All the ways to be a Witness

All the ways to be a WITNESS

1 Peter 3:15~Instead you must worship Christ as Lord of your life, and if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it.

1 Peter 2:1-5~So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:1-5~My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him

Proverbs 14:25~A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

John 8:32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Isaiah 43:10~“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me

James 5:16~Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

The last thing Jesus said to his Disciples was “you will be my witnesses throughout the whole world.” It is so important for us to not just go to church on Sunday, but to live our life everyday, even behind closed doors as a witness of our LORD. These are the following ways to be a witness:

~first of all obey the 10 commandments

~show Love to others

~have a Godly attitude

~be kind and helpful

~be a joyous giver

~be compassionate

~be God's light everywhere you go

If you are going to give your life to God, the easy part is obeying what God wants you to do, but the hardest part is to adjust your attitude. Our attitude is what others will notice about us the most. You can give tons of money to your church or to charity, go to church every Sunday, pray everyday, but if you have a bad attitude, forget it you have lost your witness. There are ways that we lose our witness. Some of us can think of examples of people who attend church, but maybe there attitude does not reflect someone who studies God's word. When believers see this it is hard, but imagine non-believers who see this, where is there hope, why would they consider following Jesus? These are some of the ways we can lose our witness.

~being hateful

~judging others

~being unforgiving

~gossiping

~having fear/living in fear

~being full of doubt

~complaining

~being angry

I believe with all my heart if you are hearing this right now, that God has chosen you to be his witness. He has placed his hand on you, and if you let him he will remove the layers around you that are blocking his light from shining within you. When you give your life to him, other people will notice. I promise you that.

I myself had went to church for seven years, was praying daily, teaching Sunday school, and I was learning a lot. Mostly due to the fact that I was full of everything I just mentioned above (the ways to lose your witness), that I could not be a good witness. I have surrendered my life, and my family to him. I Love him so much, and I want everyone to know it. He has been working on me all this time. Dealing with the things I need to get rid of so that I can honor him. I need so much more work, but I also know that in my soul I am the best I have ever been. I know now what Born Again means. To be new, to be given a new life. To hear God, to discern evil thoughts from Godly thoughts. In the scripture we heard earlier, he said “be like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into spiritual salvation”.

I praise God for letting me have a new life, through HIM!

He has blessed us so much, what can we do for him?

Deuteronomy 11: 26-27

~Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse— The blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day.

Psalm 5: 12

~For surely, O Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with your shield.

James 1:25
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.


1 John 3:21-23
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.


Luke 11:28
But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and observe it."


Matthew 5:2-12
And opening His mouth He began to teach them, saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. "Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when men cast insults at you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me. "Rejoice, and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


Psalm 24:5
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation.


James 1:12
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him


In all of these scriptures are promises of blessings from our Father. He is so loving to us. He has laid out the instructions for our life, and clearly tells us that if we follow his commandments we will be blessed. It sounds so simple... and it should be simple. We just need to obey the words our Father has told us, and once we have surrendered to him, and truly live according to his laws then we can truly begin to experience the blessings he has in store for us.


How Great is our God! Just as our own children get rewarded for obeying and doing what they are suppose to do. Our Father wants to reward us. That does mean that we must stop living by our own rules, we must basically die ourself, and then start living our new life through him. Not only will he bless us for doing this, but those around us will be blessed as well. We can be a true witness of what surrendering can do.


When we surrender we can begin to shed the weight of our own feelings and emotions that bring us down. We can no longer get our feeling hurt, because we will forgive the other person before we even allow it to hurt us. We will not judge anyone, because we know that there is only one judge. We will not share our own opinion, but pray about what God would want you to say. It is a new life. It becomes about what he wants for you, and not what bing on ourself. Which often causes grief and strife in our life.


I know myself, I am really working on not allowing people to hurt my feelings. I really need to let that go. I spend so much time re-playing things in my head that people say to me. Or how someone has treated me. Which is really just robbing me of the true Joy that my Father wants me to have. I know that I am his beloved, that he has chose me to be his, that I am strong through him, I have everything I need from God, and I do not need acceptance from anyone else but him. It is the enemy who kills and destroys! When someone says something that kills and destroys your spirit, that is only evil. That is something that person needs to deal with themselves, not me! I need to just pass it along to God, and pray for them before I let it settle in my mind, and re-play it over and over again. Besides me getting upset about it is not a very productive way to handle it anyways, if I pray about it that will at least get results.


So since he has given us so many blessing, what can we do for him,the answer would be to ACCEPT them. Graciously accept his love and blessings, share them with people you love, tell people how good he is to you. He loves when we tell people about his Love. Most importantly do not allow anyone to rob you of his Joy and Blessings.
Romans 8: 38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Today I want us all to examine what is holding us back from all of the blessings he wants to give. That we will have clarity about how we are not honoring his commandments. That we can examine what and who is hindering our Love from God, and begin to pray about this. Pray for strength to change these things about our self. Pray for those people who we Love, that need to surrender to his love as well.
Lets give praise to our Father for all of the blessings he has given us, lets be excited about all of the blessings he cannot wait to give us, and pray about the people or things in our life that are holding us back from receiving all he wants to give.


In HIS name.