Priscilla Shirer: God’s Sovereign Hand is Aligning Your Footsteps | Praise on TBN

Priscilla Shirer teaches at the 2018 She Rises Conference. Listen as she teaches about the manifest presence of God, and how He will never leave you.

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you want the manifested presence of god

i’m talking about where you can look

back over your circumstances and realize

that his fingerprints were all

throughout that thing i’m talking about

where you can see footprints in the sand

as you actually recognize that god was

walking beside you the whole way i’m

talking about what other people call

coincidence encounters you see the

sovereign hand of god that was aligning

your footsteps and setting you in the

right place at the exact right time the

manifest presence of god

i want to submit to you

that jesus is there

in this difficult moment in your

marriage in this trying moment in your

finances in this struggle on your job in

this difficulty in this relationship

you’re rubbing corners with your boss or

your spouse or this struggle you’re

having on your university campus or in

your high school campus this hard time

that you were having he is there he just

may have come in the package you don’t

prefer

and that oftentimes the fingerprints of

god are not recognized not because he’s

not there it is just because the

expectation we have set up about what he

looks like and how he will speak and how

he will move the prayer request the

solution that he will bring doesn’t

align with the prayer requests that we

have prayed we have boxed god into the

way we want him to answer instead of

believing that his ways are not our ways

and his thoughts are not our thoughts as

high as the heavens are above the earth

that’s how high his thoughts are above

our own and so we box god in when we say

lord answer my request in this

particular way do you know

that you limit not god but you limit i

limit our experience of god when we say

lord answer my request exactly this way

i have learned to pray here lord is my

request you said that i can make it

known here’s how i would like to see you

move in my circumstance thank you lord

that i can come boldly and make my

request known so i’ve made my request

but at the end of that prayer i’ve

learned to pray lord do it

or do something better

because do you know there are categories

of options

that our brain doesn’t even know are

available and accessible to us and if we

limit god to what we can think and what

we see as the way we have not even

considered

the categories of opportunity that this

divine holy almighty being has

accessible to him y’all he’s not just

thinking about you he’s thinking about

your children and your grandchildren and

your great-grandchildren and those that

are to come and how his kingdom purposes

are going to be outworked in this

generation

and so on this occasion the messiah

shows up and nobody recognizes him

except somebody say accept

except a guy named simeon

he had been told and promised

just like we have

that he would

see

the manifest presence of god he’d been

told it

he’d been promised just like we’ve been

promised because of our relationship

with god through christ jesus and the

holy spirit indwelling us that we will

see the fingerprints of god working in

our lives this is called the manifest

presence of god

it is unique to omnipresence

omnipresence means that god is

everywhere all at the same time i’m so

grateful for god’s omnipresence because

god’s omnipresence means that when i fly

back to dallas where i live when my new

friends that i just met from uganda fly

back to where they live um that when you

all fly back to wherever ever it is

you’ve come from whether all over

different areas of california or afar it

means that no matter where we go he is

as much with me as he is with you

because he is omnipresent

but if you’re anything like me you’re

grateful for his omnipresence but you

want more than that

you want the manifested presence of god

i’m talking about where you can look

back over your circumstances and realize

that his fingerprints were all

throughout that thing i’m talking about

where you can see footprints in the sand

as you actually recognize that god was

walking beside you the whole way i’m

talking about what other people call

coincidence encounters you see the

sovereign hand of god that was aligning

your footsteps and setting you in the

right place at the exact right time the

manifest presence of god

i wanted to know what made simeon’s eyes

open to recognize what nobody else in

this scenario did i figured whatever

opened up his eyes might open up our

eyes as well are you ready three things

that i want to point out to you it says

in verse 26 about simeon it says that it

had been

actually verse 25 i want to start there

there was a man in jerusalem whose name

was simeon he was righteous devout

looking for the consolation of israel we

could spend a whole lot of time in those

three but here’s where i want to heart

the holy spirit was upon him

the holy spirit

was upon him

it says

that he came into the temple verse 27

in the spirit

