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Welcome to the Going Beyond Ministries with Priscilla Shirer YouTube channel! Our ministry is focused on the expository teaching of Scripture. Our desire is not only to see people understand His written Word but for all to experience His Power! Priscilla Shirer has equipped believers through her Bible studies, films and books including Discerning the Voice of God, God is Able, and two New York Times Bestsellers – The Resolution for Women and Fervent: A Woman’s Battle Plan for Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer. Her movies include War Room (2015), I Can Only Imagine (2017), Overcomer (2019), and The Forge (2024). These theatrical releases are tools designed to inspire audiences to walk with Jesus.
y’all I can’t imagine anything we need
more right now than
peace and Grace and we don’t need it in
measures that we can provide for
ourselves we need it in Divine
proportions that only God himself can
pour out upon
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us when I was going off for college I’ll
tell you this and then we’re going to
pray when I was going off to college I
remember for a graduation gift my
parents threw a graduation party for me
and a friend and people came over you
know they had gifts for us and I
remember that you know most of the
people who were at the party were not
our friends they weren’t the other 17
and 18 year olds they were my mama and
them friends cuz those are the people
that had the stuff to help us to go
ahead and get to college with you know
something in our pockets so my parents
friends were there one of the ladies
that we have known um for so many years
now she I remember gave me a book
Promises of God was the name of the book
and I remember opening up the bag and
thanking her for the gift but feeling a
little bit deflated like like for
real thank
you so I did take it to college with me
and I remember having it there I
remember putting it on my desk and then
over time throughout those years in
college it would get packed away as I
came back home for the summer and then
it would come back out into the room but
it would be further and further down in
the drawer you know of stuff that was
layered on top the busyness of college
life and I remember during all of those
college Years you know doing what
college students do by the time all the
gifts that you may have gotten to go
there run out then you’re scaming around
with all your friends for every nickel
and dime and dollar you can find to go
and buy a little meal with your friends
here their hang out over there and so
you’re just searching what for whatever
you can find I remember so many days
like that until one day in my last year
of college I remember that I was looking
through one of the big drawers in my
room and I looked down and realized that
that book was in the back sort of
pressed up in the corner of of this
drawer so I reached back there under all
of this stuff and I reached back there
and I pulled this little book out and
kind of smiled thinking about Mrs Holt
who had given me that book and I cracked
it open for the first time and out
fluttered a
check the whole
time that I had been
scringy whole time there was something
accessible and available to me but I had
to open up the
book and every time we open up the book
y’all we find out about treasure we
didn’t know was
there so we don’t have to to to live
below our spiritual means anymore we can
operate according to the inheritance
that has been given to us and so it
feels like a gift to me a privilege
every time I open it up
personally but the privilege that it is
to do it with you um is a joy tonight
and I’m praying that God will speak to
you as clearly as he had to has to me
encouraging me through this little
portion of scripture let’s pray Lord I
Thank you so much for your word that it
is living and active than and sharper
than any two-edged sword I pray father
that you would give me a clear mind and
I yield my mouth and my words to You
Lord to do with it what you will father
I ask that the words of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart would be
acceptable to you in Jesus name I pray
amen second Peter is where you’re headed
if you’ve got your Bible maybe you still
actually use a Bible with paper Pages
like I do all old school and stuff or
your iPhone your iPad any manner of
eyess can take you to Second Peter
chapter 1 that is where we’re going to
be and In this passage of scripture we
meet Peter the bonder servant and
Apostle of Jesus Christ this is that
that Peter the one who you know the kind
of lead disciple whose name continues to
show up all throughout the gospels he
has written to us a couple of Epistles
that end up being letters that you and I
can glean from and he says in 2 Peter
1:2 through
15 therefore I will always be ready to
remind you of these things even though
you already know them and you’ve been
established in the truth which is
present with you verse 13
and I consider it right as long as I am
in this body in this Earthly dwelling to
stir you up to wake you up to awaken you
and how I’m going to do it is by way of
reminder knowing that the laying aside
of my Earthly dwelling my body is
imminent as also the Lord Jesus Christ
has made clear to me verse 15 so I’m
