Priscilla Shirer: How God Prepares You Through Divine Disruption (Full Teaching) ​| Praise on TBN

Priscilla Shirer sits down with Dr. Tony Evans, Chrystal Evans Hurst, Jonathan Evans, and Anthony Evans on TBN’s Praise. Listen in as Priscilla Shirer and her family share testimonies of God’s divine disruption in the midst of family loss and grief.

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he did not know

that all of that training that seemed

unnecessary and seemed mundane and just

like he was actually accomplishing

nothing

in that mundane training was actually

everything that he needed to be prepared

for the fight he was learning he was

becoming masterful at the craft it just

didn’t look like it in the moment

a couple of years ago now 2018

is that correct 2018 where

our cousin she was one of our close she

was really more like a sibling than a

cousin

but winter unexpectedly

just her heart just gave out so she was

38 years old

and um literally she was fine one day

and the next day her heart stopped and

so that started a string of losses

over the next

two years every four to six months

another family member passed away

and

the reason why we’re acknowledging

dad’s loss in this is because every

single person was directly connected to

daddy

so and obviously to all of us but really

directly to dad so he lost his niece

that was winter

and then shortly thereafter your brother

passed away

then your sister passed away then your

sister’s wife passed away so all our

aunts and uncles on that side of the

family

and um

and then we had another cousin pass away

and then to daddy your dad

in the same month as mom

and then shockingly as well actually an

eighth person passed away because then

my mother-in-law eight months after mom

my mother-in-law passed away who was

very close to all of us as well

um so we had eight losses in the course

of two years just back-to-back losses so

it has been

quite a journey emotionally yeah it’s

been it’s been a lot and a lot of people

you know

don’t up until mommy maybe they didn’t

really know all of that right yeah

because winter exactly winter and mommy

but didn’t really know about all of that

and wouldn’t really think

about it because of how daddy operates

yeah he continues to preach he continues

to keep rolling he continues to build he

continues to encourage

and all of those different things so how

do you

one of my thoughts is as your son is man

this guy keeps going yeah even while it

seems like things are falling around him

yeah

and so how do you

keep that up do that how are you able to

to be that faithful in a season

like that

well i mean

it starts with your view of god if if

god is sovereign if god is in control

if you’re going to trust him if you

believe that there is life to come

and if we’re still here and therefore

have a job to do

then while we should

while we should uh be struggling with

loss

we should be struggling hopefully and

not hopelessly

that’s two different

perspectives and struggle and so when

the hope is there then you keep going

even if you’re going slower than you

used to even if you’re going with

sadness or tears or struggles or uh you

know sleepless nights you still

you still go because god is still true

to his word he’s true to his promises

he’s true to his provisions and he’s

true to our our future so

so and there’s still people other people

are grieving too yeah so you know during

this season of covet and race and

politics and economics and

all the global crisis we’re facing we’re

not the only ones grieving

so they need they need they need

ministry too so you got to keep

ministering to our local flock first of

all at oak cliff but then nationally

through the urban alternative we we we

wanted to to let what god was doing with

us and through us and in our pain be a

ministry to others as well as we walk

this journey together because

everybody’s going to walk this journey

at some point in their lives and

speaking of continuing to do ministry

that is

why we are all sitting here together is

because we we collectively made a

decision to

try to figure out a way to use what

we’ve been facing and how we’ve dealt

with it to to minister to to people so

we did something very unique um

we we have a it’s a it’s a book but it’s

like this it’s the conversation it’s a

family conversation we all have

different crazy different personalities

i’m the hyper emotional one uh crystal

is

the she’s the smart like logical she’s

really super smart so right here you may

think she’s being quiet but she’s

formulating things that she’s going to

say in a minute that are going to change

your life no pressure

priscilla’s missed personality as you’ve

seen and very opposed to the smart one

absolutely i mean she’s also smart and

dynamic but she’s growing up she got in

