Why testify about god

We long to see superheroes saving people. We enjoy seeing two people find each other and fall in love. We watch people go to other countries and have different experiences. Yes, stories help us see beyond our own little world. When I recount what He has done in the past, it gives me even more faith and courage for present living. When the Israelites remembered all that God had done in the past when He brought them out of Egypt, they had courage to continue onward into the promised land.

Remembering their life before Jesus and comparing it to their lives after knowing Jesus spurred them on. Unbelievers sometimes work overtime trying to argue the facts of the bible. Documentaries and theories are created to try to explain away the obvious Creator that is vividly shown in creation the earth. And if your story shows a living and active God that cares for people, they just might want to believe it. Sharing brings them closer into intimate and real conversations.

Stories about how God has worked in my past helps me to encourage others who may be going through something similar now. They see in me the hope that they long to have. They feel a connection with me. God uses people as His hands and feet. The more I tell my story of my initial meeting with Christ, the more I keep that first love feeling alive. The love of Christ should be my motive for doing good works and pressing on in the faith. In the time it takes you to read this article, politicians, pressure groups and militant new atheists are putting pressure on their elected representatives, parliaments, legislatures and governments to pass and implement laws further restricting the rights of Christians to openly practice their faith in the public space.

The attempt to silence the work of God is having such profound effect on the mentality of Christians who are being swayed towards accepting the faith should be confined to the private space. As this gains momentum, many will start to believe in the lie that God does not exist. After all, those who want to restrict Christians solely to the private space, are in part motivated by the conjecture that God does not exist.

Sharing your testimony is the perfect response to those whose hatred of God informs their political or social activism. It keeps alive the demonstration of God in the consciousness of the public space, and could potential serve as triggers for others to encounter the Living God.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The precise act of testifying is ascribing glory to God for what He has done. The essence of testimonies are not without purpose. They are to inform all of the ability and power of God to deliver on His promises, invigorate the minds and convictions of those already trusting in God, and to restate the claim that God is not absent in situations of all who hope in Him and have expressed confidence in the counsel of His Word.

Although God does not need or indeed require our testimonies to be God, it is nonetheless a faithful response to the things He has delivered and accomplished in our lives, hence the outpouring of praise and testimonies in reverence and glory of His name.

It is important to realise that God is God in the absence of our testimonies, He still remains God. In the penultimate week before Jesus was crucified, he entered into Jerusalem amidst a festive throng to a crescendo of adulation, jubilation, praise and thanksgiving for all the mighty works the people and more importantly His disciples had seen Him done.

However, not all who were present shared in the jubilation and the giving of praise to God for what He had done. The Pharisees and othe religious leaders present were clearly purturbed and atagonised by what they had witnessed and wanted Jesus to order the people to stop giving God the glory. The response from Jesus was stark. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone. O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven.

Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him. But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.

Therefore we know that it is the last hour. And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

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