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A testimony is a divine witness of God's divine dealing with people's lives. When someone says, "I have a testimony," they are sharing evidence of how God has worked in their experience.
Testimonies are created in two distinct moments. First, if you have passed from darkness to light, from death to life, from being an object of God's wrath to an object of His perfect affection—if your eyes have been opened to realize there is a God in heaven and you have received the saving grace of the Messiah—then you have a testimony. Your testimony is: I was far away from God, but now I am saved. Everyone whose name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life has a testimony.
Secondly, testimonies are created when the grace, goodness, and power of God intersect human life during times of adversity, trouble, and trial. Every time God's grace meets us in the intersection of troubles and adversity, and we come out on the other side, a testimony has been created. When you look back over your life from the time you were saved, you can count all the testimonies—every moment God's goodness, grace, and mercy intersected with some season, moment, issue, or circumstance in your life.
For the one telling the testimony, there is a sense of power and liberation. When we tell our testimony, we feel freedom. For the person receiving the testimony, they feel hope and inspiration—inspiration to have faith, to have courage, and to believe. When people hear testimonies, a seed is planted in them to believe.
In 1871, a prominent Chicago businessman and real estate investor lost a substantial portion of his fortune in the Great Fire of Chicago. Around the same time, he lost his only son to scarlet fever at just four years old. Grappling with the grief of losing both his fortune and his child, he decided his family should get away to find solace and healing. He packed up his wife Anna and their four daughters on a ship bound for England, planning to join them after tying up loose ends.
But during the Atlantic voyage, the ship collided catastrophically and sank. Over 200 people died. His wife Anna survived and was rescued by another ship. When she reached England, she sent him a telegram that simply said: "Saved alone. What shall I do now?" His four daughters had drowned in the ocean.
Now the family had lost all their children—their son to disease and four daughters to the sea. As soon as he received the telegram, the businessman packed everything, boarded a ship, and headed across the Atlantic to meet his wife.
During the voyage, the captain called him to the bridge and said, "Sir, we are now sailing over the exact spot where your daughters died and are buried in the sea." In that moment, as he thought about passing over the watery grave of his four daughters, words of encouragement welled up in his spirit. He wrote them down:
"When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know, it is well. It is well with my soul."
In that moment, a testimony was born. A testimony was created. And what came out of that testimony was a hymn that has given encouragement to believers around the world for over 150 years.
Looking at Matthew 14:34-36, we see that the disciples crossed over in their boat after facing a severe storm. They couldn't make it over on their own strength, but they crossed over. This is powerful: when Christ gets involved in any circumstance, when He hops on the boat of your adversity, no matter what you are going through, if Christ is on the boat, you will cross over to the other side.
We cannot determine the intensity or duration of our storms, but we have confidence that if Christ is involved, we will make it over to the other side. Some of you have been going through things for years, even decades. No matter how long or how intense it is, if Christ is involved, you will make it over.
But even if that crossover comes in eternity, if we are in Christ, we must have a hope that goes beyond this life. You may be in a storm of cancer and sickness, but you will be made well—whether in this life or the next. As Paul said, "The suffering of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the rewards and the glory that we shall receive." Nothing in this life will rob you of your praise and your testimony. Christ will be glorified on every mountaintop and in every valley, and in your death, Christ will be glorified.
The disciples started sailing toward Bethsaida in the northeast, but the storm blew them off course. They ended up in Gennesaret, on the west side. God allowed the storm, and He also allowed the wind that blew them off course. Some things God allows in our lives will detour us down roads we otherwise would not have chosen for ourselves. There are hardships and trials that altered our course and got us to land in places we would not have chosen.
Drama led you to a better relationship, and you're thankful. Drama led you to a better job, and you're thankful. Drama led you to a better place. You were crying in the storm, weeping in the storm, but it put you on a path you would not have chosen for yourself. Pain has the potential to lead us down paths we otherwise would not have chosen. Pain got you out of that bad marriage. Pain got you out of that bad job. Pain got you out of that bad place. Is anybody thankful for every redirection that came as a result of a storm that God allowed?
