Priscilla Shirer teaches at the 2018 Passion Conference for TBN’s Praise. Listen in as Priscilla Shirer teaches the importance of knowing what God’s Word has to say about you, and the power and purpose you have in CHRIST JESUS. The enemy knows God’s Words about you are true. Do you?
knows that every single thing that God’s
word declares to be true about you every
word that has been declared over you in
these last few days of this conference
even if you’re not convinced about it
the enemy is he knows that you have been
forgiven he knows that there is
therefore now no condemnation for those
of us who are in Christ Jesus he knows
that you have been given the victory he
knows that you have been made competent
by the spirit of God
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um it’s a little bit scary to me that
they are nearly and will be very soon in
the next few years will be about your
age three sons the distinguishing
characteristic about my boys is that
they are giants they are huge boys my 15
year old is six foot two inches tall he
wears a size 14 men’s shoe my 13 year
old is about 6-1 he wears a 13 men’s
shoe and uh they Tower over me I have a
nine-year-old who’s coming up in the
ranks with his brothers they are tall
boys somebody come help me feed these
people
and one of the distinguishing
characteristics about or what makes
their size work for them rather is that
they do love sports so whatever sport is
sort of in season that’s what we’re
playing at the time my second son for a
lot of years he’s into basketball now
but for a lot of years baseball was his
thing and I enjoyed that I enjoyed
baseball season I liked going out there
for Spring ball I liked Spring ball
because you go sit in the cool of the
evening while your kid is practicing I
remember all those years of of little
league when he was just coming up and
we’d sit out there in the cool of the
spring evening Under The Lights of the
bleachers watching him practice and
enjoying just uh that that whole
atmosphere I like Spring ball so much
the only problem with Spring ball is
that it is going to become Summer Ball
and I don’t know what happens where you
live wherever you’re coming from but I
can’t tell you in Dallas Texas which is
where I still lived
and where I was born and raised in
Dallas Texas in the summertime it
doesn’t warm up slightly
it gets hot I’m talking about slap your
mama hot that kind of hot the kind of
hot where you feel like the sun must be
mad at you about something like you did
something to the sun and the Sun is
trying to get you back all summer long
that’s what it feels like and you’re
sitting out there at a game trying to
enjoy your kids game and it really still
is okay when there’s just one game the
problem is that at the end of every
season there’s a tournament
so you got to be out there on a Thursday
at 8 A.M and 10 a.m and noon and 2 p.m
and then depending upon how your kids
team did you’re gonna have to come back
on Friday at 8 A.M and 10 a.m and then
they give you a little lunch break but
you got to come back for the 2PM game
the 4 P.M game and then if your kids
team had the nerve to do well you got to
come back again on Saturday for the 8
A.M game and 10 a.m and noon and two and
man you’re sitting out there under the
blazing sun trying to be happy that your
kid is doing well
really you’re wondering if it’s ever
okay to pray they lose so you can go
home
I will never confirm nor deny that I
have ever done that
but I will tell you that we were sitting
out there at a tournament just several
years ago
sun was Blazing we were so excited for
the lunch break just because that meant
we would be able to go to a restaurant
where there’d be air-conditioned and ice
water that actually had ice in it we got
refreshed we came back
we drove our SUV up into the parking lot
opened up the back of the SUV so that we
could pull out all the gear that we
needed to go to the next game in the
tournament we were three days into the
tournament hot sweaty they were doing
well we were trying to be excited about
it ready for the next game I was walking
behind my son to get from where we had
parked the car over toward the Dugout
where the next game was going to be
played and so I gathered up all the
stuff you know the ice chest that you
have and the um the umbrella that you
might have to go over your head and you
know the water bottles the the backpacks
the The Baseballs the mitts all that
stuff and I was following behind my son
my second son Jerry Jr is a fairly
gregarious personality he’s outgoing
he’s excited for a challenge so I could
see that in his step as I followed
behind him I could see a skip in his
step his chin was up his shoulders were
back he was excited about the next game
and I gotta tell you he’s pretty good in
baseball he has a natural knack for it I
remember at 10 years old the first time
he got a good hit and sent it sailing
over the fence line at 10 years old and
I think it’s partly because of his size
just a lot of power behind his swing a
great as a first baseman so we were
really excited about his success in
baseball and and I watched him as he
kind of hopped and skipped over to the
next game just excited about the next
challenge in the tournament but because
I was following behind him I had my eyes
glued on him and I could see when
something changed
I could see that as we took the short
walk from where we’d parked the car over
to the Dugout I could see that his
shoulders started to hunch over and his
head hung down I could see that that
skip that had been in this step had
changed he was kind of walking like he
was nervous he was wringing his hands a
little bit I saw that he was looking
around his eyes darting and looking a
little bit sketchy I was trying to
figure out what happened to my boy it
was a short walk from where we parked
the car over to the Dugout and all of a
sudden his countenance had completely
changed so I started looking around
trying to figure out what was going on
why did he look so insecure and fearful
all of a sudden
I realized that as we were going toward
the Dugout we were walking past
some kids from another team they were
all laying on the grass underneath the
shade of an oak tree getting ready for
the next game as I passed them I could
see this was the team we were about to
play next
kept walking and I kept getting a look
at these boys and when I looked at them
I realized what my son’s problem was
we had faced this team before
we had faced them earlier in the season
and when this team had played my son’s
team earlier in the season they had
annihilated us
it had been a complete embarrassment a
complete upset this team right here
y’all they were serious baseball players
but we had to walk right by them to get
to The Dugout as we walked past there
were two players they were talking to
each other one was whispering to the
other I think he thought he was
whispering but we could hear him
he leaned over to the other one and he
said
there goes that big kid from the Red Sox
team
is he the one that hit the ball and it
went over the fence
yeah he was the one at first base the
one that caught any of the outs that we
got in the game that was him
so that’s Jerry Shire
when my boy heard his name crossed the
lips of the opposing team members
those shoulders that had been hanging
down all of a sudden I watched them pop
back again
I watched his chin go up I watched him
get a little swag back in his set as he
headed over toward the dugout
in fact we had to bring him down a few
notches before the game started
it’s amazing really how your countenance
changes when you’re really overhear and
understand what the enemy thinks about
you when he sees you coming
it doesn’t mean that the challenge goes
away it means that in the face of it
you’re different your stance is
different because you recognize that
when the enemy sees a daughter or a son
of God coming his way he’s shaking in
his boots not because of you but because
of the holy spirit of God that lives on
the inside of me
to tell somebody today that even if you
don’t believe what it is that the word
of God declares to be true about you you
need to know that the enemy does
he knows that every single thing that
God’s word declares to be true about you
every word that has been declared over
you in these last few days of this
conference even if you’re not convinced
about it the enemy is
he knows that you have been forgiven he
know there is therefore now no
condemnation for those of us who are in
Christ Jesus he knows that you have been
given the victory he knows that you have
been made competent by the spirit of God
he know
is therefore now no condemnation for you
or for me no shame no guilt he knows
that you have not been given a spirit of
fear but a power and love and of a sound
mind and y’all he knows that in the end
we win
and I’m saying what ashamed it would be
for the enemy to believe more about your
potential than you do
what a shame it would be for us to go
out of here with all of this inspiration
that we have been given this investment
of God’s word that he has gathered us
together over the course of these days
to Worship in spirit and in truth and to
hear his word declared true over our
lives what a tragedy it would be for us
to walk out of here and still live like
we were before we came through these
doors