Soul Food
Soul Food
TDV: Hear Him Only
In this episode, we take the Transfiguration from Matthew 17 and make it personal—a call to silence distractions, doubts, and the subtle voice of the enemy, and to listen only to the voice of Jesus. Through Scripture, music, and a powerful real-life testimony of hope, we explore how choosing His voice over every counterfeit brings clarity, courage, restoration, and lasting joy.
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SPEAKER_04:Hello dear friends, may the Lord Jesus bless your life. Today I want to talk about the voice that came from heaven. That was the voice of God. Jesus took Peter and John to the mountain. You can check in your Bible afterwards here on Matthew 17. He had twelve disciples, but he took only three. Peter, James, and John. And then he was transfigured before them. He was transfigured, he was lightened before them. They saw the glory of God in Jesus. He was shining like the sun, his clothes became white as the light. And those three disciples, they saw Moses and Elijah. And then Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here, to be here where they were in the mountain, but above all they were in the presence of Jesus. And then he said, If you wish, let us make here three tabernacles, or three tents. One for you, one for Moses, another one for Elijah. While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and suddenly a voice came out of the clouds, the voice of God saying, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear him. Hear him. There was actually an exclamation mark. God said, Hear him or hear him only. Because in that moment, Peter wanted to hear Elijah, who was already dead, he wanted to hear Moses, who was already dead, but the voice of God came to them. We are always, everybody is between the voice of God and the voice of the devil. Good and bad, evil and holy. Which one do you choose? So when Peter had apparently a good intention to build three tents, the voice came from heaven and said, Hear him only. So the message here today is this: Hear him only. That's why in the universal church, we open the Bible and we show what is written, not what I want you to know, not my thoughts. We read the Bible, we show the Bible verses on the plasma, the screen, the TV on the church. We make sure that the people read the Bible, not just listen to us. He wanted to listen to Moses, to Elijah, to divide the faith, to divide the heart into three. And the voice came from heaven. This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear him, so do not hear others. Hear only the voice of God. Read the Bible, pray, and don't forget to identify who is speaking: God or the devil. God bless you. Have a good one.
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SPEAKER_05:The voice of faith takes away the bathrooms. Brings a certain tense with God. Confidence within my soul. That the feature will be achieved the voice of faith is stronger than I'm against the great storm. My life will never be the voice of the voice of that. Brinks asserted and sweep God. Even the case of Christ. Even against the great storm, my life will never be.
SPEAKER_02:Since my teenage years, my uh young adult, I guess, um, I started feeling just sad, empty, like something was missing. And I'm not sure what it was, but uh that's how I felt. I didn't feel like in front of people, I would smile, I would be looking happy, but when I was alone, I felt that sadness. I felt that something, you know, um, I felt hopeless that I wasn't able to fix my problems, that it was too much. Being a single mom at a young age and trying to make things work on my own, and um just I don't know, just life, financial problems, all kinds of problems. Everywhere I turned, I saw problems. And it was, I think that's what made me feel hopeless that I couldn't take care of the things that I need to, and that would made me feel more and more um sad or depressed. You know, I had a lot of bad thoughts things uh come that went through my head. Uh sometimes I felt like oh, it would be better if it all was over, and the only thing really that kept those thoughts away was knowing that I had a child that depended on me. And then I tried to to find solutions. I tried to in friendships and going out and parties and with uh friends, but you know, none of none of that really helped. The lowest point was when I I I started having a lot of uh financial problems with my son. I didn't, I couldn't, I was not able to be, uh to take care of him. And I tried many different ways to to resolve that situation. And the more I tried, the more things got complicated. So I was no, I was losing the place we lived, I was not, uh, I was out of work, and I really didn't see a solution for my problems. I went to see this lady that was supposed to help me, and she told me there was no solution for what I was trying to do. And on my way back, I passed through the front of the church, and the pastor was standing there, and I think he saw in my face that I was sad, and he stopped me and he started talking to me, and he asked me why I was sad, and he told me about the church, and uh he told me something that I will never forget. He told me, he told me, go home, don't worry. Today you're gonna have an answer for your problem. He said, God is gonna give you an answer for your problem. So I thought it was all very strange. I thanked him politely and I went home. And that day in the afternoon, the lady that I went to see in the morning that told me there was no solution for what I was trying to do, she called me and she told me there might be a way for us to go around it and fix and take care of this problem. I stopped coming and I came, I came two times, sometimes three times a day, just to hear the word because the word was was making me feel better. It was giving me hope, which is something that I didn't have in a long time. So um, so I came and I listened to each word and everything the I listened, I try to practice. And I had many conversations with the pastors, with the helpers, and uh everything they told me to do, I would go and do it. I think the first results that I had was uh that feeling of hopelessness, of uh was gone. It was the first thing to go away. Suddenly I had hope uh that things could get better. And uh then I started seeing uh things just fall into place financially wise. Uh I saw things happening, uh, I was able to get a job. The Holy Spirit was something that I learned very early on uh on my walk with God. I learned that we it's something that I needed to have to be able to stay firm in his presence. So um so I started looking for that. I really wanted to have it because I saw how the helpers, the pastor, how everybody seemed different. They seem happier, they seem secure, they seem just different. And I wanted to get closer to God, and I I thought um I needed to have the Holy Spirit to be able to get closer to God. So as I I learned about it and I I used to come to the meetings, I did campaigns to be able to receive the Holy Spirit. I participated on a vigil that was uh that the pastor preached about that exactly, that you know, you you we're never gonna really be deserving of the Holy Spirit. But if we if we really want them and we seek them, then we will we will receive them. And I think that's what I just what I needed to hear that day. And that same day, that same night I went, not in the meeting, but uh that night I went home and I seek the Holy Spirit in my house and I received it. I really can't explain. It was a different sensation. It was a great joy and same time knowing that how small I was, but God was giving me this greatest gift. So it was an amazing experience. So receiving the Holy Spirit changed the way I saw things, the way I did things. My uh my my being able to reach out to other people and talk about God and and help, all of that changed. Eventually, uh me and my my my son's uh father, we got back together after 10 years. We met back in church and we were able to fix the problems where we had, and now we've been married for 15 years. So after 10 years, God blessed, and we were able to get back together. So that area of my life today is uh is a complete blessing. I'm happy to have God. I uh the Helena back then that didn't have God, she didn't know how she was gonna go forward, and that is totally different from who I am today.
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