Priscilla Shirer speaks at Lakewood Church on TBN’s Praise. Listen as Priscilla teaches that God is preparing you for more, and that He has you right where you need to be. This video was brought to you by TBN Networks®. SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/TBN/feature… For nearly 50 years the mission of the Trinity Broadcasting Network has remained unchanged: To use every available means to reach as many individuals and families as possible with the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ. Launched in 1973 by Christian television pioneers Paul and Jan Crouch, TBN began as one low-power television station broadcasting a few hours of Christian programming each day to viewers throughout the Los Angeles area. In the years since, TBN has grown into a family of over thirty twenty-four hour global networks reaching every inhabited continent with entertaining, inspirational, and life-changing programming for every family member and demographic. TBN began as a dream to “build a Christian television network that spans the whole world.” Today that dream is reality…and still expanding! #tbn #priscillashirer #purpose 00:00 Intro 00:32 The Lies of the Enemy 07:30 Your Assignment from God 26:06 The Blessing of God’s Favor
it has always been the tactic of the
enemy to get us to think that we are not
enough as we currently are that what we
currently have is not sufficient for the
task that is before us but if the Lord
has allowed that multitude into your
experience that means that as you
currently are with the entrusted
treasure the power The Authority that he
has given to you you’ve got everything
you need if you just pull out what he
already has entrusted to you
I came to tell somebody that there is
treasure hidden in these Earth and
vessels I came to tell you that by God’s
spirit there is gift and there is power
that 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
and 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 uhuh you have
enough you just have’t open up the
drawer pull out the
treasure 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 9 verse 1
and 2 says this and he called that’s
Jesus he called somebody say he called
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 them
treasure and then he sent them
out verse 10 says and then when they
returned to him they gave an account to
him of of everything they had done and
taking them with him he withdrew by
himself to a Hill Called Betha 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 did
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
deaf 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 going to have to send this
multitude away they’ve got to go into
the surrounding Villages and Countryside
and find lodging they got to 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 CU 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 reclin 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 cuz 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 portion of the scriptures is
looked into the multitude is 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 uh 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 going to choose seven
every single time because the more
layers there are the more rich and
delectable The Experience becomes Mark
chapter 6 is a layer of CH 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 6 our layer of
chocolate cake tells us that they
expended themselves y’all they were busy
from sun up to sun down 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
cuz 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 you’re 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 ain’t 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
boardroom 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 going to have to give
an
account and here’s the
thing you don’t know when that day is my
38-year-old
cousin
38 for small
children the day is coming and you don’t
know the day or the
hour neither do I when we’re going to
have to stand before him and give an
account for how we handled what he had
entrusted to us I’m asking you tonight
how are you handling your
assignment because young women if you
think that you’re young because of your
age listen to me if you’re 20 but you
only have till 30 you’re pretty
old if you’re 50 and you’re going to
live until 100 then you’re pretty young
age is just a number my friend and you
and I cannot qualify young or old based
birth based on our our birth
date it’s based on our death date and
since we don’t know when that day
is that I implore you Sisters by the
mercies of God to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling by which what you
have been
called cuz listen I don’t know about
y’all but when I see him face to face
I’m looking for a well
done I’m looking for well
done when I see him he will not ask me
how many Instagram followers I
had he will not wonder whether or not
folks liked my post he will not be
interested in whether or not my selfies
were perfectly lit he will ask me did I
know his
son and then I will give an
account so the disciples they come and
they give an account to Jesus I wondered
if there was a recipe for Effective
Ministry because if these guys were
willing to come and look Jesus in his
face and give an account I figured there
might be a recipe for us for Effective
Ministry I’m interested anybody
interested there are three ingredients
to the recipe
Luke 9:1 it says he called them he
called them and his calling superseded
any personal ambition that they had they
