Priscilla Shirer joins Laurie Crouch and Holly Wagner on TBN’s Praise to discuss how to make prayer a priority. Listen as they unpack how clearly you can hear God’s voice if you bring everything in your life to Him.
you’ll be amazed how you’ll begin to see
the encounters that you have the
circumstances that align the little
beckonings and convictions of God’s
spirit how they all begin to work
together to help you to realize you
actually are hearing God’s voice and
seeing his Providence as he steers you
in the direction of his will for your
life
tell us about you if we were to just
squeeze you what do you think your
life’s message is is it one particular
thing or is it just I mean you talk
about everything but it really is
that the scriptures that from beginning
to end they really are a meeting with a
person yes and that if I can encourage
people to see that the Bible itself is
not just a book that we’re not just
supposed to know it here but that it
literally by the holy spirit’s power is
translated into an experience with a
person in our regular everyday rhythms
of life where you experience his passion
his peace you actually sense The Joy the
Comfort the The Nearness of God through
the scriptures that’s what I want to be
able to communicate I want the
scriptures to come alive as it did for
me not only in church as my dad preached
Faithfully every Sunday as he still does
to this day and not only sitting at the
knees of my mom with her little flannel
board pieces as she would you know put
them there on the little you know the
little feltics
Sunday school kids
so you know not not just in those
instances but when we’re just quietly at
our kitchen table just reading whatever
our quiet time is for the day that
that’s not supposed to be a duty just to
check off that we did our quiet time
right this is his love letter to you
yeah and if we open our hearts up to the
reality that that’s his intention is to
speak to us then we meet the author of
The Letter not just the letter itself
yeah right it is the Living Word of God
yeah if if you don’t have some of these
books you better get something I’ve been
listening to the audio version of this
for the last couple days and I’m telling
you
um hearing the voice of God you know and
Discerning
um the voice of God it starts first with
listening it does it starts with
listening and to be listening to the
scriptures I think we’re listening to
everybody and everything else hoping to
find the voice of God elsewhere when we
are really turning our our noses up at
and ignoring the main means of
communication that we have access to
straight from the hand of God and that’s
the Bible if you want to hear from God
and you don’t never read the Bible then
you don’t really want to hear from God
right because that’s the primary way he
speaks people want it you know
skywriting and yeah smoke signals it’s
like no open the Bible God will speak to
you that’s exactly and think about this
you know we look at the people in the
Old Testament who had some of those
things that we desire you know the the
fiery pillar by night and the cloud you
know in the day and and all of these
different things and we look at the
dreams and the visions and Donkey
speaking and all this stuff and we’re
like Lord if you can just do that we’d
appreciate that you know if lightning
would flash at noon tomorrow if you want
me to take the job or not we want that
but think about the fact that the
psalmist prayed and said Lord please do
not take your spirit from me they want
it in the Old Testament what we have
access to that’s right the reason they
needed all of that and not that God
can’t still do that because he can if he
chooses to but the reason they needed
those things is because they did not
have the gift that we have yeah and that
is the holy spirit
that’s exactly right yeah we were just
actually at church recently talking
about the Holy Spirit and who he is and
and it um one of the you know the
paraclete is the word that would be used
to translate it and that it’s actually a
battle term which you’re probably aware
of and you’re so deep Polly and so deep
you are so so deeply spiritual
um and it’s an ancient battle term and
so the Greeks when they would go out to
battle you know they would go in pairs
and you would fight back to back
protecting each other’s back well your
battle partner was called your paraclete
so the Holy Spirit hey girl that a
preach right there right yes it does and
it so did yes it is he’s your battle
partner yeah and don’t if you actually
don’t connect and build this
relationship with him right then how how
are you going to hear and you’re right
so many times we spend so much time
flipping through social media and
getting on Facebook and we spend all
that time looking for information to
make decisions and he is our guide
that’s right right it’s his voice he’s
he’s wants to guide and direct us yeah
and I think there’s a misconception that
the enemy sort of pushes on individual
Believers that there is some special
hotline connection that God has with
some of us that he does not also offer
to everyone that if you haven’t been to
Seminary that if you’re not in Ministry
that if you don’t have this religious
devoted elevated life of spirituality
that you don’t also have the opportunity
to hear from God but I’m so grateful
