Christ in Us: Hearing and Obeying God's Voice

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] john [Music] to raise our voice heaven and earth [Applause] [Music] and [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] let's pray jesus [Music] thousands [Music] boys [Music] [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] praises [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is oh [Music] our voices [Music] a thousand generations [Music] singing worthy [Music] we are here gathered today for one purpose and one purpose only lord it is to glorify and praise your name it is to hear the testimonies of what you are doing in our lives what you have done and what you will continue to do jesus i pray that you by the presence of your holy spirit begin to touch our hearts touch our minds lord so that we truly experience something something new something transforming something that brings life lord so that we are not here in vain but we are here to truly be touched by your love by your grace by your mercy father god we give this service into your hands we allow you to use us move through us speak through us and whatever it is that you have in your will for the next hour or so that we are here we entrust you and we just give all of ourselves [Music] you have all my attention [Music] new [Music] is [Music] i wow [Music] in the mornings [Music] there is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] ah [Music] [Music] my [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] lord i will love you is [Music] wow [Music] is [Music] my desire is [Music] [Music] of heaven god we think that we're able to be here god thank you for bringing us to this service thank you that we're able to experience you god and be able to feel your touch god because you have offered yourself to us god you made a way for us to have this time with you you made a way for us to have a connection to you god to have a way to be in eternity with you god and we want to open our hearts to you god in this service and in our lives lord jesus we pray that you may help each and every one of us god through this service and through our own time to open up our hearts and receive you and receive your touch and receive your word [Music] my [Music] [Music] and thousands [Music] and thousands [Music] yes [Music] [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] for yours is the kingdom of yours [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is the glory forever [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] true [Music] is [Music] we're singing is we're honoring him and we're praising him because he's good and we're worshiping him because [Music] me [Music] let it rain [Music] let it rain [Music] yes [Music] thank you lord for gathering us all here today you'd open our hearts to your holy spirit to your voice when i pray that um during this testimony time lord that you would give this desire on these people's hearts lord but to tell of your glory and your goodness that to tell others of your hand in their lives and how you know if we're going through something right now that you know that we are not alone that this also that god moved in my life so he can too in yours and that this testimony time that the lord would touch our hearts he would be willing to testify of his glorious goodness lord we fill with the holy spirit and fill his presence [Music] you may take your seats you guys did an awesome job i'm very thankful that we have a group in our youth that is willing to uh to lead us in worship or you guys you guys agree they did a great job and i thank god for them and they even have a desire to also do live worship so you know i first of all being a youth leader i i bless them in that and i pray for them and uh those of us that are here and uh you know if you can give them a word of encouragement pray for them so that god's able to you know give them all the resources necessary the dedication the commitment um and the so that they're able to truly worship god and to be completely honest just you know just you guys leading that session even though there was no live instruments or anything but you could very well feel the spirit you know working through you and i experienced that personally so you guys are definitely gifted talented and god bless you you know in in your guys future plans and whatever god puts on your heart um so as many of you know i mean i we haven't had these services uh for a while unfortunately but thank god we're here today and we're able to um have them again so and many of us already know we like to have a open mic uh testimony time so people that are here they can come and testify and just share what is god doing in our lives what you know maybe it's a testimony of healing maybe of breakthrough uh whether you know physical or spiritual whatever it may be maybe it's just a testimony or a word of encouragement god places these things on our hearts why and luther mentioned in her prayer a little bit it's so that we can encourage each other it's our testimony that empowers us that edifies us and allows us to be like wow so if you know daniel's going through something and he found breakthrough you know maybe maybe that same area in my life i can also find breakthrough and it builds that that faith sometimes that's needed and we through each other are able to make it happen so it's very important that if god puts it on your heart there could be someone sitting here today that needs to hear what you have to say so be obedient be bold and share what god has put on your heart so right now is