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Priscilla Shirer encourages Christians to pursue “communication” and “connectedness” in their relationship with God.
“Our God lives,” she said during an episode of TBN’s PRAISE. “He’s alive and He speaks to us. We have an actual relationship with Him, and that’s so casually thrown around, this whole relationship thing, but what good is any relationship if nobody’s talking to each other? If there’s no communication? If there’s not a connectedness that is ongoing and continual?”
The OVERCOMER actress continued, “The Holy Spirit of God illumines scripture. The book is alive, and He causes the old precepts of scripture to have a ‘now-ness’ and a newness that applies and intersects with our personal experience.”
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She explained that, even when reading stories about biblical characters and their struggles, the words “actually [apply] to what you’re facing right then in your life, and you understand it as a directive straight from God.”
Shirer often encourages people to dig deeper into their relationship with God. In an essay she wrote for Relevant Magazine, she urged readers to “never shy away from bringing [problems] to our heavenly Father.”
“When we truly ask of the Lord, we’re not just hoping in general; we’re relating with our Father. We’re asking and seeking and knocking, just as His Word instructs us to do (Matthew 7:7),” she wrote. “And when He gives, when we find, when the door is opened to us, we don’t sit there wondering how in the world that happened. By inviting us to ask, He is continually connecting His life with ours. Every blessing becomes another noticeable expression of His loving care. He is able to do ‘all that we ask.’ Beyond it, actually.”
Shirer recently reflected on God’s plan for her life, and how she has followed a path she didn’t expect.
“41 years ago, my aunt — who was the children’s ministry director at our church — put me in front of a Sunday school class and asked me to help teach a class of 5 and 6 year olds the Bible lesson. I was 10,” she wrote on Instagram.
Shirer continued, “I didn’t know it then, but God’s purposes and plans for me were beginning to blaze in my heart. They were already unfolding. They were already being unveiled. The gifts He’d given me were already being stirred. The story was already being written. All I needed to do was keep going. Keep doing the next thing. Keep taking each opportunity He put in front of me and that other older, wiser, trusted people offered to me. I wouldn’t need to frantically search for God’s will for my life. If I’d just pay attention to Him, He’d hand it to me freely.”
Shirer’s recent words are a reminder of the importance of nurturing a strong and communicative relationship with God.
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