verse 26 says it had been revealed to

him

by

the holy spirit

look at the presence of the holy spirit

permeating this text look at how the

author has over and over and over again

highlighted the work of the holy spirit

in opening up simeon’s eyes to be able

to recognize the manifested presence of

god before him in the person of jesus

christ luke

here he is just in the second chapter of

this book and by the way just in these

first two chapters he has already

alluded to the spirit ten times

the work of god’s spirit is so powerful

and so needful to a fruitful experience

in the life of the believer that even

before the book of acts even before

pentecost even before the spirit has

come

luke points out the movement of the

spirit here in the life of simeon this

shows you how important the spirit’s

work is how critical it is to making

sure that your spiritual senses your

spiritual radar is heightened so that

you can detect the presence of god

the holy spirit was upon him now i want

you to see the work of god’s spirit this

is just the first uh characteristic of

simeon but i want to just just take some

time for just a few moments on it the

work of god’s spirit is so important it

deserves a little bit of our attention

here there are three ways that the holy

spirit is described as relating to

simeon in these few verses just just a

few ways that the holy spirit relates to

simeon in these few verses the first

thing it says is that the holy spirit

was upon him now listen i want you to

know that if you have placed faith in

jesus christ the holy spirit lives on

the inside of you

ephesians chapter 1

says that the moment you believed you

received the holy spirit you were sealed

by the holy spirit of promise

i want you to know that at the moment

you became a believer in jesus christ

you received the most incredible gift

you will ever receive this side of

eternity and that is the very presence

of god living on the inside of you the

holy spirit is not a ghost or a wind or

a fire or a dove he is often symbolized

by those things but don’t minimize him

that ain’t 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 power all of the glory

all of the authority all of the grandeur

of god the father is in the person of

the holy spirit

which means

if you’re a believer in the holy spirit

lives in you

that means all of the grandeur and all

of the greatness all of the authority of

god himself now lives on the inside of

you so if you are a believer you have

the holy spirit you are not waiting on

more of the holy spirit all the holy

spirit you ever gon get you got the

moment you got saved

now you do need to be filled by god’s

spirit

so that his influence in your life grows

and grows so that you operate under the

gifting of the spirit so that you can

live according to the fruit of the

spirit that means living beyond your

natural capacity it means when your

patience runs out you can still have

more patience with that person it means

when gentleness has long since left the

building

you still find you got a little

gentleness for that when self-discipline

i mean you just don’t have no more

self-discipline in that area we need the

fruit of god’s spirit so we need to be

filled by the spirit as we yield to him

in obedience we are filled which means

he influences us more our mind is

renewed and transformed we are

sanctified into the image of christ

jesus

so the holy spirit

is in you

but simeon

his relationship with the spirit is not

described in that way

it doesn’t say that the spirit was in

him

it says that the holy spirit was on him

which means

there is a difference between the spirit

being in you

and the spirit resting on you

listen to me

the gift of god’s spirit in you oh this

brings tears to my eyes

the gift of god’s spirit in you

he will never leave you nor forsake you

there is nothing you can do to work

yourself out of a relationship with the

holy spirit

okay

but him being on you

you got to live a life i i want to live

a life that is a magnet for the presence

of god to rest on me

we can sit in this conference until

we’re blue in the face and applaud the

truths of god and say amen to the truths

of god but if we leave this room and

live in a way

that is out of alignment with the truth

of god we will not have the spirit

resting on us

if you want the mark of god’s presence

on you i’m talking about where other

people can see you operating in your

gift moving about in the assignments

that you have been given where they can

just see there’s a unique favor on your

life toward that particular task or that

particular endeavor where you are marked

by something that gives you favor that

gives you his grace for a particular

area of your life then you must live i

must choose to live in a way that honors

god so that god’s presence can rest upon

us

because he will not force himself on you

he offers you this resting of his

presence and his grace upon your life if

you will choose to live in a way that

does not

disturb his presence that does not keep

him from being able to be near you

because you have chosen here it is

to be

holy

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