Effective Witnesses

Monday 27 March
READ: Acts 1:8
MORE LESSON: John 15:1-8

One of the reasons for the infilling of the Holy Ghost is to enable the believer to access power to be an effective witness for Christ. Being a witness unto the Lord entails being strengthened, knowing God, being filled with the power of the Lord. The Holy Spirit baptism is not only for speaking in tongues, there should be tangible evidence in our lives in terms of strength and power in the Lord. The Holy Spirit in the life of a believer is not for decoration; He is for demonstration. We must consciously place a demand on His ministry in our lives so that men can see God through us in this world.
As God is in control of the heavenly places, we also should have dominion over the earth. This takes the power of the Holy Spirit so that principalities and powers will not be able to stand us. Believers should not run away from demons; demons should rather run away from us. This is the life that God wants us to live and that is the reason He has empowered us with the Holy Spirit. Strength is one thing that we can draw from the Holy Ghost in our daily lives. For a believer to succeed as a president, governor, pastor or whatever, there is a need for the power of the Holy Spirit. This is why Eph.3: 16 says, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. When you are conscious of the power you carry, then you have no reason to be weak. It is when you forget what you have that you begin to run helter-skelter. The Holy Spirit is a power to us, and we need Him in order to do everything.
To access this strength and power for being a living witness, you need to constantly feed on the Word of God. God is strength and the Giver of strength and as such we need to know Him through His Word. Being full of the Word of God equips us to be effective witnesses and ambassadors of the kingdom.
Another way we can access strength to be living witnesses for Christ is through partaking of the communion. The communion is the body and blood of Jesus. Jesus says, My body is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed: John 6: 55. When you partake of the communion, you receive strength even in the day of adversity. I pray for you that you will live as physical evidence of the strength and power of the Holy Spirit. You will not be weak in the days of trouble, in the name of Jesus. Your strength will be steadfast and in the race of life, your strength will not fail.

Prayer/Action
* Tell the Lord to endow you with all that will make you an effective voice in this endtime, in the name of Jesus.
* Decree that God's power will not cease to be at work in you and for you, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I prophesy to my destiny, I shall be a permanent point of reference for good work everywhere I am found, in the name of Jesus.