Catalyst 09 :: Priscilla Shirer

Priscilla Shirer is a popular conference speaker for major corporations, organizations and Christian audiences around the world. A graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, she is also a Bible teacher and an author whose books include A Jewel in His Crown, A Jewel in His Crown Bible Study & Journal, and And We Are Changed: Transforming Encounters With God.

Priscilla is daughter of pastor, speaker and well-known author Dr. Tony Evans. She is married to her best friend, Jerry, and the couple has two sons: Jackson and Jerry Jr. They live in Dallas, Texas.

• Priscilla saw the story of Brian Welsh, the former lead guitarist of Korn
• Somebody put their arm around him and “loved him into the family of God.”
• This story wasn’t TBN or CBN, it was on CNN!
• He gave up a $20 Million contract
• “And they left everything to follow Jesus…”
• There’s a Divine Intervention that happens when God turns us in a different direction than the one we were heading.
• Some of us are leading people when we had no idea we had a capacity to do it.
• In your life, in one form or another, has been Divinely Intervened.
• Oftentimes there are three or four different options available to us; we’ve got to decide if we will yield to the direction God is leading us to.
• Joshua knew what it was like to have a life interrupted by God.
• As we yield to the interrupted life we will be victorious at what God has set before us to do.
• At one point or another we will be in a situation that feels like an interrupted life.
• You’re either in the middle of it, about to enter it, or about to walk out of it.
• When Joshua left Egypt with Moses he had no idea that God would call him to take up the reigns of leadership over Israel from Moses.
• On the heels of receiving direction from God, there were four things Joshua did.
• If we follow them, they will make a huge impact on ourselves and others.
• Joshua 3:1 – Joshua rose early in the morning.
• After receiving instruction from God to handle a task he did not feel equipped to handle,  he rose up early to complete the task God set before him.
• It’s not about be ready, but being open.
• Joshua acted immediately in obedience to God.
• What has God asked you to do? Are you procrastinating or ignoring it?
• Would you act immediately in obedience to God?
• This is different than Moses’ response (Exodus 2).
• We’re good at giving excuses.
• Everyone needs a Joshua – someone who will stand in faith in spite of their perceived deficiencies.
• They camped at the Jordan River for three days.
• This all happened in April… to the Jordan River was rushing rapidly because of melt-off from Mt Hermon.
• The river was violent.
• The saw an impossible body of water that God was telling them to cross.
• They had three days to consider what God was asking them to do.
• Joshua told them, “Regardless of what it looks like, we will cross it.”
• He not only acted immediately, he acted fearlessly.
• We’re called to be leaders who are fearless.
• Over 300 times in the Scriptures, God has derivatives of the phrase “do not be afraid.”
• We are not held captive to natural standards, we have supernatural abilities.
• The Holy Spirit empowers us to do what seems impossible for us to do in the natural world.
• The moment you got saved treasure was deposited in you, the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit empowers us to do and be what we cannot do and be.
• v3 – Joshua doesn’t say, “I’m the leader, follow me.” He says, “God’s the leader, follow Him.”
• Until you see God’s presence moving, you don’t move.
• If God’s presence isn’t going, don’t go.
• Joshua teaches us to acknowledge the presence of God.
• There’s many great opportunities for us, but if God’s not it in it, don’t go.
• Jesus said in John 5:19, “I only do what I see the Father doing.”
• The captivating thing about Jesus is that He did His Father’s will and nothing else.
• We need God to direct us, even though we might be directing others.
• We better be following hard after God.
• We have to follow God because we’ve not passed here before.
• We must think we are God, otherwise we wouldn’t try to control situations.
• It’s time for a group of leaders who will tell people what Joshua told them to do.
• Joshua anticipated God’s miracles.
• Act today like God is going to do something tomorrow.
• Anticipate God’s activity.
• Stop praying safe prayers.
• Believe God can do the unthinkable.
• God is the first and the last; beginning and the end.
• He always was, always is.

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