going to be diligent that at any time
after my departure you’re going to be
able to call certain things
to
mind Peter says my whole goal is to
remind you of some things I want to stir
you up I want to wake you up by way of
reminder one of the things that
sometimes becomes a little overwhelming
to me as a parent are the
reminders it’s that I end up having to
say the same thing over and over and
over again it’s the redundancy that gets
me sometimes we have a couple of things
that I’ve been telling my boys since
they were very little they are getting
ready to be 19 17 and 13 years old now
and the same thing I was telling my
19-year-old when he was one seems like
the exact same thing that I’m telling
him right now like sir when I talk to
you the response back to me is not yeah
– I can’t handle that I need you to put
a handle on that yes ma’am yes sir I’m
still telling him that after all these
years one of the other things that
happens in our house is that when the
boys wake up in the morning or when they
return home from something like they’ve
been at practice or school or something
like that and they come home before they
move about their life and about their
day they have to come to me and their
dad and they have to ask a question is
there anything that I can do to help you
just have to ask the answer might be no
it might be yes but you do indeed have
to ask most of the time the question
looks like this is there anything I can
do to
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hell but a lot of times the question
doesn’t even come out like that I just
don’t get the question at all so I find
myself having to search for the boys the
same boys I’ve been telling this since
they were very little and reminding them
to ask the question and I keep telling
them this is to your benefit do you
realize you’re going to be a husband one
day and it’s going to bless you to bless
your wife by asking her this
question I’m trying to help you and I’m
trying to make sure I have
daughters-in-law who rise up and call me
blessed
[Applause]
reminders when we’re telling somebody
the same thing over and over again but
the reality is when we think about our
own life and our own experience the
stuff that has stuck with us over time
are the things we’ve been reminded about
things that have become habitual the
reminders have actually dug a rut of
routine and habit into our life so that
we don’t even recognize sometimes the
kinds of decisions that we’re making or
the words that we’re saying or choosing
not to say the kind of relationships
that we choose or don’t choose that a
lot of that has stemmed from the
reminders that we’ve been given I
remember my mother telling me when I was
growing up Priscilla it’s not what you
said it’s how you said it your mama told
you that too reminders she would say it
over and over and over again and at
times when we hear something that we’ve
heard before in the season of life that
we’re in at that point that exact same
statement or exact same directive or bit
of destruction it hits us completely
different because we’re at a sensitive
place in our life or we’re at a hard
place in our life or our mind or our
heart has been turned in a different
direction and so reminders are necessary
because they give us a 3D perspective of
a particular a particular Insight or a
particular principle Peter believes this
obviously because he says that the way
that I want to stir you up wake you up
alert you to the things of God and to
what it means to grow spiritually and to
live a Victorious life and to grab hold
he’s writing about in this book to grab
hold of everything that God has planned
for you the way for me to get you on
that track is to stir you up by way of
reminder now this is interesting to me
because you know this is Peter we’re
talking about Peter Peter is the one who
actually traveled with Jesus for three
and a half years this is a guy we’re
talking about who walked with Jesus and
talked with Jesus this guy witnessed the
actual Transfiguration of Jesus this is
the one who washed jesus’ feet at the
Last Supper this is Peter the one who
denied Jesus three times but then knew
what it was like to feel the grace and
the mercy of God reach out to him and
restore him after that Devastation this
is Peter who saw the empty tomb this is
Peter who saw the resurrected Jesus this
is Peter who after the Ascension and the
coming of the Holy Spirit Peter would be
a leader of the church which was at
Jerusalem Peter did missionary work and
preached Jesus as the Christ for the
rest of his life and when it comes time
for him to write this letter he says I
don’t want to stir you up by telling you
anything you have not already heard
before after everything I’ve seen with
Jesus and the Walking With Jesus the
discipleship with Jesus the friendship
with Jesus I’m telling you that the
things you have likely already heard are
the things you just need to be reminded
of because if you’ll be reminded of old
things instead of constantly trying to
come up with new things then you’ll
realize that the treasure that you’ve
been looking for you actually already
have access to so he says I’m getting
ready to stir you up but I’m going to do
it by way of reminder and so from the
top of that chapter he just starts
