Priscilla Shirer: Living Your Life For Christ (Full Teaching) | Praise on TBN

Priscilla Shirer joins Christine Caine at the Propel Womens Conference to discuss how we are called to walk in holiness. Listen as she reminds us that we are meant to live our lifes in pursuit of Christ.

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and the one thing that invites the favor of god
on our life like simeon that will open our eyes

to see him more clearly so that we don’t miss him
when he comes into our circumstances trying to

speak to us to answer us to make himself a parent
in our lives the one thing that opens up our eyes

is god’s spirit on us and if you want if i want
god’s spirit on our lives then we gotta decide

to live holy hey so glad to be with all of you
listen don’t even take your seat yet let me just

let me just go ahead and read god’s word over
you while you’re standing is that all right

i think every now and then we ought to just
stand up when god’s word is read just to remind

ourselves who’s talking to us listen to luke
chapter 2 verse 21 through about verse 32 or so

when jesus was about eight days were completed
he was circumcised his name was then called

jesus the name given by the angel before he was
conceived and when the days for purification

according to the law of moses were completed
that’s about 40 days after jesus was born or so

so he’s 40 days old they brought him
into jerusalem to present him to the lord

every firstborn male that opens the
womb shall be called holy to the lord

and they came to offer sacrifices according to
what was said of the law of the lord a pair of

turtle doves or two young pigeons and behold
somebody say behold come on y’all say behold

and behold there was a man in jerusalem this
guy’s name was simeon and he was righteous and

devout and looking for the consolation of
israel and the holy spirit was on his life

and it had been revealed to him by the spirit that
he would not see death until he had caught sight

of jesus so he came into the spirit into the
temple and when the parents brought in the child

jesus to carry out the custom of the law simeon
saw him he recognized that this little baby was

jesus christ he gathered the baby up in his
arms he blessed the child and he said lord now

you can let me depart in peace i don’t have to see
anything else i haven’t yet seen this guy perform

one miracle lazarus hadn’t been raised from the
dead the sick have not yet been healed deaf ears

haven’t yet been opened i haven’t seen any of
that but once i’ve caught sight of the savior

lord he says you can let me depart in peace
because my eyes have seen your salvation which

you’ve prepared in the presence of all the people
he’s a light of revelation to the gentiles and the

glory of thy people israel thank you for letting
me see jesus lord open up our eyes so that we can

see you lord open up our spiritual ears so that
we can hear you god we are sitting on the edge

of our seat because we are anxious to see how you
will introduce reintroduce yourself to us today

lord i’m so grateful that all of us is here but
we didn’t come to see each other we came to see

you so lord come we’re your daughters and
we want to see you in jesus name everybody

agreed when they said amen give somebody
a high five before you take your seat

i’m so grateful and i’m so honored to have
an opportunity to be here with you and

to share in god’s word i believe in the power
of the word of god i i do parent uh chris just

told you three sons they are giants i just have
giants walking around my house my nearly 16 year

old is six foot two inches tall his 14 year old
brother is the exact same height they both wear

size 14 men’s shoe my youngest son his name is
jude so i’ve got jackson jerry jr and jude and

we named our third son jude on purpose because
y’all that’s as close as i can get to revelation

because it is finished that is it it’s the end of
the line and they’re giant somebody come help me

feed these people that’s all i do is try to feed
the boys and i remember this particular weekend

because i was in memphis tennessee there were very
little at the time and i remember being very very

tired on this particular trip i could not wait
to get to the location in memphis tennessee so

i could get to the hotel i’d had an early flight
and was very excited to be at the hotel early so

that i could immediately go and get in the bed
and go to sleep early that night i was so happy

to have that opportunity and so i arrived
in memphis tennessee was picked up at the

the airport driven by a sweet woman who would
come from the church where i was going to be

at their conference she’d come and pick me up
took me to the hotel and it was about 7 30 in

the evening i was so happy she said would you
like to go out to dinner first i was like oh no

i get to go into this hotel room all by myself and
have the bed all to myself i could not wait so i

laid down watched a little something on television
i think in about 8 30 i mean i was out i needed

