Go and Tell What the Lord Has Done
May 16, 2021 · 1:55:32 · Watch on YouTube ↗
These notes - summary, key points, and highlighted thoughts - were generated by AI from the recording and are not the preacher’s exact words.
Summary
This English praise and worship evening was really an outreach service, and it unfolded as an open mic where the congregation shared honest, Spirit-led testimonies. Worship was framed not as a routine but as wholehearted surrender, setting aside every worry and anxiety to focus completely on Jesus.
One after another, believers testified. A woman whose anxiety lifted after she asked for prayer learned that God often gives direction through the people He sends. A sister battling cancer was urged by a near stranger to attend a healing school, where she discovered how to fight fear by meditating on Scripture word by word. A young woman who had spent years gripped by fear of death overcame it by clinging to Psalm 23. Others shared the armor of God, casting their anxiety on the Lord, and the danger of hiding sin instead of bringing it to Him.
The closing message tied it all together. Like Jonah sent to Nineveh, and like the delivered man told to go home and tell his own people, every believer has a purpose and a story. Filled with the Holy Spirit, we are called to be a church that welcomes the broken without condemnation - one hand receiving the sinner, the other lifting him to a holy God. The pastor urged everyone to write out their personal testimony and stay ready to share it, because nothing is more powerful for outreach than telling what Jesus has done in your own life.
Key Points
- Real worship means surrendering every worry and giving God your whole heart, mind, and soul.
- God often sends His direction through the people He places in your path, so stay alert.
- Fight fear and the enemy by meditating on Scripture word by word until it lives in your heart.
- The church should be a hospital and a family that welcomes sinners, not a place that condemns them.
- Every believer has a purpose and the Holy Spirit's power to bring others to Christ.
- Your personal testimony is your most powerful tool for outreach, so write it down and be ready to share.
- Like the man Jesus healed, simply go and tell your own people how much the Lord has done for you.
Devotional
Take a moment to remember where you were before Jesus found you, and where He has brought you since. That story, your story, is not too small or too ordinary to matter; it is the very thing God wants to use to reach someone still in the dark. Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you and to open a door this week, then be bold enough to say, 'Can I share my story with you?' When you tell what the Lord has done, you give another person hope that He can do the same for them.
Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you.
The church is meant to be a hospital and a family, not a place where the broken are judged.
You already have a story. Be bold enough to ask, 'Can I share mine with you?'
