Going Beyond Ministries with Priscilla Shirer – Expect to Hear the Voice of God

Priscilla Shirer (born December 31, 1974) is an American author, motivational speaker, actress, and Christian evangelist. Her father is Dallas mega-church pastor Tony Evans and her brother is Christian entertainer Anthony Evans.
The daughter of Tony Evans, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas,[1] Priscilla grew up well acquainted with the Bible. As a freshman at the University of Houston, she interned with a Christian radio station. Soon listeners were calling the station, inviting Priscilla to speak at their Bible study groups and other events. Soon she was invited to lead a weekly Bible study at the Zig Ziglar Corporation and then to join its speaker team. Priscilla has worked as an independent contractor for CBS and hosted a local television show, but recently she has focused solely on Christian ministry opportunities. She calls Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, her mentor in ministry.

Together the Shirers established Going Beyond Ministries, a speaking bureau featuring Priscilla. The parents of three young boys, the Shirers share ministry and family responsibilities. While Priscilla continues to minister full-time, Jerry manages his schedule and other business aspects of Going Beyond Ministries.

Priscilla speaks around the world at churches and other events, including the LifeWay Christian Resources-sponsored Going Beyond conference and Deeper Still: The Event, where she shares the stage with Beth Moore and Kay Arthur. She has also authored several books.

Shirer graduated from Duncanville High School and Dallas Theological Seminary, earning a master’s degree from the latter in Biblical Studies.

In 1993, Shirer was a freshman at the University of Houston. Shirer was married in 1999 to Jerry Shirer, former Hilton Hotels executive. The couple has three sons.

In 2013, Shirer was a speaker at the 2013 Women of Faith conference. In 2015, Shirer made her film debut in the Kendrick Brothers film War Room. In October 2016, Shirer was recognized as one of four prominent women of faith during the 10th anniversary of God’s Leading Ladies Life Enrichment Program at The Potter’s House.[1] Shirer also featured at the 47th GMA Dove Awards.

