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Moving from impossible to possible is based on where you are viewing the situation!

Most churches do not expect miracles to take place, so their message has become ineffective to a certain degree.  The primary difference between true Christianity and the other religions is confirming signs and wonders, i.e., miracles.

Many pastors play it safe by not expecting the miraculous to confirm their messages.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 13:

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 19:

26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

And He spoke in Mark chapter 9:

23 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.“

And in Mark chapter 10:

27 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”

It is vital for you and me to embrace these Truths!  Was Jesus triumphant in all situations He encountered?  Totally!  As we focus time and attention on GOD’S supernatural interventions, they become how we see, how we act, and how we pray.

Testimonies prophesy and reveal the Heart of GOD, His Nature, and His covenant given to us to operate from.  It is vital that we do not forget the testimonies of GOD!

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 78:

1 Beloved ones, listen to this instruction. Open your heart to the revelation of this mystery that I share with you.

2 A parable and a proverb are hidden in what I say—an intriguing riddle from the past.

3-4 We’ve heard true stories from our fathers about our rich heritage. We will continue to tell our children and not hide from the rising generation the great marvels of our God—his miracles and power that have brought us all this far.

5 The story of Israel is a lesson in God’s ways. He established decrees for Jacob and established the law in Israel, and he commanded our forefathers to teach them to their children.

FATHER explicitly tells us to pass down testimonies of HIS power to each generation so they will not be forgotten.  Otherwise, they will rely on the world for their solutions.

6 For perpetuity God’s ways will be passed down from one generation to the next, even to those not yet born.

7 In this way, every generation will set its hope in God and not forget His wonderful works but keep His commandments.

8 By following His ways they will break the past bondage of their fickle fathers, who were a stubborn, rebellious generation and whose spirits strayed from the Eternal God. They refused to Love Him with all their hearts.

We must remember, if GOD performs a miracle in the past for others, HE will do it for me!

9 Take, for example, the sons of Ephraim. Though they were all equipped warriors, each with weapons, when the battle began they retreated and ran away in fear.

10 They didn’t really believe the promises of God; they refused to trust Him and move forward in faith.

11 They forgot His wonderful works and the miracles of the past,

12 even their exodus from Egypt, the epic miracle of His might. They forgot the glories of His power at the place of passing over.

13 God split the sea wide open, and the waters stood at attention on either side as the people passed on through!

14 By day the moving glory-cloud led them forward. And all through the night the fire-cloud stood as a sentry of light.

The renewing of our mind necessitates the remembrance of past miracles; else we cannot truly walk in The Way.

Testimonies are the same yesterday, today, and forever!

As I wrote yesterday:

The Hebrew word for “testimony,” often translated as “Aydooth” or “Edut,” is derived from a root word that means “do it again,” “repeat,” or “return”. Sharing a testimony in this context is not just a retelling of events, but a declaration that God’s power and authority can be repeated in the lives of others. It’s an affirmation that God’s actions in the past can be experienced again. 

It is vital for you and me to embrace this Truth!

Moses recorded by The Holy Spirit in Deuteronomy chapter 6:

1 “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD Your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,

2 that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

3 Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you-‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD Our God, the LORD is One!

5 You shall Love The LORD Your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

6]”And these Words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

And:

20 “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?’

24 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.

25 Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’

Why are we to remember what FATHER has spoken in the past?  HIS Word is continuously applicable to the situations we each encounter.  The miracles that occurred on behalf of the children of Israel, are to show us that all things are possible for those who are His Children.  The “supernatural’ is “natural” with Our Heavenly Father.

Keeping a commandment is to obey GOD.  Keeping the statutes of GOD is where HE is teaching His value system.  In a commandment, HE is telling us what to think whereas in a statute, HE is telling us how to think, HIS perception of reality and how HE wants us to navigate life.

Keeping a testimony means that I hold the record of GOD’S interventions among people so close to me, that they become the “lenses” through which I see present problems or challenges.  I interpret them through a history with GOD. 