reminding you of things he just starts
calling them out one after the other and
we’re just going to take a few of them a
handful of them to be reminded of
tonight so that we can be awakened so
that we can be encouraged and challenge
to remain alert aware and reminded of
these truths that he wants to share with
us the very first one is in the very
first verse at the top of the chapter he
writes Simon Peter a bond servant and
Apostle of Jesus Christ to those who
have received a faith as the same kind
as ours by the righteousness of our God
and Savior Jesus Christ if you read it
too quickly you’ll miss the reminder
that he has tucked away and embedded
within this verse he says hi I’m Simon
Peter and just so you know I’m a bonder
servant and a Apostle of Jesus Christ
and I am writing to those who have
received the same kind of Faith as ours
Peter says let me be clear I have an
intended audience for this letter I am
writing to those who have received a
certain kind of Faith a faith that has
come to us through one channel through
one means he says it’s through the
righteousness of our God whose name is
Jesus Christ the first reminder comes to
us here as he challenged es us to
consider And to clarify the content of
our faith he says make sure your faith
is the same kind of Faith as ours the
reason why he needed to remind the
people that he was writing to and by the
holy spirit is because one chapter later
if you read it you will find that he
starts detailing the fact that there
were false teachers that were rising up
within the church and they were they
were preaching a twisted version of the
good news they were watering down the
purity of the Gospel they were
introducing twisted heresies and even
denying the singular deity of Jesus
Christ and so in this second chapter of
this same book he begins to detail how
the way of Truth was being slandered by
people were who just were introducing
slight perversions and hints of
manipulation added opinion and
philosophies to the purity of the Gospel
so Peter right here at the top of the
letter he says I want to remind you that
there is a faith that is the same kind
of Faith as ours and it is the faith
that comes through faith alone in Christ
alone to redeem you from your sins Peter
cuts through the lies and the errors and
the efforts to malign the Purity and the
power of the good news of the gospel and
he says I ain’t messing around with this
faith of ours I’ve walked with him I’ve
talked with him I’ve seen his miracles
I’ve heard his voice I saw him suffer a
gruesome death and become a ransom for
all my mankind so I came to remind you
that there is no other way that W
through which you can be saved except
through this one who is indeed the
Christ our faith he came to remind you
is in Christ and Christ Alone the reason
why this is such an important reminder
y’all is because we are living in a
culture and in a day and age where it’s
a very similar scenario to what he was
describing we are in a time when the
culture around us is seeking if you look
closely to water down the gospel in a
culture that is seeking to generalize
God so that he is one of many options
instead of a singular unmatched entity
without comparison and with no
counterparts Peter says I’ve come to
remind the women of awaken tonight that
there is our great salvation and that
salvation comes by no other name and
through no other way except through
Jesus
Christ so he’s stirring you up by way of
reminder that the gospel y’all is still
the good news it has not changed because
our savior has not changed and listen to
me you are going to have to be
incredibly Discerning in this day and
age you’re going to have to have a keen
spiritual ear and listen to what you
were being fed through your social media
feed and on through your screens and
even as you sit in the building on some
Sundays in some spaces you need to make
sure that what you’re hearing is
actually what it is that Jesus
says he says I’m I’m just challenging
you in this day and age where
everybody’s just seeking to add little
hints and cleverly devised tales and a
popular opinion and that which is
politically correct that you’re going to
have to tune your spiritual ears to make
sure this right here is the same kind of
Faith as
ours just because someone says it
passionately and charismatically and
didactically if it adds to or takes away
from the purity of the good news then it
is not the same kind of Faith as
ours
and then after you yourself after we
ourselves sisters have had our own
discernment tuned in our spiritual radar
up to make sure that we have balanced
everything against the truth of the word
of God we are also going to have to be
clear and confident and unashamed and
unmoved in our own
salvation you are living in a day and
age where you’re going to have to have
some boldness to be clear about who your
savior is you’re going have to have some
spiritual fiber some spiritual fortitude
you’re going to have to have some
spiritual meat on your bones in order to
stand up and be unashamed about the good
news of Jesus
Christ to use your influence to use your
social media platform young people who
are in the room I mean I’m still young
but I’m just
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saying that I’m just saying that if you
