Priscilla Shirer shares an inspiring word on having confidence that God doesn’t just speak to famous pastors or authors, we can all hear His voice! This video was brought to you by TBN Networks®. SUBSCRIBE here and never miss an upload! https://www.youtube.com/c/PraiseTBN/?… WATCH full Praise episodes for free on the TBN app: https://watch.tbn.org/praise
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as long as you and I are not convinced
that we can hear a fresh word from God
for ourselves then at best we’ll be
handicapped in our faith because we’ll
always be waiting on somebody else to
spoon feed us the word of God instead of
knowing that we can have confidence in
our friendship in our relationship with
God
my dad got to tell on him just a little
bit he is technologically challenged
every advancement sort of goes over his
head and you know I can sympathize with
him because I’m a little bit the same
way I’m not really into all of the new
advances of technology I can’t quite
keep up well he’s been this way all the
time and just to give you a little bit
of an inkling on where he stands on
technology still to this day my father
writes down all of his sermon notes on
one of those yellow legal pads you know
the ones that come bound together at the
top and you sort of just write down on
all of those lined yellow sheets of
paper my father’s got those yellow pads
laying all over the house he still does
not type not a one note he writes them
all by hand to this day well his lack of
knowledge in regards to technology isn’t
a new thing early on years ago I
remember maybe 15 years ago or so when
there were no iPads yet you know it
wasn’t as advanced as it is now but
about 15 20 years ago I recall something
that happened my dad really wanted to
figure out how to get online but the
only reason he wanted to get online is
because at the time my youngest brother
Jonathan was playing football for Baylor
University he wanted to get on the
Baylor University website so that he
could look up his youngest son John John
who was playing football for Baylor and
if you know anything about my dad he may
not be about technology but he sure is
about that football and so with his
youngest son playing college level
football he wouldn’t do everything he
could to look him up so at the time my
sister was at the house and so he called
Crystal back into the guest room the
fourth bedroom of our parents home back
there
20 years ago back in that room there was
a whole monitor that was sitting on the
desk there with a keyboard but he really
didn’t use it so he said to Crystal
Crystal come back here show me how to
turn this thing on so when I tell you
that they were starting from scratch I
mean they were starting from scratch my
sister came back to the back room and
she said dad let me show you where the
on button is so you will know in the
future how to turn this thing on once
they got it all powered up then my dad
said to her how do I get to the Baylor
homepage so she showed him how to type
in the URL address so that you can get
to the website that you want to be on so
finally she got him to the Baylor
homepage and just when they got to the
home page the phone rang Crystal had to
run out of the room into the kitchen
where the phone was plugged into the
wall and so she raced out of the room
and as she raced out of the room my dad
yelled after her how do I maneuver
around this page she said back to him
use the mouse
so
daddy starts looking around for a mouse
he had no idea what in the world she was
talking about he of course lays Eyes
Upon This little Gadget that’s got a
tail sticking out of it he assumes this
must be the mouse
so he picks it up places it flat on the
computer monitor and begins to drag it
up and down side to side on the actual
computer monitor then when that didn’t
work he just held it up in the air and
was sort of just moving it around in
midair my sister came back to find our
fairly bright stable father waving a
mouse around in the air now here’s what
you need to know that computer has been
in the fourth bedroom of my parents
house for a long time he also has
a laptop that someone gave him and it’s
you know folded and unused in the drawer
of his desk at his office there’s also
another computer monitor and a keyboard
that is in his office space at the
church so my point is he has computers
available to him he has technology
available to him but technology does you
no good
unless you know how to use it
having it available is not enough you
gotta know how to use it
for the next few moments I want to just
encourage you less preach and more just
teach and talk to you about the
importance of us as God’s people not
just having God’s word available to us
but knowing how to use it
listen to me more now than ever before
as our culture continues to be
increasingly Godless
you and I are going to have to know how
to do what the psalmist said
I hide God’s word in my heart so that I
might not sin against him we got to use
God’s word it’s not enough for us to
just have the Bible around our home
because you know you got the big pretty
one that’s up on the mantle you’ve got
the little small one that sits on your
nightstand you’ve got the one that’s
just for Decor that might be like a
coffee table book and then you know you
have that one that one that’s got all
the dog ears and it’s got all the
underlines and all the Post-it notes
that’s the one that you take to church
with you so you can actually look you
know holy like you use the Bible we have
all of these Bibles available to us but
the Bible don’t do us no good just
sitting there looking pretty it only
does US good if we know how to actually
take advantage of the truths of God the
fresh breath of God that is available to
us through the scriptures so I want to
talk to you to me to us challenge us
about utilizing God’s word truth
everyone is saying is so relative no one
has as a reverence anymore for the truth
of God as declared in his word now more
than ever if we’re going to be
Unapologetic about our faith if we’re
going to be able to stand firm against
the schemes of the enemy if we’re going
to be able high school student and
University student and mother and father
wife husband single woman single man
entrepreneur Ministry president if we’re
going to be having the opportunity to
stand firm then we got to know the truth
of God’s word and we’ve got to be able
to live off of every word that God
speaks to us we’ve got to be found on
our knees in prayer and prioritizing our
time in God’s word
the enemy wants to convince you
he wants to convince me that God has
some sort of hotline connection between
he and certain people that it’s just our
spiritual leaders our pastors our Bible
study teachers the folks that are on
staff the people that are in full-time
Ministry the folks that have you know a
microphone on their jacket the people
that are in the spotlight the folks who
we go past their Instagram feed and we
are admonished or encouraged because
they are teaching and preaching to
masses the enemy wants you to think that
it’s a seminary degree that is required
before you can actually have a fervent
ongoing relationship with God where you
yourself can open up the word of God and
know that the Holy Spirit can illumine
the scriptures and give you guidance and
Direction and insight and Clarity and
encouragement and comfort he wants you
to think that that kind of fervent
friendship with God is only for certain
people because he knows that as long as
you and I are not convinced that we can
hear a fresh word from God for our
ourselves then at best we’ll be
handicapped in our faith because we’ll
always be waiting on somebody else to
spoon feed us the word of God instead of
knowing that we can have confidence in
our friendship in our relationship with
God that person who you admire
rightfully so there are people that I
admire their faith their stability their
strength their peace in the midst of the
storm there are people I admire their
prayer life I admire how they are
Concrete in their faith and their
beliefs no matter what happens in
culture there are people I admire their
Ministry I admire the fervency in which
I see the presence of God operating in
their life so yeah there are folks that
we can admire but just as quickly as we
admire them we have to be careful and
guard ourselves against thinking that
what they have access to is not also
something that we have access to the
same holy spirit of God the lives in
that person you admire is the same
presence and power of God that lives on
the inside of you to guide you into all
truth to illumine the scriptures so that
you too can hear the voice of God
and so I want to encourage you to not
wait until Sunday morning for a word
from God I want to encourage you to not
wait until the next time your Bible
study group can get together again in
person before you engage in hearing the
voice of God for yourself from the
scriptures I want to encourage you to
not depend upon someone else to spoon
feed you God’s truth I want to remind
you that you can hear God and we need to
have a daily relationship with God
through his word your stability is
counting on it your peace my peace of
mind particularly in the craziness and
Chaos of the culture that we’re living
in right now if we don’t have a
relationship with God where we are
prioritizing coming to him in his word
then we will find that we are not stable
we don’t have peace of mind we don’t
have Clarity Revelation Direction
insight and encouragement to keep on
putting one foot in front of the other
and not be discouraged by what we see
happening around us