Bill Johnson - Testimony Brings Encounter with God's Nature
So our inheritance is the full record of God's interventions and activities among people. That's your inheritance. What is it good for? It helps to bring about victory. Why? Because it engages me not only with God's history with men but also with God's nature, as the testimony reveals the nature of God. Simply looking at the activity of God—well, we talked earlier about Thanksgiving, our response to His works, and praise, our response to His nature. The activity of God points to the character of God, and when we engage with the character of God, we are actually ushered into opportunities for a profound relationship, and that's where great strength comes. So when He says to keep the testimony of the Lord, to me, it looks like this: it's all the testimony so closely related that they become the lenses through which you see your present circumstances. You look at your present circumstances through the lens of God's activities among men.