Going Beyond Ministries with Priscilla Shirer – God’s Patience

Priscilla Shirer (born December 31, 1974) is an American author, motivational speaker, actress, and Christian evangelist. Her father is Dallas mega-church pastor Tony Evans and her brother is Christian entertainer Anthony Evans.
The daughter of Tony Evans, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas,[1] Priscilla grew up well acquainted with the Bible. As a freshman at the University of Houston, she interned with a Christian radio station. Soon listeners were calling the station, inviting Priscilla to speak at their Bible study groups and other events. Soon she was invited to lead a weekly Bible study at the Zig Ziglar Corporation and then to join its speaker team. Priscilla has worked as an independent contractor for CBS and hosted a local television show, but recently she has focused solely on Christian ministry opportunities. She calls Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, her mentor in ministry.

Together the Shirers established Going Beyond Ministries, a speaking bureau featuring Priscilla. The parents of three young boys, the Shirers share ministry and family responsibilities. While Priscilla continues to minister full-time, Jerry manages his schedule and other business aspects of Going Beyond Ministries.

Priscilla speaks around the world at churches and other events, including the LifeWay Christian Resources-sponsored Going Beyond conference and Deeper Still: The Event, where she shares the stage with Beth Moore and Kay Arthur. She has also authored several books.

Shirer graduated from Duncanville High School and Dallas Theological Seminary, earning a master’s degree from the latter in Biblical Studies.

In 1993, Shirer was a freshman at the University of Houston. Shirer was married in 1999 to Jerry Shirer, former Hilton Hotels executive. The couple has three sons.

In 2013, Shirer was a speaker at the 2013 Women of Faith conference. In 2015, Shirer made her film debut in the Kendrick Brothers film War Room. In October 2016, Shirer was recognized as one of four prominent women of faith during the 10th anniversary of God’s Leading Ladies Life Enrichment Program at The Potter’s House.[1] Shirer also featured at the 47th GMA Dove Awards.

