“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
It is My heart’s desire that all people be saved and come to know the truth. 1 Timothy 2:4. It is My heart’s desire to dwell with you, Exodus 25:8, and that all may know Me from the least to the greatest. Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 8:11. It is My heart’s desire that you may all prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers by walking in the truth. 3 John 1:2-4, Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24. It is My heart’s desire that you share My joy and your joy may be complete. John 15:11. It is My heart’s desire that you take and enjoy the dominion authority I gave you from the beginning and be the head and not the tail, be above and not beneath, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, have all sufficiency in everything and an abundance for every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8. It is My heart’s desire that you owe no one any debt but to love them. Romans 13:8. It is My heart’s desire to do good to you and heal all those oppressed by the devil. Acts 10:38. It is My heart’s desire to give you shalom (the whole pie of life with no piece missing) and never evil, to give you a future and a hope for all the good things I have promised you and given you already in Christ. Jeremiah 29:11; 2 Corinthians 1:20, Ephesians 1:3. It is My desire that you know Me as your good Shepherd and never lack or walk in fear. Psalm 23; John 10:10. It is My desire to be with you always, Matthew 28:20, and have you always with Me. 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Luke 15:31.
And yet so many people deliver doctrines of the devil as if it was Mine. 1 Timothy 4:1. They say My mysterious Will is for you to suffer the oppression of sickness and pain, and have heartaches of rejection and abuse, suffer poverty and lack, and that all this is holy and pleasing to Me. They tell you there is great merit in accepting them and bearing them to show your love for Me. This grieves, and yes, angers Me. If that was what I wanted why would I send Jesus on a mission to set the captives free and let the oppressed go free, heal the sick, raise the dead, take all your sins, illnesses and pains on Himself to lift them off you, and heal the broken hearted?
You who preach and believe that suffering pleases Me are in darkness even now. Look what I did to the Egyptians for enslaving the Israelites and murdering their babies. I was not pleased. But before I could rescue them, the Isaelites had to cry out to Me so that I was authorized to come into their dominion of the earth and help them. When you call out to Me, I can enter and help you. If you refuse to call Me, I cannot answer. You have the leasehold tenancy and you hold the key to whether you will allow Me to come in and work in your domain.
The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. Exodus 3:7-9.
I heard their cry and I saw the oppression and that was enough to bring Me down to deliver them. But I had to find someone with authority in the earth realm, which is every person since I have leased out the earth to man, who was willing to partner with Me and let Me work with and through them by My Spirit to bring the Kingdom to earth. And Moses was the man for that time and place. You each have a time and place to open the way for Me to come in with you and do a work of glory and grace in the earth.
Are you willing? Or is it easier to take no authority and sit back and let the devil run all over you and your family, and even your nation, and say it is My mysterious Will? No, it is because you will not answer the devil with the authority of My Word and open the way for Me to come and fight for and with you. You have to stand your ground, but not alone, you stand in the power of My might. And when I am with you, you win. And the devil knows that so he must blind your eyes to what you have in Me by religious and secular doctrines that sound holy but are as far from holiness as darkness is from light.
The devil has blinded your eyes to My glory shining on you from the face of Christ, for My glory is My goodness, My presence and My power. And it is SALVATION power. Which is resurrection power. Salvation in every situation. YESHUAH. The Name given among men by which you must be and are SAVED.
Moses drew close to Me and stayed in My Word and it made a huge difference in how he walked and how the Israelites that had no interest in drawing close to Me and opening their hearts and minds to Me walked. Do you see? People who do not know who I AM criticize, rebel, fear, doubt, make a fuss, continually find fault, blame others and Me, and get themselves in destructive situations. And then the world questions My goodness. I am good and those who follow Me understand this for they have the light of life. No true follower of Mine will ever walk in darkness, no never, such a one will have the light of life.
Those of you who know Me by My Word, as Samuel did, have a whole different perspective of life than those who do not know Me. You have insight and not just outward sight. So what was the task Jesus left for you to do who know Me? Witness to the world so all may know Me from the least to the greatest. No person is too insignificant to save and no person is too great to save. You all need to be saved and bring others to know Me. Those who win souls are wise.
Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. Daniel 12:3.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20.
It will not make you popular to be My Witness in all circles but it is the narrow way of relationship. For if you love Me, you cannot help but share it, it overflows. And once the sweetness of that flow begins to stream into a place where you are others will come to the water to receive the gift of life in abundance that Jesus came to give you.
Where there is no vision of My goodness the people perish and are unrestrained.
Today there is a famine in the earth, and I am not talking about the one for physical bread, but a famine for heavenly bread, which is My Word. After 2,000 years since the death of Christ you would think you as witnesses would have gotten much father in the earth than you have. But there is a sluggishness in many of you who are believers to give others the wonderful gift of salvation and new birth from above.
