Preach God's Word: We as Christians need to seek the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to receive power, to live holy lives, and to preach God's word with boldness. It is through the preaching of God's word that God calls people and draws people to Himself to be saved.
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.(Romans 10:14-17)
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians 2:13-14)
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14).
Trust God's Word: When we preach God's word that is it. We don't need to trust in anything else because God's word is from God. There is none like Him, there never was nor will be. That means you as well. We cannot trust in any degree we may have, nor any experience we have, nor any personal attribute we have(i.e. great speaker, good looks, humor, money, or I.Q.), not even our own testimony of what God has done in our own life. Trust God at His word.
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. (Matthew 5:18)
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void. (Luke 16:17)
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.(Matthew 24:35)
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40:8)
Live God’s Word: We cannot just preach God’s word and trust God’s word but we must also live out God’s word. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:27)
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. (1 John 3:9)
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. (James 2:26)
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.(Hebrews 4:12)
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