all those hours of rest except that around 3 a.m
or so i was jarred awake jolted awake by a train

that started to go by right outside the back of
the hotel there were train tracks that were just

a few feet behind the hotel the conductor was
sitting on the horn the entire time that all

of the cars of the train went by i was jolted
awake and i went immediately to the window and

looked outside and i saw how close that that
train actually was and then you know you have

to kind of sit there and wait for the whole
thing to pass and this wasn’t a small train

this was one that goes on and on and on finally
it passed and i tried to get back to sleep but

really couldn’t nestle down into a good sleep i
knew i had to be up really early in the morning

so i couldn’t sleep real well but did my best got
up in the morning the sweet woman from the church

came picked me up i got in the car didn’t say
anything about the train had a great long day

at the at the church at the conference and
then could not wait to get back to the hotel

so that i could try to get a good night’s sleep
this was gonna be the night that i got all my

good hours of sleep in before having to go home
the next day and so i laid down in the bed about

8 30 9 o’clock in the evening fell into a
very deep sleep until 3 a.m in the morning

when a train went roaring by the conductor sitting
on the horn the entire time that the train went by

this time i was jolted awake went and looked
at the train outside the window and i thought i

can’t wait for the sweet woman from the church to
come pick me up so that i can tell her about this

train that is passing by right outside the door or
outside the back of this hotel so when she came i

sat down in the car i said thank you so much for
picking me up i gotta ask you about this train

i described to her how at three o’clock in
the morning for the last two nights this train

had gone roaring by in the back of the hotel as
i explained it to her i felt bad for her because

it was like it was occurring to her dawning on
her like she was reminded about this train that

comes to their community her eyes were as wide as
saucers and she said priscilla i am so sorry i i

totally forgot about that train and she said the
reason why is because those of us who live in this

community have gotten so used to the sound of the
train that we don’t even recognize it anymore that

train comes by two or three times a week every
week and we paid little attention to it because

we’ve lived here so long that we’ve gotten so
used to the sound of the train that when it comes

we don’t recognize it we’ve been desensitized to
the train in this community it occurs to me that

those of us who live particularly in this part
of the world where we have been overwhelmingly

blessed by the presence and the power of god among
us we’re here in this country you and i can go on

a saturday to a christian women event like this
one or we can go to a christian bookstore when we

can pick up any bible in any translation in any
language or we can turn on christian radio and

listen to gospel if you like that or contemporary
christian music if you like that we have options

available to us could it be that we have lived
in this neighborhood of blessing for so long that

when the train of god’s glory wants to fall in
an unusual way when he wants to show up in power

and in glory that we have become so used to it
that we don’t even recognize his blessing anymore

that we’ve become so desensitized to god’s
presence among us that it doesn’t cause us

as it always should for us to fall to our knees
in adoration our arms outstretched and worshipped

that god would visit us in this unique beautiful
way lord help us to never be desensitized to the

train of your glory and in the old testament or
in the new testament rather in the book of luke

luke’s gospel i love so much because luke writes
about people who encounter the train of god’s

glory in the person of jesus christ he gives
a story after story encounter after encounter

of jesus meeting with people and transforming
their life he included a handful of these stories

so that you and i would be not only reminded
of their encounter with jesus but recognize

that they are not exceptions to the rule they
are examples for us of the encounters that we

should also expect to have with jesus and listen
this should be your goal not just hearing about

him but experiencing him that should be your
goal like your appetite should be wet your

heart should hunger for more than just a knowledge
of who jesus is you ought to come to the place i

ought to come to the place in my relationship
with the lord we’re more than anything else

we want to see him with our own eyes we want to
hear his voice with our own ears that the same

god who divided the red sea in the old testament
the same god who raises lazarus from the dead in

the new testament the same god that did those
things we don’t want to just celebrate it in

the lives of other people we want to stand in line
to have an encounter with god like that ourselves

luke writes about encounters because he wants
to whet our appetite to have an encounter with

jesus christ because listen y’all we have wasted
our time if all we’ve done is come here on this

satur saturday to applaud what jesus did yesterday
i’m so glad about what my god has done yesterday

but i want to see him today anybody interested i
want to see him in my own marriage and in my own