I have three siblings I have an older

sister her name is crystal and then I

have two younger brothers Anthony and

Jonathan I’m second in line I’m sort of

right in the middle and we’re all very

very good friends my sister my older

sister crystal and I are extremely good

friends we actually were next-door

neighbors for a large portion of our

live five or six years we live right

next door she has five children but her

three boys she has two older daughters

but her three boys are pretty much the

exact same age as my three boys it’s

like we planned it or something we just

kept having these boys and we lived next

door to each other

homeschooled our children really

together so she did all the hard stuff I

did recess and lunch that’s what they

came to my house for and it’s just a zoo

basically all day long six boys just

running back and forth so we have spent

a lot of our adult years really being

very close friends but of course in our

younger years we were sisters growing up

together so we butted heads quite a bit

crystal and I probably had a rivalry

that started very very very early in our

lives because my sister crystal was the

very first child obviously in my family

but the first grandchild for either side

of the family so paternal grandparents

maternal grandparents she was the first

grandchild

her name was crystal because she was the

light of everyone’s eyes

so my grandparents were so thrilled that

they finally had this grandbaby and of

course I know there’s something about

that first grandbaby

um that you just are so thrilled and

excited about I’ve heard that from lots

of grandparents and my grandmother in

particular on my father’s side she was

so excited about this first grandbaby

girl so for Christmas every year from

the moment crystal was born she would

send this box of stuff for her for

Christmas inside of this box there would

be things that little girls used to wear

not this you know sort of casual skinny

jeans stuff I’m talking about the hoop

skirts you know with the ruffles on the

bottom you remember when little girls

used to wear those little fold-over

socks that had the lace around the trim

yeah those big hoop skirts and stuff

we’re in church on a Sunday they’d be

spinning around because they want to see

how high their skirt could get she sent

little patent leather shoes little white

and black patent leather shoes and just

lots of sweet things she would send them

the box would come with crystals name on

it and I know what my grandmother was

thinking she was thinking that she was

gonna send things in crystal size and

then all of us could just grow into all

of the hand-me-downs and all of the

stuff that she would soon grow out of I

don’t remember being so excited every

year when the box came the box would

come Crystal’s name on it we would stand

together and we would open up this box

and I would be so excited as we took out

every little skirt every little pair of

socks and every little pair of shoes

because I remember thinking that soon

sister girl you’re gonna grow out of all

this stuff and it will all be mine but I

remember there was one particular year I

don’t know it must have just been

because I was a little bit older that

year maybe 9 or 10 years old that I’m

opening up this box with my sister and I

remember that year not being excited

about this situation anymore

I remember opening up the box I remember

pulling out the stuff and I remember

feeling a little bit disconcerted about

the fact that this stuff had not been

specifically chosen for me this stuff

had been chosen for her and I’ve been

okay

with hand-me-downs with secondhand

clothes all of these years but all of a

sudden I’m one of my own stuff I wanted

something to come with my name on it

that had specifically been chosen for me

there ought to come a time in your

relationship with the Lord where

hand-me-down revelation just doesn’t do

it for you anymore there ought to come a

little bit of disconcerting a little bit

of maturity in your walk with God where

you become a little bit unsettled to

only be spoon-fed the Word of God from

someone else to you now we thank God for

our pastors and our teachers and our

leaders that help us to rightly divide

the word of truth but there ought to

come a time in your life where you’ve

decided you know what I want fresh

revelation with my name on it that has

come straight from God’s Spirit for my

life because you know we can be

handicapped as Christians we can live

our whole lives leaning on revelation

that that a spoon-fed to us from other

people instead of knowing that the exact

same Holy Spirit of God that lives in

that person whose faith we might

rightfully admire that the same Holy

Spirit of God that lives in them also

lives in you to teach you all things and

on the end of this conference what we

want for you is so much of what Ali said

a few moments ago when she stood on this

platform that really this is not the end

this is the beginning that when you

leave this place it not it ought not be

a period on the end of a sentence it

really ought to be just the opening up

of a brand new fervent vibrant

relationship with Jesus that what you’ve

had in this room you cannot wait to get

home and to just um just cuddle a little

bit and encourage a little bit and be in

the Word of God of in prayer and in

worship not because there’s a crowd

gathered but because the same God who is

permeating this room is the same God who