trouble for talking a lot but now it

god’s used all things for good you know

what i mean he’s worked out i showed you

god is the miracle working

yes because

that’s this personality and then

jonathan’s the athlete the the

self-proclaimed favorite um but that’s

true but no he he makes a decision and

then he goes after it but we get to talk

about how from all these different

personality types how we held on to

to faith in these moments so i i want to

know just just a kind of a blanket

statement a blanket question for

everybody is how specifically given all

the things that we face collectively and

things you’ve faced in your life

as an individual how have you what are

some practical steps you’ve taken to

hold on to faith when life was shaking

you up chrissy

i think

when we talk about

um you dad and how you

have continued to do ministry i think

that that is a big part of it um

us as children watching you

us as children our whole lives watching

you and mommy

because the truth be told

while this is definitely

a major major loss for our family

there have been

lots of things over the years that have

happened that have been hard that you

all have had to walk through and what

we’ve seen you do and seeing you do

consistently

and faithfully

is stay the course

we didn’t just see you and mom do that

we saw our grandparents do that on both

sides

so there’s this legacy of

faithfulness that has been

deposited in us generationally as a

legacy we are not

when people ask me how i’m doing

or they ask any of us how we’re doing i

think to say that we’re able to do that

because of our wiring

that’s just a small part of

the the design is also something that

has been gifted

to us and granted to us and blessed us

by generational faithfulness

and so while it’s hard it’s not hard

while it has been uphill

it’s been at a pace that’s been doable

and i think at the end of the day

what we have done individually

and what i have done individually is

um

you know the bible says we we look to

jesus who is the author and the finisher

of our faith

and if i can take a little liberty with

that you know i look to dad

you know i look at mom i look at her

example and i say

okay if they can do it i can do it you

know

and i think that um the good thing is

when i share that and say okay it’s

because of family and because of legacy

and because of support and because i can

go to daddy and say

okay dad this is hard like i have these

questions

and i have that relationship with my dad

to do that

the the good news is for somebody who

listens and says but that’s not my story

well then dad always tells the story of

course of his dad who didn’t have that

that wasn’t history so any of us get to

start anywhere and if you don’t have a

dad to look at like i’ve been able to

look at my dad or look at our aunt you

know auntie or look at her siblings or

look at each other for support you do

have somebody to look at you know

someone who is the author and the

finisher of your faith so

my ability to keep it going

is not because i got some juice to keep

it going

it’s because there is faithfulness to

stand on from legacy that i’ve inherited

that ultimately traces its way back to

jesus christ

that’s correct but that faithfulness

that we’ve watched him

you know

live out

has come through like this setup is not

a representation of what we’ve been

through right okay this this is this is

nice what we went through with crocodile

tears yeah we went through was the

lowest of the low

when daddy told us the news and ran to

the other side of the room and was

bawling crying and and then anthony and

priscilla chased after him and they were

bawling crying and then i felt like

somebody rubbed icy hot all over my body

and didn’t even know what to do i mean

you’re talking about going all the way

to the low of the low and

in crystal talking about those examples

um that obviously being the lowest in my

in my view

um

but

them holding on to faith

through the lowest of the low like

people need to know that the evans

family ain’t sitting up here this this

is nice

that’s not what it looked like

um this is this is you know a year and a

half later or however long we’re able to

take use that time uh it could know i

wrestled with god big time yeah i was

like man we prayed

your word says this that i was you know

based on the scriptures dad always

taught take the scripture and throw it

back into god’s face because god is is

you know what i’m saying obligated to

his word his word is obligated to him so

we did all of that um where two or three

gather we had the whole world praying we

had so we did it

by the book

and we had an expectation

um that god is going to come through

and

it felt like he didn’t it felt like

we’re just we were just like yeah like

we got it there’s a lot of people feel

