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It seems you already know how to witness Princess so God bless and good luck with your witnessing. There's no real trick to it just in your normal conversation drop the "G" word in there occasionally and let the conversation go from there. In my opinion the Way of the Master method is good for complete strangers who you don't mind risking offending them, but a bit hard hitting for friends and family.
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To those that love God and are called according to His purpose (Rom 8:28)
1 Cor 1:18-27 'For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty'.
1Cor 4:10 'We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.'
1Cor 3:18 'Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Heb 10:33 'Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
1Cor 4:13 'Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day'.
Heb 11:36-39 'And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy
they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise'.
Heb 11:26-24 'By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward'.
Are these the kinds of things that we will face because we love God and count all things but dung that we might win Christ (Phil 3:8)? When we take up our cross and deny self and everything in our flesh and preach Christ and Him crucified, are we willing to suffer mockings, scourgings, being scoffed, be considered the filth of the earth, sufferings afflictions with others who are made a spectacle through lies and those that are false witnesses? Jesus Christ had no place to lay His head, how would we respond to that kind of thing if it were to come to that with our own life and families? Do we want to identify with Christ in that kind of reproach or do we want the prosperity package and let the other believers suffer for Christ sake?
Paul said in (2Cor 12:15) 'And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved'.
Is that the kind of return we want from loving others? How did it ever come to that with Paul? You lay your life down and be spent for believers and they take advantage of you and talk behind your back and say things they shouldn't be saying. Jesus said that He sends us out as sheep among wolves (Mt 10:16) who are not looking to comfort you but to slaughter you.
Rom 8:36 'As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'.
Is our walk with Christ in His light going to end up in the slaughter house? Does (1Pt 2:21) really mean what it says?
'For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps'.
These verses are not in the scriptures to discourage us in some kind of doom and gloom way. They are there to instruct us, to reveal an expectation and how much God loves us, to give us the promise of life and show us the way, to keep us faithful and to perceive the honor and privilege that God gives us through grace to identify with His Son whom He was well pleased with.
1 Cor 1:18-27 'For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty'.
1Cor 4:10 'We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.'
1Cor 3:18 'Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Heb 10:33 'Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
1Cor 4:13 'Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day'.
Heb 11:36-39 'And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy
they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise'.Heb 11:26-24 'By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward'.
Are these the kinds of things that we will face because we love God and count all things but dung that we might win Christ (Phil 3:8)? When we take up our cross and deny self and everything in our flesh and preach Christ and Him crucified, are we willing to suffer mockings, scourgings, being scoffed, be considered the filth of the earth, sufferings afflictions with others who are made a spectacle through lies and those that are false witnesses? Jesus Christ had no place to lay His head, how would we respond to that kind of thing if it were to come to that with our own life and families? Do we want to identify with Christ in that kind of reproach or do we want the prosperity package and let the other believers suffer for Christ sake?
Paul said in (2Cor 12:15) 'And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved'.
Is that the kind of return we want from loving others? How did it ever come to that with Paul? You lay your life down and be spent for believers and they take advantage of you and talk behind your back and say things they shouldn't be saying. Jesus said that He sends us out as sheep among wolves (Mt 10:16) who are not looking to comfort you but to slaughter you.
Rom 8:36 'As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'.
Is our walk with Christ in His light going to end up in the slaughter house? Does (1Pt 2:21) really mean what it says?
'For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps'.
These verses are not in the scriptures to discourage us in some kind of doom and gloom way. They are there to instruct us, to reveal an expectation and how much God loves us, to give us the promise of life and show us the way, to keep us faithful and to perceive the honor and privilege that God gives us through grace to identify with His Son whom He was well pleased with.
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To those that love God and are called according to His purpose (Rom 8:28)
1 Cor 1:18-27 'For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty'.
1Cor 4:10 'We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.'
1Cor 3:18 'Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Heb 10:33 'Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
1Cor 4:13 'Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day'.
Heb 11:36-39 'And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise'.
Heb 11:26-24 'By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward'.
Are these the kinds of things that we will face because we love God and count all things but dung that we might win Christ (Phil 3:8)? When we take up our cross and deny self and everything in our flesh and preach Christ and Him crucified, are we willing to suffer mockings, scourgings, being scoffed, be considered the filth of the earth, sufferings afflictions with others who are made a spectacle through lies and those that are false witnesses? Jesus Christ had no place to lay His head, how would we respond to that kind of thing if it were to come to that with our own life and families? Do we want to identify with Christ in that kind of reproach or do we want the prosperity package and let the other believers suffer for Christ sake?
