The Power Of Your Testimony by Pastor Jim Jung

Have you ever watched a science fiction movie where multiple scenarios seem to be at play all at the same time? (e.g. Inception, The Adjustment Bureau, Sliders would be some examples). These are programs that play on the concept that parallel worlds exist, and that we can gain access to them through special doors that act like bridges into these other existences.

Here’s the thing – parallel realities do exist. Satan and Jesus are real. Both are actively at work to secure your eternal destiny. There is a heaven and a hell. There is Absolute Truth and there also is Subjective Truth. Good and Evil do exist.

There are hundreds of different scenarios going on about me that I am either unaware of, or am unaffected by, or don’t even realise exist. Yet the people I interact with may be living in one of those scenarios:

·         The Medical world – you or a loved one gets sick - hospitals, specialists, medication, diagnosis, medical terminology, uncertainty.

·         The Prison world – jail and incarceration of someone in your family – isolation, fear, embarrassment, consequences, loneliness.

·         The Addiction world – self-abuse, loss of control, perhaps violence, estrangement, disease, shame, guilt.

·         The Divorce world – brokenness, hurt, loneliness, dreams shattered, children lost, embarrassment, grief, crisis of identity.

·         What about the Grief world – when someone dies, or when a child goes astray.

·         The Financially Bankrupt world – when you lose everything you have worked hard for and now live with the stigma.

·         Not to mention the world of Abuse, the Homeless world, a Lonely world, the world of Depression or Anxiety, the world of Pain…

There are thousands of things going on around us all the time. Some of us are in one of these I’ve just mentioned – the fact is that all of us are traveling in a set of circumstances that we call our current “reality”.

Like the Hollywood movies that we watch that purport to have discovered some way to travel between alternate realities, we need to discover the door that reaches out to our fellow human beings with a hand of hope as they wrestle within their world. I believe I’ve found that door - it’s found in the Power of our Testimony.

Testimony is the bridge between my world and yours. Stories of intervention and hope leap across the divide of our lives; our individual circumstances that bring hope and life.

Believe it or not – your story, your testimony can have a powerful impact on someone else’s life. No matter how simple or trivial you may feel it is. Each time you share your story it impacts, challenges and touches another person who may just be going through the very same set of circumstances. The impact of God working through our everyday lives is a story that needs to be told.

You may think the story you have to tell is very small – but to a person going through the same issue - it’s a lifeline! Be a bridge to someone today. Reach out to them with your story.