finances and raising my kids and on my job and
in my ministry i want to see and encounter the

power of the almighty living god that’s what
today is about it’s to make you hungry again

it’s to whet your appetite again it’s to not let
when the day ends something to end in your life

but really to launch you forward to a brand new
beginning and an adventure with jesus christ so

luke writes about encounters and he writes during
a time when the nation of israel is experiencing

national depravity and decay they have been
oppressed by oppressors who have come in and

stolen from them much of what they valued they are
living in a in a place of oppression and a place

of destruction and luke writes to them during
this time when their nation is in trouble and

i don’t know if if you’ve noticed or not but our
nation is in trouble we are living during a time

of moral and social decay and decline like never
before and listen the more god is marginalized the

more he’s segmented to the periphery of society
the more he is completely ignored or disregarded

the more we will continue to see an influx of
chaos and an influx of destruction in our nation

but luke doesn’t just write to people who have
national trouble luke is writing to people that

have individual personal struggles they’ve been
waiting on a hero to show up they’ve been waiting

for the kingdom of god to be at hand they’ve
been waiting for the prophecies of all to come to

floridian that there would be a messiah a savior
who would come and rescue them from all that

they’ve been experiencing nationally but also the
things that they have been experiencing personally

so i know our nation is in trouble but i didn’t
really come to talk to you today about what’s

happening in the white house i want to talk
to you about what’s happening in your house

underneath the roof of your home the trouble
that might be happening in your marriage the

thing that causes the tears to fall down from
your eyes in regards to your kids or your

finances or your health or on your job or in your
ministry you like the children of israel like me

been waiting on a hero somebody who can come in
and speak life to the dead places and refresh

the dry places of our life luke is writing for
people who need an encounter with a god like that

and i just want to tell any of you that might
be in a struggle personally underneath the roof

of your own house and the landscape of your own
house and you’re in a struggle you’re in a time

like luke writes to where man things are just
plain old flat out difficult i just want to

suggest to you the possibility that sometimes
sometimes your difficulties are less about the

enemy being against you and more about god wanting
to show you what it looks like when he’s for you

sometimes the stuff that you are facing is stuff
that i’m facing that are difficult it’s less

about the enemy being against you and sometimes
it’s just about god allowing a stage to be set

in your life to where when he shows up you
will never ever doubt again that you’ve

had an encounter with jesus so the children
of israel need an encounter with a messiah

they need an encounter with jesus christ
and finally jesus arrives on the scene

after 400 years of silence between the
old testament and the new testament jesus

arrives on the scene after centuries of waiting
after prophecy desiring to be fulfilled jesus

shows up on the scene their hope has finally been
fulfilled but here’s the tragedy when he comes

he does not come as they supposed he would he is
not on a throne he is not riding a white horse he

is not coming in power and vengeance and authority
that they had mirrored in their oppressors that

they had pictured that their messiah would come
in no he is born as a baby all of that deity and

authority and miraculous working power that they
longed for was packaged in the skin of humanity

and a small human at that this is not what
they wanted it’s not what they recognized it

wasn’t the expectation they had built up in their
heads so when he came they did not recognize him

when he showed up because he was not in the
package that they had pictured in their minds

he didn’t come in the package they had
prayed for he had come in a different

way because he did not meet their expectations
when he showed up they did not recognize him

in the passage that we read jesus is being brought
into the temple he is being carried uh by his

mother mary joseph is along for the ride as well
they have come with jesus about 40 days old into

the temple they are in a religious gathering where
people have come to perform their religious duties

and all the people who are gathered that day
are in the presence of the one they prayed for

and do not know him when he comes would you
please notice that they’re not just anywhere

they are in the temple and still don’t recognize
the presence of god i want to suggest to you that

it is possible to be at propel and not see jesus
i want to tell you that it is possible for you to

be in your church every single sunday which i pray
you are but you can be in your church and not have

an encounter with jesus i want to tell you that
i’m so glad many of you are in bible study stay

in bible study but you can read a verse a day to
keep the devil away until you are blue in the face

but if you read the scriptures with a hardened
heart with your eyes not open you can be filling

