Going Beyond Ministries with Priscilla Shirer – Let Revival Begin with Me

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.

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good evening y’all it’s a privilege to

be with you and to have an opportunity

to be a part of legacy nights it was

described to me via email by your pastor

as a revival of sorts he said we want an

outpouring of the Holy Spirit I said I’m

in I’m in I’m in and so it is a

privilege to be able to be with you I

always love being with your church and

being able to share in some capacity the

Word of God to you I pray that tonight

really is an inauguration that it just

sort of kicks off what it is that God

wants to do in your heart what he wants

to do in your mind how he wants to

revolutionize your life change that he

wants to break off of your life

spiritually deliverance that he wants to

bring freedom and victory that he wants

to speak over your life there are some

trajectories that are going to be

changed some ambitions that are gonna be

refocused some dreams and visions that

are gonna be planted in your heart I

believe that’s gonna happen this week

and the fact the fact that you’ve come

out on a Monday night says y’all love

for serious about this that you didn’t

come to play games that you you braved

the traffic whatever it is you had to

brave to come out tonight because you

want to see and hear the voice of God

[Applause]

before I dive into just a short little

thought that I want to share with you

that I believe will lead us as it has

led me more closely into the presence of

God I can’t help but pause for a moment

because I want you to hear what your

pastor said to you a few moments ago he

said 35 years ago I had a vision that

the Lord gave me and tonight I’m

standing on this platform and seeing

that out working and the fruit of a

vision from 35

years ago listen listen some of us made

new year’s resolutions twenty-something

days ago and we’re already out but 35

years ago do you know what kind of

faithfulness what kind of diligence what

kind of prayer what kind of integrity

what kind of character come on and help

me celebrate Phillips and Holly Wagner

thank you thank you thank you we are the

fruit of your diligence thank you Lord

come and speak to us father we have

rolled out the red carpet for you and

our praise and in our worship and now we

step out of the way because we need a

word Lord I’m so grateful that each

other is here but we didn’t come to see

each other we came to see you so father

rend the heavens come down and speak in

jesus name amen

it was the 1940s or so when there was a

professor who was in England his name

was professor or Orr

he taught theology at a university there

he decided to take some of his theology

students this is the 1940s he decided to

take them on an excursion a field trip

so to speak and so he gathered up his

students and he said we’re gonna go

visit some of the historical places here

in England that have some sort of

theological significance he took him to

many religious sites some that had been

very strategic in the building up of the

church and in the Christian faith and

one of the places that they visited was

the Epworth rectory which would have

been the home the living place the study

place of one of the great reformers of

the church his name was John Wesley

John Wesley sort of put in place much of

the theology upon which the church that

you attend that I attend a lot of that

foundational theology

was crafted by reformers like John

Wesley

so John Wesley would study he would

teach he would preach he would pray that

revival would spread out not only in

England but he prayed for it here in our

country that would revival would break

out he and others like him

assured in in prayer some of the great

revivals that swept through America in

the early 1900’s were people in mass

were coming to know Jesus Christ as Lord

where the heavens seemed to be open in

an unusual way and revival broke out in

a way that has made the history books

that we still look back on now and

recognize the fire of God’s Spirit that

spread during that time period it’s

because guys many of them like John

Wesley were on their knees praying that

God would move so these theology

students went and they visited this

rectory this house where he lived and

they went in the kitchen professor or

showed them all where John Wesley would

have eaten his lunch and his dinners

where he would have cooked where he

would have lived his life there took him

into the study where John Wesley would

have studied these theology students

were enamored because of course some of

the old books that John Wesley would

have studied from that he had written in

some of those notes they had preserved

they were still there on the desk and on

the bookshelves and so the theology

students were feeling them the spines of

those books just enjoying the richness

of this history and then professor or

walked the students up to the second

floor where the most intimate quarters

of John Wesley would have been his

bedroom walked in the bedroom and the

students began to file around the bed in

a tiny space in that bedroom and as they

all files into the room one of them

noticed as they got around the far side

of the bed that there were two small

patches well-worn patches in the carpet

fibers of the floor they were right next

to each other and they were beside the

bed and he he asked his professor about

those patches that were worn right there