I want to talk to you for just a few

moments tonight about something that can

literally set you free to live the

abundant life that you and I as

believers in Jesus Christ have been

called to live because often the enemy

would have it so that you and I are so

worried and concerned that that maybe

God has had just about enough of us that

we’ve messed up too many times that

we’ve made too many mistakes that 2013

was too bad forgot to be able to use us

in 2014 that the enemy wants to

us just enough so that we we don’t

understand and realize the breadth and

the depth and the height and the length

of God’s patience towards us he knows

that as long as you and I are walking on

eggshells in our relationship with God

nervous and afraid and scared that if we

just say one more thing or do one more

thing wrong or miss God one more time

that God might have had enough of us and

this might be the time he puts us on the

shelf and never uses us again for his

glory the enemy knows that as long as

you’re walking on Sheikh eggshells you

will never get around to experiencing

what John 10:10 declares is available

for God’s children and that’s abundant

life you can’t live abundantly when

you’re afraid and so a revelation of the

patience of God toward you can set you

free when you really fully understand

that His grace is sufficient for you

that it doesn’t matter where you’ve been

or what you’ve done or how bad last year

was or the mistakes you’ve made or the

last 10 years or the last 20 years no

matter what has happened up until this

point the slate has been wiped clean my

friend forgetting those things which are

behind us we press on so I want to talk

to you about the patience of God it’s a

simple little characteristic of God that

oftentimes we don’t hear very much about

we don’t read very much about we

consider it every now and then but I

have not in my life heard very many

specific teaching just directed at the

patience of God I want to talk about it

because most often when we see

about the power of God we think about

how God’s power is demonstrated so we

automatically go to instances like in

the Old Testament where he was powerful

enough to cause the walls of Jericho to

come tumbling down or he was powerful

enough to cross the Red Sea to divide or

in the New Testament how he was powerful

enough to raise Lazarus from the dead

we think about how his power is

demonstrated but I want you for just a

few moments tonight on this last night

of the first conference to think about

the threat side of the coin of God’s

power because God’s power is not only

seen in what he does God’s power is also

seen in what he chooses not to do God’s

powers they’re only seen and what he

releases God’s power is also seen in how

he refrains himself from giving us what

we rightfully deserves oh it takes power

for that because I want you to think

about that table or that teenager that

man they keep asking you that same

question this is the fifth sixth seventh

eighth ninth tenth time you’ve had to

give them the exact same answer and I

want you to think about how it’s so easy

for us to become impatient and

frustrated with that child or that

friend or that spouse or that person

that just doesn’t seem to get it but God

doesn’t grow frustrated like we grow

frustrated he doesn’t have a knee-jerk

reaction born out of impatience that he

has to the instances that are going on

in our life listen it does not matter

what you do you don’t have the capacity

to where God out he doesn’t need a good

nap before he can handle what’s gone on

in your life and in my life

he is God everything you need God

already is so I want you to think about

patience because most of the time when

we think about it in a human sense we

think of our impatience our propensity

towards impatience now I don’t know

about you but I will tell on myself

tonight I am generally speaking an

impatient person can I just get one

witness in the house please

okay I’m so glad I’m not alone I’m an

impatient person I’d like to come up

with solutions for problems as quickly

as we possibly can and get on with it

already

and you know for impatient people like

me most of the time the way that God

trains us in patience and growth and

develop this characteristic in our life

is that he puts up in scenarios where we

have to wait so he allows you to marry

somebody

lord have mercy help me help me help me

Lord

see here’s the deal with me and Jerry

when we have a problem that we have to

solve I have in the first five minutes

we ever have the problem come up with a

solution for the problem it might not be

a good solution but we got a solution on

the table let’s get the skip to it oh no

not my man Jerry Shire has to think

about it pray about it fast on it sleep

on it ask wise council about it help me

Jesus

[Applause]