your time this is you know open mic will you know give the time necessary to what you know to what you guys have whoever would like can go first and we'll just you know go by a raise of hands after that so yeah so peter share word good evening church it might be too much for me speaking today i never did speak maybe last 10 years as i'm speaking today and i cannot not come up and talk how real is our god uh i wouldn't come and speak but god i believe that's the holy spirit struck me something to my memory and say you must go and share that that's why i'm here as you heard i was on a mission trip to mexico and i was on the way back early morning sunday last sunday in patula airport marcus our interpreter was you know with me that i have no problems you know he speaks english and spanish and i already checked in i got my tickets and we were waiting until we go upstairs i mean on the second floor to the customs and passport control all that and we see one mama son and daughter and they were like trying to fix something something did not work out they were so disappointed and she came to us and said can i use your phone marcus said no we have no service because he did have no service his phone from guatemala and he straight we have no service we can help you but i don't know why i did speak i do have a phone and she actually needed to quote to us and i knew how i have to dial to us you know plus one and area code and i said yes you can use it she started to call it many numbers to her husband her father nobody answered the phone they had a problem that on her son ticket when he purchased the tickets from states through the air company uh you know um airline he put the two names like they do it in latinos you know their first name are they confused they said you cannot fly you have too many names mama wearing cow he has a ticket let him go they said no we're not gonna let you go go fix that she's calling u.s you know nobody answered she called more than 10 people everybody's sleeping this is you know nobody answered yeah and she's i was feel inside like a little good because i did help i tried to help but it really didn't help and then it's time to go upstairs to the passport control i was marcus i have to go we have a driver a rented car and all this we must go he was running to his family to guatemala i understand him but i had a time like two hours before i fly my fly or boarding and i was feeling like i should wait something was telling me i should wait and try a little later you know again and again maybe she could read it but i said i said let's pray and on the same time in my mind we're praying liu personally in the problem you know we're not helping her but still we did pray we prayed he said god will let you put over again this problem in your hands you know you'll know how to figure out how to help the lady we prayed and i left marcus you know to the driver and i left kind of obedient and disobedient halfway and i went on the escalator upstairs and i see many people waiting i go straight to the passport control they say we're not open until eight it's only 7 30. i was thinking maybe i sit on the floor like those people and wait and there's something in my heart that's a you must go back and try again with this lady called state you prayed i could obey or not but i was thinking why should i sit on the floor i go downstairs i came back and said and she's trying to talk to other people you know to get the phone nobody has the service somehow i with my us phone have a service and she saw me she oh can i try again i said sure she called and she reached somebody and i believe it was fixed and he could fly we prayed everything to look like impossible yes she couldn't reach the right person in the states but after we prayed and kind of obedience you know i could say no i don't go there but you know i'm a believer for many years i can recognize when it's so you know like one time again and again trying to like make you do this you know it does not come out from your mind and you understand hey i have no choice i have to go and that's how is god is real in our life i don't know you might not feel the same that i i really had to go through this you know but i'm blessed and i feel good that i obey and did go back to that lady and she could fly or her son could fly you know what i'm saying sometimes we have to recognize the voice of god i'm being feeling blessed that i can be used by god thank you praise god thank you for sharing and i know the youth knows uh you guys you guys can if you want yeah um so yeah it's all glory to god that's a testimony of something that god did so our applause is obviously for the glory of god just to make a note but we we as a youth know very well that testimony in a sense of because we've been you know i've been talking to you guys about that out of your identity and what god speaks to you that we're you know when we listen to god's voice and we obey it that's what builds our faith you guys you're all aware of that so i'm actually surprised that he shared a testimony before any of you guys did but you know i'm sure you know you guys will well uh somebody will surprise me so well let's keep it going peter shared let's see if we can get somebody else it's a great testimony is your hand okay looks like we got somebody hello you must be wondering who is this guy with shorts on my name's daniel i'm visiting i know taras from man before you guys even got married and uh we got really close um in one conference we went to together in north carolina um but today i just kind of was gonna share um