beside the bed and professor or

explained that it is said that those two

patches were the actual places were

every single morning not for a minute or

two but

several hours on end John Wesley would

plant his knees right beside his bed and

he had prayed so long and so hard for

revival that his knee had knees had

actually imprinted themselves onto the

floor that the carpet fibers were were

worn as he prayed for revival so the

students stood in there for a moment and

after a few moments they left the room

they went downstairs they all got on the

bus to go to the next location professor

or stood at the front of the bus counted

the students to make sure everybody was

there and he realized one was missing he

walked back into the house went into the

kitchen to look for the student nobody

was there went into the study to look

for the student nobody was there walked

up the stairs into the bedroom and he

could just see across the other side of

the bed the head and shoulders of a

student who had planted his knees down

in those well-worn patches on the floor

and he could hear the student praying do

it again Lord

Lord would you do it again and would you

do it again with me professor or walked

around the side of the bed he put his

hand on the the shoulder of the student

and he said it’s time to go and rising

from his knees Billy Graham went and

joined the rest of the students on the

bus that day

and then God did it again

and I just wonder what would happen if

this week there were some people who

were brave enough to say the Lord would

you do it again would you not allow me

to be a Christian in name only would you

make it so that I’m so uncomfortable

with being a nominal Christian who just

comes to church you just read the verse

a day to keep the devil away who’s just

a good person but isn’t a person who is

completely sold out for the cause of

Jesus Christ Lord would you make it so

that I am different and unique and set

apart and filled by the Holy Spirit of

God Lord would you do it again

and would you let it start with me I’m

praying for revival I’m talking about

straight up old-school flat-footed

revival I’m talking about where the Holy

Spirit breaks out so clearly and so

fully that there is not one person that

walks the face of the earth that does

not know that there is a God somewhere

and that he sent His Son Jesus Christ to

redeem us from our sins that he is the

way the truth and the life and that no

man comes to the Father except through

him Lord do it again and you might as

well go ahead and start at oasis in LA

revival is what we’re asking him for it

is a unique outpouring of the presence

of God it is when his spirit the

immaterial in some way becomes material

tangible where we see and we hear and we

can detect traces of God’s presence it’s

where you look back over your history

and you can see footprints where God was

working stuff out in your favor where he

was putting the right people in the

right place at the right time to guide

your sets it’s when you step away from

just celebrating his omnipresence I’m

grateful for the omnipresence of God

omnipresence means that he is everywhere

at the same time omnipresence means when

I fly back to Dallas Texas tomorrow

I’m not taking all of God with me and

not leaving him here with you that he is

just as much in Los Angeles as he will

be with me in Dallas Texas because our

God is omnipresent but there should be

an huh hunger in us the people of God –

what more than just his omnipresence we

should what his manifest presence

manifest is revival

it’s his clear outpouring it is the

detecting of his fingerprints in our

lives it’s when we hear his voice by his

Spirit whispering to us and speaking to

us and this has always been the desire

of God to reveal himself that’s what

revival is it is a revelation it is a

revealing of the tangible experience

with God that’s what he’s always wanted

even in Isaiah 65 way back in the Old

Testament he said listen even when

people didn’t want me I was still trying

to reveal myself he said i permitted

myself to be sought by those who didn’t

even ask for me i permitted myself to be

found by those who did not seek me I

said Here I am Here I am – a people that

did not even call on my name I wanted to

bring revival even when people weren’t

asking for it and so all throughout the

scriptures from the Old Testament all

the way into the new we find a God who

wanted to be found by his people he

wanted to reveal himself do you know

what great lengths he went to reveal

himself to you and to me all of history

really is a chronicling of God’s desire

to be seen and experienced and felt in a

tangible real way to be in relationship

with every single one of us it started

in the garden you know Adam and Eve he

sent them down in a perfect environment

so that they could have a perfect

relationship with him but you know we

have a very real enemy that has always

worked against revival the revealing of

God and so even then he slithered into

the perfect environment and introduced

sin and they bit the Apple and sin

didn’t just enter into that perfect

environment but the DNA of sin was

passed down to all humanity for all time

and it seemed like all hope was lost but

our God never to be outdone he stepped

in and had another move because Adam and

Eve they came together again and they

had a little baby boy named Seth and

then Seth gave birth to Enoch in Genesis

chapter 4 says that when he mosh was

