The Power of Testimony
Selected Scriptures
1. Testimonies reveal how God works
Psalm 119:111 (NASB)
I have inherited Your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalm 67:1-2 (NIV)
May God be gracious to us and bless us and make His face shine on us – Selah
So that your ways may be known on the earth, your salvation among the nations.
2. Testimonies create an expectation in our heart for God to
work His miracles in our life
James 5:16-18 (MSG)
The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't
rain, and it didn't — not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
3. Through testimonies God’s power is released into the lives
of those who hear it
Revelation 19:10c
the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
4. Testimonies are what connect each succeeding generation of
believers to God’s promises and power
Deuteronomy 6:17-22 (ESV)
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?' then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the LORD showed signs and wonders,
Psalm 78:5-7 (ESV)
He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
5. When testimonies are forgotten, faith for the miraculous is
diminished and so is obedience to God’s commands
Psalms 78:9-11 (ESV)
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle. They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law. They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them
6. When testimonies are forgotten we not only forget who God
is, but we forget who we are
7. When we meditate on testimonies it renews our mind
Psalm 66:5-7 (ESV)
Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on
foot. There did we rejoice in him, who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations
Psalm 67:1-2 (NIV)
May God be gracious to us and bless us and make His face shine on us – Selah
So that your ways may be known on the earth, your salvation among the nations.
Psalm 67:5-7 (NIV)
May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.