When the disciples landed in Gennesaret, the men of that place recognized Jesus. But think about this: there was no social media, no news network, no pictures of Jesus' face on posters. How did they recognize Him? The only way they could have recognized Him is if they had heard somebody's testimony.
We know from history that these men lived in an area where a woman—not named in Scripture—had her life transformed by Christ. When she encountered Him, she could not keep quiet. She ran in every direction telling people her testimony. You meet her in Matthew 9.
This woman had a menstrual cycle that would not stop. It went beyond three days, then five days, then seven days. Now it's fifteen days. Now twenty days. She's concerned. It's been a month and still bleeding. Now it's forty-five days, sixty days. In her time, if blood was flowing from you, you were considered unclean. Nobody could touch you. You couldn't go into the house of God.
So she was disconnected from the community of brothers and sisters. She couldn't be intimate with her husband if she was married. The cycle continued—two months, four years, seven years, ten years, twelve years. She had run through her savings seeing doctor after doctor, and none could help her. She was separated from community, distant from family, distant from husband, distant from children. She was alone, hurting, wounded, and bruised.
Then she heard that Jesus was walking through her town. The Scripture says she kept saying to herself, "If I only grab the hem of His garment, I will be made whole." Why would she think this? Because she was Jewish and had read the Old Testament. She had read Malachi 4:2:
"But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings, and you shall go out leaping like calves from the stall."
The "Sun of Righteousness" is a metaphor for the Son of God. The Scripture says when Christ emerges, there would be healing in His wings. In Hebrew, "wings" refers to the extremities of one's borders or tassels. So Jewish people knew that when the Messiah came, whatever He was wearing, if anybody grabbed the border of His clothing, they would be healed.
Based on Malachi, this woman believed that if she could grab the hem of His garment, she would be made well. And she did. She grabbed the bottom of His clothing and was healed from her menstrual cycle of twelve years. And immediately, she ran out and told her testimony.
These men lived in the area where she lived. When the woman was healed, she couldn't keep quiet about what had happened. She told everybody: "This is what He looks like. This is how He sounded. This is what He did. He turned to me when I was on the floor and said, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well.'" She was telling stories about what Jesus looked like, how He sounded, and how He dealt with her.
By the time Jesus came ashore in Gennesaret, the men of that place recognized Him because of her testimony. Look at Matthew 14:35-36:
"And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched him were made well."
Notice they didn't ask the Lord to lay hands on them. They didn't say, "Lord, lay hands on us." They heard the testimony of a woman who grabbed His clothes and got healed. So their faith was in the same method for healing.
Because of her testimony, they had faith for themselves—not only could she be healed, but they could be healed the same way. Because of her bragging about what He looked like, what He said, what He did, and what happened when she grabbed His clothes, those men were hearing her testimony. So by the time He came on shore, they recognized Him. There he is. There is the man that woman has been talking about all this time.
They didn't ask Him to lay hands. They went after Him the same way she did. And people started coming from every direction as He was walking through the towns. They were bowing down, grabbing the bottom of His garment. He was walking, and people were grabbing His clothes left and right. One after another, hundreds, thousands of them, getting healings. He's walking down the street, and they're grabbing Him. "Bring my sick aunt. She hasn't walked in a long time." "Get over here, grab Him." One after another they received healing.
All of this—a whole revival—happened because of one woman's testimony.
What about your testimony? The one you won't tell. The one you won't share. All the foolishness you keep posting on social media when time is running out. All the people you keep coming around, and your mouth is always quiet.
What about when you were saved? Talk about that. What about every time He delivered you from something? Talk about that. What about every time He made a way out of no way? Talk about that. What about everything He's teaching you in the Scriptures? Talk about that. What about what you're feeling in your church that you claim you love? Talk about that. What about what you learned in the message you heard this Sunday? Talk about that.
You know how many people are around you without hope? They don't believe in the God that you serve. They think Jesus is a clown and a joke because we make Him that way. But all of us who are saved, all of us who have felt the grace and power of God intersect our lives at different points—why are we not talking about these things?
