Top 3 Sermons By Priscilla Shirer 2023- Powerful Sermons

When you lift your eyes, you can see beyond the obstacles and challenges and begin to see your destiny unfold, begin to see what God wants to do in your life.

I feel like god is doing nothing that I’m playing, and he’s not hearing my circumstances are not changing.
I look at the details of my life, and I feel but he is absolutely doing nothing all day, every day disconnected from my life when all the while Most often when we feel like god is doing nothing y’all, he is crafting chapter after chapter with the story of your life.
A sense of rest and peace and stability in your life.
God’s sovereignty is his overarching orchestration of all that happens in time and each community.
God’s sovereignty means that god existed before time began.
That is pre Genesis 1 one because y’all know the only reason why there was a Genesis 11 was because god was already there so that he could say let there be and there was.
He was in eternity past. He has been there and done that.
He has seen all of time from the beginning of the spectrum of time, Genesis 11.
All the way through to the end of time, which you and I have not yet get seen, and he has already been into eternity future.
The entire spectrum of eternity and time he’s already been there and done that.
But sovereignty does not just mean he seen it all, sovereignty means, listen, that the whole thing is in the palm of his head.
Sovereignty is what lets us do what Psalm 4610 says. Be still. Shallow.
Relax and know that I am God.
Providence is his overarching control of the throes of the universe. I’m sorry.
Sovereignty is his overarching control of the throw throws of the universe, but within that big umbrella of his sovereignty, there is providence.
Providence is the working of the details of your life in mind.
We feel like he’s doing nothing, when we feel like our days are just filled with regular 8 to 5 things or when we run into tragedy or difficulty providence is knowing that god is orchestrating the details of our days and our lives and our encounters and our opportunities that he’s actually ordering our footsteps providence is Jeremiah 29 11.
I know the plans I have for you.
I’ve got plans that are designed to give you a hope and a future provenance of Ephesions 210 that we are his workmanship creating cry Jesus for good works, which god prepared beforehand.
Providence means you can trust god with the stuff of your life because he’s orchestrating it all.
I love god’s providence as seen throughout scripture that his shows up everywhere, even in the unlike quick places, even in the places when he seems and the seasons of our life y’all when he seems most distant or most disengaged that we can trust that when we can’t trace his hand, we can trust his heart, that he’s there, fully present, fully engaged, fully invested in the details of our life.
That’s what we get from scripture because he’s everywhere, even in the books of the Bible, you know, and Esther, the name of god is a even really overtly mentioned, and yet he’s there in the book, working and orchestrating all throughout the scriptures from the getting to the end.
It reminds us about the sovereignty and the providence of god.
Right from the very beginning in Genesis, you always see that he is the breath of life in Exodus.
He shows up as the Passover lamb in Leviticus. He is our high priest in numbers.
He’s the fire by night in deuteronomy. He’s Israel’s guide.
In Joshua, he’s Salvation’s choice, in judges, He is Israel’s guard. In Ruth, he’s the kidsman redeemer.
In first and second, Samuel, he’s our trusted prophet. In kings and chronicles, we see him as sovereign in Ezra.
He’s the true and faithful scribe in Nehemiah. He’s the one who rebuilds walls and he rebuilds lives.
And Esther, he is our courage in Joe. He’s timeless redeemer. It solves. He’s our morning song in proverbs.
He is our wisdom in Ecclesiastes. He’s a time in season in the song of Solomon.
He’s the lover’s dream in Isaiah. He’s the prince of peace in Jeremiah. He’s the weeping prophet in lamentation.
He’s the cry for Israel in Ezekiel. He’s the call from sin in Daniel.
He’s the stranger that will show up in your fire. In hosea. He’s the forever faithful in Joel.
He’s the spirit’s power in Amos. He’s the strong arms that carry in obadiah.
He’s the lord our savior in Jona. He’s the great missionary in Micah. He’s the promise of peace.
Them shields in habancic and Zephania. He’s the one that brings revival.
In Haggai, he restores anything that has been lost.
And in Zechariah, he is our fountain and in Malachi, at the end of the old testament, we see him as the son of righteous ness, rising with healing in his wings.
And that’s just who he is in the old testament. Hey, men.
Because you give him a little time, wait about 400 years.
And then in Matthew Mark, Luke and John, you’ll find out he’s not just god. Now he’s your messiah.
And in the spirit filled book of acts, he’s the reigning fire from heaven.
In Romans, he’s the gray of god, Corinthians. He’s the power of love Galatians.
He’s freedom from the curse of sin. In Ephesians, he’s our glorious treasure in Philipp.
He’s the servant’s heart in colossians. He’s god and the trinity.
In thessalonians, he’s our calling king in Timothy, Titus and Filemon, he’s our mediator and our faithful pastor.
In Hebrews, he’s the everlasting courage James.
He’s the one who will heal you when you’re sick in First And Second Peter.
He’s our faithful shepherd in John and Jude. He’s the lover. Coming for his bride.
And in the revelation, in the very end, he was and is and will always be the 1st The last but be kidding at the end.
Amen. The apostle Paul says, today is the day to pull back the curtain and let the enemy know we got our eye on you.
