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/ @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 #ChrystalEvansHurst 00: The Story of Mary Magdalene at the Tomb 04:32 When God Recognizes Us and We Are Repentant 07:43 The Power of the Resurrection Brings Victory 09:30 What It Means to Go From Friday to Sunday 13:43 Believing in the Power of the Cross 16:43 The Reality of the Sacrifice of God the Father and God the Son 22:58 Believe the Truth of Jesus and Getting Encouragement From Others 25:54 The Beauty of Mary Magdalene at the Tomb
and when our heart worms with the
conviction that only the holy spirit of
God can give we respond just like Mary
our eyes are open because we realize
that he is who he says he is and that he
can still accomplish exactly what he
says he could through the Redemption of
our
sins he’s a father that gives good gifts
to his children if he wouldn’t spare his
own son then not only can I expect the
victory in my life but I can expect the
victory at no
expense here’s Priscilla sh John chapter
20 says that it was early in the morning
even while it was still dark that Mary
of magdala made her way to the Garden
tomb picture her arriving at the Tomb of
the one whom had changed her entire life
Jesus had met Mary at a time when her
life was in complete disrepair not Not
only was she oppressed but she was
marginalized in a socioeconomic time
period where women were not valued at
all but she lacked Joy she lacked peace
she lacked Freedom she lacked fullness
until Jesus came and then everything
changed she had followed him ever since
with a new light in her eyes and New
Hope in her future and not only did she
follow him closely but she supported him
his ministry in every single way that
she possibly could and she had been
there there by his side during the
trials she had been there while they had
whipped him to the point where he could
not even be recognized she had been
there to witness his crucifixion and now
she is there a lone figure in the
darkness wandering into the garden so
that she can come and pay respects to
him at the tomb and while she cannot see
much because the light of the sun has
yet to arrive on this morning what she
can see is that the gargantuan stone
that had been used to seal up the tomb
that it has been rolled away and her
mind in the moment that could only mean
one thing that robbers have come and
they have stolen the body of her Lord
she races away so that she can tell the
disciples and two of them immediately
run as fast as they can along with her
back to the tomb those two go in and
corroborate that indeed Jesus’s body is
not there and long after they have gone
home John chapter 20 says that Mary
remains of course she does her heart
longing again to see her Lord she is
weeping a River of Tears when she looks
inside and realizes that there are two
angels that have come one is positioned
at the head and the other at the foot of
the slab where Jesus’s body has once
been laid and as she looks in and sees
them and they see her they ask
Heroman why are you
weeping she says I’ve come looking for
Jesus and I cannot not find him where is
his body and before they can even
respond something Garners her attention
whether it’s a rustle in the foliage
behind or whether it’s just the sense of
a presence the scripture says she turns
around and she sees someone standing
there who she supposes to be the
gardener and she’s still weeping and
she’s still crying because even though
now she has seen two angels and now she
has seen someone that she believes to be
the gardener none of the presence of
these human beings or Angelic beings can
take the place of Jesus and for any of
us who have come to know Jesus Christ as
Lord we can tell you the same thing that
it doesn’t matter who we come in contact
with no matter the success they’ve
achieved no matter how high they have
climbed up the the ladder of success no
matter how notable they are even Angelic
beings cannot take the place of the one
who has changed our Lives who has
revolutionized our future and so she
looks at this one who she supposes to be
the gardener and whether she can’t tell
that it’s Jesus because she’s crying so
many tears that those tears have stung
her eyes to the point where her vision
is blurred or whether it is because
supernaturally Jesus has veiled himself
so that she can’t quite make him out
clearly whatever the reason she doesn’t
know that it’s him and again this person
poses the question woman woman why are
you crying and she says in so many
words just give me
Jesus and
then he says her
name he
says
[Music]
Mary her name only rolled off of the
lips with that kind of love and grace
and kindness of one other person she’s
only known one person to speak her name
with that much Purity and that much
affinity and in that moment the gospel
becomes not just powerful it becomes
personal and when she hears her name her
eyes are open and she recognizes that
this isn’t the gardener after all this
right here this is Jesus Christ and I
can tell you because I’m a witness to it
that Jesus is still calling people’s
names one by one he calls our names and
our hearts warm not just because the
gospel is powerful but because it’s
personal he knows me he knows you he
knows where we’ve been he knows what
we’ve done he knows our weaknesses he