You know how many people need hope, and they will find it in your testimony. I was a prostitute and He changed my life. I was out in the street and He changed my life. I was a drug dealer robbing people at gunpoint in Queens and He changed my life. I was far away from God and He rescued me in a bathroom. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, but He put me on the path of righteousness and purpose.
I was and He did. I was and He did. I was and He did. Over and over and over again. As they're reading your posts, as you're bragging at the family reunion, as you're whispering things at the job—over and over they bump into you, and testimonies keep leaking out of what Christ has done in your life.
All of the friends you ran in the street with, all the drug dealers you trafficked cocaine and weed with—all of them are watching. They keep seeing your posts. They keep hearing, "I was and He did." What do you think is happening? Confusion first, curiosity next. Who is this God?
If you're saved, anything in your past has been weaponized. It's under the blood, and now it is a weapon for the glory of Christ. So you can say, "Yeah, I was a prostitute. But when Jesus got a hold of my life..." You weren't born on the altar. You were all over the place. But when Jesus got a hold of your life, we're going to testify in this room.
I was in church on the choir, sleeping with the pastor. I was wild. I was far away from God. But when Christ got a hold of my life... I was religious. I was a Mormon. I was a 5-percenter. I was a Hebrew Israelite. But when Christ got a hold of my life, I was in the Nation of Islam, bowing down five times a day to a false god, not eating pork—until Christ got a hold of my life.
When I put guns in people's faces and said, "Give me that"—until Christ got a hold of my life. When I was trafficking weight from Miami to North Carolina—until Christ got a hold of my life. When I was running through women and raising my body count into the hundreds—until Christ got a hold of my life. When I was pastoring a church for ten years with vanity in my heart until the Lord wrung out all of my vanity and changed the name to 2819 and gave me a brand new heart.
When Christ got a hold of my life, He changed my life. And all you see bleeding out of me is testimonies—testimonies of what Christ has done in my life. What He's teaching me, I'm testifying. I'm learning, I'm testifying. I'm realizing, I'm testifying. I'm surviving, I'm testifying. I'm being broken and rebuilt, I'm testifying. I'm being snatched, I'm testifying. Ain't nobody going to shut me up.
Listen to Psalm 96:
"Oh, sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations. His marvelous works among all the peoples."
You can't do that being quiet. "Tell of His salvation from day to day"—keep testifying of everything the Lord is doing in your life as He's taking you from season to season and glory to glory. Tell of His salvation.
"Declare His glory among the nations." Declare boldly. Ain't nobody going to shut me up. Declare. Make Christ known. Make His testimonies known. Make the revelation from the Scriptures that you're learning known. Testify. Testify. Testify.
My prayer for you is that you would stop being a coward and stop using your social media for vanity. Don't anybody want to see your body in every post. What is Christ doing in your life? That is more important than your appearance. God has given you influence on social media. He's given you influence at your job. He's given you influence in your community with family members and friends. You're always around these people. You're always posting, and they hear nothing of value coming out of you.
I pray today a spirit of evangelism falls on you. That your mouth will catch fire and your fingers will catch fire. That after today you will keep testifying of what Christ has done in your life. He came. He lived. He died. He rose. He saved me. And this is what He has done in my life—over and over and over again.
Father, I pray over all of these under the sound of my voice, wherever they go to hear this message. All of these who have been saved by the power of the Holy Spirit, all of these whose names have been written in the Book of Life, all of these who have the testimony of passing from darkness to light—I pray that You would ignite a flame of fire on the inside of them.
Let it burn through the Word. Burn through the Spirit. I pray You would deliver us from sin and all manner of immorality so that our witness would not be darkened by deeds done in the dark. But I pray You would empower us with a love for You, a love for holiness, a love for righteousness, and a hatred for all that is ungodly.
You would open our eyes to see the times that we're living in. Make us Your mouthpieces. Make our fingers Your fingers, and we will post about You and sing about You and declare about You, our Lord and Savior Jesus. We will put You on display over and over and over again until You call us home.
