Priscilla Shirer: Daily Prayer Changes Everything in Your Life | FULL EPISODE | TBN

that idea of practicing the presence of

god

it takes that guilt off of i didn’t have

my quiet time and it didn’t look like

this and it didn’t fit in a comfortable

little box well look do it however you

got to do it right practice his presence

all day long

priscilla

out of okay so you started speaking back

when you were like 19 years old yes yes

what

okay your parents are amazing first of

all let’s start with you where you came

from your mom and dad uh bishop

tony evans yes right there such a great

such a great man and your mother

yeah see your mother did such a good job

they are beautiful people and let me

tell you

it it

just puts joy in my heart to even

discuss them and the reason is because

i know a lot of preachers kids who do

not have my story yeah their parents

were one way at church and they were a

different way at home and the the

relationship with jesus christ was so

segmented because it was like church

life over there and then regular life

and regular life looked different right

and that is not my testimony my parents

are people of integrity and character

they’re like for real like all that

stuff my dad preaches about family and

and um just the the unit of of god being

passed from one generation to the next

in the unit of the family um the message

of christ being passed along you know he

he believed that we had devotions

together as a family we weren’t a

perfect family you know but um my dad

was intentional my mother they were

intentional about making sure that they

passed on what ministry really is it’s

an overflow of your relationship with

jesus christ that’s right you know i

thank god i’ve got the same story yeah

amazing parents and my dad always said

man your ministry is your is your family

yeah

in miniature that’s right and your

family is

if it doesn’t happen at home it’s not

going to happen anywhere else and um so

it’s such an amazing heritage that we

have what’s your story girl well

actually this the same you know my

parents uh loved each other and

loved me and i was told every day that

by my dad that i could be anything and

do anything and believed in me

and i’m very aware that our stories is

not been sadly yeah not as common yeah

you know that there are so many women in

particular who

you know have deal with abuse and

betrayal and abandonment and then they

grow up and and look for

love and security and all sorts of other

places so we’re but you know you’re just

grateful yeah yeah i’m grateful too but

i think about that and realize that when

i just go back one generation beyond my

parents my grandparents the choices that

they made literally changed the

trajectory of our entire family line

so at some point somebody had to decide

enough is enough right and i’m going to

actually be a man or a woman of god and

i’m going to follow the laurels of

scripture and i’m going to pass this

down to my children somebody in some

family line has to make that choice

that’s exactly so it might as well be us

that you said that because my dad um

again loved me very well but he had

never heard i love you from his parents

so he made the decision that he was not

going to be that so just to your point

somebody has to at some point make the

change and go we’re going to do it

differently and what i love about god is

that even if we if maybe you don’t have

that heritage god can take one moment of

time yes totally there’s nothing wasted

in the kingdom of god

and i love that but you ministered so

many people um around this world women

from every

tribe and tongue yeah and uh where where

okay tell us about you if we were to

just squeeze you what do you think your

life’s messages is it one particular

thing or is it just i mean you talk

about everything but it really is

that the scriptures that from beginning

to end they really are a meeting with a

person yes and that if i can encourage

people to see that the bible itself is

not just a book that we’re not just

supposed to know it here but that it

literally by the holy spirit’s power is

translated into an experience with a

person in our regular everyday rhythms

of life where you experience his passion

his peace you actually sense the joy the

comfort the nearness of god through the

scriptures that’s what i want to be able

to communicate i want the scriptures to

come alive as it did for me not only in

church as my dad preached faithfully

every sunday as he still does to this

day

and not only sitting at the knees of my

mom with her little flannel board pieces

and she would you know put them there on

the little you know the little felt oh

yeah

we all sunday school kids

[Laughter]