your days with the duty of religious activity
and never catch sight of the lover of your soul

never have an encounter an experience
with jesus all these people

were in the presence of jesus christ
and did not know him when he came

because oftentimes many times when the
lord comes to minister to you to speak into

your life circumstances he will come in
a way that is not the way you expect it

why because his ways are not our ways his thoughts
are not our thoughts as high as the heavens are

above the earth that’s how high his ways and his
thoughts are above our own and what i attempt to

do what you often attempt to do i’m sure is to
dumb him down so that his ways match our ways

his thoughts match our thoughts we want him to
answer our prayers the way we’ve prayed them

we want the solutions that work out in our
minds to be the solutions that will be best

given the scenario that we see given the prayer
requests that we’ve prayed but y’all sometimes we

pray for growth and he answers with rain sometimes
we pray for oak trees and he answers with an

acorn and when the answer comes for your marriage
when the answer comes for your parenting when the

solution that god listened today god is going to
give some of you solutions and divine strategies

for things that are happening in your life and
on your job and in your finances the struggles

that you’re facing and i’m saying when he answers
if the answer does not come in the package that

you have expected will you miss it because you
want your way not his way and so jesus he comes

and he’s in a pool of religious people and they do
not recognize the presence of god near them now i

want to open up a little parenthesis here before
we jump to a specific person that i want to draw

your attention to he’s the only person in the text
who actually sees jesus but i want to open up a

little parenthesis because you may have recognized
that luke went into a whole lot of detail to sell

us something about the texas one thing i love
about luke is that he gives us details i like

all the juice and all the details out of the
text so that i can get a full picture painted

of what’s happening in the story and luke wants
us to know that that mary and joseph are coming

for the ceremonial dedication of their firstborn
son that’s what everybody did they would come to

jerusalem particularly during this time when they
had a newborn son to present their newborn son to

the lord get the picture of this the lord in this
case is being presented to the lord and they come

in and luke writes and tells us exactly what
they have with them other than the baby jesus

says that mary had two turtle doves or two pigeons
for her sacrifice now that wouldn’t really be of

interest except that we know from leviticus
from the sacrificial system that had been set up

divinely mandated by god in leviticus that when
someone came to make their sacrifices they did

need two animals to be sacrificed one was a pigeon
or a turtle dove the other was supposed to be a

lamb that they were supposed to bring a lamb with
them but we find in luke’s gospel that he’s made

sure we know mary and joseph do not have their own
lamb luke chapter 12 tells us or leviticus chapter

12 tells us that there was a caveat for why
someone would not bring a lamb to be sacrificed

there’s one little verse luke chapter 12 verse 8
or so that says if someone could not afford a lamb

if their financial resources were so that they
could not buy for themself a lamb to bring into

the temple to be sacrificed there would be
an exception made for them they could bring

two turtle doves instead of one turtle dove and
a lamb they could just bring two turtle doves

but that was a symbol of the fact that they were
insufficient in some way they did not have the

finance finances to buy their own lamb which means
when mary and joseph came on that particular day

with their two turtle doves in tow people would
have automatically looked at them and recognized

them as a couple who had insufficient funds as a
couple who was inadequate in some way as a couple

who had lack and who had knees i wonder how many
people turned their noses up at the couple who

could not afford their own lamb i wonder how many
people ignored the poor couple who didn’t fit in

with everybody else who had been able to purchase
their own lamb i wonder how many people did not

get an opportunity to have an encounter with the
baby jesus because they ignored the people who had

him carried in their arms i want to speak to who
anybody who’s in this room and you’ve ever felt

excluded or ignored from the clique of people
who have the money to buy their own lamb

they drive the car and they live
in the house and they’re able to

to communicate or to experience life in a certain
way that that man you just can’t afford maybe

you’ve got lack financially or you’ve got lack
emotionally you have lack relationally you have

poured everything out and you find it that
you’ve got insufficient funds in some way in

your life and you can’t afford what it looks like
everybody else can afford and you’ve been ignored

or ostracized people have turned their noses up at
you can i just tell you that sometimes you don’t

need to have your own lamb when you can carry the
lamb of god that takes away the sins of the world