If HE has miraculously healed me in the past, I know HE will do it again.  If HE gave me favor among men in the past, HE will do it again.  If HE came to my financial rescue in the past, clearly, HE will do it again.  I can attest to miracles in all three areas.

Let each of us walk in new testimonies that will encourage others around us.  This will give them hope for their situation!

Testimonies are meant to be repeated!

The Hebrew word for “testimony,” often translated as “Aydooth” or “Edut,” is derived from a root word that means “do it again,” “repeat,” or “return”. Sharing a testimony in this context is not just a retelling of events, but a declaration that God’s power and authority can be repeated in the lives of others. It’s an affirmation that God’s actions in the past can be experienced again. 

Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 7:

22 Only then did Jesus answer the question posed by John’s disciples. “Now go back and tell John what you have just seen and heard here today. The blind are now seeing. The crippled are now walking. Those who were lepers are now cured. Those who were deaf are now hearing. Those who were dead are now brought back to life. The poor and broken are given the hope of salvation.

The miracles that Jesus performed are in the “plural” and not selective in nature.  Jesus healed “all”, not just some who were in a special category.  FATHER wants us to duplicate past testimonies as we minister to others, without exception.

A testimony was never meant to be a historical factor that pointed to an old event.  It was supposed to be a present tense reality that releases the activity of GOD into present situations.

Every testimony reveals the nature of GOD and reveals HIS covenant with us.

Charles Spurgeon wrote on July 17^th, 1859:

When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: “Oh, that was a very long while ago.” They imagine that times have altered since then. Says one: “I can believe anything about the Reformation—the largest accounts that can possibly be given, I can take in.” “And so could I concerning Whitefield and Wesley,” says another, “all that is quite true, they did labour vigorously and successfully, but that was many years ago. Things were in a different state then from what they are now.”

Granted; but I want to know what the things have to do with it. I thought it was God that did it. Has God changed? Is he not an immutable God, the same yesterday, to-day and for ever? Does not that furnish an argument to prove that what God has done at one time He can do at another? Nay, I think I may push it a little further, and say what He has done once, is a prophecy of what He intends to do again—that the mighty works which have been accomplished in the olden time shall all be repeated, and the Lord’s song shall be sung again in Zion, and He shall again be greatly glorified.

Others among you say, “Oh, well I look upon these things as great prodigies—miracles. We are not to expect them every day.” That is the very reason why we do not get them. If we had learnt to expect them, we should no doubt obtain them, but we put them up on the shelf, as being out of the common order of our moderate religion, as being mere curiosities of Scripture history. We imagine such things, however true, to be prodigies of providence; we cannot imagine them to be according to the ordinary working of His mighty power. I beseech you, my friends, abjure that idea, put it out of your mind. Whatever God has done in the way of converting sinners is to be looked upon as a precedent, for “His arm is not shortened that He cannot save, not is His ear heavy that He cannot hear.”

If we are straitened at all, we are not straitened in ourselves, and with earnestness seek that God would restore to us the faith of the men of old, that we may richly enjoy His grace as in the days of old. Yet there is yet another disadvantage under which these old stories labour. The fact is, we have not seen them. Why, I may talk to you ever so long about revivals, but you won’t believe them half so much, nor half so truly, as if one were to occur in your very midst. If you saw it with your own eyes, then you would see the power of it.

If you had lived in Whitefield’s day, or had heard Grimshaw preach, you would believe anything. Grimshaw would preach twenty-four times a week: he would preach many times in the course of a sultry day, going from place on horseback. That man did preach. It seemed as if Heaven would come down to earth to listen to him. He spoke with a real earnestness, with all the fire of zeal that ever burned in mortal breast, and the people trembled while they listened to him, and said, “Certainly this is the Voice of God.”

It was the same with Whitefield. The people would seem to move to and fro while he spoke, even as the harvest field is moved with the wind. So mighty was the energy of God that after hearing such a sermon the hardest-hearted men would go away and say: “There must be something in it, I never heard the like.” Can you not realize these as literal facts? Do they stand up in all their brightness before your eyes? Then I think the stories you have heard with your ears should have a true and proper effect upon your lives.

