Hosanna Restoration Church

We talk about a lot of things every day. Depending on what we do and where we go, we speak to any number of people on a regular basis. So what do we say? Do we take every opportunity to speak of the great things God has done? Scripture tells us to always be prepared to explain the hope that is in us. Really, it is because of God that you can read this and even more so that I can write this. We really do have a lot to tell.

The longer I know God, the more I have to tell about what He has done. More and more I see things He did before I knew Him. Truly He loved me before I knew Him and now all my love is do Him. That old song “Victory in Jesus” becomes more and more true every day.

Jesus told this man who was delivered from a legion of demons to go and tell the great things that God had done for him. It would seem that there was more than we can see from just reading the scripture. Obviously he was no longer naked and crying out among the tombs but there must have been other things that he could tell about. What ever the case, we know that he went and did what he was told to do, and as a result there was a multitude ready to welcome Jesus the next time He came.

We just never know what will happen with the things we tell. When we speak of what God has done it is like a seed that goes and grows without us knowing how it grows. God deserves glory for every thing He does and so it is all for His glory that we share the wonderful things.

There have been many times that God has opened a door for me to share of past things that I know God took care of for me. These occasions occur most often with people who are where I was before I knew God and as I share of God’s goodness to me, it gives them hope that God in fact can and will do the same for them.

As I spoke to the Lord about this it seemed that I was flooded with memories of things in my life. These memories included the first thirty years when I did not know God as well as times since then. Like I said, the longer we know God the more we see how much we have to thank Him for.

Even though your past is behind you, don’t forget all God has done for you. In that past there are things that we can shout thank you to God for. There are great things that will prepare people to welcome the Lord.

As we look at a world that is full of hopelessness and despair we must tell of our Lord Jesus Who does not kill nor destroy, Who blesses and does not curse, Who forgives and does not condemn, and Who gives life and does not take it. He is The Blessed Hope.