like that a lot of people are like yeah

you know so

you know is he god or not yeah you know

what i mean and um and so people need to

realize that that’s what it really

looked like it didn’t look like this and

so when we were watching mom and dad

hold on to faith through those times it

was some hard times that looked like

hard times

that that we had to go through and so

yeah it was definitely been a wrestle

yeah well the the book is called divine

disruption um

and i’ve

having trying really hard you have to

try really hard for me i’m an emotional

person if you’re anything like me i know

i’m hoping a lot of the viewers are like

me because it’s sometimes the lonely

world out here in this family but

everybody’s so so strong but

it’s called divine disruption so i want

to know

finding

god in disruptions what do you need to

do to change to get your perspective to

where

you can see god pass because disruption

is such a it’s such a thing for an

emotional person like me

how do you see god when when there’s so

much disturbance how do you get that

that that that clear daddy or priscilla

or anybody but i well you know what

there are many times in the bible where

people are struggling with god yes

rebecca wants to know why how long

job’s big question is why did the

righteous suffer you know so

it is

fake news to assume

that to be committed to christ means

that you will not suffer

in this world you will have tribulations

john

16 33 says

but then he says be of good cheer i have

overcome the world so the circumstances

are never to have the final say-so

although they are real that you have to

deal with so the question is how do you

deal with them well a lot of times what

people do

is they want to find god in the midst of

it when they haven’t built a

relationship with god before it came

and it’s hard to pour a foundation in a

storm you you that’s a hard thing to do

the idea is to increasingly build

your confidence in a sovereign god god

has two wills he has a

unconditional will a conditional will

his unconditional will means he’s going

to do it whether you

like it or not because he’s decided to

do it his conditional will means he’s

going to do it if you meet the

conditions

well obviously it was god’s

unconditional will to take mom home at

70 years old

when he did because we met the

conditions and he still did it so that’s

his unconditional will but if you only

believe god has a conditional will

then you’re going to be disappointed

when you when you’ve met the conditions

and the opposite thing happens but when

you know he has unconditional will that

his sovereign plan overrides

our desires

for his glory and our good and maybe

what god wanted to do was to use our

loss

which was in his will

to help others in their loss

and their grief and their hurt and their

struggle

because god never wastes

bad times on us

he uses them for good times for others

and

just to your point dad about

building your confidence and your

relationship with the lord before the

storm comes i think one of the

um

ways that people can do that i know it’s

been helpful for me i didn’t even

realize i was doing it but actually

writing down and keeping a track record

of when you see the fingerprints of god

in your life

um i look back now and realize i was

probably just keeping a little journal

i’m not one of those people that

journals like every day or you know even

every you know religiously every week or

anything like that but just when

something happens

that i see the fingerprints of god

opening a door or closing a door that in

hindsight i realize was his best plan

for me um or i see something happening

where it’s just what some would consider

ordinary but there’s the traces of god’s

handiwork just moving things around i

write that down because you won’t

remember what happened a decade ago

but when you open up this little book

you’ve scribbled some notes about what

god has done and then you look back and

you begin to actually see how things

that seemed disconnected at the time or

just seemed like it wasn’t going your

way how you’re working god work

watching god work that out then it helps

to build your confidence when you’re

going through something now

because you realize wait a minute if he

sustained me in my 20s and my 30s and

even in my teenage years when i look

back and see little things i wrote down

and i go oh my gosh the lord was

the lord was moving even then to derail

me into into a particular direction

that track record becomes a booster for

you in the current things that you’re

facing in your life

so i’ve even done that with my sons i’ve

kept a little journal for each of the

boys i bought a little journal when i

started when my oldest was five i went

to ross dressed for less in the back

