Priscilla Shirer: How to Trust God to Multiply What He’s Already Given You | Praise on TBN

Priscilla Shirer speaks at Lakewood church on TBN’s Praise. Be reminded of God’s power, faithfulness, and abundant love as Priscilla Shirer shares examples from scripture of God’s faithfulness to multiply his blessing on those who trust in Him, and not their own strength.

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i came to tell somebody that there is

treasure

hidden in these earthen vessels i came

to tell you that by god’s spirit there

is gift and there is

power that has been entrusted to you

that is available to you available to me

as

daughters of the most high king you need

to know that even if you do not believe

what the scriptures declare to be true

about your treasure if you don’t believe

that

you’ve been forgiven or that you already

have the victory or that the enemy

is already underneath your feet that

there is no condemnation

for those of us who are in christ jesus

or that you have been made competent by

the spirit of god

i came to tell you that even if you

don’t believe it the enemy does

he knows who you are what ashamed it

would be for him to know

and us not to

so it’s time for us to open up the

drawer and start pulling out the

treasure

the treasure we’ve been ignoring the

treasure we’ve been calling

insignificant the thing that we’ve said

is not enough

not valuable lord if i could just be

like her lord if i could just be

like that if i could just have a bit

more of that if i weren’t me

then lord i’d be enough he says uh uh

you have enough you just have to open up

the drawer

pull out the treasure

[Applause]

there is a story in scripture that is

going to be very familiar to you

it’s the one that the lord has been

using in my own life to remind me about

how

he will compel me and he will compel us

to open up the drawer and reach in and

pull out the treasure and see what it’s

like when he

uses what he has already entrusted to us

luke chapter nine verse one and two

says this and he called that’s jesus

he called somebody say he called he

called the 12 together

and he gave somebody say he gave

he gave them power and he gave them

authority

over all demons and to heal all diseases

verse two

and then he sent somebody say he sent

he sent them out he called them

he gave him treasure and then he sent

them out

verse 10 says and then when they

returned to him they gave an account to

him of everything they had done

and taking them with him he withdrew by

himself

to a hill called bethsaida the

multitudes were aware of this verse 11

says so they followed jesus because you

know wherever jesus went a crowd was

sure

to follow they weren’t quite sure he was

the messiah but what they didn’t know

was that when this man showed up blind

people could see

what they knew is that when jesus showed

up the lame could walk and the death

could hear the dead were being raised so

wherever jesus

was they came the crowd followed and

welcoming the multitude jesus began

speaking to them about the kingdom of

god and curing those who were in need of

healing

verse 12. so the day starts to come to a

close and the 12 come to jesus and say

now jesus

you’re gonna have to send this multitude

away they’ve got to go into the

surrounding villages and countryside and

find

lodging they gotta get something to eat

jesus come on now here

we’re in a desolate place verse 13 jesus

said to them

uh-uh you give them something to eat

they said jesus we have no more than

five loaves and two fish

unless perhaps you let us go and buy

food for all these people because you

know we’re not enough

as we are right now there were about 5

000

men scholars say the reason why luke

specifies men is because there were

women and children

too so there were probably about 15 000

hungry people

that day jesus said have them recline to

eat in groups of about 50 each so they

did so

had them all recline and then he took

the five

loaves and the two fish and

looking up to heaven he blessed them

and then he broke them and he kept

giving them to the disciples to set

before the multitude

and verse 17 says they all ate

they were all satisfied and just so you

know

how satisfied they were they went by and

picked up all the leftovers

cause there was overflow

in this story we meet a hungry multitude

a multitude that

is placing a demand they have a need

there is a lack that needs to be

filled and most of the time when this

proportion of the scriptures is looked

into the multitudes who we concentrate

on the

five loaves and the two fish and how

they were satisfied with it but just for

a few moments

tonight i want to talk to you about the

12 disciples

those who walked with jesus and talked

with jesus those who were in close

communion with jesus those who

would come out on a friday night to be

in the presence of jesus amongst the

people of jesus i want to talk

to the disciples of jesus the disciples

on this occasion had been

called to jesus by jesus they were

having a conversation with each other

jesus

entrusted them with power and authority

and then he sent them out

i love that this gospel is one of the

synoptic gospels the synoptic gospels

are those that tell there are three of

them matthew mark and luke

these three tell some of the similar

stories in a similar tone in a similar

way so that we’re able to get more

layers to the story

i love the gospels in that way they give

us layers

just like if someone were to offer you a

chocolate cake

but they gave you options you could have

a one layer chocolate cake

or a seven layer chocolate cake which

one you gonna choose

seven every single time because the more

layers there are the more rich and

delectable the experience becomes

mark chapter six is a layer of chocolate

cake for us

it tells us that this is the experience

when jesus called the disciples to

himself

and then he sent them out in pairs do

you remember two by two

into the neighboring towns and

communities they were supposed to teach

and preach and perform miracles that

would authenticate the deity of jesus

christ

mark chapter six our layer of chocolate

cake tells us that they

expended themselves y’all they were busy

from sun up to sundown they were about

the task of doing

what it was that jesus had assigned to

them they wanted to be diligent about it

so much so

that when they came back to jesus they

gave an account to him

and jesus recognized their exhaustion

he saw that they were tired in fact

jesus himself commented

that they didn’t even have time to eat

because they had been so busy

they were depleted and they were tired

and they came back to jesus

and they gave him an account

for how they’d handled the assignment

that he had entrusted to them

if you’re a believer in jesus christ you

got an assignment

and don’t let anybody tell you that your

assignment isn’t ministry just because

it

happens to be in a corporate setting

mother of small children who’s chosen

to stay home with those kids don’t let

anybody tell you that a ministry

every single time you make that chicken

for dinner and you set it on that table

and you

teach those kids a bible verse before

bedtime don’t let anybody tell you that

that ain’t ministry

corporate woman when you sit around that

board room table and you’re the only one

that has a set of ideals that lines up

with the truth of scripture

at a table with those who are thinking

and acting and planning in a way that is

left of god’s word don’t let anybody

tell you that you

around that boardroom ain’t ministry

that’s ministry

high school student college student

you’re the only student that stands for

truth when your professor says this is

the way it is and you say

no that’s not the way it is don’t let

anybody tell you as the light on that

college campus that you

are not in ministry every single one of

us

has an assignment and the day is coming

when we’re gonna have to give an account

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