Priscilla Shirer: Pray for These Areas in Your Life (Full Sermon) | Praise on TBN
Priscilla Shirer: Pray for These Areas in Your Life (Full Sermon) | Praise on TBN
Priscilla Shirer shares a powerful sermon on TBN from the Fervent Tour about God’s perfect plan for us, and the importance of praying over key areas on our life!
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We’ve gathered across lines that might normally divide us.
We’re united in this place no matter how different we may be.
And in this place, y’all tonight, we’re underneath an open heaven. The commanded blessing of god is upon us.
So why wouldn’t we milk it for all it’s worth? And ask god to dredge the church of Jesus Christ.
And to Praise the lord. Calm down. Praise the lord on my soul.
I will praise the lord while I live. I will sing praises to my god while I have my being.
Some trust in princes and some trust in mortal men in whom there is no salvation, but not us, not tonight.
We trust in the name of the lord, our god.
How blessed is the one in whom the god of Jacob is their helper, whose hope is in the lord his god, the one who made heaven and earth the one who made the sea and all that is in them.
He’s the one who gives food to the hungry. He’s the lord that sets prisoners free.
He is the lord that opens the eyes of the blind. He raises up those who are down.
He is the lord who loves the righteous. He’s the lord that protects anybody that feels like a stranger.
He is the one that supports those that might be fatherless in the widow He sorts the way of the wicked.
The lord will reign forever. He is our god, oh, Zion, oh, church to all’s in generations, we ought to praise the lord for it is good to sing praises to our god.
It is pleasant to praise the lord He builds up his people. He gathers the outcasts of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted. He binds up their wounds.
He counts The numbers of the stars, he gives all of them names.
That’s basically his way of saying, if I can control the entire universe, I’ve got your life covered.
That’s what he said. Great is the lord.
Abundant is a is a strength sing to the lord with thanksgiving, sing praises to our god, praise the lord, Jerusalem, and praise him in the house tonight for he is, strengthened your bars and your gates.
He has blessed your sons and your daughters. He brings peace to your borders. He satisfies you in real good.
Things. He makes sure his word runs very swiftly. He scatters the frost like ashes.
Who can stand before him because our god is good praise the lord. Praise the lord from the heavens.
Praise him from the heights. Praise him all you ain’t just praise him all you hosts.
Praise him sun and moon. Praise him highest heavens. Praise him waters that are a of the heaven.
Let even those people praise the name of our great god. Praise the lord.
Sing to the lord a new song. Praise him in the congregation. Let Israel be glad in her maker.
Let the gauntlet ones exalting glory tonight. Praise the lord. Praise god in this same on Broadway in Times Square.
Can I pray Praise him in the mighty expense?
Praise him for his excellent greatness. Praise him with the trump at sound.
Praise him with the harp and the liar. Praise him with the Timberland with the dancing.
Praise him with the stringed instruments in the pipe. PRAY them with the loud symbols.
Praise it with the resounding symbols. Run everything. The lord.
Y’all are my people.
Y’all came to have church in is what you get. Take your seats if you can.
I wanna tell you what a privilege that it is as Anthony has already said for to be here with you tonight to have an opportunity to lift up the name of Jesus because he’s worthy to be praised y’all.
Even with what you wrote down, what you need prayer for, what’s hurting your heart, what’s ailing you, what what needs to be answered, even with the miracle you were wire.
What you need to know is that your god is still good.
He’s still sitting on the throne, and the truth is even if he never did one more thing.
I mean, seriously, y’all.
If he never did another thing on our behalf, If he doesn’t answer this request, exactly the way that you’re hoping he’ll answer this request, the truth is he has already done enough.
But the great thing about our god is that he invites us to make our request known.
He invites us to give to him the desires of our hearts, and then he invites us to trust him with the answer.
So I’m so excited to pray with you tonight because we get the privilege tonight not only to very specifically and boldly approach the throne of grace with every single request that has been written down and even those that are still tucked away in the quietness of your heart, even those of you that I know are on the other side of screen your request.
