The Book of Jarred

"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."

Since I have been home from Africa almost every time I talk to someone about the Lord,  I am always reminded of different things that happened in Uganda. I mean the trip was absolutely life changing. The amount of healing and salvations we saw was absolutely incredible. I can't help but think about the testimony that Jesus has had for my life every time I spend time with him.

I love these verses in the book of Revelations about how the enemy will be overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimonies. Sometimes we don't realize the power that we have with what Jesus has done in our lives. If the church is called to defeat the enemy by 1. Jesus's blood and then 2. the power of our testimonies, I think sharing what Jesus has done is so stinking important.

The fact of the matter is that no matter what your testimony looks like, there is power there! You don't have to have gone on an insane mission trip to have a powerful testimony. Here is every single Christian's testimony in a nutshell. I was dead....and Jesus brought me to life. It's that simple. My testimony is that i was alone and lost in the world, and Jesus picked me up and said i was his. I wasn't miraculously healed, or wasn't addicted to drugs or anything. I was just lost, like everyone who needs Jesus. He took me from darkness and turned my life around entirely! And when i tell my story i can be 100% confident that with every word about the Lord's goodness in my life, the enemy is trembling. I can imagine Satan waking up in complete fear because Jarred is going to tell someone his story today. Jesus entrust us to use our testimonies to destroy the strong holds of the enemy in peoples lives.

Regardless of what your story is, if you walk out in confidence that your testimony is going to change lives, it will! And when you walk out in that confidence, then your testimony begins to grow even more! Confidence and a desire to see more of Jesus go hand and hand. When you walk out in confidence in who Jesus is, your desire for him increases, and you begin let him take control of every step you take. And when he takes control of your life, unbelievable things happen. You will find yourself in the middle of Africa praying for the dead to be resurrected. All because of your desire to see him trumps anything else.

So i encourage you to share what Jesus has done in your life to people! You build confidence in who you are and what he has done, which leads to a desire for more of him! This idea came to me a couple of years ago that said "I wonder if there was a book of the bible called the book of Jarred, would anyone read it?" And for so long that answer was probably no. But it wasn't til i realized that it wasn't about Jarred at all, it was about what he can do in my life, that the Book of Jarred began to seem like something someone would read. Give everything to him, and see your book develop!