about wilderness um what is the wilderness the wilderness is the unknown um it's ultimately a place where faith grows and thrives when we get out of our routines and our patterns um every so often you know you come to church you sit down and it's easy to get in that pattern of you know i just checked off what i had to do because that's what i was brought up into right and it's easy to just have all life go by in this manner of i go i confess i do all these things but i never really truly understand why i went through that and sometimes we have to go through a wilderness season in our life a great example of a man in the bible who went through something like this is job you know he went through a wilderness season in his life where not only did he go through problems in his life right while believing in god doing the things he daily did he went through all of those things feeling like god left him or he was alone and i think moments like those are the most trying for a christian when you're going through things and you're like god why me i've been so good in this i've been doing all the right things i've been saying all the right things um donating whatever it is you've been doing and you still feel like why and that's that wilderness but if you pay attention if you really pause and accept that wilderness season you gain something very remarkable and you get an opportunity that not too many people get and that's ultimately you realize that you're hungry because when you're hungry and i'm not talking about like food hungry it's i'm talking about like a spiritual hunger you realize that when you're going through all these things you're like i really really miss and need the lord i really really miss that feeling of comfort even though maybe i can't see it but it's that almost like wind gust of a hug that covers you that hunger is something that's just hard to contain if you ever went camping you know that if you don't pack your supplies or forget something well you're out of luck and that's how life is you go through it you don't know what you need nobody told you hey you're gonna go through this you're gonna just a little backstory on me at 18 roughly 19 transitional period i lost my dad to cancer he was fighting it for four years really tough thing to go through um he agonized from pain he went through the doctors and all this stuff and then i experienced all that right while also believing that he would get a healing and that was one of those moments of like god do you hear my prayers do you see what i'm going through right and after he passed away all the responsibilities following you as the older son right and you start just putting this attention on god of like him filling in everything that your heaven your physical father your biological father was doing and if you haven't experienced this wilderness season in your life you will eventually it's only a matter of time one man once told me there's two very important things that happens to every man one becoming a father two losing his parents sometimes i speak with people who are way older than me but i still connect with them on such a deep level because even though i'm not a father i have experienced death of a parent anybody whose mentor understands another thing that's beautiful about this hunger that you develop into earth wilderness is that when you attain that food that spiritual food from god you start eating it undignified and i think it's a beauty because very often we want to present christianity as a very beautiful structured almost idealistic thing but sometimes it's not david gives us a great representation of that of what a relationship with christ looks like he undignified undignified danced and just expressed his compassion love for christ for god where nobody could just understand and i think if you get to experience this wilderness and you truly take the time to pause evaluate and just ask god to take the most out of these lessons of life it will change you forever and you will have a deeper more intimate walk with christ that might be undignified to other people but that's fine because we are meant to be set apart and that's just what i had for today thank you thank you daniel for sharing um that testimony we're with you and we thank you for you know the experience not many of us like you said have experienced maybe those type of things but those of us that have um let us be encouraged by that you know look for god in those times rather than run from him or blame him and just he will really fill you and show you something that will change you forever thank you daniel uh we'll keep it going and those of you that are like oh i'm just gonna wait till the end uh this time does end the testimony time does come too close so if you have something to share and you know it's weighing on you in the holy spirit it's like this is the time to do it because our time is limited so who's next oh bella alrighty this is a new youth member so i welcome her okay so i have not one but two stories of how god's voice and prayer can lead you to changing a person's life and these both happened in the very same night the exact same night within minutes of each other this was about maybe two weeks ago i'm trying to go to sleep and i just can't i keep waking up i'm tossing and turning i cannot go to sleep and i think i'm going crazy i've never felt like this before and suddenly the phone rings i grab my phone it's just on the charger beside me and it's a number i've never seen before and i think probably just a spam caller but i think no i can't just leave it