so so so I got five minutes down we’re

ready to go up it is 24 48 72 hours

later he may come back to me with a

solution and can I just say that most of

the time the solution he comes up with

is the exact same solution is in the

first five minutes we haven’t had a

problem y’all know I’m in trouble when I

go home right I’m so sorry

honestly most of the time when Jerry has

made a decision it really is a good son

because he’s fought through he’s patient

enough to think through all the

consequences of this decision we’re

about to make he’s patient and in this

dynamic God trains in me patience the

reason why you sitting next to that

co-worker on your job you know the one

the one that if he or she says one more

thing to you you gonna knock her out

anybody anybody the reason why the Lord

are not allowed dynamics like that is

because in that dynamic you are learning

Pacey

so since patience is an attribute that

has to be matured and honed in the sole

of the human being we put those same

dynamics on God we think that he has to

grow in his level of patience so that he

might not have enough patience for

what’s happened in our life or where

we’ve been or what we’ve done of the bad

decisions we made the bad relationships

we were in the key might have a level of

patience that we can out do by our

actions but but we can’t where God out

the essence of all the patience look

ever meant to be God already is he is

completely perfect and his level of

patience in fact when you think of all

of the characteristics and attributes of

God that make up the chain of God’s

character so every link in the chain of

God’s character his omniscience and

omnipresence and his sovereignty and its

holiness and all the things that make up

the chain of God’s character when you

really think about it sense essential to

all of those things the most important

and

very of all those characteristics really

is the patience of God right there in

the center because if it were not for

the patience of God we wouldn’t exist

long enough to get to the grace and the

mercy and the omniscience and the

omnipresence right it’s because he is

patient toward us that we really get an

opportunity to experience him I love it

put so clearly in Exodus 34 it says that

he is great in power and aren’t we glad

that he’s slow to anger his grace is

sufficient for you it doesn’t matter

what has gone on in your life up to this

point he is not through with you because

last friend you can’t where God out he’s

got your back one of the clearest places

in scripture where God’s patience has

talked about is a real simple passage of

Scripture I want to draw your attention

to tonight it has begun to speak to me

so beautifully about how patients and

extravagantly grace filled our God is

toward us and is in the New Testament in

the book of first Timothy if you have

your Bible if you actually still use a

Bible with paper pages like I do or if

you have your iPad your iPhone any

manner of is just flip on over to first

Timothy chapter 1 first Timothy chapter

1 the Apostle Paul you all know this at

this Bible teaching Church that the

Apostle Paul is speaking to a young

preacher named Timothy and he is giving

Timothy lessons on life and ministry and

he knows right here at the onset of all

that he wants to instruct Timothy with

that a message on God’s patience is

going to be so important because he

receives young Timothy is going to make

mistakes along the way there are going

to be some missteps and some mishaps

just like there will be for every single

one of us and he wants Timothy to know

right off the bat that God’s patience is

there awaiting all of those mistakes all

those missteps that God’s grace will be

sufficient for him and so the Apostle

Paul writes in 1st Timothy chapter 1

verse 16 and yet for this reason Paul

says I found mercy in order that in me

as before

most Jesus Christ might demonstrate here

it is his perfect patience what kind of

patience is it his perfect patience as

an example for those who would believe

in him for eternal life I love this

verse so much because Paul is so plain

so clear he says left look let me just

make sure you understand the kind of

patience God has it’s not just a good

patience it’s not a great patient it’s

not an awesome level of patience his

patience is perfect which means when you

go to the furthest extremes of that

which represents the patience of God

even at the furthest most points you

will not buy one bit of diminishing

returns one bit of imperfection there is

nothing that you can find that is

outside of perfection and that which is

the patience of God and Paul says just

in case you’re unsure just in case you

think you might be the exception to the

rule that maybe you you have warned God

out because of what’s gone on in your

marriage or in your singleness or the

financial decisions that you’ve made or

the the things you’ve gotten caught up

in that you never intended to just in

case you’re unsure Paul said would you

please take a look at me because I’m a

demonstration of the patience of God

Paul says I’m the foremost he basically

means you ain’t done nothing I haven’t

done he’s basically saying you haven’t

got anywhere I have not already gone

you’ve not seen anything I haven’t

already seen your ears they have not

heard anything my ears have not already

heard you have not dug a pit for

yourself that is any deeper than the pit

I have been in before and Paul’s here to

tell us tonight that if Jesus could

reach down in that pit and pull him out

of it Paul said I promise you he’s got

your life covered Paul says i’m a

demonstration of how great and grand and

