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Tell the World

   Throughout our lives, God is constantly in the process of transforming us into His image as we draw near towards Him. He does this, in part, by allowing tough circumstances to come into our lives to test and strengthen our relationship with Him. Will we lean on Him in those instances? Or succumb to the worldly way of dealing with things? 

    The times that God uses to grow us, can also be used to help grow and encourage others. This is done by sharing the testimony of what God has done in our lives with those around us. Jesus often connects us with people who are going through the same things we have already gone through so that we might be able to encourage them with how He came through for us, and will come through for them. We are to always be boasting about the work that Jesus is doing in our lives. 

    The word warns us not to be ashamed of the work He has done in our lives. Jesus wants us to be proud followers of the One True King and to humbly share His work in our lives with others. To do that, we must cast aside all pride that stops us from revealing our times of weakness to people. Because when we are weak, His strength is revealed through us! 

    Do not be afraid to boast about your Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done for you. You never know who needs to hear about your life specifically. Many times, we get to thinking that we are a hopeless case that is unworthy of Christ's love. When people see how far you have come, they can be filled with hope about their own future in Christ. 

Luke 8:39 "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him. (ESV)

Revelation 12:11 And they have conquered him [Satan] by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony (ESV)

Matthew 10:32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven (ESV)
Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul. (ESV)

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. (NLT)

Galatians 6:14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (NIV) 
2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (NIV)

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