are in your 20s in this room the Lord
has given you unmitigated influence in a
way that previous generations did not
have have and it’s going to take some
boldness and some courage to be willing
to stand alone separate from many in
your peer who will refuse to have
integrity and who will not cave under
the pressure of the culture to stand up
without shame and say there is only one
name by which men and women can be saved
and that is the name of Jesus
Christ you’re gonna have to be bold the
holy spirit is gonna have to give you
some courage you’re going to have to be
fortified because it will not be at
times politically correct it will not be
popular you will not receive the
Applause you will be unfollowed but you
have to be like Paul and say it is by
grace that I have been saved and I am
constrained the love of God constrains
me he’s done too much he’s saved me too
from too much he’s redeemed me too
radically for me to add to or take away
from this good news this gospel that has
saved my Soul Christ
alone it’s Christ Alone
y’all it doesn’t matter how clever the
culture becomes with adding to and
trying to morph a new set of ideas and
ideals and philosophies we have to be
clear on who our savior
is the means of the Gospel is actually
quite
narrow Christ
alone but the scope of the Gospel is
very broad it is for everyone from Every
sphere of life not to some but to all
not to One Nation not to one political
party not to One race not to one
religious sector but to every breathing
human being the salvation of our God
through Jesus Christ has been
extended do you know the Great Lengths
that God has gone through to win you
do you know what a miracle it
is that after where we’ve been and what
we’ve done after the rebellious heart
that we had the times that we turned our
back on God the times he came looking
for us and we kept diverting his his
advances toward us the fact that we’re
sitting in this room tonight in
relationship with him do you know what
he did to woo you to
himself
even when you wanted to run the Hound of
Heaven would not let you
go and I mean if we had time to tell the
story if we had time for me to just take
this little microphone off and start
right here on the front row and just go
down one by one all throughout this room
all the way into the furthest region of
this Sanctuary time would not allow us
enough opportunity to tell the stories
of how we were far away from him but he
came and he found us and he loved us and
he called us to
[Applause]
himself and this love story between you
and he you do know it did not just start
at the time of your birth it started
before the foundation of the world that
he already had you on his mind and he
was already looking and watching and
waiting for the opportunity when he knew
in his sovereignty and omniscience that
he was going to have to redeem Humanity
to himself he was already planning for
you okay I want you to think about
this I want you to think about what a
miracle it is that you were born I’m
talking about physically born in this
day in this age in this generation in
that body in that skin color with that
hair texture with those facial features
with your personality it is not by
chance you are not a surprise to God
your parents may have been surprised God
was
not he was not in the heavens saying
oops that one SLI past me nope he
planned for you which is Little Rabbit
Trail here the reason why you can be
confident in who you are in that skin
with that hair texture in that body is
because you have been fearfully and
wonderfully made with that personality
with the way your mind is wired and the
creativity that you have or don’t have
you don’t have time to be comparing
yourself with her and what she has and
what she can do God made you as you for
a
reason
he did it strategically and
intentionally it’s a miracle your birth
and mine and by the way not only is the
is who we are a miracle but the time in
which we live has been strategically
designed and defined by
God meaning you and I didn’t come
through 2020 on
accident he didn’t mistakenly set you in
this decade on
accident that your lifespan and mind was
situated in this generation on
purpose because there is a testimony
you’re going to have that you’re going
to tell your grandkids and your great
grandkids about the faithfulness of
God he made you for this in other
words your great great
grandfather with the seven billion plus
people that are on the
planet he just happened to intersect
lives with the woman who would be your
great great
grandmother they came together and had
your
great-grandfather and then with the 7
billion plus people that are on the
planet your great-grandfather just
happened at the right time in the right
generation in the right year on the
right day to intersect lives with the
woman who would be your
great-grandmother the two of them came
together and created your grandfather
and then with the seven billion plus
people that are on the planet he just
happened to intersect lives with the
woman who would be your grandmother and
then the two of them came together and
created your father and then your father
with the 7 billion plus people that are
on the planet he just happened to
intersect lives with the woman who would
be your mother and then the two of them
came together and they created
