Daily writing prompt

Are you a good judge of character?

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Week after week Christians are being trained to sit by and be silent. However, silent Christians don’t:

* Testify (Revelation 12:11),
* Witness (Acts 1:8),
* Make disciples (Matthew 28:19),
* Speak about the things they have seen and heard (Acts 4:20),
* Quote Scripture (Joshua 1:8),
* Share a revelation that has come to them (1 Corinthians 14:26),
* Shout it from the housetops (Matthew 10:27),
* Speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15),
* Confess their faults one to another (James 5:16),
* Exhort one another daily, (Hebrews 3:13),
* Teach one another (Colossians 3:16),
* Comfort one another with words (1 Thessalonians 4:13),
* Encourage one another (1 Thessalonians 5:11),
* Preach the Gospel (Acts 8:3-4),
* Spur one another on to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24),
* Speak as the Spirit gives utterance (Acts 2:4),
* Manifest the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:1),
* Prophesy (1 Corinthians 14:31),
* Make a joyful noise unto the Lord (Psalm 100:1).

Perhaps our silence quenches the Spirit and keeps the body of Christ from being as effective and as powerful as God wants it to be. “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” (Psalm 107:2) Train yourself to persistently speak out about Jesus! Here are some of my words about Jesus:

Jesus Can Stop Your Storm of Guilt

Your guilt can be gone!
Guilt goes
With being alive
Because everyone knows
We’ve all embraced
Thoughts and behaviors
Where guilt grows.
It’s one of our strongest
Inner foes
And it only goes
Away one way–
Where true love shows
And forgiveness flows
From the Cross of Christ.

If you’re not continually aware of the presence of the risen Jesus, perhaps it’s because you’re not keeping your focus on Him and continually speaking up about Him. If you’re not as close to Jesus as you used to be, you must have pulled away because He’s “the same, yesterday, today, and forever,” (Hebrews 13:8).

Unwrap Jesus from religious boxes. Let constant awareness of His presence be your never-ending present. Walking with Jesus keeps me holly jolly all year long! The Bible calls it “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Christmas is a nice moment. It’s a hopeful season, but it can’t compare to the joy, love, and power of an ongoing, ever-growing relationship with the risen Jesus Christ.

MCPA — Make Church Participatory Again. Jesus said that He would build His ekklesia (the proper name of the ancient Greek town council where any citizen could speak). Let’s take the gag rule off of ordinary Christians and let them speak up in church services as they are led by the Holy Spirit! (See 1 Corinthians 14:26 and the 50+ one another commandments in the New Testament.)