that it’s just that hearing God is for
regular women you know what I mean just
Housewives and people trying to fold the
laundry and cook for their kids and
figure out new ways to cook chicken for
dinner it’s for us you know what I’m so
I’m so grateful
um that it’s not just reserved for
certain people at certain times but by
God’s spirit we all have access to hear
them because I think I’d be gooned
that’s right that wasn’t if that wasn’t
the case I think that’s probably one of
my most
um
if anybody if I could open my mouth and
say anything is that God loves you and
that God is there and that God is with
you and the Holy Spirit never leaves you
never you know that’s my passion if I if
I ever tell anybody that is that it’s
not just for the guy that’s up on the
pulpit yeah or preaching or that it’s
just for us no matter where we are no
matter for all no matter what yes but
okay how did you start doing the kids
stuff when did that take place you know
what it started about six years ago now
I was making scrambled eggs in the
morning as you do that’s right my
four-year-old at the time was already
sitting down eating his plateaus
finishing up another plate and my
four-year-old said while my back was
turned to him he said Mom will I ever be
in a battle
and I just said what babe he said will I
ever be in a battle like with Satan
and it’s one of those questions where
you kind of turn around and go now what
you know what what were you dreaming
about last night you know what where’d
that come from and so it startled me but
I just kind of turned around and he had
this this innocent wide-eyed
um look that he was very serious he
wanted to know the answer that question
so I took the opportunity after after
praying really quickly and saying how do
I answer this Lord I just said you know
actually babe you you are in a battle
with the Enemy every single day you know
that tug that you feel on the inside to
engage in something maybe you shouldn’t
to say something to be mean to and then
you feel that pull back and forth about
whether or not to do it that’s the the
war and then by this time his
six-year-old brother comes around the
baby at the time was in the crib I mean
he’s like little teeny bitty and I said
guys you do know you have invisible
armor right and to a four-year-old and a
six-year-old boy hearing that they have
they’ve got a sword what there’s a
helmet available and so I just started
and we started memorizing Ephesians
chapter six wow and so as I was looking
at how engaged they were in this idea
that there’s a spiritual battle and that
they’re engaged in every single day as a
mom who’s hoping her boys will love to
read I thought to myself wouldn’t it be
great if there was an adventure series
that really was all about fiction all
about some kids who discover that there
is an invisible realm and that in this
invisible realm they meet a guide this
guide shows them and gives them access
to the armor that they have available to
them to defeat the enemy there and that
the victories they experience there in
aortos which is which is a Greek word
for invisible that the victory they
experience there translates to their
experiences on Earth if they can just
learn how to get Victory there they’ll
experience Victory here and so I just
started crafting these chapters for my
boys and I would read it to them before
bed and and craft these characters and I
sort of Base the characters off of my
boys and nieces and nephews and I didn’t
intend to write them for publishing I
was just writing them to read to my boys
so that we’d have something to read
together and so here’s six years later
we have the prince Warrior series and
it’s for Prince and princesses alike
who just want to to learn how to arm
themselves to stand firm against the
schemes of the enemy wow it’s so good I
I actually can’t wait to read those to
Jordan
hello
you never know but I just have so many
young people in my world yeah I I just
think it’s
well personally I love the
it’s like why I love C.S Lewis because
he could fiction that actually could
make the point right I just feel like I
learned so much from that yeah almost
more than somebody teaches that’s right
you know like yeah he’s telling the
story and the goal was to give organic
opportunity for there to be a
conversation between a you know a 10
year old and their mom or a 10 year old
and their dad about something they read
and it just hinted at something that
caused a spiritual interest to be peaked
that opens the door for this
conversation about spiritual things
the way Jesus told Stripes that’s right
gorgeous that’s right exactly so the
theological principles are just all
tucked in there somewhere that’s great
we actually decided on theprince
warriors.com what we did is we had this
little button called secrets so that a
parent or kid can click on secrets and
actually see what the theological
secrets are that are tucked in each
chapter wow so if a parent hadn’t read
the whole thing but they just want to go
in there and they know their kids on
chapter two book two they can go in
there and see what the secrets are and
then bring it up at dinner and say hey
when you read this what do you think
that meant so we just are trying to stir
the conversation a little bit that’s so
cool okay so a few months ago we were at
Bishop Jake’s church and you got the the