laid down whatever they were going to do
because they heard the call of God
beckoning them to do something else the
beautiful thing about that entire
picture is that all of the glory of God
the Father all of the glory of Heaven
Was packaged in human flesh Jesus wanted
so much God the Father wanted so much to
make sure that he could speak and so
that Humanity could hear that he left
his throne in glory put on flesh so that
the disciples could hear his call and in
the same way he has given us the holy
spirit so that each and every one of us
have the privilege to hear the calling
of God on our
lives the conviction the unction the
pressing the fire that is shut up in
your bones sending you you in a
particular direction heed the call of
God on your lives then they were not
just called I love so much that before
he skips to the third uh ingredient in
the recipe sending them I love that
before we get to the third one there’s
that second one he did not just call but
then he gave them power and authority it
means that what he was calling them to
do he was simultaneously equipping them
with Supernatural power to be able to
pull it off so it’s good news for
anybody in the room that you feel like
you’ve got a dream
that is way over your head you’ve been
called to do something you don’t have
the money for you don’t have the time
for you don’t have the patience for you
don’t have the gifting for you don’t
have the talent for you don’t have the
connections for the good thing and the
great thing about our God is that he
does not call people who are already
equipped he calls you and then for the
people that say yes he equips them with
what they need for the
calling
he entrusted them with power and
authority and can I tell you why this is
important this is important because in
order to accomp accomplish Supernatural
tasks you have to have Supernatural
capacity in other words you can be the
most talented person in the world but if
you go in your own strength and
power you still won’t be able to
accomplish the God calling on your life
it requires what it is that only God
himself can give to you to accomplish
the task ooh the enemy hopes you will go
in your own
power he hopes you will think you are
flashy enough and Savvy enough and
talented enough and impressive enough so
that you will no longer lean on God
instead of leaning to your own
understanding but it is not by power and
it is not by might it is by the spirit
of God and some trust in horses other
folks trust in chariots but not us we
trust in the name of the Lord Lord Our
God so he called them and then he
entrusted them he gave them some
treasure and then he sent
them he’s the one who did the
sending resist the urge to send
yourself to do something that it is not
yet time for
because just as important as our calling
is that is equally as important as the
timing is in which that calling is
outworked in our lives and if you go too
soon you might if you if you give birth
too soon to that which God is trying to
produce through you you might
abort what it is that he’s trying to
accomplish in you the spiritual backbone
the fortification that he was trying to
establish in you so that you could
handle the spotlight wouldn’t hit you
because listen that Spotlight that you
may be craving if it hits you and you
have no character it will burn you to a
crisp so he called them he entrusted
them he sent them out and they returned
to him and gave an account they were
tired the disciples had been given it
everything they had
and I know there are some of you in the
room and you would admit that you
haven’t done it per perfectly but man
you’ve sure been
purposeful you’ve been intentional about
this marriage you’ve been giving it
everything you’ve got you’ve been
intentional about that teenager you’ve
been giving that kid everything you got
this toddler that has this specific vent
or this specific issue that you’ve been
doing everything you can going to see
every expert that you can reading
everything that you can to be the best
that you can as a mother single mother
you’ve been given it everything that
you’ve got working the jobs that you’ve
got to work to keep food on the table
you’ve been given that business that
Ministry that endeavor everything that
you have and you the disciples are
tired the good news about Jesus is that
when the disciples come to him tired he
does not
say go away from me and get yourself
together come back and then I can use
you he says Come
Away With
Me In other words
listen the cure for your exhaustion is
intimacy with
Jesus that’s the Cure
y’all I’m saying I agree take the
holiday take the vacation tell them you
need a little sabatical you got to step
back for just a little bit you need a
little margin in your life take the
holiday but don’t take a holiday from
Jesus don’t take the sabatical from your
relationship with the Lord Prayer
shouldn’t exit your schedule because
these are your rest days you still need
to be the deer that pants after the
water your soul has still got to be
replenished and can only be replenished
when you have intimacy with
him and you’re trying to figure out Lord
you told me that I was going to be
replenished you told me that I was going
to re refresh you told me that you had
something that you wanted to give to me
why would you take me here to this place
where I’m being pressed down by a
multitude of issues and concerns and
frustrations there’s something
overwhelming me that is bigger than what
I feel like I have the capacity to
handle why would you bring me here this
