If you could sit with Jesus over a cup of coffee and ask him anything, what would you ask him? Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for certain that if you were to die today you would go to heaven? Suppose you were to die today and stand before God and he were to say, “Why should I let you into my heaven?” what would you say?

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If you’re looking for proof of Jesus, ask your peers about their journey with Christ. A Christian testimony can be about a person’s journey to becoming a Christian—also known as a conversion story. 

How to tell it? BEFORE; HOW; AFTER

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For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.- Philippians 1:21.  If we live, it’s to honor the Lord! When we belong to the Lordwe do not live just for ourselves.

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Overcoming is individual, for we cannot overcome for others. We can only overcome for ourselves and be an overcomer ourselves, However, overcoming is corporate, for the Lord is gaining a corporate group of overcomers. Our soul-life is our natural life, the life of the soul apart from the life of God, We should love the Lord more than we love our soul.

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YOU WILL OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF YOUR TESTIMONY. Be the reason someone believes God is good!

There are THREE main steps to us overcoming, according to Revelation 12:11.

- One: by the blood of the Lamb, which has already been done.

- Two: by the word of our testimony.

- Three: Not loving your lives to death

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Revelation 12:11, NKJV And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Two important things here

1. They overcame.

2. They did so by the word of their testimony.

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Jeremiah 29:11**  For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.’Going through something difficult? God's Plan For You is Great! God’s plan for you is not to harm you but to give you a hope and future. That hope and future is for all who seek God and call on the name of the Lord.Proverbs 23:18** Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

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The Victory - 1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. God is near! God will guide you!

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GOD will establish our steps

Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.We may even plan things badly but God's will always prevails

GOD planned beforehand

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Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.’ How Can We Get into Alignment with God?

Psalm 119:67 and 71 “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word...It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.”

Circumstances that are too big for us to handle will encourage us to run to God in prayer

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