big oh beautiful award they’re beautiful
people aren’t they aren’t they amazing
and my mother-in-law got the lifetime
achievement yes she did and um so you
had your kids with you your boys three
beautiful boys
giant boys I mean I just remember them
from being little every day
but you
um something that touched me so much
during that is that you started uh
telling the the audience what you speak
over your kids so just talk about that
did you did your parents do that to you
um like that or was it just something
um that you I’m trying to think of
exactly why I started doing that what
the specific reason was I don’t know
that I can remember I just thought this
is my opportunity to get something stuck
in their head get a message stuck right
the time this is my opportunity you know
while I have an audience while they’re
here and nothing with me that’s right
I’m going to get this this soundtrack
stuck in their head because I know the
enemy’s coming after them I know that
he’s going to try to make them feel
insecure and discouraged and overwhelmed
and frustrated and like they’re
ill-equipped to do whatever God has for
them so I have literally said nearly the
same thing to them for years and years
every morning they know what’s coming I
say boys look at mama in the eyes and
they all go oh and they love it you know
is that what’s happening
okay they’ll tell this story 40 years
from now they’ll do this sitting here on
this set so they’re talking about
they better do
that part of it you will you will rise
them and I say you are Men of Integrity
and character and honesty you will be a
blessing to your teacher today you will
be a blessing to your friends you will
love the Lord your God with all your
heart with all your soul and with all
your strength you will put on the full
armor of God so that you can stand firm
against the schemes of the devil you
will have the Praises of the Lord in
your mouth all day long so that you can
speak well over those who are near you
you are the head you are not the tale
you are above you are not beneath you
are a leader you are not a follower and
you will love the Lord your God all of
your days and about halfway through that
they start going you will love the Lord
so they’re they’re moaning about it but
the fact that they can repeat it back to
me yes that means that it’s getting it
absolutely I remember one time when um
just with Paris what she would hear from
me often in the phrase I would use this
year the love Beyond measured daughter
of the king that’s great and so I talk
about that and so and you know put that
in the middle of sentences all the time
and then one time I overheard her on the
phone with a little friend and there was
this emotional thing happening she goes
no you’re you are the love Beyond
measured daughter of a king do you know
that that’s awesome so I was like yes
yeah
small little victories aren’t they
listen because there’s a lot of stuff
you go through and so you have to
celebrate the victories that’s right I
know oh yeah so now that they’re you
know they’re older now and so I’ve just
printed it up actually I printed up
unique ones that I can start to see
little ways that the enemy might want to
take advantage of a vulnerability here
or a fear here or an insecurity there so
I just wrote up a little list for each
one and I have them posted on the art
our house is really tiny so they’re
right there in the hallway posted on the
little closet door and every morning I
still say my part to them but they have
to go read their own out loud so that I
can hear it but also so that they can
hear it and so they read their own every
single day I’m like this is my this is
my chance to put as much in them as I
can do you have that posted on your
website or anything that people you know
what I wrote a blog post about it a
while back I’ll have to so it’s there
but I’ll repost it again Jerry could you
get on it
that’s gonna happen we’ll repost that so
that it’s yeah people could print that
out that’s right and say that’s a great
idea I love that and I love that
actually that they you have have them
say some things because yeah right you
know faith comes by hearing that’s right
and
you have to hear sometimes from your own
mouth I actually remember when I was
dealing with cancer
that I could read the healing scriptures
but there’s something about saying them
out loud you got that right and saying
them louder than the fear in my own head
right because the fear in my head was
big and so saying it louder and so
there’s just something about finding a
promise and I know there are people
watching and you’re in the middle of
your own situation and so it’s worth it
to do the work to find the promise that
speaks to your situation and underline
it certainly but take a moment and Shout
It shout it shout it loud because fear
fear can over you can try to overtake it
but you just speak his truth louder so I
love the fact that you have your voice
and not to mention the fact Holly that
the enemy does not know what we are
thinking but he sure enough will hear
what you’re saying right so when we
speak God’s word into the atmosphere we
are actually clothing ourselves in the
promises of God it’s almost like it
becomes a fortified shelter against the
attacks of the enemy because God watches
over his word to perform it yes so we
