Sermon
May Week 3 Theme Vision: Your Testimony is Powerful.
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Transcript
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Welcome and greetings, blessings.
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In the mighty name of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, I want to share with us a word titled your Testimony is Powerful.
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Your Testimony is Powerful.
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Let me read from John, chapter 4, verse 39, just to underline the fact that your testimony is powerful.
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This is what the Bible says that your testimony is powerful.
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This is what the Bible says.
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Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's testimony.
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He told me everything I've ever done.
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You have a testimony and that testimony is powerful.
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Don't hide it, don't cover.
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It is powerful.
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Don't hide it, don't cover it.
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Just go forth and tell the nations and the world your testimony.
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This lady in John chapter 4, we call her famously the Samaritan woman she was from a town called Sychar, which was in Samaria, and Jesus came and transformed her life, which was in Samaria, and Jesus came and transformed her life.
John 4 chapter mention
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Then the lady went into her town and shared her testimony.
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That's what we just read.
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She shared her testimony and because of her testimony, many of the Samaritans in that town called Sychar actually believed in Jesus.
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Your testimony is powerful, actually believed in Jesus.
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Your testimony is powerful.
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Don't put it under a basket.
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Put it on a lampstand so that it can send light to the people and that many people would come to know Jesus.
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There are three things I want to share about this testimony.
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Your testimony that is powerful.
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Number one your testimony is powerful because it tells the world of what the Lord has done for you.
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What God has done for you.
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No one can take it away from you.
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It is very, very special.
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It is very, very unique, and you need to tell the world what the Lord has done for you, just like in John, chapter 9, verse 25,.
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There's a guy there who had been healed of blindness and people tried to take him this way or that way.
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He said Whoever healed me, I don't know whether he was a sinner or not, but one thing I know I was blind and now I see your testimony is yours and it is unique.
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Don't hide it.
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Simply go ahead and tell it to the world, because it's what God has done for you and therefore it's powerful.
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Secondly, your testimony is powerful because it points people to Jesus.
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This lady knew what the Lord had done for her at Jacob's well.
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She had lived a life, you know, with five husbands.
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Now she was living with a sixth husband.
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Jesus was the seventh man meeting her at the well in her life and Jesus just turned her life around in her life.
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And Jesus just turned her life around and she simply used her testimony to point her city, saika, to the one who transformed her life.
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Your testimony is powerful because it will point people to Jesus.
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It's like a signboard.
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You know, it's very, very unique, like I said in the first point.
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But secondly, it will point to Jesus, people to Jesus.
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I received Jesus when I was about 17 years old and I've shared my testimony for the last many years that I have served the Lord and every time I share it, I share it.
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I see people led to Jesus just when I share my testimony.
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But finally, let me say your testimony is powerful because it brings glory to God.
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When people hear of what the Lord has done for you, when people are pointed to Jesus by your testimony, then God is glorified.
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Where you are right now, whether working place or at home or in school, you need to let the glory come to God by sharing your testimony.
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Your testimony is like a light.
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It lights up a world that is dark.
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When you begin to tell people what the Lord has done for you, then they start saying hallelujah and praise the Lord.
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The people in Sychar began to acknowledge God because of the testimony of this lady.
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Today, I challenge you and encourage you to share your testimony.
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There is no testimony that is small or big.
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Any testimony is powerful.
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Just I challenge you to share that testimony with one person, maybe three people, five people in your own world.
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Begin to share your testimony.
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It's a powerful tool for changing the world and so, even as we look at impartition of uncommon utterance, there's something you can share with your lips that will change your world.
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Give glory to God by sharing your testimony, like this lady, the Samaritan woman, did in her town called Sychar, which was in Samaria.
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As you share your testimony, god bless you.
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May the world around you change.
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May God be glorified, amen.