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Witness To Your Friends And Family · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  bringing you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  Witness to your friends and family. Today, as we journey through the scriptures,
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  gleaning truth from God's word regarding our witness, we're going to park in Mark 5, 18 through 19.
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  Here, we read of the great commandment that God gives each of us to share our
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  witness with our friends and those who are at home.
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  Mark 5 gives an account of Jesus healing a man that had been possessed by the devil.
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  Because of his gratitude, the man healed wanted to continue to journey with
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  Jesus wherever Jesus was.
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  However, Jesus told him that instead of traveling with him, he was to go back
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  and tell his friends and family what Jesus had done for him.
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  Mark 5, 18-19 says it like this, And when he was come into the ship,
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  he that had been possessed with the devil, prayed him that he might be with him.
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  Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends,
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  and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
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  In Mark 5, 18-19, we learn key lessons from Jesus.
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  First, we learn the importance and practice of gratitude for all that Jesus does for us.
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  Secondly, we learn that God intends for us to share with others the miraculous,
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  wonderful, and amazing ways He cares for us.
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  This includes telling others about His blessings that He so freely gives each
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  of us regularly. Psalm 68, 19.
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  Jesus is telling each of us to bloom where we are planted.
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  It is a natural tendency to want to move beyond the same old, same old.
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  For many, they want to move from what is familiar and forge new paths.
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  They seek adventure elsewhere, thinking that what that is out there in the great
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  beyond is greater than what is in the here and now.
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  Many people believe that working for God must involve heroic acts,
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  planned events, public platforms, and so-called big roles and specified activities such as pastoring,
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  teaching in church, or going to far-off countries to spread the gospel.
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  All of these can be God's call on your life and are all part of service to the
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  Lord, but all of us are not called to any of these roles and responsibilities.
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  However, all of us are called in Mark 5, 19 to go home and tell our families
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  and our friends the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  We are to share what God has done for us to those with whom you share life and
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  with whom you have influence.
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  The truth is that God has a work for you to do exactly where he has planted you.
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  He has placed around you a group of people with whom you have influence,
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  and you are to use that influence to point them to Jesus.
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  Don't worry about what you will say. Jesus, in Mark 5, 19, has already given you your instructions.
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  Jesus said to tell your family and friends what the Lord has done for you and
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  to let them know of the compassions and mercies that God bestows upon you.
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  In other words, tell them about your experience with Jesus. Tell them your testimony.
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  They are your friends and they know you.
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  They understand your life, your ways, and have seen your version of who God
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  is through the demonstration of your life.
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  All these facts will make what you say more impactful than what a stranger would say to them.
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  Friend, you have a responsibility to share the goodness of God,
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  the mercies of God, and the saving truth of who God is to everyone you meet,
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  but especially to those you call family and count as your friends.
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  Telling your story of your personal relationship with Jesus is not only your
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  duty as a child of God, but it is also
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  maybe the very thing that redirects a lost soul from hell and points them to
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  Jesus where they will be forever changed and spend eternity with Jesus, John 3, 16.
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  James 5, 20 says, Let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the
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  error of his ways shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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  Today, make an internal difference in someone's life, someone you love and cherish,
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  by telling them what God means to you.
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  How Jesus walks with you, protects, provides, prepares, guides,
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  and directs you, and how Jesus died for them.
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  Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you. Please visit Woman at the Well Ministries
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