Matthew 28: 18-20
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in Heaven and on Earth.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the Nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
Teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the Age.
Acts 1: 8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and evern to the remotest part of the Earth.
This has been called The Great Commission, and many think that it only applies to His Apostles and disciples who followed Him then, and pastors and missionaries today.
But we need to understand that all Christians in every time since then have been His students, His disciples. Every believer is a disciple. And every believer has been given this commission.
We are all "called." When the Apostles wrote their Epistles, they were letters to all the believers in each location, not just the leaders. (See Romans 1:6; I Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:6; Ephesians 4:1; Colossians 3:15; I Thessalonians 2:12; Hebrews 9:15; I Peter 1:15; II Peter 1:3; and I John 3:1, for example.)
So each one of us is called to faith, called to be His children, called to be Christians. And we are all commissioned to be His witnesses, to testify of our own personal knowledge and experiences in our relationship with Him.
Each of us needs to be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks us why we are different, or why we respond to something instead of reacting.
Has Jesus changed your life and attitudes about anything? That's your experience, your testimony. Be ready to share it when called upon.
O my Father, thank You so much for knowing me and loving me. Thank You for choosing me to be Your own daughter. Thank You for sending Your own Son to be my personal Sacrificial Lamb to take my death and wash me clean by His precious Blood. Thank You for plannng out my life for my good and Your glory.
Father, You are amazing! You are incredible! You are so much more than I could ever imagine! (And You have given me a really good imagination!) You are my Source of Everything! Source of existence, Source of environment, Source of sustenance, Source of being, Source of every material need in this World. Also Source of every fun and pleasurable thing for me to enjoy.
O Father, I am looking forward with great anticipation to that Day when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is our Lord God, to the glory of God the Father, throughout all eternity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
