10.Whose voice are we to be hearing today?

The voice of the Holy Spirit.

A Christian church begins in the fire of the Spirit of God, hearing the voice of the Spirit of God. Then, if it is not careful, it begins to trust in its own ability to carry out the programs that the Spirit began.

We are never to do that. We are to remain as humbly dependent on the Spirit of God for every detail as we were when we began.

How difficult it is for humans to wait on the voice of the Spirit of God! How much more would we prefer to take hold of the program and make it work!

The only success that ever comes about in the Kingdom of God is when faithful men and women finally come to the realization that nothing is accomplished in the Kingdom except by the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit.

Working in the Spirit of God brings both fruitfulness and dominion. The Spirit never fails. He comforts us, enables us to bear witness, and brings forth the image of Christ within us. Let us learn to pray, live, and labor in ministry in the Spirit, always in the Spirit, only in the Spirit.

What is the Holy Spirit of God saying to each of us now?

. . . To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest (Psalms 95:7-11).