you there ain’t nothing chance about
that that’s the Divine hand of God
orchestrating circumstances and
orchestrating scenarios and the
movements of people in different times
and days and generations to make sure
that you would be born for such a time
as this
and if you think
then that it’s a miracle that you were
born how much more of a miracle is it
that you were born
[Applause]
again since before time began God’s been
orchestrating stuff to make sure that he
could win your allegiance to himself
I’ve heard my dad describe it as a
cosmic chessboard God is sitting on one
side of the cosmic chessboard and the
enemy you do know there is an enemy who
is also been vying for your soul vying
for Your Allegiance vying for your
attention he’s been on the other side of
the cosmic chessboard God made the first
move he put Adam and Eve Perfect People
in a perfect environment perfect
relationship to himself perfect
opportunity to have Rapport and
cultivate a deepening friendship with
God but then the enemy made a move he
slithered into the garden and introduced
sin and now culture uh devolved to such
an extent that Cain ended up killing
Abel and now that perfect relationship
was infringed upon because sin was
introduced in the garden they were
separated in relationship with from God
and it seemed like all hope was lost but
our God never to be outdone he made
another move he caused Adam and Eve to
come back together again they had a baby
boy named Seth and Seth gave birth to
enosh and I don’t know what it was about
enosh but Genesis chap chapter 4 says
that when enosh was born everybody
started to worship God again but then
the enemy made another move he
introduced sin back into the equation
and it proliferated so much so that the
entire Earth had to be destroyed by a
flood and this time it seemed like for
sure the enemy had won but our God never
to be outdone he made another move on
the cosmic chessboard and his name was
Noah and he said Noah I need you to go
build me an ark Noah said do
what he said I need you to go build me
an ark because it’s going to rain and
through one man’s obedience mankind was
preserved the enemy made another move so
that sin and Rebellion proliferated
through the hearts of mankind once again
even after the flood and it seemed like
all hope was lost but then God made
another move he went to a little Pagan
town called ER and he plucked out of it
a man named Abram and he said Abram I’m
going to change your name and I’m going
to change the GPS coordinates on your
destiny I’m going to send you to a brand
new land and he said look up in the
Stars Abraham you will see as many stars
are in the sky that’s the number of
descendants that I’m going to give to
you I’m going to create a brand new
group of people they will be my people
and I will be
theirs then the enemy made another move
now God’s people went down into Egypt
captured 400 years of brutal slavery and
it seemed like this time for sure there
was no hope they would never come out of
this slavery
but then God made another move and his
name is Moses and at just the right time
he raised Moses up as The Prince of
Egypt and he told Moses Mo go tell
Pharaoh let my people
go and after 10 miraculous plagues and
40 years in the wilderness they came
into the promised land the people of
God’s promise in the place of Promise
where his presence and and blessing has
been promised to them the land flowing
with milk and
honey
but by the time you get to the end of
the Book of Judges the enemy has now
introduced idolatry so much so that
listen to me the children of Israel did
not have to turn their back completely
on Yahweh they just set idol worship
cultural idol worship alongside their
worship of Yahweh so they had one foot
in idolatry worshiping the idols of the
culture and one foot of Allegiance
worshiping God and it denigrated the
culture so much so that the last book
y’all of the the last line of the Book
of Judges says and everybody was doing
what was right in their own
eyes if that don’t sound like America in
the year 2021 I don’t know what
does and it seemed like all hope was
lost but then God made another
move and her name was
Ruth and Ruth’s story got off to a rough
start but then at the right time Ruth
met her kinsman redeemer and the two of
them came together and had a little baby
boy named OED and OED gave birth to
Jesse and Jesse gave birth to a little
baby boy named
David and with that one move the enemy
didn’t even know it but the Checkmate
was already on the
[Applause]
way and then the Old Testament closes
and there’s 400 years of Silence God is
on one side of the cosmic chessboard the
enemy is on the other side and nobody
makes a move for 400 years all of
history and humanity is hanging in the
balance waiting to see who’s going to
make the next
move and then the New Testament
opens and God makes a move the likes of
which the enemy still to this day has
never had a response for he basically
puts on flesh and says let me come down
here and take care of this
myself he lives a perfect life and he
dies a substitutionary death and three
days later he’s resurrected from the
grave and he offers salvation once and
for all for you and for you and for you
and me do you realize what he went
through for
us how dare we be ashamed of a Salvation