ringing here or hang up i need to answer the phone i answered the phone i realized it had been a facetime and not a regular call and i see my friend who i haven't spoken with for several weeks because school ended she is sobbing she is on the floor in her room crying and i asked her what's wrong and she tells me the worst thing i'd ever like heard in my life which i won't be repeating now for her privacy's sake but it was so bad that i too cried with her on that phone i thought there is nothing that i can do to reverse this but i can pray so that she may be healed i prayed for every day she had her entire family praying for her she calls me yesterday isabella i finally had a good night's rest i finally ate three meals in one day after what happened to me thank you when it within minutes of me hanging up on her i get another facetime call i'm thinking whoa god has kept me awake for a good reason and this person that calls me is my best friend i'm probably her number one confidant she comes to me for everything so i know that this is probably an emergency i pick up the phone you know i'm wiping my tears i'm not going to explain what happened to her but then i realized she too is crying and ask her what's wrong i was just on the phone with my other friend is something wrong with you too she tells me i'm so upset that we can't hang out before friday and ask her why what's wrong what's happening friday she says i have brain surgery friday they think i have cancer and that i won't survive the surgery and i cried again because what else am i supposed to do but i remember praying and praying because i was like i cannot have her die before i see her again she calls me on thursday i don't have cancer they canceled the surgery i'm going to live and that very saturday afterwards we hang out and it was so weird seeing her on my bed me hugging her us hanging out together and as she was alive so the next time that god's voice tells you to do something and to pray for people you might end up changing not one but multiple people's lives and that's all i have for today wow bella that was an awesome testimony man it would be nice to hear those like on a daily basis you know what i mean like that was that's so encouraging like you know as simple as a phone call you know or as simple as just having a conversation with somebody in the holy spirit leading you to say something to that person and it leads into something greater that's i mean we heard it from that we heard it from bella so like very powerful i want to see more and more of that for sure um anyone else we got a little bit yeah yeah we'll have her as the main main word okay [Music] oh we do have a live stream okay i'm kind of nervous about it it's a little bit nervous because i haven't speak to like a big crowd so my testimony would be like how did i become a christian i come from a small country a saboteur i think he's been there yes he's been there so huh okay okay okay so um over there we have education system where um you meet people huh okay there we go we have education system where you meet people like around a and you stay with those people the whole your life until like you're 14 and that's how it is you don't change um nothing it's always going to be the same people until like you're 14. so between a uh six to a i had different teachers and then when you become a there's one teacher who stay with you until like you're 14 years old and that's your main teacher like the main person you have to stay with so when i was a i met my teacher who was going to stay the rest of my life until i'm 14 and then like she would guide me to like to go to college and stuff like that right and her name was miss daisy miss daisy was a christian person but like catholic so she came to the rune and i disliked christians at that time i really disliked because my family got a divorce because my mom my stepmom he was a witness to god and my dad was a catholic so they got a divorce because of that reason so it is like christians so much and this teacher came and she told me she's catholic and automatically i was like i dislike you i don't like you i'm not going to listen to you i'm going to misbehave i'm going to be a horrible student towards you and she came to the room and she's like um my name is stacey i'm going to be a teacher and there's something i want to share first jesus loves you and i was like you're not supposed to speak about god in a school like it was like a it was a military school so you're not supposed to talk about it and i was like angry at her because she was saying all that stuff but and then she's like i want to pray for you guys and he was like in shock i was actually in shock because this teacher was different than everybody else and through my life when i became 14 i came to america but before coming to america she prophesied well i didn't understand what she was saying to me i was just angry and crying and she was like you're gonna go to america she didn't know that i was going to america because my father changed my name and i was pretty much like an orphan in the school nobody knew who my parents were it was a whole mess and she was like i pray for you and you're going to come to america when um you're going to go to america but there's something i need to tell you and i was like what you need to listen to the christians that are going to come into your life and i said no and i'm going to listen to this question i said i don't even going to go to church and she said you have to and i was like no she's like you have to and then she give me in my country we