Priscilla Shirer: The MOST IMPORTANT Piece of the Armor of God | Praise on TBN

Priscilla Shirer teaches at the 2018 Passion Conference for TBN’s Praise. Listen in as Priscilla Shirer teaches on the most important piece of the armor of God—the breastplate of righteousness—as she unpacks how to live a life worthy of your calling.

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holiness keeps the enemy at bay to where

when he comes looking around for some

people that he can

infiltrate some upsell inside down

environments that he can fester in

he can’t find that with me or with you

because we’ve chosen right

side up living aligning ourselves with

the truth of god

breastplates in place securing us

against the schemes of the enemy

holiness is your breastplate there’s one

other piece of armor i couldn’t get by

without talking to you about it for a

few moments

y’all still awake everybody game

it’s in verse 14. he says

put on a breastplate called what

righteousness jerry and i live in a

fairly rural part of dallas fort worth

we like it that way close enough to the

city we can get there quick

but it’s quiet and lazy we live on a

little two lane

sleepy road somebody’s got some horses

over there there’s some cows over there

and one of my closest friends lives

across the street that’s why we like it

because she’s got a pond in the front of

her property

so i’ll get the boys and the two fishing

poles i bought on sale at the local

walmart

i have a tackle box too that i got on

sale there because and you know we need

things we need extra hooks because the

boys always lose the hooks

extra bobber thingies you know because

we need extras of those

i also have gloves in the tackle box

because y’all know i don’t mind going

fishing but i ain’t gonna actually touch

no fish

so we walk across the street with

whatever hot dog meat we’ve got left

from the week because you know we’re

professional fishermen so our hot dog

meat is our bait

we walk across the street we stand in

this little cove underneath some trees

and we fish just right there most of the

time

just a little sun perch stuff like that

we can catch quick in an hour we can

catch like 10 or 12 fish just a little

quick easy

little fishing trip every now and then

though i’m feeling adventurous

what that means is is that we will get

into my friend’s little rowboat they

bought on craigslist it’s metal

it’s not a big deal it’s just a little

it’s sea worthy it can hold us up that’s

all we need

i’ll swim i will uh row out into the

middle and we’ll fish from there every

now and then

but i always think twice before i do it

and here’s the reason

because in order to get in it we first

have to turn it over

they leave it upside down as they should

to drain water while nobody’s using it

so i got to turn it over to get in it

and what i do know for sure

is that when i turn this thing over

something is either going to hop out

from underneath it

something’s going to waddle out from

underneath it or worst of all ooh

something’s gonna slither out from

underneath that boat because the

environment under there is moist and

damp and

perfect for critters do you know what

i’ve noticed every single time we turn

it over something comes out

and never once have i had to write a

golden sealed invitation and send it

into the brush nearby

to invite the critters to come and join

us at one o’clock today you’re welcome

never once have i had to invite them

because the environment created by the

upside down boat

is invitation enough

righteousness is right side up living

that invites the sunlight of god’s favor

and blessing upon your life

unrighteousness is upside down behavior

that is out of alignment with the truth

of god that you’ve been sitting

underneath

for the last few days it’s behavior that

is out of alignment with the truth of

god

to where you don’t have to invite the

enemy and come and make himself at home

in your life you just keep living upside

down

and the environment created by upside

down behavior is invitation

enough listen to me you can pray against

the enemy till you’re blue in the face

but if you and i leave passion and we do

not walk in holiness

we do not live in a lifestyle that is in

alignment with the truth of god we will

have wasted our breath in prayer paul

says

somebody’s got to live right

it’s flat out straight up

holiness it’s holiness

it’s a word that our our grandmothers

and our grandfathers back in the good

old days when you went to church and you

sat on a wooden pew

it’s before some churches became so

pre-seeker sensitive

i remember y’all i went listen i’m off

track listen i went to a church

and they said we are a pre-seeker

sensitive church and so we actually

want to sort of uh in a way they said

dull

down the actual literal name of jesus

just so we can get people

in first then we will we will be more

direct later on i said oh you have

invited the wrong person

because there used to be a day in time

where it was just black and white

where there were fewer gray areas and

tolerance yes come as you are but don’t

stay as you are

holiness brothers and sisters i implore

you by the mercies of god

to walk in a manner worthy of this

calling by which you have been called

that every bit of truth that you have

received this weekend to align your

lifestyle to it

to not determine that you will still dig

your heels into the ground

and live immorally or speak immorally

or do the things habits and lifestyles

and choices and relationships that you

know

are outside of alignment with the truth

of god turn the boat right side up

so that you can invite the favor of god

on your life

