Priscilla is our special guest for the next week to talk about the “Resolution for Women”series and package following up on the movie Courageous. Priscilla Shirer is the Author of “The Resolution for Women” and she’s a Bible Teacher –Going Beyond Ministries. For your best ministry gift – suggested amount is $25.00 (or $50 for the pair), but any donation is gratefully accepted.
I need to ask my guests forgiveness
priscilla shirer wrote the resolution
for women it includes a commitment to
forgive those I have wronged to clear
the decks and stop keeping count this is
foundational for abundant living but
Priscilla we talk about forgiveness I’m
sure every week on this program because
it’s such a foundational it is issue in
the crystal important yes but before we
skip past it because we’re not looking
at that resolution specifically I wanted
to highlight a scripture because it
jumped out at me as I read your book and
who knows how many times I’ve read this
Colossians chapter 2 verses 13 and 14
this is the New Living Translation
and the the bold that the caps guess
we’re not going to see the caps here
well you’ll hear them he God forgave all
our sins he cancelled the record of the
charges against us and took it away by
nailing it to the cross
that beautiful women we have to let go
of the list yeah right with the last of
have one grievances and grudges and
offenses yes what do you write you say a
wounded heart
cannot open up either to fully love or
to receive love it’s true and we find
ourselves just going around in circles
in our lives and not experiencing the
fullness and the hype and the breath of
relationships as they were meant to be
experienced because we’re just kind of
waddling around in this circle of
unforgiveness in our life and if you
want to change the geometry of your life
no more circles you want to reach out
into the fullness of what God has for
you to experience in life you’re right
forgiveness is a foundational issue that
has to be addressed and I don’t want
anybody to think in the three or four
short chapters that we spend on this
topic in the book that just by looking
at these simple chapters that it can be
taken care of in the blink of an eye of
course the process can begin
but I know that some things that people
have suffered at the hands of other
people a betrayal that wound did you
deep
I don’t want anybody think that I’m
minimizing that but I am praying that
through the book you’ll make a
resolution to begin the journey yes that
yeah to get back not the Lord can put
Christian counselors in your life and of
course the work of his own spirit and
the scriptures to send you on a
forgiveness journey that will
revolutionize your life yeah
right that’s the one we skipped now
we’re ready to make a resolution to live
with the highest standards of virtue and
purity how challenging is that in an
amoral culture that’s sometimes
producing compromise in the church
absolutely lots of us are compromising
and I don’t even think that I even
realized my own compromising that I had
done in my own life several of my
friends didn’t until we looked at this
resolution point when I began the
process of writing this book I gathered
a group of women together so that we
could look at these together and I could
get them to respond to me about some of
these happenings in their own lives I
thought a woman look like this has got
to be have other people’s input it can’t
just be what I think about a matter on
issues that are so wide in their in
their breadth as this one is this book
isn’t these topics are and without a
doubt this resolution is the one that
really stirred people up because there’s
the first part of it that says I will
live as a person of integrity and will
not accept things that are evil in a
justifiable way because see that’s the
trick right that’s the part that got
everybody hung up we wouldn’t
necessarily do anything that was overtly
evil or let that entertain us but there
are these justifiable forms of evil that
we’ve kind of just begun to allow into
our home and into our living space and
into our minds without thinking twice
about it
TV movies video games we’re applauding
and laughing at some of the things on
screen that we can’t even imagine
entertaining in our own life we wouldn’t
want our children seeing it and yet
we’re looking at it or reading it or
engaging with it every day it’s all
really caused myself and my friends to
have to take a hard look at the
justifiable forms of evil that we’ve
allowed in our lives
look at how tough this is this is the
resolution it’s a tough one it’s about
my integrity and here’s the wording I
will not tolerate evil influences even
in the most justifiable form in myself
or my home but will embrace and
encourage a life of purity oh it’s a
full one I know that’s a full deck of
cards there but again God’s Spirit is
the one who empowers us with these
resolutions these aren’t some little New
Year’s resolution that you’re making by
your own power
and by your own mind if it were we’d all
fall short with this one especially with
the culture that we’re all living in but
at God’s Spirit empowering us we can
live up to this little by little as the
Lord points out to us what are some
things that we’re compromising our that
we on that we don’t even maybe realize
that we are that are really beginning to
cause us not to think clearly doling our
spiritual senses to what God has learned
well you say what starts with a sliver
becomes a river isn’t it true that’s a
scary part I think I give an
illustration in the book about I found
out about rat poison that really it’s