will be with you in your home in your

room on your job in your life in your

marriage

the details of your daily circumstances

you can hear the voice of God I’m so

glad that you have come to this

conference but if the only time that you

expect to hear God speak to you is once

a year at the conference you gonna be in

trouble if you’re waiting on breasts of

God next year to actually experience the

breath of God the oxygen of God to your

life you gonna be in trouble

listen I hope you’ve got a church on

Sunday I hope you go if you do not go to

this church that you go to a vibrant

spirit-filled Bible teaching Church

somewhere you need to be planted in the

house of God so I pray that you

recognize that this conference did not

take the place of Sunday morning

tomorrow at your church come on somebody

ought to say amen to that your pastor

ought to be so thrilled that you came to

this conference because you bring

tomorrow morning into the house of God a

fire and a fervency to serve the people

of God and to be in the setting of the

presence of God so I pray you go to

church on Sunday but if the only time

you were hearing the Word of God is once

a week on a Sunday you’re gonna be in

trouble

I pray that you’re in Bible study I know

many of you are that once a week or

twice a month you may meet up with a

group of girls over a Bible study so

that you can go deeper into the Word of

God I pray that you do that but if the

only time you are ever hearing God is

when you are gathered with other people

you are handicapped in your relationship

with God we oughta we ought to desire

you oughta hunger even if you’re not

quite sure how yet you oughta hunger for

it to just be you and God over his love

letter asking him to speak to you and to

give fresh wind and fresh fire for the

details of your life you can hear the

voice of God there is a portion of

scripture that speaks to this more

clearly than any other I think it’s been

encouraging to me in my own life because

I have a tendency that to sometimes

become a little bit handicapped in this

way that I enjoy so much listening to

other people teach

listening to the revelation that is the

holy spirit has given them to share with

us to edify me I become I can become a

little bit handicapped in that I have to

be encouraged myself to remember that I

too can have my own personal

relationship with Jesus where my

spiritual ears are open to hear what it

is that she wants to say to me from my

life as a woman for my peace of mind and

peace of heart from my life as a mother

to the three sons that the Lord has

given me to the husband that the Lord

has given me to be married to for nearly

twenty years now that he’s got a word

that is a sign just for me I’ve got to

remind myself that I have the privilege

to hear the voice of God as well and

this portion of Scripture has helped me

with that it is in the book of John John

chapter 10 I’m gonna read to you verse 1

through 5 and then I’m gonna hop over to

verse 27 and we’re just gonna camp out

there for just a few minutes on this

final evening of this incredible

conference that we’ve shared together

John chapter 10 verse 1 through 5 says

this truly truly I say to you he who

does not enter by the door into the fold

of the sheep but climbs up some other

way he is a thief and a robber but he

who enters by the door is the Shepherd

of the sheep to him the doorkeeper will

open the door the sheep will hear his

voice he calls his own sheep by their

name and then he leaves them out freedom

is in the voice of God when he puts

forth all of his own he goes before them

and the Sheep follow him because they

know his voice verse five says and a

stranger they simply will not follow

they will flee from him because they do

not know the voice of a stranger verse

27 my sheep hear my voice I know them

and they follow me

listen to that one-liner again there’s a

whole lot packed into that one-liner if

you underline in your brick-and-mortar

Bible like I do this is one of those

verses that deserves to be underlined

John 10:27 says my sheep this is what

they do they hear my voice he says I

know my sheep and they follow me a lot

of times the details of what Jesus

wanted to get across the truths that he

wanted to communicate to us sometimes

they are lost amidst the shuffle of some

terminology and some some cultural

nuances that we missed because we don’t

know the details of stuff like wheat and

soil and grapes and those sorts of

things

oftentimes he will speak about things

that unless we understand some cultural

significance we’ll miss out on the

richness of what there is so let’s just

go back in time just a little bit to the

Middle Eastern sheepfold in Jesus’s day

so that we can wrap some flesh around

this and see how we have daughters of

God can expect to hear the voice of God

there are four details in this one line

when we’re gonna settle in for just a

few moments tonight there are four

details that are gonna help us to

understand how we can make sure we leave

this conference fully anticipating that

we can keep this love affair going all

year long until we meet again same time

same place next year he says my sheep

are the ones who hear my voice

the very first thing Jesus points out in

this one-liner

John 10:27 is that my sheep are the ones

who hear my voice

he points out a relationship in the

Middle Eastern sheep fold in Jesus’s day

a shepherd would have upwards of 100

sheep that might be in the flock that

