The Power of Testimony
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that everyone has a story.
You have a story – and it’s a good one.
No, really, it is.
I truly believe that there is very little more powerful than our testimonies. The bible is FULL of testimonies, in fact it’s virtually all testimony – with a few bits of law and teaching thrown in every now and then.
Why is this the case? I believe that it’s because God loves people and is all about having a relationship with them.
What can be more powerful than the true story of someone’s relationship with God?
I can wax lyrical all day every day about some stuff that I heard God did somewhere else with some other people and it will always be just a story – it could be fiction for all I (or you) know. When I tell what God has done for me though, how I’ve seen God work in my life, it becomes something completely different – it’s my testimony. It’s personal. Either you call me a liar, believe I’m delusional or accept that it’s true.
Why don’t you share your testimony with us this week.
It doesn’t have to be your entire testimony, it doesn’t even have to be ‘how I got saved’ – testimony is anything you share about what God has done for you or what you’ve seen him do.
Let’s fill the world with our testimony!
My testimony for the past few months would incriminate (sp?) me so I’m better of mot telling it but lets just say I Praise God everytime I get in my car and I Thank Him for His blessings everytime I return home!!
My testimoney would be God knows your true heart and self and works good out of what you can’t.
I am the product of an unlikely and incompatible match, but I believe God was with me from the very beginning – cradling, guiding, wooing, loving. I spent my childhood running from the police and lying about my name and family. I lived in just about every city in Oklahoma. We were hiding because my mother didn’t have custody of me. When I was 12, we got caught and I was sent to live with a dad I didn’t know, but feared greatly. Through it all, Jesus spoke to me. I didn’t always know He was speaking. I didn’t even know anything good could come out of something so terrible, but it turned out to be the best bad thing that could have happened. And Jesus is greatly to be praised!
EDITOR’S NOTE: Read a fuller version of this story here: http://vanityofvanities.wordpress.com/about/
Wow.
That’s an amazing story.
It’s just incredible to me that I can know people with such diverse backgrounds and not know it at all!
Thank you for sharing.
My story isn’t one of drugs or jail but it is one of being “lost”. I married too young (4 days after turning 18) and it was an abusive relationship. I’d been raised Catholic and now my young husband and his family were Jehovah’s Witnesses. Trying to hold together a failing marriage I attended with them to find once again it wasn’t really the answer I was looking for and I still was “lost”.
Through a crazy series of events (hmmm…God?) I ended up in the Pacific NW where I met a man who befriended me and introduced me to Jesus. It didn’t take long to realize He was the answer I’d been searching for. Now I’m blessed with a wonderful husband, 2 great kids…and eternal life…WOW!
Awesome Bridget.
Thank you for sharing!
Praise the Lord that he guides us even through our own craziness!
I am only writing this tonight due the power, grace and mercy of God. I am one of those “new” Christ Followers. I have only been a member of 2 churches. I just started this nutty new journey late in my life. I am 48 years old. I am a million miles from perfect. I am a HUGE sinner. I judge others so that I can take the focus off myself. I have an extremely self destructive personality. I struggle with alcohol and prescription drugs. Don’t get me near a casino. I will gamble away anything I can get my hands on. I praise God for my wife and dear close friends who keep me accountable. Speaking of friends, Peter is one of those great friends that God has brought me thru blogging and social media. If you have a moment, please pray for me, an extremely messed up Christ Follower.
Thank you for your honesty Mike.
I think that there are a lot more of us out there who struggle inwardly than most people ever imagine!
You’re not alone and God is big enough to help all of us see victory every day.
God’s ways are not my ways.
For several months I had been trying to stay at a church which had become increasingly toxic to me. There are many good, godly people there, but there was a situation with a couple that really cast a shadow over everything else. I did everything I could to stay there…and yet, when my husband finally said the bad situation was affecting him, I had to let go.
I thought I would never find another church home, and yet, this move has been surprisingly easy, with friends old and new ready to welcome me and my family. I’m able to concentrate on worship and serve God according to my gifts.
I still have my friends from my old church, and now I have relationships with people at my present one. I am so blessed! Thanks be to God!
Thanks for sharing, Erlinda.
I’m glad to hear that God has guided you to a new home!