What do you do if they will not receive your testimony?
Luke 9:5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
This doesn't say "whatever city will not receive you". You could interpret it that way and it certainly could be understood that way but the Lord said "whosoever will not receive you". Do not get hung up on trying to get someone saved. There are a lot of people, a whole lot of people that did not receive my testimony. Move on. The word of God is a seed, I sowed a seed, who knows if it will sprout at some later time. Preaching the gospel is a team sport. One plants, another waters, God gives the growth. I have family members who do not receive my testimony, I have a sister who screams at me not to mention the name of Jesus to her. OK, I heard that no one can get saved unless someone prays for them. I can pray for family members by name. I can ask that the Lord save them, that He send someone to them, that He answer their prayers, that He visit them in dreams and visions and that they become surrounded with the Lord speaking to them and seeking them out. Think of your prayers as an alley oop pass for another member of the body to come in and have an amazing experience of the Lord and for your family members to get saved. Look at this blog, I was suspended for a month on Facebook, and then I was suspended on another platform after that. I shook off the dust and moved to this platform. Now we have over 232,000 visitors to this site. Jesus is Lord. If you let some person control you because they refuse to receive your testimony then you let them be Lord. Forget that, the 232,000 people who visited this site are every bit as important as the two or three people I would have got hung up on. Instead my goal is to speak the word every day. I feel like I am behind a machine gun and as long as it is firing it keeps the enemy at bay. Maybe some people visit this site regularly, maybe some only visit once. Either way they will get the word of God sown into their heart. The promise is that the word will not return unto God void. He doesn't promise that they will be saved in a single day or a single month. Simply, if you sow the word of God it will not return void. Also, the promise is that you will reap 30 fold or sixty fold or a hundred fold. I don't advertise the blog. Two years ago I might get 10 visitors in a day, now it is closer to 400. I don't know why the increase, maybe people are telling others about the site, I don't know. But I don't really care, I have the Lord's promise and so I am speaking the word every day and I leave the rest to the Lord. Just like Paul said, he planted, others watered, and while he slept at night God gave the growth. I don't have to worry about the growth and I don't have to worry about watering or weeding or pruning. This is a team sport, do your job and trust our teammates, and one of your teammates is God.
Luke 9:5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
This doesn't say "whatever city will not receive you". You could interpret it that way and it certainly could be understood that way but the Lord said "whosoever will not receive you". Do not get hung up on trying to get someone saved. There are a lot of people, a whole lot of people that did not receive my testimony. Move on. The word of God is a seed, I sowed a seed, who knows if it will sprout at some later time. Preaching the gospel is a team sport. One plants, another waters, God gives the growth. I have family members who do not receive my testimony, I have a sister who screams at me not to mention the name of Jesus to her. OK, I heard that no one can get saved unless someone prays for them. I can pray for family members by name. I can ask that the Lord save them, that He send someone to them, that He answer their prayers, that He visit them in dreams and visions and that they become surrounded with the Lord speaking to them and seeking them out. Think of your prayers as an alley oop pass for another member of the body to come in and have an amazing experience of the Lord and for your family members to get saved. Look at this blog, I was suspended for a month on Facebook, and then I was suspended on another platform after that. I shook off the dust and moved to this platform. Now we have over 232,000 visitors to this site. Jesus is Lord. If you let some person control you because they refuse to receive your testimony then you let them be Lord. Forget that, the 232,000 people who visited this site are every bit as important as the two or three people I would have got hung up on. Instead my goal is to speak the word every day. I feel like I am behind a machine gun and as long as it is firing it keeps the enemy at bay. Maybe some people visit this site regularly, maybe some only visit once. Either way they will get the word of God sown into their heart. The promise is that the word will not return unto God void. He doesn't promise that they will be saved in a single day or a single month. Simply, if you sow the word of God it will not return void. Also, the promise is that you will reap 30 fold or sixty fold or a hundred fold. I don't advertise the blog. Two years ago I might get 10 visitors in a day, now it is closer to 400. I don't know why the increase, maybe people are telling others about the site, I don't know. But I don't really care, I have the Lord's promise and so I am speaking the word every day and I leave the rest to the Lord. Just like Paul said, he planted, others watered, and while he slept at night God gave the growth. I don't have to worry about the growth and I don't have to worry about watering or weeding or pruning. This is a team sport, do your job and trust our teammates, and one of your teammates is God.