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Speak for Christ
“I believed, therefore have I spoken” (Psalm 116:10).
Not only do we have in this verse the principle that those who believe ought not to keep silent about their faith but also a delightful bit of instruction about witnessing for the Lord, and that is, speak from your heart! “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matthew 12:34).
Eloquence or scriptural knowledge may be helpful when speaking for the Lord but they are not essential. It is true that we need to present things in a way that makes the truth clear and simple, and in a way that the Spirit of God can effectively take our words and apply them to the hearer for blessing, like those we read of in the early days of Christianity. “And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed” (Acts 14:1).
However, when it is all said and done, the most powerful testimony is that which comes from the heart. Let’s speak for Christ from the heart. “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so” (Psalm 107:2).
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