Going Beyond Ministries with Priscilla Shirer – He Is Who He Says He Is
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.
so glad to be here with you as always it
is our privilege and our treat to be
able to share God’s Word this weekend
with you and what we do consider to be a
little bit of our family here at Gateway
y’all just can’t seem to get rid of us
and the people in our family we just
love so much being a part of what God is
doing in this community of partnering
with you in serving this community as
you know many of you may know our church
which has been my home church since I
was 1 year old is about 40 minutes from
here where my father happens to also be
the pastor and so my parents dr. Tony
and Lois Evans they send their greeting
to you and to your pastors in their
absence as well and so thanks for having
us it’s a treat to be here I just have a
couple of thoughts that I want to share
with you from God’s words a couple of
things that have profoundly impacted my
life as I have asked the Holy Spirit to
sear these little simple messages to
imprint them on my soul and I’m asking
that he would do that for every single
one of us today simple things that can
transform your entire life let’s pray
Lord Jesus I thank you so much for your
word I thank you Lord that this book is
alive I thank you that it’s not just
black ink on a page but that what the
Holy Spirit does is that he causes it’s
a leap up off the page and to grip us in
our souls so Lord I’m praying that in
these next few moments that we’re going
to spend together that you would do it
only you can God I’m asking you you
would take this one little simple
message would you please divide it
several thousand different ways so that
every single one of us under the sound
of my voice hears a direct personal word
straight from the mouth of God in Jesus
name everybody agreed and said Amen as
was mentioned I have three boys a couple
of them are in service with me right now
one of them is shaking their head at me
just like this because he knows where
I’m going and I have another son as well
that is in Sunday school or in your kids
church this afternoon
my boys are 12 years old Jackson is 12
years old and then I have a
10 year old his name is Jerry junior and
then my little one his he’s our surprise
baby
we still don’t actually know how he got
here we named him Jude on purpose
because that is as close as I could get
to revelation because it is finished it
is over so I’ve got Jackson Jerry jr.
and almost Revelation I’ve got Jude and
our three boys are as you can imagine
they keep us very very busy they are the
highlights of our lives and one of the
trademarks of my children is that they
have on their daddy’s size they’re their
dad is a big guy they are big kids my 12
year old already wears a size 12 men’s
shoe somebody come help me feed these
people please they are big boys and one
of the ways that it actually works well
for them is that they love sports
whatever is in season they’re kind of
playing it so we find ourselves at
basketball courts right now basketball
season even football we found find
ourselves every year at baseball
diamonds as my second son has found that
for sure baseball is his thing and so my
oldest son basketball is his thing the
youngest ones still trying to figure out
what he wants to do with his life but
that second one Jerry junior baseball is
his thing we’re pretty proud of Jerry
junior in baseball because he actually
is pretty good at the game I think
because of his size he’s got a lot of
power behind his swing he can already
shed now but at eight nine years old he
could swing a bat and get a good hit and
get that ball already over the fence
line and then at first base he makes a
lot of stops pretty good there he’s got
a lot of growing to do and he knows it
but he’s pretty good and we’re proud of
him
we enjoy baseball season in the fall in
particular and also spring ball because
well it’s fall and it’s spring it’s not
summer those evenings when we go out for
practice it’s fun and enjoyable because
the air the breeze is blowing by as
we’re watching practice and then on
those Saturday mornings at 8 a.m. or 9 a
more
I am when those games will be it’s early
in the morning and and the breeze is
blowing at it field feels good the
problem with spring ball is that it will
become summer ball and y’all know what
happens here in Texas in the summer the
Sun ain’t ain’t messing around and it
comes out and it scorches us and there
you are sitting there watching your
child a playing baseball and it’s really
okay when there’s just one game but then
at the end of the season there’s going
to be a tournament lord have mercy
what that means is you’re going to go
out on Thursday and that you’re going to
play one game two games that may parlay
into three games if your child’s team
has done well then it means if they did
well on Thursday you are coming back on
Friday and you are going to sit there
underneath the umbrella or the tent that
you bought from the sporting goods store
still sweating bullets running down your
face and down your clothes as you try to
be excited for your kid that keeps on
winning and then you have to come back
on Saturday and then they have the nerve
to want you to come back on Sunday for
