Priscilla Shirer speaks at the Propel Women’s Conference to discuss how often we are scheduling sin into our lives. Listen as she teaches that it’s not enough to simply show up to church on Sundays, and that we should aim to invite the favor of God into our lives as we strive to be more like Him.
going to church is good but it’s not
enough
do in your bible study oh it’s great but
it’s not enough if you want god’s
presence on you marking you making you
distinct and different from the people
around you then you gotta walk in a
manner worthy of the lord
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there is one thing that attracts the
presence of god to rest on our
lives and it is
holiness
plain old
flat out
old school
holiness
i implore you sisters by the mercies of
god
to walk in a manner worthy of the
calling by which you have been called
that if you come if i come into this
room and we celebrate till we are blue
in the face and we wave our hands and we
read the scriptures and we worship but
we walk out of here and we live in a way
that is incongruent
with everything that we’ve heard here
today
if we do not choose to walk in a way
that honors god we will have wasted the
time that we have spent here
and if there is something that breaks my
heart for my own generation and the
generation coming up after me
is that social media has made it so that
we are more interested in impressing
people
than walking holy before our god
we are more interested in being
perfectly lit
than we are in making sure that we’re
laying up treasures for ourselves in
heaven
lord help us
when because of our hubris because of
our arrogance because of our pride we
are more interested
in receiving the applause of people than
we are of making sure that we will
receive the applause of heaven
but a day is coming y’all sooner than we
think we’re going to look our savior in
his face where we’re going to see him
face to face and when we see him he will
not ask me how many instagram followers
i had
he will not wonder how many people liked
my message on twitter what he’ll ask me
is number one did i have a relationship
with his son jesus
and then i will give
an account
you will give an account
and i don’t know about y’all but when i
give an account i’m looking for
a well done
not because i necessarily please people
but because he is pleased with my life
and the one thing that invites the favor
of god on our life like simeon that will
open our eyes to see him more clearly so
that we don’t miss him when he comes
into our circumstances trying to speak
to us to answer us to make himself a
parent in our lives the one thing that
opens up our eyes is god’s spirit on us
and if you want if i want god’s spirit
on our lives then we got to decide to
live
holy
i implore you by the mercies of god to
lay aside every sin
every hindrance anything that is keeping
you entangled so that you cannot run
with endurance the race that is set
before you
any relationship severe it at the past
so that you can walk holy sister
any addiction any habit any lifestyle
choice that is keeping you from being
free and walking in victory in jesus
name let it go by the power of the holy
spirit so that he can rest on your life
going to church is good but it’s not
enough
do in your bible study oh it’s great but
it’s not enough if you want god’s
presence on you marking you making you
distinct and different from the people
around you then you’ve got to walk in a
manner worthy of the lord
be
ye
holy
it’s not perfection
it is a call to yield to the power of
the holy spirit in you so that you do
not give way to all the desires of your
flesh
what it means is that you have not
chosen as a lifestyle
an attitude or an action that you
already know is displeasing to god
you know up front that you’ve already
got on your calendar after this is over
a place you’re going or a person you’re
seeing that you know you don’t have busy
any business being in relationship with
but you’ve already scheduled sin into
your calendar
i’m saying walk away from everything
that is keeping you from having the
biggest most amazing blessing you can
have on your life and that is god’s
presence
marking you
all up on you setting you apart girl for
his purposes and with his power evident
through your life if you are in this
room and you are in chains in some area
of your life where you’ve tried the
12-step program you’ve tried to walk
away from that illegitimate relationship
you’ve tried to not live this lifestyle
because you know that it is out of
alignment with the truth of god but
everything you’ve tried in your own
power has not set you free so that you
can walk in holiness and have god’s
presence resting on your life i believe
that before this day is over those
chains can fall off of your life
that you can decide that i’m gonna live
holy so that i can have god’s favor like
simeon so that my eyes can be opened
because i want to see my god i want to
hear his voice i want to have an
experience and an encounter with him if
you are in this room
and you know you’re not walking in
holiness
you know there is an area of your life
whether in attitude
or an action
i mean god’s asked you to forgive that
person and you have dug your heels in
the ground you have refused to forgive
or in your actions where you were
literally doing something participating
in something engaging in something and
you’ve dug your heels into the ground
you’ve ignored the little pricks of the
holy spirit asking you to walk away from
that
or to participate in that
you’ve you’ve ignored it and you know
you are not living holy before the lord
and you want to get that strike today so
that we can all be women who honor god
in our attitudes and in our actions and
invite the favor of god on our lives
listen if you are in this room and you
know holiness is the call that god has
given to you this morning
would you please right now in this holy
space just rise to your feet if that’s
you if you need freedom in a specific
area of your life we’re going to walk
out of here a holy band of women
who want god’s favor on us