A Book By It's Cover

As Jesus said unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not Afraid,Only Believe. I say to those who have experienced a love one's conversion. Many people have awoke to the command "Pick up the Mantle and Lead", In 2kings 2:13 Elisha is told to pick up Elijah's mantle and lead and so many other's are told to do the same. Usually the first person's we witness to are our family and it is there that we meet our greatest resistance to our conversion. Armed with all the weapons of our pass to be used against, it's a trying period ,especially when faith is weak from new birth as a baby's legs are when coming out of the womb. There is fear coming from both sides, beside your fear, there is the fear of those who want to believe their prayer's have been answered, but are to weak in faith and only can see what you were like. Those who have forgotten that, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"(Hebrew 11:1). They can't see beyond the past because of the hurt they are holding on to, and so they do ult! But this is the time for you to remember the Apostle Paul, and how he felt when Jesus sent him to the leaders of the church who were still in hiding from him because he used to be the persecutor of the church. Think about what fears of rejection he might have had, and how in his fleshly mind he was being told that you must be a fool, going before the same people who you were hunting down to kill,Do you really believe that they will listen to you? The Bible tells us that he obeyed and they accepted and today that same Bible is telling us to obey and they will accept if only WE believe in what we are being told! Do you believe? And if so stand strong and let you faith be known, first to those who know you and then to those who don't! The Bible tells us in Isaiah 43:9-11,that we are His witnesses and they are ours, and its these love one who can tell of former things and can proclaim that only because of Jesus could these new things have taken place so be strong and Take Up Your Mantle and Lead and He shall guide your steps. Amen....Thank you!