the ending of the series and and I don’t
know if it’s ever okay to pray yo kids
lose this so you can go home and I will
neither confirm nor deny that I have
ever done that but I do recall a couple
of summers ago maybe it was last summer
even there was this one particular day
where it was scorching hot and we had
sat outside and we had gone through two
games already it was time for a break
and so we’ve all gotten into our car
gone to a restaurant where we could get
some air conditioned and some nice cold
iced water and so we just enjoyed a nice
refreshing lunch came back for the next
game we got all of Jerry juniors gear
out of the back of the the car and we
headed over towards the dugout so that
we could get him and the rest of his
team members all set up for the next
game that they were getting ready to
play and my son is a normally fairly
confident young man and he was actually
excited about this next game but as we
got closer and closer to the dugout I
watched my son’s countenance begin to
change just a little bit I watched as
that chin that had been kind of held up
high as he walked over towards the dog
and I watched it kind of hang
little bit I watched him start wringing
his hands and I saw his shoulders kind
of slumped forward he seemed a little
worried about something I looked around
trying to figure out what it was and
then I thought I could I spotted the
problem you see there was another team
in fact it was the team we were about to
play in this next game this team had
played my son’s team earlier in the
season and with this team had played my
boys team earlier in the season they had
annihilated us I mean it had been a
complete upset a complete embarrassment
this team was filled with boys who are
serious baseball players you know the
kind that when their parents gave birth
to them they put a mitt on one hand and
a baseball on the other hand you know
the kind the team that has the serious
parents as well it was that kind of team
and we were up against them again and my
son was a little nervous about it as he
spotted this team he knew how good they
were as we walked past them he overheard
two of the team members talking to each
other we all overheard them they thought
they were whispering but they weren’t
doing a great job
one leaned over to the other and said
there goes that kid from MIT from the
other team do you remember him he was
the one that hit the ball that went over
the fence yeah that was the one that was
at first base the one that caught all
the outs during that earlier game that
that’s him the other kid leaned over and
said you mean that’s Jerry Shire my son
heard his name crossed the lips of the
opposing team members and all of a
sudden that head that had been down all
of a sudden it popped back up again
all of a sudden his chest spoke back out
he got his swag back as he walked over
toward the baseball diamond I in fact we
had to bring him down a few notches
before the game started it is absolutely
amazing how your countenance changes
when you really understand what the
enemy thinks about you the reality is
that in our lives you are going to and I
am going to face challenges there are
going to be battles that you have to
fight there are going to be difficulties
that you will have to traverse and we
could face them Church with insecurity
and with our heads hung down unaware and
unsure of how we’re going to be able to
get through this difficulty in our lives
but everything about the way we face
challenges can and should change when we
really overhear and understand what the
enemy thinks about us because the
reality is my friends that even if we
don’t believe it he believes your enemy
he believes every single thing that the
Word of God declares to be true about
you even if you aren’t convinced he
knows because the word says that that
you and I are victorious he knows that
you have already been forgiven even if
you don’t believe it he knows that there
is therefore now no condemnation for
those of us who are in Christ Jesus even
if you aren’t convinced about it he
knows that he is already under your feet
even if you weren’t sure you need to
know that he is sure that he can form a
weapon against you but that that weapon
will never ever prosper he knows that
you’ve been made competent by the Spirit
of God he knows that if God is for you
then no one and nothing could ever
prosper against you what
what a shame that would be for the enemy
to believe more about our potential than
we do for him to be more convinced about
who we are because of our relationship
with God through Christ Jesus than we
are so I want to talk for just a few
moments tonight
to anybody who may be in the room and
you are facing a circumstance right now
where honestly you are a bit intimidated
a bit discouraged at this particular
valley year in your marriage or
difficulty in your finances or trouble
in your health or struggle in your
singleness or problems on your job or in
that ministry or that business you
started you have run into trouble in
your journey of life and you’re
wondering how you’re gonna get across
this one so that you can move forward
and onward to all that God has for you
there are some simple lessons that we
can learn from a group of people in
Scripture that know exactly how that
feels you have your Bibles and you want