so you know not not just in those

instances but when we’re just quietly at

our kitchen table just reading whatever

our quiet time is for the day that

that’s not supposed to be a duty just to

check off that we did our quiet time

right this is his love letter to you and

if we open our hearts up to the reality

that that’s his intention is to speak to

us then we meet the author of the letter

not just the letter itself yeah right it

is the living word of god yeah if

if you don’t have some of these books

you better get some i’ve been listening

to the audio version of this

for the last couple days and i’m telling

you um hearing the voice of god you know

and discerning

um the voice of god it starts first with

listening it does it starts with

listening and to be listening to the

scriptures i think we’re listening to

everybody and everything else hoping to

find the voice of god elsewhere when we

are um really turning our noses up at

and ignoring the main means of

communication that we have access to

straight from the hand of god himself

and that’s the bible if you want to hear

from god and you don’t never read the

bible then you don’t really want to hear

from god exactly because that’s the

primary way he speaks people want it you

know sky writing and

you know smoke signals it’s like no open

the bible god will speak to you that’s

exactly right and think about this you

know we look at the people in the old

testament who had some of those things

that we desire you know the the fiery

pillar by night and the cloud you know

in the day and and all of these

different things and we look at the

dreams and the visions and donkey

speaking and all the stuff and we’re

like lord if you could just do that we’d

appreciate that you know if lightning

would flash at noon tomorrow if you want

me to take the job or not we want that

but think about the fact that the

psalmist prayed and said lord please do

not take your spirit from me

they want it in the old testament what

we have access to that’s right the

reason they needed all of that and not

that god can’t still do that because he

can if he chooses to but the reason they

needed those things is because they did

not have the gift that we have yep and

that is the holy

that’s spirit right yeah we were just

actually

at church recently talking about the

holy spirit and who he is and and it um

one of the you know the paraclete is the

word that would be used to translate him

and that’s actually a battle term which

you’re probably aware of and you’re so

deep holly that’s so deep you’re so so

deeply spiritual

and it’s uh it’s an ancient battle term

and so the greeks when they would go out

to battle you know they would go in

pairs and you would fight back to back

protecting each other’s back well your

battle partner was called your paraclete

so the holy spirit hey girl that’ll

preach right there right yes it does and

it so did yes it did

he’s your battle partner yeah and but if

you don’t if you actually don’t

connect and build this relationship with

him

right then how how are you going to hear

and you’re right so many times we spend

so much time flipping through social

media and getting on facebook and we

spend all that time looking for

information to make decisions

and he is our guide that’s right right

it’s his voice he’s he wants to guide

and direct us yeah and i think there’s a

misconception that the enemy sort of

pushes on individual believers that

there is some special hotline connection

that god has with some of us that he

does not also offer to everyone that if

you haven’t been to seminary that if

you’re not in ministry that if you don’t

have this

religious devoted elevated life of

spirituality that you don’t also have

the opportunity to hear from god but i’m

so grateful that it’s just that hearing

god is for regular women you know what i

mean just housewives and people trying

to fold the laundry and cook for their

kids and figure out new ways to cook

chicken for dinner it’s for us you know

what i’m so i’m so grateful um that it’s

not just reserved for certain people at

certain times but by god’s spirit we all

have access to hear them because i think

i’d be gooned that’s right that wasn’t

if that wasn’t the case i think that’s

probably one of my most um

if anybody if i could open my mouth and

say anything is that god loves you and

that god is there and that god is with

you and the holy spirit never leaves you

never

you know that’s my passion if i if i

ever tell anybody that is that it’s not

just for the guy that’s up on the pulpit

or preaching or that it’s just for us no

matter where we are no matter for all no

matter what yes but okay how did you

start

doing the kids stuff when did that take

place you know what it started about six

years ago now i was making scrambled

eggs in the morning as you do as you do

that’s right

my four-year-old at the time was already

sitting down eating his plate i was

finishing up another plate and my

four-year-old said while my back was

turned to him he said mom will i ever be

in a battle

and i just

said what babe he said will i ever be in

a battle like with satan

and it’s one of those questions where

you kind of turn around and go now what

you know what what were you dreaming

about last night you know where did that

come from and so it startled me but i

just kind of turned around and he had

this this innocent wide-eyed um look

that he was very serious he wanted to

know the answer that question so i took

the opportunity after after praying

really quickly and saying how do i

answer this lord i just said you know

actually babe you you are in a battle

