Priscilla Shirer: Making Prayer a Priority | Praise on TBN

you'll be amazed how you'll begin to see the encounters that you have the circumstances that align the little beckonings and convictions of god's spirit how they all begin to work together to help you to realize you actually are hearing god's voice and seeing his providence as he steers you in the direction of his will for your life it occurred to me that while i did value prayer i had neglected intentionality with prayer being strategic in prayer actually trying to detect where you see the enemy's fingerprints kind of his handiwork meddling in your life where you anticipate he might want to take advantage of a weakness or a or a a bit of divisiveness and just being mindful of that so that when we pray we're not just randomly saying words that we've heard all along or words that we've kind of memorized along the way or words that are comfortable to us but we're actually um praying in a way that is targeted it's kind of exactly what you described a few moments doing the work to find the promises of god that actually apply in everything that we know intentional prayer um and then writing it down sometimes we need to write our prayers down only because it keeps us focused it reminds us what we're praying about you know so when it's posted there in that war room and you come back in there day after day you're reminded this is your prayer this is where you're focusing your um your prayer life on and until i see an answer i'm going to keep praying this prayer it also gives you a great track record with god because then when god does answer you can see that date at the top of that page of when you started praying that and then you'll be able to put a date down of when god answered however in his sovereignty he chose to what a great track record not just for you but your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren to see how grandmama or uh grandpa prayed and believed that god would answer wow i think that thing i loved about uh or you know even the prayer because in ephesians 6 it talks about the armor you know which we're familiar with but then prayer is we're saying yeah that's right kicks into after that sword it goes right to prayer and it's not the the the prayer that's oh god why you know the whining i mean you can do that for a minute because maybe we all need to whine for a minute the complaining side of it you can't complain to god because honestly the psalms david complained for a bit yeah i mean you know he went he went on a journey with god he was intimate and real with his pain and agony before god and then there's got to be a rising up then there has to be a point where you that's the thing so at some point yes do the complaining but at some point you have to begin speaking the truth of what god has to say about your marriage about your health and about your family about reconciliation i just remember even that for me with um just some situations and you know family and extended family that was hard it was so hard and and i remember moments of you know the complaining before god because of course i was perfect and they were the problems well everybody else needs to change yeah if they would it would really help out my life totally um but so i you know complained but then i started you know talking about pulling out the scriptures that talked about unity and reconciliation and and together and faithfulness and just declaring that and i've seen god do what only he could do yeah in the lives of people i mean i saw it in my health but i i've also seen it in relationships with people and so i just think that that if if people understood more about the power you know some people say well all i can do is pray no no that's not all that's the that's the thing to do right second second chronicles 7 14. if my people right who are called by my name humble themselves and pray yeah right then he's going to heal our land we're too busy complaining about our land and our government and all that's happening it's like well you can complain but if you prayed as much as you complained maybe we would see something different and you know what if i were your enemy what i want to do is devalue in your mind the potency of what i know to be the most powerful weapon you have against me so he's made our churches focus on being a house of great programs or a house of great preaching and a house of great singing when they're supposed to be a house of prayer because it's the prayer that pushes back the kingdom of darkness so if i were the enemy that's exactly what i do i devalue what i knew was the most potent weapon that you had in your arsenal against me so we do everything first except pray pray and so for you uh personally so how do you when do you when do you pray are you late at night person are you the middle of the day person are you well i can't tell you first of all lest anyone think that my life is you know i'm up on a mountaintop praying and through my god that's right um my life is very much like everybody else's that it's just laundries and laundry and kids and it's kind of that thing where you know once your feet hit the floor in the morning it's over it's just full-on for the rest of the day right and so um i have this ongoing actually part of my prayer is lord would you continue to help me to prioritize this in my life because it can so easily kind of get pushed off of the that position of priority so i just say lord i need you to stir i don't want to manufacture passion i want you to stir in me a passion to where i don't want to go a day without prioritizing prayer and then hearing back from you listening to you through the scriptures and so i try to do that in the morning because it seems like that's the best time if i wait till the end of the day it ain't going to happen no that's the same with me no if i don't if in the morning if i if it doesn't happen then yeah then it just gets it's like if it doesn't happen just the very first time i know that once you get going it's it's yeah but i will say i learned a bit from brother lawrence that you know age old saint from that book practicing the presence of god um that really just gives us freedom lifts that burden off of us of feeling like if we don't have an hour to spend with the lord at the beginning of the day that it's a waste of time to practice god's presence all day long yes so my kids are a little bit older now but i went through a season four five six years there where i would just write down scripture verse on a three by five card the same one on five different cards maybe and i'd put one on the bathroom mirror where i'd be washing little hands all day one where i was going to be doing the dishes one where i was folding clothes one near the sandbox outside and i just would have the same verse for like two weeks so everywhere i went i was just running into this verse and by the time i got to the end of the day not only had me and the lord talked about this one verse a lot not only was it inscribed on my heart but it became god's word to me it became um something that really there was life in it wasn't just a verse i'd learned there was life in it because me and god been talking all day long for a couple of weeks about the sentiments that he'd um inscribed in this in this passage of scripture so i think that idea of practicing the presence of god it takes that guilt off of i didn't have my quiet time and it didn't look like this and it didn't fit in a comfortable little box well look do it however you got to do it right practice his presence all day long how do we do that well number one by being creative with how you can feed yourself on his word so my sister five kids she's got this little clip on her dashboard she'll do the same thing write a three by five card down with scripture and she puts it in that clip and so you know running errands for two hours every day trying to get kids to soccer practice and everything she's just running face to face um in face to face with this with this verse over and over throughout the scriptures when things come up in the middle of the day that are problems you might call a girlfriend about you might you can still call her but also on god yeah just ask him about it ask him about what scripture verse applies to this particular uh circumstance how would he want to lead and guide you and you'll be amazed how you'll begin to see the encounters that you have the circumstances that align the little beckonings and convictions of god's spirit how they all begin to work together to help you to realize you actually are hearing god's voice and seeing his providence as he steers you in the direction of his will for your life

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Length: 7min 48sec (468 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020