Bloganuary Prompt

How are you changing the world?

I’ll risk a cliché here… changing the world begins with changing within myself first (Matthew 7:3). There are seasons in my life where God puts a pause on what I thought was good, so that I could pursue His work in my life, no matter how menial and looked down upon it seems to me or to others (1 Corinthians 10:23). God is teaching me more and more not to rely on what I see, as the situations we face are intensely spiritual (Isaiah 55:8-9; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Ephesians 6:10-20: Colossians 3:2; 1 Peter 5:5-11).

Christians are exhorted to put on spiritual armor, to pray constantly… (Job 1:4-2:10; Ephesians 6:10-20; 1 Peter 5:5-11) gives insight into this more. Those who are successful leading their life, and that in humility and submission to God’s plan, those are exalted (Matthew 6:33, 23:12; Luke 14:11). Though they are tried through fire circumstances, they have the militant training under the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, that they make it out refined (Romans 5:1-5).

I am encouraged that not only did Jesus go through the same struggles to be able to relate and help me, but Christians around the world are also multiplying that testimony of God’s grace and power through their weaknesses (2 Corinthians 12:9; 1 Peter 5:9; Hebrews 4:15). Our enemy is real and prowls around to seek who he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). If he is intentionally seeking our destruction, we need to hold fast to God now more than ever (Psalm 51:10; James 4:8).

Talent & Testimony (TNT)

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 

“Now have come the salvation and the power 
    and the kingdom of our God, 
    and the authority of his Messiah. 
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, 
    who accuses them before our God day and night, 
    has been hurled down. 
 They triumphed over him 
    by the blood of the Lamb 
    and by the word of their testimony; 
they did not love their lives so much 
    as to shrink from death. 
 Therefore rejoice, you heavens 
    and you who dwell in them! 
But woe to the earth and the sea, 
    because the devil has gone down to you! 
He is filled with fury, 
    because he knows that his time is short.”
Revelation 12:10-12

I want to share about Talent & Testimony, an event I coordinate each month, and how I came to be a part of it. I felt it more easy-flowing to speak it rather than type it:

Blessings,

Gianna Elyse

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