with the enemy every single day you know

that tug that you feel on the inside to

engage in something maybe you shouldn’t

to say something to be mean to and then

you feel that pull back and forth about

whether or not to do it that’s the the

war and then by this time a six-year-old

brother comes around the baby at the

time was in the crib i mean he’s like

little teeny bitty and i said guys you

do know you have invisible armor right

and to a four-year-old and a

six-year-old boy hearing that they have

they’ve got a sword what you know

there’s a helmet available you know so i

just started and we started memorizing

ephesians chapter six wow and so

as i was looking at how engaged they

were in this idea that there’s a

spiritual battle and that they’re

engaged in it every single day as a mom

who’s hoping her boys will love to read

i thought to myself wouldn’t it be great

if there was an adventure series that

really was all about fiction all about

some kids who discover that there is an

invisible realm and that in this

invisible realm they meet a guide this

guide shows them and gives them access

to the armor that they they have

available to them to defeat the enemy

there and that the victories they

experience there in aortos which is

which is a greek word for invisible that

the victory they experience there

translates to their experiences on earth

if they can just learn how to get

victory there they’ll experience victory

here and so i just started crafting

these chapters for my boys and i would

read it to them before bed and and craft

these characters and i sort of based the

characters off of my boys and nieces and

nephews and i didn’t intend to write

them for publishing i was just writing

them to read to my boys so that we’d

have something to read together and so

here six years later we have the prince

warrior series and it’s for prince and

princesses alike

who just want to to learn how to arm

themselves to stand firm against the

schemes of the enemy wow it’s so good i

i

actually can’t wait to

read those to jordan

hello

30 year old jordan yeah probably not

but

i like them you never know but i just

have so many young people in my world

yeah i i just think it’s

well personally i love

um

it’s like why i love cs lewis because he

could fiction that actually could make

the point right i just feel like i

learned so much from that yeah almost

more than somebody teaches that’s right

oh like somebody’s telling the story and

the goal was to give organic opportunity

for there to be a conversation between a

you know a ten-year-old and their mom or

a ten-year-old and their dad about

something they read and it just hinted

at something that caused a spiritual

interest to be peaked that opens the

door for this conversation about

spiritual things by the way

boy jesus told stories jesus told

stories

that’s right exactly so the theological

principles are just all tucked in there

somewhere that’s great we actually

decided on the princewarriors.com what

we did is we have this little button

called secrets so that a parent or kid

can click on secrets and actually see

what the theological secrets are that

are tucked in each chapter wow so if a

parent hadn’t read the whole thing but

they just want to go in there they know

their kids on chapter two book two they

can go in there and see what the secrets

are and then bring it up at dinner and

say hey when you read this what do you

think that meant so we just started

trying to stir the conversation a little

bit that’s so cool that’s awesome okay

so um a few months ago we were at bishop

jake’s church and you got the the big

beautiful award they are beautiful

people are aren’t they amazing and my

mother-in-law got the lifetime

achievement yes she did and um so

you had your kids with you your boys all

three people three beautiful boys by the

way

giant boys giant boys they are dead i

mean i just remember them from being

little giant every day

but you um something that touched me so

much during that is that you started uh

telling the the audience what you speak

over your kids and so just talk about

that did you did your parents do that to

you

um

like that or was it just something um

that you

i’m trying to think of exactly why i

started doing that what the specific

reason was i don’t know that i can

remember i just thought

this is my opportunity to get something

stuck in their head get a message stuck

in that is right the time is way this is

my opportunity you know while i have an

audience while they’re here and nothing

with me that’s right i’m gonna get this

this soundtrack stuck in their head

because i know the enemy’s coming after

them i know that he’s going to try to

make them feel insecure and discouraged

and overwhelmed and frustrated and like

they’re ill-equipped to do whatever god

has for them so i have literally said

nearly the same thing to them for years

and years every morning

they know what’s coming i say boys look

at mama in the eyes and they all go ugh

and they love it and they just don’t you

know is that what’s happening oh yeah

yes

okay

they’ll tell this story 40 years from

now they’ll do sitting here on this set

they’re talking about the same thing

they better rise up and call me blessed

part of it you will you will rise up and

coming

and i do i just look at them and i say

you are men of integrity and character

and honesty you will be a blessing to

your teacher today you will be a

blessing to your friends you will love

the lord your god with all your heart

with all your soul and with all your

strength you will put on the full armor

of god so that you can stand firm

