Sharing Your Life Message
God has given you a Life Message to share.
You may feel you don't have anything to share, but that's the devil trying to keep you silent. You have a storehouse of experiences that God wants to use to bring others into His family.
Your Life Message includes your Testimony
Your testimony is the story of how Christ has made a difference in your life. This is the essence of witnessing - simply sharing your personal experiences regarding the Lord. Your personal testimony is more effective than a sermon, because unbelievers see pastors as professional salesmen, but see you as a "satisfied customer", so they give you more credibility.
Your Life Message includes your Life Lessons
These are lessons and insights you have learned about God, relationships, problems, temptations, and other aspects of life. While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others. I urge you to make a list of your life lessons. Here are a few questions to jog your memory and get you started:
- What has God taught me from failure?
- What has God taught me from a lack of money?
- What has God taught me from pain or sorrow or depression?
- What has God taught me through waiting?
- What has God taught me through illness?
- What has God taught me from disappointment?
- What have I learned from my family, my church, my relationships, my small group, and my critics?
Your Life Message includes sharing your Godly Passions
As you grow closer to God, He will give you a passion for something He cares about deeply so you can be a spokesman for Him in the world. It may be a passion about a problem, a purpose, a principle, or a group of people. Whatever it is, you will feel compelled to speak up about it and do what you can to make a difference. It's often a problem you have personally experienced such as abuse, addiction, infertility, depression, a disease, or some other difficulty.
Sometimes God gives people a passion to speak up for a group of others who can't speak for themselves: the unborn, the persecuted, the poor, the imprisoned, the mistreated, the disadvantaged, and those who are denied justice. God gives us different passions so that everything He wants done in the world will get done. You should not expect everyone else to be passionate about your passion.
Your Life Message includes the Good News
The Good News is that when we trust God's grace to save us through what Jesus did, our sins are forgiven, we get a purpose for living, and we are promised a future home in heaven. We must learn to love lost people the way God does. If you've been afraid to share the Good News with those around you, ask God to fill your heart with His love for them.
We have learned God's five purposes for life on earth: He made you to be a member of His family, a model of His character, a magnifier of His glory, a minister of His grace, and a messenger of His Good News to others. Of these five purposes, the fifth can only be done on earth. That's why spreading the Good News is so important; you only have a short time to share your life message and fulfill your mission.
DAY THIRTY-SEVEN
THINKING ABOUT MY PURPOSE
Point to Ponder: God wants to say something to the world through me.
Verse to Remember: "Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you, but do it with gentleness and respect." 1 Peter 3:15b-16 (TEV)
Question to Consider: As I reflect on my personal story, who does God want me to share it with?
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