{"id":63232,"date":"2023-03-26T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=63232"},"modified":"2023-03-26T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:22:47","slug":"testifiers-and-testimonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=63232","title":{"rendered":"Testifiers and testimonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>BE MY WITNESSES<\/strong>*. That is one desire the Lord has for all He calls in Christ Jesus. This means being a people whose lives can persuade others to put their trust in Him._<\/p>\n<p><strong>For many a believer, being witnesses simply means to be testifiers, telling or singing of God&#8217;s goodness often to those who already believe<\/strong>. And there is nothing wrong with that. However, it falls far short of God&#8217;s expectations. For any one, even an unbeliever, could testify of God&#8217;s goodness. And many do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being God&#8217;s witnesses is about being exhibits of His character, love and power<\/strong>. He called *Abraham* His friend. Of *Moses*, God boasted of a face to face relationship. And of *Jesus* He said, *&#8221;this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, listen to him&#8221; (Mk. 9:7)* These are testimonies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are we TESTIMONIES God can boast of and showcase to the world or mere TESTIFIERS, announcing God&#8217;s goodness?<\/strong>\u00a0The difference is in kingdom impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <strong>Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;BE MY WITNESSES*. That is one desire the Lord has for all He calls in Christ Jesus. This means being a people whose lives can persuade others to put their trust in Him._ For many a believer, being witnesses simply means to be testifiers, telling or singing of God&#8217;s goodness often to those who already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":63234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[1015,5694,4425],"class_list":["post-63232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-jesus","tag-testifiers","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}