I pray fire falls on these mouths and these fingers, in the mighty and majestic and matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
A testimony is a divine witness of God's divine dealing with people's lives. When someone says, "I have a testimony," they are sharing evidence of how God has worked in their experience.
Testimonies are created in two distinct moments. First, if you have passed from darkness to light, from death to life, from being an object of God's wrath to an object of His perfect affection—if your eyes have been opened to realize there is a God in heaven and you have received the saving grace of the Messiah—then you have a testimony. Your testimony is: I was far away from God, but now I am saved. Everyone whose name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life has a testimony.
Secondly, testimonies are created when the grace, goodness, and power of God intersect human life during times of adversity, trouble, and trial. Every time God's grace meets us in the intersection of troubles and adversity, and we come out on the other side, a testimony has been created. When you look back over your life from the time you were saved, you can count all the testimonies—every moment God's goodness, grace, and mercy intersected with some season, moment, issue, or circumstance in your life.
For the one telling the testimony, there is a sense of power and liberation. When we tell our testimony, we feel freedom. For the person receiving the testimony, they feel hope and inspiration—inspiration to have faith, to have courage, and to believe. When people hear testimonies, a seed is planted in them to believe.
In 1871, a prominent Chicago businessman and real estate investor lost a substantial portion of his fortune in the Great Fire of Chicago. Around the same time, he lost his only son to scarlet fever at just four years old. Grappling with the grief of losing both his fortune and his child, he decided his family should get away to find solace and healing. He packed up his wife Anna and their four daughters on a ship bound for England, planning to join them after tying up loose ends.
But during the Atlantic voyage, the ship collided catastrophically and sank. Over 200 people died. His wife Anna survived and was rescued by another ship. When she reached England, she sent him a telegram that simply said: "Saved alone. What shall I do now?" His four daughters had drowned in the ocean.
Now the family had lost all their children—their son to disease and four daughters to the sea. As soon as he received the telegram, the businessman packed everything, boarded a ship, and headed across the Atlantic to meet his wife.
During the voyage, the captain called him to the bridge and said, "Sir, we are now sailing over the exact spot where your daughters died and are buried in the sea." In that moment, as he thought about passing over the watery grave of his four daughters, words of encouragement welled up in his spirit. He wrote them down:
"When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know, it is well. It is well with my soul."
In that moment, a testimony was born. A testimony was created. And what came out of that testimony was a hymn that has given encouragement to believers around the world for over 150 years.
Looking at Matthew 14:34-36, we see that the disciples crossed over in their boat after facing a severe storm. They couldn't make it over on their own strength, but they crossed over. This is powerful: when Christ gets involved in any circumstance, when He hops on the boat of your adversity, no matter what you are going through, if Christ is on the boat, you will cross over to the other side.
We cannot determine the intensity or duration of our storms, but we have confidence that if Christ is involved, we will make it over to the other side. Some of you have been going through things for years, even decades. No matter how long or how intense it is, if Christ is involved, you will make it over.
But even if that crossover comes in eternity, if we are in Christ, we must have a hope that goes beyond this life. You may be in a storm of cancer and sickness, but you will be made well—whether in this life or the next. As Paul said, "The suffering of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the rewards and the glory that we shall receive." Nothing in this life will rob you of your praise and your testimony. Christ will be glorified on every mountaintop and in every valley, and in your death, Christ will be glorified.
The disciples started sailing toward Bethsaida in the northeast, but the storm blew them off course. They ended up in Gennesaret, on the west side. God allowed the storm, and He also allowed the wind that blew them off course. Some things God allows in our lives will detour us down roads we otherwise would not have chosen for ourselves. There are hardships and trials that altered our course and got us to land in places we would not have chosen.
Drama led you to a better relationship, and you're thankful. Drama led you to a better job, and you're thankful. Drama led you to a better place. You were crying in the storm, weeping in the storm, but it put you on a path you would not have chosen for yourself. Pain has the potential to lead us down paths we otherwise would not have chosen. Pain got you out of that bad marriage. Pain got you out of that bad job. Pain got you out of that bad place. Is anybody thankful for every redirection that came as a result of a storm that God allowed?