to turn with me to the book of Exodus
you can do that if you actually still
use a Bible with paper pages like I do
or you can use your iPhone your iPad any
manner of eyeness just get to Exodus
chapter 14
because in Exodus chapter 14 we meet the
children of Israel two million piec
pilgrims that were once slaves they have
been freed miraculously and they are now
on their journey with God headed toward
the land of milk and honey they are
walking with God wanting everything that
he has for them just like you and I are
we are on our journey with God but on
the way they come across what seems to
be an impossible seemingly impassable
situation called the Red Sea and with
the Red Sea in front of them threatening
them and their ability to move forward
on in their journey
Moses looks at the children of Israel
and says to them the exact same thing
that the Holy Spirit wants to say to us
today verse 13 Moses says to the people
do not fear
stand by and see the salvation of the
Lord
which he will somebody say he will he
will accomplish for you today for the
Egyptians whom you seen today you will
never see them again forever the Lord
will fight for you while you keep silent
whoo that’s good innit listen to that
again Moses says to the people do not be
afraid cuz ain’t nobody got time for
that stand by and see the salvation of
the Lord which he will somebody say he
will he will accomplish it for you today
for the Egyptians whom you seen today
you will never see them again forever
the Lord will fight for you while you
keep son Moses looks at the children of
Israel as they are facing their red sea
they are looking at it dead-on just like
you might be as you sit here in these
seats or you’re on the other side of
that screen participating in this time
of worship and and in the word with us
and you are looking dead on you are face
to face with a Red Sea circumstance in
your life and for the life of you you
cannot figure out how you gonna get
around this one or through this one or
to the other side of this one Moses says
to the children of Israel embedded
within these instructions that you and I
are going to look at for just a few
moments embedded within the instructions
I hope you noticed there is a promise of
victory he says to them he will God will
your God Yahweh will give you the
victory you do not have to manipulate
for it you don’t have to create it you
don’t have to manufacture it all you
have to do is go and claim the victory
that you’ve already been given I don’t
know if you know are not my friends but
if you read the whole book in the end we
win the victory has already been given
to you so Moses says when you realize
that you’re fighting not for victory but
from victory it changes the way you look
at the Red Sea when you realize that the
victory has already been given to you
and that you
going to lay claim to everything that
your God already has stored up for you
it changes the way you face the
difficulties and then I face the battles
in my life
so Moses says now knowing that the
victory is already yours
that your God is for you that he is
paving the way on your behalf he says
now you just do these four simple little
things and you can lay hold of the
victory that has been has been stored up
for you he says number one be fearless
he says be still he says be watchful see
the salvation of the Lord
and he says Shh be quiet I figured for
just a few minutes we could talk about
these four things the very first and
probably possibly the very most
important thing that Moses says to the
children of Israel as they face their
red sea is that they need to be fearless
he says it this way do not fear in fact
this principle is so important and I
know is taught so importantly at this
particular church in this church life
I’ve heard it taught from your pastor
from this platform on many occasions to
different conferences and different
settings so I know you have heard this
before and yet it needs so much
reminding in the lives of God’s people
it is so important that over 300 times
throughout the Scriptures we find this
exact same command do not fear do not be
afraid be fearless over and over fear
not different ways different variations
of the exact same command in fact this
command is so important for the people
of God that by the time you get all the
way to the New Testament the Apostle
Paul writing to a young man named
Timothy he says just in case you’re
unclear Tim you need to know that our
God does not give a spirit of fear he
does a lot of gift-giving he enjoys
giving gifts but one thing you will
never find coming from our God is a
spirit of fear that’s just not the way
he rose so it made sense that sense that
Moses would need to tell the children of
Israel not to be afraid it made absolute
complete sense I mean think about their
situation they have been tortured for
400
as a people group they have just been
hesitantly released by Pharaoh from
captivity they are literally days into
the journey and just days into the
journey they they overhear that Pharaoh
and the entire Egyptian army are coming
up on the rear as they try to journey
onward with their lives and and then to
top top off the the problems that
they’re having the Red Sea is now in
front of them so they have problems in
