Becoming a Witness of Christ
Monday, March 7th, 2011“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses…” [Acts 1:8]
The whole matter is about this. The Church for now exists for this, that even as it is being built up [God surely builds-up His Church] witnesses abound. And as witnesses is always called upon to the stand [for what use are witnesses for], so a witness of Christ must always take his stand every given opportunity to witness for Christ. For a believer who love God everything, every moment will be an opportunity.
“…when the Holy Spirit comes on you” the Lord said, this is what He will do, He will make witnesses. So you see we will not be at a loss as to the working of the Holy Spirit, for when the Spirit is mightily at work we will see witnesses being raised and standing faithfully and courageously for the witness of Christ [Phil.1:27-28].
There will be true empowerment. We have come to think that empowerment is about believers studying, attending seminars or what, and God said “But you will receive power…” and that is just that, we can never add to that. The moment the Holy Spirit indwells a believer, he is already empowered…He already has power…power is indwelling him. And that alone makes him a witness!
Seminars are good, training facilities are good and I will go to study if God is willing but I will not be there thinking that I will be empowered doing so. Instead we can be in such knowing and with great expectation that we will grow in our grasp, of our understanding [Spiritual] of the very empowering that we already have. This must be stressed!
And the Holy Spirit will have no limit of the use of God’s word [2Tim.3:16-17], He has all the facility of God’s word in order that God’s desire, that in a given time and place, there will be a witness or witnesses faithfully witnessing for Christ. This is where our gracious God is at work in the preparation of His saints to be witnesses. This is why God gave Pastors and teachers, to bring His people to know and to see the anointing that they already have in Christ. And God will provide every opportunity [He is the one who opens doors] so that a believer will have opportunity to use everything that God has given.
Are a believer? You must see yourself becoming a witness of Christ.Is your Church growing? You will know. There will be witnesses multiplied.