vast and full and lavish and extravagant

and boundless the patience of God is

towards you you can’t where God out Paul

says for this reason I love that the

verse starts this way for this reason

it’s like pastor said that stood up here

just a few moments ago any time you see

were there for in Scripture it’s kind of

like a therefore anytime you see

therefore you’ve got to see what it’s

better for and Paul writes at the

beginning of verse 16 for this reason

which means there are some reasons it

means that there are some things he’s

already written there are some things

he’s already said that led him to the

conclusion of verse 16 he didn’t just

come up with verse 16 out of thin air he

listed some specific reasons that he

wanted to make sure you and I grasped

that led him to the conclusion as to why

God’s grace is so extravagant and

perfect toward us so I figured for just

a few moments tonight you and I could

backtrack up just a few verses to see

what these reasons were because I figure

if you and I can see what these reasons

were in Paul’s experience before we

leave tonight we’ll see that Paul is not

the only person that is a demonstration

of the lavish patience of God actually

there are a roomful of illustration of

how grand God’s patience is the first

reason is found in verse 15 so y’all

were just going backtrack up a few

verses and go dig out these reasons

verse 15 is where the first reason is

found it says it is a trustworthy

statement deserving full acceptance that

Christ Jesus came into the world and

here’s the reason to save sinners Christ

Jesus came into the world to save

sinners this is the very first reason

that Paul lists the very first one the

most important seminal primary one that

he wants to draw our attention to this

is the one he said but out of all the

other reasons it should cause you to

know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God

has enough patience to handle anything

and everything that might go on and go

on in your life he says and here’s the

reason he saves me Paul can’t believe it

he says he saved me and I’m the foremost

on the chief of all sinners I have done

everything there is to do and he still

saved me there was a price that I was

going to pay for my own sin and he loved

me enough and cared about me and

and was great to support me enough to

pay that price on my behalf Paul can’t

believe it

that he saved me I want you to think

about what a straight-up flat-out

miracle that is that you and I are saved

that we have a relationship with that

God made a way for us to have a

relationship with him I want you to

think about that for a second you know

because he knows us and all of our

foolishness but he still wanted to make

a way to have a relationship with us

y’all know he doesn’t need us right he

chose to have a relationship so when

someone asked which seems to be a very

valid question an unbeliever when they

might ask and skeptically

they’re concerned because they don’t

know how a God who is supposedly so good

could only make one way for people to

come into relationship when they think

that’s unfair with all these different

cultures and personalities and people in

different settings why is it that a God

supposedly so good will only give one

way for people to be in relationship

with him it doesn’t make sense to them

and well that’s actually a good question

to ask it’s not really the right

question to ask the question is not why

would such a good god only allow them to

be one way the question is why would

such a God who is so holy give any way

for us to have a relationship with him

the fact that he has given us a way

should be enough to cause us to want to

get down on our knees with our hands

outstretched and say say thank you Lord

now I get to have a relationship with

you thank you Lord for His salvation

Paul says if you’re ever wondering if

God was patient enough is patient enough

for your life would you remember that he

saved you you’ll know there are about

seven billion plus people that are on

the planet so the fact that you happen

to live right now in this day in this

age in this generation in the year 2014

where there are gatherings that are

happening like this one at local

churches where thousands of people come

night after night after

to hear the good news of Jesus Christ

preached with clarity and authority in

to worship God in spirit and in truth

the fact that you and I get to live in

this day and age and generation which is

a height for the Church of Jesus Christ

throughout history the fact that you and

I get to be here it’s a miracle

you might have surprised your parents my

friend but you didn’t surprise God he

was not in the heavens going couse that

one slipped past me he had this planned

high school student University student

he wanted you here now it’s a miracle

that he pulled it off I’m telling you

the fact that you’re born that you were

born and that you live in this day and

age it’s a miracle think about it 7

billion plus people on the planet your

great great grandfather with 7 billion

plus people on the planet happen to find

the right woman that should be your

great-great-grandmother the two of them

came together and created your

great-grandfather then your

great-grandfather with the 7 billion

plus people that are on the planet he

just happened to find the woman that

should be your great-grandmother then

the two of them came together and

created your grandfather and then your

grandfather what the 7 billion plus

people that are on the planet he just

happened to find a woman that should be

your grandmother then the two of them

