God has helped me
to this very day.
Acts 26:22
By the end of Acts, Paul - who once persecuted the church - had been ministering to the Gentiles for roughly two decades. After much traveling and preaching, he'd been warned not to return to Jerusalem. Agabus was even given a word of prophecy and he warned Paul that a final trip to Jerusalem would lead to his imprisonment.
Paul went anyway, of course. And he was arrested, of course. And he, of course used his imprisonment to testify to God's love for both Jews and Gentiles through the Messiah, Jesus Christ. And part of that testimony - with many stories - was how God repeatedly showed up, blessing his own life and ministry. "God has helped me to this very day," he said.
What are your stories. How has God helped you in your life?
It's good to rehearse those stories. It will buoy your spirit, giving you strength and encouragement whenever the clouds in life seem to grow dark. But, like Paul, your stories of God's blessings are also designed to be a testimony to others. Indeed, how are using God's goodness in your life as a testimony to a hurting world?
In Christ's Love,
a guy who has been
very, very, very blessed
... but that's not why
I tell the story.
I tell the story of Jesus
simply because he's
Lord and King
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