Building Blocks For Testimony 1

<p>Monday 8th March&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>A beautiful Monday to you in the name of Jesus. We thank God for today, for another wonderful work week and to all the women out there we say "Happy Women’s Day". Today is international Women's Day and if you've noticed, all the principal character we've been using are women - Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah. Why? God recognises and honours women and we appreciate them too.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>This week we’ll be talking about “The building blocks for testimonies.”</p> <p>If you are involved in any type of building, maybe a house or even the immune system of your body, there are certain things that are important and are required to be used. Whether you'll call them building materials or call them building blocks, they're required things that you need to build anything that will last.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Sometimes the materials used for building are not the things we like, but it's not a function of what we like or not; if it’s important for the building to stand, then we go with it. For instance, I learnt that one of the materials used in making a vaccine is the virus or bacteria that is causing the problem. The virus or bacteria is weakened, used in creating the vaccine which is then inject it into the body. The body then develops its immune system and be able to resist that virus or bacteria.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Just as medical experts inject virus that is meant to be undesirable into our body to build our immune system, God also uses something that we find undesirable to build our testimony, that thing is called tests. The tests of life, the challenges of life, the trials of life are the major building blocks that God uses to bring testimonies into our lives.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Nobody likes test and that's the truth. When we were in school and they say there would be a test most students are not happy. Why? Tests can put you in a very difficult situation; test can be very challenging, humiliating, distracting and discouraging especially when you don’t know how to