came together and created your father

and then your father with the 7 billion

plus people that are on the planet he

just happened to find the woman that

should be your mother and then your

father and mother came together and this

is a little graphic but with all those

millions of sperm the exact right one

happens to connect with that egg so that

you would be created my friend there’s

nothing chance about that that’s a

miracle

that’s a miracle that’s the divine

strategy of God orchestrating our

existence you’re here on purpose and if

you think it’s a miracle that you were

born I want you to think of how much

more of a miracle it is that you were

born again there has been a battle being

waged in the heavenly for in the

heavenly for your soul since before time

began the enemy has been waging war for

your soul from the beginning of time I

love how my father describes it it’s

like a cosmic chess board where the

enemy is on one side and God is on the

other and both of them have their minds

set on winning you and me over and all

of history God has been been waging this

battle to make sure that you and I could

just be saved

so God makes us made the first move you

remember in Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 he

creates Adam and Eve in a perfect

setting perfect environment perfect

relationship with himself but the enemy

not to be outdone on the other side of

that cosmic chessboard he makes a move

and he slithers into the garden and he

causes sin to into the picture picture

so that finally Cain kills Abel and it

seems like everyone will always be

separated from God but our God never to

be outdone he makes another move he

causes Adam and Eve to come back

together they give birth to a baby boy

named Seth Seth gives birth to a baby

more named Tina and in Genesis chapter 4

it says that when eNOS was born

everybody began to worship God again but

the enemy not to be outdone he made

another move he caused sin and rebellion

to enter into the hearts of mankind and

proliferate across the earth so much so

so that the entire world needed to be

destroyed and it really seemed like the

enemy had won this time but our God

never to be outdone he had another move

up his sleeve and his name was Noah and

he said no I need you to build me an ark

Noah said build to sweat

he’s gonna need you to build an ark if

it’s going to rain and Noah didn’t quite

understand but he sent yes and he obeyed

and mankind was preserved because of one

man’s obedience but the enemy made

another move he caused rebellion to seek

back into the hearts of mankind again

and it proliferated across the earth but

our God not to be outdone he had another

move up his sleeves he went to this

little pagan town called earth and he

found a man named Abram and he raised

him up out of obscurity and he changed

his name and he changed his destiny and

he changed his purpose and he created a

brand new nation out of him called the

nation of his real God’s people the

church and he said I’m going to stamp my

blessing on these people and my favor on

these people my name will be a banner

over them and I will protect them and

provide for them but the enemy had

another movement up his sleeve he caused

God’s people now to go down into Egypt

do you remember 400 years there in

captivity under Pharaoh and it seems

like they will never experience freedom

again but our God never to be outdone he

had another move of his sleeve and his

name was Moses and Moses was raised as

the Prince of Egypt and then at the

right time God sent Moses back to

Pharaoh to go tell Pharaoh let my people

go and after 10 miraculous plagues and

40 years in the wilderness the children

of God finally came into the Promised

Land the place that represented the

power and the provision and the favor of

God the land flowing with milk and honey

but the enemy he wasn’t done yet he made

another move and he caused sin and

rebellion to enter into the hearts of

God’s people now God’s people turned

their back on the one true God and they

began to worship idols by the time you

get to the end of the book of Judges the

last line of the book of Judges says

this everyone was doing what was right

in their own eyes kind of sounds like

America in the year 2014 doesn’t it

but God not to be outdone he had another

move and her name was Ruth and Ruth had

a lot of issues and chaos in her life

there was a lot of struggle there at the

forefront but towards the end of the

book of the Ruth you find that she meets

this guy named Boaz it’s her kinsman

redeemer and

and and Ruth and her kinsman-redeemer

come together and they have a little

baby boy named Oh bed and Oh bed gives

birth to Jesse and Jesse gives birth to

a little baby boy named David and with

that one move the enemy doesn’t even

know it yet but the checkmate is already

on the way

already on the way and the old testament

closes in y’all there are 400 years of

silence between the Old Testament and

the New Testament God is on one side of

the cosmic chessboard

the enemy is on the other and all of

history is waiting to see who is gonna

make the next move

and then the New Testament opens and

enters Jesus Christ it is the move that

the enemies still to this day has never

ever had a response for

and listen to me he did that for you

Paul brings up salvation in first

Timothy chapter 1 verse 15 he brings up

salvation as a reason that you and I

should believe that God is patient

toward us because he wants you to

understand that if the Lord could

orchestrate events that if he had enough

patience to make sure that things were

aligned over the past few millennia then

don’t you think you’ve got the last six

