Priscilla Shirer: God’s Word is in Your Heart | Praise on TBN
Priscilla and Jerry Shirer join Matt and Laurie Crouch on TBN’s Praise to discuss the first step to hearing God. Listen as they discuss how God’s word is in your heart and it’s always been there, we just have to learn how to tune into it.
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the holy spirit what he does is turn
your desires so that they are in
alignment with god’s will
so you actually want what it is that god
wants you to want
that’s what i believe the psalmist meant
when he said that he gives you
the desires of your heart so john 10 27
to me is the most concise
and comprehensive verse in scripture
about hearing god
uh it is when jesus says my sheep hear
my voice
i know them and they follow me he says
you got to be my sheep to hear my voice
so you said new christians listen that
relationship right there
is the the connector that allows you
access to the voice of god
so so to me the first step is actually
believing that as an adopted son or
daughter grafted
into the family of god that you have the
capacity
innately because you’re part of the
family to now hear the voice of god it’s
like um
when we were growing up in our house i
don’t know about you guys but we didn’t
have access to a whole lot of cable
television my parents didn’t get cable
they didn’t get
you know whatever directv all that stuff
we didn’t have any of that stuff
and i i felt a little mad about that
i really wanted to have more channels my
parents chose that we could really only
watch the cosby show on
thursdays at seven o’clock and then a
different world
so it wasn’t until we were getting ready
to get married i moved out
i remember the day i had the cable guy
come over hook up the cable and after he
did all that hooking up
he said here’s the remote control push
the guide button and i pushed the guide
button
at i had never seen so many channels in
my life on the screen i had no idea all
those channels were there
now all those channels didn’t just get
created
that day they had always been there it’s
just i didn’t have the right hook up so
that i could tap into them
and bring them and draw them down into
my experience
the holy spirit is the hookup when you
place faith in jesus christ
ephesians chapter 1 says the moment you
believe you receive the hook up
the holy spirit now you are able to draw
down divine channels
it’s not that you created them no they
were always there god’s speaking
he wants to reveal himself now you have
the the opportunity to hear him
so really the first step especially if
you grew up in an environment where this
concept is sort of
um unique and different and new for you
it’s to believe
that as a as a privilege of being a son
or a daughter
you can hear from god it is the
deception of the enemy
to cause us to think we have to have a
seminary degree
we have to have some special hotline
connection with god like somebody we may
admire
that we as regular men and women can’t
hear from god that’s what the enemy
wants you to think
he doesn’t want you to know it’s your
birthright and so believing that you can
is the first step to hearing god so um
one of the things i love about the holy
spirit’s work in us and this is in
regards to hearing god
but his work in us is to sanctify us
sanctification
is the process by which we are molded
into the image of jesus christ
it is the process by which our mind
changes our ambitions change
our desires we start wanting stuff we
never thought we want
we stop wanting things we never thought
we’d ever not want to
want to to separate ourselves from all
of a sudden we find ourselves unnerved
by jokes that we used to laugh at or
company we used to keep it just doesn’t
work for us anymore that’s the work of
the holy spirit
so in regards to discerning the voice of
god if anybody’s ever concerned or
afraid like i have been that oh god
might say to me something i don’t want
the holy spirit what he does is turn
your desires so that they
are in alignment with god’s will so you
actually want what it is that god wants
you to want
that’s what i believe the psalmist meant
when he said that he gives you
the desires of your heart he doesn’t
give you what you want he actually puts
his desires in your heart so that you
want what he wants let me tell you
a practical application of that when we
were first married
and before we had children we lived in
orange county california
i grew up in newport beach california
so um l.a county was more like
enemy territory we
you know we we didn’t really understand
the big city of los angeles
if you live in a suburb of orange county
l.a county
it’s real different because it’s just a
real different environment
and and then the lord called us to
hollywood
so we packed up our little kids and
we went to los angeles bought a home
in l.a and lived there for 15 years
lori told me that i’m so used to orange
county
when i need grocery shopping i’m going
to get my kids put them in my car i’m
going to drive back down to orange
county how far
drive was that 35 40 miles and i’ll do
my grocery shopping and then come back
we had planned that so we bought a house
that felt like this kind of sanctuary up
on the side of a hill and
and we were very protected and it felt
really good when we were at home
but we just were very you know the the
surrounding was not going to work for us
within days the changing of our attitude
and the holy spirit that we fell in love
with this area we started
it was when god called us to hollywood
he
changed the very inside of who we were
Amen <3