he’d be leading all day long throughout

the day as the day wore on and everyone

became tired it was time for the Sheep

to sleep that one shepherd would take

his all of his 100 sheep to a fold for

the night in fact there might be upwards

of 10 Shepherds that would bring their

100 sheep to one fold to stay for the

night shepherd number one and number two

and

number three and number four all the way

up to number ten they would all come to

the same fold the fold was a bordered

off or fenced off by by ab stones that

had been gathered up into waist-high

fence lining all the way around and

there would be one entrance one opening

there was no gate there there was no

door there just an opening into the

stone-lined fold and so all ten of the

Shepherd would bring their 100 sheep

there might be upwards of 1,000 sheep in

the sheepfold to spend the night nine of

the 10 Shepherds would turn around and

go back into the nearest city to sleep

for the evening

there would be one Shepherd that would

stay behind he would lay his body in the

opening of the sheep fold and he would

become the doorway to the sheepfold he

would actually use his body as the

barrier he would make sure to watch over

the 1,000 sheep that were inside the

fold that night and use his own body as

the gate as the doorway to the Sheep to

make sure that there was no predator or

no stranger that tried to take advantage

of the 1,000 sheets that were on the

inside in the morning when a shepherd

would return from the city to retrieve

his flock the porter that’s the shepherd

the name of the shepherd that had stayed

behind was called the porter the porter

would lift his body up for where he was

laying all night long he would see a

shepherd coming from afar and he would

take time to evaluate whether he

recognized the shepherd he would want to

determine whether or not this shepherd

was a true Shepherd of one of the flocks

that was inside if he recognized that it

was a true Shepherd he would remove his

body from the opening of the sheep foam

the Shepherd would walk into the

sheepfold that had ten different flocks

and that shepherd would call his sheep

with one call the 100 that were in

relationship with that Shepherd would

detect the call of their Shepherd and

only those 100 would

rise up out of the flocks that were

gathered that night and follow their

Shepherd out what mattered as to whether

or not they understood that call was not

whether they were black sheep or white

sheep it didn’t matter whether or not

they congregated with a whole lot of

sheep or a little bit of sheep it didn’t

matter whether they were the cool sheep

or the cheaply discarded runs the only

thing that mattered was whether or not

they were in relationship with the

Shepherd I’ve got a question for you

today are you in relationship with Jesus

Christ have you placed faith in Jesus

Christ because the only way that you’ll

be able that I’ll be able after this day

is over to clearly hear the voice of God

when we’re not necessarily in the

company of many others the only way to

have an ongoing fervent fiery

relationship with Jesus Christ is to

make sure that you actually have a

relationship with him and here’s what

you need to know our God doesn’t have

grandkids just because your mama placed

faith in Jesus Christ does not mean that

that trickle down into your life you got

to make your own decision to have a

relationship with Jesus and it doesn’t

matter whether or not you congregate

with a lot of sheep or a little sheep

whether or not you’ve done a whole lot

of good deeds over the course of your

life whether or not you’ve been singing

in the choir on the praise he were

taking meals to a friend doing good

things Bravo to all of those things the

question still remains have you decided

to place faith in Jesus Christ as the

only way the truth and the life I know

it’s not politically correct to say it

but I will tell you that there still is

only one way to have a relationship with

God and that is through Jesus Christ

many people often ask how could a God

who is supposedly so good only gives 7

billion plus people on the planet from

different cultures and different

continents and different languages and

different backgrounds how could a God

who is supposedly so good only give all

of those diverse people one way to have

a relationship with him if he’s so kind

and so good how could there only be one

way well that’s a good question it’s not

the right question the question is not

how could a God who is so good give us

one way the question is how could a God

who is so holy give us such unholy

beings any way to have a relationship

with him when you place faith in Jesus

Christ you have an opportunity to have

an ongoing conversational relationship

with Jesus with him with God for him to

speak to you for your spiritual ears to

be heightened and quickened so that you

have the opportunity to hear the voice

of God you become a part of the family

you have relationship

I remember when I’d be sitting in church

I was I was kind of born and raised in

the church I’d go to the church that my

father started when I was 1 year old he

and my parents yeah my mother’s still

passed through the exact same church

that they started when I was 1 so I know

nothing other than being in a great

healthy church where my own dad preaches

the Word of God and I’ve been sitting on

the first or second row of church as

long as I can remember I still sit right

