YOUR TESTIMONIES, YOUR CHRIST EXPERIENCES, CAN WIN MANY TO CHRIST.
The testimony of one woman with a broken past brought salvation to a whole city.
I always have so much to share of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I could literally talk about God the whole day. There's no one who keeps quiet who has tasted and seen that the Lord is good. When you have a Christ experience and not just a christian experience, you're in awe. You have a testimony. The fire of God will burn in you until you speak of His testimonies. You literally cannot hold it in. A Christian that speaks of the works of God is a Christian who is on fire for God.
"But His word was in my heart like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And I could not." Jeremiah 20:9
Your testimony, no matter how you feel you should hide it because of your compromising or maybe embarrassing past could be just what someone else might need to hear and get saved or get delivered. This is because this testimony of yours is real, it can apply to someone else because of its realness. Your testimony shows you're human and you go through stuff, but God saved you and delivered you.
A Christ experience is as one the Samaritan woman had at the well where Jesus met her. What I love about this encounter is that Jesus felt He NEEDED to go through Samaria. And He NEEDED to talk to a woman, a Samaritan woman.
God loves the lowly in spirit and the meek!
In that society those days, women were considered low. That was (and still is) a lie of the devil that had creeped into patriarchal societies. The fact that Jesus was going into Samaria was just questionable since Jews considered themselves higher than Samaritans, and the fact that He was going to see a woman, was just mind boggling even to His disciples.
Anyway, fast forward to the Christ experience. Jesus told the woman, when you find me, you will find life. He said,
"But whosoever drinks the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life"
In essence, Jesus was telling her if you experience me for sure, you will never be the same again.
And the woman asked, "but how do I even pray and worship with the restriction that we have to go to Jerusalem to worship?" That was the law at that time. Jesus told her,
"...the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth."
It doesn't matter where you are, pray and worship God in spirit and in truth. You will receive a Christ experience.
After seeing that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, the Samaritan's woman single testimony caused a ripple effect in the city. Many received salvation.
"And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did". And many more believed because of His own word." John 4:39-41.
The Samaritans begged Jesus to stay a while with them because He had brought the good news to them. He stayed two days preaching.
The devil will try anything for you not to speak of your testimony. I am not talking about self centred testimonies that, "Oh, God gave me a car, I don't have to use public transport anymore." What's wrong with public transport anyway? Were you handicapped? I am talking about Kingdom centred testimonies that, "With the car God gave me, I am able to get the local call girls to come for fellowship since they won't have to pay for transport. 6 of them have gotten saved".
Your testimony that the Father loves of bringing in the harvest.
"Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life..." John 4:35-36
Gather fruit for God using your testimonies of salvation and deliverance. Talk about your healings, talk about the demons you casted out, talk about the lives you helped to be saved from damnation. Talk about miraculous provisions.
Do not listen to the lies that the devil whispers to you about your testimonies, "You'll embarrass yourself with that one.", "People will think you're crazy", "Is there nothing else that you can talk about?", "People will hate you", "Who do you think you are anyway", "Nobody does what you do, you're alone on this one"
Shut him up and cast him down and out!
Tell God that you need His Fire in your bones. Tell Him to give you the unction to speak. Just start. And before you know it you will have a rippling effect of reconciling people back to God.
Revelation 12:11
"They overcame him (satan) by the blood of the lamb and by the WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY: and they loved not their lives unto the death."
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