“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 Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God
day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame 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.” Revelation 12: 10-11
NIV
I want you to zero in on, “They overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.” The him the scripture refers to is Satan. So what automatically comes
to your mind when reading this? If
someone were to ask me, I would answer power – power in the blood of Christ AND
the word of my testimony, or what I confess with my mouth.
Sometimes we fail to understand, and remember, the
power we possess because of Christ’s blood, and what we confess and profess
with our words.
Twice in my life, I’ve hemorrhaged and each time,
needed a transfusion of two pints of blood. Before blood flowed into me to
replace what I’d lost, two characteristics assaulted me. I was very cold and
very weak. Nurses warmed blankets to cover me, and I barely had strength to
talk on the phone. As the blood flowed in, I warmed and regained my strength.
Later God used this experience to show me that
without the continual flowing of Christ’s blood over us, we become cold and
weak. How does that translate to writing, you may ask? I believe that if God
has called you to be a writer, that same blood that was shed for the remission
of sins empowers you to do what He has called you to do.
Some days I don’t feel like writing, let alone like
a writer. On those days, I should allow my testimony to boldly be, “I am a
writer!” and draw my strength from Christ. I don’t always do that, so this blog
is more for me than anyone else.
When I am weak, He is
always strong. He’s more than willing to empower me. I just fully trust in what
He accomplished on the cross, boldly declare my testimony of what I can do, not
what I can’t do. It’s powerful
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