Your Testimony Has Power

"And they overcame him [the devil] by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of
their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." (Revelation 12:11).
Your testimony is about what you have experienced - what you have seen and heard.
A real Christian can talk about their experiences with God through Jesus Christ. We
as Christians are called to a relationship of real communication with the Son of God.
God comes to live inside us. Things change. God deals with every person in a
different way. The more Christians that come forward and talk about how God has
intervened in their life, the more people will begin to realise that God is for real,
miracles do happen, and prayer works. This will inspire others to seek God and turn
from their sins so that they too can know the peace and satisfaction that comes to a
person who truly gives their life over to God.
Acts 1:8 says, "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
the end of the earth." To be a witness to Jesus is to speak and communicate the things
that you have seen and heard in your life, that happened because of Jesus. Its the
Holy Spirit who makes Jesus real to us, and makes Jesus real through us.
God's plan is for people to hear the good news that Jesus Christ payed for their sins,
and conquered death for us through rising from the dead. After believing, people
should go on to receive the power of the Holy Spirit, and then testify to others what
God has done for them.
One of the greatest testimonies was from a power pagan emperor who came to know
that the God of Israel was indeed God over all. King Nebuchadnezzar actually said in
an announcement that went across the whole known world:
"I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has
worked for me." (Daniel 4:2).
Like Nebuchadnezzar, we should seek to glorify God all over the world. Now, with
the advent of the internet, it is possible to do this all over the world with very modest
resources. I want to encourage YOU to do your part in spreading the fame of our
God by writing down your story and sharing it with us all through the medium of the
internet. I have done this myself and my story, although not especially dramatic, has
reached thousands of people around the world and continues to provoke responses
from readers in the form of e-mail messages. I personally have collected scores of
testimonies from all over the world, many of which can be read on my site here.
Many people are getting challenged and uplifted by this. You too can share your
story with the world through this site and others with a similar purpose. You can
reach people that no one else can reach.
The Bible says, "Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His
deeds among the peoples!" (1 Chronicles 16:8). If you have been rescued by God
from your sin and the consequences of it, one of the ways you can express
thanks to God is by telling others of what happened. Writing your story down
will equip you to share it verbally with others, and will enable you to reach at least
one person per day for the rest of your life for the Lord. 
Other Considerations on Sharing your Testimony
If you have really drawn near to God, you will be like Peter, who said, "For we
cannot but speak of the things we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20) even when
he was persecuted and threatened on account of his testimony, and the power of the
name of Jesus that he was operating in. The most important thing to testify of, though,
is not physical miracles, as wonderful as they are, but the way God has redeemed
your soul - bought you out of the hand of the devil for himself. The Bibles says in
Psalm 107:2, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed
from the hand of the enemy". Its a wonderful thing when we can honestly testify
that we now know God has forgiven our sins. If God has redeemed you, then you
should say so - publicly. And one of the best public forums today for this is the
internet.
What if your testimony is not so great?
Your testimony does not have to be super dramatic or unusual to be effective. Not
everyone can relate personally to a sensational testimony. If on the other hand your
testimony is weak because you can't point to a change in your life, could it be that you
have not really consecrated your life to God properly? Are you trying to living with
one foot in God's Kingdom, and the other in Satan's?
The Bible says, "For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of
Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of
these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience."
(Ephesians 5:5,6).
Is your heart still in love with this present age, this world system? If so, it would be a
great time to decide to live for God and to get serious about it, because none of us
are guaranteed a tomorrow. Perhaps your testimony is weak because you have not
giv

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