weeks of your life covered that there is

nothing you know I thank you Jesus could

ever do it on my phone that could where

god out he was patient enough to save

you my friend it means he’s patience

enough to sustain you so I don’t have to

know all of your stories you don’t have

to know my story the details of my story

but what we can know is that no matter

what our story His grace is but that’s

not the only reason Paul’s got another

reason remember we’re backtracking

through first Timothy chapter 1 the

second reason is found in verse 13 Paul

says even though I was formerly somebody

say formerly even though I was formerly

a blasphemer and a persecutor and a

violent aggressor yet I was shown mercy

all right I love this so much because

you’re remember when we first started

this in verse 16 Paul said I’m before

most he just said I’m the chief like the

chief of all sinners I’ve just done more

than you he didn’t give us his sin

resume he didn’t lift out a bunch of

details as to why he’s the worst he just

said trust me I’m the worst but now we

get to verse 13 and he gives us a few

details he starts to give us a few

things on his sin resume he says I’m a

fraud was a persecutor I was a violent

aggressor and I was a blasphemer so he

lifts three things on his sin resume I’m

so glad that right there at the very

beginning of all this he didn’t give us

the details of his sin resume because we

might have been tempted to spend so much

time looking and dissecting

analyzing pulse in resume that we would

forget we actually don’t have time to

look at anybody else’s in resume cuz we

got our own send resumes we have our own

stories of deliverance we never had time

to be consumed with somebody else’s

resume we’ve got our own can somebody

say Amen but now Paul gives us a few

details just three of them burst in our

chapter of chapter 1 verse 13 few

details if I keep giving us a little bit

of the resume but right it’s a very top

of postin resume he wants to put a big

bold all caps subtitle for you read he

wants to make sure that before you see

any of these details on the resume you

don’t miss the title of his resume and

the title is formerly he wants you to

know that this is who I was but it’s not

who I am anymore because the proof of

God’s patience toward us it’s not only

that he saved me but also that he

changed me it’s now I’m not the same

person that I used to be that when I

look in the mirror now thank you lord I

don’t see the same woman that I saw five

years ago that she thinks different

thoughts that she has different

ambitions but she’s headed in a

different direction that she has

different interests and passions that

she doesn’t talk to fame she doesn’t

look the same she doesn’t want the same

thing not because I’ve changed myself

but because when God went in you he does

the hard work of changing you the

greatest gift you will ever receive my

friend if the Holy Spirit of God and do

you know that it’s the moment you

accepting Jesus Christ as Savior the

Holy Spirit of God took up residence in

you do you understand that the Holy

Spirit is not a ghost or a wind or a

fire or a dove he’s often symbolized by

those things but that’s not who he is

the Holy Spirit is the third person of

the Trinity not hurt because he’s least

in value only served because he’s alas

to be revealed to us in the pages of

Scripture but all of the fullness and

power and glory and authority and

grandeur of God

other is in the person of the Holy

Spirit and if you’re a believer in Jesus

Christ and the Holy Spirit lives in you

that means all of the fullness and the

grandeur and the authority and the power

of God the Father no lives on the inside

of you

that’s ternoon that’s good news and

here’s the thing one of the Holy

Spirit’s primary purpose is second

Thessalonians chapter 113 is that he

sanctifies you somebody say sanctified

sanctification is the process by which

you and I are molded into the image of

Christ Jesus

in other words he does the hard work of

helping you to be who you’ve always

wanted to be I don’t know if you have

experienced this like I have but it’s

exhausting trying to change yourself

anybody it’s just a lot of hard work and

not only is it exhausting it’s also

temporary lasting change has to take

place from the inside out not the

outside in and you can’t do that for

yourself but God does it for you now we

cooperate with him by renewing our minds

with the Word of God my fellowshiping

what others other believers like you’re

doing tonight by being on our knees

before God by eating the conviction of

the Holy Spirit we cooperate with him

but his business in you his job

description he has a degree in helping

you be like Jesus that’s his work in you

his best work is in changing God’s

people so Paul says the reason why you

can Bank on the fact that God’s patience

is sufficient for you if not only that

he had enough patience to save you but

then you’ve got enough patience to

change you that your friends might not

stick with you long enough for you to

change some of you have been betrayed in

this room because you have a spouse that

left you before you could get that thing

together they didn’t stick with you like

you thought they would while you changed

you need to know that no matter whoever

else has left your side there is one who

will never leave you nor forsake you he

will stick with you while you change my

friend he’s got enough patience for that

and it changes you from the inside out

lasting change have you ever wondered

how popcorn pops somebody say yes I’m so

glad you want to know

so inside every kernel of corn there is