front of them and they have problems
coming behind them but scholars say that
the army would have been so vast that
they wouldn’t have just come up on the
rear y’all they would have been spread
out around the sides the east side and
the west side so that really the
children of Israel were completely
surrounded on all sides it occurs to me
them to group this side there are some
of you that know exactly how that feels
because just when you finish fixing this
problem you turn this way only to find
out there’s another one waiting on you
over here and then you fix this one only
to find out there’s another here and
another there everywhere you look you
feel like you’re completely surrounded
and when we’re in scenarios like that it
makes sense in our natural human frailty
our response emotionally would be fear
it makes sense because we’re just human
and still Moses looks of the children of
Israel and says do not fear even though
your human reaction is to fear he says
it’s not that you won’t feel it you just
get to make the choice whether or not to
wallow in it you get to decide whether
you will make friends with the fear that
you feel whether you won’t allow it to
you and paralyze you and keep
you from moving forward if fear crippled
them they would never have the
opportunity to see the incredible
incredible miracle that God had in store
for them that they would only experience
if they were still willing to put one
foot in front of the other and move
forward and onward even with the
difficulty in their asset what the enemy
knows is that fear will you so
that you will not put one foot in front
of the other and move forward and as
long as you and I are just sitting in
church saying amen to the message he
doesn’t have a problem with that long as
you just come to the first conference
once a year he doesn’t have a problem
with that long as you are at the
conference once a year he doesn’t he
didn’t have problem with that but he has
a problem with is someone who comes on
Sunday and comes to the conference and
is enjoying the presence of God but then
walks out of these doors and lives
fearlessly puts one foot in front of the
other in obedience to God and moves
onward toward the destiny that God has
for them
he doesn’t mind us hearing the word he
doesn’t want us hearing the word tucking
it into our hearts and moving onward
with our lives
disregarding any intention he may have
to us and paralyze us from
moving forward so you’ve got to decide
whether or not you’re going to entertain
the fear that you feel and so when fear
knocks on your door you’ve got to decide
whether or not you’re going to invite it
to come in to have coffee and and and
tea and stay a while to put up its feet
on your coffee table and become your
friend that’s your decision and so when
you feel fear arising don’t entertain it
don’t engage it exchange it for an
opportunity to pray to offer your your
request to God as he does does desire to
hear our our requests but in the
meanwhile you keep putting one foot in
front of the other do not be afraid can
I just tell you all to that just quickly
that one of the ways that I’ve
determined the leading of God in my life
one of the ways that I start to
determine the way the leading of God in
my life is when I’m praying and Jerry
and I are trying to consider two options
that are in front of us and whether God
would have us choose option A or chop
option B and in some area of our life um
if there is one in particular that I do
not care for I just I don’t want to do
that don’t want to go there don’t want
to participate in that and as I’m
praying through it if I consider all of
the reasons why I don’t want this option
and when I water it down to its base
level if any of the reasoning even at
its most root most based fundamental
level if there is anything having to do
with fear or intimidation or insecurity
that is keeping me away from this option
that I automatically assume that if our
God does not give a spirit of fear and
there
is a spirit of fear attached to this
option that it must mean that the enemy
is going out of his way to try to steer
me away from that particular option and
if he’s trying to keep me away from that
particular option he must know that
there is a busing in that option that he
does not want me to have and I don’t
know about y’all but when I find out
that the enemy is behind something it
causes the holy indignation to rise up
on the inside of me I want every single
thing God has for me can I get one
person to say Amen and so if you find
that that a spirit of fear is attaching
itself to some specific area of your
life that you pray about that you ask
the Lord is there is this a Red Sea that
the enemy is trying to steer me clear of
because he knows if I keep putting one
foot in front of the other if I cross
through this thing that on the other
side is the milk and honey that you have
planned for me so do not be afraid the
second thing he says to the children of
Israel if they’re going to claim the
victory he says to them to be still some
translations say stand by some say stand
firm stand still that’s the gist of it I
want you to notice the two parts of the
command the standing part and the
stillness part I want you to put
yourself in the position of the children
of Israel read see four hundred years of