against the schemes of the devil you

will have the praises of the lord in

your mouth all day long so that you can

speak well over those who are near you

you are the head you are not the tail

you are above you are not beneath you

are a leader you are not a follower and

you will love the lord your god all of

your days and about halfway through that

they start going you will love the lord

all right

so they’re they’re moaning about it but

the fact that they can repeat it back to

me yes it means that it’s getting in

absolutely you know i remember one time

when um just with paris

what she would hear from me often and

the phrase i would use is you’re the

love beyond measured daughter of the

king that’s great and so i talk about

that and so and you know put that in the

middle of sentences all the time and

then one time i overheard her on the

phone with a little friend and there was

this emotional thing happening she goes

no you you’re you are the love beyond

measure daughter of a king do you know

that that’s awesome so i was like yes

yes

that’s right that’s those are small

little victories

listen because there’s a lot of stuff

you go through and so you have to

celebrate the victories that’s right i

know oh yeah so now that they’re you

know they’re older now and so i’ve just

printed it up actually i printed up

unique ones that i can start to see

little ways that the enemy might want to

take advantage of a vulnerability here

or fear here or an insecurity there so i

just wrote up a little list for each one

and i have them posted on the our house

is really tiny so they’re right there in

the hallway posted on the little closet

door and every morning i still say my

part to them but they have to go read

their own out loud um so that i can hear

it but also so that they can hear it

and so they read their own every single

day i’m like this is my this is my

chance to put as much in them as i can

you have that posted on your website or

anything that people do you know what i

wrote a blog post about it a while back

i’ll have to so it’s there

but i’ll repost it again jerry could you

get on them

it’s gonna happen

we’ll re-post that so that yeah people

could print that out that’s right and

say that’s a great idea i love that and

i love the actually that they you have

them say some things because

right you know faith comes by hearing

that’s right and

you have to hear sometimes from your own

mouth i actually remember when i was

dealing with cancer

that i could read

the healing scriptures but there’s

something about saying them out loud you

got that right and saying them louder

than the fear in my own head right

because the fear in my head was big yeah

and so saying it louder and so there’s

just something about finding a promise

and i know there are people watching and

you’re in the middle of

your own situation and so

it’s worth it to do the work to find the

promise that speaks to your situation

and underline it certainly but

take a moment

and shout it

shout it shout it loud because fear

fear can over

you can try to overtake it but you just

speak his truth louder so i love the

fact that you have your voice and not to

mention the fact holly that the enemy

does not know what we were thinking but

he sure enough will hear what you’re

saying right so when we speak god’s word

into the atmosphere that we’re actually

clothing ourselves in the promises of

god it’s almost like it becomes a

fortified shelter against the attacks of

the enemy because god watches over his

word to perform it yes so we can either

give the enemy ammunition with

negativity and complaining and speaking

um basically collaborating with his

attempts to drag us down or we can go

ahead and just speak the promises of god

and let the enemy know we’re not just

going to let him just waltz in here and

take advantage of us we’re going to put

up a fight because we’re going to stand

firm on what our god says

but it’s so it’s good that you put it

that way because to be honest there are

times when it’s so much easier to

complain oh i mean come on right yeah

follow in it

and i i was i have a pity party and

invite friends right come and join you

i’ll bring the coffee you bring the

chocolate um david said you know i

complained and my spirit was overwhelmed

right so we get overwhelmed the more

complaints yes but it’s complaining is

so easy

oh oh how much it’s intrinsic it’s so

easier just to focus on me and the bad

and and the more we do the bigger the

problems become whatever you give your

attention magnificent

and then you try and other people you

want other people to join you’re

complaining yeah it doesn’t actually

help anything

and then we get mad at the friends who

won’t join us right we don’t even want

to be their friends no exactly

you’re not gonna feel bad for me right

goodbye well you know i it’s like a

marriage i

a a marriage that was actually close to

us for a while um

one of one day the girl said to me she

said you know it’s really hard being

around other good marriages

because ours is so bad and i was like

hello

you need to be around

good marriages isn’t that interesting

yeah it was easier for her to be around

bad marriages

so we had to

break fellaini yeah i think she felt a

lot just like a lot of judgment

i think some of that was part of it but

maybe a lot of jealousy yeah

yeah you know because you had a good one

and and we don’t have so it’s really

hard to be around the good ones right

you know i don’t get i don’t even get

that yeah

do you m marriage takes work doesn’t it

yes anybody here at this table have a

perfect marriage anybody married to

perfect men

[Laughter]

