Your Testimony Is a Weapon — Use It

"And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death." — Revelation 12:11

Brother — six months into this blog. If you have been with me from the first post, you are a different man than you were in November. Not done. Not perfect. But different. The Spirit has done what you could not.

I want to close this season with a charge.

You did not walk through this fire for yourself.

There is another man right now, somewhere, sitting in his car after work too ashamed to go home. There is a husband whose wife discovered something this morning. There is a 22-year-old in his first year of marriage who has not yet told a single soul that the addiction came with him into the marriage. There is a pastor who is sitting at his desk preparing Sunday's sermon while wrestling with a sin he has hidden for fifteen years.

These men are why God walked you through what He has walked you through.

Your testimony — the specific, honest, scripture-anchored story of what God has done in you — is a weapon against the thief in their lives. Revelation 12:11 is not poetic. It is operational. The blood of the Lamb is the foundation. The word of your testimony is a weapon the Father has placed in your hand to wield against the enemy on behalf of other men.

Three things, brother.

1. Write your testimony. Not for a stage. For a back-pocket reality. "Here is who I was. Here is what God did. Here is who I am now." Write it specifically — vague testimonies do not move men. Bring it to your team. Have them sharpen it.

2. Make yourself available. When the Spirit prompts you to text a brother, text. When He puts a man across the lunch table from you who needs to hear something, say it. When your church asks for someone to lead a B.O.L.D. group, raise your hand. The men who have walked the road become the leaders for the men coming behind. Always.

3. Stay humble. Two years from now you will be tempted to think you have arrived. You have not. The thief is patient. The day you start telling other men "I am beyond this now" is the day you are most exposed. Stay in your team. Stay in confession. The brother who taught me this work has been at it twenty years and he still does the daily check-in. So do I. So will you.

This is not the end of the journey, brother. This is the moment you stop being only the man being rescued and start being also the man helping rescue. Both at once.

The Lion of Judah has been with you the whole time. He still is. Now go and walk with another brother into the freedom He has given you.

I am praying for you tonight.

— Bryan, B.O.L.D. Ministry