corner there they’ve got these little

journals for 5.99 and i’ve had the same

ones for i guess now 15 years and every

now and then when i just see

just a little hint

in a question they’ve asked or a

conversation we’ve had or some way i can

see god working and moving and something

he’s lined up for them

i write it down because i want to be

able to give it to them and say look

if if he did this for you then when you

hit the bumps of life which we all are

then you can trust him because he’s

already proven to you that he’s going to

be faithful yeah and jonathan you

mentioned wrestling with god which we

all watched you do firsthand because you

are the athlete of the family like you

you do this and then you end up here you

work out and you end up doing like

that’s just kind of how your mind works

but as we talk about as as we’ve heard

these things that were said i remember i

think chapter nine of the book you

basically talk about getting the place

where you realized that god’s answer was

yes or yes and you had to get yourself

there can you can you elaborate on that

when it comes to absolutely uh

just thinking about you know what dad is

saying in his conditional and

unconditional will like we met the

conditions

so i’m like uh i’m just waiting i did it

the whole time i’m hopeful yeah

yeah we all work and i’m watching mommy

kind of decline but i’m like uh it’s

okay because he’s gonna it’s gonna be a

greater you know what i mean like yeah

so i’ve done that in my mind and and the

the the effort that we had put forward

just calling on the name of the lord and

and i felt like this was a great

opportunity for him

god this is a great opportunity for you

now no you need to take advantage of

this one this is a that’s right

everybody’s watching yeah um and so i

kind of got to a place where i really

felt was hopeful about it and when he

basically said no that’s how i received

it initially

that we did all of this

and you just didn’t come through right

um you didn’t make a way out of out of

no way you know you didn’t do those

things

but then god you know in my quiet time

in silence silence and solitude i got

clarity and just spending time with god

and he just said you know you don’t

understand my victory you’re complaining

because you don’t really understand what

jesus christ has done it was hard for

you to watch your mother die but how

much harder was it to me to watch my son

die so your mother can actually live and

when i thought about the life that has

been given

in his unconditional will that his

unconditional will even meeting his

conditions

was better than what i prayed for trying

to meet his conditional will

you ask for healing she’s got it

you asked her to be with family she’s

got it you asked her to be well taken

care of she’s got it you don’t

understand i’ve given you everything you

asked for on a higher level than you

asked for it and you don’t understand it

because you’re a kid

you’re not

you know i’m saying the same thing with

my kids they just don’t get it until

they get to a point of maturity where

they’re able to say oh dad his will is

just best

and and now we can do what my mom always

said with my mom like she’s not yours

we can do what our mom always said your

greatest ministry will come right out of

your greatest misery

and

and keep on going you know one of the

ways me and daddy encourage each other

you know through football

is you know in in football every player

has to retire

it happens every time and the players

that are still on the field are sad you

know because that’s the that’s their guy

right

but all you can do is put your head down

and keep playing until you retire too

because you want to hear the coach say

the same thing to you that he said to

him well done you played hard here’s

your gold jacket

yeah enjoy retirement and that’s what

mommy’s doing she’s retired she’s

enjoying

that retirement in his rest and we’re

going to put our heads down we’ll keep

playing hard that’s great all the way to

the finish yeah there are so many things

that we

had had to to learn i mean i didn’t

realize i think daddy told me this he

thought that when we were going through

this

and and mommy thought this too she would

look at me and be like are you okay but

it wasn’t a normal are you okay it was

kind of like

uh this is the kid that could fall apart

with this much weight on him emotionally

that it was that kind of are you okay

and i

all the things that we’ve talked about

all the lessons that i learned along the

way even in the hard moments of my life

i didn’t realize were training me for

this moment in the book um i can’t

remember what what chapter but we tell

the story of of the karate kid which i

won’t tell the whole thing now priscilla

tells it a lot um do you want to just

hit on that real quick i mean well just