born everybody began to worship God

again the enemy he wanted to try to

stand against the revealing of God the

revelation of God the relationship of

God to humanity and so he made it so

that sin was introduced and perpetuated

and proliferated throughout humanity and

things got so bad that the entire human

race really needed to be wiped out and

it seemed like the enemy had the upper

hand and he was gonna win but our God

never to be outdone he went and he found

a man named Noah and he said Noah I want

you to build me an ark and Noah said Oh

what he said an ark because one day it

is going to rain Noah said Eska what he

said it’s gonna rain and so he built an

ark didn’t even know what it was for

rain he had never seen it before but in

obedience to God his ark became the

carrier through which God would preserve

all of humanity and once again our God

always he was on top but the enemy cause

sin to proliferate again the attitudes

of people to be hardened against the one

true God and things look so

Iyer that had looked as if the enemy had

won but our God never to be outdone he

went to a little obscure town and found

an obscure man named Abram he plucked

him out of a town called herb he set him

on a brand new path he changed his name

he changed the GPS coordinates on his

ambitions and the trajectory of his life

and he said through you Abraham I’m

gonna make a brand new people called the

children of Israel they will be my

people I will mark them with my presence

I will make a covenant with them so that

you can’t mess with them no matter how

hard it is that you drive so the

children of Israel were crafted as an

opportunity for God to maintain

relationship with humanity no matter

what the enemy would try but the enemy

of course wanted to do everything he

could to keep revival to keep revelation

to keep the revealing of God from

happening fully with humanity and so

Israel was enslaved for 400 years they

were enslaved down in Egypt and it

looked like all hope was lost but our

God never to be outdone he made it so

that there was a little boy named Moses

that was raised as the Prince of Egypt

and at just the right time he said to

Moses mo you go tell Pharaoh let my

people go and Pharaoh’s heart was

softened and he released the children of

Israel and after 40 years in the

wilderness 40 years of coming into

intimate relationship with their God

they finally came into the Promised Land

and it looked like the enemy had been

beaten forever but the enemy he had

another move up his sleeve because he

made it so that the idols of their new

land looked as appealing as the one true

God and so they began to worship idols

in the book of Judges it says and when

you get to the end of the book of the

judges the last line of the book of

Judges says everybody was doing what was

right in their own eyes kind of sounds

like America in the year 2019 doesn’t it

and it looked like the enemy was going

to have the final say but our God never

to be outdone he went and found a woman

named Ruth and Ruth married Boaz

she and Boas had a baby named Obed and

Obed gave birth to Jesse and Jesse gave

birth to a little baby boy named David

that’s King David the one who the

prophets had already prophesied through

that lineage there would be one born who

would settle this matter once and for

all the people that were on the stage of

the world in that moment did not even

know that they were already in place for

a historical move for which the enemy

would never have a response for the Old

Testament closed four hundred years of

silence passed and then the curtain

opened and Jesus Christ stepped on the

scene and that is the response that the

enemy has never ever been able to tackle

Jesus God the Father revealed himself in

the Old Testament and then Jesus came in

the New Testament Jesus was the physical

embodiment of God the Father he said if

you’ve seen me you’ve seen the father

Yahweh tried to make it so that he could

have relationship with people as boldly

as he could in the Old Testament and he

came in the New Testament in the person

of Jesus Christ in every dispensation he

tried to figure out the best way to make

it so that he could reveal himself to

humanity God the Father in the Old

Testament Jesus the son in the New

Testament and in every stage people

rejected the revelation that God gave

him gave them up himself one scholar

said it this way that the great sin of

the Old Testament that is that they did

not believe in God the Father the great

sin of the new testament is that they

did not believe in Jesus the Son and the

great sin of our generation is that we

really don’t believe in the Holy Spirit

but on every turn when Jesus our God

seeks to reveal himself that we always

question the way he seeks to reveal

himself to us Jesus came in the Old

Testament the Word made flesh and he

dwelt among them listen to John

described this beholding of Jesus he

said in John chapter 1 verse 14 the word

became flesh and dwelt among us listen

to the all in his voice as he says it

and we beheld his glory I mean John I

can’t believe it the glory of God the

Father we back we saw him with our own

eyes we got an up-close personal

front-row seat chin on our hands

salivating experience because we got a

front-row seat to see Jesus Christ to

hear the words come out of his mouth to

hear him teach to see him heal and

prophesy and tell people to repent

because the kingdom of God was at hand

we got to see him for ourselves

I love how Eugene Peterson puts that

