Priscilla Shirer teaches at the Fervent conference in New York on TBN’s Praise. Be encouraged as Priscilla Shirer shifts your perspective to what God is doing behind the scenes in your life, and why your prayers are the key to God’s providence.
and the Holy Spirit said to me that’s
just like you and me Priscilla because
I’m behind the scenes orchestrating and
crafting the chapters of your story all
the while you think I’m doing nothing
you point an accusatory finger at me
wondering where I am and why I’m not
hearing your request and why I’m not
moving in the way that you would like me
to move you’re assuming that I’m sitting
back passively ignoring you we’re all
the while I am busy making a story out
of your life the likes of which you
can’t imagine
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Jude and I were sitting together on an
airplane and he was seated over the wing
where our seats were directly over the
wing of the airplane and so he was sort
of just looking out at the wing of the
plane and there we were suspended in
mid-air flying to our destination and I
could tell he was mesmerized by this
whole concept that this tube of Steel is
in the air holding us up and that um
this this Wing is connected to the plane
he was sort of just dissecting this
entire this entire situation and as he
looked over the wing he looked back at
me and said mom how do they get that
wing on this plane
and I said buddy I got to be honest with
you I have no idea I have no idea how
they get that wing on the plane I don’t
know how it works but I have an idea for
you Jude you have an uncle their dad’s
brother Uncle Vaughn he works in the
airline industry he actually works in
the business where they they make all
the veins and the wiring that connects
the different parts of the aircraft so I
saw this as a teachable moment I said
you should talk to your Uncle Vaughn
when we get home it’d be a great
opportunity for you to learn something
and then I said to him you know what
you can be whatever you want to be when
you grow up dude do you know that you
can do whatever you want to do like if
you want to make airplanes like your
uncle Von when you grow up you can so
totally do that if you’d like to and as
I said that to him I said buddy you can
be anything you want to be in your life
anything you want to do you can do it he
looked back at me and he said Mom
I don’t want to do what Uncle Vaughn
does when I grow up I want to do what
you do when I grow up
[Applause]
you know it’s one of those moments where
you’re just thinking baby what do you
want whatever you want I’m gonna give it
to you
oh but wait for it
because I looked back at him and said
buddy
what does Mama Do
now I had expectations about what his
answer was going to be at least some
framework about how he might respond
Lord I’d love to or Mom I’d love to
share the Lord with people Mom I’d like
to write Mom I would like to do a myriad
of different things maybe that he could
have said but he looked back and he said
Mom
I want to do nothing just like you
you do nothing all day every day you do
nothing
I said buddy you see how like the
clothes you’re wearing right now are
clean how do you think that they
actually get clean he said well that’s
just like washing that’s no big deal I
said but you eat every day you eat
actual food how do you think it gets
cooked and he said that’s what moms do
that’s no big deal
and I said but you know every now and
then there’s a book or there might be a
Bible study there’s even though there
was a little film a little movie
remember it’s been we spent like three
months maybe that what do you think I’m
doing he’s like you’re just sitting
behind the computer all day just doing
this you’re doing nothing
I laughed and then I thought in that
moment right after the conversation
how much that is like my relationship
with the Lord
in fact there was confirmation of that
because the very next day and I only
share this with you to make this point
but the very next day after that
conversation with Jude my publisher sent
me an email they sent an email to tell
me about something that they know I
never know because I’m keeping up with
three sons they said Priscilla we just
want to let you know that fervent
um a little book that I had written we
want you to know that it’s on the New
York Times bestseller list it actually
won a few Awards they said that to me in
the email and all I could do when I
looked at it was chuckle because it was
just the day before that my son said to
me
that when I was doing to him to what
looked like and amounted to nothing
that is exactly when I was crafting
something that hopefully would be a
blessing to people’s lives
and the Holy Spirit said to me that’s
just like you and me Priscilla
because I’m behind the scenes
orchestrating and crafting the chapters
of your story all the while you think
I’m doing nothing you point an
accusatory finger at me wondering where
I am and why I’m not hearing your
request and why I’m not moving in the
way that you would like me to move
you’re assuming that I’m sitting back
passively ignoring you we’re all the
while I am busy making a story out of
your life the likes of what you can’t
imagine
I came to encourage somebody today that
there’s a chapter that is being written
right now with your story I’m talking
about right now in that difficulty right
now in that Valley year of your marriage
right now in that trouble in your
finances that difficulty on your job
that hardship with your co-worker I’m
talking about that one co-worker the one
that if she says one more thing to you
you go knock her out that one
there is a chapter he is crafting
a manuscript he’s writing
that one day when we see him face to
face
we’re gonna see the story that he was
telling
and every single Crown we get we’re
going to turn around and place it right
Back At His Feet
and say thank you Lord for this
privilege that we had to live a life
a life in relationship with you
and so even with these hardships and
even with these hurts we pray and we
pray in gratitude we pray in
gratefulness in advance thanking him for
the answer that he will give us that is
simultaneous to what we’ve asked for or
the answer that is so far beyond our
capacity to even comprehend and pray
that we trust him for something that
that has so much generational ripple
effect the likes of which we may never
see in our grandchildren and our
great-grandchildren and our great great
grandchildren I’m so glad for the
prayers of a grandmother and a great
grandmother and grandfather in my life
who pranks himself that y’all they
didn’t get to see the fruit of their
prayer
but how glad I am that they trusted him
to do what they were asking or something
better