Priscilla Shirer teaches at the 2018 Passion Conference for TBN’s Praise. Listen in as Priscilla Shirer teaches the importance of knowing what God’s Word has to say about you, and the power and purpose you have in CHRIST JESUS. The enemy knows God’s Words about you are true. Do you?

knows that every single thing that God’s

word declares to be true about you every

word that has been declared over you in

these last few days of this conference

even if you’re not convinced about it

the enemy is he knows that you have been

forgiven he knows that there is

therefore now no condemnation for those

of us who are in Christ Jesus he knows

that you have been given the victory he

knows that you have been made competent

by the spirit of God

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um it’s a little bit scary to me that

they are nearly and will be very soon in

the next few years will be about your

age three sons the distinguishing

characteristic about my boys is that

they are giants they are huge boys my 15

year old is six foot two inches tall he

wears a size 14 men’s shoe my 13 year

old is about 6-1 he wears a 13 men’s

shoe and uh they Tower over me I have a

nine-year-old who’s coming up in the

ranks with his brothers they are tall

boys somebody come help me feed these

people

and one of the distinguishing

characteristics about or what makes

their size work for them rather is that

they do love sports so whatever sport is

sort of in season that’s what we’re

playing at the time my second son for a

lot of years he’s into basketball now

but for a lot of years baseball was his

thing and I enjoyed that I enjoyed

baseball season I liked going out there

for Spring ball I liked Spring ball

because you go sit in the cool of the

evening while your kid is practicing I

remember all those years of of little

league when he was just coming up and

we’d sit out there in the cool of the

spring evening Under The Lights of the

bleachers watching him practice and

enjoying just uh that that whole

atmosphere I like Spring ball so much

the only problem with Spring ball is

that it is going to become Summer Ball

and I don’t know what happens where you

live wherever you’re coming from but I

can’t tell you in Dallas Texas which is

where I still lived

and where I was born and raised in

Dallas Texas in the summertime it

doesn’t warm up slightly

it gets hot I’m talking about slap your

mama hot that kind of hot the kind of

hot where you feel like the sun must be

mad at you about something like you did

something to the sun and the Sun is

trying to get you back all summer long

that’s what it feels like and you’re

sitting out there at a game trying to

enjoy your kids game and it really still

is okay when there’s just one game the

problem is that at the end of every

season there’s a tournament

so you got to be out there on a Thursday

at 8 A.M and 10 a.m and noon and 2 p.m

and then depending upon how your kids

team did you’re gonna have to come back

on Friday at 8 A.M and 10 a.m and then

they give you a little lunch break but

you got to come back for the 2PM game

the 4 P.M game and then if your kids

team had the nerve to do well you got to

come back again on Saturday for the 8

A.M game and 10 a.m and noon and two and

man you’re sitting out there under the

blazing sun trying to be happy that your

kid is doing well

really you’re wondering if it’s ever

okay to pray they lose so you can go

home

I will never confirm nor deny that I

have ever done that

but I will tell you that we were sitting

out there at a tournament just several

years ago

sun was Blazing we were so excited for

the lunch break just because that meant

we would be able to go to a restaurant

where there’d be air-conditioned and ice

water that actually had ice in it we got

refreshed we came back

we drove our SUV up into the parking lot

opened up the back of the SUV so that we

could pull out all the gear that we

needed to go to the next game in the

tournament we were three days into the

tournament hot sweaty they were doing

well we were trying to be excited about

it ready for the next game I was walking

behind my son to get from where we had

parked the car over toward the Dugout

where the next game was going to be

played and so I gathered up all the

stuff you know the ice chest that you

have and the um the umbrella that you

might have to go over your head and you

know the water bottles the the backpacks

the The Baseballs the mitts all that

stuff and I was following behind my son

my second son Jerry Jr is a fairly

gregarious personality he’s outgoing

he’s excited for a challenge so I could

see that in his step as I followed

behind him I could see a skip in his

step his chin was up his shoulders were

back he was excited about the next game

and I gotta tell you he’s pretty good in

baseball he has a natural knack for it I

remember at 10 years old the first time

he got a good hit and sent it sailing

over the fence line at 10 years old and

I think it’s partly because of his size

just a lot of power behind his swing a

great as a first baseman so we were

really excited about his success in

baseball and and I watched him as he

kind of hopped and skipped over to the

next game just excited about the next

challenge in the tournament but because

I was following behind him I had my eyes

glued on him and I could see when

something changed

I could see that as we took the short

walk from where we’d parked the car over

to the Dugout I could see that his

shoulders started to hunch over and his

head hung down I could see that that

skip that had been in this step had

changed he was kind of walking like he

was nervous he was wringing his hands a

little bit I saw that he was looking

around his eyes darting and looking a

little bit sketchy I was trying to

figure out what happened to my boy it

was a short walk from where we parked

the car over to the Dugout and all of a

sudden his countenance had completely

changed so I started looking around

trying to figure out what was going on

why did he look so insecure and fearful

all of a sudden

I realized that as we were going toward

the Dugout we were walking past

some kids from another team they were

all laying on the grass underneath the

shade of an oak tree getting ready for

the next game as I passed them I could

see this was the team we were about to

play next

kept walking and I kept getting a look

at these boys and when I looked at them

I realized what my son’s problem was

we had faced this team before

we had faced them earlier in the season

and when this team had played my son’s

team earlier in the season they had

annihilated us

it had been a complete embarrassment a

complete upset this team right here

y’all they were serious baseball players

but we had to walk right by them to get

to The Dugout as we walked past there

were two players they were talking to

each other one was whispering to the

other I think he thought he was

whispering but we could hear him

he leaned over to the other one and he

said

there goes that big kid from the Red Sox

team

is he the one that hit the ball and it

went over the fence

yeah he was the one at first base the

one that caught any of the outs that we

got in the game that was him

so that’s Jerry Shire

when my boy heard his name crossed the

lips of the opposing team members

those shoulders that had been hanging

down all of a sudden I watched them pop

back again

I watched his chin go up I watched him

get a little swag back in his set as he

headed over toward the dugout

in fact we had to bring him down a few

notches before the game started

it’s amazing really how your countenance

changes when you’re really overhear and

understand what the enemy thinks about

you when he sees you coming

it doesn’t mean that the challenge goes

away it means that in the face of it

you’re different your stance is

different because you recognize that

when the enemy sees a daughter or a son

of God coming his way he’s shaking in

his boots not because of you but because

of the holy spirit of God that lives on

the inside of me

to tell somebody today that even if you

don’t believe what it is that the word

of God declares to be true about you you

need to know that the enemy does

he knows that every single thing that

God’s word declares to be true about you

every word that has been declared over

you in these last few days of this

conference even if you’re not convinced

about it the enemy is

he knows that you have been forgiven he

know there is therefore now no

condemnation for those of us who are in

Christ Jesus he knows that you have been

given the victory he knows that you have

been made competent by the spirit of God

he know

is therefore now no condemnation for you

or for me no shame no guilt he knows

that you have not been given a spirit of

fear but a power and love and of a sound

mind and y’all he knows that in the end

we win

and I’m saying what ashamed it would be

for the enemy to believe more about your

potential than you do

what a shame it would be for us to go

out of here with all of this inspiration

that we have been given this investment

of God’s word that he has gathered us

together over the course of these days

to Worship in spirit and in truth and to

hear his word declared true over our

lives what a tragedy it would be for us

to walk out of here and still live like

we were before we came through these

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