
A Living Testimony 5
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<p>Monday 29th March </p> <p><br></p> <p>A beautiful Monday to you in the name of Jesus. </p> <p>Today is the last Monday in the month of March and the last working week of this month ad we thank God for His grace and help. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The bible says God is the One that calls the end from the beginning. He knows the end from the beginning. God does not start anything that is destructive! He has a great plan for our life. The bible says, God’s thoughts for our lives are thoughts of good and not of evil. The reason why God allow us to be here on the planet is because He has good intentions for us, if we stay with God and cooperate with Him, our lives will turn out well no matter the challenges we face. This is what it means to be a living testimony - a life that brings glory to the name of God in spite of the challenges.</p> <p><br></p> <p>1 Samuel 2:1-4 (NLT), Then Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD! The LORD has made me strong. Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because you rescued me. 2 No one is holy like the LORD! There is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. 3 “Stop acting so proud and haughty! Don’t speak with such arrogance! For the LORD is a God who knows what you have done; he will judge your actions. 4 The bow of the mighty is now broken, and those who stumbled are now strong. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The above bible passage was Hannah prayers of thanksgiving. Hannah had experienced a lot in life. She had been childless for a while, as a result she was an object of scorn and ridicule. Hannah’s trust in God was tested. Even Eli, the priest in charge of the temple mistook her for a drunkard while pouring her heart out to God in painfully in prayer. God saw Hannah’s heart and turned her story around. She eventually had a son called Samuel who was one of the greatest judges in Israel. God made Hannah to rejoice again. Her son Samuel became the one who ordained the first two kings of Israel. </p> <p><br></p> <p>We must understand that the