thus have His Name made great and feared amongst the unbelievers.

     Sometimes when Christians hear about using mass-media, they think shrink deep down in their hearts and think this is a big thing, hard or almost impossible for us, Christians, to achieve. I used to think so until God changed my mind.

     God wants us to have the mind of a conqueror and, like Joshua and Caleb, think that we can overcome in this area and conquer this giant. He doesn't want us to shrink in doubt and unbelief about taking a share of mass-media for God. After all, God is the God of heaven and earth and He has a right to have a BIG voice in this world, since He owns it and we are His tenants. No one else in the universe has more right than God Himself to mass-communicate to the nations what He wants to. Yet He chose not to write on the sky, but to work through us. We can take a big share of mass-media for God and provide a large platform for God to be glorified before unbelievers.

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