14/11/2018 - THE PREPARATION TO SERVE

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Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. John 3: 11

Every new convert can be sure that they were not accepted into the Kingdom of God to be left empty handed – the Lord has a plan for their life. Believing that the Most High likes to see some of His own in idleness is to accept that one of His own children does not need to work, and that the others will always support him. God is a better Father than we are. The commandments are for all, and when we obey them, we prove our love to Him.

You need to read the Bible, meditate on it, and learn His teachings so that you can talk about it to people during their crises or times of needs. When the enemy tempts you, he does not do it as a joke. If you do not know how to act, how will you rebuke the devil with the Word? Surely he will not obey you. To pray the faith prayer is like being in the tribunal of Truth and, like the court of the man, whoever does not know his right or is silent loses the case. Advocate your case well.

Those who know the Truth do not fear the slanders of which they are victims of, nor do they fear to appear before a judge. When they do, they calmly prove that what others say of them is a lie, and they come out victorious. Whoever does not prepare to defend himself, when faced with the lies with which he is accused, gets nervous. Then, in explaining himself, he leads the judge to the wrong conviction, and the sentence goes against him. Prepare yourself not to let the devil, the accuser, win any battle against you.

Another factor that must be well understood is the following: we testify of what we have seen. Jesus stated that He could do nothing without having seen the Father do it first. If we are to do the same works of Christ, we must have the vision and the tools used by Him. When reading the Holy Book, the Master understood what the Father was doing. Therefore, when He was before many people, He determined paralytics, blind, dumb, deaf, lame and sick and oppressed healed and freed.

Whoever observes the deeds of the Lord becomes a good witness. So when they go out to bless someone, they will do so in the certainty that the blessing will come. On the other hand, one who does not see the deeds of the Lord does not understand the reason for never being answered and therefore never enjoyed the result of the biblical promises. Every action of ours, under the direction of the Most High, should serve as a testimony to Him to be praised or to condemn those who do not believe. The thing is more serious than we think!

Jesus told Nicodemus that He and the disciples spoke of what they knew and testified of what they had seen – learned from the Father. This is the point at which all followers of the Savior must come to: do the work with what they know and to testify of what they have seen. No Christian, who is a witness of the Lord, should speak what He did not say or testify of what He did not see. Our testimony needs to be given only with what we have learned from the Lord.

 

Whether they accept it or not, everyone must know that a true witness of Christ was among them. Now, if we do not have works to corroborate the preaching, like the Master had, we are not serving the Christ of the Scriptures. Is it another Gospel we have been preaching? Now, the words of Jesus will never be changed, but fulfilled. Examine yourself and obey!

In Christ with love,

R. R. Soares