How do you witness? If you continue in My Word you will truly be My disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. And the truth is My Word and My Word became flesh and His Name is Yeshuah which you call “Jesus.” And He is the Light of the World. My Word is a light to your path and a lamp to your feet, and My Word is in you by which you are born again from above, translated from the realm of darkness to the Kingdom of My Beloved Son, who is the Light of the world and a light to the nations! And Christ is in you by the Spirit of Holiness, your hope of glory and you have His light burning brightly in your heart and I have set you on the golden lampstand, the menorah, shining brightly with your wick turned toward the center servant lamp and you are shining on the world like bright luminaries offering it the Word of life. And how did Jesus tell you to witness? Let your light shine on the dark world. Light up the world with His love! The fire of My love poured in your heart by the gift of the Holy Spirit.
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16.
Do not put your light under a bushel basket in fear of the derision of the worldly. Shine all the brighter in their darkness. You are offering the greatest gift anyone can receive: ETERNAL LIFE in the Kingdom. No person however rich, famous, or well known they are, if they do not know Me, even comes close to offering the world what you have. Know that you are the light the world is looking for in the darkness of their night.
I have sent you into the world to be My light, to draw others to that light to know the love beyond love that you know. Unless you do not know Me. You cannot be someone’s witness if you do not know them personally. A witness must have personal knowledge about what he is testifying to before the court. Otherwise he does not qualify as a witness.
Do you know what the last request My Son made to His followers before He ascended back to His throne in the great Kingdom of Heaven? It was that you would go and tell the whole world the good news about Him, that is, about salvation.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20.
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:15-18.
“Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:46-49.
At the Passover meal the night before He died for your sins, Jesus prayed for all those who would hear about Him by the words of those present down all the generations to you who are reading this. But how will the generations hear if you do not tell others the good news of Jesus that you have been so blessed and honored to receive? What you have received as a gift, give as a gift! And what is the gift? Jesus. I so loved the world that I gave My only begotten Son so that all who believe in Him will never perish but will have eternal life. And that is the best gift you can give anyone! And it was My best gift to a world trapped in the slavery of sin and the curse as well. The unfathomable riches of Christ and the treasure you have in Him! The mystery hidden down the ages in types and shadows and now revealed to you in the glorious light of the gospel shining on the face of Christ!
When My Son called Peter and Andrew, James and John, to follow Him, He told them He would make them fishers of men. My Son is the same yesterday, today and forever, as I AM, and He has not changed that call. You are the answer to the anxieties and fears they are facing. Go do the works of Jesus and greater—which is preaching, teaching, and healing—going about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil.
Bring all to the new birth, bring them to Jesus so they can become a new creation and shake off the chains that bind them. The old things passed away; behold, new things have come! Speak to others of newness of life in Christ. Everyone wants something new in his or her life. And all these things are from Me, their creator who loves them and has a good plan for them. Tell them about My promises that are all “yes” to them in Christ—that I am your healer, your provider, your peace, and your strength. Tell them about how they are blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing in Heaven and it is deposited in their heavenly account that they can access in Christ by thanksgiving in worship. Tell them about how I put all their sins on Jesus and punished them on Him so that they are holy and blameless before Me like they never sinned at all. But let them know all this is there for them in Jesus alone and they only have this if they believe in Him and receive Him as Lord.
I have reconciled you to Myself through Christ and given you the ministry of reconciliation, namely, I was in Christ reconciling the world to Myself, not counting their trespasses against them, and I have committed to YOU the word of reconciliation. Therefore, you are ambassadors for Christ, as though I were making an appeal through you. Go out and reconcile whoever will listen to Me by giving them the opportunity and privilege of receiving Jesus as their Lord and being born again unto new life in Him.
If you won’t do this, who will? The harvest is great but the laborers are few. So many are busy about their own pursuits but not looking to the lost who so badly need to be found. They are everywhere you go; it is not hard to find them! They are in your home, at your work, at your school, in the market, on the sidewalk walking at your side, in parks, at beaches, in restaurants, at church—indeed everywhere you go you will find them. I sent My Son to seek out and save the lost, and as I sent Him, so He told you He sends you. But, just as I gave Him the Holy Spirit before He started His public ministry, so now He gives you the Holy Spirit to be able to do this honorable work of saving souls. He told His disciples before the fulfillment of Pentecost as He ascended back to Me in Heaven having finished the work of salvation I gave Him to do, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8.
You are wise to save souls. You will shine on the day of visitation. So many will be there, saved and rejoicing in My heavenly Kingdom because you cared enough to stop and talk with them about Jesus.
I love you. Why witness? Because I have asked you to share what I have so freely given you with others too. For this is how you can best keep the commandments to love Me and love your neighbor. I, and all of Heaven, rejoice over the salvation of a soul and your neighbor, who you save, will rejoice forever in the eternal Kingdom because you cared enough to tell him the good news. And that is love. I so loved the world I gave you My only begotten Son so that all who believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. And now He is yours to give as well.