in fact the lamb is most often best experienced
in the lives of those who have insufficient funds

in fact i think it is our affluence that keeps us
from actually having an encounter with the living

god we’ve become so used to being able to bless
ourselves that we don’t have a real authentic

relationship with the blesser we are so affluent
we have prosperity particularly in this part

of the world we’re listen if you’re poor in
this country you’re rich in other countries

and here where we’ve been able to sustain
ourselves where we know where our next meal

is coming from where we choose from a closet
full of clothes as to what clothes we’re going

to wear to a particular event where we might have
financial struggles everything is not perfect

but we still have our daily needs met it is
sometimes in our affluence because our arms are

so full of the lambs we have bought for ourself we
actually don’t even have room we don’t have margin

to have an intimate ongoing relationship with the
lamb of god that takes away the sins of the world

lord forgive us when we’ve turned our
noses up at people who don’t have all of

the external markings of affluence in doing that
we have missed out on the blessing of having a

relationship with the people who often have the
most intimate relationships with jesus christ

because sometimes y’all those people are not in
this in the spotlight they’re the ones behind

the scenes sometimes those are the people that are
not in mega church churches they’re in storefront

churches sometimes there are the people that are
not the ones on the platform with the microphone

in their hands they’re the people that volunteer
their time to clean up in a sanctuary like this

to sweep up after us they’re the people who
volunteer their time to be in the sunday school

teaching our second graders and third graders so
that you and i can enjoy an opportunity like that

lord forgive us when we ignore those people
and clamor after the people whose gifts happen

to put them in the spotlight but we ignore those
people who are who are uh in intercessory prayer

who are on their knees in the secret quiet places
the lamb of god tucked within their arms having an

intimate encounter with him but we ignore them
because they don’t look like us or dress like

us or drive what we drive or live where
we live so if you’ve ever been that person

the text speaks to you today that it was mary
and joseph who did not have what everybody had

but they had what everybody else didn’t have

and so they come into the building
nobody recognizes that jesus has arrived

except one person luke writes at the top of the
passage he writes and behold somebody say behold

come on y’all say behold any time an author
in the text writes that word it isn’t

a throwaway word it isn’t something that you
just need to skip or skim over quickly time

you read behold in the text the author’s trying
to tell you lean in put your chin in your hands

just in case you kind of fell asleep during all
the minutia and the fine details that led up

to this moment this is when the author wants
you to open up your eyes and sit up straight

because there’s somebody he wants you to meet
he says behold there was a man named simeon

and when no one else recognized the presence of
god when god came near there was one guy who did

and if in this room today there are only going to
be a handful of us who actually have an encounter

with god i’m talking about where we hear his
voice when we our hearts are set aflame by the

holy spirit when you when we get some some uh
direction for the purpose that he has for our

life if they’re gonna be a whole lot of us who
have an experience today but only a few that

actually encounter the living god that i don’t
know about you but if there’s only going to be a

few i want to be one of them anybody so luke says
pay attention because there’s one guy that’s going

to show you how to have your eyes open so that you
aren’t just in the religious place but so that you

encounter a holy living god he says there’s a
man named simeon he’s righteous devout and he’s

looking for the consolation of israel his eyes are
open peeled to the horizon waiting for jesus in

whatever package he chooses to come waiting for
an encounter with the long-awaited messiah and

then he gives us at least the one there are many
throughout this text but the one characteristic of

his life that i believed opened up simeon’s eyes
to catch sight of god that will open up our eyes

to catch sight of god he says at the bottom of
verse 25 he says and the holy spirit was upon him

luke says simeon’s eyes were opened to catch
sight of god because god’s spirit was on him

the holy spirit is the greatest gift you will
ever receive this side of eternity the moment

you place faith in jesus the moment you received
jesus as your personal savior i don’t know if

you knew it or not but you received in that
moment the greatest gift you will ever receive

the holy spirit of god and the holy spirit is not
a ghost or a wind or a fire or a dove he is often

symbolized by those things but y’all they 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 is the last to be revealed

to us in the pages of scripture but all of the
fullness all of the power all of the authority