are really poor and she gave me a golden necklace with jesus christ and she gave it to me and i know her salary and i was like why did she bought it for me like you know why do you waste the money you could have about it for food or anything else and then she's like actually believe what she said she saw the the christians were gonna come to my life and i need to listen to them and i was like okay and i stick to the necklace i said it was exciting because i never had goal in my life so i was actually really excited i was like oh my gosh i have gone bridge you know 14 year old guy in this country nobody has clothes so i hide it under my like i had like a little uh i built something like this small like a little pocket and i put it under like the bed and i keep it there like all the time and then i made a promise to myself when i come to america if i actually meet the christians i wanted to behave like my teacher i want to listen to anybody else if i don't behave like my teacher i'm not going to listen to them so a lot of people came um the first people they came they came to my house and you know who they are the winners of god they came to my house you know they got door-to-door and i opened them and they were like we want to talk to you about heavens nope i closed the door then mormons came you know they got house to house and i was like we want to talk to you about i didn't really remember what they said nope i closed the door i was rude i was by myself at my house most of the time so i was answering almost the door and then other people came some weird people came out said nope anyways when i turned 17 i got a job in a country club and this is where it gets funny i met a guy his name was walter schumach i think walter shimak he came to me he was like your name is walter and i was like yeah my name is walter too and he's like i know you and i was like how do you know me i never met you before we went to the same school and i was in shock we went to like the same like we went to venice high school we have i had one rune over here he was in the next room he's like i used to hear you call your name all the time to the speaker because i used to get in trouble a lot he was like is it me is it me do i have to go so he would go to the front i would be in the principal office talking keep yelling at me and smack would come in and it's like am i in trouble he's like no we already got the guy and he's like i know you and i was like okay and then he um he tell me a little small thing about jesus and i know him i walk away so then he did something stunning here we were at work and for some reason he started talking to the co-workers about jesus i don't know why and my boss was so nice he's like i want you to step out for a minute it's a weird work and we don't allow you guys to speak about jesus or these things you know because you might offend some people and he was like okay he sit down the co-workers were making fun of him and i saw him and he was just like my teacher when i saw him i saw the reflection on my teacher so i i stood in front of him and i didn't say anything i look like a like a real person but i literally stood in front of him and i just look at him and i remember he said i don't know what he said but he told me verse of the bible and then he just smiled with me and i was like okay this guy is weird anyways in the end of the day i was outside looking and i was like i saw the reflection on my teacher on him and i was looking into we can say heavens or the sky but i was like this is the guy i'm supposed to listen to it how do i know and then he was like he came outside and he told me like oh he got right up he told me today is a great day and i was like you got yelled by my boss people were making fun of you and nobody likes you but you're saying it's a great day and then he looked at me and he was like i want to invite you to coffee and i want to talk to you about jesus and i say yes and i listened to him actually and then i became part a conservative church in norpor it's a ukrainian church which is crazy as a spanish person i literally went in there and i saw so many reflections on my teacher and how she used to teach me about god and then i decided to stay and then that's my story how i became christian thank you okay praise god thank you walter for sharing your testimony um we have a guest speaker today for the main i guess you could say the main word but i think we have just a little bit of time maybe if anyone just the last call maybe one more person that uh would be willing to share something if not it's okay we can get into the main message no okay alrighty so uh this is uh so her name is lana yeah her name is lana she's from ukraine uh some of you know from the morning service so she has uh something to share with us today she'll probably be speaking ukrainian so or russian oh okay yeah i just knew here from ukraine hello everybody and uh really for me it's maybe no it's not first time when i share my testimony but maybe it's the first time when i share my testimony in english easy church but i'll try to do it in english um really i can say that i am living living miracle because almost two years ago one my relative tried to kill me with the knife and who was in the marine on okay oh you can he'll help me with the some difficult english words that i it's not in my vocabulary okay um and uh really now i understood that he has planned for myself because i'm alive and okay i'll i'll tell the story uh in the uh january of uh 2020 i uh heard one or watched one video sermon from david wilkerson about