The Impact of the Testimony

by Johnette Moore

You might have all the best at your fingertips now but I am confident that the testimony of WHERE GOD HAS BOUGHT YOU FROM holds more POWER OF INFLUENCE and IMPACT than the testimony of WHAT HE HAS BOUGHT YOU TOO.. Ministry birthed in the manger is far more effective then that birthed in elegant surroundings with a silver spoon in ones mouth..

Moses had to be IN the wilderness with the people to be EFFECTIVE in leading them OUT of the wilderness..

When you have lived in the gutter, fought for survival in the trenche, dug for food and panted for water... you will go into those same gutters and trenches and pull others out. You will feed the hungry, clothe the naked and provide shelter to homeless... AND you will do it with enthusiam.. with passion.. with fervor  ... WHY????  Because you have been there, you remember,  and you are GRATEFUL for God bringing you out and you desire to see others healed and set free!!!!!

When you have been delivered from sin, adultery, fornication, pornography, abuse, drugs, alcohol, lies, deceipt, gambling, gossip, fraud, poverty.. you will have far more understanding and compassion for those entangled in these yokes of bondage.. you will find it easier to love them and instead of pointing a finger, you will readily extend the right hand of fellowship and help a brother or a sister up and out of the gutter. You will cover them with your own garment of love and help them to stand in the face of shame and adversity.. In fact you will count it a priviledge to stand with them while they are still covered in stink.. and you will put your arm around them as others look on in disdain as you declare that God's grace is sufficient and His hand is ever there to receive and deliver.. because you know..

Let us remember Moses' ministry was birthed in the bullrushes...  Joseph's ministry was birthed in the pit... The ministry of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was birthed in a  lowly manger.. All are deliverers...

Let us not depise our own manger experience but count it all joy.. God's best is produced from the manger..