can either give the enemy ammunition
with negativity and complaining and
speaking um basically collaborating with
his attempts to drag us down or we can
go ahead and just speak the promises of
God and let the enemy know we’re not
just going to let him just Waltz in here
and take advantage of us we’re going to
put up a fight because we’re going to
stand firm on what our God says but it’s
so it’s good that you put it though
because to be honest there are times
when it’s so much easier to complain oh
I mean come on right yeah follow in it
wallowing and I I was I have a pity
party and invite friends right
I’ll bring the coffee the chocolate
um David said you know I complained and
my spirit was overwhelmed right so we
get overwhelmed the more playing yes but
it’s complaining is so easy
oh it’s intrinsic it’s so easier just to
focus on me and the bad and and the more
we do the bigger the problems become
whatever you give your attention and
then you try to put other people you
want other people to join your
complaining yeah it doesn’t actually
help anything so and then we get mad at
the friends who won’t join us right we
don’t even want to be their friends no
exactly can I go too bad for me right
goodbye well you know I it’s like a
marriage i a a marriage that was
actually close to us for a while
um one of one day the girl said to me
she said you know it’s really hard being
around other good marriages because ours
is so bad and I was like
hello you need to be around good
marriages isn’t that interesting yeah it
was easier for her to be around bad
marriages
so we had to break fellas I felt a lot
just like a lot of judgment I think some
of that was part of it but maybe a lot
of jealousy yeah yeah you know because
you had a good one and and we don’t have
so it’s really hard to be around the
good ones right you know I don’t I don’t
even get that yeah
marriage takes work doesn’t it yeah and
anybody here at this table have a
perfect marriage anybody married to
perfect men
yeah yeah
Crystal and I are not I’m pretty sure
but actually I know your husband is not
perfect
not perfect for you
you’re a hot mess but it does take work
right it takes speaking the truth it
takes persevering through talking over
him every day you will and surrounding
yourself like you just said surrounding
yourself with people who are going to
hold you accountable to doing the work
of marriage yes and we have this older I
say older couple they’re really not
they’re 10 years down the road so
they’re 10 years down the road and
raising kids in marriage and Ministry
and that’s all you really do need
someone where there’s a little bit of a
gap that they can look back on the
season you’re in and give wise input but
we’ve really submitted ourselves to
their Authority in the sense that if
they look at our schedule and they’re
like when is the last time you all been
on a date when’s the last time you guys
have actually had a really good
conversation that wasn’t about business
or wasn’t about Ministry just about the
two of you and if we have not done that
and they say get your butts on a plane
and get to us right now we have a
commitment to them that if there’s
something they see we need to realign we
will get on a plane and we will get
there because they care more about the
state of our souls than they do the
state of our our ministry now they meet
people like that that are going to just
charge you up and keep everything
sometimes I think people the people will
say that you know like you need
accountability but then to do the work
of then actually being accountable
yielding yourself to somebody else’s
voice especially for a guy yeah I feel
like it’s easier for us as women because
we’re relational beings we like that
feeling of protectedness and being
covered
um there’s Safety and Security so it’s
at least easier for us but for sometimes
for husbands
they’re not they’re like I’m the leader
in this house and I’m not trying to
submit to anybody else the best husbands
in the world I think are those who are
willing to submit to the authority of
their Pastor or spiritual leader in
their life totally humble themselves to
know that I need guidance and Direction
and so we got to pray for our husbands
in that regard yes because that’s a hard
thing for that that man part of men you
know that Macho Man Macho which we love
we want them we do no but it’s I
actually remember a thousand years ago
you might have just had the baby so and
we’re sitting at dinner with the four of
us Philip and me and you and Jerry
that’s right and you pulled out this
little pad of paper and go okay
how do we do this I was like well I
wasn’t prepared but it was how do you
how do we do you know marriage and raise
kids and do the ministry because at that
time your kids would have been the ages
my kids are right now right right and
I’m always very mindful of that when I’m
around people that are just a step ahead
I want to just glean what I can from
this moment because they’ve been there
and done this already it’s no point in
all of us making the same mistake no we
might as well just learn from each other
exactly to do that so I just actually
appreciate that about you but then I
feel like that’s I do that all the time
I’m calling people and go so how do you
handle this situation yeah when my kids
were teenagers and I was you know trying