uh importance of prayer for family and for unbelievers that you have and he asked do you have your everyday prayers for your relatives who go to the hell do you have just one day per week when you try to fast and don't eat don't use instagram or snapchat just for special fasting and special seeking of god special for your uh relatives and i was crying after that word because i understood that said about myself that i i'm not yes maybe every sunday i raise raise up my friend and brothers and sisters please pray for my father who is alcoholic or for my brother tween you know my brother was gentleman uh before we were born because he he let me born first and then in 20 minutes he was born i'm from tween yeah but he is not christian yet yet is keyword and i understood that i need to do something versus that word that i get from david wilkerson and i call to my mom and um you know my mom okay a little bit earlier story my mom saved 28 years ago and it was because some missionaries from sweden in norway sweden oh thank you for improving the english they came to the jemelinka it's a small city provincial city in vinitsa region in ukraine and they do outreach service and my mom came and said she she were safe was saved oh thank you after that i am as a kid of uh mom christian sometimes i visited sunday school and sometimes i visited summer camps for kids christian camps but you know maybe you know too sometimes every every camp we had like repentance prayer in this camps but for myself it was in in the moment when i uh repeat this prayer it was so serious okay it was so serious jesus christ he died for my scene i need to repentance like that but when the camp time finished and i'll come back i was i came ba came back to my society to my class to my sports team because i was like professional runner it was the same life and the same i do the same with them now no difference between my as a christian child who already do this repentance prayer and and other kids and you know i was so ashamed to tell somebody that i am pentecostal that my mom and me we go to the church every sunday and i know that here in the u.s it's okay but i know that very often people they say i am christian but they do not live as a christian and i love to sing and really i uh my love to singing it was like one of the reasons that i visit some uh youth ministry like that and you know once after service two or three guys they asked me okay come with us we we will train one song for a minute for sunday school and then come back to the church and we uh go on the real way because meringue is uh like a big station they are a real railway station or amtrak like here i'm truck yeah and one of this guy he asked um oh first he said you know uh it looks like on uh under our church somebody had like a yeah robert you know and you try to be like more holy you try to be uh like not like everybody because you know in the church in the youth not everybody live like as a christian really yeah we together when we in the church we are so right we are so like uh um holy yeah like white and but when we can come uh to the world as we are as we are christian or not do people see our light do people see that fear has a difference in our daily routine in our daily conversations and he this guy with whom we go on the real way um they he asked i have an idea i want to have um [Music] revival yeah thank you revival in the our small marina city but i know that revival starts from myself it's not start from somebody but from my heart from my decision to follow christ with all my heart not only on sunday not only um when it's uh easy or when it it's uh important or or when my parents see or somebody else but it's because i i want to believe and i want to follow christ with all my heart and uh he suggests um his like challenge you know would you like to uh start like whole life it means like um life without any uh almost a small smallest thing without any um excuse me yeah any mistakes yeah no you know it life without mistakes it's impossible really but life without sin is possible with god because viscose all things are possible yes we can do something but he as a father is a good father and maybe he is more good father than our papa our lady because he know our hearts and he want to help us and he suggests to have this uh challenge to to live without any sins like try to with god's all things are possible and he uh called everybody who was with us in this railway and then a few more our friends and then oh maybe in lana if she wants and you know i uh go a little bit uh forward and i'll turn like that and i say yes i want to live a whole lot a holy life without anything and you know if before it was so ashamed for me to say i am christian i am don't want to like drink wine or something else that they usually do but after that i understood it is doesn't matter what people think about myself what my friends will think about myself but it's so important that my heavenly father think about my life my decisions and this moment i hear i know that i decided to follow jesus and you know in few years i was on the way to my home late night and one man who was drunk drunk yeah he tried to yeah myself and when we he released a little bit my throat um i say you know you are in serious risk yeah like that it's there it's very serious it's serious risk yeah because now you touch not only myself but you touch the god eyes because you know i'm christian i am god's lovely daughter and you know he do the same and he like he was so cruel but when he let me a little bit say something one more