like
that and so Peter says I came to stir
you up by way of reminder today that you
would never forget there is a certain
kind of
faith and that faith comes through
righteousness in Christ Jesus found in
Christ and Christ Alone he’s got another
reminder for those of us who have that
kind of Faith he says that’s who I’m
writing to verse one those who have
received a faith of the same kind as
ours he says verse two here’s your
second
reminder Grace and
peace be multiplied to you not only has
he came to come to remind you of the
same kind of Faith but he wants to
remind you of a multiplication of peace
and of
Grace this makes me
happy because I like God’s
math you see a few verses later around
verse five Peter’s going to start
talking about addition he’s going to
tell us to add to our faith moral
Excellence add godliness add kindness
add love he starts to tell us the things
that we need to add to make sure that we
are growing up spiritually and maturing
in our faith so he’s about to talk to us
about addition but before he ever gets
to us regarding what we need to add to
our faith he tells you right up here in
verse two God’s working in a completely
different set of
metrics he’s going to multiply to you
he’s going to multiply Grace and peace
they are not added they are
multiplied an exponential explosion of
peace to to you and grace to
you y’all I can’t imagine anything we
need more right now than
peace and Grace and we don’t need it in
measures that we can provide for
ourselves we need it in Divine
proportions that only God himself can
pour out upon us peace do you know what
it is peace is the capacity and the
potential for calm in the midst of chaos
peace is an internal anchor of stability
in the midst of unhindered instability
that swirls all around you peace is the
capacity to remain steady when
everything around us is completely
unsteady peace in the midst of a
storm there is a storm if you have not
noticed that is Raging around us and it
doesn’t matter what your personal
concerns may or may not be right now in
this particular moment we want to tell
you though if you personally are not
going through a storm we just want to
tell you how happy we are for
you but for the vast majority of us who
are in this room we are in one of three
places we’re either right smack dab in
the middle of a storm on our way into a
storm or on our way out of one because
it’s the nature of the life in which we
live Jesus himself said it in John 16 he
said in this world you will have
trouble you don’t have to go looking for
storms y’all just keep living
the storm is eventually going to come
and find you in one way or another but
even if personally you’re not having the
the heavens open up over you and the
hurricane the rains the floods the
difficulties of Life are not pressing in
on you right now personally all of us
collectively have been in a
storm because we have not just been
through and still going through one
pandemic y’all there have been layers of
pandemics upon pandemics there’s been a
medical one yes but there has also been
a political one there’s been a racial
one layers of pandemic upon pandemic and
in order for us not to succumb to
anxiety and fear or cave to hopelessness
and despair the only way a Jalin can
come before us and say I’ve lost this
person and that person I have suffered
this difficulty and this difficulty but
I could still come up with a smile on my
face still serve the people of God and
still serve the house of God and not
succumb to bitterness or resentment or
skepticism about the goodness of God is
if there is an anchor in her
soul the peace of God anchors you in
your soul it’s a supernatural peace that
he multiplies to you and Peter says I
want to remind you that if you have
received the same kind of Faith as ours
then you can know that that kind of
anchoring peace is is going to be
multiplied to you Jesus said in John 14
my peace I leave with you I give it to
you in Spade fools not as the world
gives it because they give it sparingly
and they give it temporarily with
condition but not this peace that I give
this is the kind of Peace Philippian 4:7
that passes all understanding you know
these kind of people it’s the friend
that you have or the person that you
work with and and she’s your girl you
know what she’s going through she’s
filled you in on the trouble that she’s
had and the struggle that she’s going
through and the calls she just got from
her kid school or the tragedy that has
just happened or the financial struggle
that she’s been under under or the
doctor’s diagnosis that’s just called
you’ve been privy to all that
information and yet she keeps getting up
every day she keeps showing up she still
has a sense of calm she still has a bit
of a smile on her face she’s not
ignoring her reality she it’s not denial
she’s very aware of it and she needs to
deal with it but at the same time she’s
able to stay
steadfast
unmoved this is a supernatural kind of
Peace it’s a peace that makes you go
huh because it passes all
understanding but not just peace that is
Multiplied to
you
Grace says I’m going to multiply Grace
to You Grace is God’s unmerited favor on
your life that’s what it is it is God
being free to do everything he wants to
do for you because of what Christ has
