Priscilla Shirer speaks at Lakewood church on TBN’s Praise. Be reminded of God’s power, faithfulness, and abundant love as Priscilla Shirer shares examples from scripture of God’s faithfulness to multiply his blessing on those who trust in Him, and not their own strength.
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if you’re a believer in jesus christa
you got an assignment
and don’t let anybody tell you that your
assignment isn’t ministry just because
it happens to be in a corporate setting
mother of small children who’s chosen to
stay home with those kids don’t let
anybody tell you that a ministry
every single time you make that chicken
for dinner and you set it on that table
and you teach those kids a bible verse
before bedtime don’t let anybody tell
you that that ain’t ministry
high school student college student
you’re the only student that stands for
truth when your professor says this is
the way it is and you say no that’s not
the way it is don’t let anybody tell you
as the light on that college campus that
you are not in ministry
every single one of us has an assignment
and the day is coming
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when we’re gonna have to give an account
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i came to tell somebody that there is
treasure
hidden in these earth and vessels
i came to tell you that by god’s spirit
there is gift and there is power that
has been entrusted to you that is
available to you available to me as
daughters of the most high king
you need to know that even if you do not
believe what the scriptures declare to
be true about your treasure if you don’t
believe that you’ve been forgiven or
that you already have the victory or
that the enemy is already underneath
your feet that there is no condemnation
for those of us who are in christ jesus
or that you have been made competent by
the spirit of god
i came to tell you that even if you
don’t believe it the enemy does
he knows who you are what ashamed it
would be for him to know
and us not to
so it’s time for us to open up the
drawer and start pulling out the
treasure the treasure we’ve been
ignoring the treasure we’ve been calling
insignificant the thing that we’ve said
is not enough not valuable lord if i
could just be like her lord if i could
just be like that if i could just have a
bit more of that if i weren’t me
then lord i’d be enough he says uh-uh
you have enough you just haven’t opened
up the
drawer pull out the treasure
there is a story in scripture that is
going to be very familiar to you it’s
the one that the lord has been using in
my own life to remind me about how he
will compel me and he will compel us to
open up the drawer and reach in and pull
out the treasure and see what it’s like
when he uses
what he has already entrusted to us
luke chapter 9 verse 1 and 2
says this
and he called that’s jesus he called
somebody say he called
he called the 12 together and he gave
somebody say he gave
he gave them power
and he gave them authority
over all demons and to heal all diseases
verse two and then he sent somebody say
he sent
he sent them out
he called them
he gave them treasure
and then he sent them out
verse 10 says and then when they
returned to him they gave an account to
him of everything they had done
and taking them with him he withdrew by
himself to a hill called bethsaida
the multitudes were aware of this verse
11 says so they followed jesus because
you know wherever jesus went a crowd was
sure to follow they weren’t quite sure
he was the messiah but what they didn’t
know was that when this man showed up
blind people could see
what they knew is that when jesus showed
up the lame could walk and the death
could hear the dead were being raised so
wherever jesus was they came
the crowd followed and welcoming the
multitude jesus began speaking to them
about the kingdom of god and curing
those who were in need of healing verse
12.
so the day starts to come to a close and
the 12 come to jesus and say now jesus
you’re gonna have to send this multitude
away they’ve got to go into the
surrounding villages and countryside and
find lodging they got to get something
to eat jesus come on now here we’re in a
desolate place
verse 13 jesus said to them
uh-uh
you give them something to eat
they said jesus we have no more than
five loaves and two fish unless perhaps
you let us go and buy food for all these
people because you know we’re not enough
as we are right now
there were about five thousand men
scholars say the reason why luke
specifies men is because there were
women and children too
so there were probably about 15 000
hungry people that day
jesus said have them reclined to eat in
groups of about 50 each so they did so
had them all recline and then he took
the five loaves and the two fish
and looking up to heaven he blessed them
and then he broke them and he kept
giving them to the disciples to set
before the multitude and verse 17 says
they all ate
they were all satisfied and just so you
know how satisfied they were they went
by and picked up all the leftovers
because there was overflow
in this story we meet a hungry multitude
a multitude that is placing a demand
they have a need there is a lack that
needs to be filled and most of the time
when this proportion of the scriptures
is looked into the multitudes who we
concentrate on the five loaves and the
two fish and how they were satisfied
with it but just for a few moments
tonight i want to talk to
you about the 12 disciples
those who walked with jesus and talked
with jesus those who were in close
communion with jesus those who would
come out on a friday night to be in the
presence of jesus amongst the people of
jesus i want to talk to the disciples of
jesus
the disciples on this occasion had been
called to jesus by jesus they were
having a conversation with each other
jesus entrusted them with power and
authority and then he sent them out i
love that this uh gospel is one of the
synoptic gospels the synoptic gospels
are those that tell there are three of
them matthew mark and luke these three
tell some of the similar stories in a
similar tone in a similar way so that
we’re able to get more layers to the
story
i love the gospels in that way they give
us layers
just like if someone were to offer you a
chocolate cake but they gave you options
you could have a one layer chocolate
cake or a seven layer chocolate cake
which one you gonna choose seven every
single time because the more
layers there are
the more rich and delectable the
experience becomes mark chapter six is a
layer of chocolate cake for us it tells
us that this is the experience when
jesus called the disciples to himself
and then he sent them out in pairs do
you remember two by two into the
neighboring towns and communities they
were supposed to teach and preach and
perform miracles that would authenticate
the deity of jesus christ
mark chapter six our layer of chocolate
cake tells us that they expended
themselves
y’all they were busy from sun up to
sundown they were about the task of
doing what it was that jesus had
assigned to them they wanted to be
diligent about it so much so that when
they came back to jesus they gave an
account to him and jesus recognized
their exhaustion
he saw that they were tired in fact
jesus himself commented that they didn’t
even have time to eat because they had
been so busy they were depleted and they
were tired and they came back to jesus
and they gave him an account
for how they’d handled the assignment
that he had entrusted to them
if you’re a believer in jesus christ
you got an assignment
and don’t let anybody tell you that your
assignment isn’t ministry just because
it happens to be in a corporate setting
mother of small children who’s chosen to
stay home with those kids don’t let
anybody tell you that a ministry
every single time you make that chicken
for dinner and you set it on that table
and you teach those kids a bible verse
before bedtime don’t let anybody tell
you that that ain’t ministry
corporate woman when you sit around that
board room table and you’re the only one
that has a set of ideals that lines up
with the truth of scripture at a table
with those who are thinking and acting
and planning in a way that is left of
god’s word don’t let anybody tell you
that you around that boardroom ain’t
ministry that’s ministry
high school student college student
you’re the only student that stands for
truth when your professor says this is
the way it is and you say no that’s not
the way it is don’t let anybody tell you
as the light on that college campus that
you are not in ministry
every single one of us has an assignment
and the day is coming
when we’re gonna have to give an account