verse in the message Bible he says Jesus

came and moved into the neighborhood of

humanity that he came to move into your

neighborhood in my neighborhood that’s

revival that he came to make himself

present to walk publicly among the

people so that they could experience

what it was like to be in the very

presence of God and so he performed

miracles and he taught so he could

authenticate that he was who he said he

was and that he could do exactly what he

said he could do and everybody didn’t

believe him they just want quite

convinced just like they weren’t in the

Old Testament they weren’t convinced

about Jesus in the New Testament they

weren’t sure about this Messiah business

but what they did know was that where

everywhere Jesus showed up blind people

could see what they did know even though

they weren’t sure about the whole

kingdom of God is at hand stuff what

they did know was that when this Jesus

showed up lame people could walk and the

Deaf could hear and the dead were being

raised everywhere Jesus showed up and

every time he spoke his words were

dripping with an awe and with an

authority that they had never ever heard

before

they’d heard the Pharisees and the

Sadducees the religious leaders that had

been nice but they ain’t never heard

nothing like this and so wherever Jesus

went it says throngs of people were

crowded around him because they wanted

to get as close as they possibly could

you know like the woman with the issue

of blood who forced her way through a

crowd because she wanted to get as close

as she could so she could reach out and

touch the hem of his arm garment because

she knew if she could just touch him

that power would leave him and come to

her and heal her of all her diseases

they weren’t sure about whether or not

he was the Messiah but they knew he was

something and God tried to reveal

himself once again Jesus walking amongst

the people which is why one of the

scariest one of the most troubling

one-liners in all of Scripture is John

chapter 11 verse 54 I said all of that

to get us to John chapter 11 verse 54 it

says therefore Jesus no longer walked

publicly among the Jews he went away one

of the most troubling portions of all of

Scripture is that Jesus no longer went

public he was present he was there he

just went in public he was around but he

just chose to stave off into more quiet

corners instead of walking publicly

among the people no more miracles no

more teaching out in public people

wouldn’t be privy to the revival to the

revelation of himself as he had come to

give no he no longer walked publicly

amongst the people are we living in a

time where he is no longer walking

publicly among us

he’s present he just ain’t public

because the people of God have gotten so

private and so quiet that we are

Christians we’re just not public with

our Christianity that the Jesus that

people are supposed to see in you the

Jesus that they’re supposed to see in me

they are looking but they just can’t

find him he’s present he’s just not

public this little portion of Scripture

bothered me so much because I wanted to

figure out what is it that keeps Jesus

from being revealed that keeps the

revival from happening why is it that

Jesus would be a present amongst the

people but that he wouldn’t walk

publicly among them I was really

bothered by this

especially since verse 55 says and I’ll

just read it to you from John chapter 11

it says that the Passover of the Jews

was at hand and many went up to

Jerusalem that’s into the city out of

the country where they lived they went

out of the country into the city for

this religious festival called Passover

and they were seeking for Jesus they

were saying to each other as they stood

in the temple do you think Jesus is

going to come this year listen they went

out of the country into the city to

Jerusalem for a religious event they are

standing in the temple looking for Jesus

and he’s nowhere to be found they are in

the place where if there’s any place

Jesus is gonna be is gonna be in the

temple and they are looking for him and

they cannot find him what an indictment

against the Church of Jesus Christ if

when people come through these doors if

they come into this place they can find

programs and they can find our plans and

they can find great teaching they can

find great singing they can find lights

and cameras and beautiful stages they

can find everything except the one who

will actually change their lives

and there are people who are coming into

our churches y’all and they’re looking

for Jesus they might not even really

know how to verbalize what they’re after

they just know that there is a void in

their lives that needs to be filled they

need something that can quench them at

the core of them and they come in

looking not for our plans enough for our

programs they are looking for the

presence of God the presence of God is

what people are seeking it’s what we all

need and these people are looking for

Jesus but Jesus is no longer walking

publicly among them the presence of God

revival is what people have always been

after since the beginning of time one of

my favorite Bible study teachers leaders

in my life her name was Elizabeth Eliot

she died a while back now but years and

years of just faithful service to God I

would read all her books and listen to

her on the radio every now and then she

was the kind of speaker or teacher that

she was fairly bland like there were no

jokes she wasn’t gonna crack a smile you

