Most of the time, whenever I hear the word PREACH (or even other people), there is a WRONG MINDSET that it’s a job for the FULLTIME. Kaya siguro, when I was a new Christian, I never tend to PREACH something, eh kasi naman I thought that way! I GUESS I WAS WRONG! TOTALLY WRONG!
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ->Romans 1:16
I remember the first time that I TOTALLY STEPPED OUT on my comfort zone in sharing the gospel, syempre, as always, it happened when I WAS at PIONEER! J I really can’t forget what happened that week. It started on a Sunday service. As Pastor Robert Hern was wrapping up the series “THE EMPTY CROSS”, I felt a deep emotion in my heart that I need to FULLY SURRENDER EVERYTHING on the CROSS! I was always burdened whenever I do something unpleasing to God and as a result of that, I always have a hard time on telling to myself that God has already forgiven me after repenting from it. But that time, as I was crying on my seat (buti na lang di kami nagkita ni Faith nung time na yun. haha), I felt God telling me to surrender it all. So when the ushers gave me a piece of paper (the thing is you will write on the piece of paper your sins, then you will place it on the cross at the stage! How I wish I had a bigger paper. HAHA. KiddingJ). As I was crying, I went to the stage and placed the paper on the cross. I could still remember the great experience I had back then.
Why did I made kwento regarding that experience? ‘Anong connect ngayon?’
It was 5 days later when I attended at LEVEL-UP. Faith was there too but with a different group, she was with William and company (later on became VICTORY MAKATI YOUTH). That time kasi, they were having Victory Group style at LEVEL-UP; so there were VG leaders at every table to lead the groups. To my surprise, I was with Macy and his cousin at the table (sila lang kilala ko sa table eh). I thought Macy would be the one to lead the group but I was surprised and shocked when she said that “Di ba Kristian, VG Leader ka sa Lucena, ikaw ang maglead ng VG J”. I really dunno why I said yes but to tell you the truth, that was the first time ata na I lead a VG (as far as I can remember). SO I LEAD and SHARED SOMETHING! okay naman yung feedback, buti na lang din, wala si Faith sa group. HAHA
That time, I felt God’s power moving toward me. It’s as if, I was just talking but it was God who was telling me words to say. After that experience, I stepped out on my comfort zone and began sharing my faith through preaching the gospel. The results were all by the grace of God! I even had my FIRST PREACHING EXPERIENCE on our YOUTH SERVICE (di pa GEAR-UP noon eh!) just months ago! BIG WOW! J
Looking back on the things that I shared, “in what way did those experiences became related to the topic of the devotional?” Well, I guess for you to be able to start preaching/sharing, you need to FULLY SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO GOD! As what I did, God made me do that immediately! For years, since I started as a Christian, yeah! I have given my life to Jesus, but not fully! That’s why siguro I was hesitant on sharing my faith. But as I understood that I really need to surrender it FULLY, I stepped out on this comfort zone of mine and started telling others about this relationship that God made me experience J
YOU WANT TO SHARE YOUR FAITH? YOU WANT TO PREACH THE GOSPEL? Then SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO GOD FULLY! Ewan ko na lang kung kabahan ka pa in sharing your faith to others through preaching the gospel J
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