time he he heard the uh the prayer of like pentecostal prayer you know and he i don't know what happened but in few seconds i see him like this exit door and he [Music] saw on myself is like scary scary eyes like that and in few more seconds he run from run away i don't know praise the lord uh what happened but i i don't know if if if it was some angels that my father said or it was like heavenly father that came and say it's my precious daughter you couldn't do nothing this year and you know it was like my lesson that if i decided to follow jesus with all my heart not only a little bit not only when it's useful for myself uh he will save from circumstances from people from everything that can be bad for you and one more fact you know i don't know who was born in the family in the christian family here everybody or oh no not everybody yeah and i'm not that's why i didn't have like experience how i can pray and when i heard some prayers that i like i repeat it and fun it was like my favorite i said please lord make my heart whiter than snow and later i saw this sport in the isaiah but before i don't and um for myself it was like very uh very interesting fact because nobody knows that i uh i pray like that and in few days after my repentance on the railway i was in the small prayer group in the at home of my of one sister and she uh took and god through prophetic word through her set i want to make your heart whiter this that then snow and for me it was like surprise oh really god he heard my prayers it is not only worth it is true god heard your prayers and it is so big privilege to know that you are you are the daughters and sons of heavenly father king of kings who can do everything for whom nothing is impossible it's like oh wow and you know i want to share one song with you um it's song maybe it will be the second one first about ukraine the last ones that i sent it's in ukrainian but i know that you know in ukrainian and then i if i have time i can share two more thoughts yeah [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] teach me [Music] me [Music] from [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] who gave us [Music] [Music] [Music] it's yes [Music] people um one more four years maybe four or five years ago in the netherlands i heard one sermon with a message losing control and loving it and for myself it was like oh sometimes it is wasn't going as my plan as i planned before and you know um it is not like usual when when they are bombing our city the capital of ukraine cave uh february 24th it was my birthday and i wasn't planned to run some somewhere or move in another country but you know we spent um two and a half days in the on the way to poland and after that um almost two months in europe in different european countries and for myself it was like god what i should do where you want me to live and as my plan i am going i was going to get married last summer one year ago but now i understood that if i get married last summer my fiance uh stayed in ukraine because you know now it's like common mobilization for men uh from under 60 and only because he's videoer and he lost his wife from because of cancer he get chance to go across the border with kids and now he's in in us too through mexico city through tijuana you know as a communitarian parallel status but for myself it was like one year ago i had so god five feet did we couldn't get married why it's so like long time to wait like that but now i understood that god's plans are better than mine said god's ways higher than ours and when i lose control the right reactions are right uh hard be simple but not ask why why it not going like like i want to go to be and you know is it like in illustrations that help me a lot when we lose control we can go to our childhood and we won't we were like five six years like this princess yeah how are you where's your old how old you are sorry seven oh can you come for me please i just want to show something where is your name malvina oh you have some princess name okay maybe stay here that everybody will see you okay um let's imagine that i am a father and she is my daughter and you know now she is not saying think about like what i will wear tomorrow like i said or where i will have a money for paying my bills like i said or what i will eat tomorrow if i have something to eat or not you agree yes because she knows she had a father and they said task for your the most important task to do not lost your father has his hand very like you know it's the same with our heavenly father he knows everything and the most important thing to do like that is him his your hand is in his head and may god bless us enjoying loving this process of trusting god when something happened as we are not planned yeah thank you dear okay maybe i do not have time just you know that i don't know if you have some pain in your heart but for myself my experience that if you have some pain which nobody knows god can heal your heart and really you know if you have something the scene has power and the scene inside sorry ah it's the darkness yes the thing has a power when it is in the darkness yeah we're gonna try thank you [Music] so that means the sin has power because it works and operates in darkness and if you want to get rid of it it is important important to bring it into the light was nice it's like it's like a poison [Music] you're actually hurt like hurting yourself by holding that offense in your heart and that grudge the deeper it gets tim uh problem too much then you'll have more and more problems the mushakuli