know she was gonna try to entertain you

she didn’t really care if you liked what

she was saying or not she would just

stand up there and literally y’all she

would just talk just like this for a

solid hour and one time I was in a

smaller group with her and she was

taking questions and someone asked her

why is it that in your teaching style

I’ve noticed that you don’t feel the

need for a whole lot of antidotes or

jokes or something like that you don’t

seem to need to warm up the crowd and I

remember Miss Elizabeth she was probably

in her late 70s by then she looked back

at the woman who asked the question with

a little smile on her face

and she said well why would I do that

the people didn’t come to see me they

came to see Jesus

I said wealth in the reality is they

don’t need to see you they need to see

Jesus they don’t need to see me they

need Jesus he’s the one that changes

lives y’all he literally sets people

free he gives people victory he breaks

chains on people’s lives he opens up

blinded eyes he opens up deaf ears he

can change the trajectory of your entire

family line listen to me I’m in a family

line that has been completely changed

the trajectory of our lives completely

transformed because Jesus stepped in and

saved my grandfather saved my father

saved us change the trajectory of our

lives there’s no telling where I’d be if

it were not for the king of kings and

the Lord of lords so I stand on this

platform today not because I’m a

preacher it’s because I’m a satisfied

customer of the Grace and the goodness

of God he’s changed my life he’s changed

my life

so the people were looking for Jesus and

they couldn’t find him and I wanted to

know why wasn’t he there why wasn’t he

there turns out this happens in John

chapter 11 right on the heels of him

raising Lazarus from the dead you know

the story he walks in four days after

Lazarus has already been dead Mary and

Martha are like where have you been

seriously and Jesus says don’t worry

about it I am the resurrection and the

life I’ll take care of this and he calls

Lazarus out of the tomb and he says

loose that man and let him go Lazarus

comes forth in the siting of many many

people who were gathered that day some

believe in him some are a little

critical of him because you know people

always are when Jesus reveals himself

and so they go to the Pharisees and the

Sadducees and they have a little word to

say about what Jesus is doing out here

performing miracles and stuff and it

says that the Sadducees and the

Pharisees they convene a council to

scrutinize the work of Jesus theologian

aw Tozier says that when Jesus moves

when God moves when he does stuff that’s

outside of the box of our comfort zone

there is always one of two responses the

unbelieving person will squat down to

their knees only to get a better look so

that they can be critical of and

scrutinized that which God has done

but the believing person might also drop

to their knees but they will do so only

so that they can turn their attention

upward with their hands raised and say

thank you the Pharisees and the

Sadducees they drop to their knees to

get a closer look to scrutinise and in

their pride and in their arrogance they

say Jesus is doing too much we can’t let

him as if they could control him we

can’t let him go on this way because if

we do he will ruin our plans and so they

set out it says in John 11 53 it says

that they make a decision to kill him

they decide he needs to be silenced he

needs to be muted he needs to be

squelched his moves need to be

suffocated ex-fix eiated so that they

can get a handle on him and make them

less

and diminish they want to do whatever it

is they can to kill the work of God and

so they silenced him any way they can

and it says that as a result of their

decision

Jesus no longer walked publicly among

them so I want to ask you is there any

way any part of your life where you know

you are silencing diminishing minimizing

extinguishing the moves of God in your

own personal experience I’m talking

about where you’ve heard the voice of

God you know it’s the conviction of the

holy spirit saying apologize to that

person or give to that person or go

there or don’t go here participate in

that don’t participate in this and you

just keep silence and yet walking away

from it ignoring it going the other

direction from it doing everything you

can to minimize what you know is the

work of God around you when we decide

and choose individually to kill his work

to smother his work in our life the

scripture says his response is to no

longer walk publicly among you he’s

present he’s just not public he will

never leave you nor forsake you you

can’t be unsaved once you’ve already

placed faith in Jesus Christ

you are eternally secure for heaven

you’ll have to worry about that but just

because he’s present doesn’t mean he’s

public and he came to be more than just

some of the king of kings and Lord of

lords that lives in you he wants you to

experience him on the outside of you

into the way you think and the choices

that you make in the decisions that you

choose in the paths of your life he

wants you to see him working publicly

around you in need of different

experiences of your life if you like me

what to experience more than just his

omnipresence if you want his manifest

presence the thing that he came for then

we have to be careful that were not

squelching diminishing the moves of God

in our life because in any place in our

