TestimonyBearing Witness Unto God

What Is Testimony?

What Is Testimony?

• Testimony comes from the word testimonium which is Latin for The Ten Commandments

• It means to provide evidence, a statement of a witness

• It is us telling others of whatGod has done in our lives

What Is Your Testimony?

• We each have unique hurts, challenges and experiences

• Each of us has experienced God’s hand on our lives

• We need to give God the glory for what he has done with us

• Those stories become yourpersonal testimony

What Is Your Testimony?

Why Is This So Important?

What Is Your Testimony?

Why Is This So Important?

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony

they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death

Revelation 12:11

What Is Your Testimony?

Why Is This So Important?

• You can connect with those who are going through the same struggles in life

• They either accept your testimony that it was God or think you are crazy

• Our message comes with loveso why would we make this up?

Our Weapon Of Love

Our Weapon Of Loveso is my word that goesout from my mouth:

It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire

and achieve the purposefor which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:11

Our Weapon Of Love

• The word of our testimonygoes throughout the earth

• It will not return to God void

• We are the message and we bear witness to the goodness of God

• Our testimony tears down the strongholds of the enemy

Writing Your Testimony

Writing Your Testimony

• Write down two or three times that God has done something or has directed your life

• Don’t make it your whole life story

• It can be something that happened in the past, or something happening now

• This will become your word