knows our strengths he knows the places
in our lives where we need his Mercy or
Grace and like Mary he doesn’t discard
us he doesn’t treat us the way others
have he doesn’t marginalize us he comes
to the disenfranchised and the people
that are lonely and the people like me
that are in need of a savior and he
speaks our name and when our heart worms
with the conviction that only the holy
spirit of God can give we respond just
like Mary our eyes are open because we
realize that he is who he says he is and
that he can still accomplish exactly
what he says he could through the
Redemption of our sins Mary man her
whole Destiny changes at this point
because she races away becoming the very
first evangelist telling everybody that
she came of what her eyes have seen
Jesus has been raised from the dead
she’s our eyewitness and you know how it
is when you have an eyewitness think
about it when you’re watching the news
and the reporter is giving you
information it’s one thing to hear the
information but once that reporter takes
the microphone and puts it in front of a
person who was there a person who saw it
for themselves a person who’s not just
talking because they heard about it but
because they were in the room they
experienced it all of a sudden that
story that you just had information
about well now it’s got cement it’s got
flesh now you can believe because you’ve
heard from somebody who saw it Mary is
our eyewitness she saw with her own eyes
and she heard his voice with her own
ears she communicates to us that Jesus
raised from the grave raised from the
tomb and he is still alive today and she
is why we can say with all confidence
for any of us who have placed faith in
Jesus Christ we can say it along with
the ancient hm
writer Because He
Lives I Can Face tomorrow whenever I
think of
Resurrection I think back to the very
first time which now was nearly 20 years
ago that I had the opportunity with my
parents to go to Israel
and gosh the impact of walking into the
garden tomb area where it is believed
that Jesus body was laid and at the time
they had something on the door there
when you walk up to the Garden tomb
there’s a little doorway that’s open so
you can see inside of the Tomb there’s a
sign on the door that says he is not
here we could have had a whole Holy
Ghost Church moment right there because
the fact that he is not there I’ve never
been so glad in all my life to not see
nothing there was nothing to see there’s
no no um body laying there there’s
nothing mummified there’s no Museum it’s
an empty tomb and the resurrection is
our receipt that he is who he said he is
and that he has accomplished for us what
he said that he has accomplished and so
the scriptures say that it is through
his death that we’ve been Justified and
reconciled to God but even more by his
life we are saved we are graced we are
empowered to be able to walk in Victory
so I want to talk about the hope of the
Resurrection because on this Good Friday
we can look forward to Sunday already in
our hearts and experience the hope that
comes from knowing that he got up out of
the grave and the same power that
conquered the grave is the exact same
power not like a lesser dumb down
version of that power but the same power
that was capable and able to get Jesus
up out of that grave is the same power
we’re supposed to be walking by the
spirit that power every single day of
Our Lives so when you look forward
toward what Sunday means on an Easter
weekend like this what kind of hope that
that does that give you to live through
and press on in the trials of life and
the details of what you have going on in
your own
experiences so good you know I think
about um Friday and it’s horrible Jesus
his disciples they’re they’re his
friends his mother is watching him die
unbelievable it’s horrible yeah it’s
horrible and how uh you know on
Resurrection morning um the women were
at the tomb um but not the
disciples
like there’s shock you know when the
women are telling them and Peter
discovers and he’s running to tell
everybody there’s this shock that he
actually isn’t there and I often think
what does it feel like to go from Friday
to Sunday with
expectation and what does it look like
to go from Friday to Sunday and
disappointment and
despair and what I’m wanting to do in my
life is live as if Sunday is coming yeah
because I get to choose how I go from
Friday to Sunday like you knowes it
doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt doesn’t
mean it’s not traumatic it doesn’t mean
that I’m not thinking oh I wish this
wouldn’t have happened this way but it
certainly changes my Outlook and my
excitement one of the worst things that
can happen is that you lose hope oh I
mean it’s it’s life is hard enough but
to hold on to hope that that things get
better that Sunday is coming that God
does reign in Victory that Jesus is
coming U Back from the dead to to be
able to hold on to Hope keeps you going
when you live without a hope that is
just an awful feeling but I have to tell
you that there are many times in my life
where sinking into despair is my first
reaction yeah you know and and I’m not
looking you know I’m not looking with an
expectant hope and so that’s as I think
about that I’m I’m thinking about that
reality in my life what does it look
like for me when life is hard and I’m
