AS A WORSHIPER OF GOD: WHAT IS YOUR TESTIMONY?

Sunday 17 February, 2013

Pastor Bonnah Sumo

Acts 9: 36-41

Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

 38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, "Please come to us without delay."

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.

 And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.

The scripture talks about Dorcas who was very kind; she helped a lot of needy people.  Dorcas means large eyes. She was someone who could see the poor in the mist of believers; she could see widows in the mist of believers.

When she died, a lot of people were crying. They were sad because she had been good to them. When the believers head Peter was in Joppa, they went to Joppa and told him to come with them as soon as possible for someone who was so helpful and useful has left us. When Peter went he saw all of them crying. He asked them all out, and when they went out, he closed the door and knelt down to show that he has no power of his own, he humbled himself before God, worshiped Him, then afterwards he called her to rise up, and she rose up.

You can’t be a true worshiper without a testimony. When Jesus met the lady at the well, He told her that a time is coming when true worshipers will worship Him in truth and in Spirit, not in Jerusalem or on the Mountains. A time when the entire deity of the Godhead will dwell in us.

What is your testimony as a true worshiper of God? What can be remembered of you when you are not a round or even when you are not alive? Today Christians must live a life that would be example for others to emulate. Christians must utilize their time to the benefit of the work of God.  We must devout our time to worship God in Truth and Spirit and make time for the only one true God.

You can not be a true worshiper if you are not in talking terms with people in your house. You can not be a true worshiper if the people in the community in which you live can not testify good things about you.  True worshiper should have good testimonies.

Can someone experience or feel the presence of God when he or she visits your home. 

Dorcas was a true worshiper and for that reason at the point of death she was brought back to live due to her good testimonies.