Effective Strategies for Ministering and Witnessing with Clarity and Impact 6-16-26

It is necessary for the people of God to witness and minister properly in order for it to be effective. However, first things first! That’s how you will be able to get lasting results. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear (1 Peter 3:15).

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3).

Your defense should be so powerful that if the person is not open to what is said at that time, seeds have been planted: I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.  

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase (1 Corinthians 3:6-7).

 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and teaching (2 Timothy 4:2). You may not preach like Peter, or Paul, but you commissioned to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to whatever part of the world you are in- GO (Matthew 28:19-20).

 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;  for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:

TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands (Acts 17:23-24).

Like Paul, I speak confidently and boldly when it comes to proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You see, when I got saved, I greatest desire was to please the Lord with my whole heart.

My new life began on a Monday morning, March 15, 1982. During all these forty four years of life’s ups and downs and despite my fleshly desires and failures, God looked at my heart.

As the Spirit of God continues to lead me, my testimony will be told to whoever and wherever the Lord sends me (Luke 12:12).

Please stop sitting in church, getting fat off of dessert and be about our Father’s business. If you’re born again, you should be following Jesus’ example: Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business? (Luke 2:49).

As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,  if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious (1 Peter 2:2-3). Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).

Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org