Serving Jesus is infectious...

There is something about the name of Jesus that will cause you to speak about him.  It will cause you to start to share your story and experience with him, to anyone and everyone.   There is an excitement in serving the Lord.  There is an abundance of energy that comes to you when you know that God loves you and that Jesus died for you.  You have to share it.  You can’t keep that joy inside of you.

When Jesus starts to work in your life, you are slowly changed into his image, and you start to take on the personality and characteristics of God.  You might not recognize these things at first, but slowly you will see that your desires and habits will start to change.   Maybe you were someone who always went out to bars and clubs, and never felt like you were doing anything wrong, but after accepting Jesus into your life, you started to feel your desire for that type of entertainment changing.

 

I personally am a swearer, and as they say, I swore like a truck driver.  It never bothered me, I never felt convicted of it, and it was simply a part of me.   My mom would even say to me, you probably shouldn’t speak like that anymore, and I’d tell my mom, I will deal with it when God tells me to deal with it.   I have noticed, not that I have completely changed, but I have noticed that my language has started to change, as my walk with God has become deeper.  Subtle things about you will change as you exchange your desires, for the ones he has deposited into your spirit.

As you start to share your new desires and changes with the people around you, you are actually sharing information about Jesus.  This will cause their faith in God to grow.   This is why sharing your testimony is so important.   When we share what our struggles are, and how God has transformed us from who we were, into who we are today, we are encouraging the people around us to have a relationship with God, so they can have what we have.

It is so vital for people to hear your testimony.  They need to hear that not only has someone else lived a life similar to theirs, but that Jesus has healed them and made them new.  When you share what God has done in your life, whether it be something as small as changing your language, to something as big as healing you from drug addiction, you are sharing your success in the Lord.  People want to be around winners.  You instinctively want to be around people who are successful or who you deem are successful.   So sharing our success in the Lord will attract more people to you.

They will want to know what you did and how you did it, so they can do it too.  This is God’s light and glory coming off of you and God wants for us to share our success stories, as long as we aren’t the ones claiming the glory. 

Your faith will be increased, by hearing someone tell of changes that happened in their life, that are similar to your experience, and when your faith grows, your relationship and desire to know God will grow. 

You will start to desire to spend more time with God and know his word and to seek his face.   It’s almost like a merry go round.  You hear about God, you start to seek God, and your mustard seed of Faith grows.  Now, you step out in God, and have your own experience in God, and your faith continues to grow, but what happens now, is you now have a personally testimony, you have a personal triumph with God that you can share.  This has taken your faith to a personal level.   

Just like in John 3:42 when the Samaritan woman came back to her people, and told all about Jesus and how he knew all about her life without having met her before.  She proclaimed that Jesus was the Messiah, and she stirred the faith in the people she spoke to from her experience.   When they sought out Jesus, and heard him speak, and saw with their own eyes, their faith grew to be personal.  They were now carrying their own personal experience with Jesus and that makes their faith stronger, internally.

Like I said earlier this is like a merry go round.  Someone sees you on the merry go round, it looks like fun, they decide they want to try it, and it goes on and on.  When they hear you speak of your experience and how much fun it was, it entices them to try it out, and when they do they now have their own story to tell. 

Jesus wants us to share with everyone the personal relationship and experiences we have had with him.  He wants you, to allow him, to change you, and build you up in his ways so that the people around you, will see the changes in you and want what you have. 

This is also why God wants to bless you.  No one wants to serve a God that is not good to them.  You don’t want to work for a boss that treats you poorly, and it’s the same with God.   You want to serve a God that is just, fair, truthful, trustworthy, righteous, long suffering and faithful.  You want to serve a God that loves you, and will lead you in the ways that are best for your life.   This is your God.  When you experience all of the attributes of God you are proud to serve him and proud to say I serve a God who has changed my life, for the better, and I want you to serve him too.

God wants us to be like the Samaritan woman at the well, and have a personal experience with him, and go and share his goodness, love, grace and mercy with all of the people.  Our job as people, who have personal relationships with God, is to not be stingy with our relationship with him, but to speak boldly, and proudly, about the God we serve.  He wants to make serving him contagious!!