LET YOUR TESTIMONY RING OUT - Sept 26 Today's Perspective

PERSPECTIVES FROM DAVID’S 7 SECRETS

Chapter Eight, “You Can Do This” p. 140

CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC         

                      

 About the Thessalonians in I:8, Paul said, “The Lord’s message ‘rang out’ from you… your faith in God has become known everywhere.”  That reminds me of a Lanny Wolfe song we used to sing called, “Can’t Stop the Music”.   When it’s in there, you just can’t stop it!

The thing is, the message needs to be really clear.  Peter said in Acts 4:12, “Salvation is found in No One else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”  Remember that great song?  “No Other Name”? Both Sandi Patty and Steve Green brought us to the heights with that one in the 80’s.

When told he must stop using the name Jesus, Peter instead  declared, “For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.” Acts, 4:20

David said similar things in Psalm 40: 9-10. “I do not seal my lips, as You know O Lord… I speak of Your faithfulness and salvation….”

It is a fact that most people come to the Lord through someone’s personal testimony.  We have to make sure most of it is about what Jesus has done for and through us, not the “I have done” of our testimony.

The bottom line is bigger than we can even know or guess. At the very end of this age, when the Lord returns, and His followers are being killed and hounded by Satan, the accuser, the Bible declares in Revelation 12:11 about those Christians being persecuted, “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.”

Your testimony today in our confused and needy world is essential for people to find the Lord, so…

                     LET YOUR TESTIMONY RING OUT