that there was a lot of training i mean

the karate kid you know the the one with

daniel’s son and mr miyagi the original

the original one not the stuff

although that was good yes but the

original one you know

danielson wants training

and in karate so he goes to mr miyagi

and mr miyagi basically has him managing

his house cleaning cars painting fences

sanding the floor

and he just daniel becomes extremely

frustrated he’s like you this is not

what i’m here for yeah i came here to

train to be able to be excellent at the

craft of karate and so mr miyagi sees

his frustration and he starts throwing

punches

and daniel without thinking about it

begins to block all of these punches and

kicks that are coming his direction he

did not know

that all of that training that seemed

unnecessary and seemed mundane and just

like he was actually accomplishing

nothing

in that mundane training was actually

everything that he needed to be prepared

for the fight he was learning he was

becoming masterful at the craft it just

didn’t look like it in the moment

even as a worship leader and traveling

around and all of us in our different we

collectively do things a lot together

but for me even as a worship leader and

stuff i didn’t know and being in

full-time ministry i didn’t know that i

was capable of that fight of the fight

we have gone through collectively i did

not know i was capable of that and the

the punches that got the blocks that

came out of me naturally i was like oh i

really do believe this i really

i didn’t know that i believed it this

deep mm-hmm so a lot of my faith through

that time came through from you

which you never knew it wild yeah

because you were coming to me and say

i mean you were

settled in i’m not even worried about it

it’s i already know it’s going to work

out and you would say do you think it’s

weird that i’m so hopeful

and i would say no i’m right there with

you i mean that’s what we were so so the

greater the disappointment

you know that we felt but that’s

that’s the training that you had because

i believed i guess i believed kind of

along the lines of what you’re saying

like mommy even though i don’t want to

see her in pain i don’t ever want to

experience that on any level i don’t

want anybody to ever have to experience

watching a family member um go through

that but i think i just knew i

cognitively and in my heart knew like

this is our faith will play itself out

that’s the bottom line and you were

right

yeah it’s it’s so wild to me um i didn’t

chapter was it chapter 15

we talk about well crystal mostly talks

about doing the right thing along the

way as you are

um all the things we talked about your

understanding that god is is divine our

god is um has a conditional

unconditional will you’re learning about

what it means to really be hopeful but

what about the day-to-day like what do i

do next the right thing along the way

even when you’re hurting can you speak

to that

yeah you know

i think um

i was literally uh just recently talking

to my daughter who’s 30 years old and

whatever she was asking me

um my answer as i answered her you know

i heard mommy’s voice oh because it was

the same thing you know it’s it’s a new

problem to her but it’s not to me but

one of the things we know mommy would

say all the time is this too shall pass

when you have

a history

with god and you know that the thing

that seems the most difficult for you in

a moment

that you’ll get past it so one way or

another you’ll you’ll get past it you’ll

learn from it you’ll grow from it you’ll

experience god in a new way

um

that is

often just the next right thing you

don’t have

you don’t and i keep talking about our

history but i even remember our

grandmother saying because you know

daddy’s a doctorate of theology and our

uncle was a doctor of sociology he had a

doctor of sociology and i said

did people ask you how did you do that

like how did you

have these kids that were so highly

educated and she said i just kept doing

the next right thing to have children

who were law-abiding citizens and were

good people like i wasn’t trying to

achieve that right and i think when

people would ask mommy and daddy about

us how do you do that like how do you

get four kids who are all still involved

in your church or involved in ministry

what they were doing was the next right

thing and for mommy that was fixing

dinner

and making goulash and putting cheese on

we don’t know what it was but it tasted

good because cheese was on it

and and the and the idea that

this was not necessarily the specific

thing i don’t think you could correct me

that you had in mind

it was just that we would love god

love each other

and be faithful

um so i think the next right thing is

look at where you are

and what i was saying to my daughter

