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When you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the New birth you enter the Kingdom of God. Every born-again Christian is chosen by God and sanctified to be His witness to the world.
When you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the New birth you enter the Kingdom of God. Every born-again Christian is chosen by God and sanctified to be His witness to the world.
There is a lot of confusion in this world about God and I believe only a witness can break through all the confusion and reveal the one, true living God-Jesus Christ to the world.
In Old Testament we read about how all the kings of the Amorites and Canaanites feared Israel when they heard about how God had dried up the waters of the Jordan for them to walk through. (Joshua 5:1) Israel was God's witness to the world in the Old Testament.
In the New Testament, the Church as well as Israel are God's witnesses to the world.
You become a witness when God does supernatural things in and through your life by the power of the Holy Spirit. God said: But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
Being a witness has a lot of do with understanding the work of the Holy Spirit in your life and in today's post that is exactly what I would like to focus on.
It is important for you to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit after you are born again. This is an experience where the Holy Spirit comes in and empowers you. Nothing in the Kingdom of God can be done in your own strength and will power. God said: Be holy, for I am holy. (1 Peter 1:16) I truly believe that you cannot fulfill this command of God without receiving the strength and leading of the Holy Spirit. The bible says: I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. (Ezekiel 36:27) And in an other verse its says: for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13) Holiness is a fruit that only the Holy Spirit can produce in your life. (Philippians 1:11) When you try to live a holy life in your own strength and will power you will always fail and be disappointed. But when you rest and trust the Holy Spirit of God to make you live Holy you will begin to walk in victory. (Psalm 37:5-9)
Even if you do happen to grieve the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30), walk after the flesh and give into temptation for a while the Holy Spirit will be right there to comfort you, convince you of your righteousness in Christ, help you repent and get you back on your feet. (Psalm 37:23-24) This is why Jesus called the Holy Spirit a Helper and Comforter.
When you live a holy life by the power of the Holy Spirit and think like God thinks you become a witness of God in the world. It becomes pretty clear to people that there is only one God and His name is Jesus Christ when an adulterer, drunkard, doper and curser stops doing things he used to do and starts walking in the fruit of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23) It is a absolutely miraculous when things like that happen to people who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit not only empowers you to live Holy, He empowers you in every area of your life and ministry.
When you are faced with a trial or tribulation you can trust the Holy Spirit to make you walk in faith and patience to receive the promise of God.
When you overcome sickness, debt, poverty, a broken marriage or any other impossible situation by the power and leading of the Holy Spirit you become a witness of God to the world.
I would like encourage you by saying that it does not matter what you are facing right now, trust the Holy Spirit to lead you and empower you. You will definitely receive your healing, restoration and breakthrough.
“You are My witnesses,” says the Lord,“
And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.
I, even I, am the Lord,
And besides Me there is no savior.
I have declared and saved,
I have proclaimed,
And there was no foreign god among you;
Therefore you are My witnesses,”
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