to not kill them I’d go okay hope
assistant out here because right having
the real conversations humbling yourself
you know acknowledging that they’re that
your kids aren’t perfect but help me get
them along the next step so I just you
know appreciate that quality in you and
raising kids
now can we talk about the movie sure so
Priscilla was in this movie which was so
fun right well first of all it cracks me
up that you were in a movie right now
you’re one and only ever or oh you know
what I have filmed a little part in a
small movie that’s going to be out next
year okay yeah but that but so but war
room was the first time I was ever in a
film okay where did that even come from
girl you got me
was driving along in the car one day
with Jerry our cell phone rang and it
was Alex and Stephen Kendrick those guys
are amazing they are also a hoot and so
they had put to a little poem every name
of every book I had written and and the
poem basically led to and we need you to
be in a movie for us so discern the
voice of God because he’s telling you to
be in this film you are one in a million
make a resolution for women
they had every title of every book and
it ended with we’ve been writing this
film and we really have just thought of
you the entire time we’ve been writing
this part will you do this film and I
said no are you kidding me you’re not
gonna get me up there to make a full
album because you’ve seen movies before
where it could have been a good movie
but that one actress was just terrible I
said you’re not going y’all don’t go
have me embarrassed the name of Jesus
like that and um they just said well
just Priscilla it is Ministry it’s still
we know that you’re not an actress per
se but it’s Ministry read the script and
then pray about it and I read the script
I thought this is going to be a good
film if they get the right actress in
here I sent them some recommendations of
some actors and actresses that could do
a good job in this particular role and
they just wouldn’t let it rest they said
but what what just audition just send us
a video of this part right here and I
did and and I was sitting in the beauty
salon getting my hair done getting my
hair done they called and said we want
you to do this role and so Jerry and I
just prayed about it and thought what a
great opportunity to be able you know
this this movie War Room will be seen by
more people and minister to more people
that I could speak to in a lifetime yeah
so if I spoke every Sunday at a church
somewhere in the world that had a
thousand people for all of my days I
would not minister to as many people as
we’ll see war room and that was that
movie is Ministry yeah that movie wasn’t
oh just entertaining for people’s
marriage to be salvaged for folks to
have War rooms now where they’re
concentrating on prayer as an actual
weapon against the schemes of the enemy
for God to do that well it’s not good
acting it’s the Holy Spirit yes when we
talk about
um you know the truth sets us free and
and Jesus always you know when he was
encountered by the devil he said get
behind me Satan he spoke truth to a lie
that’s right and then said get behind me
I’ll no longer look at you
so we know that speaking the word
that’s
that’s our battle right that’s right
that’s how we fight that’s right it’s a
sword of the spirit that’s right the
word of God it’s a sword of the spirit
and so that’s that’s help us help us to
know when you talk about prayer and your
your fervent book this one right here
um
a woman’s battle plan for serious
specific and strategic prayer
tell us a little bit about about that
yeah you know one of the things that I
walked away with from the from the film
from the recording of the film we we
filmed for about
um three months
and after saying those lines over and
over and really just being engrossed in
this storyline it occurred to me that
while I did value prayer I had neglected
intentionality with prayer being
strategic in prayer actually trying to
detect where you see the enemy’s
fingerprints at kind of as handiwork
meddling in your life where you
anticipate he might want to take
advantage of a weakness or a or a a bit
of divisiveness and just being mindful
of that so that when we pray we’re not
just randomly saying words that we’ve
heard all along or words that we’ve kind
of memorized along the way or words that
are comfortable to us but we’re actually
praying in a way that is targeted it’s
kind of exactly what you described a few
moments doing the work to find the
promises of God that actually apply in
everything
intentional prayer and then writing it
down sometimes we need to write our
prayers down only because it keeps us
focused it reminds us what we’re praying
about you know so when it’s posted there
in that war room and you come back in
there day after day you’re reminded this
is your prayer this is where you’re
focusing your your prayer life on and
until I see an answer I’m going to keep
praying this prayer it also gives you a
great track record with God because then
when God does answer you can see that
date at the top of that page of when you
started praying that and then you’ll be
able to put a date down of when God
answered however in his sovereignty he
chose to what a great track record not
just for you but your grandchildren and
your great-grandchildren to see how
