Do you believe in the power of prayer? Do you want to be a part of a movement to turn Hollywood and the entertainment industry back to Jesus?
Please join WitnessLA.org and our friends and partners for TheCRY Hollywood - a day of prayer, fasting and worship for our city and for Hollywood on March 15th at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. It will run all day from 2pm-midnight, and will bring churches and ministries together from around the city with a heart for this monumental cause.
It’s not a conference. It’s not a concert. It’s a cry. More information is available on TheCRY Hollywood’s official website or in the videos below:
Have friends in Toronto? Announcing WitnessTO!
The Witness 2.0 family of blogs is so proud to announce the launch of WitnessTO.com on January 30, 2012.
Every day during the week of Jan 30 – Feb 5, WitnessTO will be posting a testimony from their editors, so be sure to tune in to their blog! More info on the official Facebook Event here.
If you know people in Toronto who need encouragement or have friends who are interested in getting involved in sharing their testimony or editing for the blog, pass the word on! It’s as easy as clicking “Like” or sharing the link on Facebook!
WitnessTO will be the 4th addition to the Witness family, the first three being WitnessLA, WitnessHK and WitnessSF.
If you have any thoughts, comments or encouraging words, feel free to leave them here, or get to the WitnessTO site and leave them there!
Much love and many blessings,
The Witness 2.0 Family
For many, Christmas is a joyful time with family. For others, Christmas can be a struggle, the loneliest time of year, or a reminder of what they’ve lost.
Christmas is a story of hope, healing and reconciliation, from God to the world, and now we can do our part.
This Christmas we want our readers to give each other the gift of prayer. Here’s how. Pray for the commenter above you and post your prayer request below. The next commenter will then pray for you. Let’s start a viral prayer chain!
Our Editors will also be praying for each of the prayer requests personally, with expectancy for reconciliation, healing, breakthrough or blessing for each of you in this season. God knows your needs and He will provide, just believe! No request is too big for Him and no request is too small.
God bless you readers and Merry Christmas!
- The Editors of WitnessLA.org
Join WitnessLA.org this Saturday for GOD LOVES LA - believers across the city of Los Angeles and beyond from all races and denominations are joining together for an amazing day of unified prayer and worship for the city! A not to be missed event! Our good friend Jaeson Ma will also be speaking.
Let’s cry out together for the city of LA!
What makes a man rich? Our friend John shares a story of how God used a piece of gold to teach him true value.
At the beginning of the new year, the GBS family went up to a campsite located near the Cajon Pass for a weekend retreat. I had no expectations, other than that I would try and be a faithful servant. On the drive up we noticed there were people parked along the frontage road off I-15. When we got off the freeway I spotted a couple of people along the shores of the Mojave River panning for something.
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The next day we went up to the prayer caves dug into the side of the mountain to pray. After a week of heavy rains, a small gorge had been carved out leading to the drainage tunnel under the road. I climbed into the half-filled drainage tunnel and looked around. My eye caught a glimpse of a shiny yellow rock as the sun’s light faded. I picked up the nugget and put it in my pocket, with the plan to look at it later in better light. I joined the others in the caves and prayed as the afternoon faded to dusk.
That night after dinner, I emptied out my pockets in the cabin and realized I had forgotten about the yellow nugget I found earlier. Excited, I went to the bathroom, where the light seemed the brightest, to take a better look at the yellow rock. The more I looked at it under the weak flourescent light, the more it looked like gold. Hastily I showed the golden nugget to anyone who would listen, each time with growing confidence that it might possibly be real gold.
