bondfire ministries held it's March meeting on Saturday, March 3, 2007. Our ministry leader Israel has decided to allow others to come in and share from the Word and their heart. As we strive to incorporate different ministry techniques to enhance an already effective ministry, having a featured or guest speaker helps to create variety in teaching/speaking styles. For March, David Martinez was given the opportunity to speak to us, by sharing his testimony. He used the subject "The Story That Cannot Be Told" , although one may think "if it can't be told, what was he telling them?" Good question and here's the answer.
As we travel on this journey called life, we experience so many things. Situations that mold our young minds, oppositions that sharpen our character as we grow into adulthood. Birth of a child or the death of a parent or sibling, career moves and job losses, buying a new home or going on a much antiscipated vacation. All of these references are stories that cannot be told with the passion, drive, excitment, pain, humor or candor unless you've experienced it yourself.
NO ONE can share your testimony like you can, therefore it is a story that cannot be told . . . . by anyone else but YOU. David's story was one of strength, hope and deliverance. A story of extreme candid memories and the pursuit to serve God in the midst of betrail, lies, rejection and hurt, all of which were inflicted by the Church. Having the "grace" to fulfill his daily tasks at a church where he was interning yet not knowing if he would have a meal that day. As David stated "I didn't have any money, but i had my pride" has he mentioned nothing of his dire situation to his family and friends.
He shared as how the enemy sought to distroy him even before he was born, when a dark desire from his father was to have him aborted because the pregnacy was an unplanned one. Experiencing the "indirect" rejection by his father at an early age, made him shy in his youth, but a man of focus and drive as an adult, and thankfully God came into the life of this brother.
Whatever God has brought you out of, remember this. Your testimony has the ability to tug at the hearts of the listener, especially those who have yet to know the Lord. It serves as an encouragement to the believer but as a tool to reach the lost. What has He brought you out of? Don't hold your story to yourself, remember, others can't tell it like you can, just like no one could have told David's like he did.