When the disciples landed in Gennesaret, the men of that place recognized Jesus. But think about this: there was no social media, no news network, no pictures of Jesus' face on posters. How did they recognize Him? The only way they could have recognized Him is if they had heard somebody's testimony.
We know from history that these men lived in an area where a woman—not named in Scripture—had her life transformed by Christ. When she encountered Him, she could not keep quiet. She ran in every direction telling people her testimony. You meet her in Matthew 9.
This woman had a menstrual cycle that would not stop. It went beyond three days, then five days, then seven days. Now it's fifteen days. Now twenty days. She's concerned. It's been a month and still bleeding. Now it's forty-five days, sixty days. In her time, if blood was flowing from you, you were considered unclean. Nobody could touch you. You couldn't go into the house of God.
So she was disconnected from the community of brothers and sisters. She couldn't be intimate with her husband if she was married. The cycle continued—two months, four years, seven years, ten years, twelve years. She had run through her savings seeing doctor after doctor, and none could help her. She was separated from community, distant from family, distant from husband, distant from children. She was alone, hurting, wounded, and bruised.
Then she heard that Jesus was walking through her town. The Scripture says she kept saying to herself, "If I only grab the hem of His garment, I will be made whole." Why would she think this? Because she was Jewish and had read the Old Testament. She had read Malachi 4:2:
"But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings, and you shall go out leaping like calves from the stall."
The "Sun of Righteousness" is a metaphor for the Son of God. The Scripture says when Christ emerges, there would be healing in His wings. In Hebrew, "wings" refers to the extremities of one's borders or tassels. So Jewish people knew that when the Messiah came, whatever He was wearing, if anybody grabbed the border of His clothing, they would be healed.
Based on Malachi, this woman believed that if she could grab the hem of His garment, she would be made well. And she did. She grabbed the bottom of His clothing and was healed from her menstrual cycle of twelve years. And immediately, she ran out and told her testimony.
These men lived in the area where she lived. When the woman was healed, she couldn't keep quiet about what had happened. She told everybody: "This is what He looks like. This is how He sounded. This is what He did. He turned to me when I was on the floor and said, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well.'" She was telling stories about what Jesus looked like, how He sounded, and how He dealt with her.
By the time Jesus came ashore in Gennesaret, the men of that place recognized Him because of her testimony. Look at Matthew 14:35-36:
"And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched him were made well."
Notice they didn't ask the Lord to lay hands on them. They didn't say, "Lord, lay hands on us." They heard the testimony of a woman who grabbed His clothes and got healed. So their faith was in the same method for healing.
Because of her testimony, they had faith for themselves—not only could she be healed, but they could be healed the same way. Because of her bragging about what He looked like, what He said, what He did, and what happened when she grabbed His clothes, those men were hearing her testimony. So by the time He came on shore, they recognized Him. There he is. There is the man that woman has been talking about all this time.
They didn't ask Him to lay hands. They went after Him the same way she did. And people started coming from every direction as He was walking through the towns. They were bowing down, grabbing the bottom of His garment. He was walking, and people were grabbing His clothes left and right. One after another, hundreds, thousands of them, getting healings. He's walking down the street, and they're grabbing Him. "Bring my sick aunt. She hasn't walked in a long time." "Get over here, grab Him." One after another they received healing.
All of this—a whole revival—happened because of one woman's testimony.
What about your testimony? The one you won't tell. The one you won't share. All the foolishness you keep posting on social media when time is running out. All the people you keep coming around, and your mouth is always quiet.
What about when you were saved? Talk about that. What about every time He delivered you from something? Talk about that. What about every time He made a way out of no way? Talk about that. What about everything He's teaching you in the Scriptures? Talk about that. What about what you're feeling in your church that you claim you love? Talk about that. What about what you learned in the message you heard this Sunday? Talk about that.
You know how many people are around you without hope? They don't believe in the God that you serve. They think Jesus is a clown and a joke because we make Him that way. But all of us who are saved, all of us who have felt the grace and power of God intersect our lives at different points—why are we not talking about these things?