today is often we’re looking at the big

thing and thinking how do we get through

the big thing

moses asked god the same question when

god stopped by the burning bush and said

all right so it’s time i need you to

tell pharaoh to let my people go

and moses was like how am i going to do

that

and god said what do you have in your

hand

so we’re often looking purpose and

calling and what am i supposed to do and

how’s god going to get me through this

and we walked with mommy through that

season one day at a time

getting her what she wanted to drink

trying to make her comfortable

being there for each other

and so the next right thing is not the

next right big thing

it’s usually the next right small thing

and because it’s the next right small

thing it’s usually something that’s

obvious to you to do right and it’s easy

it’s right there

so i think if i could say anything to

encourage everybody from my experience

it’s

stop trying to get over the mountain

and just make sure you don’t stumble on

that one rock that’s in front of you and

just keep going forward that’s great

that’s amazing yeah that’s amazing

you’re a beast she is i was actually

about to say that and i thought maybe i

shouldn’t say you’re a beast that’s a

good thing

a beast is a good that’s a loving word

in our family um yeah

somehow somehow a lot of loving word in

our family and yes for those of you

watching who are thinking are they

saying daddy and mommy of we still call

our parents daddy daddy just so you know

that’s

i’m that’s i’m proud of that yes the

daddy you mentioned daddy you mentioned

disruption

and i i i always get weird when i’m

quoting you because you’re tony evans

and i’m tony evans jr and it feels weird

because you’re such an amazing

communicator a beast because you’re such

a beast

divine reset a lot of times i mean sorry

divine disruption

disruptions in our life are god’s um

god is wanting to reset us and uses the

disruption do that can you talk about

what that that means

god creates or allows confusion chaos

trouble

because he’s trying to

get things that

are either out of order back in order or

to take us to a new level hebrews

chapter 12

talks about god shaking things

in the physical because he wants to do

something in the spiritual

so when there is disturbance in the five

senses of our lives

in the environment of our lives in the

chaos of the culture

it is because he is shaking things to

remake something

in its proper order things have gotten

either out of order or there is a new

purpose that he is moving to

and so he will he will allow pharaoh to

get tougher

so that you can leave egypt

and not get comfortable there so he will

create so i just want to encourage

people if you’re going through

pain struggle grief disappointment

while those feelings are real and you

don’t deny them

also ask god what new thing

what new experience i love job 42 he’s

come through great loss

i mean in 24 hours this whole world

falls apart

his business his family his workers his

children his health everything falls

apart and he never even found out why

the book never tells job about the

conversation between god and satan but

in chapter 42 he makes a powerful

statement he says

i’ve heard about you with the hearing of

the ear i’ve been to bible study been to

church been the small group all that

been to sunday school

but now i have seen you with my own eyes

so ask god when your world falls apart

to make himself visible to you in a new

way and he wants to do it

because of what he allowed to disrupt

your ease

and your comfortable situation right

then

can we can we just go around and i would

love to hear and i’ve never asked this

either in what way specifically and as

it relates to each of you has this

disruption reset

you like what is a re what is something

that has been reset and i’ll just say

for me

um

the the the purpose behind what i do has

changed drastically

it’s changed drastically um the most

important thing to me has always been

family but now that’s on some other

level uh the most one of the the second

things has been ministry but now it’s

it’s very purposeful and intentional and

if i’m going to miss something

family-wise to do ministry i won’t do

that anymore like that that is something

that reset in me and

it’s

helped open my eyes to what i

really have and appreciating that and

not the rat race of trying to get more

and be more and be

you know the the bigger thing um what

what about

what about you um

i would say you all know i love kanika

yes

um which is my wife yes

um

but you know she’ll tell you i don’t

even i don’t know if it’s the way that

i’ve grieved uh

but she’ll tell you i mean my

appreciation for her tangibly has

skyrocketed

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um because she’s living our mother’s

