![]() No matter where you find yourself on the continuum, you’ve got a story, it’s uniquely yours, and it’s beneficial for others to hear. You have a cool story of obedience, too, especially since you can tell everyone else firsthand about the consequences of disobedience and how it’s never too late to start over. You’ve broken every single rule there is to be broken, but you’ve repented and overcome some big (or small) obstacles? That’s amazing too! You have an incredible testimony of restoration. You’re doing a good job of following Jesus’s example of obedience. You’ve never broken a single rule in your life? That’s amazing! You have an incredible testimony of faithfulness. Whether you’ve weathered storm after storm after storm or you’ve remained fairly under-the-radar (Sorry, lame pun), here’s the thing: YOU HAVE A TESTIMONY. Over time I’ve discovered that if your life is boring, A) you’re probably not making much of a contribution to the world for Jesus so you’re therefore not facing much opposition (This was me), and/or B) you will probably have a run-in with a pretty big storm before long (This was also me). I didn’t want to get my TV privileges taken away, after all.īut, as with most of us, the older you get, the more experiences They were impressed by how I’d remained “faithful” thus far in my life – but, really, my parents made it easy for me to stay on the straight and narrow. Friends who had grown up in less “normal” homes than I would tell me they wished they had my testimony. ![]() The truth is, I did have a testimony before I ever dared to take a single risk in life (You know, 20 years in □). You’ve probably read the major storylines around here if you’ve been following My testimony got pretty interesting once I hit my 20s, and Small things.Īnd all of a sudden I had a more exciting testimony. Primarily because I didn’t do anything scary, risky, or brave at all.Īnd then I did. My life remained relatively uneventful until I was halfway through college. I did, however, wish my own story was a little more exciting. Their stories were neat, but I had no desire to become a missionary or relocate to a remote village where nobody spoke English. I had nothing in common with missionaries in the South American jungles and, quite frankly, I didn’t want to. I grudgingly endured school every day so IĬould get home and reward myself with Double Stuf Oreos and Disney Channel Normal parents with normal rules that I obeyed except for when I fought likeĬats and dogs with my brothers. Growing up in the church, I heard all these wild, dramatic testimonies of missionaries being killed in jungles for Jesus, of meth addicts going through Teen Challenge and turning into preachers, and of teen moms who became spokeswomen for life and purity and all things moral and upstanding. And I believed that, but I also wanted to make it clear that I wouldn’t be doing any public speaking. I didn’t think I had a testimonyįor most of my life, I claimed I didn’t have a testimony. Honestly, I can’t remember ever sharing my testimony until I publicly posted my healing story several weeks after it had happened and I was reasonably sure it was for real and wasn’t going to be reversed. Two: by the word of our testimony.Īre you, by chance, missing one of those steps in your own One:īy the blood of the Lamb, which has already been done. Overcoming, according to Revelation 12:11. Hallelujah! □īut back to the testimony part. The blood of Jesus has already been shed, paying for all our sins in full. ![]() Let’s not gloss over the part in between – the part where they overcame because of Jesus’s blood – but that’s the story of Easter and most of us have probably heard it. They did so by the word of their testimony. Two important pieces here (Well, two that I’m going to focus on):Ģ. ![]() The Message says it this way: “They defeated him through the blood of the Lamb and the bold word of their witness.” Version, because it’s all in a language I don’t understand), but that’s a topicįor another day…and hopefully another writer!Īnd they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Of Revelation (similar to how I feel when I hear “Despacito,” even the Bieber That’s how I feel about Revelation 12:11. Registered before? Information that should have been so obvious is suddenly Times and then, one day, certain words just pop out at you that never really You know how there are those Bible verses that you hear 1,000
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