Priscilla Shirer: We’re Desensitized to Our Blessings | Praise on TBN

Priscilla Shirer speaks at the Propel Women’s Conference to discuss how we have become desensitized to our blessings. Listen as she teaches that due to this, we often times do not even recognize God’s presence in our lives.

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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

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’s

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 worshiped 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 were facing

there’s 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’s circumstances he will come

in a way

that is not the way you expected