I'm a little late in updating notes from Week Two of Priscilla Shirer's teaching. It was so rich with God's Truth that I almost don't know where to begin.
Priscilla opened this session with a cute story about working out with her girlfriend. She talked about how her friend's face while doing numerous sit-ups turned from one of contortion to sheer joy when the friend noticed the trainer standing over her watching. Priscilla asked her audience how our attitude would change if we were aware of our Trainer's presence? Good food for thought, don't you think? For her friend (as well as for us) everything changed when the trainer came near.
Priscilla pointed out to us that God isn't looking for perfect women. He's looking for passionate women. He honors our heart, not our actions. Isn't that great news that He doesn't expect us to be perfect? Phew! What He does desire though is for us to have a heart centered on a life focused on Him.
The Lord sees our passion and even after faulty attempts He still says "That's my girl". We have a Father whose heart for us is LOVE.
Priscilla next challenged us by asking, "What will having a God-awareness cost you or change about you? What a challenging thought. She assured us that having that God awareness will cost us something and cause us to make decisions we would not normally make. She reminded us that we have an enemy that is just waiting to kill, steal and destroy. He wants to kill our hopes and dreams, steal our families and joy, destroy our self-esteem and heart for ministry. During our week of homework though we were reminded that our enemies' bark is worse than his bite. He's on a leash and he can't really get to us... he just makes us cower in fear.
What we need to remember though is although the anointing not only guarantees opposition, it also guarantees access to God. God knows ALL of us and He STILL wants to be our friend. Isn't that cool?! Prayer is our most potent method available to fight the enemy.
David was a great example of someone who listened to God. His example shows us that the most important think that we can have is a fresh, ongoing, intimate relationship with God and we saw that in 1 Chronicles 14. As David asked God for wisdom, the Lord gave him detailed instruction. Our God is able and He is a God of breakthroughs.
Priscilla reminded us that one way we can know we've probably heard from God is when we "hear" the most non-normal thought that can only be God. This thought led to Priscilla's next point which was that the anointing also guarantees us specific, divine direction from God.
Priscilla shared with us that the more we know God, the more clearly we are able to hear Him. Prayer is one of the ways we develop our relationship with God. She shared wise wisdom she gained from Henry Blackaby: "The more you know God, the easier to hear Him and understand when it's His voice speaking to you." We get to know His personality, His character, His speaking history by spending time in His Word. How much time are we spending getting to know God?
Priscilla's last point was that not only are the anointed guaranteed opposition, access to God, and specific, divine direction from God, but also we are guaranteed supernatural results when we obey God. When we walk in obedience to God, we can ask Him for the miraculous without fear.
Our last session with Priscilla ended with a two question challenge:
1. Does the anointing live in you?
2. If you know it lives in you, why aren't you accessing it more?
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