there behind my parents with my in all

my siblings and all of our kids we all

sit together in church and we are taught

the Word of God and I remember when I

was young I used to be in the children’s

choir and I would be up there in the

children’s choir stand and I’d be

sitting there and after we sang our one

song for that particular service I

remember you know we’d get a little

fidgety because we were kids and now

there was this long sermon and they had

announcements and all the other stuff

that went along with church and you’re

sitting there and you’re still sitting

on the choir in the choir loft at the

time that’s what we had you know these

risers with chairs and you kind of sit

there through the whole service we

we’d start chewing a little gum we’d

start writing notes and passing it to

each other we start chuckling and

nudging each other and acting up sitting

right there up on the choir loss that I

remember looking down to that first or

second row where my mother was sitting

and she might not see me for a while but

after a few minutes I look down and

catch her eye and she gives me that ma

Mystere anybody know what I’m talking

about when I say the mama said she

didn’t have to actually come up on the

platform and say anything to me with

that one stare a whole Rabb a whole

conversation unraveled in my mind the

consequence unraveled in my mind I got

straightened up because I knew the

expression of my mother why because

we’re part of the same family in fact

there has been a time in your life I

know where you and your girlfriend had

this funny experience that happened to

you and maybe you’re trying to

communicate the experience to somebody

else who wants to know what’s so funny

what are you laughing at and you’re

trying to to get them in on the joke for

them to actually understand what is so

hysterical about this and the more you

talk the more perplex that person looks

because they don’t they don’t understand

what’s so funny about what you’re

talking about no matter how much you try

to communicate it they just don’t get it

because they’re not a part of that

connection when you place faith in Jesus

you become a part of the family of God

you have access to certain expressions

you have access to certain insight that

you would not normally have access to

listen to Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19

in the amplified bible I love it so much

it says therefore you are no longer

Outsiders exiled migrants aliens

excluded from the rights of citizens but

you now share citizenship with the

Saints God’s own people consecrated and

set apart for himself you belong to

God’s own household you are part of the

family of God in that great

the first chapter of the book of Romans

is compelling for many reasons but one

of them is that it says that general

revelation is available for all of

humanity in other words the psalmist

says the fool says in his heart there is

no God because if you just look up to

the heavens if you look around at the

mountains if you see the oceans and try

to figure out how in the world all of

that water stays separate from the land

if you don’t recognize the hand of God

staying the oceans from the land if you

look at the mountains and don’t realize

looking at the stars and the sun’s and

the moon’s and the galaxies that there

has got to be a god somewhere

the psalmist says you’re a fool because

general revelation tells us there is a

god I’m grateful for general revelation

I’m grateful for the things I learn

about God just by looking at him we

learn about the creativity of God the

character of God just by looking at what

he is created that’s general revelation

and if you’re like me you appreciate

general general revelation but if you’re

also like me then I know you don’t just

want general revelation you want some

specifics you want some details you want

to know whether God’s will for you is

that you would take this job or whether

he’d prefer that you take just this job

you’d like to know whether or not you

should live in this neighborhood or

whether or not you should live in this

neighborhood you’d like to know if that

that function you’re feeling and

full-time ministry is for you or whether

it’s to be a minister on the corporate

job that the Lord has settled you in

you’d like to no single woman whether

you should marry this guy or this guy

don’t we wish that was the problem

whether to marry this guy or this guy

Lisa Harper

we want clarity we want specifics and

details for our lives first corinthians

2:14 says that people that are not

believers that do not have a

relationship with jesus christ they

can’t understand the specific truths

that are given to God’s Spirit it’ll all

sound like given to God’s Spirit for us

it’ll sound like foolishness to those

who done that do not have a personal

relationship with Jesus Christ and

here’s why when I was growing up my

parents were pretty strict about several

things one of them was that we didn’t

watch a lot of TV during the week there

that wasn’t really for religious reasons

just we were busy there were four kids

are lots of different after-school

activities we’re busy homework to do

dinner dishes to get done we don’t have

time for television so we really could

only watch television on the weekends

and we didn’t have cable we didn’t have

satellite we didn’t have any of that it

was just regular basic channels I

remember that after I moved out getting

