Christ in Us: Hearing and Obeying God's Voice
June 26, 2022 · 1:40:35 · Watch on YouTube ↗
These notes - summary, key points, and highlighted thoughts - were generated by AI from the recording and are not the preacher’s exact words.
Summary
This youth-led English service was given almost entirely to open testimony, as members shared how God spoke to them and how obedience to His voice changed lives. The leader reminded the church that our testimonies are not merely stories - they build faith, encourage one another, and prove that the same God who moved in one person's life can move in yours.
One after another, believers testified. A brother obeyed a quiet prompting to turn back and help a stranded mother at an airport. A young man described finding God in the wilderness of grief after losing his father to cancer. A teen was kept awake by God to pray for two friends in crisis, and both found breakthrough. A guest from Ukraine told how she survived an attack and learned to trust God's plans above her own when war forced her to flee Kyiv.
The closing word drew everything together from Galatians 2:20 - it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. We cannot make ourselves holy by effort; righteousness and holiness are received by grace as Christ lives within us. The call was simple: listen for His voice, obey it, and let Him make us light and salt in the world.
Key Points
- Your testimony builds faith - in you and in everyone who hears it.
- Learn to recognize the Holy Spirit's voice and obey it, even when it is inconvenient.
- Wilderness seasons of grief and uncertainty are where hunger for God grows deepest.
- Prayer can change situations that look impossible to us.
- God's plans are higher than ours; trusting Him means not always demanding to know why.
- Sin loses its power when it is brought out of darkness into the light and confessed.
- Holiness is not self-effort - it is Christ living in you.
Devotional
Take a moment to ask where God may be nudging you today - a call to make, a person to help, a prayer to pray. His voice is often quiet, and obeying it can feel inconvenient, yet that is exactly where faith grows. Remember that you are not asked to become holy by your own striving; you are asked to let Christ live in you. When you do, the life you live in the flesh becomes a life of faith in the Son of God who loved you and gave Himself for you.
Sometimes we simply have to recognize the voice of God - and obey it.
The wilderness is the place where faith grows and hunger for God runs deepest.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