a microscopic dot of water so when you

take a bag of microwave popcorn and you

put it inside the microwave you’re not

actually heating up the shell you are

heating up the little microscopic dot

pop of water that is inside the shell so

as every single one of those microscopic

dots of water bins begins to heat up it

creates steam and then that steam begins

to gain more and more pressure and it

presses against the shell and finally

there is so much pressure inside of that

kernel of corn that it it pumps now it

looks completely different on the

outside not because you did anything to

the outside just because you heat it up

what was on the inside and when you heat

it up what was on the inside now the

outside looks completely different this

is exactly what God does in your life

and in mind he is in there you can’t see

him but he’s there my friend and as you

heat up the work of God on the inside of

you as you are in prayer as you’re

bathing yourself as in the word as

you’re around other believers in Jesus

Christ you heat up his work and he

begins to press and press against the

shell of ours until one day you just pop

right open and you’re not even you don’t

even look similar to the kind of person

you used to be

you’ve been changed from the inside out

in fact what’s so interesting about

those kernels of corn y’all is that

before that thing popped you never knew

that all of that could be housed in that

little bitty there can you imagine the

potential that is just just on the

inside of us longing to be released that

will be released as we yield to the Holy

Spirit on the inside of us he changes us

he’s got enough patience for that but

not only that there’s one final thing

Paul says verse 12 is the last reason I

want to give you tonight he says

I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who is

considered or I think Jesus Christ our

Lord verse well who has strengthened me

there it is he has strengthened me Paul

says he saved me

that’s justification he changed me

that’s sanctification and now I can

count on him to strengthen me that’s

fortification that everything you need

to be who God has called you to be he

has promised you he will strengthen you

and equip you to handle there is nothing

that is coming up in your 2014 that God

has not already gone before you and

paved the way there is nothing that

you’re going to face you and I are going

to face some stuff in 2014 there is

nothing we’re going to face that he has

not and will not equip us to handle in

our lives

he is your strengthener the joy of the

Lord is your strength awesome I’ve got a

God who saved me I’ve got a God who

changes me and I’ve got a God who

strengthens me who gives me the

fortification that I need to handle what

is happening in my life he’s got enough

patience for that you do know my friends

that everything you need God already is

everything that will ever come your way

your God already is you do not have to

look for it outside of our God who is

described to us within the pages of

these scriptures the Scriptures tell us

from beginning to end

everything that God is to it us the

question is not whether or not he is

those things the question is whether or

not we will believe them and lean on

them but all the strength you need your

God has given you and the Scriptures

make it clear because in Genesis it says

he is the breath of life in Exodus he is

the Passover lamb in Leviticus he is our

high

and number if he is the fire by night in

Deuteronomy he is Israel God in Joshua

he’s salvation choice in judges he has

real garb and Ruth he’s your kid has

been Redeemer in 1st and 2nd samuel he’s

your trusted prophet and kings and

chronicles he is sovereign and Ezra he

is a true and faithful scribe in

Nehemiah he is the one who rebuilds

walls and rebuild lives in Esther he is

your courage and job he’s the timeless

Redeemer in Psalms he is your morning

song and property of your wisdom and it

crazy-ass see he’s a time and a season

in Song of Solomon he’s the lovers dream

and Isaiah he is the Prince of Peace in

Jeremiah he’s the weeping prophet and

limitations he’s the cry free Israel in

Ezekiel he’s the call from sin and

Daniel he is always a stranger that will

be in your fire and Hosea he is the

forever faithful and joel he is the

spirit’s power in amos he is the strong

arms that will carry you and all the

Daiya he is the Lord our Savior and

Jonah he’s the great missionary and

Micah he is the promise of peace in

mayhem he’s our strength and our shield

in Habakkuk and Zephaniah he brings

revival in Haggai he restores that was

that was which was once lost in Malachi

he is the son of righteousness bettered

rising with healing in his wings and

that’s just who he is in the Old

Testament

in Matthew Mark Luke and John he’s not

just your God now he is your Messiah and

the spirit build welcome back he’s the

reigning fire from heaven in Romans he’s

the grace of God Corinthians he’s the

power of love Galatians he is freedom

from the curse of sin in Ephesians

he’s our glorious treasure in

Philippians he’s the servant heart in

Colossians he’s God and he is the

Trinity in Thessalonians he’s are

calling King in Timothy Titus and

Philemon

he’s our mediator and our faithful

pastor in Hebrews he’s the everlasting

courage in James he is the one who will

heal you when you are sick in 1st and

2nd Peter he is our faithful Shepherd in

John and Jude he is the lover that is

coming one day for his bride and in the

revelation in the very end when it is

all over said and done he was and will

always be the first the map the

beginning and the end coming

hey hey thank you lord