you’re not yeah

priscilla and i are not i’m pretty sure

but

actually i know your husband is not

perfect

not perfect for you

but it does take work right it takes

speaking the truth it takes persevering

through the talking over him every day

you will

and

surrounding yourself like you just said

surrounding yourself with people who are

going to hold you accountable to doing

the work of marriage yes and we have

this older i say older couple they’re

really not they’re 10 years down the

road so they’re 10 years down the road

and raising kids in marriage and

ministry and that’s all you really do

need someone where there’s a little bit

of a gap yes that they can look back on

the season you’re in and give wise input

but we’ve really submitted ourselves to

their authority in the sense that if

they look at our schedule and they’re

like when is the last time y’all been on

a date when’s the last time you guys

have actually had a really good

conversation that wasn’t about business

or wasn’t about ministry just about the

two of you and if we have not done that

and they say get your butts on a plane

and get to us right now

we have a commitment to them that if

there’s something they see we need to

realign we will get on a plane and we

will get there because they care more

about the state of our souls than they

do the state of our our ministry yeah

you need people like that that are going

to just charge you up and keep everybody

here sometimes i think people

the people will say that you know like

you need accountability but then to do

the work of then actually being

accountable yielding yourself to

somebody else’s voice especially for a

guy yeah i feel like it’s easier for us

as women because we’re relational beings

we like that feeling of protectedness

and being covered um there’s safety and

security so it’s at least easier for us

but for sometimes for husbands

they’re not they’re like i’m the leader

in this house and i’m not trying to

submit to anybody else the best husbands

in the world i think are those who are

willing

to submit to the authority of their

pastor or spiritual leader in their life

and humble themselves to know that i

need

guidance and direction so we got to pray

for our husbands in that regard yes

because that’s a hard thing for that

that man part of men you know that macho

man

which we need we want them to

we do

no but it’s i actually remember

a thousand years ago you might have just

had the baby so we’re sitting at dinner

with the four of us phillip and me and

you and jerry that’s right and you

pulled out this little pad of paper and

go okay

how do we do this

i was like whoa i wasn’t prepared but it

was how do you how do we do you know

marriage and raise kids and do the

ministry because at that time your kids

would have been the ages my kids are

right now right right and i’m always

very mindful of that when i’m around

people that are just a step ahead i want

to just glean what i can from this

moment because they’ve been there and

done this already it’s no point in all

of us making the same mistake no we

might as well just learn from each other

exactly

so i just actually

appreciate that about you but then i

feel like that’s i i do that all the

time i’m calling people and go so how do

you handle this situation yeah when my

kids were teenagers and i was you know

trying to not kill them i’d go okay

hopeless is to out here because

right having the real conversations

humbling yourself you know acknowledging

that they’re

that your kids aren’t perfect but help

me

get them along the next step so i just

you know appreciate that quality in you

and

raising kids

when we talk about um you know

the truth sets us free

and and jesus always

you know when he was encountered by the

devil he said get behind me satan he

spoke truth to a lie and then said get

behind me i’ll no longer look at you

so we know that speaking the word

that’s

that’s our battle right that’s right

that’s how we fight that’s right it’s a

sword of the spirit the word of god it’s

a sword of the spirit

and so that’s that’s help us help us to

know when you talk about prayer in your

your fervent book

this one right here

um

a woman’s battle plan

for serious specific and strategic

prayer tell us a little bit about about

that yeah you know one of the things

that i walked away with from the from

the film from the recording of the film

we we filmed for about um three months

and after saying those lines over and

over and really just being engrossed in

this storyline it occurred to me that

while i did

value prayer i had neglected

intentionality with prayer

being strategic in prayer actually

trying to detect where you see the

enemy’s fingerprints

kind of his handiwork meddling in your

life

where you anticipate he might want to

take advantage of a weakness or a or a a

bit of divisiveness

and just being mindful of that so that

when we pray we’re not just randomly

saying words that we’ve heard all along

or words that we’ve kind of memorized

along the way or words that are

comfortable to us but we’re actually um

praying in a way that is targeted it’s

kind of exactly what you described a few

moments doing the work to find the

promises of god that actually apply in

everything that we know intentional

prayer um and then writing it down

sometimes we need to write our prayers

down only because it keeps us focused it

reminds us what we’re praying about you

know so when it’s posted there in that

war room and you come back in there day

after day you’re reminded this is your

prayer this is where you’re focusing

your um your prayer life on and until i

see an answer i’m going to keep praying