Paul said in (2Cor 12:15) 'And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved'.
Is that the kind of return we want from loving others? How did it ever come to that with Paul? You lay your life down and be spent for believers and they take advantage of you and talk behind your back and say things they shouldn't be saying. Jesus said that He sends us out as sheep among wolves (Mt 10:16) who are not looking to comfort you but to slaughter you.
Rom 8:36 'As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'.
Is our walk with Christ in His light going to end up in the slaughter house? Does (1Pt 2:21) really mean what it says?
'For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps'.
These verses are not in the scriptures to discourage us in some kind of doom and gloom way. They are there to instruct us, to reveal an expectation and how much God loves us, to give us the promise of life and show us the way, to keep us faithful and to perceive the honor and privilege that God gives us through grace to identify with His Son whom He was well pleased with.
1 Cor 1:18-27 'For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty'.
1Cor 4:10 'We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.'
1Cor 3:18 'Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Heb 10:33 'Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
1Cor 4:13 'Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day'.
Heb 11:36-39 'And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy
they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise'.Heb 11:26-24 'By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward'.
Are these the kinds of things that we will face because we love God and count all things but dung that we might win Christ (Phil 3:8)? When we take up our cross and deny self and everything in our flesh and preach Christ and Him crucified, are we willing to suffer mockings, scourgings, being scoffed, be considered the filth of the earth, sufferings afflictions with others who are made a spectacle through lies and those that are false witnesses? Jesus Christ had no place to lay His head, how would we respond to that kind of thing if it were to come to that with our own life and families? Do we want to identify with Christ in that kind of reproach or do we want the prosperity package and let the other believers suffer for Christ sake?
Paul said in (2Cor 12:15) 'And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved'.
Is that the kind of return we want from loving others? How did it ever come to that with Paul? You lay your life down and be spent for believers and they take advantage of you and talk behind your back and say things they shouldn't be saying. Jesus said that He sends us out as sheep among wolves (Mt 10:16) who are not looking to comfort you but to slaughter you.
Rom 8:36 'As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'.
Is our walk with Christ in His light going to end up in the slaughter house? Does (1Pt 2:21) really mean what it says?
'For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps'.
These verses are not in the scriptures to discourage us in some kind of doom and gloom way. They are there to instruct us, to reveal an expectation and how much God loves us, to give us the promise of life and show us the way, to keep us faithful and to perceive the honor and privilege that God gives us through grace to identify with His Son whom He was well pleased with.
L
It's funny you should use this passage watchmen because it proves the exact opposite of your point that we can know for sure someone's saved by their fruits.
Does it not say, "and in they name done many wonderful works? (ie. fruit). 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity"
You can't know for sure someone's saved because there's lots of unsaved people doing great works for Jesus and lots of saved people working quietly and without great show behind the lines.
You can sometimes discern whether someone may be saved by the light of God showing through them, but to say it definitely, well, that's just not our job to do. I'll leave that one up to Jesus.
Does it not say, "and in they name done many wonderful works? (ie. fruit). 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity"
You can't know for sure someone's saved because there's lots of unsaved people doing great works for Jesus and lots of saved people working quietly and without great show behind the lines.
You can sometimes discern whether someone may be saved by the light of God showing through them, but to say it definitely, well, that's just not our job to do. I'll leave that one up to Jesus.
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Thank you for this post, I resonded to your first post before I read your second.
God Bless You Lauren.
We will know them by their fruits. Either they will produce Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, or they will produce Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
Thank you for this post, I resonded to your first post before I read your second.
God Bless You Lauren.
We will know them by their fruits. Either they will produce Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, or they will produce Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
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I find my greatest witness to a person who is saved or not saved, is to tell them why I believe in Jesus!
I share my testimony!
I share all the things the Lord has done for me.
I witness to people all the time, every day and as I talk to people about what Jesus has done in my life, they start to come to the Lord.
My witness to my family came not from what I said, but from the change in me as I got to know the Lord!
It changed my family, when I changed!
I look at it this way, in order to witness, you must have witnessed something to witness about!
I think the greatest witness to anyone is how you love them!
Are you Patient? Are you kind? 1Cor.13
Love never Fails!
I share my testimony!
I share all the things the Lord has done for me.
I witness to people all the time, every day and as I talk to people about what Jesus has done in my life, they start to come to the Lord.
My witness to my family came not from what I said, but from the change in me as I got to know the Lord!
It changed my family, when I changed!
I look at it this way, in order to witness, you must have witnessed something to witness about!
I think the greatest witness to anyone is how you love them!
Are you Patient? Are you kind? 1Cor.13
Love never Fails!
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