We wanna cover those tonight, but the great thing about our god is that not only can we present our request trusting him, But at the end of every prayer, we can say, lord, do this, do what I’ve asked, or do something better.
Because seriously, the truth is he is the god of Ephesians 32021.
He is the one that does immeasurably more, then you can ask.
And, listen, if you can’t ask it, because you can’t your brain can’t even come up with the right words to vocalize what it is you trying to ask for.
He says, that’s alright. Just think it, and I can do past that.
So we can boldly bring all of our requests to the throne of god tonight trusting that he is a great big god who still does great big things.
I believe that god works miracles. Anybody? Yeah.
I’m talking about flat up flat out jaw dropping straight up. Can’t explain it. Miracles.
Where you stand back and go, I don’t know. You’re not. That kind of stuff.
We’re gonna pray about that tonight.
I love that we have a god that allows us to do that in even this setting that any place is a sanctuary.
Where god can meet us.
I love this unique opportunity that we have to be in this place where many of celebrity, many a talented person, many a gifted person, has stood on this platform.
Many productions have taken place and in a place where people have been celebrated for their gifts and their talents on this kind of a platform.
I love that in this place today. There is only one celebrity, and it’s nobody on the stage.
I love that. I love that the celebrity is Jesus Christ.
Man, I can’t tell you how that takes the weight off us.
There’s just no pressure for us up here because we ain’t trying to impress you. How about that?
We all just have an audience of 1 tonight.
Audience of So in this unique setting, in this unique opportunity in New York City and the heart of, uh, this incredible city, we have the privilege to exalt the name of And he says that when you do the lifting, I will do the drawing.
And there my me, I’m sure some of you that are seated in this room because you thought this was a Broadway show.
You were walking down the street.
You saw the big sign, and you thought, you know what? I need to show tonight.
I’m gonna come on in there and just See this, my social. Well, he is gonna be a show.
In the sense that god himself I believe is gonna make himself apparent to you.
And if you feel like you’re a little bit out of sorts in this room, you’re not exactly sure what you’ve stumbled into Just relax.
You’re amongst friends. I know you might not know the person that’s sitting next to you.
Would you just look at them and say, it’s alright, girl. Relax. It’s alright, young man. Relax. Just say relax.
We’re gonna have a good time tonight in the presence of the lord.
My, um, I will tell you more about them later, but my 3 sons, you might see them sort of around and about the we kinda all dive in together in ministry, as Anthony said.
He’s my younger brother, and just in case you wondered everything he knows about music he learned from me. Anyway.
And, um, my husband is here as well.
We have 3 sons. Um, they’re 1412 and 8.
Jackson is our oldest and then Jerry Junior, and then Jude. Jude is our surprise, baby. Jude.
That’s why I named him Jude because that’s close as I could get to revelation because it is finished.
That’s it. That’s the end of the line.
Jackson, Jerry, Junior, and Jude, and Judah and I were sitting together on a airplane, and he was seated over the wing.
We’re our seats were directly over the wing of the airplane.
And so he was sort of just looking out at the wing of the plane, and there we were suspended in mid air flying to our destination.
I could tell he was mesmerized by this whole concept that this tube of steel is in the air holding us up and that, um, this this wing is connected to the plane.
He was sort of just dissecting this entire this entire situation.
And as he looked over the wing, he looked back at me and said, mom, how do they get that wing on this plane?
And I said, buddy, I gotta be honest with you. No idea.
I have no idea how they get that that wing on the plane.
I don’t know how it works, but I have an idea for you, Jade.
You have an uncle, their dad’s, brother, uncle Von. He works in the airline industry.
He actually works in the business where they they make all the veins and the wiring that connects the different parts of the aircraft.
So I saw this as a teachable moment.
I said, you should talk to your uncle Von when we get home, and it’d be a great opportunity for you to learn something.
And then I said to him, you know what?
You can be whatever you wanna be when you grow up, dude. Do you know that?