Early Sunday morning before the dawn of sunlight, I went to the prayer caves alone to pray. I was excited with what I had discovered and wanted to pray and give thanks to God. I searched the Bible and found a passage on treasure and read. “Do not save up for yourselves treasures here on earth, where moths and rust destroy and thieves break-in and steal. But save up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and thieves do not break in and
steal.” Matthew 6:19-20
In the bright light of the morning sun I realized that I had not discovered real gold, but fools gold. I had made a fool of myself for being so sure it was real gold. But the real importance of what I found was in it’s symbolism. The Day is coming soon when the gold we store up in heaven will be tested in the refiner’s fire. We live our lives not for worldly treasures but for the goal of finishing in heaven. The race we run begins when we accept Christ as our savior and the finish line is when we die. ”his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work.” 1
Corinthians 3:13
I realized the true gold I had discovered was the fellowship of brothers and sisters in Christ, the GBS family I had recently found. It is genuine faith that brings praise, glory and honor to our Lord Jesus. So if we live our lives for Christ, then Christ is within all of us who believe. “These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:7
So regardless of where you are in the race of life, whether it is halfway run or you’re behind everyone. Do not worry and give haste. Although you can’t get the time you’ve wasted and give it back to Christ. We can finish the race strong from this day forward and live our lives for Christ. From when we accept Christ we live the rest of our lives for Him and run the race knowing that we have Christ within us that gives us our strength. ”Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.” 1 Corinthians 9:24
On the final day of the retreat Neil Cole gave a testimony about his father-in-law Ray who passed away with dementia. Ray’s life made me realize that what made him a great man was Christ in him. Although dementia had stripped away the character of the man family and friend’s knew as Ray. What remained in Ray to the end was Christ, who continually manifested Himself in him.
So let us be encouraged by each others faith and live our lives so that when all is stripped away in our lives, that what remains with in us, is Christ. The true gold I had discovered at prayer retreat was the gold that is within my GBS brothers and sisters in Christ. ”Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day
approaching.” Hebrews 10:25
On February 12th, we are celebrating the launch of our third testimony blog with Uniting the City: The Official Launch Party for WitnessSF.org - a night of worship, testimonies and prayer for revival in San Francisco.
For all our readers in San Francisco, please join us! For everyone else, please help support the cause by adding your Bay Area friends to the Facebook invite here.
On February 12th, we are celebrating the launch of our third testimony blog with Uniting the City: The Official Launch Party for WitnessSF.org - a night of worship, testimonies and prayer for revival in San Francisco.
For all our readers in San Francisco, please join us! For everyone else, please help support the cause by adding your Bay Area friends to the Facebook invite here.
On February 12th, we are celebrating the launch of our third testimony blog with Uniting the City: The Official Launch Party for WitnessSF.org - a night of worship, testimonies and prayer for revival in San Francisco.
For all our readers in San Francisco, please join us! For everyone else, please help support the cause by adding your Bay Area friends to the Facebook invite here.
Has a story on our blog ever touched you? Have you been blessed by the testimonies, stories and videos on this site?
If so, this New Year’s we’re asking you to make the resolution of helping to support us at WitnessLA.org and our mission of using social media to preach the Gospel of love and redemption through Jesus Christ. These funds also support WitnessHK.com and our team spreading the gospel in Asia (as well as future blog plants in other cities).
How can you help? There are two ways:
1) Buy a t-shirt, hat or coffee mug from our Official Store here. We get a portion of every sale, and it helps to pay for all of the ministry expenses. We are a fully volunteer run organization.
2) Become a monthly subscriber by using our PayPal Subscribe Button on the right side of this page. It looks like this:
Paypal makes subscribing easy and it takes less than 5 minutes to sign up. For as little as $5 a month (one less trip to In-N-Out), you can be a part of what we’re doing in this ministry and ensure that we can continue to share real testimonies of real people in our city to those who have never heard the Gospel before. Thus far, we’ve reached over 26,000 different people around the world through our blogs, and the number continues to grow every day.
We are not yet officially a 501(c)(3), so your subscription may not be tax deductible at this time, but we hope to incorporate as a non-profit organization soon.
We need your support! Any amount helps!
God bless you,
-WitnessLA.org
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