Grandmama or Grandpa prayed and believed
that God would answer wow I think that
thing I loved about or you know even the
prayer because in Ephesians 6 it talks
about the armor you know which we’re
familiar with but then prayer yeah
that’s right kicks into after that sword
it it goes right to prayer and it’s not
the the the prayer that’s oh God why you
know the whining I mean you can do that
for a minute because maybe we all need
to whine for a minute the complaining
side of it you can’t complain to God
because honestly Psalms David complained
for a bit I mean you know he went he
went on a journey with God he was
intimate and real with his pain and
Agony before God and then there’s got to
be a rising up and there has to be a
point where you that’s the thing so at
some point yes could do the complaining
but at some point you have to begin
speaking the truth of what God has to
say about your marriage about your
health and about your family about
reconciliation I just remember even that
for me with just some situations and you
know family and extended family that was
hard it was so hard and and I remember
moments of you know the complaining
before God because of course I was
perfect and they were the problems well
everybody else needs to change yeah if
they would it would really help out my
life totally
um then but so I you know complained but
then I started
you know talking about pulling out the
scriptures that talked about unity and
Reconciliation and and together and
faithfulness and just declaring that and
I’ve seen God do what only he could do
yeah in the lives of people I mean I saw
it in my health but I was also seen it
in relationships with people and so I
just think that that if if people
understood more about the power you know
some people say well all I can do is
pray no no that’s not all about the the
thing to do right is right second
um Second Chronicles 7 14 If my people
right who are called by my name humble
themselves and pray yeah right then he’s
going to heal our land we’re too busy
complaining about our land and our
government and all that’s happening it’s
like well you can complain but if you
prayed as much as you complained maybe
we would see something different and you
know what if I were your enemy what I’d
want to do is devalue in your mind the
potency of what I know to be the most
powerful weapon you have against me so
he’s made our churches focus on being a
a house of great programs or a house of
great preaching and a house of great
singing when they’re supposed to be a
house of prayer because it’s the prayer
that pushes back the kingdom of darkness
so if I were the enemy that’s exactly
what I do I devalue what I knew was the
most potent weapon that you had in Your
Arsenal against me so we do everything
first except pray pray and so for you
personally so how do you
when do you when do you pray are you a
late at night person are you the middle
of the day person are you well I want to
know you first of all lest anyone think
that my life is you know I’m up on a
Mountaintop praying God all day yeah
that’s right
um my life is very much like everybody
else’s that it’s his laundries and
laundering kids and it’s kind of that
thing where you know once your feet hit
the floor in the morning it’s over it’s
just full on for the rest of the day
right and so
um I have this ongoing actually part of
my prayer is Lord would you continue to
help me to prioritize this in my life
because it can so easily kind of get
pushed off of the that position of
priority so I just say Lord I need you
to stir I don’t want to manufacture
passion I want you to stir in me a
passion to where I don’t want to go a
day without prioritizing prayer and then
hearing back from you listening to you
through the scriptures and so I try to
do that in the morning because it seems
like that’s the best time if I wait till
the end of the day I’m it ain’t gonna
happen no that’s the same with me no if
I don’t if the morning if I if it
doesn’t happen then yeah then it just
gets it’s like if it doesn’t happen just
the very first time I know then once you
get going
but I will say I learned a bit from
Brother Lawrence that you know Age Old
Saint from that book practicing the
presence of God that really just gives
us freedom lifts that burden off of us
of feeling like if we don’t have an hour
to spend with the Lord at the beginning
of the day that it’s a waste of time to
practice God’s presence all day long yes
so my kids are a little bit older now
but I went through a season four five
six years there where I would just write
down scripture verse on a three by five
card the same one on five different
cards maybe and I’d put one on the
bathroom mirror where I’d be washing
little hands all day one where I was
going to be doing the dishes one where I
was folding clothes one near the sandbox
outside and I just would have the same
verse for like two weeks so everywhere I
went I was just running into this verse
and by the time I got to the end of the
day not only had me and the Lord talked
about this one verse a lot Not only was
it inscribed on my heart but it became
God’s word to me it became something
that really there was life in it wasn’t
just a verse I’d learned there was life
in it because me and God been talking
all day long for a couple of weeks about
the sentiments that he’d inscribed in in