You can do whatever you wanna do.
Like, if you wanna make airplanes like your uncle Von when you grow up, You can so totally do that if you’d like to.
And as I said that to him, I said, buddy, you can be anything you wanna be in your life.
Anything you wanna do, you can do it.
He looked back at me, and he said, mom, I don’t wanna do what uncle Von does when I grow up.
I wanna do what you do when I grow up.
You know, it’s one of those moments where you’re thinking, baby, what do you want?
Whatever you want, I’m a give it to you. Oh, but wait for it.
Because I looked back at him and said, Buddy, what does mama do?
Now I had expectations about what his answer was going to be.
At least some framework about how he might respond.
Lord, I’d love to or mom, I’d love to share the lord with people.
Mom, I’d like to write, mom, I would like to do a a myriad of different things maybe that he could have said.
But he looked back and he he said, mom, I wanna do nothing just like you.
You do nothing all day, every day. You do nothing.
I said, buddy, you see how, like, the clothes you’re wearing right now are clean.
How do you think that they actually get clean? He said, well, that’s just like washing. That’s no big deal.
I said, but you eat every day. You eat actual food. How do you think it gets cooked?
That’s what moms do. That’s no big deal.
And I said, but, you know, every now and then there’s a book or there might be a Bible study.
There’s even there was a little film, a little movie.
Remember it spent we spent, like, 3 months maybe that that what do you think I’m doing?
He’s like, you’re just sitting behind the computer all day. Just doing this. You’re doing nothing.
I laughed, and then I thought in that moment right after the conversation, how much that is like my relationship with the lord.
In fact, there was confirmation of that because the very next day, and I only share this with you to make this point, but the very next day after that conversation with Jude, my publisher sent me an email They sent an email to tell me about something that they know I never know because I’m keeping up with 3 sons.
They said, Priscilla, we just wanna let you know that fervent a little book that I had written.
We want you to know that it’s on the New York Times bestseller list. It actually won a few awards.
They said that to me in the email And all I could do when I looked at it was chuckle because it was just the day before that my son said to me that when I was doing to him, to what looked like and amounted to nothing.
Well That is exactly when I was crafting something that hopefully would be a blessing to people’s lives.
And the Holy Spirit said to me, that’s just like you and me, Priscilla, because I’m behind the scenes orchestrating and crafting the chapters of your story all the while you think I’m doing nothing.
You point an accusatory finger at me wondering where I am and why I’m not hearing your request and why I’m not moving in the way that you would like me to move.
You’re assuming that I’m sitting back passively ignoring you were all the while. I am busy.
Making a story out of your life, the likes of which you can’t imagine.
I came to encourage somebody today, that there’s a chapter that is being written right now with your story.
I’m talking about right now in that difficulty right now in that valley year of your marriage right now in that trouble in your finances, that difficulty on your job, that hardship with your coworker, I’m talking about that one coworker, the one that if she says one both into you, you go knock her That one.
There is a chapter he is crafting.
A manuscript he’s writing that one day when we see him face to face, we’re gonna see the story that he was telling.
And every single crown we get, we’re gonna turn around and place it right back at his feet and say thank you lord for this privilege that we had to live a life.
A life in relationship with you.
And so even with these hardships and even with these hurts, we pray, And we pray in gratitude.
We pray in gratefulness in advance, thanking him, for the answer that he will give us that is simultaneous to what we’ve asked for or the answer that is so far beyond our capacity to even comprehend and pray that we trust him for something that that has so much generational ripple effect, the likes of which we may never see in our grandchildren and our great grandchildren and our great great grandchildren I’m so glad for the prayers of a grandmother and a great grandmother and grandfather in my life who prayed some stuff that y’all they didn’t get to see the fruit of their prayer.
But how glad I am that they trusted him to do what they were asking or something better?
So in that mindset, I invite you to pray with me tonight.
As Anthony said, we couldn’t have an event called fervent and not and nobody actually fervently prayed about nothing.