only 3% of the substance that is the
actual poison it’s only 3 percent so the
97 percent is something good that that
tastes good to rats but it’s the 3
percent that kills them and so that’s
what happens with many things that we
engage in it’s not the 97 percent it’s
we think we won’t be disturbed by the 3
percent and after a while it kills the
rat it kills the rats and it’ll kill
different parts of our life that we
treasure as well marriages many
marriages have fallen 97 percent of the
marriage was good it was the 3% of just
inappropriate activity or thought
processes that kept the marriage from
flourishing and so what 3% could it be
in our own lives in different areas that
are keeping us from being fully alive
and awake to God’s activity that’s a
wonderful illustration now this may
sound from another era because it is it
is but a wonderful godly wife and mother
Susanna Wesley wife of the Evangelist
John Wesley Reed I see I’ve got good
they’re good at La Masia Martin yeah
just read that now her John Wes it was
actually her son what I think you said
why that that it was her husband there’s
that John wasn’t yes but it is a wife
and mother she was a wife and mother and
John Wesley was one of her boys okay
here is what she said
whatever weakens your reason impairs the
tenderness of your conscience obscures
your sense of God or takes off the
relish of spiritual things in short
whatever increases the strength and
authority of your body over your mind
that thing is sin to you however
innocent it may be in
self so this was her trying to instruct
her son on what types of things he
shouldn’t allow in his life when as he
went off to college I believe and she
basically said to him listen whatever
causes you not to be as attuned to
spiritual things as you should be
joël to the voice and activity of God
those things are sin to you anything
that takes the relish off of spiritual
things I used to have something on my
fridge just a little a little grid to
put that decision through can I ask God
to bless it Wow will it bring glory to
God will it caused someone else to
stumble hmm that’s a good grid just
three things to consider if it’s
something I’m going to do or watch or
participate in and I bet that that
little grid we’d about quite a few yeah
cut you off at the past time and again
but this is what integrity is all about
integrity is all about being the same
underneath as you are on top in other
words what people see about you when
you’re out in public or when you’re in
your church or what they perceive about
the story you tell outwardly is that who
you really are when no one is looking
when you’re at home by yourself
would you be ashamed if some members of
your church just came over and you were
participating in that activity or
watching that show or doing that
particular thing is there anything in
your life you want to remain covered
because you don’t want anybody to know
that is a question of integrity and
that’s what this particular resolution
is all about what if the Christ who is
in you was actually watching with you
yeah yeah mmm would Jesus want to watch
this mmm I think so it’s it’s a tough
one and it’s one we have to decide
individually because the Bible gives us
well here’s a verse that comes right
from that chapter I love this Psalm 102
verses 2 & 3 again in the New Living
Translation David said I will be careful
to live a blameless life when will you
come to help me I will lead a life of
integrity in my own home I will refuse
to look at anything vile and vulgar I
will have nothing to do with them
there’s a man of commitment it isn’t a
man of resolve
yes at a man that is
and applauded the scriptures as a man
who was after God’s own heart and yet we
find in that verse that he said when
will you come to help me in other words
God I can’t do this integrity thing by
myself this is not going to work in this
culture in which he was living King
David in which he was living he was
saying I can’t do this by myself
well you and I certainly can’t either
and we have the gift of knowing that by
God’s Spirit we can he never calls us to
do anything that he does not then equip
us with himself to be able to carry out
and complete that’s the great thing we
have in our relationship with God that
is unique to our faith in any other
so-called faith on the face of the earth
that our God not only calls us to a
particular standard but then empowers us
to be able to reach that standard and so
this resolution to be to be women of
integrity it is a possibility and the
Holy Spirit will begin to convict and
challenge you as you read or as you even
just consider this during our time today
to consider what things might be going
on in your life right now that they’re
not overtly evil but they’re just
something that are dulling your
spiritual sensitivities and you know
what that might be and the Lord will
just encourage you to be able to kind of
bring it down a few notches and control
the time and attention you’re spending
with it
so that you can be in tune to spiritual
things as he would have you to be Thank
You Priscilla yeah you’re welcome I
appreciate it I’ll bet you do too room
for a little change in your life maybe
just a checkup
there’ll be 13 arenas in this book that
um that will challenge you and encourage
you watch this I want to know what God
expects of me the resolution for men by
Stephen and Alex Kendrick strategically
inspires men to reconcile with their
past re-engage in their present and move
forward with a bold resolution for the
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