Monthly Devotion
January 1-31, 2024 – Daily Verse & Devotion – The Importance Of Your Testimony
Revelation 12 : 1 -11
Revelation 12:1-11New International Version
The Woman and the Dragon
12 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
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Do You Understand Your Testimony?
In life there are many difficult trials that you may encounter . Honestly , in 2023 I went through some of the toughest trials I have endured as an adult woman that led to the process of divorce . I didn’t want to share my testimony, yet God reminded me in the book of Esther that Queen Esther was warned by her uncle Mordecai that if she did not speak and do what God said then she would perish . Your testimony is keeping you from perishing . Understand that if God carried you through a storm , then it was meant that he would get glory in your testimony. Remember that . So today , do not be embarrassed about your testimony but instead share it so that other people can be encouraged and persuaded to follow Jesus .
May The Lord Bless You ,
Apostle Diamond
Real Life Real Jesus 
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