all of the greatness all of the grandeur of god
the father is in the person of the holy spirit

which means when you place faith in jesus christ
and the holy spirit takes up residence in you

that now means that all of the power
all of the glory all of the grandeur

all of the greatness of god the father now lives
on the inside of you ephesians chapter one says

the moment you believe you receive the holy spirit
with promise you are not waiting on the holy

spirit you have the holy spirit right now you did
not receive the holy spirit in installment plans

you can’t give away a person in parts all of the
holy spirit you ever gonna get you got the moment

you got saved now we need to be filled by god’s
spirit as we yield to his conviction in our life

in obedience as what is happening in us becomes an
outward expression as our behavior is modified as

we are sanctified somebody say sanctified that
means as we are molded into the image of christ

jesus so that we start to think like him and talk
like him and walk like him and behave like jesus

jesus behave we need to be filled by god’s
spirit but when you got saved listen to me

you received the holy spirit of god god’s
spirit is in you the benefit of this is

all of the fruit of god’s spirit is available
to you that means that that there is gentleness

that you don’t have in your own natural ability
for that person or that problem that now you are

able to have that is beyond your own natural
capacity because the holy spirit what he does

is help us to live beyond ourselves when we’ve
come to the end of our patience you know with

that one co-worker that one that if she says one
more thing to you you gonna knock her out that one

the holy spirit is the one that gives you patience
when your patience has long since run out the holy

spirit is the one who gives you self-discipline so
that you have discipline in areas where you know

left to your own natural desires and propensities
you would not have discipline in that area of

morality or that area of gluttony you wouldn’t
have discipline but now because the holy spirit

lives on the inside of you you can live beyond
your natural capacities anybody excited about that

the holy spirit gives you fruit so that you
are able to have more than what you would

have if left to your own but you don’t
just get his fruit you get his gifts

the holy spirit gives you gifts through which you
can edify the body of christ he turns what would

have maybe possibly been just a talent into a gift
that actually causes what you do or what you craft

to actually get to the hearts of the people that
you are singing to or speaking to or dancing for

or writing to those people now don’t just read
words on a page that you wrote now the words

are like fire shut up in their soul it changes
their heart it renews their mind it accomplishes

spiritual purposes in their life so listen if
you’re a writer well then write do your best work

but in the end what you’re praying for is that
god’s spirit will anoint your words with power and

with fire to affect people for the glory of god
don’t just speak ask god for fire on your message

don’t just dance perfect your craft but in the
end what you’re looking for is not just talent

what you want is a gift and there’s no amount
of manufacturing that can give what only the

holy spirit can give so when the holy spirit
takes up residence on the inside of you

and on the inside of me at the moment we are saved
we have the privilege of having relationship with

jesus christ having relationship with god having
communication with him because of the holy spirit

that lives on the inside of us that if when god
sent his son jesus to die on the cross if when

we receive that gift we got a ticket to eternity
and that was all we got just that we knew we were

saved from death hell and the grave and we got to
experience eternity with jesus christ listen if

that’s all we ever got out of this salvation deal
that would have been enough for us to celebrate

for the rest of our days but when that might
have been enough for us it wasn’t enough for him

amen he said no i’m gonna send you the holy
spirit so that i don’t you don’t have to wait

to get to heaven to experience heaven but so
that you can have a little bit of heaven right

now while you’re here on planet earth i’m going to
give you myself in the person of the holy spirit

so that you will see what it’s like to walk with
me and talk with me and have friendship with me

and an ongoing relationship with me that
is what it means to have the holy spirit

but luke says that simeon did not just have the
spirit in him it says that the spirit was upon him

this tells us that there is a difference

between the spirit being in
you and the spirit being on you

i want to live a life that invites the presence
of god’s spirit on me i know he’s in me but i want

the kind of life that is a magnet that calls down
the grace the favor the anointing the presence of

god upon my life i want to live in such yielded
surrender to him that not just is he in me that’s

a gift that all of us get who have placed faith
in jesus christ but i don’t just want him in me i

want him on my life i want the evidence of him on
my life i want it so that when i do something or

say something or participate in something or pray
over something i want it so that when i walk away