life where we have determined to kill

him we will see that he no longer walks

publicly among us and so Jesus no longer

walks publicly among them

because there are leaders and by the way

if I can just open up our parentheses

here we have to be on our knees praying

for the leadership of our churches every

single Church the place where they are

entrusted with this responsibility of

shepherding our souls we have to ask the

Lord to give them wisdom to make margin

for the Holy Spirit like these leaders

have in this church for this week this

whole week y’all is just devoted to

letting Jesus do what Jesus wants to do

in giving him margin to move freely

among us to be public among us we need

to be praying for integrity and

character in our leadership we need to

be praying that there are people who are

leading us who are watching over us who

are faithful to do it the way that would

most honor a great move and revival of

God in the house of God and so in the

Old Testament he came as God the Father

in the New Testament Jesus the Son and

just like he wanted to move publicly in

the Old Testament and move publicly in

the New Testament through Jesus Christ

when Jesus finally ascended into heaven

he said to the disciples it is to your

advantage that I go because when I go

I’m going to leave with you another

helper in the original language another

helper is a word that actually means

another of the exact same kind meaning I

am NOT leaving with you a lesser version

of myself everything you had in me all

of the authority and all of the grandeur

and all of the greatness of God the

Father that is in me is now in the

person of the Holy Spirit and I am

leaving the Holy Spirit of God with you

in 2019 so that just as God wanted to

reveal himself in the Old Testament and

just as Jesus the son wanted to walk

publicly in the New Testament you now

have every right and privilege as a

daughter or son in this dispensation in

which he has left the Holy Spirit to

experience the full presence of God

among you in the person of the Holy

Spirit did you know that when you place

faith in Jesus Christ you were speedily

received the Holy Spirit of God I’m

asking you did you know it listen the

Holy Spirit is not a ghost or a wind or

a fire or a dove he’s often symbolized

by those things but y’all Denny 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’s

the last to be revealed to us in the

pages of Scripture but all of the

fullness all of the power all of the

glory all of the grandeur of God the

Father is in the person of the Holy

Spirit that means when you place faith

in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit

takes up residence in you that means

that all of the grandeur all of the

goodness all of the authority of God the

Father now lives on the inside of you

and he doesn’t just want to be present

he wants to be public that’s why you get

his fruit because that means that when

your patience has run out with that

person you ain’t got no more patient he

gives you the fruit of the Spirit so

that you can have patience that goes

beyond your natural capacity to have

patience it means when you do not have

any self discipline it the Holy Spirit

the fruit of God’s Spirit means that you

are able to restrain yourself within

your flesh you know you are not able to

restrain yourself not only do you have

the fruit of the Spirit that’s public

you also have the gifts of the Spirit so

that you can operate in a way that

publicly analyze the body of Christ and

builds people up and encourages them and

stirs them on it’s God’s public activity

in your life it’s called the manifest

presence of God the person of the Holy

Spirit enables us as the body of Christ

to walk in a manner worthy of the

calling by which we have been called

it’s the presence of God on our life it

marks us

he is the one that makes it so that God

is not just in US he is on us where

people can see a public demonstration of

the power of God just because we walked

into the room on our jobs and in your

university and walking down the corridor

of your high school campus and in that

organization you’re in which you’re

involved and in that endeavor in which

you are sewing all of your gifts and

your talents and your creative abilities

you’ve given it everything that you have

the Holy Spirit is the one that when his

presence is upon your life makes it so

that when you walk into the room people

get a public demonstration of Jesus

Christ because of the words you say

because of the choices that you make

because of the integrity with which you

stand because of the character with

which you walk because of the way that

you were able to bring Christ’s love to

bear with every person even the

difficult person that you are able to

love and give generously and so yourself

into every good deed to which God calls

you not by your own power and not by

your own light but by the Spirit of God

who operates not only in your life but

upon your life

it’s called favor

favor is God’s presence on your life

favor is what opens up doors that no man

can shake favor is what puts you in

positions that that nobody really thinks

you’re qualified for favor is what he

enables you to do things that you know

are beyond your capacity but God has

positioned you and placed you and

prepared a way for you that’s favored on

your life and if you have the Holy

Spirit of God you have faith

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I want to tell you this before I close

