The Challenge to Hear Jesus Talking

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Life’s biggest challenge is to be willing to hear Jesus talking. He doesn’t say what I want Him to. What He does say hurts my pride–my facade that says that I’m doing alright running my own life. It’s so easy to just ignore Jesus and go my own way pretending to be okay. But I’ve come to realize, if I won’t hear and humbly respond to Jesus talking, I will make a never-ending mess of my life.

Forever Changed

Dead to the voice of the living God,
Controlled by self-focused desire,
Ruled by pride and disobedience,
Inwardly defeated by guilt,
Deserving of God’s punishment,
Avoiding His Holy presence,
Insensitive to His great love,
Unaware of Christ’s rich mercy,
One day I heard Jesus talking
And started walking
With Him!

At the start of each day
I hear Jesus talking.
Before I get on my way
I hear Jesus talking.
When my conscience speaks
I hear Jesus talking.
In valleys and on peaks
I hear Jesus talking.
As I listen and pray
I hear Jesus talking.
If I begin to stray
I hear Jesus talking.
When I open my heart
I hear Jesus talking.
When I need a new start
I hear Jesus talking.
As I read Bible verses
I hear Jesus talking.
In all of life’s reverses
I hear Jesus talking.

Listen. Deep inside your heart you can hear Jesus talking. I love listening to Jesus! He said that His sheep hear His voice. Do you?

When you spend time with people in a humble, Spirit-led environment, you can see their hurting heart and experience the living Jesus Christ together with them. If you listen, you will hear Him speaking.

If people attend a church that doesn’t listen to Jesus and talk about His Cross, about our sin, about repentance, and about Christ’s salvation, they’re usually seen as Christians, but if Christ-followers who daily listen to Jesus don’t attend an intuitional church they’re often seen as rebellious and out of line. Does that line of thinking make any sense?

The Bible says for Christians to assemble ourselves together (Hebrews 10:25), but that verse doesn’t say how we are supposed to do it. Here are 2 verses that tell us how to do it (along with the 50+ “one another” commands in the New Testament): Romans 8:14 and 1 Corinthains 14:26. Anybody can open a church but only the risen Jesus can build the members of His body together as living stones.

Churches are dependent on God, not vice versa. If Jesus isn’t actively talking in their midst, they are only a religious lecture center.

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