people don’t just say priscilla was here i want
them to say no god’s presence was here that only

happens when the spirit of god is on you and so
if you want to mother your kids in such a way that

you leave the imprint of god on those kids the
spirit can’t just be in you he got to be on you

if you want to be the wife that god has called you
to be single woman if you want to be the kind of

single woman that god has called you to be if
you want to be the kind of employer or employee

that god has called you to be if you want to walk
with purpose in the way that god has called you

to then thank the lord that god’s spirit is on
you but i’m asking that god will allow it there

to be 2 000 women who leave this place today
at the end of the day and god’s spirit isn’t

just in us but god’s spirit is on us where we are
marked by the presence of god where when people

encounter us there’s something unusual something
distinct something that they cannot touch or

taste or communicate with their five physical
senses there’s an intangible that is on their

life where when the employer is looking to give
the promotion it’s not that your resume says you

are the most qualified out of all the candidates
but there’s something about you that they just

can’t put a finger on that’s called the
spirit of god being on you it’s called favor

favor is what opens up doors no man can shut favor
is what puts you in places you know you don’t have

no business being in favor is what sets you in
positions that you know you aren’t qualified for

safe favor is what makes it so that you are
exactly where you’re supposed to be to accomplish

exactly what it is that god has set for you
to come it’s it’s what qualifies you when you

don’t have the degree and you don’t have the
diploma you don’t have the connections you’re

just where god has opened up a door for you to
be and even though people might talk badly about

you or try to push you out of that place you
cannot be moved not because you manufactured

your way there but because god’s spirit has
placed you there god’s spirit on your life

is what makes it so that you don’t have to market
yourself because you’ve already been marked by the

presence of almighty god oh i want god’s spirit
on me and can i tell you this are you listening

there is one thing that attracts the presence
of god to rest on our lives and it is holiness

plain old flat out old school holiness

i implore you sisters by the mercies of god

to walk in a manner worthy of the
calling by which you have been called

that if you come if i come into this room and
we celebrate till we are blue in the face and we

wave our hands and we read the scriptures and we
worship but we walk out of here and we live in a

way that is incongruent with everything that we’ve
heard here today if we do not choose to walk in a

way that honors god we will have wasted the time
that we have spent here and if there is something

that breaks my heart for my own generation and the
generation coming up after me is that social media

has made it so that we are more interested in
impressing people than walking holy before our god

we are more interested in being perfectly lit
than we are in making sure that we’re laying

up treasures for ourselves in heaven lord
help us when because of our hubris because

of our arrogance because of our pride we are
more interested in receiving the applause of

people than we are of making sure that we will
receive the applause of heaven but a day is

coming y’all sooner than we think we’re going to
look our savior in his face where we’re going to

see him face to face and when we see him he will
not ask me how many instagram followers i had he

will not wonder how many people liked my message
on twitter what he’ll ask me is number one did i

have a relationship with his son jesus and then
i will give an account you will give an account

and i don’t know about y’all but when i
give an account i’m looking for a well done

not because i necessarily please people
but because he is pleased with my life

and the one thing that invites the favor of god
on our life like simeon that will open our eyes

to see him more clearly so that we don’t miss him
when he comes into our circumstances trying to

speak to us to answer us to make himself a parent
in our lives the one thing that opens up our eyes

is god’s spirit on us and if you want if i want
god’s spirit on our lives then we gotta decide

to live holy i implore you by the mercies of god
to lay aside every sin every hindrance anything

that is keeping you entangled so that you cannot
run with endurance the race that is set before you

any relationship separate at the past so that
you can walk holy sister any addiction any habit

any lifestyle choice that is keeping you from
being free and walking in victory in jesus name

let it go by the power of the holy spirit
so that he can rest on your life going to

church is good but it’s not enough do in your
bible study oh it’s great but it’s not enough

if you want god’s presence on you marking you
making you distinct and different from the

people around you then you’ve got to walk
in a manner worthy of the lord be ye holy

it’s not perfection it is a call to yield to the
power of the holy spirit in you so that you do not

give way to all the desires of your flesh what it
means is that you have not chosen as a lifestyle

