Personal Testimony

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, it is the 9th of December, 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

This is Paul speaking: 

“My manner of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know.” 
Acts 26:4

Then Agrippa said to Paul, 

“You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”
Acts 26:28

I want to speak to you today about the power of a personal testimony. There is nothing more powerful. Most of these men in the Bible are telling us about their personal testimony, their meeting with Jesus, their commitment, their repentance, and their new life. But I want to say to somebody who likes to tell people all about the past and then not too much about the present, a good testimony should be 25% of your previous life and 75% of your life since you met the Lord, otherwise, it doesn’t come across too well.

I have heard some guys go into great detail about all the horrible sordid things they did in their past and then they met Jesus and their lives changed and that’s it. No, no, no! King Agrippa said to , “You almost persuade me to become a Christian (by your testimony).”  

Saul of Tarsus was determined to destroy as many Christians as he could. Then he got knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus and his life changed instantaneously, and instead of becoming a persecutor of the Christians, he became an apostle for the Lord Jesus Christ.

I can tell you right now, I love listening to testimonies. You can ask my wife. Any book I buy will always be a biography or an autobiography if I can find one. I have read most of them. I just love to hear how God transforms men's and women’s lives. I once was lost but now I am found, I was blind but now I can see - John Newton, what a story! But there are so many - what about that lady, Mary Slessor, that Scottish lassie that came from Aberdeen, where my folks come from? She went into the jungles of North-West Africa. She rescued little babies because in that particular area if twins were born they would automatically kill one twin. She adopted them and went where very few missionaries went - a woman with a powerful testimony.

Go out today and tell people what Jesus means to you.
God bless you and goodbye.