this In this passage of scripture so I
think that idea of practicing the
presence of God it takes that guilt off
of I didn’t have my quiet time and it
didn’t look like this and it didn’t fit
in a comfortable little box well look do
it however you got to do it right
practice his presence all day long how
do we do that well number one by being
creative with how you can feed yourself
on his word so my sister five kids she’s
got this little clip on her dashboard
she’ll do the same thing write a three
by five card down with scripture and she
puts it in that clip and so you know
running errands for two hours every day
trying to get kids to soccer practice
and everything she’s just running face
to face um in face to face with this
with this verse over and over throughout
the scriptures when things come up in
the middle of the day that are problems
you might call a girlfriend about you
might you can still call her but also
call on God yeah just ask him about it
ask him about what scripture verse
applies to this particular uh
circumstance how would he want to lead
and guide you and you’ll be amazed how
you’ll begin to see the encounters that
you have the circumstances that that
align the little beckonings and
convictions of God’s spirit how they all
begin to work together to help you to
realize you actually are hearing God’s
voice and seeing his Providence as he
steers you in the direction of his will
for your life it doesn’t have to be so
mystical yeah yeah it’s a little more
just what you’re saying it’s a practical
thing just seeing it’s like it’s like
um Philip the reason I know his voice
when he call he doesn’t have to say a
long sentence he goes hey babe I
recognize what it’s because that’s your
man with him all day that’s right right
if I only talked to him once every blue
moon that would be a little trickier
that’s right to me it’s the same with
God it’s if you just you spend those
moments you know talking listening
talking listening reading the word it
becomes
um very familiar yeah like Anthony’s
voice compared to your dance that’s
right I talked about that in the story
of The Voice without my brother and my
dad they have the same name they walk
alike they talk alike I’ve seen my
brother take advantage of the fact that
he’s got my dad’s name I tried to milk
that as much as he’s like I want to hear
that story oh Anthony’s done that quite
a few times throwing money in the bus
that’s right but even though he’s fooled
a lot of people before not you not me
because I know the two ways right you
know his voice and so you know there are
things for example that people could say
to me that Jerry said my husband Jerry
said this but if it is totally out of
the character that I know to be of my
husband of a 18 years then I would be
able to confidently say to them I know
my man didn’t say that because I know
him you know and so that’s why we read
God’s word because we get to know his
personality we get to know the character
of God we get to see the kinds of things
he says and doesn’t say and so it occurs
to us when our ego is speaking or when
fear is trying to get a word in because
fear always has something to say and
pride and insecurity is also speaking
the enemy is speaking you’ll be able to
detect well God didn’t say that because
that’s totally out of out of alignment
with this character or out of alignment
with his personality as it’s displayed
in scripture and so the more you know
God the more clearly you can hear him
yeah we all have to at some point draw a
line in the sand and say enough is
enough and wherever even you might
detect the enemy’s fingerprints you kind
of see as handiwork causing division
jealousy Envy Strife health issues dis
ease in some area of your life listen
this is the time for you to take your
stand firmly on the Promises of God and
to declare God’s word not only
internally but declare them out loud
where the enemy knows you ain’t messing
around and that you’re going to be a
woman who or a man who fortifies their
sphere of influence whether that’s your
home whether it’s your business whether
it is your ministry whether it’s your
sons your daughters grandmother
grandfather your grandchildren whatever
it is that God has allowed has entrusted
to you your neighborhood you be the one
that stands in the threshold of that
space and just declares God’s promises
and his words there’s so much power that
we have in the name of Jesus if we would
just take advantage of it and so so what
I prayed that war room did it did for me
and I pray that it does for for all of
us is really just inspires a different
anticipation of what prayer can actually
accomplish in our lives so I want to
encourage you that no matter how
devastating that circumstance appears to
be right now no matter how like Lazarus
it’s been dead for a long time you just
do not think any Resurrection is is
possible
this is where Jesus does his best work
he specializes in taking the impossible
stuff and showing you the possibilities
that are there because of the power that
is available and so you know what I
wanna if it’s okay with you kick off
your stance vigilance stance in prayer
in that area of your life by praying
over you Lord Jesus I thank you right
now for the opportunity and the
privilege that we have to stand firmly
on your word we thank you that you have
