Actress Encourages Us to Connect With God: ‘He Wants to Reveal Himself’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Priscilla Shirer is reminding us that a relationship with God is our “birthright.”
“John 10:27, to me, is the most concise and comprehensive verse in scripture about hearing God,” she told TBN. “It is when Jesus says, ‘My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.’ He says, ‘You’ve got to be my sheep to hear my voice.’ So, you said new Christians — listen, that relationship right there is the connector that allows you access to the voice of God.”
Shirer explained that “the first step” of this relationship is “actually believing that, as an adopted son or daughter grafted into the family of God, that you have the capacity innately because you’re part of the family to now hear the voice of God. The Holy Spirit is the hookup.”
She cited Ephesians 1:
11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
“Now, you are able to draw down divine channels. It’s not that you created them — no, they were always there. God is speaking,” Shirer said. “He wants to reveal Himself. Now you have the opportunity to hear Him.”
She emphasized that the first step is “to believe that, as a privilege of being a son or daughter, you can hear from God.”
“It is the deception of the enemy to cause us to think we have to have a seminary degree, we have to have some special, hotline connection with God, like somebody we may admire. That we, as regular men and women, can’t hear from God,” Shirer explained. “That’s what the enemy wants you to think. He doesn’t want you to know it’s your birthright, and so, believing that you can is the first step to hearing God.”
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In an essay for Relevant Magazine, Shirer reminded readers of the importance of relying on God in all things.
“When we have a concern, when something is causing us apprehension or uneasiness, we should never shy away from bringing it to our heavenly Father just because we feel He doesn’t have time for something so minor,” she wrote. “He has invited us to do that. And His desire for a relationship with us is, at least in part, why I think He’s done it.”
Shirer continued, “Asking of God doesn’t make us pushy, not according to the Bible. Nor, of course, does it mean He’ll give us whatever we want. But when we take Him up on His invitation to ask for what we need — both the big things and the small things — one of the greatest things He gives us is the opportunity to recognize exactly where our help is coming from. When we request and He answers, we are enabled to know beyond any doubt that He was the One working in our experience.”
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