tells us that the story of the feeding
of the 5,000 is not just about the
5,000 it’s also about the disciples it’s
not just about the multitude getting fed
it’s about the disciples being fed
physically spiritually emotionally and
it tells us that the five blaves and the
two fish are the gift to the
multitude but it’s the multitude that’s
the gift to the
disciples because the
multitude is what’s going to make them
have to finally open up their drawer
pull out the treasure that they would
have otherwise
ignored place it in the hands of a
multiplying Master who’s going to show
them what it looks like when he takes
their little bit and makes it a lot
there is no
replenishing like watching God multiply
your Loaves and
fish I came to tell somebody who’s got a
multitude pressing on you in your
marriage or in your finances or in your
health or in your parenting or in your
singleness that thing is weighing down
on you that means that there is a drawer
waiting to be
opened that means there’s some treasure
waiting to be
unveiled and when you take it out
finally when you stop ignoring it when
you stop circumventing it when you stop
acting like God hasn’t given you
everything you need when you will
finally recognize this little bit this
little gifting this little Talent this
little time this little money this
little dream this little vision that
this is all I need if I’ll just pull it
out out and entrust it to the hands of a
multiplying
Master can I just show you real quick
what the disciples did just real quick
because I think it’s interesting because
it’s so
us they said to Jesus in verse 12 send
the multitude
[Applause]
away and here’s the a thing that’s so us
see we don’t just say it we pray
[Applause]
it we pray away what we don’t even
recognize is the gift he has given us to
press us into opening up our drawer so
if you’ve prayed for your multi to be
taken away and in God’s sovereignty he
has left it in your
life that means there’s a drawer there’s
a drawer stop start looking for a drawer
if there’s a multitude that means
there’s Loaves and fish somewhere in
your life that is supposed to be
entrusted into the hands of God so we
pray away did you realize in verse 12
they are wishing away what in verse 11
Jesus
welcomed Jesus welcomed what they’re
wishing away so the disciples
say get get this multitude
away they don’t even know they’re
praying away their
Miracle everybody wants to see the Red
Sea divide but nobody wants to be the
one that comes face to face with a red
sea everybody wants to see the walls of
Jericho come tumbling down but nobody
wants to be the one who has to walk
around those walls in obedience to God
to trust him to shout prior to seeing
one brick fall
if there is a multitude that means there
is a
miracle okay so praise the multitude or
they ask for the multitude to to go away
and Jesus he doesn’t go for that so when
he doesn’t they he doesn’t go for that
the disciples have another solution this
is us
too send the multitude away Jesus says
M and they
say well send us away
then
you see it they said send us to the
surrounding towns and Villages so that
we can go and buy more accumulate more
get more because as we are is not
sufficient so send us somewhere else so
we can get better and be better suited
to this multitude because as we are is
not enough it has always been the tactic
of the enemy to get us to think that we
are not enough as we currently are that
what we currently have is not sufficient
for the task that is before us but if
the Lord has allowed that multitude into
your experience that means that as you
currently are with the entrusted
treasure the power The Authority that he
has given to you you’ve got everything
you need if you just pull out what he
already has entrusted to you in fact in
Mark chapter 6 our layer of chocolate
cake we find out that he says to the
disciples well what do you have
he asked him that question he says what
do you have and then he doesn’t even
give him a chance to to answer he just
immediately responds and says go and
look he said it like that go and
look he said it like you would tell your
kid if the month I mean the week after
Christmas they came to you and said Mom
I’m
bored you would say well what do do you
have and then before you gave them a
chance to respond because you could
already tell that the response they was
going to give you was going to get them
in
trouble so you didn’t even give them a
chance you just say you would say to
them go and
look cuz if you’ll just look you’ll see
that the thing you’re complaining about
is something you already have access to
if you will go and look Moses you will
see that everything you need to do what
I’ve called you to do it’s in your hand
it’s that rod that common Rod that has
always been right beside you but now I’m
going to infuse it with my power if I
can just get you to go and look Moses
pick the stick up put it over the Red
Sea you will see that it will make the
Red Sea divide like a solid Wall go and
look David yes Goliath is right there
but if you’ll go look down by the stream
I’ve already provided five smooth stones
that will be everything you need to take
that giant down go and look spend all of
the energy that you’re spending
complaining spend that energy going to
look for what God has already given us
access
to so they pulled it
out all right Jesus you going to do
something with
this they say okay here you
go and they put it in his
hands everything
changes when you put your five and two
in the hands of
Jesus everything changes when you stop