the apostle paul says righteousness is

your breastplate

the roman army in the first century they

had many pieces of armor as you know

but the breastplate would have been one

of the most critical

the reason why was because it obviously

protected the most vital organ they had

their heart

the heart is the lifeline for your

physical well-being

all of the blood flow the vitality the

energy that you need to function

in every level of your life comes from

the vitality of your physical heart

what the physical heart is to the

physical life your spiritual heart is to

your spiritual life

all of the vitality the energy that you

need to be

who god has created you to be to have

fervency in your prayer life

to follow him with passion and with fire

to read the bible and not just be ink on

a page

but you hear his voice speaking to you

to have clear reception

between you and the holy spirit you need

a vital

spiritual heart that’s why if i were

your enemy more than

all else i’d be after your heart

because one shot to the spiritual heart

will wipe you out

your spiritual heart is comprised of

four things your mind the way you think

your emotions the way you feel your

ambitions what you purpose to do

and your conscience your conscience is

not the voice of god

but your conscience is like this wiring

that helps this microphone amplify my

voice

the the conscience is the microphone

that the holy spirit uses to help you

hear the voice of god so if i were your

enemy i’d be after your heart because if

i could get to your heart that would

mean

i would have automatic access to your

mind now i could tinker with your

thinking

i’d have automatic access to your

emotions i can mess with the way you

feel and make sure

they’re out of alignment with the truth

of god i can mess with your ambitions to

where

what you want to do is totally out of

alignment with what god

wants you to do and more than all else

i’d want to make it sure i have a shot

to your heart so that i can

short-circuit the wires between you and

the holy spirit

now you can’t even hear god speak to you

because you didn’t have a breastplate on

the apostle paul says holiness is your

breastplate

holiness blocks you from a full frontal

attack of the enemy

holiness keeps the enemy at bay to where

when he comes looking around for some

people that he can infiltrate some

upsell side down environments that he

can fester in

he can’t find that with me or with you

because we’ve chosen right side up

living aligning ourselves with the truth

of god

breastplates in place securing us

against the schemes of the enemy

holiness is your breastplate

i came to tell you to live right

i came to tell you not to just have

heard all of this

to go home and live in accordance with

it

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be ye holy

not by your power not by your might but

by the spirit of god

there is no relationship you’re in that

if it is out of alignment with the truth

of god that the holy spirit himself

won’t help you to

sever so that you can walk in holiness

there is no lifestyle you are living

that is too uh that you’re too wound up

in that you can’t break free from no

matter how you feel

in this moment you can walk in holiness

there is no way you have been speaking

no addiction that you have

no habit that you have been festering in

your life that you have been harboring

in your life that the holy spirit won’t

empower you

to break free from so that you can walk

underneath the banner the favor

of holiness in your life be ye holy

y’all listen listen

back in our grandmama and our

grandparents days

great-grandparents they wanted to honor

god more than they wanted to impress

people

see the problem with instagram and

twitter and social media if there’s a

problem y’all the problem is

we want this

we want to be impressive

and if i’m worried for our generation

it is that we are impressive

but we don’t have breastplates on

it is that we have the applause of

people and our selfies are perfectly lit

and we have a whole bunch of friends and

a whole bunch of instagram likes and

people are following us and the enemy is

thrilled because we have

sacrificed holiness on the altar

of impressing people

you gotta live for the applause of

heaven

you gotta decide i will not be

politically correct before i will choose

to be holy

i will not be impressive before i will

choose to be holy

i may not be the the person that

everybody wants to be around i may not

be the most

impressive but what i will be as holy

because a time is coming y’all

where we are gonna see our savior face

to face

and when we see him he will not ask us

how many instagram followers we had

he will not ask us how many friends

liked our post

he will not want to see the selfies that

we took when we see him

face to face he’s going to ask us did we

do business with his son jesus christ

and then

and then we’re gonna give an account

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and i don’t know about y’all but i’m

looking for

well done

i want a well done

i want jesus to look at me and say you

did the thing girl

not because they bought the books they

bought the bible study they saw the

movie

no you did the thing because you honored

me

whether with an audience of one or an

audience of 30 000 you

honored me i came to tell you brothers

and sisters

walk with integrity

be in the dark who you are in the light

everything that your god has entrusted

to you over these last few days

the enemy does not mind he doesn’t like

but he doesn’t mind that you heard him

he didn’t mind you came here

what he minds is if you leave here and

live

by what you heard