A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of sitting down with Priscilla Shirer to record several videos to share with all of you in our weekly MomLife Today video posts. If you don’t already know Priscilla Shirer, she is an amazing woman, wife, mother, and the author of several Bible studies that through the expository teaching of the Word of God, share the uncompromising truths of Scripture intellectually yet practically by the power of the Holy Spirit.
have not allowed myself to question the
character of god once i find myself
stepping into that category of
questioning whether or not god is good
or whether or not he loves me or whether
or not he’s sovereign and overseeing all
of this that’s when i stop myself and go
uh that’s not what we do we know who god
is in my life and my family’s life and
we’re gonna stand firm in that because
that’s the hope of our salvation
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you’ve talked a lot about the armor of
god and i think that’d be really
pertinent right now to understand how
does the armor of god actually help us
have a perspective where we can walk
into this thing boldly with courage
you know what
you said a key phrase that i was going
to use that was rolling around in my
mind and that is opportunity
we could see this pandemic or any
personal dilemmas that we face in our
lives or in our ministries or our
churches or what have you we could see
any of them as something that is a
hiccup in our plan or we can see
everything even the difficult things as
an opportunity an opportunity for what
an opportunity for god to be glorified
in a unique way that through our life he
might not otherwise have the opportunity
to be glorified an opportunity for us to
be strengthened our character built our
spiritual backbone fortified in a way it
would not otherwise have the opportunity
to a way for our perspective to be
shifted so that now i have the lens of
compassion and empathy towards others
that i wouldn’t otherwise have because i
didn’t know that pain i didn’t know what
that isolation maybe felt like but now i
can relate to my congregants differently
if you’re a pastor or the people that i
serve in ministry differently um and
it’s an opportunity for us to do what’s
on what ephesians chapter 6 says
stand firm against the schemes of the
enemy how will we know
what it is
to feel like a victor unless we’ve had
these circumstances in our life where
there was clear obvious demonic
opposition and we saw righteousness
become a breastplate for us we saw that
integrity of character form of
breastplate that staved off the most
serious advances of the enemy we saw our
salvation which is our identity being
not just a ticket to eternity but now it
became a helmet over our minds and it
sort of flipped off all the fiery darts
of the enemy trying to convince us that
fear and anxiety is our birthright how
will we ever know what it’s like for the
word of god to become the dagger of the
spirit so that the enemy doesn’t stand a
chance when he’s trying to come against
us and our families how will we know the
power of prayer oh my gosh i think about
this all the time
as a mom of these teenage boys how will
i ever know the power of prayer unless
in my struggle sometimes with my anxiety
i worry because i watch my boys struggle
with issues of morality or thought
processes or attitude issues and i go oh
man um i don’t want the enemy to take
advantage of their weaknesses or their
frailties well this is the time that i
get to show up in prayer and stand in
the gateway of my home and say not today
say not on my watch not while i’m here
i’m going to be someone who’s positioned
in prayer because now i’ll get to see
what it is to stand firm against the
schemes of the devil in prayer
for my family what a testimony we have
when we we literally