because [Music] and it will continue to pour different kinds of things into it and then you'll just realize you're further and further away from god and the best thing you can do when you have a fence [Music] find an accountable person thing in your heart that you will fly like with wings i didn't uh was i wasn't planning to share this with you guys today but it was on my heart why and his uh this cleanse like yeah the girl's purity represents christ and he tries his best to steal this boy uh maybe [Music] uh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] is [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] praise god thank you lana so much for sharing with us tonight it was very nice to hear you know and you're from ukraine so we're not used to having you know visitors from ukraine as often but because of the circumstances we're able to hear you know what what your guys are going through and testimonies and just it was a very great blessing thank you for joining us yeah and your english is right her english was really good like for the fact that she just came from ukraine so good job on that i don't know if you went to school or what but it was a it was an honor and a blessing to have you tonight and we thank you for for your award um so we're going to close out our service for tonight i thank you everybody that participated with testimony with song it was a good time and i believe the lord has spoken to us in very in many areas and i just wanted to share a verse before we have our concluding prayer it's actually the verse of the day today and i believe in a way kind of wraps up everything we talked about it's in galatians chapter 2 verse 20 it says i have been crucified with christ it is no longer i who live but christ lives in me and the life which i now live in the flesh i live by faith in the son of god who loved me and gave himself for me so you know th this verse is so powerful how apostle paul is talking about how real it is to him that the life he's living isn't his life and as sister alana mentioned about you know being white as no and the holiness and the righteousness some of us might be sitting here thinking like how right the reality of the situation we are in today it's hard right if we try with our efforts to be so perfect to be holy to be righteous it seems so far it seems so distant right like how are we going to obtain that how are we going to get there but this verse actually exemplifies what is needed what is given to us by grace to be able to achieve righteousness holiness to be white as snow and what does it say that he clothes us with righteousness right and white in white clothes without blemish right there's no spot no blemish i mean none of us here are fully clothed in white physically but so it's a spiritual reference that if you are in christ and christ is in you that by christ living in you and it is no longer you who live and he lives in you by faith you receive his righteousness you receive his holiness right but not because not because you're doing it but because he lives in you so the key here for us to remember is that he empowers us unto righteous living he gives us the ability to make the right decisions to stay away from sin to walk in the path of righteousness and holiness that his kingdom has in store for us so that's just my encouragement as we close out tonight that we allow christ to reign and live in our lives and for us to hear his voice as bella said as brother peter said and to respond to that voice and to allow the holy spirit to ways of righteousness ways of holiness to be a light to be the salt to the earth and be responsive to the spirit for him to do in us and through us what he is willing to do and i believe in a way that kind of wraps up what everything that we heard here today and that is my encouragement to all of us let us remain in the spirit let us be filled with his grace and let it empower us onto righteous living so that we can be examples and and and of the presence and the kingdom of god on this earth amen all righty let us stand to our feet and we'll have our final prayer and god bless all of you guys and everything that you do and hopefully when we have another service like this we'll have even more testimonies and even more examples of how god is working in our lives let us pray father god we thank you for this night for this evening that you have given us the opportunity to be gathered together in your name to worship you to praise you to lift you up and to and to glorify you in this place father god and we thank you even more that we were able to hear many testimonies we were able to hear things that you are doing in our lives god the things that you are doing through us father god the testimonies and the testimonies of your witness that that the holy spirit is working in us and through us god that we can believe that if we desire to walk in your way lord to be filled with your spirit to desire and practice righteousness god that by that we will be able to obtain salva not only salvation god but we will be able to enter into eternity and bring other people on this world that they are living in darkness in pain and agony father god but through but through your life in us god we can bring them into eternity along with us father god let us be examples of your kingdom let us be examples of your glory your light for this world today father god every one of us here let us be empowered let us be edified by your spirit by your by your grace in jesus name we pray amen and you can greet each other we can have some fellowship and be blessed