In fact, it would be an injustice.
Actually, we’d be ripping you off if we came in here, and all you did was watch stuff happen up here.
The point of tonight is for you to meet with god.
And the truth is if your life if your life has been anything like mine, you you’ve been busy.
There’s been stuff pulling you left and right. There’s been traffic that you’ve been fighting.
There’ve been soccer games that you’ve been going to. There’ve been errands that you’ve been running.
And I know you might you might think you might.
Some of you might think that I’ve just been, you know, sitting up on a mountain side, fasting and praying and thinking about you, the reality is my life is just like yours.
I’ve been trying to figure out a new way to cook chicken for dinner just like you.
My clothes right now, laundry at my house, it is washed, it is dried, but it is dumped out on the dining room table waiting for somebody to come and fold it.
Our lives are full of stuff And every now and then, we just need to be offered a moment to meet with god.
He is omnipresent.
That means he is everywhere all at the same time.
And I thank god for his omnipresence, meaning that wherever you are seated in this room, whether you’re in the furthest reaches of this theater tonight, or you’re right here on the front row, you can have a meeting with god, whether you’ve ever prayed before or not, whether this idea of actually talking to god is new to you, whether or not you’re not sure whether you have to say specific word.
There’s no magic to prayer. It’s just taking a minute to offer to him the needs you’ve written down, the ones that are still hidden in your heart, to just thank him for what he’s already done that maybe you’ve neglected because of the rise of needs that you’ve had in your life.
This is our invitation to you to join us in a moment of prayer.
And together, we’re going to collectively cover some categories of prayer tonight that we find a lot of the requests that are written down.
And by the way, if you did not write one down, but you kinda wanna get in on this at any point, just bring a request down into any of the boxes.
I know there there are some there on every level.
You just bring them down and put them here at any point because we’re gonna cover them all collectively And then I’m gonna tell those of you who are here in the theater how we’re gonna cover every single one of these requests individually before the night is over.
But even you, at home. Listen. Pray with us. We’re gonna pray and include your request in our prayer tonight.
We’re gonna cover some categories of prayer. You’re gonna help me to do that.
Um, the very 1st category of prayer that I wanna cover because we find many of these requests fall into these larger categories.
The very first one that I’d like to pray for is in regards to your marriage, we find that many of these requests have to do in and around the topic of marriage.
And the reason why I bring that first is because you do know that the enemy, even more than than many things, the enemy is is really after your marriage.
You’re married. He’s trying any any which kind of way he can to destroy, dissolve, disunify your marriage.
He doesn’t want the 2 of you to be happy.
He doesn’t want the 2 of you to be content in your relationship.
He doesn’t want you walking in health and fullness, so we wanna pray for your marriage tonight because I bet you there were some requests that are written down here.
That have to do with that particular relationship.
And I believe that if there anybody in this room or on the other side of the screen and You guys are on the brink of divorce.
I mean, you’re teetering right on the very edge, and you know that apart from a straight up miracle.
The 2 of you are not gonna make it. You’re in the right place tonight.
I can tell you that because we know a god that can snatch you back from the brink that you might be teetering on tonight, so we’re gonna pray about that.
So if you are in this room, here’s how you all are going to help me in this room.
If you’re in this room tonight and you actually have a testimony because you can remember a time where you thought you and your spouse were not gonna make it.
And you’re here tonight, and you’re not just still married, but you’re happily married.
And you know it is a straight up miracle that you’re actually happily married.
You know that god did something that revolutionized, um, your marriage.
If that’s the case for you, would you please stand up and just be a living visible illustration of the power of god in this relationship in our lives.
And stay standing when you stand.
Please stay on your feet.
Okay? Stay on your feet. And the reason why I want you to stand, I hope that you all can see each other even up in the top there of the fear because the reason why I want you stand is because I want you to recognize that the message that many people came for tonight, we hadn’t even opened up the Bible yet to to teach from god’s word, and the message that somebody need tonight is coming through your life.