this prayer it also gives you a great

track record with god

because then when god does answer you

can see that date at the top of that

page of when you started praying that

and then you’ll be able to put a date

down of when god answered however in his

sovereignty he chose to what a great

track record not just for you but your

grandchildren and your

great-grandchildren to see how grandmama

or uh grandpa prayed and believed that

god would answer wow i think that thing

i loved about or you know even the

prayer because in ephesians 6 it talks

about the armor you know which we’re

familiar with but then prayer is we’re

saying yeah that’s right kicks into

after that sword

it goes right to prayer and it’s not the

the the prayer that’s oh god why you

know the whining i mean you can do that

for a minute because maybe we all need

to whine for a minute the complaining

side of it you can’t complain to god

because honestly the psalms david

complained for a bit yeah i mean you

know he went he went on a journey with

god he was intimate and real with his

pain and agony before god and then

there’s got to be a rising up then there

has to be a point where you that’s the

thing so at some point yes do the

complaining but at some point you have

to begin speaking the truth

of what god has to say about your

marriage about your health

and about your family about

reconciliation i just remember even that

for me with

just some situations and

you know family and extended family that

was hard it was so hard and

and i remember moments of you know the

complaining before god because of course

i was perfect and they were the problems

well everybody else needs to change yeah

if they would it would really help out

my life totally um

but so i you know complained but then i

started

you know talking about pulling out the

scriptures that talked about unity and

reconciliation and and together and

faithfulness and just declaring that and

i’ve seen god do what only he could do

yeah in the lives of people i mean i saw

it in my health but i i’ve also seen it

in relationships with people and so i

just think that

that if if people understood more about

the power

you know some people say well all i can

do is pray no no that’s not all

that’s

the thing to do right

second um second chronicles 7 14. if my

people right who are called by my name

humble themselves and pray yeah right

then he’s going to heal our land we’re

too busy complaining about our land and

our government and all that’s happening

it’s like well you can complain

but if you prayed as much as you

complained maybe we would see something

different and you know what if i were

your enemy what i’d want to do is

devalue in your mind the potency of what

i know to be the most powerful weapon

you have against me so he’s made our

churches focus on being a house of great

programs or a house of great preaching

and a house of great singing

when they’re supposed to be a house of

prayer because it’s the prayer that

pushes back the kingdom of darkness so

if i were the enemy that’s exactly what

i do i devalue what i knew was the most

potent weapon that you had in your

arsenal against me so we do everything

first except pray pray and so for you uh

personally so how do you

when do you when do you pray are you

late at night person are you the middle

of the day person are you well i guess

you first of all lest anyone think that

my life is you know i’m up on a

mountaintop praying and three oh my god

that’s right

um my life is very much like everybody

else’s that it’s just laundries and

laundry and kids and it’s kind of that

thing where you know once your feet hit

the floor

in the morning it’s over it’s just

full-on for the rest of the day right

and so um

i have this ongoing actually part of my

prayer is lord would you continue to

help me to prioritize this in my life

because it can so easily

kind of get pushed off of the that

position of priority so i just say lord

i need you to stir i don’t want to

manufacture passion i want you to stir

in me a passion to where i don’t want to

go a day without prioritizing prayer and

then hearing back from you listening to

you through the scriptures and so i try

to do that in the morning because it

seems like that’s the best time if i

wait till the end of the day it ain’t

going to happen no that’s the same with

me no if i don’t if in the morning if i

if it doesn’t happen then yeah then it

just gets it’s like if it doesn’t happen

just the very first time i know that

once you get going it’s it’s

yeah but i will say i learned a bit from

brother lawrence that you know age old

saint from that book practicing the

presence of god um that really just

gives us freedom lifts that burden off

of us of feeling like if we don’t have

an hour to spend with the lord at the

beginning of the day that it’s a waste

of time to practice god’s presence all

day long yes so my kids are a little bit

older now but i went through a season

four five six years there where i would

just write down scripture verse on a

three by five card the same one on five

different cards maybe and i’d put one on

the bathroom mirror where i’d be washing

little hands all day one where i was

gonna be doing the dishes one where i

was folding clothes one near the sandbox

outside and i just would have the same

verse for like two weeks so everywhere i

went i was just running into this verse

and by the time i got to the end of the

day not only had me and the lord talked

about this one verse a lot not only was

it inscribed on my heart but it became

god’s word to me it became um something

that really there was life in it wasn’t