To pull back the cardinal and use some weapons that actually work, back there behind the curtain.
He says, I want you to know the tactics of the enemy are so sinister against you.
He doesn’t have this blanket approach.
Of course, he can in regards to larger entities like nations or purchase or communities, he can, but he’s very specific in his targets against you.
The apostle Paul wants to make sure you know that because he uses a specific word to describe the enemy’s warfare in our lives.
He says he is scheming Somebody say skis.
I wanna tell you something about myself.
Um, I am a fairly easygoing personality.
I think that people that know me would would agree to that, but I’m fairly easygoing.
I’m not, um, wound up very easily in terms of anger.
It’s just I’m I made like my dad in that way were just easygoing.
So if someone offends me or hurts my feelings or whatever, And then they ask for forgiveness.
I’m gonna forgive them really quickly and easily. I probably don’t even know that they offended me.
It just stuff rolls off of me. Really easy easily, I’m kinda wired that way.
So if somebody does me wrong, I can get over it.
But if I find out someone was planning to do me wrong, well, that’s a whole another story.
I mean, you know, don’t get it twisted.
I’ll take these earrings off. Don’t let let the little white shirt fool you.
If I find out somebody’s been scheming, that’s different.
I find out you been thinking beforehand.
You’ve been studying me so that you can watch to see when I come and when I go.
You’ve been watching to see what my weaknesses are so that you can figure out how to dangle the right carrots at the right time to leave me astray in the right way.
You would try figure out what my weaknesses are, what the proclivities of my flesh or so that you can take advantage of those.
And not only have you been watching and studying me in my current state, you’ve been hooking into my history so that you can figure out what abuses I’ve suffered, what hurts I have so that you can figure out what tender places I might still have in my heart so that you could take advantage of those.
And what I’ll find out? Not only have you had the nerve to be studying me, but you’ve been studying this man that lord has given me to be married to you for the past 18 years.
You are studying Kim to figure out what his weaknesses are so that you can try to lead him astray in the right way.
You’ve been trying to figure out what the frailties of his flesh are and what he’s inclined towards so that you can lead him away from our family and from our home from the god given destiny that he’s been called to.
And then when I find out not only have you been studying him in his current state, but you’ve been looking into his history so that you can figure what hot button issues he has from his history so that you can make his history and my history combust so that we cannot have peace in the Four walls of our home.
And then when I find out that not only have you been studying me and my husband, but you had the nerve to have your eyes on these three boys, that the lord has given me to rear into men of god.
When I figure out you’ve had your eyes already set on their fears, their anxieties, their weak is you’re already planning at this fledgling stage how you can trip them up so that they do not rise up and become the men of god that they have been called me when I find out that you’ve been scanning against me and the people I love.
Well, if it’s a war you want, it’s a war you go have.
They process you to get mad.
It’s cause a holy indignation to rise up on the inside of you.
It should it should compel you that he’s scheming again shoe that you wanna have a steam against him.
Y’all, we gotta have a plan of action. Listen to me. He is praying lazy Christianity.
He is hoping we will come to church on Sunday and say Amen and come the conference and applaud and have a great time when he does not want is someone who rises up on Monday through Saturday.
And stands in the guest, the gatekeeper of her home.
He wants a lazy and indifferent it out affectic not picking up the armor of god and standing firm against his schemes.
He don’t care if you say amen to the message.
He wants to make sure you don’t go home and live the thing day after day.
Somebody’s gotta rise up and say, not today, Neville, not on my watch.
I’m not just gonna lay down and let you run rough shot of Oh, if any of you have ever needed a second chance.
A third chance. I don’t know if there’s anybody in the house other than me that’s ever needed a 20th chance.
His grace is sufficient for you that you do not have.
I don’t have the capacity to wear god out. You’re not that powerful.
Somebody needs to be encouraged tonight, and I drove over from the south side of town just to incurred somebody that it doesn’t matter how many times you’ve needed to redo, how many times you’ve needed to to to back up just a little bit and get the forgiveness and the grace of god.
I came just to remind you that god’s got enough patience for even you.
That he doesn’t need a good nap before he can handle what’s going on in your life.
We don’t have the capacity to wear god out.
I wanna talk to you for just a few moments about the patience of god.
The reason why I wanna talk to you about the patience of god is because if you don’t have a full revelation of the greatness, the vastness, the boundlessness of god’s patience, then you will tiptoe walk on egg shells in your relationship with God because you’ll constantly be worried that if I do one more thing, that if I have one more misstep, that if I mishear him, that if I make another mistake, this will be the time that he puts me on the shelf and he can’t use me anymore, and I can’t to participate in kingdom purposes.
The enemy wants you too afraid to experience the abundant life that he’s called you to.
So he wants us constantly walking on eggshells worried, and I came to tell you that god is not mad at you.
I don’t know where you’ve been. I’ve only know where I’ve been. I know what I’ve said.
I know what I’ve thought. I know my weaknesses and my frailties and my thoughts, and it’s been a revelation that has transformed my life that god’s grace is sufficient for us.
His patience. The perfect and patience of God. That’s what I wanna