Join Priscilla Shirer, Sheila Walsh, and Mandisa on TBN as they share their testimonies of faith in painful seasons. This video was brought to you by TBN Networks®. Watch More TBN Content for FREE: https://watch.tbn.org/ SUBSCRIBE:    / @womenoffaithtbn  Women of Faith on TBN brings you the best of TBN’s women’s Christian teaching. Here you’ll find content from your favorite women’s Bible teachers, speakers, pastors, and authors, featuring teachings from Priscilla Shirer, CeCe Winans, Christine Caine, Joyce Meyer, Jackie Hill Perry, Lisa Harper, Lisa Bevere, Sarah Jakes Roberts, and more! Our prayer for this channel is that you may find encouragement, hope, and a renewed sense of purpose and strength in Christ. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” – Hebrews 13:22 #tbn #womenoffaith #priscillashirer #sheilawalsh #mandisa 00:00 Intro 00:43 Twisting Truth 05:48 Praying for Miracles 08:59 Faith in Suffering 13:01 Response to Suffering 18:51 Expectations on Prayer 24:27 Being a Prayer Warrior
to walk with the Lord and be a believer
and be a Christian it doesn’t mean ease
it means that when there is pain and
suffering God can still be glorified
through your life and that he is fully
able to turn the situation around so
often if we’re going through a difficult
situation we almost pull back no if
you’re angry tell God you’re angry if
you’re broken tell God you’re broken and
it was honestly in that dark period
where I thought that there was no way
out I saw no hope whatsoever it’s
actually now that I have this new music
out of the dark that I’m seeing how God
is using even those difficult things the
weak things the horrible things I wish I
could take away he’s actually using that
to minister to more people
foreign
here’s what I’ve discovered about the
tax tactics of the enemy is that he’s
been using the same tricks from the very
beginning
um he he knows the word of God and so
that’s the first thing we have to know
is that he will take the word of God and
he’ll twist it just enough he’ll put
just a little bit of Truth in there to
make you start to cling to it but then
he’ll just turn it a little bit and so
give me an example of it so the biggest
one for me
um when I was in that dark season and I
was shutting out everybody the one thing
that I turned to was my old Vice which
was food I had been on a weight loss
Journey ever since Simon made fun of me
on National Television to be honest my
second album was called Freedom my third
album there’s a song called stronger and
I remember the day that that song came
out I stepped on the scale and I had
lost a hundred pounds exactly since then
I had lost over 120 pounds but when
Keisha died and I began shutting out the
world and shutting out Jesus I started
to turn back to food and so I gained
every 120 of those pounds back and then
in that three year period right I was in
the dark I gained 75 more on top of that
so almost 200 pounds I gained in three
years and so when I started listening to
here’s the lie that the enemy told me
Mandisa Jesus does not want you to be in
this kind of pain you are a child of God
and there’s no way that this is the
Abundant Life that he wants you to live
so if you were to take your life right
now you could be in heaven with him you
see there’s a little truth there he
doesn’t want me to live in that misery
in that darkness and it’s true that when
I do leave this world that I am going to
be in heaven with him but he is going to
be the one that’s going to choose when
that’s going to happen it’s not going to
be at my own hand that’s right
so that is
it’s what he did to Adam and Eve it’s
what he did to Eve you know did God
really say yes what he did to Jesus
that’s right did God really say if you
were to throw yourself off of this
building you know the angels are going
to lift you up like it’s the same tactic
that he has used throughout all of time
and it almost worked for me yeah and I I
feel so this is such a good point that
that the first part you said is true but
then there’s that Ergo therefore then
you take your own life and that that
horrible
um and maybe you’re you’re watching
tonight and you’re hearing that that
same voice we just want you to know man
don’t give up on this life God has a
calling and a purpose for you look at
what God has done in medisa’s life and
so many others we just want you to know
if you’re hearing that voice you know
take your life go to heaven now reject
that because you don’t want to miss out
on the great purpose that you have in
your life you’re never gonna ever I’ve
talked to so many people who were in a
place you were and none of them you know
they all say I I I wouldn’t have
realized later how good my life would
have been and everybody says when I look
back you know I’m so glad I didn’t do
that everybody says that you know yeah
it’s interesting to me how I during that
season I thought I was the only one I
thought nobody knows what this feels
like and I look back now and it’s
exactly it’s exactly exactly what you
said that the enemy is going to try he’s
coming after everybody but those that
are followers of Jesus those who have a
calling on their lives to spread the
gospel and the light he’s going to come
after us even harder and so we cannot
expect for Christians to not go through
this we can’t expect for Christians not
to commit suicide it’s because the enemy
is coming full force after us because
he’s scared of us and he should be and
so that is what we have to remember that
if you’re hearing that voice it means
the enemy’s trying to take you out and
so the fact that he’s doing that means
he’s terrified of you and he should be
because you’ve got resurrection power
right that’s right it’s a good word
you know I
that’s so right
and it’s so important for Christians to
hear that Christians go through
depression Christians struggle with
thoughts of suicide Christians struggle
with addiction these are things that the
enemy puts in our life to delay our
purpose and our destiny and in fact I
just think I have to think that we
shouldn’t pray for an easy life we
should pray for a stronger heart a
stronger mind to be tougher yeah and
it’s it’s amazing you say that because
that’s what God has been teaching me a
lot lately I was just watching