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if there is one thing that invites the

favor of God on your life of course if

you’ve received Christ as Savior he is

in you but I’m talking about where he’s

on you

visible public people can sense the

presence of God because you have peace

that passes understanding

like cuz they know what you’re going

through in your life and they can’t

figure out how you still got sanity with

what you got going on in your life it’s

about like that there is one thing that

invites the presence of God on you like

that

you ready here it is holiness

[Music]

you gotta live Laurie

[Music]

you got to decide to lay aside every sin

and the weight which so easily entangles

you so that you can run with endurance

the race that has been set before you

you can be in your war room praying

against the schemes of the devil tell

you our blue in the face but if you

leave your prayer closet and still live

a raggedy wayward lifestyle then the

enemy you just prayed against will still

make himself at home in your life

you gotta live Polly I’m talking about

integrity all I’m talking about being

the same in the dark as you are in the

light I’m talking about character where

we don’t just come in here on a Monday

night and then Tuesday and Wednesday and

Thursday and Friday night and have such

a great time hearing about the promises

of God and the truths of God and then we

walk out of these doors and nobody

aligns their life in a way that is

actually congruent with everything that

you listen you’re getting ready to get

it this week every single night this

week God is gonna pour something into

your life he’s gonna give you clear and

direction you’re gonna sense a pain a

conviction of the Holy Spirit in regards

to something that one of these teachers

that the Lord has entrusted to you and

you to them this week there’s gonna be

something that the Lord it’s gonna give

to your life and you’re gonna have to

decide up front whether or not you are

willing whether or not I’m willing to

align my life with the truth that God

gives us this week and to the extent

that we’re willing to say yes and bring

ourselves into alignment that’s holiness

that’s the extent to which we will see

him go public in our lives and I don’t

know about you but I’m tired of just

having private Jesus I mean I’m so

grateful that he’s present but I want in

public I want what I get on the Pew to

come to the pavement of my experience

that when I walk down the road of life I

I walk with him I see him move I

experience him I want that holy

anticipation that comes because I’m

eager to see what God’s gonna do today I

want to wake up with holy expectation

that today I’m gonna see a move of God

today I have expectation that he is

coming to do something that is far

beyond anything that I can ask for

things now unto Him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

to him be the glory in this church now

and forevermore in Jesus name everybody

said amen amen amen

[Applause]

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as you’re standing to your feet I want

to pray for you if you are in a stage in

your life where you know Jesus is

present with you he’s just not been

public there might be some reason in

your old life where you recognize man

I’ve been in some way diminishing his

voice or ignoring him or trying to kill

his work in my life and because of my

own disobedience or my own pride or

arrogance man he’s not been as public as

I want him to be I want him to walk

publicly among me I want that to change

tonight if you’d bow your heads with me

and close your eyes if anybody knows

he’s present but he has not been public

and you just want prayer in regards to

that tonight would you just raise your

hand and let me pray for you

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so lord I pray for every hand that has

raised every woman every man who is

asking father that you would make

yourself apparent in their lives Lord I

pray right now in Jesus name that you

would do something this week that would

let them know you saw their hand tonight

father would you show up in some

tangible public way that reminds them

that you will never leave them nor

forsake them father I pray for a little

wink from heaven God a little nod from

heaven that demonstrates to them that

you are with them father and that you

will never leave them and lord I pray

that whatever it is that might be in

their life for mine father that is

keeping you from moving as freely in as

fully as you would like to among us

father I pray in Jesus name father that

you would show us what it is thank you

that your word says that when you do we

can bring it to you in all confidence

because you are faithful and just to

forgive us from all sin and to remove it

from us and so father I pray grace and

peace to those who have raised their

hands I thank you for how you’re getting

ready to move publicly and so remarkably

I pray and thank you Father for how

revival is on the way and when you

reveal yourself father we will be

careful to give you all the praise and

all the glory and all the honor in Jesus

name everybody agreed and said amen