SCRIPTURE: John (NIV) 9:30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. 32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
OBSERVATION: First: A personal testimony is easy to give. We all know what has happened to us. We have personal thoughts. It is our experience. No one can take that from us. It is ours. Second: A personal testimony is hard to refute. It was hard for the religious leaders to refute this personal experience. They looked foolish trying. Third: A personal testimony comes with personal convictions. Some things become logical when we go through an experience. This man was amazed at their attempt to discredit which was so apparent.
APPLICATION: No one knows better that I what God has done for me. If He is going to get the glory He deserves, it will have to be because I have told others. If others are going to be encouraged to believe what God can do for them, it might be because I tell them what God has done for me.
Pastor Andrew and SOAP workers in Sierra Leone are passing to me some great testimonies of what God is doing through the SOAPs. They go to villages/towns where they are invited, install computers and printers, print thousands of SOAPs to be distributed, then present the SOAPs and the gospel in a large meeting with many thousand gathered. When the invitation is given to receive Jesus, thousands are responding! Then another town (with drug problems, thievery, and prostitution) hears about what God is doing and calls them to come to their village/town.
Three things: pray for Africa, pray for the SOAP ministry in Africa and Asia, and be sure to share your testimony of what God has done for you!
PRAYER: Lord, help us to be busy in fruitful ministry until you return! Amen
Pastor Leon
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