This is why the lord brought them.
He wanted to say to them through your testimony that what he has done for others he can also do for them.
So please stay on your feet for just a second. You’re encouraging somebody. Oh, y’all.
Please don’t let this moment ask you by look all over this room from the back to the front.
The lord wants to encourage somebody tonight. He’s got your back. He’s got your fat.
He has not forgotten you.
If you need healing, whether it is something small, I say that loosely because, listen, even if you just have a headache, that pain is not small to you.
Pain in the small of your back a knee show if it’s just something a tumor that that has just been diagnosed, whatever it is, we’re gonna pray for you tonight.
If it’s a broken heart or broken mind, whatever, If you need healing for yourself or a loved one, would you please stretch out your hand?
We cannot wait to be the body of Christ and pray for you. Y’all, there’s so many hands.
Those of you that are standing, would y’all be the first? It’s almost like you’re paying it forward.
Just reach out to someone who’s near.
You’re just extending to them what it is that god has done for you.
And then those of you that are seated, even beside other people that have their hands raised, come on, y’all.
Would you just make sure that the everybody is touched by another.
Again, even if the 2 of you both have your hands raised, just grab hands or put your hand on the knee or the shoulder nearby.
If you feel like you’ve been missed, don’t worry. I I got you. I got you.
Come on y’all for 60 seconds. Let there be a chorus.
A symphony of prayer that we ring out to our god. For Jesus, we ask.
There’s power.
Brake at the tree.
Your throne and that we can ask you for something as bold as healing.
Lord, I ask you right now in Jesus’ name. For every cell in our bodies.
That is not under the authority of Jesus Christ.
I pray right now, when Jesus, standing, you will realize every misplaced cell in Jesus name.
I pray for organs to begin to function at 100% capacity again in Jesus name.
LoRa pray for tumors to shrink in Jesus’ name.
Laura, pray for X Rays to be completely different in Jesus’ name. For tasks, Lord, to be negative.
That were positive in Jesus name. Father, I prayed that you would heal broken bodies. Take away the pain, lord.
Diminish the difficulty father and make it be so radical that everybody has to point to you to give you the glory and the pray I pray for broken hearts to be mended tonight, father.
White tears for their eye. Their eyes.
Restore them, Lord, from this grief or this betrayal or this law, lord, walk with them through the flames, restore fissured, fractured minds, lord, and do it for your own glory.
We give you our healing We entrusted to you in Jesus name.
Everybody agreed with me tonight when they said amen. Amen.
Amen.
Just in case you were wondering, prayer is not like the stuff we do before we get to the good stuff.
Prayer is the good stuff. Yeah. Listen.
You might not actually be aware of it.
But this is actually what you came for. You you might not even know this is what you came for.
I’m telling you it’s what you came for. This is a good stuff right here.
Just one more little category that I think we just must pray for together.
Let’s pray for the church. Yeah. Let’s pray for the church.
Let’s pray for I mean, y’all this opportunity to pray together in this place where we’re together, um, across lines that would normally divide us.
Whether they’re denominational lines or racial lines or cultural lines or geographical lines, just because we don’t live in the same place, so we don’t all go to the same church.
Stylistically with worship. Sometimes you go to that church because you like that style.
We go to this church because we like that style.
And it divides us, not not bad necessarily, not negatively, but it divides us.
And here we are in this place where, you know, the only time in scripture where god commanded a blessing is in the Psalms where he said in that place, where brothering or sister-in-dwell together in unity.
He says in that place, I will command that there will be a blessing So here we are in a place where we’ve gathered cross lines that might normally divide us.
We’re united in this place no matter how different we may be.
And in this place, y’all tonight, we’re underneath an open heaven. The commanded blessing of god is upon us.
So why wouldn’t we milk it for all it’s worth and ask god to drain the church of Jesus Christ.
And listen, when I say church, I’m not just talking about your little little c church.
I’m grateful for your local church. We’re gonna pray for your pastor. We’re gonna pray for his wife.