speaking negatively about it and just
trust it into the hands of J when you
just take that little dream that that he
is entrusted to you and you give it back
to him and you say it don’t look like
much right now but I’m putting it in
your hands and the great thing about our
God verse 16 says is that he took the
meager Gifts of man he didn’t look at
their little bit and say come back when
you’ve got more uh-uh a holy Divine
allmighty powerful God a God who does
not need us or our Loaves and fish when
man gave it to him he received
it and looking up to
heaven he blessed it y’all you don’t
need more you just need God’s blessing
on what you’ve already already
got you don’t need more you just need
God’s blessing on your 5 and two girl
that’s all you need you know what his
Blessing is it’s his
favor y’all favor is what makes the
scales balance over in your favor favor
is what makes things a little bit unfair
on your behalf favor is what opens doors
that nobody can shut favor is what puts
you in positions that nobody can take
away favor is what sets you before kings
and queens the favor of God is what you
want on your life on your five and two
looking up to heaven he blessed it then
he broke it and he kept giving it to the
[Applause]
[Music]
disciples
and it kept going and it kept going and
the 12 didn’t understand how the little
bit they had had they had in the
beginning had become so
much and their entire
multitude the whole burden was
satisfied And when everybody was
satisfied ooh somebody say satisfied
satisfied ooh Victoria I wish we had
time tonight girl
satisfied this is not some you know
Happy Meal sort of situation here this
is not a number one on the Burger King
drive-thru this is Sunday afternoon I’m
talking about old school Sunday where
your mom started to cook on Saturday
night and the yeast rolls were rising
and the macaroni and cheese was bubbling
and the sweet potatoes were all gooey on
the stove and and every the sweet tea
was going the roast you know she started
the roast on 200 the night before and
let it simmer all night long y’all are
getting hungry aren’t you I know listen
do you remember how when you came home
from church the next day you ate that
and the only thing you could do after
that was that’s all you could do that’s
why Jesus said go ahead and have the
people recline have them get in a
posture of
expectation that I’m getting ready to do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
anything that they can ask or
think satisfied Sunday afternoon kind of
satisfied that’s what he
does and they were So Satisfied y’all
don’t even sit down just stay standing
listen they were So Satisfied this is
how you know how good the meal
was there was
leftovers
they started going around picking up the
leftovers y’all and guess what there
were 12 baskets
full one basket for each disciple to
take home as an overflow of the grace
and the blessing of
God I want to pray for any of you who
are in this room and you’ve got a
multitude Weighing on you you got a I
mean that thing is burdening you down
and you’ve never considered the fact
that you’ve already got what you
need you’ve been thinking this is not
enough gifting this is not enough Talent
it’s not enough money it’s not enough
time I don’t have enough and Jesus is
whispering in your ear tonight you got
enough just give it to me I’m going to
multiply it I’m going to blow your mind
with what I’m going to do if you just
trust it to me anybody got a specific
multitude that you need prayer in
regards to just go ahead and raise your
hand we’re going to pray right now in
Jesus name Victoria will you come up
with me please just as a pastor in this
house would you just
be present in this moment so we can pray
over God’s people Lord right now we
entrust every single woman who has her
hand raised in particular we entrust
every single one under the sound of our
voice Lord to your loving care we thank
you that you are sovereign over their
lives father we thank you that there is
nothing that is in our experience right
now that is not first passed through
your fingers and since we know you are
good and that you are kind and that your
mercy endures forever then father we
believe that if you’ve allowed this
multitude there’s something in this
multitude we don’t want to miss and so
father I pray right now that you would
change our perspective so we can see in
this multitude what you have for us
don’t let us miss it for anything in the
world Lord and then father I’m going to
pray over our five and two I ask right
now in Jesus name whatever the Five
Loaves and the two fish are that you
have entrusted to every single woman I
pray that you would give a holy courage
and a holy boldness that would compel us
to open up the drawer and pull it out
and entrust it to your hands father God
I do pray that if this multitude has
anything to do with the Enemy Lord if
the enemy has assigned an attack on any
woman or her family I pray that his
attack would be cancelled in jesus’ name
and by his blood that has been shed on
Calvary
but Lord if this multitude is of you
then right now in Jesus name I thank you
for it in our lives come on and thank
him for it I thank you for
it and then
father we’re going to go ahead and get
in a posture of abundance we’re going to
start living and praying and acting like
people who believe that you are the god
of Ephesians 3:20 and 21
you can do above all that we ask or
think in Jesus name in Jesus name come
on everybody shout
amen
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