ready to get married and I got this

apartment I was setting it up for Jerry

and I for after we got married when he

would be joining me in that apartment

one of the very first things I did was

called a cable man I was so excited the

Cable Guy came over I’ll never forget it

my television was an actual box back

then and it was sitting in a in an

armoire and he moved it out from from in

front of the wall and he hooked up all

of these cords and cables in the back he

put it back in place he came around to

the front she handed me a remote control

and he said hit the Guide button I

remember hitting the Guide button and

watching all the options the menu of

options flash across the screen I was so

amazed at all the and I was angry that

my parents had deprived me my entire

life of all of those options all of

those television channels did not

magically create the moment that the

Cable Guy showed up those channels had

always been available I had just now

received the right hook up so that I

could gain access to those channels

listen God is speaking God wants you to

hear his voice but you need the hook up

so that you can detect the

channels that will allow you to have

access to God speaking personally and

intimately to you and the hook-up is the

Holy Spirit at the moment you get saved

you receive the greatest gift you will

ever receive this side of eternity and

that is the Holy Spirit of God listen to

me the Holy Spirit is not a ghost or a

wind or a fire or a dove he’s often

symbolized by those things in the

scripture but y’all that ain’t who he is

the Holy Spirit is the third person of

the Trinity not third because he is

least in values just third because he is

the last to be revealed to us in the

pages of Scripture but all of the power

all of the glory all of the authority

all of the grandeur of God the Father is

in the person of the Holy Spirit which

means when you place faith in Jesus

Christ and the Holy Spirit takes up

residence in you that means that all the

power all of the glory all of the

grandeur all of the greatness of God the

Father now lives on the inside of you

the Holy Spirit is your hookup so that

now you can detect the spiritual

channels that will allow you to hear the

voice of God and so then you’ll feel the

red light of conviction and that red

light will mean sometimes you will feel

the yellow light of dis-ease and a lack

of peace and that yellow light will mean

slow down sometimes you will feel the

green light of peace over a circumstance

the green light the wind of God’s favor

pressing you forward and that green

light means go the conviction of God’s

Spirit begins to well up in your heart

and in your life because when you’re in

relationship with Jesus the Spirit of

God begins to govern your your

circumstances and your your a

convictions and as you yield to him as

you walk in obedience to him you will

find that his voice grows and louder and

louder and louder and helping to govern

your your decisions and your choices

surrendering to the Holy Spirit the

filling of God’s Spirit as he out works

his fruit and his gifts in your life the

Holy Spirit is your hook

listen this is why sometimes you sit in

that movie the exact same kind of movie

you would have watched before you became

a believer in Jesus and you sit there

seeing the same images you’ve seen

hearing the same jokes you’ve always

seen listening to the same language you

have always seen but on this day you’re

sitting there with your girlfriends and

you’re just a little bit uneasy about

what’s up there on that screen and you

can’t figure out why in the world you

feel so uneasy when this is what you’ve

always done that’s the Holy Spirit

convicting and challenging and tweaking

and toning and molding you into the

image of Jesus Christ

it’s called sanctification somebody say

sanctification sanctification is the

process by which you become molded into

the image of Jesus where you begin to

sink like Jesus and talk like Jesus and

walk like Jesus and want to honor Jesus

in your actions it’s when you’re doing

the same things you’ve always done but

there’s something about it now that just

doesn’t sit right with you don’t fight

that that is the Spirit of God speaking

to you so for many of us we have sucked

this little conviction about a

relationship that we’re in single woman

the relationship that you’re in there’s

something about it that just doesn’t

feel right to you and you’ve been

fighting to hang on to this relationship

when the Holy Spirit has been trying to

sever it trying to show you there’s

something better for you that there’s

something a different direction that it

wants to take you don’t ignore that

prompting on the inside that’s how the

Holy Spirit speaks and once you have

that connection the Holy Spirit living

on the inside of you you should expect

to hear the voice of God in fact that’s

the second thing that Jesus says in this

passage he says my sheep there’s the

relationship he says what they do is

hear my voice that’s the results of the

relationship he says the result of the

relationship is that you will hear my

voice it’s what you should expect

you should anticipate that what you’ll

do as a daughter of God is hear the

voice of God you should expect that when

you have your quiet time that God is

going to speak a fresh word over your

life you should anticipate and know that

while every time you sit over the pages

of Scripture it won’t seem like it is

specifically for you that there will

