The author and teacher shares how women can create a battle plan for effective prayer and her debut acting role in the hit movie “War Room”. Watch full episodes of our show at www.tpizone.com!
last August the movie war room hit
theaters making her big screen debut was
best-selling author and speaker
Priscilla Shire in this film from the
creators of courageous and fireproof
Priscilla’s plays a woman who finds
herself in a battle to save her marriage
and family she learns that to win she
needs a strategic plan of Prayer you
need to do your side in drag recently
Priscilla took her role into real life
with her new book fervent she shows
women how to create strategies that will
help them fight the tough battles in
their own lives your wife and mother
first and then we have all the things
that you do in terms of ministry writing
now acting and I thought about all the
women especially but people in general
who say I don’t have time to pray I have
so many things on my plate oh yeah how
do you find time to really pray and then
do you find yourself making up the
difference do you lose anything in the
process you know what I find that the
Lord seems to multiply my time when I
just put first things first it’s kind of
like when he told the children of Israel
about gathering manna and he said but on
that you know on that Sabbath day on
that seventh day you don’t gather just
trust that what I give you on the sixth
day will be a double portion it’ll be
enough to carry through and so I’ve kind
of just seared that on my heart in my
mind when I’m getting too busy now let
me just also clarify and say I am so not
perfect at it you know I got these three
boys of mine and you know I’m still
trying to figure out you know another
way to cook chicken for dinner for
tonight
you know festival and I’ve got laundry
everywhere so I totally get the struggle
of it but I do think that being
strategic in our prayer lives and even
writing down either what we’re praying
or at least the name of someone we’re
praying for and having those prayers
posted which is the goal of some of the
ministry that the Lord has laid on my
heart just encouraging people to to sort
of write down what your focus is now you
know a lot of times we talk about
fervent prayer which that comes from the
book of James and the Bible works is the
effectual fervent prayer of the
righteous availeth much
some people think fervent prayer is how
loud I can pray and you know whatever we
think we’re bringing
Oh heaven or whatever but what really is
fervent prayer
well fervor is passion and passion is
the fuel that drives you past
discouragement past heartache past
exhaustion it’s like an Olympic runner
well the training process they don’t
necessarily like it but they’re doing it
because they’ve got this fuel underneath
the surface that is continuing to burn
and that it presses them onward even
when they don’t feel like doing all of
the the many regimented things they have
to do to be prepared so fervor is one of
the things by the way that the enemy
wants to steal from us if he can get
your passion then he knows he’s really
hit you where it hurts because if your
fuel is gone then as soon as external
circumstances are not in alignment with
your goals you’ll fall by the wayside
because you have nothing to keep you
going and so fervour is this invitation
that we have to experience the passion
that God’s own spirit stirs up in your
heart it’s an internal fervor it has
nothing to do with external factors in
terms of them taking your fervor away or
in terms of you manufacturing some sort
of hype that’s what it is when it’s
manufactured right its emotionalism and
its height but passions stirred by God’s
Spirit that creates a fervor on the
inside of you that really can’t be
quelled no matter what’s going on on the
outside and you said a few minutes ago
the word strategy because one thing you
really talked about in the book is the
need for strategic prayer but why do we
need to have a strategy for prayer it
seems like prayer should be so simple
you know it’s just a conversation with
God yeah that’s what we say but why do
we need a strategy and I agree with you
it is a conversation with God in prayer
but what are you conversating with him
about what are you even bringing to him
are you just throwing some words out and
hoping they they mean something or are
you being thoughtful
that’s what strategy means it means
where you look at all of the
circumstances that are that are around
your life the people and the things that
you hold dear and you look to see where
the enemy is at work this is why we need
to be strategic because the enemy is
strategic he’s not throwing out some
blanketed approach in hopes that he
catched people in his little net of
deception no he knows us he knows my
weaknesses the enemy is after our demise
so once we find out that the enemy is
strategic well why wouldn’t we want to
be strategic
as opposed to praying randomly we have
to be thoughtful about what it is that
we see the enemy doing where we see him
at work in the undercurrents of our
circumstances and then apply the
promises of God from his own word to
those specific situations in our prayer
life so in that way we decide not only
to be consistent in prayer which is also
important but to be intentional
deliberate and strategic hit the enemy
where it hurts this is my favorite place
in this house I called it my war room
you wrote prayers for each area of your
life prayer strategy I sure could use
some of that there’s something about the
closet and the film is called war room
hmm why is it important to have this
place that we go to and we seek the Lord
that’s separate from everything else
well I do think that it minimizes
distraction I do think that and and
there is some beauty in having this
place that is set aside you know what
it’s for you and God know what it’s for
even if nobody else does and when you’re
in that place you don’t have to worry
about impressing anybody else nobody’s
there watching they’re not seeing what
you’ve written down and posted on that
wall where it’s behind a closed door
it’s literally just a place where you
can be honest and authentic with God so
there is beauty in that but I do hope
that movie goers will take it a step
further and see that really that war
room in a lot of ways yes physically it
matters that we have a place even if
it’s just the corner of your room your
bedroom where you post a few things but
it is also symbolic of something bigger
than just a physical war room it is
prioritizing a place in your mind
prioritizing a place in your schedule
prioritizing a place in your
decision-making prioritizing a place in
our lives where we say we are going to
honor God we are going to seek him first
above all else and so yes we do that
physically by having a place we’ve
carved out for him but you know we do it
in our schedules too we do it on paper
we do it by letting the person know that
we’re making a decision with that you
know what I got to seek God first I’ll
get back with you and my answer so again
it’s about prioritizing our relationship
with God above all else