Watch the inspirational video given above titled The Christian Ripple Effect.

We all know how important it is to talk to others about Christ. But we shouldn’t forget about the impact of how we live our lives as well. Just think, you may never meet the person whose life you helped change.

You can call it the “Ripple Effect” or “Trickle Down Blessings”. It is ultimately Gods’ will that none should perish. He has a plan, and this is a great video to show how sharing Christ, inviting someone to church, pays Eternal dividends! Something to think about the next time someone asks, ‘Why do you wear that cross?’, or ‘What is it about you, you are always happy’? Even though it sometimes seems it is not so, sharing our faith is always a winning situation!

This video makes you realize how sharing Christ with just one person can have a ripple effect and lead so many others to our Lord. Don’t be discouraged if you feel like you sow and never reap! You are sowing what someone else may reap later. No sincere effort is lost!

We have so many opportunities each day to plant seeds in other’s lives in the everyday things we say and do: a smile, a kind word, patience & responding like Christ rather than fleshing out on someone who really deserves it. Can you imagine that day when we stand before the Lord to hear Him say “Well done, Well done indeed!” as He opens our eyes to reveal all those “Nate”s that are in heaven because of us!

From nothing, nothing comes. We must engage, risk, be bold and love unconditionally. Love motivates us to action, open your mouth to share what God has done for you. Don’t wait, this might be your last chance. Live this day as it was your last, knowing that the prize (or treasure) is on the next side of this life.

As christians, sharing Christ to others is an opportunity; a great privilege to honor & glorify God and yet, this is the least that we can do to let the whole world know of Jesus Christ!

Monkey-hunters use a box with an opening at the top, big enough for the monkey to slide its hand in. Inside the box are bananas. The monkey grabs the banana and now its hand becomes a fist. The monkey tries to get its hand out but the opening is big enough for the hand to slide in, but too small for the fist to come out. Now the monkey has a choice, either to let go off the banana and be free forever or hang on to the nuts and get caught. Guess what it picks every time? You guessed it. He hangs on to the banana and gets caught.

We are no different from monkeys. We all hang on to some nuts that keep us from going forward in life. We keep rationalizing by saying, “I cannot do this because…” and whatever comes after “because” are the nuts that we are hanging on to which are holding us back.

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To keep moving forward in your christian life, there are 3 things you need to do:

1. We must make proper preparations

A. Consider the saints – the clouds of witnesses serving as our encouragement and challenge to us who have finished their race and have attested of the faithfulness of the Lord God how He kept them, sustained them, and took care of them.

B. Lay aside weights and sins that only hinders you from moving forward in your christian life. These are just like the nuts to which the monkey hangs on to in the above example. Let the Bible help you examine what are these things that should be laid aside.

2. We must have endurance.

Compare the sufferings you have already encountered to that what Jesus have suffered for you and me. Jesus left heaven, lived on earth, held nothing back, went for it all the way to the cross. He who has given his life for you and me so that we may have eternal life. Have you suffered to that degree? That is why we are told to compare our sufferings with His when we feel like giving up. He endured until the end so that we might be saved. Therefore let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

3. We must guard our priorities.

We must see to it that our first priority is always to know Christ and seek Him in our life. Every accomplishments, every single cent of possessions , every business is all but temporal . The fame, the power , the money all vanishes leaving nothing but a sad legacy of an empty life.

Read more in this sunday sermon.

1. Friends in Christ are friends forever.

2. God made you so special and I’m so glad He did!

3. If I made a list of all the ways God has blessed me, Your name would appear again and again.

4. I’ve always thought of our friendship as one of God’s little miracles because just thinking about you blesses my day.

5. Friends come in all sizes, large and small. But there is no friendship greater than ours. Thank the Lord for His many blessings.

6. Praise the Lord in all things. For He has blessed our lives with friendship.

7. To my closest friend. God made my world more beautiful when He gave me you for a friend.

8. Our friendship is a blessing to me. I thank Him every day for His grace and mercy.

9. In your words of comfort I hear God’s voice. In your acts of kindness I see His hand at work. I treasure your friendship as one of my greatest blessings.

10. Of all the blessings the Lord sends us, friendship must be His favorite. I’m so glad we’re friends.

11. Your friendship makes it easier to understand how much God loves us. Thank you for being my friend!

12. Dear Friend, you are awesome in His Sight!

13. Friendship is like a garden. You must nurture it with love. May God keep our friendship always in bloom.

14. I was talking to God the other day and your name came up. I told Him how grateful I am to have you for my friend.

15. I’ve been praying to the Lord that He watch over you and protect you. I’d hate to see anything happen to you when friends are so hard to come by these days.

16. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher

17. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire? - C. S. Lewis

18. We picture lovers face to face but friends side by side; their eyes look ahead. - C.S. Lewis

19. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis

20. A faithful friend is the medicine of life.