Blessings to each one who hears this. Today’s lesson is to help your witnessing for Jesus Christ in your life on a daily basis. Each of us can be an inspirer and encourager of witnessing to others of Jesus
Christ and His glory. I will teach you how to enhance your abilities to witness to the world’s lost and to improve your witnessing skills that you already have.
To be witnesses for Christ you have to have ten important things in, on and with you at all times you:
(a) The Salvation of Christ - being born again anew in
Christ, having received the forgiveness of sins.If you are not "born again" in Christ, our Lord, you cannot be a witness to the Grace, Mercy and Love He has for all His people. Your witnessing of Christ is devoid
of these things and His great Love.
(b) The Holy Spirit - must also be within you. It is that fire that burns with desire to tell all you meet about the Lord and Savior and His free gift of Salvation. Along with being that "fire" inside you, it is also that "still small voice" you hear guiding you and giving you the words to speak as you witness.
(c) Know and Understand His Word (The Bible) - It contains the truth and in order to speak the Truth of God, You must know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth of God and His Son, Jesus.You
can not witness to others without it or with partial knowledge of the truth.
(d) You must put on the WHOLE ARMOR of God (Ephesians 6:8-20) It is your defense against evil and your strength in the Word as a witness to the Glory of God.
(e) Carry the Sword of Spirit - The bible which is also having your"loins girt with truth". If you are armed with the Truth and know the truth, then speak the truth; it will be a witness unto itself.
(f) Carry the Love of Christ and Let it radiate thru you when you witness to others. There is an old saying that applies here and that is: "you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar".
(g) Be a Faithful witness - Stand firm in God and in His word and believe in what the Lord has told you..not what man has told you.
(h) Be a personal witness - Carry your own personal testimony to others of what God has done in your life.
(i) Be an Ambassador for God - Just like you protect your loved ones and defend them, so you must do in and for the Lord, your God. You do this thru ambassadorship and faithfulness in God.
(j) Actions speak louder than words - If you walk in the footsteps of Jesus, you should know that sometimes how you act,react or behave in any given situation, shows and reflects on the Lord. For example: A man comes up to you and you greet him in the Name of the
Lord and he starts cursing you. How do you react? Do you get mad and hit him or do you turn the "other cheek" as Jesus instructed you to do? Of course, the proper thing and the Godly thing to do is to turn the "other cheek". You radiate God’s love, by how you
respond to others. If you respond negatively, then you are not acting as the Lord would.
We are the bearers and witness of the Lord’s Light and Love, that all men thru Him might believe (John 1:7) In John 3:11, it says, "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we
have also seen; and ye received not our witness." There are those who refuse to hear our witness to the Lord Jesus Christ and we should not get discouraged. There are some that are just not ready to hear it and
others that will totally refuse it. There is little we can do about it. except pray for them. They have made their choice and it is up to the Lord and themselves to change that choice. Do not be discouraged, because there will be some that listen and receive the Word. It is the parable that Jesus told when taught about the Sower and the Seed.
For all those who are His children, we are His witnesses. This is clearly pointed out in Acts 22:15. " For thou shalt be His witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard." We are His witness to the Lord’s Grace, Mercy, Pardon and Blessings. One thing that has always bothered me about some Christians and that is having been a witness to
these things, how can they remain so silent? I know that I can’t and never would. There are times I wish that I could gather all the peoples of the world together or stand on the highest mountain top and proclaim, in a loud voice, the Glory of God and all His Wonderful Blessings that He has bestowed on me, as His child. Things, I could have never imagined
coming into being - have. Prayers answered? Yes! Every last one of them!
There is not one person on the face of this earth that could convince me that God "doesn’t exist" ! You have to be that kind of witness. With the fire that God placed inside you when you were "Baptized in the Holy
Spirit", you can’t just ignore it! You have this overwhelming desire to talk about God all the time! It becomes a sleep, eat,smile, laugh, walk and talk fire, that grows bigger and brighter every time you talk of God to others. There is also a drive in you that you can "never do enough" for the Lord and you are always wanting to do more! This is what it is like to be truly filled with the Holy Spirit and wanting to be a witness for the Lord. This is what it takes to be a witness for the Lord.
Something to remember
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When we became as "little children" if the Lord by receiving the forgiveness of our sins and the Salvation by the Blood of the Lamb, we also became His witnesses unto the peoples of the nations. Our
witnessing began with what we know and learned in I John 1:1-7 and we bear witness to it.
I John 1:1-7 - "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have
seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be
full. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." There is a story I would like to leave you with and I do hope that you will ponder the things I have told you here.
The Wealth of Love in Witnessing ================================
To witness there is one important thing that you must have. here is a story that points this out. When you witness to others of Christ..you do it in love, as Jesus loves you. Use the wisdom of this story and apply it to your witnessing.
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long gray beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize any of them, so she said "I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come
in and have something to eat." "Is your family home?", they asked. "No", she said. "They are all out"
"Then we cannot come in", they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened."Well ..", he said, "go tell them I am home and invite them in now." The woman went out again to invite the men in. But one of them
replied. "We don’t go into a house together". "Why is that?", she wanted to know. One of the old men explained: "His name is ’Wealth’ ...", he said, pointing to one of his companions... and pointing to the other one, he said "... he is ’Success’ ... and I am ’Love’." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. He was overjoyed."How nice!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth...let him come and fill our home with wealth". But his wife disagreed ... "My dear, why don’t we invite Success ...with success we
can always expect wealth to come along later."? Their daughter, who had been listening from another room had another suggestion ... "Would it not be better to invite Love ... so our home will be filled with love?"
"Good point", the husband conceded. "Well then, go out and invite Love to be our guest." The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love?
Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love ... why are you coming in?"
The old men replied together: "We are blind. Therefore, we depend upon Love to guide us. If you had invited Wealth or Success, one would still have to depend upon Love, and the other would have become lost trying to Follow you. So, in order to survive, wherever Love goes, Wealth and Success will follow.
(Remember to always invite LOVE)