You know how many people need hope, and they will find it in your testimony. I was a prostitute and He changed my life. I was out in the street and He changed my life. I was a drug dealer robbing people at gunpoint in Queens and He changed my life. I was far away from God and He rescued me in a bathroom. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, but He put me on the path of righteousness and purpose.
I was and He did. I was and He did. I was and He did. Over and over and over again. As they're reading your posts, as you're bragging at the family reunion, as you're whispering things at the job—over and over they bump into you, and testimonies keep leaking out of what Christ has done in your life.
All of the friends you ran in the street with, all the drug dealers you trafficked cocaine and weed with—all of them are watching. They keep seeing your posts. They keep hearing, "I was and He did." What do you think is happening? Confusion first, curiosity next. Who is this God?
If you're saved, anything in your past has been weaponized. It's under the blood, and now it is a weapon for the glory of Christ. So you can say, "Yeah, I was a prostitute. But when Jesus got a hold of my life..." You weren't born on the altar. You were all over the place. But when Jesus got a hold of your life, we're going to testify in this room.
I was in church on the choir, sleeping with the pastor. I was wild. I was far away from God. But when Christ got a hold of my life... I was religious. I was a Mormon. I was a 5-percenter. I was a Hebrew Israelite. But when Christ got a hold of my life, I was in the Nation of Islam, bowing down five times a day to a false god, not eating pork—until Christ got a hold of my life.
When I put guns in people's faces and said, "Give me that"—until Christ got a hold of my life. When I was trafficking weight from Miami to North Carolina—until Christ got a hold of my life. When I was running through women and raising my body count into the hundreds—until Christ got a hold of my life. When I was pastoring a church for ten years with vanity in my heart until the Lord wrung out all of my vanity and changed the name to 2819 and gave me a brand new heart.
When Christ got a hold of my life, He changed my life. And all you see bleeding out of me is testimonies—testimonies of what Christ has done in my life. What He's teaching me, I'm testifying. I'm learning, I'm testifying. I'm realizing, I'm testifying. I'm surviving, I'm testifying. I'm being broken and rebuilt, I'm testifying. I'm being snatched, I'm testifying. Ain't nobody going to shut me up.
Listen to Psalm 96:
"Oh, sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations. His marvelous works among all the peoples."
You can't do that being quiet. "Tell of His salvation from day to day"—keep testifying of everything the Lord is doing in your life as He's taking you from season to season and glory to glory. Tell of His salvation.
"Declare His glory among the nations." Declare boldly. Ain't nobody going to shut me up. Declare. Make Christ known. Make His testimonies known. Make the revelation from the Scriptures that you're learning known. Testify. Testify. Testify.
My prayer for you is that you would stop being a coward and stop using your social media for vanity. Don't anybody want to see your body in every post. What is Christ doing in your life? That is more important than your appearance. God has given you influence on social media. He's given you influence at your job. He's given you influence in your community with family members and friends. You're always around these people. You're always posting, and they hear nothing of value coming out of you.
I pray today a spirit of evangelism falls on you. That your mouth will catch fire and your fingers will catch fire. That after today you will keep testifying of what Christ has done in your life. He came. He lived. He died. He rose. He saved me. And this is what He has done in my life—over and over and over again.
Father, I pray over all of these under the sound of my voice, wherever they go to hear this message. All of these who have been saved by the power of the Holy Spirit, all of these whose names have been written in the Book of Life, all of these who have the testimony of passing from darkness to light—I pray that You would ignite a flame of fire on the inside of them.
Let it burn through the Word. Burn through the Spirit. I pray You would deliver us from sin and all manner of immorality so that our witness would not be darkened by deeds done in the dark. But I pray You would empower us with a love for You, a love for holiness, a love for righteousness, and a hatred for all that is ungodly.
You would open our eyes to see the times that we're living in. Make us Your mouthpieces. Make our fingers Your fingers, and we will post about You and sing about You and declare about You, our Lord and Savior Jesus. We will put You on display over and over and over again until You call us home.
I pray fire falls on these mouths and these fingers, in the mighty and majestic and matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