living through Friday to live with
expectancy about Sunday um because it
changes how you talk it changes whether
or not you’re smiling or not it changes
how you engage with other people and
honestly it changes whether or not you
actually live on Saturday like if I
don’t think Jesus is coming back then
every Saturday of my life I’m going to I
don’t want to stay in the bed I don’t
want to engage with anybody I want to
hide away if I believe that he’s coming
back on Sunday then I live on Saturday
it changes everything do I believe that
Jesus who got up from the dead that as
I’m praying over this child or as I’m
praying over this marriage or if I’m
praying over my passions and my the
personal Pursuits of my life as I’m
praying over my finances do I believe
that that same power can change the
trajectory of my child can change the
trajectory of my marriage can change the
trajectory of what I even think I should
do with my life can change do I believe
that that’s real because if I
do it changes how I operate it it
totally changes how I operate so it’s I
mean being positive is great but being
totally convinced of the power of God
that results in Resurrection is so much
better yeah we’re going to need that
kind of Hope through there have been so
many layered difficulties that
corporately all of us the glob
Collective trauma I mean and not just
one pandemic it’s been like layers of
pandemic whether it’s racial pandemic or
political pandemic medical pandemic I
mean it’s been there have been so many
things War there have been so many
things to disrupt our peace to to really
take us out of this sense of being able
to face another day because on top of
all of the global things that we have
all faced there have been so many
personal griefs and losses and um life
has been sort of up turned upside down
down and so many hard things I do not
know how anybody could make it from day
to day without anchoring ourselves in
something else other than Earth stuff
right because this stuff is so uncertain
and disappointing lets you down well if
we all think that we need to play God if
we’re Godless I mean I can’t imagine
what people without God are doing right
now with without a source of a higher
being that loves us takes care of us and
knows what we need you know and think
that we need to play God that’s right is
just crazy but when you live in the
power of the cross I love talking about
the power of the Cross and what Jesus
did for us first of all it Vindicated
who he said he was right and then he
destroyed he said I’ve come to seeking
to save the L I have come to destroy the
works of the devil and then he said it
is finished now you go you do what
you’re called to do and I’m going with
you so if we didn’t know that God was
going with us to empower Us in the Holy
Spirit but if we believed that truly
every person believed yeah that we had
the power of the Holy Spirit to go and
do that’s what Jesus has done for us
yeah he has given that to us it’s a free
gift and he has done it he he he has all
power and he’s done if we all truly
believe that think of what would happen
right I love the fact that when I think
about the cross and I think about what
Jesus Jesus did is that he took two
things that were separated and brought
them together he gave us access to him
you know what we don’t need anyone to go
in for us we have access to the father
through Jesus and I think that’s the
most Miracle of all miracles is we Being
Human we literally can have access to
God because of what he did on the cross
and the same power that raised him has
empowered us yeah so it’s not
that we are weak here it’s not that we
are defenseless but we have the power of
the holy spirit in us and so I think
that’s what’s so embolden to say there
is hope yeah I am I have hope because I
have God in Me you know and that’s what
gives us the hope that’s what anchors us
uh is the fact that yeah when the whole
world seems like it’s turned upside down
we know there’s still a God that’s
empowered us to to to rise above it all
to live as a light in the world and so
that’s that’s the beautiful thing is
that we’re not separated those the
division the anger the Wrath everything
it’s been done away with we have peace
with God yeah and that’s just a
beautiful thing to think we can
literally go to God you know face to
face we can come boldly what does the
Bible say to the throne of grace to
obtain mercy and find help in our time
of need and that’s what I think so so
wonderful because there’s nothing like
you know like they had to go to the
priests you know they had to wait for
the priest to come out they had to wait
for someone to prophesy over they had to
do so much stuff but we get access to
God personally which is is pretty
incredible uh yeah because he didn’t
have to do it he didn’t have to make a
way for us to have a relationship with
him and to have direct access so the
fact that he just was merciful enough
and gracious enough just loved us loved
us enough with all of our faults and
weaknesses and deficiencies to just make
a way and that was so costly for him his
son we said to my youngest son the other
day we were talking about just having a
conversation about some things that we
had read in the Bible and um as we were
discussing the crucifixion and the
resurrection specifically Jerry my
husband looked at Jude and said you know