always be something that God is trying

to declare about himself over your life

because I want you to know that

sometimes you look at people on this

platform maybe like me or like Lisa or

like pastor K or likely or Becky you

might look at someone like your pastor

and you must think that every single

time we sit over the pages of Scripture

it’s just freshen for a vent and fiery

and we’re here in God and it’s all

amazing every time but sometimes y’all

sometimes the quiet time is just about

the Jebusites and the Hittites and

they’re fighting the amur rights and

then those i’ts ate the other eyes and

we don’t know what anybody know what I’m

talking about

yes you know what this has to do with my

personal life but because I expect to

hear God because I go into it

anticipating that there’s something in

here for me

then at least I always pray and say but

Lord what does this teach me about your

character that you want me to know what

does this image show me about your

personality or what you would say or

wouldn’t say I want to know you as much

as I possibly can through the scriptures

even when sometimes it is dry I expect

to hear the word of God you should come

to church this way anticipating that

there is a word for you not just a

general word for everybody but there’s a

specific word for you your heart ought

to be heightened your spiritual ears

ought to be open detecting a word that

might come from the platform for you

from your pastor for you but also when

you’re standing in line waiting for the

bathroom at the Women’s Conference you

want to be eavesdropping on

conversations that are happening around

you because God can use anyone

anytime to speak a word that echoes in

the hollows of your heart God speak that

he says would you please have your

spiritual ears open and expect that you

child of God have the privilege to hear

from your daddy expect to hear the word

of God aw Tozier great theologian says

that only those who expect to hear God

actually will because if you don’t

expect to hear him then every time God

speaks you will say it was just a

coincidence every time God speaks you

will say oh that was my own idea every

time God speaks you will discount it as

anything and everything except what it

is but Deuteronomy 30 God told the

people my word is not so hard that you

have to send a prophet into the heavens

to get it for you or someone to the

other side of the sea to get it for you

he says my word is in your own heart and

it’s in your own mind God speaks to

regular girls like you and me mothers

and and wives and single women and

working women and retired women and

grandmothers and aunts and high school

students and university students you

don’t have to have a seminary degree to

hear the voice of God you’re his

daughter and that relationship that

family makes it so that you should sit

on the edge of your seat in anticipation

that you can hear the voice of God it

means that when there are divine

intersections that other people call

coincidence you can see the fingerprints

of God on that it means you look back

over your history and now in hindsight

you can see the footprints of God that

guided you every step along the way you

because you are a daughter of God what

other people call luck you call

Providence because your God is sovereign

that you don’t trust in the stars to

bring you luck on you trust in the

creator of those stars who is aligned in

your step and

when you’re governing your path expect

to hear the voice of God it is your

birthright because you are a part of the

family

Jesus says there’s a relationship my

sheep he says there’s a result they hear

my voice and then he says there is a

reason relationship a result and a

reason he says here’s the reason I know

my sheep that’s the reason why you

should expect to hear him he says

because girl I know you I called up a

friend of mine who this as many years

ago now but I called up a guy I knew

that worked with sheep and cattle to ask

him a few questions about this passage

because I don’t know if you can tell by

looking at me or not but I’m not really

a sheep and cattle kind of girl so I

pulled up someone who is and I asked him

a question about this whole knowing the

sheep business I wanted to know about

this he said well it’s interesting

Priscilla actually that is a nuance back

in the Middle Eastern sheep fold in the

first century in Jesus’s day that’s a

nuance that is very unique and specific

to that time period the knowing of the

Shepherd and the Sheep he said that

Shepherd would spend hours upon hours

upon hours a day just spending time with

his 100 in that flock they would sleep

together they would eat together they

would play together they would work

together they would be an intimate

relationship with each other so that

their scent

so that they knew the scent of the

shepherd so that they knew the voice of

the ship of the tone of the shepherd he

said in fact they knew each other so

intimately that the shepherd could of

course call all 100 but the Shepherd

could also change the tone of his call

just a little bit and call one out of

his 100 that’s how intimately they knew

the shepherd he said Priscilla with the

advances of modern technology we don’t

know the ship that are sheep anymore

he said we use helicopters and sheepdogs

and we’ve got them fenced in and we

brand them or we put an electronic

device on them so that we just don’t

even have to have a relationship he said