already done for you Grace is the
goodness of God dispensed to you that
you do not deserve that you could not
repay and that you cannot earn Grace is
of course the basis of our faith y’all
but there is not only a Grace that saves
you there is also a Grace that sustains
you this is what I call a Grace for
grown-ups
this multiplied Grace is the grace for
grown-ups it’s the grace that actually
meets you in the details of your days
and The Darkest Hours of your night it
meets you in your struggles and your
strife and your difficulties and your
daily decisions it’s a Grace that if
peace anchors you Grace is actually an
engine that motivates you and encourages
you and sustains you it’s an uplifter
and a keeper it’s a second wind that
keeps you moving forward with honestly
you would have caved a long time time
ago Grace gives you inspiration to keep
going it sustains you when everything
around you is not changing the
difficulty is staying the same but
somehow God gives you a Grace that keeps
you moving forward when the marriage is
still hard and the finances are still
low and the babies are still not
sleeping through the night and the adult
children are still living in a way that
is outside of the way that you raised
them to live and the relationship with
that person is still strained or your
heart is still broken or the business is
still flailing when your needs are still
seemingly unmet and unattended there is
a Grace for
grown-ups that can be your
keeper y’all I don’t know that I have
ever in my
life had personal testimony of this
quite the same way I do
now we’ve all as I said corporately been
through a whole lot of
stuff but y’all the last two years of
our my life our life as a family has
been
devastating in the past two years we
have lost eight family
members back to back it started off with
the loss of of my one of my closest
friends and my biological cousin she
actually was a member of this
church and one day we were planning to
go to the movies I still have the
voicemails from her trying to organize
our her kids coming to my house to hang
out with their cousins while we went to
the movies that’s what we did together
hang out at the movies over hot buttery
salty popcorn and a good
Coke and one day we’re planning to go to
the movies and the next day at 38 years
old her heart just
stopped and that loss started a string
of losses in our family one after the
other ending with December 2019 right
before the the pandemic began in
December the same month my grandfather
died my father’s father the beginning of
the month and at the end of the month
December 30th my mother
died eight months later my mother-in-law
died in between those two deaths the
doctor saw something on my left lung
that needed to be removed and the only
way they could remove it was to actually
take out the entire left lobe upper lobe
of my lung so a week after my mother’s
funeral I had to go have that
surgery one thing after the
other and I don’t know if you’ve ever
had a season of your life where you look
back on it and you
realize Grace sustained me through
that that it had to be grace that it had
to be something Supernatural that we’ve
still had our minds regulated that we
have still kept our faith and our trust
and our hope in him he is indeed a Grace
giver and he extends Grace for folks
going through grown-up situations like
you and I are facing he gives a Grace
for
grown-ups so I want you to know that
there is a multiplied piece and I want
you to know from my own personal
testimony that there is a multiplied
Grace that has been extended to you Paul
the Apostle talked about it a little bit
in 2 Corinthians chapter 12 he said
there’s this Thorn In My Flesh ooh if I
could get rid of this Thorn my life
would be so much easier and better and
he prays he asked the Lord to get rid of
the thorn because that’s what we do Lord
if you can change this situation this
thing that’s poking me it’s
uncomfortable it’s bothering me if you
could get this out of my life then
everything would be fine Jesus or God
heard the prayer he prayed three times
that the thorn would be removed and God
in his sovereignty and and his goodness
and his grace to us sometimes does not
remove the thorn listen to that again
somebody needs to hear that that God’s
sovereignty that God’s goodness that
God’s love for you has not been
misplaced just because the thorn remains
in your life he said to Paul no I’m not
taking away the thorn because it’s by
this Thorn it’s because of this Thorn
that you’re getting ready to learn that
my grace is sufficient for you in other
words the multiplication of of Grace is
tied to the hard things that we are
facing that sometimes the Lord allows it
because you’ll never see the
multiplication without it so if you’re
praying Lord take away this Thorn Lord
change this difficulty the thing that
you wrote down on those cards that we
wrote Our requests down on earlier and
turned them in and you’re praying and
the Lord in his goodness and sovereignty
chooses not to take away the thorn then
we begin to know we are growing up in
our faith and maturing a little bit
spiritually when instead of completely
caving in hopelessness or bitterness and
resentment against the Lord that the
thorn remains we instead sit on the edge
of our seat with our chin and our hands