We’re gonna pray for the leadership team. We’re gonna ask that the lord put wall of fire around them.
So they would they would not be caught up in the snares of the enemy to entice them toward immorality or financial under dealings that will undermine the name of our great lord.
We’re gonna ask god to give him intent and let them walk in character and wholeness and help.
We’re gonna ask for a fresh outpouring of god’s spirit upon your local church.
We’re gonna ask god to let your church be so set a fire with his glory that the community around you can’t help but come into that church to see what’s happening in those four walls, but we can’t stop there.
We gotta pray for the capital C global body of Christ that all of god’s people will be set a fire.
Y’all that revival would come in this generation because he said if my people who are called by my name listen.
He’s like, you you don’t even have to have to evangelize necessarily for this promise to take place.
You don’t need a whole bunch of new folk.
He said, if the folk that are already claiming they know me, if they would just pray.
If they would for real, seek my face.
If they’d stop messing around and just go ahead and be for real, about calling out to me.
He says, I will hear from heaven, and I’ll sweep revival through this whole land.
So I figured tonight, this is the greatest opportunity as any, right in the middle, the heart of the city, to go ahead and just ask god would you picture in your mind your your local church?
Would you picture your pastor? Would you picture the leadership team there?
Would you picture that family in particular if you see ask the lord to put a wall of fire around him.
Come on just for 60 seconds. Pray for a outpouring of god’s spirit on your church.
Oh, Jesus. I pray for Uncle Bell.
To So lord, we lift up the body of Christ to you.
In every corner of the globe.
And I ask you right now for every local church that is represented in this room.
I pray father, no matter the tribe matter to the tongue lord, no matter the denomination, no matter the worship style, I pray that in every case lord, we would not be pleased to impress people but that we would impress the audience of 1.
Lord, I pray that you would be glorified that you would be lifted up.
Lord, I pray for every pastor, his wife, father, the leadership team at that church, Ronette, pray right now in Jesus’ name, that you would guard them with a hedge of protection wall them up, father, so that they will not be ensnared by the attacks of the enemy.
Lord, I pray that where he is coming in like a flood you would push him back lord so that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church of Jesus Christ.
We ask you for integrity, lord, to mark the leadership of your church.
Lord, we pray that you will be so highly esteemed and highly lifted up that we will be like a city that is set on a hill that will pronounce the matchless name of Jesus Christ.
And then father, I pray that all across the globe, we will come together in unity.
Forgive us father where we have been divided where we have judged and we have criticized father so that the enemy has been so pleased to see god’s people divided.
From this day forward, lord, help us to love one another father.
And in doing so, bring glory to your name. We honor you tonight, lord. It is in Jesus’ name.
That we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Y’all remember y’all remember that one part of the Lion King.
I’ve been thinking about this today because the Lion King’s next door Y’all remember that one part in the line King where Simba’s thinking he’s all big and bad now because he’s got a little bit bigger in the hyenas of there, and they’re like, are you for real little boy?
He’s a little teeny, and he comes up to him. And he’s like, wow.
And they’re like, and he’s like, wow.
And they’re like, seriously, that’s not gonna do anything. He tries it again. Wow.
And they’re just laughing his sterically all over the place because they’re like this little teeny come of a lion can’t do anything to us.
And Simba’s so upset. He can’t believe that he’s not threatening them or intimidating them at all.
He’s gonna give it one more try, and so he opens up his mouth to roar.
And it is the loudest, most profound roar.
Even Simba is shocked that he created such a loud noise, and the hyenas go scampering away because there’s a valiance that has come to to this young cub that even he was not aware that he had.
He did not know that his father, Mufasa, was coming up in the rear.
He was standing behind Simba so that he could help to scare away the enemy.
And here’s what I’m saying. When you pray, no longer is it just you trying to attack the enemy with your little wimpy, sad self, but now you’ve got the power of almighty god who is fighting on your behalf.
And I’m just saying, if god be for you, Oh, can be a kiss.