the other day I walked into the gate

where my sheep were and they scattered

because they don’t know me I’m

in relationship with them I’m like a

stranger to them because modern

technology has made it to where the

sheep and the shepherd don’t have to

have intimacy anymore I want to tell you

how much I like you appreciate the

advances in modern technology but in the

next breath I want to tell you how the

more advanced it becomes the more

options that are available to us every

single time I think the enemy’s six more

on the edge of his seat in applause

because there’s yet another thing to

distract us from knowing our Savior and

having intimacy with him

y’all our children don’t know what it’s

like to just sit in the presence of God

and potentially hear of the Word of God

the Holy Spirit beckoning them because

all throughout the church service

they’re busy playing another game of

candy crush because we haven’t taught

them how to just sit still

apart from modern technology and the

reason we haven’t taught them is because

we haven’t taught ourselves there’s no

boundary there’s no margin it is overrun

our lives and with the advances of

modern technology we have walked away

from the beautiful stepping one step

after the other the walk of relationship

with Jesus Christ there’s a man named

Henry Blackaby she was this man has such

a faithful long diligent relationship

with Jesus where he is a scholar for

sure but what the nuances of his books

and devotionals give you it’s not just

the nuances of study it’s a man who now

in his 80s I believe has walked with

Jesus he happened to be at my church

once and I cornered him that’s what I do

with people who I admire their

relationship which is I just corner him

I get all up in their business and I

said how do you know when God is

speaking to you how can we hear the

voice of God you all I had a spiral

notebook and a pen out I was ready for a

seminary class I was waiting for him to

give me details

I had bullet points listed down so that

I’d be prepared to write everything down

that he was going to say that

man looked back at me and he said here’s

the secret to hearing God the more you

know God the more clearly you can hear

him the more intimate your relationship

with Jesus the more quickly you will be

able to determine when it’s the voice of

a stranger you’ll be able to detect when

it’s your ego talking and not God you’ll

be able to determine when it’s fear

talking and not God you’ll be able to

tell when it’s the enemy you do know you

have an enemy y’all you know you have an

enemy and the enemy doesn’t come to you

dressed in a red jumpsuit in a pitchfork

and say hey it’s me 2nd Corinthians

chapter 11 verse 14 says he disguises

himself like an angel of light he wants

to look and sound as close to the will

of God for your life as he possibly can

that’s my Spurgeon wrote this he said

that we must not only pray that God will

help us to discern between good and evil

between right and wrong but we gotta

pray that God will help us to discern

between right and almost right and the

way to do that is to have intimate

relationship with him because the more

you know him the more you’ll be able to

detect when what you are hearing or

sensing is not from God the more you

know what his love letter says the more

you’ll be able to recognize when there

is something that has spoken to you or

said to you or bubbling up in your heart

that is contrary to the Word of God

you’ll know that is not my God because

he would never speak in contradiction to

his own word the more you know God the

more clearly you can hear God my

brother’s name is Anthony the one that

comes right after me he’s Anthony jr.

Anthony has my father’s name they’re

both Tony Evans Tony Evans senior and

Tony Evans jr. he’s got my dad’s name he

talks a little bit like my dad he’s got

the same mannerisms as my dad he has the

same build as my dad he’s very very much

like my father they look very similar

my mother has a picture of

my father when he was 18 years old

graduating from high school he had a

sport coat on and a bowtie his head was

tilted just like this and he had a

little side grin and at 18 years old my

brother took a picture with a sport coat

on as he was graduating from high school

with a bow tie he had a little side

smile with his head tilted she put them

in a frame next to each other they look

almost identical I have seen my brother

used this to his advantage I’ve been

there at times when someone has called

the house for my father and he’s picked

up the phone but because he sounded so

much like my dad the person didn’t know

they weren’t talking to my father so

Anthony hung in hung on the phone for a

little while and got all the juicy

details before he handed the phone over

to my father I’ve seen him used it to

his advantage but I will tell you that

there is one person that even though

he’s been able to trick a lot of people

through the years there is one person

he’s not able to trick and that’s me and

the reason is because I’ve spent my

whole life getting to know the two

Anthony’s so when one of them calls me

in the first few seconds of the phone

call before they even said much of

anything I am able to detect which one

of the Anthony’s I’m talking to why

because I’ve spent my life getting to

know them the more you just get to know

Jesus the more you hang out with him the

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