if I had to sacrifice you on behalf of
anybody else in the world those people
would be in trouble there is no way in
the world I would sacrifice my son for
that and so he said as a father Jude you
will never know the beauty of and the
power of what God did until you have a
son till you have a daughter and then
you will look at that child and realize
what the father must have gone through
and how much he must have loved you if
he was willing to give up his son for
you unbelievable love especially Sinners
especially for Sinners don’t even we
weren’t even good people they like him
we didn’t know him we didn’t love him we
had no earthly idea Isaiah 65 says I
allowed myself to be found by those who
weren’t even seeking for me yeah I
allowed myself to be discovered by those
who weren’t even looking for me they
didn’t even care and still he made a way
for us to have relationship with him
it’s breathtaking yeah thank you Jesus
thank you Jesus isn’t it cool too that
we get to sit on the other side of the
story yeah like we’re not sitting on the
Saturday going I think he said he was
going to rise from the dead like we’re
standing and I’ve heard you share this
in a message I’ve read it in commentary
like we get to stand and fight from the
victory like every day our Saturdays
that come our Fridays of disappointment
that come we get to look back and go
wait I already know the end of the story
like the victory has already been one
and so I don’t have to worry about my
life I don’t have to worry about where
I’m going to be if I’ve put my faith in
Jesus if I put my trust in Jesus then I
know I’m secure in him and I don’t have
to worry about that and I just I think
it’s very exciting to know the end of
the story and not you know you don’t
have to sit in the movie and go I think
the superhero is going to save the day
you know he already saved the day like
the day has been saved and now you get
to stand in that hope and be in the
restoration of it and have the personal
relationship it’s not this fake
relationship it’s a one-on-one
conversation and a personal relationship
with the Lord and he did that all for
you the great love of a father
absolutely and it’s just incredible to
me be like man that’s a really sweet
father I love what you said about seeing
the end of the story it made me think
about you know maybe me think about
going to the movies you know I never
think if I go to a Marvel movie you know
I got a house full of boys right now
they’re dragg me to all these movies I
don’t want to see it’s like can we do a
comedic romance or something you know
biography something um so I’m watching
all these movies and and no one ever
goes in expecting anything other right
than the movie for the hero to come out
on top yeah so you go in with
expectancy you know you enjoy your soda
your popcorn you know you get your snack
it drags you through all these other and
you’re there for the ride you know and
um you know as you’re talking about that
I just think the expectancy Factor you
know what are we looking for God to do
and if he would not spare his own son
you know he’s a father that gives good
gifts to his children if he wouldn’t
spare his own son then not only can I
expect the victory in my life but I can
expect the victory at no expense yeah I
mean like that’s just like he’s going to
ensure we can know that he can do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
anything that we can even ask or think
so normally when we’re approaching our
lives and we can’t figure out how God’s
going to show us the victory in a
certain area it the natural my natural
tendency is to have like trepidation of
like I I hope this is going to turn out
I don’t know how this is going to you
know I mean that’s my first way to
approach it but if I approached his
exceedingly above and beyond his at no
expense Victory the same way I
approached a good movie which is let me
see how he’s going to work this out I
mean not only does it change my Approach
and how I live but it also I think
changes my witness what does it look
like for people who believe on Jesus
Christ not only for their salvation but
believing that he’s going to come again
how does that impact what we look like
you know just the expectancy stuff with
no fear with no fear exactly
you know you know and even if we feel it
cuz you in the movie you’re like oh this
is you it doesn’t change the fact that
you’re there with expectancy that you
don’t operate based on the fear you know
and so I think and you don’t walk out
with that fear and you don’t walk out
with that fear you know already taken
care of it was just and that’s that’s
what I want to see in my life I want to
see that in my life more is just not the
knowledge of Victory but the walk
because of the expectancy of Victory you
know cuz it does change how you move
through your life
hopefulness changes your life
hopefulness changes your life
hopelessness is what is destroying
people yes it’s destroying I mean
literally to the point of suicidal right
yeah hopefulness can destroy someone’s
entire existence in life and in the same
way
hopefulness is so powerful to keep your
chin up when it should be down to have
um you anchored by a piece that as a
scriptures say passes understanding like
fure out why you’re that peaceful given
what they know about what going in your