being brutalized as a people group the
Egyptian army coming up behind them and
the best most strategic battle plan that
Moses can come up with is stand still
you got to be kidding me
Moses you do realize that there’s a
sword right here you don’t want me to
grab the sword sharpen it so that I can
get ready to defeat these enemies Moses
you do realize there’s bow and arrows
right here I can set set flame to the
end of these aerial arrows we can go
ahead and send them sailing in the enemy
camp
no you do realize that there’s some wood
right here I can go ahead and start
carving it up and I can tie some logs
together I can get us a nice nice rest
for me and my family to head across this
body of water Moses I do have some
solutions and the solution you have
doesn’t seem to make any sense you mean
Moses that you do not want me
to my own understanding as to what to me
seems like a suitable solution for this
scenario you want me to do that which
contradicts my flesh contradicts what
you are instructing me to do Moses says
yep what you need to do in this scenario
is not what your mind thinks you should
not what your flesh wishes you would
what you need to do is plant your feet
and stand still now standing and
stillness both sound like the most
passive of commands I mean there’s so
many more active engaged things that I
could think of doing when I’m in
troubling situations in my life standing
still doesn’t seem like it’s gonna do
any good at all it seems so passive we
need something more active but I want
you to think about this for just a
moment Thursday after you ate your third
helping of turkey after you downed a bit
more of the sweet potatoes and the yams
and the green beans and pumpkin pie I
don’t know about you but after I took in
all that that sugar and all those carbs
in one sitting like that when I walked
into the living room in front of that
football game the last thing I wanted to
do was stand I wanted to sit down
because standing is actually not that
passive sitting is passive because it
means you want something else to carry
all of your weight Moses says do not
relax yourself require your body to be
resolved in fact think about how much
energy and effort it really does take
when you’re especially tired and you’re
sitting down and someone asks you to
stand up you just don’t want to right
but it could be because it really does
require you to engage your mind for your
brain to send instructions down to the
bones and the joints in your body the
muscles everything has to cooperate in
order for your skeletal structure to be
held upright over an extended period of
time
there’s nothing passive about standing
at all Moses says to the children of
Israel the Holy Spirit says to us today
you want
win this battle then you plant your feet
firmly on the promises of God and you
call your mind and your brain and your
joints and your muscles to be resolved
to stand firmly on what God says about
your circumstance no matter how deep
your Red Sea looks you stand still plant
your feet to be resolved believe that he
is who he said he is and he can and will
accomplish what he says that he will
accomplish there was a young lady that
interned with our ministry for a while
her name was Katie she was with us for
the summer she moved from Baton Rouge
Louisiana to Dallas Fort Worth now Baton
Rouge we Louisiana’s airport is a little
bit smaller than dallas-fort Worth
Airport and I’m sure that the majority
of you here in Dallas have flown out of
DFW and you know it’s just a monster
Airport and she had never flown a lot
period but when she had it had only been
in and out of Baton Rouge and so when
she moved here for the summer she was
going to be traveling with my family and
I we all traveled together most of the
time so on our very first trip y’all
know we went to terminal D to catch our
flight there are five terminals over
there and then if that weren’t confusing
enough at the airport not only are there
five terminals but then there are 32 36
gates in each of those terminals and
then if that weren’t confusing enough
they have the nerve to cause some of
those gates actually have a Part A and A
Part B so you might be going you know to
terminal a gate 36 B well on this
occasion we were at terminal D we pulled
up parked to the car got all our bags
out of the car and we made our way
towards a security we we then began to
take off all of our clothes so that we
could get through security and get to
the other side Katie’s line was taken a
long time my family and I had been in
one line she was in the other there was
a hiccup in her line she couldn’t get
through and so Jerry sent her a text
from the other side of security and said
hey we’re just going to gate 22a it was
literally right there to the left he
said we’ll meet you there
she waved at us she got the text she’ll
meet us there we sat down waited for
Katie still wasn’t there that line was
taking a long time
boarding the flight we got on the flight
got the kids all settled put our bags in
the overhead
when we were waiting for Katie I mean
they were boarding the last person now
still absolutely no Katie we were we
were sweating now we couldn’t understand
what was going on and we couldn’t find
her we couldn’t text her she wasn’t
responding nothing finally at the very
