Priscilla will be our special guest for the next two weeks to talk about the “Resolution for Women”series and package following up on the movie Courageous. Priscilla Shirer is the Author of “The Resolution for Women” and she’s a Bible Teacher –Going Beyond Ministries.
been hearing about the book we’re
offering this month on the heels of the
movie courageous the resolution for
women is authored by Priscilla Shire the
author of numerous books and Bible
studies has earned a master’s degree in
biblical studies at Dallas Theological
Seminary she’s spoken at conferences and
corporations she’s often addressing
Christian audiences around the world ten
years as a trainer and motivational
speaker with Ziggler training systems
that would be the one and only Zig
Ziglar priscilla whom you met in Dallas
in 97 yeah
yeah absolutely he’s a wonderful mentor
and kind of grandfather figure in my
life that is so sweet it’s years since
he was here perhaps one of the world’s
best-known motivational speakers of
course and you worked at with him I did
there were about five of us or so that
really just kind of made up a handful of
speakers that would go out from his
organization and represent his materials
that he had written training materials
for companies and who were really trying
to get the best out of their employees
and so for a handful of years the Lord
really used that as a great training
ground for me when I was just out of
college and so I I did that for many
years as an independent contractor with
his company but even more than that mr.
Ziegler is just a wonderful godly guy
he’s really just a preacher in a
business suit that’s what we’ve always
said and he kind of took me under his
wing really as a daughter and gave my
husband the third degree when when Jerry
came poking around my life a little bit
in one of the date-date me mr. Ziegler
sat him right down and had a
conversation with him and so he’s just a
great man who I am very fond of he and
his wife who I called the redhead it’s
not wonderful and and Jerry passed
jerry’s fashion it’s been 12 years that
we’ve been married now
fabulous actually you are surrounded by
Jays at home aren’t you lots of Jays
family pick that’s right Jerry is my
husband and then Jackson will be nine
years old here in a second and Jerry jr.
is seven years old and then our little
surprise boy his name is Jude he’ll be
three year old three years old coming up
and I named him Jude because that’s as
close as I could get to revelation
because it is finished it
it is so finis oh yes mother 3 and the
plate is full
that’s right quiver is full and what a
what a full plate you really have
ministry wise actually Jerry signed on
yeah Jerry 14 years ago oh well it’s
been about a decade ago now that Jerry
really felt the Lord calling him away
from his job and really to formulate
going beyond ministries before then
there really was no umbrella for my
ministry out speaking and teaching and
he just really felt like we needed to
have a more cohesive ministry under
which we all functions so that we could
do other outreaches and things
underneath that umbrella and so going
beyond ministries was formed under his
leadership about 10 years ago and since
then we really have just been following
the lead of God to go where he’d have us
go and hopefully influential influence
people in a way that will impact their
lives partnering everything it’s
wonderful yeah we are partners and a bit
of a turn in the road for a woman who
wanted to be a TV news anchor yes could
can you see that yes yes that’s what I
went to school for to be a television
news anchor I thought television was
what I was gonna be TV and do and I was
willing to go to podunk Nevada to start
you know if I needed to do that to go to
that you know the market you always have
to start in when you’re a journalist I
was willing to pay all my dues and yet
the Lord just had a different avenue for
me and so I just started to get little
requests to come and do a small Bible
study every now and then when I was in
college and I started to do that and to
make a long story short the calls to
open up the word of God and share truths
from that have never stopped coming in
these 20 years and so it’s something we
never really signed up for and yet God
seems to have his hand on it directing
us and we’re just privileged to serve
God’s people don’t you love that proverb
in your heart a woman plans her course
but the Lord detests death
yeah out of the Kendrick brothers find
you Priscilla you know that is a good
question we keep asking ourselves but
are in a different state and they are in
a different state we had never met them
before of course we knew the Kendrick
brothers like so many others do just
through their incredible movies that
they had put out facing the Giants and
fireproof and so they originally called
honestly to see if I would actually play
one of the roles in the movie and when
they called and asked me to do that that
would mean spending three or four weeks
away from home and I really am serious
about being a mother to my sons
and a wife to my husband and it’s hard
to do that when you’re away from home
for four straight weeks and so I was not
able to do that and yet several months
later on the Lord laid my name on their
heart to partner with them in writing
this book that would accompany the movie
and so I’m so honored that the Lord
would allow me to partner with them in
this way and so the resolution for men
is for the men who will watch the movie
or even that don’t see the movie but
really want to be inspired to make
resolutions of their own in their life
and likewise the resolution is for women
they really wanted women to have
something in their hands that when they
walk away from the movie even though
there’s such an emphasis on fathers and
husbands there they wanted women to be
able to walk away and say you know what
I want to make some resolutions that
will not only be effective in supporting
my husband as he prayerfully is making
resolutions of his own but even if I’m
not married and even if I don’t have any
children
I can make resolutions that will make me
the woman that God has called me to be
and as was mentioned earlier the ripple
effect of a woman who was fully resolved
to be who God has called her to me is
completely staggering on those she loves
and I did you pick the title I think it