circumstances and yet somehow they still
able to have a sense of security and
stability and Sanity in the midst of
circumstances that should be driving
them insane that’s proof of the
hopefulness that comes to us when we
believe that God is who he says he is
and he’s going to accomplish the victory
for us he already has and is give going
to give us the experience of that in our
existence no matter what happens you
know it’s it’s this idea that I am not
powerful enough to mess up whatever God
right has done but I have to tell you
that you know there have been seasons in
my life where I
didn’t believe that Sunday was possible
and I didn’t act like Sunday was
possible because all I could see was
what I could see and I really did need
um other people to speak encouragement
into my life I mean that’s why um I’m
glad we live in a day and an age where
it’s not just television it’s the
Internet it’s your phone it’s podcast
you can be surrounded by God’s word
everywhere you turn books are everywhere
um but the encouragement that people
need you know in order to to believe
what they cannot see um it’s like you
know talking to a young mother and you
know I mean it just drive me crazy you
know you be in the store and some more
mature woman would come by and she’d be
smiling and then she’d lean over and say
enjoy these days they go so fast and
you’re just like H um but her
perspective is different her perspective
is different and so um I you know the EB
and the flow of many many things just
throughout my uh 20s and 30s I remember
my mother would say you know with that
nod of
knowing I know it’s hard but this too
shall pass I don’t I don’t want to hear
that you know what I mean like just fix
it I want Jesus to fix it but what I can
say is that those voices of
encouragement you know when and and
that’s you know what we have to be
intentional about doing I have to be
intentional about doing is even as a
Believer is surrounding myself with
voices of encouragement that remind me
about Sunday yeah you know um that I
have to remind myself that’s why you
have to stay in the word about Sunday
that I need people who are stronger in
the faith that are further along in the
faith than me to to say I I know it’s
hard but you know it is no secret what
God can do what he’s done for others
he’ll do for you you you know I mean
these are the things that this is why
Community is so important that just like
the disciples were huddled
together in dismay and even waiting to
see if God is going to come they were
together you know and so I I have to
remind myself when I start feeling the
pull of Saturday and I know that Victory
belongs to Jesus and I know that um he’s
coming back one day but we have to walk
through life and we have to walk through
the hardship and we have to we find
ourselves asking the questions it’s to
Avail myself of encouragement anywhere
and everywhere I can um and to allow
other people who are more mature in the
faith to listen to them and put myself
in the spaces where they are and then to
believe that despite what I see and
despite what I feel that God is capable
um he’s not a man that he should lie
that he will finish what he started and
I can believe that well the Gospel of
John Chronicles this moment when a woman
comes to the tomb and finds it empty and
she is balling tears as she kneels there
in the garden realizing that her savior
is not where she’s supposed he would be
and she feels someone come up behind her
and she supposes he is the gardener
because who else would it be and through
the blur of her tears she has no way of
being able to really clearly see that
that guy standing behind her is not the
gardener it’s the Risen Lord and it’s
not until he says her name when he says
her name the way her name rolls off of
off of his lips there’s something about
that her name being spoken by this guy
that lets her know this is the one who
freed me who delivered me who changed my
life and so my prayer is that through
the course of us just talking about Hope
and the resurrection and the empty tomb
that the Holy Spirit has whispered
somebody’s name and their tears their
despair their disappointment that maybe
has blurred them to Jesus and a
relationship with him up until this
point that today they’ll hear their name
and they’ll be restored in their hope
and that they’ll come into relationship
with him so let’s pray about that Lord I
Thank you that you call our names I
thank you Father that you know our
stories I thank you that you’ve given us
opportunity to have a personal
relationship with you I thank you for
the hope that you have given us because
of the Resurrection father I thank you
that your story uh did not stop with
your son dying on Friday and continuing
Lord to be buried and to remain um in
death but father he is resurrected to
life and because he was so are we so I
thank you Father for the hope that you
have given to each and every one of us
and to anyone who does not feel that
sense of hope who is wallowing father
because of their circumstances in a
sense of hopelessness and despair we
pray right now in jesus’ name that you
would by the power of your Holy Spirit
call their Nam so loudly and so clearly
that they would have no choice but to
run to you and that you would restore
the hope of their salvation in Jesus
name we pray
amen