Fresh Fire Empowers For Witness
By Brand X
28th January, 2022
THE LAMP DEVOTION
Acts 1:5-8
5 For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.â€Â 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?â€Â 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.â€
One of the first things Jesus said will happen to believers who receive the Holy Spirit is that they will become witnesses unto Him throughout the world. Now let’s dissect who a witness is. A witness is someone who can talk of ocular evidence, not hearsay. In a court of law, the person whose testimony is accepted is the one who says, “I was there, I saw everything, and I heard everythingâ€. In this era of technology if the person produces a video recording, his testimony is taken as authentic.
What makes a good witness is authenticity. The believer’s authenticity comes from the deep work of the Holy Spirit in him. See what happened to Peter who denied Jesus at the trial, later telling the Sanhedrin he would rather obey God than men, not fearing what any man would do to him. That is someone who had truly experienced the touch of the Holy Spirit.
The first work of the Holy Spirit is to transform the believer into someone credible. Through that transformation God reaches out to the world in power, wisdom and authority. No one had an encounter with the Holy Spirit and remained the same. Allow the Holy Spirit to transform you into a credible witness for Christ.
Prayer
Thank God for the continuing work of the Holy Spirit to transform you into Christlikeness.
Pray that you will submit to God’s authority for your transformation into a true Christian witness.
Father, please lift me up into the very image of Jesus Christ my Lord
Declarations
I declare that I am made in the image of God. My heart is yielded to the Holy spirit. I follow my Lord step by step every day. With my strong desire to look like Christ, I receive every touch of the Holy Spirit to make me truly a new creature in Christ in the name of Jesus.
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