life basically another version of the

same basically and um

one one of the things that broke my

heart

for daddy

is the plans that he had for him and

mommy at 70. yeah

is he talked about having these plans to

travel do you know kind of tone down in

the ministry and ramp up with just him

and mommy just kind of riding off into

the sunset type of idea

and when mommy died at 70

that just spoke volumes to me about time

and people and treasures

and plans

and just life

and so with my

wife and children

i don’t really live on a i’ll do it

later mentality

i live on i’m gonna do it right now

mentality and not take any of that for

granted yeah

i would agree i think that’s it’s along

the same lines that mom said to us

incessantly mom said to us y’all need to

stop and smell the roses that’s what she

would say that was her

sort of encouragement to us and

challenge to us

mom did that very intentionally she

enjoyed her life she would intentionally

tack on extra time to ministry trips for

the two of you to enjoy each other

sometimes we didn’t know where she was

at we didn’t know where she was at she’s

on a cruise yeah

yeah the dallas theological seminary

would take these ministry cruises and

she would just hop on and enjoy seeing

the world and also the foot the

footsteps of paul or whatever

and so she did that very intentionally

and i remember her saying you know if

she could go back and do her life again

she would have started that mindset

sooner that even as you’re going

throughout raising kids and working and

whatever she would have stopped to smell

the roses sooner enjoy your life

and so you all did that you know she was

always posting pictures hashtagging it

two peas in a pod the two of you

enjoying your life together and so

that’s kind of stuck with me what do i

need to do even as we are continuing in

ministry and raising our boys and all of

that but how can we just pause and

intentionally just enjoy the ride

and there’s nothing non-spiritual about

that exactly

yeah people think exhaustion is a badge

of honor like they’re just especially

working in christendom sometimes yeah no

but ecclesiastes is clear he’s like

enjoy your life it’s all vanity you know

it’s just like

you know and so that’s a part of the

christian living that we often toss to

the side for christian living that’s

right you can be diligent and faithful

and consistent and all those things and

still

have rest have a sense of sabbath about

your life and enjoy the ride crystal

yeah i think um what i’ve heard over and

over again

um

and i said this too at her funeral too

is just

mommy was very good about intentionally

seeing people because she was

decisively

moving slower

she took time to remember things to talk

to people so i think

in the spirit of being intentional and

slowing down

both for my family to just

making time to make sure that the people

around me not just that i have time to

enjoy my life which is a part of that

but also having the bandwidth working on

that to have the bandwidth to be present

um

for

you know the people that god brings

across my path that i don’t expect or i

wasn’t planning on that day

um to make room for that too yeah you

know speaking about

mommy always just gets me i just i feel

her all the time just the the

just the love of our mother and i

remember

i think it was me and priscilla were

standing over her bed we were all in and

out of the house so much in those

period but in the last few months we

were just all there and

our mother’s concern was

for

you like our mother’s concern was what

about the people who are praying like

she when she felt like her health was

going a different direction she was like

but all these people are praying what

about the people who are about their

faith what about their faith what about

their faith what are they gonna like

she was concerned about you and that’s

why i had tears about that worried that

the body of christ would would stumble

in their faith potentially if the lord

didn’t answer prayers because so many

people were praying that way and as i

sit here

i’m very like man

this is a message from our mom for you

yeah of what it looks like to hold on to

faith it wasn’t

when she when when i just think about

her saying what about those people

well mom we are here to talk to those

people

the people you were so worried about the

people who wanted to make sure were okay

we’re here

to share what it looks like to hold on

to faith and it hurts and it doesn’t

feel good

but there is something to be said about

hurting

but knowing that you’re anchored at the

same time

and that is what it is and i know that

crystal mentioned that everybody may not

have a family like this

but you

you get to start you get to start that

story

you have you have a choice to start that

story you have a choice to have chosen

family around you which sometimes in

some cases it’s like this is my family

but i just i love that we are sitting

here

and i just see her tears and what about

them and we are getting to address those

people yeah that’s awesome

on behalf of our mom who wants you to

hold on to faith when life is breaking

your heart

um

and in just a few minutes we’re gonna

we’re gonna close we’re so grateful that

we got to spend this time and daddy you

kind of already did it

but

just i want you one more time because

you have so much to say this is one of

the

the he has a well of knowledge like a

deep

i’ve never even seen the bottom of that

well i don’t know where it is you know

but

can you look into that camera and just

give

just give the viewers just one more what

does it look like

what do they need to do for a heart

that’s breaking i know that there’s

somebody there’s a bunch of people on

the other side of this screen with tears

running down their face

please look at them and talk to them

about what else they could do to hold on

to faith in this moment

well one of the things your mom said

as she was

getting sick

and sicker

she said don’t let my illness

deter you

from god’s word

and proclaiming it

what

she was telling me was

hold on to god’s word and his truth

in spite of the circumstances that you

see us going through

so i just want to challenge everybody

who’s struggling who’s hurting

who’s going through difficult times

you tether yourself to god’s word you

memorize it you quote it you think about

it you have people telling it to you

his promises his encouragement you

you read you read that upper room

discourse where he’s encouraging his

disciples on his way to the cross

because he kept giving them hope

the holy spirit if you’ve accepted

christ into your life the holy spirit is

there

and he’s called the comforter he’s the

paraclete he is the one

who helps you to make it through

during tough times

so allow the holy spirit by requesting

it now you don’t have to go through all

commotions you say lord god holy spirit

because he’s the one that jesus left

here to represent him inside your heart

holy spirit comfort me because you are

the comforter encourage me by the word

the word is the truth the holy spirit is

the experience of the truth so he takes

the truth of god and makes it light up

in your soul

so ask him to light your soul up to dry

your eyes to comfort your heart to

settle your fears

and he will do it because you’ve come to

the lord through his method based on his

word to get it done

that may not mean your circumstance will

change today or tomorrow

but it means that you will change in

your circumstance and when you change

you’re managing what used to be managing

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