last minute I mean the very last minute
Katie comes running down the jet bridge
and down that little narrow airplane
aisle and she pops herself down in the
seat she is sweating bullets and her
hair is plastered to her face from all
the sweat we’re trying to figure out
what what was going on security was just
right there to the left of the gate
finally she looks up from her seat when
she got all settled to find the five of
us looking back at her like this we said
Katie what happened she said well I saw
that Jerry texted me to come to gate 22a
but I just assumed that he meant get a
22 so I got on the airport train that
takes you to every other terminal in DFW
Airport when I realized I was in the
wrong place I tried to scramble my way
back here as soon as possible I’ll never
forget my husband looking back at her
and saying Katie if you would have just
believed that exactly what I wrote was
exactly what I meant
I could have saved you so much time and
so much energy and so much so much sweat
if you would have just believed if you
would have just stood confidently on the
fact that exactly what he what he wrote
is exactly what he meant to be true for
your life and so be fearless and be
still and then Moses says would you be
watchful
he says open up your eyes and see the
salvation of the Lord remember they’re
still praying on this big miracle they
don’t know if the Red Sea is gonna
divide they don’t know how in the world
they’re gonna get across this body of
water and Moses says to them don’t close
your eyes waiting on a big miracle you
open your eyes up while you’re yet
waiting even while you’re waiting to see
how God is gonna respond in a great big
way to your great big problem don’t
close your eyes and sleep through it
open your eyes up right now to see the
little miracle that miracles that God is
already doing on your behalf be watchful
see the salvation of the Lord
Moses didn’t want them to ever forget
what it looked like when his rod was
held up over that body of water he
wanted them to never forget what the
faces of their toddlers look like as
they were wide-eyed in awe and wonder it
all that God was doing he never wanted
them to forget what it looked like what
it felt like that the hands the
weathered hands of their elderly as they
grabbed those hands and walked across
the body of water he never wanted them
to forget what it looked like when their
sandals he collected absolutely no mud
on the bottom because they were walking
across on dry ground he never wanted
them to forget what it felt like when
that east wind started blowing slowly at
first but then began to gain more and
more steam and begin to Bro so hard that
it parted that body of water into two
walls he wanted them to see the details
of God’s deliverance so he said don’t
call your eyes waiting on something big
open your eyes up right now because God
is already doing something big that you
do not want to miss in your life so open
up your eyes and be watchful yes keep
praying that God will do it in the
meanwhile keep your eyes open to see all
the it’s he’s doing in your life today
so you’d be fearless you be still
you’d be watchful
and finally Moses says Shh be quiet
guard yourself against complaining
discipline your mouth to do what my mama
said growing up if you don’t have
anything good to say don’t say anything
at all the scripture says that our God
watches over his word to perform it so
why would we give the enemy something to
work with out of our mouths instead of
giving God something to work with over
our lives and so you speak this word
over your Red Sea you you you find
confidence and the promises of God that
are specific to what it is that you were
facing and then you just watch God
respond just like he did with the
children of Israel because then a
fearless watchful silent steadfast bunch
of Hebrews they got to see the miracle
of the lifetime
a miracle that by the way when the when
Hollywood did the movie The Ten
Commandments it took them 18 months to
figure out how to simulate what our God
did in a split second he did it for them
and I’m here to tell you he’ll do it for
you you just be fearless
you’d be still you’d be watchful and Shh
don’t complain be silent
Lord Jesus I pray for your people I pray
God that you would cloak us with an
assurance and a holy courage Lord that
will enable us to face our Red Sea
head-on without being paralyzed or
crippled or handled pampered by fear
lord I pray over this group of folks
that’s in this room today and even those
on the other side of the screen I am
asking in the name of Jesus that you
would list fear off of us Lord that you
would bring a holy courage and boldness
to us in Jesus name Lord I’m praying
that you would help us to be a church
that will stand steadfast on your
promises that we will believe that what
you have said to us is what you mean for
us Lord would you cause us to be
watchful to to be grew so grateful for
everything that we see you do in each
24-hour period of our day even while
we’re yet praying and waiting and and
desiring to see you do something else
would we never be ungrateful for all the
things you were
already doing and then God would you
help us to be guarded against complaint
would you remind us of all of the
benefits that we already have in
Amen