was already chosen for me since there
would be the resolution for men it was
decided it would be the resolution for
women yeah because you’re pretty
authentic in the opening pages when you
say that tongue you don’t like that word
now you didn’t like the word I didn’t
before I got it because resolution the
word resolution carries with it a
connotation I think most of us think you
know these New Year’s resolutions that
we make and we fall short of in it it
can be actually pretty discouraging to
think about making another resolution
and so I just thought if I address that
right off the bat that I’m a little
hesitant to use that word hesitant to
think about making resolutions in my own
life because sometimes it can be
discouraging when we make one in January
and by February it’s already in the
toilet you know we’ve all been there and
done that with different in different
areas of our life and so I wanted to
encourage women to know that I’m coming
from where they’re coming from and I
know it can be hard sometimes
particularly if you are in a
relationship with someone who is not
picking up the resolution for men they
are not making resolutions of their own
they’re not they’re not interested in
changing or heightening the beauty of
your relationship with one another or
being a strong role model as a husband
and father sometimes it can be hard to
want to make a resolution of your own
when you don’t see anybody else around
you wanting to do it or
you for doing it and so I wanted to
address that woman who’s maybe in a
situation where honestly she’s tired of
reading books about how she can be
better when nobody else around her seems
to be with her on that journey III know
that feeling in different seasons of my
life I know that feeling
and I wanted to encourage them and
knowing that being a woman fully
resolved the residue of that the ripple
effect of that you cannot even begin to
imagine not only how it will transform
your life but how you will begin to see
it flow into the lives of the people
that you love around you whether they
are your family members or again if
you’re a single woman just your friends
that are around you you will see that
the effects will be will be stunning
well I’ve told you and I’m now going to
tell our viewers that to me this is like
The Purpose Driven Life for women I call
it godly woman 101 that’s great it’s all
here that’s good and it’s very readable
the chapters are short the teaching is
excellent you know we didn’t mention
another pretty significant mentor in
your life love a rather famous daddy
well I like him okay his name is Tony
Evans and he’s a wonderful not only a
wonderful preacher one of the best I
think who’s taught me for so many years
but an incredible father and so he
started the church that I still attend
to this day when I was 1 year old even
going to get her dad’s Church all this
all these years so I sit right behind
him on the second row where I’ve always
sat my entire life and he’s just a gift
to us now we’re going to go through it
next week and the following I had to
pick 10 of the 13 individual resolutions
that make up the full resolution yeah
for women it to read it is a beautiful
thing
I can’t imagine well I guess I can and I
guess that’s what I want to ask you next
I read it and I say oh yes this is what
I want where I want my life to be but I
wonder if you have had any pushback from
the feminist division even within the
church this is a biblical perspective it
is very much a biblical perspective and
I love the Kendrick brothers because
they were really clear with me that they
did not want any of these material
surrounding courageous and if you’ve
seen if you’ve seen the movie you
realize it is very direct in its belief
in Jesus Christ and its biblical
statement so they didn’t want to shroud
the fact that this is a Christian movie
and these are resources that accompany
it that are really defined by the
principle spelled out in the Word of God
so I was very clear in fact there is a
whole resolution to be purposefully
feminine and in that resolution the
resolution itself spells out the fact
that the purpose is for a woman of God
to stand firm on biblical truths of what
femininity looks like in the face of a
post feminist culture and whether we
would call ourselves feminists or not
because we live in a post feminist
culture we are all affected by the
ideals that have been spread by the
feminist movement and of course we
applaud the great many wonderful rights
that have been won oh gosh so many
incredible positive changes that we
appreciate yet at the same time I think
that that it is stolen from us the the
right and the privilege of choosing to
be a woman that is defined by biblical
morals with dignity that if we choose to
submit to godly Authority that we can do
that with our heads held high saying
that that this is what we want to be
this is the kind of person we don’t feel
like we’re a doormat for doing it
we feel like it is the best place of
liberty and freedom that we can stand in
and find as a woman who has submitted to
God’s Authority and biblical authority
in their lives and so yeah I expected
when I was writing these words that
there would be a little pushback not
only like as you as you mentioned from
people who don’t believe in the word of
God but some women who do because
sometimes that word submission some of
those ideals they cause a little chill
to go up our spines even if we believe
in the Word of God because it depends a
lot on our own personal circumstances
and whether there are leaders in our
life that are abusing their position of
leadership so if we find ourselves in an
uncomfortable position as we’re
submitting then it can be harder to read
a truth like the one that I will spell
out in the book and yet God’s Word is
still true and we can pray for our
leaders do you know in the book of
Ephesians where there is so much time
spent on a wife being submitted to her
husband do you know that most of that
chapter is spent on telling men how to
lead their wives the emphasis is placed
on on the men it is not placed on the
women so if they take
their roles appropriately and
courageously
and are the leaders that God has called
them to be that I don’t know too many
women who would not love to submit to a
godly husband who is fulfilling well
that role of leader within the home