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God sees your heart – and He wants to change your life (TV Audio #608)
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- Sep 9, 2026
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Summary
(Filmed in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2026) I remember an experience in Siberia about 30 years ago. We had chartered an Antonov 24 with 25 members of our staff on board. I told the pilot, “I’m paying for this, so I want to fly it!” He put me in the pilot’s seat, disconnected the autopilot and said, “You are flying.” I loved it – but the other passengers were terrified! There is a spiritual lesson in that. God wants to take control of your life. He is the only One who can bring you safely through every difficulty. The Bible says, “God is love.” He is not only a judge; He loved us so much that He sent His Son to pay the price for our sin and set us free. But God wants more than our forgiveness – He wants our hearts. He wants our love. He wants our lives. I learned something about love when I was 21. I was preaching my first major evangelistic crusade when an 18-year-old musician gave her life to Jesus and joined my team. I fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. But I needed to know that she loved me as much as I loved her. She did. And for all these years, her love has never changed. She stood with me through cancer, prison and my years of ministry in the Soviet Union. That helps me understand something of God's love for us. He loves us individually and completely. He knows our difficulties, our failures and our needs. Yet He asks us to respond by giving Him our hearts. I have seen God's power work in extraordinary ways. In one Russian stadium, a crippled man came forward asking me to pray that he would stop smoking. My interpreter did not translate my prayer correctly. Instead, I prayed, “God, this man is crippled. Heal his leg.” The man thought I had prayed about his cigarettes. He threw them on the ground and, with his previously broken leg, jumped on them. Then he s…