given us what is really this Divine key
this key called prayer that allows us to
unlock all of the Power and the
resources of heaven and unleash them in
the regular rhythms of our everyday
living so Lord I pray right now in Jesus
name that every assignment the enemy has
against our marriages against our
children against our grandchildren
against our health Lord against our
prosperity internally and externally
Lord I pray right now in Jesus name that
those assignments would be canceled by
your blood that has been shed on Calvary
Lord I pray that you would give somebody
their fire back their fire to fight for
what is rightfully theirs their fire to
claim the territory that you have
already declared is theirs Lord like
Joshua would you make us courageous
enough to place our feet on the ground
that you have already given us help us
to march in Victory Lord just like
Elizabeth did in war room I’m praying
you’d put words in somebody’s mouth put
fire in their soul lord help them to
scream at the top of their lungs that
they believe that our God is who he says
he is and that he can accomplish every
single thing that he has declared he
will accomplish in our lives Lord I
speak that for every single person that
is Watching God and I ask that they
would see your manifest presence and
peace and joy and health and everything
that they do and say in Jesus name amen
amen amen amen such a good reminder
to me even just even when you were
praying right there I thought okay
there’s some stuff that I just have kind
of
not so much given up on but just gotten
lazy about praying about because I just
can’t see how it could change yeah
and you know the great thing about the
Holy Spirit though is because I’m so
glad God knows we’re just humans yeah
and we’re frail and we have those times
where we just get lazy about the whole
thing and I’m so glad that he has Grace
enough for that his grace is sufficient
thank God for God and that the Holy
Spirit prays when we don’t even know
what to pray for we just are tired and
we can only cry or worry or be concerned
that the Holy Spirit covers Us what
would you say to the people that have
prayed and prayed and prayed and never
saw the answer that they wanted never
really saw the end and then they gave up
yeah well that doesn’t well just to say
that that God stands on his word and the
word says that when we sow we will reap
that when we sow to the spiritual realm
we will reap to the spirit that there
the the principle the Theology of sowing
and reaping is true whether or not we
see what the Harvest is on this side of
Eternity or later there are some answers
some things that we have to entrust into
his Sovereign care we will not know on
this side of Eternity of a grand scheme
of all that God is figuring out and so
sometimes we will be in our Humanity
disappointed and a little bit irritated
and frustrated because we’ve been on our
knees a long time and still things seem
to be
um you know unchanging but but God is
true to his word and we’ve got to either
but we’ve got to either have faith in
that or not I mean that’s right yes I
think like our lens is temporal yes
right God’s plan is eternal yeah so even
like in the story of Joseph if you you
know zoomed in on any one part of his
story it’s terrible right the guys are a
slave and in prison and horrible right
but then you look out the big picture as
he rescued millions of people yeah right
and so sometimes I think for you know
speaking of myself when we navigate just
such a horrible season and you’re
praying how come I’m not seeing the
answers and what’s happening and God
does work all things together for good
to those who love him and who are called
according to his purpose he will so he’s
half that’s where our faith has to be
and that’s we have to be brave in the
midst of those moments and trusting him
and and you know I was talking with in
fact a young lady that works here at the
studios we were talking earlier um I
think she’s new here and just trying to
navigate what God is doing through her
life weaving all these different pieces
of the puzzle together and I was
encouraging her on a much smaller scale
than Joseph but the reality is that when
I was her age I remember my Pursuit was
television my Pursuit was
um journalism I wanted to be a
broadcaster and I was hired to do a few
little shows here and there on CBS and
stuff and I did them and everyone that I
got an opportunity to do it was was
canceled shortly after I came on board
and as a young girl just out of college
you imagine how that’s an assault to
your self-esteem I mean you just feel
like everything keeps getting canceled
right after I join and right after I get
signed on so nothing was succeeding and
it wasn’t until probably 10 or 12 years
later I mean I prayed so much through
that hallway oh my gosh I was wondering
what God was doing I couldn’t figure out
tears fell from my eyes and it wasn’t
until 10 years later the very first time
yeah I did a Bible study recording and I
stood there in front of those cameras
and I knew exactly what to do with those
cameras not because I had trained so
well right but because through those
defeated moments God was building
something in me that he knew I would
need later there you go no idea he was
going to ever use yeah we just want
things and we yeah we’re so dumb
yes we’re limited yes