an attitude or an action that you already know is
displeasing to god you know up front that you’ve

already got on your calendar after this is over
a place you’re going or a person you’re seeing

that you know you don’t have busy any business
being in relationship with but you’ve already

scheduled sin into your calendar i’m saying
walk away from everything that is keeping you

from having the biggest most amazing blessing you
can have on your life and that is god’s presence

marking you all up on you setting you apart
girl for his purposes and with his power evident

through your life if you are in this room and
you are in chains in some area of your life where

you’ve tried the 12-step program you’ve tried
to walk away from that illegitimate relationship

you’ve tried to not live this lifestyle because
you know that it is out of alignment with the

truth of god but everything you’ve tried in your
own power has not set you free so that you can

walk in holiness and have god’s presence resting
on your life i believe that before this day is

over those chains can fall off of your life that
you can decide that i’m gonna live holy so that i

can have god’s favor like simeon so that my eyes
can be opened because i want to see my god i want

to hear his voice i want to have an experience
and an encounter with him if you are in this room

and you know you’re not walking in holiness you
know there is an area of your life whether in

attitude or in action i mean god’s asked you to
forgive that person and you have dug your heels

in the ground you have refused to forgive or
in your actions where you were literally doing

something participating in something engaging
in something and you’ve dug your heels into

the ground you’ve ignored the little pricks of
the holy spirit asking you to walk away from

that or to participate in that you’ve you’ve
ignored it and you know you are not living

holy before the lord and you want to get that
strike today so that we can all be women who

honor god in our attitudes and in our actions
and invite the favor of god on our lives listen

if you are in this room and you know holiness is
the call that god has given to you this morning

would you please right now in this holy space
just rise to your feet if that’s you if you need

freedom in a specific area of your life we’re
going to walk out of here a holy band of women

who want god’s favor on us

don’t be embarrassed don’t be ashamed
listen ain’t nobody got time for that

this is the moment where we say god we give
ourselves to you a living and holy sacrifice

we present our bodies to you we present our
minds to you we present ourselves to you lord

a living and holy sacrifice do with us what
you will we surrender the area of life that

is our area of bondage the area we’ve been
holding back the little cove we’ve kept

from your fingerprints being upon it
we surrender that to you if you want

freedom in jesus name this is
your moment stand to your feet

you don’t have to go home the same way you
came girl you don’t have to think the same

you don’t have to act the same you don’t have to
be in bondage like you are and have been we can

change that by god’s spirit today lord jesus i
looked up every single sister who was standing

underneath the sound of my voice and i pray right
now in jesus name that you would give them a holy

boldness and a courage to surrender to you every
area of their life that they’ve been holding back

sister would you picture that area where you know
you need to ask for forgiveness i’m gonna ask you

to just put your hands out in front of you cup cup
those hands in front of you like you’re holding

that thing picture it in your hands right now the
scripture says that if you confess your sin he’s

faithful and just to forgive you your sin and
to cleanse you of all unrighteousness picture

that in his hand in your hands ask the lord to
forgive you ask for your for his forgiveness and

only when you are ready you lift up those hands as
if you were yielding it finally completely to him

and you lift up those hands and
surrender give it to him just let it go

lord every attitude every action every little
hidden place in our life lord every bondage

lord every illegitimate relationship every
immorality father everything that is not

like you we give it to you right now in jesus
name lord i pray that if there is a bondage

of shackle on somebody’s life that is demonic
in nature lord i pray in jesus name and by his

bloodshed on calvary that you would cancel
every demonic assignment against these women

and against their families lord i pray that you
would by your holy spirit break the shackles lord

loosen them help us to hear the shackles falling
off right now in jesus name and lord i pray that

we will walk in a manner worthy of the calling by
which we have been called father i pray that you

would enable us by your spirit to no longer walk
by the flesh but to walk by the spirit so that

we will not fulfill the desires of the flesh lord
i pray for freedom in jesus name i thank you for

galatians 5 1 that says it is for freedom that
we have been made free therefore we will stand

firm and no longer be subject again to any yoke of
slavery that is in our life we are free in jesus

name and it is in the matchless name of jesus
christ that everybody agreed and said amen amen