I choose to be a witness

Constant witnessing for Christ helps the salt to keep its savor.

While doing a bible study this morning, this one sentence really caught my eye and got me to thinking.

Matthew 5:13 says,"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

We are to be witnesses for Christ. He wants us to tell others about Him. Invite people to church. Don't keep it to yourself. We give the excuses(myself included), I'm too shy, I don't know what to say, this is out of my comfort zone, someone else can do better, etc.

Acts 1:8 says,"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea,and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

We need to step out of our comfort zone. We need to be constant witnesses to others around us. Even if you do not speak to every person that you see that day, the way you dress and your attitude speaks to them.

I am guilty of not witnessing to people the way I should. I have family who are not in the church. I want to invite them but I am always afraid I will say the wrong thing. But what if God holds me accountable for them. I want to see them make it to heaven.  I pray that God helps me to be a witness. A song comes to mind as I write this. Its by Ray Boltz. The name of it is "Thank You."

It talks about him dreaming that he went to heaven and people came up to him saying:

              Thank you for giving to the Lord

               I am a life that was changed

              Thank you for giving to the Lord

               I am so glad you gave.

I would love for that to happen to me. To know that I was a good influence on someone's life. It doesn't have to be something big that you do. It can be small. May God bless each of you that reads this. My prayer is that we can win lost souls. 

God is with you no matter what!

I thought I would share my testimony. I have never really told anyone what I went through and still now it is hard to really talk about it but I hope that I am able to help someone.

In December 2003, we noticed that something was wrong with my dad. His mouth was drawled to one side, he was spilling things, it was just little things but we knew something was wrong. We tried to get him to go to the doctor but he wouldn't go.  On Christmas day, we went to a friends' house to eat dinner.  They even noticed that something was wrong.  As we were getting ready to leave, my mom said she would take him to the emergency room. He refused. But instead of my mom turning to go home, she turned toward the hospital.  At the hospital they did a CAT scan and found a brain tumor.  We were devastated!

The next day, they did a MRI and found other small tumors on the brain. On the right side, the tumor covered the whole side. Two days after Christmas they did surgery and found out it was cancer. I can still see the doctors face as he told us the bad news.  It was one of the fastest growing kinds there is.  There was nothing they could really do. Chemo wouldn't really help. It would only make him sick. The doctor said to just go home and enjoy the time you have left. 

We prayed every day that God would heal him. Every morning my mom, dad, and I would join hands and pray. The surgery had paralyzed his left side. He begin gaining some strength back. I honestly believed that he was going to be healed. A month after his surgery, he started going down. He was in a lot of pain. They begin giving him morphine and shortly after he went into a coma.  The hospice nurse pulled us aside and told us that we were going to have to tell him that it was okay to go. He was only holding on because of my mom and I. That was the hardest thing I have ever had to do.

On January 30, 2004 he passed away. I was so mad at God. For months I could not get over it. I shut everyone out. I would not talk about it. I still went to church but I just sat there. One night, we were having a really good service. I begin to pray right where I was sitting. I asked God to forgive me. I knew it wasn't God's fault that my dad had died. i just missed him so much.  God gave me peace that night.

God has brought me through many trials. In September 2008, I almost lost my mom. She had to have emergency surgery. God reached down and brought her through. Other things have happened in my life, but no matter what I serve a God who will always be there to bring me through.

My Prayer

Beautiful Lord, Wonderful Saviour, I know for sure, all of my days are held in Your hand, crafted into Your perfect plan. You gently call me intoYour presence, guiding me by, Your holy Spirit, teach me dear Lord to live all of my life through your eyes. I'm captured by Your holy calling, set me apart, I know Your drawing me to Yourself, Lead me Lord I pray.

Take me, Mold Me, Use me, Fill me. I give my life to the Potter's hand, Call me, Guide me, Lead me, Walk beside me. I give my life to the Potter's Hand.

This song has been my prayer for the past several months. Just about every time I get in my car I put the soundtrack in and sing it. I want to draw closer to God more than I've ever been before. I want to be a witness to others around me.

Those who know me really well, know that I'm shy and I become very quiet when I'm around people I don't know really well. This week I have been able to open up and be a witness to some people. They have asked me questions about my beliefs and why I believe that way.  To some this may not mean much, but to me, this is a BIG step. I'm praying I can break free of being so shy and begin opening up to even more people.  God doesn't intend for us to keep it to ourselves. He wants us to tell it to EVERYONE.