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We must pursue the Heart of GOD with all diligence and expect new testimonies of miracles to be wrought by our own personal ministry to others.  Let us no longer sit on the sidelines and only reflect on the past!

We should understand the prophetic nature of testimony!

Testimonies point to the continuous power and authority of The Lord God Almighty.

The Beloved Disciple recorded by The Holy Spirit in Revelation chapter 19:

9 Then the angel said to me, “Write these Words: Wonderfully blessed are those who are invited to feast at the wedding celebration of the Lamb!” And then he said to me, “These are the True Words of God.”

10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.”

The testimony of Jesus is a spoken or written record of anything that He has done.  Prophecy is to foretell the future and to change present situations.  Prophecy produces hope and expectation that was otherwise nonexistent.  A prophecy will be used to make a decree that actually changes the reality of an individual, a family, a church, a city, a nation is facing.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Genesis chapter 1:

1 When God created the heavens and the earth,

2 the earth was completely formless and empty, with nothing but darkness draped over the deep. God’s Spirit hovered over the face of the waters.

3 And then God announced, “Let there be light,” and light burst forth!

When HE declared “Let there by light”, it was prophetic, and the response immediately came forth.  HE changed one reality to a new reality.  The sun testifies of FATHER’S prophecy every day.  It wasn’t a one-time event to recall. 

The testimony of Jesus carries with it the weight of Heaven to alter the reality of a problem or situation that we are facing.  Testimony has the ability within it to actually change reality.

Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 10:

34 Peter said, “Now I know for certain that God doesn’t show favoritism with people but treats everyone on the same basis.

35 It makes no difference what race of people one belongs to. If they show deep reverence for God, and are committed to doing what’s right, they are acceptable before Him.

Testimonies are not restricted to certain individuals because of something unique to them.  GOD will heal you just as HE has healed others who have testified of their healings.  It is not a “one and done” situation.  Jesus did not withhold healing from anyone.  Peter finally got the message that the Gentiles could receive all the benefits as well as the Jews, for a certainty!

Testimonies encourage me that if FATHER will heal that person, HE will heal me too.  It gives me hope to pursue and expect the same manifestation.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 13:

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

His healing ministry while He walked the earth was prophetic in that He still heals today.  His Divine Intent has not changed.  Peter understood that Truth in Acts chapter 3:

2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;

3 who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.

4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.”

5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: By the power of the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them-walking, leaping, and praising God.

Suddenly, the lame man now had a testimony that spread throughout Jerusalem and the reality of all those who heard his testimony changed.  Others expected to be healed by the same power and authority of Jesus Christ.

When you hear a testimony that applies to your situation, fully embrace it and your reality will change too.

The earth groans for HIS Glory!

We should expect the earth to respond to HIS Glory as we come into full maturity as Sons and Daughters of GOD.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Chronicles chapter 7:

14 if My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

15 Now My Eyes will be open and My Ears attentive to prayer made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My Name may be there forever; and My Eyes and My Heart will be there perpetually.

The land we possess will be physically restored.  The Spiritual impacts the physical.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 8:

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us.

19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;

21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

In other Words, it’s not just creation. We who have already experienced the firstfruits of the Spirit also inwardly groan as we passionately long to experience our full status as God’s Sons and Daughters—including our physical bodies being transformed.

Jesus affirmed this Truth in Mark chapter 4:

39 Then Jesus arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.

40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”

41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

When Jonathan’s equipment manager slaughtered the Philistines, the earth quaked.

It is recorded by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Samuel chapter 14:

11 So both of them (Jonathan and his armor bearer) showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden.”

12 Then the men of the garrison called to Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something.” Jonathan said to his armorbearer, “Come up after me, for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”

13 And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armorbearer after him; and they fell before Jonathan. And as he came after him, his armorbearer killed them.

14 That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about twenty men within about half an acre of land.

15 And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was a very great trembling.

As we walk in courage and without fear, we should expect to see physical manifestations all around us when HIS Glory is upon us.  Creation will respond accordingly so don’t be surprised.