just a verse i’d learned there was life

in it because me and god been talking

all day long for a couple of weeks about

the sentiments that he’d um inscribed in

this in this passage of scripture so i

think that idea of practicing the

presence of god

it takes that guilt off of i didn’t have

my quiet time and it didn’t look like

this and it didn’t fit in a comfortable

little box well look do it however you

got to do it right practice his presence

all day long how do we do that

well number one by being creative with

how you can feed yourself on his word so

my sister five kids she’s got this

little clip on her dashboard she’ll do

the same thing write a three by five

card down with scripture and she puts it

in that clip and so you know running

errands for two hours every day trying

to get kids to soccer practice and

everything she’s just running face to

face um in face to face with this with

this verse over and over throughout the

scriptures when things come up in the

middle of the day that are problems you

might call a girlfriend about you might

you can still call her but also

on god yeah just ask him about it ask

him about what scripture verse applies

to this particular

circumstance how would he want to lead

and guide you and you’ll be amazed how

you’ll begin to see the encounters that

you have the circumstances that align

the little beckonings and convictions of

god’s spirit how they all begin to work

together to help you to realize you

actually are hearing god’s voice and

seeing his providence as he steers you

in the direction of his will for your

life it doesn’t have to be so mystical

yeah it’s it’s that yeah it’s a little

more prac just what you’re saying it’s a

practical thing just seeing is like

it’s like um phillip the reason i know

his voice

when he calls he doesn’t have to say a

long sentence he goes hey babe no i

recognize because after me i’m with him

all day that’s right right if i only

talked to him once every blue moon that

would be a little trickier that’s right

to me it’s the same with god it’s if you

just you spend those moments yeah you

know talking listening talking listening

reading the word it becomes

um

very familiar yeah like anthony’s voice

compared to your dancing that’s right i

talked about that and i started the

voice

my brother and my dad they have the same

name they walk alike they talk alike

i’ve seen my brother take advantage of

the fact that he’s got my dad’s name you

know i

tried to milk that as much as he’s like

you want to hear that story oh anthony’s

done that quite a few times

throw him under the bus that’s right but

even though he’s fooled a lot of people

before not you not me because i know the

two voice right you know his voice and

so you know there are things for example

that people could say to me that jerry

said my husband jerry said this but if

it is totally out of the character that

i know to be of my husband of 18 years

then i would be able to confidently say

to them i know my man didn’t say that

because i know him you know and so

that’s why we read god’s word because we

get to know his personality we get to

know the character of god we get to see

the kinds of things he says and doesn’t

say and so it occurs to us when our ego

is speaking or when fear is trying to

get a word in because fear always has

something to say and pride and

insecurity is also speaking the enemy is

speaking you’ll be able to detect well

god didn’t say that because that’s

totally out of out of alignment with his

character or out of alignment with his

personality as it’s displayed in

scripture and so the more you know god

the more clearly you can hear him yeah

we all have to at some point

draw a line in the sand and say enough

is enough and wherever even you might

detect the enemy’s fingerprints you kind

of see his handiwork causing division

jealousy envy strife

health issues dis ease in some area of

your life listen this is the time for

you to take your stand firmly on the

promises of god and to declare god’s

word not only um internally but declare

them out loud where the enemy knows you

ain’t messing around and that you’re

going to be a woman who or a man who

fortifies their sphere of influence

whether that’s your home whether it’s

your business whether it is your

ministry whether it’s your sons your

daughter’s grandmother grandfather your

grandchildren whatever it is that god

has allowed has entrusted to you your

neighborhood you be the one that stands

in the threshold of that space

and just declares god’s promises and his

words there’s so much power that we have

in the name of jesus if we would just

take advantage of it and so what i

prayed that war room did it did for me

and i pray that it does for for all of

us is really just inspires a different

anticipation of what prayer can actually

accomplish in our lives so i want to

encourage you that no matter how

devastating that circumstance appears to

be right now no matter how like lazarus

it’s been dead for a long time you just

do not think any resurrection is is

possible

this is where jesus does his best work

he specializes in taking the impossible

stuff and showing you the possibilities

that are there because of the power that

is available and so you know what i

wanna if it’s okay with you kick off

your stance

vigilant stance in prayer in that area

of your life by praying over you

lord jesus i thank you right now for the

opportunity and the privilege that we

have to stand firmly on your word we

thank you that you have given us what is

really this divine key this key called

prayer that allows us to unlock all of

the power and the resources of heaven

