Building Blocks For Testimony 2

<p>Tuesday 9th March&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>A wonderful Tuesday to you in the name of Jesus. We thank God for this lovely day and we thank God for what He’s doing in our life, remember every life is testimony including yours.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Yesterday we started talking about the building blocks for testimonies, if we’re going to build anything; we need the right materials or the building blocks. Also we said the major building block God uses when it comes to building testimonies in our life are life’s tests. Somebody said the word testimony means tests are many and in reality, testimonies come from the tests of life.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Life’s tests are those situations that are challenging, a lot of times they are humiliating, they can be very distracting and discouraging. But it’s in the midst of all these things that God begins to work out His beauty, His power, His wisdom and His grace in our lives especially when we handle the tests of life according to His word.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Let’s look at the life of this young lady called Mary again. Can you imagine yourself as a young lady in a small communal environment? You become pregnant without a husband, and you tell people God is the father of the child. According to the law, any woman found to be pregnant without being married should be stoned to death. So you can imagine how challenging this period must have been for Mary and how challenging it was for her fiancé Joseph.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Matthew 1:18-20 (NLT)</p> <p>This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. Joseph, to whom she was engaged was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, the son of David” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within he