I’ve never used the word “connoisseur” in any context besides food, but I feel like I’m becoming a connoisseur of testimonies.  I’m loving the stories I’m hearing from readers of The Circle Maker!  My faith is on fire!

I’m always praying that God would get my books in the right hands at the right time.  I heard today from a pastor in Tampa who was reading The Circle Maker and when he got to the paragraph where I wrote about praying circles around our children he stopped reading and started praying.  At that very moment, his son was in a car accident. He swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and his car flipped over several times and landed upside down. He and two passengers walked out with one scrape! That’s it.  That’s no coincidence. That’s providence.  God didn’t just put the book in the right hands at the right time. It was the right paragraph.  That was the Holy Spirit prompting him to pray!

I love stories like this. I need stories like this.

Sharing testimonies is a lost art form.  Have we forgotten our doubled-edged sword? Revelation 12:11 says: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

Testimonies are the way we give God glory.  But there is a side benefit: hearing a testimony is like borrowing faith from someone else.  If God did it for them He can do it for me!  If we fail to share testimonies, we don’t know how God is moving.  In fact, we’re tempted to think God isn’t moving at all. I promise you, He is.  Aslan is on the move!  And if we all shared our testimonies, it would lift us off our feet.  We would realize that the quantity and quality of miracles happening today is way beyond what we read about in the Bible.  Greater things!

We need to be testimony collectors, testimony tellers, testimony connoisseurs.