in holy anticipation that if he’s
allowed the thorn to remain that must
mean there is a multiplication of Grace
that’s on the
way so Peter says I came to stir you up
by way of reminder that there is the
same kind of Faith as ours but also
there is a multiplication of Grace and
peace that is coming to you and God 2
Corinthians 98 says is able to make all
grace abound to you so that always
having all sufficiency in everything you
may have an abundance for every good
deed Paul has reminded us about the same
kind of Faith he has reminded us about
the multiplication of peace and Grace
and finally he reminds us that there are
magnificent promises
for anything and everything that you
face in verse three he says seeing that
his divine power has granted to us
everything pertaining to life and
godliness through the true knowledge of
him who called us by his glory and his
Excellence his divine power he says and
his precious promises have been given to
you for everything that you need for
life and for godl
please don’t miss the two layers of
living that he addresses right here
everything you need not just to live but
to live in a way that honors God he’s
given you everything you need for that
for both layers not just to keep getting
up out of bed in the morning but
actually to walk in a manner worthy of
the calling by which you have been
called he’s given you enough Grace for
that he’s given you promises for that he
has given everything you need to be able
to sustain you to not just live but to
honor God in your living to not just
live not just keep on waking up every
day but to face your day with a Measure
of Faith and Hope and spiritual maturity
everything you need to engage both of
these layers of living you have already
been given even if you don’t see proof
of it and even if based on your current
level of lethargy or apathy or
indifference or lack of energy you feel
a little discouraged because you feel
like this cannot be true for you Peter
says that’s why I came to to remind you
that everything you need you already
have y’all my boys two of them are him
here with me tonight some of y’all
probably saw them outside they were
helping um many of you come bring your
bags in earlier tonight but my boys are
are gargantuan they’re
huge and they just keep getting bigger
and I look at them now with all these
muscles popping out and their voices are
all deep and they’re walking around with
their shirts off it’s
nasty
shs I’m looking at all of that manliness
walking around and everything that they
needed to become who they currently are
and will be they already had at the
moment of
conception when they were in my womb and
we did that first ultrasound six or
seven weeks in it just looked like a
little little nut a little ball of of
like an acorn very very small everything
though that they would de develop into
was already there to the extent that I
cultivated and and um took care of the
new life that was on the inside of me
that was the extent to which they would
be able to completely flourish but
everything that they are now they
already
had everything that you need you already
have right now the new life of God is on
the inside of you in the person of the
Holy Spirit do you realize that the DNA
of God himself is pulsing on the inside
of you and as you cultivate and keep
healthy the life of God on the inside of
you everything that you will become
everything that you need to be sustained
through the hardships and the
difficulties and the struggles and the
joys the ups and the Downs of life
everything you and I need we already
have do you know that in the scriptures
there are over
8,000
promises that daughters Sons and
Daughters of God have been given access
to over 8,000
but most of them he did not put in our
hand he put them in our
reach which means you have the
opportunity to experience God in the way
that that promise confirms that you
should but it’s not just set in your
hand it’s in your reach that as you
trust him as you believe him as you walk
with him as you remain connected to him
as you deepen your friendship with him
then you begin to see that outworked in
your
life Peter says somebody needs to be
reminded today that according to
Colossians 2:10 you are complete in
him the enemy wants to dull you in that
regard and me he wants to make us think
that we need to go outside of Christ
outside of what he has given us to find
completion and so we become codependent
in relationships and we become addicted
to substances and we go outside of our
relationship to God to find stuff that
he has already given you access to but
every every treasure that you need it’s
already there if you’ll just open the
book there will some things will come
tumbling out of the book some Treasures
some insights some details some
strengthening power will come tumbling
out for you so that you will know that
everything you need to become and to be
who God has called us to be as women of
God you and I have already been given
access to Peter says I just stopped by
awaking to stir you up by way of
reminder to remind you of the power and
the purity of our faith to remind you of
the multiplication of peace and Grace
and to remind you that the Magnificent
Promises of God are yours for anything
and everything that you face amen amen
amen
amen
amen