and unleash them in the regular rhythms

of our everyday living so lord i pray

right now in jesus name that every

assignment the enemy has against our

marriages against our children against

our grandchildren against our health

lord against our prosperity internally

and externally lord i pray right now in

jesus name that those assignments would

be canceled by your blood that has been

shed on calvary lord i pray that you

would give somebody their fire back

their fire to fight for what is

rightfully theirs their fire to claim

the territory that you have already

declared is theirs lord like joshua

would you make us courageous enough to

place our feet on the ground that you

have already given us help us to march

in victory lord just like elizabeth did

in war room i’m praying you’d put words

in somebody’s mouth put fire in their

soul lord help them to scream at the top

of their lungs that they believe that

our god is who he says he is and that he

can accomplish every single thing that

he has declared he will accomplish in

our lives lord i speak that for every

single person that is watching god and i

ask that they would see your manifest

presence and peace and joy and health

and everything that they do and say in

jesus name amen amen amen amen such a

good reminder

to to me even just even when you were

praying right there i thought okay

there’s some stuff that i just have kind

of

not so much given up on but just gotten

lazy about praying about because i just

can’t see how it could change

and you know the great thing about the

holy spirit though is because i’m so

glad god knows we’re just humans yeah

and we’re frail and we have those times

where we just get lazy about the whole

thing and i’m so glad that he has grace

enough for that his grace is sufficient

thank god for god

and that the holy spirit prays when we

don’t even know what to pray for we just

are tired and we can only cry or worry

or be concerned the holy spirit covers

what would you say to the people that

have prayed and prayed and prayed and

never saw the answer that they wanted

never really saw the end and then they

gave up yeah well that doesn’t well just

to say that that god stands on his word

and the word says that when we sow we

will reap that when we sow to the

spiritual realm we will reap to the

spirit that there is

the principle the theology of sowing and

reaping is true whether or not we see

what the harvest is on this side of

eternity or later there are some answers

some um things that we have to entrust

into his sovereign care we will not know

on this side of eternity uh the grand

scheme of all that god is figuring out

and so sometimes we will be in our

humanity disappointed and a little bit

irritated and frustrated because we’ve

been on our knees a long time and still

things seem to be

um uh you know unchanging but but god is

true to his word and we’ve got to either

be we’ve got to either have faith in

that or not i mean that’s what the thing

is

yes i think like our lens is temporal

yes right god’s land is eternal yeah so

even like in the story of joseph if you

you know zoomed in on any one part of

his story it’s terrible right the

horrible slave and in prison and

horrible right but then you look out the

big picture as he rescued millions of

people yeah right and so sometimes i

think

for you know speaking of myself when we

navigated just such a horrible season

and you’re praying how come i’m not

seeing the answers and what’s happening

and god does work all things together

for good to those who love him and are

called according to his purpose he will

so he’s half that’s where our faith has

to be and that’s we have to be brave in

the midst of those moments and yeah

trusting him and and you know i was

talking with in fact a young lady that

works here at the studios we were

talking earlier

i think she’s new here and just trying

to navigate what god is doing through

her life weaving all these different

pieces of the puzzle together and i was

encouraging her

on a much smaller scale than joseph but

the reality is that when i was her age i

remember my pursuit was television my

pursuit was um journalism i wanted to be

a broadcaster and i was hired to do a

few little shows here and there on cbs

and stuff and i did them and every one

that i got an opportunity to do it was

canceled shortly after i came on board

and as a young girl just out of college

you imagine how that’s an assault to

your self-esteem i mean you just feel

like everything keeps getting canceled

right after i join and right after i get

signed on so nothing was succeeding and

it wasn’t until probably 10 or 12 years

later i mean i prayed so much through

that halloween oh my gosh i was

wondering what god was doing i couldn’t

figure it out tears fell from my eyes

and it wasn’t until 10 years later the

very first time i did a bible study

recording and i stood there in front of

those cameras and i knew exactly what to

do with those cameras not because i had

trained so well right but because

through those defeated moments god was

building something in me that he knew i

would need later there you go no idea he

was to ever use yeah we just want things

and we that’s right we’re so dumb

well we’re limited we’re limited in our

perspective yes we’re limited yes yes

amen in jesus name

you can see so much more of her coming

right here on tbn and also um go to her

website and she’s got tons of youtube’s

uh bible studies yes oh her book and

nobody does a bible say like priscilla

doesn’t bible say no

you can get so much good stuff out oh

yeah yes

we love you thank you for being a part

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