Priscilla Shirer: The Greatest Gift You Can Receive | Praise on TBN
Priscilla Shirer speaks at the Propel Women’s Conference to discuss opening our eyes to catch sight of God. Listen as she teaches that God’s spirit is in us, and that it is the greatest gift we will ever receive.
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the holy spirit is the one who gives you
self-discipline
so that you have discipline in areas
where you know
left to your own natural desires and
propensities
you would not have discipline in that
area of morality or that area of
gluttony you wouldn’t have discipline
but now because the holy spirit lives on
the inside of you you can live beyond
your natural capacities anybody excited
about that
so they come into the building nobody
recognizes
that jesus has arrived except one person
luke writes at the top of the passage he
writes and behold somebody say behold
come on y’all say behold any time an
author in the text writes that word it
isn’t
a throwaway word it isn’t something that
you just need to skip or skim
over quickly any time you read behold in
the text the author’s trying to tell you
lean in put your chin in your hands
just in case you kind of fell asleep
during all the minutia and the fine
details that led up to this moment
this is when the author wants you to
open up your eyes and sit up straight
because there’s somebody
he wants you to meet he says behold
there was a man named simeon
and when no one else recognized the
presence of god when god
came near there was one guy who did
and if in this room today there are only
going to be a handful of us
who actually have an encounter with god
i’m talking about where we hear his
voice when we
our hearts are set aflame by the holy
spirit when you when we get some
some uh direction for the purpose that
he has for our life if they’re gonna be
a whole lot of us
who have an experience today but only a
few
that actually encounter the living god
that i don’t know about you but if
there’s only gonna be a few i want to be
one of them anybody
so luke says pay attention because
there’s one guy that’s going to show you
how to have your eyes open so that you
aren’t just
in the religious place but so that you
encounter
a holy living god he says there’s a man
named simeon he’s righteous devout
and he’s looking for the consolation of
israel his
eyes are open peeled to the horizon
waiting for jesus
in whatever package he chooses to come
waiting for an encounter with the
long-awaited messiah
and then he gives us at least the one
there are many throughout this text
but the one characteristic of his life
that i believed opened up simeon’s eyes
to catch sight of god
that will open up our eyes to catch
sight of god
he says at the bottom of verse 25
he says and the holy spirit
was upon him
luke says simeon’s eyes were opened to
catch
sight of god because
god’s spirit was on him
the holy spirit is the greatest gift you
will ever receive this side of eternity
the moment you place faith in jesus
the moment you received jesus as your
personal savior i don’t know if you knew
it or not
but you received in that moment the
greatest gift you will ever receive the
holy spirit of god
and the holy spirit is not a ghost or a
wind or a fire or a dove
he is often symbolized by those things
but y’all they ain’t who he is
the holy spirit is the third person of
the trinity
not third because he is least in value
just third because he is the last to be
revealed to us in the pages of scripture
but all of the fullness all of the power
all of the authority
all of the greatness all of the grandeur
of god the father
is in the person of the holy spirit
which means when you place faith in
jesus christ and the holy spirit takes
up residence in you
that now means that all of the power all
of the glory
all of the grandeur all of the greatness
of god the father
now lives on the inside of you ephesians
chapter one
says the moment you believe you receive
the holy spirit with promise
you are not waiting on the holy spirit
you have the holy spirit right now
you did not receive the holy spirit in
installment plans
you can’t give away a person in parts
all of the holy spirit you ever gonna
get you got the moment you got saved
now we need to be filled by god’s spirit
as we yield to his conviction in our
life
in obedience as what is happening in
us becomes an outward expression as our
behavior is modified as we are
sanctified somebody say sanctified
that means as we are molded into the
image of christ jesus so that we start
to think like him and
talk like him and walk like him and
behave like jesus
jesus behave we need to be filled by
god’s spirit but when you got saved
listen to me
you received the holy spirit of god
god’s spirit is in you the benefit of
this
is all of the fruit of god’s spirit
is available to you that means that
there is gentleness
that you don’t have in your own natural
ability for that person
or that problem that now you are able to
have that is beyond your own natural
capacity
because the holy spirit what he does is
help us to live
beyond ourselves when we’ve come to the
end of our patience
you know with that one coworker that one
that if she says one more thing to you
you go knock her out that one
the holy spirit is the one that gives
you patience when your patience has long
since run out
the holy spirit is the one who gives you
self-discipline
so that you have discipline in areas
where you know
left to your own natural desires and
propensities
you would not have discipline in that
area of morality or that
area of gluttony you wouldn’t have
discipline but
now because the holy spirit lives on the
inside of you you can live
beyond your natural capacities anybody
excited about that
the holy spirit gives you fruit so that
you are able
to have more than what you would have if
left to your own